LETTER TO THE PEOPLE CENTRAL IMENTI

Dear Friends and fellow people of Central Imenti,
Peace and blessings all the way from USA. I pray and hope that this message finds you all in good health and spirit. This message is meant to send a strong message to our quasi and rapacious leaders, who have impoverished and rendered our great constituency and country powerless in every corner we turn, through their nonchalant attitudes and lack of patriotism and sense of direction.
Our children though born in the 21century are worse than the cave dwellers by virtue of what the future holds for them. Our economy, infrastructures, environment and institutions are on their knees due to the people in leadership, who know nothing else but how to enrich themselves and destroy our heritage and our being as a nation.
However, all this misery and despair we have been subjected into has been served with a notice. That never again, never again will we cry. Never again will we sit like little hopeless children and watch as the virginity, integrity and personality of our great country is being raped and defiled by people who are masquerading as leaders. Never again will central Imenti be ignored and neglected as a second class constituency. Never again will we sit back and watch as hell is being turn loose and allowed to descend on us by people we have trusted with our lives and the wellbeing of our country. Time has come and this time is God given time for us to repair the breaches and build the bridges. Time is mature for us people of Central Imenti to demand what is our unalienable birth right. Nobody will ever again take our silence to mean cowardice or shut our mouths and conscience. We refuse to be encaged and put into a cocoon of servitude and fear. We refuse to be led blindly by people who have no morals and sense of love in their hearts.
Ladies and gentlemen, Let posterity know and judge you fairly that you stood for that which was noble and just. Let our grand children later on call you blessed for standing for virtue, integrity, chastity and efficacy than depravity, corruption, dishonor and other social, economic and political vices our great nation has so far been subjected into.
Forty years later our schools are like shanties or chicken cubes. Forty year later waterborne diseases are more than the time of our forefathers. Forty years later roads have been reduced into paths. Forty years later electricity is only for the chosen few. Forty years later hospitals are nowhere and if you find one it is a source of misery than hope. Forty years later our people are going hungry not because they are lazy but because the culture of corruption has destroyed every fiber of hope. People have been reduced into beggars so that the rulers can be able to rule through proxies and patronage.
My dear people, ladies and gentlemen, all this has been due to poor leadership and incompetence. All this nihilism, which we are now reaping and experiencing, is as a result of self glory and bureaucracy which cares for nothing but their fame and stomachs.
Yes, we accept to forgive and to forget but 10 years later the same persons are full of impunity and deceit. This is not the kind of leadership we want. This is not the type of Kenya we want. We want to be led by people with clean records and those who have never been involved in sacrilegious act of looting our country. We want visionaries and people who can dare to stand for that which right.

Now, without taking so much of your precious time let me pose a question. What do we want as people of Central Imenti?

We want dignity at all cost.

1. We want education for our children and grand children by building modern primary and secondary schools, community colleges and a modern university.
2. We want clean and safe drinking water by building a filtration and treatment plant which can efficiently serve the whole constituency.
3. We want electricity in our beautiful homes and market places.
4. We want roads whereby we can ride our bicycles, drive our cars and walk with our two feet with ease.
5. We want our farmers to be paid their right dues when they deliver their farm produce and to be encouraged to diversify in production.
6. We want jobs for our youths by encouraging investors from other parts of the world to invest in manufacturing industry, to add value to such agricultural commodities like Coffee, Potatoes, Tea, mangoes, avocado pears, Milk, bananas etc
7. Our teachers to be well paid and promoted to the next grade level for the great services they are rendering to our nation. Up to now teachers are the most poorly paid lot compared to other professional despite being the backbone of the well-being of our nation.
8. We want safety for every resident of Central Imenti and Kenya in general.
9. We want to be counted with humanity as a whole.
10. We want healthcare facilities where people can get medicine and walk without tiring.
11. We want a government of the people for the people by the people and not for the elites. That is what democracy entails and stands for. Yes we want democracy.

Ladies and gentlemen, this list tells you that our leaders have failed to deliver and that’s why everybody is calling for their firing by the electorates. If you have employed someone and later on you realize she/he is not doing the job what do you do? You fire him/her. This is what the electorate will do come 2007. Our people have been cheated and given a raw deal.
As we liberate ourselves and our people from this great yoke of servitude, which has been placed on our shoulders by fellow Kenyans, let not bitterness or revenge ever be part of us. As we liberates ourselves let liberate even our oppressors. Let virtue always be accounted on us. Let our creator, our redeemer and our sustainer grant us courage, temperament, fortitude and justice.
May God richly bless you as you come in and go out. May there be increase in all you lay your hands upon. May peace and joy always be your companion. SHALOM my friends and my people. Let this Shalom reach others who have been greatly afflicted.
Thank you very much.

W.MUGAMBI ARIMI