TO WHOM AND WHY I WILL VOTE

The honorable Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is a distinguished Kenyan, a family man and a successful businessman. He is the son of our late founding father and candidate for the 4^th president of Kenya under the Jubilee Coalition. He was introduced to politics as many have it by the 2^nd president of Kenya Daniel Arap Moi,he has proven his mettle as one fine politician and on his way to the presidency lies on man;Raila Amollo Odinga.Going by the latest opinion polls the two are the early front runners to succeed the incumbent president. On March 4^th 2013, every progressive and well meaning Kenyan will go and vote in one of the most complex elections under the new constitutional dispensation.

Every generation has an important duty with destiny, either to write it or go into oblivion; our children and their children will either enjoy or suffer from the political choices that we all make come March. I chose to write my own history not out of blind loyalty to tribe, party or religion but for the sake of my 43 or more children, I have a short story to illustrate this. A certain father had 43 children from 43 different wives, family tradition allowed him to reward them after every 5years with the opportunity to take care of his wealth. For 49years he had rotated the baton between his two wives’ sons, at first the other wives remained quiet but in recent years they had also developed a desire to see what their children were capable of doing with the opportunity. Today it lay solely in the hands of the man a golden opportunity to see and let the other wives’ children also have a chance. This is at a time when the other wives had started to whisper about favoritism from the man, he knew that this time round his choice was crucial as not only was it going bring peace but it would help one of his sons to remember that before the father’s eyes they were all equal and none was entitled to the reward.

This he had to do, not because the children from the 2 wives were bad, No, but so that these other children could also dream. Growing up children have wishes/dreams, and it is only fair if we show them that in a just and democratic Kenya, a boy in Madera and a girl in Marakwet have an equal chance just like a boy in Othaya or Baringo does, all they need is to work hard in a Kenya that does not discriminate against one because if we are equal before God, then we must as human beings also treat each other equally.

It is on this basis that from the two top presidential contenders I chose to settle on Raila Odinga, I pray that his ascending to the presidency will spur a belief that in the new Kenya, all is possible, my prayer is that we may stop the usual politics as a nation and look at the real issues that every Kenyan wants addressed, affordable housing and medical care, jobs and no Kenyan should ever die of hunger or miss a meal. My prayer is that on the 5^th of March the nation may wake up to a new dawn and that all the politicians may be leaders and fight for the very needs of the citizenry and my challenge is that all of us may get out and vote for it is our constitutional right to vote, let us exercise it and the politicians should after the elections work with the interest of the nation at heart.

Signed
N/B-This blog was posted late