Issues Steve Biko Wafula Would Like To Meet And Present To The President Of Kenya Before Demos Are Called

Dear Mr. President,

I don’t know if you will get time to read this. I have no idea if you usually read even. I remember you stopped reading newspapers and left them for watu wa kufunga nyama. Anyway, I hope you have people within your team who can read this on your behalf.

Leadership is about ensuring that the people you are leading are in a better place than when you found them. Leadership is about constantly listening and solving the issues that your people face. It’s about encouraging them when things are bad and being empathic when solutions are hard to come by. Leadership is taking care of the weak, the voiceless, and the sick. It’s about protecting the resources of the public. It’s about ensuring that there is maximum benefit for the public from their taxes.

I have struggled to understand your leadership. I have struggled to understand what happened to all the goodwill and support you had. I stay up at night wondering how Kenya would be if you had pushed us forward as you had promised in your campaigns. I wonder how far my businesses would.

Mr. President, as you sit in the House on the Hill, enjoying the fresh air, sometimes driving around in top-of-the-range cars, flagged with furiously-looking guards, those who employed you are literally dying. Your knee is on our necks and they literally cannot breathe.

Mr. President, We elected you to serve us, NOT lord over us. To make our lives better and easier. Instead, you and your government seem to have misinterpreted the gesture to mean Kenyans wanted to suffer. You have doubled our burden. You have government officials who have put their personal interests first. Making policy decisions that tear the country apart in the name of development and you have turned a deaf ear to our cries and pleas.

Mr. President, you may not be aware, and people around you might not have told you because they are blinded by their personal interests and the need to sort themselves before the end of your term, but the common man on the ground is sick, broke, hungry, jobless and tired. You see them clapping and smiling at you because they are commanded by the bible to respect their leaders and you think they are happy but they are tired and they are ready for anything and this is what is very scary.

I am a nobody in the grand scheme of things of Kenya. Even in my own family, I am ignored because I have no money to give out at parties, so I remain that uncle who shares funny memes to remain relevant. But I believe if you sitting on that throne as the President, then God saw something in you and elevated you. Why we are where we are, only you and God know. I am where I am because of God’s mercy and I thought I would seek the support of the public to reach out to you, to tell you what we going through, to let you know of our pain in detail because we have lost faith and trust in your handlers and hope that you will listen and do something like King Solomon of the Bible.

Here are some of the issues that are really troubling Kenya and I wish and hope that you have a look at them; that is if you care at all and address them. I would like an audience with you to present them to you and address you as the country watches because I believe in accountability when public trust is bestowed upon someone.

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1. Who listens to you, Mr. President?

This question might sound like a joke, but, really, who listens to you within your government? People are calling you a lame President who only breathes hot air, goes ballistic and nobody around you listens. You have been issuing orders that nobody follows. You ordered, on a national Television that an inquiry into the KEMSA scandal be done in 21 days. How many days have passed Mr. President? or we forget about that and deal with “matters of national importance”?