REST IN PEACE HON. SENATOR KAJWANG. WE LOVED YOU BUT……

I discern you are asking BUT what? I have many buts all you need to do is to pay attention to this with your eyes.

Our tumbled protagonist, until today, I didn’t know you are called Gerald. Gerald, is indeed from a Germanic name meaning "rule of the spear". Indeed, your name almost equates to your political traits but to me, you were not yet there. If you lived longer, probably we would equate your name to the ‘rule of spear’ which only the late political icon Nelson Mandela deserves.

Bado Mapambano….Mapambano…..we enjoyed the music BUT the music has ceased. Stopped incessantly unless you believe in the existence of heaven, that’s where probably the Mapambano lyrics will resume. BUT I doubt it will. Is there melodic singing and dancing in hell? I don’t know because I don’t contemplate hell subsists, if it subsists may be in your home area. Forget the hell and heaven thing. Hell was here in Kenya.

It’s very eccentric that after every Kenyan general election, senior politicians die under enigmatic circumstances; some that can be explicated and others can unequivocally not be explained. It’s now 20 months since the last general election and we have already lost two bulbous politicians, in deed two senators; Senator Gerald Otieno Kajwang and Senator Mutula Kilonzo. Hilarious enough after many months, we are yet to get autopsy results of what killed Senator Mutula. Anybody with an idea? I am very delighted that at least with the Jubilee government, deaths of prominent politicians has drastically reduced compared to the Kibaki government when we lost close to 10 politicians; George Saitoti, Njenga Karume Ojode, Michuki….to name but a few. Some of them I hear died while crossing rivers, others have died in their own rooms and this week, I read in the dailies that a heart attack killed Senator Kajwang. Honestly, how do someone bleed to death and we conclude it’s a heart attack? I suspect foul play but let’s leave it to the investigators. We will only anticipate the cause of Gerald’s death BUT I guess we will never know the cause just like other fallen political heroes. Rest in peace Gerald.

At this grief-stricken jiffy, I personally bewail the cruel death of senator Kajwang a.k.a Mapambano. Death is so cruel and a times I ask myself why would God allow people to die. Does God really exists? I know I will die without having this question answered…death is death…rest in peace sir.

To me Gerald Otieno Kajwang was a comic, a politician, a patriot and many other adjectives I can use to describe him. I have always said never wait till one dies to appreciate the good things he or she did while they were alive. To me it beats logic, because it adds no value to the departed. If you have to praise Kajwang, you should have done so while he was alive….not NOW. BUT hypocrites are many anyway. Why would you rush to say how good Kajwang was and you never said anything good while he was alive? Why would you even stand by his casket at the grave side and tell the mourners a thousand and one things how senator Kajwang was a good Kenyan politician, how he had many developmental ideas for the Kenyan people, how he helped Kenyan people…etc. while you never said so while he was alive. You wait for my death to bring flowers and praise me for all the goodies yet we never saw face to face with each other!! Isn’t that hypocrisy?  Isn’t that nonsense? Call a spade a spade and not a big spoon.

You have no right to applause Kajwang if you never did so while he was alive. Personally, I have all the rights since I told him in white and black of his successes and fiascos. One of the failures I have told Kajwang before he met his untimely death is that he messed up the immigration department. He messed up in a way you also know- I guess you have heard Hon. Aden Duale speak it out. Am not mentioning it any more. I have too on many instances applauded Otieno for his spirited fight on the second liberation of this country. Kudos sir, I wish there was a third world where you would replicate the same fight BUT unfortunately, that’s the end.

Kenyans, on point is that if I die today just like Kajwang did and you happen to not have appreciated the virtuous things I did and never presaged me on the debauched things I did while alive, please don’t even bring flowers by my grave side. Don’t praise me while am in casket just to please my dead spirit- I will have cursed you. In fact, I have cursed you already. I know I will attend the senators burial BUT I will shed tears reason being that politician after the other, common mwenyenchi after the other, a family member after the other will rise up to say all the good things the senator did yet probably none of them said the same good things while he was alive. Hypocrisy! Insincerity! Pretense! Falseness! Deceptiveness! Fallaciousness!

There many BUTs and praises I would say about our fallen hero but I won’t.

MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PEACE SIR. MWENYEZI MUNGU AKUWEKE MAHALI PEMA ULIPOJICHAGULIA.