Ruto Kill Me on Thursday !

By Alexander Opicho

Do I have a choice? You have killed me before. Remember? I was Nyanjiru in the last century. Harry Thuku had just been arrested. We needed him freed to continue the fight for our land. You shot me.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? You have killed me before. Remember? I was the Dini ya Musambwa under Elijah Masinde in 1947. I felt you needed land then owned by the white man. You shot eleven of us at Malakisi in Bungoma.

Kill me on Thursday.
You have killed me before. Remember? I was Dedan Kimaathi. You were landless and leaderless. You required a revolutionary president to ensure equitable sharing of land. You hanged me and buried me in an unmarked grave in kamiti.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? You have killed me before. Remember? 1965. I was Pio Gama Pinto. I had a dream for a country with free education, health, minus slums. You shot me when I was taking my kids to school.

I was Masinde Muliro in the aeroplane looking for Kenya's multparty democracy when you hovered in the back chair in your totalness of a killing man. You syphoned air out of my chest leaving me dead:

I was Ken Wafula speaking the truth to power, crying for the beloved country, the beloved citizens - crying for their lost basic rights and right to reparation as victims of crime against humanity . when the eagles of panicky power towered on me , taking away my life with your poison of power . I was killed in Eldoret..

I was John Kituyi of the Weekly Mirror, giving a mirror to the times of darkness

Where tyranny of political crime was order of times, and the poor had no right to space, and life . You landed on me with weapons of death. You killed me in Eldoret.

I was Father Anthony Kaizer crying for the rights of the landless. Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the ethnic center could not hold the tyranny leaving things of dictatorship to fall, you were the falconer of death who could not bear me a falcon, you killed me in the cold blood. Dumping me at the road side for I to test shame in death

You have killed me before, when I was crusading for commercial democracy

Praying for all animals to be equal Before eyes of government tenders

I was Jacob Juma...you killed me!
Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? You have killed me before. Remember? 1975. I was JM Kariuki. I wanted an equitable society. You sprayed 5 bullets into my body and handed me over to sympathetic hyenas in Ngong who refused to eat me.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? You have killed me before. Remember? 1990. I was Bishop Alexander Muge. I sympathized with hungry pokots and supported political reforms. You killed me at Kipkaren River through a freak accident.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice. Remember? You killed me before. 1982. We needed a multi party system. I was Senior Sergeant Hezekiah Ochuka and many civilian supporters of the coup. You murdered us.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? You have killed me b4. Remember? 1990. I was the Saba Saba casualty under Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, Raila Odinga , Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jaramogi Odinga struggling to create conditions for the formation of UDA, ODM, FORD KENYA etc. You killed too many of us.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice?. You have killed me b4, remember? 1980s. I was Titus Adungosi, the only hope of my family. You jailed me and followed me in prison and killed me for supporting change as SONU chair. No child of my own. You wiped me out!

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? Remember? I am a Saba Saba campaigner for a new constitution in 1997. You killed 16 of us. Kenyans earned the right to organize rallies with police as mere rubber stumps. The reform process was midwifed by the Inter Party Parliamentary Group.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? 2007-8. You killed me as a protester against election rigging. We were many. Kenyans shared the stolen loaf and shared the task of shaping our destiny.

Kill me on Thursday, Do I have a choice?2017 you killed before. I am Christopher Chege Musando . My only crime was trying to ensure a fair and honest election.

Kill me on Thursday.
Do I have a choice? You have killed me before. I am baby Pendo, , Sergeant Yebei etc who went about my bussiness unaware that being harmless and straightforward is a crime to some in Kenya. You killed me.