Dear MP
19
June
WARNING: CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE
Dear MP,
It is with sadness that I greet you this day. Sadness because you actually got out of the house without being struck by lightning or rear ended by an 18 wheeler. You see, this is because I hate your guts, and indeed every inch of you, from the tips of your pitchfork to the end of your forked tail. Like an unpaid KPLC bill, you give me the urge to put your lights out.
My dearest MP, nothing would give me the greatest pleasure to kick your spine right out the top of your fat head and proceed to beat you with your own backbone, or what little there is of it. I would then like to sprinkle your backbone with chili, salt, vinegar and army ants and stuff it right back, upside down, where it came from.
In case your ant-like attention span is not quite grasping this, given a choice between your presence in the same hemisphere as myself and painting a boat with my tongue, I’d happily paint the entire Pacific Fleet.
Making allowances for the fact that you are not one of nature’s lightning thinkers, let me simplify it by saying I despise you, from the top of your fat head to the soles of your designer gum boots.
Nothing brings out the truth of uncompromising and everlasting mother’s love than the fact that somewhere there is a woman that is proud to be associated with you. I shudder at the thought of carrying you for 9 months. Give me Pharaoh’s 7 years of famine anytime! 9 months of your society is 9 months too many! Shaggy was onto something when he talked about Strength Of A Woman.
We boosted you on your shoulders when you came to campaign as you promised us change and development. Like true men and woman we grinned ghastly grins and tolerated your enormous girth, stretched trousers and suspicious skid-marks. We endured your rich, earthy aroma and your joint saying and spraying as you articulated your vision.
And then you were sworn in and you were gone. From your one roomed hovel you now live in a house that has a jacuzzi, something you seem to think comes from a sewing kit.
When it comes to issues to do with your benefits and welfare your girth can be seen moving horizontally at great speed and wobble towards the debating chamber. I see your fat face on TV explaining why you need to be paid more. However when it is time for our roads, or our fertilizer or our schools, we are assured the grunts and slobbers from the parliamentary cafeteria are from you.
Now that you object to paying taxes like me, let me assure you that nothing would give me greater pleasure to sit you down in a forest, cover your nether regions in ground nuts and leave the squirrels to a treat of Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut. I would also like to anesthetize you, skin you, cover your flesh with curry powder and vinegar, sprinkle some ball bearings and return your skin and wait for the fun and games begin.
How dare you, you greedy bastard, think that you are more equal than me? Do you not realize, you fat fool, that I am taxed all the way to my liver to pay your obscene salary? Listen here, you garden gnome. Do you understand that I pay so much tax that my grandsons are in debt? And you don’t want to pay tax!
I read with amusement that you sit on the defence committee. You poor fool, a cruise missile is just as fast as a regular missile!
And at your stint doing something in the finance ministry, a balanced budget does not mean writing some expenses on pages 1-30 and the rest on pages 31-60!
Hydro-electric dam, for your information, is not a new curse word.
Just last week I was at a function where you were reading something about Open Source. I have no doubt that you think Open Source can be helped by ointment and bandages. Well, let me say this to you:
apt-get down on your knees, gunzip my trousers and gnukiss my ass, you selfish, self righteous, Gadarene swine!
Yours sincerely,
M





1. 31337
(15 Comments) | June 19th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
i had a tirade of abuse brewing in my head but clearly you have the upper hand on this one.
2. I
(119 Comments) | June 19th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I couldnt help but laugh as i was reading this letter.. and not because of the message in the letter; a copy needs to be sent out to each one of them darn MP’s (Memebers of Propaganda).. But, your flow if words just priceless.. reminds me to love letters written many years ago to little boyfriends..
3. acolyte
(174 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 2:01 am
Well said, you have said what very many Kenyans have on their mind. Ati their allowances shouldn’t be taxed, what rubbish!
4. HLumiti
(2 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Phew. Are they listening?
One Khalwale says he should not be taxed because it would make him “miserable like our constituents”! Any wonder he was named Khalwale (ka-sick one)?
5. Carol
(17 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hmm! When it comes to hitting the nail on the head, nothing other than this could better! I laughed a lot during my profond lecture of this sincere and full of real sentiments letter.
Dear remaining
MPs, make sure you read this please (rip, to mine whom I lost recently.)
6. Kirima
(60 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
This would have been actually really funny if I didn’t feel the same way too!!!!
7. Eclipse
(24 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I totally agree… We should line em all up and dump em into lake Victoria..after removing their spines and wateva brain there is in them.
I really dont know what makes em think they r more special than all of us
For real..am lost beyond words…
8. Mchokozi
(2 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
M, have you considered sending this to them? You could not have expressed our frustration, rage and disgust any better! What a bunch of (expletive) morons we have! Arguably, there are the few and far between “noble” ones…or was that a dream I had?
9. Eclipse
(24 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I totally agree… We should line em all up and dump em into lake Victoria..after removing their spines and wateva brain there is in them.
I really dont know what makes em think they r more special than all of us
For real..am lost for words…
10. Kenyanchick
(15 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
If anything, the language could be even stronger, in my opinion. These so-called leaders have thicker hides than anything roaming our national parks.
I’m absolutely gobsmacked at their nerve. It’s a new low, even for these sh*t-eating worms.
11. seinlife
(10 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Unfortunately kenyans have only themselves to blame - they keep voting the same thieves in every time. I wonder for how long they will endure this pain….
12. wathiifm
(64 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
I think we need to contract a suicide bomber to deal with this guys… lines are open for proposals
13. mary
(1 Comments) | June 20th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Although we are all angry, we should refrain from bad language. I do agree that our MPs are greedy. But sometimes i think that it is our fault. For example
‘Khalwale says he should not be taxed because it would make him “miserable like our constituents”!’
do the people of khalwale constituency know that their leader is saying all this? do they care? how come there hase’nt been a mass demonstration? sometimes we get what we paid for.
14. HLumiti
(2 Comments) | June 21st, 2008 at 1:05 am
Mary, regarding Khalwale and his constituents, I highly doubt that his utterances are the sort that they voted him in for. I can bet that quite a number will not find his stance amusing as I recall them setting his SUV ablaze during the last parliament for some silly remark he made. Mundu khu mundu! That they keep voting the man back is perhaps testimony of a deeply entrenched vacuous culture in politics.
15. Adrian
(78 Comments) | June 21st, 2008 at 8:31 pm
read & heard the news mid-week and knew i have to check here in the next few days for your reaction. wasn’t disappointed.
16. Dipesh
(1 Comments) | June 21st, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I am glad to know that there are others out there that feel the same way I do and are not afraid to express it. Do sign the petition below. It is taking us a long time to get enough people to sign but no matter how long it takes, we will pursue and then I dream of having a 10,000 strong march to shove the signatures up their asses!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/reduce-Kenyan-MPs-salary
17. Mwangi - the Displaced African
(50 Comments) | June 22nd, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Wow! Very strongly worded!
18. Gracelet
(26 Comments) | June 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Well Put M! Unfortunately there is a standing order in Parliament that once sworn in Malingerous Parasites are not allowed to read opinion pieces, surf the net or in any way behave in such a manner as would cause them to be confronted with the unvarnished truth about their constituents actual feelings about them. The rider of course is that should they be unfortunate enough to stumble on such scandalous and seditious material then they are required to forthwith issue a statement ( preferably one which is pregnant with theatrics but void of intellect) and condemn unknown forces out to “get” them !
By the way, I would really love to know how many of us have ever benefitted from donations for school fees, weddings, funerals etc or know of any beneficiaries who are not relatives, clandes or town criers to our esteemed representatives!!
19. rosi
(16 Comments) | June 23rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
couldn’t have said it better myself
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20. rosi
(16 Comments) | June 23rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
couldn’t have said it better myself
(actually couldn’t have said it at all, have no words to express the rage…)
21. Gish
(44 Comments) | June 23rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Hear hear!!!
22. Gish
(44 Comments) | June 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Do these people realize that we too do attend the very same functions, give more than they do as well as other charities? What an excuse, surely they could have done better.
Excuse 2:the MPs supporting the motion are rich what about the rest of us who work 60-hour weeks so that they are able to gallivant(sp) in copters and guzzlers to various places as well as afford them security that we do not have.
I choke with anger each time i think of this BS how dare they? No wonder so many of them are in debt, money that is stained with blood and tears. I pray that their pockets be full of holes.
23. VituVingiSana
(175 Comments) | June 25th, 2008 at 12:51 am
I hope Mzalendo publishes the names of each MP who votes against taxing their salaries… then we can vote the bastards out…
24. atsango
(1 Comments) | June 25th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Let’s be real…if you had the power to determine whether YOU should be taxed or not, what would you choose…and what if you could set your own salary? Would your payslip be reading the same amount it reads now?
Just a thought. Poor structures lead to monsters!
25. dreddlocked1
(6 Comments) | June 26th, 2008 at 7:22 am
This will sound like it is out of left field but bear with me a moment:
It seems as if i’ve heard this argument before, it was worded differently but it struck the same chords. It sees as if we have said all this before; it was last year as we envisioned change, it was 5 years ago, when we were promised change. It was 20 years ago, when we knew change was inevitable, it was 25 years ago when we possessed the land…change, change, change…is it me or do it seem like the more things ‘change’ the more they stay the same?? Ali Baba and the 400 thieves believe, (and we constantly confirm) that they can do no harm/damage that another unkept promise wont clear up. With out a system of checks and balance, they can ’steal at will’…with the ppl making the money that they do, and taxes being what they are, Nairo(bery)should look like, and feel like, a thriving Metropolis…i am sick and tired of being sick and tired of our government. Power of the people?? I dont think so…Power to the people-sorry wrong continent…someone should shoot the b@$tard$ to put US out of their misery…
dreddlocked
26. prousette
(133 Comments) | June 26th, 2008 at 10:53 am
That would be one painful piece to read if it was addressed to me.
But…there is the other side of the story as well. MPs possess only one vote which means that someone somewhere added their vote to his/hers to make them the winner.
Once during the campaign period I attended a church service and a candidate for the area MP happened to be in attendance too.
Immediately after the service people queued beside the church for handouts from the MP without any shame, never mind that they swore under their breath never to vote for him. To say that I was shocked is an understatement. I guess the MPs are just recouping their investments.
Oh, and this particular MP lost the seat. We truly have gotten the leaders we deserve.
27. donworry
(6 Comments) | June 27th, 2008 at 11:46 am
This was a lovely letter and I think M has placed it here as a double-edged sword.
To expect MPs to do anything other than fatten their own backsides is like asking goats to vote for Christmas. For us to do the same thing every 5 years and expect different results says wonders of our collective intelligence. Same applies to the Federal Republic and to Zimbabwe
A friend of a friend (who spoke with a tweng) was going to buy some ice ream for the kids. Her companion asked which of the kids she was buying it for. The friend replied, “both, ofcourse”
…later that day in the course of a conversation the companion was to say how nice that there was a cream one could buy to treat sores around a child’s bottom region,.
It wasn’t her fault when her pal said ice-cream…it sounded just like…aaahhse cream
28. Ni2
(105 Comments) | July 2nd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
@All the people who are saying we voted them in
That aint true. I did not vote for the current MP in my constituency. So I dont see how it is my fault. I can not force other people to vote as I do.
@Eclipse and @M
Amen to that!
29. donworry
(6 Comments) | July 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Dear Ni2,
It will be hard to prove how blaming others can possibly help. Someone will always vote for someone other than your choice. The end result = nothing changes.
It does not really matter who one actually votes for, in the end. The question should be why, in this day and age we should have people like X, Y and Z, well known crims standing as prospective candidates.
Perhaps we should all individually and collectively accept that standards have dropped. That is why we have the leaders that we do and for that the blame lies squarely at your door…………and mine.
30. Ni2
(105 Comments) | July 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
@DonWorry <– I AM worried
I hear you. All I am going to say is this.
George Ayittey talks about Hippos and Cheetahs.
You can get more on that talk here. (Read the transcript or watch the video).
http://blog.ted.com/2007/08/premiere_george.php
To mis-quote Forest Gump “And that is all I have to say about that”.
31. mfas
(5 Comments) | July 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Well said…bottomline; we Kenyans have a very high threshold for BS which encourages these leeches.
32. mfas
(5 Comments) | July 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
M, most of these clowns will be around till 2012. So one to make them feel our wrath is to make them irrelevant.
@Atsago, strong institutions is the way to go BUT who will legislate for the framework required to create/strengthen?