PERSONAL LETTER TO MR. KWAMCHETSI

OPEN LETTER TO MR. KWACHETSI MAKOKHA
17th /12/2011
Dear Mr. Kwamchetsi,

Greetings and warm regards for the season. I am an ardent reader of your articles but this one entitled “Open letter to New ICC Chief Prosecutor” Ms fatou Bensouda left me with some disturbing questions and I said I should write a few lines to you as a sign of food for thought.
I am a student at the Catholic University doing my mastery in Pastoral Theology and also a pastoral agent in qualitative Evangelization in AMECEA region.
Your letter to the ICC Prosecutor sounded to me as personal, of course a letter has a personal idea, tone and it is sometimes rouses different emotions, thoughts, desires depending on who is writing and to whom it is written to. You expressed your your free hand of writing or can we say tying the thoughts which you shared with us in this Saturday's Daily Nation dated 17/12/2011.
Some points I would like we reflect together and I do believe in the whole big picture of reality. Sometimes you will never know where you are until someone asks you a question or shares about the issues raised.

1. Personal description can be done but to some extent.When it remains on physical level then it is not integral. Your description of Ms Fatou Bensouda could go beyond physical to intellectual, spiritual, and other qualities which to me I felt you didn’t mention. Let me think may be it was due to your angle of thought and emphasis, or depending on where your stand is in the matter.
2. You are a learned and schooled personality of this country but if I find myself thinking that you ascribe to a certain school of thought of “I am an African and I need to be treated as an African” that can make me uneasy to some extent. Ms .Fatou I do believe she is entitled to her views which you and I are called upon to respect and engage her in reverential dialogue.
3. Men and in this case I mean African men have ruled and mismanaged African continent and I know you know them who have poorly mismanaged African resources, intellegentia, and the whole concept of Africa as a Family set up. Ms. Fatou should not be asked to perform miracles which you yourself find hard to tackle. The poor woman has not even entered into office as prosecutor but we are piling up many demands. I think we need to give her time.
4. We find ourselves looking outside of this country and seeing and thinking why can’t she do this and that about others (Asia, America, Europe) while we ourselves are burning with deep hatred of each other in this country, people still in IDP Camps, Corruption left, right and centre. Before Ms. Fatou sorts us let us put our house in order. Our mother Wangari Maathaai insisted on thinking internally and acting locally but that should not mean that we cannot be helped when in difficulties or faced with enormous challenges. “Mgeni aje mwenyeji apone”. We have compromised our prophetic voices; we have lost the trend of thought that even we do not know who is who? Everyone is talking and no one is listening to the other. Surely what will Obama’s investigation benefit Kenyans in IDP camp, our corruption, negative ethnicity. Just food for thought.
5. You say that Africans solved their challenges by sitting under trees but the question is; where are the trees to sit under?, land grabbing, deforestation, watelands encroached, the ecology interfered with. B) Breaking cola nut, I think what is important is breaking the Kenyans hearts which have turned out to be harder than the cola nut. C) Drink beer- with the kumikumi killing people, rendering men impotent and wasted, family break up due to the love of the bottle. Drinking should not be glorified today as African virtue/value, it has no value today dear Mr. kwamchetsi.
6. You mentioned about compensation of the lost life. Who has compensated the lives lost in 1992, 1997, 2007 in this country. Its up to us to ask ourselves deeply from the bottom of our hearts and souls what happened? We all wanted ICC to help us what has changed that we are turning against the Dr. who gave us the medication. It is not Ms. Fatou’s business but if we can’t reflect she will help us meditate according to the ICC smart qualitative objectives of Rome Statute.
These are some of the disturbing thoughts which I wanted to share with you and I do hope we can think towards making Kenya to be truly Kenyan and truly INCHI YETU. We can’t afford to think one think, write this and act differently from our beingness. We are opinion leaders of this country and we need to address our issues than looking out of what is not happening out there. We have very burning issues which me and you can sit down and say, what we can do and whom can we approach to help us? than feel pride in ourselves is too much ignorance. Our people are dying for lack of knowledge and we just can’t afford to waste time being too rhetoric.

Yours faithfully

Padre Joseph M. Nyamunga- CUEA

ID. No. MA/PT -1019830