LET US NOT FORGET TO FAST AND PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE 2007 PEV.

Some of our religious leaders have called upon all Kenyans to say a prayer for our gallant sons who are heading to The Hague. I am sure that this call will resonate well with many Kenyans considering that we are a notoriously religious nation. In fact, I propose that we hold two national fasting days that should coincide with the hearings at The Hague. Prayers can move mountains, right? Not even the dreaded Ocampo can stand in the way of the power of prayers. Who knows, the guy may be struck dumb during the court proceedings. Have we not already witnessed a bizarre incident in which one lawyer was struck dumb during the hearing of an election petition in a high court in Kisii?

After we are done with fasting and praying for the Ocampo six, I hope that the clergy will also find time from their busy schedules to call upon Kenyans to set aside a just a day for fasting and praying for the IDPs and other victims of the 2007 PEV. May be the hearts of those in government will soften enough to allow them to expeditiously tackle the litany of debilitating and dehumanizing problems that these victims are faced with.

I also wish that the clergy will not tire to call upon Kenyans to say special prayers for politicians who are incessantly spewing, in the most tendentious way, an avalanche of propaganda and inanities in their political rallies. I hope that the clergy will lead us in saying a special prayer particularly for one elderly politician so that she does not lead others with similar orientations into laying bare their nakedness in solidarity with one of their own. I firmly believe that through prayers this politician may realize that it is the eyes of the forty million Kenyans (including that of her children, grandchildren and great grand children) that will be feasting on her nakedness and that in effect it is these hapless Kenyans who will be the direct recipients of this ancient curse.

I am looking forward to our clergy to rally the public to pray for those political elites who are inundating the public with blood cuddling ethnic undertones. I hope that these special prayers will particularly touch one political activist so that she never again mumbles something to the effect that “the real owners of this country will be known should the ICC incarcerate one among their fold.”

I also hope that the clergy will remind us to pray for some among our midst (who own land that is estimated to be the size of Nyanza province), to be moved by the plight of thousands of landless Kenyans. I hope that special prayers will soften their hearts so much so that they can see the wisdom of donating some pieces of idle land for the landless.

I pray that the clergy will rally the public to pray for our politicians to respect the spirit and law of the constitution. With special prayers we will have a country that does not have a law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid. And now, I am even made to understand that we have in place a law meant for the sons and daughters of former presidents and a law for the sons and daughters of commoners! In other words, sons of former presidents must be guaranteed immunity from prosecution lest the country goes up in flames!

I have heard that some politicians are even contemplating reenacting the Mahatma Gandhi non violent revolution. They plan to rally the masses to prostrate on the runway so that the plane carrying one of their own does not take off to Hague. How I wish that the clergy could convince them to instead prostrate for a worthy cause. They can then fast and prostrate so that God can grant our political leaders enough wisdom to understand the language of the millions of starving Kenyans. If all Kenyans were to prostrate for just an hour wherever they are, I am sure that our politicians will stop political bickering and refocus their attention on tackling the runway inflation.

Finally, I hope that the clergy will find it prudent to call the nation to pray for President Kibaki so that he takes leave of his trademark silence. Let us pray that he does not surrender the fate of this country in the hands of those who are more than willing to force us into rivaling countries with longstanding pariah status.