Dear Politician,
How are you? I sure hope that you are doing well.
I have been trying vehemently to get a hold of you, but all in vain. I know you have been busy and so have not had time to visit the "village". Here is a quick rap up of whats been happening.
Well I shall start with the good news, the village officially has 5 cows. Mrs Mwanzia's daughter got married off and a healthy cow was her bride price .I am proud to say the cow came with child, a double celebration for us. On a more Somber note, Mr Otieno our village elder died last month. Remember him? he was the one who headed up the youth wing of your political campaign last election. Well old age finally caught up with him I guess. I was surprised that you did not show up for the funeral, but am sure you had very pressing matters to attend to.We unfortunately had to slaughter two cows (Tradition dictates) so as to rest his soul. So I guess the celebration of the bride price was premature.
It has been great to see you came back last week. I tried to meet you but I see you are a very important individual now and so its impossible to get past your passe. I am aware that the elections are soon and you will only be busier with your campaign, but I have a few concerns that I think you should address before you set out your new manifesto. Here goes
- Job Creation:- Well, you did promise me that "big" job in the "big" City. How my family was excited . I still am packed and ready to go, Been waiting 4 years now but am patient and I know that you will soon call me. My fellow peers, well those not drowning their sorrows and desperation in all the ridiculously cheap alcohol, have formed our new security unit. You do know our chief is really under staffed so they help out a lot. I must admit it is quite costly but at least we get to sleep "safe" at night.
- Re-afforestation :-Boy was I glad when all those seedlings were brought to the village on World Reafforestation Day. Was sure we broke the world record on number of tree to be planted by a small village. It was great to see you get your shinny new leather shoes dusty, you really got into it there. And all those people willing to take our pictures for free, now that was just so super. You should have seen all of us hurdled in Kipruto's bar trying to catch a glimpse of some of our faces.Well, maybe we were too many to appear on that clip, but its good that you appeared, we had "one of us"on TV.Well unfortunately the seedlings did not survive that years drought. Logic demanded that we save the water for our livestock which ate the trees anyway. They (trees) had no chance.
- Drought Relief Program :- We sure could use those boreholes and wells. They will really come in handy, I mean we could irrigate our land and food will be in plenty. Am sure your very expensive trees would have survived that wrath of starving livestock. The village river is seasonal and now we are forced to beg from our "neighbors". They don't like us much, I wonder why? but they sure did not show any mercy to our church after you took the parliamentary seat. We forgive them though, No hard feelings.
- Infrastructure :- The fine young contractor from the city did arrive. With a whole lot of fancy equipment and big machinery. Dug up half the road and stuck sticks on the ground as markings (I helped pick out the sticks by the way). Well he promised to be back and you know we haven't seen him since. Now we no longer have a road and the bus will not get to our village. We are forced to beg from our "neighbors" once again. The sugar mill is also there and sugarcane farming has now become a nightmare and no one bothers anymore.
Well that's all for now. Hope to hear from you soon.
Yours adoringly,
Constituant
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