Dear Governor Kang’ata,
We address you as the Nyandarua Youth League Representatives, having noted with curious concern your impending Ol Kalou expedition on Sunday the 12th of July 2026. We regard your tour with a mixture of bemusement and disquiet and for good reasons.
The Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election is not a stage for political scavengers first and foremost. Our people are seeking a dignified replacement of our fallen hero. The citizens of Ol Kalou should not be reduced to a politically captive audience assembled for your intended—as we have reliably gathered—regional supremacy battle. They are voters with a solemn task, and they deserve to go the vote without being made political fodder in your simmering rivalry with former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua for Mount Kenya kingpin.
It is not a secret that you harbour ambitions of becoming the Mount Kenya kingpin. Every politician is entitled to a dream, and so are you. However, you are grievously out of order when you attempt to convert our by-election into the inaugural rally of that ambition. Please, fight Gachagua on your own turf, in your own county, at a time and place of your choosing. Better yet, drop him a letter!
Do not drag the people of Ol Kalou into a contest that was conceived in Murang’a and bankrolled by known tycoons from your county who have anointed you as the alternative to a man they bitterly accuse of self-coronation. Ol Kalou is not a neutral arena for outsourced political duels.
You seem to believe that arriving with Senator Sifuna, MP Babu Owino and Senator Osotsi will project you as a leader of national opposition stature and thereby crown you the mountain’s voice and de facto leader. We beg to differ with this reasoning. The presence of your Linda Mwananchi colleagues may impress the cameras, but not a constituency that readily differentiates spectacle from substance.
What we care about, Governor, is the development support we can secure from the Government of the day. We are living for the present, for the water projects, the roads, the electricity connections and the market stalls that make daily existence bearable. We have no appetite for promises of a misty future peddled by a disjointed opposition that cannot agree on its presidential flag-bearer come 2027.
We are also reliably informed that you have been counselled to pile harsh words upon the candidacy of Samuel Muchina Nyaga in the forthcoming by-election and that you intend to use the Ol Kalou whistle-stops to test the potency of those attacks. Kindly regard this as a lie you will regret indulging sooner rather than later. The people of Ol Kalou are far more perceptive than you have been led to believe. They can distinguish acrobatics of DCP’s sarakasi politics from a results-oriented agenda.
If you arrive here with vitriol as your main political arsenal, you will find that our ears wilfully blocked. And if your poisoned words are intended to wound our candidate’s prospects, know that we will take it as an insult to our collective intelligence, and we will remember it for the longest time.
Ol Kalou is not Murang’a. Here, we weigh politicians by their deeds, not by the noise of their motorcades or their populist stunts. In any case we doubt that a pass-through caravan can confer kingpinship! The mountain region is not a trophy to be claimed at a roadside rally in Ol Kalou on the eve of a crucial by-election. Ours is a community with deep, unresolved economic needs that cannot be addressed by slogans from politicians who fly in, speak, and vanish.
We therefore advise you, with the sincerity that you may find uncomfortable, to hold your horses and your circus. We do not care one bit about your battles with would-be or wannabe Mount Kenya tin gods or kingpins whichever mountains they proclaim. Find another venue to wage your Mulima kingpinship battle with Gachagua. NOT Ol Kalou! And NOT with your BEI YA JOINI mentality!
Yours in guarded vigilance,
Nyandarua Youth League Representatives
Thursday 9th July 2026
