ODM's Youth leader Kasmuel McOure has broken his silence in an emotional letter to President Ruto , asking for justice on the victims of the 2024 anti- finance bill protest.
This letter comes barely two days after the BBC published an alarming documentary entitled 'Blood Parliament,' a closure of police brutality against the GenZ protesters.
McOure posted the letters in his social pages on 30, April , expressing his pain and fear on how leaders can betray the young generation and sentence them to such harsh brutality.
“I write this because I am still alive. And I am alive either because I am a coward or because I have been spared by chance. I believe it is both, but mostly the former,” he stated emotionally.
“I write with a quivering voice, unsteady hands, and a disillusioned mind. Social media may not be the most dignified forum for addressing a Head of State. But it is where you first heard my name. I will not seek a meeting," the youthful leader added.
His later further portrayed an image of a generation seeking accountability from their leaders only to meet a violent backlash.
“Your peers accuse us of entitlement. Laziness. Fragility. Perhaps. But if we are weak in patience, we are strong in conviction. If we lack decorum, we compensate with moral clarity. When Parliament sought to impose a Finance Bill that would render our lives even more unbearable, we took to the streets-not for clout, but for survival. For bread. For bus fare. For menstrual pads for our lovers, and diapers for our children,” he wrote.
The Youth leader further criticized how Ruto's administration has been lenient on corrupt civil servants and blind on police brutality.
“We asked for accountability. For an end to the theft that masquerades as public service. For a debt audit, because our futures are auctioned off every fiscal year. For an end to police brutality. These are not radical demands. They are the bare minimum conditions of a functioning society. But under your administration, they remain mirages.”
Kasmuel"s confrontation grew more cold as he demands an eye for an eye against the murderers of the young protesters, instead of 'clemency.'
“Shake my hand, Mr. President. I need it now, for my generation. We are nearing a year since the blood of our comrades soaked this soil-and not one of their killers has been brought to justice. Today, you extended clemency to offenders. I ask for a double portion on the other side of the scale. As the custodian of this republic. I ask for the heads of those who murdered my generation. This is both a request and a prophecy,” he said unequivocally.
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