Running Away

Every time a politician opens his mouth, I feel like hiding my head under the table. I often feel like I want to smash something especially my small window of a tv, but unfortunately it is the only one I have and I cannot afford another one given the current hard economic times.
At times I feel like running away from commenting on political issues, because politicians make me angry. I know with certainity that politicians engage is issues that they know can bring them benefits or rewards. But unfiortunately for me, writing is the only forum where I can express what I feel. And this is the reason why I have to continue writing.
As I write, most of my cousins, aunties and other relatives are living in IDP camps for having committed one offence - being born Kikuyu and voting for their man like everybody else was doing. They have been ethnically profiled and branded selfish for voting Mwai Kibaki as president in the 2007 general elections. Yet the same is not said of Luos who voted almost to a man for Raila Odinga or Kambas who overwhelmingly voted for Kalonzo Musyoka.

Anyway I don't want to go that direction, because now that is water under the bridge. But I am concerned when a former KANU hawk now turned reformist Isaac Ruto says that IDP should spend another day in the camps. What I would want to ask Ruto were I to meet him is, Is he in his right senses? has he ever spent a night in the cold? does he care whether the children living in the cold are contracting pneumonia and other lung related illnesses? does he really know what he is talking about?
I know that the local TVs have focussed more on the plight of Kikuyus in IDP camps in Eldoret and other areas, but is Ruto aware that there are other IDPs in Naivasha and Nakuru who are not necessarily Kikuyu?
Ruto will say that it is not yet time to have the people back in their farms. He says that the IDP issue should be solved alongside Mt Elgon and Mau forest. What I want to ask is are the three issus related.

I know politicians are capable of using anything to their advantage and what Ruto is doing is merely using the IDP issue as a bargaining chip. In the end once he gets what he and and his group wants he will sing a new song that the IDPs should go back to their homes.

Ruto please stop fooling us, look for another thing to bargain with and not the lives of innocent people.

That is why even if I wanted to run away, I will always be back to tell off the likes of Ruto and co.