20/04/2026
People of Laikipia!
Children of the red earth and the whispering winds,
Sons and daughters forged in the crucible of sun-scorched plains and starlit nights,
Awake! Awake from the long, suffocating slumber of betrayal!
I, Kihunyu Gitogo, your revolutionary son, born of your soil and baptised in your tears, rise before you not as a seeker of thrones, but as the living flame that shall consume the rotten altars of oppression. The hour has struck. The ancient drums of destiny beat in our veins. The chains forged by greedy hands, those iron serpents that have coiled around our necks, squeezing the life from our dreams, must now shatter into a thousand pieces beneath the hammer of our collective will.I might not have been introduced by the powerful godfathers but I am the powerful godfather who will introduce Laikipia to the world ,that here slept a giant of a rich county.
Like Chinua Achebe’s tragic prophet, I cry out;Things have fallen apart! The centre has not held. The falcon of hope has flown far from the falconer of truth. Our land bleeds rivers of wasted potential while vultures in suits feast on the carcass of our dignity. They have turned our fertile valleys into graveyards of broken promises, our proud ranches into auction blocks for foreign masters and local traitors. But hear this, my brothers and sisters, with the fire of a thousand suns burning in my chest,The locusts shall devour no more!.
I speak with the merciless wisdom of Machiavelli reborn in African fire: In the arena of power, mercy to the wicked is cruelty to the innocent. Therefore, we shall show no pity to corruption, no quarter to incompetence, no compromise with the politics of empty bellies and silenced voices. We shall seize the sword of governance not to rule, but to liberate. Not to enrich ourselves, but to resurrect the soul of Laikipia from the tomb of mediocrity.
Laikipia! My beloved, my wounded mother!
How your mountains have wept silent tears while your children wandered hungry.
How your rivers have run dry with sorrow as your daughters carried empty pots on their heads.
How your sons have grown lean with unfulfilled strength, their youthful fire turned to ash by despair.
But no more!
Today, under the mighty banner of the DCP Party the movement I have enshrined my loyalty, we ignite the revolution of the soul. A revolution not of blood alone, but of unbreakable spirit. We shall water the barren fields with the sweat of honest labour and the tears of renewed hope. We shall build roads that pulse like arteries of progress, carrying life to every forgotten corner. We shall raise schools where young minds bloom like acacia after the rains, producing not servants, but kings and queens of knowledge. Our hospitals shall throb with healing, so that no mother shall bury her child beneath the indifferent stars. Our wildlife and our people shall walk in harmony once more, guardians of the same sacred heritage.
To the youth, whose blood boils with righteous thunder: Your anger is holy! Let it become the lightning that strikes down stagnation.
To the women, pillars of granite and rivers of nurturing grace: Your silenced songs shall now become anthems of power.
To the elders, keepers of ancestral fire: Your wisdom shall no longer be trampled; it shall light our path like the morning star.
This is no ordinary campaign. This is the resurrection of a people!
This is the poetic uprising of a land that refuses to die.
This is the emotional cry of a thousand generations rising as one.
Kihunyu Gitogo does not beg for power. He summons it from the depths of your hearts.
Rise with me, my fellow people of Laikipia! Let your roar shake the foundations of the old order. Let your tears of joy water the seeds of a new dawn,a new leadership. Let your fists of unity break every chain.The retrogressive chains of stagnation and recycled leadership.
The lion within us has awakened.
Its mane is woven from the threads of justice.
Its eyes burn with the fire of destiny.
Its voice shall echo across the hills and valleys: Laikipia shall be free!
Forward, warriors of the revolution!
Power, true power, to the sovereign people of Laikipia!
Development, Change, Prosperity , the heartbeat of our liberation!
Laikipia don't fear the established figures,with me you are in brave hands.Nobody,no one can stop the will of the people for change,,not when I am your leader!
CPA John Kihunyu Gitogo
Gubernatorial Candidate, Laikipia County.
May you never forget!
