Instead of bothering myself about the Kenya 2009 National census I shall prepare myself to go to the Nation Centre from where in company of news people I will go to Jevanjee Garden to dress up for a visit to the Department of Pensions, whose director is Mugo (a Kikuyu) to ask for my pension any day after September 1, 2009, a year after I had asked for the status of my file only for N.Kariuki (the Kikuyu) to send me at the end of the month a stupid letter dated 7/7/2008 asking me for November or December 2007 pay slip for my pension to be processed, which I had not been sent. 

From the pensions office I will go back to Nation Centre to talk about stalled publication of my book, Highly Regretted: An autobiography of a bad teacher and my kidney problem and how I am depending on water to treat it as I wait for pension. 

Lucky are public officers who have freedom of unaccountability. They never miss their salaries and they comfortably educate their children, eat well and dress well without fear of being asked why they have delayed payments to nitwits like me.

They attend launches of all sorts of charters and do nothing to serve the public in fourteen days. Indeed fourteen!

To come and count me, do so when I am dead.

You can see I no longer love the government and I have nothing to do with it.

Then comes the utopian Economic Stimulus Programme – Overcoming Today’s Challenges for a Better Kenya Tomorrow.

How can this be realized when your unaccountable officers condemn retired teachers to become beggars by locking up their pensions yet when they were working you barred them from engaging in business to empower themselves for the day when they will get sacked because of being blessed with old (or dying) age of 55 (now 60) years? 

How can health care for all be a promise of a government that has denied me an opportunity to take care of my kidney problem yet it will never offer me a trip to South Africa when it becomes worse? And wants me to accept to be counted! Count me for what? 

In the night my kidney pained so much. It pumped hatred in me. I thought until I started feeling the way Savimbi, Kony. Bemba, Mandela… felt when they started to do what they did to bring change.

Look at the letter [dated 23rd December 2008] published below which was ignored by N. Kariuki (a Kikuyu) of the TSC who deliberately sat on my file waiting for I do not know what. (Reference to tribe is in compliance with the KNBS love for it.)

Dear Sir:

RE: RETIREMENT BENEFITS

You are in possession of my 17th November 2008 letter, which did not interest you to act upon, reproduced below.

In the meantime, my condition is becoming worse and leading me to ask myself very many questions:

Will I really ever be paid any pension for the 375 months that I worked? If I keep on writing to the TSC will I not annoy them so that they throw away my file or pay me less than what is my due? Am I supposed to die of this kidney problem so that my pension is blown to the wind? What is really happening to my file? Why was I asked for November or December payslip when it had not been sent to me? Is it a must that I go to Nairobi if I want to be paid my pension? If I go to Nairobi who shall I go and see and what should I go with? What document have I refused to submit? Why are so many people telling me that I am not keen to get my pension yet Nairobi is so near? Do they know I am a beggar these days?

Kindly pay me my pension. 

Your letter, Ref. No. TSC/122160/247, dated 7th July 2008 refers yet again.

You are aware that I retired on December 31, 2007 and that you devotedly diligently and promptly stopped my salary. 

From September 1976 to December 31, 2007 I had worked for a total of 375 months, without ever going any kind of leave. 

I wrote to you a letter dated 30th August 2008 and personally dropped in your mail box on 1st September 2008 requesting for the status of my file. 

Instead of the status of my file you on 23rd September 2008 posted to me a letter which I received on 30th September 2008 in which you asked me for payslip for November or December 2007. 

The following day, on 1st October 2008 I sent to you a letter in forming you that you did not send me the November and December pay slips and that the one I had was October one and asked you if it would do and enclosed.

On 27th October 2008 I got the December payslip, and promptly sent you a letter explaining and attached it. 

I still request for the status of my file and pension file number.

I also beg to remind you that I requested for a copy of the letter I wrote while at your office on 25th May 1999 for my book: Highly Regretted: An autobiography of a bad teacher. 

My other request is for a circular from you which says that in the event of a teacher’s pension being delayed the TSC shall pay the teacher his salary minus allowances which shall be deducted from his pension. 

And since I have started starving kindly pay me salary minus the allowances for it looks that I shall perhaps even never get any pension.

I have a kidney problem which if I attend to now I shall live but if I delay for as long as my pension will delay I shall die. 

In case you feel that I do not need my pension now but you want to help me, kindly pay Jeniffer Chepkirui of Modern Professional Centre PO Box 225, 30105-Soy KShs twenty thousand for professional services in respect to preparation of manuscripts:-

1. Ulimwengu wa Tajiri;

2. Breathe evening breeze;

3. TAALUMA YA USHAIRI - Showcase of unscrupulous Publishers in Modern Kenya;

4. Highly Regretted: An autobiography of a bad teacher;

and, purchase and send to me the following initial dose of TIANSHI Health Products (my TIANSHI No is 85808739) and deduct from my pension when you will deem it due. 

For my use:

• Antilipemic Tea                     1,184/=
• Chitosan                                 2,072/=
• Cordyceps/=                          2,516/=
• Beneficial/=                            2,516/=
• Calcium I                                1,184/=
• Lecithin + Calcium                   592/=
• Zinc                                            666/=
• Casper capsules                   1,110/=
• Sub-Total                             11,840/=

• Antilipemic Tea                     1,184/=
• Chitosan                                 2,072/=
• Cordyceps/=                          2,516/=
• 7 Forces                                 3,552/=
• Grapevine                              2,664/=
• Casper capsules                   1,110/=
• Zinc                                           666/=
• CZF-Iron                                    740/=
• Spirulina                                 1,776/=
• Sub-Total             16,280/=

• 7 Forces                                 3,552/=
• Dia – Gins                                 888/=
• Vega Power                          2,960/=
• Zinc                                            666/=
• Vitality Soft Gel                      1,850/=
• Sub-Total                 9,916/=