GLADYS WANGA BREAKS DOWN! Open Letter To Orengo Leaves Kenyans Talking

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[00:03:46]comango open letter to his excellence. Honorable James Orango, SC Governor Sea County.

[00:04:05]Dear Governor Orango, my father, reference, reflection, dignity, and the place of women in our public life. I write this letter in personal capacity, not as a governor of Omabi County, nor as a chairperson of the ODM party, but simply as Gladis, daughter, mother, wife, and a woman who, like many others, continue to navigate leadership in space that often demands strength while offering little grace. For many years, this space were occupied by men and only courageous women dire to break through.

[00:04:43]I have reflected deeply on remarks you recently made concerning me. I chose silence at first because I have always believe that not every disagreement demand public contest and not every heart should invite a public response.

[00:05:01]Yet some moment require reflection not because of the individual involved but because of what they represent.

[00:05:12]I have always held you in immense respect. To many of us who entered public life after your generation, you have represented courage, conviction and the possibility of principal leadership.

[00:05:26]Many young politician look up to you for motivation and inspiration. You have been around for a long time and I have personally regarded you with the esteem one reserve for an elder and in many ways with the affection and difference one will extend to a further figure.

[00:05:46]Indeed, listening to your remarks and the manner in which they were received left me wondering how I would have felt hearing the same words from my own late father whom I saw for only few years and from respected man of his generation like you to whom I had looked for guidance and direction. That is perhaps why they hurt.

[00:06:13]Not because political criticism is unfamiliar to me, nor because public office exempt one from security, but because certain expression carry weight beyond politics. They say politics is a dirty game, but I did not expect it to become dirty through your adancrances.

[00:06:32]Words spoken by respected leaders shape culture, reinforce attitude, and and determine what society permits.

[00:06:40]When remarks directed at a woman carry undertones that diminish uh diminish ridicule or reduce because of agenda, age or place in public life.

[00:06:57]They travel far beyond their immediate target. They become an echo familiar to millions of women and girls who have endured various form of gender based violence, exclusion, intimidation and dismissal in workplaces, homes and public spaces. They run through the vertebrae like lightning striker tree.

[00:07:21]Many women are told to speak more oftenly, lead similar uh lead smaller, occupy less space or differ not because they are wrong but because they are women. Many enjoyed insult and men in equivalent position will never face. It is this reality that made your remarks painful. not merely as a uh as an affront to me but because they inadverently validated a burden many women continue to carry quietly.

[00:07:56]I did not write this to seek an apology through public pressure not to invite sympathy for myself. I write in hope that moment such as this can remind us all, especially those of us privileged to be in a leadership and particularly in a space where traditionally women were only supposed to be seen and not add that strengthenity dignity are never are never diminished by kindness and that authority need to come at the expenses of another humanity.

[00:08:30]Governor Despite the distress and untold discomfort this episode has caused me and those close to me, I do not wish to engage you in prolonged exchanges over this matter. I consider you my senior respected elder and someone whose contribution to public life deserve honor and respect. I therefore choose forgiveness. I was humble just as I was um more importantly I choose to leave the door open for engagement, dialogue and collaboration on matter that public uh that uplift our people and propel our community forward. After all, God gave us the possibility to make our community better and more respectable.

[00:09:16]Our region deserve leadership that inspire hope not needless tough war with a girl that age of your daughter. If my resolve to stand with Senator Uburu Oinga as party leader of our great party after the passing of our beloved elder Raoinga may he continue resting in peace means I must endure more of this embarrassing insult and necessary trade.

[00:09:42]So be it. Dr. Aburu was selected by thousand of party delegates in broad daylight.

[00:09:48]Governor, may this moment become not point of division but an opportunity for reflection, healing and renewed comm renewed commitment to building a public culture where women and men can disagree vigorously yet we serve each other's dignity. In the word of young Pakistani female education activist Malala Yusam Zai, we realize the importance of our voice only when we are silenced.

[00:10:16]Please do not silence our voices through humiliation. You are sincerely ladies.