The amazingly greedy and corrupt 9th parliament has given Kenyan voters yet another reason to vote it out en masse. It emerges that the parliamentarians were already drawing on allowances that had not yet been passed in the house.
Read the details of this hard-to-believe but true tale now!
Despite all the explanations we are getting from people like Finance Minister Amos Kimunya (hardly a neutral judge in this issue because he is amongst those who have enjoyed the illegal perks) there is no other word to describe what our legislators have been doing other than "theft." And on a grand scale.
Stealing is taking that which does not belong to you. And even when thieves return what the have stolen, they are still called thieves. All this time, not a single MP stood up and blew the whistle on what was happening. Instead they all get drawing and enjoying the money.
I appeal to all Kenyans of good will that we use our voters cards to send the thieves home. No wonder they were all so keen on passing the media bill, they obviously have plenty to hide and what we know is just a tip of the iceberg.
Incidentally somebody asked here how we are going to do it. Actually it is simpler that most people think. Surveys clearly show that Kenyans have already decided that 90 per cent of the legislators are going home. All we need to do is to encourage other voters we meet to do exactly what we ourselves are going to do. We just have 10 per cent of the 9th parliament left to get rid of. That works itself out to 22 legislators on the high side.
Kindly use this weekend's social activities to talk to Kenyans you meet everywhere around the globe.
P.S. Such a message from Kenyan voters to our legislators (i.e. voting out the whole lot) will send fear down the spines of the newly elected novices who will take their place, thus decreasing their chances of behaving the same way. For the new legislators to survive, they will have to start by cutting down their own salaries dramatically.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
I NEVER Said That Kalamari Was Porn Poster
Most folks are harassed for time and that is why people usually quickly skim through articles rather than read them. This habit is rampant online and that is why so many readers of this house never were angry at the controversial tongue-in-the-cheek post in this blog appealing for former cabinet minister incharge of internal security Chris Murungaru to be re-instated to the cabinet.
It is also the same reason why many readers seem to think that I have accussed Kalmari of being the porn poster who has been a pest in this blog I DID NOT say anything of the sort.
All I did was ask him to stop harassing our dear friend, Sue. Twice Kalamari has made comments that cannot be judged to be anything less of online sexual harassment.
I hereby reporduce just one of the two comments he made to Sue, for those who may have missed them;
kalamari said...
My dear sweetheart Sue, Long are the steamy nights when my thoughts of you, my darling, leave me sweating profusely and gasping for much needed oxygen. Sue, I love you so much that when I think of you I cannot even eat. You are my daily bread, without you I will remain hungry…..forever. In fact Sue, when I think of you, my temperature just keeps rising…. I don’t know when it will stop. Sue, you are my heart, literary…if you leave me now, how will blood circulate in my body? Oh! Sue, your beauty and sexy way is the only reason I wake up in the morning. Without you I refuse to wake up again (please don’t call my bluff on that one). You see Sue, you and I are like Adam and Eve, frolicking in the garden of Eden….naked and not knowing about IT.
By the way, are you talking about the same post that somewhat bluntly emphasized the known fact that you have absolutely no idea or clue about what you are talking about? Put a smile on your face
To be fund at the following link (comment number 17 or thereabouts);
http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/2007/08/odm-kenya-all-signs-point-to-nasty.html
Kalamari's comments are filled with sexual connotations and that is why I hinted that he may need professional help (just like the porn poster) for his apparent obsession with sex. I could of course be wrong and am waiting for our dear brother Kalamari to honestly say something concerning this. And that is why his name appeared on the same post as the one where I was discussing the porn poster.
But please stop this, my dear brother. Sue deserves respect.
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It is also the same reason why many readers seem to think that I have accussed Kalmari of being the porn poster who has been a pest in this blog I DID NOT say anything of the sort.
All I did was ask him to stop harassing our dear friend, Sue. Twice Kalamari has made comments that cannot be judged to be anything less of online sexual harassment.
I hereby reporduce just one of the two comments he made to Sue, for those who may have missed them;
kalamari said...
My dear sweetheart Sue, Long are the steamy nights when my thoughts of you, my darling, leave me sweating profusely and gasping for much needed oxygen. Sue, I love you so much that when I think of you I cannot even eat. You are my daily bread, without you I will remain hungry…..forever. In fact Sue, when I think of you, my temperature just keeps rising…. I don’t know when it will stop. Sue, you are my heart, literary…if you leave me now, how will blood circulate in my body? Oh! Sue, your beauty and sexy way is the only reason I wake up in the morning. Without you I refuse to wake up again (please don’t call my bluff on that one). You see Sue, you and I are like Adam and Eve, frolicking in the garden of Eden….naked and not knowing about IT.
By the way, are you talking about the same post that somewhat bluntly emphasized the known fact that you have absolutely no idea or clue about what you are talking about? Put a smile on your face
To be fund at the following link (comment number 17 or thereabouts);
http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/2007/08/odm-kenya-all-signs-point-to-nasty.html
Kalamari's comments are filled with sexual connotations and that is why I hinted that he may need professional help (just like the porn poster) for his apparent obsession with sex. I could of course be wrong and am waiting for our dear brother Kalamari to honestly say something concerning this. And that is why his name appeared on the same post as the one where I was discussing the porn poster.
But please stop this, my dear brother. Sue deserves respect.
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Goodbye Masai Mara Part 3: President Kibaki's Son Wanted To View Grabbed Land
In yet another detailed letter written to the Attorney General Amos Wako on 12th May 2006, which is in my possession a former judge lists various concerns over the grabbing of the land within the world famous Masai Mara game reserve. The judge goes on to mention the names of persons close to the family of President Kibaki whom attempts have been made to co-opt in the development of the land in a clever strategy by the alleged land grabber to ensure that he is untouchable and that he has some "insurance" against losing his grabbed "investment".
Shockingly at one point in the letter the judge says,
"I had mentioned that people like Mr. David Kibaki, My Jimmy Michuki and Mr Stanley Murage have been interested in the disputed property. I have the evidence of people like Mt Hassan Ole Kamwaro, chairman of the Transport Licensing board…"
The judge goes on to say in the letter to the AG;
"I have the evidence of Ole Sapalan on the involvement of Mr. David Kibaki who wanted to be accompanied by the former to visit the Mara property but Ole Sapalan appears to have prevailed. He warned David Kibaki that this is a property in respect whereof his Father suspended a Judge and it would be a scandal of monstrous proportions if David was seen contriving with Tobiko and Ole Ntutu to whisk it away from the Judge and his people or the part that belongs to the County Council from the Council."
But the surprises do not end there. Surprisingly, even as you read this plans for the development of the grabbed land are at an advanced stage. The letter to the AG adds;
"It seems as if one Mary Wambui is the new recruit. She the other day visited Ole Ntutu home, though no evidence leaked regarding her quest for the Mara property but it is obvious that David Kibaki’s interest might have faded since the two groups cannot go together in search of loot. As to Jimmy Michuki, I have the word of Alex Ole Magilo that Jimmy is preparing plans to develop a property in the Mara at the disputed area.
"I also have documents showing Mr. Tobiko and Hon Ole Ntutu visited State House in the Referendum days, when Hon. Stephen Ole Ntutu M.P made demands that civil cases involving his brother and the County Council of Narok be speedily settled. I believe it was this demand that saw the speedy transfer of the Council Clerk Mr. Ondimu who had braved the odds and dared give evidence in this criminal case."
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Shockingly at one point in the letter the judge says,
"I had mentioned that people like Mr. David Kibaki, My Jimmy Michuki and Mr Stanley Murage have been interested in the disputed property. I have the evidence of people like Mt Hassan Ole Kamwaro, chairman of the Transport Licensing board…"
The judge goes on to say in the letter to the AG;
"I have the evidence of Ole Sapalan on the involvement of Mr. David Kibaki who wanted to be accompanied by the former to visit the Mara property but Ole Sapalan appears to have prevailed. He warned David Kibaki that this is a property in respect whereof his Father suspended a Judge and it would be a scandal of monstrous proportions if David was seen contriving with Tobiko and Ole Ntutu to whisk it away from the Judge and his people or the part that belongs to the County Council from the Council."
But the surprises do not end there. Surprisingly, even as you read this plans for the development of the grabbed land are at an advanced stage. The letter to the AG adds;
"It seems as if one Mary Wambui is the new recruit. She the other day visited Ole Ntutu home, though no evidence leaked regarding her quest for the Mara property but it is obvious that David Kibaki’s interest might have faded since the two groups cannot go together in search of loot. As to Jimmy Michuki, I have the word of Alex Ole Magilo that Jimmy is preparing plans to develop a property in the Mara at the disputed area.
"I also have documents showing Mr. Tobiko and Hon Ole Ntutu visited State House in the Referendum days, when Hon. Stephen Ole Ntutu M.P made demands that civil cases involving his brother and the County Council of Narok be speedily settled. I believe it was this demand that saw the speedy transfer of the Council Clerk Mr. Ondimu who had braved the odds and dared give evidence in this criminal case."
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Kumekucha Joins Hands With Kenya Online Directory To Help Kenyans Reduce Stress With Barter Trade
Helping To Maliza Your Stress
Kenyans are going through some very hard times and so Kumekucha, the most read Kenyan political and news blog, has come up with an ingenious way to maliza stress for you. We've launched the exciting new Kumekucha's Badilisha Market, in conjunction with the Kenya Online Directory whose chief objective is to help maliza your stress by enabling you to easily acquire what you don't have without parting with any cash.
You don't need cash to get what you want. Has it crossed your mind that you have something that you don't need which you can easily exchange for something you want? Or that you can even exchange your skills and services for whatever it is you want? Barter conserves cash and can give you what you want at a great discount and with no cash!!.
Even people in business going through a lean period can indulge in barter and then sell off whatever they receive in payment for their services, as well as acquiring a valuable new contact who can easily pay cash the next time. Barter is a gold mine that many have ignored.
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Using Kumekucha's Badilisha Market is Easy
Follow the following simple steps to get what you want today;
1. Ask yourself this simple question; What would you like or what do you need at the moment?
2. Once you have answered question number one, look around your house or office for something that is about the same value, which you do not need at the moment and would gladly exchange for what you want. It could even be the skills you have e.g. bookkeeping, writing skills to use to write content for a web site, extra mathematics tuition classes for kids to help them pass exams etc.
3. Write a simple advertisement stating what you would like and what you are prepared to exchange for it. Send it to umissedthis@yahoo.com We will promptly publish it for free. Please include your mobile telephone contact and your current location. Other people using Kenya Online Directory have to pay for services. Kumekucha readers will receive all services FREE. Take advantage of this NOW. Check some existing ads in the Kenya Online Directory to get ideas.
4. All the people who respond will be given your contact. They usually pay a small access membership fee to get your contact telephone number and address, meaning that they will all be very serious enquiries. Again Kumekucha Basilisha market members will get all this FREE. You don't need to spend a penny.
5. Finalize the transaction with the best offer you receive.
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Alternatively offer your skills and services for barter and see what others will offer. If it is acceptable receive the item and then sell it off for cash.
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Kenyans are going through some very hard times and so Kumekucha, the most read Kenyan political and news blog, has come up with an ingenious way to maliza stress for you. We've launched the exciting new Kumekucha's Badilisha Market, in conjunction with the Kenya Online Directory whose chief objective is to help maliza your stress by enabling you to easily acquire what you don't have without parting with any cash.
You don't need cash to get what you want. Has it crossed your mind that you have something that you don't need which you can easily exchange for something you want? Or that you can even exchange your skills and services for whatever it is you want? Barter conserves cash and can give you what you want at a great discount and with no cash!!.
Even people in business going through a lean period can indulge in barter and then sell off whatever they receive in payment for their services, as well as acquiring a valuable new contact who can easily pay cash the next time. Barter is a gold mine that many have ignored.
Read how barter can help you grow serious wealth, written by an expert.
Using Kumekucha's Badilisha Market is Easy
Follow the following simple steps to get what you want today;
1. Ask yourself this simple question; What would you like or what do you need at the moment?
2. Once you have answered question number one, look around your house or office for something that is about the same value, which you do not need at the moment and would gladly exchange for what you want. It could even be the skills you have e.g. bookkeeping, writing skills to use to write content for a web site, extra mathematics tuition classes for kids to help them pass exams etc.
3. Write a simple advertisement stating what you would like and what you are prepared to exchange for it. Send it to umissedthis@yahoo.com We will promptly publish it for free. Please include your mobile telephone contact and your current location. Other people using Kenya Online Directory have to pay for services. Kumekucha readers will receive all services FREE. Take advantage of this NOW. Check some existing ads in the Kenya Online Directory to get ideas.
4. All the people who respond will be given your contact. They usually pay a small access membership fee to get your contact telephone number and address, meaning that they will all be very serious enquiries. Again Kumekucha Basilisha market members will get all this FREE. You don't need to spend a penny.
5. Finalize the transaction with the best offer you receive.
See some hot deals for Kenyans: Exchange your way to wealth and success.
Alternatively offer your skills and services for barter and see what others will offer. If it is acceptable receive the item and then sell it off for cash.
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Thursday, August 09, 2007
Sexual Harassment Is A Criminal Offence Plus Why Porn Poster Needs Professional Help
The net can be a dangerous place. It is fairly easy for anybody to fall into the trap of porn addiction and by extension sex addiction.
A professional has presented me with a fascinating profile of the porn poster who has been at work in this blog. I must admit that at first I assumed that he was a serious agent of certain interests out to ruin this blog and everything that we have built here. However it is rapidly emerging that it is somebody who badly needs professional help.
Sex and porn addiction, I was shocked to discover, many times affects people who have serious sexual deficiencies so that they quickly reach a point where they are not able to have normal sex without the help of hard drugs or certain sexual enhancing and libido boosting aids.
I know it is very embarrassing but I appeal especially to my brothers who read this blog who have a habit of frequenting porn sites to seek professional help. By the way sexual addiction which has been closely linked to porn is a recognized illness. Don't laugh.
Having said that and without suggesting anything about anybody, I want to appeal to Kalamari to stop harassing female bloggers in Kumekucha. Sexual harassment is a criminal offence even in Kenya (with the passing of the new Njoki Ndungu Bill) and besides the cornerstone of Kumekucha is respect for other Kenyans and especially those who have been downtrodden and treated shabbily in the past, and that includes women.
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A professional has presented me with a fascinating profile of the porn poster who has been at work in this blog. I must admit that at first I assumed that he was a serious agent of certain interests out to ruin this blog and everything that we have built here. However it is rapidly emerging that it is somebody who badly needs professional help.
Sex and porn addiction, I was shocked to discover, many times affects people who have serious sexual deficiencies so that they quickly reach a point where they are not able to have normal sex without the help of hard drugs or certain sexual enhancing and libido boosting aids.
I know it is very embarrassing but I appeal especially to my brothers who read this blog who have a habit of frequenting porn sites to seek professional help. By the way sexual addiction which has been closely linked to porn is a recognized illness. Don't laugh.
Having said that and without suggesting anything about anybody, I want to appeal to Kalamari to stop harassing female bloggers in Kumekucha. Sexual harassment is a criminal offence even in Kenya (with the passing of the new Njoki Ndungu Bill) and besides the cornerstone of Kumekucha is respect for other Kenyans and especially those who have been downtrodden and treated shabbily in the past, and that includes women.
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Why All MPs Must Go Without Exception
In our ongoing campaign to rid the august house of the entire 9th parliament team that has brought the nation on the brink of a major crisis, some have suggested that we spare some of the MPs while others have talked about the need for a smooth handover.
I appreciate this input from my brothers and sisters and value and respect your rights to your views and opinions. However I feel it is necessary to highlight a few reasons why both these two suggestions may not be in the best interests of Kenya and Kenyans just now.
Firstly there is no issue of a smooth handover, since this arises where some good work was being done, hence the need for some continuity. We all know that very little was being done. Whatever the achievements of the 9th parliament (and I find it extremely difficult to find them) they were too little too late. We must raise performance standards to a new level and to do that we cannot afford to praise the mediocrity and filth of the 9th parliament.
Secondly this fear of handing over parliament to some inexperienced Kenyans is a myth and was the same fear that many had when Kenya got her independence in the 1960s. Very inexperienced people then like Mwai Kibaki, Daniel Moi and Tom Mboya and others took over things in parliament and proved that the fears of inexperience were totally unfounded. This is inspite of the fact that many of them had very little education and more importantly exposure. Just compare the exposure they had then to what we have today with the Internet, cell phones etc.
If anything the general population in Kenya is much, much better educated than Kenyans joining politics were in 1963. I absolutely do not see any reason why the generation that is controlling corporate Kenya and handling billions in annual profits earned in spite of the endless and complex business obstacles and challenges of today, will have a problem representing the people in parliament. One thing that Kenyans will be grateful in terms of inexperience from this group is the fact that they are not experienced in corruption, embezzlement and in motions to increase their own salaries and benefits. That in essence is the experience we are getting rid of in parliament.
My view is that for Kenyans to experience real change, it is very important that this be treated as a surgical procedure to remove "a cancer" that is eating away at the very fabric of Kenyan life. When removing a cancer in this way, it is inevitable that some "good flesh" will be sliced off together with the bad. However there is no other way, because the more you spare, the more likely you will be to find that in your surgery you have left small pockets of cancer which inevitably start spreading again (necessitating an even more risky second surgical procedure). No sir. This needs to be done ONCE and done properly.
Lastly it is important that Kenyan voters send this message to legislators so that they will forever remember who the boss really is. This is something Kenyan MPs have never understood, thanks to years of Kanu dictatorship. Most MPs believe that once elected they are the bosses and wananchi have to listen to them and look upto them for guidance. NO. Voters are the employers and it is important that we grab this chance to make this very clear so that future MPs will be discouraged from playing their usual game of disappearing in parliament to make themselves rich and only re-emerging when it is election time again. That game must end and it will help a great deal if we Kenyan voters (who have the power) send that clear message to all present and future elected public servants as to who is the boss.
Once again I appeal to all Kenyans of good will to ensure true change by voting out the entire 9th parliament together with any mice and rodents that may be in the premises.
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I appreciate this input from my brothers and sisters and value and respect your rights to your views and opinions. However I feel it is necessary to highlight a few reasons why both these two suggestions may not be in the best interests of Kenya and Kenyans just now.
Firstly there is no issue of a smooth handover, since this arises where some good work was being done, hence the need for some continuity. We all know that very little was being done. Whatever the achievements of the 9th parliament (and I find it extremely difficult to find them) they were too little too late. We must raise performance standards to a new level and to do that we cannot afford to praise the mediocrity and filth of the 9th parliament.
Secondly this fear of handing over parliament to some inexperienced Kenyans is a myth and was the same fear that many had when Kenya got her independence in the 1960s. Very inexperienced people then like Mwai Kibaki, Daniel Moi and Tom Mboya and others took over things in parliament and proved that the fears of inexperience were totally unfounded. This is inspite of the fact that many of them had very little education and more importantly exposure. Just compare the exposure they had then to what we have today with the Internet, cell phones etc.
If anything the general population in Kenya is much, much better educated than Kenyans joining politics were in 1963. I absolutely do not see any reason why the generation that is controlling corporate Kenya and handling billions in annual profits earned in spite of the endless and complex business obstacles and challenges of today, will have a problem representing the people in parliament. One thing that Kenyans will be grateful in terms of inexperience from this group is the fact that they are not experienced in corruption, embezzlement and in motions to increase their own salaries and benefits. That in essence is the experience we are getting rid of in parliament.
My view is that for Kenyans to experience real change, it is very important that this be treated as a surgical procedure to remove "a cancer" that is eating away at the very fabric of Kenyan life. When removing a cancer in this way, it is inevitable that some "good flesh" will be sliced off together with the bad. However there is no other way, because the more you spare, the more likely you will be to find that in your surgery you have left small pockets of cancer which inevitably start spreading again (necessitating an even more risky second surgical procedure). No sir. This needs to be done ONCE and done properly.
Lastly it is important that Kenyan voters send this message to legislators so that they will forever remember who the boss really is. This is something Kenyan MPs have never understood, thanks to years of Kanu dictatorship. Most MPs believe that once elected they are the bosses and wananchi have to listen to them and look upto them for guidance. NO. Voters are the employers and it is important that we grab this chance to make this very clear so that future MPs will be discouraged from playing their usual game of disappearing in parliament to make themselves rich and only re-emerging when it is election time again. That game must end and it will help a great deal if we Kenyan voters (who have the power) send that clear message to all present and future elected public servants as to who is the boss.
Once again I appeal to all Kenyans of good will to ensure true change by voting out the entire 9th parliament together with any mice and rodents that may be in the premises.
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Goodbye Masai Mara Part 2
What Happens If Masai Mara Land Grabbing Continues?
I have in my possession a pile of documents as solid proof of what you are about to read. They tell a very sad story that should alarm every Kenyan. Today I continue with Part 2 of this series, which I started yesterday. Today I publish a letter from a company called Olkiombo Ltd. Which owns a lodge within the land that has been grabbed.
The letter reveals just a tip of the iceberg of a complex scheme to ensure that public land within the world famous Masai Mara game reserve remains in the name of an individual. Tomorrow I will name more names but in the letter I publish today the names of former powerful minister Chris Murungaru is mentioned as well as that of Kiraitu Murungi. According to the letter sent to the AG, the two were incorporated in an attempted deal to end a criminal case against the land grabber in return for their supporting the Referendum "yes" or banana side.
Experienced political deal makers will tell you that this is a normal deal in Kenyan politics. I refuse to accept that and say that this "normal thing" must and has to stop.
In the next post I publish the letter in full, I have not corrected a single spelling or grammatical error and nor have I changed a comma. It is has been reproduced exactly as it was in its' original form and as a hard copy.
Tomorrow: Some very, very big names mentioned.
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I have in my possession a pile of documents as solid proof of what you are about to read. They tell a very sad story that should alarm every Kenyan. Today I continue with Part 2 of this series, which I started yesterday. Today I publish a letter from a company called Olkiombo Ltd. Which owns a lodge within the land that has been grabbed.
The letter reveals just a tip of the iceberg of a complex scheme to ensure that public land within the world famous Masai Mara game reserve remains in the name of an individual. Tomorrow I will name more names but in the letter I publish today the names of former powerful minister Chris Murungaru is mentioned as well as that of Kiraitu Murungi. According to the letter sent to the AG, the two were incorporated in an attempted deal to end a criminal case against the land grabber in return for their supporting the Referendum "yes" or banana side.
Experienced political deal makers will tell you that this is a normal deal in Kenyan politics. I refuse to accept that and say that this "normal thing" must and has to stop.
In the next post I publish the letter in full, I have not corrected a single spelling or grammatical error and nor have I changed a comma. It is has been reproduced exactly as it was in its' original form and as a hard copy.
Tomorrow: Some very, very big names mentioned.
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Letter To The AG On Masai Mara Land Grabbing And DPP Keriako Tobiko
OLKIOMBO LIMITED
P.O. BOX 40587
NAIROBI
3rd February 2006
The Honourable,
The Attorney General
Attorney General
Chambers
P.O. Box 40112
Nairobi.
Dear Sir,
Re: CMCCRC 2157/03 TRAGIC TURN: MR. KERIAKO TOBIKO ; DEPUTY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
We are the majority shareholders of Olkiombo Limited which owns a Tourist Lodge (the Lodge) in Maasai Mara National Reserve (the Reserve) grabbed in circumstances stated as fraudulent by Commissioner of Lands in letter No. 224086 of 6.10.00 (A). Olkiombo’s ownership is by Grant No.4453 of 19.1.90 (B) accepted in HCCC. No 5014 of 1990 (C).
Land Reference No. 13325 was granted to us through a lawful process of setting apart the land. The law says on subsequent adjudication of any such area, the person for whose use and occupation it was set apart must be recorded as owner of the same.
The lodge was fraudulently grabbed as was some 4000 acres of the Reserve (the grabbed land) without any attempt to adjudicate either the grabbed land or the lodge area. A resolution of County Council (Council) dated 12.7. 05 (D) shows the grabbed land is 9 kilometres inside the Reserve and is within Lodge’s exclusivity area.
The grabber is Kunini Ole Ntutu (Ntutu), at the time Treasurer to Council and brother of Hon. Ole Ntutu Assistant Minister. (MP Brother). The Council declined Ntutu demands in a letter No NCC/CONF/G/R/VOL.III/134 of 15.9. 00 (E). On 9. 5. 01 the Head of the Civil Service instructed the Attorney General to ensure the grabbed land and lodge was returned. Ntutu and a Land Registrar were charged with fraud and forgery.
Though Attorney General took over the prosecution we must complain the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has compromised the prosecution. We refer to an incident recently before the Chief Magistrate Court where a State Counsel stopped the prosecution before seven crucial witnesses have testified.
The witnesses are investigation officer Mr. Tanki, Mr. Onyango (whose signature was forged) but absence excused to testify in January 2006 on return from America. Mr. Thiongo an officer who was in the District Adjudication Department who only forwarded Land Adjudication records for parcels 1---154 without adjudication record for the grabbed land parcel NO.NAROK/CIS MARA/ TALEK/155 and gave evidence in Chief and was due for cross examination when case was closed allegedly for lack of witnesses and yet Thiongo had been bonded to attend court on that day.
The other witness is Mr. Tipapa Ole Sayialel to testify that the Land adjudication Committee chairman perjured by falsely stating the father of Ntutu was a member of the Ranch. The Chairman’s perjured statement was recorded by an advocate who was employed by the Director of Public Prosecution’s private chambers.
Two police witnesses and the Registrar of Group Representatives (the latter to produce the Group Register of Members to show Ole Ntutu’s father was not a member) failed to be called. You may see the Department of Public Prosecutions was hell bent to exclude any evidence which was favourable to the prosecution.
We see this as a move by Mr. Keriako Tobiko the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to bail out his client Ntutu. The (DPP) acted for Ntutu and his company Ilngina Contractors Ltd in a transaction which involved illegal excision and registration of Mau Forest Trust Land (Forest Land).
The Forest Land parcel is No. NAROK/CIS MARA/OLOLULUNGA/9470 comprising 1361.70 hectares. Transferred by Ntutu on 13.7.99 (F) to his company Ilngina Contractors Limited owned by him, his wife and mother search from the Registrar of Companies dated 23.12. 05 (G).
Title No. 9470 was subdivided into parcels No.9678 to 9681-search dated 7.9.99 (H).
DPP while in private practice, acted for Ntutu and his company in connection with subdivision No. NAROK/CIS MARA/OLOLULUNGA/9678 and wrote to the Council on 15.9.99 which replied by letter No. NCC/LM/VOL.XVII/136 24.9.99 (I). DPP inquired if parcel No.9678 (J) formed part of the Forest Land.
Though the Council seems to say it is not, subsequent investigations showed this was a cover up to which regrettably the DPP was deeply involved. The grabbed land of the Reserve was registered in circumstances similar to registration of parcel NAROK/CIS MARA/ OLOLULUNGA/9470 of the Forest Land.
The Council by letter No.NCC/CONF/L/MVOL.1/152 of 11.9.01, (K) said parcel No.9470 out of which parcel No.9678 was curved from is part of the Forest Land. The Report of the Commission on Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land also confirms this blatant fraud. The DPP and Ntutu knew that no doubt.
Mr. Gathenji had in our presence warned the prosecuting counsel not to prosecute the case and obedience surfaced in Court when Mwangi was castigated for not taking the prosecution seriously. The obedience to Gathenji culminated in the abrupt closure of the prosecution case.
DPP is very close to Ntutu, in the year 2001 DPP went along with him, to the rural home of Mr. Justice Ole Keiwua but found him away. While DPP was admitted at the MP Shah Hospital, the Judge visited him, and Ntutu arrived. DPP attempted to introduce the matter of the grabbed Land. The Judge refused to be drawn into the matter and left.
While at the Stanley Hotel, DPP informed Judge; Ntutu was willing to share the grabbed land but Judge retorted the land did not belong to Ntutu but to the public. DPP said the Council can be twisted to surrender the grabbed land. Judge declined the overtures.
On learning of his suspension, the Judge who was in Dar-es-Salaam then, telephoned DPP asked if DPP and Ntutu were behind the lies in the newspapers concerning the Judge. We see the Judge being punished for refusing to join the conspirators. We know matter is in court but we are provoked by conduct of your DPP to say this to avert miscarriage of justice.
DPP confessed he was aware Ntutu sent a memorandum to the Ringera Committee. DPP disclosed on announcement of suspension Ntutu and MP Brother gleefully trooped to his office. DPP warned Judge unless “Ntutu land issue” (meaning the grabbed land) was sorted out it will continue to trouble Judge.
Judge, while in Arusha met a journalist attached to the Rwanda Tribunal who said DPP passed the brief to Kilukumi on discovery of Judge Interest in the grabbed land. That enabled DPP operate behind the scenes as architect of the scam and helped fabricate lies sent to the Ringera Committee.
Kitilai Ole Ntutu knows of DPP involvement that he says DPP has always been calling the shots. The efforts by DPP and Ntutu against the Judge are to deter Judge from pursuing the public right to the grabbed land and Lodge revenue.
DPP hails from Kajiado and does not care if Reserve disintegrates so long as part of it goes to him and Ntutu. Councillor Saoli overheard nominated Councillor Salau Ole Karkar discuss DPP share in the grabbed land and lodge. Karkar says Judge has no chance. DPP is in charge.
Time came to destroy evidence in the criminal case. Original adjudication record was sold by retired Chief Inspector Wafula to Ntutu. The file is on your desk for direction to prosecute. One Saitoti Ole Kiok, a confidant of Ntutu confided the fact of purchase to one Tobiko Ole Kiok.
DPP with Ntutu and the MP Brother (MP Brother), met at Silver Spring Hotel Nairobi, with then Ministers Murungaru and Kiraitu Murungi. DPP’s take was the MP Brother supports the Yes team for the new constitution and the criminal case will be terminated.
Ntutu says DPP instructed Mwangi, to warn witnesses not to attend court. We are aware you intervened on our complaint that the prosecution was being botched. But the application for adjournment was later declined. Ruling is on 10th March. We urge that in view of these serious short comings the only option is for a nolle Prosque to be entered in order that the truth being suppressed come out.
The case should begin afresh and be prosecuted by one not under DPP whose interest clash with the interest of justice. The costs can be discussed as evidence show it is Government officials that continue to be susceptible to manipulability by DPP and Ntutu.
Or would Government pay colossal compensation and damages for the grabbed land to a public that earns developmental and employment revenue from it? Or will it also pay compensation and damages for a going concern of an expensive Lodge? What a waste?
Losing a portion of the Reserve for official grand corruption has its local and International politics and ramifications. We as owners of the grabbed land will demand the Reserve’s adjudication and not leave it to a few powerful and strategically placed like DPP. The tourism industry will not countenance corruption making nonsense its Policy.
The nolle Prosque will meet the ends of justice in view of Government’s assurances to punish grabbers of public land. Why is Ntutu an exception? Is it due to DPP and some names of two sons of some of the most powerful in the land which Ntutu flashes out to frighten us? May be the prosecution was being botched on their account also?
With a ruling of a manipulated trial, with the most powerful prosecutor at his disposal and two sons of the most powerful in the land and MP brother to ward off law enforcement agencies Ntutu would, as before invade the Reserve. Letters on previous invasion are attached. If the land is his why Ntutu is always in search of the powerful? He is guilty and afraid.
Neither absence of a nolle Prosque nor pending civil cases are an option. The civil courts are not fool proof to manipulation and have been manipulated before. That, we are in court unmaking past manipulations says a lot of our system of justice. This criminal case ruling will be used to give a boost to manipulation in the civil courts.
Ntutu says DPP will ensure he takes the grabbed land and Lodge irrespective of his guilt. We do not wish to be forced by manipulation of the law to take it into our hands. But DPP must stop making Government complicit in illegalities he engineered in private practice? May action be taken against Inspector Wafula and Ntutu for destroying evidence? Wafula in his statement says one investigator has Ntutu cell phone number and is always in communication! May also the conduct of Mwangi be investigated? Finally this is an exceptional situation where a nolle is the only way out of this grave injustice.
Enc.
Yours faithfully,
Directors OLKIOMBO LIMITED.
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P.O. BOX 40587
NAIROBI
3rd February 2006
The Honourable,
The Attorney General
Attorney General
Chambers
P.O. Box 40112
Nairobi.
Dear Sir,
Re: CMCCRC 2157/03 TRAGIC TURN: MR. KERIAKO TOBIKO ; DEPUTY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR
We are the majority shareholders of Olkiombo Limited which owns a Tourist Lodge (the Lodge) in Maasai Mara National Reserve (the Reserve) grabbed in circumstances stated as fraudulent by Commissioner of Lands in letter No. 224086 of 6.10.00 (A). Olkiombo’s ownership is by Grant No.4453 of 19.1.90 (B) accepted in HCCC. No 5014 of 1990 (C).
Land Reference No. 13325 was granted to us through a lawful process of setting apart the land. The law says on subsequent adjudication of any such area, the person for whose use and occupation it was set apart must be recorded as owner of the same.
The lodge was fraudulently grabbed as was some 4000 acres of the Reserve (the grabbed land) without any attempt to adjudicate either the grabbed land or the lodge area. A resolution of County Council (Council) dated 12.7. 05 (D) shows the grabbed land is 9 kilometres inside the Reserve and is within Lodge’s exclusivity area.
The grabber is Kunini Ole Ntutu (Ntutu), at the time Treasurer to Council and brother of Hon. Ole Ntutu Assistant Minister. (MP Brother). The Council declined Ntutu demands in a letter No NCC/CONF/G/R/VOL.III/134 of 15.9. 00 (E). On 9. 5. 01 the Head of the Civil Service instructed the Attorney General to ensure the grabbed land and lodge was returned. Ntutu and a Land Registrar were charged with fraud and forgery.
Though Attorney General took over the prosecution we must complain the office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has compromised the prosecution. We refer to an incident recently before the Chief Magistrate Court where a State Counsel stopped the prosecution before seven crucial witnesses have testified.
The witnesses are investigation officer Mr. Tanki, Mr. Onyango (whose signature was forged) but absence excused to testify in January 2006 on return from America. Mr. Thiongo an officer who was in the District Adjudication Department who only forwarded Land Adjudication records for parcels 1---154 without adjudication record for the grabbed land parcel NO.NAROK/CIS MARA/ TALEK/155 and gave evidence in Chief and was due for cross examination when case was closed allegedly for lack of witnesses and yet Thiongo had been bonded to attend court on that day.
The other witness is Mr. Tipapa Ole Sayialel to testify that the Land adjudication Committee chairman perjured by falsely stating the father of Ntutu was a member of the Ranch. The Chairman’s perjured statement was recorded by an advocate who was employed by the Director of Public Prosecution’s private chambers.
Two police witnesses and the Registrar of Group Representatives (the latter to produce the Group Register of Members to show Ole Ntutu’s father was not a member) failed to be called. You may see the Department of Public Prosecutions was hell bent to exclude any evidence which was favourable to the prosecution.
We see this as a move by Mr. Keriako Tobiko the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to bail out his client Ntutu. The (DPP) acted for Ntutu and his company Ilngina Contractors Ltd in a transaction which involved illegal excision and registration of Mau Forest Trust Land (Forest Land).
The Forest Land parcel is No. NAROK/CIS MARA/OLOLULUNGA/9470 comprising 1361.70 hectares. Transferred by Ntutu on 13.7.99 (F) to his company Ilngina Contractors Limited owned by him, his wife and mother search from the Registrar of Companies dated 23.12. 05 (G).
Title No. 9470 was subdivided into parcels No.9678 to 9681-search dated 7.9.99 (H).
DPP while in private practice, acted for Ntutu and his company in connection with subdivision No. NAROK/CIS MARA/OLOLULUNGA/9678 and wrote to the Council on 15.9.99 which replied by letter No. NCC/LM/VOL.XVII/136 24.9.99 (I). DPP inquired if parcel No.9678 (J) formed part of the Forest Land.
Though the Council seems to say it is not, subsequent investigations showed this was a cover up to which regrettably the DPP was deeply involved. The grabbed land of the Reserve was registered in circumstances similar to registration of parcel NAROK/CIS MARA/ OLOLULUNGA/9470 of the Forest Land.
The Council by letter No.NCC/CONF/L/MVOL.1/152 of 11.9.01, (K) said parcel No.9470 out of which parcel No.9678 was curved from is part of the Forest Land. The Report of the Commission on Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land also confirms this blatant fraud. The DPP and Ntutu knew that no doubt.
Mr. Gathenji had in our presence warned the prosecuting counsel not to prosecute the case and obedience surfaced in Court when Mwangi was castigated for not taking the prosecution seriously. The obedience to Gathenji culminated in the abrupt closure of the prosecution case.
DPP is very close to Ntutu, in the year 2001 DPP went along with him, to the rural home of Mr. Justice Ole Keiwua but found him away. While DPP was admitted at the MP Shah Hospital, the Judge visited him, and Ntutu arrived. DPP attempted to introduce the matter of the grabbed Land. The Judge refused to be drawn into the matter and left.
While at the Stanley Hotel, DPP informed Judge; Ntutu was willing to share the grabbed land but Judge retorted the land did not belong to Ntutu but to the public. DPP said the Council can be twisted to surrender the grabbed land. Judge declined the overtures.
On learning of his suspension, the Judge who was in Dar-es-Salaam then, telephoned DPP asked if DPP and Ntutu were behind the lies in the newspapers concerning the Judge. We see the Judge being punished for refusing to join the conspirators. We know matter is in court but we are provoked by conduct of your DPP to say this to avert miscarriage of justice.
DPP confessed he was aware Ntutu sent a memorandum to the Ringera Committee. DPP disclosed on announcement of suspension Ntutu and MP Brother gleefully trooped to his office. DPP warned Judge unless “Ntutu land issue” (meaning the grabbed land) was sorted out it will continue to trouble Judge.
Judge, while in Arusha met a journalist attached to the Rwanda Tribunal who said DPP passed the brief to Kilukumi on discovery of Judge Interest in the grabbed land. That enabled DPP operate behind the scenes as architect of the scam and helped fabricate lies sent to the Ringera Committee.
Kitilai Ole Ntutu knows of DPP involvement that he says DPP has always been calling the shots. The efforts by DPP and Ntutu against the Judge are to deter Judge from pursuing the public right to the grabbed land and Lodge revenue.
DPP hails from Kajiado and does not care if Reserve disintegrates so long as part of it goes to him and Ntutu. Councillor Saoli overheard nominated Councillor Salau Ole Karkar discuss DPP share in the grabbed land and lodge. Karkar says Judge has no chance. DPP is in charge.
Time came to destroy evidence in the criminal case. Original adjudication record was sold by retired Chief Inspector Wafula to Ntutu. The file is on your desk for direction to prosecute. One Saitoti Ole Kiok, a confidant of Ntutu confided the fact of purchase to one Tobiko Ole Kiok.
DPP with Ntutu and the MP Brother (MP Brother), met at Silver Spring Hotel Nairobi, with then Ministers Murungaru and Kiraitu Murungi. DPP’s take was the MP Brother supports the Yes team for the new constitution and the criminal case will be terminated.
Ntutu says DPP instructed Mwangi, to warn witnesses not to attend court. We are aware you intervened on our complaint that the prosecution was being botched. But the application for adjournment was later declined. Ruling is on 10th March. We urge that in view of these serious short comings the only option is for a nolle Prosque to be entered in order that the truth being suppressed come out.
The case should begin afresh and be prosecuted by one not under DPP whose interest clash with the interest of justice. The costs can be discussed as evidence show it is Government officials that continue to be susceptible to manipulability by DPP and Ntutu.
Or would Government pay colossal compensation and damages for the grabbed land to a public that earns developmental and employment revenue from it? Or will it also pay compensation and damages for a going concern of an expensive Lodge? What a waste?
Losing a portion of the Reserve for official grand corruption has its local and International politics and ramifications. We as owners of the grabbed land will demand the Reserve’s adjudication and not leave it to a few powerful and strategically placed like DPP. The tourism industry will not countenance corruption making nonsense its Policy.
The nolle Prosque will meet the ends of justice in view of Government’s assurances to punish grabbers of public land. Why is Ntutu an exception? Is it due to DPP and some names of two sons of some of the most powerful in the land which Ntutu flashes out to frighten us? May be the prosecution was being botched on their account also?
With a ruling of a manipulated trial, with the most powerful prosecutor at his disposal and two sons of the most powerful in the land and MP brother to ward off law enforcement agencies Ntutu would, as before invade the Reserve. Letters on previous invasion are attached. If the land is his why Ntutu is always in search of the powerful? He is guilty and afraid.
Neither absence of a nolle Prosque nor pending civil cases are an option. The civil courts are not fool proof to manipulation and have been manipulated before. That, we are in court unmaking past manipulations says a lot of our system of justice. This criminal case ruling will be used to give a boost to manipulation in the civil courts.
Ntutu says DPP will ensure he takes the grabbed land and Lodge irrespective of his guilt. We do not wish to be forced by manipulation of the law to take it into our hands. But DPP must stop making Government complicit in illegalities he engineered in private practice? May action be taken against Inspector Wafula and Ntutu for destroying evidence? Wafula in his statement says one investigator has Ntutu cell phone number and is always in communication! May also the conduct of Mwangi be investigated? Finally this is an exceptional situation where a nolle is the only way out of this grave injustice.
Enc.
Yours faithfully,
Directors OLKIOMBO LIMITED.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Why We Must Vote Out Entire 9th Parliament
A new survey shows that 90 per cent of the current MPs will Not retain their seats. I say that this is not good enough. All Kenyans should rally behind a campaign to ensure that we vote out the entire lot (100%) come this December.
I will give just 3 solid reasons;
i) While the rest of the poverty stricken country starved, this parliament not only passed hefty remunerations allowances and benefits for themselves (including free house grants), but they went ahead and enjoyed it oblivious of what was happening in the rest of the country. Meanwhile ordinary Kenyans have seen unprecedented price hikes of many basic food commodities and some of these hikes have been engineered by greedy businessmen who have manipulated the distribution of products like sugar and have pocketed certain legislators to ensure that their evil plans to fleece the ordinary Kenyans go through. As I write this most Kenyans can no longer afford a soothing cup of tea of nothing else at the end of a long hard day. No single MP even one day offered not to receive their huge immoral salary in protest. No single MP donated even part of their huge salary to help the people of Kenya through their difficulties.
ii) To add insult to injury, MPs have recently attempted to sneak in a generous golden handshake for them all at the end of their term this year. Peaceful protests by members of civil society were answered by police brutality and arrests.
iii) This 9th parliament conspired and unanimously (with support across party lines) passed the controversial and unacceptable Media bill, which now awaits the President's signature to become law. If passed, this law will make it impossible for any future scandals involving corruption in high places to ever be published.
There are many other very good reasons to send the whole lot of our current legislators home, but let us focus on just those 3.
There is no doubt that there are some good legislators in the 9th parliament. However Kenyans should bear in mind the fact that when one is removing a cancer some good flesh is usually cut out together with the bad (the cancer). This is what Kenyans must do in December. For us to get a fighting chance of getting a new beginning, we must vote out THE ENTIRE CANCER in December.
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I will give just 3 solid reasons;
i) While the rest of the poverty stricken country starved, this parliament not only passed hefty remunerations allowances and benefits for themselves (including free house grants), but they went ahead and enjoyed it oblivious of what was happening in the rest of the country. Meanwhile ordinary Kenyans have seen unprecedented price hikes of many basic food commodities and some of these hikes have been engineered by greedy businessmen who have manipulated the distribution of products like sugar and have pocketed certain legislators to ensure that their evil plans to fleece the ordinary Kenyans go through. As I write this most Kenyans can no longer afford a soothing cup of tea of nothing else at the end of a long hard day. No single MP even one day offered not to receive their huge immoral salary in protest. No single MP donated even part of their huge salary to help the people of Kenya through their difficulties.
ii) To add insult to injury, MPs have recently attempted to sneak in a generous golden handshake for them all at the end of their term this year. Peaceful protests by members of civil society were answered by police brutality and arrests.
iii) This 9th parliament conspired and unanimously (with support across party lines) passed the controversial and unacceptable Media bill, which now awaits the President's signature to become law. If passed, this law will make it impossible for any future scandals involving corruption in high places to ever be published.
There are many other very good reasons to send the whole lot of our current legislators home, but let us focus on just those 3.
There is no doubt that there are some good legislators in the 9th parliament. However Kenyans should bear in mind the fact that when one is removing a cancer some good flesh is usually cut out together with the bad (the cancer). This is what Kenyans must do in December. For us to get a fighting chance of getting a new beginning, we must vote out THE ENTIRE CANCER in December.
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Goodbye Masai Mara
Land grabbing incidents in Kenya are terribly boring to most Kenyans. Most folks do not even understand what land grabbing is and how it is done Kenya-style. One of the main reasons is probably because land grabbing is so common that it is hardly news these days. Even where we have seen land on which public toilets have been built right in the center of Nairobi being grabbed, there is now little left to shock Kenyans when it comes to land grabbing. Or is there…
Did you know that as I write this over 4,000 acres of prime public land, right within the world famous Masai Mara game reserve is in the hands of an individual?
But what is even more shocking are recent developments in this controversy which are fascinating to say the least and are a pointer to the rot that is Kenya today. Once again it has been proved that even when the government says that "no stones will be left unturned", there are plenty of "stones" that are way too heavy to be turned.
The individual who has grabbed the land within Masai Mara and whose brother is an assistant Minister in the government of national unity seems to have come up with the perfect strategy for ensuring that the public land stays firmly in his grasp. He has incorporated very big names into his grand theft. And when I say "BIG", I mean really big.
What complicates matters further is that there is a clear conflict of interest over any public prosecution because the current Deputy Public Prosecutor has for a long time been a lawyer to the man whose name the public property within the Mara is registered to.
It gets worse. The man involved in the grabbing visited State House at the height of the referendum and pledged his support and that of a large chunk of Narok voters in return for his pending court case being speedily settled. Shortly after this visit, the Narok Council clerk who had dared to give evidence against the grabber was speedily "transferred" out of the way.
Fellow Kenyans we are talking about the Masai Mara here, not some piece of land in some obscure countryside. What this means is that it is only a matter of time before other land grabbers move in and hive out other parts of the world famous park for their personal use and "development." At this rate the day is not too far off when we will see individuals receiving park fees from visits to the park. Already part of the grabbed land has at least one world famous tourist camp built on it, whose owners are now desperate, not knowing what to do next as letters to various government offices have yielded nothing.
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Did you know that as I write this over 4,000 acres of prime public land, right within the world famous Masai Mara game reserve is in the hands of an individual?
But what is even more shocking are recent developments in this controversy which are fascinating to say the least and are a pointer to the rot that is Kenya today. Once again it has been proved that even when the government says that "no stones will be left unturned", there are plenty of "stones" that are way too heavy to be turned.
The individual who has grabbed the land within Masai Mara and whose brother is an assistant Minister in the government of national unity seems to have come up with the perfect strategy for ensuring that the public land stays firmly in his grasp. He has incorporated very big names into his grand theft. And when I say "BIG", I mean really big.
What complicates matters further is that there is a clear conflict of interest over any public prosecution because the current Deputy Public Prosecutor has for a long time been a lawyer to the man whose name the public property within the Mara is registered to.
It gets worse. The man involved in the grabbing visited State House at the height of the referendum and pledged his support and that of a large chunk of Narok voters in return for his pending court case being speedily settled. Shortly after this visit, the Narok Council clerk who had dared to give evidence against the grabber was speedily "transferred" out of the way.
Fellow Kenyans we are talking about the Masai Mara here, not some piece of land in some obscure countryside. What this means is that it is only a matter of time before other land grabbers move in and hive out other parts of the world famous park for their personal use and "development." At this rate the day is not too far off when we will see individuals receiving park fees from visits to the park. Already part of the grabbed land has at least one world famous tourist camp built on it, whose owners are now desperate, not knowing what to do next as letters to various government offices have yielded nothing.
I am seeking legal advice to name names. Watch this space.
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The Media Bill Is Not The Only Problem
The manner in which the Kenyan media continues to devote virtually all it’s coverage to politics and politicians is getting out of hand, and spells the doom of real growth in Kenya. The latest irritating example is a half-page article by Assistant Minister of Information Koigi wa Wamwere, appearing on page 29 of the Sunday Nation of 5th August 2007.
It beats logic why the print and broadcast media in Kenya insists on pursuing this deplorable policy. The signal it sends is that the media in Kenya caters primarily for politics and politicians, and so the rest of Kenya should look elsewhere for representation.
Koigi wa Wamwere for instance, has become an irritant and an eyesore, despite his distinguished standing as one of the very few individuals who dared challenge both President Kenyatta and President Moi. Koigi wa Wamwere regularly features on virtually all radio stations, television stations and newspapers, including the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), the Royal Media Group, Kiss 100, Classic 105.2, the Nation Media Group, Baraza Limited, Kenya Times Media Trust (KTMT), the People Daily and even Swahili broadcasts of the BBC World Service on 93.7 FM Nairobi, 93.9 FM Mombasa and 88.2 FM Kisumu. As an Assistant Minister for Information, Koigi wa Wamwere also wields considerable influence over the state owned and managed Kenya News Agency (KNA), which has bureaus in virtually all corners of this country. As the Member of Parliament for Subukia, Koigi wa Wamwere also has the ultimate platform of Parliament. Following not too far behind in Koigi’s example, are other equally prominent politicians such as Raila Odinga, Mutula Kilonzo, Peter Anyang Nyongo and Assistant Minister of Education, Kilemi Mwiria. The absurdity does not end there. Not too long ago, the Standard newspaper ran a half page article by Cuban President Fidel Castro.
It is hard to tell what this was meant to achieve. Was it meant to please the Cuban consulate in Kenya at the expense of more pressing matters afflicting the people of Kenya? Why not daily fill all our local newspapers with articles by presidents and premiers from all over the world?
The media in Kenya is also currently devoting a lot of coverage to the just passed Media Bill and it’s possible repercussions, but Kenyan media clearly has much more to worry about. The media in Kenya is alienated from the people of Kenya, and vice versa.
This is why there have been no street protests or mass action, following the passage of the Media Bill. This is why there were no spontaneous street protests of the kind regularly seen abroad, after the Government backed raid on the Standard offices in March 2006. No one really cares because the media is quite correctly perceived as a tool for the elite in Kenya.
On June 16th 2002, Senegal beat Sweden to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2002 Soccer World Cup. The spontaneous outpouring of emotion across Kenya was unprecedented, with people coming out onto streets and markets across Kenya chanting "Senegal", as they waved twigs and Kenyan flags. Why was this same level of spontaneous outpouring in support of Kenyan media lacking, when the Media bill was passed?
Politicking in Kenya has lost meaning, direction and substance and the media has contributed immensely to this unfortunate state of affairs. From day one of NARC’s leadership almost five years ago, it has been squabbles regarding all manner of issues ranging from a “Memorandum of Understanding” previously unknown to the general public, to the amendment and/or review of the constitution. In real terms, this country has lost five years and looks set to lose another five, because matters clearly look set to continue on the same footing regardless of who wins the December 2007 polls. High flyers from civil society, the private sector, the civil service, academia, the Kenya community abroad and even the media itself, are decamping from their current occupations to contest parliamentary seats at the December 2007 polls, with no clear agenda or roadmap on how to address the vast problems facing this country. It is clearly all about self-interest, yet the media in Kenya still insists on giving prominent coverage to both politicians and aspiring politicians. It is just over four months to the December 2007 polls yet there is no election mood to speak of. People are fatigued, hungry, angry and depressed, and unlike Koigi wa Wamwere et al, they do not have the Kenya News Agency (KNA) and other media arms at their disposal. As this goes on, the general situation across the country worsens. An attempt on the life of Assistant Minister John Serut has just been made by the self-styled Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF). This act of aggression clearly demonstrates that the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) is prepared to go all the way in pursuit of whatever agenda they purport to have. It also brings back memories of 1978, when the “Red Brigades” kidnapped and murdered former Italian Premier Aldo Moro.
The media in Kenya is quite clearly pursuing a limited agenda that will eventually result in widespread tragedy. This explains for instance, why two reporters at the highly respected “Washington Post”, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, were able to force the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the United States in 1974 following the Watergate scandal, yet the Kenyan media continues to take the public round and round in circles on matters such as Kenya’s shameful Anglo Leasing scandal. Even when former Ethics and Governance Permanent Secretary John Githongo, posted damaging documents related to the Anglo Leasing scandal on the internet on Kenyan blogs, websites and discussion groups, there was no panicky move by the
Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), to block access, as has lately been witnessed by CCK equivalents in Egypt, China and Russia. Two points emerge out of this. The first is that of an apparent mutually beneficial relationship between the Kenya Government and Kenyan politicians on the one hand, and local Kenyan media on the other. It explains why the highly respected London based publication “The Economist”, has just run a damaging article on Kenya as a potential failed state, as local media continues to recycle doubtful material on vastly improved and improving prospects for this country.
The second point is that the Government is aware that most Kenyans who browse the internet, visit mainly pornographic websites and/or other websites such as Myspace, Hi5, Youtube, Yahoo and Google, and there therefore exists no real threat if documents damaging to the Government’s reputation are posted on the internet.
The loser in all of this however, tragically continues to be the common man, he and she that Koigi wa Wamwere purports to represent in his “Chama cha Mwananchi” (The Peoples’ Party). The Government, Politicians and the Media, are clearly not addressing the needs of the common man in Kenya. Who is…?
Guest post by Michael Mundia Kamau
P.O. Box 58972
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It beats logic why the print and broadcast media in Kenya insists on pursuing this deplorable policy. The signal it sends is that the media in Kenya caters primarily for politics and politicians, and so the rest of Kenya should look elsewhere for representation.
Koigi wa Wamwere for instance, has become an irritant and an eyesore, despite his distinguished standing as one of the very few individuals who dared challenge both President Kenyatta and President Moi. Koigi wa Wamwere regularly features on virtually all radio stations, television stations and newspapers, including the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), the Royal Media Group, Kiss 100, Classic 105.2, the Nation Media Group, Baraza Limited, Kenya Times Media Trust (KTMT), the People Daily and even Swahili broadcasts of the BBC World Service on 93.7 FM Nairobi, 93.9 FM Mombasa and 88.2 FM Kisumu. As an Assistant Minister for Information, Koigi wa Wamwere also wields considerable influence over the state owned and managed Kenya News Agency (KNA), which has bureaus in virtually all corners of this country. As the Member of Parliament for Subukia, Koigi wa Wamwere also has the ultimate platform of Parliament. Following not too far behind in Koigi’s example, are other equally prominent politicians such as Raila Odinga, Mutula Kilonzo, Peter Anyang Nyongo and Assistant Minister of Education, Kilemi Mwiria. The absurdity does not end there. Not too long ago, the Standard newspaper ran a half page article by Cuban President Fidel Castro.
It is hard to tell what this was meant to achieve. Was it meant to please the Cuban consulate in Kenya at the expense of more pressing matters afflicting the people of Kenya? Why not daily fill all our local newspapers with articles by presidents and premiers from all over the world?
The media in Kenya is also currently devoting a lot of coverage to the just passed Media Bill and it’s possible repercussions, but Kenyan media clearly has much more to worry about. The media in Kenya is alienated from the people of Kenya, and vice versa.
This is why there have been no street protests or mass action, following the passage of the Media Bill. This is why there were no spontaneous street protests of the kind regularly seen abroad, after the Government backed raid on the Standard offices in March 2006. No one really cares because the media is quite correctly perceived as a tool for the elite in Kenya.
On June 16th 2002, Senegal beat Sweden to qualify for the quarter-finals of the 2002 Soccer World Cup. The spontaneous outpouring of emotion across Kenya was unprecedented, with people coming out onto streets and markets across Kenya chanting "Senegal", as they waved twigs and Kenyan flags. Why was this same level of spontaneous outpouring in support of Kenyan media lacking, when the Media bill was passed?
Politicking in Kenya has lost meaning, direction and substance and the media has contributed immensely to this unfortunate state of affairs. From day one of NARC’s leadership almost five years ago, it has been squabbles regarding all manner of issues ranging from a “Memorandum of Understanding” previously unknown to the general public, to the amendment and/or review of the constitution. In real terms, this country has lost five years and looks set to lose another five, because matters clearly look set to continue on the same footing regardless of who wins the December 2007 polls. High flyers from civil society, the private sector, the civil service, academia, the Kenya community abroad and even the media itself, are decamping from their current occupations to contest parliamentary seats at the December 2007 polls, with no clear agenda or roadmap on how to address the vast problems facing this country. It is clearly all about self-interest, yet the media in Kenya still insists on giving prominent coverage to both politicians and aspiring politicians. It is just over four months to the December 2007 polls yet there is no election mood to speak of. People are fatigued, hungry, angry and depressed, and unlike Koigi wa Wamwere et al, they do not have the Kenya News Agency (KNA) and other media arms at their disposal. As this goes on, the general situation across the country worsens. An attempt on the life of Assistant Minister John Serut has just been made by the self-styled Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF). This act of aggression clearly demonstrates that the Sabaot Land Defence Force (SLDF) is prepared to go all the way in pursuit of whatever agenda they purport to have. It also brings back memories of 1978, when the “Red Brigades” kidnapped and murdered former Italian Premier Aldo Moro.
The media in Kenya is quite clearly pursuing a limited agenda that will eventually result in widespread tragedy. This explains for instance, why two reporters at the highly respected “Washington Post”, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, were able to force the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the United States in 1974 following the Watergate scandal, yet the Kenyan media continues to take the public round and round in circles on matters such as Kenya’s shameful Anglo Leasing scandal. Even when former Ethics and Governance Permanent Secretary John Githongo, posted damaging documents related to the Anglo Leasing scandal on the internet on Kenyan blogs, websites and discussion groups, there was no panicky move by the
Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK), to block access, as has lately been witnessed by CCK equivalents in Egypt, China and Russia. Two points emerge out of this. The first is that of an apparent mutually beneficial relationship between the Kenya Government and Kenyan politicians on the one hand, and local Kenyan media on the other. It explains why the highly respected London based publication “The Economist”, has just run a damaging article on Kenya as a potential failed state, as local media continues to recycle doubtful material on vastly improved and improving prospects for this country.
The second point is that the Government is aware that most Kenyans who browse the internet, visit mainly pornographic websites and/or other websites such as Myspace, Hi5, Youtube, Yahoo and Google, and there therefore exists no real threat if documents damaging to the Government’s reputation are posted on the internet.
The loser in all of this however, tragically continues to be the common man, he and she that Koigi wa Wamwere purports to represent in his “Chama cha Mwananchi” (The Peoples’ Party). The Government, Politicians and the Media, are clearly not addressing the needs of the common man in Kenya. Who is…?
Guest post by Michael Mundia Kamau
P.O. Box 58972
00200 City Square
Nairobi
Kenya
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Raila And Kibaki Fight For Ngilu's Attention: What Is Lady Really Worth?
To get the answer to that question we need to coldly analyze what she is capable of bringing to the table for either ODM Kenya or Narc Kenya.
Can she deliver at least most of the Kamba vote as a block?
The answer to that is question is "No". With Kalonzo Musyoka still actively trying to convince his community that he has a fighting chance of getting into State house, at best that vote will be sliced into two, and this will also heavily depend on which side Ngilu finally joins. The truth of the matter is that Ngilu joining Raila could cause her to even lose her parliamentary seat. It really is a terrible thing, but it is the truth. What has happened is that tribalism has reared its' ugly head again and naturally most Kambas are siding with your blue eyed boy in the current fracas within ODM.
Ngilu on her own is however extremely popular in Ukambani. One has to remember that she has been busy campaigning since 2003 when she realized that the Narc dream was dead. And we have the Ministry of Health payroll to prove just how active she has been in her campaigns.
This is why if Ngilu ends up in the Kibaki camp, she will probably be of a lot more value to the Kibaki campaign than she ever will for the Raila one. Again a nasty thing to say, but the truth and reality on the ground.
So the big question has to be; where will she end up?
ODM-Kenya hopes are very high that she will join the Raila/Balala/Ruto faction at their moment of great need. However what the ODM folks and most Kenyans fail to elaize is just how smart this lady from Ukambani is. Many this week have called her emotional, but Ngilu has often proved that she is a serious political strategist. Few remember that she was the glue that held the opposition together first in NAK and then later in the original National Rainbow Coalition that swept Mwai Kibaki into State House. Sometimes that is the power of a woman, while the men are thinking of the thighs they saw in the newspaper photograph, she has already read all their minds and is a step ahead.
I will be very surprised if Ngilu joins ODM-or what's left of it. Instead expect to hear her discussing a new alliance from the remnants of ODM-Kenya and those not comfortable with the ruling GNU (government of national unity). This woman's record speaks for itself, she does not join alliances, she initiates them.
But why the great enmity with Kalonzo Musyoka? So great is the venom she has towards Mr Musyoka that Ngilu would more easily cut deal with Moi-the devil she fought for so long than with Kalonzo. In fact their rivalry hinges on being personal. To be honest I have no idea, but I am sure there is a story, which sadly, we may never know.
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Can she deliver at least most of the Kamba vote as a block?
The answer to that is question is "No". With Kalonzo Musyoka still actively trying to convince his community that he has a fighting chance of getting into State house, at best that vote will be sliced into two, and this will also heavily depend on which side Ngilu finally joins. The truth of the matter is that Ngilu joining Raila could cause her to even lose her parliamentary seat. It really is a terrible thing, but it is the truth. What has happened is that tribalism has reared its' ugly head again and naturally most Kambas are siding with your blue eyed boy in the current fracas within ODM.
Ngilu on her own is however extremely popular in Ukambani. One has to remember that she has been busy campaigning since 2003 when she realized that the Narc dream was dead. And we have the Ministry of Health payroll to prove just how active she has been in her campaigns.
This is why if Ngilu ends up in the Kibaki camp, she will probably be of a lot more value to the Kibaki campaign than she ever will for the Raila one. Again a nasty thing to say, but the truth and reality on the ground.
So the big question has to be; where will she end up?
ODM-Kenya hopes are very high that she will join the Raila/Balala/Ruto faction at their moment of great need. However what the ODM folks and most Kenyans fail to elaize is just how smart this lady from Ukambani is. Many this week have called her emotional, but Ngilu has often proved that she is a serious political strategist. Few remember that she was the glue that held the opposition together first in NAK and then later in the original National Rainbow Coalition that swept Mwai Kibaki into State House. Sometimes that is the power of a woman, while the men are thinking of the thighs they saw in the newspaper photograph, she has already read all their minds and is a step ahead.
I will be very surprised if Ngilu joins ODM-or what's left of it. Instead expect to hear her discussing a new alliance from the remnants of ODM-Kenya and those not comfortable with the ruling GNU (government of national unity). This woman's record speaks for itself, she does not join alliances, she initiates them.
But why the great enmity with Kalonzo Musyoka? So great is the venom she has towards Mr Musyoka that Ngilu would more easily cut deal with Moi-the devil she fought for so long than with Kalonzo. In fact their rivalry hinges on being personal. To be honest I have no idea, but I am sure there is a story, which sadly, we may never know.
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Urgently Required In Kenya: Politicians With Causes And Ideas To Improve Quality Of Life
Rev Jesse Jackson has run for president of the United States, twice but did not even manage to win the Democratic Party nomination that would have seen him go beyond the preliminaries. By Kenyan political standards the man "ameanguka mara mbili" (has failed twice) and is therefore a failure. However on closer examination this is very far from the truth.
In actual fact what has happened is the Rev Jackson has pushed many of his ideas forward through other candidates as a result of his two memorable campaigns. Most notably through former President Bill Clinton. Jackson has also managed to draw a lot of attention to civil right causes. The net result is that the quality of life for blacks in America has improved dramatically through initiatives that trace their origin directly to Jackson and his civil rights cause.
In Kenya, we have this big problem that if you stand for high office and you have no chance of winning, then you are just wasting time. This is one of the reasons why so many young people are frightened to run for any political seat and yet they will be the first to complain loudly about how bad our current leadership is.
Part of the problem of course is that election campaigns in Kenya have never been run on issues. No candidates seem to have a solid cause. Instead violence, intimidation and name-calling have ruled the day. One can get a clear glimpse of this from the some of the comments that we regularly receive in this site. But then hopefully, things are slowly changing and one day soon, issues will rule campaigns.
The 2007 general elections would be a good place to start.
The sad thing is that we have so many skilled professionals out there that have a track record of integrity and should clearly stand either for a parliamentary seat or even the highest office in the land. Sadly it has never crossed the minds of many of them that they can use their corporate skills and transfer them to the political arena with good results. This would also be an excellent way of drawing attention to certain pressing issues and causes and chances are high that the winning presidential candidate (some of these presidential candidates have never had an original idea of their own since the swinging sixties) will adopt some of their better ideas for the general good of the country.
We urgently need to change our style of politics.
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In actual fact what has happened is the Rev Jackson has pushed many of his ideas forward through other candidates as a result of his two memorable campaigns. Most notably through former President Bill Clinton. Jackson has also managed to draw a lot of attention to civil right causes. The net result is that the quality of life for blacks in America has improved dramatically through initiatives that trace their origin directly to Jackson and his civil rights cause.
In Kenya, we have this big problem that if you stand for high office and you have no chance of winning, then you are just wasting time. This is one of the reasons why so many young people are frightened to run for any political seat and yet they will be the first to complain loudly about how bad our current leadership is.
Part of the problem of course is that election campaigns in Kenya have never been run on issues. No candidates seem to have a solid cause. Instead violence, intimidation and name-calling have ruled the day. One can get a clear glimpse of this from the some of the comments that we regularly receive in this site. But then hopefully, things are slowly changing and one day soon, issues will rule campaigns.
The 2007 general elections would be a good place to start.
The sad thing is that we have so many skilled professionals out there that have a track record of integrity and should clearly stand either for a parliamentary seat or even the highest office in the land. Sadly it has never crossed the minds of many of them that they can use their corporate skills and transfer them to the political arena with good results. This would also be an excellent way of drawing attention to certain pressing issues and causes and chances are high that the winning presidential candidate (some of these presidential candidates have never had an original idea of their own since the swinging sixties) will adopt some of their better ideas for the general good of the country.
We urgently need to change our style of politics.
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Monday, August 06, 2007
ODM Kenya: All Signs Point To A Nasty Divorce In The Works
Marriage and divorce are fascinating realities of this modern life. The initial love at first site, followed by a whirlwind romance where the man and woman cannot keep their hands off each other. Then the sharp contrast just a few months down the road when the two lovers who had sworn to each other that till death do they part cannot even speak to each other.
In the old days and to a certain extent these days, Africans hardly ever divorce. Instead they still live under the same roof. And if there is a child involved, matters are even worse. Once when things were not good in my marriage and we were not on talking terms with my Kikuyu beauty we would use my daughter to communicate.
So when food was ready Mrs Kumekucha would say something like;
"Go and tell that #@#*! (Censored) that food is ready."
Then at another time I would send the following message through the same medium;
"Kwenda uambia huyo mutu kwa hii nyumba ambaye amefura kama mandazi ya Burma kwamba sioni shati yanga." (Translation: Go and tell that person who has sulked so that she resembles a puffed up Mandazi at Burma market that I can't see my shirt.)
Poor kid.
Incidentally Burma is a market near the City Stadium in Nairobi and they make Mandazis at the place that are usually bigger than the head of a man. The trick they use is a health dose of baking powder to make the thing swell beyond all proportions. But I digreess.
Thank God that mine did not end up in divorce but in the end helped strengthened my marriage to what it is today, where people who know us talk about it behind our backs, basically asking questions like; "How do they do it?" The truthful answer: "I don't know. Some of these things are just made in heaven."
Enough about myself. There is this nasty divorce tale I have to tell today.
This particular marriage was destined to end in divorce even before the couple exchanged vows at the altar and many predicted it.
For starters they got married for all the wrong reasons. Both wanted to use each other for their own selfish ends. The man just wanted sex and he wanted it bad. The sly gold-digger of a woman who was the object of his desire played her cards perfectly. No marriage certificate, no sex, her placard read clearly. The woman of course wanted to get her carefully manicured hands on his money. Because so many of their friends had already told them that their marriage would not last, when things started going wrong at the honeymoon, the couple learnt how to play "Hollywood" and put up many Oscar-winning performances in front of the cameras. Shortly after pans, sufurias and other household missiles had been flying from the kitchen to the living room at high speed (and neighbors could clearly hear the shouting and fighting) they would come out holding hands with some wide smiles, for the cameras. Once they even managed a kiss (it is not clear how this was accomplished and yet both were clearly breathing fire).
I am of course talking about the ODM-Kenya marriage of convenience of leading presidential contenders that is now clearly headed for the "divorce courts." Most of the players are not on talking terms. Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga are now talking to each other through the press. Even Julia Ojiambo, chairperson of the Labour Party Of Kenya where Kalonzo defected to last week from Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party is firing salvos at Raila (again through the press) telling him in no uncertain terms to keep off her party's business. She however says in the same breath that the Labour Party of Kenya is still in ODM.
William Ruto currently appears to be in the Raila camp, as well as Najib Balala. Those are the only two presidential candidates who are firmly in the Raila camp.
Initial indications are that Raila will have to look for another party to stand for president with because Kalonzo Musyoka's faction led by chairman Danial Maanzo have the registration certificate. Chances are very high that Musalia Mudavadi, Julia Ojiambo and Kalonzo Musyoka will be in one ODM splinter group together. Watch this group very carefully because another marriage is in the offing with (surprise, surprise), Kanu. Already before even the divorce case is filed, this spouse has jumped into somebody else's bed. Guess who was waiting to receive Uhuru Kenyatta at the airport last week? Kalonzo Musyoka in person. But then this should not surprise anybody. Remember the joint visit of the two to the Mukuru kwa Njenga slums in the outskirts of Nairobi, about 2 months ago? Remember the prediction here over 4 months ago that was met with open ridicule and plenty of abusive language?
And so the ODM comedy of errors continues.
Incidentally this would be the perfect time for John Githongo to launch his presidential campaign and give Kenyans a genuine choice that is fresh and different, because as many of you wise readers have said here before, the difference between ODM-Kenya and Narc-Kenya is impossible to pinpoint because all the politicians in both parties who have been at the game for a long time (too long to the detriment of Kenyans) are of like minds.
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In the old days and to a certain extent these days, Africans hardly ever divorce. Instead they still live under the same roof. And if there is a child involved, matters are even worse. Once when things were not good in my marriage and we were not on talking terms with my Kikuyu beauty we would use my daughter to communicate.
So when food was ready Mrs Kumekucha would say something like;
"Go and tell that #@#*! (Censored) that food is ready."
Then at another time I would send the following message through the same medium;
"Kwenda uambia huyo mutu kwa hii nyumba ambaye amefura kama mandazi ya Burma kwamba sioni shati yanga." (Translation: Go and tell that person who has sulked so that she resembles a puffed up Mandazi at Burma market that I can't see my shirt.)
Poor kid.
Incidentally Burma is a market near the City Stadium in Nairobi and they make Mandazis at the place that are usually bigger than the head of a man. The trick they use is a health dose of baking powder to make the thing swell beyond all proportions. But I digreess.
Thank God that mine did not end up in divorce but in the end helped strengthened my marriage to what it is today, where people who know us talk about it behind our backs, basically asking questions like; "How do they do it?" The truthful answer: "I don't know. Some of these things are just made in heaven."
Enough about myself. There is this nasty divorce tale I have to tell today.
This particular marriage was destined to end in divorce even before the couple exchanged vows at the altar and many predicted it.
For starters they got married for all the wrong reasons. Both wanted to use each other for their own selfish ends. The man just wanted sex and he wanted it bad. The sly gold-digger of a woman who was the object of his desire played her cards perfectly. No marriage certificate, no sex, her placard read clearly. The woman of course wanted to get her carefully manicured hands on his money. Because so many of their friends had already told them that their marriage would not last, when things started going wrong at the honeymoon, the couple learnt how to play "Hollywood" and put up many Oscar-winning performances in front of the cameras. Shortly after pans, sufurias and other household missiles had been flying from the kitchen to the living room at high speed (and neighbors could clearly hear the shouting and fighting) they would come out holding hands with some wide smiles, for the cameras. Once they even managed a kiss (it is not clear how this was accomplished and yet both were clearly breathing fire).
I am of course talking about the ODM-Kenya marriage of convenience of leading presidential contenders that is now clearly headed for the "divorce courts." Most of the players are not on talking terms. Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga are now talking to each other through the press. Even Julia Ojiambo, chairperson of the Labour Party Of Kenya where Kalonzo defected to last week from Raila Odinga's Liberal Democratic Party is firing salvos at Raila (again through the press) telling him in no uncertain terms to keep off her party's business. She however says in the same breath that the Labour Party of Kenya is still in ODM.
William Ruto currently appears to be in the Raila camp, as well as Najib Balala. Those are the only two presidential candidates who are firmly in the Raila camp.
Initial indications are that Raila will have to look for another party to stand for president with because Kalonzo Musyoka's faction led by chairman Danial Maanzo have the registration certificate. Chances are very high that Musalia Mudavadi, Julia Ojiambo and Kalonzo Musyoka will be in one ODM splinter group together. Watch this group very carefully because another marriage is in the offing with (surprise, surprise), Kanu. Already before even the divorce case is filed, this spouse has jumped into somebody else's bed. Guess who was waiting to receive Uhuru Kenyatta at the airport last week? Kalonzo Musyoka in person. But then this should not surprise anybody. Remember the joint visit of the two to the Mukuru kwa Njenga slums in the outskirts of Nairobi, about 2 months ago? Remember the prediction here over 4 months ago that was met with open ridicule and plenty of abusive language?
And so the ODM comedy of errors continues.
Incidentally this would be the perfect time for John Githongo to launch his presidential campaign and give Kenyans a genuine choice that is fresh and different, because as many of you wise readers have said here before, the difference between ODM-Kenya and Narc-Kenya is impossible to pinpoint because all the politicians in both parties who have been at the game for a long time (too long to the detriment of Kenyans) are of like minds.
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How Kibaki Strategists Are Going To Use All The Political Parties That Are Claiming Allegiance To Him
Make no mistake about it; there is absolutely no confusion over this issue of which political party President Kibaki is going to use to seek re-election. It is in fact part of some very well laid plans.
To put it simply, all the parties that have been associated with the president's re-election bid will not field presidential candidates but will instead all have strong candidates for parliament. The clever strategy here is to ensure that during the crucial parliamentary candidates nomination exercise strong supporters of President's camp standing for MP will not cross over to any of the opposition political parties.
All indications are that the president will keep his choice secret until the very last possible minute. If possible after the usually messy, parliamentary seats nomination process, although this may be technically impossible.
This is a strategy that has the chances of working very well assuming that everything remains as it is now until the December polls, which is virtually impossible. And that is one of the greatest weaknesses of the Kibaki think tank. Their plans and strategic moves on the chess board of politics are all "too neat" and "too text book." The reality of politics is very different. Text book plans like these rarely work.
For instance it is now clear that one thing the president's re-election campaign will do is list his achievements and by their sheer volume overwhelm any opposition candidate. Some of these achievements as we are reminded here by mainly paid hands too often are;
1) An improved economy
2) Free primary school education
3) CDF (Constituency Development Funds)
4) Youth Fund etc.
The reality in politics is that people usually vote with their hearts rather than their heads. That is why even the best laid plans usually fail because at the end of the day human beings are the most emotional animals and will cast their vote based on emotions rather than facts. This is why the president's political advisors quite often shock me and many other seasoned political analysts who wonder if they really know what they are doing.
The President's advisors will do well to talk to one retired General Jackson Mulinge, and take plenty of notes while they are at it. Gen Mulinge is a former Chief of General Staff for many years and also a former legislator for Kathiani constituency in Machakos. He once came face to face with his constituents and confidently started pointing out his many unprecedented achievements in the otherwise poverty-stricken constituency. They included roads, employment opportunities etc. As he mentioned each achievement, his constituents replied loudly in unison and in the Kamba dialect "Osa!" Meaning take it back with you. And indeed their loudest "Osa" was at the ballot box where they handed the general a resounding defeat in the hands of a political minnow whom nobody had ever heard of before. One Peter Kaindi Kyalo, the current MP for Kathiani who has now been in the august for two consecutive terms.
Many people have testified how predictions made in this blog always seem to always come true. Here's one for you. Watch what happens when the campaigns get into high gear and the president's supporters start telling the long suffering people of Kenya that the economy has improved and about all the other "rosy" achievements of this administration. Even in Central province, what people will remember most will be the brutal Mungiki beheadings of innocent people.
This is one of the reasons why the candidate for president that the President's men fear most is former PS for ethics and governance. One John Githongo.
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To put it simply, all the parties that have been associated with the president's re-election bid will not field presidential candidates but will instead all have strong candidates for parliament. The clever strategy here is to ensure that during the crucial parliamentary candidates nomination exercise strong supporters of President's camp standing for MP will not cross over to any of the opposition political parties.
All indications are that the president will keep his choice secret until the very last possible minute. If possible after the usually messy, parliamentary seats nomination process, although this may be technically impossible.
This is a strategy that has the chances of working very well assuming that everything remains as it is now until the December polls, which is virtually impossible. And that is one of the greatest weaknesses of the Kibaki think tank. Their plans and strategic moves on the chess board of politics are all "too neat" and "too text book." The reality of politics is very different. Text book plans like these rarely work.
For instance it is now clear that one thing the president's re-election campaign will do is list his achievements and by their sheer volume overwhelm any opposition candidate. Some of these achievements as we are reminded here by mainly paid hands too often are;
1) An improved economy
2) Free primary school education
3) CDF (Constituency Development Funds)
4) Youth Fund etc.
The reality in politics is that people usually vote with their hearts rather than their heads. That is why even the best laid plans usually fail because at the end of the day human beings are the most emotional animals and will cast their vote based on emotions rather than facts. This is why the president's political advisors quite often shock me and many other seasoned political analysts who wonder if they really know what they are doing.
The President's advisors will do well to talk to one retired General Jackson Mulinge, and take plenty of notes while they are at it. Gen Mulinge is a former Chief of General Staff for many years and also a former legislator for Kathiani constituency in Machakos. He once came face to face with his constituents and confidently started pointing out his many unprecedented achievements in the otherwise poverty-stricken constituency. They included roads, employment opportunities etc. As he mentioned each achievement, his constituents replied loudly in unison and in the Kamba dialect "Osa!" Meaning take it back with you. And indeed their loudest "Osa" was at the ballot box where they handed the general a resounding defeat in the hands of a political minnow whom nobody had ever heard of before. One Peter Kaindi Kyalo, the current MP for Kathiani who has now been in the august for two consecutive terms.
Many people have testified how predictions made in this blog always seem to always come true. Here's one for you. Watch what happens when the campaigns get into high gear and the president's supporters start telling the long suffering people of Kenya that the economy has improved and about all the other "rosy" achievements of this administration. Even in Central province, what people will remember most will be the brutal Mungiki beheadings of innocent people.
This is one of the reasons why the candidate for president that the President's men fear most is former PS for ethics and governance. One John Githongo.
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Sunday, August 05, 2007
Government Secretly Halts Registration Of New Political Parties
I am reliably informed that an ordinary Kenyan who has made a late decision to enter into politics and to participate in this year’s polls has found it impossible to register their political party. Using this information, I contacted a law firm in Kenya that I know well and told them that I wished to register a political party. Sure enough, a few telephone calls later word came back that the good people at the registrar of societies have been “instructed” NOT to register any more political parties.
There are currently 250 registered political parties in Kenya.
I find this government decision rather interesting. Will somebody explain to me what advantage or disadvantage it will give the Kibaki administration if there are 250 or 250,000 registered political parties. If anything this decision is denying government much-needed funds in registration fees.
Besides this administration itself has not set a very good example (if registering too many political parties is a crime) because old parties like DP are still operating and claiming that the President will use them to seek re-election. At the same time Narc-Kenya has been registered and then there is yet another Narc being registered by Noah Wekesa after Charity Ngilu refused to play ball with the original Narc. I suppose that Wekesa will have no problem registering his Narc Original and yet an ordinary Kenyan seeking to register a political party will be taken round in circles being constantly told “check later,” until the elections are here. For the uninformed that’s Kenya for you.
Incidentally according to today’s Sunday Nation, the Raila Odinga faction within ODM Kenya are having a meeting with the registrar on Tuesday and it is expected that they will demand for the registration of yet another Orange Democratic Movement party (bringing the ODM’s to 3).
Let us not get into the thorny discussion of which of the 3 political parties will be allowed to use the orange symbol but it also means that the registrar will not be in a position to give her answer on the spot where Raila and company are involved. She will have to consult with higher authorities in view of the directive that she has received.
Denying Kenyans the right to register a political party just goes to show you the thinking of the same government (and indeed entire parliament) that passed the Media bill last week.
All the more reason why this issue of registering political parties should rest with an independent Electoral commission.
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There are currently 250 registered political parties in Kenya.
I find this government decision rather interesting. Will somebody explain to me what advantage or disadvantage it will give the Kibaki administration if there are 250 or 250,000 registered political parties. If anything this decision is denying government much-needed funds in registration fees.
Besides this administration itself has not set a very good example (if registering too many political parties is a crime) because old parties like DP are still operating and claiming that the President will use them to seek re-election. At the same time Narc-Kenya has been registered and then there is yet another Narc being registered by Noah Wekesa after Charity Ngilu refused to play ball with the original Narc. I suppose that Wekesa will have no problem registering his Narc Original and yet an ordinary Kenyan seeking to register a political party will be taken round in circles being constantly told “check later,” until the elections are here. For the uninformed that’s Kenya for you.
Incidentally according to today’s Sunday Nation, the Raila Odinga faction within ODM Kenya are having a meeting with the registrar on Tuesday and it is expected that they will demand for the registration of yet another Orange Democratic Movement party (bringing the ODM’s to 3).
Let us not get into the thorny discussion of which of the 3 political parties will be allowed to use the orange symbol but it also means that the registrar will not be in a position to give her answer on the spot where Raila and company are involved. She will have to consult with higher authorities in view of the directive that she has received.
Denying Kenyans the right to register a political party just goes to show you the thinking of the same government (and indeed entire parliament) that passed the Media bill last week.
All the more reason why this issue of registering political parties should rest with an independent Electoral commission.
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
It's Official: Free Press Ends In Kenya
Press freedom in Kenya has suffered a major blow with the passing of the controversial Media bill which the Kibaki administration fought tooth and nail soaking in all sort of pressure to ensure that it was passed.
A clause cleverly sneaked in at the 11th hour forces journalists to divulge their source of information in the event that their articles or stories become the subject of a court case. This "sledge hammer" clause combined with the official secrets act that is still in place well over 40 years after independence, means that Anglo Leasing secrets and corruption in high places is safe from ever being unearthed.
The legendary Washington Post journalists who broke the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon's resignation got a tip off from somebody within government. It is highly unlikely that any such thing can ever happen in Kenya with the new media law in force.
It also means that no brave news source within the borders of the country is safe. They can always be exposed at any time. All somebody has to do is force the matter into court. Even criminals can now make use of this clause rather effectively to silence any would-be witnesses.
But I believe that Historians will also take note of one Mutahi Kagwe th main sponsor on behalf of the government of this retrogressive media bill. Kagwe is a former newspaper advertising manager and failed media entrepreneur (Mutahi's weekly newspaper launched with much fanfare using mostly his retirement benefits from the Standard, called the East African Chronicle folded after barely a year in existence leaving Kagwe up to his ears in debt. In fact at one point his home in Karen was advertised in the press by some auctioneer seeking to recover certain debts. It is widely believed that his father in-law, Internal security Minister John Michuki stepped in to save the situation.)
For a while after the Chronicle debacle Kagwe survived with his Public Relations outfit known as Tell Em PR which with his media contacts he used to get himself into the board of a leading Nairobi ad agency. Still it is instructive to note that Kagwe's fortunes were only fully revitalized by his new job—the amazing get rich-quick scheme in Kenya called, make-it-to-parliament-and-poverty-is-history.
What historians will note will not be so much this background of the Minister but the curious incident where he took time to consult with media stakeholders only to trash virtually everything that they had come up with and the Media bill that he finally emerged with was very strange. The big question is what caused this about-turn? Who was Kagwe taking orders from?
The answer is fairly obvious. It was from the president's men. Those inner cabinet dark shadows who make the actual decisions on how the country is run. Those greedy guys often portrayed in political cartoons in a leading daily as pigs with bulging stomachs and suitcases. The guys who are currently pushing a sickly, aging resident into a second term when they know very well the toll the presidency has already taken on his health to date. Their reasoning is that if Jomo Kenyatta ruled the country while being in and out of comas most of the time, then Kibaki is as fit as a fiddle in comparison. And therein lies the crux of the problem with the Kibaki administration—namely the fact that there are too many powerful people in it behaving as if we were still in the 70s.
The next question historians will ask themselves is why the inner cabinet should be so determined to pass the Media Bill, their way. The answer is simple. To protect a few people from scandals like Anglo Leasing and a few other major scams that the public do not know anything about—YET.
Nothing new in all this of course. Kenya has a long history of passing laws and amendments to laws targeted at a few people and sometimes at single individuals, rather than for posterity as should be the case with laws.
The most famous ones include the amendment made in the 60s pushing up the minimum age of a president to 35. It was targeted, with laser precision, at the charismatic Tom Mboya and Kenyatta's inner cabinet were buying time and wanted to at least sleep easy for a year or so before the guy hit 35 while they figured out how to deal with him.
Then there was the hurried amendment to give the president powers to pardon convicted persons, designed specifically to enable President Kenyatta to "forgive" Paul Ngei after he was found guilty of election offences.
I appeal to 10th parliament to make its' first order of business, deleting this ridiculous Media law that takes the country back to the 18th century.
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A clause cleverly sneaked in at the 11th hour forces journalists to divulge their source of information in the event that their articles or stories become the subject of a court case. This "sledge hammer" clause combined with the official secrets act that is still in place well over 40 years after independence, means that Anglo Leasing secrets and corruption in high places is safe from ever being unearthed.
The legendary Washington Post journalists who broke the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon's resignation got a tip off from somebody within government. It is highly unlikely that any such thing can ever happen in Kenya with the new media law in force.
It also means that no brave news source within the borders of the country is safe. They can always be exposed at any time. All somebody has to do is force the matter into court. Even criminals can now make use of this clause rather effectively to silence any would-be witnesses.
But I believe that Historians will also take note of one Mutahi Kagwe th main sponsor on behalf of the government of this retrogressive media bill. Kagwe is a former newspaper advertising manager and failed media entrepreneur (Mutahi's weekly newspaper launched with much fanfare using mostly his retirement benefits from the Standard, called the East African Chronicle folded after barely a year in existence leaving Kagwe up to his ears in debt. In fact at one point his home in Karen was advertised in the press by some auctioneer seeking to recover certain debts. It is widely believed that his father in-law, Internal security Minister John Michuki stepped in to save the situation.)
For a while after the Chronicle debacle Kagwe survived with his Public Relations outfit known as Tell Em PR which with his media contacts he used to get himself into the board of a leading Nairobi ad agency. Still it is instructive to note that Kagwe's fortunes were only fully revitalized by his new job—the amazing get rich-quick scheme in Kenya called, make-it-to-parliament-and-poverty-is-history.
What historians will note will not be so much this background of the Minister but the curious incident where he took time to consult with media stakeholders only to trash virtually everything that they had come up with and the Media bill that he finally emerged with was very strange. The big question is what caused this about-turn? Who was Kagwe taking orders from?
The answer is fairly obvious. It was from the president's men. Those inner cabinet dark shadows who make the actual decisions on how the country is run. Those greedy guys often portrayed in political cartoons in a leading daily as pigs with bulging stomachs and suitcases. The guys who are currently pushing a sickly, aging resident into a second term when they know very well the toll the presidency has already taken on his health to date. Their reasoning is that if Jomo Kenyatta ruled the country while being in and out of comas most of the time, then Kibaki is as fit as a fiddle in comparison. And therein lies the crux of the problem with the Kibaki administration—namely the fact that there are too many powerful people in it behaving as if we were still in the 70s.
The next question historians will ask themselves is why the inner cabinet should be so determined to pass the Media Bill, their way. The answer is simple. To protect a few people from scandals like Anglo Leasing and a few other major scams that the public do not know anything about—YET.
Nothing new in all this of course. Kenya has a long history of passing laws and amendments to laws targeted at a few people and sometimes at single individuals, rather than for posterity as should be the case with laws.
The most famous ones include the amendment made in the 60s pushing up the minimum age of a president to 35. It was targeted, with laser precision, at the charismatic Tom Mboya and Kenyatta's inner cabinet were buying time and wanted to at least sleep easy for a year or so before the guy hit 35 while they figured out how to deal with him.
Then there was the hurried amendment to give the president powers to pardon convicted persons, designed specifically to enable President Kenyatta to "forgive" Paul Ngei after he was found guilty of election offences.
I appeal to 10th parliament to make its' first order of business, deleting this ridiculous Media law that takes the country back to the 18th century.
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Men Missing In Action As Second Liberation Starts In Earnest
The expert driver who maneuvered out of the Central Police Station with tyres screeching was in fact not a man but a Woman. A man probably won't have done it without running over the policeman who tried to block the car.
Men are known to make jokes about women drivers but this is one instance where many drivers who have viewed the dramatic Jack-Bower-like clip can only admire the driving.
When you also consider that most of the people we are seeing on the forefront of fighing for the second liberation are women, one cannot help asking themselves where the men are. Even the small group that camped outside CID headquarters to show solidarity with Health Minister Charity Ngilu when she was being held were mostly women.
So where are the men? Or do they just mostly prefer to call each other names at blogs like this one?
It is my hope and prayer that we men will rise to the cassion and this critical time in the history of our nation when the motherland needs us badly. It is clear that a major campaign for the much-anticipated second liberation has already kicked off in earnest. The campaign is about replacing our current colonial masters—the corrupt-rich ruling class. Interestingly the old mzungu colonial masters had more compassion for the people and life in those days was much more bearable. If you doubt, just ask your grand parents.
However what has put a lot of joy in Kumekucha's heart is the fact that the people at the forefront of the struggle are the young people of Kenya, born after independence, exposed to the world and asking why can't Kenya be better than the West? Even where they do not ask the question is as many words, you will hear the comparisons daily all over the place.
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Men are known to make jokes about women drivers but this is one instance where many drivers who have viewed the dramatic Jack-Bower-like clip can only admire the driving.
When you also consider that most of the people we are seeing on the forefront of fighing for the second liberation are women, one cannot help asking themselves where the men are. Even the small group that camped outside CID headquarters to show solidarity with Health Minister Charity Ngilu when she was being held were mostly women.
So where are the men? Or do they just mostly prefer to call each other names at blogs like this one?
It is my hope and prayer that we men will rise to the cassion and this critical time in the history of our nation when the motherland needs us badly. It is clear that a major campaign for the much-anticipated second liberation has already kicked off in earnest. The campaign is about replacing our current colonial masters—the corrupt-rich ruling class. Interestingly the old mzungu colonial masters had more compassion for the people and life in those days was much more bearable. If you doubt, just ask your grand parents.
However what has put a lot of joy in Kumekucha's heart is the fact that the people at the forefront of the struggle are the young people of Kenya, born after independence, exposed to the world and asking why can't Kenya be better than the West? Even where they do not ask the question is as many words, you will hear the comparisons daily all over the place.
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Death Penalty: 9th Parliament Displays Lots Of Ignorance
The ignorance rampant in the 9th parliament and their total inability to think anywhere near outside the box was clearly illustrated when a bill seeking to outlaw the death penalty was thrown out without a second though and without much debate.
The legislators failed to note the fact that the death penalty in Kenya was in reality abolished 20 years ago, which was the last time the hangman alipata kibarua.. These days occupants of State house do not have the heart to sign the necessary papers to send offenders to the gallows. The result: they are congesting death row cells living in that terrible situation where you know you can walk to the gallows at any time but have no idea exactly when it will be.
The overpaid, mostly overweight MPs failed to note that the despite the death penalty, crime has not gone down in Kenya. In other words it has failed to be a deterrent and should therefore be removed from the books.
The only way the death penalty can have at least a little impact is to make the executions public and to have the guy living in State House signing the execution orders regularly. These two things are highly unlikely to happen and based on this, there is no point in having a law that does not work.
Then there is the fact that other countries with serious crime rate problems like South Africa abolished the death penalty a long time ago. Even neighboring Tanzania's death penalty does not extend to armed robbery, the main cause of concern for many Kenyans. Only Tanzanians who kill others face the death penalty.
What I personally find very strange and fascinating is how Kenyans who are comfortable DO NOT seem to understand their less privileged countrymen, nor the criminal mind. And neither are they interested, all they want to do is to protect their ill-gotten wealth and the way most of them see it is in showing no mercy to criminals. They are completely unable to see the big picture, which is the fact that without fundamental changes in government policy and direction, crime will continue to escalate in this country.
Well, you can't teach old dogs new tricks can you?
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The legislators failed to note the fact that the death penalty in Kenya was in reality abolished 20 years ago, which was the last time the hangman alipata kibarua.. These days occupants of State house do not have the heart to sign the necessary papers to send offenders to the gallows. The result: they are congesting death row cells living in that terrible situation where you know you can walk to the gallows at any time but have no idea exactly when it will be.
The overpaid, mostly overweight MPs failed to note that the despite the death penalty, crime has not gone down in Kenya. In other words it has failed to be a deterrent and should therefore be removed from the books.
The only way the death penalty can have at least a little impact is to make the executions public and to have the guy living in State House signing the execution orders regularly. These two things are highly unlikely to happen and based on this, there is no point in having a law that does not work.
Then there is the fact that other countries with serious crime rate problems like South Africa abolished the death penalty a long time ago. Even neighboring Tanzania's death penalty does not extend to armed robbery, the main cause of concern for many Kenyans. Only Tanzanians who kill others face the death penalty.
What I personally find very strange and fascinating is how Kenyans who are comfortable DO NOT seem to understand their less privileged countrymen, nor the criminal mind. And neither are they interested, all they want to do is to protect their ill-gotten wealth and the way most of them see it is in showing no mercy to criminals. They are completely unable to see the big picture, which is the fact that without fundamental changes in government policy and direction, crime will continue to escalate in this country.
Well, you can't teach old dogs new tricks can you?
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The Death Penalty In Kenya: Do you support it?
The death penalty has yet again been upheld by parliament. This is a sad day for Kenya with respect to human rights and also in the eyes of god. Most MPs are known to publicly abhor I am totally opposed to this legistlation Chris, do you support it? Kenya has this law in the statutes but it doesn't practice death penalty beyond conviction, which is worse than those who practice like the USA.
Because Kenya still retains the death penalty, there are thousands of convicts on deathrow awaiting their date with the hangman noose. Although no executions have been carried out since 1987, one has to think and imagine what it feels like to wake up in jail each morning not knowing what it means to stay alive. And this goes on for these condemned individuals for up to 20 years! Is it really just and humane to keep a deathrow convict in suspense for period of time?
The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, treason, robbery with violence or attempted robbery with violence and for administration of an unlawful oath to commit a capital offence. A lot of people assume rape is a capital offence. Unless there is robbery or murder involved rape does not constitute a capital offence. By law the death penalty may not be imposed on anyone under 18 years of age at the time of the offence, a pregnant woman or an insane person.
In 1987, 168 people were sentenced to death (most of them being 1982 abortive coup plotters). Many prisoners on death row in Kamiti, Shimo-la-Tewa, Naivasha GK Prison and Kodiaga in Kisumu have died as a result of a combination of factors including, stress, appalling prison conditions and old age. The Court of Appeal is sometimes known to overturn life sentences to the death penalty for capital offences!
The death penalty is unjust, barbaric and denies due process of law. Its imposition is arbitrary and irrevocable. It forever deprives an individual of benefits of new evidence or new law that might warrant the reversal of a conviction or the setting aside of a death sentence. Of course, the death penalty does not in any way UNDO or REVERSE whatever crime it was that led to the conviction.
My take on this is that President Kibaki, as a christian and an elder, is just too scared of signing death warrants for condemned prisoners. It is a topic he completely steered clear off when minister Kiraitu Murungi (himself a long time human rights activist) wanted to introduce in parliament during their first months in power. The constitution provides for the Prerogative of Mercy and the President has the right to pardon or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence. Infact, in the year he took power, (2003) President Kibaki commuted the death sentences of 223 inmates which was then very commendable.
Chris, suppose you were president, can you imagine yourself appending your signature as a finality on a convict's death warrant? The also imagine doing it for the thousands of condemned prisoners during your reign as president?
It is generally agreed that most of the violent crimes committed in Kenya today are by 'young people' (ie below 25 years old). And crime rates are going up rather than reducing despite these laws. Because of inexperience and in the process of committing violent crime, defenseless victims are killed even when they offer no resistance or immediate threat - only because young criminals don't leave any potential witnesses alive only because they fear these witnesses could testify and lead to their conviction on death penalty!
It is high time known reformist and human rights activitis like Kivutha Kibwana, Kiraitu Murungi, Koigi Wa Wamwere (himself a victim of this law) and Martha Karua - all of whom hold influential positions in government - do something worth their presence in government even if not political reasons. And that is they should lobby strongly for the death penalty to be abolished in Kenya whether through and act of parliament or through a referendum. It should be done away with!
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Because Kenya still retains the death penalty, there are thousands of convicts on deathrow awaiting their date with the hangman noose. Although no executions have been carried out since 1987, one has to think and imagine what it feels like to wake up in jail each morning not knowing what it means to stay alive. And this goes on for these condemned individuals for up to 20 years! Is it really just and humane to keep a deathrow convict in suspense for period of time?
The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, treason, robbery with violence or attempted robbery with violence and for administration of an unlawful oath to commit a capital offence. A lot of people assume rape is a capital offence. Unless there is robbery or murder involved rape does not constitute a capital offence. By law the death penalty may not be imposed on anyone under 18 years of age at the time of the offence, a pregnant woman or an insane person.
In 1987, 168 people were sentenced to death (most of them being 1982 abortive coup plotters). Many prisoners on death row in Kamiti, Shimo-la-Tewa, Naivasha GK Prison and Kodiaga in Kisumu have died as a result of a combination of factors including, stress, appalling prison conditions and old age. The Court of Appeal is sometimes known to overturn life sentences to the death penalty for capital offences!
The death penalty is unjust, barbaric and denies due process of law. Its imposition is arbitrary and irrevocable. It forever deprives an individual of benefits of new evidence or new law that might warrant the reversal of a conviction or the setting aside of a death sentence. Of course, the death penalty does not in any way UNDO or REVERSE whatever crime it was that led to the conviction.
My take on this is that President Kibaki, as a christian and an elder, is just too scared of signing death warrants for condemned prisoners. It is a topic he completely steered clear off when minister Kiraitu Murungi (himself a long time human rights activist) wanted to introduce in parliament during their first months in power. The constitution provides for the Prerogative of Mercy and the President has the right to pardon or commute the sentence of any person convicted of any offence. Infact, in the year he took power, (2003) President Kibaki commuted the death sentences of 223 inmates which was then very commendable.
Chris, suppose you were president, can you imagine yourself appending your signature as a finality on a convict's death warrant? The also imagine doing it for the thousands of condemned prisoners during your reign as president?
It is generally agreed that most of the violent crimes committed in Kenya today are by 'young people' (ie below 25 years old). And crime rates are going up rather than reducing despite these laws. Because of inexperience and in the process of committing violent crime, defenseless victims are killed even when they offer no resistance or immediate threat - only because young criminals don't leave any potential witnesses alive only because they fear these witnesses could testify and lead to their conviction on death penalty!
It is high time known reformist and human rights activitis like Kivutha Kibwana, Kiraitu Murungi, Koigi Wa Wamwere (himself a victim of this law) and Martha Karua - all of whom hold influential positions in government - do something worth their presence in government even if not political reasons. And that is they should lobby strongly for the death penalty to be abolished in Kenya whether through and act of parliament or through a referendum. It should be done away with!
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Friday, August 03, 2007
Cops Fix Ngilu
Despite the fact that Health Minister Charity Ngilu has spent the better part of today in police custody at CID headquarters as well as yesterday afternoon, police commissioner Major General Ali had a clarification for the press today during a heated press conference session.
The Minister is not under arrest and neither is she being detained by the police, he said. She is simply assisting the police in investigations.
This is a new revelation by the police commissioner which means that next time the men in blue pick you up at the local kiosk with sukuma wiki bread and milk in your hands and ask you to accompany them to the police station (so that you can bribe them for your freedom) and you are as principled as Kumekucha is and spend the night in the cooler, don't tell people you were arrested by police. Tell them you were assisting the police with investigations.
So why has Ngilu been "assisting the police with investigations" for the whole long day? There are different stories the police are giving. One says that the police are waiting for orders "from above". The other is that police are still preparing "very serious charges" against the health minister. They must be so serious that they require endless analysis and debates in compiling them which will take a very long time as the minister misses her official duties that are important to the benefit of all Kenyans.
Maybe somebody wants to make it 500 counts or 1,000 counts so that it takes another whole day for somebody to read it out in court. You get the drift? The Health minister may have broken the law but charging her is not enough, she also has to be "fixed." I am reliably informed that when you make a fool of the police anywhere in the world, this is the "normal procedure." Ngilu's biggest crime it would seem was outsmarting a whole bunch of police officers including the burly "Funga Ngait" chap and sneaking Ann Njogu out of the dreaded Central Police station (see my other story to discover how Kumekucha was a visitor of the State and there once and why I have used the word "dreaded.").
The laws of a country are there to protect the people. But when those laws favor a certain clique and class of people, then the citizens have a right to defy those laws. The same justice system has to date not been able to prosecute the killers of Dr Robert Ouko despite the fact that there is enough evidence available to do so. Very selective this so-called justice system of ours. That is my view.
Ngilu's real crime was that she ventured into Kenya's "no go zone". Kenya's no go zone is where people sacrifice to fight for the rights of the ordinary, voiceless, frightened hungry citizen. Ann Njogu, a brave patriot that Kumekucha salutes started the whole saga by making the decision to go to parliament buildings to protest against the immoral and heinous thing our so-called MPs want to do of giving themselves a hefty bonus. When she took this action, she crossed the line and became a target of the government. Ngilu also crossed into this dangerous zone when she sided with Ms Njogu and released her from police custody where she was being mistreated and generally being handled badly. If it is true that her injuries were from the accident that the police car had while ferrying the arrested Civil society activists, then why was she not in hospital? What was she doing at Central police station?
If she was fine at the time Ngilu found her at Central police, then why did she have to be taken to hospital by the Health Minister immediately after the dramatic rescue? What did the police do to her to warrant this?
Thank you Ann Njogu and your colleagues. Kumekucha salutes you. Thank you Mrs "Jack Bower" Ngilu, Kumekucha salutes you. Ladies you are true patriots. Be encouraged. Your actions were not a cheap publicity stunt. Being brutalized and harassed by the police does not come cheap. Yours was a patriotic action that will be recognized as such one day. Take heart, Kenya shall be free soon.
I am reliably informed that the boss at Vigilance House regularly reads this blog. My advice to him (in case this is true) is that as much as he hates politics and believes that journalists are not very bright people (including Kumekucha), is that there is a change of government that is coming very soon.
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The Minister is not under arrest and neither is she being detained by the police, he said. She is simply assisting the police in investigations.
This is a new revelation by the police commissioner which means that next time the men in blue pick you up at the local kiosk with sukuma wiki bread and milk in your hands and ask you to accompany them to the police station (so that you can bribe them for your freedom) and you are as principled as Kumekucha is and spend the night in the cooler, don't tell people you were arrested by police. Tell them you were assisting the police with investigations.
So why has Ngilu been "assisting the police with investigations" for the whole long day? There are different stories the police are giving. One says that the police are waiting for orders "from above". The other is that police are still preparing "very serious charges" against the health minister. They must be so serious that they require endless analysis and debates in compiling them which will take a very long time as the minister misses her official duties that are important to the benefit of all Kenyans.
Maybe somebody wants to make it 500 counts or 1,000 counts so that it takes another whole day for somebody to read it out in court. You get the drift? The Health minister may have broken the law but charging her is not enough, she also has to be "fixed." I am reliably informed that when you make a fool of the police anywhere in the world, this is the "normal procedure." Ngilu's biggest crime it would seem was outsmarting a whole bunch of police officers including the burly "Funga Ngait" chap and sneaking Ann Njogu out of the dreaded Central Police station (see my other story to discover how Kumekucha was a visitor of the State and there once and why I have used the word "dreaded.").
The laws of a country are there to protect the people. But when those laws favor a certain clique and class of people, then the citizens have a right to defy those laws. The same justice system has to date not been able to prosecute the killers of Dr Robert Ouko despite the fact that there is enough evidence available to do so. Very selective this so-called justice system of ours. That is my view.
Ngilu's real crime was that she ventured into Kenya's "no go zone". Kenya's no go zone is where people sacrifice to fight for the rights of the ordinary, voiceless, frightened hungry citizen. Ann Njogu, a brave patriot that Kumekucha salutes started the whole saga by making the decision to go to parliament buildings to protest against the immoral and heinous thing our so-called MPs want to do of giving themselves a hefty bonus. When she took this action, she crossed the line and became a target of the government. Ngilu also crossed into this dangerous zone when she sided with Ms Njogu and released her from police custody where she was being mistreated and generally being handled badly. If it is true that her injuries were from the accident that the police car had while ferrying the arrested Civil society activists, then why was she not in hospital? What was she doing at Central police station?
If she was fine at the time Ngilu found her at Central police, then why did she have to be taken to hospital by the Health Minister immediately after the dramatic rescue? What did the police do to her to warrant this?
Thank you Ann Njogu and your colleagues. Kumekucha salutes you. Thank you Mrs "Jack Bower" Ngilu, Kumekucha salutes you. Ladies you are true patriots. Be encouraged. Your actions were not a cheap publicity stunt. Being brutalized and harassed by the police does not come cheap. Yours was a patriotic action that will be recognized as such one day. Take heart, Kenya shall be free soon.
I am reliably informed that the boss at Vigilance House regularly reads this blog. My advice to him (in case this is true) is that as much as he hates politics and believes that journalists are not very bright people (including Kumekucha), is that there is a change of government that is coming very soon.
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The Day Kumekucha "Assisted Police With Investigations" For A Whole Weekend and Two Days
In my informed view Kamukunji Police Station cells are a much more friendlier place than the usually badly stinking brutal Central Police station cells.
The Police cells and Kenyan prisons contrary to what many naïve Kenyans think, is not filled with rapists and murders and carjackers. NO. They are full of innocent Kenyans whose only crime is that they did not have the money to "buy their freedom." Many others are people merely "assisting the police with investigations" for a very long time.
In 1986 something happened to me in the hands of the police that changed my life forever and in fact almost killed me.
I was newly married and still in the "honeymoon mode" trying to work very hard to provide for my newly established family. I was a journalist but I carefully avoided controversial stories that could get me into trouble. I would not write a political story even if you paid me a million bob (and believe me a million bob was a lot of money in those heady days when a loaf bread cost less than Kshs 4/-).
I worked for a mzungu publication based in Westlands (that was the first of its' kind in Kenya) and had recently received a tip off about a story that involved a traffic policeman who had been deliberately ran over by a matatu driver. I was doing this reluctantly because even such a story was too controversial for me.
One afternoon I walked back into the office in Waumini House Annexe, Westlands to be told that there were some plain clothes policemen looking for me. I assumed that it was about the story I was chasing. I really wasn't frightened of policemen as I had grown up seeing them and interacting with them because my father was very senior police officer and still was at that time.
To cut a long story short I was arrested and driven all over Nairobi by police officers from the then dreaded Special branch. And at first, without knowing exactly what the whole issue was about, except that they asked me about another freelance journalist whom I was acquainted with, I was released and asked to report back the following day. This was at the dreaded Nyayo House building, twenty something floor.
I dutifully came back the next morning, which was a Friday and was locked up the whole weekend. They kept on shifting me from police station to police station. That is how I can authoritatively compare all police cells in the city, including little known ones like the one at the Railway station and the one at KICC (Kenyatta International Conference Centre). Central police has a long history of police brutuallity dating back to colonial times. It is just a few metres fro the place where in 1922 police opened fire on a whole group of detained Kikuyu natives—but that is a story for another day.
By this time I had discovered that I was supposed to be a Mwakenya suspect. Mwakenya for our younger readers was a group of brave Kenyans trying to resist the government of Moi in an underground clandestine way because opposition politics was then an outlawed thing punishable by detention without trial or by death.
I was very lucky because I was finally released on Monday evening and it had a lot to do with who my father was. The special branch did not have a shred of evidence linking me to Mwakenya and to this day I am not sure what it was all about whether it was a case of mistaken identity or just plain bad luck (I was too young to have made any enemies then) because many innocent Kenyans suffered terribly as so-called Mwakenya suspects.
That small incident had a major effect on my life and almost destroyed me. While in police custody I had received a message from my Dad that I was basically on my own. He was sure that I was innocent but there was nothing he could do about it because I was considered a "possible threat to the security of the state."
I was not tortured too badly except at one point during interrogation, I was asked to strip naked (which I did) and informed that the room where I was, many other suspects before me had been shot dead and their bodies taken to the mortuary because they did not co-operate. I broke easily (I was only a 22 year old then, recently out of school.) and begged the cold policemen for my life telling them that I would admit anything they wanted me to admit but that I was innocent and that my dead mother who had passed on when I was in primary school knew it and so did my current step mother.). My pleas must have touched them because they immediately stopped the interrogation and locked me up in a room at CID headquarters where all this was going on. This were the old wooden structures that burnt a few years later under some very mysterious circumstances.
An explanation here is in order so that nobody gets confused. I was initially arrested by special branch officers who asked me to return the next day. They then handed me over to the CID who were supposed to conduct further investigations. Hence my presence in that place where Health Minister Ngilu has spent most of the day today.
After my release, my character changed dramatically and I became fairly reckless. I started drinking very heavily and became a serious womanizer. The whole ordeal had shown me that staying on the right side of the law does not really help when you have a justice system like the one in Kenya. In the police cells I met many innocent people. You see when you are inside, people tell the truth and have no reason to lie. Criminals openly admitted what they had done and told stories of how they had outwitted the law for so long and how they were going to get out of the cells soon, when certain "negotiations" were complete.
I was treated with a lot of respect in the police cells because everybody knew that I was a "Mwakenya suspect." The police kept on bringing their friends to see me. "Mwanume wa wanaume" Men of men as they called me. A young man brave enough to defy the government of Kenya. I didn't waste my breath trying to explain that I was innocent.
The reason why I have given you this story is simply this. Our justice system which we are supposed to obey without question has created the vast majority of criminals that we see out there today and continues to do so. Many others who passed through the same ordeal and probably suffered more than me, must have automatically ended up in crime.
This I can assure you, there is no feeling that brings more bitterness in a human being than suffering for a crime that you did not commit.
That is the Kenyan justice system for you. As far as the police are concerned, you are guilty until proven innocent, or until you pay a bribe.
And these days it is worse. Last weekend a young Kenyan lady informed me of a case where this Kenyan who committed a grave crime against her and her family was jailed for 18 years. He did not even complete a year in prison. He was recently released under mysterious circumstances, or shall I say pretty normal circumstances as far as Kenya is concerned.
That is why I want to inform naïve Kenyans that the people still in prison are mostly the innocent, the ones that don't have the cash, and the "stupid". In Kenya the word "stupid" is often used on principled people who refuse to bribe. Admittedly a breed that is almost extinct in Kenya. When you understand the meaning of this word in Kenyaspeak, you can then say that Ngilu was "stupid" because she needn't have used so much energy and effort. All she would have done would have been to reach into her handbag and her purse… and presto, behold. Ann Njogu would have been free. No maneno no fuss.
By the way the young Kenyan lady who told the story of the man released from police custody says that she has now given her life to praying for justice in Kenya. Some pipedream, many of you would say, but I too dream of justice in Kenya… one day soon.
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The Police cells and Kenyan prisons contrary to what many naïve Kenyans think, is not filled with rapists and murders and carjackers. NO. They are full of innocent Kenyans whose only crime is that they did not have the money to "buy their freedom." Many others are people merely "assisting the police with investigations" for a very long time.
In 1986 something happened to me in the hands of the police that changed my life forever and in fact almost killed me.
I was newly married and still in the "honeymoon mode" trying to work very hard to provide for my newly established family. I was a journalist but I carefully avoided controversial stories that could get me into trouble. I would not write a political story even if you paid me a million bob (and believe me a million bob was a lot of money in those heady days when a loaf bread cost less than Kshs 4/-).
I worked for a mzungu publication based in Westlands (that was the first of its' kind in Kenya) and had recently received a tip off about a story that involved a traffic policeman who had been deliberately ran over by a matatu driver. I was doing this reluctantly because even such a story was too controversial for me.
One afternoon I walked back into the office in Waumini House Annexe, Westlands to be told that there were some plain clothes policemen looking for me. I assumed that it was about the story I was chasing. I really wasn't frightened of policemen as I had grown up seeing them and interacting with them because my father was very senior police officer and still was at that time.
To cut a long story short I was arrested and driven all over Nairobi by police officers from the then dreaded Special branch. And at first, without knowing exactly what the whole issue was about, except that they asked me about another freelance journalist whom I was acquainted with, I was released and asked to report back the following day. This was at the dreaded Nyayo House building, twenty something floor.
I dutifully came back the next morning, which was a Friday and was locked up the whole weekend. They kept on shifting me from police station to police station. That is how I can authoritatively compare all police cells in the city, including little known ones like the one at the Railway station and the one at KICC (Kenyatta International Conference Centre). Central police has a long history of police brutuallity dating back to colonial times. It is just a few metres fro the place where in 1922 police opened fire on a whole group of detained Kikuyu natives—but that is a story for another day.
By this time I had discovered that I was supposed to be a Mwakenya suspect. Mwakenya for our younger readers was a group of brave Kenyans trying to resist the government of Moi in an underground clandestine way because opposition politics was then an outlawed thing punishable by detention without trial or by death.
I was very lucky because I was finally released on Monday evening and it had a lot to do with who my father was. The special branch did not have a shred of evidence linking me to Mwakenya and to this day I am not sure what it was all about whether it was a case of mistaken identity or just plain bad luck (I was too young to have made any enemies then) because many innocent Kenyans suffered terribly as so-called Mwakenya suspects.
That small incident had a major effect on my life and almost destroyed me. While in police custody I had received a message from my Dad that I was basically on my own. He was sure that I was innocent but there was nothing he could do about it because I was considered a "possible threat to the security of the state."
I was not tortured too badly except at one point during interrogation, I was asked to strip naked (which I did) and informed that the room where I was, many other suspects before me had been shot dead and their bodies taken to the mortuary because they did not co-operate. I broke easily (I was only a 22 year old then, recently out of school.) and begged the cold policemen for my life telling them that I would admit anything they wanted me to admit but that I was innocent and that my dead mother who had passed on when I was in primary school knew it and so did my current step mother.). My pleas must have touched them because they immediately stopped the interrogation and locked me up in a room at CID headquarters where all this was going on. This were the old wooden structures that burnt a few years later under some very mysterious circumstances.
An explanation here is in order so that nobody gets confused. I was initially arrested by special branch officers who asked me to return the next day. They then handed me over to the CID who were supposed to conduct further investigations. Hence my presence in that place where Health Minister Ngilu has spent most of the day today.
After my release, my character changed dramatically and I became fairly reckless. I started drinking very heavily and became a serious womanizer. The whole ordeal had shown me that staying on the right side of the law does not really help when you have a justice system like the one in Kenya. In the police cells I met many innocent people. You see when you are inside, people tell the truth and have no reason to lie. Criminals openly admitted what they had done and told stories of how they had outwitted the law for so long and how they were going to get out of the cells soon, when certain "negotiations" were complete.
I was treated with a lot of respect in the police cells because everybody knew that I was a "Mwakenya suspect." The police kept on bringing their friends to see me. "Mwanume wa wanaume" Men of men as they called me. A young man brave enough to defy the government of Kenya. I didn't waste my breath trying to explain that I was innocent.
The reason why I have given you this story is simply this. Our justice system which we are supposed to obey without question has created the vast majority of criminals that we see out there today and continues to do so. Many others who passed through the same ordeal and probably suffered more than me, must have automatically ended up in crime.
This I can assure you, there is no feeling that brings more bitterness in a human being than suffering for a crime that you did not commit.
That is the Kenyan justice system for you. As far as the police are concerned, you are guilty until proven innocent, or until you pay a bribe.
And these days it is worse. Last weekend a young Kenyan lady informed me of a case where this Kenyan who committed a grave crime against her and her family was jailed for 18 years. He did not even complete a year in prison. He was recently released under mysterious circumstances, or shall I say pretty normal circumstances as far as Kenya is concerned.
That is why I want to inform naïve Kenyans that the people still in prison are mostly the innocent, the ones that don't have the cash, and the "stupid". In Kenya the word "stupid" is often used on principled people who refuse to bribe. Admittedly a breed that is almost extinct in Kenya. When you understand the meaning of this word in Kenyaspeak, you can then say that Ngilu was "stupid" because she needn't have used so much energy and effort. All she would have done would have been to reach into her handbag and her purse… and presto, behold. Ann Njogu would have been free. No maneno no fuss.
By the way the young Kenyan lady who told the story of the man released from police custody says that she has now given her life to praying for justice in Kenya. Some pipedream, many of you would say, but I too dream of justice in Kenya… one day soon.
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Media Bill Sails Through Parliament
Yes, the media bill will soon be law. It has been passed in parliament and awaits the president's signature to become law. These are some of the laws that make the Kenyan justice system a joke. Laws passed, not for posterity but for the convenience of a few powerful people who have broken the law and want to use the same law to protect themselves.
You can debate this issue until the cows come home but the fact of the matter is that this new law has been designed to make it more difficult for journalists to expose corruption in high places. When combined with the notorious official secrets act, it makes the life of any investigative journalist in Kenya a serious nightmare and just impossible.
This government has been very keen on "establishing professionalism" amongst media practitioners while our rogue MPs go berserk awarding themselves hefty salaries and now a huge bonus.
The next parliament should immediately move to throw out this law and restore press freedom.
To me this is yet another "feather in the cap" of the 9th parliament.
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You can debate this issue until the cows come home but the fact of the matter is that this new law has been designed to make it more difficult for journalists to expose corruption in high places. When combined with the notorious official secrets act, it makes the life of any investigative journalist in Kenya a serious nightmare and just impossible.
This government has been very keen on "establishing professionalism" amongst media practitioners while our rogue MPs go berserk awarding themselves hefty salaries and now a huge bonus.
The next parliament should immediately move to throw out this law and restore press freedom.
To me this is yet another "feather in the cap" of the 9th parliament.
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The Untold story of the Mathare massacre and where the bodies were dumped
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Nasty men habits that women hate with a passion
What Grown Men Do When Their Wives Say, "Not tonight sweetie"
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