I have just had a rather fascinating discussion with a Kenyan who hails from Nyeri.
He got very upset when I jokingly declared that folks in Nyeri must be having it good just now.
The stories he told me shocked me and I half suspected that they may not all be truthful, although deep inside I suspect it is all true.
There was a time not too long ago when Nyeri was the bread basket of Central province. Folks were doing very well in this town. Now what has happened in the rest of the country has not spared Nyeri. People are desperate and ordinary folks are sleeping hungry. The rich tycoons in Nyeri are getting richer by the day, but the ordinary folks are getting poorer by the minute.
Little wonder that the political temperatures in the place are extremely high as was witnessed by recent Narc-Kenya branch elections.
So how will they vote in the elections, I asked. Most votes will of course go to Mwai Kibaki. One positive thing about the Kikuyu of Nyeri is that they are very keen on their sense of duty and the right thing to do. Still there is an increasing number of voters who will not vote on principal because they do not see anybody worth voting for. My informant insists that they could be as many as 5 per cent. These are mostly young people who have recently gotten their voter’s cards.
A big complaint these young people have against the incumbent and his fight against Mungiki is why he his fight is concentrated on the body of the snake when everybody knows the quickest way to kill a snake is to hit the head. In other words, the government knows the financiers of Mungiki, but the people being arrested are foot soldiers and young people looking to eck out a living during very difficult times.
I’m sure most of you will find this info about Nyeri as fascinating as I found it.
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
News Media Too Commercial As Major Mud Slide Story Is Shoved Aside In Favor Of Political Features
The commercial pressures our press are experiencing just now with the rapidly diminishing disposable income around these days, was clearly evident in today’s newspapers.
Yesterday there was a very serious landslide somewhere in Western province where some people have estimated the death toll to be over 50 people. The main newspapers ignored mostly ignored this big news on their front pages. The simple reason being (terrible as it is) it just won’t sell newspapers.
Read full story of mudslide here.
Sources close to this blogger say that the initial estimates of 18 deaths was too low and that eyewitnesses had seen several dozens of persons being buried in the mud.
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Yesterday there was a very serious landslide somewhere in Western province where some people have estimated the death toll to be over 50 people. The main newspapers ignored mostly ignored this big news on their front pages. The simple reason being (terrible as it is) it just won’t sell newspapers.
Read full story of mudslide here.
Sources close to this blogger say that the initial estimates of 18 deaths was too low and that eyewitnesses had seen several dozens of persons being buried in the mud.
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Kenyan lover says his girl friend rejected his bizarre gift because she was from another tribe
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The Pain Of Having A Luo Presidency In Kenya
Guest Post By Jerry Okungu
Maputo, Mozambique
Jim Hayo has been my good friend for many years. He is fun to be with particularly when one feels a bit under the weather. In his moments of excitement Jim Hayo can be extremely funny and entertaining.
A few years ago, soon after the 2002 elections, I met Hayo and a few of my friends at a night spot. True to his character, he took the center stage to give us a few sideshows besides what took us there. He started talking about life after death. He also intimated to us that he was a firm believer in reincarnation. Fortunately, the four of us around his table were all Luos therefore we easily followed the sequence of his jokes.
Hayo confessed to us that he was a very happy man. He was happy because he had come to terms with the reality of his condition! We got a little concerned and uneasy! What condition was he talking about? Did he have the big one? Two ladies sitting next to us were even more agitated. We held our breath. The usual Jim wasn’t bothered by our changed mood. He was laughing his head off. Then he looked at us. He didn’t understand why we wore gloomy faces.
Undeterred, he continued with his story. He told us that, he had only one wish to ask God the day he would die. He would tell God that should he be given a second chance to come back to life after death, and by mistake, God wanted him to come back as a Kikuyu, Luhya, Mkamba, Kalenjin, Indian or Muzungu, he would look God in the eye and say, “ Sir, thank you for the offer but I cannot accept your generosity. I would rather remain here dead than go back to earth in any form except as a Luo!”
Why was Jim Hayo so happy that night to tell us he was proud to be a Luo? In his analysis, being a Luo allowed him to enjoy his freedom of thought and expression as an individual. He was a free spirit. He liked living his life to the full without worrying about primitive accumulation of wealth which he would die leaving behind anyway. Being a Luo had made him love his parents, siblings, wife and children unconditionally.
As a Luo, he had suffered so much vilification by other tribes and successive regimes in Kenya such that he had accepted his condition. He had lost so many good jobs and opportunities on the basis of his tribe that he no longer cared being one.
In his working career, he had helped and even employed so many non-Luos in an attempt to be more Kenyan only later to be undermined by the same ungrateful charlatans.
He had grown up following Luo politics and witnessed so many tragedies befalling Luo politicians that he no longer felt sorry being a Luo. This series of stigmatization, being branded negative, oppositionist, rebel and anti- system had hardened his feelings and given him rare freedom only a Luo could enjoy!
He had accepted and learnt how to cope with his condition.
Jim Hayo is a very happy man. He is a proud and happy Luo. He is not rich but owns a car and a roof over his head. He has a beautiful professional for a wife. His children adore him. These are the little things that make Jim a happy man.
Of late I have been reading so much about Luo vilification in the local press so far away from home. As I read these articles from the likes of Makau Mutua and other commentators, I feel sad for Kenya. I feel sad that as other nations jostle for positions at international forums, our intellectuals and egocentric politicians preoccupy us with village politics that have no sense or direction.
As I sat down to write this article, I came across some exchanges between Gordon Teti of Winnipeg and Makau Mutua of Boston. The exchanges was about Raila Odinga, the enigma of Kenyan politics. Then I wondered why! Then it dawned on me that being in Mozambique was no reason to forget that I would soon go back to ethnic Kenya; where our tribe meant everything to us. Then I remembered something else; an old adage that says that ‘you can get the man out of the village but you can never get the village out of the man!’
What I am saying is this: The people on the front line against Raila’s election to the presidency are no peasants nor are they fools. These are the same people who shared in the struggle with the man, saw him vilified and tortured by past regimes and shared platforms with him during the heady days of the second liberation. On the other hand many of the so called liberators like Makau were merely masqueraders. They took off at the slightest opportunity. If anything they are economic exiles seeking fortunes in greener pastures, running away from their past and poverty back home.
Looked at another way, opposition to Raila presidency is a grand scheme to disenfranchise the entire Luo community in national politics. I have yet to hear any one of the Raila oppositionists say “I will support any other Luo except Raila”. To this brand of politicians, a Luo presidency is bad for them because they know they will be unmasked and their true colors will be exposed to the public. They are in no hurry to have the presidency occupied by principle, character and resolve.
If today Ruto, Uhuru, Kalonzo and Mudavadi can come together just four years later to unblinkingly declare Raila Odinga unelectable on account of his tribe, then it is possible that we haven’t seen the last of Judases in our own life time. If it is true Odinga lost his cool and shed tears for being branded an unelectable Luo politician, who can blame him for that especially if those utterances came from the same people he has rehabilitated and built up in the last four years? Why is it so difficult for any of the so called electable politicians from the good tribes to back Raila up for a change?
Who among these politicians can to day be elected without Raila Odinga’s backing?
Is it Kalonzo Musyoka, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto or Musalia Mudavadi? May be any one of the can or cannot. That will be for the Kenyan voters to decide. But in my opinion, it is the height of hypocrisy and base morality wrong to use public forums like the media to denigrate and demonize a whole community on account of one family.
What right do these Raila haters have to decide for Kenyans who to elect president of Kenya or not? Aren’t these types of labeling and stereotyping the cause of the Darfur conflicts? Didn’t Rwanda bleed because of these ethnic biases? What of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq? Can we afford to have short memories of yesterday’s tragedies?
Those who are vilifying Raila Odinga for being a Luo have really failed Kenyans and the second liberation. They have no moral authority to question Kibaki’s or Moi’s leadership. They have truly come out in their true colors for what they are; wolves in sheep’s clothes.
They are leaders who left their villages but the village in them remained intact in their souls.
At another level, it is about time ODM aspirants faced the reality that the coming elections are theirs to lose if they don’t stop playing cheap politics now. The reality is that none of the aspirants has ever mounted a presidential campaign except Raila and Uhuru. Uhuru by all accounts is already out of the race. He had no choice but to back out for obvious reasons. This race needs a candidate with some semblance of primary constituency. Uhuru with Kibaki around does not have that primary constituency. He has to bid his time in 2012 assuming there will be no stronger Mt. Kenya candidate to challenge him.
As things stand, ODM’s best bet is Raila because he has the capacity to mount an election campaign single handedly. He is also capable of forging fresh alliances in almost every province without depending on his detractors who pretend to be his comrades in ODM K. You cannot say so for any of the presidential aspirants. That is the bitter truth.
Finally, if you are an eye that once ailed and needed treatment, never frown at the eye of he, who cleaned you up, dressed you up and removed residue from you! If you do so, it may come back to haunt you one day.
jerry@nepadkenya.org
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Maputo, Mozambique
Jim Hayo has been my good friend for many years. He is fun to be with particularly when one feels a bit under the weather. In his moments of excitement Jim Hayo can be extremely funny and entertaining.
A few years ago, soon after the 2002 elections, I met Hayo and a few of my friends at a night spot. True to his character, he took the center stage to give us a few sideshows besides what took us there. He started talking about life after death. He also intimated to us that he was a firm believer in reincarnation. Fortunately, the four of us around his table were all Luos therefore we easily followed the sequence of his jokes.
Hayo confessed to us that he was a very happy man. He was happy because he had come to terms with the reality of his condition! We got a little concerned and uneasy! What condition was he talking about? Did he have the big one? Two ladies sitting next to us were even more agitated. We held our breath. The usual Jim wasn’t bothered by our changed mood. He was laughing his head off. Then he looked at us. He didn’t understand why we wore gloomy faces.
Undeterred, he continued with his story. He told us that, he had only one wish to ask God the day he would die. He would tell God that should he be given a second chance to come back to life after death, and by mistake, God wanted him to come back as a Kikuyu, Luhya, Mkamba, Kalenjin, Indian or Muzungu, he would look God in the eye and say, “ Sir, thank you for the offer but I cannot accept your generosity. I would rather remain here dead than go back to earth in any form except as a Luo!”
Why was Jim Hayo so happy that night to tell us he was proud to be a Luo? In his analysis, being a Luo allowed him to enjoy his freedom of thought and expression as an individual. He was a free spirit. He liked living his life to the full without worrying about primitive accumulation of wealth which he would die leaving behind anyway. Being a Luo had made him love his parents, siblings, wife and children unconditionally.
As a Luo, he had suffered so much vilification by other tribes and successive regimes in Kenya such that he had accepted his condition. He had lost so many good jobs and opportunities on the basis of his tribe that he no longer cared being one.
In his working career, he had helped and even employed so many non-Luos in an attempt to be more Kenyan only later to be undermined by the same ungrateful charlatans.
He had grown up following Luo politics and witnessed so many tragedies befalling Luo politicians that he no longer felt sorry being a Luo. This series of stigmatization, being branded negative, oppositionist, rebel and anti- system had hardened his feelings and given him rare freedom only a Luo could enjoy!
He had accepted and learnt how to cope with his condition.
Jim Hayo is a very happy man. He is a proud and happy Luo. He is not rich but owns a car and a roof over his head. He has a beautiful professional for a wife. His children adore him. These are the little things that make Jim a happy man.
Of late I have been reading so much about Luo vilification in the local press so far away from home. As I read these articles from the likes of Makau Mutua and other commentators, I feel sad for Kenya. I feel sad that as other nations jostle for positions at international forums, our intellectuals and egocentric politicians preoccupy us with village politics that have no sense or direction.
As I sat down to write this article, I came across some exchanges between Gordon Teti of Winnipeg and Makau Mutua of Boston. The exchanges was about Raila Odinga, the enigma of Kenyan politics. Then I wondered why! Then it dawned on me that being in Mozambique was no reason to forget that I would soon go back to ethnic Kenya; where our tribe meant everything to us. Then I remembered something else; an old adage that says that ‘you can get the man out of the village but you can never get the village out of the man!’
What I am saying is this: The people on the front line against Raila’s election to the presidency are no peasants nor are they fools. These are the same people who shared in the struggle with the man, saw him vilified and tortured by past regimes and shared platforms with him during the heady days of the second liberation. On the other hand many of the so called liberators like Makau were merely masqueraders. They took off at the slightest opportunity. If anything they are economic exiles seeking fortunes in greener pastures, running away from their past and poverty back home.
Looked at another way, opposition to Raila presidency is a grand scheme to disenfranchise the entire Luo community in national politics. I have yet to hear any one of the Raila oppositionists say “I will support any other Luo except Raila”. To this brand of politicians, a Luo presidency is bad for them because they know they will be unmasked and their true colors will be exposed to the public. They are in no hurry to have the presidency occupied by principle, character and resolve.
If today Ruto, Uhuru, Kalonzo and Mudavadi can come together just four years later to unblinkingly declare Raila Odinga unelectable on account of his tribe, then it is possible that we haven’t seen the last of Judases in our own life time. If it is true Odinga lost his cool and shed tears for being branded an unelectable Luo politician, who can blame him for that especially if those utterances came from the same people he has rehabilitated and built up in the last four years? Why is it so difficult for any of the so called electable politicians from the good tribes to back Raila up for a change?
Who among these politicians can to day be elected without Raila Odinga’s backing?
Is it Kalonzo Musyoka, Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto or Musalia Mudavadi? May be any one of the can or cannot. That will be for the Kenyan voters to decide. But in my opinion, it is the height of hypocrisy and base morality wrong to use public forums like the media to denigrate and demonize a whole community on account of one family.
What right do these Raila haters have to decide for Kenyans who to elect president of Kenya or not? Aren’t these types of labeling and stereotyping the cause of the Darfur conflicts? Didn’t Rwanda bleed because of these ethnic biases? What of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq? Can we afford to have short memories of yesterday’s tragedies?
Those who are vilifying Raila Odinga for being a Luo have really failed Kenyans and the second liberation. They have no moral authority to question Kibaki’s or Moi’s leadership. They have truly come out in their true colors for what they are; wolves in sheep’s clothes.
They are leaders who left their villages but the village in them remained intact in their souls.
At another level, it is about time ODM aspirants faced the reality that the coming elections are theirs to lose if they don’t stop playing cheap politics now. The reality is that none of the aspirants has ever mounted a presidential campaign except Raila and Uhuru. Uhuru by all accounts is already out of the race. He had no choice but to back out for obvious reasons. This race needs a candidate with some semblance of primary constituency. Uhuru with Kibaki around does not have that primary constituency. He has to bid his time in 2012 assuming there will be no stronger Mt. Kenya candidate to challenge him.
As things stand, ODM’s best bet is Raila because he has the capacity to mount an election campaign single handedly. He is also capable of forging fresh alliances in almost every province without depending on his detractors who pretend to be his comrades in ODM K. You cannot say so for any of the presidential aspirants. That is the bitter truth.
Finally, if you are an eye that once ailed and needed treatment, never frown at the eye of he, who cleaned you up, dressed you up and removed residue from you! If you do so, it may come back to haunt you one day.
jerry@nepadkenya.org
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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Seeds Of Tribalism In Kenya: History Has All The Evidence
The Kenyatta administration clearly did the most damage in dividing the country along tribal lines and destroying all the national unity that had been achieved in the run up to independence. The historical evidence is there for all to see.
Did you know that for instance that President Kibaki used to represent a Nairobi constituency in parliament? I believe it was what we know today as Makadara constituency.
Tom Mboya also represented a Nairobi constituency. The manner in which the Kenyatta kitchen cabinet/mafia destroyed his political base in Nairobi, along tribal lines, made many Nairobi politicians at the time very nervous and many opted for the safety of their tribal seats back in the rural area. Mwai Kibaki was just one of them.
This single factor had a major effect in ensuring that tribal politics was forever entrenched in Kenya.
It is interesting that people like Njoroge Mungai stuck to Nairobi constituencies, although his situation was unique in that Nairobi's Dagoretti constituency is part of the greater Kiambu district where Mungai and the entire kitchen cabinet hailed from. So technically-speaking it was a rural seat and probably still is when you compare it to all the other parliamentary seats in Nairobi.
It was this kind of politics, pioneered by President Kenyatta's inner circle that destroyed situations like what had been witnessed in 1957 when during the first elections in Kenya involving Native Africans, Tom Mboya, a Luo, beat another Kikuyu in a constituency, Nairobi, where the vast majority of voters were Kikuyu. In fact Munyua Waiyaki (the Kikuyu he beat) was not even second. Second was another Luo, Arwings Khodek, a lawyer who broke the Kenyan law then by getting married to a Briton. The penal code at that time did not allow sexual intercourse between an African and a European. Khodek "committed the offence" in Britain and had therefore to make special legal arrangements on his return to Kenya.
Interestingly the Mwai Kibaki administration has proved to be similar to the Kenyatta administration in many ways.
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Did you know that for instance that President Kibaki used to represent a Nairobi constituency in parliament? I believe it was what we know today as Makadara constituency.
Tom Mboya also represented a Nairobi constituency. The manner in which the Kenyatta kitchen cabinet/mafia destroyed his political base in Nairobi, along tribal lines, made many Nairobi politicians at the time very nervous and many opted for the safety of their tribal seats back in the rural area. Mwai Kibaki was just one of them.
This single factor had a major effect in ensuring that tribal politics was forever entrenched in Kenya.
It is interesting that people like Njoroge Mungai stuck to Nairobi constituencies, although his situation was unique in that Nairobi's Dagoretti constituency is part of the greater Kiambu district where Mungai and the entire kitchen cabinet hailed from. So technically-speaking it was a rural seat and probably still is when you compare it to all the other parliamentary seats in Nairobi.
It was this kind of politics, pioneered by President Kenyatta's inner circle that destroyed situations like what had been witnessed in 1957 when during the first elections in Kenya involving Native Africans, Tom Mboya, a Luo, beat another Kikuyu in a constituency, Nairobi, where the vast majority of voters were Kikuyu. In fact Munyua Waiyaki (the Kikuyu he beat) was not even second. Second was another Luo, Arwings Khodek, a lawyer who broke the Kenyan law then by getting married to a Briton. The penal code at that time did not allow sexual intercourse between an African and a European. Khodek "committed the offence" in Britain and had therefore to make special legal arrangements on his return to Kenya.
Interestingly the Mwai Kibaki administration has proved to be similar to the Kenyatta administration in many ways.
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Have You Realized This Shocker?
If what the son of Tom Mboya said in his statement first released in this blog yesterday is true (heavily quoting evidence gathered by David Goldsworthy in his book Tom Mboya: The Man Kenya Wanted To Forget, then it means that a person involved with the murder (and probably a suspect) of Tom Mboya was the chief prosecutor in a case to try the man who pulled the trigger on the gun that felled this Kenyan hero.
Now that is justice for you, Kenyan-style.
Read full statement by Lucas Mboya.
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Now that is justice for you, Kenyan-style.
Read full statement by Lucas Mboya.
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How Cabinet Ministers In Kenya Use Email
Many Kenyan voters who are now fairly familiar with mobile phones (many of them are more complex to operate than a simple email address) have no idea how most of their respected elected leaders operate with the most important communication and information tool of this century—the Internet.
This is what happens in some of your cabinet minister's offices.
Minister walks into the office (usually at 3pm or 4pm after a long leisurely 5 course lunch at some hotel at the expense of the tax payer of course) and secretary hands him a print out of an email that has arrived for his attention.
Minister writes down reply in long hand in broken English and the sort of grammar that a Standard Two pupil would correct.
Hands over the scrap of paper to his overworked secretary who types in the message in some semblance of the English language and opens the minister's email account and sends back the reply. Secretary checks if the Minister has received any new mail. Sees a cheeky email from a "young woman admirer" from K-street. Makes her day as she reads it slowly savoring every detail and wonders whether it is worth the risk forwarding the email to Kumekucha so that Kenyans get a glimpse of what their respected leaders are all about. The girl talks about their activities the last time (NOT leaving out any graphic detail) they met and says she is looking forward to the next encounter with great anticipation (of course does not mention it is the cash reward that she is really anticipating). Secretary comes back to her senses and decides against exposing he boss and hits the delete button.
I kid you not. A large percentage (several very senior cabinet ministers) of the GNU operate like this.
The truth is that if anybody were to assess the computer skills of the Kenyan cabinet, they would be shocked. To start with a number of well-known ministers fear to come too close to a computer. Do they fear it will explode at some point or something?
Is it any wonder that the quality of debate on bills coming before the house is so poor? 5 minutes on the Internet would have given members the positive side of altering our laws to declare the hangman in Kenya redundant and even if the bill was finally defeated, the quality of debate would have been much higher.
As it is, we all know the bills that the 9th parliament are most interested in. Yep, the ones that increase their remuneration and benefits. And when such bills are slow in being passed because the legislators are too busy having no quorum in the house to push forward much business in the house, they start drawing the cash in advance.
I told a friend yesterday that what the 9th parliament has done is like me going into the house of the friend and accessing his wallet to "borrow" most of the content, knowing that I will ask him to lend me money later.
It is just too dangerous to retain a single one of these "experienced" legislators in the house to show the ropes to the new legislators their habits may just rub off.
P.S. Just as a matter of interest. The Bill Clinton administration used email extensively to get a lot done much quicker. We live in a very troubled world and the convenience of technology is supposed to give us the respite required to spend more time thinking and reflecting closely before making decisions. It is also supposed to encourage us to think out of the box. Extra-ordinary problems can only be solved by extra-ordinary ideas and solutions.
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This is what happens in some of your cabinet minister's offices.
Minister walks into the office (usually at 3pm or 4pm after a long leisurely 5 course lunch at some hotel at the expense of the tax payer of course) and secretary hands him a print out of an email that has arrived for his attention.
Minister writes down reply in long hand in broken English and the sort of grammar that a Standard Two pupil would correct.
Hands over the scrap of paper to his overworked secretary who types in the message in some semblance of the English language and opens the minister's email account and sends back the reply. Secretary checks if the Minister has received any new mail. Sees a cheeky email from a "young woman admirer" from K-street. Makes her day as she reads it slowly savoring every detail and wonders whether it is worth the risk forwarding the email to Kumekucha so that Kenyans get a glimpse of what their respected leaders are all about. The girl talks about their activities the last time (NOT leaving out any graphic detail) they met and says she is looking forward to the next encounter with great anticipation (of course does not mention it is the cash reward that she is really anticipating). Secretary comes back to her senses and decides against exposing he boss and hits the delete button.
I kid you not. A large percentage (several very senior cabinet ministers) of the GNU operate like this.
The truth is that if anybody were to assess the computer skills of the Kenyan cabinet, they would be shocked. To start with a number of well-known ministers fear to come too close to a computer. Do they fear it will explode at some point or something?
Is it any wonder that the quality of debate on bills coming before the house is so poor? 5 minutes on the Internet would have given members the positive side of altering our laws to declare the hangman in Kenya redundant and even if the bill was finally defeated, the quality of debate would have been much higher.
As it is, we all know the bills that the 9th parliament are most interested in. Yep, the ones that increase their remuneration and benefits. And when such bills are slow in being passed because the legislators are too busy having no quorum in the house to push forward much business in the house, they start drawing the cash in advance.
I told a friend yesterday that what the 9th parliament has done is like me going into the house of the friend and accessing his wallet to "borrow" most of the content, knowing that I will ask him to lend me money later.
It is just too dangerous to retain a single one of these "experienced" legislators in the house to show the ropes to the new legislators their habits may just rub off.
P.S. Just as a matter of interest. The Bill Clinton administration used email extensively to get a lot done much quicker. We live in a very troubled world and the convenience of technology is supposed to give us the respite required to spend more time thinking and reflecting closely before making decisions. It is also supposed to encourage us to think out of the box. Extra-ordinary problems can only be solved by extra-ordinary ideas and solutions.
Hot deals for Kenyans: Exchange what you don't need any more for something valuable you want.
Kenyan lover says his girl friend rejected his bizarre gift because she was from another tribe
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Kenneth Matiba's Presidential Campaign In 1992: What Can It Teach Kenyans For 2007?
I am a voracious reader despite my rather hectic schedule. Currently I am reading the much acclaimed David Halberstam book; The Reckoning (published in 1986) which details the war between Detroit's Ford Motor Company and Japan's Nissan.
Throughout my career as a jua kali entrepreneur cum writer, I have tried to model a lot of what I have done while closely studying the life of Henry Ford, the man who changed the world forever with his mass-produced cars. So the guy is no stranger to me. However in my reading today I came across some telling statistics about the man that I would like to share with you.
The main reason behind Ford's wealth that transformed a penniless kid starting out with less than a dollar in his pocket to a multi-millionaire was the Model T Ford and the modern concept of mass production. Ford ended up selling 15,456,868 units of the Model T. When he started manufacturing, it took him 12 and a half hours to produce one unit of the car. His ambition was to produce one car every minute, a goal that he managed to achieve after 12 years. By 1925 he was producing one car every 10 seconds.
My point is that whatever the human brain sets out to achieve it can achieve.
What has been occupying my brain a lot for a number years now is how to transform our beloved motherland into the great country it is supposed to be.
One thing you will quickly realize when you start thinking along these lines is that to achieve it, you need a lot of radical new ideas. It cannot be done by playing it safe or clinging to the old way of thinking.
Legend has it that Ford once ordered his engineers to produce an engine with a total number of cylinders that had been unheard of in those days. The story goes that after a few weeks the frustrated engineers came back to him and told him the task he had assigned them was impossible to achieve. Ford told them to get back to work on it. The story has a surprising ending. When the engineers were forced to abandon their mindset, which was that it was impossible, they finally managed to achieve the goal that Ford had set for them.
Kenyans have all sorts of mindset about politics in the country and most of these ideas are not even backed by historical evidence. Let me give just one example. It is widely believed that it is impossible to win a presidential election in Kenya without countrywide campaigns in virtually every province. President Kibaki, the first Kenyan to be propelled into State house by direct popular vote did not quite do it like that. After his road accident, he did not engage in any campaigning until he was sworn into office still in great pain and on a wheelchair.
In 1992, Kenneth Njindo Matiba came second to Moi, although there are those who believe that he won those elections, like this blogger. (You just have to carefully study the votes Moi got in opposition strongholds to realize that there was something wrong. For instance he got 6,000 votes in Dagoretti constituency, more than the Kanu candidate in that constituency, Clement Gachanja, got. The truth of what used to happen in those days was revealed to Kenyans during the 2002 elections when ballot boxes already staffed with marked presidential votes were discovered somewhere in Central province.)
Matiba, because of his health issues did not hold a single public campaign meeting anywhere in the country and yet he won those elections according to me, and many other analysts.
The 1992 Matiba campaign has not been studied in any great detail by political analysts. This is sad because there is plenty to be learnt from that memorable bid for the presidency. To start with Matiba's greatest strength as a manager throughout his career was his uncanny ability to attract extra-ordinary talent around himself, mainly because he went out of his way to pay very well for it as well as appreciate it. Matiba's campaign team was no doubt exceptional in many ways.
Kenneth Matiba's campaign hinged mainly on word of mouth and his full colour campaign posters, something that was still relatively new in those days—until then presidential candidates were still using mostly black and white posters. His shrewd campaign staff also made a lot of use of matatu drivers and touts to spread his message, which proved to be highly effective. A few other factors played to his advantage. The fact that he had been detained for openly campaigning for political pluralism at the height of Kanu's mama na baba one-party dictatorship had propelled him into a national political figure.
This politicians campaign proved once again that the most important thing in marketing and politics is not advertising (country-wide campaigns), but how the candidate is positioned in the minds of voters. What is the first thing that comes to the mind of the voter when you mention that particular candidate?
There are plenty of political similarities between Kenneth Matiba and former ethics PS John Githongo.
My fellow countrymen, this is the year that we badly need to get rid of our mindset about several issues. There is no way we can experience genuine change without doing this. There is also no way we will be able to see change without completely sweeping parliament clean of past and present characters who have been there and done little or nothing for the people. We need a totally new 210 faces plus nominated MPs and new constituency MPs—if the bill is passed. If we leave a few old members for continuity, then what we will be doing is leaving the "heart of parliament" in place and we cannot do this and expect the change we want.
Let's face it, the current crop of leaders are from a different time and are completely out of touch with the unique time in the history of mankind in which we live. For instance, you will never find them here in the blogosphere with us or on the net. In fact many of them fear to come anywhere near a computer (see my other post of today).
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Throughout my career as a jua kali entrepreneur cum writer, I have tried to model a lot of what I have done while closely studying the life of Henry Ford, the man who changed the world forever with his mass-produced cars. So the guy is no stranger to me. However in my reading today I came across some telling statistics about the man that I would like to share with you.
The main reason behind Ford's wealth that transformed a penniless kid starting out with less than a dollar in his pocket to a multi-millionaire was the Model T Ford and the modern concept of mass production. Ford ended up selling 15,456,868 units of the Model T. When he started manufacturing, it took him 12 and a half hours to produce one unit of the car. His ambition was to produce one car every minute, a goal that he managed to achieve after 12 years. By 1925 he was producing one car every 10 seconds.
My point is that whatever the human brain sets out to achieve it can achieve.
What has been occupying my brain a lot for a number years now is how to transform our beloved motherland into the great country it is supposed to be.
One thing you will quickly realize when you start thinking along these lines is that to achieve it, you need a lot of radical new ideas. It cannot be done by playing it safe or clinging to the old way of thinking.
Legend has it that Ford once ordered his engineers to produce an engine with a total number of cylinders that had been unheard of in those days. The story goes that after a few weeks the frustrated engineers came back to him and told him the task he had assigned them was impossible to achieve. Ford told them to get back to work on it. The story has a surprising ending. When the engineers were forced to abandon their mindset, which was that it was impossible, they finally managed to achieve the goal that Ford had set for them.
Kenyans have all sorts of mindset about politics in the country and most of these ideas are not even backed by historical evidence. Let me give just one example. It is widely believed that it is impossible to win a presidential election in Kenya without countrywide campaigns in virtually every province. President Kibaki, the first Kenyan to be propelled into State house by direct popular vote did not quite do it like that. After his road accident, he did not engage in any campaigning until he was sworn into office still in great pain and on a wheelchair.
In 1992, Kenneth Njindo Matiba came second to Moi, although there are those who believe that he won those elections, like this blogger. (You just have to carefully study the votes Moi got in opposition strongholds to realize that there was something wrong. For instance he got 6,000 votes in Dagoretti constituency, more than the Kanu candidate in that constituency, Clement Gachanja, got. The truth of what used to happen in those days was revealed to Kenyans during the 2002 elections when ballot boxes already staffed with marked presidential votes were discovered somewhere in Central province.)
Matiba, because of his health issues did not hold a single public campaign meeting anywhere in the country and yet he won those elections according to me, and many other analysts.
The 1992 Matiba campaign has not been studied in any great detail by political analysts. This is sad because there is plenty to be learnt from that memorable bid for the presidency. To start with Matiba's greatest strength as a manager throughout his career was his uncanny ability to attract extra-ordinary talent around himself, mainly because he went out of his way to pay very well for it as well as appreciate it. Matiba's campaign team was no doubt exceptional in many ways.
Kenneth Matiba's campaign hinged mainly on word of mouth and his full colour campaign posters, something that was still relatively new in those days—until then presidential candidates were still using mostly black and white posters. His shrewd campaign staff also made a lot of use of matatu drivers and touts to spread his message, which proved to be highly effective. A few other factors played to his advantage. The fact that he had been detained for openly campaigning for political pluralism at the height of Kanu's mama na baba one-party dictatorship had propelled him into a national political figure.
This politicians campaign proved once again that the most important thing in marketing and politics is not advertising (country-wide campaigns), but how the candidate is positioned in the minds of voters. What is the first thing that comes to the mind of the voter when you mention that particular candidate?
There are plenty of political similarities between Kenneth Matiba and former ethics PS John Githongo.
My fellow countrymen, this is the year that we badly need to get rid of our mindset about several issues. There is no way we can experience genuine change without doing this. There is also no way we will be able to see change without completely sweeping parliament clean of past and present characters who have been there and done little or nothing for the people. We need a totally new 210 faces plus nominated MPs and new constituency MPs—if the bill is passed. If we leave a few old members for continuity, then what we will be doing is leaving the "heart of parliament" in place and we cannot do this and expect the change we want.
Let's face it, the current crop of leaders are from a different time and are completely out of touch with the unique time in the history of mankind in which we live. For instance, you will never find them here in the blogosphere with us or on the net. In fact many of them fear to come anywhere near a computer (see my other post of today).
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Mboya Son's Statement Today: Why Solving This Murder Is The Starting Point For A New Kenya
If you didn't read the explosive statement today by Tom Mboya's Son naming his real killers, read it here.
There is something very important that I would like to clarify.
Firstly, to make my point clearer, I will be forced to reveal one of my secret weapons. Although, as I have said here very often in the past, Mrs Kumekucha hates politics with a capital "H", I usually use her to gauge the response of the Kikuyu community to various hot political issues. And it has proved to be very accurate because true enough her exact honest reaction is exactly what I will end up encountering here in this blog and elsewhere from other members of the community.
Today I was very nice to her and did a few things that I knew usually make her happy and put her in a good mood (I really love the woman to bits, even after 20 plus years). Then I presented to her the long revealing letter from Tom Mboya's son (published here) about his father's killers.
Her first response surprised me; "Is this a strategy to help Raila Odinga win sympathy votes?"
I then quietly explained to her what I am about to explain to all you good folks.
The most tragic thing for those who knew Tom Mboya was the fact that when he was alive he openly detested tribal politics and anything that would reduce him from the national leader he was and tie him down to his community. In fact the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga successfully portrayed him amongst the Luo as a traitor because Kenyatta used him to finish him (Oginga Odinga) politically. So the only time the Luo rose up in defense of Mboya was after his assassination which deeply angered the community. And quite rightly so. Murder is never in good taste but this particular one was in extra bad taste because until that moment, Mboya had done nothing but built and support the Kenyatta government even when he did not entirely agree with their increasingly selfish and tribal-based policies and agenda.
So anybody who labels TJ (as Tom Mboya was affectionately referred to by his admirers) a tribal leader is doing great disservice to the memory of the man and ignoring historical facts. And demanding for the truth has got nothing to do with Raila Odinga or his campaign for the presidency. The two politicians (with all due respect to Raila) are NOT on the same level. Mboya was miles ahead.
Personally I am delighted over what has happened today, that finally the Mboya family has spoken up after so many years and that they have chosen Kumekucha as the place to break their silence. I am deeply honoured and yet humbled at the same time because TJ was and will remain a giant of Kenyan politics.
I will repeat what I have often said here. When somebody loses their way, there is no way they can get back on the right road without retracing their steps to the place where they took a wrong turn.
Kenya took a wrong turn on that July 5th 1969 afternoon. Because as Lucas Mboya has demonstrated in his submission, the killing of Mboya was really the "removal" of an obstacle that stood in the way of those who were rapidly enriching themselves at the expense of the masses through very corrupt means. That was what changed JM Kariuki (who had already benefited from the system) and for him something snapped inside him after that July day and he turned into the only remaining opponent of the ruling class, busy amassing incredible wealth to themselves and using the tribal card to protect themselves politically. That was why JM too had to die in March 1975.
For Kenya to get back on track, the murder of Mboya must be resolved. This is the murder that we must deal with first before we even tackle the JM and Robert Ouko murders amongst others. My dear fellow Kenyans, please believe me when I say that the only way forward is to go back to July 5th 1969. That is the only place from whence the new Kenya we all hunger for can emerge.
I support 1000 per cent what Lucas Mboya said about tribalism and corruption being close twins, where one feeds from the other. I have said the same thing in this blog many times before.
Fellow Kenyans our beloved nation stands at a crossroad, and a very crucial one at that. The choices are simple. We either continue to bury our head in the sand or we demand the truth, starting from July 5th 1969. Some greedy few individuals made a choice for the nation on that fateful day based on all that had happened right from before independence. We must undo what they did by laying it bare and demanding justice for the death of Tom Mboya. I kindly appeal for your support in this noble campaign (see this post to discover how you can help).
.
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There is something very important that I would like to clarify.
Firstly, to make my point clearer, I will be forced to reveal one of my secret weapons. Although, as I have said here very often in the past, Mrs Kumekucha hates politics with a capital "H", I usually use her to gauge the response of the Kikuyu community to various hot political issues. And it has proved to be very accurate because true enough her exact honest reaction is exactly what I will end up encountering here in this blog and elsewhere from other members of the community.
Today I was very nice to her and did a few things that I knew usually make her happy and put her in a good mood (I really love the woman to bits, even after 20 plus years). Then I presented to her the long revealing letter from Tom Mboya's son (published here) about his father's killers.
Her first response surprised me; "Is this a strategy to help Raila Odinga win sympathy votes?"
I then quietly explained to her what I am about to explain to all you good folks.
The most tragic thing for those who knew Tom Mboya was the fact that when he was alive he openly detested tribal politics and anything that would reduce him from the national leader he was and tie him down to his community. In fact the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga successfully portrayed him amongst the Luo as a traitor because Kenyatta used him to finish him (Oginga Odinga) politically. So the only time the Luo rose up in defense of Mboya was after his assassination which deeply angered the community. And quite rightly so. Murder is never in good taste but this particular one was in extra bad taste because until that moment, Mboya had done nothing but built and support the Kenyatta government even when he did not entirely agree with their increasingly selfish and tribal-based policies and agenda.
So anybody who labels TJ (as Tom Mboya was affectionately referred to by his admirers) a tribal leader is doing great disservice to the memory of the man and ignoring historical facts. And demanding for the truth has got nothing to do with Raila Odinga or his campaign for the presidency. The two politicians (with all due respect to Raila) are NOT on the same level. Mboya was miles ahead.
Personally I am delighted over what has happened today, that finally the Mboya family has spoken up after so many years and that they have chosen Kumekucha as the place to break their silence. I am deeply honoured and yet humbled at the same time because TJ was and will remain a giant of Kenyan politics.
I will repeat what I have often said here. When somebody loses their way, there is no way they can get back on the right road without retracing their steps to the place where they took a wrong turn.
Kenya took a wrong turn on that July 5th 1969 afternoon. Because as Lucas Mboya has demonstrated in his submission, the killing of Mboya was really the "removal" of an obstacle that stood in the way of those who were rapidly enriching themselves at the expense of the masses through very corrupt means. That was what changed JM Kariuki (who had already benefited from the system) and for him something snapped inside him after that July day and he turned into the only remaining opponent of the ruling class, busy amassing incredible wealth to themselves and using the tribal card to protect themselves politically. That was why JM too had to die in March 1975.
For Kenya to get back on track, the murder of Mboya must be resolved. This is the murder that we must deal with first before we even tackle the JM and Robert Ouko murders amongst others. My dear fellow Kenyans, please believe me when I say that the only way forward is to go back to July 5th 1969. That is the only place from whence the new Kenya we all hunger for can emerge.
I support 1000 per cent what Lucas Mboya said about tribalism and corruption being close twins, where one feeds from the other. I have said the same thing in this blog many times before.
Fellow Kenyans our beloved nation stands at a crossroad, and a very crucial one at that. The choices are simple. We either continue to bury our head in the sand or we demand the truth, starting from July 5th 1969. Some greedy few individuals made a choice for the nation on that fateful day based on all that had happened right from before independence. We must undo what they did by laying it bare and demanding justice for the death of Tom Mboya. I kindly appeal for your support in this noble campaign (see this post to discover how you can help).
.
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Do You Want To Help Expose Tom Mboya's Real Killers?
I must admit that I went through the same path of discovery that Lucas went through discovering about this great man, Joseph Odhiambo Thomas Mboya. I was a five years 6 months and 6 days old youngster living in Kakamega when he was gunned down. My father was at the Kisumu show when news of Mboya's shooting in Nairobi came through and a policeman colleague who happened to be a Luo cruelly quipped to him; "That was long overdue." Meaning that he had been a hunted man for a long time.
Today I launch a campaign to generate support from Kenyans to demand that the government opens an investigation into the manner in which the issue of Tom Mboya's murder was handled and to reveal to Kenyans the identity of "the big man" mentioned in the trial of Nahashon Njenga, the man said to have pulled the trigger on the gun that felled Mboya.
The president himself knows a lot because although he had nothing to do with the murder he was a member of the cabinet and in the faction that was against Tom Mboya and must therefore be privy to a lot of information.
My campaign is simply titled "Kenyans Want To Know Who Ordered Tom Mboya's Assassination."
Visit the campaign page and leave a comment now;
Help Expose Tom Mboya's Real Killers To Halt Future Political Assassinations In Kenya
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Today I launch a campaign to generate support from Kenyans to demand that the government opens an investigation into the manner in which the issue of Tom Mboya's murder was handled and to reveal to Kenyans the identity of "the big man" mentioned in the trial of Nahashon Njenga, the man said to have pulled the trigger on the gun that felled Mboya.
The president himself knows a lot because although he had nothing to do with the murder he was a member of the cabinet and in the faction that was against Tom Mboya and must therefore be privy to a lot of information.
My campaign is simply titled "Kenyans Want To Know Who Ordered Tom Mboya's Assassination."
Visit the campaign page and leave a comment now;
Help Expose Tom Mboya's Real Killers To Halt Future Political Assassinations In Kenya
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9th Parliament Gives Kenyans Yet Another Reason To Vote The Whole Lot Out Of Parliament
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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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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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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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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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.
I am seeking legal advice to name names. Watch this space.
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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
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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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