A recent survey I have just completed carrying out has given me results that have completely taken me by surprise. They reveal that many people who read Kumekucha believe that associating themselves with the blog endangers their lives at worst and can get them in big trouble and behind bars at the very least.
The words of one respondent are still ringing in my ears;
"I always look over my shoulder imagining that some guys in suits will burst into the room the next minute and arrest me. The information you reveal here is just too dangerous."
It seems that a whooping 70 per cent of the people who regularly visit Kumekucha are too frightened to leave a comment because they are aware that ip addresses can very easily be traced.
Even more interesting is the fact that even some Kenyans in the diasporas fear to be associated with Kumekucha because they will have to return home at some point.
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One advertiser who left their mobile telephone number in an advertisement by mistake pleaded with me to delete it immediately.
So is all this fear justified?
Absolutely not. If Kumekucha plans to revel his true identity to all and sundry soon, then it must be surely safe. Although there are people who already know my true identity already.
Then there is the fact that if everybody who read Kumekucha were to be traced and put behind bars it would mean arresting tens of thousands of Kenyans all over the world. In fact it would cripple media houses in Kenya because most of the newsrooms at Nation and Standard amongst other media would end up behind bars.
It is clear that the years of Nyayo House torture chambers and detention without trial, not to mention people disappearing in Ngong Forest have taken their toll on many Kenyans. We will need to rise above these fears if we stand any chance of taking our country back.
It is apt to leave you with this lesson from how they train elephants for the circus.
When they are young they are tied to a stake that is then hammered firmly to the ground. When the elephant is young it tries all it can to get away and is unable to. But guess what, when it grows older and stronger, it still believes that it is not worth pulling at the stake, after all it never worked all the years, why should it work now. And yet by this time a simple yank from the elephant would free it.
Ukweli Sasa!!
P.S. My research also showed that at least 40 per cent of the people leaving comments could be government agents, including some very popular well known commentator or two. This explains the low quality of debate, especially on issues that are sensitive to the government.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
Government Receives Resounding Defeat In New Constituencies Bill
But What About The 50 Seats For Women?
The fact that the government of national unity had a closed-door meeting immediately after receiving a terrible defeat in a crucial bill that was supposed to pave way for the addition of new constituencies speaks volumes.
It confirms that the new constituencies (40 had been planned) were a crucial part of President Kibaki's re-election plan. Remember Hon Martha Karua's words at an unguarded moment, she said; "new constituencies are a must!"
It now emerges that the government's strategy was to sugar-coat the new constituencies bill with the rider of 50 new seats for women. It was a good idea on paper—the operative word here being "on paper." I keep on saying that politics is does not work with good on paper ideas and I keep asking who is the President's political strategist? Do they really know what they are doing?
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The reasoning was that being so close to the polls MPs would not dare risk antagonizing the electorate by rejecting something as popular as 50 new seats in parliament for women. It was a terrible miscalculation. What made things even worse was the fact that the recently passed media bill had backfired so badly and painted the Kibaki administration in such poor light. MPs had just peered out of the house to see symbolically "gagged" journalists peacefully assembled outside the house. Then to add insult to injury the manner in which the bill had been rushed into the house without much thought being put into building a consensus. All this conspired to put most legislators in a very bad mood against the government side by the time the bill landed on the floor of the house.
So what are the repercussions?
It is clear that the President's re-election strategy has hit a snag. There is now no legal way to increase the constituencies before the elections. The intricate well-laid plans now need to be adjusted and I am sorry to say this, if it is the same team doing things, the opposition, divided or not have got absolutely nothing to worry about.
But to the legislators in the 9th parliament, they have given their challengers one more powerful campaign slogan. The parliament that rejected women.
Here are the "achievements" of the 9th parliament so far;
1) The parliament that passed unprecedented remuneration increases for MPs as well as perks, even as the rest of the country went through hardships and starvation.
2) The house that passed the ill-advised Media Bill with a killer clause designed to end press freedom in Kenya.
3) The House that rejected new seats for women.
4) The House with the worst attendance record for important debates, to date.
5) The house that covered up the findings of its' own select committee meant to probe the murder of former foreign affairs minister Dr Robert Ouko.
6) The house that had saunas and other luxuries installed for MPs which further made them inaccessible to the people who elected them because Kumekucha has ascertained that most of the time constituents are told their MP is not in, they are relaxing in the Sauna in their office complex in the former continental house. Etc. (space does not allow us to carry all the sins of the 9th parliament).
Dear Kenyans, let us do ourselves a big favor and vote the WHOLE LOT out in December.
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The fact that the government of national unity had a closed-door meeting immediately after receiving a terrible defeat in a crucial bill that was supposed to pave way for the addition of new constituencies speaks volumes.
It confirms that the new constituencies (40 had been planned) were a crucial part of President Kibaki's re-election plan. Remember Hon Martha Karua's words at an unguarded moment, she said; "new constituencies are a must!"
It now emerges that the government's strategy was to sugar-coat the new constituencies bill with the rider of 50 new seats for women. It was a good idea on paper—the operative word here being "on paper." I keep on saying that politics is does not work with good on paper ideas and I keep asking who is the President's political strategist? Do they really know what they are doing?
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The reasoning was that being so close to the polls MPs would not dare risk antagonizing the electorate by rejecting something as popular as 50 new seats in parliament for women. It was a terrible miscalculation. What made things even worse was the fact that the recently passed media bill had backfired so badly and painted the Kibaki administration in such poor light. MPs had just peered out of the house to see symbolically "gagged" journalists peacefully assembled outside the house. Then to add insult to injury the manner in which the bill had been rushed into the house without much thought being put into building a consensus. All this conspired to put most legislators in a very bad mood against the government side by the time the bill landed on the floor of the house.
So what are the repercussions?
It is clear that the President's re-election strategy has hit a snag. There is now no legal way to increase the constituencies before the elections. The intricate well-laid plans now need to be adjusted and I am sorry to say this, if it is the same team doing things, the opposition, divided or not have got absolutely nothing to worry about.
But to the legislators in the 9th parliament, they have given their challengers one more powerful campaign slogan. The parliament that rejected women.
Here are the "achievements" of the 9th parliament so far;
1) The parliament that passed unprecedented remuneration increases for MPs as well as perks, even as the rest of the country went through hardships and starvation.
2) The house that passed the ill-advised Media Bill with a killer clause designed to end press freedom in Kenya.
3) The House that rejected new seats for women.
4) The House with the worst attendance record for important debates, to date.
5) The house that covered up the findings of its' own select committee meant to probe the murder of former foreign affairs minister Dr Robert Ouko.
6) The house that had saunas and other luxuries installed for MPs which further made them inaccessible to the people who elected them because Kumekucha has ascertained that most of the time constituents are told their MP is not in, they are relaxing in the Sauna in their office complex in the former continental house. Etc. (space does not allow us to carry all the sins of the 9th parliament).
Dear Kenyans, let us do ourselves a big favor and vote the WHOLE LOT out in December.
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Old Semi-Illiterate Miji Kenda Man Reveals New Evidence About Tom Mboya And Political Assassinations In Kenya
I recently met an old man from Mombasa who proudly kept on reminding me that he was from the Mijikenda community, the guys who never take things lying down. On discovering that I was doing some research on what kind of impact the issue of Tom Mboya's assassination would have on the electorate on the ground this December, he started telling me a very fascinating stuf.
He started by declaring that corruption WILL NEVER end in Kenya.
Why, I asked?
"Do you know a man called Murungaru?"
"The former Minister, now banned from enetering the UK?"
"Yes, that is the one. You know as late as 2002, I used to see the man frequently in Mombasa around the Pembe ya Ndovu (that is the important landmark of Elephant tasks along Moi Avenue in Mombasa) area. You know what he was doing? Hawking medicine to pharmacists. He was always sweating and wiping the sweat under his spectavles. Where is that man today? Is he still hawking dawa?"
"No," I replied totally fascinated and engrossed. "He is a very rich man."
"Since independence the government has gotten rid of anybody who has dared stand in the way of the corrupt ways of powerful individuals within those governments. The man you are talking about, was one of the first victims."
"Tom Mboya," I asked not quite understanding what he meant.
"Yes, Tom Mboya. The truth is that there was no good piece of land that Jomo Kenyatta saw that he did not grab for himself. I've heard some people say that he owns land the size of one province. That is a big lie. It has to be a minimum of 2 provinces at the very least. While the mzee grabbed the land, the other ministers also grabbed the left over land and whatever else they could get their hands on.
"The kitchen cabinet noticed that Tom Mboya was not grabbing anything, he remained clean. That was a big threat because they were only safe when all of them were in it together grabbing and stealing public property.
"Now you tell me. No matter how stupid you are, could you feel comfortable with such a person around?"
What the old man was saying was that as long as there are governments in Kenya, corruption will never end because government and top kitchen cabinet characters are the main source of mega-corruption.
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I have thought long and hard about the words of that old semi-illiterate Miji Kenda man since we had that discussion some time back. I then asked myself the following questions.
Why did JM Kariuki die?
Answer: He said he did not want to see a Kenya with 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars. The 10 he meant were the kitchen cabinet and those close to the Kenyatta government. That was why he had to die.
Why did Robert Ouko die?
Answer: He was working on a dossier that detailed corruption in high places, precisely the same kitchen cabinet around the president, who at this time was Moi. Just like in Mboya's case, he made the other cabinet ministers nervous because he was clean. Tom Mboya and JM Kariuki were political heavyweights, Ouko was a political nobody in life but he still made the powers that be nervous because he did not touch corruption. So he had to die.
Why did John Githongo fear for his life and flee?
Answer: Because he refused to live a lie and when he discovered Anglo Leasing (carried out by the very same kitchen cabinet surrounding the president) and tried to expose it, he was a marked man and it was only a matter of time. He got away in the nick of time.
Conclusion: You cannot de-link political assassinations in Kenya from corruption. Look how rich those who got rid of Mboya are today. Even those who have died have left great fortunes behind for their families, enough to ensure that the next 10 generations of their families will never need to work again.
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He started by declaring that corruption WILL NEVER end in Kenya.
Why, I asked?
"Do you know a man called Murungaru?"
"The former Minister, now banned from enetering the UK?"
"Yes, that is the one. You know as late as 2002, I used to see the man frequently in Mombasa around the Pembe ya Ndovu (that is the important landmark of Elephant tasks along Moi Avenue in Mombasa) area. You know what he was doing? Hawking medicine to pharmacists. He was always sweating and wiping the sweat under his spectavles. Where is that man today? Is he still hawking dawa?"
"No," I replied totally fascinated and engrossed. "He is a very rich man."
"Since independence the government has gotten rid of anybody who has dared stand in the way of the corrupt ways of powerful individuals within those governments. The man you are talking about, was one of the first victims."
"Tom Mboya," I asked not quite understanding what he meant.
"Yes, Tom Mboya. The truth is that there was no good piece of land that Jomo Kenyatta saw that he did not grab for himself. I've heard some people say that he owns land the size of one province. That is a big lie. It has to be a minimum of 2 provinces at the very least. While the mzee grabbed the land, the other ministers also grabbed the left over land and whatever else they could get their hands on.
"The kitchen cabinet noticed that Tom Mboya was not grabbing anything, he remained clean. That was a big threat because they were only safe when all of them were in it together grabbing and stealing public property.
"Now you tell me. No matter how stupid you are, could you feel comfortable with such a person around?"
What the old man was saying was that as long as there are governments in Kenya, corruption will never end because government and top kitchen cabinet characters are the main source of mega-corruption.
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I have thought long and hard about the words of that old semi-illiterate Miji Kenda man since we had that discussion some time back. I then asked myself the following questions.
Why did JM Kariuki die?
Answer: He said he did not want to see a Kenya with 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars. The 10 he meant were the kitchen cabinet and those close to the Kenyatta government. That was why he had to die.
Why did Robert Ouko die?
Answer: He was working on a dossier that detailed corruption in high places, precisely the same kitchen cabinet around the president, who at this time was Moi. Just like in Mboya's case, he made the other cabinet ministers nervous because he was clean. Tom Mboya and JM Kariuki were political heavyweights, Ouko was a political nobody in life but he still made the powers that be nervous because he did not touch corruption. So he had to die.
Why did John Githongo fear for his life and flee?
Answer: Because he refused to live a lie and when he discovered Anglo Leasing (carried out by the very same kitchen cabinet surrounding the president) and tried to expose it, he was a marked man and it was only a matter of time. He got away in the nick of time.
Conclusion: You cannot de-link political assassinations in Kenya from corruption. Look how rich those who got rid of Mboya are today. Even those who have died have left great fortunes behind for their families, enough to ensure that the next 10 generations of their families will never need to work again.
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What's Really Going On At Equity Bank?
In my days as a journalist working for various publications, my specialty was business analysis and reporting. I have no problems reading a balance sheet (especially between the lines).
However the events of yesterday and today seem to suggest that I have gotten a little rusty. Some guy now says that I should stick to what I do best these days—political propaganda. That gave me a laugh because the man knows that if what I was carrying here was mere propaganda, this blog would not have half the audience that it does.
Anyway, I am not perfect and before I answer him and others in this blog, I will do some digging on Equity Bank and get back to all you good folks. My gut feeling is that this bank is still OK but let me gather the evidence and facts to back that, if any.
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This is why a blog medium is such a wonderful new media tool. You can challenge and if the owner of the blog is a fair man, they will go back and do some more digging to prove or disapprove what you have said.
Believe me when I say that the way to really benefit from the information age is not too be too quick to be proved right. Stop. Think, do some more digging of your own (it is so easy on the net.) and then we you get back with your answer do not be afraid of admitting that you were wrong. In my book only real men have the balls to admit that they are wrong.
Have an inquisitive day will you.
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However the events of yesterday and today seem to suggest that I have gotten a little rusty. Some guy now says that I should stick to what I do best these days—political propaganda. That gave me a laugh because the man knows that if what I was carrying here was mere propaganda, this blog would not have half the audience that it does.
Anyway, I am not perfect and before I answer him and others in this blog, I will do some digging on Equity Bank and get back to all you good folks. My gut feeling is that this bank is still OK but let me gather the evidence and facts to back that, if any.
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Believe me when I say that the way to really benefit from the information age is not too be too quick to be proved right. Stop. Think, do some more digging of your own (it is so easy on the net.) and then we you get back with your answer do not be afraid of admitting that you were wrong. In my book only real men have the balls to admit that they are wrong.
Have an inquisitive day will you.
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So You Want To Know What Really Goes On Inside Political Parties In Kenya?
Here is a leaked document on confidential discussions and resolutions passed by a leading Kenyan political party during one of its’ meetings.
Read and digest and realize why they say that politics is a dirty game (with the old folks who are there now). The whole lot are the same and the only way forward is to send them all home packing.
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11th LDP NEB meeting held on July 1, 2003
A part from the official meeting held, a brainstorm was conducted on a brief research paper presented by the chairman. It touched on how the LDP should be strengthened. It was recommended from the debate:
1. LDP must continuously show it is the one pushing for a constitutional reform while NAK is against constitutional reform as Kanu was depicted in the past.
2. LDP must explore all avenues of fruitful engagement with Kanu. Efforts must be made to reverse the nasty merger experience between Kanu and NDP, LDP should help Kanu look good among members of the public.
3. LDP must be shown as pro-people and for reforms whereas the government must be painted as anti-change.
4. The government must be isolated and shown as a Mt. Kenya backed government without national appeal.
5. We must continue to hold the government responsible for breaching the MoU so that Kenyans can see it as unfair and insensitive.
6. We must promote the view that government ministers are corrupt so that the government has no moral authority to pursue corruption and it looks bad in the eyes of the international community.
7. We must continuously paint the government and Narc-Nak as the same as the former Kanu.
8. LDP must seriously engage the media-owners — editors and journalists— to discredit the government, NAK and the people who are pro-establishment.
9. Every opportunity must be taken to destabilise the government in a way, which is not traceable to us.
10. Friendship of the security forces and the entire civil service should be sought. We must resist a civil service shake-up.
11. Finances must be raised including from foreign friends and domestic friends. Ministries we control should assist our friends to make money legally some of which can be contributed to the LDP kitty.
12. LDP must capture all influential civil society including COTU, Maendeleo, human rights groups etc.
13. Ministries we control should assist our MPs and regions where we are recruiting.
14. We must treat Bomas delegates well at all times. They are very important for the constitutional reform process.
15. We must demonstrate always that with our friends in Kanu we control parliament.
16. LDP can take a chunk of Kanu and most of Narc with time so that in 2007 we are independent and in control.
17. LDP must recruit nationally so that we have national elections. We should only accept Narc elections if we are sure we'll take over Narc. Otherwise we must now not accept the convening of a summit we can't control.
18. We must continuously destabilise NAK.
19. A strategy for 2007 elections must be put in place. Our research think tank should be tasked to prepare a confidential road map.
20. We must not relent on executive prime minister as well as a president who had limited powers. The vice president position should be deputy president. Three deputy prime ministers should exist. These positions will be used to a formidable coalition of LDP, friendly Kanu etc. We must seek new friends all the time.
21. We must invest in the underground media.
22. We must show government cannot perform; only LDP ministers can.
23. We must be careful that LDP elections do not create problems for us.
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24. The credibility of all those who oppose our agenda must be destroyed.
25. We must also continuously woo NAK affiliate parties and personalities.
26. We must always create the impression that LDP is a big movement, which is popular.
27. Let's get NAK affiliates to fight each other whenever it is possible.
28. We must dialogue with the international community to show them NAK has betrayed us and democracy. We must ask them to engage the government in a cautious way.
29. We must capture the local government movement.
30. If possible some strategic government motions should be defeated. A vote of no confidence should be an option.
31. Weak LDP legislators should be helped.
32. We must plant competitors to destabilise all those MPs and councillors who oppose us.
33. We must take Bomas very seriously. Attendance is a must.
34. LDP must continue to own and popularise the LDP-harambee-rainbow clarion call.
35. If we cant have Narc we must destroy it by 2006 or early 2007. Let it be a nominal party.
36. We must maintain an efficient secretariat and infiltrate Mwenge House.
37. LDP ministers and assistant ministers must act like they are the government.
38. LDP functionaries must always collect intelligence, which must be shared.
39. LDP must work tirelessly to have the youth, women and Muslims on its side.
40. Bonding activities for LDP must be organised continuously.
41. The research/think-tank group should be strengthened. LDP intellectuals who work abroad should be mobilised to contribute to the future of LDP.
42. We must continue to point our Narc election officials and Narc Mwenge House functionaries have not been paid since December 2002.
43. A sub-committee to vet all government appointments should be established. All past political appointments should be scrutinised.
44. The issue of the MoU between the Kodhek group and LDP should be settled.
45. Strategic and innovative ways of having political rallies and civic education meetings to be explored in Mombasa, Kericho, Eldoret, Kakamega, Kisumu, Garissa, Nairobi and other places in our country. The main agenda should be constitutional review.
46. LDP must at all times support Yash Pal Ghai and show that the government does not and wants to scuttle the review process.
47. LDP civic support has been analysed and will be available to all members.
48. We must try to compromise secretaries and other workers in the offices of those close to the establishment.
49. LDP must stay in government for as long as possible. This is strategic in many ways
50. We must develop relations with other political parties abroad.
This information should only be shared on a strictly confidential basis with LDP officials including Hon. Kamotho, Hon. W. Ole Ntimama, Hon Job Omino and LDP summit members. This LDP Roadmap to 2007 will be subject to review and refinement from time to time.
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Read and digest and realize why they say that politics is a dirty game (with the old folks who are there now). The whole lot are the same and the only way forward is to send them all home packing.
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11th LDP NEB meeting held on July 1, 2003
A part from the official meeting held, a brainstorm was conducted on a brief research paper presented by the chairman. It touched on how the LDP should be strengthened. It was recommended from the debate:
1. LDP must continuously show it is the one pushing for a constitutional reform while NAK is against constitutional reform as Kanu was depicted in the past.
2. LDP must explore all avenues of fruitful engagement with Kanu. Efforts must be made to reverse the nasty merger experience between Kanu and NDP, LDP should help Kanu look good among members of the public.
3. LDP must be shown as pro-people and for reforms whereas the government must be painted as anti-change.
4. The government must be isolated and shown as a Mt. Kenya backed government without national appeal.
5. We must continue to hold the government responsible for breaching the MoU so that Kenyans can see it as unfair and insensitive.
6. We must promote the view that government ministers are corrupt so that the government has no moral authority to pursue corruption and it looks bad in the eyes of the international community.
7. We must continuously paint the government and Narc-Nak as the same as the former Kanu.
8. LDP must seriously engage the media-owners — editors and journalists— to discredit the government, NAK and the people who are pro-establishment.
9. Every opportunity must be taken to destabilise the government in a way, which is not traceable to us.
10. Friendship of the security forces and the entire civil service should be sought. We must resist a civil service shake-up.
11. Finances must be raised including from foreign friends and domestic friends. Ministries we control should assist our friends to make money legally some of which can be contributed to the LDP kitty.
12. LDP must capture all influential civil society including COTU, Maendeleo, human rights groups etc.
13. Ministries we control should assist our MPs and regions where we are recruiting.
14. We must treat Bomas delegates well at all times. They are very important for the constitutional reform process.
15. We must demonstrate always that with our friends in Kanu we control parliament.
16. LDP can take a chunk of Kanu and most of Narc with time so that in 2007 we are independent and in control.
17. LDP must recruit nationally so that we have national elections. We should only accept Narc elections if we are sure we'll take over Narc. Otherwise we must now not accept the convening of a summit we can't control.
18. We must continuously destabilise NAK.
19. A strategy for 2007 elections must be put in place. Our research think tank should be tasked to prepare a confidential road map.
20. We must not relent on executive prime minister as well as a president who had limited powers. The vice president position should be deputy president. Three deputy prime ministers should exist. These positions will be used to a formidable coalition of LDP, friendly Kanu etc. We must seek new friends all the time.
21. We must invest in the underground media.
22. We must show government cannot perform; only LDP ministers can.
23. We must be careful that LDP elections do not create problems for us.
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24. The credibility of all those who oppose our agenda must be destroyed.
25. We must also continuously woo NAK affiliate parties and personalities.
26. We must always create the impression that LDP is a big movement, which is popular.
27. Let's get NAK affiliates to fight each other whenever it is possible.
28. We must dialogue with the international community to show them NAK has betrayed us and democracy. We must ask them to engage the government in a cautious way.
29. We must capture the local government movement.
30. If possible some strategic government motions should be defeated. A vote of no confidence should be an option.
31. Weak LDP legislators should be helped.
32. We must plant competitors to destabilise all those MPs and councillors who oppose us.
33. We must take Bomas very seriously. Attendance is a must.
34. LDP must continue to own and popularise the LDP-harambee-rainbow clarion call.
35. If we cant have Narc we must destroy it by 2006 or early 2007. Let it be a nominal party.
36. We must maintain an efficient secretariat and infiltrate Mwenge House.
37. LDP ministers and assistant ministers must act like they are the government.
38. LDP functionaries must always collect intelligence, which must be shared.
39. LDP must work tirelessly to have the youth, women and Muslims on its side.
40. Bonding activities for LDP must be organised continuously.
41. The research/think-tank group should be strengthened. LDP intellectuals who work abroad should be mobilised to contribute to the future of LDP.
42. We must continue to point our Narc election officials and Narc Mwenge House functionaries have not been paid since December 2002.
43. A sub-committee to vet all government appointments should be established. All past political appointments should be scrutinised.
44. The issue of the MoU between the Kodhek group and LDP should be settled.
45. Strategic and innovative ways of having political rallies and civic education meetings to be explored in Mombasa, Kericho, Eldoret, Kakamega, Kisumu, Garissa, Nairobi and other places in our country. The main agenda should be constitutional review.
46. LDP must at all times support Yash Pal Ghai and show that the government does not and wants to scuttle the review process.
47. LDP civic support has been analysed and will be available to all members.
48. We must try to compromise secretaries and other workers in the offices of those close to the establishment.
49. LDP must stay in government for as long as possible. This is strategic in many ways
50. We must develop relations with other political parties abroad.
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The Great Irreparable Damage The Media Bill Has Done To Kibaki's Re-election Campaign
Wako Finally Admits The Obvious
Even as members of Kenya’s fourth estate staged a dramatic demonstration in Nairobi this afternoon, (did I spot Kumekucha somewhere?) while symbolically gagged with tape and cloth, serious questions are being asked in relation to the folly of the whole exercise of the infamous Media Bill.
After days in which AG Amos Wako claimed he was studying the media bill he has finally come out and admitted that it is fatally flawed, and he will accordingly advice the president not to sign it.
Firstly the AG who knows a lot more law than Kumekucha did not need so many days to find the obvious. I would have saved him a lot of reading had he asked me because I would have told him straight up that it was flawed and the reasons why.
But then that was not the real issue here, my friends. What was going on was lots of consultations behind the scenes with the powers that be who finally gave him permission to announce the obvious. The truth is that many flawed bills have been passed by parliament and signed into laws in the past, including the last media amendment made in the twilight of the Moi days that raised the amount of the surety bond that a publisher needs to execute from Kshs 10,000 to Kshs one million as well as raising the damages to be paid by aggrieved parties to the crazy figure of Kshs 20 million, among other highly unconstitutional and illegal amendments. Still it is now law.
So the issue of the bill being flawed was not really the major one here. What was major was whether it was going to be signed into law by the President.
As I have said here before, it was crystal clear from day one that somebody was pushing, very hard from behind the scenes for the creation of the media bill, even as other more pressing matters were shoved aside. That pressure was coming from the President's kitchen cabinet whose power is usually greatly reduced in an election year and especially as the elections draw nearer and the president's campaign doesn't look like it is doing too good, as is the case here.
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Make no mistake about it, any politician messing with the media in an election year is committing terrible suicide. To put it more bluntly; you don't f*** with the media in an election year. You just don't!!
The truth is that even as the powerful Kibaki insiders look like they are now retreating at this eleventh hour with their tails firmly between their legs, great irreparable damage has already been done. I personally know of a half a dozen previously Kibaki votes that have evaporated courtesy of this ill-advised media bill. You can be sure that there are many others country-wide.
The question that many voters are asking themselves is what does the Kibaki administration have to hide, so desperately pushing for media regulation just before the election?
Even communication minister Mutahi Kagwe sounded tired and nervous answering questions from the press about the controversial bill yesterday. My wild guess is that he is irritated because he advised against it but was ignored and ended up just following orders in pushing it. You tend to get really angry when they tide turns and you are proved right.
I will say what I have often said here again. Does the person or persons running president's Kibaki's re-election bid really know what they are doing? Already they have made just too many blunders for comfort.
Many commentators here are very fond of repeating the truism that defeating an incumbent president in Africa is very difficult. However let me quickly add the rider; as long as their campaign team does not make too many stupid blunders. The gaffes that have been made and are still being made by the president's men are just too many. They are making former president Moi look very efficient and organized.
Just wait and see what will happen at the ballot box come Decemeber. Many of you will disappear from making comments in this blog and will not be man enough to come back, swallow your pride and admit that you were so wrong.
I hereby put the following promise in writing; If I am proved wrong in the coming polls I will swiftly return here to apologize to all you good people long before January 2008. Kindly do the same.
Finally, the media bill is one more reason why Kenyans should vote out the entire 9th Parliament. Wacha warudi nyumbani wapumzike kunyanyasa waKenya.
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Even as members of Kenya’s fourth estate staged a dramatic demonstration in Nairobi this afternoon, (did I spot Kumekucha somewhere?) while symbolically gagged with tape and cloth, serious questions are being asked in relation to the folly of the whole exercise of the infamous Media Bill.
After days in which AG Amos Wako claimed he was studying the media bill he has finally come out and admitted that it is fatally flawed, and he will accordingly advice the president not to sign it.
Firstly the AG who knows a lot more law than Kumekucha did not need so many days to find the obvious. I would have saved him a lot of reading had he asked me because I would have told him straight up that it was flawed and the reasons why.
But then that was not the real issue here, my friends. What was going on was lots of consultations behind the scenes with the powers that be who finally gave him permission to announce the obvious. The truth is that many flawed bills have been passed by parliament and signed into laws in the past, including the last media amendment made in the twilight of the Moi days that raised the amount of the surety bond that a publisher needs to execute from Kshs 10,000 to Kshs one million as well as raising the damages to be paid by aggrieved parties to the crazy figure of Kshs 20 million, among other highly unconstitutional and illegal amendments. Still it is now law.
So the issue of the bill being flawed was not really the major one here. What was major was whether it was going to be signed into law by the President.
As I have said here before, it was crystal clear from day one that somebody was pushing, very hard from behind the scenes for the creation of the media bill, even as other more pressing matters were shoved aside. That pressure was coming from the President's kitchen cabinet whose power is usually greatly reduced in an election year and especially as the elections draw nearer and the president's campaign doesn't look like it is doing too good, as is the case here.
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Make no mistake about it, any politician messing with the media in an election year is committing terrible suicide. To put it more bluntly; you don't f*** with the media in an election year. You just don't!!
The truth is that even as the powerful Kibaki insiders look like they are now retreating at this eleventh hour with their tails firmly between their legs, great irreparable damage has already been done. I personally know of a half a dozen previously Kibaki votes that have evaporated courtesy of this ill-advised media bill. You can be sure that there are many others country-wide.
The question that many voters are asking themselves is what does the Kibaki administration have to hide, so desperately pushing for media regulation just before the election?
Even communication minister Mutahi Kagwe sounded tired and nervous answering questions from the press about the controversial bill yesterday. My wild guess is that he is irritated because he advised against it but was ignored and ended up just following orders in pushing it. You tend to get really angry when they tide turns and you are proved right.
I will say what I have often said here again. Does the person or persons running president's Kibaki's re-election bid really know what they are doing? Already they have made just too many blunders for comfort.
Many commentators here are very fond of repeating the truism that defeating an incumbent president in Africa is very difficult. However let me quickly add the rider; as long as their campaign team does not make too many stupid blunders. The gaffes that have been made and are still being made by the president's men are just too many. They are making former president Moi look very efficient and organized.
Just wait and see what will happen at the ballot box come Decemeber. Many of you will disappear from making comments in this blog and will not be man enough to come back, swallow your pride and admit that you were so wrong.
I hereby put the following promise in writing; If I am proved wrong in the coming polls I will swiftly return here to apologize to all you good people long before January 2008. Kindly do the same.
Finally, the media bill is one more reason why Kenyans should vote out the entire 9th Parliament. Wacha warudi nyumbani wapumzike kunyanyasa waKenya.
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ODM Entrepreneur Cashes In
As we all said here months ago, the two major ODM-Kenya presidential hopefuls have now officially parted ways. The sickening plastic, forced smiles, as they held hands, fooling the public that ODM was united have finally come to an end and the truth as we always knew it has been revealed for all to see.
Kalonzo Musyoka has remained with ODM-Kenya while Raila Odinga has purchased the first Orange Democratic Party to be registered for an unspecified amount of Kenya shillings. Both parties (seller and buyer of ODM) have of course denied that any money exchanged hands, but that one will be very difficult even for a hungry crocodile along that banks of Tana River to swallow.
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It is highly unlikely that Raila has paid anything below Kshs 5 million for the party. If anything insiders are insisting that it is a double digit million figure that sealed the deal.
The only question that remains now is which presidential candidate Kanu will back. Kalonzo Musyoka or Mwai Kibaki? But already we have our 3 main presidential contenders for 2007. There are, Mwai "growing economy and insecurity" Kibaki, Kalonzo "Hide in the toilet" Musyoka and Raila "Molasses deal with Moi" Odinga. However Kumekucha is still waiting and hoping and praying for the emergence of major candidate number four who will take the breadth of Kenyans away. Keep your eyes focused on this space.
Fascinatingly as Raila Odinga officially received the ODM tools of power, he was visibly angry, signifying that a hefty amount of money had been paid for it. For those who do not have the history, somebody rushed to the registrar and registered a political party called Orange Democratic Party as Raila, Kalonzo and company were still taking their sweet time to get organized. The smart Kenyans' intentions were to sell the party to the politicians at a later date. But for a time it looked like this business venture had failed miserably because Kalonzo and his side-kick Daniel Maanzo managed to get Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-Kenya) registered.
But this week the fortunes swung in a very spectacular way in favor of the party-registering entrepreneur after ODM-Kenya chairman Daniel Maanzo and Kalonzo Musyoka ran away with the registration certificate. Raila was suddenly desperate for a political party and not just any political party but one specifically called Orange Democtratic Movement because he felt it was too late to change the name of his brand. The rest as they say, is now history.
Interestingly while the Odinga ODM faction has announced an elaborate presidential nomination process involving delegates from each constituency, the Kalonzo Musyoka faction (with two presidential candidates—Julia Ojiambo and Kalonzo Musyoka) has so far ignored the question of nominating their presidential candidate. Julia has probabl pronounced those magic words; Kalonzo Tosha.
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Kalonzo Musyoka has remained with ODM-Kenya while Raila Odinga has purchased the first Orange Democratic Party to be registered for an unspecified amount of Kenya shillings. Both parties (seller and buyer of ODM) have of course denied that any money exchanged hands, but that one will be very difficult even for a hungry crocodile along that banks of Tana River to swallow.
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It is highly unlikely that Raila has paid anything below Kshs 5 million for the party. If anything insiders are insisting that it is a double digit million figure that sealed the deal.
The only question that remains now is which presidential candidate Kanu will back. Kalonzo Musyoka or Mwai Kibaki? But already we have our 3 main presidential contenders for 2007. There are, Mwai "growing economy and insecurity" Kibaki, Kalonzo "Hide in the toilet" Musyoka and Raila "Molasses deal with Moi" Odinga. However Kumekucha is still waiting and hoping and praying for the emergence of major candidate number four who will take the breadth of Kenyans away. Keep your eyes focused on this space.
Fascinatingly as Raila Odinga officially received the ODM tools of power, he was visibly angry, signifying that a hefty amount of money had been paid for it. For those who do not have the history, somebody rushed to the registrar and registered a political party called Orange Democratic Party as Raila, Kalonzo and company were still taking their sweet time to get organized. The smart Kenyans' intentions were to sell the party to the politicians at a later date. But for a time it looked like this business venture had failed miserably because Kalonzo and his side-kick Daniel Maanzo managed to get Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya (ODM-Kenya) registered.
But this week the fortunes swung in a very spectacular way in favor of the party-registering entrepreneur after ODM-Kenya chairman Daniel Maanzo and Kalonzo Musyoka ran away with the registration certificate. Raila was suddenly desperate for a political party and not just any political party but one specifically called Orange Democtratic Movement because he felt it was too late to change the name of his brand. The rest as they say, is now history.
Interestingly while the Odinga ODM faction has announced an elaborate presidential nomination process involving delegates from each constituency, the Kalonzo Musyoka faction (with two presidential candidates—Julia Ojiambo and Kalonzo Musyoka) has so far ignored the question of nominating their presidential candidate. Julia has probabl pronounced those magic words; Kalonzo Tosha.
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Why It Is Not Too Difficult To Figure Out Who Killed Mboya
Tom Mboya and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga were NOT friends. Yes, I know you saw him in the video clips that I placed in yesterday's Mboya post attending the funeral, but the truth is that the two were sworn enemies.
In fact in a way it is probably this bitter rivalry that cost Mboya his life in that this brilliant politician did not see the fact that immediately he eliminated Jaramogi Oginga Odinga from the political scene, it would put his own life in grave danger.
It was probably one of the few times when Mboya was so obsessed with a political enemy that he placed his better judgement aside.
Mboya's biographer David Goldsworthy puts it thus;
"Tom Mboya fought the arduous power struggle of 1964-66 with masterful technique and a quite chilling implacability. He fought to win, of course, but more than that, he fought to eliminate his opponents from the contest entirely. He fought by nothing less than zero-sum rules: Winner take all and crush the loser."
Goldsworthy goes on to say clearly that after Mboya had effectively dealt with Oginga Odinga, the period 1967 to 1969 was one where the Kenyan political scene was a battlefield between Mboya and the Kikuyu inner circle Kenyatta had surrounded himself with. The most visible members of that group were Mbiyu Koinange, Dr Njoroge Mungai and Charles Njonjo.
We all know how that battle ended up. So who killed Tom Mboya and why?
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In fact in a way it is probably this bitter rivalry that cost Mboya his life in that this brilliant politician did not see the fact that immediately he eliminated Jaramogi Oginga Odinga from the political scene, it would put his own life in grave danger.
It was probably one of the few times when Mboya was so obsessed with a political enemy that he placed his better judgement aside.
Mboya's biographer David Goldsworthy puts it thus;
"Tom Mboya fought the arduous power struggle of 1964-66 with masterful technique and a quite chilling implacability. He fought to win, of course, but more than that, he fought to eliminate his opponents from the contest entirely. He fought by nothing less than zero-sum rules: Winner take all and crush the loser."
Goldsworthy goes on to say clearly that after Mboya had effectively dealt with Oginga Odinga, the period 1967 to 1969 was one where the Kenyan political scene was a battlefield between Mboya and the Kikuyu inner circle Kenyatta had surrounded himself with. The most visible members of that group were Mbiyu Koinange, Dr Njoroge Mungai and Charles Njonjo.
We all know how that battle ended up. So who killed Tom Mboya and why?
Every patriotic Kenyan should join in asking this question, because in answering it, we will get to the root of political assassinations in Kenya and indeed bring them to an end by sending a very clear message to any would-be government or powerful brokers-sponsored assassinations of the future.
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Who Wants To Kill Equity Bank?
Even as the price of Equity Bank shares on the Nairobi Stock Exchange appears to be recovering over the last few days, somebody is forwarding nasty emails warning Kenyans to stay away from the bank.
The reason I find this interesting is that I have carefully studied the growth of Equity right from the time it was launched as a building society in the Moi days. I correctly predicting that they would one day be very big, because they did the opposite of what other banks were doing at the time and targeted the ordinary mwananchi. As you read this, the bank has got over one million account-holders, a record in Kenya.
The way to analyze a company is to look at how it makes its' money. As a rule I will never invest in a business that I do not understand. Equity's major profit generator is small loans to ordinary folks. If you understand the principal of compounded interest you will quickly realize just how wildly profitable this activity can be.
So the foundations of Equity are basically sound.
The rapid branch expansion program makes a lot of sense based on the bank's principal activity which it has gained experience and expertise to do.
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And it is because of this reason that the government has chosen Equity Bank as the main bank to disburse loans to budding entrepreneurs. But some very bad people have chosen to politicize this issue. On this one, I defend the government. The government DID NOT choose Equity Bank because it is owned by Kikuyus. Just name me a more experienced bank in Kenya when it comes to giving out loans to small business? There is none. Equity stands alone.
So who is this circulating those nasty emails? Maybe to answer that question we need to ask another one. Who has a motive? Who is bound to gain?
While you chew on the answer to that one, this whole episode reminds me of the mid eighties when some characters within the mainstream banks spread rumors about the collapse of Diners Club Finance a subsidiary of the local Diners Club franchise run by Alnoor Kassam of TradeBank fame. Legend has it that the bank handled it by getting all the cash they could get their hands on and paying all those who came in to close their accounts. After a hectic anxious day of doing this, it is said that the same account holders returned their deposits the next day on realizing that the rumors had to be false since the bank appeared to be so liquid.
If it is true, the Diners Finance tale is indeed unique because the truth is that no bank in the world can stem a run by depositors. Banks always put idle funds to work, it is the way they earn their keep so it is impossible for all depositors to draw out their money at the same time, the bank won't have it.
It seems that somebody is very determined to cause a run on deposits at Equity Bank and it would seem that that person maybe an executive feeling the heat in the most profitable segment for banks at the moment—small short term loans.
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The reason I find this interesting is that I have carefully studied the growth of Equity right from the time it was launched as a building society in the Moi days. I correctly predicting that they would one day be very big, because they did the opposite of what other banks were doing at the time and targeted the ordinary mwananchi. As you read this, the bank has got over one million account-holders, a record in Kenya.
The way to analyze a company is to look at how it makes its' money. As a rule I will never invest in a business that I do not understand. Equity's major profit generator is small loans to ordinary folks. If you understand the principal of compounded interest you will quickly realize just how wildly profitable this activity can be.
So the foundations of Equity are basically sound.
The rapid branch expansion program makes a lot of sense based on the bank's principal activity which it has gained experience and expertise to do.
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And it is because of this reason that the government has chosen Equity Bank as the main bank to disburse loans to budding entrepreneurs. But some very bad people have chosen to politicize this issue. On this one, I defend the government. The government DID NOT choose Equity Bank because it is owned by Kikuyus. Just name me a more experienced bank in Kenya when it comes to giving out loans to small business? There is none. Equity stands alone.
So who is this circulating those nasty emails? Maybe to answer that question we need to ask another one. Who has a motive? Who is bound to gain?
While you chew on the answer to that one, this whole episode reminds me of the mid eighties when some characters within the mainstream banks spread rumors about the collapse of Diners Club Finance a subsidiary of the local Diners Club franchise run by Alnoor Kassam of TradeBank fame. Legend has it that the bank handled it by getting all the cash they could get their hands on and paying all those who came in to close their accounts. After a hectic anxious day of doing this, it is said that the same account holders returned their deposits the next day on realizing that the rumors had to be false since the bank appeared to be so liquid.
If it is true, the Diners Finance tale is indeed unique because the truth is that no bank in the world can stem a run by depositors. Banks always put idle funds to work, it is the way they earn their keep so it is impossible for all depositors to draw out their money at the same time, the bank won't have it.
It seems that somebody is very determined to cause a run on deposits at Equity Bank and it would seem that that person maybe an executive feeling the heat in the most profitable segment for banks at the moment—small short term loans.
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Uchumi Supermarkets In Trouble Again
Uchumi Supermarkets is in trouble again as its' bankers get increasingly jittery that its' recovery may never happen and I am really not surprised. I will re-publish the entire post I made here over a year ago on this subject complete with the date;
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Business Special: More Trouble Ahead For Uchumi
In all the hype being generated by the media and show of goodwill towards the Uchumi Supermarkets rescue efforts, alarm bells are beginning to ring loudly in my ears.
I really started to get nervous when I heard about the latest move by the new supermarket chain management to raise extra funds from shareholders. In the plan, shareholders will lend a minimum of Kshs 10,000 each to Uchumi. In fact the plan was to initially get a minimum of Kshs 100,000 from each shareholder. Shareholders quite rightly pointed out that this was too much for most of them.
What is going on here?
Uchumi has tried to raise funds before, in a bid to recover. It didn’t work. So what is so different this time?
This is not the time to raise money. It is time to be scrambling for a solution that will stop the “profuse bleeding” Uchumi is currently suffering.
My big worry is that, nothing has really changed at Uchumi to warrant such optimism. In fact personally I am very skeptical after reading the names of the management team put in place to rescue the retail giant. With all due respect to the persons named one of whom I know very well and is an excellent manager; the problem is that none of them have any track record of a turn around, let alone the turnaround of a retail giant of the size of Uchumi. Let us get something very clear here, the kind of trauma doctor who daily handles patients bleeding to death in an emergency room does not have the same skills as a GP working in some quiet, sleepy countryside clinic where he knows all his patients by name. Both are doctors but the situations are vastly different.
The people who have been appointed at Uchumi are good managers, but not “trauma” managers. They do not have what it takes to get the supermarket chain out of its’ current hole. In fact currently there is only one Kenyan I know who would have a fighting chance of accomplishing this mission. I have mentioned his name before here. Suresh Shah former MD of Uchumi. It would not surprise me in the least if he has already been approached and has probably declined. If this is true then you get my drift of how serious the situation at Uchumi really is.
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Scandals not withstanding, Nakumatt in their favored position and offering unfair competition to Uchumi, are still up and running. The marketplace situation that was theer when Uchumi initially “bled” to death is still there. In other words, the fatal wound has returned for more beating and blows.
The way to achieve supermarket sales is by cutting prices and margins to attract the critical mass and sheer sales volumes that brings in the profits in any supermarket or megastore model. Yet Uchumi cannot afford to do this just now because they need the biggest margins possible to start stemming the red ink on their balance sheet. In my opinion, they need a clever idea or ideas that will enable them to keep big margins and still attract enough clientele.
I have also enquired on the ground and have found that one of the basic rules of a successful turnaround is being ignored by the current team. And that there is hardly anything radically different that the new management team is doing except operating with a much smaller staff. The marketing strategy of appealing to the sheer patriotism of Kenyan shoppers will surprise me if it works and will probably set a precedent of sorts in the annals of marketing history in Kenya if it stays in the air long enough. What will most probably happened is that any numbers being driven to the supermarket will soon dwindle as the attention of the Kenyan public drifts to other forthcoming hot issues like the rapidly approaching general elections.
My fear is that all this money that is going to be sunk in by shareholders will be lost and future more deserving cases will lose out as people will always refer to the Uchumi debacle. What those gallant Uchumi shareholders are doing right now is throwing money in a bottomless pit (that’s what debt is) and nobody knows for sure how deep this particular hole really is.
What should have happened is that the Supermarket chain should have worked on using the available government funding and the goodwill (some of their landlords have waived rent for 6 months) while keeping a close eye on performance before going overboard and collecting such huge amounts of cash from shareholders whose blind faith in Uchumi’s recovery is premature. The time to raise more money would have been when there were clear indications that the “bleeding” had stopped.
Let us not forget that we had some excellent managers, some with international experience, previously running Uchumi. They were not able to turn the tide. So what magic will the new management team do following the exact same path and approach that the previous management did?
Instead of raising money from the unsuspecting public the new management team should be discussing and implementing new strategy.
A comment a young bright Kenyan student who scored “B” aggregate in her Form four made in my hearing shortly after Uchumi callpsed, is still ringing in my mind. She asked how does a company like Uchumi go bankrupt? What she meant was that how do you collect so much money and still lose money?
My fear is that many of the investors being rushed into helping raise more money for Uchumi are thinking in their minds; how can Uchumi fail to recover this time?
In other words, the problem with the supermarket business is that too many people assume that it is an easy business to run and harvest profits from. It is not, as has been proved here yet again. Despite massive public goodwill, Uchumi just isn't working.
My recommendation to save the situation before it is too late. Call back Suresh Shah and persuade him to take on the challenge (now as a pressing issue of national importance) and then give a free hand to do what is necessary to get Uchumi back into profits.
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Saturday, July 22, 2006
Business Special: More Trouble Ahead For Uchumi
In all the hype being generated by the media and show of goodwill towards the Uchumi Supermarkets rescue efforts, alarm bells are beginning to ring loudly in my ears.
I really started to get nervous when I heard about the latest move by the new supermarket chain management to raise extra funds from shareholders. In the plan, shareholders will lend a minimum of Kshs 10,000 each to Uchumi. In fact the plan was to initially get a minimum of Kshs 100,000 from each shareholder. Shareholders quite rightly pointed out that this was too much for most of them.
What is going on here?
Uchumi has tried to raise funds before, in a bid to recover. It didn’t work. So what is so different this time?
This is not the time to raise money. It is time to be scrambling for a solution that will stop the “profuse bleeding” Uchumi is currently suffering.
My big worry is that, nothing has really changed at Uchumi to warrant such optimism. In fact personally I am very skeptical after reading the names of the management team put in place to rescue the retail giant. With all due respect to the persons named one of whom I know very well and is an excellent manager; the problem is that none of them have any track record of a turn around, let alone the turnaround of a retail giant of the size of Uchumi. Let us get something very clear here, the kind of trauma doctor who daily handles patients bleeding to death in an emergency room does not have the same skills as a GP working in some quiet, sleepy countryside clinic where he knows all his patients by name. Both are doctors but the situations are vastly different.
The people who have been appointed at Uchumi are good managers, but not “trauma” managers. They do not have what it takes to get the supermarket chain out of its’ current hole. In fact currently there is only one Kenyan I know who would have a fighting chance of accomplishing this mission. I have mentioned his name before here. Suresh Shah former MD of Uchumi. It would not surprise me in the least if he has already been approached and has probably declined. If this is true then you get my drift of how serious the situation at Uchumi really is.
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Scandals not withstanding, Nakumatt in their favored position and offering unfair competition to Uchumi, are still up and running. The marketplace situation that was theer when Uchumi initially “bled” to death is still there. In other words, the fatal wound has returned for more beating and blows.
The way to achieve supermarket sales is by cutting prices and margins to attract the critical mass and sheer sales volumes that brings in the profits in any supermarket or megastore model. Yet Uchumi cannot afford to do this just now because they need the biggest margins possible to start stemming the red ink on their balance sheet. In my opinion, they need a clever idea or ideas that will enable them to keep big margins and still attract enough clientele.
I have also enquired on the ground and have found that one of the basic rules of a successful turnaround is being ignored by the current team. And that there is hardly anything radically different that the new management team is doing except operating with a much smaller staff. The marketing strategy of appealing to the sheer patriotism of Kenyan shoppers will surprise me if it works and will probably set a precedent of sorts in the annals of marketing history in Kenya if it stays in the air long enough. What will most probably happened is that any numbers being driven to the supermarket will soon dwindle as the attention of the Kenyan public drifts to other forthcoming hot issues like the rapidly approaching general elections.
My fear is that all this money that is going to be sunk in by shareholders will be lost and future more deserving cases will lose out as people will always refer to the Uchumi debacle. What those gallant Uchumi shareholders are doing right now is throwing money in a bottomless pit (that’s what debt is) and nobody knows for sure how deep this particular hole really is.
What should have happened is that the Supermarket chain should have worked on using the available government funding and the goodwill (some of their landlords have waived rent for 6 months) while keeping a close eye on performance before going overboard and collecting such huge amounts of cash from shareholders whose blind faith in Uchumi’s recovery is premature. The time to raise more money would have been when there were clear indications that the “bleeding” had stopped.
Let us not forget that we had some excellent managers, some with international experience, previously running Uchumi. They were not able to turn the tide. So what magic will the new management team do following the exact same path and approach that the previous management did?
Instead of raising money from the unsuspecting public the new management team should be discussing and implementing new strategy.
A comment a young bright Kenyan student who scored “B” aggregate in her Form four made in my hearing shortly after Uchumi callpsed, is still ringing in my mind. She asked how does a company like Uchumi go bankrupt? What she meant was that how do you collect so much money and still lose money?
My fear is that many of the investors being rushed into helping raise more money for Uchumi are thinking in their minds; how can Uchumi fail to recover this time?
In other words, the problem with the supermarket business is that too many people assume that it is an easy business to run and harvest profits from. It is not, as has been proved here yet again. Despite massive public goodwill, Uchumi just isn't working.
My recommendation to save the situation before it is too late. Call back Suresh Shah and persuade him to take on the challenge (now as a pressing issue of national importance) and then give a free hand to do what is necessary to get Uchumi back into profits.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Tom Mboya’s Birthday: Mere Coincidence?
Here is something really shocking, when you think about what has been happening in this blog over the last few houyrs.
In a few hours time it will be August 15th. Tom Mboya’s birthday.
Had this Kenyan hero lived he would have been 77, a year older than President Kibaki and 3 years younger than Vice President Moody Awori.
If it were possible for people to celebrate their birthdays in the grave, this birthday would have been the happiest and most memorable for TJ, as his friends called him. What would have made him happiest is that his younger son (just 21 months old when he was gunned down in Nairobi that fateful July lunch time in 1969, has come of age and shown the same courage he himself showed in challenging the mighty British government. A government that just 5 years earlier in 1952, had crushed the Mau Mau land uprising with such ruthlessness that somebody would have to be out of their minds to dare challenge them.
Pictures speak 1000 words and this one does. Note Kenyatta's expression and Mboya's beaming confidence. The man directly behind them is Njoroge Mungai a nephew to Kenyatta and a member of Kenyatta's dreaded kitchen cabinet.
Videos of Tom Mboya's Funeral;
1. http://www.tommboya.com/video/3465_26_56k.wmv
2. http://www.tommboya.com/video/funeral.wmv
3.
http://www.tommboya.com/video/funeral%20clip%20full%20resolution_56k.wmv
Tom would also have no doubt been deeply intrigued that technology has now allowed a leading Kenyan blog to publish an open letter addressed to persons still living who know a lot about his assassination.
Nothing happens by accident and life really has no coincidences. This is the time for Kenya’s healing and it has to start with the solving of the mystery of the Mboya assassination.
Why is it so important? What is so special about Mboya that is different with JM, Pinto, Ouko and the other political assassinations?
Mboya is important because he played a very key role in Kenya winning independence from her colonial masters. It is ironic that he never lost his life in the hands of the colonialists, but instead he was felled by his own people. Fellow Kenyans anxious to continue grabbing and getting rich at the expense of the masses.
But even more important Mboya’s assassination helped entrench a terrible habit amongst Kenyans of having no interest in her true heroes and heroines. Instead we choose to idolize the stinking rich who have robbed us blind to become so. That is why we have little regard today for Kenneth Matiba, Wangari Mathai and others who risked their lives to confront evil in this country.
Mboya’s successful assassination was also a great victory for corruption because he stood in the way of those who never fought and risked and yet wanted to be overnight millionaires in the new Kenya, and sadly they succeeded. The reason why others were killed after Mboya is simply because somebody must have said repeatedly; “if we killed Mboya and nothing happened, who does so and so think they are?”
My close friend and a true friend of Kenya (because she has done more for the country than all the rest of us here put together) Marianne Briner has put her many year’s friendship on the line by writing an open letter to a man who knows a lot about the Mboya murder. I support her with everything I’ve got.
My appeal to all you dear Kenyans is that you join me and her in this noble and fundamental campaign to demand justice as a way of the country finding her way again. As somebody has so aptly quoted our national anthem so well (Tom Mboya made major contributions to it);
Oh God of All creation
Bless this our land and nation
Justice be our shield and defender
Ukweli Sasa!!
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In a few hours time it will be August 15th. Tom Mboya’s birthday.
Had this Kenyan hero lived he would have been 77, a year older than President Kibaki and 3 years younger than Vice President Moody Awori.
If it were possible for people to celebrate their birthdays in the grave, this birthday would have been the happiest and most memorable for TJ, as his friends called him. What would have made him happiest is that his younger son (just 21 months old when he was gunned down in Nairobi that fateful July lunch time in 1969, has come of age and shown the same courage he himself showed in challenging the mighty British government. A government that just 5 years earlier in 1952, had crushed the Mau Mau land uprising with such ruthlessness that somebody would have to be out of their minds to dare challenge them.
Pictures speak 1000 words and this one does. Note Kenyatta's expression and Mboya's beaming confidence. The man directly behind them is Njoroge Mungai a nephew to Kenyatta and a member of Kenyatta's dreaded kitchen cabinet.
Videos of Tom Mboya's Funeral;
1. http://www.tommboya.com/video/3465_26_56k.wmv
2. http://www.tommboya.com/video/funeral.wmv
3.
http://www.tommboya.com/video/funeral%20clip%20full%20resolution_56k.wmv
Tom would also have no doubt been deeply intrigued that technology has now allowed a leading Kenyan blog to publish an open letter addressed to persons still living who know a lot about his assassination.
Nothing happens by accident and life really has no coincidences. This is the time for Kenya’s healing and it has to start with the solving of the mystery of the Mboya assassination.
Why is it so important? What is so special about Mboya that is different with JM, Pinto, Ouko and the other political assassinations?
Mboya is important because he played a very key role in Kenya winning independence from her colonial masters. It is ironic that he never lost his life in the hands of the colonialists, but instead he was felled by his own people. Fellow Kenyans anxious to continue grabbing and getting rich at the expense of the masses.
But even more important Mboya’s assassination helped entrench a terrible habit amongst Kenyans of having no interest in her true heroes and heroines. Instead we choose to idolize the stinking rich who have robbed us blind to become so. That is why we have little regard today for Kenneth Matiba, Wangari Mathai and others who risked their lives to confront evil in this country.
Mboya’s successful assassination was also a great victory for corruption because he stood in the way of those who never fought and risked and yet wanted to be overnight millionaires in the new Kenya, and sadly they succeeded. The reason why others were killed after Mboya is simply because somebody must have said repeatedly; “if we killed Mboya and nothing happened, who does so and so think they are?”
My close friend and a true friend of Kenya (because she has done more for the country than all the rest of us here put together) Marianne Briner has put her many year’s friendship on the line by writing an open letter to a man who knows a lot about the Mboya murder. I support her with everything I’ve got.
My appeal to all you dear Kenyans is that you join me and her in this noble and fundamental campaign to demand justice as a way of the country finding her way again. As somebody has so aptly quoted our national anthem so well (Tom Mboya made major contributions to it);
Oh God of All creation
Bless this our land and nation
Justice be our shield and defender
Ukweli Sasa!!
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Nation Published Sunday’s Headline Today, Two Days Later
Is it the influence of this blog, or is it mere coincidence?
I complained here about how the newspapers have put commercial interests ahead of everything and pushed news on the Kakamega landslide aside in favor of political features.
Now in today’s Nation, they seem to have corrected the situation and this important national tragedy has finally gotten its’ deserved main splash headline albeit two days later.
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I complained here about how the newspapers have put commercial interests ahead of everything and pushed news on the Kakamega landslide aside in favor of political features.
Now in today’s Nation, they seem to have corrected the situation and this important national tragedy has finally gotten its’ deserved main splash headline albeit two days later.
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Next Kamukunji MP May Be Decided by Influential Foreigners
Countdown to the Mother of All General Elections In Kenya: 2007
One of the parliamentary seats in the country that is bound to be the most hotly contested is the Kamukunji seat in Nairobi. Already the field is overcrowded with prominent personalities like lawyer Patrice Lumumba and popular evangelist and presidential hopeful, Pius Muiru announcing their candidature.
Word on the ground is that it will be easier for Mount Kenya to throw itself into Lake Victoria than it would be for the incumbent Norman Nyagah to win re-election. It is even said that currently he is not able to access his office in the constituency where his CDF cheque book is locked up and is therefore unable to put the idle funds to use, a major bone of contention most of his constituents seem to have with him.
Ironically this was Tom Mboya's old parliamentary seat. The seat he defended in his entire lifetime and resisted all pressure to join the mass exodus to rural seats. Still plenty has changed here since 1969. Probably the biggest change which is bound to influence the election outcome is the influx of foreigners in the expansive Eastleigh estate, which is part of the constituency. Most of these foreigners are of Somali origin and the Kenyan immigration has always had a very difficult time differentiating the local Somali from the foreign Somali. This serious problem was highlighted in the 80s when foreign Somalis pausing as Kenyans forced the British government to reverse an old standing visa arrangement. For years before then, Kenyans, being part of the commonwealth did not require a visa to enter Britain. But so large was the influx of Somalis into hat country with genuine Kenyan passports that this rule was reversed and to date all Kenyans now have to go through hell to gain entry into the United Kingdom. That was the gift from our Somali brothers.
Actually this is one of the major issues that the Americans have with the Kenyan government in connection to the war on terrorism. Non-Kenyan Somalis have no problem obtaining a Kenyan passport let alone an ID and voters card.
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Although I have been unable to ascertain how many Somali refugees are registered as voters, it is clear that the number is large enough to influence the outcome of the elections in this constituency, more so with so many candidates offering themselves, it will mean that the candidate who can get the full backing of the Somalis will be the next Kamukunji MP.
Having so many foreigners in the country has often been looked at negatively. Few have analyzed the positive economic impact of having the very business-minded Somalis in the country. Probably what needs to be done is to step up the screening process so as to limit the bad elements, because the truth is that not all Somalis are gun runners and underworld operatives. For instance Dubai where 80 per cent of the population consists of expatriates, has made a very interesting and effective move to block the entry of undesirables into the country.
Dubai International Airport uses cutting edge Iris recognition technology where your iris (as unique as a fingerprint—your left eye does NOT match with your right) is scanned at the airport and cross-checked against a data base of tens of thousands of undesirables including persons who have tried to enter the United Arab Emirates illegally in the past. The process takes a second. So far over 25,000 undesirable characters have been turned away at the airport within a few months of implementing the system.
Since Kenya has chosen to be a welcoming country (like other great nations of the world) we need to make use of similar technology to protect ourselves.
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One of the parliamentary seats in the country that is bound to be the most hotly contested is the Kamukunji seat in Nairobi. Already the field is overcrowded with prominent personalities like lawyer Patrice Lumumba and popular evangelist and presidential hopeful, Pius Muiru announcing their candidature.
Word on the ground is that it will be easier for Mount Kenya to throw itself into Lake Victoria than it would be for the incumbent Norman Nyagah to win re-election. It is even said that currently he is not able to access his office in the constituency where his CDF cheque book is locked up and is therefore unable to put the idle funds to use, a major bone of contention most of his constituents seem to have with him.
Ironically this was Tom Mboya's old parliamentary seat. The seat he defended in his entire lifetime and resisted all pressure to join the mass exodus to rural seats. Still plenty has changed here since 1969. Probably the biggest change which is bound to influence the election outcome is the influx of foreigners in the expansive Eastleigh estate, which is part of the constituency. Most of these foreigners are of Somali origin and the Kenyan immigration has always had a very difficult time differentiating the local Somali from the foreign Somali. This serious problem was highlighted in the 80s when foreign Somalis pausing as Kenyans forced the British government to reverse an old standing visa arrangement. For years before then, Kenyans, being part of the commonwealth did not require a visa to enter Britain. But so large was the influx of Somalis into hat country with genuine Kenyan passports that this rule was reversed and to date all Kenyans now have to go through hell to gain entry into the United Kingdom. That was the gift from our Somali brothers.
Actually this is one of the major issues that the Americans have with the Kenyan government in connection to the war on terrorism. Non-Kenyan Somalis have no problem obtaining a Kenyan passport let alone an ID and voters card.
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Although I have been unable to ascertain how many Somali refugees are registered as voters, it is clear that the number is large enough to influence the outcome of the elections in this constituency, more so with so many candidates offering themselves, it will mean that the candidate who can get the full backing of the Somalis will be the next Kamukunji MP.
Having so many foreigners in the country has often been looked at negatively. Few have analyzed the positive economic impact of having the very business-minded Somalis in the country. Probably what needs to be done is to step up the screening process so as to limit the bad elements, because the truth is that not all Somalis are gun runners and underworld operatives. For instance Dubai where 80 per cent of the population consists of expatriates, has made a very interesting and effective move to block the entry of undesirables into the country.
Dubai International Airport uses cutting edge Iris recognition technology where your iris (as unique as a fingerprint—your left eye does NOT match with your right) is scanned at the airport and cross-checked against a data base of tens of thousands of undesirables including persons who have tried to enter the United Arab Emirates illegally in the past. The process takes a second. So far over 25,000 undesirable characters have been turned away at the airport within a few months of implementing the system.
Since Kenya has chosen to be a welcoming country (like other great nations of the world) we need to make use of similar technology to protect ourselves.
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Some Voters Not Happy With Kibaki In Nyeri
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.
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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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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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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.
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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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Kenyan lover says his girl friend rejected his bizarre gift because she was from another tribe
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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
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
Secretly Investigate Unfaithful cheating spouse in Kenya
How a simple spreadsheet made me rich
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