My recent investigations indicate that executives at the leading daily newspapers in the country are extremely worried over the recent behavior of newspaper circulation.
Let me give you a little background. Usually in election years, newspapers tend to report huge windfall profits as election fever grips the country. This has not happened this time round. If anything both the two leading daily newspapers have been struggling to sell a respectable number of newspapers daily.
What is really worrying is that the editorial costs of covering the elections usually run into millions and the newspapers have never had any problems covering it because of the usual windfall circulation profits that start pouring in early in the year.
And falling circulation is not entirely their fault. The dwindling purchasing power of ordinary Kenyans that has now made a newspaper a luxury that most cannot afford, is the main culprit. Then technology has wrecked havoc. Lifestyles have actually been turned upside down by technology. For example in the 80s the first thing I would do when I got up in the morning was to turn on the radio. Why? To make sure that everything was OK and loved ones are OK. If I was not buying a newspaper on my way to work that day, I would at least stop at the vendors and scrutinize the headlines. Now technology has wiped out that need. When most people get up in the morning these days, the first thing they do is pick up their cell phones and switch them on if they were off. Once my dad was sick and I received an SMS within minutes although I was thousands of miles away. Apparently all my brothers switch off their phones at night and I was the only one whose phone was on at 4:30 am.
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So the culture of purchasing newspapers even for election news is rapidly fading.
The newspapers themselves cannot be absolved from blame entirely. The truth is that our Kenyan newspapers have never really adapted to a more analytical role which is necessary with all the TV news from a handful of TV stations available for free the evening before. You do not want to read the same thing you heard in the TV news the next morning, but you surely want your questions answered in some deep analysis explaining the news you saw. Only half-hearted attempts have been made in that direction.
Part of the problem is that the editorial decision makers still polluting our newspapers have been there a long time and naturally making changes is too hard for them.
The falling circulation explains the reason why ODM must feature in the headline daily for newspapers to sell. It also explains the mergence of the design department that now plays a much more prominent role in the design of the front page.
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Saturday, August 25, 2007
How The Nairobi Star Lost Its' Soul In A Crisis
So what happens to the smaller newspapers when the big boys are "bleeding?" Answer; things are worse for them.
My informed calculations indicate that the recently launched Nairobi Star is "bleeding" and "bleeding very badly."
It was assumed when this baby was on the drawing boards that the huge popularity of KissFM would lift the newspaper above the horrifying daily expenses of doing a full color newspaper without your own printing press. It is very clear that certain structural mistakes which were made when the paper was launched have come back to haunt them.
For instance full color may be desirable in all the pages, but it does not sell newspapers on its' own. Content does and the Nairobi Star does not have very much of it.
It I also clear that when hit by the angry reaction of its' readers in releasing the first issue, those making key decisions at the newspaper must have panicked and listened too closely t reader comments and suggestions, so much so that the newspaper lost it's very soul. The result is there for all to see. I find it extremely difficult to define the Nairobi Star. It has ended up being a newspaper without character. It is not the sexy tabloid the founders envisaged on the drawing boards and neither is it a better Standard newspaper (don't even mention Nation). It is a poor imitation of the Kenya Times with much less content but aiming to sell at the same price as the Nation. OUCH. Sorry if I sound too harsh, but that is the reality on the ground and the way many readers view it. Had it gone ahead and positioned itself as something different, we would now be talking a different story.
Talking of positioning, the Star was launched as "the daily magazine that looks like a newspaper" and yet has missed the opportunity to be Kenya's first authoritatively analytical newspaper. The truth is that this newspaper is very thin on features but has lots of news told too briefly.
I have worked in a newspaper and can empathize with what must be going on in the bowels of the Nairobi Star.
In trying to desperately stem the bleeding, nobody is pursuing story ideas that would have made this newspaper different. For example a story on why Kamangu so popular with the ladies these days would have worked quite well and raised circulation. Or an investigative piece on big names in big cars caught on Koinange Street after 9 pm.
What has happened instead is that the newspaper has listened to readers who are not newspaper experts and they have cut drastically cut down on sex content without realizing that one of the things about sex is that everybody thinks it is dirty but guess who keeps the huge prostitution industry in Kenya going. Sex sells without fail and so does scandal.
I suspect that the Nairobi Star proprietor, judging by the circles he moves in, has found himself faced with that classic dilemmas many serious publishers have to face. This is whether to publish a newspaper that will not make him feel embarrassed when he is with his friends at the club or whether to publish a newspaper that sells. The most successful newspaper publisher in the world Rupert Murdoch has faced the same dilemma because most of his profits come from newspapers that his friends prefer to call rags and so at great expense he has acquired Newspapers like The Times and created others like The Australian which hardly makes him any money and more often than not lose him a lot of money, just to keep his sanity amongst peers. KissFM may be explicit but radio has a way of neatly segmenting it's audience so that everybody gets to listen to exactly what they want to listen to at a time that is convenient to them. With newspapers everybody sees everything and is and it is all "in writing."
In my view the crux of the problem at the Nairobi Star is the fact that proprietor Patrick Quracoo does not understand newspapers and it is not the same thing as radio, which he understand extremely well. Unless something different and drastic happens soon, I don't envisage the Star celebrating it's first birthday.
Other stories on the Nairobi Star In This blog;
Email analysis of the Nairobi Star
Leaked early info about the Nairobi Star before it was launched
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My informed calculations indicate that the recently launched Nairobi Star is "bleeding" and "bleeding very badly."
It was assumed when this baby was on the drawing boards that the huge popularity of KissFM would lift the newspaper above the horrifying daily expenses of doing a full color newspaper without your own printing press. It is very clear that certain structural mistakes which were made when the paper was launched have come back to haunt them.
For instance full color may be desirable in all the pages, but it does not sell newspapers on its' own. Content does and the Nairobi Star does not have very much of it.
It I also clear that when hit by the angry reaction of its' readers in releasing the first issue, those making key decisions at the newspaper must have panicked and listened too closely t reader comments and suggestions, so much so that the newspaper lost it's very soul. The result is there for all to see. I find it extremely difficult to define the Nairobi Star. It has ended up being a newspaper without character. It is not the sexy tabloid the founders envisaged on the drawing boards and neither is it a better Standard newspaper (don't even mention Nation). It is a poor imitation of the Kenya Times with much less content but aiming to sell at the same price as the Nation. OUCH. Sorry if I sound too harsh, but that is the reality on the ground and the way many readers view it. Had it gone ahead and positioned itself as something different, we would now be talking a different story.
Talking of positioning, the Star was launched as "the daily magazine that looks like a newspaper" and yet has missed the opportunity to be Kenya's first authoritatively analytical newspaper. The truth is that this newspaper is very thin on features but has lots of news told too briefly.
I have worked in a newspaper and can empathize with what must be going on in the bowels of the Nairobi Star.
In trying to desperately stem the bleeding, nobody is pursuing story ideas that would have made this newspaper different. For example a story on why Kamangu so popular with the ladies these days would have worked quite well and raised circulation. Or an investigative piece on big names in big cars caught on Koinange Street after 9 pm.
What has happened instead is that the newspaper has listened to readers who are not newspaper experts and they have cut drastically cut down on sex content without realizing that one of the things about sex is that everybody thinks it is dirty but guess who keeps the huge prostitution industry in Kenya going. Sex sells without fail and so does scandal.
I suspect that the Nairobi Star proprietor, judging by the circles he moves in, has found himself faced with that classic dilemmas many serious publishers have to face. This is whether to publish a newspaper that will not make him feel embarrassed when he is with his friends at the club or whether to publish a newspaper that sells. The most successful newspaper publisher in the world Rupert Murdoch has faced the same dilemma because most of his profits come from newspapers that his friends prefer to call rags and so at great expense he has acquired Newspapers like The Times and created others like The Australian which hardly makes him any money and more often than not lose him a lot of money, just to keep his sanity amongst peers. KissFM may be explicit but radio has a way of neatly segmenting it's audience so that everybody gets to listen to exactly what they want to listen to at a time that is convenient to them. With newspapers everybody sees everything and is and it is all "in writing."
In my view the crux of the problem at the Nairobi Star is the fact that proprietor Patrick Quracoo does not understand newspapers and it is not the same thing as radio, which he understand extremely well. Unless something different and drastic happens soon, I don't envisage the Star celebrating it's first birthday.
Other stories on the Nairobi Star In This blog;
Email analysis of the Nairobi Star
Leaked early info about the Nairobi Star before it was launched
Why married women cheat
What I Would Do If I Was Given The Chance To Turn Around The Nairobi Star
I have devoted most of my adult life to understanding newspapers and why they make or lose money. In that time I have launched no less than seven newspapers either for myself or others. They say the best captain to sail with is the one who has been shipwrecked because he knows where all the rocks are. I am that captain but I have also been involved in the sensational turnaround of a monthly business magazine that was losing a lot of money.
Little wonder that I was able to easily transfer my talents online to run successful moneymaking blogs, such as this one you are reading.
Here's what I would do if I were given a chance to turn around the Nairobi Star. My hope is that those involved with the newspaper will pick up an idea or two that they can use.
I would neatly divide all the content into 2. Firstly long detailed articles, either exclusive features or thoughtful political and news analysis as well as human-interest tales. The second group would consist of numerous very brief stories. I would never attempt to carry a current news story that goes beyond two short paragraphs. This blog can offer numerous ideas for exclusives that would help them sell at least 50,000 copies daily.
I would then change the advertising strategy and target the hundreds of thousands of smaller advertisers whom the bigger newspapers are currently ignoring. Interestingly every publication in Kenya is targeting the same up-market advertisers. As a huge market of untargeted advertisers is completely ignored. There are many ways to do this but one of the easiest is to make it easy to book advertisements in The Nairobi Star. For isntance making it possible to book a classified ad worth Kshs 200 where cash can be sent in either using Safaricom's M-Pesa or airtime (this is easy to cash). I would also run competitions to encourage people to get into the habit of advertising, as well as start a lonely hearts column where people pay for the ads.
In brief I would seek to recover the soul of the Nairobi Star while exploring new revenue generating profit centres while at the same time making it a fun newspaper for the target market. I would endeavor to create a newspaper that looks as different as possible from the other mainstream dailies. I would also run competitions that cross promote KissFM and Nairobi Star in both media outlets.
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Little wonder that I was able to easily transfer my talents online to run successful moneymaking blogs, such as this one you are reading.
Here's what I would do if I were given a chance to turn around the Nairobi Star. My hope is that those involved with the newspaper will pick up an idea or two that they can use.
I would neatly divide all the content into 2. Firstly long detailed articles, either exclusive features or thoughtful political and news analysis as well as human-interest tales. The second group would consist of numerous very brief stories. I would never attempt to carry a current news story that goes beyond two short paragraphs. This blog can offer numerous ideas for exclusives that would help them sell at least 50,000 copies daily.
I would then change the advertising strategy and target the hundreds of thousands of smaller advertisers whom the bigger newspapers are currently ignoring. Interestingly every publication in Kenya is targeting the same up-market advertisers. As a huge market of untargeted advertisers is completely ignored. There are many ways to do this but one of the easiest is to make it easy to book advertisements in The Nairobi Star. For isntance making it possible to book a classified ad worth Kshs 200 where cash can be sent in either using Safaricom's M-Pesa or airtime (this is easy to cash). I would also run competitions to encourage people to get into the habit of advertising, as well as start a lonely hearts column where people pay for the ads.
In brief I would seek to recover the soul of the Nairobi Star while exploring new revenue generating profit centres while at the same time making it a fun newspaper for the target market. I would endeavor to create a newspaper that looks as different as possible from the other mainstream dailies. I would also run competitions that cross promote KissFM and Nairobi Star in both media outlets.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
Moi's Secret Plan To Demolish Raila's Presidential Ambitions
I am told that today's Nairobi Star has an interesting albeit very brief story about Moi's secret plan to destroy Raila Odinga's chances of ascending to the presidency. I am a little surprised because that was the exact information I was going to share today and I have a little more information than the Nairobi Star, thanks to my faithful team of informants who are the real power of this blog.
The Rift Valley is one place that no presidential contender can afford to take lightly. Not only are there a very high number of votes in the province but the province also boasts of the highest number of parliamentary seats. Moi and his cronies seem to be pretty sure that they hold sway in Rift Valley and both Baba Gidi and Gidi himself (reputed to be the richest Kenyan and the second richest respectively) are hatching a plot to neutralize Raila Odinga's popularity in the province.
The plan is to position Cyrus Jirongo's Kaddu as the party to vote for in the expansive Rift Valley. Already it is very clear that if Musalia Mudavadi does not emerge as the ODM presidential candidate, the Luhya community will make good their earlier threat to rethink their political position and will therefore mostly vote for Cyrus Jirongo and his Kaddu party.
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Actually many analysts are unaware of the aggressive campaign that the former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo has been carrying out in many parts of Western province since last year. He has been assisted by the Editor of the alternative press newspaper Citizen Weekly (which sells briskly in the province), Tom Alwaka. Alwaka is himself a candidate in the region and has been campaigning aggressively for sometime now. When Cyrus Jirongo declares his candidature for the presidency, which should be fairly soon, then a sizeable number of Luhya votes should go his way. And if Moi delivers the Rift Valley, then it will mean that Jirongo will be a major force to reckon with in the 10th parliament.
The whole objective is to win as many parliamentary seats as possible and then support President Kibaki, which will guarantee them prominence in the next Kibaki government of national unity (assuming that Emilio emerges the winner for a second term).
Naturally all these things go with timing, which is of utmost importance. Jirongo will make his announcement only after the ODM presidential candidate is named and Musalia Mudavadi will have lost his bid to the party's presidential flag bearer.
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The Rift Valley is one place that no presidential contender can afford to take lightly. Not only are there a very high number of votes in the province but the province also boasts of the highest number of parliamentary seats. Moi and his cronies seem to be pretty sure that they hold sway in Rift Valley and both Baba Gidi and Gidi himself (reputed to be the richest Kenyan and the second richest respectively) are hatching a plot to neutralize Raila Odinga's popularity in the province.
The plan is to position Cyrus Jirongo's Kaddu as the party to vote for in the expansive Rift Valley. Already it is very clear that if Musalia Mudavadi does not emerge as the ODM presidential candidate, the Luhya community will make good their earlier threat to rethink their political position and will therefore mostly vote for Cyrus Jirongo and his Kaddu party.
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Actually many analysts are unaware of the aggressive campaign that the former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo has been carrying out in many parts of Western province since last year. He has been assisted by the Editor of the alternative press newspaper Citizen Weekly (which sells briskly in the province), Tom Alwaka. Alwaka is himself a candidate in the region and has been campaigning aggressively for sometime now. When Cyrus Jirongo declares his candidature for the presidency, which should be fairly soon, then a sizeable number of Luhya votes should go his way. And if Moi delivers the Rift Valley, then it will mean that Jirongo will be a major force to reckon with in the 10th parliament.
The whole objective is to win as many parliamentary seats as possible and then support President Kibaki, which will guarantee them prominence in the next Kibaki government of national unity (assuming that Emilio emerges the winner for a second term).
Naturally all these things go with timing, which is of utmost importance. Jirongo will make his announcement only after the ODM presidential candidate is named and Musalia Mudavadi will have lost his bid to the party's presidential flag bearer.
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What Is Moi's Real Motivation?
There is an emerging debate as to what former President Moi's real motivation in wanting to do everything to deny Raila the presidency is.
Raila supporters say that the day Raila is sworn in at as the fourth president of Kenya at Uhuru Park, the moment he puts the bible down, Baba Gidi and Gidi will be behind bars. Some people believe that this is what drives the aging Moi to spend all his spare time these days plotting for Raila's downfall.
However those close to Moi disagree. They say that the old man has said several times in recent weeks that he is not frightened of a Raila presidency. He points out that if Kibaki was not able to prosecute him, then who is Raila? It is said that he has told close aides that he and Gideon are well able to take care of themselves.
So why is the former president so much against a Raila presidency, if he feels that he can take care f himself. Moi's aides and supporters claim that their man wants to save the country from blood shed.
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It is said that President Kibaki's supporters will gladly hand over power to all other presidential candidates save Raila Odinga. It is whispered in the corridors of power that they would rather go to war than hand over the presidency to Raila Odinga. So to avert this danger, Moi's aides say, he is doing everything to ensure that Raila does not win the presidency.
Indeed noted political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi (before he crossed the floor to be one of the president's Kibaki's advisors) said in one of his columns in the Daily Nation that he doubts if President Kibaki's to advisors would allow him to hand over power in th event that he is defeated.
I have also expressed my doubts over this. You only need to observe carefully what happened immediately after the referendum to realize that this is no idle threat.
However I can still not see Moi being a saver and his motives are mor selfish than selfless and mainly aimed at securing a viable future for his favorite son, Gideon. That future, it seems looks pretty bleak with a Raila presidency.
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Raila supporters say that the day Raila is sworn in at as the fourth president of Kenya at Uhuru Park, the moment he puts the bible down, Baba Gidi and Gidi will be behind bars. Some people believe that this is what drives the aging Moi to spend all his spare time these days plotting for Raila's downfall.
However those close to Moi disagree. They say that the old man has said several times in recent weeks that he is not frightened of a Raila presidency. He points out that if Kibaki was not able to prosecute him, then who is Raila? It is said that he has told close aides that he and Gideon are well able to take care of themselves.
So why is the former president so much against a Raila presidency, if he feels that he can take care f himself. Moi's aides and supporters claim that their man wants to save the country from blood shed.
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It is said that President Kibaki's supporters will gladly hand over power to all other presidential candidates save Raila Odinga. It is whispered in the corridors of power that they would rather go to war than hand over the presidency to Raila Odinga. So to avert this danger, Moi's aides say, he is doing everything to ensure that Raila does not win the presidency.
Indeed noted political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi (before he crossed the floor to be one of the president's Kibaki's advisors) said in one of his columns in the Daily Nation that he doubts if President Kibaki's to advisors would allow him to hand over power in th event that he is defeated.
I have also expressed my doubts over this. You only need to observe carefully what happened immediately after the referendum to realize that this is no idle threat.
However I can still not see Moi being a saver and his motives are mor selfish than selfless and mainly aimed at securing a viable future for his favorite son, Gideon. That future, it seems looks pretty bleak with a Raila presidency.
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The Powerful Forces That DID NOT Want Raila To Be President in 2007
Analysts including this blogger have long pointed to the powerful anti-Raila forces that seem prepared to do anything to ensure that Raila never sees the inside of State House as the main occupant.
Top on that list is Moi, whose tentacles after 24 years as Kenya's presidency spread far and wide, giving him plenty of influence, even when he is no longer president. Then there is the fact that he is rated as the richest Kenyan alive by many people who also place his son Gideon at number two, in terms of wealth. Money usually does miracles in Kenya and magically opens ever doors that have previously been firmly shut for a long time. There is little doubt that a lot of the Moi family fortunes will be put to work against Raila.
Top on that list is Moi, whose tentacles after 24 years as Kenya's presidency spread far and wide, giving him plenty of influence, even when he is no longer president. Then there is the fact that he is rated as the richest Kenyan alive by many people who also place his son Gideon at number two, in terms of wealth. Money usually does miracles in Kenya and magically opens ever doors that have previously been firmly shut for a long time. There is little doubt that a lot of the Moi family fortunes will be put to work against Raila.
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Then there is the Central Kenya billionaires club. This consists mainly of people who made their money during the Kenyatta days. Many of these men are in the twilight years of their life and are extremely anxious that the country avoids a Luo presidency at all costs. These individuals who even Kumekucha is frightened to mention here are prepared to do anything (and I mean anything) to ensure that the son of Jaramogi never carries the title of "your excellency" either in the lifetime or after. The kind of treatement Raila received at the Karatina Tourist Hotel, gives Kenyans just a small glimpse into the thinking of this group. You can be sure if the person involved was either Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi or William Ruto, they WOULD NOT have been ejected out of the hotel like Raila was.
Indeed close Raila supporters acknowledge the fact that their candidate's life has been in a lot of anger for a long time, but they insist that he has some certain "magical powers" he was born with that help him evade danger and see plots against his life even as they are being hatched. Remember what Raila said about the Artur brothers and their real mission to Kenya?
There is yet another more sober group of presidential advisors who are younger and more thoughtful and analytical. This group is also against a Raila presidency because it is deeply worried at what it sees as Raila's vengeful character. They point to several examples to prove their point. The most chilling is the one that involves former Rangwe legislator, Shem Ochudho, who fell out badly with Raila in the run up to the 2002 elections. Reliable sources insist that Mr Odinga went to great lengths to block Ochudho's appointment to the Kenya Pipeline, using his great influence in government at the time, when he was still with President Kibaki. Raila failed but many people carefully and quietly watching were taken aback at how vengefully he had acted against his former ally. This group of advisors mainly from the Mount Kenya region are sure that a Raila presidency at this point in time could spell disaster for Kenya.
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Then there is the Central Kenya billionaires club. This consists mainly of people who made their money during the Kenyatta days. Many of these men are in the twilight years of their life and are extremely anxious that the country avoids a Luo presidency at all costs. These individuals who even Kumekucha is frightened to mention here are prepared to do anything (and I mean anything) to ensure that the son of Jaramogi never carries the title of "your excellency" either in the lifetime or after. The kind of treatement Raila received at the Karatina Tourist Hotel, gives Kenyans just a small glimpse into the thinking of this group. You can be sure if the person involved was either Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi or William Ruto, they WOULD NOT have been ejected out of the hotel like Raila was.
Indeed close Raila supporters acknowledge the fact that their candidate's life has been in a lot of anger for a long time, but they insist that he has some certain "magical powers" he was born with that help him evade danger and see plots against his life even as they are being hatched. Remember what Raila said about the Artur brothers and their real mission to Kenya?
There is yet another more sober group of presidential advisors who are younger and more thoughtful and analytical. This group is also against a Raila presidency because it is deeply worried at what it sees as Raila's vengeful character. They point to several examples to prove their point. The most chilling is the one that involves former Rangwe legislator, Shem Ochudho, who fell out badly with Raila in the run up to the 2002 elections. Reliable sources insist that Mr Odinga went to great lengths to block Ochudho's appointment to the Kenya Pipeline, using his great influence in government at the time, when he was still with President Kibaki. Raila failed but many people carefully and quietly watching were taken aback at how vengefully he had acted against his former ally. This group of advisors mainly from the Mount Kenya region are sure that a Raila presidency at this point in time could spell disaster for Kenya.
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Then there is the group that consists mainly of dark figures who deliberately stay out of public limelight but are very influential. Many of them are involved in corrupt deals with government departments and a few are even in the illegal drug business. This crooks can clearly read the writing on the wall and they do not like it one bit. The direction that the country wuld head under a Raila presidency would be one where the common man would have the sort of say he/she has never had since independence. This would naturally mean an end to their lucrative and mostly illegal business, which they will do anything to protect.
Now the big question is this; Can Raila Odinga defeat all these powerful forces to ascend to the presidency?
My honest, impartial and thoroughly analyzed verdict is; "NO." Find out Raila's latest obstacles to the presidency in 2023
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Then there is the group that consists mainly of dark figures who deliberately stay out of public limelight but are very influential. Many of them are involved in corrupt deals with government departments and a few are even in the illegal drug business. This crooks can clearly read the writing on the wall and they do not like it one bit. The direction that the country wuld head under a Raila presidency would be one where the common man would have the sort of say he/she has never had since independence. This would naturally mean an end to their lucrative and mostly illegal business, which they will do anything to protect.
Now the big question is this; Can Raila Odinga defeat all these powerful forces to ascend to the presidency?
My honest, impartial and thoroughly analyzed verdict is; "NO." Find out Raila's latest obstacles to the presidency in 2023
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Why Are Kenyans Sending Nyama Choma Home From The US?
Do you want to torture some information out of a Kenyan? That's easy, especially if that Kenyan has not had Nyama choma or specifically mbuzi choma for a long time all you need to do is show them photographs of Nyama choma or even better present a few pieces of well roasted nyam choms and then you can start asking all the questions you want.
"What do you know about XYZ? Tell me everything you know and all this nyama choma is yours."
If it is genuine Kenyan you are dealing with, I can assure you that they will start talking.
So it is not really surprising that some of the gifts being send back home from Kenyans in the US includes Nyama choma, even whole mbuzis.
The service being used to accomplish this is Mama Mikes, that Kenyan web site that has been helping thousands of Kenyans in the diasporas send home the sort of gifts that inspires villagers to sing their praises for days on end.
According to Mama Mikes they have recently received a request from a customer to buy a pizza for someone in Kenya and to deliver it. That is an interesting prospect receiveing a pizza for lunch all the way from the United States of A.
Other popular requests include paying school fees and recently cell phone airtime which costs only $2.49 to send online at Mama Mikes.
But Kenyans are getting even more creative in their gift giving. Somebody is planning to buy their grandmother a Friesian dairy cow. That is the sort of gift that the recipient will never forget about in a hurry because it gives them a daily source of income in a country where cash is increasingly scarce.
Re-posted with permission from Kenya Online Directory.
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Kumekucha adds;
What I want to know is where the gift ideas are coming from. Is it from abroad or from Kenya? These are very interesting ideas and I'm delighted to see a truly Kenyan website doing so well while at the same time helping to bring a smile to the face of Kenyans badly hit by Kibakinomics which has made cash a very scarce thing indeed.
The torture idea is really interesting and the many NSIS agents here should quickly take up this tip and start interrogating Kenyans. I can imagine some of the questions;
Do you know Kumekucha's true identity?
What do you know about the political plans of one John Githongo?
Tuambie kila kitu na hii mbuzi choma ni yako.
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Thursday, August 23, 2007
Predictions About Kalonzo Musyoka And Akamba Beliefs
A Kamba man and one of the staunch supporters of Presidential hopeful Kalonzo Musyoka, told this blogger such a bizarre tale about the candidate the other day, that my ears are still ringing from what I heard.
So bizarre is this tale that I have debated long and hard whether or not to include it in this blog. If I had opted not to share it, I would be denying my readers information and yet the reason I set up this blog in the first place was to pass on information that nobody else would dare pass on.
If on the other hand I shared it, it would leave me wide open to be misinterpreted.
Alas, being who I am, I have decided to share it.
A while ago, so Kalonzo supporters are saying, a famous and powerful medicine man or witchdoctor predicted that Kalonzo Musyoka would be Kenya's next president. But, the medicine man said, his mother would not live to see his presidency. Even the witchdoctor himself would only see him being sworn in and would die a short time after that.
My informant tells me that any doubts Kalonzo may have had about the predictions were destroyed when true to the prediction his mother (whom he was very close to) passed on earlier this year.
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I stared at the man, a staunch Kalonzo supporter who belongs to the Akamba tribe, as he delivered this information with a straight face. He was trying to convince me about the identity of the next president of Kenya. I suspect that the reason why he was telling me all this is that he had heard I was a Kamba and knew that I would "understand." Still, I did not want to believe what he had said and yet it explained a lot of things that had been happening on the local political scene and especially with ODM Kenya. It also explained a lot of the false confidence I had so far seen in Kalonzo Musyoka.
Whether it is true or not, members of the Akamba community are well known for their staunch belief in what is usually referred to as remote control or witchcraft. I learnt this the hard way because although my father hails from the community he has always had a great hatred of witchcraft, but no sooner had I started living on my own, did a long lost uncle turn up warning of dire consequences if we did not go out and seek some "protection". He caught me on the wrong footing and besides I was very young in those days and I allowed myself to be convinced. That was before I became a born again Christian and renounced the whole satanic thing.
Later I understood why people say that even when a Mkamba joins the church and is a staunch Christian, many of them will still carry witch craft protection on them "just in case."
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So bizarre is this tale that I have debated long and hard whether or not to include it in this blog. If I had opted not to share it, I would be denying my readers information and yet the reason I set up this blog in the first place was to pass on information that nobody else would dare pass on.
If on the other hand I shared it, it would leave me wide open to be misinterpreted.
Alas, being who I am, I have decided to share it.
A while ago, so Kalonzo supporters are saying, a famous and powerful medicine man or witchdoctor predicted that Kalonzo Musyoka would be Kenya's next president. But, the medicine man said, his mother would not live to see his presidency. Even the witchdoctor himself would only see him being sworn in and would die a short time after that.
My informant tells me that any doubts Kalonzo may have had about the predictions were destroyed when true to the prediction his mother (whom he was very close to) passed on earlier this year.
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I stared at the man, a staunch Kalonzo supporter who belongs to the Akamba tribe, as he delivered this information with a straight face. He was trying to convince me about the identity of the next president of Kenya. I suspect that the reason why he was telling me all this is that he had heard I was a Kamba and knew that I would "understand." Still, I did not want to believe what he had said and yet it explained a lot of things that had been happening on the local political scene and especially with ODM Kenya. It also explained a lot of the false confidence I had so far seen in Kalonzo Musyoka.
Whether it is true or not, members of the Akamba community are well known for their staunch belief in what is usually referred to as remote control or witchcraft. I learnt this the hard way because although my father hails from the community he has always had a great hatred of witchcraft, but no sooner had I started living on my own, did a long lost uncle turn up warning of dire consequences if we did not go out and seek some "protection". He caught me on the wrong footing and besides I was very young in those days and I allowed myself to be convinced. That was before I became a born again Christian and renounced the whole satanic thing.
Later I understood why people say that even when a Mkamba joins the church and is a staunch Christian, many of them will still carry witch craft protection on them "just in case."
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Where Kalonzo Musyoka Is Today
Today ODM-Kenya are on a 2-day retreat at Lukenya, on the outskirts of Nairobi as you travel towards Machakos. The discussions are centered on getting the most appropriate method of nominating their presidential candidate and also on a strategy for the upcoming general elections. In attendance is everybody from the top brass of the party including Kalonzo Musyoka, lawyer Mutula Kilonzo and Labour Party Of Kenya owner Julia Ojiambo.
As things stand, ODM-Kenya is going to be the party ticket to get anywhere in Ukambani for somebody seeking elective office. But then as Taabu said here yesterday the situation now and leading upto the polls is so fluid that you would be a fool to swear on it or anything else.
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As things stand, ODM-Kenya is going to be the party ticket to get anywhere in Ukambani for somebody seeking elective office. But then as Taabu said here yesterday the situation now and leading upto the polls is so fluid that you would be a fool to swear on it or anything else.
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Presidential Candidates And Witchdoctors
The truth which will be very strongly denied by all is that no major presidential candidate will dream of standing for the presidency anywhere in Africa without consulting a witch doctor.
Prior to the 1992 initial multi-party elections, some curious visitors of the then president arrived from Mombasa, brought to the city by Shariff Nassir. Their mission was to prepare the presidential candidate that Mr Nassir was supporting for the presidency. The "visitors" stayed at a well-known Nairobi hotel.
Another leading presidential contender challenging President Kibaki is said to often seek witch craft powers from West Africa. Don't even talk about MPs because a vast majority of them seek out witch doctors and this period leading up to the elections is a very busy time for medicine men countrywide who usually make a windfall.
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Francis Kennedy
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Things are not any better in Tanzania where a curious incident happened last year as President Kikwete was campaigning for the presidency. A middle aged man slipped through Kikwete's security detail and grabbed the presidential candidate placing him on his shoulders to lift him, before frantic security men contained him and then gave him the beating of his life. Many Tanzanians believe that he did not survive the beatings and in fact passed away.
Later some Tanzanians explained the curious incident to me. The man had been treated by a witch doctor to be invisible but Kikwete's witchcraft protection was too strong and that is why the man had been visible. The person who told me the story was at pains to convince me that this was a very normal occurrence in politics at that level.
This is just one more reason why we need a new generation of leaders who are free from the shackles of such primitive and backward beliefs that are keeping Africa from progressing.
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Prior to the 1992 initial multi-party elections, some curious visitors of the then president arrived from Mombasa, brought to the city by Shariff Nassir. Their mission was to prepare the presidential candidate that Mr Nassir was supporting for the presidency. The "visitors" stayed at a well-known Nairobi hotel.
Another leading presidential contender challenging President Kibaki is said to often seek witch craft powers from West Africa. Don't even talk about MPs because a vast majority of them seek out witch doctors and this period leading up to the elections is a very busy time for medicine men countrywide who usually make a windfall.
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Quip of the week;
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Francis Kennedy
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Things are not any better in Tanzania where a curious incident happened last year as President Kikwete was campaigning for the presidency. A middle aged man slipped through Kikwete's security detail and grabbed the presidential candidate placing him on his shoulders to lift him, before frantic security men contained him and then gave him the beating of his life. Many Tanzanians believe that he did not survive the beatings and in fact passed away.
Later some Tanzanians explained the curious incident to me. The man had been treated by a witch doctor to be invisible but Kikwete's witchcraft protection was too strong and that is why the man had been visible. The person who told me the story was at pains to convince me that this was a very normal occurrence in politics at that level.
This is just one more reason why we need a new generation of leaders who are free from the shackles of such primitive and backward beliefs that are keeping Africa from progressing.
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Countdown Idea From Luke Was Good
As Paul Melly says; "Equal Acres Of Space Should Be Given To All Political Interests."
The idea from one of regulars here, that we should start a count down to the general elections was excellent. Indeed we are going to start one very soon. Actually I am just putting a few finishing touches in place and we launch. For those interested in knowing the idea was suggested by one Luke alias "Admiring the economic growth".
Talking of preparations, the deputy chairman of the Standard Group Paul Melly had a meeting with senior staff this morning and announced that the editorial policy of the groups' main media outlets going into the general elections, namely The Standard newspaper and KTN was to give "equal acres of space to all political interests."
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I stand to be corrected, but firstly this is not humanly possible. It would have to involve editors making measurements of articles carried and time expended on a news item o TV about a certain party and when you consider the fact that we have 250 registered political parties in the country, you will begin to see the nightmare involved.
Then there is the fact that a newspaper is a commercial venture and has to sell and make money to pay staff and bills as well as.
In fact both the Nation and Standard have clearly shown that news items that have anything to do with ODM in the headline seem to outsell every other news item. More killings in Mount Elgon is boring and even a landslide in Kakamega with a high death toll does not interest Kenyans like something… anything about ODM.
These are the brutal facts that have to rule in election coverage by the media.
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The idea from one of regulars here, that we should start a count down to the general elections was excellent. Indeed we are going to start one very soon. Actually I am just putting a few finishing touches in place and we launch. For those interested in knowing the idea was suggested by one Luke alias "Admiring the economic growth".
Talking of preparations, the deputy chairman of the Standard Group Paul Melly had a meeting with senior staff this morning and announced that the editorial policy of the groups' main media outlets going into the general elections, namely The Standard newspaper and KTN was to give "equal acres of space to all political interests."
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I stand to be corrected, but firstly this is not humanly possible. It would have to involve editors making measurements of articles carried and time expended on a news item o TV about a certain party and when you consider the fact that we have 250 registered political parties in the country, you will begin to see the nightmare involved.
Then there is the fact that a newspaper is a commercial venture and has to sell and make money to pay staff and bills as well as.
In fact both the Nation and Standard have clearly shown that news items that have anything to do with ODM in the headline seem to outsell every other news item. More killings in Mount Elgon is boring and even a landslide in Kakamega with a high death toll does not interest Kenyans like something… anything about ODM.
These are the brutal facts that have to rule in election coverage by the media.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Heavy Loss For Government As 2 Media Bills Are Shelved
It was announced late today that President Kibaki has officially declined to sign the media bill and has already written to the speaker of the house giving his reasons for refusing to sign it. He basically repeats what many MPs who voted for the bill already knew and what we have been saying here for weeks—that it contradicts key parts of the constitution.
At the same time Communication Minister Muahi Kagwe told newsmen today that the government has withdrawn the even-more-damaging-to-press-freedom CCK Amendment Act Bill. The minister says that the bill will be re-drafted.
It is unlikely that either bill will make it back to parliament before the elecetions.
That is 3 losses for the government of national unity in a space of about a week. I have included the ill fated bill meant to create new constituencies but sugar-coated with 50 extra seats for women. Going into an election this is very serious. In fact a crisis of sorts.
Just consider the man-hours and resources expended pushing and sponsoring 3 bills that were clearly not a good idea considering the corner the government has worked itself into.
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For those who doubted, this is a clear indicator of just how powerful the media is, and how it is an extremely lousy idea to try and mess up with the fourth estate during an election year. The truth is that the full consequences of this very bad idea are yet to be felt and can only be fully analyzed in January 2008.
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At the same time Communication Minister Muahi Kagwe told newsmen today that the government has withdrawn the even-more-damaging-to-press-freedom CCK Amendment Act Bill. The minister says that the bill will be re-drafted.
It is unlikely that either bill will make it back to parliament before the elecetions.
That is 3 losses for the government of national unity in a space of about a week. I have included the ill fated bill meant to create new constituencies but sugar-coated with 50 extra seats for women. Going into an election this is very serious. In fact a crisis of sorts.
Just consider the man-hours and resources expended pushing and sponsoring 3 bills that were clearly not a good idea considering the corner the government has worked itself into.
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For those who doubted, this is a clear indicator of just how powerful the media is, and how it is an extremely lousy idea to try and mess up with the fourth estate during an election year. The truth is that the full consequences of this very bad idea are yet to be felt and can only be fully analyzed in January 2008.
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Linah Chebii Kilimo Abandons Kalonzo To Support Kibaki's Re-election Bid
The defection of Marakwet East MP and former Migration cabinet minister Linah Chebii Kilimo from ODM-Kenya to the Mwai Kibaki re-election camp today is significant in that it gives us a peek into the thinking that has been going on in the numerous meetings the Kalenjin community have been having over the last few days.
The meetings are part of the tribal groupings that have been coming together to map out strategy for the forthcoming polls and mainly to position communities to reap maximum. Until now the attractive Mrs Kilimo who "escaped the circumcision knife" by a whisker, has been a staunch supporter of Kalonzo Musyoka's ODM. She was even at the forefront of the demonstration to Sheria House that sent shivers down the spine of government and caused them to release the registration certificate pronto. But alas the sacrifice in the end did not amount to much because that is the registration certificate that Kalonzo Musyoka took off with together with his "Mtu wa mkono" Daniel Maanzo. In fact Mrs Kilimo sacrificed much more than risking police brutality in a demonstration because she sacrificed her plum cabinet post by supporting Raila Odinga and LDP in the bitter struggle over another paper called a memorandum of understanding that President Kibaki is said to have agreed to and signed. So when all the renegade cabinet members were being dismissed, Mrs Kilimo was on the list of those shown the door. But I digress.
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It is now very clear that most of Rift Valley will support President Kibaki's re-election bid. That seems to be their game plan for now. I say for now because experienced analysts will tell you that usually when elections are these close the situation is extremely fluid and can change in a matter of hours. To be honest this Rift Valley proposed move, surprises me a little because the signs were clearly pointing to Kanu (the party that a vast majority of senior Kalenjin politicians belong to) supporting a presidential candidate other than Kibaki. It could suggest that Mrs Kilimo and the Rift Valley politicians have some information that that the rest of us do not have, because the last time I checked, the province was deeply divided between ODM and propping up Kanu to field it's own presidential candidate. The shidt to Kibaki is something very new.
An interesting aside is that Mrs Kilimo does not look too fit for a grueling campaign just now since she seems to have put on a considerable amount of extra weight. She needs to a gym for aerobics sessions pronto.
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The meetings are part of the tribal groupings that have been coming together to map out strategy for the forthcoming polls and mainly to position communities to reap maximum. Until now the attractive Mrs Kilimo who "escaped the circumcision knife" by a whisker, has been a staunch supporter of Kalonzo Musyoka's ODM. She was even at the forefront of the demonstration to Sheria House that sent shivers down the spine of government and caused them to release the registration certificate pronto. But alas the sacrifice in the end did not amount to much because that is the registration certificate that Kalonzo Musyoka took off with together with his "Mtu wa mkono" Daniel Maanzo. In fact Mrs Kilimo sacrificed much more than risking police brutality in a demonstration because she sacrificed her plum cabinet post by supporting Raila Odinga and LDP in the bitter struggle over another paper called a memorandum of understanding that President Kibaki is said to have agreed to and signed. So when all the renegade cabinet members were being dismissed, Mrs Kilimo was on the list of those shown the door. But I digress.
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It is now very clear that most of Rift Valley will support President Kibaki's re-election bid. That seems to be their game plan for now. I say for now because experienced analysts will tell you that usually when elections are these close the situation is extremely fluid and can change in a matter of hours. To be honest this Rift Valley proposed move, surprises me a little because the signs were clearly pointing to Kanu (the party that a vast majority of senior Kalenjin politicians belong to) supporting a presidential candidate other than Kibaki. It could suggest that Mrs Kilimo and the Rift Valley politicians have some information that that the rest of us do not have, because the last time I checked, the province was deeply divided between ODM and propping up Kanu to field it's own presidential candidate. The shidt to Kibaki is something very new.
An interesting aside is that Mrs Kilimo does not look too fit for a grueling campaign just now since she seems to have put on a considerable amount of extra weight. She needs to a gym for aerobics sessions pronto.
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Direction Of Luhya Vote Could Decide Elections
The Luhya community have spoken in one voice and have sent a chilling message to Raila Odinga's ODM. Nominate Musalia Mudvadi as the ODM presidential candidate or the community will have to rethink where to pour their support.
Why such cockiness? And why now?
Unknown to most Kenyans, those who do tribal arithmetic regularly are now saying that the current sums minus the Luhya community put president Kibaki and Raila Odinga on a head to head level with no clear winner and it is in fact too close to call.
For all intents and purposes, it seems highly unlikely that ODM-Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka and his Kamba community (the 5th largest community according to Moi's highly suspect census figures) will team up with the original ODM. In fact Mr Musyoka has really been warming up to Kanu in recent weeks. This is in fact a great loss to ODM, although there are those analysts who insist that it was obvious that Kalonzo was not going to remain in ODM and that it is equally obvious that Raila Odinga will be the ODM candidate for president short of which his own supporters could easily lynch him if he suggests anything less. One can't help wondering what will happen if Raila loses the presidential elections to President Kibaki or another candidate.
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This development has suddenly made it crucial for both leading candidates to ensure that they get the Luhya vote. It is no accident that President Kibaki recently toured Western Kenya—the geographical habitation of the Luhya. Raila's strategists are also said to be burning the midnight oil looking for ways and means to clinch the Luhya vote.
Actually I is also important to note that getting the entire Luhya vote as a block is impossible because even if Musalia were to be declared the presidential candidate today, it is highly unlikely that Musikari Kombo's Bukusu will vote for him. That is how explosive Luhya politics is. And that is why it is easier to understand it all when you realize that there is no such tribe as the Luhya tribe. This was simply the administrative name coined by the colonialists to describe the numerous different tribes that they had grouped together for administrative purposes. True there are many similarities between the tribes, but there are also many irreconcilable differences.
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Why such cockiness? And why now?
Unknown to most Kenyans, those who do tribal arithmetic regularly are now saying that the current sums minus the Luhya community put president Kibaki and Raila Odinga on a head to head level with no clear winner and it is in fact too close to call.
For all intents and purposes, it seems highly unlikely that ODM-Kenya, Kalonzo Musyoka and his Kamba community (the 5th largest community according to Moi's highly suspect census figures) will team up with the original ODM. In fact Mr Musyoka has really been warming up to Kanu in recent weeks. This is in fact a great loss to ODM, although there are those analysts who insist that it was obvious that Kalonzo was not going to remain in ODM and that it is equally obvious that Raila Odinga will be the ODM candidate for president short of which his own supporters could easily lynch him if he suggests anything less. One can't help wondering what will happen if Raila loses the presidential elections to President Kibaki or another candidate.
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This development has suddenly made it crucial for both leading candidates to ensure that they get the Luhya vote. It is no accident that President Kibaki recently toured Western Kenya—the geographical habitation of the Luhya. Raila's strategists are also said to be burning the midnight oil looking for ways and means to clinch the Luhya vote.
Actually I is also important to note that getting the entire Luhya vote as a block is impossible because even if Musalia were to be declared the presidential candidate today, it is highly unlikely that Musikari Kombo's Bukusu will vote for him. That is how explosive Luhya politics is. And that is why it is easier to understand it all when you realize that there is no such tribe as the Luhya tribe. This was simply the administrative name coined by the colonialists to describe the numerous different tribes that they had grouped together for administrative purposes. True there are many similarities between the tribes, but there are also many irreconcilable differences.
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Kenyan Presidency Was Not Supposed To Cross River Chania, But God...
"I can already see myself inspecting a guard of honor."
Those were the words of a man who never became president but deeply desired to become the occupant of State House. They were confidently spoken in the mid seventies as President Kenyatta's health detiorated as he drifted in and out of frequent comas. The man who spoke those words is still alive today and his name is Njoroge Mungai. The medical doctor who was so ambitious that legend has it that he one day asked the aging president to declare him heir apparent, was also a nephew to founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
In any event by the time Kenyatta died in 1978, peacefully in his sleep, it looked like nothing could stop another Kiambu Kikuyu ascending to the presidency and that is exactly how the authoritative Time magazine analyzed it. Even when Moi took over in n acting capacity, most analysts agreed he was simply a passing cloud.
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In fact in the mid 70s an oath had been taken amongst those close to president Kenyatta declaring that the presidency would never cross River Chania. Crossing River Chania would mean that the presidency would pass on to a kikuyu from Nyeri.
Then things started happening. Charles Njonjo, himself highly ambitious and after the presidency played his political cards well and red-carded the powerful Njoroge Mingai to political oblivion. Njonjo himself was later red-carded by Moi's kitchen cabinet led by the likes of Nicholas Biwott. The other powerful figure, Mbiyu Koinange died shortly after President Kenyatta died.
But even stranger was the fact that Kenyatta happened to die on one of the very few evenings when Mbiyu Koinange was NOT at his side. He had traveled to Nairobi a few hours before the president's death to take care of family business.
The Presidency actually crossed the River Chania in December 2002 when Mwai Kibaki was elected.
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Those were the words of a man who never became president but deeply desired to become the occupant of State House. They were confidently spoken in the mid seventies as President Kenyatta's health detiorated as he drifted in and out of frequent comas. The man who spoke those words is still alive today and his name is Njoroge Mungai. The medical doctor who was so ambitious that legend has it that he one day asked the aging president to declare him heir apparent, was also a nephew to founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.
In any event by the time Kenyatta died in 1978, peacefully in his sleep, it looked like nothing could stop another Kiambu Kikuyu ascending to the presidency and that is exactly how the authoritative Time magazine analyzed it. Even when Moi took over in n acting capacity, most analysts agreed he was simply a passing cloud.
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"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -- Robert Francis Kennedy
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In fact in the mid 70s an oath had been taken amongst those close to president Kenyatta declaring that the presidency would never cross River Chania. Crossing River Chania would mean that the presidency would pass on to a kikuyu from Nyeri.
Then things started happening. Charles Njonjo, himself highly ambitious and after the presidency played his political cards well and red-carded the powerful Njoroge Mingai to political oblivion. Njonjo himself was later red-carded by Moi's kitchen cabinet led by the likes of Nicholas Biwott. The other powerful figure, Mbiyu Koinange died shortly after President Kenyatta died.
But even stranger was the fact that Kenyatta happened to die on one of the very few evenings when Mbiyu Koinange was NOT at his side. He had traveled to Nairobi a few hours before the president's death to take care of family business.
The Presidency actually crossed the River Chania in December 2002 when Mwai Kibaki was elected.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Why Was Raila Odinga Thrown Out Of A Nyeri Hotel?
Presidential hopeful Raila Odinga was in Nyeri yesterday for the funeral of an LDP official in the district. Two memorable incidents took place.
Firstly here was a skirmish at the funeral when a local in the area was interrupted by rowdy youths as he tried to criticize President Kibaki's administration. Things were so serious that the "speech" had to be cut short. It is not clear why details of this incident are so scanty in the local media.
But there was more drama to follow when Raila was ejected from a Nyeri Hotel because the "owner wanted nothing to do with ODM."
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Both these incidents display the height of political immaturity in the country, although critics would be quick to point out that anybody critical of Raila Odinga would face more or less the same treatment in Kisumu, the bedrock of this presidential candidate's support.
This is clear evidence that the wounds between these two leading tribes in Kenya have never been addresses, let alone any attempt made to heal them. Instead every time I bring up the subject here I am accused of being a tribalist pushing forward a tribal agenda.
Alas, Kenyans for now (read those in power and their agents who pollute this blog in large numbers) prefer to bury their head in the sand and pretend that there is no problem and whoever brings up the subject is a tribalist. So be it.
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Firstly here was a skirmish at the funeral when a local in the area was interrupted by rowdy youths as he tried to criticize President Kibaki's administration. Things were so serious that the "speech" had to be cut short. It is not clear why details of this incident are so scanty in the local media.
But there was more drama to follow when Raila was ejected from a Nyeri Hotel because the "owner wanted nothing to do with ODM."
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Both these incidents display the height of political immaturity in the country, although critics would be quick to point out that anybody critical of Raila Odinga would face more or less the same treatment in Kisumu, the bedrock of this presidential candidate's support.
This is clear evidence that the wounds between these two leading tribes in Kenya have never been addresses, let alone any attempt made to heal them. Instead every time I bring up the subject here I am accused of being a tribalist pushing forward a tribal agenda.
Alas, Kenyans for now (read those in power and their agents who pollute this blog in large numbers) prefer to bury their head in the sand and pretend that there is no problem and whoever brings up the subject is a tribalist. So be it.
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The First Media Bill Was Just Testing The Waters… Prepare Yourselves For "Pravda" In Kenya
Draconian CCK Bill Gives Authority Power To Decide What Gets Covered
The closer election day gets, the more I think that there is somebody within the president's campaign team deliberately doing everything to reduce the chances of the president being re-elected for a second term.
One of the favorite tools this traitor is using is provoking the media.
I say this because even as the President keeps everybody in suspense over the Media Bill that remains unsigned, yet another bill that will affect the operation of the media in Kenya is due for discussion in parliament soon.
I am convinced that the reason why Kenyans have been left hanging over the fate of the Media bill, which has already been passed by parliament is because powerful forces around the president are still pushing hard for him to sign it into law. Chances are high that he will do just that.
Significant proposals in the new proposed law soon to be tabled in the house include a clause that allows the minister in charge of internal security to raid any media house and to take away equipment. Most Kenyans have failed to see the government's position concerning the infamous raid on Standard newspapers where newspapers were set on fire.
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This little clause speaks louder than any government statement or denial crafted by the powerless government spin doctor, Alfred Mutua which are often meaningless. For instance the government says in a statement that they are sensitive to the plight of the common man and then in another statement suddenly bans plastic bags and even worse increases the tax on the plastic bags it leaves in the market. The sum result is a price hike of many basic commodities. Kenyans brace yourself for the October price shock, which has already started happening (have you been to the shops recently to purchase basics like Rice?)
The clause in the proposed CCK bill clearly tells Kenyans that the Kibaki administration has no iota of remorse over the brutal and illegal raid carried out on the Standard newspapers last year, so much so that they now want to legalize the whole process.
It has greatly simplified the choices for Kenyans in the coming general elections. It is now abundantly clear that a vote for Kibaki Abaki is a vote in support of a suppressed media or a vote for no free media at all. It is clearly a vote for Pravda-like media in Kenya. Pravda was the official government newspaper in communist Russia. It is really that simple.
The Kibaki government has been consistent in very few things. But the one thing they have been extremely consistent in doing is reigning in the free media. It started with the Standard raid and moved on to a effort to control the media which culminated in the Media Bill, which the president would just love to sign against his better judgement and is now extended to the pending Communications Commission Of Kenya Amendment Bill and probably many others that will proposed in Kibaki's second term, if Kenyans give him that term.
Many of us do not understand just how difficult it is for our local media to operate. Admittedly this is one of the reasons why this blog is so popular because we can publish things here that the media cannot touch. I also have the huge advantage of operating exclusively on the World Wide Web where informants with ver hot information are numerous, as opposed to a media that is still in control of conservatives who are just now beginning to grasp the power of the web. This is not a black mark against them because even the government itself has not fully grasped the implications of the web, more so what is bound to happen as they continue to pass draconian bills against press freedom.
The truth is that Kenyans are becoming more and more reliant on non-traditional mediums for their information and while it is true that the Internet by itself still does not reach enough Kenyans, when you combine it with word of mouth and the mobile phone, the effect and impact of blogs like this one multiplies many times over.
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The closer election day gets, the more I think that there is somebody within the president's campaign team deliberately doing everything to reduce the chances of the president being re-elected for a second term.
One of the favorite tools this traitor is using is provoking the media.
I say this because even as the President keeps everybody in suspense over the Media Bill that remains unsigned, yet another bill that will affect the operation of the media in Kenya is due for discussion in parliament soon.
I am convinced that the reason why Kenyans have been left hanging over the fate of the Media bill, which has already been passed by parliament is because powerful forces around the president are still pushing hard for him to sign it into law. Chances are high that he will do just that.
Significant proposals in the new proposed law soon to be tabled in the house include a clause that allows the minister in charge of internal security to raid any media house and to take away equipment. Most Kenyans have failed to see the government's position concerning the infamous raid on Standard newspapers where newspapers were set on fire.
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This little clause speaks louder than any government statement or denial crafted by the powerless government spin doctor, Alfred Mutua which are often meaningless. For instance the government says in a statement that they are sensitive to the plight of the common man and then in another statement suddenly bans plastic bags and even worse increases the tax on the plastic bags it leaves in the market. The sum result is a price hike of many basic commodities. Kenyans brace yourself for the October price shock, which has already started happening (have you been to the shops recently to purchase basics like Rice?)
The clause in the proposed CCK bill clearly tells Kenyans that the Kibaki administration has no iota of remorse over the brutal and illegal raid carried out on the Standard newspapers last year, so much so that they now want to legalize the whole process.
It has greatly simplified the choices for Kenyans in the coming general elections. It is now abundantly clear that a vote for Kibaki Abaki is a vote in support of a suppressed media or a vote for no free media at all. It is clearly a vote for Pravda-like media in Kenya. Pravda was the official government newspaper in communist Russia. It is really that simple.
The Kibaki government has been consistent in very few things. But the one thing they have been extremely consistent in doing is reigning in the free media. It started with the Standard raid and moved on to a effort to control the media which culminated in the Media Bill, which the president would just love to sign against his better judgement and is now extended to the pending Communications Commission Of Kenya Amendment Bill and probably many others that will proposed in Kibaki's second term, if Kenyans give him that term.
Many of us do not understand just how difficult it is for our local media to operate. Admittedly this is one of the reasons why this blog is so popular because we can publish things here that the media cannot touch. I also have the huge advantage of operating exclusively on the World Wide Web where informants with ver hot information are numerous, as opposed to a media that is still in control of conservatives who are just now beginning to grasp the power of the web. This is not a black mark against them because even the government itself has not fully grasped the implications of the web, more so what is bound to happen as they continue to pass draconian bills against press freedom.
The truth is that Kenyans are becoming more and more reliant on non-traditional mediums for their information and while it is true that the Internet by itself still does not reach enough Kenyans, when you combine it with word of mouth and the mobile phone, the effect and impact of blogs like this one multiplies many times over.
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Mugambi Imanyara: The Mysterious Lawyer Who Registered ODM Original
The scene was one straight out of some action movie.
Some carjackers attempted approached lawyer Mugambi Imanyara and instead of surrendering his car in the Karen area, what ensued was a fierce gun battle that finally saw the thugs retreating. The incident was reported in the back page of the Daily Nation and many Kenyans admired the bravery of this guy single handedly fighting back against crime.
But until recently Kenyans had not connecting that gun battle incident and the individual involved to the man who registered the Orange Democratic Party and forced the real ODM players to register ODM-Kenya. The man whom it is rumoured was offered Kshs 80 million to surrender the party to Raila Odinga and company.
But even more interesting is the fact that the man turned up for the handing over ceremony whilst armed with a gun. It was clearly sticking out of his back belt for all to see.
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The many clues from his life paint the picture of a very shady character, the sort of man you would panic if left alone with in a room. Incidentally this is the same man who registered New Kanu the party that Hon Nicholas Biwott used in his epic battles against Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta.
In an interview with the Sunday Nation, Mr Imanyara confessed to having had several "secret" meetings with Raila Odinga aides and with Raila himself before releasing the party to them. Why so many meetings if it is indeed true that he handed over the party for free, out of his sudden realization of who the true owners of ODM were?
Then there is the fact that Mr Imanyara recently accepted a government appointment to the Electricity Regulatory Authority not to mention that he is a well know supporter and campaigner for energy minister Kiraitu Murungi after he recently changed his mind not to contest the South Imenti seat himself and instead opted to support the incumbent legislator Kiraitu Murungi.
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Some carjackers attempted approached lawyer Mugambi Imanyara and instead of surrendering his car in the Karen area, what ensued was a fierce gun battle that finally saw the thugs retreating. The incident was reported in the back page of the Daily Nation and many Kenyans admired the bravery of this guy single handedly fighting back against crime.
But until recently Kenyans had not connecting that gun battle incident and the individual involved to the man who registered the Orange Democratic Party and forced the real ODM players to register ODM-Kenya. The man whom it is rumoured was offered Kshs 80 million to surrender the party to Raila Odinga and company.
But even more interesting is the fact that the man turned up for the handing over ceremony whilst armed with a gun. It was clearly sticking out of his back belt for all to see.
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The many clues from his life paint the picture of a very shady character, the sort of man you would panic if left alone with in a room. Incidentally this is the same man who registered New Kanu the party that Hon Nicholas Biwott used in his epic battles against Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta.
In an interview with the Sunday Nation, Mr Imanyara confessed to having had several "secret" meetings with Raila Odinga aides and with Raila himself before releasing the party to them. Why so many meetings if it is indeed true that he handed over the party for free, out of his sudden realization of who the true owners of ODM were?
Then there is the fact that Mr Imanyara recently accepted a government appointment to the Electricity Regulatory Authority not to mention that he is a well know supporter and campaigner for energy minister Kiraitu Murungi after he recently changed his mind not to contest the South Imenti seat himself and instead opted to support the incumbent legislator Kiraitu Murungi.
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Registrar Went Into Hiding Fearing Raila Demo
Why is the government aiding "political entrepreneurs" to make money?
Sources close to the registrar have revealed that the registrar had already gone into hiding anticipating yet another ugly demonstration and she only emerged when it was announced that Raila Odinga had gained control of the original Orange Democratic Party.
This confirms that her instructions NOT to register any new political parties still stands.
Has it occurred to anybody that this decision enables all those opportunists who registered political parties to make money to successful accomplish the ludicrous mission they set out to do. Is somebody in government earning a hefty commission from the deal? Why else would the government deny Kenyans the democratic right by halting the registration of new political parties in an election year?
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Many of these "political entrepreneurs" would have been frustrated if politicians who wanted to stand were able to quickly register their own political parties.
It is interesting that going to 44 years after independence a law that was put in place many to control political opposition is still in place. Namely the law that leaves no space for independent candidates. This was part of the popular amendments to the constitution that were contained in the Ghai draft. It appears that the minimum reforms will never happen but this would have been one of the laws that should have been revised to put out of business the numerous political parties registered with monetary gain in mind. Lawyer Mugambi Imanyara has certainly given Kenyans many political money making ideas.
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Sources close to the registrar have revealed that the registrar had already gone into hiding anticipating yet another ugly demonstration and she only emerged when it was announced that Raila Odinga had gained control of the original Orange Democratic Party.
This confirms that her instructions NOT to register any new political parties still stands.
Has it occurred to anybody that this decision enables all those opportunists who registered political parties to make money to successful accomplish the ludicrous mission they set out to do. Is somebody in government earning a hefty commission from the deal? Why else would the government deny Kenyans the democratic right by halting the registration of new political parties in an election year?
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Many of these "political entrepreneurs" would have been frustrated if politicians who wanted to stand were able to quickly register their own political parties.
It is interesting that going to 44 years after independence a law that was put in place many to control political opposition is still in place. Namely the law that leaves no space for independent candidates. This was part of the popular amendments to the constitution that were contained in the Ghai draft. It appears that the minimum reforms will never happen but this would have been one of the laws that should have been revised to put out of business the numerous political parties registered with monetary gain in mind. Lawyer Mugambi Imanyara has certainly given Kenyans many political money making ideas.
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Monday, August 20, 2007
Is Equity In Financial Problems As The Emails Suggest?
If you believed half of what you read in the emails that have been circulating about Equity Bank you would be expecting the bank to collapse at any time.
Based on the information I have managed to gather this is NOT true.
There are two main things that can cause a bank to go down. Firstly not being able to generate enough revenue and secondly non-performing loans in its' books. Equity suffers none of these two. Interestingly, according to confidential information that I was able to see, almost all the loans the bank gives are very small amounts to individuals and small business people. Meaning that even if some of them were to go bad, it would hardly leave a dent.
But the thing that shocked even me, was the revenue generation happening at the bank. WOW!! Let me simplify it so that everybody can understand.
Equity bank now has 1.4 million account holders. Any seasoned entrepreneur will tell you that when you have critical mass in numbers like these you can hardly go wrong.
Every time those 1.4 millions folks breathe, Equity makes money. Somebody makes a withdrawal and the Equity profits cash till rings. Some of them take short-term loans and again that means money pouring into the bank coffers (the bank still makes vast amounts of its profits from these small short term loans). With 1.4 million people, the numbers tend to add up pretty quickly. If those 1.4 million bank only Kshs 100 weekly the bank ends up with 140 million weekly. We all know that hardly anybody banks Kshs 500 let alone 100 bob. I was quite taken back by some of the truly amazing figures I saw.
In other words, one does not need to be a banking treasury expert to tell that this bank is not collapsing any time soon.
I was rather fascinated by the secret strategy that the bank used to get where it is today, which is incidentally still being used. Many of the account holders started off using the bank as their clearing to collect their salaries or for the purposes of banking their salary cheques. The bank would have staff go from office to office and door to door trying to sign up accounts for salaries. Now the problem that many bigger banks used to have was that people would always have to wait until their salary cheques cleared. Or you would have to kneel before an arrogant bank amanger just to be advanced a paltry amount against your salary chque which you have been bringing to the same bank for years. But at Equity you would take your salary cheque and they would quickly pay you against it (after confirming a few things first, of course). This little seemingly unimportant detail has won the banks hundreds of thousands of accounts. And when you really think about it, there was almost zero risk for the bank because they were simply discounting salary cheques and in effect lending you money for a few days in return for a small fee and you being grateful to them for life. Incidentally the bank still has its' people going round recruiting accounts, something other banks are only just now beginning to catch up to.
Some of you folks may be reading this and wondering what the fuss was all about. Actually you have to be a small man earning a small cheque with no friends in high places in Kenya to understand how revolutionary this small detail appeared to millions of ordinary folks.
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Based on the information I have managed to gather this is NOT true.
There are two main things that can cause a bank to go down. Firstly not being able to generate enough revenue and secondly non-performing loans in its' books. Equity suffers none of these two. Interestingly, according to confidential information that I was able to see, almost all the loans the bank gives are very small amounts to individuals and small business people. Meaning that even if some of them were to go bad, it would hardly leave a dent.
But the thing that shocked even me, was the revenue generation happening at the bank. WOW!! Let me simplify it so that everybody can understand.
Equity bank now has 1.4 million account holders. Any seasoned entrepreneur will tell you that when you have critical mass in numbers like these you can hardly go wrong.
Every time those 1.4 millions folks breathe, Equity makes money. Somebody makes a withdrawal and the Equity profits cash till rings. Some of them take short-term loans and again that means money pouring into the bank coffers (the bank still makes vast amounts of its profits from these small short term loans). With 1.4 million people, the numbers tend to add up pretty quickly. If those 1.4 million bank only Kshs 100 weekly the bank ends up with 140 million weekly. We all know that hardly anybody banks Kshs 500 let alone 100 bob. I was quite taken back by some of the truly amazing figures I saw.
In other words, one does not need to be a banking treasury expert to tell that this bank is not collapsing any time soon.
I was rather fascinated by the secret strategy that the bank used to get where it is today, which is incidentally still being used. Many of the account holders started off using the bank as their clearing to collect their salaries or for the purposes of banking their salary cheques. The bank would have staff go from office to office and door to door trying to sign up accounts for salaries. Now the problem that many bigger banks used to have was that people would always have to wait until their salary cheques cleared. Or you would have to kneel before an arrogant bank amanger just to be advanced a paltry amount against your salary chque which you have been bringing to the same bank for years. But at Equity you would take your salary cheque and they would quickly pay you against it (after confirming a few things first, of course). This little seemingly unimportant detail has won the banks hundreds of thousands of accounts. And when you really think about it, there was almost zero risk for the bank because they were simply discounting salary cheques and in effect lending you money for a few days in return for a small fee and you being grateful to them for life. Incidentally the bank still has its' people going round recruiting accounts, something other banks are only just now beginning to catch up to.
Some of you folks may be reading this and wondering what the fuss was all about. Actually you have to be a small man earning a small cheque with no friends in high places in Kenya to understand how revolutionary this small detail appeared to millions of ordinary folks.
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What Are The Weaknesses Of Equity Bank?
I did find the inevitable warts in this star player of a bank.
Top on the list of its' weaknesses emerges from the style of management. The tight-control-one-man show that built the institution from nothing (actually Equity missed being put under receivership by a whisker—but I'll explain that story in a minute) to what it is today is still very much in place.
This is not the place where staff can share ideas and suggest things. Everybody knows that doing so is way too dangerous. That is how such talented members of staff like Kariuki Nguru and more recently, Joyce Sang lost their jobs. The way to keep your job at Equity is to do exactly as you are told and to oil the right egos frequently enough. This is more than a little dangerous for an institution that has reached the size that Equity Bank has.
It is instructive that this was the same problem that Uchumi Supermarkets had. The dukawalla management style of former CEO Suresh Shah was good for raking in the profits but skills were hardly passed on down to lower cadre workers. Interestingly this is something that Nakumatt Supermarkets have managed to do rather successfully and it augurs well for their future.
Increasingly other banks like Barclays and Standard Chartered have started showing immense interest in Equity Bank staff and are more willing to offer better pay packages and working conditions which a number of Equity employees have already quickly accepted. The question is what will be the long term impact of this on the performance of the bank? One thing is for sure, they will not come out of it unscathed.
Indeed it is a little surprising that CEO James Mwangi who is said to have learnt a lot from Alnoor Kassam's TradeBank did not learn Kassam's human resources motivational secrets, or rather decided to ignore them. Many Kenyans think of TradeBank as the failed bank but the truth is that only a huge loan that a prominent politician refused to pay brought down this very innovative bank. Employee of the month programs where ordinary low cadre employees would win huge cash prizes was just one of the things Kassam put into place to build a staff team that helped him churn profits at a dizzying rate.
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One sign that Equity's Mwangi has very different views about human resources is the story behind the low interest loans given to staff to purchase Equity Bank shares. It is said that the move was mainly done to technically disqualify staff members from joining any workers' union you don't want to join a union against a company where you are a shareholder do you? Of course the deal also had the usual stringent requirements, in the case of Equity, the staff members cannot sell off the shares for 5 years.
This attitude deep within Equity Bank management is not unusual in a country where there is such a huge unemployment problem as in Kenya today, mainly because it is very easy to replace disgruntled and non-performing employees. However it is the sort of thing that inevitably comes back to haunt an organization sooner or later.
The anti-Equity emails mention the banks involvement with government. With the recent history where banks that have gotten too close with government have ended up in trouble, this statement on its' own has no doubt made many Kenyans nervous. The list of casualties is way too long and includes TradeBank and Trust Bank to name two prominent examples.
It has even been suggested that this is more of a tribal thing than anything. What those who have been spreading these rumours have conveniently forgotten to mention is the bank's close association with dozens of NGO's and United Nations bodies who admire its' amazing business model and the fact that it is the largest lender in the region to low income individuals and small often informal enterprises. Naturally many of these organizations have found Equity, with its' mission statement of being a micr0 financier, the best partner to work with. Even Bill Gates is working with the bank on a number of his projects.
With this kind of attention, the government would have to pay attention to the bank and would also be easily convinced to channel funds for programmes through the organization irrespective of the tribes that most of the top management belong to.
I am convinced this is a very sad case of where politics has reared its' ugly head on such a successful and genuinely well run financial institution.
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Top on the list of its' weaknesses emerges from the style of management. The tight-control-one-man show that built the institution from nothing (actually Equity missed being put under receivership by a whisker—but I'll explain that story in a minute) to what it is today is still very much in place.
This is not the place where staff can share ideas and suggest things. Everybody knows that doing so is way too dangerous. That is how such talented members of staff like Kariuki Nguru and more recently, Joyce Sang lost their jobs. The way to keep your job at Equity is to do exactly as you are told and to oil the right egos frequently enough. This is more than a little dangerous for an institution that has reached the size that Equity Bank has.
It is instructive that this was the same problem that Uchumi Supermarkets had. The dukawalla management style of former CEO Suresh Shah was good for raking in the profits but skills were hardly passed on down to lower cadre workers. Interestingly this is something that Nakumatt Supermarkets have managed to do rather successfully and it augurs well for their future.
Increasingly other banks like Barclays and Standard Chartered have started showing immense interest in Equity Bank staff and are more willing to offer better pay packages and working conditions which a number of Equity employees have already quickly accepted. The question is what will be the long term impact of this on the performance of the bank? One thing is for sure, they will not come out of it unscathed.
Indeed it is a little surprising that CEO James Mwangi who is said to have learnt a lot from Alnoor Kassam's TradeBank did not learn Kassam's human resources motivational secrets, or rather decided to ignore them. Many Kenyans think of TradeBank as the failed bank but the truth is that only a huge loan that a prominent politician refused to pay brought down this very innovative bank. Employee of the month programs where ordinary low cadre employees would win huge cash prizes was just one of the things Kassam put into place to build a staff team that helped him churn profits at a dizzying rate.
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One sign that Equity's Mwangi has very different views about human resources is the story behind the low interest loans given to staff to purchase Equity Bank shares. It is said that the move was mainly done to technically disqualify staff members from joining any workers' union you don't want to join a union against a company where you are a shareholder do you? Of course the deal also had the usual stringent requirements, in the case of Equity, the staff members cannot sell off the shares for 5 years.
This attitude deep within Equity Bank management is not unusual in a country where there is such a huge unemployment problem as in Kenya today, mainly because it is very easy to replace disgruntled and non-performing employees. However it is the sort of thing that inevitably comes back to haunt an organization sooner or later.
The anti-Equity emails mention the banks involvement with government. With the recent history where banks that have gotten too close with government have ended up in trouble, this statement on its' own has no doubt made many Kenyans nervous. The list of casualties is way too long and includes TradeBank and Trust Bank to name two prominent examples.
It has even been suggested that this is more of a tribal thing than anything. What those who have been spreading these rumours have conveniently forgotten to mention is the bank's close association with dozens of NGO's and United Nations bodies who admire its' amazing business model and the fact that it is the largest lender in the region to low income individuals and small often informal enterprises. Naturally many of these organizations have found Equity, with its' mission statement of being a micr0 financier, the best partner to work with. Even Bill Gates is working with the bank on a number of his projects.
With this kind of attention, the government would have to pay attention to the bank and would also be easily convinced to channel funds for programmes through the organization irrespective of the tribes that most of the top management belong to.
I am convinced this is a very sad case of where politics has reared its' ugly head on such a successful and genuinely well run financial institution.
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Who Is Behind the Emails And Rumors Against Equity Bank?
It is not too difficult to figure out who is behind the nasty anti-Equity emails because the bank's enemies are well known.
In the days of TradeBank several big banks spread many nasty runours against TradeBank and the fact that the bank ended up being closed laid credence to a lot of the rubbish they were talking under the table.
There have even been cases where fights have almost broken out in the field between employees of banks like Barclays and Equity.
The truth is that the big foreign banks in Kenya believe that Equity have taken away their clients (whom they consider their birth right). The reality is a little different. Once upon a time big banks in Kenya were getting pretty fat on high interest government treasury bills that were at one point paying out close to 80 per cent interest that they decided they did not want to bother with small accounts. This was around 1992 the year when Equity missed receivership by a whisker. It was quickly decided that the then building society change its focus from mortgages to banking services to meet the needs of many Kenyans who had resorted to putting their cash under pillows after all the big banks went on a campaign to close small accounts. What followed is the staff of legend at the bank. It is said that many customers came to Equity with their paltry cash while crying after the harsh words arrogant managers ate banks like Barclays and Standard had shouted at them. The rest as they is history.
Today when the high interest treasury bills are no more and the business environment has changed so that the money (and growth opportunities) are again with the masses, Barclays and Standard have come back with hat in hand to the same depositers they sent away with tears. Many of them have the memories still fresh on their minds and are not playing ball. This has upset many senior managers at these foreign banks.
Then there is the fierce rivalry Equity has with banks like Family Finance. Have you wondered why Equity does not have any branches in places like Limuru and indeed most of Kiambu?
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Kenyans should join hands in exposing the malicious and selfish people forwarding the emails full of false accusations against Equity. The really sad thing here is that a rumour is enough on its' won to bring down a bank and that is exactly what somebody is trying to do here.
From the harsh comment I received in this blog from somebody asking me to "stick to political rumour-mongering" and leave banking to experts, I immediately got suspicious and my research has confirmed most of my suspicions. I am well aware that there is a lot of anti-Kikuyu sentiment out there, but this once let's spare this excellent local company. Do we want to forever remain without strong local banks in Kenya just because some foreign banks think that they have some birth right to Kenyan customers?
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In the days of TradeBank several big banks spread many nasty runours against TradeBank and the fact that the bank ended up being closed laid credence to a lot of the rubbish they were talking under the table.
There have even been cases where fights have almost broken out in the field between employees of banks like Barclays and Equity.
The truth is that the big foreign banks in Kenya believe that Equity have taken away their clients (whom they consider their birth right). The reality is a little different. Once upon a time big banks in Kenya were getting pretty fat on high interest government treasury bills that were at one point paying out close to 80 per cent interest that they decided they did not want to bother with small accounts. This was around 1992 the year when Equity missed receivership by a whisker. It was quickly decided that the then building society change its focus from mortgages to banking services to meet the needs of many Kenyans who had resorted to putting their cash under pillows after all the big banks went on a campaign to close small accounts. What followed is the staff of legend at the bank. It is said that many customers came to Equity with their paltry cash while crying after the harsh words arrogant managers ate banks like Barclays and Standard had shouted at them. The rest as they is history.
Today when the high interest treasury bills are no more and the business environment has changed so that the money (and growth opportunities) are again with the masses, Barclays and Standard have come back with hat in hand to the same depositers they sent away with tears. Many of them have the memories still fresh on their minds and are not playing ball. This has upset many senior managers at these foreign banks.
Then there is the fierce rivalry Equity has with banks like Family Finance. Have you wondered why Equity does not have any branches in places like Limuru and indeed most of Kiambu?
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Kenyans should join hands in exposing the malicious and selfish people forwarding the emails full of false accusations against Equity. The really sad thing here is that a rumour is enough on its' won to bring down a bank and that is exactly what somebody is trying to do here.
From the harsh comment I received in this blog from somebody asking me to "stick to political rumour-mongering" and leave banking to experts, I immediately got suspicious and my research has confirmed most of my suspicions. I am well aware that there is a lot of anti-Kikuyu sentiment out there, but this once let's spare this excellent local company. Do we want to forever remain without strong local banks in Kenya just because some foreign banks think that they have some birth right to Kenyan customers?
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Sunday, August 19, 2007
Brand New GTV Outfoxes DSTV
Kenyans are crazy about English soccer and especially the ongoing premiership. This is the reason why South African based DSTV has until now had such a huge subscriber base. That subscriber base now looks like it is going to disappear literally overnight.
The reason is simple. GTV, a brand new satellite TV outfit with strong links in Britain has won the rights to transmit 80% of the matches live. DSTV have only managed 20% and so far most of the matches they have transmitted don’t involve the big “four”. Kumekucha is reliably informed that already dishes with the “G” logo are now coming up in Nairobi, Mombasa and elsewhere at a rate that suggests there is no tomorrow. Most of these new customers were previously DSTV clients.
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For a long time now DSTV has ruled pay Television in Africa—and especially East Africa, totally unchallenged, but now, it seems the hour of reckoning has arrived.
DSTV’s woes don’t end in Kenya. GTV are also in neighboring Tanzania where if Kenyans are soccer crazy then Tanzanians can only be described as totally soccer insane. And because of the very poor quality of local TV stations in Tanzania as opposed to Kenya, DSTV have many more subscribers there so much so that they have never bothered to introduce an equivalent of the cheaper KShs 2,000 packages there.
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The reason is simple. GTV, a brand new satellite TV outfit with strong links in Britain has won the rights to transmit 80% of the matches live. DSTV have only managed 20% and so far most of the matches they have transmitted don’t involve the big “four”. Kumekucha is reliably informed that already dishes with the “G” logo are now coming up in Nairobi, Mombasa and elsewhere at a rate that suggests there is no tomorrow. Most of these new customers were previously DSTV clients.
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For a long time now DSTV has ruled pay Television in Africa—and especially East Africa, totally unchallenged, but now, it seems the hour of reckoning has arrived.
DSTV’s woes don’t end in Kenya. GTV are also in neighboring Tanzania where if Kenyans are soccer crazy then Tanzanians can only be described as totally soccer insane. And because of the very poor quality of local TV stations in Tanzania as opposed to Kenya, DSTV have many more subscribers there so much so that they have never bothered to introduce an equivalent of the cheaper KShs 2,000 packages there.
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Murder Most Foul In Mombasa: Unfaithful Kisauni Wife Makes Love One Last Time As Assassins Watch
The crime rate in Mombasa is generally very low, so when a gruesome crime happens, the impact it leaves is felt for many months and even years.
I have recently come across some interesting, albeit bizarre information on a murder committed in Kisauni Mombasa. This is the old constituency of the late Karisa Maitha and the current legislator is Hassan Ali Joho of ODM.
The crime was in fact a murder that shocked the surrounding community and left many puzzling questions unanswered and the residents terrified.
One of the things about Mombasa is that it is very difficult to keep secrets. Sooner or later somebody will talk too much while taking some mnazi (traditional brew) and the story will always come out.
The murdered man worked at the Mombasa Port, where even children in Mombasa know, there is a lot of money. It is said that even the cleaners and watchmen find a way to demand bribes and end up going home every day with lots of cash in their pockets.
The young man was not married and soon hit it off with a housewife who was a neighbor in the plot where he lived in Kisauni. His friends and neighbors warned the young man several times that he should move out of the area because his “bad habits” were now well known (I have already told you that there are no secrets in Mombasa).
The young man was blinded by the Kenya shillings he used to stuff his pockets with every day and ignored the warnings until finally word got to the woman’s husband. The good book says that the wrath of a husband whose wife has slept with somebody else cannot be quenched, even by cash. How true. But in this case, to make matters worse, the woman’s husband was suffering an extreme bout of lack of Kenya shillings. Naturally this made him even more bitter. Somehow he borrowed enough money from an unknown source and hired some locals to get rid of his wife’s lover.
The trap that was laid with the husband’s blessings is what I call bizarre.
The unfaithful wife was forced to lure the man into a trap. There is a thick bush somewhere near Mtopanga estate within the sprawling Kisauni area. The woman called her lover on the mobile one night and asked him to meet her there. The man must have really thought that his lover was getting really kinky. And true enough when the man arrived, they moved deeper into the dark bushes and made love. Unknown to the man, the assassins were watching everything from a strategic point. They were even kind enough to allow the man to finish what he was doing.
They then swiftly emerged from the shadows and surrounded him. They casually told him to say his last prayers because apende, asipende, he was about to meet his creator. The young man thought they were joking. They then informed him quietly that the reason he was dying was because he was “eating in somebody else’s “pot” and the owner of that “pot” was very upset.
They moved quickly and with hands firmly over his mouth to prevent him from screaming they plunged knives into him several times and at times twisting it when it was inside his body. When the assassins were sure that he was beyond repair, they disappeared into the shadows with the wife of the man who had put out the contract.
The next morning residents of Mtopanga estate were shocked to find a very bloody scene and a dead body. There was a lot of fear in the area for weeks on end because residents thought a mugger and serial killer had moved into the area and for a long time people did not come home late without plenty of “security.”
None of the residents noticed an all important clue. The murdered man’s mobile pone and wallet full of cash were recovered from the scene; the assassins did not touch them.
This incident happened about 2 years ago.
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I have recently come across some interesting, albeit bizarre information on a murder committed in Kisauni Mombasa. This is the old constituency of the late Karisa Maitha and the current legislator is Hassan Ali Joho of ODM.
The crime was in fact a murder that shocked the surrounding community and left many puzzling questions unanswered and the residents terrified.
One of the things about Mombasa is that it is very difficult to keep secrets. Sooner or later somebody will talk too much while taking some mnazi (traditional brew) and the story will always come out.
The murdered man worked at the Mombasa Port, where even children in Mombasa know, there is a lot of money. It is said that even the cleaners and watchmen find a way to demand bribes and end up going home every day with lots of cash in their pockets.
The young man was not married and soon hit it off with a housewife who was a neighbor in the plot where he lived in Kisauni. His friends and neighbors warned the young man several times that he should move out of the area because his “bad habits” were now well known (I have already told you that there are no secrets in Mombasa).
The young man was blinded by the Kenya shillings he used to stuff his pockets with every day and ignored the warnings until finally word got to the woman’s husband. The good book says that the wrath of a husband whose wife has slept with somebody else cannot be quenched, even by cash. How true. But in this case, to make matters worse, the woman’s husband was suffering an extreme bout of lack of Kenya shillings. Naturally this made him even more bitter. Somehow he borrowed enough money from an unknown source and hired some locals to get rid of his wife’s lover.
The trap that was laid with the husband’s blessings is what I call bizarre.
The unfaithful wife was forced to lure the man into a trap. There is a thick bush somewhere near Mtopanga estate within the sprawling Kisauni area. The woman called her lover on the mobile one night and asked him to meet her there. The man must have really thought that his lover was getting really kinky. And true enough when the man arrived, they moved deeper into the dark bushes and made love. Unknown to the man, the assassins were watching everything from a strategic point. They were even kind enough to allow the man to finish what he was doing.
They then swiftly emerged from the shadows and surrounded him. They casually told him to say his last prayers because apende, asipende, he was about to meet his creator. The young man thought they were joking. They then informed him quietly that the reason he was dying was because he was “eating in somebody else’s “pot” and the owner of that “pot” was very upset.
They moved quickly and with hands firmly over his mouth to prevent him from screaming they plunged knives into him several times and at times twisting it when it was inside his body. When the assassins were sure that he was beyond repair, they disappeared into the shadows with the wife of the man who had put out the contract.
The next morning residents of Mtopanga estate were shocked to find a very bloody scene and a dead body. There was a lot of fear in the area for weeks on end because residents thought a mugger and serial killer had moved into the area and for a long time people did not come home late without plenty of “security.”
None of the residents noticed an all important clue. The murdered man’s mobile pone and wallet full of cash were recovered from the scene; the assassins did not touch them.
This incident happened about 2 years ago.
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Saturday, August 18, 2007
Yet Another Tribal Chief Calls For Strategy Meeting
Suggests Kumekucha should be meeting place
They say it is never a good idea to reveal your weaknesses to the public, especially when you know that your enemies are clearly waiting with baited breath for you to make a mistake.
Most Kenyans for instance believe that the majority of people leaving comments in Kumekucha do so from cyber cafes and therefore the survey findings (some of which I shared and a lot of which I kept to myself) were “cooked”. Somebody (notice how the thinking is so similar amongst these NSIS guys) suggested that they will vote with their feet. For your information brother, your comments have no impact on the silent majority and if you know the first thing about how sites get most of their traffic, you would realize the kind of ignorance your comment reveals about you.
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Actually the truth is that most of our commentators currently post comments from their work places (and an increasing number occasional from mobile phones—but still very few), therefore somebody leaving a comment from a cyber already gets your attention and from what they say in their comment it is very easy to tell whether it is their employer they were scared of or they had other motives (mostly to ensure that Kumekucha influence is limited). Mercifully it is obvious that the NSIS really needs to brush up on their IT and Internet knowledge. Half of them believe that tracing ip addresses is impossible even after I traced the ip address of the porn poster (with a little help).
Be warned enemies of Kumekucha, this blogger knows a thing or two about the web that it seems those who want to do harm don’t know yet.
Anyway let me reveal my weakness.
I have been seething with rage most of the day. So much so that my hands could hardly fly across the keyboard to do some stories. While seething I have been thinking very hard on how best to frustrate the tribal chiefs.
The solution is actually very simple.
We should all just go tribal.
And we should stick to the only 2 genuine bonafide tribes that exist in Kenya today namely;
1) The Haves
2) The Have Nots
Members of the second tribe should wake up and realize that we have been used as pawns for too long and we should vote as a block. I am calling a meeting soon here in Kumekucha for all members of this tribe so that we can map out our strategy on how the community can be in the next government. Our tribe must be in the next government if Kenya is to be saved.
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They say it is never a good idea to reveal your weaknesses to the public, especially when you know that your enemies are clearly waiting with baited breath for you to make a mistake.
Most Kenyans for instance believe that the majority of people leaving comments in Kumekucha do so from cyber cafes and therefore the survey findings (some of which I shared and a lot of which I kept to myself) were “cooked”. Somebody (notice how the thinking is so similar amongst these NSIS guys) suggested that they will vote with their feet. For your information brother, your comments have no impact on the silent majority and if you know the first thing about how sites get most of their traffic, you would realize the kind of ignorance your comment reveals about you.
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Actually the truth is that most of our commentators currently post comments from their work places (and an increasing number occasional from mobile phones—but still very few), therefore somebody leaving a comment from a cyber already gets your attention and from what they say in their comment it is very easy to tell whether it is their employer they were scared of or they had other motives (mostly to ensure that Kumekucha influence is limited). Mercifully it is obvious that the NSIS really needs to brush up on their IT and Internet knowledge. Half of them believe that tracing ip addresses is impossible even after I traced the ip address of the porn poster (with a little help).
Be warned enemies of Kumekucha, this blogger knows a thing or two about the web that it seems those who want to do harm don’t know yet.
Anyway let me reveal my weakness.
I have been seething with rage most of the day. So much so that my hands could hardly fly across the keyboard to do some stories. While seething I have been thinking very hard on how best to frustrate the tribal chiefs.
The solution is actually very simple.
We should all just go tribal.
And we should stick to the only 2 genuine bonafide tribes that exist in Kenya today namely;
1) The Haves
2) The Have Nots
Members of the second tribe should wake up and realize that we have been used as pawns for too long and we should vote as a block. I am calling a meeting soon here in Kumekucha for all members of this tribe so that we can map out our strategy on how the community can be in the next government. Our tribe must be in the next government if Kenya is to be saved.
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