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Forum => Controversial => Topic started by: Mfangano on December 28, 2019, 03:59:28 PM
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A LEISURELY TREK THROUGH .KE'S DOMESTICS
(A RUNNING ESSAY IN PARTS)
1. IN THE SHADOWS OF A THEATRICAL SHOW
Far away from the capital city.
It has been a wonderful half year. The efforts culminated in a pre-Xmas party. It was an explosion which all but submerged Rusinga Island. I am talking about the extravaganza called the Suba cultural week. Offside, during this indulgence, Rusinga became the proverbial Island of Ogygia. The said was where the equally fabled Nymph, Kalipso Kalipso, domiciled. In deed, Ogygia is that Island of pan-like parties where ---- O the sensational tongue of poets, lyricised chronicles proclaim the gods descended to hold their divine orgies.
The heavy lifting for the cultural festival was of course done long ago. That is the organisation and co-ordination of the themes. By the time it was a guaranteed success, we left it over for the politicians to shine.
If one has followed the devastation wrought by the concluding floods, one will recognise just how decrepit the bandits running Luoland are, solution wise. The infrastructural inadequacy to cope (with the watery disaster) has been self-evident and, consequently, it is a self-explanatory indictment of the Lords of the said Lake Basin (Development Authority) Land. But on this occasion we let them shine, and shine they deed. It was a feel-good day. Life needs such days. For, for many, daily life is a dreary business that sucks.
So shine we let them, and they did. They shone like babies at a baby-shower. When wrapped neatly, such a baby is free to odoulessly soil itself underneath, O yeah, all this time shamelessly safe and admired by adults; adults duplicituous in their cunning nods of course. ---The baby looks like somebody else I know but do I say!
You, Amigo, however troglodytic, must have heard of how Governor Anyang' Nyong'o sacked them all. We are not talking about that GCG incident long ago when the professor was the national minister of Health. Nay, we are talking all Kisumu doctors during the latest phase of the systematic and endemic labour disputes. Yeah, right there is your morally decrepit and politically bankrupt infant. But aint she a beauty!? Seeing how robbed the politically senile creep is, how decorated in the expensive garments of a professor at political science, and Governor Maximus he is.
There too was my own Mawego Awiti. This His Excellency ever warrants the description of, administratively speaking, a pre-historic monster long thought extinct. I would vouch he is a Frankestein creature of the rogue mandarins at Orange House. He is and remains a perfect anecdote for the brain-death of the popular party, and not only post Handshake. Awiti Jamawego is a blown-up image of his classmate, the disgraced secretary for finance, Dr. Henry Rotich. (Rotich is the moron of the phantom dams, all in his Kerio backyard).
In the land of the living, I shook hands with The Dead. I needed not descend unto Hades to be enmeshed in rot; the world was upside down; this, I repeat, is a necrocratic dynasty.
A NECROCRATIC DYNASTY?
Perhaps I should explain the quip (necrocratic dynasty).
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2. A NECROCRATIC DYNASTY AT THE TOP.
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2. A NECROCRATIC DYNASTY AT THE TOP.
Perhaps I should explain the quip (necrocratic dynasty).
Historically speaking in political science, the comprador bourgeoisie –--or bandit bourgeoisie as Prof. Podp of Jukwaa preferred----- are a late class. That is, so far as spearheading both the national liberation and economic wirtschaftswunder are concerned, they are persona non grata in the driver's seat. Yet, paradoxically, this (evolutionary dead-end predator parasites) are the dominant class in the fabled, rising polities of Africa.
This historical unicum needs a ponder.
Africa is peddling a dark joke here, even if she appears to have a plan B. -----The Chinese viriles are all over the place! No worries!
In deed, every election recycles one of the local comprador's very own to the zenith of power. Kagame replaces Kagame. M7 succeeds M7. Kabila out, Kabila in. This phenomenon is not only the norm throughout the continent at large, but especially in Kenya, including Luoland and her domestic, Subaland adjunct too.
The SUSTAINED rule of a historically retired class, a brainless to brain-dead class, is a NECROCRACY. A dead-end rule unless a desperate Plan B comes into play.
NB: I am old enough to have attended the best readings of post-colonial contemplations from the front-liners. And this issue was metaphor-ed to the hilt by the mighty Sembene Ousmane: Xala
El Hadji's status as a member of the economic elite, as well as his manhood, are put into question. El Hadji's affliction, Xala (or impotence), symbolizes his lack of power in both the economic and social world.
Impotence yes, wherefore the virile and really rising Chinese must come and take care of business here. In political science, that metaphor Xala translates into a NECROCRACY. Flaccid minds pretending to be in office, yet mere caretaker puppets.
Yea, brain death, intellectual implosion, mental collapse, Boko Haram malignancy, you name it!
Think: How do we explain how Rotich and Thugge, academic stars, and the rest of the consipiring treasury mandarins so successfully sabotaged the Kimwarer dams by eating away all its finance? –-They are brain-dead obviously, so far the national tasks and purpose is concerned. Their greed and gluttony is nihilist, UNTHINKING, suicidal, malignant.
The go-getter Chinese meanwhile built the Super Dam at Yang-Tze (Seven Gorges) and are busy helping the Ethiopians with their own Super Dam, the Grand Renaissance. But Rotich and Thugge necessarily had to contract Sicilians and Roman Mafioso, to knife down our national water purpose.
Vermin.
The same can be said about the National Lands Commission once under professor Muhammad Swazuri and his consigliere, Professor Ojienda. This body officiated a scam that so inflated the land rates, such that the costs of the SGR, chapter land compensation, skyrocketed (and further tightened the chains of debt servitude on the ankles of Patrick Njoroge's CBK). And so to this date, Handshake or not, BBI or not, the question of whether the port of Mombasa is still in Kenyan hands is top secret. Yes, such are the unmarked graves you chance when you leisurely wander the backyard of necrocrats.
The ease with which our hyper resource-endowed Africa passed from the double-helix chain of Breton-Woods, IMF and WB, into the debt bosom of China's EximB., is enough proof of castrated minds at the top of the continent.
In Kenya, I can continue to give (excluding the BBI fiasco) four more explications of a 'necrotic bureaucracy' serving a necrocratic dynasty, but I think the point is clearly driven home by those substantiations above.
In the land of the living I shook hands with the dead. I needed not descend unto Hades for the thrills of ghosts. Hades is of course the –--lyricised chronicles revisited---- habitat of them poor souls who no longer see the shines of Helios the Sun!
Howbeit I am a lucky one. I am alive like once again the eyes of Rosemary Odinga to see. And lets us hope this crown princess used her time in blindness to inwardly look, to see, the truths. To think the unthinkable for a dynast: class suicide. Meseems sometimes I feel lost in the make-believe wonderlands of rising African countries. But the very strong odours of decomposition, of rot and ubiquitous filth clogging every administrative meanders, keeps me awake. They hollow my stomach out like the prospect of a night at a haunted hotel. Rising or Sinking?
But I am a party animal too. For a few days I can throw all care to the wind. I like holidays and sojourns in big cities when cash is in. And so did I take a very long sojourn in the city in the sun, Nairobi. It was a retreat of sorts, not to mention the financial motives behind.
More about that later.
NB2: In the aftermath I composed a long report –--THE DARKS OF THE SUNNY CITY. Only to discover my suspension to excision from my usual puke-point. My ghostly adventures in Nairobi were profound enough to provoke a series of meditations on the domestics of dotKe.
3. MIGUNA MIGUNA
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3. THE SUBA CULTURAL FIESTA AND THE GHOST OF MIGUNA MIGUNA
MIGUNA MIGUNA
He is a ghost Kenyan you know. If you have a sense of humour.
There was a famous nyatiti song singing the praises of one, Okuro K'Ouma. I think it was by a harpist named Oganga Sharp. It intimated something to the effect
Jaluo modak e Luo,
en k'odhi Narobi limbe
t'opande chalone Passport!
Be Kenya kuro chal Loka!
Bu dichuni wacho Nairopgino obedu!
TRANSLATE:
For the Luos permanent in Luoland
A trip to Nairobi is verily a journey overseas
Is it the colonial day when the ID is a passport
It drives one to the verge of to hell with that Nairobi of theirs!
So there we were, discussing the fines of a cultural festival and pondering the Miguna question.
What now, to say, given we are also men of the local markets and local gossip? Okot P'Bitek style.
How now, could we accommodate the sorrowful plight of Miguna Migun into the Suba cultural marathon!?
Being a usual suspect, I wasn't going to be the one to ask that question, but once it was posed by the Old and supposedly wise, and you wouldn't guess who else, I wasn't going to develop a convenient deafness.
Nor tactical amnesia.
You see, they say at the gossip exchange, that there is this deafness on the part of big Luo academics, perhaps even like our own Dr. Adams Oloo, him of the BBI team. Them academic big guns suggest, and all without a Solomonic twinkle of the eye, that national bridges can be built and social cohesion plastered smooth, yet Akida's like Dr. Fred Matiang'i categorically insist the Nyando of Miguna's birth is in Canada, near Toronto.
This issue at the local market is a fertile ground of many a joke. Off limits I guess to the academic bureaucracy allied to the popular party. When you venture into the world of drummers, shakers (ajegejege, ajawa and gara), horn-blowers and sigueya story-chanters et al, they start giving you the looks, licking their lips as if they are ladies of the night from whom you only get what you pay for, creep that you be!
Consider this scene. You brightly step up to a man who blows an old Suba horn. The horn is from some long extinct antelope. He is welcoming but adopts a mocking smile: 'Apenji, porofesa; encha Miguna cha wagone tiun mar Otho-pi molal, koso Odhi-Dwar oduogo gi lemo turi!?'
Say, porofesa, we blow Miguna the tune of BURIAL WAS AT SEA, or do we do him the SHARP HUNTER COMES BACK LOADED!?' --And he blows a riff which you know is darker than any of the above. His grin mutates into a squint on your face; he is like a psychopath hunting for a flinch on the resolve of the prey. (May be you are Mudavadi, or Kalonzo or Weta, confronted with the MOCK or Kalongolongo oat!) There is a riff for that too!
So: Would the Suba cultural week go along with this official Luo-BBI myth, that Miguna is a Canadian being? Or, autonomies spoken, would Suba culture remind Big Brother, that we are one and inseparable, but some sh!t you will keep to your own panties, Bro. Prodigal Miguna Miguna is Ja-Nyando is our and ours!
Ka ok kamano to Kenjgino obedi! After all, Kenyan is not much of an identity really. It is hardly skin deep, which is why our politics continue to be so, dare I say, TRIBAL!
So I reckoned: Jaramogi Odinga once gave a famous speech in London, Chatam House it could be I think. He said:
KENYA IS MARWA, GI THWON.
WHETHER YOU KITHNI OR NDEKNI,
WHETHER YOU MUTNI OR LOTHNI, KENYA IS MARWA TE.
IF YOU DO NOT ACCEDE TO OUR DEMANDS FOR INDEPENDENCE, Omera Misungu, YOU WILL GET INTO ADINYDINY CORNER, AND YOU WILL HAVE TO ESCAPE THROUGH THE YIEN-WAMBEWA!
To no avail, many referential dictionaries were opened to find the LATIN WORDS the Kenyan rogue was spewing --(in his ''rambling diatribe!'' as the British press characterised it)
This joke, those proficient in the Suba mothertongue ---unlike those like me who are 90% Luonised or 'assimilados', parodied in the Miguna case, and cause.
Whether you kithni or ndekni or lothni or what
whether thee trasheth a thousand court orders,
Miguna Miguna is Jakenya Githwon kendo Jasuba
Gi Thwon be!
The horns man I had recruited came to me after his debut show. 'Porofesa, akudhe TIBIM. Ibiro lokenigi!?' --'Porofesa, I blew it bull's eye! Will you translate it for them!?'
I said yes, I will translate it as the DEVONSHIRE WHITE PAPER BLOW!
---If you do not recognise this fact, and continue in the delusion Kenya is the whiteman's highlands, and her vast tracts the ownership of the leisure of the English Queen, it is the drums of your doom you beat ever faster. Nor is Kenya the permanent playground of dynasts as it appears to you today.
NB: 3. Of course this ---Devonshire white paper parody---- was proclaimed countless times in the Suba language and with a plethora of instruments in orchestral gong; and, like in London of the early sixties, some will need Latin dictionaries to decode phrases like: Many Kenyan bridges are beautifully built, but a small test of a torrent ---Wah! So easy to wash away they are!
If this BBI report of theirs insists Dr. Miguna Miguna is persona non-grata, is a Canadian masquerading as a Kenyan, then it is just like Lord Dalamere claiming he will wipe his hinds with the 'Devonshire White Paper'. The paper proclaimed Kenya first and foremost an African land. Such a white paper will officially and categorically state, and broadcast open, that: KNOW ALL HUMANS, AND THEE OTHER CREATURES! MIGUNA MIGUNA is a Kenyan.
Upende Usipende! --O thee 2010 mutilate!
But of course it took the Mau Mau rebellion for many settlers to accept the obvious facts of Kenya! Those facts were already, long conceded in the Devonshire White paper. And even earlier at the beginning of the colonial story.
Temporarily the balance of power was that Kenya was a whiteman's playground and historical loot. Temporarily the balance of power is that Miguna is not a Kenyan! And Kenya is a necrocratic dynasty, and the electoral leisure of allied aristocrats.
But I doubt anybody is fooling anybody. It is just good old fear.
The Suba cultural festival @Rusinga! It was a bash in the bush! With a sting in the tail. But that is always culture for you!
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Post Script.
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WHAT H.E HEARD OR NOT HEARD
Uhuru’s veiled response on Miguna’s return
By Vincent Kejitan | Updated Dec 30, 2019
“There’s nobody who has been told not to speak his mind,” stressed President Kenyatta. “You can walk on the road and even shout at the top of your voice. I have heard that others even want to board flights and come to say what they want to say, let them come. That is their freedom.”
It was a slippery moment for the duplicitous elite: Lionising the late Charles Shujaa Rubia while knifing Miguna Miguna on the ground.
Miguna and Rubia are two of a kind. They are both sides of the same coin: RESISTANCE
Charles Rubia paid heavily for his contribution to the incomplete second liberation. Some cases to do therewith are still in court. David Maraga, Willy Mutunga or Evans Gicheru, the difference can surprisingly be the same when it is a cardinal issue of moral worth. Miguna Miguna has been wretchedly treated for his rebellion against a corrupt and illegitimate order. Miguna has paid a heavy price. The price of state kidnapping, denunciation and (drugged) expulsion from his birthright and motherland. Justice, Law and Injustice can surprisingly be a welded brotherhood when an elite is threatened. Amos Wako before 2010 or Prof. Githu Muigai and Kahara after 2010, no difference when it is elite survival at core.
In his eulogy Ouru Kenyatta in his role as President found himself compelled to ask Kenyans to :* emulate Charles Wanyoike Rubia. That was a bone sooner in his own throat, for however dumb or drunk, his excellency could perceive if not hear his people giggling: I AM NOT BOARDING! NO! I AM NOT BOARDING!
He had to, as they say, have a Freudian slip of the tongue, or, bar that, elevate himself to an absurd comedian. He resolved it by a jocular tell of what he had heard. –---H.E had heard that Kenya had surrendered the Mombasa port to the Chinese!
Oops!
No, just kidding; that one he hasn't heard yet! The one he has, among others, are these noise-maker Kenyans who want to board flights to God knows where! For sooth Know all men H.E Ouru has no plans to stop them.
But others have of course.
Since when is Ouru Kenyatta's word law in this country!? Did not Nzioka Waita in his heyday as chief state mouthpiece, ban the president from uttering a single word on the status of the port of Mombasa vis-a-vis Chinese loans!? And did not the president comply like some brainless underling?
So, No sooner had President Ouru talked what he had heard than retired Colonel Cyrus Oguna was on cue to set his stupid Excellency right. All his life the son of Jomo has always needed some minion to complete his thinking for him. That complex comes with being born with a golden spoon in the mouth and subjected to perpetual spoon feeding.
“All his travel papers must be right and valid,” Col. Cyrus Odhiambo Oguna, the government spokesman, told Nairobi News.
“Then he will not be denied entry. All his papers must be right and valid as per the travel regulations. We are governed by the rule of law.”
Correct, Oguna the former military intelligence insider has not been told how (the then immigration supremo) General Kihalangwa seized some of Miguna's travelling papers and perforated them inside David Maragwa's chambers!
No, that information is above Oguna's paygrade. But furthermore, thinking would of course be totally outside the human competences of a government spokesperson. The same government Oguna is speaking for, is under obligations, some of these being court orders, to facilitate the return of her citizens from wherever, especially in distress. When Black Africans were marooned in the hell of Libya after Barrack and Hilary dispatched of Qaddafi, they were airlifted like dead cargo back home. Papers or no papers.
But on the other hand, who, in this world with any brains, is going to think a government spokesperson is anything but a disinformation cog?
Wherefore Kenyan culture has moved a step forward. It has forced the official president to a dangerous lip service at the funeral of Charles Rubia. The president of Kenya has publicly washed his hands off the Miguna issue. He couldn't urge Kenyans to emulate Rubia while kanyagaring' Njugunah!
Even for a customarily unthinking man, this feat in incongruity proved publicly impossible. It makes Ouru Kenyatta an important fulcrum in the evolution of Kenyan politicology. A head of state who can admit mistakes in passing, jokingly. For instance, a few years ago he was all over the country berating Raila a WAZIMU, an ADUI YA UZALENDO, mtumua wa Wazungu, mtu hana sera etc etc. Now, Handshake manenos and peddling BBI, like a child of no memory he proclaims Raila his elder brother and just the very thing God ordered for Kenya!
No it is not shameless. It is just childishly innocent. Unthinking.
BUT: that kind of turn-coat, U-turn behaviour immediately melts national tensions and changes at a go, the political temperature of a land! That kind of irresoluteness is exactly what the parasitic elite need right now, otherwise the issue of the two presidents, the peoples and the duly elected, would now have morphed into two republics of Kenya. –--These things need to be clinically acknowledged and said. Kenyatta's childish instincts are a godsend!
So here is another such tantalising, tension-reducing U-turn from the head of state.
Miguna can say whatever he wants anywhere, including right here in Kenya, welcome!
“There’s nobody who has been told not to speak his mind,” stressed President Kenyatta.
“You can walk on the road and even shout at the top of your voice.
That is their freedom.”
The President also urged Kenyans to use their freedom of speech wisely.
But, caveat two, Uhuru Kenyatta is a lame duck. And such ducks have only dying quacks.
But this dying quack is a haunting one.
It leaves us with that feeling in the stomach. What is this land pregnant with!? If Ouru keeps quacking sensibly like this, he could easily be our prime minister of choice come 2023!
But he would better find his OWN VOICE AND MIND first. And SPEAK IT CLEARLY.
Then minions like Oguna nor Waita wont be getting in the path of his vision!
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THE GENERAL AND THE COLONEL: MIGUNA AND OGUNA
Jeff Koinange knew he had sealed it. The only viewing that evening would be himself live, Citizen's JKL. Those who opposed Citizen Macharia when his business instincts homed on Jeff, have a sweet bitter pill to swallow. The viewership density is astronomical.
Jeff never left KTN because of the Passaris affair, Nay, it had more to do with the sensitivities of the other Macharia (Equity Bank) and of course major shareholder DT Moi (former dictator and state looter), than the sarcasm of Miguna toward Ester. —--In the break, off-air but not off tapes, Miguna contemptuously but Ester with: ravishing E. P is so beautiful everybody wants to rape her! That was when a jealous Moi family mole in the business saw an opportunity to embarrass Jeff and have him fired.
He was. But soon had a safe landing in the foam of Citizen Macharia. JKLive isn't just another talk-show, it is The Talk Show, and continues to be the (ToT) or talk of town.
Howbeit even at the Citizen's Jeff raises ire. Sometime back, with the now toxic Mike Mbuvi Sonko as guest, the plug was pulled on the show for that session, live! The reason? Editorial quality and controls. Passaris walked away from the event after Sonko bashed her for claiming that the governor always ignored her calls. After the heated conversation on Citizen TV, the show had to be stopped for a commercial break that extended to 10 minutes. The interview had to be cut short after the break, with Jeff revealing that it was due to editorial policies and quality controls.
Passaris again!? It is a hot show and the lady melts easy. Yet keeps coming back for more. I say the addiction of a masochist.
Jeff occupies a very anxious point in the elitary set-up. I always think of him thus: he is a fellow journeyman from the inner circle who would rather have been partying but, due to a protocol breach like pinching the bottoms of the crown prince's squeeze at a garden party, he has been banished from the court and sent on sentry duty. And there, Jeff has found his true calling.
From a tower above the elitary fort, Jeff is granted a binoculars to survey the goin-ons at the horizon. Everybody at the party knows all is not well out there; the mobs are restive and many desperados and adventurers are cooking succession mayhem. There are many varied dreams of a new deal out there. Some of them bloody. Jeff then presents a version which is safe, reporting only on the conflicts as it plays within the elite, at the garden party. There, do political slayqueens wiggle their hefty butts, strut their public-funded haute couture, and nible away with fake nails at champagne glasses and Glenny the Fiddich.
Just another day in paradise, or so.
Jeff knows the interview of his life –--and total sacking, will be when he flies to Scandinavia and cross-examines General Ngatia of the KRA. Preferably done in Kikuyu, and subtitled in English, this JKL special would see the end of Jeff's career at Citizen Kane's!
But the dog on a leash can't stray that far.
Nay, NRKe General Miguna is already risky enough. Jeff's cheeky wit, urbane ivy league and clownish posh, are an advertisement fit made in heaven when it pairs with the BlueTooth abrasive intellect and reckless tongue of the man with the same man twice, the NRMke General, Miguna.
And –-Behold, it was unto this posho mill of a masticating duo that the GoK sent the grain: retired Col. Oguna. Jeff and Miguna milled the former deep state burrow to fine meal. It was a horror show.
What can we say? Truly Oguna just has to be sacked. For incompetence. The embarrassment he caused himself and the country is just too great. It was a PR El-Adde. A wipe-out. But I don't remember a tradition in this country that officials resign for proven incompetence. We therefore have to be kind to the retired colonel. When one is a colonel, which is not really a decider rank in the corps, one's superiors can order one to a suicide mission, and one's fate is then to comply.
Traditionally the military has expendible ranks, and file. They literally call them cannon fodder. Every old soldier knows this. The toughest colonels at the front line, as opposed to office boy colonels shuffling paper, necessarily must have the presence of mind to not always obey headquarters. Headquarters is where Generals in air-conditioned rooms trade in the blood of others, with barely any consequences to themselves. If all the orders of the Generals were obeyed at the front lines, there would hardly be any soldiers left to later tell old soldiers' tales! Yeah, it would always be wipe-outs, like El-Adde.
Tough colonels improvise in the field; they are down to earth; they read the death situation as it develops. In lost ones they save the lives of the rank and file. They can even surrender than go suicidal mission. They can live to fight another day. Their heroism is long term. They are ready to appear cowards of the moment, but ultimately winners in history. Rtd Colonel Oguna decided to not even try to be an Abunawasi Nuwasi was a legendary a court''s fool of fabulous wit, a wit which always diffused all the thunder out of hell into self-conscious blushes.
Come to think of it: When history is finally written, the reason the middle east has not blown up this week in Armageddon can verily be the refusal of colonels to obey their commanders in chiefs and their armchair generals. Such generals seated around as chiefs of staff, are ever more busy with their retirement benefits than the fate of millions of innocent people.
What we have seen is therefore the strategic wit of battlefront colonels; we have witnessed the ritual combat between Iran and the USA, ie WWF scripted entertainment. —--The trick lies in the Muslim population of Russia and China, and the Jewish population of Russia and the middle east. Nuking Iran is the end of Jewery in the middle East; it is the break-up of Russia, as its Muslim protectorates, mostly secular, turn restive. This is the underbelly which would be ripped open: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan all seething. And to top it up, NATO in the Baltic States, 20 minutes from St Petersburg. For China, the backlash would be no less terrible. The already black hole Uighur republic of Xinjiang would have to be a no man's land to avoid a total break. So the down-to-earth colonels must have quietly told the American Generals their limits. Theyhad them refuse Trump's military reaction to Iran's missile shoots. The so-called slap in the face. And there was no big-bang in the middle east. But in Kenya, those mammoth world events even if they affect the paraffin price at our locals, haven't been our preoccupation. For us, it has been why the BBI has no ladder but fairy ones extended over the canyon to Miguna.
CONTINUED: OGUNA AND MIGUNA
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FROM OGUNA AND MIGUNA TO KARIUKI KIHARA AND JOHN MATIVO
Retired Colonel Oguna Cyrus was caught pants down throwing fake return lines to the exiled NRMke General. Talking of backlashes, the man Miguna swore in as the peoples' president, Raila Odinga, now co-president with Uhuru as William Ruto spot kicks their balls around, was forced to address the issue to assuage rising irritation in the backyard. In fact, every Tom Dick and Harry, or should I say every Muthama, Sudi and Ongadi is now mocking the BBI: hii handshake ni nini kama Nyando bado iko kule Kanada!?
The courts have now ordered the Attorney General to pay court. It is a hope the AG, Paul Kihara, has the murmurings of a Solomon in him. he is the GoK's legal brains, and it is his mind which should have been running the retired Colonel on JKL live. The utter stupidity of the Kenyan government evidenced by Oguna''s televised pedestrian behavior, needs to be diffused by a careful wise old hand.
I miss Mwai Kibaki's brains. No situation was ever far too complex for a dismissive grin. (When, after the rigging of 2007 precipitated PEV, and Koffi Annan was sinking in the Nairobi moor, the feared Condoleezza Rice, fronting for the challenged Potus, George Dubya Bush, thought threatening Kibaki with an American embargo was a huge stick , did not Emilio barely grant her a lazy patronising smile and corrective tweet: my daughter, who said The West is the only Financial Mecca for Africa to pilgrimage these days!?)
In deed. I can just visualise the utter contempt and irritable disgust on Mwai Kibaki's face, would he be confronted with Matiang'i and his immigration infants on the case Miguna Miguna. –--'If you don't know Nyando is in Ahero, I doubt you would know your own name is Matiang'i, Muigai, Ruto, or Oguna! Go back to nursery school, fools!'
And to Miguna: 'come home, go to Nyando and build a kiru; buy some fish and have a merry drink with your people! And, my son, don't always abuse STUPID people, their silly egos easily bruised can make them do stupid things to you!'
Yes, we were all here when the Arturo brothers were getting in and out of Kenya without a single querry from any immigration official at JKIA, grade one :* airport! So which idiot would it be, to talk to Kibaki about Visa's and passport controls at JKIA!?
A General Kihara gotta think.
Court summons AG Kariuki over disobedience of orders on Miguna’s return
Nairobi 10 January 2020
A court has summoned Attorney-General Kihara Kariuki or a senior official from his office to explain why orders directing the government to facilitate lawyer Miguna Miguna's return have been ignored.
Justice John Mativo noted on Friday that the government has disobeyed several orders on the matter.
This weekend the AG must hold counsel with the best, otherwise it will be another retired colonel Oguna repeat, this time in Justice John Mativo's Chambers.
And then the courts and due process of law will prove irrelevant. A facade. So may court orders trashed. Behold, the mirthless grin of reality, the cynical dare of impunity. A power throwing down the gauntlet: break me otherwise, Ha!
General Miguna, back to the drawing board. May be Jeff Koinange should start to flirt with an interview with the other General: Man Ngatia.
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Culture never runs out of coping mechanisms whatever the stress levels.
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THE NO-SHOW OF AG KIHARA
No, it wasn't exactly a no-show. Justice John Mativo did have a visitation.
The AG's office sent some two lawyers.
But the veteran John Khaminwa, appearing for Miguna the Jenerali, didn't find the Sheria House errand boys sensible enough to address with even the customary learned friend. No, the fact is senior counsel Khaminwa was much pleased when he didn't spy Judge Mativo bother to summarise a written entry of the torrent of nonsense the toddlers from the AG's were conversing.
Nobody even knows their names. Such was the fame of their notorious performance.
Judge John Mativo is a well-chided furious scripter. Jokes about the Justice remind of Gordon Brown who, frustrated by Tony Blair's refusal to hand over power to him, like Ruto over Uhuru today, would write so furiously his pens broke in the middle, of cabinet meetings.
How then do we explain Paul Kihara Kariuki's chicken appearance? What forced him to belittle John Mativo, like Matiang'i the other magistrates in the same Miguna case?
At a first glance it is the continuation of state arrogance. There are court orders beneath the dignity of power to bow to. So this was a further show of contempt, power having its way regardless.
But that is not what I see. I see an intellectual vacuum at the centre of power. I see an empty-headedness masquerading as arrogance, keeping up appearances of invincibility. I see confusion and fear. If at the public face of PR, we saw this confusion express itself in the publicly-aired stupidity of the government spokesperson, rtd. Col Oguna, at the legal side we saw the legal bankruptcy of the state aired in Judge Mativo's court. Miguna Miguna's contempt for ... and Jeff Koinange's declassification of Cyril Oguna, were adequately mirrored in John Khaminwa's contempt for .... and Judge John Mativo's disdain for the pedestrians the AG's office had delegated. (Or was it Ken Ogeto's sollictor General's fall!?)
There was no impunity from Paul Kihara's tower, there was just plain stupidity put on record. There was no clarity of legal opinion from the towering head of the attorney General, there was just the fart, hiss and bleat of sheepish intestines, well-fed. If I opted earlier President Kenyatta is more of a dying than a lame duck, his legal brains I must say are already more dead than alive. The kind Judge Mativo has awarded Kihara a return match. Kihara can write an opinion! and send a messenger!
John Khaminwa didn't like the stench of Kihara's mind. The AG's office is more of a legal morgue. All their arguments are dead.
Such a vacuum at the centre of power can not go unfilled for a second.
WILLIAM RUTO AND FRED MATIANG'I THUS MOVED TO FILL IT.
How ironic, but it fell on William Ruto to be the most categoric.
The recent King of impunity and state financial malfeasance found reason to state the point with a surprising vehemence. —---It is a slippery slope, he warned. When we start to disobey court orders, it is the route to lawlessness and chaos!
(gotta write out that passionate plea --see postscript)
Where DP Ruto was when the first Miguna court order was disobeyed needs to be looked into too. He was right here of course, in Kenya, and still very powerful. His marriage with Mr. Kenyatta was still as intact, and as happy as it could be, to all EXTERNAL purposes. Full of impunity, court orders were his foot, and the deportation served Miguna best! —-Basta.
But vindu vichenjanga.
Today, the Uhuruto marriage is dead. And Ruto, besieged, fears the prospect of the impunity of the state turned against him. What happens if he is declared national enemy number one, when the anti-corruption narrative narrows on him as the Patron of Thieves and the architect of electoral rigging? (1) There is a thread in the Sonko cases which leads to his door. AMACO or so.
2. Uhuru Kenyatta's mate, David Murathe, the former Jubilee chair, is on record detailing how The Hustler DP Ruto strategically rigged-in most of the Mount Kenya Mpigs who, today, sing his praises and fight his corner with such parasitic passion.
What if the state turns nasty? As it did on Miguna, despite all those court orders secured by star lawyers!?
William Ruto's instincts are awake.
But in condemning the ignorance of court orders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDjZFYfTIn0), he of course firebombed Fred Matiang'i. Matiang'i is the canine usurper fronted by Uhuru Kenyatta to administratively tame his deputy who has gone rogue. And Ruto's firebomb forced Fred out of his hibernating zone. The interior man came up with well, a cock-and-bull story about how tight our immigration laws are. And that is what is to blame for Miguna's woes.
But Matiang'i's was an intellectual effort even feebler than the infantility of the AG's errand boys before Mativo and Khaminwa, and a performance even cheaper than rtd. Col Cyrus Oguna's PR waterloo on JFK-Live.
So there we are. It is no longer possible to mock Miguna for pomping himself up as General, without mocking the big men in Nairobi for the Lilliputians they are before this phantom Gulliver, aka Miguna.
Nobody in government has the brains big enough to face the case of the self-styled General. Mysteriously even the LSK, the crop of the law school with a representation at the prestigious JSC, is too conflicted to have an opinion.
And so, talking about vacuums, any vacuum in office, even that of intellect, will be filled immediately. Yes, power has shifted, the fraternity of legal friends have fallen from their tower. I doubt they have figured out the consequences of who has filled the vacuum they left.
As for Uhuru Kenyatta's regime, Handshake or BBI limping, it is a ship already sank. Those big four agendas are dead. There is only one agenda, the Ruto succession, or not. The rest are side shows.
And power hates a vacuum more than it hates Miguna!
I suspect when Miguna is finally awarded his damages for his flouted rights, the bill will be quite high. I would rather the vast fortunes of those who ran the government when he was abused, be confiscated to fix the bill. Why should Wanjiku pay for the individual follies of Lilliputian politicians and brain-dead sheria house occupants?
16:30 –-Ruto on Court orders. NO MORE ORDERS FROM ABOVE! The law must be obeyed irrespective of station, period.
He is a late convert and may be does not believe himself wholy. But it should be lauded, the way a baby's first attempts to stand upright are, by adults. Tomorrow you will walk, son!
Keep it up!
Ruto has firebombed AG Paul Kariuki Kihara. Let's wait and see if Kihara's hibernation is a total mental freeze.
PS: RUTO'S BOMBSHELL IN SCRIPT.
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RUTO'S BOMBSHEL (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__BWrxXKnY8)
''Na mimi nataka niulize watu wote, hasa sisi tuliyo kwa uongozi ya serikali.
–--Tujue ya kwamba,
Kenya ni nchi inayo ongozwa na sheria;
na nchi ambayo inafuata sheria, ni jukumu la kila mmoja wetu kahakikisha ya kwamba tunafuata sheria.
Na sheria haijui mkubwa na mdogo,
sheria haina kabila haina dini.
Sheria ni sheria.
Na kila moja wetu lazima tufuate sheria na tuweke taratibu ambayo kila mkenya ambaye aheshimu sheria, yeye anapatiwa heshima yake.''
---''We have a cardinal responsibility to respect, because this is a country of law.
Kenya the foundation of our nation is the foundation built on the rule of law,
and every public officer have their responsibility,
–--individual and collective,
to make sure this country is built on the firm foundation of the rule of law.
And even when we go to the realm of court orders, it is the responsibility of every public officer.
Individually and as a government, the jubilee administration respects the rule of law and respects every court order issued by a competent court of law in Kenya.
And we want to say categorically, that any public officer who disobeys the law,
who disobeys court orders,
they will carry their cross individually,
they will be held personally responsible for violating the law, or violating any court order.
The slide to anarchy and impunity will begin the day we don't respect the rule of law, and the day we don't respect court orders in our country.
Every citizen, every public officer, we have a duty as citizens of this nation to ensure that the foundation of the rule of law is not sabotaged by anybody in any manner, anywhere.''
NB:
–--''Lakina wacha bwana, ile ya Kissii was njama ya chama ya ODM! Good for them, were it not for the abuse and waste of public resources. Hiyo haiwezikani. Hiyo tumekataa!''
That is the future president talking, Candidate Ruto pitching! no forked tongues!? :*
SHOCK AS RUTO SAYS UHURU IS TURNING KENYA INTO A DICTATORSHIP THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE OF COURT ORDERS!
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A DELICATE POWER BALANCE NAIROBI
Some things are pretty simple and straight forward. But the power balance reduces them to complex and intractable situations. In this respect, I like to especially think of the case of the Islamic republic of Iran. The oil-rich country boasts a set of independent-minded clerics at the helm. They busy themselves nationalistically confronting the uber domineering imperialism of the USA and her local errand boys: Saudi Arabia and Israel. And that is not to mention the gang of EUnion journey girls, France, the UK and Germany. The latest treacherous dagger lurch of the latter has been to re-impose sanctions on Iran, citing her renegence on the JCPOA, --the nuclear deal, yet it was Trump who unilaterally broke off from the deal.
For sooth it is all but a power game. Might will be right. The odds are huge against her, but the underdog is no walk-over. There is a whale of a load of fight in the small dog. It forces the powers that be, to the indignities of ritual combat, scripted theatrics, lest it be the case of the Austro-Hungarian lordship casually moving in to teach little Serbia a lesson. Little Serbia is still here, but the mighty AH empire no longer, her former ruling house, now tabloid commoners.
So precarious is the situation at our local too. Consider the following hints in Kenya, a scripted combat.
Mr Sonko blamed people in his office, whom he did not name, for making the payments behind his back. “I blacklisted the companies and blocked their payments after the Environment Committee raised issues,” he said outside EACC offices after he emerged from an eight-hour session with the investigators.
The governor is under investigation over allegations that his administration failed to remit tax deductions to the state, including those arising from payments made to suppliers and contractors, value added tax and income tax on profits.
Mr Sonko claimed that the Sh4.5 billion non-remitted taxes accrued before he came into office and it is a problem he “inherited from the former regime” of former governor, Evans Kidero.
And the linkages Mr Sonko told investigators that two months after he was sworn in as governor in August 2017, the Treasury released Sh100 million to the county through the Integrated Financial Management Information System. The money was meant to pay Amaco for services rendered, he told EACC detectives.
Upon receiving the payment, Amaco wired more than Sh20 million in bank transfers of Sh10.7 million, Sh7.5 million and Sh5.3 million to Arbab.
Treasury released? That would be Rotich and Thugge. Neither did CBK's Njoroge flag the operation of course. Take this clue …. at predetermined outcomes.
Henry Rotich's policy review clips Patrick Njoroge's powers at CBK
Moses Michira 16th June 2016 (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000205397/rotich-s-policy-review-clips-njoroge-s-powers-at-cbk)
“The bill further seeks to amend the Act to involve the Cabinet Secretary in the management, control and conduct of the affairs and business of an institution and enhance penalties as a deterrent factor in relation to offences under the Act,” Mr Rotich said in the Finance Bill currently before the National Assembly.
SEE ALSO :This man messed up a whole country
CBK has retained oversight powers over the banking sector including slapping sanctions and fines on violators of sector guidelines- another aspect that the CS wants to have a say in. It could be interpreted as the National Treasury’s response to Dr Njoroge independence in executing his duties. He has been described as uncompromising.
Widespread abuse
Bank executives have found it rough since Njoroge was appointed to head the CBK mid last year. But the governor has streamlined financial reporting that tended to overstate profits in what he terms as a ‘race to the bottom’.
But the full story of the HOLES in the IFMIS system has not been told. Auditor General Eduard Ouko and budget comptroller Agnes Odhiambo, like Henry Rotich and Kamau Thugge, leave the scene without coming clear on the great diversion which IFMIS worked out to be. If they live long enough to reach the ripe old ages when one wants to die with a clear conscience, truly they will grant exclusive interviews to young journalists, or ghost-writers of memoirs. But if there is a radical, sub-constitutional change, they will of course all be executed for negligence and complicity in national economic sabotage.
Their duplicity is well-documented in the accounting failures of stuff like the Eurobonds.
But back to the delicate power balance in Nairobi today.
Documents seen by the Nation show that Amaco Insurance has had a running contract since 2013 to insure Nairobi County government vehicles. On the other hand, the same company has an ongoing three-year contract with Arbab Auto Care Ltd, a garage located on Kangundo Road, where the county government’s vehicles are taken for repairs. The contract was signed on June 30, 2016.
Arbab is owned by Anthony Otieno Ombok, alias Jamal, who is alleged to have paid the governor Sh3.4 million
Nothing complex there. Rotich at the treasury is stealing public money to fund William Ruto and allies. Whether he knows it or not, Sonko's Nairobi accounts are being used as a clearing house for the loot. But the date 2013 suggests in deed an inherited deal from the Evans Kidero era.
Continuity one would say.
Then the complexity of power. Ruto isn't just your ordinary shop-lifter or treasury parasite like the Harvadian Rotich, now disgraced and fully replaced by Ukur Yattani (https://www.ecofinagency.com/finance/1601-40850-ministerial-reshuffle-in-kenya-ukur-yatani-becomes-minister-of-finance). The Hustler Singh is the man who practically made Uhuru Kenyatta President. His Kalenjin backyard holds hundreds of thousands of Gikuyu peasants and businessmen hostage. And it is understood what happens in case push comes to shove and the Kenyatta court openly refuses to endorse him. The Hustler is the most dynamic politician of his generation; his private collection of skulls includes who is who; Daniel Arap Moi occupying centre stage.
That is not the kind of thief other thieves easily push toward the guillotine and hope to keep their heads.
And so we see DPP Haji winning many prices but keeping clear of the centre of combat: No convictions. This has to be what the Chinese call …... the death by a thousand cuts. It has to be attrition.
Killing corruption can kill the host. Required is not just any other surgeon.
THE SONKO FALL
Mike Mbuvi Sonko has been well prepared. But however a fat hog him and Nairobi county may be, he is merely a sacrificial lamb; he is merely a toe to be cut down so that the giant Ruto may limp, a bit. Slow down, a bit (https://nairobinews.nation.co.ke/featured/sonko-spills-the-beans-on-huge-payout-to-company-associated-to-dp-ruto).
Then Seven creditors to AMACO Insurance, a company linked to the Deputy President William Ruto have filed for its liquidation.
In a notice published on December 27 Kenya Gazette, any creditor or contributory of AMACO has been asked to appear in court for the hearing set for January 30, 2020.
Nothing to worry about, says AMACO. They are still awash with cash!
Of course they are. It is just designed for other purposes, not paying off creditors.
NB: FARCE IN MULEMBELAND: What are the parallels between the Jacaranda grounds sh!tflood, and the teargas at NABONGO GROUNDS, MUMIAS.
Police teargas Ruto's allies, block meeting parallel to BBI rally
Saturday January 18 2020
Running battles were the order of the day in Mumias, Kakamega County, on Saturday, as Deputy President William Ruto's allies attempted to hold a gathering parallel to a grand BBI meeting.
They politicians included MPs Justus Murunga (Matungu), John Waluke (Sirisia), Didmus Barasa (Kiminini), Dan Wanyama (Webuye West) and Charles Gimose (Hamisi).
Former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale and former Sports Cabinet Secretary Rashid Echesa joined them.
The politicians were to hold their meeting at Nabongo Grounds in Mumias, but police cordoned off the area, as key leaders attended the Building Bridge Initiative rally at Bukhungu Stadium.
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Feaces Dumped At Jacaranda Grounds In Bid To Stop Rally, NASA Supporters Claim
by Merxcine Cush November 28, 2017,
NASA enthusiast have said that the Jacaranda grounds have been made in habitable for holding the function due to the wreathing smell of feaces.
They have blamed the county government of Nairobi of dumping the feaces in the area making it in habitable.
The police are currently engaging in running battles with NASA supporters trying to access the venue.There is a clear media block out of the happenings at Jacaranda as none is broadcasting the happenings at that venue where NASA is supposed to hold the memorial rally.
Vindu Vichenjanga!
Sonko has been having a bit of a Karma of late!
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Mike Mbuzi Sonko dumping foul smelling waste at Jacaranda for the stench to scare away mourners attending #NASAMemorial. What a chokora Governor?
22:56 - 27 nov. 2017
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THE PRESIDENT AND HIS INTELLIGENCE SERVICE
The DailyNation recently fronted a dangerous article. It is a dangerous because it is factual, and this time about the power dynamics at the core of the state of Kenya today.
The truth is dangerous always.
Once more we have reiterated, that the most opaque, secretive, manipulative and darkest department of government has become the most instrumental in effecting government policy under president Uhuru Kenyatta. Normally under any regime, the secret service is enough beyond oversight. Now in Kenya, today 2020, they are confirmed as not just beyond oversight, nay, they have evolved into a DIVINITY.
They are beyond customary scrutiny; they are beyond parliamentary control, they are beyond institutional political control, they are beyond legal control, they are not just a power unto themselves –--that one they always are and were; but they are now beyond a a PAPACY. They are the Alpha and Omega of Kenya. They are the regime.
It is a spectacular coup. It is the wet dream of every intelligence service. A state as their private fiefdom.
Absolute power.
Yet that is a poisoned chalice. History has proved time and again, absolute power will corrupt absolutely.
So we can predict with absolute certainty: Maj General Philip Kameru will be no exception. His absolute power will corrupt him absolutely. And that to the detriment of our much-abused-but-beloved motherland, Kenya.
(NB: corruption in power is also called intellectual corrosion: so Maj. Gen. Philip Kameru and his outfit failed to caution the GoK (department of immigration), with binding advise, that General Miguna Miguna is not worth an INTERNATIONAL RED ALERT! The result is an international round of comedy in which Janyando Miguna can board any international flight and fly to every continent and country except East Africa! –--that comedy is a symptom of the intellectual erosion at Kenyan intelligence, the first disease of absolute power! parochialism!).
The nation better braze for much more terrible consequences of yet more decisions based on tunnel vision.
How NIS regained Uhuru’s trust and confidence
Sunday January 19 2020 (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/How-NIS-regained-Uhuru-trust-and-confidence/1056-5423330-9t3pm2z/index.html)
By NYAMBEGA GISESA
In the wake of the incessant terror attacks in 2013 and 2014, the relationship between the then National Intelligence Service (NIS) Director-General Major-General (Rtd) Michael Gichangi and President Uhuru Kenyatta was so strained that the President had grown tired of receiving intelligence briefs.
People in the know say the relationship was further tested by a confrontation between the spy chief and other security chiefs, among them the then military chief Julius Karangi and police boss David Kimaiyo, over the Mpeketoni killings in which al-Shabaab militants slaughtered more than 60 people.
The bad blood among the intelligence and security honchos resulted in the forced retirement of Maj-Gen Gichangi, who was blamed for not doing enough in gathering intelligence to avert the attacks.
Maj-Gen (Rtd) Philip Kameru, his successor, in a meeting with senior officers of the spy agency, promised to repair the public image of the intelligence agency and regain the confidence with the President.
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National Intelligence Service Director-General Philip Kameru. He has managed to restore the glory of the NIS. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
But, with many Kenyans still nursing broken ribs from the slaughtering performance of retired or not intelligence mole, Colonel Cyrus Oguna, before JFK live, the absolute confidence upon the abilities of the men of intelligence may prove very misguided for the son of Jomo, President Kenyatta.
Some are not mincing words.
Maj. Gen. KAMERU AS THE HEAD OF THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
“The intelligence agency has become the enforcer of government policy.
Although it is difficult to place a yardstick, it has emerged as the most trusted entity in public service in the Uhuru era,” says Edward Wanyonyi, a graduate of war studies from King's College, London.
Last week, as he announced Cabinet changes in which Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mwangi Kiunjuri was fired, President Kenyatta — in his most overt recognition of the importance of the spy agency — directed it to deal with cartels in his government.
“I direct the NIS to undertake a rigorous review of all cartel groupings that have become leeches, sucking away the blood and sweat of hardworking Kenyans. I want the review to pay particular attention to cartels operating in the public systems of budgeting, procurement, regulation and the illegal rigging of markets,” he said.
“It should also put the agriculture sector under the microscope. Once this review is completed, I further direct the DCI to take necessary action, working alongside the DPP, to confront these cartels with every instrument available.”
SHADOW GOVERNMENT
Not only has the NIS become the most powerful security and intelligence agency in the country but Mr Kameru is also close to the President.
The NIS has now become heavily involved in the running of the country with its extended mandate including political intelligence, economic intelligence, active measures, counter-intelligence, political security and law enforcement through the multi-agency team.
“The NIS is now fully involved in national safety and security ranging from issues dealing with counter-terrorism to economic crimes. They are also involved in local governance and political issues, including giving birth to the “handshake” between ODM leader Raila Odinga and President Kenyatta and also on foreign policy matters,” says Byron Odera, a security analyst and a former Special Forces commando.
And some historical overview The Special Branch was started in 1926 by the colonial government as a small department within the police force.
It was later made an independent department and, in 1969, renamed the Department of Security Intelligence.
In 1998, the National Security Intelligence Service was created with retired Brigadier Wilson Boinnet as the first director-general.
Brig Boinnet was succeeded by Maj-Gen Gichangi, who steered the agency through the transition to National Intelligence Service under the new Constitution.
Historically, the spy agency has played a key role in the running affairs of the country.
After the death of founding President Jomo Kenyatta, the then Special Branch director James Kanyotu “managed” events, ensuring that the then Vice-President Daniel Moi became acting president, overcoming efforts by powerful men in government who did not want Moi to ascend to power.
Now, while stale political science serves an equally stale theory of TRIAS POWERS and their separation, Uhuru Kenyatta has degenerated to practising an archaic form of rule by intrigue. He is apparently wholly relying on the dark arts of the darkest men within the darkest departments of state.
It is the collapse of transparency. It is the collapse of the balance between the Executive, The Legislature and the Judiciary. It is a very Roman crisis, it is a classic. The senate, the emperor and the people are so at odds, government has become the theatre of the absurd. –-For instance the Vice President and official leader of government business, William Ru to, has become the head of the opposition. And the official head of the opposition, the treasonably sworn-in as peoples president, Raila Odinga, the official twin of the official head of state, the imploded Uhuru Kenyatta.
That easy switching of roles is a political theatre of the absurd. Not to mention the spectacular ease with which TangaTanga does an about turn and will now be the main course at BBI rallies, starting today in Mama Ngina grounds, at 001's Mombasa. It is high comedy at the highest institutions of the land.
That is a dangerous drift.
Continued;
OF SECRET SERVICES EVERYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYHOW
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OF SECRET SERVICES EVERYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYHOW THROUGHOUT HISTORY
1. All powerful in the shadows like monsters of The Deep.
But they are just men, too, lost and seeking redemption like every other mortal or moral wretch. They are thus most prone to the customary defects of every Jerk with too much power. Their mistakes have brought a lot of blood-letting upon mankind. Thinking of the Bay of Pigs and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and the recent assassination of Major General Qaseem Suleimani of Iran, the stupid impunity of the men of the shadows has severally driven the world to the edge of apocalyptic warfare.
I say men.
I say men because, in the rule, they have been men. And in the few modern cases in which they have been women, they have been, in the rule again, essentially fallen moral angels. Here is important one to ponder; the one her fellow Americans have dubbed Bloody Gina. During the hearings to her confirmation as the head of the CIA, the Congress of the United States was awash with data on just how dark and Dirty Gina could get, in the safety of the black sites run by the company. Such fallen moral beings are disciples of Marquis de Sade, they are creatures marooned on the Dark Side. They are turned to Darth Vader's.
But without the Christian redemption bit, yet! Poor souls! There is a special corner in hell for them, as Marylene Albright would divine!
After fighting a lightsaber battle with his former mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi in which he is severely burnt and dismembered, Vader is transformed into a cyborg. He then serves the Galactic Empire as its chief enforcer until he ultimately redeems himself by saving his son, Luke Skywalker, and killing Palpatine, sacrificing his own life in the process.[2] He is also the father of Princess Leia, and grandfather of Kylo Ren, a major antagonist of the sequel trilogy.
The services of intelligence can never be transparent. They are redacted. The lid must stay on Hades lest, as the god of the Underground once threatened the god of the sunny skies, the dead with their secrets come back to disturb the peace under the smiling sun! --Kenyans have been having ago at who stalks Moses Kuria at night these days: Msando?
'Imagine, O High Zeus, if all the murdered people whose murderers haven't paid bloody penalty, came back to get even in kind!' cried Thanatos.
This scene happened before the beginnings of time. It was a fall-out at High Olympus when the grieving lyricist, Orpheus, besieged the chief cemetery where his love, Eunice, was buried. Orpheus then paced to play the Orutu with such Appolonic depths, the dead began to stir and murmur in their god-induced slumber. Death had kidnapped his sweetheart too early, breaking his heart; wherefore he pledged to bring her back to life with musical therapy and acumen. –--But nobody had reckoned on his magical tones stirring up the entire deathbelt! (Then would hundreds of billions of ghosts swarm the world like the current plague of locusts in East Africa!).
The gods had to gather at emergency, quick.
POWER IN THE SHADOWS
In every state, there is a complex of security-related secret clauses which serve to shield the dark departments from scrutiny. I remember an old comical scene from a heavyweight of the African letters. One I might paraphrase.
Thus
There is a complex dispute which necessitate the Egwugwu's, representatives of the wisdom of the aged ancestors, arise from the graves to officiate. The most complex cases are of course domestics. (like today in Kenya, the Uhuruto divorce).
Achebe narrates how a dissenting if foolhardy mortal is asked: 'Oduke's body, do you know me!?
The belittled mortal stammers an answer: 'How can I know you father? You are beyond my knowledge!'
Egwugwu are physical manifestations of the ancient spirits, who are represented by men wearing large, fearsome masks. These spirits are given bodies and voices by the great men of the village, who give the spirits form and allow them to make informed, logical decisions, as a living person would.
The Egwugwu then reel off a series of descriptions, on what and who they are. (For instance they are the dry meat which sticks in the intestines and permanently bends men!)
With a grin, I can just imagine a freedom of information activist dared, in a moment of insane insolence, demand some transparency from Maj Gen Philipo on the activities of his service as far as fixing the Uhuru succession goes.
Thus
–--'DGI Kameru, is your service bent to neutralise William Ruto on behalf of Uhuru Kenyatta!?'
And like the famous Evil Forest, the chief of intelligence arises to his authority!
'You tribal shallows of a Kenyan people, do you question me!?''
And we the shallow Kenyan people respond in Animal-Farm like sheepish chorus:
'How can we possibly question thee, O divine General Phillipo! You are the King of redactions!'
Nevertheless the question remains out there, the famous djini outta bottle. Is the NIS top now been politicised, reducing the service to a sinister parochial affair, a mere partisan operator in a private quarrel?
The DN article still stands, ten days on. Colonel Oguna has not denounced it. Well, once bitten twice shy I imagine. Last time the retired colonel denounced the truth Live, it was his waterloo.
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THE PUBLIC LIES ON ARAP MOI'S DEATH
Recently, FACEBOOK and TWITTER, and YOU-TUBE, which all may be the same company, deleted all accounts associated with the axis of resistance. For the Troglodytes among folks, the said axis will feature Iran and all her official, evil and related websites. It also boasts Assad's Syria (now annoyingly on the verge of winning the civil war); and of course Nazrallah's Hezbollah, one of Lebanon's national principals. Hezbolla has of course managed to quarantine Lebanon from any ground incursion by the IDF.
Too, Maduro's wholly secular Venezuela, oil rich, makes the hit list. Ex Fidelista Cuba has long been here.
Nowadays, and I am not thinking of yesterday's Iowa caucus results, the imperial version of (reality) reporting is outrageously absurd. Elementary contradictions reduce the official versions to exercises in comical self-deception. If to be taken seriously, only raw power and impunity remain to pontificate the fictitious reality as preferred by the elite. One might recall how Colonialism banned local literature, banned native freedom of expression –---and it was all because, in accurately reflecting reality, all these (reflective exercises) were but dreams of one thing: FREEDOM.
Oppression, dispossession, marginalisation, institutionalised injustice, leaves man with only one option. Resistance. Even the collaboration and apparent acquiescence will be calculated strategies of survival, the heart yearning, plotting ways out. Generation after generation so long the oppression last.
Thus today in a world whose distribution of wealth reflects a feudal social geography, the dominant media owned by corporate giants has no time for propaganda from the axis of resistance. That propaganda being truth, and dreams of equity.
It is amazing how a class in power, any class anywhere, during a crisis, always seem to be better served by lies than truth. This must be a truth about the exercise of power. Such an exercise, history would vindicate, is inherently faulty, tenuous and dangerous. Truth is its enemy. There is ever need to mutilate the truth, to ever lie to the masses. To impose censorship, (It is reported TWITTER just decapitated ZERO HEDGE. Never heard of Zero-hedge, but now I have! I am more the type who knows which books from the BLACK HISTORY MONTH Amazon Dotcom wont sell, nor stock!)
KHAMEINI COMES BACK ON A LIE!
Recently, following the assassination of Major General Qaseem Suleimani by the Americans, when, in a terrible mistake, the Iranians (curiously) shot down an airliner over Tehran, mistaking the jet for an incoming American missile, Iran's first official response was lies and denial and mumbo jumbo. Only the ruling circle themselves thought these were intelligible.
Soon, reality and facts forced the supreme leader into a humiliating MEA CULPA. Otherwise he, the revered Ali Khamenei and pretender to divine wisdom on earth, would pass on, to be regarded by his people as just another cheap object. He would mutate into fodder for public ridicule and Haram tongue-lashing.
–---Neither was the American side truthful.
The POTUS Trump had dismissed the Iranian missile response as hot air; howbeit, only for reports to emerge of more than 50 wounded American soldiers. That raised the prospect of an explanation wanting: if the Iranians warned in advance of THE SLAP, how come the PATRIOT SYSTEM and the other much-hyped American air defences, failed miserably to interdict the incoming Persian Pershing's!?
Add this to the earlier failure of American-Saudi air defence infrastructure to intercept the simple drones from the Houthi's which devastated the ARAMCO oil refineries, who is fooling who with this junk?
Trump and Pompei looked more egg-faced than triumphant head-collectors. Or Arab buyers of American air defence systems are, taken for a ride, being ripped beyond contempt!
Economic realities, the Saudis have reportedly been pondering this situation, so much expenditure on useless arms. And were on the verge of a policy change, to accommodate Iran. That, the prospect of detente and rapprochement between the two leading feuding Muslim nations of the middle east, other than the furtherance of terrorism, is the real explanation underlying the American need to dispatch Qaseem Suleimani. General Qaseem was the architect and anointed salesman of the Irano-Saudi thaw, or detente. And he could deliver.
The need to lie, however outrageously, seems intrinsic to modern power. No wonder PR is one of the greatest industries. But methinks a Dam of lies against the Truth, is like a poor Earth Dam facing a sustained torrential downpour. It is a lost case. In this respect, the death of Arap Moi has once again exposed the intellectual vacuum at the top of official Kenya. –-OFFICIAL KENYA. And, accordingly, the official media which are largely the megaphone of the establishment. Unofficially though, when it comes to the social media, and Internet for sooth, there has been no shortage of a more critical, truer appreciation of the quarter century of Kenya under Moi.
A. EXPLAINING THE 2ND LIBERATION
why fix it when it ain't broke!?
If Moi was such a great, why would Kenya waste so much energy and fanfare on the second liberation!?
Lead by a saint, why liberate oneself and a people from something that good!?
Surely good only calls for continuation, KUFUATA NYAYO, unless a people are morons!
The MWAKENYA people, most of them the best brains of their generation: an AFFLICTION OF MADNESS, or what!? (What a poverty of intellectuals! The best brains in the land failed to recognise The Divinity of Daniel Arap Moi! A man whose holiness shamed the claims of The Pope!)
But serious notes, this issue is complex. And not just in Kenya!
CONTINUED.
2: SPINNING MOI IN DEATH AS THE ULTIMATE PATRIOT!
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2. THE NEED TO SPIN MOI IN DEATH AS AN ICON OF POSITIVISM
The Catholic Church has a process called CANONISATION!
But serious notes, this issue, santification, is complex. And not just in Kenya!
Should Black Americans, whose ancestors were in the bondage of slavery, celebrate white slave owners, cruel masters and abusers, yet billed as founding fathers of that Great American nation?
Should the surviving native Americans, dispossessed of everything, their ancestors all but decimated in pre-meditated genocides by the marauding white settlers, sing the Hosanna hymns of America as the greatest nation on Earth!?
Should the surviving Jews stop milking the Shoa or Holocaust as the ultimate historical evil, and, objectively, sing the praises of the genial NAZI industrial organisation in extermination?
Should Africans man up in the department of history, teach a whitewash curriculum to the new generation: chin up, lasses! European Colonialism was a great project. It brought civilisation and Christianised the heart of darkness. Tough luck is good luck if a people learn! So lets moderate China and avoid a copycat repeat, lads!
Complex in deed.
Forget the past? Whole or in part!? Total or selective amnesia!?
It is a ruthlessly trying exercise I might add. These are topics which give the intellect-(tuals) a run for their thinking wits.
And not only in Kenya.
Personally I have stated it elsewhere, I think Moi's was a primitive and an off-civilisation regime. This is because data exists on the opportunity cost: Asian Tigers.
The mass terror under the demigod Moi, were it economically literate, could have done a Korea, a Malaysia, a Taiwan or Singapore, right here at the East African equator. Instead, it was the banal anecdote once heralded by Raila Odinga: 100% here, 0% there!
Here is the gist that captures it all.
NB: An African president went to visit his Asian counterpart. As the African was hosted to a state banquet at the high-rise but modest private residence, he could overlook the Asian metropolis. The Asian host proudly enumerated the geography –-----world-class technological universities; massive student hostels and campuses, top-notch referral hospitals, sky-web road intersections, public transport complexes, estates and estates of NON-SLUM public housing, clean-cut nuclear plants and all the hyper modern trappings of a successful urban civilisation, and still rising.
The African head, perplexed, asked: 'But how do you do it!?'
The Asian replied: ' 1% here' (pointing to the modestly luxurious surroundings of the hostel), '99% there!' (pointing at the geography of the ultra-modern Asian metropolitan area).
Then the Asian head of state returned the visit to Africa.
He was hosted at a Dubai-like fabled luxury at the private residence of the African prezzo.
'Gosh! How do you do it on a government salary!?' the Asian was gobsmacked.
The African replied: 'You see that six-carriage double-decker highway there!?'
The Asian could see nothing.
'0% there, 100% here!'
In a nutshell, that is why, if you are literate in statistics and other econometric data, there is such a disparity between Asian tigers and the Afro-cretins we inhabit. The legacy of the the great kleptocrats ----the Mobutu's, Moi's, El-Bashir's, Houmphouet Boigny's, is all too obvious: primitive, stone-age and off civilisation.
There was always a need for Africa to be liberated from the backwardness of such leaders. But, on the other side, there is a need for the progeny, protege and inheritors of such leaders to lionise and iconise them as the ultimate symbols of national success.
I repeat, that the fact that they were dictators and tyrants is not really the bone of contention in history.
The sweet taste of national economic success en masse and for the masses, for a fact, can absolve the most authoritarian, totalitarian and politically repressive regimes. I gather it is the trick behind the cult of Josef Stalin: Stalin is credited with the creation of a super-power in 20 years of ruthless work. Most of history is a record of leaders who squander the national treasure in less than 5 years!
Arap Moi in this scale. He was a total, unmitigated economic disaster. He is a traumatic shame, better used as a scarecrow of what not to be done.
CASE STUDY: a Perfect Moist example: (Former treasury minister, Henry Rotich, squandered …. is it ksh 7 billion [Ruto's figure] or ksh.19 bn [DPP Haji's figure]?
Whatever the figure, there is no dam. And that is a way to defeat the national future.
KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN, E.G.H
✔ @kipmurkomen
1.Planned Cancellation of Kimwarer&restructuring of Arror dams doesn't surprise me at all. The plan all along was to kill the projects. The composition of the technical committee doesn't reflect ethnic®ional balance. Maringa,Matu,Mwangi&Muiruri have sadly misled the President.
But who killed the dam? The native boy of Kerio, the thieving David Rotich, or the MK engineers comprising the later technical committee!?
Such confused intellect is why we are here, officially lionising the ultimate thief, DT Arap Moi! Beware of states which deify scumbags. They are heading nowhere but down the drain.
Today in Kenya, it takes a Chinaman to build a (wooden) footpath over a swollen river. Not yet a Kenyan engineer! (But JKUAT and Nairobi University as among the best engineering graduate schools in Africa!)
Go figure. Moi Hoyee!
NB: Only 7billion was looted, not 21billion in dams scandal- DP Ruto
February 28, 2019
Deputy President William Ruto has denied reports that the Sh21 billion allocated to Arror, Kimwarer dams has vanished.
Speaking when the Judiciary released its annual report on Thursday, Ruto said the figures being reported to have been stolen were misleading.
“You’ have heard that the government has lost about Sh21 billion which is a flat lie! The money in question is about Sh7 billion, and for every coin that has been paid, we have a bank guarantee,” he said.
Haji vows to have 28 suspects arrested in dam scandal jailed
Paul Ogemba 23rd Jul 2019 (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001334975/public-lost-sh19-billion-in-the-dams-scandal)
More than Sh19 billion was lost in the Arror and Kimwarer dam scandal in a well choreographed corruption syndicate orchestrated by officials in the National Treasury, the DPP says.
The Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji (pictured) announced this as he ordered the arrest of 28 suspects, including Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich, at least two Principal Secretaries and top government officials in connection with the scandal.
KANU ORPHANS, they are now Truly orphans!
Cry, O Children, Daddy is dead! We are lost for words!
Cry, O World, His Greatness was beyond human language!
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WHY I CANT RESIST AN AMUSED GRIN ON THE CORONATION
Prince Gideon Moi has been handed the sceptre.
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He has been coronated Kalenjin paramount, to succeed the dead King, his father Daniel. The King is dead, long live the King.
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But –---republican tidings and pirate tales, there is another ready pretender. He is non-other than William Kipchirchir Ruto, alias The Hustler. This outsider, aka Kimirwa, is more robust and formidable than the crown prince. Everybody who went to Kabarak high with Gideon, knows the innate laziness and spoilt brat moronism of the prince, traits that with age do not seem to have metamorphosed otherwise.
THE Senzangakhona kaJama dilemma
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I remember the thought-writhes of King Senzangakhona of the Zulu in his death bed. He has to choose a successor amongst his favourite sons. All weaklings in the face of the task before them. He knows whoever he chooses is just but handing him the death sentence, a suicide note. For he has an inkling of fate.
It is in the form of another much maligned son. This one is illegitimate, an outcast, but in mental abilities, work ethic and ferocity of heart, indomitable of spirit and blood lust. –--The bastard's name is Tshaka. And that he is imbued with his own messianic sense of fate and entitlement is no grapevine tale but a visible cloud over the house and the land at large. In fact, it is written in the prophecy's!
The dying King Knows Tshaka will come to claim what is his by might. By blood he will wrestle what is his by both meritocracy and worth. The dying Old Man also knows, having been so abused –---and his mother routinely humiliated, beneath the heart of Tshaka is unspeakable wrath. And so he transfers his death mask to the youngest, and weakest, Seguyana. (###sparing Dingaan to later fulfil the kill Granddad had plotted but failed to achieve!)
Yes, dynasties must murder their own too. Its the logic of power.
The family Moi knows Gideon is no match for Ruto. Gideon himself must know it too. Which is why he has to have the wits of a prince Paris who slew Achilles the invincible –--by the help of the gods. Poor Gideon has to pawn himself to Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta as his guardian angels.
Or he will soon be dead meat, a carcass for the political graves.
May be the fellow oligarchs might afford him an extension of shelf-life, but again, may be Gideon's cause is already lost and he is a dead man walking. What we are witnessing could be voodoo politics. Nevertheless, in the real world of the game of thrones, of survival for the fittest and national purpose, a mental cripple of a crown prince like Gideon Moi –----just like the hapless Fidel Odinga who was------ better be a statistic within the table of infant mortality rates.
The historical era of dynastic succession to public office is long dead. Where it still exists in any real measure tends to be residues of backwardness (The Gulf Sheikhs for instance); otherwise modern countries –----like The United Kingdom and the Scandinavian constitutional monarchies---- long removed their inferior blue-bloods from any meaningful public decision-making.
THE SUPERIORITY ILLUSIONS OF PATRIARCHY
Here is a most ruthless scene in history, from the chronicles of the Zulu.
Prince Senzangakhona of the Tzulu, unaware his paramour Nandi of the Elengeni is pregnant with his first male child, is betrothed to another woman. His sister and go-between Mkabi informs him matter-of-fact of his impending marriage.
The amorous Senzanghakhona is curious of his hew bride whom he has never feasted upon –--neither with eyes nor body.
'Is she hot, hot hot, sensationally curved!' he asks with a lascivious grin.
But Mkabi is a zealot in matters of state and has no time for petty issues. Like curvy curves. Her response is classic and tragic: 'The only reason you will be King and not I, O dear brother, is because between your legs spots a Ddick. Surely, your imbecility and laziness allows the occasional use of that tool for the betterment of our nation and state: procreation and continuation of the royal-line, however inferior!'
However inferior! –-Soon, the traditional and feudal monarchies of Africa would come into contact with the ferocious greed and new-world hunter-getter capitalism of the historically rising industrial class of Europe. It would be a no-contest! Machine-Gun versus Spear if you like. For that area of South Africa, it would take a century for Nelson Mandela to emerge Black President! The royal Zulu House still marches on, as a citadel of retards.
The only reason the Nyayo fimbo of Kalenjin paramountcy went to Gideon is dynastic politics. The politics of inferiority. The politics of mental retards. Otherwise William Ruto is far, far greater far the better man. That is the ruthless truth, and then the tragedy of Gideon's ascension and Ruto's ambition. One man must go down. Soon.
But Ruto or Moi, Kenya stays down. For both are representatives of the politics of state loot. It is our time of backwardness in leadership.
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THE FUTILITY OF MIGUNA, THE PARADOX OF SPARTACUS BEFORE ROME
Official history forgot him for a Milenia. Our man Spartacus the Thracian. Rome called it damnatio memorae –---erasure from history:
O ye that are! what crime must one commit, to deserve such a punishment? –-The fate of having non existed!
(To understand the darkness of that punishment –---(erasure from existence), consider the following feats of vanity unique to humankind. The Pharaoh's bankrupted Old Egypt building pyramids. These monumental structures were merely eternal graves. They were a visible remembrance, an advertised proof of their earthly existence! And of course forever propaganda of their greatness!)
For us human beings who famously are creatures with a sense of time, that is a consciousness of passing and having been, DAMNATIO MEMORAE is akin to the nothingness which is the mental state of vegetables. Rulers will therefore in the rule, partake to open lying, not to mention other outrageous manipulations of The Truth. Being supremely economical with the truth is thus one thing we can trust power to ever do.
Any power.
Even the Central Bank of Kenya, supposedly under a star economist, will lie abundantly over a Eurobond, of a meagre Ksh. 2b. The Kenya Police too will be challenged to speak straight on the death of one of their own, sergeant John Kipyegon Kenei, or the Jacob Juma's, Chris Musando's or Erastus Kirui Chemorei's for that matter.
“I am Deeply saddened by the death of Police Sergeant Kipyegon Kenei who worked in my Harambee House Annex Office. I urge the relevant authorities to conduct a thorough investigation to ascertain the circumstances surrounding his death,”
Ruto said –---/DPPS
Of course a Kenyan politician no longer spots the human faculty of honesty. Such can no longer recognise if they were blatantly lying. Nor can they comprehend a cultural revulsion toward their fakery. That beggars a need to develop a characterisation of this new trait, you know; the concept 'cold-bloodedness' was scholarly adapted to encompass a particular failing in reptiles, respective human morals. Of course for their biological success and the evolutionary survival of their species, cold-bloodedness is for reptiles a wonderful adaption to a harsh environment. It is a necessity in the cut-throat Darwinian struggle for existence. But how should we describe this new adaptation of the Kenyan politician where he or she is a total moral hollow?
NO GREATNESS FOR MORAL HOLLOWS
On a lighter note, these days there is the running joke about Darayavaush, popularly known as Darius the Great. He was the third Persian King of the Achaemenid Empire. He all but usurped the throne by murder, then re-wrote the history, banning all other versions. That means he was acutely aware of the moral sensibilities of the people toward a perfidious King, however brilliant.
Howbeit human history is a battlefield where victories are seldom complete. The Truth being eternal, memories linger, the peoples Culture shifts and stores, and, over time, lies float to the top and rot into compost for humour; too, feats of heroism linger and, futile or not a their time of enactment, they birth new meanings. Once great empires collapse to dust and get lost in the blackhole of history, the stories of men and women who went all the way for an ideal, is what enters the lexicon of legends to become all the remembrance of an era. Their individual tragedy sells for ever. And sometimes the more tabloid the hotter.
This former brings me to Spartacus. Though it is equivalently the story of Jesus Christus, the crucified radical moderniser of Judaism.
Spartacus is all we know of that time now. The few names of the emperors or nobles we chance, names of those who killed him, betrayed him, 'damnatio memoraed' him, only feature as footnotes like the Iscariot Judas in the story of Jesus Christ.
I suspect over time, the story of our time will best be told in one name: Miguna wa Miguna, oka Njugunah Njugunah. The Praetor (or Prime Minister) Matiang'i will be a notorious footnote like the infamous Judas in the story of Jesus. The power drunk Dr. Fred wont be the Darius he thinks he is. Fred loves his money dirty –-(Ruaraka land scam), so he simultaneously can't have his power bloody (hang Raila for a treasonable oath).
He has to stew in the inertia of diversified loyalties. He is thus a proconsul unable to stand on his own feet, but always a protege, thus appearing ever shaky before the single-minded ambition of The Hustler Singh.
And so it is to the tragedy of the Outcast Miguna wa Miguna that the ball rolls to tell the tale of our times.
Why do I think so?
Because today in Kenya, the most unconquerable, unintimidated spirit, articulate and most publicly idealistic mind of resistance is the banned man, Miguna wa Miguna. The force and passion of his rambunctious personality dwarfs anything on offer in Kenya today. Even amongst artists. The no-compromise, anti-establishment, unrelenting scorch and sting of his firesome tongue has no equal in Kenya today. It is the single-minded and suicidal passion of a Spartacus, an opposant zealot or New Deal fanatic like the later St. Paul of the New Testament. Miguna has no reverse gear. It is the tragic heroism of a man far beyond his time, a character unable to bend to the mediocrity of the contemporary Kings of Kings; but, over time, we are witnessing the creation of an eternal legend: it is the inconquerability of the human spirit in the search for freedom, and justice. It is the definition of true man: a freedom seeking missile.
It is the dream of all mankind, humankind through history. The call for Justice. His battle-cry is a rally against tyrants and despots. It is the fire which always burnt beneath the breast of Africa even as Colonialism considered her pacified. The fire would later erupt as the liberation movements across the continent. That is the eternal drive that defines humanity. Slaves will continue to obey their masters. But both have their minds on the sword, hidden or not. Yeah, the slave always weighs to wager a chance, the master ever careful to stack the odds. That is the dynamic of all oppression, rebellion and liberation.
It is the dynamic of Injustice: no military superiority, instant rebellion! Not even God can change that dynamic. No wonder Lenin defined the state as organised violence. –---Rebel and die is the message of state power. Yet, throughout the third world and much of Africa, only a handful of governments are not running scared, only a few states wholly monopolise violence in their territory! (And, having dropped MOAB after MOAB on hapless Aghanistan and reduced her to the stone age, the USA as a super power could only declare Pyrrhic victory after Pyrrhic victory, until now, stalemated to a talk!)
SOMETHING ROTTEN AT THE HEART OF THE REPUBLIC?
The Roman nature of our politics hit me on the face during the funeral rites of the former emperor DT Arap Moi. The Tribune, which his family owns –--that is the KTN Media house which boasts the Standard Newspaper; the DN (owned by his fellow noble The Aga Khan); and the rest of the media cast owned by fellow imperial dynasts like the Kenyatta's, went into choreographed overdrive to divinise the fallen former dictator of Rome. The well-paid scribes had a bumper harvest earning bonuses coming up with competitive sycophantic pieces for public consumption.
Huraaah! Huraah! All hail Him! the god Moi. Gone, but now a star in the heavens. May he shine forever upon our land! All Hail Moi!
@MigunaMiguna (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Tweeting--general---Miguna-two-years-activism/1064-5410426-format-xhtml-13rj130/index.html)
Patriots don't mourn criminals who died without paying for their crimes like Jonathan Moi. We condemn them even in death. We condole with victims of crimes; not with the families of the criminals. You have never heard of a funeral procession or a condolence tribute for Hitler! Apr 20, 2019
Oops! Wrong Moi!
Dr. Miguna Miguna
@MigunaMiguna
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2020 12 feb.
Dictator Daniel arap Moi abandoned Lena Moi for 70 years until she died a lonely, destitute, tortured and abused soul in abject poverty. Shame on you, Gideon Moi: You were not there for your mother when she needed you most. #GoToHellMoi #DespotsMustFall
Oops, again the wrong Moi!
Ach, I don't know which one is the right Moi!
THE ROMAN CROWD IS ALWAYS IN FOR A PUBLIC PARTY
One of the great fears of authority, was the dynamics of a crowd issuing into a mob. Crowds know their place in the great game of keeping up appearances. So too do we, as the Kenyan people, know we have to majorly vote for our Tribal Kingpins in the current dispensation.
So to speak.
But what else do we know!?
We know a lot. We understand the great game of hypocrisy. We know our Tribal Kingpins. We know their corruption, greed, mediocrity and stupidity are the chains tethering Africa down for rape by any adventurous foreigner who is better organised. But a shallow analyst would miss the dynamics and start to blame the people: they get the leaders they deserve; they elect their own Doom, they worship their own tormentors (as in a trained masochist situation). Etc etc. But I shudder at the rage which seethes below the veneer of cynicism which weakly masks the revulsion of Nigerian youths at the absence of their future in current Nigeria.
Anyway, know your history. I guarantee the same Kenyan crowds waving Uhuru-Ruto and the rest of the Tribal Chiefs as the Almighty's of the land, issues easily into the mob which would use their heads for football on the bloody streets, when the dynamics change such that a dash for the sword to cut the master's head is even odds.
Currently, we all know The Kenya Army and Police are the guys in charge of the rigging of the elections. That is the peace they maintain, the streets they would sweep. It is not Al-Shabaab they have bought hardware to stay, nay, it is the Kenyan streets protesting rigged elections they are sworn to wipe, clean!
THE VOTER
NB: When is the last time Kenyan voters were left to get the real choice they made for the imperial seat of President!? It was 1963, and then when Kibaki replaced Moi, 2002. –---Remember the glitch which brought us to the current TangaTanga-Kieleweke arsonism? Well, the current president Ouru Kenyatta won elections in 2017. But they were a repeat where less than 34% bothered. Ouru is thus legitimate enough yes, to be officially referred to as Commander in Chief; yet, O Fates, H.E remains illegitimate enough to run a coalition government with Raila, the man of the treasonable oath!
Were Mr. Kenyatta foolish enough to run Kenya as an full-mandate Uhuruto complex based on that repeat election of 2017, by now the ungovernable Kenya following Agwambo's arrest for treason would have split into two republics. This fact too, is common knowledge outside the political class allied to the illusions of Dr. Ruto.
William Ruto's chief problem is he never has figured out the dynamics of those numbers upon which he and Uhuru were sworn into the second term. They are the same numbers upon which the oath of Raila Odinga as the peoples president is EQUALLY sustained. And which make him co-president above the deputy president; and create the dynamic for the usurpation by Fred Matiang'i, issuing into the executive Prime Minister. It is not Ouru Kenyatta who demoted Ruto, it is the results of the 2017 repeat presidential. The Kenyan voter did an Achebe, if you remember the hilarious short story by the maestro: THE VOTER.
These power games played by the nobility make Rome an all daggers season. But they also ever prime the crowd for mob behaviour, if not a sudden knife in the back. That is the political pathology.
And there is the clinician Miguna wa Miguna. Overwhelmed by the epidemic in real time. He wins in the long run, but looses today.
TODAY THE DEEP STATE GROOMS MOI GIDEON!
The why is interesting, but a foregone protocol.
In The Voter by Chinua Achebe we have the theme of corruption, loyalty, guilt, power, greed and tradition. Taken from his Girls at War and Other Stories collection, the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator. After reading the story the reader realises that Achebe may be exploring the theme of corruption.
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It may also be a case that Achebe is exploring the theme of loyalty. Not only do the elders accept a bribe in return for their loyalty to Marcus, but Roof too accepts a bribe to ensure that he will vote for Maduka. Even though he spends the entirety of the story attempting to ensure that Marcus will get re-elected, Roof at the end shows Marcus no loyalty. Having been swayed by the five pounds he has received in order to vote for Maduka.
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The end of the story is also interesting if not ironic. By ripping his ballot paper in two and placing half of the paper in each ballot box, Roof feels that he has honoured his commitment to vote for Maduka. However, if anything, Roof has ended up spoiling his vote with neither Marcus nor Maduka getting his vote. Despite having been bribed by one of Maduka’s men and having a sense of loyalty to Marcus, Roof hasn’t managed to vote for either man.
it is a thought, when the majority of Kenyans stayed home that fateful day, they neither voted for Uhuruto nor Raila!
I couldn't help thinking dark, of Achebe's THE VOTER, that day as I watched Wafula Chebukati go through his motions, mumbling his lines in the tragedy he had no consciousness of. Yes, imagine.
That is African letters for you. This one, the Voter, is from 1965! One year after we declared the republic, the first republic of Kenya!
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A SACKING IN NAIROBI
No, not Mike Sonko, that is a coup.
This is about Daizy, Daizy Cherogony
Quoting the DNATION: A JKIA security supervisor who ignored CS Fred Matiang’i three years ago suffered a blow on Tuesday after the Labour Court upheld KAA's decision to fire her.
Later will we visit another Kenyan story: Nancy Baraza and the security guard, Rebbecca Kerubo.
8th Jan 2012: The saga surrounding an alleged gun drama between Deputy Chief Justice (DCJ) Nancy Baraza and a security guard, Rebbecca Kerubo, is shaping up to be a duel of the biblical David versus Goliath.
Justice Baraza has been put in the dock by Ms Kerubo in an incident that has captured the imagination of the nation.
But first, the Daizy and Matiang'i farce.
Justice Nzioki wa Makau chairing the High Court in Nyeri • “She is seen disregarding the CS and beckoning other passengers at the glass door.
• "Whereas the verbal exchanges were not available, it is clear there was some disregard for the passenger who turned out to be the Cabinet Secretary for Education at the time,” Justice Makau ruled.
What do we have here?
DISREGARD!
I think it is a kind of tragi-comedy in the variations of farce. …. Like
A lowly Chinese restaurant exploiter laying a Kenyan worker flat and treating his bum to choice strokes of the cane for turning up late to work?
The Chinese minister of transport forcing his indebted Kenyan counterpart to ignore his (Corona virus) quarantine prescriptions, and allow a plane from the Dragon to land at JKIA?
Or Questions over ‘missing’ masks amid corona virus threat
Sunday March 1 2020 (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Questions-over-missing-masks-amid-corona-virus-threat/1056-5474124-q2h9nz/index.html)
After the Chinese government made an export application online, it was declined on the condition that Kenya is also at risk and not enough masks are in the market.
The Chinese then went the diplomatic way and Kenyan officials were ordered to release the masks.
An insider at the Ministry of Health told the Sunday Nation that immediately after the orders were declined, senior officials were summoned and asked to approve the deal.
It was done thereafter and the masks were flown to China under the condition that Kenya has had favourable trade dealings with the Asian nation.
“We are joking with the lives of Kenyans. We are so much into trade, business that we have forgotten that we are playing with the lives of 47 million Kenyans,” said a source at the ministry.
Order declining the landing re-export was ... ahmm .... DISREGARDED!?
It is reminiscent of the case of the now disgraced Kibaki-era minister for transport, Engineer Michael Kamau. The man was very honest with the parliament when, irked, the offside-rate-minded Mpigs demanded why he flouted the tender guidelines of the republic: Kamau shrugged, 'they pay, so we do everything they say.' (which neatly explains why even Uhuru Kenyatta has sealed lips when asked about the fate of Mombasa Port in the SGR fine print. Only the son of Jomo lacks the irritated candour of the son of Immaculata!)
Here is a hint at the horror behind the SGR scenes, President Uhuru's director's cut.
NB: Nation Prime:
SGR’s Sh1bn grass: Inside unbridled greed and negligence in mega project
By VINCENT ACHUKA (https://www.nation.co.ke/nationprime/sgr-china-contractors-kenya/5279428-5467772-hv6mr2/index.html?fbclid=IwAR04lqmt359Qw7Tsiy_pR3uZseuP4dw4ijIMarP75969rQ2T5ezLlmOTQa4) and By PAUL WAFULA
Tuesday February 25 2020
The beautiful grass dotting the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) stations and some sections of the line cost the taxpayer Sh1 billion.
And when Kenyans were fed the narrative that the Chinese contractors were living in temporary containers, the reality was that they were earning top dollar and living large behind the walls of the SGR.
The airtime allowance for the lead engineer was Sh5 million, for the three years the project was under construction. Even if the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) engineer was on phone 24 hours every day for the 36 months, the airtime would never have been exhausted.
His house was furnished at a cost of Sh3 million and office computers bought at Sh280,000 each, while his laser jet printers cost a staggering Sh513,700 each. In total, the taxpayer forked out Sh57 million to provide office furniture.
STAFF ENTERTAINMENT
That is the kind of state people like Fred Matiang'i, now promoted to full Prime Minister, are running. –-Frankly, it is a financial horror show,
This evident collapse of a political leadership adds a cute cultural twist to the instincts of the dismissed lady, security supervisor Daisy Cherogony. Who, in his or her right mind, would show HONEST respect to such worms and parasites at the top of a land?
That respect must only be squeezed out, like a confession under torture. The honest human reaction to the kind of scumbags running Kenya, is revulsion. They are despicable and, and in all sanity and stolen moments outside bureaucratic and official duplicity, they must to be looked upon with the contempt they deserve.
Powerful cabinet Ministers in governments whose populations starve, while they spend a billion on fictitious grass implants around railways, should be put in their place: oblivion if possible, or ignored. And of course, even as a minister for education there was always the heavy stench of the Ruaraka land scam hanging around Dr. Fred. –--Him for President against Ruto, Jubilee dissidents now croak!
Daisy Cherogony may have lost her job, but she never lost the plot. It is the veteran Francis Atwoli, the personification of COTUS's domestication, who has lost the plot. The heavy man puffed and roared against a lowly Chinese exploiter of an eatery in Nairobi, who was video-d as he thudded choice strokes of the cane on time-unconscious Kenyan buttocks; but not even a warning cough has he raised on behalf of Daizy, the girl who wouldn't flinch under Matiang'i's power-gaze.
And David Maraga's Judiciary to the rescue –--of the powerful man!
This of course is the Judiciary which jailed the leaders of the Doctor's Union. The same judiciary where, only yesterday, a High Judge was exposed banging and coaching the chief suspect in the Tob Cohen murder case, likely to come before his bench! This of course it is the same Matiang'i who, seven court orders counting, is in the dock in the Miguna Miguna saga, and no accounting, YET!
Justice Nzioki wa Makau never heard of mitigating circumstances. –--Since Daisy Cherogony humiliated Matiang'i, by IGNORING him and forcing him to line up as all ought, Matiang'i himself has shown his impunit. He neither understands the concept of decency, nor respects individual rights, nor does he uphold the correct procedure as per legal requirements –---see him as interior chief on Miguna.
This wembe yenye imenyoa Daisy at the labour court, its back-swing can easily cut the throat of Fred Matiang'i, fatally.
Real reason Matiang'i is not sackable over the Miguna(trashed court orders) case is: NOT YET JUSTICE TIME IN KENYA. We are hurt locked.
It is not yet relief, just like Narok senator Ledama Ole Kina was arrested only coz NOT YET IMPLEMENTATION TIME NDUNG'U REPORT
HURT LOCKER VACANCY
The Ndung'u land report!
O time-bombs that toc-tic.
On the wake, nations like ours await
The cometh of thee that unlock hurts!
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THE CASE OF THE MISSING CHARGE SHEET AND THE DIRTY BED SHEETS
DAVID MANDUKU'S NO CASE TO ANSWER!
I really picture it out why the great mind of a man like Mwai Kibaki, had to blink and opt out into drink. Emilio, throughout his long history in public service, reputedly went through his bureaucratic responsibilities as a zombie, more or less ruled by broth. So much potential yet mediocrity under the first Kenyatta; so much excellence in stupidity under DT Arap Moi; in deed, so much complicit corruption and criminal negligence as was seen recently in a Kenyan courtroom, can so disgust a man of high intellectual aptitude, that he rebels by indulging bouts of absent mindedness. -----Deep glasses of drink would do; it is not for nothing Don Emilio Mwai Kibaki was known as General Coward in his backyard. Unlike Murang'a Ken Matiba, Kibaki couldn't make the decision to do anything about the rot.
Too risky.
So he sat fence, all his life, to his death. And now that his mind is gone, and not just by drink –--- it is Alzheimer, the thing beginning to trouble Joe Biden too-----, there are plenty weird stories seeping out, about how wrathful and frankly he assesses his erstwhile colleagues. But the deep-seated contempt was already visible, audible, as soon as he became president courtesy of Raila's tosharing him.
On display the other day in public at a Kenyan court, was just how much of a non-starter DPP Haji's office is. COURT CONFUSION
KPA boss Manduku released after prosecution fails to produce charge sheet
Magistrate said he had no file to write on because no charge had been registered.
In Summary
• Kenya Ports Authority managing director Daniel Manduku and Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner for Customs Kevin Safari have been released
Kenya Ports Authority managing director Daniel Manduku and Kenya Revenue Authority Commissioner for Customs Kevin Safari have been released.
The duo was arrested on Monday by the DCI after months of investigations into leased extra storage space for containers by the agency.
They were detained at the DIC headquarters along Kiambu Road before being moved to Muthaiga police station.
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Kenya Revenue Authority commissioner for customs Kevin Safari with Kenya Ports Authority managing director Daniel Manduku before senior Principal magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot at the Milimani Law Court on March 3,2020.
The duo was to be arraigned today to face graft charges related to the Inland Container Depot scandal.
But when they were presented before the senior Principal magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot, the judge said he was surprised because their file was not on his list.
This brought confusion in the court as the prosecution sought to explain what had transpired.
The magistrate said he had no file to write anything on because no charge had been registered.
Cheruiyot said it was not fair to keep the suspects in court cells because there was no charge.
The prosecution said they instructed police to release him on bail.
After MONTHS OF INVESTIGATIONS!?
1. Those investigations were crap. Empty motions with DCI Kinoti and his office just smoke-screening. No case.
2. Those investigations were real, rat-catching and crime busting. But the details were never shared with the prosecutor's office. No case.
3. The months of investigation produced prosecution-proof grade facts; these were handed to DPP Haji and his sidekicks. And they did their math, and concluded it was more profitable for them to fudge the case.
The sums do not lie.
EACC probes Sh40bn oil terminal tender
Wednesday April 10 2019
The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is investigating the award of the Sh40 billion Kipevu Oil Terminal tender at Mombasa port.
The EACC said there were malpractices during the award of the terminal construction tender to China Communication Construction Company (CCCC).
Already, EACC has summoned 16 Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) top officials among them Managing Director Daniel Manduku and his predecessor Catherine Muturi-Wairi.
SUMMONED
According to a letter seen by the Nation, Ms Muturi-Wairi is set to appear before the commission to record a statement on Wednesday.
Dr Manduku is scheduled to turn up at the EACC Mombasa regional office at 10am on Thursday
A tender that big leaves a lot of loose (and not very small) change which can turn a lot of weak flesh, if not those of weak constitution. That corruption is so rampant in Kenya, that the president himself declared it a security threat, would point to a pandemic of weak constitutions at the the levels of decision-making, where monies are concerned.
Luckily Kenyans are are not all General Cowards to hibernate their minds in beer bottles, or fence-sit all their lives long. Twitter is awash with Kenyans calling a spade a spade, and at the top of WORDFIRE is of course General Miguna Miguna himself. Such cases as the missing files in this case only serve to underwrite the thesis of the exiled National Resistance General. He is not waiting until old-age and Alzheimer un-inhibits his mind. He is spewing it now, candid and lucid, eloquent and wrathful, solid and truthful.
DPP is a joke. A cartel's pawn and a looter's whitewash boy.
Marriage on the rocks? Naah!
The DPP used the press conference to speak on his relationship with DCI - insisting that they were working well.
"Please do not attempt to create fights between us. We are not fighting and we continue to work together. Some of the files that are said to have been delayed, we want people to be patient because we are working on them. Even husbands and their wives disagree but do not use what has happened in the past to say we are fighting each other. Me and Kinoti are brothers and will continue working together," Haji stated.
"My officers are now getting frustrated daily. They spend a lot of time investigating crime, risking their lives — and even after getting all the evidence required to prosecute cases, they are reduced to carrying files.
“It is important for Kenyans to know that my officers have done their level best. They feel betrayed. My worry is when suspects tell my officers ‘you are going nowhere’ and then it comes to pass,” Kinoti stated.
When your level best is not enough, and you continue the same way, there is a saying about it: only mad people continue knocking their heads against a wall believing it will give way. But it could be a thin line between mad and stupid!
Ach, when all is said and done, it will be found Kipyegon Kenei committed suicide after all. I heard it before, in the case of Erastus Kirui Chemorei! Those days George Kinoti wasn't born yet. Nor was Noordin Haji, when a pathologist insisted Robert Ouko committed suicide. Those files are at Police archives, if the love-birds (George and Noordin) care for some bedtime reading before or after the nuptials.
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THE KENYA ALL NATIONAL PRAYER DAY, CORONA PANDEMIC
Aging and short on cynicism these days, clarity of mind pushes me more toward a condescending amusement. This is as I survey the tribulations of the childish worms who, as a virtual elite, go through their clownish motions at the top of Kenya.
In a rare show of public concurrence with his former half at the dais these days, we read: Deputy President William Ruto has also called on Kenyans to seek divine intervention over the virus. “Even as we face the challenge of coronavirus, let us remind each other of the scripture, 2 Chronicles 7:14: ‘If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,’” Dr Ruto said.
That was in the heat of this
A tweet by State House yesterday asked Kenyans to “join His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta this Saturday 21, 2020 at 12 noon for a broadcast prayer service to mark the National Day of Prayer on the Coronavirus pandemic”. State House spokesperson Kanze Dena said the inter-faith and inter-denominational service will involve over 20 clergy.
In which era in the political evolution of human society were divine interventions sought by the high and mighty, say the face of a debilitating crisis?
That was the era in which earthly divine Kings headed governments.
Then came the era of the separation of powers, the revolution in thought known as secularism. The modern state went on to base its power in the people,
WE THE PEOPLE,
but of course not before taking the precaution to organise itself into a supremely VIOLENT MACHINE –--capable of suppressing the peoples' will.
Organised violence is a common definition of the modern state in political science. And truly so.
ENTER MACHIAVELLI.
But of course there is Machiavelli. To the bone the Old Italian cuts. Politics needs heavy doses of calibrated lies. Call it ritual misinformation and propaganda. This is because
1. Politicians are in the main, too stupid to bequeath themselves well of the tasks they are oathed to.
And
2. We The People themselves are awash with a gullibility only second to our own politicians. This makes our minds a fertile ground for manipulation and, in a severe crisis, we the masses form a ready set for several experiments in insanity.
A modern extremity of 2 was of course NAZI Germany where Goebbels and Hitler seduced the Aryans into the madness of the FINAL SOLUTION; to the Jewish question among others. So too did white South Africans subscribe to the myth of their own racial superiority until, nearly too late, the Messiah Mandela walked in from a prison cell to save the incestuously degenerated Boer idiots from the cave of darkness they had fortified themselves in.
We Kenyans of course, are no strangers to home-bred Tomfoolery. Like the Moi years are no longer dark. We are patriotic Kenyans, in so far as that objective does not impinge on our tribal cocoonery and the deep-rooted divine fellowship therein.
But the Corona Pandemic is of course no joke.
CORONA PANDEMIC AS BLACK SWAN CRISIS
First, we had a precedent to handle the crisis. It was as we have done with all public services. Nonchalant corruption, criminal negligence, bureaucratic carelessness and incompetence and, well, a fatalistic 'Mmwaah, will take care of itself.'
It was nearly a suicidal life goes on anyway, no matter what.
Then, under pressure from threatening empty stomachs and an increasingly nervous economic base, the Central Bank of Kenya twitched a limb like some famous dying things do. Dr. Patrick Njoroge's explanation where he got the money from, was curious. He wasn't quantitatively easing, nor, as classical economists say without much ado, running the money-printing press!
The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has released Sh7.4 billion to support government's efforts towards containing the spread of coronavirus. Speaking during a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi, on Friday, CBK Governor Patrick Njoroge said the money was from the mop-up of the old Sh1,000 banknotes. “As you recall in September last year we concluded the demonetisation of our currency relating to our old generation Sh1,000 banknotes. That matter was concluded and as a result of that, Sh7.4 billion worth of banknotes never came back to the system. “That money would have been held by people who, for whatever reason, did not want to subject themselves to the checks that were in place. So most likely this was money that might have been illicitly acquired through the various channels that we have talked about in other forums,” the CBK governor said. Dr Njoroge said the bank is giving back the money to boost the government’s efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
President Kenyatta directed Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani to ensure the money is used to support Kenyans to overcome the health crisis.
I think were Dr. Njoroge to as much as hint he is printing –---adding zeros randomly to bank reserves (like tenderpreneurs do to government contracts to inflate the payment vouchers and create the many financial scandals like the NYS ones which the Ukur's predecessor, Rotich, duly honoured)---- the Shilling would dive in value and all the past sins of the Jubilee misrule would conflate with the pandemic. Yeah, the staunch catholic of a central banker has been reading Machiavelli and knows how much disinformation we can swallow. He also knows how much latitude his O-D vows give him in lying for the good of Capital: Infinite lease, as would be the interpretation of the scriptures under a Borgia Pope!
But you know what they say: can't fool all the people all the time. So even the gullible Uhuru Kenyatta, the appointing authority himself, is not sure Dr. Njoroge's medicine does the trick. Thence His Excellency has sought divine intervention, just in case: God. This pandemic is not a problem the rank of winning elections. For that, Mr. Kenyatta and his handlers didn't need God and his mysterious ways. Incumbency just needed the services of the fixers of Chris Musando, Cambridge Analytica, and a rigged EABC under a rigging-philic Chebukati. Done. Messy but Jubilee stayed in power.
Today –-national pandemic prayer day-- then is a national comedian's day. But it is a comedy which belies a tragedy. The tragedy of institutional ineptitude. The tragedy of a vacuum at the top, a vacuum of competences, a surrendered political leadership. Essentially Uhuru Kenyatta as first citizen and commander in chief, has –--like Mike Sonko relinquishing Nairobi county's autonomy---mentally collapsed. At noon the pretender will be surrounded by shamans, charlatans, practical jokers and other such-like fly-whisk dealers in fictitious solutions. And we the people will play our part in the sick show. Most of us will spot poker serious faces. Luckily this is human society, and the socio-political evolution of human society shows we as a species do know, and can get rid of rot at the top; just as cures and vaccines to pandemics are scientifically found eventually. The downside is mostly after the full price of folly has been paid.
The hope now, is we wont have to pay the full price of folly. Our rock of trust, the Lord, is with us, Amen! May the doubting Toms say AYE! And the ever pious shiver in deliverance!
Over to you, workaholics and common sensers. There is work to be done. Sabbath or no sabbath. Cow is in the pit. Toa!
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WHY IT WAS RETIRED STAR AFRICAN FOOTBALLERS WHO PROTESTED
I confess. I am of wont to disparage head-butt sports. Think American football, think soccer stops, soccer head controls; and think boxing. The human brain in its cranial encasement does not strike me as an instrument that kindly takes to hard blows. Such sports thus always occurred to me to be exercises in soliciting one or other form of encephalopathy.
Well, that it took such 'risked' brains to to stand up for Africa has, in deed, procured me a kind of concussion in the head.
Three former Chelsea stars condemn 'racist' doctors ...
Paris:3 apr. 2020
Two highly respected French doctors discussed on live television how a new COVID-19 vaccine under development should be first tested in Africa, "where there are no masks, no treatment, nor intensive care."
One of them, Jean-Paul Mira, even compared Africans to prostitutes who were the focus of past AIDS studies. "We tried things on prostitutes because they are highly exposed and do not protect themselves," he said.
Several African soccer stars who played in Europe, including the former Chelsea star Didier Drogba and the former Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o, tweeted their outrage at the two medics' remarks.
Then stories began to emerge in the grapevine, that an assortment of Francophone countries were already lined up to have the vaccine tested in their countries. Worse, was that this evil plot had procured the politicians from the respective countries through MONETARY INDUCEMENTS, i.e., they taken bribes to offer their own people as guinea pigs. Selfless Africa saves the world as it were!
But it wasn't just the African politicians. They would of course need the purchased to willing complicity (of the elites) within their respective medical establishments. The oathed professionals too, apparently were neatly in the bag, since not a squeak was heard from their lofty quarters. The top brains at health having been thus compromised, who remained to defend Africa's corner?
Wow! It aint over until its over! ---retired African footballers to the rescue! Eto'o, Drogba! Which is why I, with my derogatory impulses toward head-butting sports, is choking on humble pie. The African politician and medical elite are a kind of 'Sonderkommando'.
And there will be no apologies for that terrifying comparative.
RUTHLESS IS RUTHLESS, LIFE IS LIFE,THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF KENYA
Life in the extreme tests humankind. And I am not talking about extreme sports. I am talking about political reality, the reality of state violence and, ostensibly, its organisational ability to coerce and co-opt voluntary and, yes, talented, dedicated service.
THE JUDENRATE
In modern European history, there is a curious phenomenon. This is the historical bedrock known as the Shoa. It has has given us various, recorded and highly documented strands of human behavior under extreme conditions. Some have heard of Anna Arendt, heard of her wholesale condemnation of the Judenrate. These (JUDENRATE) were the Jewish councils which administered concentration camps on behalf of the Third Reich, or Hitler's Nazi German apparatus.
A deeply controversial debate is the call for the suspension of moral judgment, it is usually pre-judgment, of those 'privileged Jews' of the concentration camps. These were the top dogs amongst the doomed victims. They composed the Special Units that served, for instance, ushering their fellow Jews unto the gas chambers and crematoria. That is also privilege, suspending ones own predictable extermination for a few months, or weeks. Directing others to theirs, daily.
How evil is the solitary individual who, under total domination by an external authority, collaborates with that authority and power in the perpetration of systematic evil? And worse, if in exchange for some privilege ---material reward, emotional recompense, or any other valuable?
Human life experience, and recorded history to boot, does not make this a wholly theoretical question. ---No, it is a recurring human theme at every epoch. It is not just as a controversy sprung from the extermination camps of 20th century Europe. The Shoa has confronted us with the moral dilemmas of the so-called 'privileged Jews', like those of the Sonderkommando; but, how be it, much more modern torture camps such as Guantanamo Bay, the notorious death prisons of Syria's Hafez Al Assad, the current Omar Suleiman's of Abdel Sisi's Egypt, too, confront us with their own sets of moral turbulence to ponder. And as a matter of fact, the fraudulent perpetrators of financial crimes who ran Wall Street and dominated Barrack Obama into bailing them out instead of sending them to jail, are, in their own rights, a kind of morally wayward special commando.
What choice but conform, average man in a brutally totalitarian system? Arendt looked at the nondescript figure of the Eichmann the bureaucrat on trial for crimes against humanity. There was no ooze of great evil in him. He was a hollow nothing who had simply excelled at his orders: make trains run on time, whatever the cargo. That the cargo was humanity being herded to crematoria raised no quiver in his heart. Many men in a gigantic machine are such. A career rat race.
Methinks moral ambivalence, as a device to excuse away the conscious actions of man under extreme circumstances, is a slippery road toward the erasure of (the construct of) human exceptionalism (in the animal Kingdom). Morality is our key exceptionalism. Create doubt therein, man becomes nothing but just another basic instinct animal.
It is a fall.
And so the African heads of state and their medical bureaucracy who had secretly accepted bribes to secretly test COVID vaccine on an unsuspecting population precipitates my considered opinion: they are like those ill-fated, hated Jews of the Sonderkommando: usherers unto hell on earth.
And historically then,
AFRICAN PARLIAMENTS (ARE) AS NOTHING MORE THAN JUDENRATS
NB: If you lack native wit, aint street smart, and in addition went to cheap KANU schools with lesser teachers, sorry, Amigo. My history classes in college, even at Junior levels, had the likes of Wole Soyinka, Eduard Said and even Noam Chomsky visiting. Yeah, that is for some Socrates-style chats under the ancient Tamarind tree off Kitengela. The intensity of their intellectual charge was no less than Chernobyl at its worst day to date. Going haywire. If Chernobyl rings no bells in your mind, nor jogs no stalled memory cells in your grey matter, again sorry, again Amigo.
Here we go
Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBJZzu6YsMA)
Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski (February 27, 1877 - August 28, 1944) was a Polish Jew and wartime businessman appointed by Nazi Germany as the head of the Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II. He accrued exponentially more power by transforming the Ghetto into an industrial base manufacturing war supplies for the Wehrmacht army
Now, consider African politics today, whether as debt colony of an increasingly assertive China or a left-over, nostalgic appendage of a declining Europe doubling up as a paramour of American capital: what really is an African legislative assembly in the global chess game?
What really is a modern African president, if not a deluded, make believe Mordecai Rumkowski? (This question first occured to me as I listened to Cyril Ramaphosa. The occasion was the aftermath of the Mariakana mines massacre, in South Africa. Ramaphosa wasn't just an average fellow, he was ANC pure breeding!)
It has disturbed me ever since. The best of Africa's politicians as nothing more than Rumkowski's.
I urge thee to suspend your quick moral pre-judgments. Just think, and as thinking man, sort it out in the head.
Then the moral resurgence of Africa murmurs alive, louder.
Meanwhile: RUTHLESS IS RUTHLESS, LIFE IS LIFE,THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF KENYA
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HOUSE OF CARDS STANDING
1. First, The forced, forked tongue of The Clown, Ambassador Kamau Macharia.
I woke up with an urge to say something positive about Sarah Serem. Sarah is currently Kenya's official face to China; that is, a (state) pro- or mercenary keeping up the airs of (national) dignity. This life in empty facades is called diplomacy.
During demystified times as the Corona Pandemic has precipitated, roles like these awarded to the likes of Sarah Serem are laid bare, bereft of any item of decorum. The diplomats from lesser, debt-enslaved countries like Kenya, themselves mostly nothing but nepotistic or protege appointments for this or other corrupt service rendered earlier, showcase themselves as little more than used toilet paper.
But she was not always so, our SS. There was a time, as the long-lost head of the SRC, when Sarah had the guts to irk our Mpigs and, in deed, King PoRK. If there was ever a shrine dedicated to herd gluttony in Africa, the Kenyan parliament is of course the hallowed ground thereto. Any randomly selected Mpig would easily win the championship for personification of a hog.
Sarah used to have, and make points. Good points.
Members of the Defense and Foreign Relations Committee however termed her as arrogant and would therefore be unable to relate with Kenyan delegations to China. She defended herself saying that she was the best person for the job as she sat in many boards because of her ability to resolve conflicts. She asked the committee to not only focus on her tenure at the SRC. She said that the members of parliament were only ones who did not understand her.
Of course the impunity of the members intimidated her as chair of the SRC and she long surrendered. And in the afterlife of the SRC, she further made a kind of knee-fall and finally made it to Kenya's ambassador to China.
It should be the most influential diplomatic post since the LOOK-EAST motion of President Kibaki's stiff neck: ambassador to the number one trade partner, creditor and keeper of the Kenyan economy, and, therefore, the shilling. But Jubilee did always have their priorities upside down, like that fabled hyena which tried to attend two parties at the same time. ---That is a story for another day.
BUT TODAY: CORONA CRISIS REVEALS CHINA'S KKK BACKWARDNESS
What fate has befallen Black Africans (and even Americans) domiciled in China in the turbulence of the Corona Pandemic?
Videos shared widely online appear to show Africans, Kenyans among them, being barred from entering supermarkets and restaurants and even evicted from apartments.
And with those stinging Ku-Klux-Klan and Boer-apartheid images, fake patriotism began to murmur from the usual suspects, scoundrels seeking last refuges!
Mudavadi joins call to save Kenyans stranded in China
Among those who will benefit are thousands of traders and Kenyan students studying abroad who were the worst hit when the lockdown was imposed due to the coronavirus.
Guangzhou, is a favoured destination for traders involved in buying electronics and clothing to sell back home. China says there are at least 15,000 Africans in the city, majority staying there illegally.
SEE ALSO: Amb Macharia, Kenyans in diaspora need you now
The move to airlift those stranded comes amid pressure for the government to evacuate the Kenyans stranded in China. Some, especially in Guangzhou, say they are being mistreated and racially discriminated against after a spike in imported Covid-19 cases in Guangzhou.
Videos shared widely online appear to show Africans, Kenyans among them, being barred from entering supermarkets and restaurants and even evicted from apartments.
The charter flight will be a reprieve on condition they pay their airfare and each must secure a health certificate stating they are free from Covid-19.
The departure date has not been set though the notice informs that their pickup point will be in Guangzhou.
Those seeking to be airlifted are also required to state whether their China visa status is active, a requirement that has caused anxiety due to a number of Kenyans who have overstayed in the city and province that they are in.
The program is being headed by Kimani Waweru the deputy head of mission at the Kenyan Embassy in China.
Earlier on, Sarah Serem had gone on record to deny any Kenyan in China was in dire straits. This buffoonery perhaps informed Kamau Macharia's clownesque appearance in parliament the other day. His apparent, mercenary moronic and comical confusion will be shown presently as (necessarily) the consequence of a cocktail of Truth and Lies beyond the tolerance of human senses, beyond even the soppy mindlessness of a life-long diplomat.
Kamau Macharia thanked the Chinese government .... even as
1. Coronavirus: Kenya rules out evacuation for citizens in Chinese city of Guangzhou
Senior foreign ministry official says Chinese authorities have promised to address concerns about racial discrimination related to Covid-19 quarantine rules
Paperwork problems could be preventing some people from gaining essential health codes in the city, he says
Jevans Nyabiage Updated: 1:40am, 16 Apr, 2
2. It was a notable confusion in two acts --a rebuke and a thanks-- in two days .... A: Kenya thanks China for well being of Kenyans in China
By Jerry Omondi. April 15, 2020
Kenyan Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Kamau Macharia has thanked the Chinese government for "securing the well being" of Kenyans in China.
He says that some measures taken in China to fight COVID-19 have been misinterpreted. The Foreign Ministry urges Kenyans to adhere to the rules and regulations of China.
But (B) a day earlier ... NAIROBI, Kenya
14th April 2020: Kenya rebuked China on Tuesday over coronavirus-related discrimination against its citizens in Guangzhou province while noting that no Kenyans there had died from COVID-19.
"The reality is that this has been a very unfortunate outcome. Africans, Kenyans included, have been discriminated against in the process of the provincial government's response to try and mop up the situation that they are facing there after the crisis that they had over the last few months," Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau said at a press briefing.
"Sadly, they have discriminated against and targeted various foreigners in their response. The African Union has responded collectively in consultation with us," Kamau said.
Kenyans living in China have posted videos on social media depicting racial discrimination against them and other Africans as the coronavirus pandemic continues. Africans have been evicted from apartments and turned away from hotels despite having no recent travel history or known contact with COVID-19 patients.
Macharia thanked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for his response to the attacks on Africans as African Union chairman.
So, between April 14 and April 15 somebody must have tightened the screws on Kamau Macharia's balls.
He had to swallow his denunciation of China.
He had to change story. Already a comedian, he had to become a moron ---if he still had to keep his job. And I doubt that was Uhuru's call. (Mr. Kenyatta is the type who wouldn't dare tell the nation if and for what he had mortgaged Mombasa port, for his version of the LUNATIC EXPRESS, called the SGR! And it isn't that he is a lame duck, nay, as a duck he has always been dead, in the head anyway!)
EVACUATION OR REPATRIATION?
The truth is there is an evacuation which Sarah wont let be called an evacuation because the 'repartee's' are paying ($750) for their economy flight home. AND on arrival, at least 28K for 14 days scrappy quarantine.
These excavation bills have brought one man on the spot: The new Henry Rotich. His name is Dr Ukur Yatani. He is spending 40 billion on what then, if not dire-stricken Kenyans abroad whose thrift and remittances do more for the backbone of the Ksh than any magic Patrick Njoroge ever worked? Is Ukur Yatani's loose purse strings just a phantom war on the Corona Virus, like Rotich's dams were a phantom war on drought!? Suddenly there are calls for him to be more specific than Rotich ever was with the Eurobond. Once bitten, twice shy. Hio pesa sio ya mama yake, as The Mouth Duale once told off somebody.
Sh40bn allocated to corona response - Treasury CS Yatani
CS Ukur Yatani says funds already provided for entities responding to the pandemic
In Summary (https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-04-22-sh40bn-allocated-to-corona-response-treasury-cs-yatani/)
• Treasury also says it has provided Sh10 billion in tax refund and another Sh10 billion for the cash transfers for the elderly and vulnerable persons.
• The National Intelligence Service has also been given a Sh1.5 billion boost for their operations, to help in contact and case tracing.
But of course, these are not the hottest stories in Kenya. It is obvious the house is on fire, so it is the moment for the political class to Gong-Gong the TAM-TAM drum! And what a beat!
The chief story in the land, is when Ruto met Sonko a few days ago.
NEXT
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WHEN RUTO MET SONKO ON APRIL FOOLS' DAY 2020
This is the story of the estranged Deputy President, and the coup'd, nearly ex-governor of Nairobi.
Once upon a time in Nairobi, the popularly-elected governor used his rescue teams to pour human excreta on Jacaranda grounds where the opposition leader, swindled out of his presidential victory, would be sworn-in as the people's president. Knowing that the day after (the swearing in), Jacaranda grounds would revert to its role as a social facility for all and sundry in the neighbourhood, we joked this act by Sonko would be frowned upon by the heavens, and our ancestors in toto.
Pouring human dung in the playfield of children for whatever purpose is not the act of a mind that has gone through renaissance. But few politicians if any in Africa, are post renaissance. Still, regardless of his voter pull and magnitude of his victory, we felt Mike Sonko had operated too much outside civilisation. He was too sheety.
Meanwhile William Ruto had of course made Uhuru Kenyatta president, twice, convincing him their narrow social base, the binary tyranny of numbers, was stable enough to sustain a rigging and contain Raila Odinga, twice in a row! Odinga, Ruto taught, was an old spent force, a waning Mchawi and Mgangha, a Lord of Poverty whose regression had been exposed and now, could be safely buried.
When at one time it was even revealed Jubilee was ready to pay Raila a very hefty sum to retire from politics, it became obvious there, belying this bravado, was an urgency, a desperateness borne of an insecurity which, as time prospered, hinted at the fear of living in a house of cards before a change of weather. And behind the scenes, a feeding frenzy commenced as if it was the last day on the bounteous Earth. (Billions for supplies of air to the NYS for instance).
All that looks a very long, long time ago today. In any case Raila Odinga did what he never does when he is up and dry. He went back to the people. He did, with a knife to his throat so said, if you believe Doctorates like Miguna Miguna and David Ndii. Howbeit the people responded to his plight, their plight. Even as morons like Raphael Tuju smirked off the ceremony as Kalongolongo, the people of Nairobi, knowing well they had the people of Kenya behind them, forced the ever trigger-happy animals of the security services to a parley and ceasefire.
It became obvious Jubilee's tyranny of numbers was dead. Having failed at the ballot, it could not be militarily enforced, not even in Nairobi alone for all of Sonko's populism. Something had to give. Not at the bottom, but at the top. The rule of human dung needed national sanitation!
And it did give. A bit. But enough for the nation to breath, more than a sigh of relief. At a time.
Uhuru in massive land repossession in Nairobi
President Uhuru Kenyatta is reclaiming over 2,700 acres of public land illegally allocated to private developers within Nairobi.
On Wednesday, Lands officials repossessed some 1,600 acres in Ruai associated with a senior government official.
--TheStar
Major General Philip Kameru's National Intelligence Services took their eyes off the ball. They were much pre-occupied elsewhere. Dr. Ekur Yatani, chanting CORONA BONUS, had sprinkled upwards of a billion shillings over them; and, like much chicken in a Pavlovian response to the rattling of a debe of grain, all agents scampered from the field to school and plot how to double book-keep at accounts. So did they miss the meeting. Only later did they hear of it from the gossipvine.
That was the decisive meeting when the estranged Ruto met the overthrown Sonko.
Wonder O wonder! while every Kenyan knew what was discussed between the two renegades marked for political execution, the NSI couldn't report with transcribed authority to the Handshake Presidency. This informational deficit provoked a harsh reaction from a section of those whom we can describe as handlers of the son of Jomo.
April 24, 2020
President Uhuru Kenyatta is reclaiming over 2,700 acres of public land illegally allocated to private developers within Nairobi.
On Wednesday, Lands officials repossessed some 1,600 acres in Ruai associated with a senior government official.
WAAA! The son of Kenya's greatest INDIGENOUS landgrabber --pained by Ndung'u--- is grabbing some back for Wanjiku!
It is like a crown-prince declaring his Kingdom a republic ---without a knife to his throat! One gotta live it to believe it!
This comedy show struck me as greater than Sarah Serem's and Kamau Macharia's star roles as Kenyan tributes to Xi JinPin.
Kenya-China is a straightforward story of imperial domination. Kenya is a vassal state being a vassal state; Monicah Juma, Macharia Kamau and Sarah Serem are cogs being cogs, ancillaries, in the sense of handmaids. But the Uhuruto divorce is Shakespearean. It is like a classical Greek Tragedy writing itself. And we watch it live, unrehearsed.
I read this in the star of Thursday 23/04/2020
Documents prepared by senior government officials and obtained by the Star detail how public land was hived off in Kariobangi, Karura, Karen, Kabete and Kahawa West.
The parcels were meant for sanitation facilities, sewerage treatment plants and water storage facilities but were grabbed by developers.
In some cases, grabbers use fake land registration documents to claim ownership, while in other scenarios genuine but fraudulently obtained documents have been cited.
I know you wont believe it. But you can try the Ndung'u report for even more comprehensive details. Like names and addresses of the grabbers! (And hence the foolproof HODUMA NUMBER!)
And then, the loans from banks with these stolen lands as collateral. Try calling Patrick Njoroge for his DOCUMENTATION! Banks' oversighter that he be!
President Uhuru Kenyatta is reclaiming over 2,700 acres of public land illegally allocated to private developers within Nairobi.
On Wednesday, Lands officials repossessed some 1,600 acres in Ruai associated with a senior government official.
No names in 2020!? There is colour blindness, and NAME-ILLITERACY in Kenya.
The journalists didn't try Noordin Haji and George Kinoti if perhaps, from their heroic toils in the past year against Mr. Graft Soyze, they could shed light on the identities of ... the implicated senior govt official ... and private property developers .... Just one name .... yawa!
Now, when again was the NDUNG'U LAND REPORT PUBLISHED OR QUASHED? 2003?
For those born yesterday Ndungu Land Report
The Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land, which came to be known as the "Ndungu Commission" after the name of its Chair, Paul Ndungu, was a Kenya Government Commission established in 2003. The Commission was formulated to inquire into the extra-legal allocation of public lands and lands reserved for public purpose to private individuals and corporate entities, and to provide recommendations to the Government for the restoration of those lands to their original purpose or other appropriate solutions.
That is 2003!
Now, I don't want to be harsh on the journalists. They were not born yet then. I just want to share my private laughs. There is such a thing as national archives. Some are classifieds, some are not. But all are usually open secrets.
Classified or not thus, any journalist should keep some leaked copies somewhere. Or just keep his ears and eyes open. The Truth walks the streets daily, naked. Only lies are clothed and hidden and classified. The Ndung'u report --just like the Kroll report which sobered Mwai the Drunk Kibaki out of his clean regime fantasies--- is freely available!
In Kenya.
Facts from it --O My, aint Ndung'u detailed! are what General Miguna Miguna has at the tip of his spitfire tongue. It is the kind of ammo which makes it impossible for any court of law, paying even lip service to Justice in Kenya, to allow him to speak within Kenya, charged with defamation and libel!
---But Long live the Nairobi Star! Better late than never! We will get some names alright, may be next week.
PART 3: THE LAND IS MINE, BUT --- THANKS TO MY KIND HEART, I WONT CONTEST ITS COMPULSORY AQUISITION BY THE STATE I AM DEPUTY PRESIDENT TO!
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HOUSE OF CARDS SEWAGE LAND RESERVE
For people like Ouru Kenyatta, these things about land are just weapons in a domestic fight between him and his deputy, now estranged. But consider the families of Jacob Juma and one, Mr Onesmus Mutinda, a surveyor executed on 27 September 2014, at Ruiri bypass (according to the DN report). For them, the case is murder gone unpunished. Theirs is to yearn for Justice, may be till death do them depart from the realm of sunlight.
A HOUSE OF CARDS can stand until a kick-in by some determined rogue, or hit by a burst of harsh wind. Corona is not enough harsh wind, methinks, neither is Miguna Miguna et al a motley herd or rogues determined enough. The house of cards so stands.
It is still comedy time.
Admittedly it is getting darker, but the phase is still more on the laughs than the grimace. The Ouch is still out there, taking its time, lurking like the depths of the Deep.
Geological time the changes may take, but bit by bit the puzzles arrange. All facts are known. For instance, the better men of days far gone, knew Nairobi City was on growth steroids. The budgeoning city would, within a decade or two, morph into a monster needing a SEWAGE PROCESSING reserve of no mean acreages. Essentially a depo and sh!tbelt past 5000 acres of managed swamp. Yes, those were not yet the days of high-tech meta algorithms, but good old math data projected a Megacity, a dense populated Metropolis hitting 10 million souls. --10 million heavy daily sh!tters. These better men of yonder knew all that pile of pooh, transformed to torrents of sewer, would need an estate the size of legendary sisal acreages of Basil Criticos, The Greek of Taveta.
And they planned for it. Those sides of Dandora.
Alas! Fire can beget ash. A new generation of mediocre city planners and cannibal elites would take charge, wholly unaware of just how much tonnage of pooh Nairobi produced daily, and needed process, lest the metropolis drown in its own excrement. These apes of greed ---their names are in the Ndung'u report, soon as they had the power, set upon the sewage reserve and concocted it into private estate developments. Result? Even the toilets at the coveted state house, Ikulu, flush, only to regurgitate!
It is not a classified national secret.
Mwai Kibaki abandoned state house because his own pooh once tailed him from the loo's! As for President Kenyatta, he moved next door to his family home coz dear Margaret couldn't stand the same problem which chased the Othaya drunk from the national cottage. And, gossipvine, it is the disgust from Maggie which is forcing the son of Jomo to do something about the Nairobi sewage problem! (Of course he also has to report something serious to the African Development Bank which is coming for inspection of where its funds are going!)
Ouru, not running for re-election, was content to kick the can down the street. Agwambo, much used to the flying toilets of Kibera, where he is King of the toiletless proletaria, isn't really the man to be bothered about loos regurgitating pooh! Is he!?
So, were it not for the disturbed hygiene sensibilities of Margaret Kenyatta, William Ruto may not have needed to re-donate, albeit with a little pressure, the Ruai sewage reserves back to their rightful owner, the Nairobi sh!tters and their ever ruminating bowels.
In that respect ---ownership of urban shitting land---- here is a historical document of investigative journalism. The NairobiStar has competition I say. But, what there is for sooth, is an open vacancy for position of 'President of the people. That office, The peoples president, has, since the abdication of The Mysterious One, had no contenders, no applicants, nor pretenders even. It is an apparence which can be deceptive of course. But it is the going default mode.
O thee who are adventurous of spirit
Why from this popular task shrink ye
Why shy thee like members charged of wilt.
O thee of a firmer breed, Up to the task and longer stiff
Arise that this vacuum be filled. Drain this swamp of sheet!
Here is the Nation's story of the sheetland of Ruai.
How powerful individuals grabbed 3,000-acre sewerage land
https://www.nation.co.ke/news/How-powerful-individuals-grabbed-3-000-acres-sewerage-land/1056-5532176-gu4qrxz/index.html
Thursday April 23 2020 By JOHN KAMAU & By VINCENT ACHUKA
When more than 40 demolition excavators descended on the plains of Nairobi's Ruai at dawn yesterday, they not only set to recover 3,000 acres of what was originally set aside for sewerage purposes, but also brought to a screeching end a dream of what was supposed to be a fairy-tale city.
Had it been built to completion, Ruai Park Estate would have comprised 10,900 housing units worth a mouth-watering Sh15 billion funded by investors from the United Arab Emirates.
It would have been a one-of-a-kind project with malls, schools, solar farms and areas set aside for urban agriculture.
In fact, a Chinese contractor was already on site and houses were already growing on what used to be a barren piece of land that had in the years past been at the centre of protracted battles between different groups of squatters.
Then in 2014 an influential politician in government moved in to stake his claim on the land.
The politician managed to bulldoze everyone out of the way and used his influence to have a police station set up on the land to protect his interests.
The officers from the East Park Police Station, as it is known, have for the past six years been harassing anyone who threatened to challenge the ownership of the land while offering protection to the contractor who was building the city.
"People here have died by just challenging the ownership of that land. It is not worth talking about it. Just see what you want to see and leave," one of the IDPs living next to the property told us in August last year when a Nation investigation broke the story about the illegal occupation of the land.
On September 27, 2014, Mr Onesmus Mutinda, who was a surveyor in Ruai, was killed on the Ruiru Bypass.
His crime, according to the IDPs, was questioning the ownership of the 1,600-acre parcel, which by then was occupied by the IDPs.
Yesterday morning, the police officers guarding the property were overpowered by another contingent of about 300 officers mobilised from all the police divisions in Nairobi. The government had, after watching from the sidelines for three decades, come to take back its land.
As things stand, only 30 per cent of the over five million residents of the capital are connected to the sewerage system, whose treatment capability was last upgraded 40 years ago. This means that about 3.5 million Nairobians are either dumping their raw sewer into the Nairobi river basin or in septic tanks.
The Dandora Sewerage Treatment Plant, which stands next to the property repossessed yesterday, was built in 1980 and was initially meant to serve 80 per cent of city residents. But, since 1980, further expansion of the plant has been hampered by encroachment on its land.
As a result, the treated effluent does not meet required quality standards due to overloading. Standing on the only available land that can be used for expanding the plant are two properties with a total acreage of total acreage of 3,000, and worth a whopping Sh20 billion.
Chinese contactors packing their belongings inside a grabbed Dandora Estate Sewerage treatment land in Ruai, Nairobi on April 22, 2020. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NATION MEDIA GROUP
The controversial property, LR NO 12979/4, is on paper owned by Renton Company Ltd, a firm founded in 1995. Renton's records mysteriously disappeared from the Registrar of Companies, but we managed to get its registration number, 65570, from a land deal it carried out in the 1990s in Kakamega.
The Nation is aware that the mysterious owner of the land had used the value of the property to negotiate as equity for the city being built by developers from the UAE. The third partner in the project is a son of a former minister and husband of a former popular television news anchor.
TARMACKED ROAD
A tarmacked road was already being laid to link the project to Kangundo Road.
"This land was secured many years ago and it is a pity that it was stolen," Water Principal Secretary Joseph Irungu told the Nation yesterday.
"Unless we recover the land, Nairobi will have no place to expand its treatment works."
The Ruai land, previously known as Juja Sisal Estate, was originally part of the expansive 16,000-acre Embakasi Ranching Company land and had been sold to the land-buying company in the 1970s by the Settlement Fund Trustee, a body that was administering land after independence.
Records indicate that shortly after, the government made a compulsory acquisition of 5,000 acres and compensated the Embakasi Ranch shareholders. The land was to be reserved for the building of stabilisation ponds for Nairobi's waste water.
But the Nairobi City Council only utilised 500 acres and left some 4,500 acres unoccupied - and unfenced.
The land was mistaken as unoccupied for many years - and became the playground for Nairobi councillors and politicians. Within the land are two tilapia fish ponds in Phase 1 and Phase 2 and which are used to determine the quality of water released.
But it was not until 1993 that the first raid on the land took place, when former Youth for Kanu chairman Cyrus Jirongo's Offshore Trading Company was given part of the land, some 1,000 acres. Until recently, he was wooing some Arab investors into a joint Sh15 billion partnership to build a megacity worth billions of shillings on the land.
The only problem is that Mr Jirongo had no money and the land was already charged. The title had been with the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (previously Deposit Protection Fund Board) of the Central Bank of Kenya after he used the land to secure for Sololo Outlets, his other company, a Sh1.1 billion loan from Postbank Credit Ltd (in liquidation).
"I have the original title to the land, so any other titles out there are of no use," Mr Irungu told the Nation.
A Police officer walking at a Police post inside a grabbed Dandora Estate Sewerage treatment land. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NATION MEDIA GROUP
After Mr Jirongo was given the 1,000 acres, the balance of 3,500 acres was now up for grabs. It is this land that became controversial after the Nairobi City Council passed a resolution that they would settle squatters on 1,600 acres.
While some of the squatters were to be people who had lost land during the upgrading of the Mathare 4A slums and the building of the Mathare 4A primary school, politicians saw a gerrymandering opportunity to beef up the Ruai population.
For instance, Ruai councillor Dick Waweru - who later became Nairobi mayor - brought in various people from Githunguri while David Mwenje also brought in truckloads of supporters to get land. Soon, Embakasi Ranch chairman Mwangi wa Thuita, who was instrumental in the original hiving off of the land to built the sewage plant, also started his own allocations - in what became a free-for-all exercise.
Since Jirongo had not fenced 'his' land, the parcel was also occupied by squatters - and a few years ago they organised themselves under the Ruai Embakasi Youth United Development Organisation (Reyuda) and asked the High Court to nullify Mr Jirongo's title deed and declare them the valid owner of the massive tract. This was after CBK's Deposit Protection Fund Board sought to sell the property.
The balance of the land was then fenced by a senior politician but under a company known as Renton. Mr Irungu said it is "a pity that the people who had taken the land are very senior."
"The land was never opened for alienation," he added.
DAM POLLUTION FEARS
In a statement released yesterday, the ministry said that the waste-water treatment plant land was supposed to serve Nairobi for generations to come but only 660 acres remain.
With no treatment works for Nairobi's sewage, the government, which has acquired a Sh42 billion loan from the Africa Development Bank to build a dam at Thwake, fears that raw sewage would flow into the dam.
"This investment will be a waste if the Athi River basin is not restored and sewage treated to the required standards before it is discharged," said the statement signed by Mr Irungu and Lands and Physical Planning Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri.
"It is estimated that currently, out of a total of approximately 4,240 acres of this land, only 1,637 is utilised for sewerage," the ministry said. "The rest of the land has been grabbed in totality."
The ongoing demolition will be the single largest such recovery of grabbed land in the city.
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HOUSE OF CARDS: RUTO VS KENYATTA
They are still bluffing. It is not yet first blood spilt.
1. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTEES: DELIBERATE NEGLIGENCE & OUTCOMES
First Nicolas Muraguri: LANDS AND PHYSICAL PLANNING PS
(then Attorney General Kihara).
NB: See where Muraguri's his name appears in this DailyNation excerpt above DAM POLLUTION FEARS
In a statement released yesterday, the ministry said that the waste-water treatment plant land was supposed to serve Nairobi for generations to come but only 660 acres remain.
With no treatment works for Nairobi's sewage, the government, which has acquired a Sh42 billion loan from the Africa Development Bank to build a dam at Thwake, fears that raw sewage would flow into the dam.
"This investment will be a waste if the Athi River basin is not restored and sewage treated to the required standards before it is discharged," said the statement signed by Mr Irungu and Lands and Physical Planning Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri.
"It is estimated that currently, out of a total of approximately 4,240 acres of this land, only 1,637 is utilised for sewerage," the ministry said. "The rest of the land has been grabbed in totality."
The ongoing demolition will be the single largest such recovery of grabbed land in the city.
Now, I know one can use a fish to catch a fish, or a thief to catch a thief as it were. But when I heard the name was Nicholas, and it was this Nicholas who, because services are to be better delivered, is Wanjiku's watchdog on DAMS, LANDS, SEWAGES AND URBAN PLANNING, my thinking missed a beat and I had to rewind to refind my footing.
The name Nicholas when added to Muraguri, FLASHES RED. As in Biwott! :D
Here is why: MAFYA HOUSE.
PS Muraguri moved to Land ministry after Sh5b Afya House scandal
By KENFREY KIBERENGE March 31st, 2017
President Uhuru Kenyatta has reshuffled principal secretaries in a move that saw besieged Health PS Nicholas Muraguri moved to Land ministry.
The mini reshuffle also affected PSs who have been warring with their cabinet secretaries.
A dispatch from State House said President Kenyatta "has purposed the changes to enhance teamwork and to improve the accountability for results in the execution of the Government's responsibilities."
"In the continuing endeavor by the Jubilee Administration to improve the efficiency of public service delivery to Kenyans, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has deemed it necessary to make changes to the organization of Government," read the State House dispatch.
By moving Dr Muraguri, President Kenyatta effectively ends his feud with Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu which spilled into the public during the recent doctors' strike.
So it is Mafya House man Nicholas Muraguri grabbing back Ruto's sewage land, reverting to .... should we say Bi Nairobi Wanjiku!
It tickled my senses of irony! Because ... Dr. Muraguri once sacked a man for being overcompetent, diligent and incorruptible. The man was/is a star accountant, his name is Ben Muchere. Methinks Mr. Muchere is the kind you would headhunt, or finger unchallenged, to head the Auditor General's forensic office, currently purposefully out of service! That kind of move would only if the Handshake duo were serious (and not merely Rutofurious).
PS Nicholas Muraguri wanted to eject auditor from Health ministry, letter shows
Moses Michira 02nd Nov 2016 (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000221833/ps-nicholas-muraguri-wanted-to-eject-auditor-from-health-ministry-letter-shows)
Senior government officials tried to transfer the auditor who unearthed the Sh5 billion scandal at the Health ministry.
Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri initiated the move, claiming the job needed more senior auditors and was backed by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich.
However, it is not clear why the attempt on July 12 was dropped. Bernard Muchere, who was leading the audit at the Health ministry, stayed on to issue the interim report which has shaken Kenya.
A letter seen by The Standard calling for the transfer of Mr Muchere and his team was authored only weeks after his arrival in June at Afya House.
Dr Muraguri wrote to Rotich on July 12 asking for the posting of "internal auditors in senior positions" apparently to replace Muchere and his team.
I say with ease, it isn't that Ouru Kenyatta is a lame duck, nay, he is just a dead duck, in the head.
There are reasons His Excellency was stayed upon to retain Dr. Nicholas Muraguri, but not the following he gave.
The president issued this statement officially "In the continuing endeavor by the Jubilee Administration to improve the efficiency of public service delivery to Kenyans, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has deemed it necessary to make changes to the organization of Government,
Only in the world of dead-headed ducks!
And so it is with all the president's appointees! They are bastions of economic sabotage, recycled handmaidens of the cartel loop! They are a sewage dump grabbed by a private investor!
Now: Attorney General Paul Kihara and his legendary laxity ---and the Ruai sewage reserve case!
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HOUSE OF CARDS: RUTO VS KENYATTA
They are still bluffing. It is not yet first blood spilt.
1. ALL THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTEES: DELIBERATE NEGLIGENCE & OUTCOMES
First Nicolas Muraguri: LANDS AND PHYSICAL PLANNING PS
(then Attorney General Kihara).
NB: See where Muraguri's his name appears in this DailyNation excerpt above DAM POLLUTION FEARS
In a statement released yesterday, the ministry said that the waste-water treatment plant land was supposed to serve Nairobi for generations to come but only 660 acres remain.
With no treatment works for Nairobi's sewage, the government, which has acquired a Sh42 billion loan from the Africa Development Bank to build a dam at Thwake, fears that raw sewage would flow into the dam.
"This investment will be a waste if the Athi River basin is not restored and sewage treated to the required standards before it is discharged," said the statement signed by Mr Irungu and Lands and Physical Planning Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri.
"It is estimated that currently, out of a total of approximately 4,240 acres of this land, only 1,637 is utilised for sewerage," the ministry said. "The rest of the land has been grabbed in totality."
The ongoing demolition will be the single largest such recovery of grabbed land in the city.
Now, I know one can use a fish to catch a fish, or a thief to catch a thief as it were. But when I heard the name was Nicholas, and it was this Nicholas who, because services are to be better delivered, is Wanjiku's watchdog on DAMS, LANDS, SEWAGES AND URBAN PLANNING, my thinking missed a beat and I had to rewind to refind my footing.
The name Nicholas when added to Muraguri, FLASHES RED. As in Biwott! :D
Here is why: MAFYA HOUSE.
PS Muraguri moved to Land ministry after Sh5b Afya House scandal
By KENFREY KIBERENGE March 31st, 2017
President Uhuru Kenyatta has reshuffled principal secretaries in a move that saw besieged Health PS Nicholas Muraguri moved to Land ministry.
The mini reshuffle also affected PSs who have been warring with their cabinet secretaries.
A dispatch from State House said President Kenyatta "has purposed the changes to enhance teamwork and to improve the accountability for results in the execution of the Government's responsibilities."
"In the continuing endeavor by the Jubilee Administration to improve the efficiency of public service delivery to Kenyans, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has deemed it necessary to make changes to the organization of Government," read the State House dispatch.
By moving Dr Muraguri, President Kenyatta effectively ends his feud with Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu which spilled into the public during the recent doctors' strike.
So it is Mafya House man Nicholas Muraguri grabbing back Ruto's sewage land, reverting to .... should we say Bi Nairobi Wanjiku!
It tickled my senses of irony! Because ... Dr. Muraguri once sacked a man for being overcompetent, diligent and incorruptible. The man was/is a star accountant, his name is Ben Muchere. Methinks Mr. Muchere is the kind you would headhunt, or finger unchallenged, to head the Auditor General's forensic office, currently purposefully out of service! That kind of move would only if the Handshake duo were serious (and not merely Rutofurious).
PS Nicholas Muraguri wanted to eject auditor from Health ministry, letter shows
Moses Michira 02nd Nov 2016 (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000221833/ps-nicholas-muraguri-wanted-to-eject-auditor-from-health-ministry-letter-shows)
Senior government officials tried to transfer the auditor who unearthed the Sh5 billion scandal at the Health ministry.
Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri initiated the move, claiming the job needed more senior auditors and was backed by Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich.
However, it is not clear why the attempt on July 12 was dropped. Bernard Muchere, who was leading the audit at the Health ministry, stayed on to issue the interim report which has shaken Kenya.
A letter seen by The Standard calling for the transfer of Mr Muchere and his team was authored only weeks after his arrival in June at Afya House.
Dr Muraguri wrote to Rotich on July 12 asking for the posting of "internal auditors in senior positions" apparently to replace Muchere and his team.
I say with ease, it isn't that Ouru Kenyatta is a lame duck, nay, he is just a dead duck, in the head.
There are reasons His Excellency was stayed upon to retain Dr. Nicholas Muraguri, but not the following he gave.
The president issued this statement officially "In the continuing endeavor by the Jubilee Administration to improve the efficiency of public service delivery to Kenyans, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta has deemed it necessary to make changes to the organization of Government,
Only in the world of dead-headed ducks!
And so it is with all the president's appointees! They are bastions of economic sabotage, recycled handmaidens of the cartel loop! They are a sewage dump grabbed by a private investor!
Now: Attorney General Paul Kihara and his legendary laxity ---and the Ruai sewage reserve case!
ENHANCED SERVICE DELIVERY UHURU STYLE
If you have never worked in a place where folks don't idle around, but roll-up their mental sleeves and get right into it, ARBEIT! you are excused. If you have never crushed rock with every hour a wheelbarrow deadline, too you will be excused. If you are such, then, if after reading the story below you still think wood like the Attorney G Paul Kihara are not dead, you will be doubly excused with a grin. In the same fashion would one be with a wink if they ever thought the former head of Tax --KRA, John Njiraini, an Uhuru-Kinyua appointee when the son of Jomo was finance minister in the GCG, was anything more than a Cartel clocker and shakedown badger-gamer.
Now, the Attorney General's slot: Exit Professor Githu Muigai, entered Who!? Amos Wako re-incarnated? Here is the case
AG's laxity in civil cases costs taxpayers dearly
Sunday April 26 2020 (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/AG-s-laxity-in-civil-cases-costs-taxpayers-dearly/1056-5534878-grgqsbz/index.html)
Attorney General Paul Kihara. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
In Summary
Failure to produce crucial defense witnesses and documents and late filing of appeals to blame.
The latest beneficiary of the AG's failures is Nairobi reclusive tycoon Mike Maina Kamau.
By JOSEPH WANGUI
Taxpayers could be losing billions of shillings in the courts due to legal blunders made by the office of the Attorney-General (AG) while defending the State against compensation claims lodged by individuals and corporations.
A perusal of civil cases that the state has lost reveals mistakes that the AG has committed in the courts - including failure to produce crucial defence witnesses and documents - shows hundreds of millions of shillings awarded to claimants without much of a hassle.
These kinds of omission leave huge gaps in its defence, with the courts often entering judgments in favour of the claimants.
The government's principal legal adviser has occasionally failed to enter appearance in cases, delayed in filing appeals when a judgment has been issued and subsequently failed to explain what occasioned the inordinate delays.
The latest beneficiary of the AG's failures is Nairobi reclusive tycoon Mike Maina Kamau, who last week secured orders compelling the state to pay him Sh859 million as compensation for his demolished mansion in Nairobi's Spring Valley to pave the way for a road.
Justice John Mativo of the Judicial Review Division directed the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure as well as the Attorney-General to ensure that the billionaire, who owns Marble Arch Hotel in Nairobi, is paid.
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The AG had opposed the compensation claim, but failed to prove that the property was on a road reserve and that Mr Maina held an irregular title deed.
The state also raised fraud allegations against Mr Maina but failed to prove the claims through the Commissioner of Lands or any witness from the Lands office (Ministry of Lands) on how the plaintiff fraudulently acquired the certificate of title he held.
The state said it intended to appeal the award, but this was to expose yet another weakness within the Attorney General's office. While the compensation order was made in December 2017, the state filed the appeal on November 14, 2019, out of the requisite timelines and without court's extension.
At the time when the award was made, the sum Mr Maina had been awarded was Sh711 million, then it gained interest after the delayed settlement and remittance by the AG's office
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Mr Maina said that he was aware that following the judgment, the State Department for Infrastructure allocated the funds for settlement of the decretal sum and costs.
He submitted that the Department even remitted part of the money to the office of Attorney General for onward transmission, but the money was not paid for close to two years without sufficient cause and without any order for stay.
According to Article 156 (4(b) of the Constitution, the AG should represent the national government in court or in any other legal proceedings to which the national government is a party, other than criminal proceedings. But the laxity to appear, enter appearance of defence and file defence documents in court has enabled some litigants to obtain compensation without much struggle.
For instance, a family in Nyandarua was awarded Sh7 million in an undefended land dispute against Silibwet Primary School. The evidence in court shows that the office of AG failed to defend the public school in the case filed against it by John Macharia Mwangi, whose 11 acres were compulsorily acquired by government 53 years ago.
Attempts by the AG to enter appearance into the case when the judgment had already been delivered were thwarted by Justice Mary Oundo at the Environment and Lands Court in Nyahururu.
The AG wanted the judgment to be set aside, but Justice Oundo noted that at the Attorney General was duly served with the suit papers, and a hearing notice on many occasions and no explanation was given as to why there was no appearance during hearings and mentions of the matter.
The judge ruled that the office of the AG deliberately failed to attend the hearing and prosecute the case and thereby refused to avail itself of the court process. Further that no evidence was placed on the record even by way of witness statements or documents.
While describing the situation and abuse of the court process, Justice Oundo found that the State Law Office had just crafted the reasons for seeking quashing of the judgment, but left out the issue of its failure to attend court during the hearing of the suit.
According to former DPP Philip Murgor, the office of Attorney General is facing myriad of challenges among them laxity by State Counsels leading to a collapse of cases filed against the government.
Another lawyer, Mr Suyianka Lempaa says Mr Kariuki can also motivate the advocates in his chambers by approaching the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) and bargain for better wages for the counsels.
But Mr Murgor said terms of those in office have improved, unlike before.
"When I joined the AG's Office in 1986, the terms were abysmal and we earned about Sh5,000 at entry level with no medical cover. Today, the counsel at the AG's have little to complain about and should provide the best possible representation to the public," he said.
He observes that if the State counsels are falling short of the public's expectation, it is a challenge to Attorney General Kihara Kariuki - as the principal legal adviser to the government- to look into ways of motivating his staff.
"One way of motivating the counsel is for AG Kihara Kariuki to make appearances in court to lead in cases of great public interest. Past Attorneys General have done this, and it has had a tremendous motivational effect," he added.
Now this is the guy who will supposedly prove Ruto illegally annexed Ruai sewage reserve! :D
This thing purposed to serve cartels! this tool of loot!
Why did I say Wako revisited?
FOOTNOTE ONE: AMOS WAKO REVISITED
This wikileaks, American embassy cables https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09NAIROBI1830_a.html
Classified By: Classified by Ambassador Ranneberger for reasons 1.5 (b) and (d)
Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Proclamation 7750, suspending the entry into the United States of Amos Sitswila Wako and members of his family.
Wako was born in Kakamega, Western Province, Kenya on July 31, 1945. Post strongly believes Mr. Amos Wako has engaged in and benefited from public corruption in his capacity as Attorney General for the past 18 years by interference with judicial and other public processes, and that this corruption has had a serious adverse impact on U.S. national interest in the stability of democratic institutions in Kenya, U.S. foreign assistance goals and the international economic activities of U.S. businesses. The following provides information requested in ref a, paragraphs 26-28.
2. (C) Amos Wako has been Kenya,s Attorney General (AG) for the past 18 years. During this period, despite a string of major corruption scandals, he has not only failed to prosecute successfully a single senior governmental figure but he also has actively thwarted their prosecution.
The Attorney General has been repeatedly accused by civil society groups as well as the head of the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission, Justice Aaron Ringera, of failing to prosecute cases of official corruption.
Others have noted the AG,s poor quality of legal advice to the government that helped to facilitate both the Anglo-Leasing and Goldenberg mega-scandals by lending his stamp of approval to fraudulent contracts that were the basis for stealing over a billion dollars from the Kenyan government. At the same time, in a pattern of supporting Kenya,s culture of impunity, Wako has been identified by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Executions in Kenya as &the chief obstacle to prosecuting anyone in authority for extrajudicial executions.8 Amos Wako has been AG since 1991, serving under Presidents Moi and Kibaki. He is married with two children.
Now, who is your Attorney General, Dear Wanjiku! I am sure you know it, whatever the name, the difference is the same.
Others have noted the AG,s poor quality of legal advice to the government that helped to facilitate both the Anglo-Leasing and Goldenberg mega-scandals by lending his stamp of approval to fraudulent contracts that were the basis for stealing over a billion dollars from the Kenyan government. ---Ranneberger
Thhat was decades ago! But come 2020, the script is the same: a calculated negligence (aka laxity) and pre-programmed looting outcomes.
AG's laxity in civil cases costs taxpayers dearly
Sunday April 26 2020 (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/AG-s-laxity-in-civil-cases-costs-taxpayers-dearly/1056-5534878-grgqsbz/index.html)
Attorney General Paul Kihara. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
According to former DPP Philip Murgor, the office of Attorney General is facing myriad of challenges among them laxity by State Counsels leading to a collapse of cases filed against the government.
Paula Kihara's incompetence is deliberate negligence, purposed as they say. That Joseph Kinyua and Uhuru Kenyatta pretend they don't see it is another rendition in the comical tragedy of the ruling class. But national treason.
Wait until William Ruto gets compensated for the Ruai landgrab! --This after all, is the land of AngloLeasing and Goldenberg, and supersmart attorney Generals who slept on the job like that cop who was paid to look the other way during a bank robbery in one of Jame Hadley Chase's krimis.
FOOTNOTE 2. KRA AND KEROCHE, CANNIBALISING LOCAL TALENT
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MISUSE OF COVID FUNDS, MUTAHI KAGWE'S FORCED HANDS
The voice of President Kenyatta was tinged with fury. He was denouncing those fellow Kenyans who, very vocaL doubting Toms, demand transparency and a full accounting of the Corona funds. Mutahi Kagwe's star-tongue had lost glib on it; and, too, the so-called new kid on the block, Ukur Finance Yatani, seemed, in a dangerous reminder of his predecessor, to be mixing up his figures. Thence questions have abounded. Corona is a new disease, of mass fatalities no doubt, but there is a longer term dread heart of the Kenyan government. It is no less a killer. It is Good Old Corruption. (GoK is easily GoC).
And the ministry of Health is 'Sicillian', an epicenter.
The last termer son of Jomo appeared stung by a very normal process: the questioning of what the government is up to with the re-public's money. And, his memory much eroded with over indulgence in popular but, in his case, not always cheap stuff, the President neither comprehends nor understands that
1. Kenyan governments, and especially his Jubilee administration, even decoyed as a Handshake regime, have been measurably and consistently some of the most corrupt governments on earth.
2. The office of the AUDITOR GENERAL is currently neutralised. This neutralisation is a DELIBERATE act of government, or, at least, a strategic implementation of the side of the government which is most under the persuasion of Lords of Graft, The Cartel Loop. Graft loves a vacuum, and Kenyatta loves creating vacuums! a match made in heaven!
When a government dominated by corruption and with no auditor general starts to ask you to believe their non-existent records of fiduciary fidelity, even the morons amongst us break into fun. Neither do the sheep amongst us bleat as ordered or expected. ----It is no longer Ouru good, Ruto bad. It is Ruto bad, Ouru worse!
It is in these simple things of money whereby the son of Jomo proves how much he is (mentally) out of order. --In the digital era, the government can in real time put all the financial accounting on record on the net. Amateur and professional accountants can then peruse, and have a field day finding no smoking guns of graft! (Haha! just joking: Rotich once tried that with the Eurobond and had to suspend the process soonest. It was more like sharing proof of guilt than an exercise in exoneration! --Sarah Elderkin and David Ndii made roastbeef out of the Harvard scholar, now disgraced like a Borgia Pope!)
So no, for transparency, the head of state looses his temper instead! What a lost head!
Some remember President Kenyatta orders Sh1.4bn pay to Anglo Leasing
hursday May 15 2014 (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-Kenyatta-Anglo-Leasing-Debt-National-Treasury/1056-2316458-12ld742/index.html)
President Kenyatta has authorised the National Treasury to pay Sh1.4 billion to two Anglo Leasing-type firms that had judgments against Kenya.
State House announced late Thursday evening that Mr Kenyatta had also ordered fresh investigations into the cases around the suspect security and information contracts which State House described "as a thorn in the flesh of the Kenyan nation".
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Mr Esipisu said that when Mr Kenyatta was chairman of the Public Accounts Committee as opposition leader, he investigated the matter "and he agrees with the views of a majority of the Kenyan people on this. That's why it has taken long to make a decision on the current situation."
But the President, he said, has had to make a painful decision on what is the greater evil: either the money or put the country's economy at risk.
"By making this payment, the President is not legitimising what he and many Kenyans believe to have been a series of fraudulent transactions," the statement said.
"Therefore, the President has ordered fresh investigations into the cases."
He said investigations would be left to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, but Parliament also ought to play a role.
President Kenyatta quits office without coming clean on the AngloLeasing saga.
Some will also remember the antics of President Kenyatta's then solicitor General, Nje Muturi, towards the EACC. Professor Onsongo had a gun waved to her face and burst into tears! Irene Keino held her ground. Mumo Matemu just quit. And it was to that immaterial body that investigations were to be left! --Son of Jomo please! (puriiizzz)
It shouldn't surprise him if, when he repossesses the Ruai land stolen by Ruto, Kenyans grin, and his former sheep bleat: Yes Ruto is corrupt, but the Kenyatta's are more corrupt! see their own acreages! But of course, because Ouru Kenyatta has no memory of his own sins, he will never understand Ruto's immunity.
Simple: Ruto is a thief, no doubt, but the sensibilities of a large number of Kenyans are trampled when other thieves, many of them second generation robbers, gang up to mob the Upstart Hustler as the only gangster in town. It then ceases to be a battle on corruption, but merely a peers' reckoning amongst honourless thieves. All of them historical litter ripe for that famous of dust bins!
Hio pesa sio ya Mama Ngina bwana. Toa details adharani.
And so something had to give
Kagwe transfers 30 officers in battle against cartels
Saturday May 2 2020
Can he succeed where his predecessors didn't?
Can he tame the crooks and criminals who have called the shots at one of the country's most important ministries for decades?
Those are some of the questions in the minds of many as Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe faces off with a cabal of well-connected and deeply rooted dissidents at Afya House, the ministry's headquarters.
The genesis of the face-off, a Saturday Nation investigation shows, is a decision by the minister to seek the transfer of senior procurement and accounting officers, some of whom have worked at the ministry for more than 10 years, overseeing multibillion-shilling projects by one of the most well-funded dockets in government.
At least 30 officers have been moved from their plum Afya House offices, and more, according to ministry insiders, could be on the way out.
Will he succeed?
It depends on his personal ambition, guts and sense of worth. Does he see himself as a man of destiny, the way Ruto does?
James Aggrey Orengo was famously handed the Lands Docket in the distant past, GCG. The Legal Powerhouse and in himself a Constitutional BrainTrust from Ugenya, imploded into to one of the biggest let downs on Wanjiku ----bar the failure of Dr. CJ Willy Mutunga to define INTEGRITY as meant by the 2010 Constitution. But back then, SC Orengo developed such a phobia for the NDUNG'U REPORT, he became illiterate. In the dingy bars which serve as the pots where strong AHANGLA BEATS are brewed, there was a joke about it.
General Ochieng' Waljak of Ugenya
He bequeathed us the fame of Kager
No thief he saw he never speared through.
Ajimmy Ours is the walking constitution from Ugenya
Howbeit his tongue is too heavy out there in Kenya
Can't say armed with Ndung'u Wanjiku here is I at your service!
So, as Mutahi Kagwe comes from Nyeri, he can pick his epitaph. General coward or the other one whose statue we erected late. The latter didn't make it to president, but he fought gallantly to the last, and achieved immortality and legend as the personification of a peoples will to resist whatever the power of the enemy.
There is no shortage of pretender warriors against Corruption in Kenya. Currently we have George Kinoti, Noordin Haji, not to mention the disappeared one at Integrity House. We can go all the way to Aaron Ringera. (Former LSK prezzo and Nyamira senator, Okongo Omogeni, tells a rivetting tale in a KTN expose of the machinations as Ringera was forced to quit office! Candidate Mwai Kibaki, the man who, as opposition candidate, intellectually understood so well why Singapore had so outpaced Kenya, collapsed into a cartel handmaid the moment he achieved power! General Coward, Ken Matiba had once read the stars for us!)
Mutahi Kagwe will therefore be excused if he surrenders with the first return of fire for all his fighting talk!
On Friday Mr. Mutahi said the war is just beginning, and while he is still learning the intricate webs of deceit at the ministry, he will not relent.
"Sometimes when a battle like this comes up, it helps you to see who is on your side," he said, adding that the transfers were just the beginning of a major cleanup in coming days.
In a long Facebook post on Thursday evening, the CS said he will take on the cartels head-on.
"I am no greenhorn. I have seen such mischief before, wasn't intimidated then, and will not be intimidated now. Watch my actions, they will illustrate this," he said.
As for General Ochieng' Waljak Jakager, you sure don't want to know what kind of heart he had. Not yet that kind of Kenyan son to bear arms against Mr. Corruption. But culture keeps a timer, live. You saw the Czar John Githong'o reminder. Wanjiku is down but no out. Her rise before the count of ten may have to be a sword bloody to the hilt. Eyes indifferent like a snake's gaze as it strikes. Unclouded by any notion or mercy.
Here is a report from pre-history
According to a recent Transparency International survey, urban-dwelling Kenyans pay on average 16 bribes a month.
Opposition politicians know corruption is a key election issue. National Alliance Party of Kenya leader Mr Mwai Kibaki noted at a fundraising dinner last week that in 1971 Singapore and a Kenya were at the same level of development. Today Singapore has a per capita income of $19,500 while Kenya's has stagnated at $350.
"Corruption is what has brought us from the path of growth downwards," he said.
Mr Kenyatta has also spoken out against corruption, noting that he has no record of corrupt dealings himself and, if elected, will be beholden to nobody
Now, we haven't evolved any, have we!
Labour day! May day!
In a report on Capital FM Keino had earlier claimed that the EACC commissioners were being forced to leave office unceremoniously to cover up the sensitive Anglo Leasing case and investigations they were finalizing on the infamous Karen land grabbing estimated at Sh8 billion.
Has Ouru already repossed the Karen Land!?
oops!
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A COMICAL SACKING AT KEMRI
After Daisy Cherogony, there have been more. Daisy is the lady security agent who was fired at the airport for not knowing who Fred Matiang'i is. And what a let down it was, for the Tangatanga to, seeing they are of bellicose wont, miss such a golden opportunity to score an open point. With COTU man Atwoli much pre-occupied elsewhere trying to arrange (or derail) the Uhuruto succession, Labour is a kind of abandoned post, or spouse as it were. But well, with Atwoli or without, powerful employers in Kenya tend to abuse their hirelings, regardless of their education. Once upon a time, prestigious legal degree or not, with brains to match or not, Miguna Miguna was fired by Raila Odinga like housegirl.
It was therefore no surprise when KQ unceremoniously dismissed Gire Ali. ---who is Gire Ali you ask?
Also, the court has issued orders preventing the Office of the Director of Prosecutions from arresting Mr Ali or taking any other action against him.
Through his lawyer Danstan Omari, Ali had sued his KQ for suspending him for filming the plane which landed with 239 passengers from China.
Ali, who works as the Assistant Security Agent had accused KQ of punishing him in a matter of public interest. He argues that he never contravened any law, regulations or procedures. He also told the court that there was a plan to arrest and charge him
For Gire Ali, public support was earthshaking. Francis Atwoli wasn't missed. Again team Tangatanga were curiously missing in action.
Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jr on Friday jumped to the defense of Gire Ali, the Kenya Airways employee who was suspended for sharing a video of China Southern Airlines landing at JKIA with 239 passengers.
The senator strongly condemned the actions of the national carrier saying Ali should have been promoted instead.
That is just the context of labour relations I was supplying in Kenya. The sacking I had in mind is different.
It is the one at KEMRI.
Dr. Joel Lutomiah. KEMRI is the place Mutahi Kagwe seems to have chosen to show he's toughs for real; a no-nonsense killer-hitter. Alas it is a bone that will stick in his throat.
How manipulated was the new kid to take this step!?
Researchers demand answers over dismissal of Kemri scientist
Sunday April 26 2020
Summary
The colleagues have questioned the manner in which Dr Lutomiah was dismissed, insisting that it did not follow the right procedure.
The scientists added that the CS and top ministry officials should have told Dr Lutomiah that the results would be released in the morning for him to get prepared.
A scientist in charge of testing for the coronavirus at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has been demoted as the organisation reels under financial pressure.
Since the first case was reported in Kenya in mid-March, Kemri has tested more than 6,000 people under the leadership of Dr Joel Lutomiah, the Centre for Virus Research director.
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He was the chairman of the Kemri Rapid Response, which is in charge of laboratories, and would appear on the Ministry of Health committee to give the position of the institute on Covid-19.
This was until April 17, when Dr Lutomiah was dismissed, following reports that he failed to release the results on time that Friday.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe instructed Prof Kombe to remove Dr Lutomiah from any leadership position at Kemri immediately.
So, the way one would dismiss a shamba-boy or a KAYAMKONO (who pleases ones wife much), or a wife would summarily sack a housegirl who looks too directly into the eyes of her husband ----no reading of rights or any other bull the 2010 toilet paper is suppose to guarantee all Kenyans, is the way a leading research scientist of the land can be sacked by a political appointee! (an appointee himself picked from the gutter of oblivion!)
And the way professor Kombe, apparently one of the most compliant spines at KEMRI, obeyed the master dog without question, points to an academic community themselves with a worthless sense of the self, and a Pavlovian training to perform their circus roles of administrative obedience.
So what are the mistakes of Dr. Lutomiah which warranted a standing foot sacking?
Here the story gets murky. Dr Lutomiah's colleagues say he was shoved aside for questioning the government's commitment to supporting the financially starved research institute.
"We only received white gumboots from the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency as personal protective gear last month," one of the researchers told the Sunday Nation.
"He demanded answers and even threatened to stop the tests if we were not given the protective equipment. This is why he has been removed from the position. He is firm."
The colleagues have also questioned the manner in which Dr Lutomiah was dismissed, insisting that it did not follow the right procedure.
The scientists say the minister has no right or authority to effect such a dismissal.
Dr. Lutomiah questioned what!?
Suddenly Mutahi Kagwe is not much a new kid on the block. He is an Arap Moi roadside dismissal throwback; an atavistic phenomenon. There were days the Saa Saba Habari was the news to not miss. Somewhere beside a bumpy road in Kenya, standing on the grass, after stopping to urinate on his way to a political function, the KANU media in tow, Baba Rais Moi would, shaking his dik in the wind, announce changes to his cabinet or whatever top jobs. The Saa Saba bulletin would later cover the names in full. --Nani Nani aanze Maramoja! Nani Nani Aende kwake maramoja! Newsreaders were, on this segment, like government spokespersons, barking out orders. There was even a measure of entertainment to it, theatre, like a Caesar on a dais above the Arena, directing his thumb down after keeping the crowd in a suspense of bloodlust.
But then, here is the beef hiding the bone which will stick in munchy Mutahi's throat. Here is the real murk of the sacking.
Covid-19 battle at stake as agencies fight over billions
Thursday April 30 2020 (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Agencies-fight-to-control-billions/1056-5538258-f8mdxf/index.html)
At stake is $60 million (Sh6 billion) received by the government from the World Bank early this month.
The funds were to help in fighting the disease, but to date, the money is still stuck with the government as officials from Kemri and the National Influenza Centre try to undercut each other hoping to get the largest share of the money.
When you consider the fact that Parliament on Wednesday approved Sh40 billion for the Covid-19 battle, it looks like the turf wars between the two agencies are just beginning.
The war has already had its first casualty after the government demoted Dr Joel Lutomiah, the director of the Centre for Virus Research at Kemri.
Mutahi fired a competent man ... for ... How very old school, how very the same self old rotten Kenya!
For such sums a minister in a government beholden to cartels will fire the nation's top scientist like a KAYAMKONO, should the doctor dare question the budgetary priorities which leave him and his lab men, naked before a man-killing virus!
Mutahi Kagwe must ---I don't think he can, he is after all a cartel appointee and not his own man--- clean his act. Or he is just another Joseph Muraguri at Mafya House who fired the accountant Ben Muchere. Muchere's crime was competence and incorruptibility. That is our country! (And imagine there are rumours in Jubilee Mutahi Kagwe was rigged out in the Jubilee primaries by the Pro-Ruto faction!)
NB: Dr. John Pombe Magafuli of Tz too has fired his chief lab scientist. But before he did, he fielded a press conference which has gone viral! An explication.
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BIG TIME BETRAYAL IN THE CITY
The elite, soaring above the populace, enmeshed in the indulgence of their own specific class complexes, can be forgiven for their necessary delusions and illusions. They are in the money, they are parasites enjoying the rich environment of the small intestines, they are ticks embedded at the vantage points of the oxygenated jugulars. From such positions, life is a paradise, and there is no need for the dreams of an alternative heaven, seeking, praying for.
Here is an example of the latest tick behavior (https://www.nation.co.ke/news/Stolen-Sh328bn-aid-cash-hidden-abroad/1056-5559066-ondp5bz/index.html) of the lot/
How Kenya's Elite Siphoned Sh328 Billion Aid Money to Offshore Accounts
Jordan tops list of shame with over Sh350 billion aid money stolen
by BT ReporterMay 21, 2020
Just one day after the World Bank approved a Ksh107 billion (USD1 billion) concessional loan to help Kenya battle the COVID-19 Pandemic, The Nation on Thursday reported that Kenya's elite siphoned Ksh328 billion borrowed from the Washington headquartered financial institution to their offshore accounts.
A report authored by World Bank researchers Jørgen Juel Andersen, Niels Johannesen and Bob Rijkers dubbed Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts published in February 2020 shows that the Ksh328 billion was funneled to the offshore accounts between 1990 and 2010 during the tenures of Presidents Daniel Arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki.
Such easy pickings breed a false view of reality. A dodo mentality.
However, if you are amongst the wretched, unfortunately the majority of the populace, and, for instance, is forced to desperate measures, like boiling stones in a sufuria to fool hungry kids, that there is a mighty supper coming, then contemporary Kenya is practical hell. In fact many could have contemplated and effected that fate described in BELOVED, The heart of Margaret Garner. This is a rendition (in a novella) by the great African-American Nobel laureate in literature, Toni Morrison.
Margaret Garner, a woman who knows slavery and has escaped it at long last, butchers all her kids to prevent them re-entering that fate. This is after her hideout in Ohio is betrayed and stormed, and slave-hunters, including US marshals, grin at the bonus they will collect for such nice booties of fine-bred Negroes.
Best known as the inspiration for Toni Morrison's award winning novel, Beloved, The Margaret Garner Incident of 1856 contains one of the most ground breaking fugitive slave trials of the pre-Civil War era. Margaret Garner was born into slavery on June 4, 1834 on Maplewood plantation in Boone County, Kentucky. Working as a house slave for much of her life, Garner often traveled with her masters and even accompanied them on shopping trips to free territories in Cincinnati, Ohio.
But if you are up there, owning slaves and the keeper of their fates in an economic system best suited to your paradise, you have no idea of the reality of their lives.
And no idea of the rage in their hearts. Ever squashed under your boot.
And so the highly-rewarded things we call Mpigs and senators who are the political wing of the owners of the Kenyan plantation, legislating to continue enforcing Kenya's ongoing dismemberment, can not possibly comprehend the disaster below. They can be excused of course, because they can be dispensed of without the due process of law. On the first count on a light touch, on the second count on a dark note.
Senators Kipchumba Murkomem, Susan Kihika, Kithure Kindiki all lost their plum positions just like that. Just like Miguna Miguna lost his passport to perforations (at Matiang'is and Kihalangwa's punchy hands). That is on a light touch. But on a dark note, the whole parliament and senate can be disbanded and the whole political filth demobilised from life. By decree.
UHURU KUMI, RUTO KUMI!
The whole political class running the establishment now seek to deny the implications, implicit or otherwise of that slogan. This is not easy, even for the deluded. So they seek to manufacture intellectual rationalisations to sugarcoat an ACT OF TREACHERY. To whitewash traitors.
In human society there is a problem with treachery. Betrayal is a dangerous crime. There is no pride in being a traitor. When a man spies for a foreign country against his own country, the charge is treason, and punishment usually highest and unforgiving. Such a man, rarely woman, has betrayed nearly everything ---himself, his country, his family (honour), his school and schooling. He has become non-human.
What is a 'rat''? What does it mean to 'rat on ones friends'? Why is a rat, even if lowly as in a police informer in the underworld, killed immediately on exposure?
So a particular kind of politician in a particular kind of country at a particular time, has this task set for him. They betray each other left and right, but have to pass this universally lowly and despised act, as the normality. A cultural edifice in politics, a holy script: there are no permanent friends in politics; everyone is for sale, and betrayal is the name of the game. Period. ---MOU's matter only so far, the moment Kibaki is in power, he never heard of an MOU with Raila. Very normal. Judas the Iscariot kisses Jesus for his 30 pieces of silver. Very normal. You find your wife in bed with your brother, fine, lets make it a threesome. Uhuru Kenyatta waxes hysterical around the country during the campaigns: Mimi nimalize zangu Kumi, Ruto aanze Kumi zake, then on his last stretch after two rigs, he never heard himself utter those words. Very normal.
I submit, that for an elite whose (demobilised) legal intelligentsia could not define integrity, nor translate it into operational chapters within the law as envisaged in-the-2010 promulgated thingy, the idea that words can have meaning and promises be kept is beyond their scope. And, that a concept can be sacred, incomprehensible.
To rule and perpetuate themselves in power, they have tried to turn upside down the common sense of Kenyans. They strive ceaseless to instill a cult of corruption, moral corruption, and a permissive mentality of mediocrity where anything goes. ---Bad bridges, okay, bad buildings, okay, substandard roads, rigged elections, unsolved murders (Musando, Kenei, Yebei, Tob Cohen, Juma); poisonous food (mercurised sugar and aflotoxin maize imported for human consumption); substandard drugs and health services .... etc etc... all huge okays.
But the filth have not succeeded. They have found out enough Kenyans wont buy their rot. And like all regimes, alienated and unresponsive to the aspirations of a people, the Kenyan state has to resort to extreme violence to defend the interests of the elite and effect their dominance.
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Even the enforcement of the COVID-19 curfew has had to be a murderous venture. Yes, the rotten elite has only one option for all their ethnic paramountcy: terrorise the mass into obedience.
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Anybody who rigs election is not left much choice. That will be anybody anywhere on planet Earth.
Say, even THE STATE OF GEORGIA, THE UNITED STATES
What Happens When Politicians Who Oversee Elections Are Also the Candidates?
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As Ms. Abrams ended her campaign, she returned to a theme that had surfaced throughout: that Mr. Kemp, who was the Georgia secretary of state until the Thursday after the election, had used his position to suppress voting and ease his path into the governor's mansion.
The race between Ms. Abrams and Mr. Kemp pitted two versions of Georgia against one another. Ms. Abrams, 44, represented the diverse future of the state and its capital, Atlanta, home to black colleges and a hub of black political power. Mr. Kemp, 55, who bragged he had a pickup truck big enough to "round up criminal illegals," played to the state's rural voters and linked himself with President Trump.
As Ms. Abrams ended her campaign, she returned to a theme that had surfaced throughout: that Mr. Kemp, who was the Georgia secretary of state until the Thursday after the election, had used his position to suppress voting and ease his path into the governor's mansion.
And it is openly being discussed, voter suppression as an instrument Trump may use to stick in a second term!
Definitely this is why America is withdrawing from the world. The USA have enough sh!t cooking at home. And sh!thole republics doubt another sh!thole republic, however big and exceptional, can sort out their sh!t!
It is important to know Kenya has nowhere to run. This time it is going to be homebred solutions. No angelic Condoleezza will swoop in to bang heads together to forge a GCG template. Neither will Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus, fly in with her father's divine Aegis, to do what she did in the island of Ithaca to prevent a civil war.
But there is not just trouble below, represented by horrors like mothers endlessly cooking stones for their children to lull them to hungry sleep. The bubble at the top is also intellectually pretty easy to puncture. Two names immediately spring to mind. The DAMNATION MEMORAE which has officially befallen John Githong'o, the Kibaki dismissed action-packed Anti-Corruption Czar comes to mind. He aint dead yet, if you didn't know.
Second is the self-proclaimed General, Miguna Miguna of the National Resistance. No establishment intellectual can hold fort against the spitfire tongue of the General. It means, intellectually speaking, the Kenyan establishment is an intellectual ruins. The arsonist General, Miguna, has burnt it down. The best they can do is pretend Miguna Miguna does not exist. If he does, he is inconsequential, an irrelevant Canadian foreigner, in deed a nobody who will never come back.
But think about it for a moment: does the interior man and designated president, Phd fellow, former college don and education minister Fred Matiang'i, alone with himself in his own mind, think for a second he himself comes from Kisii while General Miguna comes from Ontario, or Toronto near Alaska!?
To answer yes is to declare Matiang'i insane. So we all know Miguna comes from Canada and must stay there because he is a potato too hot to handle for sthe mall-brained Kenya elites, be they be triple Phd fellows!
Consider this. Recently on local radio station in Kisumu discussing floods in Nyando, a man declaring himself the Ignorant One, had a question for the minister of Education, Professor Doctor Magoha. ----'Has the ministry of education under him commissioned a research which has concluded the same as Interior, that Onjiko here near Ahero in Kano, geographically is Canadian territory!?'
'Be dwokre adier!?' the studio host interjected.
That is what I mean by intellectual ruins as all one stares at in government offices in Nairobi. DJ's and their sidekicks have to interject to save professors running education from barbed questions.
Mockery!
Kithure Kindiki was Uhuruto's top lawyer for the ICC. He also authored the legal parley between URP and TNA which birthed Jubilee. His senate seat was a reward, and his deputy speakership in the senate too, was a reward. In other words in politics, he was always the trusted handmaid, to Uhuruto.
Then divorce happened. And the African proverb came up. Serving two masters at the same time is a magical feat. The best literary rendition of this divide is the story of The Voter by Chinua Achebe. It is about the dilemma of a man who took money from rival candidates in the promise of voting for each only. But the rivals weren't fools easily parted with their money, even if easily looted from the state. They had forced him to take binding oaths, dread oaths which his superstitious mind could not ignore. So in the booth he tore his vote and deposited each half in the respective box! ---He voted twice, but a spoilt ballot! Emerging happily from the booth. Mission accomplished.
But Kindiki Kithure could not resolve his dilemma of faithfulness to either Ruto or Uhuru. Because the voting had to be done in public. You attended the State House meet or you didn't. Kithure Kindiki didn't and so exposed his heart's loyalties: Ruto. He was smoked out. Refusing to wield the collective senatorial dagger to insert into the dying body of Sir William Hustler.
No, he wouldn't let Ruto grin at him with the Caeserian grim, reserved for Brutus in renditions of that old Roman scene at the bloodied floor of the senate.
No, when (not the chips but) we are down, we all understand betrayal. And all you need to be is human to recognise humiliation. The colonial system with its racial myths had its illusions about the politics of Kenya and why the Whiteman would rule her and the world forever. I imagine the current masters of Kenya too, have this notion their rule is forever.
Let them take a look at the body (or language) of Ruto. Only yesterday the most powerful vice president ever, a co-president. Politics of betrayal. Treachery remains painful.
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THE METAMORPHOSIS
And so did he change
From drunk on drink.
Yes in deed he did change
And much rampage did he wreak.
Drunk with rage as he was
Amok he went at the ranks.
And nay, it wasn't the effort of a Quixote
Creak wide did the walls of Sir William's fort
But we all knew it was all fake! We knew this Uhuru is fake. There is no Sundiata in him.
But first to the US of A. They say this usuriously dollar-indebted land remains the sole super power under the daily blessing from the god Helios, The Sunlight.
To date I thought taking a knee was a reference on those K1 or UFC brutal sports. These are dubbed the Ultimate Fighting championships, the arena of modern gladiators.This is the stuff of my main man Conor MCGregor, Israel Adesanya, Venom Page and the rest of the clean-shaven hosts. When you take a full knee in those forms of combat sports, you reputedly become like those blondes who, allegedly, don't come back once they go black. You black out. --(In that sense Wetangula hasn't taken a full knee from the rogues in his party! Moses is merely groggy on his feet and dazed in his gait)
Howbeit, I am waking up to a world where taking a knee has become more sinister. It is now Minneapolis and St Paul burning. It is the wake of George Floyd. It is a cop in the full glee of white --power-- arrogance, snuffing out the life out of a big black male. The cop does it slow-time and is utterly composed. He can afford it because three other cops are pinning the big man --who is already handcuffed, down. It is essentially a lynching scene. It is chilling because of is utter honesty in total disregard for the life of another human being. It is the white Ubermensch showing the black Untermensch his place. And it went all live before the whole world, thanx to modern, instantaneous communication. It is a feat in self satisfaction, it is a masturbatory peak, enacted at the indulgence of ones ultimate fantasy, in this case Alpha dominance.
This is the unique thing about the Minneapolis video. Its stark honesty. Its clinical premeditation and execution, its nonchalant cold-bloodedness. It is reptilian. It is evil. Unpretentious evil.
B: When I was being introduced to interracial pornography by my friends from the Diaspora, majorly former classmates coming back from the USA, they had some (pirated disc) copies of action from a factory called Blacks-on-Blonds. There was one in which only the Mandingo-hung Afro-Americans had been selected. Flincher's need not apply. It was called the anaconda challenge: which top blond could calmly subdue an anaconda? No popping eyes, no gag reflexes only. It was notorious, but also comical.
I think that is in essence the pathology of your top cop right there in Minneapolis. He is subduing a a giant black male. He is a Super Queen. Only there is no comedy here. It is cold-blooded murder executed in public, in broad daylight without flinching. There is no conscientious revulsion. No emotional tick of doubt occasioned by civilization. It is mechanical and inhuman emotionless. There is no consciousness of it could be wrong. It is pure evil.
At first a would-be prosecutor, say Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, told us we were not seeing what we were seeing. No, standards of proof are high in the United states for white cops who murder coloured folk. No, they did not have enough evidence to make an arrest of the killer-cop, Derek Chauvin. No, the legal department had nothing to file even a holding charge. The filmed murder in public, according to this Mr. Freeman, didn't amount to anything more than a ... hazy ... picture. It was all conjecture really. Defence attorneys would tear the case apart.
But as they say: you can't fool all the people all the time. And as for yourself, you can't fool yourself even for once. You always know it when you are full of sh!t.
Anyway, barely a few hours later ,Freeman was wholly backtracked by the mayor and other more quick-witted attorneys. These smelled smelled the coffee pronto. These were not the days when Amy Koubuchar made a career running that old script of denial.
Senator Amy Klobuchar swept into office in 2007 as a former tough prosecutor, boasting of how she had reduced crime in the most populous county in Minnesota. But as protests over George Floyd's death in police custody bring chaos and violence to Minneapolis, her record as prosecutor there is facing renewed scrutiny as she prepares to be vetted as a leading vice-presidential contender.
With a police force in Minneapolis that has long faced accusations of racism and complaints of abuse, Ms. Klobuchar declined to bring charges against multiple police officers who were involved in shootings during her seven-year tenure. Instead she often opted to send cases to a grand jury, a common practice at the time but one that some law enforcement experts say favors police officers.
Things changed undere public pressure. America burning. The Chauvin was suspended, arrested, and soon booked for murder. Record time.
The former Minneapolis police officer shown on video putting his knee on George Floyd's neck for more than 8 1/2 minutes - as he pleaded for air and his mother - was arrested Friday and charged with murder, authorities said.
Derek Chauvin, who was fired on Tuesday along with the three other officers involved in the arrest of Floyd, was taken into custody Friday and faces charges of third-degree murder and manslaughter, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced.
Passers-by took video of Floyd pleading "I can't breathe," as Chauvin, who is white, kneeled on Floyd's neck for exactly 8 minutes and 45 seconds on Monday night, according to state charging documents, citing footage from officers' body cameras.
That deadly time span allegedly included 2 minutes and 53 seconds after Floyd passed out.
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Just 24 hours earlier, Freeman had said the case still needed more investigation.
But by Friday, Freeman said enough evidence had been gathered.
"All of that has come together and we felt, in our professional judgment, it was time to charge," Freeman told reporters
WRINGING FINGERS IN MINNESOTA
Since Minnesota does not have the death penalty, the harshest punishment for those convicted of first-degree murder is life in prison. An element of the first-degree murder statute is the intent to kill.
Second-Degree Murder
Second-degree murder can be an intentional killing, but it is not as serious as first-degree murder. Second degree murder can be charged when a defendant intentionally kills another human being but the murder is not premeditated. Second-degree murder may result when a person kills out of an intense emotional response or impulse. Additionally, killing someone during a drive-by shooting, killing someone during the commission of a crime that is not sexual assault or killing someone unintentionally while intended to inflict great physical harm to a victim for whom an order of protection was obtained can result in second-degree murder charges. Second-degree murder has a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison.
Donald Trump has been warning Xi Jinpin against militarising Hongkong and turning the former colonial outpost into a totalitarian satellite of Beijing.
It is not difficult to read the smile of Xi Jinpin's face as he watches Donald Trump unleash the civil guard on an American inner city, and declare the marines will soon follow in: they loot we shoot! TO KILL!
Who is your joker now? --I CAN'T BREATHE
As the protest in the US state of Minnesota resembled Hong Kong riots last year in protesting means and police response, Chinese netizens who referred it as "a beautiful sight to behold," as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the Hong Kong demonstrations, mocked US double standards and wished more "beautiful sights" of this kind in the US.
Our own ruthless Uhuru Kenyatta had the temerity, or the humility to apologise to Kenyans for the police brutality in enforcing the Corona curfew in the first week. The police killed more Kenyans in that week than did the dreaded covid-19. (This too happened in Nigeria).
Uhuru Kenyatta may be ruthless, but there is something holding him back from the buffoonish arrogance of men like Trump, Putin and Xi. May be it is the size of the Kenyan economy. May be it is, dare I suggest, plain good old good manners: the possession of a higher morality in public space.
I have this wide grin on my face. Madaraka I call it.
NEXT: C: THE BLOOD IS IN THE WATER AND THE SHARKS HAVE SMELLED IT
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THE BLOOD IS IN THE WATER AND THE SHARKS HAVE SMELLED IT
Ruto is a wounded bull, loosing blood. Vultures bend their necks, checking the gait. Sunset?
This is of course the fake Uhuru. He has five big things to go after; he has a war on corruption in his hands; there is also the battle against Covid-19-20, and, supposedly there is a huge one going on, against poverty. Kenya is thus a total warzone even before we go abroad in hot pursuit of for Al-Shabaab.
But those are not the hot and bloody fronts where the Supreme Commander of Kenya and his closet of Field Marshall's are making a helter-skelter retreat of the enemy. Nay, the battle against Shabaab has reduced our sharp shooters to dispatchers of foetus's to the next world; the battle against corona (reduced) our health spokespeople to a monotonous incantation of unexplained statistics; and the one against poverty is of course the Waterloo of every regime we have had since Kenya wa launched in Berlin. (Around 1884).
When it comes to the war on corruption, behold, the Marshals Haji and Kinoti, once paraded as Valour and Valorous, have been reduced to whining puppies, blind and butting one another in the search for a ripe teat to suck.
So to detect the ruthless streak in the Quixote turned man of steely will and crimson-dripping sword, one has to gaze elsewhere. None other than his once equal deputy, William Ruto, the man who guided and, arguably, made him, is the pinned culprit to be beheaded. Quixote reckons he no longer needs Pancha, or should I say The Hustler.
It is in deed a metamorphosis to behold. Only it is showing at theatre of farce. And there, popcorn is allowed to go with the laughs.
AKSANTE YA PUNDA NI KUNYAMBWA?
Those who have trekked long trails behind a herd of donkeys, know the score. It is a biological orchestra, the variety of whistles produced by the forceful gaseous emissions from a donkey's hinds.
But, generally it is Aksante ya Punda ni Mateke. The worst rendition of this song I heard was by one ----may his troubled soul rest in eternal peace, Kelly Brown. He was a Kenyan singer based in Germany, and in this rendition, he was trying to re-connect with his roots. A donkey's gratitude is a kick.
Why would H.E Ouru Kenyatta take such a venomous turn against William K. Ruto, his ICC soulmate of yonder?
The answer, I am afraid, does not lie on any personal animosity between the two; neither, I dare stake my life on it, does it stool on the spell allegedly cast upon the president by the witch Agwambo; nay, mesays it is the behest of the economic interests fronted by the Kenyatta dynasty and Gikuyu oligarchy. These are the interests who have declared a Ruto presidency incompatible with their interests ----the continued monopoly of state loot. The same constituency which forced Kibaki to first, disown his MOU with Raila and 2, later rig the election against Raila. It is nothing personal. Raila is no more the beloved brother of Uhuru Kenyatta than William Ruto is. And equally, Raila and Ruto are not any less a beloved kin between them. It is an easy partner swap community.
But there are vested economic interests. They fear, and not without reason, that Ruto and his hungry mob of eat-all locusts will not just be content loot the state dry, no, they will in addition strip the competitors to the bone. The Hustler Ruto, forget Chromo PhD's, is the best student of his generation in acquisition: that is, in how to loot the state from political power. He apprenticed under Arap Moi, graduated under Mwai Kibaki and perfected the methodology under Uhuru I. Once the top dog in the land, the old owners of Kenya fear, The Hustler will unleash his predatory and accumulative instincts like an incensed piranha. A monster beyond check. And then there is his entourage. Young hungry Turks like Oscar Sudi and Farouk Kibet, they understand, you aint seen nothing yet if you think Nicholas Biwott was a total thug of a man.
Uhuru Kenyatta is a front for these fearful interests. His Excellency is just a puppet on a chain. He would rather be enjoying his vintage single malts than waxing ruthless in an arena that always bewildered him. Everybody knows the Kenyatta running Kenya is the other son: Gecaga, Jomo Gecaga. Uhuru is nothing but a terracotta pawn, a decoy.
William Ruto is going down. But if he is not to be out, he has to fight. Fighting he has a chance. That is life. One has to take risks. Even if the odds are tragic. Time for Ruto to find the warrior in him. Or he will be the latest paper tiger to have been blown away by the winds. And the winds are a blowin!
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LOOT LET ME, BEFORE I LEAVE!
Before George Dubya was sworn in as the POTUS, after beating Al-Gore with the help of his brother Jeff in Florida, Bill Clinton embarked upon a flurry of controversial stampings. The Cumback Kid was using the residues of his power to dish out plenties to himself, his patrons and sponsors. One of the biggest beneficiaries was a very rich man already named Rich, a seasoned criminal the FBI was tugging.
Clinton pardon of Rich a saga of power, money
President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich is a saga of secrecy, tenacity, sleight of hand and pressure from Rich's ex-wife and one of her friends, who together have steered millions of dollars to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's causes and those of fellow Democrats.
Whether it is a story of bribery as well or illegal gifts from abroad is the subject of congressional inquiries and a criminal investigation by the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in New York.
Behind the pardon is a tale of intrigue, unintentional humor and celebrity involving, among others, two former Israeli prime ministers, a onetime operative for the Mossad, a stubborn U.S. attorney and a misunderstood desire to find a rabbi in the White House.
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Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive Marc Rich continues to pay big
By Peter Schweizer January 17, 2016
But while the pardon was a political mistake, it certainly was not a financial one. In the years following the scandal, the flow of funds from those connected to Marc Rich or the pardon scandal have continued to the Clintons.
Rich's business partners, lawyers, advisers and friends have showered millions of dollars on the Clintons in the decade and a half following the scandal.
Rich died in 2013. But his business partners, lawyers, advisers and friends have showered millions of dollars on the Clintons in the decade and a half following the scandal.
But even more insidious were the rigor mortis antics of Boris Yeltsin in his last moment at the Kremlin. In stuporic insanity, he tried to fix his legacy and how!? By trying to ramrod Russia into the pockets of his controllers and clan. It was the theatre of the absurd. Curing this political pathology would force his successor, the ex-KGB-er Vladimir William Putin, into a 'restoration' of nationalist priorities which, more often than not, would be enacted by blunt but no less deep-going steel.
With cold heart would Vlad conduct a total wipe out of the rotten clan of Boris and his great controllers looting Russia.
I just want to make the point that, historically, among the inevitable sins of men, arising from the toxins of power which always infest their minds, are the ever vain glorious attempts to rule on even after they are dead ---a necrocracy, literally or politically.
Politically, that is the legacy bullsh!t. (This legacy bull, if I interpret correctly, is what drove the late Francois Mitterand of France to impact the city of Paris with a plague of modern architecture meant to be monumental. Ya, everlast like the Pyramids of Egypt which have given eternal fame to some builder Pharaohs. Alas, Mitterand was spending public money indulging his follies while outer Paris, the so-called Banlieu's, were morphing into a third-world slum clones: no --state of the technology-- toilets, no running water; no sh!t except sh!t in abundance! France would later export the lost souls in these slums to theater of war in Syria. As Euro Jihadis.)
And today under young Macron, the republic is in tatters. It is just the remains. ---Recently the Ghanaian President --Atta Aidoo-- shocked Macron thus in paraphrase: 'It is not that we can do without all benevolence. It is just that France can better exercise her benevolence first, to her black population within France. The slums they inhabit in the great French cities are no better than in Africa, and the discrimination they face a throwback to apartheid South Africa!'
Ghana President Leaves French President SPEECHLESS!!
Macron was stunned. He had never thought of that common sense counterpunch apparently.
OF UHURU IN A HURRY!
Uhuru Kenyatta is delightfully in the same trap. He has been president for a decade. He is outgoing and a lame duck. But he has zero to be remembered with. Somehow that is bad, and the son of Jomo has just woken up to it. What can I say? but men are a vain breed. It is a species failing, mandated by the consciousness of death and oblivion. To this emptiness has the second Kenyatta refound that favourite instrument of compensation. The choice instrument of political bankruptcy: DECREES! This time of the variant EXECUTIVE ORDER!
I say so, so must it be!
I forget the Latin phrase which was used to deride Nero after his commands to the fire to stop burning Rome were ignored by the fire and he went for the flute!
Why do I laugh!? --AND GOD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT, AND THERE WAS LIGHT!
Now, that, is one hell of an executive order. I am sitting in the sun right now, enjoying the shines.
God's decrees leave no room for .... corruption ... and debate ... They are chilling.
But the executive orders of mere man, imperial he be, His majesty he be, Highness he be or some other such like godlike title he claimeth, are just the desperate cries of birds in the air, forlorn and going cold without a mate in the season.
Because there is no rising Africa in these leaders.
They are just the same old knee to the neck of the population. No, we can't breath neither.
Uhuru Kenyatta moves to secure his circle of power
Wednesday March 18 2020
In place of Prof Muigai (as the Attorney General) will be Justice Paul Kihara Kariuki, the tall, bespectacled, soft-spoken President of the Court of Appeal.
This appointment, alongside that of the President's long time-friend Ken Ogeto - proposed as the new Solicitor-General to replace Njee Muturi, now named deputy chief of staff - shows that Mr Kenyatta has left nothing to chance on the men he wants to surround himself with in his legacy-driven second term.
Justice Kariuki, Mr Ogeto, and Mr Muturi will join no-nonsense Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i, the conservative State House comptroller Kinuthia Mbugua, and Mr Nzioka Waita, the Chief of Staff and Head of the President's Delivery Unit, bringing to fore President Kenyatta's intentions of a ruthless delivery run by a circle of friends he trusts.
NB: No-nonsense!? people who tell you Miguna is Canadian need another description: clowns and jokers! Yeltsian! only the looting is no-nonsense here!
But apparently William Ruto let a match be stolen on him. He didn't reorganise in time to thwart the ruthless delivery, should its swing of cutlass be intent on disemboweling him, by mistake.
Now he has been annexed by executive number X. This is the sister to the one which created the DP's office as a power in its own right!
I think Ouru Kenyatta is miscalculating the kick in the remains of his regime. That is why I am confident he is in a trap. For close to a decade he has been running a rigged-in government; he has been running a corrupt den of a binary ethnocracy masquerading as a bureaucracy; he has been presiding over childish but debilitating looting exercises like the NYS scandal, the Eurobond affair, KRA mayhem ......; and he has been commander in chief when the KDF suffered its most historic defeat at El-Adde; .... and now he wants to build an eternal pyramid in one year called the BBI!? And do the Big 5 for lunch, and Ruto for desert too!?
Even superman wont do. Less so in the real world.
No, he left it too late, neither did he have it in him to be The Great Leader. His executive orders are now best understood as looting devices, Yeltsian. An example is the privatisation of the now Nairobi ruling body --Metropolitan authority, bringing the plum tenders under control of Gecaga Jomo, his brother and CEO of the Kenyatta empire.
The Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) has officially been added as one of the offices falling under the Executive Office of the President.
The new development, contained in a revised Executive Order by President Uhuru Kenyatta, recognises the outfit as a public office.
This now means that NMS will be funded directly by the national government and have recruitment of its workers done directly by the Public Service Commission.
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The Mohammed Badi-led Nairobi Metropolitan Service could soon breathe a sigh of relief following the National Treasury's proposal to allocate it Sh27.9 billion for the next financial year 2020-21.
Follow the money, and you can't go wrong in this legacy talk!
Nairobi county now has a DOUBLE BUDGET. Clown Sonko with his, Usurper General Mbadi with his. Now wait for the double services! The golden age of Nairobi!
I said, theater of the absurd!
Next: Ruto peels back a mask.
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MASKS LITTER THE TRAIL AS THE WARRIOR BEATS A RETREAT
The greatest news on the Kenyan scene this week, has of course been the demasque of the DP, William Ruto. That demasque has been in two phases. The first was an exercise in political theater; the second, cultural.
The political chapter was the above, already discussed EXECUTIVE ORDER of one, Uhuru Kenyatta. It peeled the fakery off the DP's office as a separate entity off the presidency. This public event officially ended the Jubilee facade of parity between the two offices. It reduced an already reduced Ruto to a subordinate, essentially a minion of Jomo Gecaga, the controller of the office of head of state. ---Comedy of course; the python has swallowed those spiked iron rods the police use to block roads. The hiss of instant flat tires.
The DP, like a dazed warrior in the field, deserted by lieutenants, abandoned by the usual horde of mercenaries, has reacted instinctively. He has gone to find strength in the old well, Kalenjins only, the indefatigable furnace at which souls are forged and reforged ----even for matyrdom. The DP went for a ... wait for it -PRIVATE-- cultural ceremony of re-fortification, cleansing and reaffirmation. He went to be rebirthed in the cult of the legendary Koitalel arap Samoei. The wounded warrior went to regain invisibility, or at least the strength for a tragic heroism. So does a warrior achieve eternal fame: fallen in the thick of combat against overwhelming odds, but fallen for the just cause. --Spartacus, Patrice Lumumba, Mkwawa the Hehe, Kinjeketile ya Maji-Maji, Qassem Soleiman, Abu Jihad (Al-Fatah commander and founding member of the PLO together with Yasseir Arafat); Peleide Achilles.
You catch the jig of tragic heroism. How the death of certain warriors issue into eternal fame. :)
Ruto's back to his roots is thus a big step.
It is a very big step. A leap in consciousness. But, here is the rub; given his rout at the court of Kenyatta, only yesterday his bosom buddy, this leap is predictable. His mercenary court of armour has fallen apart. They are proclaiming their loyalty to Muigai the conqueror. So William Ruto has gone to refind values which have no meaning in his class of elites. Values which to him too, he long divorced in his rise up the neo-colonial pecking odder where all service is lip and first self. These Values, trace at the top, include honour, integrity, dignity and credibility. They constitute a healthy and wholesome historical personality --Cabrallian terms. The elite is of course a depersonalised rank of alienated zombies who wouldn't know whether theft is immoral or amoral, divine or sin. That is why they never could implement chapter six, the integrity clause. And in as far as they possess rudimentary self-awareness, they all instinctively recognised the DANGER: they would collectively fail the litmus test of integrity!
RUTO ROCH! TONGE TO OMERE!
Back to his roots to refind his long lost self and shine! Ruto initiated a journey to ... how should I put it without a grin ... re-unite with the uncompromising, anti-robbery strand within his culture. (or, ... daredevil .... to seduce them unto his Kingdom of rot and decay!???)
Naah!
He shed off his Christian mask. Or thinking of Miguna Miguna's notorious book, he peeled back the mask of Christian farce. ---Sir William DP Ruto is ---officially like he is co president with Uhuru Kenyatta, a born-again Christian. He is a pious soul if there ever was one in political Kenya today! He is a man the Lord has deeply touched. (if you remember your Machiavelli sermons).
But that was when he had secure billions to bribe the corrupt clergy and their equally forked souls, not to mention their split-souled congregation. These are half Christian, half African. This is a neurosis in effect, widespread as an epidemic across ex-colonial citizens. But there it is: keeping up the appearances of Christian piety can be a very expensive affair you know, especially in Kenya where duplicitous parasitism is a social art! Tythe rates are high here! Very high. The pirates church has been bleeding Ruto, just like like the cash-hungry MK Mpigs who can be rented but not wholly bought.
Now, deserted, facing more desertions ---who can rely on the likes of Aden Duale even as Trojan Horses remaining behind? the warrior has to find steel elsewhere. He has to recruit from a separate school. Reality burns off the fake identities; only the core personality if any, will remain standing, jutting like some ancient rock exposed by millennia of harsh erosion.
Koitalel is such a rock. A Lwanda Magere-like jut on the socio-political and cultural landscape. Yeah, I remember this There are no roads named after him in Kampala, no statues, and no national memorials, yet Omukama Kabalega of Bunyoro, who was only recently named a national hero, deserves a special place in Uganda's history.
Such rocks you know. They are there even you don't see them. Cultural landmarks you will quickly discover, to re-orient yourself when dazed in dread combat.
BACK TO THE ROOTS
Caught between a rock and hard place, Deputy President William Ruto yesterday turned to descendants of legendary Nandi leader Koitalel arap Samoei for blessings.
Dr Ruto drove into the home of descendants of legendary Nandi leader for a "private cultural ceremony."
In the surprise visit to Kapsisiywa village, Koitalel's descendants received him at dawn and offered him blessings.
A private cultural ceremony huh!?
Hakuna cha Yesu sasa. Ni Koitalel tu!
Haki ya Mama na Baba! This is deep! Deep and dark!
The ostensibly born-again Christian ---who described his nemesis Raila Odinga as a Mchawi and Mgangha, ducked deep into the rituals and cultural processes which the white man fighting Afican nationalism rising, invariably described as ATAVISM AND PAGANISM!
That is the problem with half-baked, half-smart propaganda. It is ineffectual, it boomerangs on the perpetrator; its intellectual cheapness and emotional irrelevance is quickly proven in the theater of reality. Mortal combat.
We all know what these 'private cultural sessions'' enacted in the dark over whole nights, entail. They are deep, deep, deep! Some are indulged only when the survival of the tribe is on the line. They are bastions of some of the most radical decisions on earth. E.g that the survival of a species be guaranteed.
Most of us of a certain age have passed through variations of them, much like most women of a certain age have passed through certain defloration rituals. Some, if not most of these private cultural rituals, involve a lot of bloodletting ---sacrificial black rams, white Billy goats, peacock ducks, three-headed lizards, slithering reptiles, stinging bees and lots of milk and raw meat. Too, (aided) much communication with the ancestors are all part of the dazzling paraphernalia of rites, depending on the passage in question.
Who wants to kid who now!?
Its no wonder most are secret. Few Africans will break their tribal oaths. When the chips are down, the Church or the Mosque do not rank. The foreign religions are masks without roots, grafts that didn't make it, overcoat paints quickly dilapidated by the elements of tropical harshness. I always tell folks this: those swearing in ceremonies where African presidents, always duly elected of course, hold the Bible aloft and chant faith and obedience to the constitution, we all know are an empty ritual. They are meaningless like the current pitch of the AG, Paul Kihara, who claims yesterday's executive Order elevates Ruto higher. In such a fundamental issue as state power like oathing for commander in chief, no African worth his identity is going to take the Bible or the Quran seriously as a seal of oath. You know that in your heart too. Just like you know the sh!t Fred Matiang'i and co are full of when they declare Miguna is a Canadian, DEPORT!
But
Were the tribal rituals to be brought forward, marched with much ceremonial pomposity into the daylight, and, were Uhuru Kenyatta or William Ruto, Dennis Sassou Nguesso or Mobutu, Paul Kagame or Kaguta Museveni, or whoever is duly elected, to be ran through them holding the ancestral court of arms and chanting the names of the deepest cultural mirthlessness to strike them dead on betrayal, few states would be the constitutional ruins we so see everywhere in the continent. Few vermin would rise to the top as now is the case, and if they did, short would be their breath spans. For there would be a bonanza of ritual deaths of those their excellencies.
What a spectacular ceremony of cultural re-affirmation it would be -------we all know the ancestral formula's of vigour :* and fidelity, witnessing the head of state to be ... dipped into a fresh cocktail of the blood of black bulls, white hens, an assortment of lizards, then washed in fresh milk, nakedly declaring the constitution Holy. How awesome it would be, the duly elected holding the ancestral spear and daring: let this spear rip through my heart when I betray!
It would no doubt provoke a fair share of twitching noses and shivering pus'is, but business would be meant, both in public and in private. The president is obligated to swears on his tribal honour: if i betray, kill me straightway, with this sword of the ancestors! No impeachment nonsense!
NB: Every footsoldier knows what the price of treason is, so it is only fair that the commander in chief suffer the same fate should they fail to honour the land.
But when we still oath our commanders in chief with these books chronicling the ancestors of others, we all recognise a pantomime show if ever there was one. Mr. Bean Shows.
That is why it is important Ruto went home, to his roots.
He can't buy the spirit of Koitalel like he can buy the bishops of Kenya like Anyolo with that car (returned due to public pressure!). Ruto can not bribe the custodians of the Koitalel spirit like he bribed the Land registry to fraudulently award him the land where he built the Weston Hotel. Ruto can not rig the hearts of the Nandi vigil on the Samoei, like he rigged the heart of Wafula Chebukati to falsify the election results.
Yeah, up there at the top of Kenya where he comes from, everything is for sale. Even their wives are for sale. But when Ruto descends to the lair of the the Cultural lion Koitalel, and kneels to kiss the death mask of the Samoei, the Kenya shilling wont be the currency on the take.
No, in this private cultural ceremony in the cult of Koitalel, The Hustler has to hold the spear of his Kalenjin ancestors and confess his loyalty, or he could go back empty-souled to his mercenary cycle of political minions like Murkomem and the lot.
The master land accumulator Ruto bowing before the spirit of Koitalel, is, switching gears, a flirt with class suicide. But we wait to see if Ruto is past salvation, past reclamation, .... that is in the sense of being too rotten to even take the oath to the Samoei Koitalel seriously.
It surely would be a completely rotten Kalenjin who spat on the grave of Koitalel, who raised his banner but with derision and scorn in his heart. Ruto is rotten, but I don't think he is rotten beyond class suicide.
I eagerly wait to hear what the Oracle of Koitalel whispered in his ear. It couldn't have been Praise the Lord, Amen. The Koitalel spirit does not suffer theft, does not bless thieves. Does suffer land grabbers.
That, I grant on the fiercest oath of my tribe.
It is a hint at the crisis at the top, that a born-again primitive accumulation neo-colonial supremo like William Ruto runs to these primitive :* rituals of Africa to save his career!
Culture! Goebbels had a line on it. Amilcar Cabral too.
Wa!
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UKUR YATTANI: THE BUDGET OF ABROTHEL MADAM
He is the state secretary for finance, or the minister thereof: Ukur Yattani. His smiles are a pained one.
]Debt headache compounds Kenya's worries amid fears for economy
Summary
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to be felt in July when the country will need Sh630 billion to settle debts that will fall due.
It's robbery by money-hungry (https://www.nation.co.ke/kenya/news/it-s-robbery-by-money-hungry-government-pensioners-say-654928) government, pensioners say
Mr Elly Mundu, a Kenya Railways retiree, Mr Joel Kimetto, formerly of Unilever, and Mr Richard Maritim, a retired teacher, called on the government to rescind the decision, noting that they are vulnerable members of the society, a number of whom channel their little earnings to treat old-age illnesses.
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"We were taxed when we were working. And the international rule has always been that pension should not be taxed. The government is too hungry for money," noted Mr Mundu who has been on pension since 1998, although no money has been remitted for the past 10 months. He added that some retirees earn as little as Sh3,000, which is barely enough to sustain them.
BROTHEL MADAMS: You know them, this most ruthless breed of b!tches maintaining an iron grip on would-be escapees from routine, commercial sexual abuse. If you are conversant with the political economy of a slave firm, not necessarily deep in the American South, you are on .... on the first take. But brothel madams whatever their station, whatever the epoch ---feudalism, (neo) colonialism or mature capitalism, remain very nasty-hearted creeps.
Behold, it is not as if they have a choice. There are some professions once you are socialised into, one is doomed to an evolutionary cul-de-sac. As such, ones peak is but a museum piece, an act long overtaken by time.
So much for the sexy smiles of Ukur Yattani -----an unconscious kid really, as he led the budget bag forward for his maiden read. If one listens with ones heart, the serially betrayed Wanjiku we hear groan and moan an indictment: You Two, just another dagger in the serial rip of my body?
THE OLD POISON IN A NEW BOTTLE
How much money is targeted for investment? and investment in what? ---The (expenditure) graphs illustrating the priorities of state budgets in rising nations as they navigate critical phases, are surprisingly a formula. (So for instance allocations to Research and Development at Technical Institutes, are is a sky-rocketer! And public health, an innovative overhaul!) No, this is no place for the discovery of the wheel twice over. Rising is formulaic. Basic hygiene.
No, Ukur's is not a rising budget; this is a sink, and a stink. And Ouru's Big Five Legacy, a scam, like his due election.
DEBT EXPROPRIATION
How much of Yattani's largesse is already pre-mortgaged to 'debt management' in any form?
A third of Kenya's 3 trillion shilling ($28 billion) external debt is owed to private creditors including holders of the country's two Eurobonds
"The G20 debt relief initiative does not offer optimal benefit given the structure of Kenya's debt portfolio," the finance minister said. "Every country adapts to the situation based on its own circumstances."
Kenya will not seek a suspension of debt payments under a G20 initiative aimed at helping poor countries weather the COVID-19 pandemic, its finance minister said on Friday, saying the terms of the deal were too restrictive
"Kenya is taking a cautious approach of seeking debt relief from bilateral creditors to safeguard its sovereign credit rating," he said
The East African nation is instead engaging creditor countries including Germany, Sweden, Japan, China and France individually with the goal of securing moratoriums on debt service payments lasting around a year.
When you seek moratoriums on repayment ... your credit rating is .....
But Debt to China is of course a special case of bondage! It is the kinky voluntary kind I think. We should therefore discuss it separately; even as coercion in the form of a sharp whip hand, ever too often seems to jerk its ugly elbow.
SNIPPETS OF CONJUGAL TENSIONS ON THE SINO-KENYA SPREAD SHEET
35% of the national debt is owed to multilateral lenders (mainly the World Bank).
32% of the national debt is owed to private creditors (bondholders).
10% of the national debt owed to China, although China is the largest bilateral lender.
Debt-to-GDP ratio remains <70%, considered acceptable for low-middle-income countries.
(https://chinaafricaproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/china_kenya_debt.jpg)
1. Solicitor General Kennedy Ogeto is calling for the immediate termination of Kenya Railways's contract with the Chinese-owned Africa Star Railway Operation Company, two years ahead of the agreement's scheduled review date.
2. President Uhuru Kenyatta banned the import of Chinese fish on 15 October 2019 in a declaration at a conference on small and medium enterprises in Nairobi. He was under pressure from traders at the event protesting against the strangulation of local businesses.
3. China threatens Kenya over ban on fish imports
Chinese Ambassador Li Xuhang said the order banning fish imports amounted to a "trade war".
He said his country would respond decisively as it did to the policies introduced by US President Uhuru Kenyatta.
4. China considers withholding funding for completion of the SGR project from Naivasha to Kisumu.
This Spitfire Dragon is our most important contemporary external relationship. I think Professor Doctor Peter Kagwanja aint lying, when he proclaims Exim Bank a gentler whip than the Breton Woods double act. ---Breton Woods is total rape and domination under bondage, the Big Asian tiger, a lesser sadist.
Lets be sport! Smiling with swallowed bitterness. Raising the debt ceiling and all.
Our Mpigs are real sport. Only yesterday they bullied the thief Henry Rotich into awarding them GDP-crushing remuneration, but here they are today, shocked at the abyss they created and facing all.
MPs ask Yatani to seek foreign debts reprieve on interest pay
Sunday, May 10, 2020 21:49 (https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/economy/MPs-ask-Yatani-to-seek-foreign-debts-reprieve-on-interest-pay/3946234-5547942-13jvbuq/index.html)
The drop in revenue collections by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will increase the pressure on Kenya's ability to pay its debt that stood at Sh6.285 trillion as at March 20, according to data by Central bank of Kenya.
"The Government of Kenya should urgently engage multilateral and bilateral lenders with a view to renegotiating loan obligations, with emphasis on waivers of interest and extensions on the repayment period, as well asking for total waivers on some of the loans to free up money to enable the government to contain the spread of the pandemic, cushion Kenyans against its social and economic effects, and address the economic impact of the pandemic," MPs said in the notice last week.
The move comes at a time when revenue fell in the first two months with the tax reliefs on workers and small businesses set to hit KRA's collections further.
Tax collections by the taxman dropped in the January-February 2020 period by Sh3.51 billion to Sh216.06 billion compared with Sh219.56 billion in the same period a year earlier, official data shows.
Kenya will need to pay a total of Sh630.1 billion. In Mr Yatani's debt repayment strategy, unveiled this year, Treasury was going to use the increase in tax collections and all the savings from ministerial budget cuts to repay the debt and deal with the ballooning pension bill.[i/]
AUTHENTIQUE Treasury Secretary Ukur Yatani on Thursday said a list of the goods would soon be gazetted making it mandatory for public institutions to source for them from the local market.
How about private suits bought with stolen public money? Me remembers the NYS 1 saga. Unfortunately this is not the scandal bringing the thief Kirinyaga Anne Waiguru down. But in the laundereing trail of the NYS cash, Ksh. 27M was wired to HongKong for the shopping of clothes!
God knows how many reels of cotton sheet RIVATEX or KICOMI would die to sell for that. I don't.
In the same breath about the economic nationalism of buying local, I remember the Jubilee branded T-shirts and Caps for the last elections were all sourced from China. At it was President Ouru's sister given the tender!
And the story holds for sugar imports too. Western Kenya is a wasteland littered with carcass mills. KDF running free import ports in Somalia, eg Kismayu!
But better late than never. It is never too late to stop digging when in a hole! ---When Sese Mobutu and to a lesser extent Julius Nyerere forced local artistes to stop aping foreigners but produce innovative local content, a decade later the creativity of local talent became world renowned. ---Dr. Nico wa Kassanda went back to the bush and returned with terrifying hand crawls on the solo guitar. Luambo Makiadi aka Franco dived deep into his Kikongo past and unearthed rumbunctious guitar works and song patterns which would crown him king of Rhumba. And carpet bombers on the rhthm guitar like Mombasa de Vata and Lokassa Ya Mbongo would comet on the heritage.
Over here in Tz, folks like Ndala Kasheba, Jamhuri Jazz, Vumbi Dekula, Mbaraka of Morogoro Jazz, went guitar blitzkriegs in an avalanche of mtindo's like Likembe, Masuka, Maoka, Bombaxa .... ogelea kuma piga moto.
So, culturally confident, I am just hinting jua-kali artisans given the right pressure and room and market, could be as devastating a crop of talent as the scientists nurtured by Adolf Hitler's rise. (The United States in operation Paper Clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZc-fO8pHc=) would later hijack and annex all of Hitler's scientists, to put them on the frontline against Soviet Science!)
It requires such iron decision making to lift a country. The minds of our Ukur Yattani's don't cout on that scale. But we will soldier on with what we have, a bird at hand being worth two in the bush!
Pessimism was never my thing from childbirth!
PART TWO: THE HEADACHES OF DEBT.
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A FAILED GIMMICK REVEALS AN EVOLUTIONARY DEAD-END
I think William Ruto has been taught a savage lesson in culture. As to whether he has learnt it, that is another story. But he played the worst politics within his own culture, The Nandi, and has been well-burnt. Howbeit with duplicitous heart and much mental delusion, he ventured into to the tomb of a Nandi Saint, Koitalel, and pulled a gimmick of manipulation and bribery.
It was foolhardy.
You know these things are not new in warrior adventures. On his famous return from the Trojan war, Man Ulysses hits the rocks. He looses men, looses booty, looted cargo, ships and all mates. To find his way home and have his future divined ---if his Kingdom shall he reclaim, he has to consult Theban Teiresias, The Seer of Seers. The prophet is blind, but has the reputation of never having been a charlatan Mgangha. The greater fact is, he is long dead and doing time at Hades, the Kingdom of the dead. Man Ulysses, famed of many wiles, has to make that journey. And he does. He isn't a pioneer mortal though. Herakles before him, and Orpheus before him, in various pursuits of the heart, had long made the descent to Hell, or heaven as the case may be, and returned alive (before eventually bowing permanently to death, as even the living god shall).
These adventures are called trials, and, folklore aside, they are the building blocks of national consciousness. Tragic heroism and the resourcefulness of man to advance in the face of any adversity, is the story of hope and the eventual triumph of the human spirit. Now, if Jesus resurrected, it means he too made the journey to the land of the dead, came back to the land of the living, then departed again to the land of the dead, in this case, heaven. But it is the same story of defeating death. The same story why we refer to the historical Gor as Mahia.
But these trials have a dangerous purpose on the rebound. They test man -or woman as the case may be in Me Katilili-- to the limit. Limits which sustain no illusions. These trials purify every impurity of delusional thinking. They strip the hero naked to the core; core of his character. For instance when you are being cruxified by 8 inch steel bars of the Y10 ---(now D10 untwisted)--- construction grade, being rammed in by a ferocious Nyahunyo, you will have nowhere to hide from the pain. ---Jesus Godson had to cry: Father, why have you abandoned me! In other words the suffering drove him to DOUBT! To doubt God. To doubt his own mission by default.
What happened to Ulysses in Hades? He meticulously went through the rituals and passed the test, and came face to face with the soul or phantom of Teiresias The Seer. An interesting detail why Teiresias was blind is that the Gods chose to reward him with the Seeing the Future, which was a restricted calling even amongst the gods themselves.
But William Ruto is of another make. He went to Koitalel's tomb as a Kenyan politician. Not as a Nandi warrior with a mission in the morrow. A Kenyan politician is at this moment a being lost to history. He or she is a professional cheat, a lying, looting and election-rigging criminal who never meant anything good for the land. The Kenyan politician is currently excess luggage, historical ballast. And it is with such a dead-end mentality that William Ruto stole to the tomb of Koitalel.
He bribed a section of the custodians, TALAI ELDERS, they (deliberately?) chose short-cuts in the rituals, imbued him fake blessings and, within a few hours, what had been billed to make the future of a man exploded in is his face. Scandal, a kalongolongo event!
The back to the roots gimmick of The Hustler Singh became a futile gesture. Farce. What a pathology!
We --of the chattering classes--- need to understand what went wrong. Of course the mass of the people already know! Why did DP Ruto's endorsement by the TALAI ELDERS, supposedly the custodians of the rocky Koitalel mystique, fall so flat on his face within a day?
To understand is to avoid another tragi-farce, or predict a sequel. (the people already have this understanding of course!)
Conti.
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THE MIND IS WILLING BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK, ALWAYS
It is only human to take a tangent off reality. That is when under pressure, the mind flies far into the realm of fiction and fantasy. Very well when the product is Art. very mad when the subject is politics. Reality is dreary business, so come Sunday for we Christians, it is flight time. Hopefully the Covid-19 ban on congregations has offered us a time for deep introspection on this our obsession with the empty Sunday ritual. Reality is dreary, dreary like the fields of combat; there men die; there, unlike at the movies, death is final and actors do not rise to fit another role.
Reality is for keeps.
William Ruto's hitherto public composure, ritual professions of cordiality with Uhuru Kenyatta, never fooled nobody. They did not fool even himself in his wildest dreams. As the Handshake slowly emerged into centre stage, we heard many a denial narrative. Kipchumba Murkomem and Aden Duale, then leading jubilee lights in the senate and parliament respectively, dismissed Raila as a bribe-taker, domesticated by the dynamic duo who had beaten square at the ballot. Jubilee, they boasted in public with scorn, would pander to Agwambo's childish sense of grandeur and, awarded motorcades and other such ostentatious displays of impotent power, Tinga would be a trouble neutralised. Uhuru Kumi, Ruto Kumi was guaranted.
Foolishly advised, William Ruto adopted this poisonous narrative, waxing vindictive as he depicted the Lord of Kibera as a Mgangha, a Mchawi ... a lord of all plagues combined. Shetani.
Sir William and his handlers had misunderstood Goebbels, that a lie had to so big it stunned into not disbelief but belief.
Ruto's feats became rants, mere rabid flights in delusion. They were so far from reality as to constitute clinical madness, rank hysteria. Goebbels' dictum about the big lie, is a double-edged sword. One can repeat a big lie so often as to believe it himself, and, on the podium, dangerously misinterpret the amused laughter of the mob.
And so it has come to pass that Uhuru has returned to the KANU fold. And Ruto has launched Jubilee Asili. It is the URP by another name. Once there was FORD, and then FORD Asili, ODM then ODM-K. Improvement on a theme, let alone the innovation of the new, is not a faculty active within the political elite of Kenya. They don't have to be original, but one would think there would be enough necessity to be creative. But no, Basta, their life is a repetition of old sets. Even when these are proven to no longer work.
And so Muigai wa Kenyatta is back to the KANU fold. It was Arap Moi who fished Uhuru out of the gutter to launch him a political career. It is like Uhuru is returning the favour, doing for Gideon what Gideon can not do for himself. ---Gideon, just like Uhuru or Kalonzo, Weta or Mudavadi, remains Ruto's inferior by far. Just like Jirongo was, even as he bossed Ruto in YK'92.
The implications of this simple fact are disheartening. Only Tinga can box Ruto into a corner. And Ruto knows this, even as he seems to sometimes believe his more ignorant assistants. Some people will be honest enough to remember why, once upon a time before Uhuru Kenyatta was born, it was Mudavadi who was elevated to be Raila's deputy while the ODM party ranks wanted William Ruto. These were just before the PENTAGON DAYS in the run to the fateful 2007.
It was obvious to the party ranks, that with Raila as captain and William Ruto as the deputy captain, Mwai Kibaki and Wamalwa-co wouldn't be defeated, they would be crushed. The combination of a Raila-Ruto ticket on the campaign trail singing one song, from Mombasa to Turkana, Busia to Mandera had a thrill and a vibe which would be unstoppable. All the other inferior politicians realised this fixed the future of Kenya for a while to come. With young Ruto made.
This obvious but deserved would-be elevation of Ruto was what many couldn't take. And they still can't.
It was those days I reached the conclusion: William Ruto was the most nationally dynamic politician outside Raila Odinga. It was also then that I found out James Orengo is terrified of William Ruto. Orengo is brave, but Ruto is braver. Orengo is more intelligent and thoughtful, but Ruto is more cunning and scheming and socially more intelligent. Then the clincher, Ruto is cold-bloodedly ruthless. Orengo is squeamish.
And when men plot power, the squeamish must defer naturally to the killers in the room. That is just the law of all theaters of death. And Kenyan politics isn't your kindergarten day out, is it? Last time I checked, the land of the dead was teeming with these sulking souls demanding their cold cases in the other life be laid to rest under the tree of Truth. --Tom Mboya, Alexander Muge, Pio Gama, Kang'ata and Oulu, Musando and Jacob Juma. Yes, JM Kariuki we all know, unlike the rest in unmarked graves.
But, on a light note ...
Why do the dynasts all hate Ruto so much? :o
Methinks it is the instinctive fear of all prey for a lurking predator. It is the unmistakable loath of the lesser males for the Alpha brute --We are talking the political economy of a (would-be) post-primitive accumulation state; a stunted tropical gangster state, busy priming itself for inter-elite fatricide. It is therefore no coincidence that it is George Muhoho, the CEO of the Kenyatta fortune, who is the chief strategist of the Rutexit. Muhoho's instincts are correct. Ruto's unchequered greed will expropriate the Kenyatta estates, ostensibly for the benefit of poor Kenyans and natural justice, but effectively to enrich himself more. The implied social justice is just a predatory pretext.
Muhoho watched in horror as Ruto's expansionism in the Energy sector, care of the Hustler's control of that ministry in the 50/50 deal with Brother Muigai, breached Mama Ngina's interests; and without apologies. It was Ngina who had to ge out of the way of the young Kalenjin turbo appetites. (This was the basis of Ngina seeking audience with Arap Moi, resulting in that famous photo.)
VISIT THE LAUNDRYMAN AT CAPITOL
Raila Odinga essentially has no role to play in this conflict, but pushed by his greedy handlers, he finds his flip-floppy self nowhere but a vacillation between the two poles. I like Purity Ngirici's pointer: Laundryman. I must hasten to add the Murang'a women representative has not suggested Anne Waiguru has used some of the NYS I loot to bribe Raila in person, but a bastion of demonstrators in that county didn't mince their words about it. In any case at the grassroots and even TV punditry, the Capitol offices of the father of devolution are now spoken of as The Laundry.
Even the mouthful and full-bodied Cate fitted the washers.
Raila won the presidency in 2007 when he teamed up with Ruto. He knows he owes Ruto a debt, a debt he does not owe neither Mudavadi nor Kalonzo. Tinga also knows the Luo nation, come to think of it, owes Ruto a blood debt. The Kalenjin warriors loyal to Ruto were instrumental in blunting the murderous charges of the Uhuru-Kenyatta sponsored Mungiki. These hate-drunk goons were unleashed upon a hapless Omera nation in borders of the Rift and Central. But they were contained by the flying arrows of the Kalenjin.
A SKYLLA OR CHARYBDIS CHOICE?
If things turn ugly, and push comes to shove, and daggers have to driven to the hilt, Luoland will have to decide between two narratives about Ruto. He is a thief, he is an election rigger and a landgrabber the rank of Jomo Kenyatta; or, William The Hustler is a trustworthy ally who, when the darkest hour fell upon the Luo in 2007/8, fought the Omera corner with everything in his guts. He steeled Raila to battle the drunken rigger and arrogant usurper, Mwai Kibaki, into a parley, the GCG. For all his duly elected mutterings on oath, Kibaki was sweating his pants steamy as he parroted the mercenary Evans Gicheru. There is a nick Ken Matiba named Emilio, and not for nothing.
Once again, come 2013, it was the same Ruto who steeled Ouru Kenyatta into a formidable candidacy, and helped him become president, albeit with a little help of fictitiously hatched number, the so-called vifaranga. Subsequently Ouru Kenyatta found himself a puppet as Ruto controlled both houses and rigged candidates right before his nose in Mount Kenya.
No one likes being a puppet, except a drunk to drink. But the whole of the Uhuru Kenyatta legacy has now turned to a STOP RUTO SHENANIGANISM. What an implosion of the KUMI KUMI mantra! What a self-defeating and primitive treachery! The same treachery his father afforded Jaramogi for his Uhuru na Kenyatta insistence! use and discard! like a rented lady of the lowly morals once done.
Let William Ruto show he is no rented prostitute. That he is no dog to be used by a dynasty then shown his place, the kernel. Let him find the warrior in him and put a bit of his fight to the service of the poor. Let him flirt with the unthinkable: class suicide. Samson growing new hair. Then will he better mobilise the anti-Dynasties, republican and nationalist sentiment. He has been banging the anti dynasty beat ever more strident. Now he can put his sword where his mouth is. Or fold tail and enter the kernel. There is a long life in docility and captivity, and retired faithful dogs can reckon on easy deaths, euthanasia. But the politics of paying lip service to Wanjiku, trying to forge the blessings of Kotalel, trying to pretend to be a born-again Christian (while fathering Annas left and right) ---in short, the rotten politics of a rotten elite, will make him easy prey for his classmates ganged up against him. William has first to win the spiritual battle within him. Saul has to become Paul, launching and peddling the gospel according to Wanjiku.
Otherwise what is Ruto but just another possessed tropical kleptocrat? These --state bandits-- come a dozen a dime. ---Nguema, Nguesso, Mobutu, Kabila, Bongo, Kiir, Ngbuezza, Dos Santos. Dead end regimes. ....
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KAPUTIN, THE OTHER OPTION WE DARE NOT THINK
It is a dangerous form of mental laziness. All laziness is bad, but some mental forms are the tenets of national ruin. I am afraid the dominant crop of the post-colonial African politician has been an explication of the above. They have been exhibits of the mental laziness which is the harbinger of slow-motion national ruin.
Yesterday's sanitisation of the pus-filled Anne Mumbi Waiguru by the senate, itself a political abscess, is just another minor detail in the rendition. The mental laziness of the would-be dynamic duo at the head of the nation's constitutional reform --the ex AG Githu Muigai and ex CJ Wily Mutunga has been hammered often enough. Their doctoral and professorial minds jammed and knocked, and couldn't make the meager effort to anchor a definition of INTEGRITY (as envisioned by Chapter six of the 2010). The result is ... rot like NYS Scam Waiguru can, in make-believe absurdity, but with serious face to boot, attest their virginity as they enter a second marriage with children from the first.
Putting it another way. The senate commission under the now-expelled ANC Cleopa Malala of Kakamega, couldn't find a history of financial malfeasance which could have motivated the Kirinyaga dwarf-breed MCA's to lung a dagger called impeachment at their DULY ELECTED governor. And of course corruption cases do not carry over. When one changes jobs, one begins afresh. Otherwise where would the senate speaker Ken Lusaka be? Ken when he was governor of Bungoma, managed to buy a jua-kali wheelbarrow for the Kingly price of ksh.105K. A quick check around any jua-kali display returned a price of 3.5-6K. ---Yeah, where would Ken Lusaka be if DCI Kinoti and DPP Haji were literate?
And so like Pontious Pilate washing his hands off Jesus before a duplicituous Jewish clergy, Cleopa Malala just before being hung out to dry by the Mudavadi Party, now in Ruto's pocket, returned Anne Mumbi to the MCA's of Kirinyaga. Let them do the dirty work themselves if they so desperately insist. But the senate wont be their assassin, lest the senate inadvertently pass its own death certificate.
Historically speaking, the Kenyan senate is of course already a dead house. It is a morgue going through the rituals of cadaver upgrades, to look decent for burial. It is up sanitizing rot and puss-filled busy bodies (like Lusaka, Waiguru, Obado, Nyong'o, Rasanga, and you name the rest!)
KAPUTIN THE DEPTH
The first time the word KAPUTIN surfaced in Kenya, it was like it came from Francis Atwoli. It went Uhuru Kenyatta is too young to disappear into oblivion, having achieved nothing at the top. There had to be a dance of stools at the top to create room for the underachieving son of Jomo. Given the constitutional block, a sacrificial and pliant cog, a Medvedev dog, had to be found to warm seat for The Prince of Gatundu.
William Ruto wasn't going to be that dog. The ambitious hustler and son of a pauper, wasn't born to lick the toes of an inferior, even if born a King. Already as Vice President, he was more than equal to Uhuru Kenyatta, formally his boss. Some say Ruto's cardinal crime was to outshine his boss, to show he was too much the senior partner in the ticket, albeit officially the junior. But such people do not understand psychology. A young lion, a cub, can pretend successfully for a few weeks it is a kitten in your kitchen. After that one week, however much it puts up the act of docile, everybody will instinctively read the sleep as a trap: a lion feigns sleep to spring a surprise on the foolhardy meal. Ruto can fool nobody, not even a drunk Ouru Kenyatta, that he is a harmless pliable thing like Arap Moi was to Jomo Kenyatta. Ruto is credited with effectively containing Arap Moi, and then a few years later, Raila Odinga. There was always no psychological room to pretend he was Ouru Kenyatta's junior.
A man can't run that much away from himself.
Whatever Ruto would do under the naturally lazy Kenyatta ---a prince born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he would always outshine him by default. William Ruto like Oliver Cromwell, while loyal to the thieving aristocracy, was doomed to deeply clash with them, antagonize them forcefully, and face their wrath. It is not for nothing Kings historically prefer eunuchs to keep their brothels.
In Kenya, we use the KAPUTIN lazily, seeking to purge off its potency. As Boris Yeltsin was completely captured and dominated by a thieving oligarchy ---much like the Jubilee regime of Uhuruto has been a thieving and looting racket, the Yeltsin succession became an obsession to the looters of Russia. Just like the Uhuru succession to the looters of Kenya. The Oligarchy of Russia sought another compliant stooge so that kazi could endelea for themselves even as Russia visibly collapsed.
This ---clash of continual plunder or economic rejuvenation of Russia---- was the background to the emergence of Vladimir Putin, a man who today, over two decades later, too has passed over to the realm of political insanity. Today he believes in his own immortality and irreplacability. Like Xi JinPin of China, he has manipulated the Russian constitution to rule forever: rule everlast, which is the same delusion suffered by every Czar before the Russian revolution confined the last of them to a pit latrine in the Taiga.
So methinks as of today Putin has lost his political mind.
But when he replaced Boris Yeltsin then, he was a man of mission. He would rebuild Russia, redirect her resources to her people. To do this he would have to cut down many an oligarch, bring the whole lot to size and domesticate them, or, failing that, eradicate them. The wrenching of the Russian state from the clutches of the thieving oligarchy, is a KAPUTIN outside the mental ranges of elitist Kenyan political imagination.
That is a key intellectual laziness of our motherland and its political elite and punditry. The second phase of KAPUTIN, the reorganisation of the Russian economy, school system and scientific research, and the paired rejuvenation of its military and international posture, too is achapter lost to the elitist Kenyan appreciation of the concept.
By the time his term is ending as per the constitution and Medvedev has to do a shuffle, it is merely because Putin has so worked and aroused such a surge in Russia's fortunes, that he has become Caesar Julius by ability and achievement. As Achebe would say of Okonkwo: his standing in society was the result of the force of his own work and industry. Okonkwo had inherited nothing from his father but the name. That workaholism was the historical background to Kaputin. Putin had so performed, displayed such cold-bloodedness, had such a chilly grit to his gaze that his pre-eminence was undisputed. The ruins called Russia, was back on track. KAPUTIN!
But when Francis Atwoli proposes Kaputin, or was it Nancy Gitau who first did? It is nothing but the wishful thinking of the Yeltsin thieving entourage, seeking to continue looting Russia in peace. It is the song of a status quo to whom life is already a paradise. Parasites that they are!
Ouru Kenyatta's presidency has been an unmitigated disaster. We have Mwai Kibaki's record to compare. Ouru Kenyatta is no performer, the son of Jomo is a lazy Oblomov type who has been in bed as Kenya was looted to the bones. Jubilee has been an exercise in obsessive corruption. His demise would be a national blessing without disguise.
It is therefore a mercenary act of evil, for one to propose such a nothing-doing creature should continue anywhere near high office. It is a crime against the future of Kenya, to plot to elongate the tenure, by open guile or otherwise, of a looting aristocracy-cum-oligarchy. Gideon Moi is of the same make as nonstarter Uhuru. Those who have never wiped a drop of sweat from their brows, even at work on their marital vows.
I say, let KAPUTIN come. But now you know the full measure of the historical ring. Give it a think. KAPUTIN ... the domestication of the thieving oligarchy.
No, Nancy Gitau didn't know which Djini she was letting out of the bottle when she devised that plot. Let the monster come, And Kenya run, ahead.
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JACOB JUMA: RASPUTIN OR A CARTEL FRONT BUSTED?
On the surface of them, there happens many events that appear unrelated. A closer look –---and not even with A microscopic eye at that, the web of corruption betrays an urge to reveal itself. One of Erad's directors, Jacob Juma's company that got a judicial carte blanche to burn down the national grannary, NCPB, was John Koyi Waluke, the later Sirisia Mpig. Following a recent landmark judgment, Waluke is now between a rock and a hard place. He is there with another ex-co-director, Grace Sarampay Wakhungu who, politically speaking in Kenya, is blue-blooded royalty. This kleptocratic granny is the sister to Moody Awori, the former Kibaki vice president. She is also the mother to a former Uhuru Kenyatta cabinet secretary, and ambassador.
Which beggars a volcanic cleansing ritual the proportions of a rennaisance.
PS: Wakhungu's family reportedly raised ksh. 500M over lunch. So if some members of the family are involved in petty thievery, it is surely the psychiatric condition known as kleptomania. This is an irrisistible urge to steal. And be caught, pants down. It is like the 'flashing' of creeps in public parks. If Old Awori, the founding patron of the dynasty, was an Arch Bishop of supposed stellar morality, then the moral decriptitude of his offspring is, in the face of their paramount social uppity, surely a tale worthy of a tell: it is a moral parable of our times. No going anywhere without a deal with The Devil!
Taxpayers lose Sh401m in Balala, Jacob Juma firm row
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Kenya won the case against Cortec and Sterling Capital Limited which was hired and determined in Kenya’s favour at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Dubai.
In the suit, Cortec and Sterling sought compensation of between $2 billion and $500 billion (Sh200 billion and Sh500 billion) after the government cancelled their licence for exploration and development of minerals at Mrima Hills, Kwale County.
Cortec Mining Kenya Limited, Cortec (Pty) Limited and Stirling Capital Limited licences were revoked in 2013.
Cortec had been issued with a licence for mining niobium and rare earth minerals at Mrima Hills in Kwale.
The two companies had argued their project was nationalised after they had spent six years and millions of dollars in exploration and development.
And this detail about a later cabinet secretary. Geologist and ater ambassador.
Prof Wakhungu was the first woman geologist in the Ministry of Energy and Regional Development, where her duties entailed exploring for geothermal energy in Kenya’s Rift Valley.
Prof. Wakhungu was also the first female petroleum geologist in the National Oil Corporation of Kenya. She was also the first female faculty member in the Department of Geology at the University of Nairobi. Prof. Wakhungu received a B.S. in geology from St. Lawrence University in New York, a M.S. degree in petroleum geology from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and her Ph.D. in energy resources management from Pennsylvania State University.
That year 2013 is not innocent: it is also when Jimmy Wanjigi looses the SGR creamed cake; and, yes you guessed it, Kenya's until then London and New York stock-exchange enlisted TRANSCENTURY GROUP, hits an iceberg and takes a titanic dive. 2013? what is it with 2013? gotta find out what the big event was in our history, in 2013!
BACK TO THE RADIO-ACTIVE JACOB JUMA
Businessman Jacob Juma was executed on the night of May 5, 2016 in Nairobi. Some said he had blown the whistle on the Eurobond. I doubt this explanation. I think he was just becoming too much of a loud mouth to his criminal associates. OMERTA may be an Italian word, but whether you are in the Medellin or Kali Cartel, trading in illicit prostitutes or contraband gemstones, looting African states or Chinese taxpayers, silence as golden, is silence as long life: OMERTA.
Juma was a loud and running mouth, too much for a man of such dark and deep deals.
How Jacob Juma threatened to sell public assets in maize fraud
Wednesday June 24 2020
Summary
In its report that was adopted by the National Assembly, the PIC established that the NCPB management had awarded the tender to Erad without consulting the Attorney-General.
The move that smacked of connivance among the parastatal staff, Erad and some individuals in the Judiciary.
This is because no due diligence, technical and financial evaluation had been conducted to ascertain whether the company had the capacity to supply the maize.
By DAVID MWERE
Businessman Jacob Juma was the face of Erad supplies, which he served as managing director.
And his two co-directors were largely unknown until they got a court order attaching the country’s strategic grain reserves.
The late Juma made it known to all and sundry that he was going to auction government property after his company won a case on a breached contract. He died before he could execute the order, leaving his co-directors with the task, which turned out to be a poisoned chalice.
And awaiting sentencing today is Sirisia MP John Koyi Waluke and Ms Grace Sarapay Wakhungu, the co-directors. Their woes started in August 2004 when Erad Supplies and General Contractors Ltd was awarded a Sh778 million tender to supply 40,000 tonnes of maize.
Erad was one of the five companies the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) contracted to supply 180,000 tonnes so that the country could meet its needs at the time.
Erad supplies was to be paid Sh19,465 per tonne on condition that it would provide a performance bond of 10 per cent of the quantity.
However, the firm failed to deliver the maize, which it claimed would have been imported from Ethiopia, leading to termination of the contract despite being paid at least Sh300 million.
Erad challenged the matter in court and an arbitrator was appointed.
The arbitrator awarded Sh564 million to Erad for breach of the contract, but the NCPB contested the decision at the High Court.
Erad then went to court and obtained orders to sell NCPB’s assets to recover a total of Sh564 million, yet it did not supply a single grain of maize.
The matter was brought before the Public Investments Committee (PIC) of the National Assembly in 2013.
The committee launched investigations immediately. Interestingly, Mr Waluke was among the members of PIC, then chaired by Eldas MP Adan Keynan.
During the committee’s hearings and as required by National Assembly Standing Orders, Mr Waluke was excused from the committee’s sittings.
“We are now set to enforce a court decree to dispose of NCPB’s assets arising from the breach of a maize supply contract,” Juma then told PIC.
At the time, the order put at risk Kenya’s strategic food reserve that held about 2.2 million bags of maize valued at Sh6.6 billion.
The PIC was told that the matter had been heard by nine judges who threw out NCPB’s case and upheld its claim for storage charges and loss of revenue anticipated from the maize supply.
The committee members questioned the morality of attaching property of a key food security institution when no grain had been supplied.
In its report that was adopted by the National Assembly, the PIC established that the NCPB management had awarded the tender to Erad without consulting the Attorney-General, in a move that smacked of connivance among the parastatal staff, Erad and some individuals in the Judiciary.
This is because no due diligence, technical and financial evaluation had been conducted to ascertain whether the company had the capacity to supply the maize.
It turned out to be a choreographed scheme to loot public funds, according to PIC.
In its recommendations, the committee barred Mr Waluke and other Erad directors from doing any business in the country and within the East African Community.
The committee also recommended that Mr Waluke and his co-directors be prosecuted.
As the committee made the recommendations, it prevailed on the executive to begin the recovery proceedings against the company and its directors so as to recover the money already paid out to them.
The committee further recommended that no more money should be paid to the firm.
The committee also directed the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) to undertake an in-depth investigation of the firm’s dealings.
The EACC investigated the matter and in 2018, Mr Waluke and Ms Wakhungu were charged in court over fraud among other charges after Juma’s death in May 2016.
In all the instances, the late Juma appeared to be the one running the affairs of Erad as Mr Waluke and Ms Wakhungu portrayed a figure of strangers in Jerusalem.
On June 22, 2020, the court found Mr Waluke and Ms Wakhungu guilty of the offense. The two are expected to be sentenced on Thursday this week.
However, their conviction did not come without a fight. Early this month they lost a petition seeking the quashing of the PIC report that recommended their prosecution, for fraudulently receiving more than Sh300 million from NCPB. Justice Mumbi Ngugi said Mr Waluke was an MP and a member of PIC when the matter was debated by committee.
She said the MP was given the opportunity to testify before the committee and he was in parliament when the report was adopted, yet he did not challenge it, until five years later.
THIS MAN JACOB JUMA
Jacob Juma's billions: The businessman in numbers
By Hudson Gumbihi
4 years ago
Juma claimed his companies were spread in 52 countries across the globe.
Sh100 million
The value of his home sitting on 5.5 acres in Nairobi’s Karen estate. He had also invested a lot in real estate, including apartments in Nairobi’s Westlands and plots in Loresho and Karen. Juma also owned a residential property in South Africa’s Cape Town, which he sold in 2012 for a price that set a record.
Sh156 million
Amount Kenya Revenue Authority claimed in three years as unpaid taxes, which led to a messy court case which the taxman lost after Justice Weldon Korir dismissed the suit.
Sh521 million
Amount the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) was ordered to pay Juma after the Ministry of Agriculture cancelled a contract to supply 40,000 tonnes of maize in 2004. Juma wanted to auction assets of NCPB, the holder of Kenya’s strategic grain reserves!
The contract had been awarded to Juma’s Erad Supplies and General Contractors. The judgment was made in favour of Erad despite the company not delivering a single grain to the board.
Erad Supplies has Grace Wakhungu, a sister to former Vice President Moody Awori and mother to Cabinet Secretary Prof Judi Wakhungu, as Juma’s co-director.
The two were also co-directors in Juma Construction, which was blacklisted by the then Ministry of Roads and Public Works for “shoddy and unfi nished projects.”
Sh1.7 billion
Amount Pacific Wildcat Resources, a subsidiary of Juma’s Cortec Mining Kenya Ltd, lost in one day at the Canadian Stock Exchange when Juma’s mining licence was withdrawn in Kenya.
Cortec Mining had a contract to extract nobium and rare earth metals in Mrima Hill, Kwale County.
Juma had 30 per cent stake in Cortec Mining.
Sh200 billion
Amount Juma sued the Kenyan government for at the International Centre of Investment Disputes following the cancellation of the mining licenceby then Mining Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala, who argued it was issued fraudulently. The special licence had been awarded in 2008 for 21 years.
The Mrima Hill deposits in Kwale County were valued at close to Sh100 trillion. “I will bring down this government,” Juma had declared after lodging the lawsuit against Jubilee in 2013.
52
Number of countries Juma claimed his companies were spread in across the globe
THE NATIONAL CEREALS PRODUCE BOARD
It was a citadel of corruption, the NCPB. But the original, formative idea was brilliant. Just like the rationale behind the original parastatals –--KFA, Kenya Railways, Kenya Posts and Telecoms, Posta Bank, Uchumi supermarkets; Kenya Bus; KENATCO, or KPCU (former headquarters now the shell next to Wakulima market at Haille Salassie avenue).
But just like there is no shortage of good, simple and practical ideas, there is equally no shortage bad decisions to be made, and poor leaders to specialise in making them bad decisions. It is an epidemic in our land. And continent at large.
The NCPB was thus reduced to a white elephant, a fraudulent device. Just like the dams the former cabinet secretary for finance, Henry Rotich, used as a pretext to oversee the loot of the public purse. (Granted, Rotich was never his own man in office, but it is reasonable to suppose, that his intelligence and humanity, education and training, could have afforded him meagre elements of autonomy, just enough to desist going into history as a total dog and debauched cog!)
Anyway, on ERAD VS WANJIKU; after many years of hide and seek, the political constellation of the land changed enough for a mini breakthrough to be booked. As to whether characters like Jacob Juma need must be mourned by any one else save their loved ones and criminal cronies, is a question not worth asking. Enough is that his murderers, and their paymasters must be caught nailed for their crime. The murder of anybody in any jurisdiction remains a captial offence which must never be left unsolved, unpunished.
This is 2018 EACC officers arrest Sirisia MP John Waluke
By Timothy Makokha | August 2nd 2018
Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) officers have arrested Sirisia MP John Waluke over suspected forgery and perjury.
The Sirisia MP was charged on Thursday alongside Grace Sarapay Wakhungu at the Milimani Law Courts following an alleged million dollar contract between Chelsea Freight and the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB).
Waluke and Wakhungu, being directors of Erad Supplies and General Contracts Limited are accused of fraudulently uttering a false invoice for $1,146,000 (Sh115,061,838) as evidence of an arbitration dispute between their company and NCPB.
Waluke was temporarily held at the Milimani basement cells before he was arraigned.
SEE ALSO: Let’s face the truth of living a lie on graft war
“On or about the 27th day of June 2013 in Nairobi City County within Nairobi in the Republic of Kenya, being the directors of Erad Supplies and General Contracts Limited jointly and fraudulently acquired public property worth Sh13,364,671.40 purporting to be costs for storage of 40,000 metric tonnes of white maize purportedly incurred by Chelsea Freight,” read part of the charge sheet.
Waluke denied all the four charges.
Somewhere along the line, Jacob Juma died. Well it was a gangland style, old-school execution.
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Was Jacob Juma Assassinated for stand on corruption?
Denis Lesak May 6, 2016 ·
Controversial businessman Jacob Juma is dead. Juma was shot dead by unknown people while driving past Lenana School Thursday night.
Nairobi CID boss Ireri Kamwende said the businessman was driving from his bar at around 9.30pm when he was shot by gunmen who escaped on a motorbike.
His car had about 10 bullet holes.
The 42-year-old who ventured into business after studying at the University of Nairobi has been vocal on political issues and severally bashed the government.
He will be remembered for claiming his mining license was revoked after he allegedly declined to pay a bribe demanded by Former Mining Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala .
Balala termed the allegations as malicious.
The businessman also refused to apologise to Supreme Court judge Njoki Ndung’u for claiming she received money alongside Justice Philip Tunoi. Ndung’u refuted the claims.
Jacob Juma had also alleged Jubilee used over Sh250 billion of Eurobond money to refund all campaign cash allegedly used in the 2013 general election.
(Via the Star)
On January 26, Juma, also known to his friend as Kabetes, wrote the following:
High voltage intelligence reports reaching me is that Jubilee leaders have hatched a plot to assassinate me over my stand on corruption in gov’t. The leaders are so worried about Eurobond revelations and the confidential details that I have on the heist and corruption perpetuated by Jubilee gov’t. Yesterday’s blackmail article in the daily Nation paper was the genesis of their grand plan. They are using a police officer called Zadock Angira who also works for Nation Media Group to portray me as a person involved in land disputes to cover up murder. The scheme is well choreographed like that of the late Hon. Muchai who was murdered in cold blood and they used land issues to cover it up.
The purpose is to confuse Kenyans that i am engaged in land fraud and disputes and therefore my purported opponents murdered me. I bought a nine acre piece of land in 1999, 17 years ago, that had a valid title deed from Jonathan Moi. How do I become a land grabber yet I was a purchaser for value? My proprietary interest in the property ceased in 2009 when I sold this land too. Why would a normal person try to blackmail my name over such a transaction? What is their intention? Yet there is no dispute over this land!! High court has already arbitrated over this land and ruled in favour of Jonathan Moi’s company in 2012. Why now? I will be the last person to buy a grabbed public piece of land. NLC is being used as part of the bigger plan to execute their heinous plan.
All I can say is that I am not scared of death. My destiny is not in my hands but God. I will never give up fighting corruption as that is cowardice. I am happy about NYS, Langata Primary School land, Weston Hotel land, NHIF Karen land, Ruai Sewage land and Eurobond scandals that I have been at the centre of their fight for recovery back to the people of Kenya. God bless Kenya.
Six more dead as Jacob Juma's killers probe runs cold
By Paul Wafula and Denis Onsarigo | August 23rd 2016
Six killings with reported links to the investigation into the murder of Jacob Juma have added to the mystery.
As Kenyans marked this year’s Madaraka Day, a new murder was being executed. It was easy to ignore it.
KTN pieced together the last moments of two of the four men described by the police as most-wanted city gangsters. Simon Muturi and three of his colleagues were gunned down on the night of May 23 on Uhuru Highway. An AK47 rifle and a pistol were recovered.
“I was at work on the day I heard Simon had been killed. We went to look for him at City Mortuary,” said Simon’s brother Edward Muturi.
Eunice Wachuka, Simon’s widow, was informed of the killing by her mother. Police were quick to point out that the gun that felled Juma was the very gun they recovered from one of the suspects.
But KTN reported that the police (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000213028/mystery-of-six-killings-in-jacob-juma-murder-probe) account did not add up in many ways.
The man the police claim was a most notorious gangster was a fellow police officer that the Nairobi criminal investigations police chief told a local daily was attached to Wilson Airport police station.
Erad directors Walukhe and Wakhungu were finally convicted. As to whether they will pay the full penalty of their crime, that is another story of wait and see. The political constellation could vary again, and their criminal fortunes change. It is not the drive for justice precipitating these stEps; it is the interfactional wars at the top as pro- and anti-Ruto forces jostle at the Kenyatta succession.
Waluke, Wakhungu shipped to prison as Sh2bn fine reality sinks in
By Sam Kiplagat June 26th, 2020
Sirisia MP John Waluke and his co-accused Grace Wakhungu were on Thursday night shipped to various prisons to begin their sentences.
The two were ordered by a magistrate to pay a fine of close to Sh2 billion or serve at least 39 years in prison after they were found guilty of defrauding a state agency.
The Judiciary yesterday explained that Sirisia MP John Waluke will serve a 67-year jail term while his co-accused Grace Wakhungu will be locked away for 69 years if they fail to pay their respective fines.
Trial Magistrate Elizabeth Juma said Waluke and Wakhungu are to serve the lengthy jail terms if they do not pay the fines amounting to over Sh2 billion.
The two are to serve the cumulative jail terms as individuals and on behalf of Erad Supplies and General Contractors as the directors.
There are some clauses in the ruling which will send shivers up spine of many a public man cum director of a private company. The wheels of justice turn slowly in deed. Took 40 years to clear Mandela Nelson off prison. Took a century to reclaim Kenya's landmass from colonial Britain. 50 years nonstop war to unify Vietnam. But it does come to pass, in one form or another, Justice.
Next: ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO BACKWARDS
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ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BAKWARDS
Many politicians have private companies specially fashioned to siphon off public moneys. Whether it is the NYS scams ---where the Ngerita's and, earlier, Josephine Kabura were a front; or defence contracts featuring fake General Juma's and sergeant Kenei murders; or subcontracts to supply Kenya Power with faulty transformers and substandard electricity poles; or fake oil Jetty's in Mombasa or Kisumu (https://www.nation.co.ke/kenya/news/sh40bn-kipevu-tender-given-to-outlawed-firm-160754); or substandard bridges soon washed off in Budalangi (Western) or Kirinyaga; or dubious malls in Kisumu or TARRAM roads on Machakos; or the importation of mercurised sugar or aflotoxin maize; or substandard electoral forms from Dubai and faulty (Vifaranga) software from France ..... there is always a politician or his front company in the corruption ring. Yes, it is practically an endless list of crime and grime. Politics and tenderpreneurial business is a parasitic, corrupt racket covered by governmental impunity.
howbeit in the advent of devolution, governors entered the field with the somewhat reckless gusto of the proverbial hyena. This greed-rush has produced local contradictions which have hit national headlines as an a series of impeachment trials. As for Kiambu and Nairobi, ruthless bureaucratic coups were staged, with Baba Yao seen off while Mbuvi Sonko hangs on, desperately fighting the creeping coup of the state-house sponsored General.
Overall, it is the narrative of state capture. And the collapse of public services. Yet the trio of state debt, interest rates and taxes runs ablaze like a wild fire. And then covid-19 came to top it all up.
But vindu vichenjanga, even if for a day. And then twenty years is seemingly covered in one day. They say a revolution is when a century is covered in a decade. That is when history goes turbo. Before stalling again like a broken down truck on the roadside.
Here are the revolutionary shivers encompassed in the ruling which sent Walukhe and Wakhungu to the gallows, sorry, cells.
The trial magistrate said because the company cannot be jailed as an entity, its directors will pay for the crimes committed, hence the enhanced sentences.
"The first and second accused are directors of the third accused, Erad Supplies and General Contractors. So if the fine is not paid, they will serve their own term and the sentence on behalf of the company," she said.
The guilt is individualised. Just as directors sign fraudulent papers ON BEHALF of THE COMPANY, they go to jail ON BEHALF of the company. Given the myriad of politically connected companies launched to defraud the public via government and county contracts, there is a very long list of individuals waiting to serve jail terms on behalf of these same companies ---If Haji&Kinoti can get their acts together.
I don't think they can. If they could, they could have done a lot already. Before we continue with the ERAD fall out ---and the murder of JJ Kabetes, there is one of several cases which explicates why Ouru's strikeforce duo are a dummy prototype, far from the live, weaponised depth charges they are propagandised to be:
1. THE KPA FUDGE
KPA boss, Manduku, released after Haji, DCI differ in court
Wednesday March 4 2020.
Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji and the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) yesterday differed in court over the prosecution of Kenya Ports Authority managing director Daniel Manduku.
As a result of the differences between the two senior officials, Manduku and the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) Commissioner for Customs Kevin Safari, walked away scot-free after the court discharged them unconditionally.
Their release came after it emerged that the DPP had not recommended their prosecution, while the DCI insisted the two should take plea.
Manduku and Safari, who were presented before Senior Principal Magistrate Kennedy Cheruiyot at mid-day yesterday, after spending hours at the court cells, caused confusion in court as the magistrate said he had no file record of the proceedings because no charge had been registered against the two
THE SAFETY VALVE
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In November 2019, the DCI (https://citizentv.co.ke/news/kpa-boss-manduku-freed-over-dpp-dci-confusion-325060/) forwarded a Ksh.2.7 billion investigative file to the DPP on a probe report on the Makongeni Goodshed Project, construction of concrete barriers and the Kisumu Port Revitalization project. Four months later, the DPP is yet to take any action. ...
Good cop bad cop routine, designed to achieve nothing, may be only scarecrows to ward off DP William Ruto off the driving seat. In that limited role the scarecrow duo might succeed. But when it comes to fighting corruption for real, they are timid jokers, puppets on a leash[/i].
2. Geoffrey Sang case:
Court rules DCI can't prefer criminal charges without DPP's approval
By Dzuya Walter For Citizen Digital Published on: July 16, 2020
The High court has ruled that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has no powers to institute any criminal charges unless okayed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
This is after justice George Odunga delivered a judgement in a case in which embattled Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority Eng. Geoffrey Sang challenged the decision by DCI to arrest him and charge him.
Eng. Sang told the court that individuals at the water harvesting authority are colluding with officials of the DCI to have him take a plea as a public officer so that he steps aside and he be removed from office for their preferred candidate to be appointed.
"I have already found that the 2nd Respondent -DCI had no powers to levy the said charges without the consent of the 1st Respondent (DPP) and that the said action was illegal," Odunga ruled.
Further the court ruled that the action by the DCI can no longer be a basis for the removal of Eng. Sang from office.
Meanwhile, the DPP and DCI have been barred (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/nairobi/article/2001379147/odunga-puts-kinoti-in-his-place) from instituting criminal proceedings against him.
YA! The two leading anti-crime offices and officers in the land, at a time there is a war on graft, have been barred by law from tabling evidence in a court of law, explicating a felony! ---Only in Nigeria! (see the great Odili injunction!) Could Haji and Kinoti and their teams be that stupid enough to sabotage themselves, or are they just obeying their orders, acting out their scripted parts.
I believe they are acting their scripted parts. Pawns held short. No dreams of queening.
Therefore behind the scenes, Waluke and Wakhungu, watoto wa Ingoo, have a serious fighting chance. It is still the reign of impunity. This means William Ruto's fortunes are not lost yet. The Hustler need not give up. The Big Seat is still within his grasp. Everybody high has still too much to loose, and thus, are open to the stalemate of a blackmail. Surely even if not himself, Ruto must know who killed Jacob Juma and Chris Musando. And he must know they can't kill him, because Kenya would implode if Ruto is murdered.
NEXT: THE KPA FIX: A CASE OF OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE WHICH UNDERWHELMED
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FRANCIS ATWOLI'S UNDERPUNCH
In a land where thieves are denoted their excellecies and parasitic legislators fondled honorable members, Francis Atwoli deserves a unique title: I go for Almighty.
ALMIGHTY Francis Atwoli is the long-serving COTU boss. And that is the secretary Generalship. Most may not even know the long form for COTU. It is the Central Organisation of (Kenyan) Trade Unions. It is a worker's movement, the nearest thing in Kenya to a historical Labour Party. Well, Kenya has never had a historical Labour Party, otherwise the likes of Markan Singh (Father of Kenyan Trade Unionism) and Ambrose Adongo (KNUT Veteran) would surely have served in cabinet at one time or another.
Atwoli's first great underpunch, is therefore that, as long-serving (should we say eternal) COTU boss, he has failed to transmute the potentially formidable, organised labour of Kenya into its logical path: the basis of a worker's party in Kenya, aka labour. This is one gaping void why our national politics have continued to tumble into a monopolistic narrative of ethnic bigots and tribal arithmetic.
But there is no subsuming organised labour, however poorly led. Organised labour has always been like the famous adage, of the idea whose time arrived: can't be wished away. Riding this lame tiger as it were, Atwoli has yet emerged as the only Kenyan politician with a national thrust not based on his ethnic lineage nor support from his tribal grassroots. In any case he is also an urban kid. Labour does not do tribe. Labour does wages, labour does income degeneration at the hands of inflation; labour does the material conditions of existence under the dictatorship of Capital. Labour may be confused sometimes, distracted by other emotional alliances like tribal (or racial) solidarity, but its primacy, urgency and wherewithal remains material and practical economic welfare: real uppity. And since the lack of economic welfare and commercial marginalisation can never be addressed by fictitious narratives, be they ethnic solidarity or divine scriptures, labour unions fighting the workers' corners can never sell illusions. There is only one cure for hunger: food. You don't have food, all other narratives are bull+sh!t. You can't pay rent in the city, the landlord is Evicts. (unless it is a Nairobi slum where the Mungiki, Talibhan, Baghdad or whatever other organised gang, can mediate for an alternative price.)
Francis Atwoli has therefore been Kenya's most spectacular public gymnast in politics. Wilson Sossion's is like an amateur's compared to the skills of Francis Atwoli in the political ring. Atwoli is so complex I think his person best tells the true tale of post-colonial Kenya (the domestication of labour). ---Unfulfilled ambitions yet an official narrative of fulfillment. A duplicitous official acquiescence to the official narrative by day, yet at night, daggers are drawn to even up the odds. A tale of two nations keeping up the appearances of one. This national schizophrenia then expresses itself in very different forms in nearly every sector. --For instance, on one hand, Miguna Miguna is a Canadian easily declared persona non grata in Kenya, on the other hand, Miguna Miguna is an unfalsified Onagi from Ahero in Nyando, Luoland Nyanza. Uniting the two, resolving the contradictions, is currently beyond Kenyan political and legal competence.
Of course hordes of sane Kenyans do not pander to that kind of intellectual mediocrity ----the mediocrity propagated by Kisii doctorates like Fred Matiang'i, now a sleeper presidential candidate. How be it the judicial apparatus under the likes of CJ David Maraga is dutifully carrying that dirty water for the state? In fact I pity David Maraga. He suffers in silence like a rape-camp victim. Such victims are ashamed of their forced orgasms, which, on the surface, indicate they enjoyed their degradation and ritual humiliation. I suspect CJ David Maraga can't wait to go home and heal. His tenure has been shredded to infamy, mutilated like the hinds of the victim of a runaway jail gang-rape in the male cells.
Another example of the schizophrenia is digital E learning during the covid-19 lockown. This has been the mantra of professor Magoha, education man. Most of the students from the rural schools, not to mention arid Turkana and the slum-dueling rest, wouldn't know what digital learning is all about. And, howbeit, they are the majority in the country. The alienation of the ministry of education from reality is thus psychiatric. Aah, that laptop programs for primary schools! Would, it had succeeded! Would, the money was not looted.
Magoha's brilliant mind continues to play offside Kenya's reality. That is like being a mad man at the market.
Another example (of the national neurosis) is that, on paper, Jubilee programs have gone well. Officially, Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto sky-rocketed the national debt financing those (on paper successful) development projects. Think of the Eurobond heist too. But Lo! On the ground, inspections show there is nothing to show for that surge in 'developmental debt'. The term White Elephant comes to mind. A plague of white elephants hit Kenya under Jubilee. For instance, the multiple dams which were completed for multi-billion shillings, proved non-existent. Not even a wheelbarrow of kokoto to show for a billion spent! Dr. DavidRotich had to be replaced by Dr. UkurYattani , in a forlorn if desperate face-saving, or cover-up exercise.
Last but not least to make the point for today: the government is in the midst of a war against corruption, but the truth is corruption continues unabated. And those who should have suffocated in their own guilty blood, continue to earn promotion and perpetrate more evil from the top. Cleophas Mailu, former health CS, recently stunned the senate and the public, stating ... without batting an eyelid, that he is a 100% moron.
Former Health Cabinet Secretary Cleopa Mailu told senators that he never saw contract documents for the Sh38 billion medical equipment leased for counties.
Medical kits contract was hidden from me, Mailu tells Senators
By Moses Nyamori and Rawlings Otieno | July 25th 2020
Mailu, who headed the Health ministry between 2015 and 2018, claimed he was told the documents were top secret whenever he asked for them.
Yesterday's revelations before a senate committee investigating the Managed Equipment Service (MES) added to the controversy that has dogged the project.
Mailu told senators (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001379977/medical-kits-contract-was-hidden-from-me-mailu-tells-senators) that he had not seen the contract document signed by his predecessor James Macharia, who was at Afya House from 2013 to 2015.
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"I never even saw the contracts which were signed or executed by my predecessor or Principal Secretary then on MES project," said Dr Mailu.
"I want to be on record that several times we went to Health and Budget committees, and the documents were persistently requested for by Parliament. The documents were not availed to the best of my knowledge," he said.
if you are blessed with rudimentary, elementary intelligence ---commonly called common sense, and you are the minister of health, and contracts which you are to sign for the enhancement of public health are hidden from you, in a country at the bottom quarter of public hygiene when it comes to public finances, what would you surmise?
TOP SECRET! :D
Wont a red flag flicker in yoru mind? But, how about if you have experience as a health-sector CEO, having run a prestigious hospital in the capital city of the land? (David Mailu was head-hunted from Nairobi hospital, the Florence Nightingale of Nairobi hospitals!). Then I wish to submit, Cleophas Mailu is not a total moron, nay, he is a total willing handmaid facilitating looting. (TOP secret convinced him to shut up ... :D
The would-be good doc is totally rotten. He is a boil of Pus. This saga is another explication of the national schizophrenia. A blue-chip CEO who turns out, for all his education and experience, to be just another boil of rot in public administration.
An underpuncher.
And this detail As AG, Muigai was the chief legal adviser to the Health ministry when the multi-billion-shilling program was signed in 2015.
Mailu, who is Kenya's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, was at the helm of the user ministry when the contract was varied in 2017.
Kassachoon was the chief accounting officer at the time the contracts were signed at State House.
Initially, the contract, signed at State House on February 6, 2015, was worth Sh38 billion but the deal was varied and the contract sum increased to Sh63 billion.
And At the same time, documents showing that former Attorney General Githu Muigai approved the medical leasing contract emerged.
Githu had on Wednesday told the team chaired by Fatuma Dulo that the Health ministry then under Macharia and Principal Secretary Khadija Kassachoon ignored his advice on the contract.
But documents tabled before the committee indicated that Githu signed and approved the contract. [/i]
Another under puncher. Earlier, Githu had told the team that Macharia and Kassachon violated the law by executing the contract without his involvement.
A source privy to the contract told The Standard that the issue was not approvals, but the variation of the same by the Health ministry from Sh38 billion to Sh63 billion.
The variation, the source says, was done without knowledge or involvement of the former AG, as required under the law
Criminal case closed. Who varied the contract without a further consultation with the AG? The name is known. But would Haji&Kinoti know!? --Not in a century I think.
Which brings us back to COTU Francis Atwoli.
Having stunted as a labour activist and guru, Atwoli degenerated into a Luhya Kingpin. There is a big void there. In fact, looking at Ingoo, looking at the pretender Ingwe's ---say Mudavadi, Oparanya and Wetangula, it is obvious they are but blind cubs between the legs of the only Ingwe: Francis Atwoli.
But that is a sad statement for Kenyan labour. The key labour activist, the OFFFICIAL personification of the labour movement today, The Almighty COTU FRANCIS ATWOLI, is content to rent himself out to two dynasts in their war against a prospective opponent, the feared gate-crashing Hustler.
Instead of he himself using the trade union movement to launch his presidential bid, Atwoli folds like a natural watchman or cook, to serve his adopted masters. It is an underpunch the size of a national trauma. It is a collapse the size of class treachery.
Atwoli is a giant who has convinced himself he is best active as a docile puppy, wagging tail continuously at his masters, eternally faithful in the betrayal of labour, his base! He has diminished COTU and himself to a looter's accomplish. Not that he as any faculties remaining to recognise his demise. His super obesity once so ridiculed by the mouthy Cate Waruguru of Laikipia, is symptomatic of the pathology of his internal rot.
I think Atwoli is still suited, even fated to perform a few more theatrical shows. He should shock the nation by declaring he is going to Canada to bring Miguna back home. He is the only one in Kenya who, in public podium, can laugh and say: 'nobody in high office seems to know the geography of Kenya, so let me, Francis Atwoli, teach you: Miguna is a Kanyadian. That is somewhere in Nyanza. Toronto Canada is off the trail of his lineage, parentage and nationhood. This orphan has learnt his lessons enough. He has been kept outside the fence of his home enough. It was his punishment for abusing his elders. He behaved like those odd boys of mine ----Echesa Rashid and Waluke of Sirisia. But it is now time for him to come home. So I Atwoli will bring him home, foolish boy. to regret next to me!'
Who will stop Atwoli at the airport when he comes with Miguna as his luggage or ballast!?
2. And yes, it seems Kenya is looking for a Luhya president as a compromise. The obvious candidate is one man only: Francis Atwoli. He combines, even if theatrically, the two strands of ethnic arithmatic and labour activism. That is unique. The rest as I said, are babies yet to urinate anywhere else apart from their mother's laps! (---Mudavadi and Weta are certified cowards, having missed the KALONGOLONGO oath which would birth The Handshake gimmick. They are a waste of Luhya time. They are worthless litter.
Atwoli is by far the greater man from Ingoo. The only Ingwe in town! ---Not that he knows it, historical underpuncher that he be!
But there is still some mileage to his theatrics. A spectacular climax before the inevitable exit.
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FROM THE PUBLIC FINANCE MANGEMENT BILLS IN 2011 TO REVENUE ALLOCATION FALL-OUTS IN THE 2020 SENATE
Is the IMF obstructing Kenya's devolution process?
Charles Abugre (https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/imf-obstructing-kenya%E2%80%99s-devolution-process)
Aug 18, 2011
'If a government based on devolution and the dispersal of power is to be given a chance, the IMF's role in political horse-trading in Kenya should be curtailed,' argues Charles Abugre.
There is a tense stand-off in Kenya between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Local Government, which is holding hostage critical laws that need to be passed to implement the generally acclaimed 2010 Constitution. These ministries differ sharply on how to regulate the management of public resources.
They have submitted separate draft bills to the Constitutional Implementation Commission (CIC) to be forwarded to parliament.
The one from the Ministry of Finance (The Treasury) is an Integrated Bill covering the two levels of government - the national and the county. The Ministry of Local Government has put forward two related Bills, one specific to the financial management of the county government and the other - an Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Bill - which aims to create mechanisms for ensuring coherence between the two levels of government in relation to the management of public finance. This ministry opposes the single Integrated PFM Bill approach and argues strongly for a separate Bill to strengthen the devolution process and fears that the Integrated PFM approach is a stealthy way of re-centralising power.
The Constitution of Kenya creates two levels of government which are independent of each other but who should 'collaborate and cooperate' for the public good - very much like the American political system.
The disagreements between these two ministries, both represented by Deputy Prime Ministers, is so sharp that the CIC felt compelled to refer the matter to the two principals of the coalition government, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Word has it that although the principals were unable to reach an agreement they were perhaps leaning towards the Integrated Bill approach and therefore have ordered the two ministers to consolidate their drafts into a single Bill.
This apparent decision has severely irked Kenyan civil society and the taskforce put together to detail out the devolution process and whose advice informed the Bills submitted by the Ministry of Local Government. Their anger is based on the justifiable fear that the Treasury is actively seeking to roll back powers taken from them by the constitution's strong focus on devolution, participation and service orientation.
As Kenyan Mpigs fume today 2020 July, whether they are Tangatanga or Kielewekee, not a single one seem to know anything about our history, and the implications of our mishandled DEBT obligations. They are thus a storm in a tea-cup.
There is something called the Proteus Syndrome. I believe it is derived from an ancient myth of Hellas, Greece. There was an old man of the sea who could tell the future to lost sailors, but before he did, he would throw quite a running set of shenanigans at the interrogators. Some of these were so scary the weak nerved would let him go. But perseverance and courage always paid off. This folktale reminds me of another tale about class struggle. It is said to adopt many a camouflage forms. These confuse simpler minds to death, reduce good ones to surrender, and, by attrition, drive even better ones to the doorstep of giving-up on inquisitive openings. I imagine whether one is looking at Mlango Kubwa MCA, Patricia Mutheu Musyimi, being clobbered as to death by Fred Matiang'i's goons on behalf of the puppet General, Badi, charged to overthrow Sonko from City Hall to make way for new cartels .....
OKAY, BLACK LIVES MATTER, BUT CARTEL PROFITS MATTER MORE!
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.... or whether one is looking at Raila and Uhuru in a failed mission to both buy and intimidate the senate into a political horror; or William the Hustler simultaneously outside and within the government, or DCI Kinoti empowered on Monday only to be disempowered on Tuesday ... these are all shenanigan forms by which a fundamental contradiction within our society is throwing smokescreens, playing possum. The conflicts are also fissures through which a bit of the pent up furies within are escaping, giving warnings of an escalating boil below.
A lot of political frogs are croaking, for them this revenue distribution maneno's is all about who becomes the next president of Kenya, come 2022. That is their next rain, for their mating season, election, and there ends their political minds. Added to this is simply the Raila-Ruto paradigm of antagonism, all consuming.
FROM MAJIMBOISM TO DEVOLUTION
But devolution is a deep subject in Kenya, in deed anywhere, which is why there are a lot of federal states around the globe. Loosely centralised unions give a lot of breathing space to desperate mixes, composting with a lot of gaseous release. Molding diversities into a workable Union requires political talents exceeding greater far. For every Union state, there is always the ghost of secession to be appeased. Social justice is a very strong wand to achieve that end.
In Kenya, running toward independence in the early 1960's, there emerged a big word: MAJIMBO. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Johnstone Kamau (alias Jomo Kenyatta), were strong centralists and KANU union men who would have nothing of MAJIMBOISM. Majimboism was equated to the secessionist tendency and the KANU gods lambasted it for intent to create tribal fiefdoms, and thus, remain a colonial fifth column. That most of the MAJIMBOISTS came from the SMALLER, comparatively MARGANISLED tribes and arid regions, should have offered a spectacular clue to the breathtaking historic canyon separating the Bigs from the Smalls of Kenya. But greed and euphoria are a blinding cocktail in power.
Pwani was already feeling not very much Kenya ---citing old tales which went back to broken treaties with the defunct sultanate of Zanzibar; neither was the Somaliland NFD (Northern Frontier District) feeling Kenyan. There would be constellations called SHIFTA in the NFD and, elsewhere, motto's going as PWANI SI KENYA.
The resultant KANU unitary state became a classic case of the centre and the periphery, where the periphery was left to stone-age abandon: Swathes became Ruralia reserves of poverty, marginalised peoples. The Turkana being a powerful example. Many escaped from economically collapsed Rural areas only to swell the ranks of city slums. KANU, having failed to deliver the fruits of independence to the majority, having failed in in its historical mandate and betrayed here covenant with the people, imploded into a totalitarian and thieving racket running on the fuel of ethnic animosities.
ENTER THE MAJIMBOIST SLEEPER ARAP MOI AND HIS DFFRD
To redress this national imbalance which the Majimboists feared, DEVOLUTION was born as the flower of the 2nd liberation. But not before the second President of the republic, The KADU stalwart turned KANU supremo, DT Arap Moi, pitched in a half-hearted Majimboistic effort. This is the policy which went with the name DISTRIC FOCUS FOR RURAL (and National) DEVELOPMENT. But it was largely about creating a new powerbase and breaking the stranglehold of the old Kenyatta power establishment. It was just an alternative looting scheme for the new power constellation at the centre.
The problem of marginalisation to be solved remained, the imbalance between the centre and the periphery, remained intact: tic-toc, time sped. Toward the second liberation. The MAJIMBO FORMULA now we called DEVOLUTION, the crown in the jewel of the new constitution. The constitution to make a nation of us, motley crew of tribes and prejudices.
But without clarity and articulate vision, it is a question of one step ahead, several backwards. Devolution, like the liberation of slaves, has been an act at which money power stays centralised, as usual in Nairobi. The slave is free, but must stay as bonded labour to the boss who kept him and his ilk a slave all those decades!
Otherwise the economic system will collapse. Someone, has to do the tedious work of producing wealth, for nearly free, if not wholly free. Coffee farmer, sugarcane farmer, maize farmer, casual labourers. Devolution has also seen some of the most concerted efforts to disorganise Organised labour. One of the most effective Unions hitherto, KNUT, has currently been hit a near fatal blow. Professor Magoha of education has conspired with the TSC to use the CORONA LOCKDOWN for a pre-emptive:
How fiery Sossion walked to his final fall from Knut
By Moses Njagih |
September 1st 2019 (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/education/article/2001340287/how-fiery-sossion-walked-to-his-final-fall-from-knut)
The ouster of indefatigable trade unionist Wilson Sossion (pictured) from the helm of the giant Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) has been work in progress for the last few years.
The writing has been on the wall. Plans had been meticulously hatched. And as the days progressed, Sossion's removal as Knut secretary general became a matter of when, not if.
The fiery unionist, who has had running battles with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) over a raft of issues, admits that it is not just the teachers' employer which has been baying for his ouster.
The commission, he says, has conveniently been the catalyst to speed up the process. During a press briefing on Wednesday at Parliament Buildings, the unionist, also a nominated MP, blamed his woes on the top political leadership.
but that was last year
There were other dynamics which dictated Sossion's removal be incomplete, just like today, the removal of Mbuvi Sonko or William Ruto can not be finalised! Those who want this done do not hold all the cards, it is a kind of stalemate. And so, attrition.
Shock for Knut as thousands of members miss out on pay rise
Tuesday July 28 2020
Thousands of teachers are reeling in shock after their employer denied them promotions and a salary raise for the second year running, citing their membership to the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut).
Their counterparts, who ditched the giant union led by Wilson Sossion, after it clashed with the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) last year, are celebrating after receiving fatter pay cheques this month.
Some 47,131 teachers in job group B5 have been promoted to job group C1 using TSC's Career Progression Guidelines (CPG) even as 32,556 of their counterparts missed out after TSC said they fall under the Schemes of Service because they are members of Knut.
PREFERRED PROMOTION PATH
Although the Employment and Labour Relations Court ruled in favour of Knut, its members have lost financially.
This caused an exodus of teachers from Knut to Kuppet between last July and June this year, as others opted to remain unionless.
KUPPET MEMBERS
A source at the TSC Tuesday said teachers who ditched Knut and joined Kuppet have received a salary increment under the CPGs.
It was, however, not possible to immediately get the details of those that have been left in the cold
Devolution must kill the most effective historical union to date. That is a think to think. From Ambrose Adongo to George Magoha. Which makes Magoha Professor Judas to labour. But the good professor is just the latest cog anyway. He is excused. He knoweth not what he doeth!
To implement devolution, there was a ministry created for it, and no wonder it was headed by rot
like Anne Waiguru., now Mumbi. She's vilely remembered for the series of NYS scandals. So, no sooner was devolution the song, than the pillage and plunder of national and public resources went even a notch higher. Whether one talked Eurobonds or the SGR, robbery was still the name of the game at the centre.
It means a financial crisis has been unavoidable, is unavoidable, however much of a Santa Claus Xi-Jin-Pin may feel toward his Kenyan protectorate on account of his OBOR ambitions. And now there is the CORONA contraction too. It is a global phenomenon which shall spare none.
ONE MAN ONE VOTE ONE SHILLING IS A DISCOHESION HORROR
The competition for ever more scarce resources will heighten. ONE MAN ONE VOTE ONE SHILLING is nothing but a recidivistic lurch to the 1960's. Those were the days when the independence party of yonder, KANU, engaged the antics of instituting policies which inevitably led to a failed process of nation-building. They instigated policies which destroyed national cohesion, contrary to the vision in TZ for instance.
NB: This week we have saluted the late Ben Mkapa, GCG diplomat and former president of Tanzania. I didn't see covered in the eulogies, any of his insights into the Kenyan ethnic quagmire, as he observed and recorded during his reconciliation marathons with the likes of Martha Karua and the then cast. ---Martha Karua was then known as the iron lady. She misread the amiable mien of the urban Tzder as a weakness, yet it was the armour of a veteran who had seen it all, knew the tricks of the trade all through. ##FOOTNOTE
DEVOLUTION as a concept in its ideological purity, is of course a dream step, for the marginalised locals that is. Theory is services and money come close. Development takes off. Income disparities between countryside and city decrease. Autonomy, local rule. It is like the colonial office in London surrendering control of the colonies to an independent African government, ie Uhuru come to a bar near you!
But Imperial London experiences this as a loss of prestige, and, economically speaking, a loss of a sphere of interest and profitability. This loss is also the way Mwai Kibaki and his cabal of colonially-minded Centrists saw the Raila-fronted devolution. Devolution was dismemberment of a profitable union, devolution was the blunting of their economic reach. But even more importantly, the international consortium of debt enslavers fronted by The IMF and World Bank, can not afford to allow locals to determine their own financial priorities, control their own monies, and build their lives independently. Devolution therefore had to work out into an empty shell, a politically appeasing slogan but of no content. The central government had not only to retain the the Lion's share of revenue ---to pay external debt, but also retain control over the little that was distributed for the county governors to steal at leisure. It has been a feeding frenzy at the county near you.
This of course charts a course of conflict between the led and the leaders. A conflict which does not always play well for national cohesion, since failed and shallow politicians will defend their homeland at the expense of perceived enemies. In this they will forget the national interest.
For social justice and a sense of belonging, money has to flow to the forgotten, historically marginalised areas. And it has to flow big. But if you are looking for votes and those arid areas though geographically big are numberless, you can only condemn them further unto marginalisation. Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta find themselves in the place their fathers found themselves in, early 60's: condemning outlying areas of Kenya to stone-age relief systems and designed marginalisation. This is the centre to periphery colonial model. The Handshake duo are not building any bridges, they are burning them. To put it the Achebe way, they are setting on fire the hopes that should hold us together, and we are drifting apart.
Just before the peoples-driven presidential oath which crowned Tinga the alternative president, there was already a map of two Kenya's: the Republic of and the Peoples republic. It was a joke, so said, but you know the saying about how history repeats itself: farce. It is towards two Kenya's now. Every region their interest, no national collective interest.
The question is: how do we make the divorce velvet!?
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THE RIGGING CONTINUES; SO DO THE AFRICAN DEATH DANCES!
One time I had occasion to chat with a rampant Zairean guitarist. I said Zairean, not Congolese, to give you an idea of the time-scale. He was aging and the show consisted mostly of Old Gold as the all-time favourites they re-enacted are called. You can think of Ok Jazz's Mado, tracks like Africa Mokili Mobimba (credited to Dechaud Mwamba the brother of Dr. Nico), Cherie Bondowe (Mayaula Mayoni in TPOK Jazz), Ibrahima of Rochereau's Afrisa (credited to Dino Vangu), Maseke ya Meme and lots of Kamale and Lipua stuff. The explosive Lipua Lipua was of course stabilised by the genial Mombasa Vata on rhythm.
During the show as is the economic tradition, there were intervals where fans could buy in requests. We dubbed these thanksgiving or fundraising slots. I rented time for Celi Bitshou's Georgette, originally recorded by TPOK Jazz. I grew up with an uncle who pointed out to me, the delicacies of the out-of-this-world vocals of Youlou Mabiala, I grew up a fan of The Big Band Prince.
The guitarist made a special effort on the curves of the Franco Guitar doing the cover. I was much pleased and decided to pay out a bonus. He looked specifically sad. I asked where the guitar had taken him to. He told me there was a time Franco's guitar had started to echo the chant of a certain bird of the forest. This bird had witnessed the last one hour of Patrice Lumumba's slow but intense death. This bird woke up the whole neighbourhood and rallied them to the scene. Monkeys, baboons, and all other busy bodies of the forest came to bear witness. To this day, goes the tale, there are parrots and cheeky monkeys of the jungles of the Congo that still carry the tradition. They quote, in various forms of interpretations, the sounds made by the mostly Belgian murderers and their local vassals. The locals were allied to Mobutu and Tshombe. There was an argument about finishing Lumumba off. The locals had a premonition, they didn't want to do the final act, coup de grace I think they call it.
Many star Congolese guitarists run this theme at one time or another. Married to the innovations on the solo or lead guitar ---that is the post Ndombolo crop of finger wizards, the death dance of Patrice Lumumba has become a booty-shaking and hip-gyrating interpretation which has overpowered the world as a visual art. Just search-type Google-Window: Rosalina challenge ---BM .. Awilo Longomba ... and see for yourself the break your body feats! You don't need to know the sad history of the electrifying guitar. But it will own your soul even if you don't have any.
Nothing scares culture. Act of man or act of God, however vile, its all fair game to culture. I know of a poem which takes place inside the crematorium at Auschwitz. A Rabbi wakes up from an insufficient dose of gas just as the oven heats up. And No, he doesn't say Sh!t! what the heck!
But the thing is this: Patrice Lumumba and his party won the first free and fair elections in Congo. A few months later he was dead, betrayed by the compromised army like Mohammed Morsi of Egypt, near a century later; or is it Salvador Allende of Chile. It was a terrible start for Independent Congo, and by the 1990's the deep political rot which was Lumumba's betrayal, burst surface. No one knows exactly, but figures of the Congolese dead (post-Mobutu) are anywhere between 5-10 Million souls. It has been a tragedy the size of a holocaust. Don't worry there is no special word for it. Just special guitar techniques and innovative dances like the Ndombolo.
A terrible start I said, for the Congo. Slaying gangland style their first ever peoples choice to the highest office of the land. Yeah, the serpent cheated the gullible custodians to taste the cursed fruit, murder.
Lumumba's political horizons extended far beyond the Congo. He was soon caught up in the wider wave of African nationalism sweeping the continent. In December 1958, Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah invited Lumumba to attend the anti-colonial All African People's Conference, which attracted civic associations, unions, and other popular organizations.
Two years later, following mass demands for a democratic election, the Congolese National Movement headed by Lumumba decisively won the Congo's first parliamentary contest. The left-nationalist leader took office in June 1960
Seven months into his term, on January 17, 1961, he was assassinated.
But of gullible custodians of the peoples will criminally thwarting the same, I was thinking of something nearer home. SIAYA COUNTY. Siaya county was the scene of a horrible evil, a terrible injustice at a crucial moment: the launch.
Siaya lost her first ever people-sanctioned governor forever. His name was William Oduol. He had beaten Prince Oburu Odinga to oblivion. Republican Oduol thus incurred the insane wrath of a royalty dethroned. This pathology which is as insipid as that of a colonial power, when unproperly defanged, comes back at you as imperialist or neo-colonial, a deadlier much more subtle form of exploitation and control. And the struggle is back to square one.
It was Oburu Odinga who injected the poison and served Siaya County her false start. Oburu has never had a clear mind in his life. He has always been given to bouts of stupid blunders or rounds of drunken stupor. And his bouts of blunder in trying to impose Royal-Blood administrators on Luo-Nyanza while his younger brother bore the national torch of the progressive politics, worked very counterproductive. Raila was forced to come to Nyanza and campaign in Luoland for the tripe his elder brother had rigged in at the party primaries. Having his blessings stolen at the national level thus looked an odd kind of karma; a boomerang on the progressive charity he never awarded at home, to the likes of William Oduol for instance.
I GOT THE SYSTEM NOW!
And now, 2020 in the August month, it is the same foul-breathed Oburu who is announcing The System will this time, for a change, RIG RAILA in to the expense of William Ruto! Wah! The first Luo to be crowned President of Kenya --Rabala Ochuka's tenure died before he started--- will be, for all we know, an imposed, illegitimate usurper!
Man! Oburu Odinga is a toxic scumbag! (others like Chris Musando die to prevent rigged elections you know!)
Oburu is a goat. Reducing Raila Odinga from the architect of the second liberation to (the prospect of) a criminal imbecile in power fronting and colluding with a deep state that thwarted the peoples' will! It is more a back stab, the tale of the useless elder brother who never forgave his junior for usurping his royal privilleges of seniority. Even when Jaramogi was alive, he always treated the eldest son Oburu as a fool. The younger Amollo was the surer bet. Agwambo dared fate and took the oath of peoples president in broaddaylight in a ceremony Tuju dubbed mock or Kalongolongo, but whose depths killed the Uhuruto partnership.
His own partnership with the people is something Agwambo would be ill-advised to shed off. Even if the trade-off is power.
No! Raila should just win the elections fair and square as he has always done. He only needs the guts to take what is his by the peoples verdict. Downside, such guts can make him a Morsi of Egypt or Lumumba of Congo. So be it. Rampant guitarists would innovate on the theme forever: the Raila Odinga death dance.
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1. THE STUNTED CONSCIOUSNESS OF KIPCHUMBA MURKOMEN
He is the senator for Marakwet Elgeyo. He was the long-serving Majority leader in the senate, 5 years; which means he oversaw the Jubilee legislative agenda in the first Uhuruto term.
At his peak, he was a total reactionary.
He was so corrupted with the little power that his opposite, the senate minority leader James Orengo, felt obligated to remind him of a well-retold history lesson: revolutions eat their own children. Murkomen K., a self-confessed first class and boisterous honors graduate from the law school at Moi University, had, in his drive to excel at law and join legislative politics, missed out on the lectures tackling the pitfalls that yawn along the dynamics of power. He therefore appeared genuinely shocked when he, after having adopted reactionary sycophancy and bootlicking as the modus for his way up, was dropped like an old harlot. Such are discarded without a thought, after ritual use and abuse by the powers that are.
Now, is he an old dog too late to learn new tricks, or is our Kipchumba having seizures which, if successfully completed, would mark his current state of mental distress as having been his road moment, to Damascus so to speak? That is if we reminisce that day when the most passionate creature of Christianity to be, saw the Light of Christ, quit the Dark Side forever!
WHO IS THE REAL KIPCHUMBA? --ONESMUS OR MURKOMEN
But it had to be him; the man who had suffered the highest political fall in the anti-Ruto purge as the Handshake royals pruned the Hustler nation. He hit the ground with a groaning thud and has been trying to collect his wits since his replacement.
He needs a new direction, he realises. The survival instincts of the herdsboy from Marakwet, honed by his hardy father, strive to be heard. Murkomen senior also graduated Junior top at domestic skills; like baking brown ugali. And of course making female kills.
BACK TO MY ROOTS!
Senator Murkomen showcases his prowess in cooking brown ugali in the village
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I am sure Murkomen senior didn't condition his son to fit easy into the role of the greatest sycophant or power obedient tool. Nor the hugest anti-people tick who ever came from the proud Marakwet. The Kipchumba Murkomen we saw as Jubilee Majority leader in the senate, coordinating the enacting of laws which were a KANU totalitarian redux, was therefore a MUTANT. It was a thing whose soul had been captured, and addicted to injections of corruption to quell a rising greed. The mutant then lived in a fictitious world of corruption high, and high corruption. Its intelligence which had seen him top through law school at Eldoret, became effectively annulled. The Jubilee senate majority leader Kipchumba Murkomen had become litter, a thing clogging the historical path of Kenya forwards.
And then he was sacked. Like a Kayamkono. Like Miguna Miguna was one sacked by Raila Odinga and whose further trials Murkomen has found occasion to cheer. Yes, brilliant lawyers who delude themselves about the nature of labour contracts in power, do end up dustbinned like used tampons. But unlike used tampons, dustbinned brilliant lawyers can be recycled, can have a road-to-Damascus moment: RESISTANCE!
DON'T SACRIFICE KENYA! --MURKOMEN
"Don't sacrifice Kenya": Senator Murkomen gets emotional as he pleads with Speaker
Imagine if Kipchumba had said something like this at the height of his Jubilee powers: Don't sacrifice Kenya to the greed of landgrabbers! Save the Mau water-head!
Under Daniel Arap Moi, huge swathes of the water tower had been grabbed under the aegis of something called the Nyayo Tea Zones Development Corporation. It was these interests Murkomen was defending while pretending to champion of the small settlers being evicted. No, the Ndung'u (Land) report is not standard reading material for lawyers in politics. Even Orengo the Nestor I never heard quote from it!
But behold! On the floor of the senate, following the detention of the three senators led by the Kakamega's Shackle of Doom, Cleopas Malala, Murkomen found his natural voice as his heart aligned with his head for once. He banged the table, increasing the tension in the house so much, such that Speaker Ken Lusaka, the Jubilee docile wheelbarrows :* man of Bungoma, visibly and audibly recoiled like a trapped rat. With senate lights like James Orengo referencing the 1642 famous words of an English Speaker ---have no ears to hear nor eyes to see, and the subsequent tradition known as the Black Rod antic ....
This ritual is derived from the attempt by King Charles I to arrest Five Members in 1642, in what was seen as a breach of the constitution
...... the weakly constituted Ken Lusaka found himself suffocating on this dilemma.
He searched for the Pontius Pilate in him.
Pontius Pilate for a Judge's ruling was famously pinned between the political expediency of a Roman career prefect, and the local politics of the local clergy. Jewish reli-rivalry was boiling to the point of fratricide. One side wanted Rome to be their executor.
In the end, James Orengo saved the dangerous day by proposing a more of an Abunuwasi gimmick than a Solomon's pitch. Matyang'i and Mutyambei (interior cabsec and police IG respectively) would have to take time off their heavy duties ----like counting their profit off the Covid-20 donations rip-off, and appear in person before the senate security committee led by a Haji. This senator Haji, no relations :) to the DPP Haji who was hired to help curtail William Ruto's rise to the presidency, promptly declared an IN-CAMERA session. The farce at the senate was complete.
Haji senior, a veteran security insider, knew his brief was to protect Matiang'i's flanks. Matiang'i is the big pitcher tapped by the Handshake team in their anti-Ruto match. This anti-Kenya team couldn't dare have Matiang'i ripped to pieces live by an angry clique of senators. Team One Kenya had won much public sympathy, and Dr. Fred was already looking more like an fossil, vaingloriously trying to shackle Kenya to past doom!
His demasque in public would be a blessing to the one whose nemesis he was projected to be: William Ruto. With Raila and Ruto quickly smelling the coffee and finding their chameleon garments to blend in with Team Kenya, Dr. Fred would be political toast. Impeached next.
This whole farce, which started with a power play to extract revenue from historically marginalised regions to be used to bribe populous voter baskets in the succession equation, has had one positive result. It clearly showed the intellectual vacuum at the heart of Handshake regime and the remnants of the Jubilee train wreck of Uhuru Kenyatta. And that vacuum necessitated a fill. Howbeit it was the author and brilliant dramatist of a senator, Cleopas Malala of populous Kakamega, who filled the vacuum.
'Do you want me to take the food out of the mouths of the starving Turkana to bring it here to Kakamega!?' senator Malala asked the -----how do we say it in Kenya?--- 316 billion shilling question!
According to the Division of Revenue Act, 2020, which equitably allocates the revenue generated at the national level between the national purse and counties, Sh316.5 billion has been allocated to the devolved units in the 2020/21 financial year.
The differences between senators whose counties are likely to gain and those that will lose have been the biggest hindrance to the adoption of the formula
Senator Malala's question blew away the foundations of the one-man-one-vote-one-shilling mantra. Malala exposed it for what it is: a continuation of historical marginalisation; a financial con-job of the centre against the periphery. A disgrace and mercenary policy. Raila Odinga and William Ruto, the 2022 frontrunner's for the presidency, felt cornered enough to take sides.
Senator Malala and co weren't just the moral conscience of a Unitary and United Kenya, they had simultaneously exhibited both a political courage and intellectual depth unknown in Kenyan politics since the Handshake. Team Kenya showed how fragile the hold of the aristocrats in Kenya is. Kibicho and Matiang'i were immediately forced into the political bankruptcy of detentions without trial to prevent quorum in parliament, and, in addition, intimidate more senators in the mental distress of voting against their own minds and conscience. Matiang'i's explanation for the arrests revealed how artefacted his mind is. He didn't even make an effort to think. That is total delusion in ones ability to get away with any and every act of impunity. Its the mentality of a divinity, a god :*. Madness!
Fred Okeng'o Matiang'i is positively a diety!
Before the handshake, just about anybody one cares to have heard of in ODM was intellectually innovative and articulate to the point of awesomeness. James Orengo banished professor Githu Muigai, then the AG, to the realms of irrelevance and incoherence. The likes of Otiende Amollo made legal points which many a brain would eternally burn the midnight oil for, yet still not find. The name and organisational talents of Simba Arati, or is it Atari? so terrorised the deity Fred Matiang'i his divinity formed a special police unit to inform on Simba Atari's movements around town. Etc etc. ..... Come the handshake and all these flashes of brilliance retreated to darkness. Disappear they did, shy like the head of a tortoise caught in the open. These brains started to exhibit the serious signs of underuse and rust. Jubilee oligarchs and their hostage bureaucrats grew brave and state looting hit new peaks. The Covid-20 heist presided over by Mutahi Kagwe is just the tip of the iceberg. The pus from the inner boil.
But why do I say Stunted as a qualification of Kipchumba the young Murkomen?
Because: In going over to the opposition, he has not surpassed yet, the intellectual ferocity pontificated by the opposition Young Turks, post the peoples' oath of Raila Odinga. Well, he graduated first class honours, didn't he?
Or is it that the Moi law school at Eldoret is not the Nairobi law school? (wherefore a pass at main campus (Orengo) is forever the superior of a Magna Cum Laude at Eldoret!?)
It is a think to think over.
The former Jubilee senate majority leader can make brown ogali, no doubt. His biceps are firm, his legs know the curves to dance the forked wood that holds the pan firm as he dexterously handles the cooking stick. Yes, the senator is at home in this venture. Totally at ease at brown ugali baking.
But when it came to his moment on the floor of the senate, when, at the injustice done the arrested senators---Christopher Lang'at (Bomet) and Steve Lelegwe (Samburu), Malala of Kakamega-----, he banged the table and heightened the heat on the speaker to near wet-panting, he did not carry the thought to its logical conclusion. Senator Onesmus's outrage at the disrespect shown the constitution, the senate and due process of the land, came short of certain important milestones. It was therefore parochial.
For instance
1. --The issue of extra-judicial killings by the police.
(2) ---And of course, the bestial treatment of Miguna Miguna by the Kenyan state.
No, these lot and their ilk are still a bridge too far for the new mind of senator Kipchumba. Which means it wasn't as much a flash of new consciousness which troubled him so, as a personal sense of injury that goaded him so. When the personal injury can traverse and metamorphose into an empathy beyond fellow journeymen (senators), then does it risk becoming something national. Kipchumba therefore has to make the next national step, or he will backslide into the cesspool of mental rot he used to wallow in as Jubilee chief enforcer at the senate.
And as for Team Kenya, like the proverbial young Turks they have the ball. It is for them to drop it or run with it. (One only need to have looked at the other two Nyanza senators, Ayacko and Kajwang', to sample what an intellectual implosion looks like in person!)
NB: Hehehe! Omwami Ababu Namwamba was once a very promising young Turk! Then something hit him, and broke him to pieces. They say he needed jeeps of cash to maintain fleets of women. So he had to sell and cash in his political capital.
Malala the Mulembe from what we can glean of his visionary plays, gets the benefit of doubt for now. His mind doesn't seem to suffer much fog. But if he has a rampaging c.ock, keeping it serviced will definitely take its toll upstairs, just like in the above rumour about the former Mulembe super star from Budalang'i. (And of course some characters from Malala's own works of fiction!)
In the rule men don't betray ideals for very complex reasons. They are invariably corky.
2. FLASHES IN THE HORIZON
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YES! CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION!
Sometimes people don't know what they wish for. I do.
Wish to ask the right questions in the proposed popular referendum!
I heard it loud and clear. Nipende nisipende, the constitution will be changed. The god Raila wants it, the deity Ouru wants it, the sucker Peter Munya wants it. No one mortal can stop Reggae. It is the music and dance of the gods! No one can stop the looting at the heart of the Kenyan state. Impunity will, like Allah's will to Muslims, continue to reign supreme. Yeah, the political deities shove the middle finger up Wanjiku's.
This abuse and misuse is all the Raha and Ustawi coming our way --O poor lot!---- in the near future!
I offer a grin to myself. Just too good to be true. Elites can suffer delusions of almightiness. Rotten elites like these even more so.
I thus wanted to write about the motherland Kenya, especially now, that the usual suspects have descended on a clamour to CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION. Yes, once upon a time when Arap Moi was set to inherit Jomo Kenyatta's top seat, a similar clamour came up. Today, it is Rais Ouru and Raila Odinga who are at the head of the change the constitution group. The twin Handshake princes are ganged up against William the Lowly Hustler VP; and their BBI coterie of looter sycophants are in tow. What a coincidence! what a farce .... in the sense of histories that attempt to repeat themselves too transparently ...
But I found these melodramas of the Kenyan ruling class shallow. They are merely the shenanigans of an elite in decay, their rot picking pace all over the place and showing.
The stories of Mutahi Kagwe sending Emails and SMS's to the KEMSA directorate, to cancel this or that COVID PPE tender to award it instead to this or that Ouru or Raila courtier, is the same old story of post-colonial Africa: state capture by a kleptocracy or mobutocracy. Mutahi Kagwe is just another handmaid or usetool, a prototype cog just like the former Finance Minister, Henry Rotich. Neither is the situation much different in some far-away countries that pretend to be better. There, we hear of the 1%-ter oligarchy. This is when a banking and politically connected 1% own 99%; and the 99% rest own only 1% of the economy. That kind of social geography, added to escalating debt, reminded me of the inherent instability of a classic slave economy. ( a tinderbox waiting for that spark).
When it comes to slave economies, the black history of the Isle of Hispaniola (San Domingo now Haiti) tops them all. For it is here where one of the most ferocious acts to re-assert the dignity of man denied, unfolded without any romantic retreats.
No quarter was given, in the literal sense. So you may not have heard tell of it in the best schools and carriculum. :*
Howbeit before I set my mind to the god-fearing Kenyan elections of 2022 which to all practical purposes are primed to be a facade, I had to visit the temple of Makandal, there to ponder the options of the deep state. Unlike the market and its invisible hands of Adam Smith, the Deep State has very visible hands. When Team Kenya senators amassed enough influence to constitutionally derail the robbery of the periphery by the centre, the deep state promptly arrested them on trumped up charges.
But anyway, Makandal is not really a name many a Kenyan, even educated ones, would care to have heard about.
MAKANDAL.
The reasons are myriad. Good Christians must have no time for Makandal. He must be Damnatio Memorae'd, like the name Spartacus for a Millennia to Rome. (Kenya is a good Christian country. The first line in the national anthem references God. And it aint Allah I can assure you!)
But majorly it is this. Makandal was the spiritual Guru of the Haitian revolution, much as Ho Chi Minh was the spiritual Guru of the Vietnamese revolution. The One-Handed Makandal, a hobby-to-professional botanist, synthesised and nurtured a radical spiritual movement which would later be bad-pressed as VOODOO.
Today, voodoo is more likely to conjure up macabre fantasies of super virile, high-energy sexual debauchery punctuated by sinister all-black bloody rituals. An ancient cult of Satan. The comical James Bond, this time as Roger Moore in LIVE AND LET DIE, in a silly fantasy pandering to the residual anxieties of a globally receding Britain, did much to market the human sacrifice angle of the voodoo narrative, especially its alleged priced lust for the blood and body of an innocent, virgin blond female. (Sociologically speaking, the roaring 60's came with such a surge of white female lust for BBC, such that empire saw a need to warn the on-heat citizens: don't even flirt with it, you will be eaten to death in the aftermath. But that is a story for another day!)
And on the higher scale, students of politics will remember the senior Bush's putdown of Reagonomics.
During the Nixon and Ford Administrations, before Reagan's election, a combined supply and demand side policy was considered unconventional by the moderate wing of the Republican Party. While running against Reagan for the Presidential nomination in 1980, George H. W. Bush had derided Reaganomics as "voodoo economics".
The word voodoo provokes deep-seated anxieties, and, I am afraid, with reason.
Haiti (then alternatively Hispaniola or Santa Domingo) was the most profitable colony of its time. This was the magic treasure Island, a place where fortunes were multiplied quick time. And it necessarily had the most cruel slave regimes of all. It uncannily parallels Africa and the middle east today. (Super profits: Africa for its bounteous natural resources, the middle east for its limitless energy reserves; the peoples of those areas under the most barbaric of regimes current on earth, utterly downtrodden).
TINDERBOX
The thing about the voodoo of Macandal was its total dedication to the eradication of slavery. This meant any religion, prophet or ideology which in any way supported, alibised for, was but an apologetic for the slavery of black people in the Caribbean (or their exploitation anywhere else in the universe), became persona non-grata for the enslaved blacks who wanted liberation.
Voodoo was pure liberation theology for Makandal. The slave plotting rebellion and escape from slavery, could not share the spiritual construct of the slavemaster. Total spiritual autonomy, total spiritual irreconcilableness was the deal.
I am not aware of any religion in history which has ever completely and wholeheartedly taken the side of the slave against the master. This Makandalian tenet is the heart of the matter; this is the true insight to understanding the terror voodoo wreaks among establishment intellectuals of any era since. The Voodoo of Makandal takes no prisoners in a slave revolt. Dignity is not negotiable.
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Makandal maintained: 'No True God could desire the cruelty perpetrated on us (black slaves), in these slave farms. The Christian God under whom the Portuguese and the Spanish sail their slave ships and keep us in chains is thus a False God.' So too could the Christian God under whom the English and French traded and brutalised African Blacks in the slave plantations of the Americas, be no true God. This wholesome, Makandalian rejection of the Christian God and its Theology which defined Makandal (and his ilk) a labour tool of no soul, a theology which was propagandised by the Europeans as Civilisation, goes to the heart of the matter: the matter of the ostracisation of Voodooism, and the subsequent ruling-class campaign to conflagrate it with SATANISM; Occultic recidivism and other parahuman entreaties.
It is important to set ones thinking right.
Two of Europe's most radical thinkers on the issue of labour and capital in politics, would later review all religion thus: Marx: Religion is pure superstition and ....
2 (Lenin) Religion is the opium of the people.
Now, the potency of an OPIUM which intoxicates SLAVES with the desire to act, the drive to seize their future, to break their chains, to end their bondage, to KILL all their masters and change the order, REVOLUTION, can not be understated. Too, the total dedication of slaves to end their slavery and regain their freedom, in a total war of annihilation if necessary, Armageddon, is a superstition easily a revolutionary zeal.
Makandal was thus possessed of this revolutionary zeal. And this remains the potency of Voodoo. The potency which necessarily need must have it outlawed, or at least institutionally disenfranchised.
Within Voodoo is a strand which acts as the blast furnace keeping up a fearsome fire, the fire that burns in the heart of every slave: the dream of liberation. And then, Black Liberation. It has thus been banished to the outskirts of our civilisation which is based on exploitation. But it continues outside, in the underworld. (yeah, talking of Black Liberation USA style, you will never see any BLM activist give a voodoo salute!)
Now you know why! House Negroes will be house N-word!
And talking of the outskirts, so too did it occur to me, that the true essence of Kenya's independence and her second liberation continue outside the political bureaucracy currently looting the state and the people. The next president is obviously set to be recruited from this narrow criminal crop of Cartelists. At the frontline is William Ruto and Raila Odinga. Both are political pus seeking to recycle themselves in various rituals of purification. They are old dogs too set in their old ways to chart any new course further for the nation. They are the kind of politicians we best call morgue-men. They attend Africa as a carcass, they do nothing to revamp her, to rise her up. They are scavengers. The past rather than the future. They are the Dead, Living.
The next election will in probability be a rigged affair like the last. Everything in this order is thus a facade. Wafula Chebukati and his body are a facade; the BBI is a facade; ODM and Jubilee are a facade; The Big 5 agenda, the constitution, the separation of powers, Governor Sonko and General 'Saddam' Badi --they are all facades! the DCI and DPP .... the Churchliness or godliness of Willam Ruto, the second liberationism of Raila Odinga, Uhuru Kenyatta's Handshake and anti corruption harangues ... all facades!
And we know it!
Like so, in a nation of mpango wa kando's both ways, we know how fake our marital vows are at the altar on the wedding day with one and the only one love! So it is with all oaths in Kenya, even the high one for the presidency and fidelity to the constitution, is a most fake ritual. ---And so Big Brains Mwai Kibaki had the presence of mind, even as he was totally drunk, to, the Bible aloft in his hands, mock it: 'DULY ELECTED Huh!? You Ameru piece of sh!t hypocrite!' Kibaki chided the furtively officiating CJ Evans Gicheru famously after the Kivuitu fiasco of 2007 which ushered in the infamous PEV.
Few Kenyans even of tremendous intellect can match Kibaki's practical presence of mind even if the Othaya charlatan be dead drunk, or now, Alzheimer senile for all I know!
Okay, I wont match Kibaki's wit but I will give it a shot any day am sober!
Kenya has continued to be a house of cards. And State House the epicentre of Graft. Methinks so long as we can still stick to our roles paid for by ever increasing debt or China's largesse, we can keep up our sky-high appearances. But deep down we know we are on the edges of a precipice. That is why everybody at the top is yelling UNITY, SISI ZOTE PAMOJA KENYA!
WE feel the heat even if we don't know the source.
Well, you never know what disciples of Makandal are stoking fires below. Some are teaching all thieves must go, underground! Big and small, they all must dance in the air before they become still and bow out.
There is an appetite in the land for Zero-tolerance to corruption. The appetite could mutate to kind of lust associated with mobs. You never know really when it is exactly, that the last drop this is which turned a peaceful, god and law-abiding docile population like we are, into a fest of piranha-like hyper activity. But it sure happens in life, in real time.
Petty thieves, even for a chicken or single egg caught, are already being burnt in the land. Obado and family are very lucky I tell ya. Obviously the KEMSA thieves know very well what Kenyans want and would do to them, given a chance. A chance like at a referendum question: what do we do with these goons who loot the state and impoverish Wanjiku?
1. Burn, 2. behead or 3. hang?
As for forgive (the thieves) and forget (their crimes), I don't think that is no more an option for the Kenyan public. Even the Christian ones who pack the Church weekly and meekly, are the ones who are more likely to be the best burners --0like they did witches and heretics!)
Let the change the constitution referendum come. We know the question: Thieves: burn, behead or hang?
What answer lies in your heart --O fellow Kenyan!
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THE GOVERNORS ANNOUNCE AN ABDICATION EN MASSE
Oparanya the Incompetent chair of the CoG! He's at the end of his wits. He has lost his mind. He is like he who the gods wish to destroy. But the immediate question arises:
WHO WILL FILL THIS INVITING POWER VACUUM!?
You know some people ask for it. They really do. Here is a 100% moron The saying power hates a vacuum, isn't a fairy tale. Your theft-ridden governor will unilaterally dissolve a debt, corruption ridden county near you! (Prepare for recievership!) The date is set .... (in transparent ink!?)
Governors plan to shut down counties on September 17 over funds
By Fredrick Obura | September 3rd 2020
NAIROBI, KENYA: Counties will shut this month if the government fails to disburse money to the 47 devolved units by September 17.
In a statement, Wycliffe Oparanya Chairman, Council of Governors disclosed that the county governments have not received their equitable share of revenue three months into the current financial year 2020/21.
Oparanya says the delay in releasing the funds has had serious implications in the general operations of County Governments and payment of salaries to County staff
The governors will surrender power on September 17, but will pretend to be in office on September 18 onwards! eat their cake and have it all over again!
Welcome back! District Commissioners! This time in the form of Brigadiers and Majors the look-alike of that one Sonko dubbed 'Saddam' in Nairobi! ---thousands of county workers unpaid and facing a ruined future may need a hard-nosed security operation, incase ...
Every county will need Saddam on September 18 following the mass abdication of the governors. Never has the impotence of a political elite been so comically announced by themselves! Counties will shut down, in the middle of a corona pandemic lockdown!
It is infantile. It is the joyous shout of a toddler amused by its own toilet sounds. Oparanya has gone mentally, totally bankrupt. No, the governors should be talking about an emergency rescue plan.
Even countries go bankrupt but they don't dissolve themselves! It usually takes war to do that! not an announcement by thieving morons in office!
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DAVID MURATHE VS WILLIAM RUTO: THE BOTCHED KILIG KILLING
As the front holds, yet internal cracks widen.
"The corruption 'consultants', brokers and conmen, some bankrupt in 2013, are now billionaires after looting while scapegoating WsR. Their overgrown impunity is shamelessly making them steal even from the sick in a pandemic. The end is nigh. Nowhere to hide. No more scapegoating,"
Ruto tweeted yesterday.
Mr Murathe, a known broker for Chinese companies in Kenya, has denied being a part of the Kemsa deal.
William Willbroad Gachoka, a close childhood friend of Jubilee Party vice-chairman David Murathe registered Kilig Ltd on January 22 this year.
But when the heat became too much, its shareholding was conveniently changed and the company was handed to Ms Ivy Minyow Onyango, their lawyer. Mr Murathe said Ms Onyango works in William Gachoka's office.
But in a twist to the saga, Mr Murathe sensationally claimed that some partners of Deputy President William Ruto, who he declined to name, had acquired the company after it bagged the Kemsa tender, but were also unable to raise the money required to fund the Kemsa tender.
"The lady (Ms Onyango) works in William's (Gachoka's) office.
Then there is this:
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From left: Health CS Mutahi Kagwe, PS Susan Mochache and Suspended KEMSA Chief Executive Jonah Manjari. PHOTOS | COURTESY
Who ordered who to give which tender to which company!? (and by things going wrong, blame it all on The Hustler!)
These top bureaucrats have turned government --crisis or no crisis--- into a kindagarten where babys and childish games are the orders of the day! It is a point not lost to culture as I checked the going jokes around the land.
THE NATION CRIES INSIDE
It is a national horror of sorts, but it adequately captures the depths to which public service and official politics have sunk in Kenya. Two great thieves of the state are slugging it out in public. They have fallen out over tenders which they have been brokering for the Chinese in famous Wanjiku rip-offs. They are confessing their crimes but, subject to higher immunity, are untouchable both by the law, the offices and the custodians of the books of retribution. Their public outbursts are thus like inverse, reciprocal boasts of well-fed hyenas seeking mates. They are drunk with greed.
On one hand is Covid-Billionare and Chinese handmaid David Murathe. He is President Ouru's mouthpiece and former Jubilee party chair. On the other side is William Ruto, a new primitive accumulation godfather and a rapaciously corrupt political goon. His once prestigious position of DP which ranked as co-president is now a shell. His marauding Kalenjin entourage (tender)rustled the kraals of the Kenyatta fiefdom too much. Tenderpreneurship swords clanged in the shadows of government. Blood was drawn in the corridors of power. Very bad blood. The court of Kenyatta resolved to finish off the hard-eyed Kalenjin and his band of competitor rogues.
"We have come to appreciate, when you are the President you have an obligation to look around and to determine who the right person to come after you is. Because if you leave this country in wrong hands, future generations will always blame you," Murathe said.
He also gave the analogy of a family saying a father knows the right child to take charge of a family when he is away.
SEE ALSO: Governor under fire for backing Ruto's 2022 bid
"He knows the greedy child, the one who will sit on others, he knows who is the rational child... you have to have that responsibility as the head of state."
"We are not interested in those seats, but we care who will come after this President. So we have to sit, discuss and scheme...we don't know who will be President but we are working very hard to know who will not be President..." Murathe said.
Yes, if Ruto makes it to the ballot box, and the Kenyan people dare disobey the wishes of this MK clique and vote-in Ruto, then the deep state has to thwart that result. That is the same template how they thwarted Raila's ballot victory, several times.
How not to plot and scheme around the risks!?
Ruto does not seem to have the surrender mentality built in his psyche. This temperament can be very decisive. It can force opponents into a tragedy. The tragedy of murder, the resolution by actual physical elimination. There are precedents in Kenya. Tom Mboya, JM Kariuki, Robert Ouko. All presidential material deemed unstoppable.
Desperate things happen in politics. But I doubt the deep state has the stomach for this murder. It would be the catalyst for a tumultuous historical surge.
THE NO OTHER OPTION THEORY: WE ARE STUCK WITH THIEVES!
In 1001 Nights, famous tales of Arabia, the 5th Voyage of Sinbad The Sailor springs us the grin of the Old Man of The Sea. This nasty creature appeals to the good natures of Sinbad. He has the sailor carry him on his back to cross a shallow. Howbeit it he then proceeds to wrap his limbs so tightly around Sindbad that he begins to control him in every fashion. But the resourceful Sindbad comes up with a wile, gets the pest drunk and throws him off his back. Just to make sure of things, the sailor places the skull of the nasty pest on a rock, lifts another thick rock skywards and smashes the skull open.
Vo Nguyen Giap insisted to Fidel Castro with a cheeky smile, that it was Ho Chi Min's favourite tale to his hardened core of young commanders. Bear with me, we will eventually crush the skull of colonial France, Imperial USA, and sever their tentacles. ----He, my Sinbads!? (and Vo grinned at Castro the way Ho supposedly grinned at them in a cave deep in the jungles of Indochina as American and French jets roared overhead, saturating the growth with agent orange).
Anyway ...
On the face of it, it would seem Kenyans are resigned to a near future under the stewardship of Apes, Tapeworms, Ticks, Lice or some other suchlike lower form of predator. Those are the only choices on the table of futures. Of course nothing good will come of it, save the resolve toward a radical surgery. That is their prohibition or total removal from the body politic of the land, and naturally the state. It is not as if there is a shortage of upright competences in Kenya. (It is not for nothing Miguna Miguna is so obnoxious!). It is not that there are no Kenyan humanoids with abundant post-renaissance faculties, drives, modernist obsessions, cleanliness of hearts, minds and clarity of national purpose.
These exist and occasionally they rise to the top. But only to make a morbid point: the Kenyan political elite is beyond reform. Those who doubt this point must study the adventures of John Githong'o as the anti-corruption Czar. Our time to eat is a book about it. This was the fleeting moment of hope during the short-lived purpose of the Raila-Kibaki bromance of NARC. An interesting filler to this to absorb the fencing between the then Chair of the LSK, Okong'o Omogeni, and the then CJ ---I think--- John Evans Gicheru. The subject was the re-nomination of Justice Aaron Ringera (Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority).
Stool dances at the top have had their time. Even as the BBI troupe herald it as the salvation.
So, talking about the pandemic of graft that has riddled public offices in Kenya. Under the circumstances, what will the good guys do what Githong'o couldn't do?
Who is Twalib Mbarak? New EACC boss unpacked
Nairobi, January 14 2019
With his military intelligence and prowess, EACC CEO Twalib Mbarak has sworn to recover assets and end corruption.
With 34 years of experience in the military, is Mbarak the best-suited to take on the war on corruption in the next six years?
Right! Right under his much-hyped militarised nose, COVID billionaires sprang up, much like NYS 1&2 heists and the Eurobond under his predecessor.
No, it isn't hard-nosed, smart-moustached military men we need at the helm of EACC nor, for that matter, at the Metropolitan Nairobi management. There has never been a shortage of these prototypes running the unending war in Somalia. And that is the route which flooded us, remember, with all the confectionery sugar which, apart from being health hazards, killed off the remnants of the sugar industry in Western. Nor did they leave any tree standing in their drive to manufacture charcoal. Dealing with Al-Shabaab has tended to be an exclusive RECCE squad affair.
The rise of military men to civilian jobs is therefore but the development of a visibility. The power balance within the military-political complex, is now such that the soldiers feel confident enough to be highly visible. And that is everywhere in hitherto apparent civilian reserves. Their greed has overcome their restraint. And of course the stupidity of the political class ---putting the nation on a war-footing every election cycle and demanding the military enforce the riggings, has convinced the soldiers they couldn't possibly do worse.
It is in this background that Oparanya the idiot chair of CoG struck me as a blind escalation. Oparanya says September 17th will be the self-destruct day for the county governments, unless the senate is dissolved, sorry, Team Kenya is liquidated!
Okay, that is a power vacuum announced: what an opportunity for yesterdays pirates! What an opportunity for Young Turks! And other tomorrows' heroes!
But that is the long term.
Today, Brigadiers and Majors and even Leteli Kanalis, prepare to run the counties. The governors have announced their surrender, intent to abdicate officially. But Devolution was so brutally fought for. The 2010 constitution is so mutilated it is a caricature; yet another monstrous surgery is planned on it by the BBI gang. It is positively a Frankestein document in becoming. The only remaining residue of a flower of the second liberation is the county. Itself a ramshackle entity in terms of administration and performance. And this too is now up for retirement!
Damn!
Remember your history lessons: when the colonial exploitation of Africa, when the capitalist expropriation was equated to Civilisation and Christianisation, was any of your great grands, however illiterate, fooled?
No they weren't. They were merely overwhelmed by the KILL-POWER and high-tech cruelty of the Whiteman. But that the struggle was on, would be brutal, long and multifaceted, was obvious. The Africans would take a long time re-collecting their dispersed wits, but do they would, and ultimately embark on a series of sophisticated armed struggles. The names --FLN, MPLA, FRELIMO--- you might have heard of.
Why are our politicians such a school of failures, such a nest of rot, such a herd of grief, such an obsessive act of greedy debauchery?
But I am told the best question to be asked and answered, is What Is to Be Done?
But I really don't feel like being bothered with that question for more than a second. The question represents the implosion of intellect at the top, a vacuum within the intellectual wing of the looting, elite class. Lower down the food chain, theft, however mediocre and pathetic, is heavily punished. Cow, chicken and egg thieves when caught by the public, are routinely killed in one or other terrible ritual of lynching. You can check your locals daily for an update.
Obviously then, what to be done about thieves is common wisdom in Kenya: KILL THEM.
The rest are shenanigans.
The senate seatings on COVID billionaires is as such, an exercise in shenaniganism. And now we can go along the list of Mega Corruption which have rocked the GoK in the past decade. The way the authorities have handled them, have all been show cases of asking for it. Asking for a mowing down of rot at the top. This top is without a doubt highly skilled in smokescreens and shenaniganism, but they are necessarily deluded in their infallability, eternity and immunity.
They therefore propose with very hard eyes, that the 2022 Elections are just another formality. The looting continues unabated, things stay the same. The Kenyan voter will endorse and live with the looting and rigging.
It is a dangerous gamble. The charms of the tribal chieftains --Uhuru, Raila and Ruto, may, come 2022, no longer be that spell binding. And that is not because the ethnic narrative will no longer be effective, nay, on the contrary, it is because devolution has produced a local own monster that the rebellion will be local.
NB: There is such a local monster in Migori called O'rain O-Bird-O! They love Raila in Migori, but there is a flood of tic-toc videos in Luoland on the issue: just like ODM laundered Waiguru in Kirinyaga, Covid Billionaires and other corrupt ODM governors, Migori demands equal treatment otherwise it is victimisation! Suddenly the impeachment is no longer so straightforward.
AS THE FRONT HOLDS, YET CRACKS EMERGE
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ON THE SENSITIVITIES OF ELEPHANT MOMS AND THEIR SONS
It so happens in history, that not all men who rose to the top of power, always had mothers of spotless honor.
Many a bastard, or a son of a whore, have become King. By hook or crook, by wile or guile.
All that created a major psychological problem.
Few societies have flattering jokes about women of certain morals; all societies have formalized hypocrisy to assuage the brittle egos of their bloody royalties. This official, formalized hypocrisy is again a fertile ground for even more unflattering jokes –--in secret. For in history, Elephant Sons have protected the imagined dignity of their Elephant Mothers with punishments where death is considered lucky.
By the time we reach 2020, counted since the demise of our lord, and, in Kenya, we publicly engage in a mock convulsion of shock, on the occasion of an Elephant mother undressed in public, excoriated by the rogue tongues of the Rift Valley, in turn decrying the disrespect visited upon their Hustler Hero, once the co-president, one dare say history has repeated itself so much such that it is just all entertainment value, folklore.
President Uhuru Kenyatta responds to Oscar Sudi and Johanna Ngeno. "Tell those fools of yours to go and insult their mothers and leave my mother alone." He was speaking in Kiambu town today.
End of story. Or ... (arrests for a non-existent crime!?) :*
But it has not always been this simple in history.
I have several insane examples in the long history of power enforcing non-existent respect. Ivan the Terrible, the terrible Czar of Russia, could be very artistic in such endeavors of cruelty. There are folk poems about Shaka Zulu, much ridiculed for a fixed Mother complex, telling of the bastard crown prince slowly driving heated assegais up the rear quarters of men who at one time laughed out his mother loudly. But again, heated assegais up hind quarters could be thinly veiled codes for man-to-man naked combat.
An Arab joke goes about the mother of a now deceased great Arab dictator. She must have taken her love for dogs too far, becoming one to produce such a dog! Every time the people looked at any stray female dog, they grinned conspiratorially: O Mother of the Great One! How are you today! And, in private, every time they saluted the ubiquitous portrait of the strongman, they remarked: O great son of a B!tch, there you are! Very soon the intelligence services heard, and the word B!Tch became a summary death sentence.
In the neighboring Arab country, also under a brutal dictator, the first lady was colloquially known as the first B1tch or B1. Very soon, looking at a dog, any dog, became a hazardous activity in the Arab lands, all of them apparently under the great sons of …. you know.
(The jovial question why do we Arabs hate dogs has a sting in the tail: just look around who is in power all over Arabia! One looses his love for dogs, no!?) A people do understand their realities, perfectly. It would take a scholar at least 5 years of paid PhD study to reach exactly that conclusion, which is market-place chit-chat.
Idi Amin Dada could tell endless jokes about women, but woe be upon you if you followed his example and one of your jokes jarred him. He was very sensitive about the reputation of his mother. Then there is Henry the 8th of England. The jokes about his mother are in tune with the Egyptian jokes about the mother of Nasser. They were such big babies the thighs of their mothers forgot to close after the deliveries. And that is the way their mothers stayed for the remainder of their lives. Flat on their backs and open thighed for all! Only in death were the thighs of these Elephant Mother's forced to unite once more.
Caught bad-mouthing the mother of Henry, there were instruments in the tower which would disembowel you from the rear end, as if you were to be mummified. Nasser would just deposit you to the Egyptian Bastille.
THE SCORPION
“It was designed so that those who go in don’t come out again unless dead. It was designed for political prisoners.”
—Ibrahim Abd al-Ghaffar, former warden, during a television interview in 2012
Built amid one of the country’s most violent internal conflicts, Scorpion has for most of its history been used to hold those viewed as Egypt’s most dangerous prisoners, including alleged members of al-Gama`a al-Islamiyya (the Islamic Group) and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, both of which participated in a widespread extremist insurgency in the 1980s and 1990s. Among Scorpion’s prisoners were those accused of taking part in the assassinations of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 and speaker of parliament Rifaat al-Mahgoub in 1990.
Morsi and co, the batch that is the crop of the first, by public suffrage, elected presidency in Egypt's history, would meet their designed deaths here. This Egyptian Bastille called the Scorpion these days, uncannily echoes the special punishment the female pharao, Hatshepshut, bestowed upon those who ridiculed her alleged love affair with the architect Senenmut. He was her construction chief of staff. (18th dynasty @1479–1458 BC)
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The TEKHENU (obelisko) commissioned by the pharaoh Senusret I, 1971 to 1926 BC
NB: This Senenmut improved the above design (of obelisks) and constructed the then tallest structure in the world at the tomb in Karnak.
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When it is good, it stays good. Senusret told his chief architect in 1960 BC. The architect didn't want to annoy the King, but he questioned the ….. Wisdom of such a risky skyscraper. The King is said to have replied: it is a symbol of my co.ck, mate. The King's must be thought of as Kingly. Take the risk. This imagery would become a ruling class epidemic. Even soft old co.cks would represent themselves with pompous and boisterous skyscraping rocks. Even if stolen.
Here it is reproduced by Effel in Paris, 1887 AD! Other material for more height.
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Washington DC
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St Peter's Square, Vatican City, Rome.
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Luxor Obelisk, Paris, Plaza de la Concord.
Here below, the variation at AKSUM ETHIOPIA
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So, we know there were days Rulers were gods, and their kith and kin, divine, thus beyond common law. They had absolute power, and, like the crown prince of a famous Arab land today, could cut an annoyance to bits by bone- or chainsaw, have him fed to the dogs and get away with it. Those were the days which had to come to an end with much blood flowing in the capital cities.
In Kenya, after the presidency of Mwai Kibaki with his two public wives of which only one must be called first lady in public, any president who wants to erect in public, the unquestionable honor of the women closest to him, has found the wrong country to head.
First, the presidency of Kenya today is a co-regency gone wrong. And worse, there is a de facto alternative president without portfolio, the people's Agwambo. When a political elite reduces the highest, may be the holiest office in the land to such a tripatriate mockery, the intensity of the hypocrisy which will infuse our public professions of respect can only be qualified as sinister.
We know the politicians in the land are a dead-end for this country. The way they steal is national economic suicide in slow-motion. The way they abuse power, rig elections is beyond sane endurance. But we call them Honorable, His Excellency, Mheshimiwa and all that crap you know so well, the same crap we hear over the radio and TV daily as they are interviewed by a linguistically corrupt, or inept, owned journalism.
This total dissociation from the truth, is what convinces me our sycophantic, slavish terminology is sinister.
It is double speak; they are the words of forked tongues from decided hearts. There are no more Kenyans who think corruption is good for Kenya. No Kenyan who thinks the rule of thieves is good. We recognize instinctively it is an ancien regime, sinking slow motion. And it is this sinister background that Emurua Dikirr MP, Johana Ng'eno, and Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi spoke without forked tongue. But what did they really say, that has put them on the spot, that has ostracized them and earned them the wholesale condemnation of their peers of the political class?
PART 2
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2. MATIANG'I ORDERED TO LAY SIEGE AT SUDI'S HOME
Sudi had actually dared Uhuru Kenyatta to come and arrest him at his home in Kapsaret if he wants. (02:40 )
It has become a farcical narrative. That the two outspoken gentlemen insulted the Elephant Mother! Ngina. I wanted to hear Sudi myself. And I can't hear the purpoted insult. The reference to Mama Ngina is equivocative. Sudi had heard Ng'eno had been arrested for disrespecting Uhuru's mother. --Now, nobody's mother is more special than anybody's mother, seems to be his point. The Kenyan constitution doesn't allow that apartheid thing: of some mothers are more equal than others.
Sudi: 'don't think your mother has more boobs than my mother. And if you think your father, to produce you and Muhoho, spermed her more or otherwise than my father did my mother, we want to inform you we too have parents worthy of respect ----and Kenya is not your private fiefdom. It belongs to 50 Million of us, Kenyans.
It is the president himself he is reading the riot order, and it is about H.E's miserable and deplorable treatment of his former partner, Ruto. It has brought bitterness.
It is a pretty straightforward impromptu speech by a man who admits 'wako na uchungu sana ndani, because of the way William Ruto has been mistreated ---ni kama mtu hafai. He has been reduced to a squarter in a government he fought for and formed ....''
A lot of commentators and politicians would have us believe this is hate speech, or borders on it, or disrespects the 2nd Mrs. Jomo.
That is utter nonsense. But a necessary part in the propaganda war, where the trade is in falsehoods. Telling Uhuru Kenyatta to go home and stop bullying Ruto seems to this mercenary commentariat, a bigger crime than the names of the companies of looters Oscar Sudi revealed the previous day.
Uhuru Kenyatta is in reality the puppet head of an economically gangster regime. Behind him, an obsessive pillage goes on. A cartel of corruption is milking the land dry, in :* fashion.
If you remember the antics of your Lord Dalamere's.
Kenya was their playground, by virtue of high birth. That time, it was a racial hierarchy. Today, it is a plutocratic hierarchy, with a distinctly coalescing financial aristocracy. It is a parasitic entreprise all through. And just like at its peak the Whiteman's Mischief in Kenya was but a display of a social pathology before a political demise, the impunity and financial outrages committed by our contemporary plutocracy is their death-knell sounding. And them rocking to it.
HOW POWERFUL ARE QUISLINGS IN REALITY?
If one knows not the big picture, the global chess game of power, local quislings may loom large, assume the limitless prowess of gods of immortality. These are licensed by the heavens to indulge their dark sides at leisure on Planet Earth, country Kenya.
But no way, it aint like that at all. The perennial economic underperformance of Kenya demystifies the gods, pulls the rag from under their act, reduces them to litter ripe for that famous ash-heap.
People like Jubilee Troubleshooter David Murathe are just cartel errand- and playboys. Sandwiched between the Breton Woods framework on one hand, that is IMF&World Bank running Patrick Njoroge at the Central Bank and, on the other side, The Exim Bank of China financing everything (even the salary of county toilet clerks in Peter Kenneth's Murang'a), it is a search for the captain to navigate the crushing rocks of Gyrae, Argo style. Howbeit, it is a search for that needle in that gianT haystack, to find a Kenyan in high office setting out any policy for Kenyans tomorrow. Nay, yhe whole pack pretending the levers are escorts and mascots paid handsomely to facilitate national ruin. Thus economically ruined, the population broken, but branded with Hoduma numbers the way concentration camp inmates were in NAZI Germany, national resources and dignity can then be auctioned in the name of DEBT repay.
That is the historical purpose of these people in power.
One has to follow the money to the last cent. We are informed due to projections on Covid fatalities, Kenyan became high, went beserk on daily loans. Ukur Yattani and Patrick Njoroge went haywire on a debt binge.
The government borrowed over Sh430 billion between February 1 and June 30 this year, a report tabled in the National Assembly shows.
The, according the National Treasury, will be used to finance various development projects.
29 LOANS
The report tabled by Leader of Majority Aden Duale on Wednesday shows the amount will come from the 29 loans signed between the government and bilateral, multilateral and commercial creditors.
The document notes that some Sh156 billion worth of the loans from commercial creditors- PTA Bank and a consortium of lenders comprising the Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Bank, CITI Bank and Rand Merchant bank-has already been disbursed.
Gotcha! That was in 2017 when Duale and Murkomen still held sway!
Kenya borrowed Sh430bn in four months - report
September 2017 DN
Those were the days Aden Duale was mentally offside, and degenerate enough to declare the Defence and Security Budget should be outside the audit responsibilities of the Auditor General, that time a certain hawk-eyed Eduard Ouko. Let us see the brass core turn around the Kenya Meat Commission, like they did the ammo factory at Eldoret! Uhuru does not seem as much a lame duck as a tame lamb on their lap.
And here is the one I was thinking of, THIS SEPTEMBER. It is the insert Ukur Yattani as his weight in gold for Covid Billionaires
Covid-19: How Kenya took Sh4.5bn loan every day
Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Health ministry experts projected millions of corona infections.
Kenya went all out to secure a financial war chest.
The country is now emerging on the other end of the coronavirus crisis, counting the cost of the pandemic with a mountain of debt and millions of job losses.
Kenya borrowed Sh4.5 billion every 24 hours in the first three months of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a debt accumulation spree rarely witnessed in any East African country.
Backed by modelling simulations by Health ministry experts, who projected millions of corona infections, Kenya went all out to secure a financial war chest.
secure a war ches yeah ..
except it has been a war against the public and common man. The war chest was to generate COVID BILLIONAIRES. And in part finance the next rigging come 2022.
This means the Uhuru Presidency is the best thing ever to happen to state-connected conmen, the so-called tenderpreneurs; it is also a tremendous windfall to embedded bureaucratic looters and political brokers like Murathe, Atwoli and you know who else: ---Oscar Sudi of course mentioned the companies and the names of the COVID beneficiaries/parasites.
Howbeit all you know is Oscar made unsavoury remarks about what kind of stuffs are covered by the inner wear of the Elephant Mother!?
The Swahili and English parts of the clips I have repeatedly listened to, reveal no such insights into out-of-sight anatomical quarters of high-stationed mothers. The beef looks much more the beans he spilt on who is who in the COVID looting.
But the police, hinting at how much Fred Matiang'i is a priced if stupid muscle man of the cartels that run state house, did this Drama ensued on Friday night when a contingent of police made an attempt to Kapseret MP Oscar Sudi. The officers were led by Uasin Gishu police boss Johnstone Ipara.
The security agents arrived at Mr Sudi's home at around 8:30pm and camped outside his home until 7.10am on Saturday. The whereabouts of the MP remains unknown.
The locals barricaded the road leading to the lawmaker's home off the Eldoret-Kapsabet road with logs, tractors and boulders at several points.
Police managed to clear the road at around 3:30am.
No one has claimed the names and documents Sudi furnished to equivocate the COVID thieves are fake. Therefore it is clear the cartel, disturbed, wants to know how much more info Sudi has in his house. Possibly too, chance upon the source.
Uasin Gishu Woman Representative Gladys Shollei, who is also the MP's lawyer, told the Nation that the police managed to do a night search inside Mr Sudi's house. The MP was not there.
Leaders condemned the police for forcing their way into Mr Sudi's home at night without giving a valid reason.
Valid reason: they want to know how much insider dirt Oscar Sudi has on them.
Insulting the Elephant Mother is a good tabloid story, but the condition of the ancient boobs of his excellency's momma is neither the first nor anywhere near the top-ten priorities of the battles the quisling class are up to.
In one day, all top three reduced the Corona protocols to what Magafuli said they were at the beginning. Unrealistic. They held mammoth rallies. Old school close-packed. No social distancing.
We know thus how tense it is at the top. And it is set to escalate.
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THE TEARS OF MALALA
That is the Kakamega senator. Earlier on, he was much more famous as the witty writer of award winning plays like the SHACKLES OF DOOM. A few weeks ago, he was a most prominent member of Team Kenya. TK was the group of young senators who, citing conscience and thus a higher moral awareness, wouldn't snatch ugali from the mouths of starving Turkana's (and other such historically maligned Kenyans), only to come add it to their own populous locals. The dynasties that divide and rule Kenya wanted to bribe the voter-rich areas, and that at the expense of more deserving, left-behind, arid and sparsely populated counties. The historical marginalisation of such communities would be enshrined once again in the new constitution, courtesy of the new revenue sharing bill, concocted by narrow aristocratic interests. Team Kenya dragged their feet. The caucus of governors threatened to shut down counties. Uhuru and his Handshake clowns panicked. Tension skyrocketed.
Skeletons fell out of cupboards.
Senator Malala seems to have had a major one in his cupboard. First, the intimidation by arrests conducted by choice goons aligned to the state muscleman, Capo Matiang'i, failed to achieve the desired effect. There was no breakthrough in the senate. The timid trio of nominated senators who were to vote in the place of the (temporarily police kidnapped) rebel senators, were proven out of their depths. Then Big Boy and Heavy Puncher Raila Odinga entered the fray. Raila Odinga has always been the peoples president, winning elections but never achieving power. In his old age he has decided to abandon the people and put all his eggs in the baskets of the system, and deep state. He attacked Malala from behind, in Malala's own Kakamega turf. He accused the first-time senator of having faked his arrest to achieve cheap publicity and sympathy, but only to deflect from his true motives which had nothing to do with a higher moral ground he purported to assume.
Raila left the implication hanging, but as an experienced soldier, he knew once a beast is wounded, there are enough bloodhounds in the jungle that shall hunt as a pack. And in deed, no sooner had he spoken than Rashid Echesa hit the blood trail. Senator Malala was cornered, and his nerves broke.
Let no one cheat you. In real life, and more so in dread combat, steely nerves will ride. There is no room for cowardice at the frontline where the ambitions of men and vanities of women run amok. Cowards must never covet the limelight. For they will flinch, even at a mock thrust. Thus becoming ridiculous and laughing stock.
Nerves are top important. One needs them cold in the ruthless games of power. A high pain threshold is also mandatory in the brutal world of politics, where sure swords will be that cut deep, occasionally fatally. This is why I laughed at Dr. Ekuru Eukot with his PUNDA IMECHOKA effort. It was a brilliant narrative, true and popular, but the man fronting it had not what it takes to see it through. It needed a tenacious and cold-blooded frontman. It needed a gladiator's mindset, entering the arena with the knowledge, it is a do or die; and even a do can still be a die, having suffered a mortal wound in the win. Ekuru wanted to liberate donkeys without considering how ferocious the owners of such donkeys would counter react, since they loved it to death, that their burdens are borne so patiently by docile beasts locked in their fate, forever. Earlier on I had watched Dr, Ekuru announce himself the official leader of the opposition, yet nobody could remember anything bad power did he ever opposed. That meant his declaration was Bullsh!t, a publicity stunt.
Presidential Candidate Dr Ekuru Aukot Declares Himself the Official Opposition Leader
Tue, 10/31/2017
Thirdway Alliance presidential contender Dr. Ekuru Aukot has declared himself the official opposition leader following the announcement of President Uhuru as the winner of the October 26th repeat presidential election.
In a statement on his Twitter account on Monday evening, Dr Aukot, who trailed both President Uhuru and National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga in the race for state house, vowed to put the government on its toes.
"Today we take our role as the official opposition and to President @UKenyatta congratulations, we shall put your government into check," tweeted Aukot.
That 26th October 2017 repeat election was massively boycotted. It would set the stage for the famous KALONGOLONGO swearing in at Uhuru Park on January 30th the next year.
Aukot's intellect, or even political instincts, had not helped him decipher the situation and historical moment correctly. And no, he didn't dare be at Uhuru Park at the swearing in of the peoples president. ---Nerves you know, nerves! They do fail a man at a decisive moment. (the way a power failure resulting in a soft c.ock, too can!)
Howbeit now the good Doc seems to have hit the real skids. Too much appetite for the skirts. He has lost his own party and his facing acrimonious fall outs.
Dr Ekuru Aukot expelled from his own party
By Judah Ben-Hur | September 9th 2020
The man who was known as the face of Thirdway Alliance has been expelled from his party after long-standing contentious friction according to the party's National Executive Committee (NEC).
The final nail has been hammered into Dr. Ekuru Aukot's political coffin in the Party after what the NEC termed as lack of civility, moral and social integrity, wanton defiance of court orders and financial impropriety.
Eh! FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETY! that graveyard of many brilliant minds!
More about that challenge later.
But first, back to Malala's nerves.
Himself a disdraced youth, Rachid Echesa swore Malala had had his house built by handouts from William Ruto. This was when the dramatist was still MCA but was planning for higher things. Now, a handout is not a loan. Handouts are what slayqueens live on. Slayquen is of course a Kenyan euphemism for a high-end prostitute, keeping up appearances of prosperity on Chinese loans. :* Rashid Echesa's revelation was a primed dagger to the heart of the hitherto rising star of the Mulembe, Kakamega Cleopas Malala. It now became clear what Raila Odinga had been hinting at with cheek. Malala's much ado about arrests had been to distract from the fact that he was a Ruto errand boy, a hired and owned sleeper!
Senator Malala was gunned out of his wits and cracked. He wept the tears of shame at the senate. Indirectly. What would his murder achieve, even to his deadliest opponents?
Cleopas Malala is young. And it is a good school to suffer some blows when young. If it heals well, it becomes a scar that reminds of the follies of youth, no longer to be repeated. Malala's mind is clear, but his thinking is ideologically muddied. #He wants a great house and accepts handouts from one of the most corrupt politicians in the land; thereafter he wants to stand up for the common man nationwide, for social justice. That is a suicidal balancing act. He will be cut down even before he completes one dance. He has to make up his mind ideologically. ----You know Bildad Kaggia was here.
And he is on the record. By word and deed, and consequences.
'Jomo (Kenyatta), you know the difference between you and I is that you are a thief. I am not. And I have no desires to enjoy the proceeds of theft. Thank you! A government of justice would put you to prison, not I to detention!''
I call it the Bildad Kaggia challenge.
NB: These days challenges are all the rage on YouTube. They (dancing challenges) were started by innovative African musicians out to popularise their genres. And in this respect, African creativity has in deed turned boundless. One of the most viral was the ROSALINA CHALLENGE, by BM feat Awillo Longomba.
The latest is the J ERUSALEMA challenge by Master Kg from South Africa.
This contemporary popular sense is the context in which I reference this challenge in kenyan history which I call the Bildad Kaggia.
Who is it in politics who has the riveted, raw gut integration of character which Bildad Kaggia put so simply. ---I am not a thief, neither do I harbour the desire to enjoy the proceeds of theft in any fashion!
Anybody in politics who is game on Kaggia?
Consider this: what is the human problem of being a pimp!? Which makes it such a despicable profession! And what is the hazard in handling in stolen property, which makes it a universal criminal offence?
Bildad Kaggia revisited ----- that will be the day when Cleopas Malala will put his mind to this moral parable, in a mind-boggling play called the Kaggia Challenge.
Yeah, If you knowingly or unknowingly accept money from the Thief in Chief, how compromised are you as a handler in stolen property? How safe are you as a man of the cloak to be trusted with the flock, in the same event?
Catholic Church denies Pope ordered for return of Ruto's gift
By Nation Team March 4th, 2019
The Catholic Church Sunday waded into the war of words between Deputy President William Ruto and ODM leader Raila Odinga in regard to a gift to its new Archbishop of Kisumu Philip Anyolo.
John Cardinal Njue, Sunday said he was not aware of Mr Odinga's claims over the Pope's directive to the Church.
These questions are important, and more so for the minds of those who deal at depth with culture: the literati. Those like Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Francis Imbuga, Okot P'Bitek, Binyavanga Wainaina and yes, O yes, Cleopa Malala of the famous Shackles of Doom!
No, Cleopa Malala's political mind had not yet come to terms with this quagmire. It was therefore Rashid Echesa''s ambush which woke him to the dilemma, that for all his moral aptitude, he can be publicly dismissed as little less than Ruto's private usetool. Essentially laughed at as a co-Mulembe competitor in concubinage with the now diminished Ababu Namwamba and Bonny Khalwale at The Hustler's harem!
That is a hurting place to be. His reconciliation with Musalia MDVD must be considered the begin of a healing process. One hopes he learnt a lesson in reality as opposed to art. Art is fictionalised, reality never.
NEXT ESSAY: OSCAR SUDI AS A MARTYR, RAILA JUNION RISES TO THE CHALLENGE!
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JUBILEE'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, BLEEDING
I love stories about Trojan Horses. And outgoing CJ David Maraga recently opened just such a trap-door. Thereout sprung Nelson Havi of the LSK. The young attorney went around pontificating like some oracle of Delphi, out to rival the constitutional prowess of the old oak of Dodona, Solomon James Orengo.
Ajimmy this time appears to have hung his mental boots and gloves. He is a no-show in the thick of things constitutional.
The citadel of corruption, the parliament of Kenya, and the adjunct nest of corruption, the seat of the presidency of Kenya, find themselves invaded by a stealthy foe which, like a sudden and lethal pandemic, threatens wide (career) deaths. It also imposes a siege mentality, or lockdown. Parliament is illegal. It is unconstitutional, illegitimate and fraudulently earning. The fat perks of the Mpigs is one huge swindle. They can not transact binding business!
This proposed arrest is the death thrust which must be nursed somehow; this to allow a mortally wounded Uhuru to stagger to the finish.
But more about the last kicks of dying horses later. (Those dying kicks could be anything of the Jubilee regime, or the BBI, or Maraga's tenure as CJ, or Ruto's vice or co-presidency; and the dynastic fantasies of eternal social dominance codified in the handshake fronted by the princely scions, Odinga and Kenyatta)
RUTH BADER GINSBURG
The Federal Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, famous in her country with her initials RBG like JFK is, died one of these weekends ago. What has made her legendary within the cycles of jurisprudence in that country, the USA, is the intellect and interpretative rigour she brought to the lethal (if not controversial) questions that came before her desk. She needed not be right every time, but one would have to be in ones best law-school reads to pull one on her.
That she could be counted a combatant on the progressive wing of the otherwise conservative Court, was always a historical plus for the respective people of her country.
However, in Germany, members of the public and the learned fraternity would just shrug. Judge RBG simply did what she was trained and hired to do, expectably and consistently to the best of her abilities work-life long. This degree of professional competence, is what every German is expected to do at work. Whether they are toilet cleaners at railway stations or plastic scavengers at nudist camps, the ethos is the pay is for work executed well. This means there is nothing spectacular in doing your job excellently. Consistent excellence is the general rule rather than the exception. You imbibe that with mum's milk (the way we do with our ethnic prejudices!)
If one does not import this (German oddity?), it will be impossible for one to understand how a country can be destroyed twice over in one generation, completely by war, yet again achieve the economic top in no time. The Wirtschaftwunder (or ECONOMIC MIRACLE) is simply everybody performing top gear in their professions. If it is to shape rocks, they shape the best rocks;
if its to build trains, they do them best (SIEMENS),
if it is to run, they rail them best (Deutsche Bahn);
if it is to cook githeri and fry fish, they rank best;
if it is to kill people, they beat the records (extermination camps for untermenschen);
if it is cars, the engineering skills-set is a road roar. —---and if it is to renovate a dead colonial era railway known as the lunatic express, across the Rift Valley to a hyacinth swamped, once great Lake Port of a defunct EAC, well, wouldn't the effort beat a brand new Chinese-built SGR from Joho to Sonko!?
Why revamped Nakuru-Kisumu rail line is more than nostalgia
Monday, August 24, 2020
However, the hope for the revival of these industries or at least three quarters of them lies in the rehabilitation of the railway line between Nakuru and Kisumu at the cost of Sh3.7 billion. And this is nigh. Already, the Kenya Defence Forces, KDF has initiated rehabilitation of the railways, with National Youth Service personnel being behind the clearing of bushes along the 217 kilometre line and other manual jobs. Revamp of the 100-year-old metre gauge that collapsed 25 years ago gives hope to farmers, businessmen, manufactures and travellers that the cost of transport will finally be manageable. Most have been using lorry to transport goods.
Better late than never.
China, however benevolent and condescending a nanny, can't fund everything for Africans, up to pit latrines in their bushy backyards!
It is therefore great to see us shaving our own pubic hair and hunting the itchy lice down, to snuff out between our dirty nails, economically speaking.
However, in Germany, it is not like when you get 9/10 in Math your teacher will shout Hurrah, EXCELLENT!
What for?
It is when you get 6.5/10 that you will be told MORON, find something you better do! But where I come from, unfortunately as you can insinuate, getting a 5.5 after repeating a Math's paper would be an all-night dancing celebration.
Talk about culture shocks!
Talk about the diversity of human experience! (the world is on to bullet trains, TGV's, magetic flux trains, smart phones, Mpesa apps and e-SIMS! but here I am with my museum piece, riding high in pride!)
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All these things have been passing through my mind the past few days.
RAILA JUNION RISES TO THE s'SUDI CHALLENGE
First, a Judge detained (without trial) Kapseret Mpig Oscar Sudi for hate speech. The charge sheet included incitement and disrespect visited upon the body of Mama Ngina. Ngina is defined here as the Holy Mother of Jesus.
To give birth to H.E Uhuru, the scriptures allege, her knower was none other than the Angel Whoever It Was. Yet Sudi with his rough tongue had declared the elixir-grade milk which came out of Holy Ngina's udders, and which belched the twin immortals Uhuru and Muhoho, was no more qualitative than that Kalenjin Sour which suckled and fattened him, to the Rotund Sudi we know. That his Nandi Momma had peasant teats is no qualification to be looked down upon by the dynasts. And this Hustler point has to be made, even at the price of wrath from the sons of Heaven who, yes they imagine they do, have divine mandate to rule Kenya with impunity.
OSCAR SUDI AS A MARTYR FOR THE FREE TONGUE
Sudi hit a raw nerve.
''How dare he!?'' –--Segments of the split-tongued political class went berserk with make-believe disgust! Mercenary Judges were quickly found to compound the effects. These are the kinds who jailed Unionized Doctors, KPMDU leaders, and later reversed and reversed themselves on many of their rulings. They come a dozen a dime in the corridors of Justice in Kenya. They are a conveyor belt series from our law schools. Few are defect enough to showcase intellectual depth and constutional churn like our late RBG of the US Federal Court.
There is no jurisprudence our Nairobi mates wrote worthy of quote. Let alone study, other than for the purposes of going gaga on blatant stupidity, excessively paid for by the tax-payer.
If Kenyan structural engineers and builders construct multi-storey buildings which are wont to burry the tenants alive, Kenyan judges too pronounce rulings which are more ramshackle than the houses of torn cards or cardboards! And this they all do –--cry for Wanjiku, for FULL PAY!
STRUCTURAL RAW DEALING
That raw deal is actually my problem. I don't mind David Maraga, Hellen Wasilwa, Dulo Korir or whoever, being a total moron in public if that is what tics them up. But I mind deeply that they draw heavy salaries from Wanjeku while rendering below par service in exchange.
That is not nice.
That is a hard-nosed fraud beyond my endurance.
I am old-fashioned.
I hold everybody should do well the job they are paid to do. Street sweepers should sweep the streets well;
tailors of police uniforms should do them smartly –--they should make effort to accentuate the curvy forms of or naturally well-crafted womenfolk;
the KDF should kill Al-Shabaab and not let themselves be the ones wiped out like at El-Adde;
yeah, anybody doing any job should do it at 6.5/10 on the average.
That should be good enough.
After all, we are not Germans to start frowning at 8 as a fail. (We are not conceited and deluded enough to profess we are the Herrenvolk) No, if we can't even keep plastic litter from loitering the winds at our PSV parks, it would be a sensational feat in self mockery to claim superiority even over NAZI's! (A sheeps lot if humans can ever be so described).
When I chance upon a public toilet in the slums of Nairobi and sheet greets me at the non-existent door, I tend to suffer some seizures which cloud my mind with very dark thoughts. From the local MCA to the President of the country, I fume, the concentration camp and cremate, live. —----Shower the land, with the dust of the spoilers!
Let the people cough, the thieves turned to dust
Let the eyes turn teary, with the dust of bandits!
Mourn not O Child for the thieves literally converted to dust!
Once the chimneys of Africa proudly spew the smoke of justice visited upon structural thieves who, looting the land and people dry, pirated power to their private whims, then, me churns, will public service in Africa rise to a 5.5/10 deliverance mark.
And that would be an astronomical increment from the no service now. —-No?
The Sudi case, soon after the similar Ng'eno case, should have precipitated a soul-searching, jurisprudentially speaking, on the freedoms of expression in Kenya, in so far as they should be subjected to some elementary controls, if any.
Sometimes this censorhip model is called moderation.
But instead, this cardinal issue was a no-go area. The voices heard all tended to indict Sudi. It was therefore a burst of fresh air through the stale party discipline, when Raila Junior Odinga came up to defend the right to free speech, and, in the process, lambast the ossified party of his father for its loss of mission, purpose, sense and popular touch.
Howebeit in the silence to defend Sudi's right of free speech (and immunity from persecution by the entrenched Kenyatta clique) was particularly deafening from the Luo front. This front boasts some very lethal legal minds when unleashed for this or other popular purpose. There you count him, the sage Orengo Jims, peer of Solomon the wise on matters constitution;
there you count him, Kaluma Opondo, eloquent to the heavens in matters civil law;
there you stand in awe at him, Kabudha Otiende Amollo, first among his peers and the very writer of the constitution;
there blessed in his prescence you baske, Prof. PLO Lumumba, the god's own messenger, orator and spokesman;
there you smile at their mother's prides, the two Kajwang's at law with stupendous intellect;
That is just to mention a few patriot missiles when cocked at might, ready to defend Wanjiku's airspace. But they all went on strike, like our health personel ar wont to do of late over pay.
The formidable Luo legal strike force all abandoned Oscar Sudi.
This day was their off day, or perhaps their minds jammed, like great Ferrari Engines fuelled with laced oil from the hands of some saboteur. Yes, something had to give, technically speaking. Howbeit it was the reject from the royal family, Raila Junior with his funny looks, anatomically offside mouth, who shouted LOOK: our best and brightest have suffered a mental stroke! They are tongue-tied and dumb and blind! None bothers to defend Oscar Sudi's rights; and that is a historical sin!
Wololo Mama Yoo! He was compelled to piga n-duru.
Now, me-grins that was excellent public service from The Ugly One. Behold, and pro bono too it was!
Haha!
There is plenty hope for Africa! The best things that will happen to her will not necessarily be from the paid under performers, however brilliant and attractive they be! I Watch the pro bono swords that clang the front lines! There are no mercenaries there. There are plenty dead shot hands, brandishing genuine rage, authentic patriotism.
Hmm, Miguna banned, Sudi silenced, Ruto excommunicated … what no ... and very soon, who knows, parliament disbanded!
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REFORM TOWARD REVOLUTION, OR REFORM TO AVOID REVOLUTION?
Which way Kenya?
The second republic keeps up a bon vivant facade. It is a democratic entity of sorts. But behind that veil, not much of a mask, is a modern tale of political horror. This is why there are vicious currents pulling in opposite directions, simultaneously. In deed the crevices widen the more. The latest escalation, is that Ouru Kenyatta is canvassing opinion, not to disband parliament as advised by the Chief Justice Maraga, but to suspend his deputy and co-president, thereto sack him. Mr. Kenyatta has reduced his legacy to one agenda: thwarting the ambition of William Ruto.
In my opinion that makes H.E a goat. Even with Raila backing his corner, this is not the time for Ouru to drive up a peg up Ruto's hinds, thinking literally of what the Qataris did to Gaddaffi. One consequence is that there is no room now for the outgoing president to deliver anything meaningful. His succession has overtaken him.
The daily headlines which is a diary of the troubles and worries of the ruling strata, is a powerful diagnostic. The more they call for unity, the more divisions they show. The more they say they stand for a united Kenya, the more they caricaturise themselves, since their practice is ethno balkanisation, provincial parochialism and treasonable financial plunder. The more the fight against corruption is heralded by the ruling elite, the more the same top brass engage in bestial corruption, punctuated by lawlessness. In deed the so-called COVID Millionaires is just the latest show of this malignant tendency. It has been serial behaviour. Mention NYS 1&2, or yesterdays expose on Kenya Airways, and those are just dots connecting an endless graph of consistent graft.
So much for reform from the inside. It is a dead end if there ever was one.
In the rule, it is important for a ruling class to maintain their class solidarity. That is how they can perpetuate their class rule. (Though in a much more truthful sense, the local ruling class of Kenya continues to be a NYAPARA lot. They are incapable of making anything work without subsidy from abroad. This subsidy from abroad is the twin act of Chinese Capital and its massive loans, plus the strategic crumbles from the duo, Breton Woods. Backed by such powerful finance, which are the hard interests dominating international trade, our locals can run a relatively safe looting regime, as if there is no tomorrow. It is hugely profitable for themselves, these suckers, who are merely parasites in the body politic of Wanjiku. But the game in town is more profitable for their controllers from afar. These are engrossed in the international game of world exploitation and domination. They need local hirelings who will betray the aspirations of their people for some thirty pieces apportioned a Judas.
Our locals must unite and develop an ideological narrative that keeps the status quo, and themselves up, in business. Howbeit this status (quo) incidentally coincides with the position of Africa at the bottom of the world economic pyramid. This dubious role is their historical mission, apportioned by the current, unbalanced global political economy. The alternative is resistance, the popular struggle. In Kenya, no politician has been more effective in maintaining the rule of this parasitic class of locals than the Enigma, Agwambo Tinga. He has had the cunning and mercurial genius to earn the support of the disenfranchised mass, to mobilise and organise their aspirations; yet each time at the final moment, conscientiously deliver them to the abbattoir of the status quo. He has been unable to evolve beyond a rouble rouser, in which case he has always been a double act of the ruling class, like in a paid agent provocateur.
To the stupid and more stupid of his class, he has been a dangerous thug. But to the brainy, he has been the saviour. A man who wins elections twice but does not demand, insist with nasty vigour to assume the full implications of that fact, is a godsend to much more determined factions of the nefarious power class. Of course this (running the people around in circles) is improvisation and it is at best short term. Time finally runs out on falsehoods. (that bit about no fooling all the people all the time).
Dr. William Ruto is now angling to assume the mantle of Agwambo, that is to be the Deceiver in Chief of the People of Kenya. Ruto is an Oligarch, a little dirty rotten Oligarch, but one with a national political virility. Given the power vacuum at the side of resistance, William has the drive to take his unsettling campaign door to door. It is the Hustler narrative, of rising hordes against the ossified dynasties. It is the republican sentiment, against the rot of the aristocrats holding Kenya back. (Ruto has of course been their obedient servant and tool all his life ---from apprenticing under the Moi's, to service in the Pentagon under Raila, therefrom transferring his favours to Mama Ngina's boy, Uhuru Kenyatta).
But of course ---vindu vichenjanga-- one can get born again. And not only always on the route to Damascus so to speak. Consciousness can develop slowly, evolving, getting honed by experience, until it boils over into radical or revolutionary aptitude. In radical thought that would be denoted with class suicide. But I certify Ruto a charlatan, a fake standard bearer. His championing of the peoples cause under the Hustler slogan is clownesque. He is of no use to Wanjiku's aspirations, because he has no radical economic thought to effect as reform, let alone revolution. He has been in power long enough to be a known quantity. William is a man of the status quo. ---He is a pilferer like a petty thief, taking off his cuts off the Chinese loans, World Bank Loans, IMF reform packages and electoral rigging. He is, like Raila and Ouru, Kenya's past and not the future. He is a key part of the necrocratic complex running Kenya. (and in deed Africa).
But more often than not, History grins a nasty look at a people. The Future then wears the mask of the past, and the past, the future. That is where the term NECROCRACY comes in. A mentally dead regime replaces a mentally dead regime. A vicious cycle. There is displacement in time, which passes on, but there is no improvement in lives. It is stagnation. This has been the sequence: (post Mubarak Egypt under Sisi is a necrocratic continuation, Nigeria under Buhuari is the corruption limbo of the past refreshed; Algeria, Mali, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Malawi .... are all toppers where things changed to stay the same). Yes, a past head replaces itself in effect ---(In Russia they called it KAPUTIN I think!). The period is a deep crisis known as stagnation. Such an interregnum, how be it, can also have its long run, but in this age, not much.
We are there now. The Second republic under Kenyatta is as dead-led as the first under who else? Kenyatta. The transition from Jomo to Uhuru, the generational transition from father to son, Odinga to Odinga, Moi to Moi or Mudavadi to Mudavadi mediated by DT Arap Moi, has been a jump from the frying pan of corruption to the fire of Mega, Hyper Corruption. Jubilee is a much more virulent strand of the original KANU corruption. Uhuru Kenyatta, without a mandate but with the backing of his fellow crown prince, Raila Odinga, signs away Mombasa port to the Chinese, then, failing to pay the SGR loans, frog leaps to France to tie Kenya once more to another shark, the Rothschild Macron.
Talk about the French term ancien regime.
Uhuru Kenyatta, on the lame duck stretch, with an illegal parliament at home which should be disbanded, has no mandate to transact such a sum on behalf of Wanjiku and her siblings to come. Ouru is therefore likely engaging in a personal business, the way the Hariri's of Lebanon engaged in personal business with former and current French Presidents. They did that using the state of Lebanon as collateral. It did not end well for that quisling dynasty of the Orient, since the future of a country, any country, has much more players and variables than the whims of a few oligarchs, however powerful their foreign backers are. Any colonial situation, by physical or financial template, always raises the resistance of a people, one way or another. This may not be clearly visible, but it is always there.
So too here.
Within the narrative of Hustlers versus Dynasties, is enclosed a fiery core of meaning. This is independent of the fakeness of the man fronting it. But is a current powerful enough to force the false prophets to speak with a forked tongue. Trying to be in two places simultaneously --the camp of resistance, and the camp of the status quoists. The man holding up the republican standard, baying loudest that the dynasties must go, is one Samoei Ruto. And he parks quite a bark, and a tongue. So does history grin at a people. William may be a false Messiah, or fake Joshua like Raila, but the deliverance in question remains a necessity. The vacancy for the True man of the people remains open. It is a vacuum yawning for the right candidate. And it is a fact which no amount of propaganda nor mass manipulative skills can erase. It is this vacuum which produces candidates like General Miguna Miguna and the other red General, Martin Ngatia. There is a comical, even clownish ring to the names of the candidates jostling to midwife a new, better Kenya. All the more underscoring the fearsome need, the ruthless imperative.
Ruto will be contained if he does not get out. Get out of what? Get out of his fake self. A dedicated and passionate thief promising to end theft, while doing nothing about it with the little power he still has. He will soon be utterly a clown, a unique case of a double act at self parody. (1. Continuing as a Vice President he no longer is ---that job usurped by Matiang'i, chairing cabinet meetings with the lazy president ever enjoying his too many French leaves; and 2. Fulfilling the role of the leader of the opposition to the government at which he is ... Co-principal. It is a spectacular feat, and can only have a long run as a comedy.)
Ruto is still a prince, a necrocratic prince; albeit a very virile prince amongst the nyapara aristocrats prefecting it over Kenya. As things stand, that is in his fall-out with his official master, Ouru, Ruto is merely negotiating ---that should nasty (separation) come to bitter (divorce), he should be left to enjoy the serious proceeds of his plunderous adventures at the heart of power. (his companies, hotels, farms and wherewithal, should be left intact in the parting shots)
If he is not principally ready to die penniless like Bildad Kaggia, or be assassinated like JM Kariuki, he better sign a parley, quick. The would-be rogue Hustler comes in. Tail between knees. Domesticated, like the once peoples president he so loves to chastise.
SAVING THE CLASS, JOINING THE DYNASTIES
In the rule, the NYAPARAS should not allow the internal contradictions between themselves to solidify into irreconcilable conflict. Stuff like select factional murders targeting one wing, electoral malfeasance disadvantaging an oppositional faction, fat and juicy tenderpreneural bones snatched from the jaws of one faction's frontmen, should be resolved in one or other way without upsetting the table of goodies from which, with ceaseless impunity, they draw their collective feed.
This game can last a long time. But it is not a game to last long when the masses are economically desperate. As it is, the massess are progressively dispossessed and, thanks to the covid crisis, continue to rapidly develop a consensus that their future is lost under this lot. This consciousness is what becomes an existential threat to an order. And Ruto is searching how to deal with it as his sure options dwindle.
Kenya is a land of rising expectations. Vision 2030 is an expectation. Industrialisation is an expectation. It is the expectation of a meteoric economic rise, or, at least, giant economic steps ahead which open avenues for multitudes. Mwai Kibaki's minimal reforms after the lost decades of the Moi primitivism, only whetted the appetites of a new generation. His successor, Ouru Muigai KaJomo, not to dampen these expectations, yet not possessing the relative economic clarity of Kibaki's regime, could only buy them off by a reckless plunge into DEBT. (Howbeit it has been to sink the nation deeper into the misery of debt slavery that His Excellency braved Covid-razed Europe this past week!)
Ouru Kenyatta's Jubilee only survived this long because it could easily get money ----From an OBOR-obsessed China majorly. But the West too, spooked by China's in-roads into their historical backyards, had no option but to throw a rainfall of coins in. This easy and steady financial shower confused Ouru Kenyatta's bureaucracy. They imploded into greedy gusto's, wasting colossal amounts in pathological graft. But there remained enough cash-flow to keep the ship of state limping on. (Something like public healthcare has basically collapsed in Kenya)
But it is of course May Day at the Treasury. This financial crisis, actually an odious debt crisis, will be Kenyatta's legacy. It is also the actual pit which will radicalise and influence most, the political evolution of Kenya tomorrow. There will have to be an answer found to cope with the social crisis it will precipitate. (To repay through the nose or not? To auction the family silverware or not?)
The economic meltdown catalysed by the Covid pandemic and lockdown will only compound the urgency of this crisis. The Uhuruto split is thus a subterfuge manifestation of a very serious matter which must be addressed.
What real options are on the table of history then, for Kenya's tomorrow? ---The seeds that we plant today.
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UHURU VISITS MACRON: HIDDEN CARDS
I am sure the Amherst graduate of a Kenyan dynast had no idea. I am sure the Ecole Superior trained and owned European Transatlantist, exercised unnatural discipline to hide his natural contempt for the African. Twice he has been caught off balance by African punches. One was in Burkina Faso when students at a local university asked Macron to tell them a few French secrets so that they could form a whole picture on the murder of Thomas Sankara. The Frenchman froze.
Burkina Faso 'wants France to release Sankara archives'
13 October 2016
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Burkina Faso has asked France to declassify military documents about the killing of ex-president Thomas Sankara, a lawyer for his family has said.
A judge had made the request because efforts to get them through "political channels" had failed, the lawyer said.
France, the former colonial power, has not yet commented on the request.
Mr Sankara's widow and supporters have repeatedly accused France of masterminding his 1987 killing because he was a Marxist revolutionary.
He was killed by soldiers in a hail of bullets shortly before a meeting of his cabinet in Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou.
Second time around was this one below. The current Ghanaian President Atta-Addo found tales of development aid in 2020 from European leaders absurd and silly.
Ghana President Speech on African Diaspora Force Macron to Almost Snatch the Mic
ENTER THE KENYAN HEAD, A MUCH MORE SHEEPISH MAN!
Hardly a week earlier, the French President had seen no reason for restraint. He heaped relentless contempt upon The Other ---Oriental so to speak! Emmanuel Macron at full throttle spewed scorn and oozed disdain upon the Arabs of the Gulf state of Lebanon. As if time had stood still, and it was still the pre-world war days, the French kid all but effectively declared the recolonisation of Lebanon by the Himself. He subsumed the sovereignty of the peoples of Lebanon, ordering the politicians of the land to hearken to his instructions, forthwith.
It didn't work out like that. It couldn't work out like that. Bigger boys laughed him off, more like he were spoilt brat of a rich boy. The haughty Frenchman was forced to swallow back a lot of his cleverness. It was all deluded stupidity. It was left to Nasrallah of Hezbollah to deliver the scorching rebuttal. ----Aspiring to be the American-appointed prefect of Lebanon, doubling up as an errand boy of squeezed French Capital, Macron was there to do Israel's bidding too: Smash the Resistance. In this, the chorus went up in the Orient, the boy from the superior schools of France will continue to fail, just like he and his ilk failed in the attempt to destroy the modern state of Syria, where they were minded to repeat what his predecessor had done in Libya.
Why did the Libyan state have to be destroyed by the Americans and the Europeans? And why did Gaddaffi have to die so hideously? Any African of some mind will ponder this, at length and depth.
Now, I don't think the President of Kenya took import of the situation. Neither do I think he has any idea of why the Libyan State had to be destroyed, nor specifically, the irony of France in the key role thereof --(Nicolas Sarkouzy of France led the way). Nor did Uhuru Kenyatta contemplate the role played by the French state in the assassination of Libya's Gaddafi. No, the Kenyan President and dynast wouldn't. (How can he? H.E does not even know enough Geography of Kenya to understand Ahero near Kisumu where Miguna Miguna was hatched, is not near Toronto Canada, sorry, Alaska!)
Geo-politics and the world game at the level of the Big Zbig was always out his range. He as much a
"Gadhafi's creation of the African Investment Bank in Sirte (Libya) and the African Monetary Fund to be based in Cameroon will supplant the IMF and undermine Western economic hegemony in Africa," said Gerald Pereira, an executive board member of the former Tripoli-based World Mathaba.
The moves are also bad for France because when the African Monetary Fund and the African Central Bank in Nigeria starts printing gold-backed currency, it would "ring the death knell" for the CFA franc through which Paris was able to maintain its neocolonial grip on 14 former African colonies for the last 50 years.
"It is easy to understand the French wrath against Gaddafi," said Prof. Jean-Paul Pougala of the Geneva School of Diplomacy.
The Libyan Investment Agency was just proposing too, the formation of several mammoth African Engineering companies. These would spearhead the various, numerous mega infrastructure programs which would unfold in Africa, process industrialisation.
Africa's manufacturing sector is the weakest link in its ongoing integration into the global economy. He stated that primary products or raw materials make up 62% of the continent's total exports.
According to him, it explains (among other things) why a region that produces about 75 per cent of the world's cocoa accounts for just 5% per cent of the nearly $100 billion annual chocolate market.
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a British research group, Africa accounted for more than 3% of global manufacturing output in the 1970's but this percentage has since halved. This is a clear indicator of the urgency the continent needs to catch up with the rest of the world.
Africa is a continent in dire need of growth. The continent's GDP of $2.18trillion in 2017 as estimated by the International Monetary Fund is less than the GDP of Germany ($3.677trillion), a country of fewer than 83 million citizens and a land mass that is only slightly larger than one-third of Nigeria's.
Imagine how far Uhuru's mind is far from an African Investment Bank.
The African Development Bank will use this year's Africa Investment Forum to bridge an infrastructure funding gap of $130-170bn a year
Uhuru isn't just a lame duck prezzo, he is a tame head.
Sooner he goes home the better for the country.
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POLITICAL ATAVISM NAIROBI
Once upon a time in our land, the second liberation had to be. The Independence party, KANU, had run a-ground. It was now a thing of the past, stuck on a journey to nowhere, least of all, Kenya's future. This once great vehicle had to be left behind. KANU days became too dark. DT Arap Moi evolved backwards into a primitive savage -----(read totalitarian and authoritarian), whose bestial tenure wholly disfigured the future of the land he led. The monster had to be fought, and, at the price of much fatalities and casualties, the light of reform shone through that period of darkness.
The state was reformed, minimally. The political manifestation of this was the re-entry of multi-partysm. Much later, the afterbirth included DEVOLUTION.
But, like a ripe jigger which, nestled under your toe, when carelessly uprooted, will re-infest through groups of its many eggs, the politicians spawned from the Moi-KANU nest have re-grown balls and reconquered the land.
What we now witness a period of restoration gone haywire.
It is a RECIDIVISTIC LURCH called JUBILEE
---Today starts the three national days of prayer, a useless effort in distraction by a witless power!
(Oathing toward the 1966 LIMURU CONFERENCE when the VICE PRESIDENT, Adonijah Odinga or William Ruto, was dealt a Judas Lot or Black Spot (Pirates Lingo) by Tom Mboya or Raphael Tuju: Resign or be sacked!)
--So: KANU Pathological corruption has been restored.
--Virulent ethnicity is the name of the political currency.
--Police impunity and arbitrary, selective obedience to court orders is back.
--Targeted murders and rigged elections are instruments of impunity as usual.
--Hallucinations of grandeur cloud the aristocratic minds at the top as it did the settlers
And worst is of course the economy which, while propagandising itself as digital, has nothing but wheelbarrows for the idle youth to push their futures ahead with.
That the Wilbaroman has clearly won the argument against the Big5 illusions of the headless head of state, is an indicator of the mammoth crisis. Of stagnation and mercenary morality imposed by harsh reality. They say a bird at hand is worth two in the Bush. The same politicians proposing the BBI as the magic fix, are known quantities as false prophets. When one was finance minister, and the other Prime and in charge of KAZI-KWA-VIJANA, the princely duo left no trace of any job done. Except the usual scandal of disappeared funds. The culture of a people tends to note such episodes, contemplate and learn from them. Members of the elite meanwhile continue to delude themselves folks are always gullible, are under lock and key.
The Kenyan vijana's, most of them male and, apparently, a hand-to-mouth lot, know well the wheelbarrows are not much. But a rapid calculation of the worth of the words of any Kenyan politician, tells them the BBI and the Big5 agenda are even worth less than a wheelbarrow at hand. If one does not get this pragmatic math, that the Kenyan youth recognise that the promises of a Kenyan politician have no worth, then ones political instincts are equally worthless. There is a scientific econo-metric to this exceedingly short-term behaviour, aka instant gratification at the cost of long termism.
1. Recall Henry Rotich and Kamau Thugge, alumni's of the best international colleges at economics, when delegated to head the finance ministry at their local, ate money meant for dams in arid areas. When your best and brightest are that short-term, mental retards, what business do you have imagining their ilk will secure yours and the nation's future!?)
And, come to think of it: HUSTLER AS A COMPLEX MEANING
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Does anyone propose the 20-something year old recruits who, in the name of LINDA NCHI, sat as ducks at EL ADDE, joined the KDF for a short wasted life in the name of patriotism? I bet for most, a disposable income was the motive. It is at least a job, a regular income at hand while it lasts. Life isn't full of that many choices.
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Hustlers by another name?
For the period that KDF has been in Somalia, January 15th, 2016 attack on our El Ade camp was the worst and most embarrassing military catastrophe in the recent peace operations. KDF camp was overrun by Al Shabaab militants. Many young lives were lost, our brothers were captured, and military equipment was stolen.
You would think, in a hierarchy of priorities, that the response to this historic defeat and bloodbath would be a deeper soul-searching by the powers that be, displaying even more cabinet gusto, empathy and concerns about national cohesion than, for instance, now they do over two Hustler deaths in Murang'a's KENOL pandemonium. But nay
What followed El Adde attack is a now familiar followed a pattern of information twisting and gagging. El Adde added to the long string on the security agencies of ignored warnings, bungled rescues, misinformation, shelved inquiries, and impunity.
The State in avoiding accountability has kept off from answering critical questions clouding the attack and ensuring media publications on the attack are sieved to their taste.
Yeah, it is a popular saying there are few fools out there. It is therefore an open national secret, that the much ado by every Tom Dick and Harry organ of state about Kenol Murang'a, is not about what the official reason is. No, it is a panic reaction, a primitive and desperate reflex move by powerful brothers cornered by the progress of the Hustler narrative.
The security state bares its fangs. And that is dark. Because the leading candidate is targeted. It is a warning, if he wins the next election, he will be rigged out. What a waste of money on a show process, Chebukati once again. Then the Old Question comes back: Ata do? Mta do!?
Impunity reigns.
As usual in history, such answers form very slowly within a state. Then one day after suffering long without apparent bitterness, the people do. And lots of Old Lords of the universe end not liking the doings of the people.
But henceforth ...
O ye Hustlers!
THY SHALL NOT GATHER WITHOUT A PERMIT!
From Matiang'i, the 'colonial redux' prefect of Kenya.
Exactly the dark days of the (semi settler-clone) Moi-KANU regime. The dark days we thought they would never end.
They ended a bit. They stayed a bit. Things did change. Moi was instinctively alert enough to jump away in time and let history take its course. One wishes the current Arap Moi, a Kenyatta to boot, is endowed with equivalent survival instincts.
His Jubilee regime is definitely atavism.
Towards the Lancaster conference then. After the national prayers!
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RUTO THE WILLY-NILLY CATALYST
I call it the Ruto heat.
As the beautiful ones have not yet made it to the start-line!
William is one of the rotten ones. He is one of the deplorable ones, so to steal a metaphor from Hilary Clinton. Of Course Hilary herself was no less rotten than the most despicable arzole groupie of Donald-Trump.
But that is one for another day.
Kenya has quite a thick layer of rotten political oligarchs at the top, and Ruto, a veteran, ranks with the filthiest among them. He is a top predator so to speak; in political economic terms, a super parasite. It is a tape-worm cable of state tenderpreneurs infesting the vitals of Kenya. Ruto's classmates know his limitless drive. They shudder at the thought of him at the helm. The rats must unite to bell the cat.
Which is why now, those fellow state gangsters have ganged up against him. All against One.
Victimised and increasingly marginalised at the top, The man from Sugoi is forced to cast his net wider. So be it unto uncharted waters. He may even find the people and be one with them in his fishing trips. But currently he is still in the act of a reagent. He is a catalyst priming up the emotions of the only forces which can buoy him, now that his classmates are out to fix him. Those forces he can call upon, are likely to be those ECONOMICALLY opposed to his class. Too, included would be many an adventurer. That class of his is of course composed of state parasites and looter kartelists.
Two powerful psychological factors are in his corner. One, he is a born fighter. He is no coward like the natural weaklings Mudavadi and Kalonzo. See them cower away and abandon the swearing in of the peoples president. But for Ruto, surrender doesn't come easy to him. His main equal and rival, Captain Amollo Tinga, is known to throw in the towel even when the troops are still full of fight. Agwambo has therefore left abandoned, the hardcore progressive wing of the National front he led. This explains the speculations which have been rife of late, that the likes of David Ndii are on the look out for points of convergence with Ruto.
The combative make-up of Ruto makes him a man who, when the chips are down, will attract tactical, hardened and battlephillic veterans.
Two, he isn't reputed to be as stingy with his loot as the rest the rot. His still rising ambition necessitates him to distribute favours to achievers in his corner, to maintain their long-term loyalty, and not abandoning them immediately they have done his errands. Then, if he sells out, his price is high, incredibly high. So he became CO- rather than the customary Vice President. A sleepwalking Uhuru has just been discovering how deep and tight the tentacles of his vice president are wrapped around him and his government. And Raila has mocked Ruto to resign, foregoing the much more straightforward mock at President Kenyatta: why don't you fire him, Your Excellency.
We all know why that is a NO-GO for the son of Jomo! ('Tano Tena, nimalize zangu Kumi, Ruto aanze zake Kumi! Si namna hivyo jameni!''
---''YEEEEEE! KWENU!''
''JOKENYA KWENU!?''
----YEEEEE! KWENU!
The battle for power at the top plays to a backdrop of a biting economic crisis. An economic crisis tends to aggravate both social and political heats. Easily visible as a parameter, there are hordes of youths whose adequate definition is that of a LOST GENERATION. They have to HASSLE for a meagre living.
HUSTLERS KWENU!
----YAAAAA! KWENU!
That term is one whose import is both murky and comical. It has a sinister ring like Marx's characterisation of the Lumpem Proletariat: ready to hire their services to the highest bidder; ever on the diffuse border between petty crime and survival wits; as mercenary to the core as the petty bourgeois elite in international politics. It also has the street meaning in Kenya, of one struggling against the stacked odds to make ends meet, daily. Hustler then becomes an all-Kenyan term like SHAMBA, instinctively arousing complicated emotions across the land at large, and capable of pacing the hearts that beat beneath the chests thereof.
It is a concept pivotal enough to be fought over. And I mean Ruto and Raila have both traded head-butts ---or neck whips when one considers how giraffes fence off, on who the real hustler is. When fought over by prominent members of the rotten elite, the meaning raps up an obscurantist and confusionist baggage. But that is an attempt to depoliticise it. There was also the comical road show to parochially weaponise the term against its owner. Francis Atwoli's failed effort of literal consultation from the dictionary comes to mind.
How be it from the old concept CATTLE RUSTLER, we can think of both Ruto and Raila as TENDER RUSTLERS. There is no tender of state they never fought over. Up to all the crumbs falling off the SGR table. (Should billionair --and one time NASA financier--- Jimmy Wanjigi ever care to write his uncensored memoirs, his revelations of the SGR tendering would be quite an ear-sizzling read!).
CHARGES OF ENDEARMENT
The most important factor now, for the political elite, seems to be who is perceived to be fighting the youth's corner. It is Cinderella feat. Who is it whom the people worship most!? Strange as it is, it would appear the Lords of Impunity crave a measure of public approval. This contradiction bedevilling the minds of the powers that be in Kenya, raises a fundamental issue. How are the forces really balanced, between the people on the down side, and the men the people put in charge to loot them through the state?
It means there is an awareness at the top, that rigging elections will only pass as far as there is a supportive narrative of a possible win. Say something like the tyranny of numbers. There must be a plausible (ethnic arithmetic numbers) add up, otherwise Kenyans wont buy a blatant rigging. Talk about establishing reasonable doubt! And therefore, the all consuming battle, is that of the plausible narrative to buttress the already announced doctoring of the Presidential elections, 2022.
And it is here that Ruto with his Hustlers' narrative had stolen a match. He has thus forced Uhuru to hold him back, that others catch up; or hold him in check so that the stale minds of his competitors can conjure up a rival if not neutralising narrative.
Neither have Kenyans been slow to notice Ruto is riding an untamed Rodeo bull. Whipping up the political consciousness of the economically maligned is easily an exercise in revolutionary political activism. The slogan Hustlers against Dynasts has been quickly branded an incitement to class warfare and national discohesion. That is actually legitimate political activity, even if it is wont to be branded sedition by the fearfully insecure status quo, which is the political establishment he belongs to.
I heard it before from the forcefully exiled General Miguna Miguna: RESIST! DYNASTIES MUST FALL! Now I hear it from Ruto! Dynasts must go!
Ruto is essentially raising expectations which can not be fulfilled within the economic parameters of the status quo he plots to inherit. For the Hustler nation to evolve into a modern nation -----a normal and boring country where everything works except marriages and relationships, tremendous hurdles have to be surmounted. Most of them are in the economic re-organisation of the land.
First, state funds have to do what they are planned to do. There has to be least graft, and where found, heavily punished.
Inflating state tenders for private gain, done by top bureaucrats and politicians has to stop. A few heads have to roll literally to make the point dead clear.
Agriculture and public education have to be radically transformed and together with public health, universalised in equitable and qualitative suffrage.
Political bureaucracy both in numbers and costs must be cut drastically. Number of parliamentarians reduced by half, MCA's perks reduced by half. An MCA should not earn more than a trained primary school teacher. (The modern idea is, teaching is a common, reasonable profession, while politician is difficult to pinpoint the school curriculum passed.)
Those are ABC things which any rational government can do in less than 5 months with public support. As for corruption, it can even be stopped in less than one week ------(without the peoples support. If the peoples support is enlisted, properties on stolen land like the Weston Hotel would soon be stormed and occupied; and the COVID millionaires burned to death in mob justice fashion!)
It is safe to think these bare essentials, absolute minimums, are beyond the next president of Kenya who will be recruited from the ranks of the deplorables; ie the current elite or parasitology running our covid-punched Kenya, is historically clueless of the national mission at hand.
The Hustler narrative is therefore both an unconscious recognition of the above as well as a cry (in the wilderness) for a new deal. An economic new deal for the future. In reality, nobody wants to be a life long Hustler. For that is a definition of a life in economic insecurity, scavenging on the outskirts of civilisation like stray dogs. It is the life of hand to mouth forever, no investments, no assets to bequeath the offspring. It is the life of children of lesser beings as it were, abandoned by their lesser gods.
Yes, we have a Hustler nation. Reality must be faced to foster healing. It is a motorbike, bodaboda and mkokoteni, Mama Mboga and Slayqueen economy for the majority. And the question is: how about tomorrow!? Do we continue the system of wanton plunder of state resources? or does the cake share differently, the future bring more affluence, less hustlers all round?
Wanjiku has a choice, :* in believing the BBI narrative or otherwise. The anti-Hustlers say the BBI is the solution. The Hustlers say BBI is an aristocratic concoction for a dynastic succession. Pure poison.
At least no one is saying steady as she goes, things stay the same; MV Kenya stays course. Ooyo DA, there is a national consensus from top to bottom. This sh!thole republic must clean up its act, before 2022.
And again the choice: the easy way or the hard way, Ghenya.
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SUPER DISMAL TIMES AT THE TOP
Jamhuri day 2020:
As I watched the guy going for PORK, Uhuru Kenyatta, with official epithet His Excellency, perform his script before the nation, I suffered anti-nation visions. There developed a hollow feeling in my bowels.
This His Excellency was nothing but a zombie. And a mentally exhausted one at that. Hakuna Majira.
The so-called president was sleepwalking through his routine on the so-called Jamhuri day. He was absent minded, distracted and an uncomfortable fit. Nothing could mask the glaring decline he presides over; nothing his incompetence,nor the inability of the clique he fronts as a power constellation, to get to grips with the national decline. ----Talk about that gloomy day in 1920's London, when the CEO of IBEA-co, all crestfallen and forlorn, shuttles between the foreign and colonial office to declare his mission insolvent and, hence, demand nationalisation.
(It is a reasonable contention, that the Kibaki-Raila-Tosha election which ended Arap Moi's presidency, was a national effort that, temporarily it would later prove, arrested the socio-pathic debauchery which was the degenerational reality of the Moi twilight years)
Of course the current, escalating decline of the state of Kenya ---under the Jubilee Handshake bankruptcy----- is arrestable; but that, like most national efforts, comes with an uneasy precondition: an ancient and rare commodity called courage. Of course the historical parallel is a near shot: Just like the UK government bailed out IBEA-co and took over Kenya as a colony, we watch Chinese Capital bailing out our local looter Kartel organised in Jubilee and NASA etc. Can't pay doctors for 5 months? Well, call China-Bank, for a fix.
Nurses, clinicians left out as doctors sign deal to end strike
NAIROBI 24 DEC 2020
An agreement signed Thursday by Kenyan Minister for Health Mutahi Kagwe and representatives of the the Kenya Medical Practitioner Pharmacists and Dentists Union calls for the government to fast-track comprehensive insurance coverage for doctors.
The government also said it it will provide adequate quality personal protective equipment to all 7,200 doctors represented by the union.
PRESIDENT KENYATTA INTERVENES
Doctors had said that doing their jobs had become "suicidal" after 14 physicians with COVID-19 who could not afford the treatment they were giving to patients subsequently died..
(Colonial pillage and social containment of the popular will had quite a run before its back was broken. One knows of the -tragi-heroic performances of men like FM Dedan Kimathi, though much less about key historical figures like Generals Baimuingi and Musa Mwariama).
You bet you wont watch any time soon at the national theatre nor at that French podium, a play by Cleopa Malala titled simply: GENERAL BAIMUINGI. Such a play, if it were to have the depths of Wole Soyinka's troubled dance in the forests, would explicate at a go, why, for instance, THE INTEGRITY CLAUSE of the new constitution of 2010, easily became a spitting bowl for the current masters of Kenya, recycled homegaurds they be.
The thing to know about the colonial order, is that it degenerated into one large labour dispute. The basic resource having been grabbed, LAND, had to be worked for profit. This necessitated socially engineering those who had originally worked an lived freely on it, into squatters, landless vagrants and rent payers. So the colonial era is a series of legislations outlawing Africans from ownership of land, profitable use thereof, reducing them to forced low-wage disposables, and, to really seal the deal, banning political expressions of the African plight, criminalising resistance activity, however minor.
This one huge labour dispute between an exploitive order and the victimised people as a defining factor of an epoch, is instructive to remember today, when, BBI and Handshake to Unite all Kenyans, yet Doctors and Health workers in the (all but collapsed public health system) are being treated by the government like they are KYM's (KaYaMkono's ----low skilled casual labourers of the reserve).
A few years ago ----those were the days some Jubilee oligarchs had a daring plan to steal the KNUT building in Nairobi (like the KANU moguls who stole KICC in the last days of Moi), teachers were committing suicide in the villages after their pay dispute with the TSC resulted in months of no-pay. And the Walimu became the laughing stock of Mama Mboga's, seeking 10-bob leaves on credit. (Not any more painful than the Mau Mau fighters herded in camps in 1964 and given the laughing stock treatment by the homegaurds who, meanwhile, had inherited both their women and plots of land.)
Those who want to unite their country, Ghenya, building bridges on a mere handshake between two princes of the establishment, must really ponder the swirls of current against which the foundations must be proofed. ---A history of institutionalised betrayal, murder, injustice and callous disregard for decency.
I had the sad experience of visiting a public hospital twice in the past two weeks of December. No one can cheat me. There is no public health care in Kenya. The buck, Mutahi Kagwe being an insignificant gloom, stops with the president. But he is a Zero and his appropriation of the crisis is Nihil. His aptitude for solutions is fictitious to non-existent. The man, His Excellency, is historical garbage, and such garbage must be flung where it belongs ----the dustbin of history.
Courtiers, praise-singers, positivists of the glass is half-full narrative and other suchlike apologists of the glaring mediocrity, are hard pressed to attach meaning to their croaks of celebration. There are young dead doctors galore, dropping dead unpaid over months, un-insured and sent to the frontline of the pandemic without adequate protection.
They MBCHB's are sacrificial lambs joyfully offered at the altar of corruption, to the satisfied grin of the so-called overnight, COVID billionares. The lower ranks of the health service don't feature of course in the human count of GoK.
Garbage may still be an underqualification of the son of Jomo in the face of the crisis facing the nation he leads so sorrily.
But in the nature of human society, countries are not like the Titanic where all are trapped in the great sink. For the overwhelming majority of Kenyans, life has always been a daily struggle and Ouru or Moi at the helm, the difference is the same. But these days the pressure from below is quicker to mature and much more difficult to control by state terror at large. The half life's of non-performing states is no longer the length it used to be.
NB: The British government took control of Kenya as a colony only once the private company the territory had been leased to as a private commercial fiefdom, went bust and couldn't cope. The company is the infamous British East African Company, and it was granted the charter, carte blanche, in 1888. But of course no charter, even the mandate of heaven, is immune to the the ramifications of treating humankind as little more than wild animals.
And so ends many a political order in civil strife. Persistent injustice puts a knife on the things which hold people together and, as Achebe put it, things fall apart, including people, even kinsmen. Some are Hustlers, others not! Many are nothing.
THE DECLINE TRAJECT
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READING ANOTHER KALONGOLONGO EVENT: MIGUNA FOR NAIROBI
Farce, according to a famous dictum, is a period in history where the selfsame suffers a first repetition. Say there was the Baba Yao Waiting impeachment, then the Mbuvi Sonko, Both counties essentially Nairobi. Distant nobody's like Kirinyaga's Waiguru Mumbi, need not be bothered.
And of course the non-Kenyan Kenyan, General Miguna, is running AGAIN –--that is for the second time, the farce, for the ever empty Nairobi seat. And will General Badi still be co-governor come the election of the Sonko replacement!? There is bound to be a repeat of the power struggle we saw between ½ governor Badi and 1/2governor Sonko.
NRB ELECTING A GOVERNOR WITHOUT PORTFOLIO the coup
The takeover by the national government effectively saw the former governor hand over to the State crucial county functions of health, transport, public service, utilities, and ancillary services, and county planning and development.
This led to the establishment of the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) in March to head the functions with the outfit headed by Major General Mohammed Badi as its Director-General.
Consequently, this left the former City Hall boss with the control of less influential county departments including ICT and e-government, Education and Sports, Agriculture and Livestock, Trade and Cooperative and depleted Devolution, Environment and Finance sectors just on paper.
Two centers of power were created with Sonko being left a paper governor as Maj-Gen Badi took control of affairs of the capital city.
With a financial war chest of Sh27.1 billion for the transferred functions, accounting for more than two-thirds of the county government’s annual budget, the former governor was left with a paltry Sh8.4 billion at its disposal.
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) would later take over revenue collection in Nairobi wrestling the key function of the Finance department controlling over Sh10 billion in own-source revenue from the City Hall boss.
More than 6,800 county staff would also leave City Hall for NMS despite protests by Sonko, leaving the county government with slightly over 4,000 employees out of the total 11, 603 workers.
Etc!
Something has to give between the NMS and the new full governor, if it is full to be.
SO, IS THE JENERALI MIGUNA PANTOMIME SHOW ONLY FOR THE LAUGHS?
The Third party!? :-\ Who would be the ingredients of the third party in GHENYA?? Were Deep Thought to answer?
The THIRD PARTY ALLIANCE nominated General Miguna to fly their flag. The apparent empty seat to be vied for in open auction, is the Nairobi gubernatorial throne.
Warning: the impeached political goon Sonko, in voter for voter turn-out, pulled a terrifying count. Bar presidential candidates, no one had so much Kenyans, cosmopolitan and of diverse backgrounds, covering his A.S. S for his seat.
If Ouru and Ruto despite their ICC woes couldn't be barred by chapter six, the impeachment of Mbuvi Sonko is a local fix. It is a necessary victimization, but is merely a fall-out between struggling gangsters at the top of the food chain. Sonko, in as much as his instincts tended toward a populist touch, is too much a creature of the rotten system to bond successfully and long-term, with the downtrodden of Nairobi. His timid performance in his flirt with Miguna is ample proof of his true loyalties, if not utter confusion. That loyalty is to the class which now has turned on him, and knifed him deep all the way, hinds upwise. That confusion, is ever the realization he is too much of a lowly outsider to ever make the exclusive, snobbish aristocracy of Kenya.
Howbeit the third alliance were also the party of the PUNGUZA MZIGO, PUNDA NACHOKA initiative. The Raila and Uhuru factions, and that covers pretty much the whole political edifice, quickly mobilized to squeeze the dear life out of Dr. Ekuru Aukot. The insolent Turkana had taken his cheek too far, and without a thickened skin to back up his mischief, he has been punched to pulp. The once good doc is increasingy loitering litter. He is a bit like Sonko really, only queiter.
The best way to read the Miguna candidacy –---and the scare which the possibility of a Bishop Wanjiru win, backed by William Ruto's Tangatanga wing of the same compost heap, has brought on the Prima Donnas of the Handshake, is to go back to the infamous KALONGOLONGO swearing in of Raila Odinga, once upon a time in Ghenya's Uhuru park. It was, on the face of it, a pantomime event; yet, in truth, an occurrence which coded dark and dangerous depths. Swirling within the heart of Kenya are forces the rot at the top must reckon with. Under the untidy ship of state of Kenya, there is a need to constantly diffuse mines sticking to the sides.
The Handshake was such an attempt to buy more sailing time. Before the inevitable.
Miguna in his first doomed run against Mike Sonko and Evans Kidero, took time to write a manifesto. He had seen visions for Nairobi and noted them. The Miguna Position Paper, for those who have read it, is an ambitious, modernizing blue-print which, thinking of post-war Berlin in 1945, comes in at not less than the qualification, a phoenix agenda.
In other words, the bar has been set for Nairobi.
Nairobi knows her future. That future has been intellectually and technically divined. It is merely waiting for implementation. ---Yet the candidacy of its author and visionary is, so said to be dared with its implementation, a pantomime event. It is like Albert Einstein has solved the Energy Equation, E=MCC; Enrico Fermi has offered to build the bomb, whilst the chattering and ruling class are having a laugh at how silly and irrelevant Einstein and Fermi are.
That is where Nairobi is, that is where Kenya's political class –-eaters of the Kerio dam cash-- are. They are the irrelevant ones, but do they know it!? This means, historically speaking, the pantomime event is not the Miguna candidacy as such, nay, it is the comical routines adopted by the political class of Kenya to keep Nairobi a sh!tbelt; a mass settlement of Kenyans wallowing in their daily sh!t, like worms of the nice compost heap!
In this ruling class comedy, it becomes truly fitting, that Evans Kidero, having totally failed in Nairobi, is, talk about the recycling of backwardness, currently the front-runner for Homa Bay county. Cyprian Awiti Jalapeno has of course been an elephantine corpse in power. (Recall how Algerians, with chilling clarity of mind, dubbed their country under their half-dead Boutaflika, a NECROCRACY!). This (tragicomic mini necrocracy in Luoland to be) means even a city reject and political retard like Evans Kidero is, funereal standards going, an improvement. He was at Mumias Sugar, now a carcass.
It sounds tragicomic, but given it affects the lives of real people in real time, it is a monumental tragedy. A political horror show. Reality is exiled. But cannot be forever.
THE THIRD PARTY
We are now popularly used to the dichotomy: the Aristocrats or Dynasties versus the Hustlers. This loosely keys into Ruto's Tangatanga versus Ouru and Raila's Kieleweke Handshake. But apparently there is something else lurking in the shadows. It is a trichotomy after all. This something is the third-way alliance. It is for the brain-dead to insist they never heard of PUNDA NACHOKA, PUNGUZA MIZIGO LEO!
The intelligent would have heard, but prefer to ignore, chiefly because it complicates their various profitable models.
THE ARATI DISPERSAL?
NB: Actually, ODM's SIMBA ARATI was running for Nairobi governor. Waweru vs Arati was the street charge. Forget the spoon-feeding addicted Peter Kenneth. But Arati's lion ambitions ran into it: the wall; the holy interests of the aristocrats and dynasts. Arati reminds me of a now forgotten man from Siaya. His name was William Oduol. Come devolution, he won the ODM ticket for Siaya governor fair and square. He was the people's choice. But you know how it is with many of the peoples choices in Africa ----Lumumba, Morsi, Abiola. They never see office, or if they do, not long anyway. There is always BLACK-OPS to take care of business.
So ODM's Lion Arati will be supporting Jubilee's Dennis Waweru! (Waweru Kumi! Arati Kumi! they are young enough to grin painfully at such a parley!). Or is it, that like William Oduol of Siaya, Arati just falls short of that internal grit to take on a rotten dynasty? He must live to eat another day. Crumbs galore for tame dogs. And aristocrats are known to fondle their pets.
FAKE NESTORS OR JUST COMPROMISED?
The candidature of Jenerali Miguna, it will tell you more about your country than you really do want to care to think.
NB: He isn't a Kenyan or is he!? You notice the billed Nestor of constitutional quagmires in Kenya, Orengo Ajimmy, doesn't make the bar on this point of Miguna! And for that matter, neither do any legal mind of some fame or repute do! ---be it Mutula Kilonzo, Kibutha Kibwana, Githu Muigai, Kamau Gib Kuria, Grand-Mullah, Willy Mutunga, Paul Muite, Olago Aluoch, ''Nelson Hercules Havi'' …... or my main man Lumumba the PLO!
Yeah! Is it the poverty of intellectuals once more!? Or just their abdication fanning the silence?
And to choose, which is the most lethal pantomime show in town then!?
It is the economy stupid!
NJAA-nuary, the masses chorus!
Let them eat cake I say!
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THE DANGEROUS END-GAME OF CADAVERS IN POWER
This time last year, just about on the dot, January 3 2020, two key men died at Baghdad's international airport, or so abouts. An American MQ-9 Reaper drone which had been roaming, primed after the presidential KILL-ORDER from Washington DC, found the mark for its payload. Blown to smouldering ruins was a car. A man named Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and another, an Iranian General Qassim Suleimani, were the most prominent casualties of the strike. In deed they were the targets.
Donald Trump puffed and huffed.
A year later, today, in Washington DC, Donald Trump is something of a dirty-to-dead alley rat. His wits are dispersed, his frozen mind is caught in the headlamps of speeding history. Trump is not just political litter, he is human dregs. He is a rusted wreckage of something which once pandered to the myth of the most powerful man on Earth, POTUS.
I have sneaking, tremendous respect for the spiritual leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei. Managing a lunatic in power, controlling an insecure super power, is juggling with annihilation. One of the most awesome leaders in history, in a mother bedbug moment in 1954, put it like this to the talented youths of his revolutionary gang, aka politburo: 'My sons, France is a corpse. Victory at Dien Bien Phu is phantom. It is total nonsense in the historical sense. It is a merciless dagger through the heart of a cadaver. French colonialism died long ago in Indochina. However, there is a new monster on the prowl. It is confident, its ruthless and, buoyed by its victory in the Big War against Germany, its filled with its own messianic sense of righteousness; thereto a divine duty to stop communism.
And we are communists!
Now, the new kid on the block dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, unnecessarily, experts say. But it means their lust to kill coolie gooks .... Asians ... to make even an unnecessary point, is insatiable.
And we are ... coolie gooks ... Asians!
Vo! your task is to beat the Americans without mentally collapsing them to drop an atomic bomb on Vietnam. You will ever control the depth of their response. No atomic bomb here, General Nguyen. That is the essence of your historic mission. You will carefully manage the American retreat; for defeat them Vietnam shall.''
Vo Nguyen Giap was sharing the above tale with Fidel Castro. This was decades later when both were aging. There was much banter and back slapping and other comedies of illegal late night parties. Castro had asked Vo what the scariest moment in his life had been so far. Vo replied it was the day he thought he had overplayed his hand and broken Robert McNamara, leaving the former Ford Motors Executive no option but to go for the Big Bomb! ---Forged by Ho, Vo's mind had formed a steel cage within which McNamara, the best of an American Harvard lot ordained to run empire, could live his great American life of power. (Castro's scariest moment was, he claimed, when, for a moment during the Bay of Pigs thing, 1961, he thought JFK had actually been stupid enough to send American marines to occupy Cuba.)
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THE ALI KHAMENEI CHALLENGE
For the past many years since Trump messed the Obama succession, the Iranian leader has had to contain a lunatic American President acting as Bibi Netanyahu's energised toy. The Persian has done it with uttermost skill. The provocations have been exercises in genial pathology.
Top Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated near Tehran
27 Nov 2020
Iranian foreign minister condemned the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as an 'act of state terror' and linked Israel to the attack.
In 2015 the New York Times described Fakhrizadeh as the 'closest thing Iran has to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who guided the Manhattan Project to develop the world's first nuclear weapon.'
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh headed up the ministry of defence's research and innovation organisation, and he was ambushed and killed in his car just east of Tehran, by gunmen who opened fire on him and his bodyguards.
The assassination campaign against Iranian nuclear scientists reportedly ended in 2013 following pressure on Israel from the Obama administration to stop the attacks during negotiations with Iran to restrict its nuclear programme.[50][8][9] Mossad officials also reportedly concluded that the attacks were "too dangerous" for valuable intelligence operatives in Iran.[50] The organisation has since reportedly instructed its Iranian spy network to concentrate on finding evidence of Iranian breaches of its nuclear-restriction agreements.[50]
Although Israel is considered responsible for the 2010-2012 assassination campaign against Iranian nuclear scientists, uncertainty surrounds the 2007 death of Iranian scientist Ardeshir Hosseinpour. Hosseinpou
When the enemy murders only the best brains of your land, you need depth to absorb the enemy's madness and not be derailed from your purpose. Persia is one of the oldest running civilisations. The Islamic republic certainly has depth. And it shows in the character of her leadership.
When he received news of the murder of Qassem Suleimani, the Ayatollah must have thought of the day Imam Khomeini described as like drinking a cup of poison. But his mind held, forged by the trials of his predecessor, the founder of the Islamic republic. Today, with Turkey's secular variant on the back burner, young Muslims are increasingly studying the model offered by the Islamic republic of Iran. It has a vowed Islamic identity. On record are horrible stratagems tried by current and former great powers to kill the experiment off. All failed so far. It is a bad example to the status quo of global power. Be it Merkel or Xi or Putin or Biden, there is a calibre of leadership in Tehran which informs Cadavers abound at the top. Trump is an obvious case, but if you ask me, Boris Johnson of the UK and our neighbour, Yoweri Museveni, are in a no better state of decomposition than the collapsed Trump, awaiting burial at DC!
Qassem Suleimani, the people of his faith call him a martyr. Donald Trump, the people of his country now vomit all over him. Some countries do have 'em, leaders. --Ghenya!?
Look at the one near you! Dynast or Hustler prototype!
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---THE POLITICS OF THE ROAD FROM THE ICU TO THE MORGUE!
LISANGA YA BA-KADAVA ----A gathering of the cadavers.
All throughout the continent at large, the heads of state are engaged in the politics of the morgue.
The report highlights that Africa has the potential to do more, noting that its contribution to global trade remains marginal at 2.6 per cent, up from 2.4 percent in 2017, and that, while intra-African trade rose to 16 per cent in 2018 from 5 percent in 1980, it remains low compared to intra-regional trade in Europe and Asia.
But just below that top, Africa's resilience, life-drive and harsh battle for economic emancipation and justice, beats a healthy beat. For instance, to stay in power in Uganda, M7 must have his own son, commander of the army, lockdown and terrorise the whole country as if the elections were a total state of emergency. Otherwise he can't get away with his fraud against Bobi Wine.
But before we come to that and other dances of cadavers at the top, some will remember Signeur Tabu Ley Rochereau and his eternal rival, Franco Luambo Makiadi. These two fronted the two biggest bands in Congo-Zaire, Afrisa International and TPOK Jazz. We are talking late 60's all the way to the early 90's. Well, most of the warp-speed and whirlwind guitarists who blasted the techno soukous genre off the soukous-rhumba of the artistic signeur and the hyperbolic grandmaitre, in deed learnt their stuff at the two schools: OK Jazz and Afrisa international. At Afrisa, the fingering delved all the way back to the legendary Dr. Nico, his brother Dechaud Mwamba, and all the greats who soared along Joseph Kabaselleh at hispeak. Key among Nico's students would be the solo wizard Visi Mavatiku. Visi's guitar grid, and grip of the strings, would go along away in forging first, the later ultimate devil at the rhythm guitar, Mombasa Vata, famously of Lipua Lipua; and, much later, the dangerous juggler and head spinner, Lokassa ya Mbongo.
This Lokassa, alternately pairing along with solo string acrobats like Diblo Dibala and Dally Kimoko, would drive techno dance soukous to dizzying heights of tempo but, like Icarus too high near the sun, a dead-end. It was too hollow and needed too much drink and emptiness to go with it. A new crop of musicians, majorly composers would come to the front. Be they Werrason, Ferre Golla, Koffie d'Olomide or Wazekwa, they have striven to first compose a song before having it sung, recorded and performed. And it is to this end that the most severe, artistic and deep lyricist of the decades of their youth and maturity, Lutumba Simarro Massiya, has increasingly come to the fore as their obligatory shrine of tribute.
They say, with a touch of poetic superstition, a chant at Simarro's grave is a blessing to your next song!
LISANGA
Anyway, Tabu ley bumped into Franco on a chilly Paris day. There an idea was born to produce a memorable salute to their own ego's. It would be dubbed the gathering of the wizards: LISANGA YA BANGANGA. Contractual issues dictated it be produced far from the jurisdictions of the monopoly studios of Paris, then. But produced it was, and sweep Africa it did, forcing the producers to milk the formula by turning it into a series.
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As the famous musicians of yonder entered their sunset years, and sometimes with not much of a penny to pay necessarily health bills, they increasingly milked the formula of the gathering of wizards --Old Wizards but still wizards. One could still enjoy the legendary soprano of Nyboma --Les Kamale's--- Mwandindo, ever sweet and smooth along the nasals of Wuta Mayi, earlier famed in OK Jazz beside Josky and Boyibanda.
Yes, in music, Old continues to be Gold, even as they drop off one by one, to the Restland of no return.
In politics, however, Old continues to be what it has always been: sleepy, mouldy, stenchy, rotting, essentially cadaverous in various stages of decay. ---And that is where Kenya's good old politicians are; and, unfortunately, driving the second republic to. Perhaps we are already there, only we know not: the pit of debts of no-repay. The grave of bankruptcy where resurrection must need a fresh start, essentially the launch of a new republic. The third in a generation.
Kenya's Foreign Debt Suspended as Economy Struggles
11 January 2021
Amid a struggling economy, Kenya received a debt service suspension from January to the end of June by the Paris Club of international creditors on Monday, January 11.
The country filed for a Debt service suspension Initiative (DSSI) to the international creditor citing a number of reasons including the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the economy.
The 10 countries Kenya owes include Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Spain and the United States of America.
Observers to the agreement were representatives of the governments of Australia, Austria, Brazil, Finland, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Currently, Kenya's public debt is above 8 trillion Kenyan shillings.
Yes you did! You missed China in the roll call! (When you miss China in any table to do with Africa, please tap your nose and smile!)
A FUNERAL IN VIHIGA
Birds of a feather did flock together, at Mama Anna's carcass in Vihiga.
Gathered were the major cadavers of the land. The -- CiC-- cadaver in chief, Kenyatta, shivered as if an electric current were passed through him, well, in a last ditch attempt to jolt him unto some semblance of life. His deputy in name only, Ambitious Ruto, and his Tangatanga horde of recalcitrants have been, of late, dancing alot on the grave of the apparently late president, Kenyatta.
And behold, the cadaver, like a sickly-to-half-dead Mobutu returning to Kinshasha in his leopard skin while Kabila's forces were past Kananga on route to Kinshasha, shivered some and declared:
don't mistake a rain-beaten lion for a pus-sy.
'Usione simba amenyeshewa, udhani ni paka!'
The Roman crowd cheered. May be they cherished the prospect of their tiresome emperor comically donning the attire of a gladiator, foolishly entering the arena in the mistaken belief of his immortality, only to be rudely dispatched by the younger, more robust Hustler, in chief. After all, a few days earlier, the emperor's key lieutenant in his hometurf, Major Irungu Kangata, had all but thrown the towel in the ring. The whip had written a public resignation letter. The emperor was defenceless, a walking corpse. The crowd sensed an entertaining combat with a known end. Dead emperor!
And in deed, no sooner had Ruto stood his ground in the arena in Nairobi, endorsing Bishop Margaret Wanjiru in open defiance, than Ouru and Raila refrained from combat. This move left many grinning knowingly. A certain Kanani was sworn-in turbospeed as deputy governor. It was a furtive and tragi-comic show, reminiscent of Mwai Kibaki's swearing in as president, after he stole Raila's victory in 2007.
Anne Kananu Mwenda has been sworn-in as the Deputy Governor for Nairobi County.
Kananu took an oath of office during a ceremony held at Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi on Friday afternoon.
Her swearing-in came hours after Nairobi MCAs approved her nomination following a brief vetting process on Friday morning.
Kananu was vetted for about one hour by the assembly's Select Committee on Appointments after which the House convened for a special sitting to adopt the vetting report, which received the support of a majority of the MCAs.
The swearing-in of Kananu as the deputy governor means there will be no by-election in Nairobi to replace Sonko, who was impeached last month.
Kanani, a tail knowing which dog wags her, didn't mince her her tongue work.
Giving her speech after the swearing-in ceremony graced by Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohammed Badi, the Deputy Governor pledged to diligently serve Nairobi residents.
" I affirm my commitment to serve the people of Nairobi with utmost dedication, focus, discipline and integrity. I equally in the same vein commit to work and cooperate closely with NMS boss Major General Badi and his team to ensure the transferred functions are further strengthened to meet aspirations of Nairobians" she said.
Kananu also thanked President Kenyatta for showing his faith in her to serve in that position.
She further said that she will cooperate and work closely with Nairobi County Assembly.
And so the lion has roared in Nairobi. Dennis Waweru has been forced to flee back to the cages, to abide time. I always said: where is SIMBA ARATI to test the shock absorbers in his balls? Tangatanga packed behind William Ruto, daily hammering the Hustler narrative in slum-filled Nairobi, Sonko working the sewer behind them, needs an unfalsified iron-balled warrior to take the battle to them. Ouru and Raila recognise they currently don't have what it takes to win the priced Nairobi, and so they rushed-in a bureaucratic coup. What rests them is, like Evans Kidero, forget Nairobi completely and scurry off to somewhere far to retire. But that is no option, like Old Mugabe and LongHorn M7, they will dance their cadaver dance until they are speared dead, completely dead.
They say at Mama Anna's in Vihiga, the cadavers were test-launching Musalia Mudavadi to front the ticket against Ruto.
I am laughing. Kenya is in a triple crisis. There is need for a solution think-tank and a crisis manager. Weakly, surrendered Wycliffe is just the latest puppet balloon the cartel of looters would hide behind to strip the land to the bone.
If it has to be a Mulembe to exorcise the Nandi, I would rather the WTO technocrat, Mukhisa. Unless there is cause to imagine he would soon be domesticated by Ruto's magic wave, to, like so many Greek heroes at Kirke's, assume his cell in Ruto's harem, next to his fellow Mulembe, the late Ababu Namwamba!
You remember that once great promise from Budalangi!?
If you don't, at least you smell his stench all over the place ---even if, as a sophisticated hooker, he only opens his mouth to flatter and swallow! A scandalous cadaver of the Mulembe, Ababy Namwamba.
Pray hope, Mukhisa be different!
NEXT DOOR IN UGANDA: another cadaver dances its grave dance.
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WHY ADUKE WUOD ORANDO NOPENJO NDEGE PESA ADI
HOW MUCH DOES AN AEROPLANE COST? I AM IN A HURRY TO GO PLACES!
Ombach Aduke, the brother of Mito the son of Orando, hailing from around the Kit-Mikayi area of Seme in Kisumu county, had a tragic in-run with the colonial authorities. He calmly asked what the price of an aeroplane was; this was way back in the 1940's; the administrative map of Kenya looked very different from what it is today. Howbeit this question had more ticking bombs than its apparent comedy at first sight. The colonial authorities instinctively recognised their doom in it. And acted brutally. The colonial cage was a net worthless in capturing native imagination.
FF: The Hustler narrative dominating discourse today, is a seditious current whose potency we instinctively import. No question about that. There will be brutal mobilisation by the colonial elite to crush it. The comedy was the PUNDA IMECHOKA curtain-raiser, initiated by Dr goodly Aukot. It was an invading arrow which, futile, had embedded itself harmlessly on the door of the barricaded fort of the elites. But its tip carried a letter, and the guards who retrieved it read it well, and sent its shivering missive up: out there in the jungle beyond, hordes of barbarians were limbering in war-like anger. They were waiting for a daring man to lead them forward, to charge the fort.
William Ruto may be a charlatan, but he is no comedian like goodly Dr. Aukot. He offers a more steely challenge, and is an insider. We know it, and it is telling. Whether it is Kenyatta's son short-waving in his mother tongue ----watch that wry smile of Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o's face; or the aging Raila Odinga pretending a springy step around the land; or Atwoli the toad in a banter of hysterics, etc etc, the mask the warrior Ruto polishes, even if only ritual, is a death-knell only too audible and forcing reaction.
THE CAGE OF ECONOMIC STAGNATION NEEDS TO STIFLE IMAGINATION TOO
Let us lay our politicians aside for a second. After all, they are mucus-heads (Mwai Kibaki dubbed them mavi-ya-kuku, chicken-sh!t) who don't rank as the top brains of the land. They are hired goons and kept capo's; they are merely the top facilitators of grand theft, and in a few cases, top thieves themselves.
Theirs is to keep Kenya down for external rape. They are much in the mode of a pimp running a w-ho.
How China tricked Uhuru into signing off Mombasa port as collateral for SGR Loan
April 30, 2019
By Gordon Op
Did the Chinese deliberately lead our greedy and naive leaders into signing off our key assets only to leave the SGR hanging as a piece of useless investment?
Ethiopia got sh 340 billion shillings and built an Electric SGR of 756 km. Kenya got sh 500 billion and built a Diesel SGR of 600 km between Mombasa and Naivasha.
In other words, the Chinese deliberately knew that our officials were/ are hopelessly corrupt, but they mischievously trapped them into signing off our key assets for a loan that they knew was just a trap.
How can the same Bank give one Client - Ethiopia 340 billion to build a 756 km Electric Railway, and give another client sh 500 billion to build a diesel Railway of 600km?
They didn't really trick a dumb Kenyatta. Our best and brightest were in the room. There were no dumbo's, no fools in that room. The Kenyan elite simply conspired to INDIVIDUALLY accept a massive bribe in exchange for selling off the national silver.
Done voluntarily, in the real world it is called treachery. Done as a consequence of loosing a war, as in total defeat, then it is called capitulation, total surrender, national humiliation.
WHEN THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST ARE UP FOR SALE ON KOINANGE STREET
Super powers, emerging or fading, current or tomorrow's, ever prowl the Koinange streets of the world, choosing and cultivating their choice pieces of works. The going rates of rewards for quisling elites are encouraging.
We will take a dig at our best and brightest in high office ----the professor Magoha's, the Dr. Patrick Njoroge's; the Kamau Thugge's and Henry Rotichs; the Ukuru Yattani's and Joseph Kaimenyi's. These would-be exceptionally gifted young men turn out to be wayward technicians running the colonial farm, and not too competently neither. They have run the firm to the ICU, where it is on a permanent infuse of loans, debt relief morphine, and, god forbid, there is realistic fear that, by withdrawal, mortality is inevitable.
In short, our Ivy-League breed, monopolising the creamy posts, haven't had anything but a thoroughly mediocre run at the peoples' service. They have delivered naught to the people, neither at the economic front, health service, nor dignity. Can this breed be salvaged, or are they lost forever, to the future of Africa? This questions must be pondered with uttermost care: what to do about a wholescale deliberate worthlessness of an elite, easily switched by cash to a pre-programmed mode of national treachery.
I will insist for the moment to avoid the following comedy at the LSK . The LSK is a colony of learned friends, but also a cesspool of debauchery.
Lawyers almost come to blows at heated LSK meeting
By Brian Wasuna January 19th, 2021
The Special General Meeting (SGM) was called to discuss the appointment of auditors to probe LSK's books of accounts, deliberate on an impeachment motion against Mr Havi, the suspension of some council members and the appointment of advocates to represent the lobby in court cases involving internal wrangles.
Months of infighting have split the LSK into two factions-one backing Mr Havi and another on CEO Mercy Wambua's side.
Yesterday's SGM was called to settle the differences that have threatened to stall operations at the lawyers' umbrella body
Earlier on, October 20202:
Supremacy Battles Between LSK President Nelson Havi And Council Members Escalate As Troubled CEO Mercy Wambua Is Reinstated
it is a necessary intellectual collapse. What a vacuum, waiting for a few good minds! What a heap of dry trash, waiting for an arsonist!
But first, a tale from the past.
ACH-DUKE THE BROTHER OF MITO THE SON OF ORANDO
If my grandfather were to resurrect from his overgrown grave today, he would not recognise as ahangla, what we call ahangla music these days. Ahangla today is a purely electronic sound; it is mainstream; its content is commercial and reactionary in the main. It specialises in crooning for cash, flattering corrupt politicians and abusing moving women. Having aligned itself to current paymasters who, in the main again, are robber baron politicians and offside hustlers, mainstream ahangla stars have unpalatable asses to suck up to. That is when a lot of cultural depth becomes dangerous to delve into. You do that, you certainly wont have any radio playtime, not to mention YouTube. This will be flagged to block you, like recently in the case of Otieno Aloka, when he was charged with pornographic dissemination.
•16 aug. 2020
Otieno Aloka's new song Live performance lands him in trouble with Kenya Film Classification Board
However, in the ages past, O-hangla had a very different connotation as a music genre. In fact, I never cease to amaze myself, pointing out that, in a few decades, the mutation of content, form and meaning of ahangla, is a tribute the capacity of meaning to evolve, mutate and achieve potency in a completely different setting. Think of the word NEGRO (https://aaregistry.org/story/negro-the-word-a-history/).
Ahangla, then more of KALAPAPLA and pronounced with an O --as in Ohangla, was based on a specific shape of a drum, carved from a particular wood and covered with the skin of a monitor. And too, this reptilian hide had to be fashioned in a particular way. In the hands of a master, a single tap immediately jarred the heart, tickling the human pacemaker in mysterious ways. It had a dangerous potency, like those trance or voodoo bangs. Those who have bothered to understand why a Stradivarius (violin) is in sound class of its own, will click. Some will also have deciphered why Jimmy Hendrix or Luambo Makiadi would change guitars mid-concert for particular songs. Too, why some young saxophonists would kill for some old sax'es. SOUND is not just a sound word. Least of all, in music. And so Ahangla was the instrument, and the instrument gave name to the sound and music genre, Ohangla. But the good news today is this: the adventurous human spirit in creativity continues. the pianists (keyboard maniacs backed by genial drummers) are in an experimental rage as they investigate the limitless sound depths of the new electronic devices, even as the composers and crooners play tame and domesticate to earn daily bread. Yeah, they have to praise-sing, soothe and ego-build the corrupt and moribund elite, much like the feudal wives of a collapsing aristocracy, mesmerised by fading glory, had to keep up the appearances of a perfect marriage, much against their better instincts.
there is a catch:
When a culture goes to such extraordinary depths to produce artistic excellence, that instrument --ahangla or violin or sitar, even if co-opted and institutionalised into sterile, canonical court poetry, remains a latent reservoir of all dissident tendencies. Outside the court where it must flatter and fawn, mutant forms take root and shoot. This makes them, naturally, the best refuge for the frowned on aspects of expression. ---(talk about) seditious erotic dances (which remind the emasculated of treasonable pornographic activity); unselfcensored and uncouth language (Otieno Aloka); talk about all the stuff banned by evangelical churches; all that stuff deemed subversive by political orders, colonial or local';
Excellence doesn't flinch. It constantly pushes the boundaries, cutting down mediocrity and irrelevance. But also like the simplest tool, excellence becomes so daily in use as to be self-explanatory. It is a bit like a panga or hoe in the village, or Mpesa-FULIZA in the Kenyan mobile phone, a life line!
And so we come to the greatest danger every order faces. As it stagnates, it blocks emerging excellence. And it has no option but to block this emergency by ruthless power-play.
--Like the USA has to block superior Chinese 5G technology by all means necessary.
--The whole status quo has to stop the emerging experiment in Iran. We are all taught democracy has to be secular. Church totally separated from state. The experiment in Iran points to a viable ISLAMIC OPTION, or even solution, toward a democratic theocracy the peope can live with in open choice; just as in the West we have the bourgeois options that didn't do away with Royalties, ie the democratic monarchies of Scandinavia, Holland, the UK, (may be even Belgium!).
It is an array of solutions possible out there. (AN ASIDE: The monopolist WhatsApp was finding that out in the past weeks as it faced consumer flight and plummeting stocks).
But the worst aspect of a stagnated order, is that the fairly ordinary dreams of ordinary folk, become a shot too far. The order it ceases to offer a worthwhile future. At any particular time, the most futuristic sector of the society are the youth. Their uppity dreams need not be cosmic, nay, retiring comfortably as a member of the middle class after a long life of employed labour is a deal great enough for most. When a certain order makes it impossible to dream even of such silly dreams ---boy meet girl, boy and girl fall in love and live happily ever-after, it has outlived its social usefulness. With the majority of Kenyan youth ready to describe themselves as Hustlers, it would imply for the mass of teenagers, all they see coming at them are mirages. They are Hustlers and that is all they will ever be. That feeling of having reached a dead-end,
There are a few lords of the manor Kenya, and an endless count of serfs in the field. The future of the children and the grandchildren, can be read on the streets: Hustlers. Once upon a time we would say proletariat or, sociologically today, Precariat.
When a critical mass realises their fates are sealed in that system, the political situation tends toward unstable. Under colonialism, an increasingly aware African population realised they were only going anywhere the White Overloads prescribed. They were pre-defined birth to grave, their dreams and ideals were doomed to curtailment by the diktat of the colonist. That was when rebellion became the only option to expand the horizons of labour and life.
This is where the song about Mito the brother of Aduke comes in. The name of the Ohangla composer is lost.
Well, Mito
How did your brother earn the name -A duke!
Let me tell the story how I came to know of it
This ahangla drum will talk the truth of the world!
Well, Mito
You come from the race of the clever Orando
And so too does your brother, Famous Aduke
The whiteman had no time for Aduke's cleverness
And Aduke had no time for the whitemans stupidity!
Well Mito
You know it had to end badly --No!?
The best song is the one bred of tragedy
Aduke wanted to know the price of a plane
Two days with a train to Mombasa was a waste
And to Aduke, time was more important than money!
The whiteman laughed his yesterday's laugh
An African monkey asking the price of a plane!?
But the monkey was the White and their colonial order
Well, Mito of the Orando
Money losses made in business can be recovered
Time once gone can not be recovered, said Aduke
Your brother Aduke, his mind was winged
Your brother Aduke, his heart was a lion's
Colonial Kenya was a cage that killed him young
He wanted a self-financed return trip
Kisumu to Mombasa on the same day in 1931!
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Mito Aduke mowadu nopenjo Ndege,
Mito Aduke mowadu nopenjo ndege
Mito ndege pesa adi; Wuod Orando gini pesa adi?
Mito gini pesa adi adhi Mombasa t'aduogo -e sani
Mito gini pesa adi, adich adhi Mombasi to aduogo!
And this ahangla song from the 30's, catches the problem of today's Kenya.
Ouru, Industrialisesen pesa adi, wuod Onyatto gino pesa adi, alewo!
The economic room for many a young man to be their ordinary selfs, safely working class and middle class, looking to an adequate and peaceful retirement after a not so long life, is too narrow like that eye-needle of the camel story.
So something has to give soon. (Once upon a time industrialisation solved the problem of social stagnation).
Now, this instinctive realisation (of being buried in a pit of no escape) is the reason Ruto's narrative of Hustlers against Dynasties is causing so much hysteria. Uhuru Kenyatta went ethnic fo hours to dispel the charm of the Ruto narrative in mount Kenya. Raila Odinga is all Wild West Sherrif, guns blazing at Ruto; even the watermelon Musyoka has, how be it, grown a claw! Ruto has driven him into a corner and is approaching with a sledge hammer.
Musyoka squealed: Arap Mashamba! Arap Mashamba!
(But Musyoka forgot to quote the Ndung'u report!)
The Ndung'u report, yeah, that report: if you really want to talk about the Arap Mashamba's of Kenya!
NB: A charlatan can propagate a true gospel; and a prophet can be mistaken and preach the wrong faith. It is a time to think, and act on thought. But that would be very boring history, wouldn't it!
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SAGANA AND THE SECOND GENTLEMAN
I just couldn't help it. My old ribs creaked at hearing the title --official moniker they say, devised to veil the husband of the new vice president of the USA, Harris Kamala. The second gentleman it will be.
There will be control jokes I presume, wondering the case had Buttigieg won the elections. Buttigieg is a happily married gay. Who's is the wife in such a marriage? I think it is a Zeus the counsellor template, as in the famous Castor and Pollux arrangement. They alternate at penetration, and thus at official monikers.
Chasten Glezman, Pete Buttigieg's Husband:
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has been a break-out candidate in the Democratic primary for present. Pete Buttigieg speaks a lot about his partner, Chasten Buttegieg, and Chasten is an entertaining presence on Twitter.
Are they married, though? The answer is yes. Pete and Chasten Buttigieg are married. If Pete were able to secure the White House, that would make Chasten the country’s First Man. The candidate known as “Mayor Pete” will take the stage on Thursday, June 27, 2019 in the first Democratic primary presidential debate in Miami, Florida.
There parts of the world where the sanctity of marriage is surely eternal. And that is till Death (or God) do us part. The man who inherits a widow is, for example where I come from, invariably known as Jater, which is not a positive ring. The man marrying a divorcée is referred to as Oyie-Kawa, which has the connotation of scavenger. With an epidemic of widows and divorce as social realities, the land has become a waste belt of scavengers and collectors, And methinks there is need for a PR lift, you know, like the title His Excellency has no reference whatsoever to the character of the addressed. It is just the necessary hypocrisy of public relations. An exercise in political farce.
And so I will be happy to, without quotes, call Kamala's second or third or whatever husband, The Second Man. ---Oyie Kawa.
It is important to me, to wonder and ponder why such titles as Lord, Squire, Count, duke, prince and all the aristocratic shock-and-awe which once concurred natural privilege, condensed into the now ubiquitous sir. When you are in government eservice, or commercial service, all customers beggar official respect. Even your ever-dirty local bodaboda 'azzole', if male, is respectfully addressed as Sir. If the customer is female, even if you know she's a downtown one whose hinds bare for a quick shot to earn a pound, it will be Madam before or after the fastidious what can I do for you.
Where I come from, Mlango Kumi's, assistant chiefs, and such-like, are traditionally called Ruoth. But Ruoth --The Overseer, is also the title of Jesus Christ. It has always itched the sensitivities of the evangelists, this earthly sharing of titles. So they now croak Messiya Yesu instead of Ruoth Yesu.
THE SAGANA RETREAT
This weekend the big news at our local is the Sagana Caucus. It is a Mount Kenya affair, a Nyumba ya Mumbi domestic, but like an epidemic or an earthquake, only fools will think they are far from the epicentre. And there are no fools in Kenya as Ruto fondly ever reminds us. Sagana is therefore a peak into the future of Kenya.
Complications, the fading dynast of the landgrabbing first family, Muthamaki Kenyatta, will be surrounded by a host of characters who were rigged out at the primary elections of Jubilee. And this group has a grievance against William Ruto. They also think in a free and fair, they can carry the ground.
No one can say with certainty whether this is an exercise in self-deception.
Tangatanga and Ruto's allies are crying foul. Ostensibly they have successfully sold the narrative BBI is a no-sell in MK, but, should the rained-on-cat shrug and turn out a lion, roaring around the mountain and calling their bluff, they are unsure of their hold on the ground. This inability to predict the people completely even when the appear locked and sold, is the cause for great drama in human history.
Simeon Nyachae once stood up in public to declare no one in his right senses from the circumcised tribes could vote for an uncut like Raila Odinga! His own Gusii people, ever intermarrying which way with the uncut, were quick to inform him 'No, Nyachae will never vote for Odinga. But Mrs Nyachae will vote for him anytime with legs wide open!''
Simeon who thought he knew the heart of his Gusii people never recovered his political fortunes.
Ouru Kenyatta will have to swallow a lot of bile. His own. During the two vitriolic campaigns in 2013 and in the run to 2017, he is freely available in Gikuyu castigating Raila Odinga. Songs which carry his denunciations of Raila --evil, mgangha, mchawi, hater of Mumbi, shetani, freely aired on his mass media channels. Tangatanga has unearthed all of them and paid rappers to dub them in new anti-BBI hysteria. Ouru selling Raila in MK is essentially Ouru battling against his earlier injections of poison, his earlier fits of vomitting bile.
The Uhuruto Coin was welded at thermonuclear tempratures. That is no easy un-do.
There is a day the son of Ngina went berserk in 2017 I think ---when Tinga derided him for mlevi, na sio wa pombe pekee! (mwambie Ouru aache ile sigara mbaya!). With the national joke being strong Mumbi women battering up their husbands turned more alcohol loving than bed studs, Raila was being fatherly to the younger man, on the secrets of marital bliss! But Ouru didn't like it. In Gikuyu did Jomoson surge into an epileptic frenzy of insults, eventually collapsing into the Simeon Nyachae dictum: uncut dirt!
The clip is out loud, doing rounds in sponsored public address systems in Mount Kenya. This means, if he has to be his own antidote, he must at least generate equivalent passion in his defence of the BBI and promotion of the Handshake in Mount Kenya. Otherwise the people will easily smell the fakeness in his heart; they will offer him a polite listening then burry him in irrelevance.
Ouru has a chance. But it is not an easy pick. It is a fighting one. And His Excellency is his own greatest enemy. (He once told the Abagikuyu: it will be the darkest day in our history if this kerhee becomes prezzo.)
So now, what has changed that essentially?
He has to explain that beyond reasonable doubt. The lazy son of Jomo has his work cut out for him. He has to find the passion of the new Saul, now Paul.
Amen!
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THE NEW EMPEROR PARAPHRASES THE OLD EMPEROR'S WORDS
1. In ancient Rome, and in effect all slave societies heretofore, news of the demise of the old emperor raised a flicker of hope in the hearts of slaves. It is common knowledge: the one thing all slaves invariably dream of ---not daily but every single moment of their consciousness. It is called freedom.
Will the tightness of the chains around the ankles be relieved some? Will the crack of the iron-laced whip on the bareback be a shade less harsh? Or will the flesh-tearing iron-tips be wholly discarded, in the name of reform?
Will the starvation rations be upped a spoon full, or will it be the business of hunger as usual? Etc etc, flicker the troubles in the hearts of the inmates of the backyards of civilisation.
Alas, very soon does the horrid reality of economic necessity settle in. The new emperor is hard-up. The treasury is tanking and tanking debt too; the rate of extraction has to intensify even more. The slave has to cough up the deficit. This will need his body broken up more, his spirit hopefully too. The new order is the old order, only harsher due to maturing debt pressures.
Debt can be that sinister.
To date, history has not shown any level of institutionalised terror which broke the drive of the human spirit toward freedom. Thereto do all parasitic orders always have a fight on their hands, and increasingly, a war. (the question thus must be asked in the open: is the Kenyan elite a parasitic entitty!?)
Sometimes that conflict manifests itself in comical ways, like in this republic of Kenya where there was once talk of .... not a class war, but a war between the Tribe of Hustlers and the ruling clan of Dynasties. Two tragi-comical events are remembered in the week of peace in which the holy remains of the former eternal dictator, DT Arap Moi, were, in an act of political fetishism and pagan corpseworship, called upon by the Dynasts in fellowship. Such rituals serve to infer divine rights to rule, aka mandates of heaven and historicity.
The Lord Protector of the Hustlers wasn't invited of course. And if he was, he showed mental independence by refusing to endorse the Moi cult. One notices the gusto and determination with which he professed loyalty to the alternative Samoe arap Koitalel cult. ---Eeh, which of the two shrines is the keeper of your Nandi passions now!? And can the two cults, Moi and Koitalel, be united?
(Usually it requires a killer puncher to unite disputed championships. Think of a ferocious puncher like Mike Tyson in his hey days, or a super skilled killer artist in the ring like Mohammed Ali in his top form days. Mediocre warriors can never unite a disputed belt, or throne if you wish. In which case think of the calibre of the men who united Vietnam, Ho and Vo, or the calibre of kina Mao and Deng, who united China ---and confined the Qing dynasty to oblivion. At such scales, the local derby between the cousins Gideon and William is a toy fight. I therefore correctly treat it as stand-up comedy in a goat market during the meaty Christmas season.
The two memorable events thus were 91) what unfolded in Kisii and (2) Nairobi separately. Nairobi was a weeping and wailing Mike Mbuvi Sonko. He was being thrown into jail, majorly for insolence.
I handle that elsewhere.
Kisii was of course the famous muppet show, this time Arati versus Osoro, with the trailer-wide hips of Millicent Omanga in swing. Ringside were the two protagonists for the Uhuru succession, Raila and Ruto. What is remarkable about these events is not their comical quality, but their viciousness and savagery. Below the thin film of a peaceful Kenya are strong currents which have compacted the hearts of opposants into ruthless streaks. The destruction of Mike Sonko is an open display of that streak. The chilling mercilessness, murderous intensity between the two Kisii boys, is an open shot across the bow of complacent tribalism.Bewarned Hustler versus Dynast pitch is a chasm that cracks even the solid wall of tribal belonging.
It points to a dramatic resolution.
2. KING JOE BIDEN MAKES A FOREIGN POLICY PITCH
The King is dead, Long live the King. Exit Donald the Trump, enter Uncle Joe. Trump was a barbarian, uncle Joe will deny him intelligence which, customarily, is not denied ex presidents of the USA. We are back to civilisation with this Obama-era Vice President.
And that is where the slave anecdote comes in. ---what hopes do we catch flickering in the hearts of the inmates of the slave belts of the South? And, as a matter of fact, what cheers did flicker, even for a furtive second of human weakness before Hope, in the hearts of the leaders of the rump of the once triad of Axis of Evil: North Korea and Iran. How about in the hearts of the tyrannical duo of Xi and Putin?
Xi Jin Pin has seen the pride of China, Huawei, smashed by Donald Trump, while Putin has nearly suffered a heart attack as the zig-zaggy Angel Merkel almost buckled under pressure from Donald Trump to completely abandon Nordstream Two. Earlier on, the Brzezinski kid Barrack Obama had moved to smash Assad's Syria to allow for an energy pipeline from Saudi Arabia to run to Europe, to wean Europe off Russia's gas. Trump was running the same policy, only harder and lacking in the subtleness of Obama.
EMPEROR OBAMA AND LIBYA'S 14O TONNES OF GOLD
The Empire Strikes Back
Well, according to the rules of the Colonial Empire, sub-Saharan Africans are not allowed to be successful. Nor Arabs – unless they are Saudis or vassals of the Saudis. Therefore, Gaddafi had to go.
According to the VZGLIAD piece, Clinton’s correspondence reveals that the Americans were worried about Libya’s huge reserves of gold and oil. Their chief worry was that Gaddafi — as he had sometimes promised to do — would use Libyan gold as the basis for a pan-African currency. Which would have fit beautifully into the proposed pan-African development bank whose goal was to turn sub-Saharan Africa, especially the African “Francophone” nations, into “tiger-states” of economic boom.
These plans were seen to go against the interests of both the U.S. and also its vassal, France, which was eager to regain military/economic influence in its ex-colonies in Africa.
And so did Obama move to destroy Libya. But part of Libya's sovereign wealth was Russian investment. The phone call in which Vladimir Putin asks Obama to state clearly whether the United states had no intention to return the Russian wealth they had –--ignorantly or accidentally??--- stolen along with Libya's confiscated resources is legendary. But Barrack was a too smart and cold-blooded original. Realising he had been tricked by Clintonites and their security proteges in the CIA, Barrack conceded the point to Putin. This concession would later allow Putin to give Obama a way out on the issue of Syrian chemical weapons. Once again, when the Clintonite apparatus locked him into a combat situation with Russia.
Uncle Joe may not have the cold-blooded smarts of the ace imperial kid, Barack Obama. The last of the best students of Zigbniew, the geo-political chess gamer and rabid Russophobic.
Two.
Well, the fog of succession is now cleared. Uncle Joe has set his priorities. Unlike Trump, he wont put gloves in his punches at Russia and China. It will be steel all the way to the hilt. How about Iran? Well, the terrorist republic of
Islam will return unconditionally to the –--Obama initiated--- JCPOA deal which Trump Unilaterally tore up, before Biden will consider them worthy of a glance.
And so, only in the minds of the most naive of slaves have times changed for the better. Just as it will boil over in Kenya, so will it boil over at the top of the world. The only available peace, will the the one of MAD. The one which keeps Israel from attacking Iran: mutually assured destruction.
Meanwhile this historical constant: freedom stays the dream beating time beneath the breasts of all inmates. ---tell that to the Palestinians, Kurds, Uighurs, Ugandans or even Kashmiris!
The King is dead! Long live the King!
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AWAY WITH THAT SCUMBAG OF A SONKO!
''Larry Flint versus the people: 'if the law can protect a scumbag like me, it will surely
protect all thee goodly people!' –--If you remember his parting shot in that movie.
‘First They Came’ by Pastor Martin Neimöller is a powerful poem that explores the nature of responsibility in times of war and persecution. But natural born fence sitters need not worry. They have no faculty for a guilt complex.
FIRST THEY CAME
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a trade
unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
Of them all, one can say Mike Sonko is the genuine Hustler. He hustled his way up from Matatu tout, matatu owner, up to the Nairobi governorship. He didn't loot public funds on his way up. He hasn't sold Kenyans poisonous sugar, poisonous maize nor substandard and laced drugs like the ones certified by the National Lab and bureau of standards. Yake ilikuwa KAUNGA SAFI, better quality than his Kiambu counterpart's :*! If Sonko is charged with terrorism, those who imported, sold and distributed cancerous sugar and contaminated maize, should and will be –--if the hustlers win the presidency---- charged with attempted mass murder, say, conspiracy to visit genocide upon the Kenyan people in toto.
Sonko's victimisation and political liquidation by the establishment, is therefore a validation of the thesis of Dr. William Ruto, that the Dynasties are out to destroy the Hustlers, or put another way, there is a life and death struggle between the two opposing camps.
Mike Sonko, a thing from the sewer, tressapssed to the high table of the nobility. He gate crushed the party of the aristocracy and dynasties. He has to be shown his place with singular ruthlessness. He has to be confined to the cellars, like the twin to the King of France, the alleged author of the legend of the man in the iron mask.
In cutting down Sonko and continuing to chop him to bits, the dynasts ferociously profess their social superiority. They uphold not their class solidarity, but lineage exclusivity therein. It is the fallacy of all inbreeding. They are bred to rule, the rest are chaff; they are bred to monopolise
state power, they are bred to abuse power and get away with it. Any lowly mortal, thing of inferior birth who stands in their way, like Mbuvi Sonko who CHEWED both their blue-eyed boys, Peter Kenneth and Patrick Igathe, to dust, must face the wrath of injured royalty. It is the socio pathological ruthlessness of a restoration and, in part, a bloody warning at William Ruto, The pretender Hustler King and challenger It is also meant to intimidate and disperse his hustler entourage; ultimately to isolate him and politically make it easier to destroy him.
This, Ruto would, as a warrior, instinctively recognise.
When the laws of the land are mobilised in a one-sided show like has befallen the likes of Mbuvi Sonko and Miguna Miguna, it raises a fearsome prospect. That arbitrariness can be returned in kind. If the Hustlers win, then in a winner takes all euphoria, it could easily be payback day at the address of the dynasts. Pretexts galore.
A question of vindu vichenjanga. Booms can boomerang.
NO WAY BACK
It is for this reason that the fearful dynasties can leave nothing to chance, much less in the hands of the swaysome people, aka the electorate. The next election, if
Ruto makes it to the ballot box, must be rigged to his disadvantage. A vengeful Ruto holding the levers of power, will surely cut down the dynasties with a touch of delighted malice. We, thinking of that poem, who are unmoved by Sonko's tears today, will in the same way be unmoved by the tears of the dynasts tomorrow as they face the one-sided music. I told you so, we will fence-sit with amused hearts.
The last way for the dynasties to avert that possibility is to rig the next election, so to be absolutely sure Ruto looses. And, farce, the repetition of history! let the Hustlers crown their Hustler president at Uhuru Park –---if they dare!
Muiga's legacy, is as shambolic as his overfat gait!
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AWAY WITH THAT SCUMBAG OF A SONKO!
''Larry Flint versus the people: 'if the law can protect a scumbag like me, it will surely
protect all thee goodly people!' –--If you remember his parting shot in that movie.
‘First They Came’ by Pastor Martin Neimöller is a powerful poem that explores the nature of responsibility in times of war and persecution. But natural born fence sitters need not worry. They have no faculty for a guilt complex.
FIRST THEY CAME
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a trade
unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
Of them all, one can say Mike Sonko is the genuine Hustler. He hustled his way up from Matatu tout, matatu owner, up to the Nairobi governorship. He didn't loot public funds on his way up. He hasn't sold Kenyans poisonous sugar, poisonous maize nor substandard and laced drugs like the ones certified by the National Lab and bureau of standards. Yake ilikuwa KAUNGA SAFI, better quality than his Kiambu counterpart's :*! If Sonko is charged with terrorism, those who imported, sold and distributed cancerous sugar and contaminated maize, should and will be –--if the hustlers win the presidency---- charged with attempted mass murder, say, conspiracy to visit genocide upon the Kenyan people in toto.
Sonko's victimisation and political liquidation by the establishment, is therefore a validation of the thesis of Dr. William Ruto, that the Dynasties are out to destroy the Hustlers, or put another way, there is a life and death struggle between the two opposing camps.
Mike Sonko, a thing from the sewer, tressapssed to the high table of the nobility. He gate crushed the party of the aristocracy and dynasties. He has to be shown his place with singular ruthlessness. He has to be confined to the cellars, like the twin to the King of France, the alleged author of the legend of the man in the iron mask.
In cutting down Sonko and continuing to chop him to bits, the dynasts ferociously profess their social superiority. They uphold not their class solidarity, but lineage exclusivity therein. It is the fallacy of all inbreeding. They are bred to rule, the rest are chaff; they are bred to monopolise
state power, they are bred to abuse power and get away with it. Any lowly mortal, thing of inferior birth who stands in their way, like Mbuvi Sonko who CHEWED both their blue-eyed boys, Peter Kenneth and Patrick Igathe, to dust, must face the wrath of injured royalty. It is the socio pathological ruthlessness of a restoration and, in part, a bloody warning at William Ruto, The pretender Hustler King and challenger It is also meant to intimidate and disperse his hustler entourage; ultimately to isolate him and politically make it easier to destroy him.
This, Ruto would, as a warrior, instinctively recognise.
When the laws of the land are mobilised in a one-sided show like has befallen the likes of Mbuvi Sonko and Miguna Miguna, it raises a fearsome prospect. That arbitrariness can be returned in kind. If the Hustlers win, then in a winner takes all euphoria, it could easily be payback day at the address of the dynasts. Pretexts galore.
A question of vindu vichenjanga. Booms can boomerang.
NO WAY BACK
It is for this reason that the fearful dynasties can leave nothing to chance, much less in the hands of the swaysome people, aka the electorate. The next election, if
Ruto makes it to the ballot box, must be rigged to his disadvantage. A vengeful Ruto holding the levers of power, will surely cut down the dynasties with a touch of delighted malice. We, thinking of that poem, who are unmoved by Sonko's tears today, will in the same way be unmoved by the tears of the dynasts tomorrow as they face the one-sided music. I told you so, we will fence-sit with amused hearts.
The last way for the dynasties to avert that possibility is to rig the next election, so to be absolutely sure Ruto looses. And, farce, the repetition of history! let the Hustlers crown their Hustler president at Uhuru Park –---if they dare!
Muiga's legacy, is as shambolic as his overfat gait!
I stopped reading where, without bating an eyelid and shamelessly highlighting in red you typed "He didn't loot public funds on his way up". In Kenyan politics the default is all politicians are thieves until proved innocent. Not even a Governor's salary can buy all this gold
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Seem you didnt get the peotic play of words by mfangano, he started by calling Sonko a " real hustler" to the "yake ilikuwa kaUnga Safi"
In U.S. this was a word which transformed from hassle in the true meaning to hustler a person who uses all means to try and make it or get it. In the ghettos of 80s during the crack epidemic a hustler mean a crack dealer.
In Mombasa Drugs are called Unga. What he is try to drive is that Sonko made it by dealing in drugs probably due to The American ambasadoe report tabled in parliament which mentioned Kabogo, Joho, Mwau as dealers. However fact is Sonko made his money by selling beach plots in Kwale, the drug dealer from coast is well known.
AWAY WITH THAT SCUMBAG OF A SONKO!
''Larry Flint versus the people: 'if the law can protect a scumbag like me, it will surely
protect all thee goodly people!' –--If you remember his parting shot in that movie.
‘First They Came’ by Pastor Martin Neimöller is a powerful poem that explores the nature of responsibility in times of war and persecution. But natural born fence sitters need not worry. They have no faculty for a guilt complex.
FIRST THEY CAME
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a trade
unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).
Of them all, one can say Mike Sonko is the genuine Hustler. He hustled his way up from Matatu tout, matatu owner, up to the Nairobi governorship. He didn't loot public funds on his way up. He hasn't sold Kenyans poisonous sugar, poisonous maize nor substandard and laced drugs like the ones certified by the National Lab and bureau of standards. Yake ilikuwa KAUNGA SAFI, better quality than his Kiambu counterpart's :*! If Sonko is charged with terrorism, those who imported, sold and distributed cancerous sugar and contaminated maize, should and will be –--if the hustlers win the presidency---- charged with attempted mass murder, say, conspiracy to visit genocide upon the Kenyan people in toto.
Sonko's victimisation and political liquidation by the establishment, is therefore a validation of the thesis of Dr. William Ruto, that the Dynasties are out to destroy the Hustlers, or put another way, there is a life and death struggle between the two opposing camps.
Mike Sonko, a thing from the sewer, tressapssed to the high table of the nobility. He gate crushed the party of the aristocracy and dynasties. He has to be shown his place with singular ruthlessness. He has to be confined to the cellars, like the twin to the King of France, the alleged author of the legend of the man in the iron mask.
In cutting down Sonko and continuing to chop him to bits, the dynasts ferociously profess their social superiority. They uphold not their class solidarity, but lineage exclusivity therein. It is the fallacy of all inbreeding. They are bred to rule, the rest are chaff; they are bred to monopolise
state power, they are bred to abuse power and get away with it. Any lowly mortal, thing of inferior birth who stands in their way, like Mbuvi Sonko who CHEWED both their blue-eyed boys, Peter Kenneth and Patrick Igathe, to dust, must face the wrath of injured royalty. It is the socio pathological ruthlessness of a restoration and, in part, a bloody warning at William Ruto, The pretender Hustler King and challenger It is also meant to intimidate and disperse his hustler entourage; ultimately to isolate him and politically make it easier to destroy him.
This, Ruto would, as a warrior, instinctively recognise.
When the laws of the land are mobilised in a one-sided show like has befallen the likes of Mbuvi Sonko and Miguna Miguna, it raises a fearsome prospect. That arbitrariness can be returned in kind. If the Hustlers win, then in a winner takes all euphoria, it could easily be payback day at the address of the dynasts. Pretexts galore.
A question of vindu vichenjanga. Booms can boomerang.
NO WAY BACK
It is for this reason that the fearful dynasties can leave nothing to chance, much less in the hands of the swaysome people, aka the electorate. The next election, if
Ruto makes it to the ballot box, must be rigged to his disadvantage. A vengeful Ruto holding the levers of power, will surely cut down the dynasties with a touch of delighted malice. We, thinking of that poem, who are unmoved by Sonko's tears today, will in the same way be unmoved by the tears of the dynasts tomorrow as they face the one-sided music. I told you so, we will fence-sit with amused hearts.
The last way for the dynasties to avert that possibility is to rig the next election, so to be absolutely sure Ruto looses. And, farce, the repetition of history! let the Hustlers crown their Hustler president at Uhuru Park –---if they dare!
Muiga's legacy, is as shambolic as his overfat gait!
I stopped reading where, without bating an eyelid and shamelessly highlighting in red you typed "He didn't loot public funds on his way up". In Kenyan politics the default is all politicians are thieves until proved innocent. Not even a Governor's salary can buy all this gold
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OF FALSE STARTS AND DECORATED TOY BOYS!
It is always instructive to read, understand and deconstruct the colonial play-book. Colonialism defrauds the people of their say in public afffairs; colonialism defrauds the people of their wealth and fair fruits of their labour, but worst, colonialism defrauds the people of their full potential, of productivity. Colonialism is therefore a very minimalistic definition of the human condition, yeah, the narrowest of horizons.
Such systems are easily doomed. But soldier on, they will give it their best shots.
At every venture, as the tide of African nationalism steadily rose in the British holding called Kenya (and the affiliated East African colony in total), the English Home Office and her appendage, the local white settler class, engaged in a series of gimmicks and stratagem's to hoodwink and outwit the increasingly impatient aspirations of the natives.
Hold this in mind as we proceed. Do file it in the category of proverbial African sayings, like: when you see toads jump in broad daylight, know thee ....
JUDE NJOMO RINGS A BELL!
NAIROBI, Kenya Feb. 20 2021 - The Parliamentary Caucus on Economy and Business has proposed a raft of radical reforms to inject fiscal discipline into the national budgeting process and to ensure the national debt remains at sustainable levels.
Speaking during the a two-day stakeholders' engagement forum in Mombasa County, the Parliamentary Caucus which is chaired by Kiambu Town MP Jude Njomo emphasised on the need to enhance the independence of the National Debt Office and the strengthening of budget implementation monitoring and evaluation framework.
There is one sum one never hears from the top: push down graft to less than two percent, from the current 30-35%. Hmmm :-\
To stay in business, the colonists tried it all; divide and rule they did; religion and art they did; and what have you they did too, all to maintain their grip on the African majority population, subjugated. Recent declassifications of secret strategy's reveal even a more absurd if sinister preparedness. But they are all symptomatic of the ever desperate nature of institutionalised oppression, in the face of a looming rebellion by the majority.
The colonial authorities contracted many rogue anthropologists; they investigated the use of rituals and witchcraft to scare off demands for black self-rule! They used prepared Waganga's as INFLUENCERS. In a particularly comical session, Shaman's were induced to proclaim the ancestors had spoken to them, instructing them the future of the African was best left in the hands of the --godsent-- Whiteman, wherefore Obedience to the will of the Colonist was both the word of God and the will of the Ancestors. The establishment churches had of course, long from the beginning, been co-opted to inculcating surrender to the (white) master race. --This ideological dispensation was at the base of the development of the African Inland Churches. These were the first to reclaim spiritual autonomy.
Another key canon in the colonial play-book of dominance, was keeping Africans ignorant and unskilled. This was done by denial of schooling except for a select few sons of collaborator chiefs. The rest and hordes was being groomed for menial tasks, dare I say hassling, which desired no noteworthy intellectual exertion nor any particularly sophisticated artisanship. In apartheid South Africa, this became known as Bantustan education. Functional illiteracy. Products would be good for the domestics ... well (like that bad labour joke in Kenya about what the goodly people of Ingoo like Atwoli, Weta, Mudavadi, Oparanya, Kituyi, Khalwale ... are good for!)
TOWARD AN EDUCATIONAL REFORM?
If one compares the achievement of the recently risen Asian tigers ---Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia etc, one will notice the primacy of the educational reform. For Taiwan to emerge as the smart-microchip epicentre of the computer world, for Samsung to emerge as the smartest company of the world's consumer electronics, for North Korea to gatecrush into the nuclear club in isolation, for Malaysia to declass IMF and World Bank economists into functional illiterates, and for Singapore to chart its meteoric path, the first rule in classical economics was obeyed. Labour was invested with massive relevant skills to sky-rocket its abilities and productivity. Technical education was popularised, made available to all, all talents harnest and deployed to the best and yes, common sense prevailed. (Common sense is the limitation of graft, and where found, ruthless punishment. The likes of Ruto would hang for Weston Landgrab, Weta for Turkana oil blocks, and for the SGR land inflated rates, half the Mpigs would be beheaded!)
Taiwan manufacturer TSMC now controls 51% of global chip market
TSMC is one of only two companies in the world that can produce chips with the 5nm architecture
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Over the past year, [url-https://asiatimes.com/2020/08/why-taiwan-is-at-the-heart-of-a-microchip-struggle/]Taiwan has taken[/url] a lead in the race to build thinner, faster and more powerful chips, or semiconductors. Its fastest chips are the critical building blocks of rapidly evolving digital industries like artificial intelligence and high-speed computing. The thinnest chips will be powering the coming "Internet of things," in which homes, cars, appliances and even clothes will connect to smartphones and voice-activated speakers over 5G networks.
As of now, any country looking to dominate the digital future has to buy these superfast, ultrathin chips from either Taiwan or South Korea. And Taiwan has the edge in both technology and market power. It is a small island of just 24 million people, but it is at the center of the battle for global technological supremacy.
If you have not been to the neighbouring village, you will be excused for the delusion the best cooks and the most beautiful ladies are all found in your village.
I am thinking of stellar inaptitude of the likes of Bi Amina, Fred Matiang'i and now Goerge Magoha, as excusable infatilism. These are some of the names lately ---- as bureaucratic or politico-technocratic heads----- found wandering like headless chicken at the Kenyan department of education. One with the sharps recognises instinctively the BANTUSTAN MODEL in place here. That is why our children are burning them schools. They are unreformed Bantustan sh!t pits, they are sharpening skills no one going places needs. Kenya is going nowhere, anytime soon. It is a stagnant pool. We are yet to go back to basics: a roaring educational system, turbo-charged skills for road masters to run double-digit economic paces. Such a system will mobilise the mass talents of labour power in our people and, charge and organised, unleash their all the process of grabbing the future for the nation, and the coming generations.
The cornered colonial system, in a last ditch attempt, settled on the bribery of the anointed, thoroughly corrupted elite. They backed them up by state machinery, military firepower and some economic subsidy. It was outright dictatorship ---the type inevitable also after one rigs elections! As for Kenya (unlike the Rhodesians and South African whites), the settlers went bankrupt and into recievership by the colonial office in London. London took over the running of the economy (debt) but soon realised it was a bottomless pit and thus began the preparation for more native participation, independence so called.
The issue of money and debt, must therefore take place of pride in any political analysis. Independence can be a word, DEBT isn't. Debt is like hunger or thirst; when they strike, even the toughest mental discipline can't ignore the pangs thereof in the belly or throat.
Ukur Yattani is tanking, and sinking, like a Kenyan white settler in the 1950's. But he smiles like an innocent baby, totally innocent of the ways, and evils of the worlds of them teary-eyed, sympathetic crocodiles
HALF YEAR DEBT RELIEF FOR KENYA
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 20- China has offered Kenya a debt break of Sh27 billion that was due for payment between January and June 2021.
National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani said following talks with authorities in Beijing, Kenya will be required to pay the debt later.
China in Talks With Kenya for Debt Relief After Paris Club Deal
China is in talks with Kenya on a debt-service suspension deal, its embassy in Nairobi said, days after the Paris Club agreed to delay $300 million in payments by the East African nation.
Paris Club Delays $300 Million of Kenya Debt-Service Dues
China Lenders Freeze $2.1 Billion Debt Payments for Poor Nations
Kenya applied for waivers under the DSSI framework for about 40.6 billion shillings ($368.7 million) due in the first half of this year.
Chinese loans comprised 21% of Kenya's external debt, compared with the World Bank's 25% at the end of June 2020, according to a National Treasury report.
Sovereign bondholders held another 19%, commercial banks 11% and the African Development Bank 7.5%.
That is the mess our educational system is not producing the financial engineers to arrest. --KEEP!
ENTER THE BBI
The magic wand in town is of course the Building Bridges Initiative. The wishful thinking embeded therein is stupendous. With one year to go, Uhuru Kenyatta, a totally failed president, imagines he has, at long last, found statement of mission and legacy definition. What a sorry backhole. On the other side of the handshake is his elder brother, Amollo Tinga, the old soldier fading fast but incapable of graceful retirement. With the vicious young bull calling their bluff with every crow in the arena, the two princess from the leading Gikuyu and Luo royal houses have opted to spend the limited cash on bribery and the chicanery of short-term political fixes. MCA's and Parliamentarians have been bribed with the so-called car-loans, and god knows who else with the massive loots that plague the treasury and Tendersland.
Remember, even as Yattani finds the billions to bribe overrated and overpaid politicians, the health system all but collapsed in the pandemic period, with health workers on strike all over the place ---going for months without salaries. Not to mention the unavailability of protective gear, with fatal results.
Kenya loses senior surgeon Daniel Alushula to COVID-19
By Citizen Reporter For Citizen Digital
The Kenyan medical fraternity has lost another doctor Daniel Alushula to COVID-19.
Also Read: Doreen Lugaliki becomes first Kenyan doctor to succumb to COVID-19
According to the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU), Dr. Alushula worked as a senior surgeon in Busia County.
"The medical profession is mourning the death of a Senior Orthopedic Surgeon Dr Daniel Alushula due to COVID-19 complications. The deceased was working at Busia County Referral Hospital," KMPDU said on Twitter.
Also Read: Homa Bay nurse dies of COVID-19 complications a week after giving birth
Kenya lost its first doctor to COVID-19 in July; Dr. Doreen Adisa Lugaliki died four days after being admitted to hospital.
Another doctor, Dr. Yussuf Abdi who worked as a senior public health officer in Wajir County succumbed to COVID-19 during the same month.
In early August, a nurse in Homabay also passed away after battling coronavirus in an Intensive Care Unit.
Dr. Ndambuki Mboloi, a senior pulmonologist, passed away on August 13.
Dr. Stephen Mogusu succumbs to COVID-19 complications
By Citizen Reporter For Citizen Digital
Published on: December 7, 2020
Doctors also complain about not receiving adequate personal protective gear. The union says all their requests are met with silence.
As of November 4, Kenya had lost 32 medical workers to COVID-19, with 10 of them succumbing to the disease within two weeks.
Medics who died from coronavirus in November include Dr. Hudson Alumera (periodontal surgeon); Prof. A J O Were (nephrologist) and Dr. Nira Patel (dental surgeon).
AND, ORDERS ARE ORDERS!
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SRC chairperson Lyn Cherop Mengich during a press conference on MPs' house allowances on May 15, 2019.
THE BBI BRIBE?
Public outcry has greeted the move by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission to approve car grants for MCAs.
On Tuesday, SRC chairperson Lynn Mengich, in a memo to Council of Governors chairman Martin Wambora, gave counties the greenlight to process Sh4.5 billion for the MCAs and assembly speakers.
But opinion leaders criticised the SRC for giving in to President Uhuru Kenyatta's order to approve the cash as part of the goodies lined up for MCAs to pass the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020.
The move will see each of the 2,237 MCAs get Sh2 million. It is seen as a slap in the face of taxpayers.
Former Mandera Senator Billow Kerrow said the SRC is now under state capture and is being used to facilitate the passage of the bill in the 47 assemblies.
It is a false start, whatever the BBI is meant to achieve. It gets into play by an act of political fraud and financial bribery to a select group of mercenary, would-be public representatives. If that is the way to bring a new age of enlightenment to your country, be sure you are headed for more dark. And light will always call the bluff of darkness. We are at a sorry place. But luckily, we are infants with minders who wont let us hurt ourselves too badly.
That is one of the benefits of being a neo-colony located at a strategic place! You can't always be left to your own stupid self to be a nuisance to everybody. And so SANTA CLAUS always comes with the aforementioned DEBT RELIEFS!
Ukur Yattani, David Rotich, Patrick Njoroge or whoever on the Kenya shilling: you thought they were anything more than toy boys?
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THE VIRTUES OF DIFFUSED POWER
Who is the most powerful man in Kenya?
That this question can not be answered without a doubt in a second, illustrates just how fluid power is in this republic of ours. A plus if I have to confess.
Officially, we know who the commander in chief is. We know the sworn man, upon whose hands, legally, the most power is invested. His name is probably Ouru Kenyatta; but we all remember how in the thick of the fight :D against corruption, a war he himself had declared, he broke down in public wailing inconsolable: 'MNATAKA NIFANYE NINI, JAMEMI! Sina uwezo yee!'
He was not joking of course. Honest baby. Neither was he cashing time, being a drama queen like an unhinged Nero of a burning Rome.
Nay, the son of Jomo was telling it as it was, and still is: he is in office but not in power.
Again, recently, in a transparent warning to his deputy who has gone rogue, Muigai warned us against being fooled to mistake a rain-beaten lion for an emasculated pussycat; alas, his bluff was immediately called by the ambitious and decided.
Consequently we muddle on as before. The president of the hidden lion traits has been forced to parade a wasted crew as his public face of BBI marshals. The Super Seven!
It is a noteworthy photo, a tell-all. The aces!
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President Uhuru Kenyatta with party leaders Gideon Moi (Kanu), Musalia Mudavadi (ANC), Kalonzo Musyoka (Wiper), Raila Odinga (ODM), Charity Ngilu (Narc) and Moses Wetang'ula (Ford Kenya) during a joint press briefing at State House, Nairobi, on Thursday. [PSCU] [/i]
Intense pressure is mounting on the 'Super Seven' to strike a delicate balance in facilitating passage of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) while also maintaining a united front good enough to form a post-referendum government.
They do not look like the future. These Super Marshalls of the field are all late. They are fatigued crap. Even for foreign masters that be, they are too limpy horses.
And even if the (BBI) boat have to rowed with the available oars, the bickering cowardly trio of Weta, Kalo and Mudavadi, cut more a picture of a Quixotic high command than that of a doer-gang. They are a scarecrow everybody immediately recognises to be below, far below the fear threshold of The Hustler captain. Win or loose by-elections in their countryside wards, everyone recognises in them the cowards of the country. In deed, the country didn't need Raila to remind her, though the fading ODM captain did, with his depressed body language. --When you are going to battle against William the Conqueror and you are parading known cowards in your corner, you have reason to be forlorn.
The fabled deep state, and the accompanying most powerful person in Kenya if ever there can be one, can not be that desperate, nor ridiculous enough to offer the sordid past as the bright future. That would be the farce before the national tragedy.
Thus, meseems, every boy and girl understands there has to be a deeper plan, from the deep state. It can't be the comedy of fronting Gideon Moi to read the riot order to Ruto, with Madam Ngilu being charitable beside him, with the gender thing. The picture above is correctly said, dregs of lost futures. They are (political) corpses stirring in a satirical dance of death. You wonder what their going rates are, Yuan or Dollar auction.
Just to underscore once again how far from power Uhuru Kenyatta is, we visit the KEMSA scandals. Interesting details of how rotten the deep state itself is, were revealed by a lacklustre questioning in parliament. Before the relevant committee were some of the lead actors in the ... scandal of the imported poisonous sugar? ... Arror and Kimwarer dam scandals? Eurobond or KEMSA covid heists? And talking of the relevant committee, remember (the former Mulembe star) Ababu Namwamba was here, during the NYS series of heists presided over by Anne Waimumbi, decades ago in another life!
UNEARTHING SCANDAL
Kemsa scandal: Companies registrar declines to name bosses of firm linked to Murathe
Public Investments Committee to summon the registrar for setting aside request for identities of Kilig directors
In Summary (https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2020-12-11-kemsa-scandal-companies-registrar-declines-to-name-bosses-of-firm-linked-to-murathe/)
• PIC chairman Abdulswamad Nassir (Mvita MP) said Parliament wrote to the registrar for details of all the companies mentioned in the probe.
• The committee sought the details, specifically their ownership as of April when most of the firms were given a commitment letter to supply PPEs to Kemsa.
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Economy
Ex-EACC boss entangled in Kemsa scandal
Thursday February 18 2021 (https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/economy/ex-eacc-boss-entangled-kemsa-scandal-3295240)
Former anti-graft agency boss Halakhe Waqo has been summoned by Parliament to explain his links with a company that was awarded a Sh347 million State contract for Covid-19 emergency equipment despite its limited financial capacity and no experience in medical supply.
Mr Wago, formerly the chief executive of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), stood as guarantor for Assure Commercial Services Limited in the deal which involved the supply of face masks to the State-run Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa).
He assisted the firm to secure funds from First Community Bank to finance a local purchase order (LPO) for the supply of 50,000 boxes of face masks, each containing 10 packs of KN-95 respiratory protectors that were each sold to Kemsa at Sh690.
Though Mr Waqo is not listed as a director or shareholder of Assure Commercial Services, he was a signatory of the firm's Kemsa transaction account at First Community Bank.
The National Assembly's Public Investments Committee (PIC) now wants the former EACC boss to explain his links with the company as well his role in helping it to secure funding from First Community Bank instead of its regular banker, KCB Bank.
"We want Mr Waqo summoned to appear before this committee. We want to know how he was a signatory to an account of a company that he is not a shareholder," Paul Katana, the MP for Kaloleni, said.
We are in a labyrinth of corruption, surrendered as sacrifices to the Minotauruses of Theft. Hey, any Iason out there! Daring courage and sure sword in hand!
To the rescue
As the deep state continues to mock every concept of the fight against corruption, once billed as the brief of Hadji and Kinoti, one must fear equally for the cluelessness of the deep state, when it comes to securing the future of both the state and the people. The two would-be heroes of the anti-corruption war, Hadji and Kinoti, are now as irrelevant as the forgotten Ababu Namwamba's tenure at the Pic and PAC.
And that is the way I think Weta and Muda and Kalo are going. Unless Ruto and Raila are removed from the equation, permanently. By murder or some intervention of fate. ----Funny, the president yesterday banned rallies coz of covid surges. Nobody bought that logic. Explanation all round the country is they are scared of William Ruto mobilising the land into a Hustler loyalty.
The onus is on Ruto to manage his succession without collapsing the nation. He has become the new Raila: the man to watch. But does he have the superiority grandeur --Agwambo's Messiah Complex, to forego his ambition for national peace? Or, failing that, does Sir William harbour the greed to be, for the right price, bought off his one ambition? Left to an infantile elite, this is the stuff of national tragedy.
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THE NECROCRACY AT OUT SHORES AND FUTURES FIXED BY DEBT
Sometimes the non story is the real deal, the story which tells it all. This week in Kenya, there has been such a non story. At a first read you would think it belonged to the realms of April 1 pranks.
Here is one version EDUIN KIAMA ARRESTED.
Kiama was presented in court facing charges of contravening various provisions of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act, including false publication. However, Kenya's high Court dismissed the case made by the state prosecution, and declined to grant 14 days to gather evidence. Despite the absence of any cause to retain him, the court ordered the release of Kiama on a cash bail of $5000USD.
CHEEK AS OFFENCE!
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Activist arrested for slurring President Uhuru over IMF loan freed on Sh500,000 cash bail
NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 8 - A human rights activist arrested over a viral poster petitioning lenders not to engage President Uhuru Kenyatta on loans on the nation's behalf was on Thursday freed by a magistrate court in Nairobi after spending two nights in police cells.
Edwin Kiama who was arrested on Tuesday was freed on a Sh500,000 cash bail after a spirited defense by his lawyers who included former Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua and city lawyer Harun Ndubi.
Senior Resident Magistrate Jane Kamau declined to grant the State fourteen to conclude an ongoing investigation, instead asking Kiama to report to investigators daily for the next ten days.
She pointed out that since police have taken his phone, laptops and other electronic gadgets, they can carry out the investigation without the suspect being detained.
Kiama of the #Wanjikurevolt handle had posted a satire of the Wild West poster, now mostly used by any organisation seeking to distance itself from those earlier authorised to conduct business on their behalf. Such disclaimers are periodic features in our daily papers, world wide. And so it came to pass, that the IMF or any other credit institution was being informed to desist from conducting business with Kenyatta and Ruto if the two purport to be doing it on behalf of Kenyans.
It was a hit which went wildfire, resulting in a vastly popular petition aimed at the IMF. The IMF, true to its historical mandate, much documented in stellar books like the economic hitman, will only to too glad to ramrod Kenya into an updated version of the Strategic Adjustment Program of yonder. That was when the Breton woods twins took total control of many African economies, totally running them aground. Yes, it was like the economic policy of Military Rome, enforcing slavery as it run provinces aground, and sometimes, scorch earth. It was the rise of China as an alternative credit supplier, and a predator with better eating manners, that yanked Africa up from the pit of oblivion, say the economic underworld.
After bankrupting Kenya which Kibaki bequeathed in ... relative health ..... Uhuruto's surge back to the IMF (or is it now the Handshake brothers surging back), therefore, touches a raw nerve in the subconscious of (thinking) Kenyans. There is intellectual memory of SAP. Live wires to this historical trauma are barely concealed by the passage time over the past two decades of the Kibaki LOOK EAST reforms. It is easy to trip over them. Kenyatta and his two minions, Njoroge at the CBK and Ukur Yattani at the treasury, just did. Beggar bowl to IMF comes at a steep: loss of autonomy in government policy. It is essentially Kenya under a receivership regime. Uhuru and his cabinet thus become nothing but puppet heads. When a people loose the economic policy over their own country, what do they become!?
Dead mind missed that historical parallel.
That the jubilee regime has been a fest of graft is indisputable. It goes without saying that Uhuru and Ruto are politically responsible; but a deeper dig would reveal the criminal culpability of their associates, henchmen and straw men. Were the officers of the DPP Haji and DCI Kinoti to be worth their spit, they would unearth bucks which would be passed all the way to the top dogs. And that is the very top. It is for this reason that they, the police and law, bark at everywhere else except at the criminal culpability of the lords of graft.
DESPERATE TIMES IN DEED
So what has happened to us, free citizens of the republic, that in a domestic, financial as it were, it is to the CREDITOR and DEBT COLLECTOR that we make an appeal to stop! What do we know about the creditor's business which he doesn't himself? Perhaps plunging us ever deeper into debt servitude is the IMF's mission, sole purpose of existence! And here we are ....
Tongue in cheek or not, the viral petition therefore diagnoses a terrifying intellectual crisis in Twitterland Kenya. That the police use stupid laws to intimidate activists is normal. That is the same old autocratic Kenya. Think of Miguna and his adventures with his claims that he was born at the banks of Nyando (those sides of Ahero in Kano near Kisumu.) --Wrong.
That Kenyan prosecutors unscrew their brains and leave them outside the court so as not to be encumbered by difficult tasks like making sense, leave alone legal sense, is also usual. That politicians perpetrate graft in scales of large is also local habit. No petitions against, may be even more votes next round! However, what has not been usual, however desperate the situation, is a human being appealing to the morality and good senses of a predator, by petition, to change its feeding habits.
How teary eyed the crocodile will be, listening to the petition!
The Kenyan petition to the IMF is therefore a historical first. It is a dangerous symptom of a total deficit in resistance intellect. Even the basic instinct of reflective survival mechanisms seem to have been neutralised. There is no autonomy, even in thought, we are as it were a perfectly enslaved mind. This is why the petition made me shudder. It confirms a vacuum which will definitely be filled by Non-Boko people.
But the activist on a 500K bond has hit a bull's eye in the dark. He has raised the question of interpreting the concept of ODIOUS DEBT. ---More about this later.
2nd: the Wild West poster-like redux is a good jest or satire. Wanted dead or alive is the subtext. Men of firm resolve and high patriotic credentials can arrest the president and the his deputy and present them to the Kenyan people, dead or alive, buried or jailed. This step, as an alternative to petitioning the IMF, is of course the unthinkable, but which satire and caricature easily catalyse. And there you have the cheek of culture in relation to art. ----Everything is thinkable. The arrest and summary execution of the president and his deputy for economic crimes too.
I checked the history books first. No guarantees.
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DESPERATE TIMES, WHEN THE TWO DOCS –-RUTO AND NDII-- MET
Necessity is the mother of parleys. And it is a historical parley, that Kenya's most avowed pro-peoples, most eloquent pro-reform public economist, the popular Dr. David Ndii, has been canvassed into the net of the most pure-bred reactionary of his political peers, Dr. William Ruto.
It is no meeting of minds for one. For there is neither class suicide on Ndii's part, neither on Ruto's part. But the forces operative on Kenya's present dictate it. The dynamics of the economic and political crisis, are such that the strangest of fellows will share beds.
The political crisis has been caused by one single event. Raila Odinga has collapsed the broad progressive Front and demobilised his strategic commanders. This 'Peoples President Movement' was where the motley crew of Young Turks –----from Miguna Miguna to David Ndii---- found sanctuary, or at least a worthwhile semblance of progressive purpose to do. Howbeit the furtive nature of the Handshake owners and the secretiveness of their handpicked secretariat, coupled to the subsequent disorientation of Agwambo the Tinga, put paid to that pretence.
In the wake of all this has been left many a widowed man and woman.
Then, the ruthlessness with which the Handshake has continued to malign Miguna Miguna, warrants as clear proof of its shallow depths. In deed the whole BBI, having run course as a stop Ruto shenanigan, has now coalesced into an argument about the constitutionality of an additional 70 constituencies. A cheap distraction from the needed economic reforms.
But problems do not just disappear because effective distraction has been found elsewhere. Problems need to be tackled in real time, or they fester, they widen and the crisis becomes deeper. Economic magic of course can happen, and has happened in recent human history, but for that one needs a Deng Hsiao Ping or a Conrad Adenauer. (these are calibers who doubled their GDP's in a decade, and then again in half a decade).
But in Kenya for now, cold-bloodedly put, the Deng or Adenauer options (of wirtschaftswunders) is a dead, no-go end. And that is a heart-breaking sh!tload deep our insides.
It is in the absence of such options that mercurial charlatans like Ruto rise to the top and pick-up the progressive orphans cast asunder by pretenders like Agwambo. Ruto is no less a false prophet than Raila ---his track record of epitome reactionary graft does not lie, but because his fearful classmates have turned on him now for the kill, he has to make alliances where he can, take his chances where they be. He has to call the bluff of his classmates bent on bullying him to oblivion. His predicament has left him with only one effective bluff ---arousing the popular frustration which is palpable; marshalling it toward his bullies.
This is the Hustler card.
But again, while his intent can only be to use The Hustler narrative as a scarecrow to force a seat at the high table, no one man can control the historical forces of his land, more so during a crisis, and an escalating one at that. The lockdown implemented by the Covid-Sars commissariat has been, in effect, a harsh economic downturn for the masses. David Ndii can therefore, if he stays true to his intellect and full-throttle diagnostics, not propose a less radical economic platform than he did under Raila Odinga. Ndii's mellowing in the bed of the Hustler King or not, will be the proof of who has eaten who up. A Prof. Njuguna Ndung'u thesis for national salvation wont do. WE know the first thing Kibaki did in his mild reforms, was to ask David Mwiraria and Ambassador Muthaura to ignore that goat at the CBK. Njuguna was a total Breton Woods stooge and kept on throwing sabotage tantrums at Kibaki's LOOK-EAST turns.
But then, the old dog could have learnt new tricks in old age, or, alternatively, the young Turk Ndii could have 'sensibilised' into a homeboy mercenary. No, Ruto is not going to commit economic suicide; is not going to reject graft nor banish his entourage of looters. It is for the others to U-turn. Ndii therefore runs the risk of the Miguna precedent. An ever accumulation of frustrations as his intellect has to continuously function as the mind of a prostitute in full swing strardom.
(Loyal with body and words, gulping shots, but mind autonomous and fuming the poisons of humiliation and swallowed prides.)
But what wouldn't a true patriot do for his country!? (forgetting the vile-mouthed Oscar Wilde for a second!)
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THE PURGE
As the two leading dynasts of the Odinga and Kenyatta axes endeavour to eternalise the primacy of their respective families as the national interest of Kenya (and her restive peoples), Raila and Ouru face the same age-old problem which has bedevilled all; all in the question of power and transition.
As the sun set on on the British empire, many a shenanigan, hair-brained scheme and spinned yarn of a solution was brought forth in into play. In every colony did the receding aristocracy try their best to fix the future to their benefit. All of these agenda's had one fundamental purpose, and it inevitably brought them at variance with the general trend of history. The reforms were all about the maintenance of the ancien regime by other means. Specifically in that era, it was the issuance (or evolution) of classical colonialism into neo-colonialism. It involved the purging, in most instances by murder, of budding radicals and revolutionaries. This paved the way for a meek, compromised and owned fake fathers of independence to own the state and her notorious monopolies (like of violence). This is a well documented chapter in the history of all pre- and post-colonial entities throughout the world a-large.
A POWER PLAY IN THE LUO HEARTLAND
The ruthless- and swiftness with which the King, or specifically his court, has moved to cut down the two constitutional luminaries from Siaya, Orengo Jim and Otiende Amollo, hints at a pathology of fear.
So what is the elephant in the room?
It can't be the BBI. That one would be passed because the combined state-backed power of The Gikuyu Muthamaki and the Luo Mahia ---both official and peoples' president, would easily steamroll one of the most corrupt parliaments ever. A hint of how state power operates in dire, was seen recently in the --erratic-- behaviour of the ex professor Njugunah Ndung'u. The former chair of the Central Bank became a high feather addition to the crown of The Hustler King one day, only for him to publicly retract the next. According to my favourite blogger Chris Kumekucha, the Kenyan Deep State has a foolproof tradition of waving certain files at errant public figures. This promptly makes them see a certain point they were overlooking. After this wave of files, usually a 100% rate of mind change and obedience is registered.
Njugunah Ndung'u has no skeletons in the cupboard. They are all in the public domain. Just like Mwai Kibaki's historical contempt for him as CBK governor too, is. His compliance to the wishes of seasoned blackmailers is a foolproof certainty therefore. Too full of himself as to forget his earlier soils of the self, this patriotically challenged character occasionally needs to be slapped back to reality. This was done the other day. Talk about the tragedy of deluded intellectuals in public office.
BBI JUU! JUU!
Anyway, these parliamentarians and politicians whose countless front companies have swindled the people in unfinished (CDF and county projects), imported sub-standard mechandise and foodstuffs to poison Kenyans, rigged state tenders, rigged elections, frauded with parliamentary allowances, jumped tax and made false claims ... etc etc ... would have no backbones to stiffen, faced with bunches of files being waved with polite but fanged smiles.
The honourable members can easily be panel-beaten into rubberstamps. In which case the BBI was a guaranteed sail. The official president of Kenya, H.E Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, and The Peoples' President, The Right Hon Amollo Odinga, even if both are lame duckish in their respective portfolios, own the political space in parliament and senate. The Hustler King was banished a show of sulk. But it remains a viper's nest. There has never been honour amongst thieves, of whatever creed.
WHERE THE MEN ARE OWNED
Where I come from they sing a mocking jig:
Agwambo nigi Ruedhi, Agwambo nigi Guogi!
Gueyo! Kuombo! To mana in ndak lwete riat!
Agwambo keeps bulls, Agwambo keeps dogs!
O how they bark! Oh how they bellow
Howbeit all at the tug of his leash in chorus!
I don't know about the ownership of women. Eva of the garden of Eden was a woman and even God himself couldn't hold her on a leash. She rather ruined paradise than be forbidden her fornication rights. So I wouldn't want to dare opt whether there are any owned women in politics. But when it comes to men, I know it for a fact. Nearly all men who bark about in public, ever full of bullying confidence like Magoha and Matiang'i, are the private b!tches of breeds of men hardier bred. For instance, bar governor Okoth Obado in Migori, there is no holder of public office in Luo Nyanza who is his own man. For all their formidable and undoubted intellect, Otiende Amollo and James Orengo are, in politics, dogs or bulls interchangeably kept at Tinga's kernel or kraal. In fact, like a Sultan with a vast harem would indulge his daily whims with this or that trained inmate, so too must these owned men bide their time to showcase their skilled prowess. And of course sycophancy can sometimes demand total self degradation as proof of loyalty among others. It was a fit too uncomfortable for Miguna Miguna and his lot became political Siberia, so to speak.
It has been a treat in the theater of snuff, bestial dung movies, to watch a man of the devastating intellect of Otiende Amollo, re-eat his own punctured big intestines in public. What a meal, he entreated us at twitter.
So why did the two dogs bark off course? Or why did the two bulls stray off the designed grazing ground? And why was the retribution so prompt and harsh, not to say so total?
1. I think Raila is too heavily invested in the BBI. It became Upende usipende. It is like a last desperate assault by a bleeding commander. Blind fury.
2. Most importantly, it is the succession question. The double succession.
There is only one political question in Luoland. On to your marks, get set G....; the Go is when the undisputed champion retires somehow. Looking at age, we can talk of a knocking biological retirement, as in death. I would trust it is human prudence rather than ill-intent to prepare obituaries in advace as the vultures circle a going horse, however ace.
The (seemingly) Luo national obsession with the ascendancy of Raila to the presidency is therefore in effect, a variation on the political thematic the Algerian's recently teased the the world with. This was when they described the last years of Abdellaziz Bouteflika as a THANATOCRACY. Their great leader Boutaflika was physically impaired and to all practical purposes a mental vegetable, but he was still head of state and would run again and win, his will supreme. In truth, stipulations of his will by a curia were merely an alibi for the looting cartel controlling his virtual corpse. They were bent on using the aura of his prestige and auspice to maintain their grip on the national purse and organise the succession. Only his family members, and even at that, only two including his brother, could interpret and convey to the outside world what the will of the ailing-to-half-dead president was. Then the army had enough of The Interpreters. The top soldiers, increasingly out of the informational loop from the interpreters, put an end to the long-running necrotic show. They opened the democratic space so said, for the civilian elite to showcase their incompetence and chaotic impulses.
In Kenya we are lucky the military has in ingrained inferiority complex. Of course they have been putting therapeutic works into it. The dumb Uhuruto regime with its pathological dispensation toward graft left the army with no option but to tentatively step forward. So we witnessed the emergence of such characters as Noordin Haji, Cyrus Oguna, General Mbadi to hitherto civilian monopolies. There was so much low-lying fruit to be picked in the fiesta of governmental corruption the military couldnt stay their whetted appetites to go public.
But outright power is still beyond them to stake a claim. It is funny, but Kenya needs orators, silver tongues like Ruto and Raila; so long the lies have to be spoken with a straight face, and public service a sham. It is when we have to walk the talk of national performance that it wont matter the heaviness of the tongue nor the miaw of the cat so long it catches the mice.
Meanwhile Orengo and Otiende have to judge how long they think Raila still has the grip on reality. Okoth Obado has already put a marker in the post Raila playing field. He reckons the fates of Shem Ochuodho, Dalmas Otieno and the rest who the known rebels, he can survive. One thing is for sure, nobody is saying Okoth Obado is a Ruto puppet nor a Tangatanga mole. The homeground knows this former school teacher has something most men don't have: independent balls. That is why he doesn't get the same treatement meted out to the constitutional gurus, Otiende Amollo and Orengo Ajimmy.
There are dogs and bulls, and then there are men whose yards they prowl and decorate. Ruto for all his faults, has grown into a man: not another's dog, not another's bull. And a man must have his balls kicked in life. The cringe is in the calibre of steel therein. As for women, that is a subject beyond my mental competence.
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MAY THE GEM AMONG MEN RISE, TO SAY HE IS RUNNING, FOR PRESIDENT
There is debris over there in Somalia, to collect and bring home for honour. Position of commander in chief, yawning for a fill. Let us not burry our dead alive. A good thought for the eve of Madaraka-2021.
Perhaps it is not far-fetched to think there will be no elections next year. That, between them, Raila Odinga and Ouru Kenyatta reckon they can get away with the explosive issue of illegitimacy. That is, that they own and can win enough souls in the land to call the bluff of constitutionalists, Ruto-cloned opposants, critics and all those who count as would-be defenders of the peoples' cause. Many a pretender of course.
It would be a terrible risk, but given the systematic (moral) collapse of key institutes of the order, among others due to rampant corruption and the in-depth complicity of the whole elite in the rot and self-aggrandisement, no one from the selfsame elite of patriotic charlatans can successfully mount a challenge. Nay, they be better off closing ranks against Wanjiku. They can be blackmailed to speedy submission. They can be intimidated by the threat of total dispossession. The prospect of actual banishment to the ranks of real Hustlers would kill them looters and fake patriots.
On the main on the Kenyan beats, real Hustlers don't know where the next meal will come from. This is the class of the precariat, old term lumpen (proletariat). Hustler is an obscurantist and confusionist term. Howbeit our politicians who have patented the self-description HUSTLER, are a high-income category. But most are just errand boys for the cartel of looters monopolising the treasury of Kenya. They are, because of culpable fiduciary infidelity, easy to tone down into tame, coiled tails; and even easier to set barking as bribed. And in the hardest case, as ordered.
On elections anyway, Chebukati has, in all his earlier attempts at the national cup, delivered a horror. Statistically analysed, the probability is, his next effort will be true to form. Thus more of the same. There is nothing on the ground to suggest otherwise. It means to a large extent, the nation is already subconsciously prepared for another Chebukati arzhole show. It is a serial rendition with the possibilities of a dangerous climax.
But how has Kenya survived the previous horrors delivered by Chebukati and the many others before him --like Kivuitu? (One need not be a keen observer of our history to recognise this basic fact: Free and Fair is a passmark which only two presidential elections (1963 and 2000; end of colonialism and end of the Moi era respectively, can unequivocally lay claim to). Yet Kenya is still here, doing not so bad if you compare us to the neighbouring Uselessnesses.
We thus have a secret weapon. Or so far, we have had apt and effective mediation processes. We have of course sailed very close to the abyss ---think how (1) Koffi Annan camped in Nairobi to panelbeat the recalcitrant idiots into the nation-saving GCG; and (2) think how The Handshake was 'rabbited out of a hat' by the two royal protagonists-cum-presidents to prevent the emergence of two republics from the vifaranga stalemate. From the above examples, our secret may be Luck. Luck which is still holding.
It is obvious our political toplayer is not possessed of the tenacity to resolve it before it happens; nay, they are a last-minute gang. This recklessness is all very well if a country is important enough for others geopolitically POWERFUL, those awesome states whose interests wont be served by the disintegration of (to put it like Donald Trump) a sh!thole republic. Yes, worthless countries can easily be left to implode. Howbeit, even disappear into chaos to their fill of barbarism. (I am pondering Yemen and Somalia, and earlier on Rwanda, Uganda, CAR and Sudan. These were temporarily lost to civilisation).
Meseems the source of our luck is not be heaven after all. Nay, it is geopolitics. This, is the other side of our tragedy. It means a pampered elite has developed and prospered, void of any responsibility, accustomed to quick bail-outs, guaranteed endless credit lines even if showing total illiteracy in accounting. And it is feted at the highest tables even if totally infantile at home .... And of course it is militarily insured.
Well.
On the last, an important point need must be unearthed. This ending week, select videos appeared online of Kenyan servicemen still held captive by Al-shabaabus. Most of these KDF poor souls are from the El-Adde fiasco, easily our Dien Bien Phu. But the High command of Kenya has never gone official.
---How many are missing in Action?
----How many are presumed dead (otherwise)
---What is the official call??( [1] We don't negotiate with terrorists?
Thus the Al-Shabaab captives are lost forever (ii) We ... Our Deep State.... is on it .... which may be part of the reason an American Somali businessman was 'Musandod' around Nairobi and the FBI just looks the other way
[C] No call whatsoever (in which case their return is the headache of their various families. Harambee's to pay ransom if they wish?)
OF HIDDEN NATIONAL NIGHTMARES
For dead or alive, men left behind in deluded military adventures in foreign battlefields have a habit of haunting the subconscious of a land. Some may remember one episode in the notorious Rambo films; or MIA starring Chuck Norris.
The short of them is this. The top of the army and the national politicians have moved on from the defeat in Vietnam. But the file of the army and local politicians haven't. These know the individual families who have dug graves but are still hesitant about the ultimate rituals of goodbye. They also know the tales of the ... should we say ... half widows. Some, like within my distant family, are on to their third child. In this case she has not completely turned her back on the lost one of El-Adde. She's marking time, waiting for him, but not idling around. She's producing offspring to bear his name, even if genetically inauthentic. Some, in shame, would rather die than come back to this situation. Others come back only to commit murder in such situations. It is a mixed bag of coping tragedies. Goldmines for future artistic dives to our dark hearts.
Obviously the top of the Kenya Army have moved on; and Al-Shabaab, realising the captives have no bargain value, have been nonplussed. The callousness of the CURRENT :* Kenyan military creed has shocked the outlaw warriors of Islam.
It is important to recognise why such callousness tends to disturb most, the consciousness of the relevant land, in this case Kenya. It is a blacked-out topic on our many TV stations, but I rest assured this is because it is a gaping wound no one wants to tap in the open. But the point is, the tale of the forgotten men of El-Adde, abandoned servicemen, is the tale of a lost moral code of the men with the command of death over their fellow citizens. This is a shame no nation can sleep on without nightmares, many nightmares.
I am sure, just as no-one bothered about this topic on the farcical national prayer day yesterday, no one will bother with it @MadarakaDay21 at Kisumu tomorrow, as the His Excellency the official President and His Guardianship The Peoples' President, flog their dying horse in the arena with false tones, to kickstart the BBI.
Where do we go from here? And by here I mean this constitutional stalemate.
I think the Judiciary will be called upon to make a spate of compromise rulings.
--No impeachment of Uhuru Kenyatta as the earlier ruling opened
--Giving the nullified BBI a way out, a panya road to take
--Fiddling around with the referendum and electoral dates
---Conjuring up a ruling which opens for a grand coalition (with everybody including Ruto)
--Rule a shambolic and corrupted electoral exercise as a pass (This allows the deployment of the security forces to effect it; in deed, like Uhuru's second win with its less than 30% turn-out of yonder was.)
It will be upon the Judiciary to prevent excesses or even chaos. The politicians as usual, will only see light before the eleventh hour.
But let us hope Uhuru and Raila have the sense to launch the projects in Kisumu with the official vice president, William Ruto, in tow. These are state projects, not personal whims, and it will be good common sense prevailing to include the VP. The only man who is his own man and has declared himself running. (If no other real man rises up to challenge him and be counted tall, the rest is a rigging exercise. Mukhisa Kituyi, Peter Kenneth, Gideon Moi, Kibutha Kibwana, Musalia Mudavadi ... these featured compromise candidates have an unscalable problem facing William Ruto. They are too obviously inferior. It can not even be a David against Goliath scenario, coz those rats are hollow of the nerve and courage of a David to tune that sling and take dead aim. Even with the mobilised power of Dynasties backing them, those compromised men remain the rats they are before the Big cat Ruto. That spells rigging to go through.
Raila is surely not too senile to recognise such an obvious fact. And the BBI is no anecdote against rigging. We watched the super state thug Matiang'i trash that notion openly in Kissii (by-election). The search for a safe landing intensifies.
We may need to fish wider for solutions.
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THE DAY AFTER
I have to salute the propaganda department of the Handshake Team. They pulled off quite a PR coup in Kisumu yesterday. They equally did so in the days immediately before the big Day. It was a frolicky national party, a progression unto a euphoria which managed to capture what can be in a diverse nation, if and when the politics are good.
Yeah, tell that to the Israeli's and Palestinian's.
Over here, the Kisumu, majorly fishmongerous crowd was at its Roman best. They cheered to the heavens, the emperor who only a few years ago was persona non grata in their hearts. A rebellious province of Rome, its heroic leader having survived everything Rome could throw at him after a treasonable self coronation, celebrated their return to the fold with dangerous recklessness. Masks were few in between, social distance unheard of, yet Kisumu registers second after Nairobi in the last statistics of Corona rates. There was a repeated lesson in power in Kisumu. Kenyatta told the nation Agwambo had put aside his personal pain for the national gain. And Raila, after Kenyatta smuggled him to the microphone sans protocol, earlier recalled in the same vein how his father Jaramogi had done the same in 1963: Uhuru na Kenyatta. No government would be formed while Jomo (and his Kapenguria six comrades) was still in jail.
It was a mesmerising show of camaraderie with a careful select of Washujaa mentioned. I say the ruling class closed ranks. Tales of murder (JM, Mboya, Ouko, Pinto) and the why's, were not allowed to cloud the creamy soup served to the soundtrax of the guitar whizz and benga maestro, Dr. Osito Kalle. There was no hint of the double-edged tradition of the late Benga prophet and social critic, Killi Owino Misiani. All the crop of artistes hired for the occasion were moulded in the sycophantic label. And Yes, they excelled with zombified gusto. It was the furaha which is the catharsis of a lot of dhiki.
There are sure other opiums of the people than the famous ones.
The estranged VP and Jubilee rebel Dr. William Ruto was cosseted enough to refer to his rival and possible nemesis in courteous, ceremonial terms. His customary Mgangah, yule mtu wa kitendawili, the lord of poverty et al, all morphed into the right honourable former prime minister, aka B.A.B.A. But Ruto wouldn't be Ruto if he didn't fire a shot in the dark, in the direction of some unidentified bright eyes caught in the flashlight: He saluted the crowd: ONJELO JANAM HOYEE! (And yes, check the response!)
Onjelo Janam! (you would be excused if you thought it was a slip of the tongue). The people of Kondele were game. They thundered him back with a hustler roar he has never heard anywhere in his roamings at large throughout the land. The Roman crowd has savvy instincts, spreading risks, wary of all eggs in one basket ...
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County governor and chief host, Professor Anyang' Nyong'o, flew higher than Icarus without a melt. It was party time, and party time is no time for a hangover yet. There were important visitors in the home. Some came from afar .... like the Burundi head of state and his missus; or the South African Minister of Human Settlements, Water & Sanitation, Shemeji Nonceba Lindiwe Ajulu Sisulu. (She is the one whose several slips of the tongue were very amusing, referring to Odinga as President).
But it is always the economy stupid. Paying lip service to this adage even as they repeatedly mouth it may be habitual for a lazy elite like ours, yet these days something has to be shown to be really going on. Popular politics stays the same through the ages: the mantra is economic advancement for the populace. It is development. Of late, and repeated in Kisumu too, have been desperado incidences where economically down-beaten Kenyans have sought to attract the personal attention of the president.
Man who stopped Uhuru's convoy helped to take daughter back to school
"I did not fear being run over by his cars, as it is I am at the end of the road since I cannot provide for my family," he said.
Kepher Nyambane learnt of the President's tour through friends and neighbours in the estate on the morning of the said day. The married man had long wished to meet Uhuru and quickly devised a way that put his life in danger.
His idea was to share his plight with the President and ask for a job to make ends meet.
"I was desperate to talk to him about my problems. I wanted to ask him to assist me to secure a job. I have three children, whom I'm unable to comfortably fend for.
"My sister took in one of my children. The other one was at home after being sent for school fees," he lamented adding that he did not fear being run over by the President's motorcade.
The 30-year-old does menial jobs like working at construction sites. His wife, Lydia Bosibori is a house wife and stays at home breastfeeding their one-year-old daughter.
So what is really happening, economic wise, on the ground? Has the covid downturn broken down the last vestiges of resilience on the streets? And beggars a new economic deal too radical to fathom so long one thinks within the box? (so long one thinks the rate of corruption and debt accumulation to fund that corruption continues as before). Mr Kenyatta seemed much more concerned about the economic loss accounted for by botched elections than the massive puncture permanently perpetrated by looter cartels. (KEMSA on COVID we just saw)
At one glance, the president's concern for lost billions during post-election chaos appears blind stupidity while right under his nose in Handshake peace time, greater loot is lost by design by his people. Obviously Mr. Kenyatta hasn't spent much thinking on this front of cash seepage.
Kenyans lost Sh2.3 billion in Kemsa scandal - Auditor General
Kemsa management indicted for violating various laws leading to loss of public money.
In Summary 30 September 2020
The auditor noted some of the companies that were awarded the contract were established in January and February this year, pointing to possible collusion.
The report also reveals fraud in procurement and collusion between Kemsa bosses and the companies that were awarded multi-billion shilling contracts.
A special audit by the Auditor General has shown that Kenyans lost Sh2.3 billion in the Covid-19 items procurement scandal at Kemsa.
In an explosive report presented to a Senate Committee on Wednesday, the Auditor General Nancy Gathangu indicted the management of Kemsa for violating various laws leading to loss of public money.
The report also reveals fraud in procurement and collusion between Kemsa bosses and the companies that were awarded multi-billion shilling contracts.
Kemsa gave Sh7.6 billion tenders against Sh758 million budget
FARCE
Once upon a time, the dynamic duo of Ruto and Uhuru, then referred to charmingly as Uhuruto, criss-crossed the whole land opening projects, launching developments every week. When the tempo slowed down, Kenyans on Twitter turned mockery into an art. Ouru and Ruto were pictured )photoshopped) opening the Ocean at Mombasa. The next day they opened the day for Kenya by drawing aside the curtains from the path of the sunrays. And in flooded the golden sunlight. They were also cartooned opening the vaults at the treasury for their friends to chota their fill. At last there was nothing to open anymore in Kenya, except a fight between the once inseparable duo.
Now, as Ouru and Raila hellicoptered in to open the Siaya-Bondo water project, the Nyawara-Wagasi-Akala road and mention many more goodies on the way, some market women around my old school, St Mary's Yala, were bitten by the humour bag. 'These are small things better left to the councillor and governor. It is a shame to have the god Agwambo and the deity Kenyatta stoop so low to open nothing.
Some will know by the time Omollo Okero was being beaten by Otieno Ambala, the Gem water project -Sidindi Yala-- was already running decades and there was a blue print for the integration to Rarieda, Bondo and Seme. In deed Odongo Omamo launched a successful water project in Rarieda before it was left to rot after his defeat. He was seen as anti-Odinga, much the same way Raphael Tuju's projects would later lie widowed due to the same reason. But well, the Chinese are now here to take care of business. Like the Siaya-Bondo-Seme water thrusts. Besides the roads.
WHEN THE VISITORS COME
That is by protocol, not a day to air the home's dirty linen in public. They the elders and their women rolled like hogs out of their fattening pens. Obese and primed for covid weakness, they trudged like dinos on a wasteland, slowly breathing their last as the the habitat changes forever.
It is upon their young lieutenants to white wash reality for the nation to repeat its past mistakes, or plot a successful break, and take-off. The BBI document is a worthy challenge for the young Turks.
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THE POWER GAME IS IN THE SHADOWS
For President Uhuru to treat the judiciary with such manifest contempt, he must hide an ace up his sleeve; otherwise his arrogance would be the foolhardiness bordering on self-destruction. That ace can not be legalistic arguments.
Heavens say, what is it about the Judiciary which makes this particular head of the executive ever so ready to call their bluff? and what is it about the gathering of the learned friends at large, that they count such a nuisance to the executive? (Here I must think of King Henry the 8th of England. He dethroned Catholicism from its seat of official religion in his Kingdom because the Pope and his eunach's bureaucracy wouldn't allow His Majesty to indulge Polygamy officially. The biological authoring of a male heir, crown prince, was more important to Henry than the scriptural orthodoxies of God's committee on Earth, seated at far-away Rome).
Howbeit the son of Jomo could have a powerful, deep psychological need not yet common knowledge, a condition which leads him to habitually and serially trash the edicts of the constitutional courts.
Let us assume it is not an overwhelming death wish that drives him so.
Taking two years to swear-in the JSC recommendations, then doing it partially ---exposing himself to another possibility of impeachment! Aaah, His Excellency is on an imperial high; and tuta-do!? his bloodshot eyes seem to challenge us, good Wanjiku souls, with cruel humour. Will we kill the BBI? Try! Stop the reggae? Try! The man is continuing a line of constitutional bashing from an era we mistook for gone. There is no real consequence he reckons can come his way. (The days of the legendary eel of an AG, Amos Wako)
As an aside, intellectually speaking, the coterie of learned friends who amalgamate as the Judiciary, totally failed in their historic role to distil and offer a binding opinion on the operationalisation of Chapter six, specifically the integrity clause. This clause was of course a firebomb, given a country where graft is so deeply embedded in both the political and administrative system. This intellectual failure of the Judiciary ---even as the case was brought before their mention as early as during the tenure of Dr. Wily Mutunga as the CJ, rendered effectively naught, the fight against graft in the courts. Ethics was removed from the operationalisation of the 2010 Constitution. Corruption and the corrupt could stay in public office. Parliament could thus be infested with a choice breed of immoral scum and barbarian hogs. (Mpigs went the apt nickname)
Having, in the first hour, so spectacularly failed to defend, arguably, the holiest verses in the 2010 constitution, later-day claims and howls at the executive from a supposed moral high ground of fidelity to the constitutional order would not else but ring hollow. (King Henry VIII may have had Intel the Borgia Pope had, a generation earlier, run the Vatican as one huge brothel!).
But I doubt H.E Kenyatta is so high minded. Nor is he so conceited in megalomania as to warrant himself a god, infallible before mortal men and Koome-like women. I think his reasons are much more earthen and practical. It is not even the old sore of having had his election nullified in 2017. He would be aware it was rigged after all and that was quick karma. I rather think his despicable attitude toward the learned friends is rooted in truths gleaned from intelligence briefings. This (know-your-enemy) stuff is afforded him by the likes of Hadji, Kinoti and of course Kameru. ---These are detailed trails of the business connections of the men of the Judiciary. Not specifically about the six Judges he failed to swear-in. (Those included the best in the lot, so it is a stare-down moment).
The incestuous web of how cliques of Judges and lawyers operate is street knowledge in Nairobi. Elephant Maatiang'i, irritated by an Omtahtah rat in his trunk, waved a variant of it in parliament before the Justice and whatever commission. Talk is how they favour and keep away from harm, their business partners; visible too are the rings which, in their versed routine, they ran around rookie coppers like DCI Kinoti. Wanjiku has of course always been wary of the Judiciary, and this was why there was such a hopeful swell of grassroots pressure for a radical surgery thereat ---which, if I remember correctly was, taking place as a vetting board. But this was immediately rendered dead by Judge Warsame in a famous arrest/ruling).
NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 1 2012 - The Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board (JMVB) Suspended
The Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board (JMVB) Chairman Sharad Rao told a news conference that the board is not bowed by decisions of the Judiciary but provisions of the Constitution that has mandated it to vet judges.
"The board wishes to emphasise that it does not accept the Judiciary had jurisdiction to sit in judgement over its work. We have been given a mandate by the people of Kenya, through the Constitution, to see the vetting process through to speedy conclusion," he said.
He went on further to clarify that the Constitution insulated the board from such interferences, "the clear provisions of the Constitution were designed to prevent precisely the situation which has arisen, namely, that members of the Judiciary would seek to obstruct the very process in terms of which they were themselves to be vetted."
While the court order suspended the vetting process for 14 days, Rao regretted that Judge Mohammed Warsame issued the ruling ignoring a request to establish whether it was within the jurisdiction of the court or not.
According to Rao, Mohammed who is scheduled to appear before the board for vetting on October 16 also issued the ruling without giving counsel present the right to be heard.
"This order was issued despite a request that the judge rescue himself and that the Court first determine the issue of whether it has jurisdiction to hear the matter at all. The order purporting to stay the work of the Board was accordingly issued without argument being heard from counsels who were present in court, and despite the manifest conflict of interest of one of the judges in the 2: 1 majority," he said.
Rao however clarified that Chief Justice Willy Mutunga was in support of the board to continue with its work without interruptions
And of course the fresh CJ, Martha Koome herself, is on record on a so-called unethical midnight ruling as she sat at the court of appeal. She, together with EM Githinji and Fatuma Sichale, in that infamous midnight constitutional infidelity, turned a high court ruling which had only been made that morning.
Justice Koome lifts lid on events in 2017 IEBC night ruling
Judge says she was in Nairobi, sat in court physically after NASA lawyers skipped session
21 May 2021
Among other concerns by the petitioner was how the judge who was based in Mombasa found her way to sit in Nairobi within the short notice.
But Koome in her account of the events of October 26, 2017, told MPs that she was on duty in Nairobi at that time when she, together with Justices Fatuma Sichale and Erastus Githinji, made the decision.
She said this was in accordance with the Court of Appeal practice that judges stationed out of Nairobi are required to serve in the capital for at least one week per month 'to help reduce backlog of cases.'
Koome, in her affidavit, further averred that on the said date, she was notified by the Appeals court registrar that a matter had been certified as urgent by then head of the court Paul Kihara - now Attorney General.
Now then as chief justice, Martha can yell integrity to the president and his lacklustre AG Kihara, but it wont be a convincing ring even if right. When was your road to Damascus moment, they might inquire first. It is a bit like the office of the anti corruption Czar in Kenya since John Githong'o. It has had many an occupant in the interim, but always remained vacant. Lost virginities can be surgical repaired for the occasion, but well, the loss of innocence not. (And even as I write this, the Law Society of Kenya, the mother of all learned friends, is in a terrible mess. Perhaps they the college of learned friends could remove the speck in their eyes before they do executive's?)
The Judiciary is a soot-covered kettle hissing mad at a very black president. The scornful mask fixed on the face of H.E becomes easy to understand. It is blackmail season. Then a parley.
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POLITICAL BUREAUCRACY BECOMES DIGRICRACY
So parliament has all but decided you need a degree to be an MCA or parliamentarian. Aah, by a stroke of the pen, or should I say simple majority in parliament, the best paying jobs have been reserved for a breed who, thinking of the 2010 constitution and the economic scandals bedevilling the land at their behest, have been a total failure at their brief!
The value-added of academic papers possessed by politicians in Kenya is not beyond debate. That is asking for trouble. They are trying to imbue a superiority which is neither here nor there. The stuff of apartheid mythology.
For this reason of exclusion, a determined, ambitious and ruthless man possessed of a national purpose to impact but no academic grade, would simply must suspend that article of law; thereupon embark on a bloody purge of the deluded parasites. The parasites are licensing themselves into eternal parasitism. That is what all nobility have tried to do since the dawn of a social surplus which could be usurped.
Some have blue blood, so they are born to rule.
Some are high born, so they have a right to rule.
Some are appointed by God, so they have mandate of heaven.
Some are born of the Sun (Japan) so they have the mandate of eternity.
It is all an attempt to create a natural dynasty and its bureaucracy of nobles.
It is a formula for a small clique to stay at the top, and stave off competition.
Perform --wirtschaftswunder-- beyond doubt and get away with it, mesays!
THE REPUBLICAN PROBLEM
A republic has a duty to pay (at least lip service) to the concept of meritocracy. Therefore a degree, surely an insignia of relative academic prowess, is good yardstick for ON MERIT! .... it is also, on the face of it, a sensible and basic prerequisite to understand the complex matters of politics and public affairs!
I ---power being power and a corrupter of men---- heard that in the colonial times when the Whiteman claimed HE, because of his inbred sophistication, godly colour and Bibllic mandate, possessed a natural superiority which gave him governance and the power to patronise at will, the lesser native of black colour. He was the keeper of their future, forever under him!
Nothing doing ---semi illiterate to illiterate patriots like Dedan Kimathi would bring this point home in what to date, still proves to be one of the most profound historical experiences of our infant land, Kenya. That is our Mau Mau.
When a minority group feels itself select, god- or college-ordained to amass all power, loot the collective wealth and wallow in cream while maligning the labouring ones confined to camps of impoverishment, e.g slums or rural reserves, we rest assured a social storm is brewing and a political crisis looming.
That is the lesson of history.
So how do other countries do who arrived here before?
There is something called equivalence. Skills which are not academic can be compared and equated for the purposes of say, remuneration or granting of honour.
An illiterate but master welder, skilled to the level of Hephaistos, gets the title MAESTRO. The academic equivalent of that is Professor Doctor. Or Herr Doctor Engineer. No, the artisan maestro can't do trigonometric 5th dimension simultaneous differential calculus equations, but only a god will beat him in welding, and he can teach a new generation the finest details of the skill to the point of art. His knowledge is extreme.
His other compared academic would be a master brain surgeon. A good piki-piki mechanic, self-taught equates a certified college bachelor.
This kind of thing may be lost on those who are only aware of the Anglo-Saxon grammar civilisation. Awarding practical knowledge due respect.
2. One of the most terrifying facts of history, is that the best ideas for social change and national advancement, is not the monopoly of academics. Academics can discuss them theoretically, but not necessarily author them. It is a faculty of conceptualisation, a faculty of imagination that produces new ideas. It may surprise some, that an illiterate man in Turkana can conceptualise better, how the mammoth funds from the discovered oil can develop Turkana, more than Mukhisa Kituyi, Henry Rotich, Kamau Thugge and the rest of the triple doctorates from Nairobi.
Because the academics have only one agenda in heir hearts: PLUNDER! The same agenda highly-educated colonists had: loot the colony!
But what I fear is not the idle chat of overweight men and hyper obese women wet-farting seats at Nairobi's parliament; what I fear is the grin of history behind a mask of steel. Constitutions can be suspended ----in_fact soldiers just did that in Mali and Myanmar the other day, not to mention Chad where Idris Debby succeeded Idris Debby. When Debby 1 died at the battlefield or elsewhere, the constitutional and legal order impeached the dynastic succession. It was the constitution, and its forbidding article, which got suspended, pending amendment later. But Debby one went to Debby two.
That is the grin behind the iron mask when the time is ripe.
If ---we of the degree classes continue to mismanage the public affairs of Kenya, let no one cheat himself some lowly colonels but fired with patriotism and nationalist vigour can not rise up and arrest the feisty Mpigs and drive them to the slaughter. A grin barely discernible behind the iron mask.
If degrees are to rule without fear, then the skill of degrees must be visible on the street. You walk into a public hospital and you see it. Any government service must ooze degree --code for high skill and performance.
NB: When Professor Omar el Shaban hits any tone on solo on any Wanyika school rendition of song, both your heart and ear instantly inform that is a genuine maestro. No doubt. But when your Professor Magoha's and Dr. Matiang'is and Dr. Ruto's open their mouths to talk public policy .... then their words, to quote an African poet, not even a parrot can remember!
Watch the mask, mind the grin as we change laws to install a 'degreecracy'. Democracy will fight back. By all means available in history.
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THE OPINION WHICH WASN'T JUST ANOTHER MEAT WRAP
We all know since that sarcastic squirt of Clint Callaghan in Dirty Harry, Opinions are like Arz Holes. Everyone's got one. And of course in one of his lucid moments did the president of Kenya himself declare our newspapers to be at their best wrapping meat. So when a mere opinion mocked back like a cartoon across the pages of a meat-wrap and provoked reactions akin to panic and anger, it is worth to take a pause and gasp!
WOLOLOLO!
The writer, a radio Africa presenter and star columnist named Henry Makori, opined thus: The president has turned into a dictator. He now relies on the support of the military and the Luo nation to stay in power, He should quit or be constrained through civil disobedience!
Suddenly the customary dismissive line ----every arz-hole is entitled to its burst of air and has the democratic wright to express it, died. Instead, there was hullabaloo from a section of the Handshake twitterati and, we have since learnt, a bolt of fear through the upper echelons of the same bureaucracy. The disturbed powermen, their bowels hyperactive with ominous thoughts, called the star people and intimidated them into instant withdrawal. The article was pulled down, but not before Kenyans had ran away with it.
Some opinions are better not aired in the open in Kenya. Our sensitivities cannot handle pin-pricks no more than the heel of Achilles could. If some tigers are paper and have zero tigritude in them, our nation too is likewise a paper nation easy to blow away with bursts of strong opinions. Or, come to think of it, the elite is so self-consciously fake and mandate-less, a chilly opinion brings them down with a cold, and diaorhea.
How I wish the injured parties would demolish Makori's opinion. Showing him how wrong he is; how democratic a ruler Uhuru is; how how far from a military puppet he is, and how Luo's have nothing to do with his longevity in power!
Otherwise what remains are puppies barking at themselves, hysterically infected by the noise after some dog barked at its own shadow. You know how that sort of thing goes. (Now it is like Makori's opinion was a statement of fact! and his recommendation a sensible course of action)
The dictator is facing a hustlers revolt led by his estranged deputy. In his own MK backyard, I doubt the dictator could pull a crowd such as he pulled in his visit to the Lake region. The dictator and his narrow clique continues their unabated loot, they are throwing the nation under the bus of debt.
Common sense would say the dictator has to go. Reports from the courts indicate there is no court order the dictator heard he didn't disobey. So his understanding of the constitution and law of the land, is a tyrant's.
So what, dear people, is the usefulness the dictator continues to serve? Happy be the land whose dictator goes I say!
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FOOLING ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME?
It is the genius of the current political elite (and her attendant bureaucracy), that, while they have driven the nation a_ground, proved themselves managerially incompetent, proved themselves pathological thieves, they have yet enough clout to successfully mobilise a majority to believe, or at least publicly pretend, that it is from one of them --- and the most corrupted ones at that----- that the choice (for President) must inevitably fall.
In other words they are indispensable! they are locked-in as in divinely mandated.
They deposit themselves a manifest destiny to all practical purposes. So much so that It is the Joe-Biden-senile-like Tinga, aka Baaba; or the vigorous kleptocrat, Arap Mashambah Singh, aka The Hustler King, who, akin to a pre-ordained succession, must be recruited to warm the top political office of Land Kenya. Of course lying in the wings, hoping for the oddity of being a compromise candidate is the array of decomposed none-entities: MDVD, WaterMelon Wiper, Mukhisa Kituyi and Weta. (Garbage too far gone to be recycled to any useful purpose and, if you ask me, best suited for farmyard manure!)
There is a tragic ring to it which beggars a furtive look over the shoulder. Surely, such mediocrity can not serve Kenya's future with any other purpose than doom. Neither can it be the only historical option of a futures as a nation dreams of. ---Many may have heard of the duplicituous roar of the Roman crowd. Well versed in its scripted roll, these crowds cheered the intrigues of the ruling nobles the way they cheered as they rioted or applauded the bloody gladiator games. There was all the semblance of ideological conformity.
It is a national tragedy playing out in the open. But it is still cushioned by the ready availability of credit. Either from the new master from the East, or the old ones from the West. The economy is afloat, well, relatively. But for those with eyes, it is an ubearable sore. It is like a superior army invading your territory and imposing upon you the realisation, henceforth, you are a vassal state, conquered until otherwise. Those opposed openly are doomed to instant death or worse; the rest to long-term resistance and struggle under the boot of occupation.
Happy thought: nothing new in history there. Precedents galore. The colonial Brits did wave aside our chiefs and their feudal traditional structures, proceeding full speed to erect their bloody empire. We are still reeling from the kick of that British boot against our skull. But we are staggering on, dazed but in the general direction of ... say progress.
But damn... so many backturns aint it a meandering road!?
It is important to note that the sun would never set on the British empire. At least that was the supremacist brag; same as the 1000 century NaziReich planned by the UberMensch myth, Adolf Hitler. So it is a lesson we never learn: once in the driving seat of history, one must constantly look over ones shoulder.
Thieving goons rule the land. But I don't dare say it is a comfortable sleep. Kenya is a merciless land for thieves, once powerless. Therefore whatever happens, the (2022) elections if they take place at all, must keep a thief in power.
I think Ruto wins this one, and then he is rigged out. Ruto wins it on the tidal wave of a change in generation. Taught to be cynical, ruthless and heartless, the new generation has no room for the hypocrisy and fakery which Agwambo oozes. The opposition ---Raila, Ouru, Kalonzo, Atwoli, have too much of a grave odor around them. They are paralysed in their hypocrisy, faced with the option of a real fight against corruption. They call Ruto a thief with the baboon laugh which so amuses us humans. That is the baboon laughing hysterically at the red hinds of the one in-front. Unaware it is a replica of its own hinds. THE NASA principles, even as NASA died long ago after the open show of cowardice by the other chickens that January day, are still playing the games they played in the Kibaki days. Kalonzo was bribed to run away with the ODM certificate (leaving Raila high and dry), Then ODM-K went nowhere. Kibaki VP Kalonzo and Kibaki PM Odinga spent the whole GCG time squabbling like rival wives only to --uniting at the last moment as a ticket-- find out Ruto and Ouru had taken the insider track.
Naive Mudavadi defected from Raila at the last moment in the Kibaki succession. He was gullible enough to be seduced by the possibility of a Kibaki endorsement; and Raila today, like he destroyed the opposition with his LDP when he joined Arap Moi (in the hope of endorsement), is Handshaking with Uhuru Kenyatta.
It is a re-do. A rehash of old tricks by old dogs who wont learn any new. They are confident they have put the political evolution of Kenya in the freezer. There no need for political innovation, no need for new thinking, no need for new ways to approach old problems. BBI is nothing but anti-Ruto Sh!t. It is no longer farce or comedy. It is tragedy. It is like time never moved on for them. They are stunted and stuck in old ruts even as the situation is different. That is what I call the cloud of political death stalking them. Time passed by their tricks.
Ruto exudes vigour. He is the first of his generation, ie the initiator of a dynasty. He has stolen more than all of them combined. His theft can only be compared to Kenyatta I and Moi I. He and Ouru had to literally rip Chris Musando to pieces to vifaranga themselves to power. So there is no doubt about the score and calibre.
Mudavadi, Kalonzo and Moi are no match for him. And they know it. And Raila must feel it in his bones that he is not up to it. Which is why he clings like a tick to Ouru's fat dewlap. In the Kibaki succession, Ouru's mind had already collapsed and given up the presidency when Ruto single-handedly re-invigorated him and panel-beat him into purpose. Raila has no money to match him and this time around, no health to match him on the campaign trail. This is why Raila can not even announce straightforward his is running. And is held up trying to form a broad coalition of the useless and the dead, NASA.
And so, the only option to beat Ruto is to rig. Which can also be by having the IEBC make a mess and elongate the rule of Kenyatta.
The way Kenyans are relaxed! We must have prepared doors out of the cave. To me it does not look like resignation to fate. It is more the unshakable faith in a colonial master. From afar!
Deus ex machina!?
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BURNIN'AND LOOTIN' THIS WEEK IN AZANIA
You know this Bob Marley song. I haven't caught it given much playtime this week. How many rivers do we have to cross before we get to the boss, the rastaman asks. It sounds like ... how many decades do we have to wait .... for the trickle-down to reach us at the bottom?
Some suspect that would be the forever wait. And so the wait is a seething impatience.
I made sure to check what the best heads say about the elite first. Has the word LOOTING ever been used to describe the behaviour at the top, in the way they manage the South African economy?I found out, the concept STATE CAPTURE is institutionalised in South African critical analysis, department political economy.
They agree their country is corruption on a grand scale. This phenomenon at the top can adequately be described in a scientifically credible paper as LOOTING or plunder. In fact the Zuma regime was a coalition of two looting wings within the ANC. One loyal to the Mbeki clan, the other the Zuma clique. Cyril Ramaphosa was a party compromise between the two looter factions.
Cyril's mandate would be to try make lacklustre amends fighting corruption. He would reform the economy some, this to contain the rising tide of Julius Malema's EFF; but he would leave past looters alone to enjoy their ill-gotten gains, lest they revive the spectacle of the Mariakana mines. There is a massacre Cyril allegedly oversaw there. Former star labour Unionist against apartheid he be. Best, shiniest gem of post apartheid black empowerment diamonds he be. This spectacular personal magic for himself, he failed to work it for the workers he used to represent in the post-apartheid framework.
Ramaphosa, looking so ill fitting he must have been both consciously and subconsciously aware he was convincing nobody with his huge lie, declared the looters of the shopping malls were attacking nothing less than South African democracy. And it is a conspiracy. It is uncannily reminiscent of what Joe Biden and co said of the Trump supporters who gate-crushed the peoples house, congress, and sent senators scurrying like rats before a miaw.
NB: Once president, Ramaphosa found himself where Raila and Kibaki found themselves in the Moi succession. Popular pressure was demanding a reckoning with looters, top of them Daniel Arap Moi, the ex president and KANU supremo. This sentiment was strong enough to dictate a Mr. Clean, John Githong'o, be the unavoidable pick for anti-corruption Czar. But Raila and Kibaki and their whole entourage, were the (KANU orphaned) children of Moi, and they had fed well and long at the Arap's table ----even if their feeding manners so disgusted a British diplomat he described them as Table Pukers and living-room Shitters. Conflicted thus, they had no option but to let Moi go with his loot unscathed. Lest it be the start of a domino which would end with their own fall, too.
So, as a matter of necessary deliberation: between the cartels who have captured the state and are running the politicians in a looting spree of African economies, and the impoverished miserable seething out of their squalid slums for a piece of pie, and rioting for more, who, do you say with your head, is your prime looter? Who is best better primed for a primed gunshot?
That there is more outrage in the media over the looting of a shopping mall by the impoverished than over the looting of a whole country and its mineral wealth by the elite, is what, in classical political economy, we could call CLASS POWER!
If you do what I do, you will wish you were never born. Me, I am untouchable, I go scot free. That is the difference in power, social power, economic power, political power. In the old bad days in the South, any white man could grab any black female, even juvenile, and, as he wished to please himself, proceed forth any way therewith. That was his privilege to exercise; what is more, it was even a birthright sanctioned by God. But a Blackman who as much as had eye-contact with a ripe white female, he would soon be one of the strange fruits Southern trees bore so often.
So is the structure of power.
For the black ANC president of south Africa to lie like that; and, for Cyril Ramaphosa in person to be so wildly bankrupt in the head that he sounded like an apartheid prime minister addressing parliament on the Soweto riots (Sharpaville) ----[instigated by conspiratorial communists intent on destroying the only working democracy in Africa, to reduce it to the nightmarish (tribal?) barbarism so prevalent in subsaharan Africa], is to illuminate the depths of the crisis in South Africa. A social bomb with the lid barely holding.
Ethnic mobilisation, the great Cyril coded.
But the propaganda mobilisation by the propertied classes who also own the mass media and their opinion leaders, to condemn in wholesale terms, the looting by the poor without batting an eyelid about the looting by the powerful, will not mask the deep truth revealed raw in a few days. There is a desperate horde out there; they are hungry and yearning for a better deal. It requires a military deployment to keep them down. It is a warzone, occupying army role for a local defence force deployed locally.
This [stagnation] crisis without end sets the stage for messianic populists like JP Magufuli or Bonapartists like Juan Peron or Moamar Khadaffi. ---That is toward a massive and forceful redistribution of chances, resources and of course SOCIAL POWER.
I have been checking the form one entree 'school bills' even as Professor George Magoha claims he has a tight fee structure to be adhered to. Methinks smart kids from poor families are in for exclusion from the best schools. Wont admit can't pay. Les miserables recycling themselves.
Whose future is here told?
Elections are already farce, damn expensive farce here.
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DOMESTIC TRIVIA AT DOTKE
How trivial it all looks when one maps out the biggest agenda facing the Kenyan elite as they see it. Let us personificate that elite in the obese body of the president, H.E The Stink Uhuru Kenyatta. What headaches if any, disturb the nights of this our first man, our commander in chief!?
Would it be ---BBI deadened by the cumbersome courts?
---- Implications of loosing Kiambaa by-elections to Ruto's UDA?
---His now forgotten big four agenda?
----The threatening emptiness of his legacy?
---Bottoms up versus Trickle down shilling wars?
---Ruto's circle of international friends?
----Whatever the needs and obligations of the matrimonial bed?
No, if the son of Jomo looses any peace at night, it really isn't on account of Kenya's future, nor is it anything in the neighbourhood of the historical purpose of Afro-Kenyan nationalism. No, he has no headaches; he has never had one apart from those that accrue after over indulgence with certain non-neutral contents of certain bottles. Watch his gait and weight. He lumbers around like a walrus basking the sun at a fat sea-shore. The man is retired from mental exertions. And so Kenya drifts. The lion is out of roars.
But one of the coming men for the vacant presidency has been making an effort. The dark national comedian who dubbed Odinga's oath a Kalongolongo event, was in top form the other day in Murang'a, to ridicule Ruto's effort as Matako-juu. And no sooner did the national laughter garner even more decibels as the likes of Ms Kandara Wahome tried to explain this economic theory on national TV.
This is where hot and big tears must stream down our faces, O citizens. We must weep for ourselves. A party with a serious economic theory would have produced a document of elucidation. One which could even be dubbed a blueprint for economic regeneration. Such seriousness would also delegate somebody called an economic spokesman or chief economic strategist --(Raila once had one named David Ndii). And it would be this man or woman who, all throttles blazing lucidity, would be tasked to enthral the masses with his economic vision, statistical projections, magic at numbers and, if need be, Goebellian presentations of wishes as facts. The opposing party, to show it could do better and the people better vote her in, too would have her chief economist and strategist deconstructing the opponent. How to create and manage the wealth of a nation is no monkey business. It is no afterthought in a silly propaganda war. It is an intellectual battle royal. Not in dotke.
Seriousness would dectate it would be left to the professional comedians (and to the peoples general creativity) to ridicule the busy minds at the top, blowing hot air.
A story is told of Jomo Kenyatta addressing a large gathering. That was early 70's after the OPEC skyrocketted oil prices. This sent the world economy downwards. Coffee price also tanked, and that was Kenya's gold. Kenyatta 1 (Jomo) liked to finish off his speeches with a national rallying cry:
HARAAMBEE!? Kenya yetu iko wapi?
---On cue the people would respond JUU!
NA UCHUMI WETU IKO WAPI?
But on this shilling-crash day the people responded in unison: CHINI!
That was later edited, but it had been live on radio and the spontaneous wit of the people, telling their truth, had shocked the elite enough to, henceforth, have the president wade only the safer waters when soliciting the people's unscripted responses:
(NA WAMAMA WOTE WAKO WAPI!!?
and the people and president would laugh, savouring the innuendoes of responding JUU!)
''Haya, msiue mabwana zenu na matako!'' (the official translation should be, please ladies don't kill your men with your infinite needs. But the extended laughter suggested otherwise, more like big and insatiable bottoms unleashed on top could break a man's back and will.)
There is therefore a lot of room for cheeky national comedy, but only to subsume a darker, more pressing reality. There is need to respond adequately to an unfolding economic crisis. That time it was the price of oil and coffee related down turn. Today it is the Covid-Lockdown maneno's and corruption orchestrated stagnation. This has further disenfranchised the youth.
I am afraid Bottom Up or Trickle Down must be cast as fictitious solutions to this real crisis. Unrealistic solutions is always a tragic bell tolling on a nation. It is like those days when an elite, stooped in magic and superstition, faced with a permanent drought, an agricultural crisis and a famine, conclude the gods were angry and desired more human (blood) sacrifices. And so the bloodletting becomes a cult instead of canals, irrigation damns and other drought-beating solutions. That civilisation then drowns in its own blood-soak. Or just disintegrates away. There is widespread economic unease and social pessimism.
To me, when Doctors Rotich and Thugge (former treasury men) steal the money for damns (like Kimwarer and Arror) meant for arid Kerio; and KEMSA under Mutahi Kagwe loots billions meant to contain the pandemic of COVID, and the running men focus on the BBI and 2022 Presidential elections as chief priorities of government expenditure, offering bottoms up or down trickles, it is more of a sinking than rising state of events.
But this is where the hardiness of a people comes in. The British perfected the divide and rule politics to enlenthen their colonial grip over Kenya. To plunder her resources forever at their leisure. Enter KANU under a young Turk group of African nationalists, purposed. Colonialism had to upgrade its act to neo-colonialism. Today we watch another rotten aristocracy and political oligarchy dance their funeral dirges, mistaken they are the future. In fact it is like 2022 has been pre-rigged. That the people have no say in it, but merely as scripted zombies, decorating a director's cut on the set. That the current, rotting dispensation at the top have no die-by-date, just as the British Empire, the story once went, had no date the sun would set on it. --How futile it must have seemed, O people, to resist the eternal empire! --TINDA.
LUNGS UNDER A CARPET OF WEEDS
No longer can the people breathe. The land's fallen under vile weed
They killed the constitution. R'busy at large spreading destitution
Now they choose the excuse of 19-Covid, To contemplate extending their rule of evil
Away with them O people! To the dustbin of history
Hearken to them winds .. O people!
Do thee cherish the sounds of the future
Take care for the rocks of Gyrae are short on mercy
Offload this brain-dead breed. To the deeps of the bottomless sea!
Trash overboard! Let the ballast go! The Asian tigers are rounding us!
Lean and mean must the ship swift ahead! For the rocks of Gyrae are what they are.
THE FREEZING DIFFICULT SMILE
It has been having trouble keeping its appearances. That fanged smile of Ruto's. Ever since the Handshake and the elevation of Maatiang'i to his cost, playing humbled loyalty while seething within has been a hell's trial for the DP. So it has been a Jekyll and Hide perverted ride for him; an internal tragedy, a national comedy.
Then, Miguna Miguna was here, came the Wilson Airport stinging jab of this week. Ruto all but went berserk on Inooro FM. There was no hiding the hurt. The rage shone through as the humiliation gritted too deep for a diplomatic camouflage. The body language was decisive in eloquence. It also made him clarify categorically, that there is no way he can work with the unnamed ODM leader, Raila Odinga. The differences in priorities are too deep, he claimed. --(That of course is a lie: they are both comprador chieftains whose business is to parasite on state resources. Their class interests are thus identical, and supersede their lip-service loyalties to the Kenyan people. They will close ranks if push comes to shove. No rope for class suicide in sight for either.)
OF UNSACKABLE MEN
President Kenyatta can not sack his Siamese twin Ruto. The political risks are too high. He is unsure of his MK backyard. And should he think of the backdoor method of impeachment, Ruto moved quickly to assemble his UDA colours in Karen. It was a show of numbers that would warn any political operative worth his salt to reconsider. And both sides are too weak to dare calling the bluff of the other. The battle then will only intensify in the shadows. Pin pricks as successive layers of defence are tested will continue, until combatants run out of subterfuge moves. Karanja Kibicho's confused interview hinted that moment is not that far off. Fre Mataing'is unclarity too is significant, not to mention Joseph Kinyua who was called by the DP from Wilson and denied any part in the hold-up. In other words, this was Ouru versus Ruto. No senior official in government is ready to hold the buck. And Ouru is still too scared to admit the buck stops by him.
As they say, he can run but he can't hide now.
NB: it was hilarious to have it on record, that the Kenyan political class, both in-and-out of government, so massively support Yoweri Museveni. They campaigned for him, he is their personal friend and business partner. They are heavily invested in the M7 regime. Now that is problematic, since the impartiality impacts hugely on the Ugandan opposition who seek to oust the Kaguta family regime. Common sense is to be neutral in the domestic affairs of the neighbour, lest, in a change of power, those whom you betrayed in their hour of need, come out on top and go for their pound of flesh. The way m7's state goons have treated Bobby Wine's entourage, it is shameful for the Kenyan institutional politicians to be so deep in bed with the incumbent. That is visionless greed.
2nd is of course Migingo. This is occupied by Uganda. Kenya's top politicians, DP Ruto confessing on Inooro live, go all out to befriend and campaign for the ruler of a country who has annexed part of Kenya's territory! Huh!?
I tell you words have no meaning here. That is pure treason. But why is this pure treason meaningless to these people? It is simply because our consciousness is still a work in progress. It is infantile so to speak. Patriotism is a very complex emotion. It is an acquitted trait, like literacy. A lot of Kenyans can easily say: it got nothing to do with me, Migingo is in Luoland. Just like when the KDF was massacred in El Adde, Somalia, most Kenyans shrugged: got nothing to do with me, they signed for the job, RIP anywhere, O lost soldiers! But I am happy to note there is no such cynicism about 2022. National consensus, betraying a deeper consciousness, seems to be, that 2022 has got everything to do with all Kenya, both at the national and individual level. There could be massive displacement of populations if botched, and that causes breaths to be held. I see many prayers around for peace in advance. But here again, the elite disappoints. Their parochial class consensus seems to be they can get away with another rigged or chaotic election in 2022. Wanjiku ata do!? They are thus all out bent on mismanaging the 2022 key event. I think they should revisit their risk analysis. Because during an economic crisis things tend to be more brittle, and tensions more inflammatory.
From the way they are economically theorising ---the comedy of bottoms up or trickle down, they reflect they think everybody is having it as fat as they are there at the top, wallowing in the cream of tax-payers' sweat. A banquet without end. But check the hungry faces outside the palace, gasping for bread on the streets. An accommodation would be prudent. Too many les miserables I say.
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A SERIES INTERREGNUM CHATS
One day, far away in the land of puberty, I really had to dig deep and screw up my guts to make a pass at the then Queen of my heart and occupier of my dreams. I remember the trauma of the mental turmoil as I squared up, and the later delights as I celebrated having taken the risk and acted. Amen!
So take a risk, a walk on the wild side.
INTERR-----
This is a period of chaos and elitist bubbling as the substantial majority, falsely in apparent apathy, await the real thing. It is the period between a dead order and a rising order. The carcass is birthing a baby, but its rigor mortis can yet asphyxiate the niewling. These are very dangerous and delicate times therefore.
But now if one lets their imagination inflate, the parallels are infinite. As the classical colonial order dies in Africa (in late fifties and early sixties), the 'real thing' the people yearn for is 'true independence'. But what they get is the 'flag thing'. This is an impostor whose true skeleton is neo-colonialism. There has been a change, but it is superficial. For the moment in euphoria, the people are defrauded of their dreams. And the historical fraud is perpetrated by none other than our own indigenous, collaborationist, traitorous, clientele and quisling leadership. That deferral of the peoples dreams sets the stage for quite a conflict.
The fake independence has had quite a run in Africa. Both in terms of pillage and mass murder. (That is war, civil or otherwise). The price of imposing a fake independence upon a people is dear. This is because the first nature of the human is struggle. Against all adversity. Against extreme climates, pandemics and epidemics; against tyrant and democrat, poverty and bounty, ignorance and disease, and of course last but not least, against foreign or local orchestrated injustice and oppression --(however sophisticated, thinking of the Talibhan sending the USA and her quislings packing in unceremonious fashion after two decades of drones and hellfire mayhem.)
INTERREGNUM KANU KENYA
One of the more successful neo-colonial states in Africa is Kenya. And if you are a 'Dotkeian' and you are reading this, you know who I am comparing you to, for us to come on top. There is not much competition around. But if you let your imagination go, you will get a hollow feeling in your stomach. South Korea and Taiwan were effectively neo-colonial states in the same orbit as us, but no, today, as Achebe would quip, they are beyond our statistics. And practice.The secret to their neo-colonial stardom is beyond our knowing. No, don't talk about 'clean Rwanda' under the beloved tyrant yet.
But I imagine the Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Korea, an economic Egwugwu or is it Guru, asking the Opus Dei humanoid at the CBK thus:
'The mind encased in the body of the thing Patrick Njoroge, do you know me!?
And Dr. Patrick is prompt.
'How can I know you Asia Tiger, for you Harvard and Yale are just for Junk economics!'
'I am the neo-colonial economy which made it to capitalist maturity in half a lifetime!
'' Sure, you are beyond the best of my --Washington B. Woods-- mental shots!'
Really?
I apologise for the below belt hit. Every fool can look at the statistics ---available freely on the net, and compare such ratios as R&D/GDP. There are about one hundred indices to go, including kickback-to-megaproject-cost ratio. ---On the later, pleas ponder Jimmy Wanjigi's recent revelation on how the kickback ratio to the original cost of the SGR mushroomed by an indefinite exponential when Uhuruto dropped in the driving seat.
We Designed SGR To Cost Ksh55 Billion From Mombasa To Malaba - Jimmy Wanjigi
August 30, 2021
The construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was set to cost Ksh55 billion from Mombasa to Malaba, businessman Jimmy Wanjigi has revealed.
Speaking to Citizen TV on Sunday night, Wanjigi revealed that he was the SGR mastermind alongside the China Road and Bridge Corporation.
The project was to be done and operated as a private entity with minimal or no government involvement, Wanjigi said.
"SGR was a project birthed by me in 2008 alongside China Road and Bridge Corporation. The intention was that the rail was a private project, with nothing to do with the government. The government was only to provide the land. SGR was to cost Ksh55 billion from Mombasa to Malaba," said Wanjigi.
However, Wanjigi said he left the implementation of the project in 2013 when he realized it was being overpriced by the Jubilee government.
Jimi Wanjigi: Raila's time is up (Video)
SGR was built with over KSh 330 billion from Mombasa to Nairobi.
They are corrupt in Korea too, see their various scandals and how they rid off their former Presidents, but the DOTKE rate is no longer corruption. It is moral debauchery. It is a key explanation of our meagre to inferior performance since the first republic was launched in 1964, but worse, it is the harbinger to a possible terrible resolution. This web of insane corruption is tethering the land to prehistory and damming the peoples aspirations from their logical historical path. It will be smashed with cold heart.
Ouru and Ruto should have been in Kamiti like yesterday.
South Korea's troubling history of jailing ex-presidents
October 9, 2018
Half of all living former South Korean presidents are now in prison. On October 5, 2018, former president Lee Myung-bak was sentenced to 15 years for embezzling 24.6 billion won (roughly $22 million). Lee will join his successor, disgraced ex-president Park Geun-hye, who last year began her 25-year sentence for various charges of corruption. Lee and Park's lengthy prison sentences may seem striking for an established democracy. But the reality is these sentences are not anomalies; rather, they reveal how tenuous South Korea's hold on democracy really is.
So now, let us re-ask the --Achebean-- question:
Do you know the difference between my corruption and yours?
and answer
''I am the wrath of the ROK that spareth no one once they have behaved corrupt. And I especially love Ex-Presidents in jail.''
The republic of Kenya could just be gearing to take a leaf or two from the ROK. The prestigious and ubiquitous Samsung comes with an undercurrent. A streak of ruthlessness which spares no body. ---Uhuru Ruto, Raila, Kalonzo, Mudavadi (Goldenbeg, AngloLeasing, SGR, NYS, Oil-Jetty, Dams ...).
Slam dunk cases.
NEXT: KISUMU EUROPE INTERREGNUM
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KISUMU EUROPE INTERREGNUM
In Kisumu Europe where I come from, we still do not, anno 2021, have flushing toilets at the famous Stend or Buspark. This spot is a number one public utility even busier than Kibuye market. Nevertheless, the smelly calls of nature must be answered and, after doing what we gotta do in private, we of Kisumu stend scoop sh!tty water from rusting (plastic) drums, therewith to try and erase the remnants of our fishy meals from the walls and floors of the ... ooyo.... I nearly said WATER CLOSET! And, vomit not, that scooping is done with slimy jugs which have seen their best and cleanest days,
There are folk still around, old enough to remember when, believe you me, at the tag of a meter-long chain of the British-Steel brand, a water fall of foaming pressure would be triggered, this to wipe the toilet sink clean. The cisterns, all rust-free steel, hung high up on the wall; the pressure was gauged such that even if one had poo'ed like an elephant, still the heap of dung would rush away like paper in an incinerator. The mechanisms of public toilets were a sort of British pride in convenience engineering. Every week, just as elsewhere throughout the big and small towns of the global empire, maintenance technicians would prowl the WC's of the Buspark to keep up the pride. (And, this is important: their salaries were stipt on time and adequate to keep up the good life of a provincial, colonial municipality worker. These lived at then posh estates like Ondiek and Arina. But they were the railway men and their women who had the pickiest, most panoramic estates around the hills overlooking the --head of the---- lake, aka Wi-Nam, .
In the original colonial plan, she was Port Elizabeth. And the lake was Victoria. These were show-case names, Anglo-Christian baptismals pregnant with imperial bloat and gloat. These were the mega projects, some of them expressly lunatic, of a highly ambitious empire, one whose image of herself was as eternal as the sun which, of legend, would never set on her.
Well you know VINDU, and the way they CHENJANGA.
At independence when it became Kisumu ---and not Kisumo, the incoming native elite had not the consciousness to prepare Port Elizabeth for her future flowering. The lakeside town would thus puber on as Kisumo and not Kisumu. That terminological nuance is important. It is a signifier of a deeper alienation.
Kisumo (Kasumo/Kar-Sumo) means a place of exchange. And if you don't have money (which is the most liquid form of any exchange commodity), barter is still the name of the trade. Kisumo is a market place envisioned. A Trading centre. And it is as a universal trading centre, her true identity, that the incoming elite failed to recognise, plan for and facilitate. This correct divination of historical purpose is the difference between a mature bourgeoisie and a parasitic genre. Kisumu became an ADMINSTRATIVE CENTRE. A provincial headquarters. And well, you know what happens when Bureaucrats are Kings: stagnation. Bureaucrats lack imagination, have no need to take business risks, have no social vision outside the safety of their jobs and, as a parasitic entity, cost more than their use.
Kisumu became some backwater lagoon overgrown by a hyacinth lot of politicians, polluted by their toxic KANU emissions. Commercially it was little more than a museum of small dukawallah capital. For would-be enterprising African capital, business was even more petty. The Luo capital city was the personification of the dead-end evolutionary trajectory of the first republic. A colonial relic.
ENTER THE SECOND LIBERATION AND DEVOLUTION
Well, the struggles continued. A rebellion within the ruling party was a clear warning. This was the KPU led by leftist Jaramogi Odinga. KANU, like classical colonialism mutating into neo-colonialism, had to upgrade or pimp up her game.
With devolution we voted in Dr. Baba Lupita Nyong'o; we had a dangerous card behind our backs. Who, O who is to take Kisumu back to her true identity: Marketplace. The political administration of the county should move away from Kisumu city. It should be banished to some far-off exile mini bubble of a garbage-recycling centre, like Washington DC from New York. (In New York, a city specialising in money-making and related financial scams, Politicians are known as garbage, and DC is the garbage recycling depot for their lot!)
Borrowing a leaf from the New Yorkers, I don't want Kisumo to be a garbage recycling unit. She cannot be the Kachok where takataka from Nairobi, be they ex Mpigs or ex Senators or ex top civil servants, are recycled into even worse filth. No, the true identity of Kisumu is a robust, even wild commercial market where everything entrepreneurial goes, where not even the sky is a limit. But no place for parasites.
Everybody knows the human imagination is infinite, human needs too. You name it, there is a market for it. But in public service one starts with the basics. A pit latrine, then a flushing toilet, then ---if you have been to a public toilet in Japan recently, all robot-care for your tenderest of parts Think of those hot-air blows to dry your hands at the WC's of Nairobi's Machakos Airport! They were quite an innovation when they came, a light year from the toilet paper serviettes at international hotels at the city centre.
We say Kisumu Europe as a cold-hearted sense of humour, to remind Governor Nyong'o of what his historical mission is: to end the interregnum which has been the (intellectual and technocratic) collapse of the neo-colonial elite who inherited Port Elizabeth. They inherited the beautiful English City by the Lake (Victoria Imagine the name!), then proceeded to degrade her to an extent she didn't even have functional public toilets at the Bus hub!
Under the former governor, The Barbarian Ranguma, the referral hospital had its water supply cut for non-payment of bills. One needs little imagination to have an idea of the scenes and tropical scents at the water-less morgue then. It was then that I first heard the battle-cry Kisumu Europe!
It is a wolf''s grin, happy thoughts on a full belly, happy thoughts at a fat meal? Baba Lupita has his nightmares. And Covid does not even feature.
INTERREGNUM 2: FROM MAPUTO TO KABUL
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INTERREGNUM 2: FROM MAPUTO TO KABUL, PHASES OF THE SAME APE
Technologically we have moved on. We the human race. Emotionally, our limbic systems are still warped in the ---evolutionarily--- distant ape. That jungle creep kills the male offspring of his b!tch, to avoid coming competition. Our versions of sour grapes as mankind --when we loose power--- are supra Shakespearean. Invariably it is a horrifying mismatch of intellect and heart, say, hell hathnt the fury of a colonial power butt-kicked by a ragtag band of deplorables.
When FRELIMO under Samora Machel routed the decomposing Portuguese colonial army in Mozambique, the Portuguese had to lower flag and flee unceremoniously. White pride was immensely hurt; the civilisation of the whitemen, finding themselves in a tails-between-the-knees position, unravelled and exacted a filthy penalty as they rushed for the exit. They destroyed every working thing in all government properties. They smashed typewriters, and bulbs; they set filing cabinets on fire and ripped electric cables. It was a scorched-earth retreat, it was a medieval scene or arson and loot.
It was kinda like Roman fury at Carthage. Machel confronted an arson scene like Napoleon met when he entered Moscow.
This past week pictures have been coming in --from Saigon. America the indispensable collapsed in a feat of defeated rage and went amok at Kabul's Hamid Karzai airport. In the aftermath, the HKIA looked like Ilios city as the long-haired sons of Achaea boarded their beaked ships to return home.
That is how two decades of high-tech folly ended. $2.6 trillion dollars burnt. There was nothing to show for it on the ground but the power of destruction. They didn't do the body count of bomb-incinerated Afghans lest the concept genocide materialise and take root. It was the efficacy of a secular killing machine unrestrained.
For those whose minds have not been corrupted by the deluded heights of intellect, they recognise the horror immediately.
In our historical progression, we consider secularism a higher form of social organisation than a theocratic dispensation. We consider elections a fundamental aspect of democracy, and along with it, the human rights of especially womankind under market economics. So when the current, greatest secular military power on earth, a scientific and economic power to boot, reports TOTAL FAIL after two decades of occupation and nation-building, there is an obvious intellectual and ideological crisis laid bare.
But those whose societies experienced long-term colonialism and its myths of superiority, know a truth or two. They witnessed the colonist's daily fix of heinous crimes against the humanity of the natives. They watched its denials of reality under its drunkenness with its own mystique. They recognised its essence as plunder, domination and control. The ex-colonials don't get surprised at the final outcome when colonialism in whatever ruse is faced with sustained cultural resistance and a disciplined leadership. The Talibhan-led armed struggle against the democratic facade sponsored by the USA and her NATO cohorts, was a classic case of Amilcar Cabral's thesis of the armed struggle as the flower of authentic cultural resistance against foreign domination and its quisling satellites, local or abroad.
The Left, once upon a time with the monopoly of theorising for the oppressed of the world, now having surrendered to Capitalist organisation and sworn allegiance to neo-liberalism, no longer feature in liberation struggles. Some leftists even claim the era of national liberation struggles is past. Poor Palestina! poor Kurds! poor Saharawi people! Poor Uighur's! Poor indigenous Andes peoples! Poor Papua's! ...
It is a narrative of a false victory which will be corrected by the reality of a struggle led necessarily by men, and occasionally women who, on the first look, are outlaws of this civilisation. The Talibhan leadership don't look like your daily politicians on TV. They are all gorilla male, and I mean in the sense of being so shaggy and rugged the other clean-shave and tight-suited politicians look very feminine, in deed a bunch of stand-in puzzies. The most sinister, most seditious halo the over-bearded cavemen ooze, is the spiritual strength of men impervious to the trappings of modern politics. ---Money, fraud, plunder, individual gain. These are not men out to cash in on their political victory. They are not Tony Blair, Barrack Obama, Angela Merkel or any corrupt winner of elections in the African continent, those merely marking time in power for self-enrichment. The former president and election winner of Afghanistan, a man named Ghani, reputedly fled with suitcases stuffed of cash. And his greed was such that there was no room for all in the plane, wherefore he left part of the loot on the tarmac! The Afghans themselves, have enough cultural depth to find an appropriate classification for such a scum of a leader! Red Najibullah stayed to face the noose.
ALUTA CONTINUA WITHOUT SECULAR PROGRESSIVES
Next door in Iran, clerics are proving themselves more than capable of repulsing the worst that modern covert warfare unleashed by the worlds leading technological nations can throw at them. 40 years of economic sabotage, total sanctions, confiscation of foreign-held assets (aka freezing), murders of top scientists, instigated hot warfare (Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran), total medical embargo during Covid-Sars, and all other creative evils have not managed to bring Ayatollah-led Iran to her knees. On the contrary, Islamic revolutionary Iran has risen in prestige, soft power and military capability far the superior of other nations which have not suffered any sanctions. In deed, after the Trump assassination of commander Qassem Hussein, Iran obliterated a US base in Iraq with precision-guided missiles, and the The Hegemon found it wise to desist from futher escalation by open retaliation.
The lesson of Iran is terrifying enough to Christian neo-liberal fundamentalist zealots who teach their truth monopolies at their best institutions like Harvard and Yale. And here are some Mullah's proving to be Vo Nguyen Giaps at ECONOMIC resistance! Heck! Even an atomic bomb they can make IF THEY WANT! And that, under 40 years of toal sanctions! Is there something the gods who rule the markets of the world have missed, such that their truths are outdated dogma's?
Now, another set of Mullah's with their long beards and turbans reduce the greatest military power on earth to a whining, running, fleeing dog hiding under the skirts of Qatar! It is an old lesson never to be learnt: No people appreciate foreign domination, no people value local quislings and mercenaries facilitating colonialism. Such are mere traitors, rats, however rich and powerful their puppet rule seems, however ruthless and bloody tortuous their prison cells are.
One of the more light-hearted Talib spokesmen had an easy grin as he answered a question on human rights. 'As you know, several of our top leaders have enjoyed the hospitality of the Americans at 5-star venues like Guantanamo Bay. All these people now so concerned about human rights in Afghanistan, we didn't hear their protestations as we received the full dose of goodies including water-boarding, ritualised abuse, religious humiliation etc etc, and all without any court proceedings prior!'
Something deep has collapsed in Afghanistan. The NATO occupation was corrupt and rotten. Secular men didn't have the courage to say No. Instead they chose self profit. But religion, some strands of it uncompromising in its moral edicts, managed to find, organise and motivate both patriots and zealots to combat. Secularists, motivated by nothing but own commercial gain proved to have no fight in them. There are other values on earth men will, against all odds, fight to the end and death for. Afghan reality has made a laughing stock of would-be progressives. Progressives were just enterprising, sloganeering apologists for a colonial occupation. And now they will be apologists for the economic warfare which the defeated super power will unleash: think of the 40 years of Iranian experience post the Islamic revolution.
An experiment to watch, a clerical Afghanistan attempting national liberation and freedom from foreign control. So far this has proven a job beyond secularists. So a tougher breed must fill the vacuum. It is a fearsome lesson from history's master class. But we are apes in part, and there are things beyond part apes to learn.
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FRANCIS KIMEMIA SPEAKS: WHAT DO OUR DEAD DO?
I forget the name of the ethnic group in Nigeria who commonly chant our dead speak when they hear a truth everybody recognises but which official doctrine proclaims the otherwise of. If So&So's wife is a known company wife, what the Bible might refer to as adulterous, she may occasionally be confronted by a mocker chide from one of her co-wives as she defends her matrimonial virtues. It can also be a check, paraphrasable as ....'let the ancestors who know all quote you!'
The ancestors don't quote falsehoods to the living, at least for that people. The ancestors reckon the living themselves are more than competent in repeating their lies to themselves daily, endlessly. Truth, however, is another matter. It is worth the while of the dead resurrecting to repeat in whole.
But first, let me deal you in on a rumour. Actually Several rumours open sourced. This is from the Mwai Kibaki days. Francis Kimemia, the current governor of Nyandarua, was very powerful then. Joseph Kinyua, later to emerge as Uhuru Kenyatta's top horse-whisperer, felt bypassed and stagnated at the treasury.
Economy
Kinyua returns as ex-Treasury officials land plum State jobs
Thursday September 26 2013
Former Finance permanent secretary Joseph Kinyua returned to government on Thursday in the elevated position of Chief of Staff and Head of Public Service.
Mr Kinyua's appointment marks the latest placement of an official who served under President Uhuru Kenyatta when he was Finance minister into another influential government role.
It also raises questions about the pecking order in State House where the comptroller, Lawrence Lenayapa, is in office as well as secretary to the Cabinet Francis Kimemia; Mr Kinyua's former boss as head of the public service.
Mr Kinyua will be in charge of State House operations as well as heading the civil service, putting the experienced economist in charge of Kenya's more than 250,000 government employees.
The hiring of the 62-year-old technocrat to the position fills a void left by the appointment of Francis Kimemia as secretary to the Cabinet under the new Constitution; which is silent on the office of public service head.
Previously, under the Constitution repealed in 2010, the head of civil service doubled up as secretary to the Cabinet. Mr Kimemia was the last holder of this office. However, the Constitution empowers the President to create administrative offices necessary to aid in the smooth running of government operations.
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Mr Kinyua's career began in 1978 as an assistant lecturer at the University of Nairobi. He holds a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Nairobi.
He later joined the Central Bank of Kenya in 1980 as an economist and rose to the rank of director of Research. Between 1985 and 1990, he worked as an economist with the International Monetary Fund before returning back to the Central Bank of Kenya.
He was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury in June 1995, a position he held until July 1999 when he re-joined the Central Bank of Kenya as Director of Financial Markets. He was appointed the Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Kenya in October 2000.
Mr Kinyua was appointed as the PS Finance in September 2002, a position he held until January 2003 when he was appointed PS in the ministry of Planning and National Development.
In July 2003, he was appointed PS in the ministry of Agriculture where he served until July 2004 when he was reappointed PS to the ministry of Finance.
Kibaki preferred his old pal David Mwiraria to oversee Finance. Then CBK governor Professor Njugunah Ndung'u and the likes of Treasury mandarin Joseph Kinyua he, Don Mwai Kibaki, merited as scandalous Moi goons and pedestrian-to-illiterate managers. They could stay on as spectators. And of course 'snoring sleepers' reporting to their IMF controllers on Mwai's errors. There is an interesting Gikuyu epithet Kibaki would use on them as he talked down to John Michuki, the capo.
Francis Kimemia, so goes a strand in the tale, is one of the hammers John Michuki could rely on to crack heads in the civil service. Francis Kimemia is therefore an unsung hero of the Mwai Kibaki reforms. He smashed a couple of heads around the civil service to turn the juggernaut around from its Arap-Moi ossification-cum-Ottoman dead-weight, to the swift ship of Kibaki and Raila under NARK. Francis Muthaura saw the administrative talent in Kimemia, even as the thug in Francis deeply troubled him. Man Michuki, however, had no qualms.
Crime had reached an alarming level in Kenya, ranging from car jackings and armed robberies to bank heists and highway robberies. It is at this time that the cabal around Kibaki decided to bring Michuki in to be in charge of internal security to save the government's image that was going down the drain with each and every media report about crime. One of the first drastic measures Michuki took was to order police to "shoot to kill" anybody found carrying firearms,[132]
A Kenyan commentator noted
We all remember former President Kibaki's attempt to criminalise and wipe out the Mungiki early in his tenure in 2003. The late John Michuki, the no-nonsense autocrat under the NARC Government, used an iron fist to try and decimate Mungiki. Untold carnage ensued. He hunted the Mungiki everywhere - ruthlessly. The violent group went underground. Its leaders were prosecuted and some renounced their membership. Mungiki spiritual leader Maina Njenga claimed to have converted to Christianity.
Sir John had his lieutenants.
Here is Matere Keriri, Kibaki's personal secretary and comptroller of state house until he aroused the jealousy of Lucy Kibabki. We had what others called the 7M Mafia, a core team that coordinated the affairs of the State. It comprised Mwai (Kibaki), (David) Mwiraria, (Kiraitu) Murungi, (Francis) Muthaura, (Chris) Murungaru, Martha (Karua) and I Matere. John Michuki joined later. We had to organise for the president to govern the country.
But Michuki-protege Francis Kimemia would eventually go overboard. This is after he replaced Francis Muthaura to become King of all civil servants. Perhaps he was drunken with power, perhaps he became too much invested in corruption to loose power, but, in the run to the 2013 elections, he would so politicise the civil service as to make it nationally ineffectual. By the time Uhuruto installed themselves with 50/50 insanity, the Kibaki go-getter service had imploded into nothing but a looting service.
Governor Francis Kimemia in Trouble After Revival of Sh2.9 Billion Scandal
By Martin Siele on 19 September 2017
Nyandarua County Governor Francis Kimemia has claimed that the revival of a Sh2.9 Billion corruption investigation is politically motivated and meant to taint his image as a public servant.
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Keriako Tobiko, has opposed a recommendation by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) to close investigations into the case where former Interior Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo and the Nyandarua Governor are accused of missapropriating more than Sh2.9 Billion from coffers of the Office of the President.
Governor Kimemia at the time was Head of Public Service. The embezzled funds were part of a 'Confidential' expenditure account in the Ministry of Interior, funds used at the discretion of the Interior PS; for instance when conducting emergency security operations.
The funds were lost in the 2012/2013 Financial Year and the EACC in May 2017, recommended that the case be closed citing a lack of sufficient evidence.
The report that informed the initial opening of investigations into the case came from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in 2014, then chaired by former Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba.
The PAC Report revealed that an account at the National Bank of Kenya (NBK) had been used to siphon huge amounts of money without any documentation ahead of the 2013 General Election.
Mr Kimemia and Mr Iringo were the accounting officers in the Office of the President at the time.
Mr Iringo was appointed as Interior Principal Secretary in June 2013, eventually moving to the Defence Ministry in August 2014.
As for investigations, a man named Francis Ndegwa Muhoro, top cop and DCI then, was beholden to Frank Kimemia who had ruthlessly pushed his appointment, then deemed unconstitutional.
Exclusive: Letter From IEBC Detailing Kimemia's Links To Jubilee Campaigns
February 22, 2013
On the January 27th, 2013 at Lake Elementaita Jacaranda Hotel, Mr. Kimemia met the Jubilee Alliance/The National Alliance Presidential Candidate Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William ruto from 22.20hrs to 23.15hrs behind closed doors.
ii. On January 29, 2013 at the Bomas of Kenya, Mr. Kimemia held a meeting with District Commissioners (DCs), County Commissioners (CCs) and provincial Commissioners (PCs). In small meetings within a bigger one and that Mr. Kimemia did appeal to the administrators to assist presidential campaigns of Mr. Kenyatta as they would be sacked if Rt. Hon Raila Odinga were to be elected president.
iii. As facilitation the administrators were promised sums of between ksh 5,000,000 and ksh 15,000,000 each. This meeting was attended by Mr. Itea Iringo and Kennedy Kihara among other senior officials from the office of the President.
That above is what the money did among other things, but the official conclusion is
The funds were lost in the 2012/2013 Financial Year and the EACC in May 2017, recommended that the case be closed citing a lack of sufficient evidence.
The most important thing in anything, is to follow the money. In fact, that is the only thing in any transaction.
The DEEP STATE?
A great American president coined the term MILLITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX to warn his own country of teary-eyed crocodiles watching over their future. The deep state is a euphemism for state capture by a criminal gang.
We knew the deep state existed in Kenya. They have been rigging elections to such an extent that only the 1963 and 2002 Presidential ones count as having been untampered with. What we don't know, and what really would be information from Francis Kimemia, is who stole how much exactly and where the money went to when he was deep, deep into deep state labyrinths. The MONEY TRAIL. This to avoid collective punishment when the day of reckoning chances to arrive, with tempers much lost.
Word on the street today is all politicians of Kenya are filth. And the higher echelons of the Public Service, rotten. The state is corrupt to its deepest bottoms. This creates a historical vacancy for a peoples surgeon. So, should a hard man like John Michuki who didn't have to cry his tigritude arrive on the scene, and be minded to deal with the corrupt the way Kimeendero did the Mungiki in his shoot-to-kill days, every protestation of innocence by an accused need not fall on a sarcastic retort: do our dead speak!
But Francis Kimemia has spoken, but he has said nothing. The man has never faced a nasty confessor in his life. Hope he is lucky enough to die that way. Unconfessed. ---Aaah, the national archives of Kenya, what a confabulated and stop gap affair. Our dead haven't spoken!
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THE RUSSO-CHINA TREATY OF LIMITLESS FRIENDSHIP FROM 2022
The Eurasian pivot of Russia sets a new world order. In my opinion it is that profound. And it is the context in which the future politics of Africa will play. The document produced by the two leading economic and military powers underpinning the format, China and Russia, I therefore deem important enough to re-produce in full. It is my hope heads at the Kenyan institute of strategic studies have alreay been burning the midnight oil, limitlessly defining markers for the Post-Uhuru regime come August 2022. (For instance incorporating the other two alternatives to SWIFT)
Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the Peoples Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New Era and the Global Sustainable Development
February 4, 2022
At the invitation of President of the Peoples Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir V. Putin visited China on 4 February 2022. The Heads of State held talks in Beijing and took part in the opening ceremony of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games.
The Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China, hereinafter referred to as the sides, state as follows.
Today, the world is going through momentous changes, and humanity is entering a new era of rapid development and profound transformation. It sees the development of such processes and phenomena as multipolarity, economic globalization, the advent of information society, cultural diversity, transformation of the global governance architecture and world order; there is increasing interrelation and interdependence between the States; a trend has emerged towards redistribution of power in the world; and the international community is showing a growing demand for the leadership aiming at peaceful and gradual development. At the same time, as the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection continues, the international and regional security situation is complicating and the number of global challenges and threats is growing from day to day. Some actors representing but the minority on the international scale continue to advocate unilateral approaches to addressing international issues and resort to force; they interfere in the internal affairs of other states, infringing their legitimate rights and interests, and incite contradictions, differences and confrontation, thus hampering the development and progress of mankind, against the opposition from the international community.
The sides call on all States to pursue well-being for all and, with these ends, to build dialogue and mutual trust, strengthen mutual understanding, champion such universal human values as peace, development, equality, justice, democracy and freedom, respect the rights of peoples to independently determine the development paths of their countries and the sovereignty and the security and development interests of States, to protect the United Nations-driven international architecture and the international law-based world order, seek genuine multipolarity with the United Nations and its Security Council playing a central and coordinating role, promote more democratic international relations, and ensure peace, stability and sustainable development across the world.
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The sides share the understanding that democracy is a universal human value, rather than a privilege of a limited number of States, and that its promotion and protection is a common responsibility of the entire world community.
The sides believe that democracy is a means of citizens' participation in the government of their country with the view to improving the well-being of population and implementing the principle of popular government. Democracy is exercised in all spheres of public life as part of a nation-wide process and reflects the interests of all the people, its will, guarantees its rights, meets its needs and protects its interests. There is no one-size-fits-all template to guide countries in establishing democracy. A nation can choose such forms and methods of implementing democracy that would best suit its particular state, based on its social and political system, its historical background, traditions and unique cultural characteristics. It is only up to the people of the country to decide whether their State is a democratic one.
The sides note that Russia and China as world powers with rich cultural and historical heritage have long-standing traditions of democracy, which rely on thousand-years of experience of development, broad popular support and consideration of the needs and interests of citizens. Russia and China guarantee their people the right to take part through various means and in various forms in the administration of the State and public life in accordance with the law. The people of both countries are certain of the way they have chosen and respect the democratic systems and traditions of other States.
The sides note that democratic principles are implemented at the global level, as well as in administration of State. Certain States' attempts to impose their own democratic standards on other countries, to monopolize the right to assess the level of compliance with democratic criteria, to draw dividing lines based on the grounds of ideology, including by establishing exclusive blocs and alliances of convenience, prove to be nothing but flouting of democracy and go against the spirit and true values of democracy. Such attempts at hegemony pose serious threats to global and regional peace and stability and undermine the stability of the world order.
The sides believe that the advocacy of democracy and human rights must not be used to put pressure on other countries. They oppose the abuse of democratic values and interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the pretext of protecting democracy and human rights, and any attempts to incite divisions and confrontation in the world. The sides call on the international community to respect cultural and civilizational diversity and the rights of peoples of different countries to self-determination. They stand ready to work together with all the interested partners to promote genuine democracy.
The sides note that the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set noble goals in the area of universal human rights, set forth fundamental principles, which all the States must comply with and observe in deeds. At the same time, as every nation has its own unique national features, history, culture, social system and level of social and economic development, universal nature of human rights should be seen through the prism of the real situation in every particular country, and human rights should be protected in accordance with the specific situation in each country and the needs of its population. Promotion and protection of human rights is a shared responsibility of the international community. The states should equally prioritize all categories of human rights and promote them in a systemic manner. The international human rights cooperation should be carried out as a dialogue between the equals involving all countries. All States must have equal access to the right to development. Interaction and cooperation on human rights matters should be based on the principle of equality of all countries and mutual respect for the sake of strengthening the international human rights architecture.
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The sides believe that peace, development and cooperation lie at the core of the modern international system. Development is a key driver in ensuring the prosperity of the nations. The ongoing pandemic of the new coronavirus infection poses a serious challenge to the fulfilment of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is vital to enhance partnership relations for the sake of global development and make sure that the new stage of global development is defined by balance, harmony and inclusiveness.
The sides are seeking to advance their work to link the development plans for the Eurasian Economic Union and the Belt and Road Initiative with a view to intensifying practical cooperation between the EAEU and China in various areas and promoting greater interconnectedness between the Asia Pacific and Eurasian regions. The sides reaffirm their focus on building the Greater Eurasian Partnership in parallel and in coordination with the Belt and Road construction to foster the development of regional associations as well as bilateral and multilateral integration processes for the benefit of the peoples on the Eurasian continent.
The sides agreed to continue consistently intensifying practical cooperation for the sustainable development of the Arctic.
The sides will strengthen cooperation within multilateral mechanisms, including the United Nations, and encourage the international community to prioritize development issues in the global macro-policy coordination. They call on the developed countries to implement in good faith their formal commitments on development assistance, provide more resources to developing countries, address the uneven development of States, work to offset such imbalances within States, and advance global and international development cooperation. The Russian side confirms its readiness to continue working on the China-proposed Global Development Initiative, including participation in the activities of the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative under the UN auspices. In order to accelerate the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the sides call on the international community to take practical steps in key areas of cooperation such as poverty reduction, food security, vaccines and epidemics control, financing for development, climate change, sustainable development, including green development, industrialization, digital economy, and infrastructure connectivity.
The sides call on the international community to create open, equal, fair and non-discriminatory conditions for scientific and technological development, to step up practical implementation of scientific and technological advances in order to identify new drivers of economic growth.
The sides call upon all countries to strengthen cooperation in sustainable transport, actively build contacts and share knowledge in the construction of transport facilities, including smart transport and sustainable transport, development and use of Arctic routes, as well as to develop other areas to support global post-epidemic recovery.
The sides are taking serious action and making an important contribution to the fight against climate change. Jointly celebrating the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, they reaffirm their commitment to this Convention as well as to the goals, principles and provisions of the Paris Agreement, including the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The sides work together to ensure the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement, remain committed to fulfilling the obligations they have undertaken and expect that developed countries will actually ensure the annual provision of $100 billion of climate finance to developing states. The sides oppose setting up new barriers in international trade under the pretext of fighting climate change.
The sides strongly support the development of international cooperation and exchanges in the field of biological diversity, actively participating in the relevant global governance process, and intend to jointly promote the harmonious development of humankind and nature as well as green transformation to ensure sustainable global development.
The Heads of State positively assess the effective interaction between Russia and China in the bilateral and multilateral formats focusing on the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, protection of life and health of the population of the two countries and the peoples of the world. They will further increase cooperation in the development and manufacture of vaccines against the new coronavirus infection, as well as medical drugs for its treatment, and enhance collaboration in public health and modern medicine. The sides plan to strengthen coordination on epidemiological measures to ensure strong protection of health, safety and order in contacts between citizens of the two countries.
The sides have commended the work of the competent authorities and regions of the two countries on implementing quarantine measures in the border areas and ensuring the stable operation of the border crossing points, and intend to consider establishing a joint mechanism for epidemic control and prevention in the border areas to jointly plan anti-epidemic measures to be taken at the border checkpoints, share information, build infrastructure and improve the efficiency of customs clearance of goods.
The sides emphasize that ascertaining the origin of the new coronavirus infection is a matter of science. Research on this topic must be based on global knowledge, and that requires cooperation among scientists from all over the world. The sides oppose politicization of this issue. The Russian side welcomes the work carried out jointly by China and WHO to identify the source of the new coronavirus infection and supports the China WHO joint report on the matter. The sides call on the global community to jointly promote a serious scientific approach to the study of the coronavirus origin.
The Russian side supports a successful hosting by the Chinese side of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing in 2022.
The sides highly appreciate the level of bilateral cooperation in sports and the Olympic movement and express their readiness to contribute to its further progressive development.
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The sides are gravely concerned about serious international security challenges and believe that the fates of all nations are interconnected. No State can or should ensure its own security separately from the security of the rest of the world and at the expense of the security of other States. The international community should actively engage in global governance to ensure universal, comprehensive, indivisible and lasting security.
The sides reaffirm their strong mutual support for the protection of their core interests, state sovereignty and territorial integrity, and oppose interference by external forces in their internal affairs.
The Russian side reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, confirms that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and opposes any forms of independence of Taiwan.
Russia and China stand against attempts by external forces to undermine security and stability in their common adjacent regions, intend to counter interference by outside forces in the internal affairs of sovereign countries under any pretext, oppose colour revolutions, and will increase cooperation in the aforementioned areas.
The sides condemn terrorism in all its manifestations, promote the idea of creating a single global anti-terrorism front, with the United Nations playing a central role, advocate stronger political coordination and constructive engagement in multilateral counterterrorism efforts. The sides oppose politicization of the issues of combating terrorism and their use as instruments of policy of double standards, condemn the practice of interference in the internal affairs of other States for geopolitical purposes through the use of terrorist and extremist groups as well as under the guise of combating international terrorism and extremism.
The sides believe that certain States, military and political alliances and coalitions seek to obtain, directly or indirectly, unilateral military advantages to the detriment of the security of others, including by employing unfair competition practices, intensify geopolitical rivalry, fuel antagonism and confrontation, and seriously undermine the international security order and global strategic stability. The sides oppose further enlargement of NATO and call on the North Atlantic Alliance to abandon its ideologized cold war approaches, to respect the sovereignty, security and interests of other countries, the diversity of their civilizational, cultural and historical backgrounds, and to exercise a fair and objective attitude towards the peaceful development of other States. The sides stand against the formation of closed bloc structures and opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region and remain highly vigilant about the negative impact of the United States' Indo-Pacific strategy on peace and stability in the region. Russia and China have made consistent efforts to build an equitable, open and inclusive security system in the Asia-Pacific Region (APR) that is not directed against third countries and that promotes peace, stability and prosperity.
The sides welcome the Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapons States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races and believe that all nuclear-weapons States should abandon the cold war mentality and zero-sum games, reduce the role of nuclear weapons in their national security policies, withdraw nuclear weapons deployed abroad, eliminate the unrestricted development of global anti-ballistic missile defense (ABM) system, and take effective steps to reduce the risks of nuclear wars and any armed conflicts between countries with military nuclear capabilities.
The sides reaffirm that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is the cornerstone of the international disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation system, an important part of the post-war international security system, and plays an indispensable role in world peace and development. The international community should promote the balanced implementation of the three pillars of the Treaty and work together to protect the credibility, effectiveness and the universal nature of the instrument.
The sides are seriously concerned about the trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom (AUKUS), which provides for deeper cooperation between its members in areas involving strategic stability, in particular their decision to initiate cooperation in the field of nuclear-powered submarines. Russia and China believe that such actions are contrary to the objectives of security and sustainable development of the Asia-Pacific region, increase the danger of an arms race in the region, and pose serious risks of nuclear proliferation. The sides strongly condemn such moves and call on AUKUS participants to fulfil their nuclear and missile non-proliferation commitments in good faith and to work together to safeguard peace, stability, and development in the region.
Japan's plans to release nuclear contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean and the potential environmental impact of such actions are of deep concern to the sides. The sides emphasize that the disposal of nuclear contaminated water should be handled with responsibility and carried out in a proper manner based on arrangements between the Japanese side and neighbouring States, other interested parties, and relevant international agencies while ensuring transparency, scientific reasoning, and in accordance with international law.
The sides believe that the U.S. withdrawal from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, the acceleration of research and the development of intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles and the desire to deploy them in the Asia-Pacific and European regions, as well as their transfer to the allies, entail an increase in tension and distrust, increase risks to international and regional security, lead to the weakening of international non-proliferation and arms control system, undermining global strategic stability. The sided call on the United States to respond positively to the Russian initiative and abandon its plans to deploy intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. The sides will continue to maintain contacts and strengthen coordination on this issue.
The Chinese side is sympathetic to and supports the proposals put forward by the Russian Federation to create long-term legally binding security guarantees in Europe.
The sides note that the denunciation by the United States of a number of important international arms control agreements has an extremely negative impact on international and regional security and stability. The sides express concern over the advancement of U.S. plans to develop global missile defence and deploy its elements in various regions of the world, combined with capacity building of high-precision non-nuclear weapons for disarming strikes and other strategic objectives. The sides stress the importance of the peaceful uses of outer space, strongly support the central role of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in promoting international cooperation, maintaining and developing international space law and regulation in the field of space activities. Russia and China will continue to increase cooperation on such matters of mutual interest as the long-term sustainability of space activities and the development and use of space resources. The sides oppose attempts by some States to turn outer space into an arena of armed confrontation and reiterate their intention to make all necessary efforts to prevent the weaponization of space and an arms race in outer space. They will counteract activities aimed at achieving military superiority in space and using it for combat operations. The sides affirm the need for the early launch of negotiations to conclude a legally binding multilateral instrument based on the Russian-Chinese draft treaty on the prevention of placement of weapons in outer space and the use or threat of force against space objects that would provide fundamental and reliable guarantees against an arms race and the weaponization of outer space.
Russia and China emphasize that appropriate transparency and confidence-building measures, including an international initiative/political commitment not to be the first to place weapons in space, can also contribute to the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space, but such measures should complement and not substitute the effective legally binding regime governing space activities.
The sides reaffirm their belief that the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction (BWC) is an essential pillar of international peace and security. Russia and China underscore their determination to preserve the credibility and effectiveness of the Convention.
The sides affirm the need to fully respect and further strengthen the BWC, including by institutionalizing it, strengthening its mechanisms, and adopting a legally binding Protocol to the Convention with an effective verification mechanism, as well as through regular consultation and cooperation in addressing any issues related to the implementation of the Convention.
The sides emphasize that domestic and foreign bioweapons activities by the United States and its allies raise serious concerns and questions for the international community regarding their compliance with the BWC. The sides share the view that such activities pose a serious threat to the national security of the Russian Federation and China and are detrimental to the security of the respective regions. The sides call on the U.S. and its allies to act in an open, transparent, and responsible manner by properly reporting on their military biological activities conducted overseas and on their national territory, and by supporting the resumption of negotiations on a legally binding BWC Protocol with an effective verification mechanism.
The sides, reaffirming their commitment to the goal of a world free of chemical weapons, call upon all parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention to work together to uphold its credibility and effectiveness. Russia and China are deeply concerned about the politicization of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and call on all of its members to strengthen solidarity and cooperation and protect the tradition of consensual decision-making. Russia and China insist that the United States, as the sole State Party to the Convention that has not yet completed the process of eliminating chemical weapons, accelerate the elimination of its stockpiles of chemical weapons. The sides emphasize the importance of balancing the non-proliferation obligations of states with the interests of legitimate international cooperation in the use of advanced technology and related materials and equipment for peaceful purposes. The sides note the resolution entitled Promoting international Cooperation on Peaceful Uses in the Context of International Security adopted at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly on the initiative of China and co?sponsored by Russia, and look forward to its consistent implementation in accordance with the goals set forth therein.
The sides attach great importance to the issues of governance in the field of artificial intelligence. The sides are ready to strengthen dialogue and contacts on artificial intelligence.
The sides reiterate their readiness to deepen cooperation in the field of international information security and to contribute to building an open, secure, sustainable and accessible ICT environment. The sides emphasize that the principles of the non-use of force, respect for national sovereignty and fundamental human rights and freedoms, and non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, as enshrined in the UN Charter, are applicable to the information space. Russia and China reaffirm the key role of the UN in responding to threats to international information security and express their support for the Organization in developing new norms of conduct of states in this area.
The sides welcome the implementation of the global negotiation process on international information security within a single mechanism and support in this context the work of the UN Open-ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) 20212025 (OEWG) and express their willingness to speak with one voice within it. The sides consider it necessary to consolidate the efforts of the international community to develop new norms of responsible behaviour of States, including legal ones, as well as a universal international legal instrument regulating the activities of States in the field of ICT. The sides believe that the Global Initiative on Data Security, proposed by the Chinese side and supported, in principle, by the Russian side, provides a basis for the Working Group to discuss and elaborate responses to data security threats and other threats to international information security.
The sides reiterate their support of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 74/247 and 75/282, support the work of the relevant Ad Hoc Committee of Governmental Experts, facilitate the negotiations within the United Nations for the elaboration of an international convention on countering the use of ICTs for criminal purposes. The sides encourage constructive participation of all sides in the negotiations in order to agree as soon as possible on a credible, universal, and comprehensive convention and provide it to the United Nations General Assembly at its 78th session in strict compliance with resolution 75/282. For these purposes, Russia and China have presented a joint draft convention as a basis for negotiations.
The sides support the internationalization of Internet governance, advocate equal rights to its governance, believe that any attempts to limit their sovereign right to regulate national segments of the Internet and ensure their security are unacceptable, are interested in greater participation of the International Telecommunication Union in addressing these issues.
The sides intend to deepen bilateral cooperation in international information security on the basis of the relevant 2015 intergovernmental agreement. To this end, the sides have agreed to adopt in the near future a plan for cooperation between Russia and China in this area.
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The sides underline that Russia and China, as world powers and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, intend to firmly adhere to moral principles and accept their responsibility, strongly advocate the international system with the central coordinating role of the United Nations in international affairs, defend the world order based on international law, including the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, advance multipolarity and promote the democratization of international relations, together create an even more prospering, stable, and just world, jointly build international relations of a new type.
The Russian side notes the significance of the concept of constructing a community of common destiny for mankind proposed by the Chinese side to ensure greater solidarity of the international community and consolidation of efforts in responding to common challenges. The Chinese side notes the significance of the efforts taken by the Russian side to establish a just multipolar system of international relations.
The sides intend to strongly uphold the outcomes of the Second World War and the existing post-war world order, defend the authority of the United Nations and justice in international relations, resist attempts to deny, distort, and falsify the history of the Second World War.
In order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of the world war, the sides will strongly condemn actions aimed at denying the responsibility for atrocities of Nazi aggressors, militarist invaders, and their accomplices, besmirch and tarnish the honour of the victorious countries.
The sides call for the establishment of a new kind of relationships between world powers on the basis of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation. They reaffirm that the new inter-State relations between Russia and China are superior to political and military alliances of the Cold War era. Friendship between the two States has no limits, there are no forbidden areas of cooperation, strengthening of bilateral strategic cooperation is neither aimed against third countries nor affected by the changing international environment and circumstantial changes in third countries.
The sides reiterate the need for consolidation, not division of the international community, the need for cooperation, not confrontation. The sides oppose the return of international relations to the state of confrontation between major powers, when the weak fall prey to the strong. The sides intend to resist attempts to substitute universally recognized formats and mechanisms that are consistent with international law for rules elaborated in private by certain nations or blocs of nations, and are against addressing international problems indirectly and without consensus, oppose power politics, bullying, unilateral sanctions, and extraterritorial application of jurisdiction, as well as the abuse of export control policies, and support trade facilitation in line with the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The sides reaffirmed their intention to strengthen foreign policy coordination, pursue true multilateralism, strengthen cooperation on multilateral platforms, defend common interests, support the international and regional balance of power, and improve global governance.
The sides support and defend the multilateral trade system based on the central role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), take an active part in the WTO reform, opposing unilateral approaches and protectionism. The sides are ready to strengthen dialogue between partners and coordinate positions on trade and economic issues of common concern, contribute to ensuring the sustainable and stable operation of global and regional value chains, promote a more open, inclusive, transparent, non-discriminatory system of international trade and economic rules.
The sides support the G20 format as an important forum for discussing international economic cooperation issues and anti-crisis response measures, jointly promote the invigorated spirit of solidarity and cooperation within the G20, support the leading role of the association in such areas as the international fight against epidemics, world economic recovery, inclusive sustainable development, improving the global economic governance system in a fair and rational manner to collectively address global challenges.
The sides support the deepened strategic partnership within BRICS, promote the expanded cooperation in three main areas: politics and security, economy and finance, and humanitarian exchanges. In particular, Russia and China intend to encourage interaction in the fields of public health, digital economy, science, innovation and technology, including artificial intelligence technologies, as well as the increased coordination between BRICS countries on international platforms. The sides strive to further strengthen the BRICS Plus/Outreach format as an effective mechanism of dialogue with regional integration associations and organizations of developing countries and States with emerging markets.
The Russian side will fully support the Chinese side chairing the association in 2022, and assist in the fruitful holding of the XIV BRICS summit.
Russia and China aim to comprehensively strengthen the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and further enhance its role in shaping a polycentric world order based on the universally recognized principles of international law, multilateralism, equal, joint, indivisible, comprehensive and sustainable security.
They consider it important to consistently implement the agreements on improved mechanisms to counter challenges and threats to the security of SCO member states and, in the context of addressing this task, advocate expanded functionality of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure.
The sides will contribute to imparting a new quality and dynamics to the economic interaction between the SCO member States in the fields of trade, manufacturing, transport, energy, finance, investment, agriculture, customs, telecommunications, innovation and other areas of mutual interest, including through the use of advanced, resource-saving, energy efficient and green technologies.
The sides note the fruitful interaction within the SCO under the 2009 Agreement between the Governments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member States on cooperation in the field of international information security, as well as within the specialized Group of Experts. In this context, they welcome the adoption of the SCO Joint Action Plan on Ensuring International Information Security for 20222023 by the Council of Heads of State of SCO Member States on September 17, 2021 in Dushanbe.
Russia and China proceed from the ever-increasing importance of cultural and humanitarian cooperation for the progressive development of the SCO. In order to strengthen mutual understanding between the people of the SCO member States, they will continue to effectively foster interaction in such areas as cultural ties, education, science and technology, healthcare, environmental protection, tourism, people-to-people contacts, sports.
Russia and China will continue to work to strengthen the role of APEC as the leading platform for multilateral dialogue on economic issues in the Asia-Pacific region. The sides intend to step up coordinated action to successfully implement the Putrajaya guidelines for the development of APEC until 2040 with a focus on creating a free, open, fair, non-discriminatory, transparent and predictable trade and investment environment in the region. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fight against the novel coronavirus infection pandemic and economic recovery, digitalization of a wide range of different spheres of life, economic growth in remote territories and the establishment of interaction between APEC and other regional multilateral associations with a similar agenda.
The sides intend to develop cooperation within the Russia-India-China format, as well as to strengthen interaction on such venues as the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum on Security, Meeting of Defense Ministers of the ASEAN Member States and Dialogue Partners. Russia and China support ASEAN's central role in developing cooperation in East Asia, continue to increase coordination on deepened cooperation with ASEAN, and jointly promote cooperation in the areas of public health, sustainable development, combating terrorism and countering transnational crime. The sides intend to continue to work in the interest of a strengthened role of ASEAN as a key element of the regional architecture.
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how long will it take (mordi's) India to sort itself out? Africa's heart has already voted (LOOK EAST), only the heads remain confused.