RE: A LEISURELY TREK THROUGH .KE'S DOMESTICS

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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!

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

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!

[Mfangano]

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!

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

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


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!

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


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

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

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 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.





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.



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?
....
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.

[Mfangano]

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

[Mfangano]

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!

[Mfangano]

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.

[Mfangano]

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 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.




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

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 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? 

 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 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; 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




In November 2019, the DCI 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 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 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!

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 ...

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.

[Mfangano]

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

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 .....

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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

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!?