Mfangano - THY SHALL NOT GATHER WITHOUT MY SAY SO!

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POLITICAL ATAVISM NAIROBI

Once upon a time in our land, the second liberation had to be. The Independence party, KANU, had run a-ground.  It was now a thing of the past, stuck on a journey to nowhere, least of all, Kenya's future. This once great vehicle had to be left behind. KANU days became too dark. DT Arap Moi evolved backwards into a primitive savage -----(read totalitarian and authoritarian), whose bestial tenure wholly disfigured the future of the land he led. The monster had to be fought, and, at the price of much fatalities and casualties, the light of reform shone through that period of darkness.

The state was reformed, minimally. The political manifestation of this was the re-entry of multi-partysm. Much later, the afterbirth included DEVOLUTION.

But, like a ripe jigger which, nestled under your toe, when carelessly uprooted, will re-infest through groups of its many eggs, the politicians spawned from the Moi-KANU nest have re-grown balls and reconquered the land.

What we now witness a period of restoration gone haywire.

It is a RECIDIVISTIC LURCH called JUBILEE

---Today starts the three national days of prayer, a useless effort in distraction by a witless power!
(Oathing toward the 1966 LIMURU CONFERENCE when the VICE PRESIDENT, Adonijah Odinga or William Ruto, was dealt a Judas Lot or Black Spot (Pirates Lingo) by Tom Mboya or Raphael Tuju: Resign or be sacked!)


--So: KANU Pathological corruption has been restored.
--Virulent ethnicity is the name of the political currency.
--Police impunity and arbitrary, selective obedience to court orders is back.
--Targeted murders and rigged elections are instruments of impunity as usual.
--Hallucinations of grandeur cloud the aristocratic minds at the top as it did the settlers

And worst is of course the economy which, while propagandising itself as digital, has nothing but wheelbarrows for the idle youth to push their futures ahead with.
That the Wilbaroman has clearly won the argument against the Big5 illusions of the headless head of state, is an indicator of the mammoth crisis. Of stagnation and mercenary morality imposed by harsh reality. They say a bird at hand is worth two in the Bush. The same politicians proposing the BBI as the magic fix, are known quantities as false prophets. When one was finance minister, and the other Prime and in charge of KAZI-KWA-VIJANA, the princely duo left no trace of any job done. Except the usual scandal of disappeared funds. The culture of a people tends to note such episodes, contemplate and learn from them. Members of the elite meanwhile continue to delude themselves folks are always gullible, are under lock and key.

The Kenyan vijana's, most of them male and, apparently, a hand-to-mouth lot, know well the wheelbarrows are not much. But a rapid calculation of the worth of the words of any Kenyan politician, tells them the BBI and the Big5 agenda are even worth less than a wheelbarrow at hand. If one does not get this pragmatic math, that the Kenyan youth recognise that the promises of a Kenyan politician have no worth, then ones political instincts are equally worthless. There is a scientific econo-metric to this exceedingly short-term behaviour, aka instant gratification at the cost of long termism.

1. Recall Henry Rotich and Kamau Thugge, alumni's of the best international colleges at economics, when delegated to head the finance ministry at their local, ate money meant for dams in arid areas. When your best and brightest are that short-term, mental retards, what business do you have imagining their ilk will secure yours and the nation's future!?)

And, come to think of it: HUSTLER AS A COMPLEX MEANING



Does anyone propose the 20-something year old recruits who, in the name of LINDA NCHI, sat as ducks at EL ADDE, joined the KDF for a short wasted life in the name of patriotism? I bet for most, a disposable income was the motive. It is at least a job, a regular income at hand  while it lasts. Life isn't full of that many choices.


Hustlers by another name?

For the period that KDF has been in Somalia, January 15th, 2016 attack on our El Ade camp was the worst and most embarrassing military catastrophe in the recent peace operations. KDF camp was overrun by Al Shabaab militants. Many young lives were lost, our brothers were captured, and military equipment was stolen.

You would think, in a hierarchy of priorities, that the response to this historic defeat and bloodbath would be a deeper soul-searching by the powers that be, displaying even more cabinet gusto, empathy and concerns about national cohesion than, for instance, now they do over two Hustler deaths in Murang'a's KENOL pandemonium. But nay

What followed El Adde attack is a now familiar followed a pattern of information twisting and gagging. El Adde added to the long string on the security agencies of ignored warnings, bungled rescues, misinformation, shelved inquiries, and impunity.

The State in avoiding accountability has kept off from answering critical questions clouding the attack and ensuring media publications on the attack are sieved to their taste. 

Yeah, it is a popular saying there are few fools out there. It is therefore an open national secret, that the much ado by every Tom Dick and Harry organ of state about Kenol Murang'a, is not about what the official reason is. No, it is a panic reaction, a primitive and desperate reflex move by powerful brothers cornered by the progress of the Hustler narrative.

The security state bares its fangs. And that is dark. Because the leading candidate is targeted. It is a warning, if he wins the next election, he will be rigged out. What a waste of money on a show process, Chebukati once again. Then the Old Question comes back: Ata do? Mta do!?

Impunity reigns.

As usual in history, such answers form very slowly within a state. Then one day after suffering long without apparent bitterness, the people do. And lots of Old Lords of the universe end not liking the doings of the people.

But henceforth ...

O ye Hustlers!

THY SHALL NOT GATHER WITHOUT A PERMIT!

From Matiang'i, the 'colonial redux' prefect of Kenya.

Exactly the dark days of the (semi settler-clone)  Moi-KANU regime. The dark days we thought they would never end.

They ended a bit. They stayed a bit. Things did change. Moi was instinctively alert enough to jump away in time and let history take its course. One wishes the current Arap Moi, a Kenyatta to boot, is endowed with equivalent survival instincts.

 His Jubilee regime is definitely atavism.

Towards the Lancaster conference then. After the national prayers!