Breaking! Tuju To Vie For President

Jakawsanga

I agree. Luo nationalism needs diversity and a plan B.

Akinyi, if the lesser pretenders to the throne are "clowns" in your book, what does that make the so called top guns in the circus that is KE politics?

Even in the US where the political system has been simplified to an almost comical contest between the Democrats & the Republicans they do allow for the occasional "joker" in the pack. This is where "clowns" like Ralph Nader (hey there you go, another Ralph!) came to play in the past & caused havoc for Al Gore.

You underestimate the likes of Tuju, Karua, Kenneth & yet they may still play a vital role as they provide viable options for protest voters. Someone said on another thread that there is something wrong when you have the scions of the first president & a former VP of KE vying for the presidency almost 50 years after their fathers were in office. We need a change & change will only come as the "clowns" continue to buck the trend & stand up to be counted. I'd vote for Tuju, Kenneth, or Karua so as not to vote for the silver spoon crowd that's been running the show since independence & has a conveyer belt of progeny to continue to do so in perpetuity if we allow them to do so.

That said, if the "clowns" did work together & front a single candidate with one of them as a VP & the rest as potential cabinet members, that would be a stroke of genius. They could sell themselves as a "progressive" dream team working in harmony to save KE. After all by gunning for the presidency their current constituencies will be left vacant & none of them, save for the one who wins the presidency, is assured of a job. This being KE & all of them having the Mwafrika disease of wanting to be president will make such an alliance impossible.

PS: When you speak in "shortwave" in a language that has not yet gone national (ie resided in state house) you leave many of us floating. Pray tell, what on earth is "andhoga"?

Thanks Akinyi. Modification makes your points much clearer now.

I make it a point to learn additional "national" languages only when state house is resided in by a son of x, y, or z. As we've only had presidents from x & y in 47 years (which means some conversational knowledge of x & y assures you service in a government offices depending on who's in charge), I don't expect a huge change to warrant language classes just yet.

Yes PM ultimately that's what it all boils down to. Freedom of choice so the more the merrier. Even Nazlin Omar got a vote or two.

Political dynasties though common globally are a bit of a waste. Generally speaking the first generation leader tends to be the best. The others are voted in by gullible sheeple trying to recreate past glories or emotions. There can only be one camelot, but hey, freedom of choice allows for dynasties to take root.

You are most welcome to vote for your big clown. I will select a smaller one when the time is right. KE has had 2 intelligent men as presidents who ascended into power when their intellect was either waning due to medical conditions or old age. A third was a political genius in a street-smart Machiavellian way but was sadly an intellectual dwarf in real terms.

I therefore find it difficult to support your clown as he falls into the first category. A sharp mind that has had its day. He brought us out of Egypt but shouldn't lead us into Canaan. Sadly he'll be 67 when he assumes the top job & 72 at the end of term one yet he's body has already shown signs of wear & tear. If the strains nusu mkeka alone could lead to the so called "brain washing" procedure to relieve pressure in his head, what may possibly happen when he's fully in charge?

The lessons we've learned from the two intellectuals who were subject to medical scares while in office (heart attacks for one, strokes for the other) is that the cabal around them run the show while keeping the president a drug-dazed puppet. Thus a vote for RAO is a vote for shadow president Jakoyo Midiwo. As many of you ODM supporters have already stated RE: the MM saga, that will be an untenable situation. So PM, why tempt fate? You're better off voting for a lesser evil.

If one bothered, one might ask what YOU have done for your own community apart from laughing at the attempts of others to better their societies.

Am also not very surprised that no one has disputed Jakaswanga's assertion about the ODM tax (extortion) that is levied to small business owners in Kisumu to help the 'cause'. I have never heard of it before. What an informative place Jukwaa is.

i don't care whether he is G7 or not but what i i know...raila odinga house is slowly breaking. however painful it is, lets allow tuju and martha karua to join handsand we havea prosperous kenya foreveryone

Mzee,

And Jukwaa is a Tuju bashing forum eh? What hypocrisy.

Raila will be adored and bashed whether you like it or not. Man up, he aint a god.

And FYI, Jukwaa ain't a Raila campaign forum where you defend him at all costs.

Let Kiongo express himself as he sees fit.

jakaswanga has a penchant for spicing up his posts and sometimes making unsubtantiated claims. my advice, don't take everything he says and run with it unless you know more about these so called ODM forced taxes. care to shed more light?

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^{[sup]Eti he established a mobile clinic? What the bloody heck is that? A clinic that hops from here to there treating what exactly? If the bloody thing has moved from where you reside in point A to a few miles in point B then what? Why not have a small dispensary that is stationary? Ujinga hii, where did it come from?[/}b[/color]][/sup]
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This level of mania requires a sedative. Now take this at the specified dosage.
MOBILE CLINICS. Is an invention as old as war. This is essentially a hospital which moves from place to place. War is a good starting point, since frontlines can stretch hundreds of kms, and better the doc goes to the patient than vice versa.

Mobile clinics are used majorly in inaccessable, remote areas [the amazon, the congo] and amongst nomadic peoples. And places where trained medics are rare. But also to accomodate those who find the trip to a far-off hospital too high a threshold.

A mobile clinic has a timetable, so it will be back at specif places at specified dates, for follow up, or usual patrol.
Dispensaries are there [in Rarieda] but the mobile clinic brought medical specialisations which were not in the dispensaries: [eg. a (mobile) laboratory]. So it was complimentary to other institutions.

I do not know where it came from, but I can find out, since I know a doctor we funded to study the feasability of transposing this model to [water-based] boat.

WHY DID IT FAIL?
Can someone remember why bore-holes which saved Seme [that is Nyong'o's backyard] women the labour of walking 5km with 20 liter jerricans, failed?
Or why Lake Basin Development authority failed to do in 30 years what Dominion did in 3?
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Here: Youth wingers for hire, allied to the anti-Tuju candidate, claiming [ gini okel ka mondo ogo Agwambo] this thing is brought here to whip Raila with, vandalised the trailer where it used to be parked at Aram Market near Asembo bay. They slashed the tyres and destroyed the lab. After that it was repaired and stationed at Tuju's home as security was arranged. [Then rumours started it was his private clinic for his home people!]. Eventually it was stationed at Kalandin police station [that is the Rarieda divisional headquaters, near Lwak Girls High school]. But everytime it moved out to duty and evening came, anti-Tuju youth, sometimes chanting Raila's name, would threaten the staff and slash the tires. After an abortive arson attempt, the staff gave up.

Otiende Amollo is a Rarieda lawyer working in Nairobi, and once mentioned as AG candidate. Onyango Oloo can call him and see if he has a different story from this one.

he betrayed 96% of his Rarieda constituents that wanted him to follow a certain direction but he chose instead to 'die for somebody' even at the risk of miserably losing his seat. BTW not my description but his constituents' thoughts of him .

akinyi,

We went through all these rubbish from 2005 to 2007. A million times they told us Raila was finished. If I had a penny every time I have heard that nonsense, Bill Gates wouldn't touch me as far as cash is concerned.

They told us about how Tuju will change Nyanza politics because he was "development minded". They kept talking about a mobile clinic. The only problem is that I am from Bondo and went to school in the present Rarieda constituency. My sister, the most hard working human being I know, lives in Rarieda. I have been to Rarieda a thousand times including just a few months after the election. I was there in July to Sept 2003 trying to see this new Kenya of Narc. By then Tuju had just built his house near Ndori market. It is less than ten minutes drive from my simba on the edge of Bondo town. From Tuju's place, you pass Raila's Opoda home to get to my joint. These are my neighbours.

So as they peddled their theories and stories collected from bars I had a front row on what Tuju was actually doing on the gorund. He was not a bad person. The Rarieda folks actually liked him. There was nothing unique really going on.

The mobile clinic came later but it was more of a spectacle than a utility. Incidentally the mobile clinic left with Tuju which tells you if you want to build things like mobile clinics you need to institutionalize them instead of treating them like personal gifts or bribes to citizens dispensed at your whims. There are actually much more serious models and better plans for building a mobile health system in Kenya. I have written a lot about it and some friends in Bondo are trying to do it.

The concept is to use the mobile phone revolution and get health practitioners like nurses to visit sick people in their homes. The health providers (community health centres, hospitals etc) can set up a unit to do this kind of work. Avail motorobikes and bikes to health providers, let the sick folks call the centre and then dispatch the workers to their homes. What we have convinced people is that is better to treat a person with dierhea or cholera as well as other diseases in their own homes than have them travel long distances generously distributing the disease on their way and also getting to health centres sicker and more difficult to treat.

If such a strategy is worked out well, you can map out the whole county for example and allocate specific health practitioners to specific areas. Any Kenyan today has an access to a cell phone. Let them call the medical call centre and get a worker discharged. That worker or workers can then handle a whole list of callers in the same neighbourhood by getting info from the call centre to move from one home to the next. We will be re-inventing the foot doctor doctrine (it was amazingly succesful in countries like China and Nicaragua) but with better technology and efficiency.

Before you know it, you will have a functioning health care system in the rural areas of the country. These things are not rocket science. We just need to think and to act. With the kind of money they are throwing around, the Kenyan government could work this out very easily, but I am not holding my breath and that is why for now it is up to the NGO sector to put some of these things on the ground. Some sensible government may stumble on the country some day and mainstream such concepts of service delivery in the whole country.

With some creativity and resources we are convinced this is one way to actually have some form of a health system in rural Kenya. With this kind of health delivery system in the rural areas and even urban slums we can free the district and refferal hospitals so as to handle more serious cases that need hospitalization instead of flooding them with people who have basic ailments that can easily be handled by nurses on bikes and motorbikes etc. Quack doctors are doing a booming business with their bikes and dirty sringes because they are available at your call and some even "treat" people in exhange for a glass of chang'aa. Imagine that. So this a very viable way to buidl rural health care. But that is just one item. There is a project like that in Kakamega. I don't know if it has grown.

So when I hear people yap about development this and that and they do not offer even a sketch of an idea on how these things are actually done on the ground and instead tell us about people like Tuju as their role models I know they have no clue what they are talking about other than spreading gossip.

There is a guy called Rubik, a former student leader of SONU who was expelled with kina Odindo Opiata, OO's friends (both Rubik and Opiata come from Rarieda). Rubik has done some amazing things in Rarieda in terms of development, in the water sector particularly. You never hear about these people citing his name because most of the gossipers about development in Nyanza have never been there. They repeat what they hear in the rumour mill. It is not very helpful information.

In the Tuju case the moment he became a mascot for nonsensical anti-Raila battles and pretending that he was this big rising giant in Nyanza any serious person knew he was a clown and he has not let anybody down in that regard. He is what everybody thought he was.

Tuju can be a president and could even make a good president. The only problem is he needs to find a country where he can be president. Kenya is not that country. It is just that simple. If some people want to cry about that, let them go ahead and good luck with the tears.