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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 0:57:53 GMT 3
OK folks - it's Peeling Time! Sit back and watch the other mask peeled.www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1455872/-/item/4/-/misyv7z/-/index.html
Peel back the mask Miguna wears, and get a man with delusions of grandeur
By SARAH ELDERKINPosted Monday, July 16 2012 at 23:30 In Summary
• Journalist SARAH ELDERKIN who serves as a media consultant for the Orange Democractic Movement and has been close to Prime Minister Raila Odinga responds to Miguna Miguna’s controversial book Peeling Back The Mask in a three-part series which begins on Monday I have defended Miguna Miguna in the past, both in print and in private – at least, it was meant to be private, until Miguna broke an undertaking of confidence and made a private communication public. That is typical of the Miguna we have unfortunately come to know – a person with deeply worrying issues and insufficient personal morality to restrain him from selling his friends down the road, let alone to prevent his embarking on a campaign of all-consuming personal vengeance filled with hatred. Many of us, including Raila Odinga – the object of Miguna’s poisonous wrath, have tried hard to save Miguna in the past. Ultimately, in the Prime Minister’s office, it became impossible to keep Miguna and to protect him from himself. It is deeply sad that a man with a good brain should be tortured and destroyed by emotions he cannot control, so that he ends up a victim at the mercy of his own self-destructive inner turmoil. Other responses to charges in the Miguna book, Peeling Back the Mask, will follow this. But first, we need to peel back the mask that Miguna Miguna himself wears. Let us examine the untold Miguna Miguna story. Anyone who has watched Miguna on television will have seen the staring eyes, the jabbing finger, the overbearing ranting and raving. But it was Justice Mohamed Warsame who referred very succinctly to Miguna’s inner turmoil, in dismissing, on December 15, 2011, the case Miguna had brought challenging his August 4, 2011, suspension from the Prime Minister’s office. In his judgement, Warsame made some interesting observations about Miguna. Speaking of his own perceptions (not issues raised by lawyers), Warsame said that Miguna was a man “who exhibits mental and emotional fits in his defence of issues”. He spoke of Miguna as having a “relentless sense of fighting back”, as one “ who appears unpredictable and ready to fight”. Warsame added, “He is described as a man living in mental darkroom.” It is from the turmoil of this “mental darkroom” and out of his “relentless sense of fighting back” that Miguna decided to do his very best to destroy the man for whom he had previously and fervently declared his “love”, and whom he revered. Miguna is a man of wild extremes. His actions have nothing at all to do with Raila Odinga. They have everything to do with Miguna Miguna, his lack of balance, and his distorted sense of self. Let us begin by setting straight the record concerning the relationship between Miguna Miguna and Raila Odinga. Contrary to the wildly delusional claim in the publicity for his book, Miguna Miguna was NOT “for six years … the Prime Minister’s most trusted aide”. Miguna Miguna was NEVER the Prime Minister’s most trusted or most senior aide. The fact is that Raila never felt he could fully trust Miguna, and that is why he deliberately kept him at arms’ length in an office on Nairobi Hill, and never allowed him to operate from his own town-centre office. Trust is surely something that must be declared by the person doing the trusting. The Prime Minister has never voiced or shown such trust. The claim is entirely of Miguna’s own fabrication. Then there is the “six years” Miguna speaks of. By his own admission, Miguna met Raila Odinga for the very first time in October 2006. Note that that is not yet six years to date. Raila had gone to Toronto at the start of a speaking tour and from there continued to a number of similar functions in the USA. Miguna, of his own volition, travelled along with the party from his home of two decades in Canada, to Raila’s next stop, in Minnesota, which was the first of many on that tour – Washington DC, Atlanta, Huston, Omaha, Kansas City, New Jersey. Miguna has claimed that he paid for this trip and met the expenses of Raila Odinga, a man he had never previously met, and certainly a man who had no need of or desire for Miguna’s sponsorship. The tickets for the trip were, as confirmed by Raila’s friend Paddy Ahenda, who over the past weekend has consulted the relevant records, bought in Nairobi through travel agent Al Karim. It is one among many of Miguna’s self-aggrandising statements.From that first meeting in Toronto, we fast forward four-and-a-half years – not six years – to the day Miguna Miguna was, on August 4, 2011, suspended from the office of the Prime Minister for conduct unbecoming. During those four-and-a-half years, Miguna was an employee of the Prime Minister’s office for just under 2½ years, having been appointed by President Mwai Kibaki on March 6, 2009. Six years? Miguna Miguna is a master of exaggeration and fantastical ravings.After that first meeting in October 2006, Miguna (who, like everyone else, could calculate that Raila Odinga had a very good chance of taking power in Kenya the following year) apparently took stock of his own situation in his adopted country, and decided that this was his opportunity to leave behind a chequered and rather uncomfortable past, and to reinvent himself back in his homeland. Much of Miguna’s legal work in Canada had consisted of assisting immigrants, including immigrants from Kenya. In the course of this work, the 40-year-old Miguna had been publicly arrested on November 4, 2002, and charged with sexual assault on one of his clients, a 19-year-old woman.Miguna appeared in court for trial on July 14, 2003, when he was rearrested and charged with further counts of sexual assault on another immigration client. The trial judge acquitted Miguna, ruling that the alleged victims’ evidence was partially contradictory and not strong enough (as so often happens in sexual assault cases) to sustain a secure conviction. The trial judge did not, however, rule that Miguna’s accusers had acted maliciously, nor that they had formed a conspiracy, nor that they had lied.
Miguna reacted in a manner we have come to recognise – by suing everyone in sight. The defendants ranged from the Queen of England through the Canadian minister of justice, crown attorneys and the Toronto Police Board, to police officers involved in his arrest, for what a Canadian Appeal Judge called “a galaxy of reasons, some existent in law, and many not”.
Miguna also sued a newspaper that had printed a police appeal asking anyone else who believed herself a victim of Miguna’s unwanted attentions to come forward. Miguna sought Canadian $17.5 million in damages, but he lost just about all, if not all, the more than 20 cases he launched, ending up having to pay out tens of thousands of Canadian dollars. Dismissing some of the cases, the Appeals Judge referred to Miguna’s “allegations based on assumptions and speculation” and said that Miguna could not “merely plead allegations that he believes may or may not be true”. Miguna was apparently operating in the realms of fantasy and speculative allegations even then. It seems to be a pattern.But now an opportunity to escape all that had presented itself. Miguna must have eyed his new acquaintance with Raila Odinga as the chance of a lifetime. Throughout the following year, while still in Canada, Miguna tried to cement this plan by bombarding Raila with unsolicited and unwanted advice. This is what Miguna now describes as having been a political strategist for Raila during the period. Knowing Raila, I doubt he ever even read those communications, or had time to give them any of his attention. Raila Odinga is a consummate political strategist. Why on earth would he need to depend on a man who had been out of the country for 20 years, having run away at the first hint of trouble in 1987 – at the same time as Raila Odinga and many others were undergoing the torturous conditions and life-threatening privations of Kamiti, Shimo la Tewa, Manyani and Naivasha maximum security prisons? Raila suffered many years of three separate detention periods and went into exile when a fourth threatened – but he stayed away only a few months, and then he returned to continue the fight for change. Unlike Raila, Miguna stayed away living a very comfortable life in a western nation for two decades, leaving it to genuinely committed others to fight the real battle for reforms. During 2006-2007, Miguna was also trying to raise his public profile prior to his return to Kenya by bombarding newspapers with his articles. Many people became dismissive. Miguna was not back in the country yet but he was already becoming a figure of fun, not taken seriously. It is sad, for an intelligent man. But he brought it on himself. Eventually, Miguna returned to Kenya, in September 2007, just in time for parliamentary nominations. He tried his luck in Nyando and failed miserably at the ODM nomination stage, gaining miserably few votes. Characteristically, he lost no time in instituting a court case. Miguna then threw himself into working hard to become a member of Mr Odinga’s inner circle, tagging on to the group of advisers around Mr Odinga, some of whom had been Mr Odinga’s close friends for decades. One thing that was not in question then was Miguna’s loyalty to Raila Odinga. But it became apparent that this was no ordinary loyalty. It seemed more of an unhealthy obsession. In fact, Miguna’s fervent declarations that he “loved” Raila Odinga eventually became somewhat embarrassing and worrying. Miguna vociferously defended Mr Odinga at every turn, including during the disputed 2007 election count, when Miguna was present at KICC – as a volunteer activist, like many others involved in the campaign. Because of his size, his attitude and his brashness, Miguna was always seen and heard. He was difficult to avoid.
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 0:58:17 GMT 3
...continuedAfter the elections, Miguna was out of work for more than a year. The Prime Minister eventually agreed to take pity on Miguna, and offered him the post of ‘adviser on coalition affairs and joint secretary [with Kivutha Kibwana for PNU] to the committee on management of coalition affairs’. That was more than a year after the coalition government had been formed. It had taken that long for people to persuade the PM to employ Miguna. The PM remained very wary and uneasy about the idea (in hindsight, how wise his judgement was!) but he succumbed to persuasion from within his team. The deciding factor for everyone was Miguna’s apparently unbounded loyalty and his support for Mr Odinga’s championship of national reforms. Miguna’s legal history in Canada was presented in sanitised form, without mention of the charges against him, of which, in any case, he had been acquitted. What was not fully evident at the time was just how inappropriate Miguna’s behaviour in public life would become. His grotesquely swollen ego would cause endless problems within the Prime Minister’s office and among the coalition partners. His attitude gave rise to countless complaints from people who failed to find a way of forging a working relationship with Miguna, and who often finally had no option but to retreat in fear and dislike. One employee even went to the lengths of writing to the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights because of treatment meted out by Miguna. He was, for example, though not yet employed in the Prime Minister’s office, present at coalition talks at Kilaguni in 2008. To the intense embarrassment of the Prime Minister and the distress of everyone else involved, Miguna took it upon himself (after rearranging the chairs to his satisfaction, as he writes in his book) to circulate an agenda that had not been agreed, and thus virtually single-handedly drove the last nail into the coffin of the talks. No one could contain him. People who were present can attest to the severe public dressing-down Miguna got from the Prime Minister at the time. It was only one of many occasions on which the PM would similarly have to rebuke him. Of course, Miguna himself has put a different spin on this story, so that it does not reflect badly on him. Others who were present can tell a different tale. Miguna’s self-regarding behaviour again almost led to a diplomatic incident at a Rome Statute meeting in Kampala, where Miguna publicly contradicted the head of the Kenya team, former attorney-general Amos Wako, and also quarrelled with embassy staff there over the quality of his vehicle and his hotel room – which apparently was not superior enough for one of Miguna’s self-adjudged status. Afterwards, Kenya’s foreign minister was forced to report to the Prime Minister’s office that Miguna “lacked tact and could easily have attracted a fight had it not been for the extreme restraint by the AG and others”. Miguna Miguna has no brakes. He never knows when to stop. He is loud and large and pushy and intimidating. He is completely insensitive to other people’s reactions to him, and he appears unable to judge where situations require restraint and diplomacy. Miguna only understands one language – the language of confrontation. He has no idea what it takes to keep a vulnerable political arrangement in place. He would prefer to destroy everything around him, as he has come close to doing so many times, on the excuse of “principle”. This is not principle. Miguna thinks that shouting louder than everyone else and intimidating them shows “principle” in resolving issues. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Miguna has no understanding whatsoever of the diplomacy and political strategy involved in ensuring that this country has remained stable under a government of competing forces. If Miguna had been in charge of the coalition, it would have collapsed long ago, and that might well have seen our country on fire once again. It is not cowardice – one of his charges against Raila Odinga – that has achieved the comparatively smooth running of this very difficult arrangement. It is the wisdom to know when to insist, when to give way, when to bide time.Miguna’s lack of political wisdom, which in his case is replaced by the equivalent of bludgeoning people over the heads with an axe, is the reason he became a dangerous loose cannon and a terrible liability to both sides of the coalition arrangement. He arrogated to himself authority he did not have – and this is very evident in his prose. “I did this, I did that, I summoned people to a meeting” – and sometimes “we” did this or that. Who is this “we”? Miguna’s behaviour ensured he had no friends in the PM’s office or in other arms of government. He simply inserted his unneeded and unwanted presence everywhere, going completely beyond his mandate. He had none of the authority he assumed, nor any of the leadership skills that he pretends in his overblown writing. All that Miguna writes is evidence of his bloated sense of self. His overbearing behaviour was a serious embarrassment in every meeting he attended, as anyone who was present can attest to. He pushed himself in everywhere, and no one could negotiate in the face of his belligerence. He still doesn’t understand this. He appears constitutionally unable to. It might be appreciated from all this how very difficult it increasingly became to involve Miguna Miguna in any official duties, without feeling concern that some sudden eruption of frenzied fury on his part would jeopardise delicate negotiations. He was rude to his staff, rude to his colleagues, rude to his employer, rude to everyone in the coalition partnership and rude to everyone he wrote about with his poison pen in his regular Star newspaper column. It was exhausting for everyone having to cope with this on a daily basis. And contrary to his claims, Miguna did not write his Star column at the behest of the Prime Minister. It is a fact that Miguna eventually falls out with many of the people he encounters, and it is no surprise to know that, true to form, he has since fallen out with the Star management and no longer has a column in that newspaper. One of my journalistic colleagues has raised an interesting question: Did Miguna always seek to attract hatred towards Mr Odinga? Was that why he wrote the way he did in the Star, always stirring painful controversy and calumny against the PM? It is food for thought, especially in light of one of the most startling revelations to come out of Miguna’s book. He says people were jealous that, if Raila Odinga were not there, Miguna would be a contender for leadership of the Luo community. Was this what Miguna always had in his mind? Was he, in fact, a fifth-columnist? It would certainly explain a lot and is an intriguing proposition, one that bears further scrutiny. Back at the office, Miguna had also refused to sign the terms of his three-year contract, citing his lower remuneration than that of Kibwana, his opposite number in the coalition arrangement. Kibwana was vastly more experienced in government, including having been a Cabinet minister in more than one ministry as well as a university professor – details that Miguna apparently felt should not be taken into consideration. Miguna was thus on a month-to-month arrangement. The hostility between Miguna and Kibwana from day one meant that the two men met no more than twice. They could never agree on an agenda or the minutes of the two meetings they did attend. Miguna could no longer do his job.
Miguna made a signboard that he erected on his office door: ‘Permanent Secretary’ it declared, among other things. Miguna was nowhere near the level of permanent secretary. He was junior in rank to the PS in the PM’s office, to the PM’s chief of staff and to others. Miguna operates from behind a dense cloud of self-delusion.
He behaved as if he were in charge of everything, everywhere. From his book, if Miguna is to be believed, he was the prime mover, the chairman, the convenor, the secretary, the leader of every single department or committee touching the Prime Minister’s office. This is so far from the truth as to be completely ludicrous. A further problem arose. As anyone who has worked in government or the civil service knows very well, rumours, lies and backbiting are rife. People are constantly trying to bring others down. Miguna took everything he heard as being God’s honest truth. He was extremely gullible and he exploded loudly on a regular basis, derailing serious discussions to veer off into what became his familiar realms of fantasy. It is in this light that the PM’s tongue-in-cheek remark “Who told Luos not to make money?” should be read – sheer exasperation at Miguna bursting in yet again to disrupt the agenda of a government meeting with his latest baseless rumour. It was embarrassing because it was nonsensical. Miguna was often chasing ghosts, and this became a huge encumbrance to operations in the Prime Minister’s office. By 2011, Miguna had become an onerous liability for the Prime Minister and an overwhelming impediment to the smooth functioning of the PM’s office and to relations with other arms of government. Miguna’s consequent suspension on August 4 came as an enormous relief to many people. As for Raila Odinga, he remains the person he has always been – a committed and untiring fighter for justice for his compatriots. His love of his country is in the lifeblood that runs through his veins. Miguna has apparently said he detected that the Prime Minister once shed tears. Certainly, injustice can move Raila Odinga emotionally – and we say, thank God he is such a man. Thank God he is not a man like Miguna and some others in this country, whose hearts contain the cold-blooded vengeance that gives them the ruthlessness to destroy anyone who stands in their way. Leaving aside the PM’s eye condition – which causes his eyes to shed tears spontaneously, and for which he has so far had a number of operations, in both Kenya and Germany, without full resolution of the problem – Raila Odinga would be in good company if he wept for his nation and its lost opportunities. Winston Churchill has been described as the most tearful politician of all time. In his own diaries he noted how he would weep in both triumph and despair. Second only to him was Abraham Lincoln, who would weep with emotion even on hearing the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’. Dwight D Eisenhower wept publicly as he encouraged his troops before D-Day during World War II, George Washington wept at his own inauguration, General Colin Powell wept on Barrack Obama’s election, and Obama himself wept publicly when his grandmother died. These tears are signs of warmth, genuineness and humanity. They are tears that signify a true and unalloyed belief in something good, something beyond the selfish. Let us all thank God that these traits, and this kind of disposition, distinguish the person who will be our next president. Mr Miguna’s writings must be seen in their true light. It is the sad light of vengeance – a personal, blinding, hate-filled vengeance of a kind that appears to have characterised so much of Mr Miguna’s life, and which, in his spite and malice against the man who gave him the rarest of opportunities to serve his country, was his guiding spirit in writing this book.
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 0:58:39 GMT 3
This article is published in the Daily Nation of 18th July 2012. FRIENDSHIPS DESTROYED TO SETTLE SCORES
Journalist SARAH ELDERKIN who serves as a media consultant for the Orange Democractic Movement and has been close to Prime Minister Raila Odinga responds to Miguna Miguna’s controversial book Peeling Back The Mask in the second of a three-part series which started yesterday.
In writing Peeling the Mask, Miguna Miguna has ensured that his place in society will never be the same again. Raila Odinga, the target of his book will easily weather the storm of unsupported allegations, speculation and prattle.
Miguna may not. He has nailed his colours to the most and exposed himself in a way that he feels, in his determined wrong-headedness, will enhance his reputation and endear him to people. Unfortunately he is like to find the opposite is true.
The public unraveling of someone who, in other circumstances, we could admire, is not a pleasant spectacle. And in the process of trying to destroy Raila Odinga, Miguna has also destroyed many valuable friendships. In the final chapter of his book, Miguna lauds himself and his integrity and says, “My word is my bond.” Miguna has brutally gone back on his word to an number of friends who offered him outstanding support.
One of these is Patrick Quarcoo, CEO of the Radio Africa Group, who is revealed in Miguna’s book as the “third man” in the discussion Miguna had Raila Odinga, when the latter attempted to offer an olive branch after Miguna’s suspension from his office.
The identity of the “third man” was for months the subject of intense speculation and wild conjecture, especially in internet forums. Nobody guessed right. Quarcoo’s identity was unknown for a reason. In trying to intercede in Miguna’s case, he had been acting for a friend in a private capacity. He was trying to mediate in a difficult situation, for the benefit of everyone, but particularly for the benefit of Miguna. The last thing Quarcoo was seeking was personal publicity, and he expected confidentiality. That was the agreement. But hey ho, what do you know. Miguna strikes again!
The meeting between Prime Minister and Miguna at the Nairobi Serena Hotel on December 27 last year came as a result of appeals by Quarcoo on Miguna’s behalf to the Prime Minister in the preceding days. These appeals were, in fact, the culmination of similar appeals from other people.
I am myself (now) on record as having sent the PM a sharply worded memo criticising the mode of Miguna’s suspension. I haven’t changed my mind on that. It was clumsily handled and my concern primarily the negative publicity it would generate for the PM’s office. But I also had much concern for Miguna as a family man with expenses to meet and children to care for. Fair treatment for everyone is what we aim for. Other people had appealed to the PM on similar humanitarian grounds. Much as we could understand the total frustration surrounding Miguna’s uncontrollable behaviour in office, we felt there were better ways of going about this.
Quarcoo hated to see what was happening and decided to do what he could about it. But as he told me this week, the impression Miguna has given in his book that the PM was pursuing Miguna and virtually begging him to return is completely wrong. Quarcoo himself says the PM responded to his own appeals that the PM meet Miguna, and that it was never the case that the PM initiated the discussion.
Magnanimous Attitude
The impetus cam from Quarcoo’s appeal on Miguna’s behalf, as Miguna’s friend, that the PM reconsider his decision. The PM eventually agreed to do what he felt he could do in the circumstances. Quarcoo says Miguna “makes out the PM was chasing him for settlement” and says there was nothing of the kind. Quarcoo describes the PM’s attitude as “magnanimous”. That is the key thing, he says: “The PM was being decent and loyal by listening.”
Miguna in the book paints the meeting as adversarial, with an uncomfortable PM behaving in what can only be inferred from Miguna’s description as a furtive manner. Quarcoo says that he himself has a completely different perspective of what transpired. He say the PM was very open, very polite, very considerate and treated Miguna with much respect.
The PM was also frank. He said there were significant issues surrounding Miguna’s record in service and his relations with his colleagues. As such, returning Miguna to the same job would probably not be the wisest course. However, he was prepared to offer Miguna alternative employment.
The PM suggested a post that Miguna calls in his book ‘Prime Minister’s Adviser for Strategic Research, Speech-writing, new media, public policy and rapid response.’ It sounds right up Miguna’s street (though I must say I shudder when I envisage what the reality reality might have been).
Miguna was not (contrary to his claim in the book) on a “three-year contract”. Miguna had refused to sign his contract. He had been on a month-to-month arrangement and therefore had no contract. Nevertheless, the Prime Minister was prepared to bend over backwards to try to accommodate him.
But Miguna took the PM’s offer as nothing less than an insult, and Miguna’s description of the meeting sheds light on why. He had something quite different in mind for himself. On page 538, he reveals his desire for a “significant position” for which he feels he is “impeccably qualified” (he doesn’t specify how).
“Why didn’t [Raila] consider my candidature for the attorney-general, director of public prosecutions, anti-corruption commission or any of the newly established constitutional implementations organs? he asks. He goes on to laud his own “credentials, training, tested skills, integrity, passion and commitment” as superior to the characteristics of other people appointed by the PM. This perhaps ties in with Miguna’s expressed belief that he was firmly in line to succeed Raila Odinga as leader of the Luo community.
Miguna also thought, apparently, that he had Raila Odinga in a corner. Indeed, of all Raila Odinga’s problems, writes Miguna, “I strongly believe that he realised that I ranked higher than Ruto and Uhuru.”
Unable to play an appropriate part in a two-way meeting that required a step back and compromise on both sides, Miguna read intrigue and conspiracy in practically every word the PM uttered (even if it was only “Hmmm”). It was a no win situation and, in Miguna’s eye, the Pm left the meeting without even a handshake. Quarcoo describes this as “simply ridiculous”. He says the meeting began, proceeded and ended extremely cordially on the PM’s part, and he himself was very grateful to him for making time to try and find a way forward.
Miguna tries to cast further aspersions on the PM over the cost of the private room Quarcoo had arranged for the meeting. “When the waiter came in with the bill”, he writes, “I suddenly realised Raila had left us with an [sic] Sh11,000 debt, without even caring that I hadn’t been paid since July 26, 2011.” This is also “ridiculous” says Quarcoo, and highly embarrassing himself. It was Quarcoo who had arranged the meeting and who had asked the PM to come. He was the host.
It was his place to pay for the room, he says, and, regarding Miguna, it was quite simply “none of his business.”
Miguna has made it his business to twist every single scrap of information he can think of to cast the PM in bad light. As far as Miguna is concerned, it is no holds barred, no quarter given and no even unexploited for exaggeration, aspersion, detraction, distortion, fiction, hyperbole and myth.
It might be Miguna’s undoing.
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 0:58:55 GMT 3
Blow by blow reply to maize graft claims in Miguna bookBy SARAH ELDERKIN
Posted Wednesday, July 18 2012 at 22:30
In Summary
In this final part of a three-part series that started on Tuesday, journalist SARAH ELDERKIN, who serves as a media consultant for the Orange Democratic Movement and is close to Prime Minister Raila Odinga, responds to Miguna Miguna’s controversial book Peeling Back The Mask
Among other fallacious claims and far-fetched stories in his book Peeling Back the Mask, Miguna Miguna seeks to show that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his office staff were involved in a maize scam, whose details became public in January 2009.
This followed the 2008 lifting of the ban on the importation of maize, in order to plug the local shortfall. Read (Peel back the mask Miguna wears, and get a man with delusions of grandeur)
There were, in fact, two concurrent areas of contention. In brief, one was that various people, including parliamentarians in the pay of certain others, had allegedly been given blank allocation letters signed by officials in the ministries of agriculture, finance and special programmes, allowing them to collect large quantities of maize from the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR). Under regulations, only millers are allowed to do so.
The favoured politicians and others never collected the maize – they were, after all, not millers – but they allegedly sold the letters of allocation to millers, who filled in their own names and then collected the maize.
This they retailed at an inflated price, covering the cost of what they had been forced to pay in acquiring the allocation letters, on average Sh500 per bag. Since tens of thousands of bags were involved, various persons were awash with money.
Because of these allegations, the Prime Minister suspended the minister for agriculture at the time, William Ruto. Ruto was promptly reinstated by President Mwai Kibaki. There was no probe.
The second area of contention was that the PM’s chief of staff, Caroli Omondi, had allegedly personally issued instructions to the SGR to order maize into the country, and had also told the managing director of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to release contaminated maize on to the market and enhance its price.
On the Prime Minister’s instructions, Omondi, together with the PM’s PS, Dr Mohammed Isahakia, who was also accused in related matters, stepped aside on February 13, 2009, for three months, while investigations took place.
In other words, the Prime Minister took appropriate action on both fronts. He suspended Ruto and he suspended Omondi and Isahakia.
What else was he supposed to do? Kibaki removed the matter from any investigatory hands on one front.
On the other, Omondi and Isahakia remained suspended until the evidence for the accusations against them had been examined.
The NCPB had a 2008-2009 programme for the importation of more than 161,000 metric tonnes of white maize, some 1.5 million bags of it from Tanzania.
Ruto was in discussion with Tanzania at the time of a meeting on July 30, 2008, attended by the PM, minister of state for special programmes Dr Naomi Shabaan, then minister for finance John Michuki, several PSs, representatives of the NCPB, Omondi, Isahakia and a number of others.
The meeting noted that “the unit price [of the bags of maize] will be known when the minister for agriculture reports back”.
A committee was established, consisting of the PSs in the ministries of finance and agriculture, the NCPB MD and Omondi, to negotiate the “favourable import of maize” from a number of potential suppliers in different countries.
The next meeting, with the same attendees as that of July 30, was held on August 19, 2008.
The meeting accepted the proposals presented by the negotiating committee for maize imports from various suppliers, including Afgri Trading (Pty) Ltd in SA. It was not Caroli Omondi personally, as wildly alleged by Miguna, who ordered the maize.
The SA maize arrived at the port of Mombasa and was inspected by the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (Kephis), whose November 28, 2008, certificate of inspection declared the maize “passed for discharge”.
Discoloured layer
Kephis detailed the checks made, and noted that the maize had arrived in four separate hatches.
The maize in hatches 1, 2 and 4 was found to be fine. The top of the maize in hatch 3 had been damaged when the hatch cover had opened to the elements as the ship sailed to Mombasa.
Kephis advised the ship agents “to remove the top discoloured layer and only discharge the clean bottom layer”.
Then a letter from the NCPB, dated December 19, 2008, informed Grain Bulk Handlers in Mombasa that the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KBS) had cleared the rest of the consignment to be discharged – but that the maize in hatch 3 would only be used for animal feed processing.
Beth Mugo, the minister for public health and sanitation, now came into the picture.
In a letter dated February 18, 2009, she informed John Mutotho, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, that her ministry was directing that the maize in hatch 3 be shipped back to its country of origin.
The matter became the subject of a court case, after the NCPB lodged a claim for the damage with their insurers, and the ship owner challenged the KBS analysis.
After some time, the contaminated maize was re-exported, under the supervision of then Kenya Revenue Authority commissioner-general Michael Waweru.
A letter of confirmation from him was tabled in parliament by the Prime Minister. The contaminated maize was not released into the local market.
Much later, in May 2010, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission and the Inspectorate of State Corporations presented the report of their subsequent investigations.
Concerning the release of maize from the SGR, they criticised the PSs in the ministries of finance, agriculture and special programmes, who were responsible for management of SGR maize stocks, for “lack of clear policy guidelines”, in the absence of which “the Cabinet clearly directed that the imported maize be sold to ‘millers’.”
It is interesting to note that the report placed the word ‘millers’ in inverted commas.
It goes on to say that the three PSs had “primary responsibility for the Subsidized Maize Scheme but they failed to monitor the implementation of the scheme”.
The report found that there was no formally registered group who comprised ‘millers’ and said, “This created a major loophole in which unscrupulous traders connived with NCPB managers (Prof [Gideon] Misoi, Mr [James] Boit and Mr [Robert] Langat) to allocate SGR subsidised maize.”
The report recommended disciplinary action against Dr Romano M Kiome, PS agriculture, Ali D Mohammed, PS special programmes, and Joseph Kinyua, PS finance.
On several counts, it recommended administrative disciplinary action variously against the PSs and several of their officers for “negligence of duty and misuse of office”, and similar action against Misoi, Boit and Langat.
Regarding Isahakia, the investigators found that he was not involved in maize distribution, as accused, and had not influenced the allocation of maize, nor benefited from any “facilitation fee” It recommended review of the administrative action taken against him (ie, lifting his suspension from office).
Suspension lifted
With regard to Omondi, the report recommended that his suspension also be lifted, in view of the fact that he had been part of the properly established negotiating committee that had recommended various maize imports from different countries at a price in the range approved by the larger committee and from an approved list of potential suppliers. There was no malpractice.
The report concluded that “the importation of maize was done above board and in the best interest of the country.
However, the distribution of both the imported maize and the SGR maize was marred with irregularities and the directive of the Cabinet that the maize be sold to millers was ignored. Consequently the subsidised maize ended up enriching a few unscrupulous businessmen.”
Not Caroli Omondi. And not Mohammed Isahakia. Questions remain, and have never been investigated, about how maize stocks left the SGR.
Throughout his book, Miguna attempts to capitalise in this way on any known anti- Raila Odinga propaganda topic.
One allegation is that Raila Odinga has used his official position to make money for himself and enhance his business interests.
Mr Odinga established his first company, EA Spectre, in 1970.
He and his father before him struggled against tremendous odds and government malfeasance and interference to establish their family businesses.
Notwithstanding that, Mr Odinga would be a pretty poor businessman if he had failed to increase his portfolio of companies or expand their operations in the 42 years since.
But that has never involved corrupt practice. Raila Odinga has NEVER been involved in taking advantage of his office for personal gain.
All the things mentioned by Miguna in his book, such as the involvement of a South African partner in EA Spectre and affiliated companies (and there is no law against this), happened long before Mr Odinga ever became prime minister.
What is more, NONE of Mr Odinga’s companies actually deals with the government.
Since he has been prime minister, Mr Odinga has worked tremendously hard to ensure up-and-coming businessmen and women in the private sector have an easier time than he ever did in establishing and running their companies.
In addition, when he travels out of the country, the Prime Minister usually takes with him a battery of businessmen and women, so that they have the opportunity to meet their opposite numbers in the US, South Africa, Singapore, Korea, India, China and so on, and progress Kenya’s trade and investment programme.
One of the most successful of Mr Odinga’s initiatives has been the Prime Minister’s Round Table.
Under this initiative, the private sector, led by Vimal Shah of the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, has been able to meet with PSs and ministers and remove many of the roadblocks to business operations.
These include matters concerning bureaucracy and red tape, taxation, work permits, police roadblocks, infrastructure and security and so on.
Mr Shah told me this week that there was no doubt that this had had a tremendous impact on the climate for doing business.
“It is the very first time we have ever been able to meet with heads of state,” he said. “This has never happened before. It has led to productive alignment of thought processes between government and the private sector.”
He added that the business community was very pleased with the progress so far attained and was thinking about where they wanted to go to take the country forward to realisation of the Vision 2030 goals.
“We want to make Vision 2030 a reality,” he said, “and to do that we need leaders and decision-makers who recognise the importance of consulting and listening, not dictating.”
There is no doubt that the consultative initiatives and the focus both in and outside the country on trade and investment mark Raila Odinga out as such a leader.
Finally, another of Miguna’s charges is that Raila Odinga practises nepotism.
Once again sitting on The Bench this week prior to his sudden departure from the country, Miguna told his host, Capital Talk host Jeff Koinange (who was suitably “outraged” – Jeff, please, take my advice and get some acting lessons!) that Raila, since he became PM, had appointed to public positions a number of his relatives.
This is a cheap shot, and it is a cheap shot not mainly against Raila Odinga but against people who have made their mark in Kenyan life and who have worked very hard and in a committed and focused way for the positions they have achieved.
Let us take, for example, Raila’s sister, Wenwa, currently the consul-general at the Kenya consulate in Los Angeles.
Prior to her appointment, the highly intelligent Wenwa was professor of organic chemistry at the University of Nairobi.
She had been in line for a diplomatic appointment for a long time, and had been passed over on several previous occasions when less qualified people from – what shall we say? – another community had been appointed in her stead.
Wenwa, who appears in the Kenya Book of Records as the first Kenyan woman to obtain a doctorate in chemistry, has long experience in the public sector.
She joined the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya as senior chemist in charge of research and development and was later promoted to the post of chief chemist, becoming the first woman to head a department there.
She worked with the Commission for Higher Education, in charge of curriculum development for private universities in Kenya.
She has been secretary of Maendeleo Ya Wanawake and sits on the boards of governors of several schools.
She has many other appointments under her belt and is a member of many professional bodies, including the Natural Products Research Network for Eastern and Central Africa and the National Steering Committee for the Development of Science and Technology Parks.
Now, is such an accomplished woman, someone who has patiently waited her turn for appointment and has been passed over for questionable reasons, supposed to disappear into the village because her brother holds a senior public position?
Miguna also mentioned Jakoyo Midiwo, MP for Gem, ODM chief whip in parliament and Raila’s cousin. According to Miguna, Raila appointed Midiwo to his post.
Understand Parliament
Perhaps Miguna does not understand how parliament works. The chief whip is elected by the parliamentary group.
The Prime Minister and ODM party leader had nothing to do with Midiwo’s appointment.
If members of parliament of their own volition decide to elect a certain individual as their whip, or, indeed, to any other position, what would happen if the PM interfered?
Apparently, he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. That’s very convenient for a character assassin such as Miguna.
Then we come to Raila’s brother, Dr Oburu Oginga. Oburu has been an MP for three terms.
During the first two terms, he was never appointed to any ministry. Raila never appointed him when he had the opportunity. Oburu was a backbencher throughout.
Does somebody who has been returned to parliament three times deserve consideration for appointment? Many people might reasonably think so.
Leave alone that. Oburu has a doctorate in economics. He was senior economist and planning officer in government for 20 years.
He has given outstanding service in the public sector. Would that experience be useful in government, do we think?
Oburu was chosen to understudy a minister who had no experience or background whatsoever in finance or planning.
A reasonable response might be, thank God Oburu was there. There is nothing reasonable about Miguna’s response.
Likewise unreasonable is Miguna’s claim that “Raila made sure there was only one assistant minister in that ministry”.
What nonsense! Many ministries have only one assistant minister. How many are there in trade, public health and others?
Finance and planning originally had two but the portfolio was a joint one, later separated into two separate ministries, finance, and planning.
It is a total non-issue, but Miguna will pass up nothing he can use to cast aspersions, however ridiculous.
Scraping the barrel, he even has to pick on Midiwo’s brother-in-law. That is, Raila’s cousin’s wife’s brother. This is Elkanah Odembo, Kenya’s ambassador to the US.
Odembo, another accomplished individual highly respected internationally, was chairman of the Kenya National Council of Non-Governmental Organisations and the founding director of the Ufadhili Trust, the Centre for Philanthropy and Social Responsibility, which seeks to promote the spirit of giving, philanthropy and the use of local resources to improve people’s lives through corporate social responsibility, cross-sector partnership, technical assistance and policy research.
He was previously a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the East Africa Representative for World Neighbours, chairman of the Kenya Community Development Foundation, lead facilitator for the Kenya Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper Consultation Process, and a member of the selection committee for the UNDP Africa 2000 Project.
He was a founding member of the NGO Coalition for East Africa, a member of the National Advisory Committee for Health Research, of the NGO Co-ordination Board of Kenya, and of the National Committee for Social Dimensions of Development. He is a fellow of the Africa Leadership Initiative.
Extremely professional
Odembo is extremely professionally distinguished. And all of this was achieved long before Raila Odinga ever became Prime Minister.
Odembo has spent his life passionately committed to bringing development to the rural and underprivileged in society.
His quiet, elegant, composed and focused demeanour (the absolute antithesis of Someone We Know), together with his vast experience and respected intellect, make him the perfect choice for a senior diplomatic position.
Is Odembo supposed to be denied this because his sister made the “mistake” of getting married to Raila’s cousin?
Are we, as a nation, for the same reason supposed to be denied the outstanding contribution such a person can make to public life?
The question is, should anyone be forced to languish in the wilderness, unable to receive due recognition for their work, their careers stagnating for years on end, simply because one of their relatives happens to be in office?
Is only one person per family allowed to be successful and play a role in Kenya?
These appointees are intelligent, highly trained, committed people. There are many such people in Kenya.
And among everyone appointed, only a few can claim some kind of kinship with Raila Odinga.
As the PM himself has pointed out, hundreds of Luos have been appointed to different public positions.
He himself is not the relative of all Luos. Did he not appoint Miguna? Is Miguna his relative?
Miguna has also complained that some Luos have been relieved of their appointments for various reasons, and sometimes replaced by people of different tribes. So what?
Is the Prime Minister PM for Luos alone? Once again, the PM is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t.
The whole issue is nothing less than a straw man, built by Miguna for the sole purpose of tearing it down and attempting to destroy a man’s reputation with it.
To all those calling for the PM to respond to the “charges” in Miguna’s book, I say, what “charges”?
These are not “charges” but the ravings of a man disordered by his personal sense of revenge. Just as Miguna unleashed more than 20 speculative, futile and ultimately dismissed cases against the Queen of England and the Canadian authorities after his trial in 2003, so he has now unleashed his fury against Raila Odinga.
It is a pattern of behaviour for Miguna. It says nothing about the objects of his fury and everything about himself.
‘Answer charges’
It is amusing but unsurprising to see how some opportunistic politicians have jumped on the bandwagon, also calling for the PM to “answer charges”.
They have no shame, just like Miguna. Did Barack Obama answer the “charges” contained in the books, The Obama Nation and Unfit for Command by Miguna’s friend, the infamous Jerome Corsi? You bet he didn’t. He didn’t lower himself.
Does anyone really think a whole Prime Minister is going to debase himself by personally responding to the rantings, innuendo, gross inaccuracies, false claims and insults of a man like Miguna?
If they do, they expect the unreasonable. If anyone wants to take the PM to a court of law, that is when he will answer “charges”.
Until then, this is as good as it gets, folks. Now, at the end of a nearly a week filled with gleeful hysteria and ranting, perhaps we can all calm down, get back to normal life and concentrate on the things that matter to this country.www.nation.co.ke/News/Blow+by+blow+reply+to+maize+graft+claims+in+Miguna+book/-/1056/1457502/-/lexwd8z/-/index.html |
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 0:59:17 GMT 3
Part III
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 1:00:25 GMT 3
Part III
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 1:02:21 GMT 3
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 3:14:10 GMT 3
Some 9 months ago, we discussed Miguna’s utterances at Jeff Koinange’s K-24 TV Bench. I’ll copy what I wrote then; in rebuttal to Miguna: Whenever pertinent issues like these arise, a very important skill to readily keep standby is the ability to master emotions. Emotional (angry) responses to situations could be a big mistake. That mistake may cost more than the temporary satisfaction gained by publicly (& freely) expressing feelings from Jeff Koinange’s bench at K-24 TV.
Miguna is already indicating some degree of discomfort with psychoanalyses - which are incidentally very central in this fiasco. As a central actor, he is probably blindsided to the fact that the public has had the full benefit of watching a justifiably angry man, urged on by a mouth-watering Jeff Koinange, onto K-24’s bench, to launch a fiery one-sided tirade of allegations against his former boss (who never had a fair face-to-face chance for rebuttal). What Miguna has essentially done on the bench is to downplay his own mistreatment at the expense of a new brawl he now seems more concerned about. His unspoken focus now seems a political mission to stop further national ascent of his boss upon Kenya’s leadership. Not to forget the small matter of promoting the “volcanic” book he promises to sell shortly. All these are well within his rights. AND In unmasking his convoluted path into the Prime Minister's office. PART III
I’ll temporarily divert to one subject I discussed yesterday with a couple of Kenyan-born friends from the World Bank & IMF. It concerns the dicey transition of our sons and daughters previously based in the diaspora who opt to return home (Kenya). One clear pattern has emerged – of carpetbaggers riding on coattails of political leaders to guarantee safe-landing in Kenya. This is a very timely debate to explore at this time when conmanship of different versions (like political conmanship) is up in the air.
I will start by stating a few obvious home-truths:
A majority of Kenyans in the diaspora wouldn’t ordinarily gain the same access to top Kenyan politicians were they based at home; Kenyan politicians have occasionally fallen victim to conmanship by diaspora based friends promising ‘heavens’ (important contacts, business deals, funding for projects etc); Some diaspora based Kenyans have successfully rode on politician coattails to land key positions at home (including Parliament, PSs, and State Corporation CEOs); others have tried but fallen short.
The Prime Minister has particularly been a target victim of many diaspora Kenyans. Even folks who’ve barely hugged a couple of photos with the Prime Minister during the latter’s visits to Western Capitals have proclaimed ‘very close’ friendship with Raila Odinga. They’ve sometimes gone ahead to launch parliamentary campaigns merely on such thin basis...classic opportunism.
Many have in fact met first-hand, the angry wrath of rural voters whose intelligence they tried to abuse. Most of these voters care less about copious online photos with top leaders – they heck don’t even see them. Proclamation of having been abroad alone, can in fact be the biggest liability if one can’t rain cash like Sonko or Kabogo. Try those tricks and see with your own eyes! You will be lucky to get 1,000 votes.
I heard Miguna say at the bench that he left Canada to join Raila Odinga’s 2007 Presidential Campaign. What I did not hear him say, was a very important detail that predates Odinga’s campaign. Miguna had done a couple of fund-raising rounds in North American cities (Canada and US) specifically promoting his campaign for the Nyando parliamentary seat in 2007. My question is – did Miguna primarily leave Canada to volunteer in Raila Odinga’s 2007 Presidential Campaign (as he asserts at the bench); or to primarily run for the Nyando seat, with Odinga’s campaign as a secondary mission?
Let everyone be their own judge. Failure to capture the Nyando nomination does not change the primary reason for relocation in my view. Now, after losing the Nyando dream, Miguna went ahead to work hard for the Raila 2007 Presidential campaign. What cannot be erased from history is that Miguna ended up being rewarded with a very plum position at the PM’s office. History also writes now, that Miguna was unceremoniously bundled from that office under unclear circumstances. This background narrative did not come out in that bench interview where Miguna called Odinga a political conman.
Before getting back to the real issue, I also found it quite repugnant that Miguna was drawing in unsolicited names to bolster his arguments. I heard Miguna mention Prof. Oyugi, Sarah Elderkin, and Salim Lone as “other close strategists” who “also fail to understand Raila’s contradictions”. Miguna may be doing himself another disfavor. With this penchant for loosely dropping names publicly while revealing intimate details of private discussions, he could be setting himself up for social isolation. At this rate, who in public office would ever feel free to share sensitive matters privately with Miguna?
Bottom-line – it’s not lost to me that despite Miguna’s wronging by the PM’s office, he is also now engaging in another wrong. He is inadvertently loading rounds of projectiles into the political enemy’s canon. That casual act threatens the momentum of Kenya’s progress because it gives unsolicited ammunition to the status quo elements that Miguna himself calls - merchants of impunity. Even if the motives are different, we’ve nevertheless noted Miguna’s helping hand towards the “stop Raila Odinga” bandwagon. But like I stated earlier - I don't think it will succeed in changing the overall trajectory. |
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 4:07:56 GMT 3
This video speaks for itself. Be your own Judge folks! This is basically a trip down grandeur lane. You might wanna pay attention @ 20 minutes when he tells the reporter "you people use newspapers to light fires; and go to the toilet".www.standardmedia.co.ke/ktn/?videoID=2000059123 |
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Post by reporter911 on Jul 17, 2012 5:40:00 GMT 3
This video speaks for itself. Be your own Judge folks! This is basically a trip down grandeur lane. You might wanna pay attention @ 20 minutes when he tells the reporter "you people use newspapers to light fires; and go to the toilet".www.standardmedia.co.ke/ktn/?videoID=2000059123What? this is Killing me Ha!!ha!!ha!! Miguna lives in his own fantasy..world.. |
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Post by mank on Jul 17, 2012 7:39:14 GMT 3
How many Miguna threads can Jukwaa really discuss well? Is it impossible to come up with a Miguna thread that can take all there is to say about this evidently very popular individual? He's attracted too much attention here on Jukwaa. Tired of it here.
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Post by destiny on Jul 17, 2012 13:04:05 GMT 3
This clutching of straws is pathetic to say the least.
Talk about shutting the stables after the horses have fled... (to Canada!)
Actually the articles raises even more disturbing questions about Raila's judgement than it does about Miguna.
Let's wait for part 3, hope it will address why the PM a reformer has surrounded himself with one thousand Moi Orphans- the likes of Dalmas, Ntimama, Kosgey etc and thieves implicated in NHC scam.
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Post by destiny on Jul 17, 2012 13:07:34 GMT 3
A reader's comment in today's DN just underneath this article: Talk about being haunted by own words!
Sarah Elderkin wrote this of Miguna on the Star Newspaper of May 19th 2011
"But first I need to say that I know Miguna and I have worked with him. I have found him intelligent, well-read, well-prepared, honest, stalwart, upright, hardworking and supremely committed to what is good, proper, right and just. I also know he is impatient and highly vocal about anything that contravenes these values, and that he does not suffer fools gladly.
"He is one of the few people I know who actually reads complex legal and constitutional documents, when others are just to idle or too incompetent to put in the hard work required. Miguna patiently winkles out the loopholes otherwise overlooked, and bravely stands his ground against inevitable attacks.
"It is a lonely position, and Miguna might not always be diplomatic. But diplomacy isn't everything. If things go well for us in this country, Kenyans will owe Miguna more than they know.
It appears Sarah Elderkin has become a turncoat and a lyrical sycophant Miguna was talking about.
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Post by roughrider on Jul 17, 2012 13:26:59 GMT 3
A reader's comment in today's DN just underneath this article: Talk about being haunted by own words! Sarah Elderkin wrote this of Miguna on the Star Newspaper of May 19th 2011"But first I need to say that I know Miguna and I have worked with him. I have found him intelligent, well-read, well-prepared, honest, stalwart, upright, hardworking and supremely committed to what is good, proper, right and just. I also know he is impatient and highly vocal about anything that contravenes these values, and that he does not suffer fools gladly.
"He is one of the few people I know who actually reads complex legal and constitutional documents, when others are just to idle or too incompetent to put in the hard work required. Miguna patiently winkles out the loopholes otherwise overlooked, and bravely stands his ground against inevitable attacks.
"It is a lonely position, and Miguna might not always be diplomatic. But diplomacy isn't everything. If things go well for us in this country, Kenyans will owe Miguna more than they know.
It appears Sarah Elderkin has become a turncoat and a lyrical sycophant Miguna was talking about. Sarah addressed this point. Eloquently. Incidentally, I first addressed similar contradictions in a thread about Miguna's views then and now. I am still waiting for you to be similarly aghast. |
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Post by euonyi on Jul 17, 2012 14:16:04 GMT 3
A reader's comment in today's DN just underneath this article: Talk about being haunted by own words! Sarah Elderkin wrote this of Miguna on the Star Newspaper of May 19th 2011"But first I need to say that I know Miguna and I have worked with him. I have found him intelligent, well-read, well-prepared, honest, stalwart, upright, hardworking and supremely committed to what is good, proper, right and just. I also know he is impatient and highly vocal about anything that contravenes these values, and that he does not suffer fools gladly.
"He is one of the few people I know who actually reads complex legal and constitutional documents, when others are just to idle or too incompetent to put in the hard work required. Miguna patiently winkles out the loopholes otherwise overlooked, and bravely stands his ground against inevitable attacks.
"It is a lonely position, and Miguna might not always be diplomatic. But diplomacy isn't everything. If things go well for us in this country, Kenyans will owe Miguna more than they know.
It appears Sarah Elderkin has become a turncoat and a lyrical sycophant Miguna was talking about. I do not see any contradiction between what you quote here and what Sarah now writes. It is the same person. It is actually possible, if there is some imbalance (that can be seen in all that is said about his anger, arrogance and the like). At least to me, I do see that it is possible that we are talking about one and the same person: intelligent, well-read, well-prepared, honest, stalwart, upright, hardworking and supremely committed to what is good, proper, right and just: YES, BUT QUITE CONFUSED. |
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Post by reporter911 on Jul 17, 2012 15:05:37 GMT 3
This clutching of straws is pathetic to say the least. Talk about shutting the stables after the horses have fled... (to Canada!) Actually the articles raises even more disturbing questions about Raila's judgement than it does about Miguna. Let's wait for part 3, hope it will address why the PM a reformer has surrounded himself with one thousand Moi Orphans- the likes of Dalmas, Ntimama, Kosgey etc and thieves implicated in NHC scam. ha!!ha!! it is like saying when a person is caught stealing they blame the item they stole for making them steal it.. Raila has nothing to proof.. he didn't make the allegations period!! the RUNWAY COWARD MIGUNA is the one to produce PROOF regarding his allegation.. LET SARAH PEN out her assessment of Miguna too.. step by step by step even if Miguna hips insults on her.. this will not deter her.. Miguna must be called out on all the Allegations written in his book and must produce proof or face the wrath fo Kenyans especially when it comes to withholding information in regards to the PEV as he claims to have... wait!!!! not hand written fake notes but hardcore tapes showing PM and other politicians discussing how to cause harm on innocent Kenyans.. Nobody should be allowed to use PEV for their own nasty agenda. |
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Post by kamalet on Jul 17, 2012 17:48:31 GMT 3
Time does surely fly when you are on the correct side!!! Here is Job when Miguna was never wrong: Folks,Since this is a thread discussing these silly Luo MPs - lets talk some frank Nyanza politics. This is a list predominantly of South Nyanza MPs - save for Olago and Outa.I'm glad Rarieda's Gumbo was not a signatory to that list as misreported in media. We need to start questioning how some of these MPs got elected and why ODM's candidate vetting mechanism failed in 2007. Grassroots democracy must be respected but only believers in party ideology must be allowed the opportunity to use the party's banner.Ugenya was almost electing a Moi mole in ODM (sijui Mwanga or whatever) in 2007 - all because Moi was terrified of having James Orengo back in Parliament.With the knee-jerk speed these MPs rose to defend Moi, it's reasonable to ask who really is their political god father and sponsor. A good majority of these MPs are always ambivalent about ODM's agenda anyway. They don't even serve their electorate.
They don't even heck show up at party functions. Do they fear disappointing a secret boss watching them? We will ask tough questions and put lens over their business and political dealings. It is their right to serve whomever they wish but they should always remember we also have a right to free speech. Dalmas Otieno needs to come out clean and state his interest in serving a retired President who impoverished Nyanza and who continues to block reform aspirations of Kenya. What value is it adding to Rongo or Kenya? So called Duol elders like John Pesa should watch their steps very carefully since they owe their seats to majority young voters. Has he profiled the common denominator amongst these poor young folks he represents? These youth have aspirations and when a majority of them are unemployed, it is important not to lose focus of ODM's vision to address this. When young folks see wazees like Pesa more interested in quickly sacrificing youth like Miguna, who is working very hard towards achieving aspirations of the youth, then he has some good explanation to do. What did Moi do to alleviate unemployment of Migori's youth? He only contributed towards it. People like Pesa should be warned that their youthful electorate are not stupid. Young voters in Nyanza will not laugh with them (as they shamelessly defend Moi) especially when they touch comrades who were tortured by the same Moi. Let them be warned they have started a war they will lose. Nyanza is one of the provinces with the highest per-capita casualties of youth whose lives were destroyed by Moi as well as those unemployed as a result of economic marginalization. University students in the 80s especially bore a huge brunt and many died, got maimed, went bonkers, and some went to exile. Joining them were a huge number of former military, paramilitary, police, intelligence, administration officers and other public servants who were disciminately vilified, fired, jailed, all for the mere sin of their origin. These people (& their families) identify with Miguna right now. They don't need more of Moi's nightmares. It is not a pleasant sight meeting a broke and very brilliant former comrade whose life was literally destroyed by the Nyayo machinery. Show me which village in Nyanza doesn't have such fellows. Let these MPs be warned that by ATTACKING Miguna, they have just opened a pandoras box even within their own villages.This is a war they WILL never win. They seem to forget why so many people even identify with Raila in such a passionate way in almost all villages across the country. There is very strong comraderie amongst victims of State repression which people tend to sometimes ignore. There is a former Air Force officer in my village whose life (& family) was totally shattered by Moi. The fellow rarely talks but just stares. I treated the soldier (a while back) for multiple chronic problems and the only thing that could draw a smile from him was whenever I pulled out a newspaper showing Agwambo's rallies. Those were those NDP Tinga Tinga days. The fellow would beam with excitement and start talking, marvelling how Tinga rose from torture and solitary confinement with a sound mind and charisma intact. He had met Agwambo in those hellish joints of Moi and in jail and couldn't believe the former's relentless energy. There is a pool of VICTIMS out there who take pride that fellow victims of Moi's totalitarian oppression are rising from ashes towards statesmanship. From Mwandawiro's village to Adungosis village to Wafula Bukes village, these folks and their familes always have something to identify with fellow victims. We need to give these lessons to the idiotic bunch of Luo MPs above. Nobody will sing 'tawala Kenya' or 'baba Moi' anymore! Despite Kajwang's flip flop on this - he still has some explaining to do. Kajwang himself is a victim of Moi's oppression and sings bado mapambano everyday. Kajwang saw how just recently Kalonzo's people in his own Immigration Ministry, colluded with Muthaura in a bid to tear down his own personal aide - CFO Onyango - another UON comrade jailed and tortured by Moi. The targeting and profiling of these former 'politically hot' student leaders of the Nyayo era seems to be continuing to date. One therefore wonders (as Oloo quipped) what Kajwang was thinking when he penned his signature to that stupid statement. Fellas like James Rege know nothing about State suppression and torture. His safe and long sojourn in Washington in the Kenyatta days, only returning in Kibaki's era did not allow him first hand experience of the Nyayo era especially from Nyanza's vantage. He is anyway too busy with friends like Tuju and other PNU and KANU telecom venturists to bother neither with ODM nor Karachuonyo matters. His regular air flights don't head towards Nyanza but towards Juba, South Sudan. Well, let him do business (which is a good thing) and hang out with wakina Ndemo and Muthaura, but come 2012, Karachuonyo folks will also do the profitable business of electing an MP to serve and occasionally hang out with them. I bet ODM supporters will also insist the party does a good job vetting MPs not commited to its ideology. Look at people like Ababu Namwamba, Zakayo Cheruiyot, Isaac Ruto and Joshua Kutuny. It was a total disaster. Same thing happened in Nyanza. Small surreptitious conspiracies of deciet only for wolves to shed sheep's skin after election. That's why you end up with a well coordinated Press Statement from these Nyanza MPs attacking Miguna - on the same day that Kalonzo’s dogs published an attack in the Star of January 12th, 2010, against Raila and Miguna. By the way, the so called PNU activist who paid for the anti-Miguna ad, Moses Kuria, has admitted that PNU never sanctioned him to put up the ad save for blessings from ODM-K's Kalonzo Musyoka and KANU's Uhuru Kenyatta.What is the nexus connecting Dalmas Otieno, John Pesa, James Rege, Otieno Ogindo, Omondi Anyanga etc and Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka? Is it deep KANU roots? Is it Moi? Is it Moi's largess looted from Kenyans?We need to know. We will know. These MPs have put themselves up in the spotlight and sure they shall be THOROUGHLY VETTED.
We now know they are indeed Moi's friends. They are not friends of victims of Nyayo's dictatorship. They are not friends of Nyanza's unemployed youth. They are certainly not friends of ODM's ideology. I am so glad a level headed MP like John Mbadi, also from South Nyanza, did not sign that stupid pro-Nyayo statement. ODM will have to do a more serious busines of vetting candidates because the demand (from supporters) of vetting out wolves in sheep's skin has earnestly began. Mark these words! |
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Post by phil on Jul 17, 2012 17:58:33 GMT 3
Time does surely fly when you are on the correct side!!! Here is Job when Miguna was never wrong: Kamale Your digging Jukwaa archives for when people were defending Miguna is as IRRELEVANT as ever and you know it. You just want to derail this thread seeing that Miguna's false peeling is already indefensible and that more rebuttals are on the way. |
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 18:01:13 GMT 3
hehe and now here's Miguna's repsonse to Sarah Elderkin Miguna answers Sarah ElderkinBy Miguna Miguna
My response to Sarah Elderkin today's Daily Nation post: Sarah Elderkin cut her teeth during the dark days of One-Man rule under then President Daniel Arap Moi. She worked for the famous ‘Weekly Review’ which was ably run by Nuclear Scientist-turned-journalist, Hilary Ng’weno.
Ng’’weno was good at picking holes in a subtle way at Moi’s government and was successful for a while. The magazine was eventually forced to shut down and some like Elderkin jumped ship to support the ‘burgeoning opposition’ then under leading lights like Kenneth Matiba and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
She grew close to Odinga and worked her way to become one of his key speech writers and campaign strategists. This is probably when she met his son, Raila, and the relationship grew both professionally and personally.
Her loyalty to the Odinga family is therefore unquestionable. Somewhere along the way, she fell out with the younger Odinga, perhaps more to do with personal than professional etiquette.
What Elderkin has done in three pages of what can only be described as ‘childish ranting and raving’ is nothing short of ‘juvenile jingoism’. She needs to be reminded that long gone are the days of one-man Dictatorship and if any “Expert’ or ‘Analyst’ wants to talk about this or that, they should be given the platform and NOT be silenced just because someone doesn’t agree with what’s being said.
Elderkin is NOT the authority when it comes to ‘Journalistic Ethics and Standards’. If she’s working for Raila she should state it plain and simple, not use a ‘Rag’ of a newspaper Sarah elderkin is nowhere! Sarah elderkin does not have a personal website, Sarah Elderkin is not on facebook and Sarah Elderkin is not on twitter; and yet she is an 'authority' on 'online matters'. Since she is an academic, I would expect her to at least be on scribd where she would publish her dissertations and various academic works but she is not on scribd, nor is she in any other social networking website. to ‘pathetically defend’ her paymaster
I am out of the country to market my book):..Back to the prime minister and his fondness for whites. He has denied it consistently, but for those who do not know, Sarah Elderkin is white and that's why she sounds so hateful in her article. How do you expect a white woman to respect 'black' Kenyans when her parents and grandparents were at the forefront of shipping off blacks to work as slaves in their plantations? That's why her article is so barbaric, dangerous, lacking respect for human rights.
If these are the types of whites the prime minister hangs around then no wonder he has been seeking the presidency for 30 years (from his attempted coup in 1982, through his PEV filled 2007 attempt and finally to his 2013www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000062054&story_title=Miguna-answers-Sarah-ElderkinThis is a new low....very low for Miguna. Reading this hasty and incoherent word-salad (above) is troubling. Miguna has departed from his exemplary writing, resorting to rushed expression of hate and overt racist & sexist remarks. Miguna should work on controlling his emotions and managing anger. It can't be cool and dandy sending fierce verbal and literary jabs at targets - yet unable to withstand rebuttals and criticism. For a former public official who loves hogging the limelight, he must develop thick skin and take criticism well. After all, he just wrote a book - he should expect reviews and critiques. They have not even started. Miguna's KTN interview aired yesterday (Monday)- where he treated his interviewer with serious contempt - left a lot to desire. I'm now seeing the same pattern here with Sarah Elderkin. I'm witnessing (in Miguna) the grandeur Sarah wrote about. The latter was among few people Miguna was counting to agree (with him) regarding Raila's contradictions. But lo! We are probably dealing with two people who probably interacted a lot yet never on the same planet. If only Miguna stuck to Sarah's compelling substance...rather than her personal past and all the nasty racist stuff... |
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Post by reporter911 on Jul 17, 2012 18:01:57 GMT 3
Time does surely fly when you are on the correct side!!! Here is Job when Miguna was never wrong: Folks,Since this is a thread discussing these silly Luo MPs - lets talk some frank Nyanza politics. This is a list predominantly of South Nyanza MPs - save for Olago and Outa.I'm glad Rarieda's Gumbo was not a signatory to that list as misreported in media. We need to start questioning how some of these MPs got elected and why ODM's candidate vetting mechanism failed in 2007. Grassroots democracy must be respected but only believers in party ideology must be allowed the opportunity to use the party's banner.Ugenya was almost electing a Moi mole in ODM (sijui Mwanga or whatever) in 2007 - all because Moi was terrified of having James Orengo back in Parliament.With the knee-jerk speed these MPs rose to defend Moi, it's reasonable to ask who really is their political god father and sponsor. A good majority of these MPs are always ambivalent about ODM's agenda anyway. They don't even serve their electorate.
They don't even heck show up at party functions. Do they fear disappointing a secret boss watching them? We will ask tough questions and put lens over their business and political dealings. It is their right to serve whomever they wish but they should always remember we also have a right to free speech. Dalmas Otieno needs to come out clean and state his interest in serving a retired President who impoverished Nyanza and who continues to block reform aspirations of Kenya. What value is it adding to Rongo or Kenya? So called Duol elders like John Pesa should watch their steps very carefully since they owe their seats to majority young voters. Has he profiled the common denominator amongst these poor young folks he represents? These youth have aspirations and when a majority of them are unemployed, it is important not to lose focus of ODM's vision to address this. When young folks see wazees like Pesa more interested in quickly sacrificing youth like Miguna, who is working very hard towards achieving aspirations of the youth, then he has some good explanation to do. What did Moi do to alleviate unemployment of Migori's youth? He only contributed towards it. People like Pesa should be warned that their youthful electorate are not stupid. Young voters in Nyanza will not laugh with them (as they shamelessly defend Moi) especially when they touch comrades who were tortured by the same Moi. Let them be warned they have started a war they will lose. Nyanza is one of the provinces with the highest per-capita casualties of youth whose lives were destroyed by Moi as well as those unemployed as a result of economic marginalization. University students in the 80s especially bore a huge brunt and many died, got maimed, went bonkers, and some went to exile. Joining them were a huge number of former military, paramilitary, police, intelligence, administration officers and other public servants who were disciminately vilified, fired, jailed, all for the mere sin of their origin. These people (& their families) identify with Miguna right now. They don't need more of Moi's nightmares. It is not a pleasant sight meeting a broke and very brilliant former comrade whose life was literally destroyed by the Nyayo machinery. Show me which village in Nyanza doesn't have such fellows. Let these MPs be warned that by ATTACKING Miguna, they have just opened a pandoras box even within their own villages.This is a war they WILL never win. They seem to forget why so many people even identify with Raila in such a passionate way in almost all villages across the country. There is very strong comraderie amongst victims of State repression which people tend to sometimes ignore. There is a former Air Force officer in my village whose life (& family) was totally shattered by Moi. The fellow rarely talks but just stares. I treated the soldier (a while back) for multiple chronic problems and the only thing that could draw a smile from him was whenever I pulled out a newspaper showing Agwambo's rallies. Those were those NDP Tinga Tinga days. The fellow would beam with excitement and start talking, marvelling how Tinga rose from torture and solitary confinement with a sound mind and charisma intact. He had met Agwambo in those hellish joints of Moi and in jail and couldn't believe the former's relentless energy. There is a pool of VICTIMS out there who take pride that fellow victims of Moi's totalitarian oppression are rising from ashes towards statesmanship. From Mwandawiro's village to Adungosis village to Wafula Bukes village, these folks and their familes always have something to identify with fellow victims. We need to give these lessons to the idiotic bunch of Luo MPs above. Nobody will sing 'tawala Kenya' or 'baba Moi' anymore! Despite Kajwang's flip flop on this - he still has some explaining to do. Kajwang himself is a victim of Moi's oppression and sings bado mapambano everyday. Kajwang saw how just recently Kalonzo's people in his own Immigration Ministry, colluded with Muthaura in a bid to tear down his own personal aide - CFO Onyango - another UON comrade jailed and tortured by Moi. The targeting and profiling of these former 'politically hot' student leaders of the Nyayo era seems to be continuing to date. One therefore wonders (as Oloo quipped) what Kajwang was thinking when he penned his signature to that stupid statement. Fellas like James Rege know nothing about State suppression and torture. His safe and long sojourn in Washington in the Kenyatta days, only returning in Kibaki's era did not allow him first hand experience of the Nyayo era especially from Nyanza's vantage. He is anyway too busy with friends like Tuju and other PNU and KANU telecom venturists to bother neither with ODM nor Karachuonyo matters. His regular air flights don't head towards Nyanza but towards Juba, South Sudan. Well, let him do business (which is a good thing) and hang out with wakina Ndemo and Muthaura, but come 2012, Karachuonyo folks will also do the profitable business of electing an MP to serve and occasionally hang out with them. I bet ODM supporters will also insist the party does a good job vetting MPs not commited to its ideology. Look at people like Ababu Namwamba, Zakayo Cheruiyot, Isaac Ruto and Joshua Kutuny. It was a total disaster. Same thing happened in Nyanza. Small surreptitious conspiracies of deciet only for wolves to shed sheep's skin after election. That's why you end up with a well coordinated Press Statement from these Nyanza MPs attacking Miguna - on the same day that Kalonzo’s dogs published an attack in the Star of January 12th, 2010, against Raila and Miguna. By the way, the so called PNU activist who paid for the anti-Miguna ad, Moses Kuria, has admitted that PNU never sanctioned him to put up the ad save for blessings from ODM-K's Kalonzo Musyoka and KANU's Uhuru Kenyatta.What is the nexus connecting Dalmas Otieno, John Pesa, James Rege, Otieno Ogindo, Omondi Anyanga etc and Uhuru Kenyatta and Kalonzo Musyoka? Is it deep KANU roots? Is it Moi? Is it Moi's largess looted from Kenyans?We need to know. We will know. These MPs have put themselves up in the spotlight and sure they shall be THOROUGHLY VETTED.
We now know they are indeed Moi's friends. They are not friends of victims of Nyayo's dictatorship. They are not friends of Nyanza's unemployed youth. They are certainly not friends of ODM's ideology. I am so glad a level headed MP like John Mbadi, also from South Nyanza, did not sign that stupid pro-Nyayo statement. ODM will have to do a more serious busines of vetting candidates because the demand (from supporters) of vetting out wolves in sheep's skin has earnestly began. Mark these words! So what? at least he doesn't follow blindly, that as Job is his own person and makes clear decisions on what to believe or not believe is a big Plus.. I wish some other followed the same path... be your own principal instead of being principled into a deep hole.. ama.. ;D ;D Miguna has to be called to account for all the allegations he throw out there!! specifically when it touches the PEV? yani this guy ran so fast to Canada... forgetting ICC will find him there and he has to account for his statements about withholding PEV informations.. Nguyai really tried on the stand? Miguna won't have be able to hold back while being questioned.. Kenyans will see the true Miguna then if they haven't already seen his full profile.. enff said.. |
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 18:08:20 GMT 3
Kamale,
After catching the drift in Phil's statement, just know that the hypocrisy in you is baffling. You were Miguna's greatest foe in JUKWAA. You're only kissing his feet now because he fell out with your scarecrow - Raila. You can temporarily (& conveniently) wear the "Miguna is now a hero" mask until he's outlived his usefulness. In the meantime, I'll shortly pull your record (& nasty fight) when Miguna exposed you as Bwana Afande! Do you remember?
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Post by kamalet on Jul 17, 2012 18:13:06 GMT 3
Time does surely fly when you are on the correct side!!! Here is Job when Miguna was never wrong: Kamale Your digging Jukwaa archives for when people were defending Miguna is as IRRELEVANT as ever and you know it. You just want to derail this thread seeing that Miguna's false peeling is already indefensible and that more rebuttals are on the way. Phil Exactly!! What is the relevance of Miguna's "rape case" to the book he wrote? Consistency?? |
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Post by job on Jul 17, 2012 18:16:11 GMT 3
Kamale Your digging Jukwaa archives for when people were defending Miguna is as IRRELEVANT as ever and you know it. You just want to derail this thread seeing that Miguna's false peeling is already indefensible and that more rebuttals are on the way. Phil Exactly!! What is the relevance of Miguna's "rape case" to the book he wrote? Consistency?? The last time I checked, people with Integrity; Reformers who respect Human Rights, don't rape their fellow human beings - then use all powers around them to quash and silence their victims. Consistency? |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2012 18:33:14 GMT 3
hehe and now here's Miguna's repsonse to Sarah Elderkin Miguna answers Sarah ElderkinBy Miguna Miguna
My response to Sarah Elderkin today's Daily Nation post: Sarah Elderkin cut her teeth during the dark days of One-Man rule under then President Daniel Arap Moi. She worked for the famous ‘Weekly Review’ which was ably run by Nuclear Scientist-turned-journalist, Hilary Ng’weno.
Ng’’weno was good at picking holes in a subtle way at Moi’s government and was successful for a while. The magazine was eventually forced to shut down and some like Elderkin jumped ship to support the ‘burgeoning opposition’ then under leading lights like Kenneth Matiba and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
She grew close to Odinga and worked her way to become one of his key speech writers and campaign strategists. This is probably when she met his son, Raila, and the relationship grew both professionally and personally.
Her loyalty to the Odinga family is therefore unquestionable. Somewhere along the way, she fell out with the younger Odinga, perhaps more to do with personal than professional etiquette.
What Elderkin has done in three pages of what can only be described as ‘childish ranting and raving’ is nothing short of ‘juvenile jingoism’. She needs to be reminded that long gone are the days of one-man Dictatorship and if any “Expert’ or ‘Analyst’ wants to talk about this or that, they should be given the platform and NOT be silenced just because someone doesn’t agree with what’s being said.
Elderkin is NOT the authority when it comes to ‘Journalistic Ethics and Standards’. If she’s working for Raila she should state it plain and simple, not use a ‘Rag’ of a newspaper Sarah elderkin is nowhere! Sarah elderkin does not have a personal website, Sarah Elderkin is not on facebook and Sarah Elderkin is not on twitter; and yet she is an 'authority' on 'online matters'. Since she is an academic, I would expect her to at least be on scribd where she would publish her dissertations and various academic works but she is not on scribd, nor is she in any other social networking website. to ‘pathetically defend’ her paymaster
I am out of the country to market my book):..Back to the prime minister and his fondness for whites. He has denied it consistently, but for those who do not know, Sarah Elderkin is white and that's why she sounds so hateful in her article. How do you expect a white woman to respect 'black' Kenyans when her parents and grandparents were at the forefront of shipping off blacks to work as slaves in their plantations? That's why her article is so barbaric, dangerous, lacking respect for human rights.
If these are the types of whites the prime minister hangs around then no wonder he has been seeking the presidency for 30 years (from his attempted coup in 1982, through his PEV filled 2007 attempt and finally to his 2013www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000062054&story_title=Miguna-answers-Sarah-ElderkinThis is a new low....very low for Miguna. Reading this hasty and incoherent word-salad (above) is troubling. Miguna has departed from his exemplary writing, resorting to rushed expression of hate and overt racist & sexist remarks. Miguna should work on controlling his emotions and managing anger. It can't be cool and dandy sending fierce verbal and literary jabs at targets - yet unable to withstand rebuttals and criticism. For a former public official who loves hogging the limelight, he must develop thick skin and take criticism well. After all, he just wrote a book - he should expect reviews and critiques. They have not even started. Miguna's KTN interview aired yesterday (Monday)- where he treated his interviewer with serious contempt - left a lot to desire. I'm now seeing the same pattern here with Sarah Elderkin. I'm witnessing (in Miguna) the grandeur Sarah wrote about. The latter was among few people Miguna was counting to agree (with him) regarding Raila's contradictions. But lo! We are probably dealing with two people who probably interacted a lot yet never on the same planet. If only Miguna stuck to Sarah's compelling substance...rather than her personal past and all the nasty racist stuff... That's crap Miguna. I read Sarah's article and I agree with some stuff she says and will challenge her on some other stuff. But for you to start dismissing her in the way you've done above is actually just letting yourself down more than you've already done. You need to stop and I know that it's hard when there is a MOB on the loose against you; who are being as unprincipled as you have demonstrated here |
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Post by reporter911 on Jul 17, 2012 20:03:48 GMT 3
This is a new low....very low for Miguna. Reading this hasty and incoherent word-salad (above) is troubling. Miguna has departed from his exemplary writing, resorting to rushed expression of hate and overt racist & sexist remarks. Miguna should work on controlling his emotions and managing anger. It can't be cool and dandy sending fierce verbal and literary jabs at targets - yet unable to withstand rebuttals and criticism. For a former public official who loves hogging the limelight, he must develop thick skin and take criticism well. After all, he just wrote a book - he should expect reviews and critiques. They have not even started. Miguna's KTN interview aired yesterday (Monday)- where he treated his interviewer with serious contempt - left a lot to desire. I'm now seeing the same pattern here with Sarah Elderkin. I'm witnessing (in Miguna) the grandeur Sarah wrote about. The latter was among few people Miguna was counting to agree (with him) regarding Raila's contradictions. But lo! We are probably dealing with two people who probably interacted a lot yet never on the same planet. If only Miguna stuck to Sarah's compelling substance...rather than her personal past and all the nasty racist stuff... That's crap Miguna. I read Sarah's article and I agree with some stuff she says and will challenge her on some other stuff. But for you to start dismissing her in the way you've done above is actually just letting yourself down more than you've already done. You need to stop and I know that it's hard when there is a MOB on the loose against you; who are being as unprincipled as you have demonstrated here who are these in the MOB that you mention please name names so that jukwaarist being labaled as in Mobs to be able to answer you accusations.. If I'm of those being labeled in the said Mob and unprincipled then I beg to differ.. MIGUNA MUST ANSWERABLE TO ALL THE ALLEGATIONS HE SPEWED OUT IN HIS BOOK he must produce proof.. especially in regards to the PEV information he is withholding so he claims.. Kenyans must demand he come clean.. if indeed I'm in the mob then where exactly do you place yourself? I'm not here to throw labels at you? you have a choice or right to label yourself but that right does not extend to labeling others here on Jukwaa as in mobs or unprincipled that is taking it too far ..enuff said. |
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