Dissatisfaction In Homa Bay Is Understandable

Sam:

No need for spin doctoring on this one.

Onyango Oloo

Omwenga,

When men of your caliber begin to exercise such high levels of intellectual dishonesty, there is obviously something afoot.

To begin with, you take a photo from a totally different function and use it to explain a situation in a totally different function without even having the courtesy to so say.

Then you go on and on explaining how Kajwang's problems cannot be Raila's while refusing to acknowledge that Kajwang's situation cannot be viewed in isolation and can only be understood if placed in the right context, which is, his imposition on the people by none other than Raila and his party.

What the people seem to be saying here is, even though we love the party and its leader, they cannot pretend to know who we want leading us more than we do. To me that is a very harsh judgment on the party and its leadership as it demonstrates a very high level of their being out of touch with those they pretend to lead. And by the way, this how rebellions begin, on the periphery. This is something one would never have expected to see in Luo Nyanza a few years ago, but here we are.

Markopolitico,,

I am thoroughly familiar with Bob Marley and many of his ageless axioms, including the one you cite but not familiar with the Biblical narrative of Bellshazzar; I'll look up that one in due time.

That being said, Raila is not aloof and neither has he ever been you are indirectly supporting a second term he doesn't really want given your his one term proposition is predicated on a fallacy.

Here is the fracas in Homa Bay, notice how the PM desperately tries to calm the crowds without any success, sweating profusely, he takes his seat and waits anxiously.

This is when you miss R911 ;D - I can only imagine how she could have bolded and colored this one.

I await jakaswanga's take on the number of sandak and unpaired shoes the PM had to address.

Senti 5

Markopolitico

How about just like the spin masters not blame Raila and blame the booing disgruntled few in Homabay?

You raise the issue correctly that the problem is at the grassroots following the nomination debacle where the right people were replaced by the wrong one. The ones with their nomination stolen moved on to other parties within CORD which meant that their supporters will still vote for Raila.

So we can safely move the blame from the disgruntled ones on the ground and actually pile the entire blame on Raila advisers. When Raila calls for six-piece voting he makes several mistakes that the booing crowd should have provided lessons for.

First he should never have re-opened healing wounds by attempting to force on the people to vote the Bett nominees knowing very well that these characters were the cause of the nominatin strife. Secondly by telling the people to ignore the other CORD partners and vote for ODM in a 6-piece voting model, he immediately tells his partners that the partnership is only to make him president and nothing more. Can Raila actually go to Bungoma and ask the people there to vote in the manner he asked the Homabay people to vote?

Raila needs to fire his advisers otherwise the loss margin will be a lot larger and more embarrassing if he does not sort it out!

It is not DIFFICULTY ... I think they are INCAPABLE of understanding... ;D

Hi Patriotism101!

Wacha uchokozi! ;D did you see the twist reporter gave to your handle in her last bout of hysterics? Uwi Mayie!



Usually, in good politics, and more so after such a crisis as unfolded in Nyanza in the aftermath of the sham ODM nominations, a damage-control-protocol goes into gear, ran by local operatives who know the ground. Wise, it would be then, that by the time the Dear Leader comes to gloss it over and rally the troops, the deals that need be done [to smoothen out things] need to have been done, and the ground well-prepared to avoid public embarrassments. Television loves a scandal captured live. As the case above.

The deployment of the GSU in neighbouring Nyatike, and the zero-tolerance exacted on the youthful demonstrators who loudly protested the rigging have not helped matters any, especially when it became unclear whether top ODM honchos had overruled or misled Raila, --a Raila whose political instincts appeared to be on the wane.

Nyanza now is full of Old Men in ODM castigating the drunken hooligan youth! And the youth respond: who brought the half-loaf you have been fatting on?

Now, part of the compromise was that Raila would NOT ENDORSE any candidate in Homabay county, and would campaign for CORD in general and not ODM in specific. He would be neutral. Not ostracise defectors. So as not to enrage already disturbed sensibilities, especially of the 'street', which means the youth.

I always refer to this group as the Parisian mob, or the Roman crowd. Volatile. Increasingly insolent to the older generation. Brutalised by general social stagnation. Restive.

It was with these desperate groups and gangs supporting a difuse array of candidates, some no longer in ODM, that local operatives had reached deals with, on the needed neutrality of the mother and father party.

But Lo, by design or otherwise, there was my man Otieno Nyakwamba Kajwang' more or less in the role of master of ceremonies! and him is ODM through and through! and he was not being nice to the opposition within, oblivious to his 'polarising persona' ;D. And if he was even going to introduce Raila, having been given a place of prominence on the dais, then that was not THE LOCAL AGREEMENT, and not the conflict-resolution compromise, because this in effect meant Alila, the fellow reputed to have beaten Kajwang' hands down and now decamped, was being disadvantaged once more, being maligned as NON ODM, --ikete tenge ka gima en kimirwa! [being given the bastard treatment. Excommunicated in code!].

And there on the podium too was Nyong'o, thought of as one of the architects of the rigging. And even as the crowd grew restless and tumult increased, a party honcho was still introducing the ODM ASPIRANTS [EG for Homabay town] as the INCOMING MPs and whatever!

These were ODM ENDORSEMENTS, flying in the face of the agreement that every candidate would carry his own cross in whatever party he was in, and the people would decide on March 4. This meant HEAD-OFFICE was ignoring grassroots operatives and local linkmen. Branding Hombay ODM, reserving her goodies for a specific discredited clique.

6-piece was the dogma. To hell with Madoadoa! Ka-Ng'a! Non! exploded the youth.

Some of the shouts were pretty rough [in the rude and obscene sense], and Raila failed to rise to the occasion and take command of the crowd. Perhaps wisely so, because he would have been forced to condemn the rigging; and in so doing, the Roman mob of Homabay, sensing blood, would have bayed for more and more, with the risk of forcing the Emperor into throwing the dry bones of Nyong'o and Oburu into the yawning jaws the aroused monster. Thus disoriented, the picture we saw was of a forlorn, profusely sweating, even weeping Raila, bewildered by a terrible political miscalculation. Merlin without the magic.

The untold tale will remain that of the extreme levels of damage limitation, compromises, to which local operatives of ODM in the area have gone, to realise a workable situation, to work out a live-able environment for all concerned.

The fall-out from the rigging, was more than could be glossed over. Try hard as Omwenga will.

But officially, in apportioning the blame, the ODM canon says youth were bought, and it is external forces using them to ruin 'sifa', chia, and etc etc mag Raila. --Nyithindogi onyiew kendo ohon mondo giketh ni Raila. [These children have been bought and are being manipulated to derail Raila and our dream].

To my amazement, a man the intellect of Dalmas Otieno said this publicly. So there you are folks, the ODM rigging festival in Nyanza, and the protests that followed, were the brain-child and master-stroke of the PNU-gang!

Believe it or not! ;D

'Diplomats are trained to lie for their country. I am lying for Luoland my country. And there is some honour in that!' My brother told me when we discussed the matter. And I asked him if, as a front-line grassroots-man, he had uncovered evidence of the youth being manipulated. Or been offered a bribe by Onyango TNT Oloo to sabotage ODM from within.

Your brother's insight on things mashinani is always helpful to stop spining heads on this blog. ;D