The Banana Campaign is NOT a Gikuyu Agenda

[Onyango Oloo]

A 5-Part Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo

Part One

Nor is it a Meru, Embu, Gusii, Bukusu, Pokomo or any specific Kenyan ethnic community's agenda.

It is important to say this because it is just beyond SICKENING to see how cynical neo-colonial petit-bourgeois and comprador bourgeois fat cats are resorting to blind ethnic bigotry to try and scare up a few bananas to show up at the referendum booths this coming November.

Let us contemplate some precious gems germinating in the gibbering midomo of Yes Men and Yes Women like Nyachae, Kombo, Kituyi, Karua, Njeru Githae, Mirugi et al:

"Nyachae vowed to continue fighting to the bitter end to ensure that the new constitution goes through adding that there is no way one tribe can rebel against the forty two tribes in the country and expect to rule."-Kenya Times, October 8, 2005

"Nyachae vowed he would use his energy to ensure the ‘real men’ win. He accused Raila of using the Orange camp to ascend to power through the backdoor. Raila has tried using the Armed Forces together with his father Jaramogi Oginga Odinga but (former President) Moi crushed the coup attempt,’’ Nyachae said. He added: "He vied for the Presidency in 1997 and came a distant fourth and on realising he was headed nowhere in the Government he is now using the draft Constitution to get to power but I assure him he will fail’’.- Standard, October 8, 2005

"Kombo and Trade Minister Mukhisa Kituyi further claimed Raila’s father initiated the transfer of Kitale to the Rift Valley and Maseno to Luo Nyanza."- Standard, October 8, 2005

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All of the above messages have a common theme:

Raila Odinga is the enemy. He is the leader of the Orange team. Anyone in Orange is evil because they hate Gikuyus, Embus, Merus, Kisiis and Bukusus.

Such is the simplistic one track minded twisted ethnic fear mongering that the Bananiacs have been reduced to- when they are not giving away game parks, forest lands, pay hikes and other manifestations of surreal pork barrel politics.

Who is buying this HOGWASH?

Certainly NOT the ordinary Omugusii judging from the Orange triumph in Kisii town on Friday October 7th;

Certainly NOT the ordinary Wabukusu, Wamanyala, Wamarachi, Wasamia, Wamaragoli, Wanyore,Wawanga,Wakabras, Wakisa,Waisukha, Waidakho and others who make up the Waluhya;

HOPEFULLY not a big majority of the Wagikuyu,Wameru, Waembu and other Mountain Kenya folks.....

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[Onyango Oloo]

Part Two:

The sudden, convenient and overhyped and melodramatized swoop on the Mungiki- who have been AVAILABLE for arrest all along is a desperate, if deft decoy designed to first, divert attention from the disastrous and unravelling Bananiac maniacal fiasco and, secondly, send a dire warning to the quasi paramilitary urban youth based Giukuyu cultural movement that the "Gikuyu government of Kibaki and Karume" as Michuki succintly put it, is better armed, better trained, more ruthless and vicious than any platoon of the Mungiki taking a macabre and arcane series of oaths using Bibles, Korans, Gikuyu cultural texts and assorted mishmash and paraphernelia in the Kitengela suburb.

In my opinion, the blitzkrieg against Mungiki may turn out to be the self-inflicted coup de grace that ends up doing in the tribal andu aitu cabal anxious to restrain the kipikipi (same as piki piki) of Kibaki from venturing anywhere towards Mwingi, Mombasa, Vihiga, and Ngai Fafa! Bondo, Karachuonyo, Seme, Yala, Siaya or Ukwala.

Mirugi, Karua, Michuki, and all those Gikuyu Supremacists who were warning Uhuru Kenyatta to stop cavorting with Raila Odinga are scared maviless plain and simple that Kenyatta Junior is still cashing in from his Mzee's enduring charismatic and mythical legacy as well as increasingly striking out on his own as a NATIONAL as opposed to a parochial, shamelessly TRIBAL politician. The Thika NO Triumph must have driven the Bananiacs absolutely bananas and bonkers.

It would appear that intelligence gathering from the Central Kenyan slopes must have told the NAK parvenu ethnic schemers that the Gikuyu urban and rural youthful lumpenproletariat was not buying all that bunk of Mundu wa Nyoomba ethnic solidarity- hence the strike against Mungiki which recruits from those elements declasse.

A word about the origins of Mungiki. My informants- yes, we also do have our own "intelligence gathering networks" tell me that Mungiki's early history is with the LEFT, not the RIGHT.

Huh?

That is right. I am told that Mungiki first saw light as a fraction of a faction of the splintering Mwakenya movement. Now for those unfamiiar with the history of Mwakenya, let me bring you up to speed.

Mwakenya emerged sometime between February and June 1985 as a mutation of the earlier December Twelve Movement which was a NATIONAL Marxist influenced Kenyan anti-imperialist underground movement active in Nairobi, Kisumu, Kericho, Mombasa, Nakuru, Nyeri, Muranga, Mumias, Busia, Limuru and many other parts of the country and included Luos, Gikuyus, Merus, Dawidas, Waswahili, Waarabu, Wakamba, Wakisii, Wahindi and other patriotic and democratic minded Kenyans from a range of ethnicities.

After the June 1982 crackdown on the so called university based "Marxist dissidents" and especially after the post-August One abortive coup neo-colonial fascist repression, scattered remnants of this particular DTM formation went further underground working in isolation. Towards the end of 1984, one branch of DTM operating somewhere in what is now Paui Muite's constituency decided to reach out to older nationalists who had been veterans of the colonial Mau Mau detention camps and even footsoldiers of the KPU. These younger militants many of whom still remained unbowed anti-imperialist patriots decades after surviving prison and exile had discussions among themselves to coalesce as an "evolution" of DTM with a broader NATIONALIST appeal. In doing so, they harkened back to ROMANTICIZED urban legends associated with the Mau Mau and resolved that one aspect of Mau Mau recruitment- the OATH- should henceforth be used to identify and recruit new members, but even more controversially, reaffirm the allegience of older members.

The only problem with this plan was that the VAST majority of the MARXIST underground cadres of the post 1982 DTM had no clue that a fraction, a cell, a chapter of its underground ranks had basically executed a palace coup and grabbed the internal leadership of DTM, brought in, unauthorized sincere but NATIONALIST outsiders UNFAMILIAR with the tenets of Marxism-Leninism and unilaterally decided to import Gikuyu nationalism into an ostensibly Socialist and INTERNATIONALIST Kenyan underground revolutionary movement.

Part of the reason for the relatively easy success of the Special Branch in infiltrating and decimating the Mwakenya leadership had to do with the fact that many Marxist cadres had been lured into oathing ceremonies in the dead of the night- and many of them not being from the Agikuyu community, and even those who were- became completely alienated by the traumatic oathing ceremonies which were sprung on them in stealth- and had the opposite effect of not wanting them to remain members of an outfit they no longer recognized or embraced.

I was in Kamiti Maximum when the Moi regime unleashed its vicious pogrom against the Kenyan Left- because mark you, a big percentage of those jailed in 1986 and 1987 were like those American democrats and leftwingers hounded as "Communists" during the McCarthyite Dark Age- they simply happened to be progressive and democratic Kenyans- some of them were members of DTM, some were members of Mwakenya( the two were NOT synonymous) some were members of what later became KAIF, MEKAREMO and other Marxist grouplets, some were former KPU insiders and dozens upon dozens like David Murathe, for instance, were arrested more because they had been part of the Nairobi University student leadership and were friends with the Mwandawiros, the Adongos and others who were part of this or that Kenyan underground movement. And then, there were those, many of them young Gikuyus who had NOT been part of any of these trends but were recruited specifically as MWAKENYA, had gone through the oathing ceremonies and had the impression that MWAKENYA was indeed a Gikuyu based 1980s reincarnation of the Mau Mau.

In Kamiti and other penitentiaries and later on underground within the country and especially in Dar es Salaam among Kenyan exiles, there were ferocious debates about what had led to the Mwakenya debacle. Essentially there was a cleavage which pitted the MWAKENYA Damu against the more Marxist cadres who felt they owed fealty to DTM rather than what they saw as the nationalist aberration of MWAKENYA.

Around July 1987 a new factor was thrown into the mix. A well known Kenyan anti-imperialist figure based in a certain well known metrople, seeking to reconnect with comrades based at home was "linked" to use our chini chini lugha of the period to a chapter based in Dar es Salaam which turned out to be a reconstituted MWAKENYA offshoot- leaning more to the Neo-Mau Mau conception of struggle rather than the Marxist-Leninist conception of the struggle for national democracy in Kenya. Long story short Mwakenya soon became more organized, more articulate and reconnected ironically with a section of the ORIGINAL core of DTM which had somehow eluded the 1982 crackdown. Thus the post 1987 Mwakenya was ironically MORE Marxist leaning as well as MORE Mau Mau influenced.

Of course those Marxists from the original DTM disillusioned with the nationalist and what they felt were adventurist tendencies of Mwakenya linked up with certain former Socialist political prisoners that I know very well (chuckle, chuckle inside joke) to set up first the Me Katilili Revolutionary movement formed in Dar es Salaam on June 8, 1988 and later merged with the Harare based Kenya Anti-Imperialist Front to form UWAKE in Maputo, Mozambique in December 1990.

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[Onyango Oloo]

Part Three:

But here is where it gets interesting.

According to my sources, there was another faction which NEITHER joined the "new" Mwakenya/Umoja NOR associated with the more explicity Marxist Me Katilili, KAIF, HDK or any other socialist underground grouplet. My impeccable sources who actually spoke to people like Ndura Waruinge and other Mungiki pioneers weave an interesting story of how a Mwakenya break away faction became the NUCLEUS of the future Mungiki.

At first I am told, Mungiki was a LEFT WING, Gikuyu cultural movement hoping to sensitize and politicize Gikuyu youth along PATRIOTIC and ANTI-IMPERIALIST lines, believe it or not. At first I am told, among its mentors and backers were two, high profile and very well respected Kenya MARXISTS who happened to come from the Agikuyu community who supported the young movement kwa hali na mali as we say in Kiswahili because they earnestly believed that they were part of a new NATIONAL movement built along the lines of the OLD Mau Mau infused with some of the founding principles of the ORIGINAL December Twelve Movement.

Mashala!

Somewhere along the murky lines, things got derailed and Mungiki morphed into something completely different- more geared towards Gikuyu cultural nationalism than any fealty to what was seen in some anti-intellectualist circles as "abstract" Marxist ideals.

While this was going on, Moi and KANU unleashed their notorious ethnic cleansing of the Agikuyu in the Rift Valley.

And here we see the next stage in the evolution of Mungiki which now gained grass roots respectability, support and following as the emergent militia to which the Gikuyu youth displaced by Molo, Burnt Forest and other theatres of KANU engineered ethnic slaughter sought protection. This 1990s Mungiki was a POPULAR movement which had no trouble recruiting into its ranks hundreds if not thousands of eager Gikuyu youth GRATEFUL to join a movement that shielded and fought for them during the darkest period of the ethnic clashes.

Meanwhile at the national level, the broader Kenya democratic movement is growing in strength and the Moi-KANU machine withering away due to mass protests, mass mobilization, international isolation and so on. The social base that spurred the growth of Mungiki remains, but its POLITICAL rationalization as an anti-KANU bulwark begins to get shakier and shakier because Moi and KANU can no longer, especially after 1997/98 continue ruling in the old way- notice the importation of Raila Odinga and the NDP to shore up an increasingly isolated dictatorship- and the Kenyan people can no longer allow themselves to be ruled in the old way. The NCEC, the 4 Cs and the multi-faith religious community are spearheading the struggle for constitutional and democratic reform and more and more young people, including of course tens of thousands of urban Gikuyu youth are drawn into the national democratic reform process- and these includes former foot soldiers in Mungiki.

Then according to some of my sources (who are NOT 100% sure of their FACTS on this particular segment) Mungiki now enters a phase which later leads to a SPLIT in the leadership of Mungiki. One wing wants to retain the leftwing cultural nationalist project- while another wants Mungiki to reconstitute itself as a ruthless vigilante enforcer of the shanty towns and slums of Eastlands and other urban townships in Central Kenya and the Rift Valley.

I am told that a section of this second wing later sells out to the VERY SAME KANU that Mungiki originally fought when it becomes obvious around the year 2001- not 2002- the Uhuru Project started in 2001- that Moi wants to use Uhuru Kenyatta BECAUSE he is a Mgikuyu to recycle KANU's dictatorship. It is here I am told, where veteran underground mobilizers from the 1980s Nairobi University days like David Murathe jump into the mix as the conduit between KANU and Mungiki. Mark you at this time, Murathe is still a member of the SDP although he will later switch to KANU only to be routed by the NARC juggernaut. With Uhuru Kenyatta's millions, Mungiki becomes a different outfit, better armed, better financed and of course enjoying the largesse of official state protection. Long story short, throughout the life of the Uhuru Project the Mungiki leadership- that section which was cynical and opportunistic become Uhuru Kenyatta's storm troopers- at one point organizing a public pro- Uhuru demo in the streets of Nairobi.

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[Onyango Oloo]

Part Four:

Long story short, Uhuru loses and we see how KANU in Nakuru tries a brief and murderous destablization campaign using Mungiki youth and allegedly with KANU politician David Manyara masterminding the carnage. We are talking January-February 2003.

At around this time, I, Onyango Oloo, write at least two, as usual lengthy essays on Mungiki that a well respected and very well placed political friend of mine takes personally and hands directly to former Internal Security PS Dave Mwangi:

www.mashada.com/forums/index.php?az=show_mesg&forum=22&topic_id=15311&mesg_id=15311&listing_type=search

In my essays, that you can access via the links below, I argue AGAINST using VIOLENT repressive methods against Mungiki, a stance that quickly earns me the dubious sobriquet "Mungiki Sympathizer":

www.mashada.com/forums/index.php?az=show_mesg&forum=22&topic_id=14311&mesg_id=14311&listing_type=search

www.mashada.com/forums/index.php?az=show_mesg&forum=22&topic_id=14245&mesg_id=14245&listing_type=search

Foolish me rushing things to NARC thinking they are a different outfit!

Kumbe the NAK andu aitu internal coup is ALREADY in progress!

Kumbe the NAK andu aitu cabal is ALREADY reaching out to the Gikuyu chauvinists in KANU telling them, nani, do not fight us anymore, now we have "our man" in the State House- the same man, who like Uhuru Kenyatta today- was referred to as Raila's stooge. This rapprochement within, among and across the various fractions of the GEMA comprador and petit-bourgeois elilte elements goes unnoticed for a long time because NO ONE can believe that this is really happening. I remember how furiously I came out, guns blazing against the LDP 26 when they called a press conference to denounce the political appointments of Kibaki as being tribal. I thought that THEY were the reactionaries, the tribalists! Look- this is what I said, back then:

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Now what does this have to do with Mungiki?

Haiya! Hebu Ngoja.

I am told that it is as this point- between February 2003 and June 2003 the NAK leadership decided to co-opt Mungiki. And they do this in three ways. One buy out the top leadership offering them immunity from prosecution; immerse some Mungiki members into the government's own elite and paramilitary security forces and according to credible reports in the public domain use the dreaded Cobra Squad to create a pseudo-Mungiki death squad that carries out grisly killings that are later on blamed on the real Mungiki- the section that refused to be co-opted. By now, remember, the Gikuyu comprador bourgeoisie is UNITED about ensuring that the Presidency does not venture outside GEMA land. Remember this is also around the time for the National Constitutional Conference to resume. Check out the increasingly strange and deranged TRIBAL comments from former anti-imperialists like Mirugi Kariuki (who warns Raila to remember the fate of Mboya and Ouko) and Koigi wa Wamwere who is captured on television sniffing snuff at a Mungiki gathering in Limuru. The horse trading that will eventually lead to the defection of the entire Central Kenya KANU caucus back to NAK has already began- some of us saw it as early as Thursday, December 18th, 2003 (along with some HOARY BLOOPERS in crystal gazing):

It would be a mistake to write off NAK, DP or even the so called MKM. They have had the advantage of being in the inner sanctum, controlling the state organs, making the public appointments, in other words managing the patronage machine. Ironically, it is likely expanding its ETHNIC base rather than narrowing it. One or two people may be surprised to hear me say this, but LDP has lost some of its people to NAK. Definitely Tuju and Ayacko and possibly former Raila insider Ojode and of course Moody Awori. There are many Luo politicians (either KANU, Ford-People or Ford-Kenya) who are likely to gravitate towards NAK. Don’t forget that there have been a series of clandestine meetings between senior “MKM” leaders like Kiraitu with some members of this so called Luo elite who want, like Omamo and Ogutu before them, to have an alternative, not necessarily anti-Raila political base in Nyanza.

But I think that NAK’s trump card will be in KANU. Already all the Central Province MPs with the notable exception of Uhuru Kenyatta have practically defected to NARC. So have Muite and Munya in Safina. But the prize pick will actually be some elements of the so called Rift Valley Mafia led by Nicholas Biwott. One of my well-placed informants intimated to me not too long ago that Mukhisa Kituyi is the link man between the RVM and the MKM.

Remember the old schisms in KANU? I do not see Nyachae working hand in glove with Biwott and that is why I see KANU splitting down the middle within a year or so with the Biwott faction going to NAK while the Uhuru faction pursues its agenda with FORD-People.

My own SPECULATION is that the coalition with FORD People is Uhuru’s survival ticket since he has realized that there could be a move afoot to sideline him within KANU. Will a Rift Valley Party be formed? Time will tell.


SOURCE:

www.mashada.com/forums/index.php?az=show_mesg&forum=22&topic_id=33952&mesg_id=33952&listing_type=search
But you know what?

TWO things happen.

One, Uhuru Kenyatta, who has never really been a Gikuyu Supremacist, REFUSES to play ball with the andu aitu cabal. In early 2004 he forms the Coalition for National Unity with guess who? Future Kibaki Yes Man Nyachae, to bring down Kibaki come the next election.

Two, a big chunk of Mungiki realize that the NAK politicians are simultaneously USING and KILLING their own members and blaming these very killings on Mungiki- so they too start pulling back from the government. Did I mention that some Mungiki insiders fingered Dr. Chris Murungaru as one of the new godfathers of Mungiki?

And so, this is where we are today in regards to Mungiki.

Yes, definitely it was used by KANU, which it used to oppose ferociously in its infancy. But more ominiously, a section of Mungiki was incorporated as a standby Interhamwe for the andu aitu cabal, and yes, I believe Maina Njenga when he says that Michuki is cracking down on Mungiki because Mungiki has probably REFUSED to KILL INNOCENT KENYANS so that the House of Mumbi can rule for generations upon generations.

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[Onyango Oloo]

Part Five:

What the NAK parvenu Kabilastanis must appreciate is that EVERY INSTITUTION in Kenya has been touched by the wave of the Kenyan glasnost brought in by the Unbwogable Spirit that swept away the Moi-KANU dictatorship and will soon sweep away the Mwai-NAK cabal. Every institution including the national security and intelligence services folks. Yes, there are people who were trained as secret police officers who are thoroughly DISGUSTED with what they see the NAK cabal doing- stealing money with impunity; raping and sodomizing with impunity; creating private militias with impunity and conducting smear campaigns with impunity.

Think about it.

Some of us live outside Kenya.

Yet, like thousands of Kenyans in Nairobi and elsewhere, we get to know,within a matter of hours when Kombo and Kaparo have been swung hundred of thousands of jirongos, when so and so has been fingered for keeping the drug stash and when MP so and so has been heard screaming in post-orgasmic bliss in married minister's so and so's bed.

How do we get to know these things?

We have NOT recruited any spies within the Kenyan spy network.

No: it is the spies who are blowing the firimbis- telling anyone who cares to listen what is going on- "psst the other day Lucy threw a chair at Emilio when she found the "NARC Activist" at Ikulu" "Shhh. Mwakwere likes screwing teenage hookers" "Whisper..did you see the letter from Harvard to Kiraitu that someone leaked on the Nation online Discussion Forum" and so on and so forth.

There are no secure state secrets anymore because there is an INTERNAL REBELLION brewing within the Kenyan security intelligence agencies- they can NO LONGER DEFEND these NAK tribalists!

Plain and simple.

Basically, how can i delicately put this?

NAK is... FKKD.

The tribal paranoia hogwash wont wash.

The deranged Railaphobia is a bird that wont fly.

The desperate game park giveaway is a dog that wont hunt.

The appeal by Nyachae to tribal fears was literally laughed out of Kisii town.

The yelps of Kombo and Kituyi powered by Odingapsychosis are turning into the dying howls of two fatally wounded political canines.

By the way here is my memo to Kituyi and Kombo regarding their putrid tribal fear mongering alleging that Jaramogi maliciously moved Kitale to the Rift Valley and Maseno to "Luo Nyanza". First of all, I am surprised that a minister armed with a DOCTORATE like Kituyi is not aware that there is NO SUCH ADMINISTRATIVE AREA as "Luo Nyanza". Secondly, this guy writing these lines, Onyango Oloo has his "homskwead" in Kisa Location, Mumias/Butere District, WESTERN PROVINCE. Have you ever seen an angry letter from me complaining that Martin Shikuku insisted in 1963 that this part of the former Gem should revert back to Kakamega? Of course not! I feel richer as a Kenyan to be part of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial and multi-faith region of Kenya rather than being locked into some kabilastan to suit the whims of tribalists like Kituyi and Kombo. When I met Dr. Kituyi in Whippany, New Jersery during the 2003 KCA Conference I honestly thought that he represented the democratic promise of NARC along with people like Charity Ngilu.

Boy was I mistaken!

Dr. Kituyi and Dereva Kombo should wake up from their tribal UJINGA na U@*&^@^@.

Even if we examine their parochial "Luhyias-Are-Next-in-Line -Hypothesis"- it JUST DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.

If Kenya is to go tribal why do they IMAGINE that the Agikuyu would LET THEM rule for even a single second?

Many of the Abaluhyia are actually Luos, just like many Luos are practically Luhyias- so much the intermarriage and cultural exchanges between these two communities.

Same with the Kisiis.

Many Kisiis are former Luos and Many Luos are ex- Kisiis.

You can no longer play Kenyans like that.

And Simon Nyachae who ran as a Kisii candidate in 2002 is still predicating all his prejudices on his Luophobia- tagging this diverse community as the "one rebellious tribe" and thinking that he can win the referendum by attacking the dead Jaramogi- what a ghastly political miscalculation- and his very, very,very popular son.

Kenyans irrespective of ethnicity rejected the politics of tribalism in 2002. In that year, Uhuru Kenyatta was THE GIKUYU candidate- yet the Agikuyu overwhelmingly rejected him for the NATIONAL candidate, Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki who has since become a GIKUYU president is heading for a downfall because Kenyans are still INSISTING on a NATIONAL President, even if he happens to be a Mgikuyu. Let me add a caveat to that. Thanks to the shameless UKABILA of the andu aitu gang, NAK has made it very difficult for Kenyans to easily trust a KENYAN politician who happens to be from the Mount Kenya region with the presidency because of that BLATANT BETRAYAL of our national democratic promise. Those Kenyans at the Coast, in the Rift Valley, in Nyanza, in Western and North Eastern, Eastern and Central feel totally let down thinking that they had rejected the TRIBAL candidate put up by KANU only to see their allegedly "national" president reveal himself as an insidious tribalist.

Kenyan Marxists have long been averse to delve into the muddy waters of ethnicized politics- preferring to ground ourselves in class analysis. But as we can see, a section of the Kenyan comprador bourgeoisie has opted to shamelessly exploit GEMA, Abaluhyia and Kisii tribal fears to try and scare Kenyans into accepting an Imperial Presidency.

Fortunately, the Mount Kenya peoples, the Abaluhyia and the Abagusii share with the rest of their Kenyan counterparts the same democratic aspirations.

The latest round of tribal fear mongering has sealed the fate of the Bananiacs.

It is a foregone conclusion that the Abagusii will vote to reject the Wako Draft, as will the Abaluhyia.

The only question which remains is this, to paraphrase Simon Nyachae:

Will the Agikuyu, the Meru, the Embu and other communities in the Mount Kenya region allow these tribalists- many of them KANU life members by the way- to consign this significant and important part of Kenya to the political doldrums for the next 24 years?

If these communities above vote with their democratic conscience rather than under the influence of the Tribal Supremacists flogging the dead in the water Wako Draft, they will vote a resounding NO.

Watch this space.

The Yes Camp is KAPUT.

I am DONE with this INSHA.

Here, have an


Orange

or help yourself to some freshly squeezed


Orange Juice.



Onyango Oloo
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Forum name Politics
Topic subject RE: The Banana Campaign is NOT a Gikuyu Agenda
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71429, RE: The Banana Campaign is NOT a Gikuyu Agenda
Posted by dubois1, Sat Oct-08-05 10:40 AM

i agree with most of your essay except the part that talks about Uhuru Kenyatta. This man is what i'd call a 'maintainer' in terms of leadership. his main purpose will always be to protect the interests of the Kenyatta and Moi families. if this means he has to go against the tide in central so be it. his association with the orange team does not make him less of a tribal bigot. In 2002 he actively campaigned in central and his main theme was that if Narc won, the Luos through Raila would take over the Kibaki government and rule the Kikuyus. In fact part of the reason Kibaki lost heavily in Kiambu and Thika was this false rumour. these politicians change with whatever suits them. while i also agree that the banana campaign should not be a Kikuyu agenda, the fact that Raila, a luo, has been potrayed as the leader of the orange team will result to heavy losses (for the oranges) in all of central province.

[Onyango Oloo]

From: "otwomad" <Otwomad@...>
Date: Sat Oct 8, 2005 11:43 am
Subject: Re: The Banana Campaign is NOT a Gikuyu Agenda
OO,

You wrote:-

>Kenyans irrespective of ethnicity rejected the politics of tribalism
in 2002. In that year, Uhuru Kenyatta was THE GIKUYU candidate- yet the Agikuyu overwhelmingly rejected him for the NATIONAL candidate, Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki who has since become a GIKUYU president is heading for a downfall because Kenyans are still INSISTING on a NATIONAL President, even if he happens to be a Mgikuyu. Let me add a caveat to that. Thanks to the shameless UKABILA of the andu aitu gang, NAK has made it very difficult for Kenyans to easily trust a KENYAN politician who happens to be from the Mount Kenya region with the presidency because of that BLATANT BETRAYAL of our national democratic promise. Those Kenyans at the Coast, in the Rift Valley, in Nyanza, in Western
and North Eastern, Eastern and Central feel totally let down thinking
that they had rejected the TRIBAL candidate put up by KANU only to see their allegedly "national" president reveal himself as an insidious
tribalist.

Last week the IAEA Annual general Conference ended and this week the Board of Governors sat to give us the directives on how to carry on the member States decisions.

The delegation from Kenya was the largest (14 straight from Kenya plus the uBalozi staff who we now are proud of 6 professionals) since we (Kenya) joined IAEA and even countries like Nigeria and Ghana who have more extensive programs could not match us. However, tukirudi kwa mambo ya nyumbani as captured by what you say above I have a few comments. For the 1st time since I came here 6 years ago our Balozi did not bother with our delegation. Apparently some (andu aitu ) get their credentials straight from State house while the professional ones receive theirs from Foreign Affairs. Protocol requires the latter provide credentials but since all over the world everyone knows true power resides in State House, the Balozi is given the task to re-explain which delegation is valid and I suspect (but I could be dead wrong) that is why our Balozi did a disappearing act.

Additionally for the 2nd year running the delegation split up between andu aitu and the rest. Needless to say those of us working here (we) felt like a headless body (if such a creature exists) because our delegation is supposed to consist of policy and decision makers while we (who work here) should implement their directives. Since no andu aitus is in any professional position in IAEA the head of the delegation who is an andu aitu damu considered that there are no Kenyans here and for a 2nd year in a row totally ignored us. Even during MO1 'dark' days that never occurred. Also protocol requires the delegations credentials state that the head of state is leading them (in his absence the Minister...in his absence the Permanent Secretary...in his absence the Balozi...in his absence the Director or Secretary or any other senior GoK official) If Balozi is present and the head of Sate, Minister or Permanent Secretary did not come a Director or Secretary or any other senior GoK official does not head the delegation. Our andu aitu are making us (who work here) a laughing stock as colleagues ask how many countries are there in Kenya! Double credentials.

That aside the non andu aitu part of the delegation literally displayed what you say i.e. "feel totally let down thinking that they had rejected the TRIBAL candidate put up by KANU only to see their
allegedly "national" president reveal himself as an insidious tribalist."

The fear of freedom is bad. Wasted money, wasted years, wasted people.

Who gains?

Otwoma

[aeichener]

OO:
please re-format part 5. It spoils the entire thread by its
larger-than-life picture.

Alexander

[Onyango Oloo]

aeichener said:

OO:
please re-format part 5. It spoils the entire thread by its
larger-than-life picture.

Alexander

DONE.

oo
mtl