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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 11, 2013 19:08:56 GMT 3
As conflict mediators swing into action to fix the sordid altercation between two aces of the elite, --that elite which is a parasitic political breed with their trunks firmly fixed on the trough or Wanjiku's jugular aka the public kitty[/i,] such that behind the scenes a settlement is authored that limits the damage to both Kidero and Shebbesh, we too can take a step back and look at some of the real issues that brought forth a burst in the common front the ruling class must present, of necessity for their own good.
##Remember the JSC vs Gladys Shollei? ---yes, they moved into the shadows to make up. Otherwise a public quarrel in which details of the internal rot would emerge, would sink them all. As of late, all is well that had ended well and Gladys is back at work, and we wont hear more of it for the moment. Smoothened.
From that JSC-Shollei script of the ruling class closing ranks, now follows the Kidero-Shebbesh conflict resolution show.
BUT WHERE DID IT ALL START? ---it is the economy stupid, if you ask me!
First: Man-K recently started a master thread on the bankruptcy of the city of Detroit in the USA. In it, convincing reasons were advanced, that underwrote the bankruptcy. I believe those reasons can hold for a similar economic entity, that is a city-county, even if that city is not in the United states, nor shares a similar industrial past with the said Detroit.
In other words, basically a bankruptcy are books that no longer can balance, financially speaking. Therefore I think Nairobi too can go bankrupt, as an economic entity. And be condemned to BAIL-OUT POLITICS!
1. Because Nairobi county has not been able to meet some of her financial obligations ---the payment of wages inherited from the city council, one can already suspect cITY-hALL'S financial housekeeping leaves a lot to be desired. Cash strapped. But of course in a corrupt country, A cash-strap can simply be due to theft, as opposed to legitimate, but stupid expenditure posts [budgets].
2. China played a high-risk game and offered to BAIL-OUT Nairobi. In exchange, the Chinese will sweep all the infra-structural projects that shall attain in that county. And move to control East Africa's financial center.
There is a basic problem and Kidero laid his fingers on it, if only instinctively. THE NAIROBI COUNTY WAGE-BILL, like the Kenyan public wage-bill, is eating all the money . Something has to give, if some money is to remain for a meaningful upgrade of the city. And the city needs an upgrade in nearly every facet: ---basic infrastructure: transport; sewage and waste; housing; hospitals; schools; power $ water; permanent pavements in estates! you name it, Nairobi needs to fix it.
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000092818&story_title=kidero-warns-of-crisis-if-pay-demand-is-affected
Then you have a problem if you spend not only the revenue you collect, but hard-negotiated loans too, on salaries. You are a coming dead duck, in my opinion, failing to learn the lessons of Detroit.
NB: For the moment I have forgotten the % revenues Nairobi county woud spend on wages. But I remember it shocked me.
WHO WILL AGREE TO BEAR THE BURDEN OF AUSTERITY?
After nationally the Mpigs threatened to change the constitution to award themselves the salaries they wanted, REGARDLESS OF NATIONAL PRIORITIES, and the government caved in and sent Ruto to give them their wishes, DESpite Uhuru Kenyatta making noises about the unsustainability of the public wage-bill, I think it would be IMPOSSIBLE to convince ORDINARY WORKERS to be the patriots who tightened the belt, while higher up, stomachs sagged in wreckless gluttony!
And the same low-earning workers now, are hit by VAT! which has raised the prices of essentials far past dreams.
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000093332&story_title=pumwani-nurses-vow-to-continue-with-strike-as-senate-summons-kidero&pageNo=2 Shebbesh then took the populist position that the wages need be paid. Good. But even with Chinese Loans, cut-throat shark or not, how long can Nairobi county afford this wage-bill before she goes bust? Kidero's fears are real, economically speaking.
But this is a political argument. And we have gotten the politics wrong from the start.
I think China is rich enough to buy out our whole country, and make it a profitable venture for them. Unless somebody can convince me Kidero $ Shebbesh, and their handlers, can save Nairobi from going Detroit!
Meanwhile Mutunga's courts are being mobilised to put down worker's 'unsustainable CBAs!
While the greatest ROBBERY CBA, is that affected by the Mpigs on the treasury.
That is, the courts are closing ranks with the political elite! Not exactly class warfare even if we consider the effects of VAT, but definitely simmerings of it.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 13, 2015 18:13:27 GMT 3
www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2014/12/the-glory-of-bishop-wanjiru-lands-in-tna-2/ The former Starehe legislator was formerly in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) but left after what she termed as betrayal despite her loyalty to Raila Odingas party/MIKE KARIUKI December 10 2014, Wanjiru officially joined TNA, and immediately set the ball rolling by declaring herself the governor in waiting. But this public booking of the gubernatorial bed ired the other suitor, the very only Mike Mbuvi Sonko. ALL HAIL SONKOwww.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Sonko-burial-remark-angers-Nairobi-leaders/-/1064/2584980/-/hjit7y/-/index.html Those are the internal politics of Onyango Oloo's party, and the Jukwaa proprietor will no doubt keep us abreast of the juicy developments. For my part, the angle i want to watch out for, is the clash between ODM and TNA for this seat, as it will unfold within this one Kenyan family, Bishop' Wanjiru's. Her son, Stephen Kariuki, is in ODM and is the Mpig for Mathare constituency. ODMs Stephen Kariuki acknowledges cheers from his supporters after he was declared the winner of the Mathare by-elections on August 11, 2014. The recently elected Mathare MP attributes his victory to a grassroots network. PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI | So, will the son defy the party and campaign for the mother in the enemy camp? And will the mother defy the party and campaign for the son in the enemy camp? This delicate choice of conflicting loyalties within one Kenyan family, is the drama I will be eyeing. Human Interest.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 7, 2015 23:27:41 GMT 3
BABA YAO, NATIONALIST ANXIETIES AND CHAOS.
It is a story I have been following in the background, trading barbs with my Kikuyu in-laws. Gikuyu women have been much in the news these past few months -bashing their men, chopping off their manhood (especially in Nyeri), threatening worse. (don't know if we should fear for the former president's 'transformer', aka 'propeller' in Kalenjinlands).
Being non Nairobi resident and therefore lacking the streets smarts of the big city, I asked my in-laws to explain to me these things I called the 'symptoms of a deepening social crisis in the house of Mumbi!'
My Gikuyu attorney told me Gikuyu magnates were importing poisonous fumes from India and numbing the Gikuyu proletariat, who wont be needed until the next general election. Meanwhile, if left to their own devices, they could re-group as Mungiki and terrorise their own gikuyu elite. This alcohol was management, neutralisation.
But the women, missing out on what Otishotish calls Ding-Dong, had a different game plan. They knew nothing mobilises the Gikuyu instincts like rumours of a Luo enemy action! This superstition is how the Gikuyu elite missed the epicentre of the explosion following the Kibaki rigging. Blinded by their Luo obsession, they ignored the Rift Valley. With terrible consequences.
The women decided to manipulate this anxiety of their elite. So they accosted the prospective governor of Kiambu, Waititu Baba Yao, and told him to forget his ambitions for very soon Dagoretti will be a Luo constituency! How? Asked a 'shell-shocked' Ferdinand.
With sure guile the women sealed the trap: 'All the Gikuyu youth are impotent due to alcohol overuse, and the young Gikuyu chicks, hot but unserviced, are hatching love and eggs with picks from the Luo labour gangs building the city! Every other Gikuyu chick here is a Luo mpango wa Kando! Woi Woi woi! -Uhuru is gone Waititu! You are our Baba, save the House!''
'By all means necessary will I save the House!' thundered baba Yao! And he set the ball rolling.
It was the kind of information set to make a Gikuyu xenophobe run loco. And so make-shift breweries are burning, bars are being looted, and the anti-alcohol campaign is gotten out of hand. The women will have the last laugh of course.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 10, 2015 22:37:49 GMT 3
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Post by Fahari on Mar 12, 2016 0:02:32 GMT 3
Now that the election year is rolling in, I'm taking bets on who will be the next Nairobi governor, One thing I know for sure is that it will not be Kidero. Having visited nairobi when it was under the city council aka Gakuo's time and now under Kidero I can tell that the city is a mess, there's garbage everywhere, the once clean markets are filthy and the roads are full of potholes. Kidero is collecting billions in revenue yet not providing any services. Nairobians cant wait to get rid of him!!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 8, 2016 22:19:15 GMT 3
NAIROBI INA WENYEWE, BUT IT IS UP FOR GRABS! I have heard tell the Jubilee House is in turmoil because the floating of the Wamalwa candidacy for Nairobi governorship to appease Mulembe consciousness, throw the dog a juicy bone, is infringing on some traditional rites, like invading private territory you know, tresspass! because Nairobi ina wenyewe tayari!Sasa yawa, Nairobi ina wenyewe, na hukuna Maasai kati ya hawa wenye 'title deeds' wanaongea!Mulembe consciousness is new force? Yawa, Nobody thinks of what the consequences are, when Maa consciousness, ripe and headstrong, comes to town to join the fray? Wait until, Maa consciousness biting, General Nkaissery stops being that proverbial dog which saw its reflection and went for the bigger bone, thereby loosing its real bone! Wait until, Maa consciousness running amok inside his brains, Nkaissery refuses to be the fly drowning in the pot of milk, instead mutates into a green-eyed monster, and demands the whole pot of milk! Maa consciousness! So Dagoretti Waweru says Nairobi is 'ours' where the ours means GEMA!? he is kicking awake many sleeping dogs! Eh! Ouru Kenyatta, you come from the one of the mos legendary post-colonial land-grabbing families of the republic. Don't let the Madume-like 'big eye' of the likes of Waweru, with their parochial, self-entitled expansionist Nyumba nationalism, infect your remaining senses! The 40+ pyranhas we call Kenyan tribes can be provoked into a feeding frenzy called 'consciousness'! --suicidal! And man! Aint that a horror to behold!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 27, 2016 19:15:01 GMT 3
NAIROBI COUNTY AND THE +70% GEMA STATISTIC OF ECONOMIC DOMINANCENani mwenye Nairobi? Mwenye Nairobi apewe!In the light of the Nairobi governorship being used by Jubilee to bait the Mulembe nation through the trapping of the weakly Wamalwa into a puppet role, it is important to revisit a delivery by Opanga K., as in the DN as quoted below. The national columnist waded into the very thick of things Nairobi. In short, the competition for control, manifesting itself as a frenzy for the choice cuts of meaty pie-slices off Nairobi county, the New York of East and Central Africa. But first Kwendo Opanga wades in: Gema gerrymandering in Nairobi? 22:45:70 -that is an SM code, not a digital time slot. I have been hunting for some official statistics but have not found the God's truth yet. Anybody with the divine figures please holla; but if all those institutes of monetary studies have their lips sealed, and the stat departments of A-grade colleges second them, and, in addition, the Treasury too is dumb, howbeit the social media is not into this omerta! -- Wild like the hormones of an adolescent SM pushes the boundaries of the decent Adults and parents have lost their guiding hand
There is an orgy out there which knows no restraint! Welcome to the syndicated anarchy of taboolessness-- That Social Media is where I found the 22:45:70 so-called GEMA ratio! Is code for: GEMA constitutes 22% of the Kenyan population, +45% Nairobi, but control +70% of the economic pie Nairobi. (Since I am concentrating on Narobi county for today, I leave the other SM stats out, like %tages for civil service domination or distribution. There are plenty lists out there!) I can not vouch for those figures until a final word from my econometrist consultant. Man-K used to offer immediate rates here, but he is since retired from Jukwaa. My chief statistician is a Kipsigis, and he grinningly told me he will not divulge classified information which can be used to upset Jubilee's plans for Nairobi, rich crumbs from the table of which he is positioning to stoop for as the tyranny of numbers begets a fresh mandate, over and over to 2032! I told him false rumours are even more dangerous than the truth as these could ignite mass hysteria and hateful rebound, two decades of Jubilee supremacist paroxysm being that eternal. He rationalised he will take the risk. I said sawa. The General question for an elite remains: what is the population/resource ratio which underwrites social stability, sustains the cohesion of peaceful co-existence in diversity? ---(notice I did not say democracy ratio! Our neo-liberal understanding of democracy is only General elections, and not even free and fair at that, therefore the concept of economic justice as a tenet of democracy is beyond the scope of our official definition of democracy!) The specific question is: what is the prosperity/democracy ratio which is the social panacea in a society!? Apartheid South Africa was a very successful economic model calculated from aggregate GDP. Decade after decade her GDP beat the cumulative figure of all independent African states! But the model had a vile secret, symbolised by the fact that the peoples president, the terrorist Nelson Mandela, was locked away in a dungeon in Zenda. The apartheid towering positive statistics were a tower of Babel! I need not say more on how misleading aggregate figures can be. 22:45:70 then: Regardless of its foreconcluding historical origins, is this a mismatch? Is it a keg of powder for Nairobi EAC New York and beyond? Is it a peddled (FALSE?) statistic which hides a dangerous faultline? Right or wrong, does it inform a dangerous undercurrent which is The FEAR sealing the lips of credible institutes of statistics, making sure they do not roll-out sheets on ethnic data, keeping their heads in the sand like big Ostrich called the French 5th republic! Let me tell you about that sinking republic of wine NB: In France the radically secular republic does not (OFFICIALLY) register (THE VARIABLE) ethnicity, but the open secret of her socio-economic differentiation and disintegration into racial and ethno-religious lines, in the light of the global war on terror, is that the police and security services watch every Arab and Muslim!See the jokes on how to profile a possible terrorist in France! Jokes by the staunch French republicans themselves, recognising the intellectual bankruptcy of the fifth republic. And wait until we add the Burkini hilarity to this European banana republic. Spot the difference in the ban on burkinis! The French themselves know they have run aground. Very healthy of them I think. And then they spoil it by recycling garbage, Nicolas Sarkozy, in operation return of the mummy salvation! And here we are in the 2nd republic of Kenya too, exactly like the French today, relying on KANU orphans to deliver us from KANU-orchestrated bankruptcy! It is a lovely dogged tale guaranteed to produce historically interesting times! Anyway far-off decaying France was a by the way chatter to make us feel good that we are not the worst after all, here in Africa! In the republic of Zamunda, there are no official statistics detailing ethnic balance in posh positions, but ex officio, the stats roll like the seismometer reels depicting an active volcano! Analogue Digital! To me, elitist complicity in denial is even more dangerous than hate speech by stupid politicians! Ignorance is best combated by reasoned facts than by speech bans! But it is not for nothing they say more often than not it is the law of Murphy in politics. The correct thing is done only after every possible wrong step has been taken! Make us an exception! O thee son of divine Jomo! Stop the stink and sink, think and get on with the job!Continued!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 27, 2016 20:04:20 GMT 3
COMPRADOR PARANOIA CONTAMINATES THE HOI POLLOI
Before we digest more of Opanga, an interesting thought occurred to me.
Why are the Lakers, a distant third in population rankings, and uncut to boot, the worst nightmare of GEMA, even in their backyard Nairobi!?
Forget the Maa for a moment. They wouldn't even know how to pronounce N-A-I-R-O-B-I, let alone writing down a claim to it, or thinking of it as their backyard. If I remember correctly, Robert Redford in the film Out of Africa delivers this insult: 'the maasai have no sense of tomorrow. If you put them in jail they die!'
And so it came to pass, that post-colonial Kenya inherited this atrocious colonial ideology and kept the Maa herded in the desolate reserve, far away from any notions of entitlement to Nairobi on account of historical grievance! --which sense of tomorrow did the notorious Lenana have?
When professor Ole Kiyapi was running for statehouse last time around, I waited for his professorial brains to kick-start a debate, even as a token pitch, but a fellow tribesman of his later laughed me off, informing me Ole Kiyapi's critical historical faculties had been thoroughly erased by his embrace of fundamentalist Christianity!
Always insightful, listening to a people interpreting themselves to themselves!
So Nairobi is a GEMA backyard, period. The second coming of The Maasai Christ is a long way off. It is thus intriguing how it is the evil wind from the West which is the nightmare of the industrious Highland people. In fact, so pre-occupied with Luo nationalism are the Gikuyu ruling elite, that they totally failed to consider, and therefore anticipate the reaction of the Kalenjin when they rigged Raila out in 2007. I subsequently asked three clinical Gikuyu minds to think it out for me, from their homeland perspective. And O yes they did report back. But Mwai Kibaki has to be left out of it!
I have my own ideas too. About the layers of this onion as Kwendo Opanga puts it in peels.
Two times at critical juncture for power have two men from the same family risen above pettiness. Jaramogi Odinga in his Uhuru na Kenyatta stand, and Raila Odinga in his Kibaki Tosha endorsement. In both cases has the beneficiary been a Kikuyu dignitary who went on to persecute, and betray the Odinga.
When you do that to a fella, who then develops into a symbol of a people, you start to develop paranoid hallucinations, pondering the rage in his heart and the depth his vengeance shall be if he gets to rule. You become a victim of your own fantasies, terrified of your own hallucinations and projections. This psychiatric condition of paranoia infecting comprador Kikuyu nationalism, is how I explain, for instance, the public meltdown of Uhuru Kenyatta one day when he brothed at Raila about the Hague thing. It came from so deep, it was a genuine anxiety from deep down. A class complex.
But let us leave psychiatry alone and get back to politics and economics!
Okay, in this Opanga pitch, the battle for Nairobi shapes out as a Luo vs Gikuyu duel! Which can then load to Odinga vs Kenyatta dynasties, un-officially!
A mask worth peeling back some more! A journey to the center of the furnace!
Continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 28, 2016 19:45:21 GMT 3
NAIROBI COUNTY AND THE +70% GEMA STATISTIC OF ECONOMIC DOMINANCENani mwenye Nairobi? Mwenye Nairobi apewe!
In the light of the Nairobi governorship being used by Jubilee to bait the Mulembe nation through the trapping of the weakly Wamalwa into a puppet role, it is important to revisit a delivery by Opanga K., as in the DN as quoted below. The national columnist waded into the very thick of things Nairobi. In short, the competition for control, manifesting itself as a frenzy for the choice cuts of meaty pie-slices off Nairobi county, the New York of East and Central Africa. ------------
Anyway far-off decaying France was a by the way chatter to make us feel good that we are not the worst after all, here in Africa!
In the republic of Zamunda, there are no official statistics detailing ethnic balance in posh positions, but ex officio, the stats roll like the seismometer reels depicting an active volcano!
Analogue
Digital!
To me, elitist complicity in denial is even more dangerous than hate speech by stupid politicians! Ignorance is best combated by reasoned facts than by speech bans! But it is not for nothing they say more often than not it is the law of Murphy in politics. The correct thing is done only after every possible wrong step has been taken!
Make us an exception! O thee son of divine Jomo! Stop the stink and sink, think and get on with the job!
Continued! THINGS FALL APARTFrom ideological differences to ethnic casing: the implosion of a ruling class. By 1966 barely two years after independence, KANU developed an offshoot called KPU, the peoples Union, aka Dume. Howbeit it was Daniel Arap Moi who laughed secretly, remembering it was hardly two years since Odinga and Kenyatta had stayed him to fold KADU up. KADU was the democratic Union, championing majimboism. Kenyatta and Odinga saw that as separatism --visionless fools that they were! for today we call it DEVOLUTION and it is a run-away popular and populist flag. the crowning achievement of the second liberation! -- DT Moi can be forgiven for thinking: where have you guys been? I was like devolution in 1958! long before the first liberation! But in 1966 the giraffe could only grimace. Now Kenya was going multiparty again albeit Odinga was not talking majimboism but another 'ism' grafted to socia-! Why didn't he say Ujamaa like fellow mwalimu Nyerere? Moi shook his long head and took a far pensive look ahead. Things were playing out he did not understand well, he would lie low, watch and learn unlike the brazen and openly ambitious Tom Mboya, exercise patience until all pieces fitted the puzzle he could read, to clear the fog in his head. DTM sunk low like a leopard timing, studying prey. But what was the original sin!? The sin which separated the once great KANU comrades Jaramogi and Mzee Jomo. The duo were the pre-independence pre-eminent nationalist leaders and the subsequent first post-colonial Ruto and Muigai!? No? A look at Not Yet Uhuru will provide useful insights into Jaramogi's rise of doubts, and the eventual condensation of dissent. This dissent was political and moral, and ideologically based. Young Kenyans, ethnically incensed, bitten by the tse-tse fly of tribal hatred, may find it incomprehensible that there could be other reasons for opposition in national politics than ethnicity, or clanism for that matter. People like Kaggia joined Jaramogi in Dissent against landgrabbing. He and Odinga rather preferred redistribution and the resettlement of the colonial dispossessed. These were majorly non-Luos, indeed a high portion were GEMA. To project Jaramogi as a Luo tribal chieftain against the Gikuyu in total, his Uhuru na Kenyatta cries till ringing loud, would require an epic effort in nationalist deconstruction, historical falsification and ideological falsehoods. That could only be enforced by totalitarianism. NB: When president Uhuru admonished the nation to emulate his father this week at the memorial, a history man nudged me: are we watching the son in tribute, or the head of state. I responded we are watching a gimmick! a gimmick is a temporary solution. But, to continue: The subsequent, desperate yet automatic mobilisation of their ethnic groups to their divergent causes was, nonetheless, a different fact from their IDEOLOGICAL DIVIDE. Look East socialist-pretender petty-bourgeoisie KPU, and the Look West comprador KANU proper, represented more than an ethnic fault line, far more than a mere Odinga Kenyatta power split; but in the absence of articulate visionaries, yet the preponderance and ubiquitousness of primitive myopics, in a majorly peasant and rural society, old organisational and emotional appellant forms, tribal, would block new visions -for quite a while.The legacy of that poison we continue to enjoy today in the way we ethnically obsess on every point. Once the ethnic confusion settled in and usurped the role of the fundamental antagonism, achieved ideological supremacy in the interpretation of reality, effectively substituting the real contradiction between the two men and two parties, there was also an intellectual implosion of the political elite, leading to the impossibility of an alternative explanation to the historical quagmire of the nation of Kenya. And so here today is the battle of numbers. Ethnicity is everything. Gikuyu vote Gikuyu, Luo vote Luo, and Mulembe for Mulembe. And alliances are made based on that. Even young talent Turks like Ababu have no other vision than the sleeping sickness. So, ask yourself why Muslims should be expected to vote for Christians, protestants for Catholics, and Catholics for Akorinos! In Somalia, after clan they went into subclan, then sub-sub-sub clan! And we thought they are ethnically homogeneous! That is just for the first phase of amusement! Nairobi will offer a thrilling game of ethnic coalition forming, yet her problems as the New York of the area requires a different deal in coalitions. Just enough of the old world for folks to orient themselves, but more of the new world for folks to have confidence in the future. If politicians do not offer a realistic better future in the light of raised expectations. It is guaranteed they are toast, unless the state goes totalitarian. The Nairobi story continues!
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