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Post by roughrider on Nov 16, 2011 10:20:45 GMT 3
Nereah;
I was reflecting on events that happened way back in July, 1969. My mother and father had not met. She was a little girl in Kisumu and he a young man trying to wrap up a diploma. Suddenly a gunman shot Tom Mboya outside a pharmacy on Moi Avenue, leaving Kenya wounded. They said it was Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge who did the deed. But even as they led him towards the hangman’s noose, Njenga Njoroge asked the timeless question: "Why don't you go after the big man?” A question we still ask ourselves thousands of times every year in thousands of contexts. Indeed a fundamental question for Kenyan society: whether it is PEV or Syokimau, we ask it. Mmmmh, question of questions. One day I should write an essay on that question!
Sorry, I digress.
My point is - now, suppose, just suppose that the gunman had shot and killed Mwai Kibaki who was then Minister for Finance, instead of TJ. Suppose that the flamboyant gentleman from Rusinga then took up the opportunities that Kibaki had. Suppose that fate allowed TJ Mboya to live the life of Mwai Kibaki.
What would Kenya have been today?
I have absolutely no doubt that Kenya would be a Malasyia in Africa today!
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Post by destiny on Nov 16, 2011 11:05:30 GMT 3
Remember the statement that was issued by NCCK back in 2009 giving their verdicts on Kibaki and Raila where Kibaki was branded as a "MORIBUND PRESIDENT" and Raila as "INEFFECTIVE PRIME MINISTER"? Well, it looks like nothing much has changed two years on. Among the causes of problems in Kenya the NCCK listed was the EXECUTIVE and this is what they had to say: ( Kibaki and Raila supporters may now look away before truth hurts them real bad!)"We are saddened to observe that the impression and expression of most Kenyans is that they have a moribund President and an ineffective Prime Minister. In their hearts, Kenyans cannot understand how they can be going through an extremely difficult period, with no hope in sight, yet the President, who is constitutionally mandated to give them leadership, is extremely quiet about those issues, almost as if he has lost touch with reality. They cannot understand how the Prime Minister, who is charged with supervision of government ministries, can complain about the same people he is supervising instead of streamlining their operations."For that statement in full ( Kenyans Cry Out for Leadership) see link below: www.ncck.org/index.php/information/106.html
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Post by nereah on Nov 16, 2011 11:08:36 GMT 3
Nereah;I was reflecting on events that happened way back in July, 1969. My mother and father had not met. She was a little girl in Kisumu and he a young man trying to wrap up a diploma. Suddenly a gunman shot Tom Mboya outside a pharmacy on Moi Avenue, leaving Kenya wounded. They said it was Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge who did the deed. But even as they led him towards the hangman’s noose, Njenga Njoroge asked the timeless question: "Why don't you go after the big man?” A question we still ask ourselves thousands of times every year in thousands of contexts. Indeed a fundamental question for Kenyan society: whether it is PEV or Syokimau, we ask it. Mmmmh, question of questions. One day I should write an essay on that question! Sorry, I digress. My point is - now, suppose, just suppose that the gunman had shot and killed Mwai Kibaki who was then Minister for Finance, instead of TJ. Suppose that the flamboyant gentleman from Rusinga then took up the opportunities that Kibaki had. Suppose that fate allowed TJ Mboya to live the life of Mwai Kibaki. What would Kenya have been today? I have absolutely no doubt that Kenya would be a Malasyia in Africa today! rr, ironically it was mboya who kwendo opanga in his heydays would call sungura mjanga who(at the orchestration of jaramogi odinga) literally drove kibaki out of academia into what majority of posters here believe is kenya's worst leadership. can we therefore say,as adongo surmises that mzee kibaki,the statesman,president and politician scores negative;that nothing good came out of gatuyaini village for kenya. i took my mitumba suv for fix at this petrol station next to daystar university and while waiting encountered a wag who is familiar with my exploits in jukwaa. he had this to say. " i find kibaki as problematic as that sum,zero.you add, subtract or even multiply and you always ends up with zero"
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Post by destiny on Nov 16, 2011 11:22:25 GMT 3
Nereah;I was reflecting on events that happened way back in July, 1969. My mother and father had not met. She was a little girl in Kisumu and he a young man trying to wrap up a diploma. Suddenly a gunman shot Tom Mboya outside a pharmacy on Moi Avenue, leaving Kenya wounded. They said it was Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge who did the deed. But even as they led him towards the hangman’s noose, Njenga Njoroge asked the timeless question: "Why don't you go after the big man?” A question we still ask ourselves thousands of times every year in thousands of contexts. Indeed a fundamental question for Kenyan society: whether it is PEV or Syokimau, we ask it. Mmmmh, question of questions. One day I should write an essay on that question! Sorry, I digress. My point is - now, suppose, just suppose that the gunman had shot and killed Mwai Kibaki who was then Minister for Finance, instead of TJ. Suppose that the flamboyant gentleman from Rusinga then took up the opportunities that Kibaki had. Suppose that fate allowed TJ Mboya to live the life of Mwai Kibaki.
What would Kenya have been today?
I have absolutely no doubt that Kenya would be a Malasyia in Africa today! I doubt Odinga Snr would have allowed this to happen. When Mboya was in the pole position to take over Kenya's leadership, Odinga Snr derailed those plans and started calling for Kenyatta's immediate release from prison hence no independence without Kenyatta. Mboya had support from different communities while Odinga's was only regional. Anyway that's a topic for another but there's no doubt TJM was an exceptional person! Great to see his statue erected near the spot he was assassinated after decades of being forgotten.
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Post by roughrider on Nov 16, 2011 12:13:18 GMT 3
Nereah;I was reflecting on events that happened way back in July, 1969. My mother and father had not met. She was a little girl in Kisumu and he a young man trying to wrap up a diploma. Suddenly a gunman shot Tom Mboya outside a pharmacy on Moi Avenue, leaving Kenya wounded. They said it was Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge who did the deed. But even as they led him towards the hangman’s noose, Njenga Njoroge asked the timeless question: "Why don't you go after the big man?” A question we still ask ourselves thousands of times every year in thousands of contexts. Indeed a fundamental question for Kenyan society: whether it is PEV or Syokimau, we ask it. Mmmmh, question of questions. One day I should write an essay on that question! Sorry, I digress. My point is - now, suppose, just suppose that the gunman had shot and killed Mwai Kibaki who was then Minister for Finance, instead of TJ. Suppose that the flamboyant gentleman from Rusinga then took up the opportunities that Kibaki had. Suppose that fate allowed TJ Mboya to live the life of Mwai Kibaki.
What would Kenya have been today?
I have absolutely no doubt that Kenya would be a Malasyia in Africa today! I doubt Odinga Snr would have allowed this to happen. When Mboya was in the pole position to take over Kenya's leadership, Odinga Snr derailed those plans and started calling for Kenyatta's immediate release from prison hence no independence without Kenyatta. Mboya had support from different communities while Odinga's was only regional. Anyway that's a topic for another but there's no doubt TJM was an exceptional person! Great to see his statue erected near the spot he was assassinated after decades of being forgotten. Ok, let me solve that problem. Supposing Jaramogi had perished in a plane accident engineered by the CIA while on a trip to the USSR in late 1960. Please. Pleease!! just assume that Mboya played the influential roles that Kibaki has played and tell me what Kenya would have been today?
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Post by roughrider on Nov 16, 2011 12:21:51 GMT 3
rr, ironically it was mboya who kwendo opanga in his heydays would call sungura mjanga who(at the orchestration of jaramogi odinga) literally drove kibaki out of academia into what majority of posters here believe is kenya's worst leadership. can we therefore say,as adongo surmises that mzee kibaki,the statesman,president and politician scores negative;that nothing good came out of gatuyaini village for kenya. i took my mitumba suv for fix at this petrol station next to daystar university and while waiting encountered a wag who is familiar with my exploits in jukwaa. he had this to say. " i find kibaki as problematic as that sum,zero.you add, subtract or even multiply and you always ends up with zero" For sure, Nereah. If you want to know people listen to their friends. Uhuru Kenyatta - who got his name from Kibaki - in a moment of candour described him as a hands off, eyes off, legs off, everything off leader. Fellows of the MKM variety let us know that Kibaki was a thankless president. He simply did not care. Ask Chris Murungaru or Daudi Mwiraria. They only whisper it but they will tell you: Kibaki does not care. And if you go to Othaya you will find that there is really nothing to write home about despite endless decades of Kibaki's 'leadership'. Contrast this with the few years of Peter Kenneth in Gatanga So yes, he might not have been born and we might not have noticed it.
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Post by njambaa on Nov 17, 2011 23:11:38 GMT 3
kibaki has done an excellent job in his presidential term,the number of millionaires and billionaires has quadripled easy access to bank loans and credit ,a middle class to talk about,free education,rural electrification,improved infrastructure and dont we enjoy more freedom than Moi's time? Happy bday baba jimmy
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 18, 2011 0:21:23 GMT 3
kibaki has done an excellent job in his presidential term,the number of millionaires and billionaires has quadripled easy access to bank loans and credit ,a middle class to talk about,free education,rural electrification,improved infrastructure and dont we enjoy more freedom than Moi's time? Happy bday baba jimmy My friend the freedoms we enjoy have never been given to us as gifts from Kibaki or anybody else. Kenyans fought tooth and nail for them and we continue to enjoy them despite the best efforts of the Kibakis to destroy them. Remember the vicious police terrorism of the Standard working with hired mercenaries. Kenyans stopped that nonsense in its tracts. As for billionnaires I doubt we have any here in Jukwaa. I have never admired other people's money and assumed I am better off because I know or has heard of one or two billionnaires or millionnaires. I only count what I have in my cash stash and bank account.
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Post by kamalet on Nov 18, 2011 8:25:26 GMT 3
kibaki has done an excellent job in his presidential term,the number of millionaires and billionaires has quadripled easy access to bank loans and credit ,a middle class to talk about,free education,rural electrification,improved infrastructure and dont we enjoy more freedom than Moi's time? Happy bday baba jimmy I work for the same firm I did since 1996 and I can say with a lot of confidence that my lot has changed considerably for the better in the last 8 years than in the first 8 years. The business environment has improved a lot more in the last 8 years leading to prosperity for me and my employers! As for freedoms - I can happily call the PM a charlatan and not have to look over my shoulder that some cop will take offence! That is why I find it hypocritical for the likes of Adongo to twist this that the freedoms are in spite of Kibaki! There are many people we know who only returned to Kenya following regime change to enjoy the freedoms we have today. These freedoms needed facilitating and that is what Kibaki did!
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Post by nereah on Nov 18, 2011 13:58:49 GMT 3
njamba/adongo/kamalet takes the debate to the next level but in absolute terms, what can we surely make of kibaki the ruler?
is kenya worse off than kibaki found it and what should be the indicators:( democratic space,rule of law?gdp?educated workforce?women,children and minority status? peace and tranquility?) and in comparison to who/what?
is it hypocritical to assail kibaki performance without taking responsibility for imposing him on the minority kenyan voters who in 2002 preferred uhuru(31%) nyachae(6%),orengo(0.42&)?
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Post by destiny on Nov 28, 2011 14:59:21 GMT 3
Hassan Omar Hassan blasts Kibaki over tribalism and reminds him in the article..... ."Kenyan's are not idiots!""Apart from some expanded roads with flyovers and an economic growth index, Kibaki’s legacy reflects an unacceptable institutionalisation of ethnicity. The imbalances in the recruitments in Public Service as supported by the report by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission to shameless dominance of all key sectors of Government.""You scar and bleed a nation when you willfully negate its sensitivities. To pass the microphone from one Njoroge (Kengen) to another (Njoroge KPLC), then to Nyoike (PS Energy) and Murungi (Minister Energy) while addressing the soaring costs of energy. Or when Ndung’u (Central Bank Gov) passes the microphone to Kinyua (PS treasury) then to Kenyatta (Minister Finance) to tell us why the shilling is losing ground. Or when the leadership of the country’s security apparatus is almost exclusively from Kibaki’s ethnic Kikuyu."www.standardmedia.co.ke/columnists/InsidePage.php?id=2000047361&cid=651&
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Post by genius on Nov 28, 2011 16:46:29 GMT 3
I have to agree with Kamale and Destiny here. Guys, let’s be fair to the old man. In the same manner that all the nasty things that happened under Kibaki's watch are blamed on him, it is only fair that he should take credit for the good things that happened under his watch.
Now I am no economist and make no pretensions to be one. Let me engage in some jua kali analysis though. Speaking for myself, I confidently say that things are better in Kenya now than before Kibaki came in. I still remember the late 90s and especially the early 2000s. The late 90s were a time of despondency. I was in the fourth form in 1998 just after Moi had won his second term under multiparty. There was hopelessness everywhere. No motivation to do well in school because I knew no person who had made much money on account of his academic prowess, university professors were some of the brokest people we knew. Not many companies were hiring young professionals; the few management trainee jobs in parastatals were heavily political. We played rugby but only for fun and for petty bragging rights, we hadn't much sporting ambition then. I remember Kenya taking on New Zealand and Fiji in sevens rugby in the Commonwealth Games in 1998 and the scores for both games were 60 - 0 or something close to that (Now Kenya is considered to be almost at par with New Zealand and Fiji in sevens rugby). The only reason I made any effort in my KCSE was to avoid being the laughing stock of the community if I failed the exam, not because there was any fathomable promise of good times if I passed. Even when I was in the university during Moi's final years, there really wasn't much to live for. People I had seen graduating with honours were living from hand to mouth without real jobs. It was starting to look like I was wasting my time in college. Lots of people stopped their education to become small time businessmen or matatu touts. Anyone who could afford it was sending their children to USA, UK or Australia to study. Now I see kids in schools are really motivated to perform excellently and the rewards of academic excellence are very evident, there are lots of young guys doing quite well and whose success can solely be traced to their hard work in school. Not many young Kenyans are lining up at the embassies looking for visas these days. Instead the universities are bursting at the seams trying to create space for the people wanting slots there.
Things changed quite fast after 2002. Naturally, if we compare the situation in Kenya to South Africa, or Europe or China we see Kenya is still quite backward. But looking back to where we’ve come from, things are better now and will continue getting better if people maintain their optimism.
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Post by nereah on Nov 29, 2011 14:34:20 GMT 3
close observers may have noticed that mzee kibaki has been "up and about" lately,very unlike kibaki.
capital fm just informs me that he is leaving the country again, this time heading to burundi where the youthful born again christian president nkurunzinza is set to host him and other regional statesmen.
jukwaa, lets watch closely the happenings in bujumbura over the next two days.i am informed by capital fmin its afternoon newscast that mzee kibaki is going to take over the rotational leadership of the east african community which is kind of a belated birthday gift.
the east africa court of appeal which he has been critical of in the past is also set to feature and so are other vexing geo-political issues like the war in somalia and diplomatic tiff with sudan and eritrea which impacts on other regional countries.
the fact that mzee kibaki is today more on the road than before tells us that his doctors have given him clean bill of health to handle hectic schedules and foreign engagements not mentioning long haul flights that he has over the last couple of weeks.
centrist the star newspaper was critical over his last visit to europe where it was revealed that the president and his entourage gobbled up millions of taxpayers money in terms of expenses.
but again, as museveni would say, there is big business deals that statesmen strike for their country whenever they meet in such fora.
i will be watching: 1. the east africa community integration more so the custom tariffs and monetary union prospects;
2.how the meeting respond to the concerns by tanzania and rwanda on outstanding issues;
3.how the confederacy responds to the emerging complexity of the regional security especially terrorist attacks in uganda and kenya and against background of reports in the east african of a protocol for intelligence sharing.
4.how kibaki's chairmanship of the east african economic block at a time kenya is at war in somalia and diplomatic fallout with sudan and eritrea, is going to shape the future of the union.
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Post by nereah on Dec 4, 2011 18:01:03 GMT 3
as predicted here last week, the bujumbura meet which has been captured in the latest issue of the regional paper, the east african, elevates kenya into the spotlight. i gather that the much delayed pact was finally signed but with amendment after tanzania which has been a stumbling block ceded some ground, conditionally albeit. mwai kibaki there may not be smooth sailing though given that tanzania is still critical of some of the clauses, the most pointed one being the pact that allows members states to support the other when in war. tanzania, argues rather convincingly that it would be imprudent for a member country to be bound into joining wars which they are not intrinsically and ideologically aligned with. i have also noted with interest the decision to block sudan from the economic block and guess which member state/s pushed for the rejection and exclusion of sudan? it is instructive to note that while kenya was ratifying the rejection of sudan despite what we are being told as sudan's vital economic muscles in the region, mzee kibaki was dispatching wetangula and maalim mohammed, hawkish pnu ministers to khartoum to plead with the wanted international crime suspect. your guess is as good as mine what the message kenya and mzee kibaki who was just elected eac chairman, was sending to its partners. kibaki at 80 is chairing east africa's economic block, eac and also the igad. he is due in addis abbaba for some crucial talks where sudan holds the lever. now, i would have imagined that apart from infrastructure and the new katiba, regional influence(diplomacy) would be mzee's craved legacy after his retirement in 12 months time. but he is today more saddled in regional conflicts and intrigues more than ever before begging the question. he is commanding kenya's invasion (i hate this phrase) in somalia, mzee kibaki has been having a long running public feud with eritrea and his rep in un is pushing for sanction against what we perceive as a hostile state. then wily mutunga led judiciary is throwing in the kitchen sink with the warrant of arrest for bashir. mzee kibaki is set to chair the igad meeting,barely after souls searching moment that begins in nairobi tomorrow where retired judge kriegler and koffi annan team are to give a reality check. i think he is headed to addis bereft of the luster and confidence from the western super powers who are keenly watching if he would honour icc should the professor of law from bulgaria, ekaterina trendafilova orders that some or all of his trusted allies join laurent gbagbo and charlse taylor at the hague. i think kibaki as 80 may after all be the definitive phase of a public life which as things stands, is bringing little to bear on a man once known as the gentleman of kenyan politics. here is otieno otienowww.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Foreign+policy+is+not+just+President+Kibakis+thing/-/440808/1283652/-/xeyxywz/-/index.html
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Post by nereah on Dec 8, 2011 20:03:55 GMT 3
mzee kibaki has baffled me with this which makes me believe that like his co-principal agwambo, he can also be pragmatic.whether driven by geopolitical imperatives or simply a self- execution, i must admit that our commander-in-chief has leveraged kenya on this. keen to see how the western media handles his latest move on the diplomatic chess card. yet another interesting side of kibaki at 80! President Kibaki in a meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at his Harambee House office December 08, 2011. Mr Ban lauded Kenya’s "great sacrifice" and role in efforts to stabilise Somalia. PPS details: www.nation.co.ke/News/UN+boss+lauds+Kenya+sacrifice+in+Somalia+operation/-/1056/1286194/-/cbcj5g/-/index.html
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Post by nereah on Jan 22, 2012 23:40:22 GMT 3
any guess, how kibaki would react to the ruling from the pre-trial chamber?
will he let go muthaura,ali and uhuru should they be committed to full trial or maintain the status quo on the basis that they are innocent until proved guilty?
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Post by nereah on Jan 23, 2012 11:40:48 GMT 3
its like william pike & co tiptoed into jukwaa (shortly before midnight yesterday) around the same time that i took a break from celebrating with associates the good things that our man u does over gunners i say so because the must read centrist kenyan newspaper the star (my favourite newspaper i dare add) has gone to town with what i thought would be the biggest story; whats mzee kibaki options. i see they also reveal that nancy's suspension this week is a done deal just awaiting mzee's signature. star's reporter nzau musau(arguably one of the finest reporters for those who have been following hague trial) says kibaki is likely to make major announcements,appointments to be exact, if ekaterina and her team take down uhuru,muthaura and ali two hours from now. additional read: www.the-star.co.ke/national/national/59066-icc-ruling-will-be-at-130pm-on-monday
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Post by phil on Jan 23, 2012 11:46:14 GMT 3
Both Raila and Kibaki are out of the country
Raila is in West Africa (he was at the Africa Cup of Nations opening ceremony) and is reportedly headed to Sao Tome, while Kibaki just departed for a state visit to Uganda.
They know something we dont!
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Post by nereah on Jan 23, 2012 12:23:03 GMT 3
Both Raila and Kibaki are out of the country Raila is in West Africa (he was at the Africa Cup of Nations opening ceremony) and is reportedly headed to Sao Tome, while Kibaki just departed for a state visit to Uganda. They know something we dont! of course they do phil. they are not just adding the numbers on their carbon footprints,that i know for sure. of the two, mzee kibaki fascinates me most. if anyone ever wanted to understand kibaki the politician and statesman, this is the moment.
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Post by nereah on Jan 23, 2012 12:32:44 GMT 3
phil & all,
a member of my roundtable alerts me after seeing my post here that mzee kibaki is still in the country, infact at his harambee hse office.it would only be prudent for him to jet out after the verdict from eketerina and team is out.
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Post by nereah on Jan 24, 2012 17:52:02 GMT 3
his excellency dr emilio mwai kibaki. i am sure all in jukwaa including those whose ideological tendencies and leanings are at discount will sincerely join me, nereah of amadi, in congratulating our commander-in-chief and third president of our beloved country kenya, mzee emilio mwai kibaki,egh,cgh,mp, for being decorated by his alma mater with a honorary degree of doctor of laws for public service and eminent citizensnote:anyone with the relevant photo and the citation, please kindly post it here.
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Post by afrigun on Jan 24, 2012 21:44:17 GMT 3
Congratulations to HE the Doctor!
May he always do the right thing by his country, and make his alma mater as well as all Kenyans proud!
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Post by nereah on Jan 26, 2012 17:42:25 GMT 3
of course there is no way he could have kicked out good sister nancy baranza while ignoring the calls for uhuru kenyatta and muthaura's resignation.
me and my roundtable have been refllecting on the happenings in kenya and are convinced mzee kibaki@ 80 is arguably the most trying times worse than the sacking by moi from vp, two successive defeats in presidential race or even the hounding out of nairobi parliamentary politics by the sister from gem, mama jael mbogo not mentioning the 2008 electoral fraud and subsequent killings that has landed the uhuru 4 into hague's roll of indictees.
kibaki is a man at his worst public life, an oxymore, given that he has only months into what he would have loved to be a bloatless legacy and blissful retirement.
but the dilemma is the beholden constituency, the powerful ruling elites and political class who, one can argue. he is first and foremost answerable to in so far as his succession is as was his ascension.
what would you tell a person like mzee njoroge wa michuki whose school of thought was that the son of mzee jomo kenyatta is the future of central kenya? would you want to go down in history as being the one who had the power but was helpless when mzee kenyatta's son is taken down at the apogee of his political career and with such an exalted predestination?
anyone who has been keen on understanding kibaki the man, this is the time.
those i have discussed this moral dilemma facing kenya's third president says one of the things he must do now is to look at kenya in the face and talk to the nation:that mzee will in effect be explaining himself to the millions of the members of the essential house of mumbi but more importantly telling his side of the story, the unspoken that the pps release discounting the icc claims on state house meeting with mungiki has not resonated on anxious kenyans.
i may be wrong, as usual.
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Post by nereah on Feb 2, 2012 12:34:39 GMT 3
elsewhere in this forum my senior in jukwaa, sister kathure kebaara ;D aptly tackles the story of the girl that moved mzee kibaki to tears tiny.cc/35l00a picture speaks a thousand words and the one above by jared nyataya tells us something about kibaki @ 80. we have seen kibaki leap in joy with his late bosom friend tom mboya, we have seen him take to the floor with mama lucy ;D and we have heard him insulting his driver publicly. this one, as narrated by lucas baraza opens us to another side of mzee kibaki but more importantly that of his principal assistant who wants to lead us, one stephen kalonzo musyoka. how i wish roughrider ;D,arguably jukwaa's finest wordsmith was here to proffer! before i forget, my son tommy was telling me over breakfast of how this photo had sent cynics and social network jokers on a field day. nonetheless, some legitimate question was being raised by mzee's detractors and critics: did he weep for the post election violence victims or his strongest allies who are facing possible confinement in hague? i wont go there. where i want to go is the enigma that is mzee kibaki@80; a wartime president who cast an intriguing public demeanor in sharp contrast to his assistant, kalonzo the musyoka. kibaki is a child of privilege who never suffer want,having been raised by a fairly wealthy parent unlike kalonzo who makes us believe that he is from a dirt poor background. the photo however shows a totally different picture. at least we know that this was not stage-managed or unlike the days of baba na mama when people would have weeped alongside mtukufu. what is that on the face of kalonzo? isn't it a smile. i am saying that mzee kibaki @80 is a man that is a study of contradiction of kenya body politics.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2012 13:31:57 GMT 3
elsewhere in this forum my senior in jukwaa, sister kathure kebaara ;D aptly tackles the story of the girl that moved mzee kibaki to tears tiny.cc/35l00a picture speaks a thousand words and the one above by jared nyataya tells us something about kibaki @ 80. we have seen kibaki leap in joy with his late bosom friend tom mboya, we have seen him take to the floor with mama lucy ;D and we have heard him insulting his driver publicly. this one, as narrated by lucas baraza opens us to another side of mzee kibaki but more importantly that of his principal assistant who wants to lead us, one stephen kalonzo musyoka. how i wish roughrider ;D,arguably jukwaa's finest wordsmith was here to proffer! before i forget, my son tommy was telling me over breakfast of how this photo had sent cynics and social network jokers on a field day. nonetheless, some legitimate question was being raised by mzee's detractors and critics: did he weep for the post election violence victims or his strongest allies who are facing possible confinement in hague? i wont go there. where i want to go is the enigma that is mzee kibaki@80; a wartime president who cast an intriguing public demeanor in sharp contrast to his assistant, kalonzo the musyoka. kibaki is a child of privilege who never suffer want,having been raised by a fairly wealthy parent unlike kalonzo who makes us believe that he is from a dirt poor background. the photo however shows a totally different picture. at least we know that this was not stage-managed or unlike the days of baba na mama when people would have weeped alongside mtukufu. what is that on the face of kalonzo? isn't it a smile. i am saying that mzee kibaki @80 is a man that is a study of contradiction of kenya body politics. nereahyou're so nice. so generous. If I had half of your generosity, I'd forget that Kibaki and his ilk are the reason our country is as messed up as it is. I would forget that the reason girls are forced into early marriages such as the one he cried for have been completely thrown to the wolfs by the state. A state that Kibaki himself has had tremendous power in since independence and ultimate power for the last 10yrs. Please let him dry those crocodile tears is all I have to say. You give me undue credit. I haven't commented on this story before.
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