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Post by mangai on Mar 3, 2012 17:04:12 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 3, 2012 19:42:22 GMT 3
This is another insurmountable hurdle when leading actors do not trust their people with the truth. They hide it and sign MOUs in the dark. Refuse to be truthful in their memoirs, and run the nation on a diet of fiction and falsehoods.
Then the populace nolonger believe they are capable of telling the truth.
Then one day the need for truth is recognized. Then propagandists are hauled out to write it. But then, these being compromised, either by their loyalty to their pockets or to the character now thinking the truth will serve him, are nolonger credibile, and the truths they speak fall on deaf ears.
The public has been so used to hearing falsehoods from the top and their cronies, that even when they say the truth for a difference, the difference remains the same.
This is why I pity Sarah Elderkin. Welcome to the 'Cassandra Complex'! The ability to tell the truth which none shall believe.
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Post by palaver on Mar 3, 2012 20:33:09 GMT 3
This is another insurmountable hurdle when leading actors do not trust their people with the truth. They hide it and sign MOUs in the dark. Refuse to be truthful in their memoirs, and run the nation on a diet of fiction and falsehoods. Then the populace nolonger believe they are capable of telling the truth. Then one day the need for truth is recognized. Then propagandists are hauled out to write it. But then, these being compromised, either by their loyalty to their pockets or to the character now thinking the truth will serve him, are nolonger credibile, and the truths they speak fall on deaf ears. The public has been so used to hearing falsehoods from the top and their cronies, that even when they say the truth for a difference, the difference remains the same. This is why I pity Sarah Elderkin. Welcome to the 'Cassandra Complex'! The ability to tell the truth which none shall believe. ... Michuki died, no autobiography, karume died, his was shallow., i bet kibaki and moi will leave us more dissapointed. How are we to learn from our past mistakes when no one tells us what really happened? meanwhile , the bull fighter and his ilk will continue with tales based on zero facts! Kudos sarah! |
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Mar 3, 2012 20:34:53 GMT 3
Heheheheeee! One has to feel for Sarah and her ilk in camp RAO. When you see people waking up spirits of the dead from their peaceful graves, you know things are elephant. Please let the spirit of Wamalwa RIP, he is not on the ballot.
One thing the story brought to the fore is the fact that Raila's disrespect for Kenyan courts did not start in 07, it has been with him for as long as he has existed. We know what that led to in 07.
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Post by b6k on Mar 4, 2012 7:56:49 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu I think Jakaswanga is right on the money. Although you hear charges of revisionism when the other side puts out propaganda & blatant lies, there's nothing but cheers & high fives when the Elderkins of the world wash the Dear Leader's jigger infested feet with holy oil. Even RAO can't be as clean where Goldenberg is concerned as Sarah pens. Old wine into new skin? I don't buy it!
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Post by b6k on Mar 4, 2012 16:26:53 GMT 3
Folks, it turns out if you open Sarah Elderkin's closet RAO pops out! It's alleged that the two were an item long before Raila's roving eye caught sight of one his nubile student's (Ida) at the Nairobi University. This article is as ad hominem as they get & it's not surprising that one of our very own victims of ad hominem attacks right here on Jukwaa makes one of two comments on it. africanpress.me/2012/02/05/sarah-elderkin-mistress-or-mouthpiece-for-raila-odinga/Salacious doesn't even cover it. Since Sarah was in the picture long before Ida, the author hints she's practically Ida's co-wife! Talk about squatter's rights, but at least it's clearer why Ms Elderkin has Raila's back....literally. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 4, 2012 17:40:07 GMT 3
Folks, it turns out if you open Sarah Elderkin's closet RAO pops out! It's alleged that the two were an item long before Raila's roving eye caught sight of one his nubile student's (Ida) at the Nairobi University. This article is as ad hominem as they get & it's not surprising that one of our very own victims of ad hominem attacks right here on Jukwaa makes one of two comments on it. africanpress.me/2012/02/05/sarah-elderkin-mistress-or-mouthpiece-for-raila-odinga/Salacious doesn't even cover it. Since Sarah was in the picture long before Ida, the author hints she's practically Ida's co-wife! Talk about squatter's rights, but at least it's clearer why Ms Elderkin has Raila's back....literally. It will be quite a campaign. And casualties will fall far and wide. Not only on the actual battlefield. And the collaterally damaged will litter the landscape in various degrees of dismemberment! I urge fellow columnists on Jukwaa not to prostitute their pens nor handles; to gaurd their integrity the way a nun must guard her honour, chastity or virginity. For once you loose it ... you will have to host an orgy as every Kenyan comes to your bunga-bunga, to deposit their whatever payload free of charge. Look at what that guy Onyango Oneka in California has done to Sarah. Sure he has triggered a feeding frenzy. That Sarah makes valid points is of no consequence to him. He is out to discredit her. Our own mwalimumkuu also put paid to Kwendo Opanga's credibility on matters ODM, painting him as Mudavadi's errand boy. I think it was another Jukwaaist too, Njugunajohn was it or..? who trashed Jerry Okungu as ODM mole. Jeff Koinange is to many here and elsewhere, taking good care of family business. There surely is dire need for planet impartiality. Lets beware Jukwaa, our brand too will have to be defended in this election year. Or we will find ourselves collectively in the gutter with the rest of them whom we, rightly or wrongly, conseder ourselves superior to! So will we be the last blog standing!? ---that would sure be great. |
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Post by danieldotwaweru on Mar 4, 2012 17:45:52 GMT 3
Folks, it turns out if you open Sarah Elderkin's closet RAO pops out! It's alleged that the two were an item long before Raila's roving eye caught sight of one his nubile student's (Ida) at the Nairobi University. This article is as ad hominem as they get & it's not surprising that one of our very own victims of ad hominem attacks right here on Jukwaa makes one of two comments on it. africanpress.me/2012/02/05/sarah-elderkin-mistress-or-mouthpiece-for-raila-odinga/Salacious doesn't even cover it. Since Sarah was in the picture long before Ida, the author hints she's practically Ida's co-wife! Talk about squatter's rights, but at least it's clearer why Ms Elderkin has Raila's back....literally.
I'm not a fan of Sarah Elderkin. Her commentary—two pieces in the Standard—on the Kriegler report was exceptionally bad; her recent attempt to make life difficult for Jeff Koinange not much better.
However, that African press guy makes no attempt to engage with the content of her Wamalwa/Raila piece; he resorts, instead, to insult and boring insinuations of an affair with Raila. No need for that, and it just makes life unnecessarily difficult for women.
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Post by job on Mar 4, 2012 18:36:30 GMT 3
Folks, it turns out if you open Sarah Elderkin's closet RAO pops out! When you have nothing substantive to respond to the article, you take cheap shots at the messenger. Any nondescript propagandist can make up fictitious claims about b6k. Certainly, that doesn't qualify them into closet-skeletons. Just where is the authority & credibility from which you report such hearsays and innuendo about Sarah Elderkin. I'm almost certain you neither know her, nor anything about her personal life. It's quite easy (& lazy) to make up juicy sex stories about a sixty-something year old reputable journalist like Sarah. It's also easy to give a wide berth to the substantive first-account history (of Ford-K) she provides the public. Likewise, it's easy for third-parties to spot your glaring ommission of the latter, and impulsive dabbling into the former. Duh! Even the cheap, poorly-written, propagandist-piece you cite doesn't mention this. You're thus making up stuff hiding under the cover of the phrase ..."It is alleged"... Making up really scandalous stuff under the cover of your anonymous handle (b6k). Toa hiyo...that has been spotted. Re-read the article and juxtapose to your claim. Isn't this another made-up allegation? You can certainly run a rumour mill. Your anti-Odingaism was holding just fine when you focused on political matters. It's now delved into made-up anecdotes about who Odinga has slept with. All because Sarah Elderkin has penned her first-account recollection of intrigues regarding Raila and Wamalwa's fallout in Ford-K. Isn't that tawdry and cheap? This is very laughable. You purport the poor write-up is an ad hominen attack; yet make hay out of it - launching your own line of sex innuendoes and conjectures....even jabbing Omwenga in the process. Puuliiizzzz!!! Make up your mind buddy. These cesspool and personal manenos targeting Sarah, Omwenga and virtually anyone perceived to be sympathetic to Raila are quite a distraction from the subject matter. "How Raila Fell Out with Kijana Wamalwa". Duh! Coming to Sarah's recollection, I particularly remember some portions of these events first-hand. She's depicted them accurately. For instance on the night of the Thika Stadium elections, I drove a current Assistant Minister (then an oppositionist - not even an MP) to Agip House in what he estimated was to be a 'brief' stop-over. After waiting outside for at least 2 hours, I had to leave for home. He was to call me again in the wee-hours of morning...they had an accident around Upper Hill. I later received them (the Asst. Minister and a delegate who participated in the Thika elections) at KNH's casualty department. They luckily turned out with minor injuries...enough for quick cleaning, stiches, dressings, and discharges. We then retreated straight into my doctors flat. Our breakfast conversation was all about the previous day's events. The delegates version of events at Thika are exactly as portrayed by Sarah. He reported that after the respected cleric left, elections went ahead. I later had interest in following the intrigues that followed - also crisply documented by Sarah. All in all, it was the Goldenberg affair (& its humongous proceeds) that (directly or indirectly) broke Ford-K apart. With tonnes of cash (& power) at your disposal, it's easy to buy any politician. Very few are indispensable. That's why as we approach the next elections, tectonic political realignments (primarily induced by big cash), would still be expected today. Keep your eyes within the respective stables of ODM, G-7, UDF, Narc-K, and WDM.... The other important thing is the political trajectory being swung by Khalwale, Kombo et al. It is in their direct interest that an ODM wave doesn't sweep through Western during the next elections. They obviously fear such a wave might sweep them aside. Dr. Khalwale knows particularly that winning a by-election (with turn-out usually in the 30% range) is one thing very different from a general election accompanied by a partisan wave. It is not a secret they are working hard to prop Mudavadi's primary challenge. Kombo & other PNU-leaning elements in Bungoma fear that with events such as: Nancy Baraza's treatment; Wetangula's (Ford-K) recent warming to ODM; Eugene Wamalwa's failure to rise to the occasion; and the perception that G-7's running mate position would elude them; Bungoma is slowly sliding towards joining the rest of Western into full crystalization within ODM. The remaining cards are thus - urge Mudavadi on for a serious primary challenge; or find creative ways to prevent Bungoma's support for an ODM presidential candidate. Playing the Raila-Wamalwa-fallout card is a tool they have lately adopted. They have written their own politicized narrative (version) of the fallout...with the aim of creating anti-ODM discord and antagonism within Bungoma. In timely fashion, Sarah Elderkin is putting first-account details of what actually transpired on the ground for the benefit of the public. It is the public to decide for themselves which version to take...or whether to reject both... The public is not as gullible as some think. They can easily discern truth from political propaganda. They usually also pick out exaggerations. Lastly, I can guarantee one thing - if you provide the public the opportunity to judge between Sarah Elderkins article on one hand; versus such citations provided by b6k above (or the spin by Khalwale et al)....it would likely be an easy pick for them. |
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Post by b6k on Mar 4, 2012 20:33:39 GMT 3
Job, her affair with Raila started in the early 70s when she was in her twenties & before RAO was married. According to some blogs, it's never really ended right into the present, 40 years on. But you're right, I don't know her from Eve.
Back to politics. I have a few questions for you RE Elderkin's article. If Raila was so concerned about Goldenberg, how come he never investigated his late father Jaramogi who openly admitted to receiving funds to the tune of KES 2,000,000 from Kamlesh Pattni? Why is Sarah's memory so selective it doesn't cover the fact that if indeed Wamalwa was compromised by Pattni, then he was just as compromised as the previous PAC chairman (Jaramogi) before him? Were those Goldenberg funds the Odingas' source for buying Wamalwa's brand new Peugeot 505, putting him up in a highend digs & ploughing his farm for him? One could easily read into it that Raila was leading his on chairman at the PAC by the nose to ensure no dirt came out about his father, n'est pas?
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Post by job on Mar 4, 2012 21:21:47 GMT 3
Job, her affair with Raila started in the early 70s when she was in her twenties & before RAO was married. According to some blogs, it's never really ended right into the present, 40 years on. This is exactly what I'm talking about...you are relentlessly peddling baseless rumours, innuendos, and hearsay without the courtesy of even posting the so called blog you purport as your source. If indeed there's such a blog existing, why not post it here for everyone to Judge its authenticity or credibility. After you admit not knowing the sixty-something year old Sarah - very likely your senior in age - what is your basis/authority in discussing her personal relationships during her twenties. Do you even get ashamed doing all this simply because Sarah penned an article explaining the fallout betwen Raila and Wamalwa. I repeat for the umpteenth time - this is shameless, tawdry, distasteful, and despicable! Better stick to substantive debates rather than personal attacks which are most likely based on cheap lies, propaganda, and filthy distortions. Sarah is a human being with feelings just like you. All she did was write up her first-hand account of events regarding the leadership of Ford-K. Please address that subject, and leave her personal or sex life alone. Reputable journalists writing with their real names are held by different professional standards - which they certainly wouldn't risk discrediting through peddling of cheap lies. On the other hand, faceless bloggers hiding behind anonymous handles (like you) can concoct any story under the sun. It's not rocket science to discern that. As a journalist always holding a pen, Sarah covered these events within Ford-K, from the inside. You weren't remotely involved in these events. If there's any factual challenges you have on Sarah's account, that's fair game...put it down for everyone to judge. It is not your business who Sarah slept with; just as it ain't anyone's business whoever you sleep with. The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga himself went before the press and openly admitted to receiving the money from Kamlesh Pattni; his motivation for doing so; and his thoughts after realizing the cash was probably sourced from Goldenberg proceeds. Secondly, if you appreciate the implications of the complex scam of Goldenberg - why would any investigator keep their eye off the ball (probing the 300 billion-plus pilferage of Treasury); instead investigating a self-confession for receipt of a few millions? Jaramogi's receipt of the money did not stop Raila from instituting a private prosecution against Prof. Saitoti, for the missing hundreds of billions. There's absolutely no contradiction. I thought Jaramogi already made that easy for you - he self confessed to receiving cash from Pattni. Does Sarah have to include this publicly-known fact in her write-up? There you go again with another fertile tittle-tattle. That is how unfounded gossips grow feet. You can choose whatever to believe, but at least Sarah gave her perspective of what transpired. Besides, Jaramogi went public about Pattni's offer to him. Did you find some other dirt on him (which Raila was intent on covering) during the Bosire Inquiry? If cover-ups were the motive, why was Raila sending the matter to court? At this rate of revisionism, you might find yourself asserting that Goldenberg was basically a Jaramogi scam; in which Raila's role was to cover-up. Very ridiculous indeed! Politics!!!!! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 21:32:14 GMT 3
Folks, it turns out if you open Sarah Elderkin's closet RAO pops out! It's alleged that the two were an item long before Raila's roving eye caught sight of one his nubile student's (Ida) at the Nairobi University. This article is as ad hominem as they get & it's not surprising that one of our very own victims of ad hominem attacks right here on Jukwaa makes one of two comments on it. africanpress.me/2012/02/05/sarah-elderkin-mistress-or-mouthpiece-for-raila-odinga/Salacious doesn't even cover it. Since Sarah was in the picture long before Ida, the author hints she's practically Ida's co-wife! Talk about squatter's rights, but at least it's clearer why Ms Elderkin has Raila's back....literally. It will be quite a campaign. And casualties will fall far and wide. Not only on the actual battlefield. And the collaterally damaged will litter the landscape in various degrees of dismemberment! I urge fellow columnists on Jukwaa not to prostitute their pens nor handles; to gaurd their integrity the way a nun must guard her honour, chastity or virginity. For once you loose it ... you will have to host an orgy as every Kenyan comes to your bunga-bunga, to deposit their whatever payload free of charge. Look at what that guy Onyango Oneka in California has done to Sarah. Sure he has triggered a feeding frenzy. That Sarah makes valid points is of no consequence to him. He is out to discredit her. Our own mwalimumkuu also put paid to Kwendo Opanga's credibility on matters ODM, painting him as Mudavadi's errand boy. I think it was another Jukwaaist too, Njugunajohn was it or..? who trashed Jerry Okungu as ODM mole. Jeff Koinange is to many here and elsewhere, taking good care of family business. There surely is dire need for planet impartiality. Lets beware Jukwaa, our brand too will have to be defended in this election year. Or we will find ourselves collectively in the gutter with the rest of them whom we, rightly or wrongly, conseder ourselves superior to! So will we be the last blog standing!? ---that would sure be great. there are already people here on Jukwaa who prostitute their handles and key board on the daily. That will continue and will only ratchet up come the elections. You just have to go to archives to see the sorts of threats and insults that were meted out last time around. This time, it promises to be a show to never forget. I can already see that people like Agent kamalet are warming up, but we are ready for him and his assistants! and jakaswanga, what does chastity and virginity have to do with honor? |
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Post by b6k on Mar 4, 2012 21:46:48 GMT 3
There you go again with another fertile tittle-tattle. That is how unfounded gossips grow feet. You can choose whatever to believe, but at least Sarah gave her perspective of what transpired. Besides, Jaramogi went public about Pattni's offer to him. Did you find some other dirt on him (which Raila was intent on covering) during the Bosire Inquiry? If cover-ups were the motive, why was Raila sending the matter to court? At this rate of revisionism, you might find yourself asserting that Goldenberg was basically a Jaramogi scam; in which Raila's role was to cover-up. Very ridiculous indeed! Politics!!!!! So that's how it's done. Go public on a bribe & it's all good & forgiven? Meanwhile stash the ill gotten funds into the family slash fund. What tripe. You & Elderkin are free to re-write history as you like. It's not gonna fly. At the very least Mr Clean should return the 2m with interest to the people of Kenya. Reforms my foot... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2012 21:50:23 GMT 3
Folks, it turns out if you open Sarah Elderkin's closet RAO pops out! It's alleged that the two were an item long before Raila's roving eye caught sight of one his nubile student's (Ida) at the Nairobi University. This article is as ad hominem as they get & it's not surprising that one of our very own victims of ad hominem attacks right here on Jukwaa makes one of two comments on it. africanpress.me/2012/02/05/sarah-elderkin-mistress-or-mouthpiece-for-raila-odinga/Salacious doesn't even cover it. Since Sarah was in the picture long before Ida, the author hints she's practically Ida's co-wife! Talk about squatter's rights, but at least it's clearer why Ms Elderkin has Raila's back....literally.
I'm not a fan of Sarah Elderkin. Her commentary—two pieces in the Standard—on the Kriegler report was exceptionally bad; her recent attempt to make life difficult for Jeff Koinange not much better.
However, that African press guy makes no attempt to engage with the content of her Wamalwa/Raila piece; he resorts, instead, to insult and boring insinuations of an affair with Raila. No need for that, and it just makes life unnecessarily difficult for women.
ya, really. women can't say anything without our gender and sexuality being dragged through the mud. Is there any woman out there who still cares what these people with hanging genitalia have to say? |
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 4, 2012 22:08:24 GMT 3
[ jakaswangathere are already people here on Jukwaa who prostitute their handles and key board on the daily. That will continue and will only ratchet up come the elections. You just have to go to archives to see the sorts of threats and insults that were meted out last time around. This time, it promises to be a show to never forget. I can already see that people like Agent kamalet are warming up, but we are ready for him and his assistants! and jakaswanga, what does chastity and virginity have to do with honor? Kathure, Surely a nun's honour, from the very classical defination of nun, is her virginity. However pious, if a nun lowers gaurd and has sexual intercourse, it is consedered they have lost it. Are expelled from the nunnery, convent or abbey. And this concept has not yet undergone reform in the catholic church. No greater sin that that. I could of course indulge you with another imagery. Jukwaas handles should be as honourable as the samurai, ready to commit s epuku if caught on a lie! |
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Post by mangai on Mar 5, 2012 12:56:09 GMT 3
Lest you forget, Sarah Elderkin is the first journalist to expose the Golgenberg Scam through a series of articles she then wrote in the Daily Nation back in April 1993. She has a lot of information on this matter. The resignation of Paul Muite from Ford K was partly due to Jaramogi receiving Kshs. two million from Pattni a fact alluded to by Elderkin in her narrative, even though she has not mentioned it explicitly. The money received was ostensibly to help the party in by election campaigns in Bonchari, going by Jaramogi's explanation then! Wamalwa's handling of the scam including the proposal to pay Pattni more money is well documented and does not differ substantially with Sarah's narrative. What she fails to put through is Orengo's role in the whole matter as he was already Wamalwa's deputy and he is known to have played a prominent role in side-lining Raila from mainstream Ford K affairs. Is it that she did not want to upset the new found comradeship between Raila and Orengo? She is not telling us the whole truth.
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Post by phil on Mar 5, 2012 17:16:33 GMT 3
So that's how it's done. Go public on a bribe & it's all good & forgiven? Meanwhile stash the ill gotten funds into the family slash fund. What tripe. You & Elderkin are free to re-write history as you like. It's not gonna fly. At the very least Mr Clean should return the 2m with interest to the people of Kenya. Reforms my foot... Kindly spare us. We can read for ourselves and make our own judgements. I see you have ignored most of pertinent things Job has challenged you on. Not surprised. We take time to read most comments before making up our minds or taking a position. You have instead opted to use ungentlemanly language rather than launch a counter argument. On another note, I thought you should know, political parties receive funds from the general public and basically survive on the goodwill of supporters. Back in 90s, there was no fund for political parties and multi-party was still in its infancy. Incidentally then, FORD-K won all of the by-elections it participated in against the mighty KANU and it all boiled down to the support (financial and moral) from the public. That does not sound tripe to me. |
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Post by b6k on Mar 5, 2012 19:26:25 GMT 3
Kindly spare us. We can read for ourselves and make our own judgements. I see you have ignored most of pertinent things Job has challenged you on. Not surprised. We take time to read most comments before making up our minds or taking a position. You have instead opted to use ungentlemanly language rather than launch a counter argument. On another note, I thought you should know, political parties receive funds from the general public and basically survive on the goodwill of supporters. Back in 90s, there was no fund for political parties and multi-party was still in its infancy. Incidentally then, FORD-K won all of the by-elections it participated in against the mighty KANU and it all boiled down to the support (financial and moral) from the public. That does not sound tripe to me. Phil, ungentlemanly language? Kindly expound on that. As to your excuse of Jaramogi receiving the 2m for the party that's a load of codswallop. Truth be told Pattni gave money to both Jaramogi (2m) & to Paul Muite, a whopping 20 million KES. The 2m was most likely a donation direct to the mzee for all his "hard work". The 20 million, on the other hand, was to the party, but I suspect enough of it never reached party coffers. The 2m went to the Odinga family slush fund while Muite did God knows what with several millions leading to his ignominious departure from the party. The question remains valid. What did Jaramogi do with the 2m? In today's KE that would be a cool 7 million KES. Is that the money Raila used to prop up Wamalwa as alleged by Elderkin? |
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Mar 5, 2012 19:58:56 GMT 3
Kindly spare us. We can read for ourselves and make our own judgements. I see you have ignored most of pertinent things Job has challenged you on. Not surprised. We take time to read most comments before making up our minds or taking a position. You have instead opted to use ungentlemanly language rather than launch a counter argument. On another note, I thought you should know, political parties receive funds from the general public and basically survive on the goodwill of supporters. Back in 90s, there was no fund for political parties and multi-party was still in its infancy. Incidentally then, FORD-K won all of the by-elections it participated in against the mighty KANU and it all boiled down to the support (financial and moral) from the public. That does not sound tripe to me. Phil, ungentlemanly language? Kindly expound on that. As to your excuse of Jaramogi receiving the 2m for the party that's a load of codswallop. Truth be told Pattni gave money to both Jaramogi (2m) & to Paul Muite, a whopping 20 million KES. The 2m was most likely a donation direct to the mzee for all his "hard work". The 20 million, on the other hand, was to the party, but I suspect enough of it never reached party coffers. The 2m went to the Odinga family slush fund while Muite did God knows what with several millions leading to his ignominious departure from the party. The question remains valid. What did Jaramogi do with the 2m? In today's KE that would be a cool 7 million KES. Is that the money Raila used to prop up Wamalwa as alleged by Elderkin? B6K, You are surely asking the right questions my friend, but do not expect any answers, not here on Jukwaa. You will instead be taken in circles for days on end without any tangibles. But facts are stubborn, they keep on raising their head even when you least expect them. I know not of any influential politician who was around during Pattni's time who never ate, in fact, those who were the first to eat, were the first to make noise. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 5, 2012 21:27:01 GMT 3
Lest you forget, Sarah Elderkin is the first journalist to expose the Golgenberg Scam through a series of articles she then wrote in the Daily Nation back in April 1993. She has a lot of information on this matter. The resignation of Paul Muite from Ford K was partly due to Jaramogi receiving Kshs. two million from Pattni a fact alluded to by Elderkin in her narrative, even though she has not mentioned it explicitly. The money received was ostensibly to help the party in by election campaigns in Bonchari, going by Jaramogi's explanation then! Wamalwa's handling of the scam including the proposal to pay Pattni more money is well documented and does not differ substantially with Sarah's narrative. What she fails to put through is Orengo's role in the whole matter as he was already Wamalwa's deputy and he is known to have played a prominent role in side-lining Raila from mainstream Ford K affairs. Is it that she did not want to upset the new found comradeship between Raila and Orengo? She is not telling us the whole truth. HMMMM If only all these facts and insights unto our national intrigues were in the open! neatly archived! then surely no character would so outrightly dare misconstrue the narrative about pivotal events, like we see daily in these public rallies. Nor would Kombo and Bwa-co be that blatant in their lies. There would be certified references available to all for citations. Now Sarah Elderkin has to recourse to a newspaper to point out details about historical transactions which, by now, all those concerned should have made public, and scholars at your local university organised into reference volumes. Alas, Sarah's efforts now smacks of counter propaganda, an opportunistic essay meant to deflect yet more enemy forays. In other words, history and truth in Kenya have merely become handy to score electoral points, never having their value as things which, independent of the political wars being fought by the elite at any respective time, must inform and construct national identity. Mould conciousness. At one time or another, most of these fellas have sung the same song. In KANU or in some other outfit. But do they say why they fell out? Do they substantiate with data, documents and indisputable facts? No, they prefer to operate in a climate of rumours and informational drought. Because if facts and truths about them were to be known by the public, they would probably be burnt alive for all their thievery and chicannery. That is an alternative discourse would submerge them. For all Sarah's better late than never truthfulness, a counter charge that Oginga Odinga's disciples in FORD disintergrated over a fight over crumbs from the Goldenberg table of Pattni, would be hard to fence off. How I hate running to foreign intelligence publications to glean out some insights into our power structure. Or Wiki-Leaks which really revealed the childishness of our leaders before a foreign power. Wanasengenyana kama... [see footnote also]So now that you have started, Sarah, my advice is you will have to go too, all the way to the divorce with Moi, and with a small post-script on Raila's role in the Matiba-Jaramogi spat. You open a can of worms, you just empty all the worms. Or you become a worm yourself. ----------- These constellations and spats between factions of the elite, reveal an intrinsic instability I think. An inside look at how they happen is a welcome contribution to the quest of understanding our country. Sarah has destroyed the premises of Kombo and Bwafwoli on this [ showing how little homework they did or how actually ignorant of history they are], but there was the third thrust, that Raila is a serial breaker of deals. A serial party-hopper, user and discarder. To neutralize this, Sarah has to come up with a series of equally fastidious articles chronicling and explaining each and every other event in Raila's string of mercurial, temporary alliances. --[Kombo and co are like jiggers under the toe which, even when undone, the wound still needs to be fumigated coz some other active egg may have remained to restart the cycle!] And, Sarah, was there ever really an MOU between Raila and Kibaki? Better late than never. For the sake of posterity. PS:[Does anybody remember a dinner in a small cosy London restaurant, vegetarian, featuring young Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, soon after the death of John Smith who had replaced Neil Kinnock?] MOUs are not that uncommon. There is another one between Putin and Medvedev. The trick is sticking to it!  ================FOOTNOTE:[So it is for instance from non Kenyan sources that I have gathered, that the millitary command of KDF inside Somali so disagreed with the politicians in nairobi that there was nearly a recall of senior commanders. Issue? The speed and haste which the politicians demanded tangible big towns be captured quickly to be paraded for the international media, would be suicidal. It would leave the rears of KDF totally unprotected from al-shabab guerillas. KDF did not have the manpower nor the means to do what the politicians demanded. So they decided to 'ngo srow'. recently a brigadier told CNN: we are here for the long term. That is candour not found in Nairobi.] And that KDF commanders in the field held staff-meetings with British and American special forces without the knowledge of Nairobi! Reason: Nairobi did not seem to know this thing is a real war. Not a public relations exercise. NB: It has been embarassing to read on wikileaks how Kenyan politicians discussed freely national sensitivities with foreign governments, while they keep mum on the same to the public. I for one appreciate these Sarah Elderkin chronicles. And that scumbag from California? Ach, democracy and new media these days! and village madness goes international! |
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Post by tnk on Mar 5, 2012 22:17:11 GMT 3
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that footnote is loaded
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Mukwhasi
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Justice will live on ..
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Post by Mukwhasi on Mar 8, 2012 3:09:09 GMT 3
This is another insurmountable hurdle when leading actors do not trust their people with the truth. They hide it and sign MOUs in the dark. Refuse to be truthful in their memoirs, and run the nation on a diet of fiction and falsehoods. Then the populace nolonger believe they are capable of telling the truth. Then one day the need for truth is recognized. Then propagandists are hauled out to write it. But then, these being compromised, either by their loyalty to their pockets or to the character now thinking the truth will serve him, are nolonger credibile, and the truths they speak fall on deaf ears. The public has been so used to hearing falsehoods from the top and their cronies, that even when they say the truth for a difference, the difference remains the same. This is why I pity Sarah Elderkin. Welcome to the 'Cassandra Complex'! The ability to tell the truth which none shall believe. ... Michuki died, no autobiography, karume died, his was shallow., i bet kibaki and moi will leave us more dissapointed. How are we to learn from our past mistakes when no one tells us what really happened? meanwhile , the bull fighter and his ilk will continue with tales based on zero facts! Kudos sarah! MOi has an autobiography out there i think the title is "Moi: the making of an African statesman" by Andrew Morton |
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