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Post by joblesscorner on Sept 20, 2012 19:19:55 GMT 3
My understanding is that Nairobi has two kind of voters.
Folks from Kibera, Eastleigh, kwa njenga that kind of thing and rich folks, working class karen, Muthaiga, UpperHill. I think the second working class, well to do folks from this rich folks would be attracted to Miguna Miguna, but the folks from Embakasi, I REALLY doubt.
The question is who votes in Nairobi?
Ps to Miguna From one interviews, Miguna seemed to understand how Bureaucracy works, I think I would vote him.
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Post by patriotism101 on Sept 20, 2012 20:38:31 GMT 3
Finally, after a long lull, MM rears his head again, courtesy of guess who, Phil. I am getting ready with gas masks and other supplies because we are soon going to be flooded right here on Jukwaa by Miguna this, Miguna that, Miguna that way Miguna this way courtesy of, who else- the usual suspect!
Miguna monotone notwithstanding, I think this is a positive move for the bull from Nyando via Toronto. Love or hate the guy, he is someone you want in your Conner, both from physically built and intelligent input, when you are in a fight. I will hire him as my lawyer anytime. Nairobi needs a passionate obsessive maniac to turn things around.
Miguna has my vote, unless someone better joins the race for NRB Governor between now and March 2013. Nairobi needs a bully in china shop to clear the corruption in City hall. It needs someone who is hated and loved in equal measure to occupy city hall way. Someone who can lay down the structures of institutions, governance and management and ram down the throats of the city officials that corruptions does not pay ( How do you explain how a city clerk earning Kshs 20,000 per month having several flats in Kayole?)
Nairobi needs someone who will not pander to the powers that be, whether it is UHURUTO, RAO or the dully elected (R 911-please note that I named all the usual suspects not just your pet subject ;D). Unless he is a project, in which case, he will be contractually obligated to kiss foot- I am gleefully waiting for political pundits, mercenary bloggers and bloggers tarmacking for jobs in the next government to come out with bitings and cocktails of who is plashing janyando with mbesha or whether this is his way of giving back to the society after a successful book sale.
I got carried away, but we also need a governor that will tell the countycillors to go suck their thumps if they cannot work for the benefit of the county. Someone who cannot be manipulated by adopt-a thing business women into eating "food" from questionable places. someone who will critically look at every contract binding the county with a magnifying glass and make the Nairobi County tender process a gold standard to be copied by other regions.
Nairobi needs a workaholic Governor, not a Whiskyholic arrogant SOB. We need a governor who will need a small infantry of RECCE unit to protect because of the number of enemies he will have not because of shooting his mouth in public but because of the provision of services to Nairobi. Clear the Nairobi street of vermin and leaches in city hall and the streets, drug barons, toilet and land grabbers operating with impunity. Bring down illegally constructed apartments and villas in Nairobi.
We need a new sheriff in Town and Miguna fits that bill.
This is why MM tentatively will be getting my vote.
Miguna will be watched from both sides, if he eats he is damned, if he cleans house he will earn the respect of Nairobians and Kenyans at large.
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 20, 2012 21:01:04 GMT 3
Definitely, patriotism101. What the place needs is a hard-headed bulldozer. I should say, though, that questionable women and their food can be very relaxing after a hard day of bulldozing. And one or two shots of vodka don't hurt either.
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Post by joblesscorner on Sept 20, 2012 21:05:55 GMT 3
I bet a few fellas here Omwenga, Phil, Reporter did not expect, that much of support of Miguna here as a Governor.
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Post by reporter911 on Sept 20, 2012 21:26:33 GMT 3
I bet a few fellas here Omwenga, Phil, Reporter did not expect, that much of support of Miguna here as a Governor. Only ROBOT VOTERS WILL SUPPORT MIGUNA THE LIKES OF YOU AND THE REST ON JUKWAA who have rashed to give their vote.. SI MIGUNA PREFERS ROBOT VOTERS AMA what is Miguna's manifest? I guess he will use his factious book as his platform
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Post by reporter911 on Sept 20, 2012 21:30:34 GMT 3
Miguna as governor of Nairobii? what a laugh.. it will never happen.. only robot voters paid for by his central province elite handlers.. that 0.5% of robots and goons the rest of Nairobians are too far advanced and educated not to fall into the political rubbish being pushed by the central mafia elite.. line up of 1. Wamalwa 2. Mudavadi and now 3. Miguna after receiving a Hero's welcome in central province for his fictitious bookYani this handlers will continue with their theatrics hoping to blind fold Kenyans? they tried with Raila it did not work.. and after all Miguna's dirty work to tarnish Raila's name he has been offered a plum 'Job" of governor with all backing of Mt Kenya elite mafia.. forgetting Nairobi ina wenyewe:) aiiish !! Kenyans will take the campaign money poured into Miguna's governor campaign.. that is actually money looted from Kenyans through the government coffers.. but they will not cast the vote for Miguna.. like I said only ROBOT PAID FOR VOTERS might just cast him a vote..0.1% of Nairobi vote if he is lucky ;D ;D
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Post by patriotism101 on Sept 20, 2012 22:12:23 GMT 3
Definitely, patriotism101. What the place needs is a hard-headed bulldozer. I should say, though, that questionable women and their food can be very relaxing after a hard day of bulldozing. And one or two shots of vodka don't hurt either. Otish- I prefer documents delivered late in the night safely from prying eyes of car jackers ;D.
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Post by furaha on Sept 20, 2012 22:16:04 GMT 3
Miguna as governor of Nairobii? what a laugh.. it will never happen.. only robot voters paid for by his central province elite handlers.. that 0.5% of robots and goons the rest of Nairobians are too far advanced and educated not to fall into the political rubbish being pushed by the central mafia elite.. line up of 1. Wamalwa 2. Mudavadi and now 3. Miguna after receiving a Hero's welcome in central province for his fictitious bookYani this handlers will continue with their theatrics hoping to blind fold Kenyans? they tried with Raila it did not work.. and after all Miguna's dirty work to tarnish Raila's name he has been offered a plum 'Job" of governor with all backing of Mt Kenya elite mafia.. forgetting Nairobi ina wenyewe:) aiiish !! Kenyans will take the campaign money poured into Miguna's governor campaign.. that is actually money looted from Kenyans through the government coffers.. but they will not cast the vote for Miguna.. like I said only ROBOT PAID FOR VOTERS might just cast him a vote..0.1% of Nairobi vote if he is lucky ;D ;D Well, I can only say that you never disappoint! You are the most predictable poster here.. ;D ;D
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Post by reporter911 on Sept 20, 2012 22:39:27 GMT 3
Miguna as governor of Nairobii? what a laugh.. it will never happen.. only robot voters paid for by his central province elite handlers.. that 0.5% of robots and goons the rest of Nairobians are too far advanced and educated not to fall into the political rubbish being pushed by the central mafia elite.. line up of 1. Wamalwa 2. Mudavadi and now 3. Miguna after receiving a Hero's welcome in central province for his fictitious bookYani this handlers will continue with their theatrics hoping to blind fold Kenyans? they tried with Raila it did not work.. and after all Miguna's dirty work to tarnish Raila's name he has been offered a plum 'Job" of governor with all backing of Mt Kenya elite mafia.. forgetting Nairobi ina wenyewe:) aiiish !! Kenyans will take the campaign money poured into Miguna's governor campaign.. that is actually money looted from Kenyans through the government coffers.. but they will not cast the vote for Miguna.. like I said only ROBOT PAID FOR VOTERS might just cast him a vote..0.1% of Nairobi vote if he is lucky ;D ;D Well, I can only say that you never disappoint! You are the most predictable poster here.. ;D ;D Same as all the PNU, TNT supporters alike very predictable when synchronized attacks come forward with a twist.. I never get disappoint when you post.. same Old same.. just a few twists here and there.. which end up to be same as the other PNU/TNT extra and Miguna's robot voters ama?
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 20, 2012 23:11:26 GMT 3
Definitely, patriotism101. What the place needs is a hard-headed bulldozer. I should say, though, that questionable women and their food can be very relaxing after a hard day of bulldozing. And one or two shots of vodka don't hurt either. Otish- I prefer documents delivered late in the night safely from prying eyes of car jackers ;D. That's very sensible. Also, as a general rule, night-time work can be very fruitful.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 23:41:22 GMT 3
Finally, after a long lull, MM rears his head again, courtesy of guess who, Phil. I am getting ready with gas masks and other supplies because we are soon going to be flooded right here on Jukwaa by Miguna this, Miguna that, Miguna that way Miguna this way courtesy of, who else- the usual suspect! Miguna monotone notwithstanding, I think this is a positive move for the bull from Nyando via Toronto. Love or hate the guy, he is someone you want in your Conner, both from physically built and intelligent input, when you are in a fight. I will hire him as my lawyer anytime. Nairobi needs a passionate obsessive maniac to turn things around. Miguna has my vote, unless someone better joins the race for NRB Governor between now and March 2013. Nairobi needs a bully in china shop to clear the corruption in City hall. It needs someone who is hated and loved in equal measure to occupy city hall way. Someone who can lay down the structures of institutions, governance and management and ram down the throats of the city officials that corruptions does not pay ( How do you explain how a city clerk earning Kshs 20,000 per month having several flats in Kayole?) Nairobi needs someone who will not pander to the powers that be, whether it is UHURUTO, RAO or the dully elected (R 911-please note that I named all the usual suspects not just your pet subject ;D). Unless he is a project, in which case, he will be contractually obligated to kiss foot- I am gleefully waiting for political pundits, mercenary bloggers and bloggers tarmacking for jobs in the next government to come out with bitings and cocktails of who is plashing janyando with mbesha or whether this is his way of giving back to the society after a successful book sale. I got carried away, but we also need a governor that will tell the countycillors to go suck their thumps if they cannot work for the benefit of the county. Someone who cannot be manipulated by adopt-a thing business women into eating "food" from questionable places. someone who will critically look at every contract binding the county with a magnifying glass and make the Nairobi County tender process a gold standard to be copied by other regions. Nairobi needs a workaholic Governor, not a Whiskyholic arrogant SOB. We need a governor who will need a small infantry of RECCE unit to protect because of the number of enemies he will have not because of shooting his mouth in public but because of the provision of services to Nairobi. Clear the Nairobi street of vermin and leaches in city hall and the streets, drug barons, toilet and land grabbers operating with impunity. Bring down illegally constructed apartments and villas in Nairobi. We need a new sheriff in Town and Miguna fits that bill. This is why MM tentatively will be getting my vote. Miguna will be watched from both sides, if he eats he is damned, if he cleans house he will earn the respect of Nairobians and Kenyans at large. Senti 5 patriotism101"Nairobi needs a workaholic Governor, not a Whiskyholic arrogant SOB"sorry son of a who? what does people's mother have to do with anything? do other men think and talk of your mother in that light?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2012 23:47:13 GMT 3
Otish- I prefer documents delivered late in the night safely from prying eyes of car jackers ;D. That's very sensible. Also, as a general rule, night-time work can be very fruitful. otishotishyou came back here calling people ugly. I inquired if you're ugly. you didn't answer that question. you like to talk of women as dirt. I should encourage my sons to think of your daughter in those terms since it's so acceptable to grown men who want to talk and behave like little children. even little children know better. you son of a gun!
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Sept 21, 2012 0:56:58 GMT 3
MIGUNA:TEN POINT PROGRAM FOR MY CANDIDATURE FOR THE POSITION OF GOVERNOR FOR NAIROBII have today announced my candidature for the position of Governor for the Nairobi County in the 2013 general elections. I will be contesting as an independent bipartisan candidate. On September 1st, 2012, I delivered my resignation as an ODM life member to the Secretary General of the party, Hon. (Prof.) Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o and copied the same to the Registrar of Political Parties, as required by law. My candidature is premised on: 1. Tackling the unemployment rate, especially among the youth, which shamefully stand at 65% by creating opportunities through increased, efficient and accountable revenue collection, the initiation of massive infrastructural development and effective and skills-oriented youth training and employment programs.
2. Proactively and systematically instituting and implementing systems aimed at eliminating grand corruption that siphons more than 60% of the DGP thereby releasing the recovered funds and those saved from theft for employment and other development initiatives.
3. Constructing the largest solid waste management system in Africa. We will build modern sewers, collect and incinerate garbage, initiate aggressive beautification programs by reserving spaces for public parks and recreational facilities throughout the county.
4. Rehabilitating existing roads and rail systems and building new light rail mass transit routes, a subway system and a public bus system in order to address the transportation gridlock in the county.
5. We will significantly lower the crime rate through aggressive community policing, intense intelligence gathering, and more focused and well-trained and professional County Security service; and by sharing intelligence with other law enforcement agencies and by creating safety through more employment opportunities and accelerated infrastructural development for the youth. We aim to reduce the rate of armed robberies by 70%, homicides by more than 80% and theft of public resources by 100%.
6. Eliminating the housing crisis in Nairobi by constructing modern and affordable housing through new technology, partnership with financial institutions and development partners and the introduction of a Nairobi-based mortgage scheme for people with modest means.
7. Nairobi suffers from an acute shortage of high quality public health facilities, which are adequately staffed and resourced. We intend to build enough modern health care facilities to mitigate this problem.
8. We will ensure that all Nairobi residents have access to high quality schools, colleges, institutes and universities, since we believe that education is the cornerstone for prosperity.
9. Throughout my life, I have fought against all forms of discrimination and injustice – discrimination based on race, colour, ethnicity, gender and religion. My administration will transform Nairobi into a fully tolerant, all-embracing and multicultural community where there is a thriving culture of democratic discourse; where all the rights and freedoms enshrined and entrenched in the Constitution are respected and upheld.
We will introduce a new leadership that doesn’t tolerate tribalism, nepotism and sexism.
10. I have been part and parcel of the movement for progressive change in Kenya since my youth. I was part of the struggle for the reintroduction of multiparty democracy and the ratification of the new constitution. I am committed to its implementation.This is our minimum 10-point program! OUR MOTTO/SLOGAN: TOMORROW IS TODAY! Thank you. Miguna Miguna Dated this September 20, 2012 at Nairobi, Kenya
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 21, 2012 3:27:43 GMT 3
Brother Miguna:
We wish you well in this new endeavour. The place needs a new kind of person, and you very well could be that person.
A couple of quick points though:
a) You might want to refine "magnitude" of some aspects of the 10 points. E.g. why " largest solid waste management system in Africa"? Why not just settle for what Nairobi needs.
b) As the Korean said of Vision 2030, "Nice plans, but I don't see where the necessary billions will come from". You might want to scale down a bit to what can be seen as achievable in practice. E.g., is a subway system perhaps a bit ambitious at this stage?
c) Some of the language is puzzling. E.g., what is "accelerated infrastructural development for the youth"?
Still, an excellent start and one jump ahead of the sorry competition that you face so far.
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Post by Mukwhasi on Sept 21, 2012 4:53:34 GMT 3
And the oscar goes to Megoona Megoona ,this guy is so phony that i almost believe him.Can megoona tell us when and how he fought for the second liberation ,for all i know is that Meggona folded and went to Canada leaving his so called "comrades" behind to continue with the "struggle".He brags of being detained for a few days yet people like RAO and Koigi were detained for years .Who is this Megoona guy ? nobody knew him untill he was picked from the streets of canada by RAO ,what manegerial expereince does he have ? his law firm was not even serving corprate clients for crying out loud ,filing for papers for immigrants can be done by any astute clerk.
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Post by patriotism101 on Sept 21, 2012 6:02:11 GMT 3
Finally, after a long lull, MM rears his head again, courtesy of guess who, Phil. I am getting ready with gas masks and other supplies because we are soon going to be flooded right here on Jukwaa by Miguna this, Miguna that, Miguna that way Miguna this way courtesy of, who else- the usual suspect! Miguna monotone notwithstanding, I think this is a positive move for the bull from Nyando via Toronto. Love or hate the guy, he is someone you want in your Conner, both from physically built and intelligent input, when you are in a fight. I will hire him as my lawyer anytime. Nairobi needs a passionate obsessive maniac to turn things around. Miguna has my vote, unless someone better joins the race for NRB Governor between now and March 2013. Nairobi needs a bully in china shop to clear the corruption in City hall. It needs someone who is hated and loved in equal measure to occupy city hall way. Someone who can lay down the structures of institutions, governance and management and ram down the throats of the city officials that corruptions does not pay ( How do you explain how a city clerk earning Kshs 20,000 per month having several flats in Kayole?) Nairobi needs someone who will not pander to the powers that be, whether it is UHURUTO, RAO or the dully elected (R 911-please note that I named all the usual suspects not just your pet subject ;D). Unless he is a project, in which case, he will be contractually obligated to kiss foot- I am gleefully waiting for political pundits, mercenary bloggers and bloggers tarmacking for jobs in the next government to come out with bitings and cocktails of who is plashing janyando with mbesha or whether this is his way of giving back to the society after a successful book sale. I got carried away, but we also need a governor that will tell the countycillors to go suck their thumps if they cannot work for the benefit of the county. Someone who cannot be manipulated by adopt-a thing business women into eating "food" from questionable places. someone who will critically look at every contract binding the county with a magnifying glass and make the Nairobi County tender process a gold standard to be copied by other regions. Nairobi needs a workaholic Governor, not a Whiskyholic arrogant SOB. We need a governor who will need a small infantry of RECCE unit to protect because of the number of enemies he will have not because of shooting his mouth in public but because of the provision of services to Nairobi. Clear the Nairobi street of vermin and leaches in city hall and the streets, drug barons, toilet and land grabbers operating with impunity. Bring down illegally constructed apartments and villas in Nairobi. We need a new sheriff in Town and Miguna fits that bill. This is why MM tentatively will be getting my vote. Miguna will be watched from both sides, if he eats he is damned, if he cleans house he will earn the respect of Nairobians and Kenyans at large. Senti 5 patriotism101"Nairobi needs a workaholic Governor, not a Whiskyholic arrogant SOB"sorry son of a who? what does people's mother have to do with anything? do other men think and talk of your mother in that light? Kathure, I thought thumping for Miguna would cut me some slack from his groupies- your ability to think in one dimension is way up there- is it lack of 3D paraphenalia or what? How about Smelling Of Booze, Sons of Ben, Silly Old Bastard, Son Of a Butcher? DOB.
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Post by joblesscorner on Sept 21, 2012 6:49:05 GMT 3
Miguna
The next few weeks/months will be so intriguing, hoping MM has something to unleash in the next few weeks/month, but the Media loves Miguna Miguna. My advise you do need a good PR person, but does MM listen to his surbodinates? I'm A)just wondering who will be his running mate? B) Will he campaign in Kibera? C)Can he mobilize adequate funds to beat the combination of Jimma Mbaru and his running mate Kevin Magotsi?
Word on the street is that the seat is a 2 horse race between the team of Jimna Mbaru/Kevin Magotsi and Evans Kidero/Johnny Ibrahim.
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Post by patriotism101 on Sept 21, 2012 6:49:32 GMT 3
MIGUNA:TEN POINT PROGRAM FOR MY CANDIDATURE FOR THE POSITION OF GOVERNOR FOR NAIROBII have today announced my candidature for the position of Governor for the Nairobi County in the 2013 general elections. I will be contesting as an independent bipartisan candidate. On September 1st, 2012, I delivered my resignation as an ODM life member to the Secretary General of the party, Hon. (Prof.) Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o and copied the same to the Registrar of Political Parties, as required by law. My candidature is premised on: 1. Tackling the unemployment rate, especially among the youth, which shamefully stand at 65% by creating opportunities through increased, efficient and accountable revenue collection, the initiation of massive infrastructural development and effective and skills-oriented youth training and employment programs.
2. Proactively and systematically instituting and implementing systems aimed at eliminating grand corruption that siphons more than 60% of the DGP thereby releasing the recovered funds and those saved from theft for employment and other development initiatives.
3. Constructing the largest solid waste management system in Africa. We will build modern sewers, collect and incinerate garbage, initiate aggressive beautification programs by reserving spaces for public parks and recreational facilities throughout the county.
4. Rehabilitating existing roads and rail systems and building new light rail mass transit routes, a subway system and a public bus system in order to address the transportation gridlock in the county.
5. We will significantly lower the crime rate through aggressive community policing, intense intelligence gathering, and more focused and well-trained and professional County Security service; and by sharing intelligence with other law enforcement agencies and by creating safety through more employment opportunities and accelerated infrastructural development for the youth. We aim to reduce the rate of armed robberies by 70%, homicides by more than 80% and theft of public resources by 100%.
6. Eliminating the housing crisis in Nairobi by constructing modern and affordable housing through new technology, partnership with financial institutions and development partners and the introduction of a Nairobi-based mortgage scheme for people with modest means.
7. Nairobi suffers from an acute shortage of high quality public health facilities, which are adequately staffed and resourced. We intend to build enough modern health care facilities to mitigate this problem.
8. We will ensure that all Nairobi residents have access to high quality schools, colleges, institutes and universities, since we believe that education is the cornerstone for prosperity.
9. Throughout my life, I have fought against all forms of discrimination and injustice – discrimination based on race, colour, ethnicity, gender and religion. My administration will transform Nairobi into a fully tolerant, all-embracing and multicultural community where there is a thriving culture of democratic discourse; where all the rights and freedoms enshrined and entrenched in the Constitution are respected and upheld.
We will introduce a new leadership that doesn’t tolerate tribalism, nepotism and sexism.
10. I have been part and parcel of the movement for progressive change in Kenya since my youth. I was part of the struggle for the reintroduction of multiparty democracy and the ratification of the new constitution. I am committed to its implementation.This is our minimum 10-point program! OUR MOTTO/SLOGAN: TOMORROW IS TODAY! Thank you. Miguna Miguna Dated this September 20, 2012 at Nairobi, Kenya
OO, Greetings- As someone who appreciates competence,passion, honesty and hardwork I welcome MM's candidacy to be Gorvenor of our beloved Nairobi county. (Kidero, mbaru Kisia, Sonko and all the rest represents what is wrong with this country) I wish him all the best and as I have said in my earlier post he tentatively has my vote. It has been frustrating to watch this brilliant Kenyan waste his brains, energy and sympathy capital (He had alot of it when he was unceremoniously kicked in the butt ) running around like a headless chicken thinking it still have some chance. He has turned off many supporters and sympathisers with his anti RAO antics. He made unnecessary political enemies, burnt many bridges which could have been handy in his quest and made many people wary of having their private conversations end up on Jukwaa. I sure do hope that he has moved on and this is not another anyone but RAO gig. Miguna should have pulled this move shortly after turning down RAO's reinstatement offer- he could have been way ahead. MM needs to consolidate his ten point plan and make them simple and easy to understand for the common mwanainchi, whether in Kibera, Majengo or Kayole. Simple easy to achieve goals that have a direct impact on the day to day well being of Nairobians. OO, on a side note- since MM has officially declared his interest in an electable office, you have to cease posting on his behalf since you are the admin of everyone including his oponents supporters. Alternatively, you should step aside as the admin if you choose to be his communications guys. Senti 5
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Post by kamalet on Sept 21, 2012 8:59:44 GMT 3
Miguna seems to have this idea that he is very popular with Kenyans. He held the same view when he returned hoping to quickly win over the people of Nyando. I had a massive go at him basically telling him that he cannot imagine that he can return to Kenya after a long while and hope that the people of Nyando will give it to him on a platter. He did not listen and even had some unkind words for me and with the support of very many insulting him today!
Now having been PM's adviser on I do not know what (seriously!) calling the PM names, writing an acclaimed book (the book is actually a very commendable effort!), Miguna thinks he has the people behind him and can call his potential rivals jokers and hope that he will win it.
Here is a little advise from Kamale and it is free!!
You do not have a job, you may have made some dosh from your book, but you are well advised to keep the money - you still have young school going kids - and keep your activism on the streets and in the written word. It serves you better and you need not get embarrassed again! Quit the idea of politics as you are neither one nor will ever make one!!
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Post by federa on Sept 21, 2012 9:30:45 GMT 3
Governor for Nairobi? Why not the Presidency? Never seen a more deluded person. Why can't we just leave this guy alone and stop discussing his delusions as some kind of big news? 10-point program indeed!
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Post by tom on Sept 21, 2012 9:34:33 GMT 3
Folks ( I miss Adongo Ogony)
I think Big Miguna's points are impressive on paper. In fact they are like 10 light years ahead of what Nairobi is and should be Am comfortable with such an issue based vision. But therein lies the problem.
His points are radical in every sense. Change as we all know is evolutionary and at some one needs to do a dalliance with the devil himself to arrive there. That is why Mr. Miguna cannot in my view effect his vision for Nairobi even if he were to be given the governorship on a silver platter.
Miguna thinks he is in heaven where only he is as white as snow and everyone else including the earthly political vehicles are grossly tainted red as scarlet. That is why he is talking about his candidature as an independent.
The discreet cartels in Nairobi will frustrate him or even just finish him off. Anyone remembers some Mayor who used to be called King'ori. The man nearly spent all his office life ducking one bullet after another because he tried to undo some things he thought weren't right.
Attorney Miguna's vision would have worked well with an already conditioned society reminiscent of that he left in Canada. But even there I doubt his undiplomatic combative character can win him any votes.
Thanks to his recent public roadshow, we now know he is vengeful and will stop at nothing to achieve his vengeance, anyone willing to work with him? Let me see by a show of hands!
I have to agree with Kamale on this. Miguna over rates himself. But then again. It is all about dreams. You don't dream, you don't go anywhere. and like he Miguna puts it... it is always Aluta Continua.
Only time will tell whether he will get there.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 12:55:08 GMT 3
patriotism101"Nairobi needs a workaholic Governor, not a Whiskyholic arrogant SOB"sorry son of a who? what does people's mother have to do with anything? do other men think and talk of your mother in that light? Kathure, I thought thumping for Miguna would cut me some slack from his groupies- your ability to think in one dimension is way up there- is it lack of 3D paraphenalia or what? How about Smelling Of Booze, Sons of Ben, Silly Old Bastard, Son Of a Butcher? DOB. patriotism101the other day you took a principled stand and told roughrider off for his sexist remarks to me which involved his mother, my sex life but no videos now you're pissed off at me for essentially doing my job here at jukwaa and making sure that people don't get away with using language such as the one i've criticized you for. now you're ready to hang me. you people want to tie my hands and still expect that i help maintain the required decorum @ this board. which one is it gonna be? and the dismissive assertion that i'm one dimensional is just funny. good try though. all i think about is sexism? it's been tried before. i was just telling someone off the other day about that tale that you're pushing.
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Post by abdulmote on Sept 21, 2012 14:05:59 GMT 3
I welcome Meeguna's announcement and entry into the murky battlefield of Kenyan politics. More of his likes are indeed needed for Kenya's salvation and I wish him all the best.
Meeguna's "ten point" plan was written in such a haste and without deserving thoughts. For example, I don't understand why he chose to use the term "bipartisan", instead of perhap non-partisan or something similar, unless he had specifically intended it to be that way.
As OtishO had noted above, some plans are a little bit overambitious! Leave the subway out of Nbi for now. We are not yet even capable of building three storey buildings nowadays without their collapsing before plastering stage! People are likely going to be more familiar with things like working traffic lights and vehicle controls, designated pedestrian crossings, organised and clean markets and streets, provision of piped water and working sanitation, yes, and other bits and bobs that are currently and daily affecting their lives. Don't worry too much about those other Big Mig Dreams yet on your manifesto!
And those figures! Getting rid of robbery by 70% and homicide by 80% but theft of public resources by 100%! No need of being too methamatical about these. It can be difficult to explain and justify you know.
And that point number 9!
OK. Meeguna, you are more than welcome! I will forgive your ten point plan at this stage. It is slightly exaggerated, poorly drafted and thought of and cannot withstand logical scrutiny, but just push it to one side for now, take your time and polish up as we support you. Let me know how I can send you my tenner towards your campaigns, sincerely so to speak.
Too many thieves and corrupt hawkers out there. We can do with the likes of you for a change!
Support Meeguna for Nairobi Governorship!
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Post by nereah on Sept 21, 2012 14:25:32 GMT 3
may i go on record here as stating that miguna miguna will have my support so long as he make an unconditional and unequivocal apology to agwambo and millions of kenyans who believe in the kenyan moment. for those asking tongue in cheek:apology for what? i say: apology for insulting my types as robots and also for the nuisance that he has been driven into by what to me is nothing but by the foul spirit.
omin ondiek can and in all probability be the next governor of the county of nairobi if sip this elixir that i have just prescribed for a new start. after all the likes of nyongo and orengo were once seized with this foul spirit and see where they are today after their tabula rasa.
believe me not a genuine and heartfelt public apology from miguna miguna to the national and global constituency of odm and to agwambo will be his tabula rasa, the start of his new beginning to what yours truly still believe is his exalted predestination.
can i hear someone say amen!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2012 14:34:15 GMT 3
I'm not about to start another thread on miguna. so i'm posting this story here. it's funny the way the writter speaks about miguna's book which he wrote about Osgoode Hall Law School. So too is the choice of words that miguna deploys. even the title "Disgraceful Osgoode and Other Essays" is funny. ]Kenyans[/b] you're going to kill me. walahi! ;D How Miguna Peeled Back Former Law School's Mask
THURSDAY, 20 SEPTEMBER 2012 00:10 BY NZAU MUSAU
MIGUNA Miguna shoots from the hip. He has been shooting from the hip since time immemorial. Those who attribute his bare-knuckled peeling back of masks to his fall-out with Prime Minister Raila Odinga are somewhat mistaken. They certainly have not read Miguna's book Disgraceful Osgoode and other essays published in 1994 by Av Publications in Canada. The book reeks of the same defiance, tough talk and no-holds-barred approach of Peeling Back the Mask; a quest for justice in Kenya.
Right from “The first word” of Disgraceful Osgoode and Other Essays Miguna makes it clear that in his life, there is nothing which is exclusively personal to an extent that it lacks bearing to broader realities of life. Miguna went on to examine “all” aspects of the previous “six or so years” of his life and put on notice his critics: “Those who feel offended about my approach should be courageous enough to respond either through critical essays, or perhaps by full-length book products.” He has made similar remark in Peeling Back the Mask.
He set about peeling back the mask of his former law school, Osgoode. In the foreword, he anticipated criticism but cared the less: “I am not particularly concerned about those who will condemn me for this undertaking- biting the hands that fed me.” In his days at Osgoode, Miguna had written three series of articles Disgraceful Osgoode published in Obiter Dicta, the Osgoode Hall School newspaper which caused quite a fuss.
The three-part series are reproduced in this book published after he left the school and while working a Toronto law firm Roach, Schwartz & Associates. In the first article, Miguna took on Osgoode for its rot, elitism and arrogance. For all its name, he wrote, Osgoode was producing robotic intellectuals whom he dubbed “Osgoode lovers." Chief Justice Willy Mutunga did his doctoral studies in law at Osgoode.
“Few if any Osgoode lovers seem to question the legal principles, judgments and policies that they encounter in their reading materials. They do not challenge the assumptions, prejudices and arguments of the professors,” he says. Osgoode lovers, he said, appeared more like cheerleaders and court jesters than students. Even where a text seems to perpetuate the dominant ideology, Miguna says Osgoode lovers “would be thumping and stomping with glee.”
In fact, Miguna went on to describe Osgoode as a “workshop” which in three years manufactured soft brains and “new robots of the 20th century ready for extinction in the 21st century.” Osgoode lovers shunned philosophical debates and preferred to be pragmatists. Miguna’s initial criticism of Osgoode mirrored Plato’s criticism of lawyers in his famous book Theaetetus, a dialectic on knowledge involving Socrates, Theodorus and young Theaetetus.
Miguna had studied philosophy and most likely came across this essential reading in epistemology. In the book, Socrates says lawyers are slaves and that philosophers are free. Lawyers are always short of time and their speeches are always about a fellow slave, and addressed to a master.
He says their contests are never for some indifferent prize but always that one which concerns them. Often they are running a race for life itself. “Because of all that, they become tense and sharp, knowing how to flatter their master with words and fawn on him with his deeds, but small and crooked in their minds,” Socrates tells Theaetetus.
Socrates says lawyers are deprived of growth, straightness and freedom by their slavery. “They have suffered since they were young.” It forces them to crooked things and imposes great dangers and fears on their minds while they are still soft. Herein, Socrates brings Miguna’s pet subjects of truth and justice. He says lawyers are unable to sustain their contestations with the help of these two. Because of this failure, they turn to falsehoods and retaliate injustice with injustice.
“They get twisted and stunted in many ways”, Socrates says and ominously adds: “The result is that they finally come from youth to manhood with nothing healthy in their intellects though what they think is that they have become clever and wiser.” Finally, Socrates takes on lawyers for being intellectual lightweights, the kind of criticism Miguna leveled on Osgoode graduates. Socrates had said when caught in “essential” discussions of happiness, justice among others, “the man with small, sharp and litigious minds gets dizzy.”
In contrast, philosophers- and whom Miguna required of Osgoode students aim for truth. Their intellects fly about everywhere “in depths of the earth and above heavens searching in every way into the total nature of these things taken as a whole, but never settling on any of the things near it.”
Socrates says that philosophers cause laughter in public discussions because of their inexperience. Their gracelessness is terrible, they are indifferent to class and they see a lot of pettiness around them. Like falling Thales, they are ignorant of what is under their feet. But they are brought up in great freedom and leisure unlike the lawyers. This is why they are free men while lawyers are slaves of the law.
In contrast to Osgoode lovers, Miguna compares Osgoode haters to philosophers. They disdain privilege, power and class. For them, Osgoode is a legal workshop, not a school. “It is also a white-wash indoctrination camp.” Osgoode haters are suspicious of legal profession for its propensity of being used by the ruling class to “guard the chains and bolts of oppression.” The more Osgoode churned out more lovers, Miguna prophesized, the more the Canadian society was turning a criminal ghetto.
He did not state his place but Miguna was no doubt placing himself in the category of Osgoode haters whom he said are made to feel as they are not lawyerly. “Perhaps they are not if being a lawyer simply means wholesale consumption and regurgitation of intellectual garbage,” he says. Osgoode lovers, he submits only excelled in toilet literature and graphics.
He signed off the first piece by stating to whom Osgoode belonged. It belonged to a group of racist, rich and inhuman species, species who loved to suck blood until they dropped dead. Disgraceful Osgoode II was not any less punchy. It took on Osgoode for its weak curriculum which only churned out “jargon-wagging wizards.” It condemned the university for its “debauched Eurocentricity.”
How could “diseased” European explorers like Columbus and Vasco da Gama discover Africans? And how could this be taught as education? Education according to Miguna must be viewed and used as a strategic arsenal in the struggle for substantive change and equality.
Disgraced Osgoode III published in September 1991 picked off from where the first article left. It took on Osgoode lovers for dancing around law rudimentaries “like twilight wizards.” His pen was now aimed sharply at those whom he called Osgoode racists. According to him, the racists did everything without involving other groups. A times, they involved some black-sell-outs who Miguna called “a few variegated, mentally colonised and starving parrots.” They controlled everything at Osgoode.
They were half baked intellectual dwarfs, the racists, and their exams merely tested the level of apeship and regurgitation. Like Peeling Back the Mask, Miguna had warned that Disgraceful Osgoode and other essays was not written to amuse anyone. His descriptions are however very amusing.
He describes Osgoode black students as “intellectually lazy and pliable. They walk with their chests hanging out like gorillas.” He criticises former South African president Nelson Mandela for his “bloated theatrical shows” aimed at boosting arpatheid strategists and apologists.
“Mandela has become one of the most disappointing African leaders in modern history,” he says. Miguna was no doubt deeply disappointed over the numerous concessions ANC, Mandela's party was making to the Frederick De Klerks administration in the then ongoing talks.
Incidentally and 14 years later, Miguna himself would be an insider of Kenya's "victorious" ODM party as it was milked dry of concessions by the "loser" PNU. Despite its jumbled up state- mixing up newspaper articles, press release, diary entries and short philosophical treatises, the book is quite an interesting read in understanding the man. Above everything else, the book attests to Miguna's consistency in peeling back masks. www.the-star.co.ke/lifestyle/128-lifestyle/94970--how-miguna-peeled-back-former-law-schools-mask
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