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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 8, 2012 11:14:00 GMT 3
DALMAS OTIENO: LOOKING FOR LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL In my opinion one of the most fascinating characters in Kenyan political thinking, Heavy D. Otieno has been at it again. But why has be broken cover? In the frenzied ululations of the CORD phenomenon, as witnessed on Jukwaa by several of our stalwart correspondents, majorly Foresight and Omwenga ora, I think there is a palpable refusal to analyse the phoenix that Uhuru had become, so they fail to give the devil his dues. Ditched by Kibaki and the older power Moguls of the house of Mumbi, Uhuru nevertheless stuck to his guns and, with an assortment of rabid techniques, cannibalised PNU, marginalised PNU's allies [read DP], and managed to create the perception that he had bagged the 4m plus votes in MK. Not to mention that the polls continuously ranked him second [to Raila]. The son of Jomo, hitherto always someone else's project, emerged as his own man. That is something. At the same time, enjoying the support of his own feet, newly discovered, he carried on a national bluff-poker of being on the ballot whatever Ocampo or his able Bensouda replacement did. Practically holding the nation hostage, and, worse, reading from the subsequent appointments to cabinet and other top government jobs, effectively assuming command of the state from Kibaki, or the Rasputin Wanjohi who has usurped decisions as he keeps the PORK in coma. Even the judiciary has stood to attention in all cases involving Kenyatta. Waiting. Fidgeting. The CJ nerve-racked and biting his nails. I think, that the possibility of an ICC-Uhuru presidency for real, with its international implications, and another MK tenure at the helm, has been the real shaker and mover of other moves. And when Ruto became Uhuru's public running mate, the definitive event had happened, the Big-Bang, to which other players would must react, with final best sets. Seeing the courts, local or not, could not be relied on to do the job, how then to beat UK at the ballot, realistically speaking? Raila was no longer the man to beat. It had become Uhuru Kenyatta. Preventing an Uhuru presidency had become the core of siasa moto-moto as Jukwaa's Nereah would call it: Saving the nation from Uhuru's ICC rule! Dalmas Otieno Pache Ohingo Pachji, can't be anybody else, the evil genius of KANU mathematics, first drove it home. He told Raila: Kalonzo can not be allowed to team up with Uhuruto. Then he punched Nairobi numbers, with reference to the last election, corrected a bit with some new math. Nobody in ODM could come up with a rebuttal that Uhuruto + Kalonzo [and the remaining pastoral hangers on] would not sweep Nairobi at at-least a 60:40 ratio. [Governor and senators all TNA, then a few consolation enclave constituencies for ODM, and which could only be won by population re-arrangements up-head, EG all Luos taking cards in just about two constituencies only!] [think ethno-mandering as opposed to the original gerrymandering in the USA] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GerrymanderingReading between the lines when the Nairobi-star reports: 'there had been no interests in 15 out of a hundred civic seats in the city-county, from ODM activists.' That is these seats were perceived as TNA slots long ago and surrendered so. The Nairobi ODM think-turks were witless. The technocratic strategists Aladwa, Kidero, Kisia et al were not forthcoming with ideas; on the contrary, they set about alienating Bishop Wanjiru and her sheep some more. But not the HD Nestor Dalmas Otieno, --Few men in Kenya know what this man is made of upstairs. A grimacing Otieno decided to show these city glitter boys the difference between them amateurs and the men, in real Kenyan politic. --[Moi still has a soft spot for him, Dalmas, him who told Moi [who persistently is reported to have once pulsed him for the VP slot] that he was not interested in power, but just had his kicks being around it. So he lacked the ambition to be VP, and later vie for the presidency.] When Otieno Heavy D. is in your corner when the political waters enter the rapids and he decides to do his thinking, the raft will read the perils well. That was his reputation as a KANU hawk. And it warned us as young men, that Arap Moi was a dangerous opponent. He could pick the best to be beside him. Otieno Saitoti Kibaki, brainy. Nicolas Biwott and Sankuli, pure cold-blood capos. Nevertheless I was surprised to see him break cover and shine at the signing ceremony of CORD. When the work is done, this grand-chess-master of yester likes to take a backseat and enjoy the results at a distance. And a cautious man, one rarely finds him with a self-indulgent smile on his public face. That is, never a triumphalism before the boat is anchored at shore safe. Nimar yie janimo ka ochiegni gowo.PS: Good news: the moment the CORD deal was signed and Kalonzo roped in, within a day ODM membership surged in some 'hitherto' surrendered areas, and going to press as of now, they will not be any reserved Jubilee seats in the capital area! The trick now for ODM is to make sure Kalonzo does not perform his special act, see Ngilu.
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Post by nok on Dec 8, 2012 11:30:52 GMT 3
Agreed to the fact that he who holds the key to NAI supremacy will ultimately rule Kenya beyond 2013. This is where the real power lies. jakaswanga , that is why RV Kosgey is was a lesser triumph virate for VP in comparison to Musa and that is actually the key to CORD's success. Submarines are often more effective than war ships. If you look at the Kibaki side the really effective guys have been the shadows of Wanjohi, Gichangi, Thuita, Muthaura and his door keeper the Guy who took over from him.
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Post by nereah on Dec 8, 2012 17:00:14 GMT 3
compelling read as usual jakaswanga. just one question though:was it moi or oyugi who discovered dalmas and if by happenstance(moi and oyugi being the same and one) why did thabiti fall:otieno's chink in the armour or was it another sabotage of native enterprise which would be a big contradiction.
what i find unsettling is otieno's past indifference to those energy sapping and diversionary power games that cost odm much traction and which kalonzo was on the thick of.why, in your opinion, has otieno been ambivalent for lack of better word. if he could pull this one, why could he mitigate the ruto nuisance?
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Post by Omwenga on Dec 8, 2012 17:37:02 GMT 3
DALMAS OTIENO: LOOKING FOR LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL In my opinion one of the most fascinating characters in Kenyan political thinking, Heavy D. Otieno has been at it again. But why has be broken cover? In the frenzied ululations of the CORD phenomenon, as witnessed on Jukwaa by several of our stalwart correspondents, majorly Foresight and Omwenga ora, I think there is a palpable refusal to analyse the phoenix that Uhuru had become, so they fail to give the devil his dues. Ditched by Kibaki and the older power Moguls of the house of Mumbi, Uhuru nevertheless stuck to his guns and, with an assortment of rabid techniques, cannibalised PNU, marginalised PNU's allies [read DP], and managed to create the perception that he had bagged the 4m plus votes in MK. Not to mention that the polls continuously ranked him second [to Raila]. The son of Jomo, hitherto always someone else's project, emerged as his own man. That is something. At the same time, enjoying the support of his own feet, newly discovered, he carried on a national bluff-poker of being on the ballot whatever Ocampo or his able Bensouda replacement did. Practically holding the nation hostage, and, worse, reading from the subsequent appointments to cabinet and other top government jobs, effectively assuming command of the state from Kibaki, or the Rasputin Wanjohi who has usurped decisions as he keeps the PORK in coma. Even the judiciary has stood to attention in all cases involving Kenyatta. Waiting. Fidgeting. The CJ nerve-racked and biting his nails. I think, that the possibility of an ICC-Uhuru presidency for real, with its international implications, and another MK tenure at the helm, has been the real shaker and mover of other moves. And when Ruto became Uhuru's public running mate, the definitive event had happened, the Big-Bang, to which other players would must react, with final best sets. Seeing the courts, local or not, could not be relied on to do the job, how then to beat UK at the ballot, realistically speaking? Raila was no longer the man to beat. It had become Uhuru Kenyatta. Preventing an Uhuru presidency had become the core of siasa moto-moto as Jukwaa's Nereah would call it: Saving the nation from Uhuru's ICC rule! Dalmas Otieno Pache Ohingo Pachji, can't be anybody else, the evil genius of KANU mathematics, first drove it home. He told Raila: Kalonzo can not be allowed to team up with Uhuruto. Then he punched Nairobi numbers, with reference to the last election, corrected a bit with some new math. Nobody in ODM could come up with a rebuttal that Uhuruto + Kalonzo [and the remaining pastoral hangers on] would not sweep Nairobi at at-least a 60:40 ratio. [Governor and senators all TNA, then a few consolation enclave constituencies for ODM, and which could only be won by population re-arrangements up-head, EG all Luos taking cards in just about two constituencies only!] [think ethno-mandering as opposed to the original gerrymandering in the USA] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GerrymanderingReading between the lines when the Nairobi-star reports: 'there had been no interests in 15 out of a hundred civic seats in the city-county, from ODM activists.' That is these seats were perceived as TNA slots long ago and surrendered so. The Nairobi ODM think-turks were witless. The technocratic strategists Aladwa, Kidero, Kisia et al were not forthcoming with ideas; on the contrary, they set about alienating Bishop Wanjiru and her sheep some more. But not the HD Nestor Dalmas Otieno, --Few men in Kenya know what this man is made of upstairs. A grimacing Otieno decided to show these city glitter boys the difference between them amateurs and the men, in real Kenyan politic. --[Moi still has a soft spot for him, Dalmas, him who told Moi [who persistently is reported to have once pulsed him for the VP slot] that he was not interested in power, but just had his kicks being around it. So he lacked the ambition to be VP, and later vie for the presidency.] When Otieno Heavy D. is in your corner when the political waters enter the rapids and he decides to do his thinking, the raft will read the perils well. That was his reputation as a KANU hawk. And it warned us as young men, that Arap Moi was a dangerous opponent. He could pick the best to be beside him. Otieno Saitoti Kibaki, brainy. Nicolas Biwott and Sankuli, pure cold-blood capos. Nevertheless I was surprised to see him break cover and shine at the signing ceremony of CORD. When the work is done, this grand-chess-master of yester likes to take a backseat and enjoy the results at a distance. And a cautious man, one rarely finds him with a self-indulgent smile on his public face. That is, never a triumphalism before the boat is anchored at shore safe. Nimar yie janimo ka ochiegni gowo.PS: Good news: the moment the CORD deal was signed and Kalonzo roped in, within a day ODM membership surged in some 'hitherto' surrendered areas, and going to press as of now, they will not be any reserved Jubilee seats in the capital area! The trick now for ODM is to make sure Kalonzo does not perform his special act, see Ngilu. Ori Jakaswanga,
An interesting take on DO; I must say he's one politician who burrows on under the radar--including of yours truly ;D
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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Dec 8, 2012 18:03:50 GMT 3
I think one can't dissect Dalmas's scheming without looking at the local politics of the former South Nyanza, especially Rongo. The uprising Dalmas cut his teeth in defeating the flamboyant Oluoch Kanindo as Rongo MP, then won Moi's confidence when he 'helped' Moi acquire a huge chunk of land. Kanindo was banished to political 'wilderness' when he was made head of South Nyanza Sugar Company, leaving Dalmas as the King. This was after the death of both Okwanyo of Migori and Oyugi - the former tough PS. That was the first Dalmas success.
Then, Dalmas faced Ochillo Ayacko in a bitter duel, which saw Dalmas thrown out of Parliament for a session, only to come back with ODM. Ayacko was said to be anti-Raila. The shrewd Dalmas has now curved Awendo for Ayacko, living in peace to reign over Rongo. Second success.
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 8, 2012 22:16:27 GMT 3
I think one can't dissect Dalmas's scheming without looking at the local politics of the former South Nyanza, especially Rongo. The uprising Dalmas cut his teeth in defeating the flamboyant Oluoch Kanindo as Rongo MP, then won Moi's confidence when he 'helped' Moi acquire a huge chunk of land. Kanindo was banished to political 'wilderness' when he was made head of South Nyanza Sugar Company, leaving Dalmas as the King. This was after the death of both Okwanyo of Migori and Oyugi - the former tough PS. That was the first Dalmas success. Then, Dalmas faced Ochillo Ayacko in a bitter duel, which saw Dalmas thrown out of Parliament for a session, only to come back with ODM. Ayacko was said to be anti-Raila. The shrewd Dalmas has now curved Awendo for Ayacko, living in peace to reign over Rongo. Second success. Sadik, I was going for higher stuff than the usual village intrigues about night-runners. That would be the turf of folk like Okiki Amayo. But upper, you know like when the social base of Moi's rule was becoming narrower and narrower, who did he turn to, to engineer a new lease of life? that is an ideological fixer. A Karl Rove so to speak. Moi loved the advice of the economic test: render the leading members of the opposition destitute, then give them a commercial deal. Sweet and gravy, and see how much opposition is left. I think the earlier Lotodo and George Moseti Anyona passed the test. But I would have to research and revise keenly, to be categorical on that. Asked point-blanc if Moi consulted him on, or whether he was the architect of the Molasses deal which moved the Luo from opposisen to coparesen, Otieno proclaimed Moi was a professor of politics and did not need him to manipulate the Luo! A question of believe it or not! I am sure today he would say: Raila is an Agwambo and does not need me to wheeler deal Kalonzo! A question of believe it or not!
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 8, 2012 22:32:22 GMT 3
compelling read as usual jakaswanga. just one question though:was it moi or oyugi who discovered dalmas and if by happenstance(moi and oyugi being the same and one) why did thabiti fall:otieno's chink in the armour or was it another sabotage of native enterprise which would be a big contradiction. what i find unsettling is otieno's past indifference to those energy sapping and diversionary power games that cost odm much traction and which kalonzo was on the thick of.why, in your opinion, has otieno been ambivalent for lack of better word. if he could pull this one, why could he mitigate the ruto nuisance? Nereah, Dalmas will not compete for the ear of the King like is expected of sycophants, and the Luo crowd around Da Ker Madit, did perfect these arts to sickening levels! But today I will be a self-loving Luo and spare Jukwaa the choice pet-names we use to describe our Luo MPs specialised in court fawning! It is this aloofness, read as disinterest, plus the tale that he was a KANU-DAMU and therefore must know his place as a guest at Raila's table [ ok en jadala], and could not be completely trusted in issues of life and death for Da Ker, that I use to explain the lack of his firm head in the earlier contradictions. How could he join the festival of bashing championed by the likes of the rogue Otieno Kajwang' and bar-brawler Jakoyo Midiwo, at the adress of Mudavadi and Ruto when they broke rank? Experience and reading men taught him the boss, Raila, would possibly at a later date meet them in the dark to plead his case! Jakoyo and Kajwang' had no minds to think beyond the here and now! Dalmas would never be enthusiastic in such company! A bit of pride too!
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 8, 2012 22:43:08 GMT 3
Omwenga Yo, No, you would have had to specifically look out for him to show on your radar!
I always put it down to personality and character. With the Raila court dominated by bar-brawl types like Midiwo and his theatrics, and earlier on the I-wont listen to you Miguna, Dalmas, a careful thinker with logical protocol the type Muthaura brought to Kibaki's cabinet, had no place at the front-line.
And Omwenga Omera was too busy admiring the radiant and flamboyant girls showing themselves off at the front to look any further!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 9, 2013 9:54:42 GMT 3
DALMAS OTIENO: LOOKING FOR LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL In my opinion one of the most fascinating characters in Kenyan political thinking, Heavy D. Otieno (...) But why has be broken cover? (......) Nevertheless I was surprised to see him break cover and shine at the signing ceremony of CORD. When the work is done, this grand-chess-master of yester likes to take a backseat and enjoy the results at a distance. And a cautious man, one rarely finds him with a self-indulgent smile on his public face. That is, never a triumphalism before the boat is anchored at shore safe. Nimar yie janimo ka ochiegni gowo.The one I was waiting for to speak has spoken. Dalmas. Him the last line of intellectual defense. Thuol odonjo e ko itimo nang'o? Yawa luonguru Dalmas Otieno Anyango Jarongo. --Or so sang Owino Misiani Luo-Voice Jashirati. Not many will bother anymore with the likes of Orengo, nor Nyong'o and the rest of the court, nay, these have become voices whose words not even the hollows of caves bother to echo. In the words of some Luo poet whose name I cannot remember now, voices so full of nothing, that even a parrot hears nothing to repeat!But Dalmas could be relied on to come up with a pitch. So I have been curious and holding vigil, because foregoing is one of the harshest self-inflicted and divisive crisis to have hit the Luo political scene in recent times. From what I have experienced in Nyanza political debate in my upbringing, I reckoned titanic mental gears would be revving. And having a ringside seat when they do, is how I get my kicks -- ;D(apart from the 'orudos with' who have mastered every nuance of the shake that is! hinting at the intensity of their talent at the commands of the kalapapla!]. Ahangla of course. So I waited: Which school of thought would Dalmas Otieno use to argue the case? the case that this political bankruptcy revealed by his class, needed unequivocal support from the populace of Nyanza? Would he be of Kenyatta's suffering without bitterness? Moi's Fuata Nyayo? Christian familial turn the other cheek, forgive and forget? Would it be Kajwang's pende usipende Nyanza pod en ODM 'githwon'!? Or would he do what between the lines Niccolo Machiavelli advises: create a siege mentality. Heighten historical insecurity. Tinker with the buttons of suspicion at the usual suspects, so to mobilise latent enmity. All these to create emotional uniformity, and a greater sense of belonging, of oneness. ---A radical, authentic form of paranoid nationalism that is. When Otieno impregnated Raila's mind with the Kalonzo alliance, he of course could not have foreseen, that the chain of events he set in motion, would come back to explode in his face, right in his own backyard and ODM's bedrock. Nobody could have foreseen that anyway. Nevertheless, I wondered why the submarine had surfaced into the glare of the limelight at the KICC on the wedding date, while stealth was still the name of the game; because in Nairobi, it was obvious the alliance would double-park some careers already heavily invested in specific seats. This would require a very delicate touch to enable resolutions without repellent repercussions on the surface: Ugly ripples like Liz Ongoro's moral dissent. Hilarious is that Chair F. Bett did not comprehend Liz. He could not believe a Kenyan politician the caliber of Ongoro could make such a decision! --refusing a guaranteed seat on the gravy train, citing conscience ;D ;D! He was so genuinely perplexed that some of those in attendance became uncomfortable at the revelation. Blind spot! Well, Dalmas has not minced his words: If we Luos dare leave Raila naked, we would have historically missed our best golden opportunity. Other communities would laugh at our folly, self-inflicted, and proceed on the advantage presented like a blessing to out-compete us forever! Lady Luck would move elsewhere to other more grateful, hungrier peoples! And the Luos would have buried themselves in a bottomless pit forever. Our ancestors would never forgives neither, only curse us all the more --Fools that we be!That is the thrust of it. It was stated in some colourful Dholuo, with an authoritative deep drawl. And a deadly coat of nyadhi. That is emotional freedom with some deadly anecdotes.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 16, 2013 16:13:58 GMT 3
Well, Dalmas has not minced his words: If we Luos dare leave Raila naked, we would have historically missed our best golden opportunity. Other communities would laugh at our folly, self-inflicted, and proceed on the advantage presented like a blessing to out-compete us forever! Lady Luck would move elsewhere to other more grateful, hungrier peoples! And the Luos would have buried themselves in a bottomless pit forever. Our ancestors would never forgives neither, only curse us all the more --Fools that we be!That is the thrust of it. It was stated in some colourful Dholuo, with an authoritative deep drawl. And a deadly coat of nyadhi. That is emotional freedom with some deadly anecdotes. As Dalmas's gallant pitch and and witty mind, gets bogged in the turf-war pitting the school of please vote six-piece against the I-vote-who-I-want team, I found myself forced to take a long look back, way way back to the days of a great KANU stalwart, who was a fixer of THE politics of Luoland and her voting results. Dalmas too is an ideological fixer, though Amayo, who is the one come to mind, was in his heyday more in the make of a rent or debt collector in a tough neighbourhood. Old Heavy D. [David] was a party panel-beater, as opposed to this Heavy D. [Dalmas] who is a party theorist and best enlightened propagandist. As things are now, the Establishment triumphalism of the riggers is facing the trenchant rear-guard resistance of the free souls. And Raila needs to re-do Nyanza with even a heavier artillery than the earlier punchline whose vicious thrust was: Non-ODM candidates are bastards and wild-cats, sponsored by his opponents to eat him within his own house! [--On this imagery of wild cats tucked in gunias sewn up with sisal, surely patriotism101 of Jukwaa is the guy who first made it world famous in one of the earlier threads, albeit in a different context. Since then it has ran wild, with Jakaswanga putting up a version that made PETA adherents like Manofletters throw up! But there it is in Nyanza, being used by ODM with impunity!] In Siaya it was understood the captiain was calling the earlier peoples' choice Oduol a wild bastard cat, but Dalmas wouldn't be that crude when pressed. elections.nation.co.ke/news/-/1631868/1689608/-/p852xvz/-/index.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 28, 2013 20:55:42 GMT 3
So beautifully said it was, I doubt I will be able to translate this vintage Otieno Dalmas. unsurpassable champion of rhetorics this time around on the campaign trail. whipping the troops to line, to the last man. I will take a shot at it, O Jukwaa! ------------- "If the whites of America, the leading nation on earth, can vote and elect a Luo to lead them, patiently repeating the same feat twice for an 8 year total term, ... how then would we, Of Kin, refuse Amollo our votes?
What fit of ill would it be, that seized our hearts, O people of the Great Lake, to make some of us deny Amollo the votes? What epidemic of collective stupidity, or sickness of dimmed wits, would mortgage us to shameful apathy, to hinder us from voting to the last person, to grant Amollo the national scepter? yet ---O we who brave the pains of removing six lower teeth live--- other peoples across Kenya have agreed to rally to our side with dignity and patriotism, to do the right thing which, heavens tell, is to vote for Raila this election!" --translated from Dalmas Otieno.
Unsurpassable champion of rhetorics. But it is a sign of how fierce this issue is to the nation, that a man of his stature is forced to go totally naked before his people. He leaves them no other choice but to be graceful, rise up and cover his naked dignity. It is like the emotional blackmail of a warrior soliciting for the last of men to defend the last perimeter. The price is eternal glory, not other earthly things. A religious moment, a last communion with the soul. Do or not, die you die. Better die with glory then!
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Post by roughrider on Mar 1, 2013 18:50:48 GMT 3
Dalmas had a special place in Moi's cabinet. He was always the guy who came up with the solution that appealed to everyone. Quiet for long moments but when he spoke up, everybody listened.
His strategic mind helped him defeat Oluoch Kanindo despite the fact that Oluoch was the better Orator.
Ultimately, nothing is like Luo. If these election campaigns were carried out in Luo, then the sheer poetry I recently heard would have won CORD the elections by a mile.
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Post by nereah on Mar 29, 2013 15:55:36 GMT 3
hate him or like him, jakaswanga of jukwaa pulls no punches and when in his elements, this gifted minds affirms jukwaa's notoriety as the bellwether of kenyan politics with his incisive analysis and often humor laden outlook of the beltway of luo nyanza and its actors.
dalmas is the only odm cabinet minister who has defied agwambo and resigned his cabinet seat.
those of us who were for dropping dalmas name from the original 2008 odm cabinet list and replace him with orwa ojode serikal feel vindicated.jakaswanga you were right.
bure kabisa!
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Post by Menelik 1 on Mar 30, 2013 0:16:16 GMT 3
Dalmas knows which side of his bread is buttered ;D
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 16, 2013 22:33:29 GMT 3
OPEN LETTER TO DALMAS OTIENO.Migosi Jaduong', First in short-wave, before we relocate to queen's english: In'geni nyithindo moko kaka wan kama, pod oluori, to mana gi gimomiyo. Mani nobed achune kuomi, kata kuong' e yo machielo. Paro mar wich maler iwacho osegande medo bedo kido mari a nene, mana kaka dhialo parogo-eko e lela kod weche ma nyadimba bende, duto ka idhienyo kuku mar tutgi, kaachiel kod kaka obwongo mari otiyo matek e bidhogi. --To katakamano nyalobedo in bende tinde wiyi oselokore aoyaye!That is, respect accorded to you, Solomon, will be pre-conditional to the brilliance and depth, and the thought informing your meanings, in addition to the customary eloquence of their deliverance. Otherwise .... wan nyithindo mandalogi wang'wa tek, wanyalo guro sigingi e olundi mondo iwuoth kod yip, kinyalo paro kaka ne nyithi Libya otimo gi Jaduong' Gaddafi, Kingi Kinge. That is .. Should you fail to rise to the challenge of some original strategic thinking, we, the modern youth of cold heart and merciless drive, shall not fail to drive a stake up your rears, endowing you thus with an obscene tail, such as was Gaddafi's lot. And Grand Libyan if you remember was the King of Kings!Fate can be provenly that sad. Even for deities ala King of Kings, O heavy D! So be warned of my courtesy; it could just as well be venom in an instant! I never heard you thinking clearly on Migingo, so how do I know M7 has not bribed you to appear confused? But that is for another day. Today then, a bit of good manners will I show, to congratulate you on the occasion of your third addition . Excellent eye for detail sir. For sooth I will be ready to accept the excuse that you have been occupied elsewhere, ---the honey photo above gives a clue as to with what, such that daily politics have been a far from your bed show. That is in as far as two political animals can come on anything other than a diet of politics. Which would be very odd. Let me bang on the door of your hone moon suite then, and ask: what do we do with this 'goon and buffoon' of a senator, namely your namesake Kajwang'Gerald Mapambano Nyakwamba of Homa Bay?Heard what he said during the Homabay declaration that pitched the idea of a referendum? Now completely unraveled, in its wake. JOSHUA KUTTUNY SHOOTS REAL TROUBLE IN YOUR BACKYARD.The dust raised by the caravan of deception and deceit, atop which all Luo big-wigs affiliated to ODM rode, when it camped at Homa-Bay and put the nation on a campaign footing with a referendum chant, had barely subsided than Uhuru Kenyatta's special envoy Joshua Kuttuny arrived in the same area and made a spectacular thrust. Never has a trouble shooter shot so much trouble in Nyanza in recent memory. This Joshua, former Cherenganyi Mpig find employ in the deep state, needs a reading sir. I know you missed the ceremony, so I will give it to you with liberal doses of decoding. Not that Kuttuny wasn't serving it all in his own words! COMMERICIAL BREAK: Guest readers Keep the following in your mind as i progress with this narrative, yelling outside the honeymoon door of the top Egwugwu, Heavy D. Otieno.1. The mummy has resurrected and returned, which is to say Uhuru Kenyatta has officially surrendered himself to the advice of his mentor, DT. Arap Moi. The old warrior teaches a steady hand at the sword, and is a veteran of much vicious skulduggery. 2. Isaac Rutto, after a visit to this same area, was to be demonised and ostracised at the holy Kapkatet grounds, but the rally failed to materialise. Why? 3. Gideon Moi is holding his cards very close to his chest, and between him and Uhuru Kenyatta they share the same oracle, his father. 4. Old Moi has some axe to grind with the latter part of Uhuruto, the usurper who humiliated him with, according to him, a disrespectful and dishonourable back stab. So the old fox is at games, the games of cold hearts. Siasa motomoto as dada Nereah would quip. And indeed through the mists we see constellations. Now, back to Kuttuny. (Keeping an open mind). Half comedian, half wit, sometimes assuming the disguise of Abu Nuwas of the famed tales from Arabian nights (not to be confused with the historical Abu Nuwas), Kuttuny the critic had a few home truths to drive home. 'Tusijidanganye, Wajaluo wenzangu. Msinidanganye, nisikudanganye! Tuelewane tu! ---There were days when you Wajaluo were high in all statistics, especially education. Now, you are bottom. Siasa Mbaya, Maisha Mbaya. Siaya Kisumu Homabay are not reporting anything home! Raila na Uhuru wanakutana Kampala, wanacheka na wanafanya ma-deals, na wengine wa Jubilee wakikuja hapa, you heckle them? Are you not fooling yourselves? Wakubwa wanaongea, ata kwa simu, usiku na mchana, na wananchi wanapigana, chuki na hasira! ya nini bwana!? ---Omera, par ane!? Ati wa-jaluo have been maligned and discriminated! Kwani wakati KANU ilikuwa baba na mama, watu kama Okiki Amayo walikuwa wanatoka wapi!? na Odongo Omamao Kaliech na Omollo Okero je? Ata Dalmas Otieno alikuwa wa ndani kabisa! Who is cheating who? wandugu wenzangu? ---Yawa! Alafu kopareshen! mmesahau Moi na Raila walikuwa kama baba na mtoto wake? kitu gani uniambie Wajaluo walikuwa nje ya sirikali? ---Tusidanganyike bwana! Ukweli ya mambo is, just like other Kenyans, you have been part of it, ndani kabisa, even more so than the others! GCG si ilikuwa wajaluo na wakikuyu! wakalenjin walikuwa wapi? --si nyuma huko, after Bakamba and Baluhya and everybody!Eat more fish bwana, so that you can learn to see the truth at your own doorstep if it comes knocking!! Raila na Moi mliita kopareshen, mkasherekea na vigelegele as a political masterclass in strategy! na Okiki Amayo na Moi you denounced as 'andhoga' and you condemned to infamy!? Spot the difference and enlighten me, Wandugu! Na IEBC? jameni! Si Oswago alikuwa wenu? Na alikuwa wapi wakati wa uizi hili mnasema?
Na nyinyi hapa Nyanza je? kwani iko mtu hapa hajui governor-elect wa Siaya ni Oduol, lakini mwingine amejikalia!?
Na mnajua ---Ata ile maindi sisi Wakalenjin tulikuwa tunasema ni yetu hatuwezi kuiba , ni kina nana walitusaidia kuitengeneza ugali? EEE mmekumbuka!! Wajaluo wenzangu, open your eyes to the truth ----and your hearts to the righteous gospel of Jubilee for salvation!
I am here on a peace mission. Reconciliation and co-operation!
Lakini tusidanganyike! Tunaelewana sana! na tutazidi kuelewana, na kutembea pamoja! ---Kwa sirikali ya Jubilee. Rais atakuja hapa, na mtampokea na shangwe! Do not give me that Kisii heckling shit! '' Joshua K ottuny gave an electrifying performance. One consequence has been an avalanche of condemnation of the likes of Kajwang' and their stupidities during the Homa Bay declaration. And I think I have just caught a report that CORD has abandoned the idiocy of the referendum talk! But of course however sharp Kuttuny's tongue came, he would be slashing at the granite rocks, aka the minds of the Jarongo Otieno Anyango . And that is what I am waiting for, the vintage counter. As I listen to this song. Owino Dan Jashirati singing you! Oriti marabet, An Moluori, Jakayamo. Wanere.
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 29, 2013 15:24:34 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Nyanza-leaders-meet-Raila-over-Kidero-s-big-money-harambees/-/1064/2127180/-/n0ti20z/-/index.htmlI pity you Dalmas. Because I percieve the level of suppressive violence you have had to visit upon your mental faculties to fit in the stupidities warranted by the the party of choice in Nyanza. I watched you trying to underwrite the rigging during the primaries, Otieno, and lit a vigil on the island of Utajo ---you know what we call rito liel miparo biro chier!? That is the old ritual of half covering a grave, in the hope the dead thing inside it shall resurrect ! ---The question was if Total Intellectual suicide was a price Dalmas Otieno had paid to be elected MP, so that we could duogo e liend wiyi mondo wiwa owil kodi. [---so that we could write you off the future] One of us opted: And I think I placed a bet or told your fortune thus: Otieno Anyango will soon become a certified public fool, competing his names sake Kajwang’ atop the pantheon of buffoons, Or his mind will resurrect and catch up with him, and he will start to think, but there will be thick-heads like Jakoyo Midiwo to hunt him down with a rungu! Well, I was wrong, it looks like it is our own Otieno G. Kajwang’ who is fingering you for the slaughter. But is your mind really back? Or this is but the spurt of a dying engine!? But that 35 Luo Mps would gather at Bondo to plot your death, means you still strike fear in the hearts of even the younger generation. ----They say the source of all these monies your new friends are donating at Harambees in Luoland are suspect! Of course not. Reading the 2012/2013 [Eduard Ouko] Auditor General’s report, detailing how 300/900 billions ksh. = 30% of Government expenditure was lost, every of those Luo MPs gathered at Bondo knows where the money is coming from! That Nyong’o, Kajwang’, Raila ---and the other ministers who stole part the money Ouko is missing, do not want to donate any of the ksh. 300 billion to Nyanza Harambees, is another matter altogether![But see sister Millie parading her amnesia ] To katakamano, iwinjo jaduong’, Arambee en model ma sani koro waluongo retro. --Harambee is a method of re-distributing embezzled tax-payers money which reached its peak with Moi's frenzied political bankruptcy. It was then shown to be historically insufficient as a public generator of development. Omiyo to to time atima, to nyaka ing’e, ni en wach bwoch ma ohodho ma nyaowa olimo! En kiewo yie dhi kod oludh-kuon, to ngai hiye ma ponglo [mar mgowa] ji oweyo e geng Nam oko!
Omera awuorou jotend Nyanza. Chalo achala Rombe. Kara emomiyo Emilo Kibaki nene ochayou, luongou Kumbafu! Tinende afwenyo tie gini! My first horror on this Raila/Kidero issue, came to pass during the fund-raising to clear the bill of the former star boxer Conjestina Molly Achieng [Conje Conje]. Suffering long-term from a debilitating mental ailment, she had been admitted to the mental section of a Kisumu hospital, a would be sanatorium, and the bill had accrued to an crippling near million for her parents. A collective effort, in the form of a harambee was therefore needed to sort it out. Things got stuck, ---the Siaya people and dignitaries who, it was thought, would shoulder the bill, became wateja on the day of the harambee, and folks had to fish further for any good Samaritans. A local pastor ‘’visited’’ [other meaning please] Sam Wakiaga who in turn visited Evans Kidero. Eee, the same Wakiaga, the one Ahangla men from Suba refer to as ‘’omiyo tinde wadhi Uyoma adhes! Kisumu Chiegni’’ This is in tribute to the fact that Sam is the proprietor of the power ferry-line from Mbita to Lwanda Kotieno, which has turned Siaya county and Homabay county into one . Kidero and Wakiaga cleared all the arrears of Conjestina’s medical bills, and she was released from her detention. The problem was, compared to what Ida and Oburu on behalf of Raila had sent, Kidero’s largesse looked a statement of contempt to a certain constituency, while to another, it showed caring leadership! [Personally I suspected the ''scavengerial opportunism of a vulture'' which is not a bad thing in a politician!] The topic went to the airwaves. The so called call-in programs. And that was when I got my shocker. There is a section of the Luo community which is totally petrified at the would-be emergence of an alternative leadership in Nyanza outside Raila. The Kidero Raila became so hot in dholuo, that it soon became clear dholuo radio stations had to be aligned to contain their callers! I think, even Raila can nolonger deny there is a ground swell for an accommodation, or a purge. The Bondo retreat was a watershed. With the ODM elections scheduled in the next year, the knives are out. But will it be a repeat of Opir and Dipir?That is the 60 million dollar question, or, as we say in Homa-Bay. Ka penjo tek, luonguru Otieno Dalmas mondo odwoki!www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Nyanza-leaders-meet-Raila-over-Kidero-s-big-money-harambees/-/1064/2127180/-/n0ti20z/-/index.html [ Yaye Otieno! for ages you were told Luo nationalism owes Ruto one, because in our hour of need when death came knocking our peoples door in the wider diaspora, in the form of Mungiki adherents during PEV, it was Kalenjin-Nandi warriors under the standard of Samoei arap Ruto who answered our call of distress! At the price of blood. 5 years later now you say it in public when your fellow Luos are ganging up against you!? --- Pier meru omera! weuru tugo gi wi ji!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 19, 2014 16:41:29 GMT 3
EI! JADUONG’ OTIENO DALMAS! anguro wadugo ICHIENOU!Do you [ODM Luo MPigs] people really think you have anything to contribute to Kenya? OTIENO Kajwang’ is ‘’standing’’ merely to ruin Odhiambo Kidero’s bid for the deputy chair! That is political strategy made in Luo Nyanza to keep our house in order! You have resolved to lock out Kidero because he is not loyal enough to Raila! Perish the thought, that this kind of brain work, and her authors, ever get anywhere near the state governorship of Kenya! For it would be a leadership unto darkness. Truly truly I say unto you. Un nyawawa, achako goyonu depe!But that is not the real point I want to make. The point I will pursue, is the Ideology of [Luo] entitlement to ODM top seats, based on ethnic, and or geographical lineage. RESERVED. ODM as a mere Luo tool for Raila sycophancy, in the vision of our popular representatives. Yawa, meritocracy cha en ang’o kara? ---how about the democratic say of members of the party in universal suffrage? How about the rest of Kenya, sighing in cheeky releaf, that the tyranny of Uhuruto numbers, surely is a godsend in comparison to a would be tyranny of an exclusive Luo Nyanza aristocracy at the helm!You know nothing about PR, popular perceptions and crowd behaviour!? Obong’o Nyakalaga ikonywa, igolwa a chamo Kenchic, wadog e Omena! Junk-Food oloko obwongo me wi jotendwa othinyo mar rombo! ----TABIA MBAYA! Okethore okethore! Mano tabia mbaya! Onjawore onjawore! Mano tabia mbaya! Kata Otieno Dalmas ---tabia mbayaaaaa! Nyithiwa Luo e mudho te! ---tabia mbaya!I hope you, Anyango Heavy D, are not part of this retarded caucus of legislators --- themselves the beneficiaries of rigged primary party elections. The Agwambo now reaps the proceeds of what he sowed, meaning he planted weak seed, so he harvests a crippled crop. The corps know they can not compete open and fair, and so the seats at the high table must be reserved for them. Mediocrity and sycophancy is now an open rot amongst the Luo legislators, and Kenyans can now openly twitch their noses at the pus flowing from Nyanza. Raila in his sewer. Preparing to drown in it if you do not drain it for him, yaye Jarongo! I write with contempt today, I find you Nyanza Luompigs a despicable lot. Whichever of these two wings you belong to? You expect Kenyans to buy and swallow this sh!t and vote Raila next election? www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/-job-is-causing-unease/-/1064/2151324/-/k36ure/-/index.htmlBut all is not glood and doom in the long term. I know a fellow with an alternative pitch to my crest fall. THE LUONYANZANISATION OF THE ODM And that Nyanza is Siaya and Kisumu. NB: The chairman of our drinking club has an alternative thesis. He says this is a welcome further step in the balkanisation of Kenya. Most counties are ethnically specific in the majority of the population anyway. So it is logical the parties too, follow-suit, first as ONE PARTY MONOPLOLY’S of a particular ethnic group ----IE TNA for the kyuks, ODM for the jadhes, urp for the kales, WDM as the re-incarnated Akamba Peoples Party of Paulo Ngei, and the Muslims of the coast and the people of Ingoo will soon have theirs. That is the logical first phase. Then as the cleavages become canyons[/i],the monopolys' become inadequate responses and have to split further. This the second phase emerges as a logical culmination. The various monopolist, ethnic-nationalist parties become too narrow to interpret and articulate the diversities of that ethnic group whose total representative they pretends to be. The escalating contradictions within one ethnic group itself, primitive class constellations, leads to a multi-party process within that specific group. A historically compulsory diversity. Luoland develops two or more –Luo-- parties, of which the ODM is just one. Kikuyuland too, TNA just one amongst many; and the process is then similar in Kalenjin- and Kambalands too; and Pwani [even as secessionists of the MRC idea contra unitarists!]. Third phase then is the development of KENYA-WIDE SISTER HOOD parties to concoct a state government. The party of rich Luos goes into alliance with the party of rich Kikuyus and the party of rich Kalenjins; and on the other side, the party of the Luo riff-raff partners in a Kenya-wide electoral pact with the party of Kikuyu riff-raffs, the party of Luhya riff-raffs, and the party of Kalenjin riff-raffs. The parties are then both ethnic and ideological. And no pretense nor illusions! Kenya is run by a conglomerate honest in both its ethnic/tribal and ideological flags. Concocting a workable government in Nairobi then requires skilled ‘’plumbers’’ the rank of the legendary Andreotti of Italy. Central government is weak, but the whole country booms economically and political representation in organised form, of all social layers, guarantees an absence of exclusion and alienation. Even in my drinking club, at the popular Mama Mbogas as Otishotish derogatively refers to it, the intellectual civil war is already on. I find our Luo legislators despicable with their entitlement ideology to odm seats. My friend finds it a historically catalyst move. It will destroy ODM, burry Raila, and lead to full multi-party in Nyanza, and Kenya! Ruto's current problems are that URP is too narrow to interpret and articulate all Kalenjin nationalist grievances. There is just so much hay a single fork can pick! We wait and see!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 3, 2014 19:25:00 GMT 3
www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000103598&story_title=warning-as-more-leaders-quit-odm-race&pageNo=2Now now Dalmas! The standard newspaper report could of course be wrong . Papers got to sell, and these juvenile 8-4-4 journalists have a better relationship with sensation that with verification. So there is the possibility that, that bit about the telephone speech in which you said/accused Raila of barring you from contesting, is a sweetener. Well, if you are minion enough to be barred by Raila from pursuing your democratic rights by availing yourself as a candidate, then, of course, that is what you are: in essence a lowly pawn to be traded at will for the greater profit as need be. And it is possible that is what you always have been, or the specific role you have hitherto fulfilled; therefore, when you ignored the hint, this public humiliation was necessary, just to show your ilk their true place in the ODM fraternity. ---You clever men of figures (math and statisticians) seem not to understand your place in the hierarchy, and invariably set yourselves up for dispiriting put-downs whenever you grow horns. Take a look! www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Why-Raila-Odinga-is-furious/-/1064/2169504/-/rg9d5lz/-/index.htmlHISTORICAL FOOTNOTE: ‘’Professor kimya!’’ revisited. The baffled, tongue-tied dropped jaw of the math genius George Saitoti has become a legend in folklore that illustrates this point. ‘’Professor kimya!’’, Daniel arap Moi ordered him without even a glance, ‘Kama gunia kimya!’ Saitoti was a dog ordered back, world-class brains not withstanding. He had developed an erroneous image of himself in the scheme of things. And now the much acclaimed smart-head Otieno Anyango, has been helped out of his dreams to occupy an official position in ODM, by a curt order from the boss Raila. -- Ei, omera, adiera Joluo nowacho Ogwang’ chamo to tho romoe! To bende kata idoko professional ochot, to bedo ni dhano wadu osiko tiyo kodi e dwache, nyalo romi, miwachi ni thoo! obedi yawa! Miyo piera oola! Akuno ma kata ka adhi nindo kech to adhi anindi![Everything has its price, some taxing the heart much more. Even a professional prostitute tires of being used every which hole by every passerby, and, as the Luos say, goes home dejected, insisting she will sleep hungry, if hers is to suck every drop of gonorrhoea-pus for a dollar, to eat.] But really, the dilemma of that street hooker is the lot of dependent sycophants who long ago sold their independence, however brilliant they be! ---whether Professor Anyang’, Lawyer Orengo, or Dalmas Otieno. Just minions and pawns in Raila’s battle plans. The moment they forget, then it is Moi to Saitoti: kimya wewe, mbua![Remind me to tell the tale of David Okiki Amayo in his heydays as KANU chairman. They used to sing: Kineno Amayo, to inind piny (kaka) rombo! Amayo mand chwo ng’wony ka tong wan’ggi orakore kod mare! Amayo chwo goyoni erokamano gi mondgi, duk!--Or-- Men lie low like slain sheep when Amayo looks up! Their balls crawl and shrink when their gaze crosses Amayo’s And they pay tribute to Amayo the man with their wives, naked!] That was a nyatiti man rubbing it in. When Moi was the man! But anyway, Otieno, It is wrong to think there is no need for an independent in a court. Meaning, a court filled of sycophants is a high rate of decay. Such a court, being incestuously ineffectual, is doomed to implode in itself, suffering from the poverty of intercourse of the critical thinking type. An independent [mind] offers the most balanced advice in court, processes information in the most objective fashion, and shows the merits of options. All options. But once the decision is taken, the independent counsellor in court recognises to openly attack the King is treason. And holds his tongue.[But may be the logic is the King is half a King). I therefore seriously think you, the man who concocted the CORD alliance, Otieno Heavy D, should not be giving interviews via the telephone to 8-4-4 newspaper correspondents, calling Raila names! Unless of course you have decided to do a Geoffrey Howe on Margaret Thatcher. [more about that later, because I can not narrate –the sheep who became an assassin-- the short way!] I think your role should be that of senior counsellor. In and out of the court. The one totting a sane head in a crisis. The Nestor in the pack. And the biggest task of a Luo [comprador] Nestor at this historical time, is to map out all the options as they pertain to the Raila succession. Currently the hottest topic in Luoland. This is not to say you start preparing an obituary. That is easy, the obituary part, and there shall be many to go for it. What I mean is this is this other: In Old Egypt, a living Pharao, would start early to organise his passage. The burial. The man would spend the last years of his regime with his grave already prepared, yawning and waiting for him. And there was already a script, and a rehearsed director, so that the rituals and protocols were in place well before hand. For a smooth transition. Imagining, and preparing for the demise of the pharaoh, was therefore a practical necessity. Not treason [like nowadays! If an Egyptian is found imagining the death of General Horemheb Fateh al Sisi, it would be deemed a terrorist act! just like calling Mohammed Morsi President elect!] Compare much more relaxed rituals, like we saw on the occasion of Nelson Mandela’s mass. It was truly more an occasion for a world party, all sorts of fun with dignitaries in flirtatious ‘selfies’ and all, nay, it was not a show-case of big rounded tears raining thick and fast and flooding clothes! it was a normal and relaxed function. The death was long in coming.But transitions remain risky affairs, and even in the highly ritualised, protocol-laden eternal Egypt of old, chaos was a frequent visitor during such periods. Now, Raila is a warrior who has fought long in the field, and as such, has given the Jaluos ample time to premeditate his absence ---like Mandela's long hospitalisation prepared mankind for the demise of the god. And because Agwambo has been so dominant and eternal, his absence will be keenly noted. And it is to absorb that loss, to straighten out the eventual dip in the fortunes of comprador Luo nationalism, that comprador Nestors are needed at work. That is the dominant form of contemporary Luo nationalism, is the bandit bourgeoisie model. Would it be possible to maintain a united Luo front for block voting? a-la Unity is strength? or is it better to say: do not put all your eggs in one basket, but rather spread the risks, diversify, thereby opening our closed shores for every fisherman? Globalising as in liberalisation.Do we contest for the top seat, or like the minimalist Kalenjin under Ruto, do a deal for the vice and be prepared to eat humble pie ---reasoning that a crumb at hand, is better than a loaf at the shop!? Consoling the mass with: the wheel of fortune it turns around [This needs a measure of healing, that is mainstream Luo nationalism overcoming the two traumas precipitated by two historic betrayals by comprador Gikuyu chieftains: Kenyatta to Odinga snr.; Kibaki to Odinga jnr. The third one of yesterday perpetrated by Kenyatta jnr. is too mild to be considered yet.] So, Dalmas, with demonic strategists like Onyango Oloo TNT of TNA wolfishly on the prowl; with a host of your young Luo turks reported to be hovering around the registrars office shopping, or, like hookers at a pick-up joint, displaying their wares; with Raila officiating in Alego and only Rasanga and Gumbo in attendance; with a near boycott of the young turks of the Jaramogi memorial; with heavy lightweights like Kidero and you, Dalmas, ritually humiliated before a national audience, one can not successfully hide the ongoing meltdown at the Western Front. The magic touch has escaped from the hands of the Agwambo. Even the doldrums of the Kisumu molasses plant at which he was not a manager, are now being heaped on him. Don’t attack the man in public Otieno, neither in whispering campaigns. Be your calibre, and organise the succession. An equivalent of the king is dead, long live the king! You slipped, and I have to slap you. Make sure I do not spit on your face and kick your teeth in. We all enjoyed your speech in classical dholuo, defending the rigging of ODM primary elections! And we said: wabiro neno, ee waketo wang’wa! he will swallow his slick tongue, now he defends undemocratic processes! And now it came to pass, that you think Raila is unfair to you because he barred you from contesting and ODM position, but he was okay when he rigged Alegoman Oduol out of the Siaya governorship? ---Salalala! Jaluo riek! Jaluo malo malo! ALuoch Simba wero. Lakini, samoro wan rombe ndi! Wiwa wil njiri! [Indeed Aluoch Jamaranda sang Jaluo malo malo, jaluo akili tupu! But then you would be speechless, catching us being sheep, and totally no memory!]. So, Otieno, back to wheeling and dealing behind the scenes! A submarine does best in stealth! NB: ha ha hah ha! Ati you approached Raila saying, ‘’rotation time, Central Nyanza has had its go, South Nyanza should now be S-G ODM!‘’ I do not believe it. I think you are too clever to be that stupid! but others will believe it! Proving to them you are crap! Senile crap! Either you scored an own goal there, or, if it is a Raila lie, he really has ferociously inserted the dagger in you! A host of comprador degenerates!
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 3, 2014 20:49:31 GMT 3
It is wrong to think there is no need for an independent in a court. Meaning, a court filled of sycophants is a high rate of decay. Such a court, being incestuously ineffectual, is doomed to implode in itself, suffering from the poverty of intercourse of the critical thinking type. An independent [mind] offers the most balanced advice in court, processes information in the most objective fashion, and shows the merits of options. All options. But once the decision is taken, the independent counsellor in court recognises to openly attack the King is treason. And holds his tongue.[But may be the logic is the King is half a King). Jakaswanga: I will leave the Luo politics to you guys, but it seems to me that there are two clear options in such cases, those being (a) to get a new-and-improved king and (b) to get a better quality in courtiers for the current king. (b) might be worth considering, given that the king in question has, his obvious native abilities not withstanding, surrounded himself with a crew of the very dodgy quality, and there is to be found the tragedy in his story. Even an ordinary cow will (in the production of milk) out-perform a "grade" cow if there is a large enough difference in the quality of feed. Anyway ... this is the bit that really interested me on this "posting": Some Roman emperors were gods, but even they accepted they were some sort sort of mortal gods. ... Skipping right to the 20th century ... all Japanese emperors are, we are told, directly descended from the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-ōmikami, and until 1926, had to be purified and reborn so that they could change from man to god before taking up the big seat. (Akihito, emperor from 1989, is the first "mere man" to sit on the throne.) But they too accepted their status as some sort of mortal gods. But Kenya!Forget about preparations for death. Forget about talking about the possible death of an old man in poor health. The attorney-general, a certain Sir Charles, woke up one morning and stated that it was illegal----high treason or something---to even imagine the death of the president! (He never pointed to a particular law or indicated how law-enforcement authorities would or could detect such imaginings.) Amazing? Not as amazing as the fact that hardly any Kenyan dared question this declaration of immortality, which, with one stroke put Kenya well head of the rest of the African pack. (At the time, others were happy to settle for a mere "president for life".) Not even the smallest " ay ya yai!" from a single Kenyan. You will no doubt say that Kenyans were sheep in those days, that these days we have "grade" Kenyans. Are we sure? Perhaps they are just allowed to make a bit more noise while The Owners eat even bigger slices. In the context of this thread, have the "robotic voters" been "humanized"?
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 5, 2014 19:20:45 GMT 3
It is wrong to think there is no need for an independent in a court. Meaning, a court filled of sycophants is a high rate of decay. Such a court, being incestuously ineffectual, is doomed to implode in itself, suffering from the poverty of intercourse of the critical thinking type. An independent [mind] offers the most balanced advice in court, processes information in the most objective fashion, and shows the merits of options. All options. But once the decision is taken, the independent counsellor in court recognises to openly attack the King is treason. And holds his tongue.[But may be the logic is the King is half a King). Jakaswanga: I will leave the Luo politics to you guys, but it seems to me that there are two clear options in such cases, those being (a) to get a new-and-improved king and (b) to get a better quality in courtiers for the current king. (b) might be worth considering, given that the king in question has, his obvious native abilities not withstanding, surrounded himself with a crew of the very dodgy quality, and there is to be found the tragedy in his story. Even an ordinary cow will (in the production of milk) out-perform a "grade" cow if there is a large enough difference in the quality of feed. Oh, yes Otishotish, good of you to leave Luo politics to we guys! Last time I was handling the anxieties of Luo nationalisms, I remember a group of royal, loyalist Luo boys closed then pulled rank, thereby managing to partially intimidate the stalwart administrator into locking the thread. May be they convinced him Raila would be president and, if he continued to let some fake Luos bad mouth him on Jukwaa, they would deport him to his fatherland Canada! ---Then the Miguna dam burst came and all was lost. A new and improved King!? I do not know a workshop where they pimp-up ramshackle Kings, or sell upgraded versions! Otherwise I would be there, keeping a vigil on the door, to be first in when they open for business: like ---Do you know of that BLACK FRIDAY Sale day in the USA when women break their ankles running toward the door in high heels!? It actually took a bit of external help, to de-mythologize the Japanese royal family from divine to mere mortal commoners. --- Hirohito, I believe that is the name of the father of Akihito the current half-god, had a very sobering altercation with the down to earth American General MacAthur. Conquered Japanese Generals told the american no man could gaze into the eyes of the Son of Light. They would go blind, since he was a God. MacArthur, dark with fury from the soldiers he had lost at Okinawa to Japanese suicide soldiers, was terse and ice: 'No need to!' he answered with icy malice. 'I wont gaze into his eyes; I will bend him over so that my big nig-gahs can rip his godly ass to pieces with their enormous nig-gah cocks! When they are done, I will shove dynamite into him, and order you guys to ignite. You are welcome to stay in that room when it detonates!' Japan had become effectively an American colony, and their chief god, a subject to General MacArthur, himself no doubt a god in his own super-ego perception! Nothing works on mystique, like a harsh dose of bare-knuckled reality, served with unflinching steel. Well, that is human development and history on the slow track for you. Evolution Can always be speeded up, but a life under mutant forms can turn out to be a cure worse than the disease! Beware of what you wish for!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 5, 2014 19:50:47 GMT 3
WELL, Dalmas Otieno Anyango Yo, I saw dr. Oburu Odinga declaring you 'a traitor who always has been opposing us'. Even having uttered a blasphemous prophecy --A Luo will not be president! Have you now changed your heart! fumed Oburu with venom!
Methinks you Heavy-D should not indulge a common drunk like Oburu Oginga with a response. Even as he called you names in that infamous clip, I doubt he was sober. There is a transition to be managed Otieno, and it needs sane heads. Oburu giri gin gik ma wigi noselokore kitundu. We mondo [cultural pathologists] kaka wan kama ema otim nend pachgi, oler kaka gitow! ---But what a fall out!
Da Ker Madit is an old man now. And old men smell of death. And for Da Ker Madit, there is always an estate to inherit. Many a loved one thus flock to the death-bed, but only because they want to appear in the will. Many a brother profess in public their undying loyalty, but the Luo say: kech man kowadu ok moni nindo.
Raila's presidential ambitions have never been the concern of big brother Oburu. Otherwise given a chance to work at the treasury, he would not have slept and, together with Uhuru Kenyatta, reported error after error. And he would not have orchestrated the rigging of hometown Siaya, effectively punching the air off the lungs of candidate Agwambo: Forcing him to use scarce resources campaigning severally in Siaya of all places!
Such a man, Otieno, no point engaging him in a public altercation. Let us keep people knowing the difference!
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 6, 2014 4:15:09 GMT 3
Nothing works on mystique, like a harsh dose of bare-knuckled reality, served with unflinching steel. Ha! You "spoke" too soon. Today is 6 Feb 2014, and a "raging controversy" right now in Japan concerns NHK (the BBC of Japan). A well-known academic, recently appointed to be one its governors, claims that the emperor has been, if somewhat briefly, been a god again, on at least one occasion, because some fellow, before offing himself, muttered a words about the emperor. Of the American-inspired constitution, she says "bugger it!". And Unenlightened MacArthur's so-called declaration, in which a god was rudely forced to deny his divinity? Well, bugger that too! Because Nomura uttered a prayer that the emperor may prosper, immediately before shooting himself three times in the stomach, “His Imperial Highness, even if momentarily, became a living God again, no matter what the ‘Humanity Declaration’ says or what the Japanese constitution says,” she wrote. www.japantoday.com/category/politics/view/nhk-governor-praises-rightists-ritual-suicide-in-1993-as-glorifying-emperor?utm_campaign=jt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=jt_newsletter_2014-02-06_AMWhich brings us back to your own human god ... He has now twice been forced, by thieves, I am told, to accept his humanity and move on. Will there be a third attempt at Ascension? If so, then, as I indicated above, a different breed of bishop is required. As for the True Believers, here is something I have observed from living in cold climes: Truly, sheep were made to be shorn, just as the sun was made to shine; but excessive shearing, especially when it routinely happens in winter, eventually gets to them and sometimes kills the young ones. Leads to a lot of " baa, baa" and what we may call "failure to cooperate" ...
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 9, 2014 0:19:57 GMT 3
Which brings us back to your own human god ... He has now twice been forced, by thieves, I am told, to accept his humanity and move on. Will there be a third attempt at Ascension? If so, then, as I indicated above, a different breed of bishop is required. As for the True Believers, here is something I have observed from living in cold climes: Truly, sheep were made to be shorn, just as the sun was made to shine;but excessive shearing, especially when it routinely happens in winter, eventually gets to them and sometimes kills the young ones. Leads to a lot of "baa, baa" and what we may call "failure to cooperate" ... Here is some trouble, OTISHOTISH, -- Podp was in Kisumu and it appears, as the Igbos say, a goat ate hair from his head turning him bald: IS this perhaps what you may mean by sheep refusing to be SHORN, even if that is their supposed destiny? Here is the standard link by Podp: www.nation.co.ke/counties/kisumu/Sikh-Statue-Kisumu-Raila-Odinga/-/1954182/2197694/-/n9bi0i/-/index.html I can not find the photos in Jukwaa archives which, to the glee of your other friends, showed Miguna and Onyango Oloo leaving a Kisumu venue in hmmmm disappointment at failing to promote a certain book which contained the line: using Luo Nyanza as robotic voters and a herd of sheep! ---Mad man Miguna! Nominated senator for Nairobi, Elizabeth Ongoro who, I think, qualifies as a true believer in your typology, broke down when she, in her heart, fathomed how far her love Raila was being misled ffrom the rightful path. Is she refusing to be shorn? Producing a lot of baa-baa as you put it in derision? (Mark you this is her second time in as many weeks she looses it! Eh, huh!?) Knowing Elizabeth Ongoro’s aptitude for cleanliness, the rot in this party must be beyond redemption; ---when she was a victim of ethnic arithmetic in Nairobi in her senatorial bid, but was handed over a nomination certificate in the corrupt ODM primaries to the disadvantage of Ruaraka’s Tom Kajwang’, she would not have it --citing issues of conscience: that a Kenyan politician knows that word was of course a dumbfounding revelation! and of course in the famous incident of husband bashing, the poor jater had misused her name to make a few coins on the back: Liz blew her top and thrashed him right into the ICU! jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/5824 She is a stickler to some hygiene in public office, our Liz. And a few weeks back at the Jaramogi memorial in Bondo, she was already high-strung if not broken-voiced ---see video elsewhere and here. Really, I do not know whether it is the corrupt perks of nominated senator she needs, but people like Liz Ongoro have no business being in this faction anymore. She is too concerned and her baa baas will soon turn hysterical. And if she really wants to serve Kenya at her potential, she must weigh her real options, than be loyal to a rot. She should support Namwamba’s candidature for instance, defy Otieno Kajwang’ who, amazingly, Raila can not realise is just another flat tyre like Karoli Omondi was. Or may be she got to look up, extricate herself from self pity, and admit Raila is lost. This avalanche of tears will only make folks say: ''broken and emotionally unstable, go home and nurse your soul in therapy or restful solitude. ---or write a sour grapes book like the Njuguna Miguna Miguna!'' I remember the chairman of our drinking club telling this Liz: You fwackers all knew of Karoli and his rotten maize scheme but held your tongues for shared profit. When the rot finally catches up with you, and you need a shoulder to cry on, remind me to help carry your phat butt! { ‘’Karoli Omondi giri oomo, kendo uso oduma ma kelo tuo ni Luo, to uling’ thi. Miguna ema uyanyo. Aming’a piny ubiro yudo ka wiwu otow kaka oduma ogo ma Karoli ondusonu ohande ---jajwogni! Kelna sianda motimo gotgo arwa!’’} Liz is big and tough and a genuine ODM damu, and the chairman of our club is professorial and retiring. Thus not your typical Randy the Machoman. So to even things up, I was employed as his body guard. Having been an official body guard in some African bush, I of course could neutralise Liz faster than Francois Hollande’s guards could taser Valerie Trierweiler when, in a fit of scorned love, she smashed an invaluable Louis the XVIth vase on the president’s head! But you know what O man! I have taken close looks at dying men, offered to be their last confessor like when I was a secretary to Gatchacha courts in Rwanda; and one stays addicted to the intensity that a human face can display when the heart is boiling in pure passion. You know, it is a bit like making love at daytime, and gazing deep into the eyes of your partner as you simultaneously come,and come. That kind of soul to soul unmitigated intensity.. That kind of intensity man, I will die, or kill for it. No, accept God and go to heaven for it! ---I am at mama Mboga's, so I am somewhat uninhibited. Back to stiff upper lip tomorrow, I promise!
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 9, 2014 18:39:57 GMT 3
Jakaswanga:
I took a look at the Ongoro video. It has a promising start, with one or two burly, Tyson-like women about to do something Tyson-like, but then .... wasted popcorn.
On the other hand, podp's link led to much better material. I took a look at the photo of the "Hindu Sikh God" and read the DN article. (Hindu Sikh? Wow.) It appears to be an "abstract" work depicting a person in prayer or a Buddhist greeting or ... As far as I know, that style of work is not "traditional" in Kenya. When they carvings in that style first appeared in Kenya, they used to be sold as "premium & authentic imported carvings"; these days they are all over the place and are sold as "premium & authentic Kamba carvings" or ""premium & authentic Kisii carvings", depending on the material used.
Anyway, I can see the sheep's people's point: during the day they see this small carving in some shop; they go to sleep; then they wake up to find it ten feet tall! And they note that all this happened in the middle of the night. Wow. What strong "medicine".
Booing, jeering, personal gain, rubber stamps, eh? No shortage of baa-baa there ...
As for Karoli's little matter, I believe it has already been dealt with: "who told Luos not to eat"? By the way, there was a time when all Luo homes had granaries that were well-stocked between harvests. So what's this about people buying poisoned maize? Time to go forward to the past ...
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Post by b6k on Feb 10, 2014 6:39:49 GMT 3
I've got to agree with Otishotish on this one. Plenty of Kisii soapstone carvings look like the statute did. Much ado about nothing by Kisumu city residents...
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