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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 30, 2015 22:24:41 GMT 3
THINGS PAC FALL APART GENERALI, DID YOU LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY, OR , GOD FORBID, YOU ALREADY HAD YOUR DAY!?But no worries, you are young I believe, and can learn I believe, from the scars of youthful stupidity. Because for a man of your political talents, you have been extremely stupid, or, in military terms, you would be a corpse now, a real corpse. Your head on stake through the victory parade, a trophy. PAC was thunder, the weapon of the Gods. But in your hands, it became a dilapidated scarecrow.Your killer instinct is underdeveloped. In fact dormant as to be non existent. you just don't need your balls kicked hard, you need your jaw broken too. You think that is a joke in power!? watch the video of Samuel Doe's death at the hands of Butt Naked. this power amigo. The game of Death. So let us go slow again. Easy, easy. ---Continued. Two end games as homework, to remind of what mistakes in the powergame can result in: Doe and Gaddafi. Now, to more cheery stuff: Obi Okonkwo, the fictional character whose tribulations Chinua Achebe tells of in the book no longer at ease, is an accomplished young man. He is highly trained and, an academic star, cleverer than just about anybody around , if not like Ababu Namwamba, then a bit like Willy Mutunga, Evans Gicheru, Mwai Kibaki, George Saitoti, Mbiyu Koinange ... (hear! hear!
some countries really do have them giant talents!) This superiority is an awareness which makes Mr. Obi a bit of vain cocky. He is mostly aloof and privately disdainful of many; but no worries, he will adapt somehow or rue the day ---this is Lagos after all. In Lagos life is a jungle they say, and asiyefundishwa na mamake, ata fundishwa na ulimwengu, they say. Also, they say, this academic cleverness is no substitute for wisdom, and the high professional training at which mr. Okonkwo has excelled, they say, no proof for coping with the complexities of Nigerian culture, nor the traps of born hunters, nor the passions of men and women unfolding on a mat of economic dire, nor the thuggery of psychopaths in the pursuit of power. And the power game in Nigeria, even today, decades after that book, is still more of a General's and colonels affair. Chinua Achebe rivets our attention as he narrates the slow disintergration of this young star Obi. Obi happens to be the grandson of the Great Okonkwo, an authentic Tragic hero of yonder. That is the hot stud of Things Fall Apart.
The story of Obi Okonkwo has terrified me ever since I read it as a teenager in Nyanza. I ---in the footsteps of an uncle who was pushing it--- valued and value education. Like a fetish, I placed the future of Africa at education's doorstep. But I would grow up, and Mother Africa would interrogate my fetish, and shred it to pieces. She would throw at me one Obi Okonkwo after another. The unending nightmare. By and by Africa chews my hero. Africa, like a big anaconda of the Congo which works a whole hippo peristalticall, slowly sucks all the moral fortitude of my Obis, --our studded Obis. It may take it a month but, patience being a virtue as in kidogo kidogo hujasa kibaba, the swallowing goes steadfast until finally the whole hippo disappears inside the slithery, super-elastic muscles of MOKELE BEMBE the leviathan. Thereafter some of the toughest enzymes known to evolution begin to show just what their worth is.All these genial brains of Africa ---the Obi Okonkwos with their stupectacular training at the most excellent colleges abroad and local, are no match for the anaconda of corruption at home. Bit by bit they are devoured, and their skeletons litter the intestines of the beast --- You catch, General Ababu!? Or is it ex General? You are being masticated alive by the enzymes of corruption even as you recognise it not. You are trapped in their web, and you need to be a fly of many wiles otherwise the sting from which there is no return shall strike. I have never recovered from my youthful shock at George Saitoti's incapacitation. I ever hyperventilate thinking of his fate. George, a mathematical genius at the finance docket who ended up worse than an illiterate moron. (His impotence was even more magnified by the fact that, it was at the same period in which the talented man of Singapore LKY was hard at work, not to mention the economic architect Mahathir of Malaysia, hmm, whereas our George Saitoti got sun-struck and suffered a paralysis, then mutated into a run-away thief. And he was not the only genius around Kenya to go bonkers!)Now, years later as a greybeard, my adolescent wet dream Georgina long charred after other fiery consummations in space, do I rudely relapse into total depression as I watch my new pet wet dream, Tawfiq Ababu Namwamba, former chairman of PAC -the would-be last bastion of the fight against corruption after every other institution is fallen to the anaconda, work out to be nothing but a ''cheap rent seeker!'' a fake intrigant masquerading as a worthy Wanjiku suitor! My poor bad heart can not handle this no more! I tell you! Man, I was busy billing and bigging Nereah's boy up into a Horatio at the bridge (much against the advice of the old man Podp who, with a churlish grin, told me to dream on in musturbatory indulgence, when the Al-shabaab look-alike Aden Duale kicked the whole house of cards in! He was paving the way for the son of Jomo to have a great homerun! indicting Ababu himself amongst sordid cravens like Kimemia and Iringo! And Kazungu Kambi!Of course Troy does not fall like that. There must be Trojan horses. The likes of John Mbadi and Eddyck Anyanga of Nyatike. Substandard products of rigged ODM process.Oops, all this time Ababu knew of the corruption inside his committee, knew fellow members were accepting bribes to alter paragraphs and let the guilty go scot free, and he chose to maintain the facade of integrity himself!? Yes, it is possible you are innocent of the first count You saw the eating but did not participate (like Obi Okonkwo in the beginning). But the point is, you did not put your foot down, and that now, is being an accomplice. And of course, as chair, ex chair, bears responsibility for overal abetting overall serious [moral] crimes. Ababu is a man who has read and quoted the glib lawyer Abraham Lincoln, so he would know when he set himself up for a sucker punch. PAC was power, Ababu. And now you have to argue before Wanjiku what you did with it. Whether you are like Ouru Kenyatta, ever yammering and lamenting in public that corruption is derailing Kenya, while he is under oath and in power! In fact, he is the head of it! (He gathered some courage yesterday, and we hail him, want to help him, because it is better than nothing, and it is an opening, and it could be the Trojan Horse move, now we can run amok inside the citadel of corruption called the Kenyan government, cutting down even the innocent as collateral damage, burning the good with the bad. Because it is a sack. You know, like the Romans at Carthago. Going for a victory over corruption that must echo through the centuries!) It would be highly portent for you now, to reveal the many occasions you were thwarted when you tried to contact the president directly, because [he confessed severally] his office was the epicenter. But the PORK never refused to give you a hearing as PAC chair in your anti-corruption crusade, did he? I mean you never did make no effort to approach the man, to confront him even ex officio? As he sat next to you in Budalangi, sizing the price of your as-s? Come on Namwamba, this is 2014 captured here. A man of your intelligence and parliamentary ooze as PAC chair, if you failed to querry Ouru on the
2.8 or 8.3 billion figure, then you must know in your own mind you are a lesser General against corruption Who is the thief now!? name forwarded to DPP Tobiko!?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 1, 2015 22:51:36 GMT 3
Is Ababu’s star shining bright again? asks the standard. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000167321/is-ababu-s-star-shining-bright-again/Shine and shine some more! O sun of our land! But a footnote: Mr. Namwamba Tawqiq, you risk being that boy who cried wolf too often. And in between there have been more cries; and then again this last few days [/i] [/quote] Why is your ass getting kicked all over the place -(one) on the high end of positive spin I would say: it is great that high trees catch a lot wind, but (two) the flip side could be: no one fears your powers of retaliation. -You are a safe ass to kick without consequences. Iringo finally got rid of you and your whole PAC team, no? The ease with which it was done got me thinking. I have a bad mind. There are ways in which when fights are lost, I think the match is fixed. You are ranked General; Iringo, however powerfull, should not have walked over you like that. That is why I have to investigate if the match was fixed (working from the premise your reputation as general is not a hoax!) 2. I do not like the way you kept your powder dry when Monicah Juma was being roasted alive by your fellow Mpigs. Her crime? Being less corruptible than the whole lot. Now you go around beaming around William Ruto and Uhuru and Kidero and. Deputy President William Ruto with Hon. Ababu Namwamba when leaders from Western Kenya paid the President a courtesy call at State House, Nairobi. Photo:PSCU But Monicah Juma you wont touch, not even with a comment!? But the Lang'ata landgrabber and Weston Hotel owner!? You Know I always wondered why you never could do a John Githong'o, not, not the taping of your mates, no, rather, the procurement of an ace-accounting and forensic financial investigating bureau to assist PAC. Such reports are far better than inaudible tapes! 2nd: The Parliamentary agricultural commission and the Mumias sugar company report. The Chairman of PAC with a firebrand reputation to defend, should not have gone to bed before getting to the bottom of whether it was 60M or 100M (kitu kidogo) tea gift from the Sukari babas!
But you did, Ababu. I think Mutea Iringo noticed. And reached the correct conclusion. Just like others like him would reach the correct conclusion on Mumo Matemu and his EACC colleagues.
. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/mps-near-fight-over-sh60-million-bribe#sthash.oyLDGF6L.dpuf[/quote] A long time ago on Jukwaa, we noticed how easily Willy Mutunga had the Judiciary vetting commission be disbanded, by handing Judge Warsame the knife before it was held at his throat. It was a template, or a precedent like you learned friends like to say. Since then, 'organs or instruments of public hygienic' have been disbanded, or are in the process of being thereof. And the General? He seems to beam much more in the company of state thieves than Wanjiku! And the General? And the animals looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and back again. Or something like that at the end of Animal Farm by George Orwell! www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Corruption-Scandals-EACC-Kenya-Society/-/440808/2638682/-/ybyx39/-/index.html
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Post by kamalet on Jul 2, 2015 10:03:50 GMT 3
And the General? He seems to beam much more in the company of state thieves than Wanjiku! Jakswanga Perhaps you might want to look at the inconsistency in our constitution to see where the "General" may have been coming from: Article 234
Functions and powers of the Public Service Commission (1)The functions and powers of the Commission are as set out in this Article.
(2)The Commission shall— (a)subject to this Constitution and legislation— (i) establish and abolish offices in the public service; and (ii) appoint persons to hold or act in those offices, and to confirm appointments; (b)exercise disciplinary control over and remove persons holding or acting in those offices; (c)promote the values and principles referred to in Articles 10 and 232 throughout the public service; (d)investigate, monitor and evaluate the organisation, administration and personnel practices of the public service; (e)ensure that the public service is efficient and effective; (f)develop human resources in the public service; (g)review and make recommendations to the national government in respect of conditions of service, code of conduct and qualifications of officers in the public service; (h)evaluate and report to the President and Parliament on the extent to which the values and principles referred to in Articles 10 and 232 are complied with in the public service; (i)hear and determine appeals in respect of county governments’ public service; and (j)perform any other functions and exercise any other powers conferred by national legislation.
(3)Clauses (1) and (2) shall not apply to any of the following offices in the public service— (a)State offices; (b)an office of high commissioner, ambassador or other diplomatic or consular representative of the Republic; (c)an office or position subject to— (i) the Parliamentary Service Commission; (ii) the Judicial Service Commission; (iii) the Teachers Service Commission; (iv) the National Police Service Commission; or (d)an office in the service of a county government, except as contemplated in clause (2)(i). (4)The Commission shall not appoint a person under clause (2) to hold or act in any office on the personal staff of the President or a retired President, except with the consent of the President or retired President.
(5)The Commission may delegate, in writing, with or without conditions, any of its functions and powers under this Article to any one or more of its members, or to any officer, body or authority in the public service.Then have a look at Article 252: General functions and powers (1)Each commission, and each holder of an independent office—
(a)may conduct investigations on its own initiative or on a complaint made by a member of the public; (b)has the powers necessary for conciliation, mediation and negotiation; (c)shall recruit its own staff; and (d)may perform any functions and exercise any powers prescribed by legislation, in addition to the functions and powers conferred by this Constitution.Putting yourself in the position of the "General" which clause do you think overrides the other and do you think Article 234 (5) cures the inconsistency as was suggested by the "General"? Perhaps you may read this better than our politicians and the lazy journalists!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 9, 2015 17:13:48 GMT 3
THE DANCE OF THE CAPTAIN AND THE GENERALIAbabu Namwamba, yaye Omwami wange, long time no see, but I hope the ancestors have been nicely watching over your back. -Sorry that I have more trust in the goodly predisposition of the ancestors than in the mercy of the popular gods which came with merchants of the wavy sea! But that could be a matter of taste, a difference we could live with peacefully. I the Animist, you the Christian. I hope your spectacular fall from the prestigious chairmanship of PAC has now been put in perspective --I was leafing through the gossip columns on social media, and I saw you were freed from the daily grills, and had time for some quality time with the missus, trying some under water sex in a bidet the size of a lagoon in far off Iceland. I once read a story by a West African modern anthropologist (don't know why he never described himself as a sociologist) who told lots of hilarious tales about wife swaps in the extreme North, and how, in a Finnish sauna, they nearly groped his di.ck off! and ,when he fled to the dressing/locker room, no respite, he was blown off! They may not have 'daggering' showcase nightclubs like in Kingston Jamaica the tropics in Finland, but they have their own fulfilling, ritualised erotic indulgences be sure! But now you are back to planet politics, and I have been waiting for you to talk to Marende, Wamalwa, Wekesa and the rest. They are giving Luhyas a bad name. Ati, patronisingly said, you give a luhya a small bone to gnaw, promise him some more, and he is yours. Naive like Mudavadi taken for a ride last time around, only to be left dangling mid-air! Can we all really be in government? What is a democracy without opposition? May be it is the winner take all democracy, where winning power is a lucrative business and loosing is economically missing out, which should be rectified? And this is why DEVOLUTION CAME!? -who is in power Mashinani!? Is not every 'tribe' in power in their homeland!? Is it not president Oparanya, president Ojaamong', President Tunai, Rais Joho, Mtukufu Kabogo, H.E Mbugua! ad infinitum! That their excellencies are making a mess of devolution is another story! But power and money, that one is at Mashinani! Nairobi can be put in perspective, to be stripped some more of power, for the power in Nairobi is merely to loot, and not plan nor deliver on any vision, even the nearby 2030! NB: You could be scared if you checked what the projected population of Kenya will be in 2030! and factored in a growth rate of 7% per year! But today, easier stuff! Amusing stuff! But a general should not evoke cynical laughter when he makes a statement. The type of general who rises to the top in Africa is like Joseph Nkaissery! When he had his tour of duty and made his 'repute', he would round up Pokots of every age and have their balls smashed with stones, and others would be hanged, dangling from military choppers circling around villages. Know all men! It was called operation Nyundo, and you can read the details in the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation report which Uhuru Kenyatta wisely refused to acknowledge. And do you know the name of the general who commanded the KDF during the infamous Wagalla massacre in the North Frontier District? Then there is Somalia where a new generation of generals are making name. Again you can read the Somali Human Rights Watch publications for a hint. The generals of Africa going places! (no, not the Hague. The Hague is dead!) I am just saying Omwami, this is Africa, and you may want to give the title general some import. That import is called work. How a general's full-tour-of-duty-work and moral high standards are squared off in Africa, is of course the philosophical minefield whose navigation is our current mental work in progress. It is quite a think my friend, something nearly like baking omelettes without breaking egg shells! Let me give you an idea of those who think you are General in slumber! Okay Odoyo Owidi may be a usual suspect, but the import of his criticism calls your bluff! Or Agnes Zani's bluff, or John Mbadi's bluff. But those two do not have militarised titles like yours. You are the General. And the election is coming. How much of a fight is your balls? How much of a cruel wield of the sword? If Ruto strikes with the full power of his thrust, can yours block his in a fierce clang of metal that flashes bright like thunder!? Or do you cringe and run for cover, scuttled like a rat at a miaw!? Captain Agwambo and General Namwamba are a good combat team. But every fool can see your hearts are not in it. That is why your -ODM-- grassroots elections have had a false start!Countdown!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 16, 2015 15:53:19 GMT 3
HOW CONVINCING IS ABABU NAMWAMBA'S TIGHT-ROPE WALK?Western Parliamentary caucus led by Budalangi Mp Ababu Namwamba addressing the press on the importation of sugar from Uganda and how its likely to kill the industry in the country. He is flanked by the chairman Sakwa Bunyasi. Then there were these Luhyas in the Parliamentary Agricultural Committee when the Mumias sugar company was under scrutiniy,and reports being doctored. And, it is in documentation what came to pass, a ksh. 67 million bribe exchanged hands to facilitate the sugarcoating of the bitter facts. Other figure 100M. And Ababu Namwamba, then chairman of PAC held his tongue. He heard no evil, he saw no evil. But there was evil, and it laid an egg that has now hatched. So now the caucus of Luhya Mpigs are up in arms defending the threatened livelihood of a million of their grassroots!?Yes they are! But they are just increasing their bribery rates. If Jubilee wants to buy them, if Ouru needs their company at Ikulu, a low-key ministry here to Eugene and an odd directorship here to Marende wont be enough to insure their betrayal in the eyes of their people. But a cumulative 10% of shares in Brookside awarded, plus a 50% stake in the profitable importation of the Brazillian sugar packed as produce of Uganda, may just be the trick that bagged Western, or at least Luhya Mpigs! NB: 1. Cane has been openly rotting in plantations. All these politicians knew that. 2. Kenyan cane millers as numerous as they are have never operated at full capacity. Some figures are put as low as 50% operative level. Obviously then the sugar shortage in Kenya is artificial. Sort of Engineered by policy of sabotage. On the positive side, Ababu has again been dealt a fair hand by fate. But he could be in danger of a tragic repeat of his ignominy at PAC. He is currently the chairman of the Western Parliamentary caucus, representing the said 1 million livelihoods facing ruin, were Mumias to wholly sink. Then can a man rise to the task and make a name for himself on behalf of the people, or, in typical comprador fashion, accept massive bribes to betray and be made. Then there is the danger of short-term populism too --riding waves without caring the direction. But if they are not waiting for juicer bribes as they ride grassroot emotions out, after being caught on the wrong footing with their Ikulu-warm emotions
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. Ababu and his Luhya caucus need to shape up get to the bottom of the problem. The first bitter confrontation will be within themselves, for it is parts of the local elite who have facilitated the demise of the potentially mighty miller. This is then an opportunity for Chairman Ababu to show himself a man of vision, a man of firmness and futuristic drive, to initiate radical reform on the sugar industry Kenya, change how it works, exact punitive measures on economic saboteurs past and present, and upgrade the sector nationwide into a competitive industry not needing tariffs to exclude a neighbour's produce while opening the way for elite contraband imports for super profit. Radical economic reform is no agenda that can be fulfilled by a man given to neutrality, nor one trying to please everybody. This reform would be a declaration of war both at the home front and national front, and can only be won when one is with the people. For the sugar cartels are a powerful mob indeed --(they managed to have Museveni bamboozle the son of Jomo, imagine!) But the people too are a very scary lot! That is why good and sensible politicians like Ababu avoided SabaSaba last year! Now, If one is scared of the Nairobi riff-raff, imagine the prospect of being surrounded by matchete-wielding cane-cutters! In my life, Only the late Onyango Midika did I see matching through a rowdy group of young men wielding matchetes --the cane cutters were on a strike around Muhoroni, and a man with balls was needed to heed them off a nihilistic rampage which would have seen wholesale arson and ruin of the industry! No, just kidding! The reform -which I assume is beyond the young Generali, would of course include a repossession (or confiscation) of the wealth portfolios accumulated by former managers of this sugar firms. There is enough public support in Luhyaland for this option. But a pity all these bulls who boast circumcised members have no fire in their balls, no fight in their heads, no passion in their hearts, no loyalty to their people nor to the industry. I therefore expect smooth sailing for Ouru. I expect Jubilee to walk over Western the way Uhuruto walked over Mudavadi. No quarter given. This is a ruthless game and many are for sale at the right price at the right time. Pushed to a corner and still too scared to hold ones sword steady and fight back is, in war, a clear-cut surrender. NB: Supposed Hard men like the legendary Fred Gumo have been singing I-am-available-girlie-tunes of late in the direction of Jubilee, and aint he part of the guys who organised the aborted State house visit, No? Tulime bhangi bwana Namwamba! All western counties should pass law to legalise that thing for export! (to where!?) 500,000 loosing jobs? 1 million facing economic doom? That is not an economic crisis. That is a wipeout, a meltdown. That is time for RADICAL economic decisions, even experimental stuff. Like when Ben Bernanke was announcing QUANTITATIVE EASING 1 was asked if it would work: 'how the hell do I know. This is new stuff for everybody. But I think it will work!' he rounded. I propose a liberalisation of the bhangi trade! I oppose baleouts! But it is the General's call. The troops are waiting, Ababu! At your orders sir! What took you so long, O saviours! I wont mind buying Brazillian sugar from Uganda @ ksh. 70/kilo. I hear importation licenses have already been sold out to Jubilee-connected people. That leaves only the smuggling option for the rest of the interested businessmen.
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Post by podp on Aug 18, 2015 9:16:24 GMT 3
HOW CONVINCING IS ABABU NAMWAMBA'S TIGHT-ROPE WALK?Yes they are! But they are just increasing their bribery rates. If Jubilee wants to buy them, if Ouru needs their company at Ikulu, a low-key ministry here to Eugene and an odd directorship here to Marende wont be enough to insure their betrayal in the eyes of their people. But a cumulative 10% of shares in Brookside awarded, plus a 50% stake in the profitable importation of the Brazillian sugar packed as produce of Uganda, may just be the trick that bagged Western, or at least Luhya Mpigs! Budalang'i MP Ababu Namwamba said their stand on the sugar deal had nothing to do with politics but the welfare of their people. "This is not about politics but the welfare of the people of western Kenya, who are cane farmers. It should be clear that we (the caucus) have never declared our support for either Jubilee or CORD coalitions," said Mr Namwamba The reform -which I assume is beyond the young Generali, would of course include a repossession (or confiscation) of the wealth portfolios accumulated by former managers of this sugar firms. There is enough public support in Luhyaland for this option. But a pity all these bulls who boast circumcised members have no fire in their balls, no fight in their heads, no passion in their hearts, no loyalty to their people nor to the industry. I therefore expect smooth sailing for Ouru. I expect Jubilee to walk over Western the way Uhuruto walked over Mudavadi. No quarter given. This is a ruthless game and many are for sale at the right price at the right time. Pushed to a corner and still too scared to hold ones sword steady and fight back is, in war, a clear-cut surrender. I wont mind buying Brazillian sugar from Uganda @ ksh. 70/kilo. I hear importation licenses have already been sold out to Jubilee-connected people. That leaves only the smuggling option for the rest of the interested businessmen. Local manufacturers are producing a kilo of sugar at Sh87, the MPs reported, which is three-fold the Sh29 it would cost a comparable mill in Malawi. A recent report from the Kenya Sugar Board found that the landed price of imported sugar was on average Sh62 per kilo, but could be lower depending on individual millers’ efficiencies. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000173216/here-is-how-the-sugar-import-business-is-big-big-moneyback to the politicians from Western, you are spot on that they are increasing their bribery rates.
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Post by podp on Aug 19, 2015 11:54:31 GMT 3
HOW CONVINCING IS ABABU NAMWAMBA'S TIGHT-ROPE WALK?[, or at least Luhya Mpigs!
What took you so long, O saviours!
I wont mind buying Brazillian sugar from Uganda @ ksh. 70/kilo. I hear importation licenses have already been sold out to Jubilee-connected people. That leaves only the smuggling option for the rest of the interested businessmen. Caught in-between, the farmer reads conspiracy; Cord is protecting old barons, Jubilee wants to introduce new ones. A stalemate to protect vested interests has been created to make pertinent issues irrelevant. And the media has been very unfair to Kenyans. It has obfuscated the issues and made hay reducing it to an altercation between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Cord leader Raila Odinga. All other voices of reason have been muzzled in the noise media wants made a Jubilee versus Cord contest for the Luhya vote. www.mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/people-daily/161950/farmers-suffer-as-hypocrisy-reigns-in-sugar-wars/
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 21, 2015 17:02:55 GMT 3
Namwamba files motion on 50% pay cut for public officersAlthough a move in the right direction, one wonders why the good friend did not want to file a bill instead of a motion. It is clearly to any observer that this is one of those steps only meant to hoodwink the ignorant masses and boost credentials of the politician. All in all, we will see how the noisemakers will receive it in bunge. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by podp on Sept 21, 2015 23:37:47 GMT 3
Namwamba files motion on 50% pay cut for public officersAlthough a move in the right direction, one wonders why the good friend did not want to file a bill instead of a motion. It is clearly to any observer that this is one of those steps only meant to hoodwink the ignorant masses and boost credentials of the politician. All in all, we will see how the noisemakers will receive it in bunge. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ I agree with you fully. below is how one Commonwealth country deals with bill and motion. Bills and motions are also treated differently by the House. Once debated and voted on, a motion has been disposed of by the House; the House may agree to the motion, or the motion may be defeated, but either way it receives no further consideration. Bills, on the other hand, must pass through several stages: introduction and first reading, second reading, committee stage, report stage, and third reading in the House of Commons, then a similar process in the Senate. The period between introducing a bill and seeing it become law may therefore be lengthy. www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/PracticalGuides/PrivateMembersBusiness/PG4PMB_Pg03-e.htmhowever the clincher is that In deciding between a bill and a motion, the first difference to keep in mind is in their effect. Since in agreeing to a motion expressing a resolution, the House is only stating an opinion, the government will not be bound to adopt a specific policy or course of action. By contrast, because it becomes law when passed by Parliament, a bill may have far reaching implications for both the government and the public.
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Post by b6k on Sept 22, 2015 0:41:01 GMT 3
Namwamba files motion on 50% pay cut for public officersAlthough a move in the right direction, one wonders why the good friend did not want to file a bill instead of a motion. It is clearly to any observer that this is one of those steps only meant to hoodwink the ignorant masses and boost credentials of the politician. All in all, we will see how the noisemakers will receive it in bunge. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ I agree with you fully. below is how one Commonwealth country deals with bill and motion. Bills and motions are also treated differently by the House. Once debated and voted on, a motion has been disposed of by the House; the House may agree to the motion, or the motion may be defeated, but either way it receives no further consideration. Bills, on the other hand, must pass through several stages: introduction and first reading, second reading, committee stage, report stage, and third reading in the House of Commons, then a similar process in the Senate. The period between introducing a bill and seeing it become law may therefore be lengthy. www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/PracticalGuides/PrivateMembersBusiness/PG4PMB_Pg03-e.htmhowever the clincher is that In deciding between a bill and a motion, the first difference to keep in mind is in their effect. Since in agreeing to a motion expressing a resolution, the House is only stating an opinion, the government will not be bound to adopt a specific policy or course of action. By contrast, because it becomes law when passed by Parliament, a bill may have far reaching implications for both the government and the public.Sadly that difference between a motion and a bill puts his quote on NTV news earlier tonight that he's tired of seeing "so much heat and no light; so much motion and no action" in perspective! This could've been an issue to have a Donde Bill equivalent but clearly even the opposition doesn't want to stop the gravy train. What's the point of proposing a 50% cut in politicians salaries, a drastic cut in their travel allowances, a reduction of MP's, abolition of sitting allowances and reduction of committees if they'll just discuss it and shelve it? Just the usual politics and posturing...
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 22, 2015 6:11:14 GMT 3
I agree with you fully. below is how one Commonwealth country deals with bill and motion. Bills and motions are also treated differently by the House. Once debated and voted on, a motion has been disposed of by the House; the House may agree to the motion, or the motion may be defeated, but either way it receives no further consideration. Bills, on the other hand, must pass through several stages: introduction and first reading, second reading, committee stage, report stage, and third reading in the House of Commons, then a similar process in the Senate. The period between introducing a bill and seeing it become law may therefore be lengthy. www.parl.gc.ca/About/House/PracticalGuides/PrivateMembersBusiness/PG4PMB_Pg03-e.htmhowever the clincher is that In deciding between a bill and a motion, the first difference to keep in mind is in their effect. Since in agreeing to a motion expressing a resolution, the House is only stating an opinion, the government will not be bound to adopt a specific policy or course of action. By contrast, because it becomes law when passed by Parliament, a bill may have far reaching implications for both the government and the public.Sadly that difference between a motion and a bill puts his quote on NTV news earlier tonight that he's tired of seeing "so much heat and no light; so much motion and no action" in perspective! This could've been an issue to have a Donde Bill equivalent but clearly even the opposition doesn't want to stop the gravy train. What's the point of proposing a 50% cut in politicians salaries, a drastic cut in their travel allowances, a reduction of MP's, abolition of sitting allowances and reduction of committees if they'll just discuss it and shelve it? Just the usual politics and posturing... Professor and B6K:Ababu Namwamba left last night for the UN General Assembly in New York after successfully presenting his motion to the speaker of the National Assembly. As we all agree, his motion adds no value to teachers' course, but it is a somewhat clever political move on his partt. One, Ababu has left Nairobi at a time that CORD is planning a #tukutaneuhurupark rally and Uhuru impeachment. This is one rally and plan he has not been very keen about, in fact he has not uttered anything in their support. He has instead gone for a 'high road', 'real solution' if you like and if you get what I am saying. Remember, Ababu in a bigger way contributed to the puncturing of the Okoa Kenya train, it never recovered and will not recover soon, as long as he remains on the periphery of ODM affairs. Two Ababu, just as other MPs, senators, MCAs and all manner of so called elected leaders, knows that they have no moral authority to tell teachers that there is no money, and that they need to abide by Serem's report. Not after they did to Serem what they did and hiked their parks twice what she had suggested. To therefore sound correct without really moving anything, he draft a silly motion, which buys him the support he needs among teachers and the populace without necessarily joining Uhuru Park and impeachment lunacies. While Khalwale and Wetangula will be shouting themselves hoarse at Uhuru Park, Namwamba will be on the world stage, taking some very nice pictures with world leaders and sharing them freely on social media. Now you know. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by b6k on Sept 22, 2015 9:47:48 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu, hold on a minute. I caught the Ababu interview midway last night so I didn't know where he was jetting out to. You mean he's gone to UNGA?!!! With Uhuru Kenyatta?!!! Isn't he still ODM Secretary General? He's ditched the CORD brigade antics in the park to accompany El presidente after launching his motion? Very interesting...
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Post by podp on Sept 22, 2015 16:18:09 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu, hold on a minute. I caught the Ababu interview midway last night so I didn't know where he was jetting out to. You mean he's gone to UNGA?!!! With Uhuru Kenyatta?!!! Isn't he still ODM Secretary General? He's ditched the CORD brigade antics in the park to accompany El presidente after launching his motion? Very interesting... www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1023968084321744&set=a.655181994533690.1073741828.100001256850736&type=1&pnref=storypreaching water and drinking wine. I am willing to bet it is tax payers $$s used to fund PORK and Hon Ababu trip to USA. reminds me of the late 1990s when Hon Mudavadi, while Minister of Finance, would lead Kenya's delegation flying in similar fashion to sign debt negotiated while the World Bank/IMF counterparts they were going to sign deals with in Washington were flying economy.
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Post by b6k on Sept 23, 2015 6:06:48 GMT 3
preaching water and drinking wine. I am willing to bet it is tax payers $$s used to fund PORK and Hon Ababu trip to USA. reminds me of the late 1990s when Hon Mudavadi, while Minister of Finance, would lead Kenya's delegation flying in similar fashion to sign debt negotiated while the World Bank/IMF counterparts they were going to sign deals with in Washington were flying economy. Looks happier than a pig in **** Someday something's gotta give... Here's the list of waheshimiwa who have tagged along with Uhuru for UNGA: 1. Aden Duale -(URP) 2. J akoyo Midiwo -(ODM)3. Hon Soipan (Narok)- URP 4. Katoo ole Metito- TNA 5. Millie Odhiambo – ODM6. John Waluke CORD7. Hon Gethinji – TNA 8. Denita Ghati (Migori)-ODM9. Hon Lentoimanga 10. Agostino Neto -(ODM)11. Asman Kamama -(URP) 12. Hon Longisa (Samburu) 13. Ababu Namwamba (ODM)All expenses catered for by the national assembly. www.politics.co.ke/news/list-of-odm-mps-who-begged-uhuru-to-join-his-entourage-to-new-york-america/Funny how an all expenses paid trip to New York can elicit the best example of bipartisan comradeship amongst our "best and brightest"...
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 23, 2015 17:33:49 GMT 3
After the National Assembly speaker told Kenyans exactly what Namwamba motion is all about, (what we had said here pretty much), Ababu has responded cautioning the speaker not to preempt debate. In my view, Ababu's move is a step in the right direction and that should not be dismissed in the manner that Junet Muhammed, the speaker and others did. Instead, the other MPigs need to take the idea and make it better, if they are serious about solving money problems in Kenya. It was interesting listening the people like Gladys Wanga, calling Ababu names, then later turn up at Uhuru Park in school uniforms 'in solidarity' with teachers and learners. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 19, 2016 13:32:57 GMT 3
LUHYA POLITICS: NAMWAMBA'S BLUFF CALLED, AND OTHER STORIES After running into such a direct knock-out punch from a branch of the Keyser Soze enterprise, it was only natural that, to recuperate, you, Tawfiq of Budalang'i, took a long sabbatical wherein you lay sheet-low, far from the media spotlight, to shamefully hide your swollen and bruised face, and temporarily disarranged teeth. NB: Keyser Soze is a ruthless, gangster character from the movie the usual suspects. He runs a 'vastly networked cartel' whose tentacles clutch and hold hostage nearly every individual who makes any decision on money. Even the commander in chief is scared of him, may be because Soze made him King. With everybody in Kenya blaming the corruption cartels while nobody in power has the ability to confront the cartel nor its boss, methinks Kenya fits a realm run by Keyser Soze.Above, I am referring to your forced jump from the high-horse seat of PAC chair. This happened amid bribery claims; and what a comedy show it was which went with it. These comedies, however, are a staple in Kenyan falls from high. Waiguru has been treating us to more, only a touch more ludicrous. Meanwhile, I waited for an event to jar you awake from any self pity you might have tumbled into after your humiliating ejection. (Howbeit your former partner in crime Cicily Mbarire has found her voice once again, offering us a ruling class alibi thus: if his Excellency himself is nothing doing about graft, how can poor PAC be expected to put up any fight against the beast?) Anyway, for your part, Tawfiq, because of your stupidity and duplicity which saw you loose the influential seat to fellow ODMer Gumbo, there was the possibility of your wife kicking your balls all the way to the gutter. I saw a cartoon by the incorrigible GADO capture well your domestics. And this fella GADO is, in addition, rumoured to have captured so well the domestics of other powers, that the NMG, worried stiff about hints at drying up adverts, gave him the boot. Well, even masochists tire, and the realities of power dictate a recycling of firmer, much more ruthless and tested hands in combat. And so the Old Capo Francis Kimemia is back. But events dear boy events, sighed an old British Prime Minister, whereupon a jocular backbencher quipped, what a sorry old cocck! And events, dear boy events! Correction, Kimemia was sacked because he made Joseph Kinyua feel insecure. He was an alternative power centre unto his own, his bureaucratic and 'fieldwork' aptitude far the excess of Prime Minister Kinyua, a court intrigant. Kinyua's smooth operations as a puppet-master could not work with a brutal down to earth frontline sheriff like Francis Kimemia. Kinyua won because he had his mouth closest to the horse's ear. NB: Strictly I should do this here, focus on Francis Kimemia, but I am out of time for today. It is important to get the anatomy of a power struggle correct, Ababu. Kinyua versus Kimemia was a battle for the control of the lucrative state tenderpreneural portfolios. Never forget to follow the money, or the gold. (Gaddaffi was killed so that bank-crisis floored France and the USA could loot the Libyan fortune. Thousand tonnes of gold, and hundred billions of Investment Fund. To stabilise the Euro and the Dollar.) So what is that got to do with you, Tawfiq. A DEFINING EVENT HAS HAPPENED ON THE WESTERN FRONT. 1. The open confession of the consciousness that the Kenyan political elite must come to terms with the Ababluhya. If Kenya is a tyranny of numbers, and the Bahluya voting zone if unified -like the Gikuyu, the Luo, the Kalenjin, the Kamba-- is de facto the second largest, what, as the gubernatorial candidate for Nairobi county Waweru put it, do the Luhyas have to show for it? (hey, Kaggia, what have you done for yourself, shouted an irritated Jomo at the KPU point man!) But Dagoretti Waweru though young, is old in thought as he is too condescending, and old-school Luhya patronising. He thinks more Luhyas should be Mpigs and MCA's in Nairobi, but not the GOVERNOR, nor his running mate! yes, the Luhyas must know their place in the food chain. Down there, not up here. It is an amazing feat in arrogance. Downright dangerous. But I think, it is not for nothing it comes a week after a ver powerful Luhya chieftain, has been reduced to a national laughing stock. I will presently explain. Another man's political misfortunes is another man's blessings. And the political misfortunes of a faded King, are the great opportunities Young Turks on the wings ever pray for, for take off. There are two sets of news for you now, Ababu. The good and the bad. Customarily the good first. Recently, the media has been inundated with a tabloid story with real consequences. Political consequences. A whole Bukuku circumcised man was beaten senseless by his very hot wife. This would otherwise be offhand tabloid info left for what it is worth in laughs, were it not that the big shot in question is none other than a CORD principality. Weta. This man has been billed to be having grievous misgivings, that the upstart Ababu of Busia, a young Turk seeing himself as the coming man, was not giving him the due respect he deserves as the best pretender to the title King of the rowdy Luhya. This diverse and unzoned voter farmland needed to be organised, unified under one King, so as to bargain more effectively for national power like the rest of the brigands. It was time to put paid to the eternal running mate slot as the maximum. It was time to put paid to the passive, coy harlot epithet, ever waiting to be picked for the ball. It was time to wear armour and charge. For the top price: mundu-khu-mundu. And Weta saw himself as the man to pull it off. Ababu, his court thought, did not think so. And with reason With Weta unrecognisably bandaged the question arises if he is not irreparably damaged. He has consequently been the subject of outrageous ridicule. A Congolese conman propelled his wife to such dizzying heights that she bank-transferred all the loot Weta had garnered from the contraband sale of the Kenya embassy in Tokyo, oil blocks in Turkana, and even the BAT campaign kitty. So there he is, the pretender to the title Unifier of the Baluhya. In the intensive care unit as a battered husband. The Luos who as Abana basinde are ever subject to the uncut ridicule, can be permitted a grin. When Shebesh of Nairobi thought she could walk over a kerher the way she walked over her own circumcised boys, she was met with a stunner which dispersed her wits. Ruthless, composed and with a mean instinct, there is no doubt about the grit of the uncut Kidero. No wonder he once scared Raila's court so badly they barred him from Harambees in Nyanza! So there you are Ababu. Weta needs a mercy killing now. Euthenasia. To save him from himself and the Luhya nation from him. Nay, his ilk knoweth not when to resign in honour or commit suicide in shame! they insist on dragging a whole people along. An opportunity has presented itself for you to be a good doctor, kindly and understanding as you usurp a disputed principality and, a bit of Macbeth vanity is necessary in politics, save a whole people the infamy of enduring such rot at the top!. I am watching your instincts to see if they home like a top predator, or, coy and shy, you remain a born hooker waiting in the shadows for a cab to crawl by, and pick her up, for use and abuse. Waweru's cab is crawling, on Luhya street. Looking for a Mudavadi to use and abuse. Let us see if Gumo bites the hook. Now the bad news. YOU BLUFF CALLED. Conti.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 25, 2016 19:53:12 GMT 3
THE DISAPPEARING ACT OF THE YOUNG TURKS The battlefield is strewn with corpses. First blood drawn. Every Monday, the traces of gunpowder and empty casings have littered the streets of the capital, and bitter tear gas fumes have wafted across the city, drifting with the winds like an evil cloud from a dying volcano. Counties have been ringed by police cordons, the cops wearing armour and spotting cudgels, making it an enforcement of curfew as if the nation were under a state of emergency. And we have watched the old captain in dire straits in the battlefield, eyes red and flowing wet from the pepper sprays of General Nkaissery, and the windscreens of his limousine cracked by a high velocity projectile, the types which bequeath grievous woe. And yet the professed General Ababu is not in sight. Why? O why Ababu!? This absence from the theatre of combat where Young Turks cut their teeth needs an explanation! Has Mrs. Namwamba, thinking of the horrendous bruises she had to nurse when you were manhandled out of the PAC thing, threatened divorce, and all your hot political ambitions have been culled by a preference for the promised marital bliss!? Did the General secretly capitulate, even as he still wears the battledress in public? Did the enemy identify your Achilles heel and steal the thunder out of your balls? Did a ghost visit your sleep and spook your wits!? Give a sign, General, that you are still tall to be counted in combat, that you are not a phantom, tame in Hades, posing like a museum piece for idle tourists or 'nerdy' scholars! The old guard have sure stolen a march on the Young Turks. Raila Weta and Kalo assert their pre-eminence. And man Joho down in Mombasa. If you can not make a reputation on courage Ababu, yours is to choose under whose concubinage you will be counted! These are harsh, hot times. NB: Imagine the amazing act of stupidity, Jubilee Mpigs saying openly they would mobilise Mungiki/Gikuyu youth to counter the CORD demos. It plays right into the ethnic fault line which, according to David Ndii, should openly be sued for divorce! Practically then, we are fanning the fires thereof! Unionists like me feel lonely when Generals like Namwamba take French leave from the thick of things! There is an option in history that balances out the forces in this one sided picture.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on May 26, 2016 20:30:30 GMT 3
Namwamba continues to portray an image of a very confused politician. While his principals are running around the streets of Nairobi, he was cited in Kisii, yes Kisii, not Busia with one or two people holding a small rag with faded writings against IEBC. Only to show up in Nairobi two days later with Governor Mutua and Mung'aro (the latter two are vehemently opposed to the demos).
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Jun 27, 2016 16:05:18 GMT 3
Here, Ababu Namwamba outlines what is ailing CORD in general and ODM in particular. He is asking very relevant questions that any neutral would take a keen interest in. For instance, who or what party organ sanctioned the chaotic and largely very violent anti-iebc demos? What about Helen Sambili, how exactly did she find herself on the list of nominees for the IEBC talks? Very interesting!!
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 29, 2016 18:28:39 GMT 3
THE RISING TIDE IN INGOOLAND It is reported Ababu skipped Janet Mutua's homecoming -reported!. Janet is one of the hate-speech six or?? who bonded well in filthy police cells. This HC was an event in the Generali's home-turf, attended by the captain himself. There could be a simple non-sensational explanation for sure, but when the names of high party official Otuoma and prominent senator Amos Wako are added to the list of absentees on the day, all of them Busia notables, we are staring at an organised BOYCOTT. And that is what I am going to call it. A boycott. (in the bar we talk of a 'massive sulk'!) On the face of it Busia ODM prominents (and their cohorts of course) are bolting from the ODM. That means they are hoping for a Busexit --the exit of the whole Busia electorate with them, But to where!?That is an interesting one. If they knew and were sure, they would have already led the EXODUS they believe they can command. But something --definately not someone--- is holding them back yet, so that they are content to use the threat of a Busexit as a bargaining chip to gain more influence, in an internal power game, or tug of war. SO WHAT IS UP ON THE WIDER SCALE?Comprador politicians are of course like prostitutes who for the right price will concede their favours, but let us leave this OTIATO MARENDE option for later when we are at the bar and stuff is flowing through the glasses. For the moment, let us fish deeper into the murky waters where nationalist consciousnesses do condense, ruminate, evolve and move to seek manifestation forms, some very assertive, very combative. I propose the Luhya 'nation' is in flux. That is the motley amalgam which out of laziness we baptise the Luhya, is searching for consolidation. Why should the people of Ingoo be distributed like the spoils of war amongst other parties owned and controlled from elsewhere? (read, other ethnic groups no better than the Luhya?) Think of separate fingers clenching and unclenching, looking for the fit of a formidable fist, one to deliver a knock-out punch, breaking other jaws without self-injury. That is the flux. Ford Kenya activists are marketing this message on the ground with passion: Luhya Unity! Luhya for President! One for all, all for one! ---Of course on a serious note it has to be something or someone more formidable than Musalia Mudavadi! The historical search is on for the ace. But a journey of 1000km starts with but a single step. So noted the ancient Chinese. In this respect I think Moses Wetangula is a path-warmer, a historical pace-maker or catalyst, or a fore-runner, but one only marginally better than Musalia Mudavadi. He is not a serious presidential candidate in a field lining Kalonzo M., Amollo T., Ruto Singh, Ouru K. There is of course Joho Peter Kenneth emerging too. That Weta is better than Mudavadi is a marked improvement for the Luhya nation ever since Kijana Wamalwa. So we are waiting for the thunderbolt when the strong Luhya candidate arrives, one who will be competent, capable of coaxing, demanding and persuading the Kalenjin and the Luo and the Gikuyu to 'rudisha mkono'. To rudisha mkono after historically confining the Luhya to the role of punda mlia for so long. (Ababu is demanding respect now. But when the Thunderbolt arrives, it will be like the Olympian Zeus. The respect will be accorded instinctively, a prophecy revealing itself in fulfilment. But before that date of fate arrives, some INTERNAL Luhya issues have to be ironed out INTERNALLY. These are Uncertain times. Much jostling all around, every nation restive, all the people restless. This is the historical tide twisting the minds of young Ababu and old Wako and middle aged Otuoma at their local. The Abaluhya who could have been a show-case of diversity and political pluriformity within one ethnic group, are being forced by pressure from without to succumb to the Kenyan norm. The Abaluhya who could have been an example of individualistic, non-herd behaviour, are converging to the sociological norm in Kenya. This Kenyan norm is the primitive (exclusivity) or worship of the own ethnic deity ---ODM Ker for the Luo, TNA Muthamaki for the Gikuyu, URP Orkoiyot for the Nandi, Masaku Wiper for the Kamba. Away with exceptionalism, backwardness has become a reality too enticing to resist. The Luhya are thus following the script suit --the bandwagon of ethnic consolidation, exclusive radical nationalism. It is always our time to lead! In this narrative of injured and Luhya nationalism, Mudavadi is a used and dumped who-re by just about anybody paying, Ababu so hot to sell himself to Ruto aims to be Mudavadi II, Oparanya belongs to Agwambo, Eugene to Uhuru; but Weta, however substandard, is the bird at hand worth two in the bush. The rest are just traitors with silk tongues.When Ford-K activists sing this song during circumcision and related political rites of manhood, those candidates not on the wavelength can not sleep safe. Those (sponcy's?) who are incumbents on 'foreign-owned' parties, have reason to be seen to be hedging bets, since a Unitary nationalist Luhya wave could just be rushing toward a Tsunami threshold!With predictable consequences. This is the historical current wreaking havoc in the subconscious of people like Ababu Namwamba and Otuoma. Forcing them to be seen to demand respect, more assertive. This is the genesis of the insecurity forcing the Generali to dilly-dally in combat, with such farcical propaganda pitches like taking maternal leave to feed newborns and change nappies, just when the other General Nkaissery, is unleashing an onslaught of maximum ruthlessness on the party faithful, in broad daylight. The Luhya nation is warning Kenyans. Do not take us for granted. An impatient volcano spurts, wait until it bursts! Now we can go the drinks table and talk this bullsh!t about lack of respect in ODM for the Luhya nation, while Ababu, Otuoma, Oparanya, Buke Wafula, Sifuna, Aladwa -all Ingoo stars, own ODM! Then there is mercurial George Aladwa who is graduating into Kaa Ngumu shoes with ease. And those were very big shoes I tell ya! Believe it or not, it is the Luos who are scared! In Ong'wen, Mbadi, Wandayi, Liz Ongoro etc, they do not have half anything as aggressive as the rising Ingoos. This Luo insecurity, dread fear, is the cause of such horrors like Kisrani at Kasarani. Agwambo is like Ramsess II. A peak. After him the herd instinct perceives a downhill. We need a therapist upfront!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 6, 2016 20:55:50 GMT 3
Why, O young Turk Ababu, do a Miguna!? he will SOON ditch the party! It reminds me of the article 50 which nobody will trigger just yet to effect Brexit! even after a popular vote thereto! Meethinks a talented Turk like you, dubbed General and not by PR hoax, should find other articulate reasons to resign than a narrative of Raila frustrated his ambitions! You saw how deep Brutus Gove drove the knife into the back of his bossom buddy Boris Johnson in the ego race for power over there at Westminster!? And then this going by slow-motion is clownish. It is dangerous to improvise at such high seas: first the rumours of a resignation --remember lawyer Sifuna's abortive coup already forced your hand, reducing you to a bit of a joke. You had lost the initiative. Then a resignation from the SG post, on media. And then today, quitting the party. Books had already been closed on your quitting. Nobody apparently felt foolish enough to bet you would be around a week longer in ODM. NB: Knowin how hard the House of Mumbi had worked to get Baba Yao out of Nairobi, so that an annointee palatable to the Muthamaki court from Nyumba could lock it down, I just laughed at the idea of Wamalwa against Kidero! But here is what I hope for a man of your calibre. Test your balls, test your nerve. You have declared you have resigned in consultation with the Abanyala of Budalang'i who elected you. Now they did on ODM, and I know the law you Mpigs passed yesterday, allows for changing horses mid-ship. But you, because you are different, ahem, a General, you should dare Raila: and that is by RESIGNING YOUR SEAT IN PARLIAMENT TOO, and going back to the electorate on a new outfit, and wiping Agwambo out. Mundu khu mundu! If you do not, Ababu, my friend you will re-learn the meaning of a laughing stock. (that tape and PAC fall may not have been enough laughs your way!) That Waluke statement confirmed you a mole. At the same time if you leave parliament, beware a Ford-Kenya candidate in Budalang'i backed by ODM will be run for your very life. Well, you could just be the Ford-K candidate, No? Do not underestimate Luhya nationalism once more. Hiayayayayaya! Why do you think Sifuna spooked you? It is because you, The General, hesitated at a decisive moment, and then fled from Nkaissery. You disqualified yourself from calling a Luo, omusinde. Ha ha, street level politics.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 12, 2016 22:24:36 GMT 3
DEFECTING FROM CORD TO JUBILEE AS CHARTING OWN PATH, aka independence, HUH!?Huh, Generali! -I liked Sifuna's comment first time around: he said: 'coup? Which coup? There was no coup. The seat was empty. The General abdicated long ago. And he wasn't like coming back!'Next day Ong'wen and Raila did a pantomime and announced the 'Generali was still in command'. That wa the Luo pair's problem of course, if they believed there was any Kenyan out there not laughing at their brazen tomfoolery. The Jenerali had a new name out there ' ABABY'! There was drama at Orange House today during the ODM meeting to stem the looming fallout within the party pitting embattled Budalangi MP, Ababu Namwamba, They were bolting the stable door after the horse! I stuck with Sifuna. The idea of a domesticated General changing nappies while his Priscah admires lovingly, yet still in command of footsoldiers dying raw on the streets during protests, fitted my idea not of an ABDICATION, but a defection mid combat, a sell-out General for court martial. Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba (left) with his Sirisia counterpart John Waluke during a rally at Sirisia stadium in Bungoma County yesterday. Mr Waluke officially announced his resignation as ODM Chairman of Bungoma County. [PHOTO: BENJAMIN SAKWA/STANDARD]NB: here is an important caveat de ja vu! sleeping dogs lie! They think power loves a vacuum! I love the way Cameron quit, I hate the way Mugabe stays! I don't like de-ja-vu's in political development. It signifies stagnation, where a nation knows its future because it is a repetition of the past! And it will not always be farce. But it was farce in Bungoma where Ababu chose to revel his new found independence, resignation or not. BUNGOMA'S CENTRAL ROLE IN LUHYA POLITICSThere is something about Bungoma. Bungoma is, if i am not mistaken, the birth and burial grounds of Tito Adungosi. A festering wound buried deep, that Tito fella, could easily be malignant. If you do not know who he is, in a moment. Bungoma too, if I am not mistaken, is where Wafula Buke comes from. Buke is the man whose coup put paid to Lagat Magerer's tenure at Orange House. Buke and Adungosi were SONU chairs whose tenures, a decade apart, ended prematurely. Better not mention those two in the same breath with dotcom idol Babu Owino. Bungoma is, I am sure, the hometurf of Moses Wetangula. Weta is a CORD principal and currently the most illustrious presidential candidate from Western (I do not consider cYRUS Jirongo nor the son of Mudamba his equals this season!) Then this: apart from the gangland-style-slain Jacob Juma, Bungoma also is where the twins Ken Lusaka and a man called John Walukhe hail from. The former is the respective county governor famous for the golden-priced wheelbarrows, the latter is the Sirisia MP who, while in CORD, went as an impresario to haggle Wamalwa$Ababu's price with Jubilee. That makes this duo Ababy Namwamba co-plotters and Jubilee scouts, and Ababu effectively a Trojan Horse. In this Bungoma mix too is of course Eugene Wamalwa. The former Saboti MP only recently resigned his leadership of the New Ford-Kenya party to accept the cabinet post for Water and Irrigation in the Jubilee administration. Eunice left the party in the hands of the wheelbarrow-scandalised Ken Lusaka, who last weekend dissolved the party to join Jubilee. Obviously Bungoma and Bukusu politics is a bomb! It needs a hurt-lockers attire to diffuse. Ababu has walked into some deep waters there. On the face of it, it is a civil war between the Wetangula axis and the Wamalwa nexus. That too is where old man Muskari Kombo comes in, the near nemesis of Weta inthe senatorial race. Like him, Ababu is betted on the Jubilee Horse. But Jenerali is yet to officially resign from ODM. This is a situation which is a re-run of the (yester days) Ruto departure from ODM -in slow motion. Bukusu Bungoma is also the home of Patrick Wangamati who, before he became a nominated MP, was once famous in FERA. (February 18th Army). FERA was the outfit popularly associated with Brigadier John Odongo Amoke, now deceased in Kabila's Congo. Bungoma too is, I think, partly home to the Saboat. This was the name made famous by a man named Wicliffe Matakwei who was the self-declared (deputy?) leader of the Saboat Liberation Front around Mount Elgon. In March/April 2008, the KDF launched a massive operation called OKOA MAISHA in the Mount Elgon area. This finished off Matakwei and his comrades, though that did not mean the end of the land controversy about the Chebyuk settlement scheme et al. This is just to say CORD versus Jubilee may not be the fundamental political issue in Bungoma and its environs, but merely the latest publi fora to canalise deeper venom. This is how I came to ask myself a simple question. Ababu Namwamba has promised a Tsunami in Western. A would-be Young Turk and pop-star Generali promising a sweep of Western without as much as a mention of the NDUNG'U LAND REPORT!(sorry, the ODM former general does not know what that is, Ndung'u report! It is too irrelevant to be known by people going places!a drag really! Even ODM's Orengo when at Land did not hear of this Ndu-something report) This is dangerous company, reasoning dangerously. There is no mention of ANY POLICY! Which is to say they did not join ODM for policy reasons in the first place, and in the second place, it is possible the ODM itself is not a policy power house, to put it mildly. RESPECT! That is a code word for identity politics. And it is very legitimate in Kenya. Ethnic nationalism, formerly tribalism, and now the Luhya are NORMALISING in the Kenyan sense. But this Ababu group has a terrible problem, at the ideological level. The best way to assert self-respect is to be independent, and go into relations of equality, negotiating from a position of honour. So what do we have in this proposed General Namwaba Tsunami axis!? A dissolution to join Jubilee it is! A move into the arms of existing power, just ahead of an election incumbency is slotted to win. That is to be absorbed. ABSORBED. (Even as the Generali declared Uhuru Western!) That is not a merger, not even a joint-venture, that is to be swallowed, to surrender -for a price. A price or inducement not too difficult in Kenya to pinpoint, nor calculably guess at bull's eye hits! No worries about policy! These are the politics of individual stomachs trying to ride a rising wave of Luhya nationalism. Anyway, in their shallowness, what else can comprador parasites do? A tick must nestle at a blood-rich vein rather than 'dry' muscle! www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Ababu-warns-of-tsunami-after-talks-with-Lusaka/-/1064/3289146/-/7muk3g/-/index.html That these are the politics of the stomach need not be a problem for every Tom Dick and Harry. It is in the expectation. --empty head with a very large empty belly and even emptier pockets. But Ababu is different. Or, at least, we have so far agreed to hype him as different, special, exceptional, talented. A man on whose shoulders rests GREAT EXPECTATIONS. And that can not just be the latest Stanley Oloitiptip! I know I know, this Gado fella baby-sits no one, let us forget his inner eye for the moment. But the sturdiest of the Turkiest of Young Turks does not have that luxury. You know what a young Turk is!? -He he He is presidential material, kind of! Young Turk if to mean anything, are guys of a new think who, say, launch a new republic. They are harbingers of a new morality, custodians of a brighter future for the land and populace. They are the kind of guys who move the nation ahead, break the political inertia of the old, energise their nation and take it places. Young Turks (are of legend) Fellas of deep worth and dignity. Endowed with penetrative thought, competent of a geo-strategic vision for their land. But now young Turk Ababu is dangerously flirting with the ridicule General Stomach! or at least those are the politics he is being associated with. No single item of policy! Suddenly his tenure at PAC which crashed ignominiously fits a dangerous narrative of an Old Turk, an Ottoman. Ash heap of history material. Next. Generation of Young Turks please! NB: As Luhya nationalism rises and will consolidate itself under a character with much more pride and dignity than the surrendered options projected by Lusaka-Namwamba-Walukhe jubilee flower-girls, I have been wondering if Islamic identity politics at the coast too could follow this general Kenyan template. NB: It is good sense to think the GEMA will vote for William Ruto in the Kenyatta succession because if they do not, the price for that treachery, they recognise, will be swift and brutal. Assuming they care that much about their Rift diaspora. If the politics of blackmail are that effective, and a settler community is essentially hostages, how would this play at the coast where watu-wa-bara are quite an easy pick? These are some of the dangers of the identity politics we turned into a fetish with our tyranny of numbers. Every ethnic group has a tyranny of numbers in their home zone, and urban enclave. It would have been nice to see the Great General Ababu Namwamba lead the troops away from the dead-end. Namwamba's declaration of Western Independence is the other coin of Pwani si Kenya. I hate David Ndii! Let us pray for a surprise!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 15, 2016 21:25:25 GMT 3
WHEN YOUNG TURKS ARE RECYCLED WASTE FROM THE PASTAbabu, I must admit I am petrified. The most talented young Turk if filling the media with his political actions, machinations, and theatrical manoeuvring, but there is not EVEN A SINGLE MENTION of POLICY, no, nor the VISION thing as Bush snr. used to put it. Is it important to have a vision? No, nor for all. You see for some politicians, vision is just a thing which tends to get in the way of their future! Basta vision! You have it, you are easy to smoke out as a hypocrite when you detour! The struggle for independence in Africa required a very long period without power. The ANC nearly a century in the cold. What kept it together? And in Zimbabwe why did Abel Muzorewa have such a short moment, before Mugabe and co and pushed him aside like litter? These things are important to ponder, when it comes to the vision thing, and, more so, what the vision of an opposition is. If the vision of an opposition is to get to power in the next elections, then it must disintegrate thereafter on loss. No long-term glue. How about policy? how important is that? How about issue-based politics ---that would be other issues other than a politicians cash price? In an alternative narrative, there are politicians who rise above the rest and their peers, either temporatily as hypes, or actually as real potential. In Kenya such true caliber types have tended to have careers which come to early grief, the worst fates being reserved for TJ Mboya and JM Kariuki, etc. Now, I wouldn't be preposterous enough to compare Namwambas's abilities to those two heroic sons, TJ and JM, but desperate times create desperate thoughts and magical thought patterns! --I always consider it a desperate thought that I refer to William Ruto as a brilliant politician! This is because I remember the late dictator of Singapore Lee Kew Yuan discussing African leaders and big men. The brilliant economist and administrator politician quipped: 'African leaders are blind gluttons whose vision is concentrated on their stomachs, and then lower a bit to the toilet! Useless thieves I would lock up in Singapore forever. They lead Africa nowhere!' –-except backwards may be! Thinking of the reasons why William Ruto is cartooned with a tulband, aka Singh, and knowing the financial discipline of the Singaporean harshmind, it becomes an inevitable intellectual winch to refer to a high-flying graft addict like Ruto as brilliant. By Singapore standards he belongs to the dungeons. But I comfort myself with the thought times are desperate in Kenya, and it is that era in history when a fella can not afford to be too picky. The crop is all meagre, the fields a-wilt, the harvest mediocre. Brilliant a euphemism. Still, that winch, sharply giving room to petrifaction in an unguarded moment. How can brilliant Ababu Namwamba report nothing on policy!? ---POLICY!? What the hell was that again? Sorry, I forgot. Forgot Wole Soyinka's dark warning of yonder: Of a feeble breed rose to the top. And they made their feeble decisions. How else could it not be, that it was an Africa continually feeble.But I say a bird at hand is worth two in the bush, so while the beautiful ones are not yet here, let me call the ugly ones brilliant! I am game. If there are no ladies of honour, prostitutes will do for me! A question of half a loaf is better than none! Power hates a vacuum. But what a yawning vacuum in the opposition trenches in Kenya. Real opposition!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 18, 2016 21:45:08 GMT 3
WILLIAM RUTO OWNS ABABU? --MAY BE!
What cheek, Our Singh Sir and future Prezzo! He reckons the now-not-so-convincing Field General Ababy Namwamba is his remote-controlled pawn! That it is at his, Ruto's behest, that Namwamba is imploding, soiling the nest within which, only yesterday during the helicoptarised campaigns for the Secretary Generalship, he Namwamba saw himself as the sturdiest of the young Turks,Hish Highness the leader of Team Fresh!
Now, from ODM General to URP running dog! Ruto has quite an opinion of Ababu! a trophy c-unt! (fleeing Agwambo's dwindling purse and prowess!?)
Well, I chuckled. There is this ISIS propaganda template now prevalent. Whether the IS terror masterminds are not involved, they claim any terrorist act anywhere in the globe against their enemies. They declare the perpetrator one of their soldiers, and honour him as such. It makes the IS almighty, ubiquitous, and enhances their reputation as a menacing foe, pushing Western leaders into paranoia, with Arabs and Muslims as objects. This is how I rationalised my smile yesterday, when reports reached me in the bar that William Ruto had declared he had engineered Ababu's turn into roguishness, guiding him to turn into a thorn in Raila's side and disperse his troops!
n other words, General Ababu Namwamba was and is but the puppet of the strategist William Kipchirchir Singh. The Singh part which is the one making Namwamba sing his tune. I gave the demobilising General the benefit of doubt and said I thought Ruto was playing the ISIS card. Owning every soldier wreaking havoc among his enemies. Terrorising Raila with fifth-column paranoiacs. Powerful propaganda points and psychological warfare hits!
But I could be wrong. Because I have noticed Mr. Namwamba is void in policies. And I think a politician without policies is up for grabs. Such a politician may not be for rent merely because he is for sale. There is no clue why Jubilee is not an option! There is no specific mention of a point of irreconcilableness! No explication, nor substantiation of the fundamental differences which would preclude the Jubilee option! In the absence of that, the guy is just joking, toying with himself fooling some but not all, buying time, while already a concubine, or, as we say these days, a sponcy with favours already delivered!
But fate can have surprises, let us find out if Namwamba is a kind of Ihuoma! Fated to delight suitors, before their doom! And himself doomed to serial heartbreak!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 3, 2017 21:25:33 GMT 3
Some months ago, I mused thus. who is that Raising MDVD's hand?WHERE IS ABABY WHENEVER THE MULEMBE GATHER? One can't help notice these absences when the Mulembe gathers. The absences without regrets of their star baby, Ababu. This one was macabre Politicians must have very powerful reasons to miss funerals barely a kilometer from their homes! But for a star politician, it is an Eish, what the Holy Fak! I filed it and waited. If Otuoma and you were women, the explanation would of course be obvious. Rivalry over the same d.ick. Not purse I think! But this one got to me. You skipped without a word, a key event the other day at Oparanya's. This was the Luhya spokesman feat at Bukhungu. The top yet open secret was it would be the son of Mudamba in the envelope. The results of the Nairobi University research were not exactly a secret. Why did your no-show get to me? For all his flaws, few men signify the tribulations of Kenyan labour than Francis Atwoli today. He has a convincing history as a labour man. And one, Ababu Namwamba, is, so say the registrar, the leader of the, wait for it, Labour Party of Kenya! Suck that lolly, Ababy! Your slip of tongue at Mombasa the other day, never rang so true as it did with your absence in Kakamega beside Atwoli, even if you have differences. And then your earlier apology to Musalia Mudavadi for having not stood by him when he quit the ODM!? Run that through your absense at his side at Bukhungu while you were the chief mouther of Mulembe consciousness! Man, you catch? You are Ababy because you use powerful concepts but without meaning anything. You apologise for not standing with MDVD, but before the cock has crowed twice, you abandon him again! You have the honour of a paid wh-ore. You are the leader of the Labour party, but you wont be seen in the neighbourhood of the personification of COTU, and a Mulembe man! No slip of the tongue then: 'sisi kama watu wa Jubilee!' -----we can not support Musalia who is on route to a supper alliance including CORD! And so your version of Mulembe consciousness was a feeble candle already blown out in the winds of the land. Those who propose to ignite a consciousness, Mulembe or otherwise, must at least have the consciousness to articulate stuff, like explain their no-show in the thick of things. Otherwise what remains are the words of a parrot whose mind is shallower than its cage. An amusing pet. not yet mulembe consciousness?One would have thought the potential Ababu Namwamba were to be more than an amusing pet in a cage. It is sad in deed. Shitting all over himself like a baby. Call Mudavadi. Condole Otuoma. As for the TRUE LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY OF KENYA, one Francis Atwoli, i don't dare imagine his sarcastic chuckle at the telephone from the .. eh.. eh mmm.. other LEADER OF THE LABOUR PARTY OF KENYA! one, Ababu! Eh, not Wilson Sossion!?
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