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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 23, 2015 21:24:58 GMT 3
THE KENYA AIRPORTS AUTHORITY AND TERMINAL-1 AT JKIA: WAS THE FIRE A BUSINESS PLOY?Drip drip drip! things are taking shape. Frogs are jumping in broad daylight. But where is the truth? S peak! O son of Jomo! For you haveth the intelligence And in this possesseth the truth
Rise to the task! your Excellency! you took an oath! And swore by your ancestors before God to defend the land. A pesitilence of thieves infest every office in every department But like the mmm of a dead dodo you hibernate in your auspices! Rise to the task! O Great Muigai, or pack your bags and go! The latest is worth photocopying in full. www.nation.co.ke/news/KAA-Directors-Board-Meeting-Transport/-/1056/2631614/-/13bfynv/-/index.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 23, 2015 21:39:27 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/KAA-Directors-Board-Meeting-Transport/-/1056/2631614/-/13bfynv/-/index.html Mr. President Muigai:. These infrastructural projects are built on loans, most of them Chinese loans. They will mature and must be repaid. At this rate of squander and embezzlement --by additional INFLATED CLAUSES for kickback--- we are entering the predictable cage of DEBT SERVITUDE. I am looking at Greece now, being ground by a disdainful Germany; the Greek finance minister treated like a dog, forced to dance before a dangling bone --DEBT RELIEF! but he must forget the independence and sovereignty of his nation, elections or not. I am watching managerial vermin at the top of Kenya driving the nation into the same purgatory, and thinking it can be prevented. --By the President, whose mandate is to defend the land. Unless the president too is vermin, a lost cause. Because that too is a possibiity, which would explain why the nation is so retarded in corruption. Unabated. Freeze the accounts of all these men. The law allows you to. --Better than cheergirling Obama for killing Godane!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 23, 2015 21:47:08 GMT 3
a season of anomalies!
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 23, 2015 22:39:48 GMT 3
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Post by mank on Feb 23, 2015 23:46:23 GMT 3
The state has no business running a company like this Geothermal Development Company. Such business should be sold out to private enterprise, or it will always be a sink hole of public resources. The state can own the business through shares, but the company should compete with others as a private entity. Meanwhile a mouthful from a president of another country:
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 24, 2015 21:53:05 GMT 3
CORRUPTION, LIKE COLONIALISM IS FOREVER!
There is a myth being peddled. Kenya is a Whiteman's land. It has been empty for God knows since when, uninhabited save for wild animals. Speke and Grant and Burton explored and claimed her for the Queen of England. Alternatively, it was awarded to the British at Berlin in 1885 when the Gods of the world then met. And the Queen offered her to William Mackinon as a business bride to develop. In any case she, Kenya, is now British forever. Because the sun shall never set on the British empire.
This is a very strong myth. Even the resistance and subsequent matyrdom of Waiyaki Wa Hinga is barely given human treatment. We natives, must settle into our fate of minion obeisance for good. Praise the Lord!
Homeguards and collaborators (of colonialism) cherish this myth. They organise their lives around its eternity. They believe in the invincibility of colonial power, its everlasting order. They believe resistance is futile. They actively engage in the employ to defeat resistance, they voluntarily do everything to betray their people. They say Jomo Kenyatta, Jaramogi Odinga, Kungu Karumba and more of that sort who want Independence, are terrorist sympathisers. They say they support Al-Shabaab, sorry Mau Mau. They say the Mau Mau lawyer Arguings -Al-Shabab-- Kodhek, is a demon worshipper and an administrator of pagan oaths. The homeguards and collaborators are agreed, and wholly sold on to the idea, that the whiteman shall rule our land forever. They believe in his natural superiority. Having thus internalised their inferiority, and succumbed to slave mentality, these fellow citizens actively ever dress in their Sunday bests, treacherously worshipping the rotten colonist and his vile colonial system.
Now, we of the resistance scorn such dogs. We admire their doggish faith, but abhor the most to whom they are tethered. I should say in mitigation!
SO IF I FF:
Today it is not colonialism that grips our land but corruption. Kenya is firmly held under a class alliance of elite incumbents, be they in opposition or in government. Tory or Labour. They are Irish, Scots, Welsh, English, and an assortment of whites. -Sorry, I meant they are Kikuyus, Luhyas, Kambas, Luos, Kalenjins and what have you. A certain constellation which forms the cream of the land, united in colonial-like exploitation and cruelty. Jubilee, sorry, JAM, or CORD, it is still the same scum, scamming, running a regime of super corruption holding the land down in squalor and impoverishment. For all talk of rapid industrialisation and civilisation -laptops for nursery kids etc, all round is social stagnation.
The homeguards and sycophants agree, so shall it be forever. The tyranny of the United Kingdom of Big Tribes presiding over endless corruption forever. And ever amen. There will be no Kingdom come in Kenya devoid of corruption. Corruption is alpha, corruption is Omega in Kenya. It is the elixir of life, in Kenya. It can not be otherwise. Every regime shall be mired in morbid corruption, from Uhuru Kenyatta to William Rutosingh, or from Raila to Stevo, the presidency shall ping-pong between any set or duo of tribes who concoct a tyranny of corrupt numbers.
And so fixed, shall the story and history of our land go henceforth! -Like colonialism, corruption will last forever in Kenya. So believes the homeguards and their ilk.
But I got news for this mythology. There is a sh!t storm out there. This putrid period of plunder at the hands of the colonial governors and politicians like Uhuruto, Rao&Stevo&Weta, Obako and Moi and the rest in line, is busily digging its own grave. Take a look at the smiling mask of William Ruto -while the fumes of teargas choke little children defending their playground from Singh grabbers! Take a look at the deserving pupils who will miss out on good schools while they made the grade, while CEO's of state corporations rip away billions from the state in graft. Look at the smiling mask of a face of Joseph Kaimenyi, enjoying committing arson on the dreams of the young.
Aint this breed is dancing the death dance of their rule? Not that they could recognise it anyway.
The question is, will the transition be a bloodbath or peaceful? Will a Mandela emerge, or will we go all the way to indulge our bloodlust? It is something worth pondering as we take our kids to school, perusing the papers where every page is a catalogue of grand theft, blowing away the future of the kids. If not our immediate kids, then definitely those of poor Kenyans off the loop of loot. And let these be the majority.
Next: CHICKEN COUNTRY.
There is a vacuum at the top! Power hates a vacuum, so corruption has stepped into the vacuum. Corruption rules! there is no government in Kenya, merely organised banditry. Chicken rules, and chicken eats chicken! -cannibalism!
Continued.
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Post by podp on Feb 26, 2015 22:45:27 GMT 3
CORRUPTION, LIKE COLONIALISM IS FOREVER! Now, we of the resistance scorn such dogs. We admire their doggish faith, but abhor the most to whom they are tethered. I should say in mitigation! SO IF I FF: Today it is not colonialism that grips our land but corruption. Kenya is firmly held under a class alliance of elite incumbents, be they in opposition or in government. Tory or Labour. They are Irish, Scots, Welsh, English, and an assortment of whites. -Sorry, I meant they are Kikuyus, Luhyas, Kambas, Luos, Kalenjins and what have you. A certain constellation which forms the cream of the land, united in colonial-like exploitation and cruelty. Jubilee, sorry, JAM, or CORD, it is still the same scum, scamming, running a regime of super corruption holding the land down in squalor and impoverishment. For all talk of rapid industrialisation and civilisation -laptops for nursery kids etc, all round is social stagnation. .... But I got news for this mythology. There is a sh!t storm out there. This putrid period of plunder at the hands of the colonial governors and politicians like Uhuruto, Rao&Stevo&Weta, Obako and Moi and the rest in line, is busily digging its own grave. Take a look at the smiling mask of William Ruto -while the fumes of teargas choke little children defending their playground from Singh grabbers! Take a look at the deserving pupils who will miss out on good schools while they made the grade, while CEO's of state corporations rip away billions from the state in graft. Look at the smiling mask of a face of Joseph Kaimenyi, enjoying committing arson on the dreams of the young. Aint this breed is dancing the death dance of their rule? Not that they could recognise it anyway. The question is, will the transition be a bloodbath or peaceful? Will a Mandela emerge, or will we go all the way to indulge our bloodlust? It is something worth pondering as we take our kids to school, perusing the papers where every page is a catalogue of grand theft, blowing away the future of the kids. If not our immediate kids, then definitely those of poor Kenyans off the loop of loot. And let these be the majority. Next: CHICKEN COUNTRY. There is a vacuum at the top! Power hates a vacuum, so corruption has stepped into the vacuum. Corruption rules! there is no government in Kenya, merely organised banditry. Chicken rules, and chicken eats chicken! -cannibalism!Continued. last red high light it is that season when one allegations gets swept under to be replaced by an even juicer one. EACC has yet to indicate when Oyombra, who was named in the UK court proceedings as the agent for the two directors of the British firm who have since been convicted of bribing Kenyan officials with a total of Sh50 million to secure contracts to supply electoral and national examinations materials, will be grilled. Apart from Oyombra, there has been no word from EACC about former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ( IEBC) Chief Executive Officer James Oswago, who is also lined up for questioning for his role in the dealings by IEBC’s predecessor, Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC). Instead, the commission, which has been enthusiastic in informing journalists on the grilling of those mentioned in the scandal, has become reluctant to discuss the matter. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152907/chicken-scam-mastermind-yet-to-be-grilledand now the Americans are pointing at 'wet' ministries www.nation.co.ke/news/Goodyear-Sh1-billion-fine-bribery-Kenya-Angola/-/1056/2635102/-/ftqj8lz/-/index.htmland then as if that is enough drama already so while they cannot get fat cats allegedly paid in millions they are able to get this small fry taking 50 bob per suspect vehicle
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Post by b6k on Feb 28, 2015 0:54:40 GMT 3
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 28, 2015 3:11:55 GMT 3
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Post by b6k on Feb 28, 2015 6:49:37 GMT 3
Indeed Otishotish I didn't expect that to get past your (b)eagle eye. What caught my attention was this: "It did caution though that the push for higher wages and insecurity could curb the growth target. According to analysts, Kenya has in the past struggled to attain its true growth potential of above six per cent due to a host of challenges, including political uncertainties, periodic droughts and frequent attacks blamed on terrorists." The first paragraph proves that what's good for the business barons (low wages) isn't necessarily good for the common man. And of course human development is what it's really all about as aptly put by the links you posted above. It will take sometime to get trickle down economics going in KE. The second paragraph is even more worrisome for the Bloomberg projections. We all know we are at the mercy of the gods when it comes to having a responsible political class that puts the people of Kenya, & not the ruling elite first. The next challenge of drought will be well & truly tested this year. The current heatwave points towards yet another year of drought in KE. Lastly the frequent terror attacks "blamed on terrorists" (what a curious choice of words) again hints that the projections may remain just that...projections. Here's how The Star covered the same Bloomberg figures: the-star.co.ke/news/kenya-among-top-three-countries-drive-world-economy-2015Best of all when relying on such information is to get it direct from source. Of course the Bloomberg headline says nothing about Kenya but talks of the world's 20 fastest growing economies: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-25/the-20-fastest-growing-economies-this-year
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 28, 2015 15:17:26 GMT 3
OtishOtish, b6k, you guys gotta go all the way to Bloomberg to justify or vilify the son of Jomo!? Me? Whenever I am in Nairobi I take two tours. One through the slums, checking out such. wanjiku's private and official. The other through the kind of places Fidel Odinga used to indulge his indulgences. (with connected people like Kamalet as my inlaws, I can often steal a mingling night in Nairobi where caviar is on the table and cognac flows like a Suba hip at ahangla, sorry, Akamba fundamento at Maria's fundamento! DPs official. Chief justice official That --West/East Ghetto/posh-- difference as a stability indicator is the uncertainty that unnerves everybody. Income disparity at such extremes with a large youth unemployed never did do any country any good! Those official residences are sure castles, the question is whether they are built on anger like those of Marie Antoinnette, Queen of France once. But there is no doubt they reflect great strides in GDP! Problem may be the distribution of the national cake! Dan Kamwana --thingithisya Hot from Ukambani!
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Post by podp on Feb 28, 2015 21:39:32 GMT 3
OtishOtish, b6k, you guys gotta go all the way to Bloomberg to justify or vilify the son of Jomo!? Me? Whenever I am in Nairobi I take two tours. One through the slums, checking out such. I "Sometimes we recognize leaders’ toxicity only after they leave their institutions in disarray and their hapless followers in despair. Worse yet, we frequently perceive the inadequacies of toxic leaders in real time but do little to stop them.” Pg. 10 www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/0195166345.htmlJomo Kenyatta’s regime was corrupt, illiberal and competent. Moi’s was corrupt, illiberal and mediocre. Kibaki’s was corrupt, liberal and competent. So, Moi scores zero out of three. Jomo scores one out of three. Kibaki scores two out of three. Now it adds up! Jubilee’s stock has fallen not just because it is seen as corrupt, but because it comes across as also illiberal and incompetent. Like Moi’s regime, it scores zero out of three. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jubilee-like-Moi-regime-scores-a-zero-/-/440808/2638032/-/sncejn/-/index.htmlKoyaga shows no mercy to those who question his right to rule. A mighty hunter of men as well as animals, he emasculates his victims and places their mmmes in their mouths to prevent their spirits taking revenge on him (or possibly because he is an evil bastard). www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview16from David Ndii's article there is the statement Mediocracy works the same way. The people who thrive in it are idiots and rascals. This has the effect of driving good smart people out of the system so that in the end, the entire system is made up of idiots and rascals. in the epic "The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why we follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them" we learn that... Toxic leaders leave their followers worse off than they found them. A few of the many other ways toxic leaders act are they: violate basic standards of human rights; feed followers illusions; stifle criticism; maliciously set constituents against one another.
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Post by podp on Mar 9, 2015 22:23:50 GMT 3
from David Ndii's article there is the statement Mediocracy works the same way. The people who thrive in it are idiots and rascals. This has the effect of driving good smart people out of the system so that in the end, the entire system is made up of idiots and rascals.in the epic "The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why we follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them" we learn that... Toxic leaders leave their followers worse off than they found them. A few of the many other ways toxic leaders act are they: violate basic standards of human rights; feed followers illusions; stifle criticism; maliciously set constituents against one another. “The government will pay Mr Blair a lump sum amount, I do not have exact figures, but it is as big as the budget of one of the major parastatals. NOT ADVISING GOVERNMENT “It takes care of the salaries and allowances of the advisors, as well as their accommodation and travel,” said one of the sources. www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Blair-lands-deal-for-key-Jubilee-projects/-/1064/2646572/-/wo2ynt/-/index.htmlto understand Blair's mission try reading www.globalresearch.ca/unmasking-tony-blairs-interfaith-crusade-using-religious-extremism-to-impose-a-new-world-order/5388088
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Post by jakaswanga on May 23, 2015 10:41:02 GMT 3
THE KENYA AIRPORTS AUTHORITY AND TERMINAL-1 AT JKIA: WAS THE FIRE A BUSINESS PLOY?Drip drip drip! things are taking shape. Frogs are jumping in broad daylight. But where is the truth? S peak! O son of Jomo! For you haveth the intelligence And in this possesseth the truth
Rise to the task! your Excellency! you took an oath! And swore by your ancestors before God to defend the land. A pesitilence of thieves infest every office in every department But like the mmm of a dead dodo you hibernate in your auspices! Rise to the task! O Great Muigai, or pack your bags and go! The latest is worth photocopying in full. [/font] saving sister Lucy! what options MuigaiPART 1. SAVING SISTER LUCY FROM THE GRIP OF PIMPSIN GOOD COMPANY: Ms Mbugua, DP Ruto and Senate Majority Leader Prof Kindiki whose law firm does business with KAA Now, some background in-depth will be useful in this case. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8300/re-uhuru-muigai-speeches-performance#ixzz3avwRVRzg That list was intercepted by HE Muigai himself, and has since led to the axing of Onsongo, Matemu, and Keino, leaving Mubea and Halakhe as the last of the Mohicans, to stear the ship to the bottom of the sea, forever. Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8300/re-uhuru-muigai-speeches-performance#ixzz3avwRVRzg More history. And the reinstatement, leaving Karen-home strategy meetings out for the momen, was of course AFTER ''THOROUGH'' INVESTIGATIONS. Yes, another instalment in the grand scheme kleptocracy, with the JUDICIARY, as usual, in tow as money in the bank 'Solomonic' cogs. And then around 20th May 2015, after the famous AIRPORT BUS BUST, AND OUTBURST BY PRESIDENT KENYATTA. ( And it reads like Simon Makonde in the Old Safari Book.) Lucy Mbugua was appointed on –---, Suspended for the first time on –---; re-instated on –---; interdicted on –----; …... (and finally sacked on ?) –---But really, Is Lucy Mbugua her own woman? (where is her professional head? For she surely does not keep it with her). This is the question I find intriguing, and I want to ponder, with humour, rather than anger, because there is something amusing about an AIRPORT earning International recognition as the best in the Continent, while the board running the authority she falls under, KAA, is mentally off duty. Imagine what happens if we run our Kenya with just avarage competence! We would never bother to compare to any other country in Africa. Rising Asia and declining Europe would be our peers. That is the thought which diffuses my anger! But more history first: www.nation.co.ke/news/Six-KAA-officials-interdicted-after-directive-by-Uhuru-Kenyatta/-/1056/2723662/-/69woae/-/index.html SO: WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE AIRPORT, AND THE KENYA AIRPORTS AUTHORITY? www.cofek.co.ke/index.php/14-news/1033-key-strategists-meet-in-karen-ahead-of-kenya-airports-board-deciding-fare-of-md-lucy-mbugua-thursday-morning END PART ONE. PART TWO FOLLOWS. SISTER LUCY WAMBUGUA IN A VICE TRAP.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 23, 2015 12:00:10 GMT 3
SAVING SISTER LUCY. Part two: SISTER LUCY wa MBUGUA IN A VICE TRAP.You know the story, how a group of pimps (predators) select a prospect (weak-minded girl) then groom and initiate her into a street cash-cow? They then by all means necessary maintain control of her in that role. feed her the necessary drugs, addict her to certain jabs, blackmail her with violence. It is a racket in which the prey herself is mere litter, having been broken somewhere in the mind, body, soul: a slave to a certain kick. That is the controversial, now SEVERALLY interdicted MD of KAA, girl Lucy. What has happened to her can not be explained by her own greed and corruption alone. It is too sickening, the shamelessness indicative of soullessness: a pathology. Initially, I am attracted to the shamelessness of Lucy Wambugua the way I am attracted to the shamelessness of Evans Kidero (in his looting of Mumias Sugar; the way I am attracted to the shamelessness of Mike Sonko or Kabogo of Kiambu; the way I am attracted to the shamelessness of William Ruto (for his pathological greed); and the way I am attracted to the current pathological manifestations of social rot in Africa, for, if war is the big disease in human politics with a capacity to, for instance in the so-called 2nd world war, devour more than 60 million people in four years, then surely in the daily decisions of those at the top (of our society, lies the pathogenic secretions accelerating the social rot, and the disintegration that leads to the collapse.A decision by Power to lie to the people may not have immediate consequences to be classified a patholology: for instance, that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass destruction, and was a clear and present danger to the United Kingdom, and to Humanity, and so Great Britain had to rally to save the world, under Tony Blair, looked just another day at the office, all ship-shape. a decade later, today, the labour party disintegrated in Scotland, and now, elected he be, but David Cameron and his Tories do not speak for the Scots. The UK disintegrated.Reality will of course be more complicated than that. But social rot can also be seen on the ground in HomaBay county, where a procurement officer is said to have billed a Tiger Generator to the Luo Wanjiku's @ksh. 100,000. At the Nakumatt supermarket, corrupted at the cashiers, the Tiger is still less than a quarter that. That kind of decision-making process, financial and political, is why Haiti is still the way it is today, and Singapore, different. THE COMICAL CASE OF LUCY MBUGUA'S SERIAL INTERDICTIONSThis girl does not seem to have any pride. Once beaten should be twice shy would be enough for the normal. Alas, she has become the poster girl for rot. No, not Keittany at DPORK's office who (using the deposition of the speaker as an alibi) pocketed 200M; nor Charity Ngilu who, servicing Muigai, closed down the National Lands office to help out AG Githu at the ICC; nor the registrar at the NLC, Sarah Mwendwa, who buried her head in a man's coat in a very suggestive position; nor the various hot chicks in hot jobs around the country --like my aunt Adul Anna in Kisumu county, nay, the suspensions and reinstatements and interdictions of Lucy Wambua, are a story apart. Layer after layer revealing even more rot, of the soul. She is obviously a buoy bobbing up and down the water at the mercy of forces beyond her will. But as a human being, or at least a semblance thereof, her ill adventures must have an element of self-collusion, or at the very least a 'pathology' that enables her to avail herself to be used that mercilessly, and repeatedly. So I thought of her as the well-studied case of a lost heroin or crack street hooker. Or a habitual gambler, addicted to his kicks even at the price of ruin.NB: See how Charity Ngilu has reacted to her repeated humilitions: she conjured up enough dregs of her pride to raise the middle-finger at her erstwhile pimp, Uhuru Muigai, he who had lifted her out of the sewer before the last elections when she fell out of every boat. Uhuru has been using, abusing her ruthlessly. She had enough, perhaps only temporarily for a breather though. Bt Lucy does not seem to have any sense of dignity, neither professional nor personal. Even with other alarmed pimps yelling her intestines are leaking out of her rears, she is still selling for a fix. And like such a lost crack malaya, she will sell her rotten self so long scavengers are on the take, and rotten pimps on the push, peddling her to death by perforated intestines. NB: The investigators of the Ethics and anti Corruption commission who gave her a clean bill of health and had her suspension rescinded in March, of course had idea of the Airport Buses scam. They were just setting her up as a Patsy. So too did the authorities, the board, which re-instated her.Lucy Mbugua needs to be protected from herself. She is being overused, with impunity. A slave kept for ritual abuse so long she lives. Don't know what she lost first, dignity or virginity! www.cofek.co.ke/index.php/faqs/14-news/1040-cofek-why-we-condemn-the-board-of-kaa-on-suspect-reinstatement-of-ms-mbugua And the present did not know? just like he did not know he had a false title deed in his hands in Bomet!? I give the fella the benefit of doubt. We teachers are in the business of patience, repeating the easiest stuff to boredom until the dimmest kid gets it. That is what makes our day. HOMEWORK FOR MR. PRESIDENT!Over to you, Muigai wa Jomo, be thy be the knight in shining armour, to the rescue of sister Lucy, or, god forbid, you too have found use for her, hammering her intestines to a bloody mess? The kind of theft they are running at KAA, and just about anywhere (thinking of the security dockets) Mr. President, can only be with your blessing, or with their total contempt for your retaliatory capacities. That is, the perpetrators and their controllers are sure HE The President of the republic in his anti-corruption speeches, is just an impotent dick, shrivelled in drink, wilted in office. -Ata do? Well, the evidence, and cold facts, suggest they are right. --or what options you, pretender president? Aaah, saving sister Lucy! ==who dares? And I will be back!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 4, 2015 23:27:29 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 6, 2016 21:05:10 GMT 3
THE GROWING CLAWS OF THE CUBwww.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-s-new-powers-over-police-chiefs-and-Judiciary/-/1056/3019538/-/4ila3dz/-/index.html Footwork it is called. But there more than two in this tango. It will be an exercise in farce, a mess. The purpose of the second liberation was to DEVOLVE POWER. The authoritarian, totalitarian order had run aground. At the micro-level, the local (sub) chief whose role was edified by the colonial chief's act which was highly hierarchical and was subsequently inherited (and further re-enforced by the one-party KANU dictatorship) had to cede power. The new constitution revised the power relationship between the Chief and his subjects. So too at the zenith. The presidency was dymistified, stripped. The office was tamed, forced in principle to surrender its legendary Imperial powers --or, at least, the clauses of the new constitution pretended to. The centralised state too was 'dispersed' to governorship near you, in one of the most visible success of the new order. (But the moral component, the integrity chapter, totally was a non-starter). Anyway, llike the battle between Caesar and the Senate in Rome, this is a historical tug of war which can tilt either side -in Rome remember the republic died for a long time indeed, and the Emperor emerged, and became an institute, for a long time indeed. Closer to today, we visit Al-Sisi's democratic Egypt and consider the general verdict: it is a throw-back to pre-Mubarak.Historical progress thus can be reversed for some time. Amen. A second liberation can be a simple curtain raiser to a period of darkness. History is a game of no guaranteed results, and no guarantees in that sense, even as it progressively marches on. It is therefore sensible to keep an open mind, like Kenya has been doing, thinking about the so-called creeping fascism.I once talked of the same: here is some food for thought from the Nation Watch above. It will be imperative to think of the material and objective conditions which drive the conscious or unconscious predisposition of this elite to political recidivisms (like the Egyptian General Abdel-Fata al-Sisi).Why is the Kenyan political class unable to do otherwise than re-concentrate power in the office of the Presidency? Why is Ouru Kenyatta, a supposedly modern man, emerging as a reconstruction of the authoritarian state!? I will presently theorise this has nothing to do with himself personally. I will present evidence this is a GENERAL TREND currently in the supposedly rising Africa. All rats in a cage will behave like any other rat in a cage. any african President in a certain mental cage, will be as good a rat as any other in the same mental cage. (The difference between Paul Kagame and Robert Mugabe is therefore that one is the future of the other!) But first the daily nation on our Kenya, and our own rat in its cage, being a rat in a cage. -For those who can not bear a spade being called a spade, I will think of something obfuscating to please thee. there is thus a concerted legal footwork or choreography to steal the thunder out of the document (constitution). Remember the curde attempt to tamper with it at the printer's? --it was an omen! A bad one! www.nation.co.ke/news/Major-changes-to-take-place-in-police-service/-/1056/3011922/-/n7y8te/-/index.html and www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/01/05/how-mps-gave-uhuru-powers-to-choose-cj_c1269939 www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Uhuru-Kenyatta-Parliament-Bills-Legislation/-/440808/2842626/-/12w1ao9z/-/index.html
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Post by podp on Jan 9, 2016 10:36:09 GMT 3
OtishOtish, b6k, you guys gotta go all the way to Bloomberg to justify or vilify the son of Jomo!? Me? Whenever I am in Nairobi I take two tours. One through the slums, checking out such. I "Sometimes we recognize leaders’ toxicity only after they leave their institutions in disarray and their hapless followers in despair. Worse yet, we frequently perceive the inadequacies of toxic leaders in real time but do little to stop them.” Pg. 10 www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/0195166345.htmlJomo Kenyatta’s regime was corrupt, illiberal and competent. Moi’s was corrupt, illiberal and mediocre. Kibaki’s was corrupt, liberal and competent. So, Moi scores zero out of three. Jomo scores one out of three. Kibaki scores two out of three. Now it adds up! Jubilee’s stock has fallen not just because it is seen as corrupt, but because it comes across as also illiberal and incompetent. Like Moi’s regime, it scores zero out of three. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Jubilee-like-Moi-regime-scores-a-zero-/-/440808/2638032/-/sncejn/-/index.htmlKoyaga shows no mercy to those who question his right to rule. A mighty hunter of men as well as animals, he emasculates his victims and places their mmmes in their mouths to prevent their spirits taking revenge on him (or possibly because he is an evil bastard). www.theguardian.com/books/2003/mar/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview16from David Ndii's article there is the statement Mediocracy works the same way. The people who thrive in it are idiots and rascals. This has the effect of driving good smart people out of the system so that in the end, the entire system is made up of idiots and rascals. in the epic "The Allure of Toxic Leaders: Why we follow Destructive Bosses and Corrupt Politicians—and How We Can Survive Them" we learn that... Toxic leaders leave their followers worse off than they found them. A few of the many other ways toxic leaders act are they: violate basic standards of human rights; feed followers illusions; stifle criticism; maliciously set constituents against one another. Back in Kenya, the drums of war have begun beating. They ring with the unmistakable sound of 2006 – 2007, ahead of the disaster that would follow. The opposition says the incumbents have begun rigging next year’s election. They say in law that res ipso dictum – which is to say that things speak for themselves. But even when things don’t speak for themselves, politicians engage in reckless talk that could sink society. Deputy President William Ruto goes to Kakamega to tell the people, “We beat these useless people when we were not in government. How do they imagine that they are going to beat us now that we are in government? That is impossible.” You are still pondering over the wider significance of the DP’s words when a CORD defector turned Jubilee zealot blurts, “We are going to win this election. No matter what, we will win. We will rig. And if we cannot rig, we will steal.” Consider that he says this in the presence of the Deputy President. Put this together with hostile early campaigns. Disaster is not too far. If the political class cannot speak cautiously and sensitively, it should keep quiet. Religious leaders, NGOs, the media and the academic fraternity must protect the public from the injurious messaging of the political class. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000187506/polls-in-africa-are-exercises-in-democratic-fiction
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