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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 17, 2013 23:24:56 GMT 3
It has been a weekend of make-do kisses. There was the other great one within CORD, pitting www.nation.co.ke/news/We-are-best-of-friends-say-Raila-and-Kidero/-/1056/2113786/-/14ur1pu/-/index.html the lips of Kidero against those of Raila in Kisumu, but that one for another day. I was watching the foot dance in the Rift Valley: how careful would Uhuru be, not to step of his darling Ruto’s toe, in front of her volatile people? www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Ruto-denies-there-is-rift-in-Jubilee--/-/1064/2113182/-/12cdxsbz/-/index.htmlWith perceptive keenness the concerned wananchi would be watching the choreography for a jarring note that says the marriage is good publicly, but misfiring in the bedroom. How much beef is on the bone, this thank you round? Still I was surprised at the brawny with which the son of Jomo told the Kalenjin to shut up and fuata nyayo zake. It was a masterpiece in subtle arrogance. Ruto is definitely folded in his pocket like a crumpled note awaiting expenditure. But only as the very last resort before the yawing chasm of total insolvency. He said: ten years Ruto will serve me. After his ten compulsory years of servitude under I disagree, I will be minded to hand him his time ---who will be his deputy? We could even shuffle, do a Putin-Medvedev routine! www.capitalfm.co.ke/tv/video/l0ejxm_--- Relax kidogo bwana, ujishomeshe siasa kwanza! hakuna shida! –we have very capable people! Said the self-bemused prezzo] [But Watching the doctors strike and the sackings as ‘’competent response'' of a government system, does not inspire any confidence! Not to mention questionable dealings in the most profound infrastructural project in the pipeline, the SG-Rail] But Wololo! Two decades then will be the tenure! It is just that succession promises in history brings forth the best tales of treachery, skulduggery and fall outs. So Watch this one unfold. Meanwhile Ruto is pinned, captured and contained for ten years of doggish loyalty, eyeing the bone to drop some time. It is now for him Ruto to have the self-delusion, and the accompanying arrogance, to believe that, between him and Uhuru Kenyatta, they can fix the future of Kenya for that long. That they can tie Kenya politics to their will for 20 years. Every other contender his ambitions in the freezer! Every challenge dissipating before the invincible will of Uhuruto. THE FOLLIES OF MEN IN POWER
Listen thee! Illusions your ambitions! The presidency is reserved two decades …. Find other vacancies to consume your energies
Monopoly songs that politicians sing Professing to hold power at their leisure. …. So do men sign their execution warrants
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Post by omundu on Dec 18, 2013 21:31:58 GMT 3
It has been a weekend of make-do kisses. There was the other great one within CORD, pitting www.nation.co.ke/news/We-are-best-of-friends-say-Raila-and-Kidero/-/1056/2113786/-/14ur1pu/-/index.html the lips of Kidero against those of Raila in Kisumu, but that one for another day. I was watching the foot dance in the Rift Valley: how careful would Uhuru be, not to step of his darling Ruto’s toe, in front of her volatile people? www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Ruto-denies-there-is-rift-in-Jubilee--/-/1064/2113182/-/12cdxsbz/-/index.htmlWith perceptive keenness the concerned wananchi would be watching the choreography for a jarring note that says the marriage is good publicly, but misfiring in the bedroom. How much beef is on the bone, this thank you round? Still I was surprised at the brawny with which the son of Jomo told the Kalenjin to shut up and fuata nyayo zake. It was a masterpiece in subtle arrogance. Ruto is definitely folded in his pocket like a crumpled note awaiting expenditure. But only as the very last resort before the yawing chasm of total insolvency. He said: ten years Ruto will serve me. After his ten compulsory years of servitude under I disagree, I will be minded to hand him his time ---who will be his deputy? We could even shuffle, do a Putin-Medvedev routine! www.capitalfm.co.ke/tv/video/l0ejxm_--- Relax kidogo bwana, ujishomeshe siasa kwanza! hakuna shida! –we have very capable people! Said the self-bemused prezzo] [But Watching the doctors strike and the sackings as ‘’competent response'' of a government system, does not inspire any confidence! Not to mention questionable dealings in the most profound infrastructural project in the pipeline, the SG-Rail] But Wololo! Two decades then will be the tenure! It is just that succession promises in history brings forth the best tales of treachery, skulduggery and fall outs. So Watch this one unfold. Meanwhile Ruto is pinned, captured and contained for ten years of doggish loyalty, eyeing the bone to drop some time. It is now for him Ruto to have the self-delusion, and the accompanying arrogance, to believe that, between him and Uhuru Kenyatta, they can fix the future of Kenya for that long. That they can tie Kenya politics to their will for 20 years. Every other contender his ambitions in the freezer! Every challenge dissipating before the invincible will of Uhuruto. THE FOLLIES OF MEN IN POWER
Listen thee! Illusions your ambitions! The presidency is reserved two decades …. Find other vacancies to consume your energies
Monopoly songs that politicians sing Professing to hold power at their leisure. …. So do men sign their execution warrantsThe follies of men in power indeed. Hopelessly wallowing in its warm embrace. Great men in history have drunk from its poisoned chalice. How easy they fall for it, like ceaser to cleopatras charms. To think they can even tempt fate. Like Hitler and his "thousand year reich"
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 2, 2014 21:35:06 GMT 3
THE GREAT LAPSSET PROJECT AND FRANCIS MUTHAURA AS THE BOARD CHAIRMAN The only point of mitigation will be that it was likely not your decision. But I want to assert that in the appointment of Francis Muthaura, you have missed the historical trend. And an awesome opportunity to make a mark. There was a chance you could see the light, since I have opined that I think you represent the peak of comprador evolution. A peak, in one circumstance, can then collapse back unto itself, a retardation as a reaction to a certain evolutionary dead-end; or, in the second instance, a peak (of a particular consciousness) could instinctively point to a transformation, ie indicate the possible direction of a metamorphosis. Show, even if confusedly, that it is pregnant with the seeds of an improved future. Your appointments to chair the various parastatals, are a retardation. They only bear the tidings of the past, and no seeds for the future. ---But here is the positive side of that going backwards. In walking on slippery mud, or walking on hardened snow, the joke goes, for every step forward, two steps backward. So what to do to make any progress? You turn and head back: One step backward, two steps forward it becomes! Takes time but you certainly are making slow progress, and will reach! That is the good news about the appointment of the dinosaurus, Francis ambassador Muthaura. But what is it that could have been better? 1. The recognition of the historical scale of LAPSSET. The recognition of ts transformative potential, and therefore a project of revolutionary ramifications. An epoch-changing, future-defining endeavour. Exactly like the Uganda railway from Mombasa to Kampala was, establishing the british conquest of East Africa. The IRON-SNAKE of legend. Such a recognition would IMPOSE a different mode of operation. Would change behaviour in very important aspects of PROCUREMENT. Some examples will do. A. HOOVER DAM. [as a case study of competence, dedication, ingenuity and patriotism] www.history.com/topics/herbert-hoover Socially, the 31st president of the USA Herbert Hoover was a reactionary like his racist contemporaries who had not time for black labour, except as the lowest menial, or hottest ho. But as a man of the industrial needs of his country, already as a young secretary of commerce, he felt, saw and knew exactly what his country needed to claim the west totally: a stupendous amount of water –for infinite irrigation, cheap domestic consumption, and industrial use in mega cities; a monstrous power source to power industry and the same mega cities; and a source of national pride. It is a great tribute the dam bears his name. But there is more I found out, studying the history of blackmen who worked at the dam. Hoover insisted on excellence during the project ----the detail [blue-print] he left behind when defeated as prezzo by Roosevelt in 1932 is legendary, and his demands for the work ethic, economy and financial propriety were carried through. The DAM WAS ‘’DELIVERED’’ two years ahead of schedule. [ Those interested in what that {delivered two years ahead of time} means should read the deliveries of other major projects like the Panama canal, the euro-tunnel, or the suez canal, to have an idea of what the extra-punctual delivery of a mega project like the Hoover Dam (occasionally using construction techniques never tried before!) must have meant.]One of the extra-ordinary things, steps, was the calibre of men put in charge of stuff. Chief engineer Frank Crowe for instance. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/hoover/The son of a Quaker blacksmith from Iowa had his faults, Hoover, but financial corruption was never one of them. Great projects that would transform nations can fail because the wrong men run them. Uhuru Kenyatta, you are worrying me with your LAPSSET choices. I smell theft. And that is a route to failure. Beware. nb: JUST to take yourself seriously on that parastatal reform, you could have decided on an international head-hunt for the best of the world to chair the epoch-transforming project! [you catch why you are not really the real deal, bwana Muigai?] No metamorphosis in thinking about public service! 2.....[later]
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Post by omundu on Jan 3, 2014 14:14:44 GMT 3
THE GREAT LAPSSET PROJECT AND FRANCIS MUTHAURA AS THE BOARD CHAIRMAN The only point of mitigation will be that it was likely not your decision. But I want to assert that in the appointment of Francis Muthaura, you have missed the historical trend. And an awesome opportunity to make a mark. There was a chance you could see the light, since I have opined that I think you represent the peak of comprador evolution. A peak, in one circumstance, can then collapse back unto itself, a retardation as a reaction to a certain evolutionary dead-end; or, in the second instance, a peak (of a particular consciousness) could instinctively point to a transformation, ie indicate the possible direction of a metamorphosis. Show, even if confusedly, that it is pregnant with the seeds of an improved future. Your appointments to chair the various parastatals, are a retardation. They only bear the tidings of the past, and no seeds for the future. ---But here is the positive side of that going backwards. In walking on slippery mud, or walking on hardened snow, the joke goes, for every step forward, two steps backward. So what to do to make any progress? You turn and head back: One step backward, two steps forward it becomes! Takes time but you certainly are making slow progress, and will reach! That is the good news about the appointment of the dinosaurus, Francis ambassador Muthaura. But what is it that could have been better? 1. The recognition of the historical scale of LAPSSET. The recognition of ts transformative potential, and therefore a project of revolutionary ramifications. An epoch-changing, future-defining endeavour. Exactly like the Uganda railway from Mombasa to Kampala was, establishing the british conquest of East Africa. The IRON-SNAKE of legend. Such a recognition would IMPOSE a different mode of operation. Would change behaviour in very important aspects of PROCUREMENT. Some examples will do. A. HOOVER DAM. [as a case study of competence, dedication, ingenuity and patriotism] www.history.com/topics/herbert-hoover Socially, the 31st president of the USA Herbert Hoover was a reactionary like his racist contemporaries who had not time for black labour, except as the lowest menial, or hottest ho. But as a man of the industrial needs of his country, already as a young secretary of commerce, he felt, saw and knew exactly what his country needed to claim the west totally: a stupendous amount of water –for infinite irrigation, cheap domestic consumption, and industrial use in mega cities; a monstrous power source to power industry and the same mega cities; and a source of national pride. It is a great tribute the dam bears his name. But there is more I found out, studying the history of blackmen who worked at the dam. Hoover insisted on excellence during the project ----the detail [blue-print] he left behind when defeated as prezzo by Roosevelt in 1932 is legendary, and his demands for the work ethic, economy and financial propriety were carried through. The DAM WAS ‘’DELIVERED’’ two years ahead of schedule. [ Those interested in what that {delivered two years ahead of time} means should read the deliveries of other major projects like the Panama canal, the euro-tunnel, or the suez canal, to have an idea of what the extra-punctual delivery of a mega project like the Hoover Dam (occasionally using construction techniques never tried before!) must have meant.]One of the extra-ordinary things, steps, was the calibre of men put in charge of stuff. Chief engineer Frank Crowe for instance. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/photo-gallery/hoover/The son of a Quaker blacksmith from Iowa had his faults, Hoover, but financial corruption was never one of them. Great projects that would transform nations can fail because the wrong men run them. Uhuru Kenyatta, you are worrying me with your LAPSSET choices. I smell theft. And that is a route to failure. Beware. nb: JUST to take yourself seriously on that parastatal reform, you could have decided on an international head-hunt for the best of the world to chair the epoch-transforming project! [you catch why you are not really the real deal, bwana Muigai?] No metamorphosis in thinking about public service! 2.....[later] Jakaswanga. A point you have made on a political and moral angle. I will try and give a technical angle to the story and eventually, perhaps, try to argue why or how, we are overlooking the real issue here; the impending doom in our development goals in these major "vision twenty something" projects. I am glad we have the hoover dam example that will help in understanding the complexities of our LAPPSET (sp) project. The hoover dam, though, massive, was still simple in a sense that it affected only americans and therefore was simply an engineering project. Even financing was done solely by the government. A project like that requires just a civil engineer as the project manager/head. It is simply just technical engineering feats. Let's have a look at LAPPSET and its intricacies: - several large projects in one. - It is international. - Inter ministerial. - A large chunk of it is proposed on private land (imagine the political complexities involved) - very prone to corruption (you mentioned this) in land, procurement etc. - it involves a very complex and tedious feasibility study (NEMA will be heavily involved) - it is multi agency multi departmental. Even the financing is being done from various international bodies and not just government funds. In light of the above, we need, someone with a vast understanding of Government procurement methods, diplomacy, inter-governmental practices, inter agency practices, latest economic intelligence (there are definitely foreign and local economic saboteurs) etc etc. Not just a professional from the building industry. It also has to be someone with an ear of the president to ensure the project goes through with minimal hiccups. Someone who is an inside man. Mark you, this is currently the largest project on the continent (if you check the construction review magazine). Even the COEGA project in port elizabeth comes a far second. The implications of LAPPSET becoming a white elephant will be very devastating to kenya and the region, forget the railway. It pales in comparison. That's why all international eyes are on us. A glimpse at Muthauras CV shows the versatility of the man. I am not saying that there is no one better in kenya but, where are they ? He has over fourty years in the diplomatic field, public service, dealing with politicians, the ear of the president etc etc. You have dealt with the moral angle... I will leave it at that. LAPPSET has various sectors in the whole, including, but not limited to: - Road networks - Railways. - Pipelines. - Cities. - a port. I believe these sectors, and who runs them is where we need to focus our energies. We need to have good professionals running the hands on the ground technical stuff ensuring that the construction (once site is handed over) goes without a glitch. At the top, we need someone who will fight off or deal with the other "non technical" stuff that is sure bound to surface. Now, therein, lies the problem we seem to be overlooking this past decade. I will give you the greenfield terminal as an example: the consultants are all foreign. They didn't even consider submitting building plans to the municipality before Uhuru did groundbreaking (a practice done world over) and when eventually, the new airport burns in future, we kenyans start running around like headless chicken forgetting that the plans (yes, they include fire drawings) were not approved by Kideros team at the municipality. But I digress. Look at our new road networks, look at the proposed railway. Only foreign consultants and contractors. I can tell you that it is not sustainable; the construction industry is one of the main contributors and indicators of GDP growth in any country but what we have is consultancy money and construction money leaving our shores. Let's say, the railway project cost is one trillion, the consultants are normally paid roughly twenty percent of the project cost and the rest goes to the construction company with roughly ten percent to labour costs (the wanjikus etc who do the hard work) do the math. The arguement that kenya may not have world class professionals in the building industry is hogwash because (thanks to corruption) many have joined the diaspora and are doing wonders, some are even lecturers teaching these people who come to consult in kenya. Some have got big companies doing wonders out there. We marvel at the road network in south africa but very few know that the main engineer doing those roads has been Otieno Odongo and partners. Even the Dam you have provided as a case study jakaswanga, was done by americans, the rebuilding of germany and europe under the marshall plan was done by the europeans with the loan from america. Like I said before, construction is a main contributor to the GDP, we can't have good roads and lappset's in 2030 but a dead industry who won't even be able to maintain the infrastructure, let alone compete with the rest of the world, still trapped in the first world in technical skills and competency. That, to me, is the elephant in the tent.
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Post by podp on Jan 3, 2014 20:07:38 GMT 3
THE GREAT LAPSSET PROJECT AND FRANCIS MUTHAURA AS THE BOARD CHAIRMAN The only point of mitigation will be that it was likely not your decision. The son of a Quaker blacksmith from Iowa had his faults, Hoover, but financial corruption was never one of them.Great projects that would transform nations can fail because the wrong men run them. Uhuru Kenyatta, you are worrying me with your LAPSSET choices. I smell theft. And that is a route to failure. Beware. Jakaswanga. A point you have made on a political and moral angle. I will try and give a technical angle to the story and eventually, perhaps, try to argue why or how, we are overlooking the real issue here; the impending doom in our development goals in these major "vision twenty something" projects. I believe these sectors, and who runs them is where we need to focus our energies. We need to have good professionals running the hands on the ground technical stuff ensuring that the construction (once site is handed over) goes without a glitch. At the top, we need someone who will fight off or deal with the other "non technical" stuff that is sure bound to surface. Now, therein, lies the problem we seem to be overlooking this past decade. I will give you the greenfield terminal as an example: the consultants are all foreign. They didn't even consider submitting building plans to the municipality before Uhuru did groundbreaking (a practice done world over) and when eventually, the new airport burns in future, we kenyans start running around like headless chicken forgetting that the plans (yes, they include fire drawings) were not approved by Kideros team at the municipality. But I digress. Look at our new road networks, look at the proposed railway. Only foreign consultants and contractors. I can tell you that it is not sustainable; the construction industry is one of the main contributors and indicators of GDP growth in any country but what we have is consultancy money and construction money leaving our shores. Let's say, the railway project cost is one trillion, the consultants are normally paid roughly twenty percent of the project cost and the rest goes to the construction company with roughly ten percent to labour costs (the wanjikus etc who do the hard work) do the math. The arguement that kenya may not have world class professionals in the building industry is hogwash because (thanks to corruption) many have joined the diaspora and are doing wonders, some are even lecturers teaching these people who come to consult in kenya. Some have got big companies doing wonders out there. We marvel at the road network in south africa but very few know that the main engineer doing those roads has been Otieno Odongo and partners.Even the Dam you have provided as a case study jakaswanga, was done by americans, the rebuilding of germany and europe under the marshall plan was done by the europeans with the loan from america. Like I said before, construction is a main contributor to the GDP, we can't have good roads and lappset's in 2030 but a dead industry who won't even be able to maintain the infrastructure, let alone compete with the rest of the world, still trapped in the first world in technical skills and competency. That, to me, is the elephant in the tent. 1st and 2nd red high light what differentiates developed and developing (as your truly Kenya is) countries is that those in power want a pie of the consultancy in forms of kick backs and hence the desire to run as many as tenable while the 5 years they are in power lasts. in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, a tale of intrigue and dark machinations, Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. now it is East lead by the Chinese who are taking the place or World Bank as the loans are given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies but now Chinese firms. the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco while now it is the East doing the same and the deals are smoothed over with bribes for Kenyan officials (read PORK, deputy PORK and those Chairmen being put in position to do the collections), but it is the taxpayers in the Kenya who will have to pay back the loans. 3rd red high light could not have put is better. go to Botswana too and Kenyans are excelling in running the government there!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 3, 2014 23:12:57 GMT 3
Thanx Omundu, it is a pleasure when such clear thinking and authoritative critique is offered in a problem of this magnitude. You make a myriad of valuable points, and I hope I will find time to go upon them all in detail. In this post I discuss just about one. You write: I agree, that construction is a main contributor to GDP; and indeed in fiscal policy, when government expenditure is used to stimulate growth, construction (usually of super projects) is traditionally used as a hot stimulus. Point two of course, is that in the current economic phase wherein a country such as ours finds itself, we are more or less a virgin territory in terms of ‘’fixed assets’’, of which constructions -- [be it an intricate railways network, super energy plants, super dams, mega cities, mammoth industrial plants and machinery]-- are a key components. In short, we are less than industrialised. We lack an industrial scale infrastructure. This means for us, as Kenya, massive projects need not merely be ‘’formulaic fiscal policy’’ to stimulate a growth, Nay, for us, ''construction'' is a PRIMARY NECESSITY. It is fixed asset accumulation, to lay a base for industrialisation. {Uhuru Kenyatta’s vow on his inauguration!} For example we need single carriage highways [uni-directional] just to avoid dying at night in horrific head-on collisions in congested poorly-maintained roads! Now for what you call A DEAD INDUSTRY. ---Why have we failed to nurture local talent? (I guess that will be the 60M$ question, though within it is quite a complex of factors]. The Hoover dam project thrilled me too, in one significant aspect. It was PIONEER. Never had man built a concrete structure on that scale, and that un-chattered [engineering] territory would force new thinking and daring solutions on site: the famous necessity is the mother of all creativity. [No consultants from afar to waste money on!] I also noted that when it was put up for tender, hardly a single engineering company existed in the USA which could pull it off on its own. Therefore the winning bid was a CONSORTIUM, a pooling of resources from six major engineering/construction rackets. Now I have seen Chinese companies build simple bridges and bypasses all over Kenya and Africa, and asked a simple question. (What happened to us? What happened to our senses?)[We are still trapped in a technical skills dependency on the first world as you eloquently put it] Omundu, do you remember the following road-works companies. Mugoya, Kirinyaga, Mauladad&Rose, Hayer, BOT, Ndirangu & Ndirangu, etc etc. Why is it that they were never able to develop further, form a consortium to BE called eg. KENYA ROADS AND BRIDGES and GENERAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY! , which could then bid for increasingly more demanding projects as the infrastructural skeleton intensified its growth rates!? Same question as why did KMC not develop into a Kenyan monster corporation, seeing the expanding middle class trebled its meat product consumption in the same period KMC was going downhill? And why did Kenya Railways, at a time when elsewhere Railway travel was revolutionised into the major carrier of land-borne goods and passengers, go bankrupt? Omundu, it is in the search for answers to such questions that a silent rage seeps into the hearts of citizen-kind. We know there is no shortage of talent as you say, giving the example of engineer Odongo ----(and you would be surprised at the battery of top-range soft-ware or other engineers at NASA from Africa). We know sir, that the real reason these companies collapse, stunt and wilt, is deliberate sabotage. Sabotage by non other than our fellow citizens. And now here is lapsset [sp?]set to leave us empty handed again even if realised!? Obviously we have structurally designed our vision, to sabotage local grown talent. You have made a shattering point sir.
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Post by omundu on Jan 4, 2014 11:04:40 GMT 3
Thanx Omundu, it is a pleasure when such clear thinking and authoritative critique is offered in a problem of this magnitude. You make a myriad of valuable points, and I hope I will find time to go upon them all in detail. In this post I discuss just about one. You write: I agree, that construction is a main contributor to GDP; and indeed in fiscal policy, when government expenditure is used to stimulate growth, construction (usually of super projects) is traditionally used as a hot stimulus. Point two of course, is that in the current economic phase wherein a country such as ours finds itself, we are more or less a virgin territory in terms of ‘’fixed assets’’, of which constructions -- [be it an intricate railways network, super energy plants, super dams, mega cities, mammoth industrial plants and machinery]-- are a key components. In short, we are less than industrialised. We lack an industrial scale infrastructure. This means for us, as Kenya, massive projects need not merely be ‘’formulaic fiscal policy’’ to stimulate a growth, Nay, for us, ''construction'' is a PRIMARY NECESSITY. It is fixed asset accumulation, to lay a base for industrialisation. {Uhuru Kenyatta’s vow on his inauguration!} For example we need single carriage highways [uni-directional] just to avoid dying at night in horrific head-on collisions in congested poorly-maintained roads! Now for what you call A DEAD INDUSTRY. ---Why have we failed to nurture local talent? (I guess that will be the 60M$ question, though within it is quite a complex of factors]. The Hoover dam project thrilled me too, in one significant aspect. It was PIONEER. Never had man built a concrete structure on that scale, and that un-chattered [engineering] territory would force new thinking and daring solutions on site: the famous necessity is the mother of all creativity. [No consultants from afar to waste money on!] I also noted that when it was put up for tender, hardly a single engineering company existed in the USA which could pull it off on its own. Therefore the winning bid was a CONSORTIUM, a pooling of resources from six major engineering/construction rackets. Now I have seen Chinese companies build simple bridges and bypasses all over Kenya and Africa, and asked a simple question. (What happened to us? What happened to our senses?)[We are still trapped in a technical skills dependency on the first world as you eloquently put it] Omundu, do you remember the following road-works companies. Mugoya, Kirinyaga, Mauladad&Rose, Hayer, BOT, Ndirangu & Ndirangu, etc etc. Why is it that they were never able to develop further, form a consortium to BE called eg. KENYA ROADS AND BRIDGES and GENERAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY! , which could then bid for increasingly more demanding projects as the infrastructural skeleton intensified its growth rates!? Same question as why did KMC not develop into a Kenyan monster corporation, seeing the expanding middle class trebled its meat product consumption in the same period KMC was going downhill? And why did Kenya Railways, at a time when elsewhere Railway travel was revolutionised into the major carrier of land-borne goods and passengers, go bankrupt? Omundu, it is in the search for answers to such questions that a silent rage seeps into the hearts of citizen-kind. We know there is no shortage of talent as you say, giving the example of engineer Odongo ----(and you would be surprised at the battery of top-range soft-ware or other engineers at NASA from Africa). We know sir, that the real reason these companies collapse, stunt and wilt, is deliberate sabotage. Sabotage by non other than our fellow citizens. And now here is lapsset [sp?]set to leave us empty handed again even if realised!? Obviously we have structurally designed our vision, to sabotage local grown talent. You have made a shattering point sir. Couldn't have put it better jakaswanga. In addition to the hoover dam, we have examples of how others did it (are doing it) in our own continent: Take the world cup in SA recently; it was a massive infrasctructural undertaking and the local companies had not even ventured into subways like the Gautrain. The Government put up policies that ensured whoever won the bid had a fifty fifty partnership with a local firm. Even with the stadiums and it worked wonders on skills transfer and job creation. Five major construction companies merged to form GROUP FIVE construction. That helped the companies withstand the financial crisis that hit the industry in a major way. They are even bidding or currently working on projects as far as the emirates and australia. It boils down to government policy. Down South Mbeki formulated the OHS and the public works act. I think it is called the expanded public works act/projects where any construction company that partakes in government projects has to partner with a youthful, young company where skills are transferred and jobs are ensured for the youth. The wazunguz may not have liked it but it is doing wonders. I am sure we can learn from the others out there. In my opinion, chairmanship of LAPSSET should not be the issue, it is through programmes like the one I mentioned earlier that the youth can eat, even better than the chairmans salary in ways like supplies of materials, consultancy or construction. So Naomba serikali...
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 12, 2014 23:52:32 GMT 3
A few weeks ago, when round-face Mr. Cute Alfred Keter, the Nandi Mpig, saw no soap-box he did not stand on to proclaim his voice coarse, that, deep within the clownish Uhuruto state, the Rasputins of corruption were busy fattening the SG-Rail project into a hecatomb of corruption, he was disparaged and dismissed by the dynamic duo as the paid hand of business men who lost in the lucrative deals. Crack teams of media spindoctors were assembled to assassinate Keter's character. Indeed Mr. Kenyatta had the foolhardiness to dare anybody with any information to ‘’ come to us, so that we would see to it!’’ Now ... {Knowing that this man Muigai has been in government all these years, and, for starters, the Kroll report gathered dust even with him at the helm at the treasury, it looked to some like Uhuru Kenyatta as president had graduated into a full public fool, or some kind of grotesque who now even lacked the decency of common sense}------that infamous Kroll report, commissioned by a serious man named John Githong’o, mentioned names, accounts, banks, amounts and the other details of what have you ----yet Mr. Muigai has always behaved as if he never heard of the report, let alone know where it gets mouldy now. Yes of course, I you have evidence, or facts, please bring it to us and we will see to it. Amen. Now mid february 2014 comes the admission from the President himself, that corruption is embedded right in his office, right among his top bureaucrats. –-he just discovered this yesterday! That his office is enmeshed in the net! Truly truly I say unto you! The eyes of this puppy are slowly opening, and they shall soon be like X-rays, revealing all in shine. And the Lord shall be back, and the blind shall surely see! ---behold! Saul is becoming Paul!www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/State-House-intrigue-over-corruption-ring/-/1064/2202784/-/1241c9m/-/index.html Seriously entrenched group? Is it not so, that Prime Minister Joseph Kinyua, the eternal man at the Treasury, and possibly the longest institutional memory in the current regime, has all these years in the very least, had the aptitude to know these things and these top bueacurats people? Surprise surprise! Now he is going to take care of the mess he created!? Then we can as well stop disturbing the hapless boy at Central Bank, prof. Ndung’u. (the financial academic who bought 3 door CCtvs for ksh. 1.5 million, and paid the fundis another 1.5M to fix them!) They say, to catch a thief, one should use a fellow thief! Imagine the cumulative ‘’institutional memories’’ of Ndung’u and Kinyua! An incredible treasure trove me says! Go, Uhuru Go! Charge, Muigai charge, charge like Sherrif Tough! and do not do a Don Quixote on me! The bankers of Wall-Street. They promised to self-regulate themselves. All laws were repealed, and trust placed on the invisible hand of the market, and the conscience of man. Restrain from greed by an inner voice. The result was a meltdown of the financial system and a global banking crisis. But we can not loose hope in the better senses of mankind. We trust professor Ndung’u has heeded this call, and will not spend 1.5M to repair three broken windows, and another 1.5M to pay the fundis! [/font][/quote] ruto must also continue to wonder how his famous jet cost a whooping ksh. 100M. Ati one can not explain why a government pays more for bulk purchasing than single sourcing?Well well, Pancha Ruto, even from your days with Jirongo in YK-something, I am sure you know how these things work! Even our universities have bulk-purchase agreements with computer suppliers so that they can sell at discounts to the computer students. But what do you know? The students are cheaper off buying direct from shops in the city!? Any explanations? Just like Uhuru has just pleaded with banks to lower the interest rates ---to stimulate the economy by cheapening the price of money thus an incentive to borrowing for investment .... and that is the money these banks have gotten on the cheap from the CBK! Pancha Ruto, do you begin to remember!? How to explain these things!? No medicine in government hospitals, but private chemists are full of them MoH stamped, and these chemists have government doctors as the chief share-holders! Ring a bell? Or, headmasters of secondary schools insist the form ones do their essential purchase at particular stores which are their school friendly. And these stores are partly owned by ... ? NB: There is a song I love, about a lady singer asking a crowd of women to think back, to remember when they made love for the very first time. ----(Those who know it please link it up here. Still searching I am too.) I FOUND IT NOW 17/02/14The singer then goes silent for a whole five minutes, then says: I wanted to give you ladies all the time. You see, some of you have to think back loooooooooooong, to remember, if they remember! And I did not want to to start singing, only for you to interrupt me with OOO yes, now I remember!So now, Don Quixote Uhuru and Pancha Ruto. I want you to think back to the very first time you heard the word corruption. And the first time you saw yourself engaged in it! Then we will continue our story. I do not want to get into the rhythm of my prose, only for you to disturb me with OO Yeah! now I remember the day! The very day I lost my virginity of honesty, and joined the ranks of corrupt Kenyan politicians! You feel me, amigos!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 16, 2014 15:33:22 GMT 3
THE MADNESS OF POWER, wating for an electrical jolt back to sanity!Uhuru Kenyatta for sure sees himself as a Grand Leader, the knighted modern one, initiating transformational projects of historical scale. Whether they are infrastructural like the SG-Rail, or social like the minimum wage, or educational like the Laptop scheme giving Abdulmote the ulcers in the other thread, these are programs which should set Kenya firmly on the rails to Vision 2030, yes, Industrialisation. But what do we see from below? We see an elaborate system of Mega-Scams pushed through with impunity and insane self-righteousness. We see theft concealed within blind megalomania. The regime of zealots with no reverse gear nor self doubt, dedicated entirely to looting the public. –- Even the obviously logistically impossible primary laptops ---to starving Turkana kids, is already tendered, before any infrastructure of power, nor storages to keep them in primary schools, many of which conduct lessons under trees in the countrysides of Kenya.Don Quixote’s delusions: where everybody else saw Inns, he saw castles; and approached reality from this erroneous picture in his head. The common prostitutes, he lauded as ladies of virtue, and were they not quick to set him up to pay the highest rate to break their virginity! Comical and hilarious when you read it in a work of fiction, but when it is the daily stuff of your country, it could very well be the siren warning of a master tragedy in the offing.When a country dislocates from reality, the correction is never a pretty site. There is no doubt Uhuru wants to do good, means good; is desperate to be seen to be virtuous and up to the task. But there is no doubt neither, that he does not have the wherewithal to do much good. Already he is a tragedy. A dream hijacked and transformed into an illusion. Uhuru is derailed like your hacked computer. He needs to be detoxified and retooled, even a reformat, or the rest of his regime days are merely going through the motions, as Kenya marks time, stagnant in a mud-pool/moor of graft. He means to combat corruption, but his own office is the epicentre of corruption. He asks Kenyans to bring him facts about corruption, but his own intelligence service is keeping the files and sleeping on the information. He orders the courts to prosecute the corrupt, but those same courts are in the pockets of the corrupt, giving them reprieve after reprieve. He swears he is pledged to defend the freedoms that have been won in the second liberation, but the deeds of his bureaucratic, repressive apparatus, are exact copy pastes of that past he condemns. He protests Kenya’s independence and dignity, but he hands over dead Kenyans to foreign powers without consulting the law nor the families. He issues roadside decrees as if he is an Old Man of Afrika, a founding father of the gone generations, and not a digital man with an elite PR-machine at his beck and call. ---That is how I qualify the Don Quixote epithet. The son of Jomo looks ever more bewildered. Yaye, has he surrendered to his keepers? He recognises his public wage bill is unsustainable, yet new CBA's rise to the sky and only increase that same public wage bill. To achieve vision 2030 there must be heavy investment in education by the county governments, but these are busy wasting money in foreign trips and other consumables, not to mention competing the examples set in Nairobi by enlightened managers like prof. Ndung'u at CBK. Muigai is mortgaging the nation to debt servitude, but his name is Uhuru, independence, Juche. He is a mockery of the ideals and dreams from which his name issued. The son of Jomo is building castles in the air, living in them, and getting surprised Kenyans are not joining him up there. Why, his bleary eyes seem to ask, are they staring at me with doubt-filled eyes and increasing jaundiced derision? Come here Kimemia! Stay by me at State House! Why are the people plotting coups against me, yet I do all these good!?And Kimemia sizes him up with the straight face of a Rasputin whose mind is sharply crooked. This is the game of Power, and people play for keeps. No quitters. Eat or be eaten. PANCHA RUTO, in the original script, should be the squire to inject a dose of sanity into this our Don Quixote. But Sir William too has gone off script. He is equally evolving into a Quixotic figure. No longer looking reality in the face and daring it. No longer tempering the madness in the head of his master, with the saneness in his heart. No longer one foot in the hard reality of Wanjiku, and another foot in the cooked reality of the elite, the fantasy world of Kenya nchi nzuri, hakuna matata. No one OF THEM is left to mediate between sanity and reality for the Kenyan political class. Flashes of sanity become all the more rare. Delusions lay claim to whole brains at the top. Illusions conquer the heart. Government becomes a total lie. Policy is embezzlement. Inflation and disillusionment take hold and consume the populace, but their leaders keep course, siphoning off all the cream, letting everybody else soil in hungry waste. Religious fundamentalism runs amok amongst the disenfranchised youth of the Land. Hmm, Hmmm… the nation cries for redemption, to be released from the clutch of charlatans who are using hunger and famine to ethnically cleanse a population off their land, to steal their oil.Or some of you thought Turkana Hunger is not a national oil policy? ( In Nigeria, they do it by total degradation of the environment or habitat by oil-pipeline leaks; in Niger by deliberate radiation leaks. All just deliberate policies of [ethnic] cleansing to seize control of natural resource) NB: William Ruto should at least see through it, because the rebellion in Kaleoland that brought him to pre-eminence, was fired by a perceived historically ill of having been defrauded of the natural resource, Land. Now the Turkanas are being defrauded of Oil, by orchestrated ‘’natural’’ genocide, aka famine!Come on Sir William. As Pancha, one foot in reality, one foot in illusions, is the deal. There are men who have identified the Achilles heel of Uhuruto’s. And like ticks at the jugular, they have occupied vantage positions to manipulate the flow of oxygenated blood [HIGH VALUE TENDERS] to their own nests, or to those of their clienteles. William Ruto (perhaps too distracted by that ICC thing) looks caught in a confusion, whether to join this short-term get fat parasites, or to fight corruption for the sake of his eventual shot at the presidency. For he recognises if this rampant theft continues, with it dies his other ambition. So Ruto must choose, and he is dithering. I said he is off script! Ideally, Uhuru Kenyatta should have been a transition figure. A catalyst. As Engels would say: embodying just enough of the Old World to guarantee recognition, but having enough of the new to chart the path forward. As it is now, Mr. Kenyatta is a detour back. Back to the days of Anglo-leasing, back to the days of Goldenberg. Back to the days of banned demonstrations, and denunciations of foreign-funded Mwakenyas. (With the Chinese funding a project the size of 30% GDP, you would think Xenophobia should be toned down! And with the Japanese of Otishotish silently funding everything, you would think the denunciation of foreigners should be left to history books from the Mau-Mau period!) No, his excellency the president is devoid of the new, not even in rhetorics anymore. Shetani ashindwe! That is an incantation from medieval occultism! Pre-renaissance! What does it take to industrialise a nation? My answer is, it takes a known productive equation. And that equation, is a function whose conditions, and assumptions that must be met, are all known. There is a strict formula to it. Pretty much a sealed deal. Are there any unknowns in how to industrialise a country, so that we could have a clause called INDUSTRIALISATION WITH LOCAL KENYAN CHARACTERISTICS? The new model for the world!? Honestly, Fellow Kenyans, those saying we are doing the necessary to industrialise, say AYE! And no worries go to sleep. Don’t worry, be happy. But for the NO sayers, O God! Where do broken nations go, when they loose their way home? ? (As Whitney Houston did not sing) Let the path of your country concern you, dear patriot. It is 2014 today. 2030 is a decade and a half away. You have to do turbo to industrialise by then. Guys I know who ever did it Turbo, may be like the beautiful ones of Ayi Kwei Armah! But a provisional list off the top of my head ... 1. Joseph Stalin. 2. Chung Hee Park 3. Lee Kew Yuan 4. Mohamed Mahathir 5. Taiwan Man… 6. …to be filled by a Kenyan!
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 16, 2014 22:08:56 GMT 3
What does it take to industrialise a nation? My answer is, it takes a known productive equation. And that equation, is a function whose conditions, and assumptions that must be met, are all known. There is a strict formula to it. Pretty much a sealed deal. Are there any unknowns in how to industrialise a country, so that we could have a clause called INDUSTRIALISATION WITH LOCAL KENYAN CHARACTERISTICS? The new model for the world!? Honestly, Fellow Kenyans, those saying we are doing the necessary to industrialise, say AYE! And no worries go to sleep. Don’t worry, be happy. But for the NO sayers, O God! Where do broken nations go, when they loose their way home? ? (As Whitney Houston did not sing) Let the path of your country concern you, dear patriot. It is 2014 today. 2030 is a decade and a half away. You have to do turbo to industrialise by then.
Oh ye of little faith ....
I take it you would like to know how Kenya will be turned into an industrialized country within 15 years. As far as I can tell, GoK has a plan that is astounding in its simplicity and brilliance: the "industrialized country" will be talked into being. Enough senior government officials repeatedly saying it will happen, and before you know it ... ! Have some faith, and think of those "magicians"---the Uri Geller lot---who, apparently, can bend a spoon just by looking at it and saying "bend!, bend!" (Please, no jokes about all the bending Kenyans are already having to do.)
Here is a demo, with a Chinese-made steel spoon:
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 28, 2014 21:14:37 GMT 3
In the book, because it is a literary work of art, to add Spice, delicacy and complexity to the narrative, Pancha who should always have his head firmly rooted in reality to temper the madness of the don Quixote, is himself occasionally allowed charges of fantasy into the realm of the unreal, and these flights coincide with those moments when the don is suspiciously sober, as if giving a hint that his illness may just be a cover, an instigated front, stimulated, an act. This intertwining, interwoven sanity/madness helix may itself be the author reminding us of just how thin in real life too, the line may be. But then nothing is stranger than fiction, except the truth! This is DP Ruto on the eve of President Kenyatta’s state of the Union speech, first anniversary: NO ONE WILL BE SPARED IN THE WAR AGAINST GRAFT. This is how often we have been here with William Ruto. Try this link and see how many times Ruto has WARNED THE CORRUPT. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?searchtext=ruto%20warns%20the%20corrupt#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=ruto%20warns%20the%20corrupt&gsc.page=1And this SATURDAY FEBRUARY 22 2014. By Now, Ruto should be REPORTING ON WHAT HAS BEEN DONE. These ones of warning are now a tired song, a broke record player. ON POACHING: even as Uhuru Kenyatta talked tough for the umpteenth time: To have an understanding of the impunity involved, here is a clue: And keep in mind the stories that have emanated from Mombasa of ivory stored at state lodges, and protected by particular elite units of the security forces. So is the president doing double-speak, or he is plainly out of his depth, an irrelevant wayside act of no consequence to the main event? And what have Don Quixote and his squire promised? Nothing new of course, they have issued another warning, and promised more of the same. A dangerous act, if both Don and Squire no longer interweave as Sane and Insane, but both in fantasy land. But the truth can of course be stranger than fiction! So what if both are perfectly sane, but keeping up an act!? That is the thriller in town! They are earning real money of course! Whatever the truth. Their cuts, pay or not, are material real.
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 29, 2014 1:18:53 GMT 3
Jakaswanga:
Once again, you get a D- in Advanced Thinking. Get out of the box. Once out, it is not enough to be out. Flatten the box. Completely. Sit on it. Now think! And try to be "as one" with the aforementioned box. Feel the box. Spiritual aspect, etc.
You are now ready to appreciate a revelation:
Anyone who has ever had a nagging partner knows how some things work. You are told to do X. You don't care to, and so you don't. You get told again ... even warned, depending on what X is. You do nothing. Repeat 1000 times. Eventually, you decide that the only way to get some peace and quiet is to do X.
From what I can tell, that is what your president and his deputy have in mind: They will keep warning the lazy, the corrupt, the criminal, ... And they will warn them and put them on notice and warn them again. Repeat 1000 times. Eventually, the targets will decide to mend their ways, because they "just want the nagging to stop". (Here we have plumbed depths of human nature.)
True, it is a somewhat unconventional way to deal with certain issues, especially major national issues; but there is no denying the novelty in the approach. The Ancient Chinese have us "death by a thousand cuts" (aka "slow slicing"). Modern, digital Kenya will leave us with "death by warning".
Welcome to the 21st.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2014 2:37:30 GMT 3
Uhuru says he'll do all sorts of things. Grotesque describes the line up. Kenyans, are in for a rougher ride yet. It is possible still to reduce folks to something just shy of that excruciatingly painfull, sad image of a child wasting away, scavenger in wait that jakaswanga has for an avatar. There are aready Kenyans living the reality of that kid. Uhuru is just working on having more Kenyans live out those hellish lives. Friday, March 28, 2014 - 00:00 -- BY NZAU MUSAU AND DAVID MWERE - UHURU CALLS FOR JOINT ACTION OVER INSECURITY PRESIDENT Uhuru Kenyatta has asked security agencies to work together to fight rising crime. In his first State of the Nation address in the National Assembly yesterday, Uhuru demanded closer collaboration between new and existing security institutions. In the past two days hundreds of people have been arrested in Mombasa and Nairobi. Uhuru asked MPs to review and close gaps in security legislation. “Across our criminal justice system – from law enforcement, to our prosecutors, the judiciary and our correctional services – there has been too little effective collaboration. Too many crimes have been improperly processed, leaving suspects and culprits at large in our communities. It serves as a stark reminder of the unacceptable lack of coordination in our handling of crime,” he said. Uhuru said the security response to the Westgate last year was appropriate but did not revisit the issue of setting up a Commission of Inquiry as he originally promised. The president violent crimes fell by 8 per cent last year but that was “nowhere near enough.” Uhuru cited the Nyumba Kumi initiative and improved security infrastructure as two initiatives taken to contain crime. “We will also substantially increase police numbers, which have already significantly progressed from one police officer for 750 citizens to 1 for535, without forgetting their welfare,” he said. He warned against devolution of corruption, vain competition and "barren bickering" within the counties. He warned against supremacy wars among the different arms of government. Uhuru defended expanded coverage of VAT as a “temporary and painful jab” but necessary for the well-being of the country. He said his first year in government has endeavoured to lay the foundations of growth and predicted the economy will grow by 6 percent in 2014. He said that the cost of living is reducing. “If we stay the course, and we will, we may be able to achieve a significant reduction in the prices of our basic foods – a matter of importance since inflation in food prices affects deeply the life of ordinary Kenyans,” he said. The president said the Olkaria geothermal streams will start opening next month and the target for the next three years is to generate 5000Mw. He said the recently completed soil-mapping exercise will help achieve food security. “We now know, far better than any of our predecessors did, what riches lie under our land. It is now far easier to advise farmers what and when to plant than it has ever been,” he said. He said the government aimed to make Kenya a transport and logistics hub for the region. The president announced he has formed a Cabinet committee to return to “prudence and probity in public service." “I am taking stern measures to address the wildlife poaching menace. We will not allow the plunder of our natural capital, by greedy individuals, hell-bent on causing destruction,” Uhuru said. Cord MPs dismissed the President's speech as just fulfilling a constitutional obligation and having nothing new. Ugunja MP Opiyo Wandayi said that the Jubilee government has lost direction and was on its way out. “It is his second year in the office but nothing substantive is coming from his administration. He has not said anything in terms of tackling the spiraling wage bill but only continues to blow over the youth issues without a proper roadmap to confront education,” Wandayi said. “His speech is wishful thinking because it has no provision in the budget for this financial year. All the monies are for the recurrent expenditures because the monies meant for the roads, irrigation and security were rerouted in the recent supplementary estimates,” said South Mugirango MP Manson Nyamweya. “He didn’t come out clear on the security issues and the need to combat terrorism because we need to deal decisively on the intelligence gathering instruments. He was also blunt on the failed Sh24 billion laptop for class one pupils, the flagship project for jubilee government. The wage bill cannot be addressed through tokenism,” said Paul Otuoma (Funyula). However Jessica Mbalu ( Kitui West) said the speech effectively addressed insecurity. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-160668/uhuru-calls-joint-action-over-insecurity
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Post by jakaswanga on May 30, 2014 19:48:22 GMT 3
THE GREAT ANGLO-LEASING PARADOX OF THE BROKEN PROMISE!O yes, O thee the exalted one! O your excellency! thy High Son of Jomo! O Great Uhuru! O thy Great Muthamaki! I tremble in awe at your Almighty name: Uhuru! --- INDEPENDENCE!(A great Jamaican dub-poet pronounces it ‘’Yahara’’! But that is another story!) What I know is that you are supreme and divine! Possessor of wisdom. If you are not god himself, then one anointed by him. --Him! Since no she-gods for me: a patriarchal superstition I confess. O Muthamaki, you are the inventor of Kenyan pan-africanism; your are the shield of the nation against later day imperialists and other inheritors of the colonial legacy. You are higher than the Dalai Lama, the living god; higher than Nelson Mandela and his collected accolades. And while others disrespect the Kenyan flag and betray Afrika, committing sacrilege by bowing before false gods like Jehova and Allah, whose names I do not recognise as Kenyan nor African, I will only bow before you –O thy Great Kenyan Sovereign! There is no holier force than the power of the people embedded in their popular vote freely expressed. And that power resides now in you, since you won that election fair and square. (You are not coup-maker AL-Sisi with his 99% out of a 42% turn-out, only Cairo voting! and 3 days long at that!)My loyalty to you, O the god Independence, is thus beyond the piety of an Ayatollah to Allah, beyond that of a Rabbi to Jaweh. Beyond the dedication of a Swiss Banker to tax-evaders and state looters! O yes, the Kenyan national anthem is the holiest hymn I know of all songs sang by mankind in praise of whatever it is their hearts wish to praise! But today I will risk an Abunawas moment. T his Anglo-Leasing rendition is bending me over. Facking me out of my senses proper! a feat only nymphomaniacs have achieved so far! But first, let us honour Miguel de Cervantes and his awesome lesson, Don Quixote.There is this episode ---I am working first from old memory so it is not verbatim; but when I find the time I will hunt and copy paste---- in which the Don chances upon a serf being much whipped by its master. The poor thing had succumbed to an Oliver-Twist moment, of the I want some more variant, that is, it had petitioned an increment in earnings to compensate overtime, in addition to suggesting his arrears would have earned a tidy interest elsewhere; and that, when you are owned, would be akin to rebelling against the might of Rome; or equivalent to a Dalit talking back to a Brahman in rural India, currently. Anyway, Don Quixote somehow mistakes the ruthless tyrant for a Lord of honour –much to the dismay of the pinned Wanjiku, and, entrusting in their joint chivalrous code as gentlemen of their word, Don Quixote believes he has the rock-hard guarantee of the knight to show leniency and reasonableness to the serf, henceforth. But sly Shylock had figured this don is kind of fuzzy in the head, and no sooner is Quixote whistling away in glee at having achieved another Herculean feat, than the two-timing rogue unleashes the full run of his sadistic impulses on the bound Wanjiku. Now I remember when the Great King of BananaLalaland asked his court-wit Abunawasi to gather for him the 13 most foolish men in his Kingdom, Abunuwasi promptly did find 12, and invited the King to come take a look. ‘’13! I said!’’ thundered the Mighty King. Abunuwasi fell to his feet, the King’s boot came to his neck. ‘’Eh ehm .. count again my Lord! Count all in the room! --yaye’’The King counted again .. up to 12.. and stopped! Nuwas prodded him on with: ‘’Go on my Lord! You can count past 12! Can’t you ----Fool!’’Abunuwasi got away with it! though in one version the King kicked his teeth in anyway. And from that day, the King’s wives referred to him in private as The Great King Fool!Well, O Great Muthamaki, no sooner had you had Drs. Rotich and Thugge wire the billion to an unnamed Bank account in England, in the belief that our Eurobonds would then be safe, than a new order to pay arrived at your doorstep! This time, 3 billions! WTF! Ha! The courtly gentlemanly agreement on which you based the decision to pay, took you for a ride? --- King Fool!?So, Your excellency Uhuru Kenyatta I salute you! What an excellent fool they make of you! quintessentially quixotic! with Pancha in tow! Or, just a momemnt! Cervantes hinted: the Don may not have been what he looked like. He could be more lucid that a first glance would perceive. His sanity and normality, a double helix act. Which raises the question: are you just paying yourself with this wired cash to foreign banks? That is your excellency are laughing all the way to the bank, while keeping up the appearances of a public fool?King of Mischief he!? The Graft King! Who is fooling who, ---Genya!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 11, 2014 22:43:01 GMT 3
DON QUIXOTE GOES TO WASHINGTON, IS CHARMED AND IS CHARMINGPresident Uhuru Kenyatta of the republic of Kenya was visibly in his element in the United States, when he attended the just concluded gathering of AU heads in DC, a summit which now goes into history as Obama's Monsters Ball. This was evidently the land of Muigai's heart. He did not need to get through, through interpreters (like he had to in China); he was comfortable with the subtleties in the language, and his body lingo was at ease. He went to school here, and obviously knows a thing or two about its cheeky back streets. He blends with ease. Officially, in his speeches, his media performances as in interviews, his get abouts with the Kenyan diaspora, and especially in his salesman pitches before audiences of possible American investors, the son of Jomo made it emphatically clear where he sees the future of Kenya: –-Capitalistically firmly embedded in the US orbit. The servitude continues, Period. In fact the man as much as repudiated China, distancing his government from ''rumours going around in the international public sphere, that in Nairobi, the West is out and the East in!'' absolute nonsense, His Excellency fumed.His bigger-brained predecessor had of course declared a LOOK EAST POLICY! But the son of Jomo clarified matters firmly. –-The man from Othaya apparently was talking pure mavi ya kuku stuff in one of his stuporic gobbledygook utterances induced by laced broth. We know East is good, but the West is the Best for Kenya's future! That is the Muigai doctrine summarised. Now let us go back and read Katrina Manson of the financial times on Uhuru and the West at the height of his ICC woes. (It is here on Jukwaa, but I am too hard pressed to trace it immediately for reference. At the back of my mind I recall I and b6k nearly careering off the slippery slopes into the very deep sticky end, trying to resolve who had the better wits between Kenyatta and the West, in the light of Katrina's temperamental giggles in FT.!) I do not mean this one, which for historical purposes I copypaste in detail. Presidential ties: Uhuru Kenyatta and Xi Jiinpin in Beijing It remains important to differentiate the subterfuge fronts, and filter out the the smokescreens thrown as ruses in a childish tantrums. Those rants by Macharia at the UN; the delayance of accreditation to Western diplomats; backseats for Western diplomats during the Uhuruto inauguration; effrontery like no seats for Godec the USA ambassador during the launching of the Boeing $300 streamliner Jumbo; expelling USAID staff … etc etc ... these are acceptable infantilism so long the KDF remains A-to-Z an American operation. And the whole intelligence apparatus in Kenya, a US subsidiary, sealed in secret deals that Kenyatta has never indicated to review, nor any other Kenyan leader soon. And so trouble starts for Kenya, especially for William Ruto, the next president in the next decade, if Jubilee propaganda fantasies are to be believed of course. Which way Kenya, and the consequences of fake neutrality? Let me put it like this. In terms of real investment and economic turn-over, what is China's portfolio in the Kenyan GDP?When that aging Makerere econs don, however faded by the ravages of hot Wambui and hot Scotch and crazy Lucy through the years, confidently stated we are looking East, he was not being entirely foolish. And if one bothers to look at the projection figures, for the volume of trade of the EU region in the next 50 years, there is a marked decrease in the TRANSATLANTIC portfolio, which now is the dominant account. Now, a small matter of the dollar as a continuing reserve currency … In the light of the launching of the BRICS DEVELOPMENT BANK; the sanctions against Russia that have re-kindled a cold-trade-war mark II; the USA's Asia pivot to isolate China from her neighbours; the BRICS resolve to trade more outside the green buck; and projected convertibility of the peoples currency –-the CNY, or Renminbi …. On this small matter we have to tell the curious story of the German gold haul, which the USA has refused to ship back to Germany, unilaterally declaring herself the best keeper of Germany's fortune –-clearly against Germany's wishes. The thing is Germany, eyeing the silk route and the projected trade figures in the next century, wanted to diversify her risks and station a bit of her gold in Shanghai –-or Beijin for that matter. If you look at the tonnage of Gold Germany has for ''safe keeping'' at the vaults of the FED in New York –-or Washington for that matter, you will go Wawu! Wherefrom did these Nazis loot it!? In any case the yankees have fallen in love with it, too much to let it go, and friends must trust. The Americans are not fools. If Germany withdraws even half of their Gold from the FED, and rumours hit the markets the treasure is secretly headed for Beijing where the BRICS bank is to be stationed …. O My God! Which way would the invisible nervous hand of the current financial markets turn the dollar!? A friend in need must be a friend in deed So Obama cracked Merkel's phone on a matter of more than national security! –-See story ''pontificated'' elsewhere on Jukwaa! SO NOW LET US COME HOME AND SQUARE THE BEEF. Mr. William Ruto is irritating me. He is in church every Sunday being petty and showing no signs of consciousness of the Kenya he is supposed to be running for ten years in nine years time! From the narrow perspective of Kenya only, I always insist Sir William is a giant politician. Unfortunately for me, I have been around some, and gotten to know of wider horizons. This means the moment I turn my gaze to case outside our Hakuna matata nchi ya kitu kidogo, my dear Ruto becomes a Lilliputian barely rising above the height of a normal toe. Let me give an example: Kenya is effectively a 100 million population consumer base, currently. Projected to 200 million by the time Ruto is completing his two terms –--if one goes with the propaganda fantasies of Jubilee of course. The Chinese are working from these projections of middle class explosions in their Africa policy toward the wider East Africa. The biggest evenT this past months for Africa was not the Monsters Ball in DC hosted by Barrack Obama, but the launch of the BRICS central bank. [technical name?] I expected the future President Ruto to recognise this, and TRANSLATE it to his electorate, instead of malingering around, chasing shadows erected by Raila Odinga –-like a referendum now supported by Jubilee governors too. NB: Local and Central government is a running cleavage in Kenyan politics, and is cleverly forecasted and analysed elsewhere by Digital Onyango Oloo –-I will post the link when I find the time to unearth the Katrina Manson thread too. As president Muigai is busy fawning in Washington and enjoying himself professing his loyalty to New Rome and getting off his fake prodigal son act, Barrack Obama has laid out plans to SUBSIDISE AMERICAN EXPORTS to Africa. Now, future president Ruto, read that again! And think out what it really means. All alarm bells should be ringing inside your head. The Chinese, using special economic zones (SEZ's), have been aiming to launch some manufacturing potential around the continent. NB: –--We will critique the [Forum On Africa China Cooperation –- FOCAC –- ventures and their financing in a later paper, dealing with the pitfalls of Import Substitution Industrialisation. Well, Obama intends to wipe all that out, nip it in the bud, before we can start any threatening export to the already pressed USA. He intends to do this by SUBSIDISING his own American products, making them effectively cheap for Africa, dumping them thus at competitive prices to kill off the products from the nascent and technologically lower Afro-Chinese joint industrial ventures. And that is what Uhuru Kenyatta –-and for that matter all those monsters who gathered at the DC summit-- were clapping for! Dawgs I say Dawgs! No thought of destiny! And I do not want you, sir Hustler William, in that company! Problem is already there is an unpleasant odour issuing from your head. I do not want a septic tank to lord it over Kenya in the next decisive decade. Neither do I want some hustler jet think-tank! There is need for a shift in mental gears! Funny, Ruto, but for all your digital talk of being a digital generation, the filthiest mavi ya kuku talk off the rolling tongue of the old drunken fox Mwai Kibaki of the analogue Makerere campus, is way beyond the best and brightest you two pretenders can bring to bear! Grow up you boring fwakas, or let us just make this Uhuruto thing a single 5 year term. Uhuru can resign for you next year! NB: To understand the dire straits of the FED and how ruthlessly predatorial the US administration need must globally be in her economic defence, try to trace the story of the Ukrainian gold hoard in the last 6 months. International rumour is it has been shipped to the USA –-ostensibly to prevent the bear Vladimir Putin from doing a Crimea on it. Well, we know what the Fed recently told the Bundesbank when the Germans had other plans with their bullion (supposedly?) in FED vaults. –-we will follow this intriguing skullduggery story in the relevant thread Ruto, you still want to be president with meaning? Or just another dawg? Then start giving signs that you can play the game of defending the national interest in a ruthless predatorial world where no quarter, absolutely no quarter is given. I get ulcers watching Uhuru fawning in quisling glee in the USA and he does not even know it! –-Gawd I need a drink! And I will be back! On a far lighter touch!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 12, 2014 19:52:54 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 12, 2014 20:07:35 GMT 3
Okay, it was a landmark essay I couldn't forget. demokrasia-kenya.blogspot.nl/2013/04/jubilee-and-national-question-in-kenya.html This 'cleavage' --in double O speak-- has now become a referendum issue, pitting the local against the central. Uncannily, the deputy Pork Pancha Ruto in condemning the Jubilee governors supporting a referendum on the cash issue, used words that exactly mirrored Kibaki's outburst at Naivasha, captured above by the original digital Oloo. it occured to me to be worth pondering, this concurrence!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 29, 2014 22:45:24 GMT 3
Okay, it was an ordinary car, but the photo I saw concurrs more with ,,,
There is more to the story of course. The inspector was going to park this ordinary car at his front door? and he was alone when hijacked.
Likely the guy was on a routine but descrete mission to pick up a lady for some hot poncho or party at state house. All the same, a very quixotic adventure!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 20, 2014 17:05:41 GMT 3
A VERY QUIXOTIC TRIP TO MIGORI, A VERY QUIXOTIC DELEGATION FROM MIGORIHi, HIS EXCELLENCY Ouru wuod Onyatto, Hi Sir! I am a teacher, but I beg to be left out of this bus business! You and I can dispense with ostentatious displays of chumminess. Like this bus-fleet of kiss-and-make business from Migori; it rings so fishy meseems even the fishiest of markets would be uneasy. Actually you are my brother in law. Gringo Mank is very aware of this, and I should trust unless he had the temerity not to share out the dowry with you, by one way or another bypassing the exorbitant tribute rates to your banks that is, you have been the recipient of my heartfelt wishes to cement our familial ties (deeper than the shaky though successful union of England and Scotland.) But well, Mank could have been conquered by North American self-centeredness, and in greedy Texan style, all by himself eaten up the several truckloads of goats I came up the slopes with. No, Ouru Ori, I am not talking about the kind of kind of goats from Migori who were sheepishly herded and huddled in a corner of a city park named after you! President Uhuru Kenyatta greets some of the ewes of the sheepish Migori Goats delegation at State House. [PHOTO: DPPS] But make no mistake. A bit of a traditional ker-her myself, I do not suffer hooliganism. Goons of all shades, from all walks of tribes, from whatever corner of the corruption-ridden republic of Africa, do twist my nose (like slum toilets presided over by Kidero in Nairobi). The distasteful sight and unsightly odour of such scum, hurts my every sense, fishy as they may be. My tribal honour from the scriptures defining the dignity of a host –the original chivalrous and philanthropic one, as opposed to the modern morally bereft and sycophantic one you are used to in the Luo Mpigs you are used to bribing with pittances, does not tolerate mayhem of any sort in my homestead. Even when I have reason on occasion to discipline your sister in Okonkwo fashion, the woman must not announce it from the depths of her lungs for the whole countryside to come and witness, entertaining their idle lives with my domestics. And when the visitor is Ori, like your Excellency with whose sister I sleep, or honourable Omwenga who sleeps with mine, any goonery within my homestead would be a desecration of the family spear. But that also means the onus is on me before hosting an occasion likely to be controversial, to do thorough groundwork. That could be diplomatic consultations, that could be calling out old debts, or unveiling a new protocol to underwrite a ceasefire. There are many stories, precedents, of reconciliation visits after periods of war between the Luos and their enemies at any one time. I know of two historic ones. One after the peace treaty between the Luo and the Kipsigis that settled the border long ago, and the other between the Luos and the Gussii. Once upon a time there were a Kuria identical twins. They came to be separated (a long story) and one ended up counsellor to a Great Gussii chief, and the other to a Great Luo chief in the Rachwonyo area. After a dreary period of strife betwen the two communities, the two counsellor twins were simultaneously visited by a wise ancestral spirit that they dreamed a device, or plot. The Luos should come up with 1000 of their best nymphomaniacs, equitably divided over the sexes, and the Gussiis likewise. Then at Agoro Sare fields they would be a competitive ritual orgy, an olympiade in the sexual act, dedicated to the spirit of peace. It would still be a fierce contest of thrusts, but delightfully less bloody, and hopefully leading to offspring with a propensity to other passions than genocide in grievous inter-tribal war.Your Excellency sir, you will remember your negotiations to seal your current Jubilee rapprochement between the Kalenjin and the Kikuyu, after the insanity of the PEV in 2008. No joke, eeh!? A D-PORK in spirit a co-presidency, the Uhuruto conjoined twin, 50/50. They say power is very jealous, the top-seat very monogamous and tolerates not a double act, nor Triumvirates. Julius Ceasar and Pompeii and the rest; Augustus, Marcus Antony and Ceasarion. It is a dangerous dangerous sad game, co emperorship! No MOU can guarantee parity. One twin begins to cannibalise the other, reminding us of Raila and Kibaki GCG, after an earlier MOU. But the point is, you understand the nature of the MOU you went for to pacify Kalenjin suspicions. Not to mention the level of self-serving lies the two of you professed to turn the tide on the Ocampo ICC. Therefore .. Ouru Ori … Yawa! To come to Migori wherein Migingo is suppose to :-Xembed, and you carry nets, true, life-saving nets which ward off the anopheles-borne trypanosomatic or plasmodial infests, looks the kind of political gimmick thought out by spindoctors used to buying Luo Mpigs on the cheap, and, generalising that data, reaching the erroneous conclusion thus: like their cheap Mpigs go, so goes the sheep of the Fishlands! Of course when I heard you had a fleet of double-trucks 2km long –beating the one of Putin into East Ukraine-- ferrying condoms along in your wake, for a moment I thought Onyango Oloo TNT had delved deep into Luo history and unearthed the Agoro-Sare legend above. And you had seen the good in it, and so all the nymphomaniacs from the slopes would be heading to the Lakeshore in your wake, and following would be an sweaty marathon extravaganza which would rival Chinua Achebe's legendary recital on the wrestling match between Okonkwo and Amalinze the cat. ''Ever since Umuofia the founder of their village engaged a King spirit in a match that lasted seven days and seven nights, never had there been such a famous wrestling duel. Amalinze was called the cat because his back never touched the ground. He was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as fish in water.'' --I think I do pretty well on that on memory fired by raw scotch. (Come evening I will be so drunk I will singing Gaelic war songs at the stature of Robert the Bruce in an inverse celebration of the No vote –the logic of drink is hard to follow as a fellow drunk like you would know, Mr. President!) You carried more goodies apparently. Sugar cane farmers late duties for instance. But we know sugarcane is a dead industry with COMESA cheaps, and your own former intelligence chief Gichangi, confessed to cluelessness on something everybody knows. Confectionery sugar has been a killer-racket, even the heads of the sugar factories themselves have been re-packaging --and, wait for it, :-Xit is trucked into kenya by army sorties from Kismayo free port!. So, Ouru Oyadha, which economics are practicing? herding Migori into the sugar industry, with world sugar/kilo price at ksh. 45, and minimal Nyanza product market placement minimum at ksh. 110/kg? You are deliberately herding the sheep over the cliff, into total bankruptcy!? or are you passing anti-comesa protectionist laws? You pacification package for Nyanza deserves a return to sender. Nyanza can be bought, and Migori definitely. But the price gotta be right. And it looks like you have not yet hit a going theory of value. And then offer Migori and the wider Nyanza a political auction rate they can not possibly refuse! (now that the Ruto backyard is volatile too) I suggest you hire Mank! (then might you help Migori escape the fate of Detroit!) see! jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8589/country-kenya-bankrupt Part 2. (if I survive the whisky tots!)
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 16, 2014 0:15:16 GMT 3
OKOA KENYA ERECTSOf late, that CORD Okoa Kenya business has been a bit like a sloppy comical fcuck scene with an increasingly flaccid dick. (family blogs must not pretend they know only of kitchen scenes, b6k) In fact, only yesterday, Raila was as diminished as to compete other screwy young Turks for the inheritance of Kajwang's politico-earthly remains. Today, the fish has been granted its waters. And swim it will; thanks to a massive shot in the own foot by the Once Digital Dynamic Duo, now a tragic twin. –-Few successful operations leave a Siamese pair both healthy. One is usually sacrificed for the other. Amen. It depends on whether that expensive but incompetent court in the Netherlands is bent on the old adage of a ruffian coach: if you miss the ball, don't miss the leg!Anyway, at home, in an ill-thought move, Jubilee and parliament have passed a series of Draconian amendments to our laws which, by the consensus of enlightened thought, is a dive back to darkness of the Nyayo days. The digital dynamic duo have surrendered the future quixotically; they have no vision (which one must hasten to add, is not a political disqualification in Africa in the short term. Only yesterday did Museveni say he can not retire because Ugandans wont let him. And the senile and docile Mugabe was overruled by his wife, into promoting her for succession. In DRC, Kabila is busy tinkering with the constitution to make himself life president, like Compaore once did in Burkina Faso). Who else but the hero of the -fake?- second liberation can be fit to dust up his rusting and blunted spear and take the leading charge? The digital dynamic duo, pretending they could chart a path forward, have revealed themselves as stale and soft-core-rotted puppets of authoritarian security thinking. Young in body, obsolete in mind. And so too many a young political Turk in age has revealed themselves as nothing but possessed the rubble rousing moos of half erect bulls, oxen in fact, ripe for the manger. Half an hour of debate and they took Kenya two decades back, after a decade of relative progress under the thieving GCG. They spent longer debating the retirement benefits of Raila and Kalonzo! --you go not get your political representatives more stupidly engaged than that!Actually it is a pity to see an energetic man like William Ruto argue so passionately for such backward police powers. Reminds one of Kamuzu Banda of Malawi in the 60s, preparing to be life president. It highlights a tragedy of our country which, in the last 50 years, has watched her independence agemates like Malaysia and South Korea take off while we remain a thwarted promise. Where is the energy when it comes to taking the fight where it oughta be? Say the Njunguna Ndung'u governor of the central bank who is a certified thief? Say Kimemia and Iringo who opened a parallel account during th election hysteria, and stole billions? and then Rotich has to grovel for raising debt limit! (that is another major topsy-turvy set of priorities, if not stupidty) I consider such men ensconced at the highest levels of power to be more dangerous than semi-naked cattle-rustlers from pokot or Turkana, spotting AK 40-somethings. Now we are no longer arguing economic priorities, we arguing basic things like what footage the media can air! Yawa! When you are led by dogs, you become doggy! Woof! Woof!jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9234/mutea-iringo-francis-kimemia-unaccounted
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Post by mank on Dec 16, 2014 9:39:17 GMT 3
A VERY QUIXOTIC TRIP TO MIGORI, A VERY QUIXOTIC DELEGATION FROM MIGORIHi, HIS EXCELLENCY Ouru wuod Onyatto, Hi Sir! I am a teacher, but I beg to be left out of this bus business! You and I can dispense with ostentatious displays of chumminess. Like this bus-fleet of kiss-and-make business from Migori; it rings so fishy meseems even the fishiest of markets would be uneasy. Actually you are my brother in law. Gringo Mank is very aware of this, and I should trust unless he had the temerity not to share out the dowry with you, by one way or another bypassing the exorbitant tribute rates to your banks that is, you have been the recipient of my heartfelt wishes to cement our familial ties (deeper than the shaky though successful union of England and Scotland.) But well, Mank could have been conquered by North American self-centeredness, and in greedy Texan style, all by himself eaten up the several truckloads of goats I came up the slopes with. No, Ouru Ori, I am not talking about the kind of kind of goats from Migori who were sheepishly herded and huddled in a corner of a city park named after you! President Uhuru Kenyatta greets some of the ewes of the sheepish Migori Goats delegation at State House. [PHOTO: DPPS] But make no mistake. A bit of a traditional ker-her myself, I do not suffer hooliganism. Goons of all shades, from all walks of tribes, from whatever corner of the corruption-ridden republic of Africa, do twist my nose (like slum toilets presided over by Kidero in Nairobi). The distasteful sight and unsightly odour of such scum, hurts my every sense, fishy as they may be. My tribal honour from the scriptures defining the dignity of a host –the original chivalrous and philanthropic one, as opposed to the modern morally bereft and sycophantic one you are used to in the Luo Mpigs you are used to bribing with pittances, does not tolerate mayhem of any sort in my homestead. Even when I have reason on occasion to discipline your sister in Okonkwo fashion, the woman must not announce it from the depths of her lungs for the whole countryside to come and witness, entertaining their idle lives with my domestics. And when the visitor is Ori, like your Excellency with whose sister I sleep, or honourable Omwenga who sleeps with mine, any goonery within my homestead would be a desecration of the family spear. But that also means the onus is on me before hosting an occasion likely to be controversial, to do thorough groundwork. That could be diplomatic consultations, that could be calling out old debts, or unveiling a new protocol to underwrite a ceasefire. There are many stories, precedents, of reconciliation visits after periods of war between the Luos and their enemies at any one time. I know of two historic ones. One after the peace treaty between the Luo and the Kipsigis that settled the border long ago, and the other between the Luos and the Gussii. Once upon a time there were a Kuria identical twins. They came to be separated (a long story) and one ended up counsellor to a Great Gussii chief, and the other to a Great Luo chief in the Rachwonyo area. After a dreary period of strife betwen the two communities, the two counsellor twins were simultaneously visited by a wise ancestral spirit that they dreamed a device, or plot. The Luos should come up with 1000 of their best nymphomaniacs, equitably divided over the sexes, and the Gussiis likewise. Then at Agoro Sare fields they would be a competitive ritual orgy, an olympiade in the sexual act, dedicated to the spirit of peace. It would still be a fierce contest of thrusts, but delightfully less bloody, and hopefully leading to offspring with a propensity to other passions than genocide in grievous inter-tribal war.Your Excellency sir, you will remember your negotiations to seal your current Jubilee rapprochement between the Kalenjin and the Kikuyu, after the insanity of the PEV in 2008. No joke, eeh!? A D-PORK in spirit a co-presidency, the Uhuruto conjoined twin, 50/50. They say power is very jealous, the top-seat very monogamous and tolerates not a double act, nor Triumvirates. Julius Ceasar and Pompeii and the rest; Augustus, Marcus Antony and Ceasarion. It is a dangerous dangerous sad game, co emperorship! No MOU can guarantee parity. One twin begins to cannibalise the other, reminding us of Raila and Kibaki GCG, after an earlier MOU. But the point is, you understand the nature of the MOU you went for to pacify Kalenjin suspicions. Not to mention the level of self-serving lies the two of you professed to turn the tide on the Ocampo ICC. Therefore .. Ouru Ori … Yawa! To come to Migori wherein Migingo is suppose to :-Xembed, and you carry nets, true, life-saving nets which ward off the anopheles-borne trypanosomatic or plasmodial infests, looks the kind of political gimmick thought out by spindoctors used to buying Luo Mpigs on the cheap, and, generalising that data, reaching the erroneous conclusion thus: like their cheap Mpigs go, so goes the sheep of the Fishlands! Of course when I heard you had a fleet of double-trucks 2km long –beating the one of Putin into East Ukraine-- ferrying condoms along in your wake, for a moment I thought Onyango Oloo TNT had delved deep into Luo history and unearthed the Agoro-Sare legend above. And you had seen the good in it, and so all the nymphomaniacs from the slopes would be heading to the Lakeshore in your wake, and following would be an sweaty marathon extravaganza which would rival Chinua Achebe's legendary recital on the wrestling match between Okonkwo and Amalinze the cat. ''Ever since Umuofia the founder of their village engaged a King spirit in a match that lasted seven days and seven nights, never had there been such a famous wrestling duel. Amalinze was called the cat because his back never touched the ground. He was a wily craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as fish in water.'' --I think I do pretty well on that on memory fired by raw scotch. (Come evening I will be so drunk I will singing Gaelic war songs at the stature of Robert the Bruce in an inverse celebration of the No vote –the logic of drink is hard to follow as a fellow drunk like you would know, Mr. President!) You carried more goodies apparently. Sugar cane farmers late duties for instance. But we know sugarcane is a dead industry with COMESA cheaps, and your own former intelligence chief Gichangi, confessed to cluelessness on something everybody knows. Confectionery sugar has been a killer-racket, even the heads of the sugar factories themselves have been re-packaging --and, wait for it, :-Xit is trucked into kenya by army sorties from Kismayo free port!. So, Ouru Oyadha, which economics are practicing? herding Migori into the sugar industry, with world sugar/kilo price at ksh. 45, and minimal Nyanza product market placement minimum at ksh. 110/kg? You are deliberately herding the sheep over the cliff, into total bankruptcy!? or are you passing anti-comesa protectionist laws? You pacification package for Nyanza deserves a return to sender. Nyanza can be bought, and Migori definitely. But the price gotta be right. And it looks like you have not yet hit a going theory of value. And then offer Migori and the wider Nyanza a political auction rate they can not possibly refuse! (now that the Ruto backyard is volatile too) I suggest you hire Mank! (then might you help Migori escape the fate of Detroit!) see! jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8589/country-kenya-bankrupt Part 2. (if I survive the whisky tots!) I was busy at the shale oils BIL. Now that it is below surface, where it always was anyway, I am available.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 3, 2015 10:38:24 GMT 3
A QUIXOTIC FASCIST CHARGE AT POSHO PRICES!AS PReLUDE: keep the following quip in mind, just for the purposeS of comparative academics only. We will round in on it, later as we conclude the charge sheet. Those twin expectations mentioned above may turn out to have been delusions, but they reveal a certain understanding of the significance of the collapse in oil prices. That is their calculated, expected effect on the general economy. And that understanding leads to policy action, as we will gather from the mouth of Weidmann Jens, the Bundesbank chair. (that is your German -equivalent of-- CBK Njuguna Ndung'u. Significant difference is the German is not a certified thief.) Now, let us get off our high German horse and fly closer to home, Dirty Nairobi, keeping open minds. Remember this curious s/o-J presidential directive? (I am picking this one out as 'curious' because it betrays an awareness within the President's office that, at least in this sector, the market is dysfunctional, and necessarily needs to be helped along by (presidential DIRECTIVES). For the moment lets leave aside the argument whether a presidential hammer, panel-beating the market, is the best option for Kenya under these circumstances. Methinks this presidential vote of no confidence on market mechanisms with respect to a fundamental product –--a consumer staple in Kenya called Posho, needs more than a whimsical look. As usual on such cases, I will flash a machete at Gringo Mank, and glare at him with smouldering malice. Economists! A lot worse than politicians! Sometimes. When are price controls government duty? When is the market mechanism the ruler? But first let us present out case. mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-orders-cereals-board-to-buy-maize/-/1950946/2557926/-/format/xhtml/-/fdld8f/-/index.html Who are these useless purchasing officers in these corrupt cereal boards who do not know when to buy and when to sell? Nor the going rates!? that this decision has to be made for them by his excellency the president!? –-A bit of history then. ( and see footnote) The ksh. 561 million scandal at the NCP, and who is who! THIS IS JUNE 2 2013 but frozen accounts aside and court battles aside, this presidential directive to professionals who should be earning keep doing what they are schooled to do, reminds me of the puffy-faced North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting a garment factory, and lecturing the lab-technicians on the best way to mix certain colours! They nod profusely and take notes, to implement or not of course. Problem is guy does not even know whether white is a colour or not! Primary or not! But I agree this posho directive is something different from garment dye. Reducing the price of a staple is always a massively popular step in our low-income countries. It is a daily subsidy to the needy, the needy of whom there is no shortage around. And markets do not do the needy in the main. This means Uhuru Kenyatta is up to some good in the mind, sort of.Yes I agree fwack the market on staples. The EU for instance, right from the begin days of the EEC, has never left the price of European farm-produce to market-forces. They do not believe in the legendary efficiency of the invisible hand of the market when it comes to agriculture! They believe in subsidy and more subsidy to farmers. And actually that is the rule in the so-called developed countries. Subsidised European chicken and tomato/puree has killed all local producers in Ghana. Fwack the free market! American manufacturers have ever lobbied for tariffs to protect their home market being flooded by over cheap Chinese goods! Some will remember the presidential debates between Obama and Romney where the two agreed China must be punished for her structural manipulation of the YUAN which, they claimed, was a subsidy regime on exports!)Fwack the market you see. The free one is a fairy tale lecturers like my BiL Mank fill the minds of students with, institutionalised like Santa Claus in kindergartens! Therefore Uhuru's populists instincts are right, and, I want to argue, his populist economics is in tune with his fascistoid inclinations. A serious ruler cannot leave the price of posho/bread to the market. There will be bread riots, and near or regime change. But in the same breath we salute the boy hero, the inferiority or infantility of his fascism immediately comes to light. THERE IS NO STRUCTURAL THOUGHT to frame a policy –-sessional paper--- position to be implemented as a long- or short-term infrastructure of state economics. As such, these directives become what in Africa are called: not even a parrot takes heed at the words of the African politician. The NCPB Mr. Kenyatta is ordering as his instrument of policy has been run aground by corruption, and those mentioned are the Who-and-Who's, and the So$Sos, in his power entourage. Take a look. the president is in a merry-go-round to nowhere, he can not claim he is using thieves to catch thieves. He has not recognised in his mind, that with corruption, there can be no industrialisation. It is all a dance in a hole. That is the infantility. Children do not recognise what it takes to grow. So parents usually find themselves forcing them to eat. Poor little mind darlings! 2nd. I will argue, that it is the same infantile –-quixotic-- fascism which leads Uhuru's government to be completely oblivious to the drop in oil prices. From say 100$/barrel to 55$/barrel in 6 months. This is actually the only point I wanted to make, but illustrations being illustrations, I was blown of course. I will be back shortly.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 3, 2015 12:54:51 GMT 3
I said would be back shortly. I got delayed. It is harsh, working on mobiles! ..... I assume Oil is more or less the general determinant of prices in a country like Kenya, therefore I think, in the last half year, the black gold would have offered the best methodology of relieving the much-pressed Kenyan consumer, aka Wanjiku! NB:(As we have seen elsewhere, the NCPB is involved in a downward spiral, in bandia court battles, with frozen accounts, wheeler-dealer bureaucrats, lawyers and politicians and is up for cannibalisation, unless Mr. Kenyatta has been set up for another round of public kitty looting –-thinking of his Anglo-leasing Mpesa to Switzerland of yester year. Anyway, why has the government continued to pretend the price of oil has remained constant!? Why have they failed to centralise/operationalise it as the instrument or lever to alleviate the tight in Wanjiku's belt!? ---Of course because them bureaucrats are ever short of cash --see the borrowing binge they propose for the nation; and oil revenues any which way is the parasites' ELEXIR, –-the fluid of state life! But because Uhuru SERIOUSLY (hi-seriously like a messiah- hi) wants to alleviate the suffering of the common man, there could be a much more deadlier reason why he avoids the obvious weapon. Let us recall this pledge. I will say messianic instead of quixotic! Ensuring the prices of basic necessities are affordable! Waauw! That is oily business mesays. He assured and reassured Kenyans of his commitment to this effect –-again waauw! Nothing wrong with his instincts then. Nothing wrong with his populist senses then. Nothing wrong at all, with his objectives. (by the way since the REBASE, Kenya has overnight joined the status of middle-income country. That it does not feel that way to Wanjiku may be due to her slow grasp of statistics and econometrics, this befuddles here sense of reality, such that she confuses paradise for hell. The alternative, that Gringo Mank is the one working bad magic trying to convince her a TARRAM road is a class A world-Highway, is of course unthinkable. And if thinkable, unprintable like lieutenant Wadi's tirade at the head of state! TARMAC ILLUSIONS, TARRAM REALITIES. but it is just an illusion. because, at the end of the day of the rebase! Careful, careful! But what is the role of oil (the price of fuel for instance) in setting the general price index in Kenya? –-That is for gringo Mank! Let him ala Merlin, work the magic! I work from the premise, Oil is a significant determinant. (I am told when OPEC raised the price of crude in the 70s, Western econonomies nearly collapsed, and these powers have since made sure their armies occupy the gulf or run the gulf states as political concubinates. Does not always work that way though, as we witness in Libya after the anal skewering of Gadhaffi, and in Iraq after the garroting of Saddam Hussein!)Now, back to the very beginning of this post, part one. www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/european-business/report-german-government-sees-low-oil-prices-helping-economy/article22219806/ I think Uhuru Kenyatta's silence on oil, avoidance of this instrument, is explained by scare than by ignorance. His excellency is merely scared shitless of the oil big men and their big oiled interests. They would cut his balls if he dares cut their profit to subsidise the posho ratios of his impoverished slum-dwelling voters! In a straight clash of interests between Wanjiku and big, big oil money, big oil money wins pants down. The son of Jomo knows who calls the shots on his regime, and that is not the voter. He knows his political maneuvering room, and which direction he must turn, like a homing sunflower. A rebellious, hungry population can be crushed by the army. A rebellious oil sector will send the offending president to retirement, or even, William Ruto beware, a jail sentence at the Hague on trumped up charges. Now, them that think Saddam Hussein died for possession of WMD's or September 11 complicity, say Aye! So I leave that at that for the moment. However, for the son of Jomo... this insecurity, cowardice or inability to mediate impartially between conflicting financial interests, is what makes the fascist coup in Kenya non-bonapartist. It can never suppress the interests of a powerful clique for the common good. It is a puppet regime, infantile toy fascism. Incapable of defending the long term purpose of the nation. The regime is nothing but a parochial hireling of a financially dominant wing of the ruling elite, pandering in quisling mode to even more ferocious global operators and dominators –- (some talk of the Africans as a cretin bourgeoisie! Dwarfs doomed to existence in shadows of ...) And then the regime is also held hostage by a voracious Legico, Mpigs of pathological parasitic appetites. A mature, non quixotic fascist regime has a clear sense of the national economy. Such a clear sense requires a lot of [econometric] calibration. That is detailed, painful intellectual work. To map out priorities and resources in every sector. Even if the thinking is right, corrupted and falsified statistics still lead to wrong premises, to false decisions, collapsed mechanics and, O yeah, Greek syndromes of the economy! –-EuR 500 billion for 9 million people in 5 years, and still, collapsed! Sh!t it stay Sh!t! until Jesus he come back to deliver us all to yo heaven of course! So it scares me stiff Rotich is letting Jubilee go Greek! Was Juan Peron of Argentina a successful populist fascist dictator? –-that one will be for professor Podp!If powerful financial oligarchs unite to manipulate the currency or price indexes, the full-blown fascist leader descends upon them mercilessly and brings them to heel. And he destroys those high, individual bureaucrats holding brief and carrying the can for them. Thieves like Njuguna Ndungu' and the rest of the Kimemia gang (who ran separate state accounts under cover of the Kibaki transition to Muigai)would be languishing full-time in Kamiti, were Uhuru to be a bit mature. But he is a toy, so he makes do with directives which even an agile parrot has not time for! Now, how much posho can one buy for ksh. 2.8 bn? –-let us take a closer look at the figure Uhuru Kenyatta earmarked for the NCPB in his roadside broadside of a directive: and the figure is ….. is … is … ksh. 2.7 billion!Walhalla! Amigos I di not go to economics school anywhere, let alone Ivy league Kennedy at Harvard where Rotich got a doctorate. But you do not do this to me and tell me I can not INSULT your doctorate nor your mind! Fwackas! I will go to German school any day! The amount stolen by Prime Minister Joseph Kinyua and his deputy Francis Kimemia under the transition power vacuum, is enough to subsidise all Kenya Wanjiku's posho for the budget year! And you really think you are not a toy-boys regime!? Your Excellency, O the enthralled Uhuru Kenyatta, O his Jomo name be chanted above the prophets, where do those of us who can think fit in your respectful, tiny-head republic!? It just has to be Kamiti. Somethings I can do no more, like show respect to outright thieving scumbugs and a commander in chief so clueless. –-yawa! Better throw me a bone with some beef to respect! NB: And this is for Henry Rotich, the cabinet secretary for finance and, not least, the incoming –-or proposed future-- president's tribesman. Remember Jens Weidmann who I explained is the Njuguna Ndung'u of Merkel's Germany as he is Chairman of the Bundesbank? I put him here academically as an example of mature economic thinking of the bourgeoisie of his land. ( remember too, the economic wing of that bourgeoisie has not time for the EU sanctions against Russia) Listen: Low oil prices are already an economic stimulus program! –-he states his thinking. Clear-cut. Kwani Henry Rotich from Kennedy at Harvard finds that one to be rocket science or what!? Stop harassing posho-millers omera. Ati reducing the retail price of posho and minding the purchase price of maize! Think low oil prices as the instrument of a posho bonanza! not to mention fighting corruption (I did not say do it. I said think it! We will wait for the Samoei Ruto to do it! –-Thinking is not yet a crime even in Uhuru Kenyatta's republic of respect! It is just one should shut up and not say what one really thinks –-Kennedy school men included! Uhuru Kenyatta Akhbar! Akhbar! Akhbar!) First new year's directive: the god Uhuru Kenyatta should direct secondary school heads to LOWER the fees! Now that will be a real popular move. But shhhh, KUPPET has now Joined KNUT in a strike alert! –-Yawa! Directive: Order the courts to order the mwalimu Sossions and the Akelo Misoris to order their minions to go work on time! Because you have directed the Serems and the TSC commissioners and the treasury to pay up the CBA residues! And those doctors and medics limbering for a strike in the background? Another directive will do –-back to work! You have to move from a toy fascist to a real fascist. But a real fascist is a ZERO TOLERANCE on corruption! His ratings soar, and he can rig elections at will because he performs! Why don't the Chinese people ever complain about the lack of or, if ever, pre-rigged selections of the Communist Party?Because the tyrannical Communists are driving China to super power stardom. That is the deal. A no nonsense economic progress, rebase or no rebase! But those driving their nations aground and think they can rig elections, select candidates for the people to endorse sheep-like; or be respected like gods or deities of worship while presiding over mediocrity, are mere deluded fools, with a bitter history ahead. Very very quixotic. Gotta run now.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 31, 2015 21:05:33 GMT 3
VP WILLIAM RUTO GOES TO DAVOS, SWITZERLAND, BUT AT HOME! KENYANS ARE SINGING SINGH!(NB: some will remember an old song which used to launch one of the popular programs of VOK radio [idhaa ya taifa]: it went something like: Sing sing sing, sing sing Paruba-Ha Sing sing sing, sing sing Par-RUU Sing sing sing -HA HA ha hahah haaaaa!---Please someone remind me of this song: don't know the titile!) But first, Samuel P. Huntington of Harvard vs The Economist. ON DAVOS.THE RISE AND RISE, FALL AND DEATH OF THE DAVOS MANnationalinterest.org/blog/economics/death-davos-man-8739 Abroad then, the African leader undergoes a metamorphosis. He is detribalised, cosmopolitan and urbane, a Davos man; but once back home, he re-incarnates into his usual self, a tribal chieftain, corrupt, parochial and backward: Stone-age man. This is ideological schizophrenia. And that is a dangerous rapid for any man to be caught up in; and for a country, this following cartoon captures it methinks: Just a nail claw away from a fall into the abyss. VP William Ruto wrote a few months ago. Tell us that again, we of the Teachers Unions being ground under the TSC heel! --the whole nation is holding breath, waiting for some real man to correct the percentages of an imbalanced investment regime, under the political economy of thuggery. But that is by the way. So, okay, even the likes of Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria showed up at Davos (NOT!), black skins white masks for the day, Boko Haram EBOLA forgotten for the day! Yes. Of course life went on, in Kenya too. So WHILE William RUTO WAS AWAY AT DAVOS [WEF 2015]. While you were away, dear Deputy President, some mysterious inspiration of evil seems to have gripped national consciousness, and your figure is now idelitably linked to a –-head-- dress item hitherto associated with a religious and ethnic group, originally from the Indian sub-continent. Major newspapers and opinion makers, having learnt from the recent treatment of errant bloggers who showed no respect for those in authority, at first gave the linkage a wide berth. Neither did they come up with a spare set of exonerating facts. But these days it isn't paid reporters and their fears or compromised pens who define national consciousness, nay, the national joke is out of the bag, like the famous djini which could no longer fit into the bottle it had escaped. CapitalNews is reported to have cleaned her cyber pages. Originally they had a story listing you as the owner of the Osero Hotel near Wilson, opposite Lang'ata Primary School, the scene of the crime and the gas outrage against kids. The owner of CapitalNews, Kenyans opine, has capital reasons to clean his act up and show some respect, even if that demands the deletion of facts. osero is no puppet. How on earth, me asks, have these things been connected to you? Is this the genial PR-game of your opponents, adept at well, … blackening your white name? Or is this the story of where there is smoke there is fire? So, while you were at Davos Switzerland, rubbing shoulders with the high and mighty of planet earth, cutting deals to secure the future of the nation and, no doubt, help you succeed incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta at the right time, back at home were these giddily silly cartoons and satirical quips, that you, a born-again evangelical, had opted out of Christianity and converted to the Sikh religion. And that you are now a vegetarian who wouldn't touch beef! Mandip Singh Amrit? Madat Singh Amrit? Harban Singh Amrit? Kamal Singh Amrit? I must say I find it all very hilarious, but there is a dark undertone to all this Kenyan humour. To me, it always sounds like the hysterical laughter of a fresh widow, trying hard to keep up appearances and gloss over the numbing shock in the heart. Today I heard a shocking tale from Central African republic. Female victims of repeated rape, presented themselves totally naked for action at a military barrack which is the headquarters of it. They walked through the streets naked, singing love songs, praising their wares: Cheap, totally free, extraordinarily sweet. Come one, come all! me sexy, sexy sexy! It is a kind of protest at humiliation and degradation which has never been seen in human history. (I do not dare add come baby come !) I do not like the feeling it has condensed in my heart. This degradation of the african woman. And this degradation will not be a subject at the current AU summit in Addis Abbaba, neither was it at Davos. But out there, I fear, there is a beast listening to this plight. And when the beast emerges … it wont be like the ICC at the Hague where African leaders can dance around in merry go on! Meanwhile let us all laugh. Here is the new sensation Dr. Damages taking us through the looming Nigerian elections, take it from 08:20 www.dw.de/africa-struggles-to-be-heard-in-davos/a-18208152
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 12, 2015 20:30:00 GMT 3
HIS EXCELLENCY GIVES A QUIXOTIC DIRECTIVE AND CHARGES AWAY TO JAPAN. This week, this day, the nation is rife with pontifications of graft at every integrity institute. We will detail a few, of which the most riveting is the Namwamba-led PAC scandal featuring Mutea Iringo as lead actor; these come thick in the heels of the ''Singh'' landgrab and the sickly teargassed Lang'ata primary school children. And the interesting detail connecting all the dots is, the Kenya Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has virtually collapsed. To all practical purposes EACC is defunct. ---though of course in ethically challenged Kenyan custom they continue to draw salaries as if they produce value, a swindle in effect --just like Judges and parliamentarians who get paid sitting allowance! (how about paying teachers standing allowance!) It is in this background of rampant graft scandals hitting the headlines that the son of Jomo scampers away to Japan, furtively looking behind his back like a scared escaping dog, hurriedly performing a perfunctory bark at the slithering beast of corruption that has colonised his regime, and is counting down his political life. Yes, Nairobi is too hot for the son of Jomo these days. He is ever travelling, only yesterday back from Algeria. Minister of foreign affairs is his real calling these days. Still he has to make do and act the president for which he gets pay and the title His Excellency. So here he goes GO GET THEM: President Kenyatta congratulates the new Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinett at Harambee House, Nairobi, shortly after he was sworn in yesterday - Lamented is a good word to describe this farce. I think I said somewhere the prezzo has been kidnapped, and keeps of sending SOS's which we fail to decode, and rush to his rescue. Outright theft! and all he gives are secret warnings! the officially most powerful man in the republic can not address the nation on a matter of priority, on an issue he recognises is derailing his agenda and manifesto!? and explain why he is sacking the following 100 top people and freezing their accounts!? --recover the outrighly stolen public money! (should be good enough reason!)
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