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Post by podp on Dec 25, 2015 19:45:35 GMT 3
PANCHA RUTO THROWS A CHRISTMAS BASHAlas, these are the politics of hand-outs. And the way to make money to hand out that easy, is to steal it from the same people[/i]. Like Moi stole from the taxpayer through the state, and gave back parts of it as harambee. So the professor's lessons continue to be practised. Would, his quarter century at the top had taken us places! (as it were, it was a dead-end that lead to a struggle for 2nd liberation!) To continue this hand-outs dependency act of make-shift gratitude, one needs a political narrative which survives on ignorance, based on an easily manipulated following, or one sustained by a downright cynical populace which expects nothing of its leadership except bouts of tokenis. There goes a Luoland saying, Chuth ber, Gima ichamo e mikwano. Gima Kiny akia. ---A bird at hand is worth two in the bush. What you eat, is what you count done. Who knows what is tomorrow!? (these are the ideological narrative tenets of non-investment). Any attempt to “soften” the power of the oppressor in deference to the weakness of the oppressed almost always manifests itself in the form of false generosity; indeed, the attempt never goes beyond this. I n order to have the continued opportunity to express their “generosity,” the oppressors must perpetrate injustice as well. An unjust social order is the permanent fount of this “generosity,” which is nourished by death, despair, and poverty. That is why the dispensers of false generosity become desperate at the slightest threat to its source. True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the “rejects of life” to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands — whether of individuals or entire peoples — need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world. la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/330T/350kPEEFreireCh01table.pdfan intersting clip showed fishing at coast of Kenya. Kenya imports fish from China. the Chinese bring their fish factory ships not far from us fish, process and park the fish products for our markets. the coast fishermen have small boats, little storage facilities and no markets worthy speaking of. all they did was compare the bailouts the government gave the sugar industry in Western and Nyanza and also demand that a billion worthy of fishing ship to enable deepwater fishing which they are willing to repay back in a revolving fund. so Uhuruto with the harambee re-loaded are attempting to return us to Mo1 days. While the poor in Kenya viewed harambee as a means of uplifting their conditions, to the politicians it was an avenue of selling themselves to the public. In a sense, harambee led to the commercialization of leadership and power, making it impossible for less endowed people to compete with the rich for leadership positions. Towards the end of 1990s, politicians from the opposition were already calling for the banning of harambees because of its alleged link to corruption. trustafrica.org/en/publications-trust/icbe-research-reports?download=86:the-role-of-harambee-contributions-in-corruption-experimental-evidence-from-kenyaand 12 years later just before the elections that brought in Uhuruto I recently listened to a lively debate about the harambee rituals at a leaders’ meeting in Narok County. Protagonists for continuing the practice pointed out that the election season is the best time for generosity for public projects. That many projects were planned in anticipation of the electioneering cash. Opponents were equally firm about the hypocrisy of raising the cost of electoral contests and the resultant corruption as elected leaders spend years seeking to recover resources spent winning elections. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Never-again-allow-harambee-donations-to-cloud-our-judgment/-/440808/1471254/-/view/printVersion/-/gjiaby/-/index.htmlso even after being counselled to re-think in face of current complexities we return again to the 1990s and have Ufungamano Joint Forum of Religious Organisations (UJFRO) says the habit of inviting politicians as guests of honour during funds drives undermines the war against corruption. “Religious organisations unwittingly contribute to corruption when they invite politicians, whom they expect to come with big contributions, to officiate in their harambees as guests of honour. This expectation puts the politicians under undue pressure to engage in corruption,” said Mr Chitnis. “Ufungamano appeals to its members and the religious sector in general to recognise this problem and stop involving politicians as special guests in harambees. This would be a bold step in the fight against corruption,” he added. www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Group-wants-politicians-banned-from-church-fund-raisers/-/1064/2965030/-/ipo86b/-/index.html?utm_source=hootsuiteand so today as we observe Xmass archbishop Wabukala said he has urged the faithful to stop inviting politicians to churches to preside over harambees In his Christmas Day sermon at the All Saints Cathedral in Nairobi, Wabukala said it encouraged a culture of corruption. He explained that given the numerous appeals politicians undoubtedly received, it was likely that they dipped into public coffers rather than their own pockets to meet the demands made of them.
Ill-gotten gain which, he argued, it was unethical for the church to benefit from. “Stop harambees where politicians are asked to be guests of honour. As we contribute towards stopping corruption and creating a level playing ground for political actors, let us not allow our churches to be avenues for misuse by those who want political power,” he said.
The responsibility for financing church missions, he said, Biblically falls to the congregants whom he urged to tithe faithfully as part of their contribution towards an incorruptible future. www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2015/12/anglican-leader-calls-for-end-to-politican-centric-fundraisers/
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 17, 2016 10:07:21 GMT 3
ANY NEW THINKING IN TOWN? NO, WAITING FOR MINDS OF A TOUGHER FORGE You better mean it this time, son of Jomo. I mean the best way to stand with the dead, is to stand with their beloved ones, and their survivors and dependants. And as the commander in chief you have been drooling, neglectful (1$2). You fail see Mr. President why this corruption thing is the undoing of the land, a poison debilitating every tissue. HERE: The department of defence is on record as systematically defrauding widows and survivors of our patriots in uniform who when killed locally and abroad, we all unite to monger the phrase 'heroes who paid the ultimate price in service of the land'. Could a land be more craven than that: looting the pockets of widows and orphans while uttering sweet words to console their grief? I repeat the hint from 2014 Their families are what!? Who is fooling who, omera Ouru? Wherefore will I be like the legendary Chineke the bird or the famous African parrot who, since, has learnt not to bother listen to nor repeat the words of an African politician. I think it is much more worthwhile now, to remind the brass mandarins at DoD of their blood-oath responsibilities to dead compatriots, given that once again KDF footsoldiers have fallen en-masse in Somalia, and translates to the goose is fat, for the clerical lootenants in Nairobi. Thee paper soldiers skilled at stripping the dead and their wives! Let your mouths not water now, --Like wolves at new sheeplings Let your throats not laugh today, --Like hyenas sensing merry. Let your hearts not smile, --Like the widow inheritor at the burial.
O thee scavengers skilled at stripping widows and the dead What honour if even a mad vulture never sunk lower depths?NB: Tell me, Hunter General Leornard Muriuki Ngondi: they used to talk much good about you: have you of late caught a vulture, beside the grave, ripping accounts and robbing orphans of their future? Or are you in on the deal, raping the dead for profit and pleasure? For power has the habit of turning the mind of many a good man, into a craven bird. Remember the homework --reminder below (october 2015)? Done? There is an alternative strategic analysis to what the 22,000 AMISON contingent is doing in Somalia. I am finding useful to listen to what Somalis themeselves are arguing about foreign troops in their lands. Like this one from a Somali Londoner in the UK: The neighbouring states, especially Kenya and Ethiopia with territorial disputes against historical Somalia, have at heart the interest of a weak central Somali state. It allows Kenya to carve out Jubaland as its backyard and colony, and Ethiopia elsewhere. Centrally weak and divided into manipulable units, there is nothing we Somalis can do about it. Except for the desperate crew of Al-Shabaab.Always important to take serious the nationalist laments of a land one occupies, me surmises from history. Major General Ngondi may want to do his thinking on what we are really doing over there, in Jubaland. TONGUE ABOUT CHEEK! HOW TOUGH IS ARMY COMMANDER LT. GEN. LEONARD NGONDI? www.mod.go.ke/?p=4481 Leonard Ngondi sworn in at state house. AND HERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK, DEAR HEROIC GENERALS That was 2014. But during the recent teachers strike, apart from loafing around chang'aa joints, some of us history teachers were of course voluntarily employed collecting data from across the country on the plight of KDF WIDOWS. With that data I am telling tough-guy Leonard Ngondi: there is something rotten at the heart of the DoD. Looting the accounts of hapless widows and orphans whose beloveds died defending the land is vermin behaviour. My mind is clear on that. No Field Commander however tough and ruthless and brave and competent, is worth a dog's drop of blood, if he loots the accounts of his dead soldiers who bore him rank and promotion, and hurls their survivors to abject poverty. Get that man, do not let politicians without morals make you betray the fellowship of death at war. Erase this theft, General. Unless you are too are in the mix, as a Top Lootenant! The son of Jomo, CiC, wouldn't know what am talking about, would he!? The template: histories that repeated themselves, farce or tragedy?
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 20, 2016 10:59:58 GMT 3
COMICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY and REAL TIME ELITE ABSURDITY.Those who pay attention to both political literature and artistic representations of elite theatrics, will recognise episodes from the book absurdities. But reality if of course more fun, stranger than fiction hard. Y oweri Kaguta's absurd, foregone re-election yesterday is a case in point. And then these are the people wagging fingers at Burundi's Pierre Nkurunzinza. Poor boy! There is also the Baba-go-Slow comedy show in Abuja. Oga Muhammad Buhari has been gallivanting around the globe beseeching banks for money to pay a bloated and corrupt civil service, while his own chief of budgets has already hatched a plot to steal a usual percentage! (A Nigerian version of John Githong'o burnt the midnight oil scrutinizing the reels of budget sheets and noticed the trickster discrepancies which, to national amusement, the new young brilliant thing of an investment banker, Minister of finance Adeosun and her new crack unit, had wholly missed! Apologies! this is of course Jonathan Goodluck time and not Buhari. Time really could not have stood still. Times changed. Minister of Finance Kemi Adeosun,beaming after acceptance of credentials by the new boss. Boss? Which boss? the debt-regime enforcer often seen in Nairobi with our own Rotich? Well, the times changed, the people stayed the same, the old spirit lives on, eg in Kenya Jubilee being as corrupt as KANU. --Just don't want the son of Jomo thinking why pick on me all the time, fellow Kenyan, Africa is big! I think the point is made about the theatre of the absurd ELSEWhERE too. Poor General. But that is not the story for today. I wanna keep it close to home. The story for today begins with Josephine Kabura, the famous hairdresser at the centre of the NYS pillage, as a tragi-comedy. First, one will notice she is not being referred to as a Nairobi businesswoman, yet I doubt there are that many entrepreneurs in Kenya who handle the kind of cash-flow Josephine does. A billion shillings plus in a few days. She can own a bank if she cared to, yet here we are: hairdresser! what a disrespect to female kind! In fact the multi million tenderpreneural enterprise is merely her part time keep, a by the way! So we the public recognise we are in theaterland. Of the absurd. Hairdressers who keep 80M in the house? This is an exemplification of what political literature would call decay. Regime decay, elite decay. The Josephine Kabura case is pus from that pathology. The rot underneath is ripe and burst surface by willy-nilly. --Remember all the investigations were more or less complete, and all the patsies neatly arranged before the howling crowd, and herded off to mock cruxification. But the boil could not be concealed like that, it had to reveal itself, leak through the bandages and spew stench, for its own sake. Now even the EACC is substantiating: they have no idea who cleared Waguru of all charges! Howbeit it took the --now obviously not too fake--- affidavit of the hairdresser to jog their memory! By a fake affidavit the EACC should have stuck to their guns: Waiguru is clean. (The - Joseph Mugwanja-- Banking Fraud Unit and the - Ndegwa Muhoro--- CID also conducted investigations in the famous INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFORT, and unearthed no dirt on the lady. IPOA DID NOT LIKE WHAT THEY SAW IN NDEGWANB: I remember deciding to take a closer look at the forensic competence of the CID, when Ndegwa Muhoro appeared before the 10th parliament with the then director of NSIS, James Gichangi. They only appeared after repeated summons which they ignored, leading parliament to consider heavy sanctions. The issue was fake or genuine letterheads from the British Embassy. www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2012/04/mps-furious-with-spy-chief-protest-to-speaker/ Ndegwa was arrogant, but unaware he was technically a show-piece of extraordinary, wilful incompetence. How? -That time intelligence indicated Al-Shabaab was getting new sophistication to infiltrate around, so if the CID (and the NIS to boot) not only had no competence to authenticate foreign documents but were also not minded to get it from without, we effectively had no security against a rejuvenating T-group! It became obvious to me Muhoro is not a cop in his calling. His business is other things. IPOA had long had an idea. And yes, to this dubious cop ran Anne Waiguru the whistleblower! Now, knowing Anne Waiguru was a price-winning administrator, lauded all over the continent as astute exemplary, people like me doing the history of African stagnation have to explain how such high calibre as hers maintain reputation while they consort such dubious watchdogs as Ndegwa Muhoro, if they are serious about a thing in office. It is a case of intrinsic impaired judgement? May be Anne Waiguru had not heard IPOA had rejected Muhoro on grounds of integrity! (I considered the option she had, but had to formally report to Muhoro! still, given her official billing as the toughest girl in town, the explanation why she stopped there still beggared a pitching run. In other words she would report formally, but not rely on the steps of a corrupt cop for further decisions! yet that is exactly what she did. And afforded those who like her like me heart attacks in shock! That is where political critique comes in with the theory of elite decay. Waiguru thinks it is a credible step to report graft to Muhoro, who is a bureaucrat already publicly declared of no integrity!? Only the deluded elite do not recognise what everybody else can see: farce. It is a prelude to a cover-up. And now long after Muhoro$co had declared her innocent, the investigations are still running. How did she miss the list of the famous 174 which (courtesy of the EACC) went to Kenyatta and forced a few step-asides!? It may be more informative to consider Anne as Josephine. Her tribulations at the hands of her own people may very well force her to come clean, in an affidavit --fake or not! Hell hath no fury stuff. Let us now spare some words for the situation of the Muthamaki Kenyatta. And I want to think of Pu Yi, or the Romanov Nicolas, treated in theatre. Under interrogation. Some of it very funny in the theatre of the absurd. Continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 20, 2016 16:01:26 GMT 3
COMICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF REALITY and REAL TIME ELITE ABSURDITY.Those who pay attention to both political literature and artistic representations of elite theatrics, will recognise episodes from the book absurdities. ---------- It may be more informative to consider Anne as Josephine. Her tribulations at the hands of her own people may very well force her to come clean, in an affidavit --fake or not! Hell hath no fury stuff. -------- Let us now spare some words for the situation of the Muthamaki Kenyatta. And I want to think of Pu Yi, or the Romanov Nicolas, treated in theatre. Under interrogation. Some of it very funny in the theatre of the absurd. ---Continued. A PRESIDENT UNDER CAPTIVITY, KIDNAPPED BY KEYSER SOZEWhen President Kenyatta took over the reigns of power, his first speech was a good pitch at purpose: Let us spark an industrialisation fire! he cried before the nation, his eyes moist in love with the flag. Yet the son of Jomo has, in my opinion, been shot down by mundane facts like corruption. Rampant graft has become as an important fixture in government expenditure as the Public Wage Bill, Debt servicing and Infrastructure. The opportunity cost of corruption is a matchstick repeatedly refusing to fire; a coughing, spurting stalled engine. Vision 2030, the light at the end of the tunnel, has dissappeared in the fog of graft for the moment, but yes we still can. Only we have to kill the beasts blocking the path. So I thought like, later, when by a process more credible than rebase, Kenya has overtaken both Nigeria and South Africa, and well-fed artists have all the subsidised time they need for inspiration, one such shall come up to comically wonder what the fuss was all about that past century, when the digital Muthamaki was caught between a rock and a hard place, and had to forego his soft spot for the honey-queen Anne, tabloidly put.By then of course all the NIS files about today in Kenya would have been declassified and turned over to the public library for every interested idler to peruse! The readings on the Eurobond scandal would, for instance, send standard seven pupils in laughter fits for a whole day. Really our ancestors were great apes, the children will say. The government was nothing but monkey business! No wonder it took a whole century to industrialise! What a hairdresser! what an unlucky Muthamaki! what a transparent enigma! Okay. There is a famous scene by hindsight in literature. It has many variations. At one time it is the last Czar and Romanov heirloom Nicolas, at a nother it is the last Emperor of China, Pu Yi. Then again it is Hosni Mubarak pondering the mess of his succession plans, blaming it on his wife, as he hears his son weep in the next cell. PU YI THE DETACHED My favourite rendition is a comical look at Pu Yi. The red army has him prisoner, and a political commissar tries to slap a nonchalant grin off his face. The partyman man is interested in what went on in the mind of Pu Yi when he accepted the Japanese offer to be emperor, seated in Manchuria. 'Did you spare a thought for China at this moment!? Or you were consumed by your own self, ever obsessing for your daily lusts!? You did not suspect you were a stooge? A colonial tool? Japan was raping and looting China, here are even official edicts signed by you, allowing them to perform medical experiments on the Chinese! Do you think you were sane over there! -O your Majesty!?'Pu Yi gives a stunning reminder. 'I was no more insane than my ancestor after Nanking. He decreed the Chinese become addicts to guarantee markets for Dutch and English opium! A dynasty makes tough calls my friend, otherwise they wouldn't last centuries at the top, would they!?'Here it is important to note Chinese history books winch and cringe at this Nanking episodes. The national anthem contorts within, remembering these historic humiliations at the hands of barbarians. It would be a monumental feat for a Chinaman to handle such episodes with such nonchalance. It would be a bit like a Jewish Premier standing at Auschwitz and shrugging no hard hearts: ash to ash, dust to dust, says your Christian Holy Book the Bible, Jews writing mark you!The stage version I loved best was one in which Pu Yi was a man who had never been himself since birth. He was born into centuries of ritual, mechanical protocol and divine responsibility; his life was always an act, and every possibility pre-ordained. A piece on a chess board. Who he would marry, what he would say, how the woman would lie. Everything was protocol, artificial reality. Initiative erased. Creativity extinct.
Even when the emperor could not get it up, the women still sang his praises as the King Lover! Talk about a public joke in Rome!Yes you catch me there! I am thinking it aloud. Uhuru Kenyatta was born at state house with a very powerful father forcing orderlies into fictitious behaviour. Under such circumstances, one could only be human enough to suffer a confusion, a dissonance in the perception of reality: where otherwise a street-wise kid would read the script straightaway, and see himself a puppet on a leash, the other sees in himself a deity who commands all.When the EACC and state house brokers presented the doctored list of corruptees for instance: did H.E Don Quixote willingly buy it, such that he acted on it as the truth and the truth alone? or did he smile wickedly and knowingly, resigned to the fact that he was a puppet of no autonomy, pre-programmed to a specific course like a train on rails. This is why I can never bring myself to be 100% venomous toward young Muigai wa Jomo. There is enough high art in the historical archives to warn me into a benefit of doubt. The son of Ngina and Jomo may really, really want to do good, only he is like a not too smart emperor's son, always under a lord protector like an infant. Such, try they might to protest, are doomed to resignation during abuse by their scheming controllers. They are manipulated and used like a procured prostitute at a Dominique Strauss Khan libertarian party. NB: I have an arsenal of venom, but mefeels Jomo's boy is not worth a shot. Methinks he needs help instead. That is the headache of the nation. The boy even offered (in the wake of the ICC indictments) to forego being president for God's sake --shetani ashindwe! That is not the profile of a habitual criminal, that is not the mentality of one to be presiding over the looting of Kenya without a moral qualm. I wager my d.ick Mr President is, like the meaty procurements servicing the bestiality of DSK above, NOT HAVING FUN AT ALL DURING THESE 'BEAST-LIKE SCENES for which he was apparently procured to preside over! Who runs Kenya? Even the articulate Waiguru is very vague when it comes to this: -'obscure cartels' she blames. I blame the same for blunting the purpose and good intentions of his Excellency Ouru Muigai wa Kenyatta! --Shetani ashindwe! Hooraah!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 19, 2016 20:04:30 GMT 3
THE KERICHO SENATORIAL BY-ELECTION
Well, one significant woe the detractors had for the Samoei, was definitely the Kericho senate seat by-election of yesterday, 07-03-2015. The seat fell vacant when the sitting senator, Charles Keter, was pegged for a cabinet post to appease the discontent in the South Rift. The elites of the south rift have been sulking restless, feeling hungry, as if they were bastards condemned to positions outside the door, banished far from the table of goodies where a connected Kalenjin and Gikuyu elite celebrate their tyranny of numbers, looting to their fill. (there was as shower of parastatal goodies yesterday, with old dogs like Kosgey revisited to blunt their sulk in oblivion. May be the trickle down will cool tempers somewhat!)
But the Lord be praised some, the results of the Kericho by-election are now in, even if the dust is yet to settle over the rigging claims; and William Ruto has a winning smile and a new spring in his step. The distraction which was canalised into KANU was muzzled at the ballot box. 'officially'.
But those five 24/7 working trips to a massive support region tell a tale: William had to work so hard we witnessed a glimpse of the stresses multi-partism can cause within one voting block, zoned as it were, supposedly under lock and key to one chieftain. This competition was real, the probability of an upset a possibility; the fear of the Nandi King palpable. It was a near re-run of the fear which forced Raila to camp in Homa Bay and flog the vote for the young Kajwang' dynast, Tom. In the end the result was got, the aftermath a controversy just like in Kericho. Fish and Tea. It will be important to think out why no election --(in Africa?)-- can be completed without claims of rigging. Elections are in the rule about fair arbitration, where the loser can congratulate the winner for a fair and square beat up. The moment this is systematically not the case, elections loose the point. They become meaningless exercises in rubberstampology, worth neither their expense nor time consumption. --They then become a farce and a joke waiting for serious people to do away with them completely.
Rigged elections was one of the reasons KANU ran aground. But the practice seems to have resurrected. We know how it ends.
But back to Kericho.
William the Samoei Singh campaigned like a man fighting for his life. And in deed with senior partner Uhuru Kenyatta totally invisible in Kericho, it was clear it was a die or do for The Hustler. It is understood the Kalenjin-Gikuyu tyranny of numbers can be repeated without DP Ruto. And Mr. Kenyatta has no particular preference, though he, as a decent kid, could return a favour --to the famous professor of politics. The old professor has a grudge against the young upstart who buried him alive in the famous 2007 contest and who, truth be told, appears greater far the superior of Moi's weakly progeny.
Kericho was a chance for young Moi to emerge. The crown prince to mark territoriality. This for the dynasty to take back what rightfully belongs to it. (he he he! No kidding I tell ya! Ruto is an illegal squatter on a privatised throne! The Brahim Muigai daily curses the forces that imposed the untouchable Singh to his coat tails!)
GIDEON MOI'S KABARAK DAYS
There is a tale, more of an anecdote really, told about Gideon Moi at Kabarak High School. The basketball coach thought Gideon had the physique and height for the game. He was potential to be a star pitcher. But Gideon laughed him off, pointing to his father's picture on the Kenyan currency. 'I don't have to sweat, basta!'.
The riled coach gave Gideon a piece of his mind. He thought him physically lazy, mentally feeble, emotionally shallow, and worthless crown price. He reminded him his father, Moi senior, was a legendary worker who rose at 3am daily and never spent a lazy day. He was a Spartan dietist who drank zero intoxicants. 'One day you will have to fight for something, and you will remember me!' finished the irate basketball coach.
Gideon had him disbarred from Kabarak for disrespect to him. Kabarak was considered a very good posting in those Nyayo days.
This tale wa told me by my KU room-mate. He was a Kalenjin Kabarak old boy, and like I, a conviction republican.
These past few weeks as the Samoei Looter Singh took Lazy Prince Gideon through the ringer in Kericho, forcing him to own up to his shortcomings, I couldn't help thinking that the younger Moi, if his memory is not as whiskey washed up as that of his fellow, now deceased crown prince Fidel Odinga, must have had many a regretful stab of memory flashes, remembering the words of the basketball mentor: A crown prince who wants to get anywhere past a hard-boiled dad must be full of fight, full of bull's eye sword thrusts. 2.5 birds killed with one stone then, for the moment.
But the tribulations of weakling and ineffectual princes are only a background shade in the main picture. The main picture is the emergence of internal contradictions (within each ethnic group) which apparently cannot be reconciled within a one party Unitary model. Even as in their home turf respectively, Raila's boy (Kajwang') romped Okundi, and Ruto's boy romped KANU's Sang (with calculable percentages for mathematical comparatives), the percentage of dissidence added to the now undeniable national apathy in the voter registration whose period has been extended, points to an increasing internal unease.
Perceiving the dangers of this unease, informs, in my opinion, the near hysterical cries and calls for unity in which Uhuru Kenyatta engaged in Nakuru two days ago. He declared the opposition out to ruin Kenya, incessant in negativity, which reminds of the Moi-KANU doctrinal line in his opposition to multi-party politics: a manifesto for tribal strife and discord. Ruto too did not disappoint. He declared opposition to Jubilee treason, now and later. The nation shall be united under him and Uhuru, the Deliverance Duo. there is little or no room for opposition here. --This begs the question: why has Ruto's mind concluded Opposition is distraction? Why has he concluded the opposition whose constitutional and socio-political duty is to oppose the sitting government as they see fit within the law, unnecessary in Kenya? Why has the concept of checks and balances in (bourgeoisie) liberal democratic systems, died in Ruto's mind?
Lo! it is the government to determine the parameters of the opposition's narrative! This is the way Mobutu Sese Seko put it to the Zaireans. ''it is good that the wife quarrels the husband, to vent off her frustration because he has been visiting too much other huts. But even as she does this, it still must be clear, should he come to her hut this night, he will find her naked, and ready to be wide legged, yes, for kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga ! That is what I expect of the opposition!'
And here is the Pancha Ruto's variation on the same theme I am sure William does not recognise the import of his utterances, but that is no excuse for joining him in his citadel of intellectual degeneration inside his cave of Mobutist mental rot.
When bonafide kleptocrats and ICC indictees are reading you the moral act as a nation, you gotta face just how low the national morality has sunk. It is time for mother bed-bug stories. Take heart, bugs. It could be worse. Hot grows cold eventually. How often is it not in history, that a deluded corrupt elite, Almighty in Impunity, has been erased and flushed down the sewer of history? Keep your bets open, bugs. Our Kingdom comes!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 23, 2016 22:52:57 GMT 3
CELEBRATING THE DROPPING OF THE CHARGES AGAINST RUTO AND SANG
I HAVE taken a keen interest in the narrative projected. Apart from being cynically programmed to reflect the heroism of the Kapenguria six, the pitch is saturated with dangerous religious symbolism.
That this windfall of an event will be milked for the purposes of the next election is unavoidable, that is politicians for you, but my focus will be on something entirely different. If we internally still are able to differntiate fact from fiction! I muse much over the tensions inherent in the blatant lies we manufucture and adlibly consume, up to and even including the falsifications of who fixed who; I deliberate whether there is a possibility the Uhuruto complex believes this elaborate charade of nonsense they partake. The nonsense I have in mind, are the statements that this was God's work that set them free ---the collapse of the ICC cases that is. Queen's counsellor Khan did not even get a mention at Afraha. Ouch for me! pragmatist I am!
Actually it hurts my pride as a Kenyan, that we can pretend the brainy lawyer was merely god's tool --even if he was paid his best rates ever. Were I the master of ceremonies, I would have wheeled SC Khan out and crowned him a honorary Orkoiyot, the slayer of the ICC dragon! A guardian angle! And I would have made him a Kalenjin elder and awarded him p-ssy! I take Freud seriously on what men work for. At the end of the day it all boils down to one spot, p-ussy.
God does not come into it yet, that is later after the earthly devils have had their 10 minutes of limelight!
On any regular political day, I am really scared of the divinely pious in public office. (Cyrillus of Alexandria types). Therefore I am much disturbed by this born-again nonsense of future president Wiliam Ruto. (I am pleased it does not bar him from being a Singh! so he is humanly compartmentalised). I can not help thinking of Tony Blair of Britain. He was born again too, but was such an accomplished liar and cheat he left behind a discredited establishment. After office saw his further degeneration into a consort of vile leaders abroad, and, lately, he starred prominently in the Panama papers as notorious tax dodger. That is how crooked a pretender born-again Christian leader can work out, even if he is an uparalleled electioneering machine, winning term after term, like Tony the Liar. And then it turns out it is the she devil at work and not Dear God!
With Ruto, there is one other thing (apart from his Singhism) which makes me still sleep easy. I think he is simply a senior, and instinctive pupil of Machiavelli. Under that born-again cover is an old cynic and calculating devil. I think he has wagered there is, as they say in the markets, good margin in the play-act of a strong defender of and believer in the faith. A hard-working teetotaler is a golden image to sugarcoat the rot his name ever conjures up.
Studying Arap Moi -a workaholic in the mode of Margaret Thatcher, must also have convinced him a life of dissipation in nightclubs and alcoholic stupor was something for spoilt brats already made or born made: Spoonfeds like the crown princes Uhuru Kenyatta or the late Fidel Odinga. He, a solitary late starter, must go monkish on the lowly pleasures of the flesh, and indulge more the vanities or sins of accumulation -both money and power. And pursuant to that ambition, a single-minded determination. (and many a pitfall is in that path too, least of which is not altered states of consciousness ever conflicting with reality!)
Yea, for all Machiavellean comfort zones, bouts of doubt do seize me, when I watch the Hustler emotionally collapsed in church, trembling in fits of religious deliverance or fervour. Then do I think that is not an act; that is a genuine moment. And then am I terrified, because minds sunken in religion are a drag in power. Saturated with delusions, they become absolutist like Oliver Cromwell, infallible like the Pope, supreme like the Ayatollah, and self-convinced ever busy, doing God's work like George Bush at Guantamo Bay upon Muslims.
I am a conviction secularist. Religion is a private affair and should stay divorced from the state. Religion considers prostitution a sin. A state can not have a definition of sin. Just crime at law. Sin can only be forgiven by God. A crime can cease when the law is changed, by a simple (even if corrupt) majority in parliament!
I love the secular state run by secular men who have undergone renaissance in their minds, and confined God to a private matter. --That is why I am fond of Uhuru Kenyatta. When he tells me God chose him to be president, I know he knows the score. I know he will laugh loudest in the room if I responded: 'man prezzo, whatever you have been smoking out there is really gone to your head! It was actually Allah working through that Hassan boy of the IEBC!' And I know he would remind me: 'Allah or God, who cares the difference so long they keep off our backs!'
For Uhuru Kenyatta, it was an English PR-buro which he hired to take him through the projection of the ICC as a Western Imperialist Justice, lop-sided and vindictive. And he gave Caesar his, and God his, in the sense that he paid the lawyer his dues and took his QC Kay seriously. After taking care of business as such, he could now dance away in Prayer rallies around the country, buying political cover for the fatal clash. Of course the real secular men made sure death followed the horde of Mungikis who could be tempted to lick Bensouda's fat hands. God's work, bullets in the head.
But suppose, as the believers have made it known, the elevation of Uhuruto to the presidency is all God's work! Then am I afraid such a God can not escape being taken to task. Even if a people get the leader they deserve, surely God would have done better, unless this is not a blessing but a divine curse, because we, Kenyans, allowed Raila and Kibaki to launch the mutilation of the new constitution, Then God decided, very well Kenyans, let us have the job completed. After 2032 you can rethink your sins! (Remember how God reacted to an Adam who had let him down in Eden?).
But I still can not figure it out, like in Cervantes book one never knows whether Pancha is always playing a game. Could it be Ruto himself no longer can separate fiction from reality for himself? Whether the dropping of the cases is an acquittal in his mind; that it is God's work and not Khan's work supported by capo types in the police units? Such a blur in the mind of a man to be trusted with the fates of millions gives me nightmare visions! He has a lot of humour when he dismisses Raila to go and play with his grand kids like his agemate Kibaki, but it is noteworthy that his humour fails him when he is satirically portrayed as crossover into an Asian faith!
The catharsis must surely come to panel beat a mind full of illusions back to shape! So too a nation living lies, even if it is as powerful as Israel above Palestinians.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2016 22:08:52 GMT 3
MUIGAI AT THE FOOT OF THE ELDERS TELLING THE FUTURES OF DAUGHTERS, AND SONS I want to capture a moment in the mind of Kenya's President Kenyatta in Angola during a delicate moment. To attempt so is to socially delve into the maths of the uncertainty principle, ie the atomic orbital function. Catching a mind is of course to have the headache of the physicist Niels Bohr. Bohr's headache was a cracker whose resolution finally put paid to classical physics (or classical mechanics), and introduced the world to quantum mechanics. Africa is one of those hard nuts which will crack a lot of minds to crack. For instance, is her current rising a fad? Think that out slowly. The answer may not be as clear-cut as the question. Haya. I don't know if mathematicians can take poetical licenses, but I always loved the rigour of proof in those mathematical disciplines. If what you say is right, is a new law or truth, then it must be reconcilable to all past proved laws and truths. But sometimes nature throws up a whole batch of new knowledge which makes obsolete the old and classical system. But it always follows it is man who missed a point in interpretation, or was just too stupid, too technically backward, to think through the problem. --Take for instance Light. From the pre-historic and magical theories of optics to the current wave theory of light, is quite an odyssey! Now that the disclaimer is in place let me run my refracted story of the polychromatic photos from Angola. The young dynamic president of Kenya is of course an airmiles man. He is a space traveller of sorts. That is the advantage of youth. Jet lags are for old bones. People like Yoweri Museveni and Eduado dos Santos. At the feet of these old men, a young and uppity lad like the son of Jomo, royalty himself, can stare his eyes out. Between them, the Ugandan King and the Angolan pharaoh could easily clock a century in power. Eternally being in power being the ubiquitous and obligatory fantasy of every being in power, young Muigai will easily fantasise his own immortality in power. Term limits? Well, in the world fantasy there are no term limits, no deaths, no successions. Uhuru Kenyatta will also observe the dynamics of dynasty succession. The Uganda Cattlehorn King is anointing somewhat dim wit son, and the Angolan fantasy Pharaoh is inching his playgirl daughter toward the throne. Muigai of Kenya can freely fantasise if he could do that with Ngina or Jomo, his own offspring. As Eduardo dos Santos notices the young man is absent minded, he clears his throat and breaks young Muigai's dreamland journey. Uhuru smiles sheepishly. Kenya is light years beyond these dungeons led by monsters from the past. Nobody dares ask Dos Santos to account for all that Oil Money. In Kenya, a mere 1 billion off the the obond and his regime is punched to rubbery knees. Muigai allows himself a condescending smile at the elder. Eduardo dos Santos eyes smoulder. His paranoid instincts recognise the contempt in the young man's mind. That there is nothing he can do about it infuriates him more. Dos Santos cools his mind by remembering with brutality, how he had shown another insolent young sod from East Africa his place. That was Paul Kagame in Congo during the Kabila succession. Uhuru Kenyatta perceives the chill in the elder man's face. Suddenly he is happy he has a clear term limit. The idea of ending up a snarling, feeble-minded and scared monster in a cage of paranoia like Museveni or Dos Santos does not look that much appealing. He would rather retire into the warm thighs of Margaret, freely boozing around to old age like the now forgetful Mwai Kibaki. These illiterate taunt people addicted to power could just end up like those places where it ended up badly. Egypt? Libya? Tunesia? Iraq? Muigai is happy to go on board and do more airmiles. Kenya too has been acceleraring to the rapids.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 16, 2016 8:20:59 GMT 3
NIGERIA, MUBARAK'S EGYPT, OR MOZAMBIQUE, WHICH WAY NG'ONDI?Securocrats and book-cooking in Africa. Sometime back, following revelations which highlighted just how deep the DOD top brass has sunk, I was furious but still gave the new Army Commander and Linda Nchi veteran, Maj. Gen. Leornard Namwamba Ng'ondi, the honeymoon pass. That pass is a bit of a benefit of doubt, but a warning. TONGUE ABOUT CHEEK! HOW TOUGH IS ARMY COMMANDER LT. GEN. LEONARD NGONDI? www.mod.go.ke/?p=4481
Leonard Ng'ondi sworn in at state house.
1. Corruption is eating away at morale in Somalia:
-Hear, O King, the tales of the young widows them whose low-ranked men perished in Somalia under the patriotic flag of the republic of Kenya. Who is stealing their money at defence headquarters?
Aah yes, this is Kenya! And if some hapless young man falls for fiery patriotic speeches of the corrupt political and military elite, he will be the fool for it.
So let us ask the one soldier reputed to be an exception.
Also present was the Vice Chief of the Kenya Defence Forces, Lt-Gen. Joseph Kasaon, and the Kenya Army Commander, Maj. Gen. Leonard Ngondi.
Lieutenant General Ng'ondi is the commander of the Army.
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With that data I am telling tough-guy Leonard Ngondi: there is something rotten at the heart of the DoD. Looting the accounts of hapless widows and orphans whose beloveds died defending the land is vermin behaviour. My mind is clear on that. No Field Commander however tough and ruthless and brave and competent, is worth a dog's drop of blood, if he loots the accounts of his dead soldiers who bore him rank and promotion, and hurls their survivors to abject poverty.
Get that man, do not let politicians without morals make you betray the fellowship of death at war.
Erase this theft, General. Unless you are too are in the mix, as a Top Lootenant!
The son of Jomo, CiC, wouldn't know what am talking about, would he!?
The template:Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8555/quixote-uhuru-kenyatta-pancha-ruto#ixzz4EVddZQqA ... Now, as time and tide wait for no man, the moment is here to call him to book. What do his troops in the frontline say? www.nation.co.ke/news/Soldiers-seek-better-terms-for-troops-in-war-against-Shabaab/-/1056/3295418/-/146us1yz/-/index.html Ah!? The Daily Nation is a lying piece of toilet reel!? Kenya Defence Forces soldiers (KDF) carry the casket of their comrade Eliakim Omenda, who was killed in an Al-Shabaab attack in El Adde, Somalia. KDF soldiers were understood to have pulled back after threats from Al-Shabaab, shortly after the tragedy in El-Adde, where a base was overrun by Al-Shabaab and Kenyan troops killed. Need we read more!? It is a story from any army in Africa! (The West African forces deployed to Mali (Azawad) walked the nerves of their european counterparts by always begging for this and that --cigarettes, airtime, drink-water, bandages! even pu-ssy!) But when I came to this in the DN I decided the DN was what it is, a piece of Agha Khan sh!t. But I have not dared ask around. You see, Commander Ng'ondi, it is not that difficult to find Linda nchi veterans and ascertain those figures. I am not asking around because I am scared to find out the figures are true! And if they are! And this Sambo Dasuki and co episode Former Nigeria national security adviser Sambo Dasuki. Here is what the Oga-brother men were up to. As it happens in Nigeria so does it happen in Kenya, generally, and in most of the rest in Africa, if one has been keeping apace with wheeling's and dealings of AFRICAN SECUROCRATS. --In Mozambique, the Sambo Dasuki's and Leonard Ng'ondis and Muhoozi Kainerubagas on duty, even negotiated billion dollar loans bypassing the ministry of finance! See there soldier boy Ng'ondi? See why I don't dare ask a KDF footsoldier from Somali if his allowance per day is ksh. 20, less than three cigarettes! Coz I have a premonition the answer will leave me tapping my nose, to face the fact the Great Field Commander Leonard Ng'ondi, like General Ababu Namwamba at PAC, is nothing but the latest docile worm in a can kept by Keiser Soze! His stellar reputation a mere PR front for a lootocratic securocrat band of rogues, waiting for a kind of Mohammadu Buhari to come along to turn the tide and send to jail. History has all options on the table, generally. But orget Naija movies for a moment, Major. Take a look at yourself, Ng'ondi. You see why you only give your soldiers 3 cigarettes worth of bonus on the day!? and why a college dramatist created a character called General Tumbo!? and his adjudant was ---who else but-- Lieutenant Lootenant!Three years ago In 2013, you guys stole 33bn. I think you now get the idea Ng'ondi why I don't dare ask KDF footsoldiers if they Daily Nation is right. Half a second on the political science of the Kenyan military and the truth reveals itself rather than waits for Henry Rotich and Patrick Njoroge to open their competent but truth challenged mouths. NB: Okonjo-Iweala was an ace Harvard alumni running Nigeria's finances. She served both Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan with distinction. She was even hyped enough to go for the World Bank governorship as Africa's candidate. Well, the securocrats who are now on the receiving end of Baba-go-Slow's anti corruption purge, loved her. here is a hint why. I hear the DoD --they can not even maintain their wall so that it was washed away by the recent Nairobi floods--- is still working on an answer to the Daily Nation inquiry. I know why their minds are that slow. I watched Okonjo-Iweala being interviewed about corruption in Nigeria and her role in it. The super Phd from Harvard did not know what was being talked about. Obviously she lost her mind, could not remember sh!t. So I conclude, if $10bn electrocutes the minds of Ivy-league types, ksh.10M will cut off the tongues of our ace soldiers at the DoD. Kamau Thugge looked at the books and said. Sh!t soldiers, you have overcooked the books!! ridiculous idiots! You can not cook them any further now. And so there is onnly one option is left: That law signed by Uhuru Kenyatta to shield defense and security books from audit must become operative.Let us go Mozambique? Pre Buhari Nigeria and Mubarak's Egypt, or where? Security as a state within a state. The Untouchables! feasting away on public money, the ultimate parasites! Al-Capone Ng'ondi?
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 1, 2016 20:38:30 GMT 3
LEORNARD MURIUKI NG'ONDI DEMOTED FROM ARMY COMMAND: WHY?The army commander Lt. Gen. Leonard Muriuki Ng'ondi has been culled. May be like a medieval knight he was serving at the pleasure of the King, and he attended a royal banquet with a lecherous eye on one of the court's prices, wherefore an alert court intrigant saw an opportunity to whisper a word which tickled the King's ear the irritated way. If we call our sovereign HE the Muthamaki, then must we be able to medievalise the analysis. --But back to our times, the culling is called a demotion, and the succession footwork, a shake-up. A demotion is of course a slow motion sacking. So what is wrong with the lieutenant General? Which displeasures so diminished him before his bosses, that they saw fit to end his career? No idea otherwise. So I do a straight look at his professional tenure, achievements, failures, and how his successor will be, ahem, more competent. As for blood type compatibilities, loyalties, or subtribe clientelist genealogy --the type of dissection which, for instance, when the people of the lake had sway, informed the replacement of Oginga Ogego with Elkana Odembo at the prestigious ambassadorial slots,---- the codes locking the Jubilee intrigues will soon expose themselves, flooding the secrets into the streets just like we recently saw with the resignation of Nancy Gitau. This was last year's reshuffle smoke A command structure shake-up within an army at war abroad, is no big deal, but it is a powerful teller of tales. Some changes are routine, some are forced, by the fortunes of the war. In our case it could mean LINDA NCHI IS COMING UP FOR REVIEW. We recently had the El-Adde fcuck up, an event I would dub our Dien Bien Phu. For those who remember the adventures of the colonial French army in Indochina, after Dien Bien Phu was when the Americans took over the top-dog role. Such fcuk-ups are godsend opportunities for political leaderships to exact purges in the ranks. It is thus thinkable Ng'ondi is the sacrificial lamb. Nothing personal, it is possible he is an office casualty of El-Adde. Like he slept on the job and over 100 soldiers were blown to bits. In that sense he is lucky to escape a court martial and dishonourable discharge from the brass core. Despite his stellar CV --perhaps blurb promoted by spindoctors, it is not clear what stellar achievements he has to his cap in his one year tour. The KDF has been penned in Somalia as charcoal-dealing racket, and, worst of all, corruption has gone to the extent where widows and survivors of battlefield casualties are stripped --that is denied their dues accruing from the service of their bread winner. Then lately there has been the laughable report of commando units earning a hardship allowance of less three cigarettes a day. When I heard this, I laughed sarcastically, my clear meaning being the upper ranks of such an army are, just like the JSC bosses, a scumbag lot. And the commander in chief, if not captive a powerless hostage, not much better neither. Either Ngondi was comfortable with the situation, or he tried to rectify it. May be some time soon, like David Kimaiyo, Oswago formerly of IEBC, Waiguru Anne, the disgraced soldier will let us know he fell in the anti corruption crusade! A honourable man. But who gets fired for incompetence in Kenya really!? -Tough sell that! After all his replacements are crawling out of the same defence woodwork. www.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-appoints-Kibochi-as-lieutenant-general/1056-3320644-1tcawlz/index.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2016 11:18:58 GMT 3
Warning rehash:
EXHOES FROM THE PAST and RECYCLED RHETORIC.
A QUIXOTIC FART IN PUBLIC
I was on the lookout like a partner on the honeymoon night, expecting to be ravished manifold in inspired fashion. Lurid expectations and hot fantasies filled my head as the day approached, and like a primed bomb I ticked toward inevitable explosion, bar some sad twist of history to throw a spanner in the works.
In love with the idea of the new republic, the Kenyan one launched after a half a century of a once beloved but an eventual illusion, I tuned my heart to the chimes of the Gospel of the second liberation as would be sang according to the new saints Uhuruto. This digital duo would be interpreting the historical challenge at hand, chatting the national vision to Utopia.
Never mind for the moment their stale records in office ----The Hustler and the mini don, the prince and the once pauper.
Kenya's Kingdom and times come, I believe in Jubilee In the heat of courtship.
Of course there was a problem. You know, a second liberation implies the experience of a first one; it implies memory, and, consequently, the sometimes sobering if cynical comparative ability of experience.
A who're on the wedding night could have seen it all before. And serial liars making passionate vows need faces at some degree of mask, double-bottomly acting complicit enthusiasm or stoney innocence.
The words of an African politician, goes, not even a parrot bothers to echo, is a Well-Worn wedding-ring on suchlike great occasions, as Uhuru Kenyatta was scheduled to perform at. Nevertheless, the romanticism in my heart warmed me up for the message of the new dawn. On the lookout for a Messiah, given, amongst other ills, Africa's global marginalisation, I operate an open-minded heart, the benefit of doubt abundant like a supply of naivete from the naturally foolish, or incurable optimists of course.
In this enthusiastic state I attended the Kasarani launch of the Jubilee party. And Uhuru Kenyatta went for it. O yes he did, until he overdid it and, lacking the historical depth of thought and political memory of Africa, he served, as they say, stale wine in new bottling.
It was an exemplary crisis text, revealing the unbridgeable gap between Africa's prosperous instincts and government priorities.
Clue: why are Chinese engineers building roads in Africa better and cheaper than African ones? Anyway, His Excellency's theme was unity. -----Now, his speechwriter was straight out of Moi Nyayoism! PEACE LOVE and UNITY! Under the baba na mama party.
The son was paying tribute to his political godfather. And those who remember the speeches which rationalised the need to disband all other political outfits except KANU soon after independence, will have scratched the back of their necks at the son's passionate echoing of his other father. -------Certain things they say, repeat themselves as farce, before they proceed to outdo themselves in other forms like tragicomedies.
Why did the first republics fail nearly everywhere? The first post colonial republics of our continent were periods of highness, deep highness, just before the dream became a nightmare as every founding father either degenerated into buffoonery, or even more lame military juntas moved in to fill the vacuum. But the speeches of Kwameh, Nyerere, Lumumba, Senghor, Mandela, Nasser --the whole rigmarole, testify an articulation only awaiting practice, aka implimentation.
Listening to Uhuru's pitch at Kasarani, launching the latest wonder drug to take Kenya places, I exercised tremendous intellectual cruelty to avert a cynical spread of scorn across my face. He had been KANU leader and dumped the party symbols, and here he was re-introducing KANU doctrines wholesale, claiming all Kenyans could fit into one party!
Certainly the party of corruption yes! Uhuru Kenyatta has never pursued the implementation of anything with passion. That raises the possibility his speech performances are exercises in hysterics. And it is this possibility I am minded to investigate: Hysteria as a political coping mechanism in nationals crises.
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Post by podp on Sept 24, 2016 9:45:45 GMT 3
Warning rehash: EXHOES FROM THE PAST and RECYCLED RHETORIC. A QUIXOTIC FART IN PUBLIC I was on the lookout like a partner on the honeymoon night, expecting to be ravished manifold in inspired fashion. Lurid expectations and hot fantasies filled my head as the day approached, and like a primed bomb I ticked toward inevitable explosion, bar some sad twist of history to throw a spanner in the works. In love with the idea of the new republic, the Kenyan one launched after a half a century of a once beloved but an eventual illusion, I tuned my heart to the chimes of the Gospel of the second liberation as would be sang according to the new saints Uhuruto. This digital duo would be interpreting the historical challenge at hand, chatting the national vision to Utopia. Never mind for the moment their stale records in office ----The Hustler and the mini don, the prince and the once pauper. Kenya's Kingdom and times come, I believe in Jubilee In the heat of courtship.Of course there was a problem. You know, a second liberation implies the experience of a first one; it implies memory, and, consequently, the sometimes sobering if cynical comparative ability of experience. A who're on the wedding night could have seen it all before. And serial liars making passionate vows need faces at some degree of mask, double-bottomly acting complicit enthusiasm or stoney innocence. The words of an African politician, goes, not even a parrot bothers to echo, is a Well-Worn wedding-ring on suchlike great occasions, as Uhuru Kenyatta was scheduled to perform at. Nevertheless, the romanticism in my heart warmed me up for the message of the new dawn. On the lookout for a Messiah, given, amongst other ills, Africa's global marginalisation, I operate an open-minded heart, the benefit of doubt abundant like a supply of naivete from the naturally foolish, or incurable optimists of course. In this enthusiastic state I attended the Kasarani launch of the Jubilee party. And Uhuru Kenyatta went for it. O yes he did, until he overdid it and, lacking the historical depth of thought and political memory of Africa, he served, as they say, stale wine in new bottling. It was an exemplary crisis text, revealing the unbridgeable gap between Africa's prosperous instincts and government priorities. Clue: why are Chinese engineers building roads in Africa better and cheaper than African ones? Anyway, His Excellency's theme was unity. -----Now, his speechwriter was straight out of Moi Nyayoism! PEACE LOVE and UNITY! Under the baba na mama party. The son was paying tribute to his political godfather. And those who remember the speeches which rationalised the need to disband all other political outfits except KANU soon after independence, will have scratched the back of their necks at the son's passionate echoing of his other father. -------Certain things they say, repeat themselves as farce, before they proceed to outdo themselves in other forms like tragicomedies. Why did the first republics fail nearly everywhere? The first post colonial republics of our continent were periods of highness, deep highness, just before the dream became a nightmare as every founding father either degenerated into buffoonery, or even more lame military juntas moved in to fill the vacuum. But the speeches of Kwameh, Nyerere, Lumumba, Senghor, Mandela, Nasser --the whole rigmarole, testify an articulation only awaiting practice, aka implimentation. Listening to Uhuru's pitch at Kasarani, launching the latest wonder drug to take Kenya places, I exercised tremendous intellectual cruelty to avert a cynical spread of scorn across my face. He had been KANU leader and dumped the party symbols, and here he was re-introducing KANU doctrines wholesale, claiming all Kenyans could fit into one party! Certainly the party of corruption yes!Uhuru Kenyatta has never pursued the implementation of anything with passion. That raises the possibility his speech performances are exercises in hysterics. And it is this possibility I am minded to investigate: Hysteria as a political coping mechanism in nationals crises. Ctd. 1st and 4th red high high light Uhuru has not lived up to any challenge he gave himself. it was glaring from the past, for example "The long silence before defending Ms Ann Waiguru at the height of the National Youth Service scandal is exactly how one must not fight corruption! At times like those, it is crucial to cut the links as fast as possible, including political ties such as not accepting her to be in the same party. In other words, tainted people should not be allowed in the political parties of those who claim they want to fight corruption and wastage." www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/free-advice-on-how-to-fight-kenya-corruption-epidemic/440808-3392874-s2eks4z/index.htmlmany may not recall, but once upon a time "When Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore conceived his Vision in 1965 for the development of his country, he had three clear-cut goals. To make his country completely self-reliant, totally corruption -free, and take Singapore from third-world to first-world country in his own generation. And he achieved all the three goals much before he died recently in 2015...... while in our beloved country Kenya "it is only the upper middle class, the top 5%, who can afford to buy their own property. The rest 95% are either living in a hut in a rural area, or a shack in the slums, or a rented accommodation in the low-cost housing estates. That is why Kenya is still considered a highly unequal and a polarized society." www.kenyaengineer.co.ke/features/item/3156-kenya-vision-2030-and-why-it-will-remain-a-pipe-dreamso recently while burying the lord of ethnic hatred who once told Kikuyus 'to lie low like antelopes' as there are in lion country and may be eaten any time, RAO in his characteristic style got PORK admitting his UhuRuto regime main objective is to perpetuate corruption as long as they are in power. "The President’s unguarded reaction was a Freudian slip that has remained the talking point since. The unfortunate comment that has since gone viral was “kumeza mate sio kula nyama … endeleeni kumeza mate, lakini nyama tutakula (swallowing saliva is not the same as eating meat… keep on salivating but we will continue eating)”. If that comment comes to define President Kenyatta, it reveals a decadent leadership still stuck in kleptocratic tendencies where pursuit of political office is not about service, but about eating." www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/440808-3387662-10bis14/index.html2nd red high light "...if African countries cannot do research and orient other researchers to Africa, if Africans does not tell her stories, and if Africa does not use local case studies to teach, then indeed we shall have allowed ourselves to be dominated..... The risk of not resisting the decline of freedom and increased abuses of human rights is that, in the long run, the Africa Union (AU) will revert to the old ways, where no African country could question or condemn what was happening in its neighbourhood. In return, they too won’t ask. It is a dangerous policy that would lead to the displacement of people, disrupted education and undermined economic development. History tells us that Uganda was once an African leader in education, but disruptions caused by Idi Amin have taken decades to reverse." www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/ndemo/2274486-3378138-nf2uxdz/index.html"When Bildad Kaggia reminded Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru's father, that they did not fight for independence so that they--the people then in the KANU government--could enjoy at the expense of the poor and landless, Kenyatta asked Kaggia "what he had done for himself" since he was made Assistant Minister for Lands in that KANU government. In a public speech calculated to humiliate Kaggia, Kenyatta showed the public the miserable house Kaggia had built for himself while he Kenyatta did not only live in a mansion, but he had acquired acres and acres of land while Kaggia sat around whining about the poor." www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/09/24/revisiting-issues-of-justice-truth-and-reconciliation_c14249203rd red high light "The recently launched Jubilee Party is nothing but a buttressing of negative ethnicity, disguised as an effort to bring Kenyans together. In fact the only thing it can achieve is solidification of the ethnic sentiment both within and without the party. In its wake, the tribes outside the new party are now busy solidifying against the Jubilee tribes ahead of a General Election whose preparation looks like a checklist of the Armageddon." Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000217167/merchants-of-tribal-hate-have-grown-more-arrogant
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 22, 2016 21:13:20 GMT 3
THE REPUTATION OF DP WILLIAM RUTO before a Kenyan bench! here is a testimonial from 2009 by a Kenneth Kwama A proven economic saboteur suing for his stellar reputation? An upside down world one would think straightway. That new CJ called Maraga had mouthfuls about integrity, honesty and upping the Kenyan judiciary to the cream of the planet! No sooner have his words become inaudible than he is called upon to eat them all up! or walk the talk naturally. A resting balloon waiting to be punctured? And is Boniface Mwangi the hissing puncture? I expect the Kenyan judiciary to uphold its dogged reputation --like it did when it gave Susan&Evans Kidero a blanket yes for an injunction stopping EACC investigators perusing their accounts; like it did when it gave pass for the NYS haul suspects not to bother appear before the courts; like it always did on behalf of Kamlesh Pattni -the man said to have the whole judicial system of Kenya in his pockets! What can Maraga's boys do, with people like vetting-board killer Warsame and snail-pace Ibrahim holding court? Declare the Kenyan VP and future HE has no honour to speak of? let alone a name capable of being defamed! Huh!? They wouldn't dare! would they!? So let us take it on a light note! you know, like wonder why he is called William Kipchirchir Singh! Kilokumi and co advocates versus Gitobu Imanyara and co.[/i] Good detail: the suit is about the link to Jacob Juma's death! It is not a blanket protection of good repute 'throughout the landscape at large'! His name has been brought to public scandal and ridicule, his character and credit injured, his standing and estimation lowered among Kenya's HIGH-THINKING people! Omera Kilokumi, high-thinking people think Ruto is an economic saboteur who should be rotting in Kamiti for the economic crimes associated with YK'92! In China he would have been hanged. His opposing the new constitution, and his rabid anti-homo zealotry, however popular by the riff-raff in their consevative cocoons, are also the stuff of imbalanced minds high-thinking individuals find very unpalatable! I am only responding to the high-thinking bit! By hard-thinking, however, I am okay with his reputation in the power balance of the second republic. He is the hero who, in an Oedipus like twist of sword, overthrew the Moi dynasty in Kaleoland! He is the ruthless Erinye who, if the Gikuyu refuse to rudisha mkono after Uhuru Kenyatta's term, the ethnic purge of 2007 will be completed in the Rift.That is a Teflon reputation beyond defending in the corrupt mercenary courts of Nairobi before camels like Ibrahim! Omera Kilokumi, do you need the commission that badly? All very quixotic stuff really!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 12, 2017 21:10:11 GMT 3
'OPENMANIA'
On a moment of comical relief
Kenya's twitterati are on the President's case. As if seized of a manic frenzy, the president had been opening everything in sight! Everything is a show-case of Jubilee's unprecedented developmental spurt! And it has caught on,
Virgins all over the land -18+ only, their knees rattling with first-time nerves, are queuing to be opened by the Jubilee supremo; rivers are refusing to flow, unless their paths are first opened by H.E; the dead are staying unburied, waiting for the King to open their graves; the skies are witholding rain, waiting for the King to open them; wombs nine months full are holding back, waiting for the CiC to cut the ribbon; Kamalet of Jukwaa is off his glenfiddich, waiting for the son of Jomo to break the ice!
Open them up, Your Excellency, open them! Forget not the trade-route to Iran currently blocked by the usual suspects! --The only thing you can not open, O sire, is open tribal warfare! The rest are fair game. I will understand you feel the heat of NASA breathing down your neck in the dash to the finish! What is the correct minimal age for Kenyan pubers to loose virginity?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 14, 2017 12:08:21 GMT 3
WHEN LITTLE MEN RETALIATE FOR THE BIG MAN -----frying Joho. the Ali Mazrui Bridge in Mombasa, or is it the Buxton one?The big boss man was angered but swallowed his anger. Very dignified and commendable. But the little men ever on the look-out for a sycophantic show of grit, saw an opportunity to bare their fangs to the full and, in the role of attack dogs --like those pre-conditioned pig-loyal ones we read of in Orwell's Animal farm, have Ali Hassan Joho have a taste of their bile. It is an untidy and insidious instalment of political insecurity manifesting itself in pettiness. First, Joho's guards were removed. The clown IG Boinnet then mumbled some stupidities about routine changes. Big police names in Mombasa showed infantile if not complicit confusion -- Njoroge, Waiganjo and Odhiambo. Chief Whip and Commissioner at the coast, bad cop Marwa, meanwhile laughed and barely coded, intimated: The man is a drug baron and removing his guard is good, for his 'business rivals' can then easily rid Kenya of him!Then his friends were targeted by the vengeful state, whereupon came the day-long detention at a police station. This was allegedly on orders from Police headquarters in far-awa Nairobi. Soon it escalated into the deployment of the GSU to defend the police station against supporters of the governor come to his aid! keeping up appearances for a photo-op. Whatever goodwill the president would have garnered, opening the footbridge on the day the last spat happened, have surely now been erased by the institutional persecution of the Mombasa governor. He seems to pull crowds more than the departed Generali Ababu, and has effectively sealed the loophole the defector punched on own ranks. These small men avenging the honour of the president are making a martyr out of Joho. If it is his alleged drug business then, the coastals point to the peaceful life of Mike Sonko and Kabogo. So the explanation for Joho's tribulations lie elsewhere. And in politics that is an open goal: popularity. And because in politics appearance is often confused for fact, Joho's perceived national profile, prestige, threatens power equations for the incumbents. They think he has emerged as a coastal leader capable of delivering the the region to the opposition, placing himself on the fast lane to power brokerage in the distant capital city. Nairobi is right to fear the emergence of a coastal power-house, a politician who does not instinctively defer to watu wa-bara, even when they come brandishing titles like his Excellency. However high, they come to open a mere footbridge as development, they will be told they are clowns. And now enraged, watu wa bara hit back in their age-old arrogance which precipitated the slogan pwani si Kenya.Son of Jomo please, reign in these stupid people who do not recognise by so humiliating the Mombasa governor, they infuriating coastal sensibilities, alienating communal relations and dissolving your presidency and legitimacy! If the national government switches the guards on and off at will like a toilet light, Munya is better off proposing that the guarding of governors be devolved. The one is spared nuisances like Boinnet. But the grapevine has eyes and ears too: the original guards were sacked because they failed to offer Intel Joho was planning to heckle the president at the Mazrui bridge opening show! That is, the new ones are to be better spooks! POST-SCRIPT: There was a time Ugandan officialdom nearly collapsed in paranoia. It would be comical were it not so tragic. First after the unexplained death of notables like Brigadier Noble Mayombo (2007), rumoured to have been done by the poison brigade of state bodyguards. There would be these functions where no notable would touch official drink nor food! They would fish these home-packages from their pockets and declare doctors orders! Then there was the aftermath of the first-time MP Cerinah Nebandah's death by 'drug overdose' (2012). She was a young vibrant critical voice silenced in the cradle. Again paranoia struck in anti Museveniland. I am just saying be careful Kenya. When rumours start flying police guards are used to spy on those they guard, paranoia will fill the vacuum and the social fabric, already stretched, will snap. How does Joho know the new guards will not plant drugs on him? Now that he is getting even more popular? I have been a body guard. And there is one rule. You do not betray those you guard, for actually your job is to die in their place if need be. You do not become their killer, nor their Judas in any way. If you find a mate into the Judas thing, you kill him. It is an old soldiers'' code of honour. It is the guys from intelligence who do those wet operations like kill people they are infiltrated to guard. Soldiers don't drive your kids to school, buy your cigarettes and groceries, collect your prostitutes back and forth, march you through hostile crowds with their guns cocked, then one day turn around and shoot you dead. Nope, that if for politicians and intelligence services trained assassins, the guys of all is fair in war and love, and the pursuit of power. So, as a question of knowing ones country, this is really a question for retired major general Gichangi ---a man studying for PhD on anything will get the think: would DGI Waweru be politically partisan enough to use the intelligence service to infiltrate 'hunter gatherers' into the intimacy's of governors deemed a threat to Jubilee re-election?
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 5, 2017 19:19:58 GMT 3
RUTO'S DIGRESSION IN BED Do thee go forward, distribute seed across fertile ground, multiply and fill the earth! ---The Good Lord. One possibly can not fulfil that divine mission with the childish notions of one man one wife! unless of course one reasons Mother Earth is already full! Anyway, I remember this sun-filled windy day when my dad was quarrelling with my mum in public beside the boat. It was about some choice peaces of fish which Mummy wanted home for dinner for some honourable guests but Daddy insisted on selling for a secret profit. The problem was my mum suspected this was likely a ruse; daddy was only keeping the best fish to ingratiate himself into the favours of a looming mpango wa kando. Neither did my studied neutrality help assuage her paranoia one little bit. The death was expected of a man with an eye-catching wife and my dad was definitely in the race for widow inheritance. --One of those open village secrets which spice looks with duplicituous innocence. Later did I have the audacity to intimate to my dad that such a public quarrel 'over fish' was shameful, and especially degraded me in the estimation of local beauties. My Old Man fenced fiercely: -- 'Don't impose your standards on my marriage, boy. This is between me and my d.ck, and my loyalty and service to my d.ick are higher than to your deluded pride before local running noses! Wait for your marriage and we will see the shine in amazed awe! Away with thee from I and my women! So long my c.ock crows, I hunt!'When I heard the co-president William Ruto was being sued by Priscah Chemutai Bett, a former paramour and his daughter's mum, my problem was why he had let it come that far. On the face of it, being a born again Christian of course means he recognised himself already as having been full of sin and led a life full of it, wherefore he needed mend ways and enter the forgiveness of the Lord. But for an ambitious political animal like him, it also means he had calculated in Machiavellian algorithms, that enshrouding himself in the togas of deep Christian faith, wouldn't hurt his career any. For, for politicians in Church, it is safer to assume the latter. Now he seems to have left some loose ends untied. This exposes him to a bit of ridicule, though with the kind of sexual scandals we have been treated to from the members of the clergy, this is no big deal for hardly a Kenyan exists who thinks The Church is a citadel of genuine moral professions. That clergyman appointed to head the EACC will soon have to show if he is the exception proving the rule or if he is just the latest in that long, infamous line of fall guys. I was ready to grin and let it be, that she was just a single mother low on cash and shaking him down, and he would buy her silence with flowing wads, when I read something which flashed a red light in my head. The lawyer of the estranged Ruto paramour was none other than Gitobu the Imanyara. My memory interrogated me if Gitobu is the man defending the honour of Boniface Mwangi in a case in which the Deputy President through lawyer Kilokumi, declared the famous activisit has no good name worth a soil! A reputationally injured Mwangi had sued back in similar terms. The issue then has become, according to me, whether a Kenyan court of law can attach this infidelity case AS factual evidence William Ruto's reputation as proposed by Kilokumi is full of thrust and potency yes, but not of the nature that is the business of the court to uphold. How do Kenyan courts rate adultery --the man was married at the time! Or is he a serial adulterer like most of us Kenyans, male or female? (cast the first stone, thee that are innocent!) Does the crime or sin of adultery, single transgression or serial, become immaterial through the passage of time, so that what happened sixteen years ago is no longer evidence to argue low moral stature of the perpetrator? (see aint I born again!?) But the good news is MWANGI VS RUTO has gone quite of late. Behind the scenes Ruto must have realised he can't win this one and, as Nereah of Amadi would put it, sued for peace. And suing for peace behind the scenes is what The Singh should also do with Mama Abby. And like Francois Mitterand and his illegitimate daughter, we should start seeing a rehabilitated Abby taking her place beside her father on public occasions. She is no longer a secret which can be hidden in the cellars like some twin of a crown prince. And she is not a mistake herself to be apologised. Come to think of it, on a light touch, in the age in which Kenyan oligarchs promote political dynasties, Abby when she comes of age is entitled to a parliamentary or civic seat just as her other half brother who is being groomed for Eldoret N.Back in them days my dad told me, ' Son, men who apologise having enjoyed puzzy, should have their members cut off!' But then, he was a puzzymaniac with no hunger for power. The power thirsty will apologise for consensual sex if they think that is better with the voters! No I did not sleep with that woman. No I have only one wife. No, Anne Waiguru is not my Mpango wa kando! The look on my dad's face! I am stitched reliving it!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 11, 2017 10:45:43 GMT 3
OURU SWEEPS CITY TOILETS WITH KIDERO, A QUIXOTIC CHARGECampaigning to reverse Nairobi county to Jubilee rule, President Kenyatta and his sidekick Pancha Ruto, waded into the brewing sewer which is Nairobi. Nairobi city, I saw the comprative drone aerial, has its West Side which is as lavish as Beverly Hills ---complete with mammoth swimming pools, undrought stricken of course! But, a tale of two cities, there is the other side where 80% of city dwellers live, if it can be called that. It is a sewage belt which, Dandora filth dump apart, close up might look like this. On the world stage it is like thisAnd here is a nice cine post-card for visitors, the unmissable facade I agree with Ouru Kenyatta. This is because I am a student of 5-year plans of state transformation, sometimes called development programs, you know, like those Deng Hsiao Ping leap-forward things which in two decades sped China past everyone else bar the USA! And of course the mother of all of them, the Wirtschaftswunder. And No, not the post war one credited to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his ' Tom Mboya', Ludwig Erhard , no, that was a repeat. I am more like the original one of Hjalmar Schacht under the NAZI wolf, Adolf Hitler. When men go to work with a plan, 4 years is a lifetime. Turns a whole country around, and not necessarily a Thomas Sankara. But if both women and men get organised and go to work, then, if it took God a whole seven days to make the world, I guarantee a better miracle. Wuothi eka ine paro, isum. Joluo nowacho. --the Luos say, if there is already a precedent, why bother with originality? (I think it is a variation on labouring to discover the wheel twice) At these standards --precedents already set decades ago elsewhere, and repeated so much around the globe urban transformation is now an ABC task, Kidero's tenure is correctly characterised by Ouru Kenyatta as a sh!ty regime. The only problem of course, is Ouru himself is no-better; like Kidero, apart from their shared sweet tooths for state goodies, H.E Muigai is also a sh!t head running a sh!ty regime. Only bigger and nationally more disastrous. DROUGHT NOW A NATIONAL DISASTER For starters check the pictures of drought-stricken Kenyans in plight thirst! And as you do that, before we delve into the fact of TURKANA as a starving OIL-LAND, hold in mind the recent military purchases. They totalled an excess of 50 Billion. The drought has been declared a national disaster, to compete with Al-Shabaab and the drug trafficking I suppose. Eh, international partners can be fatigued by beggars. The other day in similar terms, president Kenyatta urged the EU to do more to facilitate Kenya and AMISOM in their fight against terrorism in Somalia! At the same time there is the Kenyan hostility to the ICC and the drive to close down Daabab refugee camp at all costs. It is a sh!t mess alright at the top, but that does not mean baboons never laugh at the baboon ass in front! In fact it is the high point in baboon world to point at one in front and go hysterical in laughter. As we listen to our politicians on both sides of the divide harangue each other on the endless campaign trail, it is the baboon game all the way, and we, the voters and larger baboon colony, are game. We thunder with laughter at the other! Imagine the likes of Jack Ranguma of Kisumu standing in a Bomet rally to criticise anybody for incompetence! A hint. THE OTHER PLAN TURKANA is of course the oil region of Kenya. The history of conflicts between indigenous peoples living a top a resource big capital covets and governments which need the proceeds from that resource, indicates the 'disappearance' of those peoples isn't exactly a tear shed at the distant capital city with its greedy, uppity administrators beholden to other agendas and masters. One must therefore not underestimate the political economy of hunger in Turkana. With all Turkana's dead, marginalised voiceless or migrated elsewhere, the big oil corps like Tullow have no loose ends to worry about in the he local area. They do not have to hire death squads to clear the territory, neither do they have to hire the military to conduct genocide to free the land! Now, is there evidence where indigenous populations have been 'evacuated' somehow that their resources be exploited with impunity? ----how about the Kenyan Central highlands as 'uninhabited and declared whiteman's highlands,' back in the early days of the last century. Die O Turkanas die! You are a black eyesore A fly swimming in our black soup! And so I call my president a sh!t head. Look at the Turkanas, and look at the posh oil rigs in their territory! Omera Ouru, bedie gima nigi wiye. (a bit of head would be good on a head of state) NB: A long time ago the mayor of Nairobi was a certain Margaret. Wait for the political economy of her mayorship, vis-a-vis land!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 17, 2017 18:24:56 GMT 3
CLUELESSNESS CAN BE CURED, BUT USELESSNESS? Recently, the twittersphere burst with ridicule at the address of his Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta. This was in reaction to the Open Mania in which the president seemed to delight in opening everything, even the daily breaking day. The matter came to a head when the president went to open a footbridge, Buxton, and ended up involved in a verbal altercation (over the apportioning of credits) with the Mombasa governor --Joho-- who was hosting the event. But all this ridicule doth deeply disturb me. Because I gave it a different reading. This twitter outburst was a nervous laugh. It betrayed an anxiety at the heart of the nation of Kenya. In my opinion, in suggests an instinctive recognition bursting surface, that this frenzy of openings which the president officiates, reflect, at worst, a cluelessness and uselessness at the top, and best, the president in a shameful role, making a nuisance of himself and diminishing the stature of his office; more so when the nation is obviously at a CRITICAL juncture in its history ---rising! (And critical is not about M7 beefing up his footprint on Migingo by deploying special forces, nor is it about Al-Shabaab collecting KDF skulls at will across) So I asked myself, if breaking the seal on footbridges, slum toilets, matatu stages, or commisioning hoduma kiosks and such like, are declared by the twiterati to be beneath his excellency's fly whisk, what like, could the president of the biggest economy in east and central Africa --(I read Ethiopia is breathing down our necks but not yet abreast!)--- open or launch, which would be up to his Muthamaki historical dignity? So I just went to history books and thumbed through what kings opened when Kingship was still a title beyond the rubbish heap of history! Yes, The King is wheeled out to launch a new phase in their naval history. Very far from a footbridge I tell ya. But that is yesterday. Let us back several centuries! Take Henry the 8th of England. He was a pus-symaniac whose preferred method of divorce was to behead the spouse, but he had more in him. Today the British Monarch remains The supreme governor of the Church of England, thanks to Henry's headiness when he smelled Puszy. Let me stop there before I tell you about Peter The Russian Great and his 'opening' of Saint Petersburg on the shores of the Baltic Sea! I am just saying, with reference, that, if the His Excellency of your Great nation, a demigod also known as the undisputed Muthamaki, makes a public living opening footbridges and slum toilets in 2017, a deep writhing of anxiety will seep through the subterranean of the land, aware of what other nations going real places are doing. Here is a better pre-occupation for his Excellency if he wants some real legacy.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 14, 2017 20:06:43 GMT 3
FERRY OPENS WITHOUT JOHO IN MOMBASA!
The son of Jomo has of late been giving act, performing as the best caricature of his own Muthamaki self. He has been born again, in reverse Paul to Saul, emerged as foul-mouthed public speaker of reckless tantrums. With some delight I remember this song, the coward of the country by Kenny Rogers and how he comes of age. It has lines like
When Tommy comes back, Kenny reports: Tommy opened up the door, and saw his Becky crying The torn dress, the shattered look was more than he could stand
Everyone, well, nearly everyone considered his Excellency to be little more than a tolerable nuisance. He was Moi's project all along and never quite looked a man standing on his own feet. They deemed him of wits more dim than shallow light, a mama's spoilt boy and a jolly good party man, a fella to chill with lazy day after lazy day, days on end. Few bothered to show him even the official, protocol respect becoming of his office. The likes of Ndii and Githong'o laughed off his invitations to state house, the likes of GADO thought of him as little less than Queen Anne's toyboy, the Kenyan twitter and blogosphere mocked him daily with impunity, and whatever level of politician --Millie Odhiambo, Hassan Joho, Josephat Nanok, Gideon Moi, Alfred Keter, they all made a laughing stock of him. Day in day out!
No more! Years of crawling bottled inside the son of Jomo want out! And out they get! a volcano erupts, in spurts! Huraah! the earth shakes, creatures flee for dear life, and the earth is scorched! or?
It was just time before some last straw broke the camel's back. No more, said Richard Nixon in his resignation speech, will they (press) have Nixon to bully!! Uhuru Kenyatta as recently as December last year, claimed in a hit at Raila: 'mimi sina haja na matusi yao. Ukikimbizana na mwendawazimu sokoni, watu hawatajua nani ni nani. Wacha mwenda wazimu aonyeshe uchi wake wote, na wasi!'
But, howbeit, the son of Jomo overestimated his self-control. As I write, he has gone berserk on several podia, such that he now truly is the mad man in town not to be chased lest people fail to notice the difference. But if he tuned governor Nanok down in Turkana, Mombasa's Joho was in for worse. He locked him (Joho) up, so that he, prezzo, could open a ferry in peace! And more, so that he could berate Governor without interruption in his backyard.
'Anafikiri mimi ni bibi wake!?' he fumed. Wrong question in Mombasa where they just carelessly respond with studied malice: 'Eee, amesikia wewe ni ni shogun without the 'n'!'
This is high comedy, denoting gone heads.
Whenever Sam Mangwana teamed up with the Grand Maitre Franco in OK Jazz, they generated some of the most thunderous tunes pleasant to my and other ears throughout the continent and beyond. Think for instance of Odongo, the one you know as co-operation --which starts with the robust boast, this is I the international Sam Mangwana, all the way up there with GM Luambo Makiadi, and together with OK Jazz we are riot! Music. In Toujours OK, the track I have in mind today, in the limping Kiswahili of Lingalaland, the duo muses about the bad hearts of mankind.
At 04:15 starts the passage ==mimi na wewe kisa gani
. aiya yayaah Ndugu nimekosea nini angalia makambo Kama kuna mambo unielezee taratibu heee 'Ku-gorovisha' mbele ya watu sitaki, sikia eee
You heard that Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta!? -kama kuna mambo, eleza taratibu kwa Wanjiku, kugorovisha mbele ya watu ni aibu -eee And muongo na mulozi ni watu wa kuchoma! they chorus --so, son of Jomo, make sure you are neither! But there is Joho already on your case, claiming you got your figures wrong! He is daring Rotich to cook the books for you!
-angalia makambo!
PS: It will be noted, that while major labour disputes have racked the country, of which the now nearly resolved doctors and lecturers have been the highest profiled, these crises have not formed the bone of contention between the warring factions of the elite, much less between the president and governor 01. But it is possible the clash between the Sultan and the Muthamaki is one of the perverted ways in which class struggle is currently manifesting itself in Kenya.
Real problems are so tough (like structural drought), the comprador rather deflect attention by professions of homo-eroticism in public for mass entertainment. The Roman crowd is of course entertained, but they bore easy and demand meaner, riskier performances in the arena! These displays of temper are like flaccid d.icks on a porno set, irrelevant. Something more stiff please!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 26, 2017 10:43:37 GMT 3
WORKING FOR THE PRESIDENCY, THE CARAVAN AT THE PEV BRIDGEUHURUTO is out on the trail peddling hot air for re-election. There is a lot of midnight oil which needs to be burnt to heat up such air. But it is admirable how tenacious and determined they go about it. A bit reckless, they have even announced a pre-emptive ban on protest demonstrations after the results in August! It is a zeal which in a country with a history of electoral rigging coagulates more doubts than confidence! --But what is? They keep a tight schedule gallivanting around the counties throughout the country at large, frantically finding projects to boast of and open. This whirlwind is forcing managers to feed the Presidency false information. (Think of the Kenya power boses on last-mile electric connections, and Treasury guys on the disburse figures to Joho's Mombasa and Nanok's Turkana. The ruling duo make their points, quixotically energise the base, and even if not always conclusively, they never shy from the underhanded nor dirty-hand tick, like we see in their rearguard action against the thorn, Mombasa Joho. This means they are really raising the stakes, fanning the fires, even as they accuse the opposition of divisive politics. (I am thinking and coming to the Quixote's PEV remarks, that it was Raila who did it!) In what increasingly looks like a personal bend against Joho whom the president swore to tame anyway, over enthusiastic presidential handlers sent state thugs to disrupt Joho's rally yesterday in Kinango, Kwale, just a few days after hired goons threw faecal matter at him in Mpeketoni. The Mpeketoni of the 'high presence of non-locals', whatever that means exactly. Persona non grata games at the coast!? eh! why toy with pins on a grenade? There is a tinge of hysteria creeping into the presidential act. We have seen His Excellency collapse into seedy diatribes in public. Not just at trouble-shooting NASA-allied governors like Joho and Nanok, but also recently in Kisii at the address of Agwambo Tinga. Ouru pined, hotly and maliciously, that it was Raila who should have gone to the Hague to face the whiteman ICC music for PEV!DP Ruto, waiting on the wings to succeed him at the top seat, is more consummate, less given to bouts of hysteria and publicly vented unstable tantrums, save for that teary day in church when the graces of the good lord overwhelmed him. Baba Anna punctuates his deliverance with biting humour and cheeky, innuendoistic ridicule. --' Yule jamaa wa kuchapwa makofi na bibi! Kwani kule chini haifanyi!?' 'Yule jamaa wa vitendawili, porojoporojo, hadithi na maneno maneno!' -Na yule mwingine mwenye hajakuwa na msimamo tangu mwanzo, mara katikati, mara sijui huku nyuma, lakini kila uchaguzi atakuja mwisho!'But when Joho took him to task in Bomet -- 'Muizi hanitishi mimi!' The Singh wisely lived to fight another day, on another front. He recognised the sword at his Achilles heel, and like a gladiator wishing to live surrenders, lost with his back on the sand, his nemesis holding his gaze, the public chanting for blood, Sir William chose dear life in a concession. He learnt the lesson in his case against the activist known as Boniface Mwangi. Who is cleaner than who? that is a battle he can neither win in whatever court, neither that of public opinion nor the judiciary bandias of Maraga!Uhuru on the other hand, wildly fluctuates in dangerous shows of character instability. If Joho is a pharmacist, may be his Excellency is one of his clients is a joke I have heard tell. 'Ndiyo yeye anakufuata fuata, sio mamba ya ubibi ama ush-oga' The other is of course, that being on the road day in week out dodging flying tackles, absorbing abuse by political manambas, evading head-on collisions and shouting at road-raged loonies, does get to a man's nerves. Even if he is Don Muthamaki, and assured in some way of carrying the contested day! Continued. WHAT WAS PEV AND WHAT AND WHO CAUSED IT?
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 26, 2017 15:29:20 GMT 3
WHAT WAS PEV AND WHAT AND WHO CAUSED IT?--Toward truth and reconciliation, justice and ingenuous solutions to longstanding land grievances!Matusi aside, Muigai's recent roar in Kisii, belling Raila as the architect of the 2007-8 PEV, is as much a dangerous confabulation as the historical amnesia he displayed during last year's Mashujaa day, when he wickedly omitted first-class independence heroes from the national roll call of honour. Conflicted Menoah Esipisu (the speech editor who let the malicious amnesia ride), in concert with the rogue-gone academics behind Mr. Kenyatta's speeches, are testing the limits of propagandised history. They set the president up for petty mediocrity, such that even his thinking supporters flinch, watching what, in Emilio speak, counts a pumbavu president talking mavi-ya-kuku in public. The PEV was a categorical rejection of rigged elections. Those with a land grievance in the rift perceived the rigging as a defeat of the agenda of LAND REFORM. This, combined with the irrational fears of a further marginalisation after the --- Kaleo ethnic---- purge which followed the ouster of Arap Moi, precipitated the mayhem. So it is the land issue made the Rift Valley the epicentre of the quake. NB: Well, there are those who had believed their own illusions that Raila Odinga could not win a presidential election because of his origins from the land of uncut c.ocks! These false prophets and illusionists around Kibaki had to feed on their own vomit that day. Martha Karua slurping the giant share in public. And so much poison it was she never recovered to this day. It is significant to report, that the falsification of history and the subsequent teaching of ruling class propaganda as history, is nothing new nor unique. There was FAKE HISTORY before the fake news of today. But if fake is another term for LIES, then surely 'liar' vies with prostitute for title of the oldest profession alive! God could have lied to man on the day of his creation for all we know! (I will check the Holy Books and report!). That snake fooling Eve in Eden came second! Propagandised history works best when power monopolises the cannons, The ISA's ---the institutional instruments of ideological self-reproduction and attempts at perpetuation. Modern times with informational technology has put paid to that. ( Althusser, like Fanon, is mandatory reading for students of literature! By the way.) The serious point then, is, the leading land-grabbing family, Delamere, has reason to falsify the cause of a land-injustice-based peasant rebellion. A necessary scapegoatism. Now FastForward. The landed wing of Gikuyu gentry, organised within Jubilee, are the likely authors of this 'revisionist hysteria' displayed by Kenyatta junior. In this they must have the silent but active support of the remnants of the white settler class who, still, 'past lease expiry's', want to hang on to the bounties of frontier territories like, say, the troubled Laikipia of pastor Maina Njenga contra old money GG Kariuki. History must be falsified to hide the true causes of a significant national pot-hole. Powerful interests must be protected. Truth, killed or at least mutilated to that purpose. (Analysing the social backgrounds and political biographies of Njenga vs Karume will tell a tale I wont delve into for today!) NB: Earlier on I had opted to theorise, that in a Bonapartist, futuristic instinct of survival, no longer bonded to primary land wealth generation, but evolved into a commercial (banker) and pseudo industrial accumulator, Uhuru Kenyatta could afford to dissociate himself from the most reactionary 'settler ideology' concerning their land narrative. In other words, permit a limited land reform even to an apparent detriment to his vast family land fortune! (a fortune based on the primitve accumulative greed of his late father!). This is why elsewhere - on the rates cap---- I mused about the possibilities of Uhuru Kenyatta going Bonapartist. Bonapartism light is the ability of a SUPREME to suppress, temporarily or permanently, the parochial interests of one or more (most reactionary) sub-sectors of the ruling constellation which threatens the whole class rule. This is done in favour of a longer term strategy to guarantee the class rule forever.That is the quick of it. Actually the display of insanity in Kisii, even if originally meant as a propaganda pitch, shocked me. It suggested the president's mind, my Bonapartist fantasies WOLOLOLO in tatters, is thoroughly fcuked up by the most reactionary wing of the ruling class. If that particular sector holds Ouru's mind hostage, the president will make political blunders which can not be jokingly dismissed as QUIXOTIC! only positively catastrophic. NB: A by the way: in the resolution of the doctor's strike for instance, the medics should be paid. Letting corrupt governors confiscate the salaries of heart and brain surgeons for a union-organised strike is not the stuff of today's (2010 constitution) Kenya. It is escalatory and provocative, a fcuk head decision the president should move to rescind forthwith. He is being set up again for an egg facial. Anyway, that was a by the way. Back to the important land and the Jubilee-changed PEV narrative. It is a warning to William Ruto, the heir apparent --(even as the 'dark horse' shadow of Peter Kenneth looms large). Ruto is not in a position to falsify his peoples history. Kalenjin history. He is not in a position to hide their true grievance respective PEV. Silence may be the golden option. These are the events which surged him forward to eclipse the Old King, Arap Moi. Sir William can not publicly claim the Kalenjin were misled, incited by Raila to reject the rigged electoral result and, more so, to evict the Gikuyus! This was a home-bred rebellion, and the MADOADOA theology underlying it was common currency long before Arap Mibei showed up with the Pentagon, just like other coded euphemisms (like weeding) too. The rigging was the awaited spark so to speak. And stuff did burn, so to speak.FEAST OF THE CANNIBALS Kiambaa church, Naivasha abodes The BBQ masters overdid the meat! We like our choma well-done in Kenya But verily this day were we taken aback By how easily our appetites can change!Ruto himself cut quite a heroic figure next to James Orengo at KICC as they rejected Kivuitu's evil facilitation of the coup-de tat which re-imposed Mwai Kibaki on the nation. Land lording Gikuyu aristocrats ---- who do not want a Mumbi diaspora returnee squatter class reawakening the Mau Mau-for-what argument----- may never get over their antipathy toward this William. He is too risky, too much a Machiavellian who can hunt with the hounds and sleep with hares as the saying goes! It is all about land. I want to interrogate the reputed wisdom, that the obsession of Kenyan politics is with ethnicity, and reduce it all to one word, LAND. FIRST, NAIROBI. Forgetting Lakipia, Coast, alienated Maasailands and the Rift Valley for the moment, let us consider this article by the nations John Kamau on the wide berth of land in Eastlands, Donholm, Umoja to Dandora, Savannah, Tenah, Sossian and Jacaranda areas toward Kayole and beyond. Let us watch this ENGENUITY! Because Kenya is a powder keg of land trip-wires. A functional resolution template could be replicated elsewhere with heavenly results! End of tension and reaction. But first a few random observations and questions. Now land, title deeds, bank loans, and the Nairobi rental economy: Is it all a house of cards as far as the LR NO 12562 AND All that plot subdivisions arising from LR 11379/3? A tale of robbery upon robbery, piracy upon piracy, injustice upon impunity upon greed, upon rot and corruption? complex indeed, but a tale of straightforward SWINDLE! the rest are FORGERIES! 38 years of serial dealership in stolen property is still incomparible to 200 years of or more of colonial land grabs!! But JEEZ, I got friends and family owning homes in Umoja and Buruburu etc etc! castles in the air? Is it a fake economy? based on title deeds as fake as the signature of Bor on the doctors CBA of 2013? ingenuity required, I agree with Kamau.
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