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Post by podp on Jul 22, 2013 9:48:32 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Group-in-Owallo-case-is-mine/-/1064/1922526/-/33e1lvz/-/index.htmlBy NATION REPORTER Posted Sunday, July 21 2013 at 23:30 Police investigations on former Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s aide have taken a new twist after a city activist claimed ownership of a movement cited in the case. In a letter to the head of the Serious Crimes Unit John Kariuki, Mr Okiya Omtatah has claimed ownership of March 4 Movement (M4M), arguing there was nothing seditious in the formation. Mr Omtatah, who absolved Mr Odinga’s former campaign chief Eliud Owalo from allegations he is linked to the outfit, said his movement was planning to roll out mass campaigns to popularise a proposal to amend article 138 of the Constitution on presidential elections. He said their aim was to prevent populous communities from dominating minorities in elections. “M4M is a progressive and an above board campaign aimed at amending Article 138 of the Constitution of Kenya so as to move the country from the so-called “tyranny of numbers” to the safety of numbers.” The M4M leader has also forwarded to the Criminal Investigations Department a letter he wrote to the IEBC Chairman Ahmed Issack Hassan on April 14 notifying him of his group’s intentions. The Nation has learnt that CID investigators are this week planning to summon more of Mr Odinga’s aides based at his office before turning to a number of Senators and MPs linked to the group. On Monday Mr Owalo is expected back to the CID headquarters for further questioning in a case whose shape has raised eyebrows. On Sunday, Mr Kariuki denied receiving Mr Omtatah’s letter regarding the case but confirmed having talked to the activist on phone on the matter.
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Post by mintos on Jul 22, 2013 10:28:01 GMT 3
Remember in 2003 when Arap Kirwa and Murungaru said the same about people/elements wanting to overthrow the young Kibaki government at the time? This was to be deflected to Moi at the time (stories with the Military still loyal to Moi etc).
Now you have allegations on Owalo, target, Raila.
Same script different cast...
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Post by omundu on Jul 22, 2013 11:07:46 GMT 3
Omundu: Yes, it does appear that the owner of the coup organization has showed up. See the pdf files here: www.kenya-today.com/politics/march-4-movement-m4m-okiya-omtatah-eliud-owalo-cidAnd I think you are spot-on in your last comment: rising discontent will be harshly dealt with, under the pretext that it is part of a plot to overthrow the government. Kenya has been there before, so I'm sure people know the drill. What I am still not getting is why the secrecy around M4M until now if indeed it was a genuine movement with honorable intentions. Why did it take for CID to bring it out to the fore ? Is it now a civil movement ? Did any in the civil society in kenya know about it ? Does this show that the civil society is inactive at the moment ? Reading through the goals, it looks like activities civil society should be involved in. Perhaps oloo or any here can explain the conundrum. Another thing I noticed is the civil society, media and politicians heavy campaign for peace during the elections. Wouldn't it be a noble goal for them to use the same energy and ferver in campaigning to end/reduce tribalism ? The social media is awash with namecalling etc based on tribe. It is a really big problem here in kenya, and one that actually led to the 2007 PEV. That in my opinion, is the root of the problem. It would even solve the 'tyranny of numbers' some purport. It is indeed shocking that not a campaign, at least none I have seen, has come out against tribalism. Awake, civil society. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 22, 2013 21:04:32 GMT 3
Omundu: Yes, it does appear that the owner of the coup organization has showed up. See the pdf files here: www.kenya-today.com/politics/march-4-movement-m4m-okiya-omtatah-eliud-owalo-cidAnd I think you are spot-on in your last comment: rising discontent will be harshly dealt with, under the pretext that it is part of a plot to overthrow the government. Kenya has been there before, so I'm sure people know the drill. The guy Omtatah even wrote to the IEBC! amongst others! It is all in the public domain, and here are Cheruiyot and Kinyua spending man-hours pinning Owallo down! No wonder their boss just wen to play golf, and couldn't be bothered hanging around the office to attend to such a serious matter! ---He, Muhoro, already knew everthing there was to know about the March-4 movement! but some junior levels wishing to make a mark and please the bosses could do a red herring! otishotish,, Where would we be without cash from foreign embassies? These are the guys feeding and clothing the KDF on its tour of duty in Somalian terrorist dens. Why is Wanjiku not footing up the bill you ask? She is of course, but the supply line from Nairobi is so long, that by the time 'goodies' reach Mogadisho or some other hell hole in Somalia, the river has dried up, as if some massive dam were built upstream! |
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Post by OtishOtish on Jul 22, 2013 22:28:43 GMT 3
Jakaswanga: Discovering plots to assassinate or dethrone the king is a very traditional and reliable method for earning the king's eternal gratitude and munificence. And it works wonderfully when the king already feels set upon from all sides and is being urged to deal with people decisively and immediately. Still, it would be nice if the good citizens in charge did not discover plots that were so half-baked that even the most paranoid king would have his doubts. What foreign funding are you talking about? Last I heard, Kenya was a sovereign and independent country whose representative could go to the UN Security Council and demand that things be done without much further ado. Never mind ... in this case, even Macharia Gaitho claims that external funding is not necessary: www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1923144/-/j1lojcz/-/index.html'We are hearing talk of secret moments fuelled with “foreign money” to “excite disaffection”, and how the government will ensure peace is maintained a “whatever cost”.'He also just reminded me of when Kenya declared its president immortal and (I imagine) that Thought Police looking into heads: "Attorney-General Charles Njonjo and his ridiculous assertion during the regime of Jomo Kenyatta that it was punishable by death for anyone to imagine the death of the President". Anyway ... all this is banana-republic comedy at its best. Let me quietly enjoy it. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 22, 2013 23:19:48 GMT 3
Jakaswanga: What foreign funding are you talking about? Last I heard, Kenya was a sovereign and independent country whose representative could go to the UN Security Council and demand that things be done without much further ado. Anyway ... this is banana-republic comedy at its best. Let me quietly enjoy it. Yes, I was part of that demand at the UNSC, and recently too, to assert my nationalist dignity, I wagged my fist dangerously at Obama --let him go to Tz and eat albinos who cares! But I am uneasy, and not sleeping well. Britain and the USA [incidentally the countries we have outsourced our defence forces to --let us fire that Omamo babe] have been named by the CID as the foreign countries whose embassies would locally liase the distabilisation of the toy regime of Jubilee! But what a way to do it, considering the following story! If only the Njoroges had done their jobs at the KEN-Gen power-mills! the following ksh. 1.4 trln distabilisation plot would go no where!As it is, I am sure Rotich is so starved of cash, he will be dining with oily smiles every evening at the US embassy. His budget is 1.7 trln and he can not fund it without taxing the skin off the bones of malnourished citizens, and here are the americans with an equivalent amount to waste! www.nation.co.ke/business/news/US-to-offer-technical-support/-/1006/1922328/-/13vwpc9/-/index.htmlI insist we tell the Americans to keep their money and go to hell with it --Tanzania that is! NB: The [not the euro] bonds issued by the treasury to raise some money to pay salaries have flopped [interest rate on them too low!] Then the EURO BONDS. Remember the ones issued by Rwanda are called TRASH, but are very hot. WHY: BEcause Mother is taking care of her sons! That is the USA has sent word on the market, that whatever happens to that unstable mad regime of Kagame, the bonds are gold, since the FED will honour them, even if Rwanda goes under! And so the dash for trash. Now Kenya's euro bonds: a bit slow they go: WHY? The markets want something stronger to base their confidence upon, than statistics from Nairobi about oil and vision 2030. Something strong, like a statement from 'Mother'! But now we are saying mother is destabilising us! I am sure very lengthy apologies are being written in Nairobi, and our diplomat at 'mother' is very tame in private! You know our friends from the east run a very different regime with their financial largesse! hilarious times! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 23, 2013 20:53:19 GMT 3
The police do not want to commit anything to paper with lawyers breathing down their necks! Perhaps I should borrow Miguna's word -- clueless! The CID fellas are clueless on how to ingratiate themselves unto the --did you say munificence  Otishotish? of the King! www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000089124&story_title=detectives-fail-to-disclose-accusers-of-raila-s-aideA bit of a laughing stock, heads of serious crime who can not articulate in writing what it is they are investigating! please afwandes, do your homework first before you bother someone. You would have known by now, if you bothered to do homework, that the key word is Okiya Omtatah, and he is not clandestine about anything. Then there is the herald chapters in the new constitution which allows for the mobilising of disaffection and expressing it publicly in mass demonstration --against whatever ailment, like the occupy did when the Mpigs committed outrage at the treasury! |
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Post by OtishOtish on Jul 23, 2013 22:29:29 GMT 3
Jakaswanga:
The afwandes were probably told to go "find something". Not being very bright, they didn't realize that meant "manufacture something semi-credible and which can be used as a basis for immediate and decisive action". And being very keen, they spent a couple hours on the task and came back with the first something they found. It must be very awkward when the leader of a secret organization that is plotting to destabilize the government not only cheerfully shows up in public to claim his organization but also shows that, far from hiding, he has been writing to the government. There is only one way to handle this now: go find another plot, and for the current one, simply say "investigations are continuing" and then forget about it. (Remember the UK-ICC letter?)
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Post by OtishOtish on Jul 25, 2013 6:17:44 GMT 3
According to this authorless list, it's not just the M4M. Even the clergy and the church are part of the plot! www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/The-allegations/-/440808/1921278/-/ascdle/-/index.htmlMoney has been received or is about to be received! Confirmed by the very same people who could tell that an obvious forgery (UK-ICC letter) was one! All this reminds me of a game we used to play in childhood: "Country". One kid would be "president", another kid would be "vice-president", ...., and some would be "citizens". Is Kenya a country or a "country"? No. 8 on the list could be interesting, and I note that Ruto's legal team has in the last few days filed the most agitated submission at the ICC. Extreme agitation and stress somewhere! What a circus. Anyways ... Love, Peace, and Unity. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2013 19:36:54 GMT 3
The son of Jommo's heart has condensed in childish rage. He has become a brooding, vindictive and infatile president. A man very emotionally disturbed. Were it not that Raila is the leader of the opposition and former PM, it would have been just another laughable juvenile tantrum. But given the definition spokesman Kariuki used, toxic, a dangerous incitement to free hands, in the sense of a fatwah sanctioned by the almighty Muthamaki, the 'widhrawal of security details' could be construed as an escalation in the 'lowering of the threshold'. ---he is now, as they say, a sitting duck! www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000089756&story_title=lawyers-protest-withdrawal-of-cord-leaders-security-detail |
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Post by omundu on Jul 31, 2013 20:31:18 GMT 3
The son of Jommo's heart has condensed in childish rage. He has become a brooding, vindictive and infatile president. A man very emotionally disturbed. Were it not that Raila is the leader of the opposition and former PM, it would have been just another laughable juvenile tantrum. But given the definition spokesman Kariuki used, toxic, a dangerous incitement to free hands, in the sense of a fatwah sanctioned by the almighty Muthamaki, the 'widhrawal of security details' could be construed as an escalation in the 'lowering of the threshold'. ---he is now, as they say, a sitting duck! www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000089756&story_title=lawyers-protest-withdrawal-of-cord-leaders-security-detail Jakaswanga This is the same muthamaki that was banging his fist on the table in wantonly uncontrollable rage a year or two ago. What more did people expect. That a presidency would be a magic wand that with a wave, childhood mental disturbances will be whisked away ? Hehehehe. He has become such an embarrassment to leadership with his tantrums. I am beginning to believe that all these current funny happenings in the country like naivasha, teachers debacle etc are as a direct result of this child running the country with drunken filled decrees. He misses the way his father ran things. And is very insecure as to his legitimacy. It is indeed jealous rage but then what ? Take the bodyguards and cars then ? Maasai mp's are threatening to defect, governors have lost faith in him, teachers, doctors, half the country has the guts to shout him down, he can't even set foot in many areas of the country, he can't visit western capitals with a delegation to beg for much needed aid while his counterpart does so with ease, china and russia appear silent and cold, ICC beckons... The list is endless. Not a situation I would like to be in. But maybe, just maybe the fact that opposition figures have had their security withdrawn will wash all those problems away and for the first time in a while, he will sleep soundly. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 31, 2013 21:11:29 GMT 3
[? Maasai mp's are threatening to defect, governors have lost faith in him, teachers, doctors, half the country has the guts to shout him down, he can't even set foot in many areas of the country, he can't visit western capitals with a delegation to beg for much needed aid while his counterpart does so with ease, china and russia appear silent and cold, ICC beckons... The list is endless. Not a situation I would like to be in. But maybe, just maybe the fact that opposition figures have had their security withdrawn will wash all those problems away and for the first time in a while, he will sleep soundly. [/quote] Omundu, Did you take a look at the arson? The police actually particiapated, and gave protection to the marauding youth! Yet look at the poverty and destitution of the 'squatters' whose belongings and homes were being razed. these 'security forces', ironically under the political responsibility of a masai, Lenku I think, on whose orders were they doing this to fellow Kenyans? This is a dangerous faultline ---and I notice the dynamic and digital duo have lost the dynamism of their tongues! |
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Post by omundu on Aug 1, 2013 15:03:50 GMT 3
[? Maasai mp's are threatening to defect, governors have lost faith in him, teachers, doctors, half the country has the guts to shout him down, he can't even set foot in many areas of the country, he can't visit western capitals with a delegation to beg for much needed aid while his counterpart does so with ease, china and russia appear silent and cold, ICC beckons... The list is endless. Not a situation I would like to be in. But maybe, just maybe the fact that opposition figures have had their security withdrawn will wash all those problems away and for the first time in a while, he will sleep soundly. Omundu, Did you take a look at the arson? The police actually particiapated, and gave protection to the marauding youth! Yet look at the poverty and destitution of the 'squatters' whose belongings and homes were being razed. these 'security forces', ironically under the political responsibility of a masai, Lenku I think, on whose orders were they doing this to fellow Kenyans? This is a dangerous faultline ---and I notice the dynamic and digital duo have lost the dynamism of their tongues! [/quote] I see he is at the scene of the crime today. Let's hope the maa demands are met. And also let's hope it serves as a lesson to the digital duo that kenya has changed. Moi era antics won't work. I hope they eventually start thinking things through; being more proactive rathher than reactive. |
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Post by nowayhaha on Aug 1, 2013 18:13:23 GMT 3
Kamalet, for those who are not political novices, you have a tough sell to make. You see we already have a pattern of the persecution of Raila Odinga by this government. Some too petty to bother to mention. And we know for a fact, that the political neutralisation of Raila Odinga is at the top of the Uhuruto national aims. So much so that they had offered him anything else of his choice if he signed an agreement to quit and mean it! He refused, and as Otishotish likes to remind us of the Rambo Johny Carson, choices have consequences. Non novices would too, look at the other historical undercurrents swirling behind the scenes, some unfinished Odinga Kenyatta business, some inherited insecurities? Then there are the politics of transition ---any era of political transition is volatile, but add these indicators which, when Kenya was rated against, returned a near failed state, the idea of a fluently operating institutions (be it an 'independent judiciary', or independent police force, or separation of powers between Legislature Judiciary and Sirikali) is a far fetch. Here are my treasonable thoughts from May 6 2012. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/6920/2nd-liberation-came-stillbornUnsure of their legitimacy, unsettled by the looming ICC, unable to make headway with the economy, fretting further Industrial activism, the two boys have to consult Magic Merlin! Mirror Mirror on the wall! ----who is sabotaging my presidency? Of course it is that man from the Lake who is always full of fishiness! O Merlin! work me some magic! O doctor! spin me a yarn to spin! Mr. President sir, all this fishiness come from the Lake! Drain it! Kamalet, I always maintained the 2nd liberation came still born! and it did not take the CORD petition for me to declare Mutunga's courts a sham. By then I believe I had, in your words, led countless crusades against the CJ. ---the good but funny man according to our Otishotish Jakaswanga I humbly beg to differ on this persecution theory! Leadership is a service and no one should ever feel himself owed for whatever he did for his country. Raila's problem is that he has this feeling of self entitlement that should only flow towards him and no one else! His followers seem too blind to see that they may feel indebted to him, but should the direction of the flow from them rather than the reverse as claimed by Raila? When we had the elections in March, some 6 million voters in their wisdom did not think or feel indebted to Raila and did not vote for him for president notwithstanding all claims of participation in second liberation. For all intents and purposes, that was the end of the man's liberation value to many of these Kenyans! You ask about the other 5 odd million who voted for him? I can only remind them that they had their say but could not have their way. So why would anyone think Raila is being persecuted? Just because he argues about mundane and vain stuff such as access to lounges? Why does he not complain that the government is being wasteful for not taking away his three car motorcade or not taking back his official limo which today carries private numbers? Why does he not complain that he still gets consular facilitation to the countries he is visiting? You listen too much to a bitter man and you must understand where he is coming from! In fact I think he is a much luckier man than another veteran of the second liberation (from what?) who now is nothing more than a vegetable whose loss of an election left him a broken man from one that campaigned and had his election stolen from him by Moi. I never heard him complain about lounge access - he served in cabinet - or that his security had been withdrawn! He never complained that when the banks went for his business he was being persecuted. So yes Raila will claim persecution because he is an insecure fellow when a normal robbery on his business premises takes place and his supporters will see the hand of the enemy when $100,000 hidden under a mattress is stolen from his premises...forget about the fact that the legality of holding such amounts has not even been questioned - I guess for fear or another claim at persecution! I think you need to look at that 'digital' you did on Luos and Luo-ism that had you fighting the dearly departed to DC and revamp it on how the next leader should be found and perhaps even create an urgency for it! Kamale, What else do you expect if political advisers of CORD/ODM are Muthamas and the like who are trying to use yesteryear tactics to gain political advantage. This is a clear imitation of the 2003 era when Narc had won elections and were "Mistreating" Moi and the former Permanent Secretaries hailing from Rift Valley and When ODM was "mistreating" William Ruto and Rift valley Mps in 2008-2009 leading to public sympathy from Rift Valley residents . However unlike that period when there was a political electorate to inherit one wonders which public sympathy is Raila and Cord seeking from -the electorate which voted against him or the electorate who voted for him . |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2013 8:29:41 GMT 3
seems to me, this is an underscoring of jubilie's message to RAO brought to us by mutahi ngunyi. Idle Odinga spells trouble for UhuRutoBy AHMEDNASIR ABDULLAHI
Posted Saturday, July 27 2013 at 20:00
Raila Odinga’s political cycle can be categorised into three distinct phases.
He was an agitator during the single party era and used to operate under the radar. He never denied his role in the 1982 attempted coup.
During the struggle for multi-party democracy, even though he was in the second tier of luminaries, Raila played the role of a political activist. Lastly, after the death of his father, Raila consolidated his power base and played the role of a political leader with the mandate of a certain constituency.
From the time he was elected secretary-general of Kanu until March 2013, Raila was in government in different forms and circumstances and played the role of the quintessential politician. It is only in post-March 2013 that Raila holds no elective posts and has no mandate from any political constituency. His only claim to political legitimacy is that he is a party leader.
So what role will he play and how should the government treat him? President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto should brace themselves and be prepared to deal with Raila the agitator because it is in this role that the former prime minister is in his element.
Uhuru and Ruto should be under no illusion on the mechanisation of Raila as an agitator. They will face all kinds of provocation, undermining, agitation, propaganda and riots.
Since he has no real job and too much time on his hands, Raila will be a thorn in the flesh of the new administration. An idle mind is the devil’s workshop, goes the saying. Raila has enough time on his hands to ferment one problem after another for the administration. Only a well thought-out strategy that takes the fight to him will give the new government breathing space.
The ugly scenes witnessed last week during the burial of students who died in Kisii illustrates the point. It was too well choreographed to escape the attention of Kenyans that the heckling that befell some politicians had been planned well in advance.
The only good thing that came out of that incident was the new terminology coined by Raila. He talked of the need for Kenyans to unite and stressed the need to ignore the calls of “wounded leadership”. Obviously he was referring to Uhuru and Ruto, but isn’t he really the wounded leader whose actions and calls in the past four months have needlessly divided the country?
Wounded leadership
Raila is providing divisive and “wounded leadership”, and that is a great disservice to the country. And because he is still in denial that he lost the presidential election, Raila has continued to hold the country hostage through this personal brand of leadership.
A day rarely passes without Raila launching an attack on the Supreme Court and the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). His constant claim that these institutions stole his victory has become an irritant irrelevance. But, for him, this refrain remains his only card to relevance because it reminds Kenyans that he is still around.
Raila is now a private citizen with no mandate from the public. He speaks for nobody. His views on issues are personal. He must internalise that. He lost the last election fair and square. The time for campaign and agitation is long gone.
It serves no purpose for him to constantly put the country in an agitated state. He must give space to those leaders who were elected by the people. He also needs to stop his attacks on the Supreme Court and IEBC.
Private citizen Raila should not delude himself that he can play the role of an opposition leader. Instead, he must come forward and pledge his total loyalty to Uhuru and Ruto and remain a patriotic private citizen.www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Idle-Odinga-spells-trouble-for-UhuRuto/-/440808/1928634/-/o7lv6hz/-/index.html |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 3, 2013 22:57:44 GMT 3
Kathure-K, Some choice quotes from this friend of Otishotish who gave us the famous --African cries and powerful tortured imageries and Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8422/preparing-kenyans-non-cooperation-icc#ixzz2awEE5UGm Yap! that kind of man! RIOTS! excellent advice. Move from the defensive to the offensive. But the how is the hard part. When all you have is banishment from VIP lounges, withdrawing drivers, shouting goon, cooking up coups, then your offensive is already flat on its rats azz. A quixotic charge. When Ruto's jet trip was a tax-payer's rip off by his staff, and the same Ruto with much aplomb called upon Raila to resign over the Kazi kwa Vijana irregularity because the buck stopped by him, then Ruto's flank will be wide open if he swings at Raila! --something about people in glass houses should only shout but not throw stones! Ahmednasir will remember his own case when he took the battle to the LSK, defending his position at the JSC, only to cave in the next day. Skeletons in the cupboard that came to life. Raila resigned position of Cord-leader? I missed that one. He is more than playing the role I think. He has managed to banish sleep from the eyes of the digital duo. But now with this 'come forward and pledge his total loyalty to Uhuru and Ruto' from the corrupt lawyer, I will use my hunter's instinct rather than my intellect to smoke him out. I know the smell of a cornered animal. It farts like Ahmednassir above. Pledges total loyalty to fear! Mentally gone. |
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Post by OtishOtish on Aug 4, 2013 2:07:04 GMT 3
Jakaswanga: What's the fellow up to now? You do have a good memory for remembering things that even the authors themselves had forgotten! Anyways ... here is what I wrote then: I say we let Ahmed Nassir eat his share of the Great Country. You think he won't get paid? I doubt that a smart man like that would stoop to spout such nonsense unless the cheque had already clearedRead more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8422/preparing-kenyans-non-cooperation-icc?ixzz2awEE5UGm=undefined#ixzz2awX9ZbrrPerhaps he has got another cheque? It is now almost 20 years later, but I still hear people talk about the Rwandan genocide and say "the West [it's never the East] should have done more ...". And when I hear anti-ICC nonsense, I point to a page like this www.google.ca/search?q=rwanda+genocide+images&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=0l6rUd_CDabj4APIpoDYCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=599Back to Kenya ... looking from the outside, one of the things that seems to be happening without many being aware is a slow creep to Nyaoism; perhaps the slow, stealthy moves cannot be noticed by many, but then ... far too many Kenyans seem to spend their lives on "snooze mode". Take a look: devolution now appears to be no more than the creation of a few Bantustans; the sycophants are a lot smarter, unlike the days when people would get up in parliament and demand that "if this Karl Marx is inciting the university students, why don't the police do their duty and arrest him?"; the judiciary ... Willy Mutunga's case reminds me of that of your hero, Schacht, at the Nuernberg trials and its conclusions about him---a good man but way out of his depth in a world of beasts, let him go home to vegetate; the Kenyan media, a joke but I suppose even jokers need jirongos for food, shelter, etc. There is a saying that is often attributed to the Chinese, who in fact are not responsible for it: "May you live in interesting times." In these DDD days, we would render it, delicately, thus: "I hope the world fwacks you. Properly and real nice and slow too. Azzhole."That is not my wish for Kenyans, but it seems to me that Kenyan "leaders" and their sycophants are about to deliver interesting times to all Kenyans. The bit I find most fascinating is that the majority of Kenyans do not seem to object to living in interesting times. Sure, there will be a few mild objections here and there---pigs at parliament, a strike or two, etc.---but I am always impressed with Kenyan's seemingly unlimited capacity for punishment .... forever bending over and being suckers, always ready to accept and move on. Friend Mank raises very substantial questions in his bankruptcy thread. Are Kenyans paying attention, or is it that they would not mind living in interesting times? |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 4, 2013 22:08:26 GMT 3
Otishotish,You reckon 'a smart man wouldn't stoop to spout such nonsense unless the cheque had been cleared!''? Mank who apparently is an avid consumer of the pugilist's sport, will remember this detail from his history. For long, after boxing became a mixed sport ---that is black and white in the same ring, heavy-weight black boxers would make more money in the racist South if they let themselves be punched silly by the white opponent, however inferior. The wisdom was, the money men, Southern whites who sponsored the sport as entertainment, were paying to watch a ni-g-ah get beaten, and not the roles reversed! Being a black heavyweight always punching below his might in fixed bouts became one of the most despised forms of uncle-tomism in the South. But it was a way to earn a decent living, relatively speaking, and the travelling provided relief from the back-breaking cotton farm. Not to mention the better meals, and the hos. Yes, one can make a decent living selling ones dignity on a regular if not daily basis. Lots of blues songs about that. Many a richman's call-girl-hooker can prove it. Lots of blues songs about that too. I guess this is the tough decision our Uhuruto call-girl columnist above, has made. To always punch below his weight, to be a public fool in exchange for the fattest cheque. It is a trade off and makes economic sense, and since I learnt from Mank, no moral judgement.  Ahmednasir reminds me of F rederick de Klerk, the last Nationalist Party white PM of Apartheid South Africa. Robust and puffing and chest-thumping in parliament, he declared Nelson Mandela was a convicted communist-stooge terrorist, and no honourable government anywhere could contemplate releasing him, let alone negotiating with him. Cyril Ramaphosa of NUM, was then a devil. He grinned on TV: De Klerk specified honourable government! The day one will think De Klerk's apartheid government is honourable, is the day I will think I am white! --the devil grinned! So reading your fellow lawyer Ahmednassir on Raila: His only POLITICAL claim to legitimacy is that he is some party leader. I understand: His only MORAL claim to legitimacy is that he was won two elections and had them stolen from him! And his only JUDICIAL claim to legitimacy is that the Supreme Court that threw out his petitition was compromised and impartial.Lawyers! they always speak from both sides of their tongues during a crisis! Loose or win they get paid! And when I am minded to listen, I do listen to all the speak, loud and silent. It sure aint his intellect he is selling in these Raila commentaries, this Ahmednasir. Unlike Hassan of IEBC who wont lie during Ramadhan, Ahmed has no qualms! (Good Christian he is, will not be hindered by the Sabath when his cow falls in a ditch)!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 9, 2013 20:19:48 GMT 3
IF YOU HAVE A PAY AS YOU GO TO READ [I-DEAL] AT YOU LOCAL CRITICAL LIBRARY, TRY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE KENYA FOCUS THIS MONTH.
here are intelligence rumours beach-heads!
So, subject to further qualifications I will give a position paper on 1: the recent shuffle in Raila's detail, is an operation to get rid of those veterans who are too loyal to spy on him. And replace them with eyes and ears of ....
3. Cortec now claims Balala only did them in after they refused to pay a facilitating bribe of 80M which 'operatives emissaries' had asked on behalf of no Just Balala alone!
2&4? you can not let sh!t happen to them all, elections are repetitive cycles!
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Post by phil on Aug 26, 2013 8:02:35 GMT 3
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Post by kamalet on Aug 26, 2013 8:32:29 GMT 3
Now you all know why Raila lost the last elections. It was not vote rigging as he has been led to believe, it is the incompetence of those he had trusted to work for him. If this Owala fellow has this type of warped thinking on how a president would be elected in Kenya, then one sees how how he managed the Raila campaign! Even from the most basic arithmetic, the notion that CORD had more governors in the final election does not become a reflection of how the country would have voted and resulted in am electoral college that would have defeated Jubilee. Jubilee has more senators and Cord only has more governors for the simple reason Jubilee messed up their nominations ending up with characters such as Waititu competing against Kidero! Jubilee for the record has more senators than Cord and also more MPs than Cord in parliament. Consequently the result would still have meant an Uhuruto win under Jubilee if we took the Owalo/Okiya electoral matrix. Copying and pasting does not always give the same result so copying the US model will not result in a Rendille or Pokomo president. Even the present electoral model can give us a Kuria president if that Kuria politician can work his way to the national platform. Take for instance the Asian guy elected as an MP in Meru (omit Sumra as he comes from an urban constituency) he is a minority in an overwhelmingly single tribe region. He did not need an electoral college to get elected as an MP there!! So if Owala has any good sense, he would have taken the Okiya model and replicated it on the 2007 elections to see what the result would have been - and especially if Jubilee would have lost that election. But I think he is too lazy to make such a quick check to try and divert attention at his own contribution to the loss of Raila's election! |
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Post by podp on Aug 26, 2013 14:42:12 GMT 3
Now you all know why Raila lost the last elections. It was not vote rigging as he has been led to believe, it is the incompetence of those he had trusted to work for him. If this Owala fellow has this type of warped thinking on how a president would be elected in Kenya, then one sees how how he managed the Raila campaign! So if Owala has any good sense, he would have taken the Okiya model and replicated it on the 2007 elections to see what the result would have been - and especially if Jubilee would have lost that election. But I think he is too lazy to make such a quick check to try and divert attention at his own contribution to the loss of Raila's election! 1st red high light. a friend recently lambasted some CORD insiders and beneficiaries as we enjoyed a sumptuous lunch telling them that Jakom was irresponsibly careless in entrusting idiots and nincompoops to the just ended March election. he even went as far to ask where are the likes of Caroli Omondi and what value to the Jokoyos (meaning Prof. Anyang Ngongo, Orengo, Kajwang etc.) add to Jakom's well being when they are irredeemable sycophants looking or their own survival. he deeply regretted Jakom having dropped the Migunas he had on his think tank. 2nd red high light a friend on fb send the message "Five referendums have been held at the national level in Switzerland in 2013, with another four planned for September and November. A total of 9 referenda shall thus have been held in 2013 by the end of this year. Twelve referendums were held at the national level in Switzerland during 2012. On 11 March 2012 voters across the country were asked five questions on employment leave, second houses, building society savings, the Fixed Book Price Agreement and gambling revenues. On 17 June there were three questions on healthcare, foreign policy and home buying. On 23 September last year there were three on a smoking ban, secure housing in old age and music lessons at school. On 25 November last year a referendum was held on the Animal Diseases Act. Most people in Switzerland hardly noticed there was any referendum. A referendum should not be acrimonious and divisive as the two Kenyan referendums have been before. The Swiss confederation exist since 1291 (13th Century) and as a federal state since 1848. The Swiss devolution is therefore 722 years old. Our devolution is hardly 5 months old and is already subjected to trickery of tribo-political factions. This is wrong. The problem with our political establishment is that they do not understand the concept of devolution. This is very evident from both sides of the divide. In the devolution debate, the governors, CORD and Jubilee are all right. Their concerns are not the same but very right on their own. The main reason why many African countries could not progress for many years after independence is that most of them did not have the requisite structures to run a modern state. Juxtaposed this problem affects many of our counties. We need to understand that devolution is not revolution. There are several issues that could be put forward to the people to decide on one single referendum. Because political interests vary, it is in the interest of Kenya that any upcoming referendum include issues that Jubilee want decided upon and issues that CORD want decided upon. Both Jubilee and CORD must avoid causing unnecessary tensions and disharmony in the country. After all, the very founding of our nation was guided by the magic unity of all its people. For a start, we may present the following issues for a referendum 1. The presidential election system 2. The ICC cases 3. The Procedure and timelines for total devolution 4. Any other matter" so while USA may not be the best country to try to emulate, Kenyans being such a divided people as the Swiss are it may be prudent to emulate them and budget for as many referendums as the 1,000.000 signatures are collected by who ever is not content with the the centre (read Uhuruto). even on mundane things like retirement benefits; which homecoming party to attend; etc, when Jakom is on the picture' you will have some half of the country rising up to oppose or support, depending on the leanings. after the end of nusu mkate regime I am almost convinced that whatever one comes up with there will be opposers even when Jakom is out of the picture. referendum may be our way out of 2007/08 kind of pogroms! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 14, 2014 22:13:22 GMT 3
FRANCIS KIMEMIA, HERO NATIONALOH MY OH MY! FRANCIS KIMEMIA UNCOVERS ANOTHER COUP PLOT! [links later!!!] DISCLAIMER: If I fail to keep a straight face posting this one, blame it on Friday evening excess! 1. The nationala security advisory council NSAC, chaired by Mr. F. Kimemia, revoked the permit earlier awarded to one Tyrannosaurus Njoya, CCM [chief mischief maker] Bonny Mwangi, and nchi ya kidogo kidogo hujaza kibaba Wainaina. Thereafter the NSAC ordered Sherrif David Kimaiyo to zero-tolerate any sign of demonstration in the city with immediate effect. The reason given was: the discovery that this demonstrations would just be part of a USAID-financed plot to overthrow the Uhuruto regime! This regime is barely one year old, and this is the third coup attempt it is surviving. Wow! Lucky twin bastardos, they will surely last the whole scheduled two decades: 10=Uhu+10=Ruto. But if Kimemia is like the lonely herdsboy addicted to crying wolf every too often for entertainment, then the word coup in Kenya has undergone inflation such that it is currently meaningless currency, and Francis Kimemia merely a clown. Or, seeing his station at power, a child with a loaded gun pointing at the head of the new constitution, freedom to .... clauses! But 1st: PICTURE THIS SCENE: FORT LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, THE USA, Just before this random triumphant photo-op.  SITUATION ROOM AFRIKA, CIA HQS. A CIA task-force charged with regime change Kenya ---clawing Kenya back from the Oriental paw, is cracking its head on what to do with the powerful Uhuruto dynasty. In attendance is star Major of covert operations Payne. Remember Payne was retired (now by hindsight) prematurely, when the cold-war ended and, in the words of his controlling officer, ‘’Democracy reigns everywhere under the sun now! Thanks to you Payne! Uncle Sam has no more enemies, thanks to you Payne. You killed them all, soldier! We can now fold ship, go to sleep in peace, and you to start a family! Peace and Love Payne, no more covert operations Amen!''(By the way this character Major Payne exists in a brilliant film originally called Goodbye my dear wars). Major Payne has been wasting away, unable to re-adjust to civilian life of peace and Love. In this respect he is much like John Rambo after his decommissioning from the Marine Corps, following Uncle Sam’s defeat in Vietnam. A drifter waiting for a new adrenalin rush. A first blood series!‘ ’We have a situation Payne. Nairobi is a headache. We want regime change Payne. Can you do?''And up shoots Payne ---the prospect of bringing Nairobi to order, dispatching a few hundred thousand negroes is mouth-watering. ‘’Can do!’’ says Payne. ‘’We do not do ni-gga body count do we!?’’ The controlling office looses his temper: ‘’The world moved on Payne. A nig-ga is the Commander in Chief of the USA you red-neck fool! Be subtle or you will be drone-hit!’’ Then Major Payne drops the bombshell: ‘’I have it figured sir. We have USAID! We will finance a coup through USAID Afrika! My aces are this guy Githong’o, Mwangi B, and the de-frocked clergyman X!Kenyatta will soon be history and the malleable Mudavadi or Obama’s cousin Odinga our new bastards in oily Bananaland Kenya!’’ And so the plot came to thicken and the above commemorative photo taken. The CIA commissioned USAID in liasson with Major Payne to conduct regime change in Nairobi. ---But fools that they were, they forgot to take the Super Sleuth Francis Kimemia into account! This tough sherrif busted the plot and caught Major Payne pants down erecting mischief! And has outed treacherous accomplices! Shame shame! one of them a de-frocked clergyman! And that is where we are today! The hero Francis Kimemia, has just beaten the CIA and their veteran Major at their own game.I propose we erect a statue of Francis Kimemia on that dais in Kisumu, from which the fishmongers demolished a Hindu/Sikh monument. Francis Kimemia, hero national! Conqueror of the CIA! I will be back after another swirl at the glass!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 15, 2014 13:27:39 GMT 3
Oh yes, we had a night of rampant indulgence in binge, whiling the time cracking Kimemia --Saviour of the Nation-- jokes! For starters: This evil United States, whose embassy officials in Nairobi have officially denied any attempt by their country to facilitate regime change in Kenya, appears to be very cosy and chummy with our other agencies of government. How come we trust them, O Francis. 1. The US marine core [Indian Ocean Command] has been so instrumental in our heroically concluded OPERATION LIND NCHI in Somalia, you could say they own our valiant military forces there. They were out eyes and ears, and occasionally more often than not, our bread and butter. ---Now that is a friend indeed! even if Trojan , we joked. 2. CoS General Julius Karangi, in concert with Kimaiyo of police I suppose, handed over the remains of the Westgate Four to the American FBI. Were two of those boys not native Kenyans? Handing the remains of your citizens, however evil, to perfidious foreign powers plotting to overthrow your legitimate government, strikes me as not your brilliant act. 3. Henry Rotich and his financé whizzkids, chose an American Bank [JPM] to facilitate the launch of their Eurobonds. Launching Eurobonds is an important step in sustaining our liquidity they said. And there you have the plotting Americans controlling the process! Damn, wont the resourceful Major Payne manipulate the Ksh? 4. Francis Kimemia has uncovered an American orchestrated coup plot? No, he is not paranoid. He is still a wonderful clown beefing his portfolio up in the hierarchy of power. And then the paranoia will settle, and the wonderful clown, will be a vampire. www.nation.co.ke/news/US-agency-accused-of-subversion--/-/1056/2205950/-/hevavxz/-/index.htmlYes, you just can not avoid him. No one in Kenya will run out of Francis Kimemia soon –not even the dynamic duo at the top who wanted to sack him then had to change their minds on the spot! Unearthing coups and stopping demonstrations meant to trigger regime changes, are a walk in the park for this man Francis. But four terrorists hijacking the chief Mall in the capital city, even if the intelligence about the operation is right the top agenda in his in-tray beforehand, that one is a bridge too far for our Francis. How come Uhuru promoted him to sit at state house? Or is that the famous friends close, but enemies even closer? Francis loves to exude power, and now that he will be working 3 days a week from State House, he will find ways to rub it in, making sure it is read as a gesture which signifies raised stock. An giant leap if informal. At least it puts him at par influence-wise with Joseph Kinyua the Prime Minister. The tragedy of Francis Kimemia, is that he always mocks himself with his actions. He exemplifies himself as a petty creature. He is the perfect parody of himself, whereupon he feels and sulks no one takes him seriously. He therefore becomes rash, uncouth, to satisfy the need to rub it in, that he is all powerful. It is a terrible inadequacy, a Tiger that always must becry its tigritude ----in the words of Wole Soyinka. Such a tiger is likely a kitten, or a big but lame cat. Formally very powerful but always feeling belittled, un-respected, unrecognised and passed over, ridiculed and laughed at behind his back by both superiors and subordinates, Kimemia is a tomb of vengeance and, unleashed, he is a raging bull the fury even hell hath not! The most dangerous man in Kenya! One day he will feel an irresistible need to be taken seriously BY EVERYBODY. Yesterday he said he had thwarted a coup, and what does the nation do? They laugh and scornfully ask if there was ever such a silly head of civil service! A coup for heavens sake! A COUP! And all the nation does is shrug, --that is Kimemia being Francis for you –did you know Liverpool beat Arsenal 5-0!? And Obama is shagging Beyonce!  Coup? Which coup? Tell me about school fees! I am wasted! But Kimemia has other concerns to talk about. And not even the fact that a head-count is deemed necessary by the treasury to establish exactly how many civil servants Kenya has. That is Kimemia has been paying a lot of ghost salaries! Francis Can not run a straight payroll and he is taking on Major Payne! www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-155206/america-destabilising-kenya-says-kimemiaEarlier Here is a small retinue of the raging bull Francois Kim: ---he expelled Education civil servants from Jogoo House just like that. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087456&story_title=kimemia-orders-workers-out-of-jogoo-housewww.24tanzania.com/secretary-to-the-cabinet-francis-kimemia-orders-workers-out-of-jogoo-house/----He barred Othaya’s Mary Wamboi from accessing the same dais as her hubby, Emilio.
---He prevented Mr.&Mrs. Raila from using a VIP washroom at the JKIA lounges…
---He ordered the CJ Willy Mutunga locked in a JKIA loo, until his scheduled flight had departed.
---He uncovered the Owallo-Raila coup! Only for the CID to laugh and shrug …
---He illegally forced through the appointment and deployment of the 47 county commissioners, setting the stage for some very nasty turf wars with governors.
---He forced diplomat Macharia to write threatening letters to the UN –see Jukwaa archives!The worst event was when even Uhuru Kenyatta humiliated him by remembering him only as an afterthought, yet he had sweated himself as a slave on the ICC issue, defending the Fort. Nothing personal of course. Still such a powerful man always being a laughing stock!? That injures a man’s sense of worth, and he has to become vindictive, to compensate. He becomes very dangerous indeed. Dangerous indeed, but I still do not think dangerous enough to sleep on intelligence about an impending Westgate Mall attack. Yet I am still sober enough to ask it point blank: DID FRANCIS KIMUNYA AND HIS NSAC SLEEP ON THE WESTGATE INTELLIGENCE?You start banning demonstrations in Kenya, you got to answer that question, Francois. The tear-gassing of this demonstration, and the usage of language the type which has been used by the Egyptian Junta of Abdel Fatah al Sisi to crush any possible opposition to their designs, marks, as far as I am concerned, a Francis Kimemia whose mental degeneration has edged a note higher. Creating more distance between his head and reality. The good thing is, when Francis Kimemia uses the words coup and destabilisation, they do not quite carry the import of what they usually mean. They carry the import of just how nasty and cruel he would like to be; what he would do if he had a free hand. Yeah, what do you do to real coup plotters in the real world!? Stuff not covered by Lady Miranda Rights! The mocking truth then becomes, it is is his very actions which are risk destabilisation, for this top bureaucrat is a throw back to yesterday. Banning demonstrations? That was Moi days, before the so-called second liberation. Kimemia is very late. A parody of the past. A farce. But he will insist on enacting that past, setting the stage for an ugly confrontation with the Tomorrow of his country. So, as he becomes a national nuisance, what do we do with this ever wolf-crying boy? Only last week, files had disappeared at the National Registrars. The head of the civil service and chair of the NSAC got no wind of it. His office did not look into it, such that two weeks later, the chief registrar herself, a top civil servant under Kimemia, was soiling herself before a parliamentary committee, treating the nation to a tragic-comedy enacting the corrupt ineptitude of the civil service. The civil service under the conqueror of Major Payne, hero national Francis Kimemia.NB: Did them say the public wage bill is unsustainable and threatening economic performance in Kenya? Well, there are more things in this civil service which are unsustainable and threatening the well-being of Kenya. Major Payne and his hirelings John Githong’o, Boniface Mwangi, Timothy Njoya, and other evil society demonstrating USAID accomplices, are way down the list if you ask me! Anne Kuguru and Nancy Gitau, they kind of know that. But do they say??? |
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 15, 2014 17:50:31 GMT 3
He, he, he, .. ha, ha, ha, HA! HA! HA! .... HA! Genya!!
(Apparently that's all Moi said when asked to comment on the matter.)
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Otishotish? of the King!
