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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 28, 2014 21:43:07 GMT 3
For starters, this is where they have discovered oil. Turkana. ---What am longing for, is a little happiness (Black Uhuru, a reggae band from Jamaica of the 70s) SONKO’S PLEDGE TO BATTLE EXORBITANT RENT HIKES BY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE ---BRAVO! BRAVO! Thrice in public I have noted him stand up and say it loud’; thrice in public non of his fellow politicians have backed him. One last Sunday in Nairobi he stated it again, but it was his failed peace-brokerage between Shebesh and Kidero that hit the headlines. I have been counting and going by the [ Dr. No] anecdote in one of the James Bond movies: ‘’third time is enemy action, Mr. Bomb. First time is possibly just a happenstance!’’ And so today, after the Nairobi is bigger than Shebesh Kidero & Sonko speech in a church where DPORK Ruto too, his dental array in the wind, was in attendance if what absent mindedly, I acknowledge the potential ramifications of this incendiary device. Really, the peoples senator of choice is toying with one hell of a bomb, and his fellow politicians know it, and, petrified, hold their tongues either way. Unwisely, because on this, BADBOY Mbuvi has the pulse of the downtrodden. He cuts an unlikely hero Yes, this blingbling demon, but somebody has to take the job and shove it. There is a power vacuum [at opposition] and it shall be filled. And in F anonian paraphrase, filled by unpalatable characters lacking in the sophistication of cowardice, like tactical silence. But first, a trip down memory lane. Raila later denied and denounced it I think, but there was a time the residents of certain sections of the sprawling Kibera slums, turned rent collection into a very dangerous profession. Some national newspapers reported this was at Raila’s behest, and some higly partisan ones used this to profile him as a thuggish and roguish leader, unfit for high state office, aka prezzo. He had to be responsible, clean up his following, re-brand and grow up! [NB: I can see he never did, or if he did, he relapsed, coz I just glimpsed DPP Tobiko wrestling with the hot potato in his hands: arrest Raila for the incitement encoded in the recent statement that went: the military rigged Uhuruto in in March 2013! It was a coup de tat!!] But, anyway, whether Raila retracted the do not pay rent for sewer huts or not, the fundamental contradiction remained, and so the tension between tenant and landlord under dire economic dynamics, can only escalate. And with our county governments turning out to be the greediest of all blood-sucking predators known in public administration, rent, as a part of their parasitic tax regime on an already impoverished urban majority, becomes dynamite waiting an ignition. And Sonko is throwing flares at the loose ends. EARLY COLONIAL REBELLIONS.I will check the details out later and parade them, but on the top of my head, I believe earlier rebellions against the then entrenching colonial administration, were precipitated more by Hut tax –or the poll tax. These were shocking forms of robbery, even if hilarious like the kuku-tax of Kakamega’s Oparanya. ---An ODMer for Christ’s sake! The colonial regime was very honest about its punitive taxes. And the economic logic too was crystal. On one hand they were meant to accumulate capital for the colonialists superstructure and pay for upkeep –-save the mother country from subsidising ‘’recurrents’’; and on the other hand, they were meant to force the locals into wage slavery. The only way for many to find the money to pay tax, ruthlessly pursued by the authorities, was to offer their labour to the colonial ventures ----at a rate determined by the colonist! (there was also the option of paying the taxes by units of labour expended: above 18 yrs, you deliver 80 wheelbarrows of railway rocks per month, and you break even! But you hardly are left with either the time or the energies to engage in self-sustaining economic activity elsewhere!) And again on the top of my head, more recently, I think it was the introduction of a general unfair poll tax that dissolved the career of the Iron lady, Margaret Thatcher. Not ever since the Miners of Arthur Scargil and their pitched battles, had Britain seen such Mayhem in broad daylight. Taxes during a recession then? You impose them above a certain threshold, know very well there are knives waiting to sink into your throat in the dark. ----It is an open secret! {But hell, who cares! Most marriages do not work, but we all are getting married, or planning to. So I say, even if unfair taxes tend to lead to rebellion, who cares, let us go ahead and impose them! With impunity!} But nobody has come down on Senator Mbuvi’s neck! Nobody has come down to call him irresponsible, nor condemn him for immaturity and incite-full madness, like he was roasted when he punched walls, howled atop cars, gate-crashed JKIA airport, floored Githu Muigai with a left ---or any of the other myriad mischief he has displayed with gusto. And I do not think the silence has to do with, let the fool burn himself out! No, this is the silence of trepidation. This Sonko is the man who ran Mr. Kaa Ngumu Gumo out of town. So he must have more than hot-air. NOT ALL HOT AIR, since Kidero was reported to have asked President Uhuru if he could entreaty his TNA senator to work together for the sake of our common home Nairobi. ----------pause--------
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 1, 2014 15:36:48 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/Governors-give-up-push-for-taxes/-/1056/2168548/-/mmfg1b/-/index.html That is why I say all hail Nairobi senator Mbuvi Sonko! While other senators were still waiting to see which way the wind of public opinion would blow, Sonko long ago read the riot order! Now every senator and commentator, sings the Sonko refrain. --NO NEW TAXES! sO, Go ahead, youR Excellency's Governor Gluttons, up your corrupt taxes and invite impeachment , if not lynchings! ----And yet it is the senate which the political class wants abolished!? So I say, no problem, senator Sonko, start campaigning for the governorship of Nairobi, after all you will be out of a job soon ---as soon as parliament votes. NB: The senate, increasingly elbowed out in the intense political struggle between the institutions at the top [Parliament, Presidency, Judiciary, Caucus of Governors), has carve out a niche for itself to stay relevant, or it will be roasted. What better pitch, than to take up a popular cause! HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF THE GOVERNORS AND THEIR MCS ASKING FOR LIQUIDATION. www.nation.co.ke/news/County-leaders-burn-millions-in-joy-travels/-/1056/2163000/-/s4kqbo/-/index.html www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Governors-oppose-bid-to-kick-out-Wambora-/-/1064/2167346/-/14h523qz/-/index.html www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000103495 These figures from Kisumu are interesting, because, I believe, Kisumu lies in Nyanza where future-Sonko-opponent Evans Kidero of Nairobi has been pouring out DONATIONS in Harambees meant for development! Doing petty Harambees in Luoland while Kisumu the richest county in the Luoland has all that money to waste? ----Then I think Sonko is on the right track, kicking the balls of the tax-raising Kidero who, after complying with Raila’s order to withdraw his candidacy for an ODM party slot, should remember what killed the political career of Alexander Haig, a former NATO commander who became Ronald Reagan’s secretary fo state for foreign affairs. He trembled in public, his voice that is, when Reagan was shot. Verdict was, guy got no nerves, he must never be anywhere near commander in chief. CIC, is a cold-blood’s job. And gone was the credibility of the star-studded General. Perceptions!
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 1, 2014 15:56:17 GMT 3
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Post by mank on Feb 1, 2014 19:33:18 GMT 3
... No wonder somebody was heard crying: ka ma e devolushen, to kara duognwauru sirikand DC gi PC! Ne nge osuru ma nyadondigi! --If this is the devolution, then I would rather the regime of PCs and DCs! they did not tax you for smiling! A few years ago I was called by a friend (.... not sure it was all a friendly call; I suspect business in friendship) who told me of a nice plot of land on sale. One of the factors I considered before agreeing to go in with my wallet open was that there was no periodic tax on the land (not that I think a tax should not be levied, but just that there was no tax burden at play). I have now heard that in some places there is death (or burial) tax ... I sure hope no one wants to escape that, for we might be left with lots of stench of those who refuse to go through the relevant tax gate. ... tax for smiling too? There is no way in hell I won't be required to pay tax on that little plot. That's fine .... I would not consider that excessive. I just wonder whether most people with similar plots are fine with the deal.
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 1, 2014 20:50:37 GMT 3
Jakaswnga: That photo of the Turkana! Wow. And it looks like more is on the way elsewhere: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000103674/four-die-of-hunger-as-situation-escalates-in-baringoWhat is the general public opinion when it comes to such news? Anyway ... I have not been following Kenyan news very closely, so I have missed a few things. Is it true that there is a county where chicken will soon be required to pay tax? That's what I consider innovative thinking. Forget inside the box or outside the box; just flatten the box and sit on it to think.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 20, 2015 19:57:26 GMT 3
SONKO TO THE RESCUEwww.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000155460/sonko-rescues-100-year-old-granny-jailed-over-land-rowTHere's something weird, in the neighbourhood, who you gonna call? === Ghost Busters! Of course that is Western world famous! But now: nairobinews.co.ke/100-year-old-granny-free-at-last/ There is a century old granny, who couldn't raise the bailout money The no-nonsense courts of Wily Mutunga found her guilty Her crime was she was too poor to raise a bribe And neither was she ready to be robbed of her land
So Justice Willy style took course and sent her behind bars.----Now, who you gonna call? No,you are not gonna call ghostbusters this time. You are gonna call senator Mike Mbuvi Sonko of Nairobi county. Him the aspirant governor come 2017, and aspirant running mate of the republic come 2022. And believe it or not, the centenarian Margaret Ngima is now home --a squatter on the farm she used to own. But I do think I have greater problems than the Nairobi-based rescue team of the senator come-drug-dealer dare handle. Methinks the Kalenjin Kalesingha, the Jaluo blue-chip CEO who made a carcass of Mumias Sugar Mill, and those two top bureaucrats who fraudulently withdrew billions from the state security accounts during the Kibaki/Uhuru transition, need to meditate over their sins where that granny has just emerged from. Senator Sonko, where art thou O batman, O spiderman, or O superman? Or for me it must be --Ghost busters, Harry Porter or, failing to find magicians, the old trusted ruthless historical solutions it must be? of course we need to be rescued from the 11th parliament! I am sure Sonko will get to that, if he keeps off his own merchandise that is.
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Post by podp on Mar 22, 2015 8:10:51 GMT 3
SONKO TO THE RESCUESenator Sonko, where art thou O batman, O spiderman, or O superman? Or for me it must be --Ghost busters, Harry Porter or, failing to find magicians, the old trusted ruthless historical solutions it must be? of course we need to be rescued from the 11th parliament! I am sure Sonko will get to that, if he keeps off his own merchandise that is. patronage has always been the criminal's preferred method of creating a power base. this dynamic is also a significant reason why countries with per capita incomes below $3000 are susceptible to authoritarianism or failed statehood. the very 'BEST' criminals - end up in political office to your capital letter headline let me quote a fb comment to set of the stage on one take 'The script the senator is following was written long ago in Italian mafia cities, Colombia and other narcorepublics and other countries where crime is a way of life. The drug cartels run parallel social services hence gaining popularity with the local communities. That way, recruitment of operators, hiding information from authorities etc enables the cartels to thrive. Political office is also easier this way due to shallow wealth worship. The immediate former Bolivian president was an "Atwoli" of cocaine farmers in the hills of that country. He has allegedly given up his post recently because he lacked the wherewithal of running a government.' so if I was to hail Nairobi Senator Mbuvi Mike Sonko the name of Chapo would come to mind. who is Chapo? At a cemetery just outside Culiacan, Sinaloa's capital, four 20-somethings are drinking scotch and singing narcocorridos, or ballads heralding the life of drug traffickers. A group of youths spend a Sunday afternoon at their friend's tomb drinking and singing narcocorridos (ballads that celebrate the life and exploits of drug traffickers). Christina (right), a 21-year-old psychology student, says drug trafficking is a way of life in Sinaloa. media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/02/24/el_chapo_009_slide-4858787869cbadeee798e214934a07b7ff5b434f-s800-c85.jpgChristina, a 21-year-old psychology student, says the narco-culture runs through their veins; it's part of life. The four friends are sitting around the grave of Christina's boyfriend, who was killed last year in a shootout. www.npr.org/2014/02/24/282123622/ruthless-mexican-drug-trafficker-was-a-robin-hood-in-home-statea fable about why the Brazilians speak P and not S is that "Five hundred years ago, the Portuguese and the Spanish came here, each trying to get the country from their natives. The Spaniards arrived, guns blazing, determined to prove who was boss. The natives killed every single Spaniard. Personally, I prefer the methods of the Portuguese. They came bearing gifts. Mirrors, scissors, trinkets. Things that the natives couldn’t get on their own, but to continue receiving them, they had to work for the Portuguese. And that’s why all Brazilians speak Portuguese today. Now, if you dominate the people with violence, they will eventually fight back because they have nothing to lose. And that’s the key. I go into the favelas and give them something to lose. Electricity, running water, school rooms for their kids. And for that taste of a better life, I own them." On the west side of Culiacan, there's a shrine to Jesus Malverde. Malverde is known as the "Narco Saint" — even though he wasn't a drug-runner. Nor has he been ordained as a saint. A guard at the shrine, Francisco Cardenas, says that Malverde, who died in 1909, was known as a generous bandit because whatever he stole, he gave to the people. But in the middle of the day, in the middle of the week, a steady stream of people come to visit his alter. On a recent day, two stylishly dressed young women entered the shrine to kneel in front of the white bust of Malverde. Afterwards, the women, who didn't want to give their names, said that they came to give thanks to Malverde for all he's done for them. "We pray for good health and enough money," they said in Spanish — "and that everything goes well in business."
Asked what kind of business, they gave a knowing smile and said "the family business." It's clear they're talking about the drug trade. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91303968the family business rings a bell when you think of the 3 drug pins in Nairobi aka Sonko-Mwau-Kabogo. family business indeed giving rise to the antics we are seeing
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 22, 2015 11:29:41 GMT 3
SONKO TO THE RESCUESenator Sonko, where art thou O batman, O spiderman, or O superman? Or for me it must be --Ghost busters, Harry Porter or, failing to find magicians, the old trusted ruthless historical solutions it must be? patronage has always been the criminal's preferred method of creating a power base. this dynamic is also a significant reason why countries with per capita incomes below $3000 are susceptible to authoritarianism or failed statehood. the very 'BEST' criminals - end up in political office Christina, a 21-year-old psychology student, says the narco-culture runs through their veins; it's part of life. The four friends are sitting around the grave of Christina's boyfriend, who was killed last year in a shootout. podp, PATRONAGE? That is how Kings too have always ruled! Kingship is a family business expanded into power. State positions go by blood, loyalty, clientelism and being beholden to the first family. Monarchy is authoritarian yes, but I do not think it necessarily leads to a failed state. It can also lead to a nationalist consolidation of a people, whereafter the monarchy is gently retired into a figurehead. To lead to a failed state, I think it must be apolitical. To be apolitical means, stand in the way of the peoples aspirations, to continue being merely a criminal profiteer, a private wealth gathering exercise, unaware of the freedom instinct of the human being, and its ruthless march against tyranny. All tyranny. An archaic monarch then of course looses his head literally. The kind of PR handouts drug barons dish out to soften their tyranny of thuggery --of which the late billionare leader of the Medellin Cartel, the Colombian Pablo Escobar, was the most eccentric, only serve to point out the need for a social revolution. Pablo Escobar built estates with cheap rent, much pleasing the people, and with drug money as a populist multi-billionare, ran one of the most robust welfare systems ever seen by a private developer or businessman anywhere, but it was a model whose inferiority (historical limitation) was immediately shown when senator Luis Carlos Galan offered his fellow Colombians an alternative vision. He swept the people, isolated the Drug Lords, revealed them for what they were. Only a bullet could stop him. A man of vision like Tom Mboya Ndiege. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Escobar And who was he beating? But all that was not going to save him when Presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan roared to his people. That was not the real Colombia, that was the vision of hell's priests! So, yes, there is nothing new in Sonko and his model. What will be interesting, is at what point in time, if at all, Mike Mbuvi Sonko realises this criminal-based dividend populist charity is a dead-end as a national model for a Kenya hungry for industrial transformation, that he needs an ideology as an organ of national rescue. As they say in Latin America there is the romantic glamour of legendary drug billionares like Pablo Escobar and their wonderful charity to the slums, and there is the rigour and audacity of revolutionary rogues in state like Bolivarian Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Amigos take your pick! Ciao! So what will it be, Mike Sonko!? Thy Presidential aspirant post 2022! An early 'retirement'' may be? NB: Podp, Kidero's Harambee millions to South Nyanza!? I stole Sugar from Mumias to give to the people!? Robin Hood is to steal from the rich to give to the poor. But what is to steal from the poor to give to the poor? Yawa!
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Post by podp on Mar 25, 2015 19:16:02 GMT 3
we are witnessing the rise of Mungiki part II and after they are used like yonder times i.e. 2008 they will be eliminated again. What is important is for Kenyans to explore the overt and covert characteristics of organized criminal gangs around the world to fully understand the risk posed by the suspicious, unrealistic and over publicized acts of “generosity” by senator Sonko. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/sonko-rescue-team-humanitarian-mafia#sthash.n7xGjJWw.dpuf
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 24, 2015 20:28:53 GMT 3
IN NAIROBI IT IS THE BATTLE OF THE FILTHY, FILTHY RICH
AND THE POT CALLS KETTLE BLACK
For Mike Sonko, it is a simple and straightforward plan. And there is an open and charming dynamism to it. ---Mp (Makadara) Nairobi, Senator Nairobi, governor Nairobi, Running mate and VP Kenya, then President of Kenya. The key ingredient is the love of the people, expressed in voter turn-out, and tally over his opponents.
And Sonko works at it openly, assiduously.
This linear dynamism backed by populism made me tab Sonko as an interesting politician. With his social background, there had to be a lot of worms in the woodwork writhing in pained thoughts, plotting, making alliances, conniving to thwart him with woe awash.
I saw the (nervous) signs in the run to the 2013 General Election, as the TNA nominations for the Nairobi senate seat approached. The well-bred were aghast at the high prospects of the two boisterous thugs Waititu and Sonko. That these rats from the sewers, as a Muthamaki-allied snob put it, would be the face of Nairobi was so much of an anathema to the blue-blooded TNA posh, that they went for class solidarity,meaning they preferred the ODM Kidero to ''their own TNA'' Waititu. There was a clear and present danger in the Sonko-Waititu tandem identified. But Sonko was untouchable. Uhuru Kenyatta was forced to be calling him on his personal mobile for the sake of ingratiation into the loyalties of the Eastlands grassroots where Mbuvi held sway.
It was a humbling lesson on peoples power, the only reason mighty Jubilee tolerates Mbuvi Sonko. A filth they rather was eradicated as fast as possible.
Lesser Waititu is now being banished to Siberia, well, being bought off with a Mpig seat if all goes well om Dagoretti.
But what to do about Sonko and his brazen dreams backed by a populist touch? The well-bred kids are ganging up. Sonko is threatening to outpace the race. The goon must be shown his place.
The hitman around which the other worms must coalesce is Maina Kamanda. And he has really rolled out of the woodwork with a thud. But Kamanda is a pawn. Doing somebody else's bidding.
Of course in the background is the boardrom conspiracy, where the Financial establishment has -reportedly--- found their candidate, and are lobbying even the world bank.
But the man is a political greenhorn and would require a lot of political footwork, some of it shady, to engineer his breakthrough. -more about that later.
Of course every interest group has the right to plot to hoist their class representative to the helm, to seize control of the state to their parochial benefit. That the workers of Kenya has nobody in the running for them, is a weakness apart. The major formations seem to be the ethnic groups, which, undressed, are the same elite carrying out the same anti-people policies. Looting the state.
Sonko does not sit easy in this elite. Sonko is an outsider, and a lowly one at that, and there are signs the insiders are worried enough to openly plot his political demise.
At a later date we will take a closer look at the posh calling Sonko filth. It could be the old case of those in glass houses throwing stones, the kettle calling the pot black. A man who made keep dealing kaunga, versus elite grabbers of public land and beneficiaries of treasury errors, not forgetting his immediate opponent Kidero, who could be prone to a diabetic convulsion, courtesy of his over indulgence in Mumias sweet.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 3, 2015 15:44:40 GMT 3
IN NAIROBI IT IS THE BATTLE OF THE FILTHY, FILTHY RICH ---- AND THE POT CALLS KETTLE BLACKSonko does not sit easy in this elite. Sonko is an outsider, and a lowly one at that, and there are signs the insiders are worried enough to openly plot his political demise. At a later date we will take a closer look at the posh calling Sonko filth. It could be the old case of those in glass houses throwing stones, the kettle calling the pot black. A man who made keep dealing kaunga, versus elite grabbers of public land and beneficiaries of treasury errors, not forgetting his immediate opponent Kidero, who could be prone to a diabetic convulsion, courtesy of his over indulgence in Mumias sweet. MAY DAY! MAY DAY! FORGET LABOUR! HahaHa! Mbuvi Mike Sonko! You certainly have something going. This is gonna get nasty. A Luo royal and oligarch is ganging up with a Gikuyu oligarch, crown-prince and Muthamaki president, to condemn your endeavour come Nairobi theatrics, and publicly too! When you see such big frogs jumping about in broad daylight, goes an African proverb, know you there is something after their lives! This is the greatest story in the republic of Porojo. The populist popularity of everything Sonko. And what it implies in the grand scheme of the aristocratic lock on the Kenyan presidency. Here is a short report of the so-called Porojo's of Sonko. A bore-hole sinking machine to alleviate by subsidy the thirst in Nairobi's drought-stricken areas, and water-ferrying tankers to boot, all branded! --SONKO RESCUE TEAM (SRT). The residents are all vigelegele na shangwe na Furaha! Times are hard and they will take their free-bees from wherever they come. But the elite and competitors, wow, they all yell -- ''POROJO POROJO!'' And Uhuru Kenyatta the president agrees, chiming in on labour day 2015: porojo porojo tupu! In other words, the son of Jomo does not read this as an additional step in his much touted slum upgrade project. He reads as he is being beaten pants down in the game of populism. All that hot money the Kenyatta jnr. is paying stupidly to the toxic Tony Blair to enhance his image as a performer, is ridiculed to zero in an instant by a ''slum dog'' -as Maina Kamanda calls Sonko. Kenya! We have story! A must follow! Let us cut down to the chase: Dr. Kidero stands the looter of Mumias Sugar Co unto bankruptcy, and Uhuru Kenyatta -of the billion treasury errors-- who is the beneficiary of the greatest landgrabbing Kenyan family (launched by his father Jomo) are questioning Sonko's philanthropy!?
What if any, have these two filthy-rich thieving oligarchs done of late to Nairobians? Yawa! ADULTS ONLY SECTION.Here is for adults only: In China, Kidero would be prosecuted, convicted and executed for economic sabotage: Mumias. Uhuru Kenyatta too would be prosecuted and convicted and executed because of economic sabotage and fraud: treasury errors, and more.
That is the world of adults. Where consequences too are adult.
Now, back to kindergarten Kenya. BACK TO USUAL. Ha, Sonko! Now we know who Maina Kamanda is holding brief for; and who are firing up your old squeeze Shebbesh. State House operatives. Only the human ''ostriches'' will continue pretending the knives are not out for your throat, man. The President, a man from your party, sneered at you in public, terming your (designed to endear the public) actions theatrics, side-shows and porojo-porojo. A condemnation doubling up as an endorsement of the incumbent, ODM money-bags man, Dr. Evans Kidero, your future opponent at the ballot. (Both of you no need appearing at the EACC, now conveniently paralysed and unconstitutional after that haemorrhage effected by Uhuru himself!) Now do not get me wrong, I am not claiming you, Kaunga entrepreneur, are morally cleaner than the sucrose-perfumed Dr. K. whose blue-chip run at Mumias seems to need an EACC peer, nay, I have declared the Nairobi arena a pit contest of filthy gladiators. That may sound bad, but it is actually very legitimate, for it would seem, in the light of the national rejection of the chapter six clause of the 2010 constitution, that the public would rather cheer politicians manifesting the basest instincts. So we are getting what we deserve in leadership --goes the cynical joke. So what is the game Sonko!? The game is the realisation the Kenyan voter is just adventurous enough to consider, at the appropriate date, Kaungaman Sonko for prezzo. If ICC indictees could pull rank to win keep, so too can others more shady or less shady do, courtesy of the secret ballot. And so the operation must begin early to exorcise the bum from the slum. {Nairobi can not go to the dogs, says the TNA man in the video footage!) The outsider, pretender who is increasingly positioning himself to usurp the goodies reserved for the rotten Kenyan royalties, must be tamed and shown his lowly sewer where he can swim his bests. Running Nairobi must not be part of his dream. This is not America where the sky is the limit for anybody with guts (criminal drive) and a work ethic. You are an underdog Sonko. A bum from the Slum. I think you are streetwise enough to bit the biggest PR-buro from London which Uhuru Kenyatta and Kidero will hire for propaganda. Here is some free advice. 1. The Sonko Rescue Team is a golden idea (even if populist). Now, milk it to its limits while reducing its financial burden. (the standard reports you have been evicted from your Runda home due to rent arrears! That is music to your opponents. So ''Internationalise'' the Sonko rescue team. Internationalise means make it a Kenya-wide, multi-ethnic movement. Membership restricted to Slum-dwellers. Which is 70% of Kenyan cities and towns. Let volunteers in every centre of the country form a branch of the SRT, a self-help unit, and then lobby for a motion in the senate and parliament to have them funded by the CDF. The motion will be defeated, but you will be surprised at the side effects. That is called opening up the political space, aka devolution. NB: one of these bore-hole sinking machines can dig all the pit latrines necessary in Kisumu slums in one week flat. All done while Uhuru is still holed up in Sagana lodge, red-eyed and brooding a scheme how to maintain the Kalenjin voting block while easing William Ruto to oblivion. CHOICES HAVE CONSEQUENCES: SO Sonko is a slum dog and drug-dealer? William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta, apart from facilitators of mass murder, beneficiaries of state looting, and Kidero of parastatal looting. Who is my angel now!? aaaah!? Give me Sonko any day!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 15, 2015 22:42:33 GMT 3
THE KLEPTOCRATS AND THE NARCOCRATS OF KENYAWho is my daddy now? I asked. Pots are calling kettles black, and I look from one to the other and back again, and I end up like the ending in George Orwell's Animal Farm. Blind. Who is my daddy now? I have heard tell ''BABA YAO'' ni Waititu, that is the Ferdinand who is the newly crowned Kabete Mpig. But I really think YEYE NI BABA YAO MDOGO TU ### see footnote###. Their real father must be the father of the nation, Ker Ouru 'Mobutu' Kenyatta. Why the MOBUTU tab for ONYATTO II?The MOBUTIST way which generated the term KLEPTOCRACY to describe states like the now defunct ZAIRE, was a state-sanctioned LOOTING EXTRAVAGANZA. Every functionary could steal with impunity, from the President to the lowest ( MPR) party rogue demanding tributes of chicken from ward inhabitants. Mobutu instituted a system of parasitic corruption without a conscience, thus corrupted everybody in its employe, trapping the nation in rot. It was a perfect kleptocracy, but a rotting carcass waiting for hounds. I have been following the corruption tales of Kenya. Everyday is a litany thereof. There does not seem to be an inner restraint, a moral aptitude, an inkling that it is social and political rot. We are morally paralysed. Truly truly I say unto you! The bodies which could have acted as national conscience -the PAC, the EACC, the PIC, CJ &DPP's office, TJRC or the National Land Commission, are themselves immediately neutralised and go extinct. Like a rehearsed clown HE the President makes his ritualistic protestations, but so too did Mobutu his ritual exhortations to behavioural purity! NB: It remained for Zairean artists, especially musicians, to offer the Zaireans an image of passionate brilliance. Guitarist composers like Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, singer composers like Tabu Ley, riotous bands like Zaikolangalanga, super-sensitive poets like Lutumba Simarro, kept their nation sane, as all else rotted under the drips from Mobutu's poisonous fangs. I am watching Kenya with trepidation. Only yesterday we saw again top filth versus top filth in a contest of black name calling. Raila Odinga and William Ruto are somehow connected to an Eldoret Hospital scam. Both are presidential contenders. The Hustler and Mysterious One. Lakini Baba yao ni nani!? ''Baba Yao'' is none other than Ouru 'Mobutu' Kenyatta. Instead of taking the two filthy scallywags and slapping them into a bathroom, to unleash a fire-brigade hose upon them after a thorough scrub, he smiles in a condescending self-amusement and sleeps easy. Ouru rests assured the politics playing out are those of his succession, after his two terms. These two scumbugs, Williamsingh and Amollo Tinga, are no threat to his tenure at the helm. And for the general public? their conclusion appears to be this presidency is dead anyway, and will bury itself in time naturally. Haraka haraka haina baraka, if the replacement is one of the above. Meanwhile there is the devolution cake to enjoy while it lasts. There are no consequences for corruption. It is a looters paradise. Everybody is corrupt -it is a Mobutist system; no tribe can claim marginalisation, no region victimisation. It is a feeding frenzy, a cannibals ball, and by the time all the meat is gnawed off the bone, Mobutu Kenyatta would have finished his terms and retired the richest. Just like father, like son in the books. Who is my daddy now? --the kleptocrat or the narcocrat? Do I go with the pot, do I go with the kettle? who, O thy cloud-gathering Zeus the son of Kronos, serves my fill on the morrow!? THE D.E.A GIVES KENYA AN ASKANCE LOOK ---look who is talking! www.nation.co.ke/news/US-says-Drug-barons-in-Kenya-feed-on-and-fuel-widespread-graft/-/1056/2661914/-/txg1fv/-/index.html Regardless of the nanometry of the pinch of salt with which one takes the recent (American) DEA report which paints a picture of a Kenyan bureaucracy infested with lucrative loyalties to drug cartels, the same beholdenness which prompted this column by Makau Mutua, there remains enough filth to underwrite the qualification Narcocracy. But no, we are not a narco-state; for that, we would have to be a major producer of the merchandise. As it is, we only facilitate hard and liquid logistics, the latter meaning money laundering. NB: From our current ideological choice and direction, Nairobi being a centre for money laundering and other dirty money is not a bad thing. That is what the ambition of a Capital city is, consistent with capitalism. If Switzerland (and her secretive Banks) did not launder nor become a discrete centre for all the world's contraband cash, where would her legendary prosperity be? And did not London only overtake New York after Margaret Thatcher totally DEREGULATED the city, transforming it overnight into the dirtiest and greediest open financial brothel ever. Across the pond, the USA came up with tough controls and questions motivated by the fear of terrorist funding, giving London even more mileage; and with Russian Oligarchs moving the whole Russian GDP to the Casino called the City, the sky was the limit for London. But now New York has hit back, with the stupid Cameron risking eviction from the EU orbit. I am just saying Nairobi can not harbour ambitions to be the financial epicentre of East, Central and South Africa, and at the same time demand certificates billing ''clean cash'' only! No, brothels offer condoms yes, but they do not insist on STD-proof cards before entry. This is no business for the squeamish, nay, such African culture only anti-gay cry-babies like William Ruto wouldn't be able to run this one. Indeed this American sneer is a dagger aimed at the golden egg idea. Does anybody think Nairobi is going to be a continental financial centre clearing cheques for flower workers in Naivasha, horticulture and tilapia, and exchanging currency for back-pack tourists? Capitalism has no miracles. If champagne is rolling in Nairobi clubs 24/7 with a GDP of $40bn, then of course the money is not made in the regular business. Safaricom is not going to waste its money on 24/7 champagne and caviar. That will be smugglers, gun-runners, blood-diamond traffickers, fraudsters, launderers, state profiteers and other suchlike pirates. Thinking of the state-guests aka the Arturs. So who is my daddy now?###footnote### Nying ilaroga e nyadhi. Aparo Ouru omayogo Waititu. --Waititu ni baba yao mdogo. The lyrical, intricate wipe-out guitar-works of the late Soloist Nationale Mbaraka, pacing in both Morogoro and Super Volcano, always did take me places; places, places so deep like ----to paraphrase Canadian Billy Joel----- the valleys of fear in my heart; the jungles of doubt and the deserts of truth in my mind! Listening to the patient compositions of MMM, patiently singing in golden oldies like Mashemeji Wangapi, Harusi imevunjika, or the tuneful sadness of Dr. Kleruu and Tebulii, the solo guitar always on dynamite, always reminds me there are those who have loved Africa and given her the best of their abilities, contributing, not looting. 03:34 take the horns from here. A funeral dirge. But for who? (sherehe kubwa sana nitafanya nyumbani, majibu mazuri nikipata)
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 24, 2017 21:36:33 GMT 3
THE KENNETH SONKO NAIROBI RENDEZVOUS
THE DALLIANCE OF THE KLEPTOCRATS AND THE NARCOCRATS, WHERE ARE THE SERCUROCRATS to complete the Tripartite arrangement?
1. My instincts tell me it is a mountain deceptively looking like a hill. I will go with my instincts like I usually do in Love. Come rejection, that will be a huge OUCH! come acceptance, that will be Hossana, Lord I believe in you!
The reports are too persistent and multi-sourced to be ignored,nor dismissed as the work of imaginative spoilers. There is believably a think-tank which has recognised Peter Kenneth needs to tango with Mike Mbuvi Sonko, now that he is running in Nairobi. Go-betweens have therefore been busy ironing out modalities, and this culminated in a secret (but now publicly recorded and denied) rendezvous.
The urbane Pete, the sophisticated golden boy with a squeaky clean image, has to touch base with a slum creature. The way Kenneth has studiously avoided all the controversial national issues --corruption, IEBC demos, means his instincts are to fence sit, avoid controversies and be everybody's friend, which means angle for the position of the ultimate compromise candidate, like was Mwai Kibaki's luck. Kibaki had no punch of his own, never had, he could only rise when warriors had fought themselves to a stalemate and needed a weakling they could both live with. But I think Peter Kenneth who abhors being controversial and polarising, has been slapped awake by the declaration he is an OUTSIDER! A tourist candidate in Nairobi!
It is comical, but it reveals a viciousness which the Gatanga softie had not contemplated. He has had to grow up quick. He can not afford to repeat the mistake of Jimnah Mbaru. And so the sophisticated hygienist has to crawl into the sewer and kow-tow to a rumoured kaunga kingpin. When people going places like Peter Kenneth are on their knees petitioning pharmaceutical barons for concessions, the idea of 'tough on crime' achieves a hearty chuckle in Nairobi. There is a moral turbulence ongoing in which dirty and clean people, like dirty and clean money in the market, are identical before the electorate. It is all reminiscent of the end of animal farm really. Telling the difference between pig and man was no longer possible. (may be it is just as well we call our legislators MPIGS!?)
This effort at a parley between Kenneth and Sonko, is forensic. It is scouting the future of Kenya's electoral politics on the softer side, an electoral coalition between a feminine managerial class and populist, mass slum-based clowns. There is of course a harder alternative. With the political economic model unable to satisfy the needs of the people, inequality spiralling and the slums evolving into fully autonomous barrios, scaring the goodly elite shitless, they yearn for and get hard and ruthless alpha males like Michuki taking the reigns of state power and, as examples of this model prove elsewhere, turn special police units into killer squads to eradicate hordes of young men and contain crime. But with the mass poverty and hopelessness, unemployment and widespread disillusionment with no hope, equally blood-thirsty killer gangs emerge and the regular police, hemmed between, dissolve into a gang specialised in profiting from the stalemate. This is what is on in states like Mexico, Honduras and the rest of Narco or semi-narco anarchist states.
With the kind of police gear I saw the president of Kenya flagging off, I think the subconscious of the ruling elite is the militarised police brigades. These are of course not your traffic gentlemen who, for a large bottle of soda and kabamba airtime, shake your hand on the highway and lets you speed on!
In the good book of capitalism, Adam Smith reputedly wrote about why the baker is always ready with hot cakes for you in the morning. Nothing to do with his love for you, dear customer. I guess in similar drive, it is neither for the love of Sonko nor Nairobi voters, nor his commitment to high ideals, that Peter Kenneth busies around romanticising Mbuvi!
But it is a decisive step worth a deep cultural read.
Which fires are burning deep down? which forces are coalescing, making the running behind the steps we see in public?
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 20, 2017 21:22:13 GMT 3
THE STATE LOOTERS BEAT A HASTY RETREAT FACED WITH A SCUM'S COUNTER ATTACK
There is a problem in Nairobi for the posh, settled state looters nestled in the corridors of Jubilee where power is brokered. Handling the gangland scum Maina Njenga in Laikipia was easy. They just cynically used chapter six to bar him, by refusing to accept his nomination papers. Baba Yao too was easy, though a bit expensive they say!
Laikipia (simple) orders from above looked a good blue print to repeated elsewhere, some thought, and no better place seemed fit than the capital city where the outlaw Mbuvi Sonko is considered by them to be too stinky for such a prestigious post as governor.
And so Ndegwa Muhoro's office was tabbed to conduct the hit. --No certificate of good conduct for the Nairobi senator. Result, disqualification from the gubernatorial race! The most popular Jubilee politician in Nairobi had effectively been barred from the loftiest perk, all by inner party intrigue!
One can't trust the ---riff raff--- people to have the correct say on that!
But something went wrong. Sonko proved to be no push over. He threw up a temper tantrum which shocked even the President. --it is not just that he demanded everybody go through chapter six then, he told Uhuru Kenyatta, if a traitor like Peter who tried his best to divide the mount Kenya vote in 2013 to hand the presidency to the opposition, is now the Kikuyu candidate fronted by the party to rig Sonko out, then NO! I am not surrendering, your H.E, I am fighting it out until the people decide!'
The 'brown traitor' had earlier termed Sonko a 'grade-A hooligan and scum!' unworthy of Nairobi top seat!
In the end the party barons beat a hasty retreat to, no doubt, devise better stratagems to tame Sonko. The state looter wing of the ruling bandit class has not come to terms with its dependence on the drug lords. That is why the Peter Kenneth power play has hit a snag. He must now first cleanse the 'traitor' charge.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 21, 2017 21:38:40 GMT 3
THEATRICAL DAY IN THE COMICAL REPUBLIC OF GRAFT
Let us outline the contours of a comedy. First a disclaimer, the mentioned characters have no bearing on real people, and any coincidence is purely that, coincidence! There is this concern, that is a multinational enterprise of Posho Pushers. The names of the board go like Jojoho, Kakabogo, Sosonko. You get the gist. They mill corn to produce white kaunga, and Ugali being a staple in the area, hot are the returns.
Opposite the millers are arraigned quite a stellar cast of, disclaimer, purely fictional characters to: Peteros Kennithius, Hustler Singh, Mzee Kenyalight Junior, and Evani Kidesh. Evani's sweet tooth is legendary, such sweet business .... he is called Dr. Sugar. H.S (the hustler) is a ferocious jack of all contraband trades. For instance no (public) land he saw he didn't grab. Kenyalight junior owns the country in question. His banks have the power to create money -digitally adding zeros, loan this money to the state he heads, and collect rent, aka interest. This is discovering a way to eat ones cake and have it at the same time; this is free lunch does exist! Peteros Ken is a most interesting one here. He wants to overshadow them all, and so he plays the game of a rat around their feet, navigating around and feeling nerves, gnawing to find who is asleep and who not, so that he can suddenly, pre-emptively sink teeth into a vital and incapacitate forever.
Anyway, the state looters have the aces Patrick Njoroge and Rotich under Joseph Kinyua to help in their heists and to launder the cash ---NYS, Eurobond. But the posho-pushers do not have that parasitic luxury of treasury control and a handmaid state bureaucracy. And because they know the MOU is ever tenuous, with the state looters ever bent on unilateral modifications to their interest, especially in power relations, the kaungamen work extra hard at the peoples hearts. Mbuvi Sonko's political clout in Nairobi is hard work on the streets. It is not Phd in campus syllabi, nor boardroom machinations chaired by the Rasputin Joseph Kinyua. This Kinyua is the cannibal who wants the Auditor General Ouko's head served for dinner on a platter and his blood drunk in parliament after some portion of live skinning!
NB: This odd ball of an Eduard has not learnt the necessity of getting his sums wrong. State connoisseurs of book cooking and rigging like Kinyua cannot stand that type of rogue, neither can our ODM governors in Nyanza for that matter.
Populism and electoral politics limit the space and ability of the state looter to renege on at will on their MOU with the millers. A key character trait, vulgarity, which, in the city slums, understood as street wise and common touch, catalyses populism by its anti-posh culture, is the same which would-be looter blue-eyed boy proteges like Peter Kenneth would use to disqualify the likes of Mbuvi Sonko. ---The exceptional hooligan is good enough to be Nairobi Jubilee senator, but not Nairobi governor. Character your know!
But I wager peter Kenneth wouldn't dare refer to Anne Waiguru as a super heist facilitator better at Kamiti than at the governor's palace in Kirinyaga! Would he!? It is therefore not difficult for a street rat like Sonko to ferret out Peter for the pretender and project he is. That is, his outrage is at Sonko's alleged hooliganism is contrived, pandering, parochial, selective and even PERSONAL as Sonko himself would have it. If Kenneth were worth else, on his own terms, Jubilee wouldn't be his refuge. The level and rate of Jubilee financial hooliganism, aka corruption, makes the kind of theatrics the likes of Sonko engage in, a LESSER COST TO THE TAX PAYER!
And it is the economy stupid they say!
NB: my Raila damu brother who is not amused at my criticisms of the deity Agwambo, likes to point out this to me. It is either Jubilee or NASA. There is no third way. He then ticks his fingers --Miguna Miguna, Ababu Namwamba, Raphael Tuju, Peter Kenneth, Martha Karua
.. they all make a fanfare of being of their own minds and becry all that corruption in Raila's camp. But where do they end up!? They end up where the corruption is bigger by virtue of state patronage. They endorse Jubilee. They are just w-hores swarming to higher pay! --I told him I am immune to financial inducements, but I can definitely swarm toward hot and loose women specialising in occultic sins! If Jubilee has them dangling ready more than NASA, I will be there! Nothing in the life of a man beats a riotous puszy, mesays!
What mighty men were lost at Troy, just that a man regain his favourite who-re cu-nt!?
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 28, 2017 21:06:25 GMT 3
RULERS AND TAX CUTS, RATE CUTS, FEES AND BUSINESS CLASSESI will come to Nairbo Jubilee gubernatorial candidate Mike Sonko shortly. You might have gathered he has sunk the boot across, all the way deep up Peter Kenneth's tight arze, and is sizing CORD's Man Kiddero up for the same treatment. But before all that, some dots to connect. USA pressiden Donald Trump has just presented the mother of all tax cutsto commemorate his 100th day. Here is a peek from the Guardian. remember the zeal with which Ex-Potus Obama bailed out the banks and later had the Ben Bernanke's FED shower them with easy cash. Power is not neutral, it has its vested interests to serve first. That is its class nature. Here is something from Kenya. Every country in the world these days is of course supposed to slash and burn regulations and restrictions which CAPITAL INVESTORS can frown on. Woo Big FDI mainly. www.industrialization.go.ke/index.php/media-center/blog/281-new-laws-to-improve-kenya-s-business-environment now one of Sonko's pitches has been a promise of LOWER RATES AND LOWER RENTS. The president did not cover the lower sector in his pro-business fast-track! There is a 'business category' in Kenya much maligned. And yet they still form the backbone of the city commerce. These are all those Mpesa Kiosks, One Man shops in the estates, cubicles in down town areas where beauties sell all wares, street hustlers, vegetable stalls, estate salons and tailors, small garages, welders can carpenter shops, and those jua kali hot spots like Gikomba. The whole informal sector called petty tradings.This is where most Kenyans, most Nairobians are employed. They pay (protection charges) dues to street gangs controlling the area; they pay dues to police patrols running the area; they pay dues to county askaris/clerks inspecting the area, then come the OFFICIAL RATES. And then there is the issue of licensing. So I collected a few statistics. How has (for example) the LICENCE rates (fees) faired in the past 3 years? Answer: in the last year alone, 2016-2017 Man Kidero and his administration has nearly doubled the licensing LEVY. Some permits have moved from ksh.10K to ksh.19K! Now, anybody who has studied econometrics anywhere, what do you call that? That is IRRATIONAL, economics being a RATIONAL science, at least in theory! Permit prices which double in one year while the economic growth rate is an official 6% but inflation 12%!? So you find me very comfortable calling Kidero vermin, Luo vermin! And man Rotich a Kerio he-goat! Nairobi' informal sector, petty traders who are the backbone of the city commerce need THE MOTHER OF ALL RATE BREAKS! The kind Donald Trump is giving to his rich friends! Now Who, mirror mirror on the wall, is at least ready to put this on the political agenda!? Yo! Mike Mbuvi Sonko! (How did you miss this Miguna!) The way Mike has whacked Pete, the answer lies in micro-economic data! The way Waititu fcuckd Kabogo, there is some micro-sociology to unearth. I will be back.
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 30, 2017 12:37:21 GMT 3
TALK ABOUT THE DEVIL'S ALTERNATIVEThat is Kaungaman Sonko versus SweetTooth Kidero. And between them, the Independent, Outsider Miguna Miguna. Who is your man now, Rufus Nairobi Voter! Miguna can already expend some bragging rights I think. Uhuru Kenyatta's yet to be-launched NAITOBI METROPOLITAN AREA TA, shoplifts lots of stuff from the Miguna basket, aka manifesto underpinning Double-M's would-be gubernatorial action program. Miguna could just be the man for governor Sonko to consult with on that! NAMATA If history were linear, Miguna wins the contest flat. But even if the general trend is Africa rising, and up and up, there are graphic patches where the graph heads south before picking up again. A deep trough. Main challenger Sonko is a Kaungaman, a self-street-made alleged pharmacist with sky-high populist underpinnings. After knocking out Reuben Ndolo in Makadara but getting rigged out, Sonko gave the middle finger to the orange constellation and went to peddle his political talents elsewhere. These proved formidable. And the move paid off handsomely. Sonko had been the nearest thing to a progressive community organiser the Makadara area had seen busy with the youth. It was a bit like the Obama Chicago story. Without the Harvard, East Coast posh bit. For many, the Ndolo-Sonko incident must now be ancient history, out of mind, but I remember some very juicy details about it. In those days, ladies like Liz Ongoro who are now fuming fire and brimstone and literally dragging Orange House inhabitants through the dust in rage, never saw anything wrong with rigged candidate lists. They were content to fan the fires which would later quench them. But in a good and daring move, Sonko moved on, and on, and on. It was a trajectory destined for more conflict. They say Nairobi has its owners, and it is understood one refers not the Maa people. It was therefore no surprise Sonko, wiping the floor with Big Man Dick Waithika --don't tell me you forgot Dick! would later rattle ambitions in Jubilee and face the same problem again: that of not being the party's nor the establishment's preferred candidate for a top Nairobi seat. ----Sewer rats must only go so far, like Africans under colonialism. It is a caste system they want. Glass ceiling for others born low! The Gikuyu posh gentry orbiting around Uhuru Kenyatta sought to bar him from his chosen path, that of Nairobi governor. They hadn't removed Baba Yao Waititu from the scene only to hand it over to another sewer rat, had they? A particularly uncompromising wing of Mumbi extremists went so far as to parachute from Gatanga, Peter Kenneth, and try many underhanded ways to get Sonko off the front ticket. Sonko who had tirelessly campaigned city wide for Uhuru Kenyatta while Peter fornicated elsewhere with his own delusions of gravitas, stuck to his guns. Aksante ya punda was becoming mateke too often. He consulted the historical memory of how he had dispatched off the Unbeatable Dick, Waithika, and Lo, behold, the street dog pulled a fast one on yellowman Pete K. I believe Sonko had also earlier on outclassed Bishop Wanjiru. Everybody knows he does not do it on his ethnic votes. It is a rainbow coalition he rides. Mostly the wretched of the earth against the chosen few. It will now be SewerRat Sonko vs PoshSnob Kidero. Incumbent Kidero on the other hand is a kind of Kenyan Dr. Odili. That is a Nigerian ex governor of many judicial lives, a man who give his name to a legal syndrome reminiscent of a military order, a decree! Lawsuits citing financial malfeasance flock to Kidero the way flies flock to an excellent sh!tpile. But money does buy dribbler lawyers who know how to work the system. And the Mutunga-wrecked judicial system loves being worked some. LOOTOKRATA TROPICANA These types of creature, Odili and Kidero, William Ruto or the ex president of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, are a specimen of that ace politico-evolutionary species who have colonised public office in Africa, and, as top predators specialised in parasitism, are militarized atop the social pyramid of the continent. They have a brandname - Lootokrata Tripikana, and there is the particularly horrid strain, Kleptokrata Mobutista. The latter send their countries to utter ruin in the process. They are now perpetuating themselves by becoming an aristocratic, bureaucratic nobility, like from Santos to Santos in Angola, or M7 to M6 in Uganda, or from Eyadema to Gnassingbé in Togo. The difference between M7&M6 being the same as between the Togo case! I spare you the Latin form of that for today. Let us just call them the tapeworms in the body politic of Africa. They run failed bureaucracies and failed states, failed public health care systems, and there is a reason why despite Africa's high-tech universities with their powerful graduates and grades, it is the Chinaman to build even a one-storey flat at your market centre, leave alone roads and dams and airports and 4g networks. These parasites in office, need the World Bank, need the IMF or whatever other external body to hold their hands doing this and that. And definitely counting votes! And the winner is ... heresy yawa ... ( Migori and Kisumu gubernatorial races)
.... both contestants! --Ai yawa Luowa! Utimo mamono! If we slight Miguna, the battle for Nairobi county's top seat is therefore a choice between two bandits. One of these bandits will give Wanjiku a gentler rape ordeal. --who is your bandit now! It is always a devil's choice, history!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2017 12:07:28 GMT 3
SONKO GOES PRESIDENTIAL ON JKL, OR IS IT GUBERNATORIAL? The candidate at a city rally with JKL I have premised elsewhere that Keeping the presidency of Kenya as the hot-ass monopoly of the bandit bourgeoisie is the only historical agenda in town, and immediately the only open option. Howbeit we will keep the thought, to explore later, whether the era of national democratic revolutions is now defunct, and popular peoples revolutions extinct, yeah, whether it is now slavery without recompense, that the world is reduced to a litter of dead hopes, like those of the slaves of Rome after the defeat of Spartacus and his band. It would be a long time before Rome collapsed --Goodness gracious me! and a long, long evolution time before the blooming of renaissance, and the explosion of the French revolution. But for that whole period of incestuous power arrangements punctuated by murder at every paragraph, the character of humanity is not in doubt. Its ruthlessness and resilience heroic. Anyway, more about that later. Today, let us spare a thought provoked by two events. Baba Yao's wallop over the miller Kabogo in Kiambu, and Mbuvi Sonko's knock-out of Peter Kenneth. So stunned is PK, that he knows not whether to run as independent, go back to his own party, continue in Jubilee and angle up for a possible running mate position, seconding his nemesis. He could also disappear into irrelevance, but as I paged him a genotypical fence-sitter like Mwai Kibaki, he should cross his fingers a situation will emerge which needs a COMPROMISE, MILD CANDIDATE. As Kenyan politics heat up, and with heady ambitions galore, huge options could open up for depolarising weaklings. THE URBAN POPULIST UPSURGE The trick between Sonko and Waititu is their street populism. Kabogo and Peter look very posh, tidy and neat and well-spoken, but in the harshness of urban life, all that poshness translates, to the majority, as out of touch and even bigoted look-down. Ferdinand Waititu and Mike Sonko have opened up space in the urban political play-field. They have done that by own ability. They have widened the options subconsciously. They have fertilised the ground for an urban, popular revanchism. It is a pity the young ambitious thug Babu Owino doesn't have the sewer instinct to read the sh!t, yet. The city, the other city which is a swamp of human dung, will not hand itself over to the gentrified, dandified folk like Peter Kenneth and Evans Kidero without a steep fight. The harsh reality of city life for the majority gives them a nose to ferret out fakes, and choose their own fake, choose their own bandit if a bandit it must be,yeah, ave their own charlatan, if a charlatans it must be. Of course most of them city desperadoes are Sundays in Church professing their belief in and indulging their grief in fictitious solutions. Heaven after death is the ultimate fiction if you ask me. But where would classical drama be without Deus Ex Machina? On JKL live, Sonko in court, there is a telling moment of psychological emergence when Sonko disqualifies his opponents. He wont attack them since 'they are not in the studio to defend themselves'' but
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. 'Evans Kidero has a Phd but we all know what he did to Mumias, forcing president Uhuru to bail it out recently!'Hallo Sonko! I forget what my in-law did to Mumias ( Sugar company?) though I know lawyer Ojienda has been burning the midnight oil smoking out every legal trick in the book to have Kidero's linens washed in private, and not in court! I gather, from an African proverb no less, that when you see such professorial frogs running breathless up and about town, 'acrobaticing' in broad daylight, there must a huge thing threatening both their lives and their paymasters' pockets! But the brutal point the (by the establishment) unwanted Candidate is making is clear: Run down Mumias has run down Nairobi, and his Phd is but an upper class BLING BLING, merely a scarecrow for the uninitiated. Bluff! Sonko is here much against the wishes of the owners of Nairobi as we say. In similar fashion as with Kidero does Sonko go to diminish Peter Kenneth's managerial acumen at Kenya-Re, hot air. On Miguna he just repeats Raila Odinga's pitch: the man has a mental problem! I think that is also what President Ouru Kenyatta once made of Raila Odinga. So it wasn't like Sonko was having an ungubernatiorial meltdown! In other words, the academic dwarf, deplorable buffoon and lowly slum scum, has outgrown intimidation by the snobs and posh's flashing their Ivy-league degrees and blue-chip Cvs! (And to date, CV's which need crooked lawyers filing PERMANENT INJUNCTIONS in crooked courts to keep their achievements forever in the dark!) Sonko calls their bluff: Administrative Fakes! watch that price of unga, Harvardman Rotich, lest your CV and abilities too come up for rubish! Impotent and wilted di.cks promising a nympho the ride of her of her dreams! Kidero has had four years, and look, I am the guy supplying water, medicine, school fees and reclaiming stolen land plots! ---who said only Phd's know how PR propaganda works!? NB: Ever looking to peddle the sensational, TV-man Jeff Koinange is perplexed by the new Sonko in his gubernatorial pose. Where is the uncouth Sonko he asks, confronted with a cool one who apologises for slighting albinos the other day when he lunged at PK who had called him a professional hooligan! This psychological emergence of the outsiders which we already saw in Mombasa with governor 001, Joho, is here to stay. And it is the emerging story of the urban landscape. The urban voters are still welded to bandits, and charlatans for the lack of alternatives, but not necessarily to the state looter bandits --who are the traditional owners of city votes. The atrocious snob Miguna declassed Sonko with he can not spell governor, and the fake ace Kidero declassed the same with he does not know who the UN SG is! That is how they have lost this election I think. This race is about rats in the sewer, and Nairobi is 70% sewer. It is not about Gutterrez of gutter-press! NB: some footnote on the distribution of surface area of the Nairobi habitat and clean water resources will enlighten. But with silly and irrelevant put downs, the two Luo boys have lost it, just like Jomo's boy too lost it when he thought he could elbow Sonko out in favour of the then MK great hope to succeed him, Peter Kenneth. After Sonko pointed out PK's 2013 treachery, the Ouru beat a hasty retreat, just like earlier on, an attempt by DP Ruto and his allies to impose Eugene Wamalwa in Nairobi too had hit the rocks and proved a non starter. Nairobi is coming to its own, resisting being the puppet of Ethnic Kings with a rural outlook. The sewer is that sucking. The posh elite, unable to learn anything else but feudal boardroom intrigue and the misuse of institutional power (like party rigging and legal blackmail), will no doubt continue to try to fiefdomise Nairobi. Sonko has denied them the age-old template of the cuts against the uncuts with which they would have herded their electorate to the ethnic cage, had they succeeded to enact a PK versus EK fight. Sonko cuts through the Odinga-Kenyatta template. Nairobi, a vast sea of humanity daily wading a sh!t-swamp, is getting ready to pronounce her neutrality to the tribal feud of the two royal houses, at least in the all-important gubernatorial seat. The rats are out of the cage, and the sewer from whence they come teems with more independents. FOOTNOTE: Nairobi has some interesting tensions, heightened even as they mirror the republic at large. Chief of this is that 80% live on less than 10% of her habited geographical area. (That figure can be tuned best by a look at the UN habitat organisation. Or another statistic www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/16/atms-cheap-safe-water-nairobis-slums Then the water distribution That is an important statistic underlying social power, underpinning a caste system of enforced un-equality. Then there is the fact of HOW CHEAP the richest get the water, and HOW EXPENSIVE the slum dwellers buy the meagre they use. Put in perspective, some will immediately recognise the water politics of apartheid south Africa, and Israel and Palestinians. Those with the heart can unearth the statistics of water as a tool of political domination. There was once a coca-cola uptake yardstick for measuring the economic progress of a state, but, between me and you, thinking of the colonial/settler landgrab and the 'RISAF' concentration camps for the native, the clean WaterVolume/habitSurface Area ratio as related to the High and the Low, the Mighty and the Powerless, may be the better option to watch, should you want to tell the true story of our city and land. A colonial era political economy by other means? Nairobi is where it is happening. The explosion in social tension, the burst in the outer contours of the bubble, the beating heart of the beast. Bluffs will be called. NB: People, the usual suspects --sewer club, are still complaining of the price of Ugali posho? And you have Harvard and Yale men running the economy!? One reading is, our academic fetishism is misplaced. It couldn't be worse. Another reading is, the no-degrees (valid degree as Sonko says), would make matters worse, you aint seen nothing yet if you think ksh. 160 per unga packet is exorbitant, wait until real illiterates take over! You will need a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a packet of milk. And prices will be denoted in kilogramme of similar denomination bundles. For instance a sack of ksh.1000 notes weighing 25kg, standardised as ndururu, will buy one loaf of bread. You must have seen it to believe it can happen. Super hyper inflation!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2017 16:29:52 GMT 3
BILIONARE CHRIS KIRUBI'S HUMULIATION OF SONKO, THEATER OR A PARASITE'S DELUSION? IT IS a complex matter, and I been thinking long and hard. FIRST, Kalonzo Musyoka's tame autobiography has nonetheless lifted the veil and like a wardrobe malfunction intended or not, offered a titillating picture between the thighs of Kenyan power. A voyeur's plateful of a peephole. It was a moment like or in a theatrical divas match of fury like or the choreographed OMG moment which scooped more advert revenues after the live SUPER BOWL event, as the sensation spread, that the much hoarded part of La-Toya's sister could now be taken a measure of, raw. Kenyan politics, AGAINST ALL ODDSHere is some sensational reporting of the OOPS OH MY GOD theatrics I was specifically interested in Chris Kirubi's recent put down of the possible Nairobi governor Mbuvi Sonko. Sonko pulsed him as SPECIAL ECONOMIC ADVISOR, but the snobbery of vanity forced Kirubi to adopt a Migun/Kidero like superiorist attitude. The sewer rat Sonko isn't worth even a glance of the great Chris's busy eye! Let alone a hearing. I chuckled. The power-broker of Kenya whose communications are tapped by British Intelligence for tips on what is cooking high up at Kenya's summit, is too busy with international organisations to be bothered with shaping the future of Nairobi, --Nairobi, the emerging financial capital of East and Southern Africa! Kirubi is playing high poker, a hard to get wh-ore, or else, if he is serious, then does his disdain for Nairobi's likely governor, Mike Sonko, show the pathological delusion of an overblown parasitic ego. A bubble which would belie the ease with which Sonko punctured the Kenneth hot-air balloon. A delusion which underlines the foolhardiness with which Ouru thought he could finger-snappingly degrade Sonko to oblivion on behalf of the bubble PK! OF THE TERM STATE BANDIT OR PUBLIC PARASITE NB: In other summary, they all have an intimate relation with the Kenyan state don't they!? in fact the state has been their chief business! No!? Gideon Moi endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta! A homecoming! Kaungamen aka pharmacists didn't get rich thieving from the public! Bandits, but not parasites! I insist on the substantiation! You get rich 'shoplifting' the public treasury or cattle-rustling the state kraal, you are just an overgrown tapeworm in the belly of society.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 4, 2017 21:59:07 GMT 3
A RIP?: THE ORIGINAL MBUVI SONKO IS NO MORE
No. he is not literally dead. But Mike Sonko is no more. There is some PR-buro-tuned zombie running around Nairobi yes, and it is masquerading as Sonko yes, but it is such a poor fit, it is downright ridiculous.
It thus begs special attention.
The suspicions around town, that State House ---not necessarily Ouru Kenyatta but his earth-mover Jomo Gecaga------ has concluded Nairobi is better off with Kidero than Sonko, could just hold water, given the foolhardiness of this make-over. Mike Sonko has been tricked (by shamans?? say political 'shagirls') into putting the cart before the horse. He is playing posh Capital executive before he wins the actual race; he is shedding off the slum authenticity which is the core of his feeling to the wretched, the voter basket. Slightly over 800 thousand Nairobians voted for him for senator. It is dangerous to assume they did not know he is an 'uncouth populist charlatan'. They did and do know, but value his 'struggling good heart' which offers some real material support. And of course they have a pretty good idea how he made his money. ---he is not a thief like the rest of them! Not even a tenderpreneur! (which is the new name for con jobs to the cost of Wanjiku!) Then, he is no novelty to Nairobi politics. He was after all Makadara representative. And he won that against establishment opposition.
His Nairobi voters know him. As he is.
Uncouth, but not a thief. Primitive, but not a thief, No super degree, but not a thief. No posh college accent nor articulation, but not a thief. Contraband dealer, may be. Posho miller, sure; thief, no! A bit of self knowledge would inform SONKO why he walloped the cool and posh and managerially exquisite former great hope of Mount Kenya, Peter Kenneth, in the primaries. It would also inform him why he has next to killed Bishop Wanjiru's political career in the city. He beat her to pulp in the senatorial race when she flew the ODM flag in 2013, and he trashed her to litter for the Jubilee Nairobi gubernatorial slot in 2017, after she defected from ODM to announce herself governor in waiting for the ruling party. This new guy will need to cover a lot of mileage re-introducing himself to his erstwhile buddies. See footnote.
THE GENESIS: HOW STATE HOUSE GOT COLD FEET AT SONKO
First a short historical: there is enough documentation on the plots and sub plots hatched by Jubilee operatives to bar Mike Sonko from the gubernatorial office of Nairobi. Even the move of Peter Kenneth to Nairobi was reported to be part of the fix. There has been talk of deep money too, to bribe, buy Mr. Mike off! After this plot failed, there was the next one of the 'certificate of good conduct'!
... and other allegedly anti-Ouru secret video releases, signifying treason.
But Mike Sonko, his original self, overrode all these shenanigans with his support base intact and loyal. It is possible the real role of Peter Kenneth as an independent is to eat Sonko's votes and give Kideero a pass. A bit like the Jimnah Mbaru arrow-shot at Baba Yao's heels which later proved unnecessary as Kidero on his own beat Waititu, albeit narrowly.
NB: For those who love puzzles, the tally of the senatorial votes and the gubernatorial votes vary. If you want plausible details, pleas ask those who study these things in detail! You know, like the talk that in the presidential elections in 2013, over a million people in Mount Kenya voted for the president but did not bother to vote other candidates! But that is mathematics not politics!
THE DANGEROUS SONKO, FLIRTING WITH DESPERATE MOBS
In the run to the Jubilee primaries, Sonko was feeling the heat of Peter Kenneth. This was about the Kenyatta succession. The onus was on him, sewer rat, to see sense and make way for the future. PK being his better and social superior, silent logic spoke. Lo, Mike may have been of the gutter, but was no quitter, he was a fighter. He went to where the votes are and made his pitch from the guts. Addressing a rally in a slum area of the capital city, in the charged atmosphere as his future rode the line, Sonko vowed to regain properties and repossess all lands grabbed from Nairobi, former city council or current county authority, and if some of them are these horrible slums, the slum-dwellers will get the title deeds of long tenancy! There was also the option of suing for the rent they had paid the land-grabber all those years or even decades! And how did the slum crowd respond!? Lies or not, they cheered like he were Jesus Christ come back, to save Planet Earth from a nuclear holocaust! Of course such talk, reaching the ears of the well-heeled aristocratic gentry (who we call the owners of Nairobi), sent their balls crawling up their bellies. This was 'arson talk', a jolt of fear entered their fat-soaked buttocks through the one possible ventilate. No, Evans Kidero would never be that INSANE, Kidero would never be loco enough to PUBLICLY contemplate the idea of an urban land reform in Nairobi. Otherwise said, the paid-up fellow state looter of an oligarch Kidero would never think to throw overboard, the willing-buyer willing-seller fraudulent bonanza which underpins the property relations of neo-colonial Kenya. For, in deed, land title-deeds are the mother of all collateral for Kenyan banks! And, come to think of it, the Kenyatta family, where Jomo Gecaga comes from, is the mother of all land-grabbers in the republic, or, if you like, the first family among the willing buyers! This is the political economy behind the hiring of the Public relations firm to RETOOL Sonko. Fanning the appetites of a desperate Parisian mob, one agitatedly awaiting social salvation, is to some nothing short of beating funeral drums for their life-style.
NB: Those wild cheers for urban land reform emanating from the slums could of course be fake. But it is prudent to take chances if you are self-suspicious. The guilty are afraid. NB:2. Was William Ruto jeered twice at rallies in Nairobi and forced to give up? One of them at a Sonko rally!? Yes he was. Because there were shouts of arap Mashamba, and Landgrabber Singh.
So what is that got to do with it? Official clue is this
Even the riff-raff lowlies of Nairobi have heard how Weston Hotel or its extension or parking was grabbed from land belonging to Lang'ata Road Primary School. So they figure out a SONKO-RUTO alliance means no city land reform! No title deeds for long-standing generational squatters. But it is a thought slum dwellers are too dumb to figure that out for themselves, and they were heckling Ruto because he was not showering them with wads of cash! But from the top, be sure the populist rubber must never be allowed to hit the tarmac, So Sonko has to be zombified, just in case. He looses to Kidero, great, he wins, he is but a mindless zombie! So can the oligarchs keep their faces in condescending smiles, exchanging discrete knowing glances, to much chatter of champagne glasses, during election after parties! To their health!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 9, 2017 22:43:44 GMT 3
ALL HAIL THE NEW CAPITAL'S GOVERNOR!
Only guy whose win fascinates me!
Nobody Big wanted him, not in this seat. Ruto wanted a certain Wamalwa, Uhuru wanted that Dagoretti guy (his cousin Waweru I believe his name is), Eton-grade Jomo Gecaga (who wont touch Sonko's hand with a 10-foot pole) wanted Peter Kenneth, (failing that he rather Evans Kidero), and Jubilee intrigants behind the scene even tried to block Miko out, clutching at any crappy straw they could come up with (integrity, education, certificate, lateness!)
But this was for the Nairobi people to decide! And they did. Sonko was intimidated a bit and nearly lost himself, but his nerve held when it mattered most. Like when he was promised stupendous riches if he fakt off. There was no alternative seat to bribe him off Nairobi with, the way it had been fixed to get Baba Yao out of the way. Sonko put his case to the people, and himself in their hands. And now the people have decided: The sewer rat to the top of the Capital city of East and Central Africa. It was always an establishment posh kleptocrat like Evans Kidero (or blue-eyed Peter Kenneth) against posho-pusher and lowly Mike. The slum-weaned drug-dealer up against the Ivy-league educated thief, vote one!
Now the establishment will move for a palace coup, to have the sleeper technocrat they forced on Sonko take over the power by stealth, reduce Sonko to some irrelevant puppet of a fool! So Long Sonko does not loose the power of the people, he will beat them all, just as he did Dick Waithika long ago in Makadara, all the way to PK and EK today for governor.
But Nairobi is unwieldy. There is a lot of sh!t Kidero failed to mop up off the streets, and that is what came back to hit him on the face. Now Team Mbuvi has the ball/shit in their courts, and they have to show kick/shove! --Or Nairobi will change its mind on Sonko too. A city is a mob of brittle tempers after all.
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Post by kamalet on Aug 10, 2017 11:43:13 GMT 3
ALL HAIL THE NEW CAPITAL'S GOVERNOR! Only guy whose win fascinates me! Nobody Big wanted him, not in this seat. Ruto wanted a certain Wamalwa, Uhuru wanted that Dagoretti guy (his cousin Waweru I believe his name is), Eton-grade Jomo Gecaga (who wont touch Sonko's hand with a 10-foot pole) wanted Peter Kenneth, (failing that he rather Evans Kidero), and Jubilee intrigants behind the scene even tried to block Miko out, clutching at any crappy straw they could come up with (integrity, education, certificate, lateness!) But this was for the Nairobi people to decide! And they did. Sonko was intimidated a bit and nearly lost himself, but his nerve held when it mattered most. Like when he was promised stupendous riches if he fakt off. There was no alternative seat to bribe him off Nairobi with, the way it had been fixed to get Baba Yao out of the way. Sonko put his case to the people, and himself in their hands. And now the people have decided: The sewer rat to the top of the Capital city of East and Central Africa. It was always an establishment posh kleptocrat like Evans Kidero (or blue-eyed Peter Kenneth) against posho-pusher and lowly Mike. The slum-weaned drug-dealer up against the Ivy-league educated thief, vote one! Now the establishment will move for a palace coup, to have the sleeper technocrat they forced on Sonko take over the power by stealth, reduce Sonko to some irrelevant puppet of a fool! So Long Sonko does not loose the power of the people, he will beat them all, just as he did Dick Waithika long ago in Makadara, all the way to PK and EK today for governor. But Nairobi is unwieldy. There is a lot of sh!t Kidero failed to mop up off the streets, and that is what came back to hit him on the face. Now Team Mbuvi has the ball/shit in their courts, and they have to show kick/shove! --Or Nairobi will change its mind on Sonko too. A city is a mob of brittle tempers after all. Point of correction: Jomo Gecaga and Njee Muturi were funding Sonko
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 10, 2017 19:50:16 GMT 3
Kamalet,Late April 2017, when the Nairobi jubilee primaries were contested, there was a shock for Sonko when he went to vote at Bidii primary school, BuruBuru area. His name wasn't there. But the presiding officer was a quick wit. This could been an automatic disqualification. If Mike Sonko was a non-existent voter, phew, he was just a masquerade as a Jubilee candidate, No!? In one streetsmart move, he derailed a carefully 'initiated lawyer's footwork'. Naturally Sonko supporters went to investigate this curious mistake, where Jubilee's front-runner for the most powerful elected seat outside the presidency was
.. a fictitious voter in Nairobi! Still, allowed to vote, the chief gubernatorial candidate was forced to form a special anti-rigging unit to save his candidacy at the primaries! phew! Now, Kamalet, if you don't want to talk in half tongues, who is it who ---or who are they who--- were so determined to chop Sonko's neck off Nairobi and graft somebody else's? By the time Njee and Gecaga are funding Sonko, apart from spreadig their bets, the whole Jubilee party has smelled the coffee and Miko is the man. Even Samoei Ruto is on Sonko's train. And Ouru has reversed himself from campaigning for PK to offering him a job if he lets Sonko be! 'Everybody spots a winner baibe, and that is no lie!' --Or so, claims Hot Chocolate in a dirty song called Satisfy! Now there is nobody in Jubilee now who didn't support Miko one way or another, covert or overt, I tell ya! --I wont be surprised if in the final Nairobi tally, Sonko beat Uhuru Kenyatta in the numbers! Sonko, loved by the people, establishment enemy number one, if only because there is no one capable of immediately filling Raila's shoes, and power hates a vacuum! Sonko is warned! NB: With some land leases ending on large tracts in Nairobi, and Sonko in a moment of 'populist madness' suggested slum dwellers on these tracts will be assisted to become owners. The mass yelled itself coarse, but upwards, a lot of people shivered! Sonko is psychiatric, they clearly saw, he has to be rescued from himself! Igathe is his house psychiatrist! Jomo Gecaga: that, Kamalet, is diary keeper of the president who made sure Sonko was persona non grata in state house as PK was maneuvered into position, well, until those with a political sense overruled him! Sonko would run as an independent. And he would still kick everybody's ass. it is all in the past now though! ALL HAIL THE NEW CAPITAL'S GOVERNOR! Only guy whose win fascinates me! Nobody Big wanted him, not in this seat. Ruto wanted a certain Wamalwa, Uhuru wanted that Dagoretti guy (his cousin Waweru I believe his name is), Eton-grade Jomo Gecaga (who wont touch Sonko's hand with a 10-foot pole) wanted Peter Kenneth, (failing that he rather Evans Kidero), and Jubilee intrigants behind the scene even tried to block Miko out, clutching at any crappy straw they could come up with (integrity, education, certificate, lateness!) But this was for the Nairobi people to decide! And they did. Sonko was intimidated a bit and nearly lost himself, but his nerve held when it mattered most. Like when he was promised stupendous riches if he fakt off. There was no alternative seat to bribe him off Nairobi with, the way it had been fixed to get Baba Yao out of the way. Sonko put his case to the people, and himself in their hands. And now the people have decided: The sewer rat to the top of the Capital city of East and Central Africa. It was always an establishment posh kleptocrat like Evans Kidero (or blue-eyed Peter Kenneth) against posho-pusher and lowly Mike. The slum-weaned drug-dealer up against the Ivy-league educated thief, vote one! Now the establishment will move for a palace coup, to have the sleeper technocrat they forced on Sonko take over the power by stealth, reduce Sonko to some irrelevant puppet of a fool! So Long Sonko does not loose the power of the people, he will beat them all, just as he did Dick Waithika long ago in Makadara, all the way to PK and EK today for governor. But Nairobi is unwieldy. There is a lot of sh!t Kidero failed to mop up off the streets, and that is what came back to hit him on the face. Now Team Mbuvi has the ball/shit in their courts, and they have to show kick/shove! --Or Nairobi will change its mind on Sonko too. A city is a mob of brittle tempers after all. Point of correction: Jomo Gecaga and Njee Muturi were funding Sonko
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 16, 2017 19:30:40 GMT 3
ANOTHER CHAPCHAP GOVERNOR? Don't I love the mockeries history serves a people who have the laxity to joke with their futures! Such as us Kenyans, and most of the African continent of course. Think tupendous wealth, think stupendous poverty, Congo blues you know. But that godforsaken democratic republic aside! let us stay close to our own shores, Kenya, blessed of the gods. Theatrical characters will temporarily emerge to fill the vacuum; the vacuum left by the nobility in this case. It is the high season of the charlatans, before the real deal solution men or women. History loves to exhaust all options, up to the worst case scenario, before the upward trend commences. So China had her 50 year civil war, Vietnam her 50 year civil war, and the USA her civil war to sort out the issue of slavery. Apparently the American war was too short, wherefore to date, blacks don't appear that liberated to themselves! In Europe, things only took up after the industrial bourgeoisie had confined the nobility to the entertainment sector,or, in other more radical places like France, the guilotine. It is therefore with some chuckle that I notice the theatrics of Nairobi county where a noble has been replaced by a lowly commoner. --Evans Kidero is nobility. He is Ivy-League nobility, ODM party nobility, lineage nobility by marriage, Blue-chip CV nobility,
bureaucratic nobility. All that means he is a Kenyan aristocrat, a pure blue-blooded national lootocrat, like Ouru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Joseph Kinyua, Gideon Moi, Maina Wanjigi
..... and you would be surprised who else if you bothered to find out about Kenya's top layer of filth! That is primitive accumulator filth. A mobutist, kleptocratic, afro-state gangster crowd whose antics is how we explain Kenya's legendary ranking on the corruption index! (Or why did you imagine we belong to the cloacal end of transparency international's sh!t list!) But Nairobi county went to the polls. And in comes lowly Sonko. Governor elect. We saw him chewed alive at the debates. His opponents were all blue-chip or Ivy-league masters of the whiteman's language. Mbuvi could hardly pronounce his name, SONGO, let alone spell S-O-N-K-O-H!? No matter, there was something else the majority of Nairobi voters --who don't watch debates-- knew. They had lived under a blue-chip Ivy-League regime for 5 years, and they had lots of sh!t to show for it, everywhere. They needed someone to shove the sh!t ---even if theatrically in a Dr. Alfred Mutua propaganda patented fashion. nairobinews.nation.co.ke/news/sonko-nairobi-cleanest-city-africa/ The sewer rat understands it is in a cage built by the nobility. This nobility as a class was taken aback by the emergence of the sewer rat who, mobilising the people, set back of their noble plans for Nairobi. Nairobi is of course their private property, neither do they take kindly to usurpers, especially scum from the slums. To this end they are plotting poisonous arrows for the rat in the cage should Igathe fail. Igathe is the viperous snake (so-called running mate) who was detailed to the rat to finish it off in the cage, make a meal of it to the amusement of the nobility. The rat instinctively understands the situation. It is agitated and pro-active, hitting the ground running so to speak. For survival instincts are not the monopoly of Ivy-leaguers. Evolution has been kind to all. Does it matter if Sonko's private group of thugs and his trucks cleans up the city in one week where Kidero couldn't in 5 with all those sanitary workers, ghost or real? Well, Kirinyaga governor Anne Waiguru spent a billion of youth money to build single toilet in Kibera, if Sonko can steal 50 Million only and build 20,000 toilets in Nairobi, and make her the cleanest city in Africa in five years in the process, man aint I game! I will take the deal. I hate dirty toilets. I hate sewer-flooded streets. I hate sewers through my living room. I hate my open shoes bathing my feet in maji-ya-mafi as I walk about! (believe it or not, I took the Kagame deal --spotless Chigali. I only quit when I thought the historical curriculum to be taught was an insult even to stupid people!) Just clean the sh!t! Sonko! Nobody needs a prestigious doctorate to do that. Fail, and you too is just another pile of dung waiting to be shoved down the gutter! I hate sh!it, I hate sh!t cities! I hat sh!t governors!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 20, 2017 11:30:19 GMT 3
This article caught my attention. I stopped to ponder it the way I usually feel compelled to import some beautiful African stories like ... This article caught my attention. I stopped to ponder it the way I usually feel compelled to import some beautiful African stories. One such story is this Orchestrre Veve Composition by Mateta Verkys. Mateta's saxophone always has these riddles. Yeye ni jamaa wa vitendawili kwa sax! In the same vein this story about Nairobi hits me as a riddle. The PARTICULAR face of the youth who have taken over Nairobi. They Are described as BLING-BLING. No, NOT SILICON VALLEY nor some other modern-smart, but BLINGBLING. And they have taken over a city which one of Kenya's best literary minds, Ngugi de Thiong'o, variedly described as a small island of posh floating in a sea of slums. Gotta know why a man plays saxophone in such devilish fashion! Yeee, Bling Bling! Now the import.
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