Post by jakaswanga on Mar 30, 2014 15:33:50 GMT 3
FOCUS ON FRANCIS THUITA KIMEMIA.
DISCLAIMER 1.
Officially, Francis Kimemia is merely the secretary to the cabinet. Well, I am telling you, he is the current head of the civil service, a position he has held since Ambassador Muthaura gave way. There was a small moment when Joseph Kinyua bigged his way up, but that moment is since passed, and Old Joseph is back to the boardroom to re-organise himself for the next palace coup attempt. He will be back!
DISCLAIMER 2..
In the thread Jukwaa Watch Uhuru Kenyatta... jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/7432/jukwaa-watch-on-uhuru?page=3 .. we have already seen off President Muigai-K as a trussed up cry-baby, or, at best, an amusing authoritarian going through the motions, issuing directives left right and centre, directives which, as the saying goes in Africa, not even a parrot heeds. Even the docile newspapers could dare report, with a blunt mocking tone, ‘’no sooner had the president issued his latest stern warning to poachers, than another mother elephant was killed in a national park, right in front of Nakuru Sate House!’’ --Oh dear
And so we have the first post-colonial-born President crying forlorn, orphaned, as all around the nation burns in vice and crime, burns in insecurity, burns in corruption, inequality and poverty.
To understand how it came to this, to trace the history of the Original Judas Kiss, to have an idea of the forces holding the ‘duly elected’ emasculated, a focused look at some of the pillars of his regime (and those around him), will be highly instructive. One such pillar is the august Francis Kimemia.
Of course we have had some preliminary comments on him, for example in the Raila coup thread ... jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8574/uhuruto-cooks-raila-rumours-whatssup?page=2 ... but these have been more of the hilarious kind ---his fingering of USAID as a coup funding racket; his inept locking out of government workers from Jogoo House; his locking up of the CJ in the airport loo; his ban on Raila using airport VIP lounges, his barring of the Othaya Narc activist from rubbing shoulders with Emilio in daylight, well, his mad man’s lurch at break-neck speeds through government traffic. But these, on a closer look, are merely symptoms of a very disturbed man, in a much disturbed office. Not to mention working under a very disturbing President, in transition.
We will attempt to find out what all this disturbances are all about, and we will narrow down on what makes Francis be so volatile a public exhibitionist where otherwise a discrete hand like of the other Francis he replaced, would suffice. --Guy could be crying for help. And these could simply have been the SOS shouts of a sinking bureaucracy. If we take a look at the bigger picture. (#### we will go through the ills of the bureaucracy later)
Francis Kimemia, by his pivotal station and (bureaucratic) ancestry, is vintage forensic material, in the sense of a study object in political science. He is partly immersed in the shadows of Power, a multi-tentacled Rasputin working levers in the inner sanctum of state, a dark and foreboding non-presence like a killer-sub; yet, as head of the civil service and de-facto deputy premier (to Joseph Kinyua), he is ever in the open, ever in the media spotlight, ever on show keeping up an act of comical buffoonery. He is therefore like an iceberg, you never know his real depth until your super-tanker hits it, and reports damage or no damage.
Uhuru Kenyatta tried to fire him and got his fingers burnt. Francis Kimemia, what you see, may not be what you get. In him, forces converge and so powerful they are, that the turbulence of the tension they create inside him, a whirpool, bursts the control of his mind, and occasionally renders him irrational. Since there is only so much contradictory forces that can be reconciled within a given praxis.
Some appetisers:NOTE THIS KIMEMIA INTERVIEWs
This baring of souls, like at a confessor’s, which gives the formation blocks of his character, and the earlier forging of the man, will help us understand some of the ‘tortured imageries ’ that become apparent as the exercise of power turns them upside down. And we will discover too, how coping with the corrupt deformations which power compels upon human character, significantly explains the documented excesses of irrationality exhibited by Kimemia, as all powerful head of the civil service. And he used to wake up at 3 to milk the cows before running kilometres barefoot on thorny paths to school (which was the standard experience of normal boys back in the mid sixties Kenya). But it is an important code, because sometimes in the study of alienated ruling classes, their obsessive obesity is explained as over compensation for childhood denials! Obsessive obesity is for instance a caucus of top civil servants at the Kenya institute of monetary studies [KIMS] where the car park is an endless parade of Mercedez Benzes not even the CEO of Siemens would dream of riding, while, on the agenda, the civil servants are discussing how to beg for food aid from the international community, because Kenyans are starving in Turkana. ---That kind of car-park wealth for a bureaucracy must be explained in the light of a starving population they are in charge of. Even if it is not a problem to Kenyans, others find it enough of a problem to give some thought. Our workaholic. 1000 letters a day, the new app for speed-reading is tailor made for him. I see its advert popping up on my screen now!
But there is also other mundane stuff, distracting Francis from getting on with the job (even if there is not much to show for his work ethics as statistics and other data will show later ###)
www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-148029/kimemia-kinyua-power-struggle
I been keeping a lazy eye on him, waiting for some key events to happen, an event indicative of the depth of his roots and the strengths of his support columns, in short, the security of his tenure. Kinyua's back-stab finding home to the hilt perhaps? Then this mysterious Maradona-like shuffle happened (with regrets to the fans of Barcelona’s Messi whose moves are yet to enter the Political lexicon), where he was demoted then promoted. Westgate, on the face of it, provided Mr. Kenyatta’s upstarts (handlers with no love lost for Kimemia) to reign him in. He was seen as a rogue, a power unto his own at the President’s office, and was brought in to clerk around at State House for three days a week, where he could be maligned, ignored and given menial tasks, as he was closely observed, trimmed in ritual humiliation.
Good plan from the kitchen cabinet choking on public-funded caviar and cognac, and, as they sank deep in the china-imported furniture, resting in tents serving as airy adjacents to state-house porticos, the pretenders must have congratulated themselves on a plot well hatched. But, in practice, this bureaucratic novelty quickly turned out to be a naïve notion from childish minds. Trying to tame an experienced serpent by locking themselves up with it in a cage? He just ate them up, well, with a little backing from the powerful elements for whom he is the link man.
It will be important to understand why the Kenyan bureaucracy appears so beholden to Francis Kimemia. You can not do this without having an understanding of ethnicity vs nepotism within Kenyan civil service, and what the purge of the once mighty Moi-Kalenjin bureaucracy at the behest of Kibaki’s cronies, has meant. And the anxieties generated by William Ruto’s undefined heart.
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What in heaven’s name was happening behind the scenes? we ask. Were we being treated to apparitions or reality, soap or real politic? Why the hide and seek politics by the president? Was it an afterthought which informed he, Kimemia, dejected and humiliated after stellar service, could be sucked into DP Ruto’s orbit in the deadly game behind the scenes?
This mysterious attempted sacking ----became a temporary demotion then an abrupt promotion--- and its peculiar sequence of events can now be hypothesised about, in full glory.
NB: And it pains me seriously, because the the original plan was to spend the lunch break trying to make inroads into the comfort zones of our Latasia --that is our Asian with Latina properties; instead here I am whacking away at the chapereta, picking Kimemia’s bones.
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It fell to an Old Hand –I suspect Gichangi, to explain why the marginalisation of Kimemia had to be reversed, for home reasons. When Kinyua, his former junior, took over his major tasks, that was enough humiliation. Gichangi with his patient demeanor, yet pedagogical forcefulness, I suspect, could bembeleza or shut up any would-be tantrum from the rich spoilt kids who have taken over state house; or tidily cajole into common sense, the small boys who read too much into their titles of excellency or commander in chief. This is not the world Qwek Qwik and Qwak or other Disneyland cartoons of Donald Duck’s mountain of cash. This is the game of power, and there are people who believe the elections were rigged. Rigging elections is enough reason to have yourself summarily executed at the hands of men with the nerves to call a spade a spade. History is not Disneyland TV!
Kimemia, for those who have forgotten, had proved himself beyond comparison in service to the House of Mumbi in general, and, specifically, the plight of the Muthamaki. It was on him that the collapse of the ICC cases rested. He had to be rewarded rather than asante ya punda ni mateked, and of course the option of shutting him up kienyeji style (as Otishotish would say) is out of question.
Here is a hint. Early 2008, with the country burning and Ambassador Muthaura’s nerves needing too much miraa to calm, with veteran John Michuki knowing what is to be done but covering his tracks like a wily fox, it was Francis Kimemia who rose to the occasion in a very discrete but vital role.
HINT:
National advisory security committee NASC. And see comments by Fatou Bensouda in this respect of non cooperation as far as the Kenyan state was concerned.
Mwai Kibaki was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. The heavy lifting was always done for him by others. Even the organisation of the Democratic Party which became his vehicle to lock out the formidable Kenneth Matiba, was not done by him but by Njenga Karume.
Uhuru Kenyatta too, should we say, rose to the occasion in 2008 and fought his corner for the good of the House of Mumbi, albeit under John Michuki’s sustained pressure. The wily old fox recognised it would make the boy a king; it would be a rite of passage for him. It turned out to be a poisoned chalice ---read ICC indictment-- but of course Michuki stuck to his choice and did what he had to do to the end, even as conniving weaklings like Kibaki sought to short-change the Muthamaki for Mudavadi. (There are some who think Kimemia signed up to this project too, and that is the genesis of the bad blood between him and Muigai. I do not think that is correct nay, methinks the nature of Kimemia’s accomplishments under the patronage of John Michuki are above reproach). ---Later I will explain something nobody can take away from John Michuki, something which makes old soldiers travel to the grave of their once deadliest foes, and hike a salute in honour to a worthy opponent. In Kenya, Michuki was an extraordinary personality, totally intergrated and decided, internally cold and utterly, piously ruthless.
Michuki is the godfather of the collapse of the ICC case against Uhuru Kenyatta; and Francis Kimemia, was his adept executor of the scheme by a careful manipulation of intelligence to tie up all loose ends.
I will state it plane to honour John Michuki. Of all the Mungiki who thought they could turn around and betray Uhuru Kenyatta, they have rested in peace faster that they could say the word Judas! It is the steel in Michuki’s mind that made Ouru Kenyatta President. And that steel could not be bought by Kenyatta’s money. That steel is forged of the loyalty to an idea.
And Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency now stunts, staggers dazed toward a fall, because it has no loyalty to any idea, not even one as simple as living a country better than one finds it.
But more on Michuki later ---time allowing.
Uhuru Kenyatta, thanks to something called plausible deniability [a phrase I learnt from b6k of Jukwaa] is not aware of how his ICC chains came to buckle, and cut. (His case is all but collapsed, though not Ruto’s, which creates a latent tension). Back then in early 2008, who was Francis Kimemia, and what was he? did he do?
Aaaah, now you remember!
I have heard tell from radicals of the house of Mumbi
That their annals have a silent refrain
Laden with the names of the unsung Heros.
I have heard them tell, that Muigai the son of Kenyatta
Should not treat Kimemia like he were some Ol Kalou Maasai!
You should have remembered that, Mr President, before you decided to sack him. Kimemia is an old tested soldier in the house of Mumbi heroics, and even if his brand of services is no longer apt, and his specialities more of analogue drags than digital Wi-Fi, he should not be publicly humiliated by people he made, nor by a King he shed kinsmen’s blood propping up, OOYO DA, he should be allowed to, in the words of MacArthur, fade away with grace into the sunset.
MrDONALD DUCK President, you have debts that can not be paid with money. You have power which you have not earned. That is why a large section of the bureaucracy can ignore you and your many directives. You could style up and earn some keep, make a tough decision for once and following it through.
Eg: You are now rich enough to ease off on Land greed. And the industrialisation you mouthed at your inauguration can not be without LAND REFORM. Go for land reform, your excellency. And see it through. Break the cartels and clean the corruption. Madame Ngilu is incompetent and a throw back to atavism. Fire her and take up the task yourself, and be as ruthless on land barons as your patron Michuki was with the Mungiki.
Then shall we can sing:
Kenyatta 1 grabbed the land. Kenyatta II re-distributed it to the needy.
Avoid the easy option OPENLY BECKONING NOW, your excellency: This easy option is the tough Christian Sheriff taming the MUSLIM coast with his hand on the trigger flicking away like a master guitarist. You know the Christian nation is clamouring for blood after the massacre in the Mombasa church and the child with a bullet lodged in her cranium has been turned into a national shrine to whip up emotions. Police commanders are already on a shoot to kill even as Kimaiyo and Ole Lenku wriggle and writhe about. Mr. Kenyatta, this shoot to kill will play into the Chritian/Muslim escalating narrative of global war, of Jihadists vs Crusaders! We need a powerful deflection from that trajectory of vengeance.
I suggest you awe us by solving the Land issue, and awe yourself watching us vote for you next elections! Yes, you got that right, you gotta work on your re-election, or you are a gonna.
But this is the Francis Kimemia focus thread. And we have sailed far, far. Let us get back to him in due course.
I will be back. And back to Francis Kimemia.
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DISCLAIMER 1.
Officially, Francis Kimemia is merely the secretary to the cabinet. Well, I am telling you, he is the current head of the civil service, a position he has held since Ambassador Muthaura gave way. There was a small moment when Joseph Kinyua bigged his way up, but that moment is since passed, and Old Joseph is back to the boardroom to re-organise himself for the next palace coup attempt. He will be back!
DISCLAIMER 2..
In the thread Jukwaa Watch Uhuru Kenyatta... jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/7432/jukwaa-watch-on-uhuru?page=3 .. we have already seen off President Muigai-K as a trussed up cry-baby, or, at best, an amusing authoritarian going through the motions, issuing directives left right and centre, directives which, as the saying goes in Africa, not even a parrot heeds. Even the docile newspapers could dare report, with a blunt mocking tone, ‘’no sooner had the president issued his latest stern warning to poachers, than another mother elephant was killed in a national park, right in front of Nakuru Sate House!’’ --Oh dear
And so we have the first post-colonial-born President crying forlorn, orphaned, as all around the nation burns in vice and crime, burns in insecurity, burns in corruption, inequality and poverty.
To understand how it came to this, to trace the history of the Original Judas Kiss, to have an idea of the forces holding the ‘duly elected’ emasculated, a focused look at some of the pillars of his regime (and those around him), will be highly instructive. One such pillar is the august Francis Kimemia.
Of course we have had some preliminary comments on him, for example in the Raila coup thread ... jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8574/uhuruto-cooks-raila-rumours-whatssup?page=2 ... but these have been more of the hilarious kind ---his fingering of USAID as a coup funding racket; his inept locking out of government workers from Jogoo House; his locking up of the CJ in the airport loo; his ban on Raila using airport VIP lounges, his barring of the Othaya Narc activist from rubbing shoulders with Emilio in daylight, well, his mad man’s lurch at break-neck speeds through government traffic. But these, on a closer look, are merely symptoms of a very disturbed man, in a much disturbed office. Not to mention working under a very disturbing President, in transition.
We will attempt to find out what all this disturbances are all about, and we will narrow down on what makes Francis be so volatile a public exhibitionist where otherwise a discrete hand like of the other Francis he replaced, would suffice. --Guy could be crying for help. And these could simply have been the SOS shouts of a sinking bureaucracy. If we take a look at the bigger picture. (#### we will go through the ills of the bureaucracy later)
Francis Kimemia, by his pivotal station and (bureaucratic) ancestry, is vintage forensic material, in the sense of a study object in political science. He is partly immersed in the shadows of Power, a multi-tentacled Rasputin working levers in the inner sanctum of state, a dark and foreboding non-presence like a killer-sub; yet, as head of the civil service and de-facto deputy premier (to Joseph Kinyua), he is ever in the open, ever in the media spotlight, ever on show keeping up an act of comical buffoonery. He is therefore like an iceberg, you never know his real depth until your super-tanker hits it, and reports damage or no damage.
Uhuru Kenyatta tried to fire him and got his fingers burnt. Francis Kimemia, what you see, may not be what you get. In him, forces converge and so powerful they are, that the turbulence of the tension they create inside him, a whirpool, bursts the control of his mind, and occasionally renders him irrational. Since there is only so much contradictory forces that can be reconciled within a given praxis.
Some appetisers:
mobile.nation.co.ke/News/For-Kimemia-it-was-always-a-question-of-when-and-not-if/-/1950946/2010390/-/format/xhtml/-/p7tuffz/-/index.html
Highly placed sources within State House tolds Saturday Nation that some in the Uhuru Administration see Mr Kimemia as creating another centre of power, a situation made all the more worrisome by the realisation that the President and Deputy President William Ruto will have to be away from the country for a long time as they are facing trial at the International Criminal Court.
“The two principals need somebody they can completely trust. They used the opportunity presented by the Westgate crisis to effect the changes as some of the loopholes in intelligence were attributable to Mr Kimemia’s appointees,” a source at the presidency who could not be quoted without jeopardising his position in government told Saturday Nation.
He said prior to the Thursday move, four departments including the influential Government Printers had been moved from Mr Kimemia’s office at Harambee House to State House
Highly placed sources within State House tolds Saturday Nation that some in the Uhuru Administration see Mr Kimemia as creating another centre of power, a situation made all the more worrisome by the realisation that the President and Deputy President William Ruto will have to be away from the country for a long time as they are facing trial at the International Criminal Court.
“The two principals need somebody they can completely trust. They used the opportunity presented by the Westgate crisis to effect the changes as some of the loopholes in intelligence were attributable to Mr Kimemia’s appointees,” a source at the presidency who could not be quoted without jeopardising his position in government told Saturday Nation.
He said prior to the Thursday move, four departments including the influential Government Printers had been moved from Mr Kimemia’s office at Harambee House to State House
June 30 2013. “This office is very crucial and remains the heartbeat of government. It is not for joyriders but well-meaning, hardworking and honest people who can serve the President, the government and the public.” Neither is it meant for the power-hungry, nor the unskilled who cannot handle service delivery. “It is not a place for gossip but a place to serve Wanjiku (members of the public) on issues like insecurity, land, community development while at the same time encouraging investors. “The office holder must remain balanced and focused to serve the taxpayer. Kenyans need a government that takes care of their pockets and provides food for their stomachs and not mere empty rhetoric,” he adds.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087155&story_title=kimemia-speaks-out-demystifies-cabinet-position
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087155&story_title=kimemia-speaks-out-demystifies-cabinet-position
This baring of souls, like at a confessor’s, which gives the formation blocks of his character, and the earlier forging of the man, will help us understand some of the ‘tortured imageries ’ that become apparent as the exercise of power turns them upside down. And we will discover too, how coping with the corrupt deformations which power compels upon human character, significantly explains the documented excesses of irrationality exhibited by Kimemia, as all powerful head of the civil service.
“Parents should also balance between carrot and stick — disciplining the children by always speaking to them about the truth and advising them against bad ways. As a young boy of seven years, he was inculcated with the virtue of honesty when he started receiving the Holy Communion while donning oversize religious gowns.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087163&story_title=what-you-didn-t-know-about-cabinet-secretary-francis-kimemia&pageNo=2
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087163&story_title=what-you-didn-t-know-about-cabinet-secretary-francis-kimemia&pageNo=2
On education, Kimemia disclosed plans to decentralise the Commission for Higher Education to the county level so as to check on the mushrooming of universities and colleges. He said the government has made tremendous effort to uphold the standard of education in the country, with already 15 fully-fledged public universities established on top of the existing private ones. “Our centres of knowledge must not be tribalised in a manner that lecturers of a given university are all from the same region. CHE must check on such bias in order to allow proper interaction of students and lecturers,” he says.
Kimemia likens his job, which is a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week affair, to a police station as he is consulted on a host of government matters. Apart from government briefs from State officials, including fellow Cabinet Secretaries and security agencies as early as 5am, Kimemia has to contend with the bulk of work that includes upto 1,000 letters a day.
His office complement includes a Principal Administrator, who is at the level of Principal Secretary, and other staff who help him run the office. Speaking on Jubilee’s pet subject of a digital economy, Kimemia disclosed that in the near future Cabinet business will be digitalized, including Online presentations and tracking implementation without compromising on the security of government agenda. He says currently, many Cabinet decisions are left unimplemented because of the manual record-keeping. This means that physical Cabinet meetings will be minimised to save on time to follow-up on the implementation of Cabinet agenda.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087155&story_title=cabinet-secretary-francis-kimemia-speaks-out-demystifies-cabinet-position&pageNo=2
Kimemia likens his job, which is a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week affair, to a police station as he is consulted on a host of government matters. Apart from government briefs from State officials, including fellow Cabinet Secretaries and security agencies as early as 5am, Kimemia has to contend with the bulk of work that includes upto 1,000 letters a day.
His office complement includes a Principal Administrator, who is at the level of Principal Secretary, and other staff who help him run the office. Speaking on Jubilee’s pet subject of a digital economy, Kimemia disclosed that in the near future Cabinet business will be digitalized, including Online presentations and tracking implementation without compromising on the security of government agenda. He says currently, many Cabinet decisions are left unimplemented because of the manual record-keeping. This means that physical Cabinet meetings will be minimised to save on time to follow-up on the implementation of Cabinet agenda.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087155&story_title=cabinet-secretary-francis-kimemia-speaks-out-demystifies-cabinet-position&pageNo=2
But there is also other mundane stuff, distracting Francis from getting on with the job (even if there is not much to show for his work ethics as statistics and other data will show later ###)
www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-148029/kimemia-kinyua-power-struggle
I been keeping a lazy eye on him, waiting for some key events to happen, an event indicative of the depth of his roots and the strengths of his support columns, in short, the security of his tenure. Kinyua's back-stab finding home to the hilt perhaps? Then this mysterious Maradona-like shuffle happened (with regrets to the fans of Barcelona’s Messi whose moves are yet to enter the Political lexicon), where he was demoted then promoted. Westgate, on the face of it, provided Mr. Kenyatta’s upstarts (handlers with no love lost for Kimemia) to reign him in. He was seen as a rogue, a power unto his own at the President’s office, and was brought in to clerk around at State House for three days a week, where he could be maligned, ignored and given menial tasks, as he was closely observed, trimmed in ritual humiliation.
Good plan from the kitchen cabinet choking on public-funded caviar and cognac, and, as they sank deep in the china-imported furniture, resting in tents serving as airy adjacents to state-house porticos, the pretenders must have congratulated themselves on a plot well hatched. But, in practice, this bureaucratic novelty quickly turned out to be a naïve notion from childish minds. Trying to tame an experienced serpent by locking themselves up with it in a cage? He just ate them up, well, with a little backing from the powerful elements for whom he is the link man.
It will be important to understand why the Kenyan bureaucracy appears so beholden to Francis Kimemia. You can not do this without having an understanding of ethnicity vs nepotism within Kenyan civil service, and what the purge of the once mighty Moi-Kalenjin bureaucracy at the behest of Kibaki’s cronies, has meant. And the anxieties generated by William Ruto’s undefined heart.
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What in heaven’s name was happening behind the scenes? we ask. Were we being treated to apparitions or reality, soap or real politic? Why the hide and seek politics by the president? Was it an afterthought which informed he, Kimemia, dejected and humiliated after stellar service, could be sucked into DP Ruto’s orbit in the deadly game behind the scenes?
This mysterious attempted sacking ----became a temporary demotion then an abrupt promotion--- and its peculiar sequence of events can now be hypothesised about, in full glory.
NB: And it pains me seriously, because the the original plan was to spend the lunch break trying to make inroads into the comfort zones of our Latasia --that is our Asian with Latina properties; instead here I am whacking away at the chapereta, picking Kimemia’s bones.
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It fell to an Old Hand –I suspect Gichangi, to explain why the marginalisation of Kimemia had to be reversed, for home reasons. When Kinyua, his former junior, took over his major tasks, that was enough humiliation. Gichangi with his patient demeanor, yet pedagogical forcefulness, I suspect, could bembeleza or shut up any would-be tantrum from the rich spoilt kids who have taken over state house; or tidily cajole into common sense, the small boys who read too much into their titles of excellency or commander in chief. This is not the world Qwek Qwik and Qwak or other Disneyland cartoons of Donald Duck’s mountain of cash. This is the game of power, and there are people who believe the elections were rigged. Rigging elections is enough reason to have yourself summarily executed at the hands of men with the nerves to call a spade a spade. History is not Disneyland TV!
Kimemia, for those who have forgotten, had proved himself beyond comparison in service to the House of Mumbi in general, and, specifically, the plight of the Muthamaki. It was on him that the collapse of the ICC cases rested. He had to be rewarded rather than asante ya punda ni mateked, and of course the option of shutting him up kienyeji style (as Otishotish would say) is out of question.
Here is a hint. Early 2008, with the country burning and Ambassador Muthaura’s nerves needing too much miraa to calm, with veteran John Michuki knowing what is to be done but covering his tracks like a wily fox, it was Francis Kimemia who rose to the occasion in a very discrete but vital role.
HINT:
National advisory security committee NASC. And see comments by Fatou Bensouda in this respect of non cooperation as far as the Kenyan state was concerned.
samotalis.blogspot.nl/2010/09/icc-is-building-on-kibaki-security.html
ICC's request for specific minutes gives clearer indication they already are privy to their contents based on the documentations received from Justice Phillip Waki, but wish to corroborate the same as they continue with their investigations.
It also appears to have its radar on some top security aides at the time, by virtue of their official positions.
The court could be interested in what was decided at the security meetings that brought together the then Internal security Minister John Michuki, Police Commissioner Maj-Gen (Rtd) Hussein Ali, Chief of General Staff Gen. Jeremiah Kianga, Director General of NSIS Michael Gichangi, Internal Security PS Francis Kimemia, AP Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua and the Head of Public Service Mr Francis Muthaura, among others.
ICC's request for specific minutes gives clearer indication they already are privy to their contents based on the documentations received from Justice Phillip Waki, but wish to corroborate the same as they continue with their investigations.
It also appears to have its radar on some top security aides at the time, by virtue of their official positions.
The court could be interested in what was decided at the security meetings that brought together the then Internal security Minister John Michuki, Police Commissioner Maj-Gen (Rtd) Hussein Ali, Chief of General Staff Gen. Jeremiah Kianga, Director General of NSIS Michael Gichangi, Internal Security PS Francis Kimemia, AP Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua and the Head of Public Service Mr Francis Muthaura, among others.
Uhuru Kenyatta too, should we say, rose to the occasion in 2008 and fought his corner for the good of the House of Mumbi, albeit under John Michuki’s sustained pressure. The wily old fox recognised it would make the boy a king; it would be a rite of passage for him. It turned out to be a poisoned chalice ---read ICC indictment-- but of course Michuki stuck to his choice and did what he had to do to the end, even as conniving weaklings like Kibaki sought to short-change the Muthamaki for Mudavadi. (There are some who think Kimemia signed up to this project too, and that is the genesis of the bad blood between him and Muigai. I do not think that is correct nay, methinks the nature of Kimemia’s accomplishments under the patronage of John Michuki are above reproach). ---Later I will explain something nobody can take away from John Michuki, something which makes old soldiers travel to the grave of their once deadliest foes, and hike a salute in honour to a worthy opponent. In Kenya, Michuki was an extraordinary personality, totally intergrated and decided, internally cold and utterly, piously ruthless.
Michuki is the godfather of the collapse of the ICC case against Uhuru Kenyatta; and Francis Kimemia, was his adept executor of the scheme by a careful manipulation of intelligence to tie up all loose ends.
I will state it plane to honour John Michuki. Of all the Mungiki who thought they could turn around and betray Uhuru Kenyatta, they have rested in peace faster that they could say the word Judas! It is the steel in Michuki’s mind that made Ouru Kenyatta President. And that steel could not be bought by Kenyatta’s money. That steel is forged of the loyalty to an idea.
And Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency now stunts, staggers dazed toward a fall, because it has no loyalty to any idea, not even one as simple as living a country better than one finds it.
But more on Michuki later ---time allowing.
Uhuru Kenyatta, thanks to something called plausible deniability [a phrase I learnt from b6k of Jukwaa] is not aware of how his ICC chains came to buckle, and cut. (His case is all but collapsed, though not Ruto’s, which creates a latent tension). Back then in early 2008, who was Francis Kimemia, and what was he? did he do?
Aaaah, now you remember!
I have heard tell from radicals of the house of Mumbi
That their annals have a silent refrain
Laden with the names of the unsung Heros.
I have heard them tell, that Muigai the son of Kenyatta
Should not treat Kimemia like he were some Ol Kalou Maasai!
You should have remembered that, Mr President, before you decided to sack him. Kimemia is an old tested soldier in the house of Mumbi heroics, and even if his brand of services is no longer apt, and his specialities more of analogue drags than digital Wi-Fi, he should not be publicly humiliated by people he made, nor by a King he shed kinsmen’s blood propping up, OOYO DA, he should be allowed to, in the words of MacArthur, fade away with grace into the sunset.
Mr
Eg: You are now rich enough to ease off on Land greed. And the industrialisation you mouthed at your inauguration can not be without LAND REFORM. Go for land reform, your excellency. And see it through. Break the cartels and clean the corruption. Madame Ngilu is incompetent and a throw back to atavism. Fire her and take up the task yourself, and be as ruthless on land barons as your patron Michuki was with the Mungiki.
Then shall we can sing:
Kenyatta 1 grabbed the land. Kenyatta II re-distributed it to the needy.
Avoid the easy option OPENLY BECKONING NOW, your excellency: This easy option is the tough Christian Sheriff taming the MUSLIM coast with his hand on the trigger flicking away like a master guitarist. You know the Christian nation is clamouring for blood after the massacre in the Mombasa church and the child with a bullet lodged in her cranium has been turned into a national shrine to whip up emotions. Police commanders are already on a shoot to kill even as Kimaiyo and Ole Lenku wriggle and writhe about. Mr. Kenyatta, this shoot to kill will play into the Chritian/Muslim escalating narrative of global war, of Jihadists vs Crusaders! We need a powerful deflection from that trajectory of vengeance.
I suggest you awe us by solving the Land issue, and awe yourself watching us vote for you next elections! Yes, you got that right, you gotta work on your re-election, or you are a gonna.
But this is the Francis Kimemia focus thread. And we have sailed far, far. Let us get back to him in due course.
I will be back. And back to Francis Kimemia.
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