Miguna on the Raila Complex in Kisumu

[Onyango Oloo]

Some of you may have come across Miguna's latest column in the Star-either in print or online. There were one or two typos. Attached find the original Word document.A Foundation Complex or a lavish Nkandla -....docx (58.08 KB)

[mzee]

Yet another mental and emotional fit.
I think that the comments that people have made on the article should put any right thinking person to shame.

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vokz • 4 hours ago

If Raila was ever corrupt im very sure his very many sworn enemies and their supporters would not hesitate to prosecute him since they are the ones in government. They are always waiting for that moment but they have never found the guy guilty of anything. Im sure they have been scrutinizing the former PM docket but to no avail unlike the docket of the PNU side full of Kimunyas. Fact is that Raila is wealthy in his own right and he has a right to own property like the way the president used to say during the campaign, but now that RAO is doing something wonderful for himself there are stil those same enemies who dont want to see him happy. It would be nice if everyone tries to focus on their own private lives instead of taking their tantrums on Raila

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David Kennedy Apopo • 4 hours ago

I do not honestly understand why you seem so obsessed with Raila that
you still try to make a living using his name long after he fired
you.You are a man at war with self,so consumed by your own false sense
of righteousness,suffering from grandeur of delusions.You are so
convinced of your own self-righteousness that you never think about the
need to change your thinking.You are a maverick at creating venom!You
write total hogwash -figments of your jaundiced imagination.You are a
serpent for hire.By projecting yourself as the all-knowing
intellectual,you unwittingly embarrass the real intellectuals by your
subjective and belligerent tirades.Sort out your issues,tame your
ego-which by the way is larger than Miguna himself.You make naive
analogies between Raila and Zuma and Bill Gates.You falsely and
embarrassingly claim that Bill gates is the greatest inventor and
innovator.You you have any idea how many patents Bill Gates has to his
name?He's a great entrepreneur no doubt but not the greatest
inventor.Check you use of superlatives,get your facts rights.You have no
idea how private Foundations operate.They are independent and have
their ways of raising money.Please do some research work before
writing.Do not get personal,present compelling facts and let the readers
judge.That Raila was going to build helipad and land there with
Airforce one is so poorly thought out propaganda.Correction-there is
nothing in Kenya called Airforce one.

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MohanMathew • 5 hours ago

Shadily procured funds? I suppose when he was the pm. How much was your cut ?
Sorry to say you have degraded yourself to ebe a full time pathetic rumour monger.

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Samson • 7 hours ago

Miguna miguna, when will you stop your bitterness with Raila and positively concentrate in building the country? Many people have been sacked by their bosses but they have never been this bitter as you are. Your bitterness even makes you look more desperate and hopeless idle man who has nothing to do except to follow after what raila does and what how he does his things. Please an advice to the wise is sufficient, get my advice is you're wise and concentrate in your business. It's enough of this attack.

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Oliktiga • 6 hours ago

Miguna get a life! What concern of yours is Raila private residence built with his own private resources!! Or you want us to start asking questions how a financially desperate charlatan like you came to own a house in Runda?!!

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Bernard Orimbo • 6 hours ago

My humble advice to brother Miguna; Please mind your own business and stop following every little or big thing Raila does. It makes you look very idle.
Lastly, always do your maths before you post them to the public. The alleged Kes 1billion doesn't translate to USD300M. It translates to USD11.7M if you convert using Kes85 to the dollar.

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Mpore Bernard Orimbo • 5 hours ago

I guess the explanation given by Raila that the complex is not entirely private invites the question of funds and their sources. It also fails to nail the question of ownership of the complex and beneficially of future income streams. I accepts the messenger is a little suspect wrt motive, but the message is perfectly legit!
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Herrie • 5 hours ago

Writing from a country which was led into democracy by Nelson Mandela and has earned the respect of the world for this, I congratulate Mr. Miguna Miguna on this article. Africa will never be free until its rulers realise that they are the servants of their people, not the other way round, and that the treasury belongs to the state, not to them. Africa has acquired a very poor reputation not because of its people, but because of its rulers who imagine themselves to be emperors and kings..

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Bernard Orimbo Herrie • 5 hours ago

Very well argued bro. ..but then how do you link your supportive thoughts to the issue of a private house or structure built by the former PM? Aren't we all called to objective sense in public discourse. And why would one individual become so extremely consumed by the private acts of his former boss? Don't you see there's a little problem here bro? Otherwise be well.
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outnabout2014 Bernard Orimbo • 40 minutes ago

Here is a good read ....Hans Christian Anderson's fable The Emperor’s New Clothes, 1837.In the book a small child, who didn't understand the apparent necessity for pretence, piped up 'But he has nothing on!'.....I am sure the small child was lambasted for even having the thought.Oh perish the very thought and curse the wretched soul of the one that suggests that the Emperor could be naked.To paraphrase the small child, the Emperor has no clothes!Out of the mouths of babes,comes the truth.

"Kaffee: I want the truth!
Jessep: You can't handle the truth!.."
A Few Good Men written by Aaron Sorkin
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polke outnabout2014 • 15 minutes ago

May be you know the story about little girl with the match box also by Andersen. You stop thinking about naked king, but concider people in slums, who can die from hunger and luck of money just like the above mentioned girl who froze to death
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Pettit • 10 minutes ago

It appears Miguna has turned to be another busy-body in town, with a lot of gossiping bags around him. I would have expected a person like him who is always busy bragging himself to be learned with vast international exposure, to write about serious issues that the country is grappling with, instead of seeking cheap popularity to see whether Uhuru can see him. I don't think any sane and serious person can even think of engaging him because he exhibited the lowest level of civility and maturity when he was parting with Raila the other day.

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faboge • an hour ago

anything else you want to discuss, Miguna? Who has not had a fill of Miguna's obsession with Raila? Tell us a bit about other "corrupt" politicians

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charlesjb • 2 hours ago

This is being petty Mr. Miguna Miguna, and devoid of the intellect I have thought you have as a barrister. I have My own Foundation
sponsoring children in your very village and it goes about its function
quietly. tell us what you have done....simply put brother just move on Raila Moved on, get something to write about which can change the lives of the very road leading to Kano Kochogo and the school children of Nyando.

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Guest • 2 hours ago

This is being petty Mr. Miguna Miguna, I have My own Foundation sponsoring children in your very village and it goes about its function quietly. tell is what you have done.

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burg20_03 • 2 hours ago

"Wouldn't it have been nice to hear that Mr. Odinga has used the 1 billion to construct health and educational institutions in Nyanza? Or Odinga to surprise Kenyans with an Agricultural Marshall Plan for Turkana....."

Given your irrational bile and and seemingly a 'beef to grind' with Raila, there's absolutely no doubt that even if the man were to donate his billion to a charity of your own liking, you'd still not hesitate to berate and and second-guess him! Your bottom line? For reasons which Kenyans aren't privy to, you hate Jaramogi's son to death!!!!

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Mataga • 3 hours ago

Miguna, I pray that you will one day find a purpose for your life; a reason to live... something to live for. It is sad seeing you chewing at your head. SAD.

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Samson • 4 hours ago

I wonder if this Miguna is a wise learned man, then why can't he use his wisdom to help progress kenya with good and constructive advice to the country than spreading such hatred and anger upon an individual just because he is bitter for being sacked.

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Rose Matere • 4 hours ago

ODM and its leader are paraded as champions of democracy and human rights, but when Miguna Miguna writes his mind about Raila his branded "kila soko ina mwendawazimu." and that he is out of order! Hypocrisy at its best.

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bobcat • 4 hours ago

Does that look like a house to Miguna piguna please.

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Guest • 4 hours ago

I do not honesltly understand why you seem so obseesesd with Raila that
you still try to make a living using his name long after he fired
you.You are a man at war with self,so consumed by your own false sense
of righteousness,suffering from grandeur of delusions.You are so
convinced of your own self-righteousness that you never think about the
need to change your thinking.You are a maverick at creating venom!You
write total hogwash -figments of your jaundiced imagination.You are a
serpent for hire.By projecting yourself as the all-knowing
intellectual,you unwittingly embarrass the real intellectuals by your
subjective and belligerent tirades.Sort out your issues,tame your
ego-which by the way is larger than Miguna himself.You make naive
analogies between Raila and Zuma and Bill Gates.You falsely and
embarrassingly claim that Bill gates is the greatest inventor and
innovator.You you have any idea how many patents Bill Gates has to his
name?He's a great entrepreneur no doubt but not the greatest
inventor.Check you use of superlatives,get your facts rights.You have no
idea how private Foundations operate.They are independent and have
their ways of raising money.Please do some research work before
writing.Do not get personal,present compelling facts and let the readers
judge.That Raila was going to build helipad and land there with
Airforce one is so poorly thought out propaganda.Correction-there is
nothing in Kenya called Airforce one.

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thuthru • 6 hours ago

You are dangerously obsessed with Agwambo matters. Can you move with 50% of that vigour and ask of the land grabs of the Kenyatta times? Can you slice for us a taste of Youth for KANU excesses and their fortunes. They enjoy you on the bench as you tear on your former boss....you are a true solicitor (in my naive understanding of the word to solicit)


www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-160929/foundation-complex-or-lavish-nkandla-lifting-veil-over-raila-odingas-monstrous

Then read this to know that the man has gone mental. If he were my friend I would have tried helping him.

www.kenya-today.com/news/miguna-miguna-raila-odinga-1billion-house-kisumu

[mank]

I agree, total lunatic ... ever since he was rudely fired by Mr. Raila. Before that anything he said was point on ... thoughts come ... corrections demanded where needed.

[kamalet]

The controversy of the 70 roomed house is something that Kenyans should debate. If anyone thinks the building is a show of how corruption works or in the alternative the wisdom of Raila, that too should be debated.

But I would be halting in taking a debate on Raila's corruption as espoused by Miguna Miguna. If Miguna had resigned and cited such things as part of the reason to run away, I would have hailed him a hero. Miguna is no different to his former counterpart Paul Mwangi of the the Raila Legal Advisory services who had the gall to tell us how wasteful the government was on him and how he was showered with things he could not believe! Both these fellows were in it when it was good and they cannot come to tell us how Raila is this or the other.

[jakaswanga]

Here are some of the issues Miguna picks bones with. May be answering them truthfully will prove how mad Miguna is, and we can then all proceed to ignore or laugh at his tirades at Raila. It all boils down to casting aspersions on the source of the ksh. 1 bn owad g’Akinyi is spending on this building. Legit or not? Stolen from Wanjiku or not? Bona-fide loan or not?

These pertinent questions bring me to the mother of all issues this past week in Kenya: Where did the Sh1 billion Mr. Raila Odinga has used for the opulent private complex in Kanyakwar in Kisumu come from?
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When an active public figure or politician anywhere in the so-called free world constructs an opulent complex that is estimated at Sh1 billion, any sensible and ethical person must immediately be shocked. We must ask how the person got the money. Thirdly, we must – naturally – demand to know the sources of such funds.
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I consider these basic civic duties for law-abiding citizens! The amounts involved are too staggering to be ignored.
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It is egregiously immoral for anyone to spend Sh1 billion whose sources remain shrouded in mystery in a private house - whether it is called a complex for foundations or not is pure nomenclature – in or around Kisumu where the average monthly income for the citizens is less than Sh2,500.
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It is unconscionable for any public figure –and Mr. Odinga remains a leading public figure - to spend such colossal sums of money in such opulence barely one year after serving as the Prime Minister of Kenya during which period unresolved corruption cases ensnared his office.
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- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-160929/foundation-complex-or-lavish-nkandla-lifting-veil-over-raila-odingas-monstrous#sthash.LHZJuWMy.dpuf

The moral one --‘’unconscionable’’ given the time scale since his departure from the Premiership, is an intriguing form of critique in Kenya. It is futuristic, and a very adventurist marker. That is, a form of public code of deceny likely to be incomprehensible not only to the Nyanza rubble, but also to the general tropical political area Afrika.

Here is some great anecdote from Up North: Norway is outside the EU. In preparation for a referendum some time back, a Viking supremacist was explaining why his countrymen would vote NO, to the EU, while nearly every country on earth would be on its knees to join. The Norwegian said: ‘’ the EU is led by countries like Germany, which has a a very primitive elite! Not advisable if not impossible to have a union with. They are unconscionable!’’

‘’How do you mean?’’ Asked an amused German presenter and anchorman.

‘’The German elite are a host of tax evaders. They are morally stunted. While they are yelling at Greece and treating them like habitual criminals, they themselves are hoarding millions in secret bank accounts in contraband cash specialist banks in Switzerland and Luxembourg. That is a level of hypocrisy and elite political corruption one expects more in Afrika than Europe. Norway is too superior in its moral development for unions led by such backward elites like you Germans!’’
The anchorman ran out of his humorous grin.

Since then, the story of the secret disc containing names of who is who in Germany with secret bank accounts out of the taxman’s reach has become a national scandal consuming the elite. The jail-term of the national hero and chairman of the Bayern Munich Football club, Uli Hoeness, is the one the international press has run away with. Secret deals are being cut all over. And the Norwegians are shaking their heads in pity. ---Primitive Nazis!

www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/europe/german-soccer-icon-accepts-jail-term-for-tax-evasion.html?_r=0

The moral of this story: Germany, in her self image, could not believe she can be seriously referred to as a country of primitive elites! Yet as the scandal is covered up, the truth being that bitter, there is a distinct air of discomfort all over: Could the goatherds from North have a point after all?

Now, Kenyans can not imagine the source of a former Prime Ministers or President’s money should be questioned so mercilessly (May be Moi would be in jail, and the latter co-principals too, who knows??). But may be a few years later, Kenyans will come around to it, and say, power must always be interrogated, and fwacking Miguna, whatever his motives were, was a pioneer.