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Post by kamalet on Apr 29, 2014 19:20:11 GMT 3
The ghost of Anglo Leasing seems to have come back to haunt us kenyans! This scam was said to involve several security related supplies that were contracted to ghost companies. The politics of the day meant that there was little clarity on whether the deals were genuine, whether indeed the said companies were existing or non-existent. But we all seemed settled on the "fact" that these were ghost companies and with the action led by John Githongo to have the deals cancelled or nullified. Against advice that the action could have led to breach of contract between the contracting companies, everyone was ignoring that there was the financing arrangement - Anglo Leasing - and the supplier companies. The theft was being perpetuated through the financing arrangements.
The supplier companies had legit agreements with GOK and negotiated terrible deals with Kenya where disputes could be heard in courts outside Kenya!!! So the companies went to court and Kenya failed to mount any defence leading to judgements being entered against GOK. So Kenya is bound to make payments for breach of contract.
Faced with this situation, Professor Githu advised the government to go ahead and pay especially since it was looking at launching a sovereign bond and a defaulting Kenya would not have been seen in good light. The Uhuruto duo fully aware that Anglo Leasing is a hot potato decided to pass it on to parliament to authorise the payments giving the payments a modicum of public support. Forget the fact that tyranny of numbers will carry the day, but the authorisation will be obtained in the house.
The problem I have with this arrangement is that we shall be paying a whooping 125 billion shillings for no services rendered. Surely if an award is rendered and payment is to be made, there should be an attempt to get the companies to make supplies by way of negotiation before the payments are made. But it does not appear as if this is something that is being considered.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Apr 30, 2014 2:53:51 GMT 3
Kamale,
I am given to understand that the amount owed by motherland is in the region of 1.4 Billion and not 125B as the media has us believe. Whatever the figure, it is painful to as you rightly observe, to have the tax payer dig this deep for services/goods never supplied or offered. I am also wondering whether there are any avenues for appealing the decision by the courts wherever they are.
You must also have noticed the opportunistic opposition trying to fill their emptiness with this issue without paying attention to the nitty gritties of the whole saga, never mind it was their government (read NARC) that actually condemned us to this mess.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by merkeju on Apr 30, 2014 4:21:21 GMT 3
Kamale,I am given to understand that the amount owed by motherland is in the region of 1.4 Billion and not 125B as the media has us believe. Whatever the figure, it is painful to as you rightly observe, to have the tax payer dig this deep for services/goods never supplied or offered. I am also wondering whether there are any avenues for appealing the decision by the courts wherever they are. You must also have noticed the opportunistic opposition trying to fill their emptiness with this issue without paying attention to the nitty gritties of the whole saga, never mind it was their government (read NARC) that actually condemned us to this mess. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Mwalimumkuu I have a problem with your assertion of the Opposition being opportunistic, and for your information we no longer have opposition in the new political dispensation rather the minority. Watch the clip below from 1:31 and you will ask yourself did the government sabotaged the Lawyers so that they will loose the case, did the TNA government really wanted this case to succeed, or they wanted this money paid all along to people who are not known. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 30, 2014 18:39:00 GMT 3
Can the contracts be proved to have been entered into under false pretenses? with a calculated intention to defraud (the Kenyan public)? with dubious constructions to obfuscate issues, thwart clarity, cover up a monetary crime?
Kamalet writes Those financial arrangements, are the dubious constructions the specialisations of some accounting and legal firms in the city of London. ---These are the same guys the Abatcha’s and Nguema’s and Mubarak’s hire to ‘safely disperse’ their loot from their respective national treasuries.
Currently the powerful Americans have blackmailed all these London white collar criminals into giving them the paper work detailing the financial trail of Russian and Ukrainian Oligarchs who will be collateral damage in the Western quarrel with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
This of course was a deliberate swindling clause in the agreement. Which government can surrender total [arbitrative] jurisdiction over ‘’security procurements’’ to foreign courts?
That is of course a deliberate stupidity. In this case it was an act of treason.Kenya failed to amount any meaningful defence! WHY? No brainy lawyers around? Or no money to hire brainy lawyers from elsewhere?
Non of the above. Failing to amount a defence was part of the plot to swindle, since a bit of a brainy lawyer would have, under astitute cross examination, revealed a massive scam.
Githu the man who read outstanding law to ICC Bensouda as to why the GoK could not know of Uhuru’s accounts!?
Githu Muigai who tried to argue Kenya pull out of the Treaty of Rome that launched the ICC?
That is not a Githu Muigai who can use the argument of ‘’Kenya being seen in bad light!’’
It would be such cheap logic, that if he got his professorship in Germany, the respective college would re-call it, and ban him from the alumni list!
A government to pay up an obvious fraudulent deal, is actually to fix its image as a corrupt racket run by incompetents.
This is sly yes. And indeed I think Anglo-leasing coming back now, is a tribute to the uselessness of the Kibaki-Raila political era.
It would be great if Uhuruto were to deal with it once and for all! But for some reason they have opted to be incompetent about it.
Why are they afraid of an inquiry? ---For one I think Joseph Kinyua the PM would not last a day under scorching questioning.
He would collapse the way the once hyped 4-star General David Petraeus once collapsed in Congress under the iron glare of ball-bearings-pissing John MCain.
Anybody who pays that kind of money for no services rendered as you put it, if of course a total fraud, a nutter, and, honestly in these days of zero tolerance and public suppoer for all shoot to kills, asking for it.
I mean the families of Kenyan Army Personnel killed in Somali in active duty LINDA NCHI are grumbling about ‘’MEAGRE compensations’’ after their loved ones sacrificed their all, and here are the Mpigs throwing away billions at other ghosts.
Hmmm! Kill these beasts off I say!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 30, 2014 19:01:41 GMT 3
Kamale,I am given to understand that the amount owed by motherland is in the region of 1.4 Billion and not 125B as the media has us believe. Whatever the figure, it is painful to as you rightly observe, to have the tax payer dig this deep for services/goods never supplied or offered. I am also wondering whether there are any avenues for appealing the decision by the courts wherever they are. You must also have noticed the opportunistic opposition trying to fill their emptiness with this issue without paying attention to the nitty gritties of the whole saga, never mind it was their government (read NARC) that actually condemned us to this mess. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Mwalimumkuu I have a problem with your assertion of the Opposition being opportunistic, and for your information we no longer have opposition in the new political dispensation rather the minority. Watch the clip below from 1:31 and you will ask yourself did the government sabotaged the Lawyers so that they will loose the case, did the TNA government really wanted this case to succeed, or they wanted this money paid all along to people who are not known. The legal representatives of the GoK claimed corruption, but did not have enough evidence to prove the allegation on the mentioned individuals! --Yes, at these levels, that is a set-up! Paying out money to anonimous people!? that one is like a ransom! [International profits on Kenyan [euro] Bond issues would be confiscated in total!? --That is a clear act of international financial piracy! in effect a declaration of war by that country whose court orders such a thing! That is like freezing the foreign accounts of a country --which to the best of my knowledge needs a UNSC resolution! I know several countries around whose secret services would murder all the lawyers engaged in freezing all their international bond issues! When foreigners start getting court orders to confiscate Kenyan property just like that, it reminds of England by edict declaring the whole of the Kenyan land mass to be Queens dominion! the Africans within it, her animal possessions! Rotich and co negotiated a Laibon Lenana deal.But Merkeju I agree with MM that the ''opposition'' is being opportunistic. These Orengo, Nyong'o, Kalonzo, Weta and the other what have you's, were very seniour in the last government! And they kicked the can down the street! Now Uhuruto picks it up, and they are all wild!? Ach! clueless! |
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Post by podp on May 3, 2014 20:36:50 GMT 3
The ghost of Anglo Leasing seems to have come back to haunt us kenyans! This scam was said to involve several security related supplies that were contracted to ghost companies. The politics of the day meant that there was little clarity on whether the deals were genuine, whether indeed the said companies were existing or non-existent. But we all seemed settled on the "fact" that these were ghost companies and with the action led by John Githongo to have the deals cancelled or nullified. Against advice that the action could have led to breach of contract between the contracting companies, everyone was ignoring that there was the financing arrangement - Anglo Leasing - and the supplier companies. The theft was being perpetuated through the financing arrangements. The supplier companies had legit agreements with GOK and negotiated terrible deals with Kenya where disputes could be heard in courts outside Kenya!!! So the companies went to court and Kenya failed to mount any defence leading to judgements being entered against GOK. So Kenya is bound to make payments for breach of contract. Faced with this situation, Professor Githu advised the government to go ahead and pay especially since it was looking at launching a sovereign bond and a defaulting Kenya would not have been seen in good light. The Uhuruto duo fully aware that Anglo Leasing is a hot potato decided to pass it on to parliament to authorise the payments giving the payments a modicum of public support. Forget the fact that tyranny of numbers will carry the day, but the authorisation will be obtained in the house.The problem I have with this arrangement is that we shall be paying a whooping 125 billion shillings for no services rendered. Surely if an award is rendered and payment is to be made, there should be an attempt to get the companies to make supplies by way of negotiation before the payments are made. But it does not appear as if this is something that is being considered. It truly begs belief. If you feel a little shaky on the facts of the matter, sit down with a cup of coffee and your friend Google who will help you find Mr Githongo’s dossier in moments. Mr Githongo, as you will probably recall, went to considerable lengths to investigate the AngloLeasing contracts, and kindly wrote up all the details of how those companies that were to be paid millions, hundreds of millions, of dollars were briefcase companies. He also listed the people inside and outside of the government who were involved in these sham transactions. And then he also briefed Mzee Kibaki on all these details over months. That was a whole lot of work. Re-read it, because it is your taxes, and because the depth of information he dug up is still well impressive. Especially with hindsight, as hindsight reminds you that nothing really serious has happened to anyone involved in the multi-million dollar scam. Government back then said that payments made had been refunded, but curiously could not say who refunded it. Possibly because as recent as 2012, a Kenyan judge also found that the AngloLeasing companies did not actually exist. Duh! You might think that the governement should have investigated this. This is perhaps not a realistic assumption, given the number of people in the government who Mr Githongo had flagged as participants in the scam - government investigating itself is a bit of a conflict of interest. And alas: In 2009, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office had halted its investigations because; "This case depended on mutual legal assistance from the government of Kenya...www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-165605/shame-anglo-leasing-payments1st red high light just strange that what should be considered here as worse than terrorism and the terrorist whom the dynamic duo aka ICC indictees have stated as PORK and deputy PORK we will not discuss but deal with....when it comes to corrupt deals we want to start a 'national' debate! 2nd red high light EACC and the police with the able leadership of Chief Chef can surely cook up a better and more palatable meal so that we see some ghosts take human form and Uhuru's namesake our AG who so ably defended PORK not to appear to ICC and his bank and phonecall records will not be availed as our laws do not allow can urge DPP to do the needful. |
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Post by OtishOtish on May 4, 2014 2:21:48 GMT 3
Yes, interesting stuff in the cables. You've got to "respect" Kenyans when it comes to "eating". Eating and begging: "The $700 million at stake in the subset of corrupt deals
investigated by Githongo alone far exceeds annual donor
assistance flows to Kenya, a country which recently asked
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Post by Luol Deng on May 4, 2014 10:57:59 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu,
You clearly have no clue. The sh 1.4 B is just one of the 18 contracts that make up the Anglo leasing scam. The other 17 haven't yet been concluded either. Details of the government's behaviour in the lead up to this point is even more annoying. They never gave a fight, they denied their own lawyers crucial information, failed to pay the lawyers then finally decided to go for arbitration when it was still clear that the government had a fighting chance. What and who are they hiding? Why?
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2014 1:38:20 GMT 3
Shame Of The Anglo Leasing Payments Saturday, May 3, 2014 - 00:00 -- BY ANDREA BOHNSTEDT Southern Sudan is, as we all know, a sad, sorry mess at the moment. This is very depressing, but it is also unsurprising. If you have spent a bit of time learning about the history of Southern Sudan, you will recognise the pattern quite easily. The region has a long history not just of civil war with the north of what was back then Sudan, but also a long history of southern infighting. Re-reading ‘Emma’s War’ a little while ago reminded me of that quite strongly, the narration of the Bor massacre, for example, was a painful déjà vu. So a bit of memory is useful. And I am worried about the current, say, forgetfulness (by which I mean full lobotomy) when it comes to that seemingly undying zombie AngloLeasing, midwifed under Mzee Moi’s administration, and then adopted by Mzee Kibaki’s administration. Because really, at the first mention of ‘AngloLeasing’ and ‘payments’, the entire country should have sat up and thrown such a side eye at whoever first brought it up again that this person would have scuttled away quietly, quickly, shamefully. Instead, we are actually having something resembling a discussion on paying these bogus claims. It truly beggars belief. If you feel a little shaky on the facts of the matter, sit down with a cup of coffee and your friend Google who will help you find Mr Githongo’s dossier in moments. Mr Githongo, as you will probably recall, went to considerable lengths to investigate the AngloLeasing contracts, and kindly wrote up all the details of how those companies that were to be paid millions, hundreds of millions, of dollars were briefcase companies. He also listed the people inside and outside of the government who were involved in these sham transactions. And then he also briefed Mzee Kibaki on all these details over months. That was a whole lot of work. Re-read it, because it is your taxes, and because the depth of information he dug up is still well impressive. Especially with hindsight, as hindsight reminds you that nothing really serious has happened to anyone involved in the multi-million dollar scam. Government back then said that payments made had been refunded, but curiously could not say who refunded it. Possibly because as recent as 2012, a Kenyan judge also found that the AngloLeasing companies did not actually exist. Duh! You might think that the government should have investigated this. This is perhaps not a realistic assumption, given the number of people in the government who Mr Githongo had flagged as participants in the scam - government investigating itself is a bit of a conflict of interest. And alas: In 2009, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office had halted its investigations because: "This case depended on mutual legal assistance from the government of Kenya. The director of the SFO has exercised his discretion to terminate the investigation as there is currently no reasonable prospect of conviction without the evidence from Kenya." One of German’s lovely compound nouns is Richtlinienkompetenz. This translates roughly into the capacity to direct policy, and is part of the job description of the head of government, the chancellor. Something like that is what I would have expected from the head of state and his deputy. Knowing full well, as all of us and our pet fish do, that there is no such thing as a legitimate AngloLeasing company, and that there was never any intention of actually delivering on any of those contracts, to say ‘No, nada, will not happen, not even going to go there. Ridiculous. Next.’ Nothing else. No passing the buck to parliament. Not letting a respected technocrat as Mr Henry Rotich(Treasury Cabinet Secretary), or a man of the intellectual capacities of the AG, defend payments to briefcase companies. This is where your Richtlinienkompetenz kicks in: to make it very clear that no, the idea of making such obviously illegitimate payments to non-existent companies will not fly, end of, back to work. Of course the AngloLeasing resurgence might also make you take another look at the proposed 2014/2015 budget and the government’s recent security initiatives. Items such as forensic labs were part of the bogus AngloLeasing contracts. Now just imagine that the government had spent money on the purchase of an actual forensic lab, and staffed it, and used and maintained it. Wouldn’t that be useful to investigate such awful events as the car bomb that killed four people at Pangani police station, just to mention one recent incident? The existence of such a lab might have been useful to prevent further attacks years ago. And what does that say about your confidence that the government will actually make these purchases this time round after budgeting for them? PS: Those CORD MPs threatening to release the names of the people behind AngloLeasing: Get on with it already. If you have knowledge of a massive crime, or an attempted massive crime, do not just sit around making ominous threatening noises. That makes you complicit. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-165605/shame-anglo-leasing-payments#sthash.oflXKnvB.dpuf |
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Post by mwalimumkuu on May 8, 2014 20:58:32 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu, You clearly have no clue. The sh 1.4 B is just one of the 18 contracts that make up the Anglo leasing scam. The other 17 haven't yet been concluded either. Details of the government's behaviour in the lead up to this point is even more annoying. They never gave a fight, they denied their own lawyers crucial information, failed to pay the lawyers then finally decided to go for arbitration when it was still clear that the government had a fighting chance. What and who are they hiding? Why? Clueless you say Luol Deng?, some enlightenment here from Njee Muturi, the current Solicitor General. I thought he did a good job of separating fact from fiction ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ |
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Post by Luol Deng on May 9, 2014 16:50:33 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu,
I saw that interview on Citizen TV, the government is the accused and there may be lawsuits brought against the govt. by the LSK over the issue. PWC did a report last year but one and the gist of their report was that it seemed like the government was sabotaging the anglo leasing case and seemed like they wanted to lose the case. It is only natural for the government to try and cover their ass, which is what the solicitor general is doing. The 18 contracts we are speaking of are in the public domain, and there is no closure on them, how will the govt. handle them? Who are the beneficiaries of this obvious scam? The impending case will reveal a lot unless it is jettisoned on some silly technicality...
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Post by alotkibul on May 10, 2014 22:54:54 GMT 3
In all these clamour we forget the existence of a new breed of financial carrion birds - the vulture funds. Here's a glimpse at what they do best. And like the feckless lot that are stalking the hapless urchin on Jakaswanga's avatar, they never give up. CARRION FOR VULTURE FUNDS? Something is very wrong somewhere and Kenyans are not being told the whole story. If the big picture is not unveiled between now and the time Parliament reconvenes after its month-long recess, Kenya could join the ranks of a large and growing number of countries that are or were once in conflict or economic collapse, without actually suffering these calamities, that have been sued and coughed up millions of dollars lest their sovereign property be seized, in European, mostly British, and United States jurisdictions, by so-called “Vulture Funds”. These nations include Peru, Liberia, Ethiopia, DRC, Cameroon and Zambia. The vulture, it is said, is a patient bird. Vulture funds, too, have all the time in the world – and they have much longer beaks than those of their avian cousins. The funds are referred to as vulturine for their distinctive debt-collection strategies. The African Development Bank, a continent-wide institution that is beyond reproach even in Kenya’s deeply paranoid political culture, in a key document published in 2010 and entitled “Vulture Funds in the Sovereign Debt Context”, explained the vulture fund phenomenon in these chilling terms: “The vulture fund modus operandi is simple: purchase distressed debt at deep discounts, refuse to participate in restructuring, and pursue full value of the debt often at face value plus interest, arrears and penalties through litigation, if necessary. The vulture funds grind down poor countries in cycles of litigation, a practice referred to as ‘champerty’ and largely unknown in African legal systems”. If African legal systems are largely ignorant of the practice of champerty, what about our MPs, of whom only a small number are lawyers? They must be brain-dead to the phenomenon, and it shows! Champerty truly exists and it is no joke. What’s more, it’s about to reduce the number of chapattis that Kenyans have on their plates drastically and there’s precious little that we can do about it. But while evidence of champerty is there for all to see, complete with the penal interest rates contained in the rulings against Kenya, there is not a single vulture fund in sight, or mention, anywhere. This can only mean that the two Anglo Leasing contractors have not sold the debt owed by Kenya to third parties. It also means that they are supremely confident and self-assured about themselves as licit international companies, a far cry from the shells and fakes proclaimed by Anglo Leasing whistleblowers Maoka Maore and John Githongo almost a decade ago. This is not to say that Maore and Githongo were entirely deluded or that every Anglo Leasing firm and contract was licit. So, how have these perfectly ordinary firms achieved these vulture fund chilling effects? Perhaps even more worrisome is the question, what would be the effect on Kenya of a real vulture fund, or a whole flight of them, descending on us for debts that we have either forgotten or have been paying too little attention to? The next flashpoint of crisis and noise surrounding this issue could well be a Parliament that reconvenes a month from now and then proceeds to reassert the Tyranny of Numbers factor and to actually pay the Anglo Leasing firms without so much as a by-your- leave nod in the direction of a mystified – and thoroughly fed up – electorate and broader public. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-166522/end-tyranny-numbers |
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Post by podp on May 11, 2014 21:04:21 GMT 3
Having gone through the Wikileaks cables, the Uhuru Kenyatta-led probe report on Anglo Leasing, John Githongo’s dossier and Michela Wrong’s It is Our Turn to Eat, Kenyans of goodwill must demand answers from the Jubilee government why those implicated like Moody Awori, Chris Murungaru, David Mwiraria, Joseph “Jimmy” Wanjigi, Alfred Gitonga, Anura Perera, Deepak Kamani, Kiraitu Murungi and Joseph Kibwana have never been charged and prosecuted for the alleged crimes. Who is protecting these people and why? Are these individuals above the law?www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-166528/amos-wako-must-come-clean-anglo-leasing |
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Post by mank on May 11, 2014 22:01:32 GMT 3
Having gone through the Wikileaks cables, the Uhuru Kenyatta-led probe report on Anglo Leasing, John Githongo’s dossier and Michela Wrong’s It is Our Turn to Eat, Kenyans of goodwill must demand answers from the Jubilee government why those implicated like Moody Awori, Chris Murungaru, David Mwiraria, Joseph “Jimmy” Wanjigi, Alfred Gitonga, Anura Perera, Deepak Kamani, Kiraitu Murungi and Joseph Kibwana have never been charged and prosecuted for the alleged crimes. Who is protecting these people and why? Are these individuals above the law?www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-166528/amos-wako-must-come-clean-anglo-leasingIsn't it interesting how the SJ gets uncomfortable and eager to move on when this question is raised? We see petty thieves shot on the streets with our bullets almost every day, and then we protect grand thieves. .. and call them honorable. I agree with the SJ that Kenya should face its obligations, but Kenyans deserve answers too. We have laws, courts and prisons for a purpose. I don't have enough puke for the disgust of SJ's suggestion that job dismissals are all we can administer to alleged white collar criminals. |
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Post by OtishOtish on May 12, 2014 7:10:02 GMT 3
I came across a curious article in yesterday's online version of The Star: The report of a sudden discovery of a 1970s debt that the government of Kenya will soon have to pay. Or so they say ... Some of the "details" are vague, and, equally, the exact point of the article is far from clear. What I found curious about the report is not the revelation that GoK has some old debts; I'm sure it has all sorts of debts going back to who-knows-when. The "curious" aspect is why this particular debt and why now. I have no idea. But I wouldn't be surprised if a couple of such debts suddenly popped up, all with a "MUST PAY NOW" stamp. If that happened the public would not object, given that this would be the first time they heard of these debts. And if those other bigger debts get paid, what's Sh. 1.4 billion to finally (again) really (again) close (again) this Anglo Thingy? Reasonable people will be reasonable on such matters.
But that's just my imagination ...
Still, I didn't find the above as curious or as peculiar as the general wailing and gnashing of teeth that has been the response to the proposal for a final payment in the Anglo Leasing case. (And the government has assured all that this time the final, closing payment will the last one. Absolutely. A Digital payment, I imagine. Binary: paid or non-paid.) To explain, a small digression:
"We are our own worst enemy. We sing the praises of thieves and liars and then look for scapegoats to blame for the rising cost of living and insecurity."
-- Rasna Warah in today's DN: www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Yesterday-it-was-Asians-today-it-is-Somalis-tomorrow/-/440808/2311120/-/dg11aqz/-/index.html
This is an important point that must be borne in mind as people tear their hair and cover themselves with ashes over a final, last, closing payment. (A final last one.) Kenya today is largely a country of liars and thieves. Yes, there are some honest people about, but they appear to be in a rapidly decreasing minority. The view of honesty in Kenya depends on the age of the person that is the subject: it is generally regarded as either a definite sign of hereditary (and incurable) stupidity or an equally definite sign of (and equally incurable) senility. Drug-lords, big-time land-grabbers, criminals with inherited wealth ... those are todays heroes in Kenya. Money talks, the other stuff walks.
To my mind, all the latest excitement would be worth the trouble if there existed the slightest chance that it could and would make any difference to anything. I'm afraid that won't happen here, for two reasons:
The first is that some people have been waiting to get paid, and get paid they shall. And the payments will be made because these are not just people. They are not even people who know people. What we have here are people who know things. Big things. And they have been very patient in waiting for their money. (I can "hear" the question in your mind ... NO, "services rendered" or "equipment delivered" or whatever are completely irrelevant here. Not with people who know big things and who also know people, by way of Plan B.)
The second (and most significant) reason is that most Kenyans don't give a flying fwack. So to speak. Yes, I can hear you say "but, but, but ... protests, protest, protest, etc.". Yes, but but but. I shall clarify in two parts:
- Until this "unfortunate" resurrection, most Kenyans had long forgotten this Anglo Leasing thing; the younger ones hearing about it now probably think it is the name of an English band. Even for those who keep notes of these things, it's hard to keep track of all the details---amounts, main actors, etc. Yes, they remember the Really Big Ones--Goldenburg, Triton, etc.---but as surely as the butterfly replaces the moth ... there's New Eating: laptops for toddlers, NSSF buries workers pensions in Tassia, .... hard to keep track of all of them.
- Kenyans will never cast their votes, to choose their leaders, on the basis of what their problems are and who might be best equipped to solve those. The votes are always cast on the basis of "our man" and "we must eat". There are several interesting aspects to these bases for voting: women are generally more sensible and less corruptible than men, so it is always "our man"; there is less eating for the masses than is imagined when our man is eating ... Yes, it is true that we are dying from drinking industrial solvents and anything with *thanol, but who cares when our man enjoys single-malts fit for a king and sake whose subtlety would bring a delicate tear to the empresses' eye .... yes, the maize was rotten and unfit for ugali, but did you taste the busaa and what they did with the molasses!
Kenyans will rape, kill, burn, displace other Kenyans, and themselves starve to death, so that their Our Man can get up there to eat ... of course, they themselves will not east as much. In these circumstances----what we might call "big-picture" circumstances---what's a few billions here and a few billions there. The eaters have always been known, so why get so excited now?
These latter-day miscellaneous Anglo Leasing billions will get paid, just as the real billions have already been paid. Of course upright people must object and so on and so forth, but the old billions must be laid to rest so that the new billions can be taken care of.
I grew up in Kenya at a time when "corporal punishment" was the norm in most schools. The headmaster of the secondary school I went to always had some helpful words in the preliminaries: "This has to be done. Best to bend over and take it quietly." That seems to be excellent advice in the current situation Kenyans find themselves in: it must be done, it will be done, and you voted for it; so bend over and take it quietly.
Beyond Anglo Leasing ... Country Kenya---Sovereign & Independent, Economic Powerhouse of East Africa, & Heading East---is actually in deeper sh*t than some "less fortunate" countries. Some, after some nasty fights on their behalf, have had a taste of the Forbidden Fruit. A whole bunch of problems that require solutions. The smallest of these problems may be put thus: Given the seemingly endless muck and filth and mindless stupidity & greed that is reflected in the corruption of Country Kenya, is any kind of moral regeneration possible for the country and its leadership?
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And then, one step at a time. Small-small, as with a hot soup. In the meantime, with Anglo Thingy ... there's not much to be done about such a stick in on the rear end. Best to bend over and take it quietly. Choices, consequences, etc.
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Post by OtishOtish on May 15, 2014 20:53:21 GMT 3
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Post by mwalimumkuu on May 15, 2014 21:07:49 GMT 3
The right thing to do under the circumstances. The whole country cannot be held at ransom by a few individuals, pay and then go for the thieves ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ |
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Post by podp on May 15, 2014 22:08:36 GMT 3
The right thing to do under the circumstances. The whole country cannot be held at ransom by a few individuals, pay and then go for the thieves ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ just curious on who is holding Kenya at ransom? any example of any country that had its embassies auctioned? its diplomatic staff jailed so that the country may pay ransom? UNLIKE the obligations of firms or individuals, government bonds are backed merely by the issuer’s word. In theory, when states act commercially in foreign jurisdictions, they have no more rights than any other borrower. In practice, the assets they hold abroad—embassies, military equipment, central-bank reserves and the like—are protected by treaties. Ever since wars to collect unpaid debts went out of fashion, governments have been kept in check only by their need to borrow again in future. www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21565635-court-ruling-against-argentina-has-implications-other-governments-hold-outsas for the thieves only the blind, deaf and dumb may not be knowing them. pro-devolutionist • 6 hours ago Kenyan bloggers will soon start bombarding Bensouda and even laugh at her. When we laugh at Bensouda, we are just laughing at ourselves. We are the ones who turned against one another. ICC prevented us from going through a South Sudan like genocide in 2013 thanks to Ocampo's shoddy investigations. Ocampo's shoddy investigations united Uhuru and Ruto. www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Ruto-trial-hits-snag-as-Prosecutor-withdraws-witness/-/1064/2315764/-/od4gylz/-/index.html |
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Post by OtishOtish on May 15, 2014 22:22:00 GMT 3
The right thing to do under the circumstances. The whole country cannot be held at ransom by a few individuals, pay and then go for the thieves ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ That's it. Keep going for the thieves. GoK has been going for them for how many years now? What is important is that they be caught before 2030. By the way, I like the idea of paying so as not be held to ransom. "Ransomers" would go out of business if they could not rely on such payments. Now they have been paid, and Kenya is finally free. Free, free at last! (Until the next one.) |
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Post by jakaswanga on May 15, 2014 22:56:58 GMT 3
The right thing to do under the circumstances. The whole country cannot be held at ransom by a few individuals, pay and then go for the thieves ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ There are moments when just out of sheer desperateness, one has to congratulate a baby that after crawling and crying past the reasonable months, all of a sudden got the courage to try and stagger up on its malformed legs, before falling flat on its sorry wet ass! That is what the son of Jomo has done. He has made a decision! Good or bad is immaterial! he has FINALLY made one single decision in his feeble mind! The decision is feeble as expected of feeble minds, but it is something! This break with pure impotence, this murmuring in the loins, do indicate the man is not a total dummy! It means he has a mind for which a battle can be waged! so that at least he make one good decision per year so long he is president! The idea of a president authorising his government to pay up fraudulent contracts entered into with unknown individuals because he is scared of his credit ratings is new in history. Individuals never scare a state with war-making powers! Individuals just scare individuals. Fear of another man moved the son of Jomo to a decision to betray his country, the oath of his office, and himself. But I said, tha is also a decision. Mr. Kenyatta is ruthless enough to be commander in chief of up to police running death squads on Kenyans! but trembles like a leaf at some anonimous swiss firm skinning Kenya alive! --where did he get circumcised? He once boasted he is not a kerher! Hahahaha! I will keep my foreskin anyday and boast of it, if this is the kind of decision a circumcised man makes! hahahahaaa! just another ordinary pick-pocket at the helm! Fin-sec Rotich I think I will excuse: After I read the great American FED was caught fiddling with its tapering data, we can conclude Harvard-Yale is more or less a lame oracle. Priests trained there tell no fortunes true, have no visions true. But running a comical show is entertainment. |
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Post by OtishOtish on May 15, 2014 23:35:09 GMT 3
Jakaswangs:
Yes, your His Excellency has indeed taken action, but some might find it of an odd nature: We will immediately pay the thieves; then we will investigate again and find out who they are.
Still, it's small potatoes ... I hear that these days yuan are flowing into Kenya like water from a flooded river.
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Post by mank on May 16, 2014 2:40:33 GMT 3
They rob us while on our pay roll, and then excuse themselves from responsibility on pretense of saving us from international frown! Where is Uhuru's judgement? What difference does it make that we avoid paying greater interest on the current judgement if we show no seriousness for going after those who got us into the mess by corruption? What will stop them, or their counterparts, from binding us elsewhere?
Uhuru would have looked a leader if he reflected more seriously on the will to bring the white collar scoundrels to judgement than on the decision to pay the unwarranted burden of loot!
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Post by KOLONEL BRISK on May 16, 2014 15:30:09 GMT 3
Tony Gachoka speaks on Anglo Leasing,
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Post by KOLONEL BRISK on May 17, 2014 19:34:58 GMT 3
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