|
Post by phil on Jun 9, 2014 18:45:09 GMT 3
Countdown to #SabaSaba: CORD Confirms Nationwide Consultative Rallies The opposition CORD coalition has resurrected its grassroot networks in preparation for a series of countrywide consultative rallies beginning with one in Migori Stadium this Friday 13th June. The CORD principals will be in Migori County to attend the funeral of the late veteran Nyanza politician and former MP and assistant minister Hon Phares Oluoch Kanindo in Awendo before proceeding to Migori Stadium to take the coalition message for the proposed national dialogue. The late Kanindo served as a member of parliament from 1979 to 1988 during which time he also served as Assistant Minister for Education. CORD is using these rallies as consultative forums with local leaders and opinion shapers expected to take to the podium to express their support for the proposed national conference. Rarieda and Bungoma Funerals The following day, on Saturday 14th June, the CORD principals will in Rarieda to attend the funeral of Abonyo Oyombe the immediate former ODM Siaya branch Chairman, before proceeding to Bungoma County to attend the funeral for the late Mzee Lucas Watta who was is a former ODM nominated councillor, and former Chair of the Luhya Council of Elders. #BabaTukututaneMombasa Rally Sunday 15 June The CORD Leader and former Prime Minister @railaodinga, together with his fellow CORD principals and top coalition leadership, are then expected to fly into Mombasa to address a highly anticipated political rally at the historic Tononoka Grounds. The rally whose theme is expected to centre on the proposed national dialogue takes place on Sunday June 15th and already the Mombasa Governor @alihassanjoho is trending the hashtag #BabaTukutaneMombasa. The coastal town of Mombasa has been a beehive of activity in the last one week in preparation for giving the CORD leaders a what sources close to Mombasa governor termed a "visible reception". Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho and Senator Hassan Omar are leading in mobilizing supporters from as far as Taita, Kilifi, Kwale, Lamu and Malindi to attend the rally in declaring support for an all-inclusive structured national conference, failure to which the region will join other Kenyans in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park on July 7th at a rally dubbed #SabaSaba. The Mombasa County Women representative Hon Mishi Mboko and MP Jomvu Badi Twalib were on Pwani FM this morning to discuss the upcoming CORD rally. Coastal Counties of have bore the brunt of travel advisories by Western governments that has seen unprecedented evacuations and low bed occupancy, with more than 50 hotels, guest houses and beach apartments reportedly closed down, resulting to more 50,000 job losses in the last one month. The message of insecurity, extrajudicial killings and disappearance, as well as terrorism are expected to dominate discussion at the rally. ODM leader is also expected to thank the voters of Shella Ward in Malindi who braved a high profile campaign led by Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko for Jubilee and Gideon Mungaro for CORD to vote overwhelmingly for the coalition. The April county assembly by-election was reduced to CORD affair with ODM’s Adamson Mwathethe emerging the winner after garnering 2,236 votes ahead of WDM’s Abdulkarim Twaher who got 1,967 votes, with Jubilee coaltion RCP’s Abdalla Abbas trailing at 927 votes. Residents of the former coast province are expected to attend the rally in their thousands and the venue has reportedly been booked and secured by a private firm hired by Governor Joho who is an unapologetic supporter of ODM Leader Raila Odinga. More rallies........... www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=297894440373684&id=285037838326011
|
|
|
Post by kamalet on Jun 9, 2014 22:34:31 GMT 3
These CORD guys are a bunch of cartoons!!
So the plan for consultative rallies is built around who dies so that the funeral can be turned into a consultation with the people?? Must it be a funeral for people to meet?
So what is the planned outcome of the consultative rallies that CORD is planning or is it the usual abuse of the English language where "consultative" has no relationship with "consultation"? The last time I checked, CORD was looking for National Dialogue with JUBILEE. JUBILEE has given them an answer which does not seem to go down well with the mandarins at CORD.
There is a limit to the number of famous people who die or lose relatives as there is a limit to the number of rallies you have hold, so in there lies the risk that CORD could lose the public interest it so desperately wants with these rallies. At some point they will have to stop if they do not gather traction and from the look of things they will do this very soon.
But is that not the problem that afflicts CORD? These rallies are intended to divert attention from the flopped national elections. The problem is that you again cannot postpone these for ever and the same power play we saw last time has not gone away. The party needs to look into itself and realise that it is not the rallies that will keep it relevant; but how it acts as a responsible opposition as per the constitution! It must also deliver in the counties that it controls to show that it can offer a viable alternative government. Sadly it has failed to inspire in all these respects!
Now Phil can return hot under the collar and give us an incoherent response!
|
|
|
Post by phil on Jun 10, 2014 6:48:47 GMT 3
|
|
|
Post by mwalimumkuu on Jun 10, 2014 7:40:04 GMT 3
A very condescending and patronizing attitude by Raila in that article. It is telling that he relives the events of the nineties and '07, a clear indicator that he is interested in civil disobedience with the misguided believe that he will manage to squeeze himself into government. I can only wish him well in his mission. Back to the rallies, as expected, the rallies will be the beginning of the fall of CORD as we know it. We all witnessed what happened to Kidero last Saturday. Currently, a section of Wiper is already feeling sidelined and suspicious of the whole arrangement. The murmurs are growing louder especially with the latest #babatukutanemombasa hashtag mobile.nation.co.ke/counties/MPs-differ-with-Raila-over-rally/-/1950480/2341414/-/format/xhtml/-/we19uuz/-/index.html~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
|
|
|
Post by phil on Jun 10, 2014 14:20:26 GMT 3
NATIONAL DIALOGUE NOT ABOUT JUBILEE & CORD
When we talked about a national dialogue we never intended it to be between CORD and JUBILEE. Nor did we mean that it was a matter confined to political parties alone. It is a dialogue among the Kenyan people from all walks of life currently confronted by crises of unprecedented proportions.
Anybody interpreting the reaction of Jubilee as an affront to CORD is obviously missing the point. In its usual authoritarian reaction to any proposal addressing the popular concern of the Kenyan people Jubilee will obviously want to confine this dialogue to a corner where its tyranny of numbers will subvert a genuine national debate.
We in CORD are ready with our preparatory team which has embarked on consultations with stake holders en route to the national dialogue. We hope Jubilee will drop its arrogance and grandstanding and come along with the Kenyan people.
We invite religious leaders, trade unions, civil society organizations and the popular masses to join us to save this nation from collapse.
Prof. P. Anyang' Nyong'o, Secretary General, ODM 10/6/14
|
|
|
Post by kamalet on Jun 10, 2014 14:49:38 GMT 3
NATIONAL DIALOGUE NOT ABOUT JUBILEE & CORD When we talked about a national dialogue we never intended it to be between CORD and JUBILEE. Nor did we mean that it was a matter confined to political parties alone. It is a dialogue among the Kenyan people from all walks of life currently confronted by crises of unprecedented proportions. Anybody interpreting the reaction of Jubilee as an affront to CORD is obviously missing the point. In its usual authoritarian reaction to any proposal addressing the popular concern of the Kenyan people Jubilee will obviously want to confine this dialogue to a corner where its tyranny of numbers will subvert a genuine national debate. We in CORD are ready with our preparatory team which has embarked on consultations with stake holders en route to the national dialogue. We hope Jubilee will drop its arrogance and grandstanding and come along with the Kenyan people. We invite religious leaders, trade unions, civil society organizations and the popular masses to join us to save this nation from collapse. Prof. P. Anyang' Nyong'o, Secretary General, ODM 10/6/14 This is really funny!!! Twisting and turning to get themselves out of small problem they created!!! Out of curiosity, if it is a matter for Kenyans, why is Cord and its limping leader issuing ultimatums??
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 10, 2014 20:37:26 GMT 3
Of course there is a game of subterfuge going on, and a lot of fellows are going to get nervous. As things pick up, they will wonder whether they boarded the right train to the right direction, and may wish to jump out, and fall by the roadside. After all, it is when the pressure is intensified that weaknesses show, that nerves crack, and the spineless cringe. But there are poor clouds in the air. Like mismanaging conflicts. Take a look www.nation.co.ke/counties/Deputy-governor-rejects-planned-Cord-rallies/-/1107872/2342328/-/urnph2/-/index.html You start banning some people from certain parts of the same country, very soon, apart from the legal implausibility, practical retaliatory measures will come. Like: businesses owned by some people from certain places will not be allowed to operate somewhere. That is how I see it done, in political unions captivated by the dynamics of Balkanisation, and going downhill. Tit for tat, until an eye for an eye. ---But humorously, I must think of the Governor of Mississippi banning the Civil Rights demos of Martin Luther King way back in the 60s: ‘’Our ni-gg-ahs are just fine the way things are. They need no civil rights sh!T reverend bringing trouble. They aint gonna take no vote, and do no vote. That is the way it is in ol’ Mississippi, and that is the way it gonna stay in good Mississippi! Ni-gga stay ni-gga!’’And in good old Kenya, the temperature is definitely rising. www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Stop-insulting-me--Uhuru-tells-Cord/-/1064/2342220/-/2quptlz/-/index.html But what the press is yet to report, is what Sonko and another female Jubilee notable said in Kisii. over the weekend. Sonko said: ‘’Mr. President! we also have the numbers in Jubilee. We can bring them out on the streets to support you!’’ The lady called for an outright ban on the rallies! ‘’we can not allow this to happen, Rais!’’ [ Kimaiyo should ban them! like he originally did the homecoming!] That is a stage being set for confrontations outside the established institutions!Well, if there is no political skill to navigate this stretch of treacherous waters, radicals will take over, and unlike the nearly disastrous simultaneous commissioning of a Jubilee rally to coincide with the Raila homecoming Cord extravaganza, closely averted when sanity reigned, this time shove will come to push ---and the army which has already been commissioned to help the police in ‘’regular police duties’’ will likely shove the police aside like they did at the crisis in Westgate. ---It is just a thought. I do not know whether the KDF is sophisticated enough to, like the Thai army recently, invite all the government heads and all the opposition heads to tea and consultation at a military base. Where they then remain as guests of the military until they have slept off their hangover from their excess indulgence in army hospitality.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 11, 2014 20:23:36 GMT 3
Now that remote control drones like phil have resumed their buzz around cyberspace, spinning across blogs, unloading fecal political matter they have engorged themselves with in their burrows deep in the colons of their party bosses at such political toilets like the Orange House, we should be excused if we fall pray to the advice of an old African proverb: when you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, know you something is after its jumpy life! CORD is of course trying to export its internal contradictions to seal its own cracks. There are primary unresolved issues within CORD. 1. The nature the alliance now needs definition. Is it a pre-electoral pact sleepwalking into a post-electoral pact, with the option of evolving into a permanent Union, in which case A merger is thinkable …? Or does it, in its own vision, remain the ramshackle last-minute concoction it was, to react to the Uhuruto tandem falling into rivet? What is it, that binds Raila Kalonzo and Weta … that Uhuruto can not smash by hook or crook!? 2. The other elephant in the room, is the power struggle within ODM which, to all practical purposes, is about the Raila succession. Par A of it is the Team fresh factor which led to the meltdown or shameful show of political bankruptcy at Kasarani, with the MIBs taking center stage. And part B is the purely intra-Luo civil war which pits Raila’s court against the leading pretender Evans Kidero. For the moment. This intra-Luo stand-off is so deadly it has repercussions for the future of ODM, and thus, CORD. NB1: It is my thinking Agnes Zani is no match for Hassan Joho at the Coast, and, pound for pound, Ababu Namwamba far outstrips any opponent for the respective post. Raila can not derail all these talents ---Ababu, Joho, Kidero and get away with it. However great of a Baba he be! NB2. On the other side, Wiper too has its problems, not least of which is star governor Alfred Mutua. He is sometimes accused, like Kidero, of having intimate links to Jubilee in the dark. As SabaSaba noises continue up, it will be interesting to watch how he juggles his cards. Now very close to his chest. NB3. (let us leave the tribulations of Jubilee for the moment. We have documented them well here, and I notice, that even my former boss when we were still teaching together, Mwalimumkuu, incidentally also a fellow Jukwaa fanatic, now very warm near the seat of power at Nyumba Kubwa, is very cagey about singing the deliverance songs of Jubilee. In fact, if phil tends to highlight the shortcomings of Jubilee, Mwalimumkuu tends to point out the failings in CORD!)In my opinion, whilst I think the rallies are legitimate (opposition) activities, it would have been prudent for CORD and ODM to have first sorted the internal power dynamics first, so that everywhere they go, the kind of confused jostling we witnessed at Uhuru Park on Raila’s return, is avoided. Then would they ooze clear purpose, not disjointed antics. Otherwise I doubt they can define a coherent alternative to Jubilee if they can not define themselves first. The relief comes from the fact that, ELITE PACTING as Onyango Oloo Jajukwaa would put, is a garbage recycling business. Any prominent name you mention: they are all garbage from the KANU-MOI bin. Whichever you choose, you still got a lot of trash! (Remember Kalonzo as a prominent presence during the so-called prayer rallies? G7 or G3 rifle was it? NATIONAL DIALOGUE NOT ABOUT JUBILEE & CORD When we talked about a national dialogue we never intended it to be between CORD and JUBILEE. Nor did we mean that it was a matter confined to political parties alone. It is a dialogue among the Kenyan people from all walks of life currently confronted by crises of unprecedented proportions. Anybody interpreting the reaction of Jubilee as an affront to CORD is obviously missing the point. In its usual authoritarian reaction to any proposal addressing the popular concern of the Kenyan people Jubilee will obviously want to confine this dialogue to a corner where its tyranny of numbers will subvert a genuine national debate. We in CORD are ready with our preparatory team which has embarked on consultations with stake holders en route to the national dialogue. We hope Jubilee will drop its arrogance and grandstanding and come along with the Kenyan people. We invite religious leaders, trade unions, civil society organizations and the popular masses to join us to save this nation from collapse. Prof. P. Anyang' Nyong'o, Secretary General, ODM 10/6/14
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 14, 2014 16:16:13 GMT 3
ON SAVING THE SON OF JOMO FROM DIM-WITTED MINIONS!So what is really happening in the republic of Kenya? In other words, what is the political class up to? What is their game, to which they seduce us to partake or to spectate? I think it is obvious like in all good games. Oh the game of love where blind fury reigns, And dread passions open up the gates of hell They say you are the worst game on planet earth!Happily Politics is not a game of Love. Merely then, our politicians seek to create an impression of legitimacy. Legitimacy absolves from some very dire consequences. Our politicians profess their roots as running deep within a wide social base. The government reminds of its VICTORY in the last elections. This is a magic mantra meant to encapsulate them in an uninterrupted, invincible run of term, till the official end. And the next scheduled elections. The victory as an innoculation from implosion of any sort, and an alibi for impunity. The tyranny of numbers condenses into a tyranny of rule. We will notice, but for the moment freeze it, that, leaving the antics of the official opposition aside, the internal contradictions within the ruling coalition of government itself, is enough to precipitate an implosion. –more about that later.For their part, the official opposition itself, convinced together with its no less substantive constituency, or social base, that they were robbed of victory and therefore the government’s legitimacy is fiction even if its rule is factual, seek to mobilise this sentiment and discredit the government, with whatever the consequences. Some say for a coalition government. Some say for an outright overthrow ... CIA sponsored. (The straight forward answer that it is normal political activity in a democracy seems outside the scope of Kenya. ) Whatever the case, it means there is a tacit agreement that there is real grassroots pressure from the people of Kenya, in relative oppositional or antagonistic formations, to warrant a boiling political superstructure. For the politics at the top, find not place in a vacuum, but are generated by the material reality of lived existence. (there is also ‘’imagined existence’’ as in false consciousness of course, the so-called ‘’utopian fantasmia’’) So what is likely to happen?I do not know. But nothing good. Because neither side, being of the same ideology, can offer an economic thought to successfully resolve the current under performance which makes us, -Kenya, a permanent developing nation. In the immediate future, we already have an inkling of what is happening. The more sensible parts of the ruling comprador, sensing the dangerous volatility, are lobbying for a parley. That is a more inclusive looting regime. This to steal the thunder out of this dangerous SabaSaba nonsense. The other wing, drunk with power, greedy and monopolist, is reverting foolhardy to the instincts of the authoritarianism of yesteryear's KANU. They want the opposition, which can be narrowed down in their vision to the eternal trouble-maker Raila, aka Agwambo Baba, cowed by robust state action, i.o.w. terror. Deal with him DECISIVELY, their prophets extol. We see the tough guys ordering clueless handmaids like Ole Lenku to warn OMINOUSLY thus Government will hold them PERSONALLY LIABLE! Ole Lenku who only yesterday was preparing mandas in one of Mama Ngina’s hotels before his parachute to stardom, is merely a spokesperson here. A pawn. But his orders are from the same person who ordered IG Kimaiyo to ban the homecoming rally, until more sane power-men like Intelligence's Gichangi advised sleepy Uhuru it be ordered reverted. Actually this chapa-mandazi cabinet secretary Ole Lenku is not aware of the implications, nor what it actually means, when the interior minister warns the leaders of the official opposition that they will be PERSONALLY held responsible for acts emanating from their legal and legitimate actions as politicians.Come on, you scum: DT arap Moi detained Raila Odinga for half a decade and tried to destroy his family. After that Raila is rigged two times out off the presidency. Now morans like you, Ole Lenku, are threatening to confiscate and expropriate the Raila family business like Spectre, and sell them off to compensate broken car windscreens and and shop windows after a Saba-Saba rally? --Just like that!? Hmmm Eh, Ouru Kenyatta. Omera, do not be sleepwalked into doom by these blind minions of yours. Just buy Raila and his troop out like Moi did. And Kibaki to an extent with the GCG too. Better have him pissing inside than outside pissing in as the American saying goes. Your excellency, all of you, the ruling dynasties of Kenya, need to hang together, or you will hang separately. That is the only politics in town. For your caste of aristocrats. don't temp fate too much sir. Why do you think Mwai Kibaki was never a match for Kenneth Matiba? ---THE ASILI SEVENSEVEN.
|
|
|
Post by kamalet on Jun 15, 2014 9:37:36 GMT 3
Jakaswanga
I was taught once long time ago never to look down upon the background of a person when judging them. In my Avatar, of the three men in the there, only one had a diploma from a university and that he obtained as an adult. But the three men are responsible for moulding the lives of more than 7000 men who have played a big part in the development of Kenya. So ole Lenku may have been in the hospitality business prior to joining government, but that does not make him a lesser manager than some mad men we have seen in government with a lot more education than ole Lenku.
I am sure if you read the constitution and the relevant laws, you will actually realise that once the former F&B manager at Utalii Hotel (which is NOT a Mama angina Hotel) was cleared by parliament to hold the post, thenu all laws referring to his post of cabinet secretary are enforced by the man. He leads a department of government that will not be popular with many, but that is why we have laws....!
He is actually right to warn the man who picks the mantle of his father as a slow punctured politician that he cannot just declare public holidays and ask people to the streets for a revolution. If he did not do this, then he should be impeached for dereliction of duty for no one is above the law.....even the Baba!
But if you looked at it even more seriously, this Baba character is the one in a lot more need for help than the son of jomo.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2014 12:56:49 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, I was taught once long time ago never to look down upon the background of a person when judging them. In my Avatar, of the three men in the there, only one had a diploma from a university and that he obtained as an adult. But the three men are responsible for moulding the lives of more than 7000 men who have played a big part in the development of Kenya. yes Kamalet, looking down upon the background of one is in deed a snobbish aristocratic trait! Men should be judged by the content of their character I agree with Luther King; not even the content of their pockets! I remember being hurt as an adolescent when a beauty once rejected me on the account of being the son of a mere fisherman! But we men are odd creatures, like judging a woman by the contents of her blouse or tight jeans! I am working on my prejudices! Ole Lenku may have been an exceptional hotel manager for true. But now he has been cabinet secretary for the interior for over a year. We can judge him on the job so far. Secondly, he had a major crisis in his hands during the Westgate Mall hijack. In such a crisis, is when the administrative mettle is shown and cut. My evaluation of him, and the was I saw kina Karangi treat him --an insignificant surbodinate, and the mediocrity he interned in turn, informed me to revise his legendary ‘’managerial expertise’’ gathered in the hospitality industry to be a competence in ‘’kitchen preparates’’. And the way I love ndanyos and chapos! I would never dare disparage an expert baker should he stick to baking such stuff. NB: It is possible other considerations than competence were at play in his anointment and passage through parliament. hehe! you know the name of the GCG guy he replaced? and pre-electoral deals? Same way Omamo' at defence may have more to do with Military Brass preferring a toy instead of a pry into the secretive security tenders which are a rip! Thirdly: Public administration, whenever moving to curtail and intimidate political opponents of the government, always reminds me, from a historical perspective of human political and societal evolution, that in the rule, these freedoms of political action are a very new and, wherever they exist, are achievements that have been very FIERCELY FOUGHT FOR, must be cherished and defended.I detect a total lack of historical perspective in people like Ole Lenku and Kimaiyo when they quote law to curtail public political expression, even if in the form of demonstration. Law? Actually there is, was a law which, for instance underwrote the possession for eterniy of the land mass know as East Africa, as belonging to the Crown of England, thus in the pleasure of the Queen to do with as she pleased. This law was quoted by the prosecution to Argwings Kodhek, defending some Mau Mau chaps who disagreed with that law.Now, I submit the Scottish learned friends opposite Argwings then, were the Mama Ngina cooks of that era!(matriarchal errand boys of Elizabeth --for the empire!) I respond to this separately.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2014 13:08:57 GMT 3
NB2. On the other side, Wiper too has its problems, not least of which is star governor Alfred Mutua. He is sometimes accused, like Kidero, of having intimate links to Jubilee in the dark. As SabaSaba noises continue up, it will be interesting to watch how he juggles his cards. Now very close to his chest. We have not had to wait long for him to show his hand at the gambling table! I wish he were a better poker player! This line from Kenny Rogers: Just by the way they held their faces, I knew the cards they held. Coz I made a life out of reading peoples faces. Got to know when to hold on, know when to walk away, gotta know when to run! Only yesterday Mutua was Goebbels in PNU. He should be worth his name selling his reason for rejecting SabaSaba! He got a reputation to watch.
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2014 15:14:36 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, He is actually right to warn the man who picks the mantle of his father as a slow punctured politician that he cannot just declare public holidays and ask people to the streets for a revolution. If he did not do this, then he should be impeached for dereliction of duty for no one is above the law.....even the Baba! But if you looked at it even more seriously, this Baba character is the one in a lot more need for help than the son of jomo. I respond to this separately. Kamalet, now look at this: www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Jubilee-House-leaders-fault-Raila-over-Saba-Saba-holiday-call/-/1064/2348168/-/dh2gkiz/-/index.html Mr. Odinga has no power to declare a national holiday! – Correct! The two ‘’flower girls’’ Duale and Kindiki should at most have stopped there if they had to giggle flirtatiously in public, but best was if they IGNORED the man as a joke, given how many good reasons they have stated. As to Odingabreaking the law? You would think, logically, that Kimaiyo’s people and Tobiko’s office are not yet a scam nor as useless as the JSC! So, at least, some culprits who break some laws will have their day in court, before a Judge not P-)touched by any scandal! But Aden Duale and Kithure Kindiki are not in the game of upholding the law, are they? And that is why I call them giggling girls on a a co.ck-sighting trip! Take a look below. I am sure Raila will not sue them for defamation and character assassination. O dear Kenya! This is the kind of man who became Prime Minister for four years! Why did not Aden Duale and Kithure Kindiki do all in their powers during the GCG to point this out and have him declared unsuitable! But wait a moment! Aden Duale was even in ODM I think! the party led by a man with a ‘’fondness for anarchy, his opposition to the rule of law, his disregard for the property and safety of Kenyans, and his confrontational politics well known.” … etc etc! ---Duale’s mind is limping! First his mea culpa is begged for: It was Shetani obviously drove him in those days to ODM! And now he has seen the light! Amen or Inshallah! He should say that publicly first! Seeing he is rather late in noticing these tendencies which had been clear to Kenyans who saw him reject all results … all the way from 1997! Aden Duale only noticed, presumably, when URP was formed. Better late than never. NB: I forget, but 1997 Elections: they were free and fair? This Mr. Odinga has been declared politically dead, useless and rejected litter by many senior politicians in government. But when the government is constantly busy with that POLITICAL CORPSE, constantly reacting to that corpse, bullying that corpse (remember the VIP lounge silliness), with even the ‘’duly elected’’ Uhuru Kenyatta reportedly foregoing foreign trips to stay home and keep vigil on the self-same corpse … one begins to get the idea there is something about this corpse which is NOT typical of the known meanings encompassing the concept CORPSE. O how happy some men will be, the day the son of Jaramogi dies! Die! O Raila Die! And make many a circumcised men have their day! Kindly die for them, since final death will be their greatest day on Earth!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2014 16:02:12 GMT 3
NB2. On the other side, Wiper too has its problems, not least of which is star governor Alfred Mutua. He is sometimes accused, like Kidero, of having intimate links to Jubilee in the dark. As SabaSaba noises continue up, it will be interesting to watch how he juggles his cards. Now very close to his chest. ............................ We have not had to wait long for him to show his hand at the gambling table! I wish he were a better poker player!
This line from Kenny Rogers: Just by the way they held their faces, I knew the cards they held. Coz I made a life out of reading peoples faces. Got to know when to hold on, know when to walk away, gotta know when to run! Only yesterday Mutua was Goebbels in PNU. He should be worth his name selling his reason for rejecting SabaSaba! He got a reputation to watch. www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/story.php?articleID=2000124846&story_title=Mutua-Ignore-mass-action-by-CORD-and-support-Jubilee Alfred Mutua just jumped ship!. Staking the claim to Kamba 'leadersheep', and stabbing Kalonzo in the back. ---In so far as Kalonzo can be considered wholly in the SabaSaba band wagon. But yes, as CORD tried to gloss over its internal contradictions and export them in a fallacious resolution, they of course opened new ones. Like in the famous Russian Babouska/Matrouska planarian pops, open one find another. NB: The political class running around in a maze, changing sides and tongues left right and center, just like of old before the much touted-reform!? New constitution which was suppose curtaile these defection acts? It was amended so that before the last elections, eg Charitu Ngilu, among others, could defect and re-defect to the last moment. CONCLUSION: Integrity and consistency are a bridge too far. It is all the same side them politicians are on. The different outfits ---CORD JUBILEE-- they pretend to front are just that, fronts. Within them is the same old rotten comprador wh-ore, calculating to extend the lease of her parasitism, by hook and crook. yes, those in office must be careful even if it is their own party dancing sabasaba. Before you know it, a local variant of SabaSaba will arise to bring your own local government down! MCA’s with no love lost for their governors, CORD or Jubilee, are reading how it is done on the national level! and those who were rigged out of the gubernatorial seats too, like wolves on the sidelines they salivate, ready to pounce. And in the politics of devolution, SabaSaba too can get devolved.People like Alfred Mutua can not be blamed for being wary: let me finish my three years jameni! Is also a job guarantee pitch, if you ask me!Cautious of the prevailing political scenario! The masses are a dangerous movement when mobilised. This political truth remains even with a Digital Duo in power. No consensus! And that is the point. A tale of two republics. No one can speak for the United Republic! We the people yet to find a voice! ehmm our voices .. They wanna here me sing, Together as one ---Lucky Dube (Do not cry, Prisoner Album) SabaSaba will bring chaos with the intention of bringing down the Jubilee government! For those with the time, check the archives and see the speeches of the Moi loyalists in the run to the first rally of FORD! long ago!
Sorry, nobody remembers what that was!We have moved on! --- Not CORD but FORD I repeat! This 8-4-4 education! I doubt it can forge and industrialisation-lauching working class or industrialisation- captaining political class! I hang up my teaching gloves in shame! (I must have been a sub-standard teacher running a sub-standard curriculum producing a sub-standard generation! (I just read the report which says half of east african graduates are half-baked!) Aiayayaya!
www.nation.co.ke/news/universities-graduates-education-employment/-/1056/2344082/-/5qbm7u/-/index.html
|
|
|
Post by kamalet on Jun 16, 2014 10:01:55 GMT 3
I respond to this separately. Kamalet, now look at this: www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Jubilee-House-leaders-fault-Raila-over-Saba-Saba-holiday-call/-/1064/2348168/-/dh2gkiz/-/index.html Mr. Odinga has no power to declare a national holiday! – Correct! The two ‘’flower girls’’ Duale and Kindiki should at most have stopped there if they had to giggle flirtatiously in public, but best was if they IGNORED the man as a joke, given how many good reasons they have stated. As to Odingabreaking the law? You would think, logically, that Kimaiyo’s people and Tobiko’s office are not yet a scam nor as useless as the JSC! So, at least, some culprits who break some laws will have their day in court, before a Judge not P-)touched by any scandal! But Aden Duale and Kithure Kindiki are not in the game of upholding the law, are they? And that is why I call them giggling girls on a a co.ck-sighting trip! I think you read and at the same time ignore the law selectively. Duale and Kithiki actually swore an oath of office that demands of them to uphold the constitution. Merely because the DPP whose only reaction is when some government functionary has broken the law and who has this mortal fear of appearing political by not taking any action to many wrongs committed by folks in the opposition has not spoken does not mean the law has not been broken. I am sure we can have a debate on the rights that Raila has to call for a public holiday (easily distinguished from a national holiday)and you will find that the rights to call for one only end when he closes his mouth and do not extend anywhere beyond that! Take a look below. I am sure Raila will not sue them for defamation and character assassination. Actually this appears a reasonable assessment of Raila. I do not believe that losing in party elections and also in national elections all of which he has rejected displays a man capable of ever conceding defeat! The last attempt at a sham election had to be disrupted by the MIB to stop the shame of actually losing grip of ODM. Now all this is common sense stuff! [ O dear Kenya! This is the kind of man who became Prime Minister for four years! Why did not Aden Duale and Kithure Kindiki do all in their powers during the GCG to point this out and have him declared unsuitable! Are you forgetting your history that quickly? Do we not know we not know the circumstances under which he became Prime Minister? It was not a marriage sealed with a kiss and a honeymoon to boot that created that mongrel we keep calling GCG. That was perhaps the worst collection of thieves, charlatans etc that any decent government would ever have. It was rammed down our throats!! But wait a moment! Aden Duale was even in ODM I think! the party led by a man with a ‘’fondness for anarchy, his opposition to the rule of law, his disregard for the property and safety of Kenyans, and his confrontational politics well known.” … etc etc! ---Duale’s mind is limping! First his mea culpa is begged for: It was Shetani obviously drove him in those days to ODM! And now he has seen the light! Amen or Inshallah! He should say that publicly first! Seeing he is rather late in noticing these tendencies which had been clear to Kenyans who saw him reject all results … all the way from 1997! Aden Duale only noticed, presumably, when URP was formed. Better late than never. Perhaps Duale exemplifies the typical Kenyan politician that has had a dalliance with Raila. These do not last and the only one constant in the Raila base is his tribe. Every other dalliance has been hem taking his constituency to others to form an alliance (kindly note none is ever taken to him!!) That is why you have the likes of Ruto and Duale on the other side of the Mara river having survived the crocodiles that eat up the gnu when they cross the river. Many politicians have found themselves in political dustbins when they did not know when to jump or were indecisive! NB: I forget, but 1997 Elections: they were free and fair? This Mr. Odinga has been declared politically dead, useless and rejected litter by many senior politicians in government. But when the government is constantly busy with that POLITICAL CORPSE, constantly reacting to that corpse, bullying that corpse (remember the VIP lounge silliness), with even the ‘’duly elected’’ Uhuru Kenyatta reportedly foregoing foreign trips to stay home and keep vigil on the self-same corpse … one begins to get the idea there is something about this corpse which is NOT typical of the known meanings encompassing the concept CORPSE. Jakaswanga, my brother....! The road Raila has taken is one of ruin. The road he is taking is one to his political grave. Personally I think the saba saba day is being over-hyped and will not happen and neither will the 'dialogue' Raila wants taken to him will even happen. There are simply too many people falling off the band wagon and the current campaign to brand the rallies as the planning for chaos and violence will be sufficient to put off even more people. But that does not mean that we have no problems in Kenya. We actually have serious problems that are with us and which need all of us to resolve. The solution does not lie in public rallies, but in genuine leadership through the existing structures as spelt out in the constitution. If the intention of the rallies is to suspend the constitution and adoption of tough jua kali solutions, tell us so! Sadly, there is this misconceived idea that rallies like the ones in Ukraine and Malaysia will solve our problem....they will not! O how happy some men will be, the day the son of Jaramogi dies! Die! O Raila Die! And make many a circumcised men have their day! Kindly die for them, since final death will be their greatest day on Earth! Raila need not die not withstanding the many health issues he has. He needs to be part of the solution and be the one that shows leadership in these difficult times. But I do not think standing on stages and dancing to the tune of 'uhuru must go' makes him that mature leader. He is not and should never be like Kajwang or Muthama for currently we can not tell the difference!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 16, 2014 22:46:37 GMT 3
The president and his deputy, at their rallies at whatever functions they grace these days, engage in nothing but headline-grabbing fulminations at the opposition. And the opposition, at their funeral rallies or whatever functions they crowd, engage in the same in kind, at the government. Going on then is a shouting match. A dialogue of the deaf, a megaphone diplomacy. Both sides are talking alright to the other, they just need to get civilised, formal and disciplined (which is a more mature class trait!) and therefore wishful thinking to expect of an infantile elite). Meanwhile we can all clearly see there is an elite malfunction in conflict resolution. In my opinion, this flows from an institutional malfunction –of the so called established channels. This defect is part of the general crisis of a super-structure no longer adequate to canalise, format and solve real structural problems. (Pro-government governors resolving to ban opposition rallies from their counties is a fatal institutional defect in my opinion)I should now list examples of institutions and their dysfunctional proof. ---- Jukwaa archives will suffice. TJRC! IEBC!One of the greatest mediators in social conflict in any country nowadays is the ELECTORAL COMMISSION. If this body is not above reproach, the results of the elections will be disputed, and the question of legitimacy ever revisited. I read Omundu extolling the organisation acumen of electoral commission of South Africa. Leaving no room for speculation nor chicanery. But the Hassan of Ours? Hmmm. NB: Kamalet, if we were to be treated to great debates in parliament –however theatrical ; if we were to watch our cabinet secretaries sweating –like we used to practice in high school debates; if we were to gape at intellect on display in parliament, wrestling with national grievous problems; ---man I think these rallies would be just to show-case gospel and popular singers, featuring a twerking Vera Sidika! for good measure! Every cop in town coming to dance, and not dressed like b6k's hurt locker!I do not have a contempt for the law. But I have a contempt for the those pretending to uphold it now. The Highest body, the JSC, is honestly in my opinion, unworthy of the republic of Kenya. (even if it is said a people gets the courts they deserve !) As for Raila's walk to the grave: I notice this latest hullabaloo has re-confirmed him as the de facto opposition leader, and the unchallenged Paramount of the Lake Region too! This was not the case after the MIB display! the corpse got an infuse/recharge. How much ELEXIR is in the drip remains a subject for debate. (Elexir or elixir is in classical mythology, a substrate gods used to stay young and potent!)
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 17, 2014 19:23:31 GMT 3
Governors are in deed sovereigns over their fiefdoms. But there are 47 of them, and what one or two does, one or two on the other side can do. It is the logic of Balkanisation. Watch it unfold, the social fabric of your country disintegrating before your very eyes, as you cheer! Older Africans kind of warned ... one should not be beating the Tamtam drum when their house is on fire. I guess we moved on from such silliness! we damn gone digital, and we have our own more appropriate sayings of the wise!
|
|
|
Post by jakaswanga on Jun 19, 2014 19:28:58 GMT 3
ON SAVING THE SON OF JOMO FROM DIM-WITTED MINIONS!Eh, Ouru Kenyatta. Omera, do not be sleepwalked into doom by these blind minions of yours. Just buy Raila and his troop out like Moi did. And Kibaki to an extent with the GCG too. Better have him pissing inside than outside pissing in as the American saying goes.. ACHTUNG! The alert and hawk-eyed Jukwaaist, Man of Letters, coming back from a recess or sabbatical, noted an error in the red-lined bold: He corrects it to: Better have him IN pissing outside, than outside pissing in. --And it was Lyndon B. Johnson, not JFK as I thought. Apologies.
|
|
|
Post by Man Of Letters on Jun 20, 2014 23:28:02 GMT 3
ON SAVING THE SON OF JOMO FROM DIM-WITTED MINIONS!Eh, Ouru Kenyatta. Omera, do not be sleepwalked into doom by these blind minions of yours. Just buy Raila and his troop out like Moi did. And Kibaki to an extent with the GCG too. Better have him pissing inside than outside pissing in as the American saying goes.. ACHTUNG! The alert and hawk-eyed Jukwaaist, Man of Letters, coming back from a recess or sabbatical, noted an error in the red-lined bold: He corrects it to: Better have him IN pissing outside, than outside pissing in. --And it was Lyndon B. Johnson, not JFK as I thought. Apologies. How about this gem of a blunder from the quack political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi. In a recent interview on Citizen TV, while talking about the CORD rallies, he claimed that the rallies where meant to produce an African Spring (in reference to the Arab spring) that would flow to the other nations of East Africa. The Arab Spring refers to a season, NOT to the water that flows to the surface from the underground. That Mutahi is quite the dunderhead!
|
|
|
Post by phil on Jul 3, 2014 20:39:04 GMT 3
|
|