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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Jan 26, 2015 20:05:22 GMT 3
www.businessdailyafrica.com/lland-grab-suit-against-Mama-Ngina/-/539546/2479702/-/p1danuz/-/index.htmlMeanwhile the Kenyattas are in Court - Mama Ngina sued by her brother-in-law for land he claims was grabbed by Jomo. And the Kenyattas are using the full force of the government to defend their loot, with their cousin professor at the fore front defending them. Least we forget, the 3500 Ha in Taita Taveta lease was renewed to them after a period of 99 years. That means the Kenyattas were given that land in 1905!
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Post by OtishOtish on Apr 23, 2015 2:03:26 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 8, 2015 22:59:08 GMT 3
JUSTICE IS BLIND, THE LAW IS AN ASS: OR PORK IS BLIND, TOBIKO AND EACC ARE A CROSS BETWEEN A DONKEY AND A HORSE!You know in the official narrative of the republic, we have a co-presidency. But in the public narrative of power there is of course no such thing as a duo Kingship, co-regency, nor co-presidency. In any case politics is much about keeping up appearances, and that is a game of survival. Many a puppet of head of a vassal state around the world, do pump up their chests and bellow their independence, insisting on grand titles like their excellencies. (I visited a Kalenjin old friend of mine recently to demand a job and my share of corruption for old boys sake: listen my fishy friend, he slapped me: ''it is a tyranny of Kikuyus not the tyranny of Kikuyus and Kalenjins! I am barely hanging in with the skin of my teeth! Do you still drive that matatu? I reserve my toutship in case!'' --see footnote.)i recall what would have been a perfect case of a duo Kingship was when the French royal house was blessed with identical twins. But only one could be King, as is told in tabloid films like the Man in the Iron mask. Too, history is littered with pages of caked blood, flowing form badly ended co-regency's, or even triumvirates. So just like the Raila and Kibaki bull, it was always a question of waiting for the day the Uhuruto dual presidential act would fizzle, and the de facto King emerge. It did some time back, but William Ruto had not confessed it with such emotion. I caught him on a citizen radio report, during which he, from the bottom of his heart if he really has one, swore total loyalty to Uhuru Kenyatta; swore his supplication and never to antagonise him (and he did miss the chance to sneer at the GCG cold war), all because ''You are my President! And I know my place!'' There it was. But one has to catch his emotional deliverance to absorb the full import of those words, spoken in a tremolo. But my instincts told me to look for a hidden message. I think it was a searing plea to President Kenyatta, to save his Singh's assz. There is data which can not be wished away, nor blamed on third parties wishing him evil in envy. The revelation that Francis Muthaura had tried to block the theft of the public land on which the Weston Hotel is built, must have consequences even if Uhuru Kenyatta is committed to impunity. It is a bomb that must be diffused. The Nairobi Star has unearthed documents which neither Tobiko nor the clowns at EACC could master, nor the new Ole Lenku in town aka Boinet. Then again, William Ruto has all but admitted ownership of the Weston Hotel. He can no longer keep up the act the shady lawyer Ahmednassir charted, to sue anybody who mentions him as having interest in the Hotel. The hotel which now, can be proved to have been built on public land. --That Ruto did not make the EACC list of 175 corrupt public officials --another version is he did but Uhuru crossed out his name!---- is already a huge debt to his boss Uhuru, refundable in supplicant loyalty. But the Singh still needs more bailout, more forgiveness as a sinner caught red handed --O Ouru the magnanimous, Lord have mercy! www.the-star.co.ke/news/how-dp-ruto-acquired-weston-land-documents-show-plot-belonged-public#sthash.RnE4Cr0V.6CslPx0o.dpuf For the records from the records! This looks smart and neat, easy money and easy property, but if this is the kind of way a nation's elite make keep, then they can not compete in the wide world, the industrial world where value has to be added in a process of production and technological refinement. Where mind has to be exerted, taxed and exacted. How do parasites swim with the sharks? Free-ride in the belly, or stuck in the gills naturally. I once said official Kenya power goes Uhuru, Ruto, Kidero. The Kenyatta'''s issues with land are well known; Ruto's issues with greed too, and Kidero's sweet tooth, or sweet pockets courtesy of a certain plant, too are in the public domain. --Gotta know your country. If an ''illegal title'' must lead to a ''demolition'' , what really would be left standing in Kenya, yawa! Even the headquarters of the most powerful company in the republic, Safaricom, would have to bite the dust! Yawa Ouru ruodha bi resa! Wuod Onyatto Jakuo-Lowo! (Come rescue me My Lord Muigai, thou son of Jomo the landgrabber!) They say action speaks louder than words! I can see Mr. PORK adopting the legendary Ostrich pose! The run of impunity by the elite continues, the rage that at long last will bring it to sorry halt, too continues to condense. What a clash in prospect. nb: I and my Kalenjin friend were staffmates. During the holidays we would move our matatus to Nairobi, hire armed GSU officers as co-drivers (to intimidate the Mungiki controlling the routes and stages), and that way get to know the sociology of the capital city. Since a mpango wa kando of mine was related to a QweQwe squader, I had choice marksmen covering my back, and we became pretty reckless to get extra business to pay all those guns for hire! not to mention our female students who, after the first shock, started knowing where we hung out at off times!
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Post by kamalet on Jun 9, 2015 9:44:19 GMT 3
Jakaswanga
So yes it was public land and the lead trustee of the land was the President of Kenya before the new constitution changed all that! The president had the power to issue grants of land hived from public land under the law and it would appear that the likes of Ruto will rely on that low as the new constitution cannot be enforced retroactively - that is how much of an ass the law is.
So yes Ruto was allocated Public Land and built his hotel there from money borrowed from KCB and which was refinanced last year - the Bank was satisfied that the land ownership was legit and no caveats existed on the land!
If you had been a lot more observant you would have noticed this "According to the 2010 returns, Weston Hotels Limited is owned by Matiny Limited, Rael Kimeto, Merica Holdings Limited and Eric Kipkoech Ng’eno." The company in Red is a Moi owned company - know about Merica Hotel in Nakuru? Whilst the character in the shade of Blue is the President's speech writer and also a prominent lawyer in Okoa LSK.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 9, 2015 11:34:48 GMT 3
Jakaswanga So yes it was public land and the lead trustee of the land was the President of Kenya before the new constitution changed all that! The president had the power to issue grants of land hived from public land under the law and it would appear that the likes of Ruto will rely on that low as the new constitution cannot be enforced retroactively - that is how much of an ass the law is. So yes Ruto was allocated Public Land and built his hotel there from money borrowed from KCB and which was refinanced last year - the Bank was satisfied that the land ownership was legit and no caveats existed on the land! If you had been a lot more observant you would have noticed this "According to the 2010 returns, Weston Hotels Limited is owned by Matiny Limited, Rael Kimeto, Merica Holdings Limited and Eric Kipkoech Ng’eno." The company in Red is a Moi owned company - know about Merica Hotel in Nakuru? Whilst the character in the shade of Blue is the President's speech writer and also a prominent lawyer in Okoa LSK. Kamalet KCAA seems to have been a better priority for the land. Muthaura was clear-headed in this. God bless his soul. Samy Mwaita, current Baringo central Mpig and billed by the star as Ruto ally, was then NLC commissioner, and ignored Muthaura. The deal was rotten that is the Problem. Unfair. There would be NO problem if custodians of public land acted in accordance with national interests. Then we would not have a squatters problem for instance! It's a pond of incestuos corruption and the different companies are just fronts. Osiero too is in the mix! Owner until truth burst the lie!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 9, 2015 19:33:40 GMT 3
IN PRAISE OF THE 'PRIVATE DEVELOPER'I got this in my in-box a few hours ago: IN DEFENCE OF LANDGRABBING Here is my preliminary response. Know all men, and women, that the title deeds processed by the land-buying companies which eventually managed to resettle thousands of 'landless' Gikuyus in the wide expanse of the Rift Valley, were genuine and legal tender, just like the FACILITATING companies themselves were 'BONAFIDE' and constitutionally adequate. In due time, these Kikuyus prospered and their numbers increased to some hundred thousand. AND Willing Buyer willing seller, and Kenya being free enterprise, the state protected private property. Yet in end 2007/2008 something happened. I am not sure how come. These days they call it ethnic cleansing, but in any case up of a hundred thousand Kikuyu 'settlers' were uprooted from their 'settlement schemes in the Rift Valley'. Here my memory fails me some moreL Both the cause of, and the process of uprooting, I do not remember. Fact is, these legal tenders and title deeds and the what have you's which lawyers in posh offices will throw at you, meant naught during those murderous weeks. They were not machette-thud proof. I do not like listening much to lawyers over land. Land does raise a passion whose resolution more often than not is extra-judicial. Stuff like land and freedom armies! I know for sure, that the Zionist settlers in many areas of Palestine have all the legal tenders of owning the land, and 150+ nuclear weapons to back it up should the title deeds not impress everybody. Yet I also know, that all these settler places have Arab names which have now been banned by law, and over 2 million Palestinians demand a return to ''home''.
And lawyers cannot sort it out. Since 1948, naught.So lawyer tells me it is a good thing for Kenya Ruto grabbed land meant for the Aviation Authority, and even a better thing he got an irregular loan to develop the plot into a hotel. That the Maasai should build a KICC high statue for Lord Dalamere; and the Kalenjin build an Eifel-tower statue to honour the man who killed Koitalel arap Samoei (the primitive dog did not want to cede land for ''private developers''). I have a better thought for William Ruto. He should do everything to be in power. In a country where chicken thieves and pick pockets are burnt alive and stoned to death, there is the latent consciousness that a grabber of public land like him can be burnt alive with his family, like happened to a group of Kikuyus in Kiambaa church in Eldoret. Rightful owners of a plot no doubt, but many other things in doubt. There again! my memory fails me why these families were roasted alive at Kiambaa church. I will ask around, though I wont be asking lawyers. And why exactly did this church turn into an oven? May be an insane hate festering in hearts due to a so-called land grievance, I have no idea. A woman cries in front of a church where some 30 people were burned alive in Eldoret January 1, 2008. No one is complaining!? Hmmm. This one talks like a Turkish military dictator denying there is Kurdish problem in Turkey! Listen to Maasai songs of land grievance. What do you hear? Nothing of course!
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Post by kamalet on Jun 10, 2015 8:34:50 GMT 3
IN PRAISE OF THE 'PRIVATE DEVELOPER'I got this in my in-box a few hours ago: IN DEFENCE OF LANDGRABBING I have to agree with Kipkorir here and in particular to the Railways land at Upper Hill that is being transformed into a poorly planned Sandton City! The problem we have with the so called public land is how badly utilised it is by the state bodies that supposedly own the land. KCAA purportedly owned the land on which Weston Hotel stands. The land had been owned by KCAA for eons but nothing was ever done with the land and when land grabbing under Moi was at its peak, that land became ripe for grabbing (using Kenyan parlance). Last Monday I decided to take a walk at the Kabete Vet Lab Club's golf course (yes - I refuse to play golf even with very close golfing buddies!) and everytime I am at that club or even drive through the university gates I am reminded of the amount of land the institution has in Kabete. All that land is very prime but generally under-utilised which would explain why Vet Lab were able to hive off a golf course on the land. Of course chunks of the land were stolen during the grabbing spree! But that is the problem we have where public bodies owning land fail to utilise it and when it is grabbed they make noise. The constitution sought to address the political allocation of land to individuals by removing the power of the president from allocating/granting such land and divested this power in a constitutional Land Commission. As to whether the NLC can redress this is something I am not prepared to hold my breath on!
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Post by podp on Jun 12, 2015 17:25:36 GMT 3
IN PRAISE OF THE 'PRIVATE DEVELOPER'I got this in my in-box a few hours ago: IN DEFENCE OF LANDGRABBING I have to agree with Kipkorir here and in particular to the Railways land at Upper Hill that is being transformed into a poorly planned Sandton City! The problem we have with the so called public land is how badly utilised it is by the state bodies that supposedly own the land. KCAA purportedly owned the land on which Weston Hotel stands. The land had been owned by KCAA for eons but nothing was ever done with the land and when land grabbing under Moi was at its peak, that land became ripe for grabbing (using Kenyan parlance). Last Monday I decided to take a walk at the Kabete Vet Lab Club's golf course (yes - I refuse to play golf even with very close golfing buddies!) and everytime I am at that club or even drive through the university gates I am reminded of the amount of land the institution has in Kabete. All that land is very prime but generally under-utilised which would explain why Vet Lab were able to hive off a golf course on the land. Of course chunks of the land were stolen during the grabbing spree! But that is the problem we have where public bodies owning land fail to utilise it and when it is grabbed they make noise. The constitution sought to address the political allocation of land to individuals by removing the power of the president from allocating/granting such land and divested this power in a constitutional Land Commission. As to whether the NLC can redress this is something I am not prepared to hold my breath on! come to think of it the last estate the City Council of Nairobi partially developed was Umoja II. Umoja I was a downgrade of Buruburu and this was in the 1970s while Umoja was in the 1980s. since then it has been private developers 'grabbing' public land and the rest is history. Kileleshwa and Lavington have been transformed into a flats estates and as said above Upper Hill is our unplanned Sandton the county of Nairobi is clueless on how and where the city is going to. in tha last years of Moi we had Jirongo working out the current NSSF building and Embakasi system of flats and many others have followed in those footsteps. since Nairobi is the capital city the rest of Kenya has followed in those footsteps. after the post election violence of 2007/2008 the GEMA community has confined its real estate investments in Nakuru county and back to their ancestral lands and that partially explains why the Jubilee regime pays lip service to tourism as the hotels in Coast owned by the likes of the late Karume and the dying Matiba closed down and none is being developed. what should happen there is the locals need to re-'grab' that land and see what best to do with it as GEMA consolidates its base www.nation.co.ke/counties/Leaders-push-for-regional-trade-bloc/-/1107872/2748484/-/format/xhtml/-/o4vahz/-/index.htmlso too is the Rif Valley and the Nyanza-Western axis doing so and Coast too is not to be left behind. what is left the former Northern the charcoal dealer aka Duale and ilk can take over
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Post by podp on Jun 12, 2015 17:54:55 GMT 3
IN PRAISE OF THE 'PRIVATE DEVELOPER'I got this in my in-box a few hours ago: IN DEFENCE OF LANDGRABBING Yet in end 2007/2008 something happened. I am not sure how come. These days they call it ethnic cleansing, but in any case up of a hundred thousand Kikuyu 'settlers' were uprooted from their 'settlement schemes in the Rift Valley'. Here my memory fails me some moreL Both the cause of, and the process of uprooting, I do not remember. Fact is, these legal tenders and title deeds and the what have you's which lawyers in posh offices will throw at you, meant naught during those murderous weeks. They were not machette-thud proof. I do not like listening much to lawyers over land. Land does raise a passion whose resolution more often than not is extra-judicial. Stuff like land and freedom armies! I know for sure, that the Zionist settlers in many areas of Palestine have all the legal tenders of owning the land, and 150+ nuclear weapons to back it up should the title deeds not impress everybody. Yet I also know, that all these settler places have Arab names which have now been banned by law, and over 2 million Palestinians demand a return to ''home''.
And lawyers cannot sort it out. Since 1948, naught.So lawyer tells me it is a good thing for Kenya Ruto grabbed land meant for the Aviation Authority, and even a better thing he got an irregular loan to develop the plot into a hotel. That the Maasai should build a KICC high statue for Lord Dalamere; and the Kalenjin build an Eifel-tower statue to honour the man who killed Koitalel arap Samoei (the primitive dog did not want to cede land for ''private developers''). I have a better thought for William Ruto. He should do everything to be in power. In a country where chicken thieves and pick pockets are burnt alive and stoned to death, there is the latent consciousness that a grabber of public land like him can be burnt alive with his family, like happened to a group of Kikuyus in Kiambaa church in Eldoret. Rightful owners of a plot no doubt, but many other things in doubt. There again! my memory fails me why these families were roasted alive at Kiambaa church. I will ask around, though I wont be asking lawyers. And why exactly did this church turn into an oven? May be an insane hate festering in hearts due to a so-called land grievance, I have no idea. A woman cries in front of a church where some 30 people were burned alive in Eldoret January 1, 2008. No one is complaining!? ! 1st red high light there is a story doing the rounds as the budget tries to cover it Ms Juma, the Interior principal secretary, is on the verge of being rendered jobless in the Civil Service because President Kenyatta has nominated Major-General (rtd) Gordon Kihalangwa to take her post. www.nation.co.ke/news/Ipoa-says-Monica-wrote-another-rude-letter/-/1056/2749314/-/format/xhtml/-/15n28i/-/index.htmlthe grape vine has it the deputy PORK and his men have been burning the midnight oil to get Ms Juma out so that the feasting that Kimemia and Iringo supported by Karangi can continue where the late Karume and Kirima not forgetting Michuki left it. my only doubt is it really deputy PORK who is celebrating her orchestrated down fall? 2nd red high light and then the crocodile tears brought me awake www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Rule-68-should-not-be-used-to-prop-weak-cases/-/440808/2748676/-/format/xhtml/-/nxeh04/-/index.htmland so like that old poem, 'the second coming' that inspired the late Chinua Achebe let us go to it again Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. genius.com/William-butler-yeats-the-second-coming-annotatedso is deputy PORK any smarter of the 'worst' who 'are full of passionate intensity' as he 'turns and turns in the widened gyre'?'
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