OUR Vermin LUO ELITE And The RETARDED COUNTIES OF NYANZA.

[jakaswanga]

KAKA ANYWOLA,

RE: OUR VERMIN LUO ELITE AND THE RETARDED COUNTIES OF NYANZA!

A pestilence of administrative mediocrity infests the Empire at large. But this sequel is a Luo domestic, and therefore 'our' Kavirondo Homeland counties will be the absolute focus of my heart and mind.

And I will, be ferocious at it, ancestors willing.

With bitter heart I traverse the pathways of my Nyanza,
A sea of disconsolate souls no fairy tale could camouflage!

But for the Empire state of Kenya, I will accept the mitigating circumstances as eloquently enumerated by the P-R department of the High Command of the caucus of their excellencies the governors below. Namely: The World Bank ''audit' report is not comprehensive, is not conclusive, is hodge-podge it is biased and inaccurate. It is essentially trash.

These, uncannily, were the same words used by the then Government spokesman Dr. Alfred Mutua, when he stipulated the government's official reaction to the publication of the Kroll report.

Kenya dismisses Moi leak

By The Gazette (Montreal)September 1, 2007

The Kenyan government yesterday dismissed as a "political gimmick" the leak of a 2004 report accusing former president Daniel arap Moi and his inner circle of stealing $2 billion of state money.
The government had asked Kroll investigators to help find assets stolen and hidden abroad during the Moi years. But Mutua said the report, submitted in 2004, was incomplete.

"The report was very inconclusive. It can't stand up in a court of law," he said

Mutua's words are good enough for me as a Kenyan, I swallow them like ananas from heaven. However, as a Luo, one who has never lived much in Nairobi and internalised mediocrity, I go with Okot P'Bitek waxing poetic on the words of a neo-colonial politician: not even a parrot bothers repeat. So I will look at Luoland with the tenacity of n'gat mosewuotho moseneno bende. That is, a Lilliputian who has seen Gullivers out there, and sized the score.

Let Wanjiku sleep at ease. Their Majesty's the governors of Kenya have done a tremendous job under extraordinary odds. Kuddos. But it is an ease in sleep I wont have Luoland join, Alas! on the contrary, I will gospelise the World Bank report. I will conclude Kavirondo has vermin governors running shameful administrations. An abomination. For Luoland. (could be a blessing for Kenya you never know! ones pain being anothers joy so they say sometimes!)

Anyway


Governors led by their council chairman Isaac Ruto (seated second right) at a past function in Nairobi. Governors have dismissed a World Bank report that ranked counties in terms of their budgetary allocations to development as biased and inaccurate. FILE PHOTO | BILLY MUTAI | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Our vermin Luo Elite and the Retarded counties of Nyanza!

With bitter heart I traverse the pathways of my Nyanza;
A sea of disconsolate souls no fairy tale could camouflage,
wafts into vision, like the stench of a rotten grave exhumed.

The monies disbursed by the state in operation pesa mashinani
The tenderpreneurs of my Nyanza channel toward mashimoni
The industries like sugar which though struggling could thrive
The managerial vermin of my Nyanza collude to run aground
The novel universities which could initiate a Luo renaissance
The intellectual bureaucracy of my Nyanza dilute unto fakes.
The culture of democracy and free choice so hard fought for
The political leadership disavow and re-institute the rotten era

Hmmm (paraphrasing Mao Tse Tung now)
Cold and foreboding grit; with a jaundice eye,
Dry from shedding the tears of a million hearts
Pregnant with the insane rage of a vengeance demon,
The pathways of Nyanza I traverse with the gospel of the Furiae.

Beware, the land yearns for your blood, ye thieves!
Prepare, ye beasts that must yield the crimson quench.
With ruthless malice I chant your funeral dirges in advance!
The happiest songs our land shall sing in your bloody send off!

A report by the World Bank, Spending More or Spending Smart?, released on Wednesday paints a disturbing picture of development prospects in the majority of counties that are spending billions on recurrent expenditures, not infrastructure, capacity-building and development projects. -

See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/let-us-discuss-governors-spending-mps#sthash.Ri5AFuWR.dpuf

Honest to my ancestors, I am always able to see a humorous angle to a dire situation. And I have always been consoled to hear, that even as they were shepherded into the gas chambers, some Jews had the audacious presence of mind to crack a final joke, before the swish of the fumes cut off their cheeky tongues. Too, I have been happy to note, that even as the Greeks knew their credit binge was headed for a crunch, some still had their laughs at themselves.

Let us take a moment to share the humour at length.

The overground rail network is as big a racket as the EU-funded underground. While its annual income is only £80 million from ticket sales, the wage bill is more than £500m a year — prompting one Greek politician to famously remark that it would be cheaper to put all the commuters into private taxis.
‘We have a railroad company which is bankrupt beyond comprehension,’ says Stefans Manos, a former Greek finance minister. ‘And yet, there isn’t a single private company in Greece with that kind of average pay.’

Aha, know your country.

Astonishingly, only 5,000 people in a country of 12 million admit to earning more than £90,000 a year — a salary that would not be enough to buy a garden shed in Kifissia.
Yet studies have shown that more than 60,000 Greek homes each have investments worth more than £1m, let alone unknown quantities in overseas banks, prompting one economist to describe Greece as a ‘poor country full of rich people!’

Aha, know your country.

Funds poured into the country from across Europe and the Greeks started spending like there was no tomorrow.
Money flowed into all areas of public life. As a result, for example, the Greek school system is now an over-staffed shambles, employing four times more teachers per pupil than Finland, the country with the highest-rated education system in Europe. ‘But we still have to pay for tutors for our two children,’ says Helena, an Athens mother. ‘The teachers are hopeless — they seem to spend their time off sick.’

Aha, total disgust. These were obvious symptoms of a coming bust!
Howbeit THE BIG BUST took less than a decade to arrive. Greece went into the ICU of debt destitution, ECB connecting infuse tubes.



But the theatrical beauty is how the Greeks reacted when Germans disdainfully kicked them away with –-''Go away! you sorry beggar!''
''We can not accept this national humiliation, this degradation at the hand of Northern racists!'' the self-cannibalising, self-liquidating Spendicus fumed in pathological denial.
It is my nightmare, worst-case scenario for Luo Homeland counties. Pauper polities crawling around the globe with a begging bowl for Father Xmas to put a merry penny!
I dread the day Luo Nyanza counties will go bust –-like a mismanaged corrupt Greece, and will be forced to mortgage the territory and the Winam gulf to bail-out chieftains from afar, say Mount :DKenya! or say some Black Arap Singh.

Okay, jokes aside. –----Continued.

[OtishOtish]

Baba still rules, and the robotic voters good citizens of "Luo Nyanza" better vote right and not embarrass him. But long-term planning is never an entirely bad idea, and folks might want to consider the possibility that these days The Man is moving on auto-pilot. Of course, nothing intrinsically wrong with auto-pilot, but, even with the best of technology, the landing always requires "manual" ... and learning lessons, adjusting to changing times ... those are best done in "manual" mode.

Still, the joys of devolution! A shortage of basics, like clean drinking water, but no lack of money for iPads and "bonding" exercises and who-knows-what.

Yes, I know ... that was a bit unfair; everyone is enjoying devolution all over the place. Some folks are even trying to do something, tarram roads and all. But, judging from recent reports on county spending, devolution is really devolving something. So why not in "Luo Nyanza"? Our people too should eat their share of such a Great Country!

DISCLAIMER: Some of the above ... just speculation or something. Yes, I know that some will point to the endless hooliganism, even during funerals; the top-down "democracy"; MIB, ... etc. etc. etc. But I say that even if it all appears to be done by self, we must not discount the dirty hand of Tyranny of Numbers. Money has been poured, people are being trailed, they are determined to finish us ...

[jakaswanga]

Playing its Pied Piper tunes, An abomination rules the gulf!
Playing its Pied Piper tunes, the cruel magic beguiles the souls

Come, O exorcist!

OUR VERMIN LUO ELITE AND THE RETARDED COUNTIES OF NYANZA ...

Apart from updates from the sleuths at the office of the auditor General, I have been reading the recent WB (World Bank) report on how monies have been MISused by the various counties of the empire Kenya. And with trembling hand full of impatience, did I scroll to find the notation of my Homeland polities. ---- Homeland I said, for richly do I entertain the consciousness of the Luo as a nation, yawa, wither the colonial notation tribe, arise the modern nation!

Any nation with its constituent nationalism has a dark side of course; seeing most nations, organised, have a history of wholesale murder to account for themselves. Some, like Somali, are currently in the throes of insane civil war, and such outlandish domestics are usually the result of mismanaged crisis/politics. Such (mishandled) crises lead to economic decline; lead to widespread despondency, lead to the collapse of social cohesion and the eventual societal disintegration of war. Of course, on the up side, man being an active shaper of his destiny, such crises can also be arrested before they escalate; they can be mediated and resolved within the parameters of bearable stress. Then would a nearly lost paradise hopefully be rebuilt, and regained on the double.

Now, 2015, Empire Kenya in totality is wasting money.

On average, most of the counties spent 21 per cent on development, 30 per cent on administration and 46 per cent on salaries.

That would be 76% on garbage running garbage I suppose.

Again, I can live with that as an armchair, sorry, keyboard critic of Empire Kenya. But when it is Luoland polities wasting scarce resources the most, truly I say unto you, it becomes beyond my perseverance. I traumatise. It twists my guts into a fanged venomous viper. (gino ramo yiya motamore gi turning the other cheek kaka Jakayesu!)

I read this massive wastage as vandals being let into the homestead to set the granary alight. An abomination beyond infanticide. (when that kid swallowed that bead )

the World Bank indicates that if counties continue to pour money into salaries, fuel and office expenses, then the whole purpose of devolution, which was to offer better services to citizens, will be defeated.

defeated. hmmm.

It is a –-robbery-- situation which calls for some brutal honesty. It calls for the … criticism delivered with an eye deaf on empathy. An eye reflecting a heart no longer paying ear to the nonsense spewed by thieving Luo bureaucrats shamelessly running Luoland to the bottom of the sea of squalor.

The report titled Decision Time: Spend more or spend smart? says the trend could “crowd out” growth initiatives. –-It generally paints a picture of wastage, lethargy in implementing projects, wrong priorities in some sectors and weak revenue mobilisation.

but then ... in his wisdom Odd Jack the would be stripper at Bondo Opoda retreat ...

Kisumu governor Jack Ranguma laughed off the ranking that placed his county at position 46 saying the report did not consider money already committed to on-going projects.

INCOMPLETE PROJECTS

“We do not pay for incomplete projects, may be that is why such money was not considered as allocations to development because it has not been paid out. Our systems only pay for contracts that are complete and certified,” Mr Ranguma said.
“Kisumu is suffering an abnormal wage bill that eats into our development budget. After paying salaries, we are left with about Sh400 million. What do people expect us to do if not concentrate on priority areas?” he asked.

Oh, the man who spent some 72M on Prados laughed the report off!?
And then this kind of decision making from deity

County holds retreat despite protest on costs
By Protus Onyango Updated Friday, February 6th 2015:

The controversial retreat by the county government staff that was opposed by a section of the leaders took place after all. The retreat at the Kenya School of Government was opposed by Governor Jack Ranguma’s Deputy Ruth Odinga and a section of other county officials, who wanted it held in Kisumu or neighbouring counties to cut costs. The stand-off led to the sacking of executive officers perceived to be allied to Ms Odinga as Mr Ranguma maintained that venue of the retreat would not be changed.
The Standard learnt that those who attended the retreat left Kisumu International Airport on Monday and the meeting cost Sh5 million. Sources close to the meeting indicated that Ranguma pocketed Sh24,000 per day during the period of the retreat, while the 10 county executives who accompanied him were paid Sh18,000 per day. On the other hand, the 50 MCAs who also attended the meeting received Sh14,000 per day, while the chief officers pocketed Sh16,000. In addition, the MCAs and other officers received Sh10,000 each for taxi from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to the venue of the meeting. According to Salaries and Remuneration Commission, the highest ranking public servants should be paid Sh22,000 for a day’s stay in Naivasha, Mombasa, Nairobi Kisumu, Kilifi, Lamu and Kwale.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000150716/county-holds-retreat-despite-protest-on-costs

Already earlier on leafing through the WB report, I had started to experience a dangerous anxiety at the base of my 'modern' cosmopolitan self-image: How would Kisumu do amongst her peers? (You see, the popular party of the corded opposition is full of my fellow Luos trumpeting their ability to OKOA empire Kenya. Well, how far are we making much headway turning the Homeland Nyanza into a shining, even if less than a Utopian Example then?) The answers to this kind of question tends to be not good for my mental peace. --Chanda! mayie wiya! bara, mayie pacha!

What I read in the report helped it no better.

My heart sunk lower than a Jewish heart at the gates of Auschwitz. (Unless you prefer me to say my heart sunk lower than a Tutsi beauty being welcomed by grinning Hutu wolves to an Interahamwe rape camp!)

Kisumu is the capital county of the Homeland, the one and only Kavirondo Homeland. But of course Siaya is the Mecca county, housing our spiritual capital Bondo, the nominal birthplace of the ''Mysterious One''.

(The rogue b6k thinks this all a joke !

From Bondo, theoretically at least, hails our prize fighter and bull Amollo Tinga. Him do we plan to delegate one more time as our pawn to the internecine race, thus to pitch his last for the office of the presidency of the empire. As such, one would have thought, in any ranking list, our home counties would do their best to positively come top, thereby to score some undeniable propaganda points at the very least for our candidate:

Our candidate na biso! HOYE! HOYE! BOMA YE! BOMA YE!

A look at the [counties] performance told a tale of a Homeland indulging in self-inflicted sabotage of the Great national Project. Kisumu and Siaya are with the wretches of the lot. Zero ranks. There must be a price to pay for that. And my thinking is, it should be the highest price ever paid in Luo history for treachery.

Kisumu and Siaya re nowhere near the top! And so my heart sunk. Homabay's do-good is no consolation. With the whole CORDED fraternity and Tinga himself now camping 24/7 in that county to secure her loyalty to their hand-picked maid Moses in the forthcoming senatorial by election, it would appear there is a crisis of confidence and loyalty thereabouts. That is bad news enough.

SO WHAT DID WE MISS, O LUOLAND!? TO DESERVE THIS? (wabayo wang'ayo malich kama nang'o?

Continued.

[OtishOtish]

Feb 9, 2015 22:31:39 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

SO WHAT DID WE MISS, O LUOLAND!? TO DESERVE THIS? (wabayo wang'ayo malich kama nang'o?

I have no answer to that one. But I believe in a positive-attitude approach to life, and if you look at those politicians as comedians, rather than as agents for positive change, then folks are getting great value for money.

[jakaswanga]

Feb 9, 2015 23:01:26 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Feb 9, 2015 22:31:39 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

SO WHAT DID WE MISS, O LUOLAND!? TO DESERVE THIS? (wabayo wang'ayo malich kama nang'o?

I have no answer to that one. But I believe in a positive-attitude approach to life, and if you look at those politicians as comedians, rather than as agents for positive change, then folks are getting great value for money.

All this is costing a pile: will there always be money where these ones we waste are coming from?

Otishotish, a bankrupt country is not a pretty sight. Congo is rich, but I saw it on its knees! Never a sight seen so sorry than a people starving amidst plenty!

Jokes aside!

[jakaswanga]

Feb 9, 2015 22:26:39 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Baba still rules, and the robotic voters good citizens of "Luo Nyanza" better vote right and not embarrass him. But long-term planning is never an entirely bad idea, and folks might want to consider the possibility that these days The Man is moving on auto-pilot. Of course, nothing intrinsically wrong with auto-pilot, but, even with the best of technology, the landing always requires "manual" ... and learning lessons, adjusting to changing times ... those are best done in "manual" mode.

Still, the joys of devolution! A shortage of basics, like clean drinking water, but no lack of money for iPads and "bonding" exercises and who-knows-what.

Yes, I know ... that was a bit unfair; everyone is enjoying devolution all over the place. Some folks are even trying to do something, tarram roads and all. But, judging from recent reports on county spending, devolution is really devolving something. So why not in "Luo Nyanza"? Our people too should eat their share of such a Great Country!

DISCLAIMER: Some of the above ... just speculation or something. Yes, I know that some will point to the endless hooliganism, even during funerals; the top-down "democracy"; MIB, ... etc. etc. etc. But I say that even if it all appears to be done by self, we must not discount the dirty hand of Tyranny of Numbers. Money has been poured, people are being trailed, they are determined to finish us ...

Otishotish, you have been around and about, like to Singapore for instance. Jokes aside for a second. It was not a model of democracy yes, but sure things did work, and still work, basics and far above basics.

What did it take, what does it take? Looking at things like Jack Ranguma, aint it clear we stuck, and stuck, out on the vigil for a messiah!

[OtishOtish]

Feb 9, 2015 23:10:06 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Otishotish, a bankrupt country is not a pretty sight.

You worry too much about such things. God must have created "donors" for some reason. Just yesterday your own His Excellency joined others of our leaders in yet another fire-breathing exercise and had this to say

"President Uhuru Kenyatta today said the continent stands on the threshold of a new rebirth and the African Union should stop depending on external funding to finance its programmes. He said after 50 years since the inception of the Union, Africa is experiencing the most inspiring rebirth and the confidence in African resources and solutions grows each passing day."

- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/african-union-should-stop-depending-external-funding-says-uhuru#sthash.pXs2phHm.dpuf

But he did admit to certain awkward facts:

"Depending on external funding for 78 per cent of the union’s budget is simply unacceptable”, said the Head of State.

As I sometimes do, I took a look at the AU budget stuff. Your His Excellency does have a point.    there are "issues".  Same "issues"  every year.  But there appears to be a plan.  Same plan every year:

Perhaps the fire-breathing is just the cleanse the lungs. As usual, the "fine print" shows a careful plan: all AU members are, once again, urged to appeal (urgently) to "development partners" to fill the usual gap.

Your His Excellency, being a real njamba did the money-talks-the-other-stuff-walks sort of thing. One million dollars, here and now! Cash money!

I will write more about that elsewhere, but, contrary to some popular ideas, this new-and-improved court has been on the papers for just over a decade. Last I checked, they needed at least $20-30 million before they could even set up shop for a single trial. Now, after 10 years, they finally have $1 million. Do they need more? of course, and there is a good plan for that: "external partners are to be asked ...."

Of course, they will withdraw from the ICC.   Right?   The tough talk reminds me of childhood days when we would, with my little buddies, talk about throwing stones into a bees-hive.   We were always absolutely sure that we could do it.   And we were very ready to do it?      Right now!   But who would actually go first?   Most of us had at some point had a nasty encounter with a bee   ... so eventually there was a silent agreement that it was good  to be ready an reakd manly, but did we really have to prove it?  

I forget where I was going with this ... Ah, money and where it comes from! Like, I said, that's why God made "development partners" etc. And most times I have no problems with that, until it hits me at personal level. Maybe you can explain this one:

* I grew up eating fish from Lake Victoria ... from little omena to mbuta. All fresh, and as we say, "I see it with my own eyes".

* Years later, I find that the best fish from Lake Victoria is to be found in Europe. Yes, that too with my own eyes.

* Skip forward a little bit, and the EU has problems with fish from over there: the natives are shitting right where they fish.

* The EU says here's some money. Build toilets and stop shitting in the fish you send over here.

* The locals are grateful for the "free money". They eat it and continue in the kienyeji style ...

I am writing on a really tiny screen, on some "portable device", and it's not easy to scroll back up and remind myself that---however it might appear---I have "plan" in my "statement". So, I will close this one and to the "top" on the next one.

TO BE CONTNUED. 

[OtishOtish]

Feb 9, 2015 23:14:30 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Otishotish, you have been around and about, like to Singapore for instance. Jokes aside for a second. It was not a model of democracy yes, but sure things did work, and still work, basics and far above basics.

What did it take, what does it take? Looking at things like Jack Ranguma, aint it clear we stuck, and stuck, out on the vigil for a messiah!

I saw Singapore under Lee (Snr), under Goh (keeping the seat warm), and then under Lee (Jnr). To be continued, but I will say that I have the greatest respect & admiration for those folks ...

The democracy-vs-dictatorship debate is always an interesting one. A quick look at the Kenyan context, national and "Nyanza":

* I have heard claims that the Jubilee government is slipping into a dangerous Nyayo-style dictatorship. Is it? If so, then Kenyans made a huge mistake in 2013. But fortunately they can correct that in 2017. Will they? I have my doubts on that one.

* I have long had great respect & admiration for Raila, especially for his sacrifices during the Moi years. But limits and moderation in everything: I entered the world in a Kenya/Africa in which we were told to accept and be grateful for anything and everything done by the "freedom fighters". As far as Kenya goes, that was mostly Johnstone Kamau over in England, enjoying his little bit of colonial tail. But history says that was his part of "the struggle for freedom". I wasn't there, so what can I say?

* A "starting problem" I have with Raila is that he is increasingly turning out to be less than what people expected. It is alleged that as Prime Minister he meant well but was constantly stymied by Kibaki & Friends. I have my doubts, but that's water under the bridge, as they say.

* My biggest disappointment when it comes to Raila are about the rigging of ODM/CORD primaries, the Kasarani circus, the endless thrusting of political candidates down people's throats, and so on. Even if that sort of thing is swallowed at a local level, it will not work for anyone who aspires to lead the country.

-- For some people, the endless "Gor Mahia hooliganism" is just joke, but even so it could be a joke gone too far. So-called leaders need to start talking against casual violence that has now become routine and gone as far as funerals! (More later on this point.)

* As a Luo, I do not need to explain emotional-cultural-etc. attachments that are involved in such matters. But, sometimes, things have to be "said just like that":

-- With devolution, folks have to stop trying to devolve responsibility. How can you claim that the "Kiuks" and "Kales" are finishing you when you are busy pumping lead into your own two feet? Toe by toe ...

-- There should be change from "as soon as out man gets into the Big Seat!". (More later on this point and devolution.)

* This might be painful to some, but here it is: "Luo Nyanza" needs to stop looking at Raila (or any other single person) as a Great Saviour.

-- In the first place, it is not clear why Raila "must" be president of Kenya. I don't see that happening anyway, and later I will say why, but we need not get worked up over that on. At the very least, it is clear that he is either unwilling or unable to get rid of his coterie of jokers and appreciate some lessons about elections. And that's pretty much the last nail for that coffin.

-- Devolution can do a great deal, and that's where I would focus effort and attention. One hopes that lessons are being learned from watching the "pre-approved" jokers as they devote energy and money on Prados, iPads, and "Bonding".

Luo Elite, eh? Well, well, well, ... So when will this "elite" stop with the "they are determined to finish us", get their hands off their willies, and get down to the sort of labour that requires an acknowledgement of responsibility for self?

[jakaswanga]

3. SO WHAT DID WE MISS, O LUOLAND!? TO DESERVE THIS?

Continued.

IN many countries, the bureau or office that ferrets out the pilfering or embezzlement (and the other accounting devices laying waste funds waste) is merely called Taxpayers Watchdog (which is the historical English terminology I think). It contains what we in Kenya call, the office of the Auditor General (and like a police station or a tax-collector, one should always be near your local. And like your local copper, you know how it functions in Kenya). There is a more robust-mandated model I want to discuss at a later date. Non Anglo-Saxon.

Given the rampant corruption across the world, both within pre-industrial and post industrial states; given the obvious neglect of the law, and the negligence of law-enforcers which has tended to embed the global abuse of the taxpayer (with bankers as the worst of offenders), I find it obvious to assume the office of Taxpayers Watchdog is dysfunctional in the majority of countries. Transparency International, the agency whose index ranks countries according to corruption, owes, in my opinion, her existence to the impotence of the Taxpayer-Watchdog authorities in these countries. Quite a number of these countries are in [the rising and falling] Mother Africa, and within those countries, Luo counties would no doubt excel in the bottom statistics.

Consider our biggest economy in Africa, the republic of Boko Haram. Genial brains (to produce creative works the minds of Wole Soyinka and the rest) yes, in abundance, but minds to do state arithmetic and taxpayer responsibility? Naah, the Oga brother bureaucrats and politicians are below par, subhuman in mind.

Imagine how Nigeria would look like if the creativity and hard work exhibited in Nollywood would infest the 'haram' state machinery! (definitely no postponed elections)

So I was looking for countries which PROVENLY take taxpayers money seriously. Countries and states which, given some profound historical experience, or trauma, have reached the insight, that it is a cardinal asset to not mismanage public finances; that it is criminal to misuse, steal from the public, swindle Wanjiku. Yap, States whose internal consciousness dictate, that prudence and thrift with public money, is a fundamental tenet of their politics .. National culture –-whether democratic or not!

Watu wenye wamejiokoa, na wame okoka! Sanasana kwa bidii wao kiviyao.

This was how I came to Germany and the Marshall plan. How did they use the money (say credit) flood from America? What is all this talk of economic miracle?

The thinking taking shape in my mind is, once a precedent is established, and in this case the results of thrift manifestly shown to be advantageous to the collective good, then even a caste of bureaucratic morons running a retarded colony can have an inkling of the possible, and copy given a nudge of public pressure. But if they still insist on otherwise, and are inseparably married to the fetish of corruption, then the only recourse is to have them outlawed, and fair is to say, eradicated by –-the famous--- Malcom X's any means necessary.

As I said earlier, this is a domestic and I am restricting myself to the crappy-watered Kavirondo counties, including the now cholera-infested Migori (whose governor once hired a fleet of buses to ferry his constituents to Nairobi to offer a famous sorry to the president who had been middle-fingered in that mosquito-ridden bushland of political pygmies!)

As for Kenya with its culture of celebrating the tyranny of ineptitude, theft and land-grabbing Singh converts, I will consider her an experimental case of a new ideology of nation-building: Criminal Impunity and economic corruption as foundations of national development, yeah, pre-cursors to industrialisation!

We could still be surprised.

Meanwhile: a powerful instrument to monitor devolution marshal funds! Later to slap personal liability on these corrupt creeps grounding Nyanza.


Women harvest water in a river. Residents of Migori have been urged to drink only treated water after a cholera outbreak was reported in the county.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 10:00 -- BY JUSTUS OCHIENG

The county government will receive another 33 cars by Friday.

The Kisumu government has ordered for 43 vehicles worth more than Sh213.1 million.

Communications, Planning and Development chief officer George Akong’o said 33 vehicles will arrive in Kisumu by Friday.

Speaking to the Star on the phone yesterday, Akong’o said 10 Suzuki Grand Vitara cars have already been received.

They will be used by chief officers.

Akong'o said the vehicles that will be used by the executive committee members are among those that are expected by Friday.

The 10 cars for the chief officers cost the county government Sh4 million each.

He said four more such vehicles will be acquired.
Akong’o said the county has acquired 16 Ford Everest cars at Sh5.3 million each.

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The county government rescinded its earlier decision to buy 12 Prados for the executive at Sh72 million after the public raised concerns, terming the move lavish.

Kisumu Deputy Governor Ruth Odinga earlier said negative publicity following their attempts to buy vehicles for the executives had hindered them.

In June last year, the public rejected a proposal to review the purchase of the cars.

The assembly had proposed to buy 12 Prados instead of 22 at a cost of Sh72 million and seven Land Rovers instead of 14 at a cost of Sh79 million

- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/kisumu-buys-sh213m-cars-its-officers#sthash.bJzHeRzA.dpuf

[b6k]

Feb 10, 2015 2:21:31 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Feb 9, 2015 23:14:30 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Otishotish, you have been around and about, like to Singapore for instance. Jokes aside for a second. It was not a model of democracy yes, but sure things did work, and still work, basics and far above basics.

What did it take, what does it take? Looking at things like Jack Ranguma, aint it clear we stuck, and stuck, out on the vigil for a messiah!

I saw Singapore under Lee (Snr), under Goh (keeping the seat warm), and then under Lee (Jnr). To be continued, but I will say that I have the greatest respect & admiration for those folks ...

The democracy-vs-dictatorship debate is always an interesting one. A quick look at the Kenyan context, national and "Nyanza":

* I have heard claims that the Jubilee government is slipping into a dangerous Nyayo-style dictatorship. Is it? If so, then Kenyans made a huge mistake in 2013. But fortunately they can correct that in 2017. Will they? I have my doubts on that one.

* I have long had great respect & admiration for Raila, especially for his sacrifices during the Moi years. But limits and moderation in everything: I entered the world in a Kenya/Africa in which we were told to accept and be grateful for anything and everything done by the "freedom fighters". As far as Kenya goes, that was mostly Johnstone Kamau over in England, enjoying his little bit of colonial tail. But history says that was his part of "the struggle for freedom". I wasn't there, so what can I say?

* A "starting problem" I have with Raila is that he is increasingly turning out to be less than what people expected. It is alleged that as Prime Minister he meant well but was constantly stymied by Kibaki & Friends. I have my doubts, but that's water under the bridge, as they say.

* My biggest disappointment when it comes to Raila are about the rigging of ODM/CORD primaries, the Kasarani circus, the endless thrusting of political candidates down people's throats, and so on. Even if that sort of thing is swallowed at a local level, it will not work for anyone who aspires to lead the country.

-- For some people, the endless "Gor Mahia hooliganism" is just joke, but even so it could be a joke gone too far. So-called leaders need to start talking against casual violence that has now become routine and gone as far as funerals! (More later on this point.)

* As a Luo, I do not need to explain emotional-cultural-etc. attachments that are involved in such matters. But, sometimes, things have to be "said just like that":

-- With devolution, folks have to stop trying to devolve responsibility. How can you claim that the "Kiuks" and "Kales" are finishing you when you are busy pumping lead into your own two feet? Toe by toe ...

-- There should be change from "as soon as out man gets into the Big Seat!". (More later on this point and devolution.)

* This might be painful to some, but here it is: "Luo Nyanza" needs to stop looking at Raila (or any other single person) as a Great Saviour.

-- In the first place, it is not clear why Raila "must" be president of Kenya. I don't see that happening anyway, and later I will say why, but we need not get worked up over that on. At the very least, it is clear that he is either unwilling or unable to get rid of his coterie of jokers and appreciate some lessons about elections. And that's pretty much the last nail for that coffin.

-- Devolution can do a great deal, and that's where I would focus effort and attention. One hopes that lessons are being learned from watching the "pre-approved" jokers as they devote energy and money on Prados, iPads, and "Bonding".

Luo Elite, eh? Well, well, well, ... So when will this "elite" stop with the "they are determined to finish us", get their hands off their willies, and get down to the sort of labour that requires an acknowledgement of responsibility for self?

If Raila was willing to lower his ambitions for the lowly post of Senator as Otieno Kajwang's replacement then he had better be prepared to sacrifice his presidential ambitions and settle instead for a post as a Governor in Nyanza come 2017. I agree that "water under the bridge" that started as a trickle has turned into a tsunami that has taken him back to being unelectable at the national level. He's lost his mojo...

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Order to Mr. Spendicus Salaris and Family.

The truth is you, Kenya like most of Africa, are still the whiteman's burden, regardless of the noises you ever make, proclaiming your ability to take care of your own business, run your own countries. The World Bank, and the IMF, are about money. And you are ever dealing with them, pleading is more like it. But these are no manna-from-heaven institutions, nay, they are about Bills to be paid, rents to be sought, interests to be inned, investments to be profited from in real time. A World Bank report is a statutes update on risks, the projected ability of the loanee, or borrower to repay or, at least, service the debt. A world bank report like the one published a few days ago on Kenya, is not like the ICC circus you can bullsh!t, trash, run rings around, declare bogus –--imperialist foreign and the rest.

[NB: By reconstruction the chain of command went like this: World Bank to Rotich (fiance). Rotich to his patron William Ruto. Ruto to his boss Uhuru Kenyatta. Presidential crisis meeting to governors. This is a direct order from Washington. No negotiations. You know we all survive on loans. The elite sees sense and closes rank. Here below. Red indians and cowboys share a truce.]



You of course have always had the option of having no dealings with the WB and the IMF, but that you have chosen to come crawling closes the argument: –-Anyway, your cabinet secretary for finance Henry Rotich is a fully subscribed adherent to these two bodies, and just like Greece which for all talk of national humiliation and individual degradation will not contemplate an exit from the ECB-run Eurozone, so too is life outside the World Bank and IMF unthinkable for the Kenyan treasury.

“The IMF loan is an insurance facility, which we wanted and have got,” said Rotich. “We will only draw from it when real shocks happen. Right now, we don’t see any real shocks that can impact on our balance of payments.”

So, you will not trash a World Bank report and get away with it. No, fellow Kenyans, let us not be vague: The IMF is not the ICC. The World Bank cash report is not a Bensouda/Ocampo botched investigation; not a toy-tiger we can puff-up our chests to scare away.

NB: I think there is an upside we should tackle. Life being so complex, there always are grey areas that need nuance.

CONSUMERIST SPREE: Kisumu has of late --since the devolution creed, seen a multiplication of supermarkets and jovial joints. That means a high circulation of cash money. Given the absence of other big earners, to beef up disposable income, the salary boom by the county, and the heavy liquidity injection into the cash entrapments, explains the consumerist purchasing power. But the trickle-down effect is marginal. Kisumu is awash with young men on apikos and bikes. They are marooned in a social grave, like a caste of untouchables in India.

Are there any fiscalist options to this vicious trap? Huge progams which can soak up the restive but idle labour, transform the infrastructural foundations of the country, and point toward a [economically transformed] future full of chances and opportunities for social advancement to hordes of youth?

We will see.

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at times, difficult to read, presenting a stark, unflinching portrait of dark deeds and dark psyches.

www.amazon.com/Ruby-Oprahs-Book-Club-2-0/dp/0804188246

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www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Kisumu-Corruption-Raila-Odinga-ODM/-/1064/2628250/-/jlnbklz/-/index.html

Probe graft in Kisumu county, says Raila Odinga

ODM says it has unearthed corruption and procurement scandals in the Kisumu County Assembly, the party leader, Raila Odinga said on Wednesday.

He said a report had been prepared by a task force set up by the party and that it will be handed over to the state for action against those found culpable.

The county has been rocked by supremacy battle between Governor Jack Ranguma and his Deputy Ruth Odinga, who is Mr Odinga’s sister.

it is a begin. But obviously partisan.

[OtishOtish]

It is not that there is a shortage of good ideas and plans. As someone just explained of His Excellency [oops! ... new law] Governor Obado:

“When the governor is sleeping he has good plans for the county. When he wakes up I don’t know what happens,” Solo said during an assembly session on Tuesday.

www.the-star.co.ke/news/governor-obados-dreams-are-too-late-financial-year-migori-mcas-say

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This Roman power coup midwifed by devolution, has placed MCA's in total control of the county budgets, and, learning quick, they have mutated into what Digital Onyango Oloo famously called TENDERPRENEURSHIP. This tenderpreneurship is state economics. Tax payer paid up, just like the prosperity of college principals too is, as a function of the not-too-transparent fee structure.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9221/mcas-kids-necks-chopping-block#ixzz3SDIBSv2e

let us update ourselves on the current soap in Kisumu, the worst performing polity, incidentally a bastion of the opposition.

Raila receives report that reveals gross graft in Kisumu county assembly

A report by a task force appointed by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party to investigate wrangles in Kisumu County has revealed damning levels of corruption and misuse of public resources by the Kisumu County Assembly. The report handed over to party leader Raila Odinga Wednesday found, among other issues, that the Speaker and MCAs were openly flouting procurement laws while awarding themselves or their cronies tenders. Raila promised to implement the report and hand over evidence for investigations to nab the culprits. The four-member task force chaired by Oduor Ong'wen states that 90 per cent of the conflicts and tensions in the Kisumu county assembly emanate from or revolve around procurement of goods and services for the assembly. Others who were part of the task force included Betty Syengo, David Olima and Ronald Ngeny.

The report indicts Speaker Anne Adul and MCAs who sit on the County Assembly Service Board (CASB) for violating the law and misappropriating monies running into millions of shillings

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152151/raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly

Some of these things are worth repeating, considering the Alfred-Mutua inspired rejection vocabulary the Kisumu governor recently used to discredit the World Bank report which 'unsubstantiatedly ' rated Kisumu, the Luo capital, a zero performance area!

It is indeed by this ODM report, a worst-case scenario which should worry Raila with his OKOA KENYA slogan. Who are you going to OKOA if the county with your sister as deputy governor is the most debauched in the empire? It would be good to work at our own delusions first. Our Luo delusions of grandeur and pre-eminence, even as we, Jokanyarnam, judged from the way we run our capital Kisumo, are plane administrative morons. Bureaucratic neanderthals.

Let us get a taste from the horse's own mouth:

The report indicts Speaker Anne Adul and MCAs who sit on the County Assembly Service Board (CASB) for violating the law and misappropriating monies running into millions of shillings.

See also: Court removes Kisumu Speaker Anne Adul again

The CASB members are Adul (chairperson), Majority Leader Samwel Ong'ow (vice chairperson), Minority Leader Edwin Anayo (member), Margaret Jobita (member) and the interim clerk to the assembly (secretary).

i think I was saying somewhere that MCA's, ex waheshimiwa now, are the new kids on the block. And so their necks will be next on the chopping block.

And they put it there themselves.

The Speaker is alleged to have used CASB funds to pay membership fees of Sh120,000 for her husband at the Karen Country Club in Nairobi, while some of the firms contracted by the assembly wired kickbacks to the bank accounts of people close to her, including her husband.

The husband shows extraordinary pimpish behaviour, or the wife is desperate to bind him?

SECURITY SERVICES

"The team was informed that the deputy speaker and Speaker or firms closely linked to them had been given contracts to provide security services to the assembly but both of them denied; Hon Anayo (Minority Leader) had been contracted to provide transport services which he admitted; that Hon James Were was awarded the supply of iPads. "Hon Were denied but every member interviewed said it was a matter of public knowledge; and that Hon Achayo was supplying water to the county assembly."

A matter of public knowledge, but facts can not be verified from payment vouchers and signed contracts!?

The banks must collude, or at least some bankers in such a massive paperless fraud!

Eish, Jokonagi! –-the self-cannibalisation dwarfs even the republic of Haiti under Baby Doc!

Some of the supplies said to have been sourced from CASB members or MCAs included transport services supplied by Anayo, who provided a 14-seater matatu to take MCAs to Kampala at a cost of Sh700,000; travel and air tickets by Factor Connect, which was paid Sh248,000 per member per day; security services by the deputy speaker; iPads by Were, and water and medical cover by Achayo.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152151/raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly

"What was established beyond any shadow of doubt is the fact that there were private dealings between the Speaker and Factor Connect. Documentary evidence made available to the task force showed that between June 6, 2014, and June 24, 2014, the assembly paid a total of Sh17,305,200 to Factor Connect," the report says

How do civil wars start? One theory says, confidence of the ruled in the rulers must erode and collapse, and the rulers run out of external enemies to deflect grassroots anger.

With ''thieving'' Gikuyus here to stay, I think we are safe in Luoland. No danger of running out of external --usual suspect-- enemies to scapegoat! So we wont mob-justice Anne Adul and her nyang'au colleagues yet, like the youtube chit below, which is not as bad as in Nyamira Kisii where a SUSPECTED PETTY thief is burnt to death

No vouchers, minutes or any supporting documents regarding the process followed in the purchase of furniture were produced. There were also no reports to the assembly from the CASB on this matter.

heap a few of these MCA's from Kisumu on the furniture, and torch them like they do in Nyamira Kisii? (just a thought before it becomes a proposal. A proposal for the OKOA KISUMU referendum push! Coming soon to Kisumu stend!)

Meanwhile on another issue, a running soap which has crippled business in the Luo capital ...

Court removes Kisumu Speaker Anne Adul again

February 13th 2015

KISUMU: Speaker Anne Adul has been barred, albeit temporarily, from running her office. A three judge bench comprising Justices William Ouko, David Maraga and Sankale Ole Kantai gave the temporary orders stopping the decision of an Industrial court that reinstated Adul as the speaker. This follows two applications filed by both Adul and the county assembly which were later consolidated so as to be heard together due to time limits

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000151589/court-removes-kisumu-speaker-anne-adul-again

vermin and retarded.

[OtishOtish]

Caesar inspecting the Imperial Guard:

Attachments:

[jakaswanga]

Feb 20, 2015 0:23:12 GMT 3 OtishOtish said:

Caesar inspecting the Imperial Guard:

I would like to see his statistics on the following

riday, February 20, 2015
The shattered dreams of the country’s brightest children

Hundreds of orphans and poor children selected to join top secondary schools have not reported because of lack of fees.

A Nation survey across the country returned shocking tales of children who scored high marks in last year’s Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination but are wasting away at home.

...............
Undeserving students have been offered bursaries yet needy students were given as a little as Sh2,000 or nothing.

MPs and Members of County Assemblies are spreading the money to as many households as possible for political mileage.

The regulation caps the minimum allocation to students in day schools at Sh8,000 while those in boarding and national institutions at Sh10,000 and Sh15,000 respectively. Unfortunately, it is largely ignored.

Confronted with these facts, Education Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi told the Nation that MPs should speed up the issuing of bursaries to deserving students.
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Ong’era Nyabuti Dominic was admitted to Mang’u High School in Thika but his mother, Florence Kemuma, cannot raise Sh90,365.

These youngsters have applied for sponsorship in vain.

www.nation.co.ke/news/Education-Secondary-Schools-Fees-Bursaries/-/1056/2630656/-/ryfr7dz/-/index.html Hmmm. Perhaps a general bursary for all secondary schools, before laptops for nursery kids? --uhuruto Sirs.

[OtishOtish]

Feb 21, 2015 1:35:21 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

I would like to see his statistics on the following

That's just being picky. Give the man credit for being able to do so much with so little! Even Mr. Tarram, over there in Ukambani, has nothing to match such rough-and-ready pomp-and-ceremony ... the sort of stuff that uplifts the people's spirits.

Look at Governor's feet. Where you would expect a red carpet, nothing but dusty pebbles. Instead of polished rifles, the guard wields whitened rungus. (Are these the guys who used to be called kanga?) But take a look at that imperious this-is-Kisumu-City-and-I-am-in-charge-look! Surely, that must be impressive.

Over in Homa Bay, cholera is finishing them; but the governor is working hard on his "Sh.560 billion Agri-City!". One is tempted to ask where the voters get their jokers leaders, but I suppose these are the ones that have been "pre-approved" by The Mysterious One .... mystery, of course, must never be questioned---that's the essence of "mysterious".

Anyways ... It's the weekend. Let's relax and enjoy Mr. Nyadundo as he sings of the land where all the women are pretty and the fis is fantastic:

- " I will sing my song while I am still alive. I will beat my drum while I can ... Whether you sleep in the middle or at the edge, it really doesn't matter. In this world, if you are alive, you will surely see things that will greatly astonish you. Those are the wise words I got from my grandfather. It's a crappy world, but bugger that; I'm heading back to Kisumu City, where ... ."

So says Mr. Nyadundo.

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THE MORIBUND LAKE BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY REVISITED

Begin with a rhetorical question.

What is one of the greatest problems within our counties?

Well, taking my 'native capital' Kisumu as an example, and going through the catalogue of horrors like the following wastage ...

Some of the supplies said to have been sourced from CASB members or MCAs included transport services supplied by Anayo, who provided a 14-seater matatu to take MCAs to Kampala at a cost of Sh700,000; travel and air tickets by Factor Connect, which was paid Sh248,000 per member per day; security services by the deputy speaker; iPads by Were, and water and medical cover by Achayo.

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Factor Connect had organised trips for MCAs to Israel, US and Singapore. "What was established beyond any shadow of doubt is the fact that there were private dealings between the Speaker and Factor Connect. Documentary evidence made available to the task force showed that between June 6, 2014, and June 24, 2014, the assembly paid a total of Sh17,305,200 to Factor Connect," the report says.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152151/raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly?articleID=2000152151&story_title=raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly&pageNo=2

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The team further found that the purchase of furniture was unprocedural. The assembly's chief financial officer was asked to provide duly signed blank cheques, which were later used to the tune of Sh3.7 million. Later, Sh80,000 was paid to transport the furniture but the goods were never brought to Kisumu.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152151/raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly?articleID=2000152151&story_title=raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly&pageNo=2

… it obviously cannot be money which is the problem in the primary sense.

It will be lack of a plan –-but wait until you see Ranguma's high-tech plans for rice schemes. An effective plan out of an economic quagmire. If at the national level the Jubilee (now JAM) plan is to industrialise Kenya (even as they put into place no instruments), then at the devolved level, my native county too, must have an industrialisation plan (even as we put into place no instruments).

… the governor has very beautiful plans when asleep. When he wakes up, I do not know what happens to them –--Solo, a Migori MCA during a debate. (courtesy of a Otishotish's watchful ear!

An example of an ABC instrument can be a bureau of statistics, macro-economical oversight and forensic (and policy) auditing. This is not the Auditor General's Office, which is simply accounting or reconciling figures.

We will get there, but first, Bread and Butter issues.

What is the greatest problem in our Luo counties?

1. It is youth unemployment.

This is the wholesale and wilful wastage of the greatest resource. The human resource.

This is the reserve of semi-skilled, occasionally barely literate excess raw labour. It is idle, restive, and, at the height of its physical and potential mental powers, ignored by economic policy and planners. But this pool is usually drawn from to be used and abused by politicians during campaigns, then once more abandoned to its marginalised fate. With devolution, this budgeoning lumpem will develop even a more violent focus for crime, and, sociologically speaking, I think this is one of the reasons MCA's are crying for militarised protection. Big Money is flowing into their pockets, everyone knows the source, and subaltern types wants a piece of the action as per their —class-- mode of extraction: petty violent crime.

Well, I think it cannot be, that all economic textbooks are agreed this situation is insoluble and natural. This is why I revisited the old term FISCALISM, and its relation to public works in depression, given an elite bent on practical solutions. –--At the same time I was reminded colonialism had in its geo-political scheme designated Nyanza a labour reserve. This policy which would accelerate the urbanisation of the Luo, creating diaspora clusters in far-flung plantations, rail colonies and factories. It would also be be the genesis of a culture of labour activism whose greatest flower would be TJ Mboya Ndiege. Too, would popular culture respond with a soundtrack to go with the salaried, uncertain urban diaspora in need of hometouch entertainment. And so Benga Music would evolve as a wild urban swinging escapism.

But that is another story, demanding its own lyrical epic thread.

Now, I revisit Old Fiscalism –--Like the colonial forced labour scheme used on the Uganda Railway. (But I hasten to remind I already said there is no shortage of money in Luo Nyanza. There is PESA MASHINANI. So no need for forced labour. At the same time, times have moved beyond the akida-whip system of the colonial order.)

Therefore, learning from the past and re-enforcing old lessons with new economic insights, yes we do our thing, do our own renaissance based on devolution. A functional devolution –-- Not the current one of 14-seater matatus to Kampala billed to the county kitty at ksh. 1M per day. And no ksh. 300,000/day per MCA flying around the world, all MCA's making at least 2 trips abroad totalling 30 days.

Factor Connect had organised trips for MCAs to Israel, US and Singapore.

Documentary evidence made available to the task force showed that between June 6, 2014, and June 24, 2014, the assembly paid a total of Sh17,305,200 to Factor Connect," the report says.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152151/raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly?articleID=2000152151&story_title=raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assembly&pageNo=2

So there is plenty of money. Only that it is being wasted. Like in Greece of yester years before German austerity arrived in town to sober up things –--gestapo style!

PUBLIC WORKS LUOLAND.

I think we need must launch 3 or four gigantic public works schemes per county to absorb, exploit and constructivise this pool of mercurial labour menacingly biding its time by the roadside. This youthful ever riot-ready Luo mob could find better employ elsewhere than current anger venting at thieving Gikuyu elites stealing victory after victory from Raila's paws, thwarting the Kingdom come. They would do better, building the homeland in long day shifts of labour expenditure. –-(at the going rate of labour pay, (@ksh. 350 per 10hr day)

Pesa Mashinani paying. The Anne Aduls of Kisumu, the Rasangas of Siaya, and the Okoth Obados of Cholera, no longer presiding over this ...

The assembly's chief financial officer was asked to provide duly signed blank cheques, which were later used to the tune of Sh3.7 million. Later, Sh80,000 was paid to transport the furniture but the goods were never brought to Kisumu.

and if they still insist on such practices, burnt alive in broad daylight a-la Soweto necklace.

But where? Of Gigantic Public Works to employ 150,000 youths at scientific, constructive labour?

We will start with the Nyando Basin, and the Kano plains. What about it?

Best is to see if it has been done before. Such plans. If there is a human precedent. A massive river and water management engineering scheme. But a manual affair rather than a mechanised high-tech money sinker. Have there been such marsh delta, or river valley, or lowland engineering schemes, to make such like scenes from Kano location history.

WHEN IT FLOODS IN KANO PLAINS, KISUMU COUNTY

kanoplain.blogspot.nl/

It is now over a year since the government abandoned a Sh50 billion dam project in Nandi county following opposition by environmentalists and some residents. Experts, including engineers and surveyors who were working on the plan for the Nandi Multi-Purpose Dam, left the site on orders of the government. The project was put on hold in June 2010 after the environmentalists, MPs and residents opposed destruction of more than 5,000 acres of forestland to create space for the project, which was to be financed by the government and donors.

Continued in part II.

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PART II. THE LBDA REVISITED: Time for administrators of a hardier breed.








DISCLAIMER: Dear Kaka Oganda,

PRIVATE NOTE: –-Fair is not to expect other Kenyans to hearken to our LUO candidate for leadership, seeing the auto cannibalistic achievements of his hometown mafia, who would rise to higher glory with him in the event of an Ikulu occupation. Personally I have had enough of thieving elites, Luoland or Kenyawide. They are all snakes invaded my home and death is the sentence of common sense I pass. On big or small thieves.

Decades ago Mwalimu Christian Konjra Aloo wrote a pioneering novel in dholuo, titled Otieno Achach. Achach the enemy of the people was eventually burried alive. I consider it an artistic premonition on the fate of the comprador bourgeoisie of Nyanza. A group that forms a clear and present danger! –--JOWI! JOWI!

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Thoo, Joluowa yawa, gi kaka wadwanyore Nyanzani, ni pod wadwaro tend Kenya!? Enni Jokenyago waparo gifuwo rwok, mi di giyier yughi ma wigi otop moa Nyanza, kanenore maler kaka wakwalore kendwa!?

Hmm, an awinjo ka tend-kuo koro oroma, obed mar Luo obed mar Mwa. Jakuo koro sani en thuol kuoma, ang'adone buch-tho, obed Luo obed Mwa; obed jakuo matin obed jakuo maduong'. Jakuo en adui mar Piny, en Achach ma kaka Otieno e bug Christian Konjra Aloo, nyaka yik ka ongima. –--Gigi le! JOWI! JOWI!
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kanoplain.blogspot.nl/

Kisumu governor Jack Ranguma said this will boost rice yields in the Kano plains where rice crop is largely grown. Ranguma said Kisumu County is keen to adopt the modern technology of irrigation which does not require pumping the waters.
Ranguma said the National Irrigation Board currently pumps water to irrigate the farms which is very expensive. The governor, Israel Ambassador Gil Haskelto, Kisumu county commissioner Lorna Odero and Nyando district commissioner, Isaiah Tonui had toured the NIB in Ahero in June this year.
"We promised to control floods in Nyando by constructing huge dams and d**es along the rivers to facilitate the gravity flow irrigation technology", Ranguma said.

We did promise yes. And there is a plan yes. It is just the funding and China is not yet into irrigation schemes to produce rice to compete their own. –--Where are those donors please!? Lake Basin Development Authority please, all over again please. But when the World Bank suggested perhaps local prudence would a breakthrough, like cheaper limousines, increased budgetary sanity andthrift at Kisumu first, .. aah, the report was dismissed: ''unsubstantive and character assassinating''!

Still … kuteleza sio kuanguka! Tutafika tu, polepole ndio mwendo.

But where? Of Gigantic Public Works to employ 150,000 youths at scientific, constructive labour?
We will start with the Nyando Basin, and the Kano plains. What about it?
Best is to see if it has been done before. Such plans. If there is a human precedent. A massive river and water management engineering scheme. But a manual affair rather than a mechanised high-tech money sinker. Have there been such marsh delta, or river valley, or lowland engineering schemes, to make such like scenes from Kano location history.

WHEN IT FLOODS IN KANO PLAINS, KISUMU COUNTY





PRECEDENTS and echoes from the distant past.

How hard is it really to control rivers?

1. Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon.

This imaginative man is famed for having initiated one of the most wondrous canalisation and irrigation schemes to control, harness and harvest the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris.

The resultant plenty gives us the saying: Eden, a garden of honey and milk. And with the proceeds of plenty the great King commissioned the legendary hanging gardens of Babylon, just for decoration and aesthetic enthrallment!

2. Pharao Ramses II

To reconquer the grandeur of a waning, paling, starving Egypt, Ramses II relaunched a Nile scheme the dream of poets. With his brilliant engineers –--like the pyramid architect Moses of the Bible, he let raw labour fashion a new intricate system of canals, water management and upgraded calculations [The Nile Meter was an indicator as important as currently the Dow Jones or NSE daily closure).
Ramses passed into history as Ramses the ''Feeder'', or the Great for anglophones. And using the plenty grains to feed armies, he marched unto more territorial conquests.

Aswan High Dam across the Nile had a precedent from pre-history.

3. TDA

Everyone these days has heard of the Tennessee Valley Project and the Mississippi Delta plan (for instance the Louisiana flood control project)

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, or Nyalenda Kisumu? take your pick below!





4. THE DUTCH POLDERS

In contemporary geographical studies, nobody comes close to the Dutch in this kind of semi-aquatic engineering and environmental transformation. Holland is a man-made geometrical system of Dy-kes and canals and water-control systems. It is now all Jack Ranguma dream reality high-tech of course, monitored by NASA-like warp-space computers. But back in the 14th century when they started out, it was all manual labour and an occasional horse power.

Methinks the Nyando river basin, Kano plains DY-KE and polderisation can be done by Dutch 15th century technology, But under warp-space engineering. Engineers like Otonglo, building fabulous roads in South Africa, can pitch in a bit of their expertise! For a home price that is.

Aaah, River Kuja in South Nyanza, river Yala in Siaya, or even Sondu-Miriu in lower Nyakatch are all up for a Nebuchadnezzar, Ramses II, TDA or Dutch ingenuity attempts.



I think my fellow Luos catch the drift of my FISCALIST trail of thought. It is a walk in the park in 2015. An ABC shown to work 3000 years ago and refined to geniality in our times. Easy, but impossible when your elite is like your Excellency Kamuzu Banda!

I would rather we forget the plans to pollute the Kavirondo gulf with oil spills at $30/barrel, to turn Nyakach and environs into an ecological disaster zone like the Niger delta in Nigeria.

Here is Ogoni land Nigeria, the future of Nyakatch Kenya.









Either the above wasteland, or this below, taking a look at the Dutch coutryside, the homeland of ace polluter, Shell.



we go with Nebuchadnezzar and construct our hanging gardens of Ahero Pacho!

SO: CAN KISUMU COUNTY FUND A NEBUCHADNEZZAR-LIKE GARDEN?

This is where we have to re-interpret the word austerity. Where austerity goes to mean re-distribution of the cash-flow system.

AUSTERITY NEW STYLE.

The reduction of perks, allowances, travels, salaries at the top, and the use of the savings to pay daily wages for labourers sweating in the sun, digging out canals, planting trees, building dy-kes and re-engineering rivers as they lay out irrigation schemes according to SCIENTIFIC plans.

A daily rate for watu wa mkono is currently @ksh.350/9hr day

100,000 thousand youths/day = ksh. 35,000,000 per day. (4 Luo counties sharing the count)

But this would be ploughed back into the four counties the same day –-bread, drink, rents.

@ksh. 350/day is not a saving wage. (so the 35M/day is merely an alternative circulation route for the day's cash. But it is ploughed directly into incomes and purchasing power for local petty business –-uji sellers, mandazi vendors, shoe-makers, bar tenders and prostitutes. For this class, a cumulative 35M/day is a tremendous market jump!

Well: No prados, just proboxes for county executives. No sitting allowances, just salaries, and austere ones too. No air-loads of MCA's to overseas every month at 1st class tickets. Just living within our means, showing thrift, and convincing the World Bank we can manage a hefty loan to build dormitories as house estates in our towns: Oyugis, Siaya, Migori, Kendu Bay … boasting flats like like Kariokor or the famous Huruma!

Kwani wERE not these high-rise estates built when Kenya had barely a population of 6 million? And Luo Nyanza is just about clocking 4. Which is as much as Israel really! (American subsidy apart!)

So, a bit of thinking, a bit of seeing the possible. A bit of dreaming, a bit of a new world opening. And then, it becomes impossible to sleep tight under the reign of a VERMIN bureaucracy for whom even controlling the floods of KANO is too much of a feat!

Inviting the Israeli ambassador to help you out on Nyando floods in 2015!? yawa! ura kite thoth, ran kite ok rwenyre!

What do you do with Vermin? Aah, sweep away. In a flood of consciousness.

[jakaswanga]

THE PURGE

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Buoyed by his massive victory in the Homabay senatorial where his handpicked handmaid Moses Kajwang' romped home a'la unopposed, Da Ker Madit has scornfully dismissed the charges this was a disguised pyrrhic victory and given a nod for a bloody purge to commence. The anointed executioner is the equally handpicked John Mbadi, in office as ODM national chair. --Another detail of course, is that this Mbadi was a member of the now disbanded Ababu Namwamba-led Public Accounts Committee, PAC. The handpicked young-Turk duo of ODM chair and Sec-Gen belonged to, let us believe Aden Duale until proved otherwise, a cheap rent-seeking and extortionist racket. ---Let us believe Duale because we can list up to 100 top corruption cases, high up in public office, costing Wanjiku mega bucks, all with the the supposed parliamentary watchdog spectating like a toy scarecrow. Yap. And some us are just too cold in the heart to be scared by scarecrows, however animated.

www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Corruption-Scandals-EACC-Kenya-Society/-/440808/2638682/-/ybyx39/-/index.html

Back to Nyanza. My 'pivot' these days.

What is the game? The game is the exorcism of the spectre of the rumoured gathering whirlwind called Kalausi. The game is to vanquish a rebellion against the ageing King, a rebellion brewed in his own backyard; and, relentlessly merciless, enforce the fear of the Don in the hearts of the would-be lurking ingrates. The best way of course is to finish the political careers of those who, openly, dared defy Da Ker. Supreme power re-asserts itself ruthlessly, on the wings of the Homabay result. The lessons of Tuju and Ochuodho seem to have been forgotten; time for a blood-curdling reminder.

John Mbadi unleashed, like a bulldog correctly reading the signs on the body language of his master, has wasted no time in baring his canines and sinking them into the loin clothes of the perceived rebels. One will notice where they come from. Oner, Rege, Netto, Kidero, Millie. And aint the pot stirring.

Amillo Gesagesa nyar Kodondo, aka Millie Odhiambo of Mbita, may this time need even a more theatrical tantrum than the one she displayed last time ODM honchos stepped on her soul at Orange House. A dirty tale better untold on a family blog comprising of healthily optimistic hearts like those of Njakip!

(This episode was when Chungwa was auctioning nomination certificates for a handsome profit but to the disadvantage of true winners. The Bett who has now decamped to Jubilee was the master of ceremonies then).

Former Roads minister Franklin Bett has joined President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Alliance Party (JAP). Mr Bett, who quit the ODM last year, said he has joined JAP because he wants to work with other Kalenjin leaders. “I have realised that the best thing to do is to join hands with my fellow Kalenjin leaders under the direction of Deputy President William Ruto. Beginning today (Feb 28-2015), I will be with you in JAP because it is the party of the future.

I can not remember, but I think Liz Ongoro's nomination to the senate was compensation for being swindled, ostensibly to cater for ethnic balance in Nairobi, (which is actually a good spin!). Then in a moral qualm, Liz spared Ruaraka's Tom Kajwang' his cake. Not that Tom was a clear winner, but still, they were birds of the same feather and a fall-out could disperse the flock even more.

Ongoro claims she had won the nomination for the seat after the conclusion of Thursday's party primaries and it was unfair to deny her the ticket that she got after former Westlands MP Fred Gumo retired from active politics.
She now wants ODM to reimburse her the money she used to campaign for the seat. ''My certificate has been stolen yet nobody ever consulted me. I have for the last three years put up a formidable campaign strategy that has cost me over Sh200 million yet no-one has given me the courtesy to consult me,'' Ongoro said.
www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2013/01/ongoro-says-her-sh200m-at-stake-over-nomination-row/

After the shamefully-ended HomaBay senatorial primaries which was the precursor to the handpicking of Moses Kajwang' by the Mysterious One, a coronation in effect, Liz thundered:

Nominated Senator Elizabeth Ongoro also put nominated members of county assemblies who never campaigned for Mr Kajwang’ on notice.
'Most of them are earning fat salaries and driving big cars, courtesy of the party. If you know that you never participated in the ODM campaigns, then we will deal with you,' she added.
mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Raila-wants-renegade-Orange-MPs-punished/-/1950946/2632170/-/format/xhtml/-/13lxumqz/-/index.html

of course she means Evans Kidero. But the sometimes straight-talking hard girl is afraid of calling Dr. Evans a graft captain ---even as the supposed Midas touch of the Luo ace executive is more in the fashion of ex-CBK professor Njuguna Ndung'u than ex-Safaricom Michael Joseph. Too, the reputedly ever-brave girl is afraid of frontally taking on Dalmas Otieno, the reputed Kalausi author and the wheeling and dealing prince of darkness. So the MCA's (taking fire by proxy and knwoing it) responded: ''Wek bwogowa nyako! Wan ok wan ayomyom joter moa Kongo! Pesa ok mar Party, pesa mar wananchi, osuru!'' or
''Relax, Nairobi babe. We do not scare like weakly ''inheritors' from the Kongo! Our salaries are not paid by the party but the tax payer!'' referring to

My wife did not beat me, Ongoro's husband asserts
www.ntv.co.ke or jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/5824/elizabeth-ongoro-physically-assaults-hubby

Ferdinand Masha Kenga, the husband of Kasarani MP, Elizabeth Ongoro has categorically denied claims that he was beaten by his wife. Ferdinand says he lost consciousness about three days ago and he can't remember circumstances leading and prior to that but he says his loving wife did not

www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/ODM-Homa-Bay-By-Election-Raila-Odinga/-/1064/2639016/-/pltdqv/-/index.html

But it is the kind of tell all detail, that the the letters sent to threaten disciplinary action did not include retired General Nkaissery, the man of Kajiado central. He is officially in ODM, but since his poaching into cabinet to steer the security docket which is mortgaged to the Ole's --however incompetent they prove, Nkaissery has changed loyalties openly and, in the by-election to succeed him, he is rambunctiously campaigning for the JAP candidate. The bird is gone. The General is a turn-coat like every street hooker with the title Honourable. And Parliament square boasts them more than Koinange street ever did.

Internal Security Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery on Monday urged residents of Kajiado Central to vote for the Jubilee Alliance Party candidate in the constituency’s by-election on March 16. He was in the company of Deputy President William Ruto.

Mr Nkaissery thanked the government for appointing him minister. 'I am asking you to support the Jubilee administration because never before has anyone from this area held such a high-ranking Cabinet position,'' he said amid applause.
www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Vote-for-JAP-in-mini-poll/-/1064/2640654/-/kmpwpj/-/index.html

Attack dog Mbadi cannot woof at such a fellow gratified dog, munching juicy bone, can he? Therefore his cutlass or matchete is merely a Luo domestic, or homely court gesture. Nothing to do with party discipline countrywide at large.

John Mbadi, the financial spokesman of ODM, could perhaps better start his purge and credibility pimp-up by expelling the ODM mob running corruption in Kisumu, like assembly speaker Anne Adul. Don't the party know there are signatures being collected in OPERATION OKOA KISUMU?

Okoa Kisumu from who? Imagine the answer is okoa Kisumu from an ODM administration. So serious, rapid has been the collected signatures, that Jack Ranguma and Ruth Akinyi have buried the hatchet. Hang together or separately.

So Mbadi must do his purge, but beware the party too can be purged --at the ballot box!

[jakaswanga]

Mayooo! mayoo! Yawa! no comment

[b6k]

I hope she didn't have a mobile phone on her. I guess we now know what the phrase "we will deal with you perpendicularly" means!

[jakaswanga]

BEANS AND BEADS TO DIVINE KISUMU AND THE BUSY RANGUMA

In some cultures they talk of divination, in others, crystal-ball gazing; and in others like where brother Otishotish lives, 'beans and beads' (on a goatskin); yet others, peering through coffee-juice thick'. In Washington DC, of course they talk of punditry, you know, like the once famous science of Kremlinology. –-(For the 8-4-4=0 generation amongst us, Kremlinology involved anti enigma-like decoding techniques, all to unravel the power balances within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, using for instance the balcony scene on top of Lenin's museum, where the members of the Politburo would ritually appear on national days, as a tell-tale clue.)



In those days, reading a funeral speech lauding (or naturally condemning) a departed leader could be construed as the contours of a coming man. In any case, a time to ponder shifting goal posts.



Now, let us forget Russia. Lets take a trip down the Caliphate –--Why Miguna Miguna in his outburst did not choose to say the Odinga Republic, nor the Odinga Kingdom –--both reputed forms of modern states, is something worth pondering for students of newspaper rhetoric. Nevertheless, the national political flux which has seen topsy-turvy episodes like URP and TNA merging into JAP, has also some local echoes in our very own 'Caliphate'. But like some forms of societal struggles which are reputed to adopt subterfuge forms in order to conceal their true identities to the people, these local echoes always beggar some kind of crystal-ball gazing, aka divination. What you see, is not what it is. Just like the commercial encasement of a product is merely the market PR. Fall for it and be the meal.

So warned, you will tell me at the end of reading this, whether it is punditry or a PR-pitch.

Lets ride then.

Thursday, May 28, 2015
I’m too busy to heed party summons, says Ranguma

Governor Jack Ranguma yesterday said he would only appear before an ODM disciplinary team “when he finds time from his busy schedule”.
The governor’s communication director, Mr Michael Onyango, yesterday told the Nation that Mr Ranguma’s priorities were to deliver on his campaign pledges, not to play politics.
“The governor is a busy man who works to schedules and so I cannot make a commitment whether he will attend the next hearing or not,” said Mr Onyango.

Punditry in Kenya is unanimous, that devolution has also meant the devolution of known Kenyan ills to the local county. These include corruption, ineptitude, clientelism and nepotism. One could surmise, that the 'ideological infrastructure' which underpinned the Centralised Nairobi racket, is alive and well at ones local. Yes, even as I scribble now, the ruling national coalition of Jubilee is based on the tyranny of numbers with at its core two populous, majoritarian ethnic groups. Of course the tensions therein have had to do with one party feeling shortchanged in the NusuMkate arrangement or pact.

That would be an echo of Kibaki having reneged on his MOU with Raila, soon as they got to power.

What am I saying? –--I am saying, it is useful to think of His Excellency Jack Ranguma's election into the presidency, sorry, governorship of Kisumu principality, sorry, county, as having been a variant of the TYRANNY OF NUMBERS, and too his government is a FORCED coalition.

Since I am not subscribed to the Nkaissery doctrine of patriotic journalism which must not think and act for itself but wait to be spoon fed by the Almighty State, I will report that in the politics of power struggles in Kisumu county, there was, and is, a tectonic antagonism between the INDIGENES and the JODAK, SETTLERS. And this has several dark layers.

Primitively true. Just like when Baba Yao Waititu finally runs against Kabogo in Kiambu as is shortly expected, the same undertone tune whose contours we already heard when he was parachuted to Dagoretti in a Nairobi power game positioning, will be amplified.

In Kisumu this narrative has been loud.

And now, let Ruth Adhiambo Odinga be a 'settler', and, let the disciplinary committees of ODM be pictured as Nairobi-based 'settler community sympathisants' in the employ of Adhiambo's brother, and better, his compromised sycophants. Also, decorating the indigene wails of woe, are verses bemoaning the murky issue of the Kisumo Korando land on which the Molasses Complex was built. Add this to the sensational claim that a Kisumu constituency was being cultivated for the late Fidel Odinga, an outsider, and is still being considered for another Odinga; and that Olago Aluoch, an independent-minded INDIGENE, was rigged out of the last ODM primaries by the settler wing of Kisumu power, then you get the snake-pit called Kisumu politics ruminating. A cave of poisonous fumes which, if Raila does not reform his act, will give his OKOA KENYA tripple flat tyres.

Dispatching Nairobi-based capos to facilitate Jack Ranguma's 'swim with the fishes' is to fight a symptom and leave the cause intact.

NB: According to the Kisumu Indigene chronicles of marginalisation, once upon a time Sam Okello was a Raila hand-picked Mayor of Kisumu, parachuted from afar to be rewarded for other services rendered to the royal family: services not relevant to progress in Kisumu, but all the more for dynastic calculations. Things came to a head in his last tenure, when a rebellion led by activist and modernist councillors was only thwarted after a massive bribery session at Rock Motel, situated near Lela at around Maseno University. But as is the nature of rebellions based on heart-felt grievances, they are thwarted but remain, smouldering and simmering below the surface. Like class contradictions, they too return in forms unrecognisable.

Then came devolution, which, as Lady Maureen ever reminds us in an Ahangla twang, Raila okelo ber waneno! (Agwambo has brought devolution to Kenya, showering the whole land with goodies, which make the whole peoples of Kenya smile, even as the thankless bigots who lead them condemn him, The Bringer!)

So too did other forces hitherto simmering below the surface rise to the occasion. The - lets say - republican indigenes of Kisumu county were quick to recognise this as the godsend to enact their own TYRANNY OF NUMBERS, so as to wrest control of the county from the clutches of the establishment beholden to royal patronage. Alas, they found the popular party which fronts devolution as its flagship pontifically manning a roadblock, NYET! (a bit like Putin blocking Ukrainian ascension into the European Union).
It was An ODM plant-seed guaranteed to flower escalation, even if not necessarily in a linear sequence. Surprise Surprise! the establishment and party's candidate was none other than royalty: Ruth Adhiambo O.

Let me jog your memory.

Violence rocks Kisumu as IEBC deadline looms

Posted Sunday, January 20 2013 at 17:51

Meanwhile, violence erupted in Kondele, Kisumu town, Sunday after Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s sister, Ruth Adhiambo Odinga, was allegedly declared ODM’s candidate for the governor’s post. Irate voters blocked the Kisumu-Nairobi Road in Ahero.

The party’s primaries in Siaya and Migori had also been marred by violence, leading to delays in conclusion of the exercise whose deadline was midnight on Friday

Not the voter, but he who controls the counting matters, said Joseph Stalin with a cynical, wolfish grin. Such worldly attitudes to power should be outside the historical scope of a caliphate regime! (thinking of Miguna!)


Travellers were left stranded Sunday after angry mobs barricaded the Ahero-Kisumu Road and engaged police in running battles to protest alleged fraud in ODM primaries for the Kisumu governor and Nyando parliamentary seats. Photo/Tom Otieno

So public protests forced the rotten ODM Machinery (run by the Raila courtiers) to rescind some of its most blatant riggings. Two stand out; both of them for pure-blood royalty: Oburu Odinga over William Oduol in Siaya county; and Ruth Adhis Odinga over Jack Ranguma in Kisumu county.

William Oduol rejected the bandage solution to an arterial bleeding cut, preferring ostracisation and oblivion if necessary, but Jack Ranguma accepted the, should we say ''SOLOMONIC'' compromise of a poisoned chalice? It was a marriage destined to guarantee corruption and inertia; a permanent stalemate, it has not disappointed in birthing the worst looting regime in Luoland. –--We will stick with the recent report by the ODM's own team led by Oduor Ong'uen from Nairobi, and, seen in perspective from Kisumu, another Raila fixer and settler-sympathisant, just like smooth lawyer Fred Athuok and his summons to the governor.

The committee was appointed to investigate constant wrangles in the county assembly.
On Tuesday, newly elected Council of Governors Chairman Peter Munya urged Mr Ranguma to ignore the summons, saying political parties cannot take over the powers of other constitutional bodies.

interesting tangent, that contradiction between the governors in their image as Excellencies, and the parties which sponsored their candidacy. Here, Watch His Excellency the Machakos Mandeleo ChapChap apologising to Uhuru Kenyatta, offering him the bowels of his party mate senator Johnstone Muthama! (it was definitely not ideology which brought them together in WIPER D!)



That is Mutua being independent from Muthama-Kalonzo wiper yes, but it is a pity his ''independence speech'' is merely the whorish courtship yielding dance of a turncoat, political sell-out. Uhuruto are not running a competent ''development model'' from Nairobi; what they have is the charisma of incumbency, and the power of the national treasury, and Mutua feels the itch.

Back to Kisumu where Ranguma can not do a Mutua on ODM.

The county has been embroiled in unending wrangles that have affected service delivery.
The assembly currently does not have a substantive speaker, a leader of the majority and deputy following the ouster or suspension of the incumbents.
Mr Ranguma has also been engaged in constant battles with his deputy, Ms Odinga, over the running of the county and the sacking of five members of the executive last year.

Kisumu county is not some naive rural backyard. This is the city whose keen proletariat instinctively recognised immediately what was happening on the long night of December 31 2007 when announcing presidential results proved such a challenge, as the savvy middle class patiently waited for their classmates to finish whatever it was they were doing to the figures at KICC. Therefore, merits aside and the credence of the Nairobi folks Athuok and Ong'uen besides, given the history of corruption in ODM patronage and affairs, skulduggery and racketeering in the ODM political tickets in Nyanza, indigene narrative casts them as tools of royalty in its attempt to reassert total control over Kisumu county, after being thwarted by popular revolt after the rigged elections.
The committee was appointed to INVESTIGATE THE ETERNAL WRANGLES in the country of Kisumu, wrangles which have effectively rendered the county a national laughing stock at a time when the Luo supremo is angling for his last stab at the presidency!

Well, April fools day! It is not that Ranguma has no time to attend the panel. It is just that the truth is walking naked on the streets of Kisumu as an Ahangla singer once declared. And Jack Ranguma does not want to participate in his own public lynching, offering himself pliably as a burnt offering to the deity.
The wrangles in Kisumu county are long-running because of historical administrative neglect, and they have everything to do with an ''indigenous rebellion against settlers'', however high-born they be, and their drive for effective colonisation. It is merely the smaller brother of the ideology which led to the expulsion of the Gikuyu from the Rift Valley after Kibaki rigged the 2007 elections. Competition for scarce resources tends to generate a need for an ''ideological rationalisation'' of a headstart, or preferential entitlement. You know, something like ''blood is thicker than water''.
Which means the clans of Kajulu, Kisumo, Kano, Nyakach and Seme, gang up in a tyranny of numbers to claim the Kisumo governorship.
Ranguma can afford to defy Raila's courtiers here whatever their masks, but to do that and win the next election, he has to intoxicate his electorate with radical indigenism to camouflage his horribly incompetent administration.

NB: Two seemingly unrelated but significant things have happened under the radar in Kisumu.

1. Nominated TNA senator Joy Gwendo and Anyang' Nyong'o


FROM LEFT: The National Alliance Party officials Ben Adega (Chairman Kisumu East Constituency), Juma Midigo (Coordinator Kisumu County) and Titus Ondu (Chairman Kisumu County) announce the expulsion Nominated Senator Joy Gwendo in Kisumu yesterday.The members also said President Uhuru Kenyatta shortchanged them in the recent state appointments. 01/05/15. PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000160941/senator-gwendo-expelled-from-tna-county-office-for-being-odm-mole

haha-hehe for the Nyong'o/Gwendo juice you have to go to facebook!

2. The Umbrella group of ''Maendeleo ya Wanawake'' chapter in Kisumu county has split into rival camps.

FOOTNOTE

Split in rival camp gives Kisumu mayor lifeline

–---By Peter Atsiaya; Tuesday, July 7th 2009:

Kisumu Mayor Sam Okello got a lifeline in his re-election bid following defections from a rival group of councillors. The anti-Okello councillors broke ranks after Deputy Mayor Pamela Omino was picked to face her boss in the polls. A source in the camp told The Standard that eight councillors decamped from Ms Omino’s side and joined Okello’s camp.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=1144018682&story_title=split-in-rival-camp-gives-kisumu-mayor-lifeline&pageNo=1

AAh, wrangles, did they start yesterday?

NOW THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM:

It is a common secret Local politicians have always used this ideology to terrorise and blackmail the Asian business elite controlling finance in the city. It has been a booming business in extortion. It has had some interesting side-effects. One will notice the kind of stagnation of real-estate in the centre of city before the devolution boom. The Indians who owned most of the real estate did not dare invest in permanent things in a place where they were so insecure. So they exported capital and their profits, to invest elsewhere. Business with Indians could only be carried out in CASH-TERMS.
I asked an economist to explain this for me in modern terms. My consultant Dr. Otieno, an American economist grinned. He gave me a lecture on why in the USA all cocaine and drug-related transactions were strictly cash, even if truckloads of high-denomination dollars were needed for a sale.

It leaves ''no trace, neither from where or to where. Then you cannot tax it, can you!?''

And that is how we worked out the stagnation of Kisumu city; not really Kenyatta marginalisation as lead, but the predatory instincts of the local comprador and aristocratic bureaucracy in parasitic impunity.
I will of course read the lawyer Athuok's report if it is made public, and compare what he says are the causes of THE WRANGLES in Kisumu county!

Ach, Nairobi lawyers! I am regular in their offices both socially and professionally! Only female lawyers retain a capacity to surprise me!

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JACK BARING HIS BUTTOCKS TO SHOW LOYALTY DID NOT WORK!

Somewhere in the past decade, far away in the colonial motherland, whilst passing through the city of London, I had some social business to attend, within the part of the city known as the WestEnd. It was a forty-minute drama-play illuminating aspects of the intrigues at the court of the Great King Henry the 8th, the father of Queen Elizabeth. Word in the aristocratic circle was Lord So&So had fallen from grace. His daughter was no longer the King's worthwhile. She had succumbed to an old flame and stolen a moment or twice with an old lover, one from her free days, -O those days before she had entered the bondage of monogamy to the King's bed. The King, discovering his honey-pot more ajar than he remembered leaving it, was much displeased at the trespass which so had put him to shame, and so his royal highness started to plot the tower for the duo, his heart bent on vengeance. The trespasser might have been lower born, but clearly he was a mightier man than the King; the jealousy was pathological, like that of Shakespeare's Othello at the address of Desdemona, once expertly manipulated deviously by Iago.

So what is it that tickled this prelude to a tragedy at the court of Henry!? -A homecoming!

FATTENING THE PIG FOR SLAUGHTER! THERE IS NO HONOUR AMONG THIEVES, POLITICIANS!

Kenya: Disquiet as Raila skips Governor Jack Ranguma's homecoming party

By Dennis Onyango and Kevine Omollo Updated Monday, June 8th 2015

Political differences among leaders in Nyanza played out on Saturday during the homecoming party for Governor Jack Ranguma. Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga who was scheduled to be the chief guest at the event held at Kisumu's Otieno Oyoo Secondary school did not show up.
All the governors and senators from Nyanza region, including Ranguma's deputy Ruth Odinga, also snubbed the event. Speculation is now rife that Raila's failure to attend the fete informed the absence of other political leaders from the region.
Even in Ranguma's Kisumu County, only one out of the seven local MPs attended the event which was also skipped by a section of area MCAs allied to Senator Anyang' Nyong'o, who also did not attend. Of the country's 47 governors, only two, Wycliffe Oparanya (Kakamega) and his Bomet counterpart Isaac Ruto, were present.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000164892/kenya-disquiet-as-raila-skips-governor-jack-ranguma-s-homecoming-party

Jack Ranguma has caught the plague! He is a walking corpse. Mayoo, does he have a secret portion from a trenchant witchdoctor, a death-beater, or is he past the portion marked life in the thread of existence woven by the Fates, and now he must tumble to Hades?

(Thinking of Elechi Amadi's The Concubine narrating the fates of Ihuoma's suitors) –-Is Jack Ranguma's diviner a foolhardy boisterous charlatan like Agwoturumbe, promising salvation, delivering death, even as the honest and modest expert, Anyika, is ignored and his advice sidelined by passions more fiery than lust? From the caliphate thread we had this:

ODD BALL JACK.

Let us narrow our beef to the Luo nation then, and put our lofty capital county under the microscope, while making an attempt at assessing the mentality of her governor, in this case Jack Ranguma. This would-be exalted county CEO, some will remember, confronted with charges of lukewarm loyalty to the Boss, threatened to strip naked to prove himself beyond doubt, a full-blooded loyalist. This was during a retreat at the Mecca of Luo politics, ie Bondo,

It was a sickening affair that reveals all. Understandably then, that is the kind of behaviour which makes Miguna Miguna write with so much disdain about the current Luo political bureaucracy. Shameless, inept and bonafide primitive. But I have heard rumours Elizabeth Ongoro was so disgusted she ordered super-loyal Jack to keep his trousers on and save himself the tragedy of graduating into the class of ''dirty old odd ball flashers!''

But it can get better.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9176/miguna-carpet-bombing-odinga-caliphate?page=2#ixzz3cg7Ex0VJ

Taking cue from Agwambo's PREDICTED absence –--snub they say, the sheep followed to the letter, forgetting they are suppose to be in the midst of two campaigns:

1. Popularising okoa Kenya and pumping up morale even at the home base at every chance.
2. Mobilising each and every single vote to beat the tyranny of numbers fronted by Jubilee.

–--Now they left Kisumu CEO Ranguma hanging, humiliated in his Kobura home at Otieno Oyoo school. Home hearts will seethe, and vengeance will be in the booth. Such slights is how Raila lost anything between 10 and 15% of the Luo vote. Rigging out people like Oduol in Siaya and then expecting a 100% voter turn out at home to the cause? Ooyo, a decisive portion of Jokanyarnam nyaka bi kun, ni thoo! Obedi!

So, putting raging fires with fake means, is bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted, thus.

“Raila did not snub the ceremony. He was away in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,” he said.
Other leaders who missed the ceremony are Kisumu Senator Anyang Nyong’o, Deputy Governor Ruth Odinga and six MPs from the county.
None of the other Nyanza governors attended the event.
Kisumu women’s representative Rose Nyamunga and Nyakach MP Aduma Owuor attended.
Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya and Bomet’s Isaac Rutto also attended.
Governors’ council chairman Peter Munya was invited, but he skipped the event.

Sources within the party told the Star that Raila is unhappy with the continued wrangles in Kisumu county.
- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/odm-bigwigs-skip-ranguma-ceremony#sthash.kAQ6T0QW.dpuf

An intended funeral service.
Let us watch just how stupid Jack Ranguma can be, failing to read the signs of his confinement to the political death row. Failing to rise to the challenge: if going down, do so with the honour of a tragic hero. Lost, but fought the fight of his life!

But methinks an incompetent thief like Ranguma is a cheap, easy kill. An afternoon light entertainment at best, before juicier acts. Like the fourty minutes of an irate King Henry, tormented because his old cock is out of stiffs and cun-t is served.