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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 16, 2015 19:57:35 GMT 3
THE MISSED PROPAGANDA ROLE OF SIAYAIt does hurt that the hometurf of so many leading luminaries of the better party is no example to anybody, except for a collectors of negative statistics! We will finish this episode by comments generated by this report from the DailyNation. Lo! a few days earlier, choreographed on cue, all the troupe and entourage allied to Da Ker Mayar Madit and his sister boycotted Jack Ranguma's homecoming at Otieno Oyoo school on the Kisumu-Ahero road, and now this afterthought of lets all be a happy family? Yawa, one instigates bad blood, then moves again to mediate? -- Onge omera Raila ikweri! Not everyday is April fools day! These are merely steps of intrigues in a court. But that is a slight matter. Better late than never. The following was more in my mind. -- Winyo ka winyo gi ywakne! Every bird its song! Is a chant of one ahangla figure, Onyango Alemo. This is the man whose KUCHE KUCHE remake of the Tabia Mbaya hit of Onyango Jakadenge, run riot like wildfire in dry grass. Since that peak I have not heard much from him. So it means like every singer his vocal range, every politician his thinking range. And woe be upon thee, led by the shallowest. Listening to Rasanga I could only think of winyo ka winyo gi ywakne, but in the sense of every (comprador) mouth its begging noise. And now that Big Man Obama is coming, the shamelessness reaches a crescendo. These unconscious looters hysterically crow for more goodies to steal, misuse, spoil and squander like they have been doing with the PESA MASHINANI. They want a state of the art hospital, but they can not run a dispensary in Siaya! They can not pay doctors nor nurses -because they have squandered the money by, among other things, building pit-latrines costing ksh. I million @piece. And this is the budgetary bottomless hole Raila Odinga allows his name to be attached to as Obama is beseeched to come home! Lets see where they do not have an Obama to beg! MAENDELEO CHAPCHAP! Here is an interesting paradox: This 'magic' man Mutua of Machakos! Things are not always as they look like, we read that in Safari course book before the 8-4-4 = 0 madness of the lost KANU era under the medieval Daniel Arap Moi. (After a quarter century of nepotism in power, he left his Kalenjin nation with such a sense of insecurity which was very easy to manipulate into a charged xenophobia, to expell Kikuyus on charges of being finished from the civil service. The Kalenjin dependence on the control of the corrupt state had become pathological. No life was thinkable outside state-power. That is the horror of Moi's tenure: addicting a nation to corruption and mediocrity!)But it was Mutua of Machakos firing me up! Is Mutua of Machakos working mirages, creating facades, constructing mirrors and smokescreens which, once the shine clears, will be white elephants dotting the Machakos countryside? Must we be like Snowhite who must flee the party by a certain time, lest the demasque catch us on the wrong foot!?I have to make an effort to write seriously about this. I like to have an idea of costs, and, as of now, those two toilets of Siaya cost more than Machakos's 'ultra moderns''. There are many ways of looking at this difference between Siaya and Machakos. All of them fascinating. Maybe Machakos has a water problem, and the precious water could better be used for other purposes than flushing sh!t? No? May be Mutua's priorities are upside down; but still, meseems the costs of the Siaya toilets (and Siaya market stalls) indicate Mutua is a better governor. He wastes money, but gives you a ride like a wet dream you will love when you wake up lonely. Siaya is just a plane nightmare, awake or asleep! (I will dwell on the limits of Alfred at his thread! Now I want to stick to Siaya, the county which should have been a show-case of the devolution magic to beef up Raila's claims to national leadership, you know, what Arkansas did to Bill Clinton! Well, kind of ) AS OBAMA PONDERS WHAT TO PUT IN THE BEGGIN HAT FROM SIAYA Well Obama, you cannot run away from your people. But you can be a teacher. You would better dispatch a forensic (accounting) team to your father's county. Using that report, you could advise Siaya county how better they could have used the money already flowing in courtesy of Devolution. That is, a target reduction of the corruption rate in Siaya to 10% would free enough cash to build their own University! All the Americans have to bring, are a crack unit of American managers to help with the administration. ('Çrack unit' because, as everybody knows, the USA is full of substandard universities, like the fooball ones which are dens of brain-damaged goons. Such junk is not needed in Siaya, methinks!). As for money, Siaya county can better be advised to go for competitive loans. Of course the USA can not beat China in that. Taking a look at wasted cities like Detroit, the toilets of Machakos are better than the wastelands of decaying American cities, no? America may just need its money at home more than spend it for charity in Siaya Kenya, that is if she can avoid spending it on a useless wars in Muslim lands. Siaya is rich enough, and can negotiate loans, if Josiaya are serious about take-offs, and reorganise themselves. But first things first: corruption of course. As far as the republic of Kenya is concerned, I would say let them fight corruption at lip service and have the corrupt step temporarily aside, only to come back whitewashed by the investigating authorities. That is good enough for a republic of mediocrity. But for Luoland, struggling to free itself from the yoke of backwardness under a vermin elite, something firmer must be what the doctor ordered. --We should name the corrupt, but avoid shaming them. Instead, we should kill them, burn their bodies in a collective pyre, and as a bonus, throw in their spouses and mpango wa kandos -reasoning them accessories to the crime. Where did I get that blood-curdling solution from? (No, not from Osele and Gladys Wanga and Agos Nhetto who want to torch night-runners for lowering the prestige of HomaBay county, no!) I got the idea from the great General Ochieng' Waljak (founder of Ugenya Kager). Thieves? He tied dried bundles of grass and wood around their bodies and set them alight. Did it work? -why don't you let me do more research and come back on that one!? Yeah, I have been taking a long look at culture, and came across precedents. With Chapter six in the new great Kenyan constitution irrelevant, I am sitting around waiting for miracles to happen. Of course they will, but as a human I must have a plan B, in case chapter six is dead and gone forever. So I was looking for precedents! Did Ochieng's methods work!? --Putting cruelty in the service of the people is what made him a legend of course. If on the orders of a county commissioner cattle rustlers will be summarily executed without much ado from the bill of rights, I don't see why treasury rustlers should be spared a worse fate! Death by fire. (Luoland only for starters!)
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 17, 2015 22:18:38 GMT 3
I AM GOING NIGHT-RUNNING!I am practicing night-running. And I am getting better at it by the nights! But there is danger lurking out there in HomaBay, and beyond. Should I not post updates, which I intend to, know thee I have been caught and burnt alive in accordance with the Othoro declaration. This heinous protocol has promulgated Luoland a Christian-full, heathen-free entity. This only proves what night-runners have been saying all along. They are a marginalised, discriminated group, threatened with extinction and now, marked for direct genocide at the behest of Johny-come-late zealots and beastly hooligans (popularly known as Mpigs). But before I am caught and immolated to ash, I promise to be fleet of foot like the Greek Legend Achilles who reputedly outrun a cheetah, from whence the following commercial is based! I have also been taking long-distance courses from that school at which the legendary Harry Porter graduated, and I might just fly away from the crazed Luo mobs on an old-fashioned broom! which can also double up as a flame-thrower. If all goes well and the vehement attempt of the Luo Mpigs to manufacture a hate-object to deflect from their own corruption is defanged of its venom by public wit, then will I report frontline from the night-running olympiade! I will also make an attempt to explain on the Cabral Cultural thread, how I became mixed in this matter (it is a long story and I have to dress down for the night now!) Well, I am not a natural born night-runner. I tend to reserve my nocturnals for good old sleep, or rowdy ahangla fests, or good old ding-dong with the wife. (I rarely do the maid like Otishotish the Great. That would degrade the honourable profession of teaching, unlike the legal profession where no depth is too low to be stooped to! Anyway, dear jolly fellows, wish me a safe night-running! NB: Luo politicians need to deflect the anger quick: reports say the rigged-in governor of Siaya, Cornel Amoth Rasanga, barely escaped with his life today at Jakoyo Midiwo's turf. he should really discover the evil of night-running and brainwash the Siaya hoodlums to prepare a bonfire to purify the land from their curse! otherwise he will soon be asking Ouru to send his best squadron of toughies to protect him, given Raila will have to be neutral lest he himself face the wrath of the Roman mob for having grafted a corrupt governor on Siaya people! of shame www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000138610/teachers-service-commission-sends-home-three-teachers-for-allegedly-defiling-students Blame it on night-runners!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 19, 2015 0:18:55 GMT 3
LUO PIVOT FOOTNOTES. A BITTER GREEK LESSON FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE LAKE! As I punch away at the letters now -keypad warrior that I am, the Eurogroup are huddled in some cosy hotel in Luxembourg, sampling vintage French cuisine to the appetising aromas of select dairy wonders from Scandinavian cottages, for, behold, little Denmark is a goat-cheese super power. If on the table there are remnants of Greek ouzo which served as an appetiser, or fizzled residues of Greek olives accompanied by feta (white cheese) stagnant in Greek olive oil, it can only be as a mocking ritual at the address of the stricken country, if not a tragi-comical reminder of the single agenda on the table: grexit. Can the eurogroup dare it? The eurogroup is the organised conference of the finance ministers of the European countries which use the Euro as their common currency. Grexit is the eventuality of Greece exiting the eurozone and re-instituting the drachma as its currency. POSTscript: The meeting failed within 40 minutes to make headway. A European heads of states meeting has been scheduled for this Monday. But that is not my interest for today. I merely want to use the GREEK TAILSPIN to do a kitendawili. There is a lesson in this running Greek Drama for Jokanyarnam -we the people of the Lake, and I want to focus on it as a parable: angera. For the initiated, knowledge will be of an ancient period in history when Greece really had it going. In deed some will remember their school days, where it looked like Greece was the crucible of Western Civilisation. Concepts like democracy, biology, sociology, atomic physics -and all of them that deal with anything scholarly worth knowing, even Eros, sounded Greek to the ears! On maths, there were canons like Pythagoras, Euclides and Archimides amongst others; on thought you heard of the great Socrates and his dangerous drink, or Plato; on art, written or otherwise, the list is inexhaustible, but I have to mention my favourite: Praxiletes the sculptor of the gods. Here is his bewitching Aphrodite of Knidos, 330 BC. Comparatively in terms of its impact, one must talk of a revelation, of which the modern equivalent would be Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, summarised in the resultant simple equation E = MCC. So thunderous was that work of Praxiletes.Now first forward, several millennia later. Greece seems to have done some things very wrong, dangerously so, and has ended up in the rubbish pit of European civilisation: (we will find occasion to ponder these.) But, to continue, when their intellectuals speak nowadays, even if a figure like the renowned authority on game theory, Gianis Varoufakis, the current Syriza minister of finance, the Eurogroup led by the Duthman Joram the Wreath (Dijsselbloem or 'Graveflowers') turn their backs and block their ears to mock the professor. And when the prime minister Alexis Tsipras himself presents proposals, the German finance minister, the Wolf Schauble, wheelchair bound, scornfully tests the quality of the paper between his fingers, then sighs: 'were it softer, I would try it for toilet paper! but now, I will try a basket.' And the cripple folds the proposal paper and casts it into the bin. Then there is German leader Angela Merkel: Asked about Grexit, she acts perverted humility: 'Nobody is forced to be in the euro,' then she quips in poignant mischief: 'but it is of course always nice to have them Greeks in!' Her other demeanour is that of, you know, every family has its low-born of a headache, and well ... So there we have the once mighty Greeks, their long-haired heroic and awesome heritage now worthless, past triumphs now but ruins and impotent folklore. Their intellectual confidence shattered, they can not think of a life outside the euro, even if, within, they are to be skinned alive to the last Greek. It is like a ' 'stand'' in a bison killing field. but when you have a very quick rifle, like the Henry repeating rifle of the Buffallo Bill men who hunted Bisons to supply meat to the army and railmen in the Wild West, and you have the skill to down a Bison in one shot through the head, all before the others realise the cause is external, then the others will mill around in incomprehension, and as you down more and more with clean shots, the more will they continue to be betrayed by their herd instinct, as they stay and mill around the dead and dying in solidarity. A ''stand'' in which experienced hunters would kill the whole herd, or stop only because their guns overheated, jammed or ran out of bullets. So it is with the bankrupt Greeks now. Every government they vote to power mills around the corpse of the previous one in solidarity with the euro. And Germany keeps shooting them down. They will not cut and run, oblivious to the game of slaughter. Their minds jammed, they will stay in the Euro to the last Greek! They kind of think abandoning the euro is like the bison herd taking off from predators, but just to jump over the cliff and end up a broken pile of bones down! The abyss. Buffalo Jump. So what is the Greek parable for Luo Nyanza? The people of the lake have been at the forefront of the progressive fight for Kenya's future since the colonial days. They have produced heroes and personalities of note on the good side of the fight - Jaramogi, Makasembo, Ojijo Koteko, Oneko, Sijeyo and the rest of the statues on the pantheon of the first liberation, aka independence. Then, thereafter, is the roll of honour of the second liberation, captained by the enigma Agwambo, the bringer of devolution as the songs go at my local ahangla gig. That is a great history. And that is all it is. A dead past. Proud but dead. The present, as today lays the foundations of the morrow, is a horror and a living nightmare for Luoland. (and that is not just a reference to Luoland being a wasteland ravaged by a containable epidemic called Aids!). Anyway, it is this lame present pregnant with a still-born tomorrow which generates the kind of anxiety which makes people like me talk of a VERMIN ELITE, and the likes of Miguna denounce it a CALIPHATE OF MEDIOCRITY. From fighters in the frontline for a progressive Kenya, the Luo elite is now composed of those of a fanatical piety in the cult of corruption and retrogression. Our counties do not make the grade in any trade for the good. ---NB: Kisumu county can not even collect garbage. Liter clogs drainages seemingly built without a comprehension of the laws of gravity -free flow, nor propulsion, eg flush. Within the broken-floored public toilets around the heaviest use-area which is the bus-park, one is confronted with filthy drums of muddy water wherein are floating handled 5-liter jerrycans, their tops sawed off to transform them into cups. This is how you will wash your long call away. But the pathogenic concentration in a nanomilimeter of that water should be enough to knock down a white elephant!Waterlines to heavy populated estates are ½-inch plastic pipes which burst on the first exposure (by erosion from light rains) and a motorbike run-over. Permanent water shortages ensue, not to mention water-vendors who go to work with saws, to cut them off in a market-creating exercise. The primitivity which accosts they eye at every glance is a picture of rot, whether it is a writhing Jossy of a speaker after a body check by an Ong'ow ally, or the ugly head of leading thief and former speaker Adul polluting the already dirty and dusty streets. Even two-storey buildings collapse! Building a successful two-storey is a challenge, mama yie!! (what does that say about inspector engineers, construction technicians, and the fundis!? Is that not an SOS, a huge cry for help from a drowning capital city!?) Yes, the people of the lake, for all their past Greek-like glory, are now the laughing stock, derided and scorned by the barbarians of yester years. Gott, or early Germania, was the 'most barbarian of all provinces', according to a scribe from Rome: ''A retarded people lower than the wildest beast!'' How about a millennium later? ''Yesterday's barbarians'' are the only performing economy in the eurozone! and a world industrial power. The once last have become the first. So: the Luos used to talk of JOMWA the way the Romans talked of BARBARIANS from primitive ordes. Today, every former barbarian Jamwa has pimped up into a noble in Kenya, standing mast-high, having but a spit for the face of the contemptible Luo. We are now the barbarians inhabiting ' Gott-like' Luonyanza, a 'barbarian province led by a caste of incestual retards, politicians of lower morals than the wildest beast!' Scorn and disdain being our lot, is the achievement of a vermin elite dedicated to their stomachs at the expense of vision and performance. And so it came to pass, that we are marooned in our happy Kingdom of mediocrity -O people of the Lake! We shall overcome and rise again though! (mi mana pieri omera!)I did well in my night run! And I will be back on track, naked!
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Post by OtishOtish on Jun 19, 2015 2:22:46 GMT 3
OKOA!
Something or somebody.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 20, 2015 15:28:53 GMT 3
4 : MANAGING PESA MASHINYANZANI TO SAVE DEVOLUTION.Bankruptcy due to spendthrift mismanagers is no fiction. Recieverships, where entities like companies enter liquidation regimes, or for countries, austerity straight jackets and debt-induced impoverisation as we now witness in Greece, are more often the case in human history than otherwise. Nearly all African states wasted a decade at the IMF purgatory, bowed in supplication under SAP, tethered to other such pathological theories of economic pillage and mayhem. The path to state bankruptcy is no mystery. It is all there in the accounting records, or the lack thereof (at, to pull Kamau Thugge's leg, the central bank! ) Where does your county or country get its money from, and what does it spend it on? That is the constellation wherein you read your stars to predict your national future! Wastage leads to doom. If pesa mashinani is indeed pesa mashimoni and the counties go bust, they would have to be re-nationalised, their control recentralised, this to spread the bailout burden across a larger taxpaying base, ie the whole Kenya. Loan syndicates from afar too, would prefer the central government as debtor. This controls the security infrastructure which can be deployed in a ruthless extraction exercise to repay the loan through the nose as the saying goes. -terrorise striking workers and crush labour unions if need be for instance. No mysteries I always say: Now you understand the above - CONFUSION! why my darling matriarch Anne Waiguru insists SECURITY WILL NOT BE DEVOLVED. TRANSLATE: International capital would RISK loosing the instrument of forcing peasants all over the republic to pay up for the follies of their criminally spendthrift political elite. Too much uncertainty that. Now let us breathe! As I take my time about the foreplay, next. 4b.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 22, 2015 23:13:14 GMT 3
THERE IS A ROYAL MOLE IN THE ROYAL COURT, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? (APENJOU ROURINI MA JOSIAYA!) Today I sympathise with Raila: even in the toilet in old age, he still has to prefect his older brother! I wanted to joke, like this is how the war of the roses started. One wing of the royal (Plantagenet) family against the other. And after a lot of blood flowing freely had soaked the beautiful fields of England for several centuries, they united in a famous marriage and lived happily ever after, well, almost! (Lady Di had a very crowded marriage which made her often less than sane!) Greed should be one of the seven major sores. Greed for sex, nymphomania; greed for wealth via state looting, kleptocratia; greed for rulership or power, megalomania. If I remember correctly, contesting claims on the entitlement to rule was the bone of contention in the war of the roses. Power struggles that are about wealth and domination. So this Siaya thing. What is it about? (a stolen loose woman like Helen of Troy leading to war? Rival claims to coming [gubernatorial] incumbency? Just plane personal antipathy? Ideological differences? gentlemanly and familial MOU's reneged on, with mammoth financial consequences?) One thing which is obvious is Cornel Amoth Rasanga and Jakoyo KaMidiwo have not been seeing eye to eye. Jakoyo says he merely wants more transparency in Siaya and less corruption. Rasanga says a firm related to Jakoyo's failed to secure a major contract in the county, and in vengeance, the Gem Mp swore to hang the Alegoman governor. Peace efforts have been playing around in the background trying to merge the interests of the two divergent blue-bloods, but the stakes appear to be too high. At the same time, collective memory has not forgotten the original crime. The marshalling of royal privilege and power to thwart the ''kimirwa'', William Oduol. Raila may have denounced him a bastard in broad daylight, but the popular will disobeyed the King. His brother was annihilated at the ballot, forcing a messy intervention by the court. jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/7796/oloo-denounces-oburus-electoral-theft --debate: a thief is better than a mole!? That brother who has been treated as refuse by the electorate, Oburu, is a specialist spoiler. He is always crying wolf and branding opponents moles. Oduol is a mole, Ababu is a mole, Dalmas Otieno is a mole
. and now, Jakoyo Midiwo is a mole. A Jubilee mole so to clarify. Jubilee, it would appear, has moled its way right to the heart of the Luo royal family! --Who else can the King trust! The people? But that is a risky step for someone who has had the habit of ignoring the peoples choice and imposing his cronies! Watching a Luo governor fleeing from a Luo mob in his home county has its humorous sides. I remember the glee of quite a wide sector of Luo opinion, when Miguna Miguna in his book promotion tours, met with -organised or not-- rejectionist and violent mobs! Not a single prominent bothered on principle to rise up and condemn, or defend Janyando's freedom to ''write what he wants''! Now it was time for the -organised or not-- mob to bay for a whole governor's blood! And if the photo of Miguna fleeing in Mombasa from a Gor Mahia T-shirt-clad rogue was serve him right to some, then His Highness the Royal Rasanga being bundled like a sack of maize cobs into his gubernatorial SUV, will no doubt be equally enjoyable. Uhuru Kenyatta's shoe incident in Migori pales in comparison! But the Yala gardens incident is a reminder, that all is not calm below the surface. Republicanism is still far, but there are currents, and passions, positionings and sharpenings. Siaya: is that the scene of the crimes like the mutilated and bloodied carcasses of Horace Owiti Ongili and Mito Jura Jakobong'?
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Post by kamalet on Jun 23, 2015 9:09:35 GMT 3
...perhaps you can venture into a discourse on the looming battle in Kibera! The perpetuation of a dynasty that imprisons the constituents in poverty versus the nerve of a young urbanite Luo MP who sees development and the future of the youth in Kibra!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 20, 2015 19:25:20 GMT 3
THE ONE PARTY STATE OF NYANZA AS A ROTTEN, UNCOMPETITIVE CALIPHATETake 1. So sad it is, but reality is what is, and has to be dealt with. From the heart of what Miguna Miguna dubbed the Odinga caliphate, comes confessions from the horse's own mouth. It is a woeful, tragic but occasionally hilarious tale. Diagnostically, it is a beam of light unto the roting roots of the a social structure, and that has its sunny sides. That blackmail is Kenya-wide, and MCA's from all over the republic learnt the lesson from Mpigs. Some will especially recall the 10th parliament where cash for votes was the thing as bills of the new constitution deadlocked in a Raila-Kibaki stalemate. Then, to learn from too, there is the extortion of the current 11th parliament, which told fincabsec Rotich and Serem: salary cuts = impeachment (Rotich) + disbandment (Salaries and Remuneration Commission). This formula also works fine for MCA's on governors. StopPress: this one I can not joke about: A referral hospital named Jaramogi which doubles as the medical training institute ---(in concert with the medical faculty at Maseno University)---- had its water supply cut, after running out of money to pay the paltry bill which does not even buy a reconditioned Probox! And what do you hear of from the deputy governor, Her Royal Highness and sister to the Kaliph? --She was ignored totally even as she saw twice that amount embezzled daily at the cashiers! (I wont mention the extravagance of the governor yet, with his hotel chapati bills resembling the antics of Marie Antoinette in her court as Parisian mobs starved!) Did the Mysterious One refuse to acknowledge his sister's call? I cannot be angry at this one. I have to go in denial! No No NO! we Luos cannot be that rotten. We are Obama people! Super Power people! We do not let academic hospitals named after our Pater Familias run out of water, two kilometres from the largest fresh water lake in the World!NO NO NO NO! Mano oknyalre kata matin! mano wich motow!Why am I fain to deny open facts about Luoland like this!? (there is a theatrical ritual we call ' 'omera maka ka pok anego ng'ato!) Russia Hospital is all there is for those who - uninsured or cashless-- can not pay the bills at Agha Khan and the other posh private hospitals around the Lake. And this Hoi Polloi is the majority in Kisumu, the wheels of the town as it were. -The weekend lady who does my laundry; my matatu touts; the bodaboda people; the artisans and jua-kali collective; the daily labourers from construction to all sorts. In other words, They The People: This is their Hospital, their health facility. But the Kisumu proletariat being so Luo, I will make that: They The Luo People, and reposit the charge. Collapsing Russia hospital is a crime of elite hate toward the common Luo people. One could say, a devious aspect of class war --'let us reduce the numbers of the poor by denying them good health services.'Sabotaging Russia Hospital (by the corruption and ineptitude and negligence of the Luo-ODM elite), is then a crime against LUO humanity to me. The vilest Mungiki machete that sunk into a Luo infant's head in Naivasha is expected enemy war action and is borne as such! -which fool expects mercy from the enemy? but the deliberate, slow mass slaying of the Luo by a Luo elite courtesy of disease promotion -biological warfare, is in a different category of suffering. --(one can perhaps be forgiven for the superstitious foolishness of expecting forms of tribal solidarity between the aristocracy and the hoi polloi of similar ethnicity! Finding none, I relapse into vehement denial!) The House of Opir has a major domestic. And we have to clean 'our' house first, thereafter to lift our eyes in pride, to join and interact with civilisation and, hopefully, save Kenya! Looking at the precedents of 'our' history conflict resolution, I think it is worth a blood-price. The nature of the blood price too, scares me and sends me to Planet Denial. --No No No! we can sink low, but low enough to steal the water bill of an academic hospital and have it cut? and the bill is a ½M ksh only, while MCA's burn high-octane Jet Fuel at prohibitive rates flying around the world!? (---how dare I criticise Ruto for the Hustler Jet!--)(And that Ouko report on the His Highness the governors expenses!) When approached to join the OKOA KISUMU initiative, what did she say and do? It is an idea, schooling. But you really do not want to check the CV's of the men who, for the decades of its corruption Kingship, have run the Nigerian Treasury or the Central Bank. Closer to home, I can assure you George Saitoti lacked nothing in education when he ran the treasury aground! And trust me, even the Mumbi Queen Anne, currently shown to have been leaking money like a menstrual tap at the NYS, is highly educated, just like Joseph Kinyua and Uhuru Kenyatta when they made their 30 billion ksh worth of errors at the Treasury! Schooling only made them better thieves. Thinking of Goldenberg and AngloLeasing for one. Perhaps the solution does not lie in education in general then, but in education which is not, yes you guessed it, Haram.Then there could also be the issue of dispersed identity. Perhaps these state thieves are '' depersonalised''; that will say there is such a disturbance in their conscience, a short-circuiting of their morals, such that they nolonger recognise the sin of theft, nor can they mentally comprehend its role in national ruin or personal shame. NB: If a man is political science graduated at Armherst college like Uhuru Kenyatta, but still runs a government loosing 30% of the state GDP to graft, what else do you want to teach him? And if he has Kennedy School Harvard Rotich and Yale school Njoroge as his right hand men at Finance and Central Bank, and the problem still persists, what schooling is anybody talking about as a remedy? I remember long ago when Sam Okello was to be parachuted in, as Mayor, courtesy of royal patronage. Then did a group lobby Dr. Adhu Awiti with an interesting idea. Could Kisumu-Luo experiment with an international headhunt for her mayor? An open, competitive and international vetting/recruitment, independent of race, continent or state, all to get the best transformative force, to prepare the Luo polity for the coming change (devolution cash flush). Dr. Awiti was quick on the take, then with that characteristic, professorial twinkle behind the thick big glasses he raised his left index finger, and we leaned forward like in Old Athens they did to absorb Socrates. '' You are plotting to deworm Kisumu. Mano ber, nyithinda, miliny miluongo comprador odino fuond Boma te. The hyenas will rip this idea to pieces because they will recognise the word competence to mean no theft. And theft, robbery and plunder, is the hyena mode of economics. But I will give it a shot!'So spake the Great Teacher Adhu, and so was this novel idea shot down as he had predicted. Now devolution fullblast is here and jobs are zoned. Zoned, if one interpellates the dynamic, ends up in one from HomaBay being denied a job in Kisumu county because he is a Jadak, a settler. Or the Luhya professor nearly expelled from Moi Eldoret chancellorship, coz that is a Kalenjin's job! It is the politicisation of the professional arena. In politics, Kikuyuland has Kikuyu Mpigs, so too other Lands. But the comprador then go ahead and, in devolution, zone and rationalise Kambaland for Kamba doctors first, and Siaya schools for Siaya people to head! All the way to the clan level. It is the logical extreme of Balkanisation, comprador style. Looting is the priority, and these stations/positions are seen as looting command posts. That is the real reason they are zoned, reserved. Check: There is pressure for the Luhya nation to field their own presidential candidate and stop playing second fidle to anybody. This drive is based not on the quality of a candidate they have ready, but on their sheer voter potential if totally pooled. The hottest political issue in Luhyaland is consequently how to forge a single herded, voting caucus, ala the rest. NB: The powerful clans of Kisumo do not want to be like the Maasai. Nairobi was () Maasai territory, but look at the Maa, -aint they marginalised to extinction in Nairobi? Kisumu city, I was told, is Kisumo! And Original Jokisumo are not going to loose it again, like they did long ago to the Wahindi who went on to dominate the commerce, courtesy of colonial positive discrimination!Unsaid is of course the Royal family has a land dispute with a section of original Jokisumo, courtesy of Arap Moi positive discrimination. A miasma of complex factors are at play. But it is a system, that is why Kenya works. There is ideological harmony at every level of the system. Continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 21, 2015 19:45:06 GMT 3
SHELL SHOCKED BY THE RANGUMA BOMBSHELL (JI OLOKORE MOMNI NANG'O!/) Once upon a time when the Luo elite rose up in sycophantic zeal, and mobilised the flock to condemn Miguna Miguna in unison, deriding him as The Mad Njuguna Njuguna, to underline his billed status as a traitor, they could not in their class blindness recognise this was an exercise in consciental exorcism: a ritual in which the elite purged itself of any would-be semblance of internalised morality. Currently, as we all absorb the levels of financial depravity to which the ODM bureaucracy and political machinery has sunk LuoNyanza, the saner members of the Luo community at large do trudge the streets with bowed eyes, their shoulders creaking with raging shame. They recognise they are the subjects of the national game of mockery. And it is not about foreskin, shed or intact. The derision is about the Luo as hyenas eating themselves up, yet pointing fingers and still imagining there are some fools out there to take them seriously! The story of the CEO of Kisumu county, Jack Ranguma, and his HoneyMoon Hotel complete with Paris Hilton-like car-hire rates, is more comically tabloid than tragic; then there is the reputed former managerial star in the private sector, Cyprian Stopes Awiti of HomaBay, yet turns out to be a Chickengate administrator of less than jua-kali financial wits; and the best of the best in the ring, the ace Evans Kikenya, like an evolving portrait of Dorian Gray, turns out to have a sweet tooth whose rotten root the whole judiciary must be used to keep hidden. The shameful Siaya we do not bother to mention, a serpentuous incestuous affair, more retarded than the voodoo republic of Haiti at its worst days. The so-called Luo Young Turks who at one time made a lot of noise about modernising the party, have been, like parasites who wont rock the boat, propelled into a bout of hibernation which would be the pride of a frozen landscape. When they talk, it is to extol the virtues of having a national identity card, he he, or Jesus wont record your O-laden name in heaven. But our champ still has to make the best of going through the motions, but even as he raises his voice to point fingers at Queen Antoinette WaiNYS and her loverboy of a royal clown, our erstwhile hero cuts the figure of a drunken nuisance urinating on himself in the market. May be his heart is no longer in it, but like an old gladiator wheeled out by dark pressures to --one more time-- perform for the crowd, his fate is to die in the arena as some cheap amusement, doubling up as a stepping stone for some worthless and scavenging opponents who, nevertheless, do not mind any extra feather in their caps, however dilapidated. Perhaps a tilt of hat would be appropriate in the direction of the head-chopping tyrant and red-hearted despot of Jukwaa, Onyango Oloo, who, under tremendous pressure from his influential comprador and mentally corrupted omena mates, stood his ground and defended Miguna on principle --that of freedom of expression. These vermin are now too mentally paralysed even to mention the word STEP ASIDE! Step aside? there would go all our Luo aces! All our gladiators in the ring are rickety retards, the types who are used in the warm-up, to be ritually slayed to whet the blood appetites of the Roman crowd. We know it, and know our Luo elite is most happy Ouru Kenyatta does not put any fire on his anti-corruption drive! This is why everybody is onto cooperation with the government. Pragmatism we say in self-serving you know. Yes, Raila has his fiefdom in Nyanza, his Kingdom come, but does he still have the sense to see it for what it is? -- the exact copy of the backward, cronystic rigging practice, politically narrow and stifling mediocrity of the corrupt rule he spent his youth fighting against!? Were he still of sense enough to coceptualise this simple truth, then would he know where to focus and ply his OKOA business! Next: LOCH JOKA MILINY --Tapeworms in Power.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 27, 2015 22:40:09 GMT 3
BUT DO WE RECOGNISE WE ARE IN A HOLE AND MUST STOP DIGGING?(from the Kaka Anywola library of commentary) No. It is not that easy, me says it is impossible for a 'class' to willingly modify or voluntarily give up its historical mode of existence. This -surrender of class complexes, going by historical evidence, has only always been done at the threat of extinction, the so-called knife to the throat option. As Otishotish would say, sheep are bred to be shorn, and they will be. No, I do not mean Kenya, I mean we the inmates of the Lakeside Caliphate shorn by the dons seconded by the local mafia party, the massively popular ODM. (Mafia because their electoral practices of rigging and auctioning of seats and or certificates!) But we have been lucky this week. Barrack Obama came and showed us a vision of who we are, could be, when we reconcile ourselves to our true historical personality. Barrack Obama occupied so much space, he wiped out each and every local Luo politician. He underscored the mediocrity of our local masters. For instance he said -'I want to make it clear Kenya is not the only place corruption exists. It exists just about anywhere. But corruption unchecked weighs you down like an anchor. You will be stagnant in a pool of backwardness, no progress!' No doubt Potus was addressing corruption in Kenya in general, but if you come from Luoland and you survey the political and administrative crop at the top, what do you reckon? Me I see our governors as poles tethering us to a swamp of stagnation! They are only imaginative in tenderpreneural scamming. Raila can not say it; may be does not see it, so Potus Obama has to come all the way from Washington DC to spell it out! -Ouch! Now a bit of something else: The story of 16-year old KAKENYA-protege Linet Nenkoitoi told by herself before Obama, is akin to one of those parables that open heathen minds to the ways of the Lord. Linet Nenkoitoi narrated her rise from a hopeless and desperate Samburu girl who flees Female Genital Mutilation, flees early forced marriage, goes to school and now, at Pangani girls, is determined to make it to Harvard, Obama's alma mater, there to study cardiology. The moneys that made that possible came from the American civil society budget, really for real. These are the stories to be told before the president of the United States, as a thanks giving, and God, the genuineness of the gratitude from the girl and all! I learnt something new. But also felt something bad. How do I feel, coming from Kisumu where the ODM governor, his elected Excellency Jack Ranguma, wined and dined and bedded ksh. 21M in brothels in one financial year? I ask you, Joluowa, how should I feel, walking past Lake Primary School, embedded between Kakamega road and Agha Khan primary behind Patel flats, and watching its dilapidation and neglect with nothing done ever since the colonial government left half a century ago? How do I feel, when I watch the roll-call of students who performed excellent in Kisumu county, got calling letters to good schools, but have stayed by the road to sniff glue and petrol coz their parents cannot afford, and the bursaries have been rerouted to mpango wa kandos of MCA's? How do I feel, watching the rust on the corrugated sheets roofing of Kibuye primary school, unchanged from its launch, far in the past? So much waste and theft of public resources where, spent right, a spittle would transform lives and make futures, like that of Linet nya Samburu. How do I feel at the dilapidation and neglect of the once great Lumumba dispensary, its roofs now leaking, rusty and corroded by the ravages of time unmitigated by maintenance? I will say how I feel. I feel murderous rage at heart at the responsible elite. I feel the need for a guillotine law to be enacted to chop off the heads of these vermin. Obama does not have to come all the way from America ----find time away from the numerous geopolitical issues with Vladimiri Putin, Xi Jin Pin, the negotiations around the Trans Atlantic Trade and development partnership with the EU, Greece threatening to fall out of the NATO and rip Europe's belly open, rogue ally Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen without a political plan, Turkey turning on Kurdish allies in Iraq and Syria and scathe-bombing them, more shootings at home, Washington politics and insane Netanyahu + AIPAC rage at the legacy-defining Iran nuclear deal,
.. --- to underpin and remind our political elite how important taking girls to school really is! (nor that water supply to a referral hospital is vital!)(Just how stupid must we be!? the other day was the IMF reminding Drs. Rotich and Njoroge to stop being silly with the shilling! Stern Mum Lagarde apparently caught the two Doctoral boys urinating on the national purse, you know, like the mad one of the family who will urinate or sh!t in the water pot in the corner, and, grrr, you only discover after your first waste-laced thirst-quenching gulp!!)It is a horror show of sorts. Our masters at work. And this day I feel a dark shame I never felt in my life before. Nevertheless I rise up to recognise the power of good, and the indefatigable determination of many ordinary Kenyans to be good. These women, young and old, testifying to the huge difference a few American dollars of charity have done to their lives, the temptations they have overcome and the self-sacrifice they self-imposed to help others with the little money from America; the tears of a young worker from Kibera lifted out of mind-boggling squalor, and, all the time, the terrifying patience and empathy of the emperor, Barrack Obama -president of the USA-- as he takes all this in! It does teach me a lesson about Africa where I thought I had none left to learn. Not only has it been a mental knock, it has also taken me to depths in my heart i thought are now long dead. To listen to Obama politely admonishing corruption is a bad thing - 'it may be there in every country in every period, but left unchecked it is sure ruin!' --- and recall the rampant corruption of both the central and county governments, is to shrink as if I have been flung into a freezing pond. The auditor general's latest catalogue of infamy is fresh in my mind, and listening to the professorial urging of Obama that we become a 'bit cleaner in this respect', with its occasional mocking humour ever so subtly put, leaves me disturbed on how now to look at and relate to the political honcho's who will assume their usual trenches tomorrow, raping and looting the treasury at their leisure. If, no sooner than airforce one is away on the wings, business continues to flourish as usual; ---the creepy fake progressive Raila does not move on corrupt ODM county heads tomorrow (calculating he needs their loot to finance his last shot at the presidency); if the bogus modern Prezzo Muigai continues his KANU business as usual kleptocratic stroll through the treasury; if the Mpigs, MCA's, parastatal chiefs, and every Tom Dick and Harry with the ability to steal public money goes ahead and does so with impunity as usual; if William Ruto continues his vocation as Kipchirchir Singh
. do I still entertain hope in my heart that all shall be well without a radical step? What, realistically, must then change, for the nation to surge ahead?It is a worthy question for national politicology to ponder. ' 'ordinary people must stand up and say enough is enough!' said Barrack Obama on corruption. Old brooms sweep best they say too. History has a cupboard with many brooms, I wonder which ones in there qualify as swept best! Tutajuwa tu. All in all, I think 'Obama ogonyowa'! E yor wich! Kendo e chuny!Now we can go back to where we were, continue digging deeper while in a hole, and surrender our fate to darkness!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 30, 2015 18:46:00 GMT 3
Kisumu cannot find records of bills, actsMISSING PAPERWORK: Kisumu county assembly members on May 5.By FAITH MATETE I remember being in this museum in Cairo, a Rosetta translator in my hand. We were working through the minutes of the Pharaoh Akhenaten (Ahmenhotep IV: 1351-1333 BC), trying to fathom the logic of his radical jump from polytheism to monotheism. In my own Kisumu, 2015 After Christ, post the computer and digital revolution, I wouldn't be able to leaf through the minutes of the ruling politburo!) It is a gigantic step for mankind, keeping official records. Sadly, a step beyond the ODM rot tethering Luoland to prehistory! --- modhno ma ondoch rombo othinyo! Akinyi gi Ranguma girigi!
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 22, 2015 23:20:22 GMT 3
FALLING BY NUMBERS WHICH DO NOT LIE!''I called to speak to you on the sorry state of affairs in our country, particularly our economy. '' Raila Odinga, October 2015. Wake up and go to work! Is Raila's advice to Uhuru Kenyatta Raila Odinga himself I suppose needs no political advice. In the sense of that old saying about Old Dogs and new tricks, and those minded to try teach. All that remains for the horrible Roman crowd then, is to spectate and cynically cheer an old gladiator in his death throes. Nay, let me take cognisance of the poor crop of gladiators pretending for the crown. The engima like Rome, is taking a eternity to fall! That the old gladiator still strides majestically in the arena wrapped in an aura of mystique, taking his time fading away like in General Douglas MacArthur's old soldier's tale, is a measure of the inferior thrust of the young gladiators of nowadays. In this case we should have in mind the tag-team known as Uhuruto. This duo give the dotcom generation a very bad name. Yes, with a measure of theatrics, the old warrior still stands his ground in the sand and affords the would-be usurpers a trickle of urine in their pants, even if he merely roars in mock combat repertoire, merely shadow-boxing like an alzheimer-ridden Mohammed Ali for jokes, merely for the applause from the Roman crowd, an applause to which he is addicted. So too yesterday at Serena Hotel on his return from the Orient, the Agwambo breathed steam and pawed the sand like a bull demarcating territory and throwing challenge, and Lo, behold, the digital kids, instead of calling his bluff on Heroes Day, by fending off each of his critical economic sword slashes, scampered for the shields and, biting their nails, puffed up their chests at the distant monster known as the ICC. To the cheers of the duplicitous Roman city crowd of course. Every theatrical gimmick of the emperor, however base and stupid, is greeted with a heaven-shattering roar. That is the treacherous crowd inflating the balloon of delusion the more, letting the big men soar even higher in nationalist fiction! Essentially these are mock duels between two royal houses who have struck a gentleman's deal. In political science, even mafia-like mob deals are characterised as ''gentlemanly'' --if you remember the partition of Africa in Berlin, 1874, or the Molotov- von-Ribbentrop pact (which carved up East Europe between Hitler and Stalin, or the infamous Sykes-Picot (which will need several bloody gulf wars to unravel!) But there is also real fear sustaining the truce. For political arrangements have shelf-lives. The two boys in Nairobi harbour a desire to finish off the Old Nuisance, and this desire has occasionally slipped into the public realm when, frustrated by his refusal to accept bribes in exchange of a fat state-sponsored retirement, they showed evil bursts of infantile temper, only to adopt more useful chameleon colours soon thereafter, demeanor concomitant with a stalemate. I bet they feel insecure and reckon the old soldier may have one or two tricks remaining up his old sleeves, and close direct engagement would be an exercise in their own fatalities. That is prudent, remembering the metaphoric Lakunle and the old Man in one of Soyinka's plays. These ritualised mock duels between factions of the elite --meant to show democracy is alive and well, hardly fool the Roman crowd. But they do fool the uninitiated, you know, the way countryside newbies are fooled, as they gaze at an action film before they wisen up to the concept of ' 'stunts'' and special effects! Once they are initiated into the bag of tricks of action-packed movies, they learn to go along with the yarn for kicks and good entertainment. It is one thing for a child to believe Jesus Christ or James Bond can walk on water, but surely an adult in such a state of mind will have reality begging his pardon soonest, and non too politely at that. THE TALE OF THE TWO ANNAS, your local and the national.That is Waiguru and Adul. The devolution queen, and the Kisumu Speaker. Both madamly thieves or errand girls at least. But how does the ODM sheep bleat!? Only one Anna is bad. Only Jubilee Anna must go! Chairman of Task Force on Kisumu County Assembly Oduor Ongwen (left), presents a report of the task force established to inquire into the circumstance that lead to the disruption of normal business at the County Assemly of Kisumu to the party leader Raila. PHOTO: GOVEDI ASUTSA. www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152151/raila-receives-report-that-reveals-gross-graft-in-kisumu-county-assemblyLess than a year ago as in the above captions, Raila and his sidekick Ong'uen lifted aloft an audit report about Kisumu, detailing enough factology to send Speaker Adul to Kamiti longer than many want Aladwa sent today. (Aladwa appears to have said something sensational in Kibera, and it tickled DPP Tobiko's ears!) But the party disciplinary mechanism has been found wanting, such that the saga of the speaker has paralysed business in the lakeside town for the whole year. --leading to the formation of OKOA KISUMU. ''Called to call a halt at the sorry state of affairs in our beloved county, Kisumu!'' The attempt to hold an okoa rally at Siaya stadium to protest the sorry state of affairs in that county was of course met with the same draconian steps with which Jubilee has ringed Uhuru park on several occasions when Cords OKOA caravan meant to camp at the city! That is an important detail. We all need to protect our riggings! So when the corded party (under whose rule Nyanza develops into a Doubting Thomas) raises its voice against the corrupt Anna in Nairobi, what exactly is their premise if not ritual merry-go-round to exorcise or deflect fire from their feet? NB: The Adul support club in Kisumu says they have ''insurance'' -which is to say the proceeds of corruption are shared with party moguls. In the same way Waiguru has ''insurance'' I suppose. She can not be eating all that 900M herself and survive, can she. Not to mention that if the persistent Nairobi rumours have flesh to the bone, then she has double insurance as his excellency's favourite dish. NB2. And Jack Ranguma's legendary hotel bills!? Some have boasted if you dare follow the money then you end up at a party wide racket! The party seems to be a vehicle whereby some hide a siphon, draining public money to their private estates. True to comprador primitive accumulation. So everything Raila accused the National jubilee government of, he himself as the undisputed Lord of Nyanza is guilty of, albeit on a lower level. But the template is the same, different is only the multiplier factor. This is I will propose, is why Ababu Namwamba has centipediously folded up. He is not yet rotten enough to wiggle out of such glaring hypocrisy: attacking national corruption in the other, while his party endorses (Waiguru gave top ODMers NYS contracts!?) and wallows in local corruption. You need schooling and breeding and finishing off to be that compartmentalised. Otherwise one needs the natural talent of psychopathy. Ababu is evolving, but he is currently that hyena at the crossroads, overstretched in indecision! Meanwhile the local courts re-instated Anne Adul. I will argue miscarriage of justice, but I suspect the many monies Adul stole have corrupted the bench! This being Kenya I will wait for an audit of the magistrates lifestyle --the way Uhuru Kenyatta ordered on Kenya revenue Authority personnel. I would like him to order one on his deputy too! The Singh!
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 3, 2015 19:59:43 GMT 3
WHY DID WE BANISH ODERO JOWI FROM OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY? The late Joseph Odero Jowi The word is ' PARIAH'! That is a person avoided like a leper was in the middle ages! ---'Ji Okune'. My ambition here is to ponder why Odero Jowi became a pariah. It is a dangerous mission but a golden journey! I was thrown into a kind of dilemma. To ask the question why we forgot Odero Jowi: is it a Luo question or a Kenyan question? Then I thought there would be enough figures in Kenya whose erasure from public consciousness can equally well illustrate the circumstances which dictate the equivalent fates of the of Odero Jowi's. However within Luoland, his banishment to the Siberia of memory would be a much more worthwhile endeavour for that culture and political practice. What sin did this illustrious man commit!?Then I could not make up my mind whether to place him in the Ideological faultlines thread, or this vermin thread. so I tossed a coin for the decider. here is some import from the man himself, frank about the undercurrents which contributed to his feet not holding hold in the waters Nyanza politics. This is what my father told me. A ruthless fisherman who expressed himself with clarity. 'Odero giri kata riek, to gin gik mitiyogo kaka malaya milayee to ikadho!' --For all his big brains, Odero is a thing for use and discard like a who-re to urinate upon and pass!' I rest my case!
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 23, 2015 21:07:46 GMT 3
WATCH OUT FOR THE RICOCHET!THIS IS A SHOT ACROSS YOUR BOW TOO, AGWAMBO]There is a dangerous sting in the dying wail of the fallen Anne Waiguru. It is the venom an erinye howling for vengeance. And it is Raila Odinga I have to warn of it. First there is the good news: Anne Waiguru by moving directly into Kibera to make a show case of Raila's failures, by mobilising the NYS to do in a few days, what Raila could not do as area Mpig in a decade, picked a jagged mountain to climb in a landscape where many a hill beggared conquest. Such Herculean feats are better undertaken without Public Relations Firms as the leading lights. Anne Waiguru was a mere PR firm puppet, primed for stunt. That she has thudded to the ground in such a humiliated, emotionally broken (high blood pressure), mentally diminished (she wants deployment to lighter duties), adds mystique to the aura of The Enigma. You have to be more than a hype to lock down Raila Odinga in such mundu-khu-mundu fashion. Many have gone for Raila's jugular, even Musalia Mudavadi, only to end up in Agwambo's wardrobe of collected skulls. Anne Waiguru now, joins that tragic lot. And twinkle-eyed Mutahi Ngunyi grins all the way to and from the banks! Now the bad news. If a colossus like Anne Waiguru, super cabinet minister, Gikuyu princess code-named Mumbi, political mover in mount Kenya due to the patronage power of a giant ministerial incumbency, and, to top it all up, Uhuru Kenyatta's rumoured agile 'squeeze' --to use a Miguna Miguna euphemism, has been cut down because of allegations of high level corruption, what does Raila himself think the fate of his own darlings in Nyanza should be? Can an instinctive, battle-hardened warrior like Agwambo miss the lesson between the lines? In his home turf politics of Siaya, I heard the chairman of PAC who would know, Nicholas Gumbo, insisting the Raila Siaya man Cornel Rasanga had spent 20M on a trip to a Tanzanian inauguration. And that is just the tip of the iceberg, if we remember the rolling accusations at the same from Raila's other cousin, Gem Jakoyo Midiwo. At one time Rasanga was nearly lynched at Yala Gem. In Kisumu, we have his Excellency Jack Ranguma, the hotelier and permanent hotel guest at public cost, whose monthly taxi bills would pay the once (disconnected) Russia hospital water bill many years over. And, talking of Uhuru Kenyatta's reluctance to fight corruption in state, Raila himself is sleeping on the Ong'wen report which detailed a regime of graft in Kisumu whose savagery in intent is no less than the one Waiguru presided over, gracefully in Nairobi. Raila's sister is of course Ranguma's deputy. Her attempts to dissociate herself from the rot in Kisumu have come to naught. If Ouru has sacrificed his squeeze or alleged mpango wa kando, can Agwambo sacrifice his sister!? -Lucky Agwambo he has no pressure to act on ODM corruption at home. But looking at the way the party grassroots elections went, all these calm could be the one talked of as the one before the storm. On the other hand, it is a tribute to Ouru's slow political wits, and possibly proof of his personal aggrandisement by corruption, that when he accuses the opposition of kelele mingi --and he does this every weekend and every opportunity, be it in a church or at a rally, the president never points to the obvious data of corruption in opposition areas. He never says, 'there is a speck in my eyes and I may have cloudy vision, but it remains better than the cataracted focus of the opposition!' The only explanation I can think of for this omission is personal insecurity controlling the head of state. Throwing stones while in a glass house is foolish work, they say. And not without reason. There are cans of worms one does well to leave alone, if ones own house is really the den, and breeding nest of the worms. Uhuru Kenyatta is too conflicted on this issue to deliver a good punch. He is scared sh!tless of the counter attack. (This is no place to mention his mate the Singh!)The two competing royal houses of Kenya, are that rotten. And thus the truce. Controlled fencing. That is good for them. Dynasts. Ritual mock games. How about for Luo Nyanza!? First an idea how highly visible the speck in the eye of the other is! My opinion is that for us, Jokanyarnam, this Ouru-Raila parley is equivalent to a slow sipping of the Fatal Hemlock. For our community this is paralysis. This obviously corrupt bureaucracy running Nyanza is social poison. The political air we breathe is stale, the calibre of ODM administrators off side. (you saw them saying ID's should be produced at funerals before meals are served!). For his part Raila is truly an old dog who wont learn new tricks. He can only run on old ones, and those of course are quite and arsenal, only they are more folklorish now than futuristic. He wont get rid of the rotten courtiers around him. Their sycophancy pleases his heart best, their corruption no doubt his pocket friendliest. This means so long he lives we are stuck like Zimbabue with Mugabe, once a great man but now a dead weight. The bottom line, in crystallised thinking presented without emotion, is, it is best for Luoland if The Emir dies off. I Can't see him retiring. In the old days before renaissance, the classic solution ever recommended by sages was a ritual killing. A priest of the cult issued the religious edict --the kind of thing they call a fatwah in Islamic scholarships. How many precedents are there in history of such a scenario, of an almighty, 'divine King' who blocked social progress finding himself dead? -I guess that is what is also called secularism, when God and religious worship were reduced to private affairs. Well, in some continents the emergence of secular states took decades of civil war. (And Oliver Cromwell chopped off the head of a monarch (Charles I of England 1625-1649), only for the planarial thing to regerminate in the aftermath of the chaos!) That is how deep the Enigma cult runs, and why birds of the night like Waiguru flutter in high pitch squeaks, before thudding dead like Icarus who flew too high on wax wings. And Kikuyus who already want to treat the Muthamaki as lame duck, beware how deep the roots of Divine Kings run! If one is not a conviction republican, stay in line! -The royalists exhumed Cromwell's rotting body, tried the wormy skeleton, found it guilty of treason, sentenced it to two consecutive death sentences, and saw to justice. So the corpse was hanged, and thereafter beheaded. Even ISIS has not reached that one yet!
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 6, 2015 18:54:48 GMT 3
Oh OH HOMABAY YAWA! Young Turks yawa,But first, a long introduction: BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, or old dogs do not learn new tricks, hard they try? Raila Odinga is positioning himself as the defender of public monies. And, howbeit, is succeeding. He is on a mission to expose and eradicate the looters at the treasury. Good work. It does not matter the colour of the cat, the age of the dog, so long it catches the mice, pounces on the thieves. Good and well, even if the the hunter himself, and his entourage, thinking of Weta, do not ooze the best fragrances in the forest. There is a dark lesson here for young and aspiring politicians on either side. Agwambo has been around a while. He is a veteran. In fact he has been high in government too, ministerially, and even rose to the rank of Prime Minister and supervisor of cabinet. Comical titles but that is for another day --(Kibaki was one day annoyed enough to tell him to get a real job since that supervisor sh!t he knew was an empty shell!) Anyway, when a man has such a long track record in public like Tinga, he can be assessed. He has nowhere to hide. But a non-biased, tough and un-emotional evaluation of such a controversial figure in his life time, is a tall order; and in Kenya, where vision is clouded by a host of mental cataracts, it is perhaps an impossible task. For instance, Kenya is a country where being circumcised or not can be used as a criteria by serious people to judge ones capacity to understand how the state works. It is a detraction of course, but it reveals the depths of emptyheadedness in the national discourse in ones country, and, mayie yie nyara, why ones country stays a colony for so long. Me? when it comes to marking Raila, I think I am disciplined and ruthless enough to give it a sobered go on chosen aspects, like this corruption thing. Here, the tragedy is not the hypocrisy of Agwambo, nor his politicisation of the subject, nor the high possibility of mere lip service; nay, not even the point that his chief interest is the political mileage he can gain on Uhuroto's Jubilee. Ooyo da, the tragedy is, and it is a national one, that the young generation of politicians are so useless, so impotent, so morally base, that it is still the old soldier with all his debilitating scars and wounds and comical ring dances, whose routine is the most riveting in town. He is still the bull who sends challengers, however young, eyeing the ring with trepidation. His war dance is not mere theater. His pull no mere Public relations. When he draws his sword in the arena, the Roman crowd knows the sharp of its reflection could soon be dimmed by a crimson coat. The existence of this vacuum which necessitates an old soldier can not just fade away, is the national tragedy. For it is when Raila follows it up that the Waigurus and Rotichs face up to common sense. Otherwise they are too arrogant, conceited in impunity, self-righteous and beyond accountability. (here I should problably tell an anecdote i heard on a day Kibaki lost it with Mwiraria: he went to John Michuki instead. --see foonote)For the sake of argument let us say Dr. Alfred Mutua is an example of Kenya's future. He is dashing, stylish, and his governorship, give and take, is making tongues wag. Yet there is something obviously fake about the man. He made a reputation out of selling mirages, Goebbels, and at a time when the nation is faced with the corruption menace, and undeniably so, Alfred Mutua is quieter than a dead dik. Need more need be said. Let us say, for the sake of argument, that Peter Kenneth is an example of Kenya's future. He is development conscious, is suave and ambitious, and having already ran for president, he definitely has a very high opinion of himself. Yet when the nation faces its greatest crises, our star and future saviour is a tortoise head shrunken back in its shell. Kenneth has no worthwhile opinion on anything. He may think that is slick wily. The best way to keep everybody a friend is to have no comment. Even on child rape. And again for the sake of argument, let us characterise William Ruto as the most formidable of his generation. A considered look returns a disturbing picture. He is the personification of kleptocracy. And kleptocracy is the evil which now, even Muigai K., whose father made keep being an ace kleptocrat, has finally admitted is a national security issue. This indicates William Ruto is a man who needs an ideological rebirth. Born-again Christian wont do. It also means that, even if Raila is corrupt -see Miguna Miguna, the old sod still wins because he is the lesser evil to William Ruto who is a prospective Mobutist rot.This is the horror of the young generation of gladiators. Bluffers. An infirmness in their challenge all too apparent. The attempt to cover this up with sophisticated spin doctoring or public relations fails for the simple reason that, while minds can be manipulated, reality unchanged can not be lied to. There has to be action, human action. In reality, an old (repentant) thief chasing away young thieves besieging the granary is still better than young warriors in the homestead calculating whether they should repel the thieves or join in the looting! With no young warrior standing up tall with spear and shield, and passion's honour, to be counted a defender of Wanjiku's purse, then old soldiers must rise to the task, bellow a battle roar and charge ward off the looters. Consider this: what do the young warriors say!? They will sack the speaker who allowed the story to come out! Meanwhile, thick and fast the sacks of ill loot from the treasury are rolling out in the public place. here is another And here now is the beauty of the situation in drama. It is still a tragi-comedy, but it is evolving toward a full tragedy. Pay attention to how the young Turks, the futures of the republic, react to Raila Odinga. Young Professor Kindiki of the Kenyan senate (the senate which the enlightened consensus is now that it should be disbanded) already advised his students to ignore the noise-maker Odinga. let us pause on the title professor. And give it a think in this case. My verdict: (mano nyaroya ma kata nyangeta mage kende pok ochako kuot, pogo koda odhako koda odichwo tek, we bedo rwath mondi). ---That is the cry of a calf not yet anatomically differentiated as to whether it will be a heifer or a bull. No let us see other would-be challenger bulls. Is there steel in their roar? or all they shed is but impotent seed? And believe it or not, there are enough young Turks capapble of echoing that kind of hysterical spurt. But it is not yet april fools day all round. I talk of native wit. At this rate, Raila Odinga still has his work cut out for him! The calibre of forge of the young warriors is bendy metal, and they wield rubber in a historical game of millions. And that was just introduction to tackling Nyanza which is where I come from and was going in the first place. HOMA BAY MAKES A MESS OF ITSELF ONCE AGAIN.Once upon a time, there was talk of a rebellion by young Turks within the ODM. Evans Kidero was even an alternative. The pretenders would storm the court and induct a republican coup. Now, all that talk is dead. Most of the young Turks are involved in business deals which rank them any thief one cares to mention. Others have been proven to have been accepting handouts, even from the NYS, and bribes, on how to vote in parliament, eg against Ababu Namwamba. But the spectacular failure is in organisation, poverty in modernisation of the popular party; instead they have fallen wholesale into the trap of rigging in grassroots elections, which is another way of sabotaging Raila Odinga's quests! Wanga and Kaluma apart, with Osele and his brigands apart; the ideological statement is the vindication of Mwai Kibaki, or those who rigged elections for him. In principle, the likes of Kaluma and Wanga and the Nyanza ODM fraternity (why exclude the city with its Men in Black shows?) are carbon-copy (these days we say clones) non-believers in electoral arbitration of social conflict.We will go for universal suffrage but only if we control the results! Does not matter what you vote, we get the result we want. This is a time bomb. It has always been a time bomb. Thwarting the peoples will, requires a ruthless monopoly of violence. Otherwise you will have anarchy. But the competition is healthy. It reminds me of the tales of violence I heard from my father narrating the KANU-KADU face off just before independence in 1963. Later it emerged again as KANU-KAPU (KPU) briefly before KPU was banned in 1966. I am not sure Wanga and Kaluma have followed this history. No problem, others are doing it. KIBAKI FOOTNOTE ANECDOTE: Mwiraria and Michuki on the former's resignation day.
Kibaki refuses to speak to Mwiraria and summons Michuki instead. 'You thieving goat, I told you to manage the appetites of these kids. You loose the leash they enter every pot!' Michuku glares at Kibaki. He never liked Kibaki calling him a goat, much less a thieving goat. But my sources say he never challenged Kibaki on it. Just like Evans Gicheru never challenged Kibaki when the Othaya joker tapped him queried: 'duly elected you said!?''
Only Njenga Karume could find his tongue in such moments.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 8, 2016 20:53:34 GMT 3
WHERE IS RANGUMA'S DIGNITY, WHERE IS RANGUMA'S HEAD?
Kisumu is the capital city of Luoland. But there is something stale at the heart of the leading Luo county, and nothing in the head of her governor. Listening to Jack Ranguma speaking before president Uhuru Kenyatta, I had to think of Miguna Miguna with his scathing anti-caliphate missive of yonder. Therein did he really tear into the epidemic of mediocrity which, in his opinion, Raila had enveloped the leadership of Luoland within.
How be it came to pass the youth saw it fit to boo the visitor Muigai and not local Jack!
I am afraid governor Ranguma proved a rivet-fit in that paradigm of mediocrity which the man from Nyando had discerned as the import of the Amollo captaincy.
1. revive Kicomi 2. repair roads 3. Uplift/refurbish Russia hospital. 4. launch breweries. (5. revive Mumias!!!) --so went the wish-list of the leading Luo governor.
The stupidity involved in this is mind-boggling.
KICOMI collapsed because farmers stopped growing cotton. Farmers stopped growing cotton because the COTTON LINT AND SEED MARKETING BOARD did not take them seriously. 1. Seed came late (after the season had escaped as the saying goes). 2. Weighing machines were tampered with, such that kilos were cut. 3. The meager payments came years late, and deductions galore, unexplained. 4. poor storage infrastructure (cotton sheds) led to horrible quality at millers, whereupon the price again plummeted! Meanwhile on the other side of the world, the Asian tigers upped the clothes business and killed off all in-efficient competitors elsewhere globally. And just like Kenyan sugar is more expensive than Brazilian sugar at the doorstep, so too did we miss the boat in the clothing industry. Asking Uhuru Kenyatta to use tax-payer's money to revive that skeleton looks dead minds. If some private investor sees profit in it, fine if the county want to partner such. But the state, again!? Naah!
UHURU REFURBISH RUSSIA?
While Ranguma was holed up in a hotel paying hundred thousand per month and Russia's water supply was cut!?
And Auditor General apart, is it not on public record, that RAO himself was presented with an own party authoritative audit documentation, detailing the massive graft within the Kisumu adminstration? I think Jukwaa-part-time member Ong'wen was in the audit committee and certified the damning report. And now here is the man who presides over such rot holding out his hand for Ouru to drop some coins in it, again!
Yawa! Rombo en rombo! Kata wachake Gavana!
What mentality is this in Kisumu leadership? Is this what we call wich-diny? Is this what we call wich-pi, wich-ng'ich!? Is this an affliction better coded under encephalotrophy? (diminished mental prowess as a result of trauma) now let us for argument's sake, assume these leaders are debatable, where debatable means one can exchange some intelligent thought and talk with them. Young men like Osele of Kabondo, Ken Obura, Outa of Nyando, Gumbo of Rarieda: when the Luo coterie of young Turks accuse far-off Jubilee in Nairobi of corruption, is it a question of selective amnesia, or it is just that these Luo boys do not have it at all: the faculty of reflection.
I think this is what Miguna called mediocrity! What a hole we are in, and digging! OKOA SISI YAYE YESU!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 16, 2016 22:01:25 GMT 3
SOME LAYERS OF THE FAUSTION BARGAIN UNVEILEDThe Kenya run by the comprador bourgeoisie is of course a carcass for hounds. Elsewhere, I opted every of the major and (sub major ethnic) entities ever rivalling for state power, has decided to delegate a master hyena to the arena of scavengery. The Gikuyu Muthamaki who currently doubles as the head of the central state, of course comes from the first family of looting. The credentials of Jomo Kenyatta in the business of primitive accumulation are indisputable. For starters, the deaths of famous Gikuyus opposed to his grafty mode, men like JM Kariuki, are ascribed to Kenyatta 1's court. So there is no need to pull any punches where Uhuru Kenyatta comes from as the richest Kenyan. ---Power, murder, plunder, raw. The Orkoiyot of Nandiland and current Kalenjin Paramount, is the legendary hustler Samoei Singh. This last part or unusual epithet to his name --the Kalasinga afterfix, is a distinction earned because of his prowess at graft and related handlings. He is a formidable hyena, with formidable jaws and drive. A glutton supremo. The Jaluos, waking up to the fact that their gladiator of choice, Da Ker Madit Agwambo, is a fading hyena of broken teeth if at all any sabre remains in the dental row, have nakedly fled from any pretensions of decency, and have invested their hope in the awesome hyena, Evans Kidero. From the look of things, it is a worthy choice. A man who can buy a whole supreme court to write his favourite ruling is of some calibre. That is second to Uhuru Kenyatta who, disputed elections again, had movers who also cowered the Wily Mutunga infant court into affirming him duly elected, all in a second of evidence shifting. --Some will remember that day Nairobi was as locked down as Kampala was a few weeks ago when Museveni was duly announced winner of whatever it was that went on there. Elections they were not. But I was just revising background, putting things in competitive perspective. In this thread I am not too worried with the choices of other nationalisms. If hyenas serve their interests best, so be it. But if the hyena is, in customary greediness, eyeing the entrails of Nyanza too, then the argument will be cross. But now let me take a bad-eyed look at the Great Luo Hope (B6k terminology! -where is the rogue by the way!) I am not surprised. I used to be a fan of the man long ago, until I ran in to some Luo rogue scholar. He told me Kidero being my in-law, I had eaten so much pes-yawuowi (dowry) that I had gotten into the habit of thinking with my stomach. 'Omera, kawga paro e kido mar ng'at ma nochamo rech e dongo mare!' he scolded. (Eating too much sh!tty fish can lead to fishy brains with very sh!tty thinking, Omera!' I recall many that years ago: Now, on --Amilcar Cabral's---- being divorced from ones historical identity, the emergence of Dr. Susan Mboya as a conduit -an accomplice in the corruption of her darling hyena ranks as one of the greatest perverse make-overs of recent Luo history. This is Tom's daughter here, needing crooked lawyers to have crooked judges issue crooked orders barring investigations into her bank accounts! She has stuff to hide and transparency is her enemy. She couldn't fall any further from her historical identity. She is a full mutant. And given that her husband can afford ksh. 200M in bribes and still be richer than Burundi, her deal with the devil can not be discounted outright. It has its charms. A -Goethe--Faustian bargain. Mephistopheles Offering His Help to Faust Let professor Podp give us a multi-layered reading! My opinion is this pact with the devil is a dead end. Let us hope for Deux ex Machina. It is a fairy tale after all!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 27, 2016 10:57:41 GMT 3
THE OKOA ISSUE EXPOSES THE MERCENARY LUO COMPRADOR ROT ONCE AGAIN
Let us talk a bit about the professional Luo vermin too, I mean the technically proficent wing licing around CORD in Nairobi. How much of mercenary saboteurs are they to the current pet project?
We will do a classical sociology of the middle class later, for an all round historical perspective. But first, local politics. The only politics.
The Nairobi star this Easter Weekend has a reconstruction of the mess at the ODM secretariat which distilled into the OKOA-KENYA fiasco. The case of the disqualified bogus signatures, or scapegoat version, Jubilee chicanery in concert with a compromised, chicken-addicted IEABC.
Here is the case as made by the leading county newspaper, or meat-wrap material as the paper magnates Uhuru Kenyatta and his pal The Agha Khan would have them. The (IEABC) Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, which Raila has now vowed to destroy, issued this equivocationRhinos and one-person repeated signatures! --Of course one can get away with that in Kenya, but that is if it will be the Kenya police or, more specifically, Ndegwa Muhoro's CDI to verify the signatures. But if it is the IEABC armed with BVR kits, then bewarned a minimum of competence at forgery will be advisable, chicken curry not withstanding.
And the lack of this professional courtesy, the lack of this minimum of professional decorum, or effort called COMPETENCE, (and I am setting the bar low talking about minimum standards of competence), has to be the real bone of contention. And it is what Raila will not face.
CAREY OREGE AND PAUL MBOYA. (NEGLIGENCE OR SABOTAGE?) --Rhino drawings for signatures? huh?
Those are two big Luo professional names. It will be important to explain, within Luo nationalism itself, why they have made such giant fool of themselves professionally, and of Raila Odinga politically. This will not be possible without a political economic and philosophical understanding of the comprador as an ideological system. Unless we assume the duo are just plain embeciles.
Comprador mentality, while technically at par with the world's best, will always underperform. This is why in materialist critique the comprador are dubbed INFANTILE.
1. Njoroge (CBK) and Rotich (Finance) are as good and as educated as one can get to run any Finance ---same schools as the Obamas, Hilary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mario Draghi (ECB,
the whole Wall Street empire elite. But put in charge of finance in Nairobi, a mere $52 bn on pimped-up figures, they are babies of whom the IMF and the World Bank ever hold their hands with this or other imported technical advisory team.
Even peanuts like a 2bn Euro bond windfall is outside their accounting range. They are mentally vermin.
2. Nairobi Law School may boast of its pre-eminence in Africa and within the World's ranked 100 top law colleges. But Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto when indicted, and have public money to spend on the ICC, wont hire that garbage and scum from which the rotten Kenyan judiciary is recruited.
Serious jobs need serious people. The Uhuruto instinctively know.
3. China Roads and Bridges International, building all infrastructure in Africa at large, wont hire even a local engineer to design a simple bridge, let alone a fly-over. I am told they first inspected all the works done by our local engineers ---Tarram roads which preceded the famous one of Machakos done under governor Mutua. The Chinese found out that, while trained at the best colleges from Germany to South Africa, Kenyan engineers will short-change materials so that they can re-sell them or put up their own mansions. First big rain and there will be no highway to speak of.
This self-defeatism is the mode of the comprador consciousness. This hatred, self-mutilation of the own nation is their psychological joy. They possess a keen sense of betraying the professional code and ethics of their trade; always delivering corrupt, substandard work is their life blood. This is why under the comprador captaincy, post independence Africa run a ground, entered debt servitude, betrayed her people and failed to industrialise.
Now back to the Luo ground and local politics. We have comprador Orege and comprador Mboya in charge of the OKOA business. Top calibre fish one would say, and how else to disagree, CV going rates! But, no, not how be it, but true to vermin form they do deliver, a nightmare. Rhino signatures!
I am happy I am not emotionally invested in the project. Because if I were, I would physically (organise a manamba squad) and smash Orege and Mboya into intensive care unit. Charge: desecrating an Agwambo in public. Making Tinga a public fool and ridiculous buffoon. That is how I understand power. You fwack up, you get fwacked. But now I laugh. Rhino signatures! hilarious!
Raila too, true to form, looks elsewhere to apportion the blame. Hilarious!
A cycle of vermin, is another vicious one too. O yes they did! I am sure Brian Odhiambo too did, loose control of the 'initial stages', and Namuye too, leading to the fraud of 1bn from the Youth Fund and the murder of driver Mwangi.
But that aside for now. The secretariat of the Big Luo professional boys Orege and Mboya fought turf wars over the control of millions while AGENTS LACKED FACILITATION!
I know that story, I heard it before. It is a formula! --template we say! CORD AGENTS in some areas during the elections of 2013, had to beg for transport, food and drink and, in some cases, lodging from their Jubilee counterparts. The Cord electoral secretariat had defrauded the agents of FACILITATION. Both cash and pick-ups.
If this machinery limbering for power can not organise food, boarding and lodge for their field agents, how would they even conceive of an independent BVR verification software, to detect multiplier vectors in IEBC transmissions, rigging results? Not that there are no MIT (Massachusetts) grade software Engineers within CORD! But give them the job, they follow the template, or leaders who, one for one, are top looters.
While the Nyanza electorate is hystericalised (maniacally charged) to register to vote and elect the Project, and they do with heart in the whole, bar a few cynics like yours truly, the LUO professional class most slated to benefit from the patronage and state largesse in the event a successful launch of the project, seem to excel at sabotaging Raila's chances. There is no opportunity they had they did not exploit to make a fool of Agwambo. Whether it is ODM primaries in HomaBay, whether it is the short list of candidates in Siaya (think Rasanga and Oduol), whether it is the election of branch officials (think Kaluma vs Wanga), there is always a men-in-black mess.
Even the simple fact of issuing certificates to winners of contests, Orange House becomes an auctioneers den.
A look at the educational levels of the men running these ODM-LUO scams, a look at their official technical proficiency, returns a staggering awe -in admiration. But put them to work, then is the actual performance also a staggering awe ---this time in horror at the corruption-induced incompetence and mayhem. And so top engineer Carey Orege and top logistician Mboya are just our latest exemplification of the phenomenom, coming hot in the heels of Bryan Odhiambo, the Waiguru protege post Gor Semelang'o.
Jubilee or Cord, vermin stays vermin.
Yes, greed is the equaliser of all such men, halleluia! And Raila Odinga with self-shot eggs all over his face, thinks the rot lies at the IEBC. Okay, they ate chicken there. But Raila may want to bare more than a fang or two at the dogs under his table who eat all the chicken wings and drumsticks and parts, leaving not even tripe for real cord warriors on the ground. The collapse of OKOA due to insider corruption and fighting is a parable. And an omen. But may be the dear leader is past simple things like common sense. Old dogs have a saying about them.
Tinda adong adong arom gi bao man kanera.
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Post by podp on Mar 28, 2016 5:58:51 GMT 3
THE OKOA ISSUE EXPOSES THE MERCENARY LUO COMPRADOR ROT ONCE AGAIN Let us talk a bit about the professional Luo vermin too, I mean the technically proficent wing licing around CORD in Nairobi. How much of mercenary saboteurs are they to the current pet project? We will do a classical sociology of the middle class later, for an all round historical perspective. But first, local politics. The only politics. The Nairobi star this Easter Weekend has a reconstruction of the mess at the ODM secretariat which distilled into the OKOA-KENYA fiasco. The case of the disqualified bogus signatures, or scapegoat version, Jubilee chicanery in concert with a compromised, chicken-addicted IEABC. Here is the case as made by the leading county newspaper, or meat-wrap material as the paper magnates Uhuru Kenyatta and his pal The Agha Khan would have them. [/i] [/quote]Rhinos and one-person repeated signatures! --Of course one can get away with that in Kenya, but that is if it will be the Kenya police or, more specifically, Ndegwa Muhoro's CDI to verify the signatures. But if it is the IEABC armed with BVR kits, then bewarned a minimum of competence at forgery will be advisable, chicken curry not withstanding. And the lack of this professional courtesy, the lack of this minimum of professional decorum, or effort called COMPETENCE, (and I am setting the bar low talking about minimum standards of competence), has to be the real bone of contention. And it is what Raila will not face. CAREY OREGE AND PAUL MBOYA. (NEGLIGENCE OR SABOTAGE?) --Rhino drawings for signatures? huh? Those are two big Luo professional names. It will be important to explain, within Luo nationalism itself, why they have made such giant fool of themselves professionally, and of Raila Odinga politically. This will not be possible without a political economic and philosophical understanding of the comprador as an ideological system. Unless we assume the duo are just plain embeciles. Comprador mentality, while technically at par with the world's best, will always underperform. This is why in materialist critique the comprador are dubbed INFANTILE.1. Njoroge (CBK) and Rotich (Finance) are as good and as educated as one can get to run any Finance ---same schools as the Obamas, Hilary Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Mario Draghi (ECB,
the whole Wall Street empire elite. But put in charge of finance in Nairobi, a mere $52 bn on pimped-up figures, they are babies of whom the IMF and the World Bank ever hold their hands with this or other imported technical advisory team. Raila too, true to form, looks elsewhere to apportion the blame. Hilarious! A cycle of vermin, is another vicious one too. here you too went off mark on one or so issues. let us start with the signatures submitted to IEBC, to assist us do away with the first two red high lights. a fb friend told me 'First, there is no requirement for authentication of one million signatures or even one single signature. Even if that requirement existed, IEBC cannot and does not have the ability and technology to even authenticate one single signature. Existing signature verification technologies only check for signature authenticity by generating a confidence score against the signature to be verified. Confidence scores do not give a 100% accuracy, which would invalidate any results before any court. Also, to do this, a database of existing signatures would be required. The Integrated Population Registry System of Kenya, the primary platform and data store for all government agencies with regards to persons in Kenya does not have stored images of people's signatures. The electoral commission is only required to verify that the initiative is supported by at least one million registered voters. IEBC can do this by comparing the IDs of the persons provided by Okoa Kenya against the IEBC database of registered voters. In the presence of an electronic version of the list provided by Okoa Kenya, this exercise is a simple database query and does not require 10 minutes to implement and execute. IEBC has not done this and therefore does not have any basis to reject or accept the list provided." that not withstanding somewhere in yesterday or the previous day Nation newspaper there was this article Just look at the mess they made of the Okoa Kenya initiative! Maybe, just maybe, if they do go immediately, one day, we Kenyans will get to hold free and fair elections which have eluded us for the past five decades. Probably, the folk at the new electoral commission will be able to count signatures competently so that anyone who wants to hold a referendum can do so without having to worry whether the required numbers add up. It shouldn’t matter whether some of the signatures resemble stray duikers in the bush. Under the Constitution, people have a right to sign their names any way they like. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/IEBC-has-messed-up-badly-and-officials-should-be-sent-packing/-/440808/3133966/-/wp70rez/-/index.htmladditionally still on same topic Barack Muluka had this to say The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman, Isaack Hassan asks rhetorically, “How can you question our integrity and at the same time seek our services?” This question does not need an answer. For, the answer is implied within the question. “We will not give you the services you crave, if you question our integrity.” www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/article/2000196113/outbursts-of-anger-won-t-restore-iebc-s-credibilityand last from the horses own mouth "The commission has no power, real or imagined to verify the authenticity of the signatures as do to so would be ultra vies. It is a clear manifestation that IEBC is a joke of a commission that does not comprehend the enormity of the constitutional responsibility bestowed on it," said Magaya. Magaya claimed that the week preceding the announcement by IEBC that the initiative had been thrown out, some of its commissioners called the leadership of Okoa Kenya to communicate that the initiative had met the threshold and they were in the process of preparing the transmission to county assemblies. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000196319/cord-defends-itself-on-fake-signatureson last red high light we all think serious rain started beating RAO when he was serving under the gnus make government. when he got rid of Miguna Miguna and to date he still peddles the line MM is insane he will remain delusional. even now the Church leaders are telling RAO what to do and if you can see the picture on this story it leaves no doubt on who are the biggest liabilities for RAO in the Luo nation but will the vermin be cast aside? Church leaders and Luo elders openly criticised a section of CORD MPs, questioning their stand and contributions in the National Assembly and the Senate and warned Raila that he needed better performers to check Jubilee administration. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000196322/shake-off-sycophants-to-win-in-2017-raila-toldotherwise on Jubilee side they are busy locking their vermin in Siberia without the cold associated with it as devolution ministry alone could have seen Waiguru preside over in excess of 10 billion stolen during her tenure and it is obvious Mwangi Kiunjuri will continue that 'rich' legacy the Matriarch began on the last red high light we read from the same page to quote the late Nigerian novelist, China Achebe from his little book "The Trouble with Nigeria" and this can be said to be our trouble too.... "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership. We have lost the twentieth century; are we bent on seeing that our children also lose the twenty-first? God forbid!” according to George Ayitteh this is the Internalises view which most of your posting here adhere to unlike the attitude of most of our elites who for decades embrace the externalist view.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 28, 2016 10:12:04 GMT 3
Prof Podp,The version you would rather I endorse is the alternative, scapegoat one here Jubilee chicanery in concert with a compromised IEABC. I was thinking given the clear history of contested public participation (democratic?) events (otherwise called elections), anybody organising what the incumbent government abhors in Africa would not be under any illusions about the disposition of power. ---Kagame's response in Rwanda is murder, M7 teargasses to blindness, and the rest. In Kenya, another citadel of rigging to the point of ritual, If I were an organiser of popular initiative like this, I would start from the common sense position it would be an all-out Jubilee bag of tricks to derail OKOA. I wouldn't want to raise the alarm when the horse has bolted, nor drum a frenzy when my house is already gutted. The issue, I would think, is the proof of genuineness of a mere 1.5M voters. Time scale, 3 months. I happen to know the MPESA platform verifies transactions of more than 15 million Kenyans a day. The total number of transactions verified per day can be over 50 million, covering up to, as a percentage of GDP, x%. -Figure is available from bureau of statistics. Bingo, verification is ABC technology! The point is, a technologically functional if not fool-proof system already exists to verify the identity of 1.5m people in 10 minutes. That is the turbo end. Snail's pace should then be a week's manhours work. Price? The computer CPU units and software complications running these calculations and stuff are decent mobile phone prices. A logistician connects the technology to the problem. And solves the issue of genuineness of the 1.5M names. Now, lawyers can argue whether the verifications systems used by banks and Mpesa are not constitutional as far as the IEABC is concerned. The Kenya judiciary being a medallist were corruption to be an Olympic sport, and the Nairobi lawyers and leading law firms proved to be nothing but money laundering houses for stolen public monies, I would be damned if I would put the future of an initiative like OKOA in their lairs to argue forever. It would sheepherding Wanjiku into a hyenas den. And that is what CORD has done. Podp, the illegality of hieroglyphic symbols --rhino feet or tie-gueno as signatures aside, (aren't the Luos the inheritors of Old Egypt? wherefore the judicial ostracisation of fishbone or maize tassles as valid signature in Kenya is cultural repression), the organisation of the referendum was a comprador process internally rigged from the start. Why did not the legal department of CORD face down IEABC before hand on the predictable hitches? That is a mental strategic loophole which Jubilee is correct to punish with ridicule.The real danger however comes from elsewhere. It is a public secret CORD could not have failed to garner 1.5M genuine voter signatures. The chicken-sh!tting IEABC has therefore tricked herself into a corner where her announcements on the coming general election are, before hand, invalid in the court of public opinion. If CORD wins, Jubilee wont take Hassan's word. If Jubilee wins, CORD wont take Hassan's word. There is a building dynamic of credibility running out. That is the looming national disaster, not that signatures are fake. Top Sleuth Ndegwa Muhoro, the chief of CID, I keep on reminding folks, wouldn't know a fake signature from a bonafide with all the high-tech he has. Do you really think Safaricom or Equity bank, by a fraud case however minor or big, would swear in court with a Ndegwa Muhoro certificate? IEABC is chickensh!t. There are things you use chicken dung for, there are other things you don't. That is if one is an adult. Tough times ahead.
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Post by Horth on Mar 28, 2016 19:45:17 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, Howdy. A couple of questions about your assumptions: 1. Did the CORD brigade really go out and collect all the purported signature? You see, there are strong rumors that the CORD chaps responsible for organizing the signature collection decided to organize first for their wallets i.e. the funds allocated were eaten, Kenyan style. Robert Alai, a strong supporter of RAO, had this to say: RAO himself is said to have blasted his team. Source: www.news24.co.ke/MyNews24/you-are-embarrasing-me-raila-tells-cord-leaders-201603282.Using Safaricon data to verify users with a couple of computers (let's skip the ánnoying legal stuff like Safaricon cannot simply hand over the data to any institution they like, just like Equity can't without due process.). According to the IEBC (yeah, I know, not the most reliable government institution in Kenya but which one is, eh?), they were using the voter registry. Difference? I'm in the Safaricon database but I'm not a registered voter anymore (hey, you once blasted me for not voting for the new constitution?). If I had signed CORD's little booklet in exchange for a bottle of soda and two sausages, my name would have been struck out, n'est pas? Extract from the constitution: IEBC themselves declared that they were not verifying the signatures and had even accepted the, what was it, bull signature. Maybe next time CORD should insist that wanainchi use their voter card details when signing the little booklets.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 29, 2016 18:57:34 GMT 3
poapoa mazee. Horth, Let's see if I can clear this misunderstanding. I wouldn't suggest Safcom or Equity systems be used. What am saying, is that THE VERIFICATION OR CERTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY exists, is being used by others, and, importantly, cheap and quick. All you need is an expert logistician (George Mboya has proved fake) or the stuff they call process engineer (Orege too is fake) to develop an application modality. That is adapt the existent technology to the practical (OKOA list) problem, and solve. NB: Mpesa is a money transfer business. Which company on earth dealing with money would expose her customers to the known corruption of Kenyan political party operatives? It would be business suicide! NB: Kwani Raila only knew this month and this late that there was monkey business that he is now angry? And young Turks like Ababu Namwamba? Old Turks like James Orengo? ---ati they did not know neither? That would be great breaking news! Kikulacho kiko nguoni mwako
I think is the saying. CORD handed Jubilee the rope to get hanged with. Carey Orege and George Mboya: a Trojan Horse duo job I would say. No honour among hyenas.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 7, 2016 18:26:28 GMT 3
THE LESSON OF OCCUPIED MIGINGOThe Migingo crisis is a mirthless opportunity for us people of the lake to draw deep and take account of a painful moment. It can be summarised as the impotence of current Luo nationalism in Kenya. We are incapable of forging a solution to one of the basic needs of a people. Security and dignity.Luo nationalism is proven powerless in the face of a foreign aggression, an aggression which not only hives away traditional Luo territory, but also proceeds to treat the Luo people therein as litter, indeed lower cast creatures of no much concern. For this is what has happened in Migingo. It is a colonial situation. There is the fake narrative of us, people of the lake, blaming the central government of Uhuru Kenyatta. At the same time we know its far, far away in indifferent and ghastly corrupted Nairobi. This narrative is deluded because the Nairobi-based Kenyan political elite long ago showed their true colours. They washed their hands of the question, declaring Migingo too insignificant to be worth jeopardising the 'brotherly and commercially lucrative' relations with neighbouring Uganda. And that, they put across openly. The piece of lively rock surrounded by deep fish-rich and sweet waters, not to mention its 1000+ people of the lake atop, can be sacrificed for some bigger picture Kenya is painting. Can Luo nationalism swallow that narrative of willing sacrificial lamb and live with itself? I think not. But referencing Nairobi with respect to Migingo is therefore idle and empty mindedness. That is case closed. Over and out. Furthermore, if broad-based Kibaki$Raila did not consider the issue a priority, Jubilee with its tyranny of highland numbers can hardly be expected to. One would suspect Jubilee think-tanks even never have heard of Migingo! And I sincerely doubt SaggingBelly Mwathethe or Erratic General Nkaissery, or even NyarBondo Raychelle Omamo for that matter, would find Migingo on a google map of Homa Bay county! --if they ever heard of Homa Bay county in the first place! That puts paid to the idea of the state of Kenya as a party to petition in this affair. Dead end. Wamany yo machielo. But there is still a loophole to investigate, for it is important to exhaust all legal and paralegal highways before the most ruthless decisions are reached. I believe in due process, because i have been witness to unsurpassed cruelty in Africa. It left me thinking
hmmmm, if there is still another way about it, do it, even a united states of east africa! Otherside, I am thinking the state of Kenya these days has a two tier system. And that is a chance for a desperate dash at sanity. Just beneath the pomp and gory corruption headquartered in Nairobi, there is the upcoming infant on steroids ---steroids or some other hateful growth hormone. This is the county governments. The excellencies of these local governments are organised in the caucus of governors. in effect an alternative board of governors for Kenya Limited. There is lots of bad blood between the two levels, and we have seen the spooked central government in an attempt at dehorning the usurping monster, by launching a cash distribution (signed by the president into law) in which the county governments have been financially cheated, that is their slice of the cake reduced (to 15%). That is devolution is reduced to a provincial administration. The one of yester years! Such are the emissions from the turf wars between the centre and the periphery. We can therefore summarise like the far away provinces of China used to remark during the Yuan dynasty: heaven is high and the emperor is far away. So we do it our way! (Nairobi is far away and Uhuru Kenyatta even further! So we are alone!)But, if Nairobi is not worth a glance in this dire strait, the college of county governors may very well be the official body to petition, to cover diplomatic backs, should Cyprian Awiti of Homa Bay together with his fellow Luo Nyanza Zamunda excellences, decide to make a public move of more content than mere (2017 re-election populism) propaganda noises. Luo Nyanza governors are of course of a calibre shadier than Uhuru Kenyatta. That is thinking of what can fall under the heading: 'book keeping errors of Africa'!The Luo-Nyanza governors (because the annexed territory of Migingo is historically Luo Nyanza) as a constitutional collective of Solomons, can officially write to the chairman of the caucus of Kenyan governors, today Peter Munya of Meru, a letter of national security and emergency. To advise on the legal Solomonics would of course be the toughest legal crack team of Luo intelligentsia ever assembled ever since the one-man-think-tank of CMG Aguenge Kodhek towered in court. (sorry SM Otieno, you were a divorce lawyer in a period before a certain David Ndii corrupted the word!) Given, as far as Migingo is concerned, the treasonable, deliberate implosion of the possibly bribed Nairobi-based, central power structure; and given the incapacitation of the his Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta to discharge his oath of defending every inch of Kenyan territory, the vacuum so left to tackle thorns like Migingo can best be filled by the chairman of the caucus of Kenyan governors, currently Peter Munyua. To make matters more juicy, Peter Munya is a man of ambitions. Such politically coming men, even if only coming in their minds, can not afford an ostrich position in the face of advancing armies. They are obligated to be solution men, or even would-be solution men, a hero of historic proportions, forging a nation from a desperate and motley assembly of tribal savages dismembering a dysfunctional state So if this Peter is more serious than the other one, he can show his worth here. Sorting out Migingo and winning the Luo vote pants down. Championing our interests, to use the words of his locals. But what can Peter Munya do if officially contacted by the caucus of Luo governors?First thing after acknowledgement is of course to form a task force. The legal department of that task force rips the constitution apart looking for its maximum leverage in interpretation, when the chairman of the caucus has to become the defender of the nation, in the event of implosion of the central state. Yes, if warlike Tanzania or fiery Ethiopia wiped out the whole Kenyan leadership in one or two neat Nairobi surgical strikes, some toy Lootenant need not make an emergency announcement over the ether, declaring suspension of political protocol as per the gospels of the constitution! No, the chair of the governors is simply sworn in to take care of the shop until the -deep?--- mourning is over and (fake?) elections held. NB: The declaration of Lucy Kibaki into a saint has left me pondering the emotional economy of public Kenyan grief. There is something about our official communiques which makes me think of the words deep and fake in very close proximity. But that is may be a topic for the cultural thread. (But see, I already had a crack law student read the constitution for me on this scenario!) Uhuru gone, Ruto is sworn in. Ruto gone, Duale is sworn in. Duale gone, Justin Muturi is sworn in. Muturi gone, senate majority leader is sworn in. That one gone, senate speaker is sworn in. That one gone, leading governor is sworn in.(He he he! No deputies! Ati deputy majority leader sworn in to be president? Noo, that is when Soldiers will declare an emergency and take over the mess!) Power is a bad podium for a long-running comedy featuring genuine clowns! But back to Migingo. With the whole Nairobi hot shots alive but impotent or unwilling to do their part, the ball is in the court of the chairman of the caucus of governors. What else does he, or can he do with the official plea from them fishy governors of the omena-roasting shores? He does the basics of conflict resolution. He writes a letter to all the regional, continental and world bodies who deal with inter-state conflicts. The Court of East Africa, The African Union secretariat, The UN security council, The Arbitration court in the Hague, (remember the dispute between Cameroon and Nigeria over the Bakassi peninsular)I was thinking between them, Otiende Amollo and PLO Lumumba -jusst to mention a prominent lawyer from the lake, would have by now written a position paper on whether the Bakassi template is a precedent, or not. He Munya also invites the LSK by official letter, and all other professional organisations for documented and official input: COTU, CTU, FKE (federation of Kenyan employers), KNUT, Former Mau Maus association,
. The exhaustive list of organised Kenyans is quite long. And apologies and non acknowledgements are welcome. That is the diplomatic front of the game. On the miscellaneous front, the Nyanza governors can lobby the chairman of the governors to propose a vote. The vote of the whole college of governors to allow the caucus of Luo governors to pursue other avenues they see fit to self defend their turf. This is of course diplomatic cover for the internationalisation of the conflict. I checked the military complexity of destroying the Ugandan navy and airforce re-attack on Migingo. I found a site for mercenaries. 15-operationally maintained shoulder-held surface to air mobile missiles -STINGER?--- will ground the Uganda airforce forever. A handful of <80km precision range guns mounted along the shore lines of Homa Bay and hilly shores of Central Nyanza, not forgetting my own Mfangano beach-head, will increase the risks such that the Ugandan naval boats (canoes they are) will be flying white flags whenever they put to sea. I checked the going rates too for mercenaries --former IDF (Israeli), SADF (South Africa), FFL (Foreign legion). I found out Jack Ranguma's official monthly hotel bills are more expensive! And, actually, the fleet of heavy-duty fuel-guzzling SUV's bought by HomaBay county are, too, more howtizers than anyone in Africa needs! And of course I checked the price of artillery pieces! And it all took me three days hobby time. Because daytime I have to crush rock like everybody else in the labour treadmill for a pittance. But if the jiggerous M7 will not be removed from our toes, neither by Nairobi action nor by county action, what then? It means modern Kenyan Luo nationalism in the form in which its current captains manifest it, is in no position neither to defend territory nor her people from a foreign aggressor who is not particularly sophisticated. In other words, even a cheap enemy runs roughshod over us, Jokanyarnam. This realisation is the first step toward healing. Absorbing the full import of facts; Abandoning planet Denial, that is to be healthy, to start coping. When I look around Luoland, the comprador have resolved to mobilise popular opinion toward a consensus, that having Raila elected president of Kenya is the greatest national agenda. I am a dissenter. Raila is a very good leader of the opposition. He is more useful to Kenya keeping power in check, than inside power enjoying the trappings of graft. Even as he is tear-gassed and left tearful, power recognises it is playing a dangerous game. KANU blood types of no single reform genes in their make-up like Ruto and Uhuru may live to find out the humiliation of the hero of the second liberation in such fashion is one of those events which can unleash forces outside the narrative control of incumbency. --i remember the miscalculation in the Kibaki rigging by Kivuitu. People like Francis Kimemia and John Michuki were convinced only the Luos would rebel. But it was the Rift Valley which exploded hottest, and purged the Gikuyu with a venom 'outside the narrative control of incumbency!'. It is dangerous to believe only Raila wants the chicken-gate inebrieted IEBC out. Many Kenyans recognise a compromised election is bad news, and the IEBC would better be a case of the wife of Ceasar, however hot. Anyway, in my books, our biggest problem --and that our is not Kenyan but Luo---- is how to insure our territorial integrity and guarantee security of historical habitation (of Luoland Kenya) in the face of an imploded Nairobi politics. Yes, the elite has absconded from this elementary duty of statehood. Candidate Raila of course declared long ago Migingo is a worthless piece of rock not worth a war, therefore his election to the presidency does not change this fundamental problem of Luoland: defenselessness. They say a sitting duck? If warlike Magafuli takes thought Mfangano Island is in Tz --that it belongs to Luoland Tanzania, I can see president Raila Amollo saying: ' karibu ndugu yangu, I am not going to defend that island of witches! It is not worth a war with you, great man.' And so for the long term a new think must germinate. And will, beyond the ODM whose faculties to confront reality in Luo-Nyanza is delusional, and solutions fictional. Firimbi battalion while the fox is escaping with the chicken. NB: Last time I heard Raila promised to lead a swim to the Island to reclaim it. The Maximum Leader making jokes where a foreign power occupies by force a piece of his territorial backyard? Hmm, vermin.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 23, 2016 23:43:19 GMT 3
PROLOGUE 1: KIDERO GI NYAR MBOYAToward a Luo ( version of EACC) anti-corruption body because there is too much Raila okelo devolution wayako!? (The devolution brought by Raila is an obscene festival of indulgent looting by the Nyanza bureaucracy! Goes a popular song.) First a glimpse of the abstract for perspective: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is how it is called in Nigeria, and under Buhari it has new virulence. Goodluck Jonathan was, to put it mildly, lacklustre and compromised. The Emir of Nyanza Raila, closer to Jonathan than Buhari, vice versa, or none of those!? A problem posed is like a virginity lost, a pretence of innocence is what remains, if for some reason answers will not be attempted. The intricacies of the anti-corruption fight in Nigeria is a thrillign soap. One pieces together how an oil-rich country can be looted the equivalent of Kenya's GDP in one presidential term, and by her best and brightest from every thinkable ivy league college. Then there are the men in uniform, securocrats, their greed farcical in a modern era. And to make it a human story, the policemen and accountants who are piecing this altogether and helping BABA GO SLOW (that is how the cautious Buhari is termed by his Oga people), are all local boys --in the sense of not 'been to's'! They are locally educated and trained. I find this detail fascinating. Nigerians who have gone to elite schools abroad do not take moral decisions. They are also lacking in the moral courage to risk their lives fighting corruption. They would rather be in the employe of corruption. A graduate of the local Oga Kiganjo (police academy) who went to arrest one of the most powerful men in the land, an ex air Marshall and chief of staff, was asked why he was so hell-bent on making his young wife a widow. ' I know the army high command hates me more than they hate Boko Haram!' he grinned. 'But there are so many Nigerians dying everyday for useless reasons, some of us should surely die for a worthy cause. Sending corrupt mongrels to jail looks to me a pretty good one!' And now lots of women want to have babies with him, because his seed has courage, and that is a good thing! I can enjoy the humour of such stories from afar, because I am not emotionally invested. NB: I love the abstract before I come home. It creates a control for a stress test. Because in dealing with an abstract case, I am emotionally neutral and my head runs a clinical gear. However, close to home, close to my bed, my mind might be clouded by emotional hangovers, yeah, like some of these rotten looters could be blood brothers and sisters! FOR EXAMPLE: first: FROM NIGERIA I read The Nigerian herald reports: -The probing of Lamorde by the Senators started last August shortly after the wife of the senate president, Mrs. Toyin Bukola Saraki, was grilled by the EFCC over alleged embezzlement of public funds during the tenure of her husband as governor of Kwara State (2003 to 2011).My reaction was: good, the (higly educated) wife of a thieving public or private CEO, politician or bureaucrat, is a possible knowledgeable accomplice (money laundering) and willing handler in stolen goods, and, at least, enjoyed the lifestyle paid for by the proceeds of plunder, much like a pimp feasting on an exploited prostitute's heard-earned keep. Such wives must then face the music until they prove themselves like the good books say: beyond reproach like a wife to Ceasar! All every fair and well. Then, as the Old Man of Jukwaa, Kamalet the Okuyo, would say in those days when the board still boasted posting females with ferocious tempers, I knotted myself in knickers. I did what!? DR. SUSAN MBOYA KIDEROYou see, one way or another, Dr. Susan Mboya Kidero is my hommie. The EACC came calling at he awesome palatial dwelling, wanting to take a look at her bank statements. They mumbled something to do with a certain Evans Kidero, whom she might have known or not known when he was the CEO of some now run-down Sugar mill known as Mumias. In a kiondo, the amateur and clownesk detectives carried the KPMG report which lawyer Tom Ojienda, a professor at law and an LSK stalwart like AG Githu Muigai, had threatened to send to jail anyone who read and quoted in public. -One could be tempted to think that is proof of a lot of dirt to hide. But rights is to privacy, and innocence is until proven guilt. So did Dr. Susan, a former Coca Cola executive with US-trained brawny, look at the EACC fellows and inquire if they had dared disobey Ojienda and read the KPMG document, and were now out to act on it! The timid rats chorused a No. This was a case of sexual discrimination. Susan was competent of earning her own millions without being the clearing house of a sugar-mill looter with a stinging slap! This case raised quite a storm down where I come from. The chairman of our table noticed I was uncharacteristically silent. He said: 'thura, kawuono thuol odonjo e ko. Iling' thi! Yanyo nyameru ni en ohoth jakuo otami! Ajuki kipando pachi kaka Josekiuriti gi ulinzi opando accounting mekgi, kata kaka Dokta Patrick Njoroge opando pache e Eurobond!'How come your ever ready and sharp tongue spits no fire today? Umewezwa leo! Mboya's daughter you wont call the hooker of a sugarmill looter!? Like Waiguru the hooker of a state looter?I have caught you diverting the deductive flow of logic, silent like Njoroge on the Eurobond; hiding your mind in corrupted silence, like Kenyan securocrats jealously guarding their accounts. I could only retort with a lame: yeah, the pitfalls of nationalist consciousness you know! Gloss. I will be back (from assets recovery 2, Nigeria files: Buhari and Magu: SHOGUN!?) -------------------------------------------------------------------- FOOTNOTENairobi Governor Evans Kidero with his wife Dr Susan Akello Mboya. Let me run away before I loose my temper! I heard this victimisation crap from Anne Waiguru too! Now we know she lost close to 2 billion, not 800 milion. Even Mutahi Ngunyi too is suing victimisation, Waiguru gave him 40, 60M? I will go back to Nigerian tales. There is no risk my temper lost there!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 25, 2016 10:31:00 GMT 3
THE PRICE OF MORAL DISSENT: ODM AS AN EMPTY BASKETRAILA okelo devolution wayako! (the Greeks had a feeding frenzy, then came the inevitable bankruptcy.) What does it take to withdraw from the cult of looting? What did it take for John Githong'o, the first serious and modern anti-corruption Czar of Kenya, to choose to do the right thing, even as robbers from his own tribe branded and treated him a traitor? What did it take in Bildad Kaggia, the late co-leader of the KPU (Kenya People Union), to abstain from the path of graft and debauchery, which would launch many of his peers to wealthy heights and cashed stardom? In a horrifying feat in deluded thinking, Jomo Kenyatta publicly confused honesty with laziness, theft with industriousness. Billy Kaggia's moral choice, conscientious dissent from self aggrandisement by abusing positions of public trust, HE Jomo saw as laziness and scolded openly,and with much scorn. Official Kenya agreed officially, and many an un-official Kenya too, and corruption became a national cult or fetish. This means we who have lived in the times of John Githong'o and Dr. Patrick Njoroge, have a problem, a cultural problem: 1. Can this level of corrupt hypocrisy be so collectively sustained if it is not beneficial to all? (that is the school of thought which contends corruption is good for your economy! Go away Sweden, go away Norway, go away New Zealand!) You see, the official narrative then, Bildad Kaggia was a slob, a couch potato who while hungry was still too lazy to grab, steal a fistfull from a meal waiting on the table unattended. That disciplined restraint would be an earlier parallel to John Githong'o's later refusal to allow the House of Mumbi their turn to eat. That was when his moralist antics culminating in an anti-corruption putsch threatened to bring down Kibaki's government. Kibaki had lied he was out to run a clean regime, or may be he really meant it when he said it, only to find out he had it not in him to resist free meals. (We remember Arap Moi too started well after succeeding Kenyatta, only to soon mutate into a monstrous parasite. This so-far inevitable recidivism is food for thought! Given what we see of Jubilee lootocracy.)And 2ndly now, the spectre of Bildad Kaggia hovers darkly over the central bank of Kenya, since whizzkid Dr. Patrick Njoroge displays obvious contempt for thievery and the trappings of a debauched elite. (I have often wondered in amusement if Njoroge has any inklings of his similarity to Bildad Kaggia. I call him Kaggia's son, an incarnation then! This cultural device helps me 'ideologise' the hostility he instinctively unearths in the establishment, the reason they are hoisting him in a restraining pack -like a violent psychiatric patient! One, even a mentally lazy comprador, can not successfully brand Njoroge lazy, the next best sensible denouncement is then {he is} insane!) The argument heralded by Kenyatta senior which imports Bildad Kaggia as a lazy do-nothing, has, it would appear, not run its course. On the contrary, it continues to run deep and hot and devisive, patiently molting, its resolution brooding in the hearts of a nation, ruminative like some volcano preparing a final say. Methinks this titanic struggle at the centre of power, at the heart of public administration, to steal or not to steal, to worship state thieves or to kill/weed them off/out, to adhere to an integrity clause or not, has already been effectively decided within civilisation and normal culture. --THOU SHALL NOT STEAL FROM THE PEOPLE. Only this Scandinavia Kingdom Clean is yet to come to the tropics near us!) THOU SHALL NOT STEAL FROM YOUR PEOPLE: But power has a habit of corrupting morality. Power has a capacity to turn minds inside out,deforming thought. Power does feed delusions of uniqueness, delusions of exceptionalism, where, far from the USA, the bandit captains of a bandit economy subscribe to the vision, illusion of themselves as industrialists and skilled entrepreneurs lifting the land sky-high in double time. And see, the aristocratic lootocrats of the tropics congratulate themselves daily with the near double-digit growth rates, and all made in China. Then of course too, power has the wherewithal to dictate obedience to its mythology; to enforce respect to its authority; to punish dissent by social exorcism and worse, reward sycophancy with, for instance, a spectacularly feathered nest. Such inducements can be so intoxicating, so mentally debilitating that, like the Kisumu police officer Alfred Mutish, even the best of men would find it irresistible to 'escort a god' Daily in Kenya we read the chronicles of a state being looted like there is no tomorrow. It sounds funny, but I am sure every normal soul recognises this mass thievery is a perversion, so much so that there was a formal attempt in the new constitution at an integrity clause. Bildad Kaggia had it right, after all? He did not need an integrity clause, his inner core was enough to bar him from graft. He could,of own volition, resist offers to escort a god! John Githong'o had it right, after all? Living like a monk (Patrick Njoroge) is a credible choice after all? They can find it in themselves to resist escorting a deity, be HE a Muthamaki or a Singh? Obviously then, the political practice of celebrating thieves and elevating the bandits to positions of power in Kenya, is an upside down walk in the paths of history, which, somewhere along the long march ahead, will be corrected one way or another. Then shall normalcy return, the country be proud and at ease with itself, her inner morality aligned with her political practice, theft incidental not the rule in office. Theft is bad, Impunity hell. Even those busy holding up Wanjiku everyday agree. Bildad Kaggia haunts their hearts so to speak. John Githong'o is ever a fly dropping in their rich soup, so said. Patrick Njoroge an omen of bad things. But what does it take for a people to hoist their true historical personality into state rule? I guess it is called liberation. BUT CHARITY BEGINS AT HOMEWherefore let me run the test and grade the ODM in Luo-Nyanza. This is the popular party and, I am afraid, it is like the KANU of old: a band of pirates and parasites running the people a-ground, irresponsibly greedy young Jirongos and young Ruto's galore. This state of the official Luo nation blunts the sharpness with which ODM politicians can stab the national Jubilee regime for being Graft incorporated. When small thieves accuse big thieves of theft, what is really the argument? When local and provincial thieves blast the national and state thievery, what is it all about? It is complex enough to denote some thinking time to. And so I went to learn the lesson of Bildad Kaggia. My father was there when the man came to Homa Bay in the 1960s to open the local KPU office. My father shook his hand with his fish-scale palm, pouring out his heart straight: 'Why should we abandon Mboya, we like him here!' That is the story as my daddy told me. Kaggi answered without hesitation: 'TJ (Mboya) does not support land reform. And if he does, it is in the Jomo model of grabbing. That spells future trouble for the country!'
'We do not have a land problem here!' 'You will. Greed will visit you in time!'Obviously Kaggia made an impression on my dad, for he told me the story of the handshake with concentrated contemplation. And he subsequently kept a tab on Kaggia's fortunes. He referred to him as 'Okuyo ma ok dwar kuo!' -'The Kikuyu who is allergic to Theft!'You see people used to tell tales of the dead test for a Kikuyu body: wrinkle a few coins over the corpse. If the eyes do not open, the death is genuine! NB: whenever I enter my attorney's office --he is a Kikuyu, I always drop a coin on the floor and look at his face. To see if his eyes follow the coin. Then he always tells me painfully: 'this is why we true Kikuyus hate Luos. They are always throwing a Kenyatta to the ground in our face!' And so we permit ourselves our private hate speeches! Now of course greed with impunity has become the Luo on Luo practice in Nyanza ODM rule, and the Gikuyu no longer suffice as a scapegoat: thuol odonjo e ko, itoyo ko koso!? I was thinking of this exchange reported from the mid 1960s as I read professor Ojienda's submission on why the accounts of Susan Mboya can not be investigated annex those of Kidero!
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