Nicholas Gumbo at The top of PAC: Lamb or Dragon Slayer?

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ODM'S NICOLAS GUMBO AT PAC: SACRIFICIAL LAMB OR DRAGON SLAYER?

First, a disclaimer in the form of a joke. –--The Luo have a saying: gima otamo wuowi wadu kik idhiye ka irikni! Kinda e teka. (loosely: Bethink thee as you marry someone's ex-wife and pledge better performance. Slow but persistent is the tenacity).

Which means, even as William Ruto grows hoarse professing his bedwork with Uhuru is solid gold, unlike the rocky forced marriage of Kibaki and Raila, there is increasing evidence love matches made in a secret Ocampo bahasha too have their limping gaits, no less painful than Koffi-Annan-arranged marriages of convenience. –---(ani gima otamo wuowi wadu dwaro itang'go, kik iyeny alanda kendo adharani, ni oyomyom gir bwoch!)

But it was to the budding Santa Nicola and not the Pancha Kalenjinsingh whose possible blues we proposed to sing:



It is important to put this kind of testimonial out in the public place, exactly as the DAILY NATION has heralded. These, circumstantial evidence as they may appear, form a body of rational historical indictment, so that when a group of ironed characters rise up in an attempt at answering the big Kenyan question, MTA DO, they need not waste any time reading the MIRANDA to anybody who ever served in a senior position. That is, random and automatic guilt is assumed to save time, and, anyway, when this question is answered seriously, it is hard to imagine a Judge or lawyer left standing to run a credible Justice system. Look at them now!

Relax, that is a joke. Outside the box. But take the hint. Opening the 2nd terminal at the airport named after his father, President Muigai was stunned out of his laconic slumber into a hushed bark –---he had recently emerged from Savannah Lodge in Ugunja where he was hermiting after a mid-air about-turn over Shabaab airspace, to declare on labour day that henceforth ''hamtasikia nikiongea''! (Well, in politics only the dead do not speak!)

Here is the cause:

DAVID KIMAIYO AND CO HIRING BUSES AT ksh. 2.5m/MONTH/bus at KAA!

NB: That fact is a bit off script for Kiganjo graduates mesays. Kiganjo graduates usually RENDER a service in return for their remuneration/tip/bonus. A bribe is technically an untaxed payment for a service rendered. Hiring a single bus for 2.5m/month is an outright parasite's demeanour. Well, I excuse Kimaiyo like this: he was overruled, the KAA is full of UON and JKUAT doctorates. These slimy tenderpreneurs lack the business fibre and backbone of Kiganjo thorough-breds.

Poor lonely Kimaiyo. –--Did he (tongue slip) say he is against this issue of integrity!? Did he wish to substantiate but forgot the qualification SELECTIVE?



03:10 A HINT AT THE PRESSURES OURU KENYATTA IS UNDER.

Anyway, a shell-shocked Kenyatta was forced into a spontaneous ultimatum: ''usifikiri sisi ni wajinja bwana! Mngekuja niwapatie NYS bus for ksh. 100K/month.'' as he personally rounded on the relevant (acting?) cabinet secretary and executive officer.

Mr. Kenyatta does not seem to get it yet. He does not get he is historically slotted as a mere re-incarnation of Mobutu Sese Seko.

He wrapped meat with this one before he could read and ponder.

www.nation.co.ke/news/Corruption-Cartels-Procurement-Tenders-Government/-/1056/2718968/-/3aqnfc/-/index.html

Saturday, May 16, 2015
Corruption cartels discover new tricks to rig State tenders

Crafty middle-level and senior officials are devising new schemes to rig tenders and line their pockets with huge sums of money in shady deals, even as President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday reiterated his order that all government procurement must be electronic and warned corrupt officials will be sacked.

Multiple Sunday Nation sources disclosed that an increasingly popular scheme is “support tendering” which involves crooked government officials colluding with a closed group of tenderers to ensure various contracts are awarded to the group’s members on a rotational basis to crowd out other bidders.
Under the plan designed to beat the scrutiny of auditors and anti-corruption investigators, the individual or entity from the closed group marked to win the bid is required to quote a reasonable figure and meet all the technical specifications — using insider information.
The figure includes mark-ups for officials who manipulate the process to ensure only the cartel members are listed. The other bidders in the group will then deliberately quote outrageously high amounts or unreasonably low figures to allow the chosen one to win the tender. The winner will then pay them a “thank you” fee that has also been loaded onto the price quoted.

You could say they are all disciples of a Singh who is limbering to take over the reigns of the Mobutist state. Mr. Kenyatta is obviously, at best, one of those indolent and sleepy dogs you can safely jump over as you busy about burgling a house they are meant to guard, and at worst, the willing facilitator of all inside jobs. –--The ball is in his court.

So it means the whole Kenyan bureaucracy and political elite is organised to loot the country, and the question they ask in their impunity is, MTA DO!?
After boil is festered enough, of course it will burst to let the pus escape. And Lord, do you really want to be there when the sanitizers get to work!?

NOW, NICHOLAS GUMBO: Be he in potential the Tom Thumb who outwitted the Goliath of Corruption, or, perish the thought, just another punch-bag sent into the ring to make a mess of himself and earn some bills?
In any case he replaces General Tawfiq Ababu wa Nereah Namwamba, having beaten his fellow ODM rival and intrigant John Mbadi. Gumbo won as a compromise candidate, which is already a false start. Compromise candidates are in the rule, tethered to CORD-dancing, because they are beholden to a certain balance of forces which is a status-quo stalemate. He breaks ranks, he gets the vote of no confidence.
But these are human activities, and alot michayo ema tieko kuon. –--the stone the builders rejected could end up being the corner stone.

There is therefore –--(even as mathematical probability would suggest otherwise)--- no rule cast in stone that Rarieda Gumbo will prove as ineffectual as his predecessor, or as redundant as his would-be cousins and fellow journeymen over there at the now decapitated EACC, not to mention the rest of the (in) rigor-mortis financial sentries of Kenya.

National Police Service Commission chair Johnstone Kavuludi will not be charged over alleged irregularities in procurement.
The Ethics and Anti - Corruption Commission had recommended that Kavuludi be charged alongside former NSPC CEO Elija Achoch and its commissioners over failure to follow procurement in acquiring and partitioning at the commission’s headquarters at Sky Park Plaza in Westlands at the cost of Sh189 million.
EACC also recommended that officials at the Ministry of Works who conducted the evaluation and the firm that was awarded the partitioning contract should face charges
However Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko said he did not find sufficient evidence to charge the officials and the firm.
- See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/kavuludi-governor-kingi-escape-prosecution#sthash.gNJRCQWm.dpuf

THESE (Kavuludi) are the guys running a vetting commission frowning at Kiganjo graduates for hiring out police wings and letting the RECCE cool their heels, an emergency not withstanding!
It is that deep.

WHAT DO I THINK NICO'S BEST SHOTS WOULD BE?

If as of now he has not formally requested for an appointment with President Kenyatta to have a man to man eyeball on this issue, then Gumbo is already a limping goat. Why? Because it means he is tactfully scared sh!tless. The truth is Ouru can not fight corruption wholeheartedly, but to run Kenya for ten years he instinctively recognises he has to fight it at least 40%, make some tough decisions and sacrifice some holy cows. He could use some lackluster allies.
A serious chairman of PAC with a 40% active backing of the Prezzo is such a team, a no step for mankind, but a quantum leap for the banana republic of Kenya. That is what I think.

But let us assume Santa Nico is not given to such burst of thought, fired by Kaya fumes like I and I man.

Back to earth then.

WHAT DOES HE DO OTHERWISE?
First, sort himself out. He comes from the ODM heartland, next to Raphael Tuju, and the Raila courtiers and loyalists will be combing his hair for any signs he is growing horns. So he has some domestics. That the ODM monopoly Kisumu is a den of financial rot and a man with ambitions to tackle national corruption never found it fit to offer a succinct opinion, is an example of the limping goat symptom. F&T.
There is a charity that is good to begin at home.

Second: Common sense before radical steps is the best advice for a man landed in a pit of vipers. PAC is a pit of vipers, and parliament itself a teeming hollow of even more flying vipers. So my opinion is, for Santa Nicola to avoid General Ababu's decimated fate in this pit, he should exercise neutral common sense. And that is ask for logical help --including the above mentioned bluffing Ouru.

PRECEDENT: á CLEAR and PRESENT danger, we always ask for uncle Sam's help. Whenever there is a terrorist threat, or in the aftermath of a terrorist blowout, American sleuths from the FBI are the first on the scene, doing the forensics we are never minded to do for ourselves. I Aint heard nobody complaining, no, not even when Uncle Sam's marines lift KDF commandos to theatres of operation in Somalia coz out choppers had no fuel!
Using the above precedent as a common sense template, Sir Nicholas should swallow his pride and officially ask the Americans on behalf of Wanjiku to help PAC unearth facts. I can assure you the FBI, wired to the IRS (internal revenue service) does have a trick or two up their sleeves when it comes to these kinds of money-running. –--last time I caught them blackmailing Swiss bankers to give them material on the bad guys, or get barred from the USA as accomplices to the enemies of empire.

Another common sense thing which, amazingly, did not occur to General Tawfiq, is the simple John Githong'o template, that is spending Wanjiku's money on some elaborate, external financial audit, to produce facts. Just to produce solid facts, not to blame anybody.
These facts can then be presented to the parliament. And the Mpigs can have their field day dismembering them –--if you remember the juicy words of then government spokesman Alfred Mutua on the Githong'o-Kroll report.

NB: Perhaps the new PAC chair can even afford his fellow Mpigs a curtain-raising pleasure, by sponsoring a bill which seeks to an external, comprehensive and total audit on the states finances, so that henceforth, every discussion on corruption will be referenced on verifiable figures!

These are the common sense options for starters according to me. Minimalist but neutral steps worthy of an infant learning the upright stand.

Like our security services are quick to ask for external competence when cornered, let our PAC do the same with financial investigations too. The EACC competence at investigation looks a shoddy farce, of the infamous 175 handed to Ouru, not even a handful can be prosecuted: no evidence. So Wanjiku needs a competent investigator first.

www.nation.co.ke/news/How-brokers-and-MPs-conspire-to-rip-off-Kenyans/-/1056/2717928/-/ukgkatz/-/index.html

The Sh28 billion Moi Referral and Training Hospital controversy has exposed how tenderpreneurs, public servants and politicians conspire to steal from Kenyans.

The saga, which has sucked in Deputy President William Ruto, ODM leader Raila Odinga, hospital director John Kibosia and businessman Herbert Ojwang, is being investigated by Parliament’s Public Investments Committee.
Mr Ojwang claims he brokered a deal in which a Chinese company was to upgrade the hospital at a cost of Sh17 billion but was edged out by the DP who ordered instead that a new facility be built at a cost of Sh28 billion. He claimed the extra Sh11 billion expenditure was unnecessary.
Mr Ruto has admitted involvement in the saga, saying he cancelled the upgrade because the Sh17 billion was too much to spend on an upgrade and could build a new hospital.
He also accused Mr Odinga of dragging his name into corruption scandals, saying the project was conceived during his time as PM.
In a tape presented to the PIC, Mr Ojwang reels off a list of those who were to get a cut from the hospital deal. It includes names of who is who in Kenya’s political and tender broking worlds.
Even though no money has yet been lost in the project, investigations show that watchdog committees are helpless in stopping many of the deals pushed by brokers.
PATTERN OF IMPUNITY

As a young man wandering through Africa in various odd jobs, I saw lots of extra judicial killings and summary executions. I became fascinated with proof of guilt based on facts unearthed by a competent investigation. In my old age I do not want to go through that kind of thing again. But with the Kenyan bureaucracy and political elite all in a knifing frenzy like Roman senators killing Gaia Julius, don't they all write their guilt in the open for all to see, and thus nullify the need to read them their Miranda at the day of reckoning?

Miguna isn't even begun peeling back masks yet!



I was just wondering. This Africa of ours is a clown. She has all the outer trappings of a modern state, yet when you peer deeper, and come closer, you sense a darker continent behind that mask of modernity.

A SHORT LOOK AT MASKS.





dances with masks.



AFRICA: TWO FACADES, TWO MASKS, THE BALANCING ACT.

Africa with make-up.


Without make-up: raw.

[jakaswanga]

THE STALE SMELL OF SECOND-HAND ANTI-CORRUPTION CZARS

One day long ago, in another world, a man named Odongo Omamo Kaliech came to Muhuru bay. He was the minister of Agriculture, and the Kenyatta president was called Jomo. My dad had hauled me from school to help with the fish-nets, and so we camped at the beach for the sorely-needed labour.

Omamo Jabondo came and we saw him. He was very Arudhi –- ''a Rubber'', and he was very Elephantine too: Kaliech. The next day as we roasted fish for lunch, my dad had something in his heart, and he wanted to out it on me.

How I treasured these moments with my dad my Hero; and, indeed, they did endear me to the old rascal more than to anyone else. Like there was this day he gave me an oral examination on the hairy subject p-ussy. He called it ''pier''. –----''what is it, boy?
How many names for it do you know, boy? What is it for, boy? Do you dream about it, boy?
If you are short on practice and you want one of my young wives for sport, I wont mind, you hear me boy!? I would rather they screwed you than someone far, that way we keep all the beaches in family service! you hear me boy!''

''yes sir!'' I would reply as to most of his tirades, 'You are the world's kindest dad ever!'' (nyaka nene Nyasaye chuwe dhano, onge wuoro machielo mosebedo mang'won gi wuode mohewoi koda, wuora!).
''You want to pay me a commission, or you are capable of thinking me a rotten pimp peddling his wife to his son, boy –—I aint gay do not fwack with me!?''

''No sir! As I said, I rather fack your collection of young beach women!''

''Good. I aint blind, boy, I seen you check the rears of one or two of my hot honeypots. Remember to keep your lies and hypocrisy for School and Church. Me I got the kind of mind which can handle any truth. You hear me boy!?''
''Hai Hai Sir! I hear you loud and clear with my heart all!''.

So was my dad, and i was his greatest fan. And his greatest student I think. Only on his death bed did he bring himself to tell me he loved me. Which was quite a tearful scene as one would expect (of such an ''Ebale ya Zaire moment'', when the boat of death sets sail from the realm of life, bearing the souls of those who are dead to the Kingdom of darkness.)

But back to the Omamo day in Muhuru.

My dad spat and told me: ''Omamo is a cheap pretender. He is not the true member for Bondo constituency. Everybody with a bit of brain knows, so long Jaramogi Oginga Odinga is alive, he is the true and sole Mp for Bondo constituency. For people like Odongo Omamo to be Mps of Bondo, that goat Kenyatta and his sheep must first BAN people like Oginga from the process.''

''Uhuh Uhuh, dad!''
''Uhuh Uhuh! Your mind is empty, boy? Tell me why you think Kenyatta made him minister!?''
''Big him up some, so he can try to break the Jaramogi hold?''
''That is right son. Odongo Omamo Arudhi Kaliech is just a mere pawn, a tool in use in a game of men. Let me never catch you such a pawn, you hear me boy!''

All this long tale I am telling, invaded my mind as I thought of ethics and the public watchdog organs that have all proven themselves paper tigers. EACC, PIC. PAC, etc etc. Ouru Kenyatta himself cuts a pathetic picture, soliciting more of pity like a child lost in a crowd, than worthy of contempt like a sleep-walking sentry. So I thought of the person John Githong'o, the anti-corruption Czar in the first dynamic days of the Raila-Kibaki-Tosha regime.

Ever since the betrayal and banishment of John Githong'o, the throne of the anti-corruption czar has been like the elections of yonder in Bondo constituency with Jaramogi Odinga barred. Odongo Omamo, Ougo Ochieng', Jalang'o Anyango, yes, they came and occupied the office, but they were all minions and litter blown with the winds, infants in an adult armour.
…. Meaning ...
Ringera, Lumumba, Matemu, Wanjala, Namwamba, and now Gumbo –--with John Githong'o still alive, they all have and have had the odour of second-hand clothes fished out of a bale. Distinctively stale.

So I dreamt I was telling my dad the new anti-corruption Czar is a man from Siaya where I went to secondary school. ''Boy: Is he like an Mp for Bondo with Jaramogi barred?'', my dad huh-huhd me in the dream.

Then I woke up and penned this missive.

PAC is not EACC yes, but just imagine John Githong'o as the chair of PAC!

I will paraphrase Black Uhuru –-a reggae band from Jamaica of old: What I am longing for, is a little competence!

[jakaswanga]

May 17, 2015 21:33:32 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

ODM'S NICOLAS GUMBO AT PAC: SACRIFICIAL LAMB OR DRAGON SLAYER?


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NOW, NICHOLAS GUMBO: Be he in potential the Tom Thumb who outwitted the Goliath of Corruption, or, perish the thought, just another punch-bag sent into the ring to make a mess of himself and earn some bills?
In any case he replaces General Tawfiq Ababu wa Nereah Namwamba, having beaten his fellow ODM rival and intrigant John Mbadi. Gumbo won as a compromise candidate, which is already a false start. Compromise candidates are in the rule, tethered to CORD-dancing, because they are beholden to a certain balance of forces which is a status-quo stalemate. He breaks ranks, he gets the vote of no confidence.
But these are human activities, and alot michayo ema tieko kuon. –--the stone the builders rejected could end up being the corner stone.

There is therefore –--(even as mathematical probability would suggest otherwise)--- no rule cast in stone that Rarieda Gumbo will prove as ineffectual as his predecessor, or as redundant as his would-be cousins and fellow journeymen over there at the now decapitated EACC, not to mention the rest of the (in) rigor-mortis financial sentries of Kenya.

THE ODM'S PARLIAMENTARY BETRAYAL OF DR. MONICAH JUMA

The new PAC chair, Rarieda Nicolas Gumbo of ODM, seemingly suffered a mental stroke and voted against Monica Juma. And still in the paralysis of thought, no doubt facilitated, he went public to, as we say in dholuo, thiano kendo thiaro ayanga githwon, ie, self-indulgently boast on a public podium in an adopted threatening pose. The threat was at the address of Charles Nyachae who has taken the matter to court. Gumbo rated him an idler now found keep. Methinks it was an uncalled for vehemence, but I am aware compromise candidates have debts to service, and there could be contract specifications to be met in public.
The story of Dr. Monicah Juma and our Mpigs in the national sty is not so much as instructive and is it was expected: she came with the most faultless of all reputations possible up there, yet reaped the greatest cross-party consensus in the LEGICO, to have her goose cooked savagely. Then you know you have a tabloid story that goes all the way to the top. And with the controversial hate-spewing figure from Kiambu, Moses Kuria, as the one the Presidential handlers tasked to canvass for her passage, it starts to look like a stitch-up; and when you explore why URP Duale couldn't run the show as would be the custom of Majority Leader, the stakes get even higher. So many stories in one shot, a goldmine.
But I have a football match to go watch, so I will rush.

And the iron filings of course fall into line according to some predetermined pattern.

Mr Kalonzo said the rejection of Dr Monica Juma’s nomination was meant to embarrass and portray her as incompetent yet she is one of the most qualified officials in the Jubilee government

That means the co-principals of CORD can not afford to disagree with him. It would be very untidy. But the parliamentary party has already made its position known, pumping up the tyranny of numbers! Santa Nico crowing loudest, caretaker annoint of Wanjiku's purse, and thus would be ally of less rot and more accountability, incidentally Juma's resume! --Ha!



Nobody is bothering to deny Monicah Juma is competent. O yes she is, goes the chorus uncannily. Neither is she corrupt. O no she aint, goes the chorus in a Greek eye-roll. Quite to the contrary, the problem seems to be she wont go to bed with corruption. –Is she a nun in that brothel layer of the Kenyan mandarinate where concubinage is the rule!? Take a coin toss!


No, Mpigs wont get this depth of deference from her! A minus.

Nor this, from her benefactor, since the word in Nairobi is, it was her stalwart performance on behalf of Uhuruto to derail the ICC cases that got her this high!



When killer-mpigs know that, they develop a game plan too, to enjoy the lady's extraordinary performances, but when she turns to cut their trunks off the brimming trough (as b6k would have it), she has to be through the slave-breaking mill. It is all in the game in Nairobi. You sign up, you know the score, just like every w-hore being entertained.


A deference denied Mpigs and allies. They can not take that lying down, can they?

Took a coin toss? came up heads or tails? yes or no? but fact is she finds Mpigs to be unhygienic, ever-farting beasts, uncouth parasites, libido-killing geeks, unpalatable creatures trampling her office doors and infesting the space with odours suffocative, and she wants to offload them unto some willing Circe or worse, to keep them busy, feeding them periodic sprinkles of fraudulent cash, to quench their wormy appetites, far from her selective thighs!



Monica Juma's disgust at these trashy upstarts was so profound her body language during the inquisitions became explosive. So genuine in contempt it was, it was the kind of writing on the wall even the blind read, and our Mpigs are of course hyper sharp on the pocket instinct, not to mention they are mostly men with patriarchal upbringing. She, matriarchal threat, had to be killed if she would not prove malleable like the eventually hyper generous Sarah Serem who hosted a gangbang, with a forced Wanjiku to help her serve the rampaging minotauric beasts.

End of row as Members of Parliament get their full pay back

By Juma Kwayera Updated Saturday, June 8th 2013

In the revised rates, SRC had scaled up the mileage claims, which if retained a member of PSC says, net pay would have risen astronomically beyond the contested Sh851,000. The resolution of the standoff follows a directive by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday that the matter be put to rest fast.
The reduction of salaries has dominated the Eleventh Parliament’s agenda, with disgruntled MPs threatening to disband the commission chaired by Sarah Serem.
Other measures contemplated by MPs included shooting down this year’s budget or extending the reductions by a similar percentage to the Executive, upper stratum of the civil service, parastatals, the Judiciary and constitutional commissions through legislation in Parliament.

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000085464/end-of-row-as-members-of-parliament-get-their-full-pay-back

And the President himself as I said elsewhere, was unmanned too, reduced to a scarecrow by the rogue parliament

MPs now threaten Uhuru with a pay cut



By LABAN WANAMBISI | May 30, 2013

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 30 – Members of Parliament have devised a new ploy to arm-twist the government into paying them higher salaries, with threats to cut the pay of other State officers including President Uhuru Kenyatta and the Chief Justice.
A group of seven MPs met on Thursday to strategise how they can push their pay agenda by, among other manoeuvres, slashing the budgetary allocation to constitutional commissions by 43 percent, reducing VAT and exempt Kenyans earning below Sh50,000 from tax.
Among those in the meeting were Majority Coalition Leader Aden Duale (Garissa Township), Deputy Minority Coalition Leader Jakoyo Midiwo (Gem) and Majority Coalition chief whip Katoo ole Metito (Kajiado South).

The MPs said they will go for a 57 percent cut to the salaries of the President, the Deputy President, Judges and other constitutional commissioners by 57 percent.

They are a hunting pack of Jackals, our parliamentarians. That is why during the budget reading mid this week, the secretary of state for finance, Henry Rotich, gave them their dues –--CDF and more. Had he proceeded otherwise, a cross-party hit-team to organise his impeachement would have booked one of the guest lodges around Nairobi to burn the midnight oil at Wanjiku's cost.
It is that simple. Monicah Juma had made it clear who her bosses are: Ruto and Uhuru, not even Wanjiku. The wild-dogs-pack was not impressed by that defense, tugged at her skirt, bared fangs and struck, no doubt encouraged by lord of impunity in the background, aka puppet-masters.





Will the knights rise to save Monicah

MPs voted 163 against 55 to reject the proposed extension by ten days and then voted verbally to reject Juma's nomination. Three MPs abstained from the vote. President Kenyatta has expressed disappointment at the rejection. He said the nomination of Juma was informed by the distinction and success she has earned in serving the nation as the Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, as the Defence Principal Secretary, and in her current position as Ministry of Interior Principal Secretary.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000165491/monica-juma-wrote-rude-letter-to-us-too-says-police-watchdog

continued.
So what OFFICIAL wisdom did the Mpigs have in pact, that they executed statal career of the lady?Let us have the DN whisper to us, tongue in cheek.
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