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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 24, 2015 8:53:42 GMT 3
GEORGE ALADWA SPEAKS, ANOTHER AFRICAN VOLCANO EMITS A WARNING?PRELUDE: Deep below, within the angry bowels of Africa, far from the top where the political and economic elite live their sky-high life in parasitic delusions, arise material tensions which ---to maintain the imagery--- in a gaseous form forerunning molten lava, force their way through all layers of society, and announce themselves publicly in one form or another. Then, in a decoding exercise, will it be for those with ears to hear, eyes to see, minds to think, and sense to make of the various signs of activity. For instance, Jacob Zuma's South Africa under the legendary ANC, has this week treated us to a stunning student rebellion which reminds us of the Soweto Uprisings with its famous photos. The other year it was miners at Marikana who were mowed down in apartheid like police action. Obviously the ANC needs a think for, coupled with the recent murderous xenophobic purge from below, a picture emerges of former liberator cowboys now riding an unwilling bull in those mad African rodeos, only the show is for life this time. Well, we wish them well; South Africa may not even be deadliest rodeo ride in the continent. Take the case of General Fatah al-Sisi of Egypt. The 'Great --conqueror of the Islamic Brotherhood-- Man' held elections this past week where the turn-out was 2%! No problem, the elections were to be a farce from the beginning anyway, but at this rate, the Egyptian people hinted it wouldn't bad for another MORE POPULAR dictator to emerge and kick out the current one. Consequently, after the so-called elections, the internal security service have moved to arrest people from a cycle hitherto untouched! The customary dictator's paranoia goes a notch higher in Great Egypt. The General, sorry, Field Marshall, has no option but to be a straightforward tyrant. Mubarak was the last who could carry out the farcical act of being a democratic dictator. Old Hosni won all his elections above 98%! turn-out always 100%! And the people clapped in good cheer as the economy kind of held. That era is gone, washed away by economic crisis and, O yes, the blood of Egyptians, heroic in resistance. How about Tunesia!? That is just a little short of being a primed bomb, ---peace price or No Nobel peace price for the goodly lot. Now, If those are Arab countries by your take, then a quick trip to Africa Confidential will provide a bit of the SubSahara juice, that is lift the veil on some of the democratic regimes in black Africa. For instance the two Congos of Kabila and Nguesso are plotting an explosion as they move to reinforce life tenures for incumbents. Limitless terms, like in Zimbabue, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi yesterday! Republics re-instating the political modules of monarchy through the frontdoor. Evolutionary recidivism. Risky projects. Risky like expending all foreign currency reserves defending your local paper! Fraud economics! As Africa rises then, her internal tensions rise too, and if good politics wont be, then obviously old-school resolution mechanisms is what will be: (old school resolution is like when Zimbabwe practiced bad economics, good old extinct HYPERINFLATION arose from the dead. A comical zillion denominations note to buy a loaf, a comical 10,000% inflation rate per day!) With Europe (and The West) firmly slamming her doors in the face of adventurous African youth, this vibrant energy will now have to be contained locally, expended within somehow. Migration has been a safety-valve for Africa, leading to DIASPORA REMITTANCE overtaking all other forms of cash-injects as the real float to the economy. Managing the drive of young men who would walk the Sahara and swim the Mediterranean to get on in life wont be easy. Africa will have to rise faster and expand to afford the majority of her ambitious youth the humane future they want, or collapse this model and go for another option. Good to stop digging when in a hole, unless sex. That is the historical background which I hold in mind as I look at the current tribulations in Kenya, and analyse the headaches of the elite, such as the case now of George Aladwa. We remember Kenya like South Africa is, relatively then, a glorified example of an African success story, a budding renaissance. But the panic with which the power establishment has reacted to the George Aladwa's utterances at a Kibera rally, indicates, in my thinking, a deep elite awareness, consciously or not, of a precipitating political schizophrenia in Kenya: a tale of two or more republics in one which the dominant but impotent narrative of peace love and unity at every price can no longer subdue. So insecure is our elite that they, biting their finger nails like Al-Sisi with his firing nerves, are a progression curve of intra-class paranoia. ----Excommunicating, hanging out (one of their own) Aladwa to dry for.... what .... exactly did he say? .... The budding class-traitor was picked up like an al-shabaab by the flying squad! (remember these days the police send 'people' SMS to report at this and that police station. They could have called Sir George in by phone, to record a statement!) But they gave him the Al-Shabaab protocol! The bomb-diffusion squad! Man that is huge! There need must be a whale of a lot of misrepresentation of what Aladwa said. A false narrative must be contrived to sustain his persecution or prosecution, there must be a hate campaign marshalled against him on media by bought out experts! How dare he! poor boy boinnet! poor boy Tobiko! will they think it through, or are they succumbed too, to a national-elite-hysteria-generated consensus! Let us take a local look now And take another look! a study case in false reporting. www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000180497&story_title=aladwa-arrested-over-hate-speech-claims he is seen and heard saying what!? I gotta verbatimes Aladwa myself! I got ears and eyes too!and is DPP investigatin Aladwa, or the alleged offence!? And another after this cap: ''2017: ikiwa tumeshinda, na watunyang'anye, basi kiumane! –—Fire! Fire! Fire!'' Pure hate speech! Worse than incitement! Says the DPP? or the commentator there! I have to reproduce this speech verbatim and finecomb it! I think I owe that to Jukwaa! myself. Part two: GEORGE ALADWA SCARES HIS CLASSMATES by thinking aloud!Elites work by what Noam Chomsky called manufacturing consensus. It is then understood in a gentlemanly agreement, that ranks are closed. This consensus is bipartisanly and bicamerally promoted,and stand-grounded as the general consensus and benefit of the whole society. Aladwa is former Nairobi Mayor. That is a high office in Kenya. What forces inform his rant? What contradictions deep within Kenyan society force his hand, or, put in another way, which antagonisms force his head to contemplate non-elite sanctioned resolution models to a potential social conflict?It is thinking time! FwacK! I like and live to start my weekends on a drink not on a think! Part two.
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 24, 2015 14:54:29 GMT 3
GEORGE ALADWA VERBATIM IN PART, KAMKUNJI GROUNDS, KIBERA NAIROBI, 20-10-2015. Before we continue the case, here is the defendant in his own words, and their full context. clip starts at ...' 'Mwenye ataita jina ya Raila ovyo ovyo, tukikutana na yeye kwa street, tuta-deal na yeye properly!
'Na viongozi wamekuja hapa, nataka kusema hivi.
Raila hakupeleka Ruto ICC. Na hawa watu waache maombi ya uwongo; wanadanganyana ata Mungu amechoka na maombi yao.
'Sisi tunasemma namna hii: wacha Ruto aenda kule ICC, wale Jajes wako huko waangalie kesi yake; ako na mawakili, wamtetee. Aikishinda sawa, akibaki huko, pia ni sawa.'NB: (notice the crowd is charged, and on rhetorical auto-cue as it were, punctuate his UMUOFIA KWENUS with the customary YAAA! as in: UMUNDU KU-?? crowd: MUNDU!! speaker: KU-!? Crowd: MUNDU!!!) Aladwa continues the flow. '' 2017 imekarebia, na sisi kama watu wa ODM, tumebaki na risasi moja. Na mimi nimesema, nimeambia party-leader Raila Amollo Odinga. This time around, the outcome of the election, ikiwa tumeshinda, na watunyang'anye, wacha kiumane!'' ---Cheers.... from the youthful crowd.
''Wangapi wamekubaliana na mimi!?'' --more cheers!
''Mmekubaliana!? Mmekubaliana!?'' !? Choral thunder in assent.
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. -Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!'' -rhetorical flow of call and response to every Fire call! '' Raila ndiye akuwe President, lazima watu wakufe kiasi! Kwani kuna makosa gani. Na sisi apana watu wa kutishwatishwa. Lazima Raila aende mbele. -Raila aende State house ama asiende!?''Cheering response from the crowd ' Raila aende state house ama asiende!?'' more cheering from the crowd.
'Tunataka kuambia mwenda wazimu anaitwa Kuria, -huyo mwenda wazimu anaitwa nani!?KURIA! yells the crowd back! 'Apeleke Ujinga wake huko mbali!''
Na iko mwenda wazimu mwingine anaitwa Dwale, apeleka uwenda azimu wake wapi!?MBALI! answers the choral crowd. ' Na mwingine anaitwa Kindiki, apeleke wapi!?? crowd response: -- MBALI!'Sisi tuna mak*ende mbili kama Hao, tupambane Umundu Ku---'MUNDU! the crowd thunders back! 'Umundu ku-mu!?? -' NDUUU! --finishes the crowd some good measure of self-amusement! (public speaking is a performance act of some art, and I dare say the ancestors gave a nod to young George on this day. But the ancestors are a wily lot: the nod is also a trap, a test: can you sleep in a police cell!? George! and your balls don't shrink!?)  Aladwa went on: 'Ya mwisho, Sisi watu wa Western Province, --Khalwale ako hapa, Oparanya ako hapa, wakina Otuoma ako hapa, Florence Mt? ako hapa, waluya wote sisi nataka kuhakikishia, waluhya wote wako nyuma ya Raila Amollo Odinga. Na tuta simama imara.
Kwa nafasi hii, nataka kualika mbunge wa Dagoretti North akuje aseme kidogo, mweshimiwa Simba Arati.''THE FALL OUT CAME! Somebody heard seditious remarks - Kimani Ichungwa of Kikuyu constituency for one; somebody heard incitement beyond bearable hate speech! But what did the not-always-keen-ears of DPP Tobiko hear!? And what does he understand the law says!? There is no substitute to thinking, I always tell my students! If somebody says IF, (IKIWA)! then he or she has inserted a precondition, a logical precondition which, if your mind is clear, will dictate your interpretation of his subsequent content and flow. Ignoring a caveatus is to place oneself outside the rational mindset. If a = b. And b = c. Then a = c, and 2a = 2b = 2c.They use to teach that in standard six. Introduction to equations and mathematical logic. The most exacting form of logic known to the human mind. So lets see how the law EQUATES Aladwa's utterances to ..... what again was that charge-sheet Tobiko came up with!? But may be the debate here is not a rational one, but like a dream which needs a Freudian! But I warn: thinking is a dangerous thing. More dangerous than drink. But as a pleasure, it is not a bad third after sex: good sex being a close second to a sexual orgasm! That is thinking is masturbation by other means!
Let us all masturbate!Unedited.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Oct 25, 2015 7:33:49 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,
Whatever the crime, trading it with human blood is a NO! NO! Regardless of whether the blood you want to spill has anything to do with the crime or not.
So yes, Aladwa, like Moses Kuria and Muthama before him, must be crucified for offering Kenyans' blood as a way cleansing his rejected candidate.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by podp on Oct 25, 2015 7:57:38 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, Whatever the crime, trading it with human blood is a NO! NO! Regardless of whether the blood you want to spill has anything to do with the crime or not. So yes, Aladwa, like Moses Kuria and Muthama before him, must be crucified for offering Kenyans' blood as a way cleansing his rejected candidate. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Our slum dwellers count only when they shoo up the numbers in elections and when they are employed as cannon fodder and gunpowder in post-election violence. After that, they only matter as the gallery for the elite politician when he needs to ventilate. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000180537&story_title=Kenya-kenya-need-god-s-intervention-and-help-from-international-communityhowever reading Jakaswanga I got more than the above as his intention. ELITE PANIC -FIRE! is the matter that needs to be addressed. "Elite panic [is] the way that elites, during disasters and their aftermath, imagine that the public is not only in danger but also a source of danger." disinfo.com/2012/11/elite-panic-in-the-aftermath-of-disasters/“The concept of banker governance will be promoted as the best and only solution,” notes Smith, underscoring how the public will be conditioned to support centralized financial control as the only possible solution to future economic shocks. We have also previously outlined why the political class is perfectly content to engineer and exploit social unrest as a means of paving the way for the IMF and other global financial institutions to seize control of national economies, strip economic independence and reshape the entire financial system. www.infowars.com/george-soros-linked-to-elites-panic-over-social-uprising/Question: What is the magnitude of the economic crisis facing the country at the moment, in your appreciation? Have we been there before? Answer: I don’t think we have really been at this point before. The nearest we got to this was post-election crisis period of 2007, because of the upheaval we went through and the destruction that followed those events. Also, in the 90’s following withdrawal of donor support over the Goldenberg crisis. Those are the comparisons that come to mind. Question: Do you believe President Uhuru Kenyatta and his team are up to task of getting Kenya back on track? Answer: If I did not believe that they could redeem themselves I would not make the appeal I made on Wednesday. When I told the President to wake up and report on duty, what I meant is that he is absent. He is not working. That is why he has allowed things to get to crisis point. There is still time to rally his troops. At the moment they are in disarray. They are more concerned with PR than root causes of issues. When he talks about forming a council of elders to address issues of ethnicity, he’s basically running away from his problems. The issues are of his own making. Through skewed appointments Uhuru has resurrected the animal of negative ethnicity. According to him, this country is composed of only two communities. How does these other communities feel, being bypassed every day? If you are vomiting then inviting these elders to clean your vomit, what are you telling the country? The elders have no solution. Surrounding yourself with members of your own tribe does not help. And when you are travelling out of the country to New York, you carry along MPs from different parts of the country as joy riders to appease their communities. This cannot and does not appeal to those communities. You are bypassing their kin all the time, in government. And they see it. You are yourself, your worst enemy, and your advisers. Just do an analysis of recent public appointments and you will see how skewed it was; and this for a government which is way past its mid-term. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000180610/i-am-still-waiting-to-hear-from-you-mr-president-raila-tells-uhuruin her book A Paradise Built in Hell (Viking Press, 2009) establishes, from a broad survey of disasters, that the overwhelming response to disaster is a massive outpouring of mutual aid. The elites are revealed to be, at best, superfluous to society. This realization is a direct threat to the elites’ legitimacy, and so they often respond by trying to shut down the informal mutual aid networks, violently if necessary, replacing them with emergency management structures under elite control, even though they are woefully inferior at assisting the disaster victims..... Of course, nobody in their right mind would welcome the death and suffering that such catastrophe might bring upon us. But Solnit’s book suggests that the prospect of catastrophe need not lead to despair; rather, it may be a doorway to paradise. c4ss.org/content/38511so in conclusion the fact that Aladwa said what he did and the response from those welding power was to arrest him like an al Shabaab operative while baby sitting Kuria who belongs to PORK side and had said worse things goes to show we still live in the Hobbesian world. "While Hobbes insists that we should regard our governments as having absolute authority, he reserves to subjects the liberty of disobeying some of their government's commands. He argues that subjects retain a right of self-defense against the sovereign power, giving them the right to disobey or resist when their lives are in danger. He also gives them seemingly broad resistance rights in cases in which their families or even their honor are at stake." plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/and there in lies Mwalimumkuu's bleating highlighted above in red and countered in the last red high light. the best two things to happen in Kenya after the Constitution of 2010 is the ICC putting the likes of deputy PORK in such a powerful position as no other Vice PORK before him ever were in and Devolution. Kenya has historically pulled in extremes of centrists who argue that a unitary polity is critical for national unity, and federalists to whom a unitary system is an easy avenue for ethnic hegemony. The prime virtue of a federalist system, on its part, is in evenly distributing national resources and development. Today, the Council of Governors is the most distinctive, powerful and consistent advocate for federalism. Their beef is that the national government is unnecessarily hoarding an unfairly huge portion of the budget and functions that can, and should be, devolved to the counties. They insist on autonomy from the national government in terms of budget and on devolved functions. While the new constitution balances between centralism and federalism, the matter remains unsettled. Whether by default, principle, or to spite the ruling coalition, Cord has stood with devolutionists, severally siding with the CoG itself, or individual governors on the matter. Jubilee on its part, because of incumbency, and against its own popularity, has been more sympathetic to centrism. When the 2017 campaigns heat up, Jubilee will likely ape Cord’s language on devolution. Yet whoever wins the election is most likely to shift positions back to centrism. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/politics-time-devolution#sthash.YZQWE2pH.dpuf |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 25, 2015 9:21:38 GMT 3
EPISODE 3: ALADWA BREAKS RANKS: TOWARD A NEW NATIONAL CONSENSUS ON THEFT!?''If we win this time, and they rob us of victory, then if it takes death for Raila to be president, so be it! That cannot be so bad surely! A bit of death for Raila to move on!'' so spake in content George Aladwa, former and last mayor of Nairobi, and as I now been informed, Makongeni born. CRUCIFY HIM! CRUCIFY HIM! HATER! HATER! Ye of good manners fell over themselves in denunciation!
We of bad minds decided better would be a long look at this character!MWALIMUMKUU, I just seen your good point. Alternative principle. I will stop by later in the day, I am still turbo engaged! ------------ episode continued: The elite close ranks of course, more so when a crisis looms. That is a basic instinct of survival. Because if they do not, those ranks can be broken, holes punctured in the ruling, spell-binding narrative, and a new consciousness achieve ascendancy, or at least its seditious import corrupt a significant percentage of the population. That would be a danger to the ruling constellation because it leads to ideological instability, leads to confusion, which is the harbinger of alternative social and political activity. But at one point a sustained tension from below must split the elite. An enlengthened crisis does. CONSENSUS The papers are full everyday of petty thieves and would-be violent thieves summarily executed. There are marauding bands of plain-clothes policemen whose trigger happiness is only put to shame by the trigger ecstasy of their anti-terrorist counterparts within sight of Somali youth. Even when one so innocent goes down in collateral damage, the consensus is, that is an affordable price: Robbers must be killed on sight, if not on suspicion, O yes, bravo the police killer units! Human rights? for that we vote Saudi Arabia with her public spectacle of ISIS-like throat-cutters.    On the other side of the Kenyan compartmentalised thinking, the national political consensus is theft of public resources is bon ton. But lip service is of course profusely paid to the anti-corruption fight. Indeed, if you do not loot Wanjiku in high office, you are an incorrigible fool: -- ''Kaggia, what have you done for yourself!?'' is a thunderous echo of that deep mentality, nay, the political infrastructure of systematic graft. Nobody has to read John Githong'o, the Auditor General's reports, World Bank or IMF notas, Kroll reports, nor Transparency Internationals, to know why, for instance, the deputy president of Kenya is humorously if not loosely called Singh!    hakuna float cartoon. We the people of Kenya know our political elite is a band of robbers. That knowledge is dangerous power if mobilised into practice, if a new gospel hits town. We know, if we were to mean business on combating theft, were to insist on implementing the integrity clause in the apparently aborted constitution, it would be a wipe-out at the top. Yeah, mesays if a guillotine were to be erected at Uhuru park to reckon with big theft, you give me a name of any noteworthy personality in Kenya who would keep his head, and I will show you the dodo nestling at Lambue Valley! And we aint gone high-tech Jurassic yet!   But we the people are complicit of course. We do elect the robbers of free will! Amen! So what does it take to tolerate, accept, worship and repeatedly mandate (by elections) a band or robbers to the lofty auspices of the land!? (others would offer that it takes a suicide pact, one to kill off the nation!). For petty thieves we have a different consensus. For the lowly, a different legal system, value system. We healthily bay and yell for their blood immediately -- as in mob justice. The course of the law then appears too long a process to bother with. This is how it be, that this mid October at Kisumu, when a toy-gun wielding bank-robber was gunned down to universal applause, the chiefs of police rushed to pose with his bloodied body like cowboys with a severed Injun head in Old Wild West. And, give us more of the same, cried the 40-brothers terrorised Kisumu residents! Visit upon us more extra-judicial killings! We need security like we need daily bread! But when a politically-connected pen-robber like Anne Adul or Waiguru clean out the public kitty at amounts that, coverted to dollars, could salvage the wits of the scared Kenyan shilling, a strange chorus comes into play: STEP ASIDE! Very mild!  No one is reported baying for their blood in the literal sense of the word. --How come!? Nobody says: send both Anne's to Kamiti dungeons and throw the keys in the Indian Deeps! How come!? Nor does any politician call for their summary execution ---the way they ever call for some hoi-polloi who holds up a Mpesa joint to be expired on the spot! How come!? There is also the case of the three or so great doctors of economics at the national treasury, who have arrogated  themselves the power to control and use as their personal fiefdom, the accounts and proceeds of the famous Eurobond which should have gone along way on beefing up the investment portfolio of the government. It is a Kapital offence. But here is their defence The law governing theft in Kenya is clear. The powerful get away with it. Repeatedly. The currency is impunity. Electoral theft is just another of that privilege for the elite. Rigging elections need not have consequences. Must not have consequences.  But what in Kenya now does Aladwa say!? His gospel reads a different sermon. The consensus on getting away with rigged elections, Raila the victim, is up for grabs. --kiumane! Heresy! BUT WAIT A MOMENT! Howbeit 2007/8 PEV is a ghost haunting the nation, because kiliumana; and zealously too, albeit shortly. It could all be unfinished business. Is it not so that we wont debate the Waki report, do a Truth and honest Reconciliation, nor engage in real and meaningful self-introspection? Is it not so that cardinal reforms like the LAND ISSUE are being deliberately retarded? ----Land being our twisted feet even as we want to make a dash for industrialisation! Kenya looks like a tale of a healing process on hold ---and on the theatrical side, George Aladwa has declared the famous Jubilee prayer rallies an exercise in falsehoods whose wretched hypocrisy disgusts even the Almighty Patient God! But there could be worse, with the Jubilee government having become a celebration of corruption, who is to guarantee the next elections will not be rigged!? The -- Paulo Mwanga-like--- IEBC certainly not. It looks a rot like the Kenya National Examinations council standing accused of the business of selling the papers for a fee, in a national scandal of leaked exams. George Aladwa has hit a live wire then. He was not looking for it, methinks, but he hit it all the same. Traumatised zombies that we suspect we are, or, better, tribal Manchurian candidates waiting for a command to awake and wreak havoc that we suspect we could be, the political elite already plotting to contrive the results of the next elections shudder at the prospect of a public that, for whatever reason, WILL NOT ACCEPT THEFT! Continued. episode 4. HISTORICAL PERSONALITY AS HISTORY'S MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE REVISITED. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 25, 2015 9:40:18 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, Whatever the crime, trading it with human blood is a NO! NO! Regardless of whether the blood you want to spill has anything to do with the crime or not. So yes, Aladwa, like Moses Kuria and Muthama before him, must be crucified for offering Kenyans' blood as a way cleansing his rejected candidate. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Mkuu, you will of course recognise this is one of those issues which is a philosophical divide within mankind, an ideological divergence. It is like Gandhi's non-violence as a method of resistance to colonialism, in comparison to the alternative theory of armed resistance. Young Yoweri Museveni in 1981 after Nyerere had re-hoisted his old friend Obote to the presidency of Uganda in a rigged election end 1980, informed Africa of what choices he thought lay before Uganda. 1. Accept the rigging and join in. 2. Accept the rigging and retire in principle 4. Reject the rigging on principle and, in purification, let the nation face the consequences that may come. (of course after he came to power through the barrel of the gun, M7 has since become a notorious rigger!) |
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Post by kamalet on Oct 25, 2015 11:30:31 GMT 3
I see Jakaswanga looking at the unacceptable remarks by Aladwa from the hata nyinyi Kenyan way of excusing wrong doing.
Why go for Aladwa if you did not do anything to Kuria? The fact that the authorities appear to do nothing on Kuria (which actually is not true!!) does not excuse the utterances of Aladwa. We miss the point when we look at the reaction of the police rather than the danger that the utterances of Aladwa brings to society especially when we all recall that it was similar utterances in 2007 that brought Kenya to the brink of civil war in 2007.
Let us first condemn as unacceptable the utterances by Aladwa and then deal with the fairness or the lack of it in how the authorities deal with the matter.
For now I will not even go the subsequent remarks by Raila or even the venom that greeted the utterances by Kuria from the same CORD brigade who were screaming for his blood and now are mute about Aladwa!
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Post by podp on Oct 25, 2015 14:46:37 GMT 3
I see Jakaswanga looking at the unacceptable remarks by Aladwa from the hata nyinyi Kenyan way of excusing wrong doing. Why go for Aladwa if you did not do anything to Kuria? The fact that the authorities appear to do nothing on Kuria (which actually is not true!!) does not excuse the utterances of Aladwa. We miss the point when we look at the reaction of the police rather than the danger that the utterances of Aladwa brings to society especially when we all recall that it was similar utterances in 2007 that brought Kenya to the brink of civil war in 2007. Let us first condemn as unacceptable the utterances by Aladwa and then deal with the fairness or the lack of it in how the authorities deal with the matter. For now I will not even go the subsequent remarks by Raila or even the venom that greeted the utterances by Kuria from the same CORD brigade who were screaming for his blood and now are mute about Aladwa! from The Pitfalls of National Consciousness a number of gems stand out still more than 50 years later. sample this.... ... the nation is passed over for the race, and the tribe is preferred to the state. These are the cracks in the edifice which show the process of retrogression that is so harmful and prejudicial to national effort and national unity. We shall see that such retrograde steps with all the weaknesses and serious dangers that they entail are the historical result of the incapacity of the national middle class to rationalize popular action, that is to say their incapacity to see into the reasons for that action. This get-rich-quick middle class shows itself incapable of great ideas or of inventiveness. Some have a double source of income and demonstrate that they are specialized in opportunism. Privileges multiply and corruption triumphs, while morality declines. Today the vultures are too numerous and too voracious in proportion to the lean spoils of the national wealth. .....the bourgeoisie does not hesitate to invest in foreign banks the profits that it makes out of its native soil. On the other hand large sums are spent on display: on cars, country houses, and on all those things which have been justly described by economists as characterizing an under-developed bourgeoisie. Because it is bereft of ideas, because it lives to itself and cuts itself off from the people, undermined by its hereditary incapacity to think in terms of all the problems of the nation as seen from the point of view of the whole of that nation, the national middle class will have nothing better to do than to take on the role of manager for Western enterprise, and it will in practice set up its country as the brothel of Europe. so what you ask is a task too complicated for the likes of Uhuruto, RAO and company to comprehend hence we will spiral back to where we were in 2007 the beauty this time being the presence of ICC and Devolution to reckon with. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 25, 2015 14:57:06 GMT 3
EPISODE 4b. SADDLING THE UNWILLING BULL! Is there a correlation between income disparity and political instability? My answer is: Not necessarily. Peasant and feudal societies can be stable for centuries on end, with aristocrats ---- Pharaonic, Tsaric, Mogulish, Caesarean, or any other form of royalty------ richer than the All the World Banks while the rest go poorer than a Church-Rat, as the Luos say. Two factors at least must be in play for a modern political crisis. 1. Labour Differentiation, social fragmentation, open ideological irreconcilableness.
2. Stagnation of opportunity; closed avenues of massive social uppity or mobility.Ingredients of a ticking bomb which will require a certain ratio of 'security forces' to civilian population. A very prudent measure. A very strong-armed argument in case. RIGGINGAll Kenyan parties rig elections, primaries and national. (We will jog Aladwa's memory presently!) MiB! During the colonial era, like in apartheid South Africa, the electoral process was simply pre-rigged by exclusion. The majority of the black population simply were denied the vote. Period. However, the consequent ideologically similar flag independence or post-colonial reality, though still having the same problem, does not have the same solution. The problem remains: how can a select group, an elite, black diamonds so to speak, maintain power and the exclusive privileges that come with it while professing legitimacy!?But now the post-colonial complication of universal suffrage is in the mix, the answer is rigging elections, carrying out a sham process of legitimation. Second is a consistent, selective weeding out of radicals who could rock the boat. That selective weeding-out is not just BARRING OR BANNING like KANU used to do with George Anyona, Chelagat Mutai, Bildad Kaggia and the rest, but it also includes targeted assassinations like JM Kariuki, Dr. Johnstone Muthiora, Gama Pinto and the rest. But Rigging and murder in themselves still raises a new problem. It is risky. Raises social tension. Sharpens contradictions. Radicalises the situation. How many ways can a society respond to the political event of electoral rigging? I once read a book by young Yoweri Kaguta Museveni. He is forthright, coldly daring and cynically matter of fact. I paraphrased it for Mwalimumkuu above. -- T otal rejection (Uganda must erase this backwardness for ever!), civil strife.
--- Accept power-sharing, coalition government --Koffi Annan style, stalemate.
Another is also accept and move on, OtishOtish's pragmatic 'sheep must be shorn!'All these approaches and their variants vie for a hearing within national consciousness, and constitute debate. But there are those who control, or wish to control the debate for their self survival, so some options will be outlawed beforehand, will be punished, deemed seditious, treasonable, hateful or some other means of generating a consensus deployed, to banish them. Perish the thought! Aladwa!It is in this insecure attempt by a ruling (Kenyan) elite to impose their intra-class consensus as the general consensus of a society in rapid disintegration, that the elephant Aladwa wades in. Aladwa is breaking the consensus, he is like turning his back on his class. We will investigate some of the forces which urge and nudge him in this adventure. Which brings us to Episode 4c. THE LUHYA NATION STIRRING, RUBBING SLEEP OFF ITS EYES, ARISING!
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Post by b6k on Oct 25, 2015 15:15:35 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, this has to be your worst thread in history and I have to yank your teacher's cane from you so I can whack you across the back like the mzee in Kwale did to his governor and Raila. How can you even attempt to justify the indefensible by applying logic to it? Not only are you off the mark with your what "IF" argument thus trying to consign Aladwa's incendiary comments to the hypothetical, you zero'ed in on the wrong quote in terms of its inciting factor. The real shocker that squirmed its way out of Aladwa's "toilet mouth" (to borrow a phrase from OO) was this one: '' Raila ndiye akuwe President, lazima watu wakufe kiasi! Kwani kuna makosa gani. Na sisi apana watu wa kutishwatishwa. Lazima Raila aende mbele. -Raila aende State house ama asiende!?''Cheering response from the crowd There is no hypothetical situation there; no ifs ands or buts. In plain sight Aladwa stated that IN ORDER FOR RAILA TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF KENYA, A FEW PEOPLE MUST DIE!!! He then added that there's no problem with that happening! This from a former mayor of the cosmopolitan capital city of Nairobi?!!! Did we really learn anything from PEV, for crying out loud?!!! Jakaswanga, you owe the people of Kenya an apology, IF like Aladwa, you see nothing wrong in that kind of thinking and rhetoric... |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 25, 2015 17:22:45 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, this has to be your worst thread in history and I have to yank your teacher's cane from you so I can whack you across the back like the mzee in Kwale did to his governor and Raila. How can you even attempt to justify the indefensible by applying logic to it? Not only are you off the mark with your what "IF" argument thus trying to consign Aladwa's incendiary comments to the hypothetical, you zero'ed in on the wrong quote in terms of its inciting factor. The real shocker that squirmed its way out of Aladwa's "toilet mouth" (to borrow a phrase from OO) was this one: '' Raila ndiye akuwe President, lazima watu wakufe kiasi! Kwani kuna makosa gani. Na sisi apana watu wa kutishwatishwa. Lazima Raila aende mbele. -Raila aende State house ama asiende!?''Cheering response from the crowd There is no hypothetical situation there; no ifs ands or buts. In plain sight Aladwa stated that IN ORDER FOR RAILA TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF KENYA, A FEW PEOPLE MUST DIE!!! He then added that there's no problem with that happening! This from a former mayor of the cosmopolitan capital city of Nairobi?!!! Did we really learn anything from PEV, for crying out loud?!!! Jakaswanga, you owe the people of Kenya an apology, IF like Aladwa, you see nothing wrong in that kind of thinking and rhetoric... Ouch! I am not sure if whacking my back to a miserable stream of blood will further this sensitive argument! But am not ready to dare your vile temper, so I will dash off through the window, and throw you words from a safe distance! Are you saying from the point in speech when Aladwa states his caveat --if, to the moment when he says watu wakufe kiasi, there is no longer a connection in the logical flow!? (that the caveat is already expired!) I find that difficult to buy. No, I think this is one integrated speech, and the logical trajectory of the consequences (this time around) of rigging out Raila is still being pursued at this later juncture, when the so offensive, blood-curdling words are 'diarrhoead' (to stick with your toilet-mouth imagery!). If one takes the other option, that of a logical break, then the quote 'Raila akuwe president, lazima watu wakufe kiasi; kwani kuna makosa gani?' is internally incoherent. To remove this statement out of its context in the whole speech, and have it standing alone as it were, would then be too contrived, would be trying too hard to nail a man. 2. My endeavour in this thread ----c ertified my worst in history by none other than our own legendary Jukwaa Sniper,  thy b6k, is to pick bones and navigate through a minefield of a subject matter. Because in the hot and charged political atmosphere of Kenya, I am sure few will bother with the rigours of dissecting the fine points with respect to the responses to riggings in Africa, but they will yell HATE SPEECH and the rest, to score political points. Yet the powerful debate remains in Africa, even today in Tanzania: what if CCM rigs the election!? And next year in Uganda: what if M7 rigs!? And Kabilla and Nguesso!? Honestly I was observing the two Congos, sure Nguesso is --like Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi--- going to remain in power unless he is killed or forceful removed, when the Aladwa incident happened. I had prepared a lot of material for Congo Brazza, because I had a glimpse of that city when the Cobras and Ninjas went for it street by street, until Angolan armour arrived to break the logjam. Then Aladwa brought me home as it were. Here is wikipedia on Congo Brazza. Why pretend rigging elections is not to toy with a social grenade!? please expand the debate sir! |
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Post by b6k on Oct 26, 2015 16:23:38 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, this has to be your worst thread in history and I have to yank your teacher's cane from you so I can whack you across the back like the mzee in Kwale did to his governor and Raila. How can you even attempt to justify the indefensible by applying logic to it? Not only are you off the mark with your what "IF" argument thus trying to consign Aladwa's incendiary comments to the hypothetical, you zero'ed in on the wrong quote in terms of its inciting factor. The real shocker that squirmed its way out of Aladwa's "toilet mouth" (to borrow a phrase from OO) was this one: There is no hypothetical situation there; no ifs ands or buts. In plain sight Aladwa stated that IN ORDER FOR RAILA TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF KENYA, A FEW PEOPLE MUST DIE!!! He then added that there's no problem with that happening! This from a former mayor of the cosmopolitan capital city of Nairobi?!!! Did we really learn anything from PEV, for crying out loud?!!! Jakaswanga, you owe the people of Kenya an apology, IF like Aladwa, you see nothing wrong in that kind of thinking and rhetoric... Ouch! I am not sure if whacking my back to a miserable stream of blood will further this sensitive argument! But am not ready to dare your vile temper, so I will dash off through the window, and throw you words from a safe distance! Are you saying from the point in speech when Aladwa states his caveat --if, to the moment when he says watu wakufe kiasi, there is no longer a connection in the logical flow!? (that the caveat is already expired!) I find that difficult to buy. No, I think this is one integrated speech, and the logical trajectory of the consequences (this time around) of rigging out Raila is still being pursued at this later juncture, when the so offensive, blood-curdling words are 'diarrhoead' (to stick with your toilet-mouth imagery!). If one takes the other option, that of a logical break, then the quote 'Raila akuwe president, lazima watu wakufe kiasi; kwani kuna makosa gani?' is internally incoherent. To remove this statement out of its context in the whole speech, and have it standing alone as it were, would then be too contrived, would be trying too hard to nail a man. 2. My endeavour in this thread ----c ertified my worst in history by none other than our own legendary Jukwaa Sniper, thy b6k, is to pick bones and navigate through a minefield of a subject matter. Because in the hot and charged political atmosphere of Kenya, I am sure few will bother with the rigours of dissecting the fine points with respect to the responses to riggings in Africa, but they will yell HATE SPEECH and the rest, to score political points. Yet the powerful debate remains in Africa, even today in Tanzania: what if CCM rigs the election!? And next year in Uganda: what if M7 rigs!? And Kabilla and Nguesso!? Honestly I was observing the two Congos, sure Nguesso is --like Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi--- going to remain in power unless he is killed or forceful removed, when the Aladwa incident happened. I had prepared a lot of material for Congo Brazza, because I had a glimpse of that city when the Cobras and Ninjas went for it street by street, until Angolan armour arrived to break the logjam. Then Aladwa brought me home as it were. Here is wikipedia on Congo Brazza. Why pretend rigging elections is not to toy with a social grenade!? please expand the debate sir! , indeed there is no logical flow in Aladwa's comment from when he says "if" to when he says "a few people must die" because his whole premise is fundamentally flawed. IF a logically thinking person has his election stolen then the logical thing to do is to take his case to the Mutunga courts, not to cast a long look down his nether regions to determine whether indeed he has two testicles that will enable him to take on the powers that be. You do not need to remove the quote I highlighted out of its context to prove that it's a flawed argument. I mean come on, Jakaswanga, an election is stolen so a few people must die? REALLY?!! This in the era of sealed envelopes, coached and procured witnesses, shuttle diplomacy, and accused bigwigs having to jet to The Hague every now and again to kowtow to the law of the international community?!!! While wazungu have long hashed out the idea that "I think therefore I am" you honestly believe we should consign ourselves to "I have two balls therefore I fight" kind of "logic"? Elections alone do not constitute democracy, whether stolen or not. It's high time we moved away from this zero sum game...No Raila No peace type of thinking. Being a responsible citizen, even when you have been wronged (by having your election stolen, for example), is a far better approach than taking to the streets. The youth bulge in KE is such that anyone who attempts to use it's unbridled power as a weapon may someday face the wrath of the very forces he attempts to exploit time and time again. This has got to stop! Aladwa is spewing nonsense that shouldn't see the light of day. Not even in the murkiest street in any given Nairobi slum. Yet he is wantonly putting forth this "argument" in Kibra, as a solution to a political problem. If this is the best advice that Agwambo is getting from Abandu then little wonder he will forever wander in the political wilderness, outside the State House he so covets. Kenyans cannot afford to be so stupid for a second time.... PS: What's with the gory picture of the beheaded Arab? 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Post by mwalimumkuu on Oct 27, 2015 17:41:10 GMT 3
b6k,Ouch! I am not sure if whacking my back to a miserable stream of blood will further this sensitive argument! But am not ready to dare your vile temper, so I will dash off through the window, and throw you words from a safe distance! Are you saying from the point in speech when Aladwa states his caveat --if, to the moment when he says watu wakufe kiasi, there is no longer a connection in the logical flow!? (that the caveat is already expired!) I find that difficult to buy. No, I think this is one integrated speech, and the logical trajectory of the consequences (this time around) of rigging out Raila is still being pursued at this later juncture, when the so offensive, blood-curdling words are 'diarrhoead' (to stick with your toilet-mouth imagery!). If one takes the other option, that of a logical break, then the quote 'Raila akuwe president, lazima watu wakufe kiasi; kwani kuna makosa gani?' is internally incoherent. To remove this statement out of its context in the whole speech, and have it standing alone as it were, would then be too contrived, would be trying too hard to nail a man. 2. My endeavour in this thread ----c ertified my worst in history by none other than our own legendary Jukwaa Sniper, thy b6k, is to pick bones and navigate through a minefield of a subject matter. Because in the hot and charged political atmosphere of Kenya, I am sure few will bother with the rigours of dissecting the fine points with respect to the responses to riggings in Africa, but they will yell HATE SPEECH and the rest, to score political points. Yet the powerful debate remains in Africa, even today in Tanzania: what if CCM rigs the election!? And next year in Uganda: what if M7 rigs!? And Kabilla and Nguesso!? Honestly I was observing the two Congos, sure Nguesso is --like Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi--- going to remain in power unless he is killed or forceful removed, when the Aladwa incident happened. I had prepared a lot of material for Congo Brazza, because I had a glimpse of that city when the Cobras and Ninjas went for it street by street, until Angolan armour arrived to break the logjam. Then Aladwa brought me home as it were. Here is wikipedia on Congo Brazza. Why pretend rigging elections is not to toy with a social grenade!? please expand the debate sir! , indeed there is no logical flow in Aladwa's comment from when he says "if" to when he says "a few people must die" because his whole premise is fundamentally flawed. IF a logically thinking person has his election stolen then the logical thing to do is to take his case to the Mutunga courts, not to cast a long look down his nether regions to determine whether indeed he has two testicles that will enable him to take on the powers that be. You do not need to remove the quote I highlighted out of its context to prove that it's a flawed argument. I mean come on, Jakaswanga, an election is stolen so a few people must die? REALLY?!! This in the era of sealed envelopes, coached and procured witnesses, shuttle diplomacy, and accused bigwigs having to jet to The Hague every now and again to kowtow to the law of the international community?!!! While wazungu have long hashed out the idea that "I think therefore I am" you honestly believe we should consign ourselves to "I have two balls therefore I fight" kind of "logic"? Elections alone do not constitute democracy, whether stolen or not. It's high time we moved away from this zero sum game...No Raila No peace type of thinking. Being a responsible citizen, even when you have been wronged (by having your election stolen, for example), is a far better approach than taking to the streets. The youth bulge in KE is such that anyone who attempts to use it's unbridled power as a weapon may someday face the wrath of the very forces he attempts to exploit time and time again. This has got to stop! Aladwa is spewing nonsense that shouldn't see the light of day. Not even in the murkiest street in any given Nairobi slum. Yet he is wantonly putting forth this "argument" in Kibra, as a solution to a political problem. If this is the best advice that Agwambo is getting from Abandu then little wonder he will forever wander in the political wilderness, outside the State House he so covets. Kenyans cannot afford to be so stupid for a second time....
PS: What's with the gory picture of the beheaded Arab? The cartoons would have put the point across just fine Very well said B6K. Whereas I clearly see where the good old Jakas is coming from, there is a better way in which the Aladwa's can address their concerns. We have, as a nation been working very hard to create a culture of constitutionalism. We have so far come a very considerable distance and should not allow the Aladwas and their apologists to walk us back. Like one MP asked in one of the meetings, of what value will be for Raila to be president of dead Kenyans? Look at how they are handling the Wetangula issue, threatening everyone and every institution involved to a level of characterizing the Mutunga court as another arm of Jubilee Coalition. Their intention is to create an environment where there is no respect for any institution with the hope that they will unleash mayhem in 2017 leading to another nusu mkate government. I think Kenyans are wiser and will not allow them such an opportunity. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ |
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 27, 2015 20:43:05 GMT 3
b6k, I will have some comments on your post -I still wonder why you are so intent on framing me as manufacturing alibis for Aladwa's explosives. I see my task as explaining by some in-depth, some Kenyan social phenomena which, otherwise, manya fellow Kenyan wouldn't bother to take a longer look at than their noses -so to speak.
But one thing I always defend to a fault is FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. Here I do not compromise just because the social fabric of some ramshackle state, 50 years on, is still a house of cards waiting to be set alight. More about that later.
For now let me rush to post another episode on this the worst thread I ever authored on Jukwaa!
THE LUHYA NATION STIRRING, RUBBING SLEEP OFF ITS EYES, ARISING!
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 27, 2015 20:58:56 GMT 3
Episode 5. THE LUHYA NATION STIRRING, RUBBING SLEEP OFF ITS EYES, ARISING!Because the Baluhya do not thump their numerical drum in everybody's face, nor ever rub it in, the rest of the Big Tribes who never miss an opportunity to roar their numbers have, by their supremacist and xenophobic bellows, awakened a monster. Numbers!? Kwani they think Baluhyas can't count!? nor don't decode covert madharau!? Yawa, the way Musalia von Mudavadi was humiliated by Uhuruto, the way Eugene ibn Wamalwa is used like a harlot by Uhuruto, the way Wetangula now is being ball-squeezed! --ati cooks, domestics and watchmen only! How long before the Abaluhya feel for their balls and discover they are no less bouncy-bouncy than anybody else's!? Mundu ku---!? MUUNDUU!Here is a spectacular turn of phrase I lift from the notorious b6k: how long before an Abandu --'' casts a long look down his nether regions to determine whether indeed he has two testicles that will enable him to take on the powers that be!'' Mundu ku-Mundu! Surely no one can claim this fishing expedition down the nether regions has brought up a handful of goodies, if this below is the harvest of balls!  I find it significant then, that Aladwa is, romantically speaking, from the Bahluya community. (He is Nairobi born and Eastlands bred) . WHAT IS IT WITH LUHYA UNITY?  That significant (is) for two reasons. 1. The Baluhya are restless as above. There is a pulpable drive, that their political leadership has not skilfully leveraged their voting numbers for a maximum national riot within power. This debate is fierce, publicly or not. Methinks Luhya nationalism is transforming itself under this sustained pressure, becoming more combative, more Kenyan 'warlike', more radicalised. More about that later. NB: --The three vice presidency's (Mudavadi, Kijana, Awori) are thus internally interpreted as more of shameful underachievement than national success: they were tokens, and as such are proof of being the perfect domestic, loyal to a fault!  Ambitious Luhya plan to register 6m voters no walk in the park - Politics | Daily Nation 2. Urban historical memory: Kaa Ngumu Gumo.First, a detour. As a young student in Nairobi centuries ago, I remember the Gumo entourage. I was alerted of him because a Mluhya friend of mine, a fellow student, so adored and ever talked of him. He said Gumo was a hard, down-to-earth man, a 'Mngoo' of a different make, and he was taking the fight to groups otherwise feared. He was city-wise and street-smart. The immediate issue was some Luhya women who were chased away from selling makaa on the pavement of an open street. The chasing gang came from a certain dominant community who then terrorised others with impunity away from petty trade locations. Gumo, grabbing the nearest of us boys by the balls, looked at us and asked how many balls we spotted, and how many balls we thought the other side had. 'Miss lessons and go with the makaa women and stand guard the whole day. When the other men come to drive them away or collect illegal taxes, kaa ngumu, fight them off!' he ordered us gruffly. So I fought by default -I did not dare chicken out of this male-bonding ceremony of city circumcision initiation; and one block after another, our militia crept. And I soon noticed Bahluya prostitutes inviting us at a discount rate of 90%. That was after I absorbed a knife on their behalf, and they cheekily said I was no longer 'omusinde'! Kaa Ngumu Gumo! His base support was real, and it was earned. He was my first study of a city politician with a street-wise presence. He did not need to rig elections those days, he needed to be rigged out! Nairobi has a heavy dominance of tough street Gikuyu politicians. Men like Waititu now who sits uncomfortably with Jubilee posh; though in those days other names would come to mind. David Mwenje was no walk over either. And Maina Wanjigi had a gang going too in Kamukunji I think. It was therefore something of an audacious challenge, the toughness of Western Gumo, and knowingly or unknowingly, he was a source of pride to the Western city youth, tired of being taken for granted.My thinking is, the historical example of Kaa Ngumu Gumo in tough Nairobi, is a lesson Luhya nationalism is wrestling with, pondering in the light of how would-be heavyweights like Musalia Mudavadi are treated like litter, be it by Uhuruto, be it by Raila or Arap Moi. And few pundits, and wheeler-dealers arranging the Nairobi power equation in backrooms, want to admit just how populous the Luhya proletariat in Nairobi is. I saw this with a man called Mugabe Were, the late MP. He was a tough Luhya who was killed because he prevented the grabbing of the Dandora Community land where the stadium now occupies. Unknown to the official history of the land, Luhya urban legends and history recorded Mugabe Were a matyr. But you will never hear his name on any official SHUJAA DAY braggadocio, will ya!? It is this whirlpool of Luhya transformation, added to the restive nature of an urban population awaiting salvation and looking for other options --in the light of an economic crisis which is a political crisis, which forms the background to Aladwa's investigation of the consequences of breaking the elite consensus. An Eastlands boy lacking the posh of the total cross-over Kidero, he cannot afford to be even 30% deaf to the street, just like Sonko, Waititu and the earlier Gumo. Aladwa is ---method fiery rhetoric---- trying to bridge the increasing urban disconnect between a treacherous mercenary elite thieving its way to the sky -to which he belongs, and a disillusioned swell of urban youth incrementally recognising they are marooned below in a tomb of doom,  likely forever. Unless something big gives. These are the historical forces which operate independent of his will. There are the autonomous actions he undertakes as of individual decision of course, but whatever the case, George Aladwa's mind has become a fulcrum point, creaking under several weights, stretching under several directions, pondering how to stay relevant to a fluid future. There is also instinct. And that can be a natural talent in politics. Some people they say, are men of the people, have a populist rouble-rousing touch which makes them the envy of many an ambitious politician, even within their own ranks; and so it is important to watch how other Luhya politicians conduct themselves domestically. How does superstar Ababu Namwamba react!? I will propose Ababu Namwamba has lost his nerve and is most likely to dissociate himself from Aladwa. Ababu is rural conservative and, faced with the heady recklessness of an urban sub-altern proletariat and street hoi-polloi, he necessarily buckles easily. They are too radical a segment of society for his bred taste. That is why he had better things to do than attend their Uhuru park rally the other day, just like man Kidero, now a kind of Luo elder.  The General and the Captain, their battle plans have a shambolic look about them. They miss the dynamism of young Marcus Antony and wily Julius Ceasar crossing Rubicorns, going places. This is how reality smokes men out. Hard to picture him Tawfiq risking sleeping in the cells in a Kenyan prison, charged with for elite dissent! he is home eleswhere! sipping champagne, not bonding in jail by fishing lice out of a mate's hair! There is no political organisation that represents the large population base of the disenfranchised urban young. No, not even Aladwa's ODM. NB: we will joke later about Aladwa and Men-In-Black. Was that not a form of rigging!? '' Ikiwa tutashinda, na watuletee nyokonyoko ya Men-in-Black
..'' uta do!?End: Now I think I can tackle: HISTORICAL PERSONALITY AS HISTORY'S MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE REVISITED |
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 10, 2015 22:06:54 GMT 3
LA RESPONSE DE MBUVI SONKO, SENATOR! Mano-O-Mano! Mundu ku!? -Mundu! The political discourse in public fora in the capital city of the republic becomes a ruffian's ball. Foul mouths dominate the exchange, and it is a street brawl. It is a coup of sorts. The well-spoken, well-bred high-brow fellas who, were we healthy, would debate and discuss complex issues, riveting the public with visionary thought delivered in beguiling Demosthenian rhetorical flows --- Tom Mboya versus Arguings Kodhek in Dagoretti; Mwai Kibaki versus Tom Mboya in Bahati;  Of course Independence came with its challenges, and, half a century later, Aladwa became mayor and a few years later one, Mbuvi Sonko, became senator. In the meantime something happened to the quality of debate. It accurately reflected the quality of political leadership in the land. The fire of independence had begotten the ash that now itched the eyes of the nation. Once the mobs would have chosen sides, reason will be irrelevant! The contradictions sharpen in the ongoing economic crisis, but they sure are adopting a subterfuge form, a confusionist disguise in the absence of leaders who can articulate and demystify the complexity and smokescreens erected.
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themselves the power to control and use as their personal fiefdom, the accounts and proceeds of the famous Eurobond which should have gone along way on beefing up the investment portfolio of the government. It is a Kapital offence. But here is their defence 
thy b6k, is to pick bones and navigate through a minefield of a subject matter. Because in the hot and charged political atmosphere of Kenya, I am sure few will bother with the rigours of dissecting the fine points with respect to the responses to riggings in Africa, but they will yell HATE SPEECH and the rest, to score political points.
likely forever. Unless something big gives.