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Post by omundustrong on Nov 25, 2015 8:50:45 GMT 3
We all waited with bated breath to hear new technocrats who would slay the ogre of corruption that permeates all spheres of Government,but what did we get instead?Former jaded politicians,sycophants and wheeler dealers who have no track record of corporate experience but for Health and ICT.Whereas it is important to balance political expediency and professionalism,we expected a cabinet that would inspire confidence and breathe a fresh air into the polluted Cabinet that saw a third fired on suspicion or actual involvement in Corruption.Shifting non-performing Cabinet Secretaries from one docket to another does not augur well for service delivery.Some have been thrown in the deep end of the ocean to face the sharks of corruption,while others given dockets that are clearly above their weight.Think of labour and how fluid the industry is and you will understand my misgivings.
With all due respect to the President,he will need to work extremely hard with this kind of Cabinet to be able to deliver anything substantial that will endear him to the electorate come 2017.As for the newly nominated Cabinet secretaries i wish them well in their new dockets and the topsy-turvy world that leaves you with high blood pressure,heart-problems and the works.On an unrelated matter,congrats to JOHN POMBE MAGUFULI for walking the talk.At this rate unless something seriously happens to him,his place in the annals of history is assured.
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Post by b6k on Nov 25, 2015 10:18:29 GMT 3
Omundustrong I have to agree with you. The recycled politicians has been a disappointment. Even the technocrats in the first cabinet who were presumed to be promising ended up being quite flat. But the more I think about it, the more I wonder whether Anne Waiguru wasn't right after all. Isn't all the work done by the PS and the hoardes of career civil servants who usually don't change much even with regime change? Isn't it time we overhauled the civil service and ensured that those retained actually do the work they're paid to do WITHIN THE LAW? We might be spending too much time looking at people at the helm when it's the culture of the drones that's flawed? Since we seem stuck with a broken appointment system that takes into consideration tribal arithmetic and votes maybe we should try and correct the civil service itself so that it works regardless of which flower girl or totem tribal chieftain is given the opportunity to fly the flag...
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Post by kamalet on Nov 25, 2015 11:51:19 GMT 3
We whine too much and hide behind generalities rather than specifics! The cabinet works bar a few and we can praise some of the new faces and wonder how others made it!!! I still cannot fathom the value that Kiunjuri (the Shareman) or Keter bring to the cabinet whilst I think the appointments of Sicily Kariuki and Joe Mucheru makes sense as they have ample knowledge of their dockets based on the private sector experience. Putting Maillu at Health just because the man was running Nairobi Hospital may not be the most successful way of running the important docket of health (you might be surprised at the celebratory mood at the Nairobi Hospital that the man is gone rather than congratulatory!). How Wario is still in charge of sports I cannot fathom....but as long as the president has acceptable characters heading some of the other important dockets that need to deliver on his manifesto, I am cool.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Nov 25, 2015 21:26:05 GMT 3
This one caught me by surprise. I am particularly disturbed by William's choices thus far. From Kazungu Kambi to Keter. Most of the colorless CSs seem to be URP leaning. Why? I have no idea.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 29, 2015 9:35:18 GMT 3
We all waited with bated breath to hear new technocrats who would slay the ogre of corruption that permeates all spheres of Government,but what did we get instead?Former jaded politicians,sycophants and wheeler dealers who have no track record of corporate experience but for Health and ICT.Whereas it is important to balance political expediency and professionalism,we expected a cabinet that would inspire confidence and breathe a fresh air into the polluted Cabinet that saw a third fired on suspicion or actual involvement in Corruption.Shifting non-performing Cabinet Secretaries from one docket to another does not augur well for service delivery.Some have been thrown in the deep end of the ocean to face the sharks of corruption,while others given dockets that are clearly above their weight.Think of labour and how fluid the industry is and you will understand my misgivings. With all due respect to the President,he will need to work extremely hard with this kind of Cabinet to be able to deliver anything substantial that will endear him to the electorate come 2017.As for the newly nominated Cabinet secretaries i wish them well in their new dockets and the topsy-turvy world that leaves you with high blood pressure,heart-problems and the works. On an unrelated matter,congrats to JOHN POMBE MAGUFULI for walking the talk. At this rate unless something seriously happens to him,his place in the annals of history is assured. The reshuffle underscored paralysis. That is rationalised by a stalemate behind the scenes in the 50/50 arrangement. The insecurities of Ruto --that Kenyatta despite his protestations to the contrary could dump him come 2017, had to be assuaged, and the rivalries in Kenyatta's court for the plum docket of devolution, too, had to be squared off. And so a hapless 'recyclee', Kiunjuri, proved acceptable to all. It is an implosion. But it means the old hawk Joseph Kinyua will have a freer reign in his 'supervisory role' of the MoneyMaker ministry. --Supervising an alleged sweetheart of the Boss is a poisoned order, thus the implied relief of the Old Fox Joseph at Anne's departure. Kericho senator Keter's elevation is pure cynical calculation. An move to neutralise Bomet governor Isaact Rutto. The South Rift must not drift away. Political interesting is the death of the underlying idea of technocracy above politics, wherefore ministers needed not be politicians. Kaimenyi was awarded education for the same reasons Cleopa Mailu is now awarded Health. An insider man. His transfer which would have been a sacking would it not have raised turbulence in the hometurf, arose from the pandemonium and chaos Education has become under his incompetent watch. Lands!? Ah, a bone had to be found for expediency. I think we are back in the UK style we have been having ever since. A dance of the chairs. Minister is a politician's job. Technocrats are there on the desks -PS, deputy PS's, heads of departments and the whole mandarinate or bureaucratic apparatus behind the minister, but working for themselves primarily. A genial comedy series in the fashion of classical British satire, educates us. Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, but Yes Minister, British comedy series. power is not much any different anywhere else. He actually, significantly increased the bureaucratic recurrent expenditures at a time when cash-crunched Rotich is trying to do haircuts? eh! Let us spark an industrial revolutions, uttered the son of Jomo in his first joint house national speech. Never mind he had been finance minister before. Today the same man has admitted corruption threatens national security, and from Obama to the Pope, high profile foreigners take liberties spitting in the face of the Kenyan President as he plays host. This man is a lost case, no dignity. NB: The Pope does not do moral lessons to anyone sane. He is the head of an international network of paedophile monsters masquerading as celibate priests. Yet Kenya is so rotten he has no qualms climbing the moral pedestal to lecture the president! Ululu! From Ruto to the Pope I looked --as the Vatican man condemned greedy men who grabbed children's playfields, and back again at Uhuru Kenyatta between them: Two graft-inebriated black men and one old white apologist for child rapists, and I said to myself, yawa, when the gods hate you, that is the kind of sh!t that forms the high point of a working week, whole city closed! --Cheers! |
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Post by omundustrong on Nov 30, 2015 7:22:24 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,my senior,mentioning the POPE in the same sentence with some names is pure sacrilege!Yawa!With all due respect,the Pope's message was simple but hard-hitting,"corruption is sweet like sugar","corruption is the way to death not to life"i think the country was the better with his presence and for once there was fresh air in our polluted country,polluted with corruption,looting,land-grabbing,nepotism,all these ills were condemned by the Pope in message that sunk deep.His message met many to reflect deep and hard.And unlike in the animal farm,when i looked at Snowball and Napoleon there was a clear difference!
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 1, 2015 21:04:27 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,my senior,mentioning the POPE in the same sentence with some names is pure sacrilege!Yawa!With all due respect,the Pope's message was simple but hard-hitting,"corruption is sweet like sugar","corruption is the way to death not to life"i think the country was the better with his presence and for once there was fresh air in our polluted country,polluted with corruption,looting,land-grabbing,nepotism,all these ills were condemned by the Pope in message that sunk deep.His message met many to reflect deep and hard.And unlike in the animal farm,when i looked at Snowball and Napoleon there was a clear difference! Omundustrong, sorry for any discomfort I might have caused you, respectable friend, with respect to the Holy Father! The Pope's message was crystal clear. And he did touch raw nerves on his anti-corruption sermon. And further in the Central African Republic, CAR, he had a good message preaching unity between warring denominations and religions. But all these do not ---ahemm, how should I put it, wholly divert attention away from some institutional shortcomings within the church, especially that of horny priests joyriding minors within the churchly flock. But then, moving right along away from Pope Porn -(that is the phraseology of the b6k whose sinful  turns of phrase I like), let me stop by this other issue you brought up. John Pombe Magufuli, the newly elected PORT! Now, I was pleasantly surprised to find him an elephant in a holy cupboard. There seems to be a real reshuffle at the top of Tz and her CCM. While over here in Kenya Rotich and Muigai are not much of barbers --haircutting naught in terms of exorbitant, wasteful state expenditure---- Pombe seems to be adopting the razor-blade and soap, all the way to the roots, the hair must go! The ultimate test is of course whether Pombe institutionalises all these measures, or whether he is just engaged in a passing honeymoon exercise in PR ingratiation. He is a CCM insider after all, and it would be difficult, if not unconvincing, to imagine he rose up being clean all the way. Nevertheless on the positive side, baggage can be shed, and like Fred De Klerk who was a believer in apartheid but saw the light, one can rise to the historical moment and above his past. Freddo saw the chasm the apartheid regime was headed for and balked. He did the necessary, freed the terrorist  Nelson Mandela, unbanned the criminal  syndicate ANC, and went for one man one vote for all South Africans, regardless. So Pombe could in similar circumstance be the drunk who saved the nation but lost the party. As Corrupt and inefficient as TZ now is, I do not think it can peacefully hold Zanzibar. It has nothing to offer except a dead Nyerere. Zanzibar would be better of transforming itself into a nearby Dubai, leaving Tanganyika to its mainland political parasites and CCM bureaucratic cannibals. Yes, doctors at a national referral hospital colluded with medical technicians to SABOTAGE equipment and machines, so to drive patients to (their) private hospitals, (or, in the other case, they were hired by private hospitals to sabotage public hospitals!) Either way, how this Kenya-like-Nyang'au model could come to be the standard practice under CHAMA CHA MAPINDUZI, needs a radical re-think of Julius Nyerere. The old burger should be exhumed to come and see the hell he bequeathed, thereafter his bones cremated. And Jakaya Kikwete the saviour of Kenya during post PEV negotiations? Him he should just be put to the stake and fired the way heretics were. I mean, OmunduStrong, I used to travel around, and I have been to academic hospitals here and there so I can compare. When I look at African patients on the floor of Kenyatta National, or Pumwani maternity, or Jaramogi Odinga referral, or Kikwete's Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar, and I add up the travel budgets of African delegations to, for instance this week, Paris Climate assembly and, last week, ICC the Hague, I am in a mood for rougher things than sacrillege!John Pombe Magufuli should develop what is called a system. Systems do not need surprise visits by the CEO for departmental top performance. Just runs on, independent of the latest fad at the top. You know, like corruption is a system in Kenya. Moi, Kibaki and Raila, or Uhuru and Ruto, it makes no difference! Just the same old KANU system! Until then, De Klerk or, let us pray, Pombe Magufuli! Comes along! And moves right along way from the pathology of corruption! |
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Post by omundustrong on Dec 2, 2015 9:44:13 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,my senior,a myriad of topics covered under one head and still makes sense!Kudos.For your info iam not a Catholic,i come from that denomination popular in Western Kenya called the Friends quakers,which started in Kaimosi and spread all over,closer home you may have heard of Friends International centre on Ngong Road.On the Pope, we all agree the messaging was spot-on during the homilies and iam sure resonated well with a majority.When he talks of 17% controlling 80% of the resources in Kenya his message captures what people like JM Kariuki talked of decades ago before he was found by one herdsman in Ngong despatched to his maker express!On Magufuli,systems are just as strong as the people setting them up,it helps to have some champion who takes no prisoners for the systems to work.Kenya has one of the best frameworks in the world in form of the constitution that was touted the as be-all and end-all of our problems,however here we are tumbling down the abyss of corruption like headless chickens. Back to the reshuffle, with the need to vet all CSes transferred to new ministries another avenue for greasing the palms of the "vetters"presents itself.While on this ,in another unrelated story,The BBC Panorama story on how BAT bribed some honchos and facilitated their movement and accommodation in their Headquarters is the latest pointer to how Ministers and MPs are compromised by corporates to support their positions even if the effect is to kill the poor.Those politicians we see shouting about corruption may after all be "The Chief Priests of Corruption" as one Raila Amolo Odinga likes to call them.
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turns of phrase I like), let me stop by this other issue you brought up. John Pombe Magufuli, the newly elected PORT!
Nelson Mandela, unbanned the criminal 
syndicate ANC, and went for one man one vote for all South Africans, regardless. So Pombe could in similar circumstance be the drunk who saved the nation but lost the party.