Options on Kenya's Prime Minister, The Murky Joseph Kinyua

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ON KENYA'S PRIME MINISTER, the MURKY JOSEPH KINYUA

Disclaimer: going by official statements, there is nothing to worry about. So have Thugge, Rotich and Uhuru Kenyatta re-assured. But I have reason to be a doubting Tom. Reports from boardrooms give a different perspective. Not only is there struggle between local and foreign capital, there is also intra-foreign capital collision. The French (fronted by Amethis) want to move in at time when the Old British (Barclay) are tiring out, then there is the Oily Gulf angle. Locally, men like Uhuru Kenyatta are interested parties. But the Kenyattas are not the only local boys salivating at the widows of the dead banks. The situation could therefore be contrived. Man-made yes, but also deliberately designed. It could be a move in which the criminal looter-managerial class who have made fortunes are but blinded pawns. And CBK Njoroge too, little more.

Now that there is a banking crisis by my take, I can not avoid the elephant in the room. The banking crisis has become like a depth charge forcing the discrete submarine prowling in the deeps to surface. The blind can continue to look the other side. The mentally dead too, continue their slumber.

Me? I have been busy at Sudoku. Sudoku is a tedious but enjoyable process like seduction. And they ever get progressively complex. The clues are there, open and visible figures, but one has to fathom the relationship and discover the system connecting the whole puzzle. ----So, what is this banking turbulence in Nairobi all about?

But first, Joseph Kinyua, his Excellency the Prime Minister. (We called his predecessor Raila Excellency, so the title to Kinyua too!)

I have earlier taken options on this man Joseph. Earlier at a period when he was not yet the PM of Kenya. I wish I would say 'taken exception'. Alas, they are options. Options, outside punishment, are a set of purely academic questions I throw at experts and expect them to give me well-reasoned, thought-out responses. We then can argue different theoretical premises, wrestling with the puzzle. It is a mental game the initiated are suppose to enjoy, an interdepartmental form of Sudoku, if you know the number crosswords that titillate many a mind and fill up plenty of time slots. It is all for hobbystic pleasure, sometimes dangerously addictive –---like masturbation of which the catholic pastors stiffly warned against. (NB: in my O level school, our football team used to celebrate victory by a collective masturbation session aided by niche pictures from a magazine called Play Boy! Rumours of this ritual reached the priesthood and all hell broke loose! You will be addicted to death, and speedy hell! Snarled the paedophile specialists aka clergy!) But that is a story for another day.

Anyway, such a senior head-cracking bout of sudoku set-up could be something like this:

Question: Amigo Sir, given your understanding of state bureaucracies in post-colonial Africa, and your specialisation in the Kenyan post-colonial state, especially the way her finances work, do you think it plausible that the budgetary computer errors which finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta announced, could have passed all the check-points and proof-readership of all the relevant professionals in the treasury department? What is the protocol, at least officially, at the ministry for fact-checking sheets before they are availed as facts to the minister to report on officially? Who is it who most likely slept on the job?

After a back and forth of haggling over the price and quality of whiskey I would pay for that consultancy, some kind of answer then comes through. One considered and articulate. That goes a long way to aid the conversion of every cheap into a dead shot.

Such a question was the genesis of my option on Joseph Kinyua. Sudoku. The expert answered point blank. 'You may want to take a look at Joseph Kinyua. He is the best shot I got at a clue!' That response costed me two bottles of damn good scotch!

Though not an inner Kibaki groupie –--which would allow him to easily merge with the rising Uhuru Kenyatta wing which the old and posh Gikuyu gentrifieds found uncouth and messy eaters, Joseph Kinyua was a kind of permanent, permanent secretary at the ministry of finance. Kind of, to understate the case as it was.

President Kenyatta names former PS Joseph Kinyua Chief of Staff, Public Service head

President Kenyatta has appointed former Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua as Chief Of Staff and Head of Public Service.
Thursday, September 26 2013




President Kenyatta (then Finance Minister) confers with the Treasury PS Joseph Kinyua during preparation of the 2011 /2012 budget at the Treasury in this file photo.

For nearly a decade, Mr Kinyua served as Permanent Secretary in the Treasury and was a central figure in the execution and oversight of most economic policies in former President Kibaki’s government.
Mr Kinyua has served government and quasi-government agencies for more than three decades.
He also served as director in the research and financial markets departments at the Central Bank of Kenya. He is also a former senior official at the International Monetary Fund.

President Kenyatta has appointed former Treasury Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua as Chief Of Staff and Head of Public Service.
President Kenyatta revealed Mr Kinyua's new role during a meeting of Cabinet and Principal Secretaries at State House, Nairobi Thursday.

In his role, Mr Kinyua will, among other things, coordinate Cabinet affairs and Cabinet programmes.
"I have absolute trust and confidence that you will continue to serve your country with distinction,” President Kenyatta told Mr Kinyua.
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"I have served my country for most of my life with dedication and will continue to do so in this new role. I am deeply honoured by the trust and confidence the President has shown in me,” Mr Kinyua said.

He in his own words has served Kenya with distinction and dedication or so he appeared to genuinely believe his own blurb: This promotion to the Premiership of the land was thus long in coming. Kibaki had mark-timed him, that is kept him parked, stationary. –-Arrogant Othaya goat!

I went to take a look at the results and content of that distinction and dedication expended over a long period of time. (Surely all that brilliance and bureaucratically celebrated vigour of Kinyua had to have expended itself somewhere, and behold, manifest traces should not be too difficult to find, I believed.)
But I immediately entered a ditch: The mess of at the parastatals. (this one needs a chapter of its own! Talk about failed supervision, insider dealing, economic sabotage and outright plunder! You name it!)

As I crawled out of that ditch, I quickly ran into Njuguna Ndung'u. –--President Mwai Kibaki had displayed a rare tantrum when Njuguna Ndung'u, governor of the central bank, stalled him on orders of the IMF, clearly importing on Kibaki the straight-jacket he was curbed in. The president was a prisoner, a vassal head of state, a dog on a financial leash held short by good friends. This humiliation would be the Genesis of the Look East pledge. A pledge Joseph Kinyua would have nothing of, of course. Kibaki and Raila had agreed on the need for an expansive infrastructure upgrade. That costs money, and Moi having left behind a mess, this meant borrowing even as local sources for collection were upgraded. The priority of the IMF (then employing people like Rotich and Patrick Njoroge and grooming them for higher dogmanship) was to have its old loans paid up first, not underwrite new ones for post-Moi infrastructural megalomania! Nairobi had become a war-zone between quisling mercenaries planted by the IMF at the Treasury and the NARC regeneration doctrine fronted by Kibaki and Raila. Glowering at a punchless David Mwiraria, something had to give. Emilio lost his temper! –--Look East!

Fortunately, it was also the right historical moment to look east. The West was spending like mad on Gulf Wars, and was hard-up. The IMF was but debt collector under pressure by his boss to squeeze money off stones. But they had no lever over China, a new kid on the lending block, and more blocks. That too is another story. (we may revisit it when we fathom why dedicated patriots who went to the good schools like Njoroge and Rotich have not found it fit to have Africa have anything to do with the recently China launched Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Remember all American vassal states in the European continent disobeyed their master to queue for admission into the 'Asian' bank, effectively a bomb under the old Bretton-Woods dual greats.

The opening of the AIIB marked a milestone in the reform of the global economic governance system, Lou said in an interview earlier

Beijing: China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in which India and 56 countries have joined as founding members was formally opened here on Saturday by President Xi Jinping.

"This is a historical moment," Xi said ,

We keep this angle for later then. But I noticed the absence of Africa in this new world bank (prototype). And I noticed the silence of our best and brightest. Sudoku time I thought!

HOW DEEP DOES JOSEPH KINYUA WADE IN THE MESS?

I always call him an ancient. Unrivalled pedigree. The tap root with tentacles in every fissure to moisture. (The Mother Ship! –-to use a pirate's analogy!) The alpha and Omega at the Treasury. Uhuru is his third president.

Mr Kinyua has served government and quasi-government agencies for more than three decades.
He also served as director in the research and financial markets departments at the Central Bank of Kenya. He is also a former senior official at the International Monetary Fund.

There, is the genesis of the rumoured Kibaki animosity toward Kinyua. Nothing personal, purely ideological. Both men were ancients at the treasury, and outside Kibaki, of the living mandarins –---pirates of the Kenyan Treasury, Joseph Kinyua was now the Keyser Soze. The Don of dons.

As I studied the exploits of the Kenyan treasury where the senior partner Joseph Kinyua had served with distinction and dedication, I could not see results of the genius in Wanjiku's improved futures, on the contrary, she was being stripped and set up for more ritual abuse, therefore the excellence which had been Kinyua's tenure had to be found elsewhere, far from the taxpayer's interests. And as celebrated, as bureaucratically vigorous as indicated, the results I believed would be shining bright. If one looked at the right place. Let us say Anglo-Leasing and Goldenberg for secondants. Parastatals we already mentioned for starters.

ANGLO-LEASING AND GOLDENBERG?

Yes! Follow the Money Money Money! I went to find the statistics of LOSS. There are institutions whose calculators give figures to GDP losses suffered by states like Kenya, credited to graft. Figures vary of course. I gather it depends on methodology, and definitions are not universal. (Try the figures on unemployment in the USA and see what I mean. Even math is a subjective science after all!) So how much is Kenya loosing to graft?

Kenya is losing more than Sh500 billion or about a tenth of GDP on bribery, creative accounting, wasteful spending, tendering fraud, and other graft practices – mostly perpetrated by private firms – according a recent study by KPMG.

May be we should start with the figures from our own government auditor general! Still

Kenya is losing a third of its budget - the equivalent of about $6 billion (Sh608 billion) - to corruption every year, the country’s new anti-graft chief told Reuters.

Philip Kinisu, a retired auditor, said in an interview that his agency was badly short of staff and modern equipment to tackle the problem. He said he wanted to build on Kenyans’ discontent with corruption but the real drive to stamp it out had to come from public pressure for change. While the Finance minister disputed Kinisu’s estimate of the losses, blaming instead poor paperwork, President Uhuru Kenyatta has acknowledged corruption has reached levels that threaten national security. Kenya has a history of multi-million-dollar scandals that have failed to result in high-profile convictions. This has angered the public, who accuse top officials of acting with impunity and encouraging graft among those in lower posts

www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000194528/anti-graft-chief-says-a-third-of-kenyan-budget-lost-to-corruption ...

more data

About 98.8% of the money spent by Kenya’s ministries in the 2013/14 financial year could not properly be accounted for, according to several news reports, laying credence to the pitiable state of public financial management in East Africa’s largest economy.

and

Barack Obama, it must have felt like being in a timewarp. His hometown of Chicago, once the most corrupt city in the US, emerged from the grip of gangsters and grafters almost a century ago to a new, flourishing future. Obama urged Kenyans to follow that example and reap the benefits. He reckons corruption costs the Kenyan economy 250 000 jobs a year. As Kenyan GDP is about one sixth the size of South Africa’s, using Obama’s calculations would put SA’s annual corruption-based job losses at a staggering 1.5m. Even if that’s an exaggeration, the message is clear.

referenced (or calculated) back from the ranking of Kenya in the international corruption index, figures are between 20-25% GDP lost per year.
Now we know wherefrom, for instance the multi-million fuel-guzzlers jamming our roads, are paid and fuelled in an economy of a pimped $52Bn GDP, with a 550% youth unemployment and a loan repay problem.

Joseph Kinyua, the most ancient and conscience at the treasury, distinguished hardworker and industrious supremo, has obviously never indulged his formidable talents for the sake of Wanjiku. No, all these years he has been a public fraud. He has had other masters to serve –--which he did with unquestionable dedication and distinction. Masters whose interests are furthest from both his oath, brief and national aspirations. Old Joseph may be a wily old fox, but his true colours shine through his sheepskin. In my class he falls far below a pass. I ran good tests on him. He is a rasputin whose genius was to extort the national treasury, to facilitate decades of heist. The current looting spree by corrupt bankers which has blown off confidence in tthe sector, is just the latest episode to add a new feather to his criminal hat, adding another medal of honour to the traitorous service of this Prime Minister.

If there is a single neck in Kenya that deserved the chop, it is this patron saint of national rape!


But true to the chronicles of a people beside their historical personality, his name unto the heavens shall we sing! Hosana Kinyua! O Lord Joseph!



Continued.

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TIME-OUT: ARBEIT! ARBEIT! ARBEIT! HOLY LABOUR!

To understand where I am coming from, let me introduce a yardstick, to help define a parameter. Hard work, hard work which can be measured in the oppen. Like a male erection, it is the kind which is a hard to fake.


Michael Joseph: 'I would love to do more for Kenya but NOT as a politician. Lecturing would be great, but I have yet to be asked.” Photo/FILE

Michel Joseph is no extraordinary fellow. His blurb, even when blowing his own trumpet, is a cheeky modesty. But there is no modesty when it comes to the results of his WORK. It is one hell of a stiff c.ock fcuck. It is visible in what he made of Safaricom, and the flagship Mpesa operation in one decade. You do not need an econometrist consultant to peer through the jungle of statistics and rebate nonsense to make you see, do you!?

Michael Joseph on work, life and exit from Safaricom

Thursday, October 21 2010 at 00:00

Excerpts from an interview with Michael Joseph, who will step down as Safaricom CEO at the end of this monthinSha

What is behind the perceived success you have had at Safaricom; is it luck, or ability to manipulate the environment around you?

---There are many factors behind the success of Safaricom, but I would sum it up as follows: we determined that our core market was going to be the man and woman in the street and came up with prices, products and services that were accepted and used by this core market.

We also make some wise (in hindsight) decisions like per-second billing, 24 hour 7-days a week free customer care, inexpensive handsets, pre-paid tariffs etc.

We stressed our Kenyan roots both in our branding and our CSR programmes from the very beginning. It was a combination of knowledge and experience from the past, some knowledge of the local market, gut feel and luck.

What drives you? And can this be ported to other managers to drive their enterprises to success like Safaricom?

30 years of hard, dedicated, industrious and exceptional work from Joseph Kinyua at the treasury must be obvious. It is, but not positive. So, as we now pin our hopes on new kid and great hope Patrick Njoroge, I make no bones, no apologies for low ranking the Prime Minister: Toilet paper. Used.

Two decades of Michael-Joseph-like business industry at the treasury of Kenya would catch up Malaysia. That is the parameter which returns Joseph Kinyua a worthless creep.

50 years of Joseph Kinyuas at the treasury and a young president is still globe-trotting begging at every capital. Kwani you think we have not shame to see, 50 years into independence, Uhuru Kenyatta happily licking toes abroad for a dime? while at home robbers undo all the work of Kibaki?

With a heart of no humour I tour the slums of Kenya in every city. My country folk and fellow citizens are confined en masse, they are inmates in a toilet life to which a clique of bureaucratic parasites have sentenced them. I am entitled to a display of temper. They are entitled to a collection of scalps!

NB: On Michael Joseph being no extraordinary fellow: Vodafone did not think him smart enough to be posted in Europe! So he was dumped on Kenya. Well, he came and got to work. And there is a saying I learnt about 'arbeit' in Germany. When men go to work, and they work, they will do better than God did in seven days flat!

But when people like Kinyua are your great workers, you know you are sunk. –-whether it is Kenya Airways, Posts and Telecoms, Kenya Railways, Kenya Army, Police Force, or you name it.

Ahoy Kenya! Let us exorcise David Ndii's divorce tidings. Lets get to work! It is the only miracle out there that builds! Thieves and their patron saints are terrorists to be wiped out, sans judice if necessary. Ahoy Kenya!

That is the new deal Kenya!

I will be back, hopefully cooled and dumbed down a bit!

If I toured the slums and saw a sh!tbelt, here is what another citizen saw on his tour of my middle class neighbourhood!



Who is your daddy now, Ghenya!?

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Continued from part `1.

If there is a single neck in Kenya that deserved the chop, it is this patron saint of national rape! But true to the chronicles of a people beside their historical personality, his name unto the heavens shall we sing! Hosana Kinyua!

Okay, I tend to use tough yardsticks in my classes, but then, I am also used to top-range students, and in their youth they do not suffer nonsense! Yes, I am sorry I can not always dumb it down, more so on a figure as historical as Joseph Kinyua, just like, for the moment in a banking crisis, neither can I dumb down on Rotich nor Patrick Njoroge. For sure I have to round on them and take them to task on issues like the Asian .. sorry AFRICAN Infrastructure Investment Bank too. After all they are credit junkies addicted to cheap shots. (Rotich ever ends up coming short, ever sending out SOS's for supplementary budgets!).

However, from the way things are going, Jesus being my Lord too, I may have to climb off my high horse and dumb it really down. Say, like some bar talk!
Imagine giving the ranking EXCELLENT to the man who was running the treasury during AngloLeasing and Goldenberg! That would be the kind of cheek displayed by those bodies over there which, to Anne Waiguru of the NYS, and Njuguna Ndung'u of the CBK, awarded the highest accolades in Africa! Yet look,
now we have Patrick Njoroge up to his kin in a mess, as if he were some untouchable Indian lowest caste, specialised in sewers,



trying to drain off the sh!tload the heavy-shitter Njuguna Ndung'u left behind: A rotten banking sector.

And as for the other price-winner Anne, well, let us just say the lady has been a disappointment. Even stale prophets whom she helped scales up, like Mutahi Ngunyi, are now twitching their noses at her, while here are the none results of their zero work for a King'swages.

“During our passing out parade in April 2014, the President (Uhuru Kenyatta) had promised that the graduates would be paid Sh10,000 a month during the nation building phase of the training up from Sh700 that we were getting during the training. That is a promise that has never been fulfilled,” a forlorn Wekesa told the Sunday Nation.

This comes at a time when the fate of at least 8,000 trainees from the Gilgil NYS Training remains unknown after they were sent home following the delayed passing out by more than five months.

And these African prices can not be recalled! They are like a death sentence once enacted, a life once taken.
Yes, I can follow this lowly precedent and dumb so much down as to award Premier Joseph Kinyua an elder of the burning star, national hero. –--Go away Major Obwoge! You did not do sh!t yet, dead man.

I said I can dumb it real down. If need be. But first I have to refuse to think through the kind of report below.

www.businessdailyafrica.com/State-House-official-fled-Chase-Bank-ownership/-/539546/3160110/-/nj3mqlz/-/index.html

THE SURROUNDINGS OF JOSEPH KINYUA, PRIME MINISTER. They were pre-warned of the impending collapse and made good! Waawu!

State House official fled Chase Bank ownership days to closure


Posted Friday, April 15 2016 at 09:54

In Summary

Accounting trail shows how senior Office of the President staff and a top Safaricom executive denounced their shares in troubled lender.

Paul Njaga, the bank’s chief executive, caused the payments to be made through an email sent the same morning to his head of finance, Catherine Mugane.
No explanation is given as to what caused Mr Njaga to act and whether it was a pure coincidence that the bank went into a crisis the following day and ultimately closed two days later.

senior State House official and a Safaricom executive were two days before Chase Bank collapsed paid back money they had invested in the bank through a private placement late last year, raising questions as to whether they had prior knowledge of the looming shutdown.

The two were among the select group of investors that Chase Bank had invited to participate in a Sh2.3 billion fundraiser, effectively making them shareholders in the company.

But in a move that has taken the banking fraternity by surprise and brought into question the integrity of Chase Bank’s operations before the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) took over its management, the select group of shareholders were paid back money they had invested in the private placement (share capital) just two days before the shutdown

NEAT. It reminds me of a famous episode.

It was, dare I say, a stunning Freudian slip of the tongue in public. As such, it was a shocker. –---To the bureaucrats!



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PATRICK NJOROGE BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.

Let us append it some to between a rock and hard place, and the devil and deep sea! Between Wanjiku and King Graft.

DID PRIME MINISTER JOSEPH KINYUA LEAVE IN PLACE A TRAP FOR NJOROGE?

What are the constitutional implications of a limping CBK supervisory board? what are the legal implications in the event of a disputation before the courts, challenging the legality of the profound decisions by the governor of the central bank, at a time when the constitution of the board (of CBK) governors charged with oversight AND MORE, is incomplete?

All those CBK-led confiscations of estates and 10bn fortunes rigged out of broken banks by crooked directors, are they mandated constititutionally?

This question burnt my mind when I took import of a case called landmark, filed in a Mombasa court.

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/04/21/imperial-bank-customer-challenges-cbk-powers-to-place-lender-in_c1335913?page=0,0

Imperial Bank customer challenges CBK powers to place lender in receivership

Apr. 21, 2016

A landmark case has been filed at the Mombasa High Court questioning the legality of placing a bank under receivership by the Central Bank governor.
Consequently, the court has suspended a payment scheme to be used by Imperial Bank to refund depositors up to Sh1 million each during the receivership.

In his supporting affidavit, Doshi says CBK and Imperial Bank have no right to change his terms of contract with the bank in receivership and apply or utilise his money in any other money without his authority.
They want the court to make an order restraining CBK and Imperial Bank from dealing with their funds arguing the regulator unlawfully took over the functions of the bank and handed over its assets and liabilities to Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation.

While this disputation does not directly touch on the FORMAL if technical issue of whether the CBK is in mandate to execute the insolvency decision, it is nevertheless a pointer to me on which avenues lawyers can swim to derail a process, or at least slow down matters. Court injunctions/proceedings as a legal 'filibuster'!

As the KCB (Kenya Commercial Bank) takes the inside lane in the scavenging of Chase Bank, It occurred to me fenced off suitors like the French Amethis could consider other options of having their pound of flesh for revenge. Or for the sport of it. It is a hunting jungle out there.

Then there are our Kings of Graft with monies to buy top-tier lawyers like Ogolla$Mujenda and Tom Ojienda. These TT (thief-thief) lawyers who, in turn, can influence the bench (given what we know of our Judiciary), would definitely explore these (derailment) options to the full.

I take it the ancient bureaucrat and current Prime Minister Joseph Kinyua knows this game and consults widely with the best; so does AG Githu Muigai, solicitor general Njee Kiunjuri, and all the Tom Dicks&Harry's who went to law school. Where there is a whiff of good butter to the bread, trust me top-tier lawyers hover like flies on hot sh!t! That time they do not mind being branded no-cure no-pay ambulance chasers!

Which leads me to the conclusion that, far from a stalemate between Uhuru and Ruto being the reason why the Board of the central government is not fully constituted (in alignment with the constitutional requirement), the creation of this void is a deliberate act of negligence. It is a calculated bureaucratic rear-gaurd action, inserted after deep deliberations, and meant to create a legal loophole to arrest, if not abort, any speedy gains Patrick Njoroge may make.

I am reckoning many a powerful mover, for himself or behalf of his boss, Keyser Soze of Graft Incorporated, have quickly come to the realisation Patrick Njoroge is a dangerous man. Some may even be in panic, which would explain the (death) threats to CBK personnel which Patrick Njoroge informed the senate committee about this week. (and other frantic efforts to send them on a wild goose chase)

This statement, and I am believing Njoroge at his word because I heard the rumour before he went public with it –--a policeman whose brother in law was combing books told me the brother in law had asked him to watch his back a bit or go slow---- has stimulated me even more to ponder the intrigues at the national granary aka CBK.

I propose

Uhuru and Ruto are of course a side issue. I mean whoever is the president of Kenya is a side issue, or, to put it another way, HE is merely the official (impotent?) husband of a wife having a hot affair openly, a quixotic cuck in an elaborate farce. I mean the Central Bank of a neo-colony like Kenya is always ruled by the IMF and the World Bank. Uhuruto may be powerful and be their excellences the much they want, and force the bloggers of Kenya to always refer to them as Almighty Great Ones in respect, but just like the great Mwai Kibaki when the weakly sod Njuguna Ndung'u stood up on orders of the IMF and told him NO! you do not neither set nor decide the priorities here! the digital dynamic duo when it comes to economic policy and expenditure priorities are bystanders. That is what the IMF means by enforcing this extractive, punitive rate of 41% tax revenues to DEBT MANAGEMENT.

That is economic control. The meat on the bone in politics.

Here is how the emasculation goes in print.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000177624/imf-pushes-kenya-to-cut-ballooning-public-debt

Kenya will hire a full time director general in charge of debt as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pushes Kenya to manage debt. The Bretton Woods institution says Kenya will have to adopt at least five new measures to manage its ballooning debt.

In its September 2015 country report on Kenya, the lender has disclosed that Kenyan authorities have adopted a pre-emptive approach to process debt repayments.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000177624/imf-pushes-kenya-to-cut-ballooning-public-debt ...

correct! PRE-EMPTIVE!

Those five new measures pre-empt the treasury . Any second interpretations welcome!

Once the international creditors are done, the goats who call themselves their Excellences in Nairobi can now fall to. On the crumbs. They can rummage and loot the much they want, but the cream is already gone.

##see footnote# The corruption in Nairobi is merely the stupid and suicidal auto mutilation or self cannibalisation of a dead-end debt servitude regime. The centre has already sped away with the meat, leaving the bones to a crazed horde of local vultures and scavengers. These go about frenzying in a peripheral carnival of primordial, basally instinctive self-indulgence –---, we can do the list of corruption scandals: Anne Waiguru, Joseph Kamau, Kenya Airways, Airports Authority, ...

Talking of engineer Joseph Kamau, the former cabinet secretary for Transport and Infrastructure, I am reminded to remind myself of the JUDICIAL TEMPLATE for getting away with theft, or, at least, FILIBUSTERING in the corridors of the bench until the already not, mental wise, too stably constituted Keriako Tobiko, throws in the towel as is his script!

Here is a few reminders of how top-tier lawyers work for the looters at the top.
1.

Jan 14 2016
KENYA –
The High Court has barred the Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission (EACC), the Director of Public Prosecutions and the police from arresting and prosecuting Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Governor Njuguna Ndung’u for alleged corruption. The order by Justice David Majanja will remain in force until a constitutional application filed by Ndung’u challenging the charges is heard and determined.
The alleged abuse of office charge is in connection with a Sh1.2 billion security systems tender awarded to Horsebridge Networks and which the office of the DPP says cost the tax-payer an extra Sh400 million as it was not the lowest bid.
Lawyer Donald Kipkorir filed the suit on February 12 after DPP Keriako Tobiko wrote to the EACC okaying the charges. In his petition, Ndung’u argues:

This one below would look like Ngilu and Kamau lost, but since then, things have died down, case closed or dying a 'natural death' in the corridors of the judiciary, left unattended like that man in a ambulance at the KNH parking bay!

Ngilu, Kamau and seven others challenged their prosecution on grounds that the commission was improperly constituted when it recommended charges against them in a file to DPP Keriako Tobiko.

They said the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission at the time lacked the constitutional mandate to carry out a probe. The lack of commissioners, they said, meant a lack of requisite legal backing.
Ngilu was charged with obstructing investigations into the Sh8 billion Karen land saga and Kamau with abusing his office in the awarding of a road tender.
The Karen land is at the centre of a court battle between businessman Horatius Da Gama Rose and former NSSF Managing Trustee Jos Konzolo.

Improperly constituted!

That is the bureaucratic ditch Joseph Kinyua has set for Dr. Patrick Njoroge to break his leg!

##footnote#This systematic parallel is in mind: this blue-print is in practice too in the relationship between the central state and the county (periphery) governments. Nairobi takes its lion's share of the cake, leaving the governors and the MCA's to loot the rest the much they want! It is important to see the system, the whole organism in action, lest folks become like the parable of the blind men feeling an elephant and disputing its likeness. (Jukwaa being adults only I will nakedly app the parable: two blind nuns who felt the same dik on separate occasions, under different conditions, stiff and soft. Each then argues her experience is the absolute truth. Such is the danger of missing out on the whole picture!

Thus will I try a whole picture on Njoroge. Culturally speaking.

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THE UNTOUCHABLES.

Their patriotic dress is but a facade. Unmasked they stand naked, even as they are in denial. We all know they are thieves, state robbers. The reason they are not burning in mob justice, is because it is robbery at gun point, and they hold the guns,and our hands are up. Therein we know their cruelty is for real, and their resolve firm and mean. It is a tense stalemate.

I want to start this post with a curious reference to the impotence of parliament revealed point blank: the military and national intelligence services of Kenya REFUSED to give details of their budgets to the relevant house committee. Yap. (actually it is just a handful of office boys, toy soldiers with bureaucratic power, who have made and carried out this decision. It is not the military in toto, merely the lootenants in chief as it were!))

These office lootenants have placed themselves outside AUDIT, yet it is the peoples money. They are the untouchables. Well, let us not fool around, a bit of truth-telling will not hurt. The hurt will come when something cold is done about it.

I will recall Aden Duale to Bomet Rutto: HIO PESA SIO YA MAMA YAKO BWANA!

1. Mwathethe (that is the chief of General staff who should have been sacked long ago after the El-Adde debacle).
Hio pesa sio ya mama yako wewe.
2. Waweru (that is the guy who succeeded James Gichangi as DGI. He did not see the Garissa campus attack coming, did he!?).
Hio pesa sio ya mama yako wewe.
3. Raychelle Omamo (that is the defence cabinet secretary who wept for the sacrificed KDF at El-Adde. She is widely believed to be an elephantine puppet at defence. A front for looting cartels!)
Hio pesa sio ya mama yako wewe.

But in the political economy of Africa, chapter state looting by top bureaucrats, the refusal (by citing one or other technical loophole) to submit to comprehensive audit, falls under what are called looting devices, aka gangster bureaucratic constructions. Bureaucratic because a legal clause is usually enacted in parliament, or by presidential decree as happened in Uganda I think, to give cover to the looting process: state security! Sensitive material! Classified! Woi Woi Woi Top secret!

You will be surprised how many third world countries have this clause. It is routine! a mandatory attribute. Abatcha, Mubarak, Mobutu! surprise! Surprise! They were here before Uhuru Kenyatta's regime enacted its 2015 security clauses! –--few things are truly new under the sun! {see footnote}

Did I hear the prime minister who promised diligent work protest?

Military, spy agency ignore queries on El Adde attack, refuse to give budget details


By Alphonce Shiundu Updated Tue, May 31st 2016


A parliamentary committee on Tuesday complained publicly that the military and the National Intelligence Service had refused to give details of their budgets. The two departments have been allocated Sh124 billion in the next financial year – Sh98.7 billion for the Ministry of Defence, and Sh25.3 billion for the spy agency.

The National Assembly's Defence and Foreign Relations Committee now wants a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta to expose top officials at the two State organs who block the scrutiny of the budget.

At a meeting in Nairobi's County Hall with the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Mr Barre Shill, the vice chair of the Defence and Foreign Relations Committee said MPs were not "rubberstamps" and they had a duty even to check confidential budgets. Shill appealed to the chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Mutava Musyimi (Mbeere South MP) to "tell the President" that the committee "was suffering".


www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000203635/military-spy-agency-ignore-queries-on-el-adde-attack-refuse-to-give-budget-details

The committee is suffering? from hunger?

Now let us do an abstract, or, alternatively, show how secrecy to thwart accouting of state funds, well executed by a connected and corrupt elite, when applied at the ranges of the economics of scale, leads to national collapse. Let us talk Mozambique.

First a clue: EUROBOND DIVIDENDS

Mozambique Bond Yield Jumps to Record on Debt-Payment Default

Borges Nhamire

May 18, 2016 — 2:25 PM CEST Updated on May 18, 2016 —
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-18/mozambique-says-can-t-pay-178-million-debt-interest-this-month

Yields on Mozambique’s Eurobonds jumped to a record after the cash-strapped nation said it won’t honor a $178 million debt-interest repayment that’s due next week for a previously undisclosed loan extended to a state-run company.

The southeast African country holds total public debt of $11.64 billion, of which $9.85 billion is owed to foreign investors, Finance Minister Adriano Afonso Maleiane told lawmakers Wednesday in the capital, Maputo. Last month, the nation owned up to holding more than $1.1 billion in hidden loans it failed to tell investors about as it restructured another facility to a state-owned fishing company.

Mozambique Asset Management, whose payment is due on May 23, is negotiating with lenders to restructure the $535 million loan, Maleiane said while making the first official explanation about the undisclosed debt to the nation. The company is one of two whose loans the government kept hidden from creditors.

The second, Proindicus, made a $24 million payment on March 21 for its $622 million facility. The next payment, amounting to $119 million, is required by March 24, 2017, the minister said.
Fitch Ratings Ltd. estimates that, when factoring in the newly revealed loans, Mozambique’s government debt was equal to 83 percent of gross domestic product in 2015.
Since the discovery of undeclared loans by the International Monetary Fund, European nations and multilateral lenders have withheld funding, while rating companies have downgraded Mozambique’s credit. Its currency has fallen 13 percent against the dollar this year, after depreciating 32 percent in 2015. The inflation rate accelerated 17.3 percent last month, as a drop in commodity earnings and the metical’s weakness pushed prices up.
The yields on Mozambique’s $726 million of bonds due January 2023 rose 177 basis points to a record 17.41 percent by 2:57 p.m. in London.

So Mozambique is a default case even after a hefty harvest at the Eurobond farm? (and their finance PS if not auditor general sounds uncannily like their counterparts you might have heard near you!)

And here is a spectacular clue as was reported by the Indian ocean news brief. SECUROCRATS

Scandal of secret loans casts shadow over security services
The Indian Ocean Newsletter has learnt on the spot in Maputo that a small group of security officials have prompted the country to take out loans totalling $1.4 billion. This has considerably angered the international donors. The same ‘securocrats’ are [...]
(538 words)

Now, how would one describe the Kenyan fraternity which has declared itself beyond book-keepers? SECUROCRATS perhaps!

God! Show me new things! I am tired of precedents!

This Mozambican example has the advantage that it is now in th e open, and the facts are out. How about $bn has been stolen by a group of men at the depart ment of defence. The execution of such a project requires an international network of facilitators: Top Banks; Investment of Obligation trading companies; suppliers of fictitious or fake goods but priced genuine... etc etc. The latter is of course a speciality of defence ministries contracting for arms. –-Remember the F-14s bought from Jordan which were dubbed 'chura'. They could not fly 200km in one leg. (From Nairobi to Eldoret they had to stop over in Nakuru for repairs!). Then there was the patrol boat bought from Spain which turned out to be a rusted, written off fishing boat. But both cases bought at the state of the art prices. The difference is usually hundreds of millions pocketed by the wheelers and dealers. The Kenya police also bought Ukrainian choppers with propellers already written off, or something like that.

This story is repeated elsewhere across Africa. Some will remember Goodluck Jonathan's former chief of staff and the $10bn which should have armed the anti-Boko Haram forces.

The Mozambican securotats have stolen $1bn from a secret loan to the country they had arranged. Yes, it crossed my mind when Keriako Tobiko declared the Kenyan Eurobond kosher, on the same day Kenya securocrats refused to reveal books and answer money questions, that the two events could be related. Yes, I do not mind being paranoid over $1bn in Africa. In fact, I am saying, I can read and there is on the wall, the writing in capital screams! This is why I call Tobiko an infant not worth being annoyed with.

NB: When the African Confidential detailing the Mozambique looting is freed, may be Oloo will link it to Jukwaa.

Now that we have disqualified Keriako Tobiko, Agnes Odhiambo, Henry Rotich and soon, Eduard Ouko, let us do the necessary. Let us face the last of the Mohicans. Dr. Patrick Njoroge.

Patrick Njoroge has been a busy bee. He has been trying to restore credibility to the Kenyan banking and financial sector, trying to streamline protocols and blow new life into dead circuits that are vital to the economy. Now, let accounting be one of the salient indicators of a healthy financial environment, that is a non bandit economy.

But there are your securotats having nothing of it. Budgetary scrutiny will be met with a wall of silence, if not an intimidating indication of 'back off, fwakas! Hii pesa ni ya mama yetu, na mama yetu anaitwa Wanjiku!' I can just hear Peter Kaberaa saying.

howbeit Henry Rotich –-the cabinet secretary for Finance--- is ever hovering around the infuse for a drip of credit. HE HAS been all over the IMF floor, if not crying for loans to pay off loans, then bail outs and contingency kitties to manage his addiction to debt. A habit being fed by the same dealer, like a hooker hooked to a pimp trap.

Credit Facility

Helen Nyambura-Mwaura

January 26, 2016

The International Monetary Fund is considering a request to extend Kenya’s $688 million stand-by credit facility while working out details of a new program, the institution’s resident representative said.
“We are working on a request for an extension for a few weeks while we continue discussing options for future engagement,” Armando Morales said Tuesday in response to e-mailed questions. “The authorities and the fund are interested in continuing relations, ideally under a new program.”
The IMF agreed to the precautionary facility to cushion East Africa’s biggest economy against major shocks in 2015. Kenya has not drawn down on the loans. The central bank projects the nation’s current-account deficit will be 8.8 percent of gross domestic product this year, from about 8.5 percent in 2015 and 10.4 percent in 2014.
–-----------------------------------------------------
Kenya obtains nearly $700 mn in IMF backing

2 February 2015

Kenya obtained nearly $700 million worth of precautionary loan support from the International Monetary Fund on Monday as the country undertakes important economic reforms.
The IMF approved a $497.1 loan under its Stand-By Arrangement facility and another $191.2 million under its Stand-By Credit facility.
Both are one-year loans that the IMF said Nairobi does not plan to draw on "unless external shocks lead to an actual balance-of-payment need."

"The Kenyan authorities' prudent macroeconomic policies and major institutional and economic reforms of recent years have contributed to macroeconomic stability, higher growth, and increased external buffers," IMF deputy managing director Naoyuki Shinohara said.

Major institutional and economic reforms, goes the sales pitch.
Now, what is the reason I am putting this on Joseph Kinyua's thread?

1. He is the prime minister. He should go to parliament and offer himself as surety/ransom to the (hungry?)defence and foreign affairs committee, that is re-assure there is no mischief behind the refusal of the securotats to have their accounts scrutinised (the way we do police Mpesa logs!) 'trust me! I am premier Kinyua and when I say it is okay, it is okay!'' who are Mpigs to doubt his word!?

2. Political economy: Joseph Kinyua is an ace in bureaucratic turf wars. That is how he helps Uhuru Kenyatta tame William Rutosingh, like Muthaura Raila during the GCG. A political economy of Kinyua points to a clear and present danger for the republic. This is because he is a proven grandmaster in the creation and spotting of bureaucratic loopholes to loot and bleed the state dry. I reach this conclusion from the roll call of scandals which have plagued the treasury with him as the top dog. He is the crafty man of graft. And let graft be the malignant cancer spelling our doom.

PS: And like every one of us has an arsehole, every corrupt bureaucracy in Africa has its premier Kinyua. I mean it is a historical phenomenon! Nothing personal.
Any precedents in Africa where a premier begot doom for the land?

FOOTNOTE Harvard Rotich and Yale Njoroge may be surprised there have been other heavy weights heads gone to dust in those corridors of finance. Let us try the autobio of one of the Ndegwas!

Philip Ndegwa

Philip Ndegwa was one of Kenya's foremost economists and financial managers. Mr. Ndegwa studied at Alliance High School, Makerere University College, and Harvard University.

He joined the Civil Service in 1965 and become a government advisor on economic issues and planning. He served as a Permanent Secretary in the Ministries of Finance, Agriculture, and Economic Planning. In November 1987 Mr. Ndegwa was appointed executive chairman of the Kenya Commercial Bank, and, in December 1982 Mr. Ndegwa became the Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. He also served as the chairman for the National Bank of Kenya, the Agricultural Finance Corporation, and the Kenyan Pipeline Company

Precedents I said! I am trying really hard to find situations without precedents! (is Wanjiku doomed to a merry-go-round of Harvard men at the Treasury achieving naught!? potentials that never matured!)

Once upon a time Kenya's foremost economist led the central bank, and here we are still at square one, with of course another foremost economist at the helm. Neither were Saitoti and Kibaki at Finance kid gloves! But somehow it is just that they were all that condition Sembene Ousmane described in a famous novel characterising the new elite!

So, statistically, how are the odds of the current Harvard-Yale tandem at finance going meteor! Taking us really off, so that we can breath at last! At last! Free at last! free of the jinx of the best of the lot at the top making a mess no less than an illiterate buffoon like Idi Amin!

Next: AN IMF TRAVELLOR CONFESSOR COMES TO NAIROBI.

The essay is reasoned as more appropriate to this thread on Patrick Brilliant Njoroge, this link


jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9368/njoroge-politics-central-bank-imf?page=3&scrollTo=134401

[OtishOtish]

What exactly is murky about him? He has been mentioned here, but perhaps people made light of the point on phrenology. I refer to this thread:

jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8986/focus-francis-thuita-kimemia-capo

wherein one will find this:

I don't know much about the two, but I can comment on the basis of my knowledge of phrenology and bull-fighting.

Take a look at the heads of the two. Mr Kimemia has the head (and neck) of an arrogant bull, and from that several obvious things can be deduced. On the other hand, Mr. Kinyua---take a "profile" look---has a head that is shaped like an unshelled groundnut. That type of head tends to store a lot of cunning at the back and is the very kind of head that lean-and-hungry Cassius had ... a dangerous man. (Time does not permit, but a great deal more can be said just on the basis of their head-shapes alone.)

Now, for every bull there is a matador de toros. So they say. But remember that the matador is just the "chiefest" of the toreros. And no sensible matador would even think of immediately & directly trying to sort out a tough bull until it had been "prepped" by a good picador and bunch of small banderilleros doing their bit. Here we have Lean-And-Hungry Cassius as The Great Picador. It is an interesting spectacle: a thoroughly mediocre matador, a strong bull, and a clever picador.

 The bull gets another lancing.

Tough call in case such as this one, but, as a punter, my money would be on the bull going down. (But remember that a tough, strong bull has to be worked on for quite some time, and occasionally led to believe that it is winning, before the matador finally finishes it.) What's more, it is one of those cases where the matador will get the crowd's adulation, but the picador will be the one who will have earned almost all of it.

So, then. Today the bull is where he is. (See prediction above on the bull going down.)  The alleged matador is, as usual,  busy with his friend, Mr. J. Walker from Scotland. And the picador is probably preparing yet another lance for some unfortunate sucker.

It's an old and neglected science, but pay attention to the shape of the head!

[jakaswanga]

OPTIONS ON KINYUA continued.

This posting will be in two parts.

1. OF ORTHODOX POPES AND THE DISOBEDIENT FLOCKS OF KENYA.

I had a small interesting argument with my better half early this morning. I was abandoning the warm bed of matrimony to spend an hour reading a book. That is a customary sign I wouldn't be accompanying her and the kids to the church. I am at least agnostic, but the church plays such an important role in my relationships, I am an attending member and a celebrated --finance-- pillar of the Holy House! And of course being a Kenyan, I do have the aptitude for the levels of hypocrisy needed, even of a pope who is an atheist!

I am not saying we Kenyans are intergalaxial gold medalists in hypocrisy, but well, if such a competition were to come up, we Kenyans are game, real game. We excel at more negatives than positives, and even the undying rogue Robert Mugabe stands in awe at our addiction to corruption. So here I am, a regular church-goer otherwise addicted to sin. The women in church are sexier, hotter and cleaner than at the dens of sin, drink and dance and simulated live porn of which I am a veteran. And of course for good pu-ssy I will do anything, even convert to the fundamentalist Sunnism of the Talibhan.
Just saying.
A man must have a vice. For which he will sell his honour. For most Kenyans it seems to be money, and for our politicians and top bureaucrats the price is not even that high. The honour of a Kenyan politician, they say, thinking of the conservative report that 30% of pharmaceuticals dispensed by Kenyan chemists are laced poisons, comes cheaper than the honour of a down and out hooker. That kind of statistic, and the realisation pharmacies are killing Kenyans instead of healing them --while those paid to oversee spectate, can hurt the national pride and patriotism of a man. Too, they can render him of wont to disrespect authority to the levels of blasphemy, as I do, referring to anybody with a supposed His Excellency before his name as a Zamunda banana goat!

But first the marital argument and divorce (No No! Not David Ndii again!)

My wife threatened me with a sexual boycott if I intended to miss the church. I defended myself like a new age warrior thus: 'I am more tame and malleable to your whims if you bribe me, darling!'

Old school warriors of course go upon their wives like the man of action Okonkwo in TFA. I gather the spouses of such real men never wear underpants in the bedroom so as to save money on slips daily torn. They do not negotiate. God too is on their side, Koran or Bible or Torah echoing. 'Go upon them as you wish', commands God. All Gods.

The problem is God does not run me. The embarrassing consequence is that I negotiate for pu-ssy, even when it already belongs to me, and no less under certification of a religious ceremony at that!

Such are the sad heights of hypocrisy in my private affairs! (But I swear I am working on a cultural pivot back to Old school common sense! –--watch this space!)

But to continue about this morning:
'How much would the bribe cost me this sunday morning!?' my wife asked cheekily. 'You know I am minded to abide Pope Moses Kuria? So I want the opportunity cost calculated!' she finished.

Now that has been the joke. The off license joke. My Gikuyu in-law, a lawyer whose wit is my delight, had informed me as a matter of urgency, that the orthodox and xenophobic Gikuyu supremacist Pope, Moses Kuria, had issued an edict banning all Gikuyu women from servicing uncircumcised c.ocks. The alert lawyer wanted to make money doing my divorce work, if it was coming to that!
I told him I would call him back after consulting his sister. The sister promptly asked me to show cause why she, Vintage Mumbi, should not obey the kerher boycott edict of the great Pope Moses. I explained: 'there is a misunderstanding around the world that a Luo man's first love is fish, and his second, domodomoring pu-ssy! Actually a Luo man's first love if Mumbi pu-ssy, and second, eating that Mumbi pu-ssy! Luo men and Gikuyu women are a match made in Heaven, and heaven overrules divine earthlings like the Pope Moses Kuria!'

And my privatised Mumbi pu-ssy said: 'You win, my dear kerher, pu-ssy will be served as you wish, now!?

What a rambarambaring session. But there is a downside. What I had intended to be a cold post, can no longer be written with the required emotional intensity. I was going to revise my reading on urban gangs and the micro-economy of disenfranchised youth, following the revelation that the Prime Minister Joseph Kinyua had folded his arms as credible reports reached his table that Jubilee operatives were pouring money to revive Mungiki networks to deal with CORD's demos. But after the session, I was so relaxed, so bewitched I concluded such unsettling reports belong to the realm of fantasy, and, after all, the DN has never been known for accuracy. They are more the cesspit of wild weirdo's like Godfrey Mwapembwa (Gado cartoons) and Dr. David Ndii! Toilet paper people!

The world looks beautiful, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the fragrance of beautiful women walking in columns toward the church is thrilling, and doomsday scenarios for Kenya look mad men's irrelevant crows. All is ship-shape, Kenya is steady as she goes, fare winds galore, and all otherwise we shall overcome. A recent report put us at the top ten rank of performing and turbo economies in the developing world. We are definitely going places.
This is why I now write like a transatlantic seafarer sold on the idea the Titanic is unsinkable. Mea culpa, from now on it is Jubilee Kumbaya for me. Oh it is a wonderful world. Oh it is a wonderful country. O hakuna matata. And I believe in eternal covenants. I rediscovered my full faith in our politicians! I order my book-maker to reconsider my offloading of the Kinyua options!

Let us now find out how long my swim in glee lasts. Let us switch gears and have a mental riot. I am game.

Back from the church, well fed and well loved, I am paradise man. Paradise Found they say in poetry. –--Bad imagery, for poetry says many things in one line, is a dense opacity of meanings, layers of masks to be peeled back, a wild goose chase toward comfort.

And so ... next 2.

A LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER.

THE IMPORT OF TRIBAL MILITIAS TO THE CITIES AND THE REJUVENATION OF OLD GANG NETWORKS

[jakaswanga]

2. A LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER.

THE IMPORT OF TRIBAL MILITIAS TO THE CITIES AND THE REJUVENATION OF OLD GANG NETWORKS

I am an old conviction unionist loyalist, Prime Minister. I watched Madaraka day with trepidation. It was a story of two fetes at two cities. But not two competing national narratives. It was just like quarrelsome b!tches in a home unable to stomach one another, but all still dying for the love of the man in question. B!tch Odinga and B!tch Kenyatta, their reed-doors slightly ajar, their stupid children cheering from within, were each hysterically hurling insults from their huts, reducing the homestead to a cacophony of insanity. A day earlier they had been feasting and smiling together at state house, negotiating a parley. But O how fickle be the hearts of spoilt crown princes! Came, O Madaraka day 2016, with local thugs like Nkaissery and hooligan mouths like Owino and his twin Kiraithe, all standing by, ready to chip in with their morbid arts.



Then there is the higher order of the same, Menoah. All things considered, he should have the tongue of a diplomatic Solomon, yet there he was, displaying such a fork of a tongue, that anyone sensible could hardly indulge his heap of twisted nonsense with audience. Such performances do not help a man's temper especially if he has been thinking holistically about the problem, and the possible unintended consequences of an epidemic of stupidity at the top of a land.

Jubilee and the government was in Afraha Nakuru, CORD and family in Uhuru Park Nairobi. But Africa has these jocular masks one peels back only to reveal a hive of successive monsters, ... deeper fault lines .. and yet more theatrical disguises. Remember read me: Afraha Nakuru was the Kalenjin-Kikuyu ethnic alliance which under the tyranny of numbers has captured state power. Uhuru Park was a Luo-Kamba-Luhya fronted alliance. It is a motley coalition bent on getting rid of the present tyranny to replace it with their own tyranny.

This could be a rehearsal for Kenya as an ethnic keg of powder waiting to happen, searching for a pyromaniac or an accidental ignite. Then too, peeling back another mask, is the socio-economic triangle of attendance, say, pyramidal composition or stratification (financial geography).

The state-sanctioned and thus official event in Nakuru mobilised the well-healed, well-groomed and such-like hanger-on nobility, bureaucratic or aristocratic free marketeer. Uhuru park Nairobi was a rich top, nearly no middle class mediation, then a sea of hoi polloi. Even their feet hardly share the same set of sandals, and their next meal ever threatens to be an airburger. The brutality of the police upon them is legendary, makaburu police upon Soweto.



These sociological indicators are important to ponder, for the passions that tear a land a part, are those of perceived inequality and national degradation, and their ossification into a state of permanence. Economic dispossession is daily degradation, thwarted popular aspirations, a nation in the death row. Extreme income disparity is permanent volatility, and while it is obvious the rich pinnacle are using ethnic nationalism (so called identity politics) to prevent a Kenya-wide (so called class) narrative of sorting out inequality and general economic disenfranchisement, there are signs the wheels in this model are coming apart.

For instance it has been revealed that Jubilee operatives, having failed to use the state to bar the Uhuru Park CORD rally, organised to bus in Gikuyu youth from outside Nairobi to invade Uhuru Park. This is how the daily nation reports it

Last week’s State House meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Cord leader Raila Odinga averted a potentially deadly confrontation between supporters of the two at the opposition’s Madaraka Day rally at Uhuru Park.

Coming in the backdrop of reports that Jubilee politicians in Nairobi had vowed to “protect businesses for the silent majority” in case Cord supporters “engaged in looting”, the State House meeting was hurriedly convened on Tuesday to create a semblance of a truce

It is really sanitized reporting which does not fool any Kenyan. In deed the nation drops the mask in a moment

OUTLAWED SECTS

There have been reports that some politicians, from across the divide, are keen to revive outlawed militia groups such as Mungiki and Siafu.

Anybody out there who lives in Nairobi and can call a spade a spade!?

Okay: Gikuyu politicians around Nairobi in the Moses Kuria orbit have gone full out to precipitate the narrative of this being a Luos vs Gikuyus conflict. And there is a constituency which accepts that as a defence option, to mobilise the Gikuyu grassroots, to support their continued strangle hold on cream. It is a ready-made overflow canal.

But things are complicated a bit. Things usually are. (–--later when I find the time, I will do the Kalenjin youth movement in their very considered neutrality in the alleged Gikuyu-Luo spat. They instinctively recognise within one hour, a parley between Ouru and Raila is possible in which the two royals throw the Hustler Singh to the dungeon, and both supposedly warring elites kiss and make up. 'Painful Memories do traumatize!', that is what a Kalenjin historian told me: 'We fought to death for Raila man, but the Lakepeople did not come to Kapkatet and say, even if our Kings pretend they no longer talk, we will never fail to recognise your blood price!
It has made us wary.' –

--I told him not to confuse the Luo comprador aristocracy with the popular Luo ---Our ahangla maestros remind flaunt the Kalenjin act with riotous lines like:

Onjelo to wageno ndi e chunywa (We hold the Kaleos dear in heart)
Ma kata ka gidwaro dhako kata macha
(Should they come looking for our sisters or the house)
To wang'eyo ne gisenyombo chon, gi remo.
(we know they already paid the bride price, in blood)
Chieng'ono ka Mungiki nowuok bambo kendo nego Luo!
(The day hordes of Mungiki set upon raping and killing the Luo!)
–--That is just a hint at the ideological faultline between the comprador Luo elite and the popular stream of consciousness, defying the scriptures according to the political popes)

BACK TO NAIROBI

Now, the first stop for mobilising Gikuyu youth did not work. Flock disobeying the pope, or sheep refusing to be shorn as Otishotish once said. That first stop was Nairobi proper.

There is no shortage of Gikuyu lumpem in Nairobi proper, so why were they not ready to accept this easy money –-from Jubilee operatives--- to teach uncircumcised, cowardly Jaluo hooligans a lesson, with police support a bit of guaranteed!?

It is a bloody question.

Could it be the gikuyu proletariat in Nairobi somehow recognise hearkening to Pope Moses and co would be the start of a civil war in the slums where they live, and the end game would completely balkanise Nairobi, and who would loose most in such scenario is indeterminate!?

Of course Nairobi is already balkanised some, but the balkanisation is not total. There is room for improvement though, if, cynically said, the clarion call is full-blooded Majimboism!

I will call it the BRAZAVILLE TEMPLATE.

The prime minister may want to know what that is, the brazzaville precedent.

And I will be back.

NB: Let me help the kids out with some homework.

There was this testimony in church today from a Kissi lady, telling us of the success story of her love with an omogere in the face of many harrows! Later about that. But suffice is to say there is a realisation out there, that some people high up in the political ladder, are working hard with sharp knives at the things which hold us together. We are intent on not giving them the joy of watchng us fall apart.

Wonderful worlds are made, the effort made, work done.

Let us be game.

[jakaswanga]

THE TROUBLE WITH KENYAN POLITICIANS

They are illiterate.

I will take another option on Joseph Kinyua, seeing how hot the son of Jomo came up in his support over a detail emanating from the (3-5bn) MAFYA HOUSE heist. Kenyatta's boy, it must noted, was firm in his defence as Jaramogi's boy, his co-royal, in the defence of his hometurf rot! (this is an important ideological accounting detal!)

Public Finance Management Act.

Article 226(5) of the Kenya constitution: Public officials bear direct personal liability for any public funds lost … wasted or misappropriated during their term in office.

'If the holder of public office, including political office, directs or approves the use of public funds contrary to the law, the person is liable for any loss arising from that use and shall make good the loss, whether the person remains the holder of the office or not!'

Uhuru defends Joseph Kinyua on Sh400m payments in Afya House scandal
Nov. 24, 2016

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/11/24/uhuru-defends-joseph-kinyua-on-sh400m-payments-in-afya-house-scandal_c1461766

President Uhuru Kenyatta has yet again criticised opposition leaders for "misleading wananchi with retrogressive politics" ahead of the August 2017 election.
Uhuru said Kenya will never forge ahead while leaders spread hatred, lies and propaganda about his Jubilee administration.
"I was shocked to see in the papers today, someone saying Kinyua went (home) because we gave Bungoma county Sh100 million meant for the health sector," he said.
"I am asking you, my friends, is the money supposed to come to Bungoma hospitals for residents to acquire proper healthcare, or is it supposed to go back to Nairobi?"
The Business Daily reported that State House Chief of Staff Joseph Kinyua approved the payment of Sh400 million to Health ministry suppliers.

Part of this was Sh100 million to Lamu and Bungoma hospitals each, for upgrades.
The newspaper referred to the final interim audit report presented to Parliament. It said the amounts were part of the Sh5.3 billion highlighted in an interim audit report, as an amounts that may have been embezzled.

Uhuru said it was sad that the country has elected leaders who have specialised in "making noise" every time the government does something good for the people.

Watch:

He addressed a crowd at Kanduyi area in Bungoma town on Thursday when he made a stop on his way to Kibabii University's first graduation ceremony.
The President said his government has tried to improve lives since it took over power in 2013, and that most Kenyans can attest to that.

Uhuru said they have proof of services offered in the years they have been in power, but that some leaders are consistent nags who might divide the country.
''We are surprised because they cannot tell wananchi what they have they done for residents,'' he said.
"Anyone who cannot see anything good for his country is not supposed to be in the country or alive. It is better someone to say 'we have seen this and want you to improve on this'. That is what is called constructive opposition."
The President asked those in the opposition to put their differences aside and work together for the country's good.
"We as Jubilee want a country where someone should not worry about his tribe, religion or status as long as he is Kenyan. Let us love one another so as to succeed in making our country better,'' he said.
He discouraged politics of hatred saying it can only lead to a dead end, and will not help solve Kenya's many problems.
Uhuru noted that Bungoma county received a charter for Kibabii University which had been denied for four years.
He also said Webuye's Pan Paper factory was being revived, roads constructed and electricity installed in schools and homes.
The President promised to pump Sh300 million for the university to complete the construction of buildings.

He asked institutions of higher learning across the country and the Education ministry to ensure politicians and those who want to vie for various seats do not acquire certificates without merit.
Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i, Bungoma Governor Kenneth Lusaka, Senator Moses Wetang'ula were among leaders who attended the ceremony.

Government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the claim against Kinyua was malicious and aimed at portraying him as corrupt.

Kiraithe told journalists on Thursday that the newspaper's report did not explain his involvement in the wiring of the funds and how he issued the directions.
“Having gone through the final report presented to Parliament I can confidently say the Chief of Staff did not authorise any payment,” he said.

He added that Kinyua, who also serves as Head of Public Service, did not have the mandate to authorise payments on behalf of the Health ministry or any other office.
"We therefore wish to refute your story indicating that he directed or authorised any expenditure of funds at the ministry," he said.
The law says only an accounting officer can authorise payments by a ministry once budget estimates are approved by the National Assembly,
Kiraithe further said that his office will send Media Council of Kenya a complaint letter following the claims.
He noted Kinyua was free to take any legal action to redress his reputation.

Eh, Eric Kiraithe yawa.

Ati the paper did not explain his involvement!?

I died (si)pwap yawa!

You are right Kinyua does not have the constitutional authorisation! The problem is he did do it, wherefore he overstepped his mandate!

Go back to solliciting bribes from motorists, Kiraithe. Did you notice Menoah Esipisu's tied tongue? why do you think such a fluent and slick sweet talker lost his power of speech on this!? --Kiraithe yawa!

Now here is the original report as reported in THE DAILY BUSINESS

State House official approved Sh400m payments to Afya House contractors

ed Thursday, November 24 2016 at 09:52
In Summary
Joseph Kinyua directed the Ministry of Health to wire Sh200 million to pay for consultancy and inception works at Nanyuki County Hospital, according to the updated internal audit report dated November 18, 2016.
The auditor raises the red flag on payments drawn from the Health ministry’s supplementary budget in the period to June 2016.
The Constitution provides that only the Controller of Budget can authorise payments drawn from taxpayers’ cash.
Only Parliament has the constitutional mandate to re-allocate national budget votes.

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The auditor raises the red flag on payments drawn from the Health Ministry's supplementary budged in the period January 2016.

'The directives were communicated to the ministry by the chief of staff and head of public service vide letter ref. No. OP/CAB26/1/3A dated 24th January' says management responses to audit queries raised by payments.

continued. I need my chill pills now! there are times my choice of expletives hurts Jukwaa's family honour!

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MAYOOO! Kinyua is at liberty to take any legal action to redress his reputation!

Government spokesman Eric Kiraithe said the claim against Kinyua was malicious and aimed at portraying him as corrupt.

Kiraithe told journalists on Thursday that the newspaper's report did not explain his involvement in the wiring of the funds and how he issued the directions.
“Having gone through the final report presented to Parliament I can confidently say the Chief of Staff did not authorise any payment,” he said.

He added that Kinyua, who also serves as Head of Public Service, did not have the mandate to authorise payments on behalf of the Health ministry or any other office.
"We therefore wish to refute your story indicating that he directed or authorised any expenditure of funds at the ministry," he said.
The law says only an accounting officer can authorise payments by a ministry once budget estimates are approved by the National Assembly,
Kiraithe further said that his office will send Media Council of Kenya a complaint letter following the claims.
He noted Kinyua was free to take any legal action to redress his reputation.

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KIRAITHE: Kinyua is at liberty to take any legal action to redress his reputation!

I would advise him strongly not to. And not because there could be another soap of the kind
Boniface Mwangi versus William Singh! -----(who, among the two, is slime, a SoB and a scumbug!? And remember this decision is to made by .... did Willy Mutunga leave behind a Solomon's treasure trove of bench sages, or, god forbid, his legacy is a case of the bandit judiciary which upkeeps a bandit economy!?)

WHAT IS, VERIFICATION!?

We read the audit:

'Verification of the note book showed the ministry paid the suppliers DIRECTLY on behalf of the Nanyuki county Hospital, CONTRARY to management response that the money was transferred to the hospital first.'

This 'modus of execution' is against the law. It is an improvised operational circumlocution with ill intent. It is a 'construction', ie the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic loophole to loot, vouched for by executiorial orders from a HIGHER AUTHORITY. Of the lower ranks then, theirs is to do and not ask why. But the (hospital) management knew this –--ministry paying on their behalf--- transaction was irregularity, which is why they were lying to the determined auditor. In this case a non compromised auditor who kept on pressing, seeking verifications. The management took refuge in lies, but the paper trail had not been burnt at Ministry headquarters. The forensic audit went there ... (the hard disks had not been wiped clean yet!)

Kinyua's stamp is on it!

There are many Kinyua's in Kenya I suppose. Soo, which one we talking here!?

NB: None other than the one the Othaya Genius dismissed as a shady goat. 'Mwiraria (David), did you know Moi's goat Kinyua lobbied for your job!?' (Mwiraria was guarded. Being no genius himself, he did not want rumours going around that he had underwritten that description of Kinyua!

Anyway, in the opening link, we catch Ouru Kenyatta waxing furious at the linking of his controller to the Mafya House heist: what does it matter who pays, so long the pay is done? asks the president in a chilling moment of institutional lapse.

1. It does not occur to the son of Jomo, that, apart from the strategy of ever feeding him drink, the roping in of his family into the tenderpreneural scam, –---Nyokabi Muthama and co, faking disability allowance in such a blatant act of stupid greed –--, could have been a deliberate ploy by the infamous graft cartels to make sure the political cost of acting against them would be too high. (But of course in his subconscious the president deciphers he is in a trap; that is why he abdicates in helplessness or often breaks down in cry-baby antics of frustration!)

In the light of the above insights, with tongue in cheek do I proclaim in harsh tones thus: do thy son of Jomo stop being a moron. It unbecometh thee no less than it did Telemakos of Ithaka to helplessly watch and wail impotent as the crop of local and imported woers laid waste his inheritance, estate and legacy at large.

You know what, prince Muigai, you know what the problem is? proper channels, hiyo pesa sio ya Mama Ngina, or whomsoever your mum might be, since no man witnessed his birth enough to swear beyond reasonable doubt who his mother is for sooth!

LAW AND ORDER = GOVERNMENT = BUREAUCRACY = PROTOCOL = RECORDS! Accounting is a system, working systems are governed by stringency, so that, by later disputes –----and if you check the history of financial litigation in your family business you will recognise how often and internecine these cash issues get---- the order of events can be verified, their legality too, transaction vouches traced and the loot recovered, or at least the source of the dispute ironed out and the books balance!

Systems are like machines which break down when the laws of their mechanics or dynamics are disobeyed. A cyclist must continue peddling or alight. Otherwise he falls. Momentum laws declare of two wheelers. Prime Minister he be, Chief of Presidential staff he be, head of civil service he be, but Joseph Kinyua has no authority to order the MoH to pay bills, much less from the supplementary budget. But he did, didn't he. Interesting is: WHY!?

Of course I will think that out for myself in a moment. But first, the bile out

I don't mind thick skulls, TSC employs me to unthicken them; but when they are head of state, my state, my continent, I get nervous about the future. And that is for real. This I suspect is why Africa continues at the CLOACAL end of public administration. We lag behind on all positives of civilisation like the in the case of infant mortality rates. Other countries in other continents industriale in 25 years, ours go south! I got rage, and reason to be with venom. I don't lick f.uck heads running anything in Africa no more. For then one can predict 50 years from now we will still be here, like Haiti continues where it was 100 years ago today.

Now, Eric Kiraithe says Joseph Kinyua can sue for his reputation trashed by the business daily? He checked out the factology with your cousin Githu Muigai, aaah, omera Ouru!?

–-Joseph Kinyua's official stamp is there, officially logged, verified, breaking the law, ordering the ministry to pay suppliers/consultants on behalf of the county hospital.

The auditor raises the red flag on payments drawn from the Health Ministry's supplementary budged in the period January 2016.

'The directives were communicated to the ministry by the chief of staff and head of public service vide letter ref. No. OP/CAB26/1/3A dated 24th January' says management responses to audit queries raised by payments.

Forged? False? It is possible Kinyua's seal had to be there because the fellows at Mafya house are not fools. They know the law, and they needed COVER from HIGH HIGH UP before they could blatantly break the FINANCIAL PROTOCOLS. These very well stipulated, and the penalties too.

This refusal at the MoH headquarters to pay out (from supplementary budget) without official letter from the top; this refusal to break the law which stipulates ONLY THE CONTROLLER OF BUDGET could authorise such a direct payment, could be the reason the IMPORTED head of audit –-who recognised this pitfall, had to be transferred in an infamous and seedy aborted one-two between Henry Rotich and the respective permanent secretary Dr. Nicolas Muraguri.

MAFYA house needed an insider steeped in its rot. A safe pair of hands.

Then this curiosity:

The expenditure on consultancy was qualified as 'unforeseen and unavoidable' … and that was why it had to be sourced from the SUPPLEMENTARY BUDGET.

TheSE Kenyans exist, one just has to find them, but the suchlike thorough man of a Mucheere, who verifies details and takes nothing at face-value, offered a qualified opinion. He asked the management of the hospital to qualify 'UNFORESEEN AND UNAVOIDABLE'! Howbeit management went kind of blanc!

NB: The said Mucheere encountered unprecedented difficulties –-stalling tactics from the ministry---
as he tried to access payment vouchers from accounting and procurement departments. That one is standard in Uhuruland, just as in Railandland, since such documents prove theft as we have seen with the Kinyua letterhead, but the following is the key stalling tactic.

1. Lack of personnel! Mucheere's work will be months late coz, yeah, they wont hire! So the report can stay INTERIM forever. Does the phrase permanent injunction ring a bell!? This is permanent incapacitation, taming the offices of the forensic auditors.
2. Heading to elections, the financial committees themselves, in both senate and MpigHouse, are ridden with infighting, bribery-takers, partisanship, etc etc, such that the political fate of these forensic report is that of Ndung'u (land), Githong'o (Kroll), or TJRC.)

In Germany they used to tell me there is no substitute for work well done. That a job well done makes a holy day. That the day Africa learns to put this in practice (in government and beyond) 'we' will move quick and far!

VERIFY! VERIFY! VERIFY!

Suppose, on Prime Minister Joseph Kinyua's reputation, for the sake of normal competence, we go to VERIFY who these consultants of his were, what consultancy services exactly they supplied, and if the rates they charged are market conform!?

I will wage an opton.

I think we will come out with a blanco! fictitious firms supplying hot air! This is Kenya we are talking about. A land we know.

Here is a template of how these things work in Kenya under the stewardship of prime minister Kinyua

More names of companies in Sh2 billion NYS questionable deals emerge

By Standard Team

Of the Sh2 billion, more than Sh1.2 billion was paid out in consultancies alone, and a further Sh845 million was paid out for supplies delivered to the key government parastatal.
Some of these companies have been linked to former Devolution ministry operatives said to have influenced tenders for companies in which they were direct shareholders or had an interest through proxies.

As a pointer to the shadowy dealings, when The Standard called a mobile number provided on Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) documents as belonging to a director of one of the firms, it was answered by a man who said he was a taxi operator and had no knowledge of the company.

Kinyua is not Waguru!? SO?

Soo, Joseph Kinyua: you and your office ordered, against the law, an irregular –-read corrupt--transaction to, very likely, fictitious services offered by fake providers. Know your country, you are the PM and ancient in the game. This –----was your password cracked and your letter heads forged?---- order of yours can be logically construed as solely for the purpose of looting! –--I recall in the NYS heist, to loose the paper trail, one of the constructions was that the companies transacted had no listed directors, and if so, of unknown addresses, or even Mpesa kioks of mobile containers!

In one case, theater the absurd, PAC or the senate committee relevant, could even have INTERVIEWED the wrong Mr. Kago! As in

Probe begins on identity of ‘NYS impostor’

By Benard Gutwa. November 20, 2016

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has opened investigations into the possibility that a key beneficiary of the stolen billions of shillings in the National Youth Service scandal could have hired an impostor to face charges on his behalf.
The anti-corruption agency is counter-checking the identity of Mr John Kago, 58, who appeared before the Public Accounts Committee last month and described himself as a driver at the Kenya Commercial Bank, and a younger high-flying businessman who shares the same name to establish the validity of the identity swap claims. The younger man was a government employee but left his position.

Here is a taste of Kenya: Tender awarded to a company yet to be formed, let alone those of the like of Philip Kinisu and Muthama Kenyatta which are formed two weeks to D-day!

Official grilled on 'illegal' registration of firm in NYS saga

Friday July 15 2016. By JOHN NJAGI

A company that was paid part of the Sh791 million looted from the National Youth Service was not registered in the accounting system, MPs heard Thursday.
The National Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee was told that a senior clerk at the Treasury, Fredrick Musembi, registered the company in the Integrated Financial Management Information System later.
The company is among three suppliers that were irregularly paid hundreds of millions of shillings in the youth service scandal.

And on the Kilifi heist, here is the CBK of the price-winner Njoroge in concert with looters

Reports of the suspicious dealings first emerged on October 10, when an accountant alerted the (Kilifi) county administration of an alleged theft of Sh30 million from the CBK account.

www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000223293/stolen-sh51m-kilifi-county-cash-sent-to-five-city-firms
This sparked off panic, forcing Kingi to convene a meeting where it was resolved that CBK should be informed about the theft. CBK is said to have acknowledged that some money had been moved electronically from the county's account. After a meeting between Kingi and CBK officials on October 17, further investigations established that indeed, Sh51,209,775 had been transferred without approval by the county government.

Dr. Patrick Njoroge! You kidding me! I have never liked bankers who win top-notch prices while their clerks pilfer ksh. 50M!

Now I look at Joseph Kinyua –-treasury errors you remember his days with Uhuru Kenyatta at finance? then fast forward to take a comparative look at banking-whizzkid Patrick Njoroge,and which difference do I think I see? Mayoo, the Orwellian ending of Animal Farm! –--Opus Dei loose Arze!

What I am trying to illustrate is just deluded and far from factology the likes of Uhuru Kenyatta are when they warn off those who spoil the good repute of men like Joseph Kinyua. Kinyua is a major facilitator of loot.

These bastards run sh!t. 3 minutes of average thinking and one unearths enough factology to be unable to CONTRADICT candidate Ngatia. Which financial scandal ever happened in the last decade and a half in the beloved motherland without Kinyua in the position to facilitate or curtail?

Kinyua was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury in June 1995, a position he held until July 1999 when he rejoined the CBK as Director of Financial Markets. In October 2000, he was appointed the Chief Economist of the CBK.
He was appointed as the PS in the Ministry of Finance in September 2002, a position he held until January 2003 when he was appointed PS in the Ministry of Planning and National Development.
In July 2003 he was appointed PS in the Ministry of Agriculture where he served until July 2004 when he was reappointed PS to the Ministry of Finance.