Post by mwalimumkuu on Nov 9, 2016 20:24:50 GMT 3
Events of the last one week have been very interesting. It all started with the invitation of Josphine Kabura (the hairdresser turned millionaire through shady deals) by parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) probing into the disappearance of public funds estimated to be around 1.6B KSH through the NYS scandal. The appearance of Josphine left Kenyans with very many unanswered questions, chief among them being who exactly was behind Josphine. The sheer lack of knowledge on her part on the transactions nitty gritties only helped to further the view that, she was only a conduit and cog in a larger scheme that she knew nothing or very little if at all. The fact that she could withdraw tens of millions in quick successions without any problem pointed to the possibility of a very influential figure with connections all the way to the bank and other higher places. Of course according to Josphine, the for PS Mangiti and earlier public perception, this powerful figure was Ms. Anne Waiguru former CS Devolution.
It was not until Ms. Waiguru herself appeared before the committee a couple of days later that we all started to join the dots and make sense of what really happened at NYS. Ms. Waiguru did not just have the details to the letter, but had documents to back her story up. The documents were so detailed that some non partisan and intelligent MPs like Abdikadir Aden (Mbalambala ODM) immediately appreciated what they meant to the committee. Ms. Waiguru was able to point the confused PAC to exact places where the truth about NYS can be found in a day, if they wanted to, with the powers bestowed to them as a committee of parliament. She revealed that with the reformed procurement system, one can follow each voucher and payment to the last person who made the payments without breaking a sweat. She pointed them to the investigative reports and findings already available with the investigative organs.
It will be important to point out that when Jubilee took over government, and following their MoU, they tried to share the government 50/50. The arrangement was such that for any ministry headed by a URP CS, the PS would be from TNA and vise-versa. Devolution therefore had Waiguru from TNA as CS and Mangiti from URP as PS. The documents availed by Waiguru overwhelmingly pointed to Mangiti as being at the center of the scum despite his submissions a day earlier that it was Waiguru who schemed the theft. Unfortunately for Mangiti he never had any hard evidence linking Ann to the theft. Ann on the other hand had all the memos including one inviting the CID to do the probe. She even included communication details between the looters and very powerful government officials who interestingly are closely linked to the DP. This is where it got very interesting.
Remember the DP and his men had tried earlier without success to impeach Ms. Waigiru? It is beginning to clearly show why. My thesis is that, Ms. Waiguru was perceived by the DP's camp as a threat politically post Kenyatta regime and two, she was a hindrance to the DP's groupies' clandestine activities. Since Waiguru's appearance at the PAC and seemed to have swayed the public mood and perception about her. The DP himself has come guns blazing. He has put himself out there and gone to an extend of calling Waiguru names, never mind Ann never mentioned him. My interpretation of the DP's stun warning is that it was aimed at president Kenyatta and his people, that the DP and his group will not allow them to expose them.
It did not take long after DP's warning before cowards like Moses Kuria and Ngunjiri Wambugu plus a host of other central members of parliament came out to castigate Waiguru. They reprimanded here arguing that she was working for a group that was trying to stop Ruto from ascending to power in 2022. It is not hard to read their mind. In their shortsightedness, they want to shut out anyone within their ranks willing to talk on the ills of the jubilee leadership, because their minds on 2017 for themselves and for Uhuru. The bad news for these people is that, the people are reading through all these and are beginning to appreciate the victimization Ann has gone through. Many are with hindsight beginning to understand why Uhuru was so against the resignation of Waiguru from government. He knew the truth, that she was innocent and had nothing to do with NYS. For Kuria and the rest, the question we are asking is, shall we kill our Waigurus for the sake of 2017? What next after 2017 if we shall have destroyed all we have?
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
It was not until Ms. Waiguru herself appeared before the committee a couple of days later that we all started to join the dots and make sense of what really happened at NYS. Ms. Waiguru did not just have the details to the letter, but had documents to back her story up. The documents were so detailed that some non partisan and intelligent MPs like Abdikadir Aden (Mbalambala ODM) immediately appreciated what they meant to the committee. Ms. Waiguru was able to point the confused PAC to exact places where the truth about NYS can be found in a day, if they wanted to, with the powers bestowed to them as a committee of parliament. She revealed that with the reformed procurement system, one can follow each voucher and payment to the last person who made the payments without breaking a sweat. She pointed them to the investigative reports and findings already available with the investigative organs.
It will be important to point out that when Jubilee took over government, and following their MoU, they tried to share the government 50/50. The arrangement was such that for any ministry headed by a URP CS, the PS would be from TNA and vise-versa. Devolution therefore had Waiguru from TNA as CS and Mangiti from URP as PS. The documents availed by Waiguru overwhelmingly pointed to Mangiti as being at the center of the scum despite his submissions a day earlier that it was Waiguru who schemed the theft. Unfortunately for Mangiti he never had any hard evidence linking Ann to the theft. Ann on the other hand had all the memos including one inviting the CID to do the probe. She even included communication details between the looters and very powerful government officials who interestingly are closely linked to the DP. This is where it got very interesting.
Remember the DP and his men had tried earlier without success to impeach Ms. Waigiru? It is beginning to clearly show why. My thesis is that, Ms. Waiguru was perceived by the DP's camp as a threat politically post Kenyatta regime and two, she was a hindrance to the DP's groupies' clandestine activities. Since Waiguru's appearance at the PAC and seemed to have swayed the public mood and perception about her. The DP himself has come guns blazing. He has put himself out there and gone to an extend of calling Waiguru names, never mind Ann never mentioned him. My interpretation of the DP's stun warning is that it was aimed at president Kenyatta and his people, that the DP and his group will not allow them to expose them.
It did not take long after DP's warning before cowards like Moses Kuria and Ngunjiri Wambugu plus a host of other central members of parliament came out to castigate Waiguru. They reprimanded here arguing that she was working for a group that was trying to stop Ruto from ascending to power in 2022. It is not hard to read their mind. In their shortsightedness, they want to shut out anyone within their ranks willing to talk on the ills of the jubilee leadership, because their minds on 2017 for themselves and for Uhuru. The bad news for these people is that, the people are reading through all these and are beginning to appreciate the victimization Ann has gone through. Many are with hindsight beginning to understand why Uhuru was so against the resignation of Waiguru from government. He knew the truth, that she was innocent and had nothing to do with NYS. For Kuria and the rest, the question we are asking is, shall we kill our Waigurus for the sake of 2017? What next after 2017 if we shall have destroyed all we have?
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
persuaded! We teachers read games like dogs know smell. When I was tending the matatu or the kiosk while I oughtta be in class, you always knew, and agreed my mpango wa kando stand in for me in class. Yeah, since when do we teachers suffer fools? We are too grounded to be taken for a ride, even by a Saatchi & Saatchi top notch types, like the now defunct handle b6k! (let alone PAC, GoK, DoD or Kenya Police raw!)