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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 25, 2017 11:45:18 GMT 3
SIGNS, O SIGHS OF THE TIMESIt is a messy situation in the Jamhuri. The fallouts from a corrupted process of nominations still reverberate across the land, in the courts and within the various organs of mediation, themselves no pictures of integrity. There is a national crisis in the health sector; the nurses are on strike, their plight with the governors at a deadlock, the public sector doctors are still restive despite a return to work formula. This all leaves the public healthcare in the doldrums, but you woudn't notice it is a national priority, if politicians on the campaign trail is all you listened to. There is hunger, with the subsidised, fixed unga price all but an illusion, which makes the whole UNGA episode stink. Even the SGR which should be an occasion for pride is threatening to be a white elephant, if not a lunatic express 2. A debt ride. A scam of land compensations haS served to scare off some neighbours who really should have been in the project. Then there is the conduct of the forthcoming elections. What is it with the registers, up to a million dead still suspected to will be ghost voters? The body in charge, Chebukati's IEBC, has just been defeated in court on the matter of where the binding results are announced, but is still holding ground on the validity of the tender for printing ballot papers, awarded to a Dubai firm. And it is a Dubai firm which like the China Railways and Bridge Company of the SGR tender, may have very deep Nairobi cartel connections. This tender pits the opposition against the incumbents and is busy poisoning the credibility and ability of the IEBC to be an impartial referee in a charged match. It is like the announced clean virgin is coming to a wedding with her gown already ordoriferous with another man's body labour! Her cynical and sarcastic expressions of virtue cut a figure of a rotten ho beyond shame. She mocks with suppressed glee, the hysterical opposition whose faulty nominations prove they are not interested in A FREE AND FAIR ELECTION BY PRINCIPLE! 'Why, Raila wants Oburu Odinga as chair of the IEBC before he shuts up!?' Chebukati's sidekick mocked. Well, nobody in his right mind seems to give a point of doubt to Chebukati's ability to deliver credibility. They are living nothing to chance Nobody trusts nobody. These bandits know themselves truly! There is no honour among thieves, and the thieves know it. The result is a triplication of duties which makes elections an extremely expensive affair. And even at that, still likely to be inconclusive as every party conjures up their own fictitious figures to steal tally mileage on the other. www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001244743/parties-marshal-resources-to-hire-poll-agents-ahead-of-vote Mainly the campaigns are a just a shouting match of hateful words. President Kenyatta seems the most brittle tempered, vacillating between exhortations to Unity and civility and collapses into fits of abusive temper with coded venom. The politicians succeed in making the nation very nervous, as if priming their bases for violent reaction. They have no other selling points than the mobilising hysteria of ethnic vitriol. So, far from the manufactured heat of this battle with its ethnic distractions, what are the material forces at play? what are the underlying factors scripting the ongoing political crisis? What I think is, Kenya today has failed to resolve some of the easy problems which, having defeated the first republic, could have been easily addressed by the 2nd republic and its new constitution. But the 2nd republic proved more of a cosmetic exercise, and itself raised new contradictions which, piling on the old, unresolved problems, continued to heat up the political temperature within an elite who are basically in ideological consensus. This means this way or that way (your county Jubilee or CORD governor) they practice and recycle the same policies. That is a kind of political paralysis, a template of stagnation. And as far as parliamentary watchdogs were suppose to be effective against one of the chief ills of the KANU-MOi kleptocracy, Mpigs of both sides quickly reached a comradely compromise of feeding off corruption, wherefore such bodies like the PAC, once lead by the then rising star Ababu Namwamba deputised by the lovely but now disgraced Cecila Mbarire, became mired in graft to such an extent that the term Young Turk became synonymous with young Fak, a paid mistress. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS This is a period of transition. From an overwhelmingly rural to an urban, population preponderance. This fundamental shift, wholly changes the dynamics of a country's political economy. Stagnation means especially the youth are in a restless mess, perceiving, if not instinctively then otherwise, their future could even be more precarious than their present. They want a new world, new structures and new relationships, a new social and economic deal. That requires a major overhaul of the educational system. The infantile and nihilist rage of burning schools we went through recently, must be seen as a demanding sign, let new times come. A state where millions of young men idle it out with no clear vision nor hope of their economic security is a volatile place. A rural reserve of labour, a large concentration camp far away from the cities, is manageable by strict APARTHEID-like laws, pass laws as it were, aided by reactionary institutions backed by military cordons. That is how colonialism defended its city (European) enclaves which aped Motherland life. Only selected Africans allowed to the cities. That option is long gone. The African city is an open place, a free for all. It is awash with all strata of humanity, it is a sprawling nightmare of filth and sh!t where millions tunnel and teem like worms on a pile. A labour reserve? No, capitalism no longer needs their kind of cheap labour, nor is their education exploitable. The slums are a sea where futures have truly run a ground.And they young generation sense it. Even God isn't on to their plight.  Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001230740/kenya-s-economy-groans-under-weight-of-its-jobless-youth www.businessdailyafrica.com/news/Kenya-tops-East-Africa-s-list-of-youth-joblessness/539546-3108514-13vpaib/index.html And how has Jubilee, the 2nd republic, faired with diffusing this so-called ticking bomb problem!? www.businessdailyafrica.com/Kenya-rolls-out-measures-to-tackle-youth-unemployment/-/539546/2391266/-/11mdjekz/-/index.html Tenders!? Programs which are but gimmicks for looting money from the treasury. That is not just dismal, it is criminally negligent. Old textbooks of capitalism used to insist ''the natural rate of unemployment' is 5%. 7% would be a catastrophe, a systemic blow up. These days Spain and Portugal, EU partners, boast double-digit figures. The argument has shifted to WHICH METHOD one uses to define unemployment. In the USA the debate on statistical methodology and interpretation is even hotter qz.com/666311/why-americas-impressive-5-unemployment-rate-still-feels-like-a-lie/ Whatever the statistical method, the reality of Kenyan slums, especially the future of the youth, their declining chances unless a dramatic economic expansion takes place, is undeniable. This means psychologically (as a result of the demographic change in the rural/urban balance) the city is becoming the new battleground of political consciousness. People like Mike Mbuvi Sonko may be uncouth charlatans offering fictitious shoulders to cry on for the urban poor, but they are the first generation of an the emerging necessity of future politics: connection with the 'Parisian mob'! Mike Sonko has all but yanked the Nairobi urban desperadoes from a natural like Raila Odinga, why? How come!? Sonko is purely urban, Raila is half rural, half urban. In Nairobi that makes him obsolete. A city has a different sociological dynamic. In capitalism it is a commercial, transactional economy where nothing is free. The bonds and hierarchies of the countryside of family and tribal belonging wane; the social safety nets these ancient structures sometimes serve for, is minimal under the pressures of the city. It is a harsh place. A conman's domain. The phrase money talks becomes sinister, because in the sprawling slums of 'frustrated labour power' and doomed youths, there is no money. And if it is going to be there, it is going to be through menial hustling, or crime. Uppity highways look something even old Sisyphus The Optimist wont put to.  What options does the government have to keep a lid on the 'labour reserve' come to the city? While the labour market, capitalist economy has no use for the pool? And even as consumers, their purchasing power isn't much interesting to the economics of scale? The slums are like a running syphilis sore covering half the face a beauty going places. No one can ignore that truly. Fall dead! Disappear! Is the instinct of the witless state. But they are so many --sometimes over 80% of the African city is a slum area; a real dead falling is essentially a genocidal contemplation. No African state has currently this capacity to genocide its unusable labour reserve into oblivion. The option is thus terror. The state terrorises the most restive sector of that reserve by extreme armed forces violence. It is a low intensity conflict, but violently intensive. It is a limited civil war, phase targeted executions. The situation ever radicalising. POLICE BRUTALITY Read the reports of General Al-Sisi's Egypt and what it has done to the youth of Egypt who nasally opposed his usurpation ---protested his overthrow of Egypt's first elected head of state, free and fair. (Forget Hosni Mubarak with his permanent 99.99% wins!) So how are we managing our own restive youth of Kenya, especially the harder ones entombed in the city dormitories known as slums? It is open season for killer-cops. Young black male!? Always a potential danger to society! Uncannily, I am told by people like Man-K, that young Black male Americans are also very fair game in the gunsights of American cops, white Latino or black! Shoot at will, kill them all! www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001244751/families-raise-alarm-as-extra-judicial-killings-soar-in-the-city 2. DEVOLUTION AND THE NEW CONSTITUTION
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 25, 2017 18:26:10 GMT 3
2. DEVOLUTION AND THE NEW CONSTITUTION
The NARC -----Mwai-Kibaki-Raila sanitisation of the excesses of Arap-Moi ossification in terms of revenue management------ boom in infrastructure expenditure opened up great opportunities for a new network of corruption to emerge. But there was a hurdle at first. This was the period of the Czar John Githong'o, one of the most curious phenomenons to emerge in the dawn of the second republic. With a cold eye he surveyed the landscape inundated with Kartel booby traps and got to work, demining. Soon the corruption networks, after a period of indecision as they still figured out sir John, poisoned president Mwai Kibaki's already drink-ravaged mind, and, like the scheming Russian Oligarchs had conquered Boris Yeltsin with palatable Vodka, they blew Kibaki up into an old fool.
The Othaya empty shell signed John Githong'o's execution warrant sort of. Old and new networks of graft merged.
This 'moral recidivism in state' would have a horrific impact on the new constitution, and devolution, the twin pillars of the second liberation.
The county --on devolved funds--- became a goldmine to regional Graft Kartels. These operated in concert with experienced old city hands. A frenzy of looting was the result throughout the country, centre and periphery. The ministry of devolution itself, where the first among equals Anne Waiguru sat, posted in the incredible NYS swindle, a conclusive statement on just how rotten the whole devolution complex was, from top to bottom.
At the constitutional level, nothing signifies the demise of Kenya's second coming more than the adventures of the integrity clause. There had been a recognition of the need to morally revitalise our public administration, to ethically modernise our public office morality. I always say this drive had been the hidden fire fanning chapter six, as a flower of the second liberation, culturally. But, the tricks of history, a reactionary gang had to be entrusted with enacting the progressive constitution heralding their own demise! Of course they acted like Judge Warsame on the vetting board when Mutunga was wilfully negligent enough to hand him the dagger!
When sheep trust hyenas to herd them home, it does end up very messy.
The Mpigs in cahoots with the deep state disbanded the chapter. They whittled it down to a diffused bomb. (It took 50 years for the mutilated Lancaster document to tatter completely away, I wonder how long the mutilated 2010 will run before the order needs a new facelift!)
At a glance therefore, the old elite seem well entrenched and running things in their own vision. The economy by all blurb is growing turbo!
But they are not the only actors in town. The incestuous conglomerate of conservative elite interests that is served best by a morally destitute Kenyan public administration, and which wields the state with fearsomeness against economic, social, legislative and political modernisation, finds itself ever confronted with challenge. These challenges, like the teachers strikes, always reveal just how antic, amateurish and stupid the political bureaucracy can be. For instance the gimmick of letting the CBA be signed by a junior clerk with no mandate and already transferred to another ministry! then failing to register the CBA, citing the technicalities above! ---Some will remember how Wilson Sossion looked at professor Jacob Kaimenyi, giving him time to come up with a brainy explanation!
And there was proud Kaimenyi, realising he had been set up for a fool, broken. I hear he is now at Lands, shop-stewarding more stupidities like the NLC's scamming of land rates where the SGR passed and will pass!
Unable to solve anything conclusively, the political establishment gets hysterical, threatens to turn on itself because the problems in reality can not be solved any other way than transforming that problematic reality.
For instance the healthcare system has to IMPROVE. Radically modernise. It can't stay the way it is now, collapsed. But when is the last time you heard any thinking from Cleopas Mailu, the CS?
The economy has been growing at an impressive 10% for a decade, but youth unemployment has continued to rise! Which growth rate will drain the 'swamp of dark labour' or sh!tcamp called city slums?
Anything is welcome.
For the Kartel-vetted political elite, whether it is drought, famine and Laikipia land invasions, whether it is Migingo island or Al-shabaab blasted garrisons in Somalia, whether it is state subsidised maize or a popular railway plan, managing eurobonds or slashing hyacinth, the Kenyan ruling elite is possessed of a zero performance ethic and a maximum corruption business model. They always manage to shoot themselves in the foot, limping the nation along in their primordial, greedy stupidity.
Now an election is coming, and they behave like idiots bent on bringing the country down. It is them who should go down, and let Kenya be. That needs a few resolutions to counter their ethno-hate charges which they use on the campaign trail to prime the land for havoc, even as they protest otherwise.
They have managed to scare a secular nation into the clerical yard, to pray for peace! ss if General elections and counting ballots is that complex! Watch the Ghanians go through theirs as if it is a walk in the park!
Any which way you look at it, Kenya needs pimping up!
A credible election is that crucial.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 10, 2017 21:51:49 GMT 3
TELLING PRESIDENT KENYATTA OFF CJ MARAGA AND HIS BANDIASCan the facades hold bit longer please!? We are already jittery enough about this eminent election. The elite is evidently possessed of a death wish, but we, the people, have not yet figured a way of granting them their wish without destroying ourselves and our nation too, in the process. That is the crux of the matter of national head-scratching. The elite is still capable of bewitching us, the common man, and sheepherding us into an inter ethnic fest of mind-boggling cruelty, a free for all where a poor Kikuyu will kill a fellow poor Jaluo, Kipsigis a Maasai, Bukusu a Maragoli, Kamba a Taita, Pokot a Karamojong' etcetera etcetera, all in the name of some mythical tribal defence. Because we are still under this hateful hypnosis, we are unable to solve the said simple problem with straightforward common sense: Liquidating the thieving and incompetent elite without much fuss. That thieving elite is a supra-ethnic Kartel, it knows no tribe. Their kids socialise with the ease of twins. The likes of Jimmy Wanjigi dine both Uhuruto and CORD principals all in day. They all speak the same language. Their class interests. But this insight is still beyond our intelligence, hoi polloi. We still obsess ethnically, wherefore when the elite commit criminal trespasses ---like rigging elections, we jump knife-first at one another's throat in our slums, instead of doing the one necessary and efficient thing. Cut the Kartel down. If Wafula Chebukati is gearing to be just another Kivuitu, there is no point praying for peace. Rather we, organised as ethnic groups, should come together and pledge there will be no participation in national violence, no inter ethnic violence, but, nationally binding agreement, only the treacherous EABC officials will burnt alive at Uhuru Park in a NATIONAL RITUAL! A catharsis. Culturally speaking. You know why children were sometimes sacrificed? Better a catastrophe for one family, than a collective catastrophe destroying the whole community. It is a decision which requires some mental ferocity. As for praying for peace at Uhuru Park, soiling the legacy of Sabasaba, Why bother God with our easy to solve problem of elections? Printing papers, distributing papers and counting 19 million of them at the end of the long day!? ---How do you think the ministry of education every end year goes about the national exams!? At a tenth the budget of the EABC! And the EABC has 4 years to prepare! Surely South Sudan or CAR where they matchetted 300 women and children last week is a better priority for God!? And looking at Mosul and Raqqa, ruins, surely God's ears are more needed there!? Now in Kenya I recognise of course the factions competing for state power are pitching it as a do or die. But that is merely for a Kenyatta or an Odinga. They should not tear everything down. In Kenya we have some modern facades, and they hold face and fort relatively. And that relatively is enough to arbitrate social tensions, even if grudgingly accepted. One such facade is the independence of the Kenyan Judiciary. Another one is UTUMISHI KWA WOTE of the Kenya police! Make no mistake about it. We know our Judiciary is to the dogs, but we keep up appearances successfully. We are like a middle class (income country) overloaded with credit-card debts but having all the outward symptoms and trappings of solid prosperity. (Of course it is a bubble, and to top up the difference, the middle class estates are but dens of prostitution and moonlight contraband deals. But that modern urban sociology is beside the point for the moment!) KOTI BANDIA! Cried Raila once. An avalanche of venom was his harvest. MAJAJI BANDIA! Cried Ouru yesterday (echoed very closely by his sidekick, Pancha). Of course they are right. The Kenyan Judiciary we have been at pains to show right here on Jukwaa, is a scumbug racket.But this is the point: Kartel-connected tenderpreneural politicians, primitive accumulators and state looters, scions of mass corruption first families and their accessory clientele, DEPEND on the CORRUPTION OF THE JUDICIARY to underpin their loft, to whitewash their criminality. The rotten judiciary, more than the army, is their life raft. Wholly on their side! See: CJ Maraga and his minions, just like Wily Mutunga and his lays, diligently refused to define integrity., categorically declined to operationalise chapter six.WHY? See: so that rotten scum like Ouru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Raila Odinga, Evans Kidero Musalia MDVD and the rest any lazy head can tick off his dirty fingers, can be on the ballot box and maintain power and social standing. Continue, perpetuate their lucrative lootocracy. And now President Kenyatta is being a b!tch, barking wild at CJ Maraga and his puppies! --yawa! Mesays, Ouru Omera, give it a thought. It is give and take at the top. Even last time around the Judiciary gave you a pass (courtesy of Wily Mutunga, Rail loosing the petition). And when you, his Excellency, decided to sweep under the carpet, the infamous list of 400 corrupt government officials handed to you by the EACC (Ethics and anti corruption commission), you didn't hear Keriako Tobiko growl nor fume at your puppy Njee! And when your Excellency wired the AngloLesing billion over the counter to Switzerland, again the Judiciary held fire, just like they are doing now in the face of the mandarinate partially partaking to state means in excess on behalf of Jubilee. I dont think you are in a position to want a fight with the Judiciary, thy son of Jomo. It would be one hell of a quixotic lurch! Keep off Maraga Omera, kicking his ass is the monopoly  of blogosphere vigilantes like yours truly!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 18, 2017 21:55:32 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/Kenya-holds-one-of-the-most-expensive-elections/1056-4018144-10vpg41/index.htmlSo why is our election so expensive!? We may have total men in Kenya like Biwott, fire-breathing murderous security capos like Nkaissery, but there is just one thing we do not have: common sense! Common sense says do not spend 3 dollars where 1 suffices. You do, austerity will catch up with you, and forcce some sense into your thick skull! I see it happening to us! Already the debt servicing as a percentage of revenues is a condemnation of our financial managerials! And then this stupid electoral cost! Not a picture of a confident nation here!
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Post by kamalet on Jul 21, 2017 8:15:11 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/Kenya-holds-one-of-the-most-expensive-elections/1056-4018144-10vpg41/index.htmlSo why is our election so expensive!? We may have total men in Kenya like Biwott, fire-breathing murderous security capos like Nkaissery, but there is just one thing we do not have: common sense! Common sense says do not spend 3 dollars where 1 suffices. You do, austerity will catch up with you, and forcce some sense into your thick skull! I see it happening to us! Already the debt servicing as a percentage of revenues is a condemnation of our financial managerials! And then this stupid electoral cost! Not a picture of a confident nation here! I read this story and it was like comparing oranges and pineapples - they are not related. Kenya has 6 elections on the day, has 19 million voters and 40,863 polling stations. Can we say the same for Rwanda or Uganda? |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 28, 2017 21:55:40 GMT 3
It is tiresome, all the tension about one of the ordinary events of liberal democracy, periodic general elections. We surely can't afford convulsions or near convulsions ever so many years ---Atin investors freezing their decisions and wallets, tourists ordered by their governments to treat Kenya as a no-go area until after the event, and all around the country strategic relocations of family members to safe areas! Kenyan elections need an alternative political economy: thei price tag dictates a smooth and coole exercise, otherwise it is just an expensive scam whose perpetrators must be considered outlaws. Boycott or participate and (win or loose)  reject the results!? ----Wanataka nusu-mkate, says Uhuru Kenyatta. Ruto says let they boycott or not, who cares? they are losers anyway! Have the elite drifted apart beyond a parley!? if so, why? |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 28, 2017 22:06:11 GMT 3
Uhuru Kenyatta unleashed:
'Kalonzo has been minister since before all of you were born, and Musalia since he was a student at Nairobi University, centuries ago! and no one can point to the things they have done all that time! Not even a small harambee for a school at their consituency! ---Jameni, wacheni wazee waende wakalale, wapumzike ubure yao; sisi tujenge nchi, tuendelee na kazi!'
Mudavadi was Ouru's pro-Moi running mate last century in KANU!
But on Raila the Kibaki-Tosha man, the son of Jomo can't bring himself to even pronounce his name! I think the irreconcillability downstairs is reaching the top, making elite parleys increasingly impossible.
And then there is Miguna Miguna who I think has evolved into something worth discussing separately. He will loose the actual vote to Sonko and Kidero, but he has driven Kenya into a corner with his mental rigour and audacity. He has been so articulate and singularly uncompromising that, in addition to Oraro for Raila, Ojienda for Kidero and Sonko's lawyers, he has ---confident in his factology-- now silenced Peter Kenneth's and Waiguru's legal counsels! He laughs with such scornful contempt at the idea that any of his opponents can sue him, that it becomes chilling that a court in Kenya actually barred anybody from mentioning the KPMG report on Kidero's Mumias! ---Miguna is not Bonface Khalwale! Bonny is bull-fighter, Miguna is an intellectual warior, more of a to-the-death gladiator!
Miguna to Gitonga on KTN: 'I made an ethical choice when I was working for Raila when he was PM, that is why I am not a multi milionare. I said I wont steal from Kenyans, never! you can't compare me to ticks like Kidero, Sonko, Waiguru, Peter Kenneth and the rest of the things you clap for at rallies!'
He has reduced electing Sonko or Kidero to a national farce! Nations which deliberately choose for farce in real time, pay the price. And that is exactly what most nations do! which is why history is so dramatic and eventful, except that of Switzerland! (they don't even have an army up there in the Alps, just accountants!)
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 29, 2017 10:01:09 GMT 3
FOOTNOTE: LEST KENYANS FEEL TOO LONELY, outclassed by Ghana and Nigeria who recently delivered credible elections in the eyes of their people, here is how some view THE GREAT TALENT Paul Kagame and his Rwanda. They are also voting soon, even if one hardly hears any campaign noise from land of the hills!he! that is Africa's best-run country, and there is talk of RESCUE MOVEMENTS!
Our own second liberation here in Kenya just past its peak, now that graft is back with a vengeance and integrity we know not officially! But one thing no one can do here is shut our mouths! ---We even discuss the dissolution of Kenya openly, known since Ndii's notorious article as the divorce option!
Yeah, here we think it, we talk about it!
And it is not because we do not have fire-breathing iron Generals ---like Joseph Nkaissery, nor for a lack of Iron-chewing sherrifs, like Freddo Maatiang'i! whose wishes are the djini back into the bottle! Nay!
Kenyan minds moved on as we say. Too hot to cage by some tropicial minion!
Counting state money, counting ballot papers, those are the ones we just can't get right. But we are working on it, our homework!
nb: THE LADY CHAIR of the Ghanian independent electoral commission who delivered the credible elections is in trouble, and may be sacked soon. Her fellow commissioners are processing a vote of no confidence.
WHY?
The Ghanian joke is she was tough, zero-telerance on tenderprenurial scams and other wastages. So she delivered a cheap, a historically cost-efficient election. But a lot of people have invested in ripping the taxpayer on the election. They lost and she has to go!
Only the mediocre will survive in high office! A joke!?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 29, 2017 10:16:28 GMT 3
Back to our own bluesThe truth is with TRANSPARENCY AT EVERY STEP, these squabbles are erased or managed without hysteria. Over time, Institutionalised rigging has inculcated in us a PATHOLOGICAL PARANOIA as the healthy, necessary distrust of our authorities. TOTAL OPENNESS will be our therapy! But remember the law Aden Duale was hogging through parliament to have all defence matters secret and only presidential privy? And now they deploy the army and expect The Other to believe their good, patriotic intentions!? But we are learning democracy, the word is consultation. Funnily they used to invest a lot of time doing that under the trees in Old Africa, consensus generaton and consultations to bringing all stake-holders in the game. Infact the old men spent whole times ---sending emissaries and---- discussing this or that community problem ---even personals like the son of so and so should drink less and fak his wife more, to bring peace since the assistant husbands are already fighting amongst themselves! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 1, 2017 21:51:00 GMT 3
MUCH ADO ABOUT A BODY, NO ADO ABOUT A BODYSome murders are more foul than others, decide which, O Kenyan! Today is the 1st of August. It is a good day to write about bodies. Not heavenly ones, feminine or otherwise, nor of the emperor though. And I mean the emperor whose name this August month bears. No chance with those, for closer to home in the news and in the morgue of the city in the sun, is an expensive corpse. And who says the hit squad didn't come from the Jacob-Juma-Jobbers? In some jobs you want no amateurs. But let us not run ahead of ourselves in speculation. The murder scene in Muguga forest (Kiambu) off Roysambu was gory, but tabloid juicy. There is a dead young lady in it, both bodies inner-wears only. Now, when there is a dead pretty lady in a gory murder scene, you are invited to think crime passionelle. But any amateur detective knows appearances can be deceptive, the obvious being but a throw-off the scent, a cover-up story. There is only one option left if we are banned from speculation, to think it out deductively. 1. Who are the corpses? 2. What is the motive? 3. Who are the suspects? 4. Who among of these is the likeliest doer? 5. Narrate the conclusive evidence thereafter. 6. Do you have a historical context? Of number 5 there is a catch. You gotta know your country. You could live in a country where unsolved murders, the so-called cold cases, trail governments like words trail meanings. I recently read an article in a local daily in which a man spent longer in jail than Nelson Mandela for the murder of Pio Gama Pinto. The problem is he didn't commit the murder. It was a miscarriage of Justice, but a deliberate one. He was fixed. Cold cases? The people are never that naive as political literature would have it. The people figure out these murders as soon as they happen. Even who killed Ouko Robert, and JM Kariuki and whom Njenga Njoroge meant when he asked: 'but what about the Big Man?' --as he was being led to the gallows for the assassination of Tom Mboya. The IT-man is easy. Passwords. Forcefully extracted under torture because no hackers could be found to break-in otherways, nor would he share them willingly. What can you do with passwords? You could enter into systems and change data, live or stored. The transmission process can be hijacked for instance, and real-time data manipulated or doctored appropriately. In this case that would be your compromised election. --But, come to think of it, where is your clean, uncompromised election? Even the POTUS trump they say is a Putin Manchurian! Would, he had taken the concept of credibility seriously from the start, shown transparency without first a knife to his throat (court cases)! then would I now believe him at his word! As it is I think that is just another Kenyan crooked lawyer in a damage limitation exercise. Horse left the stables long ago! And that dog of Sherlock Holmes didn't bark neither. Which brings me to my real beef. NO ADO ABOUT A BODY  There were two bodies on the scene of the crime. But for the first24 hours it was all about one. The male one, the IEBC software smartie, Msando. In fact one could speak of a temporary media black-out, an erasure. She was not even reported missing along, she was just ignored, you know, like the native used to be absent in colonial novels, until, as if by some afterthought of the author, the elephant in the room is discovered. This treatment of the young Kenyan lady as a lesser corpse, mere collateral damage, seethed a thought in me. --Huh! Lesser child of a lesser God. The African woman is nothing but litter, a use and discard thing; and in death, criminal horrendous death ..... victim of a gory murder, her plight for justice is not a fact of its own. She is subhuman in her own country, a country celebrating a much-fabled second liberation. I will dissent, with venom. I will rise to the occasion to defend her honour, and I should do with the zealotry of an apostle, as if I were a priest in the cult of an African Matriarchy, and a goddess has been sacrileged, and The Spirit of The Avengers must be summoned. I will mourn and howl like a wolf, agitated by a full moon. I will call upon the ancestors to hold a counsel of rage and hone the fury, slowly forge the hearts in the fires of justice, to create a corps of Erinyes, indefatiguable. Too many men and institutions are getting away with the nonchalant murder and degradation of African women. The African women are just a side entertainment, objects like insects whose murder is further thoughtless amusement. There are no consequences to fear for the culprits. No law in pursuit. But the African state never lacks the ornaments of modernity, the only problem is they are mfano, dummies, so it is just clownesque and perfunctory hypocrisy when both opposition and government are united to demand and direct speedy investigations. But you would have noticed the crime scenes were not even taped-off for some forensic DNA retrieval, or some other forensic finecombs. 'Let those institutions handle the investigations!' cries the president! ---but they don't lock crime scenes, they do not have a functional lab (since I remember the monsters from Mutula Kilonzo were contaminated beyond use before they were sent to London!). And anyway the money for the lab disappeared in the AngloLeasing scandal. I am sure Africa will bare a fang once it is fully developed. And that fang like steel through butter, will sink into the necks and other softs of these our sadists. WHY WOULD I MOURN AN IEBC COMMISSIONER? Listen, choose where to invest your heartfelt emotions! IEBC commissioners -just like their predecessors discredited for their chicken addiction--- are m erely accessories to the grand scheme of looting Kenya. Truly they are, no less than the many other organs of state like the Mpigsty aka parliament (with its corrupted committees and self-awarded exorbitant perks), the JSC with its sitting allowance scams, the law society with their money-laundering aces, the parastatals and ministries with their incestuous tenderpreneurial scams (remember Afya house as MAFYA HOUSE?). Now, if one of them CAPOS goes down in grisly fashion, aint that just part of the standard mafia intra-- or interclan territorial wars?It is therefore unhealthy for the victims of their economic crimes, the robbed, to identify with the willing servants and mercenary corps of the graft mafia and Kartel who holds the land ransom, be they be butchered like beasts or euthanised in their sleep. But, anyway, knowing Kenyans, many are likely to be shedding crocodile tears for that important corpse of Muguga. For I think we are culturally savvy enough to instinctively recognise the real tragedy is the snuffing off without a thought of the life of a 21 one year old girl, regardless of what we think she was doing Saturday out late with a married, older man. The mutilated cadaver of Carol Mbungu, 21, will be wailing inside every polling booth on the 8th of August. And after that, her ghost will have a seat at the LEGICO, hovering around the president's seat, and should HE be present, sitting on his lap. Until her killers are caught and justice done.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 2, 2017 20:28:36 GMT 3
MURDER! MURDER! BUT WHY DEGRADE A CORPSE? Murder is no joke a crime. Then there is the way of the kill. The psychological state of these killers is best revealed in the way they treated the non-party to their dispute. The murder of the ICT topman of the IEBC and stealing the dead man's biometric prints, has a good rationale: to disrupt an important process upon which fortunes are vested, and can be lost or trebled. Last elections in Kagame's Rwanda, I think a presidential candidate was found with his throat slit in a banana plantation. Power, even without reading Shakespeare's William the 3rd, can be that bloody even today. But the degradation of a passerby, a non-party witness, the mutilation and degradation of the women of the marked men, 'innocent p-usy' as it were, is a different pathology. Power is content and arrogant enough to just inherits the widows and lets them plot revenge if they want. Deliberate post moterm mutilations of the women of murdered men, needs a different explanation. It is not psychopathy alone, since psychopaths can insist on very clean kills as a signature. The mental disorder which necessitates the degradation of dispatched consorts as it were, testifies to other deeper, injured sensitivities. In the United States in the South, some castes of white supremacists were known to dishonour, after murdering, the bodies of white women they suspected had ding-dongd with Negroes as OtishOtish would say. This was a cardinal sin against the ethos of white supremacy. It is therefore a thought, that a lithe young Mumbi princess ever flaunted around as the trophy conquest of a some middle-aged Kerher, could have trespassed on similar pathologies. Who knows the whole array of tribal long toe-ism and cults of Kenya? One must adequately explain the absurd ruthlessness with which young Carol Maryane Ngumbu was disposed of. She didn't have to be left nude in a bush. She didn't need be humiliated during or post-murder. But she was. That part is not about the presidential elections. If the pathologist is thorough, we will soon know whether she was sexually violated, and too, if the killers were and are cocophiliacs. And that again would not be about the elections next week. This girl's murder is the case. Notice anything wrong here below?  |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 3, 2017 20:05:48 GMT 3
HISTORICAL IMPUNITYThere were/are brands of capitalism where the life a peasant (or some other kind of worker) was/is not his or her own, much as the poor dear, unconscious or pumped full of denial, would cheat himself or herself otherwise ----keeping up the appearances of. But under the exploitative form of classical slavery, serfdom or colonial domination, there was no room for pretence, nowhere to hide, house Negro or no house Negro, so to speak. In such an open, primitive form, she or he is owned, he or she lives and works and dies at the pleasure of the boss as his property. When the Boss kills her or him in annoyance, or for The Boss's personal pleasure as in Mad Nero, or for some unrecorded transgression the murder is sourced out to ready bloody hands, there is no penalty whatsoever. It is an impunity which colonially informs labour of its place, subjugation, mostly in racist and sexist hierarchy capitalism. Females at the bottom, black females, very bottom. Modern India may have all the trappings of a celebrated democracy, but deep in the interior, a DALIT who answers a BRAHMIN unless permitted, is a dead dog. The segregation is just a gimmick to devalue labour to no-cost, save bare reproduction, yet usurp all its products and accrue surplus. Housemaids from Asia and Africa working in rich gulf states too, are a documented tale of modern slavery, so too are the hordes of Paki, Bangladeshi and Indian labourers who built the Qatari temples to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.The class aspect of the desecration of Maryanne Ngumbu body is the historical perspective worth. --Or do you believe she would have suffered similar indignities had she been Uhunye's daughter? As it is, the fact that she is from Kiambu gave her no immunity. She may come from the King's homestead, but in the hierarchy of capitalist royalty, she was worthless. In all likelihood state allied killers could do and dispose of her as they wished. --eh, this tyranny of ethnicity which allows for no class nuance, is an intoxication whose hangover in the morning will be a splitting headache. It is a Gikuyu presidency O Carol. But where is the Gikuyu Defender, and his batch detectives to catch me your killer? Show me Ndegwa Muhooro in the role of Sherlock Holmes, and I will tell you a perfect joke! NB: in Ethiopia the other day, and remember this is officially the fastest growing economy in Africa today, the government mowed down peasants -- see GAMBELA--- to grab their land and disburse it to foreign commercial farmers. Genocides to resolve political stalemates are becoming too recklessly popular in Africa I am afraid. The days of concentration camps and rural reserves are gone, it would appear. But there is a catch in Ethiopia when one says government. I gathered it is TIGRAYANS mowed down OROMOS, and Tigrayans and their Amhara mercenaries mowed down Anywak etc.  The EPRDF has a Tigrayan core, and Ethiopia has gone Ethno-lingual federalist. Tigrayan core, 6%, feels besieged between two crocodiles, Oromo 35%, Amhara 27%. Only way for the forceful minority to keep the reigns is a ruthless state of emergency. Is it a sustainable model? Fastest economy in Africa!? It is a rolling dice, biggest hot-air balloon or castle in the air? Let the dice land and pick your take. But is obvious the fabled growth figures in this ancient land will need a 'terrorist' government to maintain, since such a large section of the population is antagonised. It is like it is Mengistu Haile Mariam all again, only this time it is predatory capitalism in control. All over Africa, lying dead and forgotten under the rotten bushes of the continent, are countless Maryanne Ngumbu's, murdered by the acolytes of power and uninteresting to official Justice. Why is the story? The impunity of fascist class rule. Cast your vote come august the 8th, but fool yourself not. The vote is not a magic wand which resolves the fundamental, basal or primordial contradiction of Kenya, nor Rwanda tomorrow 04/08/17, nor South Africa later. So keep your eyes open, your ears open, and your mind even wider. What sounds you may hear, what sights you might behold
... in the restres rural and seething city jungle out there! Have a thoughtful day, will ya, and keep it up, for her memory, Carol Ngumbu.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 4, 2017 21:06:05 GMT 3
WINNER TAKES ALL UNDER STRESS
A shortfall of a liberal --graftocratic--- democracy where the ethnic buries the class? (split)
Their Highnesses the royal princes Kenyatta and Odinga, the two horses breathing down one another's neck to the coveted price, are off beat in this one salient respect: NO QUESTION OF NUSU-MKATE! Bothe bluebloods are subscribed to the winner-takes-all formula. My instincts are this is dangerous in Kenya, and dangerous in societies where the manifest form the contradictions of that society unfolds, is also the ethnic-identity fault line. This means by loss of the presidential vote, the alienation of a the losers is a homogeneous story of ethnic exclusion, faulty as it may be, false as thought will bear out!
When the race is neck and neck and the winner defeats the other by less than say 50 thousand votes out of 19M, that is a down the middle split which means winner takes all is a one-legged gait. With barely an absolute majority, yet a 100% turn-out, there is no solid social base, no social majority, for such an absolutism in power (as winner takes all entails). It is therefore a dangerous imbalance even where the society is class differentiated and relations unperverted by smokescreens. Such a slit result, narrow margin, is reflective of a social stalemate ---(watch Imma Macron's imperial presidency in France become unstuck, and compensate with an addiction to the state of emergency!)
Devolution mediated a bit in Kenya, attempting to re-write our narrative of fixation on the presidency, by making efforts and proposals to demystify that August, imperial seat. Within one year it was obvious it had failed ---through the machinations of the political class; now, five years later, it is a factual certainty. The abrasiveness, loathsome, ill-tempered and maniacal competitiveness the seat has invited between the two princes, and the charge with which it has electrified the bases, proves the The PORK a seat of power far from the symbolic titularity of a constitutional monarch. The auspices of the presidency of Kenya remains a vast power centre --of clientelistic patronage, nepotistic insider dealing; it remains a clearing house for tenderpreneurial contraband deals and other Big Buck lineages of Kartelist Graft and looting Networks feeding off the state.
It is a seat to kill for, an auspice to rig for!
Urais ni Kwa Nyama. Mkuru kwa Nyama.
Wakumeza mate ni wale wa Kwa Njenga, Reuben, etc!
Thus the new constitution ---mutilated like Carol Ngumbu beyond its original content and aims anyway---- was an exercise in conflict resolution but not enough for overall, sustained national stability. There is still dire need for a political settlement and a form of power dispensation which addresses the insecurities which bedevil the communities who, having lost the magical presidential slot, trigger in themselves the paroxysms of traumatic victimhood.
O we will be finished! O God we are finished! (the Kalenjin KANU-elite which had ridden the Moi gravy train, managed to project the uprooting of DT Arap Moi as the doom of the whole Kalenjin nation. The successfully implanted trauma festered on, and would find its catharsis years later in the uprooting of the equally poor Gikuyu peasantry in the Rift. So forged and internalised was this victimhood that it stood to a corpse behind William Ruto when he was fingered by Ocampo, and he is pledged to skilfully manipulate it to ever higher glories.)
But then, there are many nations within Kenya, seething with appetites for meat, and if the Presidency is the eating seat, they are resolved it is their time to eat too. Or do the Big 2, Kalenjin and Kikuyu with their parochial tyranny of numbers motto, bent on an a dual exclusive back and forth -------Kenyatta I to Moi I, Moi I to Kibaki, Kibaki to Kenyatta II, Kenyatta II to Ruto/Moi II-------- think they are the only hungry nations within the nation of multi-nations?
It is our time to eat, everybody else thinks and seeths. And if our democracy produces only two eaters, feasting off against the many, then you have to check history to find out if that democracy can't be basta!
Once we have herded the nation into an iron-cast narrative of the supremacy of ethnic identity, tribalism, we must think out a peace dividend to maintain overall cohesion. Power has to rotate --(haha I heard they used to do that in the defunct Yugoslavia, and not for too dissimilar reasons neither!). But in Kenya let me say it our way: the meat has to rotate around the many hungry mouths or the table will go down in a free-for-all melee.
A social implosion is inevitable with such sky-high social inequalities false fitted into ethnic narratives!
Vote with two minds on August the 8th. Your ethnicity within the two tribes of the Haves and the HaveNots; and your ethnicity in the usual Kenyan scale, of tribe!
Have a thoughtful election, will ya!?
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 5, 2017 8:01:13 GMT 3
THE OTHER ANTHILL OF THE SAVANNAHThe Hosni-Mubarak figures of Paul Kagame's latest win are in! If you have no idea who godlike Hosni was, I will find the divine figures of the now age-and-ill-health-ridden former Egyptian strongman for you. His last executive order was for the army to clear Tahrir Square. The square at the centre of Cairo was at that time jammed full with rebelling Egyptians. they had finally gathered enough courage to speak their hearts. They were reading The First Family the YOU ARE FIRED ORDER! But the man hadn't had his fill of power yet. He wanted more. Like addicts they always crave more. Hosni beseeched them: 'Obey me! Go home my children. I will sort things out. Do the reforms you want -O Egypt!' But the children wouldn't listen. They had heard it all before. So Mubarak ordered the supposedly Great --but IDF phobic---- Egyptian Army to set fire on his insolent subjects. Howbeit for the first time in their relationship the deputy Farao disobeyed the Faraoh to his face. But it was a palace coup too late to save the sinking Mubarak state. Omar Suleiman The Quiet Enforcer had always murdered in secrecy to hold Egypt obedient. But the new Egypt was beyond taming with secret terror, to wean her off her romantic dalliance with the MB, she needed a new monstrous clown running open terror and publicised massacres to rule. And that is your General Al-Sisi right there. All steely men corrupted by power decay into Hosni Mubarak or Robert Mugabe. They stay in power too long and rot away up there at the top, paralysing their nations which they still think they hold dear and serve. Kabila of Congo is young, 30 more years to head the Congo! In Mauritania too, the change the constitution mania to extend expired presidential terms has struck. It is a stupid fashion we in .ke and .tz are currently spared. Halleluya! The Rwandan election yesterday was a foreclusion. it went according to script. What Paul wants, Paul gets. To the dot. 99.99%.  It was a well-organised, ant-hill like efficient election. And it brought a result of no dissent, just like you would expect of in an anthill. It was like watching the obeisance of the Stepford wives in a setting of social fiction. The mlolongos or queues were not haphazard convulsive waves of python-like coils (like one would expect in the rest of wild Africa), nobody spat nor blew his nose kienyeji style into the surrounding. The lawns stayed immaculate like at a Japanese Emperor's gardens, and the pavements remained spotless clean, at least in the capital. Unlike Kisumo Luo capital with its Kilimanjaro dung heap at the center of town, no litter irritated ones sights in the Tutsi-Hutu CleanCity. ----Kigali is a bit like Jukwaa you know, it is Pyongyang-ish --a show-case! Further from the Kapital, the facade crumbles and the Stepford wives get out of line. They become a beehive of insanity and dirty-asz puerility much like Kim Onyango El Oloo's adolescent admirers at the Nipate Blog. ( see footnote).  In fact far from Kigali, the lines are even a cheek tighter, with the adolescents seizing the opportunity to line tight behind their favourite butts, though, unlike Kenya where there is dirty rubbing on such occasions, Rwandese dicks stay coils and docile. Kigali may be far out there, but be sure the Emperor still works some magic, Stepford magic. Across Kenya, I always marvel at the groups of Kenyans debating politics at the top of their voices and making their opinions loudly known. Moi's Nyati House is now a museum. Still, vigilance is warranted, there is a horrible recidivism in Egypt, and the pendulum of history can disastrously swing back in political stagnation. Then Lively Wanjiku, like our Stepford Bobbie, or modern Kigali man, could loose interest in her agile self and prefer the clinical efficiency of surrender to tight order, instead of the bustling mayhem of full life! Have a thoughtful election, will ya! What is new under the Sun? (My latest supersmart Samsung which has sent me bankrupt!)
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 5, 2017 14:07:53 GMT 3
THE COUNT DOWN TO FRED MATIANG'IS HOUR Of these men --sorry ladies for being irrelevant  at this pivotal hour---, only Maatiang'i is worth talking about. He is Mr. Fix It, and today, fate (visiting as the death of Joseph Nkaissery) has propelled him into a position where he can prevent IT from getting broke in the first place! A unicum! MY brief and beef is to figure out why MEN THIS CALiBRE --sorry girls!--- spend 50bn on a thing worth 5bn!? I believe in the MINIMISATION of costs and the MAXIMISATION of profit. EFFICIENCY then becomes holier to me than the word of God, any God and all Gods. This is what makes me comfortable with REAL capitalism! You don't maximize the use of the meagre resources at your disposal, you are a sheethead, and radical AUSTERITY is heading your way to therapise you shock! yaani, even if you are an economic giant --say NOKIA, BLACKBERRY, all those former greats, or even the USA, joke and you are soon junk, overtaken by others forged leaner! I think I made myself clear .... (every overweight fellow, shed weight, pig! every bushy groin, get a haircut, ape!) Freddo has the credibility. His CV is truly Mr. Fixit. Well, Kenyan  standards then! He has the adversarial experience and authority. Unlike the secondhand good Wafula Chebukati and the rest of his scared rabbits –--eh, who wants to end up in a bush like a carcass after the work of poachers? Fred Matiang'i can be believed by the mass of Kenyans if he put his worth to it and bellowed: THERE WILL BE NO SUCH THING AS A RIGGED ELECTION IN KENYA ON THE 8TH OF AUGUST, SO LONG I FRED MAATIANG' LIVES AND BREATHS AND RUNS SECURITY! I GUARANTEE A FREE FAIR AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS!The nation is currently tense. Too tense, scarily tense. God is tired of listening to Kenya' endless prayers for peace these days. I can just perceive God's ears developing a Ménière’s (disease) hellish condition called 'tinnitus' (ringing eardrums), as another day dawns to the winded cacophony of peace pleas from Kenyans in their discordant totality ---(or of course our stupid mentality of ever the preference for fictitious solutions, like prayer to change reality!) 'O People! Not again! Fix It, Fred! (lest I forsake Kenya and leave you people to your own destruction!)' –-Our Holy Father in Heaven looks down upon us with something of a malicious exasperation! And yet all Tough Fred is promising is to deal 'Nkaisserically'  with 'troublemakers' and breachers of law and order. He means those who will protest the results in public. Lo! Where is Mr. Fix It when you really need him. I saw an American estimate of the (financial) Kenya is spending on the security forces as contingency this election! Waawu! That can be better spent, On the Striking Nurses and the horrid hospitals for instance. If there were no fears of a rigged election, there would be no need for a status of emergency like contingency or siege. Fighting Al-Shabaab would be the pre-occupation of security barons. So, Freddo please, utter the golden word. Swear by your ancestors you wont deploy gunfire to protect a fraudulent result! Swear by your peoples holiest oath ---cliterodoctomised p-ussies, you will deal mercilessly with riggers whoever they are, whatever power they possess. Swear by your SDA God in Heaven, O Fred, this election, like the cheatproof Exam results you delivered with fellow prof. Magoha the other day, will be the first rig-free of the second liberation, just like the 1963 colonial-authority organised elections were the first (and the last free and fair elections in Kenya until the Raila-Kibakist end of Moi-KANU!). He Freddo, you catch!? NB: These Kenyan elections are stupid in one very important sense. They are overpriced. They are too expensive, too inefficient. They are like paying the price of a chique Mercedez for a second hand probox. How do the Indians go about their LOKH-SABHA jaggernaut!? The heaviest price paid for democracy is historically blood. The nearly always bloody freedom struggle, think the likes of Dedan Kimathi, Eduardo Mondlane, think of the genocidal massacres across continents against defenseless peoples. Elections in peacetime can be conducted on VOLUNTEERS and the rest as constitutional duty appended to state employees! Ballot papers need not be more expensive than fullscaps used for national examps like O'level! Ati Chebukati spend how much in Dubai printing his toileet papers!? --so I change from calling him secondhand to zero class! KENYANS can't imagine a General election ran by Teachers and other technical people otherwise already in government employment? Every Primary and Secondary school is a polling station manned by the teachers there and overseen by the Principal there –---as part of there TSC contract! That is why I like to look at what is cooking in other kitchens elsewhere, lest I think my village has the best cooks! You tell some people how much you spend on elections while you have a starving, ungaless population, and they offer you a honest opinion: 'man you are morons. You could spend 10% of that. But that needs you to think! If you are human that is!'Methinks Dr. Fred Maatiang'i, even if a Jubilee appointee, is human enough to do the math, the math On the economic consequences of rigging a prohibitively expensive election! But you didn't hear me say he is courageous enough to do the right thing with the power in his hands! NB: for political consequences I hold my judgment of him. Remember Carey Francis the great racist experimenter and his comment on the bright native seedlings at Alliance high School he was moisturing. 'Excellent work ethic but unctuously pious!'Right! FOOTNOTES:  
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 6, 2017 15:23:56 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 6, 2017 18:33:17 GMT 3
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: THE GOOD AND THE BAD IN A BASKETMy big worry continues to be the price tag on these things. But as they come, I have enjoyed the spectacle of the Kenyan presidential campaigns. It has been a punishing schedule even for the spring chicken s William Ruto and Ali Hassan Joho, let alone the other aging and overweight Kahogs. The demands on the vocal chords on the main candidates have been Olympian. Even veteran opera singers in marathon, non-stop quartets would 'surre' as we say. But O my! the colourful attires, the body-boggling bamba dances, the handshakes, the interviews, yes, there has been work done in the campaigns! It is a novelty to see a Kenyan politician working on anything than self-enrichment! O! foot in mouth!? But let us not spoil the party yet. Take for instance the sheer fun and pleasure the multitudes of Kenyans have evidently been having at the rallies! the music, dance and song, the BAMBA SHAKES! oh the bamba shakes as a national female craze of showing off certain assets ran away with it! It has been a carnival, a festival of open democratic celebration. The country has been set alight with colours, smiles and robust jokes, witty cracks and a daily diet of interesting TV shows, from hard commentary, parody and caricature, to awful bullsh!t. I am sure the stepford electorates in some surrounding countries have been shell-shocked at the brevity and liveliness of Kenyans.
They wish they lived here! (I am not sure Uhuru Kenyatta recognises how much good this level of open expression has raised the profile of Kenya!) Wht do you think Rwandans looking at Kenya think? they know we are a century ahead. Clean streets in a capital city smaller than Nyeri isn't everything!
Makofi kwetu yawa!
We have watched debates in which the underdogs and outsiders ---the professors of the presidential race (Wainaina, Ekuru and Kaluyyu), the running mate Muthiora Eliud Kariara and the intellectual HITMAN Miguna Miguna for Nairobi governor----- have given Kenyans a crystal clear vision of the articulate alternatives to be contemplated by the next generations. In this sense these elections have had a stunning achievement whose ramifications are yet to crystallise fully. It will after the dust of the campaigns have settled.1. William Ruto --the 2022 candidate has been unable to have legal redress to purify his good name. First, Boniface Mwangi via his lawyer Gitobu Imanyara, told David Maraga and his benches, that William Ruto has no integrity worth the court's time, even on lazy day when the Wigs have nothing to do, leave alone corrupt Judges like these ones who once gave the Kisumu swindler (Brother Paul aka Kamlesh Pattni of the Goldenberg scam), four stars of honour. Well, Imanyara tabled about 5 hardcore cases to foundationalise the assertion William Ruto is moral scum ---all the way back to YK'92. Howbeit Ruto's brilliant lawyer, Kilokumi I believe, took a look and went MIA. He advised a 'NGO SROW' or settlement out of court I believe. So, 2022, as ambitious newcomers who might not have the financial muscle ruthlessly strive to burry loaded veterans by other means, hot chances are they will discover  CHAPTER SIX. There, in its unrottable casket where Mutunga bequeathed it to Maraga, they will draw deep breath and --WHOAA ABRACADABRA BURUKUBURU BAMBABAMBA----- invoke incantations to resurrect it somehow, as a weapon of choice to lock out Hustler people like Ruto, Mudavadi, Kidero, Sonko
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. 2. Evans Kidero ----- (another 2022 hopeful, even the Great Luo Hope should the last bullet miss its mark on NaneNane, no less than Peter Kenneth was the Mount Kenya candidate for the Uhuru succession before he ran into Miko Sonko in Nairobi and his bubble burst,)----- has been deconstructed by Miguna Miguna. He is a thief who took Mumias to the graveyard while he himself a golden parachute to the skies. Miguna looked at him scornfully live: take me to court for defamation! Howbeit Ojienda, the lawyer who earns ksh.500M, couldn't find a thunderbolt in his arsenal to shoot down the Big Mig!? Damn! Just when I was booking a ringside seat, to witness two learned Luo friends showing Kenyans we, omena people, don't sleep our ways through college and earn fake degrees like Ouru Kenyatta at Amherst or Ruto at Chiromo, professor Ojienda entered a nul prosecui!Damn! I am traumatised! I had told my Gikuyu solicitor to come and watch why I will be ditching him: nothing personal, nothing tribal. Omena people are just greats in the courtroom, that is all. That is why your Mau Mau grandfather preferred Gem Arguings Kodhek!Then the legal show which would have dwarfed the OJ sympson's fireworks trial, or SM Otieno for businessman Muthiora (accused of trying to overthrow Arap Moi; or Devrell for Njonjo (accused of undermining Arap Moi), failed to materialise. And now, still stuck with my Kikuyu solicitor, he has doubled his charges with a grin: 'we Gikuyus make the most reliable lawyers you will ever find. We overcharge yes, but don't cheat you further by treachery. Treachery is the speciality Gikuyu politicians!'That is when you hear me say the ksh.300M Ojienda earned from Mumias isn't because of the law he knows, but his accounts are just a clearing house for the spoils of bureaucratic kleptocracy; yeah, our ace prof is a mere handler in stolen property, an immoral money-launderer like the other lawyers we saw in the NYS, spending 27M on suits from HongKong. --Wake me up when the suits are from Milan, Italy. That is the intellectual contribution of Miguna. To call the bluff of Kidero's fearsome consiglieri or legal capo, and live. It is when Kidero runs for higher office again that this contribution will arise in the arena of mortal combat. 3. Peter Kenneth ---the man the gods loved so much he could be governor of three counties, and he chose Nairobi, had a terrible series of events within Jubilee and, later, even worse as an independent at the debates. His bubble has all but burst, leading Ouruto whistle him in like a dog, promising him a bone if he lets Sonko be the man of destiny. Poor Pete, he needs to go back and retool himself if he is to come back on his own merits. Then there is the fact that even on language he looked paler than Sonko who, according to the sympathetic Rachel Shebesh, 'ata kama anachengwachengwa na Kizungu mingimingi ya Ujaluo, is the incoming governor pende usipende!Yes, I nearly lost myself in the good side of Kenya, this campaign period. Hassan Joho was so articulate in Migori as he ended every powerful sentence with Raila Amollo Odinga, our plans to ambush him with ONGEA JUU YA MIGINGO were smothered in the cheers. Remember President Uhuru Kenyatta had been to Homa Bay, and to Mbita, where word to the Jubilee locals was it would too much (of an insensitivity) to have him, before a national opening of archives to heal and reconcile, visit the grave of Jarusinga Tom Mboya during the campaigns. This reluctance was because the Big Man whom the triggerman Njenga Njoroge reputedly asked about as he was being led to the gallows, is believed to have been the current president's father, then the president of the republic, Jomo. The open-manic president came to open the bridge linking the Rusinga island to the Mainland. The causeway which used to do, had to be broken 'since it had blocked the nose of the Winam Gulf', leading to a pond habitat on the inside. The president heard the Migingo chants, and grinned, the performer that he is. 'MIGINGO NI YETU, NI YEETU JAMENI!' he yelled! And left it at that. Even he himself knew it was a non-starter and he laughed, at himself too. It broke the ice. I had thought he would rub us the wrong way with it, ill-tempered as he had the rowdy crowds of Turkana, unwelcoming Coastals and certain Kamba regions. These he had blasted with: 'kwani kama sitapata zenu, sita pita!? --that rude template made us think he could be fiery enough to tell us off with: SI MUENDE KULE KWA BABA YENU AMURUDISHIE MIGINGO! Haja gani kwangu, na hamtanipigia kura!? Ama sasa mmetambua vitendawili hazipiki ugali!?But he didn't dare. So we thought how M7, the new landlord of the fishy enclave of watery rock, would have reacted hearing the Kenyan Excellency declared Migingo Kenyan. I am sure the Ankole Longhorn spat and told his military chiefs, 'look at these useless drunken Kenya boys, cheating themselves and their people! Bure Kabisa!'All it all, it was a campaign to savour, a lesson in mass participation, a lesson in mobilisation, but that price tag! Prohibitive. It suggests a process captured by money, a process in which the people are just dancing figurants, members of the cast of an already produced 'production' or drama. That it is all a sham show for the sheep to dance themselves into the abatoir, or not notice the herdsmen, in Jubilee or NASA sheepskin as it were, are wolves in reality! -That is a thought to behold. Not really, Because this is Kenya. And her reality can't masked for long, deny the much you want. There have been ruthless and sordid reminders it is a bloody power game; vested interests behind the scenes, veterans of deep state intrigue, insecure patrons and bosses of corruption, various degrees of security puppet masters and other members of that cast, have been at it. These deep state sectors, instinctively conservative and pro status-quo because a transparent change is their evolutionary dead-end, have done their best to scare Kenyans into a pessimistic and paranoid mood, one in which sticking with the devil you know would be the prudence of a bird at hand is worth two in the bush. Murder as part of the game is a chilling confrontation with reality. And it has come to pass: MURDER, a double murder! Tomorrow we know if they have won, the negatives. FORGET HER NOT, KENYA  CAROL NGUMBU |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 7, 2017 21:05:48 GMT 3
SIEKE!Ayayayayayaya! 150 thousand thugs on standby to guarantee peace!? It will be a bonanza of solliciting kitu kidogo! The other side of the coin is they could be on standby to ram a faulty result down the protester's throats!? Keep a lid on things. After all the fun and joy of the campaigns, then it comes to this!? A siege! The message is chilling: For all the joy and fun, the prayers and the peace of the campaigns, we know our hearts are black with hate, red with rage, and white with murder. A trigger, an excuse, and the gates of hell open, so to speak. It is like we are borderlines!It is an uncomfortable picture; it beggars a holistic answer from the nation's thinkers, or at least an effort towards. I pity Matiang'i a bit, reduced to a bellowing 'military puppet' who, security the alibi, has turned voting day into a possible dooms day. And he can't figure out why that is so! the need for sieke. Neither can anybody in authority say what the problem is! (why should there be violence!? ---Aah, of course, loosing candidates will incite the excitable masses to!) Kenyans have always lined and turned out peacefully to vote in good cheer during General Elections. They did in respectable numbers even during the sham (mlolongo) ones of Daniel Arap Moi. Moi used to pride himself as the professor of politics with those pre-rigged things of his. But Kenyans persevered, patiently wasting a quarter century in the process. We are a patient people. There is proof. Governors are looting and mismanaging counties, but many will be returned. --Growing up problems, they are Learners, so standards are patiently low. But the governors no doubt see it differently, they are their excellencies! Kenyan voters have always performed their civic duties with dedication, promptness and good hope, someetimes hope against hope! --- if we gave it a statistical approach, what do the statistics say? Of the General Elections held in Kenya, how many have been fairly accurate representations of the people!?Yes, fairly clear and clean, as opposed to that standard which the wife of Caesar is supposed to have been subjected to! The problem has never been with the people, never the voters during elections. The problem has always been the people who control they tallying and announcement of the results, those powers who apportion the wins and loses according to, as it were, a whole different set of algorithms altogether, alternative to that which reflects the peoples will.This divergence or descrepancy has always a high probability of ocurrence in our land. This is what sets the nerves on edge and uncocks a satanic impulse in the land; because it is unfair, unjust, wrong and criminal. It is always the manipulation of results, cheating, which deligitimates the affair, implodes the trust and generates pandemonium. The people have no problem with results truly reflecting their will. That is a non-rigged election. They turn out in their all, like they will do tomorrow, the 8th of August 2017. But then some powerful people plot a different scenario ---foolishly human! The key to peace are boring elections. Nobody is bothered to contemplate a protest. Because there is no cheating, no grievance! This sieke means the authorities don't trust themselves, the people don't trust them, and more likely than otherwise, the result will be contested. One way or another. What a pity, that democracy day has turned to look like coup day! Security forces totally mobilised. We have a problem to solve, for the future! Have a cool vote. WANTED  nOW, DO THAT WITH THE ELECTION TOO! aND Then the real deal!  
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 7, 2017 21:36:46 GMT 3
 could just be the right man to burry Chapter six forever! |
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Post by wanyee on Aug 9, 2017 15:48:29 GMT 3
My fellow Kenyans, "The Titanium Issue" is "the" litmus test - www.madaraka.net/?page_id=1644 The Kwale mine accounts for 58% of the revenue earned from Kenya's mining sector. This mine can satisfy global demand for two years, in the absence of other sources of titanium. Kenya reportedly has the largest unexploited reserves in the world (14%), with deposits all the way to Kilifi. While I have been working with villagers in Kwale, to stop the plunder of our country's natural resources (in this case titanium), I have not seen or heard neither Uhuru nor Raila. Neither of them is at "Ground Zero", and so, they have both failed the litmus test, by failing to address "real issues". So, it doesn't matter who wins, as long as they uphold the Constitition of Kenya. |
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Post by wanyee on Aug 12, 2017 2:28:44 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 13, 2017 13:02:33 GMT 3
AFRICA TALK2. A POLITICOLOGIST'S NIGHTMARE: ELECTIONS AND EMERGING NATIONS IN AFRICA Subtext (A): THE BODY OF BOOTILICIOUS DIANE RWIGARA, AN AFRICAN DESPOT AND REVENGE PORN! Diane Shima Rwigara announced her presidential ambitions in the second Zamunda republic. She said she wanted broken, the CHOKEHOLD with which the current strongman, Paul Kagame, is asphixiating the nation under. She was in for a modern shock.  Old Robert Mugabe in his role as Africa's humorist in chief, is doing the social media with one of his hilarious quips about the scandal. But before that juicy but dark story, some equally hot stuff from ... uhu uhu.... the former heart of darkness! 2A:The group of the Ethiopia's and Rwanda's.
2B. The strange case of Tanzania Mainland (relative social cohesion). Let us start with a classic problem. Leaving failing states like the 'Yugoslavian' Ukraine or the United Kingdom with its Scottish problem alone, I wish to be wholly Afro-centric for the moment, to restrict myself to the African 'multi-nation state', 1875 Berlin model. And for this part I will concentrate on universal suffrage as exemplified in the 'best-run' African country, Rwanda. Kagame being our brainiest and best leader, I will call it Kagame's headache. In our Kenya, luckily led by dimmer wits, think of Mutahi Ngunyi's Tyranny of Numbers. The 'ethnic' composition of Rwanda is such that the Majority Hutus are estimated at anywhere between 80-85%, and Tutsis and the rest, eg Twa's ang pigmies, the rest 15%. (whenever possible, I will avoid the connotation ETHNIC. False consciousness allowed ----as a purveyor of political tension, a paradigm for organisation and a platform for mobilisation----, I will talk of the state of Rwanda as comprising two major NATIONS, Hutu's and Tutsi's!)Schoolmasters like yours truly who in front of their impressionable students don't do censorship are not going to think much of the STEPFORD curriculum below. --An alternative view from critical Rwandese: Kagame is merely constructing a new mythology to legitimize Tutsi supremacist, minority domination forever. It is an authoritarian hill hole. Not that any Rwandan is fooled anyway. But after a quarter century of forging the new Rwandese, one neither Hutu nor Tutsi nor infested therewith, there should be a bit of faith in his or her NEW (Rwandese) consciousness. Howbeit Paul Kagame did a Nkuruzinza, a Kabila, a Mugabe, a Yoweri, a Mubarak on him and her, that new Rwandese creation of his! He shoved the constitution ---and common sense---- aside to extend his term in office. Who knows, may be until death do us part! It was a clear vote of no confidence in his new Rwanda. Kagame doesn't trust his masterpiece, without him, wouldn't it repeat its past mistakes? going all Hutu and Tutsi on him again, in horrific, recidivistic implosion1? The weight of such a responsibility on a saviour's mind must never be underestimated. For starters, remember, to prevent another attempt at their annihilation, Israel, 5 million people, fuming over the holocaust, have developed a rumoured 500 mega Nuclear bombs! They can destroy the Universe hundred times over! ---it reminds me of a dramatic scene where one of Tshaka's foster fathers feels compelled to temper the furious temper of the rising beast: 'Tshaka! this killing must stop. Must the whole world suffer inglorious death because of the ills and insults visited upon proud Tshaka and his divine Mother, Nandi. Enough, boy!' Tshaka is stung to his core. He flashes his assegai out and holds the sharp tip to the man's neck before he can utter another word: 'You were kind to Tshaka and Nandi when they had no refuge, abandoneed by all. You gave us a home and dignity. For that memory, I wont kill you now. But call me a boy again, and be dead.' Tshaka then withdraws in a mockery of royal pause, bows and resheathes his historic assegai. On to more murder! yeah, The single-minded ruthlessness of worldly Messiah's is a pure Armageddon cult. But when you are that strong, you scare the sh!t out of others, and they in turn, insecure, feel compelled to go for their own Armageddon parity. An arms race. MAD. That is our mad world then. THE CURSE OF BERLINIn a charged nationalist atmosphere in the Multinational African state not yet fully differentiated to class ----(I will avoid the terminology ethnic or tribal)----, the free and fair electoral process follows the 'natural' pattern of the old, organisational order. Hutu Nationalism, Tutsi Nationalism, and similar cleavages. Then there is the necessary behaviour of cheap politicians too. Visionaries in this respect like Julius Nyerere are rare gems. In the USA there is a technique or phenomenon known as racist dog whistling. Here is a recent book on it. If radical ideologists pandering to myths of own nationalist exclusiveness and unique destiny to rule over others, convince their limited but evil politicians to construct a totalitarian and xenophobic political enterprise, while living in a multi-nation state in which they are the Majoritarian vote, then the free and fair voting process has a pre-concluded result, always. The rational assumption therefore is, that the Rwandese socio-economic and political crisis ----which entered the genocidal conundrum as a solution template------- would, were Paul Kagame to dare a free and fair election, bring back a Hutu nationalist regime. It is at least a statistical certainty! The rational suspicion also is, that perhaps such a regime could even be radical one, trusting much in its majoritarian base to conduct its politics with consummate nationalist arrogance! To the cost of the 'roaches'. NB: There is actually no shortage of overt Hutu nationalist extremism in the diaspora, and covertly lying low within. Then there is the Hutu nationalist injury which has a narrative of its own forgotten genocide at the hands of the Tutsi army hot in pursuit into the Congo!It is a battle of the injured souls: the holocaust against the Nakba, at the heart of the dark continent. And talking about denials, was that Ottoman rampage on the Armenians a genocide?This statistical given (ratio) has --call me an election between two radical and injured nationalisms--- sieged Paul Kagame's mind and rendered him positively paranoid. The immediate intellectual implosion is evident: Operating from the premise of classical bourgeois democracy, he has to mouth the slogans which go with it: one man one vote, free and fair, open and transparent, independent bodies, bla bla bla --and the rest of the what have you's. But, should he in whole ascribe and practice those bourgeois tenets, he is practically signing his own dismissal, yeah, he is sacking himself and, worse, dismantling and giving away his hard-fought Tutsi alliance military victory, wherefore its all back to square one, or worse. The final solution? ---Can he and his nationalism afford that risk!? Can Israel relinquish its military supremacy of own accord in the context of a rising Persia, paranoia or no paranoia? That leaves only one option for Brother Paul. A sham bourgeois electoral process in Rwanda. The result must be a guaranteed Kagame win. We thus enter the realms of procedural caricatures! We suffer visitations of the trappings of democracy, but all mere facades. It is all farce, a daily diet of farce. An Orwellian world where words have the opposites of their meanings. Right to speak means don't tell me what I do not want to hear! Duly elected means despot. Free and fair means rigged! Independence = neo-colonialism, and Africa rising = (that is the homework for today, folks!) There is only one way to enforce a paricipation in that fake reality, to make sure of public compliance: Rigid force, ruthless control of the population, instilled fear, constant manipulation of reality. Fictions like no Hutu no Tutsi anymore. There is pretence of a bourgeois system without a bourgeois revolution, there are formations of bourgeois institutions without bourgeois consciousness. It is all a bourgeois fantasy, a bourgeois ideological scam. Because it is a peasant economy with a parasitic NGO sector boasting a modern (finance) economy. The economy has avoided fundamental reforms, radical bourgeois or revolutionary productive reforms, and thus it stays in a semi-feudal time warp!Under bourgeoisie economic reforms, or other more revolutionary economic reforms, labour would be absorbed to the point of a scarcity. There would be no need for that society to contemplate genocide as a solution to its crisis in peasant Agriculture. Absent revolutionary productive transformation, it remains a time-warp, and Hutu extremist nationalism opted for the genocidal removal of the excess population as the solution. Let us hope Brother Paul has more luck with his myths. That, like Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, he manages to construct a primitive bourgeois racket but with EXCELLENT social cohesion! Damn! That crazy Tanzania, how do they do it!? They just don't obsess with their, yeah, tribes! Damn, Zanzibar is their headache. I suggest they turn her into Dubai or Shanghai: a total financial wh-ore, dedicated only to commerce! the nearest thing to Soddom and Gomorha, or, on the upside, Shangri-La! Continued. WHAT IS UP IN ETHIOPIA? 10% growth rate but but fleeing youth, ie no absorption of labour!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 19, 2017 9:59:34 GMT 3
THE TRUE FACE OF SIEKE!The police were engaged in an 'anti-looting operation', day and night, police spokesperson said, and Matiang'i reiterated. Woe to the Kenyan press core of photo journalists: the lazy guys failed to capture even a single photo of the actual looting, breaking into peoples homes ---other than by the state agents, some insane enough to murder a baby in Kisumu! d**n the battery of live warzone reporters of the TV medium! not even a single footage of the gaping, looted shops by the Matiang'i-branded criminals, nor the looters in the act of looting! Total censorship!? Naah, Brave Kenyans tried hard If only the tough sheriff and his ruthless police had the wit to let journalists document the looting and arson of businesses! Still, here is the meagre harvest!  Beyond Zero caravan vandalised in KIbera, August 12, 2017.  Principal Okuku of Olympic Primary school surveys the damageAnd this is the clincher! Found this detail by [CARL DE SOUZA / AFP]  Protestors loot and burn premises belonging to the Kikuyu tribe on August 11, 2017 in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. Immediately after news broke that ... But what really does the de souza photo show!? No wonder that wonderful cartoon in the dailynation where a dejected foreign press scampers back. -Fak the Kenyans, they are not giving us the show we came for! O Carl de Souza and AFP, what a fakup!) I became disturbed at Kenyan journalists not tabling the data -- burning and looting tonight! so I went to search, and search, frantically search. I was desperate to protect Matiang'is credibility. The guy is from education for heavens sake, he is merely out sourced temporarily to fix the sh!t at security. He will be returning to us. We don't want to welcome him back the way we welcome shit in our living rooms. No we don not want a wreck coming to make a mess! Tough Interior ministry sheriffs whose foot soldiers crack open the skulls of babies are, at the ministry of education, defined as African filth and barbarian apes. Ministers of education under whose tutelage 8 year old pupils are shot dead by the police while they gallantly defend infanticide, will easily be a running sore forcing UASU, KNUT and KUPPET to wear air-filtering masks everytime there is a meeting. But I drew blank, even on the uncensored net! Kenyans didn't document (are censoring?) looted and arsoned shops! (this reminds me to say something about Sonko, the Governor elect of Nairobi, making strange noises too!) Here is a photo essay of the 'opposition strongholds' in Nairobi. Say shots from the Raila slum loyalist areas who protested the most, physically. And did the suffering!  Residents look on as Kenyan Administration Police officers patrol in the Mathare Slum of Nairobi, during protests against Kenya's national election results.          ![]() cdn-02.independent.ie/incoming/article36025738.ece/78172/AUTOCROP/w620/2017-08 4301.jpg[/img]        On the other hand, under Matiang'i, there have been some noteworthy vandalisations of work premises Africog, and earlier on, NASA's so-called tallying cecentreAnd who dunnit!? (Ahaa!)  NIGHT TIME ANTI LOOTING OPERATIONS POWER SHOWS WHO IS BOSS, it is the colonial relationship: for the native it is yes bas, whatever you say. I have to talk about the DEVONSHIRE WHITE PAPER, its histoical contours, and the underlying fears which authored it, and why I think it a relevant lesson.  could just be the right man to burry Chapter six forever! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 19, 2017 15:20:25 GMT 3
THE MORNING AFTER MATIANG'I BLUES: BABY PENDO'S SMASHED SKULLSUBTEXT: the aftermath of night-time anti-looting operations! Sh!t happens, and then real sh!t. Even at their most ruthless, psychopaths don't drive bayonets through babies with ease. When they do, there has to be a frenzy and a kind of collective madness, like that Rwandan genocide, or the motive has to be tied to some ancient hatreds riding on revenge thirst, much like that day in the Palestinian refugee camps of Shabra and Shatila in Lebanon under Ariel Sharon's approving eye, when this happened. As for the Aztec or Mayan inspired punishments of disembowelment practiced by Latino American drug gang killers, the psychopaths are first sent on trips of pure cocaine. Then they are no longer human. I just want to say, one must put some very hard work into turning a human being into a monster. Adolf Hitler and his NAZI geniuses like Goebbels had to do triple times intoxicating Germans into Jewish extermination. Watching Kenyan police wreak mindless terror on unarmed civilians, see photos above, I am still convinced we are merely dealing with a case of extreme stupidity and malice, rather than evil. These are, forgive them Father, just soldiers obeying their orders --obeying a duty call the best way they know how, and have been conditioned to, and nobody has ever expected them to, in the line of duty, ever think at all. So they wont, not now, not tomorrow, until we disassemble the Kiganjo/Lanet/Ruaraka curriculum and put in something more demanding of the human brain, soul, conscience and other more useful human faculties. But --Matiang'i didn't come from our local 'Harvard'. Kiganjo Police College goes for Harvard for those not in the know. Matiang'i's business and brief and rise has always been cerebral, so when he replaced Nkaissery at the bottom quarter of the cerebral index in government, the standards are instinctively upped! Let there be light! the light of renaissance! shone into the dark den of armed African forces! Sweet dreams buddy! Our 'renaissance man' Freddo has been engulfed and sucked down the moors. There is this joke I caught from a cop (transport manambas/drivers develop understandings with the same traffic cops they bribe daily on the roads for years!). Full of himself Matiang'i calls on CID Muhooro with the gist the investigation into Msando's murder is lackluster. The anti Sherlock Holmes sets him straight: 'I am not one of your headmasters whose schools you gatecrash and treat like your housemaids!'Matiang'i had failed to get the import of why neither the FBI nor Scotland Yard were allowed into the case! That bodycheck from the pugnacious Bull may just rattle awake his sleepy head! THE MURDER OF BABY PENDO: MATIANG'I'S WATERLOO? That was after The acting cabinet secretary for security had appeared on TV to deny the slaying of 8-yr old Stephanie Mora in Mathare. Why the baby was christened Pendo by her parents tells a tale of faith in love and hope which, now, as heartbroken and bereaved they strive to salvage the shatters of their hearts, looks to have been one of fates jokes on mortals: feeding them ultimate joy, but only as preparation for maximum pain.
..... Meanwhile and elsewhere far from the cracked skull of Ssamantha Pendo
.... Matiang'i sounded like a Kiganjo-grade police spokesman, that morning after the announcement of the winner of the presidential election. He performed like a specialist in denial, the prototype of vintage Eric Kiraithe and Charles Owino, or the other serial numbers from 'Harvard' whom you saw at the vetting sessions. --They have their tender sides though, our Harvard graduates, like when some of their very toughest portrayed themselves too scared of their wives to reveal the truths of the Mpesa merry-go-round accounts! Yaani Matiang'i, the conqueror of the exam fraud, was being an open cheat. A hard-eyed fraud.
[/quote] That beggars an open question. In the first part of this posting I already tackled the 'evidence and hard factology' of that claim: 'damaging peoples property, breaking into peoples homes and looting at large and random!' SO WHAT WAS UP WITH THE GREAT MATIANG'I? Was he being a miscreant to own profit? Was it a matter of his personal safety or other interests? Or was he lying because he, in genuine but misguided patriotism, believed the nation was best served by feeding the people absurdities, aka being economical with the truth to the extent of him, in denial, becoming a clown in a price act? Howbeit Freddo had painstakingly built a reputation of credibility, even -- please teachers don't laugh--- honesty. He had done this both at education (please lecturers don't laugh) and at his former posting at Informa-Telecoms, wherefore to expend it all so cheaply needs a good rationale. Was it coercion? Was it ambition? Or was it 'Okonkwo tough': he was afraid of being thought weak! (Okonkwo of Umuofia famously withdraws his machete and cuts Ikemefuna down. The adopted boy calls him father, and always has, since the settlement which brought him to Okonkwo's house, barely post infancy. Now, approaching adolescence, the Oracles have deemed he be killed. The first killer having botched his machete strike, the surprised and terrified boy runs bleeding towards the only father he has known for protection and love. Chinua Achebe is chilling in his report: 'without hesitation, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut the boy down.' Then the heart-numbing explanation above: he was afraid of being thought weak.)(being thought weak like his father whom he grew up to despise pathologically?) Fred Matiang'i is not just another Kenyan fool in the jubilee cabinet of horrors. He towers above those sh!threads and sh!tholes. So I pay respect to him by a harder, deeper think, and in such an endeavor, the bests of the African library come in handy. Great men being men, faithful to a Titanic already lost, thus doomed. Some instinct warned me something hat hit his mind, but was he aware or not, in which case he was coping the best he could? By the time he was still in denial, castigating social media and fake news, the dead pupil in Mathare had been named, the circumstance of his shooting narrated by eye witnesses, and bullet casings produced in such numbers as to warrant an investigation. --if they were not from the police, all those spent catriges, which army had been firing? On which urban Terrorists? COERCED: Securocrats who had fine-tuned Nkaissery into a monster ---you will demonstrate over my dead body!----- before maybe coming to fear him themselves so much as to hurry him on. Perhaps in his trenchant patriotism the Masai declared: you will rig over my dead body! And they replied: so be it! Then Freddo had the joke and became intimidated, into tow the set line. AMBITION: I will spare you lyrical twangs from MacBeth, since I wont stop once I start. But blind ambition has the habit of making facts an irritant distraction, and those who bear them, number one enemies. May be Freddo saw this as an opportunity to come in as Sheriff Tough, an academic so hard he could face down the paper tigers at the DoD. Those chaps can't be fired, yet they loose battle after battle to Al-Shabaab, nor are their books kept, wherefore their untidiness at paper work beats the dirtiest African slum! (the Kenyan baptismal for them is not Lootenant for nothing!) OKONKWO: The man of action had a fixed image of his manhood as super hard. He was ever afraid of showing a soft spot, even toward those beloved of him. His inflexible character, was his mental prison. So may be Matiang'i had barked ZERO TOLERANCE MEANS ZERO TOLERANCE, unaware that, to the uniformed forces under arms, it meant carte blanche. Infants snoring in their mother's arms with their lips twitching on mummy's ripe teats would die for rioting and looting, and 8 yr olds fulfilling natural curiosity leaning over balconies of flats too, would stop bullets. And by the time he should have rechecked his briefing notes, if that is what it was misleading him, he was still at it with the gusto of man having his day made. ----He Freddo! You suffered a lobotomic flatulence right there man! Have your propaganda department calculate how much responsibility you duck for double infanticide. Infanticide is the one the Earth weeps the most. Adults (mowed down by mistake) are likely to have sinned somewhere at least before the day of their criminal death at the hands of trigger-happy askaris. For them therefore, the Earth weeps with one eye only. -----Hey Freddo, you should come back to recuperate at the department of education. Security is for those who obey orders by rote. Their critical senses wiped out; thinking is for them an unnatural activity, and even where the nation's moral fate lies in the balance, their minds remain dangerously imprisoned in fixed characters. But there could be a simplest explanation for all this mix-up with Freddo. He was misled by the departmental bureaucracy. He was played like a puppet. He had no alternative intelligence to contradict them. When they told him no one was killed, he repeated no one was killed. Official memos you know, script reading. If you divert, the system shuts down. When it restarts, you are repudiated. System flow, that is why the UK ambassador to the UN moved the motion Saudi Arabia is a strong example of Human Rights shine, and their representative deserves to head the United Nations Human Rights commission, reviewing Yemen too! The things we men do to stay in good jobs! According to Sigmund Freud, it is all for women! POST SCRIPT: There is democratic space being beaten back by the two stalwarts of reactionary conservatism, now perched on top of the Jubilee state. Ruto did campaign against the new constitution, basing himself on a mixture of antic African machismo and homophobic Catholicism to denounce the liberal bend of the constitution towards recognition of all sexual identities for instance. We have had media gag bills passed, social media policing bills enacted into law, communication spy gadgets on social media platforms too allowed, and the latest rush to close down specific NGO's --housing some of the most articulate Kenyans like Dr. Makau Mutua, John Githong'o, Maina Kiai----can only be interpreted as a further drive to curtail the hard-fought democratic space. Kuddos Matiang'i is reportedly reviewing the mercenary Fazul's anti-NGO sword of Damocles. Otherwise, having sanctioned the persecution of John Githong'o as an enemy of the state, if Matiang'i comes back to education, who would bother shake his bloodied sh!tty hands? Still when he comes back, it is first to the DECONTAMINATION CHAMBER, then to brain surgery! That thing I saw on TV excusing murder can't come back to run universities without a 'Geiger counter' clearance! I will be back!
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THE COUNT DOWN TO FRED MATIANG'IS HOURThe six men on whose shoulders rests the fate of Kenya By Jacob Ngetich | Published Sat, August 5th 2017 Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001250350/the-six-men-on-whose-shoulders-rests-the-fate-of-kenya------------------------------------------- NB: These Kenyan elections are stupid in one very important sense. They are overpriced. They are too expensive, too inefficient. They are like paying the price of a chique Mercedez for a second hand probox. How do the Indians go about their LOKH-SABHA jaggernaut!? The heaviest price paid for democracy is historically blood. The nearly always bloody freedom struggle, think the likes of Dedan Kimathi, Eduardo Mondlane, think of the genocidal massacres across continents against defenseless peoples. Elections in peacetime can be conducted on VOLUNTEERS and the rest as constitutional duty appended to state employees! Ballot papers need not be more expensive than fullscaps used for national examps like O'level! Ati Chebukati spend how much in Dubai printing his toilet papers!? --so I change from calling him secondhand to zero class!KENYANS can't imagine a General election ran by Teachers and other technical people otherwise already in government employment? Every Primary and Secondary school is a polling station manned by the teachers there and overseen by the Principal there –---as part of there TSC contract! That is why I like to look at what is cooking in other kitchens elsewhere, lest I think my village has the best cooks! You tell some people how much you spend on elections while you have a starving, ungaless population, and they offer you a honest opinion: 'man you are morons. You could spend 10% of that. But that needs you to think! If you are human that is!'Methinks Dr. Fred Maatiang'i, even if a Jubilee appointee, is human enough to do the math, the math On the economic consequences of rigging a prohibitively expensive election! But you didn't hear me say he is courageous enough to do the right thing with the power in his hands! NB: for political consequences I hold my judgment of him. Remember Carey Francis the great racist experimenter and his comment on the bright native seedlings at Alliance high School he was moisturing. 'Excellent work ethic but unctuously pious!'Right! [/quote] THE SHIT HITS THE FAN!mobile.nation.co.ke/news/politics/IEBC-fallout-as-Chebukati-memo-disowned-/3126390-4087062-item-1-ljtmj1z/index.htmlwhen it smells like sh!t, looks like sh!t, reminds of sh!t, it is just plane sh!t! --These guys were always sh!t and they will stay sh!t! and their performance will continue to be sh!t! Any group of people who spend ksh800 million on mobile phones which do not work in 2017 need their heads sawed off in real time! Ezra is better off being a gigolo or a pimp! Chebukati praised himself for a stellar job done, unawared he had logged 9800 times and changed data illegally! There are fools, and then there are some moms do 'av 'em! --son zeros! mobile.nation.co.ke/news/politics/IEBC-fallout-as-Chebukati-memo-disowned-/3126390-4087062-w6mj2s/index.html We will reap what we saw! a whirlwind spiral of bad elections! THE CLOWNS |
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forces have killed more than 500 people during protests over the course of the last year. These protests have occurred in a context of the near-total closure of political space. Non governmental groups and the independent media face harassment, surveillance, and criminal charges.
CHAPTER SIX. There, in its unrottable casket where Mutunga bequeathed it to Maraga, they will draw deep breath and --WHOAA ABRACADABRA BURUKUBURU BAMBABAMBA----- invoke incantations to resurrect it somehow, as a weapon of choice to lock out Hustler people like Ruto, Mudavadi, Kidero, Sonko
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