Post by jakaswanga on Nov 24, 2018 18:41:01 GMT 3
KENYA'S JOSHUA AND THE NIGHTMARE IN CANAAN
If the holy books are replete with charlatans and warnings thereof ---the so-called False Prophets, then the theatre of politics is awash with them, False Guides. This latter means there are hardly any tears other than those of the crocodile, when any would-be Political Light turns around from the route to Paradise, back to join the other side: The Dark Side!
The History of nations takes such treachery in step, abiding its time for the emergence of, as Soyinka once put it, a Tiger whose tigritude is uncriable. Let the true Joshua forge some more in the shadows.
Our would-be Joshua, Agwambo Tinga Mahia, has always fought his best, and I will be quick to Kudos him thus; only his best has always been too feeble ---if Canaan be the vision, and deliverance his mission.
I am being magnanimous here with reason, since, ideologically speaking, the petty bourgeoisie as a historically transforming force is a passed stage. The mess of the post-colonial African state is their funeral as a class of mission. In the vacuum of their leadership stepped in the IMF$WB with bitter pills like SAP; and when that too proved the devil's choice, The Chinese have now taken over the task of managing Africa's near future. From this global perspective of continued neo-colonial and finance-debt domination by external interests and, concertedly, the scripted role of the local petty bourgeoisie in its facilitation, mediation and maintenance, any Canaan agenda or talk short of a radical economic transformation is guaranteed balderdash. (And let Siaya and the Joshua home polities be no forensic cases of the new thinking! Nor Canaan republic birthpangs!)
Whoaaah!
But the dream is out there; the air continues to be thick with the aspiration and expectations; the fire for liberation from (feudalised poverty) burns furious in hearts around the dark continent, the peoples dream a temper hovering around loss, scaring every false prophet.
In Kenya too.
Not to mention Luoland. Even the likes of Anyang' Nyong'o now sound like some cataracted Seer!
Meanwhile the crisis demands every conservative must adorn the cloak of a reformer. Every corrupt politician must condemn corruption. Hypocrisy is the necessary social grease and thread by which the nation recognisably hangs together. There is a verbal consensus on what is killing the Land. But there is fear, indecision, confusion and trepidation on how kill it. And so the lip service to the land. In the words of the would-be Joshua of 2017, and the would-be Peoples president of 2018, he came across multi-mouthed crocodiles and hydras of the deep; wherefore, midstream, he lost nerve and abandoned the crossing to the Promised Land!
William Ruto is the only national guy I caught laughing on the subject. Ouru has said the same thing during the heat of last years campaigns, but in a bad tempered moment --'Kila siku ni kulia umeibiwa! Si ata wewe pia uibe!' -thundered Kenyatta's boy. On the contrary Ruto grinned in Migori. The DP grinned offhand the way he did when, in public flow, he described the day he met Weta with bandages after his wife allegedly beat the hell out of his weak Bukhusu body! Such despicable weakness, William intimated in Migori, was why he abandoned Raila. The captain throws in the towl all too easy: ---'we beat Kibaki in 2007 square! The Captain had no business surrendering to Kibaki and his rigging group!'
Sir William didn't put it starkly like that, but he has his own weakness for 'vitendawili' talk even as he disses Mysterious Amollo for the penchant! And didn't William sink the point savagely in. --The same point why every Kikuyu in the Rift Valley will vote for him or sing the song EXODUS! Movement of the Mumbi!
NB; I am told this is still the star political dilemma in Kenya's aristocratic cycles as they plot their perpetuity at the top. --How to do kill off Ruto's political career without convulsing Kenya along with it! That is the genesis of such weird scenarios as Raila with Gideon Moi for ticket, and Ouru to be guaranteed continuation in prime ministership!
It is that old-fashioned rotten at the top of Kenya. It reminds me of the run to the independence of Zimbabue. Ian Smith and his ancien regime landgrabbers knew they had lost, but there was one more desperate trick to try. It was a neurotic puppet called Abel Muzorewa, and his was to block off the ferocious charge of the scary Robert and Joshua. (that would be ZANLA Mugabe and ZIPRA Nkomo!)
That continuation of the same by proxy is the Canaan destination according to the aristocracy. Their continued feudal dominance is paramount. They would rather a half-baked Gideon Moi to the all-stud testosteronised Willam Arap Mashamba Singh! It would be a comedy show, were it not about the tough lives of millions in real time.
Meanwhile how does the real Kenya look like?
The real country is always a question of disposable income. How rich do Kenyans feel? How much socks have they pulled up, how tight the belts done, how full the belly's of the children as they go to bed? For that is the boast of a leadership. In deed economic performance is, looking across at Asia, the sole legitimacy. The Indian ruling class boasted of having lifted 400 million souls out of absolute poverty in two decades, only to be shocked by the Chinese red princelings. (Bullsh!t stats! We did 600 million in one decade! The Dragon breathes fire, The Elephant lies lazy!)
It is good to know how and what other neighbours b!tch about, so that I can put our b!itchiness with Uganda over Migingo in perspective! Yeah, very petty and contemptible, cheap and despicable, all that fishy intra EAC b!tching!
So this is the kind of thing which intrigues meWho is the locomotive of the economy? Canaan blues.
And The hottest issue becomes not succession politics but, yes, disposable income ...Where do countries go, when they no longer can oblige their creditors!?
The frying pan is the dogs, and then the jump into the fire is the scavenger's embrace. I still like to study Greece! For the things scavengers do to carcass states!
Forewarned is forearmed.
Joshua's alternative exit strategy
www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/10/23/railas-au-job-stirs-fear-over-his-future_c1838999
And, no more pretences ... But there is a djini out of the bottle. The kitchen has gotten too hot for the older generation. No harm in them facing up to what they have always been, KANU B!
Back to the fold! Under Moi's wings! -Our own Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga!
Kleptocrat of the kleptocrats!
If the holy books are replete with charlatans and warnings thereof ---the so-called False Prophets, then the theatre of politics is awash with them, False Guides. This latter means there are hardly any tears other than those of the crocodile, when any would-be Political Light turns around from the route to Paradise, back to join the other side: The Dark Side!
The History of nations takes such treachery in step, abiding its time for the emergence of, as Soyinka once put it, a Tiger whose tigritude is uncriable. Let the true Joshua forge some more in the shadows.
Our would-be Joshua, Agwambo Tinga Mahia, has always fought his best, and I will be quick to Kudos him thus; only his best has always been too feeble ---if Canaan be the vision, and deliverance his mission.
I am being magnanimous here with reason, since, ideologically speaking, the petty bourgeoisie as a historically transforming force is a passed stage. The mess of the post-colonial African state is their funeral as a class of mission. In the vacuum of their leadership stepped in the IMF$WB with bitter pills like SAP; and when that too proved the devil's choice, The Chinese have now taken over the task of managing Africa's near future. From this global perspective of continued neo-colonial and finance-debt domination by external interests and, concertedly, the scripted role of the local petty bourgeoisie in its facilitation, mediation and maintenance, any Canaan agenda or talk short of a radical economic transformation is guaranteed balderdash. (And let Siaya and the Joshua home polities be no forensic cases of the new thinking! Nor Canaan republic birthpangs!)
Whoaaah!
But the dream is out there; the air continues to be thick with the aspiration and expectations; the fire for liberation from (feudalised poverty) burns furious in hearts around the dark continent, the peoples dream a temper hovering around loss, scaring every false prophet.
In Kenya too.
Not to mention Luoland. Even the likes of Anyang' Nyong'o now sound like some cataracted Seer!
Meanwhile the crisis demands every conservative must adorn the cloak of a reformer. Every corrupt politician must condemn corruption. Hypocrisy is the necessary social grease and thread by which the nation recognisably hangs together. There is a verbal consensus on what is killing the Land. But there is fear, indecision, confusion and trepidation on how kill it. And so the lip service to the land. In the words of the would-be Joshua of 2017, and the would-be Peoples president of 2018, he came across multi-mouthed crocodiles and hydras of the deep; wherefore, midstream, he lost nerve and abandoned the crossing to the Promised Land!
Were there crocodiles in River Jordan? Well this question will depend on whether you are asking Raila Odinga or DP William Ruto.
According to Raila, the reason why he didn'tt lead Kenyans to the promised land after last years general elections was the presence of the dangerous carnivorous in River Jordan. But Ruto has insisted that nowhere, has the Bible quoted crocodiles.
According to Raila, the reason why he didn'tt lead Kenyans to the promised land after last years general elections was the presence of the dangerous carnivorous in River Jordan. But Ruto has insisted that nowhere, has the Bible quoted crocodiles.
William Ruto is the only national guy I caught laughing on the subject. Ouru has said the same thing during the heat of last years campaigns, but in a bad tempered moment --'Kila siku ni kulia umeibiwa! Si ata wewe pia uibe!' -thundered Kenyatta's boy. On the contrary Ruto grinned in Migori. The DP grinned offhand the way he did when, in public flow, he described the day he met Weta with bandages after his wife allegedly beat the hell out of his weak Bukhusu body! Such despicable weakness, William intimated in Migori, was why he abandoned Raila. The captain throws in the towl all too easy: ---'we beat Kibaki in 2007 square! The Captain had no business surrendering to Kibaki and his rigging group!'
Sir William didn't put it starkly like that, but he has his own weakness for 'vitendawili' talk even as he disses Mysterious Amollo for the penchant! And didn't William sink the point savagely in. --The same point why every Kikuyu in the Rift Valley will vote for him or sing the song EXODUS! Movement of the Mumbi!
NB; I am told this is still the star political dilemma in Kenya's aristocratic cycles as they plot their perpetuity at the top. --How to do kill off Ruto's political career without convulsing Kenya along with it! That is the genesis of such weird scenarios as Raila with Gideon Moi for ticket, and Ouru to be guaranteed continuation in prime ministership!
It is that old-fashioned rotten at the top of Kenya. It reminds me of the run to the independence of Zimbabue. Ian Smith and his ancien regime landgrabbers knew they had lost, but there was one more desperate trick to try. It was a neurotic puppet called Abel Muzorewa, and his was to block off the ferocious charge of the scary Robert and Joshua. (that would be ZANLA Mugabe and ZIPRA Nkomo!)
That continuation of the same by proxy is the Canaan destination according to the aristocracy. Their continued feudal dominance is paramount. They would rather a half-baked Gideon Moi to the all-stud testosteronised Willam Arap Mashamba Singh! It would be a comedy show, were it not about the tough lives of millions in real time.
Meanwhile how does the real Kenya look like?
The real country is always a question of disposable income. How rich do Kenyans feel? How much socks have they pulled up, how tight the belts done, how full the belly's of the children as they go to bed? For that is the boast of a leadership. In deed economic performance is, looking across at Asia, the sole legitimacy. The Indian ruling class boasted of having lifted 400 million souls out of absolute poverty in two decades, only to be shocked by the Chinese red princelings. (Bullsh!t stats! We did 600 million in one decade! The Dragon breathes fire, The Elephant lies lazy!)
It is good to know how and what other neighbours b!tch about, so that I can put our b!itchiness with Uganda over Migingo in perspective! Yeah, very petty and contemptible, cheap and despicable, all that fishy intra EAC b!tching!
So this is the kind of thing which intrigues me
For every Sh3 that banks advanced as loans, Sh1 went to the Government, while the remaining Sh2 were shared among manufacturers, real estate developers, farmers, mining companies, transporters, and the 8.7 million private households.
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001303701/new-infrastructure-bond-issue-seeks-to-raise-sh22-billion
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001303701/new-infrastructure-bond-issue-seeks-to-raise-sh22-billion
KENYA: Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture: 61.1%
Industry: 6.7%
Services: 32.2% (2005 est.)
Agriculture remains the backbone of the Kenyan economy, contributing one-third of GDP. About 75% of Kenyas population of roughly 44.2 million work at least part-time in the agricultural sector, including livestock and pastoral activities. Over 75% of agricultural output is from small-scale, rain-fed farming or livestock production.
Inadequate infrastructure continues to hamper Kenyas efforts to improve its annual growth to the 8%-10% range so that it can meaningfully address poverty and unemployment. The KENYATTA administration has been successful in courting external investment for infrastructure development. International financial institutions and donors remain important to Kenya's economic growth and development, but Kenya has also successfully raised capital in the global bond market
agriculture: 61.1%
Industry: 6.7%
Services: 32.2% (2005 est.)
Agriculture remains the backbone of the Kenyan economy, contributing one-third of GDP. About 75% of Kenyas population of roughly 44.2 million work at least part-time in the agricultural sector, including livestock and pastoral activities. Over 75% of agricultural output is from small-scale, rain-fed farming or livestock production.
Inadequate infrastructure continues to hamper Kenyas efforts to improve its annual growth to the 8%-10% range so that it can meaningfully address poverty and unemployment. The KENYATTA administration has been successful in courting external investment for infrastructure development. International financial institutions and donors remain important to Kenya's economic growth and development, but Kenya has also successfully raised capital in the global bond market
Kenya's debt burden projected to hit sh7.1 trillion by June 2022
In the next four years, Kenya's national debt will increase by 2.1 trillion shillings. This is according to documents from the National Treasury.
The draft Budget Review and Outlook Paper indicates that total debt is projected to increase from the current 5 trillion Shillings to 7.1 trillion shillings by June 2022. The increase in debt is directly linked to funding for President Uhuru Kenyatta's legacy projects, and notably, the Big Four Agenda. Kenyans are already bracing themselves for
In the next four years, Kenya's national debt will increase by 2.1 trillion shillings. This is according to documents from the National Treasury.
The draft Budget Review and Outlook Paper indicates that total debt is projected to increase from the current 5 trillion Shillings to 7.1 trillion shillings by June 2022. The increase in debt is directly linked to funding for President Uhuru Kenyatta's legacy projects, and notably, the Big Four Agenda. Kenyans are already bracing themselves for
Uhuru to leave Kenyans with Sh7trn debt at end of his term
Wednesday September 26 2018
The increased debt has seen Kenya commit more than half of taxes to paying loans, leaving little cash for building roads, affordable housing and revamping of the ailing health sector.
Public debt stood at Sh5.04 trillion in June 2018, up from Sh4.41 trillion in June 2017, Sh3.62 trillion in June 2016, Sh2.83 trillion in June 2015, Sh2.37 trillion in June 2014 and Sh1.89 trillion in June 2013.
Wednesday September 26 2018
The increased debt has seen Kenya commit more than half of taxes to paying loans, leaving little cash for building roads, affordable housing and revamping of the ailing health sector.
Public debt stood at Sh5.04 trillion in June 2018, up from Sh4.41 trillion in June 2017, Sh3.62 trillion in June 2016, Sh2.83 trillion in June 2015, Sh2.37 trillion in June 2014 and Sh1.89 trillion in June 2013.
The frying pan is the dogs, and then the jump into the fire is the scavenger's embrace. I still like to study Greece! For the things scavengers do to carcass states!
Forewarned is forearmed.
Joshua's alternative exit strategy
www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/10/23/railas-au-job-stirs-fear-over-his-future_c1838999
After months of speculation of an imminent role as an African Union envoy, the ODM leader was on Saturday appointed High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa by the AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat.
In his new role, Raila will spearhead the AUs infrastructure drive and the Planning and Coordinating Agency of New Partnership for Africas Development (NEPAD).
In his new role, Raila will spearhead the AUs infrastructure drive and the Planning and Coordinating Agency of New Partnership for Africas Development (NEPAD).
Just four days after declaring his 'renewed friendship' with President Uhuru Kenyatta, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka appears to have landed a new diplomatic role.
On Monday, Kalonzo accompanied Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma to Juba to deliver Uhuru's congratulatory message to President Salva Kiir for implementing the South Sudan peace agreement.
Kiir entered into a deal with rebel leader Riek Machar, ending years of bloody conflict.
During his father's burial last Friday, Kalonzo said he will not mind being Uhuru's "mtu wa mkono" - errand boy.
On Monday, Kalonzo accompanied Foreign Affairs CS Monica Juma to Juba to deliver Uhuru's congratulatory message to President Salva Kiir for implementing the South Sudan peace agreement.
Kiir entered into a deal with rebel leader Riek Machar, ending years of bloody conflict.
During his father's burial last Friday, Kalonzo said he will not mind being Uhuru's "mtu wa mkono" - errand boy.
Back to the fold! Under Moi's wings! -Our own Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga!
Kleptocrat of the kleptocrats!