The Kibra Ken Okoth Send-Off: The Marijuana & Mpango Debate!

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THE KIBRA KEN OKOTH SEND-OFF DEBATES:

THE POLITICS OF THE HOLY WEED, MPANGO LOVES AND ILLIGITIMATE OFFSPRING!


First a perspective; where we are as a national effort, money-management wise. The following backdrop is from David Ndii. Dr. Ndii the former NASA chief economist, and peoples shadow minister for finance. Of course Raila's embrace of corruption through the Handshake has seen Ndii banished to Siberia, so to speak. See footnote on the ideological depths of the word 'banned', when full light is shone.

NDII: The biggest ticket item here is the SGR railway which cost KSh 350 billion. The remaining KSh 2.15 trillion works out to KSh 45 billion worth of development projects per county.
The money available to county governments over the same period would have enabled expenditure on average of KSh 6 billion on development projects.

In effect, we should be seeing six times more national government development projects in each county as county government ones.

We now know for sure that there were no dams built. This mindless plunder is replicated in virtually every sector.
The budget records show KSh 280 billion on power transmission lines, enough for 6,000 kilometres of 400 Kv lines ...but Information posted by KETRACO, the agency responsible for building them, shows only 2800 km of lines under construction, whose total cost is KSh 100 billion.
We are talking KSh 180 billion missing, an amount, of the same order of magnitude as the Eurobond money that the Auditor General could not find.

Makueni county built a 200-bed Mother and Child hospital for a princely sum of Ksh. 135m.

Kibra MP Ken Okoth built and equipped a girl's secondary school that's been all the rage for Ksh. 48m.

A hospital like Makueni's in every county is KSh 6.4 billion; a girls school like Kibra's in every
constituency, KSh 14 billion.
Both combined add up to just over KSh 20 billion - about the money that has already been spent on the ghost dam projects.
If a national government has spent KSh 45 billion per county on development projects these two projects would not be the talk of the country.

There, Kibra Ken Okoth. Learnt a thing or two in Austria or Australia, on matters to do with prudence with public funds. But the thing is, if one looks from a Jubilee to ODM governor, and from ODM books to Jubilee book-keeping, and from the kith of the Peoples to the kin of the duly elected's, back and forth and back again across the political divide, one can not fail to note the similarity at the end of ANIMAL FARM: impossible to tell the difference. This is why occasions to do with men like Ken Okoth and Kibutha Kibwana, generate so much flocking of the dirty-feathered birds. They hope to be rinsed some.

NB: Yesterday I was rounding on the new Rotich and Thugge, Ukur Yattani and Julius Muia. I couldn't help noticing neither of the newbies has PUBLICLY TRASHED those calculations by David Ndii. No, not even Patrick Njoroge has dared. Then I become very Chineke the bird nervous. The Handshake and its billed fight on corruption is FAKE. If it aint fake then this is priority

The budget records show KSh 280 billion on power transmission lines, enough for 6,000 kilometres of 400 Kv lines ...but Information posted by KETRACO, the agency responsible for building them, shows only 2800 km of lines under construction, whose total cost is KSh 100 billion.

We are talking KSh 180 billion missing, an amount, of the same order of magnitude as the Eurobond money that the Auditor General could not find.

Ukur Yattani, Julius Muia, you have a different set of calculations!? showing it is Ouko math and Ndii math not adding up!

That silence is how I know Ukur and Muia are Rotich and Thugge. I look at the books x5 a day, like pious Muslims pray, or, in this case the Swiss in their money-obsessed alpine alcove! ---wewe nani, Patrick Njoroge, sioni pale ile ndururu ya change ya mandazi ya Breakfast ya Ruto ime andikua, tafadhali rudia hesabu; na zile kobole tatu zilibaki baada ya kununua three turbines ya Itare dam ambazo hazifanyi, andika kwa main ledger pia, both in IFMIS and paper!!

Do you know why we Swedes don't complain when our international aid to Africa is reported stolen? I was once asked by a sexy Swedish thing. 'No, my tummy churned in advance, 'do pray tell!' She blew me a kiss: 'if you leave a sack of dollars near a pen of sheep, and the sheep break out, tear the sack open and chew the green bucks to death, are you going to show temper at the beasts as if they were your equals, thinking like you do!?' ---There are moments I cheat myself Africa has panel-beaten my mind to shockproof. Then something like that happens and I melt to a babysh temper. The girl jumped back. And fled. She later told me my face had become a contortion of primordial venom and murder. Well, time has passed and I no longer spot a temper. On the contrary, I have adopted the Swedish superiority complex toward top African bureaucrats. If Njoroge and Rotich are, between them, Yale and Harvard distinctions econs, but can not oversee a mere $2bn Eurobond in use, why waste tempers loosing? sheep will be sheep, no!? Columbia or Stanford, still sheep! munching green bucks to death instead of building a dam!

(NDII AND MIGUNA) BANISHMENT

When the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain laws had to be put in place to maintain white domination in all aspects of South African society.

Apart from the legislation implemented to ensure the separation of different racial groups, such as the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and the Group Areas Act (1950), laws such as the Suppression of Communism Act (1950), and the Riotous Assembly Act (1927) were enforced to deal with resistance against the apartheid government through a system of banning.

A banned person was restricted to his/her home and could not be seen with more than one person at a time. Living under banning orders also meant that one could not be quoted, and therefore could neither speak publicly nor write for an audience.

By 1966, 936 people in South Africa had been banned, with 467 listed as communists under the Suppression of Communism Act, 515 banned under the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts and 3 banned under the Riotous Assemblies Act. An additional 49 names are listed as both communists and banned persons.
Between 1950 and 1990, more than 2000 people were banned in South Africa and labelled as terrorists, communists or perceived by the apartheid government as a threat to public security. The ban on anti-apartheid activists was finally lifted in 1990.

One could also deduce, Miguna Miguna has also been banned, modern style. That is, culturally speaking, and therefore politically obvious, The Handshake is a suppression effort on the peoples resistance. The deduction can be reached by a careful analysis of these WHYS: why has
1. The Handshake has come out vehemently against the Ekuru-sponsored referendum initiative, PUNDA IMECHOKA
2. Is Miguna Miguna deported to Nyando, but, court orders, this Nyando in Canada!
3. Is Ndii in --so to speak--- Siberia, and
(3b) a host of the then highly, mentally virile NASA thinkers, now become silent or domesticated subwoofers of the Handshake tones. There has had to be a purge. Yeah,
Raila Odinga the peoples president comes with quite a radical entourage. To co-opt him into the establishment to underwrite the (ancien regime) status quo, Tinga has to shed off ballast, he has to pimp himself up! Like that process snakes undergo, called ROCH in dholuo.

HOT POTATO KEN OKOTH

KEN OKOTH was a wild one. A rebel with a cause. The ODM party tried to canonise him as a holy artefact of the party. Full of opportunism, the establishment tried to usurp, monopolise and cheaply ride on his popularity pull, only for the bones to stick in their throat. Because to fit the tall and wild Ken Okoth into the miniature party agenda, was always going to be the public act of a tabloid fool, or, better, scandalous public entertainment.

1. Kibra Ken Okoth was an avowed activist for the legalisation of that thing. ---Here is the celebrative song about it by the genius LEE SCRATCH PERRY.



2. Kibra Ken Okoth was, like Bob Colymore, a CREMATION man. --Your culture is burials you think!? Go on but leave Ken Okoth out of it. He left a contrary will of his own mind. Cynical Luo elders and their hired narratives, manipulatively pandering to political patrons subsidising their conservative antiquity, to hell with you! Please busy yourselves with the plight of our fishermen and the question of Migingo. Seek audience with Buganda elders to bring preace, or the Banyankole who bore Msebeni if you wish. Okoth left a will: cremation. But it must be noted this will to cremation has spooked everybody who thought they were close to Ken.

Anne added that she only learnt of the internment plans in the media and accused the family of settling for a cremation to destroy the evidence of her son's link to Okoth.

"Ken did not sire any child. I know many women will come out to claim they have at least a child with Ken," Angeline Ajwang Ongere said.
Ms Ongere also said she is opposed to the idea of her son being cremated. Anne is a nominated MCA in Nairobi.
Okoth has left in his will to be cremated.

3. Ken Okoth, like most of us juggling the culturally sanctioned drive to masculine promiscuity against the one-man-one-wife Christian foolhardiness, which has been colonially enshrined as civilisation in the constitution, had a bumper extramarital love-life; and there was nothing secret about it. His only begotten son known so far, Jayden, with the beauty Queen Anita, is actually named after him, OKOTH! And the no-push-over mother of young Okoth




Anne Muthoni N'Thumbi.



(she) Wasn't really a clande. Even Eduard Sifuna knew long ago, for all his duplicituous last-minute turn-around. Because it was one of those high-five stories: how much rank Okoth pulled to have the mother of his baby-son nominated!

SONKO: Ken will not forgive me if I don't save the situation. Ken fell in love with a nurse called Anita from Sonko rescue team. In 2017, he asked me to help him nominate his second wife to the county assembly and out of respect I did nominate her." Sonko at Ken Okoth's memorial service

It didn't smell of corruption, it was corruption, called nepotism, but Sonko knew that was the middle name of ODM those days, --- scroll down to see Wafula Buke's beef with his colleagues then.

All the drama came out after his passing because some of the relatives were denying the nominated MCA and her son the chance to pay their last respect to Ken Okoth.

in 2013, Ken Okoth wanted to be the Member of Parliament for Kibra, which he had served in various ways as a community mobilizer. At around the same time, a young woman named Anne Muthoni Thumbi was taking her nursing steps at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi.

She was in her early 20s when she first met the towering Okoth at the hospital.

There was recently a lot of commotion at the former Orange House, about high party officials who nominated their girlfriends or mpango's or former business partners to the Nairobi assembly. Here is a hint from behind the scenes

BUKE: Buke, in a rare attack of the party's top leadership, singled out Ong'wen, Pareno and [deputy treasurer Ogla] Karan.The ex-political detainee also demanded that both Pareno and Ong'wen withdraw their membership from the committee.

Buke accused Ong'wen of blatantly ignoring Raila's directive to have the party hold directors' meeting in 2017 and "instead made a decision single-handedly leading to staffing the party's list with names of close relatives and friends".



He claimed Ong'wen nominated his wife and nephew as MCAs at the expense of loyal party members.The nomination list, he said, was intentionally submitted at the last minute leaving the party with no chance to effect any adjustments.

"How the hell do you get your wife and her nephew nominated as MCAs and still have the courage to face party members and then do recommendations on how to resolve the problems you have caused?" the party director of strategy asked.

And Mike Sonko, in the thick of it for Ken's mpango, didn't mince his words neither. Ken Okoth pulled ranked ---in the army we used to say jingle the trigger----- to have his Anne nominated.

These others were all supposed to be a secret in death. The totality of Kibra Ken Okoth's life was a picture too dark for the propaganda purposes of the party, the model family and wife, and the rest of the con artists whose profit is to hide the truth!

Ken won the seat in March 2013. And he used his newly acquired political connections to have Anne nominated as a member of the Nairobi County Assembly. From then on, the love affair between the two politicians blossomed. After some time they had a beautiful baby boy and they named him Jayden Baraka Okoth.




Ken took the fatherly role immediately and he even introduced him to the family and especially to the mother.
Talking to a media house, Anne said she is confident to have a paternity test taken.

Even with the Okoth-Muthoni ------ALL KIBRA NAIROBI slums famous---- lovefest an open secret to nearly all their family members, some still connived to keep Muthoni and her baby-boy away from the funeral arrangements of Big Daddy, Ken Okoth. Shetani people kabisa! Worse, some die-hard Luo conservatives with their sensitivities stepped on, are on record grumbling: 'to ang'o ma rach gi Nyi-Luo, yaye Omera, chiegi achiel Nyarachar, machielo to Okuyo!' ---What is wrong with Luo-Girls, Okoth Yo, that, that side you marry a White, this side a Mumbi!

ALL HAIL MBUVI SONKO!

Mike Mbuvi Sonko is a highly gifted man. He is a politician who can empathise genuinely. He does not need the cynical make-believe fakery, nor the calculated propaganda tears of the hardened professional politicians, the big men whose every word at a funeral is a crocodile's emotion, thinking of the famous scene the reptile shed tears! So Mike Mbuvi Sonko was not about to ignore Ken Okoth's (only?) son! At least the only one he knew. And to boot, a boy at whose genesis he stood. For the mother, Anne Muthoni Thumbi, had been on his team, The Sonko Rescue. (hind sight, they seem to have rescued Okoth from childlessness! I said HAIL, Mbuvi Sonko!)

No, neither was the rescue-man about to join the GREAT POLITICAL OMERTA at the coffin side, where Ken Okoth's heartthrob and mother of his only known inheritor, was non-existent! ---Yawa! Consider some two old words with terrible emotional rings: Illegitimate (legal connotation), bas-tard (social ostracisation), both as denunciation or excommunication strategy, especially where social or material wealth is concerned. So did they seek to malign Tshaka Tzulu from his destiny. And so too did his brothers gang up on Joseph, to kill him off outright, or better, sell him as a slave to Egypt for corn or wheat! --This is the scene in Genesis 37 scene in which Reuben

when he heard this, Reuben tried to rescue him from their hands. "Let's not take his life," he said

I see Sonko doing a Reuben on Ken Okoth's son. May he Jayden grow up into a Joseph! (of the Tom Mboya kind!)

People like me don't bother with the Church I tell you. But we know our Bible. Studied it like we did Shakespeare for the exams.--'yesu nowacho, kik uriemb nyithindo, to gibi ira ku!' And Jesus said: don't thee chase away the children, but let them come to me!

And all these scum chased away Okoth's boy, and only Sonko had the audacity to say, come Jayden Okoth, come grieve thy father! ---Mbuvi Sonko, I said HAIL! HAIL MBUVI SONKO!

NB: for illegitimate, Kimirwa is the translation in old Luo conservative Lingo, which is the imagery Raila Odinga, at the behest of his brother Oburu, invoked in Siaya to ostracise the then sure-win gubernatorial candidate William Oduol. It so happened Oduol's blessings had been stolen by the popular party and bequeathed upon the Royal Cousin, Cornel Rasanga, but Oduol was still set to do what the Ugenyaman (Ugunja Mpig David Ochieng') recently pulled on the party choice, Chris Karan.

Ugenya MP-elect David Ochieng has revealed that politicians allied to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) played a role in his victory in the by-election held on Friday.
Ochieng faced off with ODM's Chris Karan in the race, and managed to beat the latter who was enjoying the support of the party leadership and most area leaders who are allied to the party..
But speaking on Citizen TV Monday night, Ochieng claimed that some unnamed ODM Members of Parliament lent him a hand against one of their own.

It was a do or die for the family, Oburu claimed, and that is when the most horrid denunciations had to be unearthed to defeat the political career of William Oduol. And Oburu Odinga is of course the petty land thief of a railway plot in Kisumu.
(NB: he says it is too miniature to be talked about as theft, considering Ruaraka and Ruto's Weston Lang'ata Hotel grab! Others retort Muizi ni Muizi, aibe billioni, aibe ata yai moja ya kuku mbofu!

This debate on the proportionality of theft, we carry out later: should a serial killer get an equivalent serial consecutive life sentences where a one-time murderer gets only one life sentence!?).

NEXT: THIS MAN SONKO, THE TRUE GAURDIAN OF KEN OKOTH'S HERITAGE

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SCANDALS AND HISTORY: WAS KEN OKOTH'S CREMATION AN EXERCISE IN DECEPTION?



FURTIVE: done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed. When the burial of a famous man is deliberately furtive, you have a story. A great tabloid story. Here is the best one from Nakuru

Earlier this year in Nakuru when the former town County council chairman George Kori died, the family had to devise ways to beat scores of women who started emerging, in their own game.

Mourners were misled through public notices on the place and time of burial. In the meantime, Kori's body moved from mortuary to mortuary to escape possibility of the morgues being served with a court order.
When he was eventually buried, a day before the scheduled date, the burial programmes were still running at the printers

Ati mourners were misled! To shed tears at the wrong death one might ask!? This is obviously straightforward comedy. The issue will be what social developments necessitate such live comedy, if morbid.

But, morbid or erotic, these scandals tells us who we are, the demons we wrestle with, daily in our split hearts.

I love tabloid tales. They are always sensational and memorable. But no, I don't like them like the Australian media magnate Murdoch and his tabloid editors in Britain who, when they heard Lady Diana, the future King Mother, was dating an Arabu called Dodi, went into the ecstacy of praying five times a day. They were relishing the kindness the heavens had bestowed upon them. The papers would sell, to the latest late edition. It would be a bumper season.

Scandals are like great stories waiting to be organised into great novels. They reveal hidden aspects of the historical circumstances which otherwise the greatest volumes of social research wouldn't even grace. Which is why I said in my reviews of Dr. Zhivago, Anna Karenina, or the scandal of the eloped Hellene of Troy, study your scandals, O young minds. Of course Christians know only too well of their mother of all scandals. The snake tempted Eve into tasting the forbidden truth. And that put paid to any grandiose designs The Creator might have had for his masterpiece, Human Man.

So here we are, the wretched of the earth, instead of the chosen of heaven. D-amn! I retain my passion for tabloid tales, yes, of Romeo's and their Julietta's, and the worms that crawl out of the woodworks when they are done.

Howbeit then, Ken Okoth and his 'rushed cremation' is a godsend to the future generations who will strive to understand the dynamics of our times in a nutshell. Which is why 'an koro an opuk ogo e pige', which translates to 'your tortoise cast into his beloved deeps!' --Ahmen.


Okoth has been cremated. Furtively it would appear. He is therefore one skeleton which no longer can come rolling out of the cupboard. But he leaves a rich legacy which is confidently several elephants in the room. ---The one I like best are his views on Marijuana-HEMP. These appear shocking, as dirty as to be obscenities to the ruling block, yet, down below in normal Kenya, cannabis or hash, being so cheap in an economically dire situation, is the leading entertainment mood-changer for youths.

Which secondary school in Kenya does not have its own holy herb dispenser!? Which military barrack in Kenya (and anywhere else in the world for that matter ----see the artefacts retrieved by the Houthis from the pockets of slain Saudi bodies in Yemen) does not have a CHEMIST!?

CAUTION:

The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America

Alfred W. McCoy, Chicago: Lawrence Hill, 2003

In the third section McCoy critically reviews the U.S. wars on drug from Nixon to Clinton, while the fourth part specifically addresses the question of CIA involvement in drug trafficking in the context of covert warfare in Afghanistan and Nicaragua during the 1980s and 1990s.

Opium had become a major commodity in world trade before it was outlawed early in the 20th century as a result of increased medical awareness of addiction and a global temperance movement. Prohibition drove opium into an illicit economy eventually controlled by upland drug lords and urban crime syndicates.

By the late 1990s, 180 million people, or 4.2 percent of the world's adult population, were using illicit drugs worldwide, including 13.5 million for opiates, 14 million for cocaine, and 29 million for amphetamines. These figures, Alfred McCoy suggests, are the outcome of a long process of ill-fated political intervention, starting with the promotion of opium use in China and among the Chinese diaspora in Southeast Asia by European colonial powers.

Britain fought two successful wars in 1839 and 1858 to force the Chinese empire to lift the ban on opium that had been in effect since 1729, while revenues from state-licensed opium dens contributed significantly to colonial finances.

The caution is this: the AFRICAN CHAPTER is absent from this study!

Well, you must have brothers, or sisters of the sisters of the cousins of your nephews in the Kenya Army. Just ask them how they think the budget-pressed US army is funding the KDF adventures over there in Somalia!

Why outsource drug-running to the CIA to finance Kenya's military adventures to annex Somali shores full of oil and gas!? Why don't we delegate our leading Agricultural University of Technology, Egerton, to large-scale the herb know-how and, commercially, launch our own HOLYHUB chemical company!

Forget about cancer if we can't even do (mosquito net) malaria and (clean water) dysentery. Check the infant mortality rates at your local Level 0 hospital, aka referral!

So Okoth is cremated, or should we say smoked-out in this context, but his opinion, legalise that thing, is alive and kicking.

NB: Nobody is talking about legalising weed for smoking. That is one is like daily air and readily available everywhere. A ban is just a pretence. The idea is an industrial scale economic program. Like the do in Canada, the USA.

Historically, cannabis has never been regarded as a key ingredient in beauty manufacturing. But now, this controversial plant is having a moment; it is present in an increasing number and variety of beauty products. Brands market their inclusion of cannabis in cosmetics as a means to enhance consumer skincare routines. Known for reducing pain and relieving stress, its powerful natural properties are being used to heal and soothe skin.

2) Is Hemp Legal in India ?

Yes. Cultivation of cannabis for industrial purposes such as making industrial hemp is legal in India. The Government of India encourages research and cultivation of cannabis with low THC content.
3) Where are the fabrics produced?
A: Our hemp fabrics on offer are globally produced. We spin and source from East Asia, South East Asia, and East Europe. We work with our partner NGO

Cannabis textiles? Yes, maybe

Hemp is an ecofriendly crop, and not to be sniffed at. Helen Lewis reports

Helen Lewis reports for The Independent

"You would have to smoke a joint the size of a telegraph pole to get stoned on the commercial hemp grown today - its narcotic content is minuscule," explains Ian Lowe, Director of Hemcore.
Trendy clothes, paper, dried burger mix, lip balm, horse bedding, car door linings - there seems no end to the diversity of products containing hemp

Hemp - otherwise known as Cannabis sativa - has come out of the closet. Growing a field of it is now a respectable and legal occupation for British farmers, if the correct variety (selectively bred to reduce its narcotic content) and a licence from the Home Office, are obtained. For three years it has been produced as a commercial crop by farmers under contract to Hemcore, the only hemp processors as yet in this country:
"The acreage of hemp has increased to 4,000 acres this year and in 1997 it may double," says Mr Lowe.

Coming from an area where the sugar industry has collapsed, and the bodaboda trade which has been absorbing heaps of youth has hit market saturation, my interests in industrial HEMP is beyond the stupidities which seemed to inform the knee-jerk responses of kina Kalonzo Musyoka to Sonko's legacy call:

Light the Hemp to remember Ken!

Dam-n! We have an imperialist war to fund, in Somalia. Those gas-filled waters are ours. But not for the taking. ---A tabloid tale I say!

And now that the DNA pandora box has been opened! What is parentage before a DNA test!? We have kicked a wild dog awake, now the bite. That leap of faith a man makes to the hospital to hold his new baby in his arms for the first time, is now the butt of jokes in Kenyan homes: ngoja bwana, fanya DNA kwanza. And the attending nurse in matter of fact: 'you don't have a DNA cert, you don't see the baby. We don't want to be sued for baby-trafficking!'

It is the matriarchal revenge on patriarchal impunity. ---Lets make all mpangos honourable ladies, and stop living in sin and indulging furtive fornication. Let us be open polygamists like my dad.

My dad, may he rest in peace, I remember the look on his face when I told him I wont continue the family tradition of polygamy. One of the rare times he gave me a full smile and a cheeky wink. The old rascal knew his sonny boy was lying. He would be a polygamist, but too cowardly to face the world with it! And so most of us are officially monogamous, but simultaneously polygamous in reality. And of course neither does one-woman-one-husband mean one woman one man!

For men not given to hypocrisy like my dad, these Okoth maneno's would just be the mischief of silly kids, confused by Christianity to deny their roving sexuality.

CULTURE, WHICH CULTURE?

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THIS MAN SONKO, THE TRUE GAURDIAN OF KEN OKOTH'S HERITAGE

Mike Mbuvi Sonko broke rank with the mean-spirited, crocodile teary political entourage who would BAN a KIMIRWA and bar his mother from his father's and (her husband's) funeral pyre. This is the political class which I remember a popular musician to have characterised as dinosaurs. And they have come out loud to heap a bumper harvest of condemnations on top of Mike Sonko. But why!?

NB: Yesterday it was a battle royal between Sonko and my sister Mabona, Amilo GesaGesa SubaSuba-One! She, the Suba North Mpig. At a deeper level you would think Odhiambo and Sonko are on the same page, given this.

Suba North Member of Parliament Millie Odhiambo Mabona has declared that she will in the coming days sponsor an amendment to the Marriage Act that will compel all men to publicly declare their children sired in and out of wedlock.
According to the legislator, if successful, the amendment will force men to declare their children while alive and in cases where they fail to do so, it will be legal for their mothers to declare the child/children when they are dead.

well? Amazing the bitter fall-out post Okoth's death between Mabona and Mbuvi.





Hypocrites to the lore, they all took offence, didn't they!? them well-heeled, well-to-do attendees of the memorial service. One could see their corruption-filled bellies spilling overboard! Except the general public behaved different! These went cheering their popular governor, Mike Sonko. Bring it on! There was even a preacherman-to-audience call and response rhythm to the whole Sonko show, narrating how Okoth was smitten with Anita Mrembo. The non elite said, and continue to say, on alternative media, that the popular governor, in the spirit of the Millie Odhiambo amendment to the marriage act, is practically battling to REHABILITATE, integrate and recognise 'KANDO KANDO' familias who, after all in Kenya, aren't really that secret. --In this case, not only had Ken Okoth introduced himself to the parents of Anne Nthumbi, they had also introduced the baby-boy, Jayden Okoth, to Ken Okoth's own mother!

Why Ken's mother was advised to denounce her grandson she already had cuddled, is a motive still out there. (I will be curious to hear Millie Mabona's explanation!)

And then, the last laugh: Sonko's heartfelts. Many commentators, unable to perceive this trait, just lump Sonko together with the other cynical dinosaurs who would milk a rotten corpse to the last pus of publicity. But Sonko has a genuine magic. -----This emotional honesty is why he beats all pretenders to Nairobi, whether blue-eyed Peter Kenneth, or Moneyman Jimnah Mbaru. Whether Sugar-Sweet Evans Kidero, Peoples Raila Odinga, or the duly-crowned Muthamaki Kamwana ---(or, buried and gone, the rest of them we no longer remember from his Makadara conquest days: kina Dick Waithika and Ruben Ndolo's may be.

And it will be remembered Jimnah and Kenneth had the support of the Equity bilionaire, the whole Mount Kenya money (led by Kenyatta and Chris Kirubi), and the rest of the cast. But Sonko beat them all. The Majoritarian people of Nairobi cast their lot with him. The key reason is this: Sonko has a gift for genuine empathy. Sonko does not just help people for political expediency. Few people at the top of Kenya know, I will repeat, that down in the slums, mothers repeatedly loose children because they can not afford a few packs of ORS, and the initial 5k (these days more) which the clinics demand for the rehydration process on admission, is a fortune to many Kenyan mothers, aka Mama Mboga's. But you wouldn't know how many youth walk around Nairobi because Sonko was there for their Mum's on the day. Long before Sonko had become a household name around the country.
The man isn't an opportunistic populist just because he is in politics. Charity has always been his middle name
For statistical analysis with a political economic pinch, here is some data.

The rise and rise of Servant Sonko in politics of the city
Saturday March 16 2013

On March 4, Sonko was endorsed by a whopping 808,705 voters to be Nairobi's first Senator, entering Kenya's political records as the most popularly elected candidate outside the presidential race.
With this score, he got more votes than six presidential candidates combined and defeated his closest challenger, Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, by 282,883 votes.
He lost in only two polling stations to his major rival; St John's Kaloleni and Makongeni.
Still, this performance means Nairobians love him more than they do either Mr Kenyatta or Cord presidential candidate Raila Odinga. In the city, Mr Odinga garnered 691,156 votes against Mr Kenyatta's 659,490 votes.
The man, Sunday Nation has learnt, has perfected the art of philanthropy at the low-income levels, touching the lives of the downtrodden with a spark that no politician has ever done in Nairobi

It isn't just philanthropy. One can be as philanthropic as George Soros, but still illicit no warm responses whatsoever from the recipients. It is a bit like the American incomprehension of Hugo Chavez. A lowly mestizo who bankrupted his nation and talked too much. Yet when the CIA stage-managed a 'salvation coup', the loyalty of the nation to the image of Hugo Chavez proved so resolute that, even much later after his death and the nation in even more dire straits under Nicolas Maduro, the US puppet and designated saviour, Juan Guaido, just fizzled out naturally.

If the Kenyan elite is so mentally decomposed they no longer have the faculty to differentiate calculated charity from heart-warmth conviction, it does not necessarily follow that affliction is a general social condition downwards. Uncomprehending, the elite has been wont to explain Sonko's popularity in terms of the gullibility and stupidity of his audience. I prefer to explain it by the common man's emotional sophistication, or emotional intelligence these days. Sonko is the LEAST FAKE up there!

If Sonko is a drug dealer, what is William Ruto!? (Si muizi ni muizi!)
If Sonko is a thief, what is the history of the Kenyatta fortune?
If Sonko is a populist, what is Raila Odinga?

DEADLY DETAILS:

Kibera at wide: who did Ken Okoth pull votes for? Sonko or Kidero? (This is the background to a quip by one of the Jubilee Mpigs during the misa, that 'iko wakati wakubwa wa ODM walikuwa wanamweka kando ---, ati huyu jamaa ni wa Jubilee ama vipi? Is he a mole or what!? Anyway, Okoth wasn't going to be as stupid as to tell the wretched of Nairobi, that Kidero was their saint over Sonko. Reality would check him immediately. And

Wiper candidate Julius Mawathe has retained his Embakasi South seat following the by-elections held on Friday.
Mawathe garnered 21,628 votes against ODM Irshad Sumra's 7,988.

NB: I heard Embakasi South is very close to the roundabout where the TAJ-MAL stood. And, rumours O rumours, the muhindi of the Mall was associated with the ODM candidate. And by the time of the by-election, popular truth was the Mall was on a grabbed road reserve. The people at Orange House appeared not to live in Nairobi, nor did ODM operatives in Embakasi South seem to be wading the depths of Mukuru or walking the stretches of Mlolongo. Otherwise they would have been in the know of the under currents.

So when SlumWalker Mike Sonko fought Jayden Okoth's corner at his father's funeral, he touched other bases unknown to the crocodiles who had taken centre stage to peddle their con narratives. The youngster and his mother had been banished from the occasion as if they were dirty litter which would pollute the august occasion. Only known biological son, persona non grata! Huraah! Huraah!

--And so, stung, Sonko said ---if his people reject him henceforth--- he is personally ready so far he can to pay up the schooling of the young Jayden so that, who knows, he becomes an academic and political star like his father, Ken.

I think it is my sister Millie Odhiambo who is out of order. Intellectual she be, think deep she didn't!

You got to feel it. Sonko is incomparable to these scum. Why? The ravages of politics and whatever life, have not defeated the humanity in his heart. It continues to shine, unbridled, selfless, conflicted bu uncalculated and spontaneous. To beat him, they have to plot rigging. I am betting that is what the crocodiles are busy doing, daily.

JUSTICE MUMBI NGUGI MAKES HALF A RULING

And so Sonko had another shocker. Following the Justice Ngugi ruling on Waititu, barred from office ... UNTIL FUTHER NOTICE, few politicians if any have been dancing around in jubilation --AT LAST! AT LAST THE INTEGRITY CHAPTER!
AT LAST CORRUPT SCUM MUST LEAVE PUBLIC OFFICE!
Naah!
God forbid. But Mike Mbuvi Sonko has another opinion, in deed another dissenting one from the consensus! And he has spooked folks! Not least, EAC parliamentarian Oburu Odinga who has been found GUILTY of pilfering Railway Land in Kisumu! (Wacha tu Ruto and Matiang'i on Lang'ata Weston and Ruaraka land deals respectively!).

EACC PROBE: I'm ready to step aside over Passaris allegations - Sonko

Sonko claimed he had evidence Passaris was paid per diem during New York trip.
In Summary

• The flamboyant governor said the move by EACC will have cartels celebrating and thinking of a come back to swindle public funds.
• However, last month, Parliament denied paying Passaris any allowances to attend a women's conference in the US in March.
Sonko took to his Facebook account and responded to the issue and acknowledged the receipt of summons.
He was referring to a letter dated July 30, 2019, where the EACC Chief Executive Officer Twalib Mbarak wrote to Sonko requesting him to appear at the headquarters at Integrity Centre on Thursday.

"I want to categorically state that, in the event, it is established that I have a case to answer before the law, I am ready to step aside to allow the EACC complete investigations and determination of the matter," Sonko said.
I acknowledge receipt of summons by the EACC relating to alleged utterances I made, directed to Hon. Esther Passaris, and her unpaid per diem for a trip she made to New York in March 2019 despite the county having paid for her air ticket to New York and before that Vienna.

Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko
However, Sonko stated that he will individually present himself to Integrity Centre

Imagine William Ruto saying: I AM READY TO STEP ASIDE UNTIL THE WESTON HOTEL LAND IS .... FULLY INVESTIGATED. Or Matiang'i over Ruaraka if you wish! saying that!

Remember it is the same Sonko who said: deputy governor you want? Okay, MIGUNA MIGUNA!

Sonko is just different, even the jokes he cracks! the dredge deeper depths than any other top politician dare. And the people know it.


THEN, LEGALISE CANNABIS, O YOUNG TURKS! SONKO SPEAKS!

[jakaswanga]

KEN OKOTH DEBATE: TO BURY OR NOT TO BURRY A BODY SUBSTITUTE?

The 'conflict' between 'tradition' and 'modernity' has of course been a most fertile ground for great works of social analysis and comedy. This became a favourite genre following the colonisation of Africa and the Europeanization of African culture. Of course that Europeanization (or westernisation so called) turns out at every juncture to be a very thin film of coating. And should it be deeper, it turns out to be more the case of a depersonalisation of the native and, invariably, one of always disinheriting him or her from his or her historical identity. ---This disinheritance from historical identity is how I explain how Dr. Henry Rotich could, like the famous Andrea Chilulu of a Ugandan author, go to all the best Whiteman's schools, read and pass all the best of whiteman's exams, rise to the top of the department of his alleged professional competence, yet turn out to be an illiterate buffoon who couldn't count public cash, and if he could ---think of the Eurobonds, steals it and instead of building a dam at his drought-stricken home area to change fortunes, betrays the peoples hopes and trust by re-exporting his stolen stash abroad. I denied earlier Rotich is not a thief really; to be a thief you have to be human and conscious of your actions and their implications, even if you is a psychopath. Rotich (and his ilk) is just a kondoo: will bleatingly chew sacks of money to death or organic manure. No investment mind. (Rotich needs a stint at a re-education camp before he can understand the charges against him by the DPP! eg economic sabotage!)

And let prudent investment be the economic rationale of the bourgeoisie civilisation! Our adopted model.

These lessons are worth driving home with clinical precision in the classroom. That might save lives by introducing an element of prudence and thoughtful politics, since, outside, in the real world, it is the likes of BOKO HARAM and Al-Shabaab who will point out the follies of colonial thinking. At terrible cost. An epidemic of failed or failing states.

A highly trained bourgeois economist who has no investment consciousness, and no money-management skills, is culturally depersonalised. He is reduced to a kind of zombie, a caricature of the original self. Education was merely the process by which a very clever boy from Kerio mutated into an academically ornamented total moron. And the answer to the riddle lies in his not knowing himself: a lost, pour soul.

BUT CULTURE, WHICH CULTURE?

The cremation of Ken Okoth on the strength of
(1) a verbal will (without several witness swearing they heard the dying man's last wishers; nor
(2) an existent WRITTEN will, but not publicly verified by an authorised EXECUTOR of wills

has left room for a cultural free for all. And that is as it should be in real life culture: a spectrum wide enough to accommodate the imaginative creativity of mankind. Culture is the only free shop I know. The daring to engage will suffice. Like real life itself.

Here are two extraordinary videos from Kabondo. To ponder on the subject of Kibra Ken Okoth. It is important to wink, that Ken Okoth never lived, nor worked in Luoland. He is a Kibera (ex slum) boy, urbanised and totally diaspora. Luoland is some distant myth, deep yes, utterly deep yes, but like Israel to many American Jews who would never bother to go live under its apartheid policy's under Bibi, Luoland was a very far from his bed, and daily life show. Okoth's emotional and professional dedication was to Kibra.

But that does not mean Luoland and Luos, kin or not, were going to leave him alone, more so, in death. ---I will have to revisit another one here: SM OTIENO the famous man from Nyalgunga in Siaya, or was it Ngong', off Kajiado?

But first, scenes from KASIPUL KABONDO, at Okoth's maternal --not paternal!
(Think of Song of Ocol and Song of Lawino! --Okot P'Bitek)

1. A lady arguing her case against cremation of Okoth at a public podium, Rome's Tribune so said.




And

2. A legatus, or these days a Mpig, John Mbadi, arguing the senate's case to forbid burials of substitute body parts, like banana shooters. Such primitive rituals spoil the civilised name of Rome.





This is when the importance of Christianity comes to the fore, as an oil which thaws the friction between the modern and the traditional. But that statement needs a big footnote. Because in the advent of economic desperation, the scriptures of Christianity have mushroomed chameleon schools of interpretation, and the popular ones have tended toward the EVANGELICAL and fundamentalist. These can rampantly be pre-historic and very outdated. Just like in the lands o f Islam where the school of fundamentalism has taken centre stage,

So you will hear some Christians preaching a woman can not be a Pope, nor an Archdeacon, nor a Cardinal, nor some other such cheap post where bribes from the likes of William Ruto are cashed, and his contraband loot blessed. That is the archaic school of God's word and His Holy Book. Utter nonsense. Howbeit I heard only from last year were women in Saudi Arabia allowed to drive cars on public roads! (My honest opinion about that is simply pity. I pity that country, not her women. For ex Saudi women are driving bendy buses in London, and earlier on, the red double-decker monsters! Just like Jamaican women, all night blacks, who crashed the red-neck monopoly of the trucker business in the USA! ----But then, don't they have WOMEN Cardinals in the Legio Maria of His Divinity, Ondetto!?)

So when John Mbadi beseeches the name of Christianity and modernity to convince Okoth's mum and kin to desist from burying a banana stem, I was happy to see he looked unsure, unconvinced himself, aware he was a politician whose words have the value of the Zimbabwean dollar under hyperinflation. You know the phrase is actually planting a banana tuber. The burying is restricted to the fruit of the yago tree ---yiko yago. There are many variations here, since the Lake region is used to folks who drowned and their bodies never recovered. That is not to say cremation is unknown, since there were equally, in the grass thatch days, many incidences of bodies incinerated to total ash.

So let nobody cheat you the Luos have no protocols for dealing with 'cremation'. Even voluntary ones, for suicides by arson are and were known. Or self-immolation. Then of course there are the cattle thieves 'cremated' to ashes by way of mob justice! Many never bother to think about these, but I read culture is more elastic than the Kenyan constitution, on the definition of integrity for instance.

Gotta explain that later!

SO HOW ABOUT WIFE INHERITANCE? ---called Terrorism these days, from the word 'TER'.

I will say something about that presently. But first, a gap-in-the teeth reading of a market woman of Kadongo, Kabondo: A mother boycotts a son's cremation.


KA MIYO OKUNO WENG'O MAR RINGRE WUODE

Many months my belly was full of you child
Would I went to the early grave before you now.

Oh this double sorrow that tears my heart, child!
Far from home in lonely lies they turned you to dust
That my eyes never will feast daily to my fill of tears
on the mound of earth covering your casket deep in the soil.

I want to wake up everyday for the rest of my life
Knowing the earth caresses you like my womb did.
All those delicate months I carried you inside, dear child
My hands ever fondled my ever distending belly, talking.

All those months I carried you inside, dear child
my mind ever pondered what the fates had in store.
Unknown to those who carried not
There is a comfort in tending the grave of one so beloved
Unknown to those who brought forth none
The absence of a grave to speak to,
is like the absence of a church to go to.

Politicians you only fought yesterday
cheer you in death with a double agenda
Their mouths water at the seat you left vacant
The widow must be inherited by one of their own!

They put your coffin in their odd party colours
But you served Kibra in Kenya's national colours
And in Love did you equally ever rise, and ride high
Being mighty generous to the women folk of far lands
Ahmen!
What a flower one of them left to decorate your memory!
Ken.

[jakaswanga]

INHERITING MONICAH

The woodwork crawled out of the worm. Tails wagged dogs. The leader of the ---should we say--- rebel faction of the Luo Council of Elders, His Highness Ker Nyandiko Ongadi, pontificated the procedure during a public interview. Verily His Lordship was disposed enough of benign state to indulge us this blessing. We tanked with greed, and thank him to excess.

It was the original KANUNI, the classic and ancient one, unpolluted by New Testament bull. Monicah must be inherited.

According to popular renditions, the President of the Luo Council of Elders was well-roasted by NETIZENS. --Reactionary, regressive, primitive, outdated .... and the whole LAKUNLE RIGMAROLE, for those who remember Wole Soyinka's play, THE LION AND THE JEWEL.

I think I should review it here ---should any 8-4-4 chance on Jukwaa---- for this is exactly the kind of conflict it is about!

But: stop press: OPIYO OTONDI IS WHO?

Opposition chief Raila Odinga flanked by Luo Council of elders chair Opiyo Otondi and James Orengo together with other committee members of the council after a meeting to steer the council on April 23,2018. They agreed that no other faction will be recognized in the region. [Photo: Denish Ochieng/Standard]

Now, for a fact, Monicah has no known vows to celibacy post Okoth. So out there in the real world, there is a Jater (or terrorist as the new lexicon will have it) waiting to lock, and dock, kind of. This eventuality can also be statistically predicted. In other words the probability that a young woman of (Monicah's age) will find a 'new partner' (that is a terrorist), say, within two years of widowhood, can easily be gleaned at the indicators of social geography. (There are these institutes where psycho-social trends are concretised in figures in Western countries. Monicah looks westernised to me). Ker Ongadi's point, is thus simply that he wants to RESTRICT the market, restrict the inheritance market through a PREQUALIFICATION process which leaves only Okoth's kin as eligible. Monicah is thus privatised, or should we say, TILL DEATH DO US PART, bonded permanently to the kin of her late husband. That is what we mean by marriage is an institute. Leave the romance out of it. You will end up a divorcee if you cheat yourself thus!


But talking about being kin as a pre-qualification in the inheritance game, is a bit like the claim only native Kenyans should sell mutumba at Gikomba, or should be president of Kenya. It is protectionism, eliminating competition by appealing to nationalist sensibilities. Or bloodlines as it were. (Remember of the past half a century, Kenyans delegated to the presidency have proved they are incapable and not worth the while! Just junk, plane junk, and more recycled junk!)

NB: I am patriarchally orthodox enough to assume Okoth's womenfolk are PRE-DISQUALIFIED from candidacy here. Of course there is an ongoing healthy debate within Luo society on the topic of women marrying women, but that is a story for another day. (This phenomenon was when a woman unable to bear children, married another woman to bear children for her with her husband. Modernists can think of the concept 'surrogate motherhood'.

India's wombs for hire

India's burgeoning "fertility tourism" industry is offering hope to hordes of foreign childless couples due to its cheap treatments, lax regulations and willing surrogates.

Maria and Steve Jacob - a childless couple from the United States - flew to India's western city of Pune earlier this year to become proud parents to cute little Sarah, a surrogate child borne for them by Manisha, a poor Indian woman.
The American duo are a growing breed of couples who are hotfooting it to India for a surrogate child. Like them, couples from neighbouring Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, too, are winging their way to India for surrogate babies or what's now referred to as "fertility tourism".

The country's low cost of treatments, lax regulations governing IVF (In-vitro fertilisation) and ART (assisted reproductive techniques) and women who rent out wombs for a modest fee have spawned a US$445mil (RM1.5bil) fertility tourism business. The industry figures are projected to ratchet up to US$6bil by 2012.

Read more at www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/features/2010/01/02/indias-wombs-for-hire#dYmgDmy0YJxgAQJ7.99
According to the private Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction (ISAR), there are over 500 IVF clinics in the country, providing an estimated 50,000 assisted reproductive treatments a year. Most surrogates come from poor families.
"Nearly half of our patients come from overseas," says Dr Aniruddha Malpani, whose IVF clinic in Mumbai is considered among the country's best.

And on the rebound

Rich Chinese hire American surrogate mothers for up to $120,000 a child

Wealthy Chinese are hiring American women to serve as surrogates for their children, creating a small but growing business in $120,000 "designer" American babies for China's elite.

Monicah will be inherited, but we are an open economy in a global village. So the market is international.

We should perhaps ponder why patriarchy developed such forceful ways of mopping up free females. In Hindustania I heard widows were expected to self-immolate on the funeral pyre of her late husband: suttee. And, if one sought to dodge that expectation, she was unceremoniously cast upon the inferno.

Till death do us part was only for men. For women it was in your death we depart together!

[jakaswanga]

INHERITING MONICAH 2. THE WORLD OF CHOICES IS PAINFUL TO HEGEMONIES

But first, the money factor.

It is never a bad idea to factor in, the money factor, to explain a lot of human behaviour, some of it called motive. Like: why are elections rigged in Kenya, or elsewhere for that matter? It boils down to money, greed, to maintain power, and a chokehold on state goodies like kickbacks from rip-off contracts to the cost of the taxpayer. For a change lets us consider two great frauds, both non Kenyan. --From South Africa we heard tell of the narrative of state capture under the scandal Zupta. But, less publicised, there is Ethiopia too, where, respective the Grand Renaissance Superdam, a hole bigger than the valley to be filled by the lake was discovered by the increasingly unstable Abey government.

Two, is how Ghana's treasury, in a scandal reminiscent of our Kimwarer-Kerio-Itare phantom dams, cooked superfluous contracts with private generators of electricity. These are the so-called Power Purchasing Agreements --(PPA's). The power supply --in the books--- doubled to 5080 Mega Watts, leading to a DESIGNED extra payment of $600 million per year for excess power. This was the nearly 2000MW Ghana could not consume, nor immediately export due to absent infrastructure to neighbouring, power-hungry countries. It was rumoured this 'excess capacity' was a scheme to finance elections ---which the Mahama government lost. Neither did the rates for electricity reduce; on the contrary, they went up. ---Surely, under what condition does oversupply in the market lead to higher prices!?

Designer markets of course. Corrupted monopolies.

But then again, may be Ghana simply had no excess power to export, or, as an official explained, the continuous power outages were caused by PERMANENT system overload. Ghana had so much power her grid blacked out. Like when you have excess alcohol in your system.

OF CORRUPTED MONOPOLIES

With these bureaucratic looter designs in mind, this will make sense, trillions of cents

Shocking details of mysterious owners of Kenya's SGR firm

Kenya signed a secret agreement with the Chinese allowing a mystery company with unknown local shareholders to run the Standard Gauge Railway, documents seen by the Sunday Nation show

Sunday June 9 2019

Secret sources from the ministry of Transportation disclosed that the secret contract between the private company, Africa Star and Kenya Railways Corporation was signed at White Sands Hotel in Mombasa in the presence of a handful of officials hours before President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the Madaraka Express Mombasa-Nairobi train on May 31, 2017.

The company, Africa Star Railway Operation Company Ltd, is majority-owned by CRBC, but the other shareholders remain a mystery with details unavailable at the Registrar of Companies.

· In the first six months of operation, the operator was to earn Sh13.3 billion for the passenger service trains, even as the service was being marketed and travellers yet to get familiar with it.

· The fixed service monthly payment is for running two pairs of passenger trains, one pair of cargo trains and another pair of empty container trains between Nairobi and Mombasa.

This ALL STARS company is powerful enough to force Macharia and his transport ministry to ORDER ALL CARGO TO BE MOVED BY THE RAIL, cheaper or not, convenient or not for container importers! (AND you can think it, those connected to the ALL STAR COMPANY are powerful enough to force the privatisation of JKIA and Kenya airlines, to themselves at a song, citing bankrutpcy!)

State Capture they say in South Africa.

Designed Outcomes, rigged market. Corrupted to the core. The Motive? It remains GREED, money for free.

Greed, like lust, is a spectacular human demon or failing. Both are the parents of a lot of human drama of the tragic kind. But that (dhiki) does not warrant we loose our sense of humour (furaha).

THE Ksh.32M WANJIKU SEND-OFF GIFT TO OKOTH

32M is a fortune by many standards. By the standards of squalor prevalent in impoverished Africa, 32M is definitely a fortune. For the Oligarchs of Kenya, wherein we include the Dynasties and the Big Hustlers breathing down each others necks for power, 32M is of course peanuts. Such fine details to the data are key.

Now, because in real life I have seen men commit murder for less, far less than 32M, I can picture a goodly Christian like myself being tempted into a touch of nastiness as he contemplates a hefty portion of 32M by any means Kenyan! That is when I can re-discover my roots and import upon the widow thus: either I inherit you according to my culture, primitive or not, or penniless you go away with your modernity. The price of your modernised, principled self is not a single cent of the 32M pay-off.
And I can see the prepared widow being no push-over: under my foot! You will hear from my lawyer! I am the sole inheritor and executor of the estate of the late. Your claims, cultural they be, legal naught they be! Basta!

And then David Maraga her we come, in a repeat of SM Otieno. I remember that case. I was young and saw people consume it as comedy. Otieno didn't have even a kiru or 'simba' at Nyalgunga in Siaya. No, last time he went to visit his mother, he lost his way and had to ask for directions from locals to his ancestral home! I remember thinking it was a bit nasty to bury him in Nyalgunga and not in his new achievers palatial off Nairobi as his wife insisted. But at the same time there was something touching in him being buried next to his father in his ancestral home.

Personally I would love to be buried next to my father. I loved him more than I have ever belonged to anything else I later got attached to. In deed I picture us continuing our arguments past death! that there, in the land of the dead, would he no longer call me his typical 'Boy' everytime he addressed me; neither would I respond with my customary 'Dad Sir!' And if his shadow did ---for past death we are all phantoms, !!!
Yeah, I can just see us having a good laugh, side by side past death! I am not sure that can, if I were to be cremated like Ken Okoth!

FOOTNOTE

So did I start this delivery

It is never a bad idea to factor in, the money factor, to explain a lot of human behaviour, some of it called motive. Like: why are elections rigged in Kenya, or elsewhere for that matter? It boils down to money, greed[i/

And I have a confession to make. It was motivated by a look at the following photo, captioned

Trucks loaded with crude oil at a stopover at Kalemngorok on the Lokichar-Kainuk road in northern Kenya, enroute to Kenya's coastal town Mombasa. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

But the caption is not what I am really seeing. I am seeing armed soldiers guarding a stopped truck. What the trucks are loaded with, or whether they are empty, where they are from and where they are going, I will trust the journalist. ---Even if Ouru Kenyatta himself, an owner, told me daily papers in Kenya are best for meat-wraps or, should you have no softer alternatives, arshole swipes!


So who is threatening Kenya's maiden oil-out trip!? That the army need secure the route!? And is this an omen for the so-called resource conflicts?

Questions arise on secrecy around Kenya oil exports

Sunday August 11 2019

BY NJIRAINI MUCHIRA

Sector lobbies have raised concerns over the secrecy shrouding Kenya's oil exports, saying it does not augur well for transparency in the sector.

President Uhuru Kenyatta recently announced that Kenya had joined the league of oil exporting countries but the government remains tight-lipped on the destination of the exports.
"We are now an oil exporter. We have started the journey and it is up to us to ensure that those resources are put to the best use to make our country prosperous and to ensure we eliminate poverty," said the president, adding that the country fetched $12 million for its first consignment of 200,000 barrels.
DESTINATION?

I don't put it past the handshake to know most about this. And I don't put it past the real reason why William Ruto was so pissed off. Was he double-crossed in the deal?

And this[/i]

Kenya sells its first oil to China

Friday August 16 2019

By BUSINESS DAILY

A Chinese State-owned petroleum multinational has won the deal to buy Kenya's maiden crude oil export, giving the Asian nation an upper hand in negotiations when the country moves to commercial production of the commodity.

The maiden shipment of 200,000 barrels of crude from Mombasa is scheduled for next month.
Petroleum principal secretary Andrew Kamau Thursday revealed that ChemChina (UK) Ltd won the bid to lift the Turkana oil, in what marks Kenya's entry into the league of oil exporting countries.

The Chinese firm, which is the oil trading arm of ChemChina Petrochemical, is engaged in crude oil trading, storage and procurement for ChemChina's refinery companies.

The firm also has a presence in West Africa, according to its online profile.
"Kenyan government and Tullow Oil Plc together with its Joint Venture Partners in Kenya (Total and Africa Oil Corp) are pleased to announce that ChemChina UK Ltd has been selected as the buyer for Kenya's first crude oil export.

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The firm was selected on the basis of its offered price and according to standard international terms," Mr Kamau wrote in a response to enquiries on where the crude from Mombasa would be shipped.
The disclosure comes two weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the Ksh1.2 billion ($12 million) sale of the crude trucked from Lokichar to Mombasa over the past one year.

At the current brent crude price in world markets, the sale value represents at least $61.99 per barrel.
Mr Kenyatta's announcement, however, fell short of disclosing the buyer and the destination of the crude, a detail kept under wraps by both the government and Tullow Oil.

By yesterday, the British multinational had maintained it would not reveal the buyer of the crude, citing a non-disclosure agreement.

Non Disclosure, that is the clause I was looking for.
I know its political economy!

Act One

China holds back funding for latest Kenya railway phase

7 September 2018 | By GCR Staff |

There was concern in Nairobi this week after China would not commit to funding a major section of Kenya's cross-country standard gauge railway (SGR), signalling that it is taking a harder look at its spending on African infrastructure as countries on the continent grapple with rising debt.

At issue is the 267km third phase of the SGR planned eventually to run from the busy port of Mombasa all the way inland to landlocked Uganda, to tap into that country's pent-up demand for export capacity.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta went to Beijing requesting that China give half the $3.8bn needed to build the phase as a grant, as opposed to a loan, but China's President Xi Xinping deferred making that decision until a commercial viability study is done on the whole line, say reports.

Then Raila and Uhuru went to Beijin again, and today, better offer, what do you know!? Come to Kisumu and see the port!

THE LAKE REGION AWAKENS TO THE FIERY BREATH OF THE DRAGON

On the other side, see Musoma, Mwanza and Bukoba, and soon, Jinja. And, to connect the dots, Dar is hosting SADC Heads of state, in an EAC-SADDC co-ordination summit.

The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and preceding meetings will take place in Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania from 5-18 August, 2019

The current SADC troika comprises President Hage G. Geingob of Namibia as the Chairperson; his predecessor President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa as the outgoing Chairperson, President John Joseph Magufuli of Tanzania as the incoming Chairperson.

Some will remember a few weeks ago Uhuru Kenyatta was the personal guest at Magufuli's parental rural, and since then, curious gifts and other ancient TRIBAL ARTEFACTS of everlasting peace-deals between peoples have been exchanged between the two ECONOMIC MATCHES.
These curios include quails, peacocks, coloured lizards, decorated, multi-coloured aquarium fish, walking sticks layered with the flora and fauna of the Savannah, corn-grinding stones, spears and shields.

operationalization of the COMESA-EAC-SADC Tripartite Free Trade Area

saiia.org.za/news/focac-background-and-2015-focus-priorities/

In place is EAC's commitment to operationalize the Tripartite free Trade Area following the historical launch of the Tripartite Free Trade Area at the 3rd Tripartite Summit in June, 2015 in Sharm el Sheikh - Egypt. He noted that the EAC is committed to ensure that the timelines agreed upon for conclusion of priority actions by June 2016 are achieved, including finalization of exchange of tariff offers, and signing and ratification of the TFTA Agreement.

And now Kenya has done its part. As in ChemCHINA ships the oil. For a time Uhuruto dithered on this Oil deal. Ouru's invitations to Canada to attend the G8, and a lot of other background pressure to join Trump's, and by extension, The West's Trade War on China, were telling. It required people like Magufuli and Raila to make son of Jomo see the sense Kibaki had seen immediately, but which Uhurto weren't seeing through their fog of possessed greed and short-termist feeding frenzy.

This is the simple truth: China is the INDISPENSIBLE partner to Africa's rise.

This simple factor is not yet very clear to many decision makers in Africa. No surprise there since most of them Breton-Woods bribable vermin like Henry the traitor Rotich. Fortunately this truth is already OBVIOUS to the masses: that China is the indispensable partner factor. The USA is dispensable. When ---and not if--- the total break comes between Huawei and Google, between Eastern and Western smart devices, wherefore they become no longer compatible, Africa goes East.

It is the 5G and AI warfront one should watch for, where the cookie crumbles for the USA. IE, the future of Technology is no longer their full-spectrum dominance. There's choice. Just like ostracisation by the IMF and World Bank no longer means death. Just like total and comprehensive sanctions on Iran doesn't mean the death of the Islamic republic. On the contrary, it proves there is much life outside the dollar.

---And now the sting in the tale ..... there is choice, like there is for Monicah, the widow of Ken Okoth! No, no Luo cultural full spectrum dominance!

And so this was a Luo-Pivot post! Ie, en Sigueya mar Sira kitero buru el liend Ken Okoth! 'TERO BURU' --KUPELEKA VUMBI, TO ACCOMPANY THE DUST, as a burial ritual of the Luo, has never had a more tragi-funnier ring like in the case of the cremate Ken!

NEXT: THE INHERITANCE GAME WHEN A MAN DIES: 'TERRORISM' IN LUOLAND!

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This is on a light note, until the sting in the tail!

Families exhume bodies of kin weeks after burial

Isaiah Gwengi 10th Jun 2019



Two families in Bondo and Rarieda on Saturday watched in agony as the bodies of two women they had buried far from their homes were exhumed.

Residents of Nyawita Sub-Location thought they had buried the body of Leonidah Ogango (pictured), who died at the age of 100, only to be shocked when the Bondo Law Courts ordered the remains to be dug up after it was discovered they belonged to Helida Awuor.

The mix-up of the bodies of Leonidah and Helida occurred at Lwak Mission Hospital Mortuary in Rarieda.

Leonidah died on May 10 at the Bondo Sub-County Hospital. Nyawita assistant chief Ayub Ogolla told The Standard that the grandmother was buried on May 25 in Masala Sub-Location, Rarieda.

Reburial
"We conducted the exhumation and reburial on Saturday night after receiving the court order," said Mr Ogolla. Helida was buried on June 1 in Nyawita Sub-Location.

"We did a swap of the bodies at Lwak Mission Hospital Mortuary after the exhumation and re-buried them the same day in an exercise that took more than four hours."

The administrator said they decided to exhume the bodies at night to avoid public attention.

A relative of Leonidah said they got the court order after their late grandmother allegedly appeared to one of them in a dream and asked why they had buried her in Uyoma and not her home in Sakwa.
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That's right! appeared in a dream! And a Kenyan court of law, duly constituted, found that 'dream appearance' weighty enough to ... revisit the facts .... of the case!

And! BINGO! the message from the dead was proven FACTUAL!

Now, a cremation is ... kind of IRREVERSIBLE! so if you cremate the wrong corpse! and the spirit of such a corpse complained after the fact, I guess the courts and culture would just have to invent a way of 'exorcising' the mishap! ---Like just leave it to the lord in prayer may be!

Or ... one of those 'dark' rituals which peacefully co-exist with the Church as it is lived by the people! ---Meanwhile Okoth may soon be sending us messages from the other world, on who to succeed him in Kibra!

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OKOTH'S WIDOWED SEAT UP FOR GRABS: TITANS AND THEIR PAWNS!

1. Everything goes.
Even fake letters of recommendation from the very top!

The widow is up for grabs. Ken Okoth's Kibra. The high priest of inheritance rituals, Wafula Chebukati of the IEBC, well, a Ker Ondiko Nyangadi of sorts, has chanted his scripts. Let the courtship begin.

If one thought the renegade faction of the LCE under His Lordship Ker Ongadi was a tower of regression when it comes to the rituals of widow inheritance, a look at the untidy melee and fiesta of backwardness which has become the state of play as the political elite jostle to bag the Kibra seat, comparatively elevates Ker Ongadi Nyandiko into a light of sanity.

The BBI and Handshake narrative has all but fallen apart as every Tom Dick and Harry, including likely brain-damaged footballers, bare their chests and brag their vows to fill Okoth's giant shoes. In the craziest episode reported so far, Okoth's brother Imran was allegedly chased away with chants of 'Jajuogni, iwang'o owadu buru nang'o!?'

--Witch, why did you let cremate your brother to dust!?

Ken Okoth may have been ahead of his times with his ground-breaking yes, cremate me when I am dead, but his constituents not necessarily. With his futuristic performances on the ground, the power-packed delivery of necessary services, the late Ken was of course an unquestionable King of hearts; but with binding spell cast by Okoth gone, the body of the mass reverts back to its usual conservative school. This is music to the ears of reactionary strategists who can then project candidates pandering to basic instincts.

And that conservative mood is, as a matter of fact, the ancient rock upon which the Ker Ondiko Nyangadi's scale to proclaim their age-old edicts!
---Chi-liel nyaka ter! (A widow must be inherited)
Jaluo nyaka yiki, ok wang'! (A Luo must be buried, not cremated!)

Jaluo ok terre gi chwo, oterre gi mon! (Luo men don't know men, they only know women)

Jaluo Jasunga, ok osechi kata odwaro kura kuomi! (A Luo is proud to a fault, he never pleads, not even for your vote!)


And the one we love in Kisumu since stand-up comedians authored to pull legs to the extreme: Jaluo ok sechi ma kata ibed Jehova to koselami nyadichiel to pok ikonye e dwacheno, to iwe!

---Jaluo wont plead. To Jehova he prays once. Failure to respond, Jehova can go to hell!)

No, only a select few of stand-up comedians have the mental grit and firepower to crack this one and hold nerve. But they exist nevertheless.


One can only imagine what this kind of cultural fundamentalist identity does to the nerves of the commercial men lobbying for government contracts; middle class careerists licking hole to ingratiate themselves unto bosses; urban politicians in mixed areas fain to put their least arrogant faces forth; or credit-starved businessmen in supplication before account managers!

One should attend an all-night all-Luo comedy night to get the health of the culture: Here is a man called Noise: --Ani Jaluo ok sechi. To ng'ani kiyudo kodolo yiwe kwayo lon e bengi! Mondo odhi onyiewgo Probox kata otergo Sleyquin Dubai bayo! Ei, Omera en sida ma tamre gi pimo. Chal mana Kisumo ka e stend ka ng'ato dwaro usoni angolo kata pensil. --Mien to ywagre moloyo otanda baah ma Kondele e giko duwe!

(Ei Jaluo wadwa, asayi kik inega nikech anyisi adiera. --Jaluo ok sechi!)

OR: No, no Luo will plead. But find this man on his knees at a bank cubicle licking feet for a loan! To buy a Probox or afford his mpango a holiday in Dubai! it is a sight indescribable before God. He is like the over persistent hawkers at the local Buspark peddling wares at you. ---sticks to you like your shadow, cries hopelessly like the seedy beds of Kondele joints at month end!

Yes, culture has enough safety valves, to take the pressure off the fundamentalism, should mindless fundamentalism get the upper hand. That is why some floated the compromise, that Ken Okoth should have been buried. Then after the furore had died, exhumed in the dead of night like Jomo Kenyatta, then rushed to a cremation joint. A banana tuber left in his grave at home!

The argument can then last forever, should the story come out, whether he was buried or cremated or both! Culture can be a dangerous permissive; it allows folks to have their cake and eat it. I am thinking two cases to illustrate.
(1). Lots of us Kenyans officially wed in monogamous marriages. But both sides of the sex divide, mpangos wamejipanga. The marriage is monogamous, the practice a spectrum of definitions ---(polyandrous, polygamous, open, adulterous).
(2.) There are (Catholic) pastors who are both celibate and unmarried; but, the whole village knows, married with kids and happy, and, furthermore, with Madam X as an aside gig. It is a life in sin, but then again, a compromise without which the explanations to the pastor's celibacy would cause a commotion which derails the whole effort of the church: winning souls for the Lord! It is this balance of live and let live which power has to manipulate, to its advantage.

And so, knowing our country as we do,

WHAT HAS BEEN THE 'WHITE MISCHIEF' BEHIND THE SCENES IN KIBRA?

DISCLAIMER:

White Mischief, apart from the notorious film, is a paragraph about the peak of the decadence of the white settler class. These were once Lord of this land, and ruled with unabated impunity. For instance, Lord Dalamere &Co manipulated the LEGCO into a tool catering wholly for white interests, well, with a tiny bit of concession to Asians. Perhaps some have heard of the Income Tax Ordinance/Bill of 1922, purposed to protect settler Agriculture and shift the tax-burden on the already overtaxed natives. And too, 1923, the INDIAN QUESTION, when the (minority) whites under Delamere affirmed the LEGCO was an all-whites only affair. (Hitler's rise in Europe would be music to these settlers' ears!)

They ruling class was then wholly deluded in their impunity. Lords of the Land.

Now, those LEGICO drama's is what I call white mischief for real. (but the drama in a Happy Valley in which a cuckolded husband allegedly murders his wife's lover is also as good a story of elite decline as worthy tabloid tale! Okay, the currently running soap of a divorce proceeding featuring a senator and a former powergirl at an aspiring President's court, is, too, as good a synopsis as any of high social rot!)

Linturi eventually moved from his Kileleshwa house to Keitany's house in Runda.

The lovebirds formed Atticon Ltd, a construction company, and on March 2017, were awarded a Sh1.2 billion tender to construct three roads in Meru.

It is rumored that Linturi squandered much of this money hence the wrangles and squabbles with his wife.

Of course back in them settler days, in the nature of political dynamics, this extreme impunity called into life, an extreme and opposite reaction. And eventually Mau Mau was birthed as the most militant wing of African nationalism asserting itself, clawing back space.


From what I gather, I deduce Kibra has become the hotest seat in Kenya today. It is a confluence of forces, a microcosm, say a cesspit, or sh!tpit unto where all our primitiveness will drain, and ferment.

This widow, is hot! And Tuju ran into a solar plexus one from Ruto.

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RUTO VENTURES INTO KIBRA! PROJECT MARIGA

The demobilisation of political intellect following the handshake showed off its laxity the other day, to the shock of adherents. And this is not about the latest round of Mau evictions which, faced with closing primary schools, have needed a big rethink. Funny some didn't think of this last year, and the other one (but one!)

Chiefly in Kibra, Rafael Tuju of Jubilee was caught being his silly self all again. Two things I mean by Lazy for this Tuju.
1. He should not have run for President with the PoA thing. He should have run for governor of Siaya. (This is the same self-over-elevation or vanity which afflicted Peter Kenneth who, too, instead of attacking the presidency in 2013, should have first run for governor of either his native Murang'a or Nairobi.)
2. In a particularly obnoxious feat of political infatility, Raphael Tuju typified the oath of Raila Odinga as Kolongolongo. Tuju, as the SG of the ruling party, utterly failed to import and capture the significance of this broad light Uhuru Park event. The oath and the official emergence of the Peoples' President as a popular antithesis to the duly sworn in usurper, effectively split the country midways and primed the economy for a deep and enlengthened recession. And this is why the Handshake Pivot is such a relief. It was a draw back from the brink (of an abyss).

Now on Kibra, Tuju and Murage and the rest in Ouru's corner of Jubilee, called Kieleweke, assumed they had the power to unilaterally give ODM a homerun in Kibra. They learnt nothing on that Embakasi South debacle. --As if there is no Hustler in town, and no Tangatanga strategists to mind.

The result is they left their flanks wide open for a bluff. I think Mariga is a bluff, but if the NASA vote can be split +two ways between ANC's Owallo and whoever the ODM will nominate, there's just a chance the disfunctional family could score an own goal and let Mariga carry the cup by default. And William Ruto with nothing to loose, and the dynasties to defeat, already toured Kibra to, as we say in Dholuo, throw the grass in front of Raila. That is challenge Agwambo on his hometurf.

Ruto tells Kibra residents he will be back for Mariga's campaign

In Summary
• Deputy president said that whoever who will succeed the Late Kibra MP Ken Okoth must emulate his works in promoting education among Kibra kids.
• Mariga denied Rutos's hand in politics.


At the opening of a 580-bed capacity dormitory at Moi Girls School, Kibra, Nairobi County on September 3, 2019 Image: DPPS

Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday evening addressed the residents of Kibra and promised to return for by-election campaigns.
The DP was in Kibra only a day after his Jubilee Party settled on Macdonald Mariga as its candidate in an area that has been dominated by ODM.
Ruto spoke after the opening of a 580-bed capacity dormitory at Moi Girls School, Kibra, two years after a fire razed dormitories in the school.

The DP was mobbed by residents who sought that he addresses them as he drove from the school.
"Leo nilikuwa nimeletwa na mambo ya masomo lakini ntarud. Hiyo maneno nyingine... mimi naona kuna jamaa anasema sijui aiiih lakini ntarudi (Today I solely came concerning education but I'll be back to discuss the 'other issue at hand. There is a guy saying things. But I will be back)," he said.

NB: And here is the Hustler punching Matiang'i and Magoha to the canvas in the same movement.

Ruto: Mau children have a right to education

'It is the government's mandate to ensure all children access education'
In Summary
• There were three options: maintain the status quo by formalising the excision, compensation and eviction without compensation
• The government considered the merits and demerits of each


Deputy President William Ruto on Tuesday broke his silence on the Mau Forest eviction controversy and warned against disrupting learning in the water tower.

"Every child is entitled to be in school na sio tafadhali. Hiyo ni jukumu ya serikali (It is the government's mandate to ensure all children access education). Even those in Mau will not be left behind," Ruto said at Moi Girls High School in Kibra, Nairobi.
The Deputy President, who spoke after opening the institution's new 580-bed dormitory, said the government recognises the vital role played by education in the development and transformation of the lives of its citizens.
"Education is the single greatest empowerment that society can give to children. It is against the law for school-going children not to be in school."

He spoke a day after the government backtracked on an earlier decision to shut down 15 schools targeted in the second phase of the Mau Forest evictions.
According to Nakuru County Commissioner Erastus Mbui, the decision to close the schools was reversed so that learners can continue with their studies and complete the Third Term.

Wanted: saving the water tower while children go to school!

But some pictures of the flooded classrooms of primary schools in Kenya! Hmmm

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Sept 4, 2019 19:32:27 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

RUTO VENTURES INTO KIBRA! PROJECT MARIGA

The demobilisation of political intellect following the handshake showed off its laxity the other day, to the shock of adherents. And this is not about the latest round of Mau evictions which, faced with closing primary schools, have needed a big rethink.

Funny some didn't think of this last year, and the other one (but one!)

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Wanted: saving the water tower while children go to school!

But some pictures of the flooded classrooms of primary schools in Kenya! Hmmm

The names of big landgrabbers are known. From years ago. And not even the Ndung'u report!


Senator Ledama Olekina reads names of Rift Valley politicians with pieces of land in Mau Forest Area


KTN News Kenya, 26 jul. 2018




Aah, Haji!?

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THE KIBRA CONFLUENCE

But is it the end of animal farm revisited? ---where there was no difference between pig and man as the animals looked ever more keenly?

The race is Ruto versus Raila. The rest is nonsense. Imran is nonsense, Mariga is nonsense. Lets find time later to deal with the nonsense. And to be clear, President Ouru Kenyatta or Matiang'i Whatever, too, are nonsense. In any election, Matiang'i can only beat Ruto by a process called systematic rigging; the way Uhuruto knifed Raila in the dark with sharpened algorithms. Dr. Fred is a nobody before Dr.William when politicala daggers are drawn in the open.

In Kibra, Ruto is only bluffing, but nevertheless he has openly drawn the dagger on Raila. And in open political combat, only one man can stop William Ruto: Tinga. It is therefore attrition, and a poking jab, that Ruto has swept Tuju and Ouru aside and thrown the firebomb Mariga at Odinga. Tuju and Ouru were resolved to give Odinga a walk over.

Now they have to man up and canvass for their party candidate, Ruto's pawn aka Mariga.


Mariga looks like a monied dummy to me, but monied dummies can be scary enough while they last the campaign. Ruto's game in Kibra needs a political economy.

I will be game on it some time later.

For one, Ken Okoth the development program seems rocket science to sheep. But even the easy math of Hash ---LEGALISE THAT THING or cannabis, no aspiring widow-inheritor seems can touch!

Okoth Ken is a dangerous live wire: he ran a corruption free CDF! A forerunner! Propaganda by deed! welcome to the new Kenya~! already imagined in some heads and happened in real time!

The djini is out of the bottle! no one can madhafak with that no more!