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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 3, 2019 21:54:28 GMT 3
SABINA CHEGE AND RACHEL SHEBBESH VISIT MAMA BABY PENDOIt was a dangerous move. Because of the depths it stirred. Maternal instinct took hold of Sabina Chege. This natural force conducted her to internalise and relive the grief of a mother, one left holding the crushed skull of her baby. The dams burst and Sabina empathised far beyond the realms of the daily politics of Kenya. This event is a human touching of bases that affirms a collective, shared humanity, far outside the scope of our current crop of cannibal politicians. Dangerous it was too, because the mea culpa by Rachel Shebbesh puts the new star in town on skidding runs. That new star, upon whom Uhuru Kenyatta now pins all his hopes of a legacy, is of course Fred Matiang'i. And this Fred was of course the capo in charge of the baby-skullcrushers. The beasts were let loose to enforce the cooked results of the presidential election, 2017. From him there will no mea-culpa. Of course. He is a hard man, and hard men don't do apologies for whatever, even genocide. They can't dare loose face. They are locked in might is right, always. No, hard men threaten genocide or even worse, like we saw in June, when Trump promised Iran evaporation, or was it obliteration. ---Earlier on the POTUS promised North Korea the fire and fury as never seen, ever since the asteroid which extincted the dinos. Hard men don't apologise. They are only doing their duty, even if that duty is to build crematoria to smoke to dust, members of a particular religion of their country. This tight-locked mindset of hard men, this mechanical programming without reverse gear, this intellect without reflection, atrocity without remorse, is a bloodthirst to feed megalomania which is an offshoot of addiction to power. But it was upstaged in Kisumu and mocked by women politicians. This was at the hand of one of the deadliest and dearest qualities of normal humankind: empathy. The ability to feel the pain of the other. Empathy cushions against dehumanisation of the other. Dehumanisation of the other is a necessary intellectual and emotional gimmick, to deny another human being, human treatment. Yes, for instance there was this famous legal gimmick, post 9/11, wherein the USA ensnared itself, and continues to writhe: terrorists do not deserve protection under the GENEVA CONVENTIONS! They are outlaws from civilisation. Effectively, they are untermenschen. But closer to home, for businessmen to import toxic sugar and for bureaucrats to collude in its distribution to the masses for, they must first dehumanise the Kenyan consumer in their minds: a thing not worth decent food. Elsewhere I said I always liked Sabina Chege. But I didn't perceive how disturbing her natural, spontaneous behaviour can be, culturally speaking. Now these women have officially opened the season of ..... non crocodile ..... tears, for the pains political: how can we forget the other bodies crying out for remembrance and mea culpa? ---It will be quite a tall feat in national denial. The intellectual repression necessary, the emotional stonefaciality to be maintained, the pretence to be kept while the stench of rotting corpses and the wails of the dead seeking justice ring minds and inundate the Kenyan living space, will be high enough to precipitate a political neurosis. CAROLYNE MBUNGU. Who of nerve, goes to her mother to shed big tears and explain, why? Who, to atone, catches the killers of the two love birds, Chris and Caro? That is what I mean by dangerous. The women have primed the nation for another round of soul-searching, far from the world of politics. The hard men at the top today, are skating on very thin ice. Equally hard men or harder women can arise and bring them down, or to book with same bloodthirst without remorse. The same wretched bloodthirst with which our hard men of today cover up political murders, is the same bloodthirst from the same culture which will sustain their own wretched evaporation. Putting his ritual sacrificer's dagger to the neck of the damsel Iphigenia, the King of Men and King of Kings, Atreide Agammemnon, has no qualms. He has purpose to conquer Ilios and any price will be paid. But within the heart that beat beneath the breasts of the mother of the sacrificial lamb, the Supreme King and peak of all men stirred forces which would culminate in his own ritual murder. A domestic really! And we sure do have some terrible domestics to mind, Kenya. Leat of all, our Kings and Peaks are simple pick pockets. Imagine, petty thieves who commit murder! PURE ART VERSUS REALITY, WHO WINS THE COMMUNICATION BOUT? ---But jut a moment! there is the option the tears of my Sabina were fake. Fair enough then, good comedy from an avowed actress, yet pure art. But there is the alternative too, that they were genuine, and tell the tale of a land with deep trauma's to resolve. To resolve, one way or another. Me I love the divan couch. But history does not do psychotherapy. I think, we are in for more hard men. And then some day we will recover our humanity, and take justice ----be our shield and defender------ seriously, for all, always. Even the long dead. And you never heard of. 'Sage: The House of Mumbi, at least publicly, has cleansed and forgiven William Ruto and his lot for burning their kith and kin in Kiambaa Church in Eldoret's environs. That is Christian feat of the highest hearts! Confessions, Forgiveness and hatchets buried. Ahmen!
But now, for us Jokanyarnam, you know we hold Ouru and his Mungiki lots to seething accounts, for the live barbecuing of a Luo family in Naivasha. It was a crime against humanity, but not beyond the teachings of Christianity to turn the other cheek. ---But, O peoples Counsellor, don't you think there should first be a public cleansing ceremony of the bloody hands of the son of Jomo, followed by a public mea-culpa, before we internalise this handshake like the great Christian hearts we are!?
We consult you with the deepest in our hearts, O Nestor, Amollo ng'at g'Otumba Jakabudha!'That is the way we do it here. Kisumu Pacho.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 30, 2019 14:35:49 GMT 3
2. BARRING A SOLUTION, A SCAPEGOAT MUST BE FOUNDYou know when you have a big problem -----like why is Africa at the bottom? you need a big scapegoat. Why is Africa underdeveloped then? well, relatively underdeveloped then. Because even in Kisumu Pacho we have multi-malls bigger than Minnesota. One can jet-in, in an old chopper to shop around for a new chopper! And last time in Nairobi, an old Mount Kenya schoolmate of mine ---he must be into lucrative state tenders, treated me and other unrelated females to an endless, very dear banquet at a suite in a Nairobi Hotel which, he loosely said --and conspiratoriously kicked me under the table to confirm to the ladies with my Luopean english, had been reserved for Barrack Obama when he was POTUS! 'Waaah, the good Lord is on our side', I theatrically gaped, the way I had ---done the Catholic cross--- a long time ago in the states, when a millionaire chick picked me up and was all juice for nigakok up the dizzying heights of The Big Apple's high-rise Roman suites! Anyway, knowing of such grand hotels in Nairobi, you would be hard pressed to find a better service in the world, even at a Swiss all-stars joint in Geneva! Therefore, there are many places outside Marathons where Africa is tops. Just like, off the Angolan Coast, courtesy of Isabella dos Santos, at one time, not even a billionare sheikh of the gulf who moored an exclusive yacht at Saint-Tropez, would compete. The glamour of S-Tropez, French Riviera. Luxury Yachts Park.That is just to underline the qualification --- relatively underdeveloped Africa. Therefore, for pictures of underdevelopment, one has to be talking of, for example, public water services across the continent which, like the notorious Flint in Michigan USA, are sewage to toxic affairs. I don't feel too eager to explain the official neglect, environmental degradation and poor sanitation in the sprawling slum belts of Nairobi, citing a concept like .... ' systemic corruption'! or endemic tribalism! WHO IS TO BLAME? Gikomba Mpig, Starehe Jaguar Kanyi, is, as they say today, thinking over his sins as a guest of the state. One hopes the state is not giving him service from the Miguna protocol. Fred Okeng'o Matiang'i may be a DARK HORSE in the presidential race and pledged to modernise Kenya in accordance with the legacy Uhuru Kenyatta wishes for himself, but when it comes to prisons and court orders and the rule of the law, Fred is more comfortable running a medieval gory. Dr. Fred is yet to see the light of enlightenment, reform, in that regard. Therefore Jaguar Kanyi may very well be a martyr to his Gikomba people ----the petty traders finding themselves being displaced from all they have for subsistence. A globalised open economy, however much the (rebased?) statistics point, that its openness kick starts the national economy and pimps up your country's GDP, easily sounds like a fairy tale when your experience is that of an increased hardship, ends that no longer will meet, and a downward vicious spiral in the daily grind of hunger and grime; and the state-sanctioned crime of murderous cops doing their extra-judicial things at will, protecting cartels for a cut. It is hard masking Nairobi otherwise from Wa Thiong'o Ngugi's famous sneer: a glittering CBD in a sea of slums. May be those slums are teeming with xenophobic live wires waiting to be connected. And we all know it, which would explain the consensual hanging out of Jaguar to dry. We are running scared, instinctively. No matter that they say Kenyan politics is a tribal affair, down the food chain is Kenya a straight forward capitalist country. Kenya is raw, a ruthless man-eat-man jungle, and woman eat sh!t if you like. The tribal bosom is not much of a safety net, much less in Nairobi city, the headquarters of the system. MONEY TALKS, SUFFERING RULES THE MASS Money Talks in Nairobi. This introduces the primacy of class interests. In the good books of politics, the national interest should be a balancing act between the various competitor tendencies within the economic fabric of the land, but Cut-Throat Kenya is a winner-takes-it all racket. In deed there is a fitting narrative of state capture by The Cartels, which makes government even more parochial, absent and insensitive to the processes of mass impoverishment. ----I checked the ownership of the (from China) containers detained at various depots (Mombasa and Nairobi Inland); the containers whose local, STORAGE bill has risen to billions of ksh., and laughed with cold heart But here is the deal, the economic rationale of this HOLD-UP. A syndicated operation! In other words, while genuine business folks have had their containers DELIBERATELY HELD, a substitute Cartel has been having their containers processed in at TURBO. They have had a free-run Flooding the market, making a quick kill and moving on like predator locusts to new fields. And man Kimeru of intelligence didn't inform Ouru he was practically loosing his Mount Kenya grassroots this way. Neither did other channels outside the bureaucratic circuit. It makes Ouru one hell of a dunderhead prezzo; exactly the blessed thing the good fortunes ordered for predator cartels. The genuine businessmen and women struggling, are left ruined. The storage bills are too high; those who imported on loans have now defaulted and lost their securities; and when the containers are released, the margins will be nil, the merchandise finding the market already flooded with the same, and counterfeits. Kieleweke or Tangatanga, this is a problem beyond their vocabulary. Ouru, Ruto, Raila or Matiang'i, this is beyond their politics. This is Nairobi, the capital city. Capital. There is therefore a mass of alienated, disenfranchised Kenyan traders out there, seething as they watch their bread vanish from their plates and, grievously, ponder a worse fate for their offspring. This is a legitimate grievance, and it is an interest which shall find national articulation, large scale state intervention to address, or it will fester downwards until it bursts surface somehow. oops! 3. FINALLY
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 30, 2019 10:00:50 GMT 3
THE XENOPHOBES OF GIKOMBA MARKET AND THEIR MPIG, JAGUAR
1. Keep this word in mind: GLOBALISATION.
And remember there are losers in this great success story. For instance, those losers is the reason there is need for that feminine sounding acronym: MAGA. Large swathes of the USA were de-industrialised, reduced to rust-belts and significant populations along to non-stake-holders in the American dream. These became the basket of deplorables who 'rathered' the isolationist Donald Trump than the 'cosmopolimulticulti' Hilary Clinton. The Trump would Make America Great Again, yeah, re-institute and guarantee white power and privilege forever. (Keep sh!thole republic holed in their sh!t)
On the other hand, Capital is having a field day, the globe at large is its playground. Capital moves at breakneck speed in pursuit of its interests, profit. Capital does nano-second, techno algorithmic ebbs and flows at will across liberalised borders. The world's financial markets are at its beck and call, Dollarised Capital System; and the nations that resist are primed for destruction by any means necessary, for instance by the likes of NATO and The FED.
Labour on the other hand is on a snails' pace. You need travel documents aka e-passports. You need visa's and work permits, and classifications in various colours of cards (like the famous green for some famous countries). Immigration has become a big issue globally, because, due to income inequality across the globe, and genocidal imperialist resource wars which fit a racial narrative, there is not only a massive displacement of populations across large swathes of the former colonial belt, but both an other racial and other religious charge, invasion the nativists say, on Fort White.
Across much of Europe today, both East and West, white nativists are on the electoral surge. And only yesterday in Tokyo during the G-20 2019 summit, we saw and heard the Great Russian Nationalist emerge in Vladimir Putin. Putin lambasted the former Iron Lady of Germany, Angela Merkel (who now shakes like a leaf every other time in public), for her OPEN-DOOR policy toward Syrian refugees. These will contaminate Germany further, eroding her 'specificities'.
Fascism and xenophobia is on the global rise. Global capitalism, to paraphrase Marx, is invading every hitherto holy site, rummaging and ransacking it through for profit, leaving the divine artefacts hitherto so much cherished by the natives, nothing more than direlict collectors items for anthropologists, private museums, or other scavengers who monger curiosa.
The Catholic Church, always a bastion of reaction in that country, is therefore doing a roaring business in Poland today. Promoting old values, pure white, one man one wife, no abortions, discipline and patriarchal heterosexual order.
Reaction is doing great business in what to date, have been countries professing their social openness. European navies, name them, are standing with folded arms, grinning cynically like concentration camp guards, as they watch countless Africans die in the Mediterranean deeps. Fishermen who, moral conscience of the sea stung, go to the rescue, risk loosing their boats and jail time for people smuggling.
The fears run deep. The anxieties of the native population unmistakable, at the electoral report. They even say BREXIT is because Brits no longer feel in control of their own country.
It is a nativist backlash.
A NATIVIST BACKLASH at the loss of control engineered by well-feted elites? Would not that be the story of a man named NJAGUA JAGUAR, addressing his constituents at GIKOMBA?
Coupled with the storming rise of new powers like China, the global village is becoming a very narrow-minded avenue in deed. Not just American Trade Wars with China and Trump's moves to kill of HUAWEI prove the point, but even back here in the --tortoise pace--- rising continent of Africa, the natives find themselves at the mercy a penetration which threatens all air from their lungs.
The fears of the bottom enders, the losers of globalisation, are deep and real. Everywhere, their pains are material enough to raise strident alarms.
So do I understand our xenophobe, Starehe Mpig Njagua Kanyi.
next. 2.
AS THINGS ARE SET TO STAY THE SAME, THE SEARCH FOR A SCAPEGOAT IS ON.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 28, 2019 20:47:44 GMT 3
Jenerali, I forgot a detail: MOHAMMED MORSI! No doubt some will ask who the hell that is! It is just that, about a few days after he, the overthrown first democratically elect prezzo, died and was hurriedly and anonymously buried under heavy security, a very high-ranking Kenyan landed in town, Cairo, but, howbeit, like Ababu Namwamba and Evans Kidero once upon a time on an ODM-orchestrated SABASABA commemoration at Uhuru Park, had more important things to attend to in town than console with the bereaved family of Egypts first democratically elected president, slowly murdered. Imagine Egypt has a written history all the way from Pharao Khufru, over 5000 years ago! And only yesterday with Morsi, has a first peoples choice elected the top. ---For a few months! Today Egypt is back to her normal: antiquity. But Amollo Wuod Oganda, the peoples president, himself rigged out by the deep state several times over, had only one thing in his mind, FOOTBALL, the new opium of the young men!Yeah, a man gotta know when to shut his mouth about what! But not everybody in any given culture can be blessed with such an improbable talent to selective amnesia without suffering intellectual constipation nor palpuble moral depreciation. An African of your (Miguna Miguna) eloquence and vanity, uncompromising intellect and obnoxious personality, can not let this pass, but, on behalf of the (many-times-over-defrauded electorate) of Kenya, people, need must give the passing of overthrown-president-elect Mohammed Morsi, meaning. Popular Patrice Lumumba was murdered quick time by Mobutists after his arrest. But Mohammed Morsi's at the hands of Sisi was a slow kill. Six years solitary confinement. No medical attention. Wonderful irony that he died in court, in full view of all, yet his death-sounds were muffled, because the cage while transparent, was soundproof!What a scared General, that ruler of Egypt! And Raila was fain to stay on the good side of the Egyptian's temper. How about you, distant harbinger of the third liberation?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 27, 2019 20:25:41 GMT 3
SABA-SABA REVISITEDSymbols of resistance so to speak we keep in mind in this episode. They hibernate, deep in the hearts of the people. But they haunt daily life like unfulfilled aspirations. The mass of the people to whom there is never been any other option but struggle, keep these symbols awake, but like a dormant volcano spying the right moment. Even as on the surface, the people overwhelmed by the raw power of the oppressor, appear in the doldrums of apathy, ever showing compliance and obeisance to the diktat of the oppressive order and her functionaries, the open secret is their hearts are all war-songs, passive resistance and other dreams of other realities: justice. Pacification is not the end of the affair. In this regard, the lesson of Palestine today is this: the overwhelming, superior and unmatchable firepower of the Zionist Colonial Project, has not intimidated the dispossessed into silence and helplessness. No, there is creative resistance daily, and in it, the lesson of David versus Goliath. The deal of the century by which the husband of Ivanka, Jerry, is offering a phantom bribe for the Palestinians to forego their historical desire for statehood, is having takers yes, but none of them Palestinian. So the question is: what depths do the Palestinians dig to find the courage, determination and fortitude to soldier on? The answer is Culture. Culture, which is what brings me to thee, Miguna Miguna, and Saba Saba. At this point in time, the Uhuruto-Handshake regime or double helix, looks as unassailable as America's military power over the Islamic Republic of Iran. The comprador domination of Kenya is effectively unchallenged. Miguna's NRKe tweets sound as ineffectual as the Gaza rockets of Hamas at Netanyahu's Iron Dome. Miguna is as persona non grata from Kenya, as Jaramogi and his KPU were (excommunicated) from Kenyan politics, then. Miguna's mission and exile looks as forlorn as 'Jomo Kenyatta's' must have been during the anti-colonial struggle when he went to London, after world war One but before World war Two, to agitate against the exploits of the settler regime back home and, simultaneously, articulate the desire of the people for Uhuru, Independence and the rest. In 1928 Johnstone Kamau was elected the secretary general of Kikuyu Central Association. In 1929 he was delegated by this organisation to go and argue its case in the lion's lair, London. NOTE: Harry Thuku who had radicalised the situation was arrested in 1922 and DEPORTED to far away KISMAYU in Somalia! ---Now, Miguna's LUNGALUNGA dance at the airport is widely recorded at the JKIA, but the original LungaLunga of a Kenyan nationalist was of course the forceful frogmarching of Harry Thuku, off to forced exile. Jomo Kenyatta was picking up the torch! Yes, cultural torches and relay races, from Harry Thuku to Miguna Miguna!What is new then? Exile? Deportation? Death? Did not the colonial settlers develop castration as a form of punishment on rebel natives? And is it not so, that Joseph Kanyotu, Arap Moi's long serving head of intelligence, with his Luo-Special-Branch sidekick called Onyango, turned the cellars of the iconic Nyati and Nyayo houses into, to use CIA lingo, BLACKSPOTS. In such places were enacted scenes which befit the appetites of connoisseurs of the bestials, truly unratable ones which, American Congress reports, say are the kicks of the current CIA head, nicknamed Bloody Gina.SABA SABAfrom the deep (cultural) well of historical experience, dealing with parasites, combating and containing (both local and foreign) virulent pests, winning some, loosing most, markers emerge which charge-on the struggle, every generation daily. SABA SABA is such a marker. If there was a second liberation, SABASABA is today the public celebration or commemoration of that spirit, just like MADARAKA is of our republicanism. It would be a great cultural coup if General Miguna Miguna infused new content and meaning into SABASABA. Culture, therein lies the most potent weapons of resistance. What will the self-styled General do, this SABA SABA coming day.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 25, 2019 21:46:12 GMT 3
TRIVIA VS GRAVE PRIORITIES; DP RUTO'S LOUD WOLF-CRYI will never forget my biology teacher in form three. He was introducing us to evolution. On the evolutionary scale, he said, we humanoids are trivia. Our existence, and prominence for a few tens of thousand years wouldn't register on geological time scales. He said, just as a dinosaurs didn't know what its name was, and many animals too today for that matter, we humanoids can hardly conceptualise one hundred thousand from two hundred thousand years ago. I thought of that day, long ago in form three this week. In the week in which the lunatic of Washington threatened Iran with extinction -----the way Virginian governor and future president of the USA, Thomas Jefferson threatened to solve the Indian problem once and for all ----and Adolf Hitler the Jewish Question finally there are stories which, hower dramatic, just sound like Trivia. Such Trivia as the lusty-to-romantic exploits of charming but political sinking representatives of a rotting elite. Think of chivalrous and flirtatious lords of the manor, amusing themselves adlib with their slaves who, lost to unconsciousness forever, are still not in the know, that a new ruthless class (the industrial bourgeoisie) has surged forth and is busy confining the aristocracy to the backyards of social power, forever. Let me be a bit less distant here: There are still many Kenyans who, lost to unconsciousness forever, bow before their ethnic Kingpins and tribal chieftains and see in them nothing but everlast deities. They do not import the significance of the Chinese appearing comfortably in Gikomba, hawking anything going, and shrugging indifferently at any would-be Mungiki hard-to-cold stare. But on the other side, there are plenty of Kenyans who, if not thinkingly but instinctively as in a cornered rat, import the shift, and recognise this is outside the scope of the things we consider the leaders of the land. Be they their excellencies, their honourable members, Muthamakis', Agwambos' or Hustler Singhs', the ruthless surge and expansionist drive of China's capital and industrial LEBENSRAUM, reduces them to dust on the coattails of China's EXIM bank. Well, it requires a bit of thinking to get the picture. There are hordes of Kenyans who, for real, do not know a thing called China exists! And if it is so far away, it could be Uganda you know. So here is our Trivia for today. F ive Cabinet secretaries from Mount Kenya met over whiskey at a Thika road hotel off Nairobi to plot the murder of the DP, William Ruto. One of them then ratted on the others.That is the kind of trivia which should fall under a contradiction, or major conflict, expressing itself in subterfuge form. Fear, vengeance and pure malice are very interesting interfaces in the human heart. I remember a friend of mine we used to fornicate around with as young teachers. Then there came a housemaid he really fancied, but to his sorrow and horror, an earlier bird was already making hot and wet work of the shapely damsel. Witnessing the episode, his young heart burnt with jealousy, plunged into rage and plotted vengeance. Honing malice, he resolved to use the episode to sow discontent in the heart of the early bird's regular girl, slowly manipulate her feelings such that he could induce in her a fit which he could harvest. So it came to pass. But the story did not end there. These were just the sub plots condensing into a explosive climax, of tragedy. Some passions are better left unstirred. Trivia can lead to murder. And murder is drama, classic human drama. What passions have Ruto stirred that condense into murder? Why, would a well-heeled clique from Mount Kenya resolve to assassinate him, DP William!? The obvious answer would be to prevent him succeeding Uhuru Kenyatta. But if this is the purpose, then a crunchy and sippy meeting at a roadside eatery is just the unlikeliest, most amateurish place to brainstorm on such a dark deed. So let us recall other (trivial or not) murders of Kenya. --- -Saitoti with Ojode as collateral damage; Musando with Carolyne Mbungu as collateral damage; Jacob Juma, Kiambaa Church et al. Tom Mboya, Gama Pinto, JM Kariuki, Robert Ouko ...... How were these plotted and executed. I don't think the Kenyan ----deep state bureaucratic memory---- is so eroded it lost the template for a successful political or trivial murder, or both concurrently (a few other bodies for collateral if need be. So I think this was THE BIG WOLF CRY! Ruto is crying wolf. But it is true there are those out to kill his political career, just as he is out to kill the political career of, for instance, his key opponent Raila Odinga! That is the straight purpose of a battle for supremacy where the winner takes all. The DP did not even bother to record a formal complaint. It was just a telephone call like the Arab and his Gold, and Weta's alleged voice. So may be the DP will deny he called the DCI, until, like Sonko, Kinoti produces a recording of the session. But we know how that ends from the Wetang'ula template: a NON-ISSUE! Kinoti is thus kept busy chasing red herrings, you know, like in those doG-walking parks around cities: you will spy dog-owners casting flying saucers for their merry dogs to chase and bring back. An amusing exercise! I am sure DP Ruto watched with a cynical grin as one of his senior state dogs, a big beast aka DCI, exercised its legs chasing flying saucers he had let air! BUT HERE IS THE DETAIL TO PONDER: The whistleblower on Henry Rotich and the scandal of the dams which were never built but paid for, was none other than Peter Munya, now the murder-mastermind! The phantom dams outing seemed to have pulled the carpet from under The Hustler. With fury and thunder he declared upfront no cash was embezzled. That blow went deep. Now he drives the counter deep into Munya's solar.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 23, 2019 20:15:22 GMT 3
NJOROGE'S new NOTES DEBATED AT OUR LOCAL
First I heard the Americans (embassy in Nairobi) wasn't accepting the new notes, Why in God's name, I asked?
Could it be the matter of diagrams, or depictions of depictions of Jomo Kenyatta which were plastered on it, apparently contrary to the spirit of article 231 of the constitution, but majorly in violation thereof?
The ball was set rolling with a treatise from the walking constitution, James Orengo.
Iit was a controversy which would soon solidify into two schools of law in our ODM-saturated principality: Orengo&Amollo versus Kaluma&Kajwang'.
Opondo Kaluma went so far as to ridicule and mock Okiyah Omtatah on the source of his funds to be conducting so many legal challenges in court! (imagine a Mpig who is ready to disband the SRC for denying him an additional 250K house allowance laughing at Omtatah. The same Omtatah the Miguna-tormentor known as Matiang'i denounced as EVIL! ---what a birds of the same feather moment to pick the bones of Okiyah!)
For the record: Okiyah Omtatah is crowd-funded otherwuse well-wishers and himself. It is called Harambee. Only several months ago, Kenyans on Twitter launched a kitty for him, and well-wishing Kenyans could Mpesa the account. A vote of confidence of sorts.
How could we from Homa Bay explain this terrible, public mental meltdown by Opondo Kaluma, not easily the cheapest mind around? Well, a cynic remarked that is the handshake for you; it has necessarily led to an intellectual artefact in some of our brightest and best! Many have like lost their way, if not minds!
TAKE JOHN MBADI
At first John Mbadi, a senior official of the ODM, not the steadiest head and these days looking much more like an increasingly erratic Donald Trump, went straight for the jugular ---NO WAY THE NOTES WILL SEE THE MARKET. But on the morning after when he woke up, having been visited by the spirits of the Shakes, he was eating his words and chewing his tie like the then president of Georgia, Mikhailo Saakashvilli, when, tricked by an American official over dinner, he bit more than he could chew in attacking Ossetia&Abkhazia where Russian troops were stationed. Watching Mbadi try to eat his cake and have it at the same time, provoked I and my buddies into some deep introspection. Why, tell me, such a confusion at the top of the comprador foodchain, namely the handshake wing of the caliphate?
But Rarieda Otiende Amollo held fort to his credit. Where I come from we like to joke Amollo was the designated Attorney General of the Peoples republic. He used to have the makings of a Nestor in him, before the Handshake forced him into confusion as he sought to defend premises beneath his intellect. One day his mind refused to be duplicituous in public and he collapsed!
Weeeh! If you do not have a crooked mind but want to be a star in crooked politics, you will spend a lot of energy preventing your mind from taking a refuge in planet insanity!
Here is an example of the Nestor burning in him. November 2017, in the run to Raila's popular oath at Uhuru Park. You would think he was Miguna Miguna's twin!
Come the handshake, and, wink wink, the divorce from his twin, Miguna: thus did we put him to the test as he preached Luo-Nyanza should welcome Uhuru Kenyatta to a man: 'Sage: The House of Mumbi, at least publicly, has cleansed and forgiven William Ruto and his lot for burning their kith and kin in Kiambaa Church in Eldoret's environs. That is Christian feat of the highest hearts! Confessions, Forgiveness and hatchets buried. Ahmen!
But now, for us Jokanyarnam, you know we hold Ouru and his Mungiki lots to seething accounts, for the live barbecuing of a Luo family in Naivasha. It was a crime against humanity, but not beyond the teachings of Christianity to turn the other cheek. ---But, O peoples Counsellor, don't you think there should first be a public cleansing ceremony of the bloody hands of the son of Jomo, followed by a public mea-culpa, before we internalise this handshake like the great Christian hearts we are!?
We consult you with the deepest in our hearts, O Nestor, Amollo ng'at g'Otumba Jakabudha!'
That is the way we do it here. Kisumu Pacho.
NB: That Otumba bit refers to the beginnings of the last century when colonial tentacles were embedding in the Rarieda peninsular and chiefs, Ruodhi, were being incorporated into the new administration. Those given to material recalcitrance and active resistance were exorcised, some buried alive, like Miguna Miguna. There emerged a breed of Chiefs whose wile and guile in balancing the two opposant forces, colonialism and national resistance, have been eternalised in legendary folklore (and of late, synthesiser whirls of modern ahangla).
Senior Chief Otumba is a man whose wile and guile is considered only second to the great Odera Akang'o of Gem. The two, having been briefed of Captain Laggard's MAXIM-gun exploits in far-away Buganda, concluded a horde of naked spearmen charging the colonial spitfire, however brave, was just feeding cannon fodder to the insatiable beast. A strategic accommodation was necessary.
A strategic accommodation!
So we grinned like an eerie college of death masks without emotions ------Egwugwu's interrogating a mortal if you recall your Chinua Achebe's things fall apart------- as we waited for Amollo to have his brains go full throttle on us, Doubting Toms.
The Gikuyu forgave Ruto in exchange for Ruto making Ouru the president and the House of Mumbi continually dominant at the helm of the nation. Pray tell, O Nestor, what do we forgive Ouru in exchange for!?
Anyway, that is culture. A portrait of how it works!
What is a portrait?
A representation of something. But for this purpose we restrict ourselves to VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS.
And thereafter, visual representations of human beings. Howbeit a photograph only comes into play with the invention of the camera. This means a photo(graph) joins the the family of Portrait as a technological innovation involving the momentary trapping of shadow-graphics.
Before this high-tech breakthrough, visual representations didn't lack variety neither: ancient historical sites are replete with humanoid representations: sculptor, statues, cave drawings, paintings, carvings. So long as they are not abstract, the depicted objects could easily be identified, and Arap Moi very easily differentiated from Jomo Kenyatta in any wood carving or clay mould.
Patrick Njoroge and his gang of lawyers against Okiyah Omtatah and Mbugua, will now have to argue the content and meaning of a photograph of the Kenyatta statue as it appears on the new note, as it is easily recognised as the image of Jomo Kenyatta who is/was a human being, does not violate the intent of why no portrait in whatever form of a human being was disallowed in the new constitution with respect to currency.
It is an argument they can't win, neither at law nor at thought. That statue is a clear depiction easily identifiable as Jomo Kenyatta, once human, now deceased. And the statue carries this meaning and content into its photo graph, or any other image replicate depiction ..... eg drawing. Content and meaning are beyond dispute. Regardless of whether it is a photo, or a photo of of a photo, of a statue sculpted from a re-incarnated double of Jomo Kenyatta!
That is the legal side. LOST.
But this is the realm of politics, and there is a lot of room for the law to be an ass. Remember in a Carolina court over 200 years ago, a slave-owner disputing the ownership of several good slaves, looked at the blacks in question told the judge: 'these people are mine.' The Judge looked at him in surprise: 'I don't see people where you are pointing!'
Sometimes it takes time before sense is kicked into the law, and, not least, the heads of Judges defending private property. So, economics, the notes have already been printed on orders of the cartel, and they have eaten their cut. But the treasury is cash-strapped, otherwise it would easily have launched a new round of looting by printing new notes. So a compromise is to be found.
The illegal notes will circulate. Their unconstitutionality stays, but, belonging the dollar denominated trade block, once the Americans (via their embassy) have agreed to launder them, they are as good as they say they are worth.
You may wonder what debt Njoroge and his CBK now owe the Americans for this money-laundering service.
1. This position caused jitters in the markets. so 2. A few hours later And so it came to passenger But neither Patrick Njoroge nor Henry Rotich will be telling you how it came to pass! Just like no-one will tell Wanjiku what the SGR collateral specifications really are.
Not that they are really secrets!
O Theban, thee Blind Teiresias, Do thy take a look at this new note And with your hidden eye forecast: Is that face a worthy portrait of value At which it trades to the petro dollar Even as the RenMinB is our best friend!?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 20, 2019 20:40:58 GMT 3
KENYA: TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE NARRATIVES
For simplicity, lets talk of the TANGATANGA school contra The HANDSHAKERS.
Separate chimneys from one fire?
At its core is the issue of legitimacy; the reading of what really happened in 2017 presidential elections. It boils down to Uhuruto's legitimacy versus Agwambo's legitimacy. A kind of Al-Sisi versus Morsi quagmire.
After the January 30th at Uhuru Park, there was a new phase in the stalemate. Raila Odinga was riding the popular will, but lacked the control over state machinery to exercise FORMAL POWER. Uhuruto were duly perched in office, with all formal powers, but lacked the socio-political mandate to impose their will on the whole land, especially the GDP-powerhouse, Nairobi area.
There was also the added disadvantage of the vastly important port of Mombasa being an opposition territorium.
As the stalemate developed, and threatened to escalate if no one side caved in, economic disruption stared the land in the face, and finally a shut-down of transnational travel. The option of marshal rule ----which the likes of Fred Matiang'i fronted, was of course literally a dead-end. For a Unitary Kenya.
The Handshake, in which both Ouru and Raila simultaneously climbed down, de-escalated the dynamics of the conflict by mutual concessions and pacts whose details still remain secret; it as as good as saved the land.
That narrative of national salvation from the edge of the abyss, is the Handshake ace.
But if it is heads, there is tails.
TANGATANGA on their side have a diametrically opposed narrative. Some of it highly colourful ----like the Ruto charge that Raila is a fortified pagan, a Mganga and Mchawi who bewitched the ---neither too steady on his feet nor head----- son of Jomo.
But the serous takes first.
Tangatanga contends Uhuru was the only total and duly elected president of Kenya, 2017. The corrupted, pro-NASA slanted supreme court under David Maraga, stole their (Jubilee's) victory. NASA'S Boycott of the second attempt, was Raila's own problem and, in effect, a confession of a defeat conceded in advance. NASA's subsequent noises were the croaks of a frog which wouldn't hinder the cow's quench of thirst. GO OURU GO! TANO TENA, then RUTO KUMI! Unleash the full powers of state legally and constitutionally conferred upon youR office, and so be it if Raila is to be hanged for treason.
A significant segment of thinking Kenyans continue to think this was deluded, stupid fantasy, even if merely because on January 30th, it became clear the Kenyan security forces themselves in their totality, couldn't be trusted to commit mass murder at the centre of Nairobi. A section rather would have murdered the stupidly greedy and thieving politicians instead. That same force, war weary in Somali, and called upon to officiate a civil war at home, wasn't going to take care of business according to the wishes of their formal political masters.
Now, lets visit two of the best raw mouths in TANGATANGA: The mpigs OSCAR SUDI (Kapseret) AND KIMANI NGUNJIRI of Bahati Nakuru.
1. Everybody knows all the problems in the country are caused by one man, Raila Odinga. (Kimani) 2. 2007, It was Raila who bewitched the Kalenjin to set upon the Gikuyu's in the Rift Valley (Sudi).
3. Raila is a perennial loser (Jumwa). 4. Raila is a lord of poverty, Mganga na Mchawi (Hustler Ruto).
The narrative Raila is the father of the Beloved Devolution and a hero of the second liberation? That is the greatest bullsh!t Tangatanga ever heard of!
Obviously these two narratives are mutually exclusive. They can't co-exist in the same textbook, even if split personality syndrome is writing or editing. There is therefore a race on toward a resolution. A healing.
Well, some healings go through radical surgeries first, at least in the history of man.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 20, 2019 20:15:31 GMT 3
HERE IS A STORY TELLING ITSELF, ANSWERING EARLIER QUESTIONS There has been a development! RUTO MAN IN BARINGO BADLY EXPOSES UHURU AND RAILA AS CORRUPT! Yep! True or False!? All government spokespeople have lost their tongues on this! --aah, of omertas! The tale of unequal treaties ... and bent over majestys, emperors or muthamakis! It is a looter's paradise.[/quote]
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 19, 2019 20:08:05 GMT 3
THE PUSH BACK, AND COUNTERPUNCHFIRST, the big cat bared claws. The would-be rats just had a laugh! ---Oh Look, there goes the joker again! Two: t designated alpha gorilla pumped its chest and bellowed the top dog's bark. The would-be b!tches responded with mocking grins, and yet others with bursts of ridicule ---when is the last time it rose to the occasion? It is tough being a fake toughie. It is, as I said here, QUIXOTIC! When His Excellency Ouru Kenyatta first issued this silly directive of NO POLITICS, DEVELOPMENT ONLY to politicians, the flashlights of déjà vu blared full, somewhere in my subconscious. Something I had to remember. Took me sometime but I finally did. Long ago, it was a response by Otieno Gerald Kajwang' to a sort of similar order. Otieno Nyakwamba Rwadh KanyamNyam was categorically dismissive, derisive and unstoppable. Not only did he belittle much, the empty-headedness of the command, he mockingly thumbed through the pages of the constitution as he boasted the quality of his lawyer's degree, and returned a null and void reading --MAGO THUOL MOTHO KIK BWOG NYAR WEGI! (dead snakes don't bite!) OK: 'I am a politician 27/7 forever. Even when I fart, it is politics. He who thinks politicians shouldn't talk politics whenever they open their mouths, must go back to the days of KANU DETENTIONS without trial. I will beat politics anywhere anytime! So I fart big on that ban!'And with his customary fly whisk he distributed an imaginary or real hiss of stench from his rears! So when Ouru Kenyatta went the KANU TEMPLATE soon after his handshake, deja vu I prepared for comedy. But worse, given that everything he would be doing would be passed through the ANTI-RUTO prism, I reckoned the president was heading into the storm winds, for Ruto's ambition isn't the stuff of comedy. It is real, tenacious, ruthless and formidable. It has floored Arap Moi, fair and square, and floored Agwambo twice at the threshold of the presidency, by hook or crook.Then the very selfsame man who was made (President) by Ruto's singular drive, turns around with a Judas' grin and bans Ruto from talking politics across and throughout the land at large!? That is asking for it! Uhuru and Raila Odinga are openly ganged up against Ruto; Ruto can't sit still and watch himself being skinned alive. He gotta fight back, he gotta run to the people, daily like mad to make his case. To mobilise a counter-attack. To engage sympathy to cut down the arrogant aristocrats with their entitlement to lordships! He gotta have a narrative to peddle door to door, or he is history!And he has no intentions of being a footnote that easy! It is that simple. The battlefield allows not for romantic nonsense. Power games, and raw greed, have killed the once identical twins like Uhuruto bromance. Only propaganda is left, most of it sh!tloads and having no bearing on reality anyway. And so there wa an amazing show 17-06-19 featuring the Mpigs OSCAR SUDI, DIDMUS BARAZA and Kimani Ngunjiri of Bahati, Nakuru. 5 March DIMUS BARAZA: If you, Ouru Kenyatta, agree with Raila Odinga the government is infested and inundated with corruption, then dissolve parliament and call new elections. You have been in power and responsible for that corruption. Otherwise shut up, finish your term and hand over to Ruto as agreed originally!I noticed Neither Waita Nzioka nor Kenza Dena have ever touched that grenade! No, no way! That tongue of Baraza: here he is telling Raila with a mock: why is this handshake not bringing back Miguna? 17-06-2019 17-june-2019. THE DAY AFTER And so The Handshakes hand has been forced, to tangatanga on their own behalf it is the tangatangaring' season, pick your team. The campaigns are on, and it will be bare knuckles! "NIÎ NDIRÎ KÎHÎ KÎA MÛNDŪ"! But he can't sack the corruption-compromised Rotich nor Cicily, can he!? silly bully! Picked on hapless Echesa!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 18, 2019 18:33:36 GMT 3
YES, RAIS IS RUNNING SCARED
Pressures continue to tell.
The toll they are taking on his weak constitution and feeble personality is all evident. The latest extravagance at hysterics was yesterday's show at the Akorino event. There, seized of fits as if the 'roho or spirit' of inland churches had entered him, His Excellency all but suffered a public emotional meltdown!
He spoke in tongues! very sharp tongues!
Now, for former president [b Mwai Kibaki,[/b] I know from insider sources he had choice ---and I mean obscene--- vocabulary in Gikuyu. This was a throw back to his cultural, countryside upbringing as a sometimes goatherd. I was impressed Don Emilio regularly denounced some bureaucrats for leaky 'cants' of red goats that didn't mate! Njugunah Ndung'u (CBK) was one of those pus-filled brains according to the Othayan! The professor didn't believe Kenya should look, let alone go East! (And yet looking East, Kibaki had recognised, would be the centrepiece of his economic policy of revival! Kibaki's insults had dangerous depths of meaning as you can see!)
Poor Ouru Kenyatta of course grew up in a golden cage, state house, wherefore his repertoire of Gikuyu insults are very restricted. (it is the customary boy and uncircumcised, kerher put-down. An anti-Luo sh!t, really!)
Well
It is no secret. Ouru Kenyatta is quarantined from Mount Kenya. Persona non grata. Should he venture there with his brother Raila, the duo will confront a fate far worse than women rep Sabina Chege in her native Murang'a. Memories are fresh from last weekend, when, having switched sides, she went on a handshake promo-tour. Howbeit Sabina Chege ran into a TANGATANGA AMBUSH.
It was a bull's eye shot.
Hot were the tears that fled her eyes, piteous was the sight as they rolled down her cheeks. Run-away balls, all offside. She was tormented with visions of her political career mutating into a corpse right before her very eyes. Prematurely.
Tangatanga learnt valuable lessons and will upgrade their defiance as they get thinner on the ground due to hardball tactics behind the scenes from the state.
But it will only take one lucky session of PUBLIIC and COLLECTIVE heckling in Mount Kenya, for the message to hit home. The message that Ouru is finished. That the Muthamaki has lost the love of the people, and with it, his --heavenly ha ha----mandate. Were Tangatanga to achieve that, quickly the political playing field would adjust to the obvious reality: politically the president is not a lame but a dead duck. But there is need for the death certificate of the duck to be signed, by a vet! William Ruto may shoot the duck dead, but he is not a vet.
And so the lame duck fighting against its death addressed the nation and his hommies, in his mothertongue, Gikuyu.
The Akorino notables looked a somewhat perplexed.
No need, this was a Mount Kenya affair. The battle for hearts and minds there, is at fever pitch. And some are loosing it.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 17, 2019 20:16:35 GMT 3
THE APPOINTMENT AHEAD
There's a peace found in death, saw it on many a dead man's face There is a horror too in death, saw that too on many a death mask I picture Onyango Oloo's face, as the irreversible kiss of death sealed his heart: Was it a peace found at last, or the horror of a death that should have been late?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 17, 2019 20:14:28 GMT 3
THE PRICE OF A PORT JOHN POMBE Magufuli CAN'T, WONT PAYBut Ouru, Ruto and Raila will force Kenya to pay! There are these situations when it is an event from further a_field, that shine even a better light on your local situation, thereby helping you to generate a deeper understand your own world. That is the President of Tanzania on the proposed port of Bagamoyo. Negotiations with the Chinese hit a deadlock. Rais Magufuli is explaining to a Tanzanian audience why: in short, 'MASHARTI MENGI YA AJABU, KICHAA TU NDIYE ANAWEZA KUYAKUBALI.' But that 'agreement ya Kichaa', was already signed by the ex-president, obviously a kichaa, Jakaya Kikwete. On his rise to office, Magufuli read the details of many of these 'investment agreements', saw in them a NANKING TEMPLATE, and sought to RE-NEGOTIATE them. ---'we have been played for too long!' he breezed! Then-President Jakaya Kikwete with China Merchants Group Vice President, Dr Hu Jianhua (left) and Oman executive president of State General Reserve Fund, Abdulsalam Murshidi, (right) at the laying of a foundation for the construction of the Bagamoyo port. PHOTO | FILE JOHN Pombe Magufuli is pretty open and straightforward about the DETAILS, the FINEPRINTS of the contracts: he lluminates all the bones o f contention. Which brings me to the REPUBLIC OF KENYA, and the presidency of Ouru and Ruto, supported by Raila. The TRINITY. I re-visit the Topic SGR, MOMBASA PORT, LAMU deep Port and the LAPPSET CORRIDOR manenos. And then to the spokespersons KENZA DENA and NZIOKA WAITA. THE KENYAN TRINITY PACT OF SECRECYIn Kenya, nobody need know the details .... the collaterals .... tabbed to the Big investment projects! Ouru Kenyatta himself, least of all, I doubt knows. William Ruto himself too, and Raila Odinga too. The details they may know is what they are paid to keep the deals secret from the people. Period. And there we have the BLUNT word from TZ: KICHAA! The VICHAA vya Kenya in their pact of secrecy. Kichaa is translated variously as madness, crazy, lunatic, unsound mind, or another Swahili explanation, 'kichwa mbichi', unripe mind. I think I can state without a doubt, the rulers of Kenya and the cartel which controls them, recognise if the details of their agreements with Chinese companies are made public, they will be proven to be VICHAA, in this case a clique of people so greedy they lost their minds. Calling a spade a spade, Pombe Magufuli style. NB: we all know William Ruto is an eloquent man, loves to make his points in public, and recently a doctoral from Chiromo. But this illustrious politician with his future still ahead, has avoided the Mombasa collateral issue with the zeal of a Mafioso subscribed to the code of OMERTA.Wah! Now we know, Dr. Ruto does not want to cut a public image of a KICHAA, effectively a kichaa of the sell-out kind, a quisling. Dr. John Pombe Magufuli spelled it so clearly, the horror must be covered with some humour. Africa, The continent of the crazy leaders! So, calling Spindoctor Nzioka Waita for a second take on Ouru's OMERTA! Or perhaps the colourful Kanze Dena would do better spinning? Here is a comment from a Kenyan on twitter
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 16, 2019 15:03:50 GMT 3
3b: )i( THE CONTAINER BUSINESS MESS
Before I continue with the marathon monologues which irk the likes of Einstein to death, I will register a little irritation.
For some reason I have always liked Sabina Chege, and Cecilia Mbarire. So I don't like people who make Sabina cry, more so outside the other joys one might provoke, if they know their way around G-spots. That is why at first I was very angry with a section of the people of Muranga when the news broke, but i have now regained my calm because .... of this moving correction ... of joy ... And this additional tear-jerker calmed me like the aftermath of a good orgasm That's my joy, Sabina. And with that, who am I now to badmouth Ouru, a man whose deeds can arouse such an intensity of emotions in my Sabina!?
But well, I am the jealous type. I would rather it were me sending Sabina to such torrents of joyous tears!
So lets ride.
Ouru has to move or be changed. The frog is on an instinctive run of survival.
Word was the blame of the dwindling fortunes of the Gikuyu business fraternity had come to be apportioned. Ouru Kenyatta was the party of guilt. We should say his policies in principle. A hitherto very powerful and influential segment of the Mount Kenya community were fingering him. At his rise, Murang'a and Kiambu cliques had stood to a man behind him, projecting him, THE MUTHAMAKI, as PRO BUSINESS, even better than the arrogant don and drunk from Othaya, yes, they sang he was the next best thing to the Gikuyu entrepreneurs of Nairobi, since Andrew Ngumba or Margaret Kenyatta I think.
This hommie euphoria soon turned to ire. The ire to material hurt, or distopia. This is the constituency forcing the likes of Moses Kuria to speak up, even rebel; it is the same forcing yet more MK Mpigs to throw their lots, to find their futures with the TANGATANGA crew. The once-thriving Gikuyu business community whose domination of the container industry is threatened by an array of Jubilee missteps, lays the blame square at Ouru's feet. Jubilee corruption and inefficiency is a business killer. The Muthamaki has left them to their lot, most importantly they can't compete the Chinese on neither IMPORT nor RETAIL, without a kind of state protectionism which is not forthcoming. On the contrary, the thoroughly corrupt and 50/50 cannibalistic bureaucracy seems to act in cahoots with the corner-cutting Chinese to wipe them out.
They are thus orphaned; they are at the mercy of the new invaders. And these ones can not be shaken down like the usual caste-consciousness-ridden Indians. These Chinese are frontier hunter-sharks who fear neither black puszy nor black c.ock. For them it is all in. These are a breed out to become the biggest tribe of Kenya, by a blood mix. They are here staking it all. That is why they are living in shacks with local women and digging gold in Macalder, Migori. Or sleeping rough and re-organising Gikomba.
The situation is, at its most dramatic, reminiscent of the arrival of the whiteman to declare the land of their ancestors, his highlands, and the ancestors, reduced to monkeys and wild game to be inmates of a reserve or colonial zoo. But the wages of quislinghood can never be underestimated in Kenya, there was a collaborator class of locals that did very well out of a facilitatory role to the settlers and their capital.
From that hurt emerged the Mau Mau.
CAPITAL CONSOLIDATING THE FOOD CHAIN
The Chinese are of course vertically integrating. A usual MONOPOLY practice for total market control. It is aggressive frontier capital, its tentacles probing every nook and hook to plant a new sucker on the host. In this food chain of container import for instance, there is no room for, TONGUE IN CHEEK, the Murang'a people who like to say they own Nairobi, let alone other MK fraternities of, tongue in cheek, legendary business acumen. From the source (Chinese factory) to transport (Chinese shipping company) to retail (Chinese warehouse and wholesalers), to Chinese street outlets (Gikomba vendors and hawkers), there is no room for Kenyans, not least, independents.
Ours is to buy. Ours is to consume. Not a labour reserve, but a consumer reserve.
And so we enter the paradox which produced the Keynesian project: if you have no income, which translates to zero purchasing power, how are you going to be a consumer in a household goods market? How will the demand curve rise? And the economy shoot up more?
First option is of course a credit binge. LOANS LOANS LOANS! to finance a consumer boom! (Check Rotich's latest budget against projected tax incomes! There remains a large deficit there to be plugged).
But meseems without a radical reform to restructure the economy to SUBSIDISE DEMAND and somehow inflate the consumption graph without the risk of a debt collapse, the masses of the land are designated to economic outlaws. ---Soon as creditors come for their pound of flesh. And them debt collectors sure must come, like the day of death.
It is a bomb we students of history only know too well how it has always been diffused in the past.
Continued.
Back to: WHAT OPTIOINS OURU KENYATTA THEN?
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 16, 2019 11:18:18 GMT 3
2. THE DREADED CHINESE SCOUTS AT GIKOMBA
Let us not beat about the bush. We are a kind of free-for-all market. In a total free market when you are the lesser in (terms of) Capital, you are the free meal. You will find the odds too much stacked against you, you wont compete, you will find the system rigged against you. You would be swimming with the sharks.
You will be forced into signing and obeying a series of unequal and humiliating treaties, to turn over your people to drug addiction for the profit of conquerors for instance. And debt ---as in loans guaranteed to be stupidly spent--- is today in Africa, a continued instrument of financial colonialism. -------------
next: 2: WHY OURU HAD TO MOVE OUT AND GO AROUND AND ABOUT THE CONTAINER DEPOT. Einstein, WHAT IS SCARING THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THE FROG, THAT IT CROAK THUS IN THE OPEN? The answer is as old as the trade in human meat called prostitution: bills to pay. Debts that can't be paid on schedule. The children crying in hunger but the father is lost, lost to drink or other passions of irresponsibility. Creditors snarling and sharpening knives. Pounds of flesh demanded. Defaults that threaten, and mandates which, in their wake, threaten to be lost along with legacy. A SUMMATION OF THE POLITICAL DEBTS CRISIS1. There is the HANDSHAKE PORTFOLIO and the dues owed Agwambo. Agwambo stabilised the economic climate and political status quo. He has loaned Ouru his legitimacy. He did this by a concession to betray the peoples' oath he had taken. This is a debt the size of the current peaceful mandate which, arguably, has saved the unitary state, so far. 2. There is the Uhuru Kumi, Ruto Kumi mantra of Jubilee's launch. This is no folklore but a statement of fact and pact. It is a historic debt incurred by the MOU which was not only the foundational stone of Jubilee, but also the binding matter of the Uhuruto ticket. The consequences of blowing this MOU up are potentially more dire than those of Kibaki's with Raila. Kibaki reneged, narrowing his social base and forcing his handlers into rigging the next election. Kenya reaped the bloody harvest of the seeds of betrayal at the top. There had to be a GCG (Grand Corruption Government) as a stop-gap measure. 2b: If both Tinga and the Singh want endorsement of their succession ambitions in return, that is a hell of a dilema splitting Ouru's head. Choosing who to betray, and why. 3. And this I think is the worst. A host of Mount Kenya children, and they are notables, are wailing inconsolable in hunger, but The Father is lost, to drink or other passions of irresponsibility as the case may be. Uhuru Kenyatta's detractors from his backyard, Mount Kenya business so-said, are pointing out: LOOK! The Muthamaki has abandoned his people! --BASTA! Perhaps we should have listened to those like David Ndii who said voting-in the son of a famous land-thief is to ask for more misery! We need reform! a. ----His Handshake is leaving to their lot the Gikuyu diaspora in the Rift Valley. b. ----His economic trajectory is wiping out the once thriving, once-ubiquitous Gikuyu Small-to-Medium businesses in Nairobi and its environs. (The Dragon is breathing fire and burning all before it, loaded with aggressive capital and guts. The jubilee policies are starving the SMEs of cash, and if the cash is available, his banks are charging loan-shark rates! In addition the taxes due to both local and national levels are experienced to be at expropriationary levels. c. ----And then the terrible biteback of corruption everywhere. THE KRA Here the mess at the KRA needs a special attention, that is a political economy of how a rotten tax house demoralises genuine entrepreneurship, anywhere. Outgoing KRA Commissioner General John Njiraini. NB: There are various layers of bureaucratic extortion which, public secret, was the specialisation of the Njiraini-ran KRA, The Revenue authority. There is today a new man at the helm of KRA, Mr. James Githii Mburu I think, but he is an insider heavily tainted with the past rot. His rise is therefore more of a palace coup marketed as a clean-up operation, having deserted the sinking ship, Njiraini, just in time. A hint worth repeating, because the Revenue Authority, The TAXMAN, is at the heart government finances, Business environment and general entrepreneurial issues. leakages! like the Kenya Pipeline ones which stretched to ksh.23 billion in ... was it two years under a man named Ngumi!? How did the John Njiraini rise to be the King of Rot in such a sensitive institute? Not by chance. There is documentation in the public domain. Some saw it coming. Here is a detail with a sting in the tale: NJIRAINI WAS HANDPICKED in 2012 BY THE THEN FINANCE MINISTER OURU KENYATTA! Call it a linkage. This Ouru Kenyatta's capo boy, immediately went rogue. He took to abuse and misuse his position to wreak havoc amongst a host of very successful Gikuyu business bigwigs in Nairobi and beyond. This is why I was fain to highlight the illustrative grief of this man, NJAMA WAMBUGUNjama Wambugu is just one brave man who couldn't take it no more and dared stand up against 'disinheritance from his empire by state Mafioso aligned to Uhuru Kenyatta'. People like the Mpig of Kiambu, Moses Kuria, if they bothered to go on record, will tell of countless petitions from MK businessmen and women who petitioned and lobbied Gikuyu Mpigs to have Ouru's golden boy sacked long ago. WHY? In Luo we say PAKA KOLOKORE RADO GUENDGI. The cat that went rogue and started feasting on chickens from own homestead. -----Forced take over's, forced mergers, forced transfers of shares, all the muck and rack of parasites running a gangster state. What Mungiki used to do on the ground, Njiraini and his gang were doing at the top. And a wide sector of the victimised Gikuyu business fraternity wailed: WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME, O MY MUTHAKI!? Raila Odinga could not be blamed for that wail! And if you are a leader and you run out of scapegoats, you are going to be changing gears, or you yourself will be changed. Last but not least, there are the usual criminal gangs in the city running a blackmail and protection racket, preying on already diminished profits. And these are of course different from the regular Police Units who, also, run parallel protection rackets. For instance, you don't run a Mpesa shop in Nairobi without a 'ritual' chat with an emissary from the 'merry-go-round' force. Just as once upon a time you din't run a matatu in Nairobi without paying dues to the Mungiki franchise. Nor, Kenya wide today, do you run a transport business without a bundle of cash to pay toll at every police roadblock, and sending 'ritual --HANDSHAKE-- greetings' to Mkubwa. Sema tu sadaka, vile Ruto piea hutoa kwa kanisa! NB: I must say in my sociological forays into the political economy of petty businesses in the city, I found out small scale traders and petty retailers prefer police extortion to Mungiki-like gangs. (John Micchuki, this sector burns candlesticks for you, to rest in peace in heaven, Amen!) Because with police extortionists, one can argue, negotiate discounts when business is bad, and even pay later, because the customer base, poor too, are not paying cash but taking stock on credit. 'Afwande, pesa imepotea Kenya hii. Ruto napeleka yote kulipa mungu hongo kwa kanisa; nae Ouru na Raila China. Sasa hakuna kitu leo, utarudi siku ingine, unless utachukuwa fegi ama sukari ile ya sumu!' I was idling time with my MK sister in law who runs a kiosk in Nairobi's Githurai and these were the dialogues I was attending. And the coppers just took what was on offer. Better times will come, hopefully, and the Lord provide more! They are watu wa mtaa, you know, they know there is no money down here in Kenya today. They know one can't press blood out of a stone, however hard they push. And anyway, even back in KavirondoLand, as a transport road warrior, I only stop for the socials when business is bad. 'Afwande, wewe ndio leo utanipigia fuel! Rotich naiba yote hakuna peza iningia county!'This kind of thing ceased long ago to be a national scandal. The reform process died, and along with it, attempts at a new code of small scale business operations, sans extortion. Anyway, mostly the police get along fine with petty traders. It is a live and let live. --It is amazing to hear police officers apologise for the state violence their colleagues meted on the public during the election manenos. (Then we discuss why interior cab-sec Matiang'i wont apologise and we laugh some more with folklorish wit! It takes a true Christian soul to do a mea culpa, Matiang'i is a devil worshipper! Into blood sacrifices!)And then 3B: THE CONTAINER BUSINESS MESS This is truly important, because it has been the last straw which broke the camel's back so to speak. A thriving sector staring doom in the face. Next.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2019 20:34:03 GMT 3
THE PRESIDENT SHOWS SIGNS OF LIFE, BUT WHY NOW?
We should start with the old adage told by the African peoples to explain a certain unusual behaviour observed in frogs. It has got something to do with when such break cover.
Storms!? sensational! Nevertheless, fact is that is a very huge frog leaping about if you ask me.
I will therefore beg to think big about it.
After a period of hibernation, no doubt contemplating resignation, Uhuru Kenyatta re-appeared in public. He also, howbeit, appeared re-energised, his new-found bravado no doubt running on palatable inducements. These inducements are, no doubt again, within the working guesses of Kenyans at large, and the chattering classes in particular. Some palatables are of a viscosity easily transmutable to gas, laughing gas.
No doubts.
Uhuru Kenyatta cracks under pressure. The story is told when, to the horror of of his running mate, William Ruto, an infirm Muigai was bent by the pressure from Kibaki handlers. These implored him ---purely on national interest of course-- to surrender the ticket to Musalia Mudavadi, with Kalonzo as his secondant. Why they wanted Musalia was less to do with the ICC cases against the duo than the unease over William Ruto. Those fears have now re-emerged in public nakedness. These take the shape of the plot to stop Ruto ascending to the presidency. The fear is so deep the aristocrats would rather Raila than Ruto! pure national interest of course! Imagine! 2013 stop Ruto, 2022 stop Ruto!
Madhaf*kaz are scared sh!tless. Another big frog parallel if you ask me, up and down in the sun! It must be the trauma of the Arap Moi revenge. That KANU professor of politics taught many lessons. The passing cloud which stayed, reigned in and rained on the strong for a quarter century.
Damn!
Anyway, back in those days in the run to 2013, William The Hustler managed to slap the boy-king back to his senses. That was when Ouru woke up to shout SHETANI ASHINDWE! And Mudavadi stayed the joke he always was and continues to be. (The way he abandoned Raila in the run to 2013, and the way, 2018 January 30th he abstained from the peoples oath at Uhuru Park! very dubious!)
AFTER FLOPPED TRIP TO CHINA
After the recent flop of the China trip, the president went incognito. In deed His Excellency and his brother, the once prodigal and peoples' Raila Odinga, failed to secure more funds to be looted on extending the SGR to Kisumu, but the disastrous trip was overshadowed by the revelation of an active ring of smugglers running Congolese gold through Kenya. Quoting the former senate minority leader, the non-issue involved the very top of the land in collusion. And in deed to date, why the GSU was deployed in full to guard the house of sin in Kileleshwa has not been satisfactorily explained.
A non-issue no doubt.
Well, the seemingly revitalised Kenyatta went to the inland container depot and issued decrees. A few days later he was in Narok on Madaraka day 2019; again more directives escaped his lips faster than bullets off the barrel of an automated AK47.
Decrees! Directives! From the man who on the most important issue facing the land, corruption, had famously cried his impotence in public, thus: MNATAKA NIFANYE NINI? HAMJUI MIKONO ZANGU ZIMEPIGWA PINGO NYUMA!?
Waah! Behold, wasn't this a resurrection! (or merely the farce of a recidivisms to the days of what Omwenga christened roadside broadsides by DT Arap Moi, always in time for the SAA SABA news broadcast.)
Waah!
May be the head of state had taken time off the limelight to do some thinking in private, re-strategising and not indulging drink as the twitterati of Kenya will have it. May be the beauty queen of a spindoctor, Kenza Dena, was right for a change. The president had been away working, leafing through the Book of Populism. (Let me quote a Nigerian poet on this: working, like thinking, is not an activity one would associate with any Nigerian president one might care to mention, save two. I am not too sure that situation does not hold for Kenya. But you catch the wink!).
His Excellency also ordered payment procedures speeded up and cleared vouchers honoured immediately, so that those doing business with government ---like suppliers, can in turn honour their obligations.
Then would the stalled cash-merry-go-round re-ignite. ---Out there throughout the struggling land, there is a cash shortage. That is why SAFARICOM is doing hot-cakes business giving SURVIVAL E-loans to Mpesa subscribers, even for a day as low as to buy minimum shopping for the family for the supper.
And other sharks are moving into the market of ksh.100 loans on a day. One should know at the micro level, there are SOLAR LIGHTS paid per day, and sometimes the going rate of ksh.20 is defaulted. Those are the statistics some of us ponder and suffer no awe at Patrick Njoroge's Central Bank brilliance. (Dr. Patrick and team recently sold a new wave of Eurobonds quicker than hot cakes. The buyers know something we don't, unless we carefully study Greece. Her bonds were hot even as she hurtled straight toward insolvency! German and global finance capital was buying up Greece's debt because they knew soon, she would default and would be compelled to sell her best valuables for a song! It is called a FIRESALE. There was a killing waiting to be made after they hype of sustainable Greek debt!
I don't put it past Patrick Njoroge to be in mission, preparing the ground for a privatisation Tsunami of Kenya's resources when we finally run aground. Even Tsavo national park would be sold for a song to creditors, to make huge profit of. Same as JKIA, MOMBASA PORT, the KPC storages and pipelines, jetty's and oil refineries. You know there is no such thing as a free meal in this world. But the way we have squandered loans would seem to indicate we think we are an exception. Kenyan exceptionalism we will christen it.)
But that is a story for another chapter.
Madaraka came then, and there was the president catching on, perhaps instinctively, and giving directions to start up the cash trickles to the small man.
Now, that, such powerful decrees stated in authoritative vocals, amongst other vigorous make-believes, is for sooth a parallel to a frog jumping about in broad daylight. I propose we oughtta listen to a great African proverb and hear this: what is scaring the living daylights out of such a frog to make it croak thus in the open, even if it is so big, we call it Its Excellency?
I am game, NEXT:
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 15, 2019 16:00:55 GMT 3
2. THE DREADED CHINESE SCOUTS AT GIKOMBA Let us not beat about the bush. We are a kind of free-for-all market. In a total free market when you are the lesser in (terms of) Capital, you are the free meal. You will find the odds too much stacked against you, you wont compete, you will find the system rigged against you. You would be swimming with the sharks. You will be forced into signing and obeying a series of unequal and humiliating treaties, to turn over your people to drug addiction for the profit of conquerors for instance. And debt --- as in loans guaranteed to be stupidly spent--- is today in Africa, a continued instrument of financial colonialism. Yet debt, or credit to put it financially, is always necessary to finance economic progress, by financing the necessary investments. Starved of credit, an economy is stunted and ruined. This fact is the key to the declaration of sanctions which the USA always indulges to bring her opponents to heel. Revolutionary Cuba was slapped with a total embargo; Chaves' and Maduro's Bolivian Venezuela and North Korea have tasted the same wrath. The Islamic republic of Iran, a 'revanchist' Russia and rising China too, are now in the eye of the storm. These are countries whose leaders and models stand in the way of American supremacy. They challenge the concept of full-spectrum dominance. In other words, they refuse to succumb to American hegemony. For a smaller country like Libya, the leader would just be skewered, so Gaddafi went like Patrice Lumumba, and quite a host of unsung others: murder. We need must establish correctly, the position of Kenya in this hard and raw, cold and ruthless world. We must face the facts of our life, and existence in the world of the modern Capital market. Most importantly, we must explain why WE STRUCTURALLY WASTE CAPITAL, why we uselessly dissipate LOANS, all of which then means the people are structurally saddled with loans which didn't perform, DEBTS WHICH DIDN't FINANCE ADVANCEMENT. This means then, the people are institutionally too, saddled with a leadership whose historical role is TO SQUANDER CREDIT, defeat the national purpose and yoke tighter, the state into debt servitude. Where the German post-war leadership used the Marshal Plan loans to fire an economic miracle, the post-independence regimes of Africa (and Kenya specifically) did the opposite. And today, continuing this template of economic sins, we see the Jubilee regime in a spree of infrastructure loans like the famed eurobonds, only to finance a spree of pillage, waste and plunder by corruption. Today Henry Rotich, a man who only a few weeks ago was grilled days on end on masterminding if not colluding with the perpetrators of massive scandal of the phantom Dams, is the same who read the national budget 2019/2020. One must coldly import the chilling implications of such acts of irrationality. Here is another example of an irrational act whose explanation is simple: SGR The flag post infrastructural project was hijacked and turned into a looting machine. And Professor Mohammed Swazuri of the selfsame NLC, a scumbag like Henry Rotich of the treasury, held office until his tenure ended officially! One must import clearly the implications of such impunity. Repeated over and over, at every level of responsibility. And, I insist, one must dare think, of real solutions to such real problems. How such scumbags must come to their ends. (NB: I don't have to think 30 seconds on that myself. Coz I seen a man like Paul Kagame make short work of scumbags in less than two months. So never ask me what I think. I already know what is to be done, to make the top level of Kenya's mandarinate scumbag free.) Many Kenyans and even fellow Luos, have not bothered to take note on the jokes from other African countries, on the fact that the African Union settled on a Kenyan, Raila Odinga, to spearhead Africa's investment on Infrastructure. Personally I caught Paul Kagame's twitch on nose in Kinyarwanda. A Kenyan politician advising you on infrastructure? Remember what Old Robert (Mugabe said): these (Kenyans) people have universities which award degrees in theft and fraud. A lot of partners became worried, as in And therefore after more studies DESIGNED OUTCOMES The PURPOSE of these elaborate documentations is to make clear, that there are no secrets as to why OUR MOTHERLANDS STRUCTURALLY UNDERPERFORM. There is a local elite of administrators deliberately overseeing the designed outcome of FAILURE. The historical mission of TECHNOCRATS like Engineer Michael Kamau, Henry Rotich, Atanas Maina -----and now do all the scandals in the public domain, is to defeat Africa's wirtschaftswunder. For a very heavy set of thirty pieces of silver. Once we import that fact, of public debt deliberately designed to derail a nation's future, the chilling implications are clear. That the land breathe and flower, the sh!t will have to be cleaned out. And dumped down pit latrines, like Leon Trotsky did with the once godlike Romanovs. I said, let us not beat about the bush. TO MAGA, Make America Great Again, the POTUS Donald Trump has decided free trade is a dead-end for the USA, but a giant leap ahead for China. I other words, the Trump administration is running scared, and American conservative and imperial-minded think-tanks are shitting in their knickers at the advance of the dragon. In deed, it is a fact the dragon is the coming man, and with Trump having intensified the economic war on Russia too, the so-called Eurasian pact with China and Russia as the motors, spells doom to the tyranny of the dollar. That is Patrick Njoroge's reserve currency. The question then is: how do we, Kenya, race ahead with The Dragon? Can we race ahead with the dreaded monster, hanging on its coattails, and not as DIGESTIBLES in its belly, slowly being reduced to sh!t!? This is the fundamental question of our future. Sadly I propose to work on the premise it is a problematic beyond our current deities or Shaman's, The Trinity of Ouru, Raila and Ruto. WHAT DOES THE FEAR OF THE CHINESE IN GIKOMBA MEAN? It means a gut reaction. The tentacles of Chinese Capital are penetrating deep, percolating to the sub micro-level, ready to take on and take over even the subsistence, hand-to-mouth commercial activities like street level maize-roasting. That means they have as good as saturated other economic recesses of meaningful profit. But the expansion must continue. I remember once reading an article in one of the financial dailies. It went something like how the Chinese outgunned the Indians off Biashara Street. LUNATIC EXPRESS RAILWAY PARALLEL IN MASS IMMIGRATION FROM ASIA The Indians went under not just on account of aggressive Chinese conniving with a corrupt political class to marginalise them. No, the Indians went under because they never committed to Africa. They remained a caste, closed in an apartheid cocoon. Largely insecure and fearful of real or imagined black seethe, they EXPORTED their surplus capital elsewhere, to assumed safer havens, outside the reach of the greedy fingers of the KANU state thieves under Kenyatta and later Arap Moi. This heavy disinvestment is clearly visible in Indian dukawalla's remaining the kiosks they were at the launch of the modern city. Upgrade has been minimal inspite of roaring business through the decades. Profits were exported, not locally invested. It turned the so-called Indian domination of the Kenyan economy into a dangerous parasitology. And the cardinal evolutionary sin of complacency. When Kibaki looked further East, beyond the land of the Maharaja's, Shah's and Patel's, the lock was fierce, and the consequences a budding Tsunami. It washed the Indians off Biashara street and now reaches Gikomba Market. And with Jubilee a credit junkie and state officials promoted on their corruptibility, Kenyan small scale capital has been herded into the jaws of the dragon. There are hardly any joint ventures. It would have been great to have Kenyan construction companies in joint-ventures with the myriad Chinese construction companies doing stuff around, learning from them going bigger. As it is, even SGR toilet cleaners and ticket-stampers are imported from China. ----Why then make a big fuss of deporting six Chinese hawkers from Gikomba? Oh Matiang'i. Wheelbarrow pushers are imported en masse from China. No? Lorry drivers too, No? SGR Ticket-sellers too, NO!? And then somebody thinks it is a big deal if, at Ruto's next maindi-choma stopover, below the superman hood will be a Chinagal selling him the well-done cobs!? I am sorry folks, in this free market, Kenyan fish mongers, maize roasters, bodabodas, taxi men and prostitutes, must just compete like wheelbarrow pushers, construction kayamkonos, and lorry drivers are already doing. These others do not enjoy Matiang'i's zealost protectionism! (much as he fuzzed about illegal chinese hawkers at roast maize at Gikomba. Is it not so, that the SGR RAILAWAY STATIONS were all designed by Chinese? Does Matiang'i think then, when he pretends astonishment at somebody coming for China to roast maize as if Kenyans can't, that Kenya imports railway station designers from China, road survey designers from China, roundabout bridge and motorway fly-over designers from China, because NO KENYAN CAN BE FOUND TO DO THEM?Does the man seriously think JKUAT and Nairobi University departments of architecture and mechanical engineering don't produce the skills to accomplish such rudimentary and lowly chores like design Nairobi Rail terminal!? That is what I mean with I laugh! Think about it! I mean I didn't faile to notice that when the Chinese were doing the NYAMASARIA KONDELE AIRPORT FLYOVER, not a single student from the area polytechnic, nor Riat, could find an INTERNSHIP! All the internship positions were filled with imports from China! So what the fak are folks yapping about, maize vendors! Come, China man, do my cob of maize And let your sister do my co.ck nicely too Deep and slow like the dragon devours Kenya 2: WHY OURU HAD TO MOVE OUT AND GO AROUND AND ABOUT THE CONTAINER DEPOT.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 13, 2019 20:49:52 GMT 3
The TIMES ARE SAD IN DEED
CONTAINED FUTURES
We are a designated market, a disposal area. A consumer nation, our apportioned role is to consume products from afar. There is no need to develop a manufacturing capacity, unless it is (1) a sector of so marginal profit the big guns are not interested, and (2) it is in a supportive role, calculated to further maximize the profit rate of the parent company in her original motherland. But increasingly these days of flush capital, global corporations pay tax nowhere. And nations compete to create an investment climate which means a race to the bottom of zero taxation. Otherwise, the most lucrative profession is that of consultant in tax avoidance, which in effect is smuggling money and clearing capital.
It is highly lucrative, because it is not punished. It is a white collar crime in the service of the greedy and mighty who, should we say, currently rule and define the world order to their pockets full.
But, minding our centre to periphery model, the ----political economic---- elite locally running the Kenyan show is uncannily a carbon copy, or a clone, of the classical typology of the auxiliary comprador.
This makes today's Kenya not much of a variation of the classical colonial model. It is a perfect match. The inability of a truly national bourgeoisie to rise is noteworthy. The primary role of the state to thwart that eventuality is also noteworthy. The attempt by William Ruto's team (TANGATANGA think tank) to characterise the Ruto vs The Handshake spat as a conflict between The Hustler Nation and Establishment Aristocrats, is a perverted play on the selfsame theme. Old Parasites must go to make room for the new lot. The control of the state is the best way to accumulate, as is recognised by the fact of the fabulous riches of all the past three presidents, Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki. All career politicians, not entrepreneurs. But while the cream of the political lineage has grown and died fabulously rich, the citizens, subjects actually, have continued to indulge a life in squalor.
That crisis continues.
When nations advance, folks develop airs; locals become too proud to attend some menial chores in their lands of birth unless the pay is a dentist's. These abandoned chores would be like cleaning toilets at bus parks and airports, roasting maize on side walks, selling cut drugs on street corners, peddling unwashed arse in dingy joints near dark unsafe streets, buying and selling children for prostitution, and such like lowly strands of labour. When nations rise, foreigners and other desperados are usually then imported to be exploited, and ritually humiliated, in the lowly but absolutely necesssary labour fronts. (One who wishes to catch in, can read the UN reports of the abuses of the menial Asians working in the oil-rich middle east).
NB: A long time ago, the Luos had some peculiar cleansing rituals surrounding death. Only strangers of undefined backgrounds, deemed inferior, were employed to do the dark deeds. Some of these activities involved spending quality time with a corpse, well, not exactly cocophilia, but that was only because few men dare rise to the occasion under those chilling circumstances. But what has to be done has to be done, or at least appearances kept. So a caste of outcasts widely refered to as Jokowiny were headhunted to do the necessary.
I thought of this yesterday.
I thought of this yesterday when I heard Fred Matiang'i had been stung to action by the plight of indigenous Gikombarians. He immediately issued deportation orders to the Chinese men thriving around Gikomba market. It struck me as parallel to a situation in which the Luos are so desperate for the meagre earnings of Jokowiny, that they chase them away to reserve for themselves the dreary task of fukking their corpses as a last rite!
Desperate times!
It is therefore a mark of the horrific failure and stunted development of Kenya, that stuff like hawking mitumba and roadside maize-roasting are specialisations and professions which must be protected! Lest hordes of Kenyans go days without a meal.
You know when Malaysia was rising, they imported Bangladeshis' in their millions (as their Jokowiny) to do such menial chores. And when South Korea was rising, they imported Philipinos (as their Jokowiny) to clean up their sh!t. And when Japan was rising, they imported Koreans and Manchurians to clean their sh!t literally. (it is called a rim job if you really want the technical details. But alternative Japanese narratives as to the origin of 'bukkake' may also be an eye-opener to some. But this is a sociological paper off Jukwaa I think. In the beginning only lesser beings, read non japanese, were 'bukkaked.').
Matiang'i's heroics today therefore, for sooth, proved to us beyond reasonable doubt how low we have sunk! ---There is no depravity we wouldn't perpetrate upon ourselves! With no dignity, we are totally freed of a moral compass! Nothing is too low for us, we are prideless, nothing is too bestial!
HERE THE MINISTER SPEAKS
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 12, 2019 20:08:13 GMT 3
GIKOMBA MARKET GOES CHINESE, IS THE ECONOMIC TAKE OVER COMPLETE?Chinaman roasting maize in a nairobi street.At the next point of illustration as far as other aspects of the conquest goes, we will appropriately re-visit the case of Mombasa port. This, if you remember, is the sag of secret clauses, in which President Ouru Kenyatta was duped into signing the port away, like the Sri-Lankans who were guaranteed to default on their financial obligations to Chinese banks. One must be quick to notice the parallel expressed thus: just like the peripheries of the Eurozone respective Frankfurt, were guaranteed to default on their debts to the ECB and other big Neurozone banks. And of course, like in Greece, followed a FIRESALE of national treasures. It is important to understand this political economy of centre and periphery. And then the events in Kenya, Mombasa or Gikomba will fall into place. Then apart from the aforementioned gullibility of Uhuru Kenyatta, acted or not, willing pawn or not, He, as an Excellency oathed (and sworn) to take care of the national interest, allowed himself to be further duped into proclaiming the sinful and treacherous agreement, a state secret. This even as his instincts protested. If you remember his jovial promise to the journalist Masai. Caught pants down, since all such ---to borrow from Chinese nationalists on the occasion of the Nanking humiliations------ unequal agreements have the habit of bursting surface like boils from an incendiary syphilis infection, a spindoctor called Waita Nzioka pathetically concocted some chants to ward off the evil spirits. The Erinyes were howling for redress on the abomination executed by the President and his crazy handlers. But Lo, in a scene reminiscent of the drama involving Agwoturumbe, Ekuweme, The Sea-King and the coveted Ihouma, the Shaman's charms only opened further, the box of Pandora. Minutes before President Kenyatta flagged off the first SGR run, the puppet masters met at a Mombasa hotel a few Kilometres away, to click glasses to a looting scheme well on track. Here is how the DN reports it. Fascinating. It is this group Nzioka Waita was protecting when he told the nation live on TV, there is no way Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was going to disclose the secrets of this deal. And just to underscore this point, remember in their reveal-all cat-fights or domestic squabbles, the TANGATANGA b!tches and the KIELEWEKE tarts have not touched the issue of the mysterious shareholders of the hushhush local company paid billions to bankrupt the country through this modern-day lunatic express. I can think of several reasons why this is a NO-GO for both Kieleweke and Tangatanga. The tragedy is right before our eyes. There is a body lying in state. There is a body of lies running though the state. The few truth-stops in between are but the contours of a coffin. But Kenya is not dead yet. She is alive and kicking, feeling the pain, looking for a foothold to fight back. We are easily setting the stage for a xenophobic backlash. When the economic collapse comes, there will be a racial venting, which will easily morph into cleansing. Can I supply data to buttress than prediction? Absolutely not. I don't have to be a meteorologist to predict rain. It will just rain, as a natural phenomenon. It is to predict exactly when it will rain that one needs be a meteorologist. I remember 2007 new years eve, after Mwa Kibaki's famous rigging and due swearing in: things became amok and hordes of ordinary Gikuyu folk domiciled in vast expanse of the Rift, were 'sent packing' in a process known as ethnic cleansing. There was some pent up rage to be vented I suppose. And, I heard tell tales, that on the fateful first of August 1982 during the hours of lawlessness, a lot of ordinary young males in Nairobi moved into homes of Indian occupants but not to loot. No, they had sexual accounts to settle on hitherto forbidden fruit. It is not a much publicised story in Kenya, but it is out there on the streets of Nairobi, for those who bother to listen to their country. Ever since I read Okot P'Bitek's admonition --- Go, listen young man Let your country tell you her secrets, and forbidden tales Pleas ay attention; and stop playing deaf!...................................... Ever since that Okotian nudge have I taken need to occasionally pay very close attention, too, to the skeletons in the notational cupboard. --Ans O the tales the clanging bones tell! In the recent Uighur rebellion in which Han Chinese found out not everybody is charmed by Chairman Xi's great thrust forward, one can also speak of a venting of pent up frustrations. At the street level in Urumqi or Lhasa in Tibet, both autonomous regions in name, what the natives experience of Xi's drive, is a cover for a new Han Tsunami. here is the worst-case scenario from a Western sourceDon't think it, that paranoid link in your head to HODUMA NUMBER manenos'! Personally I happy on one account. This is reality. The vigorous charge, or surge forwards of the PRC, is an event which leaves no room for ostrich politics. Tibetans, Uighurs, South China Sea neighbours, Kenyans and even Usians, must come up with an adequate response or be forced into compliance. The USA, still a super power by all measures, as represented by Trump in his hysterics Make America Great Again, is nearly freaking out at Beijin's approach, so I hold it not unique that a section of the cornered street hustlers, hawkers, maindi roasters, mkokoteni pushers, cobblers are so nervous they have raised a national hullabaloo at the new arrivals. We all know, the real fear is not that sidewalk maize-roasting is such a great career it needs to be protected as a national heritage, neither is mutumba-selling and counterfeit smartphone vendors, nay, the truth is simple. Men who have come from a continent so far away as to be another planet, to come compete in the dirtiest, lowest markets of Africa, hide within themselves a ruthless determination which shrinks the balls of Kenyans. There is something called guts in life. Combined with the desperateness of nothing to loose, one faces man at his deadliest as a foe. But with an emerging superpower behind him, it is easily as the tough frontier men who, in the USA at least, spearheaded the wiping out of the then red Indians. It is our instincts of survival activated which is making our balls crawl at the sight of Chinaman in Gikomba. Central Bank and the treasury, they already have in their pocket. Secret deals you have no right to know about, according to the Kenyans who signed them on your behalf, like President Kenyatta. NEXT: A POLITICAL ECONOMIC LOOK A vertical integration
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 11, 2019 20:29:21 GMT 3
I guess that is why some have just given up on Miguna Miguna and say, on Jukwaa, TO HELL WITH HIM!
wELL, here in Kavirondo we don't scare that easy!
I am watching out for disputation on Miguna's assertion, Kenya constitution reading.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 11, 2019 20:22:15 GMT 3
I HAVE A LAUGH, ON SWITCHE LR. NUMBERS!But first, another laugh! the kind of ---tabloid--- things besieging the DPP ('s office) at this important hour in which Noordin Haji should be burning the late-night oil! woi woi! the hero in waiting should be sharpening legal daggers to rip open the guts of the big beasts of corruption, and collect their skulls as trophies! but look, there is Pessaris and Sonko in bed! --who dunnit!? Uhuru Kenyatta has declared a war on corruption, so we stick with the imagery of war. Haji hasn't ripped a gut yet, hasn't collected a single skull yet, hasn't roared in a dread charge like a Braveheart clinching the vantage hill; nay, if Haji shows any sign of life, it could just as well be his rigor mortis. Nairobi women's rep, Ester Pessaris, is demanding her good repute be restored at the expense of her governor, Mike Sonko ----the insolent drug peddlar! how dare he!? It is so hilarious a joker has photoshopped the couple in what used to be called a compromising situation. That is the hurt, the hurt Pessaris wants Haji to look into. ( not that incident at Kiambu police station where the Msando killer cop eyeballed her with the snarl of death!)A HERO RISES IN NANDI!But the funniest bit is the arrest of Nandi governor Stephen Sang. And, Eldoret court order ignored like those ones which favoured Miguna Miguna, Sang's transfer all the way to Kisumu (where Malala of Kakamega nearly died the other week), to face justice, first at the hand of his friend, soon to recuse himself! The Lord works in strange ways I tell you! Now, sometimes a peoples history reveals itself in pure comedy. THE ACCIDENTAL HEROSang of Nandi is of course a hero. His act of vandalism is exactly what the situation required to reveal LR NUMBERS! Outside Sonko of Nairobi, he is the only governor who has led his people to RECLAIM THEIR STOLEN LAND! Come baby come! THE land was stolen by Henry Kosgey, one of Arap Moi's henchmen. Sang is videod using a chainsaw to mow down a section of the malafide plantation, where tea plants are in illegal occupation. ---Kibwani Tea Estate. Abuse of office; and the damage is malicious, perpetrated upon tea bushes on A PRIVATE FARM! Where do these people live, who prefer these charges, like the one which read 'formenting revolution' which was visited upon the person of Boniface Mwangi!? Did they see the way the green monster, SANY, was ripping through MULTI BILLION PRIVATE properties perched on RIPARIAN LANDS in Nairobi!? Private Property my foot! ---Who does not know about the TAJ MAL, later Air gate mall in Nairobi!? Not to speak of the WESTON HOTEL? And then But an interesting detail to the comedy But what about those documents, like the ones specifying the plot number, history AND OWNERSHIP of the land thereof, whereupon the unfortunate tea-bushes found themselves? WHICH LR. NR IS WHICH!? The prosecution in Kisumu confabulated, leaving Sang to say they are accusing me of tresspassing on a plot I didn't! Which means 'kule tulifanya kazi, tutaendelea na dip itajengwa!'. And here is the incitement charge Of course, we all know the war on corruption is KALONGOLONGO, that is why Haji has collected no scalps. We also know the judiciary is as corrupt as a KANU regime attorney general. But the nation is impatient for action. Governor Sang is an accidental hero, and one option is for the people to arm themselves to defend their governor who is RECLAIMING the peoples stolen property, while the law of the land wants to insist THE THIEF IS A RIGHTFUL OWNER! (remember the colonial whiteman used to own the whole of Kenya by law! The land of our ancestors was, in one stroke of the pen, the whiteman's islands. ----The private property of kina Lord Delamere. Did I say reports from Kapsabet are Sang is in a political feud with the Kosgeys''!? That is a nice detail. Like, did you know President Ouru is in a political feud with DP Ruto!? LAND issues IN KENYA! A sure teller of the tale of our land! And it still raises our temperatures. Watch it please. NB: Miguna was on it
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 10, 2019 10:03:31 GMT 3
TALES OF ROT FROM THE KENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY In other words, there has been something rotten, and rotting at the heart of Kenya's premier body, oversighting TAX INNINGS. With that kind of pathology at a nation's core, a people never take off. But first, a teacher's intro. They are buried somewhere in my archives. I will dredge, fish them out and make them palatable for a Jukwaa series. These are studies on some of the institutions forged into place by Germany, The Federal republic of, to enforce a thrifty regime managing the famous loan from the USA. The Marshall. Not interested in discovering the wheel twice, I had linked up with a certain Dr. Kotieno, an econometrist, to remodel the concept of THE HOUSE OF ACCOUNTING MATHEMATICS ( OD KWAND PESA) and make it applicable to the peoples republic but, first, The Union of the Kavirondo principalities. Those were the days we not taking any chances. There was talk of divorce in the air -See David Ndii's thesis; NASA had boycotted the repeat presidential vote in 2017 and the aspirant messiah, the Joshua Agwambo, was set to be sworn-in THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT. This could easily be a precursor to two separate republics. We doubted the unitary state of Kenya could survive the arrest and, Professor Githu advising, hanging of Raila for treason. Elaborate contingencies seemed necessities. A lot of us who had spent time in countries where state finances are not chaotic festivals of auto-cannibalism, had no intentions of spending their middle age in a peoples republic of Kenya (or the Union of Kavirondo Principalities for that matter) which recreated the financial illiteracy, corruption and economic debauchery of the unitary Kenya state launched by KANU in the 1960s. (First or second republic my foot!) That is why we were discussing proven models of prudence, of zero tolerance to waste, with respect to state finances. And Germany with her cold-blooded ferocity was a good place to start. But of course it took them the mess of the Weimer republic to jar them awake! But even then, there has to be this note of caution. When I was serving time in Germany, I discovered the Germans themselves are overawed by their little neighbours to the West. They call them swamp aborigines, but when it comes to the names of Jan Tinbergen and William Dress, the Germans sink back in reverence. And no, those two are not ace footballers from Holland. No, that duo is, by German tales, the meanest and coldest madhafakaz who ever took control of a national treasury and a reconstruction project. William Dress, the Dutch post-war prime minister and national book-keeper, was so mean and thrifty, so economical and anti-waste, so much so that he found the science of economics as practised thentofore, inadequate for his purposes. He put the best economic brains of the land under so much pressure that, while other countries entered the arms race and nuclear weaponry, the Dutch went the other way and invented a whole new branch of economics. They made a science of meanness, developed a theology of misery in the old meaning, ie budgetary thrift, more so of state finances. It is called econometrics and Jan Tinbergen is her father, intellectually speaking. He was rewarded with the Nobel price for economics and is immortalised in Rotterdam by having the high school of mathematical economics named after him. (In the continent, a high school is not what it is in the Anglosaxone lingo. A university lecturer is for instance titled High Teacher! A high school is a cutting edge research institute.) Germany is no joke neither, and is an elephant economy, but I discovered when it comes to ingenuity in monetary efficiency, they stand aside and let the swamp aborigines ----or more derogatorily polder frogs------ show the way. So I had to visit Amsterdam, not just to smoke pot and gape at Ajax versus Feyenoord, but to take a look at the only people who scare Germans just by raising their eyebrows. ---The story goes William Dress looked at Konrad Adenauer and told him. You don't need another port on your own soil, you idiot, you already have one. It is called Rotterdam. And so it came to pass, that for the next 50 years Rotterdam became the busiest port in the world! It would take Deng Hsiao Ping's red wirtschaftswunder to have Shanghai dethrone Rotterdam in business. Wuothi eka ine, Dr. Kotieno agreed. We needed OD KWAND PESA a-la Jirman in our proposed Kavirondo caliphate. The Dutch, we agreed, are beyond our capacities of imitation! (these are a people with billionares who live in three-bedroom houses in municipality areas, bike to work on second-hand suits and go to public swimming pools. Then they spend $100M dollars buying a Van Gogh paintings to gape at, and a few millions less on genial black footballers --like Gullit Kluivert and Seedorf----- to amuse them and their people, at a profit!)Unbelievable! Madness! (that is why the Germans insisted they could only de-activate their golden D-Mark on account a Dutchman, Wim Duisenberg, became the first custodian of The Euro! ie president of the European Central Bank! Italians and the French, I heard in the corridors, the Germans think of the way we think of Nigerians: natural born zeros so to speak!) Kwand-Pesa is not accounting. It is mathematical monetary studies. (beware of its mutant variants which, left to run wild, aberrate into the total financialisation of the economy, which is now the orthodoxy functioning as the backbone of neoliberal fundamentalism!) But that is another story. The divorce didn't come. The Kenyan marriage proved elastic enough to accommodate many mpango wa kandos, and the presidency open-minded enough to suffer quite a crowd: a Trio. (Ouru and the two Rs, Raila and Ruto!). Unfortunately the open-minded Kenyan marriage continues to run a rotten houskeeping, which is to say, an accounting nightmare or a stone-age mentality of total financial illiteracy. It is in that light that the stories which tell the tales of the top are very instructive. Which is why the following fascinates me. THE CASE OF NJAMA WAMBUGU Versus JOHN NJIRAINIHere: This week Kenya's tobacco man has died. Rumours are TAX ISSUES! KRA manenos! his name is Wilfred Murungi. He is the founder of the Mastermind Tobacco company. His battle against all the odds stacked by the monopolist BAT is well told by the trenchant John Kamau of the DN. The late cigarettes entrepreneur Wilfred Murungi.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 10, 2019 0:05:40 GMT 3
HERE IS A STORY TELLING ITSELF, ANSWERING EARLIER QUESTIONSThe tale of unequal treaties ... and bent over majestys, emperors or muthamakis!
It is a looter's paradise.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 9, 2019 12:46:27 GMT 3
XI' THREE DAY VISIT TO RUSSIA, JUNE 2019The Eurasian pivotFOR those in the West's newsfeed, the choice helpings were all about Donald Trump's twitter wars over the paralysed Britain he was visiting cuncurrently as Xi did Russia. There in the isles of our former colonial masters did the man from DC pour more oil into the fire of Brexit as he made a grand entrance. He also traded insults with the mayor of London, Sadikh Khan. --The Paki Khan isn't exactly the right colour nor religion Trump rather have as London's first citizen, just as Ilhan Omar isn't really the kind of all American girl his good old white nationalist fantasies run amok for, bent over Congress seats in Washington DC. But he as POTUS gotta live with them somehow, even if in hate. London booed him all the way even as the house of Windsor rolled out the ritual red carpet. And then it was off to the D-Day pictoresque, Normandy commemorations. But the engines of the New World were revving elsewhere: XI JINPIN WAS IN RUSSIA.The emperor of China has to make a run. He has been criticised for having misjudged Trump. He threw caution to the winds and is now reaping the price of his folly. He has to break an Icarus fall at home. While Sergei Lavrov has openly stated American is agreement incapable, Xi appeared to have believed Trump was rational enough to do what is best in a grave situation: avoid a trade war between the two leading economies of the world. Trump's nuclear bomb at Huawei, the goose of the golden egg, the Chinese High Tech business card to the world, has sobered him up and returned him to Deng Hsiao Ping's, Daedalus caution of yonder: crossing the river by feeling the stones under. He has now reached the conclusion it wont work. The hegemon, or top dog, will not peacefully allow the challenger to send it under without being confronted with no option left but capitulation. And it is perhaps an Armageddon situation. In any case diplomacy is out. So Chairman Xi thought must take a detour. The LONG MARCH OPTION. And so this Early June 2019, Xi JinPin's visit to Russia was different. It was commitment. It also reflect the comments made recently by China's first soldier. The General said Taiwan is an indispensable part of China. China has reached the state Russia reached when all agreements and reassurance given to Boris Yeltsin were negated and NATO moved into the Baltic states, 15 seconds away by missile strike to St Petersburg, and less than half a minute to Moscow. And down in the Caucus, Georgia too, and Ukraine invited ---Sevastopol, a NATO base. A direct existential threat. Putin, a spy and not yet president, sat up bolt right. Russian nationalism surged with him. And the world has not been the same since. (remember terms like a 'resurgent' Russia, and Obama's notorious qualification: 'revisionist power'. ) HINT From THE RAND CORPORATION: Well, comrade Xi, that is how things are done. I mean Trump has signed it, any company which does business with Huawei, wont do business with America!It is a total quarantine like the one Trump issued on Iran: any company doing business with Iran will face specified heavy penalties from the United States. Result: even as the meek Europeans dissent, all european cEuropean have ceased business with the Islamic republic! Now, even if Big China is no small Iran, and the peoples republic non Islamic, the writing on the wall is clear and loud: China must be kept down and under, contained in subservience. Comrade Xi has been advised by the politburo he chairs to break out, or he will be broken in, and booted out. This is the background to the purposeful calm pose that marked the event in St. Petersburg. POST SCRIPTS THE STING IN THE TAIL NB: Patrick Njoroge and his CBK whiz-kids spend two years studying the Indian demonitisation before taking a leap of faith with the Kenya shilling note of 1k. The same team had earlier taken all their time looking over their shoulders before they kind of applied for Kenya to join the list of associate members to the CHINA-LED Asia Industrial and Infrastructure Bank, AIIB. Now there is a new homework arrived on the table: QUESTION: how long before we ditch the dollar in our bilateral trade with Kenya's leading creditor, and PUTIN'S BEST FRIEND, uncle Xi? No, that is not really the lead question, that is 1b. Here is A, because charity should start at home. How long will it take US before ALL Inter East and Intra Central African trade, where the Kenya shilling is the dollar according CBK data, is conducted in local currency only.With the 'trade in gold' ---see Wetangula's non issue quip--- between Kenya and Congo topping $400M/month I would say a Kenyan shilling backed by gold is a walk in the park! Now, Opus Dei Boy, lets go for your legacy. This is your last term you know! I will be back.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 8, 2019 15:21:21 GMT 3
A POLITICS IN DENIAL AND THE PEOPLES SAFETY VALVES!
Ouru Kenyatta's war on corruption is cosmetic talk. Therefore the problem, debilitating corruption, remains untackled. That means culture, as politics remains failed and stunted, continues its push toward a reclamation of the land from the clutches of the Kartel by other means.
In that dynamic of by other means, strange bed fellows will emerge.
Consider Dr. Fred Matiang'i, or to be more specific, his demasque on the grave issue of corruption which happens to be the hottest hurdle in the land today.
Matiang'i has reputation as a brusque go-getter, a ruthless enforcer and stop-at-nothing bulldozer. His path is littered with many corpses of skulls he collected. And, fate colluding, the stalemate ----then fall-out between Ouru Kenyatta and his estranged partner in electoral crimes, William Ruto,------ has seen Matiang'i rise to the post of director general of the cabinet of Kenya. That is your warrior of first rank at the right place, you might think.
All very well, you might think again, until we come to the hottest battlefront: corruption. ---Instituionalised corruption so to speak. Then, howbeit, O howbeit then, O Lord!
The mighty warrior Matiang'i becomes a paper tiger. Worse, he can't adequately explain, nor extricate himself satisfactorily from the Ruaraka landscam when he was minister of higher education.
You know those duels hyped as the fight of the century, then the bookmaker's pugilist folds even before the end of round one? there's a taste they leave in the mouth, what Sembene Ousmane chided as the promise of big d.icks which failed to rise on the wedding night.
Culture, seeking redress and an end to corruption, to pave the way that the land explode ahead, will take note of such a contradiction: the heaviest hitter around who packed no punch on target corruption. while it was sitting right next to him! (hint Rotich is Matiang'i's deputy in cabinet supervision!)
This our Mr. Kenyatta! he is down and out.
That is the vacuum in which men like Mbuvi Sonko emerge. You can call him a drug pedlar or whatever you wish, an illiterate half-baked idiot, but he has a genuineness of character which, in a sea of fake politicians -see professor Manyora's study of fakery at the top of Kenya---- sees him emerge as golden.
It is not yesterday with the governorship that Sonko became a one-man institute of charity. Far in distant times in Makadara, he was already helping destitute Luos ferry their dead to Nyanza for free and building pavement mama mbogas, sheds above their heads against both sun and rain. Long before men like Matiang'i were politically born, to cut their sycophantic teeth, enter Mkuru kwa Njenga deep, during heavy rains when floods sweep, and the mud buries kids in their sleep: which rich man do you think, would brave the sh!t, to help dig out the bodies, and retrieve the kids?
There are children dead buried deep under the mud who you gonna call, to help dig? ==Mbuvi Sonko!
That was decades ago when Sonko would build a rainbow coalition which floored both the Gikuyu and Luo favourites. (I think Waithika and Ndolo).
(the song rhymes with the melody of GHOSTBUSTERS).
The populations of the slums weren't voting Jubilee when they voted Mbuvi. They were voting Sonko for governor. It is a love-affair which is the most dangerous in Kenya today. A direct connection to the hearts of a desperate lot. With Raila Odinga now nearly washed out as charlatan, and his handshake ridiculed as handcheque, another man (I doubt woman) must emerge to wade the sh!t.
For the sh!t must be shoved aside to get to the heart of the matter.
Benevolent Sonko is a pretender to this extent, a kind of, ideologically speaking, The Giver to the poor. This is a charlatan species too, since solving institutionalised poverty with charity is a deception, and, like trickle-down economics, takes forever to cover a feet. But, desperate situations and in the lack of better, such an incomplete hero as Sonko is the one fate shall anoint to warm the seat before the real Solver, a Kagame-like Singlemind if you like, arrives on the scene to clear the whole land of sh!t.
NB; William Ruto's legendary benevolence toward The Church does not touch hearts because of its cynical audacity -----investing in heaven by buying clerics to sway their flock for him, and its moral bankruptcy of robbing the poor to bribe God by calculated generosity, to smile on his ambition. All he then collects in his wake is a caravan of parasites and other mercenary hangers-ons.
AN IMPORTANT DISCONNECT OFTEN OVERLOOKED
Common folk never suffer the neurosis of historical denial. A political animal can not be ritually humiliated, such as life under colonialism is, and he or she fail to recognise the hurt to the self. Put another way, you can't fail to catch and nail the murderers of JM Kariuki or Chris Musando, yet appease the hearts of the widows with some co.ck-and-bull narrative of, sorry gals, case closed due to dead leads.
The people always know what is up.
Murder they have always recognised as murder, and the names of the murderers and their motives they always stated. Millions of people can not live in DeceptionLand. The harshness of daily, material life, wont permit it. Material life is a reality which dictates real solutions in real time to the problems. For the romantic side of man, called hope, catering to the spiritual side, them Christians have one day in the week especially reserved for the collective festival of ritualised delusions, Sunday. That is when we live on the planet: Heaven. For a few precious hours.
Politicians (and top bureaucrats) however, have power, and, usually, money. The combination of power and money can be used to go along way in financing a life of deception and sustained delusions: a life in lies. Power can buttress from prosecution while culpable, save one from the gallows whilst guilty; power can give immunity to impunity; power creates notions of invisibility, and money can be used to bribe compliance, apparent obedience and of course, effectively derail the course of justice.
And when that power tends toward absolute, you know that saying. Absolute power confers divinity. (&Yes, many an ancient despot born divine officially, bankrupted his dominions fashioning themselves vehicles for immortality. Yes, daily they discovered in themselves the rot of aging and the inevitability of their demise with passing time. So may be they came up with versions of their BIG FIVE for posterity, to be funded by force!)
That was a slip of the mind. Just like sometimes I suffer a slip of the tongue and yell an obscenity, madhafaka!
Kenya is a very corrupt country, absolutely corrupt. ---But I always argue this statement is wrong. Kenya is not a very corrupt country. ---How many corrupt people do you know in your family? It is the top of Kenya, the political and business cream of the land, who are ABSOLUTELY CORRUPT. The neurosis of their own class, pathological debauchery and greed, they then strive to project as the GENERAL state of the Land. And the characteristic of her peoples. All this to construct a normalcy for their obviously criminal doings and, importantly, acquire the self-efficacy cultural legitimacy.
But they fool nobody.
For instance, recently, we saw the Mpigs confess to taking bribes as low as 5K to kill off the damning report on the imported and sold toxic sugar. -----How many parents, dear reader, do you know who would deliberately feed poison to their children and others under their care in the home? How many relatives of yours in your family history have ever sunk to such sinister depths?
Only the psychopaths amongst us and minds diseased in some form or other, would. But, at the top of the nation, ALL THE TOP POLITICIANS, BUREAUCRATS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE, did exactly that: engaged in mass poisoning, and for profit. And the rest accepted bribes to cover it up. (When is the last time, dear reader, a member of your family accepted a bribe to cover up the rape of a minor or adult!? And, if you have your ears to the ground, how many in your local community?)
See there the corrupt Kenyan! See there the sunken soul! He or she is as rare as golden hearts are! The mass of us are a normal people. We shouldn't let a corrupt narrative from a corrupted elite confuse the issues.
No, it is not Kenya which is corrupt. Out of the 50 million souls of us, I doubt a million of us make that mark. And as for absolutely corrupt, there are at best a few thousand to be found, and another few thousand aspirants.
I would say there is enough land in the land to bury such a small tonnage of sh!t!
So I repeat: the weirdo pathology of the political class is not a general identity malaise they broadcast it to be. Only its socio-economic effects are (a general malaise at large).They are a subculture trying to confuse folks otherwise, in order to continue their usurped legitimacy.
They like to preach they are the leaders we deserve, the leaders we elected and headhunted; that they are all-round legitimate. But we know what they did to the INTEGRITY CHAPTER. We also know the history of our RIGGED ELECTIONS, and rigged ethno-centric system at the top. Wherefore every elections we have the leaders IMPOSED UPON US.
Just like under colonialism. The party of whites.
During those days too, one had to have a certain ethnicity of colour to man some departments. We were all Luhya's those days, if you catch the popular joke in its nasty rebound.
Continued.
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