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Post by job on Nov 25, 2009 21:54:04 GMT 3
www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=1144029012&cid=4&ttl=Kibaki,%20Raila%20warned%20Mau%20fundraiser%20may%20fuel%20protests and www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=1144028983&cid=4&ttl=Is%20Raila%20losing%20grip%20of%20Rift%20Valley?It looks official that old Kanu is regrouping at PanAfric Hotel tonight, under the guise of a harambee for the Mau evictees.
They supposedly rolled out the fund-raiser through KASS FM where Uhuru & Kalonzo each pledged Shs 200,000 and might give more tonight. This is pure mockery of government policy. Kalonzo Musyoka and Uhuru Kenyatta are said to be set to preside the 'harambee' and the HOST is William Ruto.We all know this has NOTHING to do with the poor of Mau. Why is this self-serving Vice President leading and politicizing a mission against the interest of the same government he serves in? Why this concerted effort to sabotage the Mau evictions? This selfish political opportunist depicts exactly why Kenya remains retrogressive. Why wait like a vulture, capitalizing on tough government decisions that seek to save the country from desertification, at the alter of me-myself-and-I politics? Then just listen to Mutula Kilonzo engaging in doublespeak? How pathetic has our nation become? If Uhuru had something tangible for Mau evictees, how about pushing in parliament a bill to allow for allocations from his Ministry directed towards resettling them? Ladies and Gentlemen, this looks more like a consortium of old KANU land grabbers who are basically the cause why landless folks are pushed into State forests in the first place. Concerned Kenyans interested in environmental conservation, and against land grabbers, need to peacefully express their opinions kinaganaga, even through protests.
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 25, 2009 22:55:49 GMT 3
job
Sometimes I warn people to be careful what they ask for.
These guys are trying to harvest votes, that is fine. But what message do they send to the thousands of Kikuyu IDPs many of whom were grounded in Eldoret for more than a year. There are many IDPs still in camps. Many are too scared t go to their farms. These are not people occupying a forest reserve. These are people whose land was grabbed and everything burned to the ground. Many want to go back to their property. Where are the Rutos, the Kalonzos and the Uhurus for them? Why are they irrelevant in the political equation?
What message are these Kanu hawks of yore sending to IDPs all across the country whose plight has not even been acknowledged by these same people? What message are they sending to the rest of the country who saw tens of thousands of displaced persons crying in horrible conditions after their family members had been killed, some raped?
Where was Ruto with his money? Where was Kalonzo? Uhuru seems to have found it easier to raise money to fund Mungiki killers to go burn people alive in Naivasha. These are big question marks in leadership. I can never comprehend how the people these foolish leaders pay can never figure anything. This whole thing is going to turn into a mess.
When you want to talk about KK alliance you are going to answer a lot of questions as to why it is okay for kikuyus to rot in camps and then all of a sudden we have these theatrics. Politics is not an exact science.
Are they telling Kenyans that you can kill other folks and keep them in camps for years and we don't care but when it comes to votes we will be there? That is a very dangerous message for the nation and I can say right now that it is going to cause a lot of problems and not only for Raila as some people think.
If Uhuru and Ruto are serious, they don't need to donate beans and milk to these folks. Just donate some of that huge chunks of land. Kenyans are not stupid. They know they are being used, but they will take what they can get. What comes tomorrow is another.
My own position which has not changed is that what really matters is how this matter is resolved. If a year or two years from now the matter is resolved the way it should be and Raila sticks to his plan and cleans the mess he will be judged by those results.
Raila has to understand that Ruto is a much more smarter politician than the bumbling PNU types he has been dealing with.
Raila needs the money to do the job. It looks like he might have to depend on donor money. The government is broke. That is the simple fact.
adongo
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 25, 2009 23:04:10 GMT 3
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Post by kaburwo on Nov 25, 2009 23:47:07 GMT 3
I followed the proceedings on Kass FM and I think Uhuru tried to show some bravery. He must have disappointed many in the audience. Balala was curt and sleazy, he spoke of internal tourism to Isaac Ruto's Chepalungu.
I lost my appetite listening to Uhuru's minister for special programmes, Naomi Shaban. Jukwaa was agreed that the whole preparedness by the government to deal with the evictees was shambolic. Naomi is in charge of the ministry which should have had officials at the exit points with relief aid. From Friday until Monday when Kass FM began co-ordinating relief efforts, she was no where to be seen. Today she was all over. And yet people cannot see the irony of the whole thing.
I think we need to delineate basic facts, however unpopular those facts might be. Noah Wekesa, he of the 'waende waliko toka' dismissal of evictees, which WSR interpreted to mean 'they might as well go to hell', is a PNU appointee. He heads the forestry ministry. John Michuki, a PNU stalwart, heads mineral whatever. Then comes Shaban, a PNU-Kanu appointee whose brief is IDP resettlement. Uhuru of course had said from the word go that there was no money to resettle the families. He was the chief guest. It is no longer Wekesa who said 'waende waliko toka', it is tagged to Raila. How convenient.
Let us face it Jukwaa. As Job says, this was a club gathering of executive landgrabbers. PNU came in force, Kiraitu Murungi was there as was Muthama, name them. Kanu was reborn at PanAfric, a traditional land-grabber's spending joint.
I help my breath waiting for one word: Land. People let us face it. James Orengo has offered what, together with the draft constitution, may redress the thorny issue of land distribution. The very reason why families had illegally invaded Mau. Land. NONE of the speakers mentioned the Orengo Land Draft Policy. Because it was never about Mau land and the the landless. It was all about posturing for 2012. Done on the blood of the innocent, hoodwinked to believe that the government cared about them.
When you wake up tomorrow to hear that people have invaded Cherangany and Mt Elgon Forests, know why: when the government chases them out, that same government will run out to fundraise for them.
I wanted to see real philanthropists donating title deeds to swathes of land idly held in the RVP. The culprits are known to us all. A friend of mine was killed in Mutula Kilonzo's land at Salgaa. He is a landgrabber. Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto, Frankline Bett, Yusuf Haji. Name someone who was prominently there, I will show you a shameless landgrabber, the same idiots who put Kenyans out in the cold and then run around like deranged bulls.
God save us from these scums.
-Kaburwo-
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Post by biwott on Nov 26, 2009 0:23:47 GMT 3
Those evicted should be treated humanely. Nothing more nothing less. You cant just evict people and expect them to go away like flies. If raila was smart he would have been the one presiding over the harambee to raise cash for these defenseless women and children.
Kalonzo has been reaching out to Ruto. He might as well make Ruto his running mate 2012!
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Post by job on Nov 26, 2009 0:32:50 GMT 3
Kaburwo,
The proceedings at KASS FM depicted what I call a tragic comedy whose ending is soon to come. This was not about Mau forest evictees but in fact a Raila-bashing fest at PanAfric.
I wonder who will fund-raise for Embobut evictees if Kilimo was instead more concerned about Mau evictees than her own Embobut evictees.
I wonder who will fund=raise for Mt. Kenya and Aberdare forest evictees if Uhuru, Murungi and co. are instead more concerned about Mau evictees.
Who will fundraise for Cherangany forest evictees when Kutuny is more interested in the plight of Mau evictees.
Who will fundraise for Mt. Elgon forest evictees when there's Mau? What a special place William Ruto has made Mau.
Now here's the deal.
Phase II of the evictions will involve the executive forest settlers, many of whom were paraded in that gathering. Let us watch from there as this comedy continues to unfold.
As Kaburwo pointed, the irony in Shaban's and even Uhuru's very presence at the gathering can't be overstated. Special Programs and Finance Ministers must have failed to see the humanitarian crisis through the lens of their dockets.
Balala's dry joke about Tourism in Chepalungi was pathetic.
Then Kareke ( whatever the name is) and Murungi's nonsense.
And Kalonzo's footsoldiers Prof. Kaloki and Muthama.
This was a who-is-who gathering of old and new KANU.
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Post by tnk on Nov 26, 2009 1:07:59 GMT 3
as i said before in politics timing is everything this meeting of KANU KKK alliance is trying to divert attention from this event happening in a few hours www.icc-cpi.int/menus/icc/press%20and%20media/press%20releases/news%20and%20highlights/ma54a very highly visible and effective smokescreen someone keep us posted i'll for the moment ignore the wild flapping of the political vultures setting the stage for the new and recently refurbished KANU KKK am even surprised N. Biwott didnt turn up with the New KANU outfit. btw anyone noticed that the land grabbers are also the same as the suspected masterminds of PEV, also the key proponents of even more tribal alliances aka KKK, are also senior members of their parties, and have goof after goof in their dockets no wonder the only recourse is to hit out wildly at anyone else
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 26, 2009 3:18:33 GMT 3
as i said before in politics timing is everything this meeting of KANU KKK alliance is trying to divert attention from this event happening in a few hours www.icc-cpi.int/menus/icc/press%20and%20media/press%20releases/news%20and%20highlights/ma54a very highly visible and effective smokescreen someone keep us posted i'll for the moment ignore the wild flapping of the political vultures setting the stage for the new and recently refurbished KANU KKK am even surprised N. Biwott didnt turn up with the New KANU outfit. btw anyone noticed that the land grabbers are also the same as the suspected masterminds of PEV, also the key proponents of even more tribal alliances aka KKK, are also senior members of their parties, and have goof after goof in their dockets no wonder the only recourse is to hit out wildly at anyone else tnk You get it right on the money. A big part of this hysteria is the Ocampo chill. The ICC Prosecutor will talk to the press about the Kenyan case tomorrow. I have no idea what he will say, but I suspect he will issue the accusations against Kenyan masterminds of crimes against humanity in the PEV. Who knows, Ocampo may even name names. This is no longer a joke. All I can say at this point is that whoever belongs in this list of infamy will have to face their battle without dragging in human shields. After all they are very brave people, aren't they? Tomorrow is soon here. And more is to come. Who knows when! adongo
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Post by tnk on Nov 26, 2009 3:45:37 GMT 3
as i said before in politics timing is everything this meeting of KANU KKK alliance is trying to divert attention from this event happening in a few hours www.icc-cpi.int/menus/icc/press%20and%20media/press%20releases/news%20and%20highlights/ma54a very highly visible and effective smokescreen someone keep us posted i'll for the moment ignore the wild flapping of the political vultures setting the stage for the new and recently refurbished KANU KKK am even surprised N. Biwott didnt turn up with the New KANU outfit. btw anyone noticed that the land grabbers are also the same as the suspected masterminds of PEV, also the key proponents of even more tribal alliances aka KKK, are also senior members of their parties, and have goof after goof in their dockets no wonder the only recourse is to hit out wildly at anyone else tnk You get it right on the money. A big part of this hysteria is the Ocampo chill. The ICC Prosecutor will talk to the press about the Kenyan case tomorrow. I have no idea what he will say, but I suspect he will issue the accusations against Kenyan masterminds of crimes against humanity in the PEV. Who knows, Ocampo may even name names. This is no longer a joke. All I can say at this point is that whoever belongs in this list of infamy will have to face their battle without dragging in human shields. After all they are very brave people, aren't they? Tomorrow is soon here. And more is to come. Who knows when! adongo adongo i nearly burst out laughing when i read about how all those characters could meet in a matter of days only that its serious can you imagine in a matter of days, a round up of top MPs and who's who, mobilize and conduct a fund raising now we know typically how long it takes for an MP to commit to a fund raiser with dates kept open moving from month to month because "ako bissi" then how about when Imanyara's STK bill came up and only 20 MPs were around for this "crucial bill" which ended up defered due to lack of quorum. this is pure insincerity well .....some of these guys need help....... the empty chamber behind the eyeballs is interfering with their vision anyway, OCampos briefing may not reveal much, but it certainly is tightening the knot bit by bit, and these guys are doing whatever they can to stay "popular" with their home base. after all kabuga has been missing in action (purportedly in kenya) for how many years now?
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 26, 2009 5:13:45 GMT 3
tnk
This is moi project II with a few new juvenile actors. They look sad actually. Their lead cheer boys are too excited. I thought William Ruto could do better than this. If this was the much advertised expulsion of Raila to the moon, they need to go back to the drawing board.
This whole fund raising gimmick was a sad joke on Kenyans as they see land grabbers and thieves responsible for landlessness among citizens of all ethnic groups and environmental degradation in Kenya which affects everybody including Kalenjins gather to show off their wealth and demand power in exchange for robbing Kenyans.
Just pathetic. Kenyans will smoke these fools out faster than they imagine.
The discussion is going to be about land ownership, land use, land acquisition, idle land, state land, forest reserves, public land and land thieves, some of whom are already before the courts. I think Kenyans are eager to have the land discussion with the rutos and the uhurus anytime. The sooner the better.
The nation is very ready for this. I am not even thinking about the Ocampo minefield. On that I say; may the truth and justice for all prevail. I can't think of any Kenyan who doesn't want the same. Let the guilty hold their own crosses. Let there be justice for all Kenyans including those killed by the police and other security agents of the state who murdered hundreds of Kenyans during the 2007/8 PEV. That is fair enough. Isn't it?
The battle is here. The nation must take it as it comes. No problem. The nation always awaits.
adongo
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Post by okhunyanye on Nov 26, 2009 6:59:46 GMT 3
Were any average folks, at the grassroots in the RV, invited to call the radio station during or subsequent to the fundraiser? What were their general sentiments, if any?
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Post by shifta on Nov 26, 2009 9:14:38 GMT 3
My peni mbili:
• Once the new katiba is in place and the power is decentralized then these political vultures will have a hard time to find a political landing spot. Local issues and politics will drive development and not these meaningless posturing. By the way - aren’t some of these the same voices which are anti – executive PM? So they are getting together to shoot for which seat?
• When the government said in June last year, I believe, that it was going to clear the forest, instead of finding a way to work with the government to cater for their constituents - the RV clowns instead decided to fight against it. However, they have run against a nation-wide sentiment.
• Nevertheless, regardless of which side of the fence one is, the government has done a miserable and sad job handling IDP’s and now the eviction issue. Since last year June, the government had intended to clear the forest but when the time came the best it could do is offer blankets and no living alternative. That is wrong, just as it was in the case of PEV IDPs. It’s heartbreaking to see children and old people being rained on.
• Having said all that – I still believe that people have to be cleared from the forest. I was heartbroken the last time I traveled through this area to see tree stumps sticking out of the ground. This is a cause worth losing votes for and I hope the PM sticks to his vision of forested Mau again.
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Post by nereah on Nov 26, 2009 9:34:13 GMT 3
personally i think there is nothing wrong with fund-raising for mau evictees if the funds would be used to buy land and settle those illegal squatters, then the wajumbes would have offered practical solution instead of keleles.
i think the government's public communication arm(by the way,what became of GOK's spindoctor alfred mutua?)is either sleeping on the job or with the enemy. the propaganda being spewed on mau by the uhuru,ruto,kalonzo ought to be countered effectively by the government through such medium as kass fm.
what i am interested to know from analysts with their fingers on the pulse of rift valley is to what extend has the politicization of mau galvanized the kalenjin groupings and allied forces(pnu's uhuru & kalonzo) into a tenable national political formation?
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Post by Dumekenya on Nov 26, 2009 10:58:23 GMT 3
Just what i said in the the Siasa moto moto topic, we actually need to know who is who in terms of corruption, land grabbers, and the proponents of impunity. But i think this is God given they are just regrouping and how beautiful it is. It is happening pretty much early for Kenyans to prepare and come 2012 they should vote in clean people. Anyway all along we have known Raila to be a mr. clean and we expect him to stay put on course for we will need a govt free of corrupt individuals. Yes i know we can and it will happen.
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Post by kaburwo on Nov 26, 2009 11:33:45 GMT 3
Interesting call-ins this morning on Kass FM. Callers, though few, derided the gathered MPs as the real cause of Mau-like roadside camps due to their land-grabbing mania. One caller had the courage to enumerate the exploits of one such landgrabber 'who has 1000 acres in Mau, Eldoret, etc?', he posed. This was arguably significant owing to the fact that such views are not favoured by the presenter of that programme.
Having said that. The buck stops with Noah Wekesa. Why do we close our eyes to reality?
Phil, do us a favour. We hear of the Mau task Force report, passed by Cabinet and amended by parliament. Lay your hands on it and help us digest it here on Jukwaa. Please use whatever means you can to lay your hands on it. There is too much distortion. And the media in Kenya is not helping matters, as usual. The people who left Mau voluntarily did not have any papers to show ownership. They were squatters. That is phase one. It was the failure of the government (Shaban, Uhuru and Wekesa) to see the crisis coming and prepare for it. Now somebody else has to bear the blame. A courageous MP from NE asked Uhuru to the face to allocate budgetary money for the resettlement instead of the harambee! Brave.
Phase two involves those who have title deeds. Whether fake or not, those titles entitle them to resettlement. Government has to get alternative land to accommodate them. That is how structured the whole process is.
BTW, on Kass FM this morning callers proposed that the money, KShs 5.036m be used to buy land. The host said: No. The money is for food and blankets (as if the families did not have blankets in their home). It is good for some reason that the families are on the roadside. No need to rush with land-buying! It was reported that Naomi Shaban promised that government would resettle them somewhere. I am wondering: If, say one month later the families will still be under bamboo roofs, who would have failed? I leave out the optional choices for the blame game.
The inconvenient truth is, that, some people now talk of 'the government must', and yet they are flying the 'government flag'. I though that being part of the system entitles Uhuru, Ruto et al to say 'as government, we shall' resettle these people.
It is instructive that in the whole proceedings, NO mention was made of what is arguably the most comprehensive land reform paper: The Orengo Draft Land Policy. It was not about the landless. To me, the land grabbers know that implementation of that policy will mean their loss of idle land. These infidels are land grabbers without a spine. Then there is the juicy part. PNU had scheduled a meeting of its executive in the same hotel, at the same time. In turning up for that event, they happened by....and made donations. Which one was planned before which, one may ask. But then, what a coincidence!
-Kaburwo-
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Post by kamalet on Nov 26, 2009 17:59:37 GMT 3
The fundraiser was only intended to spite one man -the PM by a group from rift valley and aspirants looking into 2012! The money may buy food or land for the evictees of Mau, but the political statement cannot be ignored and dismissed as one perpetrated by juveniles.
I hope all those who sit and advise the PM actually tell him that there is some damage control to be done!!
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Post by phil on Nov 26, 2009 18:25:45 GMT 3
The fundraiser was only intended to spite one man -the PM by a group from rift valley and aspirants looking into 2012! The money may buy food or land for the evictees of Mau, but the political statement cannot be ignored and dismissed as one perpetrated by juveniles. I hope all those who sit and advise the PM actually tell him that there is some damage control to be done!! For once in a long time Kamale, I tend to agree with you but only up to a certain point. The only damage control the PM needs to do is to continue doing his work as per the MAU report that was adopted in parliament. If he goes outside that, then he risks falling into the same trap as the same politicians who were at Panafric yesterday.
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 26, 2009 20:25:52 GMT 3
Kamale, kaburwo & others
Kamale I am glad you agree with most of us that the fund raising had nothing to do with the mau folks and everything to do with 2012. What escapes me is how the big boys do not comprehend that every Kenyan can see their dirty business. I mean you have a bunch of well known land grabbers with money smoking out of their ears telling the whole country that they have money to buy everybody.
They have enough money to buy their way to State House and in the meantime they can supply endless amount of beans for mau evictees to stay on the road side as long as that promotes their political interests. What kind of nonsense is that? They don't want to solve anything. The whole country must shut down and watch them match to the big house. I am surprised they have not yet delivered flat screen TVs for the folks on the roadsides to watch them do the big dance.
Do these people understand that soon the debate will be about who owns land where? Do they understand that their huge land holdings in Rift Valley is going to come into focus? Do they know that these same landless squatters will get tired of the gimmicks and simply take up the land owned by these same fellows? Do they think that people are just going to sit on the roadside and be used as props for their political acrobatics?
You cannot use human beings as animals in a circus show. That is the lesson these fools are going to learn sooner than they think. This debate is going to turn into something the fund raisers never wanted. They will have to deal with that.
As for the damage control, ndugu Kamale I am sure you read our concerns about this in the other thread.
To us it was not about damage control. It was about the government including the Prime Minister and his Secretariat acting in a disjointed and callous manner. Actually we were furious with the PM. He has a job to do. He promised Kenyans this will be done in an organized manner. They were not ready and we told them that is not acceptable. They have improved their act, but it is still not good enough. The PM does not have to play the political games. Just get the job done and all these political clowns will have to take their circus show elsewhere. They are exposing themselves every day. May be more than they think.
The PM is now seeking donor money to assist in the mau issue. That is the way to go. Incidentally the political machinations of the rutos and uhurus who are known internationally as land grabbers and worse, is going to be a good ad for the PM to seek assistance to deal with the issues on the ground in the mau saga.
If the PM gets some real resources and funds to facilitate long term solutions in the mau, the whole country including our friends from the mau area and the Kalenjin communities will thank him. That is what we have been saying from day one.
Forget this nonsense of who wants to be the next president of Kenya. Just make sure they will not be the president of a desert nation. Fair deal? I think so.
Back to kaburwo, just like you I cannot understand the sheer level of confusion and conflicting statements from Noah Wekesa, Naomi Shabaan and even the Secretariat. It is as if the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Shabaan should be ashamed of herself. She was one of the big ticket names at the political fundraiser. That is her right. But what about her job.
I would have been glad if Shabaan would have gone to that circus of theirs and told the whole country what the government is doing, what resources they have and where they are falling short and why they need donations and support from the wider community. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
In fact Kenyans would not mind at all to assist if they are called upon to do so. But to turn the plight of our fellow Kenyans into a political gimmick and to have the very ministers supposed to be managing the crisis leading the dance in the circus is quite sad. And then today the same Shabaan is telling Kenyans how everything is under control. Please, spare us this foolishness.
Wekesa is just a plain nut case. He makes outrageous statements as if he runs his own government. He is useless and dangerous.
The issue here is that the PM still has to work with these crazy colleagues of his. He just can't line them up and give them a good old whipping and tell them to stop acting up. That is one of the challenges the PM has to deal with.
But I think a corner has been turned. Now we need real action to help all the unfortunate poor folks caught up in this war. It is not their fault and I fear one of the dangers in this political showdown is to turn other citizens against the mau peasants. That is one area I want the PM to take leadership. Embrace these people and work with them. They are Kenyans like anybody else. Let's support them and solve the problem. The politics will work itself out quite nicely. Let the other fools keep shooting themselves on both feet. They will soon run out of bullets. We have seen their show before. It didn't work then, it won't work now.
adongo
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Post by kamalet on Nov 26, 2009 21:01:06 GMT 3
There are two things in this saga. The PM's responsibility in the management of the this saga where he must show continued responsibility.
The political side of it all and which is the area Kibaki is a miserable failure - is what Raila has to think about. He has a long political career ahead of him and I do not agree that he can continue to rely on his own popularity without geting local leadership to sing his virtues! He is too astute a politician to think he can ignore what is going on.
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Post by politicalmaniac on Nov 26, 2009 22:27:05 GMT 3
Why dont these guys give land instead? esp the thug jomo jnr?
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Post by kaburwo on Nov 26, 2009 22:38:04 GMT 3
Very important reporting from the Nation. Raila’s critics flock to back Ruto Mau fundIt was billed as a simple fundraising event for squatters evicted from the Mau Forest, but the loaded political speeches pointed to a new political grouping united by a common antipathy towards Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Key participants were Agriculture minister William Ruto and the chief guest, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, reflecting a regrouping of the Kanu leadership brought to the fore ahead of the 2002 elections. Another key Kanu leader of the time, Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka, was expected to put in an appearance but sent his apologies, a donation of Sh100,000 and words of support. The three make up the so-called 3Ks, the mooted Kalenjin-Kikuyu-Kamba alliance seen by its promoters as the best way to stop Mr Odinga in his tracks come 2012. www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/813348/-/wu9kivz/-/index.htmlGladly, Kenyans see it as we do here on Jukwaa: Kanu is regrouping to fight back. -Kaburwo-
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Post by roughrider on Nov 26, 2009 23:17:19 GMT 3
I agree with those who say Mau is just an excuse. This meeting and the palpable excitement around it was all about one man: Raila Odinga. Their speeches exposed their intent. They have smelt blood and are out to get Raila. But anybody executing a political scheme aimed at finishing Raila needs to have planned very carefully. Fighting Raila is hard work. They need to see the end from the start. They also need to have very clear ideas over who will play what role – I very much suspect that a tower of Babel is being built here. There are too many ego’s here – Uhuru, Kalonzo, Ruto, Jirongo – who’s their leader? And can everybody trust everybody else? Just how many of those 'insider' MPs are sneaking to Raila's house for late night talks?
The other reason they have to think carefully, if history is to be believed, is that eventually Raila will regroup and execute a counter strategy of his own and things could get interesting.
To help those who set out to ‘fight Raila’, here are FIVE points:
1. Finish the job: the long history that brought us here is clearly that those who fought Mr. Odinga were never keen or able to finish the job. Because of this Raila always rose from the ashes of political battle, like a phoenix, again and again. Moi probably wishes he had hanged Raila in 1982. By 2002, Michael Wamalwa who was allowed pyrrhic victory in Ford-K was for all practical purposes leading the Bukusu. Machiavellian politics are the only politics that may work with Raila.
2. Be on the right side of the argument: Unfortunately there is too much heat, but not enough light from among those that seek to finish Raila. To finish agwambo one must seek moral superiority that would appeal to more than just their immediate community or constituency. The Mau debate for instance is one where Raila holds the higher moral ground. Most Kenyans are not impressed by the MPs gathered at Panafric. When they see serial Molo warmonger Zakayo Cheruiyot, they cringe. Mau is therefore not the battle that will ‘finish Raila’. Just like ‘molasses, violent, tribal’ and other war-tags before had no moral punch in them. Because Raila could offer strong counter-arguments. Something else must be found to 'finish Raila'.
3. Have your timing right: There are no elections round the corner and unless somebody is looking to precipitate one it does seem like there is no logical conclusion to this latest anti-Raila campaign. It is possible that the strategy is to disagree with and attack Raila on every plausible issue until 2012. But this is extremely expensive and assumes that Kenyans will be stupid, and forever captive of political intrigue. And crucially, that Raila will have not plans of his own.
4. Look at the bigger picture: Many people have a warped sense of reality. For instance in executing a war against Raila Odinga, what will victory look like? I would presume that having had such an interesting and eventful career, ending up as Prime Minister, Raila Odinga is almost done. To execute a scorched-earth political war aimed at Raila might succeed eventually, but it might do much more. He will always wield a big constituency that may sway votes. It might force him into grooming another, perhaps even more potent prince. He might revel in a new kingmaker role, a nightmare for any of the pretenders to the throne. But it might also tear a country that should be healing. Therefore the best way to finish Raila is to eclipse him in standing for the truth, fighting for the poor, bravely seeking justice and doing right by the Kenyan people.
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Post by einstein on Nov 26, 2009 23:47:46 GMT 3
Hey good people, don't worry! That funds-drive camouflaged as "humanitarian assistance for Mau evictees" was nothing but a Kamkunji of a brood of killer-vipers hiding behind the veil of 'good Samaritans'!! But we know them, the face they try to put on notwithstanding!!! Let them bring it on, we are ever ready for the killers-turned-philanthropists!!!!
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Post by abdulmote on Nov 27, 2009 0:05:11 GMT 3
This KKK thing is a dangerous, selfish and divisive game by the greedy trio and it ought to be stopped early enough before it gets out of control! I try not to be partisan but I was literally angry on reading of the above saga. What a pathetic trap eh?
I hope Bwana Odinga stays strong on this one and goes all the way to fruition. The national and regional critical interests cannot and should not be ignored in all this issue irrespective of the political costs involved.
In saying that, Raila should show some balls and sack whomsoever he can from his team, who are clearly out to undermine him. That is called insubordination and he must not tolerate the same lest he is percieved to be demonstrating poor and weak leadership! Personally, I would have ensured Balala is out come 2012, if only for the fact he is such a hypocrite, but had Raila bothered to sort out the dual citizshit soon enough! I aint putting all my eggs in one basket you know and that would not have been for the GK parks! How I would have wish for such a challenge!
Anyway, in my opinion I think the three K's front runners have started to sprint full speed so soon in a race which is meant to be a marathon! You know what happens with such idiots or don't you? Their tongues will be sticking out dry and not a drop around to drink, all because of the Mau evictions not having gone through!
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Post by adongo23456 on Nov 27, 2009 1:39:09 GMT 3
abdulmoteI can't agree with you more. These old kanu arrogance and claim to own the country is scaring the daylights out of the whole country. They have opened the proverbial can of worms. Kenyans will not take it again. I mean these guys are directly responsible for all the evils constipating the country as we speak. And they want to do it again. Not this time fellas. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/806480/-/5nvux8/-/index.htmlAnd then there this little trouble. What a coincidence that the old Kanu wing in both parties are practically being accused of funding and promoting PEV from both sides. May be that is their training. That is what the history of the nation says. But the times have changed, haven't they? www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=1144029112&cid=4&ttl=ICC%20opens%20Kenya%E2%80%99s%20caseI have said before and I will say it again. If Raila Amolo Odinga was involved in organizing violence and mayhem against Kenyans he belongs in the Hague. Anybody else too. Let's not treat these fellows with gold gloves. But if others are in trouble and now they want to hang on Raila to blackmail the country, they are making a big mistake. adongo
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