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Post by Titchaz on Mar 5, 2011 23:47:50 GMT 3
Leaders happy with deferral of port sale By MARK AGUTU A sigh of relief swept through the Coast region after the government succumbed to a mounting tide of opposition and called off the planned privatisation of the Port of Mombasa. Faced with a united front of the region’s political leaders and workers and the disowning of its plans by key players in the maritime sector, the government beat a hasty retreat and declared it would not proceed with the privatisation. And yet again the matter of consultation featured prominently in the raging debate, with local leaders and workers saying they were never involved in the process which they claimed was driven by a few individuals in government.Matters were not helped when port clients who attended last week’s stakeholders’ meeting cited the lack of a legal framework within which to carry out the privatisation as a major drawback. But as the government threw in the towel, leaders and workers say they will not rest until a gazette notice of 2008 that formed the basis for the proposed privatisation is withdrawn. Similarly, a motion brought to Parliament by Garsen MP Danson Mungatana questioning the motive behind the intended sale of the port and seeking to have it stopped will proceed to its conclusion. Not sellLast Thursday government spokesman Alfred Mutua said the government would not sell the port. While praising the move, Mr Mungatana said: “Consultation costs nothing, but it works well in terms of bringing about the much-needed goodwill.” Saying the motion in Parliament will continue, Mr Mungatana added pressure would be put on government to go back to the drawing board and consult all stakeholders. “The consultations must be done exhaustively and honestly.” According to the MP, if there is to be any privatisation of some services at the port, then there must be a clear determination of what percentage of what is to be privatised and who is going to participate. “We are extremely happy. As leaders in the region, it has always been our position that the port of Mombasa should not be privatised,” said Fisheries Development minister Amason Kingi. Mr Kingi, who is also MP for Magarini, said Coast leaders were united in their opposition to privatisation and were ready to any length, including using legal means, to block the move. “We don’t see the rationale behind privatisation of a port that is performing admirably well. There are so many non-performing parastatals that the government can sell,” the minister said in an interview. Dock Workers Union secretary-general Simon Sang called for total degazettement of the notice on privatisation of the port.“This is the first thing the government must do,” he said. He said a workable option the government should take is bring together other stakeholders to plan for a restructuring of the Kenya Ports Authority management to ensure efficiency and accountability in its operations. www.nation.co.ke/News/Leaders+happy+with+deferral+of+port+sale++/-/1056/1119758/-/15gflnoz/-/index.html |
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 6, 2011 0:14:49 GMT 3
Wakuu wa Jukwaa, Hii ishu ya uuzaji wa Bandari ya Mombasa ni ishu tete sana maana ukweli ni kwamba wakenya hawaambiwi ukweli wala hali halisi iliopo. Kwa mujibu wa yule kibaraka wa serikali ya Kibaki Bw Mutua, anataka tuamini kua Rais Kibaki na Waziri Mkuu, Bw Raila Odinga ndio walioamua kua bandari isiuzwe au kwa lugha nyengine isi-binafsishwe. Huu ni uongo mtupu na ukweli ni kwamba 'nguvu ya uma' ndio ilisababisha Rais Kibaki awaambie wahuni wake wasiendelee na hii ishu ya kutaka kuiba rasilmali kubwa ya watu wa Kenya. Wakenya wamechoka na hii serikali ambayo imejikita katika mfumo unaotetea maslahi ya jamii teule kwa kutumia mbinu zote ikiwemo utumizi wa vyombo vya dola na kuendekeza propaganda na ulaghaiili kuwanyima wananchi haki yao.Tangu mwanzo tulitakiwa tuamini kua hii ishu itasaidia bandari kupata mapato bora kuliko hali ilivyo kwa sasa. Kisha kwa shinikizo walitaka tusadiki kua bandari imekua mzigo kwa walipa kodi na kwa hivyo ni heri ibinafsishwe ili walipa kodi wapata nafuu. Hii ni porojo na kauli mfu maana tunajua wazi kua uuzaji wa Bandari lilikua lengo la mabwanyenye kadhaa wakiwemo mafisadi papa ambao wameshehena katika hii serikali. Kuna mashirika mengi ya serikali ambao hayatoi mapato ya faida na kwa kweli walipa kodi wanatundikwa mzigo mkubwa wa kuzidi kutoa hela zao kuendeleza haya mashirika. Wakazi wa Pwani wakawa wanashangaa mbona haya magofu yasiuzwe?...Mbona wanamoto na Bandari ya Mombasa ambayo tunajua wazi inatoa mapato murwa na haina haja maalum ya kubinafsishwa? Maswali kama haya ndio yalileta muamko miongoni mwa wakazi wa Pwani na kujua kiini haswa kinachomfanya Mhe Kimunya na Uhuru Kenyatta kukimbilia Mombasa na kusukuma hili jambo? Nilifurahi sana nilipooona wabunge, wanasiasa na wafanyibiashara wa haya maeneo wakija pamoja na kwa kauli moja kupinga hili swala.Soma hii taarifa kutoka gazeti la Standard kuona msukumo ulipoanzia: Coast MPs protest plans to privatize Mombasa Port Published on 02/02/2011 By PETER OPIYOMPs from the coast region are opposed to the privatization of the Mombasa Port The MPs said the government has absolutely no reason to call for the privatization of the facility, pointing out it is not a liability to the taxpayer. While addressing the media at parliament buildings the MPs argued some powerful government officials have also infiltrated the process thereby raising questions about the intention to privatise it."We know powerful figures in government and their associates have schemed to grab this vital resource in the Coast region under the disguise of privatization," said Coast Parliamentary Group Chairman Benedict Gunda. Further, the Bahari MP said it has come to their knowledge that these individuals have already acquired stakes in the development of berths 11 to 14 at the Kilindini port.On August 14, 2009 the government issued a Gazette notice stating it would privatise the facility. Key areas earmarked for the privatization are the Eldoret container terminal, Stevedoring services and development of berths. In the Gazette notice the government pointed out that it was privatizing the facility to enhance Kenya’s regional competitiveness and facilitate investment and economic growth. But the eight MPs on Wednesday said the process should be halted as it has serious repercussions to the region. Gunda said a study conducted by Ernest & Young to undertake staff rationalization recommended a staff cut at KPA from the current 7,300 to 3,226."We as Coast leaders opposed any plans to downsize the work force at the KPA and we demand that the minister for Transport disregards the recommendation of Ernest & Young relating to the downsizing of the workforce at KPA," said Gunda. Garsen MP, Danson Mungatana indicated he would sponsor a motion to protest at the move to privatise the facility saying the loss of jobs cannot be taken for granted. "We will oppose this plan of privatization and I intend to sponsor a motion in Parliament to show that we don’t want to take the loss of jobs for more than 4,000 people lying down," said Mungatana. Mungatana, Kisauni MP, Hassan Joho, nominated MP, Shakila Abdalla and Environment Assistant minister Ramadhan Kajembe said they see no reason for the privatization as KPA is not a loss-making facility. Shakila also sought to know the compensation programme for those living along the corridor connecting Lamu port and Sudan as about Sh20 billion has already been availed by the Japanese government for the development of the port. Other MPs present at the press conference were Wundanyi MP, Thomas Mwadeghu, Malindi MP, Gideon Mung’aro and Likoni MP, Masoud Mwahima. "This process has more than meets the eye. Some people somewhere want to enrich their pockets," said Joho. www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000028111&cid=4 |
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Post by politicalmaniac on Mar 6, 2011 0:22:38 GMT 3
I am very wary of selling off such a grand structure to foreign investors.
At the end of the day what do we own?
The other day the lame duck P.O.R.K from othaya gave land to some Arab country for farming.
yet we have squarters in Coast tele! Who was consulted.
I am not against foreign investments.
But I am against opaque mafiya ya mt kenya driven looting schemes disguised as investments.
They gave Grand regency to Gaddafi.
But as we have noted, there is nothing sacrosanct in the eyes of the mafiya.
it does not matter what it is, it can be their fathers life - they will take it, it can be their daughters life - they will give it to mamlukis, it can be their own peoples lives - they will use them to steal elections and then when they are displaced we get the arrogant esta mirugi hectoring them.
The mafiya - they have no sense of shame.
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Post by danielwaweru on Mar 6, 2011 0:34:49 GMT 3
I am very wary of selling off such a grand structure to foreign investors. At the end of the day what do we own? The other day the lame duck P.O.R.K from othaya gave land to some Arab country for farming. yet we have squarters in Coast tele! Who was consulted. I am not against foreign investments. But I am against opaque mafiya ya mt kenya driven looting schemes disguised as investments. They gave Grand regency to Gaddafi. But as we have noted, there is nothing sacrosanct in the eyes of the mafiya. it does not matter what it is, it can be their fathers life - they will take it, it can be their daughters life - they will give it to mamlukis, it can be their own peoples lives - they will use them to steal elections and then when they are displaced we get the arrogant esta mirugi hectoring them. The mafiya - they have no sense of shame. Apparently, the deal was that the Qataris would pay $2.5 B to develop the port, and they'd get something like 40K ha of land. But it was never finalised, and given the apparent collapse of the port deal, might never be. |
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Post by tnk on Mar 6, 2011 1:22:02 GMT 3
I am very wary of selling off such a grand structure to foreign investors. At the end of the day what do we own? The other day the lame duck P.O.R.K from othaya gave land to some Arab country for farming. yet we have squarters in Coast tele! Who was consulted. I am not against foreign investments. But I am against opaque mafiya ya mt kenya driven looting schemes disguised as investments. They gave Grand regency to Gaddafi. But as we have noted, there is nothing sacrosanct in the eyes of the mafiya. it does not matter what it is, it can be their fathers life - they will take it, it can be their daughters life - they will give it to mamlukis, it can be their own peoples lives - they will use them to steal elections and then when they are displaced we get the arrogant esta mirugi hectoring them. The mafiya - they have no sense of shame. Apparently, the deal was that the Qataris would pay $2.5 B to develop the port, and they'd get something like 40K ha of land. But it was never finalised, and given the apparent collapse of the port deal, might never be. danielwaweru good to see you back |
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Post by raynathan2001 on Mar 6, 2011 11:33:18 GMT 3
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Post by mzee on Mar 6, 2011 13:44:13 GMT 3
Titchaz,
I wonder why a profit generating port has to be sold? Could we be going the Grand Regency hotel way? I smell a rat. More later
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 6, 2011 17:58:00 GMT 3
there is another scandal in the making. the subject now is the so called deep-water port which is to be built by the chinese to serve greater east and central africa. This will swallow the island of Lamu, where that Chnese sea-captain whose name I forget, graced 200 years before Vasco da Gama entered Mombasa. And lots of mainland acreage where a super-railway terminal will be built amongst other container structures.
The first problem is that the government has already earmarked land. To have claim to compensation, one must have a tittle deed. Nearly all indigenous people have suddenly realised they do not have tittle deeds, not to mention the rumours of a sudden spiral of allocations to politicians from Nairobi. Some tribes still went by the communal ownership thing, which is legally void in capitalist private ownership dictates.
So corruption again may boggle the largest infrastuctural scheme to have hit the Kenyan coast ever since the Uganda railway was launched.
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Post by job on Mar 6, 2011 18:22:03 GMT 3
This is why Amos Kimunya replaced Chirau Mwakwere as Transport Minister - to oversee the biggest corruption in the history of the country.
The land ownership issue in Lamu is being catalogued by NGOs as we speak and it is obvious a mega scandal is already being executed to deprive the locals. Most beach & reef land surrounding the planned port is already not in the hands of locals, either through deed or trust (County Council) but in the hands of government-insider speculators. Major case of land grabbing and corruption.
Major cash is being minted in kick-backs for "feasibility studies" which are then used to extort more from bidding multinational contractors. Kenyan resources are being pilfered unabated through this mega project. This is one of the reasons this cartel in power wants to hang onto it beyond 2012 - to block the unraveling of this humongous scandal. On a seperate (old) thread, I posted links to the web of corruption and deciet surrounding the project.
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Post by politicalmaniac on Mar 6, 2011 18:48:00 GMT 3
Sad indeed
The Coastals need to be awoken to this environmental and economical disaster!
The mafiya wa mt kenya goons want to burn the house down on their way out!!
Where are the LAMU MPs and leaders?
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 6, 2011 22:03:01 GMT 3
Titchaz, I wonder why a profit generating port has to be sold? Could we be going the Grand Regency hotel way? I smell a rat. More later there is a lot of behind the scenes manouver in this issue and the one of Lamu. Please refer to the above youtube link by raynathan2001 and listen to what the locals are saying. Im glad the community through their various organisations have come up vehemently and are informing the public on the truth. This is sad in that such discrimanatory practices are still going on after over 40yrs of independence.Damn! |
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 6, 2011 22:05:23 GMT 3
there is another scandal in the making. the subject now is the so called deep-water port which is to be built by the chinese to serve greater east and central africa. This will swallow the island of Lamu, where that Chnese sea-captain whose name I forget, graced 200 years before Vasco da Gama entered Mombasa. And lots of mainland acreage where a super-railway terminal will be built amongst other container structures. The first problem is that the government has already earmarked land. To have claim to compensation, one must have a tittle deed. Nearly all indigenous people have suddenly realised they do not have tittle deeds, not to mention the rumours of a sudden spiral of allocations to politicians from Nairobi. Some tribes still went by the communal ownership thing, which is legally void in capitalist private ownership dictates.So corruption again may boggle the largest infrastuctural scheme to have hit the Kenyan coast ever since the Uganda railway was launched. This goes to explain to you why the successive governments of this country has been tactifully refusing to grant the coastal people land title deeds!!!....  |
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Post by tnk on Mar 6, 2011 22:24:33 GMT 3
Titchaz, I wonder why a profit generating port has to be sold? Could we be going the Grand Regency hotel way? I smell a rat. More later there is a lot of behind the scenes manouver in this issue and the one of Lamu. Please refer to the above youtube link by raynathan2001 and listen to what the locals are saying. Im glad the community through their various organisations have come up vehemently and are informing the public on the truth. This is sad in that such discrimanatory practices are still going on after over 40yrs of independence.Damn! listening to that debate/presentation, reinforces the fact that county governements/senate be setup the soonest possible so that senates can put interests of county first. kudos to those lamu leaders, this is the sort of debate we expect to see in senate, and put an end to the central govt selling out resources and pocketing hefty kick backs. mr kick back kimunya is an expert at fraud and a squeaky clean audit proof paper trail. |
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 7, 2011 6:53:56 GMT 3
Mzee,Job, Jakaswaga et al,there is a lot of behind the scenes manouver in this issue and the one of Lamu. Please refer to the above youtube link by raynathan2001 and listen to what the locals are saying. Im glad the community through their various organisations have come up vehemently and are informing the public on the truth. This is sad in that such discrimanatory practices are still going on after over 40yrs of independence.Damn! listening to that debate/presentation, reinforces the fact that county governements/senate be setup the soonest possible so that senates can put interests of county first. kudos to those lamu leaders, this is the sort of debate we expect to see in senate, and put an end to the central govt selling out resources and pocketing hefty kick backs. mr kick back kimunya is an expert at fraud and a squeaky clean audit proof paper trail. nakubaliana nawe katu katu maana bila ya hivyo wakazi wa Pwani ya Kenya wataliwa tu kama ilvyokawaida. Im shocked listening to one guy talking about how the 2007 PEV IDPs are being settled in Lamu....Jamaaani!!!!...What happened to their original places? Yaani wameona watu wa Pwani ni vilaza kiasi hicho eti they will not raise a voice to this 'foreign intrusion'...for thats what it is! This Kibaki regime is making me sick!...Arrghhhhhh! |
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Post by shifta on Mar 7, 2011 8:05:15 GMT 3
tnk said:
Amen!!
And that is why there are some who vehemently opposed the katiba, so now it seems the idea is to beat teeh clock by grabbing as much as possible. Once the county system kicks in, the locals will have a louder voice and some of these nonsense and thievery will get more scrutiny.
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Post by politicalmaniac on Mar 7, 2011 20:27:04 GMT 3
This Kibaki regime is making me sick!...Arrghhhhhh! Mwalim Just thank God that at least you are alive. This mafiya regime is a dastardly regime that have killed folks without compunction. 12,000 killed eti ni mungiki, ODM MPs killed, NGO leaders killed, PEV victims the list goes on and on, extra judicial killings, the latest concerning Bw Cheptarus. This regime will go down as the most murderous of all, yet some have the gall to yell about the 'increased democratic space' Democratic space my ..... Its sickening, I agree, to watch these mafiya clown and his cabal run down the country. There is nothing they dont screw up, be it food security, be it TJRC chair, be it Education system, be it the way the deal with privatization, be it the ethnic driven appointments to top posts, be it the implementation of the Katiba, be it Mau, be it the idiotic ICC deferral process. Just show me one good thing they can boast about that has benefited the country. Just one!! The next P.O.R.K, I dont envy the task he will have. Cleaning up after the mountains of the stinking mess that is the mafiya poop will be a real challenge! |
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 7, 2011 21:40:22 GMT 3
Tichaz wrote
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This goes to explain to you why the successive governments of this country has been tactifully refusing to grant the coastal people land title deeds!!!....
2. This Kibaki regime is making me sick!...Arrghhhhhh!
Tichaz,
First I was of the opinion that there was a limited window of opportunity with the rise of ODMs Orengo to the ministry of Lands. To date I must say the man is as ineffectual as to be complicit in the perpetuation of KANU impunity on land matters.
This kind of minister is what makes the difference between PNU and ODM be zero sum game.
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Post by politicalmaniac on Mar 7, 2011 21:57:30 GMT 3
jakaswanga
Wasnt Orengo the one who has been raising the red flag in so far as land grabbing is concerned?
Please do you research before lambasting him.
Who for instance provided the info that landed ruto in court of the Nairobi land plot grab?
Orengo is quite effective given that he is not the AG or the DPP or KACC chair PLO
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Post by kipfirimbi on Mar 8, 2011 8:19:41 GMT 3
And what is your benchmark and or yardstick mate? I think you are giving Orengo unnecessary flak here.
Am sure that the new constituion will give this ministry in conjuction with the Land commission board some teeth to cut and chew heavy stuff that at the moment they find themselves unequiped to handle. But if you can table those inefficiencies then you will be half way there in qualifying your opinion.
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 8, 2011 8:52:44 GMT 3
Port privatisation now Kimunya’s nightmare as opposition mounts Dockworkers demonstrate outside the KPA main gate against port privatisation last week. They were repulsed by the police officers who fired teargas at them. By JAINDI KISEROKey cargo handling services at Mombasa port will be undertaken by private operators if plans to privatise the facility are sanctioned, a new report by a consortium of advisers has disclosed. The report by advisers led by Dutch consultants CPCS Transcom, which was retained by the government to advise on the transaction, has proposed a complete transfer of responsibility for the port to private operators.If the proposal is accepted, the government will license multiple private companies to take over stevedoring services in all conventional cargo berths at Kilindini Port. Stevedoring covers shore handling of cargo delivered to open storage areas within the port and then onto trucks or rail cars. The private players will also be allowed to do all ship-to-shore movement and handling of cargo, rendering the massive operations department of the Kenya Ports Authority redundant. The CPCS Transcom Consortium includes Standard Investment Bank, CB Richard Ellis, Centre for Development Consultants and local legal firm Mboya & Wangongu.The group was contracted to provide advisory services on the privatisation transaction in December 2009. If its proposals are taken on board, the private licensees will pay an annual fixed licence fee of between $50,000 (Sh4 million) and $150,000 (Sh12 million), plus a throughput fee measured by the volumes of cargo handled. The second part of the privatisation will involve inviting private sector players to build a new container terminal on berths 11 to 14 and then transfer management and temporary ownership for an agreed fee. According to documents seen by our sister publication, The EastAfrican, the consultants have advised that the new container terminal be privatised through what is referred to as a BOT concession — build, operate and transfer. Apparently, the consultants have even gone ahead to test the appetite in the market for the two projects among both potential international and local investors. The report says that several local investors have expressed interest in the stevedoring transaction. Among them are existing operators of container freight stations Mitchel Cotts and Interpel Investments. CPCS Transcom has also held discussions with potential international players who have shown an appetite for the BOT concession contract. Prominent among these are APM Terminals of the Netherlands and SDV Transami. Both have wide-ranging interests in container terminals in Africa. For instance, APM Terminals operates a 1.2 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) container terminal at the Apapa Port Complex in Lagos, which was a concession by the Nigeria government in 2006. Will the experiment work in Kenya? Indeed, what initially looked like no more than the usual opposition to privatisation by trade unions has now evolved into a huge political standoff involving not only the dockworkers union, but a movement that has galvanised the political elite of Coast Province on a scale never witnessed before. What is more, the controversy is being fanned by the highly emotive issue of the ethnicity of the top government officials driving the privatisation project — with much being made of the fact that Transport minister Amos Kimunya, his permanent secretary Cyrus Njiru, chief executive of KPA Gichiri Ndua and the majority of the board are all from related ethnic communities.A stakeholders’ workshop organised by the Transport ministry and the Treasury to mobilise support for the project was almost disrupted by street demonstrations in Mombasa. Such has been the political pressure that even the Privatisation Commission, which coordinates all privatisation transactions in Kenya, made a tactical retreat, coming out to assuage the anti-privatisation campaigners by making the less than candid assertion that the government was yet to make up its mind on whether to proceed with privatisation of the port. In an advert published in the newspapers, signed by chief executive Solomon Kitungu, the commission said that the plans to privatise KPA were yet to be tabled before the Cabinet for approval. Clearly, the Privatisation Commission did not want to openly admit to the anti-privatisation campaign that plans to privatise the port were at an advanced stage — and that the government had even gone to the extent of contracting consultants at huge expense to advise on the transaction.To muddy the waters further, members of Parliament and ministers are joining the fray, riding on the anti-privatisation wave sweeping Mombasa to gain political mileage. Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka put out a written statement assuring the public the government was not about to sell the family jewels. And Trade minister Ali Mwakwere promised that he and other elected leaders from Coast Province would mount a campaign within the Cabinet to block plans to sell the strategic asset. All indications are that the project is going to be politically difficult to deliver, especially if the proposal goes to Parliament and the Cabinet. During the stakeholders’ seminar in Mombasa, Mr Kimunya dismissed the campaign by the Dockworkers Union as a short-lived affair, predicting that the anti-privatisation group would lose steam after the forthcoming elections for new office bearers of the union.The minister presented the matter almost as a fait accompli, warning that the sector stood to lose billions of shillings that the Japanese government had committed to funding a new container terminal at Kipevu. He said the Japanese credit was conditional on the government privatising the port. It will be interesting to see how Mr Kimunya handles the politics. He may consider forcing through the transaction by introducing regulations under the KPA Act — thus circumventing the Cabinet and Parliament. Incidentally, the CPCS Transcom report more or less suggests that this option exists for the ministry. In sections of the report on legal issues, CPSC Transcom opines that under the existing KPA Act, the Transport minister has powers to make rules regulating licensing of stevedoring services at the port. www.nation.co.ke/News/Port+privatisation+now+Kimunyas+nightmare/-/1056/1120716/-/item/0/-/4k7c4lz/-/index.html |
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 8, 2011 9:03:30 GMT 3
Tichaz wrote 1. This goes to explain to you why the successive governments of this country has been tactifully refusing to grant the coastal people land title deeds!!!.... 2. This Kibaki regime is making me sick!...Arrghhhhhh!Tichaz, First I was of the opinion that there was a limited window of opportunity with the rise of ODMs Orengo to the ministry of Lands. To date I must say the man is as ineffectual as to be complicit in the perpetuation of KANU impunity on land matters. This kind of minister is what makes the difference between PNU and ODM be zero sum game. I will join the others in saying Orengo has no much say in these land issues apart from whistle blowing which I believe is a plus maana some of these 'behind closed doors dealings' hatungejua. Kisha Kibaki and his people are positioned strategically in various arms of the Govt that control land matters. Why do you think they are not pushing for land reforms in this country?...They are the guilty party and Orengo cannot really do anything tangible to effect meaningful change. Kisha go check out that video and listen to it carefully. Kuna jamaa hapo amesema kua the plans to make the Port of Lamu had been in place from way back then but these Govts (read Kenyatta,Moi and Kibaki) have been strategically killing the heritage and ethnicity of the locals so not to face any meaningful resistance when the time to build the port comes. Hii ishu ya title deeds walijua from before thats why they dont give the locals that valuable paper. If anything settlement schemes za Mpeketoni and other places are occupied by people from outside the region. Kenyatta ensured that happened and Moi perfected it and the locals hawakupewa kitu. Now has come the time for people to rise up and condemn this injustice and demand their birth rite. Hebu fikiria eti people from upcountry who suffered from PEV and lost their lands are trying to be settled in Lamu!...What kinda BS is that? On this issue we should rise above party politics and just demand fairness for all. Hao jamaa warudishwe kule walikotoka na jamaa wa Pwani wapewe haki yao. I believe that is not too much to ask for. Shukran. |
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Post by Titchaz on Mar 8, 2011 9:09:15 GMT 3
Meanwhile my Jukwaa brethren I want you to see the double speak that is going on as regards the matter of the privatisation of The Port of Mombasa. The initial article I posted talks about the Govt of Mwai Kibaki through its mouth-piece, Bw Mutua had said that the Port will not be sold. lakini tazameni hii article ya leo kutoka Daily Nation ambayo ukiisoma na kutafakari utaona wazi kua Kimunya and his ethnic based cabal have already put into place the schemes to sale this crucial asset. Thsi statement should tell it all:
Kwa ufupi, this is gonna be like the Grand Regency thing and they will be a lot of noise but my fear is that, they will ram it down the throats of the citizens with no regard for fairness. They have done it before and Im seeing them doing it again only this time the repurcussions might be more than they anticipate. Bw Kimunya is biting more than he can chew!
Habari ndio hiyo!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 8, 2011 19:22:06 GMT 3
PM & KF
Lands, if you look at her war- or chaos-generating potential in Kenya, is the most fundamental of dockets, the peace-keeper, and in the last three years I still rate Orengo near zero on it.
About land was the Mau-Mau launched, so too is land a paramount grievance that led to the ethnic cleansing in the rift, post the last election. Not to mention the Saboat nightmare. This is a serious department requiring a serious head if reform be the mandate.
I do not expect the minister to be a mere whistleblower over a council plot misappropriated by another minister! those ones the non-corrupt mayors or the local councillors can deal with!
I expect the minister to act on the Ndung'u report, tabling 10 bills in parliament with a deadline for recovery; forcing into law the repayment of all the accumulated interests during the period of illegal use. [Haha the Dalamere estate! Haha Nanyuki airbase!]
Enough rent money accumulated there to lift the whole masai nation out of the doldrums.
But Orengo will follow colonial law: that when these tracts were occupied and annexed, no one held a tittle deed to them. Paraphrased as the whitemans highlands were empty before the whites discovered them]
The Kenya railways lands: Do you remember when IMF under SAP was forcing privatisation? Moi sold 500 acres to kina Biwott at a market price of ksh.100 per acre. Then the next week they were sold back to the new holding company at past ksh. 500M! The IMF fiscalist who came to supervise it is said to have had a heart attack, with Moi smiling at the wonders of the market.
These are the kind of things I expect the minister to move on, instead of some two bedroom appartment stolen from the city council and given to a now ageing woman who used to be Andrew Ngumba's girl.
The minister surely has the powers to institute a commission to delve into the issues of irregular title deeds in the last 40 years.
And I want to see Orengo going to Lamu, understanding the issue, and tabling a paper of solutions in parliament. Otherwise he can quit, like Karua did.
Nay folks! be the cheerboys or cheergirls of this minister as you like, I wont join your girlish giggles of awe!
He is a minimalist sleeping on the job.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 8, 2011 19:35:40 GMT 3
Tichaz wrote:
Jakaswanga,
I will join the others in saying Orengo has no much say in these land issues apart from whistle blowing which I believe is a plus maana some of these 'behind closed doors dealings' hatungejua. Kisha Kibaki and his people are positioned strategically in various arms of the Govt that control land matters. Why do you think they are not pushing for land reforms in this country?...They are the guilty party and Orengo cannot really do anything tangible to effect meaningful change.
Mwalimu,
If Orengo has no say in land issues, then what is he minister for? what does he take a fat paycheque for on behalf of kenyans. For such a salary he then becomes another parasite in my sights. IF A MAN EARNS TWO MILLION KSH. TAXPAYERS LOOT, I WANT HIM TO GET A JOB DONE, ON THE DOUBLE.
We know one side of the GCG is openly retrogressive yes. But one side claims progressivity and pro-people orientation. Then we must see by consistent action --like tabling bills even if they are shot down in parliament-- that the peoples corner is being defended in the august house.
Orengo can no do anything tangible as minister you say? then he must be brain dead, mwalimu.
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