job, three quick ones.
i call them,
the essential house of mumbi. unfortunately,we are made to believe that every kikuyu including my senior in
jukwaa,
kamalet ;D is also "eating" while the reality is that those pillaging kenya's resources are just but a minority.
this concern has been discussed rather exhaustively in my roundtable,the so called
hurligham consensus group---a mortley grouping i would say---- and where a wag who is one of our founder members known for her strong revulsion for raila and those who believe in him,keep reducing it(as you would be witnessing here soon) to odinga nepotism with a list of raila relatives in government.you know as i do that this is fallacious countenance. fortunately, she is on the minority.
that note-withstanding,the list you have tabled is with due respect not exhaustive.i think it needs to be updated to reflect the changes. i can tell by reference to
jukwaa archive that this has been discussed in one of the earlier threads( new members may be interested to defer to,i think the
transcentury group's acquisitions thread).ooh! how i ravished those debates
you ,adongo, rr, oloo,dubious(where did this guy go to?),wakwitu,kithuure,kamalet et al had.and the popular consensus in the top tier of jukwaa's punditry remains that
the essential house of mumbi is setting itself up.
unless it has an equivalent of the notorious washington based
israeli lobbyit would be punitive if not futile to go this far when you are economically dominant,numerically strong yet politically reckless. for instance, in today's issue of
the star, some of them are saying that they will call mass action if
uhuru is arrested and charged in hague! there is no way you can hope to do business or secure your wealth when you keep rolling the dice,antagonize the rest of kenyans.it is risky.
secondly, i would want to share the whisper that is circulating in nairobi which vindicate this tendency;the reason why a segment of our brothers and sisters from mt.kenya are keen on dominating the strategic public and private sector is all about the last chance. eti, there is a target set before kibaki hands over power and the talk is certain strategic enterprises like the kenya ports authority would be acquired at all cost before kibaki leaves power.
i have also heard the whispers about a fast rising community centered micro-finance institution(not equity) that is set to outdo equity.the haste and intensity of its rise if being premised on the crave for mass acquisition and consolidation of economic power before kibaki's exit.may i emphasize that this greed, this avarice, this awful tendency,that
good old jj kamotho would liken to
dk kamau's lyrical admonition of the hyena that gobbles and eat every bit of carcas on site,is the folly of not a community but rather a clique from
the essential house of mumbi.
to say that all kikuyus are bad;that they are greedy and selfish and as such are all pillaging kenya with reckless abandon is an insult to millions of landless poor, the idps,the jigger ravaged,cheap liquor wrecks in kikuyu country and diaspora.
tatu, this issue,nay,concern,should be openly debated and dispassionately so.remember lawyer
gitobu imanyara at the height of moi's dictatorship,had courage to publish in the nairobi law monthly a list of public service employees in kenya including parastatals that was predominantly kalenjin.
the other day,the issue came up in parliament and
apondi brought in the moral equivalency,saying that so as it was in the beginning in the
op,so shall it continue in the
opm(my words).
i am aware that you have faulted raila(though i don't agree with you on this) on the appointment of her sister to diplomatic duty in usa.i think this debate must continue until mzalendo justifies his salary.
my pesa nane!