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Post by reporter911 on Aug 19, 2012 21:57:07 GMT 3
Wamalwa calls for unity in G7
Justice Minister Eugene Wamalwa on Sunday toured President Kibaki’s Nyeri backyard where he revisited the successful 2002 union between his brother late Vice-President Kijana Wamalwa and Kibaki.
Wamalwa called for unity among G7 leaders to capture the presidency during the 2013 General Election
no need to look further who are his masters directing him to mutilate the New Constitution using the background of his justice department office.. bure kabisa!!
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Post by job on Aug 19, 2012 23:17:42 GMT 3
Wamalwa calls for unity in G7
Justice Minister Eugene Wamalwa on Sunday toured President Kibaki’s Nyeri backyard where he revisited the successful 2002 union between his brother late Vice-President Kijana Wamalwa and Kibaki.
Wamalwa called for unity among G7 leaders to capture the presidency during the 2013 General Election
no need to look further who are his masters directing him to mutilate the New Constitution using the background of his justice department office.. bure kabisa!! History has its own way of dealing with such types...the Martin Shikuku way. |
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Post by roughrider on Aug 19, 2012 23:59:33 GMT 3
I still seem to remember Eugene Wamalwa being in the Ruto camp that opposed the elections. I do not see how such a character can be entrusted with its implementation. This is a gross injustice and a kick in the butt of the long suffering common Mwananchi.
What I cannot remember is any significant policy or other initiative led by Eugene Wamalwa. Does anyone? Perhaps even something accomplished in Saboti we can look to?
Wamalwa's calling card to the presidency - to borrow Obama's phrasing - is that Mwai Kibaki promised his brother Michael the presidency and therefore that promise, presumably hereditary, passed on to him. What silly, pre-historic politics from a supposedly 'young man' leading 'generational change'.
The Kikuyu elite have found a pliable 'young man' to work with in Mr. Wamalwa. There must be an important flaw that offers them hope that they can manipulate Mr. Wamalwa. Is he a Gambler? Womaniser? Alcoholic? Drug addict? Homosexual? What is it? Why would a young politician destroy his long term political prospects with such finality by presiding over a destruction of central constitutional principles we've fought for over decades?
All I know is that Eugene has tottered from one ill-fated political project to the next - Simama Kenya, F-K, New F-K, KKK, G7 etc.
Proud Luhyia are offended by the sight of two sons Eugene and Musalia proselytizing themselves before the Kikuyu elite like prostitutes along Nairobi's Koinange street. Surely there is still some honor in politics?
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Post by reporter911 on Aug 20, 2012 6:22:52 GMT 3
I still seem to remember Eugene Wamalwa being in the Ruto camp that opposed the elections. I do not see how such a character can be entrusted with its implementation. This is a gross injustice and a kick in the butt of the long suffering common Mwananchi. What I cannot remember is any significant policy or other initiative led by Eugene Wamalwa. Does anyone? Perhaps even something accomplished in Saboti we can look to? Wamalwa's calling card to the presidency - to borrow Obama's phrasing - is that Mwai Kibaki promised his brother Michael the presidency and therefore that promise, presumably hereditary, passed on to him. What silly, pre-historic politics from a supposedly 'young man' leading 'generational change'. The Kikuyu elite have found a pliable 'young man' to work with in Mr. Wamalwa. There must be an important flaw that offers them hope that they can manipulate Mr. Wamalwa. Is he a Gambler? Womaniser? Alcoholic? Drug addict? Homosexual? What is it? Why would a young politician destroy his long term political prospects with such finality by presiding over a destruction of central constitutional principles we've fought for over decades? All I know is that Eugene has tottered from one ill-fated political project to the next - Simama Kenya, F-K, New F-K, KKK, G7 etc. Proud Luhyia are offended by the sight of two sons Eugene and Musalia proselytizing themselves before the Kikuyu elite like prostitutes along Nairobi's Koinange street. Surely there is still some honor in politics? UKweli tupu.. but the two gentlemen seem to have agreed to be controlled by remote control from the Hague if they are given a chance in Statehouse by their handlers  |
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 10:32:33 GMT 3
The Kikuyu elite have found a pliable 'young man' to work with in Mr. Wamalwa. There must be an important flaw that offers them hope that they can manipulate Mr. Wamalwa. Is he a Gambler? Womaniser? Alcoholic? Drug addict? Homosexual? What is it? Why would a young politician destroy his long term political prospects with such finality by presiding over a destruction of central constitutional principles we've fought for over decades? All I know is that Eugene has tottered from one ill-fated political project to the next - Simama Kenya, F-K, New F-K, KKK, G7 etc. Muthamaki is the man and eugene is the second sex. He even does not have a home at that advanced age and unlike his 'father cum brother' the late MW, he has not sown wild oats. |
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Post by roughrider on Aug 20, 2012 13:28:41 GMT 3
The Kikuyu elite have found a pliable 'young man' to work with in Mr. Wamalwa. There must be an important flaw that offers them hope that they can manipulate Mr. Wamalwa. Is he a Gambler? Womaniser? Alcoholic? Drug addict? Homosexual? What is it? Why would a young politician destroy his long term political prospects with such finality by presiding over a destruction of central constitutional principles we've fought for over decades? All I know is that Eugene has tottered from one ill-fated political project to the next - Simama Kenya, F-K, New F-K, KKK, G7 etc. Muthamaki is the man and eugene is the second sex. He even does not have a home at that advanced age and unlike his 'father cum brother' the late MW, he has not sown wild oats. A first I was puzzled by the second part of Podp’s statement; father cum brother. But I did some sleuthing and what an intriguing tale. Straight out of an Elechi Amadi novel. It does seem like Kijana did ‘inherit’ his father’s youngest wife. Apparently, it is allowed – sanctioned actually – by Bukusu culture. Are there any Bukusu on Jukwaa to enlighten us? The product of that incest so the story goes, is Eugene Ludovic (again, who would conjure such exotic naming?) If you look at the two (Eugene and Mike), the physical similarity is uncanny. But so are the moral flaws. Both lived/are living carefree lives, unburdened by normal family lives. Both had/have a lazy mien about them. Both took/take life as if it was an endless sexual orgy. These must be the product of genetics. But the inbreeding must have compromised Eugene in other ways. He is not as intelligent as Mike. Ultimately, this is neither the history nor these characteristics of one we’d say should lead a straight nation of God-fearing men and women. |
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Post by podp on Aug 20, 2012 14:36:58 GMT 3
Muthamaki is the man and eugene is the second sex. He even does not have a home at that advanced age and unlike his 'father cum brother' the late MW, he has not sown wild oats. A first I was puzzled by the second part of Podp’s statement; father cum brother. But I did some sleuthing and what an intriguing tale. Straight out of an Elechi Amadi novel. It does seem like Kijana did ‘inherit’ his father’s youngest wife. Apparently, it is allowed – sanctioned actually – by Bukusu culture. Are there any Bukusu on Jukwaa to enlighten us? The product of that incest so the story goes, is Eugene Ludovic (again, who would conjure such exotic naming?) If you look at the two (Eugene and Mike), the physical similarity is uncanny. But so are the moral flaws. Both lived/are living carefree lives, unburdened by normal family lives. Both had/have a lazy mien about them. Both took/take life as if it was an endless sexual orgy. These must be the product of genetics. But the inbreeding must have compromised Eugene in other ways. He is not as intelligent as Mike. Ultimately, this is neither the history nor these characteristics of one we’d say should lead a straight nation of God-fearing men and women. the habit of inheriting ones fathers wife is or rather was commonplace in most western Kenya ethnicities (both dholuo and a number of current day luhya i.e. bukusu, teso, marachi, wakhayo, marama, kisa, samia, wanga, tachoni etc.). Say you father had 6+ wives and you are the son of the elder wife you could at the death of your father continue fathering children with the 6+ wife who anyway would be your agemate if not younger than you. additionally, just for geneticists, your grandmother, mother; your wife; your sons wife....all those women are visitors (perennial) and permanent guests (who will never leave if bride wealth) was provided to the places they came from. Hence only your sister is your blood relative, your auntie (your fathers' sister) and your niece (your sister daughter). You wife is not your blood relative. Hence your fathers wife if not your mother is also not your blood relative. Incest is between blood relatives! |
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Post by job on Aug 21, 2012 4:00:41 GMT 3
This week watch out for the debate on the NSIS Bill – paying attention to the impunity merchants, particularly Amos Kimunya. I'm a little nervous about the prospect of empowering Gichangi (& his team) beyond their current mandate. I think our misguided Somali interventionist problems which have escalated al Shabaab activities locally, shouldn't be used as an excuse to turn Kenya into a police state in this day and age.
The new Constitution's Bill of Rights must exert supremacy over expedient desires of impunity merchants to use village spies (embedded in the now disbanded provincial administration) and street kacheros to harass Kenyans - even over the internet. Snooping peoples' e-mails and phone calls isn't right - ati in the name of looking out for al Shabaab doesn't cut with me. There's also this culture in Kenya where officials of recently empowered outfits immediately start using the privileges to extort from the public. These kacheros may well turn out to be the next band of extortionists - Mungiki in uniform - robbing traders, businesspersons and ordinary wananchi.
I also sense danger that the ambitious dream to convert the spy agency into another quasi-police outfit may create the rivalry issues we are already witnessing between cops and APs. This Bill seeks to give the spy agency powers to:
• Arm the spies with weapons – like police
• Detain suspects
• Eavesdrop on phone conversations or email
• Arbitrarily search peoples’ homes or properties
Am I not seeing trouble ahead - given that these agencies have never proven to be independent and politically non-partisan.
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Post by reporter911 on Aug 21, 2012 15:52:40 GMT 3
This week watch out for the debate on the NSIS Bill – paying attention to the impunity merchants, particularly Amos Kimunya. I'm a little nervous about the prospect of empowering Gichangi (& his team) beyond their current mandate. I think our misguided Somali interventionist problems which have escalated al Shabaab activities locally, shouldn't be used as an excuse to turn Kenya into a police state in this day and age. The new Constitution's Bill of Rights must exert supremacy over expedient desires of impunity merchants to use village spies (embedded in the now disbanded provincial administration) and street kacheros to harass Kenyans - even over the internet. Snooping peoples' e-mails and phone calls isn't right - ati in the name of looking out for al Shabaab doesn't cut with me. There's also this culture in Kenya where officials of recently empowered outfits immediately start using the privileges to extort from the public. These kacheros may well turn out to be the next band of extortionists - Mungiki in uniform - robbing traders, businesspersons and ordinary wananchi. I also sense danger that the ambitious dream to convert the spy agency into another quasi-police outfit may create the rivalry issues we are already witnessing between cops and APs. This Bill seeks to give the spy agency powers to: • Arm the spies with weapons – like police • Detain suspects • Eavesdrop on phone conversations or email • Arbitrarily search peoples’ homes or properties Am I not seeing trouble ahead - given that these agencies have never proven to be independent and politically non-partisan. I thought the New Constitution covered all those areas? are you saying that NSIS Bill being debated could be changed to reflect what the Kenya Police security Intelligent apparatus want instead of protection of Kenya citizens? Kenyans are still reeling from the Extra-Judicial Killings that have been happening in the country at the hands of these same police intelligent apparatus!! ( Police brutality )isn't it why Kenyans fought to pass the New Constitution overwhelmingly? MY QUESTION IS WHY ARE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ASLEEP? they sure don't deserve to be sitting in parliament if they can't represent the citizens, Kenyans should sign a partition warning them.. NSIS BIll has nothing to do with Somalia.. it is there to protect Kenyans citizens from their own Police brutality.. I wonder how ordinary wanaichi's can stop this clueless politicians? who just think of themselves instead of the country at large? |
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Post by job on Aug 21, 2012 21:07:33 GMT 3
Anyone noticed how blue-eyed State-House wheeler dealer has lately been busy in Parliament? After successfully delaying (through the HBC) timely enactment of bills mandated by the Constitution (in stipulated deadlines), Transport Minister Amos Kimunya has now sprung into action. Last week, he moved a motion to reduce the publication period of four specific constitutional bills from 14 to 3 days. Pay attention to the nature of these four bills - the National Intelligence Service Bill, the National Security Council Bill, the Leadership and Integrity Bill, and the Petitions to Parliament (Procedure) Bill!What is Kimunya’s motive in now fast tracking these bills - after the previous long lull? To rush the process and avoid public scrutiny!!!! Kimunya and his ilk are now pretending to be rushing to meet the constitutional deadline of 27th August 2012. The publication period has been reduced from 14 days to 3 days; the bills are being brought simultaneously in bulk to escape tooth-combing; all stages – publication, committee, and readings – are being fast-forwarded. Kimunya and his anti-Katiba plotters (impunity godfathers) are hoping Kenyans don’t realize these obvious tricks in rushing important legislation. An attempt to slowly mutilate the new Katiba is being effected right before our eyes; using willing allies like Justice Minister Eugene Wamalwa, under supervision of Amos Kimunya and Githu Muigai in the house. Keep your eyes trained in Bunge this week; read the Hansard. One only needs to look at Wamalwa’s fleshing of the Leadership and Integrity Bill to the skeleton. The clear plan to reverse key provisions in the Bill of Rights is to be mounted this week through the couple of security bills like the Intelligence Service or Security Council Bills. The security bills are being customized to the liking of the Gichangis, Iteeres, Mbuguas and other PEV State participants. For 2 years since the promulgation of the new Constitution; the HBC-directed & Executive-controlled Bunge has clearly evaded touching on security reform issues; until this eleventh hour. The Executive has meanwhile left the rotten and tribalized police force largely intact – resisting proposed reforms. All its pre-2007 electoral-meddling units, extrajudicial assassination squads, and political propaganda units remain fully intact - with Kibaki digging in to largely preserve it. Here we are now, soon to witness this week, a rushed attempt to rubber-stamp these key bills with no public scrutiny, no public participation, and limited parliamentary debate. We are talking bills focused around our nation's security and the crucial matter of leadership quality! These have very heavy implications for all Kenyan as we approach the election period. Wananchi should demand public scrutiny and debate over these fundamental matters which the mainstream media is giving a black-out. Media has instead decided to distract the public through sideshows such as the well orchestrated and timed Miguna Miguna 24-7 publicity! Open your eyes wananchi!Meanwhile: www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1484374/-/9gj4eu/-/index.html |
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Post by reporter911 on Aug 22, 2012 5:18:55 GMT 3
The gravy train has already left port.. who can stop it? .. Miguna used as a pawn? to keep Kenyans busy with his come baby come book, but it didn't take long for Kenyans to see through the propaganda.. Kenyans can see looting, corruption going in top gear.. the question then becomes what are Kenyans going to do about it? Kenya courts are cleaning up in a slow pace, many corrupt cases pending in most courts including cases involving current presidential candidates, MP's e.t.c the coming months are going to be very tricky and sensitive.. instead of waiting for elections why not match against corruption and resettling of IDP's... hold on.. we don't want it to be another blood birth like what happened to the south African Miners... what course other course of action might Kenyans take? it sure looks bleak..
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Post by roughrider on Aug 22, 2012 11:25:36 GMT 3
The role that Mr. Wamalwa played in hobbling the TJRC is also important in assessing him.
It was one of his first acts as a Justice Minister. Walking Mr. Kiplagat back to the TJRC in spite of important public objections regarding the suitability of Mr Bethwel Kiplagat. As a result, a constitutional commission will now failed to deliver on its promise, and Kenya's past will continue to haunt us.
Eugene Wamalwa lacked the moral and political gravitas to make the important decisions that would have lifted the TJRC out of its morass. Instead he facilitated the return of Mr Kiplagat and with it, the inevitable death of that commission. Instead of doing the right and moral thing, Wamalwa listened to his G7 colleagues.
An entire history of massive injustice, murders, displacements, rapes, detentions remains untouched.
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Post by roughrider on Aug 22, 2012 11:29:35 GMT 3
Incest is between blood relatives! No Prof, incest is also between relatives by marriage. But I agree that in this case, there was no inbreeding. |
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Post by podp on Aug 22, 2012 14:13:16 GMT 3
Incest is between blood relatives! No Prof, incest is also between relatives by marriage. But I agree that in this case, there was no inbreeding. it was Okot b'Tek who 1st pointed out how we tend to carry along the anchronistic bad habits from our forefathers and adapt bad habits from the west all the while excusing our failures! What is a marriage nowadays? bride wealth exchanged; come we stay; religious ceremony in a religious building or temporary hired grounds; DC, Magistrate etc registration? And what space do concubines, mpango wa kando and similar squeezes occupy? Let me for the sake of peace agree with you while noting that 'marriage' is confusing as some friends announce that they are married yet none of the above took place other than frequent or disjointed flings many times with no issues as fruits of their labor |
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Post by job on Aug 22, 2012 19:23:43 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1484700/-/9gj7dd/-/index.htmlThe above report gives you a glimpse of the real owners of this mutilation. In the second reading of this Leadership and Integrity Bill (a process being rushed at the calling of Trade Minister Amos Kimunya and AG Githu Muigai), it was none other than Amos Kimunya himself who rose up first to second the Bill. After last Thursday’s poor showing by Eugene Wamalwa to defend the indefensible mutilation, desperately trying to rope in even the Prime Minister for the collective tear-down, his real bosses in the fleshing eventually stood up. Kimunya and Githu have finally risen to take charge of this baby of theirs. So far (in appraisal) they’ve ensured the crooked lot of wakina Mumo Matemu are forced into the now toothless Ethics and Anti-Corruption Agency – to safeguard against their future prosecution for economic crimes. Next they have torn down CIC’s bills (based on Chapter 6’s stringent integrity requirements for leaders) and given it to Eugene Wamalwa to sell to the cabinet and house. Kimunya and AG Githu Muigai have shown tremendous interest in ensuring this watered-down (unconstitutional) bill (alongside others for security) is/are passed expeditiously. After delegating initial presentation to Eugene Wamalwa, they are now rumming them down the throat of Kenyans. Na mta do?When Kimunya rose up today (Wednesday), his very first words were in castigating the media for highlighting the bill’s flaws! He then went ahead to extol and pay tribute to one of their own media (& legal) hirelings – a Charles Kanjama, who had previously written a silly op-ed in the last Sunday Nation edition - justifying why leaders don’t need thorough vetting, wealth declaration, and other stringent moral and ethical demands. Kanjama is a well-known known anti-Katiba mouth-piece who ferociously fought against the Constitution’s passage during the referendum debate. Without batting an eyelid while high-fallutin’ his accounts credentials, Kimunya lectured the nation why it would be a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME to require leaders to declare their wealth. He affirmed that no one can be criminalized for ‘prosperity’ in any court of law; therefore inclusion of such clauses into the bill would be ‘redundant’. Kimunya then mightily defended the practice of public officers doling contracts to their relatives, spouses, lovers and cronies – contemptuously bragging that Parliament can’t pass any ‘draconian’ law preventing ‘gainful employment’. He even went to the extent of warning MPs against ‘criminalizing business’ or ‘cutting peoples’ livelihoods’ otherwise (he said) ‘nobody would want to serve in the public service’.This is how vicious Kimunya was leading this status quo, anti-reformists fight-back of the new Constitution. Kimunya did not forget to remind Kenyans that there are already ‘lots of laws and sanctions’ and a Penal Code on economic crimes which the Leadership and Integrity bill should keep away from. His icing on the cake was another tongue-lash to media for peddling “misleading information’ to the public. Of course, Kimunya paid glowing tribute to Eugene Wamalwa and a host of other anti-reformists who sat with him “from morning until midnight” as they mutilated the original CIC Bill clause by clause. This he deviously proclaimed to the nation – was the ‘best Leadership and Integrity Bill’ to be presented in the House. That’s how cold and Machiavellian this Kimunya fella is! Poking the public eye with a wide grin! Before he sat down, he chided those like Karua whom he said were ‘playing to the galleries’ so as to appear ‘whiter than white’. He also made it clear that it is neither the public nor civil society; but solely the prerogative of MPs to write the laws of the land. Not forgetting to slight the public further, he said Kenyans would even fight angels if they became our MPs. All this is in public record in the Hansard.Next to take the floor was fellow integrity-challenged Trade Minister, Moses Wetangula supporting the Bill. What more could one expect from this realtor of our public buildings housing the Tokyo Embassy; and land vendor/salesman of our oil blocks? Next was Kisumu Town MP Shakeel Shabir opposing the bill precisely because it was watered-down to an extent it became unconstitutional. He particularly took offense that penalties which punish rogue and unethical leaders were peeled off from the original bill. Shabir also challenged the Kimunya group’s mutilation of the requirement for integrity in gainful public employment. In his view, if one is a Minister – they should keep off business with government (even through friends and relatives). Should they be caught – severe punishment must follow. That’s the only way to deter the practice, so he thought. Shabir also reminded Kimunya why public officers like doctors were rarely found in hospitals – because they hid behind limited companies doing private practice while on the public payroll. If the new Constitution couldn’t help address this prevalent problem; what would? It is clear where this Kimunya-Githu-Uhuru-Wamalwa Katiba-mutilation mission is headed...choreographed tit for tat; back-and-forth debates, generally rushed through the house....(as planned by Kimunya)...followed by quick passage of the watered-down bill by the integrity-challenged and threatened MPs...to beat the well-timed transition deadline ....then quickly signed into law by the impunity Anglo-Fleecing godfather himself.... but ultimately headed for a challenge in court. That's the nation's sole and last hope in safeguarding our new Constitution. Will the Mutunga court please stand up! It ain't over till it's over! Aluta continua!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 22, 2012 20:26:08 GMT 3
Reporter,The Chairman of CIC has actually criticized Eugene Wamalwa's antics - which have actually been fully endorsed by the Kibaki-Chaired Cabinet. The cabinet has largely agreed with these anti-reform measures; which is a sign of what is likely to happen in Parliament. Most in the cabinet are themselves ethically and morally challenged fellas themselves. I'm now informed that CIC Chair - Charles Nyachae - has promised to go to court to sue the cabinet for watering down the Constitutional requirements for integrity in the Leadership and Integrity Bill. I
For truly the ills this pestilence shall wreak
Have not yet been described in your speak.
---Paraphrased from the occasion of the first deployment of the gun-powder canon in battle.When the cabinet sits to okay such a haemorrhage of the life-blood of the new constitution, it is a deliberate deed of retrogression. If I were an Imam of that call, I would definitely find a scholarly premise to issue a fatwa on account of such a treachery against the will of the people, and God! None of those present, having taken notice of Wamalwa's thinking on paper/agenda, could have been unaware of the blood of treason in which they were drawing, to pen their names to this dastardly act. For these bills [or proposed acts] of Wamalwa are pure recidivistic impunity. Picture this cabinet. Kibaki or Raila [according to Eugene] chairing the session to clear the import of Wamalwa's mission. O-Kaying the deletion of the 28 would be progressive clauses authored by Kilonzo, and their substitution by those that derail the relevant chapters of the new constitution. Cheeky tough kids, no doubt. Playing with fire and not getting burnt. Content they can fool their way through, or bluff it off has been the political culture of our land. Throughout the centuries, committees of men have met to plot treachery, plot murder against one another, vengeance against a people; to conquer, enslave, divide and rule, and determine the fates of nations. These narrow visions, in opposition to popular wishes, even when realized for enlengthened periods of time, have always set the stage for the constant factor, resolution by struggle. Sometimes the interim resolution has been an end in horrible death for the dictator and his court, perhaps in such fashion as wintessed here with MS Sam Doe Or here, a disoriented Gaddafi with a tail --see end post. But these are metaphors no dictator, nor group of men drunken with power and bent on maintaining it at all costs, will ever learn. So Gaddafi ran around like a headless chicken, an obscene tail freaking out of his rear. And young Assad, hypnotized by power, lets what come may. Knowing this propensity of power to poison the rational senses of those who wield it, such that they live in a world of their own, where they think other rules hold, I will sign the petition asking them to think otherwise, but with the conviction that unless a knife is held to their throat, they will not bulge. I ask myself with much humour. If chaos ensues because the constitution is rendered worthless by these men, and I find myself in the position of the man who drove a peg up the colonel's butt, facing any of these cabinet fellas who opted to ruin the new constitution, would I really hesitate, or drive it in the deeper? And, if any of them were broken and pleading for his life like Doe before General Butt Naked, would I bother to prevent another from slicing them up, piecemeal, for barbecue? O my forgiving Christian heart! Do not let me down! For without you am lost! Lost, to barbarism and darkness!
Give me strength to show mercy, to those who have no mercy.
But give me strength, O God of Wrath, to be totally merciless to
Those who destroy the constitution passed by the majority of our people! An embodiment of a national dream.Picture this cabinet, Dear God, piece by piece dismantling the new constitution. The constitution which is the flower of national resistance to the long dark decades of Kenyatta and Moi, the constitution passed by a healthy majority to jubilations. Perhaps they feel as august as the European monarchs gathered in Berlin, more than two centuries ago, dividing Africa up like a cake with no regard to her peoples. Perhaps Raila and Kibaki, captaining the GCG, delude themselves, that the cynical ruthlessness in their minds, is absolute, dominant and intimidatory beyond challenge in equivalent measure. Or perhaps I error, and they are merely old men of gone minds, held captive by a younger more ferocious generation, and they, knowing their death is nigh, surrendered long ago and are mere puppets living their retirement in pretence. Perhaps the bureaucratic emergence of Uhuru Kenyatta, forcefully imposing his puppet Wamalwa upon them, and the nation, and in other ways reading them the riot act, has cowered and reduced them to shrivelled shells on the inside, and they have become historical litter that know they await discard, and would happily accept political euthanasia, as honourable exit. For young Eugene Wamalwa to force this through cabinet, he must majorly trust on some invicible force. But with material intimidatory potence. Raila has staked his last shot at the presidency on reform. To swallow this complete reversal of the progressive constitution from a mercenary lad like Eugene has only two explanations. There was a gun to his head, or it serves his interests too. This was worth a deadlock or is it deathlock in cabinet. LAST WORDS OF LA MARSEILLAISE [republic of france anthem] T oo long the world has wept, bewailing That falsehood's dagger tyrants wield,
But freedom is our sword and shield, And all their arts are unavailing. he was the king of kings at one time. |
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Post by reporter911 on Aug 22, 2012 20:27:51 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1484700/-/9gj7dd/-/index.htmlThe above report gives you a glimpse of the real owners of this mutilation. In the second reading of this Leadership and Integrity Bill (a process being rushed at the calling of Trade Minister Amos Kimunya and AG Githu Muigai), it was none other than Amos Kimunya himself who rose up first to second the Bill. After last Thursday’s poor showing by Eugene Wamalwa to defend the indefensible mutilation, desperately trying to rope in even the Prime Minister for the collective tear-down, his real bosses in the fleshing eventually stood up. Kimunya and Githu have finally risen to take charge of this baby of theirs. So far (in appraisal) they’ve ensured the crooked lot of wakina Mumo Matemu are forced into the now toothless Ethics and Anti-Corruption Agency – to safeguard against their future prosecution for economic crimes. Next they have torn down CIC’s bills (based on Chapter 6’s stringent integrity requirements for leaders) and given it to Eugene Wamalwa to sell to the cabinet and house. Kimunya and AG Githu Muigai have shown tremendous interest in ensuring this watered-down (unconstitutional) bill (alongside others for security) is/are passed expeditiously. After delegating initial presentation to Eugene Wamalwa, they are now rumming them down the throat of Kenyans. Na mta do?When Kimunya rose up today (Wednesday), his very first words were in castigating the media for highlighting the bill’s flaws! He then went ahead to extol and pay tribute to one of their own media (& legal) hirelings – a Charles Kanjama, who had previously written a silly op-ed in the last Sunday Nation edition - justifying why leaders don’t need thorough vetting, wealth declaration, and other stringent moral and ethical demands. Kanjama is a well-known known anti-Katiba mouth-piece who ferociously fought against the Constitution’s passage during the referendum debate. Without batting an eyelid while high-fallutin’ his accounts credentials, Kimunya lectured the nation why it would be a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME to require leaders to declare their wealth. He affirmed that no one can be criminalized for ‘prosperity’ in any court of law; therefore inclusion of such clauses into the bill would be ‘redundant’. Kimunya then mightily defended the practice of public officers doling contracts to their relatives, spouses, lovers and cronies – contemptuously bragging that Parliament can’t pass any ‘draconian’ law preventing ‘gainful employment’. He even went to the extent of warning MPs against ‘criminalizing business’ or ‘cutting peoples’ livelihoods’ otherwise (he said) ‘nobody would want to serve in the public service’.This is how vicious Kimunya was leading this status quo, anti-reformists fight-back of the new Constitution. Kimunya did not forget to remind Kenyans that there are already ‘lots of laws and sanctions’ and a Penal Code on economic crimes which the Leadership and Integrity bill should keep away from. His icing on the cake was another tongue-lash to media for peddling “misleading information’ to the public. Of course, Kimunya paid glowing tribute to Eugene Wamalwa and a host of other anti-reformists who sat with him “from morning until midnight” as they mutilated the original CIC Bill clause by clause. This he deviously proclaimed to the nation – was the ‘best Leadership and Integrity Bill’ to be presented in the House. That’s how cold and Machiavellian this Kimunya fella is! Poking the public eye with a wide grin! Before he sat down, he chided those like Karua whom he said were ‘playing to the galleries’ so as to appear ‘whiter than white’. He also made it clear that it is neither the public nor civil society; but solely the prerogative of MPs to write the laws of the land. Not forgetting to slight the public further, he said Kenyans would even fight angels if they became our MPs. All this is in public record in the Hansard.Next to take the floor was fellow integrity-challenged Trade Minister, Moses Wetangula supporting the Bill. What more could one expect from this realtor of our public buildings housing the Tokyo Embassy; and land vendor/salesman of our oil blocks? Next was Kisumu Town MP Shakeel Shabir opposing the bill precisely because it was watered-down to an extent it became unconstitutional. He particularly took offense that penalties which punish rogue and unethical leaders were peeled off from the original bill. Shabir also challenged the Kimunya group’s mutilation of the requirement for integrity in gainful public employment. In his view, if one is a Minister – they should keep off business with government (even through friends and relatives). Should they be caught – severe punishment must follow. That’s the only way to deter the practice, so he thought. Shabir also reminded Kimunya why public officers like doctors were rarely found in hospitals – because they hid behind limited companies doing private practice while on the public payroll. If the new Constitution couldn’t help address this prevalent problem; what would? It is clear where this Kimunya-Githu-Uhuru-Wamalwa Katiba-mutilation mission is headed...choreographed tit for tat; back-and-forth debates, generally rushed through the house....(as planned by Kimunya)...followed by quick passage of the watered-down bill by the integrity-challenged and threatened MPs...to beat the well-timed transition deadline ....then quickly signed into law by the impunity Anglo-Fleecing godfather himself.... but ultimately headed for a challenge in court. That's the nation's sole and last hope in safeguarding our new Constitution. Will the Mutunga court please stand up! It ain't over till it's over! Aluta continua! So they passed the watered down Bill? did MP's stand up to vote for or against it? is there a list of MP's who voted for this watered down integrity Bill? can someone post those names here so that Kenyans can take them to task on why they voted for it.. THEY DON'T BELONG IN PARLIAMENT.. they were representing their own interests.. bure kabisa |
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Post by job on Aug 23, 2012 16:52:51 GMT 3
Reporter,
It has not reached that stage yet. But Kimunya and Githu are chaperoning this as choreographed. A few amendments are being proposed through the two committees - the Justice committee and the COIC. It looks like a watered-down bill is what will eventually come out as predicted. I see this eventually ending up in the Supreme Court; where thorough interpretation of the Constitution will be anticipated.
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Post by job on Aug 25, 2012 18:46:13 GMT 3
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Post by roughrider on Aug 28, 2012 12:51:18 GMT 3
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