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Post by nowayhaha on Jan 16, 2013 11:33:23 GMT 3
standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000075174&story_title=Kenya-Miguna-to-release-new-book-in-FebruaryMiguna to release new book in February By Digital Reporter Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga's adviser on coalition affairs Miguna Miguna will release a new book on February 16. Miguna will launch the book titled Kidneys for the King: De-forming the Status Quo in Kenya a few days before the March 4 general elections at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi. According to Miguna, the 300-pages book that will be sold for Sh2,000, will give an in depth analysis on presidential aspirants and their track records both in private and public service. He said like his first book Peeling Back the Mask, the book will give detailed accounts based on personal observations, experiences, discussions and analysis of past and current political situation in Kenya. The book, according to Miguna, will answer questions on whether the presidential aspirants are reformers or not. In July last year, Miguna stirred controversy when he launched the book Peeling Back the Mask. The book was received with mixed reactions with Miguna being accused of soiling Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s name.
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Post by phil on Jan 21, 2013 13:58:51 GMT 3
What else is new?
Waste of time, this is purely a commercial venture - nothing more nothing less.
The fact that it is timed for release at the peak of the electoral cycle is meant to maximise profits for the author who will again be publishing unproven allegations.
Miguna ought to be busy running his own campaign for Nairobi Governor. But like all else, the man has never been serious about anything!
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Post by kamalet on Jan 21, 2013 14:52:17 GMT 3
What else is new? Waste of time, this is purely a commercial venture - nothing more nothing less. The fact that it is timed for release at the peak of the electoral cycle is meant to maximise profits for the author who will again be publishing unproven allegations. Miguna ought to be busy running his own campaign for Nairobi Governor. But like all else, the man has never been serious about anything! Phil Easy bwana....si you just let the book be released? It is talking about 'aspirants' rather than 'aspirant' so why getting all excited??
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2013 15:22:35 GMT 3
But like all else, the man has never been serious about anything! you think miguna got to graduate from Osgoode Hall Law School. without being serious about anything? nothing at all eh? you're somethin' else phil.
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Jan 21, 2013 15:30:53 GMT 3
Here is an invitation to ALL Jukwaa members, particularly Phil. Attachments:
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Post by phil on Jan 21, 2013 19:01:07 GMT 3
Here is an invitation to ALL Jukwaa members, particularly Phil. Bw Oloo,Am unable to open the attached invite but all the same, I doubt if I'd find any interest to attend the launch of Miguna's book. I thus politely decline the invite by Miguna. Instead, let him look out for my own public invite to the presidential and joint manifesto launch of the CORD coalition - coming to a venue near you in the next few weeks. Is there any indication if he is submitting his nomination as an independent candidate for the Nairobi gubernatorial race or that was another of his many fake promises.
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Post by Onyango Oloo on Jan 22, 2013 18:14:31 GMT 3
See attached. Attachments:
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Post by nowayhaha on Feb 13, 2013 19:19:55 GMT 3
Miguna stings Raila in new book standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000077217&pageNo=1&story_title=Miguna-stings-Raila-in-new-bookBy David Ohito Nairobi: Kenya: Miguna Miguna is back with yet another book that hits the bookstores this weekend. Like expected he is bold, curt and launches another stinging attack on Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Miguna Miguna is on a literary war path in his new book Kidneys for the King- deforming the status quo which comes just months after the controversial Peeling Back The Mask which made headlines last year. Published by Integrity Books, Miguna Miguna has readied the launch of his 370 page book which delves into the politics in government at Panafric Hotel on Saturday where he will officially unveil his latest literary work. The book will retail at USD 27 about Sh850 for the paperback edition. “Everybody is waiting for my book and it will be launched this weekend. People know the quality of my work and writing and they will buy it I am certain,” Miguna said in an interview. Known for his outspoken approach, Miguna Miguna stirred the hornets’ nest when while serving as advisor to Raila on constitutional and legal affairs but was suspended in an unclear manner. It is interesting how he has changed the spelling of Raila’s name to Rayila. His first book was published by Gilgamesh Publishing and stirred controversy moments after launch and was further greeted with mixed feelings as he promoted it in various counties across the country. Miguna Miguna served as a senior advisor for coalition, constitutional and legal affairs to the Prime Minister between March 2008 and August 2011. Excerpts of Kidneys for the King mailed to the media include touchy issue of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the visit last October by the court’s prosecutor. Here are the excerpts: “Later, however, as I met the investigators in Nairobi when the ICC Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, visited Kenya in October 2012, they suddenly showed no interest “in evidence that will not help us nail the four accused persons”. They weren’t interested in any evidence against Prime Minister Raila Odinga. It was quite clear to me that a decision had been made (somewhere) to extend immunity to the two coalition partners. Yet I knew that under the Rome Statute, no one—not even a sitting president like al-Bashir of Sudan, was entitled to immunity. “Why are the rules being bent in the Kenyan case,” I asked myself...”(...) In Chapter six entitled the ‘Nettle sting’ he recounts the academic journey of his former boss Raila saying: “Rayila was expelled in grade six, two years before he could sit for his KAPE. Only those who passed KAPE could proceed to secondary school. Those who passed competitive examinations in secondary school could proceed to high school. And it was only successful high school graduates who would proceed to colleges and universities. It’s unclear from Badejo’s book, the story Rayila told me, and the information in his resume if Rayila did and passed the Competitive Entrance Examination (CEE), which was done in grade four before a pupil could proceed from primary to intermediate level. Needless to say, by the time Rayila left Kenya for the GDR, he hadn’t completed intermediate school and wasn’t qualified to proceed to high school. This begs the question: how did Rayila proceed to high school in the GDR? “IT IS NOT A CRIME to be wealthy”, Rayila declares in Badejo’s book. “We should encourage that under a free enterprise system. The problem arises when people use office to accumulate”, he added. “ That’s a classical refrain from many people in Kenya who cannot convincingly explain the sources of their fabulous wealth. “Rayila had given that “explanation” on the Kenya Television Network (KTN) on November 21, 2002. Badejo quoted it with approval at page 280 of his book on Rayila. On a quick reading, we might not have any serious problems with that statement. Rayila probably meant that acquiring wealth irregularly while holding public office is a crime. Yes, it is. However, the real elephant in the room is how Rayila Odinga himself acquired his billions in the past twenty years...”(...
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 13, 2013 20:28:25 GMT 3
Free advice to Miguna:
Please stay away from the PEV/ICC and nonsense about bogus evidence you claim to have. The PEV/ICC issues are serious ones.
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Post by euonyi on Feb 13, 2013 21:23:04 GMT 3
Free advice to Miguna: Please stay away from the PEV/ICC and nonsense about bogus evidence you claim to have. The PEV/ICC issues are serious ones. Unfortunately he is not listening... How a man can stoop so low... Ladies and gentlemen, give this a few months and once the coming peaceful elections are over, you will no longer be surprised at why some of these books are being written.
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 13, 2013 21:40:55 GMT 3
Free advice to Miguna: Please stay away from the PEV/ICC and nonsense about bogus evidence you claim to have. The PEV/ICC issues are serious ones. Unfortunately he is not listening... How a man can stoop so low... If he keeps at it, then pens are ready to do homework on him. (Don't worry, Owenga, there's no danger to his life.)
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Post by joblesscorner on Feb 13, 2013 22:03:48 GMT 3
Janyando.
I'm hoping that you have enough security and DESTROYER does not attend the launch.
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Post by Omwenga on Feb 14, 2013 4:12:42 GMT 3
Unfortunately he is not listening... How a man can stoop so low... If he keeps at it, then pens are ready to do homework on him. (Don't worry, Owenga, there's no danger to his life.) ;D ;D ;D I get you, Otis; one of those pens is yours truly. I predicted before the launch of the first collection of tales small and big by Miguna will be a big flop and I was vindicated. I once again predict the second collection of tales small and big by Miguna will equally flop and shall be so vindicated. Not that the reasons are not obvious but coming soon.
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Post by b6k on Feb 14, 2013 10:02:47 GMT 3
I wonder what exactly Miguna means when he says he is "de-forming" the status quo in Kenya. You can deform something, but if you claim to be de-forming it, aren't you building it up rather than taking it apart? Or maybe he was just out to use a word that rhymes with reform ;D ;D Phil's sourgrapes notwithstanding, Miguna has a place in history as the man who took down the mighty Agwambo with information from within. Another book at this time is the coup de grace
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Post by mzee on Feb 14, 2013 10:51:46 GMT 3
More of the same nonsense by Miguna. Who cares what this man writes.
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Post by Omwenga on Feb 14, 2013 11:35:03 GMT 3
In Miguna's Second Book Will Be A Major Flop Much Like The First One, omwenga.com/2013/02/14/migunas-second-book-will-be-a-big-flop-much-like-the-first-one-for-the-fundamentals-are-the-same/ I offer reasons why this second book by the vindictive Miguna shall flop much like the first one did, which yours truly predicted will be a flop long before it was released. I have since been proven right. This prediction is not even that complicated a prediction requiring deep analysis and evaluation but rather a prediction based on the predictable and being it's Miguna makes it that much easier to so rightly and accurately predict. We once again await Miguna's second crack at 15 minutes of fame and sooner than later, he'll be completely forgotten barring some remaking of himself.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Feb 16, 2013 9:03:20 GMT 3
Is Miguna's new book launch still on today?
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Post by topnotch on Feb 16, 2013 13:23:08 GMT 3
Is Miguna's new book launch still on today? Yes, and he endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta for presidency.
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Post by Omwenga on Feb 16, 2013 14:49:51 GMT 3
The book launch was a thud as expected by many of us. This from those who attended telling yours truly--and not all necessarily Corded folk.
Nothing more to say about that.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Feb 16, 2013 16:20:59 GMT 3
The book launch was a thud as expected by many of us. This from those who attended telling yours truly--and not all necessarily Corded folk. Nothing more to say about that. If it is funfair you refer to here, then yes, it might have been very low key compared to his first book. But the feeds am getting from the internet point to a book that could be more important and whose release very timely as we approach the sunset of the electioneering period with UhuRuto in a very comfortable lead. This is good, very good for Kenya.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Feb 16, 2013 16:28:38 GMT 3
Is Miguna's new book launch still on today? Yes, and he endorsed Uhuru Kenyatta for presidency. Thanks Topnotch. It us very hard to be a mzalendo yet fail to endorse the UhuRuto ticket. It is the only ticket that represents the realization of a true socio-political and economic freedom and independence, yet with a very realustic chance of winning. So good for Miguna. I know it is hurting especially to his former friends, but then, what is better friends or country? On this Miguna cannot be wrong.
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Post by nereah on Feb 16, 2013 17:21:48 GMT 3
More of the same nonsense by Miguna. Who cares what this man writes. wuodgem, ;D as euonyi counseled us elsewhere we have to be patient for a while: soon and very soon, when new regime settles down, truth will be spilled in broad day light of the depth and reaches of the rent seekers,haters and play-haters,contract character assassins and the web of intrigues that have informed sequential releases of anti-raila drivels from the tyranny of the numbers to the targeted infiltration and sabotage of the primaries in louland. this one from omin ondiek who i still grudgingly recognize as a great son of africa, is nothing but a conversation of the desperately wicked in kenya's far right. also see my take in the thread lesson from obama and raila odinga nafsi chafu !
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Post by phil on Feb 16, 2013 19:39:49 GMT 3
Oloo
So you and Miguna finally launched another book, great stuff!
Are there plans to promote it in the counties?
Let's see you book review.
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Post by gakungu on Feb 16, 2013 19:54:04 GMT 3
Phil, To keep himself relevant to the detractors of RAO, Miguna should be be encouraged to write more books on the same subject now that he pulled out of governorship race. Otherwise, he will cost Jubilee alot of votes if he go out campaigning for Uhuru. I pity this man!
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Post by kevoh on Feb 16, 2013 20:10:05 GMT 3
Miguna is aiming at the undecided and two weeks is a good period to have a read of all our contenders once more and why not. For those who have decided you can only agree or disagree. His message is for them who will pay to be reminded. Lest not forget 2007 we were a little deluded and chaos ensued after one of the most peaceful voting days ever. Miguna has done us a favour by taking his time to bring focus when it is most needed. some people have been talking about this election since 2008, they have spent a lifetime on who will be the next PORK on vested interests or goodwill, shifting partners monthly yearly or even weekly or Never: Miguna is just but whipping them back to focus from the attachment of concentration.
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