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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 14, 2015 16:06:37 GMT 3
CONGRATULATING TAWFIQ, NEW ODM SG, WITH HIS HOMBAY WIN. (but is he a cheat of a senator?)I am congratulating you on your HomaBay win, young turk Tawfiq. Moses too is a young turk I suppose. The choice of a new generation. Great win over Jubilee. Turn-out 50%, ODM 83%. I have seen worse turn-outs in mature democracies as would attest Tony Blair, the now toxic and decomposed former British Premier, hosted yesterday by Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya to much pomp and stardom, Old Tony, once a great liar, proved himself a good interlocutor though, giving Ouru best advice. The best politics is the best policy. And the best policy is the best politics.of course the rule is best advices are soon gone with the wind, that is why the world is such a political mess, and history such an interesting read! but that is another story. Today the story is MONICA AMOLLO, tireless now resting. O DM loyalist Monica Amolo never left her rungu behind -ketauru e chuny. Of course the ODM fraternity, given the lack of refutations to the doc, has anointed a cheat of a senator, and once more, in my cultural equivocation, Luoland delegates inferior material to the cauldron of mature gladiators. --I mean, Ababu, have you seen the story of the HomaBay doctor, and the picture of the would be senator, young Moses, with a neck-uphold upside down, and a fake bandage to go with it? Quick-thinking Big-Bro Tom Kajwang', a suspected Nairobi men-in-black organiser, had imposed the ''sympathy-winning'' bandages on his feeble sibling, and, to the horror of the attendant medical practitioners, wheeled his brother out for the legendary photo-op! Violence to truth?Okay, all being fair in war and politics, this bandage farce is the kind of gimmick we were treated to. To universal acclaim as a master PR stunt. It therefore has not escaped Luo cultural interpellations, that Monica Amollo, the truly tireless ant and heroine of the ODM grassroots bandwagon, went under. Much can be said, but nobody can deny the dynamism and hard work of Monica Amollo, her fanatism bordering on self-sacrifice to the party. With genuine emotions in her heart, Monica stood up in Rangwe -the Rangwe of Shem Ochuodho and Okundi and Oner. And by God, did she not drive her sale, blow the ODM trumpet (like a charged Verkys on the sax in Mikolo Mileki Mingi). '' Yawa! Ok duweya duk! Un Jorangwe! Uk duwe 'Amollo' duk mondo Jopiny onyier Luo! Ok dukwed ODM, chama mar chunywa! Gi ich-wang' mantieree duto nimar nominations ne ok obedo maber, pod unukaw ng'wono, gi hera, g'osiep me kindu kod Amollo Tinga - osiep ma ok pudhre, mi unumiya kwayo mara, ma en kelo kura e dala. Miyauru Moses, miyauru Tinga! An Amollo chiu, pok akwodu wiwu, kik ukwod wiya! Ketauru kar chunyu! ODM kende!'' Looking back now that she is dead, the '' ketauru kar chunyu'' assumes a dark undertone. It can be translated as ''put me close to your hearts''. Yes, in a cruel joke of fate, Homabay would give ODM her chosen Moses -a weakling who would not cross the river without Baba's hand, but, in exchange, the party would loose one of the most effective and ferocious campaigners on the trail, Amollo Mikayi e dier mon.Well, Ababu. Here is another looming Luo domestic you do well to avoid. Let the Luos to their self-cannibalistic domestics.meanwhile get to work in Kajiado!
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Post by podp on Feb 14, 2015 20:30:23 GMT 3
some pending and issues arising The former minister said the accusations were a well hatched plot by a few individuals who are not comfortable with Atwoli’s trade unionism and want him shut up. “We are not stupid to buy cheap malicious propaganda. Let the Police carry out their investigative work. Why are they not sharing whatever they know with the police?’ he questioned. The former law maker demanded for the arrest and probe of Mr Kambi over his remarks made at the burial of the deceased legislator on Friday. “The claims he is spreading are very malicious and defamatory. Let Kambi come out and tell the police what he knows about the death of the legislator,” he said. Gumo also called on Luhya politicians not to remain mum when Atwoli is being attacked in a disrespectful manner that is meant to injure his character. “We will not sit back and watch Kambi and a few leaders engineer propaganda and baseless lies against our brother Atwoli with impunity,” he said. www.nation.co.ke/news/-Arrest-Kazungu-Kambi-/-/1056/2623936/-/vk4xfnz/-/index.htmlthen there is the need for double speak as stated by he swims in a tribal fishpond. Their lowest common factor is the dictum, “Follow my Nyayo.” But were Nyayo leaders a lot more sophisticated than the ODM leader? Even as they had it their way, they always pretended to conduct a democratic election. Today ODM boasts of a handpicked national party leadership. It must fill up men and women of conscience with sadness and despair to note that even youthful democrats of yesterday like Secretary General Ababu Namwamba sit comfortably in these handpicked positions. The leader is meanwhile drilling them through the art of sycophancy. Our people say that stench is stench, no matter whose intestines may be responsible for it. It cannot be “bad stench” because it is from the insides of a street urchin and “good stench” because it is from the palace. If it stank when Kanu did it, it must stink when ODM does it. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000151661/the-tribe-is-ready-to-do-what-the-tribal-leader-says-from-kiambu-to-homa-bayso the warning is in order as we have seen Kamotho'es before and we all saw the sea sawing.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 22, 2015 19:27:37 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Ababu-Namwamba-PAC-Row-Parliament-MPs/-/1064/2631716/-/1243cw3/-/index.html THIS IS GREAT ABABU! It is possible to reason, having failed to recruit you –-like the poison-seller Ahmednassir loudly wished a while ago, they are now out to spear you dead. The answer to the why, is what makes this episode great. It would appear they have reached the conclusion you are neither bribable, nor co-optable to their corrupt agenda. He he -just kidding!? your are not a James Orengo at Land! Nor Gladys Shollei at the JSC, nor Ndung'u at CBK, nor So$So at NSSF … SGR … NCPB .. TSC .. KAA, ad infinitum! further --still kidding! you are not an aspiring black Singh like Teargas William Ruto, nor an aspiring Muthamaki of ''treasury errors'' like Uhuru Kenyatta, and, wolololo, you do not eat chicken like our electoral commission guys --Oswago, Hassan and the rest! In a country like Kenya where ill-gotten loot is a fetish and the holy doctrine is ''one must eat where one works'', it would make you an extraordinary fella. Jaw dropping. you know even the men of God in Kenya all preach water and drink whisky! Yawa, what is the world coming to when watu wa ingoo hawakulu kuku!?You are a clear and present danger to corruption! –-That in Kenya is a stupendous thought! For it means, looking at the combined wealth of Uhuruto and the corrupt coterie running their rule, you have said No to a figure at least Ksh. 100M.Do you know the figure which was offered to Caroline Mutoko then to push the agenda of a certain party on her popular radio long ago (Raila/Kibaki vs Moi/Uhuru!?) –-I heard she refused, but promised never to talk about it. But in Kenya it must be an open secret in Nairobi. These are the fellas who have reserved the title Honorable for themselves! Well well, Tawfiq. Between a crocodile below and a viper behind you up in the tree. [/i] [/quote]He he! those riff-raff you were condemning at Bondo for heckling Ngilu and Omamo (our ladies of corrupt departments) could turn out to be your best allies Ababu! If you really mean to be an anti-corruption fighter. your fellow young-turk mpigs??? they have eaten chicken and you are the shetani! Your best ally, Ababu, is Wanjiku. The common Kenyan tired of corruption and who genuinely would appreciate a non-corrupt politician. You are on the trail in Kajiado. Give the people the choice to support you in your anti-corruption crusade or not. Find out what they think! Publicly. For most of your fellow politicians from both your party and across, we already know they are hot to see you finished! But what does Wanjiku think? Well, argue your case before her.
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Post by b6k on Feb 25, 2015 7:23:22 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, pictures of Tawfiq's mansion by the lake have been doing rounds on cyberspace recently. Of course the inference is that he's living large on the proceeds of corruption yet he isn't the only politician who has built a palatial home since assuming office. Who do you think is hanging him out to dry?
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 25, 2015 12:27:03 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, pictures of Tawfiq's mansion by the lake have been doing rounds on cyberspace recently. Of course the inference is that he's living large on the proceeds of corruption yet he isn't the only politician who has built a palatial home since assuming office. Who do you think is hanging him out to dry? he he he! Many suspects including some unusual ones! But proof is scant! So it would be rumour mongering if I indulged! Wink wink!) (Can't type smiley on this handset)
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Post by podp on Feb 26, 2015 21:43:17 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, pictures of Tawfiq's mansion by the lake have been doing rounds on cyberspace recently. Of course the inference is that he's living large on the proceeds of corruption yet he isn't the only politician who has built a palatial home since assuming office. Who do you think is hanging him out to dry? he he he! Many suspects including some unusual ones! But proof is scant! So it would be rumour mongering if I indulged! Wink wink!) (Can't type smiley on this handset) At a meeting in Nairobi’s Parliament buildings, 13 MPs voted to impeach Namwamba over claims of bribery and corruption within the committee. Nine MPs voted to save him while two others abstained. Two MPs were absent during the secret ballot vote. The two who abstained are Namwamba’s deputy Cecily Mbarire (Runyenjes) and Andrew Mwadime (Mwatate). Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152980/pac-chair-namwamba-narrowly-survives-ouster-motionbirds of a feather flocking together A Nairobi court Thursday acquitted Mr Dennis Edmond Apaa, who is Ms Mbarire’s husband, and Mrs Ngilu’s son-in-law, Mr Billy Indeche. Also cleared were co-accused Isaiah Amwanzo Benjamin, Samuel Aluoch Otieno, Robert Mati Musyimi, Joseph Mutuku Nzesya and Lawrence Nguniko Simitu. The had been accused of conspiring to defraud the ministry of Sh26.4 million between January 2009 and September 2010 by purporting that Broad Visions Utility Ltd, a company associated with Mr Apaa and Mr Indeche, qualified for a tender to equip five boreholes in Machakos and Makueni districts under the Emergency Drought Mitigation Programme. They faced a total of 10 counts. mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Leaders-kin-acquitted-in-fraud-case-/-/1950946/2338914/-/format/xhtml/-/13r2vcw/-/index.htmlso we have to agree that either Ababu's deputy has been the conduit through he got the stamina to alter the records agreed. as to who would want him out there are two or so theories. Ruto paid Ababu to mess up ODM the way Raila's NDP messed KANU. then we have ODMers who see a mole in Ababu
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Post by b6k on Feb 28, 2015 0:35:56 GMT 3
he he he! Many suspects including some unusual ones! But proof is scant! So it would be rumour mongering if I indulged! Wink wink!) (Can't type smiley on this handset) At a meeting in Nairobi’s Parliament buildings, 13 MPs voted to impeach Namwamba over claims of bribery and corruption within the committee. Nine MPs voted to save him while two others abstained. Two MPs were absent during the secret ballot vote. The two who abstained are Namwamba’s deputy Cecily Mbarire (Runyenjes) and Andrew Mwadime (Mwatate). Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000152980/pac-chair-namwamba-narrowly-survives-ouster-motionbirds of a feather flocking together A Nairobi court Thursday acquitted Mr Dennis Edmond Apaa, who is Ms Mbarire’s husband, and Mrs Ngilu’s son-in-law, Mr Billy Indeche. Also cleared were co-accused Isaiah Amwanzo Benjamin, Samuel Aluoch Otieno, Robert Mati Musyimi, Joseph Mutuku Nzesya and Lawrence Nguniko Simitu. The had been accused of conspiring to defraud the ministry of Sh26.4 million between January 2009 and September 2010 by purporting that Broad Visions Utility Ltd, a company associated with Mr Apaa and Mr Indeche, qualified for a tender to equip five boreholes in Machakos and Makueni districts under the Emergency Drought Mitigation Programme. They faced a total of 10 counts. mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Leaders-kin-acquitted-in-fraud-case-/-/1950946/2338914/-/format/xhtml/-/13r2vcw/-/index.htmlso we have to agree that either Ababu's deputy has been the conduit through he got the stamina to alter the records agreed. as to who would want him out there are two or so theories. Ruto paid Ababu to mess up ODM the way Raila's NDP messed KANU. then we have ODMers who see a mole in Ababu Hmmm... Wasn't Mbarire the one who made such a stink when her husband was outed for giving PLO Lumumba a bribe, which turned out to be a cheque for some non-descript harambee? The fallout saw PLO hounded out of office. Now she & hubby are involved in another water-gate scandal in Machakos & Makueni? SMH.... When you say: "Ruto paid Ababu to mess up ODM the way Raila's NDP messed KANU. then we have ODMers who see a mole in Ababu" It takes me back to 2008 when Namwamba swore allegiance to RAO as a seething Kibaki looked on in Parliament. In short are you saying Ababu is nothing but a gun for hire? A simple 'ho' that will plough the garden of the highest bidder?
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 28, 2015 4:18:47 GMT 3
MIB fiasco.
Loud cries of how "Jubilee's dirty hand" in that will be revealed. Soon. And people be shocked!
No revelation. But a committee is formed to "chart the way forward" and have elections within so many days.
Fast-forward. There is neither "way forward" nor "elections". And before one can say "WTF!", people like Namwamba have been rigged in.
CORD/ODM supporters who want to always insist that "it's the dirty Jubilee!" and "Uhuru/Ruto has poured money!" need to think things through.
Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that Namwamba is a mole, has been paid by Ruto to do whatever, etc. In that case, we should also accept that either
(a) Jubilee/Uhuru/Ruto are so good that they can place their "moles" wherever they like in ODM/CORD and do as they please, or
(b) (keeping in mind that the fellow was rigged in by the "highest level) the CORD/ODM leadership is so clueless that it will even rig-in moles sent by the "enemy".
In either case, it is then not clear why CORD/ODM doesn't simply surrender to this superior force that, supposedly, is responsible for everything. Of course, there is another alternative: CORD/ODM leadership to take responsibility for their situation and get their sh*t together.
Money has been poured? People have been bought? Moles? Surely, someone in the opposition can come up with something new.
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 28, 2015 14:28:17 GMT 3
ON CORRUPTION I have a theory. And I have been viewing Ababu more as an establishment politician. Evolving into a cross between William Ruto and Raila Odinga. I will explain. When John Githongó was made anti-corruption Tzar, he was more of a technocrat. So, given his competence as opposed to many before him and those since him in that office, he wanted value for his money. Value for Wanjiku's money better said. That priority, genuinely felt and COURAGEOUSLY HELD , dictated he spend on an outfit which would give him data which could stand stand anywhere on the pillar of credibility. So he got Kroll and associates. They charge, but they deliver. Yes, you guessed it, some of the investigators who are hired by these firms to unearth the secretive offshore accounts, are the same hired by African dictators et al to launch them. They work for both sides. You get the service you pay for. Buying their silence forever is too expensive, silencing them by murder, too risky. Githong'o, for such an ABC, common-sense effort, did not last a year in office. Competence is not the quality needed to fill up these vacancies in Kenya. (That is a plausible explanation as to why Malaysia with whom we once compared in the 60s, has run rings around us in the development race, and is now 30 years ahead. At least. Competence and common sense running the show, of power!) So here is Ababu Namwamba Tawfiq. Undoubtedly talented. In my opinion the most talented of his generation. It is the story of the hyena at the cross-roads, two feasts beckoning. And he has not found it necessary, in the light of STALLED INVESTIGATIONS, to go for an INDEPENDENT competent consultant who would give data that can stand! (stand against the hysterics of would be Dr. Goebbelets re-running Mutua on Kroll! --baseless, innuendo, unsubstantive, cheap, ignorable!) His future so, our talented Mr Tawfiq, whose options he must ponder as a politician is 1. William Ruto (the most talented of the immediately elder generation to Namwamba's peers) 2. JM Kariuki popular politician who took a principled anti-corruption pro-peoples crusade. 1.A: having chosen fellowship in corruption as a disciple of Arap Moi, our black ;)Singh has it all: Filthy rich on grabbed public land and insider trading; and, howbeit, a rock-solid electoral following to parachute him to the presidency, Bensouda or no Bensouda. William Ruto holds the government of Uhuru by the balls, and holds the future of the country hostage (what do you citizens think will happen should the imperialists of the ICC decide to have him keep Charles Taylor company in Scheveningen Holland?) The power of William Ruto before he is 50, is enough to dazzle an ambitious politician, and at least in his fantasies I reckon Ababu can flirt with reaching an accommodation with the driven Singh. 2B: One has to make the decision on the premise things will continue being the same in Kenya. Impunity ruling, big scale graft going unpunished. Wanjiku docile and no power to take revenge on the lords of theft. Resigned to her fate as everybody's spitting street bowl. I reckon Ababu as an ambitious young politician with a future, one who read history in conjunction with law, must ponder that in his heart and hedge his bets accordingly: 2-tier track. Spreading the risks. 2. I saw him shy away from SABASABA. He was engaged elsewhere like Kidero of Nairobi and Mutua of Machakos (whom he later went into conclave with in Mombasa with Joho, as if they were birds planning to be of the same feather). He can not touch base with downtrodden Kenya, that is too deep, therefore a crusade against corruption in the mode of JM Kariuki is not on the cards.2B: He, the most talented of his generation has been chair of PAC Public accounts committee. As a lawyer he is very versed in a formidable man like Abraham Lincoln whom he quoted often in his articles in the standard newspaper. The PAC, in a notoriously corrupt country, becomes even more important than the other compromised institutions: EACC (ethics and anti-corruption commission) of Mumo Matemu; DPP (director of public prosecution) of Keriako Tobiko; NLC (national land commission) of Muhammad Swazuri); Parliamentary committee on Justice and legal affairs of Samuel Chepkonga... and, yes, more important than my favourite whipping boy, JSC and CJ's office of Dr. Willy Mutunga.It is not that Kenya lacks neither the trained personnel nor the institutions, it is just they these are facades, empty shells impotent before their mandate. They are dysfunctional fakes, earning heaven, delivering naught. Non starter engines. An ambitious politician who leads the opposition party as secretary general, pondering power while working in such an environment, can not be the tragic saint. Reality does not work like that. But in the way he conducts himself, fights his wars and defends his honour day by day, he can emerge the Hero. The best amongst the worst. For fate can deal a nation such a sad lot! It is not the ready made character of the hero, it is the evolving resolve of being forged in combat for the cause that determines the iron. As Ababu is engaged in high combat, fighting the good fight, we will watch him bend and fold in submission to corruption like most of his peers we call them Mpigs, or, a coin having two sides, he will discover the unbending resolve of the people. The resolve which has seen them resist 500 years of decimating foreign domination. Leaders faint and give up, their courage wilted, but the people, by and by, have no other alternative but to continue the aluta. Soon as Ababu proves an impotent d.ick, the nymphomaniac Wanjiku thirsting for the orgasm of liberation moves on with her loyalties, in search of a more formidably forged and willed stiff. That is the only game in town. Africa the liberate
as Bob Marley says in Caribbean patois. WIKIPEDIA. Please see World Bank /IMF figures too! MIB fiasco.
Loud cries of how "Jubilee's dirty hand" in that will be revealed. Soon. And people be shocked!
No revelation. But a committee is formed to "chart the way forward" and have elections within so many days.
Fast-forward. There is neither "way forward" nor "elections". And before one can say "WTF!", people like Namwamba have been rigged in.
CORD/ODM supporters who want to always insist that "it's the dirty Jubilee!" and "Uhuru/Ruto has poured money!" need to think things through.
Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that Namwamba is a mole, has been paid by Ruto to do whatever, etc. In that case, we should also accept that either
(a) Jubilee/Uhuru/Ruto are so good that they can place their "moles" wherever they like in ODM/CORD and do as they please, or
(b) (keeping in mind that the fellow was rigged in by the "highest level) the CORD/ODM leadership is so clueless that it will even rig-in moles sent by the "enemy".
In either case, it is then not clear why CORD/ODM doesn't simply surrender to this superior force that, supposedly, is responsible for everything. Of course, there is another alternative: CORD/ODM leadership to take responsibility for their situation and get their sh*t together.
Money has been poured? People have been bought? Moles? Surely, someone in the opposition can come up with something new.
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Post by b6k on Feb 28, 2015 15:05:19 GMT 3
Jakaswanga what a remarkable coincidence. I was echoing your thoughts (since you posted minutes before me) on the Digital Migration thread. I concur with you that we do appear to have a hostage situation at State House & how Kamwana can wiggle out of it without setting the whole house on fire will either make or break KE...
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Post by podp on Feb 28, 2015 20:37:04 GMT 3
ON CORRUPTION
I have a theory. And I have been viewing Ababu more as an establishment politician. Evolving into a cross between William Ruto and Raila Odinga. [/p][/quote][/quote] very wrong theory because both Ruto and Raila have their grassroots supporters while Ababu has none outside his enclave of Budalangi. some lessons from the past. It is understood CORD Leader Raila Odinga has told Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba in no uncertain terms that he has to resign from chairmanship of PAC. The CORD Leader informed the Budalangi MP that the scandals in PAC will weigh badly on him if he continues to serve as chair. The two leaders are due to meet again in the coming days. kenya.newsi.ng/news/253928-ex-raila-aide-sarah-elderkin-warns-ababu-namwamba-reveals-railas-fallout-with-kijana-wamalwa-was-on-pacforget about the headline but rather the original article that appeared in Star on the late Kijana Wamalwa. Ababu may be closer to that tragic figure which served as a Vice President when Kibaki was PORK than Raila or Ruto. on corruption there may be lots of similarity, however, but we all know PAC is Corruption runs through every vein of our body politic. Even the PAC, the last institutional safeguard against corruption, is not free from the scourge of this cancer. Using the state and Parliament, the forces of corruption have managed to emasculate the PAC and turn it into a gravy train, voiceless and toothless watchdog. It no longer has the voice to bark at and frighten, or teeth to bite thieves of public funds. It can only exhort bribes from thieves and thereafter silently watch as the thieves come and go, taking with them whatever they are able to carry. www.the-star.co.ke/news/parliamentary-committees-disarray
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 28, 2015 21:59:36 GMT 3
Podp, ON CORRUPTIONYou missed the concept of evolution. And then failed to decipher what a cross would be of a political animal. How does a cross between Ruto and Raila look to you? A Frankestein monster, or a glib riot like a Matiba Ken at his best days? EVOLUTION: True, Namwamba is currently no tribal chieftain. A younger Ruto was that neither, until, and this is the key quality, instinctively recognising in the run to the 2007 election that the grassroots activists were with the people and then putting the full force of his political mind and emotion on the land issue. ---even as he himself was a land thief! That Kalejin grievance and emotive issue of land, and his populist allegiance to it at a time of crisis, enabled him to outflank the then incumbent Kalenjin King, Daniel Arap Moi.In other words, the King-Pin Ruto today, achieved Kalenjin supremacy by identifying himself with a genuine grievance resonating within his peoples hearts. --This is the kind of thing no money buys. NB: Uhuru Kenyatta, as you know, became the undisputed Muthamaki when he followed wily Michuki's advice and became the sole defender of the Gikuyu nation, billed as faced with annihilation at the hands of, believe it or not, the uncut Fishermen, riding the evil wind from the west! And not the Kalenjin who were the ones ethnically purging Gikuyus. That is the power of the big lie. The fat lie resonating with inculcated traditional fears. Like Ruto's successful lie, that it was Raila who betrayed him to the Ocampo ICC, while it is actually his colleagues in Uhuru's cabinet who did him in! So it means Ababu can evolve into the King of the Luhya --whether they are diehard anarchistic anti-monarchs or not, if he were to identify their key emotional resonance and GENUINELY ride it in a crisis. (UHURU and Ruto have the ICC scar to prove for it --running a career-threatening risk. Raila too as hero of the second liberation. These are reputations no money buys.0 That is what I mean by no ready-made heroes, but forged and made. Ababu aint run no career threatening risk on behalf of anybody yet!Raila of course you know, was born a Luo prince but not a King. In fact he usurped the Kingship from the designated heir apparent, big bro Oburu. (Oburu mer berne). Agwambo achieved not only Luo stardom, but national prestige as a foremost warrior on the front for the second liberation. He is self-made by the battles he entered into. Ababu being young, still has options. And I believe I sketch them well. I am only mused by his lack of effective warrior instinct. As chairman of PAC, he could have run riot carrying Wanjiku's standard, and ingratiated himself into the affections of the masses yearning for Tsar combining John Githongo'os bureaucratic grit, with Raila's political wit. This is my problem with the talented Tawfiq. He wants power, but he has no developed instinct of recognising a --blesssing in disguise--- cut-throat weapon in his hand. He is like a man with a goose laying golden eggs, but throws away the eggs coz he wants yolk, not gems. While with one golden egg, he can buy a whole estate of yolked eggs! His chairmanship of PAC has been an amazing feat in political idiocy, and that is why the necking accusations he is onto graft. Everybody knows with his talent he has underperformed. And they correctly wonder why!? Why? He is still a kid, mesays. A child who needs a whip to grow up. Into a dog or a man! Let us watch him evolve! I still cut him slack. Using my experience as a classmaster's eye on pupils. He needs a hard groin kick to wake up his balls! ON CORRUPTION
I have a theory. And I have been viewing Ababu more as an establishment politician. Evolving into a cross between William Ruto and Raila Odinga. very wrong theory because both Ruto and Raila have their grassroots supporters while Ababu has none outside his enclave of Budalangi. some lessons from the past. It is understood CORD Leader Raila Odinga has told Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba in no uncertain terms that he has to resign from chairmanship of PAC. The CORD Leader informed the Budalangi MP that the scandals in PAC will weigh badly on him if he continues to serve as chair. The two leaders are due to meet again in the coming days. kenya.newsi.ng/news/253928-ex-raila-aide-sarah-elderkin-warns-ababu-namwamba-reveals-railas-fallout-with-kijana-wamalwa-was-on-pacforget about the headline but rather the original article that appeared in Star on the late Kijana Wamalwa. Ababu may be closer to that tragic figure which served as a Vice President when Kibaki was PORK than Raila or Ruto. on corruption there may be lots of similarity, however, but we all know PAC is Corruption runs through every vein of our body politic. Even the PAC, the last institutional safeguard against corruption, is not free from the scourge of this cancer. Using the state and Parliament, the forces of corruption have managed to emasculate the PAC and turn it into a gravy train, voiceless and toothless watchdog. It no longer has the voice to bark at and frighten, or teeth to bite thieves of public funds. It can only exhort bribes from thieves and thereafter silently watch as the thieves come and go, taking with them whatever they are able to carry. www.the-star.co.ke/news/parliamentary-committees-disarray
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Post by podp on Mar 1, 2015 18:32:44 GMT 3
Podp, ON CORRUPTIONYou missed the concept of evolution. And then failed to decipher what a cross would be of a political animal. How does a cross between Ruto and Raila look to you? A Frankestein monster, or a glib riot like a Matiba Ken at his best days? EVOLUTION: True, Namwamba is currently no tribal chieftain. A younger Ruto was that neither, until, and this is the key quality, instinctively recognising in the run to the 2007 election that the grassroots activists were with the people and then putting the full force of his political mind and emotion on the land issue. ---even as he himself was a land thief! That Kalejin grievance and emotive issue of land, and his populist allegiance to it at a time of crisis, enabled him to outflank the then incumbent Kalenjin King, Daniel Arap Moi.In other words, the King-Pin Ruto today, achieved Kalenjin supremacy by identifying himself with a genuine grievance resonating within his peoples hearts. --This is the kind of thing no money buys. NB: Uhuru Kenyatta, as you know, became the undisputed Muthamaki when he followed wily Michuki's advice and became the sole defender of the Gikuyu nation, billed as faced with annihilation at the hands of, believe it or not, the uncut Fishermen, riding the evil wind from the west! And not the Kalenjin who were the ones ethnically purging Gikuyus. That is the power of the big lie. The fat lie resonating with inculcated traditional fears. Like Ruto's successful lie, that it was Raila who betrayed him to the Ocampo ICC, while it is actually his colleagues in Uhuru's cabinet who did him in! So it means Ababu can evolve into the King of the Luhya --whether they are diehard anarchistic anti-monarchs or not, if he were to identify their key emotional resonance and GENUINELY ride it in a crisis. (UHURU and Ruto have the ICC scar to prove for it --running a career-threatening risk. Raila too as hero of the second liberation. These are reputations no money buys.0 That is what I mean by no ready-made heroes, but forged and made. Ababu aint run no career threatening risk on behalf of anybody yet![/i] Raila of course you know, was born a Luo prince but not a King. In fact he usurped the Kingship from the designated heir apparent, big bro Oburu. (Oburu mer berne). Agwambo achieved not only Luo stardom, but national prestige as a foremost warrior on the front for the second liberation. He is self-made by the battles he entered into. Ababu being young, still has options. And I believe I sketch them well. I am only mused by his lack of effective warrior instinct. As chairman of PAC, he could have run riot carrying Wanjiku's standard, and ingratiated himself into the affections of the masses yearning for Tsar combining John Githongo'os bureaucratic grit, with Raila's political wit. This is my problem with the talented Tawfiq. He wants power, but he has no developed instinct of recognising a --blesssing in disguise--- cut-throat weapon in his hand. He is like a man with a goose laying golden eggs, but throws away the eggs coz he wants yolk, not gems. While with one golden egg, he can buy a whole estate of yolked eggs! His chairmanship of PAC has been an amazing feat in political idiocy, and that is why the necking accusations he is onto graft. Everybody knows with his talent he has underperformed. And they correctly wonder why!? Why? He is still a kid, mesays. A child who needs a whip to grow up. Into a dog or a man! Let us watch him evolve! I still cut him slack. Using my experience as a classmaster's eye on pupils. He needs a hard groin kick to wake up his balls! very wrong theory because both Ruto and Raila have their grassroots supporters while Ababu has none outside his enclave of Budalangi. some lessons from the past. It is understood CORD Leader Raila Odinga has told Budalangi MP Ababu Namwamba in no uncertain terms that he has to resign from chairmanship of PAC. The CORD Leader informed the Budalangi MP that the scandals in PAC will weigh badly on him if he continues to serve as chair. The two leaders are due to meet again in the coming days. kenya.newsi.ng/news/253928-ex-raila-aide-sarah-elderkin-warns-ababu-namwamba-reveals-railas-fallout-with-kijana-wamalwa-was-on-pacforget about the headline but rather the original article that appeared in Star on the late Kijana Wamalwa. Ababu may be closer to that tragic figure which served as a Vice President when Kibaki was PORK than Raila or Ruto. on corruption there may be lots of similarity, however, but we all know PAC is Corruption runs through every vein of our body politic. Even the PAC, the last institutional safeguard against corruption, is not free from the scourge of this cancer. Using the state and Parliament, the forces of corruption have managed to emasculate the PAC and turn it into a gravy train, voiceless and toothless watchdog. It no longer has the voice to bark at and frighten, or teeth to bite thieves of public funds. It can only exhort bribes from thieves and thereafter silently watch as the thieves come and go, taking with them whatever they are able to carry. www.the-star.co.ke/news/parliamentary-committees-disarray[/quote] 1st and last red high light It is understandable that to consolidate itself in power, Jubilee would have been tempted to dismantle the platforms created for the mediation process. However, on its own, Jubilee cannot address Kenya’s problems, both because of the polarised nature of the country and also because some of the support for Jubilee was secured, and is currently maintained, on a rent-seeking basis. Kenyatta’s weak position in Jubilee has been demonstrated by how easily his URP partners get him to maintain the exclusive approach to public appointments, which disproportionately favours the core Jubilee ethnic groups, with the Inspector-General of Police and the Internal Security Cabinet Secretary being the latest examples. Discarding the mediation process will prove premature, since the resolution of all serious problems has tended to need dialogue. As currently organised, the only thing Jubilee is capable of ensuring is its own survival in power, but cannot solve the country’s problems on its own. Corruption will therefore continue, at least until the next elections.www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Corruption-Scandals-Governance-Post-Conflict-Society/-/440808/2638724/-/kelrnp/-/index.htmlAbabu will not be able to do much as regards corruption as neither PAC nor Parliament is really keen on fighting corruption, nor is the executive keen to. That leaves the Judiciary but with the recent past that institution too has no illustrious record as this article to todays paper paints Despite the fact the overwhelming majority of the contracts in which corruption is alleged to have played a role relate to the security sector, judges have also held that contracts relating to national security should not be investigated by state agencies. Also, some judges have encouraged anti-corruption authorities to pursue asset recovery through a civil process and not through criminal prosecution. Bizarrely, a judge even queried why the anti-graft agents were investigating the existence of a “ghost” company yet the “ghost” had performed the contract. Anti-graft campaigners say the ultimate test will be whether the Executive and the Judiciary will have the political will and courage to push through with the cases. Mr Kimeu has called for asset recovery and also demanded greater levels of accountability from those at the top.“The government is not out of the woods with regard to last year’s Sh1.4 billion payments. Many Kenyans believe this payment, like others relating to Anglo Leasing, was unjustified,” he said. “Corruption scandals such as Anglo Leasing only serve to erode public confidence in the government, especially when no action is taken against public officers, other individuals and entities involved.” www.nation.co.ke/news/Judiciary-Corruption-Reforms-Chief-Justice-Willy-Mutunga/-/1056/2639156/-/xrcuqa/-/index.html2nd red high light but the future being unknown I have to admit that your wish or hope that Ababu evolves is open to possibilities. let me go to literature to try and find where the probabilities did occur in the past to agree that the future is all game The cables are more expansive. But they offer yet more evidence that these two men are not the messiahs their fervent supporters have made them into. They are just ambitious politicians who have done very well to position themselves for the presidency. way back in 2008 when the GNU named its expanded cabinet of 40+ ministers the wiki leaks noted. A couple of ministers named have been implicated in alleged corruption and other scandals. wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08NAIROBI1041_a.htmlso Ababu by getting implicated in corruption is horning on to be a cross as Ruto's cash can surely be traced to a similar path and no hard work as he has no CV of sweating in any office or business that did not have shadowy figures from YK92 time. it becomes interesting when one counts the number of toes Ababu has stepped on described in this article in todays paper But some ODM MPs claim the relationship between the DP and Namwamba is only on the rocks because the legislator may have failed ‘to deliver on his part of the bargain’. The MPs attribute Namwamba’s woes to Ruto, who reportedly whipped up MPs allied to United Republican Party (URP) into voting against the ODM spokesman. The Standard On Sunday was, however, unable to independently ascertain the MPs’ claims. Similarly, Namwamba was in a brief political marriage with Machakos Governor Alfred Mutua and ousted ODM chief executive Magerer Lagat in what looked like growing rebellion within CORD. But afterwards, Namwamba broke ranks with his colleagues, regrouped with Raila and was made ODM secretary general. This apparent string of betrayals has seemingly earned Namwamba many political foes. At a personal level, Teso North MP Arthur Odera remembers playing a key role in Namwamba’s campaign for the position of PAC chairman. “But once safely in office, I stopped being of any value to my brother. He neither conferred with me on anything nor sought any related help. He even faced the PAC challenge solely because he had lost favour with many friends along the way,” says Odera who also hails from Busia County. www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000153288/more-battles-lie-in-wait-for-brazen-ababu/?articleID=2000153288&story_title=more-battles-lie-in-wait-for-brazen-ababu&pageNo=2so next week we wait to see if the ethnic card will be pulled, 'our Luhyas are being finished' and who will be its audience as last time he pulled it on Raila it worked to secure the SG of ODM position.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 2, 2015 20:38:38 GMT 3
PODP WROTE: Podp, it is a wish or a hopeful prediction which fills me with trepidation nonetheless. I admit, for a man of reputed talent, the underperformance of Tawfiq at PAC raises disturbing questions. --I am haunted by the image of the late prof. George Saitoti. This was an exceedingly brilliant man, one highly trained and with a perfect understanding of econometric models. Arap Moi, for all his reputed anti-intellectualism which Dr. David Ndii so ferociously castigates, had the foresight to put the young professor in charge of finance and economics. The result was economic collapse. Total failure. The Kikuyu-come-Maasai whizz-kid George, excelled in ruining the nation and mutated into one of the state's most celebrated looters. This is why when sometime back the Mpigs declared only graduates would be eligible for candidacy to the august house, I laughed. If an outstanding genius like George Saitoti could end up an outstanding failure in office, I wouldn't be so sure the Cum Laude grade is the issue in state rule. NB: I am told Richard Nixon once put down his secretary of state Kissinger thus, after being corrupted by Mao Tse Tung during drink. These two villains really hit it together, folklore goes. Mao had told his fellow knave Nixon, that his foreign minister Chou en Lai was cleverer than him (Mao), but he (Chou) was always his dog. Nixon then looked over at Kissinger, ''that goes for you too, Henry. Cleverer than me your boss, but doomed forever to be my dog!'' Well, when Ababu was protesting his innocence recently as he fought to maintain his PAC chair, claiming he was fighting graft all the way to the president's office, and corruption was fighting back at him with insinuations and baseless accusations, I put my forehead into my forked palm and scratched my head the way I have seen some of b6k's veteran friends do, over there at the State Department, when Jen Psaki is decidedly having an upbeat day in her own opinion. I was thinking: why is Ababu charging forward with his flanks all open? I mean, he is the new SG of ODM. ODM has just published a thorough document indicting the Kisumu county Expenditure committee, where the deputy speaker Anne Adul has embezzled over 15M in corrupt dealings. The ODM SG, in his own self-expressed opinion, an anti-corruption fighting knight in shining armour, has (to date to the best of my knowledge) not found it necessary to call his party bureaucrats to order, or explain to the people of Kisumu why they should tolerate this kind of ODM Jubilee-patented rot; and here he was pointing his sword at state House? Was this not quixotic pantomime unworthy of a political rising star? Wa this not the customary hypocritical negligence of an old fool, fooling around in public!? What happened to charity begins at home? What happened to removing the speck in ones eye before venturing out to see for others? This is what I mean by Ababu needs his balls kicked. If I were working for Uhuru Kenyatta as a PR man ---that is a man paid to lie strategically, I would whisper to the press that the helicopters Tawfiq used to campaign belongs to the same airline company Anne Adul is doing corruption with, and that he and Adul are in league ripping off Kisumu, that is why he is silent, preferring to deflect attention from the rot in his house! By the time the youngster would have extricated himself from that lie, he would have had to work round the clock on to repair his integrity! But my hope is optimistic in the belief that Ababu, in I disagreeessment, cannot sell himself cheaply because he has deterrence: That fates of Muskari Kombo --used an dumped by PNU; the fate of Eugene Wamalwa --used and discarded the way (former IMF chief) DSK uses and discards prostitutes during orgies; the tribulations of Musalia Mudavadi ---tricked, prostituted and forgotten in the gutter. These men are all Baluhya. I credit Ababu with enough survival instinct to learn from the sad fates of his fellow tribesmen who sold out. Sell yourself, be a rich street dog. NB: I have always discounted Ababu selling himself to Ruto. He would not even be able to carry Budalangi along to URP if he left ODM as a traitor. He would merely be the latest one of the above fellow tribesmen!
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Post by podp on Mar 2, 2015 23:06:33 GMT 3
quote] But my hope is optimistic in the belief that Ababu, in I disagreeessment, cannot sell himself cheaply because he has deterrence: That fates of Muskari Kombo --used an dumped by PNU; the fate of Eugene Wamalwa --used and discarded the way (former IMF chief) DSK uses and discards prostitutes during orgies; the tribulations of Musalia Mudavadi ---tricked, prostituted and forgotten in the gutter.
These men are all Baluhya. I credit Ababu with enough survival instinct to learn from the sad fates of his fellow tribesmen who sold out. Sell yourself, be a rich street dog.
NB: I have always discounted Ababu selling himself to Ruto. He would not even be able to carry Budalangi along to URP if he left ODM as a traitor. He would merely be the latest one of the above fellow tribesmen! The definition of insanity attributed to Albert Einstein is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But Obama and the War Party are not insane. There is actually a logic to all of this. But it has nothing to do with protecting America, or Shias from the Sunnis or Sunnis from the Shias. Certainly it has nothing to do with building democracy or defending human rights. Or punishing violent thugs, a category that includes members of Obama's Middle East Coalition. The only explanation that makes sense for this policy is that it serves the US governing class in its determination to maintain its dominant influence in the world -- also known as Imperialism. www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-faux/whack-a-mole-our-strategy_b_5899936.htmlon corruption we appear to be in agreement. it is the above that I find very fresh. on that score so far Ababu is playing by the 'bad books' namely 48 laws of power and the Prince. however where Ruto and Raila are still way ahead of him is their reliance on 'think tanks' both kitchen and eye on the ground or rather 'street wise'. however that might also be evolving as you stated earlier. "We are watching keenly to see how our brothers in ODM are treating us before we take our next move," said Ombima who admitted that other outside forces are also involved. He said the silence from MPs from the Luhya community over the matter is an indication that they are keenly observing how things are shaping up in the party. www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000153354/leaders-defend-pac-chair-ababu-namwambahe will have to start recruiting, if he has not done so already, attack dogs and trial balloon blowers. a reader had this rejoinder to a lead story...That Namwamba is a lone ranger sounds familiar!! He was accused of the same when he was ousted previously as the chair of the Legal Affairs Committee in the previous parliament. These accusations may have to do with the personality of Namwamba. I guess, part of his problems have to do with his arrogance and a bloated ego!! He deserves to be shoved off the PAC's chair!! www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Ababu-Namwamba-PAC-Row-Parliament-MPs/-/1064/2631716/-/1243cw3/-/index.htmlhe needs to take the advise once given when he briefly served as sports minister if he is to be any different in the future from the street dogs in the red high light above. She said that the tendency towards solo ventures is bad for any economy and Kenya entrepreneurs have to look beyond individual practice and embrace the concept of partnerships as an essential component for longevity and growth. “The country needs to see how the rest of the world is moving and strategic partnership is the way to go if Kenya is to break through into the global market,’’ said Freeman. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-89219/search-kenyan-identitynow identity is one of those hard to get items, especially one that electrifies as Ruto and Raila do with their constituencies. the baLuhya like the aMeru consist of an amalgamation of different people the European colonizers heaped together. compounded to that is their proven belief of not being able to be herded like sheep as we easily can discern of the Kikuyu and Luo communities. that makes Ababu's task of even just getting the greater Busia to tug along him a hard task leave alone Diaspora Luhya i.e. Kakamega, Vihiga, Bungoma and Trans Nzoia. it is that phenomena that makes traveling the street dog path the easier path. however some ray in the youth bulge gives ababu an advantage that he can latch on and if smart ride. again the youth need to be of calibre like the TNA chairman and secretary general type and not lumpen proletariat type.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 5, 2015 21:37:24 GMT 3
Podp, this could be the kick in the groin. The talented Mr. Namwamba has been given a broadside and lies dazed on the street. I remember the eloquent PLO too, his jaw broken in the anti-corruption fight after he took a present.
Young Namwamba fwacked up bad, and is paying the price. Lucky he is still young enough to recover from his mistake, unless the mistake is he was bought too. When you are bought you stay bought, it is like the virginity thing, repair surgeries are just facades for swindling purposes
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Post by podp on Mar 5, 2015 22:23:12 GMT 3
Podp, this could be the kick in the groin. The talented Mr. Namwamba has been given a broadside and lies dazed on the street. I remember the eloquent PLO too, his jaw broken in the anti-corruption fight after he took a present. Young Namwamba fwacked up bad, and is paying the price. Lucky he is still young enough to recover from his mistake, unless the mistake is he was bought too. When you are bought you stay bought, it is like the virginity thing, repair surgeries are just facades for swindling purposes... A resolution was made to have a code of conduct for MPs developed. The Powers and Privileges Committee has until August to come up with one. [/quote] listen to poor PLO here while he was in Uganda recently asking us to embrace what is happening in Ug www.facebook.com/video.php?v=741757249231980&set=vb.100001931341470&type=2&theaterso would you say he has recovered? if yes Ababu has a path to follow but question is if the same parliament removed PLO why will it, parliament, not victimize Ababu, assuming he was trying to fight corruption? somehow I find it more prudent to think that stronger and more connected corrupt parliamentarians fronting corruption cartels have elbowed Ababu from the pig trough so as to feed themselves as for Ababu the die is cast. he will lose his parliamentary seat and I wonder if ODM will retain him as their SG If found guilty, Namwamba and the three members of his committee will lose their seats as per the Constitution. The law states that State officers found to be engaging in unethical affairs will be in gross violation of the Constitution, and hence not fit to hold public office. mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/peopledaily/139253/fresh-graft-probe-send-ababu-mps-home-tenures/
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 6, 2015 21:39:57 GMT 3
LIFE AND FIMES: THE TRIBULATIONS OF OBI OKONKWO REVISITED.Tawfiq, I always warned you left your flank wide, wide open like an amateur. And in the rules of dread combat, I admire the ferocity with which the pugnacious Jubilee attack-dog, Honourable Aden Duale, has gone for your kidneys. To boot, he accompanied it with a contemptuous curl of the lips, a dismissive snarl. He said: 'Ababu is a mere rent seeker like the rest in that committee!'. --This is vintage, the same frontal judo-grab with which he tackled Alfred Keter in his Nandi hometurf: ' yeye ni bubu huko legico, hana ;;:::::!' and then recently, the URP recalcitrant Bomet governor Isaac Rutto: 'hii pesa si ya mama yako omera!'' Stung, the temperamental man from Bomet went for his Rungu, to import upon the upstart miraa-goon the dangers of a foul mouth, and it was a quick-footed one (I do not remember his name) who saved the skull of the Somali from a career-ending fracture. As for the late Mapambano Kajwang', Duale punched him silly by reminding him in derision, that, had he only been less greedy and distributed to Jaluos, the 1/2 a million illegal identity cards he took bribes from illegals for, his demigod Raila Odinga would have won the presidency pants down! As for smart-alec lawyer James Orengo, doyen of sorts of the second liberation, Aden Duale spit on his face and, in patented, classical American marine bootcamp fashion, barked him down: 'dare open your mouth at me in retort, and I will skull fwack you to death!' Take a look in short, Tawfiq. www.businessdailyafrica.com/Jubilee-MPs-sound-warning-to-Orengo-over-Lamu-land/-/539546/2410642/-/vowrh8z/-/index.html With that wicked stalemating charge, Aden drove the oxygen out of Ajimmy's brains and you never heard of him again on land issues, smart lawyer he be! That is what I mean by once you are bought you stay bought. Mudavadi will stay bought. That is just that. It is a lesson a group of fellows I knew tried on two occasions to explain to Rarieda's Raphael Tuju in the aborted run to his presidential bid, but he would not listen. --They had this idea Tuju is a good enough administrator to be given some bone in Luoland. All he had to do was go to his creator, confess in supplication and like Nyong'o, say: 'Use me as you wish, O great King!' Second, he had to go to the people of Rarieda and do the mea culpa of mea culpas, for having 'disinherited' Owiti Malomalo (.. kind of .. Jacob/Esau fashion). It is common knowledge Owiti Malomalo beat the sh!t out of Rapho at the ballot box but Raph's cash convinced the corrupt Raila court to rig him in. When he turned against Raila, his maker, the same double-dealing court spilled the beans: 'guok aguoka olokore gi wuon-go!'' ''Watch the dog turn on its master!'' Ruthless and long can be the memory of a people when they decide to exact revenge. A decade ago when Bosnia Hercegovina was breaking up and Serbs faced Muslims, the marauding Serb battalions were reciting poetry from 500 years ago, on the battle of Maritsa in 1371, and the battle of Kosovo in 1389, against Muslim Turks. Anyway, I like Aden Duale's style because he brings a vindictive ruthlessness to the game which is the true character of William Ruto. It sieves men From my soldier days I learnt to like men who are integrated within. They call your bluff to your face, eyeball to eyeball and dare you to death. So are fakes smoked out, sieved. ''Ababu Namwamba is a mere rent seeker!' Ha! only yesterday Mr. Namwamba was claiming he would fight corruption all the way to the president's office! --This is the president who, himself without cajole, proclaimed in public that his office was the epicenter of corruption, and therein the security dockets were the worst offenders! So, Duale is just saying, where is the evidence Ababu has been soldiering against HA HA HA! --we do not know who runs the security dockets Kenyatta was wailing about!? The bluff is called ''Mere rent seeker''. Lets wait and see if Tawfiq Ababu Namwamba, is just like Orengo and the rest of the ODM bluffing fakes who have helped trap Raila's ambitions in a web of cretin greed.Aden Duale, he is a golden puncher while it lasts. NB: Ababu, it is good to be hit some time by a mean puncher. You get to know the depth of air your lungs hold, and the amount of rubber or steel in your knees. And of course, your own capacity to counter punch. I can only think of my favourite book, No longer at ease. Achebe writes with that invisible wink which is perceptible, nearly as if he does not take himself seriously, the way wole Soyinka for instance does in the interpreters and the rest of his works. How did it come to this, Mr. Green asks, looking at Obi Okonkwo in the dock! Or the Nigerian army against Boko Haram for all I know! How did such a talented young man become a ''mere rent seeker'' in such a crucial job!? Don't I love art!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 10, 2015 21:29:52 GMT 3
WHO IS DEFENCE SECRETARY MUTEA IRINGO?www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Iringo-trying-to-kick-me-out-of-PAC/-/1064/2647612/-/13j6tdjz/-/index.html I just want to calculate the ''tea-rate''. The petty rate, that is the kick-back rate, is first, a basic 10%. Including tax charge. By guilt, rotten Iringo and co owe the PAC rent-seekers a bribe of ksh. 0.3 billion. But in the spirit of mediocrity, even the briberies and the bribed are mediocre, going by these reports. How does business look like in Parliamentary committees? The DN lifts the veil. if if a country gets the politicians it deserves, I think there are situations when the deal is gone awry. Kenya does not deserve these kind of slimy creatures crawling up the national intestine. The fellows you use to spread malice about others, are the same others will use to do the same to you, Ababu.--But out here folks, would you believe that: a bribe of ksh. 1.5 million to be exonerated from an ksh. 3 billion swindle/theft!Haha, I will give this Ababu the benefit of doubt here. I do not think thy Tawfiq can be that mediocre and that cheap! To sell your reputation for ksh. 200K! But they say life is full of surprises! Blow-jobs are going for ksh. 50 at city centre alleys, so there is no reason why a down and out Mpig should cost more than 50G. The market is a system after all, and while Mpigs can make the law to pay themselves Safaricom CEO wages, I am sure the open market knows their real value, and 50G would be the highest rate for a shot at the bottoms of a Kenyan Mheshimiwa, plying Parliament square. I will really have to climb down: from the amount of work you have put into your political career, I was estimating the minimum bribe you could countenance would be in the range of ksh. 100 Million. I mean you said during the Fidel Obange burial in Bondo --remember when Ngilu and Omamo were having it rough and you, on the contrary, was sailing smooth with the riff-raff, that you were out to organise ODM to capture state power next elections. So I asked myself: at about how much would you sell the next elections? Given a buyer's market. (There are econometric models for calculating these things, and I know Phd guys who can indulge me if I agree to have them look down upon me as a pimp: that is introducing some of my female students to them!) With this kind of vermin in ODM Ababu, your CORDED party is not gonna be wrestling power from JAP or Jubilee Ababu. One has to be better than the incumbent to win. Not be a cheaper version. Who is Mutea Iringo. A STREET-SMART man who knows the real MARKET value of Kenyan Honourable members of parliament. As cheap as prostitutes on a rainy day on the murky streets of Nairobi. But unfortunately the Mpigs are not as innovative, nor do they guarantee happy endings. Mpigs in committees should charge less, it is only fair. Pay a million bucks to a monkey, you still get a monkey business. NB: Here is how a real market forces innovation. INNOVATION AND ADAPTABILITY, CUSTOMER SATISFACTION AND FAIR PRICING. A TALE OF ROARING BUSINESS WITH A HAPPY ENDING!
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Post by Horth on Mar 13, 2015 14:23:47 GMT 3
For whatever it's worth, here's Ababu's recording. Jakawanga, thanks for the 50/- tip.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 17, 2015 19:57:40 GMT 3
TAPE GATE!This Ka-tape gate thing. It is a cloud in whose shadows lots of swords will be unsheathed. But first. Ababu Namwamba is being probed --for corruption. His whole PAC is disbanded. Meanwhile others mentioned adversely elsewhere continue unperturbed. William Ruto Singh, Mutea Iringo, Francis Kimemia, Njuguna Ndung'u, Ben Kihia, Richard Langat of NSSF. Neither does the chicken-addicted Isack Hassan over there at IEBC loose any sleep. And i I remember correctly, the JSC of course gained an incestuously corrupt court injunction barring the Justice and Legal affairs committee from tabling their report on the JSC in parliament, and further gagging any debate on it, there in the August house or anywhere else. There is then something wrong with Namwamba, why he is the odd man out. He is being fixed, skinned alive, killed as a force. And that is not exactly because he is an angel. But because he represents enough potential danger. What has made it possible to pin Tawfiq so dangerously down, in my considered opinion, is Ababu's indecisiveness in his tenure as PAC chair. He did not join graft fully, nor did he virulently arise as its anti-Christ. He carefully chose a middle position. He, I estimate, thought he was neutral and objective, being fair to all. But under intense conflict, that kind of neutrality was merely the hesitant indecision of a cowardly fence-sitter, holding out, waiting for the dice to fall. So mean operators sized him up and decided to force his hand: to make up his mind for him. ''Own up! Join us on the gravy train or get destroyed''. On the other side of innocence, it becomes near impossible for Ababu to neutralise the argument that for a while he knew PAC was internally rotten but he calculatedly failed to confront his fellow Mpigs, and continued his tenure as if all wa ship-shape. The impression then is, he was playing games, and only moved to blackmail his fellows when they accused him of the same. In other words, this is not a battle of his choosing. Had he not been accused, he would not have reacted thus. Now PAC is suspended, and i cannot see it reconstituted with him as chair. Then there is John Mbadi. With the ratty taping of Raila as an undisguised blessing, Sir John will pass no opportunity to undermine Namwamba as SG. I really do think this taping was a huge psychological blunder. It is a breach the character of a snitch which, as a cartoonist put it, even Mrs. Namwamba now has to be wary of. it is a joke, but it hints at a moral hiatus at the core of Ababu. A loose nut somewhere in character which needs tightening. It must be the same weakness which in my opinion held the upper hand when Ababu -like Kidero-- gave the SabaSaba rally a wide berth, finding other more useful things to do. Kidero is of course emerging as a prince of graft and Mutua of fanciful moral ;)rot. www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/thenairobian/article/2000141283/machakos-first-lady-why-i-am-leaving-governor-mutua That rally, I insist, called a lot of peoples bluff in their flirtations with the plight of Wanjiku. And they were found wobbly in will and infirm of heart. Now, as Ababu is slowly uprooted from his nest amongst the thieves in Parliament, he has nowhere to run to except Wanjiku -if he really believes his own story of cotton white. And he should begin with the Wanjikus of Budalang'i. His direct employers. He should walk every market, every pathway there, rebaptising himself in their will. To cleans himself of the stench of that secret taping. The Great Luhyaland sons I have seen stand with him are stale goods. They are soft tissue a firm sword hand would behead with one swiping stroke. Mudavadi is anglo-leasing, and with the first call from the UK offering a substantial bone, off he will be to juicier matters. Wetangula has issues with Turkana oil blocks and a Tokyo embassy when he was foreign affairs minister. Atwoli the COTU man, even without mentioning Muchai a done by Kazungu Kambi, has many issues running at NSSF. When accused of corruption, being defended by the corrupt is not an exonerative step. But it is a homecoming, in the sense of regional sons stick together at all costs. And at this young age I do not think it wise to confine yourself to the Luhya ghetto. With a nickname like Generali, you should have the megalomaniac instincts of the young Greek Alexander. Budalangi is a trough, Luhyaland a pond. I would think you might think you have outgrown such! But watch that pride which went before a fall! And I will be back.
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Post by podp on Mar 17, 2015 20:53:41 GMT 3
TAPE GATE!This Ka-tape gate thing. It is a cloud in whose shadows lots of swords will be unsheathed. But first. Ababu Namwamba is being probed --for corruption. His whole PAC is disbanded. Meanwhile others mentioned adversely elsewhere continue unperturbed. William Ruto Singh, Mutea Iringo, Francis Kimemia, Njuguna Ndung'u, Ben Kihia, Richard Langat of NSSF. Neither does the chicken-addicted Isack Hassan over there at IEBC loose any sleep....... Then there is John Mbadi. With the ratty taping of Raila as an undisguised blessing, Sir John will pass no opportunity to undermine Namwamba as SG. I really do think this taping was a huge psychological blunder. It is a breach the character of a snitch which, as a cartoonist put it, even Mrs. Namwamba now has to be wary of. it is a joke, but it hints at a moral hiatus at the core of Ababu. A loose nut somewhere in character which needs tightening. It must be the same weakness which in my opinion held the upper hand when Ababu -like Kidero-- gave the SabaSaba rally a wide berth, finding other more useful things to do.
Kidero is of course emerging as a prince of graft and Mutua of fanciful moral rot. www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/thenairobian/article/2000141283/machakos-first-lady-why-i-am-leaving-governor-mutua That rally, I insist, called a lot of peoples bluff in their flirtations with the plight of Wanjiku. And they were found wobbly in will and infirm of heart. Now, as Ababu is slowly uprooted from his nest amongst the thieves in Parliament, he has nowhere to run to except Wanjiku -if he really believes his own story of cotton white. And he should begin with the Wanjikus of Budalang'i. His direct employers. He should walk every market, every pathway there, rebaptising himself in their will. To cleans himself of the stench of that secret taping. The Great Luhyaland sons I have seen stand with him are stale goods. They are soft tissue a firm sword hand would behead with one swiping stroke. Mudavadi is anglo-leasing, and with the first call from the UK offering a substantial bone, off he will be to juicier matters. Wetangula has issues with Turkana oil blocks and a Tokyo embassy when he was foreign affairs minister. Atwoli the COTU man, even without mentioning Muchai a done by Kazungu Kambi, has many issues running at NSSF. When accused of corruption, being defended by the corrupt is not an exonerative step. But it is a homecoming, in the sense of regional sons stick together at all costs. And at this young age I do not think it wise to confine yourself to the Luhya ghetto. With a nickname like Generali, you should have the megalomaniac instincts of the young Greek Alexander. Budalangi is a trough, Luhyaland a pond.
I would think you might think you have outgrown such! But watch that pride which went before a fall!And I will be back. 1st red high light that is where our eyes should be fixed as concerns 'meat thieves' as opposed to those bones thrown to the dogs aka mPigs making us chase the bone takers and leave the thieves. compradors are regarded derogatorily in that they are a small local elite acting mainly in the interests of foreign capitalists, in return for a cut of the profits. the main features are that they export raw materials that the foreign interests covet, and import back manufactured goods to sell to the locals--- instead of developing a local industry that would process the raw materials into goods domestically. In semi-colonies, imperialism does not develop capitalism; on the contrary, it allies with the most reactionary forces and protects the latter. It tries to maintain the most primitive relations of production. The capitalism developed there is dependent capitalism. Imperialism prevents national capitalism from developing there. On the one hand it continues to maintain the feudal and semi-feudal relations, and on the other hand it develops the dependent or comprador capitalism. The one-century history of imperialism has shown that imperialism does not take the advanced relations of production and machinery to the countries it exploits. It merely sends assembly lines to these countries. www.bannedthought.net/Turkey/TKP-ML/1990s/GenCharacteristicsImp-c1995.htm2nd red high light something conspicuous is our political leadership dalliance with tragedy. It is cheaper and easier to bribe everyone from policemen to military officials, all the way up to govt. ministers and entire political parties in poor African countries than other parts of the world. But considering that multinational corporations from Shell Oil to Siemens have a long history of bribing African officials as they do non-Africans, narcotics traffickers’ mode of operation is no different than that of “legitimate” businesses. And if the opportunity presents itself to make a living why is “dirty money” any less valuable than “clean money,” the latter of which seems to be less than $500 a year for most Africans? jonkofas.blogspot.com/2011/05/narcotics-and-dependent-capitalism-in.html3rd red high light he already has been reminded of the Art of War claim that when strong you crash your enemy, when 50%:50% you may attempt fighting but when weak you run. Though the continent is in need of debt-relief and development assistance for the short-term, the solution for the people of Africa is inside the continent. Uniting and organizing to end racist neo-colonial exploitation whether in the form of the formal economy based on mineral and agricultural exports or in the informal economy that includes narcotics is the only solution for Africans. Working toward sustainable development can only come from indigenous movements that first change the externally-dependent political regimes and then undertake to change the social order that would engender economic growth under an inward-oriented model. As we know, the question of development was not on the international agenda until the countries of the South were able to impose it by their own initiatives, forcing the powers of the Triad to negotiate and make concessions. But once the Bandung era was over, it was no longer a question of development, but only of opening up the markets. And ecology, as it is interpreted by the dominant powers, is just prolonging this state of affairs. blackeducator.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-implosion-of-global-capitalism-is.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 22, 2015 20:56:58 GMT 3
It is called a pivot these days. In a political crisis, which is also a social crisis, there are persons whose minds are dubbed FuLCRUMS. The socially operative forces converge therein, contesting, churning, to break the balance into a pivot, one way or another. One has to cast his lot with one side or the other. In Kenya now, the situation is pivotal on this corruption issue. The stalemate has to be broken. And Ababu Namwamba is a good fulcrum to study the dynamics of a pivot. Which side? Does he tilt towards the status quo of corruption, or does he open a new path to cleanliness? So, Omwami Ababu, assuming you are genuinely committed, now: methinks best is go back to the source, the Budalang'i lake. Renew your baptism, refresh your covenant with the people. Conduct any necessary mea culpa. Be a learner once more. Be a student of the culture of our people. (Phew! Culture!) Fake liberators come, are outed and go, but the Aluta goes on. For a comprador politician who has been flying high like you, this kind of turbulence that has hit your career is a nightmare. So this question is important: Is there life outside 'official prominence' for politicians? How wide is the political field? --By official prominence, I mean the prestigious rungs on the ladders of careers climbing up. Within the establishment. Rungs, or seats like -(now that Mpigs are excluded from cabinet)... Speaker of Parliament, Leader of Majority or Minority, Chief Whip, Party SG, Party Chair, or chairman of this or other house committee. Another rung is of course chief sycophant and protege of a don. These are examples of what I call the official recognitions of prominence. Ma-Cheo cheo. I would think, you Ababu, like any other ambitious politician, fought tooth and nail to be ODM-SG, and earlier on, PAC chair, thus conforming to your prominent nickname, Generali. But now PAC chair is gone --by self nuisance; reputation dented but that can be panel-beaten; ODM secretary generalship is definitely under threat, and, logically, the Jenerali is under siege (or sieke as they say in colloquial nairobian). A General under siege must of course revamp himself in the loyalty of his troops if his heart is still in the fight, otherwise he is lost, and would merely be building counter-offensive castles in the air. Day dreaming. So let me play the devil's advocate here and not join the chorus of cynical Kenyans enjoying the prospective demise of yet another 'fake'. I think you, Ababu wa Nereah Tawfiq, still has options. Come back options! That Wanjiku can be persuaded you are not yet junk. 1. worst case scenarioYour were a comet now diving to its death crash. You are still burning bright in the glare of publicity, but it is an increasingly yellow shine, denoting a dying star. Exit. Best hope is join the harem of some powerful don. 2. you are built of sterner stuff. Then will you be a comeback kid. A fighter. Rammed to the corner, dazed by a flurry of punches from a gang-banging mob of corrupted former colleagues, all soldierly instincts of survival shall awake and aflame. The best of those instincts can only be ONE OPTION: renewal of the covenant. Methinks: go back to the source, the Budalang'i lake-people, who were the beginning of your career. Them that first placed their trust in you. There shall you renew your baptism, refresh your pledges --and seal the loopholes in your heart which let doubt seep in, the doubts which, for instance, looking at that Mombasa photo, made you flirt with Mutua of Machakos whose public trashing of the Kroll report remains a reference. ( EACC you know, that laughable body, was asked to look into the financial wheeling's and dealings of Machakos county under Dr. Alfred Mutua. And being in Kalonzo's bad books, he was being courted by Jubilee to organise a slow coup against the current King of Ukambani. Some crowd that!) Be that stupid again, you wont retain Budalang'i. Even if Uhuru himself camped in Busia like he did at Kajiado central for his man. (Ah, of course one can be rigged in! He hehe!) I say, go plug the holes of doubt in your heart man! Ask Budalang'i people if they want you in JAP! carrying water for Aden Duale. Though one might ask why would you be any luckier than Eugene Wamalwa? WARNING:Do not behave like you are the only person fighting corruption. Recognise the broad Front. Behave like one who recognises his deeds have not matched his words in the war against corruption. (PAC has been an underperformer like the rest --EACC included). Behave like one who recognised he can no longer hide behind lofty rhetoric, but now must make up the deficit with deeds. That would be purely pro-people deeds. Because, with the peoples support, the rotten establishment with its gods of corruption and ruthless deployment of state power, are just another cornered army. NB: Did you see SONKO has a RESCUE TEAM! Kidero his Harambees, Ruto his URP, and Uhuru his MK flock to draw upon!? And you!? where is your vehicle? Yawa Tawfiq yawa! Where is your anti-corruption hammer!? Where is your populist magical wand? General, where are your troops? Where camps your army!? (Could be time for a general mobilisation!) See Ababu: while you were sleeping in PAC, being a fake soldier against corruption, the same corruption got brainier and now is emerged as the NATION'S GREATEST DANGER! But you can neither, displayed in your private war museum, show dread swords you broke in the fight against the beast, nor can you proudly show off scars from that war as your badges of courage! (so Wanjiku can be forgiven for sceptically sizing up your balls and wondering if they have the fire the quench her needs!) BEST OPTION. We must not loose potentials like you, me reckons. Rise up, O Tawfiq, join hands with those ALREADY on the FRONTLINE fighting King Corruption in Kenya. Yes they are there. Open a new frontline far from where the battle is won by deep pockets. You do not have to be the Generali there straightaway. Just toil and rise with a honest day's work and dedication. For the long haul. There is an anti-graft movement outside there in the country at large. Join it whole heartedly and redeem yourself in practice. If you hesitate and want to join later, you will be irrelevant as just another lift-seeker. It is time for you to behave like your hero Abraham Lincoln. Remember how he argued for an end to slavery in every market place -- once he had made up his mind!? (he used to be a slave holder he he he!) Now, let us see the full power of your oratory skills, the full range of your verbal glib, the depths of your machiavellian political heart, the tenacity of your legal training, your missionaric zeal in this okoa Kenya business, and most importantly, let us see the hereditary courage from your ancestors, all boiled into one integrated politician arguing the peoples cause, condemning corruption and damning the corrupt to hell. Behold! That is the making of a president! But you could also join JAP or another outfit of course (eg KANU). There will be a lot of stolen money to go around turncoats. With one of the deep-pocketed Moi's entering the fray for the top job, those who want to be bought/rented by one or other party will earn. Re-alignments. Either way your career cannot be dead yet! Nor your pockets empty. Just that in one case, your dignity gone, your honour gone, your ancestors wronged. Haya, we wait to see! NB: You must have plenty of bedtime reading these days, coz you have been hot in the columns of our land where keyboard warriors like yours truly machinegun! Na bado!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 22, 2015 20:59:49 GMT 3
For whatever it's worth, here's Ababu's recording. Jakawanga, thanks for the 50/- tip. lord have mercy! on the mouths of our commercial sex workers! when a blowjob is cheaper than a cigarette, men will get smoked, addictively!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 30, 2015 21:04:20 GMT 3
THINGS PAC FALL APART
GENERALI, DID YOU LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY, OR , GOD FORBID, YOU ALREADY HAD YOUR DAY!?
I DO not know how young you are at heart, Ababu, whether you are already an peaked dog which learneth no new tricks. I hope you are still young enough to laugh at yourself, as you pick up your sorry arse, and dust from it the heap of dust from the ground wherein the recent events have buried you. These events have shown you are not yet a Generali Ababu. In fact, I prefer you learn to be a colonel first, a field commander in the trenches with men, running the horrid risks of facing daily death with foot soldiers. That is where men are forged for real, and even if they do no make promotion to General, still when such combat calibre-colonels enter a room full of Generals who rose by sycophancy or family lineage, or mere seniority by years of service behind desks, one will see such Generals shifting uneasily in their seats, their balls crawling up their spines, eyes wary, hearts dark with treachery, yes, treachery, like the famous shot of King David at Uriah the Hittite, whose captivating-buttocked wife the King lusted to rape. Bathsheba so to speak. Of course this one was about lust and love, but power is never behind those two. That is how dark the intrigues at the court of power work. The opposition is infront, behind is the enemy, or, kikulacho kiko nguoni wako!
But that is just by the way. The story for today, is how to lick your wounds. How did General Ababu, standing on top of the Hill called PAC, overlooking the battlefield of corruption, get blown off his high horse and command post, leaving Uhuru Kenyatta --whose office by his own confession is the den of rot---- as the shining knight in armour, attacking the dreaded serpent of corruption alone, charging like a rhino and charming Wanjiku!?
Where have the pretender Generals like Ababu been hiding their toy swords? Ababu, Mutua (Machakos governor), and Joho (Mombasa) stars of team fresh once photographed in conspiratorial retreat! have all been given the blackspot by the Quixotic Knight Muigai!
Talk about turned tables! (THE BLACKSPOT: that was when Pirates changed Captains! especially in the Caribbean.)
Yap, if only you had become a colonel before you catapulted to Jenerali, you would have read the warfield different, and acted different, and like a conquering hero it would be your name we now sing in all corners of the seedy, mercurial republic of graft!
But no worries, you are young I believe, and can learn I believe, from the scars of youthful stupidity. Because for a man of your political talents, you have been extremely stupid, or, in military terms, you would be a corpse now, a real corpse. Your head on stake through the victory parade, a trophy. PAC was thunder, the weapon of the Gods. But in your hands, it became a dilapidated scarecrow.
Your killer instinct is underdeveloped. In fact dormant as to be non existent. you just don't need your balls kicked hard, you need your jaw broken too.
You think that is a joke in power!? watch the video of Samuel Doe's death at the hands of Butt Naked. this power amigo. The game of Death.
So let us go slow again. Easy, easy. ---Continued.
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