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Post by jakaswanga on May 3, 2013 20:50:16 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-pledges-to-protect-jobs-for-Kenyans/-/1056/1767054/-/item/1/-/jit2f7z/-/index.htmlI have no problems with the minimum wage being raised. From what I know of the cost of living in Nairobi city, even at this whooping increase of 14%, it is still [at 10K] a tight survival at the minimum needs. What I find curious, is the way it was done. It was a presidential announcement, in the mode of a rabbit out of the hat. I have not checked His excellency's powers yet in the new constitution, whether he was within his constitutional mandate to do this broadside, but what I see and think is that it was an old-fashioned decree. Moi-KANU analogue type to catch habari ya sa saba mchana VOK! 'I have directed'! he said. And it was a decree at a time when the MPIGS of the 11th parliament have also set into proceedings, a process to nullify the tenure and mandate of the remunerations commission! This can also be read as a presidential last nail in the coffin of the [ defunct??] body. But my main bone of contention is this. You do not ambush the treasuries of government [ already hard-pressed with the current budget], nor the accounting departments of businesses with ad-hoc financial announcements. There is something called planning and a grace period in these financial posts. A presidential decree does not work magic in business balance-sheets. There are stake-holders here: THE LABOUR UNION, THE EMPLOYERS/MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, and THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE, and of course the said SALARIES AND REMUNERATIONS COMMISSION. An announcement of the minimum wage, supported by all these bodies AFTER CONSULTATIONS AND MOU, would have the weight of an Ayatollah's fatwa. It would be binding, with the stakeholders themselves also agreeing on modalities to enforce the decision. A mark of Consensus, in the new dispensation.Now as it happens, the president ambushed everybody with his DIKTAT, and the stakeholders have to fashion out how to carry out the directive. It is like the haphazard days in which Moi made his unilateral roadside pronouncements until they became jokes. Uhuru Kenyatta must know he has no magical powers to enforce a minimum wage. I think there is nowadays a procedure, that would entail such tedious details like the relevant ministry writing a bill, the bill being presented in parliament after passing through cabinet, etc etc, until it is signed into law by the President, effective the by parliament mandated date. This gives the decision a legal, democratic and indisputable base. And full legal retaliatory powers for default. Well, am curious as to the CJ's reading of the legality of this directive, when the KAM challenge it in court! Announcing it on labour day is of course, with guaranteed cheers, a populist informed decision of the PORK. But a digital government which wants to rule in analogue form [Moi-roadside-style decrees] is already loaded with too much malware. But then again, one never knows how the kitchen of power sharing works in detail. May be the hike was already in the pipeline by Rotich, and UK was simply pre-empting the other side in grabbing the cheers first!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 4, 2013 13:16:13 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/Uhuru-pledges-to-protect-jobs-for-Kenyans/-/1056/1767054/-/item/1/-/jit2f7z/-/index.htmlWho can fail to say Amen to this! Yawa! But this noble statement at once reveals the disjoint in Uhuruto's economic thinking. 1. It is common knowledge that the costs of energy --electricity gas and fuel at the market rate, or fixed at the cartel shark-rate]-- once paid for as costs of production, means the basic inflationary rate in the general economy is already set. I seen Abdulmote and PNU Kamalet intimate this on the other costs of ivestment in Kenya thread There is a joke in some non-oil producing countries. Forget about your minister of finance, look at the price of gasoline at the pump. Then you know what you will pay at the shop!To reduce the cost of living in Kenya, while (1)There is no offer on the table about control or reduction of the oil retail price, And (2) the ELECTRICITY BOARD is upping both kilowatt/hour rate and connection charges --[one of them by at least 100%] while not improving services, is therefore not serious. HOW ABOUT STATE SUBSIDY OF BASIC FOODS THEN, AND REDUCING [EG] URBAN RENTS? 1. With the IMF writing your bills, straight-jacketing your financial priorities, you can not do this I think. Even if the same IMF says our performance is spectacular and rewards free cash! 2. If Kenya is already in financial dire-straits, negotiating loan after loan and passing GoK's legal overdraft limit, then subsidising anything [ apart from salaries in the upper bureaucratic layers in the social pyramid] is too far of a long shot. More so, the cost of living is only too much for the poor of Kenya, and this majority have never been a political priority, neither are they much of that now, all protestations to the contrary, I think this regime is an ideological continuity of the past GCG! And them Mpigs will stay MPIGS! 3. Urban rents can be reduced yes, but I believe the county governors will be using these as cash-cows and most parliamentarians are owned by a rent-milking class, and are likely to politically oppose this form of state intervention: remember this is a 'willing buyer willing seller open economy!' This is not Hugo-Chavesland.4. CAVEAT: Our growth-rate is a steady +7%! Only Angola and Rwanda are more turbo. So you are free to disbelieve me when I say our state finances are in dire-straits!]So what does Ruto mean MUST be reduced?Does he have the faintest idea of the modus operandi? I think if you ask him today, he has already forgotten what he said on labour day. I mean, he has moved on. And left me still stuck on labour day 2013! So so sorry guys let me move on too. It will be an all-German final at Wembley for the European Club championships cup. Financially sane Borrussia Dortmund and Bayern Munchem [that will be Munich for you anglosaxons] respectively thrashed the ziesta-zone debt-financed giants Real Madrid and Barcelona. Wonderkind Leon Messi was as clueless as Mario Monti on the reserve bank of Italian politics.Who is Mario Monti? Sylvio Berlusconi promised to get drunk and host a marathon bunga-bunga caucus in one of his spacious hide-outs in Venice, if Mario Monti stayed on the bank, watching the game from a position of impotence, nursing a breath-taking tackle from the electorate. en.rian.ru/world/20130218/179534564/Berlusconi-Says-Will-Get-Drunk-If-Monti-Loses-Polls--------.htmlHere is the BBC on Mario Monti. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15695056AND HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE ELECTIONS www.euronews.com/tag/italian-elections-2013/And in this quagmire the current prime minister of Italy is Enrico Letta of the center Left. Ane he needs Berlusconi's party more than he needs the genius economist Mario Monti Richard Rotich.What happened to Monti? To football, I am moving on guys! Boateng of Bayern, he has Afrikan blood!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 9, 2013 8:47:38 GMT 3
Sorry, I couldn't keep to football for so long, even when the Great Alex Ferguson, the eternal Monarch of Man-U with an a positively primitive and indecipherable accent, is finally calling it a day AND MOVING ON! Should definitely be a great occasion for Kenyans to reminesce, given the popularity of that CLUB in Kenya. ---All BuruBuru used to be Man-U territory some years back. Donno if it changed now. But well...., here is a table from www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/kenyaShowing KENYA'S RANK in 'easy to do business at' slipped from 117 out of 185, to 121/185. I give UHURUTO the HOMEWORK to work on that FAIL FIGURE, such that come next CATs, the end term report must show me a 'YOU DID WELL BUT CAN DO BETTER'! WORK HARD! I failed to re-create the ATTENDANT table on Jukwaa! and I now have given up! can somebody PULIZZZ help! The table shows what global RANK Kenya has in each of those categories. Getting electricity for instance is 162 and registering a business 161, out of 185 countries! MOve, son of Jomo, move, you are leading a country mostly at the bottom quarter of civilisation --LITERALLY DARK, UNLIT ! Let us see some digital work! Next elections are just around the corner! and once bitten will be twice shy! --that is why Raila lost! and you too will, if you do not move when the iron is hot!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 9, 2013 17:07:55 GMT 3
ARINGO MISALO KICHWO PIERE PINY -- The frog that kept on leaping in broad daylight.www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000083265&story_title=uhuru-to-attend-world-economic-forum-in-south-africa A 4-DAY official visit to South Africa, straight in the heels of a 3-days London sojourn! WIDOWED BE THE AGENDA AT HOME OR WHAT? AAAAHA, I forgot we have a twin presidency, and unlike the days of Kingship rivalvry when the other (pretender) twin would have to die somewhow, like be fashioned an iron mask and sent to the cellars beneath the palace until death, these days of digital they just do a Castor & Pollux time sharing or,yes, run the country via skype! NB: Castor and Pollux were twins and favours of the gods at Olympos. When they died on earth on duty, the gods were at a loss for a befitting reward for their goodness here. After much divine soul-searching and chin-scratching, the solution was as genial as the god's infinite wisdom. They would be given eternal life, but alternating with day and night. Everyday one of them is a shining star at night, alternating on heavenly duty Forever! And ever. Amina.But Yawa, back to thy infant President Uhuru Kenyatta, whose butt I must now kick since my calling is to teach! And if a kick wont do the trick, I will get a whip, since to spare the rod is to spoil the child, even in a digital age! I am afraid you, UK, are beating too much Tamtam-drum in foreign lands whilst your own house is on fire at home. Your cabinet has not gone to battle stations, yet there you are appending your name to documents in far-off shores! You are an emperor whose word will be law regardless when you come back with unpalatable deals? 1. FIRST BURSTS ON THE RULING COALITION'S ARMOUR.www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Khalwale-kicked-out-of-House-teams-/-/1064/1846492/-/k9y7qjz/-/index.htmlUDF's Bonny Khalwale, the bull-fighter from Ingoo who once threatened Raila with a hurtful goring charge, is effectively out of your coalition. And you have to manage that wound, and make sure it is not haemophilic, that is, it does not lead to a subsequent collapse where, first, the whole of the UDF faction bolts, and then, in a spiralling negative dynamic of internal contradictions, the APK-mbas and others follow suit, leaving your political feet wilting under you. --- Events my dear boy, Events! And a week is a long time in politics! sighed a UK premier once upon a time!Yes indeed, Coalition governments are dangerous things. Because they are delicate and volatile and need constant nursing, attention to detail and messaging of egos, lest government becomes the egg whose magical shell once broken is spilt milk. www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Khalwale-kicked-out-of-House-teams-/-/1064/1846492/-/k9y7qjz/-/index.htmlThere is need to specify the 'nature' of these post-election pact details for all to be clear. But when lawyers are in the house, since when is a specification free from litigation? 2. DEVOLUTION QUAGMIRE. [Because we ignored Micah Cheserem] -----“If the Treasury behaves the way it is doing now, we’ll not have county governments,” Mr Cheserem told the MPs, JANUARY 2013.www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000083242&story_title=governors-accuse-state-of-underfunding-counties The governors want to mobilise Kenyans against the central government? the MAJIMBO sentiment versus the CENTRALISATION dogma! I would think it sensible to avoid such a public altercation. Methinks if the politics which is the finance regime between the LOCAL government and the National government is not oiled to smooth transition and operation levels, the nation will be convulsed again in political warfare, and development targets be missed by a decade. [Sometime you wonder where the Kenyans are --seeing they are more often than not their ethnic identities] ANYWAY LET US JUST TALK BASIC DEVELOPMENT TARGETS LIKE CHILD/MUM MORTALITY RATES, Some of them quantified in the so-called Millenium Development goals: MDGs. Take a look, UK! english.sina.com/2013/0508/588840.html And this is a bonus so that you can know your country, and therefor your MILLENIUM GOALS: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000083223Now, combine those with the ratings in the to do business index, and there is your HOMEWORK! --- Jowa nyathini, in ibayo abaya e kor piny, ifuong'o wuoth kar bet iti tich! ok ine ka ibiro remo penj kae kiny, ikelogo wichkuot kuom jopuonj! Abiro chwadi swaini, pumbavu! ---Look at that ranking son of Jommo, and give me a speech without shame, and steps to rectify that death rate. That rate is a matricide if you ask me. A wilful matricide by a ruling class that takes their own wives to MP Shah, Nairobi Hospital, and st Josephs in London --or the ones in the USA where Anyang' and Beth Mugo went on--Wanjiku funded-- recuperations! 2B: (DEVOLUTION B): Here is the genesis of a rebellion that, ALREADY FORETOLD BY C.R.A. CHESEREM, BUT IGNORED LIKE TROJANS AND CASSANDRA, if not contained nor resolved, then .... Original Oloo already gave an exposure on this contradiction, and especially its ramifications in the Rift Valley, which is a key pillar of the Jubilee juggernaut. An Achilles heel that need be armour-plated too, for future survival. [We shall see Ruto has been quick to fire brigade! but he aint saying where the money gonna be generated from] www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Governors-put-aside-party-differences-to-push-for-county-cash--/-/1064/1739532/-/view/printVersion/-/xbhnlnz/-/index.htmlOn another angle: www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000080790 And yet another to show just how hot the issue of finance is: www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Governors-to-meet-Salaries-body-for-pay-talks/-/1064/1740400/-/a8a53q/-/index.htmlKsh: 210 billion allocated to county governments by VP Ruto. www.ntv.co.ke/news2/topheadlines/ruto-sh210-billion-to-be-allocated-to-county-governments/All these major financial announcements and commitments, and I am not seeing the secretary for finance Richard Rotich anywhere on the quotes : kwani he is just a pin-up plaything too like Omamo at Defence?www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2013/05/breakthrough-as-county-cash-pushed-to-sh210bn/But perhaps if Francis Kimemia were blessed with a touch of vision, he would have, instead of joining the decaying GCG in its simplistic games in addition to wasting time plotting mischief for the former Othaya Narc activist, consulted the ageing Nestor Muthaura and learnt to listen to an important piece of information. Like the one below from JANUARY by Micah Cheserem --CRA chair ( Commission for Revenue allocation with respect to devolution and county governments). Then would not that message have fallen on deaf ears and led to these analogue last-minte night meetings between the VP and other stakeholders, all to avert a looming national hiccup. Aah, the vision thing when you lack in it. www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Counties-to-share-Sh204bn-/-/1064/1844250/-/g222dy/-/index.html 3. PARLIAMENTARY STALEMATE: Here is Jukwaa's hawk eye already on the crucial ones PIC$PAC thread courtesy of Omundustrongjukwaa.proboards.com/thread/8408/pic-pac-which-forward#www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Cord-begins-boycott-of-Parliament-teams/-/1064/1845662/-/14ynhr9z/-/index.html stalemate as cord pulls out mps Aah, the house has been in limbo? not transacting business? stalemated? and a ruling is in the offing to crack this stalemate in a monopartisan manner? And in such a crucial, historical moment [de facto re-emergence of one party state rule] there is no mention of either the President nor his co sit-in?Uhuru Kenyatta you are loafing abroad, on french leave when the fire levels in the kitchen demand the firm hand of the chef-de-cuisine!When the meal is finally served, having been cooked with you in absentia, trust me you wont like the taste one little bit! Uchune sana, omera wuod Jommo!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 11, 2013 13:53:45 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/Thousands-turn-up-to-pay-last-respects-for-Mutula/-/1056/1847716/-/item/0/-/12818eqz/-/index.html[/quote]OMERA wuod Onyatto! you are becoming a lost case by the day! Politicking at funerals is so ANALOGUE, so yesterday , so anti-dotcom, that you already look like a fossil from the rotten KANU past. It was Baba Moi who took these antics to an art forms, and specialised in these road-side and funeral proclamations which would then be extensively covered at habari ya sa Moja. ---What a KANU orphan you are! [Thoo, awendo ok we yiege]In the digital age, if the president is serious about an issue, for instance one which is under legislation in parliament -- given the Mpigs have already tabled a bill to uproot even the body constitutionally mandated to put a cap on remunerations, the president must adopt a parliamentary bills approach too, for one. Through your chief whip, majority leader, legal brains [AG] and other political aides, you must organise a caucus within parliament to derail that robbery business captained by Jakoyo Midiwo and your :'(own speaker Linturi! And lobby bipartisanly have your own bill passed. In the absence of reading this riot-order by a BILL in the LEGICO, we know you talk hot air Mr. President Sir! Also remember if you want to sing the gospel of austerity to others, you yourself must practice it too. So your cabinet should not have been the maximum allowed number, but the minimum necessary. That was another political blunder.But now... You and Ruto have to go to parliament to put your case for a salaries cap and a perks freeze, and argue your bill in the house. Then outside parliament you can canvas for public support to brow-beat the Mpigs, and with Ruto's oratory skills, even mobilise enough public opinion to DISBAND the pigsty, if their snorts are too glued to Wanjiku's trough. That is digital HARDBALL politics. POLICY, ACTION, CONSEQUENCES, MOTION. Otherwise with no concerted action involving, [1]political [campaigning and mobilising public support for]; [2] legal [drafting bills to underpin statements]; [3] covert [blackmailing or bribing opponents], [4] etc etc, yours Mr. President is just an impotent, folorn bark on the sidelines as other studs occupy the center of the orgy. O poor son of Kenyatta, funeral politics this way you are an infant in power, a mimic of Kajwang' and Midiwo in Nyanza, clueless in a new age. When you are on those useless foreign trips before even your cabinet is in place, do you think Kenya is patiently waiting for you to return and take charge?No, she just moves on and leaves you behind, running after it like a manamba who miscalculated the acceleration of a matatu, and the driver is not noticing his plight.Get a cabinet in Place Ouru, set a 2 or 3 things you want to be remembered for in posterity, and do them at full grit as priorities of your regime. 5 years is a short time in power to do even 2 things well. Soon the election period will be, with people thinking more about their own re-elections than your re-election, and then you are already lame duck in your first term. So you have 3 years in office to do, and you are already wasting a whole 12 months without a cabinet! Which 12 months? Well, there is a date out there which is said to be the day the DEEP STATE decided you would be president. And the election would merely be a formality, whichever way Wanjiku [or Ruto] went. NB: And now the President of the Republic of Kenya is reduced to DENYING his own ambassador to the UN!? ---Ati 'Macharia haongei kwa niaba ya sirikali yangu!'Ouru Kenyatta yawa, grow up omera. Ikulu ok en kindargarten. --[you are no longer that child toying around state house when your father was taking care of business. You are the man now. Be it, OR QUIT. ---Rais PUMBAVU HII!
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Post by audacityofhope on May 11, 2013 16:56:40 GMT 3
Politicking at funerals is so ANALOGUE, so yesterday , so anti-dotcom, that you already look like a fossil from the rotten KANU past. It was Baba Moi who took these antics to an art forms, and specialised in these road-side and funeral proclamations which would then be extensively covered at habari ya sa Moja. ---What a KANU orphan you are! ... O poor son of Kenyatta, funeral politics this way you are an infant in power, a mimic of Kajwang' and Midiwo in Nyanza, clueless in a new age. When you are on those useless foreign trips before even your cabinet is in place, do you think Kenya is patiently waiting for you to return and take charge?No, she just moves on and leaves you behind, running after it like a manamba who miscalculated the acceleration of a matatu, and the driver is not noticing his plight.Well, there is a date out there which is said to be the day the DEEP STATE decided you would be president. And the election would merely be a formality, whichever way Wanjiku [or Ruto] went.NB: And now the President of the Republic of Kenya is reduced to DENYING his own ambassador to the UN!? ---Ati 'Macharia haongei kwa niaba ya sirikali yangu!'Ouru Kenyatta yawa, grow up omera. Ikulu ok en kindargarten. --[you are no longer that child toying around state house when your father was taking care of business. You are the man now. Be it, OR QUIT. ---Rais PUMBAVU HII! JakaswangaAs always your posts are heavily-laden and make for interesting reading. In the same vein though it does give room for nit-picking. Few would agree but in comparison Uhuru's predecessors have treated funerals with the expected decorum and respect politicalwise. I didn't watch Mutula's burial but it was reported that Kibaki only made a passing political remark before reminding all it wasn't the ideal place to discuss politics. I stand to be corrected but my memory reminds me that in the Mo1 era where no Bill of Rights existed to guarantee Freedom of association, assembly, demonstration or picketing the idea to politic at Funerals was borne out of the inability of the Opposition in the Moi days to obtain a license to address a gathering of any sort. No wonder it fell to the Pulpit to stand in as opposition because at least they had a congregation. (BTW does one still need to get a Permit from police to host a wedding coz that is what I remember I had to do at mine?) .. anyway the opposition MP of the Mo1 era, could not address their constituents and indeed being in the opposition meant the only crowds to address (sans permit) were those at funerals. Unable to enforce his permit rule where Funerals were concerned, Moi was naturally pissed off and would chastise those using that 'loophole' for 'being disrespectful at funerals'It seems lost on Uhuru and he hasn't a clue where talking politics at Funerals came from and though he left opposition ranks in the most bizarre of manners having been the chief of the opposition and failing to present himself as a candidate to oppose the then incumbent President, he does not seem to realize that now it is he who holds power and has a vast array of appropriate fora to address politics specifically or indeed any other subject under the sun! " ..'Macharia haongei kwa niaba ya sirikali yangu!'" ebarasi elsewhere on this board was wondering, were not all Ambassadors and HCs recalled? Well I guess there lies the answer. If those are Uhuru's words then he was just being candid. Raila too once wasn't sure whose interests Dr. Alfred Mutua represented in his portfolio as the 'spokesman'. Those envoys who realize they report to the President of the Republic of Kenya have obeyed the order and returned. But this Kamau Macharia, he has other masters.. they who constitute another power center. They must have told him to continue discharging his duties uninterrupted as rep to the UN, ama?
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Post by jakaswanga on May 11, 2013 23:47:34 GMT 3
Jakaswanga As always your posts are heavily-laden and make for interesting reading. In the same vein though it does give room for nit-picking. Barbed back-handed compliment, but I am sport and good natured, and you are game and level headed! So lets go amigo! Kibaki did Always have a pretence of dignity, a tard less tattered than the rest of the rest of his morally wilted compatriots. But wait until rumour hits the ground that ex President Moi boycotted the funeral of Mutula because, though politically and financially immoral himself, a baby-raper is too low for him to honour in death. Then will the debate about 'dignity and honour' become very complex! I think this analysis of yours, featuring the evolution of funerals into full-fledge Kamukunjis, is highly plausible! NB: In my place you still inform the chief that a gathering is coming, so that he can guarantee security. I guess that is a permit, and as money exchanges hands without a reciept, well, informal tax. Personally I think Uhuru has not interned the import of his office, and the historical moment at which he operates. Attending the funerals of every Tom Dick and Harry, pandering to some imagined ethnic sentiment for increased legitimacy, is zero work toward the so-called national cohesion. He needs to get POLICY MOVING, get to grips with the rogue parliament which the whole nation except Mr. Uhuruto now recognises is a fraud. Otherwise this parliament will not only bring him down, it will go down with him. They are resolved to remove the remunerations body, a salary controling organ, while at the same time the president is yelling at a funeral for restraint!-- Don Quixote President charging a windmill on a wooden horse! O the legal brains of UK in office, AG Githu Muigai, disowned the letter! or should I say letters, because the esteemed lady of Jukwaa Furaha, just posted a link which indicates there was to be a follow up letter! [now aborted?] To the best of my knowledge Ambassadors were recalled yes, but I was under the impression some must have been re-posted to stations that need due attendance! Because the whole diplomatic corps of Kenya could not be on 'stand-by', waiting for Uhuruto to do their 50/50 choice cuts! Sometimes these two boys in power act with a clumsiness which reminds me of freshers on their first day in a brothel, facing a veteran ho! Can be a daunting experience! [Not that I would know anyway!]
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Post by b6k on May 12, 2013 0:03:36 GMT 3
Also remember if you want to sing the gospel of austerity to others, you yourself must practice it too. So your cabinet should not have been the maximum allowed number, but the minimum necessary. That was another political blunder. Jakaswanga, here you have unjustifiably attacked Kamwana so allow me to correct you. Truth be told the KE Constitution stipulates that the cabinet can have no more than 22 cabinet secretaries. Uhuru has proposed 18 & oddly has only nominated 16. With 18 he is therefore 4 seats short of the maximum that you accuse him of trying to appoint. For African standards that's not bad at all. Imagine if he doesn't fill those 2 mystery slots, it will be a full 6 seats shorts of a full cabinet. Impressive stuff from an African big man who should be dishing out seats like candy!!!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 12, 2013 14:22:59 GMT 3
Also remember if you want to sing the gospel of austerity to others, you yourself must practice it too. So your cabinet should not have been the maximum allowed number, but the minimum necessary. That was another political blunder. Jakaswanga, here you have unjustifiably attacked Kamwana so allow me to correct you. Truth be told the KE Constitution stipulates that the cabinet can have no more than 22 cabinet secretaries. Uhuru has proposed 18 & oddly has only nominated 16. With 18 he is therefore 4 seats short of the maximum that you accuse him of trying to appoint. For African standards that's not bad at all. Imagine if he doesn't fill those 2 mystery slots, it will be a full 6 seats shorts of a full cabinet. Impressive stuff from an African big man who should be dishing out seats like candy!!! B6k The minimum is 14 secretaries by law. By that standard I find 18 outrageously excessive under the conditions where austerity is to be a virtue. And given THE DUO D/PORK are also effectively cabinet members, 18 appointees becomes an effective 20! So that leaves me still comfortable kicking Kamwana to wake up and up his act! NB: Behind the scenes he is still dishing them out like crazy, have you looked at the number of junior secretaries lined up? And as a matter of fact, I do not think we need full embassies at half the countries we have them now. ---Have you ever heard of diplomat pooling?
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Post by b6k on May 13, 2013 7:07:22 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, here you have unjustifiably attacked Kamwana so allow me to correct you. Truth be told the KE Constitution stipulates that the cabinet can have no more than 22 cabinet secretaries. Uhuru has proposed 18 & oddly has only nominated 16. With 18 he is therefore 4 seats short of the maximum that you accuse him of trying to appoint. For African standards that's not bad at all. Imagine if he doesn't fill those 2 mystery slots, it will be a full 6 seats shorts of a full cabinet. Impressive stuff from an African big man who should be dishing out seats like candy!!! B6k The minimum is 14 secretaries by law. By that standard I find 18 outrageously excessive under the conditions where austerity is to be a virtue. And given THE DUO D/PORK are also effectively cabinet members, 18 appointees becomes an effective 20! So that leaves me still comfortable kicking Kamwana to wake up and up his act! NB: Behind the scenes he is still dishing them out like crazy, have you looked at the number of junior secretaries lined up? And as a matter of fact, I do not think we need full embassies at half the countries we have them now. ---Have you ever heard of diplomat pooling? Jakaswanga I see your point on the cabinet question, although I still grant Kamwana a bye on that front. The key thing is the total number of ministries (or government departments if you like) will remain less than the constitutional maximum, not the makeup of the cabinet players per say. Diplomatic pooling has been the norm for eons as KE doesn't have enough embassies to fully cover the globe. Where our own balozi doesn't cover neighbouring countries to the one he is posted to, we then find either an African country with facilities with whom we can work with or run back to mother UK's embassy's to nyorosha mkono on our behalf...
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Post by jakaswanga on May 13, 2013 21:58:18 GMT 3
Diplomatic pooling has been the norm for eons as KE doesn't have enough embassies to fully cover the globe. Where our own balozi doesn't cover neighbouring countries to the one he is posted to, we then find either an African country with facilities with whom we can work with or run back to mother UK's embassy's to nyorosha mkono on our behalf... b6k, I want it taken even further! purely from a costs perspective. SADDC, COMESA, EACA [EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA]. There you find your country's charge d'affairs. What do I want to do with the saved money? A united nations report tells me in some places in Africa you can save a life for as little as 1 dollar a day! And I was just seeing African embassies from such countries running several 'BEASTS' per seniour official!
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Post by b6k on May 13, 2013 22:22:19 GMT 3
Diplomatic pooling has been the norm for eons as KE doesn't have enough embassies to fully cover the globe. Where our own balozi doesn't cover neighbouring countries to the one he is posted to, we then find either an African country with facilities with whom we can work with or run back to mother UK's embassy's to nyorosha mkono on our behalf... b6k, I want it taken even further! purely from a costs perspective. SADDC, COMESA, EACA [EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA]. There you find your country's charge d'affairs. What do I want to do with the saved money? A united nations report tells me in some places in Africa you can save a life for as little as 1 dollar a day! And I was just seeing African embassies from such countries running several 'BEASTS' per seniour official! Jakaswanga, you must've missed the memo. After Dubyah's Oil Wars in the Middle East, the US dollar plummeted to the extent that the world's poorest are now said to be living on 2 dollars a day!
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Post by kamalet on May 14, 2013 11:40:55 GMT 3
I do not think restricting the number of ministries to 22 as opposed to say 30 makes any savings for us. When you consider that the 34 Kibaki/Raila ministries are being whittled down to 18, what is important is that the labour force in the civil service is not being reduced by the 48% or there abouts that the cabinet has been reduced by. The only saving that we make is roughly 50 million a year in ministerial perks as the guys still got their 1 million bob salary from Bunge.
The biggest problem in GOK is not how much it spends, but actually how much it wastes!Take an example of a ministry like Health or Education which have a budget of about 100 billion shillings each. This budget is presided over by several thousand employees and here we can take out teachers and doctors who are service providers. I am talking about pen jockeys sitting on desks pushing paper. Now compare that with the work force at Safaricom who today announced that they had revenues of 124 billion shillings. The number sitting and superintending the earnings in Safaricom is way lower than that in either of the ministries!
Seal the holes and give us productive workers via efficiencies in processes and it really does not matter how many ministries we have!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2013 20:08:32 GMT 3
I do not think restricting the number of ministries to 22 as opposed to say 30 makes any savings for us. When you consider that the 34 Kibaki/Raila ministries are being whittled down to 18, what is important is that the labour force in the civil service is not being reduced by the 48% or there abouts that the cabinet has been reduced by. The only saving that we make is roughly 50 million a year in ministerial perks as the guys still got their 1 million bob salary from Bunge. The biggest problem in GOK is not how much it spends, but actually how much it wastes!Take an example of a ministry like Health or Education which have a budget of about 100 billion shillings each. This budget is presided over by several thousand employees and here we can take out teachers and doctors who are service providers. I am talking about pen jockeys sitting on desks pushing paper. Now compare that with the work force at Safaricom who today announced that they had revenues of 124 billion shillings. The number sitting and superintending the earnings in Safaricom is way lower than that in either of the ministries! Seal the holes and give us productive workers via efficiencies in processes and it really does not matter how many ministries we have! Kamalet, Let us introduce the principle of the hair-cut as a general instruments of cutting costs --austerity, or reducing a budgetary short-fall. ---In Switzerland you wont be surprised the imagery is 'cheese slice'. ---One can vary the thickness of the slice of cheese one heaves off a lump, just like haircuts range from slight, barely touched, to total uprooting, as in a bald shave. The idea here is, saving on ONE ITEM may not amount to much ---though in Africa where $2/day is a labourers income, 50M/year = 4.2M/month is already pension for a lot of elderly disabled begging by the roadside in Kitui or Awasi---- but when all DEPARTMENTS are subjected to a slight haircut allover the whole line, the cumulative lump-sum can fund a new project, ala KKV! So for instance --I give you an example from a non African country. 1. Official vehicles. Standard top-range Mercedes was reduced 3 steps down to a top-range eg (Toyota) Lexus. More than a halving of the budget was the consequence. 2. Bribing all african leaders even for UN voting was reduced to only those leaders whose economies imported good from this country! 3. All 5-star hotel bookingsabroad or local on taxpayer were reduced two steps to 3-star, except for the Prime Minister. 4. The airforce, putting in a request for 40 new f-16s was ordered to forget it. 15 new, the rest reconditioned! PS: This list goes up to 400, first hair-cut run. ---But when you looked at the CUMULATIVE AMOUNT, it was already registering as a % of GDP! So in short, I prefer to talk about austerity as total, across the [expenditures] board/book fiscal instrument, where [saving on]CABINET SLOTS is just one item on a total agenda of may be 500 major costing posts, FIRST RUN. By the time you do 3 runs with the blade on the cheese or the whole bushy head, you are on the way to lean and mean.Currently I think Uhuru's cabinet is obese and lazy. But compared to the moribund walrus in the mud which was the GCG of Raila&Kibaki, it is of course a springy chicken . But you see Uhuruto is the digital generation --DDD-- by self-confession, so, holding them to their own boisterous standard, I want lean and mean, like a commando look. No iota of excessive fat! They have a rough work-out in store if they are serious! I doubt they are!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2013 22:39:23 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, here you have unjustifiably attacked Kamwana so allow me to correct you. Truth be told the KE Constitution stipulates that the cabinet can have no more than 22 cabinet secretaries. Uhuru has proposed 18 & oddly has only nominated 16. With 18 he is therefore 4 seats short of the maximum that you accuse him of trying to appoint. For African standards that's not bad at all. Imagine if he doesn't fill those 2 mystery slots, it will be a full 6 seats shorts of a full cabinet. Impressive stuff from an African big man who should be dishing out seats like candy!!! b6kwww.the-star.co.ke/news/article-120239/cabinet-may-be-expandedTheY FEEL it is too heavy for a single individual!? --Oh poor Kenyans of Jubilee-make and their mediocre mental abilities! No wonder the presidency too is too heavy for a single individual and, in Makau Mutua's words, we have two presidents for the price of one!WE FEELS the presidency is TOO heavy for the conjoined twins Uhuruto. We should launch an Harambee to collect a BRAIN TRUST, or, like they plan to do with the heavy interior docket, split the office of president three ways! --A trio job, many hands does make work lighter! heavy job, PORK
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Post by jakaswanga on May 14, 2013 22:48:26 GMT 3
Kamalet, yes, if we increased efficiency, performance and fought corruption which accounts for at least 35% revenue loss, then really the cash-flow would jump significantly. But for sure I wonder if the government's current rate of services can not be delivered at 40% less personnel! ---ie, the cabinet should be going down, not up! I mean Kenyan GDP is $40bn with a population of 40M. There are guys out there with populations treble that and GDPs 100x ours, and one man runs both interior and defence! And wonder of the world --performs top range! Really Uhuruto should stop being toy leaders!
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Post by b6k on May 15, 2013 9:57:56 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, here you have unjustifiably attacked Kamwana so allow me to correct you. Truth be told the KE Constitution stipulates that the cabinet can have no more than 22 cabinet secretaries. Uhuru has proposed 18 & oddly has only nominated 16. With 18 he is therefore 4 seats short of the maximum that you accuse him of trying to appoint. For African standards that's not bad at all. Imagine if he doesn't fill those 2 mystery slots, it will be a full 6 seats shorts of a full cabinet. Impressive stuff from an African big man who should be dishing out seats like candy!!! b6kwww.the-star.co.ke/news/article-120239/cabinet-may-be-expandedTheY FEEL it is too heavy for a single individual!? --Oh poor Kenyans of Jubilee-make and their mediocre mental abilities! No wonder the presidency too is too heavy for a single individual and, in Makau Mutua's words, we have two presidents for the price of one!WE FEELS the presidency is TOO heavy for the conjoined twins Uhuruto. We should launch an Harambee to collect a BRAIN TRUST, or, like they plan to do with the heavy interior docket, split the office of president three ways! --A trio job, many hands does make work lighter! heavy job, PORK Jakaswanga, it seems you had your fingers on the pulse RE cabinet appointments. If Kamwana goes ahead & expands his cabinet to 20 ministries as opposed to the 18 they started with then we have begun to descent into the slippery slope of business as usual in this "digital" age. What's all this talk about a post being "too heavy for a single individual"? Didn't all nominees (wo)man up & stand before the plate knowing full well they face "heavy" challenges ahead of them?
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Post by jakaswanga on May 22, 2013 20:03:12 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on May 25, 2013 23:53:48 GMT 3
Well well well wuod Kenyatta! just a sec! in a moment I will show you what a cheap shot you make of your faculties! 1. Under Kibaki's Great leadership, something did snap in Kenya, leading to an expulsion of 1/2 a million Kenyans from their original abodes. That is an internal wound that need must be dealt with. Your excellency glosses over it in this tribute to Kibaki. And I think Kibaki further radicalised ethnic sentiments in Kenya, increasing popular alienation from the Gikuyu. 2. Describing the years of Moi as of dedication to the nation is outright balderdash. Its subtext is to deny the resistance to Moi's hyenous rule. The resistance which is part of the process now dubbed 2nd liberation. If Moi's rule was such great, why the need for a second liberation? ---traitors to the nation, those who opposed Moi's dedicated rule! There is another version: People like This Jomo Kenyatta mutated into enemies of the people, establishing one-man dictatorships run by ethnnic loyalists, expropriating the populace. That the bad leaderships of this generation of architects , is what led to the post-colonial nightmare in Afrika, the social rot well documented elsewhere ---- Man of the people --Chinua Achebe; Nolonger at ease; Season of Anomy --Soyinka; shetaani mutharabani --no idea who; the beatiful ones are not yet born --Kweyi Armah. And YES, FRESH FROM THE PRINT, here is a Kenyan source, conclusions from the horse's own mouth. Outting Uhuru Muigai ---or should we say his speech-spin-writer, as a total liar, FALSIFIER OF NATIONAL HISTORY, and ignoramus of the forces at work in the country he has come to lead. the TJRC REPORT: Compiled in good toil. www.tjrckenya.org/images/documents/TJRC_report_Volume_1.pdftjrc report goes: THOSE UP THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OF KENYA'S HISTORY. AND I AM SAYING: IN MY HISTORY CLASS, PRESIDENT UHURU MUIGAI GETS A ZERO- RANKED FAIL. And is referred back to a serious tutorial of HISTORICAL facts. -------Such a wrong diagnosis of a fundamental problem at the heart of a nation is a recipe for disaster. No amount of exquisite lies nor quintessential spin, nor confabulatory rhetorics, can fill and cover up such a gaping whole in national consciousness at the top! But well, may be it is the SPEECH-WRITER who has not yet understood the delicate act of concoction: how much lies can a president get away with? Definitely NOT A 100%! NEVER. That way the speech-writer makes the president a public moron, the first fool in the republic! I strongly suggest a post-humous revision of the victory speech at Kasarani where the president elect mouthed these nonsense! ------------------------
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Post by jakaswanga on May 28, 2013 19:25:42 GMT 3
Then in a much publicised propaganda stunt, the hyper-active co-president William Ruto stayed the hand of the Electricity board from reviewing their charges upwards. It momemtarily looked like the duo were serious. Kumbe it was just 'hustleR politics'!www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Power-connection-fee-goes-up/-/1006/1864430/-/v8pht5/-/index.htmlThis is why I want Kennedy Man Ricardus Rotichus to step forward. These things need to be thought out before they are announced. Even the Minimum wage thing which the president directed to be implemented immediately without stating the sourcing of the funds. Uhuruto is firing blancs at very crucial walls. A joke that has to stop quick, your excellencies. Yesterday Uhuru ordered all criminals to surrender or else! I thought he had smoked something to say that in public!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 29, 2013 21:04:14 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on May 29, 2013 22:02:21 GMT 3
Here is the treat to the police I was talking about! www.thepeople.co.ke/1115/police-officers-get-huge-pay-hike-backdated-over-one-year/They raised the issue with the President NOT the TREASURY! and the president, doubling in as state treasurer, nodded and his will was done! --Oh my God Rotich! What the hell are you? Taking the Cue, the Mpigs are now daring Uhuru to dare them! Then they will threaten to impeach him and ship him off to the Hague no doubt! Wololo!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 30, 2013 22:39:12 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Uhuru-urges-dialogue-over-MPs-pay-/-/1064/1866248/-/yhiekt/-/index.htmlhttp://www.nation.co.ke/After saying that, his excellency the president went to sleep. This IKULU-guy needs a chief of staff, a fixer of sorts who thinks and acts. Because as the president slept, this is what happened: THE MATTER WENT TO COURT ... www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/Court-restrains-PSC-from-paying-MPs-/-/1064/1867520/-/ir9582z/-/index.htmlAnd now every interested party who holds office is a spectator. Above the list, his excellency. ---In civilised jurisprudence, I think people in office should refrain from commenting on matters under legal proceedings --matters before the court or sub judice or something like that. But this being Kenya... I assume Jakoyo and Linturi will soon be instituting bills in parliament to remove Justice Majanja, freeze all his benefits, and outlaw his court if it does not promise to Always rule in the Mpig's benefit! SRC was not required by law to gazette the [salary] notices! 2:50 Abide by SRC or go to hell, says prezzo on his facebook page. www.facebook.com/myuhurukenyattaHe, Uhuru Kenyatta, should go say it in parliament! --as it is who can vouch for the authenticity of the page on internet? I SINCERELY HOPE THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS A HOAX! It is the kind of thing Njakip loves! www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Kenya-stares-at-Sh180bn-cash-shortfall/-/1006/1863646/-/hmqw8wz/-/index.htmlThe talk of donors being mandatory to your economy after you have asserted YOUR INDEPENDENCE AND ELATED A PAN-AFRICANIST POLICY, AND HAD IT RATIFIED BY THE AU AS A CROWNING EVENT, looks to me be a jarring note in the whole orchestra that reduces the symphony to a laughable cacophony. Oh I miss Ricardus Rotich and his Kennedy-trained brains! Do we need foreign donors, or can they go fwack themselves in hell and drop dead there for all we care!? ---This issue needs to be settled by a brainy guy in charge of the nations finances. Pronto!
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Post by OtishOtish on May 31, 2013 2:15:26 GMT 3
Jakaswanga:
"Kenya stares at Sh180bn cash shortfall from foreign donors".
GoK is in the process of replacing its old analogue Official Government Compass with a Digital one. That means that for the time being nobody knows where East is, but the problem will soon be solved. And don't forget that Kenya is now an oil-rich country. Also sovereign and will no longer tolerate interference from neo-colonialists, neo-imperialists, etc.
Over here, we await the arrival of GoK emissaries, cap in hand. Over there, I suggest that you folks send Mr. Kamau Macharia to the UN, to demand that the money be handed over without much further ado.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 21, 2013 13:13:08 GMT 3
Earlier on 16th April 2013, President Muigai addressing the 11th parliament soon after his inauguration. Here below is Muigai on septemeber 17th 2013, revisiting the most important of agendas: INDUSTRIALISATION. This is an important speech by President Kenyatta. It is a redux in the continental sense, that is a sequel which is a repeat. In his speech to the joint house soon after his inauguration, he touched at length on this subject of Industrialisation. This is the next big evocation of the subject: the INDUSTRIALISATION VISION OF HIS REGIME. - -kenya's economic take-off!This is a national dream articulated. As every generation in power has done since independence in the early 60s! A suspended dream hanging out there, waiting for a generation of hardier breed to bring it to fruition! Enter Kenyatta II! I plan to listen to it carefully in the characteristic fashion ---reading it for signs of a genuine pregnancy, or once more, as only has been too often in Africa, a hoax of what would never even be a miscarriage, since there was no viable seeds mating in the first place! Industrialisation without a total Agrarian reform? that already is a sky-high hurdle. But did Onyango Oloo insist on slack being cut Muigai's way? Yes, Industrialisation hymns I confess, bwana Muigai, have always been pleasant to my soul, be it cast of the old and forlon melodies rehearsed by Gikonyo Kiano, Tom Mboya, Okwanyo and Nyakiamo, or, more lately, yesterday's cabinet where Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga were in a discordant duet in their call and response performance of the vision 2030 rendition. So yes, O the blues of industrialisation across the continent of Africa, how moody and of turbulent insides they make me, O poor troubled soul! But I do endeavor to make a habit of picking myself up, preferring to be an incorrigible romantic addicted to love, however the repetitive trials of heart-break deep they hurt. I worry not, and I am happy full, and i look at the sunnier seedier side of life. I try to believe in the better senses of mankind, and occasionally our politicians. Join me, O countrymen [no women please !]! stop being the ultimate pessimists, condemned to a hell of cynicism and the sarcastic rot if hopeless souls! Yes, like a nymph is addicted to sex and pre-occupied to mate, I am to tales of industrialisation coming from the political leaderships of Afrika ---O the most wretched of all continents! O the most impoverished peoples of all God's creations. This is the Afrika of Congo, where at 5-Million dead in 5 years, it is not yet serious enough to warrant the term genocide nor the qualification 'moral obscenity' that affronts the very nature of humanity! ----O the Afrika of my blues.Now I know, as they say in retrospect, why God made Congo the land of frenzied guitarists like Mombasa Vata at rhythm in Lipua Lipua; his successor L okassa Ya Mbongo at African all Stars. The insane renditions of the solo in Orchetre Kiam's productions --- Bomoto, Moni Afinda, Pamuzo. Dr. Nico wa Kassanda's distant and totally academic pickings in trance as in Africa Mokili Mobimba; Luambo Makiadi's rouble-rousing, possessed fury; Mavatiku Michellino's divine delicacy, and, because the list is inexhuaustible, the sky-tearing horn calls of the dynamite-lunged Mateta Verkys, most famous as the Orch. Veve emblem. Yes, Industrialisation blues from the dark Continent, and the heart of darkness itself. Broken Promises ala Kibaki! I am the incorrigible romantic in this I said, the pathological optimist ever knocking his head on the same wall and responding with the same smile: sorry, my mistake, I did not look where I was going. So when the latest President of the republic of Kenya, ----- a war-crimes indictee to boot, a princeling to a dynastic who already failed the task post-independence for all talk of founding father of the nation-----, waxes industrialisation and foams endless about a vision 2030 of Utopian proportions, I am all stiff-pants and salivating at the prospects of paradise found ----at short last! And Amen in advance I sigh! My Kingdom come! Still, all survival instincts, species specific, can not be rendered null and dysfunctional by a euphoric blitzkierig of romantic hormones. Therefore, however biologised, alternative evolutionary instincts spoil the party by introducing caveats, first subconsciously, then increasingly higher up the scale of intellect, consciously. Thereby letting the hard-nosed reality take center stage, as must in the evolutionary struggle for existence. With every evolution-honed biological sense, with every socially acquired skill, I call every organ to purpose to discern the slightest of nuance in the much-disturbed heart of the son of Jomo [henceforth s/oJ]. Like a sniper in the wake for that single shot, I process every motion of the lips of my president, to detect a jarring note; I run every discordance in his mental bearing to detect a feeble thought .... I .... We are mating in dangerous woods, our eyes must be open! the economic jungle, O Afrika, is a predators paradise! In Africa we have been lulled before by the fluency of natural-born liars, psychopaths of no internal contradictions which can arise due to intrusions of empathic competences ---total authoritarians fathering floundering nations; we have also witnessed frail beings trying to make the best of a terrible heritage. Perhaps Uhuru Muigai is currently more of the latter ---if we cut him some slack as we should ! I am sure he means well with this Industrialisation talk. But he is a tragedy. He can not mean otherwise, since there is no other national agenda to mean. When your house is burning, the agenda is you need a new House, even as you fire-brigade and try saving a few valuables. The disaster dictates the agenda. [[Kenyan indicaror statistics from UN sources will suffice to make the point --like the child mortality rates in the cradle Siaya!]. NB: [Pumping up their commissions on kenya's Eurobond launches] Fitch $ Moody's and Standard $ Poor, if you believe their PR-blurb, have given Uhuru Kenyatta's Kenya a royal pass on Financial management and prospects with all that oil and Chinese goodies! And I think the IMF too, in concert, sings from the same gospel book in their latest report. That report was much heralded on the occasion of this speech by Uhuru Kenyatta [pronounced Yahara Ken-ya-Taa by an old Jamaican Reggae group known as Black Uhuru ---Composers of the famous line: What I am longing for, is a little happiness, me black!]. 2. Industrialisation has in 250 years of human practice become relatively common place. Ever since 'Great ' Britain's debut in the 17th century as a forerunner, it has been repeated with monotony that is. This makes it a non mystery, a historically ABC-event just like warfare [which is as common in history as sex is common in marriage] and therefore quite easy to COMPETITIVELY calibrate. So I simply draw a table, ie put a list of 100 facts/factors fulfilled by the already industrialised WHEN they were taking off, and using them as a CHECKLIST, I tick them off against Jubilee's policy priorities, and Uhuru Kenyatta's accomplishments as the house burns! Gives me a fair idea whether Uhuru is the latest SEMBENE OUSMANE'S parable Xala on top of the nympho, making his useless mark before history casts him aside to let in wole Soyinka's of a hardier breed. Industrialisation: Afrika is wide open, tropically hot and moist and waiting for the real deal. A Prime bomb waiting for the ignition! A bandit bourgeoise to do it? I aint putting my money on it. But I will put yours on it. My money is on the Chinese! They are the only guys I have seen unravel a 100-year economic plan for Afrika. Worries me, but is a better risk than putting futures on the local Xala-prone comprador! I will be back! ---On labour and decisions about her! She is wild and indisciplined in Africa, elsewhere she is idle, dying a virgin in regretful disuse: hoarding all her potential and skills from the productive process; and elsewhere she is a street-hooker charging cab-crawlers too much and performing too litTle for the unit time she be busy! This virgin-ho must be unchained to run amok in the productive process and, on a TURBO REGIME, quadruple the GDP ASAP!! I mean: Imagine the Chinese are planning to import their own [80,000] wheel-barrow pushers in the building of the SGR [standard gauge railway] they are funding!
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