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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 26, 2013 18:39:25 GMT 3
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!! RECYCLING OLD GARBAGE: JOSEPH KINYUA RESURFACES AS THE BOSS OF BOSSES IN THE BUREAUCRACY!www.nation.co.ke/news/President-Kenyatta-names-former-PS-Joseph-Kinyua-Chief-of-Staff-/-/1056/2008344/-/5x7sgs/-/index.html distinction he hype-said! Jukwaa, I report a problem ! Just the man to inform us deeply on Goldenberg and all those past scandals! And these are many! 'distinction' may be a word with a different meaning in Kenya, far from 'excellent'! REmind me of what happened when this Kinyua, the reputed top-end administrator, was running the show at Finance. ---Forget the tens of billion ksh. errors in the budget he presided over for the moment! ---terrible guy at math and accounting, this Kinyua. President Uhuru, I think, has not recovered fully from his shock over the Westgate Mall terror attack, and he has been led with his nose again, the way he was at the issuance of the less than bonafide title-deeds at the coast. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000093830&story_title=duale-reveals-sh15-billion-oil-deal-scam-by-kibaki-regimeJoseph Kinyua was the permanent secretary at the ministry of Finance, he knows a thing or two, if not all the details of these rip-offs. I will bet my dik on that. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000094229&story_title=mps-told-how-state-lost-sh20b-in-oil-refinery-dealCurrently cabinet secretary Davis Chirchir of Energy is locked in a fierce clash with permanent secretary Joseph Njoroge, and the resurgence of Kinyua to supervisory role means Chirchir is likely to be outgunned. ELSEWHERE, IF WE SKIP THE MALFEASANCE AT THE NATIONAL CEREALS AND PRODUCE BOARD [NCPB]... www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000091226&story_title=kmc-loses-sh1-2-billion-as-state-shies-away-from-sacred-cowsand in 2009 --who was then the supremo at finance? www.standardmedia.co.ke/?1144007917=1144007917&457=457&articleID=1144007917 IT helps to have a clear memory of what happens to money when men are in office. I am saying, a cursory glance at the competence of Joseph Kinyua, statistically abbreviated, will indicate Uhuru's confidence on him is on other qualities, rather than the INDUSTRIALISATION MANAGEMENT AGENDA! A HUMOROUS LOOK from long ago on 'Budgetary errors' under Uhuru and this Kinyua yangu.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/kenyauhuru-kenyattatreasury-budget-and-typing-errors/We have had this double-act before, Uhuru and Kinyua. Their combined brains are no Industrial fuel. They are two old dogs you wont be teaching any new tricks. But between them, they have quite a bag of old tricks! Equation solved. TOWARD A COMMANDO FORMATION AT THE DIPLOMATIC FRONTNB: I wish Uhuru would appoint Macharia [the recently recalled UN man] to replace that girl at foreign affairs who packs no punch. Macharia is aggressive, abrasive, a bare-knuckles fighter and totally loyal to Mr. Kenyatta. Trotting the globe with a mission to brow-beat Bensouda and her ICC, I think he would deliver far more than the sometimes in burka/niqab wandering lady. Omamo 'Recho'who is worthless at defence can replace Macharia at the UN where she would be in her element, and the current foreign secretary can get the prestigious Washington slot. This would be the best deployment of diplomatic commandos at Mr. Kenyatta's disposal. Defence can go to a real heavy hitter from that industry. One of the early retired Generals.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 10, 2014 23:16:02 GMT 3
Between speeches and performance, we have had a whole year of entertainment. KANU-era roadside directives that fell on deaf ears, and many presidential initiatives that died faster than the sound of the executive's voice mouthing them. But at last, at last, there seems to be some fire inkling in the balls of his excellency. --- You will take a pay cut, pende usipende! That is right, Rotich and Ndung'u must have gotten through: The Kenya shilling is beginning to rise. And the CBK is in no position to soothe her threatening volatile temper. It is a clear and present danger, and Kenya needs to do something to convince lenders of her credit worthiness. So I still really do not feel there is real fire in both balls of the president! ---he is still hot airing! ass-wise! Me says ... Cry Baby Kenyatta, the would be builder/industrialiser of the nation papa Kenyatta founded, is developing some teeth. Problem is, they are still milk-teeth that indeed can painfully bite teats, but not really tear off the meat. And in any case they are still far, far from bone-crusher arms. Still one has to start somewhere, and if we nourish the baby enough, and if by nature he be endowed of the necessary courage that maketh a man and constitutes a leader, he could still surprise us by head-butting corruption to a daze. At at a famous 30% rate, reducing corruption is politically easier, less risky than taking on the whole labour movement with the current proposed 20% pay-cut, while we know the cumulative heavenly retirement benefits from the previous parliaments ---from the 8th to the 10th, are the real drain on the treasury. The head of Baby Kenyatta needs a lot of panel-beating into shape. But he is making the right noises. ---It is to be hoped he does not stay but an empty debe. Noisy, but of no consequence. www.nation.co.ke/news/Top-officials-brace-for-pay-cuts-in-new-plan/-/1056/2237354/-/nssauwz/-/index.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 10, 2014 23:25:52 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 10, 2014 23:53:02 GMT 3
THE PUBLIC WAGE-BILL COMEDY SHOW: I STILL FEEL UNEASY THAT HARVARD-BRED GOLDEN BOY ROTICH IS NOT THE GUY READING THE RIOT ORDER TO THE NATION. William Ruto today said we use 78% of our budget on recurrent expenditure. Was Ouru Kenyatta not minister of finance in the GCG when the % was about the same if not higher?If this thing [public wage bill is unsustainable], I prefer the minister of finance, Henry Rotich, to call a special session of the two houses as a matter of national priority, and just STATE THE FACTS: the state of the treasury, the options he has. And let the two houses debate and come up with a modality [series of measures] to arrest the situation. An austerity package. When they fail, the president gets a free hand to be a dictator: doing what is sensible to save his nation, as the senate of Rome Nairobi squabbles in impotence and greed. ------------------- But this is Kenya, so it is a bit of comedy: let us go! www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/I-will-take-a-15pc-pay-cut--says-Duale/-/1064/2236144/-/15iwinfz/-/index.htmlThat was Aden Duale takes a pay cut, followed by Mike Sonko! ---They were responding to Uhuruto's grand gesture! Now the rest of you! Do thou follow the shining knight in his valour! –Pay cuts en masse! Only problem is that is not how we run governments these days. Nor public nor private financial policy. There are these (state of the-art-constitution guaranteed) tedious documents called contracts where salaries are specified amongst other terms of service, unless one is on jua-kali understandings which, when things go wrong, you better watch the Miguna sacking by Raila Odinga.Even in the church these days, you do not just part with what you can, no way, there is a figure the ushers are instructed to uphold and collect. Therefore a bloated cabinet in charge of a bloated civil service running a looting tax regime in a country diving deep into debt, does not indicate any seriousness with voluntary pay cuts. That is public comedy. ---Uhuru Kenyatta is a clown. Unless Serem misrepresented him!If he wants to seriously deal with the public wage bill, there will first be a statement of mission in numerical form -- it is not there in the above long statement of his I linked above. For example, an unleashed, non quixotic and sane Uhuru Kenyatta might sound like this: ‘’ My government will reduce the public wage bill, currently at an unsustainable level of about 14% GDP, to a manageable, more reasonable level. That level is defined by a reduction by 15% points in two financial years. Which indicates at least a 7% reduction rate by this time next year. Which is ksh. x trillion!
To do that, my government proposes to introduce far-ranging austerity measures, to be backed by bills in parliament and or presidential decrees where the constitution confers such powers. But before then, given the powers invested upon me by the constitution (section etc etc), I hereby freeze all CBA’s negotiated after my due and democratic election. I know the Trade Unions will be up in arms, but the reality of empty treasuries must be faced some day, and sooner rather than later by me, your president''.www.nation.co.ke/news/Public-servants-vow-to-resist-reduction-of-their-salaries/-/1056/2236666/-/lxxigv/-/index.htmlwww.nation.co.ke/news/Teachers-will-not-accept-pay-cut-Kuppet-says/-/1056/2237768/-/tqrwbl/-/index.html '' There will be disruptions in the short term, as an opportunistic opposition seeks short-term popularity; but bringing our unhealthy expenditures to boot, is a patriotic duty I will not shirk at any cost ---even the political cost of an early election.''www.nation.co.ke/news/Backlash-meets-Uhurus-move-to-take-salary-cut/-/1056/2236668/-/mq6xy4/-/index.html''I also hereby declare the start of a merciless zero tolerance on corruption. The state shall seize, repossess and confiscate all proceeds of corruption without compensation ---- even if they belong to the Kenyatta family, of which I am the eldest custodian!’’ That is just an possible example of granite if a ruler is serious about the national treasury. But anyway, as we saw earlier on, the son of Jomo was a finance minister and he did nothing. The current prime Minister Kinyua was there too, and did nothing. There is no reason to assume they now grew up to anything tougher than the ideological toilet paper they have always been. –fwacking cry baby! Knows his office is drenched in corruption and does nothing about it except weep in public!Really in state craft, which fool wants to run a country by voluntary taxation ala pay if you wish!?Let me spell it out: The law or act. Tax is collected by force. Pay cuts are enforced by force. You got to know the number of lawyers specialised in tax evasion anywhere in the world, to get an idea the stakes here. This Mr. Kenyatta is surely better employed far from the most important office in the republic if he wants to reduce the public wage bill by voluntary means! ---We already see every Tom Dick and Harry union and opposition leader up in arms! www.nation.co.ke/news/Doctors-in-Coast-quit-over-salary/-/1056/2234206/-/fe15iyz/-/index.htmlwww.reuters.com/article/2014/03/07/us-kenya-wagebill-idUSBREA2610H20140307ntv.nation.co.ke/news2/topheadlines/kenyas-annual-recurrent-expenditure-tops-sh1tn-as-devolved-government-takes-shape/
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 1, 2014 19:17:00 GMT 3
www.cofek.co.ke/index.php/14-news/730-president-uhuru-orders-lands-secretary-charity-ngilu-to-repossess-500-000-acres-of-grabbed-lamu-land The good news is the son of Jomo is acting. And I do not mean acting president. I mean he is setting something in motion, by an initiative. The thing is, when a patient is in coma, in the intensive care unit, then even a twitch of an eyelid is progress. A complete wink under those circumstances would be revolutionary. So when a government whose litany of corruption in 15 months has outpaced Kibaki's first 5 years, recovers ½ a million acres of land from thieves and scammers, and in command as the hero of the moment is the scion of the historically largest land-grabbing family in the republic, we are looking at something big, something seismic. Something odd. 1. Obviously if the LAMU allocations were fraudulent like Mr. Muigai says, then Charity Ngilu is a goat. Because she could not act on her own in this massive scandal, but had to wait for the DIRECTIVE FROM MR. PRESIDENT. Kind of, like a boat is leaking mid-voyage, and the captain is on hold, waiting for orders from the proprietor to fix the leak! or not !So I repeat. Charity Ngilu is a goat. She should have acted on own constitutional auspices, powers invested upon her office to protect the national interest and defend the public good. But a goat is of course not that literate. Or a dog on a leash understands the limits of own initiatives. 2. If the president is serious , he will be CONSEQUENTIAL. And that is dangerous to everybody up, since the consequences of re-claiming grabbed lands in Kenya, public or private, starts with Mama Ngina, the Elephant Mother. Secondly, the implication is, partly, that the Minister and commissioners and the whole apparatus under which this LAMU misappropriation took place, must pay the culprit price. Which means James Orengo –-if he indeed was the minister then-- should better be hunting for a good lawyer or upgrading himself in law, instead of worrying about the referendum. he Orengo apparently presided over a land-grab as large as the Kibaki family land fortune, illicit or otherwise acquired. If Orengo is not arrested -- Tobiko's office has its off days you know, it could also mean behind the scenes Orengo is done deals, and is being had, literally. If he is not arrested, and is not offering the said, then it means the son of Jomo is his usual self, yap-yapping for dramatic effect; tamtamming to be heard but nothing doing to contain the fire. –-The way he yap-yapped over M peketoni; the way the Lamu governor was arrested as terrorist instigator after meeting him, only for it turn out there was no evidence; the way he yapped about the security dockets being the center of corruption, but failed to bite through as in this one, when Karangi and Gichangi took opportunity of the dying days of the dysfunctional GCG and the limbo of transition to pull a fast one. www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000129713/kenya-s-defence-interior-ministries-in-a-spot-for-diverting-sh750-million so, is it a selective recovery session!? or this is the first shot in a campaign with Kenyatta's heart in it? Should all thieves and grabbers of public utilities be warming their necks for the chop? Like professor Ndung'u, the pick-pocket at CBK? Or is Ouru just but a dog barking against the winds for show? O son of Jomo, you sure your head was clear when you realised Ngilu, in her audit, had failed to FIND A SINGLE PLOT OF LAND IN KENYA IN YOUR NAME, but found 500,000 acres of illicit allocations? Imagine cousin Githu Muigai arguing this point at the Hague! –-' 'we neither have the resources nor the time for such a fishing expedition!'' he told the court! Well, the good professor has no idea how thorough Ngilu's team can do! mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-orders-Ngilu-to-reposes-public-in-Lamu/-/1950946/2404452/-/format/xhtml/-/51ferpz/-/index.html To be continued. William Ruto is recently mentioned in a Ruai land scam case, from his team days with Jirongo I think. Peanuts may be! –-I neither have the time nor the inclination to find the links! LAPPSET! he he! ' local political networks' has a different ring when you consider those with the power to nyakua half a million acres! Go! Ouru Go!
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Post by OtishOtish on Aug 1, 2014 20:35:10 GMT 3
Jakaswanga:
Yes, it is an astonishingly positive story. First, Ms. Ngilu is praised for having found 1.3 million lost files, and the citizens celebrate. But it turns out not to be so, and gloom-and-dome settles all over the land, because, a few weeks later, the Attorney-General (the Total Man in legal matters) is at the Hague explaining that in fact 1.3 million files have still not been found. And among them Anything & Everything that could possibly have Anything & Eto do with His Excellency. Now, after some vigorous expressions of unhappiness in Lamu---none of which should have been surprising for those who read the TJRC report and related comments---there is the sudden discovery of 0.5 million stolen acres! And, best of all, it is to be returned. Immediately! Or, as the manambas say/write in my home-home area, kwa bai oda!
But, back on track ... all in all, it is a very nice story. And they all lived happily ever after. (Until the next time?) But from a legal perspective, there are a few awkward questions: (a) who "allocated" this land and on what basis?; (b) did the "owners" pay for the land, and, if so, can it be arbitrarily "reclaimed" from them?; (c) how do non-existent (as in not-registered) companies manage to "legally" acquire such chunks of land; (d) does His Excellency have the legal powers to wake up one morning and say, "reclaim from these! give to those!".
Back in the day, the ruling His Excellency had a lot of legal power: he could give public land to any worthy or needful citizen. And who could be more worthy that His Excellency and Founder of A Great Republic? He did "the necessary", and it was all perfectly legal. I have often amused myself by thinking of the "scene": Sitting on the power-side of a large desk, "I, Jomo Kenyatta, acting on the basis of this and that legal power, do hereby allocate this huge chunk of land to one Worthy Citizen, Johnstone Kamau, ... please sign here." Quickly scoot to other side, the humble-recipient side, and "I, Worthy Citizen, ... do gratefully acknowledge ....". Before you know it, it is alleged that some fellow owns land the size of a province; but these are just wild stories, given the millions of land records have been lost.
My Saturday-Night-Live amusements aside, what does this very impressive from-speech-to-performance action imply? This must be a back-of-the-mind question for all those who have "historical grievances", such as are catalogued in the dead-on-arrival TJRC report? is it "forget the softly-softly, talky-talky and allow you terrorists friends from across the border to help you express displeasure"? I don't know. But I am not aware of a similar example of such a large amount of stolen property being recovered so quickly, especially when the entire world has been told, via an international court, that millions of records have been lost and that it would take forever to determine who owns what and on what basis.
Still, on the whole, this is a good, positive approach: start from recent years and then, perhaps, work back to 1963. And keep dishing out title deeds. Can't go wrong with that one. An alternative would be tackle the problem at the roots, e.g. start with the TJRC report, but it be waste of time to bother with common-sense approaches when one if in Full Control.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 1, 2014 23:43:13 GMT 3
Otishotish,These are salient issues you raise. Some have been spinning through my head, especially your point b: did the ''owners'' pay for the land, and, if so, can it be arbitrarily ''reclaimed'' from them? ARBITRARILY!? No, that can not be the case in a capitalist country where private property forms the basis of financial intercourse and commercial transactions, underpinning loans. If documentation bestowing legal legitimacy, proving ownership, –-ownership against which a bank-loan many times over the market value of that said property is mortgaged, can ''arbitrarily'' be revoked at his excellency's leisure, the market confidence in that economy hits a nose-dive. Githu Muigai must have offered stellar advice! On the other hand –-why I was winking with the word revolutionary and ICU, if this ' 'arbitrary reclamation'' were to be portrayed as NATIONALISATION, geared towards a STABLISATION of an EXPLOSIVE HISTORICAL GRIEVANCE, which, exploited by both ' 'local and external terrorist networks'', could threaten the greatest INFRASTRUCTURAL program in 100 years –-the LAPPSET corridor, then even as short-term investors loose confidence, long-term visionaries would nodd approval. it would be a salvation! Ouru Kenyatta as a political genius. Now, cut Ouru some slack as Miguna insists! Will you. Otherwise the worst is to be feared. Because From a political economic perspective of the comprador bourgeoisie mode, it symptomises the new kids in town overthrowing the old Kibaki-Raila entrenched corruption moghuls who made a last-minute killing with these title deeds and LAMU allocations. That overthrow, is ruthless. This is the use of state power to ruin the other in an inter-elite war over spoils. They are being bankrupted by the arbitrary confiscation of their allotments and nullification of title deeds. The outstanding loans they have on them, they can unlikely pay. These companies/individuals will be forced to file for bankruptcy, and or offer themselves to be bought. –--By the new kids in town. Neat, even if Intra-class auto-cannibalism. A few banks may be too exposed on the half a million acres, because, greedily expecting the LAMU lands to skyrocket in price –-correctly, they would have seen a killing which could not go wrong and therefore over-extetended themselves ... Over generous with loans to cronies and accompanied insider dealings given a dead shot project. Such banks will be gladly preyed upon by Uhuru kenyatta's own Banks. His excellency being a major player in the banking sector. Neat. Like father like son in consolidation. I should now go and read how banking loans are insured in Kenya. And whether there exists a market for betting against or for default! NB: In the case of the Greek collapse, the American banks which had insured Greek debts, were later revealed to have betted Greece would go bankrupt! Both ways they made a killing. The IMF knew of this game, and when Germany –-the bail out master-- found out how she had been played, they forced the institution, IMF, into a famous mea culpa. A German front page editorial twisted the knife: The IMF is led by the French, DSK or Lagarde. If the French understood Finance, would she be in an eternal recession like we witness!? Let them be stars in their African colonies! Not Berlin.NB: Land, title-deeds' beeing the alpha and omega of banking loans in Kenya, it is in my opinion, imperative to understand the loans insurance racket. 500,000 acres Prime Land up for grabs, is a whale of an opportunity to bring out the worst in men. and not just alshabaab operatives and ideologues. 500,00 acres has jump-kicked Uhuru Kenyatta from his comatose presidency for instance. Then there are the 30,000 title deeds he issued with much pomp, but which turned out to be fakes or shades of fakes! Land! Yes I agree with you, the TJRC should not have been let to gather dust! Jakaswanga:
Yes, it is an astonishingly positive story. First, Ms. Ngilu is praised for having found 1.3 million lost files, and the citizens celebrate. But it turns out not to be so, and gloom-and-dome settles all over the land, because, a few weeks later, the Attorney-General (the Total Man in legal matters) is at the Hague explaining that in fact 1.3 million files have still not been found. And among them Anything & Everything that could possibly have Anything & Eto do with His Excellency. Now, after some vigorous expressions of unhappiness in Lamu---none of which should have been surprising for those who read the TJRC report and related comments---there is the sudden discovery of 0.5 million stolen acres! And, best of all, it is to be returned. Immediately! Or, as the manambas say/write in my home-home area, kwa bai oda!
But, back on track ... all in all, it is a very nice story. And they all lived happily ever after. (Until the next time?) But from a legal perspective, there are a few awkward questions: (a) who "allocated" this land and on what basis?; (b) did the "owners" pay for the land, and, if so, can it be arbitrarily "reclaimed" from them?; (c) how do non-existent (as in not-registered) companies manage to "legally" acquire such chunks of land; (d) does His Excellency have the legal powers to wake up one morning and say, "reclaim from these! give to those!".
Back in the day, the ruling His Excellency had a lot of legal power: he could give public land to any worthy or needful citizen. And who could be more worthy that His Excellency and Founder of A Great Republic? He did "the necessary", and it was all perfectly legal. I have often amused myself by thinking of the "scene": Sitting on the power-side of a large desk, "I, Jomo Kenyatta, acting on the basis of this and that legal power, do hereby allocate this huge chunk of land to one Worthy Citizen, Johnstone Kamau, ... please sign here." Quickly scoot to other side, the humble-recipient side, and "I, Worthy Citizen, ... do gratefully acknowledge ....". Before you know it, it is alleged that some fellow owns land the size of a province; but these are just wild stories, given the millions of land records have been lost.
My Saturday-Night-Live amusements aside, what does this very impressive from-speech-to-performance action imply? This must be a back-of-the-mind question for all those who have "historical grievances", such as are catalogued in the dead-on-arrival TJRC report? is it "forget the softly-softly, talky-talky and allow you terrorists friends from across the border to help you express displeasure"? I don't know. But I am not aware of a similar example of such a large amount of stolen property being recovered so quickly, especially when the entire world has been told, via an international court, that millions of records have been lost and that it would take forever to determine who owns what and on what basis.
Still, on the whole, this is a good, positive approach: start from recent years and then, perhaps, work back to 1963. And keep dishing out title deeds. Can't go wrong with that one. An alternative would be tackle the problem at the roots, e.g. start with the TJRC report, but it be waste of time to bother with common-sense approaches when one if in Full Control.
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Post by merkeju on Aug 2, 2014 4:27:06 GMT 3
Otishotish,These are salient issues you raise. Some have been spinning through my head, especially your point b: did the ''owners'' pay for the land, and, if so, can it be arbitrarily ''reclaimed'' from them? ARBITRARILY!? No, that can not be the case in a capitalist country where private property forms the basis of financial intercourse and commercial transactions, underpinning loans. If documentation bestowing legal legitimacy, proving ownership, –-ownership against which a bank-loan many times over the market value of that said property is mortgaged, can ''arbitrarily'' be revoked at his excellency's leisure, the market confidence in that economy hits a nose-dive. Githu Muigai must have offered stellar advice! On the other hand –-why I was winking with the word revolutionary and ICU, if this ' 'arbitrary reclamation'' were to be portrayed as NATIONALISATION, geared towards a STABLISATION of an EXPLOSIVE HISTORICAL GRIEVANCE, which, exploited by both ' 'local and external terrorist networks'', could threaten the greatest INFRASTRUCTURAL program in 100 years –-the LAPPSET corridor, then even as short-term investors loose confidence, long-term visionaries would nodd approval. it would be a salvation! Ouru Kenyatta as a political genius. Now, cut Ouru some slack as Miguna insists! Will you. Otherwise the worst is to be feared. Because From a political economic perspective of the comprador bourgeoisie mode, it symptomises the new kids in town overthrowing the old Kibaki-Raila entrenched corruption moghuls who made a last-minute killing with these title deeds and LAMU allocations. That overthrow, is ruthless. This is the use of state power to ruin the other in an inter-elite war over spoils. They are being bankrupted by the arbitrary confiscation of their allotments and nullification of title deeds. The outstanding loans they have on them, they can unlikely pay. These companies/individuals will be forced to file for bankruptcy, and or offer themselves to be bought. –--By the new kids in town. Neat, even if Intra-class auto-cannibalism. A few banks may be too exposed on the half a million acres, because, greedily expecting the LAMU lands to skyrocket in price –-correctly, they would have seen a killing which could not go wrong and therefore over-extetended themselves ... Over generous with loans to cronies and accompanied insider dealings given a dead shot project. Such banks will be gladly preyed upon by Uhuru kenyatta's own Banks. His excellency being a major player in the banking sector. Neat. Like father like son in consolidation. I should now go and read how banking loans are insured in Kenya. And whether there exists a market for betting against or for default! NB: In the case of the Greek collapse, the American banks which had insured Greek debts, were later revealed to have betted Greece would go bankrupt! Both ways they made a killing. The IMF knew of this game, and when Germany –-the bail out master-- found out how she had been played, they forced the institution, IMF, into a famous mea culpa. A German front page editorial twisted the knife: The IMF is led by the French, DSK or Lagarde. If the French understood Finance, would she be in an eternal recession like we witness!? Let them be stars in their African colonies! Not Berlin.NB: Land, title-deeds' beeing the alpha and omega of banking loans in Kenya, it is in my opinion, imperative to understand the loans insurance racket. 500,000 acres Prime Land up for grabs, is a whale of an opportunity to bring out the worst in men. and not just alshabaab operatives and ideologues. 500,00 acres has jump-kicked Uhuru Kenyatta from his comatose presidency for instance. Then there are the 30,000 title deeds he issued with much pomp, but which turned out to be fakes or shades of fakes! Land! Yes I agree with you, the TJRC should not have been let to gather dust! Jakaswanga:
Yes, it is an astonishingly positive story. First, Ms. Ngilu is praised for having found 1.3 million lost files, and the citizens celebrate. But it turns out not to be so, and gloom-and-dome settles all over the land, because, a few weeks later, the Attorney-General (the Total Man in legal matters) is at the Hague explaining that in fact 1.3 million files have still not been found. And among them Anything & Everything that could possibly have Anything & Eto do with His Excellency. Now, after some vigorous expressions of unhappiness in Lamu---none of which should have been surprising for those who read the TJRC report and related comments---there is the sudden discovery of 0.5 million stolen acres! And, best of all, it is to be returned. Immediately! Or, as the manambas say/write in my home-home area, kwa bai oda!
But, back on track ... all in all, it is a very nice story. And they all lived happily ever after. (Until the next time?) But from a legal perspective, there are a few awkward questions: (a) who "allocated" this land and on what basis?; (b) did the "owners" pay for the land, and, if so, can it be arbitrarily "reclaimed" from them?; (c) how do non-existent (as in not-registered) companies manage to "legally" acquire such chunks of land; (d) does His Excellency have the legal powers to wake up one morning and say, "reclaim from these! give to those!".
Back in the day, the ruling His Excellency had a lot of legal power: he could give public land to any worthy or needful citizen. And who could be more worthy that His Excellency and Founder of A Great Republic? He did "the necessary", and it was all perfectly legal. I have often amused myself by thinking of the "scene": Sitting on the power-side of a large desk, "I, Jomo Kenyatta, acting on the basis of this and that legal power, do hereby allocate this huge chunk of land to one Worthy Citizen, Johnstone Kamau, ... please sign here." Quickly scoot to other side, the humble-recipient side, and "I, Worthy Citizen, ... do gratefully acknowledge ....". Before you know it, it is alleged that some fellow owns land the size of a province; but these are just wild stories, given the millions of land records have been lost.
My Saturday-Night-Live amusements aside, what does this very impressive from-speech-to-performance action imply? This must be a back-of-the-mind question for all those who have "historical grievances", such as are catalogued in the dead-on-arrival TJRC report? is it "forget the softly-softly, talky-talky and allow you terrorists friends from across the border to help you express displeasure"? I don't know. But I am not aware of a similar example of such a large amount of stolen property being recovered so quickly, especially when the entire world has been told, via an international court, that millions of records have been lost and that it would take forever to determine who owns what and on what basis.
Still, on the whole, this is a good, positive approach: start from recent years and then, perhaps, work back to 1963. And keep dishing out title deeds. Can't go wrong with that one. An alternative would be tackle the problem at the roots, e.g. start with the TJRC report, but it be waste of time to bother with common-sense approaches when one if in Full Control. Did Uhuru made as Raila Odinga said “a cheap public relations gimmick.” because the story is in what Angote said www.nation.co.ke/news/James-Orengo-faces-arrest-in-Lamu-land-allocations/-/1056/2405756/-/12pnkox/-/index.html
Ms Angote argued that title deeds for land in the Lapsset corridor were revoked by the previous government in 2010 but said she could not respond to the ones in question unless the LR numbers, dates of issue and signatories were released.
“Either in 2011 or 2012, a decision was taken at the highest level, chaired by then Prime Minister Raila Odinga to revoke the titles. The decision was reached because we knew that those titles will be a problem to the Lapsset project and were issued to the companies in anticipation of the Lamu Port. That decision was taken long way ago,” she said on the phone.
“Because I have not read about the exact titles and when they were issued, I cannot comment on that. But if they are the very titles, what is new? I cannot tell if they are recycling what was done, then,” she said.
Did Uhuru Kenyatta and Charity Ngilu duped the public? if its true that the land in question was revoked by the previous government then the JUBILEE government has become bankrupt of ideas and this follows the behavioral pattern of deception by one Uhuru Kenyatta.
Looking at some of the beneficiaries,
Suprisingly, two of the companies share one name — Bricks INVESTMENT COMPANY.
Mr Jonas Geke and Timothy Njuguna Kariuki of Nairobi own the first one REGISTERED in August 2011 while Ms Alice Masaa and Ms Margaret Kavulani incorporated a second one in December 2011. Each was allocated 40,014 acres.
Ms Masaa and Ms Kavulani also own Dynamic Trading Company formed in September 2011 and which owns 22,230 acres. A firm with a similar name is owned by Vijay Kumar and Ankit Bhardwaj of Village Market in Nairobi.
Mat International Company which owns 40,014 acres is owned by Twalib Ali Mohamed and Abdiwahid Haji Yerrow while Shanghai Africa Investment Ltd is owned by John Kiarie, Peter Muchangi Njiru, Peter Mwangi Karenju, Daniel Gacheru Mwangi, Simon Ng’ang’a Wanjohi, Burton Kibui Maina, Michael Nduhiu Kariuki and Jeremiah Mbiata Gikonyo. They own 19,760 acres.
who are the real owners of this 22 companies, Kenyans deserve to know.
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Post by b6k on Aug 2, 2014 7:58:48 GMT 3
www.cofek.co.ke/index.php/14-news/730-president-uhuru-orders-lands-secretary-charity-ngilu-to-repossess-500-000-acres-of-grabbed-lamu-land The good news is the son of Jomo is acting. And I do not mean acting president. I mean he is setting something in motion, by an initiative. The thing is, when a patient is in coma, in the intensive care unit, then even a twitch of an eyelid is progress. A complete wink under those circumstances would be revolutionary. So when a government whose litany of corruption in 15 months has outpaced Kibaki's first 5 years, recovers ½ a million acres of land from thieves and scammers, and in command as the hero of the moment is the scion of the historically largest land-grabbing family in the republic, we are looking at something big, something seismic. Something odd. Jakaswanga, "something odd", eh? What if the comatose patient had already been operated on & was in recovery mode? What would you call the radical double surgery? "Ms Angote argued that title deeds for land in the Lapsset corridor were revoked by the previous government in 2010 but said she could not respond to the ones in question unless the LR numbers, dates of issue and signatories were released. “Either in 2011 or 2012, a decision was taken at the highest level, chaired by then Prime Minister Raila Odinga to revoke the titles. The decision was reached because we knew that those titles will be a problem to the Lapsset project and were issued to the companies in anticipation of the Lamu Port. That decision was taken long way ago,” she said on the phone. “Because I have not read about the exact titles and when they were issued, I cannot comment on that. But if they are the very titles, what is new? I cannot tell if they are recycling what was done, then,” she said." Get the full report here
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Post by OtishOtish on Aug 2, 2014 8:38:11 GMT 3
From a political economic perspective of the comprador bourgeoisie mode, it symptomises the new kids in town overthrowing the old Kibaki-Raila entrenched corruption moghuls who made a last-minute killing with these title deeds and LAMU allocations. That overthrow, is ruthless. This is the use of state power to ruin the other in an inter-elite war over spoils. They are being bankrupted by the arbitrary confiscation of their allotments and nullification of title deeds. The outstanding loans they have on them, they can unlikely pay. These companies/individuals will be forced to file for bankruptcy, and or offer themselves to be bought. –--By the new kids in town. Surely, you can't be serious. Do you really believe His Excellency has the nuts to deal with Owners & Serious People, who can summon him with a "kijana, come here and explain yourself!". True, he is considered a hero in some places, for supposedly having saved Our People at a critical time. But there are two things to keep in mind: First, to get the lad going, it must have taken quite some effort from Rasputin Michuki and the Empress Dowager; one of the two is no longer with us, and it is doubtful that the other cares about land issues as long as the right files can stay lost. Second, the people who had to be "sorted out" then were mere "manambas", whose "useless" mmmes and heads could be cut off in exactly the same way as one might cut off annoying little hairs under one's nose; here he is dealing with Serious People, some of whom have the ability to deliver him to a certain chubby lady in Holland. In any case, as you point out, loans have already been obtained and eaten. If the banks holding the title deeds as security want to take over the land, for non-payment, why not?
Looking at the legal angle, this, in the hands of "good" lawyers, can lead to a huge and lengthy mess. But lawyers too have to make a living, and who will remember any of this a few months from now (assuming no more mayhem at the Coast.). My guess is that quite a few things will be settled out of court: "this is an important project for the country, and the government should pay ... and perhaps they might accept just one half". (All quiet on the Anglo-Leasing front these days, but I'd be very surprised if The Owners did not get a payment of about Sh. 4 billion within the next year.)
What is "great and positive" about Uhuru's statement is the PR:
It should be clear that probably nothing will be really reclaimed. If the article merkeju points to is correct, then all this land has been "reclaimed" and then "stolen" again. As Count Basie once put it, while exhorting his band: "One more time! One more time, once again! One more time, once again, and finally! ... ". (In a capitalist dog-eat-dog world, that translates into "let's eat again, and again, and ...!")
The "genius" here is that His Excellency gets some breathing space. First, Coastal Lamu people with "historical grievances" (and their alleged terrorist friends) will calm down for a bit. And if that happens, then, perhaps the tourists might be back. (I understand "fwack you, we are sending Kandie to get them from the East" didn't work, and there appears to be some conflict between the official "they are pouring in!" and the reality of near-empty hotels.) Second, the little firecracker has got the Opposition to stop unsettling the country with its Referendum-About-Nothing and instead deal with the claims that all the theft was under the watch of one its Stalwarts.
On the last point, I gather that certain people have been "invited" to "record statements". I found this one amusing. I am happy to note that being called to "record a statement" or "help the police with their enquiries" no longer means getting beaten, tortured in Nyayo House (or wherever), and then signing a "confession". But what about priorities? The TJRC report has a long list of names of people who should "record statements" and might be able to "help the police with their enquiries". Why not dust off the report and start there?
Tinker, tinker, tinker. Forget the roots, and look at the leaf that just shot out. Kazi indelee.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 2, 2014 10:49:59 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/James-Orengo-faces-arrest-in-Lamu-land-allocations/-/1056/2405756/-/12pnkox/-/index.html Ms Angote argued that title deeds for land in the Lapsset corridor were revoked by the previous government in 2010 but said she could not respond to the ones in question unless the LR numbers, dates of issue and signatories were released.
“Either in 2011 or 2012, a decision was taken at the highest level, chaired by then Prime Minister Raila Odinga to revoke the titles. The decision was reached because we knew that those titles will be a problem to the Lapsset project and were issued to the companies in anticipation of the Lamu Port. That decision was taken long way ago,” she said on the phone.
“Because I have not read about the exact titles and when they were issued, I cannot comment on that. But if they are the very titles, what is new? I cannot tell if they are recycling what was done, then,” she said.
Did Uhuru Kenyatta and Charity Ngilu duped the public? if its true that the land in question was revoked by the previous government then the JUBILEE government has become bankrupt of ideas and this follows the behavioral pattern of deception by one Uhuru Kenyatta.
Looking at some of the beneficiaries,
Suprisingly, two of the companies share one name — Bricks INVESTMENT COMPANY.
Mr Jonas Geke and Timothy Njuguna Kariuki of Nairobi own the first one REGISTERED in August 2011 while Ms Alice Masaa and Ms Margaret Kavulani incorporated a second one in December 2011. Each was allocated 40,014 acres.
Ms Masaa and Ms Kavulani also own Dynamic Trading Company formed in September 2011 and which owns 22,230 acres. A firm with a similar name is owned by Vijay Kumar and Ankit Bhardwaj of Village Market in Nairobi.
Mat International Company which owns 40,014 acres is owned by Twalib Ali Mohamed and Abdiwahid Haji Yerrow while Shanghai Africa Investment Ltd is owned by John Kiarie, Peter Muchangi Njiru, Peter Mwangi Karenju, Daniel Gacheru Mwangi, Simon Ng’ang’a Wanjohi, Burton Kibui Maina, Michael Nduhiu Kariuki and Jeremiah Mbiata Gikonyo. They own 19,760 acres.
who are the real owners of this 22 companies, Kenyans deserve to know. OF ANGOTE ORENGO AND RAILAwww.nation.co.ke/news/James-Orengo-faces-arrest-in-Lamu-land-allocations/-/1056/2405756/-/12pnkox/-/index.htmlCaught like deers in the flashlights! Nothing new indeed. But when one is no longer in power ... the game has some surprises! I said Ngilu Charity was being a goat because she failed to honour her constitutional obligations to defend public property and the national interest. Well, using that logic, there are many goats around, and Ms Angote has just revealed herself and her then top group of honchos, as goats who now, on own volition, must fall on their knives or, seing the son of Jomo's latest public relations bravura, must be sacrificed as bones to the wild pack of hounds like Jakaswanga and Man-K! –-or, of course, the Roman notables like b6k who are yelling for real blood and not some make-believe tomato ketch-up sprays! Go Ouru go! Orengo is a scion of the second liberation! a false prophet whose head, like that of John the Baptist must now be served, severed! or you yourself, Mr, Kenyatta, will even be a fatter goat with your hidden LR numbers!''Then Prime Minister Raila chaired the highest-level meeting that revoked the titles in 2010/2011. They knew the titles were issued in anticipation of the Lamu port. And would be a problem to the LAPPSET project!'' says Angote.Read that again between the lines: they new the exercise was corrupt, speculative, illegal and a threat to the infrastructural masterpiece. A hint at what is called economic sabotage, by default or not. And they stopped there. No further steps, like the logical institutionalisation of investigations to get to the bottom of the matter and punish the cowboys of corruption. ---WHY O WHY? Aah! Maybe the did but were overwhelmed by Ambassador Muthaura on behalf of Mount Kenya maffia! –--like Oburu at the treasury who tried to prevent the famous errors but was overwhelmed by the same! So, what is the most likely rational, intelligent explanation of why the likes of Angote and Orengo slept on it? Because these could be the same reasons why the likes of Charity and Uhuru will also sleep on it! What were the reasons why the Kibaka and Raila regimes slept on the Ndung'u report? These too are likely to be the same reasons why the Uhuruto regime will sleep on the same said report. There is nothing here like Mount Kenya mafia in action. You have a corruptible public adminstration which can be bought by every Tom Dick and Harry under the cloudy skies, and was bought, and will be bought until .... –-i imagine China is buying them all now, and worried Washington Obama and his Africa summit (fronted by our own Omwenga) will try to buy some of our top honchos into being double agents at least. The West too has to eat. Raila now has remembered the Ndung'u report? -yawa! Did he not go to court to have his name removed from a section of it? And has he forgotten the PR-work the unmatchable Elderkin, burning the midnight oil, accomplished on his behalf to wash off the Ndung'u stains!? Now it is time to watch Uhuru Kenyatta dealing with these thieves while sparing his mother and family! NB: WHEN JEREMIAH NYAGA AS MINSTER LANDS AND AGRICULTURE TOURED MPEKETONI, to address the thorny land issue, after the then Lamu West MP Fahim Twaha, had claimed Peter Muigai Kenyatta, eldest son of one Jomo Kenyatta, was ALLOCATED 50,000 acres of Prime Land at the Coast! Nyagah? that was before most of you were born! Not the Pentagon Nyagah, that is the son Norman! Not Mount Kenya Maffia! Just a few, if not one family. Leave Kikuyus out of it. Just mention the names of criminals. Ndung'u report, TJRC? Did the KDF read them before they went to flush out terrorists? Beware, in Somalia the KDF is reported to have reached an amicable parley with al-shabaab on the exploitation of Kismayu as a lucrative and strategic port. Charcoal export and contraband sugar imports destined to Kenya. Therefor befor you know it, the Kdf could emerge as the largest land owner in LAMU when the dust settles! They have a perfect opportunity now to use genocide to cure terrorism. Genocide clears the land of claimants! Uninhabited lands can thus be distributed to new hard men. Watch this lappset thing, it is den of vipers!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 2, 2014 14:19:39 GMT 3
From a political economic perspective of the comprador bourgeoisie mode, it symptomises the new kids in town overthrowing the old Kibaki-Raila entrenched corruption moghuls who made a last-minute killing with these title deeds and LAMU allocations. That overthrow, is ruthless. This is the use of state power to ruin the other in an inter-elite war over spoils. They are being bankrupted by the arbitrary confiscation of their allotments and nullification of title deeds. The outstanding loans they have on them, they can unlikely pay. These companies/individuals will be forced to file for bankruptcy, and or offer themselves to be bought. –--By the new kids in town. Surely, you can't be serious. Do you really believe His Excellency has the nuts to deal with Owners & Serious People, who can summon him with a "kijana, come here and explain yourself!". True, he is considered a hero in some places, for supposedly having saved Our People at a critical time. But there are two things to keep in mind: First, to get the lad going, it must have taken quite some effort from Rasputin Michuki and the Empress Dowager; one of the two is no longer with us, and it is doubtful that the other cares about land issues as long as the right files can stay lost. Second, the people who had to be "sorted out" then were mere "manambas", whose "useless" mmmes and heads could be cut off in exactly the same way as one might cut off annoying little hairs under one's nose; here he is dealing with Serious People, some of whom have the ability to deliver him to a certain chubby lady in Holland.
In any case, as you point out, loans have already been obtained and eaten. If the banks holding the title deeds as security want to take over the land, for non-payment, why not?
Just on the red only, as I still think of other things you raise .... this comment below: My opinion is, to take over the lands, the banks would have to be using the title-deeds as authentic, bona fide documents. In this latest His H.E ''directive'' these documents are clearly not. They are worthless paper, annulled by Kenyatta jrn's. presidential decree –-does he have that kind of late Johnstone Kamau's land-grabbing power in 1968 KANU supremacy?) you ask rightly! Where are the lawyers!? remember apparently Raila too chaired a high-level panel bandia which obviously believed such powers --as now exercised by HE-- exist! Orengo is a lawyer, we await his import! As the situation now is, these banks have toxic portfolios, bad debts. Junk value papers. It is only fair to think the PRUDENT business people around Uhuru Kenyatta must have first looked at which exactly these banks are, before, in wolfish grins, they whipped the boy into action. –-Shika Kamata! Like you do to dogs in a village hunt for a squirrel. I already seen one of the banks in question is the NBK, which, on one account only, loaned ksh. 1 billion to one of the companies. Deliberately made to limp, this could be the first shot in a carefuLl plot to sell NBK off to the Kenyatta banking empire, or to other scavengers within like we saw with the Co-op bank. wHEN A faithful dog brings home a hefty prey from the hunt, there is a concept in Luo called DIERO. It allows the owner of the dog to remove the prey from the beast's armed mouth, patting it on the head, making it understand the rewards will come later, as usual. The dog then does a pleasant woof, quisps its tail in rapid pleasure, recoils its fangs, and waits for the master's next command. O yeah, that command will come! May be it will read, rip orengo to pieces and see what Raila does!?
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Post by b6k on Aug 3, 2014 9:26:08 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, even if Orengo is ripped to pieces, he has no one to blame but himself. CORD stalwarts such as Otieno "bado mapambano" Kajwang have been making a lot of noise as to how Orengo was a powerless minister, but the facts and indeed Orengo himself in the past say otherwise. Here's a blast from the past December 2010), complete with a comment from ODM media honcho, Philip Etale (not to be confused with Jukwaa's phil). Back then it appears Orengo was powerful enough to revoke 345 titles including a title in Eldoret held by current deputy president WSR and a Nairobi one held by Juja MP Kabogo: "Lands minister James Orengo said the revocation is part of the government’s commitment to repossess all illegally acquired and irregularly distributed land across the country since independence. “As much as there are efforts by interested individuals or groups to slow down the fight against restoring land to the rightful owners, my ministry in partnership with Kenya Anti Corruption Commission and especially under my watch will not sit and allow those who grab land, and use it for speculation, to go on as usual,” Orengo said. “The fact that you hold a title deed does not give you access to land that was acquired illegally. We will catch up with all players in irregular land acquisitions and make sure that they account for it,” he said adding that they are pursuing numerous land cases and the government will be revoking those titles immediately the cases are settled. In a Kenya Gazette Notice dated November 26, title deeds issued to private developers that have been revoked were, five plots that belonged to Kenya Wildlife Service in Lamu, five for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in Mombasa, two for Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach in Mombasa and nineteen that had been reserved for Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and Meteorological department in Mombasa." www.kenya-today.com/news/james-orengo-title-deeds-revoked-william-ruto-kabogo-plotsSo if Orengo could revoke titles illegally held by Ruto & Kabogo in 2010 are we to believe that he later became powerless to take on the Lamu landgrabbers in 2011-2012? It seems to me someone is having the last laugh at Orengo's expense...
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 3, 2014 21:45:59 GMT 3
From a political economic perspective of the comprador bourgeoisie mode, it symptomises the new kids in town overthrowing the old Kibaki-Raila entrenched corruption moghuls who made a last-minute killing with these title deeds and LAMU allocations. That overthrow, is ruthless. This is the use of state power to ruin the other in an inter-elite war over spoils. They are being bankrupted by the arbitrary confiscation of their allotments and nullification of title deeds. The outstanding loans they have on them, they can unlikely pay. These companies/individuals will be forced to file for bankruptcy, and or offer themselves to be bought. –--By the new kids in town. Surely, you can't be serious. Do you really believe His Excellency has the nuts to deal with Owners & Serious People, who can summon him with a "kijana, come here and explain yourself!". True, he is considered a hero in some places, for supposedly having saved Our People at a critical time. But there are two things to keep in mind: First, to get the lad going, it must have taken quite some effort from Rasputin Michuki and the Empress Dowager; one of the two is no longer with us, and it is doubtful that the other cares about land issues as long as the right files can stay lost. Second, the people who had to be "sorted out" then were mere "manambas", whose "useless" mmmes and heads could be cut off in exactly the same way as one might cut off annoying little hairs under one's nose; here he is dealing with Serious People, some of whom have the ability to deliver him to a certain chubby lady in Holland. In any case, as you point out, loans have already been obtained and eaten. If the banks holding the title deeds as security want to take over the land, for non-payment, why not?
] www.nation.co.ke/news/Company-used-Lamu-land-to-get-Sh1-billion-bank-loan/-/1056/2406700/-/rce6xb/-/index.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 3, 2014 21:53:42 GMT 3
Jakaswanga, even if Orengo is ripped to pieces, he has no one to blame but himself. CORD stalwarts such as Otieno "bado mapambano" Kajwang have been making a lot of noise as to how Orengo was a powerless minister, but the facts and indeed Orengo himself in the past say otherwise. Here's a blast from the past December 2010), complete with a comment from ODM media honcho, Philip Etale (not to be confused with Jukwaa's phil). Back then it appears Orengo was powerful enough to revoke 345 titles including a title in Eldoret held by current deputy president WSR and a Nairobi one held by Juja MP Kabogo: "Lands minister James Orengo said the revocation is part of the government’s commitment to repossess all illegally acquired and irregularly distributed land across the country since independence. “As much as there are efforts by interested individuals or groups to slow down the fight against restoring land to the rightful owners, my ministry in partnership with Kenya Anti Corruption Commission and especially under my watch will not sit and allow those who grab land, and use it for speculation, to go on as usual,” Orengo said. “The fact that you hold a title deed does not give you access to land that was acquired illegally. We will catch up with all players in irregular land acquisitions and make sure that they account for it,” he said adding that they are pursuing numerous land cases and the government will be revoking those titles immediately the cases are settled. In a Kenya Gazette Notice dated November 26, title deeds issued to private developers that have been revoked were, five plots that belonged to Kenya Wildlife Service in Lamu, five for the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute in Mombasa, two for Jomo Kenyatta Public Beach in Mombasa and nineteen that had been reserved for Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and Meteorological department in Mombasa." www.kenya-today.com/news/james-orengo-title-deeds-revoked-william-ruto-kabogo-plotsSo if Orengo could revoke titles illegally held by Ruto & Kabogo in 2010 are we to believe that he later became powerless to take on the Lamu landgrabbers in 2011-2012? It seems to me someone is having the last laugh at Orengo's expense... b6k, Orengo is a joke now. The response of the SabaSaba referendum yell crowd --threatening more exposure on Jubilee's side, is even more clueless than Miguna would say! Kamwana, in a daring, nearly desperate charge, has perplexed them off their air-castle of moral superiority. Even if on A PR move as Otish professess, it is still a knock out. I think only Kalonzo --Mr. Clean, can now dare take the bulls by the horn. But if Ouru arrests Orengo, he will have to explain why he is not arresting his mother! and other inheritors of Jomo's estate. --Uhuru has no land of himself as you know! So we will soon know if this was another quixotic charge! he he!
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 3, 2014 20:57:05 GMT 3
www.nation.co.ke/news/150000-jobs-to-go-as-EU-taxes-Kenya-goods/-/1056/2473400/-/iyhecaz/-/index.htmlRemember from the REBASE we are warp-speeded into the Middle Income countries, 16 years ahead of schedule. Apparently the implications of this growing up has not sunk into many sectors: It means NO PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT --babysh patronage. No soft-loans (they call them concessional of something!) So there is President Muigai off to see his small personal challenge at the ICC Hague, leaving 1/2 million of his citizens facing economic blues. And here he is at the funeral of the father of Francis Kimemia, Mzee Migwi, www.nation.co.ke/counties/Uhuru-ICC-summons/-/1107872/2474512/-/13nnkyn/-/index.html Better think of Bill Clinton Mr President: it is the economy stupid!The ICC? what TF was that again? and 250 Mpigs are going along, yet 150 thousand jobs on the line needing a plan!? Ouru yawa, bedie dhano man-gi wiye omera!
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Post by jakaswanga on Oct 25, 2014 13:00:13 GMT 3
Ex MoFA WETANGULA HUMILIATED BY KA
So is the dynast of a president Muigai an irrelevant parrot shouting at the winds, calling for a truce between opposite sides, while the reality from his side is the opposite? There he was on Mashujaa day, pleading with his fellow politicians, meaning the opposition, ati washike siasa ya maendeleo, wawache the divisive politics of backwardness. Then right on cue, ex foreign affairs cabsec Wetangula and Muthama are despicably humiliated by Kenya airways aboard. Whatever the circumstances, the coincidence that the two are CORD luminaries, is too politically significant to be ignored. The national carrier humiliating the former minister for foreign affairs is striking, just like earlier on, the barring of the former Prime Minister (incidentally the opposition leader) from the VIP lounge of the related Airports Authority. It is a definite pattern of sabotaging civilised relations between the opposition and the government. The only question Is whether all this is done in Uhuru Kenyatta Jubilees name. Otherwise that the confusion exists that allows this kind of pettiness to flourish, points to a dysfunctional center, mismanaging state political relations. Uhuru Kenyatta's exhortations to unity are thus meaningless phrases. A useless, transparent exercise in duplicity. Quixotic of sorts. Cordiality is a word he gotta learn, in content. ****
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Post by enigma on Oct 26, 2014 22:32:12 GMT 3
You Jakaswanga are a clairvoyant or have been spending too much time with mystic Meg. These were your words in May last year:
" UDF'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! "
Now UDF is on its deathbed, which renders their pact with Chupilee null, and Meru/APK are grumbling about being number 44 when it comes to resource allocation.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 26, 2015 20:56:13 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 26, 2015 21:18:39 GMT 3
Preliminary list of scum directed to resign is 175 names long. Charity Ngilu is fired, but William Ruto Singh stays! I congratulate the son of Jomo, but warn him in the same breath, the altar of sacrifice that demands hearts be ripped to satiate its appetite for scum, ever yawns for more when a nation is this rotten. So this is just the first bunch to give you breathing room --at least you have ACTED!. Now, for the next act. the temple cauldron is already yawning for more hearts, priests knives drawn. Next bunch quick, lest you, his excellency, be the culprit. you have whetted appetites! More!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 26, 2015 23:29:47 GMT 3
The untouchables!? But the son of Jomo is in for some problems. Governors, even if as rotten as a septic wound, were elected by the people, just like him, Muigai –-now cleared from the ICC bottleneck. But William Ruto isn't, ICC cleared, yet. When you fire Bomet Governor Rutto, but leave William Ruto, and the issue is integrity, –-but collateral effect is it effectively neutralises the chief opponent of the single-R of the two, no fools day will be found around. This is a political purge! Bomet Rutto and Baringo Moi are publicly plotting against the DP Ruto. A moral purge as a smokescreen to settle political scores and win populist propaganda points is a very dangerous thing in any case. This is not an economics crimes purge –-otherwise ACCOUNTS WOULD BE FROZEN, and property attached, equivalent to the value of the wealth looted. But the son of Jomo avoided this logical consequence -- expropriation; on the contrary, he did not even threaten it! WHY NOT? No constitutional powers? No evidence? What powers does the president have to sack governors!? [any lawyers out there!) I think If he can sack them, he can transfer them!? In which case they are still provincial commissioners. In line with which section of the constitution do you sack my client, I can feel the salivary glands of learned friends yawning for action. This is fat meat! NSSF: storyline. www.nation.co.ke/news/NSSF-Tender-Procurement-Francis-Atwoli/-/1056/2665854/-/puiknrz/-/index.html NSSF scandal.
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 27, 2015 4:32:37 GMT 3
Nice little gimmick from Jomo Jr. The day that governors, senators, and MPs follow this "directive" and "step aside" from the roles to which they have been elected is the day that I will take off my left shoe, boil it, and eat it with a huge lump of ugali.
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Post by Luol Deng on Mar 27, 2015 12:13:25 GMT 3
I couldn't care less about those who are outside his constitutional spere of influence. I want to see what the CSs, PSs & Parastatal CEOs are going to do. The president has always excelled in rhetoric but failed in implementation.
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Post by ebarasi on Mar 27, 2015 12:56:47 GMT 3
Mr President, where is the Blueprint of this war you have initiated? Where is the definition of corruption, this dragon we must slay? How shall we go about it - Initiate, execute and evaluate outcomes of strategies? What is your duty and what is mine? Who arbitrates? In the meantime do the constitutional organs that will ensure the success or failure of this fight have institutional vision, leadership, integrity and capacity? You know that you do not need to do all the dirty work here? This is a war that will get real ugly before it is won. We cannot afford to come unprepared to this fight as there will be consequences. I hope it is a descent fight and not a purge. Let us see some concrete strategies, policies, penalties and roles.
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