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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 27, 2015 17:12:03 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. Looks like it's time to stock up on popcorn and beer: Agriculture CS Felix Koskei has said he will only resign over corruption allegations if he receives a letter with the details from the EACC. Koskei said he only learnt of his implication and possible resignation through the media. "I have not been told to step aside. I only see my name on media platforms. If I receive a letter from the EACC and find out that they are substantive allegations, I will step aside," he said. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/i-will-not-step-aside-without-official-eacc-notice-says-cs-felix-koskei#sthash.lIjfqU8y.dpuf
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 28, 2015 10:32:51 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. Looks like it's time to stock up on popcorn and beer: Agriculture CS Felix Koskei has said he will only resign over corruption allegations if he receives a letter with the details from the EACC. Koskei said he only learnt of his implication and possible resignation through the media. "I have not been told to step aside. I only see my name on media platforms. If I receive a letter from the EACC and find out that they are substantive allegations, I will step aside," he said. - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/i-will-not-step-aside-without-official-eacc-notice-says-cs-felix-koskei#sthash.lIjfqU8y.dpuf Otishotish, here is a precedent worth a study. www.nation.co.ke/news/Suspended-airport-chiefs-recalled/-/1056/2664774/-/uat2t4z/-/index.html [/font]This Nduva Muli himself, transport secretary who initiated the suspensions, does he appear on the infamous list of 175!? Otish, I know there are rumours from those who went to school with him in the USA, that the son of Jomo isn't what you would normally refer to as bright, nor hard-working. He is by natural dispensation a party, drugs n rock-n-roll man. Now, in politics, those qualifications need not make for neither a dismal failure nor a laughing stock, as long as the leader -King, Emperor, Prezzo or Holy Father-- has one powerful instinct that is: the character security to appreciate the competences of others, appoint them to respective auspices, and have them perform at their competences. I am thinking of some Roman emperors, though mentally retarded due to generations of in-breeding, some still found the historical wisdom --even if comically put-- to address their bureaucracy to cogent purpose, thus. ' 'I am averse to work. That is stuff for commoners and slaves. Despicable creatures before a god like I, a Julio-Claudian! My only task is to see to the death, all those who fail at their tasks. Those who fail at their tasks make the empire weak and speed my downfall by making the people hate and ridicule me! Do everything to make the people love me, and you will save your head from flying off your neck -goats!'' Engineers and their labour headmen worked slaves at extra hours at intricate canals, aqueducts and baths; Generals developed enemy-wading tactics reporting ever more territorial expansions and bringing in ever more waves pu-ssy as booty; agriculturalists imported new seeds and techniques -- and the empire exploded into a golden period. (this prosperity of course further re-enforced the royal lineage in their illusions of divinity, until the bubble finally burst as they totally veered off reality.) Meanwhile Poets had developed and refined new forms and scribes extended the alphabet -and mathematicians the frontiers of accounting and astrology. This imperial drive was like the later Adolf Hitler watching German children starve and, stung, going to an agricultural college to ask one question: ''what agriculture do you study, when German children sleep hungry!?'' (the joke goes a woman responded: ''the Jews steal all the food and sell it abroad for a handsome profit! Ask them what business that is!'')And that would be that. Coming back to Uhuru Kenyatta, I am beginning to fear he lacks the instinct of self-survival. Two years into his rule we can no longer ascribe everything to quixotic bumbling. May be he is a natural born dependent. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, with sycophants and servants that answered to his every wish, slaves fearing his father's displeasure, there has remained something of that spoilt baby in him. (Where George ''Dubya'' had Karl Rove for his brains, Muigai K., orphaned by the death of John Michuki and the Ruto-forced estrangement from the professor of Politics Arap Moi, has not come into something similar. The spoilt prince thus still expects, thinks reality is at his beck and call. He keeps on issuing directives, and more directives, and even more follow-up directives, without the realisation that reality is no servant of words, no sycophant to fake power. Reality can laugh at a directive from a God. --How many popes -Holy Fathers-- have been murdered in history!how many Excellencies reduced to mere figureheads, much adorned like Scandinavian monarchs, but mere ceremonial toys for national pop-corn moments! Uhuru does not understand the principle of implementation. That it requires a functional machinery. And Kenya is into her second liberation, thus a complex mechanism on tow. For instance: the list of the 175 has been prepared by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption etc. But how foolproof is the CREDIBILITY, or INTEGRITY this EACC of Halakhe Waqo and Mumo Matemu!? www.nation.co.ke/news/EACC-Anglo-Leasing-Investigation/-/1056/2653794/-/1107qspz/-/index.html These are the guys who have been suspending and reinstating themselves, writing letters for their own dissolution and denying those letters again! --Only the deluded William Ruto thinks this body is healthy! His name - Hustler jet man, is missing from the FIRST DRAFT of the secret list of the great toy purge! www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/woes-at-anti-graft-commission-a-sign-of-corruption-fighting-back/-/440808/2656916/-/utvv6az/-/index.html And the PAC and Agricultural committees in parliament are disbanded. To reconstitute them, who will be the new members? They will be recruited from the same pool of Mpigs! -the rotten devils we all know! So? a purge at whose end the situation stays the same!? Long ago, out at the lake with my fisherman dad, we would carry some stones. Then he would ask me to throw them slowly in the water and read the ripples. From those ripples you can judge the depths, he said. I gaped. ''Damn it boy!'' he shouted. ''wind is changing, rain is coming, how long do you think we got to read ripples: NOW!'' DON QUIXOTE MAKES ANOTHER CHARGE THAT BOOMERANGS! I guess the DP wont step ASIDE -it is a duo presidency after all, a twin act in which both or none go. Siamese twins sharing one heart. But, siasa motomoto, may be the Kalenjin are not lost yet. Ruto can be substituted with a Moi named Gideon. The old royal house gets done with the usurper, the Kikuyu-Kalenjin Union stays workable, only William Ruto is thrown under the bus! Daniel Arap Moi is not dead yet. The Jogoo is shaking its frosty wings, coming back from hibernation, and all of you anyway were always KANU orphans! Go Home Ouru -PNU, ODM, TNA, WIPER, URP, JAP, these are fingers which when clenched are one: KANU!Ripples at the surface: from a depth charge.
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Post by kamalet on Mar 28, 2015 12:16:21 GMT 3
As usual we politicise everything even a noble attempt at fighting corruption. Those being asked to step aside are those under investigation for corruption. We already have Secretary Kosgei stepping aside following information from state house that he has been named on the list given to parliament. I think anyone mentioned in a corruption scam should actually step aside to facilitate investigation as well as allow them an opportunity to defend their positions prior to a decision to arraign in court if the allegations are confirmed.
The problem of course is with our elected people in county governments and parliament. The only solution is to complete the investigations and arraign them in court if there is evidence to show possibility of guilt. In between it should be a case of public pressure to force these people out of elected office .....but then that is where corruption rears its head and our people in the 4th estate take charge to kill all the stories!
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Post by Daktari wa makazi on Mar 28, 2015 14:13:23 GMT 3
Was it not Ruto the DP who was mentioned in the land grap near the Airport. His hotel and front man were unearthed leading straight to him. Why then has not stood aside to allow independent investigation? Siasa ya wizi!
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Post by podp on Mar 28, 2015 20:21:00 GMT 3
As usual we politicise everything even a noble attempt at fighting corruption. Those being asked to step aside are those under investigation for corruption. We already have Secretary Kosgei stepping aside following information from state house that he has been named on the list given to parliament. I think anyone mentioned in a corruption scam should actually step aside to facilitate investigation as well as allow them an opportunity to defend their positions prior to a decision to arraign in court if the allegations are confirmed. The problem of course is with our elected people in county governments and parliament. The only solution is to complete the investigations and arraign them in court if there is evidence to show possibility of guilt. In between it should be a case of public pressure to force these people out of elected office .....but then that is where corruption rears its head and our people in the 4th estate take charge to kill all the stories! 1st red high light step aside is an oxymoron. our Constitution and existing regulations to date have no provision anywhere for anyone to step aside. in most Western democracies it's just a customary rule of good standards & practice. our laws especially the Constitution clearly implied what need to occur in Article 10 on good governance, transparency & accountability. 2nd red high light a friend tells me "Governors are not appointed by the President. They are elected by the people. They can only be removed from office after due process as required by the Constitution. There is no provision in the Constitution or for Governor to ‘step aside.’ Equally, there are no provisions for the President or his Deputy ‘to step aside.’ Just like Governors, they are elected state officers. All Kenyans are aware of the situation facing the Deputy President. He is facing serious criminal charges at the International Criminal Court. Kenyans have not demanded that he ‘steps aside.’ He is innocent until proven guilty. " for those who support the view that ICC and Devolution played a great role in a stable transition from Nusu Mkate to JAP government the latter has also shown the Devolved corruption is preferable to centralized corruption. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Of-plunderers-and-sexual-predators/-/440808/2668148/-/t2taxp/-/index.htmlAccording to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it,” Bastiat goes on. when plunder is organised by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it,” Bastiat goes on. GET CRUMBS Share in it. For 50 years, our tribal chiefs have battled to capture the big house on the hill to get a turn at the trough. We, in turn, have rallied behind them in the hope that we would get the crumbs. In 2007, they dropped the ball, and now find themselves having to make space at the table. So we now find ourselves at another fork on the road. Which way will we turn? Bastiat continues: “Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws! Until that happens, the few practise lawful plunder upon the many, a common practice where the right to participate in the making of law is limited to a few persons. But then, participation in the making of law becomes universal. And then, men seek to balance their conflicting interests by universal plunder. Instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general.” I am optimistic. Why? Amidst all the hullabaloo about MCAs run amok, we have lost sight that the Kiambu County Assembly impeached its first Speaker for corruption ages ago and Martin Wambora hangs on by the skin of his teeth as Embu Governor. In the national government — both Executive and Parliament — people continue to occupy high offices with drumsticks sticking out of pockets. The salient difference between centralised and devolved corruption is proximity to the people. There is no direct visible cost of corruption at the national level to constituents. Much to the contrary, constituents expect their MPs to bring resources from Nairobi and they don’t distinguish between budgetary resources and harambee contributions FINANCED by proceeds of corruption.
The difference with county leaders is that they are right there with the people. Most MCAs commute from their homes. Their corruption has direct and visible consequences to their constituents, including themselves. If money is voted for a road, it is one that they themselves use. Secondly, as r esident members of the community, they are subject to social sanctions that a leader in Nairobi is not. If one becomes notorious, he or she will find their social functions poorly attended and accreditation to important roles like negotiating bride price withdrawn. Unflattering songs will be composed.
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 28, 2015 22:24:46 GMT 3
Exactly. All those "stepping aside" will be back and will be paid for the period that they had a long vacation were "unfairly accused". If none of them returns, because something dirty has been found on them, then, by way of "repenting" for what one of my Kenyan buddies last night called a "poor attitude on The War on Corruption", I vow to eat nothing but grass and soil for a week. (I will post the video on Jukwaa.) Still, it will have been one heck of a show: Kenyans getting some digression from their daily problems.
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Post by podp on Mar 29, 2015 9:29:43 GMT 3
Exactly. All those "stepping aside" will be back and will be paid for the period that they had a long vacation were "unfairly accused". If none of them returns, because something dirty has been found on them, then, by way of "repenting" for what one of my Kenyan buddies last night called a "poor attitude on The War on Corruption", I vow to eat nothing but grass and soil for a week. (I will post the video on Jukwaa.) Still, it will have been one heck of a show: Kenyans getting some digression from their daily problems. No elected leader on the list of those facing corruption queries will be required to step aside in line with President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive because Kenya lacks the legal framework to enforce the order. Lawyer Dominic Rabala said the President’s speech was more of a policy statement and what might follow is enactment of laws to see to it that the elected leaders are asked to step aside. “There is a dilemma on how to deal with elected leaders given the lack of laws to push them out of office as investigations are conducted,” said Rabala. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000156464/law-protects-elected-leaders-from-being-forced-outrather than being pessimistic it would be proactive to push for enactment of more laws on how to deal with removal of non executive appointee i.e. elected 'leaders' like PORK, deputy PORK, Governors etc. so that they do not use courts as Governor Mwabora has effectively done to hang on. or both PORK and deputy PORK used the vagueness of the Constitution allowing IEBC Commissioner to determine their fate
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Post by podp on Mar 29, 2015 9:42:08 GMT 3
Was it not Ruto the DP who was mentioned in the land grap near the Airport. His hotel and front man were unearthed leading straight to him. Why then has not stood aside to allow independent investigation? Siasa ya wizi! we also have this ponzu scheme ripper in Kenya now turned 'rapist' who is also probably missing as Arap Singh To his constituents, Mr Mwiti is their “Livondo”, the money man, but to a majority of those who lost money through his lending schemes, he is the “Madoff”. www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Gideon-Mwiti-Pyramid-Schemes-Fraud-Rape-Allegations/-/1064/2669216/-/7lcj4g/-/index.html
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 29, 2015 11:31:54 GMT 3
ONCE UPON A time .. What happened to the good girl Irene Keino's resolutions!? 2015 March: Uhuru Kenyatta got a secret list from an internally warring EACC. Even before official publication, more than one list surfaced ---like in the HomaBay party branch ODM elections now forgotten for which list is ''authentic'' can no longer be ascertained---- and all hell has broken loose. Mumo Matemu did not know his organisation had sent a list to the president! Why was he kept in the dark!? Halakhe Haqe, wait till a governor from his home area spills the beans, revoked Matemu's suspension of Mubea, and re-instated the same within minutes. Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Mumo Matemu and CEO Halakhe Waqo at a past event. The commission’s credibility has come under scrutiny. INSET: Michael MubeaRead more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/worldcup/article/2000154398/storm-brewing-at-eacc-over-top-official-s-suspension-graft-claims And in that snake pit of an Anti-Corruption body, Uhuru kenyatta put his hand to lift a (genuine) list!? A list on which he wants to base the greatest fight facing his presidency! That is a false start. Uhuru best option is to do what Ronald Reagan did when both Congress and California Mafia (who had sponsored his candidature) proved recalcitrant to his dear policies. He went directly to the American people and said: these people want to hold your president hostage, come, let us kick arse together!That is the president joins an already existing movement out there. It is called OKOA KENYA! CAVEAT: THAT is mob rule: if Ouru invites us to help him kick arse --remember we call our legislators Mpigs, very soon it would be his arse we went after. How do you think the Kenyatta fortune was made!?Theft and graft. And just in case you ask for proof. There is murder in the mix too. JM Kariuki for starters. THE CASE OF MR OYATSO: WHATS GOING ON? the dangers of secret lists. the politics of secret lists.
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 31, 2015 20:39:19 GMT 3
AND THE PRESIDENT ACTED, THROWING A LIST OF THE DAMNED TO THE MOB!But mobs always want more! So he must give us more action, lest we take matters into our own hands! ACTION, of course elicits reaction. And I have been keenly enjoying myself, watching this storm in a tea-cup. That is what I think the case of the two or three lists spotting 175 names works out to. A storm in a tea-cup. For starters: Where are the army people in the list!? The LOOTENANTS!? The guys who have forced the likes of Aden Duale to move a motion in parliament exempting the SECURITY BUDGETS from the accounting gaze of the AUDITOR GENERAL! The Lootenants whose corruption in procurement deals and related costs, drove Uhuru Kenyatta to tears in public, making him emotionally confess the obvious, that his office was the epicentre of rot, and the security dockets the worst!Who is it who wants to believe Mutea Iringo is the sole evil genius in Armyland and must be sole can-carrier? Dr. General Julius Karangi should open his mouth and tell the truth. About the following for instance.That is fraud right there. Ulinzi House names please. here is Kariuki Muiru of Karatina in a moment of revelation. He catches Aden Duale naked. Here is the current auditor general on the subject: it is when I look at the political economy of such laws proposed by Aden Duale, that I reach the conclusion the this list, and latest speech by the son of Jomo, is a storm in a tea cup. WHen you gag the AUDITOR GENERAL, you are a mafia don, or at least his consiglieri. (This is of course the same Duale who proposed the bill to turn Julius Karangi into Uhuru Kenyatta's personal soldier, reporting only to him. And from what saw at Westgate, the president isn't exactly the commander in chief.) Therefore all in all, this famous list does not have the fire of intent behind it. It is devoid of purpose to rid the country of rot. The elite has been caught in the glare of public rage, and have authored a gimmick. -- Otishotish used that word, somewhere above. A STEP ASIDE formula. -Some will remember how President Uhuru stepped aside from the presidency to go the Hague, left William Ruto FULLY in charge, and was back in a day, in full control. Legally it was of course a treasure! like the Divinity of Jesus Christ. But i am afraid this step aside on corruption wont be equally convincing. The emperor himself is naked. -he is too scared to use the instrument of CONFISCATION, re-possession. -Like if the Bomet Governor has bought his private villas with public money --it should not be rocket science proving that, those properties should forthwith be repossessed and confiscated.But that opens the door for the nationalisation of the Kenyatta fortune! and the Moi fortune, and the Kibaki fortune
the William Ruto fortune ... and who knows where that ends .... That is the real storm! Not some patchwork of foolscap doctored with torchlight in state house recesses. Now, Aden Duale, how about introducing a bill in parliament for the confiscation of all state-related loot!? (you wouldn't even dare think it! thy infant mind!) 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 podp on Apr 1, 2015 12:52:30 GMT 3
There is danger that too much heat is being generated at the expense of execution. Both the government and the opposition are seeking to score political goals instead of fighting corruption. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Editorial/Corruption-List-EACC-Parliament-MPs-Governors/-/440804/2672028/-/6kvq5r/-/index.htmlAs for me, I fully support the President because at the end of the day, leadership is about making decisions which, although politically unpopular, are in the long term in the interest of the country. However, circumstances will force the President to apply a great deal of dexterity in his political footwork in order to manage the political ramifications. Even more critical, the President must show that what he is doing represents a credible long-term commitment to fighting corruption. If this whole saga does not end up with prosecutions and convictions in courts of law, he will find himself facing accusations of engaging in McCarthyism and witch-hunting. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Uhuru-Kenyatta-Corruption-Ministers-Suspensions/-/440808/2672098/-/14mcqtsz/-/index.htmlwe have to routinely have the DPP providing reports just the way Chief Justice does to show how many cases are in court, how many under process and how many have been concluded. EACC also needs to share its performance record, past-present-and forecast so that getting culprits is not a one off action that allows readers of political mischief a field day. there is one song by late Anikulapo Kuti that rings a good bell. it is titled International Thief Thief part I is "I wish to sincerely thank His Excellency the President and the Government for considering me for the appointment. However, considering my case seeking to annul and quash the frivolous and baseless request for extradition, this will not be an opportune time to enter public service," the statement read in part. Jersey Island is seeking to have Okemo extradited over money laundering allegations but he has filed an application seeking to quash the request. Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000156845/chris-okemo-turns-down-president-uhuru-kenyatta-s-job-offer-at-kenya-seed
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 1, 2015 20:21:25 GMT 3
Onsongo forced out of EACC, Keino digs in --nairobi star. TURMOIL: EACC commissioner Jane Onsongo, chairman Mumo Matemu and vice-chair Irene Keino. Photo/FILE - See more at: www.the-star.co.ke/news/onsongo-forced-out-eacc-keino-digs#sthash.emkH9LZ5.dpufSo Uhuru Kenyatta's office is fiddling fiddling in the shadows! with the president's blessing? or what!? better this Prezzo shed some light, make up his mind, or he is going quixotic again!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 8, 2016 23:24:09 GMT 3
ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO BACKWARD AND UNCERTAIN TIMES. And there is some confusionist motion in the IEBC front. Man Kenyatta this, boy Muigai that! www.the-star.co.ke/news/2016/06/08/uhuru-announces-joint-committee-on-iebc-raila-happy_c1365920 While the gothically corrupt political elite is covering for its ideological witlessness by public spurts of braggadocio --(I am thinking of Rotich's budget), outside of their bubble there is political action which shifts the ground marginally but effectively, especially by radicalising the bases. This is when it becomes more important to pay attention to what is happening in the dark than to pay attention to what the politicians, or even allegedly neutral cabinet technocrats, say in public. (Consider AG Githu Muigai flanked by Nkaissery and Boinett, explaining the GENERAL BAN ON ANTI IEBC demos, against Orengo and Muthama calling it bullsh!t! --who is your daddy now, sorry, your better legal scholar! Leave the judiciary out of it. Mutunga, Njoki Ndung'u, Rawal and the rest of them, even the LSK bandits, haven't been up to much law of late. Even the boisterous Miguna Miguna who once threatened to teach Oraro some good law, has lost his Mojo for enlightening us on the fines of these things!) This abdication of legal brains must be noted as a decisive symptom. (I use the term abdication with historical import, a dark equivocation). When the supreme court abdicated on the question of the INTEGRITY CLAUSE of the new constitution, it was an intellectual implosion. Today it is undeniable with the kind of scum and verminous slime things like Rawal, Tunoi, Njoki and the rest are engaged in). here is the AG in a non professorial role! The public arena becomes more the theatre of the absurd and possibly the macabre. Dwarfed by Nkaissery, Githu Muigai looks an owned consiglieri to the mob!) DRAMA MACABRE The carcass of a matatu --an alleged arson victim of the CORD-orchestrated anti IEBC demos, is reported to have been deposited at the gates of Raila Odinga's Nairobi office. This jovial if ludicrous step immediately opened a can of worms. Radicals of CORD scoffed: You are comparing a matatu to human life!? (you) want us to exhume the bodies of those murdered by the police during the demos, and dump them at Sate House? And there was ritual combat as the police who were under instructions to let things be, stood apart. Obviously the action is behind the scenes! I can see this last one --ferrying rotting bodies to Uhuru Kenyatta's well-done lawns--- eliciting a curfew, and the worst instincts of the interior General Nkaissery. But the point is, because the political elite are not making headway, the rage of flowing of passions forces its own pathways of expression, and that tends toward morbidity. NB: Like a near extinct species of great apes, the Kenyan politicians bellow their territory-marking belligerence. From TV studios they chest thump; from radios they roar; media communiques are barked like machine-gun fire, and all podia from church to funerals daises to whatever, are turned into soap boxes to bellow out the own political gospel. And that is a gospel not anywhere near the national interest. For instance, on one had was the --if you believe the TJRC-- war-criminal suspect Joseph Nkaiserry. In his capacity as interior cabinet secretary, he banned all demonstrations in Kenya yesterday. Wetangula laughed him off and derided his poor knowledge of his powers and the constitution. Leaving the rotten judiciary aside for the moment, the constitution (or the implementation thereof) is of course a mess. Some will remember the inertia of the last parliament in failing to operationalise transition clauses in time, where some bills were rushed through without any meaningful debate. (I think there was a day in which the Mpigs awarded themselves huge compensations in half an hour at night! -Now, today we have the man at finance, Henry Rotich, weighed down by a cash crunches, throwing a scene during his reading of the budget: EVERYBODY IN INFORMALS MUST PAY TAXES! OR YOU WONT GET THIS AND THAT! Informal sector! You are coming gin willy-nilly! Etcetera etcetera. He does not know mandazi vendors in counties are already taxed to death, and some counties are taxing old grannies by chicken count in the homes! It is worse than the hut tax instituted by the whiteman of the classical colonial heydays. Then of course everybody who owns a PSV knows he shares the goodies with the police; and in urban areas, organised gangs too have to be kept happy. And the name given to this!? Yes, TAX: Road tax, stage tax, safety tax! Now comes another roadblock: KRA! Considering the corruption in Nairobi, the heightened dredging is merely to increase the kitty to be looted. Anne Waiguru, formerly of devolution and Rotich's senior, apparently presided over even a greater heist that originally thought! Over a billion! And not the 800M! Now, if Rotich and Njoroge do not snore at the job, NYS would not loose ksh. 1Bn in one month, nor would the minister of finance, demanding his pound of
, hang like a sword of Damocles atop mandazi and second-hand clothes dealers who sit the whole day in the sun for a pittance! unless he is an operationalised robot pre-programmed by the IMF to extort at all costs, in which case he is merely going through the motions. Then is he excused. He will be disassembled and his software upgraded in time, to execute an alternative tax regime, pro Wanjiku. First, we sought out the political problem. It is the economy stupid!? In Kenya it may just be the politics stupid. An election is coming. And anything can happen, bar a radical transformation of economic fortunes! It is a warning, that the budget, the most important national statement of the year, appears not to be the key event of even the day! That is a real crisis in my books. I am it is the economy stupid type! I got this gut feeling Kenya is an exception now.
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Post by KOLONEL BRISK on Jun 9, 2016 10:11:08 GMT 3
Interesting how the moment CORD started to look for a scrape dealer the van was "stolen" at night. The Eurobond money was not enough they still needed the scrape metal revenue lol. It was brought with Light and stolen at Night. What a shame
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 23, 2017 23:54:21 GMT 3
THE CONSTRAINED PRESIDENT AND ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES There is an interesting explanation fronted by Mr. Muigai Kenyatta, on why he is so lacklustre. He says he is emasculated by the new constitution. That is the office of the president is tamed and constrained. He has repeated it so often I think he has convinced himself to believe it. Last repeat was the citizen interview Tuesday I think. The damn thing --in the words of Runyenjes Cecilia Mbarire---- ties his hands behind his back. He actions are thus, as his Excellency, reduced to little more than the rigor-mortis twitches substituting in for the last kicks of a dying horse! Those were the days When his Excellency Like the dictator of Rome Had Ceaserial powers over Kenya.
I miss them days, when a frown on the brows of the head of state Counted enough to dispatch the likes of JM, TJ, Gama and the rest
Aah, how time flies, and turns to dust Great days whose remains we mournEither the president and his handlers are clueless, or they are just spinning the usual stupid yarns of deluded power. But such yarns must be taken seriously for, apart from a pathology of internal rot at the top, state yarns have a practical devastating effect on common folks, and the populace. Research shows Kenyans think Graft is killing the nation. A danger more terrible than the cross border terrorism of Al-Shabaab. But the president says there is nothing he can do about it ---he points fingers at the EACC, Judiciary, Police and etc. And separation of powers etc. He reminds me of the governor of my native Homa Bay whose spokesman, responding to the ksh.400M malfeasance, declared the loss happened at the county assembly not the governor's cabinet/docket, and the doctrine of separation of powers means 'don't ask Awiti what the others have misappropriated!' NB: Here I agree with Miguna Miguna in his critique. There were days no Luo with some education would show such brain death and utter such moronism in public in defence of adminstrative debauchery and theft of public resources, but the devolution money has turned heads, more so Luo heads, reducing my beloved Homa Bay to the cursed folklore village of Simbi! the capital of 'sleeping sickness of the mind!'Yeah, the buck stops nowhere in this country. The buck is an ever orbiting electron around some core! No one takes responsibility for anything. That, is a disintegrated community. A community whose humanity is disputable. ---displaced from its historical identity? Keep that thought in mind for a later date. The separation of powers as a French leave from accountability. Meanwhile we will teach a formality, repeat it for the benefit of the dim president and the equally dim governor of my nativity. The president as leady of the ruling party and head of government, and cabinet, can initiate a LEGISLATIVE AGENDA ---to fight corruption for instance. He can do this just the way he did to curb press freedom, cub interest rates, curb disburse %tage to counties (like reduced oil dividends to Turkana). The president, as a matter of national priority, can seek BIPARTISAN AGENDATION, and lobby for a BICAMERAL RENDITION (both houses of legislature in unison) ----as would be the normal case to deploy troops abroad or at home. Such bipartisanship, fired by a national ant-graft consensus, can legislate a DRACONIAN packet against corruption. The president can argue his heart out on every microphone shoved to his face, to generate mass support for his graft-killing legislative agenda. And should Mpigs, or corrupt and rotten senators dilly-dally, overwhelming public pressure behind the Prezzo would surely tilt the balance. When a leader is with the heartbeat of the people, he works magic, needs no spin. As I write this, there is of course a carte blanche authority for the ATPU. And let us indeed grin the president is too powerless to stop the following 'rogue, no-nonsense cops'. www.nation.co.ke/news/Kenya-top-Africa-police-shootings/1056-3824890-1183k27/ And a rejoinder [/i] [/quote] www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000200708/post-mortems-show-police-killed-eight-suspects-in-cold-blood This damn constitution constraints the president even from upholding it! He is too powerless to restrain 'rogue killer cops!' or are the killer-cops acting within the constitution? Like the ATPU is said to act under the national security committee, where the kill-list enumerating wanted terrorists is updated. The New York Times once published an indepth at how Barrack Obama used to authorise drone hit kills on the routine. The satirist in me puts it thus: Obama makes no drama about these things. He is a detached professor; there is no inkling of moral qualms in his demeanour. The highest office in American exceptionalism and him are a match made in heaven. The CIA butcher who brings the kill-list can barely hide his hard-on. Who knows, he could get a bonus kill if Potus Obama is minded to encircle more than the customary three names per week. With his right hand pawing the fur-filled pet dog with the delicacy with which hairy puszy should be, the professorial left hand used to neat connotations on the power-point board, cold-bloodedly rounds off several names on the CIA kill-list. The ritual look of a death row priest momentarily crosses the face of the company man. He makes his exit and heads to Fort Langley. This information is too precious to be transmitted otherwise. Who knows, those nosy FBI dogs may just have broken the latest company codes and could play games. ----Far away in a Muslim lands, predator and reaper drones receive commands to pay their load off. And on a day, dispatched may be a whole village firing into the air to commemorate a wedding party. Yes, just another day in the war against terrorism. And as Obama said: we don't do collateral damage body counts.Back to Kenya and now, I didn't see the powerlessness of the president when he ordered the KDF into Baringo to, by all means necessary, quell rustling and mayhem. It is an interesting question to formulate in the light of this: between those who rustle cattle and those who rustle the national treasury, who deserves a shoot-to-kill on sight? Both is a premise the commander in chief could work on to start things off! Currently they are plugging the gaping budget holes punched by corruption. They are doing this by overborrowing. William Ruto can not ride that borrowing spree to 2022, not even with Turkana oil flowing at above 100$/barrel. The salaries and remunerations commission, Serem's seedy body, has woken up late, but better late than never. But the surgeon's knife which must come to pass still lies untouched. It is always the economy stupid. Even the obsessive tribal politics of Kenya still resolves to the economy stupid. Nairobi county's financial blues, even if not Detroit like, needs serious attention. Nairobi divines the futures of other counties!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 19, 2017 22:18:09 GMT 3
KENYATTA'S KISUMO BLITZ ENTERS A MAIZE DITCH (OURU LIMBE KISUMO OLING'ORE E KECH) Lke a triumphant Caesar acknowledging an adoring street mob in remote and thus excitable provinces, a van-bound Ouru waded the thronged Kisumu Main street, and was forced into an impromptu show of presidential head. Nervous security men [only Gaddaffi did babes] twitched around the motorcade, satirically obvious by their immaculate dress, and out of place plane clothes. The satire is, plane clothes yes, but they were in uniform, down to the cliche darks. This is they eye-wear type spotted by the so-called state house cop, that is the high afande who was dispatched to personally block Governor Joho from the official launch of the Mtongwe ferry services, officiated by the president here is the 'bespectacled' , uniformed fang being bared by the state at the Nyali-bridge confrontation The skies ruled clear --safe of enemy drones and snipers may be, the presidential head, tortoise like, cautiously emerged from the customized roof-opening and wafted in the bright sun. And in that typical pose with 2/3rds of the body remaining within the car, he addressed the lively throng. Howbeit like all urban crowds, this was a chameleon mob, always negotiating a deal from the emperor, playing games even to the extent of faking masochist docility. So too did this one put up an act of expressing well-wishes and welcoming cheers and hearty smiles, but lo, the calculated softness of a hardened harlot soliciting a maximum tip. The mob wanted the price of Unga reduced. Because 'unga' has another meaning on the urban streets of Kenya, let us specify we talking the staple for Ugali, survival unga and not entertainment powder. WHEN FIVE FISH AND SIX LOAVES FED 6 THOUSAND They say the devil took Jesus to the wilderness for some of them tests. Like, if you are that divine, change rock to bread and let us dine! Wily man of Nazareth danced around that one, just like he would later try before Pontius Pilate, when the Roman Judge asked if he was the King of the Jews, and unsure god-son replied :'you have said so!' Anyway, the scheming Kisumu crowd seemed to be in a devilish mood; but for his Excellency? Would His Excellency dare expose his fallibility, the way he did during the state house caucus on corruption which earned him the titled ABDICATEE? (there is nothing I can do, my hands are tied powerless!)Well, he listened to us, the starved people of the hyacinth swamp, crooning: O His Excellency, thee all powerful King! Change this swamp of hyacinth into a plantation of rice! Change this high acreage of litter near Moi stadium into an open-air mountain of maize bags!
O All powerful Muthamaki, let not your people starve, for Truly thou oath of office, is to mind even those who wouldn't vote for thee--------------- My head swam I swear. Uhuru Kenyatta Akhbar, akhbar kabisa, I must have shouted. 'Ouru in Malo, Malo Malo tok Wang'Chieng'! Loknwa lwanda man wi got Riat kande odok kuon wabang' sani, yaye Nyasaye madhano!' You see I recall the president of the Unga Millers had sneaked to state house Nairobi, to point out to the dim wit that, just like the Government bureaucracy and IMF&WB were convinced, that the market is best to decide money rates, so too do the Unga miller concur it is not the government's duty to order them on how to run their business. That would be taking Kenya back to the days of the two rates to the dollar, the official, and the real, black market level! The Unga-Millers are in no mood to be stopped from making a killing, they have no intention of letting themselves be selectively victimised, unless there is a kickback, a compensation for their 'patriotic incurrence of loss', yes, a SUBSIDY! And the millers won the day. The price stays high. But we have had maize scandals before. And politicians were the profiteers. lessons from Egypt wheat The drought had announced itself long ago. www.treasury.go.ke/media-centre/news-updates/421-cost-of-maize-flour-to-cost-sh115-by-next-week.html So what could Boy Muigai do in Kisumu except self consciously piss on himself? 'tuta angalia mambo haya, msiwe na wasiwasi!' he pacified, undivinely. I came back to my senses ---not unlike the proverbial Ukrainian peasant seeing the light after seeing the divine Czar, a weak and half-crippled Nicolas. I came back to my senses and thought of grain politics $ empires. Rome and Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon and irrigation canals. Or cakes, hogs, royalty and starving Parisian mobs!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 20, 2017 20:16:08 GMT 3
THE POLITICS OF GRAIN AND POWER, AND PTOLEMEAN ELITES When Julius Caesar pursued rival Pompei to Egypt, bread politics was at the heart of the matter. When the rattlesnake Cleopatra rolled out of a mat at his feet and offered a fanged kiss, the ambitious grain-hungry Roman soldier took a chance. To all imperial purposes, the Ptolemean dynasty had run a ground in Alexandria. The Egyptian state had decayed away in incestuous intrigue and royal in-breedin. The retarded siblings were engaged in a race to extinction. The state was as rotten as The Congo under SS Mobutu, so the Roman General thought his sword could move through to its heart like hot iron through butter. He would conquer Egypt like he had done Gaul, and like he had presented their leader, Vercingetorix the son of Celtillus, in chains to Rome, so would he deliver a Ptolemaic head. He would make Egypt be the grain-belt, an agrarian concubine province of Rome. Rome, the die having been cast when he crossed the Rubicorn in 49BC, would have legions and legions to feed under him, Julius the warmonger and eternal dictator; the wheat plantation called Egypt was too important to be left to the family whims of a rotten, imploded dynasty like the Ptolemy's. He would take a chance at taming the rattlesnake Cleopatra. But her megalomania, more intense than his, would give him the greatest headache of his political career, and finally lead to his doom in a most famous senate scene. Howbeit to date Egypt is still nothing but a playground of imperial interests, some as low as Saudi's own incestuous royals! The General running Egypt has been awarding islands in the red sea to the Saudis, in exchange for cash to buy grain, for an Egypt without bread is a Pharaoh who is dead. Egypt is where wheat was first domesticated, and where bread was first baked! Myth mixed with a bit of truth forged into a national psyche is an insidious threat to any authority. Even divine authority. But Boy Muigai is no Caesar material is he. Neither is his deputy, Pancha Ruto. Let them engorge with good meat, and the 2030 thing they never heard of. They are a quixotic pair under whose watch the hairdresser Josephine Kabura manually withdrew several pick-up loads of hard cash from the central bank. Ksh. 1,8bn? --I saw somebody work out how many suitcases of how many kilos it would be, all notes highest denomination! One could even say Kenya's political elite is Ptolemaic, and the Chinese have figured this out thus. Food for thought. Food for thought I said. How did it come to pass that the once Great Egypt became a Roman footrug for the next 1000 years after the Ptolemaic rot?! I don't know, but I know the score: if in 2017 a fruit-seller MCA' mpango wa kando withdraws ksh. 315M cash (Bungoma), and hairdressers withdraw 1 billion shillings cash in one day at one bank branch (Kabura); when a bad lawyer's couple (O$M) buys 27M worth of clothes in HongKong, and your finance minister (Rotich) who went to the best college in the world (Harvard) can't tell what $2bn (Eurobond) dollars did in specifics, then these are Ptolemaic symptoms you are a meal waiting to be eaten for a century by a foreigner feeling the weight of destiny on his shoulders, or an empire, rising. NB: The United States is claiming freedom of navigation marching her ships through the South China sea, mocking the red dragon in its lair. Showing who is boss. The USA and allies do conduct periodic naval exercises called TALISMAN SABRE, rehearsing the blockaded of the straights of Malacca! That means asphixiating China's main ports off Indian Ocean shipping lanes! A trade death choke! Now, the Chinese are set to be the pre-eminent economy in the world in a few decades. Obviously there is a problem. If this is to happen, America has to retreat from such fantasies as above. If she does not do it of own volition, it will be forcce. So mesays when the Chinese and Americans come to Kenya, it is with the plans of a war in their minds. Considering these imperial stakes of New Rome and Old Rome, can you honestly answer as a Kenyan, that Nairobi is not a Ptolemaic nest of rot, run aground in incestuous debauchery and depravity! Food for thought mesays! NB: So I wished Muigai had called Luo bluff: ' Nyinyi hamta nipigia kura, hilo ni wazi, lakini mimi kama rais wenu -duly elected! I will feed you if you have the patience to be orderly! I wont transform 5 loaves and two fish into a meal for 5000, that one I leave to your Mysterious One, The Enigma, but I will buy Yala Swamp off Dominion --good riddance, you don't want that facking Canadian American do you!? and in partnership with another FDI, using the Brookside and Danone template, I will grow so much maize and cassava at Yala wetlands, you wouldn't know what to do with them. Or better, you would start calling for a ban on imported wheat, or declare chapati eating treason unless the unga-ngano is blended 50% Yala cornflour! --Tunasikizana jameni!?'That is the kind of sh!t a non Quixotic politician would sprinkle on a voters pulling his leg, yeyetoyal to another candidate. Thus did I awake from my revelry. To my utter discomfort, Man Opiyo Wandayi of Ugunja (Mpig) demanded the president tackle Hyacinth! Mama Mia! That is a local problem for Their ExExcellencies Jack Ranguma, Cyprian Awiti, Okoth Obado and Cornelis Rasanga! That is if it is at all a problem worth an excellency's in-tray! I have seen what young men can do if the motivation is right. Take a visit to a Gold Mine for starters. Young men tear rock from the bowels of the earth and grind it to dust in tones per day. In a week they excavate a canyon the size of a rift valley furrow! One month organised labour paid for by the 400m lost in HomaBay. The lake is hyacinth free. I remember visiting Muhoroni in boyhood when they stil cut acreage of cane with machete's. I remember the song and fury of a thousand men cutting cane and dancing war dances. One week, no cane was left standing in the sugar belt. 24/7 9 hours a day. Men at work! When I heard Opiyo Wandayi, I couldn't resist asking myself if this is how Egypt became everybody's doormat since Ptolemean rot!
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Post by jakaswanga on Apr 6, 2019 9:27:51 GMT 3
OUR DEAD DUCK SPEAKS: SOTU thursday 04-04-2019It wont be the done thing for an incumbent to soil his state of the union (SoTU) by enumerating his failures. No, the SoTU is a feel-good occasion, is a self-congratulatory roll call of a deserved legitimacy. And, things they change, there he was too, the peoples' president. His neck still intact, his head not yet separated from his torso ----on account of his treasonable oath at Uhuru Park long back, Agwambo beamed next to the official president, his glorified brother Kamwana. And for the latter, H.E shone light headed, his tattered-to-non-existent legitimacy (on account of a shady and shoddy election) looked wholly stitched up. In deed Kamwana's popularity has soared like a balloon, hot with Handshake airs. The twin dynasts have a thing going and they know it, so they radiated sharp, like Jaramogi and the first Kenyatta, before they went their ways after declaring the ill-fated one-party state, back in the early sixties of the last century. The known cowards of the country shone along. Their sense of self-importance was expensively displayed. The message read, we are a nation united as one, under the Muthamaki Kamwana. The joint houses erupted into several and prolonged fits of applause, much like the American Congress entertaining Bibi Netanyahu, or, many years ago, the Congress of the Romanian Communist party, indulging Nicolo Ceaucescu. Yes, it was a one-party state show in Nairobi, this latest state of the union. There was no tension in the air like in the earlier years. The OFFICIAL opposition has melted like butter in the boiling pan. That is dark. Recidivist loop. H.E Dr. William Ruto, sometimes the most corrupt politician in Kenya and brooding about that tag, arguably the greatest ----- state robber----thief alive in Kenya today, formally grinned along like a crocodile subdued by a large meal. Though one never knows if the sleepiness was the camouflage of a yawning trap. Or the boredom of a momentary ceasefire, knowing there will be a sh!tstorm in the morning. No one is fooled for a moment the bad blood currently running between the shoe-in president and the peoples' can be purified without a signficant haemorrhage. But this was a day in which the children of KANU and the orphans of Moi would be in their Sunday bests. They would read their own report card, award themselves top passes, and clap for themselves, albeit with something vaguely hinting at the snake pit the Roman senate was. It was always plotting interfaction evil. Our elite political corps would also do everything to convince one and all, why only God could do better running the land. Yes, these elite would try their best to intoxicate we the people, into the obeisance of our fate being in the best hands: theirs.In the official prayer the speakers managed to insert the claim leadership comes from God. I gather this makes universal suffrage, the democratic mandate of a free and fair election, unnecessary or only an alibi for looting public funds! Nevertheless, a state of the union is not complete without a narrative of challenges to be, and a re-affirmation of resolve to victory over these. This is the dangerous part. A lot of problems in state, are invariably carry-overs. They were there yesterday, the day before; they were there with the predecessor. Stuff like deficits and worrying debts harassed all preceding regimes. In Kenya we can think of corruption and the successive 'swears' of the past regimes. They all went hoarse with Quixotic rants at the beast, pledging to deal with the scourge. Lakini wapi, only mock charges; just tall tales told, mpaka parrots too have ceased to quack them on. Our dead duck quacked his zombie quack! He can not fire the architect of the phantom dams, sitting right beside him in his cabinet. This is not Rashid Echesa but his finance appointee, Dr. Henry Rotich. HE Kamwana can not fire him because he has not been convicted by a court of law, after due process! That would be ' vigilante justice, pitchfork justice, kangaroo courtship, a summary execution'. No way, Kenya being a land which holds the constitution dear and the rule of the law holy, H.E can not be pushed into a cabinet clean-out, just to ease the pressure from a media projecting a hysterical narrative, fingering witches to hunt! This reiteration of the highest ideals of the constitution must be music to the ears of State enemy number One, Dr. Miguna Miguna. Worse than Al-Shabaab, Double M's case is a catalogue of constitutional trampling. The SUPER TERRORIST NRM-ke foreman was deported to his Nyando in Canada despite eight court orders staying. And the man who trashed those court orders promoted to prime minister in the recent shake-up. And there, charged with the deliverance of Legacy, he is deputised by none other than Henry Rotich, a man so deep in murk he spent three whole working days bargaining to be a state witness, singing like a canary to save his skin. It all sets the stage for a messy resolution once the can can no longer be kicked any further down the street. But no, such contradictions are distant nightmares. They are like the clouds that gather but wont release their storms soon. Such do give us time to party on, even as every so often we steal an askance glance, upwards. They must not be allowed to mar the pomp and fun of a SOTU. ----- So the military band played, the parade in red smarts was neat, though the soldiers looked overfed, old and obese, as if following the example of their nine-and-half months bellied chief of staff, Mwathethe. The commander in chief himself too didn't cut a lean figure neither. A Mzilikazi with all his fires spent, save for wine and dine.Today in the morning after I can only talk of a tragedy. The head of state failed to seize the moment. A local daily put it as: he gave a 'my hands are still tied behind my back' speech. Mr. Kenyatta does not recognise this fact: the moral imperatives of high office does not need a court conviction to dictate a sacking. That Rotich can be grilled for 3 days on his role in a massive, institutional swindle is ALREADY A SACKABLE OFFENCE. But, if there were a war on corruption going on, the very fact there is need for Rotich to be questioned on his involvement, is immediate TOTAL RUIN. Of career and life. There are things a Caesar's wife must not be suspected of, goes the saying. This bit is why there are countries a (female) minister would resign for having, in an emergency of a period, used the official ministerial credit card to buy sanitary paddies at the airport. That she refunded as soon as she got home and found her own purse, is no mitigation. Yes, it is the same world, but if we Kenyans prefer a retarded interpretation of everything to do with the morality of public office, we just must prepare for the consequences of that choice. The following is perhaps a mitigating circumstance for Ouru Kenyatta, who, anyway, nobody ever accused of being a high-flier, or one ever with his mind present. ------The constitutional elite of Kenya, with big constitutional brains like Orengo, Githu Muigai, Grandmullah, Ojienda, Wily Mutunga, Ngatia, Kilokumi, Kamau Kuria, David Maraga, Paul Muite, Smoking Wanjala, Kaluma, Otiende Amollo, PLO, Lenaola, Cliff Ombetta, Wajakhoya .... .... and all those cubs nurtured by Professor Ogendo at his legendary UON kernel, could not define INTEGRITY in the constitution, hitherto. Now, when the best of the best suffer such a lamentable implosion at the moment supreme, it is an intellectual holocaust. It is the (mental) trauma of traumas. It may warrant some of the deepest cultural takes available. Howbeit my heart fails in its resolve to criticise the lowly son of Jomo for having no notion of the difference between, one one side, the political economy of power, as in the imperative for an excision from public duty based on a doubt in ones integrity or the perception of being morally compromised, aka LOSS OF CONFIDENCE, and, on the other side, the diktat of a sack due to a prosecution of an actual criminal offence. Public office has a DOUBLE STANDARD. On one hand, a moral code, say ministers should not smoke bangi even if it is legal, neither should they participate in orgies organised by campus slayqueens, even if such are fair and legal game, or even the nationally preferred religious rites of elite fellowship! On the other hand, the usual criminal bar. Thy convicted criminal will not be a holder of public office. Thy suspect under criminal prosecution will not, too, continue eating public money. It is possible, that in a country where such leading lights, Oracles of the Constitution as we mentioned above, neither see the difference nor the nuances in the realms, one must consider the possibility neither can the selfsame elite in another constitution, define WAR. So when they say 'there is a war on corruption going on', they talk with childish innocence, and not the duplicity of supreme cynics. NB: You know children, as in infatilism, can use a lot of words whose meanings they import not. It is a normal stage in their mental development. Towards adulthood. Always let that insight mitigate your anger when dealing with whatever wing of the infants running Africa on behalf of foreign adults. ####And so, with corruption being a national crisis, the state of the union did the ostrich thing. And that is when a land awaits for my favourite line from Wole Soyinka: a tiger that does not becry its tigritude. There is a vacuum, and a vacancy at the top for a man, or woman of a firmer forge. (Life Emperor Xi JinPin meanwhile does a good job filling the vacuum at the top of Africa. To me, Xi is really the head of the African Union! The sorry African kid (or head of state if your pride insists) nominally fronted to hold that post, is always, in my opinion, a MINI REGENT!) Here are the MINIS or terracotas changing guard a few months back THE WAR ON CORRUPTION RECYCLING See: Ken Lusaka was governor in Bungoma. He and his cronies bought 5k a piece wheelbarrows for @ksh.110 thousand. When that kind of thing officiates a commandeer in chief rallying troops on a war on graft, surely it is all KALONGOLONGO! (Just like when a suspected (Ruaraka) landscammer and phantom dam deliverer are the duo to oversee your Big Five legacies!) a Shetani ashindwe moment I think, what prevailed Kamwana's head to eject Ethuro! Shetani ashindwe! We can't chant that enough, for the same devil could have misled Ouru Kenyatta to get rid of Ethuro and replace him with Ken Lusaka! Or, let us face it, only the devil could have advised Uhuruto to ignore into obscurity, Man Bitange Ndemo. Like Mukhisa Kituyi, one will be hardpressed to find such capable and formidable WORKHORSES who do not ride their ego at every public occasion! But well, some lowly bones had to be thrown to the pack, to clean up Lusaka. I want some more! Bigger More!
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