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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 29, 2013 15:00:16 GMT 3
h.e DON QUIXOTE UHURU KENYATTA. I was running through the options of Uhuru Kenyatta as a 'regime change'. That is having concluded Kenyatta I, Arap Moi, Kibaki and Rai-Kibaki GCG, were all the same chameleon wearing different kanzus [or togas] at different ceremonies at the comprador rituals of post-colonial Kenya. An economy not yet emerged from a 'historical dependency complex'. But the underlying crisis only heightened. Perhaps an anxiety of self-survival, a premonition of a far graver national paroxysm than 2007/8, would compel the new digital generation into some decisive step of economic sanity? History is of course no place to live on hope, but well, to be human is to have some weakness, even in the head. So I hoped, against the facts. Against precedents. Against my trade, history. When a young man --Uhuru is 50 but that is young in politics and he is the first of those borne after Uhuru-- who has seen industrialised countries at length becomes president of your pre-industrial country and makes a determined speech pitching at industrialisation as a priority, you may be excused if for a moment you take him seriously, forgetting yourself like an adolescent smitten by the fable of love. [To prepare to sustain industrialisation power consumption for our 40M people nation, the Power-Grid will have to, in 10 years, cough up at least 20,000 MG, up from the current paltry 7000 MG where the Njoroges have left it a flaccid cretin. I do not see Uhuru Kenyatta and his new Njoroges covering that deficit in 50 years, so I am out of love and deaf to sweet pillow talk.] www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate-News/End-of-an-era-as-the-Njoroges-exit-top-energy-firms-/-/539550/1897042/-/xeoruuz/-/index.html But Time and Tide wait for no man, so the crisis escalates: Stunted productive forces with a semi-capitalist dispensation of rising expectations. And the uneven distribution of burden. Labour unrest and an unrully national public-wage bill are merely the symptoms of a structural defect. BUT TO BE IN POWER IS TO ENJOY DELUSIONS. AND ACTING ON ILLUSIONS IS A HILARIOUS TALE. Only if you are not involved but a distant observer. If you are, and we are, because this is our country and this man is our president, then the tale of Don Quixote ceases to be an amusing pass-time. It becomes the tragedy of your country. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_quixoteDon Uhuru Kenyatta, a retiring country gentleman of banquet tastes, woed the fiery and energetic squire Ruto, alias sir William, into a ticket which is proving quite an adventure as they confront obstinate Kenyan reality armed with the illusions in their heads. [That pan-afric charge around the continent was sure quixotic]. But if one part has a much more earthen taste and partakes of heathen pleasures, his counterpart is of a religion-infested mind, doctrinaire and as such, a pillar of Christian chivalry. [when he grabs IDP land, it is merely 'tresspass', not robbery with violence!]It is is a perfect cast, if not a perfect match [ Uhuru is a top beneficiary the willing buyer willing seller grabiosis]. They want to industrialise the nation pronto. An agenda everybody of sane mind lauds. Including lap-tops for infants at a national scale. Infants who are immaciated because their parents can neither buy milk nor feed themselves to produce own milk. Those necessities being beyond their budget . But never forget Jesus fed multitudes on hot-air and we still tell the tale with awe. Well, six fish and six loaves it was for 6,000 grown ups. And just as Ruto believes homos are dogs and will burn in hell as the good book says, so does he believe in let there be manna and there shall be. That is why he did not work that hard at the agricultural ministry for food sufficiency, when he had the chance. So, Industrialisation here we come. But there is just something about the way they are going about it that makes it all a very 'donnish' adventure of the Quixotic mode. And that is why I refer to our president as his excellency DON QUIXOTE OURU KENYATTA, with 'Pancha' Ruto as his loving squire in attendance. USING DECREES AS ARMOUR, THEY CHARGE AT REALITY, and Lo! over they tumble, dazed. Let us take a look at what others have been pining A raft of directives from State House, is how Macharia Gaitho qualifies the flurry of commandos that have been forthcoming from the president --not exactly-- elect. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/-/440808/1893362/-/jgdle9z/-/index.htmlActually ever since Uhuru Kenyatta directed that 'foreign drug traffickers' be deported, and the consequent 'hostage-taking' by the Nigerian ensued, I have been keeping count of these broadside reminders of Moi's roadside proclamations. Those ones of Moi became policy and law immediately. But then, those were the days when a party was baba na mama! but these days!? you have all these second liberation bullsh!t constitution and lawyers who can only be shut up by bribery and not detention! So, as I have been trying to find out the relationship between the powers of the current president, and how they relate to the new constitutional dispensation, I found out that Uhuru Kenyatta is just making a lot of noise without base in law. If he wants to rule by decree, he has to first declare a state of emergency! He has to organise a creeping coup. For instance he ordered the TSC to negotiate with the Teachers Unions, but for the TSC to do that, there are a series of preconditions that must be met, independent of the president. More importantly, the TSC at that moment was in doubt as to its legal constitution, ie mandate without quorum, and it was also not clear if the TREASURY would be bound by an agreement so reached between the TSC and the Teachers. The TSC therefore shrugge and waited for Ruto. Ruto should be big enough to override or intimidate Rotich and his band, they must have thought. And cabinet secretaries [ Kaimenya and Kambi] did not make matters any more credible, when they claimed a government can append her gazetted stamp to a document, only for officials later to disown it at their leisure. ---How do you know then, when you reach an agreement with this government, that it will be valid tomorrow? NB: Rotich the finance man and CBK is selling Euro bonds at the international financial market to mature in 10 years. Imagine the finance minister of the future, when the bond holders come to cash in, reasoning like Kazungu Kambi to the teachers about their 1997 CBA! Oops! sorry! that was your private arrangement with Rotich, I am not bound by it. Enda dai yaye kibinafsi! But then Uhuru was already two directives ahead. The gear is Turbo. Don Quixote's agenda is full stuff to be charged. I asked a retired policeman --interpol type, how he read the directive to have governors on diplomatic protocol. His opinion was, given the failed state nature of Kenya, this was a step toward using some 'governors' for smuggling rackets. ---When caught, no jail abroad, just deportation! I had not thought of that sinister angle, but then, I had not thought of many other things too. Seeing all these flurry of directives, and knowing the 11th parliament has this man by the balls to date, I see a man trying desperately to give the impression he is in charge, on top of the game. A prezzo engaged merely in gimmicks, no attention to detail, nor the nitty-gritty of legal quagmires in a new constitution with a litigious bend. If Uhuru is burning the midnight oil, it is not on tackling the complexities of running current Kenya. In that respect he charges round like the famous comic legend, Don Quixote. If someone does not have mercy, gruffly hold the son of Jomo by his cuffs, slap him awake and help him along, time and again he will charge on his wooden horse and run into steel windmills, and clang to the ground in a cacophony of clanging tins. A quixotic regime. 'Pancha' Ruto in tow. Continued.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jun 29, 2013 15:35:11 GMT 3
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2013 16:38:00 GMT 3
jakaswanga I wondered (like kamalet wonders) why uhuru would warn "that the incessant clamour for higher pay by MPs, teachers, nurses and other civil servants would adversely affect the country’s development plans." He doesnt differentiate between those compensated @ the levels of the 1% and those compensated @ the levels of 99%. Any pay cuts should be at the top. He could set an example by donating his salary to the 99%. Margarette could borrow a leaf from ida odinga who didn't take pay during the period raila was prime minister. To lump nurses, teachers and other working people with mpigs, and rich powerful civil servants reveals a person who is completely out of touch with the reality for kenyans; and worse still one, wants to promote the interest of that 1% at the expense of the majority. www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/1889670/-/w3alfkz/-/index.html
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2013 21:25:19 GMT 3
Let’s share riches with the poor, lest they share poverty with us
Updated Friday, June 28th 2013 at 20:27 GMT +3
By Henry Munene
A few weeks ago, I wrote here that the mood of the country was against the move by MPs to seek higher pay. The reasoning then was that MPs had hardly done much and the economy was still in doldrums after the expensive polls and the equally hefty cost of implementing the Constitution. Besides, we feared that allowing MPs to get the cash they wanted would open a pandora’s box and see other public service cadres demand a salary increase.
Now, the chicken are coming home to roost. After a meeting with Deputy President William Ruto – no doubt with the President’s blessings – the MPs managed to squeeze out even more than they earlier sought. Whereas the Salaries Remuneration Commission had recommended a monthly pay of Sh851,000, the MPs now earn up to Sh1.2 million.
Perhaps buoyed by the generosity we extended to MPs, the County Assembly Members managed to squeeze another Sh444 million from the exchequer, through a court case. And the teachers are already on the streets with vuvuzelas and placards.
Where will it end? If the Government digs in and decides it cannot honour the promises made in 1997, the strike may last long enough to mess up the academic calendar. On the other hand, if the Government capitulates and pays up, there is no telling who will be next on the striking queue.
It is a veritable baptism of fire for the new Education Cabinet Secretary. Poor guy, he has reportedly disowned the 1997 pay deal. Watching some of the union bosses luxuriating in media publicity and foaming at the mouth-sides with threats, sometimes I suspect they wouldn’t want the State to pay up and thus end the strike, but that’s just me.
My worry is that this comes at a time when there is too much pressure on the public purse. In the past four years alone, the public officers’ pension has increased by over 59 per cent to Sh48 billion.
There is also pressure by governors to have more cash under their purview, much of which will go to cater for recurrent expenditure at a time when the taxman has had difficulties meeting revenue collection targets. In this scramble for public cash, we have plugged our ears to the cries of the surging multitudes of unemployed and well-educated youth waiting for jobs to be created.
We are fast becoming a nation of selfish cartels; truck owners will do anything to kill the railway line; matatu owners will not allow any attempts to decongest Nairobi; and the tenderpreneurs will not allow any freshmen into their exclusive clubs. The elected leaders will paralyse everything and blackmail everyone to get their way. The tragedy is where will the money to oil this economic facade come from?
First, there is the rather unfortunate decision to tax basic food commodities. Now, you do not need to be an economist to see that even before we tax unga, close to half of the country cannot afford it, just as they cannot afford clothes, shelter and medical care. Not when people are dying after eating poisonous wild roots upcountry.
So, in a country where the wealth gap is one of the greatest threats to national security, why would anyone want to pay politicians more for doing less and push those who have no job further up the wall?
It is obvious that after splurging our national income on bodyguards, undeserved perks and other wasteful ways, we will borrow from the domestic market, starving businesses of cash and thus adding salt to the wound of unemployment.
Borrowing externally is equally puerile; as even our unborn children will already have been mortgaged to the countries we borrow from even before they are born. As one reggae artiste admonishes, “Share your riches with the poor, before they share their poverty with you.”
The writer is Revise Editor for County Weeklywww.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000087034&story_title=let-s-share-riches-with-the-poor-lest-they-share-poverty-with-us&pageNo=2
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 1, 2013 22:08:52 GMT 3
There is a new lesson being taught up North in Misri. Morsi is the a duly elected president of Egypt. One year in power. But Tahrir is full in protest, and the army has just issued a public warning on live TV to the president! And nobody is condemning them. Worse, their helicopters flying over Tahrir square have been cheered by the mass. As if The mob wants a military dictatorship! ---that is what Mubarak was running upto a few years ago! These are the painful lessons of reality. A hungry mouth is an angry mouth. A ho- will open up to whoever grants a full belly. If elections do not feed a nation, the nation shall prefer a monster that feeds her. Check that 16% VAT tax again. Do not push Kenyans too far, Don Quixote!
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Post by moja on Jul 2, 2013 9:44:57 GMT 3
Sure Jakaswanga. I, for one, is still waiting for a report (from Mwalimu or Kamalet) on Uhuru's Quixotic trip to China and Russia as a counter-force to Obama's looming presence in Tanganyika
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 19, 2013 20:00:13 GMT 3
HOW THE ILLUSIONIST WILLIAM RUTO ENDED THE TEACHERS STRIKE AND OTHER STORIES! To my favourite magician!Come, O worker of miracles! Come seduce me with your magic! Come Keep me enthralled in your artificial world Come keep me prisoner to your illusions until Kingdom come! For No! I desire not to be woken up by the harsh blows of reality<><><> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% <><> In terms of political comedy, of the variant farce, I rate the moves as reported in this article belowe, in the Daily-Nation, as brilliant footwork . It is outstanding bluff poker. Great subterfuge and light-heartedly mishievous. A great plot for a short entertaining film handling the chicaneries to which the headaches of high office can drive the high and mighty. And how to 'theatrically' buy time when you are out of your wits. We will come to the 'buts' later. First, the QUIXOTIC PLOT REVEALED.www.nation.co.ke/News/The-plan-that-nailed-Knut-chiefs/-/1056/1919254/-/1575nj5z/-/index.htmlBut in reality, in a country of 40m people with a similar figural GDP, if the cabinet is reduced to using bluff, reduced to CLOSING DOWN OF ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS merely as a ploy to blackmail unionised striking teachers back to work, theN you know you are still flying, but it is actually a crash flight. Real problems in real life require real solutions. Fictitious solutions, however brilliant, belong to the realm of art where techniques like deus ex machina, or a lot of rabbits being pulled out of a lot of hats are invariably the staple. All hilarious and mightily entertaining indeed. In the theater of the absurd. [Strictly not to be transferred to the real world: { like that WWF warning: please do not try this at home!]So when Vice President of a digital regime is sent to open office as an illusionist in real time, enforcing an already agreed state trick upon a gullible lot, THEN NEXT TIME he comes negotiating, armed with his magical bag of tricks and phoney smile no doubt, the other side will have to drive a knife through his body, to find out if he is for real or but a mere apparition working mirage tricks to generate laughter in cabinet. One bitten, twice shy. Ruto must go into overdrive to conjure up new tricks to charm the dragon of dissent. Condemned to be the national magician, inflation should worry him. A word of caution to Uhuruto. Do not take the role of tricksters in state too far. Human beings are a hard lot. Heck, they even cruxified the son of God himself, and left him wailing on the cross: 'Daddy! Daddy! why doth thou abandoneth I?'HERE IS WAG THE DOG. A STUDY OF 'ILLUSIONISTS' OR SPIN-DOC GAMES IN THEATER. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_DogWAG THE DOG. ------ To save the face of POTUS who has inserted his willy in holes he rather should have avoided and is therefore facing an ignominous defeat in his second term run, Robert de Niro [aka Conrad the barbarian but genial spindoctor], hires a Hollywood Producer Stanley Motts [Dustin Hoffman] to come up with even a bigger story that would submerge the the doomsday scandal. CHANGE THE STORY. They organise a fictitious war [with Albania] to hoodwink the masses, and the electorate. The media, frenzied in competition for a big story and with its own dynamics, is, apparently, only too easily manipulated, willingly or not. So long they make money.
The film Wag the Dog is always billed as a worthy study in the murky interplay between show-bizz, politics, propaganda, and media outlets.watch out for more wag the dog tales, coming soon to a theater near you!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 21, 2013 16:14:05 GMT 3
William Ruto writing in the Sunday Nation beats the drum of caution. Better late than never. www.nation.co.ke/News/Alarm-sounded-over-public-wage-bill/-/1056/1921466/-/b4fykoz/-/index.html -william Ruto www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Soaring-wage-bill-will-cripple-Kenya/-/440808/1921224/-/uixluaz/-/index.html Is this the Ruto who granted the MPs a 1m+ salary? that time Rotich had not yet given him these figures, so that he could face the nation and his fellow MPigs with the truth and the dire consequences of their collective gluttony? Or, like a consummate politician, specialist in ploys, he is merely throwing more smokescreen for the gullible, hard at work being an illusionist! NB: Under the constraints of a dependent neo-colonial economy whose productive forces are stunted, an increase in aggregate demand is an explosion of IMPORTS. Those imports to be paid in a foreign currency whose fluctuations, outside local control, easily transfixes a neo-colonial economy into debt servicing slavery. Which is exactly where the IMF wants us. But if you are industrially overproducing, which is only possible under mature productive forces, and the export market is glutted, then an increase in internal aggregate demand is a welcome mopping up of excess produce which can not be exported and sold abroad. Below, I will be posting hints of what a serious 'austerity program' in bringing down a public run-away wage-bill, curtailing sky-rocketing governmental inefficiency, reducing corruption [upto untaxed offshore banking by illegal capital export ], and bringing back general sanity to public accounting could look like. Purely academic of course, from Greece. [The greeks are not AfriKans, and we go for homegrown weed solutions if you remember!]
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Post by jakaswanga on Jul 21, 2013 16:45:09 GMT 3
Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/post/48481#ixzz2Za1nKBGQ --who is afraid of katiba Here is the Herculean Greekman Anitonis Manitakis doing it under the forced conditions of the EC/ECB/IMF. www.spiegel.de/international/europe/top-job-cutter-in-greece-worries-about-going-too-far-a-901234.html greece.greekreporter.com/2013/01/11/greece-will-close-obsolete-enterprises/Suddenly Pancha Ruto has gotten off his wooden horse, atop which he was busy issued commands to the winds, as the side-kick of the Boss, Don Uhuru. HE can not issue a command: you public wage bill, come down from your lofty 13% to 8% now! Or else! After he himself sat in attendance at a parley in which the Mpigs maintained the outrageous perks of the 9th parliament ---the ones who afforded themselves up to state-funerals all expenses paid by Wanjiku, Pancha has now been slapped awake, and like some confused dog, he now barks around about the high public wage-bill being a danger to the national agenda of economic rejuvenation! well, it is an improvement from gallivanting around like a pimp in executive jets filled with groupies! But this wage bill was, actually, already a monstrosity under the GCG of the genial economist Kibaki! 44 cabinet ministers and 101 assistants it was! So if Ruto were serious, he would have given Rotich brief immediately on his appointment, to invent a ruthless austerity programme, to cut the damn bills down to say the african avarage of 9.5% in 2 financial years. --But would that be African? would not that be anathema like homosexuality?
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 10, 2013 9:09:50 GMT 3
Here is an African of Old, inspired by the adopted Algerico-Frenchman Frantz Fanon of the wretched of the earth fame: The native, the A frican, leaves the idyllic rural paradise of his ancestors and goes to Metropolitan Capitals. In shock he discovers a new World. This new world is a prisoner to its own rules, thinks nothing of his "tribal" culture but a sea of backwardness; thinks nothing of the holiness of Allah; is confident of its own dominance, is economically more productive, more efficient, more determined, more moneyed and dynamic, and lacks not in ruthlessness faculties to maintain and expand her global hegemony. Instinctively the native realises, this New World will destroy mine, enslave me forever, unless I adequately change, and adequately resist, and fight back with equivalent modernity, equally productive, efficient, dynamic, competitive and powerful enough to hold its own and perpetuate itself.Thus awakened from centuries of feudal slumber, where marrying a girl from the next village was a lifetime achievement, the native becomes one of the most volatile agents of global change. There is an ocean out there he recognises, and has seen it, and he knows the sharks in it are devoid of mercy, nor peculiarities to be entertained by the idiosyncratic splattering of of the chieftains, or excellencies the presidents of Africa, as they ran parody regimes in parody nations! The dying worlds of the Kabilas, Kagames, Kenyattas, and the godamn AU minions. Toward decolonisation then. Phase III. As such, these are the days when protocol so bores me, that the mental state of diplomats, those who must always couch reality is some meaningless phrases called diplo-speak, occurs to me to be the pathological opposite of human rationality. An adequate description of reality recommends itself to me as a very healthy mental attitude, always. --And this elementary rational response, the basis of science, is what separates the normal from the mad men. And politicians then! So today, I wont be referring to President Uhuru Kenyatta for his excellence, but for a streak of charlatan mockery, which, I surmise, must always be the suppressed feeling whenever anyone opens his mouth to spew out some diplomatic garbage for pay or not. Yes, I understand that is why copious amounts of liquor are ever consumed during diplomatic careers, to buffer against ever impending mental collapses due to perpetual disjuncture between observed reality and reported reality. Alcohol, must surely be the foundation of sanity for diplomats, even the ones who consider this intoxicant Haram. And that is not just Wikileaks as source. I am no stranger to the general disuse and mental dilapidation in Kenyan officialdom, but the farcical display during the inferno at the airport has had me riled to a new depth I had not thought possible over another national manifestation of the customary ineptitude and incompetence. in2eastafrica.net/delayed-response-to-jkia-inferno-exposes-kenyas-soft-underbelly---The fire more or less burnt itself out! 5 am to 3 pm! ---200 askaris --mockingly flashed across world TV sets to ridiculing commentary-- with heroic leaking buckets battling the blaze at the nest of the goose that lays the golden eggs. (Daily horticultural airlifts to Europe, and sky-truck loads of tourists that come through this airport, are a significant addition to the ever leaking treasury of the republic of incompetence aka Kenya.) Our display of suicidal stupidity, and or fatalistic nonchalance, punctuated by a quixotic dash to the scene by his excellency to join the swelling ranks of the helplessly gaping public, have cracked the bottom of my cynicism and jarred me to some exquisite anger! I just hated the sight of the commander in chief biologised at the scene, as if he were some pathological arsonist glued to his scene of the crime, or some vile pyromaniac, staying around to satisfy a seedy need as he gapes at the awe on the faces of the excited onlookers. I grimaced in horror at his helplessness as his house --or the house bearing his father's name burnt down. The perfect mirror image of an emaciated and incapacitated African child, resigned to his sad fate, as it hazily takes the form of a vulture drawing ever near for the meal, and kill. Now, that was the picture I had of his excellency as he went through the motions of the man in charge of destiny ---his foot soldiers armed with scoops in a water shortage And the following measures are ad hoc. Done on the spur of the moment without an overall overhaul program of the whole business of running linked 'emergency services' ---Fire fighting, ambulant medical intervention, general health-risk assessment [chemicals released into the enviroment]. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000090537&story_title=uhuru-dismisses-any-acts-of-terrorism-in-jkia-fireI AM DONE WITH THAT! AND MORE! I am like the native who traveled the ocean, had his eyes opened to what sharks can do, and no longer can go back to sleep, trusting in baba na mama and in the wisdom of old in the feudal paradise. So what is to be done? A strange precedent I will teach to recommend. Bear with me. THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER AND THE TAYLOR REPORT. as a lesson. Lord Taylor, working through bold resistance --reluctance by both political and economic interests to bare it all, nevertheless produced quite an in-depth study, with BINDING RECOMMENDATIONS. These recommendations, enacted in law, and all to be realised within a given material time, set the foundation for the current success and high-flying commercial and sports rating of the PREMIER LEAGUE. But Mr. Kenyatta is already showing what we call 'wich mobam' or slanted thinking: he is only breathing fire and brimstone, threatening the furies of all laws on the head of the small man who may have caused the fire ----that some high mandarin of his ordered a carnage of dismantling [duty free shops] which could have contributed to the mess escapes him. But more, that the airport has been a historical den of incompetence and all Kenyan vices rolled into one. The power-failure which revealed the lack of alternative generators just over six months ago, just one of the many clues of the deep rot. SO WHAT TO DO?Perfect opportunity for some real decrees. ---Forget those toy decrees of arresting Owallo for a coup group registered officially by Okiya at Lucy Ndung'us office next to the presidency! 1. A full powers body --like Lord Taylors above--- to investigate the airports ins and outs to the bottom, and come up with BINDING suggestions, to be implemented tot the full within a specified period. 2. Given the ECONOMIC PARAMOUNCY of the airport, the managerial negligence that has led to --eg no working sprinklers, no smoke detectors, no 'length' water hoses etc etc--- must be considered economic sabotage. Therefore Evoking the necessary powers in the constitution to deal with a 'special economic predicament', go draconian: ----Suspend without pay all the managerial staff with the word senior ----Freeze immediately all the pensions [retirement savings] of the executive levels -----Place them all under house arrest [Githu Muigai will show you how to link economic sabotage to a terrorist clause]. If Githu is too dumb for that, call Barrack Obama. I have noticed his lawyers work on force-feeding guantanamo inmates, drone-hit executionof American citizens, hunting down whistle-blower Edward Snowden; dismembering the sanity of private Manning with solitary confinement and critical sleep deprivation, and all these within 250 pages of legal goubledigook. .........So...... Just like with his FBI aides, he can give you legal aid. Added advantage: bonding with friends in high places with that ICC sword of Damocles thing, is not a bad idea meseems. 2nd added advantage: Removing all the top brass at such lucrative economic institute like the airport gives you the freedom to shake it up --- reconstitute the echelons and reward a few of those who sweated for you in the campaign, but feel left behind. Carefully executed with only the competent ones carefully vetted, you, his excellency, would have killed many birds with one stone! And that is good politics. THE DOWN SIDE But you, your excellency, and I know such a thorough-going shake-up -----based on a Lord Taylor-like report, is beyond you. WHY? Consider this: Only last week, destitute Masai squatters were being 'cleansed' from their land by none other than the Kenya Police Force, acting on behalf of mandarins orbiting around your court. And what did you do? ---Rush to the scene to warn against politial capitalists!So, if you can not remove the speck in your own eyes, the filth in which you yourself swims, you have to stay blind and things stay the same. Change is no option. Too dangerous thy son of Jomo. So under your regime things are doomed to stay the same. The same old Kenya, the same old corrupt kingdom of ineptitude, all the way to the top, where your excellency resides. I gather this is what an Asian despot would refer to as an example of the "a nation that is a parody of a nation!"So, good luck , son of Jommo, go fulfill your historical role as a "parody of a presidency". Don Quixote I said! How quintessential! ---And once again, the quixotic president rushes to personalise the issue to the presidency, taking items out of the hands of the relevant cabinet secretary -- Just as he has done with the teacher's strike, devolution and the countless directives from his office that sidelined the respective auspices. Mr. Kenyatta evidently hired incompetents everywhere, so that he has to rush everywhere to take charge himself of the situation.Gotta have a sense of devolution there too, sir. KEN OPALO: KONZA high-tech city, but fighting inferno with buckets of sewage? Hallo Kenya! www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000090541&story_title=airport-inferno-response-shows-malaise-in-public-service
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 11, 2013 11:44:04 GMT 3
Now, for the good of the motherland, that is for those of us who still care for the central state, and have not taken up citizenships of their new independent homelands or fatherlands aka counties, patriotic duty forces us to continue with the education of the federal president. We must seek to "de-quixotise" the son of Jomo, before this epidemic of Bantustanism running on the Bomet-Rutto turbo, overwhelms Nairobi and sweeps us under! So, Ouru, HERE IS A CASE WHICH SHOWS WHY YOU HAVE TO FIRE A LOT OF INCOMPETENT PEOPLE, if only to create room for the new. O son of Jomo, your excelency knows what happens when you do not have a functional fire-fighting department, and an incendiary device ignites! ... Allows you to 'manage the party' by rewards that put out fires such as the embarassing Lesuuda vs Mathia case. This is a very analogue case of the list being rigged ----by the IEBC not TNA!, and the fellow rigged out, totally left out in the cold despite many promises --by Jubilee. That is a very bad PR-fiasco. So a court case. Remember also, thy son of Jomo, that the idea of [ Mbiyu Koinange] Francis Kimemia, secretary to the cabinet, running around being a party 'employment agency' for TNA faithfuls left by the roadside is a corrupt patronage structure. And politically insane, because Kimemia has no impartial genes, and will definitely catalyse friction between you and your co principal Ruto, who himself is already under fire for neglecting the south rift on state appointments, and could do with a few fire-extinguisher juicy bones. NB: {Remember, Mr. President, that the swearing in at Kasarani was nearly a fiasco when the likes of Kimemia hijacked the protocol last minute, so that it would reflect your superiority over Ruto ---they did not like that Raila Kibaki parity sh!t--- and tempers were lost to revert back to the co-presidency protocol as had been pre-planned by the two of you. Forget Owallo, the vipers are right under your feet! ] Here is an symptom of the North Rift South Rift splitting headache for your VP. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-131052/ruto-tasks-keter-unite-south-rift --Keter to pacify stormy South Rift Now, back to your problems as party leader who must must have a working fire brigade department, unless you want to go the JKIA way. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-131301/how-tna-failed-end-lesuuda-case Looks like you guys are bent on running Kenya life an old fiefdom, where everything, even removing litter from the street, goes through the almighty Presidency! And at the same time you have to have all your wits around you for the Bensouda woman of the ICC? Stop being silly Ouru. Define priorities sir! If you ran the Kenyatta business like this, it would long have gone bust and you know it! unless of course it has gone bust, and you need the state to re-imburse it some! ---We call that a bailout these days! with the taxpayer picking up the bill, everywhere!THE INCENDIARY DEVICES. Naisula Lesuuda It was actually the IEBC who doctored the original list that saw her surge up past Lydia, drawing wrath: And Shakespeare once quipped Hell hath none the fury of a scorned woman. Lydia Mathia
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 17, 2013 21:15:33 GMT 3
O son of Jomo, We will return to the much publicized launch of the 60,000 title-deeds at the coast which has fallen flat on its face elsewhere, or here later when the smoke clears some more! Meanwhile consider it a good lesson in your role as an apiring national clerk on Land. ---Things to avoid. Yes, I have heard tell you are on the war-path! a mean tough beast has been let loose in you, a django unchained! Okay, these are just reports from Kenyan newspapers , and I remember Mwai Kibaki describing them as pumbavu journalists from mavi ya kuku institutes with kumambichi instructors ---that was when they reported he was NOT living in sin with Mary Wamboi, then the Othaya Narc activist. Kenya had two first ladies! wrong! We therefore learn to be cautious with what we read in our papers. But may be the papers saved a bit of their honour when they spoke enough truth to rattle the rattlesnake Kimeendero! so all is not lost! But the standard is gone bold: UHURU ON THE WARPATH!Having said that, there are more than single-source reports you are a man on the warpath, tired of being insulted by the opposition especially Raila, and ready to take the battle to his ramshackle outfit called CORD. Furious, fuming and foaming, thy Excellency the son of Jomo, is out to kick asz, and kick it hard! [Same thing Bensouda has in mind for you over there]. www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000093560&story_title=why-uhuru-is-on-the-warpathAnd here is the best gloss Said Anangwe of Dodoma. So you are going to be tough eh? I just gathered the police have gotten express powers to shoot-to-kill to deal with the crime wave. ---That is what we used to call extra-judicial killings, and was analysed as one of the contributory factors to general lawless impunity on the part of the law enforcement forces. We are then back to square one there! That is called recidivism, and clearly then, for all talk of a digital generation in government, it just the old goat being recycled. More kwekwe squads please! and we know how that ended, for all. You are tough eh? Did you see, in aftermath of your VAT increases, the price of essentials rise by 20% at the retail level? You know what that means for the majority of Kenyans on the street level? Meanwhile you and Ruto brokered a deal with Mpigs in which they take a 1.5M paycheque home per month! ---You are a comedian Uhuru, yelling about insustainable public wage bill, and dishing money out to M-pigs! It makes you a laughing stock in the world of serious management of public affairs. Try this word AUSTERITY, if it could mean something to you. Being a rich man's kid who grew up with a golden spoon in his mouth, I gather you are so alienated from common peoples reality, that their economic plight is not a real resonance with you. But it is the questions raised about your recent basket of goodies which you brought back from China which tell the tale how your toughness is hot air. The Chinese will bring up to their own wheelbarrow pushers [watu wa mkono] to build that Railaway they are funding!? No --because politcally too sensitive? then they squeeze some more interest rates and other concessions elsewhere! You did not give an explicative press conference in neither swahili nor english, so we have to go listen in mandarin! Now, son of Jomo, finish your beer and do tell us what you really signed to there in Beijin!
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Post by mank on Sept 17, 2013 22:21:46 GMT 3
.... Reality check ...And here is the best gloss Said Anangwe of Dodoma.... Jakaswanga, That must be reminding you of Moi in 1982, but perhaps its better to think about Obama instead. He too (the latter) came to a samilar realization and he has not had to put anybody in the cooler. Nothing Uhuru can do to make people start speaking in whispers the way Moi had them do after a comparable realization.
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Post by podp on Sept 17, 2013 23:13:18 GMT 3
.... Reality check ...And here is the best gloss Said Anangwe of Dodoma.... Jakaswanga, That must be reminding you of Moi in 1982, but perhaps its better to think about Obama instead. He too (the latter) came to a samilar realization and he has not had to put anybody in the cooler. Nothing Uhuru can do to make people start speaking in whispers the way Moi had them do after a comparable realization. and reminding you of Kibaki in 2005 after losing the Wako Constitution referendum...we have plenty of history to prepare us for tomorrow. let the new PORK carrying the baggage of Naivasha burnings of 2008 try to emulate the father before him, Moi of fuata nyayo and Kibaki of MoU fame.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2013 18:59:03 GMT 3
The word gave! I am trying to break it down into concepts like: sold at a discount. Exchanged for. These are not the old days when Kings gave away public property like their own personal things. --Where are those senators from Turkana? I imagine they seconded the idea, on behalf of their starving, ever drought-stricken grassroots! I am ready to believe the Nigerian was misquoted! NB: There is a thread in which I was asking to be shown some pan-afric love between Kenya and Nigeria [after the deportation of alleged drug-lord inlaws like Chinedu] Well, this is it, lots of love being shown. In a deal brokered by China perhaps, as you know Dangote is going to expand Cement production in Kenya like hell, to cater for the construction demand of the Chinese-financed projects. Now you will have to wait to know which Chinese are investing in Dangote the Cement magnate in his Kenyan conquest!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2013 19:07:47 GMT 3
.... Reality check ...And here is the best gloss Said Anangwe of Dodoma.... Jakaswanga, That must be reminding you of Moi in 1982, but perhaps its better to think about Obama instead. He too (the latter) came to a samilar realization and he has not had to put anybody in the cooler. Nothing Uhuru can do to make people start speaking in whispers the way Moi had them do after a comparable realization. Amigo Mank, hERE IS an example of just how much of a comedian Mr. Kenyatta can be with his resolve to be the tough mean capo. I think this VAT as a robbery scheme on the poor. But Uhuru and his ilk are about to determine their own salaries!? which they get from THE TAX PAYER! What would you call that Mank? I think the son of Jomo has to be very weak in the head not to see this contradiction. He has to be a joke when he means to be tough. Hahaha! Uhuru Kenyatta is a baby showing tantrums at the wrong place! ---it is the economy stupid, bwana Muigai!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 21, 2013 9:40:07 GMT 3
O thy son of Jomo! what fates have befallen you, that as head of state this skip was not a decision yours to make, but a forced choice by external affairs! That, is what I mean by a sovereignity surrendered: The Kenyan Head of State, is played, like a toy! ---The ICC detained your VP and running-mate in Holland, effectively daring him to do a runner. In doing that, having said that you and Ruto can not be simultaneously absent from unstable Nairobi, they locked you up in Nairobi. Cancelling your planned trip to New York. Then waiting for you to acknowledge the situation and comply. They curtailed your choices and freedoms of movement, necessary to serve the nation. Is the trip important? No I do not think so, but it was prestigious enough for you to have planned in your agenda, therefore being forced to abandon it is a kick in the groin. ---That is Margaret misses an opportunity to do a bit of shop-lifting in New York with a state credit card! [these trips are the show-case rituals of power, and part of its mystique. So this would count as an erosion of prestige in your world: where is the Kenyan head of state, they will ask at a dinner: The Gambian lady at the ICC is holding him on short leash! poor man!] Ach, you could still change your mind, and Ruto can still jet in today in defiance! to save national dignity! www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000093968&story_title=uhuru-to-skip-un-general-assemblyAnd here are the parameters you set space for continuous cooperation is diminishing! That is, you now realise you are in a cell. Kick out Ouru, kick out!
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Post by podp on Sept 22, 2013 8:54:33 GMT 3
History is of course no place to live on hope, but well, to be human is to have some weakness, even in the head. So I hoped, against the facts. Against precedents. Against my trade, history. The Kenyatta regime has decided that the way to handle the IDP crisis is to give some of them Sh400,000 and leave them to their own devices. Let us give credit, at least, for this attempt at doing something about IDPs. But, like most decisions taken for political reasons rather than to actually resolve the real and underlying issues, more questions than answers have been raised by this purported solution. mobile.nation.co.ke/blogs/ICC-UhuRuto-stirred-the-hornests-/-/1949942/2000828/-/format/xhtml/-/icgi5m/-/index.htmlFirst, what about the Luo, Kisii and Luyha victims and IDPs, often referred to as “returnees”? Are they any less deserving of state attention than Kikuyu IDPs? What about the “integrated” IDPs — who include hundreds of Kikuyu as well — who decided to abandon camps and live in the communities? Is their pain and loss any less? OPEN DISCRIMINATION This open discrimination is very dangerous in our already much divided society, and increases ethnic tensions and feelings of abandonment if “our own” is not in State House. It makes the race for the presidency a do or die affair that only hurts Kenya. Second and crucially, does the payout mean that the IDPs will never return to the farms they were chased from? For those intent on the continued balkanisation of Kenya, this would be a perfect solution! And is this not an endorsement of impunity, that some can kill, rape and forcibly displace others and then benefit from it? Is the amount of compensation provided enough to buy equivalent amounts of agriculturally productive land that the IPDs owned in the Rift Valley? In their haste to look good for the ICC, Kenyatta and Ruto may have opened up more issues than resolved.
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Post by mank on Sept 22, 2013 10:17:50 GMT 3
History is of course no place to live on hope, but well, to be human is to have some weakness, even in the head. So I hoped, against the facts. Against precedents. Against my trade, history. The Kenyatta regime has decided that the way to handle the IDP crisis is to give some of them Sh400,000 and leave them to their own devices. Let us give credit, at least, for this attempt at doing something about IDPs. But, like most decisions taken for political reasons rather than to actually resolve the real and underlying issues, more questions than answers have been raised by this purported solution. mobile.nation.co.ke/blogs/ICC-UhuRuto-stirred-the-hornests-/-/1949942/2000828/-/format/xhtml/-/icgi5m/-/index.htmlFirst, what about the Luo, Kisii and Luyha victims and IDPs, often referred to as “returnees”? Are they any less deserving of state attention than Kikuyu IDPs? What about the “integrated” IDPs — who include hundreds of Kikuyu as well — who decided to abandon camps and live in the communities? Is their pain and loss any less? OPEN DISCRIMINATION This open discrimination is very dangerous in our already much divided society, and increases ethnic tensions and feelings of abandonment if “our own” is not in State House. It makes the race for the presidency a do or die affair that only hurts Kenya. Second and crucially, does the payout mean that the IDPs will never return to the farms they were chased from? For those intent on the continued balkanisation of Kenya, this would be a perfect solution! And is this not an endorsement of impunity, that some can kill, rape and forcibly displace others and then benefit from it? Is the amount of compensation provided enough to buy equivalent amounts of agriculturally productive land that the IPDs owned in the Rift Valley? In their haste to look good for the ICC, Kenyatta and Ruto may have opened up more issues than resolved. For years we have heard the IDP problem discussed to exhaustion. We have not heard of "Returnees" in that debate, at least not in a way that we could keep an equal note. But now that the IDP problem seems to be getting a real solution, or at least an attempt at a real solution, not giving "Returnees" the same attention implies a political motivation. And while the author himself submits that some Kikuyu displaced people are being missed by the current initiative (because they do not belong in the IDP class that has been visible in the national debate) he still finds a way of portraying the initiative as an attention to a Kikuyu problem by the Kikuyu in state house ... not IDP problem as we have known it since PEV, getting the solution we have yearned for since PEV! Kiai is getting too petty!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2013 20:17:30 GMT 3
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 Did Uhuru cancel UN meeting to save face? Did President Uhuru Kenyatta’s last minute’s cancellation of the UN meeting have more to do with diplomatic fallout with the Obama administration than the fact that his deputy is away in The Hague answering charges of crimes against humanity against him? Did the on-going ICC hearing in The Hague in fact, provide President Kenyatta with a perfect excuse to bale out of an international engagement that he knew was likely to prove more embarrassing to him than beneficial? Did State House have problems processing a visa to the US for the president? Does the rumour that the Obama administration was toying with the idea of restricting President Uhuru’s movement during his time in the US have any credible roots? EMPTY PROMISES Did ambassador Macharia Kamau’s ‘overzealousness’ force State House handlers to make a promise they knew they could not keep? What has all these to do with the growing perception in the US and indeed the west that the Uhuru administration is in fact on the ropes as blows from ICC start raining on it and that this makes it very dangerous especially when it comes protecting human rights? As the story of President Uhuru’s cancellation of the UN meeting, the first in over fifty years and its implications plays out both at home and abroad, these are some of the disturbing questions that are beginning to emerge. On Friday, State House released a statement saying that Kenya's president will not attend the UN General Assembly because his deputy will be away on trial at the International Criminal Court. Warning that the future cooperation with the ICC by Uhuru was in jeopardy, State House cited the skipping of the UN meeting as probable cause. "Whereas very important multilateral and bilateral meetings had been planned for President (Uhuru) Kenyatta during the week, including a speech to the General Assembly, we very much regret that he cannot be out of the country at the same time as the deputy president," a statement said. It added that Kenya's ambassador to the UN, Macharia Kamau, had been recalled to Nairobi for "consultations". The statement said Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, both of whom are accused by the ICC of crimes against humanity linked to 2007-2008 post-election violence, had so far "cooperated fully" with the Hague-based ICC. But it warned that "the political space for continuous cooperation was rapidly being eroded and the country was weary that the dire consequences of these developments seemed to be lost on the ICC." GROWING DIPLOMATIC SCHISM Based on multiple interviews with people familiar with what has been happening behind the curtains, the Nation can reveal that the decision to skip the UN meeting was caused by mainly the growing diplomatic schism and fissures between Nairobi and Washington, DC. A picture is emerging which shows that, The Hague issue that seemed to be a ‘small’ personal matter before the last general elections is in fact growing exponentially and morphing into an international nightmare for Kenya. “It is true that under normal circumstances, it would be wrong to have both the president and his deputy away from the country. But, are we talking about normal circumstances in Kenya? "When, and at what point did the president realise that they were both expected to attend ICC proceedings?” posed Jacktone Ambuka, a Kenyan scholar based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Mr Ambuka added that State House pulled out of the meeting to escape embarrassment in the US. "America is not China or Russia where they welcome you with open hands even if you are facing some of the worst crimes against humanity as does Uhuru Kenyatta. It matters little that he was popularly elected president because the US knows exactly what happened in Kenya". A source in Claymont, Delaware who works at the White House and who is familiar with what has been going on between Nairobi and Washington, DC told the Nation in confidence late Friday that in fact, president Obama's handlers were very happy with president Uhuru’s skipping of the UN meeting. “His presence in the US was likely to strain the already shaky relationship we have with Kenya. President Obama cares about the people of Kenya but I can assure you that he would rather not meet with Uhuru or Ruto down the road as long as the ICC charges are still pending”. The source, who had just arrived from DC, said. The source disclosed that, President Kenyatta, though popularly elected as the President late March this year in a process that turned democracy on its head, is considered by many in the US, including top Department of State officials as persona non grata because of the ICC charges. Discounting rumours that President Uhuru had been denied a visa to travel to the US, the source said as Head of State, Uhuru is obligated to, and has a right to attend the annual meeting and as a host nation, America can’t deny him a visa. “But, it is a blessing in disguise when such people make a decision on their own not to come to New York because then it saves us diplomatic embarrassments on the sidelines of the UN meeting. The world knows the relationship president Obama has with the people of Kenya and some would have expected him to have a photo with Uhuru Kenyatta when he comes to New York next week,” he added. The Nation has also learnt that ambassador Kamau Macharia’s frantic attempts to secure meetings for Uhuru with White House and Congressional committees officials on the sidelines of the UNGA meeting had born no meaning fruits as Washington tightens its resolve to give Uhuru a wide berth pending ICC proceedings. It has also emerged that the Obama administration and its western allies are concerned about the behaviours of Kenyan lawmakers who have engineered the move for Kenya to pull out of the ICC. EMERGING PATTERN The Obama administrations see a pattern in the recent threats against human rights activists, ICC witnesses’ intimidations and cold blood assignations especially that of the Bungoma lawyer (related to his work with the people who disappeared in Mt Elgon) as a strategy by the Uhuru administration to abscond the ICC trial. A Kenyan president coming to the US for the Annual Heads of States General Assembly in New York City is always a big event not only for the Kenya government but also for Kenyans living in the US. Several meetings, consultations and get together are usually organised ahead of time, at times months in advance. The climax is a major town hall meeting held usually on the last day before the head of state departs for Kenya. President Kenyatta has a lot of supporters in the US who were making preparations to travel to New York City to attend the town hall meeting. Mr Kamau Macharia, Kenya’s Permanent Representative to the UN, who has been acting more like a party activist than a diplomat, had already sent out a notice for the meeting before even confirming with State House that President Uhuru would indeed attend the UN meeting. MEETING CANCELLED On Friday, following State House’s cancelation of the US trip, Mr Macharia sent out a short notice announcing that the town hall meeting had been cancelled. “We regret to inform you that the Kenya Diaspora Meeting with H.E. Mr Uhuru Kenyatta, President of the Republic of Kenya tentatively scheduled earlier for Thursday 26 September, 2013 in New York is CANCELLED. The Permanent Mission of Kenya to the United Nations regrets any inconveniences occasioned by this cancellation.” The notice published in the Kenyan US based Internet news aggregators said. According to this writer’s contacts at State House, in fact Mr Kamau’s recall to Nairobi has a lot to do with the way he handled the whole UN issue. “We knew from the beginning that President Uhuru was not going to go to New York but the ambassador kept on telling the press that he was. At some point we also wondered where he was getting the information that we were going to go to the US from” The source, who requested anonymity, said on Thursday when reached to confirm whether that the president was traveling to New York. www.nation.co.ke/oped/blogs/dot9/Did-Uhuru-cancel-UN-meeting-to-save-face/-/1959700/2001740/-/pq6g0fz/-/index.html
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Post by podp on Sept 23, 2013 22:31:23 GMT 3
The Kenyatta regime has decided that the way to handle the IDP crisis is to give some of them Sh400,000 and leave them to their own devices. Let us give credit, at least, for this attempt at doing something about IDPs. But, like most decisions taken for political reasons rather than to actually resolve the real and underlying issues, more questions than answers have been raised by this purported solution. mobile.nation.co.ke/blogs/ICC-UhuRuto-stirred-the-hornests-/-/1949942/2000828/-/format/xhtml/-/icgi5m/-/index.htmlFirst, what about the Luo, Kisii and Luyha victims and IDPs, often referred to as “returnees”? Are they any less deserving of state attention than Kikuyu IDPs? What about the “integrated” IDPs — who include hundreds of Kikuyu as well — who decided to abandon camps and live in the communities? Is their pain and loss any less? OPEN DISCRIMINATION This open discrimination is very dangerous in our already much divided society, and increases ethnic tensions and feelings of abandonment if “our own” is not in State House. It makes the race for the presidency a do or die affair that only hurts Kenya. Second and crucially, does the payout mean that the IDPs will never return to the farms they were chased from? For those intent on the continued balkanisation of Kenya, this would be a perfect solution! And is this not an endorsement of impunity, that some can kill, rape and forcibly displace others and then benefit from it? Is the amount of compensation provided enough to buy equivalent amounts of agriculturally productive land that the IPDs owned in the Rift Valley? In their haste to look good for the ICC, Kenyatta and Ruto may have opened up more issues than resolved. For years we have heard the IDP problem discussed to exhaustion. We have not heard of "Returnees" in that debate, at least not in a way that we could keep an equal note. But now that the IDP problem seems to be getting a real solution, or at least an attempt at a real solution, not giving "Returnees" the same attention implies a political motivation. And while the author himself submits that some Kikuyu displaced people are being missed by the current initiative (because they do not belong in the IDP class that has been visible in the national debate) he still finds a way of portraying the initiative as an attention to a Kikuyu problem by the Kikuyu in state house ... not IDP problem as we have known it since PEV, getting the solution we have yearned for since PEV! Kiai is getting too petty!red high light if only we could keep the eye on the ball and kick it and not other players the conversation would be more mature devoid of personalization mobile.nation.co.ke/counties/Questions-raised-over-payments-to-IDPs-and-Mau-Forest-evictees/-/1950480/2003130/-/format/xhtml/-/pb4mqnz/-/index.htmlQuestions raised over payments to IDPs and Mau Forest evictees “It is unfortunate that none of us suggested to the government about the need to pay cash to IDPs as compensation as opposed to land allocation,” said Mr Peter Tenna of the Kenya Displaced Persons Organisation. He claimed that there was a cartel that wanted to benefit from the property previously bought by the government to resettle IDPs once the cash payout was concluded. IDP leaders who spoke in Nakuru yesterday said the government had been misled to compensate the wrong people at the expense of genuine victims. IDP Network programmes officer Patrick Githinji alleged that some of the people on the current government list were relatives and friends of politicians and local administration officers. Others, Mr Githinji claimed, were prominent businessmen who used their connections to benefit from the government programme illegally. “We now want to see the President and explain to him how corrupt his field officials have been,” said Mr Githinji.
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 1, 2013 11:02:53 GMT 3
TWO GLORIOUS DECADES THEN IT WILL BE! HURAA! HURAA! LONG LIVE JUBILEE! Even then, Kalenjin nationalism should be aware of the mockery of Koitalel arap Samoei by the fates. There is treachery in the world, and it is always afoot. Koitalel went in good faith to meet and discuss peace with The Whiteman, but in the heart of the Whiteman lurked treachery, deceit and ill will. He thus returned Samoei’s outstretched handshake with a gun shot. --- Pod waywago nyaka sani!William Ruto assumed command of Kalenjin nationalism at a highly radical time. A time of mass agitation when the internal crisis [of land] had escalated beyond control, beyond containment within the then existent structures, and had fashioned an explosive but degenerate solution. That solution was the expulsion of foreigners of whatever definition, and that expulsion had clearly turned genocidal in content. What DEEPER crisis is it then, that precipitated this mayhem, this macabre manifestation of the wish for the FINAL SOLUTION? this Puritanism of 2007/8 PEV in RV? ---An on-going debate that! (but it is safe to go with the general common sense that historical land grievances un-addressed is part of the Fundamendos [fundamentals] Ruto then, essentially, assumes supremacy as a leader of a purely peasant rebellion. Or I should say, it is the wave of peasant grievance turning violent that propels him to the zenith. He is a master politician, therefore instinctively and opportunistically rises to the .. ehmm… opportunity, and therein the contradictions embedded. He goes to charm the killer snake. WHY WAS MOI A DEAD-END IN KALENJIN NATIONALISM AT THIS MOMENT in time? Or, from the prism of ethnic alliances, why did the Moi-KANU elite fail to rivet Kalenjin nationalism to Kibaki’s [gikuyu] PNU? Only for the Kalenjin later under Ruto to wholly accept the Uhuru Kenyatta TNA?[since it is basically the same class, the same ideology, only led by a different generation] The Moi-loyalist class was an established [comprador] elite with business interests far beyond Kalenjin Land, and the radicality of the land question was outside their comfort zone, even for opportunistic purposes of maintaining power. They were too status-quo-ish to switch, too entrenched in the grabbing of land to stay the fury of an awakened peasantry. And they were correctly too wary to eject other tribes from the Rift Valley, because the tit-for-tat that would likely ensue, would hurt their class interests [‘’abroad’’] most. [ Moi himself a feudal landlord more like both Kenyatta and Uhuru-K] But a new breed of hungrier men could not care less. This was their opportunity to putsch the old guard and rise to make themselves. Under Ruto it would be, the quickest dancer on his feet. [This Ruto was of course a core member of the Moi elite and he was no saint at heart. He thus was always a pretender to a clean sheet, a charlatan with only his beguiling tongue to speak for him. He was not going to sort out peasant land issues. That is, he was a con political artist.] [ The 100,000 title-deeds at the coast in 3 months? That is the national con job I am talking about. LAND REFORM as a historical pre-requisite for a systematic take-off to a HIGHER ECONOMIC mode, no nation can con her way out of it!. That is the Sh!t.NB: The Kalenjin xenophobic purge of the Gikuyu [peasant] invader, was a confused, demented form of land reform. The genocide in Rwanda too. The eradication of the Native Americans by the white settlers too]. But back to our local tale. It was then obvious, from a class complex perspective, that with Ruto not interested in radical land reform as was the historical agenda of the peasantry (and the general Kalenjin nationalist revival), he would sooner than later have to abandon the dream of the peasants whose back he rode to the zenith of stardom. It would be a master class in mass mobilisation for him to sell the 2007 rejected Moi-Kibaki alliance [packaged] in a a new bottle as the Uhuruto ticket, the Digital Generation, and achieve a 99% Kalenjin loyalty vote in 2013. This URP-TNA is a natural class alliance of the comprador elite that is the ultra-conservative wing of the Kenyan cream, just like the PNU-KANU pitch of emeritus professor of politics Arap Moi, was. NB: The PNU-ODM GCG of yonder was the general alliance of all the elite to contain the threatening period of mass agitation with a radical agenda. [The political class was forced to enact a new constitution at gun-point, but since then, confident once again, they have re-grouped and embarked upon a systematic mutilation of the document. Like piranhas at a piece of bleeding meat, the jubilee and cord fraternities went into a frenzy tearing apart the New constitution! ---I stopped counting when Eugene Wamalwa --remembere him replacing Mutula Kilonzo in a spectacular palace coup?-- had come up with his 42 ammendments!] These alliances with their MOU’s are occasionally disturbed and thrown asunder when the people are consulted and the ruling class split, or 2, the ruling class themselves enter the boiling zone and turn upon themselves in competition. The latter should farely be a tame affair. It is when the masses join in, noisily mobilising behind one or other faction of the splintering ruling class, that the fireworks enter the big league, fireworks like violence and xenophobic mayhem. A kind of catalyst. NB: Kenneth Matiba and Jaramogi Odinga, two comprador chieftains with a pretence to progressive politics, split stupidly by playing to their ethnic fiefdoms and handed the Moi faction a famous victory. A few years later, only after Raila and Kibaki were bitten once when they refused to learn from the mistakes of their elders, would they unite under Kibaki Tosha to do Moi under. This belated unity was essentially a correction of the fundamental Jaramogi-Matiba folly. I think Jaramogi and Matiba could have panel-beaten the comprador state into ship-shape, such that it would have avoided the battering hammer of the 2007/8 corrective PEV. So now, just like Kibaki-Raila tenure was a parody [and a caricature] of the Jaramogi-Matiba lost chance (it was a regime arrived on the scene when its moment was already gone), Uhuruto too is a parody of the Kibaki-Moi lost chance, from the perspective of a cross-ethnic comprador consolidation of interests nation-wide. This lateness ---elsewhere we will just call it ‘’landed-gentry conservatism’’, is what condemns them to turning the clock back, to try to catch up with the past. --- They are young men, our Uhuruto, but their political practice is a throw back to pure KANU. ---They can not arrest the public wage bill. Their media bill is totalitarian. Their personal fates are super imposed as the fate of the nation, making them gods like Rais baba na Mama Moi was; Corruption teems like the unresting sea of fatal tidal waves; insecurity reigns like an epidemic of menace, and there is not much confidence the future is brilliant amongst school-leaving youth.But there is the arena, and Don Quixote and Pancha are hard at work! Tea break! Will be back after that.
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Post by jakaswanga on Dec 1, 2013 21:29:55 GMT 3
And the tea brake become more like a day break! Now where was I before a rumbling belly forced me to abandon station and attend to it? O yes, we were viewing the spectacle of the digital and dynamic duo slowly before our eyes mutating in evolutionary reverse, back toward the pre NARC state. That [atavism] is because the Jubilee faction is a dark constellation, and if they appear bright, that is only because the CORDED alternative would be Raila and Kalonzo who, of course, are Gods gift to a people out of heaven’s favour! In CORD, even would-be gems like Ababu Namwamba are beginning to exude the odour of distinct rot in the head. Perhaps the decay symptom of having been so close to two of the most rotten Old-School dealers in town. So yes, Contaminated Ababu, must visit the laundry, to launder his head. [As chairman of the instrumental PAC, Mr. Namwamba has not been hot on the auditor general’s report that laid bare the fat graft in the ministries. Were he to mind, Ababu would have to haul in some of the most prominent ODM senators who were ministers in the GCG regime and looted those ministries to build a campaign kitty. The Ouko financial malfeasance report covers a large portion of the days of the GCG. And Ababu is burying it! Minding his own business I suppose! And we should wish him goodluck, that he later become our Jonathan] That the sailing of the Jubilee alliance is not smooth [and it has to be a parody as I typify it], is a function of the other competing interests within the society. Action and reaction. When the people cough and their voice is heard momentarily, the inter-class contradictions within the ruling bandit constellation boil over into a crisis, and the bandits have to re-interpret their nationalism, that is, give negative ethnicity a new lease of life as they rap themselves fully unto it. Thus do they divide common folk so that these do not form cross-class linkages, but stay mesmerised by their tribal loyalties. It is an ideological trick that has worked well. So far the tyranny of ethnicity so good. But it is wearing thin as its early masters like [Raila and Kalonzo] fade into irrelevant obscurity, and the new brilliant students, Uhuru and Ruto, increasingly run out of space to hoodwink a smart-ass generation more interested in real money and internet smart apps than stale tribal kingships. On another note, Ruto’s disadvantage against Kenyatta, is that Kenyatta at his command has the total memory [wealth and organisational experience] of The State. Uhuru has inherited an unbroken line of state bureaucrats of a certain constellation, and Mr. Kenyatta is even more comfortable with the Moi clique, of whose project he was. Ruto is an upstart whose hold on the loyalty of the ‘’retired and consultant’’ Kalenjin mandarinate is not just tenuous, debatable and parochial, no, it may in effect be positively non existent unless Arap Moi feels kind. In other words, behind the scenes is a lock-and-key-fit scheme of alliances, of ends like the [Crix-Watson model] DNA chain-bits which are so specific, yes; the Arap Moi strand of compradors mean to lock with the Kenyatta strand, to form the new double-helix backbone of the comprador continuation. It is a logical development. A further consolidation. William Ruto must slash like a wild man in the dark as he gets engulfed, or he must surrender and know his place within that universe. He rode the tiger back to the cage, while he had promised the beast the freedom of the jungle. There is a price to pay for betraying a wild beast, and keeping it alive. You could also say it is the contradiction of promising a darling the fwakck of the century on her wedding night, only for you to retire early and snore dead, exhausted by other business of the day no doubt. Putting it mildly another way: Domesticating a people while trashing their dreams has always been a bumpy ride, even for the best politicians all time. SO, DEAR WILLIAM, Bethink thee of these as you ponder the pronounced curves of the lady Bensouda. You are a matyr to Kalenjin nationalism because you led the [peasant] nation at a time of combat for land redress. And who was the enemy? O O O! The equally poor Gikuyu peasants! In other words, you were made as a local captain of blood-letting xenophobia. That is the peasantry for you if left to their devices! Always the narrowest of agendas. Now you and Uhuru have waved the magic wand, and gone is that inter-peasant animosity, gone it is, without the peasantry as a class attaining a remedy [for the original complaint], nor undergoing a historical upgrade [as in the assumption of a non xenophobic consciousness]. Scienfically speaking, Miracles are a farce. But as a human being, I have deep psychological needs for farce! That is why one of my best loved songs is called I believe in miracles, Hot chocolate, you sexy thing. Take my belief in miracles away, make me hopeless. A hopeless man is a heat-seaking missile. Which is an explosion waiting to occur. So give it to me you sexy things, Uhuruto, give me and Wanjiku a fighting chance for the future. Or you run the peril of being the architects of your own perish! Give me a sign, that you work miracles for sooth! Aaah do come! thy Teiresias of Thebes O blind seer!
Foretell me the banquets that lie ahead in our land of plenty! Foretell me the mighty deeds this pair shall tame the world with! AAh!
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