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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 20, 2017 12:13:46 GMT 3
This article caught my attention. I stopped to ponder it the way I usually feel compelled to import some beautiful African stories like ... THE IMPORT The face of the youth who have taken over Nairobi! They re described as BLING-BLING. Poster girl BlingBling. And they have supposedly taken over a city which one of Kenya's best literary minds, Ngugi de Thiong'o, described as a small island of posh floating in a sea of slums. That ominous critique would imply Nairobi needs what all great cities have undergone, before they metamorphosed themselves from concentrations of mass filth to post-modernist masterpieces. European cities like London give interesting lessons, from the Charles Dickens-documented 18th century dinghy plague-death concentration camp to world capital. Under a conscious industrial world class, they embarked on unprecedented industrial scale construction of public housing, public transport, public schools, public recreation (parks), public hygiene (water and healthcare and power), which, in the case of London, was a 200year vision plan. (Hehe! NAZI Berlin had 1000 year plan! Moscow, 500 under Stalin! Paris not far behind!) That is why when you go to these monumental cities, as decrepit as they are nowadays, you will travel more underground from A-B if time is not on your hands. Above ground, it is the tram or light rail. Cars are for those who have time to sit still in traffic jams and fiddle with their smart gadgets, likely idle richman's kids of the blingbling playboy lifestyle, shopaholic mpango wa kandos, or bored trophy wives of the super rich. Those who have been to New York or London can attest to the competitive capitalist speed with which those who have work to do, move cut throat. If own car, then like Maggie Thatcher, you arrive at your city desk before 4 am, and leave 11 pm! A capital city must have capital behaviour, where work is done. And blingbling, where the made-money is spent. These micro-economic details are important lessons, because Nairobi is destined to be the capital of East and Central Africa, a BRI capital nexus if that Chinese OBOR plan lifts up. If that is the 50 year MODEST plan, then in the young taking the city over, one must be able to discern the consciousness of the new time. Not just at the entertainment end, but mostly at the productive end. The workman's end, or the working ladies end of course. Bling Bling is a good sign I think. But it is entertainment. After work. During working hours that bling lifestyle is for bored, kept wives and richly minted mistresses, and of course drug-sampling weirdoes in the film and music industry ---like Hollywood. The men who run the city, shove the sh!t, must have iron vision ---ruthlessly purge the mafia and corruption cartels like Kee Yuan did in Singapore, and the Chinese communists in Shanghai. Corruption cartels inflate the costs of city services, these cartels also precipitate shoddy (construction) jobs. (study Italian cities and New York before Mafia-buster Rudi Giuliani). A capital city aims to authenticate a capital environment where capital minds can do capital work. Captain a welfare consumer empire of 200M for instance (Congo, Sudan, EAC, Malawi and Somalia!) Policing a 15M people city with 80% of inhabitants in slums hawking sh!t, will require a militarized killer police force to keep a lid on things. Such a killer force begins to develop entrepreneurial autonomy, hiring themselves out for kills, preying on the middle and higher classes for ransom ---because that is where the money is. (They moonlight as business protectors kidnapper finders, the insider ransom business being very lucrative. They also branch out into bodygaurd services to Every businessman: take or die the next day, accidentally caught in a police shoot-out, or, like Jacob Juma, unsolved murder. Many Latin American cities offer this scenario perfectly). As Nairobi goes bling, there is something else it has to do. It has to go places! No brainier the stations on that route. 1. Sonko is right ---gotta be cleaner than Chigali! (hopefully without an equally nasty despot!) 2. Let there be no slums! ---the way those post-world-war II European mayors re-built their air-power and artillery-ravaged cities in just 4 years! Waawu, cities reduced to rubble rat holes, makes me convinced a slumless Nairobi can be achieved in 3 years, technology having revolutionised labour in the meantime, China loans begging.THE CATCH But there is a catch to this story: there is something called calibre, the calibre of decision-making. The new commissioner for the reconstruction of the smithereened Hitler capital, Berlin, made a simple decision for instance: of the American Marshall Plan loan, not EVEN A SINGLE CENT would fail to be accounted for. All cents would be used most efficiently. That is a simple decision, a simple resolve. It is even simplistic. But if you take stock of the ferocity of its ruthlessness, the paradigms of its ideological core, you may easily understand why Nairobi, under bling-bling, and Jubilee one-party triumphalism, will disappoint you with continued sh!t. nd should it rain, swimming SUV's and collapsing flats will continue to be your lot! (Debt repayments and corruption will see to that!) Eh, Mbuvi Sonko and the Blingbling gang, giving you the benefit of doubt, 5 years of honeymoon to make all Nairobi blingbling. Get to work Amigos, it can be done. Let the ruthlessness of Candidate Ngatia be spectre over your heads: Ngatia: ' Every corrupt official will be hanged with a guitar-wire at Uhuru Park, live in Public!'Import!? Have a nice sunny day folks, will ya!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 22, 2017 21:28:07 GMT 3
THE SLOW STERILISATION OF NAIROBI'S POOR!First, I propose we laugh, thereafter, do the deep think. Thanx God they wont be having any babies?SONKO'S OTHER HEADACHE! Now we get a hint of the political economy of slums: technology making sure capitalist production no longer needs a large pool of labour (defunct the theory of a labour reserve to depress the wages), slow mass sterilisation is a way out! Better than straightforward genocide, no!? The economic benefits of environmental degradation, the extinction of mankind. Now Sonko to the rescue of Nairobi balls and ovaries! Hurry, the wombs are wasting away to ovarian cancer and the balls contain three-taled sperms which swim nowhere and, the prostitutes say, taste like rotting battery fluid! The last in the line? a people condemned to extinction by INFERTILITY!?never has the SONKO RESCUE TEAM been more needed if you ask me! nairobislums.org/
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 26, 2017 22:41:21 GMT 3
IN LILLIPUT, ONE IS EASILY GULLIVER Eh, Ruto the Singh, deputy party leader and prospective PORK, was sitting around Sonko as he said Nairobi will not tolerate thieves!HMMM, sublimal sh!tty irony, no!? something of a charlatan about the man, but they all are, short works, the comprador. Amilcar Cabral is the most clinical thinker in this category, so let me summarise a thought. It is known as the theory of class suicide. Mike Sonko and Polycarp Igathe, just the foregoing Evans Kidero gang, are far from any notion of a revolutionary leadership, much less listening to a revolutionary consciousness from anywhere. But they will inherit and head a radical urban situation, and that is the neat fix within which their political wits will unfold. Class suicide is a mirage. From thence that I can comfortably call Igathe-Sonko, charlatan. But even charlatans can offer temporary relief. There is a small progressive, historical mileage for them to cover. The times are that dark. They can not do the necessary fundamental reforms, not transform social relations, nor modernise production relations and forces --- that one the new owner of Africa China will do, but the cosmetics (plastic reforms) the petit bourgeoisie are capable of being forced to undertake
...... as they evolve 'asymptotically' toward full bourgeoisie-ship, in the socio-economic environment of a radical city, can look like Gulliverian steps in a land run by Lilliputian comprador sh!theads. The Gulliverian Sonko in a Lilliputian Nairobi. Eh, gosh, what have we been doing in Nairobi since way back in 1963!? Environment conservation! The joke goes it was the express task of Margaret Kenyatta --yes, she used to be Nairobi boss (1970-1976), what a woman!----- to facilitate the grabbing of all land marked for such niceties like parks and paparking. Now comes another Kenyatta to supervise/coordinate another Nairobi boss) Sonko undo all that good work! That is when, when you are not into humour like you might need clinical theorists to shine you a light on what the hell is going on in these dark capital cities! The radicalism of urban Nairobi has an urgency which gets through to the top, a material condition which inculcates a reform agenda even unto conservatives, however dimly felt. It makes the promise for the provision of these kind of ABC urban utilities sound radical: ---clean water; waste management; slum upupgradesewer drainage; health and education facilities! After 50 years of independence, the petty bobourgeoisies becoming more bourgeois in deed! They now recognise Nairobi needs an integrated sewer-drainage system. Gotta manage sh!tflow you know! Sh!thead Evans Kidero is just a small evolutionary step below Mike Sonko! Otherwise Nairobi would today be cleaner than Kigali, Rwanda! P ART TWO: WHEN THE GORILLA JOHN GITHONG'O BEAT HIS CHESTLet the gorillas roar, but the whole valley knows John Githong'o set the standard, these others are mere whimpers of balls without fire. Who O who!? Has feet to fit in Githong'o's shoes? Poor Lilliput!THE OMISSION OF A decade-long COMPREHENSIVE, FORENSIC FINANCIAL AUDIT made public by any incoming adminstration, is the surest sign the new kids on the block are the same old slimy pieces of sh!t Even Mwai Kibaki, the Othaya genius and don of economics, looked at the Kroll&Kroll report and the remnants of his mind, already much charred by substance abuse, could only showe the last kicks of a dying horse. But, on the petty bourgeoisie scale of evolution toward bourgeoisie practice, Kibaki (fortified by Raila of course) run a racket light years ahead of the stone-age Mobutist, Daniel Arap Moi.That is how I want to Judge Sonko relative Kidero after the next half a decade. Primitive charlatan, but compared to Kidero, light years ahead! I accept such low standards for Kenya! The guy I will be tough on to the point of cruelty, is Anyang' Nyong'o. Peter is my new passion, now that the devil David Ndii has smashed my dreams! Suddenly the Emeritus professor of political science risen, by default, to Lord Protector of Luoland (and of course midwife in act to the Kavirondo republic!) That requires the wit of Solomon combined with the iron will of Ho Chi Mihn.And I want Migingo back to top it up! Now you see Nairobi is a peace of cake. A mere sewage problem! Simple clean-up will do to pacify! Da-mn!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 14, 2017 20:07:20 GMT 3
POLYCARP IGATHE'S FIRST GOOD STEPIt was wobbly, hesitant, but a journey of a thousand kilometres begins but with a single step, so say the ancient Chinese. No better school than confrontation with direct, unabridged reality. Then a politician instantly smokes himself out in his own heart. It helps him realise his solutions are fictitious or not, and whether,for the rest his regime, he will just be going through motions. It is good to see Igathe wrestling with the capital problem. System ostracised youth. He throws a few balloons --- will you leave this chang'aa brewing if you get kibaruwa, like removing this filth from this river!?At least he is thinking, recognising the need to do something! ---But what!? that is the next step! Having been a top CEO I wonder why he does not seek to build on the talent and skill-base clearly on show: a brewery/distillery - -He could go like: If you got capital, you creeps think you have what it takes to produce stuff which is not poison, stuff which is competitive, such that you can give the competition, say Uganda Waragi, a run for their profits and market share!? Igathe is a young city executive now, and he is looking at even younger men, some of them boys, at desperate times, social drop-outs, and they are many across African cities! Even if he is a complete cynic, Polycarp Igathe will have to deal with this vision of Nairobi. It is RAW. And to date, outside the political consciousness of the Kenyan elite. He is the deputy governor, and the pitch with which he was pegged to Sonko, is .... brains!Polycarp Igathe needs to take more of such trips. It is good for his brains! Also he should try the radical brothels of dinghy Nairobi for instance, where underages perform any sh!t sex-act which anybody will pay for. Nairobi may not be Bollywood nor Nollywood nor Gallywood, but it has quite a vibrant scene of hot movies. Kidero was out of his depth in this jungle, lets see if another corporate man, Igathe, is any better, or, thinking of Soyinka, Nairobi has to wait for a breed firmer forged!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 16, 2017 13:41:24 GMT 3
THE EVIL DR EVANS KIDERO AND THE MARKET-MAD DR PATRICK NJOROGEDISCLAIMER: This is a LUO-PIVOT post written for the thread AFRICA MUST COPY NAZY GERMANY ECONOMICS OR ELSEBut first, an aside: Dear Abdulmote, I hear you -complaining about Omwenga's lengthy posts! But I operate from the premise that, with the modern differentiation of instant information canals --twitter, flogs, breaking news flashes, perpetual facebook alerts------, the blogosphere moves further into specialisation, forcing choices. I am reminded of when the mass media market was liberalised in Kenya and from a two language national VOK radio station and one TV outlet, KBC, one hundred FM stations mushroomed and 20 TV channels shot up! The market disintegrated but soon stabilised, in compartmentalised enclaves! Then folks get the freedom to do what they love most and are best passionate about! To find time to read and write long essays between jobs, hustles, family and mpango wa kandos, I stopped bar-visits, stopped watching full football matches x3 per week, and stopped accompanying the family to church and reading gossip columns. (I ask my students to keep me up on the juicy gossip, like this) They tell me there are radio stations which bring the gossip like major channels bring traffic or weather news, every hour on the dot! That is how I got to know of, for instance, why hot star Serena Williams wasn't shuttling twerky butt on court at the recent US tennis open; and of Ruto's love baby, Anna, and of more love triangles at the top, as above! But that is a by the way. Now we go to the beef. THE SUEZ BLUES OF THE SH!TTY NAIROBI WATER COMPANYAs an opening shot, please keep the following in mind Then follows other tityt-tit-bits from the gun's own mouth, parroting statements of mission, rationalisation, and the rest. All of it is available at the official website. The political economy informing the launch and maintanance of this STATE CORPORATION in an era of privatisations, is significant to IMPORT, and ruminate, at depth. --But Hold and be! for we are going on another trip. It is a ruthless and bloody trail, though not to solve the gunfire slaying of 80-yr old Ekurio Mogeluk, the Baringo Chemulingot.No chance of that buddy. What we are going after are pretender ace bankers and fake blue-chip CEO's. We are going to expose how they duplicituously wield the dagger at Wanjiku's throat, hostaging her, to pacify her up for some brutal rape, by predators from within and without. (Ruthless penetrattion by foreign capital to the cost of local consolidation.) If it can happen to Union Kenya, it can also be the fate of a breakaway Kavirondo republic! -No!? Here is the next clue. Eh, the NCWSC bogged down by debts and inability to expand, the CEO's hatched a devious plot to hand it over to a foreign company!? eh! Now that, (handing it over to a foreign company) is not bad in itself, is it? ---The SGR, Kenya Airways, Flower Farms, Coast Hotels, all former failed local-run entities
.. they all seem to pick up once Kenyan managers are relegated to pedestrian responsibilities, or sometimes even excluded from the menial tasks like cleaning toilets. (That is the gist of what Thatcherite Dr. Kotieno told me when he pitched for a total privatisation of the Sugarcane Industry in Nyanza, otherwise letting it go bust in its own local inefficiency! He provocated: Let the people of the lake go back to fishing under the hyacinth and get snake-bitten or eaten by the green overgrowth. They posses high-power doctorates which can't run counties, can't run sugarmills, can't run rice farms, nor LBDA, academic hospitals nor low-level technical institutes like RIAT. ---That relegates them to the ancient fishing practice of diving after the fish with a short spear! Running a modern state and industries must be outsourced to those who can, and are serious about it! Otieno is a man who would privatise the gulf of Kavirondo to a Canadian genetically fish breeding company, if he could get away with it! He told me those Canadian rogue geneticists can breed Nyamami monsters the size of a ripe Suba woman's buttock, every two months, and if they got their act together in the Winam gulf, they could produce a million tones of such monsters per month!
No need for plastic fish from China, my Reaganomics friend tells me!)I, on the other hand, have deep-seated anxieties with this model of OUTSOURCING even garbage collection to Korean firms! I shudder, vision 2030 thoughts, that somehow, even printing ballot papers, like printing Jubilee baseball caps, are exertions way beyond your average Nairobi polytechnic typesetter graduate, or juakali paint mixer!) Me insists that is the political sociology of MENTAL SLAVERY. It is the system of an engineered eternal dependency complex. It hands over control of Africa's vast resources to foreigners forever, and the role of our ace CEO's therein, a quisling lot, is to COLLAPSE the internal self-belief and self-confidence of our people, so that the (deus es machina) appearance of foreigners to take over local stuff, privatisation, equates to the arrival of the Messiahs! Halleluya! This is what is commonly called the FACILITATIVE ROLE of the comprador in the take-over of their countries. This NAIROBI WATER AND SEWAGE COMPANY case, is an explicative. Sabotage followed by an arranged, bribed hand-over, brokered by a minister or permanent secretary, in the role of a pawn. We have had Great Engineers in Nairobi running a Nairobi Water Company, and, on the face of it, high calibre MD's in charge. Farce or reality!? Too, for the last five years it has all been under the administration of a blue-chip Governor, Him the Duke of Luoland. Howbeit all they can report is a lamentable failure to perform? How then to explain the bankruptcy cited by the figures from the newspaper report! Ati how many properties are supplied with water in this city of 10 million people!? And the company couldn't expand because of .... Could there be an open nuance? this other Kenyan disease, that they engaged in ECONOMIC SABOTAGE by systemic embezzlement. Only then, after administratively failing but privately stripping the company to a carcass, enriching themselves to their fill in the process, do the Great engineers and MD's mismanaging the Nairobi Water Company, now out of local options, secretly plot to hand over the unbankruptable Public Utility company to foreign ownership, no doubt for larger scale kickbacks. Hmmm. Dr. Kotieno would surely be in a lyrical fit. If the ahangla men of Luoland could spare mind and time to beat another beat than Raila for President, they could indulge the Thatcherite ideologue with some hot praise singing of the free market which, now, will bring clean and cheap water to the thirsty and drought-stricken Nairobi throats of the East! But Woe! O woe! here should I attach with malice at local CEO's, a list of how once performing parastatals all failed, but how their successive Boards, CEO and CFO's, made off with golden parachutes. But the comprehensive list is too long. - Kenya (EA) Railways, KENATCO, UCHUMI, Kenya Posta and Telekoms, KMC, Maize and Produce Board, infact all agro parastatals! But (it is not just semi-private sector managers the culprits), the municipalities, towns and city councils too ---as purely public utility organisations, manifested the same politico-patholigical principle of bureaucratic looting and stripping. The county governments thus inherited a healthy cup of the FATAL HEMLOCK of corruption-induced DEBT, and the governors have shown themselves no less a looter progeny than their predecessors. The comprador thus make sure everything in African managerial hands fail, so that, prostrate in helplessness, the messiahs from abroad can come, stay and re-enforce the comprador class in their (satellite and facilitatory) relevance to imperial capital. Ahmen! Did I ----50 years to industrialise Kenya and counting---- hear anybody raise his hand or her head for THE PRIVATISATION OF THE KENYA POLITICAL ADMINISTRATION? No!? Why chicken out now on me!? Are we not, by mouth of our most IRON-MINDED ideologue of the free market, the OPUS DEI MONK at CBK, wedded and welded to this principle!? That is an ideological statement of mission as articulated openly by the BANKERS OF KENYA, speaking for the OWNERS of Kenya. -Patrick Njoroge is of course merely the Eric Kiraithe or Charles Owino of local Shark-Rate Money lenders, but more importantly, the local guardian angel of the straight jacket of economic imperialism. Questions: what does Donald Trump in his economic nationalism mean by America first? 2. How free market is the European Union, the greatest economic community on Earth? 3. How do quotas work? Or these bilateral trade agreements, as they mind trade deficits? Continued: SONKO TEAM TO THE RESCUE
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 16, 2017 14:21:41 GMT 3
Continued: THE NAIROBI WATER AND SEWAGE COMPANY SOLD OR NOT?
SONKO TEAM TO THE RESCUE
Questions: what does Donald Trump in his economic nationalism mean by America first? 2. How free market is the European Union, the greatest economic community on Earth? 3. How do quotas work? Or these bilateral trade agreements, as they mind trade deficits?
But that is not the story, is it!? May be we are being fed 'BELL-PORTINGER' pudding! You know the London-based devious liars and manipulators of public opinion who, now, have drowned in their own putrid web of moral bankruptcy. Earlier we read So which is which? was it the strike, or the dubious sale which precipitating the Sonko axe!?
Always beware of smokescreens when dealing with kleptocratic politicians!
Once upon a time, I recall how the tendering for the SGR (Standard Gauge Railway) done under the GCG (the Grand Raila Kibaki Coalition Government), was revised by the INCOMING JUBILEE wolves, to their fill no doubt. The new kids on the block needed must upgrade the terms, to inflate and inherit juicier cuts. Land compensation alone, reports indicate, jumped way up to 20% of SGR costs between Mombasa and Nairobi. No, it is not Jacob Kaimenyi's fault yawa! Poor professor is just another submissive use-whole.
Therefore the main reason for the sackings at the Nairobi Water company could be otherwise, only the (propaganda) smoke has not cleared yet. We are therefore well advised to keep alert, especially when there are suggestions it was her, the Jubilee handmaid, Watery Eugene Wamalwa, who 'introduced' the French Company masquerading as Morrocan, SUEZ, to the Nairobi water company board.
Eugene Wamalwa couldn't have done that on his own, could he!? He is a mere pawn in a wider game. He could even have been specifically hired to broker this deal, Bukusu vote-pull my foot! That last line is the handmaid treatment. The ruthless company knows these Nairobi cash who-res are not worth sh!t. It is not their decision, the trip abroad is already enough compensation for their troubles! When you are grown up, you figure. Other alternative is you are young, and think. Then you read a situation straightway.
now,
WHO ARE THE SUEZ WATER COMPANY, AND WHY MOROCCO, NOT PARIS?
To answer this requires us to first understand the water politics of the European Union, and what has been happening there.
Continued. –---Nairobi the coming lady here we come!
THE COMPETITIVE NEED FOR EUROPEAN COMPANIES TO EXPAND ABROAD
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2017 11:08:58 GMT 3
THE COMPETITIVE NEED FOR EUROPEAN COMPANIES TO EXPAND ABROADTHE STORY OF WATER Oh thee wretched city folks of drought-stricken throats, I want to FOOTNOTE the gory tale of water (SERVICES) privatisation in the European Union, of which the blues at the Nairobi City Sewage and Water Company, are a ripple effect. Sonko and Igathe, Kidero and Ayisi, Wamalwa and his PS, you name them, are deer's caught in the headlamps of a steamroller. CONTEXT AGENDA: What will it take for the Nairobi river to once more supply drinking water!? What will it take for fish to once more swim free in the Nairobi river!? And what, for our children to wallow in it like it were an Olympic swimming pool? Or you never heard of this John Michuki had such a plan, No? before his death. ENTER SUEZ, know your man. But first, a brutal introduction to the reality of a mechanical shark in your filthy waters. Because these are merely different fronts in the same global battlefield, the following detail is also important to keep in mind. Reputation and honour they said!? A simple random search on the web reveals enough information to indict OT-Morpho and her Saphran past, as practiced harlots fraudulently peddling virginity. But we will do that elsewhere ...
. (the diminishing 5th republic of France. SUEZ' REPUTATION OF HONOURThat history of terminated contracts! where to go, to find your wild west where anything goes!? next: SUEZ GOES AFRICA, WITH A VENGEANCE
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2017 15:41:28 GMT 3
SUEZ GOES AFRICA, WITH A VENGEANCE
O sweet virgin markets! where art thou? That thee my minotauric appetites appease?
It is a top predator's dynamic: grow or die, merge or be a meal. It is the rule of the jungle, eat or be eaten ...(as in forced/hostile acquisition). And the board of the Nairobi Sewage and Water Company went to MOROCCO to clinch the deal with SUEZ!?
Yawa, if it is kick, Moses Kuria should surely shave some bushy adolescent pubics around --like those of the Nairobi water boarders, and forget greying women like Ida!
But the meat is ... Forensic minds will remember that during the NATO bombing campaign in Libya to expire Gaddafi and his regime, it was chiefly French planes that deliberately destroyed the LIBYAN WONDER OF WATER PIPELINES IN THE DESERT! After Gaddafi's murder, even as chaos reigns, there have been many secret contracts signed about many things. Arab sources are full of detail on the (water and oil field) contracts and, of course, who is who in the contractual GAME of reconstruction once the appropriate puppet is installed in Libya.
It is not exactly the global chess game of Big Zig Bzezinski, it is more like a Hollande-Zakorzy scavengers scramble for goodies.
FOOTNOTE
Always NOTE who is funding these GLOBAL EXPANSIONS of would-be commercial companies! Then you will have a clearer measure of the likes of Dr. Patrick Njoroge, when, at your local central bank, they profess fidelity and deep piety to market forces.
Yap!
French Development Funds ------(Public tax Money) fund the expansion of private French companies into foreign markets. It is a 'construction' repeated by everybody doing foreign aid. (that is is how it comes Trumps economic nationalism means for all that ANTI-AIDS FUNDING Obama poured into Kenya, an American company, single source, is going to build the Mombasa Nairobi dual highway.
NB: Consolidation at home (mergers across the EU) also means many West European companies are share-held across the Union. The global competitive game of the economics of scale needs a capital base which, as we have seen in the banking BAIL OUTS, is majorly if not wholly financed by the TAXPAYER! (also through the tax-payer rip-off scheme known as QE, quantitative easing). That means most of these millionaire pay CEO's of global companies are just government bureaucrats. But they run quite a successful masquerade act as entrepreneurs.
That is a bloody tale, aint it!?
So Suez may have French-Egyptian Origins, but it is an EU company. I don't have the time now to trace its long post SUEZ CANAL CRISIS history of rebirth, re-incarnations, merges, acquisitions and adventures in in state subsidy in Europe. But today it is fully-consolidated at home, and thanks to the role of co-ordinated political decisions at the Elysee, Brussels and Berlin, she is a Euro-Gem.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2017 16:42:21 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2017 18:40:35 GMT 3
FOOTNOTES WATER: Water politics as they shape up in the global arena HOWBEIT IT IS BUT A SORRY TALE! And then RECCUP: Oh country men, I want to FOOTNOTE the gory tale of water privatisation in the European Union, of which the blues at the Nairobi City Sewage and Water Company, are a ripple effect. Sonko and Igathe, Kidero and Ayisi, Wamalwa and his PS, you name them, are deers caught in the headlamps of a steamroller. What is up with the new man at the Elysee, Emmanuel Macron?Nairobi is small change! WHAT ARE TTIP AND CETA?
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2017 22:23:53 GMT 3
WHAT ARE TTIP AND CETA?NB: It sounds like the Education of Mike Sonko, Nairobi CEO! And what is it got to do with water, and the trade in it? And why are the EU populace up in arms against them? SUEZ the giantSuez is therefore the leading GLOBAL water PLAYER, and not just the first among equals. And controlling (drink) water is even more power than controlling energy resources! -The power to torture with Thirst -see the punishment of Tantalos, is a sadistic amusement the reserve of gods! But how is her MONOPOLY regime at home, under the electoral empress, Angela The Iron Merkel? RECOUP: Oh country men, I want to FOOTNOTE the gory tale of water privatisation in the European Union, of which the blues at the Nairobi City Sewage and Water Company, are a ripple effect. Sonko and Igathe, Kidero and Ayisi, Wamalwa and his PS, you name them, are deer's caught in the headlamps of a steamroller. Again: WHAT ARE TTIP AND CETA? And why are the EU citizens up in arms?? www.ttip-free-zones.eu/about/page2After years of ruthless lobbying --that is code for softening with methods which include bribery---- by MULTINATIONALS, the Eurocracy resolved to privatise water resources -----neo-liberal triumphalist indulgence! In a land like Germany, 82% of the people were against it in 2013. Since then the numbers have only gone up. (This forced the re-municipalisation of the Berlin Water Works company.)) .... In 2014, Paris city Authority would follow suit ( re-muncipalisation of water). This RE-MUNICIPALISATION trend became a kind of world city craze. (Sorry, CEO Kidero and CBK Njoroge!) www.tni.org/en/article/180-cities-take-back-public-control-of-water-showing-remunicipalisation-is-here-to-stay He! Tantalos!? ERUOZONE WATER BLUES
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 19, 2017 7:35:13 GMT 3
EURoZONE WATER BLUES, WHAT OPTIONS NAIROBI WATERS? Water water everywhere, and too the water wars! In a debt-ridden country like Portugal, the privatisation (of water services) worked out to be the forced variant in which the consumers have gone on to pay more for less quality water: prices up by 400%. There are several core EU countries where the privatisation of water is a no-go area. These countries are found in the Neurozone, where the traditionally stronger EU economies reside. There, corrupted politicians can not just ignore public opinion. These countries also tend to be the mother countries of the big companies (and banks) fronting the buy out the privatised public utilities of the Southern PIIGS. I will call these (Neurozoners) the peoples republics, since even if officially royal Kingdoms, the respective elites recognise the mediocrity and retardation of the royal lineages, wherefore they are more than happy to surrender to the iron will of a rejuvenated, United Federal Germany, under the 'legendary competence' of the Big Mama, Angela Merkel. Anyway, supreme among these Neurozone states is that self-same Germania. Thereafter come her satellites like Holland, Denmark, and, of course, upper (Scandinavia). But the water privatisation campaign was the last drop which boiled the people over. It has escalated the structural disconnect between the people and their rulers which, to date, has destabilised the European Union at Brussels. Well, as things were in this Neurozone beltway, one could drink water from the house tap, the toilet tap, and any water tap anywhere stamped with the fetish blue logo of the ancient Greek God of Aqua! ---When you are running through the bushes of these countries, you will find such (MUNICIPALITY) taps inviting you to lessen your thirst. And you shall without a thought. The average people in these countries, well-sensitised by pro-labour organisations, well-informed, mention this high quality house tap water as one of the surest signs of their system superiority! They are ready to defend it some. And there is this detail. To cater for the dotcom generation who are fashionably brainwashed by sleek marketing and must buy BRANDED everything from the supermarket, municipality water companies have combined to tap their regular tap-water and bottle it in BRANDED containers which are selling like hot cakes! One such municipality hit a golden marketing strategy. Using the legend of a story by the Grimm Brothers combined with the Greek myth of ELIXIR (the chemical in the blood of gods which prevents aging), they suggested the water from their local well was
.. well, not something quite similar but
.. generally had properties in that general direction! Houses started to cave in and in and the municipality sunk, as every European within 800km of Chernobyl (and other old nuclear plants in Belgium) bought into the myth!The small municipality needed to pump up that much bottled water to meet the demand! And they became so rich the --relegated to back waters--- big commercial water companies went mad, and mobilised the Eurocrats in Brussels to accost the former water 'Lilliputters' with a back-breaking, Olympian fine --for criminal corporatist activities (perpetrated under public licence!). While, as I said, the people in these Neurozone countries, well-informed as they are, mention this high quality o f HOUSE TAP WATER, disbursed plenty and cheaply UNDER LOCAL MUNICIPALITY CONTROL, as one of the surest signs of their system superiority, the picture is darker, Down South. The tap waters in the so-called Siestazone are sh!tty, or smelly to say the least. No, none drinks tap water there. Howbeit they never saw why they should use -expensively processed-- pure drinking water to shove away sh!t! (this latter is easy to explain according a controversial Swedish sociologist: sh!t people don't see sh!t when they are living in it! Neither do sh!t people give a sh!t about sh!t, let alone sh!t water! Sh!t knows not when it is in sh!t!)Behold! usual suspects, feeling the heat they way they felt it when Jeroen Dijsselbloem blasted them for being stupid spendthrifts on wine, dinner and funny birds, saw in that Swedish quip, a classic case of arrogant Northern racism! God knows what the Swede might author for an explanation should he visit the banks of Nairobi river
like And what an insulted Afro-black Kenyan nationalism would rant and rave in response! --Perhaps: Leave us alone in our sh!t! we are just swimming fine! Imperialist!NEO-LIBERAL ORTHODOXY Officially, the EU continues not share the PEOPLES opinion that public control of local resources is best for the people. Even when the model is working in the public water and transport system, the EU bureaucracy cries NYET! WHY? That bureaucracy is in the grips of an orthodoxy, you know, the same way the Wahabist Saudi Arabia clerical bureaucracy is in the grips of theirs, and, similarly, our Kenyan politicians too, are captive to Tribal ideology and (state) kleptomania. Every bureaucracy its tragedy. Say, the North Koreans with their Kim divinity. Likewise, the EU economic bureaucracy is in the grips of a neo-liberal market orthodoxy. And that, even as they SANTA-CLAUSICALLY bail out failed banks with public moneY, and, to boot, print cash to dish --all electronic of course--- to companies which then buy back own stock and inflate share ratings at the markets! An open scam! The EUrocrats are --to use CBK Dr. Patrick Njoroge's words on the occasion of his shooting down the rates cap law------ wedded to the principles of the market! It is just that reality can not always allow the practice of extremities, because of the slight problem of the PEOPLES SAY, resistance AND REFERENDA --which, as we saw last week in Spain on the question of the Catalan referendum on Independence, the Supreme Courts will stop at nothing to stop if possible! Under pressure of public opinion therefore, The EU bureaucracy enforces this TOTAL PRIVATISATION measure only in the conquered and cowed countries of the South. The PIIGS you recall. It was the condition for the bail-out after their elites spent all the loans on whisky, caviar and mpango wa kando luxuries .. ---(quoting the then Eurochair, Jeroen the Dutchman Graveflowers) These of course are countries whose tap water, like Flynn in Michigan USA, is pumped from the local sewage dam! Guess by which company! --These are countries like Italy, lower France, Spain, Portugal and some other similar sewage belters. Unable to smother public resistance in the fertile Neurozone --remunicipalisation, this hostile 'investment climate' has forced European commercial water companies abroad. That is where the greener pastures are to be found. They are like locusts swarming far, wide and abroad. The world is their playground, with politicians using public money to back them, either directly through development agencies, name them, or indirectly through commercial banks running on taxpayer bail outs, or Quantitative Easing handouts. POST SCRIPT: I wanna make sure Dr. Patrick Njoroge understands why he will never make the short-list for those to be interviewed by Tshaka Deng for the post of finance minister or chairman of the All Africa Central Bank.Tshaka Deng Unites Africa .... and Combines the cunning ruthless if blood-curdling military brilliance of Tshaka with the economic strategic genius of Hsiao Ping, the China man of 25% growth rates per annum and GDP quadruples per half a decade! That is the range we thinking now, and it is the range which reduces the local neo-liberal clerks like Patrick Njoroge to pedestrian passer-bys. You feel me!? Toward this new Africa which is no playground for old and new powers!? I looked at the projected military budgets of the USA, China, Russia, India, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, the EU
... in the next 25 years. And I said well, I know a poem from Christopher Okigbo and Okot P'Bitek. And I will unite and paraphrase. A thunderbolt struck the minds of men Some brains melted and most wilted shy -O Others mutated into something bad or new forged firm, unflinching before the task!
Now that I have sung my Africa song Thunderbolt pathways that I follow, I town-crier Okigbo with by gong Do can happily be gone! -O O O Thunderbolt pathways that I follow!These footnotes I hope, have helped connect the dots within the Nairobi Water company scandal, where recently Sonko fired everybody who conspired with the social tapeworm, ODM Kidero, to sell Nairobi water control to the sh!t-pumper from France, masquerading as half Moroccan.Okay, these SUEZ guys are so good worldwide, but back home in France, their own people, in Paris, the city they are headquartered, think they would faster pump sewage into your kitchen tap than fresh water!? and thus would rather run their own water supplies!? Huh!? Well, we are the children of lesser heavens, so we will let them do our water, and just as good they say they are Moroccan, not French! Mbuvi Sonko: are you still to the rescue, or the peoples governor is already in someone pocket!? Nairobi today, in an upgraded translation from the Maasai: place of sh!t waters!? It all depends on Sonko not being another Kidero! And Polycarp no fad. Now, daily politics!
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Post by podp on Sept 23, 2017 20:49:40 GMT 3
INTERLUDE The water privatisation battles as they shape out at a county near you Friday September 15 2017 WASTAGE Although Nairobi Water pumps 550,000 cubic litres a day to the city, officials say that 40 percent of this is never accounted for. It is either stolen or leaks to the ground – thanks to aged pipes and illegal
WATER BOARD
In the last several months, Nairobi Water has been facing industrial disputes as the workers’ union started protesting the intended sale
Thursday June 29 2017
The Kenya County Government Workers Union (KCGWU) branch secretary
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She added that the board has rescinded a decision by human resource and committees to reinstate the two.
Friday August 18 2017
The board of directors of Nairobi City Water and Sewerage Company (NCWSC) will not renew the contract of Managing Director Philip Gichuki despite workers boycotting
TERMINAL LEAVE
In a letter to Mr Gichuki dated August 17, 2017, the board directed him to immediately proceed on terminal leav [/quote]k 40% of all water pumped to the city is stolen. That red high light where you sanitize theft with "illegal" makes me wonder why we should expect the city to be served better by a peddler aka Sonko who replaced the pharmacist aka Kid Era. The best thing about the plastic ban coupled with the NYS being used to mop up plastic bags discarded plus the lumpen Sonko calls Rescue team is that CBD and a sizable city environs are sparkling relative to Kid Era times. Deep government is surely giving lip service to this "leaked" planned sale of Water and Sewerage works. The fact that, through known personalities, led by Uhuro's cousin aka Beth minus one breast courtesy of cancer, preside over sale of the 40% of piped water it will be a miracle if they Water and Sewerage services are privatized! New addition is Exhauster trucks which take septic tanks waste from the city's suburbs and deposit the raw sewerage to Nairobi river not caring about down stream folks.
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 29, 2017 21:43:38 GMT 3
WHO DUMPED SH!T AT, RAINED HUMAN EXCRETA ON JACARANDA GROUNDS?GOVANA SONKO ORGANISES TWO RECEPTIONS IN THE CITY What was being whispered in the early morning of the inauguration day, that the obnoxious smell of raw sewage was pungent in the air in the Jacaranda area, has now been confirmed as fact. Truck loads of human excreta were liberally dumped in the Jacaranda grounds where, later that day, the NASA prayer rally was to be held. The NASA fraternity would be condoling with their bereaved, while some kilometres further, the Jubilee crowd responsible for deaths of the NASA loyalists would be cheering the inauguration of their president, Kamwana and Pancha. It had been a foregone conclusion commander Japheth Koome would go to all lengths to keep his word, to prohibit the NASA gathering. But would Koome be that daft to do the sh!t act? Methinks it is most likely it was the SONKO RESCUE team whose navigation equipment failed, likely rigged by NASA, such that they mistook Jacaranda grounds for the Dandora dumping site! Sonko's efforts to clean Nairobi, whicch involve sucking sh!t from clogged sewages and transporting it downstream to Ruiru and environs ---where it grows stuff to feed hungry Nairobi, can not be gain said of course. But sometimes sh!t happens, like sh!ttruck drivers who loose their way in the jungle like city, and end up offloading the contents of their bellies in city parks.Like Jacaranda. NASA venue for the day. I placed a Viber call to my Mount Kenya friends. Was the house of Mumbi trying a version of Biological warfare!? Trying to bombard the NASA following with cholera!? --I demanded to know. After much soul-searching, one of my in-laws came clean: 'No, we Kikuyus prefer to kill slum-dwelling Luos with machetes, or hired police thugs with bullets. Bio-warfare with germ-laced sh!it is more like William Singh, aka arap Kipindupindu. This dangerous partner of ours is the man whose Weston hotel is known to have developed a hard cyst of cholera germs. No, leave Nyumba out of it! The Gikuyu poor too are a sizeable portion of the slums of Nairobi. A kipindupindu epidemic, deliberate or not, would hit them as much as it would wipe out the evil NASA followers!'That sounded sensible to me. I inquired further: 'Was it a decision of the political leadership of the county of Nairobi-- Chief Sonko and Sidekick Igathe, and the county commissioner, or was it a higher government decision, you know, interior ministry people, security sheriffs, BUT NOT FRED MAATIANG'I?'Here my in law became very amused. -- 'Why would you exclude Maatiang'i? You think he is not full of sh!t?'I must confess the idea of the minister of education ordering a Nairobi park to be pumped full of sh!it to prevent a political gathering, hurts my mind. --Teachers have their pride too! I know during the long strike, when the government refused to pay us regular salaries, we teachers were forced to be the laughing stock of the villages. Even Mama Mboga could no longer grant us a few leaves of sukuma wiki on credit. Some lost so much face they committed suicide. But still, to have out own minister pumping cholera risk sh!it where children play! Really even if Maatiang'i is a rotten creep, the fact that he is minister for education should mean something in his decomposing mind! Surely he aint all gone to the dogs! I have therefore decided to think, that the decision and act was a sanction of the county government -- Sonko and Igathe. They look mentally low enough to be capable of such acts of insanity. And if it was Koome (whose great fault to always act without thinking), then I state he did it without the sanction of the acting minister for internal security, Fred Maatiang'i. Why? You know the way career gunmen are wont to have contempt for bookmen? Remember how they gave the same Fred a paper to read which denied live bullets were used, and then Dr. Fred, confronted with tonnes of spent catridges and bodies like of Moraa, couldn't lie his way out without cutting the figure of Comical Ali, Saddam Hussein's minister for information. I can just imagine the the security meeting. The likes of Japheth Koome and his trigger-happy commandants look at Minister Maatiang'i with half-amused, patronising masks. They tell Fred not to worry. 'Raila and his people will be no trouble. President Kenyatta's inauguration will proceed tip-top. ' They will take care of it. The minister need not know the details. His hands should stay clean. He should just go to sleep, or give his missus some ding-dong time, or, if the missus bores him to soft-cock, the police department could supply him with any cun-nt to his specifications: 'Plastic, Chinese, Indian, Arab, Caucasian, any Kenyan tribe, you name her, or even male if you prefer, sir!' Maatiang'i fidgets a bit but lets it be. He does not want them later testifying he ordered mass murder. And then they flooded a public park with sh!t! It is better than dispersal by live bullets, Koome reports later in the day. All those heads of state were here at Kasarani. ''It messy and smelly, but not bloody!' What else could Maatiang'i say!? He can't dare say Koome is full of Sh!t, can he!? Koome in combat dress. This police APC broke down in front of Simba Arati's home! On that day! Well, if I can believe Jesus was a holy birth, why can't I believe the breakdown story!? It is a pity when it comes to fighting corruption, all these tough guys are but Sissy boys! WANTED: ADULTS, fearless and ruthless: there is a beast in town! marauding!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 13, 2018 10:17:25 GMT 3
THE SPAT: WHEN THE PUPPET FAILED TO BECOME THE PUPPET-MASTERWho ditched who!? Oh No! which master wants to consult his lowly dog!? It came as a surprise!? --that the dog growled after so many vicious tugs on the leash!? Yes, delusions of power:Nobody takes devolution seriously. We don't much consult our children on issues affecting them, like the colour of their dresses, the schools they want to go to, or the meals they prefer. No, most parents are hard-up enough, the meal is what it is when it can be afforded, the cloth is the mutumba which can be afforded, and the school is the one whose fee can be paid. Reality is harsh, consultation is a noble luxury most homes can not technically afford. Most kids are under a totalitarian regime buttressed by harsh economic reality: impoverishment. That is the family unit in a nutshell. --it is Anti devolution! it is Centralised command economy. It is Pre digital and religiously hierarchical. Baba na Mama are acting alpha and omega, but as poor as sh!t! By the time the kids reach secondary school and adolescence peeps out, they are so stifled they burn down schools. They can not breath. The educational system too, runs by the book of Tsarist absolutism which is the same sh!t they have been under since their unfortunate births in these countries Trump calls sh!tholes.This Tsarist, top-down absolutist despostism is the DICTATORIAL stuff of the incessant directives and orders from every Tom Dick and Harry in authority in Kenya. I should say every Ouru, Matiang'i and Boinett! Or very President, Governor and Police Commissioner. Power barks! Yours is to comply! --No consultation, no idea you have both a mind of your own and an alternative solution template, far better than the sh!t from above! (Now some sh!thead in Nairobi is going to tell me how to paint my boat plying Kavirondo harbours!) It is like the world before renaissance, a period of darkness waiting for reformation of thought! Then you always get surprised man is not a robot! So it is that from State House, the handlers of Uhuru Kenyatta, and even Uhuru Kenyatta himself may be, deluded in their low, snobbish opinion of Mike Sonko, moved quickly to reduce him to a puppet on a chain, a dog on a Pavlovian gong. The high class reckoned Nairobi is too sophisticated to be let run by the sh!thole rat, Mike Sonko. They only needed him as a figure-head, a buffoon good for the popular pull of vote, but once the election is done, he would be out of the picture.And this after Sonko had beaten off all the behind the scene schemes to hoist the posh Peter Kenneth or impose another posh-certified governor, be he Kidero or that Dagoretti boy who is a relative to Kenyatta. ( Waweru I think his name is!). Igathe -- never was his own man-- was of course detailed to be Sonko's brain. A puppet himself, Polycarp Igathe would move to dominate Sonko, the man the Nairobians had voted for, twice massively. Earlier on as senator, this time around as governor. It was a good plan, from the top. But it was not a good plan from the other side. Because Sonko was not consulted. He was deemed a mere cow in milk, to be electorally milked without own input into the decision making around and about the milking. But now we are surprised the (rich man's pick and) puppet Polycarp Igathe has failed to tame the sewer rat!? Yes we are! But there is another story waiting to be told. It is about the changes announced by Sonko at the LANDS DEPARTMENT, and the executives at departments who, like long-stay Headmasters in certain schools, has become a hot potato and split folks, even in the Unions! This thing called devolution! It is a treacherous mission for those married to Tsarist absolutism. Some of us minions are no longer capable of obeying orders from high We question, do our own thinking, make our own decisions and tell God, NO! up your arse sir! It is really time for a state of emergency to haul us back to our feudal cages! Yeah, madhafakas in power! Go ahead and dare! When slaves no longer scare before imperial power, the high and mighty are in sh!T! The myth of the divine Czar is shattered, forever. All Hail Mbuvi Sonko I said! Because I heard Jomo Gecaga always feels like washing his hands after shaking Sonko's! The Kenyatta thinks Sonko's hands are ever straight out of a sh!thole! I say yes, most of Nairobi is a sh!t hole. I spent part of December hols walking four Nairobi slums. It is a sh!t hole. And this Igathe-Sonko is just a tiny class war pop! Why couldn't the dream team last!? This isn't about tribal politics folks! change mental gears!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 13, 2018 11:10:23 GMT 3
FOOTNOTES 2 hUH!? BLUE-CHIP ace CEO Kidero would have an answer as to the need for all those accounts, No!? THE LETTER YOU NEVER HEARD OF, NOR DID THE INSTITUTIONS ACKNOWLEDGE RECEIPT!Goveernor Mike Mbuvi Sonko wrote a little-PUBLISHED letter to the EACC, LSK, The CJ, AG, DPP (Tobiko now gone and letter lost). It was about a racket about the transfer of properties whose leases are about to expire. And the racket entailed a MULTIDISCIPLINARY cartel! 1. Lawyers registered at the Law Society of Kenya (NYS! NYS!) 2. Judicial officials working at the courts of Kenya (Lost files!?) 3. Big men who have personalised land registry offices of Nairobi ( ) Sonko offered his full and unconditional backing to the open and thorough investigations into the scam!I am sure you never heard of this letter, Dear Reader. Even David Maraga is not on record as having received it! Imagine! And then the political problem. Set to loose prime property are many Kenyans of Asian Origin. This scam therefore has a racial element to it. It is an intra-class war within the parasitic elite, but pitting the black comprador against the Asian comprador. And Sonko appears to some to be carrying the water of the Indians! (racial treachery!) Then a dime for your guess: of the black beneficiaries lined to gain from this 'end of lease' land grab scam which is set to disadvantage Indians, would they be close to the Jubilee top who, incidentally, detailed Polycarp Igathe to Sonko!? A penny for your thoughts! The projected landgrab is worth a commission of inquiry I would think! But No, Sonko must go! He can not work with the clever, well-heeled, posh and city savvy! Faka must go! I want Igathe back! My kind of man! Too educated to write illiterate and silly letters about fictitious landgrabbing cartels to the god David Maraga, the Solomon Githu Muigai, the noble LSK, the towering Tobiko, nor the effectively busy EACC![/b]
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 14, 2018 17:56:54 GMT 3
POLICARP IGATHE THROUGH THE LUO PIVOT PRISMPolicarp Igathe is a new generation CEO. That was the CV, and pitch, for him to be the brains of Mbuvi Sonko, running the city as Sonko did the politics. Igathe was even once ethe chairman of a national board of investors. He in deed was exactly the kind of New-Generation TECHNOCRAT and savvy manager needed to tame the beastly Nairobi, take her through her modern paces, all the way to modernity. And so it came to pass, that Policarp Igathe joined the ticket, and won along with Mike Sonko. But, this crappy episode nauseates yours truly to death: During his short his stint as deputy governor of Nairobi, there was a political crisis to manage. Howbeit truck loads of human dung were relieved at the Jacaranda grounds, on the eve of NASA's funeral rally on the same venue! To date, this new generation man, modern CEO and ace ----O young Turk is a useless phrase in Kenya! has not seen it fit to dissociate himself from the shameful event, nor has he opened his mouth to explain it. Nor condemn it. That is when a fella like me reaches a conclusion: Polycarp Igathe, a sh!tbag.In my thinking, modern CEO's of capital cities of Africa do not for whatever reason flood public parks in residential areas with human faeces and other toxic waste. If they do, I go with Red Ngatia of the KRA: guitar wire around their necks and dangle at a tree at the nearest park, eg Uhuru Park. www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001261680/the-smell-interferes-with-normal-activities-in-the-areaNB: through the Kenya prism: Igathe is a honourable man! Promote him!
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 25, 2018 21:46:48 GMT 3
The beast and her populist rider! a middle class bewildered hair scratchingDid they ban bodabodas from CBD? (without consultation!?)
Kenya is drifting!
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 25, 2018 15:44:51 GMT 3
RAINFALL, NYS BUSES, KIDERONOMICS AND FURY FROM THE SHORES OF KAVIRONDO!I have been harsh on the banker's thread. With reason. I have been harsh all of last week in class. Because I couldn't think of any jokes on the Miguna-Miguna issue. I couldn't find a single Kenyan countering the points of order Miguna raised on his tours; I couldn't find any one going foot-to-toe with him on clarity, articulateness and passion, showing where he errd in his stringent critique of the politics and elites of his homeland, Kenya. All I could find were myriad detractors, for the NRM General seems to have generated quite a storm in his globe-trotting. There is no shortage of offhand dismissals, abusing and attacking him for being what and who he is. But on content, Janyando is uncotested. --Orogo, Okwombo, Ofuto e pap, to chwo moko e choo, go machemo chalo buoch, panjo oko gi kiola mar ayany, to onge ma donjo e pap mondo orakre kode!That cultural imbalance scares me. It is as dangerous as a ship loaded only on one side. An open disaster, culturally speaking. It is an intellectual vacuum on one side, in this case, the official ruling side. It is what is responsible for the horror of Monicah Juma, by protocol, referencing London special branch to treat Miguna Miguna as a terrorist suspect. Nyasaye kawuono alami ni bi kani omera! ikony pinyPeople! The rulers of Kenya have lost their minds. The problem is you yourself have to think to see it. It has worked my temper some! It sorely reminded me of a German professor who used to give me private lessons in economic models. I was interested in stuff which brought empires down to their economic knees, and he told me I could better fathom that by understanding economic models, state expenditure and money. So for the price of bearing intolerable insults, he schooled me some. One such intolerable insult I had to bear went like this: -- There is no single irrigation canal on the mighty river Zaire. Neither the Belgians for a century nor the Congolese for a millennia saw the need for that. Why should they!? Monkeys and great apes bathed at the Congo since the dinosaurs perished and too, never dug out a single meter of canal. The Congo basin with its endless waters will become an infinite garden of Eden when a painful event breaks surface on the apes there: thinking ahead.I swallowed my tongue and waited. And of course there was more. Kenya, he lectured me, is cursed by God and Nature. There are kilometres of beautiful beaches at mouth of the Ocean; wonderful Savannah where great game is found. Tourists come to Kenya and pay for these things, yet not a single day's work of the Kenyan, was ever invested in the creation of these resources. They are nature's gift. That is too easy. Too easy money. It denies you Kenyans the opportunity to create anything. At least the Portuguese built Fort Jesus, and idlers can go there to waste their time on something man-made in Kenya!And I kept on swallowing and listening. My days in Germany, they were more harrowing than my days as a Gatchacha panellist, listening to the mocking confessions of mass-murderers' days on end! The German professor told me economic miracles, like the one of Germany post war, could be repeated anywhere, but not by apes! And he looked at me and said, 'since apes can bathe for a billion years on the river Congo and never dig a single meter of irrigation canal! They would go extinct of hunger before they did that!'So I started looking around for economic miracles. The world was apparently too full of apes! That is how I came to Zhu Rongji. And I rather wanted to tell the tell of this Zhu on the Luo Pivot. But Kidero was here, so we do it here. ZHU RONGJIThis man Zhu, was Deng Hsiao Ping's iron-hand in the economic miracle of China's rise by reform. But before that, when my temper is hot, as it may be on the Luo Pivot, I need must open up and speak why my Luo hommie, Evans Kidero, former ODM governor of Nairobi, is one of the first men I would hang with a guitar wire, should the Jacobins like candidate Ngatia arrive in town to clean up the sh!t. That is all in four years! yummy, and nobody calls that a miracle, imagine! So, when I halil Mwai Kibaki as the Othaya genius and econs don, you know I am working hard at my sense of humour. On the scale of Zhu Rongji, Kibaki is a mindless infant. On that similar scale, seeing I am interested in the Kavirondo caliphate going Singapore in a decade, and I don't see no light at the end of the tunnel, Evans Kidero is an ape so low he could be an insect. --Check this That is Evan's Kidero's epitaph for his Nairobi years, or Mumias for all we know! Well. You think he is really human? What can I buy for ksh.21bn!?I went to check how much Zhu Rongji spent on an averagely modern city TRAM trajectory. That is, if Sonko is serious, how much money does he need to have (narrow light gauge) tram lines of 200km around Nairobi, and refurbished diesel pull-engines to hurtle them!? Eh! apes of the Congo and not a single meter of irrigation canals! Or should that be a MEGACITY of 10 millions and not a single tram-line! nor a six-hour run of power without a black-out!? I saw Uhuru Kenyatta launch 40 NYS busses to save Nairobi commuters from hell. And I remembered the same Ouru at the airport some years ago, pointing out the buses were bought at a price more expensive than the aeroplanes on the tarmac! And as for matatu touts and owners? They have vowed to sabotage the buses, so as to keep the sky-high commuter rates intact. It does not have to be politics where the comprador is mentally collapsed. Even buying a bus is too complicated, leave alone a double diesel tram-line to Kawangware costing less than 10 buses, fairly paid! I am out of humour!
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Post by mank on Mar 26, 2018 0:27:12 GMT 3
Indeed, a tram network for Nairobi is an overdue project. But in a country where failure to account for billions of shillings of public funds is casual and routine, Kenyans must mind the fantastic allure of nicely functioning trams while the pockets that lose their funds are not sewn. Sonko must start his tram projects with a demonstrable system of accountability.
For a start, I would like to hear that as far as tram planning and construction go, Sonko and his government will be doing only what they are good at; hardly anything. That means delegation by contract. In addition, the tram investment agenda should be packaged in a way that it attracts support from interested parties rather than antagonizing them. Toward that end, the metro government can be assured of fierce battles with the matatu industry unless it can win the power houses of that industry over into supporting the project.
Fortunately, there are opportunities for bringing together all that is needed for a credible public transportation project like the tram. Pray the city government can accept its part of the deal, which is to do just about nothing. It should contract out the project to a professional project planning and construction company.
The project should be funded with private investments, preferably structured according to the standards of publicly traded companies. This part of the planning must be done with great care. The goal should be to make the deal to the investor just sweet enough to attract the attention of the matatu capitalist. Then, just as for publicly traded companies, the project must be ran by professionals who are directly answerable to investors through periodic business reports and meetings.
On the matter of meetings, why do government meetings take place at tourist resorts? Are there no conference rooms at City Hall, or KICC? If Sonko is serious about efficiency in public work, this is an obvious priority area.
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Post by jakaswanga on May 19, 2018 0:04:41 GMT 3
FOOTNOTE: SONKO NOMINATES MIGUNA FOR DEPUTYONLY days ago, I was amazing myself at the absurdities of this political class. To them, these absurdities are Diego Maradona moves; they are even the dazzles of Amando's more lately famous fellow citizen, Lionel Messi. Now Sonko pulled another stunt guaranteed to grab the front pages, and keep the chattering classes chatty: Miguna Miguna for deputy, that is to replace the untimely demised Polycarp Igathe. Igathe has since gone back to swim the safer waters at corporacy, this time at Equity Bank. (Equity is the place to be, they have eclipsed the once almighty KCB! That is not to say CEO Paul Mwangi is like Michael Joseph who, Safaricom's rise and rise considered, all the way to golden-goose MPESA, makes one want to execute all former heads of the defunct ace, Kenya Posts and Telecoms, even if they have to be exhumed to be re-hanged like Oliver Cromwell! ) But today, Mbuvi Sonko's antic is our topic! Why would anybody with the kind of antipathy Miguna has shown toward him, work for Mike Sonko? The answer is simple. If that anybody is politically ambitious, he will not be able to run away from a brutal fact: Only Raila has edged Sonko in the command of Nairobi votes. For senator or governor, the top seats in Nairobi, Sonko shuffled easily, yeah, the sewer rat kicked ass, Big Aszholes. Of course the establishment tried its best to keep the rat in the sewer by fronting blue-eyed boys like Jimnah Mbaru, Peter Kenneth and Evans Kidero. To no avail. Miguna's characterisation of these players is far from flattering. More about that later. A man who, at the ballot, wipes his hindies with that illustrious list above, forces many to swallow their pride. DP Ruto did, when his project Eugene Wamalwa for governor became as laughable as Wetangula for president; so did Uhuru Kenyatta when the attempts of his court to block Sonko's rise --- first to senator in favour Mbaru then for PK ---- to the governorship on account of his education, fell apart! I am sure the option of rigging out Sonko in favour of Mumias sweet blue-chip Kidero was countenanced by the elite, but likely the VIFARANGA ALGORITHMIC credit necessary would be too blatant! Just like it would have been on behalf of Peter Kenneth. So the owners of Nairobi went to sulk and plot, study Sonko and prepare an ambush! As late as yesterday in the Miguna nomination saga, Uhuru's Jubilee mouth piece David Murage (backed by 'wet departments' man Karanja Kibicho) hinted at the seething elitist disgust with Sonko when he hoaxed a vote of no confidence! Not on none performance, nay, on the mention of the name Miguna Miguna! I have heard Jubilee hot shots tell Miguna Miguna is a nobody. But here we are, the mere mention of his name as a possible Big Hitter in Nairobi country, is enough to send all the president's men plotting the IMMEDIATE demise of the mischievous Capital governor who dared contemplate that stunt! Dam-n! I think DP William Ruto, his class mates plotting and ganging up against him, is beginning to have a sense of how it feels to be Sonko. Tolerated but hated. Nobody high up loves Mike Sonko, and we know it. So does he. He is a rat from the sewer, but then, most of Nairobi is a sewer belt, and that makes the city a rat's habitat. So long a politician is with the people, only murder uproots him or her, making one a martyr in the process, even if, ideally, he was scum or bum if a she! Only 8 months in office, Sonko takes the blame for Nairobi's cumulative, historical collapse in the face of natural disaster stress, --water, because he is the incumbent. Had Kidero himself (not been fake and) made a leaping headway at the helm, Nairobi would have breathed easier in the heavy rains. It isn't for nothing pictures of Nairobi's slums during ---and in the aftermath of---- the sustained downpour are hard to come by! The pics would shock to massive self doubt, our inflated sense of a middle income country going places, touting Nairobi as soon bypassing to Jo'burg at finance! It is therefore a very solid argument, that Miguna wanted to be Nairobi governor, and Mbuvi Sonko knocked him out in the hearts of the Nairobian voter. And no whiff of rigging. To that extent, Sonko humbled the Big Mig, just as he has consistently humbled all his electoral opponents since he charged the Makadara seat. Sonko is now desperate, and he needs some help. That suggests a historical parley between sewer rats with a peoples pull, and anti-graft zealots without electoral wit. That is not a marriage made in heaven like yours and mine, nay, it is one borne of desperate necessity, brewed in the harsh corridors of immoral power grating against the hard concrete of bloody streets: here are a people agitating and rebelling against graft-facilitated mass impoverishment. --The Cartels besieging Sonko, for which he wants Miguna to help him wield the sword, are truly a runaway menance. Remember the Uhuru-Raila handshake has no place for Miguna Miguna, Canadian or Kenyan. No, not even a honorary citizenship is he worth. So who can help Sonko!?Before we answer that, a NOTA BENE. FROM KACC to EACC (KACC: KENYA ANTI CORRUPTION COMMISSION. EACC: ethics and anti corruption commission,) JOHN GITHONG'O, KNOW HIM?Somewhere in this blog, I have opted for a cultural reading of the symbolism of this man. The Great, ill-fated anti-corruption Czar. He is the guy who deconstructed the great Othaya genius and former Makerere don, Mwai Kibaki, down to just another ordinary African lootocratic henchman. In the same thrust, he also showed Raila is fake when it comes to the corruption fight. Just another one waiting for his time to eat! Sir John is since unemployable, he is since persona non grata for state and county jobs, exiled to Siberia or Canada so to speak, by Kenyan political power. The why, is where you decode the cultural depersonalisation of your country, Kenya. Therefore I noticed Mike Sonko didn't consider John for the job he offered Miguna! I noticed and made a mental note. Githong'o, unlike Miguna, has no passport issues, neither is his Mount Kenya citizenship in doubt, unlike Miguna Miguna's Luolandship! In Githong'o we have a cultural yardstick. He is the Czar set the bar. John the Great. There is only one thing he did: commission the dreaded Kroll report, and ever since his hounding, the occupants of the position of Anti Graft Czar pale to wilted worms, inebriated by the trappings of greed, deep at the centre of their personality. Mumo MatemuPHILIP KINISU ELIUD WABUKALA 20 December 2016 President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated retired head of the Anglican Church Eliud Wabukala to chair the anti-corruption commission and has sent his name to Parliament for vetting AARON RINGERA circus PLO LUMUMBA Some interesting insights into his demise So what do we have after the latest revelations on the NYS!? Sonko's instincts are correct. Of course he is not serious about Miguna. It is a gimmick. But the point is, it has reached a point in Kenya where a member of the political elite, the governor of the capital city, besieged, held in low esteem and hostage to party big shots hired by Graft Cartels, publicly introduces the idea of combining forces with the most radically articulate non-compromising critique of the status quo! It is a joke, until you import the ominous depths. A nation whose services to the people have fallen apart. There is a search for a new bond with the people, a new social contract to bestow legitimacy of the heart. There is a pulling apart, David Ndii's word was divorce, but in this case I refer to the divorce between the rulers and the ruled. In the light of the latest publicised NYS heist, social media is hot with Kenyans, young Kenyans, literally baying for blood. It forced Ouru to sign the draconian anti-blogging laws WHOLESALE: calling for the execution of corrupt politicians can now be construed as HATE SPEECH!The guilty cartels are that afraid! CONTOURS OF A CRISIS It is crisis time and all options are on the table. --ALL OPTIONS! From change the constitution for a KAPUTIN, to, move over, hand the daily running of the city of Nairobi to the NRMke general. -The Canadian expatriate from Nyando in Nianza! The death-wish has been spoken! Let those with ears hear! Kenya is a looters paradise gone too far, the stage is being set for a reigning in. By all means necessary. I said, how do we do!? Everybody his Plan-B! A crisis needs an open mind! Toward resolution
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Post by jakaswanga on May 20, 2018 18:15:04 GMT 3
SONKO AND HIS INSTINCTIVELY CORRECT GAMES
Did the NRMke General, Double M, do a Chris Kirubi on Sonko!?
Once upon a time, Mike Sonko offered Chris Kirubi a job. High-born Chris put on a smirk, then unleashed ridicule. How could that cheap illiterate thing called Mbuvi dare! Let him keep the company of his ilk, colourful moths flattering about in the raw sewage in the slum. So spake the snob Chris Kirubi, one of the, well, billed top go-getter entrepreneurial talents of Kenya. Such a qualification is of course frequently a euphemism for a state-connected and graft-manufactured Kenyan oligarch: a top parasite in the political economy of primitive accumulation or kleptocracy. Sonko on the other hand belonged to the self-made millionaires arisen from, rumours have it, the business of merchandising posho, or nose powder as the case may be.
Now between the two, who is your better human being!? The parasite, state slay-queen, or the street-rat, plague rodent! --No easy choices, Wanjiku picking from this lot her rapist for the day, and electoral cycle.
I prefer to separate the troubles of Mike Sonko from the fate of William Ruto. Sonko's troubles are a Nairobi control issue. Sonko's meteoric rise to the Nairobi governorship has been independent and owes no clientelist, patronage debts. The people only. But Nairobi is big business, whichever way, and not exactly owned by the people. A lot of men are ready to live with controlling Nairobi's fortunes without themselves being in political office. The bottom line is, by all means, they have to control those in office in Nairobi (county and city administration.)
That is the ownership.
From the side of the Oligarchs and financial aristocrats, Sonko is wild, an upolished gem. What this oligarchic insecurity recognises is that Sonko, with true grassroots support and appeal, to maintain that ground support and vibe, has the historical imperative to do something tangible for that backward lot. That is the mass drowning in the sewer canals going for mass housing estates. No one can do that without a new city deal, without breaking Nairobi open, without ending or at least slashing the tentacles of the elitist caste holding Nairobi captive in a dungeon of backwardness. (And that is what Sonko says he needs Miguna for: number one anti-cartelist!)
The rains just showed us how backward Nairobi really is, even its CBD which so glitters in the sun!
Sleek graft cartels in concert with city politicians, re-enforced by the higher echelons of the state machinery, have evidently brought Nairobi to its knees. That crisis brings forth different sorts of leaders, from Sonko to Miguna. A leader can be uncouth, uncivilised, unsophisticated, erratic and neurotic and oddish like Sonko, but he can still posses a pro-peoples drive and instinctive loyalty to the popular cause. This single characteristic where every politician betrays the people, then makes him voter infallible.
In other words, Sonko not having gotten rich by easy theft like Kidero and Peter Kenneth, Ruto and all the other kleptocratic scumbags, may not be malleable to sleazy tenderpreneural kick-backs orchestrated by owners of the city using top bureaucrats as their capo's. This is not because Sonko is not corrupt, but merely because drug barons, retired or not, have their pride or, as they say, have sub class complexes. These sub-class complexes raise interesting contradictions within the same rotten elite at large.
CRIME PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGY: Did you hear the grapevine whisper tell, that in Narco states, the killer units of drug cartels do not rape women for whatever purpose? But a lot of women are raped then extra judicially killed in these countries; and the explanation is it is the police and state-allied paramilitary's which specialise in rape before killing. IE rape is a formal tool of formal power, sanctioned by the state to intimidate and terrorise, to punish, break and dominate. The trade-off is then terrible. Women seem to abhor rape more than they abhor other forms of physical degradation specialised in by patriarchal pathology. In Narco states then, because drug cartels don't rape in the rule, they win the women's hearts so to speak, pants down.
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, IN LOVE AND AFRICA HONEST
1. We were the race of roaches who invaded their land to save them But their fiery patriotism led them to loathe the cocky roach to death
We found the women suffering rape under their fellow citizens Discovered there was room to steal the hearts of these women
Colonial domination under the cocky roach but without daily rape Wholeheart the women rathered, to the ritualised rape under hommies:
Never in my odd life have I signed a more terrible deal in a marriage!
Ask me not O Africa, Ask me not why we became celibates, yet not committed catholic priests! Why the once so cocky roaches, turned docile like a eunuchs!
You know the price your youth paid For their nationalism to condone our colonialism, O thee terrible Africa!
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Every sub class their pride then, a bit like every Ars, a hole. So I deduce it is a human thing too in Kenya, that smugglers and drug-pushers also look down upon tenderpreneurs and rich pawns, as money bag mules, carrying for state thieves. Recall this strange incident in which Mike Sonko poorly hides his run-ins with Karanja Kibicho of interior. ---No, he Sonko 'wont kneel down before Karanja Kibicho like the rest of men!' And recall too Hassan Joho on William Ruto: 'muizi hawezi kunitisha mimi Joho!'
Some of this statements have cultural depth which needs a long a think. I learnt in a certain African town, that in the world of prostitutes, street hookers were lower in pride than bar hookers! I was curious as to the explanations so I visited the local faculty. Unfortunately nobody had studied the hierarchies of commercial sex workers in that town! What else then but to ask the ladies themselves for their self-image!? ---The bar hookers' chairlady told me they are respectable. They have to be seduced a bit and treated iike ladies. Street hookers already have their skirts and dresses folded to their navels. It is straight to the point and out: animal!
But the street hookers told me they are what they are and suffer no illusions of respectability. There are in it for money, no nonsense. The harsh and raw reality faced without cushions. That demands character, or the total dissolution of character as in the USA, where street hookers are all drugged untermenschen, subhuman species. Only then can they live a life of litter and loiter on the streets, daily.
So, thinking about these things, as Kenya must now, especially Nairobi county, whose MCA's have declared up-front in Kangaroo court fashion, that Miguna Miguna is a no-go for deputy governor, what will it be in the choice
.. between self-made drug-lord millionaires on one side, Joho and Soko, versus, on the other side, bilionare state-looters or kleptocrats like William Ruto and Gideon Moi!
Who steals your heart now, Kenya!?
No, it will be a deal, not a love match! I know my Africa!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 20, 2018 19:37:00 GMT 3
SONKO AND HIS INSTINCTIVELY CORRECT GAMESates then, because drug cartels don't rape in the rule, they win the women's hearts so to speak, pants down. WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, IN LOVE AND AFRICA HONEST
1. We were the race of roaches who invaded their land to save them But their fiery patriotism led them to loathe the cocky roach to death
We found the women suffering rape under their fellow citizens Discovered there was room to steal the hearts of these women
Colonial domination under the cocky roach but without daily rape Wholeheart the women rathered, to the ritualised rape under hommies:
Never in my odd life have I signed a more terrible deal in a marriage!
Ask me not O Africa, Ask me not why we became celibates, yet not committed catholic priests! Why the once so cocky roaches, turned docile like a eunuchs!
You know the price your youth paid For their nationalism to condone our colonialism, O thee terrible Africa!
2.-* Who steals your heart now, Kenya!? No, it will be a deal, not a love match! I know my Africa! This part, 2. hadn't been completed by then 2-. O LD AND TIRED AND TRAUMATISED!I am witness to Wanjiku sold to ritual rape Daily used and abused under these thieves!
I see them shaking hands everywhere, sealing her fate.
I fret the contours of the deal her fantasies harbour I ask Mother Africa to spare the youth of her Kenya I holla! Place not before these spoilt brats, the choice from hell Demand not of these spoilt brats, the full price of growth
What a grim deal my youth took under the oath of death The future had to be corruption free, to hell with freedom Public services had to work, to hell with rigged elections Kigali city had to be squeaky clean, to hell with old vermin Education has to guaranteee equal opportunity, no slum schools Things have to work and run on time, so be it if it takes a dictator!
Old and tired of African killing fields I now say We can eradicate the thieves without resorting to a dictatorship We can collect garbage in the city without resorting to a Caesar Stop the rigging of elections without resorting to a dictatorship Ruthlessly purge and punish the corrupt without trading freedom
But seeing is believing! And it is not for softness of heart I sound forgiving!*** NB: A week is a long time in politics according to the sages. I therefore concur that is time enough to see the difference of purpose. If at the end of the week things stayed the same, the grim deal is inevitable! For History always has a Plan-B! The handshake is dead, the magic of the gimmick washed out. So What next!? Nairobi Hallo! I am listening!
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Post by jakaswanga on May 28, 2018 21:17:39 GMT 3
SONKO EXPLAINS HIS MIGUNA MOVE OR CHOICE!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 11, 2018 18:24:58 GMT 3
THE HEADING SHOULD NOW READ ALL HAIL GOVERNOR MS OF NAIROBI COUNTY
EXPROPRIATION by SONKO
One small step for one, a giant leap for another!
Name me another national politician who would personally dare this!? --Not even Sultan Joho!
I therefor feel touched enough to cry .... Sonko please, marshal more public support! Explain yourself and sollicit for the voter's blessings and MORE and MORE popular support. Tell Nairobi people you can't do this yourself, they should come out and help, and especially with information: TRUTH TIME! This also to gauge the depth of their commitment and or indifference. They governor can organise the MILLION NAIROBI TAKE BACK OUR LANDS MARCH!
All are welcome, chiefly Ouru, Ruto and Raila! Good to see who boycotts, thinking of Weta, Kalo and MDVD on the January 30th manifestation of the people's will!
it was dubbed a mock-swearing in, but meseems the consequences are furthest from mock! so take a leaf, govenor, learn the good sh!t too!
You don't have to go alone or with a mere handful to reposes the Lang'ata grabbed playground, or the Weston (former airport authority Land). Don't you know it is Moi and Kenyattas' the major owners of grabbed land in the republic!? You would need mass cover to expropriate them!
You need the people to pull off more of that stuff, you need it the way Raila needed the people to pull off his swearing in as the peoples president. The trigger-itchy commanders of the forces all stayed their commands, coz of a Million people to kill.
What your populist self needs in Nairobi is ''occupy'. The grabbed lands are certified, 24-hour vacate notices issued, and the rest is fair game. Just like in Mau evictions, Kibera bypass evictions, you know the routine. Only this time the people do the evictions! It wont be any more or less untidy! If the likes of Otiende Amollo who argued the heavens to shoot Githu's treason charge on Raila do now abstain or abdicate their role to defend the constitutional legitimacy of popular action, the vacuum will easily be filled by a new breed of young Turk bulls, eager to storm and make name! That's the way of life, vacuums will be filled.
It is time to revive and upgrade the Sonko rescue team: RESCUE GRABBED PUBLIC LANDS!
Iit would be a rescue royal! Because OF LAND, we know how a much a bloody business it can be in Kenya, and perhaps elsewhere too.
Watch this topic!
EXPROPRIATING THE EXPROPRIATORS, more strands.
In factional battles between wings of a predatory and competing capitalist elite, there are many methods of take-over. We can visit the market euphemisms as they appear in the blurb of economic textbooks written for juniors.
But well, you know the great thing about art, why you should not be so much into facebook, is its ability to unravel reality as it happens in the heart of man. And then some. Talk about Dark man with the dark matters of his heart.! And in Darkness, we are talking Power and Money, Capital greed and immoral greed. Debauchery. It is an ever fascinating subject.
How life rally works, is of course outside the scope of economic textbooks. So I will never quote one! I would rather Sofokles or Homerus, reporting from the tip of a hate-filled dagger about to plunge down a throat. And Greek bard grins at Troy: never had a throat swallowed the plunge of a knife so whole length as this poor chap did. For it plunged clean through him to his bottoms in one sweeping go
And down he clanged with a thud for his mother who would never see him again. For such is the fate of men at war.
That is why this is a MUST SEE. A MUST READ, and a MUST-PONDER. The way too, we are implored to continually ponder post-colonial classics like NO LONGER AT EASE and a SEASON OF ANOMY.
The FILM IS CALLED MARGIN CALL, see footnote.
But before that, a word on MIKE SONKO. NEXT.
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