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Post by mzee on Mar 14, 2014 11:48:14 GMT 3
I'm not surprised that these marauding robbers have decided to spend over 100M to announce a 200K pay cut. Interestingly they don't even need a salary for we pay for all their needs. From food, housing, clothing, travel expenses even toilet paper. Uhuru has now resorted to roadside declarations announcing salary reductions yet he does not have the power to do so. Daniel arap Moi is surely back. This must be the most confused and clueless government in the history of Kenya. One wonders if they had any agenda apart from the failed laptop project and ICC? www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000106828&story_title=how-govt-spent-millions-on-luxury-retreatThis government is moving from crisis to crisis, from scandal to scandal. In the meantime the economy is nose diving. Choices have consequences, that's for sure. And these consequences do not know if you are Jubilee or CORD, they just hit you below the belt as long as you are not among the nine thousand most privileged Kenyans chewing on 80% of the countries wealth. The trouble of having the richest person in the country as president, one who has never know suffering is clearly showing. Suffer guys suffer
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Post by phil on Mar 14, 2014 15:09:14 GMT 3
I'm not surprised that these marauding robbers have decided to spend over 100M to announce a 200K pay cut. Interestingly they don't even need a salary for we pay for all their needs. From food, housing, clothing, travel expenses even toilet paper. Uhuru has now resorted to roadside declarations announcing salary reductions yet he does not have the power to do so. Daniel arap Moi is surely back. This must be the most confused and clueless government in the history of Kenya. One wonders if they had any agenda apart from the failed laptop project and ICC? www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000106828&story_title=how-govt-spent-millions-on-luxury-retreatThis government is moving from crisis to crisis, from scandal to scandal. In the meantime the economy is nose diving. Choices have consequences, that's for sure. And these consequences do not know if you are Jubilee or CORD, they just hit you below the belt as long as you are not among the nine thousand most privileged Kenyans chewing on 80% of the countries wealth. The trouble of having the richest person in the country as president, one who has never know suffering is clearly showing. Suffer guys suffer President @ukenyatta has summoned the Standard Group Management to State House over this Headline Story on Government Austerity! It seems the grossly under quoted expenditure rubbed Jubilee leaders the wrong way.
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Post by kamalet on Mar 14, 2014 15:52:15 GMT 3
I'm not surprised that these marauding robbers have decided to spend over 100M to announce a 200K pay cut. Interestingly they don't even need a salary for we pay for all their needs. From food, housing, clothing, travel expenses even toilet paper. Uhuru has now resorted to roadside declarations announcing salary reductions yet he does not have the power to do so. Daniel arap Moi is surely back. This must be the most confused and clueless government in the history of Kenya. One wonders if they had any agenda apart from the failed laptop project and ICC? www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000106828&story_title=how-govt-spent-millions-on-luxury-retreatThis government is moving from crisis to crisis, from scandal to scandal. In the meantime the economy is nose diving. Choices have consequences, that's for sure. And these consequences do not know if you are Jubilee or CORD, they just hit you below the belt as long as you are not among the nine thousand most privileged Kenyans chewing on 80% of the countries wealth. The trouble of having the richest person in the country as president, one who has never know suffering is clearly showing. Suffer guys suffer Did you actually believe the 100 million shilling story?? The maths refused to add up no matter how one tried to fudge it!! If for starters all the 120 rooms went for the suite price of 52,000/= the total cost would only be Kshs.25 million. Now that price is actually on full board basis, but even if we took it to be bed and breakfast, then the 8k meal for 120 people for 4 nights being lunch and dinner would have been another 7.6 million. The ferry all of the 120 by helicopter and the price is another 7.5 million shillings at 4pax per chopper at 250,000 for the return trip. So here am only getting to 40 million. As far as I am concerned, the 40 million would still be an outrage but when the embellishment starts for effect, I stop seeing the outrage as I try to see if the amount makes sense!!
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Post by kamalet on Mar 14, 2014 15:54:59 GMT 3
I'm not surprised that these marauding robbers have decided to spend over 100M to announce a 200K pay cut. Interestingly they don't even need a salary for we pay for all their needs. From food, housing, clothing, travel expenses even toilet paper. Uhuru has now resorted to roadside declarations announcing salary reductions yet he does not have the power to do so. Daniel arap Moi is surely back. This must be the most confused and clueless government in the history of Kenya. One wonders if they had any agenda apart from the failed laptop project and ICC? www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000106828&story_title=how-govt-spent-millions-on-luxury-retreatThis government is moving from crisis to crisis, from scandal to scandal. In the meantime the economy is nose diving. Choices have consequences, that's for sure. And these consequences do not know if you are Jubilee or CORD, they just hit you below the belt as long as you are not among the nine thousand most privileged Kenyans chewing on 80% of the countries wealth. The trouble of having the richest person in the country as president, one who has never know suffering is clearly showing. Suffer guys suffer President @ukenyatta has summoned the Standard Group Management to State House over this Headline Story on Government Austerity! It seems the grossly under quoted expenditure rubbed Jubilee leaders the wrong way. Link?
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Post by wanyee on Mar 15, 2014 17:00:23 GMT 3
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Post by bkichwa on Mar 16, 2014 23:02:40 GMT 3
President @ukenyatta has summoned the Standard Group Management to State House over this Headline Story on Government Austerity! It seems the grossly under quoted expenditure rubbed Jubilee leaders the wrong way. Link? So it turns out the retreat costed only about 8% of what the East African Standard (EAS) irresponsibly quoted. The actual expenditure was 8.4 million. After being confronted by the Executive with facts about this cost of the retreat, the EAS in their Saturday paper run a detailed front page story where they corrected themselves and issued an apology for their previous 100 million bogus story. Further in today's Sunday EAS there was yet another front page apology on same subject, this time from the Standard Group CEO. One wonders why this media house rushed to publish nonsense which they clearly had pulled out of the sky. One further wonders what really then is their real agenda vis-a-vis this current government. Yet they form part of the very same media fraternity that purports to be capable of responsible journalism and self regulation. An incident such as this is the very reason why the clauses in the recent media bill are critical and necessary - the clauses that is, which allow for the fining of journalists and media houses alike (and which really are the main contention on the part of the media players) for rogue and irresponsible behavior in their trade. Big shame on the EAS. This one goes straight into the same trash can as the one some years ago about Uhuru having carried to the Hague $10 million cash in an airplane carry-on size suitcase, to allegedly bribe his way out of his ICC case. And I'm sure there are many other bogus stories they have gotten away with over the years for the very reason that these media folk largely are folk with little scruples and will write and publish whatever they wish to in furtherance of whatever agenda they intend to push for themselves or at the behest of background third parties. The 4th estate indeed. Seems like the 'Rogue Estate" is more apt a title for them. Bure.
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Post by mzee on Mar 17, 2014 17:15:37 GMT 3
So it turns out the retreat costed only about 8% of what the East African Standard (EAS) irresponsibly quoted. The actual expenditure was 8.4 million. After being confronted by the Executive with facts about this cost of the retreat, the EAS in their Saturday paper run a detailed front page story where they corrected themselves and issued an apology for their previous 100 million bogus story. Further in today's Sunday EAS there was yet another front page apology on same subject, this time from the Standard Group CEO. One wonders why this media house rushed to publish nonsense which they clearly had pulled out of the sky. One further wonders what really then is their real agenda vis-a-vis this current government. Yet they form part of the very same media fraternity that purports to be capable of responsible journalism and self regulation. An incident such as this is the very reason why the clauses in the recent media bill are critical and necessary - the clauses that is, which allow for the fining of journalists and media houses alike (and which really are the main contention on the part of the media players) for rogue and irresponsible behavior in their trade. Big shame on the EAS. This one goes straight into the same trash can as the one some years ago about Uhuru having carried to the Hague $10 million cash in an airplane carry-on size suitcase, to allegedly bribe his way out of his ICC case. And I'm sure there are many other bogus stories they have gotten away with over the years for the very reason that these media folk largely are folk with little scruples and will write and publish whatever they wish to in furtherance of whatever agenda they intend to push for themselves or at the behest of background third parties. The 4th estate indeed. Seems like the 'Rogue Estate" is more apt a title for them. Bure. As Kamale would ask ....LINK???
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Post by kamalet on Mar 17, 2014 18:15:37 GMT 3
So it turns out the retreat costed only about 8% of what the East African Standard (EAS) irresponsibly quoted. The actual expenditure was 8.4 million. After being confronted by the Executive with facts about this cost of the retreat, the EAS in their Saturday paper run a detailed front page story where they corrected themselves and issued an apology for their previous 100 million bogus story. Further in today's Sunday EAS there was yet another front page apology on same subject, this time from the Standard Group CEO. One wonders why this media house rushed to publish nonsense which they clearly had pulled out of the sky. One further wonders what really then is their real agenda vis-a-vis this current government. Yet they form part of the very same media fraternity that purports to be capable of responsible journalism and self regulation. An incident such as this is the very reason why the clauses in the recent media bill are critical and necessary - the clauses that is, which allow for the fining of journalists and media houses alike (and which really are the main contention on the part of the media players) for rogue and irresponsible behavior in their trade. Big shame on the EAS. This one goes straight into the same trash can as the one some years ago about Uhuru having carried to the Hague $10 million cash in an airplane carry-on size suitcase, to allegedly bribe his way out of his ICC case. And I'm sure there are many other bogus stories they have gotten away with over the years for the very reason that these media folk largely are folk with little scruples and will write and publish whatever they wish to in furtherance of whatever agenda they intend to push for themselves or at the behest of background third parties. The 4th estate indeed. Seems like the 'Rogue Estate" is more apt a title for them. Bure. As Kamale would ask ....LINK??? Check the front page of the Standard on Sunday. Shollei penned the apology.
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Post by bkichwa on Mar 17, 2014 19:11:45 GMT 3
So it turns out the retreat costed only about 8% of what the East African Standard (EAS) irresponsibly quoted. The actual expenditure was 8.4 million. After being confronted by the Executive with facts about this cost of the retreat, the EAS in their Saturday paper run a detailed front page story where they corrected themselves and issued an apology for their previous 100 million bogus story. Further in today's Sunday EAS there was yet another front page apology on same subject, this time from the Standard Group CEO. One wonders why this media house rushed to publish nonsense which they clearly had pulled out of the sky. One further wonders what really then is their real agenda vis-a-vis this current government. Yet they form part of the very same media fraternity that purports to be capable of responsible journalism and self regulation. An incident such as this is the very reason why the clauses in the recent media bill are critical and necessary - the clauses that is, which allow for the fining of journalists and media houses alike (and which really are the main contention on the part of the media players) for rogue and irresponsible behavior in their trade. Big shame on the EAS. This one goes straight into the same trash can as the one some years ago about Uhuru having carried to the Hague $10 million cash in an airplane carry-on size suitcase, to allegedly bribe his way out of his ICC case. And I'm sure there are many other bogus stories they have gotten away with over the years for the very reason that these media folk largely are folk with little scruples and will write and publish whatever they wish to in furtherance of whatever agenda they intend to push for themselves or at the behest of background third parties. The 4th estate indeed. Seems like the 'Rogue Estate" is more apt a title for them. Bure. As Kamale would ask ....LINK??? Here's the link for the Saturday story with apology. www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000106930&story_title=state-house-sets-the-record-straight-on-cost-of-retreatFor the Sunday apology of the Standard Group CEO, I'm not able to find it online on EAS website. Here, however, it is on this website that I stumbled upon in my search: www.cofek.co.ke/index.php/14-news/388-curious-standard-ceo-sam-shollei-s-profuse-apology-over-president-uhuru-s-cabinet-heavy-spending-at-the-exclusive-mt-kenya-safari-club-storyBut as Kamale says, and assuming you live in Kenya, find a way to get Sunday's EAS and you shall find this apology on the front page (the bottom half section) - you can't miss it.
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Post by KOLONEL BRISK on Mar 18, 2014 18:41:32 GMT 3
Is #SGR another 'Typo' by @ukenyatta & @h_Rotich? Kenya does not need it says Kiriro wa Ngugi
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Post by podp on Mar 26, 2014 21:46:11 GMT 3
It is particularly disturbing when the same official complaints of financial crunch also come with concerns about corruption in the public sector, ghost employees, fake promotions, bloated public service, and wastage of public resources. It is worrying when the same Government admits it is losing about Sh300 billion through corruption every year, and about Sh180 billion to non-existent workers every 12 months. The same Government also says it knows of junior civil servants who promote themselves to earn super pay. But the Government is yet to say what it is doing to prosecute self-promoting civil servants. The problem then is not so much the wage bill as it is systems that allow massive and an unconscionable waste of public resources. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-160350/jubilee-woes-larger-huge-wage-bill
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Post by OtishOtish on Mar 26, 2014 22:46:15 GMT 3
It is particularly disturbing when the same official complaints of financial crunch also come with concerns about corruption in the public sector, ghost employees, fake promotions, bloated public service, and wastage of public resources. It is worrying when the same Government admits it is losing about Sh300 billion through corruption every year, and about Sh180 billion to non-existent workers every 12 months. The same Government also says it knows of junior civil servants who promote themselves to earn super pay. But the Government is yet to say what it is doing to prosecute self-promoting civil servants. The problem then is not so much the wage bill as it is systems that allow massive and an unconscionable waste of public resources. www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-160350/jubilee-woes-larger-huge-wage-billInteresting and somewhat amusing stuff. Do Kenyans laugh or cry when they read this: and then read this: Here, after laughing, we, the taxpayers of the "development partners", think Kenya needs to grow up and learn to be more responsible. It may seem difficult, but observe and take courage: other countries have done it, and some that 50 years ago were worse off than Kenya are now among the high-flyers. Of course, Kenya, being independent and sovereign, may choose to continue on the kazi-iendelee path; but in that case, please slow down on the endless begging.
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Post by phil on Mar 27, 2014 10:50:36 GMT 3
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Post by podp on Mar 31, 2014 19:00:02 GMT 3
another deadly form of impunity is taking place. And if the alleged “subversive” activities relate to her journalistic role in making the documentaries, then the regime better, and openly, declare all media work that is critical subversive. Already, John Allan Namu and Mohammed Ali of KTN are living a cat and mouse existence with all sorts of harassment and threats against them for doing wonderful investigative journalism. Robert Alai has a multitude of cases against him for blogging things the regime does not like. At the end of the day, the charge of “subversion” though still in our Penal Code is outdated and in conflict with the democratic and human rights standards enshrined in our constitution. Peaceful activities that seek to broaden information reach and empower people with incisive and critical thinking should never be subversive in a democratic country. Indeed as Hon James Orengo stated in a parliamentary debate in 1996, accusations of subversion for peaceful expression of views is a despotic and colonial tactic brought in by the British so that they could control, by force, the Kenyan majority. It is ironic that a regime that rode to power partly by expressing anti-neocolonial rhetoric can now be so welcoming of colonial tactics! And more so such outdated, analogue methods that negate its aspirations to be digital! www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-161021/return-analogue-subversion-charges-new-low-jubileeadd the shot to kill order www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000108215/ruto-s-tough-warning-to-mombasa-killersadd rumors www.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-to-shake-up-NIS-in-major-security-changes/-/1056/2263490/-/wtr0xi/-/index.htmland pure propaganda www.nation.co.ke/news/Terrorism-cohesion-kasaon-army-commander-kenya-defence-forces/-/1056/2263788/-/pyroit/-/index.htmlspiced with misinformation www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Homosexuality-a-serious-problem-as-terrorism--says-Duale/-/1064/2258336/-/kgxersz/-/index.htmlallowing the UhuRuto regime to hoodwink all that the new standard stays out there, taking a life of its own, and crucially it provides a convenient cover for the regime in the drama of playing recalcitrant and wary of ICC. without being PORK and deputy PORK they may amount to nothing and hence they will lord it over Kenyans even if it means having famished citizens on a territory of no consequence. we need to train our guns more on UhuRuto farce and forget the wannabes out in the rain as they have little consequence on impunity
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Post by podp on Mar 31, 2014 19:00:12 GMT 3
another deadly form of impunity is taking place. And if the alleged “subversive” activities relate to her journalistic role in making the documentaries, then the regime better, and openly, declare all media work that is critical subversive. Already, John Allan Namu and Mohammed Ali of KTN are living a cat and mouse existence with all sorts of harassment and threats against them for doing wonderful investigative journalism. Robert Alai has a multitude of cases against him for blogging things the regime does not like. At the end of the day, the charge of “subversion” though still in our Penal Code is outdated and in conflict with the democratic and human rights standards enshrined in our constitution. Peaceful activities that seek to broaden information reach and empower people with incisive and critical thinking should never be subversive in a democratic country. Indeed as Hon James Orengo stated in a parliamentary debate in 1996, accusations of subversion for peaceful expression of views is a despotic and colonial tactic brought in by the British so that they could control, by force, the Kenyan majority. It is ironic that a regime that rode to power partly by expressing anti-neocolonial rhetoric can now be so welcoming of colonial tactics! And more so such outdated, analogue methods that negate its aspirations to be digital! www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-161021/return-analogue-subversion-charges-new-low-jubileeadd the shot to kill order www.standardmedia.co.ke/thecounties/article/2000108215/ruto-s-tough-warning-to-mombasa-killersadd rumors www.nation.co.ke/news/Uhuru-to-shake-up-NIS-in-major-security-changes/-/1056/2263490/-/wtr0xi/-/index.htmland pure propaganda www.nation.co.ke/news/Terrorism-cohesion-kasaon-army-commander-kenya-defence-forces/-/1056/2263788/-/pyroit/-/index.htmlspiced with misinformation www.nation.co.ke/news/politics/Homosexuality-a-serious-problem-as-terrorism--says-Duale/-/1064/2258336/-/kgxersz/-/index.htmlallowing the UhuRuto regime to hoodwink all that the new standard stays out there, taking a life of its own, and crucially it provides a convenient cover for the regime in the drama of playing recalcitrant and wary of ICC. without being PORK and deputy PORK they may amount to nothing and hence they will lord it over Kenyans even if it means having famished citizens on a territory of no consequence. we need to train our guns more on UhuRuto farce and forget the wannabes out in the rain as they have little consequence on impunity
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Post by podp on Apr 12, 2014 20:59:29 GMT 3
when double M aka Big M the man with same name twice chooses to ignore and stop beating the dead horse he does a superb job www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-162787/jubilee-track-second-term-or-railsGrand corruption hasn’t been tackled. The process hasn’t even started. Even the President and his deputy have publicly complained about the power and reach of grand corruption. Ironically, according to media reports of April March 25th, 2014, ‘the Government is either planning or thinking of paying more than KES 1billion to “Anglo Leasing debt.” The Government or the media actually called it ‘a debt’ thereby legitimising it. It’s as if the country needed to be prepared – mentally and psychologically – for the ‘inevitable;’ their daylight robbery. The newspapers quoted the Treasury Cabinet Secretary, Henry Rotich, saying that the “money to settle the debt would be factored in the second supplementary budget estimates expected in parliament in May.” So, there goes Jubilee’s commitment to eradicate graft. Legally, any debt founded on fraud is void. As well, the principle of equity demands that one can only approach a court for relief if one has clean hands. By this time, no one can reasonably argue that the Anglo-Leasing scum was a ‘clean’ or legitimate business deal or contract from which the people of Kenya have to pay astronomical sums of money to its architects. To assert, like Mr. Rotich is reported to have done that we – the citizens of Kenya - are going to be forced to pay for this grand larceny, is nothing but “legalistic argle-bargle,” to quote Justice Antonio Scalia’s recent stinging dissent on the same-sex marriage case at the US Supreme Court. Jubilee has promised to “clean up the corruption mess” through a variety of means, chief among them is “by giving the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) the power to prosecute corruption cases as happens in other African countries.” They also suggested setting “up local anti-corruption boards at county level with the power to refer cases to the EACC or to the Director of Public Prosecutions; ban anyone convicted on corruption charges from working in Government, in any public sector job; enact the necessary legislation so that Kenyan companies found guilty of corrupt practices will be liable to have their assets frozen by the courts; ban foreign companies found guilty of corrupt practices from operating in Kenya; introduce an automatic freeze on the assets of anyone indicted on corruption charges (with appropriate judicial approval); and to put an end to Parliamentary immunity from corruption charges.” These may seem like fairly practical and straightforward mechanisms. However, the establishment of “county boards to refer cases to the EACC” sounds like an attempt to create yet another layer of bureaucracy in a country choking with this elegantly named but inefficient institution. What the country needs is a clear and an unambiguous indication right from the top all the way to the bottom of the national and county bureaucracy that the fight against corruption is a serious and concrete commitment by the Jubilee administration. We need to see very high profile arrests, prosecutions, convictions and long prison sentences handed out to corruption Popes. Concomitantly, the Government should start impounding and confiscating all public assets that have been stolen and embezzled. Asset freezes must follow. These are standard fair worldwide. A good starting point would be the repossession of public land in urban centres, road reserves and water towers. The assiduous implementation of the Ndung’u Report as well as that of past parliamentary and judicial inquiries would generate immediate benefits for Kenyans. Ultimately, however, Kenyans will only have full confidence on the Jubilee promise to “clean the corruption mess” if they see a serious and consistent effort to deal with the known culprits behind both Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals.
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Post by podp on Apr 13, 2014 19:31:11 GMT 3
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Post by OtishOtish on Apr 16, 2014 2:06:37 GMT 3
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Post by phil on Apr 30, 2014 16:25:09 GMT 3
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