Letter To The Peoples' President, H.E AMOLLO TINGA

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NOTES FOR THE IN-TRAY OF THE PEOPLES' PRESIDENT, H.E AMOLLO TINGA

Let us try to concretise some relevance for thee, H.E the PP.

Those abbreviations are for His Excellency, the Peoples' President.

I don't begin with congratulations on a working day. It is straight to the topic.

Neither I nor the million multitudes who stood with thee (unlike the other –-so called-- principals of NASA who hid in shameful cowardice), want to see you excel merely as a curious political comedian. No, no way; therefore, to avoid being a Kenyan version of an entertainment Monarch, to avoid being our East African version of Prince Charles of the UK –---a kind of dim-witted peoples' pet tolerated in act as a nuisance, harmless foolish uncle, thee the Peoples' President must progressively use the only authority you have: and that is the voluntary deference from the people.

And that too is easier said than done.

(Your Excellency,

Howbeit thee Old Dog must FINALLY learn new tricks in old age, because thee, as the apprentice King, but the absolute Agwambo of Luoland, in the past two decadeS, has, in more than my opinion alone, chartered a pathological history of richly abusing this deference from the people, no less than Kalonzo Musyoka has a track-record of treachery at the moment supreme. Your Excellency, and I can produce factology, has more often than not risked destroying peoples confidence in your vision, by seemingly underwriting the blatant rigging which has systematically plagued ODM primaries in Luo Nyanza. This political corruption has been to the nepotistic benefit of your excellency's short-sighted court and those in their orbit of patronage!

Howbeit political corruption in the form of ELECTORAL RESULTS WHICH DO NOT REPRESENT THE PEOPLES' WILL, is now the sharpest of bones stuck in the political throat of the Jubilee regime. We see Matiang'i coughing up blood and teargas everyday, his eyes bleary with too much substance!)

The import of this is that thee, the annointed redeemer of Kenya from Jubilee debauchery, can not himself maintain a whiff of the same KANU weaning yet profess thy's are the tidings of deliverance to Canaan, Kingdom Come.

You are the embodiment, now officially the personification of the power of the people: POPP. You are the anti-Uhuruto Lie. Thee must be the Shining Truth!

(Piny-Owacho mar tend Agwambo koro nyaka nyedhree, to mana gi tim maler.) ---(The will of the people under Raila's leadership must now show-case itself, alight in shining colours!)

That will be a tall order, if the past is to go by. Is it too late for you to change, is the question!?

Rome was not built in a day though, but it was built nevertheless. But I like this saying better: simplicity works best, and simplicity begins with the use of common sense.

And therefore it is to common sense I first turn.

in PART 2, next.

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PART 11: Notes for the priority of H.E the PP.

Your Excellency, The Peoples President, Amollo Tinga,

I am not one of your fanatics, not even a fan by any stretch of imagination. I am a die-hard republican and you are a hereditary chieftain, even if still as formidable as any would-be freely elected republican. Africa too has panel-beaten my mind too much to let my guard down, whatever the euphoria. But the social environment from which I spring, is saturated with Agwambomania, as the political heir to Kijana, Eugene Wamalwa, put it. He was speaking during the funeral of the woman he perhaps would have loved to have inherited along with the throne, the once excruciatingly beautiful Yvonne, Wamalwa. Anyway, the electric energy you, their president, inspires in the people, is genuine; their internal radiance as they chant your praise names is not an affectation, the hopes they hold in their hearts for the future you herald are real, and the projections of the ideals they perhaps naively invest in your person, are passionate enough to remind me of a terrible lesson.

Many leaders will betray the peoples trust, voluntarily given. And that is just a curtain-raiser to the real event. History is a bad place to look for happy endings to social conflict in the short-term. It is a bad big sad world.

But the daily grind of life must be lived. If a routine of common sense is established, as minds consistently search for innovative and new insights to old problems, whilst practicating logical solutions to both new and old complexities, then do I post mountains will be climbed without the curse of Sisiphos evoked.

No, the peoples president new style must quickly get down to the business of common sense. And I will help with a possible short list. 1. Don't ever condone any kind of rigging again anywhere throughout the space at large!

Here is an illustration of just how ferocious the passions you, H.E PP, unleash can run deep in a people. It requires uttermost caution, deep thought and sense, to exercise such power.

15 members of my blood family including two brothers decided to go to Uhuru Park on 31-01-2018, and face death calmly. Trigger-happy coppers Koome and Matiang'i and their murderous goons could do their best worst: death here we come in Agwambo's name. 15 is high for one family (even if it is a large enough to warrant a clan), so I asked our eldest brother to do the terrible thing which we must do when the living are sent to die for whatever purpose, a ritual sacrifice being one option. Our Old man the fisherman, he taught us these things. He said in life there can come a day when AS A MAN, one has to 'die with open eyes', that others breathe. 'When that day comes, find the courage not to flinch. Just do the ritual of the Yago Tree in advance. Then go to die calmly', the fisherman instilled. He was a sexist, our Old Jakaswanga, he didn't expect women to die for the collective good, only men!

Hmmm

Howbeit in the run to 30th January 2018 our family had MORE FEMALE death volunteers than male!? Yes, culture moved on --even as we as in both the Kenyatta and Odinga succession all talk is about MEN!)

But turly I say unto you, this single fact has revolutionised the social relations in our family forever. We can already see it in the face of the girls. Well done Gladys and Millie! My girls want to grow up into you!

I officiated as the wife of my brother calmly explained to her children that Mummy was going to Nairobi Uhuru Park, and the chances were she was not coming back, neither would her body ever be found. But we have arranged for the Yago Tree, and she looked at me. –--'Nyithinda aketonu ler chutho. Utim nenda. An adhi adhi tho kod Agwambo. Kenyatta ok di neg Mboya kendo wawe Ouru wuode dog neg Raila Kodinga Nairobi e lela to wan wadong' mangima. Ka en tho to an adhi tho kod Raila Kodinga.!'

–-'Children, I am going to Nairobi to die with Raila Odinga. It can not be, that Kenyatta killed Tom Mboya, and now we let another Kenyatta kill Raila Odinga openly in Nairobi, while we stay alive. Let this death come, but I will die with Agwambo openly. That is my testimony!'

I am sure my family was not the only one to conduct this ancient ritual of mourning in advance. With cold heart I moved to prepare the 'surrogate burials' of 15 members of my family. For who could guarantee the correct bodies would be recovered the morning after?

So if Koome and Matiang'i were game, the massacre at Uhuru Park and CBD Nairobi would have been like Tian-Amen in Beijin. And a terrible red line in the history of Kenya would have been crossed. And terrible and ancient cultural rituals enacted in various families across the land.

I have seen both sides of the divide of hate. I have witnessed the uncompromising and unapologetic pride of Hutu men before a Gatchacha court sentencing them to death for hate crimes against the Tutsi, chanting poems from ancient times when Tutsis' ruled and massacred Hutu villages, and how they had gladly paid back, raping and maiming young Hutu girls and bludgeoning them to death in orgies. And I have also seen the insane ferocity of the Tutsi Avengers. Led by Paul Kagame. And yeah, Kagame was game, all the way game. So, frozen in an ideologial warp, confined to a mental block, Hutu and Tutsi are locked in a dance of hate, bursts of impassioned mass murders; and, inundated with the toxic fumes of inculcated paranoia, cyclic power shifts punctuate the hysterical dance. (It is a bit like the capitalist economy, we used to joke. Cycles of boom and bust. Now Hutu Up, Tutsi down --Habyarmana, Tomorrow Tutsi Up Hutu down, Kagame! Until Kingdom come and we discover new laws for a peaceful and stable dynamic!)

Well, Bravo Kenya! common sense prevailed a bit. The announced massacre was averted. Matiang'i and Koome were denied the quench of their bloodthirst; the matchstick to light up the ethnic powder-keg called Kenya and blow it up was removed from their hands by saner heads. The charged police bosses received Intel from the cultural depths where all demons bide time, to desist from brazen stupidities. Those depths are those whose bases had been touched to steel the resolve of millions of Kenyans to, with their blood if necessary, sign the inauguration of their President, The peoples Amollo.

From cultural depths, it isn't just Kalonzo and the two Luhya cuckolds who chickened out on that day I tell ya. The man with the TRIGGER COMMAND, fire! swallowed his poison and fire was held. Now we witness capo Matiang'i drunk on that poison, that hate. Fred is puffing and bellowing around like a wounded, enraged and disoriented bull, marauding blind around the political arena. He professes the rule of law but his police brutes ignore every court order!

The poison is eating him within. Burning his brain as a Jamaican poet puts it in these circumstances.

But the peoples president must show ideological superiority ---and common sense is a very large dose of that, must distance himself from the poison of hate which has eaten up the minds of college dons like the former doctoral, Fred Matiang'i, aka Sudhe the rabid dog.

How do we put paid to the culture of rigged elections? ECONOMIC JUSTICE OF COURSE!

Continued. 3.

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MEANWHILE, this is of general note of interest. --not for the peoples' president!

OF COURT ORDERS: THE SLIPPERY SLOPE

What I really wanted to analyse is the evolution of the FLYING SQUAD. This tough-crime special unit of the police was disbanded yesterday, only to be formed again conform the new Muigai handpick, Kinoti.

But first, a joke

Flying squad web of corruption smashed

Britain's biggest investigation into police corruption finally smashed the fantastic lifestyles of a closely-knit gang of "supercops" who became a law unto themselves and stole thousands of pounds.

As four detectives were finally cleared at the Old Bailey of any involvement with their renegade colleagues, details of a web of corruption could be reported for the first time.
A hard core of bent detectives - based at Rigg Approach, north east London - had combined efficient police work with serious corruption.

When they arrested some of the nation's top criminals, they siphoned off large percentages from the recovered proceeds of armed robberies, then shared it out among their inner circle.
Martin Heslop QC, defending one - Detective Constable Kevin Garner - said: "There existed within the Rigg Approach division of the Flying Squad what can only be described as a culture of corruption involving secrecy, camaraderie and dishonesty between the officers."

That was the United Kingdom. But a study of elite armed units around the world reveal what you already know! fallen angels galore! Even in the army, any army, the toughest commando units running the riskiest combats come home with trophies: human body parts. it is a warrior thing of dominance, to walk around with the body parts of kills. But on official parades, decency demands Generals display medals instead. It is a warrior thing, barbarism.

Now Kenya's special police units

Revamp of specialised units starts under new boss Kinoti

Thursday February 1 2018
In Summary

The unit was established in 1995 following an increase in carjackings and armed robberies in Nairobi.
In most cases, Flying Squad officers do not appear in court to give evidence since most of their missions are like those of hit squads.

By FRED MUKINDA

More by this Author
The dreaded Flying Squad, a crack police unit, has been dismantled and its officers disarmed, it emerged on Thursday.
Officers serving in the unit across the country have been asked to return all police property in their possession, including handcuffs and uniform in orders given on Monday.
The Nation learnt that the squad will be built afresh by staffing it with untainted and retrained police officers from the General Service Unit and other formations.

READ: Flying Squad's smoking gun

CRIME

The Flying Squad, officially called the Anti-Motor Vehicle Theft Unit, falls under the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, which has a new director — George Kinoti — who was appointed by President Uhuru Kenyatta last month.
He was previously the National Police Service spokesman.

So the official brief says the squad ---was it once called KweKwe?? is meant for the serious crimes war, like armed and dangerous robbers, hardened criminals etc etc.

But what has it in fact become famous for today!?

Yes

Zooming in on, waylaying and arresting political opponents of the Jubilee regime. And let most of these NASA-man be practising barristers and public, elected politicians! This detail is significant. And I wanted to footnote here, as a new Flying squad is re-constituted by George Kinoti, even before he is fully vetted and confirmed! That is a quick guy there, our George, no time to waste, in a hurry to get somewhere!

On the other side, our flying-squaders evolved into associates of criminals and, in the words of the British Judge 'living a lifestyle beyond that which they earn fair by work, within the law!' Some are also for hire in private disputes which require total-man resolutions, Jacob Juma?

The current team arose from a tiny team to become one of the elite units of the police mandated to pursue hardened criminals involved in sophisticated crimes.

UNDERCOVER

Police officers attached to crack units stand out in comparison to colleagues from the regular duty.
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It is not the first time the unit is being overhauled, having been dismantled in 2006 and most of its officers replaced by those from the paramilitary GSU.
COURT CASES
In most cases, Flying Squad officers do not appear in court to give evidence since most of their missions are like those of hit squads.
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In a majority of the cases, they are not sent to make arrests because their missions involve exchange of fire that often ends in the deaths of suspects.

The Flying Squad borrows its name from an ancient unit in the Metropolitan police in the United Kingdom, where its original officers used horse-drawn carriages.

Power corrupts, even cops.

Kenya police 'terror' unit disbanded
Tuesday May 16 2000

By STEPHEN MUIRURI

An elite police hit squad has been disbanded -- after its officers were implicated in violent crimes.
They took part in carjackings, torture and the execution of suspects, it was disclosed.
The squad of 30 officers, attached to the Criminal Investigations Department and based at its Nairobi headquarters, was given a free hand to combat carjackers, bank robbers and other violent criminals.
One senior police officer said: "It was the worst terror squad the police force has ever had. Its officers were ruthless and brutal. They were powerful and were feared by even senior police officers."

All the detectives in the disbanded squad have been put back into uniform and dispersed to stations outside the city. No action has been taken against them for their alleged crimes.

Code-named Alfa Romeo, the squad was set up about three year ago to tackle a wave of crime that threatened to engulf the city.

and, before we see abouth that no-action!

Some vehicles seized from carjackers are reported to have disappeared in the hands of the crooked detectives.
Money recovered from bank robbery suspects also vanished.
The policemen were also implicated in a carjacking syndicate that steals vehicles in Nairobi and takes them to Tanzania for sale.

CID boss Francis Sang claimed the Alfa Romeo unit was disbanded in a restructuring of his department and not because of allegations that they had taken part in the crimes they were set up to prevent.
He said the formation of the Special Crime Prevention Unit, headed by Mr Peter Kavila, rendered the Alfa Romeo squad irrelevant.

THEN FAST FORWARD --two decades --TO 2018 GEORGE KINOTI!
Superintendent George is the new kid on the block. But what is new? Francis Sang was here two decades ago! No!?

If not, somebody else to clear the loose ends.

Ex-Kwekwe killer cops fear for their lives
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000090459/ex-kwekwe-killer-cops-fear-for-their-lives
By -By HUDSON GUMBIHI | Published Fri, August 9th 2013

Three former members of a Mungiki extermination police squad have recorded crucial information with a city lawyer days after their ex-boss was murdered in Kitui, The Nairobian has learnt. The officers, who were once attached to the dreaded Kwekwe Squad, fear their lives could be in danger after the mysterious shooting of Chief Inspector Zebedayo Maina on August 3.

The Nairobian has learnt the three believe a secret police hit squad has been formed to murder officers thought to have vital information on the 2007/2008 post-election violence and the large-scale killing of suspected Mungiki members. It is estimated that tens of people were murdered in Operation Maliza Mungiki.

Action taken, action not taken?

www.nation.co.ke/news/Fred-Matiangi-NRM-outlawed-group-/1056-4284940-xevhguz/index.html

SERIOUS CRIMES GOES POLITICAL OPPOSITION

Today it is the likes of Babu Owino, TJ Kajwang', Junet Mohammed, Miguna Miguna, Linus Kaikai, Junet Mohammed …... who are on the surveillance and arrest radar of the serious crimes prevention unit. In this respect it must also be noted, that the murders of Jacob Juma and Chris Muhando are, in popular narrative, the works of rogue cops from a killer unit above the law. No man, no law, no court order gets in their way! They are a law unto themselves! sometimes!

But Yes, NO COURT ORDER GETS IN THEIR WAY!

–-The joke is it is possible they do not know what a court order is, nor how serious it is in a constitutional order. MALIYAMUNGU, General Idi Amin's hard man and right hand, had never heard of anything called the constitution of Uganda. Serious! He was genuinely surprised when some Tanzanian confronted him with the idea. And Mustafa Idris, the Vice President? I dread to tell the story of his thumb as a joke. Let me just say he was semi-literate, and when his signature was ridiculed by the highly educated, he became reluctant to sign stuff. But ... ….

Here we are in Kenya, 2018. Even a former dean at a prestigious college, Dr. Fred Matiang'i, never imported the significance of a court order! –--Am I still joking!?

There are grades of lawlessness, but the following is KEY, for those who understand the import of a constitutional order in civilisation, its credibility to officiate social tensions, and underpin the contract between the ruled and the rulers.

mobile.nation.co.ke/news/Irony-of-senior-State-officers-who-defy-court-orders/1950946-4246680-1r8chu/index.html

The number of arrest warrants has been increasing by the day with court officials now concerned about government officials’ failure to heed to the orders.

“In these cases, I see continuous disobedience of lawful court orders by government officials without any justifiable cause or explanation,” said Justice Francis Gikonyo recently.
His colleague in the High Court George Odunga said: “In my considered view, court orders are not made in vain and are meant to be complied with. If for any reason a party has difficulty in complying with court orders, the honourable thing to do is to come back to court and explain the difficulties faced in the need to comply with the order.”
Lawyer James Mwamu said flagrant disobedience of the law undermines the rule of law and the Judiciary. He proposed that Chief Justice David Maraga holds a meeting with President Uhuru Kenyatta and discuss the matter with him.

COURT ORDERS

“I think this is where leadership should come in. The CJ should meet with not only the President but also the Speakers because I believe some have also ignored court orders, and agree that court directives should be obeyed. We cannot have a country where everyone is a law unto themselves,” he said.
Mr Mwamu said it had become difficult to implement court orders because the concerned public officials were protected by the police while on duty and at home.

While issuing the warrant of arrest against Mr Torome, Justice Sergon had directed Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet to ensure that the PS was brought to court without fail. Mr Boinnet said he could not arrest him because the PS had already filed an appeal, seeking to stay the order.

Justice Sergon issued the order last month directing the PS to be arrested and jailed for six months for contempt of court. This was after a family in Mombasa, Ms Eunice Makori and Ms Hellen Makone, moved to court in 2009 and successfully sued the government for failing to compensate them after they surrendered their land in Mombasa.
The two, who are administrator and personal representatives of the estate of Mr Johnson Onduko Makori, accused the government of failing to pay them Sh9.2 million plus other interests from 2006, when the land was given to the government.

David Maraga the CJ, you are a mother tongue fellow to this SDA-choir boy, recently scandalised for an amorous cock. Perhaps you can patiently explain, in vernacular, to his retarded, once doctoral head, what the significance of a court-order is, and what it means when authority pick and chooses, chery picks, which court directives to follow.

Institutional and social Consequences could be .... the court as a laughing stock ...
Anarchy!? Arbitrariness of justice!? Legal order collapse? Loss of confidence in the Judiciary?

Now let me go back to addressing the peoples president. This was just a yawn. But a slippery slope.

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PART III: LETTER TO THE PEOPLES' PRESIDENT

Dear The peoples president, H.E Amollo Tinga,

As the CJ David Maraga in his Solomonic propensity whispers a word of wise privately unto the power-blocked ears of the KANU-retro bull, Matiang'i, a public rebuke from you at his SDA-choir-boy wayward morals would be opportune. After all, you, President Amollo Tinga, is reputed to be the midwifer of the second liberation. It has been a short-lived liberation though.

In deed, its arrival and demise is reminiscent of the speed with which Kenyatta the father, Odinga the father, James Gichuru and Tom Mboya, quickly amended (butchered!)the Lancaster independence constitution to get rid of the opposition and institutionalise KANU as the almighty Baba and eternal Mama of all things political in Kenya. Two years later Odinga the father changed his mind. Another two years later, Tom Mboya was dead. More forwards, James Gichuru broke mentally, sulked into depression and disappeared into drink like an earlier Mwai Kibaki. He couldn't face the all too real nightmare sober. JM Kariuki murdered it is said was the final broke the camel's back! -–-Studious and mentally deep, Gichuru was the first elected president of KAU in 1944, Kenya African Union, the fore-runner of KANU. He stood down for Jomo in 1946.

But here we are in 2018.

In the past four days the police/state has ignored, and in all cases forcefully prevented the due process of law. 2010 promulgant my foot. For instance they physically restrained the serve of a court order on two occasions as journalists witnessed!

1. The return-to -live Air order elicited by Okiya Omtatah's injunction on Matiang'i's Al-Sisi decrees.

2. The do-not-enter-transmission-sites order obtained by Citizen and enjoined TV lawyers. These are the Limuru and Kiambu sites where the CA (Communication Authority of Kenya) engineers switched off the so-called ADN signals to disable the live transmissions of the 'terrorist-leaning broadcasters and their treasonable anchors'. The latter include Linus Kaikai, Larry Madowo and Ken Mijungu! Were it not for a vigil around Nation House, the illustrious trio would have kept Miguna or Kajwang' company as overnight guests of the state in some bed-bug cell. Even CEO Wachira Waruru of citizen, said to have been softened in 2015 by a state reward, which captured too the likes of Julie Gichuru, has now turned Citizen TV into an Al-Shabaab broadcasting service!

And Dr. SK Macharia himself? Watch it old man! You are a well-known consort and publicity oxygen of traitors and their like-minded facilitators of their treasonable activities! All your licenses are under review!

(I tell you Fred Matiang'i has lost his mind. The gods want to destroy him, or Kenya along with him!) The doc, former dean and education cab-sec, has mutated into pure poison. The personification of a dead-minded Africa. But may be his turbo-charged public pose is merely a side-effect of too much viagra to satisfy a nymphette! There are rumours of a Lolita in his middle-aged life, No!?

Me I fear no thought, O your excellency!

3. The release Miguna Miguna edict until next court appearance. Like Babu Owino the other day when a homo-erotic cop got the measure of Otiende Amollo's balls in front of a Kiambu court, General Miguna of the proscribed NRM was released and re-arrested immediately contrary to the Court's stamp! –---Of course Miguna and Matiang'i are a bit like the North Korean Kim and the American Donald Trump: my you know is bigger than your you know!

4.

Posted 30/12/2017
Irony of senior State officers who defy court orders

Therefore, O the peoples President,

Common sense and sanity must be rewon to its titular place in the heart of the nations social fabric. I submit.

That has steep consequences for you, H.E Amollo Tinga, the PP.

1. The days of endlessly castigating the (PMP) Potato Mountain People for a genetic predisposition toward theft, while we, The (PoL) People of the Lake, burn down the public accounts office at Homa Bay, and, worse, come last in the Auditor General's transparency reports, must be expired forthwith. Eduard Ouko chronicles a thievery akin to the medieval sacking of a captured city state, and this is as perpetrated by a Luo-ODM bureaucracy on Luo polities. And these are most loyal to the peoples' president.

That is a monumental scandal that must be quashed forthwith. I am game with a death sentence for corruption. If you dare.
Otherwise what else would Loch Raila mean, but another version of the Uhuruto rape of the public purse and will? Yeah, the only magic thee, Ker Amollo Tinga, can work to make the progressive historical grade, is a visitation on the peoples hearts. A visitation is the institutionalisation of the historical will of the people. –--Easily enough, that is liberation from all forms of oppression.

How complex is it to divine the historical will of the people on a daily basis? We define economic justice as the basic. And then like the metereology people, do daily updates! O econometric models!

Anyway, long journeys begin with single steps. Progress is always slow, even at the best of times. But sense is always good while stupid stays stupid.

There are therefore loads of A-B-C stuff which can be done immediately. These are simple but decisive stuff to denote a change of regime, at the internal level. One can always spot the simple differences in daily practice, simple steps taken but whose results, in the way some countries manage their scarce resources, to rebuild after –-for instance--- a war or a massive natural disaster, work out to give such thrifty countries unsurpasable mileage on others which may be endowed with fabulous resources but, like Congo or the Ukraine, less content-headed leadership.

And it is to this I want to face next, O Mr. Peoples President, The Hope of the Faithful!

EXAMPLES OF A-B-C

Next.

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And it is to this I want to face next, O Mr. Peoples President, The Hope of the Faithful!

EXAMPLES OF A-B-C. Next.

IV: LETTER TO THE PEOPLES' PRESIDNET


His Excellency H.E Amollo Tinga

Here is a quick list of Abcd's. I consider them examples of elementary stuff which make an immediate difference.

1. NASA COUNTIES ENVIRONMENTAL HYGIENE CODE

A national environmental hygiene campaign in the peoples republic. These are the counties loyal to thee, H.E PP Amollo Tinga wuod Oganda. Special attention (as in) immediate prioritisation must be given to Mombasa, Kisumu and Kakamega. Mombasa is Joho, 001, a man fate seems to always thrust forward regardless. By some reports, Mombasa is drowning in uncollected rubbish and threatening a state-wide epidemic of cholera. That is an intolerable blemish on Hassan Joho, and here he should show clear difference with Mbuvi Sonko. Joho is a rising star, Sonko a fading. As a problem anywhere, garbage collection and refuse management is a small matter. The clearance bit is solvable in one month if labour --the idle youth, are mobilised and organised in a DO-IT-YOURSELF community response units. 50,000 able-bodied youth, 10-hour serious work day.

I will do financing after number 5.

1B: Luoland Nyanza by virtue of being an ODM-Raila-Mania hotbed, gets special attention on this issue of environmental hygiene. In this post-inauguration period, they must SHOW-CASE the peoples president charting a SUPERIOR IDEOLOGICAL PATHWAY to the retrogressive Uhuruto regime with its KANU-esque atavism. They must do a PROPAGANDA BY DEED, becoming a mighty illustration of a charity which began at home and went furtherst, to seduce doubting Toms and ashame faint-hearts like Kalonzo Musyoka, now ridiculed by a famous song from Kenny Rogers.

This step means the heaps of rubbish which, apart from a magnet for stray birds and dogs, wild hogs and germs, are an eye-sore in market centres like Ahero, Otonglo, Sondu, Holy Bondo, Akala, Chabera, Kadongo, Wahondo, Migori, should all be cleaned up within one month.

This obviously requires mass mobilisation and new codes of waste-disposal in public. (it also requires a public confession why, hitherto, it has not been done, or why our Luo markets are, to put it mildly, a pig-sty!)

For this clean-up to happen in the said time of one month, President Amollo must take matters in to his own bible-oathed hands, the way he took his fate into his own hands when his co-principals chickened out on him at the final hour on January 30th. Your execellency must dig deep into the bag of common sense, thee must mobilise the people, campaign and instruct the people in their trusting deference, to write and uphold their own county-assembly stamped environmental codes of hygiene. Of course the people know the difference between a clean and a dirty market centre! but it is upon the local peoples assembly, and the NRM committee, to put this in stone after a local discussion and passage of bill ---statutise.

Thereafter CENTRAL AUTHORITY OR BODY issuing out of the peoples assemblies is institutionalised as a general inspectorate and a counties wide coordination unit.

(Again I hasten to add I tackle financing later. It is the easy part!)

MASENO UNIVERSITY and the technical institutes like Mawego and Bondo have a frontline role in this project. Technical, theoretical think-tanks and field-applied easy technologies is their brief. (for instance how to separate waste –--e.g plastic, organic, in-organic, chemical-- and each the appropriate disposal protocol).

How be it this power of the people in their trusting deference, if technically harnessed, purposed and channelled toward self-do ECONOMIC FRONTS, productive fronts, public convenience fronts, self-help (embezzlement-free SACCO) co-ops, is an unleashed motor roaring to places unimaginable for the primitive comprador. This comprador class, from hence most of the ODM bureaucracy is recruited, runs a regime of parasitic dependence, ever begging for foreign aid and NGO handouts, even to feed orphans! Raila to okelo devolution giyako!

The peoples President must cut this mentality down. Nyaka ito onyuogogi momoko e lepi, keloni wichkuot, miyo ji chayi ni ibende in tend jokuoye, tend lil-mudho, to iyanyo Ouru ni olil!. His Excellency must mobilise the people toward capturing their dignity, and not just toward propaganda and political point-scoring between ethnic elites, in royalist combat!

2. THE QUESTION OF THE WATER HYACINTH

His Excellency should issue a decree, declaring the removal of the hyacinth (water weed) from Lake Victoria Nambwa, a peoples priority. To concretise this move, His Excellency should spearhead the formation of a company named exactly after what its purpose is: KAVIRONDO HYACINTH REMOVAL COMPANY.

Common sense I said. No fancy stuff yet.

Next step is FINANCING. This to me is the easiest part of the puzzle. The difficult part is the operational engineering and logistics, say of 100,000 strong young men in the snake-filled swamp, daily manually harvesting the weed into conveyor boats or rafts. But in my travels I saw deeper, more dangerous open-mines in the Congo manually worked by similar numbers, 24/7. So I know manual water-swamp hyacinth mining is difficult, but not really that much difficult.

–-The difficulty is this:

We are used to corruption and degradation of labour in Kenya. But when people do dangerous work, you don't fack around with them, ati pesa pok obiro! If you delay their pay at the end of the week, as I already seen happened with a pilot project in Kisumu, run by tenderpreneural scum allied to ODM honchos, they will easily turn around and kill you, then abandon the project.

Anyway I checked the reclamation of Egyptian swamps during pharao's time, and the expansion and canalisation of the Euphrates and Tigris basin for agriculture, which made Babylon great. The hyacinth can be made quick work of, manually by ancient technology! But by modern planning and Young men at work led by JOOT technicians, slave man hours or not, it is a miracle when labour is showing its genius in whatever faculty! A wirtschafstwunder they call it in Germany. We should give it a shot.

Kenet B, the Nairobi poet from Migori, has a song about it: RIT TIJI



3. THE LAKE BASIN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY RE-PURPOSED

MANIFEST immediately, the reconstitution of the Lake Basin Development Authority into a monstrous conglomerate. The current dead-end authority, is taken over and infused with relentless purpose in pursuit of real goals. But rule one remains: freedom from corruption. Only then will the practical visions be realised. Corruption kills the peoples hearts, saps their mental vigour. Corruption is a boa-constrictor on peoples initiatives.

The new-go-getter LBDA goes into finance and industry, education and research, banking and agriculture. Development is a vision thing. All that excess cash the Luo county executives are keeping in commercial banks to cash in on high interest rates for private gain, here is where it finds keep and use. –-Repeat, corruption free only.

4. WINAM INDUSTRIAL AND DEVELOPMENT BANK

Anyang' Nyong'o was already on it, but he is unforutnately a half-corpse now. The peoples president must take over the drive to launch immediately the WINAM Industrial and Development Bank. (Don't discover the wheel twice, just copy for instance the Japan Asia industrial and infrastructure bank model. They don't steal!)

The first task of the Industrial Development bank would be adjunct the KAVIRONDO SOLAR AUTHORITY. Energy.

The solar authority needs a section of its own. But I summarise thus: One of the most important Industrial companies must be THE KAVIRONDO SOLAR-ENERGY COMPANY. –-KASECO. Yes, energy is a hot item, and the sun is ad-lib hot in Luo Nyanza. So you must have a company harnessing the sun, the way the Saudis have their ARAMCO. A petro-chemical and energy monster.

Okay, Mr. President Sir, we will be less grandiose in Nyanza –--no much fallow hectareage for 1 million sqkm of panels do we have! But it is still possible to, by peoples law, have every Luoland roof panel-saturated, and every home a SOLAR battery-generator the size of a regular TRADITIONAL Luo granary. It is easy to calculate the maximum energy Nyanza can generate from solar-panel and battery saturation. LUOLAND, SOLAR-POWERED LAND. Goodbye thieving Njoroge Kenya Power bills!

Bondo Technical University becomes a leading Solar Power Institute, in addition to Fish, bio-genetic engineering. Talk about priorities. And let Germany, President Raila's alma mater, be the leader in solar power efficiency engineering! Meseems pit-latrines at Usenge beach, we can do ourselves; let the Germans leave that alone. Technological transfer and solar-tech institutionalisation at JOOT is the better relationship.


5. FREE DEBATES AND PEOPLES GENUINE DECISIONS

Institutionalise the culture of free Debate on these things in peoples assemblies. Resist the TOP-DOWN academic snobism of the people are ignorant. That the peasants are backward and conservative, should be told what to do, who to vote for, who to marry, where to work, how to fak, when to fak and what to earn and eat!

The assemblies can decide all things in their local in open debate. It is also a dynamic process of learning from actual mistakes made. For instance, how many hours of work, breaks not counted, constitutes a working day to be paid as full labour? (kayamkono rates already exist as guide!) The people can also decide whether the assemblies go by a 50/50 women to men; or to follow the Baba Yao Kiambu model or not: 100% job reservation for locals, but 70% in the statutes!?

NB: The peoples president being accountable, mobilising economic consciousness and progressive economic thinking, burning fuel and doing more mileage than he did during the presidential campaigns, can imbue the people with a new sense of belonging, a new sense of mastery over their own destiny, and precipitate a social confidence and feel-good welfare even within the peoples limited economic budget. After all, that is the definition of economics, maximise scarce resources.

And that again, O His Excellency Mr. President, is the wisdom of common sense: NEVER WASTE ANYTHING!

Which brings me to the terrible number 6. Next.

6: Launch the anti-theft audit unit, and the zero-tolerance to corruption campaign.

This is the recuperation of dignity and the march toward our genuine historical personality, I neve heard nobody boast of being a thief. Logically no thief must lead.

DEATH TO THIEVES!

Start reading the Auditor General's accounts and note down names for further questioning. I am game.

[jakaswanga]

V: LETTER TO THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT, HE RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA,




Your Excellency,

Unlike the South African Onyango Oloo on the RED PIVOT, I am on the LUO-PIVOT! it is a labour of dangeerous love and ruthless passion. Anything mediocre, even if it is sent by God on High himself, I dismiss with the the bi!tchy contempt of a high-class hooker for a street arz-peddler!

I want to be clear.

RE: THE ANTI-THEFT AUDIT UNIT, THE ZERO-TOLERANCE TO CORRUPTION POWER PUNCH

I now come to number six of the ABCD's. Six is of course a wink at a famous chapter in the 2010 promulgate. With this wink I propose to take to task, Counsellor Otiende Amollo. This namesake of yours is of course one of the Nestors who put his John Hancox on that hope of the people, the 2010 promulgate.

This time we will define integrity.

This time we will define it clearly, and he, Okil Kamaloka
Otiende juok gik Jokamolo,
Otiende ng'at g'Odindo gir Jokopiata wuod gi Mollo koth Abudha,
Otiende nyathi gi Mbogo wuod Okello Jadala g'Achieng' Nyake Oneko mar gi Mboga tiekna-Tho-Nindo Thuon Jarawilla, ..... etc etc etc

will excel of interpretive and articulate mind, on integrity. He will anchor the best version of its, chapter six's, legal and cultural core in the statutes of our Kavirondo backyard. Or else Amollo join fellow lawyer Ababu Namwamba at sucking sh!t off Ruto's ass on the other side. (After all, Ababy used to be an ODM star, and lawyers like precedents!)



But, your excellency,

This time there will be no Wily Mutunga-like intellectual implosion. No Githu Muigai type mental meltdown. If there is to be, Raila Amollo Odinga is but a hollow pretender, nothing but a rotting carcass the size of Kachok dump site in Kisumu, only we lack the wherewith to move it to the junkyard of history.

Otiende Amollo: Solomon and Pilos Nestor in one, called by the fates to read and interpret law as per the will of the people .... Is he game!? And are you game Mr. President? Or was that bible held aloft at Uhuru Park Nairobi on the 30th of January 2018, just another, Carrey Francis phrase, unctuous exercise in public calling?

I am game. The people too are game. Their piety of belief in your Canaan gospel is genuine. The peoples' president will be the peoples' president. A charlatan will be a charlatan. Those two will be separate. If the raise of The Bible was a mere cynical ploy to stay the raised expectations of the people, then with cold-blooded heart will we re-visit the high-stakes fraud. What to do with the cheat of the country!

Now this

ANTI-CORRUPTION chapter six enacted first in the Kavirondo backyard.

I prefer to register this an adults only topic. It is only second to land reform as a terrifying agenda to the nobility, or aristocracy. I tell you the 500 acres Uhuru is lifting off Kalonzo's portfolio may hit Mr. Musyoka harder than the denunciations of coward of country from COTU Atwoli!

LuoNyanza must have mandated anti-theft audit maniacs. These, say IRS hounds, are your financial inquisitors, your forensic book-keepers from hell. They have to be as ruthless as the ATPU. More cold-blooded than the Heszy's of Dandora and Kayole, but far bigger minded. The Hezzies only do pick-pockets. Eurobonders and NYS scammers are beyond their understanding as the real thieves to be shot on sight, Kangaroo Miranda's read.

Thi IRS-ANTI CORRUPTION drive is where The Big Beast, The Workhorse General, Miguna Miguna, would be at his best: a boisterous and articulate legally trained NON-THIEF, unleashed on the corrupt. For starters, his brief, and popular mandate as per the peoples assemblies of LuoNyanza, would be to thoroughly investigate and recover all public goods, monies and properties ever lost to a thieving home elite, since time immemorial. From RIAT collections in the early 70s; from the grabbing of Kisumu municipality plots from Kenyatta's time, to recent, dare I say it, Molasses land controversies involving Daniel Arap Moi and Raila Odinga et al. Lo, imagine Miguna with his work ethic going through Evan's Kidero on Mumias sugar!?

Come baby come! Professor Tom Ojienda! Kidero's consigliere. Are you game!? Come baby come! Otiende Amollo, do you read me!? you wrote the constitution, now you deny chapter six at home like the disciple Peter before the cock crowed twice with Jesus!?

LET US TAKE A DEEP MENTAL BREATH, your Excellency. This topic is pure porn. Triple X-rate!

This interpretation of integrity to recover proceeds of plunder will terrify any nobility, and in this case, the Luo post independence nobility who, of course, have been the beneficiary of looted public goodies as part of the integration into .... and payback for supporting KANU primitive accumulation politics. Howbeit they like to point at Kikuyu's to deflect from own bestiality!

Your excellency, there is seerious talk of this parasitic class having captured your mind, and keeping it safely under lock! that you are just their plaything, a manipulative talisman they cynically use on the people, to lock them to their regime of loot and personal aggrandisement.

This is why the clarity of mind of our brilliant counsellors thrust in the eye of the historical storm in the aftermath of the swearing in of the people's president, The Thunderbolt of Thought, remains the fiercest weapon on behalf of the people and the struggle. Negate this thunderbolt, O your Excellency, diffuse the charge in its prime, Amollo, is go down in ignominy as just another fraud.


Luo pivot of sorts

Yes, when the rubber hits the tarmac, even the peoples president must bite his teeth and dare naked. Donate it back to Korando people? (See there how the scion of the first land-grabbing family pulled a fast one on MR. CLEAN!) Lesson: if the peoples president is not bluff-proof, he will be bent and facked over and over like Kalonzo Musyoka).

The peoples president will thus rise to the office, will rise to his oath, or he be just more vermin floating around the lake. Dead in the water.

That was for starters. The ABC list continues to ten.

But before that, it is imperative to handle this topic:

A PROPOSED POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FINANCE IN THE COUNTIES OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC.

Good to start with LuoNyanza.

1. The operating budget of the peoples assembly will be hived from the operating budget of the current county assemblies. The budget of the county assemblies is sliced in half; One half to the peoples assemblies.

This needs some ideological grounding and an illustrated micro-economic model of, for instance, the (theory of the) price of labour that shall hold in LuoNyanza: a LABOUR productivity and reward REFORM, and And 2: some (at the parasitic elite targeted) austerity economics round about the widening of the loop of financial circulation. This means the deconcentration of public finance from the hands of a few –--the current political nobility. It is an anti elitist, anti parasitic, ant cartelist, anti monopolist REFORM PACKAGE. i.e pro peoples!

The political labour aristocracy will be up in arms. We refer historical parallels later: even you, Brutus!?

2. THE END OF SACKING THE DEVOLUTION KITTY (Yako devolution orumo!)

continued.

[jakaswanga]

A BY THE WAY

TUJU: RAILA IS RAIS IN 'KALONGOLONGOLAND'

There is an alternative view, there usually is, like always another side is, to the same story, or even A coin.


The childrent showing off the KALONGOLONGO recept.

With passion and fury have I sought to weight out how Raila Odinga, after being sworn in as the peoples president, can sail ever high with the momentum generated from the overwhelming base propulsion of hearts. It was a force, the peoples power, which forced the trigger-happy coppers of Koome to stay their blood lust. Such a force is more than Kalongolong I think, but like all things, poorly used and wasted, is gone is gone.

I already said if not responsive to the dictates of the extracurricular nature of his office, Agwambo will plod back into a Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. That one is a public but forgotten old man, his calling already squandered by his blunders.

But now Tuju enters the firing field with an even more vicious kick. It was delivered with a velvet hand though, but nonetheless it was pointed stab. In fact it stung the gathered crowd of mourners to such a depth they forgot the body of Rateng' Ogego's mother, abandoning the event forthwith. Tuju decided to say his piece, only to realise the freedom of expression in his home county goes only too far!

Tuju: 'Chamo Muma-no, ne en Kalongolongo! Sirikal ma Raila wacho notelone-no, en mana Kalongolongo! Momiyo Raila en mana ker e piny Kalololongo! To e Piny Kenya ma ema udakieni, Rais en achiel, Ouru, modong' mokogo to Kalongolongo alonga te! Mago tuk nyithindo lilo ma ok ber gi jomadongo!'

That oath was a children's fantasy play! Raila's would-be government is a child's fantasy play! So Raila is president only in children's fantasy land! The real and only president is Ouru, the rest are children's fantasy, not good for adults to entertain!'

With that, the people had heard enough of the Jubileeman, Raphael Tuju. The situation became ugly! But it was also hilarious enough to be accorded bursts of laughter!

But even me, I don't have the feeling the peoples president has gathered up his act, nor come to terms with the depth of his oath.

At my saddest I remember a Ukrainian peasant chanced upon the Czar of Russia, Nicolas, his royal train marooned somewhere during that turbulent period early last century. Nicolas was sick and frail, grey and oddly absent. The peasant had a flash of insight. If this weakly joke was the hope of Russia, and this was divine Nicolas, then Russia was as good as dead. There were virile and seething forces operating in Russia beyond the mind of the Czar as he saw him. And in deed it was the last Czar, the last Romanov. Alive but already irrelevant.


Kalongolongo oath or something more?

Only pro-peoples action has ever made Raila relevant. And now, offside, he needs to play the peoples game more than ever, deeper than ever. Or, yes, the oath will be the biggest KALONGOLONGO party ever witnessed at UHURU Park!

NB: Homa Bay county assembly needs a riot act: disbanded and most of the MCA's expelled from the party.

[jakaswanga]

THE HONEYMOON IS OVER, YOUR EXCELLENCY!

Events are moving so fast, I can't last the honey-moon in good cheer. Valentino day my foot!

After a president is inaugurated, there is usually some grace period in which he enjoys the so-called Honeymoon.

But these terms are far from normal.

Sorry, your Excellency, reality and duty calls. Your territory is under fire and your troops under attack. Only a fool talks honeymoon now.

Forget Godec and his groupie ambassadors from Whitelands, Agwambo. Leave him and them to NASA's spokesman for foreign affairs, flanked by another for internal affairs.

–-I was amazed at His Excellency the peoples president attacking the local US ambassador! ---may be moonlighting as a BECHTEL employee, sucking up to Jubilee for more road contracts to thumb up China's BRI NOSE.

If your excellency feels the urge to attack American policy or a responsible American, you do best to do Trump, the POTUS. That is the protocol Agwambo, formal parity.

In to koro ichako yanyori gi ambaseda ambaseda, mano to koro eri wiyi, ere gosi mari, ere nyadhi mar tendi!? –--You shouldn't even adress yourself to Tillerson, his boss over there at the SD!

But Robert Godec's contempt for you NASA fellows is understandable. He managed to bribe and coerce your other so-called principals ---Kalonzo, Mudavadi and Weta to stay away from the Uhuru Park event, where you were oathed!

So he knows he owns the company you keep at the top, he can bend them to his will anyhow; the kind of deputies you surround yourself with are a joke really. There we see why Godec can afford to seethe with contempt, to talk about you, the peoples president, like he were a colonial overlord, and you, Agwambo, whatever your local title, his native shamba boy!

You should recognise Ouru forthwith, Godec orders you! Of course he knows the elections were a sham! but shamba boys will be shamba boys, and a leash is a leash, and the dog on it, gets to know his limits!

But it will be when I handle Germany's relations to Nyanza, that the real horror will emerge, my worst nightmare!

I don't seem to remember a successful liberation struggle led by the comprador anywhere in human history!

Honeymoon over!

NB: I am game to think the thought: what does a people do, with a worthless peoples' president!?

[jakaswanga]

Feb 14, 2018 23:22:26 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

THE HONEYMOON IS OVER, YOUR EXCELLENCY!

So he knows he owns the company you keep at the top, he can bend them to his will anyhow; the kind of deputies you surround yourself with are a joke really. There we see why Godec can afford to seethe with contempt, to talk about you, the peoples president, like he were a colonial overlord, and you, Agwambo, whatever your local title, his native shamba boy!

You should recognise Ouru forthwith, Godec orders you! Of course he knows the elections were a sham! but shamba boys will be shamba boys, and a leash is a leash, and the dog on it, gets to know his limits!

But it will be when I handle Germany's relations to Nyanza, that the real horror will emerge, my worst nightmare!

I don't seem to remember a successful liberation struggle led by the comprador anywhere in human history!

Honeymoon over!

NB: I am game to think the thought: what does a people do, with a worthless peoples' president!?

THE GOOD GERMAN COP OF NAIROBI AND THE BAD COP IN BERLIN!

O the lady is a diplomat!

The first time I heard Germany was funding toilets around the beaches dotting Luoland and the perch belt at large, my heart trembled with trepidation. Yaani, I know something about how German budgeters look at certain things, and certain kinds of people, even if they don't shout SH!T-HOLE PEOPLE at the top of their voices, like the free-expression Americans.

Once upon a time, it came to pass that Mbuta –---the Fresh Water Perch from the source of the Nile----- was a distinction German delicacy, but the catch was it came with a very long supply line. Howbeit lab tests invariably returned faecal pollution. And just like the Germans had taken over the Greek Central Bank --on behalf of the ECB, the IMF and the EU--- to do the accounting themselves, thereto flush out Greek budgetary chicanery and get the real state of Hellas's finances, they descended on Nyanza (and the respective beaches of Ug&Tz of course) for some close supervision. The purpose was to impose the dictates of hygiene on us dark-age fisherman natives, and cater for the infrastructure thereto.

I knew, as deep as insults dig, this was a quintessential German one. They were basically convinced we fakafishermen were untermenschen. No, not subhuman, but other dark humanoid species given to economic suicide if left on their own.

But do I say ...

You see ...(NB: Only recently when the German industrial elite captaining their fishy motor industry –----the Volkswagens, Audis, Mercedezs, Opels and BMW's---- have been caught pants down contaminating their own Perch with stupidity, have I breathed more easily.

Collusion Between Germany's Biggest Carmakers

The diesel scandal is not a failure on the part of individual companies, but rather the result of collusion among German automakers that lasted for years. Audi, BMW, Daimler, Volkswagen and Porsche coordinated their activities in more than a thousand meetings. The exposure of a cartel.

and

As more and more countries around the globe announce concrete goals to phase out internal combustion engines in passenger cars, the automobile's birthplace Germany is embroiled in an affair over exhaust emissions manipulation in diesel cars.

The "dieselgate" scandal started out as seemingly only encompassing the country's largest car company Volkswagen - but since it broke in September 2015, almost all major German carmakers have become implicated. [UPDATE January - VW suspends chief lobbyist following diesel fume test revelations

They have been falsifying performance data, falsifying engine pollution efficiency, rigging software and the devil knows what else! In other words the Great germans (small g) have been contaminating their perch with sheet! and hawking them as exquisite high-tech delicacies around the globe! Mere frauds!

So on a closer look, Angela Merkel does not radiate that much Iron of a lady, she cuts more the figure of the dubious patron of a fishy industrial elite, defrauding a gullible market, ati made in Germany is always top!

But again, you can't fool all the people all the time, which is why out here, the car in front is always a TOYOTA, or a Korean version of it, Probox, made in China! It also is a thought to ponder, if the German electorate itself now thinks Merkel has reached a date in which she is now hawking her substandard self. It has been quite a nightmare, that coalition formation!)

Few cheers at home for Germany's loveless coalition

Thomas Escritt


BERLIN (Reuters) - Angela Merkel’s German coalition deal with the Social Democrats (SPD) was greeted with more scepticism than joy on Thursday, as some said the loveless alliance, born of desperation, showed the conservative chancellor’s time was coming to an end.

But, thinking of the anti-war poet Homer, somewhat in a malicious glee hinting at an approaching, particularly hideous death of a hero, mesays before the mighty thud to dust, their battle wherewithal clanging aimless atop their former master, much amok do they wreak on the ranks of the lesser enemy!
We now know what heights of arrogance the Germans are capable of when they feel free. This is thanks to the diaries of Yanislav Varoufakis. The Greek version of these diaries they say, is less sanitized than the international, English version for the weak minded.

Varoufakis and Schäuble “unable to agree to disagree”

The first meeting between the Greek and German Finance Ministers highlighted their difference of opinion
Thursday, February 05, 2015

Mr. Schäuble stressed that he had a very different view to those of his Greek counterpart but explained that they had “agreed to disagree”. Mr. Varoufakis contradicted Mr. Schäuble, noting that “we didn’t even agree to disagree”.

The short of it is this, Varoufakis is a renowned professor of economics, say, with a touch of malicious scorn, the Treasury Debt-Addict Rotich and the CBK High-InterestRates-Maniac Njoroge combined into one. When a pretender Greek leftist party named SYRIZA, which could mean RESIST, won the general elections, Professor Varoufakis was famously delegated as minister of finance to re-negotiate the Greek debt and austerity conditions; that meant the Greek had the tragic role of a damsel tripped to the cave of the Minotaurus, the then German minister of finance, Wolfgang Schauble!

Now the diaries fill in on some of the erstwhile newspaper reports.

The German didn't bother, even for politeness' sake. to listen to Varoufakis. He just told him if there was any Greek alive who understood anything about economics, useless Greece would be more useful. 'You will do what I tell you or you can do your worst. I don't care! I will only listen to you when you say Yes My Lord!''

Well, Varoufakis resigned as minister of finance, and left another Greek professor of economics to be the German's toy. Prime Minister Tsipras was forced to sack him after the Troika –-the torturers of Greece, refused to credit him a serious negotiating partner. Enter Euclid Tsakalotos as replacement.

I know the German ambassador to Kenya wouldn't dare be frank with Raila the way Schauble was with Varoufakis and the Greeks. She would be petrified of being nailed for racism. Neither would she by any measure be frank with Fred Matiang'i, for any matter.


Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Fred Mating’i (right) and Germany Ambassador, Jutta Frasch (centre) in his Jogoo office.

But I am game on the Luo pivot, so I will read her mind for you, O the peoples president Agwambo. You see you people meet these ambassadors in the dark, and you people never explain anything to the people, neither on the subject matter nor on the protocols observed. Then by the time we common folk hear –-via the grapevine-- how much money you people have been offered individually, it is too late to kill the story. Like now this one about Kalonzo's health bills in Germany incurred by his wife, being responsible for his coward of the country behaviour! Aint it too late now for Kalonzo to be anything but everything William Ruto has always made him out to be!?

So let me be game and decode the German for you, since you too, O peoples president, is up to your ears in the observance of your class's duplicituous omerta! That lack of information creates a lot of room for speculation, and an idle mind being a devil's workshop, I am game to run with it throughout the space at large!


?

The she German will be thinking: 'This is the 'swine' who controls the politics of Nyanza the last two+ decades, hmm! The Americans provide retroviral relief for that AIDS den; The Danes dig wells and purify water for their drought-stricken throats, yet Nyanza is a fresh-water lake peninsular; The Norwegians run girl schools, feed the old and needy, and take care of the disabled, while the governor's ride around in NON-GERMAN Jumbo-turbine cars. The Dutch finance water projects, market toilets, mosquito nets et al, while Germany digs toilets, teaches sanitation and pays odd bills. China builds footpaths, sells fish, solartech and motorbikes, while Ugandans steal the fish and the islands .... etc etc –--And what does he himself, The King and peoples patron, do!?

O yeah, far from nothing! He rigs elections for his cronies and courtiers, like he were some medieval half Caesar. His party runs a corruption racket as bestial as the Uhuru Kenyatta Jubilee he castigates. And this is the swine telling me I can't talk about Kenya? Dam-n, I have more rights to give the god'-d-amn Luos their marching orders than him!'

She will think it, but unlike Wolfgang Schauble to Varoufakis, she will hold her tongue! But who cares, we read minds these days! The way vultures and scavengers read the body language of stragglers in the herd!

Yap. I always see those NGO's around Nyanza and who funds them, and I always remember Yanislav Varoufakis in Berlin, the Minotaurus relishing his arz.


Schäuble and Varoufakis, awful chemisty

FOOTNOTE

Before Varoufakis in Berlin, there was Georges Papandreau in Brussels. Georges was the Prime minister of Greeks a long time ago. Angela Merkel didn't bother to acknowledge him. Instead she turned to the Belgian Herman van Rompuy. 'Burry him, Herman, he is already a political corpse, but mentally too dead to know it!'

Only long after his retirement did the Old Belgian talk about how deeply he had been hurt. But he had to agree: Papandreau had made such a financial mess of Greece, he deserved to be summarily hanged like a cattle rustler in the wild west.

I am watching us waste devolution cash, and thinking, will the fates be nicer to us!? Or is it that when the chips finally come down, whoever will be the president of Kenya, peoples or just plane, will be given the Georges Papandreau treatment. A corpse unaware of its death. Come to think of it, with the debt binge of Jubilee, Uhuru Kenyatta may already be the living dead. But he is lucky the real crunch will come when he is long gone, like Greece now with Papandreau well-retired. And that goes for the peoples president too. Okelo devolution wayako, but when the creditors come for their pound of flesh, he will be long dead, a hellish financial fiasco the heritage.

So what to do? Forewarned being forearmed?

It sure is the prerogative of his Excellency the peoples president to man up, or, move over, be cut down by reality. The reality of incompetence to offer decisive leadership in a crisis!

With co-principals like Kalonzo, Mudavadi and Wetangula, one feels like saying, why bother! Just move on past these dead men.

Not that they know they are dead!

I took a trip down to the House of Hades! And aint they agile, these shadows of them who are politically dead!

[jakaswanga]

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, delivered the Address to the Federal Assembly. The ceremony took place at the Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, March 1, 2018. 14:00 Moscow



The presentation of the Address was attended by Federation Council members, State Duma deputies, members of the Government, leaders of the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court, governors, speakers of the legislatures of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the leaders of traditional religions, public figures, including the heads of regional civic chambers, as well as the leaders of major media outlets.

Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly


President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, members of the Federation Council and State Duma,

Today’s Address is a very special landmark event, just as the times we are living in, when the choices we make and every step we take are set to shape the future of our country for decades to come.

It is at such turning points that Russia has proven, time and again, its ability to develop and renew itself, discover new territories, build cities, conquer space and make major discoveries. This unwavering forward-looking drive, coupled with traditions and values, ensured the continuity in the thousand-year-long history of our nation.

We have gone through major challenging transformations, and were able to overcome new and extremely complex economic and social challenges, preserved the unity of our country, built a democratic society and set it on the path to freedom and independence.

We ensured sustainability and stability in almost all areas of life, which is critical for a huge and multi-ethnic country like ours with its complex federative structure and diversity of cultures, with historical divides that are still alive in people’s memory and major challenges Russia had to face over the course of its history.

However, sustainability is the foundation of development but not its guarantee. We have no right to allow a situation when the stability that has been achieved would lead to complacency, all the more so as many problems remain unresolved.

Today, Russia ranks among the world’s leading nations with a powerful foreign economic and defence potential. But we have not yet reached the required level in the context of accomplishing our highly important task and guaranteeing people’s quality of life and prosperity. But we must do this, and we will do this.

As I said in the past, the state’s role and positions in the modern world are not determined only or predominantly by natural resources or production capacities; the decisive role is played by the people, as well as conditions for every individual’s development, self-assertion and creativity. Therefore, everything hinges on efforts to preserve the people of Russia and to guarantee the prosperity of our citizens We must achieve a decisive breakthrough in this area.

I repeat, a solid foundation has been created for this. Therefore, we can now set and accomplish new tasks. We already have substantial experience in implementing ambitious programmes and social projects. The Russian economy has proved its resilience, and the current stable macro-economic situation opens up new opportunities for surging ahead and maintaining long-term growth.

Finally, the world is now accumulating a tremendous technological potential making it possible to achieve a real breakthrough in improving the people’s quality of life and modernising the economy, the infrastructure and state governance and administration. How effectively we will able to use the colossal potentialities of the technological revolution, and how we will respond to its challenges depends on us alone. In this sense, the next few years will prove decisive for the country’s future. I reiterate, these years will be decisive.

I will tell you why. What I will say now has no connection to the domestic political cycle or even the presidential election. No matter who is elected President, each Russian citizen and all of us together must be able to see what is going on in the world, what is happening around us, and what challenges we are facing.

The speed of technological progress is accelerating sharply. It is rising dramatically. Those who manage to ride this technological wave will surge far ahead. Those who fail to do this will be submerged and drown in this wave.

Technological lag and dependence translate into reduced security and economic opportunities of the country and, ultimately, the loss of its sovereignty. This is the way things stand now. The lag inevitably weakens and erodes the human potential. Because new jobs, modern companies and an attractive life will develop in other, more successful countries where educated and talented young people will go, thereby draining the society’s vital powers and development energy.

As I have said, changes concern the entire civilization, and the sheer scale of these changes calls for an equally powerful response. We are ready to provide it. We are ready for a genuine breakthrough.

My confidence is based on the results we have achieved together, even though they may seem modest at first glance, as well as on the unity of Russian society and, most importantly, on the huge potential of Russia and our talented and ingenious people.

In order to move forward and to develop dynamically, we must expand freedom in all spheres, strengthen democratic institutions, local governments, civil society institutions and courts, and also open the country to the world and to new ideas and initiatives.

It is high time we take a number of tough decisions that are long overdue. We need to get rid of anything that stands in the way of our development and prevents people from fully unleashing their potential. It is our obligation to focus all resources and summon all our strength and willpower in this daring effort that must yield results.

Otherwise, there will be no future for us, our children or our country. It is not a question of someone conquering or devastating our land. No, that is not the danger. The main threat and our main enemy is the fact that we are falling behind. If we are unable to reverse this trend, we will fall even further behind. This is like a serious chronic disease that steadily saps the energy from the body and destroys it from within step by step. Quite often, this destructive process goes unnoticed by the body.

We need to master creative power and boost development so that no obstacles prevent us from moving forward with confidence and independently. We must take ownership of our destiny.

Colleagues,

What should be our priority? Let me reiterate that I believe that the main, key development factor is the well-being of the people and the prosperity of Russian families.

Let me remind you that in 2000, 42 million people lived below the poverty line, which amounted to nearly 30 percent – 29 percent of the population. In 2012, this indicator fell to 10 percent.

Poverty has increased slightly against the backdrop of the economic crisis. Today, 20 million Russian nationals live in poverty. Of course, this is much fewer than the 42 million people in 2000, but it is still way too many. There are even working people who have to live very modest lives.

For the first time in our recent history, the minimum wage was equated with the subsistence level. This provision will come into force on May 1, 2018, and will benefit about 4 million people. This is an important step but it still falls short of offering a fundamental solution.

We need to upgrade the employment structure that has become inefficient and archaic, provide good jobs that motivate people, improve their well-being and help them uncover their talents. We need to create decent well-paid jobs. This would help deliver on one of the key objectives for the next decade, which is to guarantee sustained long-term real income growth, and to reduce the poverty rate by at least one half over the next six years.

It is our moral duty to provide all-round support to members of the older generation, who have made a tremendous contribution to national development. Senior citizens must have worthy conditions for a long, active and healthy life. Most importantly, we must raise pensions and index them regularly, so that they outpace inflation. We will also strive to reduce the gap between the size of pensions and pre-retirement wages. And, of course, we must raise the quality of healthcare and social support for senior citizens and help people who are alone and those facing problems in life.

We need to address all these issues using a comprehensive approach. As I see it, the future new Government will have to draft a special programme for the systematic support of senior citizens and for improving their quality of life.

We consider every person important and valuable. People need to know that they are needed, and they must live a long and healthy life and enjoy their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. They need to see their children grow up and become successful in a powerful, rapidly developing and successful country that is attaining new development levels.

Russia must firmly assert itself among the five largest global economies, and its per-capita GDP must increase by 50 percent by the middle of the next decade. This is a very difficult task. I am confident that we are ready to accomplish it.

Of course, life expectancy is a highly important fundamental parameter for gauging the well-being of citizens and the country. In 2000, Russia posted a life expectancy of just over 65 years, with men’s life expectancy falling below 60 years. This is not just low, it is a tragedy, and this parameter is tragically inadequate.

In the past few years, Russia has been posting a major increase in average life expectancy levels, which is among the highest in the world. We have managed to accomplish this task. Life expectancy levels have increased by over seven years and now total 73 years. But, of course, this is not enough either. Today, we must set an entirely new goal. By the end of the next decade, Russia must confidently join the club of countries posting a life expectancy of 80-plus years, which includes Japan, France and Germany.

At the same time, life expectancy levels for people living a healthy, active and full life, when they are not hampered and pinned down by illness, must grow faster than planned. I am confident that we can achieve this goal, considering the positive trends of the previous years. For this purpose, the whole of Russia will have to make a quantum leap in its development, so that the life of every person is transformed.

Colleagues,

We need to create a modern living environment and transform cities and villages across the country. In doing so, we must make sure that they preserve their identity and historical heritage. We already have positive experience in renovating the urban environment and infrastructure. Let me elaborate on this point. Cities like Kazan, Vladivostok and Sochi have already benefited from upgrades of this kind. Change is underway in many regional capitals and smaller cities. Overall, we now know how to do it.

I propose launching a large-scale spatial development programme in Russia, which would include developing cities and other communities by at least doubling spending in this area over the next six years.

It is obvious that the effort to develop cities and other communities goes hand in hand with the need to overcome challenges in other areas, including healthcare, education, environment and transport. Initiatives in all these segments will require additional funding. I will talk about this matter further in my Address.

Urban renovation should be supported by the introduction of state-of-the-art construction technology and materials, modern architectural solutions, digital technology for social services, transport and utilities sectors. Among other things, this would make the housing and utilities sector more transparent and efficient, so that people receive quality services at a reasonable cost.

This large-scale project brings the promise of better economic and social development prospects, a modern living environment, and a favourable climate for cultural and civil initiatives, for small businesses and start-ups. All this would facilitate the emergence of a large and creative middle class in Russia.

Of course, a lot will depend on municipal and local authorities and whether they will be receptive to new ideas. The ability to respond to the diverse needs of various generations, including families with children, retirees and people with disabilities, will also be instrumental. People must have a decisive say in the future of their cities and villages. We have discussed this many times, including at meetings with heads of municipalities. Today, I am not saying it just to check the box. I ask you to bring it to the attention of decision-makers at all levels.

It is important that the development of cities becomes the driving force for the whole country. Russia is a country with a vast territory, and its active, dynamic life cannot be concentrated in several metropolitan cities. Big cities must distribute their energy, and serve as a support for the balanced, harmonious spatial development of the whole of Russia.

Therefore, there is an urgent need for an appropriate modern infrastructure. I will return to this later. However, it is obvious that developed utilities is what will enable residents of small towns and villages to take advantage of all the opportunities and modern services that are available in big cities, and smaller towns will be closely integrated into Russia’s single social and economic space. At the same time, we will support initiatives that will help our small towns and villages to preserve their cultural identity, to re-discover their unique potential in a new way.

Particular attention will be paid to the social and infrastructural development of rural areas. Russian agriculture has already become a globally competitive industry. Therefore, people who work for this success should live a comfortable and modern life.

Colleagues,

I understand how important it is for everyone, for every family, to have their own house, their own home. I know this is the problem of problems in Russia. It lingers from decade to decade. How many times governments promised and tried, sincerely tried to resolve it. But we can and must do it now.

In 2017, three million families in Russia improved their living conditions. Now we need to reach a stable level (I emphasise this: it is the first time in the history of modern Russia) – to a level where at least five million families improve their housing conditions annually. This is a difficult task – to jump from three million to five. We reached 3.1 million last year, but we need to make it five. Yet, it is an attainable goal.

I see three key factors for increasing the affordability of housing. The first is the growth of people’s incomes. I have spoken about this in the past, and we must ensure this. Next, a decrease in mortgage interest rates and, of course, an increased supply in the housing market.

I would like to remind you of something that few people remember, which is that only 4,000 mortgage loans were issued in 2001. Only 4,000. The interest rate was as high as 30 percent, including on foreign currency loans. By the way, half of the mortgage loans were issued in foreign currency. Few people could afford to take out mortgage loans then. Last year, the number of mortgage loans almost reached one million. In December, the average interest rate on ruble loans for the first time decreased to below 10 percent.

We know, of course, that loan terms are individual and may differ from one borrower to another. But we must continue to lower the average interest rate to 7–8 percent. We held long discussions on the figure I should say here. I am sure that the target figure should be 7 percent. In the next six years, mortgage loans must become accessible to the majority of Russian families, working people and young professionals.

Here are some more figures. In the 1950s through 1970s, we annually built approximately 60 million square metres of housing a year. The figure rose to 70 million by the late 1990s. Now we annually build around 80 million square metres of housing every year. We built even more housing in some years, but the average figure is 80 million. We must move forward and reach new heights in this sphere, that is, increase the volume of housing built every year from 80 million to 120 million square metres. This is an ambitious but realistic goal, given new technologies, the experience our construction companies have accumulated, as well as new materials. The rise from 80 to 120 million square metres is what we need and can achieve. I will tell you why: if we want 5 million families to receive new housing every year, we must reach the figure of 120 million square metres.

Those who invest their money in housing projects must be securely protected. We should gradually proceed from unit construction to project financing, when developers and banks, but not people, shoulder the risks.

I also propose revising the personal property tax. It must be fair and affordable.

Some people, including those in this hall, tried to convince me that this tax should be based on the market value of property. They told me that using obsolete valuation by the Technical Inventory Bureau is an anachronism. But it turned out in reality that cadastral value, which should be comparable to market value, often exceeded it by far. This was not the agreement. And the people did not expect this from us.

We must revise the mechanism for calculating the tax and also the calculation of the cadastral value of property. One way or another, it must not exceed the real market value. All decisions regarding this must be taken without delay in the first six months of this year.

Colleagues,

We must penetrate the whole country with advanced communications to develop cities, towns, to enhance business activity and to meld together Russia’s entire territory.

The Crimean Bridge will open to cars in just a few months and to trains next year. This will stimulate the development of Crimea and the entire Russian Black Sea region.

We have overhauled federal roads. Now we must modernise regional and local routes. I am not going to talk about the figures now, but I know them. It is a fact that federal roads have mostly been renovated. The situation is somewhat worse with regional roads, and it is completely unacceptable with local roads. I address this to regional and city heads: you must constantly focus your attention on the roads. You must improve the quality of road construction using advanced technology and solutions, infrastructure mortgage loans and life cycle contracts.

Of course, another critical task is to improve safety on the roads and to decrease the mortality rate in road accidents to the minimum.

Overall, in the next six years, we must almost double the spending on road construction and repairs in Russia and to allocate more than 11 trillion roubles for this from all sources. This is a lot; keep in mind that we have allocated 6.4 trillion rubles in 2012–2017, but we need 11 trillion.

Large Eurasian transport corridors will also be developing. An automobile road that will become part of the Europe – Asia-Pacific corridor is already under construction. Our Chinese and Kazakhstani partners involved in this project together with us have already completed their part. Their sections have already been opened, so we need to speed up our work.

The throughput capability of the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway will grow 1.5 times, up to 180 million tonnes, in six years. It will take seven days for containers from Vladivostok to reach the western borders of Russia. This is just one of the infrastructure projects that will bring quick economic returns. It includes freight, so all investment will be paid off very quickly and will contribute to these regions’ development.

The volume of transit shipments on our railways must grow almost fourfold. This means that Russia will become a global leader in transit shipping between Europe and Asia.

In 1990, the ports of the Soviet Union had an aggregate capacity of 600 million tonnes, but after the country broke apart, we lost almost half. In the early 2000s, Russian ports could handle only 300 million tonnes. Over the last 17 years, this figure has tripled. In early 2017, the aggregate port capacity in Russia exceeded 1 billion tonnes for the first time in history. As you can see from the charts, this exceeds the level reached by the Soviet Union by more than two thirds. By the way, these are the figures for early 2017, and the capacity currently stands at 1,025 billion tonnes.

We need to further expand this capacity, including by increasing the capacity of railway links to ports in the Azov and Black Sea basin 1.5-fold to 131 million tonnes.

The Northern Sea Route will be the key to developing the Russian Arctic and Far East. By 2025, cargo traffic along this route will surge tenfold to 80 million tonnes. Our goal is to make it a truly global and competitive transport route. Let me remind you that the Northern Sea Route was used more actively in Soviet times compared to how we have been using it so far. We will definitely develop this route and reach new horizons. I have no doubt about it.

We will continue our proactive policy to attract investment and create social and economic growth centres in Russia’s Far East. We will create all the conditions to ensure a people-friendly living environment, so that people move to this region and its population grows.

A number of large-scale industrial projects have been launched in the Arctic. They comply with the highest environmental standards. We are strengthening the research, transport, navigation and military infrastructure, which is expected to guarantee Russia’s interests in this strategic region. Russia builds cutting-edge nuclear icebreakers. We have had the most powerful icebreaker fleet in the world, and this will remain so.

We will renovate and expand the network of regional airports across Russia. In six years, half of the regions will be connected between each other by direct flights. The situation where you had to make a connection in Moscow when flying to a neighbouring region will become a thing of the past. We are already working on this. This includes efforts to develop aviation and airports.

The Spatial Development Strategy will serve as a foundation for preparing a comprehensive plan to modernise and expand the backbone traffic infrastructure. I believe this to be a priority for the future Government.

Russia must not just become the world’s key logistics and transport hub, but also, which is very important, a global centre for the storage, processing, transfer and reliable protection of large volumes of information, so-called big data.

Overall, infrastructure development must take into account global technological changes. In other words, the projects we are now considering must include practical solutions for combining infrastructure with drones and digital marine and air navigation, as well as use AI to streamline logistics.

Likewise, we must introduce new technologies for the generation, storage and relay of energy. In the next six years, we plan to attract some 1.5 trillion rubles in private investment for modernising our power generation sector. All power systems throughout the country must convert to digital technology. We must use the so-called distributed generation method to supply electricity to remote areas.

By 2024, high-speed internet will be available throughout the country. We will complete the construction of fibre optic lines in the majority of populated areas with a population of more than 250 people. Small remote towns in the Extreme North, Siberia and the Russian Far East will access internet via a network of Russian satellites.

We will use advanced telecommunications to give our people access to the digital world. As we know, this is more than just modern services, online education and telemedicine, although all this is very important. More than that, people will be able to use digital space to conduct research, organise volunteer and project groups or run companies. In our vast country, this combination of talent, competencies and ideas amounts to a huge ground-breaking resource.

Colleagues,

A crucial task facing every one of us is to make advanced high-quality healthcare widely accessible. We must be guided by the highest international standards in this area.

In 2019–2024, we need to spend over 4 percent of the GDP each year to develop the healthcare system. At the same time, the goal we must bear in mind is 5 percent. In absolute terms, this means that healthcare spending must double. In addition, we must find new funding opportunities that would not limit economic growth.

I would like to thank doctors, paramedics and nurses for their difficult and highly necessary work. A great deal depends on these people, as well as on teachers, counsellors and cultural workers, and they must receive decent salaries.

We have done a lot to implement the 2012 May executive orders. I must say that there were several failures, but overall, despite the demanding targets of these orders, without them we would not have had the results we can see today. We must always set ambitious tasks.

We must not lose the positions we have already attained. I am referring to the level of wages. Wages in the public sector must continue growing, as well as the quality of work and skills of the people working in healthcare, education and other areas that define people’s wellbeing.

In recent years, we have optimised the hospital network in the country. This was done in order to build an effective healthcare system. However, in some case, I have to say this today, too many administrative changes were introduced: hospitals in small towns and villages have been closed. No one proposed an alternative, and people were left with practically no medical aid. The only advice they were given was, “Go to the city to get treatment there.” I must say that this is unacceptable. They forgot about the main thing: the people, their interests and needs, equal opportunities and justice.

This must not happen in healthcare or any other area. We must provide, or restore where necessary, easy access to primary healthcare. We can do this, but we should have done this from the very beginning, when we started the reforms.

This must be done as quickly as possible. In the period from 2018 to 2020, we must ensure that each small town with a population of 100 to 2,000 people has a paramedic station and an outpatient clinic. For villages with less than 100 people – we also have villages as small as that – we will organise mobile medical units, all-terrain vehicles with all the necessary diagnostic equipment.

These projects should be closely monitored. I consider them extremely important. And I also ask the Russian Popular Front to stay in contact with people, to keep an eye on the situation on the ground. At the same time, outpatient clinics and paramedic stations, regional healthcare facilities and leading medical centres should be linked into a single digital network so that the entire national healthcare system is involved in helping each person.

Disease prevention is a vitally important task. In the 1990s, this work was largely neglected. We began to restore it. We need to provide all people with a real opportunity to have a complete physical at least once a year. This is also important for encouraging a responsible attitude to one's own health.

Modern diagnostics will reduce mortality among the working age population, and consolidate the positive trends in treating cardiovascular disorders. We can see these positive trends, which is very good. But we also need to fight other threats such as cancer.

Colleagues, I think that practically every one of us has relatives or friends or friends of friends afflicted with this disease – cancer. I propose to implement a special national cancer programme, to involve scientists and the national pharmaceutical industry, to modernise oncological centres, to build a modern system from early diagnosis to timely effective treatment that will protect people. We have positive experience in this area. We must reach the cutting-edge, the highest level of all the key indicators that show the effectiveness of cancer care – experts should know what they are.

Colleagues,

Medical assistance alone is not enough to protect public health. We must also ensure high standards of environmental safety across Russia.

A long a healthy life is hard to achieve when millions of people drink substandard water, when we see black snow, as it happened in Krasnoyarsk, and when people in large industrial centres such as Cherepovets, Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk or Novokuznetsk do not see the sun for weeks on end.

We have tightened environmental requirements for companies, which should reduce industrial pollution. Starting in 2019, 300 industrial enterprises with a negative impact on the environment must convert to the best available environmentally friendly technology, and all enterprises in the high environmental risk group must do this starting in 2021.

We had a go at this problem many times, and every time our companies complained about the difficulties involved. There is no going back now. I want everyone to know that we will not delay this programme any longer.

We also need to modernise our thermal power plants, boiler houses and utility services, build bypass routes to ease transit traffic congestion in large cities, as well as use low-impact public service vehicles. The authorities and public volunteers have reported some 22,000 landfill sites. We must address this problem as a priority, starting with the removal and reclamation of landfill sites within city limits.

We must seriously improve the quality of drinking water. In some small towns, water is only available for several hours a day. We must use defence industry technologies to settle these problems.

We will launch conservation projects for the unique natural systems of Lake Baikal and Lake Teletskoye, as well as the entire Volga Basin, which will help improve living conditions for nearly half of Russia’s population.

We will establish 24 new nature reserves and natural parks. They should be open for ecotourism, which is important for encouraging a caring and responsible attitude to nature.

Colleagues,

The year 2018 in Russia has been declared the Year of Volunteers. It is highly symbolic that the year started with the adoption of a law whereby authorities at all levels were tasked with assisting volunteers. Today, proactive and concerned citizens and socially-minded NPOs contribute to addressing crucial issues. It is the involvement of the people in national affairs and their civic engagement, as well as cultural, moral and spiritual values that make us a single people capable of achieving ambitious goals.

It is essential that we preserve our identity in the era of major technological shifts. In this regard, culture has a key role to play as a national civilisational code that can unlock the human creative potential.

I propose launching a programme to establish cultural, educational and museum complexes in the regions. They will offer concert venues, drama, music and dance schools and other creative institutions, as well as exhibition spaces where the country’s leading museums can display their treasures. Why store so many works of art in museum warehouses? I am talking about centres of culture that would be open to young people and people of all ages. The first project of this kind will be carried out in Vladivostok, and other regions and cities across Russia will be selected at a later time.

Colleagues, our children want to see a forward-looking Russia. You can find many sincere reflections along these lines in school essays. Having bold dreams always helps if you are seeking to achieve an ambitious goal. We must help every child discover his or her talent and help them live up to their potential. The future of Russia is in its classrooms. Schools must respond to the current challenges in order for the country to do the same.

International experts agree that Russia has one of the best primary school systems in the world. We will keep up our proactive efforts to develop general education at all levels. Let me emphasise that every child should have access to a quality education. Equal educational opportunities are a powerful driver in terms of promoting national development and social justice.

We need to shift to completely new education methods, including personalised learning, in order to cultivate in our children a readiness for change and creative curiosity, and teach them to work in teams, which is very important in the modern world, and other life skills applicable to the digital era. We will absolutely support talented teachers who are motivated to pursue continuous professional growth. And, of course, we need to build an open and modern system for school management selection and training. School administrators are the ones in charge of building a strong faculty and productive morale.

We will continue to enhance the comprehensive system to support and develop our children’s creative skills and talents. This system must extend to the entire country and incorporate the resources of such projects as Sirius and Quantorium, as well as extracurricular education centres and children’s creative centres all over Russia.

We need to build a modern career guidance system where schools partner with universities, research groups and successful companies. I propose starting a new early career guidance programme for schoolchildren, Ticket to the Future, from the next academic year. The programme will allow kids to try out real jobs in major Russian companies. We will allocate 1 billion rubles for this project this year alone.

I believe mentorship is another important aspect to improve. Only by bringing together advanced knowledge and moral foundations, by ensuring a true partnership and mutual understanding between generations can we become stronger.

Colleagues, today knowledge, technology and expertise make the most important competitive advantages. They are the key to a real breakthrough and improved quality of life.

As soon as possible, we need to develop a progressive legal framework and eliminate all barriers for the development and wide use of robotic equipment, artificial intelligence, unmanned vehicles, e-commerce and Big Data processing technology. And this legal framework must be continuously reviewed and be based on a flexible approach to each area and technology.

We have all the resources to promptly implement 5G and Internet of Things technologies.

We need to build our own digital platforms. It goes without saying that they should be compatible with the global information space. This would pave the way to reorganising manufacturing processes, financial services and logistics, including using blockchain technology, which is very important when it comes to financial transactions, property rights, etc. These initiatives have real-world application.

We need to start making or localising key technologies and solutions, including those used in developing the Arctic and the sea shelf, and building new energy, transport and urban infrastructure systems. This is also important in areas related to improving the quality of life, such as cutting-edge rehabilitation tools for people with disabilities.

It is our duty to support high-technology companies, offer start-ups a favourable environment and introduce new industrial solutions. I am talking about a user-friendly infrastructure, taxation systems, technical regulations and venture financing.

Technological development should be firmly rooted in fundamental research. Over the recent years, we have been able to expand research, and are now leading in a number of areas. The Russian Academy of Sciences and Russia’s leading research institutions made a major contribution to achieving this.

Building on the advances made in the preceding years, including in developing the research infrastructure, we need to take our research to a new level. Projects to build cutting-edge mega science research facilities are already underway in Gatchina and Dubna. The Council for Science and Education has adopted a decision recently to build a powerful synchrotron collider at the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok and a new generation collider in Protvino, Moscow Region.

With these facilities, Russia will become one of the world’s leading countries in terms of the capability and performance of its research infrastructure. These units will give a serious competitive edge to Russian research teams and high-technology companies, for example for developing new medications, materials and microelectronics.

Of course, this infrastructure and ambitious research projects will not fail to attract our compatriots and researchers from abroad. In this regard, we need to create a legal framework that would enable international research teams to operate in Russia.

Large research and education centres should begin working to full capacity. They will integrate the possibilities of universities, academic institutions, and high-tech companies. Such centres are already being set up in Kazan and Samara, Tomsk and Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Tyumen, Vladivostok and Kaliningrad, and other cities.

It is important to focus them on the implementation of major interdisciplinary projects, including in such a promising field as genome research. A cardinal breakthrough in this area will pave the way to developing new methods for diagnosing, preventing and treating many diseases, and will expand the selection possibilities in agriculture.

We need to reinforce the superiority of the national mathematics school. It gives Russia a strong competitive edge in the age of digital economy. International mathematics centres will also provide platforms for such work. These are already operating in Kazan and Novosibirsk. Following the adopted decisions, we will open more in St Petersburg, Moscow and Sochi.

Young Russians are already proving their leadership in science and in other areas. Last year, Russian schoolchildren won 38 medals at international academic competitions. Our teams triumphantly won the Olympiad in natural sciences and robotics, the WorldSkills competition, and our students showed the best results in programming for the twelfth time.

Based on the best practices and experience, we need to quickly modernise the vocational education system, achieve qualitative changes in the training of students, especially in the advanced areas of technological development, to establish the ‘applied bachelor’ level in those vocational professions that actually require an engineering degree, and also to organise centres for advanced professional retraining and professional growth.

I also propose creating the most convenient and attractive conditions for talented young people from other countries to enrol at our universities. They already come to study here. But we also need to create conditions for the best foreign graduates of our universities to work in Russia. This fully applies to foreign scientists and qualified specialists.

I think we need to seriously improve the procedure for granting Russian citizenship. The focus should be on the foreign nationals Russia needs: on young, healthy and well-educated people. For them, we need to create a simplified system for obtaining Russian citizenship.

Colleagues,

To ensure breakthrough development and upgrade education, healthcare and the quality of the urban environment and infrastructure, it will be necessary to allocate considerable additional funds in the next six years for these purposes.

Question: at what expense? Where do we get these funds? First of all, it is essential to clearly prioritise these tasks and enhance the efficiency of government spending. It is necessary to involve private companies more actively in funding major projects. The future Government will have to establish new taxation rules as soon as possible. They should be stable and fixed for the next few years.

Let me emphasise that we need such fiscal solutions that would ensure budget revenues at all levels and guarantee the implementation of all social commitments. Importantly, they should encourage rather than impede economic growth. It is the build-up of economic potential of the country and each of its regions that is the main source of additional resources. To achieve this, our economic growth rates should exceed those of the world’s. This is a difficult task but not instance case of wishful thinking. This is a fundamental condition for a breakthrough in resolving social, infrastructure, defence and other tasks. The new Government should set itself the goal of reaching such growth rates as its key guideline.

In the last few years, we have enhanced the sustainability of our economy. The dependence of the economy on hydrocarbon prices has been substantially reduced. We have increased our gold and currency reserves. Inflation has dropped to a record low level – just over two percent. Of course, we all understand that the growth of prices for many basic necessities is much higher. This should be strictly monitored by different agencies, including the Anti-Monopoly Service. But on the whole, this low inflation level creates additional opportunities for development. Let me remind you that quite recently, in 2015, inflation was almost 13 percent – 12.9 percent to be exact.

In effect, Russia has formed a new macroeconomic reality with low inflation and general economic sustainability. For the people this is a condition for real income growth and cheaper mortgage loans. For entrepreneurs it means predictability in business and cheaper loans. Business should also adapt to these new macroeconomic conditions. Finally, it makes it possible to attract long-term loans and private investment into large-scale infrastructure projects.

Now we have an opportunity, without speeding up inflation, and maintaining a careful and responsible approach, to gradually cut interest rates and make loans more affordable. I count on the support of the Bank of Russia in that, while making its decisions, implementing monetary policy measures and developing financial markets, it will work in contact with the Government in the interests of the common goal of creating a proper environment for increasing the economic growth rates.

In order to further change the national economy structure and improve its competitiveness, it is imperative to use the sources of growth at a fundamentally different level. Where are they? First of all, it is important to increase labour productivity on a new technological, managerial and personnel basis. We are still lagging noticeably behind in terms of this indicator.

It is necessary to ensure that labour productivity in medium-sized and large enterprises of basic industries, such as manufacturing, construction, transport, agriculture and trade, grows at a rate of at least 5 percent per year, which will allow us to reach the level of the leading world economies by the end of the next decade.

I want to emphasise that increasing productivity is also about higher wages and, hence, increased consumer demand. In turn, this constitutes an additional driver for economic growth.

All our actions should push companies to produce technically complex products and to implement more efficient technologies. It is necessary to make an inventory of subsidies and other instruments for direct support of industries, and to target them on making competitive goods.

Increased investment is the second source of growth. We have already set the task of bringing it up to 25 percent of the GDP, and then to 27 percent. Unfortunately, this goal has not been achieved yet. To ensure sustainable growth, we need to do so at all costs. I hope that the new Government in conjunction with the Bank of Russia will present a concrete plan of action in this area.

Investment should be primarily used for upgrading and technologically re-equipping the industries and retrofitting the manufacturing industry. We need to ensure the highest dynamics here, to reach a level where, on average, every second enterprise within a year carries out technological changes. That is when the renewal effort in the economy and industry will be noticeable.

Promoting small businesses is the third large-scale reserve of economic growth. By the middle of the next decade, their contribution to the country's GDP should approach 40 percent, and the number of employed there should grow from 19 million to 25 million people.

One of the main problems facing entrepreneurs is access to financial resources. There is a government programme in place for small production businesses that offers loans with only 6.5 percent interest. I think this programme must continue. Overall, this support mechanism must become widely available.

Finally, another source of growth is the development of non-resource exports. It is necessary to remove all administrative barriers and create the most favourable conditions for the companies entering foreign markets.

Within the next six years, we must double the amount of non-resource and non-energy exports to reach $250 billion – specifically, increase machine engineering exports to $50 billion. Exports of services, including education, healthcare, tourism and transport, must reach $100 billion per year.

In the early 2000s, we were deeply dependent on food imports. The situation has turned around completely. Now we are on the verge of more changes. In just four years from now, we plan to be supplying more food to global markets than we will be importing from abroad. We need to increase exports of meat and high-added value products, as well as to make the country more self-sufficient in beef, milk and vegetable supplies.

I want to stress that development of the agricultural industry is strongly related to commodity production. However, this development must not be at the expense of small farms and their workers. We must support family businesses and farmers. We will develop cooperative agriculture and create conditions for residents of rural areas to increase their income. Every now and then we hear about problems with people’s interests being affected, I am aware of them. Such cases must be taken very seriously.

Nevertheless, I want to say thank you to the agricultural industry workers for the record-breaking harvest of 134 million tonnes. Note that it is more than the record harvest in the Soviet Union. In 1978, the USSR produced 127.4 million tonnes. Now it is common for Russia to exceed 100 million tonnes.

Clearly, such a large harvest has a downside as well. The prices have gone down; there are some storage and transport issues. We have established discount rates on transporting crops by railway until July 1, 2018, to support our producers.

It is necessary to consider extending this measure to the next harvesting seasons as well as to arrange additional deliveries to the Urals, Siberia and the regions far away from ports. We must help those who want and can process crops locally. Added value needs to be increased. Then we can go into the livestock industry with this product. We will certainly discuss these and other problems reported by agricultural workers at the agricultural producers’ forum in March, and will elaborate on additional measures to support the industry.

Colleagues,

In order for the economy to operate at its full capacity, we need to radically improve the business climate and guarantee entrepreneurial freedom and competition.

Let me highlight a fundamental point in this regard. The state must gradually reduce its share in the economy. In this connection, it has to be noted that the state has taken over a number of financial assets in an effort to revive the banking sector. These initiatives are headed in the right direction and have my support. That said, these assets should be put on the market and sold without delay.

We need to get rid of everything that enables corrupt officials and law enforcement officers to pressure businesses. The Criminal Code should not serve as a tool for settling corporate disputes. These should be referred to administrative and arbitration courts.

I ask the Working Group on Monitoring and Analysing Law Enforcement Practice in Entrepreneurial Activity, together with the Supreme Court, law enforcement agencies, the Prosecutor’s Office and representatives of the business community to draft specific proposals on this subject. This matter should not be approached in a light-minded manner. All the proposals must undergo careful examination and approval, and this should be done as soon as possible.

At the same time, criminal law should be strictly enforced in the case of offences infringing upon the interests of citizens or society or violating economic freedoms. I am referring to offences against property and assets held by citizens, illegal takeovers, competition law violations, tax evasion and embezzlement of public funds.

I would now like to move on to another important subject. While the number of various inspections seems to be declining, during meetings with businesses I often hear that radical change has yet to materialise. The presence of inspectors at enterprises should become the exception, and be limited to high-risk facilities. Otherwise, remote monitoring methods can be used. The entire control and oversight system should move to a risk-oriented approach within two years. Let me remind you that the relevant legislative framework is already in place.

It is important to support start-up entrepreneurs, to help people take the first step, so that they can open their own businesses with just one click, make the compulsory payments, receive services and loans online.

Sole proprietors and self-employed individuals who use digital services, generally need to be freed from reporting, and allowed to pay taxes via a simple transaction in automatic mode. As for businesses that use cash register equipment, their tax reporting needs to be simplified. You know, this is just a routine issue, at first glance, but this tedious routine is what prevents us from moving forward vigorously. We need to do everything to clean out this space. I will add that the intensive introduction of digital technologies and platforms will allow us to make consistent progress towards greater transparency and away from shadow economy.

Now I would like to address all representatives of Russian business, those who run their own small business, a family enterprise or a farm, an innovative company or a large industrial enterprise. I know, I know we still have a lot to do. And I assure you, we will do everything to give our entrepreneurs new opportunities to expand production, to open businesses and to create modern jobs. But at the same time I expect that Russian business will increase its contribution to the country's breakthrough development, and respect for entrepreneurial work in society will grow. It is very important.

Colleagues, we need to build modern services for business, but this is not all; the system for interaction between the state and society, between the state and the people should be clear and understandable, convenient and comfortable.

We have already set up a network of multifunctional centres. A person anywhere in the country can now use public services as a one-stop-shop. Allow me to remind you that it was a special programme which we have developed and implemented.

We need to move forward, to ensure the provision of virtually all public services in real time via remote services within six years. All document circulation between state agencies should be digitised, which is important both for the state agencies and for citizens, so as not to browse the Internet for hours looking for information. It will be possible to get everything in one place. I will add that digitalisation of the entire public administration system and its greater transparency is also a powerful factor in fighting corruption.

Government officials of all levels should be interested in improving their efficiency and be strictly focused on obtaining concrete results. By the way, we are always talking about corruption and officials. I have to say, and I do not have the right to not say this: the vast majority of our public servants are honest, decent and goal-oriented people. However, what I said will help everyone, including government officials and users of government services. This line of thinking should be used to rebuild the public service system, where appropriate, and to introduce project work methods.

Of course, it is necessary to ensure the advancement of modern professional personnel in the government and municipal service, business, the economy, science and industry, in all spheres.

As you may be aware, the first Leaders of Russia competition took place, and a number of other projects are being implemented to support young workers, entrepreneurs, innovators, volunteers, schoolchildren and students. They brought together hundreds of thousands of young people from all regions, and became an important step in their lives and professional careers.

I want to emphasise: for all those who want to work, show themselves, and are ready to honestly serve the Fatherland and the people, and to succeed, Russia will always be a country of opportunity. This is the guarantee of our successful development and confident movement forward.

All the projects and the priorities that I mentioned today, such as spatial development, investment in infrastructure, education, healthcare, the environment, innovative technologies and research, measures to support the economy, to promote talent, the youth, all of this is designed to work for one strategic task – Russia’s breakthrough development.

At the same time, we cannot forget about reliably ensuring its security.

Colleagues,

The operation in Syria has proved the increased capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces. In recent years, a great deal has been done to improve the Army and the Navy. The Armed Forces now have 3.7 times more modern weapons. Over 300 new units of equipment were put into service. The strategic missile troops received 80 new intercontinental ballistic missiles, 102 submarine-launched ballistic missiles and three Borei nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. Twelve missile regiments have received the new Yars intercontinental ballistic missile. The number of long-range high-precision weapons carriers has increased by 12 times, while the number of guided cruise missiles increased by over 30 times. The Army, the Aerospace Forces and the Navy have grown significant stronger as well.

Both Russia and the entire world know the names of our newest planes, submarines, anti-aircraft weapons, as well as land-based, airborne and sea-based guided missile systems. All of them are cutting-edge, high-tech weapons. A solid radar field to warn of a missile attack was created along Russia’s perimeter (it is very important). Huge holes appeared after the USSR disintegrated. All of them were repaired.

A leap forward was made in the development of unmanned aircraft; the National Defence Control Centre was established; and the operational command of the far maritime zone was formed. The number of professional service members has increased by 2.4 times, and the availability of equipment in the Armed Forces grew from 70 percent to 95–100 percent. The years-long queue for permanent housing was eliminated, and the waiting period was cut by 83 percent.

Now, on to the most important defence issue.

I will speak about the newest systems of Russian strategic weapons that we are creating in response to the unilateral withdrawal of the United States of America from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the practical deployment of their missile defence systems both in the US and beyond their national borders.

I would like to make a short journey into the recent past.

Back in 2000, the US announced its withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Russia was categorically against this. We saw the Soviet-US ABM Treaty signed in 1972 as the cornerstone of the international security system. Under this treaty, the parties had the right to deploy ballistic missile defence systems only in one of its regions. Russia deployed these systems around Moscow, and the US around its Grand Forks land-based ICBM base.

Together with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the ABM Treaty not only created an atmosphere of trust but also prevented either party from recklessly using nuclear weapons, which would have endangered humankind, because the limited number of ballistic missile defence systems made the potential aggressor vulnerable to a response strike.

We did our best to dissuade the Americans from withdrawing from the treaty. All in vain. The US pulled out of the treaty in 2002. Even after that we tried to develop constructive dialogue with the Americans. We proposed working together in this area to ease concerns and maintain the atmosphere of trust. At one point, I thought that a compromise was possible, but this was not to be. All our proposals, absolutely all of them, were rejected. And then we said that we would have to improve our modern strike systems to protect our security. In reply, the US said that it is not creating a global BMD system against Russia, which is free to do as it pleases, and that the US will presume that our actions are not spearheaded against the US.

The reasons behind this position are obvious. After the collapse of the USSR, Russia, which was known as the Soviet Union or Soviet Russia abroad, lost 23.8 percent of its national territory, 48.5 percent of its population, 41 of the GDP, 39.4 percent of its industrial potential (nearly half of our potential, I would underscore), as well as 44.6 percent of its military capability due to the division of the Soviet Armed Forces among the former Soviet republics. The military equipment of the Russian army was becoming obsolete, and the Armed Forces were in a sorry state. A civil war was raging in the Caucasus, and US inspectors oversaw the operation of our leading uranium enrichment plants.

For a certain time, the question was not whether we would be able to develop a strategic weapon system – some wondered if our country would even be able to safely store and maintain the nuclear weapons that we inherited after the collapse of the USSR. Russia had outstanding debts, its economy could not function without loans from the IMF and the World Bank; the social sphere was impossible to sustain.

Apparently, our partners got the impression that it was impossible in the foreseeable historical perspective for our country to revive its economy, industry, defence industry and Armed Forces to levels supporting the necessary strategic potential. And if that is the case, there is no point in reckoning with Russia’s opinion, it is necessary to further pursue ultimate unilateral military advantage in order to dictate the terms in every sphere in the future.

Basically, this position, this logic, judging from the realities of that period, is understandable, and we ourselves are to blame. All these years, the entire 15 years since the withdrawal of the United States from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, we have consistently tried to reengage the American side in serious discussions, in reaching agreements in the sphere of strategic stability.

We managed to accomplish some of these goals. In 2010, Russia and the US signed the New START treaty, containing measures for the further reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms. However, in light of the plans to build a global anti-ballistic missile system, which are still being carried out today, all agreements signed within the framework of New START are now gradually being devaluated, because while the number of carriers and weapons is being reduced, one of the parties, namely, the US, is permitting constant, uncontrolled growth of the number of anti-ballistic missiles, improving their quality, and creating new missile launching areas. If we do not do something, eventually this will result in the complete devaluation of Russia’s nuclear potential. Meaning that all of our missiles could simply be intercepted.

Despite our numerous protests and pleas, the American machine has been set into motion, the conveyer belt is moving forward. There are new missile defence systems installed in Alaska and California; as a result of NATO’s expansion to the east, two new missile defence areas were created in Western Europe: one has already been created in Romania, while the deployment of the system in Poland is now almost complete. Their range will keep increasing; new launching areas are to be created in Japan and South Korea. The US global missile defence system also includes five cruisers and 30 destroyers, which, as far as we know, have been deployed to regions in close proximity to Russia’s borders. I am not exaggerating in the least; and this work proceeds apace.

So, what have we done, apart from protesting and warning? How will Russia respond to this challenge? This is how.

During all these years since the unilateral US withdrawal from the ABM Treaty, we have been working intensively on advanced equipment and arms, which allowed us to make a breakthrough in developing new models of strategic weapons.

Let me recall that the United States is creating a global missile defence system primarily for countering strategic arms that follow ballistic trajectories. These weapons form the backbone of our nuclear deterrence forces, just as of other members of the nuclear club.

As such, Russia has developed, and works continuously to perfect, highly effective but modestly priced systems to overcome missile defence. They are installed on all of our intercontinental ballistic missile complexes.

In addition, we have embarked on the development of the next generation of missiles. For example, the Defence Ministry and enterprises of the missile and aerospace industry are in the active phase of testing a new missile system with a heavy intercontinental missile. We called it Sarmat.

Sarmat will replace the Voevoda system made in the USSR. Its immense power was universally recognized. Our foreign colleagues even gave it a fairly threatening name.

That said, the capabilities of the Sarmat missile are much higher. Weighing over 200 tonnes, it has a short boost phase, which makes it more difficult to intercept for missile defence systems. The range of the new heavy missile, the number and power of its combat blocs is bigger than Voevoda’s. Sarmat will be equipped with a broad range of powerful nuclear warheads, including hypersonic, and the most modern means of evading missile defence. The high degree of protection of missile launchers and significant energy capabilities the system offers will make it possible to use it in any conditions.

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Voevoda’s range is 11,000 km while Sarmat has practically no range restrictions.

As the video clips show, it can attack targets both via the North and South poles.

Sarmat is a formidable missile and, owing to its characteristics, is untroubled by even the most advanced missile defence systems.

But we did not stop at that. We started to develop new types of strategic arms that do not use ballistic trajectories at all when moving toward a target and, therefore, missile defence systems are useless against them, absolutely pointless.

Allow me to elaborate on these weapons.

Russia’s advanced arms are based on the cutting-edge, unique achievements of our scientists, designers and engineers. One of them is a small-scale heavy-duty nuclear energy unit that can be installed in a missile like our latest X-101 air-launched missile or the American Tomahawk missile – a similar type but with a range dozens of times longer, dozens, basically an unlimited range. It is a low-flying stealth missile carrying a nuclear warhead, with almost an unlimited range, unpredictable trajectory and ability to bypass interception boundaries. It is invincible against all existing and prospective missile defence and counter-air defence systems. I will repeat this several times today.

In late 2017, Russia successfully launched its latest nuclear-powered missile at the Central training ground. During its flight, the nuclear-powered engine reached its design capacity and provided the necessary propulsion.

Now that the missile launch and ground tests were successful, we can begin developing a completely new type of weapon, a strategic nuclear weapons system with a nuclear-powered missile.

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You can see how the missile bypasses interceptors. As the range is unlimited, the missile can manoeuvre for as long as necessary.

As you no doubt understand, no other country has developed anything like this. There will be something similar one day but by that time our guys will have come up with something even better.

Now, we all know that the design and development of unmanned weapon systems is another common trend in the world. As concerns Russia, we have developed unmanned submersible vehicles that can move at great depths (I would say extreme depths) intercontinentally, at a speed multiple times higher than the speed of submarines, cutting-edge torpedoes and all kinds of surface vessels, including some of the fastest. It is really fantastic. They are quiet, highly manoeuvrable and have hardly any vulnerabilities for the enemy to exploit. There is simply nothing in the world capable of withstanding them.

Unmanned underwater vehicles can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads, which enables them to engage various targets, including aircraft groups, coastal fortifications and infrastructure.

In December 2017, an innovative nuclear power unit for this unmanned underwater vehicle completed a test cycle that lasted many years. The nuclear power unit is unique for its small size while offering an amazing power-weight ratio. It is a hundred times smaller than the units that power modern submarines, but is still more powerful and can switch into combat mode, that is to say, reach maximum capacity, 200 times faster.

The tests that were conducted enabled us to begin developing a new type of strategic weapon that would carry massive nuclear ordnance.

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By the way, we have yet to choose names for these two new strategic weapons, the global-range cruise missile and the unmanned underwater vehicle. We are waiting for suggestions from the Defence Ministry.

Countries with high research potential and advanced technology are known to be actively developing so-called hypersonic weapons. The speed of sound is usually measured in Mach numbers in honour of Austrian scientist Ernst Mach who is known for his research in this field. One Mach is equal to 1,062 kilometres per hour at an altitude of 11 kilometres. The speed of sound is Mach 1, speeds between Mach 1 and Mach 5 is called supersonic, and hypersonic is above Mach 5. Of course, this kind of weapon provides substantial advantages in an armed conflict. Military experts believe that it would be extremely powerful, and that its speed makes it invulnerable to current missile and air defence systems, since interceptor missiles are, simply put, not fast enough. In this regard, it is quite understandable why the leading armies of the world seek to possess such an ideal weapon.

Friends, Russia already has such a weapon.

The most important stage in the development of modern weapons systems was the creation of a high-precision hypersonic aircraft missile system; as you already know for sure, it is the only one of its kind in the world. Its tests have been successfully completed, and, moreover, on December 1 of last year, these systems began their trial service at the airfields of the Southern Military District.

The unique flight characteristics of the high-speed carrier aircraft allow the missile to be delivered to the point of discharge within minutes. The missile flying at a hypersonic speed, 10 times faster than the speed of sound, can also manoeuvre at all phases of its flight trajectory, which also allows it to overcome all existing and, I think, prospective anti-aircraft and anti-missile defence systems, delivering nuclear and conventional warheads in a range of over 2,000 kilometres. We called this system Kinzhal (Dagger).

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But this is not all I have to say.

A real technological breakthrough is the development of a strategic missile system with fundamentally new combat equipment – a gliding wing unit, which has also been successfully tested.

I will say once again what we have repeatedly told our American and European partners who are NATO members: we will make the necessary efforts to neutralise the threats posed by the deployment of the US global missile defence system. We mentioned this during talks, and even said it publicly. Back in 2004, after the exercises of the strategic nuclear forces when the system was tested for the first time, I said the following at a meeting with the press (It is embarrassing to quote myself, but it is the right thing to say here):

So, I said: “As other countries increase the number and quality of their arms and military potential, Russia will also need to ensure it has new generation weapons and technology.

In this respect, I am pleased to inform you that successfully completed experiments during these exercises enable us to confirm that in the near future, the Russian Armed Forces, the Strategic Missile Forces, will receive new hypersonic-speed, high-precision new weapons systems that can hit targets at inter-continental distance and can adjust their altitude and course as they travel. This is a very significant statement because no country in the world as of now has such arms in their military arsenal.” End of quote.

Of course, every word has a meaning because we are talking about the possibility of bypassing interception boundaries. Why did we do all this? Why did we talk about it? As you can see, we made no secret of our plans and spoke openly about them, primarily to encourage our partners to hold talks. Let me repeat, this was in 2004. It is actually surprising that despite all the problems with the economy, finances and the defence industry, Russia has remained a major nuclear power. No, nobody really wanted to talk to us about the core of the problem, and nobody wanted to listen to us. So listen now.

Unlike existing types of combat equipment, this system is capable of intercontinental flight at supersonic speeds in excess of Mach 20.

As I said in 2004, in moving to its target, the missile’s gliding cruise bloc engages in intensive manoeuvring – both lateral (by several thousand km) and vertical. This is what makes it absolutely invulnerable to any air or missile defence system. The use of new composite materials has made it possible to enable the gliding cruise bloc to make a long-distance guided flight practically in conditions of plasma formation. It flies to its target like a meteorite, like a ball of fire. The temperature on its surface reaches 1,600–2,000 degrees Celsius but the cruise bloc is reliably guided.

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For obvious reasons we cannot show the outer appearance of this system here. This is still very important. I hope everyone understands this. But let me assure you that we have all this and it is working well. Moreover, Russian industrial enterprises have embarked on the development of another new type of strategic weapon. We called it the Avangard.

We are well aware that a number of other countries are developing advanced weapons with new physical properties. We have every reason to believe that we are one step ahead there as well – at any rate, in the most essential areas.

We have achieved significant progress in laser weapons. It is not just a concept or a plan any more. It is not even in the early production stages. Since last year, our troops have been armed with laser weapons.

I do not want to reveal more details. It is not the time yet. But experts will understand that with such weaponry, Russia’s defence capacity has multiplied.

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Those interested in military equipment are welcome to suggest a name for this new weaponry, this cutting-edge system.

Of course, we will be refining this state-of-the-art technology. Obviously, there is far more in development than I have mentioned today. But this is enough for now.

I want to specifically emphasise that the newly developed strategic arms – in fact, new types of strategic weapons – are not the result of something left over from the Soviet Union. Of course, we relied on some ideas from our ingenious predecessors. But everything I have described today is the result of the last several years, the product of dozens of research organisations, design bureaus and institutes.

Thousands, literally thousands of our experts, outstanding scientists, designers, engineers, passionate and talented workers have been working for years, quietly, humbly, selflessly, with total dedication. There are many young professionals among them. They are our true heroes, along with our military personnel who demonstrated the best qualities of the Russian army in combat. I want to address each of them right now and say that there will absolutely be awards, prizes and honorary titles but, because I have met many of you in person many times, I know you are not after awards. The most important thing is to reliably ensure the security of our country and our people. As President and on behalf of the Russian people, I want to say thank you very much for your hard work and its results. Our country needs them so much.

As I have already said, all future military products are based on remarkable advances that can, should and will be used in high-technology civilian sectors. I would like to stress that only a country with the highest level of fundamental research and education, developed research, technology, industrial infrastructure and human resources can successfully develop unique and complex weapons of this kind. You can see that Russia has all these resources.

We will expand this potential and focus on delivering on the ambitious goals our country has set itself in terms of economic, social and infrastructure development. Effective defence will serve as a guarantee of Russia’s long-term development.

Let me reiterate that each of the armament systems I referred to is uniquely important. Even more importantly, taken together all these advances enable the Defence Ministry and General Staff to develop a comprehensive defence system, in which every piece of new military equipment will be assigned a proper role. On top of strategic weapons that are currently on combat alert and benefit from regular updates, Russia will have a defence capability that would guarantee its security in the long term.

Of course, there are many things that we have to do in terms of military construction, but one thing is already clear: Russia possesses a modern, high-technology army that is quite compact given the size of the territory, centred on the officer corps, who are dedicated to their country and are ready to sacrifice anything for its people. Sooner or later, other armies will also have the technology, the weapons, even the most advanced ones. But this does not worry us, since we already have it and will have even better armaments in the future. What matters is that they will never have people or officers like the Russian pilot Major Roman Filipov.

I hope that everything that was said today would make any potential aggressor think twice, since unfriendly steps against Russia such as deploying missile defences and bringing NATO infrastructure closer to the Russian border become ineffective in military terms and entail unjustified costs, making them useless for those promoting these initiatives.

It was our duty to inform our partners of what I said here today under the international commitments Russia had subscribed to. When the time comes, foreign and defence ministry experts will have many opportunities to discuss all these matters with them, if of course our partners so desire.

For my part, I should note that we have conducted the work to reinforce Russia's defence capability within the current arms control agreements; we are not violating anything. I should specifically say that Russia's growing military strength is not a threat to anyone; we have never had any plans to use this potential for offensive, let alone aggressive goals.

We are not threatening anyone, not going to attack anyone or take away anything from anyone with the threat of weapons. We do not need anything. Just the opposite. I deem it necessary to emphasise (and it is very important) that Russia's growing military power is a solid guarantee of global peace as this power preserves and will preserve strategic parity and the balance of forces in the world, which, as is known, have been and remain a key factor of international security after WWII and up to the present day.

And to those who in the past 15 years have tried to accelerate an arms race and seek unilateral advantage against Russia, have introduced restrictions and sanctions that are illegal from the standpoint of international law aiming to restrain our nation's development, including in the military area, I will say this: everything you have tried to prevent through such a policy has already happened. No one has managed to restrain Russia.

Now we have to be aware of this reality and be sure that everything I have said today is not a bluff ‒ and it is not a bluff, believe me ‒ and to give it a thought and dismiss those who live in the past and are unable to look into the future, to stop rocking the boat we are all in and which is called the Earth.

In this connection, I would like to note the following. We are greatly concerned by certain provisions of the revised nuclear posture review, which expand the opportunities for reducing and reduce the threshold for the use of nuclear arms. Behind closed doors, one may say anything to calm down anyone, but we read what is written. And what is written is that this strategy can be put into action in response to conventional arms attacks and even to a cyber-threat.

I should note that our military doctrine says Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons solely in response to a nuclear attack, or an attack with other weapons of mass destruction against the country or its allies, or an act of aggression against us with the use of conventional weapons that threaten the very existence of the state. This all is very clear and specific.

As such, I see it is my duty to announce the following. Any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies, weapons of short, medium or any range at all, will be considered as a nuclear attack on this country. Retaliation will be immediate, with all the attendant consequences.

There should be no doubt about this whatsoever. There is no need to create more threats to the world. Instead, let us sit down at the negotiating table and devise together a new and relevant system of international security and sustainable development for human civilisation. We have been saying this all along. All these proposals are still valid. Russia is ready for this.

Our policies will never be based on claims to exceptionalism. We protect our interests and respect the interests of other countries. We observe international law and believe in the inviolable central role of the UN. These are the principles and approaches that allow us to build strong, friendly and equal relations with the absolute majority of countries.

Our comprehensive strategic partnership with the People’s Republic of China is one example. Russia and India also enjoy a special privileged strategic relationship. Our relations with many other countries in the world are entering a new dynamic stage.

Russia is widely involved in international organisations. With our partners, we are advancing such associations and groups as the CSTO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and BRICS. We are promoting a positive agenda at the UN, G20 and APEC. We are interested in normal and constructive cooperation with the United States and the European Union. We hope that common sense will prevail and our partners will opt for honest and equal work together.

Even if our views clash on some issues, we still remain partners because we must work together to respond to the most complex challenges, ensure global security, and build the future world, which is becoming increasingly interconnected, with more and more dynamic integration processes.

Russia and its partners in the Eurasian Economic Union seek to make it a globally competitive integration group. The EAEU’s agenda includes building a common market for electricity, oil, petroleum products and gas, harmonising financial markets, and linking our customs authorities. We will also continue to work on a greater Eurasian partnership.

Colleagues, this is a turning period for the entire world and those who are willing and able to change, those who are taking action and moving forward will take the lead. Russia and its people have expressed this will at every defining moment in our history. In just 30 years, we have undergone changes that took centuries in other countries.

We will continue to confidently chart our own course, just as we always have. We will stick together, as we always have. Our unity is the most durable foundation for future progress. In the coming years, it is our goal to further strengthen this unity so that we are one team that understands that change is necessary and is ready to devote its energy, knowledge, experience and talent to achieving common goals.

Challenges and big goals give special meaning to our lives. We must be bold in our plans and actions, take responsibility and initiative, and grow stronger, which means being of use to our families, children, the whole country; changing the world and our country for the better; and creating the Russia that we all dream about. Only then will the next decade and the entire 21st century undoubtedly be an age of outstanding triumphs for Russia and our shared success. I believe it will be so.

Thank you.

This one isn't promising Canaan to anybody. The Americans have stated. There will only be one power. America the US. Obey or die! Putin responded Russia wont obey --No Unipolar World. But If American insists, then MAD. There is no bluffing. Best brains run 24/7 in Labs, developing death, planetary death many times over.

I guess from such perspectives, and the import of Putin's state of Federation, one could reasonably say our local politics are KOLONGOLONGO!

[jakaswanga]

COMMENTRY: THE SEE-THROUGH GIMMICKS

The word gimmick, the way I use it, I first became conscious of in political theatre. It was a play situated in 1905, depicting a scene out of a running argument between (two factions which later became famous as) the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks. We are talking Old Russia here, on her death bed, and the fight for her re-incarnation. This was a critical period with some of the toughest, most radical European minds advocating top-end revolution. Earnestly involved were notable revolutionaries like Lenin, Trotsky, Plekhanov, Martov and the gang. Yes, the broad front flying the flag of the Russian Social Democratic Party was headed for a historic split.

Hard-boiled Lenin envisioned a historical short-cut, from Tsarism to Communism. Under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Revolution was for professional revolutionaries to lead. No rehearsals in history.

Madness! Thought Martov and said Trotsky! There will be a long transition period of liberal democracy wherein, the parliamentary system respected, the proletariat will necessarily be under the bourgeoisie, the property owning class. For, anyway, Post Czarist Russia had to undergo the bourgeoisie revolution in full and by the book, before it transited/evolved to socialism.

Nonsense! Scoffed Lenin. The revolution Is not a GIMMICK for extending Tsarist rule by other means! Tsarism is already the peak of the bourgeois revolution in Russia: a few, a handful in fact, own everything. The rest, nothing, not even themselves! (These days put as the 1%ters against the 99%centers)

Only the reality of political practice on the ground (as the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks fought for the heats and minds of Russia) could decide the case.

The Bolsheviks won the day. Until the Oblomov Boris Yeltsin and the deluded Gorbachov, 90 years later that is.

MANDELA'S ANC

(NB: 1. Remember Nelson Mandela's ANC was launched back in 1912, and by the time it came to power in 1994, The Russian Bolsheviks had their day in power and gone. But not before making a world super-power of the Tsarist remnants!
(2) I saw Cyril Ramaphosa piss in his pants and put a brave face on it, as the SA-parliament passed a motion for land expropriation without compensation. Julius Malema moved the motion with compelling urgency.



The rand started to tank, Ramaphosa's heart attack. The markets would rather a corrupt Tzuma keeping things the same, than a less corrupt Ramaphosa passing bills for forceful nationalisation to the benefit of dispossessed natives!)

FELLAS WHO SIEZE THE MOMENT

But why did the Russian workers and PeasantS side with Lenin's Bolsheviks in this period, given his obvious red tyrannical bend?

My answer has always been simple. The situation was hard and desperate. Beyond selling illusions --like God and the rest will take care of stuff. Instinctively and intellectually, both the politically conscious and sleeping minds, recognised the task at hand needed a visionary, a fearsome and hard-boiled mind with no trace of illusions. Action to change reality. Lenin wasn't just fearsome, he was ferocious to a numbing effect. Nothing would stand in his way.

For instance: Swathes of the peasantry and even town folk revered the Romanovs as Holy. It was a bit like the Japanese emperor who, by inculcated legend, was born of the rays of the sun. Immortal! Such never died, they were only promoted to higher glory. According to a peasant boy who converted to a Red Soldier, Lenin, the most virile mind he had ever listened to, told a gathering that the retard Nicolas Romanov –---Lenin didn't bother to call him The Czar---- was a rotting jigger in the toe of Russia. It, the Romanov thing, threatened the whole foot with its sepsis. Lenin insisted the Bolsheviks would cut out the whole toe with the jigger, burn the whole Romanov scums to ash, rather than wait for the amputation of the whole leg –--as the Mensheviks proposed!

There was no record, even folklore of anybody in Russia ever spoke like that about a Romanov, a god, before Lenin came on the scene.

An equivalent today would be a Saudi revolutionary telling a crowd in Mecca, that his party would smash the huge pagan stone, Kabaa, to kokoto, and build the world's best brothel with it on the same spot. It would sound crazy to some (and no doubt Lenin did sound looney to many), but, emotionally recognised as a statement of intent soon to be fact in reality, a majority would join the winner. Lenin had no sense of humour. The peasants peered into the future and saw Nicolas dead, and a new Bolshevik Czar, called Lenin. They hedged their bets. The crankpot Lenin had more future in him than the ailing and rotting Romanov.

In the event the Red Czar rising was actually Stalin.

(some peasants of course fainted rather than remember they had actually heard in person, another Russian call the Czar, jigger. And mean it.)

Ever since the idea was planted in my mind, that a progressive movement could merely be a GIMMICK to extend the longevity of the status quo –---for instance, classical colonialism became neo-colonial domination with the much-sung flag-independence of African states serving as a GIMMICK to cover up for the continued foreign subjugation,----- I have always been fain to double smell the agendas of my local progressives.

This is really bad! It is paranoia! But I am game. The end of the times are nigh, and false prophets galore. Gotta up the bar of proof. I will run the peoples president through the ringer. And with set heart, return verdict.

So I have been thinking, reading, and thinking, and letting my mind churn through some very dark recesses. Then I braved it to ask myself:

NOW, SUPPOSE THE 30TH JANUARY OATH WAS A GIMMICK!!

Waaa salalalala! To what purpose then!?

Stay tuned.

[jakaswanga]

COMMENT CONT: WHEN DOES A RULING STRATA NEED HIGH-RISK GIMMICKS?

When they are between a rock and a hard place. Between their class loyalties –-which are anti people, and the peoples direct expectations –-which are anti ruling (exploiter) class interests. In this fix is needed a master gimmick to serve both masters at the same time, or at least give it a shot. (Eg: Holding elections but rigging the result. This is a very powerful, now universal gimmick throughout Africa! –--Look! I am legitimate! The people have voted for me! Democratically! I am elected! Kabila, Museveni, Debby, Nguesso, Al-Sisi ….. you name him, he is a gimmick star! A modern Czar! A mock and a joke!)

For Africa under them wallows at the bottom of humanity today. (Their Excellencies, Life Presidents, so many jiggers under the toes of Africa, making her limp with ugly gait. (like an overbanged wh0re at a gang orgy!)

SO WHAT ABOUT JANUARY 30TH AS A GIMMICK?

To buy time, to depoliticise (the people) by the attrition of inertia after a climax. Defraud the peoples dream, by substituting in a fake, then pumping up the volume of fulfilment. ---Illusionists!

After the massive boycott of the election in which Uhuru got his 98% legitimacy from 34% voter report, some big event had to happen. To diffuse or canalise the peoples expectations and charge. Things couldn't stay the same, trudging on as if nothing significant had happened.

My understanding is that even within the ODM faction of NASA, there was no appetite for the swearing-in. This is given proof by the roll-call of absentees during the event. The majority of Mpigs and Governors, Senators and Executives were, like Kalonzo, a no show. This was no ruling class happy day. –--Boniface Khalwale spins Obasanjo had arrived and gotten an affidavit from all principals, they would skip!

But then the grassroots factor happened.

The riff-raff were getting restive, and, after the earlier postponement, turning their aggression on their wishy-washy leaders. This pressure was jocularly enacted in public by increasingly rowdy youths who threatened to swear Raila in by force wherever he went on tour. Howbeit at night the pressure mutated into something more nasty. It enacted curfews for many ODM Mpigs in their home areas, if not turning their rurals into no-go areas. (If the Bible is not eaten by the Peoples President, you and your home will be eaten by fire, mheshimiwa.)

That was the rock on one side. On the other side was Githu Muigai, Japheth Koome and Freddo Matiang'i. It will be treason, and that is ordinarily a death sentence, chimed the AG, and, forget not, the state has long arms to pin you somewhere tomorrow! Between being burnt to death by a crazed mob and hanged to death by a scared state, is a sure hard place to be. One then does need a powerful gimmick. One
Powerful enough in its symbolism to hoodwink the people and blunt their fury, weak enough not to provoke an already trigger-finger trembling state into insanity. After that, some breathing space, as successive gimmicks are fashioned.

I have been trying to revise my history to find a situation where the comprador, without class suicide, yoke themselves to pull up the peoples aspirations! –-Nothing doing!

FOOTNOTE:

MPs to splash millions in Mombasa retreat

By Stephen Letoo For Citizen Digital: March 2, 2018 (


All the 349 MPs will fly to Mombasa with a return ticket costing Ksh.21,100. On air alone, the lawmakers will blow a whooping Ksh.7.3 million.

Upon landing, the MPs will flock the high end hotels with full-board booking going for approximately Ksh.18,000 a day on the lowerside. For the three days, the MPs will rake up a bill of Ksh.18.8 million in accommodation.
Just like normal House sittings, the MPs will pocket allowances that are scheduled to cost about Ksh.6.9 million.

There will be an additional 40 people; including parliamentary staff and journalists who will also be in Mombasa for the retreat at the expense of the Parliamentary Service Commission.

This is in the month Lecturers are on strike, Registrars on strike, Nurses on strike, and Treasury proposes to cut down funding to Counties.
The other day NASA Mpigs boycotted the vetting of Jubilee ministerial appointees, today they all converge to merry full house at the coast.

And the Peoples President!? –-Ach, mission accomplished.

[jakaswanga]

GODEC KNEW THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT WAS KALONGOLONGO!

It was a bit of an odd tone for an ambassador to strike, even if he be a modern day Roman prefect over a sh!thole provence, run by, in his opinion, scum. The contemptuous seep through his tone and mannerisms toward the NASA principAls, hinted at something else. I am used to the mockery which is William Ruto's public discourse at Weta, Stevo, Muda and of course, yule jamaa wa vitendawili, but that is all local sport.

Godec's wasn't. The contempt was intergrated, internally solidified, and there was nothing diplomatic play-acting could do to camouflage honest body language. So I kept my books open. Coz I seen situations where basic instincts overrun breeding. (Like when your superior is a coward and the job at hand demands the opposite, then, hero that you are, your body language starts to tell the boss: go fak yourself elsewhere!)

This day the Prefect Godec was meeting Ken Lusaka, lately given a soft-landing as speaker of the senate, but earlier on, the Bungoma governor presiding over the ksh.105,000/wheelbarrow scandal. Without much ado, he dissed NASA. Game over, ship sailed, face it. –-There was a contemptuous finality to it which informed my instincts he knew something I didn't. A dangerous secret, eating him inside.

There were of course plenty of noises from the NASA crowd, denouncing him.

Raila blasted the envoys

Stop hypocrisy: We don't need your advice on Uhuru legitimacy, Raila slams envoys


Noting that Kenyans can deal with their own issues, Raila said they will not accept any interference and hypocrisy from the envoys.
"...we are independent and we will deal with our matters as Kenyans... Maneno wanaosema ni tupu yote. Wanataka tuiingie kwa mitego (What they are saying is baseless, they want us to enter into traps)," he said.
Raila said the envoys are only interested in bringing back colonialism in Kenya something that they will not allow.

"Hao mabalozi waache unafiki...wacheni kuingilia vitu za Kenya kwa njia ya ukoloni... hatuwezi kubalia ukoloni," he said.
This loosely translates to..."Those envoys are hypocrites, stop interfering with our business in a colonial way, we will not accept to be colonised again".
The NASA leader claimed that envoys were more interested with doing business in Kenya rather than focusing on more important matters.
Mudavadi lashes at envoys' "partisan" call for NASA to recognise Uhuru
Feb. 13, 2018

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/02/13/mudavadi-lashes-at-envoys-partisan-call-for-nasa-to-recognise-uhuru_c1714238

NASA principal Musalia Mudavadi has castigated foreign envoys over their "partisan stance on Kenyan politics".
Musalia accused the diplomats of overstepping their watchdog role in recent times and taking sides with the ruling party.
"In the run up to the two presidential elections last year, the diplomats pursued a partisan role in favour of Jubilee."
"Since then, the situation seems to have deteriorated, beginning with the western diplomatic community hurriedly endorsing the results of August 8, 2017 elections, which the Supreme Court later nullified," Mudavadi said.

Now I think I can explain what bee was up Godec's ass. He knew, even as these principals told their grassroots something else, them dogs were on the take. He knew the absentees on 30th January had accepted bribes and were negotiating for more, and that was why they were not going to take the oath, later or ever. He knew NASA was a bogus show.

Now the people (appeared yet to know!)

If these principals are the characters one is dealing with at the top of a country!! Ati they want to run a state, a government, an agenda 2030! --UUUwiii, one begins to see the sorriest thing one ever saw for a people! Bribe addicts. These NASA things were less than heroin-addicted pavement semen-dumps. One might try to compose onesself, be cordial, civil, courteous, respectful and all that they teach in good handbooks of diplomacy, but the soul rebels, the heart is repelled, there is no day one shall FEEL respect for beings one knows would sell their country, people or oath, all the while as their tongues roll sweet-nothing words to the public on rote.

Godec was all but puking!

And even for Raila, Godec knew there were even bigger consultations and negotiations behind the scenes, where even Daniel Arap Moi was involved. So it was just a matter of time before, the deal sealed, Agwambo would dramatically change tune.

Only the people were not yet in the know!

–-Godec was feeling too old for playing the games of this kind of slime: For sale in the dark, puritan hero in the day. His official brief demanded he show restraint and respect them, his heart saw scum and his body refused to obey his official brief.

And I watched with fascination. There is acted arrogance, and there is genuine puke. There is nothing Godec could do about it. He was genuinely puking at the rot it was his job to manage!

That body language was so honest it hit me where I saw a variation of it. Wolfgang Schauble and any Greek minister of finance. Schauble was then the German minister of finance and an expert by experience on the shenanigans of the Greek ministry of finance and the central bank: 'their books are toilet paper, and they know it! And then they expect you to reach financial accommodations with them on the basis of toilet paper!' he reputedly fumed at his orderlies. His body language became so contemptuous a proud Greek like Varoufakis told him to go fak himself!

In the event Greece is fcuked up! Still.

Now Raila has done his about turn! The peoples assemblies upon which his peoples presidency would take presence of act, are demobilised.

Necessarily so. And the brainy David Ndii left his brains behind on the explanation! what a price to pay for the mutation from Kikuyu to Luo!

(Yawa, Dr. Ndii, who told you when you become a Luo there is no need for you to carry brains along!? WTF!

AN OLIGARCHIC PLUTOCRACY AS MONOPOLY CAPITAL'S STOPGAP MEASURE IN THE KENYAN CRISIS?

NB: The Odingas, Mois and Kenyatta's have reached a parley, a ROYAL AND DYNASTIC arrangement whose first casualty must be William Ruto!

And now, all propaganda machines gone overdrive, this is to the best interests of Kenya. No, I insist this is a feudal solution to modern, capitalistic crisis.

What is it in Kenya!? A failed industrialisation process mesays. And I insist, no point bothering with dialogues. How to industrialise? that is these days an ABC! A walk in the park every other Tom Dick and Harry nation gone through. -----But not us, children of animal gods!

Moi, Kenyatta and Odinga dynasties are exactly the Czars keeping us in the semi-feudal cage! And now again they hatch a plot for another century of their inferior royal rule, and I am supposed to applaud, swallow whole, hook line and sink!?

Naaah!

I still got a mind to think for myself! Diagnosis capitalist underdevelopment! Treatment!? I wont bother to discover the wheel twice! I will copy, follow the already well-beaten path. 25% Deng GDP/annum figures for instance, or even Wirtschaftswunderman Adenauer! or xxxx, or yyyy, the list is long!

RULE ONE: No waste of scarce resources. Zero tolerance on corruption.
2. Pump the money into the people, schools, housing, healthcare, for starters.

3. No Idea. But the rule of law, pro-peoples law –-which swiftly punishes for instance police who rape women in the cells, is not a bad guess.

But I guess, citizens under lesser rulers, we have to do the rigmarole of Murphy's law, the whole lot! and every worst case scenario!

[jakaswanga]

NO GO AREAS FOR THE HANDSHAKE

Whilst thee, the abdicated peoples president, Raila Amollo Odinga, was at Ahero whacking up the crowds, tempering their rage with the assertion thee, aka The Kalolongolongo Prezzo, and thy counterpart, The Usurper Kenyatta, had positively resolved the Miguna Miguna deportation issue –---not to mention in concurrence with the ALREADY scripted opinion of the highest courts of the land, the Foreign affairs Ministry was (officially) having none of it.

It is an incident worth pondering.

While the orchestrated IMF walk-over, at the Treasury, over their duplicituous hirelings Rotich and Patrick Njoroge, underlines the zero powers the Kenyan President (and his two co-Presidents) have over economic policy, this other alleged incident at London's Heathrow manifests the autonomy of the Deep State from the Handshake theatrics.

First, I will assume NRM General Miguna Miguna is not lying here.

First, the venue:



Then The Beef!

LONDON SPECIAL BRANCH DETAINS MIGUNA FOR THREE HOURS



It is too hilarious, but I like Miguna's explanation about telephone calls by squirrels in Nairobi to their patrons in London. The Nairobi sh!tters, their unders leaking fear, pleaded the Oxford trip be made as difficult as possible for Miguna, if not impossible.

I surmise Kenya's Foreign affairs babe, Bibi Monicah Juma, and her challenged, clueless staff, were coreced by higher forces to do the protocol. So they desperately threw in the TERRORIST insinuation! –--Ha! Miguna is an Al-Shabaab fund-raiser, he is a global-trotter pumping up Islamic fundamentalism in Kenya, EAC Somalia at wide!

The London special branch were thus obliged to officially go through the motions, howbeit, with a perplexed immigrations noting Miguna's free travels within other Western Nations, chief of them the NATO allies Germany, Canada and The USA!

WTF! The BBC, a known platform for international bad boys, has interviewd Miguna severally in the past several months, and, howbeit, never once challenged him on his Islamic fundamentalism! Monicah Juma will soon demand the BBC stop show-casing Miguna! The Agha-Khan already complied, a business knife to his throat.

Anyway

Finally the London Special Branch spilled the beans to the Big Bad Boy of Kenya. Though it must be said it took the London dim-wits too long to figure it out. May be their best guys were on the Skripal, agent NOVICHOK poisoning case in the South of England. But when the guys in attendance came through, they were like ---'This is about people high-up making calls to people high-up about their common interests! It got nothing to do with public security!'

It reminds me of one of the Flying-Squaders who guided Miguna to the deporting KLM flight to Amsterdam, kinyume cha court orders. The killer-copper apologised to Miguna on behalf of his colleagues, especially on interrupting Miguna's steaming delicious meal of fish! Imagine omera! Mama Oliech's special delivery abandoned! I would sue God himself if he perpetrated such an abomination upon a Luo!

Suleiman's boys attoned:
'Forgive us General. We have nothing personal against you. It is just our job and we have to obey WAKUBWA KULE JUU. We too need as much liberation as possible from these corrupt scumbags! As for the fish General, when you come back, Mama Oliech will be summoned to do her best, the police force picking the tab!'

I surmise they were hinting at this.

Some deeply embedded departments have the INTEL much earlier before it hits the streets.

Police Service faces mass exit after salary cuts

Monday March 19 2018

SACCO LOAN

“I earned negative Sh15,000 this month,” said an officer, whom we cannot name because of the sensitivity of the matter, but whose salary notification we reproduce.
“If I continue working here, I will keep earning zero.”
The officer, who has since tendered his resignation, said he had taken a loan from the sacco based on the consideration that he would be able to pay it every month.

SURRENDER

“It is not fair for them to reduce our salaries without even giving us notices,” he said, demanding to know how the NPSC expected the affected officers to settle their bills.

To make matters worse, he had to borrow money to finance his resignation as police standing orders require that an officer quitting the force surrenders a month’s salary and issues a 24-hour notice.
Alternatively, one may serve a three-month notice, which most of the officers are trying to avoid.

Do you know what a court order is, and how much do they pay you extra for sabotaging court orders? Miguna had asked the head of the squad speeding him to the airport deport?

Well, Kinoti has moved fast to disband these units of suspected loyalties, to recruit new, vetted squaders.

But think about it: who made the decision in Nairobi to liase London Special Branch to detain if not derail Miguna's Oxford Show!?

Think about his or her mental state!

I don't think it is Monicah Juma, the so-called minister for external affairs. Neither can it be ex ODM General, Ababu Namwamba. The retired General is too busy firing up every skirt in his vicinity. And now that he is assistant minister, he will no doubt perforate intestines. No, the London special branch gig is someone from the deep state. Someone powerful, and scared witless enough to be stupid. It is someone definitely who is sure his arz is covered by State House. Unsackable. He must be a top presidential minder.

So there is the former peoples president going through his cash-choreographed moves promoting the benefits of the handshake, while the deep state continues its games unabated.

But suppose it is not just choreographed in part, but in whole, in toto as every monopoly in power ever deludes itself it does to reality!?

I read Miguna culturally. He is onto something. He has called the bluff of the carefully constructed Kenyan fiction of there is no alternative; that every Kenyan is for sale, Wanjiku is forever fakt.

Miguna suggests Mass action can paralyse the powerful state in a week –--he comically puts it as the LUNGALUNGA DANCE!

Kenyans are of course brutalised, conditioned to believe it can happen elsewhere (like Burkina Faso and Ukraine) but not here! That is why 30th January 2018 was such a shock. It opened many eyes, smashed some myths. A million people through CBD and no violence! An illegal oath and no state response!

--The world upside down.

Kenyans are brainwashed to believe where the ODM, read Jaluos, takes lead mobilising, violence is smiling at you! (just like there many more myths out there used by the ruling class (as unconquerable ethnic profiles) to divide and rule Kenyans along tribal fictions. Cambridge Analytica has been earning keep burning the midnight oil on this poison feed!

The higher echelons of London Special Branch know this! may be veterans even retire into consultancy by such lucrative firms as Cambridge Analytica, who knows!

MIGUNA: January 30th, the police were not invited as a force at the command of Jubilee. But as individuals they were free to attend. Raila is their president, they voted for him! Why shouldn't they come to watch me oath their genuine president, Raila, the winner of the elections!? But the police didn't attend as a force, there was no violence. Why would there be!? You see violence during peaceful gatherings which are the democratic right of Kenyans, tends to be as a result of the illegal and violent actions of the police trying to disperse them. The forces are conditioned to think every gathering not singing the praise of the state is a riotous mob. NO. We have to teach them otherwise!

NB: I think that is not correct. Every riot police officer will telly you ORDERS ALWAYS COME FROM ABOVE! The bosses of Kenya clearly recognise the danger of peaceful gatherings going viral as a means of protest against their bankrupt rule. They thus unleash pre-emptive violence. The constitution their foot!

The rest –--the insane police violence we always witness against un-armed civilian's---- is the frustration of too many hungry rats in a small cage: cannibalism. A hungry man is an angry man. His fury needs any scapegoat to release. Feed him a bit of tribal venom and he shoots to murder even an innocent, unarmed student leader like Evans Njoroge Kidero.

So the cultural problem Miguna remains: how can we exorcise this demon?

Raila calling him mad failed. Miguna is too articulate to dismiss as mad. The He is a Canadian bit by Matiang'i&Kihalangwa is of course stand-up comedy by the state. The latest Monicah Juma pitch –--He is a terrorist, hits a new low of our mental faculties.

It hurts me on the Luo Pivot honestly. People who run a state of 50 million people visioning 2030 shouldn't be that mentally bankrupt. But culturally speaking, that Miguna Miguna is so superior, he reduces men in power to such morons, is the clearest testimonial our culture, and of resistance, is alive, healthy and unconquerable. Intellectually resistance has already triumphed. Now the details of history of daily life. Meals. Earning and adequate living. ECONOMICS!! stupid!

That is my take.

SEE FROM 20:14 –-schedule six, international terrorism alert!



Monicah Juma yawa, gichuli pesa adi mondo giloki rombo, itim gima kamano! Thooo! Gigi wigi otow te yawa! Katakamano giri en giri kata otow! kata en maiti wich!

However rotten and collapsed our elite are, they are ours. It is our cultrual job to give them a respectable send off or ---those who commit suicide are buried without honour---- not. Their dead minds are our dead bodies to mind so to speak. Some cultures do not like speaking evil of the dead. So as a compromise I will turn to poetical license, to tell the truth at the funeral pyre of the comprador, and their Kalolongo Prezzo. You know those chants we call sigueya, where the dirty truths are paraded, well, in a twin mission of catharcis by truth, but artistic comedy in deliverance for palatability and sooth!

I am game!

[jakaswanga]

Goodbye Agwambo,



That was the sound track. The musical cheers to the handshake. The treacherous act of the once peoples president.

I always said the Miguna case scared me. The way culture scared Goebbels.

And yesterday at the airport there was a rendition of the Miguna saga which ruthlessly drove the point home.

Your HANDSHAKE with OURU, which people like me recognised from the beginning to be the FRAUD it is, was, yesterday, mercilessly unmasked such that even to the most ardent believers, now see the ride the were taken for.

It was another peeling back of the mask!

And it took the passion and fury of Miguna Miguna, RESISTING, fighting for his rights, one man against 400, to expose to its rotten core, the no infamous handshake.

Culturally speaking it is good you were there. To, unconsciously, pass on the button to a new generation. Yours now is to manage your demise.

The people put their fate in your hands on January 30th, risked it all, and within a month you traded that power cheaply for golf-courts trips with Uhuru Kenyatta, all details secret. –--Why wouldn't GSU thugs spit on your face!?


Nobody loves cheats.

HANDSHAKE KAPU!

[jakaswanga]

On the Occasion of the LCE blaming Miguna for his AIRPORT misfortune! urging the Luo to stand rock solid behind the HANDSHAKE!


SACRIFICING A GENERAL FOR PEACE!

His eyes a hidden warning of the price
Calchas prophesies for the King of Men
\
Iphigeneia must be sacrificed for Troy to be won

And so does it come to pass ---
Artemis is appeased and fair winds come!

Yet unleashed are other forces in the heart of man
Dark passions from deep depths which shall set a trap
And lay low the King of Men, like a sack on the floor

The art of the deal seals the fate of Miguna
The NRM General must be deported to Dubai AE

Slumped like a sack of anything on a bumpy ride
His blood seeps with toxins like weevils on grain:
The General is a bastard sound to be switched off

It is the golden handshake for economic fair winds
So say the sages of the Land as they click fatal glasses:
The likes of Gen. Miguna were born in Kanyada but are Arabs!

And so it came to pass that back to the Emirates it was
And in prosperity we lived happily thereafter in Kenya.

What a transaction!

[jakaswanga]

THE HANDSHAKE AS AN ARREST.

Your former Excellency Amollo Tinga,

I wanted to handle this handshake thingy of yours and Uhuru at a leisurely pace on the LUO PIVOT, but some immediacy and paramountcy has cropped up, which dictates a quick delve to the point. The looser ends will be tied up later. I really have to parodise the already satirising song, Mobutu, sang by Otoyo Luambo Makiadi. This is the legendary Candidat na Biso: sole messiah! But that reading is the alter ego of the now viral LUNGALUNGNA DANCE. This is the duet performed (by the Future and the Past) at the JKIA airport, the renegade NRM General Miguna at the center, a limbering Raila in the wake.

The urgency of this post has been warranted by what I consider the intellectual regression if not implosion of the brightest and the best of our Luo Nyanza crop of lawyer representatives. These are organised in the Luoland ruling monopoly, cartelist one party, thy ODM. These are the likes of Opondo Kaluma, Otiende Amollo, Sister Gladys Wanga, Amillo Mabona and the rest of the cast. Where, in the run to the swearing in of January 30th, defending the peoples corner and rights, they read law to the land and awed the nation by the depth of their professional competence, thoughtfullness, brilliance and articulatenesss, daily on TV and other public podia, thereby relegating Jubilee pundits to pedestrians (in Ababu Namwamba speak), now they have had to be shameless public fools defending the indefensible, THE HANDSHAKE.

Watch them stutter as their minds jam their tongues, watch them stutter as their hearts rebel against their mouths! O selling a lie not even morons believe!

I heard it from Ho telling Vo, or Vo saying so told him Ho: there will be a lot of brilliant and highly-trained men there, from France and the United States seeking to legitimise the colonial oppression of Vietnam. They will all be lying their forked tongues off, their high minds reduced to childish propaganda. Concentrate on negating their military power. That is their real argument: Devastating overpower. Intellectually they lost the war thousands of years ago when the first slave said NO to his Master! But it didn't come cheap VO!

I have spent a fortnight watching some of our most Brilliant peers trying to claim a surrender, and a sell-out at that, is the confirmation of the Mahia in Agwambo. And my reaction has been amusement, not even irritation. I have kept on revisiting CANDIDAT NA BISO MOBUTU!

Here is a taste of BELELA BELELA KOMBO YA HANDSHAKE! (SHOUT and shout the benefits of the handshake!)

The fish that swim the lake,
the lake we call the Kavirondo
And some avoid the nets, and some make it
to Mama Oliech's delights at the high tables,
Their lives are dedicated dancing to your songs of praise!

(Only the morons and mindless dare oppose you, O the divine handshake!)

No kidding: they are saying this is a MANDELA-DEKLERK! handshake!

When Opondo Kalumua, Otiende Amollo, Gladys Wanga and the rest of the cast sing as above, I say that is us going to the dogs. That is us sheep being herded to the abbatoir. I will dissent, with mind awake.

So before the fun, the furaha baada ya dhiki, lets go through the dhiki. Cold-bloodedly.

THE HANDSHAKE AS A FORCED COMPROMISE OR SURRENDER?

In any case it is an 'arrest'. An old term for a kind of a political parley sponsored by imperial suffrage.

By an arrest in this posit, I refer to stuff like happened that day in Nikea (Nicene, Turkey), on the 19th of June 325 AD. Constantine of Constantinople was just settling in, into being the first Christian convert Roman emperor. But Christianity was young, like the Kenyan 2010 Constitution, and debate was fierce, like whether the natural birthrights like the Kenyan Luopeanness of Miguna Miguna can be abrogated at the praetorian guard's leisure.)

But the Roman Muthamaki had even more peculiar stuff disturbing the minds of his subjects. For instance, was Jesus wholly man, or was HE half-man Half-God!? And should the 'g' for God be capital of lower case!? This was the stuff offing a doctrinal civil war, but the emperor, as a ruler, more preoccupied with state matters like debt and commerce deficits, definitely had better wars to fight than one more civil, imperial self-tearing war.

HE Constantine needed one line, one doctrine, one orthodoxy, ONE UNION STATEMENT, and he needed it quick.

So he called a gathering of the learned to impose an ARREST. All sages came, from all corners of the reli-mad empire; Christian Bishops, philosophers, The Otiende Amollos' and Nyachaes' who conceived the 2010 baby, the Githu Muigais' and Wily Mutungas' and PLO Lumumbas', the etc's etcs and the what --Grandmullahs'--- have yous' of the period. The rest is history: AYIE MAR NEKEA!

That is the Nicean arrest: a forced compromise on a very delicate matter. Forced by an imperial decree, a decree informed of the fear of imperial ruin, by bankruptcy and civil war, and SLAVE REVOLT!

An arrest is essentially therefore a ruling-class saving formula. For the glory of the empire and its aristocratic imperial court is not the same as the glory of the subjects, slaving under.

ENTER GODEC AND LEGACY

Former US ambassador Godec was an imperial prefect specifically warranted by POTUS Obama to conduct his ASIA PIVOT policy in the strategically contested Kenya: Look West, not East. His hand is all over the HANDSHAKE. He burned the midnight oil engineering it, came up with an impressive array of tantalising carrots and dread sticks. –--Don't blame circumcised men like Weta and MDVD or even Kalonzo for loosing heart on January 30th.

Just like now, carrot side handshake, I don't say the peoples former president as an individual has done bad business. (You know that theatrical sound Baganda women make in bed!? SSSSHHHHH)

Anyway: The bickering nyapara class charged with the daily management of the imperial capital province Kenya, were too much at each others throats. This elitary chaos is an enticing prospect for those minded to push the liberation agenda, a notch higher. Empire remembered the 2007/8 nyapara fiasco which needed the angel Condoleezza to be flown in, aegis in hand, to shore-up the Solomonic wits of Annan the Koffiman.

Bad scenario.

The Handshake is a desperate attempt to glue back the cleavage opened up within the ruling class. But some cleavages, by the time they are visible at the top, you know the crust lower down has widened too far for superficial jobs.



The words in swing are LIBERATION and RESISTANCE. In that light, the handshake is not even a temporary TRUCE. It is the former General Ababu Namwamba's option. Surrender and the preference of the warmths of DOMESTICATION above the harsh grind of the fields of struggle, and the hills of combat. For when the whip of power cracks, your back is torn like Miguna's, if you resist.

Farewell your Royal Highness, but let the tongue-forking ahangla songs come, and, like I did to the double-bottomed and sided Candidat na biso, Mobutu, so shall I dance myself lame, ignoring the gathering clouds, obed kata koyo marach, Miguna: Here is Luambo

Let us be sincere, let us be freely frank,
We reject hypocrisy, yes we reject ingratitude:
Who can look after the country if not Mobutu?
Who else but him Mobutu Sese Seko to trust!

Glory! Glory! SAL-UUUUUU-TE!

Ganga Ganga na kombo ya handshake (Hearken hearken to shout the handshake)
Eko couter bino rien (It wont cost you a dime)
Handshake azongisa Unite National (the handshakre restored national unity!)

Eh! where is the national unity of Congo now! I am told that is why in the song the drums keep on rolling a THUNDER! perhaps a Cassandra wail from the cellars where she has been banished to not disturb the feast to welcome the famous horse. Got to really want to know to listen.

next: THIS BUSINESS OF RESISTANCE: WHOSE TASK IS IT OF NO CHOICE?

[jakaswanga]

WHOSE TASK IS IT OF NO CHOICE, THE BUSINESS OF RESISTANCE?

Dear the peoples' former president,

An koro ang'iyi kod angoch-tiang', like a mutant form.

There is work to do. Thinking work.

I am talking about organised, historical resistance, marching or stumbling, weary and burdened by the Odyssey, straggling or trudging on, incrementally however slow, toward liberation.

In Kenya, talking the consistency of resistance, one is talking the unions. The TRADE UNIONS. From these ... trade ... organisations, if you remember, were recruited the custodians of the neo-colonial ARREST in 1963, popularly called independence. Flag independence then.

Daniel Arap Moi, Tom Mboya, James Gichuru, Walter Odede, JD Otiende, ... and if you go through the records …. all were former top-class Unionists, right there to 1962 or thereabouts. Their brief, to officiate the indendence and inherit the settler state, was course to DELINK from the MAU MAU agenda. By then Jomo Kapenguria Kenyatta already had, and, howbeit, he is the one the so-called radical Jaramogi insisted on for the presidency!

Hmmm, a ponder.

(later we will crack the joke of farce, that as thee Raila delinks from Miguna's National Resistance Agenda, the ideological transaction in the handshake which brings thee in from the cold is the jetisoning of the transformative agenda. But not yet the time for the joke!) Now the question is ....

Why are the organised unions doomed to bear the standard of resistance?

Because the handshake as an arrest, is first and foremost an ANTI-LABOUR FRONT.

During the doctors' strike, and there have been many, I opted

The history of the anti-colonial struggle is manifestly the history of Trade Unionism –--Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia, Markan Singh, Chege Kibachia, Tom Mboya, James Gichuru, Eliud Mathu.

At around 1950, after much jostling, Trade Unionists and their militancy enter a cooperation pact with political agitators within KAU.

It was a volatile Union which reverberates to this day; at its heart, the radicalism of workers whose consciousness tend toward uncompromising positions with reaction, and, on the other hand, the petit bourgeoisie politicians with much trust in the benevolence of the Motherland and the guardianship from Power. In KAU, the umbrella organisation of African Nationalism, the 1947-England-returnee Jomo Kenyatta who had assumed leadership (after James Gichuru stood down for him) showed a bias toward the so-called 'EDUCATED WING'. These included JD Otiende, Walter F. Odede, James Gichuru, Francis Khamisi, Bernard Ohanga and Tom Mbotela.

The radical wing, essentially a bastion of trade unionists from the street already flirting with Dedan Kimathi's unflinching militance (armed option), ventured names like Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia, Achieng' Oneko, Paul Ngei, and Stanley Mathenge.

Maina wa Kinyatti details these chapters with rigour. Assa Okoth too I think.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/7402/okoth-osewe-doctors-sacking-illegal#ixzz5ButU50Wr

These divergent tendencies are still discernible in Kenya today. In fact they play out with vigour, But it will be noticeable, that within POLITICAL INCUMBENTS, and office boys both sides of the JUBILEE-NASA paper-line, former unionists are next to non existence, neither are current unionists in consultancy.

It is called the marginalisation of labour in government.

It is in part a legacy of Tom Mboya's devious innovation soon after he became Labour Minister in the reactionary Kenyatta-KANU dispensation. This reaction would soon see a split in KANU two years later when radicals like who else buT BILDAD KAGGIA and Jaramogi bolted to launch KPU (KAPU).

The Handshake is a comprador mobilisation call to a unity front against labour. There is an capital cum existential crisis that needs that.

When a parasitic sector of an economy, a business or a racket, reach a compromise to unite behind their class interest, the blood that is in the glasses they click to seal the deal, is that of the slaves, the toilers, aka the producers of the social surplus. –--The labourers, skilled, semi or otherwise.

To this extent then, we can deduce the HANDSHAKE is also at the behest of usurious BANKING interests who need a UNITED class regime to enforce their expropriative protocols or sharky business models. These are highly development prohibitive, speculative and extortionist products, and the sellers need rule out the possibility of rebellious alternative. Such an alternative would be the emergence of a radical option wich would declare the debts odious. The popularity of the Interest-rates capping law is a clear warning this constituency exists. Thus the bankers declared war on it (like the Troika war on Greece –--cruellest in part---- to dissuade any would-be rebels planning to resist the neo-liberal financial purgatory!)

Currently, Kenya is a DEBT destitute or slave, a debt-chained regime. We are like 'vagranting' at the trash-bins of commercial products, you know, like the issuance of bonds denoted in $&€ which are 'printing-press' currencies, virtual in the sense the Big Banks just create more by adding zeros! Cash Unlimited.

But here is an image of Rotich at the intertantional financial markets.




This deficit accounting means Kenya must be kept servicing Debt. Going into more debt to OFFSET old debt and stay credit worthy!

Now you catch the political economy.

Which means those signed CBA'S can not be met, neither new ones negotiated with content; which means those striking nurses must be sacked or ignored; which means the %tage of oil revenue marked for Turkanas' must ever be reduced; and of course the REVENUE SHARING BILL GOVERNING DEVOLUTION must be revised, where revision means a downgrade. (I seen figures of down 17B on the year).

Eugene Wamalwa and Anne Waiguru went to meet Raila on it. You catch the footwork!? ahead of the governors caucus where the DISBURSMENT ratio OF REVENUES is to be the hot topic.

NB: There she was tii, Bi Amina, the replacement of Matiang'i at Education. She implored the striking workers of the sector to OBEY COURT ORDERS and go back to work!

The employees drawn from University Academic Staff Union (UASU), Kenya University Staff Union (KUSU) and Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers (Kudhiha) had vowed to continue with their strike until the Government responds to issues raised in their 2017-2021 CBA.

Ya!? University people to be bound by court orders which university former dons like Matiang'i are in public declaring pure trash!? Hey, the lady sure is a Trump, trapped in the Swamp!

But let me continue:

All that purgatory agenda to discipline labour and cajole her to subservience, needs a ruling class Unity PACT to push through. It needs Raila Odinga to be brought in from the cold, lest he be captured by the likes of Miguna Miguna, David Ndii and other economic dissidents.

You know even the double-carriage from Mombasa to be built by Bechtel needs political cover. Not only is it single-sourced, these firms has a track-record of negotiating loans which, when they turn bad, it is the product consumer who is left carrying the can in toto. And that is Wanjiku here. To screw Wanjiku that rapaciously, demands the elite sing from the same page and hymn: the handshake guarantees the future.

RAILA'S IMPORT

The chief capital of Raila Odinga which he is expected to invest in the deal, is of course the PACIFICATION of dissent. He is required to use his persuasive rapprochement with the people, as their President no doubt, to herd them like sheep back to the abbatoir. To allow the sacking of labour.

This political economy thrusts organised labour to the forefront as the resistance. Organised labour, wholly integrated into the capitalist system of Kenya, try as dectractors like The Singh will try, has no other option but to act according to its class interests. Those class interests are beyond handshake formulas.

Ask the doctors who once naively shook hands in good will at a ministry, over a CBA. Fools that they were. When they went to complain in a court about a renege: the court asked: WHICH CBA!? And the officials of the Union were sent to jail!

People do learn, Bi Amina, people do learn. Especially those whose job is to teach!

NB: Jubilee tried very hard to disrupt KNUT by driving in the ETHNIC card. But even the financial largesse of William Ruto combined with the Kenyatta fortune could not derail the clear teacher's agenda. But wow, that day in Mombasa when Jubilee went all out to kill-off Sossion!

The point was driven home just how fierce and important the UNION battleground is.

I am not alone in suspecting Raila will be mobilised to try divide the worker's front too. This is why Sossion has already been put on the alert by watchdogs: that ODM NOMINATION, does it mean ODM can now influence him to join the handshake during CBA negotiations!?

Failure to divide the workers front, failure to collapse the unions into the ethnic fetishm of Kenya (as Mi tried and failed) will leave only one option for the parasitic regime: repression.

I mean you trust us to teach your kids, you should be proud we can think! Out anything!

Now, your royal highnessess, back to Miguna Miguna and his difficult relationship with the 'court'!

[jakaswanga]

PRIMING TINGA FOR THE JUDAS ACT, OR ABOUT TURN!

The meat-eaters need the sheep patiently resigned and awating their fate in the collecting yard of the abattoir. Of late the yard has been a bee-hive of impatience, plots and escape fantasies. Divorce. Worse, there have been whifss of ANIMAL FARM like antics from the likes of Miguna Miguna.

Well, Raila lit the fire, let him extinguish it, his classmates instruct. What is in it for me, the former peoples president needs re-assurance. Mouth-watering golden they screech in choral sheepishness. Between themselves they know there is no honour among them, thieves.

NOW THE JOKE (farce or tragedy!?)

Selfish or nationalist, Jaramogi Odinga had his reasons for insisting Uhuru na Kenyatta. There was going to be no Independence while the likes of Kenyatta (and Oneko) still languished in jail in Kapenguria, Uganda. (How come no word about the Mau Mau Generals still holding out in the forest!? Just asking!, though there is a thread right here on Jukwaa where Man-K has the inside track!)

The moral appeal of that –---Uhuru na Kenyatta but without Mau Mau---- standpoint was so strong it came to pass and raised the prestige of Jaramogi, even as Kenyatta later drove the sword to his back, the same way the sword had been driven up the backside of the non-repentant Mau-Mau'ists. I couldn't help tapping my nose on it, if history could repeat itself as any of the above!

Miguna Miguna –--(amongst many unknown others wherefore the TJRC)--- has had his rights trashed at every quarter, and has been deported as UNIDENTIFIABLE MALE. All since he officiated the oathing of the Peoples President. Now he is banished a non-Kenyan to far lands. ##seefootnote##

The question arises from instutionalised memory

Are thee, Raila Agwambo Mahia, callous enough to transact they oather, blinded in part by latent feelings of revenge and good riddance, since Miguna Miguna peeled back they mask so brutally in public after he was unceremoniusly removed from the auspice of jating'ndachi? Or is it just that thee, imperial chieftain of the Luo, is morally undefined enough to cynically shrug, too faded to perceive the cultural significance of betraying Miguna by keeping the handshake on while Josy Janyando remains persona non grata in his motherland!? (a ----yiechuru yi nyathino mondo ugol tigono mosemwonyo!--- situation)

If 30 pieces it must be,
Better must our Judas negotiate.
Pure Gold and double let it be.
Than silver which shines so dim.

This Miguna extradition provoked a hunger strike at Kondele, a hot-bed or urban sub and proletariat activism. So far I know, a first of that line of resistance these sides, culturally speaking. So I racked my cultural senses and thought: if one can voluntarily take his own life slowly and painfully –--hunger strike is self torture--- in an act of protest against injustice, another can easily take the life of the deemed traitors and perpetrators.

Culture, it plays such games you wanna go for your gun at the thought! And it didn't end well with Judas anyway.

### FOOTNOTE

NB: on un-identifiable male deported to Dubai: I was curious if immigration (General Kihalangwa) and Police (dr. Matiang'i) had sought INTEL from the NSI (Gen. Waweru). I admit I have a thing about this Waweru guy ever since I heard of how he looked at Matiang'i and Boinett when they claimed January 30th would see an armed band of Raila supporters named the NRM storming State House!

So I thought before the un-identified male was sedated for deportation, if immigration and police had had the presence of mind to bother contact the airport NSI liaison officer, they could have had a positive match with one, Miguna Miguna, whose Runda house no less than the flying squad had blasted and, who, subsequently, the police had, trashing court orders, played hide and seek with from Githunguri to Kiambu to Laikipia police cells, only a few weeks earlier!

So there we were before a parliamentary commission, Ghenya, two doctorates defending a thesis! The unknown male did not enter Kenya (airspace does not count!). He muscled his way passed the immigration (the international border) wherefore that single entry is illegal and defunct!

Don't I love that look on Waweru's face. May be after the El-Adde debacle, some army men are no longer comfortable with stupid lies! It is a thought to hold!

And I will be back!

[jakaswanga]

FOOTNOTE: THE SCRAMBLE FOR THE PUBLIC PURSE, BEHIND THE HANDSHAKE

Controlling the state remains the only game in town. That state is firmly in the hands of the Kenyan capitalist class. 2022 too. If all pirates yesterday rob I, the Kenyan brand of robber barons mean business too, to my cost.

They rob I Wanjiku with brutal impunity.

To mask the gulf between the haves and have-nots, the pretences of an electoral democracy whilst rigging is guaranteed, is no longer adequate. There is recognition by all sides there has to be a NEW DEAL in town. The ground is hot. And it shows in some surprising ways!

Even in her Kirinyaga fiefdom, there are enough locals who know Queen Anne enough to heckle her a THIEF! unless it is William Ruto they meant! (since it will require some mock denial to label Waiguru so, but disclaimer Arap Mashamba on the same charge!)

Howbeit the robber barons also have bitter conflicts amongst themselves too. That is a natural process of competition and social differentiation. But as a class in its totality, dominating the state, the capitalists reign supreme and their will be done. 2022 too.

Off course there is a catch. And so the handshake.

Their class interests, well satisfied and catered for by the structures of the post-colonial state (as inherited without any real reform from the colonial settler state), has not managed to generate enough trickle-down effect to, too, broaden and appease the political economic aspirations of the other classes.


The poverty index is a moderate 45%. The unemployment rate, speaking youth, is not known but statistical estimates mention figures as high as 40%. But the uppity expectation index of the awakened young is very high. The Kenyan youth is wired and aware. Those aspirations form a hotbed of political activity if not instability. The elite's response is the security state, murderous like we saw on Evans Njoroge Kidero, a student activist.

We used to say they don't enjoy matunda ya Uhuru, so hungry mouths were angry mouths. But may be empty futures are even more temperamental! (that is why they were burning those schools to the amazement of adults!)

Then there is INCOME INEQUALITY.

This indicator, superimposed on mismanaged ETHNIC relations, distorts the class character of the Nairobi racket, but ethnic persuasion has not been enough to mask the class contradictions of Kenya. Considering Tanzania, we can deduce ethnic relations in Kenya have been MISMANAGED by deliberate mobilisastion of NEGATIVITY, (just say fanning tribal hatred and xenophobia!). The lesson of 2008 PEV, is that is a dead-end too!

Therefore, even post 2010 and the popularity of devolution, the ruling class still feels insecure and inadequate. They are besieged, and, the deeper fear is, with their range of responses to ARREST the crisis increasingly dwindling in effectiveness, stronger medicine could be brewing elsewhere. This in effect means failure to pacify the restiveness of the disenfranchised populace, can only further exacerbate the cleavages apparent at the top. A dynamic to unthinkable consequences, for the cream.

The magic of devolution in pacification seems to have waned off, seeing that the competition at the locals, signified by the fierceness with which the governor's seat is coveted, has only magnified on the ground, replicating the situation in Nairobi. The problem is the rate of looting out strips the rate of surplus generation. This means the looting spree has been funded by a DEBT binge! But the Kenyan capitalists do not have the power to create money just by adding zeros like that. We would have the Zimbabwe backlash: hyperinflation. And so to the international reserve currencies to borrow and denominate our debt in.

Eventually something has to give.

Remember what happened when credit suppliers switched off the tap on NAKUMATT? It was a plug pulled on expansion, a death knell sounded on an ambitious racket. Be sure Rotich is planning some more of the same as in

Treasury CS Henry Rotich has petitioned Parliament to reduce county allocations by between Sh15 billion and Sh18 billion in the next financial year

Rotich told the Senate Finance committee on Wednesday that the government is 'broke' and unable to raise much in terms of revenue.

The devolved units were allocated Sh302 billion in the 2017/18 financial year, meaning that in the next one, the amount will decline to between Sh287billion and Sh284 billion.
The Cabinet Secretary said they intend to introduce an amendment to the Divison of Revenue Act, to reduce monies meant for counties.

Rotich has to pluck –--haircut is too softly said--- to maintain his CREDIT RATING. He has to rob the people to pay creditors, or he himself will get no loans, even to service debts! And he also has to create some reserves to defend the Kenyan shilling with, should the shilling catch that known flu! Then there are the local banks which want their old shark-rate interest rates restored, an will. With the government hugely indebted to them, the bloodhounds are salivating for a killing. And who is to pay for their usurious greed!?

The already struggling Wanjiku of course.

So financially speaking, the Kenyan ruling class is technically insolvent, as in incompetent.

The supply of money (credit) is that important to the life of the state any any business at large. But what will local (county) parasites do as the supply of cash dries up!?

They will endeavour to tax the HOST more, to the bone! But what will the host get in return!?

–-better medical services? Lower/free school fees? More peace love and unity? more destitution?)

This doomsday picture is the POLITICAL story behind THE HANDSHAKE. The ruling class has to close ranks, or else jokers like Miguna will become a nightmare. And a nightmare in real time is turbulence! There is also the cash story to the handshake of course!

nb: Finally I should do the political economy of Jimmy Wanjigi, the dissident oligarch. It should be a tale of the factional infighting inherent in the Kenyan bourgeosie; the re-arrangement after the Kibaki era, and the allignment of capital. Who has been loosing what!? which are the new lucrative (energy/oil?) fields accumulated LOCAL capital is eyeing to, alone or as auxillary to foreign capital, indulge itself in!? who stands to be bulldozed over like Ruto used the state to bulldoze Simmers! --you know the way supermarkets on the rise bulldoze one-man-shops and other petty traders (who stand in the way of large scale capital accumulation!)

That would neatly round off the HANDSHAKE MANENOS!

But now an interlude of music

NOW LETS DO CANDIDAT NA BISO SOME MORE!

[jakaswanga]

Dear Tinga,

Why are the organised unions doomed to bear the standard of resistance?

Because the handshake as an arrest, is first and foremost an ANTI-LABOUR FRONT.

During the doctors' strike, and there have been many, I opted

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9628/letter-peoples-president-amollo-tinga#ixzz5CCRp0CJV

Of course we labour men know what all your princely handshakes are all about. Johnny-come-lately bourgeoisie, even if they entitle themselves Mysterious Ones or Muthamakis' are an ancien regime.

The script can hardly vary!

---Minister Anyang' Nyong'o at health once sacked all striking doctors! Joseph Kaimenyi all Teachers (several months no pay); most governors have sacked unionised nurses. But not all of us have the egos of Miguna Miguna who, when you as Prime Minister sacked him, threw the mother of all tempers!

Here is Bi Amina, yesterday at foreign affairs, today at education, tomorrow at God knows whose service, going to sack 30 thousand unionised varsity staff!

Raila and Uhuru applauding I presume!

Top university union officials are now facing the sack as crackdown on staff in public universities looms.

The Sunday Standard has established that from tomorrow, public universities will roll out elaborate disciplinary measures on staff who fail to resume duty, including firing some of them.

ALSO READ: Lecturers' strike still on despite court orders

Sources in public universities hinted that the union leaders who have constantly “misled” workers to disobey court orders will be on the chopping board as the Government cracks the whip to restore sanity in labour relations. This means the leadership of the University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) and the Kenya University Staff Union (Kusu) may be sent home. University chapter leaders of the Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers (Kudheiha) may also be fired.

What happened to dialogue and the supposedly reduced tensions in the land!?

Court orders! CJ Maraga must rule on how to identify which ones are binding to who, and which ones are null and void even as the hapless judge reads them!

The signs of tough actions were evident yesterday when Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) met and ordered vice chancellors to crack the whip.

“IPUCCF urges the management of public universities to take stern action on staff in their respective institutions who do not report to duty on Monday April 9 as directed by court,” said Prof Paul Kanyari, IPUCCF chairperson.

“All staff must continue discharging their duties diligently to ensure harmonious industrial relations in public universities,” he said. Prof Francis Aduol, the chairman of Vice Chancellors Committee, was present. At the centre of the dispute is the negotiation and signing of the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The Forum members said so far two court orders have been issued – on March 16 and April 6 – and cautioned staff against disobeying the orders.

Handshake bandia!

CBA! which CBA!?

Who is your illegitimate despot now!?

[jakaswanga]

Apr 8, 2018 19:01:10 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

But now an interlude of music

NOW LETS DO CANDIDAT NA BISO SOME MORE!

THE REGIME OF THE HANDSHAKE

AMOLLO OCHOPO KODWA KANAAN!

Belela Belela tuko Canaan!
Malaika olworowa te! –-neeeeye!

Thee RAO is beyond criticism
Thine ways are too mysterious
Thee is beyond our knowledge
Many minds are too common to know!

The catholic orthodoxy, the inland churches,
the protestants and the new prophets like Owuor and the rest
They all concur in this: ganga ganga na kombo ya handshake!

Salim Lone who must bark like his master
Sarah Elderkin who can't stand Miguna Miguna
And the rest of the Luo Mpigs who only yesterday wore resist
They all stand as one, shout as one, think as one:
The handshake is the new buttered bread falling from the skies!

We say No to hypocrisy! We say no to charlatans!
We say no to lies, spoilers and detractors!
Let us be honest once and always
Let us be frank and say it loud forever
The critics of this handshake are Satan's people!
Amollo is mysterious and he is the Mahia Light!
This handshake is a call of God, and God's case no appeal!
---Halleluuuuuuya!

[jakaswanga]

WHERE WAS DP RUTO?

So there you were, Agwambo, at the funeral of Winnie Madzikela Mandela. You named your daughter after her. May your Winnie live to relive the spirit of the Madzikela. Untamable!

But that is another story.

According to the Menoah Esipisu's of the Handshake, you were there representing Uhuru Kenyatta!

Raila represented State at Winnie Mandela funeral: Aide

Mr Odinga was accorded private talks with South Africa's top leaders.
On arrival, Mr Odinga was received by the Kenyan High Commissioner to South Africa Jean Kamau, and her team at the airport.
At the funeral, Mr Odinga met South Africa's deputy president David Mabuza, former presidents Jacob Zuma, and Thabo Mbeki, and Mozambican High Commissioner to South Africa Paulino José Macaringue, among other dignitaries.
COURTESY CALL
“It is expected that Mr Odinga will have a private courtesy call on President Cyril Ramaphosa before he jets out to Nairobi on Monday afternoon,” Mr Jakakimba said.

Which means, on this date, you were Monicah Jumah and Ababu Namwamba rolled up into one! That can not be by happenstance!

Because, on the other side, DP William Ruto is, officially, the paid-up stand-in for Muigai. That means you elbowed the VP out of his official brief –--what a crowded presidency! and he is seething, relegated to officiating local brawls in Rift Valley, instead of strategising the future of Africa with the high and mighty who attended Madzikela's send-off. Ramaphosa ranks above the ailing Buhari, even if Nigeria, rebased, bypasses South Africa. Representing the president of Kenya in a conversation with Ramaphosa is propaganda with a poisoned tip. It stung enough for this rejoinder

Kipchumba: Raila Odinga is an idle politician that is why he is shaking hands with everybody

The local brawls in the Rift Valley refers to turf wars between Gideon's court and William's entourage, 2022 coming.

Back at home in Busia near Siaya, Wanjala and Namwamba at the Budalangi grounds too, are having nothing of the Handshake. For them it is like Kwazulu Natal when the ANC and Inkantha locked horns and forgot about the big picture. But boys will be boys and some matters are better settled bare knuckled, especially with the rumours the two boy-bulls have been grazing similar pastures!

[jakaswanga]

Apr 9, 2018 21:25:24 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Dear Tinga,

Why are the organised unions doomed to bear the standard of resistance?

Because the handshake as an arrest, is first and foremost an ANTI-LABOUR FRONT.

During the doctors' strike, and there have been many, I opted

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9628/letter-peoples-president-amollo-tinga#ixzz5CCRp0CJV

Of course we labour men know what all your princely handshakes are all about. Johnny-come-lately bourgeoisie, even if they entitle themselves Mysterious Ones or Muthamakis' are an ancien regime.

The script can hardly vary!

---Minister Anyang' Nyong'o at health once sacked all striking doctors! Joseph Kaimenyi all Teachers (several months no pay); most governors have sacked unionised nurses. But not all of us have the egos of Miguna Miguna who, when you as Prime Minister sacked him, threw the mother of all tempers!

Here is Bi Amina, yesterday at foreign affairs, today at education, tomorrow at God knows whose service, going to sack 30 thousand unionised varsity staff!

Raila and Uhuru applauding I presume!

Top university union officials are now facing the sack as crackdown on staff in public universities looms.

The Sunday Standard has established that from tomorrow, public universities will roll out elaborate disciplinary measures on staff who fail to resume duty, including firing some of them.

ALSO READ: Lecturers' strike still on despite court orders

Sources in public universities hinted that the union leaders who have constantly “misled” workers to disobey court orders will be on the chopping board as the Government cracks the whip to restore sanity in labour relations. This means the leadership of the University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) and the Kenya University Staff Union (Kusu) may be sent home. University chapter leaders of the Kenya Union of Domestic, Hotels, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Allied Workers (Kudheiha) may also be fired.

What happened to dialogue and the supposedly reduced tensions in the land!?

Court orders! CJ Maraga must rule on how to identify which ones are binding to who, and which ones are null and void even as the hapless judge reads them!

The signs of tough actions were evident yesterday when Inter Public Universities Councils Consultative Forum (IPUCCF) met and ordered vice chancellors to crack the whip.

“IPUCCF urges the management of public universities to take stern action on staff in their respective institutions who do not report to duty on Monday April 9 as directed by court,” said Prof Paul Kanyari, IPUCCF chairperson.

“All staff must continue discharging their duties diligently to ensure harmonious industrial relations in public universities,” he said. Prof Francis Aduol, the chairman of Vice Chancellors Committee, was present. At the centre of the dispute is the negotiation and signing of the 2017-2021 Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). The Forum members said so far two court orders have been issued – on March 16 and April 6 – and cautioned staff against disobeying the orders.

Handshake bandia!

CBA! which CBA!?

Who is your illegitimate despot now!?

Here is an interesting development

Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001277008/proposed-law-specifies-cbas-must-indicate-minimum-number-of-staff-who-remain-on-duty

Proposed law specifies CBAs must indicate minimum number of staff who remain on duty

By Wilfred Ayaga | Published Mon, April 16th 2018


Dancun Ochieng', a patient who is blind and disabled crawls in an abandoned hospital Ward to the washrooms at Kisumu county hospital on June 11, 2017 when nationwide nurses' strike entered it's the second week. . (Photo: Denish Ochieng/ Standard)


The Government has moved to curb the rising wave of workers' strikes by proposing that labour unions indicate the number of employees required to continue working during boycotts. A proposed amendment to the Labour Relations Act specifies that all collective bargaining agreements must indicate the minimum number of workers that will be at work during a strike to provide essential services.

ALSO READ: Solve teachers problem in Northern counties

The unions must also indicate the type of services that must continue during strike action and how the services will be provided. Those targeted are doctors, nurses, clinical officers, air traffic controllers, sanitation workers, meteorologists, marine and port navigational workers, electricity service workers and telecommunication service workers. Others include workers involved in the supply and distribution of fuel, petrol, oil, power and lighting. “A collective bargaining agreement for employees involved in the provision of essential services shall be accompanied by a minimum service agreement in a format to be prescribed by the Minister,” the provision states.

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“A minimum services agreement shall indicate the minimum number of employees required to continue working during a strike, either expressed as a number or a percentage of the current workforce. The right to go on strike shall be limited as for the purpose of ensuring the continuation of essential services for the preservation of the life and health of the population and of property."

The requirement is contained in the Statute Law (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill 2018 to be introduced in the National Assembly this week. The proposed law compels workers' unions to show the process of responding to emergencies during a strike and the minimum service levels associated with various functions during the industrial action.

ALSO READ: Death of Knut? Rival union coming

The move is seen as seeking to curb the series of debilitating strikes across the country, including among doctors and nurses that affected thousands of Kenyans last year.

During the boycotts, scores of patients, including pregnant mothers, died as the health workers kept away from hospitals. While Section 41(2) of the Constitution protects the right of workers to go on strike, Section 43 gives Kenyans the right to economic and social rights such as the right to healthcare services. For example, no Kenyan shall be denied the right to emergency treatment. National Assembly Leader of Majority Aden Duale explained that the proposals were designed to protect industries and ensure that workers’ rights to industrial action did not clash with citizens’ rights.

“This Bill is meant to protect industries and productivity in the country.

The biggest threats to economic stability at the moment are strikes that have bedevilled the country," said Mr Duale.

“Workers have a right to picket but we must strike a balance so that your right does not affect the right of other citizens. We must have a minimum workforce to control damage during strikes.” He assured that stakeholders would have an opportunity to air their views during public participation forums.

But Central Organisation of Trade Unions Secretary General Francis Atwoli told The Standard that the proposals were meant to kill industrial action in the country.


ALSO READ: Sossion threatens removal of top TSC bosses


Mr Atwoli said labour unions were not consulted before the proposals were published.

WORKERS' UNION

“Every worker has a right to a CBA. It is in the Constitution and you cannot change it in law. The Government is trying to stop workers from going on strike. As a workers' union, we were not involved in drafting the proposal. Any amendment to labour laws must involve workers,” he said.

Also reading an ill motive in the proposed law is the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU), which termed the provision ‘ridiculous. “In case of a strike, we normally give a notice of 21 days. Within this period, there should be mitigation measures to ensure that patients continue receiving services,” said KMPDU Chairman Samuel Oroko.

He said the public hearings for the proposed law was mere rubber stamping. “These are just avenues to rubber-stamp what the Government already thinks. If the Government wants to push through the amendment, it will do so,” he said. Lawyer Okweh Achiando argued that the provision would amount to unions undermining themselves. “You cannot tell workers to go on strike then turn back and provide a list of workers that will be at work. That is irrational. It will undermine the very reason the strike was called in the first place.”

John Mbalu, another lawyer, said the provision would reduce the effectiveness of boycotts.

ALSO READ: COTU fights planned tax

“If there is a strike and a number of employees are at work, the strike will not be as effective as it should be. The proposed law is in favour of the employer,” he said.

Yes, THE HANDSHAKE DECODED!

The handshake is not that mysterious I tell ya!

Two teachers — Robert Nyabuto and Juma Kasim — are behind the drive to get a new union, which is likely to eat into huge membership of Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut).

Finer details however reveal that the push to have a fourth union is part of a wider scheme to check the influence of the existing powerful unions, some which already have strong representation in Parliament.

Knut as currently constituted, draws its membership from primary and secondary schools while the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) gets members from secondary schools and colleges. And in 2011, the Government registered a third teachers union­– the Kenya Union of Special Needs Education Teachers (Kusnet).
Read more at: www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001274297/death-of-knut-rival-union-coming

This means that if the new union is registered, Knut would be locked out of massive primary teachers membership it enjoys. It also means that Knut would have its membership dues chopped even as reports already indicate that some branches are running broke.

Knut boasts of the majority membership of about 193,000 teachers with Kuppet representing 52,000. Kusnet has about 300 teachers

This, the war on organised labour, is the frontline, is where it is happening. The rest are side shows!

World Bank recommends fewer regulations protecting workers

Unions alarmed by suggestion that deep structural reforms are required to adjust to changing nature of work

www.theguardian.com/money/2018/apr/20/world-bank-fewer-regulations-protecting-workers

Larry Elliott Economics editor

Fri 20 Apr 2018

Robot document couriers in a Thai hospital
Robot document couriers in a Thai hospital. The World Bank report was prepared in part to consider the growing impact of automation on employment. Photograph: Rungroj Yongrit/EPA

The World Bank is proposing lower minimum wages and greater hiring and firing powers for employers as part of a wide-ranging deregulation of labour markets deemed necessary to prepare countries for the changing nature of work.

A working draft of the bank’s flagship World Development Report – which will urge policy action from governments when it comes out in the autumn – says less “burdensome” regulations are needed so that firms can hire workers at lower cost. The controversial recommendations, which are aimed mainly at developing countries, have alarmed groups representing labour, which say they have so far been frozen out of the Bank’s consultation process.

Peter Bakvis, Washington representative for the International Trade Union Confederation, said the proposals were harmful, retrograde and out of synch with the shared-prosperity agenda put forward by the bank’s president Jim Yong Kim.
Brexit: workers' rights best secured by staying in single market, says TUC chief
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He added that the WDR’s vision of the future world of work would see firms relieved of the burden of contributing to social security, have the flexibility to pay wages as low as they wanted, and to fire at will. Unions would have a diminished role in new arrangements for “expanding workers’ voices”.

The paper “almost completely ignores workers’ rights, asymmetric power in the labour market and phenomena such as declining labour share in national income,” Bakvis said.

The International Labour Organisation has also expressed alarm at the proposals, which include the right for employers to opt out of paying minimum wages if they introduce profit-sharing schemes for their workers.

The WDR draft says: “High minimum wages, undue restrictions on hiring and firing, strict contract forms, all make workers more expensive vis-à-vis technology.”

Five years ago, the World Bank’s 2013 World Development Report concluded that labour regulations had little or no impact on employment levels, but the draft for the 2019 WDR says that if workers are expensive to dismiss, fewer will be hired. “Burdensome regulations also make it more expensive for firms to rearrange their workforce to accommodate changing technologies.”


The report is being prepared amid growing speculation about the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on employment and wages in future decades.

Some will remember recently, finance cab-sec Rotich, desperate to tap an IMF credit facitlity to ease Nairobi's cash crunch, officially stated they will obey all the IMF/WB diktats! Patrick Njoroge had already bared his arz long ago titilate Big Capital: he declared the INTEREST CAP LAW OBSOLETE, temporary and stupid!

Yesterday in London, hawking Kenya's warmth for investment, Ouru Kenyatta told the gathering the INTERESTS CAP LAW is history! (well, when he signed it into law, I remember the picture, with the likes of Joseph Kinyua looking on. I called a 'Bonapartist gambit'! The law remains popular. Well, the leash on the son of Jomo has been shortened tight. He has no autonomy to do pro-people reforms. And Raila, now effectively the former peoples' president, now joins him there:

The Handshake is positively satanic! and shetani ashindwe kabisa!

NB: The late Blairist Macron of France has labour law reforms which all but declare Unions treasonable just by their existence!

The signs of the times!

[jakaswanga]

THE HANDSHAKE: NO NEWS ON OIL AGWAMBO?


Well, there is, your excellency!

RUTO IN TURKANA, 2022, A
SECOND ATTEMPT AT NUANCE!

When he was campaigning for the Jubilee ticket with Uhuru, an arrogant DP Ruto visited Turkana with disastrous consequences. He talked of everything else apart from THE toxic RATIO OF OIL REVENUES: Turkana: KenyaGovt.


The Kenya government does not necessarily represent the people. It can be too corrupt, too full of rigging, too distant and incompetent. Smart accounting and smart public policy is beyond her scope. So we see vision 2030 increasingly looks a DEBT PIT of a permanent home.

There is no chance to steal the bureaucrats and politicians of Nairobi saw they didn't maximize.
www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001227743/turkana-leaders-criticise-ruto-s-visit-accuse-him-of-forcing-leaders-on-locals

Parliament passed a draft bill in 2016 allocating 20 percent of any state oil revenue to local government and 10 percent to communities living where the crude was discovered, leaving 70 percent for the central government in Nairobi.

But President Uhuru Kenyatta never signed the bill.

A revised version due to be debated in parliament this month cuts the regional government share to 15 percent, with only 5 percent for local communities.

The legislation must be passed before large-scale oil production can begin. Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party, which controls 213 of parliament’s 349 seats, is likely to back the revised law, but some of its lawmakers may break ranks and side with the opposition pushing for more money for local communities.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/posts/recent#ixzz5DJ01tcJL

“Now that they have suffered for so long, the revenue from oil must actually feed them, treat them and take their children to school,” said Jubilee Party member James Lomenen, member of parliament for Turkana South.

Lomenen plans to table an amendment to the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill to restore the 10 percent share to local communities.

Vast natural resources and a stone-age people confronting predatory capitalism, is always a story for history. Examples are easy, like 'Hottentots' and Diamond exploitation in Botswana!

Recently in Turkana too, things were not much better when Ruto visited Turkana

Turkana County leadership has expressed fury over Deputy President William Ruto's two-day visit in the area saying he failed to address the real demands of the locals and instead turned to discredit the ‘otherwise excellent devolution progress.’

Turkana leaders criticise Ruto's visit, accuse him of forcing leaders on locals

By Michael Ollinga January 30th 2017

In a press statement, Governor Josphat Nanok claimed that Ruto bypassed the county leadership in planning his tour which was meant to urge more citizens to register as voters but turned out to be a Jubilee Party campaign rally.

Why on earth would he not want the Turkana to elect their own leaders!? why does one need puppet leaders in a resource-rich polity!?

Ever since the HANDSHAKE in March though, a sense of unease has seeped into the SHOE-IN scenario of the Kenyatta II succession; that is William the automatic inheritor to the estate is besieged. That unease was evident in Turkana the other day, on the billed cultural fete. Ruto was on target, but not quite. I think it was his greed which blunted his ambition on this occasion, by clouding his vision. He faced this old story which Raila and Kibaki hid from the people. Raila and Kibaki were imposed upon to let an IMF crack-unit write the DEVOLUTION FINANCE SHARING BLUE-PRINTS! Purpose was to ward off counties being negotiating partners with foreign ivestors. They would leave that to their betters, in Nairobi.

And don't we know Nairobi. No chance to steal they saw they didn't indulge!

Local and other leaders of the event called on the DP to ensure that the district government gets 20 percent while the community gets 10 percent of the oil's revenue.

Ruto had to speak of oil, and the ratios! But in doing that, he sounded like (on one side) he BLEW UP the JUBILEE robbery consensus while (one the other side) he still endorsed it! He danced cords high up in the air! –-Dam-n! His great killer instinct deserted him! And that is significant. This is OIL! Big money even if energy prices are no longer what they were! No such things as strange bed fellows! all are game.


Turkana Governor Josphat Nanok and DP William Ruto during the Turkana Cultural Festival in Lodwar on Friday /CHARLES KIMANI /DPPS

Turkana South MP James Lomenen urged the government to consider removing capping on the county’s share of revenue from oil exploration in the area. He said capping would scuttle development because there wouldn’t be enough funds for development.

Ruto said the government will work with leaders to solve problems arising from oil exploration. He said the government is looking for ways to address the issue.

Let’s preserve diversity of our cultural heritage - First Lady

He said the move by the government through the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill to alter percentages from five to 10 in the community allocation of the national government’s share is a clear indication of the commitment.

“We have done a lot of adjustments to the 2015 Bill for the benefit of the people of Turkana. The remaining part, which includes capping, is a small matter that can be solved amicably,” Ruto said.

He said the government appointed John Munyes, who is from Turkana, as Petroleum and Mining Cabinet Secretary to help solve problems arising from oil exploration

Actually the original proportion was 20%, whittled down to 10% then to 5%!

These are dangerous times. When Phds from Chiromo running to run East Africa's second biggest economy have difficulties with such simple %tages, one should have alternative plans, even secession!

Once he is safely president, he could turn to look at you like that bureaucrat who turned onto the trusting doctor's unions: CBA? Which CBA? I have no idea what you are talking about!? What is a CBA?

The O O so trusting doctors went to court. The courts repeated the Government mantra!

If Turkana wants 10% oil money. Let them write it down in stone, witnessed by say THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT,and guaranteed by EA parliament! Or God if possible!

I trust those running to replace Nanok learnt the lessons of Nairobi. Read between the lines below.

The DP pledged to ensure that residents get what they ask, but warned them that he was not a member of the National Assembly passing laws on the distribution of revenue.

After serving as an elder in traditional clothing, Ruto said he would do his best to ensure that the oil revenue cap would be lifted.

"There is a good sign." When we were elected, we decided that former Senator John Munyes would take over the oil register because he is a local and understands the plight of the residents.

"At present, the percentages in parliament have dropped to 20 percent for the county and 10 percent for the population, the only thing left is the capping, Parliament will decide, but I'll do my best," said Ruto.


Last year, President Uhuru Kenyatta refused to sign the Petroleum Law (Exploration, Development and Production), a bill that Loima MP Jeremiah Lomurkai said the people of Turkana had set their hopes for

Are there any reports the co-president disagreed with the president on the latter's refusal to sign the 10% rate into law!?

Tight rope!

NB: The generation of Nanok obviously suffer a deep inadequacy or inferiority complex. They plead with thieves to be nice to them! Why, as adults, don't they demand 40%? –--hire some cocky international lawyers to rip the Kenyan constitution apart for them!?

SECRET CLAUSES

Who do you think the likes of Tullow hired to hammer out their secret contracts with the Kenyan State on the oil block concessions? Yeah, they hired cocky and cut-throats who reduced the GoK to Laibon Lenana! The opposite reaction should at least be equal!

(we will go back here to the writing of FINANCE BILLS at the behest of the IMF under the Othaya genius Kibaki. He was fed too much drink to bother with the details of course, and his mate, Raila, thinking of his Moi days as the lucrative Energy minister, may have been suffering other delusions of a coming manna!

Just for starters!

Turkana has been marooned in the stone age for whole part of colonial and post-colonial rule.

Talk about accumulated historical injustice: Turkana is a perfect ase of a marginalised group: excluded from the goodies of independence (say matunda ya Uhuru) –-schools, hospitals, infrastructure like electricity and water since time immemorial.

Then came oil! And their (comprador) goats are demanding 10%!

While they could be Kuwait or Borneo or Qatar! –-Really, what gives Nairobi the right to 70% after its historical neglect of Turkana!? Well, dealing with (comprador) goats you could even take 100%, like Museveni and Migingo! Who will stop you!?

I bet the Turkana will soon be like native Americans, packed in reserves and forgotten; a bit like the Maasai after Laibon Lenana's illiterate thumb in 1904!

(Twa or pygmies of the dissappearing, logged Congo forest!)

You catch!?

When you are a Phd in anything, and they ask you to guarantee a simple, reasonable percentages, and your versatile and ever eloquent tongue goes mealy mouth, it means you have a thieving plan already in motion!

Alternative guarantees will thus conflict you dangerously!






FOOTNOTE

Secrecy in oil deals breeds suspicion
Sunday April 15 2018


By EDWIN OKOTH, By ANASTASIA GRINBERG

As the standoff over revenue-sharing between the two levels of government and locals in Turkana County rages, the State maintains a tight lid on details of a formula it signed with Tullow Oil more than a year ago.

The stalemate plunges Kenya’s commercial oil production into a dilemma as the battle moves to Parliament to determine if locals will get five or 10 per cent of the ‘unknown’ ratio the government will share with Tullow.

Petroleum Principal Secretary Andrew Kamau who remained upbeat most of last year before brakes were applied on the early oil pilot scheme, now says it will only restart when the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill passes.

“The scheme has not been postponed,” Mr Kamau responded to our queries.

READ: Export of oil expected to start early
READ: WARUTERE: Oil revenue sharing tough challenge
TRANSPARENCY

Apart from the delay being blamed on lack of infrastructure to facilitate the trucking of crude to Mombasa, the bill still leaves out a critical component of such a venture: the production sharing agreement.

In fact, there is no clarity at just how much the government will take from the oil to share with the devolved unit and the community as the rest is left to Tullow Oil.

This lack of transparency makes a mockery of the revenue-sharing standoff that has ended up in Parliament twice in under one year and is likely to persist.

The government remains cagy on transparency calls regarding the production sharing agreements and Mr Kamau insists it is not a legal requirement to publish them.

However, Tullow says it has no problem making the details public.

“As we have stated, Tullow has no objections to the public discourse of its Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) with the government,” the oil explorer said.

“Our experience in Ghana, where our PSCs are public, suggests that transparency in the oil sector is important. We declare all our payments to governments in line with the United Kingdom law and we will continue to do so.”

RATION

Revenue-sharing formulas make a critical component of transparency in natural resource management the world over.
It makes the country’s engagement with a foreign investor transparent and earns the operator a social licence from the country.

As much as the latest version of the Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production Bill specifies how the county and the community would gain from the share of oil revenue, the formula for calculating the exact ration the government will take and what Tullow will have remains a mystery.

What ratio will the government take from the total production and at what period?

What is the cost recovery formula for Tullow Oil, which has spent more than $15 million in phase one of the exploration?
How much will the explorer recover in the development phase?
Ghana, where Tullow also operates, has taken steps to make the details of its oil deals available to the public.

DEVELOPMENT

Last year, the country launched an online petroleum register with information on its oil development projects.

Every page lists the joint venture partners involved, the relevant geographical data, fiscal agreements and contracts between Ghana and its investors. Why would Kenya fail to do the same?
While Ghana has been in the business for several years, experts contend that Kenya’s late mover’s advantage puts it in the best position to walk carefully on this path where other African nations have stumbled and fallen.

“To go fast, you must go slow,” says Columbia University professor Janik Randon.

CONFLICTS

He believes there has to be a deliberate attempt by the country to approach transparency issues carefully for the business to sail smoothly.

For years, many African countries have followed a similar pattern of finding resources, rushing into production and ending up in bloody conflicts and economic inequality.
This is known as the resource curse, or the failure of countries to extract the full benefits of their wealth.

Countries have missed decades of economic growth when resources proved to be their undoing.
All are plagued by weak institutions and negative impact on quality of life.

ECONOMY

From the highly populated Nigeria whose 37 billion barrels of oil have done little to address poverty to the less populated Equatorial Guinea, African countries continue to perform poorly, the Natural Resources Governance Institute says in its 2017 index, which measures how resources are managed.
So why is Kenya keeping the formula secret? Is it meant to protect contract confidentiality? Is there a legal loophole?
Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas believes there is more than meets the eye in the hidden contracts.

It has been pushing for transparency of the deals in vain and now plans to go to court.
“Contract confidentiality is not a valid reason for the government to keep the deal secret.
"The default to secrecy is likely due to more nefarious reasons, including a lack of accountability to citizens and inclination to corrupt licensing,” the platform's secretary-general Charles Wanguhu said.
The lack of transparency also mocks one of Jubilee’s pillar into the 2017 election as it promised to promote transparency in the running of its affairs; this being a public resource management affair.

Cost recovering formula!

There are several models, just like in the interest rates cap law --CBR, KBBR, and you reach different figures with each! In fact even international accounting adopted a new METHODOLOGY recently: what happens to contracts signed under the old accounting regime!?

OIL and easy money! the best and the worst of us comes of it!

Tell me more about handshakes!

ccounting Changes

www.semiotictransfer.ch/english/blog/changes-international-accounting-2017/

One of the major changes that has taken place over the past few years in the accounting world is the shift towards an International Finance Reporting Standard. Now we have a new accounting language that is used whenever a public company is preparing their financial statements.
But what does this mean for a financial translation? It means that translators who may have more experience with accounting in the United States need to familiarize themselves with the new standards if they are to remain relevant in their field. More than 120 countries around the world are now encouraging or requiring their companies to submit their accounting paperwork in accordance with the IFRS framework.