The Day After IWD Surprise Rapprochement

[Onyango Oloo]

A Digital Essay by Onyango Oloo in Kwa Zulu Natal


I am writing the day after the event.

Last night I was busy drinking in the various reactions of Kenyans-mostly on Facebook and to a lesser extent on Twitter and other social media platforms.

Mostly, the core supporters of Raila Odinga were reeling with shock at what they considered "betrayal" by NASA's flag bearer. My good friend Miguna Miguna who has been active in NRM campaigns, issued a statement from Canada flatly rejecting Raila Odinga's overture arguing that in the face of the brutal state engineered killings, violence and general electoral misdeeds, meeting President Uhuru Kenyatta did not sit well with him. His sentiments were largely echoed by posters on Facebook. A few cynical people now wondered in the preceding condemnation of Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi and Wetangula was in hindsight warranted. Some of them went further and said Agwambo was the real Jubilee mole in NASA. Another contingent, using realpolitik justifications, supported the early Friday meeting arguing that given the tension prevailing in the country a negotiated settlement between the "Two Presidents" was necessary in order to move Kenya forward. Other analysts took a historical- political view of the ODM leader dating back to his 1999-2000 rapprochement which brought the party he then headed NDP into a pact with Moi's ruling KANU; Raila being actually propelled to Secretary General of KANU in 2001 and later the historic handshake with Mwai Kibaki in February 2008 to conclude the Post Election carnage in with the introduction of Grand Coalition government where Raila Odinga was appointed by President Kibaki as Prime Minister.

A few hours ago, I had a telephone conversation with , a very good friend of mine who has been included as a member of ODM's five member team to review the party in terms of its activities, strategies and plans. He has a vert progressive mind and he revealed to me several things. One, long before Rex Tillerson got on a plane to come to Nairobi there had been days of close meetings between Gikuyu and Luo elders. Secondly, nobody wants William Ruto-not the Gikuyus, not the Luos and not the Americans. The Deputy President is a man on his way out. Secondly, Uhuru's people have now been confronted by the major economic, political and existential crisis that Jubilee is now in.Thirdly, the USA and her imperialist allies are worried sick about geo-political stability in Kenya. Fourthly, it turns out that the Three Musketeers-Kalonzo, Mudavadi and Wetangula have been busy negotiating secretly with the government and Raila's move was a deft move to undercut these opportunistic shenagigans for a secret pact.

Because we agree on a lot of things ideologically, we concur that Raila Odinga is NOT the Joshua who will usher in a Kenyan National Democratic Revolution. But he is by far the most progressive mainstream politician in the country with definite social democratic tendencies, a revolutionary nationalist who is NOT a Communist.

But in the quest towards the NDR, Raila will go a long way towards leading us there.

In the current negotiations with Uhuru, a Secretariat has been cobbled together which will go beyond identifying eating positions to working out avenues for the country's bourgeoisie, petit bourgeoisie and to a certain extent the working class.

We both agree that we should transcend Miguna's total rejectionist stand and see what kind of concessions democratic forces can wrest from Uhuru's people who are out and out comṛador elements wedded to the neo-colonial monopoly capitalist agenda.


In a nitshell, I agree with my mentor Prof. Larry Gumbe that yesterday was after all bot a complete wash out.

And with that I conclude this online intervention.

[jakaswanga]

Onyango Oloo,

These high friends of yours in Nairobi say

Nobody wants William Ruto!? –-But I didn't hear this killer: the people too are enjoined. IE, of the names on the list of those who wont stomach Ruto, there is no assertion the Kenyan people wont vote for him for president!

What then remains is an alleged Luo-Gikuyu royal plot, subsidised by other Ruto haters, underwritten by American imperialist interests and her subsidiaries, to block the career of William The Hustler Singh. The mafia establishment has decided to purge and ruin one of their own!? A looming intra-class homicide, seeking a political alibi as mercy killing done for the benefit of all!? I see it clear!

(AAh Seneca, sleek of tongue, rationalise me again, Nero's matricide!)

What is William –-The Hustler Singh--- Ruto's crime? Is he a much more terrible state gangster than the others? Is he the baddest of the bad, the worst of the worst, the Horror of Horrors, or is there some other reason we should want to fathom, why NOBODY WANTS WILLIAM RUTO, why he is on his way out, his classmates stealing stealth with knives to his back, and that should be good riddance, so Wanjiku should shout Hurrah!!?

I am intrigued: why doesn't anybody want William Ruto!? Anybody!?

I used to hear nobody wanted Raila Odinga. I heard he is uncircumcised, or was a communist fathered man, a Lord of Poverty, or a natural-born violent, an evil wind from the West, or that he is simply too Jaluos for Kenyans to vote Prezzo! I heard it all. I saw many stake their careers on it, Nyachae. I heard many claim God had told them so! And then Lo, behold, The Lord changed his Almighty mind and, howbeit, the Kenyan people put their trust in Agwambo and voted him the winner –--three times they found him the least worst of the lot! Only rigging and mass murder could now be used to stop his rise to the presidency! Three times he won the presidential elections, three times nobody wanted him! –--nobody!?

Nobody!

No, some lessons can't be learnt! yawa!

Now I am hearing 'nobody' wants William Ruto!? –--yah!? His nonplussed sissy classmates no doubt. They want a certified weakling, like Musalia, a walk-over watch-dog. How about if Ruto stands and wins the elections fair and square!? Then the plotters Raila and Ouru and their American controllers have to rig him out!? No!?

Me, and I think the non-elite class Kenyan people too, don't scare of the Horror, William the Terrible. The comprador are an open book. Ruto, arriving late to the table, is as primitive and as financially aggressive as Biwott –--see his nasty hand in the ruins of Simmers day&night sin-club. Lacking the sophistication to make money in modern hi-tech avenues, forced into political entrepreneurship, Arap Mashamba will scavenge and cannibalise the existent, harshly pushing out established traditional nobles from their traditional monopolies: ready-made hotels, traditional mass media, state-shares and tenders, and all that stuff in an easy-pickings field already crowded. (tax-payer pegged Eurobonds to finance personal fortunes being a great one!) But Ruto's pathological greed is merely redistribution at the top, a re-arrangement of chairs at the high table. Wanjiku stays screwed, any which way with a comprador at the top, stays a debt slave, an expropriated and emaciated tax rug, and her children born in peonage to the IMF!

Or, flip side, the eternal Xi Jinpin!

WHY WOULDN'T LUO ELDERS WANT RUTO!?

But this is interesting from the Luo elders, the Jodong Aich, Hookworms to hook themselves to the anti-Ruto bandwagon. In 2007/8 when the Gikuyu xenophobic mobs descended on the Luos on the outskirts of the Rift Valley, it was the Ruto-energised Kalenjin base which came to the blood rescue of the Onagis.

Samo-e-i! Arap Mibe-i! Samo-ei! Arap Miebe-i!
The Kalenjin warriors chanted in rhythmic twang of bow, shield and arrow, as they charged to the rescue of besieged sons and daughters of the Lake, praying their last as Mungiki-crazed mobs descended on their abodes.

Akhsante ya punda sasa ni mateke!

And this is a point I will ever return to, because it has featured prominently in heated discussions with all my Kalenjin staff mates, acquaintances, and of late, mpango wa kando.

I am not the one to reason politics is a game where everything is up for sale at the right moment. I have seen war, and the need for morality, even in lawless situations. Civilisation must have red lines. Beyond these, the definition of human changes, to animal for instance.

Therefore, this cultural rootlessness of the Luo elders so-called, in their in-ability to fathom the cultural precedents of blood-debt pay-offs, I will suggest in a cultural analysis elsewhere, is a manifestation of an alienation from our true historical personality. It is the shallowness of a mercenary and expedient loyalty, a loyalty much like that of a commercial harlot for the day. They Jodong Aich, same breed as the ones who once were bought by Muamar Ghaddafi to assert him King of Kings, are, greed driven, warm to the carrot in the American stick, which of course is the Dollar! Some elders!

I can see Old Jakaswanga chewing tobacco with increasing rapidity of jaw bones, then comes a malicious retracting of throat, before a stream of bitter saliva is ejected at the face of such elders. –-'Boy!', my dad told me, 'when a man risks his life to save your ass or that of your dirty kin, you wanna be remembering that on the day others are ganging up to kill him. And if you got honour and dignity, you might want to go the extra mile, to insist on the proof of his guilt for the crime, before he is done in!'

I think so-long the comprador (aka tropical gangsters) maintain their stranglehold on the Kenyan presidency, and like wise the commanding heights of the economy, William Ruto is as good a gig as any pretender from that rotten –-historically late-- class.

NB: Very soon we will start hearing the same Luo elders saying 001Joho is too Muslim (religiously incorrect) to get voted for prezzo in this Christian land, Raila must run! –-I already know what the Americans think of Sultan 001: faking Al-Shabaab! Better fake born-again Xtian Singh than him, sordid Mohammedan!

The stars are The Sultan versus The Singh! For the comprador derby 2022! It looks like Raila and Ouru were meeting to disrupt this local comprador classic! What a bunch of vandals, the American puppet duo of lunatic princes! (And RED NGATIA hasn't put in his papers yet!)

Ngatia is the man who proposes you ask Rotich and Njoroge where the eurobonds are hidden. If they give no answer then live at Uhuru park, together with Ane Waiguru, and all thieving governors and top bureaucrats, the guitar wires come around their throats, the Komatsu excavator elbows rise, and the thieves swing. In the air.




Very soon we will be hearing of marriage linkages, a gimmick to keep the succession all within a few families for eternity! an oligarchich plutocracy!

Haa! Give me hard man Leon any day! He buried the divine Romanovs down a pit latrine. If Kenyatta, Odinga and Moi are plotting their century of dominion at the top of neo-colonial Kenya, then dung down a deep pit they must be.

And if takes the comprador upstart William to shove them down there, so be it!

Use thieves to hang theives!?

[Onyango Oloo]

Jakaswanga:

I thank you very for your feedback. Much appreciated.

At least you, Kamale and a few others have climbed over the wall of stony silence here, on Facebook, Twitter and a few other platforms that I share my digital essays in.

Sincerely,

Onyango Oloo,

Durban

[Onyango Oloo]

Miguna Whips Onyango Oloo on WhatsApp:

I got this reaction from Miguna Miguna via WhatsApp:

"I'm so disappointed with your post on Jukwaa that I don't believe that it adds any value for me to speak with you again. You of all people is denigrating me? Thank you and goodbye!"

[Onyango Oloo]

Onyango Oloo's Riposte to Miguna

Comrade Miguna, yesterday , Sunday, March 11th I was a recipient of a very harsh tongue lashing from of all people, you.

Notice, I still call you Comrade because I believe that ideologically, we have more in common in the fight for more democracy, and greater equality for Kenyans. Besides, we have been fast friends ever since we met in Toronto in the late 1980s. Remember I am the individual you picked when you were launching your two books and we went through a lot of mob violence frenzy when we were touring- especially in Kisumu,Nakuru and Mombasa. Personally as the founder and administrator of the Jukwaa platform I endured a lot of criticism for staunchily defending you decision to write your Peeling Back the Mask. I suffered the loss of the exit from Jukwaa of powerful wriers, commentators like Job, Adongo to name just two of more than a dozen members who discontinued their participation because they disagreed with the tenacity with which I was defending you against Raila Odinga. At times, the fulminations almost degenerated into a Luo tribal tirade. But remember, I stuck by you to the end, not compromising, not apologizing for what I felt was my principled decision to support you for your decision to air your views however they came across.

That is why I was quite frankly shocked when you announced that because of the Jukwaa digital essay on the Raila-Uhuru rapprochement you did not see that it added any value in your continued interaction with Onyango Oloo. You ended your message with an exclamation announcing your goodbye.

Let me point out, my comrade and good friend, the essay, with all due respect WAS NOT ABOUT MIGUNA who appears almost as a footnote when I am criticizing your total rejectionist stand against Raila Odinga. Yet you decided to cherry pick on these few lines and express your disappointment.

In my essay, just to refresh your memory, I began by first conveying the sense of anger at what many NASA supporters viewed as a "betrayal" by their flag bearer. Then I reported your denunciation of the rapprochement. I then reviewed the long history of Agwambo from the cooperation with the NDP in the nineties; becoming KANU Secretary General; the 2002 NARC shenanigans as well as what ushered in the Grand Coalition Government, which among other things I must point out, brought you in as a senior advisor to the Prime Minister.

I then exposed the subtefuges and shady deals of the Three Musketeers- Kalonzo, Mudavadi and Wetangula in trying to secretly cobble together a secret pact behind their flag bearer. I also conveyes information I had received in a telephone discussion with Prof. Larry Gumbe, that even before Tillerson jumped on a Nairobi bound plane they had been a series of meetings between Luo and Gikuyu elders. I did also reveal that Deputy President William Ruto was a man on his way out because the Luos, the Agikuyu and the Americans did not want him part of the Jubilee government.

I ended my essay by asserting that Raila was NOT the Joshua who would usher in a Kenyan National Dempcratic Revolution but given his revolutionary nationalist history and his advanced social democratic reformist credentials, he would go along way towards making our country reach that historic milestone.

Miguna Miguna, as you know, I am not a foot soldier for NRM. I do not belong to NASA , neither have I been, from those days you used to castigate me when I was part of the SDP leadership, ever a member of ODM.

Instead, I am a Marxist-Leninist who is busy working with a handful of others in forming the core of what will be hopefully, the Communist Party of Kenya.

I get a lot of ideological sustenance going through the works and studying Karl Marx, Frederich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Le Duan, Samir Amin, Mahmood Mamdani, Issa Shivji, AbdulRahman Mohamed Babu,Yash Tandon, Amilcar Cabral and others.

The final gem I want to leave you with is a Marxist- Leninist take on "Antagonistic Contradictionns. Remember way back , just before you wrote your book, I explored with you the concept right here on Jukwaa, saying in a nutshell, that the problems you had then with Raila was like that between two cousins,an uncle and a nephew or between friends. Raila, I pointed out to you, is whatever you may say about him, still very much a reformer and very much on our side. I then said that you had "non-antagonistic contradictions" as oppoed to the conflict between Kenya and monopoly capital which were definitely "antagonistic contradictions". I am afraid your rather rash and impetous act of cutting me off reeks of a view from you that Onyango Oloo is on the same camp as Donald Trump; Theresa May, Uhuru Kenyatta or even Kalonzo Musyoka, Mudavadi and Wetangula.

Let me share with you this PDF document:

marxistphilosophy.org/AntagonisticASQ.pdf

[jakaswanga]

Mar 12, 2018 10:03:52 GMT 3 Onyango Oloo said:

Miguna Whips Onyango Oloo on WhatsApp:

I got this reaction from Miguna Miguna via WhatsApp:

"I'm so disappointed with your post on Jukwaa that I don't believe that it adds any value for me to speak with you again. You of all people is denigrating me? Thank you and goodbye!"

I thought the Jenerali had thick skin!?

But then, when a man is under sieke from a whole state machinery, it is good to have long-drawn friendships offering pumps, soothes and emotional support!

Human.

NB: the script 'totally rejectionist' is the most adequate term to describe Miguna's denunciation of the Raila-Uhuru pact. The onus is on the Jenerali to argue out why his no compromise stance is the most historically correct strategy at this phase of the struggle!

[kamalet]

Unfortunately, without understanding the actual agreement between Uhuru and Raila we are left to speculate and probably even listen to people with their own vested interests in the alleged (I chose my words carefully here!) rapprochement between the two.

First, I hold the view that Raila in a moment of political greed allowed himself to be conned by the president and his deputy.

I say this as Oloo repeats an allegation of a meeting between kikuyu and luo elders that preceded this meeting of the two. Nothing can be further from the truth. There are so many councils of kikuyu elders that anyone of them could have been part of the con on Raila. The other thing to note is that there is no political muscle in these alleged councils amongst the kikuyu apart from the monthly goat eating and muratina drinking ceremonies they organise around central province - in my area of residence, I actually, when I get time, attend two such 'kiamas' on saturday mornings.I do not think that any of these is a group that Uhuru would take counsel from. So dump that.

Then there is the allegation or false believe that Ruto is on his way out. He is not going anywhere and Kikuyus will trust him a lot more than they would ever trust Raila. Kikuyu politics is such that they will vote for their interests rather than the person and Uhuru himself knows that. What should have worried any supporter is the fact that Ruto welcomed the coming together of the two. Ruto and Uhuru are friends in the first instance and politicians secondly. In 2001, I sat in a function where they were plotting how to and actually di screw Raila who had just been elected Secretary General of KANU and even during the nusu mkate regime the two were still undercutting Raila as PM and making fun of it when Uhuru was pro Kibaki DPM and Ruto an ODM minister. Their final conjoining was when they were both arraigned at the ICC. So just know that Ruto and Uhuru are going no where. I will not venture to the debate about the possibility of Uhuru being a PM under a Ruto presidency as is the case in Russia....!!

Now back to this lie called a pact!

My own view is that as suggested by Oloo it is possible that Mudavadi and Kalonzo were reaching out to Jubilee. Jubilee support of ANC and WIPER people in parliamentary committees as well as at the Parliamentary Service Commission would have informed the decision by Raila to go meet Uhuru alone to also get himself something. If this be the case, then Raila beat them to it.

But could this have been part of a larger plot to break down NASA? I actually think so. The plan then would have to bring in Raila to meet Uhuru - the other two's condemnation would have exceeded the excitement- and appear to make a deal between the two men only. This would have excited the Raila constituency and brought on condemnation from the other principals as well as the 'hactivist' community. The result would be a fall out within NASA as is happening now as the first outcome. Once NASA disintegrates as a formidable political grouping, anything Raila does would be seen as ODM action and by extension a Luo affair. Uhuruto know that anything Raila said would be supported by his constituency and the other hangers on.

So everything today is going as per plan and there have been perks and crumbs thrown the way of Raila and his ODM ministers - cars and bodyguards etc. Then Uhuru has put in a diplomat and the man in charge of counter terrorism, Ambassador Kamau to sit with Paul Mwangi in a committee whose structure is not embedded in any law, and that means that nothing binding can come out of it unless Uhuru wants it. The coffee smells all nice, as MPs are no longer boycotting parliament and the remaining names nominated by Uhuru will sail through parliament, Ndii and Ongwen have set aside the silly idea of the People's Assembly and these were the pet offensive tools of NASA/ODM. If you pay attention to the new names, you will see William Ruto than you will see Uhuru.

I alluded earlier at the reason why I suspected the support of this deal from Ruto. It is because in everything I see in this deal, Ruto's fingerprints are all over. The betrayal of Raila and the disarray of the new deal will come next. When it happens, Raila will be alone in ODM whilst Kalonzo and Mudavadi will still be struggling to cobble up something they hope can be an opposition. One thing that will not happen is that NASA cannot come together again as the vehicle it was in 2017. With Raila reduced to an ODM leader and all the sharks fighting to replace him (even the attempt at bringing in Winnie as his successor will not help - remember she was at the Harambee House meeting), the man who would not be Joshua will be alone struggling for relevance. In the meantime candidate Ruto will be having the time of his life consolidating his position heading into 2022.

As in the past, the politics of betrayal are being played right before our eyes. Forget Tillerson as he was sacked before he even landed in Kenya, forget about the meeting of tribal elders for the Luo council met a bunch of fake muratina drinkers masquerading as a council of elders, forget about Ruto being on his way out....this is going to be worse than even the alleged Jomo and Jaramogi betrayal. I hope I am wrong!!

But there are positives to this lie. There is going to be quiet period for business allowing for consolidation and growth of an economic battered by a long election season. Raila will have to drop Jimmi for there are one or two things Uhuru needs to sort out with this man. As for collateral damage, Miguna is not coming back to Kenya to torment Uhuru and Raila and the likes of Ndii and Ongwen are not getting jobs in a Raila set up.

Raila like Charles Njonjo only does what benefits him directly.

-too lazy to edit....

[jakaswanga]

Mar 14, 2018 12:42:07 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Unfortunately, without understanding the actual agreement between Uhuru and Raila we are left to speculate and probably even listen to people with their own vested interests in the alleged (I chose my words carefully here!) rapprochement between the two.

First, I hold the view that Raila in a moment of political greed allowed himself to be conned by the president and his deputy.
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So everything today is going as per plan and there have been perks and crumbs thrown the way of Raila and his ODM ministers - cars and bodyguards etc. Then Uhuru has put in a diplomat and the man in charge of counter terrorism, Ambassador Kamau to sit with Paul Mwangi in a committee whose structure is not embedded in any law, and that means that nothing binding can come out of it unless Uhuru wants it. The coffee smells all nice, as MPs are no longer boycotting parliament and the remaining names nominated by Uhuru will sail through parliament, Ndii and Ongwen have set aside the silly idea of the People's Assembly and these were the pet offensive tools of NASA/ODM. If you pay attention to the new names, you will see William Ruto than you will see Uhuru.

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....forget about Ruto being on his way out....this is going to be worse than even the alleged Jomo and Jaramogi betrayal. I hope I am wrong!!
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As for collateral damage, Miguna is not coming back to Kenya to torment Uhuru and Raila and the likes of Ndii and Ongwen are not getting jobs in a Raila set up.

Raila like Charles Njonjo only does what benefits him directly.

-too lazy to edit....

MIGUNA: THE EXCORCISM, BUT WHY?

I have taken note too, of the redistribution of the peremendes for the once recalcitrant crowd of NASARITES. That is the restoration of the withdrawn privileges, richly funded by the tax-payere by the way. The guards have been returned, mileage is being paid lump, revoked gun licences have been re-instated, cancelled passports uncancelled ... arrest warrants withdraw, court cases too, Etc etc!

All very arbitrary, proving the government was all the time aware it was abusing its powers, and had no basse in law.

But there's is an exception! –--Miguna Miguna is still a Canadian!

There is need for one last trial at ABC GEOGRAPHY for some of these guys at the top, seing that the general amnesty by the Uhuruto regime does not encompass the NRA general from Nyando, neither are there any known plans, despite court orders, to speed up the re-issuance of his perforated travel document!

This singling out of Miguna for the maximum whip at a time of national touchy-feeliness at the behest of the leading royal courts, is culturally intriguing. Miguna is an out law, beyond forgiveness by this RAILA-OURU diktat, this (mock?) detente between factions of the ruling class: but why!? Has a Kenyan arrived on the scene who is beyond the politics of peremende, ie bribery!? And his mind is so stern you just can't twist it with a gimmick like, now, Ouru and Raila bedazzle the nation with!?

The story of how we deal with this uncomfortable man, the rejectionist according to Oloo, is the moral story of our times. Even if it is that of betrayal, even of our intellect.

What must I think of Kihalangwa and Matiang'i deporting a Nyando-born Jaluos, former Nairobi governor candidate, a Canadian persona non grata!?

–--I think: Forgive them Father, for they know not the purpose of a brain is to think! You gave them brains, forgot to remind them of the use! and now we pay the price, O Father!

I repeat: hey Matiang'i, Nyando is just there between Kisii and Kisumu. If you don't know where Kisumu is, I will remind you tomorrow. But for starters it is not in Ontario!

And you Kihalangwa: I don't know whether you heard of a lake, say Victoria. If you didn't, there is a section of it in Kenya, the Kenya bordering Tz and Ug to break it down further for you! and Nyando is just about there in the mouth. And it is not a part of Lake Superior!

This lesson was free! These doctorates of ours! No wonder Mai Mahiu is cut off from Narok after a drizzle!

[kamalet]

Mar 14, 2018 22:29:13 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

Mar 14, 2018 12:42:07 GMT 3 kamalet said:

Unfortunately, without understanding the actual agreement between Uhuru and Raila we are left to speculate and probably even listen to people with their own vested interests in the alleged (I chose my words carefully here!) rapprochement between the two.

First, I hold the view that Raila in a moment of political greed allowed himself to be conned by the president and his deputy.
----------------------

So everything today is going as per plan and there have been perks and crumbs thrown the way of Raila and his ODM ministers - cars and bodyguards etc. Then Uhuru has put in a diplomat and the man in charge of counter terrorism, Ambassador Kamau to sit with Paul Mwangi in a committee whose structure is not embedded in any law, and that means that nothing binding can come out of it unless Uhuru wants it. The coffee smells all nice, as MPs are no longer boycotting parliament and the remaining names nominated by Uhuru will sail through parliament, Ndii and Ongwen have set aside the silly idea of the People's Assembly and these were the pet offensive tools of NASA/ODM. If you pay attention to the new names, you will see William Ruto than you will see Uhuru.

================
....forget about Ruto being on his way out....this is going to be worse than even the alleged Jomo and Jaramogi betrayal. I hope I am wrong!!
=================
As for collateral damage, Miguna is not coming back to Kenya to torment Uhuru and Raila and the likes of Ndii and Ongwen are not getting jobs in a Raila set up.

Raila like Charles Njonjo only does what benefits him directly.

-too lazy to edit....

MIGUNA: THE EXCORCISM, BUT WHY?

I have taken note too, of the redistribution of the peremendes for the once recalcitrant crowd of NASARITES. That is the restoration of the withdrawn privileges, richly funded by the tax-payere by the way. The guards have been returned, mileage is being paid lump, revoked gun licences have been re-instated, cancelled passports uncancelled ... arrest warrants withdraw, court cases too, Etc etc!

All very arbitrary, proving the government was all the time aware it was abusing its powers, and had no basse in law.

But there's is an exception! –--Miguna Miguna is still a Canadian!

There is need for one last trial at ABC GEOGRAPHY for some of these guys at the top, seing that the general amnesty by the Uhuruto regime does not encompass the NRA general from Nyando, neither are there any known plans, despite court orders, to speed up the re-issuance of his perforated travel document!

This singling out of Miguna for the maximum whip at a time of national touchy-feeliness at the behest of the leading royal courts, is culturally intriguing. Miguna is an out law, beyond forgiveness by this RAILA-OURU diktat, this (mock?) detente between factions of the ruling class: but why!? Has a Kenyan arrived on the scene who is beyond the politics of peremende, ie bribery!? And his mind is so stern you just can't twist it with a gimmick like, now, Ouru and Raila bedazzle the nation with!?

The story of how we deal with this uncomfortable man, the rejectionist according to Oloo, is the moral story of our times. Even if it is that of betrayal, even of our intellect.

What must I think of Kihalangwa and Matiang'i deporting a Nyando-born Jaluos, former Nairobi governor candidate, a Canadian persona non grata!?

–--I think: Forgive them Father, for they know not the purpose of a brain is to think! You gave them brains, forgot to remind them of the use! and now we pay the price, O Father!

I repeat: hey Matiang'i, Nyando is just there between Kisii and Kisumu. If you don't know where Kisumu is, I will remind you tomorrow. But for starters it is not in Ontario!

And you Kihalangwa: I don't know whether you heard of a lake, say Victoria. If you didn't, there is a section of it in Kenya, the Kenya bordering Tz and Ug to break it down further for you! and Nyando is just about there in the mouth. And it is not a part of Lake Superior!

This lesson was free! These doctorates of ours! No wonder Mai Mahiu is cut off from Narok after a drizzle!

Apart from being collateral damage, Miguna is also an offspring of a political crime and I do not think that Uhuru will allow the deal to cover up illegal activity. Miguna did not follow process (that word by Justice Mwilu!!) in getting his Kenya Passport as he was not entitled to one when he got it. His was not any different to the Somali pirates and Indian conmen who got theirs after lining up the pockets of Otieno Kajwang' (the guy who taught me law for my accountancy certification because he could not practice law for some crime of dishonesty he had committed) as he gave Kenyan passports/citizenship willy-nilly. Miguna is in a better position if he tempered his ego, made a formal application as per law and get his entitlement of Kenyan citizenship as per law. Making noise and not following the law is not helping him - he can do that and not even Matiang'i can stop him. Once on the ground he can don his jungle gear as the so called NRM general!

[Daktari wa makazi]

Kamalet,

The govt decision to kick out Miguna is political, not legal. Facts - it is said Miguna was deported because he lost his Kenyan nationality when he acquired Canadian nationality under the old constitution as then Kenyans couldn’t hold dual-nationality. It is alleged that Miguna should have re-applied for Kenyan nationality under the new constitution. Legal analysis - His nationality cannot be taken away because the old constitution is inoperable and cannot retrospectively be applied. Miguna was given a Kenyan passport which in the current operational constitution is legal.

You are also incorrect on the Uhuru- Raila deal. Uhuru has a legacy to build and Raila knows he will soon fade away from the political scene and wanted to remain relevant. Raila has been under pressure within NASA (the lack of reference to other NASA co-principles suggests they were short-changed, Raila must have acted alone because he felt threatened by them - it is open secret they were plotting to replace him as they knew he is supporting Joho to succeed him) and even ODM hardliners who spearheaded the ‘inauguration’ were left out. Sensing that his political support was ebbing away, a deal on Uhuru’s terms places him firmly back at the top table. These are the facts which played a leading role in Uhuru-Raila meeting, not the nonsense about Luo or Kikuyu elders.

It is no secret Raila is running broke and his financial backers who are mainly wealthy Kikuyus, are thin on the ground. It is these people who approached Uhuru as they knew Uhuru is not keen to see chaos (political tension to be read from what precisely Raila was planning through his people’s council) and to get the West off his back, he would make a deal with Raila.

Uhuru, like Kibaki, was ever fearful of the adverse attention of the West which damaged Moi. That ‘good boy’ mentality made Kibaki pay Anglo-leasing scandal millions and just the other day gave Uhuru a huge loan extension from the IMF.

So I was not surprised when the Uhuru and Raila described each other as brothers. Funny, the West were keen to claim credit for providing the impetus for the agreement. The document they signed “Building Bridges to a new Kenyan nation”, seems to support my view that Uhuru got the lion's share in that deal. Uhuru has been clear that he would not re-open talks on the election outcome, and the document secures his stance despite what Raila wants people to think. Second, it refers to Uhuru as H.E. The President, and to Raila as H.E. Raila Odinga, so the pecking order has been established. Third, Raila’s Kikuyu backers insisted their own – Paul Mwangi - as Raila’s representative in the deal, not the militant Orengo or the slimy Salim Lome.

[johns]

Sadik,

Do not couch your opinion as facts. Your suppositions are far removed from the truth.

[Onyango Oloo]

Kamale:

Thanks for your feedback. If you had written anything else I would have been stupefied with shock.

Onyango Oloo