Post by jakaswanga on Oct 7, 2018 10:31:12 GMT 3
A LUO MEDITATION ON FALLEN STARS: OKOTH OBADO AND EVANS KIDERO
MADNESS!
Background Ref: IDEOLOGICAL FAULT LINES LUOLAND & OUR VERMIN LUO ELITE ETC ETC, && CULTURAL RAPIDS NYANZA BETWEEN GOEBBELS AND CABRAL
Of course they are bandit stars. This is the era of bandit stars and, as a saying goes, thum wero mana ng'a ma nitie. -Bread musicians tend to sing he who provides the bread.
No moral offence taken when dogs clutter for crumbs under the table! Sirikal matiyo e mantie!
But you know how complex life can be! (Therefore keep this in mind: even as we used to talk of WESTERN MONOPOLY CAPITAL, it is CHINA'S CAPITAL shaping reality today in Africa, Kenya and Luoland! That is a significant transition. But does it necessarily change the historical mentality and political character of a facilatory, local NYAPARA CLASS!?)
We will figure!
Which is why I talked elsewhere of a cultural civil war Luoland, CONTINUALLY between our submerged historical personality (which authentically recognises dignity and integrity), and our acquired colonial-and-post-colonial survival mask which, on the face of it, worships money and power, however ill it is gotten.
So there, our 'borderline persona!' our day and night split! wherefore it is the divan couch of liberation for this Africa! To re-unite itself, to internally re-integrate her personality!
THE DEVOLUTION BONANZA
NB: Shillingi ni sabuni ya Roho, sang a Kenyan musician! (I think it was Simba Wanyika's Peter Kinyonga commentating in a song with the refrain Shilling Ya Ua tena ni Maua! The legendary composer Lutumba Simaro from the DRC, or Zaire Mboka Mboka, also commentates along the same lines in the excruciatingly contemplative Mbongo, done in Luambo Makiadi's TPOK)
Howbeit in Kenya this era, power and wealth tends to be ill-gotten, tax-payer bleeding! -In Nyanza the politicians' cynical song went: Raila okelo devolution wayako! (It is party time, Raila's devolution serving!)
Yet for all of Kenya's apparent bravado, public celebration of those who wallow in adlib in the proceeds of the plunder of public koffers, below the surface is a palpable atmosphere of unease to dread. We sometimes call it The Great Seethe! This dread is interesting. I think it betrays a universal certainty, that the same public ceaselessly celebrating thieves in their impunity, is the same public which, with wild abandon, will celebrate the same impunity, but now expended in the summary extermination of the condemned Kings of Graft. That dark purgatory is like when the famed killer-cops aka Heszy's, look up from the Slums and take their hunt to the real jungle! wherein lurks the Big Games!
Yeah
But for now it is the totally amoral characters who are the go-getters of our land, the high achievers in politics. It is the world upside down. Not yet John Githong'o time. The daily news is a catalogue of the elites' lack of integrity, void of dignity, obsession with theft and easy graft, yet, contradictorily too, DENIAL OF THAT REALITY! --Oh! No, apart from professing their patriotism, they are righteous hard-working individuals who, like Kidero in his own self image, deserve every cent of their success. Those calling them debauched Hustlers are just detractors who, in their rabid jealousy, should go and MEZA WEMBE! And shetani of course, ashindue!
Kilasiku!
Amen!
this is a kind of Jekyll-Hyde stalemate in the public space! It is tense and nerve-racking. Confusing even for the Headhunter Noordin Haji! (Noordin lacks the sure footing of our Heszy's in Kayole and Dandora, no!? Deadshots!)
That is an example of a stalemate exhibited: Heszy or Haji? Hide or Jekyl!? shoot-to-kill or prosecute to permanent injunction ala ex River State governor Odili of Nigeria!?
The DPP will give it a shot if he be believed in his own words!
For this reason, the dimming of the stars of two prominent Luo politicians is a moment to crack some hard cultural notes, and jokes of course. Thereto can we hopefully learn whatever it is that can be gleaned from their current misfortunes, while not denying ourselves of our daily dose of laughs as is the nature of life. I am talking about the adventures of Evans Kidero and Okoth Obado. The former is now, just below the Hustler Singh, the reputation of a top looter, an exemplary parasite or kleptocrat; the latter is the King of Gory, accused of a double murder, one of them, infanticide. Between them two, the now notorious sons of the Lake, they straddle the whole criminal landscape! From the messiest of murders to the whitest of collar crimes!
EVANS KIDERO AND OKOTH OBADO AS FADING STARS
Of course they all protest their innocence. They have amassed an intellectual war-chest of highly collected and skilled 'system' attorneys to fight their corners, the aces Prof. Tom Ojienda for Kidero and Cliff Ombetta, a later day SM Otieno or Byron Georgiadis, for Obado! Of courtroom wars, you could say they are game.
But there is more to this than courtroom wars conducted by seasoned law-schoolers feeding off public loot. There are other pivots, other tangents operational. None of these other currents twirls below the other in bloody skulduggery. It is the way of history. And the very way of young nations in formation.
And today the Luo Pivot takes a cultural curve, a bit tongue in cheek at first, it is a messy subject:
LUO PIVOT: how can a man charged (together with his closes associates) of murdering his luscious pregnant consort along with his nearly born kid, remain in office as CEO of a Luo county!?
Is the principle of innocent until proven guilty enough subterfuge? a firm enough ground to
(1) suspend immediate resignation
(2) restrain immediate impeachment (failing option resignation of own volition)
NB: Resignation of own volition due to (criminal) scandal of course demands a highly-developed conscience and consciousness, and, to boot, a sense of morality, grin, chapter six. It is not a known course of action in High Kenya, resignation, a Kenya inundated with Fiduciary incapacitation, investigative disinterest, and of course the accompanying Judiciary inertia! The System as it is, Wanjiku ever paying the bad price.
But for the moment I am not talking about Kenya. This PIVOT, is a Luo cultural civil war ABOUT a specific public morality, IE the 'moral prestige' due of LUO public office. --(I remember the corrupt Kenyan professor Swazuri of the corrupted NLC declaring publicly MEN DO NOT RESIGN! What a goat!)
That is the pivot.
No goats at the top of Luoland please!
That is the Pivot!
And from where I stand, having taking the liberty to move aloft and trace the 'standing' responsibilities of public office as developed in 'our' history, and, later, as practised ----around Lake Sango and the gulf of Kavirondo (Wi-Nam)------- by legends like Ramogi Ajwang', General Waljak Ochieng' Ager, Gem Odera Akang'o, Wasonga Sijeyo and Ajuma Odinga, I am pretty clear-headed, decided and cold-blooded about it: Okoth Obado and Evans Kidero are vermin best relegated to DAMNATIO MEMORAE! Exiled to the House of the Shamed and Forgotten. (According to Marilene Albright, there was a specially horrendous place in Hades reserved for women who wouldn't vote Hilary Rodham Clinton! Well, now you know at least two Luos worthy of the place in the dark underword!)
But the eventuality of that eternal damnation would reflect a liberation accomplished. That is to say, in Cabralian dynamics, a cultural identity and historical personality re-institutionalised and operationalised.
One day long ago it was my turn to chair the disciplinary board. It was a tough job. Determined to press a joke for the young man before us had gone to Makerere law school and peaked, I asked him: --'have you heard of the Miranda read? and if so, did you read them their Miranda to show grade!?'
He grinned back at me, the grin you never want to see on the face of a young armed African in tribal war. 'Yes, on all accounts, sir, except I read them their Miranda post-houmous! I was a touch late on that, sir!'
yes, Africa has landed some heavy blows on my mind when I was young!
'Yes, it saddens me to watch beautiful Miranda so raped to pieces by would-be priests of the same cult! this Africa forces us to practice what we do not believe in, like the death sentence now your due, for raping Miranda!'
But there was still another catch for the Judge!
Every Luo knows the traditional consequences on those unfortunate enough to burn the granary, or loot the home-kraal, or malicious enough to pollute the collective well or shed the blood of the innocent. Now, that the legal sage we delegated to it, His Visions Otiende Amollo, failed to import and impart the ruthlessness of this cultural piety and (fiduciary) fidelity to the 2010 Constitution he helped author, will be tackled later! -I will be mild on Otiende whose mental rigour I know but have not seen expressed in any convincing way yet; because, of course, there is actually that schedule called CHAPTER SIX, the INTEGRITY CLAUSE, and it isn't Amollo's fault Kenya's elite shot it down! Nor is it wholly Amollo's fault that Wily boy obliged them! Howbeit Otiende I will only charge with not rising to te occasion and putting up a wily performance before King Agwambo, in the mode of the delicate template adopted by Teiresias of Thebes before King Oedipus!
Yes, it is a famous scene. How does a prophet as wise as the gods but mortal, tell a DIVINE King to stop screwing his mum, get the hell out of town and absolve the land of the curse and anger of The Earth!?
Never has a sage had his work out for him than Teiresias on that day in Thebes! Precedent extraordinary!
STALEMATE OF FORCES
I asked: LUO PIVOT: how can a man charged (together with his closes associates) of murdering his pregnant consort along with his nearly-born kid, remain in office as CEO of a Luo county!? And if so, how come?
2018 Kenya, YES HE CAN!
And is.
--Yes he can, because there is a cruel SOCIAL stalemate: the FOR and ANTI-forces are in an evil equilibrium. And, furthermore, the official ideological leadership of Luoland is too compromised to clear the air. It would mean they fall on their sword. In other words, the rotten yoke is still the ruling yoke, and the 'new' morality is still too wobbly-kneed to INSTITUTIONALLY cast if off. It is like the famous Thucydides trap much vaulted in history books doing rising and fading powers!
CONTINUED.
MADNESS!
Background Ref: IDEOLOGICAL FAULT LINES LUOLAND & OUR VERMIN LUO ELITE ETC ETC, && CULTURAL RAPIDS NYANZA BETWEEN GOEBBELS AND CABRAL
Of course they are bandit stars. This is the era of bandit stars and, as a saying goes, thum wero mana ng'a ma nitie. -Bread musicians tend to sing he who provides the bread.
No moral offence taken when dogs clutter for crumbs under the table! Sirikal matiyo e mantie!
But you know how complex life can be! (Therefore keep this in mind: even as we used to talk of WESTERN MONOPOLY CAPITAL, it is CHINA'S CAPITAL shaping reality today in Africa, Kenya and Luoland! That is a significant transition. But does it necessarily change the historical mentality and political character of a facilatory, local NYAPARA CLASS!?)
We will figure!
Which is why I talked elsewhere of a cultural civil war Luoland, CONTINUALLY between our submerged historical personality (which authentically recognises dignity and integrity), and our acquired colonial-and-post-colonial survival mask which, on the face of it, worships money and power, however ill it is gotten.
So there, our 'borderline persona!' our day and night split! wherefore it is the divan couch of liberation for this Africa! To re-unite itself, to internally re-integrate her personality!
THE DEVOLUTION BONANZA
NB: Shillingi ni sabuni ya Roho, sang a Kenyan musician! (I think it was Simba Wanyika's Peter Kinyonga commentating in a song with the refrain Shilling Ya Ua tena ni Maua! The legendary composer Lutumba Simaro from the DRC, or Zaire Mboka Mboka, also commentates along the same lines in the excruciatingly contemplative Mbongo, done in Luambo Makiadi's TPOK)
Howbeit in Kenya this era, power and wealth tends to be ill-gotten, tax-payer bleeding! -In Nyanza the politicians' cynical song went: Raila okelo devolution wayako! (It is party time, Raila's devolution serving!)
Yet for all of Kenya's apparent bravado, public celebration of those who wallow in adlib in the proceeds of the plunder of public koffers, below the surface is a palpable atmosphere of unease to dread. We sometimes call it The Great Seethe! This dread is interesting. I think it betrays a universal certainty, that the same public ceaselessly celebrating thieves in their impunity, is the same public which, with wild abandon, will celebrate the same impunity, but now expended in the summary extermination of the condemned Kings of Graft. That dark purgatory is like when the famed killer-cops aka Heszy's, look up from the Slums and take their hunt to the real jungle! wherein lurks the Big Games!
Yeah
But for now it is the totally amoral characters who are the go-getters of our land, the high achievers in politics. It is the world upside down. Not yet John Githong'o time. The daily news is a catalogue of the elites' lack of integrity, void of dignity, obsession with theft and easy graft, yet, contradictorily too, DENIAL OF THAT REALITY! --Oh! No, apart from professing their patriotism, they are righteous hard-working individuals who, like Kidero in his own self image, deserve every cent of their success. Those calling them debauched Hustlers are just detractors who, in their rabid jealousy, should go and MEZA WEMBE! And shetani of course, ashindue!
Kilasiku!
Amen!
this is a kind of Jekyll-Hyde stalemate in the public space! It is tense and nerve-racking. Confusing even for the Headhunter Noordin Haji! (Noordin lacks the sure footing of our Heszy's in Kayole and Dandora, no!? Deadshots!)
That is an example of a stalemate exhibited: Heszy or Haji? Hide or Jekyl!? shoot-to-kill or prosecute to permanent injunction ala ex River State governor Odili of Nigeria!?
The DPP will give it a shot if he be believed in his own words!
For this reason, the dimming of the stars of two prominent Luo politicians is a moment to crack some hard cultural notes, and jokes of course. Thereto can we hopefully learn whatever it is that can be gleaned from their current misfortunes, while not denying ourselves of our daily dose of laughs as is the nature of life. I am talking about the adventures of Evans Kidero and Okoth Obado. The former is now, just below the Hustler Singh, the reputation of a top looter, an exemplary parasite or kleptocrat; the latter is the King of Gory, accused of a double murder, one of them, infanticide. Between them two, the now notorious sons of the Lake, they straddle the whole criminal landscape! From the messiest of murders to the whitest of collar crimes!
EVANS KIDERO AND OKOTH OBADO AS FADING STARS
Of course they all protest their innocence. They have amassed an intellectual war-chest of highly collected and skilled 'system' attorneys to fight their corners, the aces Prof. Tom Ojienda for Kidero and Cliff Ombetta, a later day SM Otieno or Byron Georgiadis, for Obado! Of courtroom wars, you could say they are game.
But there is more to this than courtroom wars conducted by seasoned law-schoolers feeding off public loot. There are other pivots, other tangents operational. None of these other currents twirls below the other in bloody skulduggery. It is the way of history. And the very way of young nations in formation.
And today the Luo Pivot takes a cultural curve, a bit tongue in cheek at first, it is a messy subject:
LUO PIVOT: how can a man charged (together with his closes associates) of murdering his luscious pregnant consort along with his nearly born kid, remain in office as CEO of a Luo county!?
Is the principle of innocent until proven guilty enough subterfuge? a firm enough ground to
(1) suspend immediate resignation
(2) restrain immediate impeachment (failing option resignation of own volition)
NB: Resignation of own volition due to (criminal) scandal of course demands a highly-developed conscience and consciousness, and, to boot, a sense of morality, grin, chapter six. It is not a known course of action in High Kenya, resignation, a Kenya inundated with Fiduciary incapacitation, investigative disinterest, and of course the accompanying Judiciary inertia! The System as it is, Wanjiku ever paying the bad price.
But for the moment I am not talking about Kenya. This PIVOT, is a Luo cultural civil war ABOUT a specific public morality, IE the 'moral prestige' due of LUO public office. --(I remember the corrupt Kenyan professor Swazuri of the corrupted NLC declaring publicly MEN DO NOT RESIGN! What a goat!)
That is the pivot.
No goats at the top of Luoland please!
That is the Pivot!
And from where I stand, having taking the liberty to move aloft and trace the 'standing' responsibilities of public office as developed in 'our' history, and, later, as practised ----around Lake Sango and the gulf of Kavirondo (Wi-Nam)------- by legends like Ramogi Ajwang', General Waljak Ochieng' Ager, Gem Odera Akang'o, Wasonga Sijeyo and Ajuma Odinga, I am pretty clear-headed, decided and cold-blooded about it: Okoth Obado and Evans Kidero are vermin best relegated to DAMNATIO MEMORAE! Exiled to the House of the Shamed and Forgotten. (According to Marilene Albright, there was a specially horrendous place in Hades reserved for women who wouldn't vote Hilary Rodham Clinton! Well, now you know at least two Luos worthy of the place in the dark underword!)
But the eventuality of that eternal damnation would reflect a liberation accomplished. That is to say, in Cabralian dynamics, a cultural identity and historical personality re-institutionalised and operationalised.
One day long ago it was my turn to chair the disciplinary board. It was a tough job. Determined to press a joke for the young man before us had gone to Makerere law school and peaked, I asked him: --'have you heard of the Miranda read? and if so, did you read them their Miranda to show grade!?'
He grinned back at me, the grin you never want to see on the face of a young armed African in tribal war. 'Yes, on all accounts, sir, except I read them their Miranda post-houmous! I was a touch late on that, sir!'
yes, Africa has landed some heavy blows on my mind when I was young!
'Yes, it saddens me to watch beautiful Miranda so raped to pieces by would-be priests of the same cult! this Africa forces us to practice what we do not believe in, like the death sentence now your due, for raping Miranda!'
But there was still another catch for the Judge!
Every Luo knows the traditional consequences on those unfortunate enough to burn the granary, or loot the home-kraal, or malicious enough to pollute the collective well or shed the blood of the innocent. Now, that the legal sage we delegated to it, His Visions Otiende Amollo, failed to import and impart the ruthlessness of this cultural piety and (fiduciary) fidelity to the 2010 Constitution he helped author, will be tackled later! -I will be mild on Otiende whose mental rigour I know but have not seen expressed in any convincing way yet; because, of course, there is actually that schedule called CHAPTER SIX, the INTEGRITY CLAUSE, and it isn't Amollo's fault Kenya's elite shot it down! Nor is it wholly Amollo's fault that Wily boy obliged them! Howbeit Otiende I will only charge with not rising to te occasion and putting up a wily performance before King Agwambo, in the mode of the delicate template adopted by Teiresias of Thebes before King Oedipus!
Yes, it is a famous scene. How does a prophet as wise as the gods but mortal, tell a DIVINE King to stop screwing his mum, get the hell out of town and absolve the land of the curse and anger of The Earth!?
Never has a sage had his work out for him than Teiresias on that day in Thebes! Precedent extraordinary!
STALEMATE OF FORCES
I asked: LUO PIVOT: how can a man charged (together with his closes associates) of murdering his pregnant consort along with his nearly-born kid, remain in office as CEO of a Luo county!? And if so, how come?
2018 Kenya, YES HE CAN!
And is.
--Yes he can, because there is a cruel SOCIAL stalemate: the FOR and ANTI-forces are in an evil equilibrium. And, furthermore, the official ideological leadership of Luoland is too compromised to clear the air. It would mean they fall on their sword. In other words, the rotten yoke is still the ruling yoke, and the 'new' morality is still too wobbly-kneed to INSTITUTIONALLY cast if off. It is like the famous Thucydides trap much vaulted in history books doing rising and fading powers!
CONTINUED.