SAVING CANDIDATE RUTO: Gini Gisekawo!?

[jakaswanga]

SAVING CANDIDATE WILLIAM FROM JULIUS CEASAR'S LAST CRY!

Troglodytes may not have noticed, but his classmates and the nobility are unsheathing daggers on him, William. However, the tribulations of the ruling class are not the only story in town of course. It is just the popular show at the pictures as propagandised by the popular media they own and control.


Guys like me, coz we engage young minds in the classroom who still are autonomous in thought, wouldn't survive in class as mere ruling class conduits, recycling sh!t from above. We have the necessary autonomy too, and exercise the poetical license to its limits.

So we say KENYA NEEDS RADICAL REFORM,

followed by a question: BUT WHY?

Why on Earth would Kenya need reform, let alone radical reform!?

HINT: The freer, Northern colonies of the limitedly united, United States of America then, would outpace in every positive indicator, the primitive and feudal-oriented barbarians of The South. Of course limitedly united, because the union was more-or-less a ragmatazz band of deplorables.

I think Kenya is slightly ahead, but only counted in a neighbourhood of horror. We are talking things like both Sudans, all Somalia's, M7-Uganda Burundi and MegaFool Tz. Here we excell, but globally compared, this is an uncompetitive stone-age environment. We should run, economically a-pace, a-la the fleet-foot of Achilles the WindFoot.

Such stone-age peoples as we, need reform, they need radical reform. That is my thinking from my latest tour of the Nairobi Slums. The sprawling metropolitan slums of the of the East and Central African Mega Cities, remind me of slave yards in the American South. The slaves were locked away from the modern, rapid industrial expansion of the Northern states.
The desolate countrysides of the East and Central African States, and their collapsed Agricultural industries like Dominion and Mumias Sugar, remind me of the uncompetitive to bankrupt large-scale slave farms of the South, desperately holding to a gone economic mode (and top down racial social relations) in nostalgic delusions.

Methinks of the Luo saying: Atonga mayot ema iyombogo koth –---when you see the big rain coming, there's plenty of baggage you wanna shed if you not gonna get beaten.

The best solution is the ATONGA MAYOT, get lean and mean for the economic flight! (we define the ballast to be shed later!)

THE NEURALYZER

But our (name them) Southern plantation heads in Nairobi, gathered in a parley like the settlers of yonder to stem the rise of African nationalism across Kenya, think their chicanery like the so-called Handshake, is the magic wand of Apollo, son of Zeus. Legend has it Apollo would wave this golden wand and with it, vaporise the senses of the hapless mortal or demigod like the countless-eyed Argus. A Hollywood wink at this legend is to be seen in the Films Men in Black. Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones have this ka-blue-light-flash-staff which reminds of the Jedi-light sword. It is called NEURALYZER

Of all the cool gadgets in science fiction, one of the niftiest is the memory-eraser stick that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones wield in the movie Men in Black.

Fak! It is not science fiction, it is antic Greek folklore! Read antiquity for antic.

I always tell my students: madhafakaz, know your classics, become fool-proofed. Culturally speaking. So you will know the FED is NOT a CENTRAL bank, it is a PRIVATE BANK! even if that is not the correct answer in colleges teaching neo-liberal models of economics.

But to matters the priority of today.

I say outside class too, the Handshake is the latest settler gimmick to fudge the mindset of African nationalism. It has to function for some as a 'neuralyzer', so that, when we are back to our senses later, the aristocrats have wiped off William Ruto from our collective consciousness! That his candidature was but a fairy tale! told by grandmothers to kids around the evening fireplace as they anticipate hot githeri!

Therefore lets talk about saving Candidate William. As an academic exercise of course, since the comprador class in Toto, is a corpse which long should have been buried. But here we are locked in a MORBID CULT, trusting in the dead as Messiahs!

I have no recollection of any land which went places in the last half century with a predatory comprador at her helm! I welcome the challenge of disputations, Asian Tiger you be!

For Asia, that is where lots of rising has been the last half a century. That gives plenty data to be studied and learnt, for instance about the calibre required of the captains of flying Tigers, or the faculties the would-be roaring lions of the Savanah need must show, daily!

NB: I said academic exercise of course. If not, one has to ponder the practical nightmare of a backlash in the Rift Valley if the stamping out of Ruto is incompetently handled as is the comprador wont with any complexity. There is talk of Gikuyu hostages in the Rift, settlers so called, who would then bear the brunt of the comprador fudge. That bomb must be diffused some. Can Gideon Moi be enough appeasement to!?

The likes of David Murathe will need more than mere arrogant dismissals of The Host, to sooth the nerves of hostages!

MEANWHILE: GINI GISEKAWO!

We assume the comprador maintain their vicehold on all of Kenya's vitals. Therefore come 2022 the all important presidency is theirs.

Gino gisekawo,

So we have the time to do the historical context –--the GIMOMIYO SERIES.

The GIMOMIYO series is an African library of folklorish explanations to observed events. –-Why giraffes have long necks for instance, why rivers flow to wherever they flow, why d.ic.k.s stiffen before p.u.ss.y, why the tortoise is armour-plated.

You get the sh!t don't ya!

Today, for instance, the GIMOMIYO series must explain

–--why CBK Patrick Njoroge is suddenly mad at his former masters and mentors, the IMF and WB.
Why China and Ouru Kenyatta says the Mombasa port wont be annexed, while neither China nor Ouru Kenyatta are signatories to the deal between EXIM Bank and whoever!
–--Why Murathe and co think the Uhuruto 10-10 deal was private between two individuals and not collectively binding, just like The Handshake!
–--why those whose debts are denoted in the so-called reserve currencies could, under severed debt burdens, better be called serfs.


And of course, why the Uhuruto deal unravelled. –-Gimomiyo Uhuru + Ruto is no longer equal to UHURUTO!

We ride, wander the world.

1. THE POWERFUL OF THEIR TIMES

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THE POWERFUL OF THEIR TIME

A: Vintu Vichenjanga

Vintu Vichenjanga, Bonny Khalwale is rumoured to have offered the day Evans Kidero was bundled like a common bum to face intensive hours of questioning at the decrepit Integrity House. ---Decrepit becasue we know what we know in Kenya. When a house goes for such a bombastic name, that is the last thing to look for there. INTEGRITY is the last quality you will find at integrity house. Money is the last thing you will find at the TREASURY. Rotich inhabits nothing but a DEBT HOUSE!
Department of Defence? Which defence? Migingo is in Uganda and the KDF is dealing charcoal in Kismayo. Mtihani House? is that not the den of the cartels running the ministry of education? The way ministerial pretender Bi Amina is behaving like a headless chicken with the curriculum reform –--now it is ½-ON now it is not, is enough to tell you ELIMU HOUSE is more illiterate, more rotten than the cleanest peace of air ever escaped her hind unders!

But Khalwale was likely reflecting on the day the power of Kidero in Nairobi barred him from pronouncing Mumias and Sugar Company in the same breath! even in the privacy of a city toilet!

Things had changed and Kidero himself was now being pushed around like a gunia in a mkokoteni. As a matter of fact, Khalwale can now easily bandy stories with Tom Ojienda on of what men think of in confined quarters. The professor who was Kidero's legal arm or intellectual enforcer, recently lost his freedom for a few hours, to meditate at the Muthaiga police purgatory.

The powerful do have their time, and then it is gone.

So A MOMENT FROM THE BELGIAN CONGO

I thought of a distant country, and a distant event. Two in fact. But the first is the Belgian Congo. She is approaching independence. There has been a round table conference. In fact they are a series. A delicate man, later to achieve all round fame as the Grand Kalle, actual name Joseph Kabaselleh, pens a complicated song to commemorate the days. The song is in two renditions: Independence Cha-Cha, and Table Ronde, Round Table. The Band is the legendary African Jazz de Kinshasha Leopoldville, though the recordings in Brussels in 1960 feature two stalwarts of OK Jazz, Armando Contrabass Brazzos and lead singer Vicky Longomba.

There is something about the song INDEPENDENCE TCHA-CHA …....




…..... which is eerie. And not just by long, long hindsight.

At this point it is important to import a parallel: A DANCE OF THE FOREST BY WOLE SOYINKA

Playwright Wole Soyinka was commissioned to write A Dance of the Forests as part of the celebration of Nigeria’s independence. The play was written with a very specific intent: to create a metaphor the Nigerian people could connect with and easily associated with their present good fortune. The expectation that merely achieving independence could be the end of their problems had to be addressed before the excitement turned to apathy

More about that later. After a keen listen at the delicate, breaking voice of Tshamalla, the Grand Kalle, twisting around with the restless songster, Vicky Longomba.

THE HANDSHAKE

I am thinking of the The Handshake! there is something rotten about it. Just don't know what!?

The Handshake is all very hushhush you know! Furtive and a thing of the dark, kind of; kind of a private affair to be marketed as a collective good. It occurred to me it is important to be on the look out for cultural assimilations, readings, mappings thereof, if any.

I thought of the Handshake, I wandered around, if perchance I behold, any complicated songs about it, or, pray tell, Soyinkan-like riddles around it.. Otherwise its profoundness must be doubted, culturally speaking.

But here is some profound doubt expressed about the custodians of the handshake, our political elite

Kikuyu musician Muigai wa Njoroge is not new to controversy. He has ruffled political feathers with the release of his music video Mbari ya Kimendero (The Greedy), which has gone viral.
Muigai calls men in power "dinosaurs" and "corrupt leaders who are working day and night to make sure the water (services) will not reach Wanjiku".
Some say he may be taking a jab at the current top office holders after a slew of corruption cases hit the headlines.
The scathing political song highlights Kenya's poor leadership.

Hold that stated mission above, we will revisit this alleged poor leadership. But it is a thought, the dino's rule their world with a predatory fierceness the calibre of the T-Rex, the Tyranno. The song went viral. Think out the why!

NEXT, A1. OF SPLITS
GRAND KALLE'S AFRICAN JAZZ SPLIT

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a1: GRAND KALLE'S AFRICAN JAZZ SPLIT

In search of Mobutu!?




Grand Kalle Kabaselleh's band packs some explosive talents and is about to explode. There is King of Maracas, Izeidi Rogers Mokoy; there is solo guitar-wizard Dr. Nico wa Kassanda; there is brother Dechaud on rhythm –---famed of the Africa Mokili Mobimba song; there are some noteworthy names of the vocal line up. They are still babies really, but will soon be household names throughout Rhumba-Soukous Africa at large: Mangwana, OK Josky, Youlou and of course Rochereau. That latter is the later Tabu Ley of Afrisa Le Peuple croons. In Kenya Ley achieved notoriety when he ornamented himself with the enchantress Mbilia Bel. Not only could The Phenomenon gyrate her waist in breath-taking fashion, her mellifluous renditions of compositions like Nairobi here I come were positively hypnotic to lingala-crazed Kenyans of the era. (Nakei Nairobi)



THE SHADOWS THAT HIDE THE COMING MEN



But those many decades ago, 1960 to be precise, the delicate, somehow deeply painstruck voice of Kalle mentions the names of those soon to be engulfed in the high drama of the land. Tchombe, Kasavubu, Lumumba ….

A number of politicians (some of them party leaders) are mentioned by surname. In order, these are: Jean Bolikango, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Patrice Lumumba, Albert Kalonji, Paul Bolya, Moise Tshombe, Cléophas Kamitatu, Ferdinand Essandja and Daniel Kanza. ...

Yes, it is 1960, and there is no mention of Mobutu Sese Seko among the importantes!

This point need must be repeated.

In 1960 in the Belgian Congo, there is no such thing worth mentioning as Joseph Desire Mobutu Sese Seko.

The musicians of the land reel off the names of the men defining their new launched land, and miss the god of all, or do they? This is where Africa and art gets dangerous. I did ask when I was in the Congo on a dangerous tour of duty. Toothless old men, some of faces wrinkled like the furrows of irregular waves, grinned back at me with eyes bottomless like blackholes. 'Listen to the Grand Kalle, boy,' they ordered. 'Him and Vicky (Longomba) are weeping their souls out. You think they are dying with joy? Listen to that juggling solo by Nico wa Kassanda on Independence Cha-Cha, find an interpreter. You think Nico is wild with the tidings of a golden future or constructing a casket?'

I cursed Okot P Bitek. Okot was the teacher who ordered us to come off our ivory towers and dare ask Africans about Africa. I dared do, and immediately had my mind vaporised.

I had suffered, in a men-in-black lingo, a NEURALYZER cultural shot! I later became haunted with what I had missed. Even simple drum beats started to mock me as metadata algorithms do, telling stories of formulas and chicanery beyond my wildest dreams.

1960 Congo, and there is no name worth mentioning called Mobutu! –-CANDIDAT NA BISO!

One must thus be open minded enough to think, then escalates a crisis in Kenya, and all these big names polluting the political landscape as the dominas of Nairobi, are just dancing their exit dance, unknowingly.

In the absence of great art to both code and unravel the challenges of the land in emotive power bombs, we have no option but to indulge fast foods. Stuffs like our dailies you know.


So I come to

SAVING CANDIDATE WILLIAM: GINI GISEKAWO, No? --they are racing away with it, watch that fall!

[mwalimumkuu]

Very interesting events lately revolving around candidate Ruto. As things stand, it does not look like his presidency is guaranteed. You see for Ruto to be president, he needed the undivided vote of Mt Kenya, RV and NEP with a few more top-ups from Western, Coast and Kisii Nyanza. In other words, he needed the Jubilee traditional voting block intact, the work hard on softer targets. Losing even a fraction of Mt Kenya as it increasingly looks like a possibility, obviously makes it harder for him.

The bigger question is, what really happened? How did it get to the level where the top party machinery seems not ready to support him? Well, many will tell you, we all along expected that from Mt. Kenya. That political betrayal is in their DNA. However, a deeper look at things may reveal a number of departure points. Uhuru has been dropping some hints here and there (remember his anger towards Kiunjuri on NCPB payments etc?), but Murathe has really helped to put them into perspective. Here he is:



Personally I believe the NYS scandal and the attendant events marked the real beginning of reflection by the Mt. Kenya group.

~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~

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Jan 7, 2019 0:49:17 GMT 3 mwalimumkuu said:

Very interesting events lately revolving around candidate Ruto. As things stand, it does not look like his presidency is guaranteed. You see for Ruto to be president, he needed the undivided vote of Mt Kenya, RV and NEP with a few more top-ups from Western, Coast and Kisii Nyanza. In other words, he needed the Jubilee traditional voting block intact, the work hard on softer targets. Losing even a fraction of Mt Kenya as it increasingly looks like a possibility, obviously makes it harder for him.

The bigger question is, what really happened? How did it get to the level where the top party machinery seems not ready to support him? Well, many will tell you, we all along expected that from Mt. Kenya. That political betrayal is in their DNA. However, a deeper look at things may reveal a number of departure points. Uhuru has been dropping some hints here and there (remember his anger towards Kiunjuri on NCPB payments etc?), but Murathe has really helped to put them into perspective. Here he is:



Personally I believe the NYS scandal and the attendant events marked the real beginning of reflection by the Mt. Kenya group.

~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~

INTERESTING DETAILS DAVID MURATHE

Murathe: the chickens are coming home to roost. These guys know they are candidates for prison. They used to order procurement officers to give this and that tender to so and so; to inflate the prices with so much!

Of course from the auditor General's reportS, on the monies lost, one can calculate back and unravel the racket.

The amazing thing is why Ouru Kenyatta woke up so late to this reality! Better late than never yes, but the son of JOmo spent his first term in denial, disingenuously and conveniently asleep, and his handlers like Murathe then, in duplicitous games? Or is it the the excellency was kicked awake when the country was going to the dogs in his hands, the debt figures staring him in the face, demanding sealing loopholes in governmental waste, or else everything including legacy down the drain!

Good: these things were articulated by Miguna Miguna long ago. He rounded on Ruto and Kenyatta as the princess of looting!

Murathe hints at a broad coalition of 'like-minded' Kenyans! --Lucky him, Miguna is a Canadian! Otherwise he would soon have to have a position on NRM-ke. Would he, Murathe, join forces with them to build a corruption-free Kenya!?

weee

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A BAD DYNAMIC UNFOLDS

Assume we can quickly tick off our fingers a few real problems facing the land. Assume too, they need some kind of attendance, as a matter of national priority.


Debt –--both local and international, non performing loans on the local commercial scene, Education reform or not, Youth unemployment, Migingo, Sudan and Somalia turmoil, City transport (especially Nairobi), War on Graft, Inflation.

Most of it can essentially be summarised under the it is the economy stupid puff.

Now, let is listen carefully and see if, in the heat of the Kenyatta succession, and saving the candidacy of William Ruto, the key actors are articulate in any of the above.

The quick answer is no.

Whenever there is much ado about nothing, the fundamentals stay the same. If we assume the economy is a priority, then there is a vacancy, a vacancy at the solutions desk. The current busy buddies aren't manning that all-important front. –--Lucky us, that is what we have China for! And once ago, the IMF for.

So with bemused heart we can now spectate the frogs at the top of Kenya croaking. The battle for the presidency 2022, is open and fierce in the open.

Nakuru Bahati MP Kimani Ngunjiri and Kiambu Mpig Moses Kuria are leading a so-called WASHENZI MOVEMENT. No pun intended. That is how they officially call themselves.

Uhuru Kenyatta should be impeached! On the other side, David Murathe talked of a stop Ruto movement

Nairobi is a swamp waiting to be drained! the politicians a sh!tload waiting to be flushed down and out!

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FOOTNOTE:

DENNIS KIPTOO: ALARMIST SPEECH OR TRUTH SPEAKS?

What is the elite afraid of?

Police are looking for a man behind an inciteful message on Twitter alleging that if Deputy President William Ruto does not ascend into power in 2022 there will be ethnic clashes.

The National Police Service on Thursday said they are taking the threats seriously and will deal with the suspect accordingly.

"Our attention has been drawn to some tweets supposedly issued by an individual issuing threats to ignite inter-ethnic clashes akin to what occurred in 2007/8 in parts of the country," NPS said.

Kiptoo insists that the Kikuyu community should "pay up their debt" by supporting the presidency of Ruto in 2022.

National Cohesion and Integration Commission on Wednesday said it has commenced investigations and will take appropriate action.

Kiptoo's reckless statements have seen a section of Kenyans on Twitter asking for his arrest.

The tyranny of numbers song went like this: Uhuru kumi, Ruto kumi. And after that, the button of state power would be passing forth and back between the two populous communities continues for at least a century!

That was the G2 pact. The popolar narrative!

(In the event it turned out delusional, because, in the first place, the numbers were not enough to institute a democratic tyranny. The elections had to be rigged, the numbers cooked in Kivuitu-like Chebukati-Chiloba antics. Then the compliance was enforced by gunpower, starring capo Fred Matiang'i.

These things are in public record! Babies had their skulls smashed, Pendo, children were shot high up in flats, Moraa.




Still that raw force couldn't work, UHURUTO couldn't resolve the ILLEGITIMACY TAG, Raila was sworn in popular KALONGOLONGO style and something had to give. One nation two presidents or two nations Kenya splits.

The stalemate birthed a parley called THE HANDSHAKE initiative. The nation breathed a sigh of relief, a reprieve from the abyss.

So much for the tyranny of Kikuyu-Kalenjin numbers forever! –-But more about that later.

For today, this: How the hell was this pact and power monopoly going to run forever if accrued debts are not returned?
How on earth, if the Uhuru !0 Ruto !0 was merely a private business agreement between the duo, would the rest of the two peoples be coerced into the individual affair, barring terror should one or other renege at the last moment? No, the Afraha Uhuru-Ruto handshake was not a private affair!

HERE ARE SOME POPULAR JOKES

Is it not so, that Kalenjin friends like to drive it in upon the Luos who sulked endless over Kibaki's betrayal of the Tosha-MOU with Raila, that they are a different breed of men and women!? ---They don't turn the other cheek when they are betrayed!

And is it not so, that it is the fear of this Ruto betrayal backlash, that Gideon Moi is being fast-tracked as a large enough bait to offset the rage in the aftermath of the planned Ruto betrayal by his fellow Lords of impunity!


Whether I am in Eldoret or Nakuru, this is open talk! For the elite it is apparently a TOP SECRET! if common folk engage it is called hate speech. Then we do need to be afraid. ---I already did Ngugi wa Thiong'o on betrayal and guilt complexes, kind of ala GRAIN OF WHEAT! We will need culturals, this elite is too alienated.

HOW ARE THE KALENJIN ARMED AGAINST THE POSSIBLE TREACHERY BY MK ELITES?

Anyway, students of culture and nationalisms like yours truly, have been chiding the Kalenjin hot heads some, over a beer or two, whenever we meet over KNUT/KUPPET or UASU business .... Or children's bedtime story-stuff like this lullaby from Nancy Macharia, the anti-Sossion robot.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9611/holes-mental-streets-wandering-nations?page=2#ixzz5cMlyt4R2


So, the kidding goes: Now that the workhorse William Ruto has done the donkey work twice for Jomo's son, what depths of foolproofing has Kalenjin nationalism gone to, to inoculate against the Mount Kenya pit of betrayal unto which the naive Luos have twice fallen into, under an Odinga!?

I have a Kalenjin mate who loves to answer this question without batting an eyelid.

–-'Luos are not circumcised', she tells me, her palms on my thighs. 'Kikuyus know we Kalenjins are circumcised. You can not come to us, after betrayal, with stupid stories about peace and let bygones be bygones. If Kikuyu's don't vote for William Ruto, they will leave the Rift Valley to a dead dog, and carry their fresh bones along! You Luos have a deluded sense of the self. Your vanities can be used to flatter, and trap thee into stupid nonsense, like accepting loss in a rigged election for the sake of peace and common Kenyan good. We Kalenjins are practical. Let Kenya go to hell if we loose in a rigged election, or if we are betrayed by a people we have served, to the letter of our part of the bargain!

Kikuyu's understand this perfectly! We are not Luos. We wont throw stones in cities. We will just evict or every Kikuyu in the rift. Kikuyu's have it all in their hands, the vote!'

NB: The Kenyan journalists are at it again. –-Take a look at the following report, holding in mind what happened at Jamhuru High School Nairobi yesterday, and HOW it was reported.

NCIC asked to take action against Governor Mandago for ethnic profiling


By Mercy Kahenda | Published Sun, January 14th 2018

Iko deni, ndio.

Kwani if the topic comes to politics, what if not hate speech do you talk about with your Kalenjin friends if you have any!?

But the thing is, debts can be forgiven, --written off. That is the required political skill to diffuse certain impasse's. That was the Hammurabi reform, that was the POSTDAM deal at the end of world war II. The political realisation some debts are too steep they wont be repaid. Things changed. There thus arises an imperative for a NEW DEAL. Failing that, there will be war, and more chaos, and even greater economic ruin!

The most terrifying debt, is the one of performance owed by the elite to the people they rule. The peoples aspirations must be met. Colonialism as a system couldn't do that. That is why it went under. HANDSHAKE OR UHURUTO 20-YEAR DEALS, they don't deliver, they are already historical litter.

Who doesn't know that!?
I asked

WILLIAM RUTO: KING OF GRAFT AS THE SHOE-IN PRESIDENT?

The scumbag political top-layer have a simple problem. How can they, a parcel of rogues, turn out heroes in the nationally popular fight against corruption, while at the same time elevating one of their most corrupt members to the top political office in the land?

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/thread/9611/holes-mental-streets-wandering-nations?page=2#ixzz5cMrlCLJi

How can things change, as Ouru Kenyatta bellows with his declared battle on graft, only to stay the same, with his corruption inebriated deputy succeeding him without a shot!? what gives!?

Ya, what gives!?

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ROMAN REFORMS, NAIROBI POWER GAMES

With the positioning of war-horse Fred Matiang'i to admininstratively cut down William Ruto upward path, the elite niblling at aristocratic capital have made a significant move. This is a deep thrust in the fencing against The Singh, but it will be fatal only if Sir William does not widen the battlefield. ---Can Ruto discover poor Kenyans and and think of their plight outside the cynical showering upon them of portions of cash he looted from them in the first place!? Can he contemplate an ideological mutation, or is it too late?

OF FORCED REFORMS

Just a random question: why did Diocletian reform the Roman leadership? This was the former General who, on rising to emperor, 284-305 AD, became the author of the so-called Tetrarchy. The rule of four!

There were Four principals, with him as the first among them, all men. A kind of envisaged Kalonzo, Weta, Raila and Mudavadi conglomerate, had they achieved power. For Kenya one can afford a lazy, lingering grin, there was once talk of a PENTAGON!

Some will remember before this crisis-fired development known as TETRARCHY, Rome had already experimented with the so-called rule of three, The Triumvirates. The first attempt happened around 60 BC. It was informal in nature, consisting of the these names –- –-Julius, Crassus and Pompei. But the second Triumviracy, from 43 BC (composed of Gaius Octavianus, Marcus Antony and Emile Lepidus) was formalised and edified into law. Still it was quickly ill-fated, for its dissolution came with downpours of bloodshed. The dramatic double suicide of Antony and Cleopatra in defeated Egypt, set in motion by the naval disaster in Actium in September 31 BC, are stuff of romantic legend today. Octavianus emerged sole victor, and would soon issue into Emperor, The August One, much as he pretended otherwise in public. He was deified, Octavianus Mahia, and with reason. He reigned long and set the foundations for relative peace and prosperity known as Pax Romana.

But if he was deified, it was a throw back to his Great Uncle Julius Caesar. Julius was murdered a few months after being proclaimed Perpetual Dictator of Rome! So even after the Pax Romana with Octavianus himself as The Augustus, turbulence still haunted the empire, a turbulence rooted in the inability of the succession mechanisms to mediate the ambitions of all men, the key men interested in relative to absolute power.

With a wide grin one can say we in Kenya today are more or less wrestling with this ancient problem. Just consider the now we have HIM, now we don't office of the Prime Minister. Before Jomo Kenyatta became the president of the republic of Kenya, he was one, Prime Minister. After Independence the post was abolished, just like the multiparty structure of government. But may be even as the NAME of the post was abolished, the role itself wasn't. The head of the civil service, or secretary to the cabinet, or sometimes the head of the kitchen cabinet (Mbiyu Koinange under Kenyatta), always smelled of a Prime Minister. A presidential system is monarchical, so there gotta be a hands-on guy running the day to day business of government! Then the Kibaki-Raila MOU fished the whole office out of anonimity, only for the 2010 constitution to dissappear it again, superficially)

NB: Hands-on guy!? That, from yesterday in Kenya, would be Fred Matiang'i: executive order number one, 2019.

Uhuru trims Ruto’s power in new order

Jan. 23, 2019,


President Uhuru Kenyatta has radically reorganised his administration and established a four-tier executive authority.

The latest changes bring Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi to the heart of the executive.
The elevation of Matiang’i with supervisory roles across government is likely to whittle down Deputy President William Ruto’s influence.
Matiang’i will take charge of the implementation and monitoring of all development projects initiated and funded by the national government through a new Cabinet sub-committee.

Diocletian was thus just the latest juggler on a Rodeo stool. Less than a century after the long-lived Caesar Augustus, the life expectancy of a man once he became Roman emperor, dived immediately south. This was a militarized economy, slave-owning and of limited margins. It was unstable and prone to rebellions. Diocletian came in just after a currency collapse and a total loss of confidence in the monetary abilities of the centralised institutions. –--There was no option but reform.


A few disclaimers first.

GINO GISEKAWO

The comprador are of course taking us for a ride

But the ride needs an offer. A big offer. It is not even a conspiracy now. It is William Ruto's neck the bandits are priming for the chop! They hope Ruto's blood will suffice to stay the bay of the mob for corrupt blood. But I think if they go ahead with it, Ruto's blood will just be an additional appetiser. The mob will lick its lips and bare its fangs for more, driven by the instincts of animal lust.

We assume the comprador maintain their vicehold on all of Kenya's vitals. Therefore come 2022 the all important presidency is theirs.

Gino gisekawo,

IE them bandits continue to dominate the nation and wield power over the state. This, external factors considered, is in line with what Emperor Xi Jinpin and Trump (or whomsoever will replace Trump) would decree.

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Jan 5, 2019 11:22:09 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

SAVING CANDIDATE WILLIAM FROM JULIUS CEASAR'S LAST CRY!

So we have the time to do the historical context –--the GIMOMIYO SERIES.

The GIMOMIYO series is an African library of folklorish explanations to observed events. –-Why giraffes have long necks for instance, why rivers flow to wherever they flow, why d.ic.k.s stiffen before p.u.ss.y, why the tortoise is armour-plated.

You get the sh!t don't ya!

Today, for instance, the GIMOMIYO series must explain

–--why CBK Patrick Njoroge is suddenly mad at his former masters and mentors, the IMF and WB.
Why China and Ouru Kenyatta says the Mombasa port wont be annexed, while neither China nor Ouru Kenyatta are signatories to the deal between EXIM Bank and whoever!

–--Why Murathe and co think the Uhuruto 10-10 deal was private between two individuals and not collectively binding, just like The Handshake!

–--why those whose debts are denoted in the so-called reserve currencies could, under severed debt burdens, better be called serfs.


And of course, why the Uhuruto deal unravelled. –-Gimomiyo Uhuru + Ruto is no longer equal to UHURUTO!

We ride, wander the world.

1. THE POWERFUL OF THEIR TIMES

In the light of yesterday's appointment of Harvadian HENRY ROTICH to deputise the prime minister in all but name, Dr. Fred Okeng'o Matiang'i, the following footnote must be filed as a loose end, awaiting resolution. It concerns the sectet clauses in the SGR funding, which put down as collateral, some of Kenya's national jewels! --No, not Mombasa Port, others we haven't heard of!

The contract is signed by National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Mr Li Riogu, then-Chairman and President of the State-owned Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China.

“Neither the borrower (Kenya) nor any of its assets is entitled to any right of immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from arbitration, suit, execution or any other legal process with respect to its obligations under this Agreement, as the case may be in any jurisdiction,” Clause 5.5 of the Preferential Buyer Credit Loan Agreement on the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR reads.


In the deal, Kenya is also compelled to import goods, technology and services from China.

A Harvad educated Kenyan minister of finance signed that! Can only be under duress I imagine, like the Greek Premier Tsipras and his finance minister signing the bail-out terms before a hard-eyed Wolfgang Schaeuble and a bemused Angela Merkel ---'If you had a viable option, Tsipras, you wouldn't be here! That you are here, is CAPITULATION. If I am wrong, the door is open, walk out, and out of the EU and the Eurozone!'

Yes, for adults, life can be that ruthless.

2016: The new book – titled Anders gemeinsam – written by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and French Finance Minister Michel Sapin was presented last week and reveals information on Alexis Tsipras, Yanis Varoufakis, Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos.

In his book, Mr. Schaeuble talks also about the plan of a temporary Grexit while he reveals many dialogues he had with the Greek politicians.

If finance secretary HENRY ROTICH, promoted yesterday to first deputy prime minister, signed that agreement for sooth with a Chinese bank official, one can infer just how bad the situation is at the treasury.

When I see the Kenyan flag flying, and I know the sovereignty it signifies was signed away by the finance minister for a fraudulent railway, pardon me gentlemen if I don't take your government seriously! I am too old to waste limited respect on toy officials of puppet regimes owned by imperial bank clerks. (This SITUATION calls for a LUO PIVOT post!)


Hey Kenza Dena, Look at the videos of Jeniffer Pesaki! She used to speak for Obama on some foreign affairs issues!

DN:

CONFIDENTIALITY

When we put the implications of this clause to Mr Rotich, the Treasury Cabinet Secretary gave a terse response: “Where did you get such information? Send me where you got it from. Not aware about such a thing [sic].”

There are bad stories out there. And worse, some are facts. And when you deny facts, the difference between you and a mad man is not that obvious. In that case those who are aware of your otherwise sanity, must fear for your drunkenness.

Here is a clue --posted byan alert Wanyee too on the China Africa thread.

SGR pact with China a risk to Kenyan sovereignty, assets

January 13 2019, By EDWIN OKOTH

Kenya’s key strategic assets at home and abroad will not be protected by “sovereignty” and risk being seized by the Chinese government should there be a default in repaying the Standard Gauge Railway loan, a copy of the contract seen by the Sunday Nation reveals.


The initial agreement for the Mombasa-Nairobi railway signed on May 11, 2014 also details how the pact will be governed by Chinese laws with all disputes being arbitrated in Beijing.

In addition, the contract, and a subsequent one on the Nairobi-Naivasha phase, also have a confidentiality clause gagging Kenya from making the deal public “without prior written permission of the lender (China)”.

This comes more than two weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta, responding to a question from NTV’s Mark Masai during a live television interview on December 28 last year, promised to release the SGR contract to put to rest any “porojo” (rumours) that the Chinese could seize the Port of Mombasa.

This week, State House spokesperson Kanze Dena, in response to our enquiries, said the contract “can be released anytime, even this week”.
IMMUNITY

--Ouru, it is all POROJO!

Rotich didn't sign such an agreement!?

Heres is the long of it from the DN.

SGR pact with China a risk to Kenyan sovereignty, assets

Sunday January 13 2019

The standard gauge railway project. Its construction was funded by China. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP 
In Summary

The Chinese have repeatedly rejected accusations that they were involved in debt-trap diplomacy by burdening poor countries with unsustainable loans.

Daly and Inadmar Advocates partner Shitul Shah said lending countries only ask for collateral when they have questions on the “credibility” of the borrower.

Auditor-General Edward Ouko is yet to release any report on the SGR as required by law for a project of such magnitude.

By EDWIN OKOTH
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Kenya’s key strategic assets at home and abroad will not be protected by “sovereignty” and risk being seized by the Chinese government should there be a default in repaying the Standard Gauge Railway loan, a copy of the contract seen by the Sunday Nation reveals.

The initial agreement for the Mombasa-Nairobi railway signed on May 11, 2014 also details how the pact will be governed by Chinese laws with all disputes being arbitrated in Beijing.

In addition, the contract, and a subsequent one on the Nairobi-Naivasha phase, also have a confidentiality clause gagging Kenya from making the deal public “without prior written permission of the lender (China)”.
This comes more than two weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta, responding to a question from NTV’s Mark Masai during a live television interview on December 28 last year, promised to release the SGR contract to put to rest any “porojo” (rumours) that the Chinese could seize the Port of Mombasa.

This week, State House spokesperson Kanze Dena, in response to our enquiries, said the contract “can be released anytime, even this week”.

IMMUNITY

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However, the signed SGR deal seen by the Sunday Nation suggests the risks go beyond the port.
“Neither the borrower (Kenya) nor any of its assets is entitled to any right of immunity on the grounds of sovereignty or otherwise from arbitration, suit, execution or any other legal process with respect to its obligations under this Agreement, as the case may be in any jurisdiction,” Clause 5.5 of the Preferential Buyer Credit Loan Agreement on the Mombasa-Nairobi SGR reads.

The contract is signed by National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich and Mr Li Riogu, then-Chairman and President of the State-owned Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China.

In the deal, Kenya is also compelled to import goods, technology and services from China.

According to experts interviewed for this article, the blanket reference to “any asset” not only exposes the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), whose leaked audit report last month raised questions about its vulnerability in case of default, but also allows the Chinese lenders to take over other critical resources — anything from airports and natural resources to embassies abroad.

CONFIDENTIALITY

When we put the implications of this clause to Mr Rotich, the Treasury Cabinet Secretary gave a terse response: “Where did you get such information? Send me where you got it from. Not aware about such a thing [sic].”

The apparent exposure of Kenya’s assets gets even more curious given the clause that says the loan agreement would be “governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of China”.

The initial SGR loan agreement, signed slightly over one year after the Jubilee administration came to power, is also designed to be kept secret, as captured in clause 17.7 of the loan pact.
This raises questions on the Freedom of Information requirements by the Kenyan Constitution.
“The borrower (Kenya) shall keep all the terms and conditions hereunder or in connection with this agreement strictly confidential
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"Without the prior written consent of the lender (China), the borrower shall not disclose any information hereunder or in connection with this agreement to any third party unless required by applicable law,” the confidentiality clause reads.

PORT

After concerns were raised last month that KPA could potentially be seized in case of a default in loan repayment, Chinese officials disputed the claim in carefully worded statements.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said: “We have checked with the relevant Chinese financial institution and found that the allegation that Kenyan side used the Mombasa Port as a collateral in its payment agreement with the Chinese financial institution for the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway is not true.”

It is a statement that could be true if viewed with a narrow lens, considering that there is no specific reference to the port in the contract seen by the Sunday Nation, but the sweeping statement that makes all assets fair game bears the trap.

The Chinese have repeatedly rejected accusations that they were involved in debt-trap diplomacy by burdening poor countries with unsustainable loans.
On Thursday, Ms Dena told the Sunday Nation there was no confidentiality clause blocking the public release of the entire SGR contract.

“It has nothing to do with secrecy, we have been on holiday and we are still settling back.
"There is no diplomatic barrier preventing Kenya from making the loan deal public. The document will be made available even this week to everyone through the media houses,” Ms Dena said.

COLLATERAL

Law Society of Kenya Nairobi Branch Chairman Charles Kanjama said the secrecy clause is standard for such agreements.
He is however concerned the sovereignty waiver on the assets and relying on Chinese laws are signs of doubt by the lender.
“The agreement is being made in Kenya, the railway is built in Kenya and the assets they are talking about are in Kenya, so why is it being governed by the laws of China?
"Had there been more transparency or choices of who funds the railway then Kenya may have got a better deal,” Mr Kanjama said.

Daly and Inadmar Advocates partner and cross-border commercial contract specialist Shitul Shah said lending countries only ask for collateral when they have questions on the “credibility” of the borrower.

ARBITRATION

But even more intriguing is the clause in the contract that says any disputes on the loan would only be resolved in Beijing through the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Cietac).
“The arbitration award shall be final and binding on both parties. The arbitration shall take place in Beijing,” the agreement says, effectively blocking other international commercial dispute resolution avenues.

Kenya has further signed never to dispute the choice of Cietac as an arbitrator and to take its decision.
Mr Shah said although parties to a contract have the freedom to agree on which law would govern the agreement, China’s choice of the arbitrator and the specification that the arbitration would he held in Beijing is “suspect”.

“Normally, you would need an independent arbitrator, because this is about mediation, which should be made neutral and impartial by all means.

"Specifying the mediator and the unneutral ground to carry out the mediation is suspect. This can be challenged in law,” Mr Shah, who also practices in New York and London, told the Sunday Nation.

LOAN

Other experts with knowledge of Kenyan government contracts, who spoke in confidence, said a neutral country or organisation is usually preferred.
One gave the example of a controversial Sh30 billion pipeline security commercial contract Kenya signed in 2017 with the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense System limited whose arbitration clause nominates London.

In the SGR contract, the Exim Bank also makes it a mandatory requirement that the commercial loan be insured by the China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (SinoSure).
All charges regarding the management of the loan, which run into billions of shillings, are to be paid by Kenya.

Apart from the $1.6 billion commercial loan and $1.6 billion concessional loan from the China Exim Bank to build the first phase of the SGR, several other loan deals have been signed, stirring debate on Kenya’s ability to repay.

FEASIBILITY

The ongoing second phase of the SGR between Nairobi and Naivasha costs at least Sh160 billion.
The deal signed in December 2015 is similarly skewed against Kenya.
The phase between Naivasha and Malaba, whose funding has not been secured, is expected to cost Sh500 billion.

Like the first phases, this would include supply of locomotives, wagons and coaches.
However, the financial viability of the SGR passenger and freight service has remained a subject of debate since its launch in May 2017
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CRBC, the Chinese operator of what is the biggest single infrastructure project since independence, is reportedly paid at least Sh1 billion per month to run the service.
Auditor-General Edward Ouko is yet to release any report on the SGR as required by law for a project of such magnitude.

His office did not immediately respond to our enquiries on whether there was any audit report for the project that started in 2014.

CARGO

Aware of the heavy burden the project was going to have on a developing economy like Kenya’s, the Chinese negotiators made sure they were well-protected.
For example, the agreement specified a ‘take-or-pay’ basis agreement with KPA, ensuring commitment to have cargo from the port transported on the railway line to guarantee its use and revenues.
Before the deal was sealed, Kenyan negotiators found it hard to assure China that indeed most cargo would pass through the SGR.

In a compromise, the government saddled KPA with long-term Service Purchase Agreement and a ‘take or pay’ deal with Kenya Railways Corporation to facilitate efficient movement of cargo and attract business for the railway.
"This is a key issue for the Bank," Exim bank officials said during the negotiations in a strategy that put the port at the centre of the deal.

REVENUE

Yesterday, Transport and Infrastructure Cabinet Secretary James Macharia said there was no cause for alarm.
“KPA guaranteed the quantum of cargo to be ferried by SGR vide the "Take or Pay" Agreement in order to ensure its financial viability.
"Already the volume of cargo is way ahead of the anticipated quantum. For example, the operation has hit 15 train pairs in a day, which was the projected volume by mid 2019.
"Further, with the ongoing investment in clinker and bulk cargo handling, the actual turnover will outstrip projections over the life of the loan repayment period, thus resulting in excess cash flows and reserves. This will mitigate any loan repayment risks on a sustainable basis,” he said.
But in another strategy to secure the Chinese lenders, according to the contract, two escrow accounts were set up with full control of the Chinese - especially at default or when railway revenues fail to meet the loan obligations.

The agreement states that while the revenue account would be in Kenya Shillings, the repayment one would be in US Dollars.
Any costs associated with the running of the accounts are to be borne by Kenya.

ESCROW

One alternative source of funding for Kenya to cover its part in financing was agreed to be the establishment of the Railway Development Levy on all imports into the country.
The government also in its financing model for the project would initiate road transit toll levy, green tax in new vehicle registration and an insurance levy, fuel levy and the sale of the current Metre Gauge Railway — assets estimate to be capable of raising Sh41 billion.

There would also be various port levies on imports and exports in addition to a road haulage tax to discourage the use of trucks and divert some cargo to the railway.
The Chinese lender, according to the contract, has the prerogative to open an account in Kenya’s name and keep records of the loan balance.

Kenya, which has little control over the account, is expected to accept the bank records as the outstanding balance.

STUDY

Further, the deal stipulates that even if Kenya gets alternative funds to offset the loan in lump sum, the Chinese bank has the right to refuse such payment or give conditions before accepting.
This option would also require advance notice, making the loan hard to buy off.
Some of the skewed clauses appear to have been noticed years before the actual agreement was signed but the warnings were ignored — before those who raised the issues later changed tune.

One such person was then-KRC managing director Nduva Muli, who would later be appointed Transport Principal Secretary when the Jubilee administration took over before being forced out in 2015 over corruption allegations.

After receiving budget allocation in 2011 to conduct a feasibility study, Transport Permanent Secretary Cyrus Njiru abruptly blocked the process.
“I have therefore been directed to advise you not to go ahead with the study as this is not consistent with the consensus within government,” the PS wrote.

LEVERAGE

In a memo (No. 3073) to the Board of Directors, Mr Muli warned that Kenya would get a bad deal if it did not carry out its own feasibility study to find out the most suitable route, cost and financing modalities, in line with “normal practice in infrastructure projects”.
Other important aspects would be environmental impact, rolling stock requirements and projected traffic data.

But Mr Muli would later realise the Chinese had been secretly conducting their own feasibility study, and his March 16, 2008 letter was three months late. He received their report six days later. Nevertheless, he made his point.

“The government does not have information to safeguard its interest during negotiation of the proposed G-to-G (government-to-government) arrangement and also during construction to ensure the envisaged specifications and benefits of the new railway line are achieved,” he wrote to the board, claiming Kenya Railways had been sidelined.

When Kenya Railways finally gave its assessment of the Chinese study, it was scathing. The Chinese were overly optimistic.
There were no market study or financial modelling reports to indicate viability. The study also lacked an environmental and social assessment.

WARNING

Kenya Railways analysis pointed out that the projected cost was higher per kilometre and the speed was slower for both passenger and freight services.

The Kenyan experts also noted: “The study appears to be generous with bridges/tunnels forming 7.2 percent of the total length of the line (including 60 long bridges). In addition, it is also over-generous with the number of stations. This could have inflated the cost of the line.

“A railway (unlike a road) must be designed, built and operated as a business for profitable taking in order to avoid the expensive investment turning into a white elephant. The study by CRBC falls short of delivering a bankable project.”

The warnings were never heeded. A year after coming to power, President Kenyatta’s administration would seal the deal, dismissing all concerns.
The cost, which was first set at Sh220 billion, later jumped to Sh327 billion as publicly available information on the real amount kept changing.

CORRUPTION

Land acquisition costs would also climb 10 times to Sh30 billion.

Mr James Shikwati, who runs an African think tank on public policy, says China’s deals with a country depend on how the leaders present themselves on the negotiation table. He blames Kenya’s ‘tenderpreneur’ culture by the elites for the bad deal.

The Inter Region Economic Network founder said China invests in the US and Europe and the contracts they enter into are fairer, a concept he refers to as ‘water taking the shape of the bottle’.
In other words, the Chinese simply play along the way the hosts allow.
“It is time we start changing our political elite ecosystem where people only care about their cut in the deal and it doesn’t matter whether it is viable or how expensive it is,” Mr Shikwati told the Sunday Nation.
China is now Africa’s single largest trading partner and continues to bag and fund mega infrastructure projects.

LAND: in charge of the fraud, NLC chairman Swazuri is back in office! DPP Haji couldn't nail him. No evidence!

Nairobi! absurd comedy!

After these hard facts of life --debt conditions which push sovereignty aside, we can now go back to the kindagarten issues which pre-occupy us and which we call politics: how powerful relative to Ruto is Matiang'i!?

LUO-PIVOT CONCLUSION: In the adult world of deficit-inebriated states, Matiang'i and Ruto, just like Ouru and Raila, are mere terracotta toys of a Chinese bank, not even of the emperor Xi!

[jakaswanga]

DEMYSTIFYING POWER

Art sometimes gives us a deeper insight into the hearts of men and how power works. You could think of Shakespeare's Rich the 3rd if you wish. But I wanted to keep it African for this occasion.

Shaka Zulu - Shaka takes throne from Guyana

Take a look at the steely intensity and cold-blooded determination in the hearts of some men, like Tshaka.



The joke is push will come to shove, as Matiang'i is now purposed to supervise Ruto! That moment, when either Ruto breaks down and gets broken to kiss Matiang'is feet, or Ruto kicks the usurper aside as a mere dog unleashed by Uhuru but really of no consequence, will be pivotal. Many current careers will be made further or broken in that instant. It is a thriller.

And it is one to savoir. And it is coming. For this issue must be resolved soon. Or it will be resolved from without.

What really does Ouru Kenyatta owe William Ruto!? ----In Kenyan politics with its deculturised and alienated top actors, the answer may be nothing since to import the meaning of betrayal needs a moral depth absent at the top of Kenya. But in real life Ouru Kenyatta owes William Ruto his presidency. But the spoiler is the presidency is actually the property of the Kenyan people, at the hands of the voters! That kind of different loyalties within one seat sets the stage for Drama bin Drama!

Stay tuned!

[jakaswanga]

WHAT CAN RUTO DO!? faced with Matiang'i?

Face the truth. Amass patience while concocting subterfuge, devising killer moves of his own. Or surrender and retire.

Truth is Matiang'i is coming for him and he knows it. Kenyans are thrilled and betting like a Roman crowd at its most rotten. Such a mob wallows in the throes of a bloodlust, this as it spectates two top gladiators circling one another within the sands of the Coliseum, gearing for a combat which must end with one dead. Or saved by the thumb of a cynical Emperor who betted the wrong way, and stands to loose too much cash.



The Aristocrats prepare a last laugh. The Hustler is slowly being ushered to the abattoir. Otherwise his burning ambition to be prezzo, is systematically being fed to the bonfire. And there is him transfixed to play along, kiss Matiang'i's arse, and, in excelled feats of masochism, invite his troupe to do the same. But of course William Ruto has not come this far only to be shoved aside by obviously inferior men. The deeper the masochistic bend of knee, the colder the dish of revenge grows.

Dr. Fred should not swagger his arse too much around town, lest a deep dagger run it up all the way through his mouth, splitting his tongue on the route to his skull.

Honest to God I can't hide it, but of these things plotting against William Ruto, only Raila Odinga seems to me worth a stand. The rest are far, far beneath William Ruto. Even the new Cabinet leader and de facto Prime Minister, Fred Matiang'i, is no calibre beside Ruto. He is the man who sedated Miguna Miguna, the Luo from Kano, declared him a Canadian and deported him to Dubai. He is ruthless yes, our Matiang'i, but his mind if far from clear. He is a Mafia enforcer once disarmed, will be helpless.

But he is a good lead attack dog.

Which is why Ruto is in grave danger. Take a look at how a pack of wolves hunt, or a group of jackhals outdo prey. They enact what the Chinese dub the death by a thousand cuts. It is attrition. It is Unity, persistence and continuous attack. It is the readiness to sacrifice one or two as a distraction, ever wounding the big game, ever making it loose blood, until the cumulative effort drops it down. Thence can it be torn apart for a famous feast by the pack.

This is the grave danger William Ruto's career is in. He is too big a game to fell at one blow, but a determined pack is hunting him. Their Unity of purpose is their strength. And now they have testosteronised this lead robot or dog to herd him toward the required kill-spot, or over the cliff.

WHY THE ELITE TIDE AGAINST RUTO?

To understand how he can escape drowning, we must first solve this riddle,
WHY DOES KENYA'S ARISTOCRATIC CAPITAL INSIST ON HIS DEATH?
What is the basis of their obsessed determination to kill off a Ruto presidency?
Why is the Hustler Singh unacceptable to them, essentially his fellow classmates –----
why? yet he is no ideological rogue, has no socialist leanings whatsoever?
Oh no, on the contrary, the DP and co-president is an (ideological) soulmate in the looting club, is a fellow journeyman in the route of plunder. He is an unfalsified state gangster, a bonafide mobutucratic kleptocrat!
So what is the beef between the OLD thieves and the hot leader of the NEW generation, eyeing the future with predatory ambition?

The political economy of this anxiety needs a fine comb.

I am game.

The Al-Shabaab DusitD2 job was a minor distraction. Our Somali headache is the bad consequence of bad politics in Nairobi. And to bad politics we must shift focus. The predatory comprador have confidently exported their Nairobi act across the border. That relative confidence means they are unchallenged at home. –-Well, nearly unchallenged, since Miguna Miguna and the NRM-ke constituency is not a total zero. It is sedated and dazed but still alive and will kick and surface some day under a less comical Generali. But for now the comprador confidence is warranted because, the USA or China, our political class have managed to make themselves useful partners to both imperial interests. That is the secret to their vicehold on the presidency. Financial and military pacting from abroad.

This means local names and faces are interchangeable, but policy not. They are pledged to guarantee expropriation –---to the extent of, if need be as we have seen in the fine details of the SGR contract, signing away sovereignty in whatever form. That is a good niggah right there, Rotich. Both super powers have their key interests guaranteed by this lot, for the moment that is.

This means the competition at the top between them has much more to do with personal fortunes and private interests. Nothing else in the main –--(I need a Tippu Tipp footnote here!)

To unravel the much ado then, we must visit William Ruto's Hustling history. There shall we ferret out the odd seeds which germinate the fear that now flowers across the hearts of a wide sector of Established Capital. We are witnessing panic from this oligarchy, confronted with Ruto's likely rise to the helm.

I think the answer is simple. It is Ruto's proven gluttony and boundless calibre to amass. It is his driven greed, possessed thievery, single-minded looting and brazen castle storming. This appetite, risen to state power and further unrestrained, will be a T-Rex going where the beef is, or happing off the fat from wherever it sits, waiting to be bitten off.

But no, our local T-Rex can not beat the Chinese vacuum cleaner which is busy stripping Wanjiku to the bone to recover Exim loans to Rotich. Henry is the macro-economic quisling from Harvard and former IMF handmaid now turned, East. We are already hard-up, therefore Kung-Fu, as OtishOtish calls them, will not stomach sh!t from T-Rex; no, no invading Kung-Fu's fenced-off feeding territory, ie Wanjiku's pockets (and other prime national assets like ports and airports and oil fields). This deterrence will force T-Rex, famished, to discover cannibalism –---feeding on its own classkind. That is forcedly taking over the already made capital, eg rentier capital.

That is a prospect to sh!t in your pants for if you are an oligarch sitting atop a pile of aristocratic loot. Or, alternatively, to plot against by all means necessary, including murder.



When Aristocratic Capital looks at the Singh boasting he is King Hustler, they recognise therein their fate; theirs is to be meals at his table. Yeah, their demise confronts them, they see their accounts torn asunder by the insatiable jaws of the their mate, Sir William Singh. This is the political economy behind the STOP RUTO CAMPAIGN. David Murathe, coming from the inner sanctums of the Kenyatta estate, the chief Oligarchy in the land, necessarily must be the fella to blow the whistle on the monster he perceives. It is nothing personal. It is just the survival instinct of a breed cornered, a nobility feeling the hot breath of ruthless pursuants on its fat back.



Anyway, nationally we watch a second tier nobility in its incestuous decline –--Mudavadi, Kenyatta, Moi, Odinga; we spy them desperately bonding to ward off the ascent of an intruder, an outsider more virile, out to capture the Kingdom in a republican putsch.
–--Tersely observed: Fidel Odinga is dead, Rosemary is maimed, Gideon is sissy before Ruto, Mudavadi is zero and the Quixotic Ouru Kenyatta, the prince born with a golden spoon in his mouth, never was the mental equal of his controversial spanner boy, Pancha the Hustler. Ruto was always the steel below the glove of the Uhuruto complex. The other the fat, or the soft part.

Those are the bitter home truths.

History doesn't do linear, so our thriller in Nairobi will zig-zag. At the end of the day, it is still a thievery running Kenya on a subsidised contract from abroad. None of them is out to end the grand theft which is their wealth and source of power. The basal contradiction stays, just like across much of the land mass of Africa, her youth restive in the face of doomed futures, marooned in ghettos stone-age, yet digitally urban.

Intra-elite wars are not the main course history serves of course. But it provides good drama nonetheless, the curtain raiser kind like those prequels to the main James Bond movie!

Meanwhile below, things continue cooking. Things like solutions, long term resolutions. And of course the short term fixes of the headaches of comprador successions.

THE PARAMETERS OF THE PLAYFIELD SHIFTED

[jakaswanga]

DR. RUTO VISITS LONDON, THE UK

When an up and coming Kenyan politician visits London, there is some history to mind. Jomo Kenyatta was here. Jaramogi Odinga was here. Tom Mboya was here. Ronald Ngala was here. Joseph Murumbi was here. Mbiyu Koinange was here.And yeah, Miguna Miguna too, to some rapturous ovation.

That list is not exhaustive, but it is enough to make the point, about paths well-beaten.

Jomo Kenyatta had arrived in Britain in 1929 desperate to secure audience with government officials in London to tell them of the considerable political, economic and cultural impact of colonialism.

His English was not good.

He had barely received an education back home, having spent only a few years at a mission school where the skills he learned led to a position as an apprentice carpenter.

He was intimidated by the polished presentation and urbane manners of other anti-colonial figures he encountered, especially those from the Caribbean and he could not decide whether to emphasise his African roots or try and appear as close to an English gentleman as possible to catch the attention of policy makers.

Sometimes, according to one historian, he would walk around the streets of London wearing a leopard skin and carrying a spear to demonstrate he was an authentic representative of those who had sent him before changing into a Western suit for meetings with journalists and sympathetic intellectuals.

William Ruto is a fresh doctoral from Chiromo, campus at one of Africa's eminent academic institutions, so, so to imagine, he had no reason to feel intimidated like the village boy Jomo gone to the city, back in 1929.

(Remember Lenin Russia's october revolution was in 1918, and come 1939 hell breaks loose in Europe. Winds of Change under Kenyatta's sandals?)

But Ruto is far from ripe, given his show at Chattam House. He rode the wrong winds, the wrong direction. His presence was timid, intimidated, tentative and rather furtive. There was no inkling of a new, emerging world in it. There was no mapping of Kenya in the global ebb-and-flow of power currents. No vision.

THE WORLD TODAY

This is the week in which an assertive Ramaphosa's South Africa forced Western ambassadors to apologise for telling South Africa how to do her business. This is the week there has been a backlash in ECOWAS, based on certain revelations between France and her former African colonies, especially her intelligence's penetration of Senegal, and manipulation of the CAF currency to Paris's benefit. These insights came from Italy, whose populist leaders are currently engaged in a verbal fencing match with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, criticised France again over the weekend when he told supporters: ”If we have people who are leaving Africa now it’s because some European countries, and France in particular, have never stopped colonising Africa.

“If France didn’t have its African colonies, because that’s what they should be called, it would be the 15th largest world economy. Instead it’s among the first, exactly because of what it is doing in Africa.”
He added: “I’ve stopped being a hypocrite talking only about the effects of immigration and it’s time to talk about the causes. The EU should sanction all those countries like France that are impoverishing African countries and are causing those people to leave.”

Di Maio made good his threat to meet the leading activists of the Yellow Vests movement.



The naked King Macron collapsed into a tantrum and pulled back diplomatic representation to Italy, citing HATE SPEECH! The Italians doubled over in laughter.



BEPPE GRILLO: If the leader of the Yellow Vests declares himself president and swears himself in as president of France, Italy will recognise him as legitimate, the way France hastened to bestow legitimacy on
Juan Guaido.







The international background upon which Ruto's visit to London unfolds, is therefore no less turbulent than the 1930's when Kenyatta desperately tried to get a hearing in London for the decolonisation cause.

For one, as he stood there in London, pitching for Kenya's top political spot, the Bank of England at the behest of Teresa May's Brexit-crippled government, had literally confiscated Venezuela's sovereign wealth, in terms of Gold Bullion.

This is a blatant act of international piracy no less comparable to the colonial office unilaterally declaring the best Agricultural lands of Kenya, The Whiteman's Island. –--Howbei the Phd from Chiromo heard no evil, saw no evil, spoke no word, yeah, brain dead on the hottest issues of the epoch,needing thought.

He is no Kenyatta snr. Is he!? Kenyatta snr. then Johnstone Kamau, may have been a bush-boy in London, but the mission in his heart, the end of colonial rule in Kenya, was a message he became the personification of.

I said: when an up and coming political man in Kenya visits London, there is some history to mind.

And if you prefer brain-death, a historical Korsakov Complex, or the various shades of Alzheimer memory degenerations necessary to colonial depersonalisation, I am game to prop up your memory some!

Pro Bono.

Looking at the future of Kenya, it is obvious William Ruto played a game of the gone era. We are facing East and riding East. The chief subsidiser or buoy of the Kenyan economy, the peoples republic of China, is at the receiving end of economic sanctions from Kenya's chief military sponsor, the United States. A coming man needs to pioneer a sight seeing ahead. –--Uhuru!

That is the word Johnstone Kamau introduced to the English lexicon in 1930's London. 3 decades before the event in Kenya!

It is therefore small irony, that in the diminished role William Ruto went to play in London, the Uhuru-Kenyatta allied Ministry of foreign affairs had to cut short his visit as if they only became aware on the day Uhuru Kenyatta was scheduled for Addis Abba for the monsters of Africa ball. Something of a humiliation, being cut off meeting Kenyans in the UK with such a flimsy excuse. But then, in the infant games of Nairobi what else does one expect!?

Dr. Miguna Miguna has written a new book: the case against tyrants. Dr. William Ruto has launched his international image make-over.

PS: INSTEX

31-01-2019: EU launches mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Iran


The European Union has announced the setting up of a payment mechanism to secure trade with Iran and skirt US sanctions after Washington pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal last May.

The new institution, named INSTEX - Instrument In Support Of Trade Exchanges - will allow trade between the EU and Iran without relying on direct financial transactions. It is a project of the governments of France, Germany and Britain and will receive the formal endorsement of all 28 EU members.

It took some time for Breton-Woods maverick Dr. Patrick Njoroge at CBK to disobey his reflexes and apply to join the China-led Asia Investment and Infrastructure Bank. It is the economy stupid.

It will take some time before Dr. Ruto investigates the possibilities of Kenya joining INSTEX.

You see amigos, Iran is Kenya's natural trading partner in history. –-MONSOON diktat!

No, they do not teach you that at Chiromo. Life called reality will just enforce it. The way your kids are learning MANDARIN now, to join the best technical universities in artificial intelligence tomorrow, in China.

Hey Dr. Ruto, lets tool you up some for the top job. You were a total international zero in London.

[jakaswanga]

ON INTERROGATING THE OBVIOUS

COTU elder Franco Atwoli has stirred the hornet's nest.

'NO RUTO'

Mr Atwoli further told 'team tanga tanga', led by the Deputy President, to stop wasting time and resources campaigning for the presidency "since their names will feature nowhere".

The reply has been swift: ATWOLI APENDE ASIPENDE, GINI GISEKAWO! or so has been the buzz.

WA! the folly a power that got too early to peoples heads!

So it is an open and shut case? The next president of Kenya will be another corrupt scumbag? That Wanjiku can't leave it, she gotta take it? That the Kenyan presidency is in the straight jacket of theft, and that is it. That there is no option apart from that!? The state thievery continues unabated!

I think that is what the Americans call a madhafaka situation. So lets question it! Can't sh!t happen!?

You know that day of awakening in Chemistry. Water is colourless and odourless and tasteless. That is a traditional judgement of clean water. How then do you judge, from common sense, when a highly toxic and lethal substance with the same elementary properties, is mixed with or substituted for water?

Immediately there arises the need for another method of detecting the purity of the water. Otherwise one drinks and dies. Sh!t happens: a fatality the price of ignorance, or the price of deliberate negligence. The latter case is failure to ----institutionalise and---- use information already available, aka knowledge.

In similar vein, there is an 'obvious truth' about Kenya. Not just the above 'guarantee', that our next president will be a rotten scumbag, but that our politics ---guaranteed to produce that result--- are tribal, narrow and unpatriotic. That we will vote our big men, even when truly rotten and obviously better be jailed.

But do we!? Is this really the truth? Or is this the spin of a make-believe reality!?

I want to take time to think and interrogate this supposition which goes for obvious truth! And I want to invite you too, dear reader, to investigate which compromises you can make in life, and which ones you can't: do you really like thieves in your heart!? Or would you rather have them dead. Hessy of the City Slums style!? What say the depths of your Kenyan heart!? ---Aaaah!?

CONSIDER: When is the last time there were truly FREE AND FAIR ELECTIONS IN KENYA!?

Answering the same question about his land, n Egyptian economist in Sudan scoffed: the only free and fair election ever in Egypt produced His Excellency the peoples' Mohammed Morsi; and now we have a RESTORATION of normalcy under El Sisi, no!?

One could say, in the same vein, there was a coup in Algeria and a descent into civil war, long ago, when, free and fair elections, the Front for Islamic Salvation (FIS) was set to sweep the land. After that there were elections and democracy. Just neither free nor fair. But then you can't have it all. There was peace in most of the land, and, importantly, no Islam nor Mullah sh!t in government. But today, it is back to the past in Algiers, where they were just before their first ever (and to date only) free and fair election.

HOW ABOUT KENYA? BOTH FIRST AND 2ND REPUBLIC

Two dates are mentioned about the last truly free and fair elections in Kenya. The first is the 1963 General, carried out under the auspices of the departing colonial governor! The second is the one which brought the Kibaki presidency after the Raila Tosha declaration. It was the end of the Moi-KANu regime. After that, 2007, 2013, 2017, have all been general exercises in Presidential fraud.

And how have Kenyans reacted to the frauds!?

I can only smile and say there has been a TOTAL MOBILISATION OF THE SECURITY FORCES to enforce the results. Yaani, it has required raw state terror to stabilise the situation enough for the fraudulent regimes to occupy power.

So, which Kenyan people have been voting scumbags to power!? Who are these madhafakasz one ever hears ov, given the overwhelming need to RIG ELECTIONS in Kenya!?

The picture is, least said, less than obvious. It suddenly requires some effort to disentangle fact from fiction. It requires thought to be taken, positions hitherto deemed beyond doubt, shifted.

NB: Formerly Jubilee chair and insider, David Murathe, recently confessed how the Mount Kenya Jubilee primaries were rigged in favour of certain ----pro Ruto---- candidates. The ODM chicanery during primaries is well documented. As for WIPER and ANC, ach.

So again: which Kenyans have been voting scumbag rots to power!? Aint there heaps of public documentation of systematic rigging at every level of the democratic process in Kenya!

Yawa!

Is there not, truly analysed, a political bureaucracy in place, running a fraudulent system in which THEIR pre-determined outcomes must be endorsed by the people. Is there not an open farce we all know as the case, in this republic!?

I said Madhafakasz! And I took thought before I said that! So that you can stop thinking about deeply disturbing issues and take exception to my low language. Madhafaka!

You see, with deaths of the likes of Chris Musando of the IEBC, and the tragicomedies enacted in public starring Ezra Chiloba and Wafula Chebukati, and, earlier on, the IEBC of the chicken-mealer Isak Hassan and co, it becomes a rational act of logical mental exertion that, for free and fair, we can easily substitute a much more accurate characterisation of our electoral process, No? And is it not so, that truthful characterisation will challenge the received wisdom of the results declared by the electoral commissions!?

I am still just asking! And thinking, suppose some Kenyans took these questions seriously and went answers! ---But these are open secrets. They are like the many renewals of marital vows of fidelity within our churches, while in attendance is the array of mpango wa kandos, confident tonight will business as usual.

The hot truth is, there is a lot of social fun in hypocrisy. The sweet little lies of convention which couples smear themselves with to mislead the other equally guilty partner, mediate otherwise would be explosive and murderous situations. The marriage may be dead and passionless, but it may serve other mutual and socially desirable objectives. The keeping up of necessary appearances may just be the thing to offer the children a semblance of well, their future! (the family as a training ground for adult duplicity!)

But it is important the keeping up of appearances is not overdone. If indulged to excess, it becomes a pathology, the union becomes a diseased environment producing maimed children, too damaged to ever function as adults outside psychiatric care.

The signs of a social pathology are there in Kenya: this (cultural depersonalisation and psychological dislocation nurtured by a diseased political economy of alienated social relations) is what is leading so many college and university girls to play for slayqueen, with fatal results.

Slayqueens are basically expensive prostitutes who fail to recognise they are in the oldest trade of the world. And a very lowly one at that. These self-degrading young girls have bought into the morbid delusion of the Kenyan political elite. This lot are the parasites with lots of easy cash to dispense: yeah, there is no place for deep bonds in this class, it is just use and let use arrangements. It is man eat man, woman eat man, man eat woman. No, for parasites is integrity an udefinale entity, so too is dignity and personal honour wholly alien concepts. And then in reality these naive girls discover man is a creature of passion, and, i a hurt, this passion is a dark, satanic faculty. It is bloody and Murderous. Insanely so.

Once aroused you can't switch it off by being MTEJA! It will hunt you to steely death in project revenge.

OF PATRIOTISM AS THE LAST REFUGE

Consider Patriotism. It is the last refuge of the scoundrel according to the Irish wit Wilde. It is also such a dark, satanic passion that moves the heart of man, like LOVE. Gavrillo Princip the Serb could have been such a scoundrel. Patriotism registers a concept called treachery, national humiliation, and, comely enraged, it so can mobilise itself to rebel and wipe out a whole school of quisling thieves working woe upon a people, but masquerading as a democratic and God-fearing national elite.

I don't think that has ever happened in history before, the collapse of a rotten national elite by bloody purge, but there could be a first you know! Patriotic fervour fed up with scum at the top! Temper gone!

Consider that just another something to interrogate. Who knows what answers lies to be unveiled!?

Let me be clear. I do not envisage a world without thieves. God created the world in his own image. The economic space where theft can be indulged is very wide. Therefore I think public service in Kenya can afford to be THIEVES FREE. PuBlic service is the one theatre of national activity where theft is no-go for me. Public service is funded by TAX. And I see these women selling 50 mandazis a day in the hot sun beside a quarry to make a living. And the county taxing them 30% in return for no service whatsoever.

Then I know I want all thieves in the state dead. Well, the chapter six integrity clause didn't work, did it!? What do I learn from that!?

Chuth ber, jakuo en thuol, nege chuth!

[mwalimumkuu]

Jakaswanga:

Uhuru is on a very expensive experiment that is not, and will not yield any positive results for him. He is seven years late to do any of those things he is trying now. We are simply not boarding this MV Raila vessel thing; can't happen, won't happen.

~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~

[jakaswanga]

TRIVIA VS GRAVE PRIORITIES; DP RUTO'S LOUD WOLF-CRY

I will never forget my biology teacher in form three. He was introducing us to evolution. On the evolutionary scale, he said, we humanoids are trivia. Our existence, and prominence for a few tens of thousand years wouldn't register on geological time scales. He said, just as a dinosaurs didn't know what its name was, and many animals too today for that matter, we humanoids can hardly conceptualise one hundred thousand from two hundred thousand years ago.

I thought of that day, long ago in form three this week.

In the week in which the lunatic of Washington threatened Iran with extinction
-----the way Virginian governor and future president of the USA, Thomas Jefferson threatened to solve the Indian problem once and for all
----and Adolf Hitler the Jewish Question finally

there are stories which, hower dramatic, just sound like Trivia. Such Trivia as the lusty-to-romantic exploits of charming but political sinking representatives of a rotting elite. Think of chivalrous and flirtatious lords of the manor, amusing themselves adlib with their slaves who, lost to unconsciousness forever, are still not in the know, that a new ruthless class (the industrial bourgeoisie) has surged forth and is busy confining the aristocracy to the backyards of social power, forever.

Let me be a bit less distant here: There are still many Kenyans who, lost to unconsciousness forever, bow before their ethnic Kingpins and tribal chieftains and see in them nothing but everlast deities. They do not import the significance of the Chinese appearing comfortably in Gikomba, hawking anything going, and shrugging indifferently at any would-be Mungiki hard-to-cold stare.

But on the other side, there are plenty of Kenyans who, if not thinkingly but instinctively as in a cornered rat, import the shift, and recognise this is outside the scope of the things we consider the leaders of the land. Be they their excellencies, their honourable members, Muthamakis', Agwambos' or Hustler Singhs', the ruthless surge and expansionist drive of China's capital and industrial LEBENSRAUM, reduces them to dust on the coattails of China's EXIM bank.

Well, it requires a bit of thinking to get the picture. There are hordes of Kenyans who, for real, do not know a thing called China exists! And if it is so far away, it could be Uganda you know.

So here is our Trivia for today.

Five Cabinet secretaries from Mount Kenya met over whiskey at a Thika road hotel off Nairobi to plot the murder of the DP, William Ruto. One of them then ratted on the others.

That is the kind of trivia which should fall under a contradiction, or major conflict, expressing itself in subterfuge form.

Fear, vengeance and pure malice are very interesting interfaces in the human heart. I remember a friend of mine we used to fornicate around with as young teachers. Then there came a housemaid he really fancied, but to his sorrow and horror, an earlier bird was already making hot and wet work of the shapely damsel. Witnessing the episode, his young heart burnt with jealousy, plunged into rage and plotted vengeance. Honing malice, he resolved to use the episode to sow discontent in the heart of the early bird's regular girl, slowly manipulate her feelings such that he could induce in her a fit which he could harvest. So it came to pass.

But the story did not end there. These were just the sub plots condensing into a explosive climax, of tragedy. Some passions are better left unstirred.

Trivia can lead to murder. And murder is drama, classic human drama.

What passions have Ruto stirred that condense into murder? Why, would a well-heeled clique from Mount Kenya resolve to assassinate him, DP William!?

The obvious answer would be to prevent him succeeding Uhuru Kenyatta. But if this is the purpose, then a crunchy and sippy meeting at a roadside eatery is just the unlikeliest, most amateurish place to brainstorm on such a dark deed.

So let us recall other (trivial or not) murders of Kenya. ----Saitoti with Ojode as collateral damage; Musando with Carolyne Mbungu as collateral damage; Jacob Juma, Kiambaa Church et al. Tom Mboya, Gama Pinto, JM Kariuki, Robert Ouko ......

How were these plotted and executed.

I don't think the Kenyan ----deep state bureaucratic memory---- is so eroded it lost the template for a successful political or trivial murder, or both concurrently (a few other bodies for collateral if need be.


So I think this was THE BIG WOLF CRY!

Ruto is crying wolf. But it is true there are those out to kill his political career, just as he is out to kill the political career of, for instance, his key opponent Raila Odinga! That is the straight purpose of a battle for supremacy where the winner takes all.

The DP did not even bother to record a formal complaint. It was just a telephone call like the Arab and his Gold, and Weta's alleged voice. So may be the DP will deny he called the DCI, until, like Sonko, Kinoti produces a recording of the session. But we know how that ends from the Wetang'ula template: a NON-ISSUE!

Kinoti is thus kept busy chasing red herrings, you know, like in those doG-walking parks around cities: you will spy dog-owners casting flying saucers for their merry dogs to chase and bring back. An amusing exercise!



I am sure DP Ruto watched with a cynical grin as one of his senior state dogs, a big beast aka DCI, exercised its legs chasing flying saucers he had let air!

BUT HERE IS THE DETAIL TO PONDER:

The whistleblower on Henry Rotich and the scandal of the dams which were never built but paid for, was none other than Peter Munya, now the murder-mastermind! The phantom dams outing seemed to have pulled the carpet from under The Hustler. With fury and thunder he declared upfront no cash was embezzled. That blow went deep. Now he drives the counter deep into Munya's solar.

[jakaswanga]

RUTO'S DARING IS THE WINNER

THE Beguiling Kanze Dena should watch her charms. They are under erosion. Last time she tried to resuscitate some interest in the passed-away tenure of president Ouru, it was to no avail. The official spokeslady charged H.E had reached his elastic limit; and henceforth, only action will speak. But as we have seen, it all fell flat on its face before it started, forlorn like the mating neigh of a castrated stallion.



Even the laziest mind in Kenya recognises the agony of the faded President. It is what to do with his deputy. Of course William Ruto generated the political credit with which Ouru bribed his first term, but come the second term, this credit was not enough to whitewash his fraudulent legitimacy and Agwambo had to chip in as extra surety. Meanwhile the man ----aka The Hustler--- is out of control and increasingly upping the stakes, bluffing loudly. Now with that Itumbi tape.

Take the case in which the President issued a blanket ban on politicking around the land, to campaigning. DP Ruto promptly went wherever he wanted, bribed the clergy he wanted into handling stolen property, opened whatever phantom project Jubilee had launched, and there is no podium he chanced he didn't use to excoriate the Handshake Principal, Raila Odinga. Yeah, Lately the former co-president moved to blow up the cabinet with his fake yell of muder!

Murder! Murder! In deed it is Uhuru himself who continues to be scared off the Mount Kenya turf. The president is waiting for the deep state to soften the tangatanga stalwarts first. Thereafter can he dare meet his people. He may have reached his elastic limit, but who cares? Isn't he already an ex president at best, a hologram at worst?


'Punguza Mizigo' initiative


This very day as I write, the Mpigs are adding themselves perks and bonuses which would make a wall-street banker, pre the financial crisis of yonder, envious. And the son of Jomo woudn't dare even a cough at the rats. Not that anybody expects him to cough anyway

'Punguza Mizigo'

09-07-2019: Thirdway Alliance, which has sponsored the 'Punguza Mizigo' (Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill), yesterday insisted verification of signatures by the electoral commission had found the Bill is supported by the requisite one million registered voters.
The Bill advocates the reduction of the number of MPs from the current 416 to 147, caps monthly salaries of elected leaders to a maximum pay of Sh500,000 for the president and Sh300,000 for MPs, as well as increasing counties' share of national revenue from 15 per cent to at least 35 per cent.

DARING IS RUTO'S TRUMP CARD
And he is better off being true to his character. This is the fight for, and of his life. There is no point pretending the daggers are not primed and closing in, for the kill. Ruto better fight, with ferocity.

Raila Odinga's supremacy among men was never based on his administrative brilliance (Tom Mboya) nor his economic thought ( Mahathir, Lee Kuan Yew and other Asian Tigers). Nay, Agwambo's magic is the cult of the warrior Kings. These are Hardmen who led from the front, charged into battle ahead of the troops, and on the bad day paid the highest price at the frontline. Such are the stuff of legends from antiquity. Such swashbuckler archetypes
are neither brilliant in office intrigues nor the closed boardroom plots to rigging elections. Nevertheless they do strike the fear of death in the heart of paper Generals, if only because they, Braveheart Kings, carry the people along in their genuine if tragic heroism. So once Agwambo makes a decision, he goes for it. As other balls cringe up bellies, Tinga will hold the ground and Fort. So he did once again, Tall and resilient, on January 30th 2018 at Uhuru Park, while his pretender principals went off the radar, peaking as cowards.

That was the day NASA died, Weta became a minor, and the rest who knows!

And that is where Ruto comes in. The Samoei does not peak in cowardice.

He too is a man of balls, grit and daring. And to top up his ambition where the peoples love is insufficient, his singlemindedness forces him into significant ruthlessness and skulduggery. So did he connive Ouru into tricking the mentally lazy Mudavadi into thinking, 2013, they would back him into state house. Ruto's utter contempt for Mudavadi is beyond camouflage. And it is deserved. ---The Hustler saw him up close as Moi's last Vice President, Uhuru's first ever running mate, Raila's deputy in the Pentagon, GCG fellow Vice President with Uhuru, fellow cabinet member, etc etc. A notorious nuisance was the best he could describe MDVD.

Anyway The Hustler is by far the superior of his generation of state looters, and also of other other aspiring lootocrats. He is the King of Bandits. ---And that is the scientific term used in standard literature: Bandit bourgeoisie.

What can such a man do but fight to his death, a heroic tragedy like that of the Trojan Hektor, or reach the peak of his ambition through a jungle of corpses like the Tutsi restoration King, Paul Kagame? This is the drama of his Power life. Ruto has no surrender in him. But Uhuru does not have the dagger heart to put the tip of the sword to Ruto's throat, wherefore he is doomed to source out the job to shadowy figures who do plots in the dark. But even there, Ruto knows he has to more than always watch his back. That is why he is forcing torpedoes the likes of Kibicho Karanja to surface.

The Hustlers true strategy, which unfortunately is also the tragedy of Kenya, is that the popular struggle has never been part of his agenda. He has never defended Wanjiku's corner. He is always on the other side, the Dark Side, the Looters' side. The status quo of corruption, capture of the state by cartels, election rigging, mass squalor by state neglect, suits him best. He is the best candidate for the old order. The order which must die for Kenya to breath forwards. There is no iota of reform in the Hustler. The Singh is an ultra conservative. It is a bandit's rule, and he is the best bandit.

But there is a historical trick possible.

We are in a hole but have not reached the proverbial bottom. When that bottom is reached, there springs the universal consciousness that, not only need we stop digging, but too, with speed need we get the hell out of that hole. At that tipping point there is only one direction, up, and up. The nation rises true.

But first the worst, so that we are convinced in toto. The worst I think, is the best bandit in power.

Away with the placebo's!

[jakaswanga]

WE NO LONGER SEE EYE TO EYE

There is an old song by the late Omollo Gabby ---of Lunch Time Fame. The song depicts a deteriorating marriage. It has lines like sweety-baby imegeuka stupid; I love you I love you imegeuka mbwa; I can't live without you, I wish you were dead.

Very soon, sequels to the song entered the Mr. Agoya series. Mr. Wife Beater. A beast subjecting his wife to daily abuse. Omollo Gabby was given to lyrics celebrating those kinds of melodrama.

Every medium of art takes a go at it you know; scenes from a marriage.



Even a homosexual one like these political ones of our times!

They were identical twins when they started, the Uhuruto (co)presidency which had issued from the ICC knot was a match made in heaven. Alas, today we read the bad rumours, like the president changed exit routes at the local airport named after his father, all to avoid his deputy who, protocol wise, had crossed other engagements to rush to receive him. Uhuru no longer can stand the sight of Ruto. Keeping up the necessary appearances even for formality's sake has become emotionally untenable for him. It sparked a flash of temper the other day at the Akorino event. The less he is seen in public faking up a good relationship with his deputy, the lesser internal torment His Excellency has to keep up with.

Vintu Vichenjanga. ---Events! Events dear boy, cried Harold Macmillan, British premier.

Getting wind of the JKIA protocol debacle ...
I was jogged of memory to think of a story the grapevine first ran long ago. This would be early 2003 I think.

The Green-Horn Chris Murungaru was then what Fred Matiang'i is today. The man in charge of internal security and pushing his weight hard. Mwai Kibaki couldn't care less about the pettiness of those around him, which gave them extraordinary latitude to indulge political illiteracy. That illiteracy manifested itself chiefly in the process of maligning and humiliating one, Raila Odinga. The Kibaki Tosha guy of the campaigns.

Anyway, Raila decided to push the situation and find out how bad it was. Till then he had always had unrestricted access to Mwai Kibaki and Mama Lucy's State House, but a new circular had indicated he would have to apply for an appointment .... with Kibaki's chief of staff ..... And like every other Tom Okello, Dick Mutisya, and Harry Kamau he would have to wait for a No or Yes. So Agwambo drove without appointment to State House.

He wasn't barred. No, the story goes the guards had simply never heard of Raila Odinga. But if he could leave his particulars with them, they could make inquiries and, may be, get back to him three months later. State House is a busy place. Delays can occur you will understand. When Mama Lucy Kibaki later got wind of this .... what she called an orchestrated humiliation, she confronted a man named Mateere Kereri. But Mateere wasn't the 'divan couch type' to enjoy lending his ears to the 'hysterics of a neurotic'. Therefrom, Kereri's relationship with Lucy would be increasingly rocky, culminating in a very public spat, years later. (Mateere was fed up and decided to publicly tell Lucy she wasn't the only Mrs. Kibaki he could think of!). Well, what can I say, but may be the famous feminine instinct warned Lucy her precious husband was in the hands of bad handlers. Raila was a bomb under Mwai's presidency and she could hear it ticking, even if close advisors like Stanley Murage insisted not.

In deed it would take a massive bout of violence, PEV, for the trashed, key section of the MOU of 2002 to be unearthed: PM position.

There is therefore nothing new in Ruto being time barred to see, or receive Ouru Kenyatta. There will be more orchestrated humiliations. Ruto too will soon learn to publicly snub Kenyatta face to face. After all his TangaTanga squaders have already reduced Ouru to former president publicly. What should be key to ponder, however, is the constituency, or level of general public support William Ruto commands, from which he can draw active, weaponised support and sympathy.

Raila had a progressive draw, and it was nation-wide. He easily cornered Kibaki and Mwai's handlers had to move to Plan B: rigging. Agwambo's support was also (cross)generational. But William Ruto's Machiavellian antics of Christian piety officiated by an assembly of purchased clergy is an easy see through. His political entourage is also too gluttonous for comfort, and his hypocrisy too infanticomical. But his determination is authentic enough, his single-mindedness radiant and attractive enough in itself, so much so that his public utterances of humbleness, Hustler, are always exercises in self-caricature. The distance between his inner feelings and his public pronouncements these days, have become so wide, he has started to be a picture of tragedy. Oscar Sudi tried to arrest this (desintergration?) situation by telling him to face the brutal fact publicly: his with Ouru Kenyatta is over.

But is William a Samsom who brings down the whole house with him?

Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore (1979)

Used to think that life was sweet, Used to think we were so complete, I can't believe you'd throw it away. Used to feel we had it made, Used to feel we could sail away, Can you imagine how I feel today, Well it seems a long time ago you were the lonely one, Now it comes to letting go you are the only one, Do you know what you've done.

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore, It's so funny why we don't talk anymore,
But I ain't losing sleep and I ain't counting sheep,
It's so funny how we don't talk anymore.

Well it really doesn't matter to me, I guess your leaving was meant to be, It's down to you now you wanna be free, Well I hope you know which way to go you're on your own again, And don't come crying to me when you're the lonely one, Remember what you've done.