MR. KENYATTA MOVE OVER, YOUR TIME IS UP! --ADIEU!

[jakaswanga]

KWAHERI MR. KENYATTA, YOUR TIME IS UP, SEE YOU AROUND POSH BARS!

Not a lame duck, but a dead duck dobbing with the winds, if you ask me that is.

Of late there have been symptoms of disquiet from pro-Ouru quarters, that the office of the president and the occupant, His Excellency himself, have suffered such a collapse in esteem, such that it is a weekly entertainment at funerals to shower the office with disrespect, and Rais himself with insults and ridicule, especially from the ranks of the Ruto crowd.

People like Oscar Sudi have laughed him off, people like Murkomem declared him little less than Raila's menial, and every Kip Arap and Prosingh has warned the president to stop cheating DCI Kinoti he is constitutionally in order to investigate big theft! There is a sense in the land, that the head of state and his office is a doormat, where men with more decided ambitions wipe their feet ---on their way to state house. Ouru has no guts to face Ruto who is the King of graft, but he has also perceived and interned the truth of the land: corruption is a dead end for Kenya. And something must be done. But he can not do it, he can only pretend to. The president is cornered.

And lots of folks have figured that out. They even laugh he is scared sh!tless, that is why he didn't just edit, but wholly removed the Namibia tweet which fingered Ruto. But in his dying throes, the son of Jomo has played a disturbing card: The Handshake. With it comes an old warrior schooled in the arts. And then, the land teems, alive and in the turmoil of re-arrangements.

Men can not keep their ambitions in check merely because the incumbent, Muthamaki Kamwana in this case, is conflicted with his legacy and tied up with indecision. Time can not be put on hold to allow a weakly prince to man up. If Mr. Kenyatta wasted his first term, he is now time barred. With scum like Rotich still in cabinet deputising Pm Matiang'i in service delivery, the president can't be taken seriously in his pledge to rid the ladn of thieves. Thus the game in town is the next president, not the legacy of the currently dying term. So if you ask me, Ouru is not a lame duck, he is a dead duck. Corruption necked him.

But you know how it is in politics.

The living can have a lot of use for the dead. These are then portrayed as undead. And that stalemate continues until weighty issues are decided. Usually commercial. We have been seeing this in Algeria where the most powerful faction of the ruling elite imposed a NECROCRAT until the land could no longer bear the stench of his rotten mind. Worms like the army chief who hid within the carcass, are now busy crawling out of the political corpse of Bouteflika, afraid of being entombed along with him, like in those ancient rituals.

So easily we, in Kenya, can and will dob on the waves of history with our dead-duck captain until several key issue are resolved. One fundamental issue seems to be the fate of William Ruto. There is a consensus within and without, that he is rotten to the core. But he is an OCTOPUS whose tentacles have spread into every nook and secreted poison deep and allround into the body tissue of the elite. Eradicating him could easily bring the whole cannibal house down. And that is not on the cards for the elite.

Of course the real parameters of the battle remains progressive versus regressive, that is in the context of what (popular) economic reforms Kenya needs to turn lean and mean, and internationally competitive.

In athletics we do just fine, but I aint talking about that sh!t.

Today, the subterfuge parameters the struggle for the future of Kenya has assumed, unfolds as a predators derby. Hmm, which is a less painful death? The lesser evil!?

Ouru's steamship is tanking and limping, doomed to sink. He once unveiled the Jubilee dream of 100 years, that is back and forth between TNA and URP. God knows what for ICEBERGS the ship hit, such that rafts like the Handshake take centre stage in the rescue plan.

MEANWHILE

The land and political class are in a charge. They are like that bull and that cloth, in old Spain or Mexico. The whorish senior counsel and political belly dancer, Senate Majority leader James Orengo, raised a red lap of cloth, but not yet a drop of blood in a pond of piranhas. Impeach the DP, but not the president.

Which buck is this which stops so low down the ranks?

[jakaswanga]

14:10, The president all but gives up on Kenyans!

[jakaswanga]

THE ENDLESS TENURE OF A SELF-PITYING OBLOMOV

Barely the minimum of several years ago, Ouru was all the heat at Raila. It is a choice collection of fury and intended insults, among them, WAZIMU!

And of course his ---none brother then---- mocked him back for a perpetual drunk. 'For him, state house is just a beer-hall and a nyamachoma den!' Or so.

Fast Forward: In the euphoria of The Handshake, and in deed the necessary memory loss going with it, none is expected to remember these vicious altercations, much less explain them. Perhaps they were just ritual combat, one big joke really, but a necessary exercise in the political management of subjects? Or, could it be something much more sinister was driving the show? Something like intractable material conditions within the Kenyan economy, forming a crisis, and, politically speaking, unfortunately a historically lacklustre (inadequate) response to it?

Anyway, selective amnesia is healthy as far as traumas go, lest the mind be overladen with negatives and collapse into permanent depression, unable to cope, or, as Raila mocked Ouru, exist only in permanent drunkenness!

Unfortunately historians have long memories and, for whatever reason, vivid ones at that. Only poets overdo them; for these introduce a very dirty component into the narrative: passion. May be knowing the past well is a door to the better future, for the lessons are then well learnt. One of the greatest demonstrations of this (poet tops historian) is the lyricist Demodokos, this day performing in the house of the Faekian King, Alkinous. Prompted by Arete, the Queen of wandering rears, the resident bard turns to the Trojan War, to intone with legendary feeling, the sad fates of women and men as they answered the call of death variously. But of course poets can be wicked and malicious, they can tug heads and pull legs wide apart, wherefore one knows not what mind games the great Homer plays here. Apart from the cheek of a self portrait, is this an anti-war scene? For surely, when, instead of a chest-thumping bravado when his exploits are 'musisized' with passion, an immortal hero of a most famous war breaks down and inconsolable weeps like a possessed baby at what he has lost in the achievement of that victory, a deeper lesson is being taught!

Perhaps a historical warning being served.

But now lets us turn to President Kenyatta's mind games. His mind has of late been very chameleon like you know: unstable, diffuse, undefined at core!

DRIBBLING MIND GAMES

Were there no crises in Kenya -----for instance the dietary crisis in Turkana brought about by famine, Ouru's double-dealing dalliance with both Ruto and Raila would be the delicate balancing act of a master manipulator or genius. He would be having a convincing narrative, that of cheerfully playing both ends against the centre, that of firmly keeping both men in check with sufficient carrots and sticks while he ticks off his legacy calls. Well, I can't miss the rates of how my old grandmother expertly managed his chaotic wives. The old, quarrelsome and competitive b!tches ever shouted themselves hoarse in the home soon as grandda went away for a few days!

Recently of course, in the wake of the Rotich-sanctioned scandal of the phantom dams, the Raila and Ruto camps have been b!itching in public like the vilest b!tches on earth. (Jomoson has been an irrelevant presence).

Peter Munya's heroic role has all but been subsumed in the b!tchy heat created by power lusts. So let me salute the man from Meru. His tall backbone is stiff, made of sterner stuff than most. For now.

"We have heard all manner of claims including how Munya was put under pressure by some top government officials to sign documents and when he refused he was transferred," a local publication quoted an investigator.

Since the revelations emerged, talk is rife that Munya, the whistle blower of the Ksh21 Billion scandal whose tender was awarded to a now insolvent Italian firm, CMC Di Ravena, will be considered as a witness in the probe.
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As the pressure mounted, the CS resorted to informing Treasury CS Henry Rotich that the dam tenders were not following proper channels and procedures.
A local publication reported that Munya further advised against release of more cash as the job on the ground did not measure with the money already released.

Okay, formally correct to report to Henry Rotich, the boss of finance. But, spare a laugh, Rotich was the mastermind of the fraud! So Munya was reporting the crime to the criminal.

No wonder he was transferred: BUT BY WHO IF NOT OURU KENYATTA, the so-called appointing authority!?

You feel me!?

It is the famous story of a Kenyan woman who got to report rape only to realise the officer on duty at the station is their rapist!

But of course Munya was a bit more ignorant,or may be versed in the importance of formality. So attempts to kill his story have stumbled on a paper trail. Now called evidence!

Faceless Jubilee MPs who threatened Munya over Sh4bn loot

Reports have emerged on the probable corrupt Jubilee leaders who kept prodding Industrialization Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya to sign Sh4 billion into their pockets.
During a grilling session by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the firebrand former Meru governor handed in a list of the Jubilee leaders.

The CS indicated that he resisted intense pressure and threats from the insatiable legislators drooling for the high payout that would have set back tax-payers Sh 4 billion back to raise the dams expenditure to Sh25 billion.

A government of looters by looters for the looters, a 'RUTOCRACY'.

But this estimable resistance is what makes me declare Peter Munya a national hero! ---we need them you know, naysayers to a 'lootocracy'.

But who is that in the background below!


Munya served for six months as the CS for the East Africa Community and Regional Development which was in charge of the construction of the Arror and Kimwarer dams in Elgeyo-Marawet county.

The point is, it took the former governor of Meru's firm foot to blow open the case. The LIONISED Intelligence Services --from where the likes of DPP Haji and EACC Mbarak come from; the Serious Crimes Unit of both (Kinoti-led) police and other (High-Morals-Patrick-Njoroge Banking related) agencies, MISSED THE FRAUD.

Yes they all did!

It is significant to ponder this, dear citgizen. It is only through PETER MUNYA that Ouru Kenyatta came to know there would be NO DAM for him to open in Kerio and environs during his next planned visit, vision 2030!

Because, surprise surprise, his Jubilee mates had eaten the money!

I am game! I am always game for a ride!

Picture the situation at state house. Joseph Kinyua is there, Fred Matiang'i is there, William Ruto is there, Aden Duale is there, DGI Kameru is there, DCI Kinoti is there!
And a disconcerted President Ouru looks at them and asks if it is true, and if they knew, did you!!

They look back at him with something of the polite scorn reserved for retarded cousins. But they hide their thoughts which could be like this: 'Wacha upuzi bwana Prezzo, uliza your brother Jomo Gecaga, your PA he should be I think! Intelligence passes through him! Na pesa zingine uulize mama yako Ngina!'

Those were the days ........

DRAMA: POLICE STORM PM Raila office

to serve him SUMMONS to appear before EACC over Eurobond

December 10, 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Raila Odinga served with police summons ordering him to appear before EACC detectives over the Eurobond Monday or face arrest. Police barricaded the entry and exit gates to capitol hill square to effect the service.

Immediately news went out that Police had stormed Raila office to issue summons, his supporters blamed statehouse and asked him not to be moved an inch terming move political harassment.

”They just want to create drama so that Kenyans will get distracted from the theft of eurobond- one of his aides was quoted.

........

when EACC detectives went to besiege Raila at his Upper Hill office, to question him on what he knew about the NYS scam. Anne Waiguru was still the first among equals in cabinet. If one was to believe the imaginative Kenyans of the grapevine, she was sucking the brains off the president, or at least what remains of those brains after his handlers had fed him drink. ---Yaani, it was an open national joke: the likes of Joseph Kinyua were using DRINK TO CONTROL THE PRESIDENT.

The cartoon archives are full of the insinuations, including Annes preferred position when she goes head, on.

This --custodianship of a ruler's mind through intoxicants----- is nothing unique. Boris Yeltsin of Russia was safely a toy of the Russian Oligarchs similarly. The Oligarch Cartel of Russia reduced him to a perfect puppet and alibi for looting the state. They did this by inducing the capture of his mind by drink, that national passion called VODKA!

The information wasn't even classified! Yeltsin would appear drunk on TV playing president of Russia!

I am told there is a Russian way of putting it in one word, the emergence of Vladimir Putin to put an end to the farce: the Tzar Nicholas-Rasputin hostage situation, which was the Yeltsin aberration. It loosely translates to 'Mother Russia bears a fang'. (In English one should find an equivocation which includes the animal BEAR!)

Oblomov Ouru! He has been sleeping on the job. That is obvious. What is not obvious is the sinister array of forces, the web of poison and artificial reality the Kenyan cartel of looters have constructed for him as a cage, a RUSE wherein his mind, as they say in old literature, was always somewhere else but the present. No smirk please, it is a ruthless game. Check the videos of Putin getting Russia back to order if you dare. Ticking off the oligarchs one by one until only him remains as Peter the Great (moderniser)!

Well, Russia is as far away as to be fiction, yes, fiction like the Wonderlands where minds go when they are inebriated with 'gik monywo gi lwet dhano', ie alcohol.

But vindu vichenjanga.

How long will the scared and desperate son of Jomo try to drunkenly dribble between Ruto and Raila, wasting precious national time?

For meanwhile

Corruption continues to burn Kenya down; famine continues to (think of Okot P'Bitek) knock down follks like rhinos and buffaloes, while debt runs Kenya aground? My sense of urgency warns me all these cacophonic solos the president exudes daily on TV lamenting war on graft, are just the TamTam beats as the house burns, burns, burns. ---'My brother Raila, my brother Ruto, my brother Matiang'i, my brother this and that, why can't we be together, you help me put down this heavy fire!' Cries the prisoner in his cell, a daily refrain not even a bored parrot would bother consider a serious take!

I permit myself a harsh laugh.

Of course something has to give. Retire Mr. Oblomov is one option in the spectrum.

Kenya: Raila Faces Arrest If He Fails to Honour EACC Summonses

By Eric Shimoli and Fred Mukinda

Cord leader Raila Odinga was Thursday summoned to appear before the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday over claims he has made on the use of Eurobond funds.

EACC officials have warned that Mr Odinga would be prosecuted if he fails to honour the new summonses.

TOUGH CHOICES: AMPUTE?

[jakaswanga]

VINDU VICHENJANGA, BUT HOW!?

How much in Jomoson's case?

So people change, things change, Kenya and the Kenyans will change. The Maragoli say vindu vichenjanga. And minds supposedly change too. Perhaps we should say minds are ever forced to adapt. For reality, and situations along with it, will change regardless of the positions taken by human minds.

The choice then is adapt or extinct.

Some hometruths of the Luo bother me, and force me to weigh them in this equation.

Awendo ok we yiege; nyathi thuol on thuol -----the leopard does not change its spots. This forces me to ask what it is, which has not changed with the Handshake or Shakes. (Waiguru too is reported to have had one with Raila, wherefore withdrawn is the legal suit whereby she sued him for defamation. Agwambo linked her to the first NYS heist as the thief in chief! She is now merely a person of interest to the investigation, like Henry Rotich on the phantom dams!)

What has not changed, handshake or no handshake, 2nd liberation or none, are the economic, say the fundamental dynamics of Kenya. The economic system has remained intact. Once one wraps their heads around that one, the rest is fanfare.

For instance the way, ad hoc, by which Uhuru Kenyatta has gifted a Naivasha acreage to Uganda's Museveni, is fanfare. It reminds of the tedious boredom by which the Queen of England disposed of Kenyan choice agricultural lands to her cousins and business partners in the British nobility. After all, they were the WhiteMan's Highlands.

Basically then, the heat of our politics is much ado about who of the local nyaparas' is the best Quisling prototype to accommodate the dictates of Finance Capital, given control of the state.

In this scenario of course germinates a small but deadly complication. If the wishes of such capital are out of step with the aspirations of the people, the Quislings who must pretend to democratically govern, enter the paradox captured by the proverb: between a rock and a hard place. This tight spot situation becomes the bed our political elite spread for themselves.

The pressures and demons President Kenyatta aspires to exorcise today, exemplify the point. Arisen to power through corruption, both moral, financial and electoral, how can he turn around and slay that which has birthed him!? (Consider that 'Oresteian joke' a slip of the tongue, in this case pen!)

As an academic exercise we can enter the theoretical realm of 'class suicide'. But we already did that elsewhere when we pondered his real HISTORICAL options. Today there is another unknown added to the urgency, an increased complication which abhors complacency.

The people of Kenya too have a role in this complex. And the people are showing a rise in anger. We the people aren't aren't always the famous sheep herded into the holding yard to, helplessly bleating, await the slaughter at the abattoir. In deed the slaughter house of monopoly capital may be fortified and dominating, but it always had the tense and explosive air of a maximum security prison. ---technically a warzone. At the first opportunity there is trouble, inmates bolt.

It is only human that the people have other options in the situation of slave-firm exploitation. Those options are unsettling in their unpredictability, and such unknowns are bad for business. Rebellion is a nightmare to any status quo. That is why, apart from the famous credit ratings of a land, there is the silent rating, called the SRA. Security Risk Analysis. Insurance companies tremble at certain readings of this. And so business is done only under the imperial aegis of their motherland, an imperial state: such a state being powerful and rich enough to force the local elite to mortgage the futures of their people to pay off eventual losses.

For instance, EXIM BANK itself, if we fail to pay the debt as the statistics depict we shall, has no powers to annex Mombasa Port even as, the case is, the port is signed off as collateral for SGR. But behind EXIM bank is the Chinese State, and that state owns Kenya. Yes they do, even if only in the sense of biggest creditor and financier of vision 2030 and beyond. Lets quote Michael Kamau on the issue. He sounded like a Mozambican economist in the days when the IMF not only appointed the minister of finance, but sat at cabinet meetings too. Kamau's lucidity before parliament was enlightening:

Since the Chinese pay from A-to-Z
Ours is not to say, Ours is to Obey.
And that is what we do from A-to-Z!

Yes, the Kenyan people are not yet Stand Up!

NB: Engineer Michael Kamau was a Mwai-Kibaki GCG superstar during the infrastructure drive fronted by Tinga, then minister for works and roads. Michael made it to cabinet secretary for transport in the first Jubilee regime of Uhuruto, but from there the story gets murky. One version is he consumed himself with too much greed and was disgraced as a corrupt scapegoat. His mother, named Immaculate, reputedly died of shock at the news her high-flying bureaucrat of a son, was a moral cretin the evolutionary equivalent of a bus-stage pick-pocket! So this version says Kamau murdered his mother in reverse. I mean I heard tell she committed suicide. (You know Kenya, the official report goes a prominent scholar and husband died after a short illness. And then the alternative facts emerge, and thse are the truth: suicide.

Shocking details have emerged revealing that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) member Olive Mugenda's husband Professor Abel Mugenda, 65, jumped six floors to his death.
According to The Standard, the Nyeri Police report documented that a man who had booked into a popular Nyeri hotel as Abel Mugenda jumped from a ledge on the sixth floor and died instantly.
The Standard quoted staff at the prestigious hotel confirming that the prof had plunged to his death but the public had been deceived on the real cause of death.

I don't know which public was purportedly deceived, but gossip columns all over the republic were on top of the professor's depression, so when he died there were only two options: murder or suicide.

But anyway, it is still very interesting reading if one gets a classified security risk analysis of ones own country. For instance, KENYA, are we an ETHNIC POWDER KEG really? Wherefore TOWARD A PACIFICATION of emotions!

This is basically how the handshake should be read. It keeps Kenya open for both local and international business! And truly that is important. A genuine peace deal is always important.

But if common sense were common in use in the top decisions of nations, history would be a boring recital of facts affirming human godliness! What makes history interesting, however, is the habitual penchant for Murphy's law. Every bad decision which can be made is enacted, and the maximum disaster indulged, before renaissance sets in, and once more the cycle of tragedy and farce!

HUNGER IN TURKANA IS NOT A TRAGEDY, IT IS FARCE

To date, Only a million Kenyans are facing starvation. That is nothing in a population of 50M. I only called it a crisis because, having travelled around the wide globe, I gathered not every country is as primitive and as stupidly led as to consider such an event, a NORMALCY. That is what our relevant officials publicly declared. ----within the expectations is a DESIRED OUTCOME. Engineered thus.

But statistically in the bigger picture, I agree. Even if all Turkanas died of hunger, that is no loss. The oil stays. And Kenya goes on, less ballast.

In my travels around the world, I have also learnt the ruthless calls. Mass exterminations can be state policy. Usually are. A designed outcome.

After a while I figured it out: if the Nairobi regime can import contaminated foodstuff, mercury-poisoned sugar, health-risk maize and substandard drugs to distribute to the population of Kenya, why would they miss the opportunity to have the Oil without the Turkana's!? ----Is that suddenly a moral collapse too deep!?

Naaah, methinks.

And the worst? Kenyans can live with it! Kenyans can live with an OIL-BOOM Kenya with only a few Turkanas left in the zoo for academic purposes!

No!? --what do you bet!?

[jakaswanga]

WHO IS THE ARCHITECT OF INFRASTRUCTURE EXPENDITURE AS A LOOTING STATION?

Since the wave of independence, there has always been WHITE ELEPHANT projects around the continent and Kenya designed to facilitate the primitive accumulation of the post-colonial elite. But for today let us restrict the question to the specific case of the incumbent Jubilee regime.

There are three names out there in the grapevine: William Ruto, Joseph Kinyua and Jomo Gecaga.

And no, no Fred Matiang'i!

Matiang'i's key role was of course to ENFORCE THE PERPETRATION by wielding the security forces and ruthlessly deploying them at the most crucial momement: the rigging of the election which would bestow a bearable legitimacy for the KAZI to ENDELEA.

But for today ... here we go.

THE CASE OF THE WHISTLEBLOWER

QUESTION: Who is powerful enough to transfer Peter Munya, a cabinet secretary, when he refused to sign a certificate for theft, and more huge heists, related to the phantom dams!?

The identity of the mysterious senior Jubilee politician who the cartel appointed FIXER, to pile pressure on the reluctant cabinet secretary, Peter Munya, will soon be revealed. Then many blocks will fall into place. (Is he the same one who unsuccessfully piled pressure on Fred Matiang'i to okay the import of the police uniforms!?

First: Munya was brought in by the Uhuru clique, or TNA faction of the Jubilee juggernaut. His security of tenure is thus not a URP call, nay. But in the nature of horse-trading, and the backroom shoving of pawns as the need arises, Munya is just stock which can be wheeler-dealed, traded for some other value in the same market. Of power. URP strategists could instinctively be reading Peter's prominence in Meru politics as not to the advantage of Ruto's ambitions. Therefore URP could have asked for his transfer as in calling a debt. Alternatively they could have made TNA an offer they couldn't refuse.

Cracking who gamed Peter, and the steps by which he was transferred away from being in charge of the dams, will lead us to why Ouru Kenyatta is so deflated, so strained and shy he sounds like a lost ox. Such castrants once ripe, are a nuisance except on the way to be transformed into meat.

Here is a publicly available relay. Of Peter Munya the whistleblower





NB: The incriminating files on the phantom dams were gathering dust at the EACC. There was a change in guard at the misnamed ---Integrity-- house. The new great hope in the office, Twalib Mbarak, is still finding his way around the creepy house. There, every cupboard is a wormy skeleton. By the time he found his touch, many a file would have disappeared no doubt, chewed by the busy worms and other rodents that are highly experienced at cover-ups. The cartel breeds such in hordes, deploys them strategically throughout the government at large. What hollows our government out, is within our government ---to paraphrase a famous Swahili saying. But now we can record it took Kihara, the new Attorney General, to recover some of the files pertaining the phantom dams and transfer them to the DCI's. This is the move which irked the likes of Murkomem to jump out of their skins.

Kipchumba Murkomem has to date, issued three public denunciations of the DCI's competence and constitutional mandate to probe Big Theft. Big theft like the phantom dams. So when some of the cases come before the courts, no doubt the cartel lawyers will make a mountain of it in court to have the cases dismissed on a technicality. (And Bingo! The Judiciary whose reform was aborted by Wily Mutunga is filled with enough agents to oblige them! The famous Camel, Ibrahim still sits next to David Maraga! it is a travesty of the learning of them friends, and it is just as well the Grandmullah is spooking them with a dread bluff call!) ---see footnote on that.

Anyway

But even as some grin with knowing nods, why frogs jump jump around in broad daylight, the bureaucratic footwork of the frauds too needs a scratch of nose, an understanding tilted-head smile, and then an eye devoid of mirth, reporting a recognition which concludes a case in the heart, seals fates. The robbery footwork is brilliant, like an international money-laundering scheme connived through a chain of fake, front companies.
Take a look ----'The department concerned with the construction of dams, a vital infrastructure program, has been moved around three different ministries in as many years: From Environment to Devolution, then eventually to East African Community.'
Incredible Footwork, Maradona dazzling na mpira, but Lo, to score own goals! That is our story, across the continent. Own goals. Phantom projects, Astronomical budgets. Down the drain.

(One misses the likes of Mukhisa Kituyi at such moments, even the now decrepit Anyang' Nyong'o, the troubled Francis Muthaura and the compromised Kibaki finance minister, the rotting David Mwiraria. The band of robbers under the Raila-Kibaki GCG look, in retrospect, a club of gentlemanly robber barons, highly benign in their management of trickle-down crumbs, sorry, economics!).
Hear! Hear!
But the Jubilee crowd are NYALUNYA, they are a stripper-scavenger prototype whose feeding frenzy is atavism. It is a tick's primordial instinct for engorgement, our Jubilee crowd. This means the huge projects are not about Industrialisation, No, the dam things is not about tackling drought and famine permanently; it is all about grand theft facilitated by state power. The processes are merely an administrative 'paper dance' to generate smoke, dust and false trails. It is an elaborate network of confusion as a cover meanwhile the funds are looted and laundered. This episode of the phantom dams ----like the history of the collapse of choice parastatals since the KANU regime----- is another case study in bureaucratic scheming by an elite, to sabotage a country's vitals: water reservoirs. And, at the thick of it, are none other than the very very top of the land.

Yep! Think about it!

Who is it in Kenya who can transfer Ouru's cabinet ministers without his approval!? Please do not answer that, because if one exists who can do that outside the president's will, then the score is obvious: The commander in chief aint the commander in chief after all. Ever heard of the title LORD PROTECTOR!? But in our case I would talk of a USURPER REGENT!

Who is the usurper regent!?

Uhuru swaps Peter Munya with Adan Mohammed in mini reshuffle

President Uhuru Kenyatta has moved Trade and Industry Cabinet Secretary Adan Mohammed to the Ministry of East Africa Community.

EAC CS

Peter Munya replaces Adan at the Trade Ministry.

Devolution PS Marwa has been moved to Senior Citizen Protection. His post will be taken over by

Environment PS Charles Sunkuli.

That was the swap!

Who is this powerful creature who can overrule our head of state in a legacy-shaping battle against graft!?

These dark events must be painfully recorded and detailed, the facts analysed with clinical trait, and best conclusions reached, and cast in rock in the archives, beyond the teeth of gnawing rodents, loyal to the cartels.

WHY!?

O boy O boy! that is Next.

###Footnotes

Moi's desire for airport led to Uplands Bacon's demise

Sunday February 17 2019

Uplands Bacon Factory


The dilapidated building that housed Uplands Bacon Factory. The firm started having problems before independence by incurring heavy losses on exports to Britain. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

In Summary

Had Uplands Bacon Factory survived, it would now be 113 years old — and pig farming would, perhaps, be a huge business in this country.
Kenya had been identified as one of the world’s future supplier of high-grade pigs thanks to the supply coming from the Uplands Bacon Factory.
In 1987, the government announced that revival of Uplands Bacon Factory was dead in the water and that it would be an expensive undertaking.

By JOHN KAMAU

When President Daniel arap Moi announced that an international airport would be built in Eldoret, wheeler-dealer Tiny Rowland agreed to sell, some say donate, 3,000 acres of his East African Tanning land, which was valued by the government at Sh160 million.

But Lonhro PLC sent its valuer who put the property at Sh310 million. But was Tiny Rowland selling the land or was he donating it to the government?

Only he — and most likely Moi — knew the answer.

But rather than go with its own valuation, the government mandarins opted for private valuation, and that is how the State valuation was thrown away.

Interestingly, the government had no money and could only pay Sh200 million.

The balance was paid with the assets of Uplands Bacon Factory, which was owned by the Uplands Pig Producers Association — and that was how the pork industry was killed.

PIG FARMING

Why the government gave away a property owned by some private pig farmers in Lari for an airport located more than 200 kilometres away has always been a puzzle.

Why the government did not inject funds to revive the factory rather than give it away for a song is intriguing.

But that is the story of our times — but ever since the pig farmers are always at the mercy of monopolies.

Had Uplands Bacon Factory survived, it would now be 113 years old — and pig farming would, perhaps, be a huge business in this country.

And so the cotton industry, the sugar industry, the KMC meat fiasco, the East African Railways and Harbours (ships); Kenatco, National Bank of Kenya, Uchumi supermarket, and soon JKIA along with Kenya airways.

The potential of Kenya for pig farming had been noted even before the country became a British colony in 1920.

Before that, commercial pig farming had started in Lari in 1906 with the surprise entry of a London company, East African Estates Limited, which was granted 248 acres on the understanding that it would start a bacon-curing industry.

PORK EXPORTER

Fronted by Colonel Owen Thomas, this company was financed by Charles Sydney Goldman, once a war correspondent for Evening Standard, and regarded as the pioneer of pineapple and sisal plantations in East Africa.

Mr Goldman was immensely wealthy by the time he started experimenting with pigs in Lari, having made money from the gold mines of South Africa, where he was born in 1868.

Both Thomas and Goldman had a dream of turning Kenya into a leading pork exporter — and their only mistake was that they targeted the small white settler population — like other settlers.

To their advantage, they were managing what was believed to be Kenya’s largest company, East African Estates, and which had become the talk of the British Empire after it was given a concession of 260,000 acres in Diani, Mombasa — triggering the modern-day squatter crisis in the Coast.

This is because this vast land was uncultivated and badly managed.

Unlike other areas where locals were pushed out, East African Estates only held their land on paper and locals never knew that it had been given away.

SWINE FEVER

In 1930s when Jomo Kenyatta was telling all those who cared to listen about the land crisis in Kenya, he would always point at East African Estates and its vast land.

That was the other story of the man who started the pork industry in the country.

While serious outbreak of African swine fever in 1907 had wiped out 90 percent of the pig population, this did not stop the expansion of the industry.

Although many farmers had lost interest after the disaster, the industry picked again in 1909 and by 1914.

Kenya had been identified as one of the world’s future supplier of high-grade pigs thanks to the supply coming from the Uplands Bacon Factory.

It was this factory that provided the British troops with pork during the World War — when it became a major supplier for the military.

STRIKE

So central was this industry that the company would be protected by an Act of Parliament shortly after the Second World War.

A year after the war in 1945, the government enacted the Uplands Bacon Factory Act as a public company and gave the Pig Industry Board’s representative a chance to sit at the board.

A new modern factory had been built and it looked like Kenya would have a voice in the global pork industry thanks to Uplands Bacon Factory.

There were a few teething problems: At the time when the new Uplands factory was nearing completion, the export market was hit by losses due to a fall in the London prices; and there were excessive supplies from certain European countries due to refrigeration difficulties; and a London Dock strike.

In 1947, pioneer unionist Chege Kibachia, had walked into Uplands and organised one of the most successful strikes in the country earning him instant fame.

Although he was deported to Kabarnet and his case was discussed at the House of Commons in London, the strike was seen as an important achievement in the solidarity of workers; and Mr Kibachia’s African Worker’s Federation is today regarded as the pioneer workers’ union — thanks to the Upland Bacon Factory strike.

LOOTING

Uplands Bacon started having problems before independence by incurring heavy losses on exports to Britain.

The government agreed with the Pig Industry Board to take over Uplands Bacon Factory for a period of three years from 1958, and that is how Standard Bank came to its rescue.

The Pig Industry Board, whose basic function was to control the pig industry from birth to slaughter, had joined the company as a trustee and held one ordinary share while the balance was held by the Uplands Pig Suppliers Association. The Treasury also held one ordinary share.

Trouble started in 1986 when the Standard Bank, which held the shares on behalf of the Pig Industry Board, was asked by the Moi government to surrender back the Pig Industry Board’s ordinary share to the Uplands Pig Suppliers.

By then, the government had given the factory Sh15 million to sustain it operations.

Managers and directors seconded to the factory went on a looting spree — and the more money Treasury pumped here, the more was stolen.

REVIVAL

Pig farmers who owned the factory quit business and soon it was closed down, albeit slowly.

That is how the void was filled by Farmer’s Choice, a private company, and Nairobi Airport Services. The latter had shareholding of powerful figures in the Moi government.

In September 1987, the government announced that revival of Uplands Bacon Factory was dead in the water and that it would be an expensive undertaking.

Reason: “It would be very expensive to rehabilitate it as the equipment was too old and it was not necessary to procure one.”

It was the Moi Cabinet which directed that the company be closed because it had injected Sh42 million which was either stolen or was used to pay the workers.

It was during this time that Tiny Rowland was given this factory in exchange for the Moi Airport land.

Parliament was told that the British tycoon “bought it from the receiver” and that he later sold it to Farmer’s Choice.

Actually, Tiny Rowland owned Farmers' Choice and what happened is that he sold the company to himself! And that is how Uplands farmers lost an industry.

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2. THE GRANDMULLAH VS THE CAMEL

Apologise or face libel suit, top judge tells Ahmednasir



Supreme Court judge Mohamed Ibrahim. /FILE


Supreme Court judge Mohamed Ibrahim has threatened to sue senior counsel Ahmednasir Abdullahi for insinuating his stand on the Wajir gubernatorial election appeal was corruptibly influenced.

The Star is in possession of a letter by the judge’s lawyer, Wambua Kilonzo, threatening a libel suit. Ibrahim says Ahmednasir sent him a WhatsApp message insinuating he was bribed.

The senior counsel was representing former Wajir Governor Ahmed Abdullahi who challenged the election of Governor Mohamed Abdi. The court upheld Abdi’s election.

Ibrahim says Ahmednasir made a series of tweets on February 14, the eve of the ruling, claiming the 4-2 bench decision was influenced.

“I’m proud while hearing all the rumours of judges of the Supreme Court receiving money in sags...and hags. You are the ONLY...ONLY...ONLY judge who is not mentioned even once for taking money and many lawyers know that. But lawyers are accusing you of not being firm and strong and I think you need to retrace your footsteps. Nobody has suffered for this country in that court like you did...and in my view and please even if you are always alone...dissent if that’s where justice and the law are ...don’t follow the majority blindly when we know the majority in that court is brought together by MONEY...,” reads the message Ahmednasir sent to Ibrahim on WhatsApp.

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SINGLE SOURCED CORRUPTION

He said the senior counsel published information on his twitter page insinuating the judge was corruptibly influenced to uphold the election of Abdi.

“The problem with corruption in the Kenyan Supreme Court as aptly shown by the judgment of Wajir gubernatorial petition is that corruption is single sourced, not open and competitive. My client was not invited to put his bid and some judges took money from only one party,” Ahmednasir tweeted.

“We know from a reliable source in the Supreme Court that the six judges tied at 3.3 until yesterday afternoon when Justice Ibrahim changed his mind to make it 4:2. What happened? Who lobbied Ibrahim? Why did he change at the 11th hour? Ibrahim must tell Kenyans what we know.”

He promised to write to Chief Justice David Maraga to name the judges who were bribed and how much money each got and from whom.

He claimed one of the judges was bribed through an MP and the money taken from the branch of a local bank in Eastleigh.

The judge now demands that the Grand Mullah, as Ahmednasir is popularly known, ceases and desist from further “making the impugned allegations” and that he publishes an apology and pull down the tweets within seven days.

“Or he faces libel suit including a claim for punitive damages,” Ibrahim said. Justice Jackton Ojwang’ also demanded Ahmednasir publishes the apology both on twitter and on two newspapers with nationwide circulation.

Ahmednasir denied knowledge of Ibrahim’s letter. “I have not seen the said letter. If I see it, I will comment,” he told the Star by phone.

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All on record!

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It gets better

Kipchumba Murkomem has to date, issued three public denunciations of the DCI's competence and constitutional mandate to probe Big Theft. Big theft like the phantom dams.

So when some of the cases come before the courts, no doubt the cartel lawyers will make a mountain of it in court to have the cases dismissed on a technicality. (And Bingo! The Judiciary whose reform was aborted by Wily Mutunga is filled with enough agents to oblige them! The famous Camel, Ibrahim still sits next to David Maraga! it is a travesty of the learning of them friends, and it is just as well the Grandmullah is spooking them with a dread bluff call!) ---see footnote on that.

Read more: jukwaa.proboards.com/posts/recent#ixzz5jk9X6ghn ..........

here is the killer move exposed even before the ink is dry

Plot to weaken DPP, DCI must be stopped

Saturday March 30 2019

In Summary
The political group allied to Deputy President William Ruto have recently fabricated a narrative that the DCI has no business investigating corruption cases; that the office should limit itself to pursuing petty crimes.
Conversely, according to this warped narrative, cases of corruption should be the exclusive domain of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), which as currently constituted, is deficient.

By EDITORIAL

A Bill by Kiharu MP Ndindi Nyoro that seeks to limit the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) in handling corruption cases is unconstitutional, politically-driven and ill-advised.

It shows how MPs tend to misuse their privileged positions to craft laws that serve selfish and partisan interests.

The objective of the proposed amendments to the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, among others, is to clip the wings of the DPP and DCI and cripple the fight against corruption. Nothing can be simplistic. Precisely, the proposed amendments are an extension of the campaign being waged against DPP Noordin Haji and head of DCI George Kinoti and the intensified crackdown on corruption.

The political group allied to Deputy President William Ruto have recently fabricated a narrative that the DCI has no business investigating corruption cases; that the office should limit itself to pursuing petty crimes.

Conversely, according to this warped narrative, cases of corruption should be the exclusive domain of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), which as currently constituted, is deficient. It has not shown its fangs as it hurtles from one misadventure to another.

Two fundamental issues must be canvassed here. First, it is factually incorrect to purport that the DCI cannot investigate corruption. Constitutionally, the National Police Service, through the DCI, has the express mandate to investigate corruption cases.

Article 244 (b) of the Constitution empowers the police service to ‘prevent corruption and promote and practice transparency and accountability’. It means that any amendment affecting the mandate of the DPP and DCI, like the one proposed by Mr Nyoro, goes against the Constitution.
Moreover, Article 157(4) of the Constitution empowers the DPP to direct Inspector General of the Police to investigate any criminal matter, which includes corruption. All these provisions underscore the centrality of the National Police Service in investigating corruption and the DPP in recommending charges. To that extent, the proposed amendments are rendered null and void.

Second, laws are not made to kill institutions. Neither are they made to promote individual interests. Related to that, the government has declared that the war against corruption is multi-sectoral, bringing together the DPP, DCI, Asset Recovery Agency and EACC. Parliament must stop such machinations. Laws cannot be made to fight political wars.

In the middle of the supposed war on graft, we have this!

Wa! Kenyan Mpigs!

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DR. NDI WRITES THE EPITAPH

David Ndii: Memo to Uhuru Kenyatta: Finish up and Go

June 28, 2019

With nothing but political blunders and policy failures behind him, there is only one thing left that Uhuru Kenyatta can do for Kenya, and that is this. Mr Uhuru Kenyatta, please do us and yourself a big favour; you have neither the mandate nor the wherewithal to shape our political destiny. Just finish up and go.

Published June 28, 2019, By David Ndii

December 30 ought to be a memorable day on Kenya’s political calendar. On this day in 2002, Mwai Kibaki took office as the first democratically elected President of Kenya. When it is remembered, though, it is not for the inauguration of Kibaki, but for Moi’s humiliation. The only account we have of the chaotic event is that of Lee Njiru, Moi’s communications chief. According to Njiru, as soon as Uhuru Kenyatta conceded defeat on the afternoon of the 29th, the Kibaki people insisted on an immediate handover. The inauguration was scheduled for the following day without any consultations. At 3 p.m. on that day, Moi got tired of waiting and decided to go down to Uhuru park to get it over and done with. This is how he ended up in the chaotic situation, being jeered at and pelted with mud, bottles and whatever else people could lay their hands on. Kibaki’s description of Moi’s tenure as “years of misrule and ineptitude” did not suggest that there was any intention to treat Moi kindly.

Shortly after assuming power, the NARC administration replaced Moi’s face on the currency with Jomo Kenyatta’s. It was ill-advised. By then, the NARC dream had dissolved into a toxic nightmare. The Kibaki men — later to emerge as the Anglo-Leasing cabal — had walked out of Bomas and gone off to write the Wako/Kilifi draft constitution.

Seen through the prism of the NARC fallout, this was not just further humiliation of Moi; it symbolised the resurgence of Kikuyu restorationism — the thing Kikuyu supremacists metaphorise as gūcookia rūūī mūkaro, literally, returning the river to its course, meaning the return of power to where it belongs. For some reason, the Kibaki men seemed to have conflated Moi’s humiliation with the redemption of Jomo Kenyatta. They were mistaken. The rejection of Uhuru Kenyatta in the presidential bid in Central Kenya was, in part, antipathy towards his father’s rule which had already cost him the Gatundu parliamentary seat in 1997. Kaī tūgūthīnjīra hiti keerī? (are we to slaughter our goat for hyenas a second time?), people would ask.

A decade later the humiliation was invoked in conversations that would have seemed completely unrelated — the constitutional debate on the features Kenyan currency should have. It is these sentiments that informed the constitutional provision that outlaws portraits of individuals on the currency. So there was considerable disquiet in many quarters recently when new notes revealed a disingenuous way of keeping Kenyatta’s image on the currency — his statue prominently in the foreground of the Kenyatta International Conference Centre. There are many arresting images of the KICC that do not feature the statue. The State will no doubt seek, and may find defense in legal interpretation, but it is not lost on anyone that the intention is to defeat the spirit of the Constitution. The timing is awful.

I was at a social gathering in Kiambu recently where the dismay and disillusionment with Uhuru Kenyatta hovered over the otherwise succulent goat ribs and aged single malts like the smell of stale beer. The question was raised as to how the gathering would like their sentiments conveyed to Kenyatta. The “session chairman” distilled the sentiments aired into a four-point message: Andū mena thīna mūno (the people are suffering a lot); Ee toro ta Njoramu (he slumbers like the biblical Joram); Nītūmenyete nī mūkoroku ta ithe (we have learned he is as greedy as his father); Nī gūtee (we wasted our votes).

Seemingly unaware of these undercurrents in his backyard, or perhaps all too aware of them, Kenyatta recently appeared at a public gathering where — forgetting that he is the president of all Kenyans — he unleashed a diatribe in Kikuyu, repeatedly addressing the gathering as “andū aitū” (“our people”), and assuring them that he was on top of things. I gather that the outburst was triggered by his deputy arriving at the meeting fashionably late. We witnessed the same thing happen at Kenneth Matiba’s funeral service in Murang’a when Kenyatta came out guns blazing. But his outburst at the Akorino event is of far greater significance.
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The Uhuru-Ruto political pact was sold to the Kikuyu as a peace treaty that would shield the Kikuyu diaspora in the Rift Valley from politically motivated violence — a homegrown solution for which the Kikuyu sacrificed justice for the victims of the 2007/8 post-election violence. The Akorino community has a large presence in the Rift Valley epicenters of political violence. With their distinctive white turbans, this insular, exclusively Kikuyu sect, is a vulnerable, easy target. During Ruto’s trial at the International Criminal Court, evidence was adduced that the Akorino were specifically targeted using the euphemism “plucking mushrooms.” Ruto was personally implicated in the incitement and his defiant arrival at the Akorino meeting would have been unsettling for both Kenyatta and the Akorino — it was as if he had showed up to remind them that they have a deal, and that choices have consequences. Kenyatta, who is not given to introspection or self-restraint, let rip.

The Kenyatta-Ruto succession is the third chapter in the Kikuyu-Kalenjin land-for-power pact which began with the co-option of KADU into the Government, bringing Moi into the centre of power at the expense of Oginga Odinga. In 1967 Moi was elevated to the vice-presidency at the expense of more capable leaders — notably Tom Mboya.

Prof. Anyang Nyong’o recalls asking Lee Kwan Yew for his thoughts on how Singapore’s and Kenya’s development trajectories diverged, to which Lee Kwan Yew quipped that we had killed Mboya.

The deal with Moi facilitated the migration of the Kikuyu peasantry into the Rift Valley, which in turn enabled Kenyatta and other wealthy Kikuyu notables to acquire for themselves the migrants’ more valuable ancestral lands in central Kenya.
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Then came the Kenyatta succession intrigues that can be said to have begun with Mboya’s assassination and the Gatundu oathing ceremonies that sought to ensure that “biki biki itigakīra Chania (the motorcycle outriders will never cross the Chania River, meaning that power would remain in Kiambu).
The machinations ranged from an attempt at constitutional change to preclude the Vice President from assuming power in the event of the president’s death (that elicited Charles Njonjo’s decree purporting to criminalise imagining the death of the president) to the more sinister Ngoroko affair, a hit squad embedded in the anti-stock theft police unit suspected to have been meant to assassinate or otherwise incapacitate Moi when Kenyatta died. The scheme was predicated on Kenyatta dying in Nakuru, his favourite retreat, in which case the schemers would have been the first to know. But Kenyatta died at the Coast.

It is now clear that, for whatever reason, Kenyatta and the interest groups he represents have decided that it is not in their interest that he be succeeded by William Ruto. What is unclear is whether there is a Plan B because Plan A, a corruption takedown, is not working. There is only one way to make it work and that is to convict Ruto for corruption. But such is the obsession with neutralising him that they just could not resist the opportunity to weaponise the change of currency notes for a financial takedown. It is believed that a sizeable chunk of William Ruto’s seemingly inexhaustible political war chest is hoarded in cash that he may not be able to convert to the new currency, in effect rendering the stash valueless.
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Article 262 (34) of the Constitution — the transitional provision relating to the currency change — states that “Nothing in Article 231 (4) affects the validity of coins and notes issued before the effective date.” Conflating the currency change mandated by the Constitution with this purported war on money laundering has left Ruto’s takedown hostage to the interpretation of this provision by the courts.
But even the presumption that repudiating the cash hoards will cripple Ruto financially, and that crippling him financially will neutralise him politically, is wishful thinking. Uhuru Kenyatta’s anti-Ruto schemes are evidently as hare-brained as his father’s acolytes’ ill-fated anti-Moi schemes. And like Moi before him, the longer he survives this onslaught, and the more Uhuru Kenyatta reverts to type — ethnic chauvinism, contempt, dynastic privilege and arrogance of power — the stronger Ruto becomes.
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In their “handshake” memorandum, titled “Building Bridges to a New Kenyan Nation,” Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga promised to lead the nation in correcting the sins of their fathers:

We are grateful for our fathers, we stand on their shoulders. Yet we can also see that the promise of our nation has not been met as fully as it should have been; we know there are different measures our founding fathers should have taken as they forged this young nation. H.E. President Uhuru Kenyatta and H.E. Raila Odinga are the two leaders who symbolise the many ways in which the country has gone full circle in its divisions. Intent on not witnessing the country suffer similar future cycles of the same tribulations it has since 1963, they are determined to offer the leadership that prevents future generations inheriting dangerous divisions and offer them a path to a bright future for all.

We have seen none of this. What we see instead is the same shameless politics of self-preservation, cynical ethnic mobilisation, arrogance of power and that quintessential Kenyatta disease — greed.

It has recently emerged that Uhuru Kenyatta is exerting pressure on the government to prioritise the upgrading of the Nairobi Eastern by-pass specifically to benefit the Northlands satellite city project on one of the family’s expansive, dubiously acquired, land holdings. Last week, the official State House twitter handle @statehousekenya was promoting Stawi, the lending platform fronted by the Commercial Bank of Africa, the Kenyatta family bank featured in this column some weeks ago. The Central Bank Governor — who is now doubling up as CBA’s chief marketing officer — lied to the public that Stawi will provide cheap credit to small businesses at an interest rate of 9 per cent per year, while in truth, the cost of the loans as measured by the annual percentage rate (APR) averages 35 per cent, and is no different from other digital lenders in the market. Corruption could not be more egregious.
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Yet some Kenyans continue to cling to the hope that he is fighting corruption. Uhuru is not fighting corruption. He is fighting Ruto. And he no longer bothers to hide the fact that he is using state power, his office and public resources to further his private business interests. Much of what we are seeing from him suggests that he may be under the impression that the “Kenya” in Kenyatta is proprietary. One of the sins of the fathers is the personality cult that Uhuru Kenyatta is hell-bent on perpetuating by retaining his father’s image on our currency, against the letter and spirit of the constitution he has sworn to defend.

But all is not lost.

By showing us the middle finger, Uhuru Kenyatta has ensured that there will come a time to do unto Kenyatta what was done to Moi. And when the music starts, it will not stop at the currency — streets, airports and universities will be fair game.

Having floundered on providing the promised leadership — no surprises there — the handshake is now clinging onto the hope of constitutional amendments to either exclude or neutralise Ruto, a scheme reminiscent of the 1966 Limuru KANU Conference constitutional amendments that replaced the deputy party leader’s position with eight regional vice presidents, in effect ending Oginga Odinga’s chances of succeeding Kenyatta. This constitutional amendment scheme is now a poisoned chalice. We say in Gikuyu, mbūri igūthinjwo ndionagio kahiū (one does not approach a goat for slaughter with the knife in full view).
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I have stated many times, and I will restate here again that the leadership that Uhuru and Raila promised behoves them to play the role of honest statesmen who would midwife political reforms leading up to a free and fair election, followed by retirement for both of them. But they have eschewed statesmanship for skulduggery and political intrigue, lending credence to suspicions that the handshake is nothing more than a Kenyatta self-preservation scheme to which Raila Odinga has been enticed with a share of the spoils and a reinstatement of the Odinga clan to the pantheon of Kenya’s ruling dynasties. It is time to end this nonsense.

With nothing but political blunders and policy failures behind him, there is only one thing left that Uhuru Kenyatta can do for Kenya, and that is this:

Mr Uhuru Kenyatta please do us and yourself a big favour; you have neither the mandate nor the wherewithal to shape our political destiny. Just finish up and go.

Finish up what? --writing the resignation letter!?

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FADING, SINKING AWAY, AT LAST OURU DISSAPPEARS,

And President Matiang'i is conceived.

HE Ouru Kenyatta has done what he should have done long ago. Kind of get out of the way. He has been a real waste of time. But there are these periods in history, technically called interregnum, when a nation has a very high tolerance for nuisance. The last 60 years in Africa where the promise of industrialisation and independence collapsed into neo-colonialism and mass squalor, is essentially an interregnum, a period in which the ruling cliques took leave of the national dream. And it continues, proof being it is China, a foreign power in chief, underwriting the AU, ie Pan-Africanism.

Anyway, howbeit Mr. Kenyatta has furtively surrendered his pretended chairmanship of the cabinet of Kenya, offering her honour to another man, one relatively worthier of the task than him, computer kifaranga elect. In this case, arisen to the top is another villain, Fred the Robust Matiang'i. I will call him The ANTI RUTO. (project). But yes, you know what they say: until the whole series are decommissioned by, for instance, a technological advancement or the competition, the conveyor belt churns them out in different shapes and colours but, under the bonnet, the same core.

Then, power too hates a vacuum and as you know, a bird at hand is worth two K's in the bush. (2K's = Kagame + Kaguta).
As for the possibility of a woman rising to act as president of this republic, I really can't be bothered to contemplate that, even for the purposes of inclusive political correctness. The women in politics are too possessed of the slayqueen itch, they seem singularly incapable of keeping aflame the torch lit by cutthroat types such as Me Katilili, Chelagat Mutai, or Fieldmarshal Muthoni of the Mau Mau era. That narrows the power struggle at the top to males only.

When the women of Kenyan politics emerge with a progressive agenda, pontificating Wanjiku's interests, one will witness what we now do in the United States. The POTUS shines in his full reactionary colours, baring his fascist core, leading a gathering of the like-minded to chant a deportation slogan against own citizens. And some will recall the official opposition under Mama Nancy Pelosi is The Squad rather debit than credit. (That is a story about universal healthcare and funding of public schools, not to mention militarism abroad!)



Back to our shores.

As I write this, Fred Matiang'i has been further parachuted to acting president. This is from what he was promoted to only yesterday: de facto Prime Minister. Yeah, Dr. Fred is the biggest beneficiary of The Handshake. To the stalemate which has locked the (once identical) Uhuruto twins in a duel of sibling cannibalism, chapter succession, does Fred Matiang'i owe his meteoric rise. But I am much more of the opinion that, for all his hyped bulldozer-like rips, Dr. Fred has no head for economics, nor political strategy. ---He wants to rely on lucky circumstances and others to neutralise William Ruto for him. That is being a baby, that is being like Ouru was the project of Baba Moi once upon a time; a parasitic beneficiary like Mudavadi would have liked to be, licking his luck in the Kibaki succession!


It will be important to note Matiang'i has never collected a scalp at the battle fronts of corruption, and that is where the future of the land is to be decided if one asks the Kenyan for his heart. Those Mtihani House stories are children's bedtime, they do not even rank as forlorn scarecrows in a world in which supermarkets are positively poisoning Kenyans, and, for all government laboratories related to the Food Authority, it is an investigative journalist who rings the bell. Imagine then, new maize controversy aside, there is actually a war on corruption going on in Kenya! Yet this mass poisoning scandals are not exceptions. First the cancer sugar announced by Matiang'i himself, now the meat-reddening, aka the sodium metabisulfite scandal. So I say, waving these cold facts, Matiang'i is nothing when it comes to the issue Kenyans care most about, corruption. He can't mend the huge hole sinking the boat. (I would love to spin no sooner has he stepped in to act as prezzo, than Rotich and Thugge are in the cooler! So watch what comes next! But I can't. DPP Haji is a gimmicks man. Again it took journalists of the Nation to bring it to public attention that, for billions already spent on dams, not even a wheelbarrow pile of kokoto was on site!)

But first, politics.

1. NO REVERSE GEAR, A RUNAWAY DISASTER IN POLITICS:

You can rely on Matiang'i where the mercenary thorax is needed. He moved with mechanical piety to enforce the 2017 electoral rigging -- at gun-point. Murder. Baby Pendo and the likes of the pupil Moraa tell their sad tales from the grave. Neither instinctively nor intellectually did the capo perceive the dangerous balance of forces operative in public consciousness. The result of his unthinking 'thoraxity' was the freezing of economic activity. Protests spiralled to the point of breaking up Kenya. Matiang'i's toughness was midwifing two republics from one, live.

There were interesting KANU-esque bouts of recidivism. Like bans on broadcasting the truth. Only Kenya had passed the total authoritarian mentality of sh!thole bureaucrats, that Matiang'i's bluff was called and found offside. I remember we were adamant in Kisumu to our Highland neighbours. Tell this thing from Nairobi University who never saw the faculty of political science, that there is more to The People's Agwambo than Simeon Nyachaye's famous dismissal: 'mere uncircumcised d.ick'.

2. THE SWEARING IN OF RAILA ODINGA AS A WATERSHED MOMENT.

No, Matiang'i was still too drunk with little power to listen. He was on the side arguing for a military option, which would mean a bloodbath in daylight at the centre of Nairobi, and Uhuru Park. I wouldn't be surprised this the think-tank urging Kenya to solve the maritime dispute with Somalia (on the offshore oil&gas blocks) with military force. That is, the idiots maintain, the shaky KDF as already deployed in Kismayu, can be used to blackmail the Somali government into a Nanking-like treaty. (Nanking was when the decaying China was forced to gift the South China Sea as a swimming pool to the British Navy, and elevate the status of the likes of HongKong to that of Whiteman's Isles, you know, like our own Laibon Lenana in his 1904 Ogirimitis' with the same, milestones when Kenya was on her way to becoming the Queen's overseas amusement park).


Clearing Uhuru Park that day would have been a lunatic act. Think of 'the late' Omar El Bashir of Sudan, unleashing the Janjaweed in the capital Khartoum, only for that to be the final act of his last days in office. No, it isn't that Omar El Bashir wasn't tough enough, or as they say, didn't have the balls for genocide and mass murder on any given day or night, nay, during the wars in Darfur and against South Sudan, Bashir proved beyond any iota of doubt he ranks with the bloodiest of the globe. Need be, El-Bashir could run a scorched earth regime. No, it was just that this kind of bloodthirst toughness wasn't what Sudan needed anymore. No, required to arrest an economic crisis and social dislocation is a mind ironed on matters economic regeneration.

Any fool holding command can give the order to mass murder. However, organising economic uplift, that is the gem you gotta crush thousands of rock to find; that is that needle in the haystack to search.

So you are hearing me saying I have fathomed the new acting president Fred Matiang'i, and divined he is as tough as your usual tropical gangster with an insatiable bloodthirst, but on matters economics ----you know the Mahathir Deng Ke Kuan Asian Tiger kind of big balls, our new kid in town is just that, a zygote.

So, just as deeper, or instinctively more future-attuned minds stayed the trigger hands that fateful day when at Uhuru Park Agwambo was oathed by Miguna Miguna&Co, our zygote will need steadier heads and firmer minds to guide him around the office, on matters finance and justice. For impunity and Old School KANU backwardness, he has enough to last two terms! But for economic uplift and take-off, he fires only Blanco'.

But that is long term. Today, the lame -o-dead duck Ouru reckons he needs a kind of dare and brawny of which, in his cabinet, only Fred Matiang'i has the inklings of. Ouru desperately needs this to parry, or at least slow down the decided march of Ruto's forces. Ouru needs an assassin as it were, and that is Fred's role. The Luos say, a snake approaching, use whatever is at hand to check its path. (thuol iboto gi gino man e lwedo).

Picture, for a cheeky moment, the campaign trail in Kenya 2022. Matiang'i the Kieleweke-Handshake candidate, Ruto the Tangatanga and others candidate. No, methinks the Handshake would need must have a rigging plan; for Ruto in a true case of the last bullet would run Matiang'i aground, around and about the campaign trail at large, the land throughout.

Matiang'i versus Ruto is not anti-corruption versus corruption. No, it is an upstart (Ruaraka landscam) against an Old Hand (Lang'ata Weston landscam). Nothing to do with the future of Kenya.

Next: FOOTNOTES AND HOMEWORK

[jakaswanga]

BBI and THE DESPERATE UHURU KENYATTA

Mr. Kenyatta should support Punguza Mzigo.

There is a video to weep not over, child. In it, Ouru Kenyatta manages to convince me of his utter distress. He has the blues, he has the haunting spirituals of the Negroes. And then the tragedy of his disconnect hits me. And the horror of Africa at the top, unfolds in full glory.

I got the chills, child.
Watching Ouru reminded of my first un-educated, raw listening to Nina Simone's rendition of the haunting Negro spiritual, Brown Baby.



Nina Simone - Brown Baby (live in the sixties)

What can I say? One single piano note from La Nina and the hair on the back of my neck bumped gooses.
Yes,
I listened to President Ouru Kenyatta, and he touched bases of the motherless child. The orphaned Africa. I felt him. There was even a tear which started to form somewhere in the back of my mind. There was a slight sensation of burning in my eyes which surprised me, since, after I had hardened up on the tour of duty as a youth, only the guitarworks of the Congo which are said to build tunnels to the heart of tragedy, for instance to the lost tomb of Patrice Lumumba, ever moved me that far. Yes, I have a weather beaten heart, and it does not touch easy.


It goes like this. The people --Belgian mercenaries and their Congolese handmaids--- who finally disposed of Patrice Lumumba's body never told where. But there are cults and cults in Congo who know, and foretell exactly where this shrine is. After a while you recognise it is the kind of logistics only a Ferryman like Charon can navigate. Now then, there are as many guides as are the cults, but I always chose the caste of guitarists whose hands built a time-flying machine (of tones) to anywhere in space, real or imagined; and to the darkest recesses of the heart. And so one time we sat down in Kinshasa and let ourselves be ferried to the tomb of Lumumba. There to deliver a wreath from Julius Nyerere. That day I had the blues, yeah, deeper than the waters of Mayi Ndombe which inspired the song Voyage na Bandundu by the late TPOK bass crooner, Pepe Opetum.

That Nyerere bit, is a very long, long and sad story. But an African story for another day.

Anyway here is the Ouru Kenyatta performance which gave me the blues. He sounded like a man performing his own death dance upfront, wailing on his own funeral pyre yet to be, chanting his own epitaph ---aywagra kenda ka pod angima, onge ng'a ma noywaga!




Kenya has the potential to be like Singapore or China - Uhuru


----We have it all. It is all in the archives. There is nothing what is suppose to be done which does not already exist in one shelve or another here in our Kenyan archives. There is no reason whatsoever why we can't be where the Asian tigers are, Singapore or Taiwan. It is possible, jameni. Why haven't we done it!?


Hmmm! WHY HAVEN'T WE DONE IT!? Ya, jameni, why haven't we done it!?

O Africa, where art thou roaring Savannah lions!?

The son of Jomo appeared genuinely perplexed. I reckon he is equally perplexed why his years as president are such a shambles, and his desperate Big 5 with two years to go, are dead meat for the hounds. In fact I felt a tug of very discomforting anxiety listening to his Excellency, Kenyatta the second.

Here is why we can't be like those tigers. Simple targets can't be met at their rational costs, nor within their reasonable time schedules. Complex targets are then wholly non-starters. Too bewildering.

For instance, think beyond this headline.

Detectives probe possible loss of Sh70 billion at Kenya Pipeline

Moses Michira 04th Jun 2018

Special focus will be on the awarding of the most lucrative tender to Zakhem, a Lebanese firm, to build a new pipeline in 2014 at nearly Sh48 billion - but the contract price has been adjusted upwards by at least Sh2.7 billion.
Sources in the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have confirmed the progress of the probe, which KPC managers claim to know nothing about.


"It involves several cases including the last week where managers' homes were searched," one source said, referring to a raid last Saturday on the home of former KPC boss Charles Tanui.

Mr Tanui is under investigation, among others, for procurement of Sh647 million worth of specialised equipment.
SEE ALSO :Meet Kenya's only certified woman pipeline welder

Joe Sang, the KPC managing director, yesterday denied the alleged Sh70 billion losses, terming them mere speculation and rumours

And then just a bit over this one, focussing on the 'inflation factor': THE KSH. 40B KIPEVU INFLATED LATE

The Ksh1.5 Billion Kipevu Oil Jetty Scandal That Almost Happened

The unusual awarding of the contract is part of investigations by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) into the matter, in addition to allegations that the cost of the project was inflated from Sh15 billion to Sh25 billion, and then to Sh40 billion.

COLLUDED

KPA floated the tender on March 23, 2016 and 31 bidders from at least 15 countries showed interest. According to a press release issued by KPA during the prequalification stage, which was done in May 2016, tenders for construction were supposed to be issued in July 2016 and construction to commence at the beginning of 2017.

And then for a quick second import this.

Kenya Pipeline boss fights back in Sh95bn loss claim
by KNAJune 5, 2018


Sang and Company Secretary Gloria Khafafa (right) speaks to the members of the media during a press conference at KPC head quarters Nairobi.

On Tuesday, Sang had termed claims that the company had lost tens of billions "malicious, astonishing and calculated to injure KPC's reputaion."
"Our turnover in a year is Sh28 billion and our profit before tax is Sh10 billion... a loss of Sh95 billion (as reported by the Daily Nation) translates to 10 years of profits." he said.
Sang was appointed CEO in 2016. Yesterday, Sang said the company will pay an extra Sh4.4 billion above the estimated cost to the contractor as Extension of Time costs.

For More of This and Other Stories, Grab Your Copy of the Standard Newspaper.

Zakhem had demanded to be paid Sh18 billion.

"We placed a counter claim because we felt that the three parties, the contractor, Shengli Engineering who are the consultants and us, were all to blame for the delays," said Sang.

SEE ALSO :KRA hunts pipeline contractor for Sh18 billion in back taxes

He said they presented the matter before the Arbitration Association of Kenya who arrived at the Sh4.4 billion claim.

That is a PATTERN. And the plotting of additional data conforming, will lead to an inevitable conclusion. The Asian tigers will show a DIFFERENT PATTERN at their time of basic infrastructural program realisation.

Anybody with the time can check up the corruption indices and compare them. The Asian tigers are corrupt yes, but there is a story there all the difference. This is the way Raila Odinga captured it.

The visiting Asian minister for infrastructure asked his African counterpart, say Dr. Michael Uhuruto Kamau, 'how come from a government salary your house sprawls more than the Forbidden City in Beijin?'

The African replied: 'you see that road over there!?'

The Asian could see no road. Just a sewage path.

'1% there, 99% here!'

Then Uhuru Kenyatta returned the visit. The African noticed how small the house of his counterpart was, and how inexclusive the furniture: 'How come you live like a miser and you are so powerful?' The African asked his host.

The Asian replied: 'You see how big and wide the roads are? You saw how modern and fully equipped the hospitals are? You saw our list of rich Africans like Mugabe and Laboso come here for cancer treatment?'

The African nodded lamely, a hollow feeling in his stomach. The Asian grinned with a touch of loathsome mock: '99% there, 1% here!'

The way the audience laughed, Agwambo had hit a homerun on the comedy world series. We all know.
Except Uhuru Kenyatta, incidentally the president of a going big state.

That is when I feel like a motherless child, to whom the saddest lullaby in the world was ever sung, by Nina Simone. And sometimes I feel the insane shame of a Chinese nationalist court poet who gorged his eyes out, so that he would not witness the emperor of China sign China into the (opium addiction) subservience to English merchants.

Go away, Uhuru Kenyatta, just go away, you brainless thing. The priorities of this country are beyond your head. You are in mental shock, your mind is disintegrated. You need the cool of a sanatorium. You are too bewildered by obvious reality.

Ati, why can't we be like Singapore! You ask in a serious moment of introspection! Aiyayayayaya!

On one hand Ouru wants to maintain the economic order which catapulted his ilk to the top but confined the majority to squalor: JM Kariuki long ago put it as the dreadful Kenya of 10 millionaires and 20 million destitutes. Yet at the same time Mr. Kenyatta wants the nation to break free and catch up with the rest of the pacemakers from Asia. But he does not want the radical reforms, the elementary prerequisites, the transformational safeguards that buttress that forwards pace. What rests are such public displays of hysterics, sorrowful theatrics and foolish impotence, which are what the president serves the nation these days as his passion.

NEXT: OF MALICIOUS NEGLIGENCE IN OFFICE

[jakaswanga]

Sept 12, 2019 19:57:57 GMT 3 jakaswanga said:

BBI and THE DESPERATE UHURU KENYATTA

Mr. Kenyatta should support Punguza Mzigo.

There is a video to weep not over, child. In it, Ouru Kenyatta manages to convince me of his utter distress. He has the blues, he has the haunting spirituals of the Negroes. And then the tragedy of his disconnect hits me. And the horror of Africa at the top, unfolds in full glory.

I got the chills, child.
Watching Ouru reminded of my first un-educated, raw listening to Nina Simone's rendition of the haunting Negro spiritual, Brown Baby.
--------------------.

Anyway here is the Ouru Kenyatta performance which gave me the blues. He sounded like a man performing his own death dance upfront, wailing on his own funeral pyre yet to be, chanting his own epitaph ---aywagra kenda ka pod angima, onge ng'a ma noywaga!




Kenya has the potential to be like Singapore or China - Uhuru


----We have it all. It is all in the archives. There is nothing what is suppose to be done which does not already exist in one shelve or another here in our Kenyan archives. There is no reason whatsoever why we can't be where the Asian tigers are, Singapore or Taiwan. It is possible, jameni. Why haven't we done it!?


Hmmm! WHY HAVEN'T WE DONE IT!? Ya, jameni, why haven't we done it!?

O Africa, where art thou roaring Savannah lions!?

The son of Jomo appeared genuinely perplexed. I reckon he is equally perplexed why his years as president are such a shambles, and his desperate Big 5 with two years to go, are dead meat for the hounds. In fact I felt a tug of very discomforting anxiety listening to his Excellency, Kenyatta the second.

Here is why we can't be like those tigers. Simple targets can't be met at their rational costs, nor within their reasonable time schedules. Complex targets are then wholly non-starters. Too bewildering.

For instance, think beyond this headline.

Detectives probe possible loss of Sh70 billion at Kenya Pipeline

Moses Michira 04th Jun 2018

NEXT: OF MALICIOUS NEGLIGENCE IN OFFICE

FOOTNOTE NEGLIGENCE: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

It is not that there is nothing being done. Of course there is something being done. --Massively.
For 1: China has taken command of Africa's future, industrialising us per force, and how!?

NB: To underscore the 'per force', look before all else at the total budget of infrastructure projects China is funding in Africa. Call them China self-financed giant steps for Africa.

One of them is the Djibouti-Addis Ababa modern railway line.

The 750km (465 mile) railway line began operations in January 2018 and is Africa's first electrified cross-border railway.

And many more, wherefore a bleeding nose from a usual suspect

Chinese investments in Africa go off the rails



Beijing signals new approach as concern grows over misguided 'vanity projects'


With Chinese conductors at the helm, a fleet of shiny new trains will on October 5, 2016 begin plying a new route from the Ethiopian capital to Djibouti, in a major boost to both economies.

The 750 kilometre (460 mile) railway, built by two Chinese companies, will link Addis Ababa to the Red Sea port city of Djibouti in about 10 hours, a far cry from the current excruciating multi-day trip along a congested, pot-holed road

The electric railway linking Addis Ababa to Djibouti cost $4.5bn and is drawing detractors from China to Ethiopia[i/

But if you are already a bleeding-nosed detractor over $4.5bn for Ethiopia, what happens to you when you eat this, THE GRAND RENAISSANCE DAM, concurrently, $.5.4bn being finished

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is estimated to cost close to 5 billion US dollars, about 7% of the of the 2016 Ethiopian gross national product.

The lack of international finance for projects on the Blue Nile River have had long been alleged to Egypt's persistent campaign to maintain presumed hegemony on the Nile water share. Ethiopia is forced to finance the GERD with crowd funding through internal fund raising in the form of selling bond and persuading employees to contribute a portion of their incomes.

Despite the domestic success in fund raising, the contribution of Ethiopians and Ethiopian descent living abroad was met with scepticism due to the political environment in Ethiopia. The Chinese government is providing significant amount of international finance to the hydropower infrastructure.

Gulf States were also claimed to contribute to the construction of the Dam along the Middle East political line with respect to their relationship with Egypt. Opposition to the government is intertwined with opposition to the fund raising for the dam.

The dam is completed over 70% by the end of 2017 and strain of cash is being reported. The successful completion of GERD without explicit support from western financial institutions will have a significant impact on the perception and awareness of Nile water development.

The parallels between the planning, construction and financing of High Aswan dam and GERD are stark reminders of critical role of international community to promote co-operation and avoid unintended and lasting ripples on the socio-economic and political landscape of the region.

I think you get the point when I say China is Industrialising Africa per force.

All our bureaucrats do is try to eat as much as possible, inflating the costs of the projects, saddling the population with extra debt.

Eat this too

Meanwhile, criticism of the Mombasa-Nairobi line, Kenya's biggest infrastructure project since it gained independence in 1963, has increased. Three Chinese nationals working for the China Road and Bridge Corporation were last month charged in Kenya with attempting to bribe local officials investigating an alleged ticketing scam that was said to be depriving the railway of $10,000 a day in revenue.

The rail line had failed to achieve its goal of cutting congestion on the parallel highway by shifting freight from trucks to trains, said John Githongo, a Kenyan anti-corruption campaigner. The highway was as busy as ever, he added. Bechtel, a US construction company, even planned to build a $3bn road along the same route, he said.

"We knew from the very beginning that this was a lemon of a project and it is simply becoming more and more apparent every day," Mr Githongo said. Beijing in September signalled its concern about the economic case for the line, turning down a request to fund an extension towards the Ugandan border until a full feasibility study had been conducted.

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What the 'simple-minded' African elite can do, as these 'LUNATIC' projects debase the pristine geography of the dark continent, is plot how much to steal, and what else to do to self-defeat themselves and let Africa stay a colonial museum forever.

For Kenya therefore, consider what we have done to economically defeat the SGR upfront, to turn it as it were, into a lunatic express tragedy. In this respect special mention must be made of the NLC under professor Muhammad Swazuri. When Paul Kagame saw the inflated land rates, he balked

Taxpayers will have to foot a land compensation bill worth over Sh30 billion for the standard gauge railway (SGR) once the project is completed.
The National Land Commission (NLC) says that over 4, 600 hectares will be acquired for the new 609km Mombasa-Nairobi railway.
"The acreage of land gazette for the Standard Gauge Railway is 4,616 hectares with compensation amounting to Sh30.2 billion," said Mohamed Swazuri.

The Commission delegated payment of land billions to Kenya Railways amid claims of flawed compensation.
A leaked Kenya Railway internal audit report revealed massive irregularities in compensation of both individuals and companies whose land the government acquired to pave the way for the new railway.

That is what I call Africans working hard to sabotage their future.

Some will also remember on the same account, that the SGR was the brainchild of the Raila-Kibaki Tosha pact. But when the GCG broke down, Cartels captured the project, merchandised it, and in the vacuum and confusion of the transition from Kibaki's GCG to Uhuruto in 2013, the costs of the project grew wings, and flew to the sky.

Can't blame Chinaman for that, can we!? ---Chinaman is even ready to use CHINESE SLAVE LABOUR to cut costs to near zero! They look at the idle youth on top of motorbikes and cring: why not let those able-bodied young men work 10 hours real hard for ksh.200 to the day?


Again, that is Africans working very hard to ruin their own economy. Whether at the top like Rotich and Thugge, or at the bottom like bodaboda loafers. Dealing with such scum, one can't blame the Chinese for the compensational ruthlessness of insisting Mombasa Port be mortgaged. Surely, a people who work so hard to defeat the purpose of the economic advancement of their own country, will think nothing of double-crossing a foreigner on his money, should the foreigner be careless enough, or foolishly in love enough with a Kenyan like the late Tob Cohen.

I am sure China EXIM bank does not intend to end up in a septic tank reservoir in Africa.

FILLING THE VACUUM

Classical European colonialism did away with progressive indigenous leadership and genocided the real nationalist rebels. What remained to be co-opted were of a survivalist, collaborator mentality. And this predator mentality became the consciousness of the colonial bureaucracy, virtually still rampant as the pervasive modus operandi. ---99% here, 1% there! If you catch.

Once colonialism entrenched itself as a system, and with a backward strand of Christianity imposed as the spiritual enforcer of the order, it could bureaucratically do what its purpose was: exploitation and pillage. It became a highly successful racket which went on for centuries. The dark continent became the lost continent under European civilisation and the enlightenment of Christianity.

Now, quantum leap to 2010. And what do we have after a decade of Chinese penetration and Western retreat? --(into the jingoistic bravado of having won the cold war and the ideological conflict of history!?)
We have
1. A rising Africa by universal acclaim. But may be a 'rebased' meaning. PRd or pimped up.
2.Yes, Africa is rising. Chinese Capital, Expertise and Engineering doing the heavy lifting.
But We the sleeping ...
And
The African heads of state like Uhuru Kenyatta and Museveni, all duly elected like Kagame and Nkurinziza of course, confess a public picture of irrelevance.

The BRI OR OBOR goes on whether they like it or not.

And how about the highly-educated and, on the face of it, technically highly skilled Africans running the state organs? --We can only repeat the daily truths our eyes see, throughout the continent at large. It is the OBI OKONKWO syndrome as an epidemic amongst the technocrats. And amongst those who study and rank these things we read, as in Transparency International indices: The African states boast the most corrupt cluster of bureaucrats on earth, just like our cities pack some of the sh!tiest slums.

Which brings me back to the perplexed Uhuru Kenyatta. His distress call in public: JAMENI, WHY CAN'T WE BE LIKE SINGAPORE, THE ASIAN TIGERS! We have it all, yawa!

Well, have you seen the super stardom of the CV's in the Jubilee cabinet of PS's!? It is what we used to say of Gem in Siaya. (iyud ng'ani en Professa, iyud ma en Dokta. Phd-girigi to koro ok kwanre, kata guogi ni godo!)

When I was in primary school there were stories Gem in Siaya was such an educated place, even the sheep grazing beside the road had Phd's.
Whaaat!?
--In stupidity of course, a Nyatiti wit called Ogwan'g Lelo Kokoth cracked it for us!
You might want to forego the thought, that the PHD's of African bureaucrats are like the legendary Phd's of the sheep of Gem.

Otherwise why would the president of Kenya go around hee-howing in public like a lost donkey looking for a mate whilst his cabinet is PHD full!

I rest my case.