REF: PUNDA NACHOKA SANA, PUNGUZA MZIGO NOW!

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REFERENDUM: PUNDA NACHOKA SANA, PUNGUZA MZIGO NOW!


EEE, Sirikali yawa! sirikali wewe in psychopath, husikii wala huoni uchungu ya punda! Ei, sirikali yawa, sirikali! --that is a ringtone I heard today!

So

Un Ouru gi Raila gi Ruto uwinjo, maler punda nachoka sana, sana. Hilo jambo la Okuru Okot ni kweli kabisa. Ata kule juu Mungu amepiga seyi, haki ya Mungu, na kuweka amuri ya FINITO: Mzigo itapunguzua, punda imechoka. By order of heaven!



It can be postponed, and likely willbe; but only so long. The donkey will simply buckle under, and that is a bankrupt situation.


I have not met anyone speaking their own minds who does not agree the Kenyan Punda imechoka. But the few dissenters, as soon as they posture, too reveal a lack of inner conviction, nay, like the usual parrots on the party majira, they cut a picture of sheep taught what to bleat. But deep down they know, the days are numbered. Punda imechoka.


THE POLITICAL CLASS CLOSES RANKS.

Political class would rather have Building Bridges than Punguza Mzigo referendum, analysts say

July 21, 2019


KHRC Executive Director George Kegoro (left) cautioned that the political establishment will seek to sabotage the Punguza Mzigo Initiative while constitutional lawyer Kamotho Waiganjo (right) says Thirdway Alliance will need multiple skills to cross the county assembly threshold/CFM

By LABAN WANAMBISI, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 21 - Debate over the push for a referendum continues to divide public opinion after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) verified over 1.2 million signatures of registered voters presented in support of the Punguza Mzigo Initiative sponsored by Thirdway Alliance party.
Legal experts say the Thirdway Alliance leader Ekuru Aukot who finished in third place in the 2017 Fresh Presidential Election has his work cut out for him to ensure at least 24 of the 47 county assemblies in the country support the referendum Bill.

Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) Executive Director George Kegoro cautioned Aukot that the political establishment who were caught flatfooted by the IEBC announcement on verification of signatures in support of the Punguza Mzigo Initiative on Thursday.
The Aukot-led initiative had met the constitutional threshold of 1 million signatures for presentation of the proposals for the amendment to the county assemblies.

It seeks to have the number of lawmakers reduced from 416 to 147.
Kegoro points out that by killing the initiative at the county assembly the political class will have effectively eliminated the option of the country having to hold a national referendum on the Aukot's proposed amendments on the Constitution Kenya promulgated in 2010.
"The possibility of a referendum will change the nature of politics. In particular, the rumoured referendum by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will now be dancing on a plan that the Punguza Mzigo has established. One possibility is that the political establishment will seek to put Punguza in its place by engineering county assemblies to reject the proposals."
"There will have to be trade-offs with counties that are currently sulking after a season of hardball politics over national revenue sharing," KHRC Executive Director adds.

READ: Duale, Orengo urge county assemblies to reject Aukot's referendum Bill

Constitutional lawyer Kamotho Waiganjo on is part says Aukot will need multiple skills to cross this county assembly threshold.
Waiganjo notes that the Punguza Mizigo's waterloo comes with its attempt to remove all nominated seats in parliament and county assemblies and deals with the gender issue by requiring that each county elects a man and a woman to Parliament.
"It fundamentally goes against the 'one man- one vote principle'. Kakamega County with its almost 2 million population will have the same number of representatives as Lamu County with its 100,000 residents. This is grossly inequitable. A more prudent approach would have been to go the America way and allocate seats on the basis of population, at least in the National Assembly while leaving the County based seats to the Senate," he said.

The former Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution Commissioner points to the initiative's proposal to address the ballooning cost of maintaining elected representatives by fixing remuneration of MPs to Sh300,000 and the President to Sh500,000 as another reason why the political class would want to sabotage Aukot's push.

"Kenyans will be united in supporting this proposal. Constitutions hardly ever fix such salaries by numbers but this proposal responds to our unique circumstances where MPs will use all tricks in the book to enhance their salaries," Waiganjo explained

The President's party has rejected Thirdway Alliance's Punguza Mzigo referendum bill and joined the opposition in rooting for the Building Bridges Initiative task force report.
Jubilee secretary-general Raphael Tuju Tuesday told Nation that the party will only support a referendum backed by the views of Kenyans.

ODM dismisses 'Punguza Mzigo' referendum

Thursday July 25 2019

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has rejected Thirdway Alliance Party's Punguza Mzigo referendum bill arguing that it has failed to address structure of government and public debt.
ODM politicians have been fronting proposal to have the Executive expanded to include the position of a powerful prime minister.
President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga have also hinted at having an expanded Executive that will accommodate all communities.

OUCH

A section of Kenyans on Twitter have called on Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party Secretary General Edwin Sifuna to resign from the party.

This follows a vow Sifuna took while appearing on a local media station that he would resign if former presidential aspirant Ekuru Aukot's party, Thirdway Alliance Kenya, managed a one million threshold required to invoke a referendum in its Punguza Mzigo initiative.
"I can guarantee you and I want to bet in front of this country, if this Thirdway Alliance is able to raise these signatures, I will resign as the secretary-general of ODM," Sifuna vowed.
He said this on October 19, 2018, during an interview on KBC TV, where he was being interviewed alongside the party's SG Fredrick Okango.

Sifuna argued that if ODM party failed in its Okoa Kenya campaign, it was impossible for Aukot's campaign to get the required minimum signatures judging from the 'big' party's experience.
Read: Armed Men Attack Aukot's Thirdway Alliance Offices, Shoot At SG Okango
However, in a statement on Thursday evening, the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) confirmed that Aukot's initiative was supported by a total of 1,222,541 registered voters.

'It wasn't me': ODM's Sifuna now says on vow to resign if Aukot hits 1M signatures

By Citizen Reporter For Citizen Digital Published on: July 19,


So, what does Mr. Sifuna have to say about it, exactly what you expected. He tweeted on Friday morning; "It wasn't me. I was misquoted. I don't recall. I said re-sign not resign. I would rather die. I've never been on KBC. I don't know who Third Way are Take your pick! This is a WIND ASSISTED and pyrrhic "victory" but all the best to @eaukot @fokango and their #PunguzaMizigoBill2019."

Mudavadi Under Fire for Dismissing Punguza Mzigo Initiative


Amani National Congress party leader Musali Mudavadi has found himself on the receiving end of social media users after dismissing calls for a referendum under Third Way Alliance Punguza Mzigo Initiative.
Musalia who was speaking at a church function in Siaya county on Sunday termed the initiative as a case of misplaced priority terming the war on corruption as the main issue Kenya should concentrate on at the moment.

Thirdway Alliance presidential candidate Ekuru Aukot with his lawyer Elias Mutuma. His Punguza Mzigo Initiative has gained popularity among many Kenyans. Photo/File
"Let our focus be on the war against corruption. That is where we will reduce this Mzigo. We should reduce excessive borrowings, relevant authorities should follow closely, repossess all grabbed and stolen public money then we will be able to reduce the burden" Said Mudavadi

Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka (right) addresses a press conference alongside the newly elected party chairman Chirau Ali Mwakwere during the party's National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Nairobi on July 28, 2019. [David Njaaga,Standard]

Wiper gives BBI ultimatum as it opposes Punguza Mzigo

Wainaina Wambu 29th Jul 2019
The Wiper Democratic Movement has hit out at the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) for taking too long to present its proposals for a referendum push.

This emerged after the party yesterday voiced its strong opposition to the Punguza Mzigo Bill that was recently tabled in all 47 county assemblies. The bill is seeking a constitutional change after passing the required one million signatures.
Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka (pictured) accused the BBI of working at a "snail's speed" and gave it a 60-day ultimatum to present its proposals that it has been collecting across the country for over a year now.
"We are putting pressure on BBI. They should wake up and give the country their proposals. The Punguza Mzigo is hoodwinking Kenyans and we blame the BBI for walking at a snail speed," said Kalonzo.

Punguza Mzigo is against devolution, should be avoided by all means- Senator Kajwang

Otiende Amollo: Punguza Mzigo must fall

On Wednesday, a court in Nairobi barred assemblies from discussing the bill until a case filed by a member of the public is heard and determined.
Aukot has singled out opposition leader Raila Odinga, Ford Kenya boss Moses Wetangula, Aden Duale and Kalonzo Musyoka for allegedly being a stumbling block to his Bill.
"Raila, Kalonzo, Aden Duale and Moses Wetangula are on record telling Kenyans to reject Punguza Mzigo proposals as we await the ongeza mzigo proposals. We are now more than ever convinced that they are the sponsors of the frivolous petitions against the bill in court," said Aukot.

So the tanks are closed at the top. The ONGEZA MIZIGO GANG are out to have a party on top of the donkey! They say, that is the way the cookie crumbles. But I think theirs is the delusion of parasites who never saw a day's work. n---Mzigo? Which Mzigo!?

Ouru Kenyatta has more money than he knows what to do with. Watch him poison himself with overweight. William Ruto give the phrase Mr. MoneyBags a new height in meaning. See him donate ten millions cash to Churches. Weta just fresh from swindling millions off the now one-less-wifed Makhtoum of Dubai. Courtesy of fake gold.

Princess Haya Bint al Hussein, the sixth wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the billionaire ruler of Dubai, is said to be seeking refuge in London after reportedly leaving her husband and fleeing Dubai

Kenyan parliamentarians are the envy of the world. Their perks, mileage allowances, entertainment bonuses, benchmark fully paid five-star trips to anywhere on the planet for as long as they wish, not to mention sky-high salaries, not even CEO's of big profitable companies would dream of.

To such people as we call Mpigs, PUNGUZA MIZIGO correctly sounds like a DEATH-KNELL. It is of course. ---But in how many tolls is the question!

NB: Watching the humiliation of Isaac Ruto during the whole Laboso funeral service and interment, I think this is the vacuum he must fill: run away with punguza Mzigo, sell it like mad to the people.

There is something of a softie visible in Ekuru Aukot. Turned into a punching bag by Raila, Ouru Ruto and their pack of political thugs and hired hitmen, I fear Ekuru may just piss in his pants.

I don't see him having the balls it takes for instance in a studio debate, to stare William Ruto down and dismiss him with: for your land theft where that Hotel is built, you should be in Kamiti, or under restrictions like Waititu on bail, not here bandying words with me! Punguza Mzigo also means jailing thieves, thief!


I am sure tht his hit power far beyond Dr. Ekuru's abilities. Neither can he threaten Raila Odinga with the new KEBS lab report on the maize Agwambo imported ----cancerous! Nor can he dismiss Ouru to go home with his cabinet of thieves, including his pugnacious protege Matiang'i, conflicted over Ruaraka land scams.

No, Dr. Ekuru is a gentleman and boardroom intellectual. He wouldn't have the guts for hand to hand, man to man combat, daily around the country for months on end. May be he has it, but I haven't seen glimpses of it yet: a killer's grit. I am just seeing a playboy. A child unaware he has pulled a loaded gun on the mob's capo's! The Kartel's fundamentals.

This is a battle for the survival of a political infrastructure. Ekuru is introducing revolution through the backdoor. --Why do you think a man of Otiende Amollo's intellect would insist PUNGUZA MIGIZO must be CRUSHED!?

Only yesterday in the run to the oat of Raila as people's president, were the peoples assemblies designated to be the centrepieces of the peoples democracy. Today Otiende Amollo, the designated peoples republic attorney General, cheers a court order that banned the debate on Punguza Mzigo at the MCA's. What spooked Amollo into such an intellectual collapse!?

But the answer to that would necessarily be a LUO PIVOT post!

Punda imechoka, lakini akili ya wakili pia imechoka!

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LOYA-JIRGA

def: A Loya Jirga is an ancient Afghan tradition that has been convened at times of national crisis or to settle major disputes. The most recent jirga was held in 2013, when the Afghan government endorsed a security agreement allowing U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond their planned withdrawal in 2014

PUNDA IMECHOKA: FROM LANCASTER LONDON TO AN ASSEMBLY NEAR YOU!


A journey of a thousand kilometres starts but with a single step. The rest is endurance. On the brave of it, Ekuru Aukot's initiative which goes under the name of Punguza Mzigo Punda imechoka, is the KANU world upside-down, KADU idea right step up! ---And then, it is Kenya's future to be discussed and determined at your local LOYA JIRGA. --Peoples Rural assembly, under the airy ancient trees so to speak!

That is as it should be. O native, you are no longer the ignorant wog you were back in the 50's!

Ever since colonialism summarily put an end to the then ubiquitous, ancient tradition of LOYA-JIRGA'S under equally ancient Baobab or Mugumo trees, the future of African countrysides and nation-states have been traditionally determined in far-off capital cities. Yes, in Metropoles like London at the foreign and colonial office; in capitals like Washington DC, at the WB's and IMF's desks.

I am not sure, but I can put a lot of weight on it. It was this recognition of the changed reality ... (the profoundness of the colonial revolution) ----that the key decisions to the future now lay in EuropeAN hands, which motivated the KCA (Kikuyu Central Association) to dispatch Johnstone Kamau, the later Jomo Kenyatta, to London. Young Kamau's mission was to argue the case for an alternative relationship between the Whiteman in Kenya and the native (whose lands had been grabbed with genocidal impunity). And, howbeit, don't we --at the KATIBA INSTITUTE-- read in history about the LANCASTER CONFERENCES!

Lancaster House Conferences (Kenya)

The Lancaster House conferences were three meetings (1960, 1962, 1963) in which Kenya's constitutional framework and independence were negotiated.

The first conference was under the chairmanship of Secretary of State for the Colonies Iain Macleod in January 1960. There was no agreement, and Macleod issued an interim constitution.[1]

The second conference commenced in February 1962, and a framework for self-governance was negotiated.

The 1963 conference finalized constitutional arrangements for Kenya's independence as a dominion, marking the end of more than 70 years of colonial rule.(1963 Constitution of Kenya)

HERE IS A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT TO PERUSE ***FOOTNOTE.

Even today when the world is called a global village, London is far from any place in Kenya. In 1962, it could as well have been a planet away to most Kenyans. The swahili work N'gambo, I am told, can also mean other world, with a connotation of fictitious, wonderland.

But there it was, a few selected Kenyans were invited at the Queen's leisure to, in total isolation from their base, ostensibly discuss, but practically have imposed upon them, the infrastructure of post-colonial rule. In effect, they were there to get their orders to come and administer the neo-colonial agenda.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga woke up a few years later to yell, damn! NOT YET UHURU! And BAM! Those already enjoying the matunda's did not know what the suspected commie was yapping about!

FF: an opinion

Why ghosts of Bomas draft haunt Kenyans

Steve Mkawale 20th May 2018

According to constitutional lawyer and a former member of the defunct Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, Mutakha Kangu, the Bomas draft is to date the "most concerted, collective and nationally representative" constitution that could be called "truly Kenyan".
"The 2005 referendum itself was a betrayal to Kenyans because the Bomas process was an opportune moment for Kenyans to design a constitution that would cater for the interests of all its citizens unlike the one that was foisted on Kenyans at independence," says Dr Kangu. The Bomas draft was torn apart once Yash Pal Ghai was removed as the chairman of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission. By the time the Wako or Kilifi draft was presented to the public for voting on November 21, 2005, everything that could go wrong had gone wrong.
In the ensuing referendum, the No (Orange) side, led by Raila, beat the Yes (Banana) led by President Mwai Kibaki by a landslide.
Fast forward to 2018, Raila's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) wants the country to go the parliamentary system, with a prime minister as the head of government and a president as the head of state.The president would appoint a PM from the majority party in Parliament.

So, whatever happened at Bomas happened. We got it wrong. Then there is the 2010 promulgated document. Again the consensus is we got it wrong.

But what all these getting-wrongs have in common, is that they really have never had a LOYA-JIRGA STAMP! Yes, the assembly under the Baobab where they also discuss matters of marital infidelity, and the chopping off of the male members of serial rapists. And in some cultures, sentence witches to cremation atop a wood-pile.

It does not take a leap of imagination to recognise that, the PUNDA IMECHOKA discussion will readily evolve to PUNDA AMEKASIRIKA, MZIGO APATE ASANTE YAKE! --TEKE!

This is why those in charge of the looting state can not afford to let go of their control over the process. No, party discipline on the ground at the ward level can not be guaranteed. The ward level is where theft is dealt with mercilessly like in mob justice. There is no way the head of loya jirga at your local will behave like Willy Mutunga who didn't know whether to define those who had stolen public land as integrity challenged, so much so that they could not hold public office.

Ouru Raila and Ruto know the donkey is unwilling. One day you can take the donkey to the water but not force it to drink. All MCA's can be bribed, but come the voting day they would vote Punguza mzigo, punda imechoka.

What is wrong with the Ekuru Aukot suggestion if you have read them? Somebody asked Dr. Adams Oloo of the BBI team. The inverview was in Dholuo. Apparently it was a dangerous question. Either the good doc has no linguistic proficiency in the said language, or his mind was just a whirl of confusion, thus his incoherence.



FOOTNOTE DOCUMENT

1962 Lancaster House Conference

By G. G. W. Nthenge Former M. L. C Machakos, MP. Ivet1 South MP Kamuicunji.

15-09-2001

The above was held because Kenyans, Africans in particular for over 50 years were objecting to being a British Colony. Finally the British government decided to invite to Britain all M.L.C.S members of Kenya Legislative Council to discuss fully the matter.
Kenya Legislative Council then had members who belonged to various groups whose political believes were very different. There were:-
(1) Colonial civil servants - Europeans
(2) Elected members by
(a) Africans - anti-colonialism
(b) Asians 50-50
(c) Europeans (British) for colony

The African elected M.L.C.S were of KANU and KADU whose political beliefs were very similar. Their differences were on methods of approach and individual behaviour.

Before we Africans went to London KADU sc KANU were called by Mr. Kenyatta and agreed in principal their aim was the same. Later Kenyatta joined KANU. Hence all the parties including Asian party &c Europeans met separately to discuss Kenya future.
KANU Secretary had made many press statements (that) saying Kenya-KANU wanted unitary government.
KADU had made statements that it wanted that it wanted a Federal government. May closed door meetings were held by each party. Finally they invited constitutional lawyers for advice.

We in KANU had agreed on what we wanted in principle, which was we wanted power to be shared by many. KADU as well had arrived at the same ideas but we did not compare notes till we met at Lancaster House in London.
KANU's proposal was some power was to be given to districts. KADU's proposal was some power should be given to provinces. After a discussion we all accepted to give power to provinces in the name of regions.

The conference had many advising lawyers from all groups. In the conference finally all agreed to give power to:-
(1) Senate - one elected person in each district
(2) National Assembly with more members in consideration of both population &!: area.
(3) Regional Assemblies with elected members from the region.
(4) Local Councils without much power but deriving their powers from Regional Assemblies.

First African government was formed on return by both KANU and KADU. That government prepared 1963 elections. On return Hon. Members appointed by both parties became Ministers and Assistant Ministers.
Dr. T. Toweet and I with other MLCS formed a KANU KADU opposition to mate KADU KANU government work. Dr. T. Toweet became the Secretary and I became leader of the opposition - Chairman.

In 1963 election used 1962 Kenya Constitution. The Constitution was practiced for about 3-4 years.
Due to selfishness of a few leaders, full of pride the constitution was changed reducing power from many to a few if not one. It happened that then I was a member of the Electoral Commission, from Eastern Province.

We in the Commission were instructed to create an extra constituency in each district to accommodate the senators who were each representing a district. The regional governments and the Senate were done away with. Life of K.N.A. was added a year.
I was a great supporter of 1962 Lancaster House Constitution. I am still a great supporter of it with minor amendments without changing the basic principle of power to be shared by many. KANU and KADU differed in terminology and individual pride & selfishness

The amendments I would like to see in 1962 constitution among others are:-
(a) status of candidates to be raised greatly
(b) no member of Parliament to go beyond four periods
(c) no President to go beyond 2 terms
(d) a Senator should be over 50 years with good leadership record period 3x5
(e) Regional assembly over 35 years with two other positive qualifications period 4 times maximum.

Positive points to be considered among others are:-
1. Education
2. Leadership
3. Honest wealth
4. Experience
5. Wisdom
6. Acceptability

LAND;

Reduce the number of individual large farms. Reduce individual small farms uneconomically used. join them into large cooperative farming managed by highly qualified persons for proper scientific farming. None Kenyans to lease land not beyond 40 years or there about.

GENERAL:

No harambees except to government that is taxation and proceeds be for all in the nation.
Leadership by those who declare wealth obtained fairly. Extra rich person without proper accounting to pay that extra the government by any person. Those who lead government in any capacity and enriched themselves to return to government. Ministers to be from all areas.

Why 1962 Constitution is good

1. It gives power to many for power is tempting and it corrupts
2. Many persons are employed
3. Fair regional competition will develop Kenya
4. It makes the Nation grow gently and tribes finally would develop friendship and great understanding
5. Potentiality of (various) all areas will be exploited in each region.

1962: Kenya African Democratic Union ministers and British government officials meet in London to negotiate the country's future
Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ngala are more concerned to tie up the details of the package deal they will be taking home to Kenya.

In local political terms, their ultimate concern has always been that they should not have to return to Nairobi empty-handed. Now they will have their package : a plan which contains much of the elements which KADU came here to fight for, but also contains most of the federal safeguards which the KADU delegates, the men of the smaller tribes, were determined to have in order to safeguard their lives and their freedom in a future independent Kenya.

At his hotel last night Mr Ngala told me that he was very satisfied after his decisive ninety minute meeting with Mr Maudling. He said: "Our assessment of the draft plan is that it gives us a very high percentage of what we had set out to fight for. It gives us a federal type of constitution. It gives us regions with their own assemblies, with federal police, and with exclusive executive, administrative and legislative powers. They are powers entrenched in the constitution and protected by the right of appeal in the courts. The plan leaves out some details, which will have to be rounded off back in Kenya."

[Kenya gained its independence from Britain on 12 December 1963]

Imagine over half a century later, just the B-part of the first point of Ronald Ngala's statement in 1962 is what we call the 2nd Liberation! --Regions with own assemblies!

And even that regional assembly to discuss PUNDA IMECHOKA, is banned by a court ruling today!
Omera! I think we are dearly asking for it. And it is bound to come, the federal state. Be sure that is too much even for Ekuru Aukot. ---Close to 60 years after Ronald Ngala said it was the key reason he had signed the Lancaster, Maudling plan for Kenya.

I am not too sure the LOYA-JIRGA's of Turkana wont endorse the Ngala Plan, with all that oil flowing!

I said, there is something of as a softie in Ekuru Aukot. He hesitates from the logical pathway of his thinking. Yet it is all out there in the open!

Rarieda Mpig Otiende Amollo: this plan must be crushed
Homa Bay Senator Kajwang: punda imechoka must fail!

But the duo may not even be aware of the historical current they ride why their vehemence!

The archives at Lancaster for a paradigm.

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BUILDING BRIDGES INITIATIVE, OR CONTAINING WILLIAM RUTO?

No, first, it is containing Ekuru Aukot and his third way, Punda imechoka, Punguza nini!

The pressure has been so intense on the Tangatanga front, that its King and standard-bearer, William Ruto, was forced into a calculated retreat. Neither does the other side, Team Kieleweke or Handshake, feel confident they can sustain the pressure. So they have been forced into a duplicituous parley.

It's revelation was a messy show.

It was phoney and visibly unconvincing, but the best that could be done. William's words and his body language clashed like high waves on a high cliff ---that is an intense intimacy of indifference. Ruto needs to align his head with his heart for a little health, as it is, he is a total grotesk. When, as a seasoned politician and a smooth liar ---a natural born hypocrite in flow, your body language does not match your rhetoric in politics, you invite jackals and scavengers, because they will recognise the loud bellows of a stricken bull, thrashing about and incapacitated, making dread dins: its death cries.

His tongue waxed loud with reconciliatory talk, WSR, he embraced his his enemy as it were, but his body stayed ice cold, cast and indifferent. As he tongued Raila Odinga as his brother, his body language remained a pressurised tank of venom. Raila Odinga too acknowledged his ... you know .... no-longer prodigal brother, but his 'handshaked' body language remained the tears of a hungry crocodile at a meal. No, the body languages could not be politically scripted. The involuntary system stayed honest, maintained autonomy from spin doctors. It was like when Judas smiled at The Escariot in that mirror, satisfied the kiss had been practised to perfection. Jesus here I come.

The embrace was as good as physical, only the stiffness and total discomfort confirmed the known. They are not just separated, they are divorced already. They are two rocks side by side, but emotionally dead to the other. But a lot of life are relationships independent of ones will, so the comprador top of Kenya have a need to put up appearances. They can only manage such rotten shows of hypocritical formality, but times are dire. The whole class is threatened, survival dictates solidarity. The terror is Punda, Punda imechoka. Dr. Ekuru Aukot's Punguza Mzigo initiative is correctly recognised by the political Oligarchy as a Trojan Horse chalice, to their Lucrative Fort. ---As Otiende Amollo put it: It must be CRUSHED.

Now that is a forthright man!

And that is the rationale for the grand parley between Raila and Ruto.

NB: This Amollo and Ekuru were once in the distinguished panel of experts who wrote us the 2010 promise. It is quite a document of course, and Wanjiku promulgated it in force. That this epic constitution now lies torn in the dustbin, or flies around like dismembered litter in the historical winds, is a ruthless reminder of the extents to which the ruling elite of Kenya will go to maintain their lock-hold. My brother this, my brother that. Hmmm.

Continued.

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FOOTNOTE: CASH-S'TRAPPED?

REFERENDUM TALK, SOUNDTRACK LABOUR UNREST! GHENYA!

It is the economy stupid, a former USA president said on his way up. Unluckily the come-back kid is these days more mentioned in annex to the now suicided paedophile monster, Jeffrey Epstein. But that is another long, long tragi-tabloid story.

A powerful way of getting a glimpse of the real economy is to survey of the labour front, and note how its conflicts with the opposite side, employers or capital, are faring out. A nuanced tranquility should be a huraah! the other tranquility, that of the broken and pacified.

So what do we have in Kenya? a very lively front!?

The Big news is Referendum, and with it, on the sidelines, talk of a super alliance between the leading dynasts. It verily smells of the cheek of KAPUTIN. And again that is another story.

So there are a lot of distractions the powers that be are firing out to unfocus the population from their hunger!

Here is some smoke from the not too hidden fires.

The private sector all over the world has moved in the same direction. Employees no longer have a job for life with a guaranteed pension.

However, contracts make employees disposable. How can their interests be protected?

We called it the 'gladiator's contract'. When one was employed as a gladiator in Rome, there was only one way one could show up again for work the next day. A killing performance. For the entertainment of the nobility.

This reduces, reforms the Kenya Army to a bunch of mercenaries. But that is another story. Anyway the suggestion is out there.

Public servants to be put on three-year contracts from July

Wednesday June 19 2019


The government will hire civil servants on contract from July 1 as part of public service reforms that seek to boost productivity and trim the wage bill.
Those joining the civil service will get three-year contracts, renewable only on satisfactory performance, while serving staff will be subjected to performance contracting from the same date - a clear departure from the permanent and pensionable terms civil servants have enjoyed since independence.

POLICY CHANGE

Announcing the policy change, Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman Stephen Kirogo Tuesday said the move will compel public workers to put in more effort and raise productivity.
"Once people believe they're permanent and pensionable, there's little motivation to perform and they become comfortable. We want to disturb that comfort so that people are retained on performance," Mr Kirogo said, adding: "...the public service is bloated, lethargic and unproductive."
Further, he noted that "nothing short of a brutal approach" would work for the country.

An on the other side to the same story .... the usual suspects, UNIONS!

Central Organisation of Trade Unions (Cotu) Secretary-General Francis Atwoli opposed the move and urged MPs to block it. He threatened to challenge the policy in court.

Some years back, the government tried to introduce similar measures in the education sector, but was opposed by the teachers' unions.
Mr Seth Panyako, the Kenya National Union of Nurses Secretary-General also opposed the plan, saying: "We oppose and reject that attempt by PSC to frustrate and intimidate Kenyan workers."
The PSC, he said, has no mandate to unilaterally develop far-reaching policies without public participation and parliamentary approval.
Speaking from Geneva, Switzerland, Mr Panyako said his union would challenge the decision in court.

REBOOT SERVICE

"We have not been involved and, therefore, we oppose [the plan] from the outset. Every Kenyan has a right to social protection of which pension is one of the key pillars, hence to casualise employment in Kenya is to subject Kenyans to retirement in poverty. We certainly cannot allow this."
On Tuesday, the leadership of Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (Kuppet) were unavailable for comment as every indication shows their members may not be spared.

Senate summons Yatani and Oparanya over county salaries standoff

By Amina Wako August 12th, 2019

The senators want Yatani and Oparanya to appear before the Senate's Finance and Budget Committee chaired by Mandera Senator Mohamed Mohamud to discuss ways of resolving the cash crisis in the counties.
"The meeting must provide all the necessary resolutions to protect any public office that may be required to use administrative measures to unlock the stalemate so counties can start receiving money before the end of this month," Kindiki said.

DELAYED SALARIES

The summoning comes even as 21 counties still plan to down their tools on Tuesday over delayed salaries.

The governors have sighted the Division of Revenue Bill stalemate as the reason for delayed in salaries and funding of county activities.
Senators want the counties allocated Sh335 billion in the current financial year while Members of Parliament have insisted on Sh316 billion, leading to a standoff.

Nurses threaten another strike over pay, accuse CoG of foul play

Friday August 9 2019

Nurses have threatened to paralyse operations in 35 counties starting Monday evening over delays in payment of their July salaries.
Kenya National Union of Nurses' Secretary-General Seth Panyako said on Thursday that only 12 of the 47 counties had paid their health workers.
"We have declared total war with these counties if they do not pay nurses by close of business on Monday 5pm. None of the health workers will go to work," said Mr Panyako.

CoG BLAMED

Mr Panyako blamed the Council of Governors for the impending crisis, accusing it of misleading governors on payment of salaries and remittance of union fees.
He accused CoG chairman Wycliffe Oparanya (Kakamega) of poor leadership and misguiding governors

Mr Panyako said, "Oparanya has paid nurses in his county yet he is urging the other counties not to pay. Kakamega County remitted the salaries on Thursday morning yet Governor Oparanya has issued a letter of 'press for hard times'. What kind of leadership is this?"
The official further accused the chair of "continuously hoodwinking and misleading governors because the healthcare system in his county will be running smoothly as the rest run in havoc".
Kakamega, Mombasa, Wajir, Garissa, Nairobi, Kajiado, Kiambu, Tana River, Turkana, Kwale, Bungoma, Kisii are the counties that have paid their health workers.
Mr Panyako also accused governors of duping Kenyans by seeking treatment outside the country, leaving the healthcare systems in counties in mayhem.
"The strike will cause the grounding of every service, including ambulances, but these governors will seek private healthcare out of the country or in expensive hospitals, leaving 'Wanjiku' languishing because the whole system will have been brought to a halt," he said.

COUNTY FUNDS

Speaking in Kisumu during the requiem mass of branch official Ferdinand Ongeri, who was murdered in July, Mr Panyako also dismissed claims that counties do not have money for salaries.
"We all know that when there is a stalemate in the budget, 50 per cent of it is released to counties for recurrent expenditure and emergencies. So 50 per cent of the budget is available," he said.
However, President Uhuru Kenyatta has maintained that the National Treasury has no extra money for counties.
Responding to demands by governors and senators for more money, the President told counties to work with what they were allocated earlier.

WORKING CONDITIONS

The union further noted that nurses are frustrated while on duty and that they lack security.
He condemned the brutal killing of Mr Ongeri whose mutilated body was found in Kimondi Forest, Nandi County, on July 26, days after he went missing.
"This is the second nurse to be killed in two years after the nurse in Machakos was killed. I urge counties and the national government to enhance the security of nurses and ensure perpetrators of this heinous act are brought to book," Mr Panyako said.

House allowances wrangle between SRC and MCAs heads to court

By Collins Omulo August 12th, 2019

DISCRIMINATORY

High Court Judge Chacha Mwita in the Constitutional Petition No. 328 of 2016 ruled on October 5 last year that deputy governors are entitled to house allowances like other state officers.
Mwita found that failure to award the deputy county chiefs housing allowances was discriminatory, unjustifiably selective, and contrary to Article 27 of the Constitution.
If SRC gives in to the MCAs demands, then the government will have to fork out Sh85,000 every month to the 1,450 ward reps across the country.

The wrangle between Members of County Assembly (MCAs) and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) over the latter's call to be given house allowances could be headed back to the corridors of justice.
This is as even some MCAs have opposed the push by their counterparts to have the allowance implemented.

Ministries have up to end month to settle pending bills of Sh450 billion

Steve Mkawale and Robert Kiplagat 02nd Jun 2019

President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed ministries and government agencies to settle pending bills that do not have audit queries by June 30.

The national government has more than Sh350 billion pending bills for contractors and suppliers.
Speaking during Madaraka Day celebrations at Narok Stadium, yesterday, the Head of State noted that the pending bills have soured relations between investors and the government.
"This has also reduced overall spending and business activity in our economy. To alleviate this situation, I hereby direct that all accounting officers to settle all pending payments that do not have audit queries before the end of the current financial year on June 30."
SEE ALSO :Kiswahili-speaking US ambassador McCarter turns to Sheng to fight graft
The President further ordered county governments to clear pending bills that have hit the Sh100 billion mark.
The Head of State was responding to complaints by contractors and suppliers of national and county governments over pending bills.

The centrepiece battle! this union must be crushed!

Teachers face pay cut in ugly battle between TSC and Knut

Augustine Oduor 03rd Aug 2019
Major shock awaits nearly 190,000 teachers as the employer moves to recover billions of shillings paid to Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) members two years ago when the Sh54 billion-salary increment was implemented.

It will be a double blow to teachers allied to Knut as the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) lowers their job grades in a major demotion move meant to comply with the recent Labour Court orders.
Lowered grades
Knut has already suffered a major set back as it emerged that TSC failed to deduct and remit Sh140 million monthly dues, threatening to cripple operations of the giant union.

SEE ALSO :KNUT officials implicated in threatening family of defiled minor

TSC deducts two per cent of teachers' basic pay and remits to Knut to run operations and sustain its branch activities.
The boycott by TSC means that the union may have to find alternative ways of collecting the dues directly from its members, under a hostile environment that currently requires the teachers to re-state whether they want to remain in the union.
Yesterday, TSC Chief Executive Officer Nancy Macharia said the decisions were necessary following the recent court ruling. She said the Commission is unable to promote or fully pay the Knut teachers their July salary raise that was due end of July.
"Inevitably, this will also lead to reversal of grades and full recovery of the previous enhanced salaries and allowances since July 1, 2017," Dr Macharia said.

This means that all Knut members will have their job grades lowered to the original cadres before July 1 and the monies paid to them recovered in a major development that is likely to draw uproar.

SEE ALSO :5,000 teachers to get Sh1m each

Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion dismissed the position taken by TSC, saying the court ruling was direct.
"It is wrong for TSC to interpret the ruling in a manner that would hurt teachers," Sossion said yesterday.
In his ruling, Labour Court Judge Byram Ongaya set aside contested career progression guidelines introduced by TSC to guide promotions, handing Knut a major win.

Knut had opposed the new guidelines, demanding that promotions be based on merit, seniority, vacancies, academic and professional qualifications. TSC's plea that all teachers promotions be based on performance as contained in the career progression guidelines was also quashed.

Justice Ongaya had also nullified the 2016 Performance Appraisal System for teachers, but later lifted the orders and asked TSC to roll them out as soon as practically possible.
SEE ALSO :Knut moves to calm members on salary
In a tough statement released yesterday, TSC said the court ruling left the Commission in an awkward position over the full implementation of the CBA.

Macharia revealed that to comply with the court order, it was necessary to run a parallel payroll to capture Knut members and those who are not affiliated to the union.
"The judgment necessitated preparation of two parallel payrolls in order to comply with the ruling without disadvantaging teachers who are not Knut members," she said.

She however said non-Knut members have benefited from the implementation of Phase Three of the 2017-2021 CBA.
"Their pay slips will reflect the enhanced pay in line with their grades. The payroll for Knut members has not factored in Phase Three of the CBA because the court ordered that their terms be based on the Schemes of Service and not Career Progression Guidelines (CPG)," Macharia added.

SEE ALSO :Knut calls crisis meeting on pay row, vows to trim TSC powers

This means that some 103,624 Knut members - including head teachers, deputy head teachers and senior teachers - will be affected.
"Inevitably, this will also lead to Knut members losing all the benefits embedded in the CPG as an implementation tool for the CBA," she said.
The TSC CEO said part of the loses will affect major promotional benefits that had been achieved through the career progression guidelines.
"Specifically, some 96,000 teachers formerly designated as P1 and who were promoted to B5 with effect from July 1, 2017 will not be promoted under common cadre to C1 on July 1, 2020."
Under the new grading structure, Grade P1 which fell under Job group G was scrapped and replaced with Grade B5. The Grade B5 is now the entry grade for all primary school teachers. Grades that followed J, K, L, M, N have been re-named C1, C2, C3, C4 and C5 respectively.

One could say, it is a bit stormy on the labour front.

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Court allows MCAs to debate Punguza Mizigo Bill

Faith Karanja 13th Aug 2019


Court has cleared the 47 county assemblies to debate Ekuru Aukot's Punguza Mzigo Bill 2019.


High Court Judge John Mativo on Tuesday dismissed an application by David Ngari and Timothy Odhiambo after they failed to appear in court for the hearing of the petition.

“Orders issued to stop deliberations on the Punguza Mizigo Initiative Bill is hereby lifted,” ruled judge Mativo.

The two had filed a suit at the High Court in Milimani, Nairobi, challenging Third way Alliance’s Punguza Mizigo referendum Bill.

They had asked the court to stop the consideration of the Bill by all the 47 county assemblies after Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) forwarded it to the devolved legislative assemblies.

The petitioners argued that IEBC failed to authenticate signatures of voters supporting the referendum bid.

IEBC had said 1.2 million registered voters supported the initiative by the Ekuru Aukot-led Thirdway Alliance Party.

Ngari had accused the IEBC of contravening Article 257 of the Constitution by failing to authenticate the signatures of 1,222,541 registered voters who supported the initiative.

“The admitted failure to authenticate the signatures of the purported supporters of the initiative amounts to a fundamental breach of the Constitution,” Ngari stated.

“There is a real and imminent risk that IEBC may submit an unlawful Bill to the county assemblies within the next three months for consideration,” the petitioner added.

He wants results of the verification quashed, and IEBC prohibited from forwarding the Bill to county assemblies for consideration.

He also faulted Thirdway Alliance for publishing the list of individuals who support the Bill on its website without notifying members of the public.

On August 1, 2019, court had stopped counties from debating Punzuga Mizigo Bill for two weeks pending the hearing of the petition filed in court to challenge it.

Justice James Makau had also stopped the Dr Ekuru Aukot-led party from presenting proposals to speaker of the National Assembly Justin Muturi for debate pending determination of two suits challenging the process.

“I am satisfied that the applicants have raised valid concerns about the initiative and hereby issue an order stopping the 47 county assemblies from debating or approving the Bill pending determination of the suit,” ruled Makau.

The two petitions were separately filed by David Ngari and the International Economic Law Centre while the second was filed by activist Timothy Odhiambo.

They were supposed to be consolidated on Tuesday but the applications were dismissed.

Odhiambo and Ngari of IELC (International Economic Law Centre) failed to turn up for the all-important day!? But why was it not worth their time after the initial heavy blaze of guns!? Hmmm.

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KAPUTIN AND THE PUNDA-LOAD DEBATE

It seems an accepted point, that Uhuru Kenyatta will not retire wholly in 2022. That he wont be running again for president is sure. This ambiguous scenario conjures up the image of a dodge first made famous by Simon Mbugua. Mbugua who is a representative in the EAC parliament --called EALA-- was running fully scared. He had spilled the beans on one of the most dangerous political submarines active in the deeps of Kenya's murky waters. ---None other than Nancy Gitau.

KAPUTIN refers to the Putin-Medvedev back-and-forth. Putin temporarily became Prime Minister and Medvedev President, to avoid the embarrassing eventuality of revising the constitution to allow Putin endless terms in power. This was a very convenient political shuffle at the top. A dirty but legal arrangement for the same clique to maintain power past their burial date.

1. There's some evidence the global tendency ---replicated in the neighbourhood------ is toward a recidivism.
Our Dear Supreme Leader Xi Jinpin expensed with China's term limit to install himself Caesar for Life.
Donald Trump's Old Rome White House is a den of nepotism with his daughter and son in law at the helm.
Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, after a successful coup within the conservative party, seems hell-bent on squatting at number 10 Downing Street and doing reckless things without the peoples mandate.
Africa's life presidents are on a roll. Al-Sisi of Egypt, Kagame of Rwanda, M7 of Uganda, the other boy of Burundi (whom Robert Mugabe made fun of and told to stop pretending and be himself: a full-fledged dictator!). On the whole, the dark continent (even as it famously rises) seems to be still shy of a daring passage into the light of civilisation. Howbeit Kenya looks about to exhibit a variant of that recidivism, albeit a mild form because Kenya's population ---considering their reaction to the last blatant rigging of the presidential vote---- is politically too rowdy to stomach the complete primitive packet. But there is obviously contagion. And if left to their own devices, there is determination on the part of the our ruling fraternity to indulge themselves in atavism. In this they are possessed not of a death-wish but an extinction drive.

KAPUTIN

You'll be used and dumped by Jubilee, Simon Mbugua warns Raila - VIDEO

By NAHASHON MUSUNGU May 17th, 2018


'Wamekuwa wakikaa, kuna kitu inaitwa kaPutin, sasa wanasukuma governor aingilie ndiyo President atoke kuwa President akuwe Prime Minister, kama vile Putin alifanya kule Russia. Nataka nimwambie Raila usidanganywe, hapa umekuja kuwekwa box, upitishe katiba ukishapitisha katiba ya referendum, uende nyumbani tena."

(They have been sitting and planning something coded 'KaPutin', now they are pushing governor (Mike Sonko) to be part of it so that President (Uhuru Kenyatta) leaves the Presidency (after the end of his term in 2022) the way (Russian President Vladimir Putin) did. But I want to tell Raila not to be deceived, they just want you to help them pass the referendum and then send you into retirement.)

But I imagine the old fox Agwambo has meanwhile covered his bases. Therefore is the risk worth his while. The die is cast.

But it has a slippery base. Ongeza Mzigo is underwritten by dynasties, chiefly the Moi, Odinga and Kenyatta dynasties. Orbiting around and behind them is the caucus of aristocratic capital. Kaputin can therefore be criticised ---as it has been by The Hustler Nation's artillery---- as a dynasty's plot to secure their continued dominance, in any case as their inheritors mature. For there is no Kenyatta to succeed Ouru, nor an Odinga to step into the shoes of Raila. And throwing Gideo against William will be like a lamb to a lion contest. So the older generation has to hold fort for a bit longer, more so, given the wolf William. --Let him into State House with the Imperial Presidency intact, Kipchirchir Singh, be it will the end of dynasties as he will establish his own, at their cost!

But for all these, nobody amongst the political establishment will go all out to support PUNGUZA MZIGO. Since the chant Punguza Mzigo sounds like UHURU! UHURU! or PINY OWACHO! PINY OWACHO! did to the colonial establishment and their collaborator Africans back in the 50's.

PINY OWACHO (or UHURU! UHURU!) was just a breath short of --MAU MAU-- terrorism to the colonial governor. That is the pathology which collapsed the governor into the state of emergency which saw the likes of Jomo, Achieng' Oneko, Paul Ngei and the rest of the six, end up in Kapenguria after a night of decapitation.

A STOCK OF JOKES!

As I watched Raila pour scorn on Punguza Mzigo, belittle Ekuru Aukot and dismiss the Kenyans who appended their signatures to this initiative, I couldn't help thinking of the colonial governor insisting the majority of Africans are peace-loving and dedicated to the Queen of England. 'They want nothing to do with the few hotheads inspired by the primitive rituals of Mau Mau and its pathological bloodthirst to create trouble. Once we remove these few hot heads ---Like Kenyatta and Omad-One, all will be tranquil on the political front.

Soon after arriving in Kenya the new governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, declared a State of Emergency on October 20, 1952.

Beginning on the same day, colonial security forces launched Operation Jock Scott in which a hundred African political leaders, including Kenyatta, and eight thousand others were arrested to remove the leadership of what was now called Mau Mau.

It didn't quite work out like that. But these things take time.

NB: Did Kipchumba Murkomem really write that tweet, apologising for having KEPT SILENT while Dr. Miguna Miguna was trashed for a Canadian, his rights suspended, his house in Runda ransacked with explosives, and he himself blindfolded and driven around dingy detention centres as if he, Miguna, were a Mau Mau, sorry, Al-Shabaab suspect headed for Kapenguria, sorry, black sites!

I say BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! There is even hope one of these days the acting president Dr. Fred Matiang'i will voluntarily regain the use of his head like Murkomem, or failing that, undergo a forced intellectual detoxification ritual in Gussii which will inculcate in him the need for a humbled Mea Culpa. You see the Gussii is making no bones about it, they are fronting him as their presidential candidate and will be lobbying other Kenyans to come to their cause. This means trusting a man who has trashed nearly 10 court rulings on the civil liberties of a citizen with the new to revised constitution, post whichever referendum result, punguza or ongeza!

The Miguna Miguna case is easily moving to the forefront as a test. I wonder how many times the cock will crow before all of us Kenyans go, HI HI HI! of course we all along knew! MIGUNA EN JALUO MOA KANO AHERO KA! --Huyo jamaa ni mwenyeji, Mkenya asili kamili!

What kind of mindset must a human being suffer to deny the obvious!?

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BREAKING A STALEMATE:


LESSONS FROM THE PROROGATION OF UK'S BORIS JOHNSON

Its content is a declaration of a state of emergency, but without military re-enforcement. It is the neutralisation of official opposition, in the designated house. It is the dissolution of parliament for a rule by decree. Boris Johnson's is a power grab with a thin veneer of legality. It is a see-through veil of tantalising mischief underneath. It is a very English upper class affair, in that sense traditional, and thus only theatrically shocking. I doubt there is anything Scottish in it, Irish even less.

The term itself was first used in the 15th century. Back then, British governments were usually summoned for brief periods, then dismissed at the monarch's whim. Those early parliaments were designed to approve taxes and royal expenditures, and were given the monarchical boot when they were done.

Over time, though, parliament gained more power, and monarchs started using prorogation to put them in check. For example, in 1759 Elizabeth I prorogued parliament to avoid public debate of a potential suitor, Francis, Duke of Alencon. Other monarchs used the tactic for good reason-in 1608, for example, James IV issued a prorogation in response to a typhus epidemic in London.

Charles I is perhaps the best-known example of a proroguing king. In 1629, he prorogued a hostile parliament that resented a previous tax the king had imposed without their permission. He didn't reconvene the legislature for 11 years. In the meantime, the rogue ruler sidestepped taxation laws and whipped up hatred among his subjects, sentiments that fuelled a civil war and his eventual execution for treason.

But of particular relevance which raised my curiosity is this. When Clement Attlee had a radical program to rebuild Britain after the second world war, and dregs from the past blocked his path. The compost heap had to be reduced some way

In 1948, the Labour Party prime minister prorogued parliament in order to silence House of Lords opposition to a law that would have reduced their powers ..... .

the rubbish from the past were going to sit on a nationalisation bill forever.

SIT ON!

And that TEMPLATE, --sit on, our parliament which is full of lazy and corrupted lawyers, burnt the midnight oil to refashion to fit the Kenyan case.

MPIGS PLOT TO SIT ON PUNGUZA MZIGO FOREVER!

Right, here in commonwealth Kenya in 2019, a useless and parasitic band of legislators commonly known as Mpigs have sworn to DEFEAT the popular PUNGUZA MZIGO initiative, should it come to parliament. --Because it will reduce their numbers from an overblown burden of +350 to less than 150.

As I write this, Governors are threatening to close down county governments for lack of disbursed funds from the central treasury. Some county workers have not been paid for five months! not to mention suppliers long ruined coz of payment delays.

Kenyan legislators are ranked the second-highest paid lawmakers in the world, beating their counterparts from the developed economies of US, Britain and Japan. The politicians earn a basic salary of Sh6.39 million per year but Kenya's per capita income is much lower than that of rich countries, translating into comparatively high pay for the MPs.

Such a country --behind in its recurrent expenditures and too debt-ridden to meet regular investment obligations---- needs a serious bout of austerity, or at least a radical surgery to enhance monetary efficiency. Failing to pay workers five months on, is already a collapsed system. The regime is an economic outlaw. A serial defaulter on essentials.

my main man JOHN MBADI

The Mpig John Mbadi of the (formerly?) popular party is on record. He is working on the sit-on thing. He is the minority leader in the national assembly. That title is now meaningless given the Union of the peoples and official presidents, under the handshake. This is the mercenary John Mbadi who went to mouth Christian slogans to dissuade the mother of Ken Okoth from burying a banana tuber to stand in for her far-away cremated son, but failed to defend Imran Okoth from Kibrans descended on him for the cremation of his brother!

But Johnny boy has been doing his homework, reading law, how best to use parliament to kill THE POPULAR Punguza Mzigo.

MPs' secret card to stop Punguza Mizigo Bill

Moses Nyamori 30th Aug 2019

At the heart of the plot is a bid by MPs to protect President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition chief Raila Odinga's Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), which is expected to come up with a Bill for a referendum.
Yesterday, Minority Leader in the National Assembly John Mbadi dropped the bombshell when he revealed that Parliament can decide to 'sit' on the Bill until the term of the current Parliament expires.

Mr Mbadi said they have no specific timelines within which the House should take a position on the Bill.
"This Bill is very unpopular with MPs of both Houses. We may decide not to make any decision on it and delay it as much as we can," said Mbadi.

One could say, with the mischief of black humour, that the Mpigs are asking to be permanently prorogued. And Kenya beggars a 'proroguer' of sorts.
But to pick up the original story which fired this trajectory of the Kenyan Mpigs snorting with impunity, daring the fates and the people to roast them in their own fat .......

SO WHAT'S UP WITH THE BRITISH PROROGUER, JOHNSON?

He does not think Britain is great enough within the EU. Boris has a long history in journalism as an anti EU ballistics insert. It is kind of stuffy there, with France and Germany running the show. The UK is treated like a transatlantic Trojan horse. Which is right. Their prime ministers are invariably known as poodles of whatever and whoever the American president be. Boris's relationship with Trump does not discourage that narrative.

And the people voted Brexit. And so Brexit it must be. Boris is in his element. Make Britain Very Great again outside the EU. Yes, the UK is better alone, unencumbered by the barbarian continentals.

Yet this prospect scares the living daylights out of the establishment in London. Yet is what the people voted for. It was a marginal victory, but that is their system, absolute majorities, winner takes it all. But this time the political class decided otherwise. Teresa May dithered and dithered, until she demised. David Cameron just fainted at the referendum result.And labour's Jeremy Corbyn is the personification of mealy-mouthed confusion and double speak. Meanwhile the establishment did everything to prevent a VELVET DIVORCE, making a hard brexit inevitable. And thus a stalemate emerged which needs a daring soul.

But reality has its senses of humour too. What has arisen in the vacuum at the top of Britain is a clownesk type. Boris Johnson is a kind of real-life satire of James Bond. A dare-devil with a wink.

But these are not the movies.

Boris will deliver what the people voted for. He does not like the peoples will thwarted. He does not like rigged elections. When people get what they didn't vote for, Boris plays hard and ruthless, with a comical face. When the popular vote was for Hilary but the electoral college rigged the seat for Trump, Boris thought that was a very American thing. The Kenyans too of course voted for Raila but Chebukati counted all of them for Uhuruto. That time Boris said Kenya was the land of Obama's father and there is really nothing they can get right, let alone a count. But when it comes to his own country, his patriotic instincts are excellent: What the people vote, exactly the people get. That is democracy, the best of the worst, or something like that Churchil claimed. Boris is a man of his word. He is not a liar like Tony Blair. Blair is famed for his lies over Iraqi WMD. The result was a war in which over half a million Iraqi children were sacrificed, a horror which Marylene Albright found a worthy price to get rid of Saddam Hussein. ---There will be a special place in hell for bureaucrats like Marylene.

Now, Hard or Soft Brexit will be under Johnson. Unless in a very British fashion the establishment finds a way to pull the rug from under clown of a usurper. In any case knives are being sharpened both ways. And one of these days it could be a night of the long knives. And a very English affair.

No, forget Wales.

How about Kenya? And her 'house of Lords' which, in 'BLACK MISCHIEF', will meet and sit on a pro-peoples bill?
What are our homegrown equivalents of prorogations?

We are still young. Less than a century Old. We hardly have established precedents, edified into rituals. We are still investigating, experimenting, brainstorming. We are full of adolescent testosterone, youthful wrecklessness, inexperienced foolhardiness and deluded infallibility.

The Kenyan parliament, one of the most rotten institutions in the land ---they took as low as 5k bribes to sleep on the cancerous sugar report! Neither did they table nor debate the Ndung'u report and the TJRC RECONCILIATION TEMPLATE---- is telling Kenyans Kenya is stuck with them forever! Hakuna mta do! Punguza mzigo go to hell!

That is exactly how immortal elites end up in the rubbish pit of history.

NB: BBI, what would be in BBI which was not covered in the TJRC report and proposals!?

Today punguza mzigo still sounds like TAFADHALI SIRIKALI PLEASE!

But vindu vichenjanga. ---Even in Kenya.

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READING (Rtd) COLONEL OGUNA'S LIPS: OIL REFINERY OR NOT?

Before we come to why I think Colonel Oguna is in the thick of it, some preliminary thinking. Ever since Oguna's predecessor, Nzioka Waita, banned Ouru Kenyatta from revealing the details of the SGR contract in which Mombasa port was allegedly collateralised secretly, I have been hearing alarm bells in my subconscious. And when the former Auditor General, the generally laser sharp Eduard Ouko, showed what looked like deliberate confusion on the issue, the option of ingnoring the bells as false alarms perished.

And then came the vile and dismissive arrogance with which the establishment plotted to kill PUNGUZA MZIGO.

Then it is old brooms sweep best: classical political economy.

Intro:

There's stuff I just have to hear from the horse's own mouth. Even if I have another version, and can access a myriad other versions.

For instance. On July 14 2014, Flight MH017 was shot down over the Ukraine, specifically the Eastern part (known as Novorussia) where a civil war raged. 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. But with all the combined technological finesse of the USA, the German EU and Russia overseeing the disaster zone, the truth is still out there. Which means as far as I am concerned where the interests are huge and powerful, only the Mouth of God will be the horse that sets my mind to peace by proclaiming the truth. The truth is too dangerous for powerful mankind.

THE LATE MOUTH OF GOD

No, not that I am spending my days like a devout pilgrim to Dodona or Delphi on a bad day. Such desperados are camped in anxiety outside The Oracle, because bad weather is approaching but the Throat of Heaven clears itself not.

It could be an endless wait in the rain, Africa waiting for the real rise.

As an adult I still enjoy lies from adults. Fellows or not. It is a trait I developed in childhood when I was a big fan of fairy tales. And where I was bred, they didn't come bigger than Adam and Eve, and an evil snake of course. ---A riddle of which I am still a fanatical fan!

You see, Kenya could have been a paradise were it not for the snake of corruption ---I think, thinking of what well-run states transform into, in a few years, with a little money well-managed.

THE FABLES OF TURKANA OIL

What then, is the real story the Turkana Oil?
I mean,
What role does the mini OIL BOOM play the Hustler's versus Dynasties bullsh1t, or play in the hidden Chronicles of 2022 politics and beyond? *Many interested parties included in beyond!

This one intrigues me speechless ....

Because, just as the White Settler colonial policy of power for whites only was more about monopolising 'free African land and cheap African labour' than upgrading the natives from darkness to light, I find it difficult to believe 2022 politics can be so hot in Kenya without the oil to fire them. Thinking of Anglo-Boer wars too, intense political wars which pretend they are not about resources, especially a ready-made cash-tap like flowing crude whetting the appetites of PROVEN PREDATORS, are old women who are deep into make-up and cosmetic surgery to recapture their gone youth. Grotesk exercises in delusion.

So I openly talk about a BLACK MISCHIEF GALORE, in contemporary Nairobi.

IT means before I enjoy the fairy tales around the rolling oil business, I want to call a spade a spade for my own sanity's sake. Hustlers vs Dynasties is nothing but a greedy turf war at the top over Turkana's black gold --- a new, wild frontier opened for pillage. As traditional sectors of plunder diminish (tax has to be ruthlessly collected to pay off the huge infrastructure loans whose costs were hyper inflated), the battle to control the new lucrative sources is bitter and deadly.

We will study the machinations of the Hustler-appointee Keter, once delegated to the Energy docket, and how KENYA PIPELINE, through a series of scandals (all in the public domain), leaked a GDP-shocking amount! If Kenyatta One used LAND as the available method of primitive accumulation, then, well, the KPC has been the available method for ....

As for the Turkanas', just as the colonial authorities deemed Gikuyu (who had it as their ancestral land) litter on the now designated 'Whiteman's Highlands', the national government in Nairobi has of course declared the oil primarily Kenyan. (See the revenue division bill.) The natives of the land where the black gold is mined will be left with some hooves to gnaw, like scavengers in a melee over some stripped carcass.

NB: It is not for nothing it is EKURU AUKOT, who is authoring a new revenue division bill in effect. Punguza Mzigo is a new revenue division bill, in effect.

Where does Dr. Aukot come from?

Ekuru Aukot: A man from a place Kenya forgot

09th Oct 2011

He may have been catapulted to fame through his work at the Committee of Experts on Constitution Review but EKURU AUKOT'S main passion is advocating for the rights of minority groups. He spoke to PETER MUIRURI

"As a pastoralist from Turkana, who am I and where are my nationality and citizenship? I am primarily known as a Kenyan because I hold a Kenyan passport. Yet I am a member of a group that is spread across at least four countries. So where is my real nationality, my citizenship, my state?"

This is the passion with which Dr Ekuru Aukot describes the harsh reality that confronts nomadic communities that have to crisscross man-made regional borders almost every day, risking life and limb, in search of water and pasture for their livestock.
Life in the vast, arid Turkana County is not for the fainthearted. Ekuru is a living example of how tribal conflicts over scanty resources can transform an individual.

Dr. Ekuru wants to replicate his individual rise for the whole community. Not just him alone, the whole of Turkana, wherever they might be in the whole of the East African federation. ---That is an agenda beyond the settlers in Nairobi, be they Hustlers!

And,
.... you heard of dynasties? ....

Wherefore will I pontificate, that it is no historical happenstance, that it is who and who, or say the usual suspects, who have positioned to shoot down PUNGUZA MZIGO ----with, I might add, the callous but calculated ruthlessness of the Habyarmana downing.

I think like this: Turkana is effectively stone-age compared to Nairobi county for instance. 60% of the OIL drips, condensing as cash, should be funneled into the arid area to propel it 200 years ahead to where Dubai is today; and all those two centuries to happen in two gubernatorial terms flat. In other words there has to be A TURKANA OIL INVESTMENT FUND, for the TURKANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. An authority specially purposed transform a stone age area into ..... A BOTSWANA .... in one decade.

---Adult minds may have heard of 'WIRTSCHAFTSWUNDER'

For the kids around, WIRTCHAFTSWUNDER is one of those classic fairy tales from the fames Brothers: GRIMM!

I said, I love fairy tales.

NB: Consider the story of the Anglo-Boer wars in South Africa narrated without the discovery of Gold as the Main Event. Afrikaner nationalism and its fanatical dedication to the New Land was of course a Golden Cult. It was a piety swimming in the Urine of the Gods. And one recognises the ruthless invention of the British, the Concentration Camp, to extirpate fellow whites if need be, to clear off the competition. Blacks of course ---the true natives---- were not factored in as competition, merely as use tools of whoever won. So I grin thus: Tangatanga or Kieleweke winning, Hustlers or Dynasties winning, The Turkana stay in their concentration camp.

It is just the political economy of our times and land. Pillage.

So where do we start!?

Public records are best (secrets will tumble out during the divorce as we see between Keitany and Mithika). Then will we also know all the insides and outs of the SGR-loans and Hoduma numbers and Mombasa port as collateral, etc etc!)

So here we go.

KENYA'S OIL RIDDLE: Exportation to China in 20 days | THE BIG STORY




Next: the politics of the refinery.

[jakaswanga]

WHEN AL-SAUD MET ROOSEVELT IN THE DEAL OF THE CENTURY

I can't bother to re-invent the wheel. I have heard of ARAMCO. So I read its genesis. But lets say, even if the Turtkana Oil find is a pittance ---60,000 barrels per day, that is enough for a mini ARAMCO. And that is good thinking.

Let me put it like this. GIRI EN GIRI, ma kata otin. -row your boat with the paddle you have, and maximise your means.

Others have monsters like ROSNEFT AND GAZPROM, exxonmobil Caltex and BP, Petrobas, Petronas and Pedevesa (PDVSA), for their billion barrels per year of crude. No hassles, too, other peoples have navies which have giant aicraft carriers and mammoth submarines loaded with a billion kilotons of nuclear power, and we just wish them all the luck to destroy or dominate the world, but we have our thing too. ---We still have our KDF! Kenya Navy and Airforce. And we are proud of our chicks. These may be toy armed forces compared to world powers, and our Generals a pigmy breed compared to their American, Russian or Chinese counterparts, but you don't see us disbanding the KDF, do you!?

It has no fancy killer submarines, no fancy aircraft carriers, no Israeli-beating pilots, but the KDF is still our KICK-ASS MACHINE. Flag post of our might!

Giri en Giri, and the KDF is ours. We will reform it not disband it. And that is the political economy of our paltry 60,000 barrels per day and 50 million people. Disqualifying ourselves from an own refinery on the grounds of the economics of scale, while South Sudan and Uganda are oil fields and we are the main man, is to me, pure idiocy.

When you are rising, you better be rising. An EAC refinery then, civil war or not in Sudan, a petty squabble or not between M7 and KGM.

Things that must be done must be done, when you are rising.

So the likes of Ekuru Aukot must do it themselves for Turkana. Launch their mini ARAMCO, and just make sure to avoid vermin like Thugge and Rotich, who of course specialise in phantom realisations.

Outgoing governor of Turkana, Josephat Nanok, missed the chance to make the deal of the century for his people. Even when he made it to chair of the caucus of governors, the vision thing never crowded his eyesight. He could have raised the stakes, mobilised the natives of the black gold for a 50/50 hold out with Nairobi. But the way he has been dithering and dilly-dallying between Tangatanga and Kieleweke as he plots his future, it means he wouldn't know what we are talking about now: Turkana unleashed in a decade, to Botswana.


But things which must be done must be done. So I am very sure though he is currently tight-lipped over the PUNGUZA MZIGO putsch, which is the hottest topic in the land, because its other side is the BBI, the chief government spokesperson, rtd col. Oguna, will clear his throat and give us thoughts to interpret.

He can't avoid a position on the narrative of Kenya rising, Africa rising. We are all rising.

Oguna has stated that what the government knows the media will know too. He as well disclosed that he will be having a press conference every Thursday on situations pertaining to government while promising to reveal the information to the public.

and

National government spokesman Cyrus Oguna emphasized that households should provide accurate information in the exercise or risk getting fined or jailed.
"It is important for households to provide the accurate information. It is illegal not to do so and you can face a jail term of six months or a fine of Sh500,000 or both," he said.

Heey! A stickler for the truth! and openness!
Then
The details of the SGR sir, the ones your predecessor Nzioka ordered the president to shut up about!

They aren't UNKNOWABLE state secrets are they?

May be there is a clause there with a line: thou shan't build an oil refinery!
---You know there was once upon a time a law in Kenya which banned Africans from growing coffee; from having more than one shilling savings!
----just like there is an international law which says IRAN MUST NEVER HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

NB: on the last line, a retired intelligence colonel from Pakistan nodded opaquely. 'Yes, Iran doesn't have enemies with nuclear weapons I suppose. Our situation is different. Pakistan does!'

[jakaswanga]

DR EKURU AUKOT AS EVERYBODY'S PUNCHING BAG


www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001340010/siaya-rejects-punguza-mizigo-claims-bill-is-bad-for-the-country





Ekuru Aukot dismissing Weta, Kalo, Orengo, Otiende, Mudavadi etc etc, one by one. But while he is intellectually correct, there is no street chill to it. It is not like when Vladimir Putin mentions a name of somebody who has stolen money from the Russian people and has to pay. Then is there a chill on the street, for there is recognition that (Putin's) is not an academic statement.

www.the-star.co.ke/counties/nairobi/2019-09-10-kirinyaga-mcas-shoot-down-punguza-mizigo-waiguru-welcomes-move/


www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-07-25-ignore-faulty-punguza-mizigo-wait-for-bbi-railas-party/

www.the-star.co.ke/counties/central/2019-07-24-punguza-mizigo-bill-to-face-opposition-in-nyeri/

www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-09-12-city-mcas-divided-ahead-of-debate-on-punguza-mizigo-bill/

Aukot's love for Kenya has not peaked in his heart. It is not yet a passion, it is not even a consuming intellectual pursuit. It is all academic and distant. It is today's subject, tomorrow is another topic. He hasn't invested anything extraordinary in it, anything worth defending with the full grit of character and conviction. And like hyenas and jackals ferret a weak drive to live on in a tiring prey, and therefore stalk it with merry laughter as a cover for vicious fangs, the political opponents of Aukot's initiative size him up for dead meat walking.

His recent spat with Kirinyaga's Anne Waiguru ---in which he called Anne a cheap NYS thief--- proves it all the more. But before that, here is a revealing peak into his inner self.

Tony Gachoka stops him from making a comment on the insanity of the mercenary Judge who stopped the debate of this initiative, and Ekuru obliges him. Gachoka uses a silly argument no longer valid in Kenya, that the matter is before the court. Sub judice, you know. ---Wah, his baby is being butchered live and Dr. Ekuru is being the polite academic!? He is like a man being kicked to death who thinks his rights to self defence are better expressed by meekness! And obedience to the laws of non-violence.

It is the heroism of surrendered masochism and the turn-the-other-cheek Christian cry of Jesus on the cross: Father, forgive them for they know not what they doeth. But in the political struggle of antagonistic absolutes, it is just whimsical irrelevance.

Eh!? Admirable it may be, but not in the streets of life. The streets of life require a survivor, an instinctive counter-puncher, a combat animal. Such a beast, when cornered even by the fiercest of hounds, still elicits the uttermost care from finishers-off.

Ekuru Aukot has been harvesting too much ridicule and contempt. He should swat a few flies down. He should counterpunch Waiguru with a jaw-breaking vicious.

There are even politicians on record, publicly stating the PUNGUZA MZIGO initiative didn't gather, couldn't gather 1 million signatures. They thus insist Ekuru has duplicated and falsified the lot and the IEBC fell for it. A fraud!

That is total contempt expressed for the Doc. Were Ekuru a man of combat with a granite hint to his counter punch, I doubt any politician however stupid in private would be that foolish in public. They would mind his counterpunch, rotten as they are.

And now Anne Kamotho Mumbi Waiguru joins the lot of those who trash Ekuru Aukot with spitful jeer. Anne is of course the NYS thief in chief as it were; she now holds brief as the governor of Kirinyaga and the nemesis of the formed Iron lady Martha Karua.

Here is the spat.

"Focus on your defective bill and stop tired sideshows. We all know who the creators and ghosts of NYS scam were; they fund and feast with you. FYI on corruption, some of us remember the COE massive financial irregularities, we read the reports, you can't fool people all the time," Waiguru said.

This prompted a swift response from the Thirdway Alliance leader and labelled Waiguru 'a public thief'.
With his replies, Aukot awakened the ghosts of the NYS scandal as he went on a barrage of attacks on the Kirinyaga Governor.
"A public thief cannot tell Kenyans about integrity. Even the recent audited reports from the Office of the Auditor-General speak for themselves," Aukot replied.

He only awakened the ghosts! he didn't ring the Erinyes bell and unload the swarm! He is chicken.

Theft of public money a.k.a NYS scam is not a sideshow. In case it escaped your mind, it was an audit finding that during your public office holding at Devolution ministry, billions of taxpayers money disappeared. Then you chose light duties in Kirinyaga.
Thirdway Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot said

If Aukot knows that for a fact, and he wrote the constitution, he should take the facts to Waiguru, via Maraga!


Third way Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot (left) and Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru.
Image: COURTESY

Kirinyaga Governor Anne Waiguru and Thirdway Alliance Party leader Ekuru Aukot on Tuesday engaged in a public spat on social media over the Punguza Mizigo Bill and NYS saga.
The public slur between the two leaders came just hours after the Kirinyaga county assembly trashed the Aukot-sponsored bill.
The spat started when Waiguru termed the Punguza Mizigo Bill as an 'unfortunate embarrassment'.

"Fortunately for Kenya, we run on the basis of law, not on Aukot directives. The Bill was thrown out on the basis of the Law and Standing Orders of the Kirinyaga County Assembly. Period. Even on its merits, this Bill is, in any event, an unfortunate embarrassment," Waiguru tweeted.

Waiguru lashed out at Aukot saying that he is a beneficiary of the NYS scam and he should instead focus on rectifying his defective bill.

"Focus on your defective bill and stop tired sideshows. We all know who the creators and ghosts of NYS scam were; they fund and feast with you. FYI on corruption, some of us remember the COE massive financial irregularities, we read the reports, you can't fool people all the time," Waiguru said.
This prompted a swift response from the Thirdway Alliance leader and labelled Waiguru ' a public thief'.

With his replies, Aukot awakened the ghosts of the NYS scandal as he went on a barrage of attacks on the Kirinyaga Governor.
"A public thief cannot tell Kenyans about integrity. Even the recent audited reports from the Office of the Auditor-General speak for themselves," Aukot replied.

"FYI the biggest heist you orchestrated is now a world case study. It killed the dreams of many young Kenyans. You can't fool people all the time."

Aukot also said that Waiguru's excitement over the rejection of the bill was misplaced.
"The bill was never tabled for debate and there was no way it could have been rejected, Mambo bado," he reiterated.
He said that what was embarrassing is how people like Waiguru with all the integrity questions found their way into leadership.

Aukot said that Punguza Mizigo Bill 2019 once passed will address such issues dealing with the integrity of Kenyan leaders.
"We all know from even the recent audit findings on Kirinyaga, you still top the list of public officers who cannot account for public funds meant to alleviate poverty in Kirinyaga. You can no longer fool us."
Aukot said that Amendments to Articles 73 and 79 are 'a real scarecrow for people like Anne Waiguru who are scared of the integrity provisions in the bill.'
"Anne Waiguru is prematurely celebrating illegality that took place at the County Assembly of Kirinyaga today. Too early for her to celebrate. Bill has to be tabled for debate," he went on.
He said that 19 MCAs support the bill and Waiguru's underhand dealings at the County Assembly purportedly denied them the opportunity to debate and vote on it, adding that it must be tabled for debate - and this didn't happen as required.
Addressing a press conference after the assembly session on Tuesday, Waiguru said she was pleased with MCAs' decision to reject the bill.
She said it was not favourable to residents, nor was it good for women.

NB: were he a counterpuncher, and means for sooth that Anne Mumbi Waiguru Kamotho is an architect of the NYS I heist, Ekuru wouldn't merely take to the media to respond to an insult and an insinuation from Anne, he would go to Karura forest with the documents he had burnt the midnight oil to foolproof against any smart defence counsel Anne migh purchase with her ill-gotten wealth. He would show his legal training and brains are a running sport, and his mastery of factual data beyond Miguna's banter, wherefore Kirinyaga county would soon second Kiambu county: governor stepped aside as graft proceedings bust him.

MIGUNA MIGUNA VS EVANS KIDERO

NB: I always remember with bemused hicks, the day Miguna Miguna publicly stayed any would be mischief from Evans Kidero and his professorial consigliere, Tom Ojienda. Miguna told the duo he is not Bonny Khalwale whom they could intimidate not even to read the contents of the KPMG forensic accounting report on Mumias sugar. Miguna told Kidero he is a despicable thief, and if Kidero sued him, they would meet in court where he, Miguna, would quote the KPMG report from page one to last, and cross examine Kidero's and Ojienda's accounts to the last cent, citing the mammoth loss of Mumias monies as manifest public interest, enough to waiver the privacy rights even of his wife's accounts!

You can't steal public money, hide it in your private accounts or those of your corrupt friends and cronies, then go to court claiming those accounts are private. No, those accounts are deposits of looted public goods, and must be frozen!

Actually the above Miguna tirade is the template Kinoti and Haji are using these days, and Twalib Mbarak of the energised EACC too. Even with tax dodgers!

I am just using this as an example to illustrate the lack of mental grit Ekuru Aukot suffers from. If Ruto opposes Punguza Miizigo, Ekuru Aukot does not have the mental thrust to take Ruto to task on the Weston Hotel land saga, to force him to step aside as the matter is constitutionally re-read and argued for fraudulent acquisition. (That makes the likes of Ekuru Aukot not starter commanders in chief!)

It is that simple.

No, Ekuru scares nobody. Neither with his obvious high intellect, nor with the daggerous cold-bloodedness of his heart --which he voids in. So he can be treated as a nuisance by the political class; ridiculed and humiliated. An idea whose time is not yet. It is actually a tragedy. Both personal and national.

Punguza mizigo is a current necessity.

FOOTNOTE FOR DR. AUKOT, him the one who, post handshake, once declared himself the true opposition leader and champion of Wanjiku's interests.

Mystery of Weston Hotel's shared property number

Monday September 2 2019

Weston Hotel in Lang'ata, Nairobi. The hotel is fighting the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority's attempts to recover the land on which the property stands on. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

In Summary

Pridegrove's deed plan was the same as the one Southfork had surrendered to the Lands commissioner while applying for a lease extension.
City Hall confirmed that the land had only one previous owner, Sky Properties, which legally transferred it to Southfork in 1994.

By BRIAN WASUNA

The property number of the land on which Deputy President William Ruto's Weston Hotel is built was used to irregularly acquire a 2.7-acre parcel of land in Westlands, Nairobi.
The DP's close friend and business associate, Mr Patrick Osero, used the Interim Reference (IR) number (usually issued by the Director of Survey when the land is mapped out before the title is issued) to acquire another prime property.
As Mr Ruto prepared to defend his ownership of the Weston land in April last year, Justice Kossy Bor was delivering a judgment on the Westlands property, which had been in court for 12 years.
She ruled that Mr Osero's Pridegrove Investments Limited irregularly acquired the land using an I.R. number that had already been allocated to the Weston land.
Mr Osero and politician-cum-businessman Patrick Omani Nyamweya each own half of the firm's 5,000 shares.

DEED SURRENDERED

Agency in fresh bid to repossess Weston Hotel land
Weston survives but Ruto to pay Sh350m


Southfork Investments had sued Mr Osero's Pridegrove Investments on December 2006, seeking to recover the land.
Southfork bought the land from Sky Properties Limited in 1994 for Sh2 million, but was hesitant to develop it because the government lease was to expire just six years later.
The firm's attempts to renew the lease almost saw it lose the 2.7 acre property, whose current value is in excess of Sh1.3 billion.
When Southfork surrendered its title deed to the Lands commissioner during its application for a government lease extension, a new ownership document was created and registered to Pridegrove.
But the IR number, 89671, that appeared on Pridegrove's title deed had already been allocated to another piece of land on Lang'ata Road, then owned by Priority Limited but currently hosting Weston Hotel.

LAND SUBDIVIDED

Interestingly, Pridegrove acquired the Westlands property in 2005, five years before the company was incorporated.
Records at the companies' registry seen by the Nation indicate that Pridegrove Investments Limited was formed on June 6, 2010.
During the hearing, the Commissioner for Lands said the land was originally part of a 5.6 acre block, which was subdivided, and argued that the disputed 2.7 acres should not have been allocated to anyone.
But Justice Bor ruled that during Southfork's application for lease extension, the open-space issue did not arise, so it would be unfair to now alienate it as such.
She added that the Commissioner for lands should have asked the National Land Commission to revoke Southfork's title deed if it had been issued irregularly.
Mr Nyamweya is in a separate suit fighting Eka Hotel on Mombasa Road over land through his Samco Holdings.

LEASE EXTENSION

Justice Elijah Obaga has issued temporary orders barring both parties in that case from developing the land until the court resolves the ownership row.
Mr Osero and Mr Nyamweya are co-directors, alongside Flowers of Kenya Limited.
Southfork is owned by two Kenyans - Dinesh Kapurchand Shah (25 per cent cent), Satish Kapurchand Shah (25 per cent) - and Briton Tushar Harilal Shah (50 per cent).
City Hall wrote to Southfork in 1998 indicating that the lease would be extended.
But on June 2005, advertisements in a local daily indicated that Pridegrove was selling the land in parcels of an eighth of an acre at Sh2.8 million.
Notably, in 2003, one year after Southfork had paid all the requisite fees to City Hall, and as the firm awaited the approval of its application, the Commissioner for Lands wrote to Nairobi's Director of City Planning to object to the government lease extension.
Pridegrove denied grabbing Southfork's land. Mr Osero's firm claimed that its land was different from the parcel Southfork had referred to in the court papers.

TITLE DEED DISOWNED

But his firm did not appear in court for the hearing of the case.
The deed plan on Pridegrove's title deed however sold out the attempted grab. A deed plan shows intended use and is signed by the Director of Survey.
Pridegrove's deed plan was the same as the one Southfork had surrendered to the Lands commissioner while applying for a lease extension.
City Hall, the Commissioner for Lands and the Registrar of Titles all denied issuing Pridegrove with a title deed for the land.
City Hall further confirmed that the land had only one previous owner, Sky Properties, which legally transferred it to Southfork in 1994.
"I.R. 89671 is registered against L.R. No. 209/14372 measuring 0.7733 hectares (1.7 acres), which title is held by Weston Hotel Limited for a term of 99 years with effect from January 1998.
"There were no records at the lands office pertaining to Pridegrove's title. The deed plan annexed to Pridegrove's title was disowned by the director of survey," City Hall said in its response to the suit.

LAND RECOVERY

Justice Bor ruled that Southfork had proved its case and allowed the firm to repossess the prime property.
Southfork had specified that it was not interested in financial compensation for the grab, but simply wanted its property back.
While it has a been established that Weston's land was grabbed from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority in 2002, Mr Ruto's establishment is in court fighting the KCAA's attempts to recover the prime property.