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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 19, 2019 21:30:56 GMT 3
THE KIBRA CONFLUENCE
But is it the end of animal farm revisited? ---where there was no difference between pig and man as the animals looked ever more keenly?
The race is Ruto versus Raila. The rest is nonsense. Imran is nonsense, Mariga is nonsense. Lets find time later to deal with the nonsense. And to be clear, President Ouru Kenyatta or Matiang'i Whatever, too, are nonsense. In any election, Matiang'i can only beat Ruto by a process called systematic rigging; the way Uhuruto knifed Raila in the dark with sharpened algorithms. Dr. Fred is a nobody before Dr.William when politicala daggers are drawn in the open.
In Kibra, Ruto is only bluffing, but nevertheless he has openly drawn the dagger on Raila. And in open political combat, only one man can stop William Ruto: Tinga. It is therefore attrition, and a poking jab, that Ruto has swept Tuju and Ouru aside and thrown the firebomb Mariga at Odinga. Tuju and Ouru were resolved to give Odinga a walk over.
Now they have to man up and canvass for their party candidate, Ruto's pawn aka Mariga.
Mariga looks like a monied dummy to me, but monied dummies can be scary enough while they last the campaign. Ruto's game in Kibra needs a political economy.
I will be game on it some time later.
For one, Ken Okoth the development program seems rocket science to sheep. But even the easy math of Hash ---LEGALISE THAT THING or cannabis, no aspiring widow-inheritor seems can touch!
Okoth Ken is a dangerous live wire: he ran a corruption free CDF! A forerunner! Propaganda by deed! welcome to the new Kenya~! already imagined in some heads and happened in real time!
The djini is out of the bottle! no one can madhafak with that no more!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 18, 2019 20:51:09 GMT 3
BBI and THE DESPERATE UHURU KENYATTAMr. Kenyatta should support Punguza Mzigo. There is a video to weep not over, child. In it, Ouru Kenyatta manages to convince me of his utter distress. He has the blues, he has the haunting spirituals of the Negroes. And then the tragedy of his disconnect hits me. And the horror of Africa at the top, unfolds in full glory. I got the chills, child. Watching Ouru reminded of my first un-educated, raw listening to Nina Simone's rendition of the haunting Negro spiritual, Brown Baby. --------------------. Anyway here is the Ouru Kenyatta performance which gave me the blues. He sounded like a man performing his own death dance upfront, wailing on his own funeral pyre yet to be, chanting his own epitaph --- aywagra kenda ka pod angima, onge ng'a ma noywaga! Kenya has the potential to be like Singapore or China - Uhuru----We have it all. It is all in the archives. There is nothing what is suppose to be done which does not already exist in one shelve or another here in our Kenyan archives. There is no reason whatsoever why we can't be where the Asian tigers are, Singapore or Taiwan. It is possible, jameni. Why haven't we done it!?Hmmm! WHY HAVEN'T WE DONE IT!? Ya, jameni, why haven't we done it!? O Africa, where art thou roaring Savannah lions!? The son of Jomo appeared genuinely perplexed. I reckon he is equally perplexed why his years as president are such a shambles, and his desperate Big 5 with two years to go, are dead meat for the hounds. In fact I felt a tug of very discomforting anxiety listening to his Excellency, Kenyatta the second. Here is why we can't be like those tigers. Simple targets can't be met at their rational costs, nor within their reasonable time schedules. Complex targets are then wholly non-starters. Too bewildering. For instance, think beyond this headline. FOOTNOTE NEGLIGENCE: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?It is not that there is nothing being done. Of course there is something being done. --Massively. For 1: China has taken command of Africa's future, industrialising us per force, and how!? NB: To underscore the 'per force', look before all else at the total budget of infrastructure projects China is funding in Africa. Call them China self-financed giant steps for Africa. One of them is the Djibouti-Addis Ababa modern railway line. And many more, wherefore a bleeding nose from a usual suspect But if you are already a bleeding-nosed detractor over $4.5bn for Ethiopia, what happens to you when you eat this, THE GRAND RENAISSANCE DAM, concurrently, $.5.4bn being finished I think you get the point when I say China is Industrialising Africa per force. All our bureaucrats do is try to eat as much as possible, inflating the costs of the projects, saddling the population with extra debt. Eat this too What the 'simple-minded' African elite can do, as these 'LUNATIC' projects debase the pristine geography of the dark continent, is plot how much to steal, and what else to do to self-defeat themselves and let Africa stay a colonial museum forever. For Kenya therefore, consider what we have done to economically defeat the SGR upfront, to turn it as it were, into a lunatic express tragedy. In this respect special mention must be made of the NLC under professor Muhammad Swazuri. When Paul Kagame saw the inflated land rates, he balked That is what I call Africans working hard to sabotage their future. Some will also remember on the same account, that the SGR was the brainchild of the Raila-Kibaki Tosha pact. But when the GCG broke down, Cartels captured the project, merchandised it, and in the vacuum and confusion of the transition from Kibaki's GCG to Uhuruto in 2013, the costs of the project grew wings, and flew to the sky. Can't blame Chinaman for that, can we!? ---Chinaman is even ready to use CHINESE SLAVE LABOUR to cut costs to near zero! They look at the idle youth on top of motorbikes and cring: why not let those able-bodied young men work 10 hours real hard for ksh.200 to the day? Again, that is Africans working very hard to ruin their own economy. Whether at the top like Rotich and Thugge, or at the bottom like bodaboda loafers. Dealing with such scum, one can't blame the Chinese for the compensational ruthlessness of insisting Mombasa Port be mortgaged. Surely, a people who work so hard to defeat the purpose of the economic advancement of their own country, will think nothing of double-crossing a foreigner on his money, should the foreigner be careless enough, or foolishly in love enough with a Kenyan like the late Tob Cohen. I am sure China EXIM bank does not intend to end up in a septic tank reservoir in Africa. FILLING THE VACUUMClassical European colonialism did away with progressive indigenous leadership and genocided the real nationalist rebels. What remained to be co-opted were of a survivalist, collaborator mentality. And this predator mentality became the consciousness of the colonial bureaucracy, virtually still rampant as the pervasive modus operandi. ---99% here, 1% there! If you catch. Once colonialism entrenched itself as a system, and with a backward strand of Christianity imposed as the spiritual enforcer of the order, it could bureaucratically do what its purpose was: exploitation and pillage. It became a highly successful racket which went on for centuries. The dark continent became the lost continent under European civilisation and the enlightenment of Christianity. Now, quantum leap to 2010. And what do we have after a decade of Chinese penetration and Western retreat? --(into the jingoistic bravado of having won the cold war and the ideological conflict of history!?) We have 1. A rising Africa by universal acclaim. But may be a 'rebased' meaning. PRd or pimped up. 2.Yes, Africa is rising. Chinese Capital, Expertise and Engineering doing the heavy lifting. But We the sleeping ... And The African heads of state like Uhuru Kenyatta and Museveni, all duly elected like Kagame and Nkurinziza of course, confess a public picture of irrelevance. The BRI OR OBOR goes on whether they like it or not. And how about the highly-educated and, on the face of it, technically highly skilled Africans running the state organs? --We can only repeat the daily truths our eyes see, throughout the continent at large. It is the OBI OKONKWO syndrome as an epidemic amongst the technocrats. And amongst those who study and rank these things we read, as in Transparency International indices: The African states boast the most corrupt cluster of bureaucrats on earth, just like our cities pack some of the sh!tiest slums. Which brings me back to the perplexed Uhuru Kenyatta. His distress call in public: JAMENI, WHY CAN'T WE BE LIKE SINGAPORE, THE ASIAN TIGERS! We have it all, yawa! Well, have you seen the super stardom of the CV's in the Jubilee cabinet of PS's!? It is what we used to say of Gem in Siaya. (iyud ng'ani en Professa, iyud ma en Dokta. Phd-girigi to koro ok kwanre, kata guogi ni godo!)When I was in primary school there were stories Gem in Siaya was such an educated place, even the sheep grazing beside the road had Phd's.Whaaat!? --In stupidity of course, a Nyatiti wit called Ogwan'g Lelo Kokoth cracked it for us! You might want to forego the thought, that the PHD's of African bureaucrats are like the legendary Phd's of the sheep of Gem. Otherwise why would the president of Kenya go around hee-howing in public like a lost donkey looking for a mate whilst his cabinet is PHD full! I rest my case.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 15, 2019 16:21:28 GMT 3
A SUICIDE IN BOMET, A MURDER IN NAIROBI
Sometimes a simple story infests you with the tragedy of your country. And you have nowhere to hide. But works of fiction however realistic is not what I meant.
What has wrung my heart this week, has been the story of a suicide in real time in Konoin, Bomet. And in Nairobi, an elderly Dutch billionare predicting his own murder, naming the chief plotter, and informing police headquarters in advance via an official letter. And then Bingo! Septic tank!
The girl in question is the 14-year-old Kipsigis Jackline Chepngeno. She was a pupil at Kabiangek Primary School, Konoin division, Bomet County. She committed suicide on September 7 2019. The motive was shame. And it was about the most normal of human conditions. The monthly period.
Now, at this age I repeatedly like to think of myself as thawed. The things which can try my temper seem to have already happened to me long ago. So when they happen again, my mind appropriates them as either farce or tragedy, mostly farce. So mostly i shrug. ---like the other day when a 'girlfriend' was leaving me for the upteenth time. To prevent myself from laughing, I pretended tears, shock and outrage, I even threatened to hurt myself. I became a total, unhinged drama queen. You see it has worked before to prevent her abandoning me. We are no longer in the boy and girl category of age, for heavens sake I am middle-aged, she a few decades younger, but well, we quarrel and go at it like kids. Boy and girl. I say if it aint broke, don't fix it!
It is only when she threatens to buy a NYAHUNYO and smash my expensive windscreens and Samsung blue-note, that I draw the line: even for the juiciest of orifices, of spasmodic and twitching temperaments, adept at grabbing and down-pulling trespassers to the hilt, my car and telephone are beyond bribery. --Just like Mecca is beyond Christians!
And then something happens which collapses me into a recidivistic wreck. Life continues to be full of surprises. And howbeit, let it be nothing personal, no, just a wholly unnecessary death. For the death of this Kipsigis girl, I felt something monstrous stir up in the dark recesses of my heart. And that in quick succession after I spied president Kenyatta crying, a BROWN BABY cast alone to the wild winds, a brown baby's future lost to history forever.
Here is the unnecessary death as reported in Bomet.
And here is the unpalatable detail. How easy the prevention of these tragedies.
As the late Onyango Oloo would quip: CRY ME A RIVER, UHURU KENYATA, cry me a river. And there is Ngugi wa Thiong'o too of course: WEEP NOT, Mr President, do something else; no, do the fcuk something else, your Excellency. Like a full resignation.
TH E HYENAS TO THE RESCUE ---after eating feasting on the meat! MPs storm education office after girl committed suicide in Bomet
AN ODDITY Oops, DR. Bellio Kipsang and decided to moolight a bit on this tender? Can't be angry really. Former Boss Matiang'i is mentioned big in the Ruaraka landscam and went places. Rotich and Thugge ate huge on the dams. The NLC of professor Swazuri inflated SGR land rates beyond the wildest dreams of the Chinese financiers, forcing them to impose HODUMA numbers on us creditor serfs, so what is the hassle if Bellio turned small-time Hustler. Even the two royal cousins Oburu and Jakoyo hassled some railway land over there in Kisumu, and all is well that ends well.
Except for the future of the girl from Bomet. Her death by suicide is yet another red light our speeding caravan of bandits wont be bothered to fathom.
Then there is tycoon Tob Cohen, old and infirm, his marriage dead, but imprisoned in a luxurious villa with a boa constrictor for a wife. His instincts decipher exactly what is coming to him ---Aywagra kenda ka pond angima.
RINGTONE SHOO'S: Si mkunje munisaidie!? Hajaua mimi bado! Mbona wakati wa pesa mnashika simu haraka! Kunjeni jameni munisaidie, ataniua mimi leo hii!
In real life .....
All these characters are there in detail in PETALS OF BLOOD!
And Cohen in a septic tank? Ouko at Got Alila? JM at Ngong Forest!? Imagine by this insight, Kenya is just running on the FARCE operating system.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 15, 2019 10:07:37 GMT 3
WHICH JOKES DO YOUR COMEDIANS TELL YOU? --GHENYAThese days I think the jokes tell a much more coherent story of the international state of political confusion, than many a regular thesis. This past week, some two jokes from comedians of the involved countries caught my attention. 1. India and her captain of the hijacked Iranian tanker. The pirates of Gibraltar episode featuring British James Bonds. 2. Saudi Arabian comedians and the Houthi, Yemeni drone attacks which took out half of ARAMCO's daily gas output this weekend. Gulf crisis Brian Hook was definitely one of John Bolton's errand boys at the SD. That is the John Bolton who is now demised as the upteenth national security advisor to Donald Trump. There is some argument between him and Trump on twitter as to whether he was fired or he resigned. Not that many Americans care to know the difference. It is like here in Kenya where not many are too concerned with whether STEPPING ASIDE is the same as RESIGNATION. Or 'DULY ELECTED' equivalent to 'LEGITIMATE'. ---Thing can really come to a head you know, when a crisis arrives which needs hairs be split. Such was the occasion when Uhuru Kenyatta was already duly sworn in as duly elected when Raila too, was sworn in as the DUE PEOPLES PRESIDENT. There was confusion, some said it was an irrelevant KALONGOLONGO playbook, but it was obvious on the ground both oaths carried weight. There would be two Kenya's if there was no 'DEUX EX MACHINA'. The HANDSHAKE it was thus, our Deux Ex Machina. Well, when the story broke in India, that the Indian captain of a supertanker worth over $130M, carrying even more valuable cargo of 2.1M barrels of crude Iranian black gold, was offered only $1M to aid and abet the piracy of a ship entrusted to him, a pittance to betray the honour of all Indian sea captains henceforth, not to mention conferring to eternal infamy, the honour of the women of the state his mother came from, Indian comedians went berserk. Wait for it The comedians cheeked it was like China bribing Prime Minister Nahendra Mordi with 10M rupees to demobilise India's nuclear arsenal while Pakistan was modernising hers and moving into Kashmir with impunity! Uuuuwiii's and Ululululu's rent the air. This American insult at India's sensibilities was worse than the day the British empire prepared a feast of pork and beef to Indian soldiers of both Hindu and Muslim extraction! And that jolly party was the death-knell of the British empire in India! No, we are not coolies anymore! fumed the comedians! But what did the comedians know!? As this afront became a popular nationalist narrative and rallying cause, soon the TV stations were competing on viewer density, whipping up public hysteria on the same theme ---entertaining pundits from the Bajrang Dal. Yes, if you want to bribe or turn an Indian sea captain into a cheap pirate outlaw today, you might want to consider the radical CULTURAL POLITICS running his homeland. The USA might be a superpower with a 13-trillion dollar GDP, but rising Asian nations have their pride to mind. They don't like the 'coolie' treatment no more. Even as a joke. Well, may be it is still only here in Africa where rising nations don't have their pride the right side up. Here, in Kenya, you can --NYALHODYA-- bribe bureaucratic captains like Rotich and Thugge with a few million shillings, to betray everything ---their professional integrity, ----their bureaucratic oath, ----their tribal dignity, ---their intellect and al mater honour, ---their social prestige, and yes, the trust and hopes the nation and her peoples put in their technocratic excellence. Yes, Africa has a lot of vermin at the top to be fumigated away. Still a long way to go then, on that rising trajectory, chapter national pride. 2: CHEAP HOUTHI DRONES PARALYSES SAUDI OIL EXPORTSBriefly the Saudi comedians came up on twitter. But they have now disappeared. They were joking that the Americans had sold Saudi Arabia dummy air defence systems. Some of them are called PATRIOT, some of them THAAD. And they were warning the Koreans to mind what they buy from the USA. But of course it is not for nothing the Koreans are Asian tigers. They already knew these were dummies and weren't buying. South Korea, the home of the apple-beating Samsung Technology labs, weren't that easily tricked to buy dummies; only they have a different routine for comedy on such situations. The finance minister spent months and months looking for the money in his vaults, unfortunately he couldn't find any to pay for the THAAD. The Korean could thus only meekly bow before the big American and plead the rich Americans subsidise the thing ----without which the evil North Koreans would surely invade! There is a ring once inserted into the nose of the bull, the bull will be led to the manger with ease. That Asian guile and wile in the corridors of power is not found in the palaces in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, nor, sad to say, the upper echelons of the state in post-colonial Africa, nor, come to think of it, 2nd liberation Kenya. It is all a joke of course, but you catch. The financial reports which the defunct Auditor General, Eduard Ouko, has left spewing across the land, detail with cold-blooded numbers, the dummy projects and phantom bills we have paid to the full, and then twice or thrice over again, and again.I guess those figures are too high for Kenyan comedians! It is all silent at the comical front! Which is dangerous, culturally speaking. Comedy has a very powerful role in releasing pent up negative energy. No comedy on a particular topic means folks are full of poison, primed like cobras with no sense of humour. No worries, I for one will be wearing a smile to work tomorrow. Because today God will forgive me all my sins. How do I know? I will pay. They say, with that Luo grin, that a man named Anyolo who is a top cleric, told Ruto he would be President of Kenya if he aligned or proportioned his largesse to the Church to his ambitions! ---he wants to be commander in chief of a $70B economy, and rising! That doesn't come cheap with God neither. Who said it is quiet on the on the comedy front! And I will be back!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 14, 2019 17:56:24 GMT 3
DR EKURU AUKOT AS EVERYBODY'S PUNCHING BAGwww.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. He only awakened the ghosts! he didn't ring the Erinyes bell and unload the swarm! He is chicken. 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 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 KIDERONB: 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.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 14, 2019 8:18:21 GMT 3
OF COURSE DCI KINOTI PERFORMS ON TOB COHEN'S MURDERTycoon Tob Cohen's killers were heartless, absolutely heartless - DCI KinotiYeah, my heart doesn't melt easy. I am a gory veteran. I demand multi-layered performances of psychological complexity. DCI George Kinoti is fielding questions from the media at length. He and his boys have done a good job. And we are proud of him, and will pat him on the back to pain. But there is a small problem, a detail really. Where the devil is. 'Just one more slight thing'.The following is Checking out Detective Lieutenant Columbo on the recent convenient suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in an American jail. Yeps! Culturally speaking therefore, this DCI performance is not about Chris Musando. It is not about Carolynne Mbungu. Not even Sharon Otieno. O truly yes, it is about a gruesome murder and a gruesome find in a septic tank ----think of the late Kasuku of Jukwaa####. HereBut DCI Kinoti indulging his long performances before the media on particular cases, only helps to highlight more, his total silence, in fact deaf and dumbness, when the gruesome find is Carolynne, Carolynne Mbungu, and a few meters away her paramour Chris, Chris Musando. Then it is time for a body check. Some gaps in our national memory are too gaping to be stitched by media performances, even by a mediagenic superstar of a DCI. O no, never. Now that is my cop, straight talking kind of man. And I don't flinch the point from such a man: so, Kinoti: quite another gruesome find, Musando and Mbungu too. How's the cold-case team doing? Or is it bygones are bygones, and some crimes are, after all, perfect!?NB: I am old enough to have eaten my words in life. So I ask these questions with that slight wink in the voice of an old man who has been roughed up all too often in the path of experience. When gruesome crimes are committed by ones superiors, there is just so much stone one turns if one is not born with the pathos of a tragic hero. Most aren't, most are just bread-winners for the family. That is why the FBI to date, the biggest cut-throat investigative organisation to date, officially has never had a very smart idea who killed JFK! Of course everybody else knows who did it, everbody except the cockiest detectives on earth of course. Now, you are old enough to know that, you are not going to bother Kinoti with cold cases of a kind. You see the shelves in the cellars of police CDI departments all over the world are sealed truth-bombs with these kind of cases of political murder, ticking. They only explode as cultural artefacts. Bombs in the subconcious, Great movies for instance; great works of comedy too; great works of conspiracy theories, IE, bottomless inspirations toward exceptional public, cultural entertainment. NB: ' Just one more thing!' Columbo the famous detective has turned into legend. This, as his wit reveals all and catches his killer. Well, in a comic strip in which Columbo investigates the murder of President Kennedy, it is not him who says that but Edgar Hoover, the then head of the FBI: 'Just one more thing, Columbo, this time you don't catch your killer!'May be that is true about Jeffrey Epstein too, the guy at the centre of the paedophile ring who, courtesy of electronic tapings, was blackmailing the rich, the famous and the gamely powerful of our world. Right, I can hear some of you compiling a list of the killers our top detective DCI Kinoti wont be catching! Yeah, that is culture for you. ---Those cases are already solved! No need for a shaken DCI narrating his shock before an attentive camera audience! ANOTHER YOUNG LADY DATING A MIDDLE AGED PREDATOR, SLAINYoung ladies of a certain kind are trophy-use-things to men of a certain age and position in the social ladder. This will continue to be so, since the relationship between a man and his member is the truest case of till death do us part! On the other side, many a young lady will continue to hawk beauty and accompanied special female entertainment services as their greatest cash-in assets. In institutionaly amoral, culturally depersonalised entities like our Kenya ----integrity undefined, the dishonourable thing the norm ....., the devil's workshop is supremely busy devising matches between Sponsors and Slay-Queens. And there's is a greater far exceeding supply of willing female meat to make a predator's paradise! The devil is in bliss! His business a limitless success! Huraah! When the star student leader at Mount Kenya University, Evans Njoroge, alias 'Kidero', was chased down like wild game and, cold-bloodedly in broad daylight, executed the same, the national outrage was manly. That will say, the public outrage was low-key, of course masking an insane seethe, beneath. This was a straight forward liquidation of a potential leader, an organiser, a future trouble maker. The apes at the top had to snuff out a threat as soon as it was sniffed. The Political elimination of activists, like the assassination of Unionists or labour organisers in many LDC's, are part of the expected, accepted narrative of the liberation struggle toward full nationhood. They may shock, but the tradition of murder as an instrument of politics is a paved highway, to up the ante on the well-trodden path! When Mercy Keino or Carol Mbungu were found mangled beyond the remains of ---(a scene after a riot of predator)--- scavengers, they were merely figurants, that is, collateral damage in a war not their own. Of course there wa an element of gory entertainment in the murders. This is the national pathology we have to face. The habitual use and abuse of young females, and their habitual disposal as refuse. There is something patriarchally aristocratic about it, a whiff of a particular male, feudal pathology; it is the behavorial rotten pus of a decomposing order, like the (tales of the) EXPLOITS of Dracula or the Marquise de Sade are. This social decay of a ruling class and their flight into insanity and pathological cruelty on the dominated, is of course what inspired the genre of horror tales which take place in increasingly decrepit English castles. Those of us with young daughters must fret; there is an insidious cultural menace stalking this particular species of citizen. And the backside is, Kenyan patriarchy is in panic, realising it is historically doomed. (But those who think and see clearly, can pronounce Kenya's patriarchy already historically dead. FACT: The republic is kept afloat by CAPITAL no longer generated internally. We are a debt colony; our president reduced to an international beggar, hawking arse in powerful capitals around the world, today DC, tomorrow Beijin, solliciting to be abused, used and recycled on. That is Kenyan patriarchal rule, at an economic dead end; as demised as the English Aristocracy, even if that was granted their nostalgia in the preservation of the royal family, The Windsors, but for the triumphant bourgeoisie, pure commercial amusement.)THE EVIL WITH US This week The Evil struck in Kanyada Location, Homa Bay County. The serial killers who rule Castle Kenya needed to feed again. And Sharon Otieno's turn it was to quench their grisly appetites. TO LOOK FOR A ROSETTA STONE? #### An email from a Malindi-based human rights activist:Dear Hussein and Oloo,The two who killed (Kasuku) Mwikali over 70 million property were taken to court. Mr. Emericus Hendricus Van De Werf, a Dutch man, who was running the disputed Sailfish Club, and Said Abudala Mwaweche, a manager of hotel, appeared before Malindi resident judge Christine Meoli and denied the charges. Four other suspects were released after the investigation found no evidence linking them to murder of Lillian Mwikali who was killed and dumped in septic tank at club weeks ago. The judge set the case for mention and bail application on December 18 to give time for preparation of report by probation office. Judge Christine Meoli set the case for hearing on February 12 and 13 next year. The four who were released include Samson Kimbej a private court process server based in Malindi, Baraka Dzila, David Ngalla and Mwinyi Garashi. Regards Auma
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 12, 2019 20:11:29 GMT 3
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 12, 2019 19:57:57 GMT 3
BBI and THE DESPERATE UHURU KENYATTA
Mr. Kenyatta should support Punguza Mzigo.
There is a video to weep not over, child. In it, Ouru Kenyatta manages to convince me of his utter distress. He has the blues, he has the haunting spirituals of the Negroes. And then the tragedy of his disconnect hits me. And the horror of Africa at the top, unfolds in full glory.
I got the chills, child. Watching Ouru reminded of my first un-educated, raw listening to Nina Simone's rendition of the haunting Negro spiritual, Brown Baby.
Nina Simone - Brown Baby (live in the sixties)
What can I say? One single piano note from La Nina and the hair on the back of my neck bumped gooses. Yes, I listened to President Ouru Kenyatta, and he touched bases of the motherless child. The orphaned Africa. I felt him. There was even a tear which started to form somewhere in the back of my mind. There was a slight sensation of burning in my eyes which surprised me, since, after I had hardened up on the tour of duty as a youth, only the guitarworks of the Congo which are said to build tunnels to the heart of tragedy, for instance to the lost tomb of Patrice Lumumba, ever moved me that far. Yes, I have a weather beaten heart, and it does not touch easy.
It goes like this. The people --Belgian mercenaries and their Congolese handmaids--- who finally disposed of Patrice Lumumba's body never told where. But there are cults and cults in Congo who know, and foretell exactly where this shrine is. After a while you recognise it is the kind of logistics only a Ferryman like Charon can navigate. Now then, there are as many guides as are the cults, but I always chose the caste of guitarists whose hands built a time-flying machine (of tones) to anywhere in space, real or imagined; and to the darkest recesses of the heart. And so one time we sat down in Kinshasa and let ourselves be ferried to the tomb of Lumumba. There to deliver a wreath from Julius Nyerere. That day I had the blues, yeah, deeper than the waters of Mayi Ndombe which inspired the song Voyage na Bandundu by the late TPOK bass crooner, Pepe Opetum.
That Nyerere bit, is a very long, long and sad story. But an African story for another day.
Anyway here is the Ouru Kenyatta performance which gave me the blues. He sounded like a man performing his own death dance upfront, wailing on his own funeral pyre yet to be, chanting his own epitaph ---aywagra kenda ka pod angima, onge ng'a ma noywaga!
Kenya has the potential to be like Singapore or China - Uhuru
----We have it all. It is all in the archives. There is nothing what is suppose to be done which does not already exist in one shelve or another here in our Kenyan archives. There is no reason whatsoever why we can't be where the Asian tigers are, Singapore or Taiwan. It is possible, jameni. Why haven't we done it!?
Hmmm! WHY HAVEN'T WE DONE IT!? Ya, jameni, why haven't we done it!?
O Africa, where art thou roaring Savannah lions!?
The son of Jomo appeared genuinely perplexed. I reckon he is equally perplexed why his years as president are such a shambles, and his desperate Big 5 with two years to go, are dead meat for the hounds. In fact I felt a tug of very discomforting anxiety listening to his Excellency, Kenyatta the second.
Here is why we can't be like those tigers. Simple targets can't be met at their rational costs, nor within their reasonable time schedules. Complex targets are then wholly non-starters. Too bewildering.
For instance, think beyond this headline.
And then just a bit over this one, focussing on the 'inflation factor': THE KSH. 40B KIPEVU INFLATED LATE
And then for a quick second import this. That is a PATTERN. And the plotting of additional data conforming, will lead to an inevitable conclusion. The Asian tigers will show a DIFFERENT PATTERN at their time of basic infrastructural program realisation.
Anybody with the time can check up the corruption indices and compare them. The Asian tigers are corrupt yes, but there is a story there all the difference. This is the way Raila Odinga captured it.
The visiting Asian minister for infrastructure asked his African counterpart, say Dr. Michael Uhuruto Kamau, 'how come from a government salary your house sprawls more than the Forbidden City in Beijin?'
The African replied: 'you see that road over there!?'
The Asian could see no road. Just a sewage path.
'1% there, 99% here!'
Then Uhuru Kenyatta returned the visit. The African noticed how small the house of his counterpart was, and how inexclusive the furniture: 'How come you live like a miser and you are so powerful?' The African asked his host.
The Asian replied: 'You see how big and wide the roads are? You saw how modern and fully equipped the hospitals are? You saw our list of rich Africans like Mugabe and Laboso come here for cancer treatment?'
The African nodded lamely, a hollow feeling in his stomach. The Asian grinned with a touch of loathsome mock: '99% there, 1% here!'
The way the audience laughed, Agwambo had hit a homerun on the comedy world series. We all know. Except Uhuru Kenyatta, incidentally the president of a going big state.
That is when I feel like a motherless child, to whom the saddest lullaby in the world was ever sung, by Nina Simone. And sometimes I feel the insane shame of a Chinese nationalist court poet who gorged his eyes out, so that he would not witness the emperor of China sign China into the (opium addiction) subservience to English merchants.
Go away, Uhuru Kenyatta, just go away, you brainless thing. The priorities of this country are beyond your head. You are in mental shock, your mind is disintegrated. You need the cool of a sanatorium. You are too bewildered by obvious reality.
Ati, why can't we be like Singapore! You ask in a serious moment of introspection! Aiyayayayaya!
On one hand Ouru wants to maintain the economic order which catapulted his ilk to the top but confined the majority to squalor: JM Kariuki long ago put it as the dreadful Kenya of 10 millionaires and 20 million destitutes. Yet at the same time Mr. Kenyatta wants the nation to break free and catch up with the rest of the pacemakers from Asia. But he does not want the radical reforms, the elementary prerequisites, the transformational safeguards that buttress that forwards pace. What rests are such public displays of hysterics, sorrowful theatrics and foolish impotence, which are what the president serves the nation these days as his passion.
NEXT: OF MALICIOUS NEGLIGENCE IN OFFICE
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 11, 2019 20:38:44 GMT 3
IT IS AN EPIDEMIC There is a China trading coroporation ready to buy the thing. They will make of it a China-industry park. But there is nobody to negotiate with! The Lake Basin Development Authority was always better canalising and dyking the Nyando lowlands into an flood-free agricultural belt; building and financing agro and fish research labs at Bondo University and Mawego Technical, and removing the hyacinth weed from beaches around the lake. ksh. 4 billion malls in Kisumu!? that is peanuts for three Wahindis who already built a few malls in the town. A commercial loan and they would build that Mamboleo mall as a private venture! The only reason that mall was financed by public money guarantee was because the public cash would be a sitting duck! LBDA? for inspiration I just looked up what the TVDA was all about. That is the Tennessee thing in standard 6 geography setbooks! So when others talk of SOCIALISM WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS, I talk of DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY with Luo characteristics. ---that is the Omena research I like to yap about! Now we can't operate a stupid mall! nor a stupid referral hospital, nor a stupid county assembly! and all with an emeritus professor of a governor! I am for selling the mall to the chinese at a song! Before it become a bats and monkeys den! WANTED! PREFERABLY DEAD! Bobasi MP Innocent Momanyi (left) and Kisumu County Assembly Speaker Onyango Oloo (right) are among individuals due in court on Monday in a graft case over the inflation of the construction cost of the Lake Basin Mall in Kisumu/FILE
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 10, 2019 21:34:48 GMT 3
effervescence in Murang'a
chapter NDINDI NYORO and (KANDARA) Alice Wahome
It is just a day to laugh. Such days exist in the battle front too. There is much bubbling at the surface whilst the depts cook.
But that Karanja Kibicho wants to kill Kiharu MPig Ndindi and his Kandara counterpart Wahome! And the other month it was 5 MK ministers including Munya plotting to kill Ruto!
Too much wolf-cries. ---In a land where murder is real. Think Jacob Juma, think Chris Muhando. The best way to prevent ad-hoc murders, is to make sure no one gets away with it. Go with Larry Flint: 'If the law can protect a scumbag like me, then it sure will protect all you goodly fellows!'
Small comfort for Miguna.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 8, 2019 13:12:50 GMT 3
HE MUST TRUST HIS INSTINCTS: WHY SONKO NEEDS MIGUNA MIGUNA
It looked like a jocular slip of the tongue, but it was a spurt from the deep ID, a serious symptom. His instincts were right, he needed Miguna Miguna. The cartels who never forgave the lowly hustler for taking the governorship away from them, would bide their time and come for him, with an ambush primed to kill.
Always do a forensic audit of the accounts when you come into a new office. It is the ABC rule of the game, basic instinct, like putting on ones nicest smile for the girl on the date ask.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 7, 2019 18:45:16 GMT 3
REPLACING CHRISTINE LAGARDE AT THE IMFAnd the insults I have to live with! A Luo-Pivot post! Many of us who are media savvy remember Christin Lagarde. First she was a Nairobi regular with the then godlike Professor Njunguna Ndung'u. The latter is now disgraced former Central Banker of Kenya. Thereafter Lagarde used to be all over us in Nairobi, feeding a willing Dr. Patrick Njoroge her portions of poison until, fed up and loosing the plot on the Kenyan economy, the Yale-bred CBK director opened the book of Kibaki and read: LOOK EAST. Also, Lagarde once served under Sarkozy in the economics docket, but of late she used to be the chairman of the IMF. She is French, remember currently a desperate country, therefore French as in Lagarde was the first woman to become Finance Minister of a G8 economy, France, (and the only woman as of 2019) and is the first woman to head the IMF. For those Kenyans very literate, a Ndun'gu Wainaina press release revealed a hand. The late Onyango Oloo of Jukwaa placed it at the centre piece of his essay: JUBILEE AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION. Here is an excerpt. But for Uhuru Kenyatta in economic thinking you can always read Joseph Kinyua. There is nothing in economics the nyamachoma crazed Ouru Kenyatta ever thought, and there is nothing in government policy with respect to finance which the puppet Ouru Kenyatta ever thought. No, even in the management of the fortune of the Kenyatta family, they always knew better to have Ouru think anything. ---But that the IMF (under Christin Lagarde) wrote the REVENUE BILLS, is of course also an indictment on the great don, Mwai Kibaki. It shows why all his life, for all his great brains, Mwai was more often than not, a sedated wh-ore on the use by savage pimps. Kibaki's endurance was a heroic feat worthy of a deep cultural take. It was an extraordinary career in intellectual masochism. True, he could only pull it off by taking leave of his powerful senses for long stretches of time, effectively a drink junk. In other words, it mirrors the resilience of Africa in the face of several centuries of brutal colonial rape. Right! ---I have always cherished Mwai Kibaki. Because of how hard he forces me to think just by looking at him. He scares me with his weakness, yet reassures me with his resilience, patience and lack of vindictive evil. ---People like Robert Mugabe who died this week, were brilliant minds which succumbed to vindictive evil. Kibaki on the other hand has such a high level of self conceit, he views all other humans --regardless of their animosity toward him--- with the condescending indifference of a god. I should be reminded to explore that faculty in his memoirs here: but Lagarde first. Lagarde's instrumentality in the devolution, financial cake arrangement which continues to be a thorn### in Kenya's political system, more than justifies a Jukwaa searchlight on her further wanderings in the dark, dark world of international finance. --Only yesterday was an agreement brokered which will prevent county governments from shutting down. Bone of contention? revenue division and disburse from the central government. HABEMUS ECB GOVERNORWell, it was that time of the calendar again. Last month. The years had gone by and new blood was needed to circulate. The dance of musical chairs at the top of Europe was enacted. This when the worst of European tribalism is all too visible, and the tragedy of a Germany desperately subduing herself within the EU, even more so. Lagarde goes to head the ECB, The European Central Bank at Frankfurt. It is exit the Italian economist Mario Draghi, the Bazookaman during the Eurocrisis. --We will see what the ex-finance minister Yanislav Varoufakis of Greece has to tweet about this development later. He had a ruthless intimacy with both Draghi and Lagarde. A roughshod sandwich so to speak, or a Troika business so to put it tongue in cheek. JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER CALLS IT A DAY! This personification of the European backroom deal is the man who the former Prime Minister of Britain, the already forgotten David Cameron, in utter exasperation, dubbed John the Drunk Junk! Well, that kind of (Euro) MATUSI is more the Kenyan routine in which Raila says his brother Ouru ni mlevi; Ruto says his brother Raila is a political conman, a mgahnga and a lord of poverty; Ouru says his brother Raila is mwendawazimu; Sonko says Millie Odhiambo is a Ben-Ten addict; Aisha Jumwa says Atwoli ni Kijana fupi; Kate Waruguru says Orengo is a lambalamba artist but on the same side; Jumwa says Joho is a nose full of powder; and Miguna says Passaris is so cute she is every man's rape fantasy! And very soon we will see what other names the European tribes call themselves within the EU. Ursula von der Leyen succeeds Jean-Claude Juncker (right) as European Commission President. Actually the Germans rather had their own top state banker, the president of the Bundesbank Jens Weiddeman, moving on to run the ECB. The consensus is he is better suited to put into place, the infrastructure for banking reforms which the EU desperately needs to align the Eurozone, to become both a currency and a banking union, which it now isn't. Lagarde is remembered to have played a criminal, double game during the Greek financial crisis. But the French ---read Macron-- would have none of that man,Jens Weidemann. For known reasons. Un uncomfortable Merkel had to find some other consolation slot. And so her party were happy to get rid of a minister who, though loyal to Merkel, has overstayed her welcome at the defence ministry. It was a good riddance. (more so, there is a succession in the offing in Germany. The once iron kanzelarin has been shaking in public like a leaf in the rain). EURO-TRIBALISM AND THE DUTCH DOUBLE LOSSBut there is a country to the West of Germany which is in deep mourning. The Netherlands lobbied hard for their candidate, Frans Timmermans to succeed Juncker, and, like most small countries do, lost in the backroom deals between the big ones. That is the fear which always terrifies Poland whenever Germany and Russia meat to work out a parley. But now the juice. The IMF top job is a European reserve ---anybody know why and how come, say!? Naturally then, the being who would replace Christin Lagarde, would be the one who had handled the Eurocrisis successfully, one would have logically thought. But God forbid, that one verily happened to be the Dutchman, former Mr. Euro, Jeroen Disselbloem. Howbeit it was to the Bulgarian senior economist, Kristalina Georgieva, the job went. The controversies why Jeroen didn't make it, is a tabloid tale of hurt feelings and long memories serving revenge cold. The Dutchman, typical of Dutch finance ministers, goes with the German hardball prudence at finance. During the Eurocrisis, he had many unflattering nicknames down South. He was a tormenter. And then the mocking interview he gave ---painting a picture of bodily-corrupted mentally offside peoples. So come his application to the IMF chieftaincy, the so-called siesta-zoners found an opportunity to get their revenge. They withheld their support from the heavyweight Dutch candidate and gave it to the Bulgarian economist. And openly said so, with dirty language. ---keep your arrogant arse well oiled for another mission your German patrons might have for it, geek! I tell you Aisha Jumwa's Kiono-shaking matusi is tame in comparison! I covered that (Dijsselbloem) interview in plenty for Jukwaa in the Eurozone deathbed thread, because I had a lot of friends in Germany who used it to laugh at me, or lets say, mock Africa's priorities when cash is galore. Dr. Jeroen and Mr. Euro, an adherent to the cult of Willem Drees, was speaking to a German newspaper, Der Frankfurt Alghemeiner. I will find where the reports are lost in the vast archives of Jukwaa, but the short of is this: the Dutchman blamed the Southerners for being the architects of their own financial woes. Instead of investing the cheap loans in worthwhile ventures for the future, they had spent the cash on 'birds, booze and the good times of, my correspondents added, other bodily pleasures verily thought of as the obsession of lowly Negroes!' NB: Willem Drees was the Dutch counterpart to Konrad Adenauer of the wirtschaftswunder. After the tribal war which ruined Europe, aka world war II, the Dutchman was so economical with the Marshall loans, so efficient with their deployment, so thrifty in the book-keeping, that the stunned Americans handed over the monitoring of their loans to Germany to the Dutch. The Dutch soon went on to rival the Swiss in international banking and, between the lines, money laundering for a price.But there is more. The financial management character of Willem Drees needed a new science. So the Dutch invented it. It is called mathematical economics, or econometry. Their main man of intellect was the economist Jan Tinbergen. He won the Nobel price for this contribution. The Germans, stung in their pride, conjured up a derogatory description for it. A people have to excel in something, the Dutch excel in meanness. It is a nation of misers! And to perpetuate the cult, the 'school of miserdom' is was launched in Rotterdam and named after the founder, Tinbergen. Imagine then, if you know that story, and you live in a country where Rotich and Thugge are the ministers of finance! And the Auditor General is a vacant office! ----my former German colleagues, who always got read faces when I explained to them, with condescending Luopean superiority, why for all their technical finesse they were a barbarian race beneath my respect, courtesy of the holocaust and the Herero genocides of Namibia, never tire to keep me up with the failures of Kenya's econometric intellect. On Rotich and Thugge for instance, they gloat how the mind of a Negro, take it to Harvard or Yale, is the same stone-age monkey brain which can't take care of a cent! And never will evolve past a lusty ape! Yawa, Jothurwa. Lit to ok chwuer!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 7, 2019 13:50:00 GMT 3
The Uhuru Kenyatta story everybody knows. He was a specific kind of project, one mindless enough to be characterised puppet. ---His mindlessness can be recognised in one facet: the scale of looting which has been perpetrated in his 7 years in power is unprecedented folly. The theft has been mindboglingly mindless. (the episode of the star economists Rotich and Thugge eating the dam's money, illustrates the debauchery and total mental decay of the regime. Useless. Sick.)And so we come to the warrior King would-be. William Samoei Kipchirchir arap Ruto. He worked tooth and nail to make Uhuru President. Not for the benefit of Kenya though, but for a very selfish reason: so he could succeed him, after effectively running him as a puppet, or using him as a rung in a ladder to the top. But the question is: Whose project/puppet is William Ruto?I think the point is made with the clinical brutality of a ritual priest ripping out a heart, live. TIP OF THE ICEBERT FOOTNOTE: THE DEBAUCHERY That is just the tip of the abscess. The dam of pus is deeper down!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 7, 2019 9:20:50 GMT 3
AN INDEPENDENT MAN TO THE TOP!
What does WSR want to do with the presidency of Kenya?
The modern presidency of Kenya is meanwhile an old, well-sat seat. The Look-East drunk Mwai Kibaki was here. The current is Uhuru, but his kleptocratic father Jomo and the undying Moi preceded him.
So there is some history, or data to go through and ponder the imports.
We know Arap Moi was a project. A passing cloud he was to be, until he discovered himself in office and spoiled the party; or better, discovered bloody ruthlessness and innate cunning are sufficient qualities to edge the competition and cling long. As history records, many idiots exercised power quite gamely, most of them on inheritance as a birthright of course.
Jomo Kenyatta ended up being an imperial British project. His brief was to oversee a neo-colonial succession to classic colonisation. The economic transformation of Kenya had to be abandoned, the development guided from imperial London. The vested interests of Britain had to be guaranteed. And they were. To the cost of Wanjiku.
Happy-go-Lucky Mwai Kibaki too was a project. He was head-hunted as a compromise candidate and hoisted to the top by a committee of local capital. On his own mental energies he wouldn't have become Prezzo. The lifting had to be done for him, just like later, the rigging too in 2007 for his second term. No brilliant man ever came lazier than Mwai.
The Uhuru Kenyatta story everybody knows. He was a specific kind of project, one mindless enough to be characterised puppet. ---His mindlessness can be recognised in one facet: the scale of looting which has been perpetrated in his 7 years in power is unprecedented folly. The theft has been mindboglingly mindless. (the episode of the star economists Rotich and Thugge eating the dam's money, illustrates the debauchery and total mental decay of the regime. Useless. Sick.)
And so we come to the warrior King would-be. William Samoei Kipchirchir arap Ruto. He worked tooth and nail to make Uhuru President. Not for the benefit of Kenya though, but for a very selfish reason: so he could succeed him, after effectively running him as a puppet, or using him as a rung in a ladder to the top.
But the question is:
Whose project/puppet is William Ruto?
I think the point is made with the clinical brutality of a ritual priest ripping out a heart, live.
The following is how I culturally explain Kenya's fascination with William Ruto: No, it is not money awash. There is enough slime with more money around in Kenya. No, the self-crowned Hustler King is the distinct possibility of a person, in this case a man, who is not beholden to anybody, local or foreign, rising to the top seat in the land, power. By just the exclusive work of native cunning, drive and self-confidence.
Ruto brings to the table a ruthless argument which we can see unsettles all the suitors of state. Pretenders like Matiang'i are projects, appointees of desperate others, pawns positioned to tame Ruto. On their own they would never dare. And we all know it.
Remember this history: before Independence, during the colonial period that is, influential positions like Governor General or Lord Protector of the colony were granted as patronage commissions at the leisure of English royalty and, of course, Elizabethan court politics. And that is a far cry from meritocracy.
But, vindu vichenjanga, here is just the tantalising possibility, that an independent can burst the quarantine. A Cromwell arisen to chop off divine heads so deemed immortal. The dynasties hate such a bastard to death, even if he is a classmate in the political economic sense of fellow predator.
The option CLASS SUICIDE does not of course exist in consciousness of WSR. The best flirt he can make with the peoples' cause, is republicanism. But even then, a very limited form since he has no --transformational--- thesis of liberation from debt bondage ----to currently you know who. That makes him a pathetic charlatan, but this is a situation where hairs can be split. That he can bluff into panic and sweat, the new royal overlords of the neo-colony as a kind of ruffian and dare-devil practical joker, plays into a folklorish idea of the bad hero, you know, kind of like Robin Hood was. Such ruffians will be fondled so long they get away with it, but the masses not fooled by their double game, will rally to condemn them when they are laid low!
If Ruto slays and confines to the ash heap the consolidating dynasties of Moi, Kenyatta and Odinga, he will be cheered and hailed as the Conquistador. If the dynasties make mince meat of him he will be post-humously burnt forever as the cheap thief of the Lang'ata Weston Land and the economic criminal of the YK'92 manenos.
Guaranteed.
True peoples heroes who become legends in the hearts, do the class suicide thing. But as we saw earlier, that option is non-existent here. That leaves only charlatans in play. And the peoples duplicity along in tow.
DOES RUTO HAVE A TRANSFORMATIONAL AGENDA?
No, I don't think so. Otherwise we could have seen it emerge during the height of his power as co-president, minister for Agriculture and the rest. Then we would have seen him tackle Mau. --Solve the deadly Scylla vs Charybdis danger: save the water tower at the same time as not create an IDP nightmare.
Mau is a highly complex matter. The death of a water tower can ruin a civilisation.
So, if he can't solve such dire, what does he want to do with the presidency of the republic? I think I know the answer: species instinct pushing, to be really in charge of the looting.
Well, they were all here before, weren't they: Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki, Kenyatta. ---the kleptocratic series seeking to perpetuate itself.
Well ..... Not Yet Uhuru!
Which means the daily struggle continues: Laluta Continua!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 5, 2019 22:07:21 GMT 3
Worth noticing, is that this calculated laxity is now being repeated in the exit of the Auditor General, Eduard Ouko.
By design of course, that vacuum.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 5, 2019 19:14:07 GMT 3
RUTO VENTURES INTO KIBRA! PROJECT MARIGAThe demobilisation of political intellect following the handshake showed off its laxity the other day, to the shock of adherents. And this is not about the latest round of Mau evictions which, faced with closing primary schools, have needed a big rethink.
Funny some didn't think of this last year, and the other one (but one!)
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Wanted: saving the water tower while children go to school!
But some pictures of the flooded classrooms of primary schools in Kenya! Hmmm The names of big landgrabbers are known. From years ago. And not even the Ndung'u report! Senator Ledama Olekina reads names of Rift Valley politicians with pieces of land in Mau Forest Area KTN News Kenya, 26 jul. 2018 Aah, Haji!?
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 4, 2019 19:32:27 GMT 3
RUTO VENTURES INTO KIBRA! PROJECT MARIGA
The demobilisation of political intellect following the handshake showed off its laxity the other day, to the shock of adherents. And this is not about the latest round of Mau evictions which, faced with closing primary schools, have needed a big rethink. Funny some didn't think of this last year, and the other one (but one!)
Chiefly in Kibra, Rafael Tuju of Jubilee was caught being his silly self all again. Two things I mean by Lazy for this Tuju. 1. He should not have run for President with the PoA thing. He should have run for governor of Siaya. (This is the same self-over-elevation or vanity which afflicted Peter Kenneth who, too, instead of attacking the presidency in 2013, should have first run for governor of either his native Murang'a or Nairobi.) 2. In a particularly obnoxious feat of political infatility, Raphael Tuju typified the oath of Raila Odinga as Kolongolongo. Tuju, as the SG of the ruling party, utterly failed to import and capture the significance of this broad light Uhuru Park event. The oath and the official emergence of the Peoples' President as a popular antithesis to the duly sworn in usurper, effectively split the country midways and primed the economy for a deep and enlengthened recession. And this is why the Handshake Pivot is such a relief. It was a draw back from the brink (of an abyss).
Now on Kibra, Tuju and Murage and the rest in Ouru's corner of Jubilee, called Kieleweke, assumed they had the power to unilaterally give ODM a homerun in Kibra. They learnt nothing on that Embakasi South debacle. --As if there is no Hustler in town, and no Tangatanga strategists to mind.
The result is they left their flanks wide open for a bluff. I think Mariga is a bluff, but if the NASA vote can be split +two ways between ANC's Owallo and whoever the ODM will nominate, there's just a chance the disfunctional family could score an own goal and let Mariga carry the cup by default. And William Ruto with nothing to loose, and the dynasties to defeat, already toured Kibra to, as we say in Dholuo, throw the grass in front of Raila. That is challenge Agwambo on his hometurf.
NB: And here is the Hustler punching Matiang'i and Magoha to the canvas in the same movement. Wanted: saving the water tower while children go to school!
But some pictures of the flooded classrooms of primary schools in Kenya! Hmmm
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 3, 2019 20:59:01 GMT 3
OH NO, NOT ANOTHER BOKO SUPER STAR DOWN!
The name is Mary, Professor Doctor Mary Walingo, alias 'Ng'ombe Kubwa'. The location is Mara university, Narok grasslands.
'NGOMBE KUBWA'!
Yawa, sometimes I feel like I should loose my temper but I can't. It is a mad house this land! It is just that I have seen it all before. And I have read it meticulously narrated, and I know how it ends. These Mara things are just variations on the same theme, petty thieves.
The post-colonial novel with as theme the decay of the ideals, the moral collapse of the new African elite, and the demise into the abyss of debauchery and shameless corruption, is a treatise in these learned grazers. They are all there in the Library.
Now, the ethical choices of professor Mary Walingo of Mara university!
She is 'normal' in the sense what she did is the rule with Kenyans in positions of authority: they abuse it, more so, financially loot it. --She is an aspirant True Hustler in the contemporary sense of the word as projected by a faction of the corrupt elite of Kenya. This is the school allied to William Ruto. (The caravan of bandits out to derail the locomotive of the royals!)
But before her fall, Professor Mary Walingo had a reputation to rival George Magoha when the latter was VC at the prestigious Nairobi University. And she still says that is what she is, both an academic and administrative super star. But that is not where the title Big Cow comes from!
For sooth this is when one begins to pity even those one rather not. To me, those trusted with communal goodies but turn out thieves are like child rapists: to be executed without right of appeal. After that, no right to any burial, but to be disposed of the way John Michuki, they say, advised for the eliminated Mungiki: down the unscalable depths of the Rift Valley.
JOHN MICHUKI IN CULTURAL THEORY
Culturally speaking, the late John Michuki will be a very complex character in state. He was --what Soyinka would call-- an Eraser, what they call an 'Eradicateur' in French lingo. In Algeria, that word --eradicateur-- is one of the dirtiest in the modern history of that country. But the cultural significance of John Michuki, is the bureaucratic nerve to define a kind of crime, outside the ready made terrorism, as a national security threat and earmark its perpetrators for systematic eradication by the state.
That is a precedent. Ruthless, cold-blooded, determined and clear cut. But most controversial, a strong measury of public support!
That means, within the consciousness of the Kenyan politicology and statecraft, there is a (DORMANT BUT INTRINSICALLY POPULAR) strand which can easily define and internalise corruption as clear and present danger, and act accordingly on the historical memory, ie precedent: eradicate the perpetrators.
This option is ABSENT IN LAW, is constitutionally ignored, say non-existent, but, howbeit, it is culturally at the top of the agenda, given this crisis which neither law nor the new constitution can cope with: ie run-away corruption.
Terrible thing, culture! (if the constitution has been kidnapped by the elite and is being mutilated by MPigs, culture will search out the box for solutions you bet! --Remember CULTURE WILL PONDER AND COPE WITH Willy Mutunga's mental implosion confronted with the imperative to spell out clearly the meaning of integrity so as to enshrine it in legal rule!)
All options open then after the best is ignored, it would be a bloody purge on both wings of the cartel, the Hustlers and the Dynasty's. Most of them would join the nearly 5000 or more unaccounted for Mungiki bodies. The grapevine has it they are heaped at the forbidding bottom of the Rift Valley!
Culturally speaking, this is the complex importance of John Michuki. A benchmark for dealing with serious crime. The rest is Kalongolongo. (Haji, Maraga, DCI .... you know the jokers in the so-called war on corruption).
I said. Every Kenyan knows John Michuki was here. So which war is Ouru Kenyatta talking about on corruption!? (he should talk of attempts to bluff run away corruption!)
But back to the perplexed lady of the Narok grasslands.
Maasai Mara University VC responds to Citizen TV Maraheist Corruption Revelations
But what did her juniors in the administration call her!? --'NG'OMBE KUBWA'!
Why?
According to them, and also in the experience of her accomplices in the scam, she grazed the pastures with insatiable greed! --Not only does she have lengthy fingers, but they were more often than not, dipping into the cookie jar! A runaway mini kleptocrat.
A real Hustler babe in the make.
I admit I spent most the time laughing as Citizen aired the expose. This wanton theft of public funds is a national tragedy no doubt. But that is not what struck me. Pilfering public goodies is after all what the Kenyatta and Moi regimes were all about. What is amusing even as it churns the tummy, is the 'pedestrian shoddiness' and cheap furtive lies which are the cornerstone of fraud. --Eurobond billions, Libyan Investment Agency billions, NYS 1&II heists, the technical details are pathetic and as sordid as cab-crawling Koinange street for a quickie in the alley.
One inadvertently gets to pity the vermin. Looters who only deserve Eradication.
So WHO has the most realistic appreciation of the situation? The professor Mary who, no doubt through a lawyer's PR firm, still insists on her stardom and righteousness? or her subordinates who kept tab and distilled her grazing habits wherefore they characterise her NG'OMBE KUBWA, the mighty grazer?
Yes, she is Kenya's best if not one of the best academic bureaucrats, of that lot she might be the mightiest grazer! ---now fallen in shame.
Unfortunately those two positions are not mutually exclusive. Kenya's bests, Boko Bests, have also habitually been Kenya's moral worst's in high office. They have been positively bestials, mutants. George Saitoti, Henry Rotich, come immediately to mind of late. (And the CV of the leading men who privatised the Kenya state under Jomo Kenyatta into a GEMA holding, is an array of Boko cum laude's!)
Professor Doctor Mary is an amateur. She is a lowly rat gnawing crumbs. ---Kipevu Oil jetty alone was hyped from 15 billion to over 40 billion. Just like that! But a scholar, in a scholarly job, is something else. One would think for scholars, their minds are not yet dead to the extent where the penetrative deliberation on the concept ETHICS is extinct. The no-difference between scholars and scum in office is therefore a cultural contradiction, in fact an evident aberration which all of Africa (-n societies) wrestles with in daily discourse. The phenomenon has even spawned a totally fundamentalist and rejectionist movement called ---yes you guessed it---- BOKO HARAM.
'Boko Africa' has given rise to the likes of Obi Okonkwo. The best boys from their villages who degenerated tot local pick-pockets. Like Henry Rotich --the former star of Kerio; and now Professor Doctor Mary Walingo, Maasai Mara University Vice-Chancellor It is hilarious!
Only art can do justice to this tragi-comedy.
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 1, 2019 18:10:13 GMT 3
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.
and
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!'
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 1, 2019 15:14:26 GMT 3
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? 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.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 31, 2019 16:13:26 GMT 3
THE TEACHERS OF KENYA SUCCUMB TO THE CULT OF SELF-DESTRUCTION!A variety of forces have come to head. And the most historically successful Union in Kenya is in shambles. That is KNUT. In the short term, this is quite a victory for the reactionary politics of the Oligarchs and dynasties who control the state and own Kenya. The organised, alternative ideological opposition is scattered, infiltrated and colonised. We can now go back to the situation immediately after independence when Tom Mboya finished the re-organisation of the trade Unions. That is the purge of the radicals which easiened the domestication of the unions and guaranteed their subservience to the KANU state and party whose SG he (TJ) was. But in the long run, and now because there is a crisis, this is pyrrhic victory. There is a crisis because all around the land at large, there is a cash crunch which has meant a variety of workers have gone without pay, for months. Primarily then, that is a labour grudge arising not from a rejected demand for higher salaries, but for pay for work already done. Can't pay for routine work already done, is a crisis. Two things on this Jakaswanga. TSC is right to remove them from the register of teachers as you cannot hold two jobs as a State Officers. That is the legal side of things. Now the political - With Sossion out as a teacher, then he cannot lead a union he is not a member of as KNUT membership us derived from teachers who are licenced by TSC. When he could not go peacefully - he was forced out. He cannot even lead TUC....!! So govt has pulled the rug on ODM who hoped they could score political points with a parliamentarian calling strikes!! Qatch the big picture here, Kamalet. The battle on, in deed the war against trade Unions, and in this case, the fear of Sossion! he has to be neutralised. The why is interesting. ---This is nothing unique, if you visit what other governments too are doing to the Unions. Even former unionist Ramaphosa, Uhuru's recent host down south, is also known as the Mariakana killer! Nancy Macharia is a cog being used. THE FINALE
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 31, 2019 0:19:40 GMT 3
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.
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 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. 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. 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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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 29, 2019 21:07:44 GMT 3
OKOTH'S WIDOWED SEAT UP FOR GRABS: TITANS AND THEIR PAWNS!1. Everything goes. Even fake letters of recommendation from the very top! The widow is up for grabs. Ken Okoth's Kibra. The high priest of inheritance rituals, Wafula Chebukati of the IEBC, well, a Ker Ondiko Nyangadi of sorts, has chanted his scripts. Let the courtship begin. If one thought the renegade faction of the LCE under His Lordship Ker Ongadi was a tower of regression when it comes to the rituals of widow inheritance, a look at the untidy melee and fiesta of backwardness which has become the state of play as the political elite jostle to bag the Kibra seat, comparatively elevates Ker Ongadi Nyandiko into a light of sanity. The BBI and Handshake narrative has all but fallen apart as every Tom Dick and Harry, including likely brain-damaged footballers, bare their chests and brag their vows to fill Okoth's giant shoes. In the craziest episode reported so far, Okoth's brother Imran was allegedly chased away with chants of 'Jajuogni, iwang'o owadu buru nang'o!?' --Witch, why did you let cremate your brother to dust!? Ken Okoth may have been ahead of his times with his ground-breaking yes, cremate me when I am dead, but his constituents not necessarily. With his futuristic performances on the ground, the power-packed delivery of necessary services, the late Ken was of course an unquestionable King of hearts; but with binding spell cast by Okoth gone, the body of the mass reverts back to its usual conservative school. This is music to the ears of reactionary strategists who can then project candidates pandering to basic instincts. And that conservative mood is, as a matter of fact, the ancient rock upon which the Ker Ondiko Nyangadi's scale to proclaim their age-old edicts! --- Chi-liel nyaka ter! (A widow must be inherited) Jaluo nyaka yiki, ok wang'! (A Luo must be buried, not cremated!) Jaluo ok terre gi chwo, oterre gi mon! (Luo men don't know men, they only know women) Jaluo Jasunga, ok osechi kata odwaro kura kuomi! (A Luo is proud to a fault, he never pleads, not even for your vote!) And the one we love in Kisumu since stand-up comedians authored to pull legs to the extreme: Jaluo ok sechi ma kata ibed Jehova to koselami nyadichiel to pok ikonye e dwacheno, to iwe! ---Jaluo wont plead. To Jehova he prays once. Failure to respond, Jehova can go to hell!) No, only a select few of stand-up comedians have the mental grit and firepower to crack this one and hold nerve. But they exist nevertheless. One can only imagine what this kind of cultural fundamentalist identity does to the nerves of the commercial men lobbying for government contracts; middle class careerists licking hole to ingratiate themselves unto bosses; urban politicians in mixed areas fain to put their least arrogant faces forth; or credit-starved businessmen in supplication before account managers! One should attend an all-night all-Luo comedy night to get the health of the culture: Here is a man called Noise: -- Ani Jaluo ok sechi. To ng'ani kiyudo kodolo yiwe kwayo lon e bengi! Mondo odhi onyiewgo Probox kata otergo Sleyquin Dubai bayo! Ei, Omera en sida ma tamre gi pimo. Chal mana Kisumo ka e stend ka ng'ato dwaro usoni angolo kata pensil. --Mien to ywagre moloyo otanda baah ma Kondele e giko duwe!
(Ei Jaluo wadwa, asayi kik inega nikech anyisi adiera. --Jaluo ok sechi!)OR: No, no Luo will plead. But find this man on his knees at a bank cubicle licking feet for a loan! To buy a Probox or afford his mpango a holiday in Dubai! it is a sight indescribable before God. He is like the over persistent hawkers at the local Buspark peddling wares at you. ---sticks to you like your shadow, cries hopelessly like the seedy beds of Kondele joints at month end! Yes, culture has enough safety valves, to take the pressure off the fundamentalism, should mindless fundamentalism get the upper hand. That is why some floated the compromise, that Ken Okoth should have been buried. Then after the furore had died, exhumed in the dead of night like Jomo Kenyatta, then rushed to a cremation joint. A banana tuber left in his grave at home! The argument can then last forever, should the story come out, whether he was buried or cremated or both! Culture can be a dangerous permissive; it allows folks to have their cake and eat it. I am thinking two cases to illustrate. (1). Lots of us Kenyans officially wed in monogamous marriages. But both sides of the sex divide, mpangos wamejipanga. The marriage is monogamous, the practice a spectrum of definitions ---(polyandrous, polygamous, open, adulterous). (2.) There are (Catholic) pastors who are both celibate and unmarried; but, the whole village knows, married with kids and happy, and, furthermore, with Madam X as an aside gig. It is a life in sin, but then again, a compromise without which the explanations to the pastor's celibacy would cause a commotion which derails the whole effort of the church: winning souls for the Lord! It is this balance of live and let live which power has to manipulate, to its advantage. And so, knowing our country as we do, WHAT HAS BEEN THE 'WHITE MISCHIEF' BEHIND THE SCENES IN KIBRA? DISCLAIMER: White Mischief, apart from the notorious film, is a paragraph about the peak of the decadence of the white settler class. These were once Lord of this land, and ruled with unabated impunity. For instance, Lord Dalamere &Co manipulated the LEGCO into a tool catering wholly for white interests, well, with a tiny bit of concession to Asians. Perhaps some have heard of the Income Tax Ordinance/Bill of 1922, purposed to protect settler Agriculture and shift the tax-burden on the already overtaxed natives. And too, 1923, the INDIAN QUESTION, when the (minority) whites under Delamere affirmed the LEGCO was an all-whites only affair. (Hitler's rise in Europe would be music to these settlers' ears!) They ruling class was then wholly deluded in their impunity. Lords of the Land. Now, those LEGICO drama's is what I call white mischief for real. (but the drama in a Happy Valley in which a cuckolded husband allegedly murders his wife's lover is also as good a story of elite decline as worthy tabloid tale! Okay, the currently running soap of a divorce proceeding featuring a senator and a former powergirl at an aspiring President's court, is, too, as good a synopsis as any of high social rot!) Of course back in them settler days, in the nature of political dynamics, this extreme impunity called into life, an extreme and opposite reaction. And eventually Mau Mau was birthed as the most militant wing of African nationalism asserting itself, clawing back space. From what I gather, I deduce Kibra has become the hotest seat in Kenya today. It is a confluence of forces, a microcosm, say a cesspit, or sh!tpit unto where all our primitiveness will drain, and ferment. This widow, is hot! And Tuju ran into a solar plexus one from Ruto.
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 28, 2019 22:20:38 GMT 3
THE PERFECT TEMPLATE FOR ROT: THE SUCCESSION LACUNAYes, one of the most corrupt countries of Africa does not, now, have a substantive auditor general in office!
We do understand each other very well in this country, don't we! ---where art thou, the sealer of holes?
Paraphrasing Fella Kuti: In this country the government shall leave no stone unturned to find a loophole for public money to leak!
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Post by jakaswanga on Aug 27, 2019 22:03:52 GMT 3
RE: ON OFFICIAL OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION RESPONDS TO A WAIL FROM AFRICA!
The (accusing) report read: on average seven women die in Kenya per day of unsafe abortions. MEDI-AID which the USA has been dispensing to Africa, including Kenya, has been very instrumental in basic primary care. This is amongst some of the most wretched places in Africa, the famous Kibera slums for instance.
Then in came Donald Trump and his religious fundamentalists allied to Mike Pence. They stopped funding anything related to abortions. Even the distribution of information folders on the subject was a step too far. Most of the clinics in slums which were financed by MEDI-AID USA have closed or are running next to empty. Nurses and visiting doctors have had to find keep elsewhere.
A journalist confronted an official of the Trump regime with this inhumanity. --You have deserted the poor negroes! shame on you, lord of th exceptional land under God! But the Trumpian man was unfazed, he dismissed the jounalist straight on: Some of these countries we gather they steal half their tax payers money. I gather they steal less from themselves, they can pay their own health bills. We aint Santa you know. Go ask them why they steal from their own people and demand foreigners pay their bills the taxes should cover. And don't come back to bother me with bull-sh!t.
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Credited with saving how many!? waaaH 22M people! Hosana!
BUT WHAT HAVE STUDIES SHOWN SINCE TRUMP? Okay, so more womenfolk from the wretched of the earth are dying across the slums of other continents and Africa, say ... like ... Kibera where a by-election is coming?
And Donald Trump should care!? More than Raila and his brother Ouru, and the rest of the gang like Ruto and MDVD!?
Wololo!
I think the Yankee gave the best adult answer: 'if the sh!thole republics stole less from themselves and used their taxes better, they can fund their own safe abortions or whatever. I got other stuff to mind.' Donald Trump's is a nativist racist regime yes, but when it comes to this one, he knocks out every criticus cold. Even nativist racists can be right!
Over to you, the peoples president! Steal less, buy more Medicare for the people. And if you are not the thief, find the scumbag and finish him by first confiscating all his looted gains. Otherwise of course the average 7 female deaths per day may just rise. Sad, unless it makes you happy like Ruto says it does, to wallow in the squalor of others and be their lord of poverty, dynast and Qing!
Or may be the issue is this: why should Trump care? It is after all Xi Jinpin's problem! We no longer look West, do we!?
Aweyi gi mago inindgo!
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