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Tribalism Is Not A “Monster That Storms Meetings”

The article by Mr. Peter Njoroge could be an “eye-opener” to what happens in Narc-K Stockholm. Mr. Njoroge raises issues innocently without the advantage of background. In the process, he exposes the modus operandi of Narc-K Stockholm unconsciously. Let us examine some of the issues he brings to surface.

Mr. Njoroge says that when he asked why there were only Kikuyus present at the Narc-Stockholm meeting, he was told that ´´people were invited and everyone was welcome“. The truth is that only Kikuyus were invited to the meeting and what Njoroge could have done was to call some of his Luo, Luhya, Kalenjin, Kamba etc friends to find out if they had been invited.

In fact, members of the Kikuyu community who are known to take a stand against tribalism were also not invited to the meeting. A source which spoke to KSB and who was at the meeting as a Narc-Kenya supporter said that a member even asked why Pastor Beatrice Kamau had not been invited to the meeting. Pastor Kamau’s opposition to tribalism did not begin with her defection to ODM-Scandinavia and her failure to get invitation to the meeting was not strange.

Mr. Njoroge questions Pastor Beatrice’s membership in Narc-Stockholm and whether the Pastor had tried to address the issue of tribalism in the branch before she defected. This means that Mr. Njoroge is not aware that before Narc- Stockholm was set up, it was Pastor Beatrice who gathered Narc-K MPs at a dinner in Skarpnäck to plant the seeds of Narc-Stockholm.

The dinner was not organized exclusively to set up Narck-Stockholm but to expose Kenyans to the MPs and even ODM supporters were invited. It was after this meeting that Pastor Beatrice teamed up with one Narc Kenya sympathizer to discuss the possible formation of Narc-Stockholm. In fact, only two members of the current Narc-Stockholm line-up were at the meeting.

Within two days, the initiative had been hijacked by two Kenyans who hurried up a secret meeting in a house in Alby with the MPs and where invitation was through careful hand-picking. When Pastor Beatrice questioned the criteria of invitation, tribalists who had hijacked the MPs began to look at her with askance. It is at this point that leading and well known Kikuyu chauvinists were recruited into the Narc-Stockholm project, not just to begin an anti-Beatrice campaign but to design a strategy of kicking her out of the initiative because she was “dangerous”.

The ethnic foundation of Narc-Stockholm was eventually sealed when a “Kikuyu fundamentalist” declared before the gathering and in front of the MPs that Narc-K belongs to “The House of Mumbi”. Where was Mr. Njoroge or from his view, what does this statement mean? For those who were still slow in understanding the statement, the member also declared that those who had organized the meeting “should not apologize to anybody” for having organized the meeting as Kikuyus, prompting MP Alicen Chelaite to protest.

Chealite told the meeting that she was the MP of Rongai and that some of the Kenyans who elected her were Kikuyus. Chelaite’s intervention did not have any consequence because Narc-Stockholm initiative had already been taken over by Kikuyu chauvinists who also believe that Kenya belongs to Wakikuyu.  

When the November 4th meeting came up, Pastor Beatrice was missing because the chauvinists did not want her “to rock the boat”. Njoroge’s article reveals that those around Narc-Stockholm are keeping their members ignorant about the brief Narc-Stockholm history and using deceit as a matter of survival. 

For Mr. Njoroge, the Narc-Stockholm elections might have been “democratic”. What Njoroge and other innocent Kenyans slowly being sucked into the Narc-stockholm ethnic whirl pool is that Mr. Daniel Mwaura, the Narc-Stockholm Chairman, had already been “anointed” by MP Beth Mugo to lead Narc-Stockholm and that whatever happened at the “elections” on the 4th of November was a mere formality probably with members at the meeting not having been told of the dirty conspiracy.

In an email obtained by KSB, Mwaura wrote: “The assitant Ministers had special praises for Mr. Mwaura Njuguna who was officially crowned the Narc-Kenya Rep. in Scandinavia. Mr Mwaura was given a mandate to call the members again at an appropriate time to hold elections in order to fill all the posts”.

After the so called elections, Mwaura emerged as the Chairman because the elections had already been choreographed. In line with the fundamental principles of “The House of Mumbi” in Stockholm, The Chairman, the Vice Chairman, the Secretary, the Vice secretary, the Treasurer, the Vice treasurer and four ordinary Narc-Stockholm Committee members are all from the “House of Mumbi” ie Kikuyus. The implication is that at Narc-Stockholm Committee meetings, there will be no problem with Kikuyu as the “official language”. 

Mr. Njoroge wrote: “I did not feel the tribalism as so clearly pointed out in the above mentioned articles”. Tribalism is not an object you see with your naked eyes in a meeting or a stone that hits you on the head so that you feel terrible pain. Tribalism is subjective.

When everybody in a meeting to form a national political Party is a Kikuyu, in a meeting that only Kikuyus have been invited and after elections, all positions are taken up by Kikuyus, then that could be a better example of tribalism at work. If Mr. Njoroge is waiting for the “monster of tribalism” to storm a meeting so that everybody can see him or her, he will be in for a long wait, probably until Kingdom comes.

Okoth Osewe: makosewe@gmail.com

November 10, 2006 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment

Dancan Munala Decries Killings And Growing Insecurity In Kenya

It concerns me that the self-styled Mungiki sect is killing  innocent Kenyans in front of Kenyan security personnel and without government intervention.

These criminals are everywhere in Nairobi. It is very stupid for the Kenyan Government to say that they cannot trace these criminals when I can see them all the way from Sweden. They are at Matatu terminals, market centers and villages. In fact, some of them have agents in the government.

The killings in Kenya in the past two months cannot be justified under any circumstance. With its inability to contain the worsening security situation in Kenya, the government has lost credibility in the eyes of the public. It is very surprising that even the opposition is silent in the middle of killings that have hit our Nation with Nairobi city being the worst affected in the latest attacks.

Kenyans who are being killed are the very citizens who helped the Narc government to kick former dictator Daniel arap Moi out of power. Opposition against the Wako draft constitution had its base and support among those now being killed while it is the same people who helped bring about political pluralism that forced the registration of alternative political parties in Kenya, just to name but a few.

How can any Kenyan in a position to prevent these acts of murder justify the despicable killings going on in our country? Where are the norms relating to our Nation? Are those being killed also citizens in a democratic Kenya in which fundamental human rights and freedoms pre-suppose the centrality of the law of the land? For how long are our people going to be killed like animals in the woods.

Those being murdered are people who are poor and jobless while their lives have been made hopeless. The worst thing in the situation is to take the lives of these Kenyans because that’s the only “property” they own. The Kenyans being killed are supposed to be sharing “common values” our politicians sing about every day claiming that they respect these values. Can the government and its supporters maintain their repressive policies without resistance?

When the cost of maintaining an asset becomes too high, it becomes a liability and the owner disposes of it. The Kibaki government needs to be disposed of. Using various methods, the government has failed to dominate Kenyans and now, the Kibaki regime is watching as armed gangs kill innocent people. The Kibaki government has failed to convince Kenyans on the origin of the on going violence and now they are telling as that 7 people are dead because of control of changaa, an illegal brew. The truth is that the government has a hand in the killings.

The escalating violence and random killing of innocent Kenyans are likely to fool Kenyans that the violence is not targeting one tribe. Yes it is one tribe! The tribe of the poor which has been the most affected by the may hem. Kenyans will definitely see beyond the current killings. The ruling class is condoning the murders because they want to scare people from voting for the opposition in 2007 but this strategy will not work. A person cannot be forced to believe that the random killings in Kenya is accidental. Kibaki and his group have failed to address issues that are of common concerns to poor Kenyans and the fear of losing elections is driving the regime to abet the killing of its own people. This is a shame!

Dancan Munala
 

November 10, 2006 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment

Peter Njoroge Speaks About Narc-Stockholm

I write this because as a Kenyan I cannot resist to worry about the course we are taking in the name of better politics for Kenya. It concerns an article published in the Kenya Stockholm Blog after Pastor Beatrice Kamau “defected” to ODM-Scandinavia and an article titled ´Tribalism in Kenya is a class issue says Helen Opwapo’. Both articles were written by Okoth Osewe on the 5th of November.

The words used to criticize Narc-Kenya Scandinavia or, more so, members of that party and its leaders, were very sharp and damning, and  should be so if they meant, not to revile but to reveal the truth and attack tribalism. All Kenyans should do so.

But I fail to feel the good meant in them. Instead I feel hatred and anger by Kenyans, directed to Kenyans. It is through debate and discussion that we come out with better solutions and Nation- building measures. If this is not possible, we can just choose not to agree and respect that.

But the choice of words in these articles and their sharpness is not meant to sooth, but rather, to widen the gap that sadly, has exposed itsself in our community.

Until now, I never thought I would experience tribalism between Kenyan ethnic groups here in Sweden. I have never personally come across it anywhere or through anyone of my friends here. Maybe I have been “tribe-blind”, but here it is. That’s a pity and saddening.

I went to the Narc-Kenya Scandinavia’s second meeting held on Saturday the 4th of this month and I can sincerely say that I did not notice any tribal function in it. I did not go there nor did I decide to join it as a Kikuyu, but as a Kenyan citizen with a democratic right to do so. In that meeting, I asked about the big turn out of Kikuyus and the absence of other ethnic groups to which I got the answer that ´´people were invited and everyone was welcome“, not just Kikuyus, but all Kenyans and even other nationalities willing to support Narc-Kenya Scandinavia. I did not feel the tribalism as so clearly pointed out in the above mentioned articles.

It was at this meeting that a committee was formed and leaders elected democratically by those present. From then, that is Saturday 4th, the party opened for membership. Pastor Beatrice, who was not present at this crucial meeting, appeared in this blog (KSB) the next day already having defected to ODM-Scandinavia. Questions are was she a member of Narc-Kenya before anybody else in Scandinavia? And if so, did she as per her political experience do something or say something to try to change the tribal situation she witnessed? It sure took her a short time to decide and change her views and, by Jesus, let us hope that there was nothing selfish in her move.

We now have two of Kenyans hottest parties represented in Scandinavia, we should not allow ourselves to be blown away by the ethnic cyclone blowing back home. We do not have to engage in the tribal cat fights so eminent in our leaders back home. We should be congratulating each other on the recent democratic development in our community here in Sweden and set an example for everybody back home. Or should we destroy the brotherhood and solidarity we have been trying to build amongst our selves, just because we now belong in different parties?

Criticize to build but not to put down our brothers and sisters. Debate for a healthier mind and a stronger society! I believe that we should all maintain respect, truth and conviction if we want to fight and win the war on tribalism for a better Kenyan society in Scandinavia and aiming for brighter days for our nation.

I congratulate the elect leaders in both parties and salute the respective members. Now that we have taken our places, lets do our best for what we believe in, and not waste our energies in hate. I write this as a private entity and not as a Narc-Kenya(S) representative. One love, one Kenya.

Peter Njoroge aka Njoro

November 10, 2006 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment

How Could Juliet’s Suspected Murderer Have Been Freed?

There is a cliché among many immigrants in Sweden that “the Swedish law is funny”. KSB has temporarily suspended the publication of further details regarding the Juliet trial so as to give room for a comment on the release by the Court of Juliet’s suspected murderer.

The Swedish law “is funny” because the suspect in the Juliet case has been released even before the official delivery of judgment in Court which is scheduled for Tuesday next week. It might not be surprising to go to Court next week to find that there are no typical Court proceedings with the Judge delivering the judgment because the main arguments in the judgment might simply be handed over on a piece of paper.

When a group of Kenyans showed up at a Court in Stockholm last year to listen to the Judgment in a case in which Billy Boy, a Kenyan Rapper, was being tried for allegedly assaulting a Swedish woman, they were surprised to find that the Court was empty.

When they tried to investigate, they were told that they could get the Judgment on a piece of paper if they were interested. However, not anybody could get the Judgment. Only Billy’s girlfriend could have access to it and at a price. She paid 56 kr (560 Kenyan shillings).

Although Kenyans expected to see Billy in Court for, may be, the last time, the Kenyan Rapper was simply driven to prison because he had been “found guilty”. Don’t worry that Billy was jailed on flimsy grounds and for a crime that was allegedly committed two years before! 

The question that every Kenyan is spitting at the moment is “How could Juliet’s suspected murderer have gone free?” A sample of the suspect’s hair was found on the material that was used to wrap Juliet’s body. This shows that the suspect must have had contact with the body or even wrapped it himself so how could he have done this if he was not party to Juliet’s murder?

The last time Juliet talked on her phone, police evidence showed that it was the suspect who phoned her before her phone went dead. At first, the suspect told police that he was not the father of Juliet’s unborn child. However, DNA evidence showed that he was the father meaning that he had lied to police. When Juliet became pregnant, she was in a relationship with the suspect and the Prosecution showed that Juliet had no other relationship with another man especially after coming into contact with the suspect.

The suspect did not want Juliet to conduct an abortion because he did not want responsibility and this well established position serves as a strong motive for murder. The court could call it “circumstantial evidence” but is DNA evidence and proof of parenthood of an unborn child whose father wanted the mother to abort also circumstantial?

The suspect lived in Farsta. Juliet’s body was wrapped in a tarpaulin. Police investigation found that a tarpaulin and other materials that were used to wrap Juliet’s body were all bought at Claes Olsson Supermarket at Farsta (where the suspect lived) a day after Juliet was allegedly killed.

When her body was recovered, Juliet’s head was wrapped in a plastic bag that was bought from the Konsum supermarket chain. Police found that the suspect bought two such plastic bags at Farsta supermarket the afternoon that Juliet was killed. The circumstance here is how the suspect could have bought two plastic bags similar to the one that was used to wrap Juliet’s body.

A crime that was committed more than a year ago might be very difficult to investigate because of possible destruction of evidence. But how does a lay person explain the fact that after all the circumstances mentioned above, the witness went ahead to hire a small lorry with a “back lift” at Farsta (where he lived) then drives the lorry 130 Km without proper explanations where he might have been?

A rational mind would think that the lorry could have been used to transport Juliet’s body after she was murdered because definitely, you don’t hire a lorry of that magnitude just to transport a CD deck as the witness said.

When Juliet left her flat for the last time she was seen alive, a witness told the Court that she carried with her a “gadget” that she used for training her stomach to keep fit. The “gadget” which was made in Germany, was recovered by police at the suspect’s apartment. The explanation here is that when Juliet left her apartment for the last time, she must have gone to the suspect’s house because how could the gadget have been recovered from the suspect’s house if Juliet did not visit him that day?

Don’t worry that Juliet was short in the back with a hunting gun and that the suspect was licensed to use a hunting gun. Surely, is the acquittal of Juliet’s suspected murderer the result of failure of the Swedish justice system or is it just another case of racism within the system especially on questions touching on Africans in this country? Are we dealing with a case of “another nigger out of the street” or are the circumstantial evidence against the witness “a figment of imagination” of the Swedish police who investigated the case?

I could have rested my case there. According to evidence adduced in court, the witness assaulted an officer at a labor Office with a knife in 1999 and was jailed for two months so the witness had a criminal record.

The same day Juliet was allegedly murdered, the suspect borrowed 100.000 kr from City Bank out of which 70.000 kr was recovered from the house of the suspect. Police speculated that the suspect might have planned to leave the country at short notice because some of the cash was recovered in foreign currency. Does this still sound like circumstantial evidence? May be.

Regardless of what the government is saying and the “integration” propaganda being spewed through the Swedish media, the acquittal of the suspect in this case might be telling a different story to the Kenyan, African and immigrant communities in Sweden – that institutionalized state racism and discrimination exists in the Swedish labor market, housing market and, most importantly, the Swedish justice system.

Africans and other immigrants might not be able to get admission into restaurants especially in Stockholm because of racism and discrimination. However, the Juliet case is probably the latest evidence that in Sweden, a nigger can be brutally murdered without repercussions and that the next “nigger killer” will probably walk away because the life of a nigger in this country is cheap and disposable. What do other niggers say?

Okoth Osewe: makosewe@gmail.com   

November 10, 2006 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment