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Jamhuri Plans For Kenyans In Holland Ready

As Purity Muhindi sleeps at the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm and holding information about this year’s Jamhuri day celebrations close to her chest, her counterpart in Holland, Her

Purity entertaining Sudanese at a Party after abandoning Kenyans in Stockholm

Excellency Prof  Ruthie Chepkoech Rono, has gone public with information about the 45th Jamhuri celebration in The Hague.

According to an invitation card sent to Kenyans in Holland, the event will take place on Friday, December 12th at Crowne Plaza Promenad, van Stolkweg 1 between 17.00 and 19.00 hrs. The Lady Ambassador will be accompanied by her husband Prof Paul K. Rono.

Back in Stockholm, the Embassy is still sitting on information. The latest announcement at Embassy web site is an invitation for Coffee the Ambassador made to Kenyans in Denmark early this month. There is no information about what happened at this “Coffee drinking break” while it is not known whether the Ambassador just walked back to Stockholm immediately after drinking Coffee because there is no information either as to whether she gave a speech.

KSB believes that the Embassy should release information about Jamhuri celebrations so that Kenyans interested in attending the event can plan their schedules.

Okoth Osewe

November 24, 2008 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 3 Comments

Martin Ngatia Says Ambassador Purity Should Be Recalled

Mr. Martin Ngatia, a Kenyan politician resident in Stockholm, has attacked Mrs Purity Muhindi, the Kenyan Ambassador to Scandinavia, for “surrounding herself with weaklings” at her secret meetings with Kenyan dignitaries during their excursions in Sweden because these weaklings are incapable of challenging the Ambassador’s guests at private dinners.

Speaking to KSB in response to a recent secret reception of a group of Kenyan dignitaries at her residence, Mr. Ngatia said that Ambassador Purity should stop being primitive because Kenyans have been meeting government officials before her arrival at the Embassy about two years ago.

“The Ambassador is a beneficiary of hand-picking by Lucy Kibaki and it is high time the Kenyan government recalled her because she is an embarrassment to Kenyans in Sweden” Mr. Ngatia told KSB.

“Kenyans are not man-eaters who could swallow government officials. The repeated hiding of these officials as they spend tax payer’s money is uncalled for”, he said.

He said that it is a big scandal that despite the presence in Stockholm of both ODM and Narc-Kenya branches whose mother Parties are currently running the Kenyan government, Ambassador Purity has continued to keep politicians from both Parties away from their Stockholm branches with impunity.

“This is unacceptable and should not be allowed to continue”, he said. He said that if it is the politicians who do not want to meet Kenyans here or their Party branches, the Ambassador should say so.

Mr. Ngatia also criticized Kenya government officials who allow themselves to be kept away from Kenyans by an Ambassador who has not been elected by anybody but who is the beneficiary of tribalism and nepotism. He said that it is the responsibility of these dignitaries to demand an audience with Kenyans in Sweden instead of allowing themselves to be controlled by an assuming Ambassador.

“If these politicians cannot meet people, we will never be able to change Kenya”, he said. Mr. Ngatia wondered how some Kenyan politicians, whose freedom of Association is routinely violated by the Ambassador, could meet and talk to white Swedish state officials confidently when they cannot even meet their own people resident in Sweden after they have travelled a long way in the name of building Kenya.

AMBASSADOR’S RESIDENCE NOT A PRIVATE VILLA
“There is nobody who knows and understands how Swedish officials think and operate more than us. Kenyan Politicians on official duties in Sweden could benefit from the experience of Kenyans who live here by being exposed to them”, he said. “This cannot happen if the Ambassador herself is ignorant about this fact”, he added.

Mr. Ngatia warned that the Ambassador should also not use the excuse that the Embassy cannot afford to entertain many Kenyans with food and drinks when meeting Kenyan officials because Kenyans are capable of buying their own food and drinks even at the most expensive hotel in Stockholm.

“The Ambassador should know that Kenyans in Stockholm are not interested in consuming tax payer’s money. They are interested in productive exchanges with Kenyan officials for the benefit of our country”, he said.

The Kenyan politician said that Kenyans in Stockholm should not allow the Ambassador to convert the Embassy into a private Office and to use the residence as a private villa by allowing her to get away with secret meetings with Kenyan dignitaries because these facilities are paid for by the tax payer.

“Kenyans must speak up and tell the Ambassador that Sweden is not Kenya where village Chiefs and headmen cannot be told that they are wrong”, he said.

He said that it was unfortunate that some Kenyans in Stockholm had allowed themselves to be manipulated by the Ambassador using food and drinks. “When they are secretly invited to secret meetings, these Kenyans are expected to behave by not raising issues”, he said, adding that this was unfortunate.

“When they are told to clap by the Ambassador”, they ask “how loud” and “when they are told to jump, they ask how high?”, he added.

Mr. Ngatia said that such Kenyans should be exposed and shamed for having sold their conscience cheaply in exchange for food and drinks. He said that the struggle against Ambassador Purity Muhindi should continue until the Coalition government understands that she is a big problem in Stockholm and should therefore be recalled as soon as possible.

Okoth Osewe

November 24, 2008 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 17 Comments