The other day, I met a Kikuyu man who asked me what side I was on in the ongoing conflict between supporters of ICC and a local tribunal. When I answered ICC, he argued, as a Kikuyu, I should support a local tribunal because taking Uhuru to The Hague would leave the Kikuyu community leaderless.
To avoid this, the Kikuyu have at last decided to have a king by the name Uhuru Kenyatta. Like all other kings, Uhuru is not made king by people. He is anointed by Father Joachim Gitonga and Minister John Michuki and endorsed by Kikuyu masses in public rallies in Nanyuki, Muranga and Kiambu.
From now hence, should the Kikuyu accept Uhuru’s kingship, they will have only one leader or king, one spokesman, one voice, one mind and like sheep, one political position, a dictatorship that no other can surpass.
By asking me to support Uhuru, the young man was asking me to put Uhuru above the law and support his exemption from ICC, whether guilty or not, because the king is never wrong. And Churches have followed suit in Eldroret, Kiambu and Nakuru. They are praying for Uhuru and Ruto as if they are national heroes and not suspects of crimes against humanity. Imagine churches praying for suspects of genocide in Rwanda before they were taken to UN Tribunal at Arusha or suspects of perpetrating the holocaust before they were taken to Nuremberg in Germany.
But how did Uhuru come to qualify for kingship over the Kikuyu? He is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s first president. He has billions of money and as an Ocampo suspect he is walking in the footsteps of his father who was jailed by British colonialists.
Here the popular assumption is, as the son of the late President Jomo Kenyatta, Uhuru is born with royal blue blood of kingship over the Kikuyu and possession of this blue blood is all he needs to be the King of the Kikuyu and Kenya. Subsequently, any Kikuyu who questions this logic is a traitor and any Kenyan who doubts its correctness is anti-Kikuyu, mistaken and malicious. Uhuru himself said in the Murang’a meeting that any Kikuyus who will not toe the line, they will go for them in their homes.
However, all this talk about royal and blue blood running in the veins of Uhuru and other children of former presidents and ministers is sheer nonsense. No blood is royal or blue. All blood whether of kings or slaves is equally red. Only what we believe and how hard we work and think, makes us different.
As Kikuyu masses endorse their king Uhuru, they seem to think they have now found a mwarubaine or mugariga to all their problems. Indeed as prophet Samuel failed to convince Israeli people that kingship would hurt them and demanded to have a king merely because their neighbors had kings, so would anybody today fail to convince the Kikuyu aristocracy not to have Uhuru as their king. But as they imagine Uhuru leading them to presidential victory against king Ruto of the Kalenjin, king Raila of the Luo and king Kalonzo of the Kamba, they forget their obligations to him that will make them his first victim.
As king and unknown to the Kikuyu masses, Uhuru shall be first and foremost the protector of Kikuyu aristocracy and their properties and first master of all Kikuyu people. In return, as his subjects, both aristocracy and wretched of the earth will sing his song only. None of them will criticize him. Their properties will be his to keep or give away. Their sons and daughters will be his cannon fodder and foot soldiers. No Kikuyu man or woman will again enjoy the right to challenge or seek his kingship. And king Uhuru will ride their uncomplaining shoulders to the kingship of Kenya.
But how did the Kikuyu get where they are? First and foremost, they have allowed themselves to be manipulated with money. Second their ethnic chiefs have terrified them to believe they must have a king to survive against other communities that have kings Ruto, Raila and Kalonzo. And most important, Kikuyus have lost their freedom to think beyond their community.
As supporters of Uhuru cite his strengths, even Kikuyu professors, lawyers, doctors and bishops refuse to look at his disqualifications such as inherited leadership, corroboration with and penchant for dictatorship, inheritance of enormous lands and inherent inability to champion eradication of poverty, corruption and negative ethnicity whose wave he hopes to ride to State House.
As king of the Kikuyu, not only cannot Uhuru be questioned for his failures, many believe he is above the law and Ocampo cannot justly indict him. But if denying the Kikuyu Uhuru’s leadership is considered worse than committing crimes against humanity for which he is charged, why can’t these crimes be casually committed in future? Ironically, most victims of crimes against humanity have been Kikuyu men, women and children.
But how can the Kikuyu, one of the most highly educated communities not just in Kenya, East Africa and Africa believe that only one family in the community can lead them and the nation? Is this an act of communal survival or suicide? And how can a community unable to accept a simple fact like leadership cannot be confined to one family only be expected or trusted to provide leadership in other areas of society and economy of Kenya?
Just to defend Uhuru and campaign for his kingship, Kikuyus have become politically dwarfed, diminished, de-nationalized and reduced to a mere community when they could be larger and bigger as Kenyans, East Africans, Africans and citizens of the world!To save Uhuru, I see the Kikuyu losing Kenya (hood). Is this price worthy it?
Even putting Uhuru above other Kikuyus is sacrilegious. Which other Kikuyu is defended by the community, not on basis of innocence but ethnicity when they are charged in court? And as a Kikuyu, if for Uhuru I should lose Kenya, my right to stand for presidency or speak freely, ICC justice and safety of life as a dissident, what shall I gain in return?
Lastly, why are kings Ruto and Uhuru mobilizing masses, to protest and fight if and when they are jailed?
Koigi wa Wamwere is the Chairman of CCM (Chama cha Wananchi)
About the Author
As a kikuyu i feel that some people are still living in the past. If a politician messes the country, he or she should be purnished, despite ethnic group.What do we all want, peace in the world. If Uhuru is guilty hang him
There is one thing the Kikuyus forget to know or understand about leadership or Kingdoms.To lead a Country which has many tribes like Kenya you must have friendship with those tribes first and not by boasting or chest beating.Jomo Kenyatta did not get leadership from Kikuyus tribe or Mount Kenya,all that area was restricted as none enter place,the Colonials had put Curfew and no Kikuyu person could have access of any movements there.They should know that.
The Kenyans Presidency came from friends who were outside detaintion. Kenyatta was not outside to get Kikuyus Presidency free. Without Father Raila Odinga whom the Kikuyus brand him to be as an enemy number one,but no one in Kikuyu land could get anything in Kenya without Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and other tribes worked tirelessly without sleep campaigning for Kenyatta to be the first leader of all Kenyans. Even Kenyatta used to come to our home of Mark Akhonya Lukoye Emahondo, Butsotso Location and Om’mudi’s home Ikhomo,Idakho Location of Kakamega District to hide there but none of us their Children are mentioned anywhere even the names of our fathers are nowhere and no one can remember them in the books of Kenyan History. Do Kikuyus know where Joseph Odiende from Vihiga County is now and what he did in KANU to make Kenyatta win people’s favor? Can Uhuru know who is Joseph Odiende? Can Kiukuyus become Kings of Kenya without those people being involved? Anyway the Kikuyus should honor Raila because of what his father did to them.
Koigi Wa Wamwere is telling the Kikuyus to come out from that darkness they are covering in. Kenyans need a leader who can unite all Kenyans to be one Country with happiness not enemity in leadership. Without all Kenyans tribes Kikuyus alone can not see anything like Presidency in Kenya mostly from now when Kenyans tribes are awake. Those things of 1950’s to 60’s are over.
Kikuyus should rally behind Raila and let Kenya go forward, they should come out from that Childish minded of Kings. Kings for what? That is for Kikuyu tribe not for Kenyans. We can recognise Martha Karua’s leadership because we know whom she is than Uhuru Kenyatta. You can see how a woman is trying to unite Kenyans not a tribe.That is what leadership means.
If we see and hear what Kikuyus are talking against Raila and some of them does not know how Kenyatta got that leadership, we wonder.I was young in those days but moving with those leaders like Oginga Odinga and my father wherever they had meetings they were going round to convince people to let Kenyatta be given that chance. Were our fathers fools to do that? Wake up Kikuyus don’t dream such dreams in Kenyans Society.
Nyayo house torture payback time
Nyayo house torture payback time
The courts are ordering Baba Moi to pay retired intelligence officer Mr Stephen Mureithi KShs 2,000,000,000/ for illegal detention.
Moi to pay Sh2bn for officer’s illegal detention
The chicken are coming home to lay those rotten eggs. This opens a flood-gate of suits by anybody who was ever detained illegally by Moi and his notorious hitmen.
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TJRC summons Kiplagat, Kibwana and Mwiraria over Wagalla .
Wednesday, 06 April 2011 14:14 BY FRANCIS MUREITHI . CALLED:Kiplagat
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Ambassador Bethwel Kiplagat, former Finance minister David Mwiraria and former Chief of General Staff Joseph Kibwana are among top officials summoned by the Truth Commission to testify on the 1984 Wagalla Massacre.
Also wanted by TJRC are former Internal Security minister GG Kariuki, former North Eastern Provincial commissioners Benson Kaaria, James ole Serian, Amos Bore and Francis Sigei (who is now Kenya’s High Commissioner to Nigeria).
Also asked to appear are former Information permanent secretary John Gituma, several former district commissioners, former senior military and police officers especially those who were working in North Eastern Province when the massacre took place.“You are hereby notified that you have been identified by the commission as a potential witness who may have information that is useful to the commission,” TJRC CEO Patricia Nyaundi said in newspaper advertisements yesterday.
She said the commission may grant those summoned the chance to testify during the public hearings in the Northern Region which are expected to take place April 11 to May 11. Nyaundi further told those summoned that under TJRC Act, they have the right to secure legal representation if they find it necessary.
Wagalla Massacre is one of the lowest points in Kenya’s history. It started on February 10, 1984, when members of Degodia, a Somali clan, were rounded up by security forces and taken to the Wagalla Airstrip in Wajir.
The operation, by regular and administration police as well as the army, aimed to disarm the Degodia and force them to identify the bandits committing crimes in the district. The number of those who died during the operation remains unclear.
It will be the first time government officials who served at the time will be publicly speaking or questioned about the incident. Kiplagat, who last year stepped aside as TJRC chair to allow investigations by a tribunal on his suitability as the commission’s chair, was reportedly a member of the Kenya Intelligence Committee that deliberated on the security situation in North Eastern before the alleged massacre. Kibwana and Mwiraria, according to TJRC, were also members of the Intelligence Committee.
Kibwana was appointed the army commander in December 2000 by President Moi and retired in September 2005 after serving 41 years in the military. The TJRC was established in 2009 and given up to November this year to complete its work.
The mandate of TJRC is to deal with historical injustices committed from 1963 including human rights violations, political assassinations, torture, land grabbing as well as the 2007-08 post-election violence.
A Kikuyu Policeman trained to kill without thinking >This is one example of Hate within the Kenya law-enforcement officers >Kikuyu killing a Luo officer on duty>http://kenyastockholm.com/2011/04/05/how-a-local-tribunal-was-opposed/#comment-8572
YES TO A LOCAL TRIBUNAL (101)
AYES: Ms. A. Abdalla, Mr. Abdikadir, Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o, Messrs. Anyanga, Baiya, Balala, Baya, Bett, Bifwoli, Duale, Dr. Gesami, Messrs. Githae, Godhana, Eng. Gumbo, Messrs. Gumo, Haji, Kabando wa Kabando, Kajembe, Kamama, Ms. Karua, Messrs. Kenneth, Kenyatta, Keya, Khang’ati, Khaniri, Kibaki, Kilonzo M. Kimunya, Kingi, Kinyanjui, Kioni, Kipkiror, Kiunjuri, Dr. Kosgei, Mr. Kosgey, Dr. Kuti, Mr. Lekuton, Ms. Leshomo, Eng. Maina, Ms. Mathenge, Mr. Mbadi, Ms. Mbarire, Messrs. Mbiuki, ole Metito, Eng. M.M. Mahamud, Michuki, Mohamed I.E, Mohamed A.C., Mudavadi, Mrs. Mugo, Messrs. Munya, Munyes, Muriithi, Murungi, Musyoka, Mwakwere, Mwau, Dr. Mwiria, Messrs. Namwamba, Nanok, Ndambuki, Nyagah, Nyamweya, Mrs. Ngilu, Ngugi, Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry, Messrs. ole Ntimama, Obure, Dr. Oburu, Mr. Ochieng, Ms. Odhiambo, Messrs. Ojode, Olago, Prof. Olweny, Messrs. Omollo, Omingo, Prof. Ongeri, Messrs. Onyonka, Oparanya, Orengo, Otieno, Otuoma, Pesa, Poghisio, Rai, Raila, Prof. Saitoti, Mr. Samoei, Prof. Sambili, Mr. Sasura, Dr. Shaban, Mrs. Shabesh, Mr. Shitanda, Maj. Sugow, Mr. Thuo, Bishop Wanjiru, Messrs. Warugongo, Wathika, Dr. Wekesa, Messrs. Wetangula and Yinda.
Tellers of the Ayes: Messrs. Dr. Nuh and Mr. Kioni.
NO TO A LOCAL TRIBUNAL (93)
NAYS: Ms. Abdalla S., Messrs. Abdirahman, Affey, Akula, Ali.M.H, Chachu, Ms. Chepchumba, Mr. Cheruiyot, Dr. Eseli, Messrs. Ethuro, Gaichuhie, Gitau, Githunguri, Gunda, Imanyara, Jirongo, Kaino, Prof. Kaloki, Messrs. Kamau J.I, Kamau J.M, Kambi, Kapondi, Kariuki, Kathuri, Dr. Khalwale, Messrs. Kigen, Kiilu, Kilonzo J.K, Kilonzo C.M, Kiuna, Kivuti, Koech, Konchela, Dr. Kones, Mrs. Kones, Mr. Kutuny, Dr. Laboso, Messrs. Lagat, Langat, Lesrima, Lessonet, Letimalo, Linturi, Litole, M’Mithiaru, Dr. Machage, Messrs. Magerer, Magwanga, Mbau, Mbugua, Mututho, Dr. Monda, Messrs. Mung’aro, Mungatana, Dr. Munyaka, Messrs. Muoki I.M, Muoki D.M, Mureithi, Murgor, Musyimi, Mwadeghu, Mwahima, Mwaita, Mwakulegwa, Mwangi, Mwatela, Mwathi, Mwiru, Nguyai, Njuguna, Mrs. Noor, Dr. Nuh, Messrs. Nyamai, Odhiambo, Ogindo, Ojaamong, Okemo, Olago, Ombui, Mr. Onyancha C., Dr. Otichilo, Eng. Rege, Messrs. Ruteere, Ruto, Sambu, Shakeel, Sirma, Waibara, Waititu, Wambugu, Washiali, Were and Yakub.
Tellers of the Noes: Messrs. Dr. Eseli and Eng. Rege.
Dear God, you’re pathetic. This has been the excuse of every ethnocrat since Lord Delamere.
Cabinet:
President——————————————————Mwai Kibaki
Deputy Prime Minister———————————-Uhuru Kenyatta
Minister for Finance——————-Uhuru Kenyatta
Minister Internal Security —–George Muthengi Saitoti
Minister Transport ———————–Amos Kimunya
Minister Environment——————John Michuki
Minister Special Programmes——-Esther Mirugi
Minister Nairobi Metro—–Njeru Githae
Minister Energy——-Kiraitu Murungi
Secretary to the Cabinet ——————–Francis Muthaura
ICT Secretary————————————Dr. Katherine Getao
SCAC Secretary———————————-Mr. Stephen K. Kirogo
Office of the President:
Internal Security and Prov. Admin. Minister—Prof. George Saitoti
Permanent Secretary—————————-Francis T. Kimemia
Senior Director—————————————-E. Mutea Iringo
Government Printer——————————Andrew G. Rukaria
NSC – Peace and Conflict Management—————–S.K. Maina
Administration Police Commandant——–Kinuthia Mbugua
Criminal Investigation Department
CID Director——————Francis Ndegwa Muhoro
Director General NSIS ——–Michael Gichangi
Commissioner of Police——–Mathew Iteere
Provincial Commissioners:
Nairobi Province——————————Njoroge Ndirangu
Coast Province———————————Ernest G. Munyi
Regional Commissioners (created dubiously)
LOWER CENTRAL————————————Joseph Irungu
NORTH COAST————————————Elijah Nduati Thiabii
WEST COAST—————————————————J. Kirubi
NYANZA EAST—————————————–Lydia Muriuki
CENTRAL RIFT VALLEY—————————-Amos Gathecha
SOUTH RIFT VALLEY—————————–Naftary Mungathia
District Commissioners:
1.Gatanga—————————————- Patrick Mukuria
2.Gatundu———————————————– J.M. Mwirigi
3.Kiambu West————————————– Esther Maina
4.Lari ———————————————– S. M. Irungu
5.Ruiru —————————————— Erastus M. Mbui
6.Thika West ———————————— W. G. Njenga
7.Nyeri Central ———————————— M.W. Mwangi
8.Mirangini ——————————— Gicheru Mwai Jeremiah
9.Tana Delta ——————————–Elias Gitau Kitharu
10.Wajir North —————————— Charles Mbugua
11.Wajir South ————————— G.P. Risie
12.Wajir Wes t——————————– Samuel W. Kimiti
13.Baringo Central —————————— Joseph Muriithi
14.Koibatek ————————————- John G.R. Chege
15.Laikipia East ——————————– J. M. Mathenge
16.Mogotio ——————————————- K. J. Ngumo
17.Nakuru ————————————- Thuku Kangethe
18.Njoro —————————————– Jim Njoka
19.Samburu Central ———————– Tom G. Macheneri
20.Samburu North ————————— Moses N. Mbaruku
21.Trans Nzoia East————————- N. K. Mungathia
22.Trans Nzoia West ————————– Wilfred Kinyua
23.West Pokot ———————————– Allan Macharia
24.Kajiado North —————————– Murang’a Morekwa
25.Narok North ————————– Njoroge Ndirangu
26.Narok South —————————————– M. Mwaga
27.Trans Mara West ———————– Mbogo Mathioyah
28.Turkana South —————————— J.M. Kanyiri
29.Turkana West ————————— Patrick Muriira
30.Kericho ——————————————– S.K. Njora
31.Busia —————————————— A. M. Gitonga
32. Keiyo North …………………………………….Karugu
State Corporations Advisory Committee (SCAC) Out of 12
1. Chairman————————–Mr. David Namu
2. Member———————–Dr. Philomena Wairimu Muiruri
3. Member——————– Peter Wellington Wambura
4. Member——————————-Mr. Mwangi Ngumo
5. Member——————————–Mr. Richard M. Kariuki
6. Member——————————Mr. Sammy Mwencha
7. Member——————————–Mr. Silas K. Kobia
8. Secretary————————— Mr. Stephen K. Kirogo
FINANCE MINISTRY
Minister –————————————Uhuru Kenyatta
Permanent Secretary———————–Joseph Kinyua
Economic Secretary—————————Kamau Thuge
Pensions secretary——————————Anne Mugo
Budgetary director——————————-P.B Ngugi
ERD director——————————–Kenneth Mwangi
D/Finance secretary————————–Mwirichia
Senior Principal Accountant—————–Wilson N. Kingathia
CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA
Governor——————————Njuguna Ndung’u
Member ———————————-Joseph Kinyua
Member ———————————-Nicholas Nesbitt
Member ————————————Agnes Wanjiru
Director, Research ———————–Charles Gitari Koori
Director, Sch. of Monetary St.————Kinandu Muragu
KENYA NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE
Director of Audit ——————-Mr. Alex Nthiga Rugera –
Assistant Director of Audit ————-Mr. Dennis Theuri Kariuki –
Principal Auditor—————— Mr. Daniel Muiruri Ndungu –
Auditor I ————————–Mr. Peter N. Wangai
CONSOLIDATED BANK OF KENYA
Chairman – Phillip Njuki
Chief Executive Officer – David Wachira
KENYA REVENUE COMMISSION
1. Commissioner General: Michael Waweru
2. Board Secretary: Mrs. Ngang’a
3. Senior Deputy Commissioner, Investigation & Enforcement: Mr Joseph Nduati
4. Deputy Commissioner, Investigation and Enforcement: Mr Namu Nguru
5. Deputy Commissioner, Administration: Mr Karimi
6. Deputy Commissioner Procurement: Ms Murichu
7. Commissioner Customs: Mrs Wambui Namu
8. Senior Deputy Commissioner (Customs): Ms Githinji
9. Deputy Commissioner, Enforcement (Customs): Mr Maina
10. Deputy Commissioner, Finance: Ms Wachira
11. Commissioner Domestic Taxes (LTO)- Mr Njiraini
12. Deputy Commissioner: Mrs Mwangi
13. Senior Deputy Commissioner, Finance: Mrs King’ori
14. Senior Assistant Commissioner, Security: Major Kariuki
15. Senior Deputy Commissioner, Southern Region: Wagachira
120 Management trainees recruited to KRA IN 2005, 67/120 are Kikuyus
CAPITAL MARKETS AUTHORITY
Board Chair——————— Chege Waruingi
CEO ——————————— Edward N’talami
Director———————————Jimmna Mbaru
Director—————————-Ms. Grace Ngigi
Director———————–Mr. Joseph Munene Murage
DIRECTORATE OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
Chief Procurement Officers – 23 out of 36 first appointees are all
from GEMA. Rest of Kenya = the remaining 13 (out of the 36).
KENYA RE-INSURANCE
Chairman of Board – Nelius Kariuki
Chief Executive Officer – Johnson Githaka
Financial controller – John Kinyua
The New CEO-Mrs.Mbogo
The latter two were just recently sacked for grand corruption
Kenya Institute of Education(KIE)
Director – Gabriel Muita
Higher Education Loans Board (HELB)
Chairman – H.M Kimura
Commission for Higher Education (CHE)
Head of scholarships /credentialing – Gabriel Kamau
Snr Asst. Commissioner- George Njine
Head of Administration (Asst. Comm) – Margaret Kobia
MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
Permanent secretary – Zachary Mwaura
Vice Chief of Armed Forces – Lt. Gen. Julius Karangi
Army Commandant – Lt. Gen. Augustine Njoroge
Navy Commandant – Maj. Gen. Mwathethe
Dep. Air Force Commandant – Maj. Gen. Jackson Waweru
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
Asst. Minister(s) Kilemi Mwiria
Permanent Secretary – Karega Mutahi
Director Basic Education – Mary Njoroge
Director City Education – Margaret Thiongo
Ministry For Foreign Affairs
Permanent Secretary – Thuita Mwangi (on suspension)
Political and Diplomatic Secretary — P.S. Wamoto
Chief of Protocol ——M.D. Kinyanjui
Director of Administration—— Mr J. Ndathi
Deputy Director for Political and Diplomatic Affairs –Mr A. Kihurani
HEADS OF DIVISIONS
Inter Org, Confs &Int Jobs —————————– S.K Maina
Great Lakes region————————————–Jean Kimani
Assets Management——————–Dr. Margaret Gachuru
East African Community Affairs————–Mr. Njogu Ngariama
Economics & Trade——————————-Mr. J. M. Weru
Accounts————————————-Mr. K. Mugwe
Public Affairs & Communication————–Ms. J .Ngunia
Host Country & Consular Division——Ms. Nyambura Kamau
Public Complaints Desk———————Ms. Diana Kiambuthi
AMBASSADORS:
UN—————————————H.E. KAMAU MACHARIA
BURUNDI——————————-H.E. MR. BENJAMIN A.M. MWERI
RWANDA——————————H.E. MAKENA MUCHIRI
LIBYA————————————H.E. ANTHONY MUCHIRI
NAMIBIA——————————–H.E. PETER GITAU
BRAZIL———————————-H.E. PETER KIRIMI KABERIA
BELGIUM/EU————————–H.E. KEMBI GITURA
IRELAND———————–H.E.CATHERINE MUIGAI MWANGI
UK—————————————-H.E. MR. IPHRAIM NGARE
ITALY————————————H.E. JOSEPHINE GAITA
SWEDEN—————————-H.E. PURITY WAKIURU MUHINDI
INDIA————————————H.E. PROF. FESTUS KABERIA
ISRAEL———–H.E. LT. GEN. (RTD) AUGOSTINO S. K. NJOROGE
DRC———————–H.E. KARUCHU SYLVESTER M. GAKUMU
MALAYSIA———————-H.E MR. DAVID GACHOKI NJOKA
JAPAN———————-H.E MR. ALLAN MBURU
GERMANY————H.E. MR. HARRY MUTUMA KATHURIMA,
Permanent Secretaries:
Agriculture————————-Dr. Romano Kiome
Office of the President———–Francis Muthaura
Internal Security and Provincial Administration—Mr. Francis Kimemia
Private Secretary to the President————Prof. Nick Wanjohi
Comptroller State House—————–Dr. Nelson Githinji
Secretary Presidential Press Service—–Mr. Isaiya Kabira
PM Office: PS Public Sector Reforms and Performance Contracting—Mr. Richard Ndubai
PS Office of Deputy prime Minister ———-Prof. Karega Mutahi
Energy PS————–Mr. Patrick M. Nyoike, C.B.S.
Finance PS————–Mr. Joseph K. Kinyua, C.B.S.
Fisheries PS———— Prof Micheni Ntiba
Foreign Affairs PS———— Amb Patrick Wamoto (Acting)
Industrialization PS————- Dr. (Eng.) Kibicho Karanja
Medical Services————- Ms. Mary Ngari
Director of Medical Services:——Dr. Francis Kimani
Metropolitan–Secretary Physical Planning –Eng. Ndirangu Maina
Roads PS———— Mr. Michael Kamau
Transport PS———-Silas Njiru
PS Ministry of Youth————Mr. James Muiru Waweru
Controller and Auditor General—– Mrs. Priscilla Njeri Komora
Public Service Commission
Chairman—————–Mr. Titus Justus Kahiga Gateere
Mrs. Mary M. Gikuuri, OGW (Commissioner)
Ruth Njoki Mathai (Commissioner)
Mrs. Josephine K. Gichuhi (Commissioner)
Mr. Onesmus Njathika Ireri (Commissioner)
Mr.Johnson G. Kibera, OGW (Commissioner)
Mr. John Muketha, SS (Commissioner)
Kenya Institute of Administration Director: Margaret Kobia
Water Services Regulatory Board Chairman: Jane Njagi
NACADA—- Chairman: Frank Njenga
Secretary: Jenipher Kimani
Kenya Tourist Development Corporation Chairman: Charles Wachira
Public Archives Advisory Council Director: Lawrence Mwangi
Export Promotion Council Chairman: Peter Kimuyu
Tea Board of Kenya Chairman: Sicily Kariuki
Retirement Benefit Authority Director: Kanyi Gachoka
Kenya Water Institute Chairman: Jacob Kaimenyi
Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation
Chairman: Nelius Kariuki
Director: Eunice Mbogo
Capital Markets Authority Chairman: Chege Waruinge
Consolidated Bank of Kenya Director—-David Ndegwa
Kenya Post Office Savings Bank
Chairman: Wilson Kinyua CEO: Nyambura Koigi
KASNEB Chairman: Francis Kibera
CEO: Erastus Gitau
Kenya National Assurance Chairman: Alexander Kaminchia
Capital Markets Tribunal Chairman: Morris Njage
Kenya Institute of Public Policy and Research
Director: Moses Ikiara
National Irrigation Board Chairman: Francis Gichaga
Kenya National Trading Corporation Director: Gladys Maina
Kenya Industrial Property Institute Chairman: Moses Thairu
East African Portland Company Director: Ndegwa Kagio
Industrial Property Tribunal Chairman: Lillian Wanjira
Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute Director: Elias Njoka
Numerical Machining Complex Chairman: Jonathan Muturi
Co-operative College of Kenya Principal: Esther Gicheru
Pyrethrum Board of Kenya Chairman: Isaac Mwangi
New Kenya Cooperative Creameries
Chairman: Matu Wamae
Managing Director: Francis Mwangi
Tana and Athi River Development Authority
Chairman: A Mureithi
Director: S.Maina
Horticultural Corporation Development Authority
Chairman: Joseph Kibe
Jomo Kenyatta Foundation Director: Nancy Karimi
Agricultural Finance Corporation Chairman: Patrick Kariuki
National Sports Stadia Management Authority Director: S.Mwai
National Housing Corporation Director: J.Ruitha
Kenya Cultural Centre Chairman: M Kaggia
Kenya National Library Director: Irene Muthoni
Moi University Chairman: Evan Mwai
Kenya Literature Bureau Director: Adams Karauri
Kenya Education Staff Institute
Chairman: Joseph Kimura
Director: B .Gachanja
Commission for Higher Education Chairman: Kihumbu Thairu
Kenya Power and Lighting Company Director: E.Njoroge
Higher Education Loans Board Chairman: Joseph Kimura
Water Service Trust Fund Director: S.Mwangi
KENGEN LTD
Managing Director & CEO———————Edward Njoroge
Non- Executive Director—————————–Joseph Kinyua
Non- Executive Director—————————–Patrick Nyoike
Non- Executive Director———————-Sarah W. Wainaina
Non- Executive Director—————————Musa Ndeto
Non- Executive Director—————————-George M Njagi
Non- Executive Director—————————Humprey Muhu
Non- Executive Director————————-Patrick Nyoike
Non- Executive Director ———————Henry Nyamu M’Narobi
Non- Executive Director——————–Rebecca Miano
DIRECTORS
Managing Director & CEO———————— Edward Njoroge
Operations Director———————–Richard Nderitu
Business Development & Strategy-Director Albert Mugo
Regulatory Affairs Director———————-Simon Ngure
Company Secretary/ Legal & Corporate Affairs Director—-Rebecca Miano
MANAGERS
Transformation Monitoring Office Manager—- David Muthike
Corporate Affairs Manage————————- Mike Njeru
Supply Chain Manager——————- Patrick Kimemia
Operations Manager, Eastern Hydro———- Joel Ngugi
Operations Manager, Geothermal———— John Karanja
Operations Manager, Western Hydro—— Frank Konuche
Technical Services Manager ———————-Solomon Kariuki
Geothermal Development Manager————S. Muchemi
Capital Planning & Strategy Manager— Elizabeth Njenga
Regulatory Affairs Manager ——————–John Ndambiri
Environment & CDM Manager —————Pius Kollikho
Projects Execution Manager————— David Kagiri
Human Resources Manager ——————- John Maina
Performance Management Manager—— Mary Waceke Muia
Insurance Manager—————————- Ann Mbugua
Technical Services & Quality————- Manager Henry Ithiami
Special Project Manager————————George Mugo
Athi Water Service Board Director————-L.Mwangi
National Oil Corporation
Chairman————————————-Mr. Peter K. Munga
Director—————————————-Mr. Patrick Nyoike
Director—————————————-Mr. Joseph Kinyua
Director—————————————-Mr. Paul G. Ngatia
Director—————————————-Mr. Paul Muhia Ngugi
Director—————————————-Mr. James Gacheru
Director—————————————-Mr Gaciku Kangari
Communication Commission of Kenya
Chairman: ———————————— Joseph Njagi
Director: —————————————John Waweru
Coast Water Service Board Chairman: Joseph Muturi
Kenya Film Corporation Director: Wachira Waruru
Tana Water Service Board-Chairman: James Kimani
National Council for Science and Technology
Chairman: Henry Thairu
Secretary: G.Kingoria
Kenya Petroleum Refinery Chairman: Justus Kagenu
Coffee Research Foundation
Chairman: K.Njuguna
Director: J.Kimemia
Energy Tribunal Chairman: Njuguna Nganga
Kenya Airports Authority Director: George Muhoho
Kenya Railway Chairman: Jonathan Muturi
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation Director; David Waweru
Postal Corporation of Kenya Chairman: Peter Kariuki
Kenyatta National Hospital
Chairman: Margaret Wanjohi
Director: Jotham Micheni
Kenya Information and Communication Technology
Chairman: Cathrine Ngahu
Nyayo Tea Zones Director: Anne Karimi
Kenya Medical Training College Chairman: James Kahindi
Kenya Agricultural Research Institute
Chairman: J.Muthengi
Director: E.Mukithira
Agricultural Development Corporation
Chairman: L.Wariunge
Kenya Sisal Board Director: Charles Kagwimi
Agricultural Information Research Centre Chairman: Thirikwa Kamau
Judiciary
Registrar General – Ms. Bernice Gichegu
Solicitor General – Wanjuki Muchemi
HIGH COURT KENYA
1.Hon. Mr. Justice Hatari Peter George Waweru
2.Hon. Lady Justice Jeanne Wanjiku Gacheche
3.Hon. Lady Justice Jessie Wanjiku
4.Hon. Lady Justice Joyce Nyokabi Khaminwa
5.Hon. Mr. Justice Leonard Njagi
6.Hon. Mr. Justice George B.M. Kariuki
7.Hon. Lady Justice Martha K. Koome
9.Hon. Mr. Justice Paul Kihara Kariuki
10.Hon. Mr. Justice David Maraga
11.Hon. Lady Justice Murugi Gateri Mugo
12.Hon. Lady Justice Wanjiru Karanja
13.Hon. Mr. Justice Joseph R. Karanja
14.Hon. Lady Justice Florence Nyaguthii
Kenya is a Failed State and the Govt cannot be allowed by the World community to try the Six named by Ocampo Hence Corruption &Manipulation in all Kenya Courts EG:Corrupt Judges/Prosecutors/Police /File dissapearing in Courts & the delaying of Cases>
Hosewe sinirikwambia, umeona ngazeti za huko kenya! wanjaruo wamenjaa katika ofisi ya Pm, na wagekoyo wamenja pare pare na huko huko, na leo mtaita ikingia kwa affisi kama pm , affisi hiyo itajaa wataita, hivyo ndivyo kenya itakayokuwa kwa muda.Angaliya UHURU akidanganya wekenya kuwa Raila anaita wazungu kenya: Angalia msemo wa Ruto wa nyani haoni kundule! wakili wote wake ni waingereza ambao waliweka katiba na babake. ya kuwarudisha wa kenya nyuma kwa kupitia katiba yao waliowawachia wakenya. Kwa jumla bado raia wajapata uhuru!Kenya
Long live King of the Kikuyu and King of the Entire Country Uhuru Kenyatta. WikiLeaks tell us what he thinks of Kibaki. But he never tells us what he thinks of Kenya and what his presidency would be like. It is hard to know for one who criticises others but not say why he should be the chosen one. But again, he has never achieved anything or got anything/job on merit. That is why he wants to be followed not because of his leadership prowess or organizational accumen, but because he is son of Jomo. Jomo jr was given ‘authority for keeping peace.’ What is are his views on violence during election periods, on IDPs, on extrajudicial killings of ‘our people,’ on reaching out to ther communities to make peace?
This is retrogressive politics at its best! For a man that so badly wants to lead our country, these kind of remarks just expose him as tribalist to the core. When will these so called leaders steer our country as ONE KENYA and not Kikuyu, Kalenjin or kamba? It should send shivers down our spines when some of these people self-impose themselves on us as our leaders! Every Kenyan, regardless of tribe has a right to support or make a free opinion or scrutiny of these characters. You can be installed an ELDER all you want but it does not change the fact Kenyans have woken up to the reality that these people speak about equity and poverty eradication while some like WILLIAM RUTO have numerous CORRUPTION cases in court for swindling Kenyans of taxes from their hard earned incomes. Kikuyu or Kalenjin, following any leader blindly, just because he or she is from my tribe is the reason millions of Kenyans have never come out of poverty. So, UHURU AND THE KKK gang only speak for themselves!! It bothers me a great deal to see people of RUTO’S calibre shouting out loud that they will ensure equal wealth distribution and blah blah blah. Give back to Kenyans what you stole in corrupt deals before insulting our collective intelligence as a country. I mean, seriously?? Wake up KENYA! We all need to see what these fools think of us as Kenyans, they think we are gullible! It’s very disgusting when u see through their smokescreen, how they use that tradition crap to herd their community like sheep. We have to free ourselves from the herd mentality. My fellow Kenyans, we are better than that.
lam a kikuyu n l think anyone with qualification of good leadership n the best of the kenyans n our country should be president.Uhuru is not a kikuyu king n believe me, those people who attented his n ruto’s rally’s are nothing but small village people.Let’s those who want to follow the blind do so, but, #3,you are using the kikuyu tribe in general n l can’t seems to understand why?l come from central kenya n believe me, uhuru is not as popular as u think..so, just stop kikuyu’s this, kikuyus that….Speak about Uhuru as a person but stop dragging the whole community with him…DO YOU REMEMBER NO RAILA NO PEACE ?These people are the same..be it Uhuru, Raila n the rest….when they are in good terms, we’ve seen them in the media hugging each other or inter-marrying each other.So, the best we can come with as kenyans, is to elect a leader with a vision n well being of the country we all love so much.Lets stop this tribalism…it won’t get us anywhere….lam a human being who happen’s to have kikuyu as my mother tongue n believe me, am ain’t gonna apologize for that….bless!!!
Please give us a break Mr Koigi! you’ve been there n you left no record of anything that you’ve ever did for your constituency. You just, like all other kenyan politicians, like pointing on others…..Stop playing this game. Tumechoka na politicians of your calibre..and by the way you’ll never ever again step your feet in the kenyan parliament.
UHURU KENYATTA IS DRAINING THE TREASURY>
Has someone has been fleecing the Treasury of cash collected in tax?
Posted Tuesday, April 19, 2011 | By JAINDI KISERO
Two years ago, there was a public uproar when Mr Mwalimu Mati’s Mars Group blew the whistle over the Sh9.2 billion errors his group had uncovered in the accounts and budget documents.
It was a very grave matter because what the Mars Group announced cast aspersions on the credibility of the figures in government accounts, implying that Treasury had presented cooked books in Parliament.
The initial reaction by the Treasury was to trash the findings as inaccurate and dismissing Mars Group as a mere busybody with neither the capacity nor expertise to question Treasury’s work.
But as it turned out, it was Mr Mati and his group who had the last laugh; Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta was forced to eat humble pie and admit that those grotesque errors existed in the books he had tabled in April 2009.
The irony of it all was that Uhuru did not stop at merely affirming the errors. He came up with even bigger errors.
The Mars Group are up to even more mischief. This time around, they have painstakingly read through reports of the Controller and Auditor-General for the last two years to study and analyse the comments the Auditor-General has been making on the state of revenues and taxes which the government collects.
I had the chance to peruse through the latest delivery by the Group. The disclosures are absolutely sensational, to say the least.
It is a must reading for anyone interested in following how the government accounts for the revenue it receives from the Kenya Revenue Authority or any other sources.
Away from the limelight, the Controller and Auditor-General has been qualifying several revenue accounts, and flatly refusing to issue certificates to the Treasury.
Here is a bit of background. Every year, the Treasury presents the Controller and Auditor-General a revenue statement, disclosing details of revenues received on income tax, VAT and corporation taxes.
The accounts for all revenue categories are kept separately. The gist of the new report by Mars Group is that the Auditor has discovered several cases where records of revenues received by KRA does not tally with what was actually received by the Treasury.
There are also cases where accounts of revenues banked at the Central Bank differ from the records kept by the receiver of revenues.
Where there are material differences, what the Auditor-General has been doing has been to exclude such revenue categories from the general certificate issued to the Treasury at the end of the year.
Is it just a matter of sloppy accounting? We all know that accounts which cannot reconcile are a recipe for irregular dealings.
As it is, the evidence in the reports suggests that unscrupulous individuals working in the revenue departments may be colluding to siphon off money between the time the revenues reach the Kenya Revenue Authority and the time the money hits the Exchequer account at the Treasury.
Whichever way you look at it, what the Mars Group has revealed is a total outrage. Imagine a situation where an external auditor declines to issue certificates on revenue accounts of a company.
Yet the report by the Group shows that in 2008, the Auditor-General excluded several statements from the general certificate it issued to Treasury.
In the year ending June 2009, the Auditor-General issued a certificate to only one revenue statement out of more than 10 such accounts. The revenues the Auditor is unable to reconcile runs into hundreds of billions of shillings.
The Public Accounts Committee should move quickly and pressure the Treasury to explain what it is unable to reconcile in its statements of revenues.
But even if MPs decide to look the other way, Treasury must brace itself for increased public scrutiny on its revenue accounts.
Increasingly, citizens are organising themselves into associations that are ready to bring the government to account on how it spends public taxes.
From residents associations and business lobbies, we are back to the world of taxpayer associations agitating for change.
It is one thing for the government to be accused of spending money irregularly, and it is another to be accused of messing up with revenues.
jkisero@ke.nationmedia.com
THIS IS THE MAN WHO ADVICES KIBAKI KENYAS (MORIBUND) SLEEPING PRESIDENT IN STATE-HOUSE NAIROBI!
MR KAGWANJA IS ALSOA THINK TANK OF PNU-DP HENCE HE IS REGARDED AS THE BEST SUITED (NUT) TO THINK FOR THE MIGHTY IN KENYA!
HE WAS DOWNED(AS MINCED MEAT)BY MIGUNA MIGUNA (ODM) ADVISOR TO KENYAS PM RAILA OGINGA!DID KAGWANJA BOUGHT HIS DEGREES AT LUTHULI AVENUE IN NAIROBI -CITY?
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Prof. Peter Kagwanja (born August 8, 1963, in Rwathia location of Kangema Division, Murang’a County) is a Kenyan academic who has widely consulted on politics, governance and geo-strategic issues. He is also the founding President and Chief Executive of the Africa policy Institute, a Pan-African think-tank specializing in policy research on security, governance and strategic issues in Africa. As an academic émigré in the United States, Europe and South Africa during the latter years of President Daniel arap Moi’s regime, Kagwanja worked with numerous universities, intellectual networks and international research think-tanks, including the International Crisis Group, where he served as a Pretoria-based regional director in Africa. He has written widely on refugees, counter-terrorism, and youth and generational politics in Kenya.
Kagwanja is famous for his published intellectual works on the Mungiki youth movement, which is popularly demonized as a successor to the Mau Mau and a sharp reaction to the intense modernizing direction of the Agikuyu.[1] As one of Kenya’s youngest political thinkers and strategists, Kagwanja has become better known as an adviser to President Mwai Kibaki’s government. He led the think-tank of Kibaki’s Party of National Unity (PNU)during the watershed talks on a new constitution in Kenya’s lakeside town of Naivasha.[2] Kagwanja eventually became the Co-director of the National Secretariat set up by the Government to manage the campaign for a new constitution in the run up to the 4th August 2010 referendum.[3]
He has authored numerous professional articles and books, including, State of the Nation: South Africa in 2008 (2009) and |Kenya’s Uncertain Democracy: The 2008 Post-Election Crisis (2010).
If some Kikuyus want to pray for Uhuru,it should be a prayer to let him see the light and not a prayer to help him escape justice. As a fellow Kenyan from the Kikuyu tribe, what qualifications make Uhuru the “kikuyu king” besides riding on his late father’s name and wealth?
It seems anyone arguing against Uhuru is Pro Raila; like he is a perfect angel. What can we be proud off of Raila, his constant bickering and whining? I mean what has this guy done for Kenya t warrant all Kenyan to trust our countries leadership in him? People like Koigi are so full of contempt for anyone who seems to command Kikuyus attention merely because they lost that command long ago and the bitterness, which by now has turned to some sort of jealousy is eating on them.
If my failure to follow Raila makes me be rebelled a tribal, I can also use the the same argument to refer to those who are of a contrary opinion to mine.
What Koigi is doing, and he has been at it for a long time, is merely misleading Kenyans. Mr Wamwere, you might argue t5hat you are a second liberator, and we have no qualms about that, but its my opinion that you need an urgent brain transplant! History will remember you as someone who suffered a lot for his country, don’t tarnish that memory by writing a lot of balderdash. You appoint your self the master critic for anything pro Kikuyu, yet with all your stupid intelligence cannot discern the bigger picture.
Is it kikuyus work to preserve history? If Joseph Odiende is not known how is that kikuyus undoing?
Raila should be given presidency due to what his father did?! How is that helpful to the country? Don’t you think Uhuru should also be given the same seat due to what his father did? No, you don”t think! It a tragedy that Kenyans now has taken comedians so seriously and politics as jokes.
PNU -GEMA -KIKUYU RULING -CLASS MAFIA PLANNING FOR KIBAKI TO GO ANOTHER TERM RATHER THAN HANDING OVER POWER TO JALUOS(RAILA)!KIBAKI TEAM CONSIDERS THIRD TERM .
Thursday, 21 April 2011 00:01 BY STAR REPORTER . FIVE MORE YEARS?:President Mwai Kibaki takes the oath of office as the President of Kenya.
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A cabal of powerful people associated with PNU are secretly discussing the possibility of President Kibaki running again in 2012 should it become impossible for Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to stand.
Several informal meetings have been held by four senior officials, three of who work for President Kibaki and one senior Cabinet minister, to explore the possibility of a third term for Kibaki.
Three Cabinet ministers, senior officials in the Office of the President and an adviser to President Kibaki confirmed the meetings to the Star this week.“Although they are fully aware of how difficult it is to pull this one off, they are nevertheless exploring the idea,” said a source at the Office of the President in Harambee House.
The idea gained momentum a few weeks ago after Finance Minister Uhuru, widely believed to be President Kibaki’s heir-apparent, had to go to the Hague to hear charges against of him of crimes against humanity.
If the International Criminal Court formally charges him in September, Uhuru will be locked out of the 2012 presidential election, according to the terms of the new constitution.“There is real concern among many senior politicians in Central Province that the region may not have a serious candidate in 2012 and that in effect amounts to handing the presidency to Prime Minister Raila Odinga on a silver platter,” said one source.“Those talking about a third term for President Kibaki are arguing that he has a good record that can be sold and in the absence of Uhuru there is no other politician capable of uniting the region and attracting countrywide support,” said the minister close to the President.
Section 12 (3) of the transitional clauses in the new constitution expressly bar President Kibaki from contesting again in 2012.”The Person who was elected as President before the effective date of the new constitution is not eligible to stand to be elected as President under this constitution,” says the clause.
Constitutional lawyer Paul Muite warned that ignoring this section could plunge Kenya into chaos.”This is dangerous talk that Kibaki should not even entertain in the first place. The constitution is very clear and we expect him and others close to him to respect it. To amend this section will require a referendum and I doubt that many Kenyans will vote for it,” said Muite.
With the support of Eldoret North MP William Ruto for the PNU side, those behind the idea believe it is possible to marshal sufficient numbers to pass a constitutional amendment to allow Kibaki to contest again under the new constitution.
With the introduction of multiparty democracy in 1990, President Moi cut a deal with the opposition that he could serve two five-year terms from 1992 despite having been in power since 1978.”If Moi began his ten-year term after those minimum amendments in 1992, why can’t Kibaki start a new term under the new constitution next year,” asked a PNU minister.
Speaking in Kikuyu in Muranga last August, Environment minister John Michuki said President Kibaki would be entitled to a third term under the new constitution because the limitation of the presidency to two terms would be rendered null and void. He said both Kibaki and Moi would be able to seek a fresh term as president.”We do not want to be told that there used to be a constitution that said Kibaki or Moi cannot vie again. Let Moi and Kibaki contest just like any other Kenyan. It is a new dispensation. How can you be an adult and then revert to being a young man who has not been initiated? Kibaki has already been initiated to the job,” said Michuki then.
However Narc-Kenya Secretary General Danson Mungatana said the idea of a third term for Kibaki was wishful thinking.“The threshold for amending the constitution is so high that it is a pipe dream for anyone to imagine that they can get the requisite numbers. President Kibaki is not so popular that two thirds of Kenyans will vote for the amendment as demanded by the constitution,” said Mungatana.
Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni yesterday criticised those around the President pushing for the idea.“The President has unparalleled legacy that should not be spoilt by anyone. I know ICC provides us with a big challenge and there are people who want the status quo to remain until ICC is over but we are telling them that they must respect the constitution.“I’m sure the President will not even want to hear of this idea, let alone throw his hat in the ring,” said Kioni.
ODM chief whip Jakoyo Midiwo warned the President’s confidants against pursuing the idea.“This is an exercise in futility because the constitution is very clear on this issue. President Kibaki can’t run again. Period,” said Midiwo.
The newspaper quoted unnamed sources within the Office of the President as well as Environment minister John Michuki as supporting the third term bid for President Kibaki. It claimed several informal meetings had been held by four officials to explore the third term possibility
Look at How cheap/easygoing Luos led by Tunju Selling themselves 30 pieces of Silver to A KIKUYU KING-UHURU KENYATTA :TUNJU GOT HELICOPTER OTHER CHEAP LUO-MONEYWORSHIPPERS WERE PROMISED A VW(Volks-wagon)AND IN THIS VIDEO YOU WILL SEE HOW THESE LUO-TRAITORS WERE CRAPPING LIKE KINDERGARTEN KIDS INFRONT OF THEIR DAY CARE TEACHER>HOW CHEAP ARE TUNJU -RALIENDA CONSTITUENCY IN LUO-NYANZA>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTUmXy9yCAY&feature=player_embedded#at=485
Watch a Video of a true dedicated leader with his people >He preaches Nothing but true to the People who elected him >Onother side from What Uhuru Kenyatta Preaches to Gatundu People>Is there any Comparison BTW Wakolo& Thug Kenyatta?>here>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYsCUnXZA_Y&feature=player_embedded
The “KK” (Kikiyu-Kalenjin) alliance will never work because so many non-elite Rift Valley Kikuyu want justice after the massacre by Kalenjin in 2008. However, Uhuruto want to show they are working together yet no IDP has gone back to theír original home/plot. So much money has gone into the so-called Shuttle diplomacy(Disastrous Diplomacy), the Hague trip and other nonsense. Much should be done for Wakenya.
Do you think these guys have low Iqs or this is Marginalization & neglect from the Govt?>
Kikuyu Dominant Language Matters in Treasury& in President Office!
“In some offices in Treasury, Office of the President, Prime Minister’s office and security agencies, official meetings can easily be conducted in mother tongue,” says Mr Affey.
The commission believes in working quietly, sometimes issuing warnings to prominent Kenyans, including senior politicians, over incitement.
Kibaki/Uhuru Democracy at its worst>
Ruto /UHuru Pact has failed Miserably>
HER EXCELLENCY TITLE IRKS GOVT OFFICIALS .
Saturday, 23 April 2011 08:00 Fred Indimuli . A renowned political activist has been asked to stop using the title “Her Excellency” which is reserved only for the First Lady or for persons representing their nations as envoys in Kenya. A statement from the government spokesman Alfred Mutua says the Government is concerned that some people have been using the term Her Excellency and fake names meant to attribute unto them state powers that they are not entitled to. He was referring to the main story published in yesterday’s Star Newspaper, where the PNU activist had signed off her name on a condolence book as her Excellency. Mutua says the use of the title by the said individual should be viewed as dubious and dismissed by all.
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Read the artical and ask yourselves Where is Balala/Mayor/etc ?Were they elected to follow UHURU KENYATTA to wherever KKK goes to preach hate &warmongouring>HomeOp/EdOpinion Opinion
People of Mombasa, do you so love filth?
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By SUNNY BINDRA
Posted Saturday, April 23 2011 at 17:55
In Summary
•MY TAKE: It does not require massive funding to clean up town; only a mindset that detests filth
Mombasa is very dear to me. Mombasa is childhood memories; wonderful sights and sounds; spicy aromas; and, of course, the peerless Indian Ocean.
Mombasa is a cradle of culture; the place where diverse languages and cuisines and songs have interlocked for centuries.
Mombasa is the biggest port in the region, the place where most of our trade enters and leaves our shores.
Mombasa has historically been the focus of Kenyan tourism, with so many visitors flocking in to spend time immersed in its unique history and enjoying its landscapes and hospitality.
That is why it hurts me enormously to ask: What the hell happened to Mombasa?
I still go to Mombasa very often. But these days the trips are tinged with frustration and annoyance. Mombasa gives the impression of being a town in severe decline, on all fronts.
Let’s begin with the most obvious symptom. Can someone tell me why Mombasa needs to be so filthy? Why there are mounds of uncollected rubbish on every roadside; why plastic refuse marks every landscape; why every beach is full of uncollected debris?
What does it take to keep a place clean? It does not require massive funding; does not need advanced equipment and technology; does not demand complex project plans. It just requires a mindset that detests filth.
And that, I’m afraid, is what Mombasa has forgotten. It is easy to blame this on leadership, and Mombasa has often contributed handsomely to the worldwide pantheon of ridiculous and incompetent leaders.
It beggars belief, nonetheless, that even those comedians who purport to lead that historic town these days can drive past the piles of rubbish everywhere and not feel an iota of shame.
But people of Mombasa, where are you in all this squalor? You sit and watch that garbage grow, and you do nothing? You don’t demand better from your leaders? You don’t even clean up the fronts of your own homes?
You don’t take matters into your own hands? Why don’t you collect that garbage and deposit it smack outside the council offices every day until something is done?
But why would you do that when you seem to walk happily among the detritus every day without flinching? When anti-fungal paint and repairing broken windows seem to be alien concepts to even the most well-heeled among you?
Mombasa is letting itself down. Nairobi, too, has its filthy side and world-class slums. But Nairobi has not descended to the point where garbage marks the entrance to our international airport; dots our major highways; or litters even our posh suburbs. Mombasa has a different order-of-magnitude problem.
This is heartbreaking to see, but it has real consequences. Mombasa’s fame these days is as a town that wallows in the drug trade. It is crippled by traffic jams worse than Nairobi’s, as a small island with ancient roads ignores the problem of ever-increasing vehicles.
Mombasa’s rating as a tourist destination has plunged every year, and its average realised revenue per room is sorely affected by its visible decline and poor reputation.
The average quality of Mombasa’s hotels has fallen commensurately. The few establishments trying to set a certain standard within the environs of the town are fighting a losing battle.
I repeat, it hurts me to write this. I am not mocking Mombasa, but asking those who live in it and love it to stand up for themselves. Those of you who can still see straight need to take a hard look at what your town is today compared to what it once was.
The best symbolic (and practical) thing you can do is to walk outside after reading this and organise a few hands to pick up that needless rubbish outside your door.
Sunny Bindra’s new book, ‘The Peculiar Kenyan’, is now on sale. http://www.sunwords.com
It is Time To Forget Our Tribes And Be Kenyans
Friday, 20 May 2011 15:31 BY NGUNJIRI WAMBUGU
As a Kikuyu I have grown up with the narrative of how our community played the core role in the fight for the independence of this country. This history tells me that Mau Mau was nearly 100% Kikuyu and that although we did not win the war against the ‘Beberu’, we are the ones who made them realize that their politics was untenable. As a Kikuyu born and bred in Nyeri this was all the social history that I knew up until very recently.
Between 2008 and 2010 I participated in over 20 intra-ethnic forums with members of other Kenyan communities. I met an average of 150 opinion leaders each from amongst the Luos, Somali, Maasai, Kalenjin, Kisii, Kamba, Luhya, Teso, Mijikenda and even Kenyan Asians. In a forum with Maasai elders I learnt that there were several Maasai Mau Mau generals. The Merus told me the same. The Luo taught ne how they were involved in political mobilization and advocacy in very difficult circumstances, activities that directly affected the struggle for independence. In a forum with Kenyan Asians I learnt about Markhan Singh’s work with trade unionism, of Pio Gama Pinto’s role in the Mau Mau, and of Jevanjee’s advocacy for independence, amongst others.
However, when we got to discussing about how each community relates with other Kenyan communities in these forums, the first response was to identify an ‘enemy’ from the other tribe. After the 2007 post election violence, I was not surprised to hear all non-Kikuyu tribes stating that the enemy to national cohesion was the Kikuyu.
In the forum with the Kalenjin, a lady stood up and said that if Kenya were a family, Kikuyus would be first-borns: a position one gets purely because of luck of birth and not because they are better than the others. She then informed me how this position comes with authority and power, and how we are quite happy to use the authority but refuse to take responsibility. In the forum with the Maasai, Kikuyus were accused of developing a tourism marketing strategy that grouped the Maasai with the Big Five animals so as to attract western tourists.
In literally all forums, except the Garissa one with Kenyan Somalis, Kenya’s obstacle to national cohesion and nation-building was the Kikuyu. We were defined as selfish, arrogant, thieves, and other unsavoury descriptions, all said with a complete lack of malice. I was relieved when the Somalis stated that they had no particular issue with Kikuyus but my relief disappeared when they explained that they had a problem with ‘Kenya Mzima’ for refusing to acknowledge them as Kenyans.
As a means of encouraging deeper analysis of tribe in these forums, we would then discuss whether Kenyans would enjoy peaceful inter-ethnic cohesion if one day they woke up and there was no single Kikuyu around. After the shouts of ‘Yes!, Yes! Waende’, said in jest (I hope), the discussion would gradually lead to the next stage of ‘us’ against ‘them.’
Once the Kikuyus were out of the scene, each community realized that another community would be a problem. Nationally they felt it was Kalenjins, or maybe Luos. We heard of Luos and Kalenjin local disagreements, or Kisii and Kalenjin, or Luhyas and Luos, or Luos and Kisiis, etc. In between the government also received a fair amount of bashing as another ‘enemy’, for having isolated the community from something or other.
Once the tirade against ‘the other’ community dissipated, we would discuss whether Kenya was better off as a homogenous nation. At this point intra-ethnic differences would emerge: e.g. between the Bukusu and the Maragoli, amongst the Kalenjin tribes (Pokot asked how being grouped with the Nandis, Kipsigis, Tugens, etc, had benefitted the Pokots). Then there were the inter-clan differences, e.g. between the Somali and Maasai; or the inter-religious ones amongst the Muslim, Hindu, Sikhs, Christians Muslims, etc. I know that the Kikuyus have their own Kiambu and Nyeri divide. Once we brought in the story of Somalia where there is one tribe, one main religion and a decades-old civil war, we would accept that this was not a solution either.
In fact in practically each forum one was left with the feeling that given enough time each forum would end with each individual pointing fingers at the next participant.
The experience of those forums has led me to conclude that if Kenyans can talk publicly about tribalism, we quickly realize after the initial animosity that tribalism is a veil used by certain leaders to divide us. If we can mainstream this conversation at a national level, we might be very surprised to discover that our problem as a nation is not ‘the other tribe, clan, religion, gender, etc’ but the lack of a common narrative that represents the values, principles and beliefs of being a Kenyan.
We know what it means to be Kikuyu, Luo, Kamba, Luhya, Teso, Somali, etc. but we do not know what it means to be Kenyan. However, to get to this point we must start with developing a common history, where we listen to each other’s narratives. Unfortunately, rather than reaching across to each other, we continue to perpetuate narratives that our community is better, more important, greater, smarter, etc, than yours.
The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission’s public meetings have started a process where communities hear about the narratives of other tribes. The wounds being opened are terrible but we all have to agree that they had only been bandaged and have never healed. We hope the National Cohesion and Integration Commission has appropriate medicine. As we listen to each other, maybe we will agree on what we believe in, and stand for, together. If we can do this, we will be on the way to becoming ‘Kenyans’, and the newest nation in the world.
Wambugu is the coordinator, Kikuyus for Change
Those who love Uhuru and wish him greater fortunes must tell him the truth
By Barrack Muluka
Those who think they love Uhuru and wish him greater and better fortunes than he so far enjoys need to tell him the truth. They need to tell him what the real challenges to his presidential bid are. Whether he presents a great Budget to Parliament or not does not seem to my mind to be the critical issue. At any rate, it is an open secret that the Budget Speech does not belong to the minister. And Uhuru himself said as much last month, when the greyhounds were after him over the 9.6 billion affair. He accused some unknown people at the Treasury, saying they were out to finish him politically.
Together with some of his followers and admirers, like Mr Jimmy Kibaki, they said that it was these strange people at the Treasury who had given Uhuru wrong things to read before Parliament. Having thus distanced himself from the supplementary budget because it offended the nation, Uhuru cannot now turn around and begin basking in the glory of what appears to be a good Budget. What if the Mars Group comes up with new findings akin to what was contained in the supplementary budget? Would the minister still feel the same sense of ownership? Put simply, the Budget does not belong to the minister. That is why it is both wrong for anybody to sacrifice him personally and for him to hog praises that, he should know, do not belong to him. A good Budget only shows that the system and institutions are working while a faulty one shows that they are not.
But more to the point, a Uhuru presidential campaign would do well to take into account things that Kenyans will be asking about the candidate. The Budget Speech will only be a footnote, albeit an important one. There are things that those people who pretend to love Uhuru are not telling him. They are not telling him that he is the symbol of everything that has gone wrong with this country. They are not telling him that he is the child of an oppressive dynastic legacy and that this is what the Kenyan voter will be thinking about in 2012 when, we hear, the name Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta will be on the ballot paper again. If they loved him, they would tell him to read the history of the independence struggle, the colonial and post-colonial land policies and dynamics of wealth creating and distribution.
Of particular import, they would get him to understand why it is that the Kenyatta family owns land that is said to be bigger, when consolidated, than the whole of Nyanza Province. He would want to know how it came to pass that the Kenyatta family and former home guard families ended up owning thousands of acres in Central Province while the majority of the people in the province have next to nothing. He would get to understand the home guards hijacked both the independence struggle and the fruits it promised to bring. They would show him what Tabitha Kanogo, David Throup, Frank Furedi, Wunyabari Maloba, Robert Maxon, John Lonsdale, Maina wa Kinyatti and a whole whale of scholars have said about the economic and social roots of the Mau Mau.
He would understand the squatter problem and the land hunger in Central and Rift Valley provinces. He would see that he was the heir of an oppressive legacy and he would go easy on his push to rule Kenya. For, he would see how Kenyatta and the home guards abused the million-acre resettlement scheme and pauperised a whole community. He would also see the Mungiki problem in new light and understand that the Mungiki cannot be crushed like some people keep on saying. For the Mungiki is the counterpoise of the children of privilege. They have their own story to tell, and which nobody wants to listen to. At any rate, Uhuru would want to try to help correct the injustice of land distribution, ownership and use in Kenya, before trying to become Mr President.
He may not have the proclivity. But Uhuru has the ability, especially if he wants to become the President. If he is a just man and he addresses colonial and post-colonial injustices that repose in his lap, Kenyans may want to vote for him. He may not need to insinuate himself upon other peoples budgets. And yes, even I would support him. But he must return what was known in Kenya’s history in the period 1920-1970 as the stolen lands.
Uhuru’s Hague friend isn’t vague
By ALPHONCE SHIUNDU, BILLY MUIRURI and JACOB NG’ETICH
Posted Friday, February 17 2012 at 20:07
If the PNU side of the coalition government was to pick the 10 brightest sparks within its ranks, Ndaragwa MP Jeremiah Kioni would easily make the cut.
A consistent voice on post-election violence and IDP issues, he was visible more recently as a key ally of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, even going to The Hague last September “to give moral support.”
But all’s not well between Mr Kioni and Uhuru. Suddenly, Mr Kioni wants Mt Kenya voters to look beyond Uhuru.
He candidly suggests a Plan B because Uhuru and Eldoret North MP William Ruto may not run for the presidency.
Mr Kioni has skipped most of the Ocampo Two prayer meetings, including the Ruiru meeting three weeks ago.
Instead, he has directed his energies to a new outfit, the United Democratic Forum (UDF).
“Uhuru is one of those UDF would be considering as their candidate. It is not automatic,” says Mr Kioni.
The MP says he does not have to agree with Uhuru on everything. “You cannot buy my mind. I cannot be a sycophant. I do not follow people blindly. I have a mind of my own,” he insists.
Other bedfellows in UDF are Mandera Central MP Abdikadir Mohamed, Kabando wa Kabando (Mukurwe-ini) and Ndiritu Mureithi (Laikipia West).
The MP seems frustrated that some Uhuru handlers are keen to edge MPs out of Uhuru’s inner circle. Prior to the ICC appearances, Mr Kioni was always on Uhuru’s side.
Sources within the Uhuru legal fraternity confirm that Mr Kioni had been approached to be Uhuru’s witness during the confirmation of charges hearings last year, in his capacity as the chairman of the parliamentary committee that investigated illegal gangs in Kenya.
Mungiki was one of those investigated. The source said it is after Mr Kioni refused to testify that Kikuyu MP Lewis Nguyai was requested to step up as a witness. Mr Nguyai was Mr Kioni’s vice-chairman in the committee, it goes without saying.
Why Kanu postponed delegates conference
Pressure from Central and Rift Valley MPs allied to Eldoret North MP William Ruto forced Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta to postpone the Kanu Special Delegates’ Conference which was to be held yesterday. It was the third time that the conference was cancelled. No reasons were given for the cancellation. “Due to unavoidable circumstances, the Special National Delegates Conference has been postponed to a date to be communicated later,” said a statement issued by Uhuru.
The conference was initially planned for January 5. It was then pushed to January 30 and then to February 14 before the postponement announced on Monday. Uhuru is said to have cited financial constraints for the cancellation even though he did not say as much in the statement he released.
Several MPs allied to Uhuru and Ruto said Uhuru’s supporters from Central were uncomfortable with his decision to reactivate Kanu. “How do you sell Kanu in Central? We have told Uhuru that he should find another party very soon,” said a Central Kenya MP. MPs allied to Ruto are concerned the revival of Kanu might create two centres of power — those coalescing around Ruto and others who would rally behind retired President Moi and his son Gideon who are still perceived to have influence over the party.
Cherangany MP Joshua Kuttuny said he and other MPs from both provinces had raised their concerns with Uhuru. “We want to be clear who URP is negotiating with and we have requested Uhuru to abandon Kanu for another party because of its history,” said Kuttuny. Ruto and his allies were concerned that a strong Kanu could pose danger to URP in the Rift Valley and give the Moi family undue leverage in the hunt for votes.
Similar sentiments were expressed by several MPs from Central Kenya who said Uhuru risked losing support because of Kanu’s history. They warned that Uhuru risked losing support in Rift and Central provinces if he presented himself as a Kanu candidate. The proposal to change the name of the country’s oldest political party from the Kenya African National Union to the Kenya Alliance of National Unity has been met with resistance by some of the party members including Moi.
On Monday, Moi issued a statement denouncing the change of name saying those proposing the change had not given sufficient reasons. “I call on bona fide Kanu members desirous of peace and national unity to strengthen the party and take its noble role of national building,” Moi said asking the current party leadership to foster peace and harmony especially in the multi-ethnic regions like the Rift Valley. The Special Delegates Conference was supposed to ratify the proposed name and other changes in the party structure which were proposed during the party retreat held in Naivasha in December.
The changes in the structure included clarifying the relationship between Kanu and at least 24 fringe political parties which have expressed interest to come under the new renamed Kanu umbrella. Kanu secretary general Nick Salat who is closely allied to Gideon yesterday said most of the party delegates were against the proposal to change the party name. He said this could have contributed to the decision to postpone the conference.
Salat said the conference had been expected to ratify amendments in the party’s constitution to align it to the national constitution and with the IEBC Act, Political Parties Act and the Elections Act. He admitted the party was lagging behind in “many issues” and hoped that Uhuru would soon set a new date for the conference.
The delegates were also to consider whether the party should form a coalition with the PNU Alliance also referred to in other quarters as Alliance Party of Kenya. Uhuru has in the past defended his position on coalitions, saying Kanu needs to work with others in the new political dispensation. The parties set to merge with Kanu include the People’s Democratic Party, Shirikisho Party, Democratic Party and Ford People.
THE END OF THE KIKUYU MAN
February 16 2012 at 6:49 AM
I am a worried man. It looks like the end is near for the so called Kikuyu Man. I had a critical look about it and this is what i have found.
1. Pombe
That we are the worst enemies towards ourselves… In this regard we have taken to binge drinking and Nyama choma. And we drink anything.. Tell me why central province now ranks the highest in lifestyle diseases mostly among men. Can you count how men old wazee there are in your village. Majority are dead but their wives are still living…… Blame our lifestyles. Its largely in Central provice where we die of liqour…. kill me quick and what have you. We, kikuyu men make very deal under the influence of alcohol… even marriage has to be negotiated when drunk… no wonder we end up marrying the wrong kind of women. Our talk when we are together is about the next bottle. Our incesant love for alcohol has made us inherently weak. That why we have become the punching bags.
2. We are undergoing cultural genocide…
Our society has put a strong fight towards educating the girl child. Nobody cares about the boy child. The once top boy lurks on the streets of the shopping centres waiting for the next drinking den to open to drown away his sorrows. Majority of the school drop-outs are boys. Waiting for inheritance from their poor parents. They end up inheriting their poverty. 4 boys all eyeing a 100×100 piece of earth. The girls? Drive on any street in Nairobi today and its the women who drive the big cars.
Women carry forth the culture in any community and pass it to their children. Our women prefer foreigners to us. That is the beginning of the end of our culture as we know. By sheer estimates there are more kikuyu women married to foreigners than any other tribe in Africa. Our Culture sold at the alter of the pound.
3. Our women have taken command
A good estimate shows that most women now prefer being single mothers. The institution of marriage has broken down in a big way. The men cannot perform. Cannot bring up children in a responsible way. Are being beaten up by their wives….. (all manner of accusations most of them true). Micii yuraga anake maigirira ngo makumbi iguru…..
4. Mungiki
Apart from our young men killing their fellow young men…. the government went ahead and killed the young men notwithstanding that some were not actually mungiki… Kikuyu men did not raise a finger… how do you not defend your community against genocide. This was genocide perpetrated by the government against kikuyu men….. systematic killings and disappearances.
5. Government
If my observation serves me right, no other tribe wants to see a Kikuyu appointed to any position of power. They all gang up against them and go to court to stop the appointments despite meritocracy…. Its their turn to eat. Its ok though, coz even the select few that are appointed only mind themselves and become corrupt to the hilt, become arrogant.
When PEV occured, these people stood back and watched their women and daughters killed, raped, maimed. Only then did it really occur to them that their hard earned money and investments did not matter…. most were razed to the ground…. their families did. Only then did they say they belonged to some community they were previously alien to.
Something tells me something is not right. We need some Chama to vent our grievances. We need to put our act together. We need to get united and say no to these bad habits, cultures, practices, policies and politics. Lets be one people that speaks with one voice, shun divisive politics and rehabilitate our men. Lets say no to those killing us by starting with the next beer bottle you are about to order.
Can we stand up like the Israelis and put our act together?
Uhuru Inviting Chinese to eat tortoise in Both Kenya and Zimbambwe>
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343ShareFacebookTwitterChinese face deportation for eating rare tortoises Four Chinese nationals are facing deportation from Zimbabwe after they were arrested for killing more than 40 rare tortoises for meat, officials say.
Animal welfare officials said the men admitted charges of animal cruelty.
Investigators found the skeletal remains of 40 endangered Bell’s Hinged tortoises, in a raid on the men’s house.
They also reportedly recovered 13 live tortoises stored in steel drums without water or food.
Villagers in Bikita, in south-eastern Zimbabwe, said the reptiles were dropped alive into boiling water.
Tortoise meat was also recovered from the house, the Zimbabwe Herald reports.
The tortoise is listed as an endangered species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Local officials say their numbers in the wild have dwindled in recent years
18 February 2012 Last updated at 14:29 GMT Share this pageEmail Print Share this page
343ShareFacebookTwitterChinese face deportation for eating rare tortoises Four Chinese nationals are facing deportation from Zimbabwe after they were arrested for killing more than 40 rare tortoises for meat, officials say.
Animal welfare officials said the men admitted charges of animal cruelty.
Investigators found the skeletal remains of 40 endangered Bell’s Hinged tortoises, in a raid on the men’s house.
They also reportedly recovered 13 live tortoises stored in steel drums without water or food.
Villagers in Bikita, in south-eastern Zimbabwe, said the reptiles were dropped alive into boiling water.
Tortoise meat was also recovered from the house, the Zimbabwe Herald reports.
The tortoise is listed as an endangered species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. Local officials say their numbers in the wild have dwindled in recent years
Kikuyus against Uhuru Kenyatta
Koigi is against Uhuru
Lari MP is against Uhuru
Kamotho is against Uhuru
Peter Kenneth is against Uhuru
Paul Muite is against Uhuru
Kuguru is against Uhuru
Charles Njonjo is against Uhuru
Martha Karua is against Uhuru
Stanley Githunguri is against Uhuru
Njenga Karume is against Uhuru
Benjamin Wanjui is against Uhuru
Martin Ngatia in Stockholm is against Uhuru
Kikuyus for Change
G7 wants Mudavadi as their fall-back candidate with Charity Ngilu as his running mate. That is why Mudavadi has grown balls of-late. Kalonzo Musyoska is being pushed out to pave way for Ngilu. Wamalwa has been under intense pressure to back-off and instead support Mudavadi.Lots of lobbying and horse-trading currently in the offing but only time will tell what materializes and what does not.
By sheepishly following Uhuru, the Kikuyu ethnic group prove that collectively they are no better than any other intellectually diminished community; after all, with a population of 7 million, they are atop of one of the poorest and corrupt in the world! I’m tempted to give an anology here to better illustrate this at the risk of being accused of propagating hate speech.
Last year, Special Programmes Minister Esther Murugi, promised to lead women in stripping naked if Uhuru was detained upon his arrival at The Hague for the confirmation of charges hearings.
“We are in your full support, and even if it means undressing, we will do it for your sake,” the Nyeri Town MP stated while teasingly holding her dress during a public rally attended by Uhuru.
Around the same time, the ever-unpredictable Water Assistant Minister Ferdinand Waititu also made a declaration that put him alongside Murugi as co-drivers of the ICC theatrics bandwagon.
Speaking in Murang’a town, the MP vowed to mobilise youth from Embakasi and take them to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, which is in his constituency, to block the flight that would be taking the then Ocampo Six to The Hague if Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Medical Services Minister Anyang’ Nyong’o were not among those to be tried for post-election violence.
And when ICC Pre-Trial II Chamber released its verdict on the cases early this week, social sites were awash with messages calling on Murugi to make good her promise of stripping. But they seemed confused as to whether Murugi was to strip naked if Uhuru was detained or if charges against him were confirmed.
“Hon Esther Murugi Mathenge promised Kenyans that she would strip naked if Hon Uhuru will be confirmed for trial. Please we demand her to respect and honour her words and do it! Walk the talk,” one blogger asserted.
“The ICC has done its part; it is now time to do your part. So, when are you stripping madam?” another posed on a Facebook page attributed to the minister. Another blog reminded Waititu that of his unfulfilled promise to Kenyans.
“I am inquiring on when and at what time Hon Ferdinand Waititu will be at the runway at JKIA . Waititu ran over by a plane for Uhuru! Wait a minute..will he be having stones to throw at the plane?” he mused.
I highly regard you, Mr. Koigi wa Wamwere, for your independent thought process. However, i detest it when you preach hate on the pulpit of freedom of expression. Those people who are following Uhuru and Ruto axis, may be low in society, even, making an error on judgement, but they same as you, have a freedom of expression. By you implying that the liking they have is due to royal blue blood, is not correct. Reason is that Uhuru has contested and lost in his gatundu constituency before. Some have a feeling somewhat that he helped alot to bring to an end to the post election hostilities, and due to this he endeared himself to many. This is what you could possibly shed light on.
He did not choose to be born in the royal family either, the same way i did not choose to be born Kikuyu.
Mr Machera, Kikuyu have never been relegated to third class citizens and will never be. Hallucination from amnesiacs such as Koigi wa Wamwere should not be taken as defining the Kenya citizenry, or Kikuyu’s for that Matter. The Obsession with the calamities befalling the Kikuyu is quickly becoming a tread by some in this forum for political expediency. This will surely have to stop because Kikuyu is among the 42 communities that makes Kenya. We will not be demonized or subjugated by selfish entities. We will not be cowered or intimidated. Koigi is a psychotic in Central Kenya just like any other in Kajulu, Keroka, Simo la tewa, or Maralala. The Communities in those Areas are not defined by the number of mad men or women in their villages and neither should the Kikuyu s, unless obviously by other psychotics which then is understandable.
Dear Hon. Uhuru. I dont think you can make a good leader. You can easily sacrifice principles for your personal gain as you demonstrated in the last election. You sacrificed democracy by being the first opposition party leader to support an opponent not because the government had better policies, but because of tribal bandwagon. You lost it man and don’t be cheated Kenyans at least those outside Mt. Kenya region, will ever trust you. Sorry!
UK, this time round we are waitnig to see you and your peopel (Kikuyu) support a Mumeru , or a Muembu for the top seat. We are watching keenly why you, Karua, and Saitoti Kinuthia think you are the only peopel who can lead Mt. Kenya in national politics. For how long will you Kikuyu take other GEMA people for a ride since 1963?
With all due respect, as a Kikuyu, I have to say that there were things not said after John Michuki died. Part of this was due to that African thing about not speaking ill of the dead.
But Kenya is facing very urgent times. We must be honest.
Michuki and other Kikuyu men of his age, who share the same political views as him, are selfish. I do not say this lightly. I say this because he knew that at his age, his time on earth was limited. So what kind of Kenya was he leaving for his grand kids?
When he declared Uhuru Kenyatta to be the leader of the Kikuyus, on what basis was he making this judgement? Had he conducted a referendum on the Kikuyus? No. He was doing so on the basis of his interests (and those of Uhuru). Why couldn’t he say that he wanted Kikuyus to support the candidate who was best for the entire Kenya?
If there was to be a leader for the Kikuyus, why didn’t he let the various Kikuyus who were interested in vying for Kikuyu leadership to compete and let the Kikuyus decide for themselves? After all, this was the same Michuki who was clearly noted as a shrewd businessman. Doesn’t good business theory dictate that you need to allow competition to let the best to emerge? If a Kikuyu and Luo applied for an accountant position at the Windsor Golf and Country Club and the Luo was clearly more qualified, who would Michuki hire? I would like to think that it would be the Luo but I’m not sure after listening to Michuki forcefully declare Uhuru the undisputed Kikuyu leader (with his ICC problems to boot!).
This is what I call selfishness. When Michuki died we saw one of his grandsons speak eloquently about guka (grandfather) during the funeral. But now I wonder whether Michuki prepared this grandson for a tolerant Kenya where people are judged by the content of their character or their true qualification rather than their tribe.
Whether or not other tribes behave the same way as Michuki should not matter for Kikuyus. I truly believe that Kikuyus will better served if they embrace free competition in all aspects of life, including leadership for Kikuyus and leadership for Kenyans as a whole.