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‘Raila tosha’ appeal by ODM ignites talk of political debts
By Juma Kwayera
Orange Democratic Movement party’s call on President Kibaki to back Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the coming Presidential elections could reintroduce the debate on betrayal in local politics.
Analysts say the move opened old, wounds and helped stoke further, debate on politics of betrayal, with more should be expected as the country engages a higher elections gear.
While it was not the first time the President was being reminded of the goodwill voters in Western Kenya demonstrated when they overwhelmingly voted for him to oust independence party Kanu from power in 2002, political analysts say it was the first time he was being told to his face to “integrate the Mt Kenya region with the rest of the country”.
The pressure by ODM MPs may have been devoid of the kind of hostility and vitriol against Kibaki that was witnessed during the swearing in of MPs in 2008 in Parliament, but they left little to the imagination as they asked Kibaki to return the ‘tosha’ favour. It reminded the country that betrayal is in season.
Political commentators say Kenyan politics is a catalogue of betrayal inspired by personal interests and ethnicity. They argue the personality-centred politics has certainly raised the heat a notch higher as betrayal takes central theme in the build up to election campaigns.
Gripe against PNU
Without exception every major political player is accusing another of betrayal, the crudest allegations being levelled to the groups that gravitate around G7 Alliance against their toughest competitor — the ODM. The latter, too, have their gripe against the Kibaki and allies, some who since have moved to G7 Alliance and other PNU affiliates.
Former Bahari MP Joe Khamisi, who has documented memoirs that cover his tenure in Parliament, says betrayal is a lingering ingredient of Kenyan politics with devastating consequences.
“What the ODM MPs were doing was natural. Raila took the gamble and rallied his supporters behind Kibaki at a time when opposition was in a dilemma over who to pick to run against the Kanu candidate. However, ever since Uhuru Kenyatta, as opposition leader, supported Kibaki against the wishes of his party, the President has been building him to be his successor. It behooves the people of Central Kenya to ask Kibaki to support Raila for the sake of national unity,” Khamisi, author of The Politics of Betrayal.
Democratic history
Lands Minister James Orengo went beyond the 2002 ‘Kibaki Tosha’ rallying call and explained how Raila’s father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, declined to take up the mantle of leadership from the colonial power until Jomo Kenyatta was released from detention. Upon his ascending to power, Kenyatta turned against Jaramogi, whom he threw out of Government and subjected him to detention without trial.
In addition, regions that are sympathetic to Jaramogi were alienated and denied development resources.
A run down in the country’s short but eventful democratic history is replete with betrayal. Despite former President Moi having buried the hatch with Raila over the latter’s move out of Kanu, he has not forgiven him for ‘betrayal’. Raila trooped out of Kanu with influential MPs, a move that greatly affected the strength of the former ruling party since 2002.
Then Raila claimed the former President had betrayed him by handpicking Uhuru to be the party’s Presidential candidate, despite an earlier agreement to back him (Raila). Moi had convinced Raila to merge his National Development Party (NDP) with Kanu only for Moi to ‘nominate’ Uhuru.
It is in the vein that former Finance Minister Simeon Nyachae has been reluctant to endorse Raila to pay him back in the same coin after Raila allegedly went against a pact they had entered that Nyachae would lead the opposition charge against Kanu, only for Raila to endorse Kibaki at a Uhuru Park political rally.
Regular political commentator and former Subukia MP Koigi Wamwere, referring to the Friday incident in Kisumu and others in the past, says, “Right from independence, Kenyan politics is not structured as competition of ideas but takes the form of war.”
“We treat politics as we do war — the end must be defeat. Triumph is part of defeat. Humiliation of the opponent is the motivating factor. In Kisumu, ODM MPs went to the extent of genuflecting. Kibaki’s cold reaction portrayed him as though he was regaling in his opponent’s total submission,” observes Wamwere, a former political detainee.
Memories of how political leaders betray each other in brazen quest for power, the latest round being a plea by ODM leaders to the President to back the premier to succeed him when he retires at the end of his (Kibaki’s) second term, later this year.
As the country heads into arguably the toughest election ever — thanks to the new Constitution — a predictable phenomenon is already taking shape as fresh alliances are formed and old ones collapse to underline the fragility of ideology, and the accentuation of short-term interests that frequently explode into inter-ethnic tensions.
Electoral cycles
Political Science lecturer Amukowa Anangwe links this to “political adulteration” where principles and ethnics are second to the ultimate prize.
“In man-eat-man society, betrayal and corruption are the social underpinnings of political adulteration,” says Dr Anangwe.
Although the perceptions of betrayal are not entirely new, every election cycle comes with its own peculiarities, where even strange bedfellows cut deals to rise to power and Wamwere says the Kibaki succession is no different.
“It is sad that President Kibaki can be reminded of a debt he owes Raila. It is even worse that we can plead with the President to recognise a nationalist like Raila’s father by naming a symbol like an airport after him. Political betrayal in Kenya is governed by an absence of trust and reciprocity, which is why elections and political systems are not determined by structures but individualism,” Wamwere points out.
Virtually all the big hitters in Kenyan politics have in the past been accused of betrayal, the most recent lament being when Kibaki ignored a memorandum of understanding with Raila in the lead up to the 2002 in which they were united against the Kanu Presidential candidate Uhuru.
Unrequited favours
The betrayal debate took centre stage on Friday during the official commissioning of the Kisumu International Airport during which MPs from either side of the divide spoke about the unrequited favours and trust that occasionally tip the country over the edge at every election cycle.
Party of National Unity (PNU) MP for Lari David Njuguna kicked off the debate when he asked the President to back the PM in appreciation of the role the latter played to hoist him (Kibaki) to the helm of the country’s leadership. Njuguna said had it not been Raila, Kibaki would never have been President of Kenya.
Uhuru and Ruto have made a bad move how Do you appeal to the same court that found you with mass rape , abduction, mass movement of a people BY FORCE and as per Kaul abstention ” serious crimes”
I know NO 101 laws for dummies but this is a poor move by UK and Ruto legal teams they are just buying time to nowhere instead they might end up getting a very hostile bench .
If they were careful and valued their time and future they would have thrown caution to the wind and prepared for their defence in the case proper otherwise they are just wasting their money , they would have better saved it for their grand children.
Why do i say so , the ICTR case for Rwanda has been ongoing for not less than 15 years now and after the 15 years we have been seeing life and not less than 15 years conviction so what are UK and Ruto chances , they appeal appeal takes 2 and half years , case proper 5 years , conviction 20 years this is a total of 27 years , uhuru is 50 years plus 27 imagine Uhuru free after 77 years , Ruto 45 plus 27 years imagine him at 72 walking out of a malian jail , what a waste of life .
Guys this is the reality , so tell this guys to just go slow the reality will be very bitter. A wasted 27 years hustling between nairobi and the hague , pocket wise hakuna pesa , the president by then would be some obscure guy unknown to this dot-com generation , who knows nothing about PEV, second liberation or some odm AND pnu SHENANIGANS . UK AND RUTO BE REAL ; CHEST THUMPING WILL TAKE YOU NOWHERE
This Is Kibaki Tosha Kenya Look at this Mother Impregnated by Kenyas Mating bulls and leaving her with fatherless kids>A prove how Kenya African lacks brain>
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It is a well known historical fact that Jaramogi Odinga spearheaded the release of Kenyatta from detention. When the white settlers described Kenyatta as “a leader to darkness and death,” Odinga responded by saying that Kenyatta was our only true leader and that he was second only to God! And just as Raila’s most famous phrase was “Kibaki tosha!” Jaramogi’s most famous phrase was “No Kenyatta, no Uhuru!”
Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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The Hague changes the game
The ICC is forcing the elite to rethink the old certainties of ethnic politics and redraw the battle lines
By approving the indictment of four very important people, the International Criminal Court has begun to unravel Kenya’s ruling networks of ethnic patronage. This is happening just as a new constitution gives liberal activists and old reformist politicians the muscle they lacked. President Mwai Kibaki ignored calls from civil society groups for the resignations of two ICC indictees: the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, 50, and the head of the civil service, Francis Kirimi Muthaura, 65. William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang are the other two indictees. All four are charged with crimes against humanity, murder, forcible deportation and persecution
Eldoret North MP William Ruto now wants an out-of-court settlement for a case in which he is accused of illegally acquiring land after post-election violence.
The MP’s lawyer Katwa Kigen Wednesday told the court that he had agreed with parties in the matter to meet and explore possibilities to settle the issue.
High Court judge Rose Ougo ordered that the case be mentioned on March 5 and asked parties to comply with what they will agree on.
The Attorney General’s office asked the court to allow it file witness statements received from Lands Ministry in relation to the suit property.
Mr Adrian Muteshi claims Ruto illegally acquired his piece of land, Kaptabei Scheme, Uasin Gishu after the 2008 post-election violence.
Muteshi told the court in his evidence-in-chief last year that six workers at his 100-acre farm in Kaptabei Scheme, Uasin Gishu, were kicked out of the property in 2008 and have been unable to return.
“I went near the farm after post-election violence and was informed that Ruto had taken over the land,” he told the court.
Muteshi’s efforts to conduct a search on whether ownership of the property had changed were unsuccessful and he wrote to the Commissioner of Lands, asking him to intervene.
“Ruto is feared in Eldoret and nobody was willing to give me information, fearing for their lives,” he told the court.
On June 8, 2010, the district lands registrar wrote to the commissioner explaining that the land was under the name of Ms Dorothy Yator.
Yator allegedly sold the property to Ruto. But Muteshi said he had never changed the property’s title to secure money loaned to the woman by the settlement trustee.
He had identified the piece of land that previously belonged to a white settler and made an application to the then Lands Minister Jackson Angaine, seeking his approval to buy it.
His application was approved on October 3, 1968 and after paying the required amount plus some money for development, he acquired the land.
KIKUYU GEMA >MWIVI AMEKAMATWA DELETING AND INSERTING THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION>>
The crooks who tried to amend the constitution after it was sent to the printer are at work again. This time they have removed words from the Devolution Bill submitted to CIC to make the governors be subservient to the president.
We have said before that those who believe in presidential supremacy and who want to subvert the new constitution to give the president unfettered powers to run the counties as they choose will have to be fought to their political graves. They have reared their ugly heads again. They have to be stopped. Again. And they will be stopped.
PRESS STATEMENT FROM NYANZA COUNCIL OF CHURCH LEADERS
COMPRISING OF 200 CHURCH DENOMINATIONS, DO ACT ON
HON. WILLIAM KABOGO’S STATEMENT ON STAR NEWS PAPER SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
WE as the Church Leaders in Western Kenya, Do condemn in strongest terms the outdated tribalism outburst from HON. WILLIAM KABOGO – JUJA MP using a Kikuyu adage, to attack RT. HON. RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA, he cautioned the Voters saying that “If Leadership is taken to Nyanza, they should be prepared to be visiting Nairobi holding their identity Cards with their mouths”.
Hon. William Kabogo has not read the Political History of Kenya, Hon. William Kabogo should know that when Colonial Government restricted Kikuyu Community not to step their foot in Nairobi in 1957 – 1960, it was the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, late Tom Mboya and the late Argwings Kodhek, are the people who liberated Kikuyu Community and removed the plate identification that were given to Kikuyu Community.
In the present Kenya with the New Constitution, that our Leaders H.E. HON. MWAI KIBAKI AND RT. HON. RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA spearheaded, and now we have a New Constitution.
WE don’t need Political Tribal inciters; we are in a new Kenya, let us use the language Kenya, NOT KIKUYU, LUO, KISII, LUHYA, KALENJIN, KAMBA, MASAI, GIRIAMA, DIGO OR SOMALIA, let us bury the language of OUR OWN. We want a Kenya where people can live as brothers and sisters.
In Nyanza we have all business Kenyan Communities with Kikuyu being the majority, and we have no problem with them.
Let us choose and vote for a leader who is a reformist, who can unite Kenyans and take Kenya to a New Level of prosperity.
God bless Kenya.
Signed By: –
BISHOP DR WASHINGTON OGONYO NGEDE. H.S.C.
CHAIRMAN: – NYANZA COUNCIL OF CHURCH LEADERS
I suspect that many of you do not have a clear understanding why a rigged election could produce such violence as burning women and children alive in a church. This email is to give a brief historical background of why Kenya has so seemingly suddenly erupted into ethnic violence.
The British colonized Kenya early in the 20th Century. The nature of colonialism was total control from a strong center. In the case of Kenya, there were British settlers, few in actual numbers, but each controlling large estates. To run these estates and the comfortable life that they wished, they needed lots of labor, the cheaper the better. So the colonial Government put a tax on each adult male where he had to work six months per year to pay the tax which was then used for the benefit of the settlers. The settlers were harsh and cruel to their African laborers.
The Kikuyu homeland is on the slopes of Mount Kenya. The amount of land they had was small for the population and consequently many of them were forced onto the settler’s estates to work for them. But the Kikuyu, as everyone admits, are a very industrious, hard-working people who early on saw the benefits of education. Others became the low-level functionaries that any Government needs.
During the WWII many young men were drafted into the British army (my father-in-law was in Malawi and Burma!) and served wherever needed. Their eyes were opened by what they saw and when they returned to Kenya after the war, they found that they were given the same menial, low-paying dead end work. By the early 1950’s this dissatisfaction gave rise to a protest movement called “Mau Mau.” This was mostly amoung the Kikuyu. They forced people to take an oath to oppose the British rule. Perhaps 90% of the Kikuyu in Central Province on Mount Kenya took the oath, willingly and unwillingly. The remaining 10% were the loyalists who worked for the British colonial Government. Although Jomo Kenyatta was jailed as a Mau Mau leader, they soon realized that he was really a loyalist–his son, Peter Kenyatta, with Jomo Kenyatta’s blessing, was one of the leaders of the loyalists. Kenyatta was separated from the other Mau Mau leaders.
The surpression of Mau Mau was brutal in extreme. Percentagewise more people died during the surpression of Mau Mau during the 1950’s than during the 1994 Rwandan genocide–torture was prevalent, women and children were put into concentration camps with little food and medical care. Large numbers died. No one should be under the illusion that the British were “better” colonialists than the Germans or Belgians. The technique the British used here was to deny everything with massive cover-ups. Much of this history is only now being uncovered.
During this same time, the British implemented land consolidation in Central Province. The result was that the loyalists received nice, large land holdings at the expense of the Mau Mau people who were in jail. When they returned they found that their land was lost with only small fragments unable to support their families. They were forced either to work for the Kikuyu loyalists or to emigrate to other parts of Kenya which were not so heavily populated–in particular many went to the Rift Valley province.
Some of the most successful loyalists went into business, using the dispossessed Kikuyu to do the labor that they needed. In particular, the Kikuyu many times replaced Indian shopkeepers in small towns and villages. As I will discuss below, many more became the conductors and drivers of the matatus (mini-buses) that dominate Kenya land travel. By now some of these businessmen have become tycoons.
The British, at the time of independence in 1963, handed the Government to their loyalist supporters. The Kikuyu business tycoons and the Kikuyu political establishment formed a strong bond during the Kenyatta presidency. When Moi, a Kalenjin, took over on Kenyatta’s death, he quickly made a deal with the Kikuyu establishment that he would not bother their businesses and they agreed to let him on the Kenyan gravey train, which included gigantic corruption and looting of Government funds. Kibaki was at one time part of both the Kenyatta and Moi Governments.
When people, including the Kikuyu elite got tired of Moi, they tried to replace him. In 1992 and 1997 Moi divided and conquered the oppostion.
One of the techniques Moi used was to promote violence in his homeland of Rift Valley. In 1992 perhaps 1000 Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu were killed by the Kalenjins and more than 100,000 were made homeless (including Malesi Kinaro). As with the British rule, the Government closed the Rift Valley province to everyone and little is known of the details. When it was over, everything was publicly covered up, but eveyone is still very tense. As we can learn from the developments that led to the Rwandan genocide, each cycle of violence increases over the previous one. I have no doubt that this is why the people were burned in the church in Rift Valley rather than elsewhere.
But in 2002 Moi was now too old for another term and he selected Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru Kenyatta, to run for the presidency. The opposition this time decided not to become divided, but united under Kibaki and soundly defeated Uhuru Kenyatta. At this point Kibaki had the opportunity to bring all Kenyans together as a real nation, but he soon dropped all the non-Kikuyu who had helped him into office and the controlling clique became a group of Kikuyu politicians and businessmen. So in 2007, the others (Luo, Luhya, and Kalenjin) who felt betrayed by Kibaki, joined together in the ODM (Orange Democratic Movement) to oppose Kibaki. A Kamba, Musyoka, stayed out of the coalition and formed his own party–ODM-Kenya.
To summarize, since independence the Kikuyu have directly or indirectly controlled the Government and decided control Kenya business. Through this time, they continued and promoted the centralized system of Government given to them by the British. The President was all powerful, as he controlled the executive, legislative and judicial branches of Government. It was a hybrid presidental and parliamentary system with President being all powerful. The election campaign revolved around “devolvement” meaning decentrializing. Naturally Kibaki and the Kikuyu opposed this since this meant giving up their power to the periphery.
Let us return to the matatu business. There are 80,000 matatus on Kenyan roads, most of which are owned and opperated by Kikuyu. I estimate (I sit a lot in the matatus and have ample time to analyze the business) that a matatu has an income of $100,000 per year. This works out to over $200 per year per person in Kenya. The conductor rents the vehicle with driver for the day and keeps whatever is left over at the end of the day. So he has to push and push to make sure that he doesn’t actually lose money.
The relationship between the conductor who is always trying to increase the price of the ride, stuff more people into the vehicle, and drive faster leads to amazing antagonism. There is no customer service, but customer dis-service. The riders continually believe that they are being abused and taken advantage of. This happens almost every time one gets into a matatu.
So it is payback time. It is amazing how only Kikuyu shops and homes were burned and everyone else left intact. Those at the bottom are taking it out on those whom they feel are on top. They have no contact with the Kikuyu tycoons and politicians and so they are taking the pent-up rage of forty-four years of independence out on the average Kikuyu in their community. The Kikuyu are then retaliating by killing the other ethnic groups that happen to live in their communities. This also explains why Kibaki (read the Kikuyu elite) wished to stay in power by rigging the election–they will be the losers. At stake here is continuing with the status quo with the Kikuyu on top or changing the essential nature of the Government so that everyone has its piece (but will the Kikuyu be allowed their fair share or will they be punished).
Malesi Kinaro will want me to throw in another part of the mix. With the large population increase in the past, there are many youth. Many of these have been educated to the secondary level or even above and then they are left with nothing to do, alienated from Kenyan society. These are the shock troops of the rioters and looters. They see no future so they can easily be turned to violence. This is the tinder and the spark was the annoucement that Kibaki won what everyone in western Kenya considers a rigged election. The youth waited until the result was announced on the radio and then immediately attacked matatus (I saw the plumes of 8 burning matatus), Kikuyu shops and homes, and then the Kikuyu themselves.
Hope this helps you to understand the situation some.
Peace,
Dave
David Zarembka, Coordinator
African Great Lakes Initiative/ Friends Peace Teams Box 189, Kipkarren River 50241 Kenya–phone 011 254 726 590 783 Office in US–1001 Park Avenue, St Louis, MO 63104–phone 314/621-7262
It is really sad to see my fellow Kikuyus in Parliament today without anything to say regarding the exchange between Raila Odinga and William Ruto.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that what Raila was saying, about the lack of prayers for the IDPs, was completely true.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that Ruto does not care about the victims who died and those who got displaced. In fact, he is directly accused of having caused their deaths and displacement.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that the Kikuyus and other non-Kalenjin tribes in the Rift Valley are still vulnerable if people like Ruto are not punished.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that in order for Ruto to stand up in Parliament, and yell at Raila, despite being indicted by an international court, is only due to the fact that others stood up to the horrors of the Moi dictatorship. It was others who fought for the right to have multiparty politics while Ruto was fighting against them in Youth for Kanu.
But Kikuyus cannot stand up to this hypocrite because they are themselves compromised due to their support for Uhuru. Yes, Kenyatta’s son is himself accused by the same international court of crimes against humanity. This is the price being paid for Uhuru’s decision, after the 2007 elections, that two wrongs make a right. A very serious mistake. Kikuyus should not have stood by him, despite the shock of the Kalenjin killers in the Rift Valley.
Show me a Kikuyu proberb that justifies what Uhuru did.
So now it is left to Raila to stand up for the IDPs. Isn’t that ironic? Where is Mwai Kibaki? Where is John Michuki? Where is Kiraitu Murungi? Where is Njenga Karume? They are all compromised? What is worse, they want future generations of Kenyans to pay for their mistakes. Make no mistake, when things like the post-election killings and displacement take place and no one is punished, enmity is passed on to the next generation. We only need to look at the assassination of Tom Mboya, J.M. Kariuki and others. Furthermore, it is not the elites that suffer. It is the ordinary folks such as those Kikuyus who perished in the Church fire in Eldoret or the Luos who were hacked in Naivasha.
Finally, it is a well-known fact that people of Kibaki’s generation, when among fellow Kikuyus, love to stress the importance of circumcision. It makes one a “grown-up.” It makes one to think in a “mature way.” I heard this a lot, especially when I was a boy and had not yet faced the knife.
My question: Today, who was the mwanake or njamba in Parliament? Was it not the honorable member from Langata? I think you know what I’m getting at.
A new opinion poll shows Prime Minister Raila Odinga is still the preferred presidential aspirant.
Raila enjoys 39.50 per cent support among the voters nationally, according to the poll conducted by PollKenya, which was released Friday at a Nairobi hotel.
Deputy Prime Minister and Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta trails Raila at 26.80 per cent, according to the results. Eldoret North MP William Ruto, the de facto United Republican Party (URP) leader, is ranked third in the poll at 17.10 per cent.
Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka performed dismally, with only 6.50 per cent. Gichugu MP Martha Karua garnered 4.40 per cent, while Assistant Minister Peter Kenneth has 1.40 per cent.
Other presidential hopefuls – Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, former Cabinet Minister Raphael Tuju and Gachoga MP Mutava Musyimi were not captured.
Mr Sammy Karoney, a director at Eskay Communications, which owns the research company, said the poll was conducted using interactive system that allows direct data capture.
AMERICANS HATE DESEASE HAS INFECTED KENYANS (RULING CLASS)HATE AND ZENOPHOBIA>
That will be a first and if the two altogether abandon their recent modi operandi and declared strategy for 2012, we shall all welcome it and let the candidates face off on account of ideas they have for the country and may the one who makes the more convincing case be elected in an open and transparent elections.
While we await the confirmation of such a dramatic shift in strategy, here is what we know: What Republicans In the US Have In Common With Uhuru and Ruto http://omwenga.com/2012/02/19/what-repub….have-in-common/
Republicans almost to a man and woman over the age of 18 are obsessed with one and only one thing in 2012: to defeat President Barrack Obama in his bid for reelection but ask each individually reasons why, they will parrot what their leading loudmouths and opinion shapers are saying with few exceptions and definitely without any depth of understanding or knowledge of the nonsense they offer as reasons:
Obama has “destroyed” the economy.
Obama “hates” America
Obama is “brainwashed by Rev. Wright’s teaching,” which is offered as one of the reasons he “hates” America.
Obama is a socialist who wants to convert America to “European style socialist state” mara to “Greece.”
Obama is an “apologist” who “goes around bowing to Muslim countries” and “apologizing for American sins.”
Obama is a Muslim who is “waging a war on Christianity.”
Obama has “no leadership skills beyond community organizing.”
Obama is not an American but a Kenyan therefore was illegally elected as only US born citizens are eligible to be elected president.
Obama “wants to control everyone’s lives by telling them what to do, how and when” mara Obama “wants a big government controlling all aspects of people’s lives.”
Obama is the “Food-Stamp president”—which is code for Obama takes and gives black people money to buy groceries.
Common sense will tell you one cannot be all these things, let alone any of them and survive as president for even one day.
Yet, Republicans led by their Right Wing media have been peddling these lies day in and day out some of the unwary and uninitiated have come actually come to believe some of these as being fact, when it’s all lies.
Every single one of them.
Fortunately for Obama, even as these Republicans are pulsating and can’t wait to vote against Obama, they are engulfed in one of the worst primary nomination such that whoever emerges as their flag-bearer will be so wounded as to be any effective at all campaigning against Raila with the end result being the opposite of what was feared even in deep Democratic circles and that is imminent defeat of Obama at the general election; the fortunes have turned thanks in part with the dogged obsession with denying Obama victory and forgetting little details as nominating a person who can, in fact, defeat him.
Uhuru and Ruto have borrowed from the same Republican Playbook and will likely face the same defeat at the polls for you simply can’t be against a person; you also must be for something and none of these individuals determined to “stop” Raila has articulated a single reason why they are against a Raila presidency or if they have inarticulately mumbled something, it has not and cannot make sense why either or any of them is better than Raila in doing whatever that is.
At least Raila has proven he can do what he says he wishes to do if Kenyans give him the nod and he is, in fact, sworn this time around as president.
Yet, like their Republican mentors here in the US, Uhuru and Ruto are taking Kenyan politics to the height of lies, hypocrisy, distortions and innuendo unlike anything we have seen in the country.
First, it was Ruto going solo in his crusade against Raila and the Mau Forest lies not a single person believes anymore, which may in history mark the turning point for Ruto’s continued downward spiral politically and Raila’s continued upswing in his prospects for reelection as president.
See Who Is William Ruto Part VI; The Succession Game And Why The Scheme To Topple Raila Failed.
Second, Uhuru and Ruto have now joined hands in their desperate lies that Raila is responsible for their woes with ICC in efforts to confuse and mislead “their people,” not the duo’s conduct the ICC Chief Prosecutor has alleged and now stand confirmed by the Pre-Trial Chamber, which they must answer and convincingly so to avoid conviction and long jail times.
Third, a group of equally shameless politicians, led by many MPs who really don’t care about truth or facts, is helping these two spread the lies and distortions in the guise of offering “prayers.”
God is a very forgiving and urges us all to pray and seek forgiveness at all times and He will readily forgive.
However, even He must on occasion LOL wondering if people have not taken the concept of impunity too far by believing they can make a mockery of this noble notion and directive from Him with impunity.
It would be wise if these characters sought true redemption for their actions and seek true God’s intervention in their lives so they can act and do things in accordance to His will, not pretend to seek his protection while at the same time laying the foundation for hate and division He would not allow again for the prayers of true believers with good intentions who are the majority will always be answered over those offered with ill-motive in the minority.
Here is one little fact these two seem to either know and pretend they don’t know or genuinely don’t know in which case they would need a prayer:
Neither needs a prayer for what they face at the Hague; they just need good lawyers with a solid defense for what they stand accused.
They don’t need God for that because He is stepping back on this one as he always does in similar circumstances until people seek true redemption and forgiveness.
Raila top, Uhuru surges in new poll
By Nation Reporter
Posted Monday, April 9 2012 at 12:31
rime Minister Raila Odinga’s remains the candidate to beat in the presidential race according to a new opinion survey, which also placed him ahead of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta in a potential run-off election.
According to the poll, Mr Odinga would garner 53 per cent of the vote in a potential run-off against Mr Kenyatta’s 47 per cent.
The ratings of both Mr Odinga and Mr Kenyatta also surged minimally according the survey released Monday by Infotrak.
Mr Odinga’s popularity rose to 42 per cent while Mr Kenyatta polled at 22 per cent. Both candidates registered a four percent rise in their ratings.
Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka polled at 9 per cent, Martha Karua 5 per cent, Willam Ruto 5 per cent and Musalia Mudavadi 5 per cent.
Mr Odinga’s strongholds include Nyanza (81%), Coast (67%), Western (62%), North Eastern (61%) and Nairobi (50%).
Uhuru Kenyatta is the most popular presidential candidate in central province at 61% while Kalonzo Musyoka’s stronghold is Eastern province at 43%.
Rift Valley region seems to accommodate all presidential hopefuls with Raila Odinga, William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta being the main contenders at 37%, 26% and 21% respectively.
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) remain the most popular political party at 54 per cent, Party of National Unity (PNU) second at 22 per cent and Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) third at 7 per cent.
ODM’s strongholds include: Nyanza (84%), Western (79%), Coast (70%) and North Eastern regions (59%).
The Party of National Unity is the most popular political party in central province at 50%.
Wiper Democratic Movement’s stronghold is Eastern province at 34%.
91 per cent of the respondents involved in the survey said they intend to vote in the next general elections.
Majority of those who indicated their intention to vote in the forthcoming general elections were mainly from 26 years to 45 years.
Lack of faith in political leadership (29%) coupled with lack of identity cards (28%) came out as the main reasons as to why seven percent of Kenyans do not intend to participate in the forthcoming general elections.
‘Raila tosha’ appeal by ODM ignites talk of political debts
By Juma Kwayera
Orange Democratic Movement party’s call on President Kibaki to back Prime Minister Raila Odinga in the coming Presidential elections could reintroduce the debate on betrayal in local politics.
Analysts say the move opened old, wounds and helped stoke further, debate on politics of betrayal, with more should be expected as the country engages a higher elections gear.
While it was not the first time the President was being reminded of the goodwill voters in Western Kenya demonstrated when they overwhelmingly voted for him to oust independence party Kanu from power in 2002, political analysts say it was the first time he was being told to his face to “integrate the Mt Kenya region with the rest of the country”.
The pressure by ODM MPs may have been devoid of the kind of hostility and vitriol against Kibaki that was witnessed during the swearing in of MPs in 2008 in Parliament, but they left little to the imagination as they asked Kibaki to return the ‘tosha’ favour. It reminded the country that betrayal is in season.
Political commentators say Kenyan politics is a catalogue of betrayal inspired by personal interests and ethnicity. They argue the personality-centred politics has certainly raised the heat a notch higher as betrayal takes central theme in the build up to election campaigns.
Gripe against PNU
Without exception every major political player is accusing another of betrayal, the crudest allegations being levelled to the groups that gravitate around G7 Alliance against their toughest competitor — the ODM. The latter, too, have their gripe against the Kibaki and allies, some who since have moved to G7 Alliance and other PNU affiliates.
Former Bahari MP Joe Khamisi, who has documented memoirs that cover his tenure in Parliament, says betrayal is a lingering ingredient of Kenyan politics with devastating consequences.
“What the ODM MPs were doing was natural. Raila took the gamble and rallied his supporters behind Kibaki at a time when opposition was in a dilemma over who to pick to run against the Kanu candidate. However, ever since Uhuru Kenyatta, as opposition leader, supported Kibaki against the wishes of his party, the President has been building him to be his successor. It behooves the people of Central Kenya to ask Kibaki to support Raila for the sake of national unity,” Khamisi, author of The Politics of Betrayal.
Democratic history
Lands Minister James Orengo went beyond the 2002 ‘Kibaki Tosha’ rallying call and explained how Raila’s father, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, declined to take up the mantle of leadership from the colonial power until Jomo Kenyatta was released from detention. Upon his ascending to power, Kenyatta turned against Jaramogi, whom he threw out of Government and subjected him to detention without trial.
In addition, regions that are sympathetic to Jaramogi were alienated and denied development resources.
A run down in the country’s short but eventful democratic history is replete with betrayal. Despite former President Moi having buried the hatch with Raila over the latter’s move out of Kanu, he has not forgiven him for ‘betrayal’. Raila trooped out of Kanu with influential MPs, a move that greatly affected the strength of the former ruling party since 2002.
Then Raila claimed the former President had betrayed him by handpicking Uhuru to be the party’s Presidential candidate, despite an earlier agreement to back him (Raila). Moi had convinced Raila to merge his National Development Party (NDP) with Kanu only for Moi to ‘nominate’ Uhuru.
It is in the vein that former Finance Minister Simeon Nyachae has been reluctant to endorse Raila to pay him back in the same coin after Raila allegedly went against a pact they had entered that Nyachae would lead the opposition charge against Kanu, only for Raila to endorse Kibaki at a Uhuru Park political rally.
Regular political commentator and former Subukia MP Koigi Wamwere, referring to the Friday incident in Kisumu and others in the past, says, “Right from independence, Kenyan politics is not structured as competition of ideas but takes the form of war.”
“We treat politics as we do war — the end must be defeat. Triumph is part of defeat. Humiliation of the opponent is the motivating factor. In Kisumu, ODM MPs went to the extent of genuflecting. Kibaki’s cold reaction portrayed him as though he was regaling in his opponent’s total submission,” observes Wamwere, a former political detainee.
Memories of how political leaders betray each other in brazen quest for power, the latest round being a plea by ODM leaders to the President to back the premier to succeed him when he retires at the end of his (Kibaki’s) second term, later this year.
As the country heads into arguably the toughest election ever — thanks to the new Constitution — a predictable phenomenon is already taking shape as fresh alliances are formed and old ones collapse to underline the fragility of ideology, and the accentuation of short-term interests that frequently explode into inter-ethnic tensions.
Electoral cycles
Political Science lecturer Amukowa Anangwe links this to “political adulteration” where principles and ethnics are second to the ultimate prize.
“In man-eat-man society, betrayal and corruption are the social underpinnings of political adulteration,” says Dr Anangwe.
Although the perceptions of betrayal are not entirely new, every election cycle comes with its own peculiarities, where even strange bedfellows cut deals to rise to power and Wamwere says the Kibaki succession is no different.
“It is sad that President Kibaki can be reminded of a debt he owes Raila. It is even worse that we can plead with the President to recognise a nationalist like Raila’s father by naming a symbol like an airport after him. Political betrayal in Kenya is governed by an absence of trust and reciprocity, which is why elections and political systems are not determined by structures but individualism,” Wamwere points out.
Virtually all the big hitters in Kenyan politics have in the past been accused of betrayal, the most recent lament being when Kibaki ignored a memorandum of understanding with Raila in the lead up to the 2002 in which they were united against the Kanu Presidential candidate Uhuru.
Unrequited favours
The betrayal debate took centre stage on Friday during the official commissioning of the Kisumu International Airport during which MPs from either side of the divide spoke about the unrequited favours and trust that occasionally tip the country over the edge at every election cycle.
Party of National Unity (PNU) MP for Lari David Njuguna kicked off the debate when he asked the President to back the PM in appreciation of the role the latter played to hoist him (Kibaki) to the helm of the country’s leadership. Njuguna said had it not been Raila, Kibaki would never have been President of Kenya.
Uhuru and Ruto have made a bad move how Do you appeal to the same court that found you with mass rape , abduction, mass movement of a people BY FORCE and as per Kaul abstention ” serious crimes”
I know NO 101 laws for dummies but this is a poor move by UK and Ruto legal teams they are just buying time to nowhere instead they might end up getting a very hostile bench .
If they were careful and valued their time and future they would have thrown caution to the wind and prepared for their defence in the case proper otherwise they are just wasting their money , they would have better saved it for their grand children.
Why do i say so , the ICTR case for Rwanda has been ongoing for not less than 15 years now and after the 15 years we have been seeing life and not less than 15 years conviction so what are UK and Ruto chances , they appeal appeal takes 2 and half years , case proper 5 years , conviction 20 years this is a total of 27 years , uhuru is 50 years plus 27 imagine Uhuru free after 77 years , Ruto 45 plus 27 years imagine him at 72 walking out of a malian jail , what a waste of life .
Guys this is the reality , so tell this guys to just go slow the reality will be very bitter. A wasted 27 years hustling between nairobi and the hague , pocket wise hakuna pesa , the president by then would be some obscure guy unknown to this dot-com generation , who knows nothing about PEV, second liberation or some odm AND pnu SHENANIGANS . UK AND RUTO BE REAL ; CHEST THUMPING WILL TAKE YOU NOWHERE
This Is Kibaki Tosha Kenya Look at this Mother Impregnated by Kenyas Mating bulls and leaving her with fatherless kids>A prove how Kenya African lacks brain>
OBAMA IS ALSO CHANGING THE TONE >USA & EU CANNOT START ANOTHER WAR IN SYRIA AND IRAN AND EXPECT TO WIN >SUCH A WAR WILL SINK BOTH USA AND EU DEEP IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN>http://www.presstv.ir/detail/225191.html
It is a well known historical fact that Jaramogi Odinga spearheaded the release of Kenyatta from detention. When the white settlers described Kenyatta as “a leader to darkness and death,” Odinga responded by saying that Kenyatta was our only true leader and that he was second only to God! And just as Raila’s most famous phrase was “Kibaki tosha!” Jaramogi’s most famous phrase was “No Kenyatta, no Uhuru!”
Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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The Hague changes the game
The ICC is forcing the elite to rethink the old certainties of ethnic politics and redraw the battle lines
By approving the indictment of four very important people, the International Criminal Court has begun to unravel Kenya’s ruling networks of ethnic patronage. This is happening just as a new constitution gives liberal activists and old reformist politicians the muscle they lacked. President Mwai Kibaki ignored calls from civil society groups for the resignations of two ICC indictees: the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, 50, and the head of the civil service, Francis Kirimi Muthaura, 65. William Ruto and Joshua arap Sang are the other two indictees. All four are charged with crimes against humanity, murder, forcible deportation and persecution
GEMA CHAUVINISM >THIS MP HIS HOME TORCHED ,CARS TOLRCHED ,COWS MAIMED FOR SUPPORTING A LUO (RAILA>
CORRUPTION /CORRUPTION WITHOUT AN END >HERE KACC (CORRUPT POLICE )ARRESTING KIBAKIS-GEMA corrupt traffic policemen/women>
He said Kibaki tosha coz i thnk he was a fool enough.
THEY BURNED MY CAR AND POISONED MY COWS FOR SUPPORTING JALUO RAILA OGINGA>
Ruto seeks out-of-court settlement
By EVELYN KWAMBOKA
Eldoret North MP William Ruto now wants an out-of-court settlement for a case in which he is accused of illegally acquiring land after post-election violence.
The MP’s lawyer Katwa Kigen Wednesday told the court that he had agreed with parties in the matter to meet and explore possibilities to settle the issue.
High Court judge Rose Ougo ordered that the case be mentioned on March 5 and asked parties to comply with what they will agree on.
The Attorney General’s office asked the court to allow it file witness statements received from Lands Ministry in relation to the suit property.
Mr Adrian Muteshi claims Ruto illegally acquired his piece of land, Kaptabei Scheme, Uasin Gishu after the 2008 post-election violence.
Muteshi told the court in his evidence-in-chief last year that six workers at his 100-acre farm in Kaptabei Scheme, Uasin Gishu, were kicked out of the property in 2008 and have been unable to return.
“I went near the farm after post-election violence and was informed that Ruto had taken over the land,” he told the court.
Muteshi’s efforts to conduct a search on whether ownership of the property had changed were unsuccessful and he wrote to the Commissioner of Lands, asking him to intervene.
“Ruto is feared in Eldoret and nobody was willing to give me information, fearing for their lives,” he told the court.
On June 8, 2010, the district lands registrar wrote to the commissioner explaining that the land was under the name of Ms Dorothy Yator.
Yator allegedly sold the property to Ruto. But Muteshi said he had never changed the property’s title to secure money loaned to the woman by the settlement trustee.
He had identified the piece of land that previously belonged to a white settler and made an application to the then Lands Minister Jackson Angaine, seeking his approval to buy it.
His application was approved on October 3, 1968 and after paying the required amount plus some money for development, he acquired the land.
KIKUYU GEMA >MWIVI AMEKAMATWA DELETING AND INSERTING THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION>>
The crooks who tried to amend the constitution after it was sent to the printer are at work again. This time they have removed words from the Devolution Bill submitted to CIC to make the governors be subservient to the president.
We have said before that those who believe in presidential supremacy and who want to subvert the new constitution to give the president unfettered powers to run the counties as they choose will have to be fought to their political graves. They have reared their ugly heads again. They have to be stopped. Again. And they will be stopped.
Here is what I am talking about:
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There they go again! Damn this country!!!
PRESS STATEMENT FROM NYANZA COUNCIL OF CHURCH LEADERS
COMPRISING OF 200 CHURCH DENOMINATIONS, DO ACT ON
HON. WILLIAM KABOGO’S STATEMENT ON STAR NEWS PAPER SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
WE as the Church Leaders in Western Kenya, Do condemn in strongest terms the outdated tribalism outburst from HON. WILLIAM KABOGO – JUJA MP using a Kikuyu adage, to attack RT. HON. RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA, he cautioned the Voters saying that “If Leadership is taken to Nyanza, they should be prepared to be visiting Nairobi holding their identity Cards with their mouths”.
Hon. William Kabogo has not read the Political History of Kenya, Hon. William Kabogo should know that when Colonial Government restricted Kikuyu Community not to step their foot in Nairobi in 1957 – 1960, it was the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, late Tom Mboya and the late Argwings Kodhek, are the people who liberated Kikuyu Community and removed the plate identification that were given to Kikuyu Community.
In the present Kenya with the New Constitution, that our Leaders H.E. HON. MWAI KIBAKI AND RT. HON. RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA spearheaded, and now we have a New Constitution.
WE don’t need Political Tribal inciters; we are in a new Kenya, let us use the language Kenya, NOT KIKUYU, LUO, KISII, LUHYA, KALENJIN, KAMBA, MASAI, GIRIAMA, DIGO OR SOMALIA, let us bury the language of OUR OWN. We want a Kenya where people can live as brothers and sisters.
In Nyanza we have all business Kenyan Communities with Kikuyu being the majority, and we have no problem with them.
Let us choose and vote for a leader who is a reformist, who can unite Kenyans and take Kenya to a New Level of prosperity.
God bless Kenya.
Signed By: –
BISHOP DR WASHINGTON OGONYO NGEDE. H.S.C.
CHAIRMAN: – NYANZA COUNCIL OF CHURCH LEADERS
Dear All,
I suspect that many of you do not have a clear understanding why a rigged election could produce such violence as burning women and children alive in a church. This email is to give a brief historical background of why Kenya has so seemingly suddenly erupted into ethnic violence.
The British colonized Kenya early in the 20th Century. The nature of colonialism was total control from a strong center. In the case of Kenya, there were British settlers, few in actual numbers, but each controlling large estates. To run these estates and the comfortable life that they wished, they needed lots of labor, the cheaper the better. So the colonial Government put a tax on each adult male where he had to work six months per year to pay the tax which was then used for the benefit of the settlers. The settlers were harsh and cruel to their African laborers.
The Kikuyu homeland is on the slopes of Mount Kenya. The amount of land they had was small for the population and consequently many of them were forced onto the settler’s estates to work for them. But the Kikuyu, as everyone admits, are a very industrious, hard-working people who early on saw the benefits of education. Others became the low-level functionaries that any Government needs.
During the WWII many young men were drafted into the British army (my father-in-law was in Malawi and Burma!) and served wherever needed. Their eyes were opened by what they saw and when they returned to Kenya after the war, they found that they were given the same menial, low-paying dead end work. By the early 1950’s this dissatisfaction gave rise to a protest movement called “Mau Mau.” This was mostly amoung the Kikuyu. They forced people to take an oath to oppose the British rule. Perhaps 90% of the Kikuyu in Central Province on Mount Kenya took the oath, willingly and unwillingly. The remaining 10% were the loyalists who worked for the British colonial Government. Although Jomo Kenyatta was jailed as a Mau Mau leader, they soon realized that he was really a loyalist–his son, Peter Kenyatta, with Jomo Kenyatta’s blessing, was one of the leaders of the loyalists. Kenyatta was separated from the other Mau Mau leaders.
The surpression of Mau Mau was brutal in extreme. Percentagewise more people died during the surpression of Mau Mau during the 1950’s than during the 1994 Rwandan genocide–torture was prevalent, women and children were put into concentration camps with little food and medical care. Large numbers died. No one should be under the illusion that the British were “better” colonialists than the Germans or Belgians. The technique the British used here was to deny everything with massive cover-ups. Much of this history is only now being uncovered.
During this same time, the British implemented land consolidation in Central Province. The result was that the loyalists received nice, large land holdings at the expense of the Mau Mau people who were in jail. When they returned they found that their land was lost with only small fragments unable to support their families. They were forced either to work for the Kikuyu loyalists or to emigrate to other parts of Kenya which were not so heavily populated–in particular many went to the Rift Valley province.
Some of the most successful loyalists went into business, using the dispossessed Kikuyu to do the labor that they needed. In particular, the Kikuyu many times replaced Indian shopkeepers in small towns and villages. As I will discuss below, many more became the conductors and drivers of the matatus (mini-buses) that dominate Kenya land travel. By now some of these businessmen have become tycoons.
The British, at the time of independence in 1963, handed the Government to their loyalist supporters. The Kikuyu business tycoons and the Kikuyu political establishment formed a strong bond during the Kenyatta presidency. When Moi, a Kalenjin, took over on Kenyatta’s death, he quickly made a deal with the Kikuyu establishment that he would not bother their businesses and they agreed to let him on the Kenyan gravey train, which included gigantic corruption and looting of Government funds. Kibaki was at one time part of both the Kenyatta and Moi Governments.
When people, including the Kikuyu elite got tired of Moi, they tried to replace him. In 1992 and 1997 Moi divided and conquered the oppostion.
One of the techniques Moi used was to promote violence in his homeland of Rift Valley. In 1992 perhaps 1000 Luo, Luhya, and Kikuyu were killed by the Kalenjins and more than 100,000 were made homeless (including Malesi Kinaro). As with the British rule, the Government closed the Rift Valley province to everyone and little is known of the details. When it was over, everything was publicly covered up, but eveyone is still very tense. As we can learn from the developments that led to the Rwandan genocide, each cycle of violence increases over the previous one. I have no doubt that this is why the people were burned in the church in Rift Valley rather than elsewhere.
But in 2002 Moi was now too old for another term and he selected Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru Kenyatta, to run for the presidency. The opposition this time decided not to become divided, but united under Kibaki and soundly defeated Uhuru Kenyatta. At this point Kibaki had the opportunity to bring all Kenyans together as a real nation, but he soon dropped all the non-Kikuyu who had helped him into office and the controlling clique became a group of Kikuyu politicians and businessmen. So in 2007, the others (Luo, Luhya, and Kalenjin) who felt betrayed by Kibaki, joined together in the ODM (Orange Democratic Movement) to oppose Kibaki. A Kamba, Musyoka, stayed out of the coalition and formed his own party–ODM-Kenya.
To summarize, since independence the Kikuyu have directly or indirectly controlled the Government and decided control Kenya business. Through this time, they continued and promoted the centralized system of Government given to them by the British. The President was all powerful, as he controlled the executive, legislative and judicial branches of Government. It was a hybrid presidental and parliamentary system with President being all powerful. The election campaign revolved around “devolvement” meaning decentrializing. Naturally Kibaki and the Kikuyu opposed this since this meant giving up their power to the periphery.
Let us return to the matatu business. There are 80,000 matatus on Kenyan roads, most of which are owned and opperated by Kikuyu. I estimate (I sit a lot in the matatus and have ample time to analyze the business) that a matatu has an income of $100,000 per year. This works out to over $200 per year per person in Kenya. The conductor rents the vehicle with driver for the day and keeps whatever is left over at the end of the day. So he has to push and push to make sure that he doesn’t actually lose money.
The relationship between the conductor who is always trying to increase the price of the ride, stuff more people into the vehicle, and drive faster leads to amazing antagonism. There is no customer service, but customer dis-service. The riders continually believe that they are being abused and taken advantage of. This happens almost every time one gets into a matatu.
So it is payback time. It is amazing how only Kikuyu shops and homes were burned and everyone else left intact. Those at the bottom are taking it out on those whom they feel are on top. They have no contact with the Kikuyu tycoons and politicians and so they are taking the pent-up rage of forty-four years of independence out on the average Kikuyu in their community. The Kikuyu are then retaliating by killing the other ethnic groups that happen to live in their communities. This also explains why Kibaki (read the Kikuyu elite) wished to stay in power by rigging the election–they will be the losers. At stake here is continuing with the status quo with the Kikuyu on top or changing the essential nature of the Government so that everyone has its piece (but will the Kikuyu be allowed their fair share or will they be punished).
Malesi Kinaro will want me to throw in another part of the mix. With the large population increase in the past, there are many youth. Many of these have been educated to the secondary level or even above and then they are left with nothing to do, alienated from Kenyan society. These are the shock troops of the rioters and looters. They see no future so they can easily be turned to violence. This is the tinder and the spark was the annoucement that Kibaki won what everyone in western Kenya considers a rigged election. The youth waited until the result was announced on the radio and then immediately attacked matatus (I saw the plumes of 8 burning matatus), Kikuyu shops and homes, and then the Kikuyu themselves.
Hope this helps you to understand the situation some.
Peace,
Dave
David Zarembka, Coordinator
African Great Lakes Initiative/ Friends Peace Teams Box 189, Kipkarren River 50241 Kenya–phone 011 254 726 590 783 Office in US–1001 Park Avenue, St Louis, MO 63104–phone 314/621-7262
Here comes Perhaps(Probably)the only Kikuyu with brain(who thinks Kenya Politics need to be changed)>
Capital Talk_Ngunjiri Wambugu Part.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWkHt4ZOrhk&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTrpeeXDZpQ&feature=player_embedded
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KIBAKI POLICE COMMITS SUICIDE>
OCAMPO (4) Four Stop Burning Poor Peoples Assets>
Uhuru Dirty tac tics Only to Lie to Wananchi He will Compensa
It is really sad to see my fellow Kikuyus in Parliament today without anything to say regarding the exchange between Raila Odinga and William Ruto.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that what Raila was saying, about the lack of prayers for the IDPs, was completely true.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that Ruto does not care about the victims who died and those who got displaced. In fact, he is directly accused of having caused their deaths and displacement.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that the Kikuyus and other non-Kalenjin tribes in the Rift Valley are still vulnerable if people like Ruto are not punished.
Any Kenyan with a conscience knows that in order for Ruto to stand up in Parliament, and yell at Raila, despite being indicted by an international court, is only due to the fact that others stood up to the horrors of the Moi dictatorship. It was others who fought for the right to have multiparty politics while Ruto was fighting against them in Youth for Kanu.
But Kikuyus cannot stand up to this hypocrite because they are themselves compromised due to their support for Uhuru. Yes, Kenyatta’s son is himself accused by the same international court of crimes against humanity. This is the price being paid for Uhuru’s decision, after the 2007 elections, that two wrongs make a right. A very serious mistake. Kikuyus should not have stood by him, despite the shock of the Kalenjin killers in the Rift Valley.
Show me a Kikuyu proberb that justifies what Uhuru did.
So now it is left to Raila to stand up for the IDPs. Isn’t that ironic? Where is Mwai Kibaki? Where is John Michuki? Where is Kiraitu Murungi? Where is Njenga Karume? They are all compromised? What is worse, they want future generations of Kenyans to pay for their mistakes. Make no mistake, when things like the post-election killings and displacement take place and no one is punished, enmity is passed on to the next generation. We only need to look at the assassination of Tom Mboya, J.M. Kariuki and others. Furthermore, it is not the elites that suffer. It is the ordinary folks such as those Kikuyus who perished in the Church fire in Eldoret or the Luos who were hacked in Naivasha.
Finally, it is a well-known fact that people of Kibaki’s generation, when among fellow Kikuyus, love to stress the importance of circumcision. It makes one a “grown-up.” It makes one to think in a “mature way.” I heard this a lot, especially when I was a boy and had not yet faced the knife.
My question: Today, who was the mwanake or njamba in Parliament? Was it not the honorable member from Langata? I think you know what I’m getting at.
Raila maintains lead in new opinion poll
By Vitalis Kimutai
A new opinion poll shows Prime Minister Raila Odinga is still the preferred presidential aspirant.
Raila enjoys 39.50 per cent support among the voters nationally, according to the poll conducted by PollKenya, which was released Friday at a Nairobi hotel.
Deputy Prime Minister and Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta trails Raila at 26.80 per cent, according to the results. Eldoret North MP William Ruto, the de facto United Republican Party (URP) leader, is ranked third in the poll at 17.10 per cent.
Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka performed dismally, with only 6.50 per cent. Gichugu MP Martha Karua garnered 4.40 per cent, while Assistant Minister Peter Kenneth has 1.40 per cent.
Other presidential hopefuls – Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, former Cabinet Minister Raphael Tuju and Gachoga MP Mutava Musyimi were not captured.
Mr Sammy Karoney, a director at Eskay Communications, which owns the research company, said the poll was conducted using interactive system that allows direct data capture.
AMERICANS HATE DESEASE HAS INFECTED KENYANS (RULING CLASS)HATE AND ZENOPHOBIA>
That will be a first and if the two altogether abandon their recent modi operandi and declared strategy for 2012, we shall all welcome it and let the candidates face off on account of ideas they have for the country and may the one who makes the more convincing case be elected in an open and transparent elections.
While we await the confirmation of such a dramatic shift in strategy, here is what we know: What Republicans In the US Have In Common With Uhuru and Ruto http://omwenga.com/2012/02/19/what-repub….have-in-common/
Republicans almost to a man and woman over the age of 18 are obsessed with one and only one thing in 2012: to defeat President Barrack Obama in his bid for reelection but ask each individually reasons why, they will parrot what their leading loudmouths and opinion shapers are saying with few exceptions and definitely without any depth of understanding or knowledge of the nonsense they offer as reasons:
Obama has “destroyed” the economy.
Obama “hates” America
Obama is “brainwashed by Rev. Wright’s teaching,” which is offered as one of the reasons he “hates” America.
Obama is a socialist who wants to convert America to “European style socialist state” mara to “Greece.”
Obama is an “apologist” who “goes around bowing to Muslim countries” and “apologizing for American sins.”
Obama is a Muslim who is “waging a war on Christianity.”
Obama has “no leadership skills beyond community organizing.”
Obama is not an American but a Kenyan therefore was illegally elected as only US born citizens are eligible to be elected president.
Obama “wants to control everyone’s lives by telling them what to do, how and when” mara Obama “wants a big government controlling all aspects of people’s lives.”
Obama is the “Food-Stamp president”—which is code for Obama takes and gives black people money to buy groceries.
Common sense will tell you one cannot be all these things, let alone any of them and survive as president for even one day.
Yet, Republicans led by their Right Wing media have been peddling these lies day in and day out some of the unwary and uninitiated have come actually come to believe some of these as being fact, when it’s all lies.
Every single one of them.
Fortunately for Obama, even as these Republicans are pulsating and can’t wait to vote against Obama, they are engulfed in one of the worst primary nomination such that whoever emerges as their flag-bearer will be so wounded as to be any effective at all campaigning against Raila with the end result being the opposite of what was feared even in deep Democratic circles and that is imminent defeat of Obama at the general election; the fortunes have turned thanks in part with the dogged obsession with denying Obama victory and forgetting little details as nominating a person who can, in fact, defeat him.
Uhuru and Ruto have borrowed from the same Republican Playbook and will likely face the same defeat at the polls for you simply can’t be against a person; you also must be for something and none of these individuals determined to “stop” Raila has articulated a single reason why they are against a Raila presidency or if they have inarticulately mumbled something, it has not and cannot make sense why either or any of them is better than Raila in doing whatever that is.
At least Raila has proven he can do what he says he wishes to do if Kenyans give him the nod and he is, in fact, sworn this time around as president.
Yet, like their Republican mentors here in the US, Uhuru and Ruto are taking Kenyan politics to the height of lies, hypocrisy, distortions and innuendo unlike anything we have seen in the country.
First, it was Ruto going solo in his crusade against Raila and the Mau Forest lies not a single person believes anymore, which may in history mark the turning point for Ruto’s continued downward spiral politically and Raila’s continued upswing in his prospects for reelection as president.
See Who Is William Ruto Part VI; The Succession Game And Why The Scheme To Topple Raila Failed.
Second, Uhuru and Ruto have now joined hands in their desperate lies that Raila is responsible for their woes with ICC in efforts to confuse and mislead “their people,” not the duo’s conduct the ICC Chief Prosecutor has alleged and now stand confirmed by the Pre-Trial Chamber, which they must answer and convincingly so to avoid conviction and long jail times.
Third, a group of equally shameless politicians, led by many MPs who really don’t care about truth or facts, is helping these two spread the lies and distortions in the guise of offering “prayers.”
God is a very forgiving and urges us all to pray and seek forgiveness at all times and He will readily forgive.
However, even He must on occasion LOL wondering if people have not taken the concept of impunity too far by believing they can make a mockery of this noble notion and directive from Him with impunity.
It would be wise if these characters sought true redemption for their actions and seek true God’s intervention in their lives so they can act and do things in accordance to His will, not pretend to seek his protection while at the same time laying the foundation for hate and division He would not allow again for the prayers of true believers with good intentions who are the majority will always be answered over those offered with ill-motive in the minority.
Here is one little fact these two seem to either know and pretend they don’t know or genuinely don’t know in which case they would need a prayer:
Neither needs a prayer for what they face at the Hague; they just need good lawyers with a solid defense for what they stand accused.
They don’t need God for that because He is stepping back on this one as he always does in similar circumstances until people seek true redemption and forgiveness.
Raila top, Uhuru surges in new poll
By Nation Reporter
Posted Monday, April 9 2012 at 12:31
rime Minister Raila Odinga’s remains the candidate to beat in the presidential race according to a new opinion survey, which also placed him ahead of Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta in a potential run-off election.
According to the poll, Mr Odinga would garner 53 per cent of the vote in a potential run-off against Mr Kenyatta’s 47 per cent.
The ratings of both Mr Odinga and Mr Kenyatta also surged minimally according the survey released Monday by Infotrak.
Mr Odinga’s popularity rose to 42 per cent while Mr Kenyatta polled at 22 per cent. Both candidates registered a four percent rise in their ratings.
Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka polled at 9 per cent, Martha Karua 5 per cent, Willam Ruto 5 per cent and Musalia Mudavadi 5 per cent.
Mr Odinga’s strongholds include Nyanza (81%), Coast (67%), Western (62%), North Eastern (61%) and Nairobi (50%).
Uhuru Kenyatta is the most popular presidential candidate in central province at 61% while Kalonzo Musyoka’s stronghold is Eastern province at 43%.
Rift Valley region seems to accommodate all presidential hopefuls with Raila Odinga, William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta being the main contenders at 37%, 26% and 21% respectively.
Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) remain the most popular political party at 54 per cent, Party of National Unity (PNU) second at 22 per cent and Wiper Democratic Movement (WDM) third at 7 per cent.
ODM’s strongholds include: Nyanza (84%), Western (79%), Coast (70%) and North Eastern regions (59%).
The Party of National Unity is the most popular political party in central province at 50%.
Wiper Democratic Movement’s stronghold is Eastern province at 34%.
91 per cent of the respondents involved in the survey said they intend to vote in the next general elections.
Majority of those who indicated their intention to vote in the forthcoming general elections were mainly from 26 years to 45 years.
Lack of faith in political leadership (29%) coupled with lack of identity cards (28%) came out as the main reasons as to why seven percent of Kenyans do not intend to participate in the forthcoming general elections.