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By Kibaki extending his term in office plus 210 mps will be a burden to tax payers he should leave the office as per the constitution ogether with the mps
In this Video The Officers from Primitive tribes are fearing Kikuyu Officers Like Maina their master!
Why are these Officers from Primitive tribes not stopping such a heinous Crime and Degradation of a Turkana boy?
The Whole Platoon Must Be Fired both Officers beating the Boy And those onlookers
GSU Officers are the Most Nuts of Men in Uniform whose brains is distorted ,they are beasts,cruel ,barbarians and atavists.
Their Officers education is 8X4X4 failures and its hardly to find an educated gsu thug.
11 April 2012 Last updated at 20:11 GMT
Algeria’s first president Ahmed Ben Bella dies
The first president of independent Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, has died at his home in Algiers following an illness, official media say.
Mr Ben Bella, who was 95, had recently been treated in hospital for respiratory problems.
Mr Ben Bella led Algeria to independence from France before becoming president in 1963.
He ruled Algeria as head of a one-party state but three years later was overthrown by the head of the army.
The BBC’s Chloe Arnold, in Algiers, says that while Mr Ben Bella’s policies were controversial, he was widely respected for his struggle against French rule.
In later years, our correspondent says, he became an advocate for democracy, rejecting the growing Islamist elements in Algerian society amid the bloody conflict between militants and security forces in the 1990s.
Revolutionary leader
Mr Ben Bella was born in a rural area near the Moroccan border in 1916, and fought with distinction with the Free French Forces in Italy during World War II and won five gallantry medals.
But he became disillusioned with French rule on his return to Algeria after the war, and was elected municipal councillor for the anti-colonialist “Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties.”
When the movement was declared illegal, Mr Ben Bella went underground.
Arrested in May 1951, he was interned but staged a dramatic escape two years later.
He fled to Cairo where he planned the 1954 uprising which began Algeria’s war of independence.
He was imprisoned by the French, but was the acknowledged head of the independence movement throughout the revolution.
After he was deposed he spent many years in prison, then under house arrest, and went into exile in Switzerland in 1980.
He was officially pardoned in 1990.
His death coincides with the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence.
Constitution facing tribal saboteurs – CJ Friday, 13 April 2012 23:53 BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
Chief justice Dr Willy Mutunga during a media briefing when he announced the establishment the new chief of staff in his office October last year.Photo/File
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga yesterday raised concerns that tribalism, nepotism and corruption are being used by saboteurs of new constitution. Mutunga expressed fears that the saboteurs may make Kenyans to enjoy the Bill of rights that is provided in the new constitution. He has called on judges to be in the forefront in ensuring the constitution is implemented and that it respond to the needs of the people and the nation’s interests.
While giving a speech at Albany Law School in New York, US, the CJ said there is stiff opposition to sections of the constitution that wants to turn Kenya into a human rights state and society.
“It is therefore not surprising that there is considerable internal and external resistance to the constitution from people who have a vested interest in bad old habits – tribalism, nepotism and corruption,” he said.
“This increases the responsibility of the judiciary to ensure the enforcement of the constitution, by developing the law where the Bill of Rights fails to give effect to a right or fundamental freedom.”
A section of politicians has come under criticism for their attempts to rebuild the Gikuyu, Embu Meru Association (Gema) and the Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu (Kamatusa). Critics say Gema and Kamatusa will raise ethnic tensions in the country.
There have also been claims that the two outfits are geared towards frustrating Kenya’s full cooperation with International Criminal Court. Four Kenyans – including top politicians Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto – are suspects before the ICC. Gema and Kamatusa are planning to collect more than five million signatures to have the ICC trials suspended until after the general election.
In his speech, Mutunga noted that Kenya “should be not only a user of international law, but a producer, shaper and developer” of it. The CJ added that the Supreme Court, which he heads as its President, will be a source of a new hope for Kenyans. “I would hope that the Supreme Court of my country will be the Supreme Court for Kenyans where the oppressed and bewildered will find justice,” he said.
KIKUYU WILL RULE OVER OTHER 41 COMATOSE (FOOLISH) TRIBES FOR EVER AND EVER HENCE JINGA-BRAINThose 24 years were a big chunk of our lives and the life of the nation.
We have never had a serious discussion of how we as a community made serious mistakes during the last years of Kenyatta. This is why we can now hold Gema meetings and get shocked that other tribes are fearful. I can definitely understand why non-Kikuyus are apprehensive about Gema.
We Kikuyus were really complicit in handing Moi State House. We have never publicly admitted this. Our so-called leaders mislead us in a very costly way. This is why we need to question them now instead of jumping onto the Uhuru Kenyatta bandwagon they have shrewdly constructed for us by manipulating tribal emotions.
Sometimes it is important for a member of a tribe to point out its mistakes. One will definitely get all kinds of names thrown at him from “traitor” to “Raila’s man” but this is a small price to pay. Criticism from a member of the tribe hits home in a different way than if it comes from another tribe.
Yes, that is the truth. Some of us have been through this crap too long to keep quiet.
Kenya: G-7 on the Verge of Collapse
By David Kimwele, 13 April 2012
The writing is on the wall for the enigmatic G7 Alliance that has defied all the odds since its faltering inception and grown to become a dominant force in the political arena.
The alliance which was founded in defiance to the Premier Raila Odiga and the ICC process is on the verge of a collapse that is likely to be a calamitous disintegration. For the longest time the alliance succeeded in staving off the sooner-than-expected breakup by fashioning itself as an alliance of peers. However, the politically savvy Deputy Premier Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto have edged out Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka to become the leading lights of the alliance.
The alliance which committed itself to fielding a single presidential candidate from within its ranks through a democratic process is going through a watershed moment. The search for its preferred presidential candidate has turned out to be a show of might between its two leading lights and what is emerging is that the nomination process will by default be based on the principle that ‘right is might’. Needless to say, the politically impotent Vice-President, Kalonzo Musyoka, who had hoped for a civil and democratic nomination process is a disillusioned man while the new Justice minister Eugene Wamalwa has cut his losses and is more than happy to settle for a plum ministerial position.
However, the battle for supremacy in the alliance pitting the Deputy Premier, a Kikuyu, against Ruto, a Kalenjin, both of whom are indicted on a number of charges for crimes against humanity emanating from the 2007/8 post-election violence portends a calamitous collapse for the alliance. It is not lost to Kenyans that the 2007/8 PEV pitted the Kalenjins who overwhelmingly supported the ODM against the Kikuyus who supported the PNU and at the ICC, the Deputy Premier is charged for organising the retaliatory attacks against the Kalenjin and other ODM supporters while Ruto is charged with masterminding the persecution and forceful eviction of Kikuyus from the Rift Valley.
It is a scary thought but the face-off between the Deputy Premier and Ruto has degenerated into a dangerous ethnic showdown between their warring communities. The first ethnic salvo came from the Deputy Premier who ambushed Ruto with his Gema forces which held a conference dubbed Limuru II in which Gema threw its weight behind him. In a tacit response Ruto hurriedly revived Kamatusa and marshalled it to counter the Gema onslaught. Unlike Gema which is a well-endowed and agile force, something which makes up for its lack of numbers, the Kamatusa has gritty determination and the numbers and with its huge sense of entitlement cannot pander to Uhuru’s Gema.
It is no secret that the Kikuyu in Gema and Kalenjin in Kamatusa represented in the G7 alliance by the Deputy Premier and Ruto respectively are mortal political enemies. The unity of the alliance accordingly does not depend on the multitude its members like to think it represents. G7 is an alliance of defiance against the ICC and the Premier whose unity is based on the concept of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ and it cannot be denied that there is method in the Uhuru-Ruto madness which they hope will forestall the ICC process and prevent Raila from ascending to the presidency.
Be that as it may, the dysfunctional nature of the G7 Alliance was simply incurable. It is a miracle that the alliance did not collapse earlier. Needless to say the state of affairs in the G7 Alliance did not augur well for national unity and the much needed healing and reconciliation that our nation desperately needs. Be that as it may, the alliance which only served to balkanise the nation by reviving the Gema and Kamatusa tribal outfits is as good as dead now.
There are those who will contend that the G7 is alive and well and if indeed that is the case then Gema, Kamatusa, and the G7 Alliance is the axis of evil in Kenya. Personally, I am convinced that the G7 alliance will fizzle out and in its place, the country will have to grapple with the Gema and Kamatusa political warring or the unlikely Gema-Kamatusa axis.
Gema and Kamatusa are loose tribal alliances guised as cultural associations and just like the G7 Alliance they are cliques that have mastered the art of usurping their positions of leadership to exploit and dominate the unsuspecting communities which they represent. The ploy that has been used by Gema to wrest power from its political competitors and to take advantage of their own people is by branding political competitors as enemies and portraying their communities as being unfair losers in the competition for the proverbial national cake.
Certainly, there is an element of truth in the Gema story but it is not the whole story. The Kalenjin have also been on the receiving end and the unprecedented violence meted out to the Kikuyu community in the Rift Valley in the 2007/8 PEV is testament of their frustration. It was therefore quite intriguing to hear that the Gema and Kamatusa plan to hold a joint conference to bury the hatchet. I am sceptical; I think the joint conference is an attempt to sanitise their image unless, of course, the joint conference settles on a single presidential candidate amicably and resolves to live harmoniously with other communities.
By Kibaki extending his term in office plus 210 mps will be a burden to tax payers he should leave the office as per the constitution ogether with the mps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=r_g5EYAVhfo&feature=endscreen
Why are Kenyans suffering in Silence? Are they waiting Kibaki to Die?
In this Video The Officers from Primitive tribes are fearing Kikuyu Officers Like Maina their master!
Why are these Officers from Primitive tribes not stopping such a heinous Crime and Degradation of a Turkana boy?
The Whole Platoon Must Be Fired both Officers beating the Boy And those onlookers
GSU Officers are the Most Nuts of Men in Uniform whose brains is distorted ,they are beasts,cruel ,barbarians and atavists.
Their Officers education is 8X4X4 failures and its hardly to find an educated gsu thug.
KIBAKI MUST RETYAIN POWER WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT >Kenyans You have forgotten!>
Kenya belongs to UK(britain )This time British will never leave Kenya !
Who is Authorizing British to buy Land In Laikipia?`
How many Kenyas Own Land in United Kingdom?
IS this not New -Colonialism ?http://www.nation.co.ke/News/The+new+Happy+Valley+Why+British+are+flocking+back+to+Laikipia+/-/1056/1382252/-/item/1/-/3gmwco/-/index.html
11 April 2012 Last updated at 20:11 GMT
Algeria’s first president Ahmed Ben Bella dies
The first president of independent Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, has died at his home in Algiers following an illness, official media say.
Mr Ben Bella, who was 95, had recently been treated in hospital for respiratory problems.
Mr Ben Bella led Algeria to independence from France before becoming president in 1963.
He ruled Algeria as head of a one-party state but three years later was overthrown by the head of the army.
The BBC’s Chloe Arnold, in Algiers, says that while Mr Ben Bella’s policies were controversial, he was widely respected for his struggle against French rule.
In later years, our correspondent says, he became an advocate for democracy, rejecting the growing Islamist elements in Algerian society amid the bloody conflict between militants and security forces in the 1990s.
Revolutionary leader
Mr Ben Bella was born in a rural area near the Moroccan border in 1916, and fought with distinction with the Free French Forces in Italy during World War II and won five gallantry medals.
But he became disillusioned with French rule on his return to Algeria after the war, and was elected municipal councillor for the anti-colonialist “Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties.”
When the movement was declared illegal, Mr Ben Bella went underground.
Arrested in May 1951, he was interned but staged a dramatic escape two years later.
He fled to Cairo where he planned the 1954 uprising which began Algeria’s war of independence.
He was imprisoned by the French, but was the acknowledged head of the independence movement throughout the revolution.
After he was deposed he spent many years in prison, then under house arrest, and went into exile in Switzerland in 1980.
He was officially pardoned in 1990.
His death coincides with the 50th anniversary of Algerian independence.
Constitution facing tribal saboteurs – CJ Friday, 13 April 2012 23:53 BY FRANCIS MUREITHI
Chief justice Dr Willy Mutunga during a media briefing when he announced the establishment the new chief of staff in his office October last year.Photo/File
Chief Justice Willy Mutunga yesterday raised concerns that tribalism, nepotism and corruption are being used by saboteurs of new constitution. Mutunga expressed fears that the saboteurs may make Kenyans to enjoy the Bill of rights that is provided in the new constitution. He has called on judges to be in the forefront in ensuring the constitution is implemented and that it respond to the needs of the people and the nation’s interests.
While giving a speech at Albany Law School in New York, US, the CJ said there is stiff opposition to sections of the constitution that wants to turn Kenya into a human rights state and society.
“It is therefore not surprising that there is considerable internal and external resistance to the constitution from people who have a vested interest in bad old habits – tribalism, nepotism and corruption,” he said.
“This increases the responsibility of the judiciary to ensure the enforcement of the constitution, by developing the law where the Bill of Rights fails to give effect to a right or fundamental freedom.”
A section of politicians has come under criticism for their attempts to rebuild the Gikuyu, Embu Meru Association (Gema) and the Kalenjin, Maasai, Turkana and Samburu (Kamatusa). Critics say Gema and Kamatusa will raise ethnic tensions in the country.
There have also been claims that the two outfits are geared towards frustrating Kenya’s full cooperation with International Criminal Court. Four Kenyans – including top politicians Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto – are suspects before the ICC. Gema and Kamatusa are planning to collect more than five million signatures to have the ICC trials suspended until after the general election.
In his speech, Mutunga noted that Kenya “should be not only a user of international law, but a producer, shaper and developer” of it. The CJ added that the Supreme Court, which he heads as its President, will be a source of a new hope for Kenyans. “I would hope that the Supreme Court of my country will be the Supreme Court for Kenyans where the oppressed and bewildered will find justice,” he said.
KIKUYU WILL RULE OVER OTHER 41 COMATOSE (FOOLISH) TRIBES FOR EVER AND EVER HENCE JINGA-BRAINThose 24 years were a big chunk of our lives and the life of the nation.
We have never had a serious discussion of how we as a community made serious mistakes during the last years of Kenyatta. This is why we can now hold Gema meetings and get shocked that other tribes are fearful. I can definitely understand why non-Kikuyus are apprehensive about Gema.
We Kikuyus were really complicit in handing Moi State House. We have never publicly admitted this. Our so-called leaders mislead us in a very costly way. This is why we need to question them now instead of jumping onto the Uhuru Kenyatta bandwagon they have shrewdly constructed for us by manipulating tribal emotions.
Sometimes it is important for a member of a tribe to point out its mistakes. One will definitely get all kinds of names thrown at him from “traitor” to “Raila’s man” but this is a small price to pay. Criticism from a member of the tribe hits home in a different way than if it comes from another tribe.
Yes, that is the truth. Some of us have been through this crap too long to keep quiet.
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Kenya: G-7 on the Verge of Collapse
By David Kimwele, 13 April 2012
The writing is on the wall for the enigmatic G7 Alliance that has defied all the odds since its faltering inception and grown to become a dominant force in the political arena.
The alliance which was founded in defiance to the Premier Raila Odiga and the ICC process is on the verge of a collapse that is likely to be a calamitous disintegration. For the longest time the alliance succeeded in staving off the sooner-than-expected breakup by fashioning itself as an alliance of peers. However, the politically savvy Deputy Premier Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto have edged out Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka to become the leading lights of the alliance.
The alliance which committed itself to fielding a single presidential candidate from within its ranks through a democratic process is going through a watershed moment. The search for its preferred presidential candidate has turned out to be a show of might between its two leading lights and what is emerging is that the nomination process will by default be based on the principle that ‘right is might’. Needless to say, the politically impotent Vice-President, Kalonzo Musyoka, who had hoped for a civil and democratic nomination process is a disillusioned man while the new Justice minister Eugene Wamalwa has cut his losses and is more than happy to settle for a plum ministerial position.
However, the battle for supremacy in the alliance pitting the Deputy Premier, a Kikuyu, against Ruto, a Kalenjin, both of whom are indicted on a number of charges for crimes against humanity emanating from the 2007/8 post-election violence portends a calamitous collapse for the alliance. It is not lost to Kenyans that the 2007/8 PEV pitted the Kalenjins who overwhelmingly supported the ODM against the Kikuyus who supported the PNU and at the ICC, the Deputy Premier is charged for organising the retaliatory attacks against the Kalenjin and other ODM supporters while Ruto is charged with masterminding the persecution and forceful eviction of Kikuyus from the Rift Valley.
It is a scary thought but the face-off between the Deputy Premier and Ruto has degenerated into a dangerous ethnic showdown between their warring communities. The first ethnic salvo came from the Deputy Premier who ambushed Ruto with his Gema forces which held a conference dubbed Limuru II in which Gema threw its weight behind him. In a tacit response Ruto hurriedly revived Kamatusa and marshalled it to counter the Gema onslaught. Unlike Gema which is a well-endowed and agile force, something which makes up for its lack of numbers, the Kamatusa has gritty determination and the numbers and with its huge sense of entitlement cannot pander to Uhuru’s Gema.
It is no secret that the Kikuyu in Gema and Kalenjin in Kamatusa represented in the G7 alliance by the Deputy Premier and Ruto respectively are mortal political enemies. The unity of the alliance accordingly does not depend on the multitude its members like to think it represents. G7 is an alliance of defiance against the ICC and the Premier whose unity is based on the concept of ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’ and it cannot be denied that there is method in the Uhuru-Ruto madness which they hope will forestall the ICC process and prevent Raila from ascending to the presidency.
Be that as it may, the dysfunctional nature of the G7 Alliance was simply incurable. It is a miracle that the alliance did not collapse earlier. Needless to say the state of affairs in the G7 Alliance did not augur well for national unity and the much needed healing and reconciliation that our nation desperately needs. Be that as it may, the alliance which only served to balkanise the nation by reviving the Gema and Kamatusa tribal outfits is as good as dead now.
There are those who will contend that the G7 is alive and well and if indeed that is the case then Gema, Kamatusa, and the G7 Alliance is the axis of evil in Kenya. Personally, I am convinced that the G7 alliance will fizzle out and in its place, the country will have to grapple with the Gema and Kamatusa political warring or the unlikely Gema-Kamatusa axis.
Gema and Kamatusa are loose tribal alliances guised as cultural associations and just like the G7 Alliance they are cliques that have mastered the art of usurping their positions of leadership to exploit and dominate the unsuspecting communities which they represent. The ploy that has been used by Gema to wrest power from its political competitors and to take advantage of their own people is by branding political competitors as enemies and portraying their communities as being unfair losers in the competition for the proverbial national cake.
Certainly, there is an element of truth in the Gema story but it is not the whole story. The Kalenjin have also been on the receiving end and the unprecedented violence meted out to the Kikuyu community in the Rift Valley in the 2007/8 PEV is testament of their frustration. It was therefore quite intriguing to hear that the Gema and Kamatusa plan to hold a joint conference to bury the hatchet. I am sceptical; I think the joint conference is an attempt to sanitise their image unless, of course, the joint conference settles on a single presidential candidate amicably and resolves to live harmoniously with other communities.
Hon; Ngatia you are right on road carnage in Kenya the govt has miserably failed to curb this road monster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmW-CIpOpek&feature=player_embedded
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