Much appreciation to Mr. Martin Ngatia for signing the protest Statement that captures a broad spectrum of what ails the Kenya-Stockholm Embassy led by Ambassador Purity Muhindi. There are those who think that picketing is meaningless because the MPs or Purity will not change. Nevertheless, how can the country change if people don’t protest in various ways? Picketing is a valid channel of showing displeasure at the powers that be and by submitting a statement listing complaints, it is more effective than sitting in the warmth of Purity’s residence swallowing chunks of ugali and drinks in the name of “dialoguing”. From what is noted at KSB, Honorable MP Walter Nyambati must have done an excellent job by sharing his views concerning Kenya, and by listening to the picketers.
Ambassador Purity may not give protesters an audience or agree with any allegations of vice at the Embassy, but it’s the Kenyans who must pinpoint them for any action to be taken. No statement has ever come from the embassy refuting such claims because she has ties to State House, and does not feel shaken. There were similar allegations about visa cash misappropriations against Oginga Ogego, who is the immediate former Ambassador to Washington. We know that their boss Moses Wetangula, the suspended Foreign Affairs Minister, is alleged to have abetted corruption at various Missions.
Abject poverty, gender and systemic change
Majority of Kenyans still suffer from ignorance, abject poverty and disease, which were supposed to have been eradicated within the first 10 years of Kenyatta’s rule. Almost 50 years later, Kenyans still live in worse conditions, and almost no politician speaks about the lost goals meant to improve their quality of life. With an incredible salary-wage margin where an MP earns a minimum of Ksh 1 million per month, and a government worker earns Ksh 7,500 per month in the urban areas, they live in two worlds. Kenya is deemed a “Class society” with a sharp socio-economic divide categorizing the very few as rich, and the masses, as poor. This divide is glaring with the rich living opulently, while the poor living on “air” (meaning their poverty level is so high they can only afford the free polluted air but not the basics). Kenya has so many programs targeting the poor, yet due to grand corruption perpetuated by the Kibaki regime, they have not been implemented.
The first video link below shows a young poor Kenyan mother in Kibera giving birth on the floor because she cannot afford maternity fees at any hospital. She already has a battalion of kids but without proper support from her husband. She is a reflection of the poor family planning strategies by the Kenyan government that were disbanded during Moi’s era. When former health minister Charity Ngilu presented her comprehensive healthcare program to accommodate the poor, President Kibaki rejected it and has since not offered an alternative. After all, our politicians get top-notch treatment either at the Nairobi Hospital or hospitals in London, so they are not bothered to invest in healthcare.
When Kibaki’s younger son broke his leg at a resort in Mombasa last Christmas season, a military chopper evacuated him to the Nairobi Hospital and a large area was cordoned off by security, causing a massive traffic jam. No poor person gets such treatment yet they pay taxes, contrary to President Impunity Kibaki and his MPs who do not pay anything from their huge salaries. A World Bank audit once concluded that Kenya’s Executive and Legislative wings drain almost all the domestic budget and must be trimmed to meet other socio-economic goals.
Kenya’s socio-economic stratification reflects that of USA whereby the poor masses depend on minimum federal and humanitarian support to survive. During the Hurricane Katrina mess in 2005, the world was treated to glaring poverty among Blacks who could barely speak proper English which is their native language, because they have no formal education. Quite a number had no teeth, meaning they could not afford medical insurance which is a cash cow for the pharmaceutical industry. President Obama’s proposed universal healthcare plan is being resisted by the rich Americans (mostly Republicans), just as Kibaki’s government rejected Ngilu’s. Although the US leads in technology and other sciences, quite a lot of social engineering is required to improve the lives of her poor citizens.
Last week, a 40 year old woman joined form one at Kenya High School although she has a daughter at a local university. There is nothing wrong with this because education can be pursued at any time. However, it again depicts the failure of our Adult Education program, ended during Moi’s 24 years of “error and terror”.
Kenya needs a thorough systemic change to meet the Vision 2030 goals and by extension, the Millennium Development Goals. With a broad tax base generating high revenue to the Government, so much can be done to improve the livelihood of the poor. Some have argued that Kenya needs a benevolent dictator to turn things around because the political leaders we have had for almost 50 years, have shown no concern for the citizens who are generally voiceless. Unfortunately, records show that even those who come from their midst to represent them in Parliament, get engrossed in the thieving habits, thus the endless cycle of poverty.
Women cry for gender equality yet the current female political leaders in Kenya reflect “raw machoism”. Take Ministers Naomi Shaaban and Charity Ngilu who hold very powerful Cabinet portfolios. They are notorious for corruption and are on PLO’s list of those being investigated. The Agricultural Minister, Sally Kosgei, is alleged to have become super wealthy during her tenure as High Commissioner and Cabinet Secretary/Head of Public Service, because she was very close to dictator Moi. We recently heard the primitive utterances of Betty Murugi (Special Programs Minister) about locking up HIV+ people. Given these examples, it is questionable whether such women are capable of initiating systemic change.
Although Martha Karua has not been linked to corruption, she is on record as having been an ardent supporter of Kibaki while she was the Justice Minister, thereby showing she is susceptible to impunity. She only rejected Kibaki after he appointed Uhuru Kenyatta as the PNU deputy Prime Minister instead of her, thereby feeling shortchanged. Fast forward and we read that she did not care to vet the new Makadara MP Mbuvi Sonko, who has a checkered past. Karua had probably overlooked this as long as he brought his ill-gotten wealth into her Narc-Kenya party.
The Kenyan Diaspora
Some Kenya-Stockholm women have expressed a lot of negative things about the leadership of Purity. Her former deputy, Josephine Awuor, was another dictator who had no time for junior female staffers. These people live in utopia and must maintain the status quo accorded by their political godfathers/mothers in Kenya to survive. It is important to note that Purity’s role as Ambassador is what people discuss publicly and not her private life.
KSB acts as a vital platform for connecting Diaspora Kenyans, just as other online social networks like Facebook and Twitter. An armchair politician also contributes to Kenya’s political struggle because whoever can read will understand more than one whoever talks to a visiting Kenyan politician, but does not record anything for others to read or listen.
Mr. Martin Ngatia is an example of a fearless voice in the Diaspora, who does not shy away from expressing his heartfelt thoughts about the political rot at home. His tongue-lashing on former Water Minister Katuku, which is a classic Youtube video, is the example of what Purity fears — attacks launched at her cherished visiting dignitaries. She will not take it and that is why she prefers to secretly invite groups of docile Kenyans to eat and not criticize loudly.
There are many Kenyans who were in the political trenches before Kibaki’s leadership and would picket and protest at the Embassy’s entrance without a problem. However, they changed and don’t gather anymore to discuss the never-ending social problems that have now been perfected under Kibaki. When you sit and talk about the IDPs with them, they just gaze at you then tactfully switch the topic. It is rather frustrating that as long as one’s tribesman is leading, the policy remains: “see nothing, hear nothing”. Who then, will speak for those poor people who are sidelined by politicians living in State mansions on hilltops above the smoky slums of Kibera, Mathare and many others?
When Mr. Okoth Osewe wrote a book about Raila’s stolen elections and a holistic analysis of Kenyan politics, some critics were quick to condemn him for perpetuating tribal politics, even before it hit the stores. The naïve ones claimed he couldn’t have known what was happening on the ground without being in Kenya. In any case, they need to know that many theories are developed from such accounts. Interestingly, many Western-based writers thrive by writing about Africa without being there.
How can the Kenyan Diaspora develop a new socio-political mindset to share with those at home, as we approach the post-Kibaki era? How can we shift from the tribal leanings that steer the quest for the presidency to inclusive ideologies that can empower us? The African Diaspora has for many years produced both despots and progressive leaders to lead their countries. For Kenya-Stockholmers, there are small contributions we can make even if they are not politically-charged, like statements of protest or goodwill to our leaders which can play a big roll in government programs.
Tribal alliances
I read somewhere that during the first decade of Independence, the Kenyan Parliament had vibrant debates aimed at the country’s welfare. A lot has changed and currently, much of what is discussed is tribally-based, with attacks on those assumed to be “enemies” being targeted for ouster, come 2012. The presidential lineup is for sharing the pound of flesh strictly between dominant tribes or commonly, those who have the numbers. What about the minority tribes? When will the feeding trough come by their regions? It’s amazing how Kalonzo Musyoka is trying to squeeze into the giant tribes of the Kikuyu and Kalenjin, yet Uhuru and Ruto clearly don’t want him. Last month Uhuru reminded him in public that he had run away from KANU to join ODM, so had no place in the KK outfit. But Uhuru forgets that he also had a dalliance with ODM and mooted an alliance with KANU. Is he blind to the fact that Ruto toppled Moi’s dominance in the Rift Valley and is still the deputy leader of ODM, despite being a rebel?
Uhuru Kenyatta, politically infamous for Moi’s Uhuru-project, is not popular in his Gatundu constituency, and just like the father, has nothing to show by way of socio-economic development. Some women from Kiambu have said openly that they don’t like him because he sponsors the Mungiki killer gangs that force women into primitive Kikuyu traditions (e.g. female genital mutilation) which are not compatible with their well-being. There is also that mystery of Ksh 9 billion which was caused by “computer error” during this period of Uhuru as Finance Minister. Those in the know say the money is safe somewhere waiting to be used for his presidential campaigns in 2012.
There is no doubt that tribal numbers still shape Kenyan politics, but where is ideology? Ruto is a post-independent child of Kenya, yet he has never presented a single policy during his claims for the presidency in 2012. Eugene Wamalwa is another young MP who wants top leadership for the younger generation. But what does he have in store for the masses when he is already associated with the outlawed Mungiki?
I am proud to watch the events in Egypt and to hear Egyptians calling themselves Revolutionaries by objecting Mubarak and his autocratic regime. Without these protests, Mubarak would not have budged, yet in the two weeks of chaos, he has forcefully heeded to some demands which will definitely shape the country’s path towards democracy.
It’s amazing that the US has been supporting Mubarak for 30 years with a military grant of two billion dollars annually to sustain peace in the Middle East. There is nothing wrong with that, but why support an autocratic regime that suppresses citizens and does not improve their livelihood? What about alleged corruption whereby half the companies in Egypt are owned by either Mubarak’s family or his cronies? How did he make his vast wealth amounting to 70 billion dollars? America is famous for supporting world dictators in the name of peace and stability. We know that Kibaki’s fraudulent election results were immediately supported by the USA. The question is, whom will they support in 2012 to bring real change for the next decade?
Fellow Diaspora Kenyans, we can initiate a home-grown systemic change by networking on many aspects, regardless of political or tribal alliances.
Woman giving birth on the floor in Kibera
Abby Kariuki
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May God help our Kenyan women. I have just watched that video of a woman giving birth on the floor standing like an animal and lost my appetite.I then went on my knees to pray for a better Kenya.It is quite shocking!
Thanks to u picketers I WILL never accept any secret dinner invitations in the future.I confess that I did not take KSB seriously with past information about such dinners.Bw. Ngatia and Bw. Osewe, please keep up your good work.Am happy you speak for some of us who have been in the dark and afraid to speak the truth about corruption and impunity in Kenya.
Poverty and social suffering in Kenya has no tribe so if picketers spend time in the cold winter championing such issues, they are worth congratulating.For those who were invited to dinner by Purity,that’s their business and can continue being loyal to her.Political appointments normally end with regime change,so Purity’s departure in 2012 is inevitable.
Nice article Abby only that you forgot to mention that kibera slums is represented by a presidential hopeful in the same breath you mentioned gatundu being represented by uhuru.They both have nothing tangible to show for it.
Joyce: the article specifically mentioned the YOUNGER generation presidential aspirants like Uhuru and Ruto, with their KK axis and by extension Eugene Wamalwa, to emphasize tribal alliances. If you have something about Kibera, KSB has so much space just write and post it.
well said Joyce. on the same note, see what happened to some progressive leaders like Tuju when they failed to be lead blindly. Lets get leaders who are geared to developments and can show some track record. If one can not even solve the kibera problem, how will they fair at national level?
The level of poverty in most African countries, Kenya included, is on the rise for the simple reason that policy makers persistently pursue self interested and self-aggrandizing policies at the expense of the ordinary people. The irony is that it is the young people that overwhelmingly vote for this cadre of old folks who have no touch with the plight of the youth and the very old.I pray that young people, and the old who have been subjected to intentional subjection to poverty should rise up and elect young well educated and honest statesmen and women. More importantly, more young women leaders should be given a chance as more often, women are more caring than men. They are more likely to address the plight of orphans, young children, domestic violence against both genders, ensure food security, guarantee accessible health care to the population and help sell African states as a tourist destination.
Kenya can end poverty but lacks the will through its leadership to do so. The leaders are the beneficiaries of poverty (ironically), hence their resolve to keep the majority in the country poor so they can continue to exploit them. However, until our government and leaders as well as politicians acknowledge their greed and take steps to deal or delink themsleves from corruptive deals, nothing will change. The leaders are the drivers of poverty, e.g. several programs/activities have been undertaken to reduce poverty but we keep hearing about involvement of leaders even things that reduce their stature or values to zero – taking funds belonging to the poor including IDP’s – the most vulnereable and poor lot. Until our leaders stop being the main drivers of powerty, however much development partners pump into our country – agriculture, education, health etc. poverty will remain with us for a long long time to come. Empowering the youth alone will not help reduce poverty. The main action required to end poverty is to delink our politicians/current leadership from heading the resource portfolio and confine them to what they do best – talking. This way empowering the majoirty and the youth could be a first step to reducing poverty to an acceptable level or improving the poor’s standard of living.
A very thought provoking message by Abby.The only thing now is for people to focus beyond Kibaki by electing the right politicians who shall respect the new Constitution.I also want to highlight the pathetic situation of Kenyan slum dwellers by sharing these video links:
Slum survivors-Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPuNXO7_tno&feature=channel
Slum survivors-Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELeL_gIFSk&feature=related
Slum survivors-Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lWRFIvFEI&feature=channel
Slum survivors-Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQxKUSbD1c&feature=channel
We have leaders preaching hatred among our communites yet we have a new Constitution. Our next generation will be a tainted one that will grow up thinking that is the way life is and they will have no other alternative to the kind of politics where we can agree to differ and not to agree to be indifferent. My dear brothers and sisters our leaders are no leaders they are vessels of destruction and we saw that during the past election and we are going to see it again in the next as long as KKK is preached.
Kenyans rejoiced when the Government introduced the Constituency Development Funds.
The CDF money was meant to develop constituencies, but most constituencies have not benefited from it.
Poor road networks and malnourished children are just some of the bad pictures we see every day.
Ironically, CDF offices exist in almost every town. Some of these offices are managed by incompetent school dropouts.
It is better to do away with the CDF programme and channel the money elsewhere instead of leaving it to the greedy individuals.
PETER KARANJA, Nairobi
UGUMANIA (Corruption in Kenya): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08RUCRPUN4&feature=related
Soap opera for social change in Kenya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWiN89p7fO8
I find Abby’s call interesting because if we don’t compeletely overhaul our institutions and those who have been running them for nearly 50 years, how shall we have a new beginning? we all remember the joke about Obama being born while Kibaki was already working and he beomes President while Kibaki is still leading Kenya.
The point is we need a new start with fresh minds to implement our new Constitution. Everything is possible with good leaders. Michuki is a good example of one who streamlined the Matatu industry but ever since he got transferred, nothing has worked. I have seen that his so-called rules are going to be revived.
On generational change for the presidency,my question is, where are those young, credible, corruption-free and upholders of human rights type of Kenyans? Ruto is dirty with his thieving background, while Uhuru got his wealth on a silver platter, so is not in touch with the poor masses, while Wamalwa is a joker I would never trust. I hope other women can join Martha Karua so that it’s not only men who go for the presidency.
Back to Abby-it doesnt matter whether your article was about YOUNG or OLD generation presidential aspirants,Kenya needs a leader with a tangible CV.One cant claim to be enlisted in the olympic marathon while you have never won in your village.
In December 2002, Kenya’s new president, Mwai Kibaki, said he’d end corruption. And when he needed someone to lead the fight, he picked John Githongo. Named permanent secretary for ethics and governance in the office of the president, Githongo, then 37, was a perfect choice. He was a popular journalist, a passionate anti-corruption crusader, and founder and head of Transparency International’s Kenya office since 1999. It all looked good. But then came the so-called Anglo Leasing Finance scandal — or Kenya’s Watergate, as many called it.
The government in 2002 had said it wanted to update the way it printed and tracked its passports. Everything would be new and high-tech. A French company was found for the job, at a price of €6 million. But the contract went instead to an unknown U.K. company called Anglo Leasing Finance, at a price of €30 million. There was no public tender and the story only leaked to the press because of a junior civil servant. Githongo grabbed the investigation.
Two years later, he’d uncovered about twenty government contracts awarded to phantom overseas companies at inflated prices, signaling the presence of high-level corruption. And most of the tainted contracts related to Kenya’s security apparatus — passport controls, forensic labs, security vehicles and satellite services, among others.
http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/tag/kenya
Joyce: suit yourself by writing an article about that type of leader you so wish for Kenya, and am sure KSB will be happy to publish it – there is so much space on Osewe’s blog. As for now, what I wrote is clear and very specific on the upcoming younger generation presidential aspirants. Am focusing ahead (Kenya’s future), and not on those who have continually led Kenya to its current social inequalities.
I agree with Abby. A quick fix will not resuscitate Kenya from its current rot of impunity and corruption. Only a complete shake-up in all institutions will do it.
Who said Kenyan female politicians are better than their male counterparts? They are just as arrogant, thankless and full of impunity. Here’s a comment by Agricultural Minister Sally Kosgei when she announced cutting ties with the ODM Party Leader:
Dr Kosgei said at the Friday rally that she had cut ties with the ODM party leader, adding she was no longer enthusiastic about flying a ministerial flag.
“I have held higher positions in government during the time of President Daniel arap Moi and I am not afraid to let the flag go. It will not change my lifestyle,” she said.
“This flag has got no MEANING, it only helps me to EVADE the traffic jam,” she said.
Dr Kosgei said she had decided to sever ties with the party boss in order to move to suspended Higher Education minister William Ruto’s camp.
While we are at it,we still wonder why Dr.sally Kosgei has never been charged with corruption by anti corruption commission for grabbing senior staff houses for kenya railway staff situated in parklands area (Nairobi) during her reign as head of civil service under dictator moi.That is why she and others can afford to be arrogant and I dare quote one donor representative who likened grabbers in kenya with hyenas which eats,vomits and continue eating.
More nonsense from our comical politicians. here’s more of Sally Kosgei’s doublespeak on Bullseye:
Sally Kosgei shud return that flag she called kitambaa. If she is woman enuff, she should resign from her post as minister and join the traffic jam like any other Kenyan. She should be disciplined by the cabinet committee.kweli huyu mama ni mavi ya kuku.Too much talk but no action.A remnant of the Moi dictatorship.
Sally Kosgei’s history if full of thieving, corruption and impunity. Read on:
In rather candid interview with a local newspaper a few weeks ago, Dr. Kosgei groused that after working so diligently for the government for some 20 years she was made to “leave with nothing”, never mind the fact that during her relatively short stint as head of public service Kosgei was able to join the exclusive club of monied and most influential Kenyans during the Moi regime. Talking to some of the former and current senior civil servants who worked closely with Kosgei, it emerges that she ruled with an iron fist and was vindictive almost to a point of pettiness.
Indeed, say those who worked under her, she is not quite the victim she paints herself to be.
“She is the kind of person who would be fed with a lie about you having said something nasty about her and from that day she carries a vendetta against you and starts looking for ways and means of kicking you out,” says a former PS who blames his removal from public service on Dr. Kosgei.
The former PS adds: “Most of the time Sally never even bothered to check whether what she had been told was true or not. She would simply start fighting you and may not even talk to you when you meet during official meetings. Once she had blacked you out, if you made calls to her office she would bluntly tell you that she did not wish to discuss anything with you no matter how important an official matter you wanted to discuss with her. She did not seem to know how to separate official and personal matters…”
Indeed, one person who did not beat about the bush about what he felt about Kosgei is former Kenyan ambassador to the United States Samson Chemai. When he was removed from the plum posting in Washington DC, Chemai went to court and not only sued the Government of Kenya but also Dr Sally Kosgei whom he accused of having influenced his removal on order to create room for her estranged husband Dr Yusuf Nzibo.
In his affidavit, Chemai made several serious claims against Kosgei accusing her of being high-handed and vindictive. In her response and defense, Kosgei naturally denied the charges. The case is pending in the Court of Appeal. Although she is credited to have been a foremost diplomat, some in the diplomatic community did not have much time for her especially when she was foreign affairs permanent secretary. The much celebrated former US ambassador to Kenya, the late Smith Hempstone, described her in his memoirs as…”an unpleasant woman with a big scar on her face.” He says he had vowed never to deal with her and assigned his deputy, Michael Southwick, a former fellow Stanford alumni of Sally, to handle her.
Kosgei and multimillion NSSF deal
In 2003, Kosgei moved to court seeking to have a Sh181 million suit filed against her by the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) in connection with alleged fraudulent sale of prime property within the city struck out.
NSSF had earlier on sued Dr Kosgei to recover the money after the worker’s body had been unable to take possession of the property in Parklands. The property that Kosgei had sold to NSSF ostensibly passing it off as her own had been gazetted by the government as a national monument.
In the deal clinched when Dr Kosgei held the highest public office in the land, the former public service boss, through her company, Guardian International, had acquired the property from the Kenya Railways Corporation. Kenya Railaways was selling the property at KShs 80 million.
According to documents filed in court at the time, by the time Kosgei sold the plot to NSSF at Kshs170 million in May 1995, she had only paid KShs 19.2 million of the purchase price. It is not clear whether she has since paid the balance. Nevertheless, the bottom line remains that in this one deal alone the former head of civil service made a cool Kshs 100 million (or more if she never got to pay the balance).
NSSF has claimed that the former head of public service had fraudulently acquired the property through abuse of her position in the government and applied the same unfair influence when she sold it to them.
Kosgei through her lawyers Okwach & Co Advocates argued that the complaint disclosed no reasonable cause of action against her and Guardian International adding that even if there was any cause of action, it was timebarred since the suit was filed six years after the transaction. In her sworn affidavit, Kosgei said that she bought the property from Kenya Railways after she “learnt of its sale through an advertisement in a daily newspaper.”
She however confirmed one rather interesting issue in the whole saga: that the sale of the property, its transfer and registration of the transfer in the name of NSSF was done at a breakneck speed. Everything was completed in a single day, which raised eyebrows given the bureaucratic nature of land transactions. The matter is still pending in court.
http://kenyapolitical.blogspot.com/2007/05/sally-kosgei-woman-to-watch.html
It takes a rich man to suffer for the government to have a better health policy. In Kenya, some people can steal as much money as possible and stash it in overseas banks, yet don’t care about their health status.
Professor Anyang’ Nyong’o is now publicly discussing his ordeal with prostrate cancer. Imagine he is the medical services minister yet had to sought treatment in the USA. We have only one machine for screening cancer patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital within the public health sector, for the whole country. Honestly, Kibaki’s government has wrong priorities and I agree with Abby that it was wrong to refuse the universal healthcare system proposal. A nation with unhealthy citizens is a poor and unproductive nation.
Kenya needs a dictator
To me democracy is embargoed by God, democracy is the opiate of NGOs, and other groups that thrive best in calling press conferences and telling the evils in governments. Democracy is the wishful thinking of the USA that keeps bombing civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq. It’s the blabber of the fangless UN and NATO that stood when 10,000 people were being killed per day in Rwanda.
Democracy is the day-dreaming of Martha Karua that forgot about the same when her tribesman took over the leadership of this country and a click of them decided to sweep it into an abyss. It is the wallow of Raila Odinga that cannot point a finger at Museveni the warlord when he directly insults his people.
Democracy is your jealousy when you can’t get the job coz your uncle is not the employer. It is the slow, backward thinking that all Luos will gain visas when Obama became President of USA. Democracy is an fantasy of the West that keep pouring aid into Africa when that money is channeled into secret kitties.
Democracy is the invention of God. Handed over to man. And which man said, “Sorry we don’t like what it sounds like. Please give it to NGOs. They can better make noise that we won’t listen to!”
That is why KENYA NEEDS A RUTHLESS DICTATOR. Not for five years but for 15 to 30 years. There are two sides of head, the right and left cheek. One side can be scarred while the other is smooth like the thigh of a geisha girl. A good example is Saddam Hussein. He was good to the extreme and bad to the extreme. He made sure Iraq was economically strong, even with the gothic hand of Bush constantly poking him.
He built first class highways, universities, hospitals, and sewerage systems. But sorry that he gassed his own people, massacred his opponents. There are two sides of the coin. And am talking about the good side of a dictator.
We need an economic dictator to be precise.
Look at Chavez the Venezuelan Kingpin. His country is so rich he once gave free oil to USA. How about Gaddafi? He doesn’t want people telling him to go home. Why? Because he knows that people like Kibaki will take over from him and mess his hard earned economic strength? He crashes the opponents with a huge punch. He throws belligerents into the red sea. Why? Because he knows that should he leave, the rats will invade the treasury and start dragging out sacks of maize even though they know that you cannot cart away more than 10 billion without being seen.
Ohh and look at Cuba. The brothers have proved good shepherds of the Cuban flock. They don’t have those fuel-guzzling cars. They don’t own golf resorts. They are angels sent by God to tell Americans that you cannot assume the position of God. You cannot scatter armies across the world in the pretence of keeping world peace!
That is God’s prerogative, which even a big and tall Hussein Obama, cannot assume.
Kenya needs a dictator to take over this country. Raila can be a good dictator but lack the balls to take over land grabbed by people that were handsomely rewarded by the colonial masters. He cannot tell Moi to hand over the loot. He cannot tell the Kenyatta family to let go of the loot and the land.
Kenya needs a dictator so ruthless the thieves will start giving out stolen property without being asked. a dictator that will cut the ministries to ten or five. Call a press conference and announce:
“Today marks the true independence of this country from the dogs and the fat cats. It is sad but by the powers given to me by the constitution of the republic of Kenya, I hereby order the reduction of MPs’ salaries from 800,000 to 150,000. I further direct that all the ministries shall from today henceforth be given Toyota 110 and…and if they deem so unfit, they should be allowed to use their salary to acquire Mercedes E-Class”.
“I further direct the removal of the Anti-corruption Commission and order them to be redeployed into a new Ministry of Social Welfare for Orphans and widows. I disband the institution of both the Prime Minister and Vice President. I further direct that no one should masquerade as an assistant minister as I will not appoint any, but will bestow my trust in Permanent Secretaries and the Ministers whose positions will be advertised and every Kenyan with the relevant qualifications shall fill”
“With powers conferred to me as the only one above the law, I order no Presidential elections until after 30 years. This order is only subject to change should I die. I bar all persons against talking politics in the press, but to personally write to me should they have an idea or complaints. Alternatively call me on 000001009000111. I order that only journalists without blood to write columns that cast doubt on my type of leadership!”
“I scrap all entertainment and sitting allowance for both the Ministers and MPs. How can you deliberate on the issues of your country while standing?”
“This now means that the tax payer has been saved. Not by me, but by The Almighty God. This means that the Kenyans shall have crossed to the Promised Land. The land that was promised by the past three presidents but none did give, instead they left you at the gates of hell”.
“I order the reduction of all taxes by 50%. I order that water and electricity shall be free of charge. The basic prices of commodities such as sugar, flour, and oil shall be one in all shops, supermarkets and village markets”
“Given that Kenya has not been involved in any cross border war since independence, we shall disband the corrupt City and Country Councils, and the Armed Forces, the Army will from now on constitute the same. They shall be trained on the psychology of parking and receipting”.
“And now I cut my own salary from 2 million to 500,000”.
“And now to my opponents that will call themselves opposition in parliament, be advised that you shall have nothing to oppose as we shall be giving to the people and not taking. I advise you against sabotage as this plot will be met with excessive force that it deserves. We are prepared to kill you for the sake of the country. We rather one head than thousands killed by drought and diseases”.
“We are messengers of God sent to set an example in Africa. To refuse blood aid from America, Germany, France and United Kingdom. We are the men and women sent to bring glory to the black continent – to give color to it”.
“We are sent to save the wounds between the legs of girls in Darfur, Turkana, and Northern Uganda”
“With this trend Gaddafi and I, through the help of Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Ahmed Abnijaad shall annex Africa…shall transform Africa into the true jungle it once was. The jungle without guns and aid workers”
“Let me take this chance to warn Museveni. I understand your crave for blood, Mr. Kaguta. It’s long since you pillaged in mass. I know that killing the Nilotes has been your obsession. In fact, let me be clear by saying that the Northen Ugandans have been reduced to ashes. You now are looking for more. Your appetite for blood is so high when you see the Kenyan Nilotes. But, I have news for you, Amin Destroyer! That the Kenyan Nilotes are under my wings. And should you try my patience again, I will push you over to the Congo basin where your soldiers are stealing gold!”
“God bless Kenya, God bless Africa, God punish the blood aid pretenders of the West!”
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Kennedy Odour is the Editor of Apprentice Life Magazine in Kenya.
Was Jesus christ talking about a country called Kenya? when he said people who lives in darkness has not seen the lights.
Time has come for the majority of oppressed kenyans to unite and overthrow their oppressors by any means. Jesus christ taught his disciples not to fear death and jesus died on the cross .
Did Njenga Karume die with all his earthly Wealth?
Was John Michuki burried in Kangema with his Windsor Golf?
What about Mzee Kirima who died like a pauper leaving billions of wealth Estates etc.
Time has come for Wakenya to fight for a radical change that must overthrow the oppresive capitalism system and replace it with Socialism where the wealth of our country will shared and distributed equally to all Kenyans .