23 thoughts on “Uhuru Kenyatta Whipping Up Ethnic Sentiments Ahead of ICC Date”
Uhuru is becoming worse than his father by speaking Kikuyu in Central Province in the name of attracting sympathy before going to The Hague. It is sad that as an aspiring president, he has stooped this low.
Ms Karua said MPs had voted for The Hague option in refusing to approve a Bill she had prepared for the creation of a special tribunal to try the post-election violence suspects when she was Justice minister.
“Lest I am accused of celebrating that people are going to The Hague, let me remind you that I came here and pleaded with you to establish a Special Tribunal. I was told, ‘Don’t be vague, let’s go to The Hague’,” she said.
“Now The Hague has come, take The Hague quietly.”
Ms Karua asked those destined for the International Criminal Court to ask their associates what option they voted for at that time, and what their current stand is.
She said coalition principals President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga tried to convince the MPs to approve the formation of the tribunal when they signed a commitment to either have it in place within 60 days or have the cases handled by the ICC.
Ms Karua also accused the government of a tendency to cater for the needs of the rich at the expense of the poor, who are already saddled with the high cost of living.
“This is a big boys’ club, never mind the ages of the big boys,” she said.
Whatever you rant &comment wont help or change anything !The best thing is for the rest 41 Kenyan tribe to declare their areas anti -Kikuyu Zones and allow Kikuyus to remain strictly in their Central Province and elect Uhuru or Michuki their President!
Translation of Uhuru’s video of what he said in Kikuyu at his installation as “Kikuyu king”—–:
“We should not be afraid to be called Kikuyus. All of us should follow our muthamaki (great leader) Kibaki. None of these leaders here would have made it to parliament in 2007 if they did not support Kibaki.
Now they pretend they made it on their own. When Kibaki says something or shows the direction to follow, they are the first to contradict him. The first person to betray us to the others is none of us. I want to tell all the leaders here that if any one of them fails to toe the line, they should know that their politics is over.
“If Kibaki tells us to go to the left, we should do so, just like Ruto tells his people to go one way and they all do so. We will not allow ourselves to be killed just because we are not following our leaders. Those who fail to do this, we will follow them to their homes and expose them as the ones who are betraying us. We will say ‘See this person is the one who is failing to work with us’.
“We have one disease, and that disease is the disease of loving ourselves, that we leaders do not listen to each other. When we vied in 2007, we stood by many parties. I even don’t know how many they were,” he said….
Speaking in Kikuyu, Fr Joachim Gitonga who presided over the ceremony told the rally, “Now we are going to make Uhuru the King of the Kikuyu community and King of the entire country. We are going to give him this stick which has nine levels which signify the clans of the Kikuyu community.” He used both the words muthamaki and kingi.
Dont take yourself to seriously, and BTW, even if jomo jnr attended Amerherst he has nothing to show for it. What did he study BTW and did he even graduate?
The Rt Hon Prime Minister is one of those rare fellows who translated his degree into something substantial, something you can see, touch and experience, something that actually helps hundreds of thousands of households and employs a few hundreds.
They love to hate the Rt Hon Prime Minsiter, but NONE OF THESE blank blank blank will ever match his illustrious record.
They love asking kwani ametufanyia nini? What has he done?
Jeez they have the temerity to ask what has he done?
Have these fellows ever bothered reading up on his accomplishments?
First of all, Without the Rt Hon Prime Minister, the democratic space in this country that enables those loose tongues to keep up their virulent attacks may not be that wide!
Imagine if kipkorios had succeeded in imposing his manchurian candidate jomo jnr on us. Now you have the willy old kleptrocrat pulling the puppet strings on this obstreperous, rabid, arrogant , perpetually angry, bhangi loving, mungiki embracing, mega tribalist.
If you consider the sloth as “bad”, then this useless tribalist would be bad squared!
Thank goodness he is finished!
Imagine the optics of him being on the docks of the ICC!!
NOTHING could be sadder and more damning. Those pics will be priceless, in fact they will form my avatar!!
No wonder Ngina is raving mad, and the lame duck P.O.R.K is feeling the heat!!
I am loving this!!
I just hope they dont go to the wa nina of all courts in the Hague, I just want more drama, and see the noose tightening on their necks as they acquire the tag – ICC fugitive so and so. I want them to be exposed, and de-fanged, esp jomo jnr.
I fear that son of a gun. I really do. He sends shivers down my spine.
Having watched him on Utube exhorting his tribesmen and women to back him up, expressing his baseless virulent psychopathic hate for the Rt Hon Prime Minister, and his contempt for Luos, I really really fear him.
I fear the arcing motion his wildly gesticulating arms make as he points skywards and to the audience, and makes the hacking – machete motion with his fingers aligned like one.
I fear his red (bhangi?) rabid feral eyes.
The guys forceful rhetoric scares the bejeezus outta me, esp when he speaks in code. I fear him, for mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka.
We know jomo jnr sent njenga to assasinate TJM.
This guy is capable of anything.
So, they may go to the Hague round hii, but dont count on them seeing through the whole process.
Kenyans need Regional Governance where one can speak their languages to their people to understand better, and by doing so we should enact the Majimbo (Provincial) Governance without being foolled by unity which will never be there. When Uhuru Kenyatta was speaking at Murang’a County, Wamalwa did not even know or understand what Uhuru was speaking or telling his Kikuyu fellow people in their language? And that is why we need Majimbo to let your region understand what you speak to them.That is point one to be noted down.
Point two; A polite open truth to Kenyans is this; The Kikuyu tribe in Central Province should know that they have gained what they wanted from the two Presidents who worked hard corruptly to acquire messive wealth to suit their needs. But unfortunately they should not have any hope for the third President from their region Central Province whether using the acquired money or material of wealth or hired mercenaries or Mungiki or Army.Those dreams should be seen as doom. They should note that point down too.
People like Wamalwa who does not know anything think he can gain anything from Kikuyus like Moi did,that is also a doom dreaming. President Kibaki has shown Kenyans what Kikuyus wanted in Kenya. You can see what they planned in 2007/08 post-election violence being repeatedly revealed itself, they don’t even know that ICC Hague is watching their behavior and languages they use openly in public without fear.
Do Uhuru and Michuki think Kenyans will follow them because of their money they have acquired corruptly to elect a Kikuyu to be a President of Kenya again?
Why can’t they read from the wall or Black Board? Do they think if they kill Raila no any person in Kenya can be a President except from Kikuyus?
I always lough with my friends when we hear grown up people talking about succession of the Presindency in Kenya from one tribe and yet Kenyans knows very well that their President is elected by votes according to our constitution. Now which clause is that for succession in our constitution, and in which Chapter of the Law?
How can people talk about their Village Chieftain to be the succession of the President of the Nation without votes? Can Kenyans see this blindness of impunity how it makes people not to see even one inch of their steps? Kibaki has taught Kenyans to know their aim, but I am sorry for them to be late in thinking.Kenyans are now awake no one will be foolled. The Central Province Kikuyus should be ready to vote for another Province which has never been in Power since Independence. And Wamalwa should just keep on his Law Firm than wasting time in the game we knew long ago.The CIC Chairman Mr. Charles Nyachae should review the Majimbo issue and enact it in the new law otherwise there will be no peace in Kenya in future, because the tribal thing is ripe in the country and the medicine to cure it is to separate tribes to feel free with their own regions.
History shows what some Kenyans, including Kikuyus thought about Jomo Kenyatta in 2000. His family is enjoying the wealth he stole.
Kenyatta in trouble 22 years after his death
New African, Jun 2000 by Kamau, John
An outspoken member of Moi’s cabinet, Francis Lotodo, has even demanded that Kenyatta should be tried posthumously for “crimes committed against Kenyans”.
Until now, historians have regarded Kenyatta as a nationalist and pan-Africanist who was instrumental in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). While this is not in doubt, Kenyans are re-examining the man who ruled them for 18 years.
“Kenyatta was a tribalist,” says Wanyiri Kihoro, the Nyeri Town MP. “And I’m not saying this because he is dead. I said the same in 1975 before his death.”
Some members of Kenyatta’s family cannot believe what they are hearing. “My God, why are we doing this to a dead man. Kenyatta is long dead and cannot defend himself’, says Beth Mugo, an MP and niece of the dead president.
This is all rubbish’
But that has hardly stopped his critics. Says Martin Shikuku: “It is common knowledge that Kenyatta’s regime thrived on the plunder of the national economy. He surrounded himself with a gang of tribalists that controlled his government.” Shikuku was detained without trial in 1976 by Kenyatta, for saying in parliament that the ruling Kanu party was dead.
But even under fire, Kenyatta does have his friends. “This is all rubbish,” says Stanley Ngugi Kanyi, a Nairobi businessman in defence of Kenyatta. “Yes, we know what he did but two wrongs cannot make a right. You cannot criticise a dead man.”
Kenyatta’s immediate family is yet to react to what is going on. But among the general public, the former president has now become a source of discussion, if not ridicule.
Shikuku is particularly scathing in his attacks. “[Kenyatta] was not a nationalist as depicted by historians, he was a manipulator,” Shikuku says. “He concentrated too much power in the presidency, no wonder the colonial governor (Sir Patrick Renison) referred to him as `a leader unto darkness’.”
“Rubbish”, say President Moi and some of his cabinet ministers who dismiss the Kenyatta bashers as “idlers who should better use their energies on matters that can help develop the country”.
But the respected former Kenyan freedom fighter, Bildad Kaggia, who was detained with Kenyatta in 1958 by the British, appears to have finally twisted the knife by saying that Kenyatta tried “many times” to harm him.
Kaggia fell out with Kenyatta in 1969. He now says he refused to amass wealth like other cabinet ministers and that was why he was sidelined. Today, he lives a pauper’s life, operating a small posho mill in central Kenya.
No wonder those close to Kenyatta have opted to keep quiet.
Copyright International Communications Jun 2000
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Kenyatta’s rule saw the murder of three top politicians – J.M. Kariuki, Pio Gama Pinto and Tom Mboya. The murders have not been resolved to this day. The assassins of Mboya and Pinto are widely believed to have been wrongly convicted.
Kenyatta’s successor, Daniel crap Moi, 74, has joined in the fray by defending the boss he served for 12 years as vice president. “Those attacking Kenyatta and his family don’t know the contributions Kenyatta made to this country,” says Moi.
Poor human rigs record
But the critics are not impressed. “Kenyatta’s family must account for its wealth,” retorts Wanyiri Kihoro, the opposition MP from the Democratic Party of Kenya. He hails from the same populous Kikuyu tribe as Kenyatta. But he is unfazed by tribal loyalties. “We all know that Kenyatta was a land-grabber”, Kihoro adds somewhat irreverently.
He is supported by Luke Obok, the chairman of the Kenya Pipeline Company: “Kenyatta’s regime was worse [than Moi’s]. Nobody was allowed to question the ills of his government. It is sad that under him, many Luos [from the other big tribe in the country] who were in top positions were frustrated and those in the army and police were summarily dismissed”.
One of the Luos who fell out with Kenyatta was his former vice-president, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who was regarded as the doyen of Kenyan opposition politics. Odinga died on 20 January 1994, without attaining the position he craved for all his life – the presidency.
Mwai Kibaki, the current opposition leader and finance minister under Kenyatta, says about the unresolved murders of Mboya, Kariuki and Pinto: “Those suspects who have not died should now be taken to court”. But President Moi has dismissed such calls.
Yet attacks on Kenyatta are increasing. “How did Kenyatta amass all that wealth given that he was in detention for eight years”, asks Martin Shikuku, a member of the team that negotiated Kenya’s independence constitution at Lancaster House in London in 1962.
Kenyatta became president at independence in 1963. Critics were either sidelined, or detained without trial. Shikuku himself was detained in 1974 and released only after Kenyatta’s death in 1978.
It is not clear why Kenyatta’s wealth is being questioned 22 years after his death. But his family is among the richest in the country. It owns large tracts of land and ranches in the Rift Valley province and large coffee estates in the Central Province. It runs a successful dairy firm, Brookside Ltd, which supplies Nairobi and its environs with fresh milk. Two years ago, Kenyatta’s widow, Mama Ngina Kenyatta, bought the Kenyan franchise of the British chain store, Boots Pharmaceuticals, and renamed it Beta Health Care (K) Ltd. Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru Kenyatta, is a director of a private Kenyan aviation company. The family also has interests in hotel and banking – it owns shares in the Commercial Bank of Africa and also in the building industry.
“All we want to know is how they acquired this wealth,” says Martin Shikuku.
People are also questioning the disappearance of top politicians during his era. In March, the local media revived investigations into the “disappearances” and insinuated that Kenyatta’s security men were responsible for them.
Perhaps one of the main pillars of the State built by Jomo Kenyatta was the provincial administration and the bureaucracy. This administration and bureaucracy were colonial both in design and to some degree, in content. Until 1975, the Africanization policy had been done cautiously without seriously altering the basis on which the colonial state was built and maintained. For instance, the chief’s act remained and was only reviewed in 1997. The provincial administration became a state agent in the provinces without devolution of their powers following very closely on the British colonial style. The province was headed by the provincial commissioner (PC), the district commissioner in the district, the district officer in the division, the chief in the location, the sub-chief in the sub-location and the Liguru in the village.
The provincial administration and strategic positions in the bureaucracy were heavily ethnically partial to the favor of the Kikuyu, Kenyatta’s community. By the time of Kenyatta’s death, four out of the eight PCs were Kikuyu. In 1974, seven out of the twenty cabinet ministers were Kikuyu and five of these seven were from Kiambu, Kenyatta’s home district. At the University of Nairobi, for example, then Kenya’s only public university, “all the top ten administrative positions … were held by members of the Kikuyu community”. While in colonial times the army was composed mainly of the Kamba and Kalenjin, by 1967, 22.7 per cent of the officers were Kikuyu. So ethnicized was the provincial administration and strategic positions in the civil service that even the permanent secretary in charge of provincial administration was a Kikuyu. In 1970, there were nine Kikuyu permanent secretaries out of the total of 22. The worst part was that their selection and posting was so irregular that even illiterate ones were posted to crucial positions.
There were also some presumed gains for the Kikuyu community when Kenyatta was the Head of State, which led to non-Kikuyu resentment of the Kikuyu. This resentment has been nurtured and allowed to develop to the extent that it keeps popping up regularly. The State, in this ethnicized politics, was construed to be helping those whose community the president hailed. Other communities have to wait for their turn to occupy the state and “eat”. Not all the people from the Kikuyu community benefited from the Kenyatta State – however, a feeling of attachment to a Kikuyu-controlled state developed to unprecedented levels and that “most Kikuyus … still regarded the presidency as their legitimate inheritance and guarantee to their privileged position”.
By Godwin Murunga – The Independent State of Kenya
Jeff Koinange, the disgraced former CNN reporter and the man who is on record as having raped Marriane Brinner (a former associate of Moi and Biwott), is now being used for lowly debates at the Kenyatta family owned K24 TV station.
This is the propaganda machine used for attacking Raila Odinga, to promote Uhuru Kenyatta, who is Koinange’s relative. But Uhuru is off to The Hague for having used Mungiki gangsters to murder Luos and other non-Kikuyus. Raila meanwhile will continue as Prime Minister. Who then, is fooling who?
In the video link below, Jeff Koinange sounds so pathetic, no wonder he used to pay Nigerians to stage fake rebel attacks which he used to show on CNN. He is as fake as his voice and acquired accent.
Look at Eugene Wamalwa looking foolish amidst the bhang smoking Uhuru’s makelele. Poor chap he is being used to replace Kalonzo in the KKK equation.He is going nowhere.
Jeff Koinange, i hope you read these. i thought you were educated but by listening to you over and over with your ridiculous so called “3 Sides of a coin”, I’ve come to realize that you are the most pathetic petty, dull, fake and annoying journalist ever in the Kenyan history, no wonder CNN could not contain you. You are are thick as the so called “Kenyan politicians”
Jeff Koinange seems to suggest the African Union, the EU and the rest of the World do not know the constitution of Ivory Coast. Jeff Koinange needs to stop being this cheap. Keep your Kikuyism away from the national media.
The first thing the next govt should do is to implement the legally sound gender and ethnic balance in the civil service. most ministers cram their ministries with their ethnic brothers at the expense of their ministries. Finance ministry is just one. Uhuru is still under the illusion that he is the Prince in waiting to the throne, and only a Kikuyu is fit ti rule. It’s high time he opened his eyes to face the reality. Let’m come back sans hand-cuffs from the crucible of Okambo at the ICC. Then only he can present himself as a credible presidential candidate. But how will he explain the plight of the landless IDPs while he is sitting on thousands of acres grabbed by his father from Kenyans. Jeff Koinange and K24 won’t redeem his spoilt image.
The ICC has confirmed the receipt of a letter from the government that Head of Civil Service Ambassador Francis Muthaura and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta are no longer members of government agencies that may see them contact witnesses and victims of the ICC cases. But Ocampo wanted the two to also leave their respective cabinet positions saying they may still be in a position to interfere with witnesses and collection of evidence. That not having been achieved, it means the ICC prosecutor can now potray the government as not cooperating with the court.
It has emerged that there has been a stand-off between the Kenyan government and the Netherlands embassy on the kind of visas to be issued to the 6 post election violence suspects. Sources within the Ocampo 6 disclosed that the Dutch embassy had declined to issue them with Schengen visas, which would allow them entry into other European countries, other than Netherlands, insisting that they were high risk visitors who could use their visas to seek asylum in Europe.
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A Nairobi politician, with powerful connections in Government, is behind the Sh204 million-heroin a special police unit seized last week.
But in a strange turn of events, the police have literally thrown in the towel over arresting the politician they say owns the speedboats used to transfer the drugs from the high seas to his house.
The politician is said to be under the protection of a well-connected activist and businesswoman. As if to underline their impotence in the face of the worsening drugs crisis, the police complained drug barons were “boasting in public places” how the force is useless.
A statement from police headquarters further claimed the drug barons were intimidating and attempting to bribe police officers investigating the high profile case.
The police claim the beneficiaries of the haul were using every means to discredit the police so they could continue drug trafficking.
Last week, the officers led by Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere airlifted what they said was 196kg of the highly addictive narcotic to Nairobi, using a helicopter under the cover an F5E jet fighter.
Upon landing at Wilson Airport, the drug was quickly secured by armed General Service Unit officers with a fighter jet sitting on the runway.
But in a strange turn of events barely 24 hours later, police told journalists the drug they were holding was in fact 102kg, 94kg less than what they earlier declared.
Yesterday, Mr Iteere issued a statement through spokesman Eric Kiraithe and warned they would not relent in their efforts to get those behind the haul.
“Some of them are boasting in public places saying police are useless and have tried to compromise, demoralise and intimidate officers pursuing the case. Let the beneficiaries know the war is still on,” said Kiraithe.
He did not explain the ways the barons have tried to use to curtail investigation.
Kiraithe spoke as it emerged police are now concentrating on the ‘owners’ of five speedboats believed to have been used in bringing the drug ashore at the Coast before one of them was impounded.
Ali Mohamed (right), Khan Mohamed (centre) and Abdul Baseet at Nairobi Law Courts Thursday, where they are facing charges of trafficking narcotics. [PHOTO: EVANS HABIL/ STANDARD]
Sources said the speedboats, which are usually parked in the Bamburi area, have been linked to the Nairobi politician named in the investigations.
Police are yet to interrogate the politician even after his mobile phone was found to have been in constant contact with some of the suspects in custody over the seizure, and him being a master to one of them.
The same man has been linked to the house where the 102kg haul was netted on March 21, in Shanzu.
Police claim the politician enjoys the protection of an official in the Ministry of Internal Security who has blocked police from interrogating him.
Fear calling
“He has been mentioned, but police fear calling him for interrogation. This haul does not belong to the six people who were caught with it. Reports indicate it is his,” said a detective close to the investigations who requested anonymity.
But yesterday, Kiraithe said police investigations are still on, and warned they would not spare anyone if there would be evidence to show link with the shipping of the drugs.
“It doesn’t matter who he is, he will have to face the law if and when his time comes. These drugs are causing a lot of damage to our society and those responsible for their importation have to be answerable,” he said.
He said anyone found to be linked to the haul would be enjoined in the case, which is in court.
Kiraithe confirmed investigators are pursuing leads that the seized haul could have been part of a larger consignment of about two tons that was shipped in from Pakistan. The ship waited in the high seas before speedboats started delivering the drugs to coastal towns of Lamu and Malindi.
Other reports indicated some of the haul may have ended up in Zanzibar, through the same speedboats undetected, and officers there have been alerted.
Officers rushed to Lamu and Malindi to follow leads that there were more of the drug that may have been shipped there in a similar manner.
Although the owner of the house is known police are yet to reveal the registered owner of the two cars – a Nissan saloon car and a Toyota Rav4 that delivered the haul to the house.
Kiraithe insisted according to their register, the two pistols and 59 bullets that were seized from two of the suspects were illegally owned. The suspects have given out firearms licenses, which show they had the guns legally.
He added investigations into the case are complex given some of the suspects in custody had arrived in Mombasa two days before the seizure by officers from Special Crimes Prevention Unit and Anti-Narcotics Unit.
The suspects include three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani.
Kiraithe said they had initially presumed the haul to be 196kg, based on the 2kg-mark on each of the 98 packets, which were seized.
Nothing wrong
“But when our officers and those from Government Chemist weighed it in Nairobi while preparing a charge sheet they found it to be 94kg less. There is nothing wrong,” stated Kiraithe.
The seizure of heroin at an apartment in Shanzu followed a two-week wait by police who had been tipped the narcotics would be arriving.
Police said the traffickers had arrived and were waiting for the ground to clear before delivering.
The traffickers were using a GPRS phone to communicate with their contacts at sea for direction before they could deliver the cargo.
The drug was disguised as dog food under the brand name and labeled, “Science Plan: Veterinary formulated Canine Senior for older dogs. New improved taste.” The whitish powder was concealed in nylon papers.
One of the suspects identified had, according to police, rented the apartment two days before the arrival of the drugs.
The suspect introduced his other accomplices as investors who wanted to rent the Jupiter Apartment, police boss said.
Other Kenyan suspects were Hassan Ibrahim, and Yusuf Hassan. Iranians suspects were identified as Ali Mohamed and Abduk Baseet. There was also Khan Mohamed, a Pakistani.
Police say they want to establish if the six were part of a syndicate, and that their intention is to break it by dismantling their local and international networks.
Kikuyus will neva end this stupid hatared in kenya. They never and will ever se other tribes as kenyas. Change will come, but not a peacfully one im afraid. The rest of kenyans tribe should start demanding kenya to be divided like sudan!!! In this way the kenyans that wants to live side by side as one people will get a chance for a brighter future. This will show how weak the kikuyus are when they dont have any chance to coraption!!
KSB: For you, there is no distinction between Wakikuyu. The corrupt thieving ethnic chauvisnists running the State machine and the poor starving Kikuyu toiling for a living and resident at Kibera with other equally oppressed ethnic groups. Are they the same? It is necessary for Kenyans who understand these dynamics to give political education to colleagues lagging behind. Only brainwashed, culturally backward or chauvinistic Wakikuyu believe that Kenya belongs to them. In reality, the country cannot and will never belong to one ethnic group because Kenya has 42 tribes.
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Uhuru is becoming worse than his father by speaking Kikuyu in Central Province in the name of attracting sympathy before going to The Hague. It is sad that as an aspiring president, he has stooped this low.
Ms Karua said MPs had voted for The Hague option in refusing to approve a Bill she had prepared for the creation of a special tribunal to try the post-election violence suspects when she was Justice minister.
“Lest I am accused of celebrating that people are going to The Hague, let me remind you that I came here and pleaded with you to establish a Special Tribunal. I was told, ‘Don’t be vague, let’s go to The Hague’,” she said.
“Now The Hague has come, take The Hague quietly.”
Ms Karua asked those destined for the International Criminal Court to ask their associates what option they voted for at that time, and what their current stand is.
She said coalition principals President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga tried to convince the MPs to approve the formation of the tribunal when they signed a commitment to either have it in place within 60 days or have the cases handled by the ICC.
Ms Karua also accused the government of a tendency to cater for the needs of the rich at the expense of the poor, who are already saddled with the high cost of living.
“This is a big boys’ club, never mind the ages of the big boys,” she said.
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/1135726/-/7q902o/-/index.html
kenyan politics of tribes.recently it was Eugene Wamalwa getting crowned as the Bukusu elder,now Uhuru is made the kikuyu king.this is our real kenya.
More GEMA members among new employees in Kenyatta’s Office
OFFICE OF DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTRY OF FINANCE
LIST OF NEW APPOINTMENTS TO CIVIL SERVICE
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Whatever you rant &comment wont help or change anything !The best thing is for the rest 41 Kenyan tribe to declare their areas anti -Kikuyu Zones and allow Kikuyus to remain strictly in their Central Province and elect Uhuru or Michuki their President!
Translation of Uhuru’s video of what he said in Kikuyu at his installation as “Kikuyu king”—–:
“We should not be afraid to be called Kikuyus. All of us should follow our muthamaki (great leader) Kibaki. None of these leaders here would have made it to parliament in 2007 if they did not support Kibaki.
Now they pretend they made it on their own. When Kibaki says something or shows the direction to follow, they are the first to contradict him. The first person to betray us to the others is none of us. I want to tell all the leaders here that if any one of them fails to toe the line, they should know that their politics is over.
“If Kibaki tells us to go to the left, we should do so, just like Ruto tells his people to go one way and they all do so. We will not allow ourselves to be killed just because we are not following our leaders. Those who fail to do this, we will follow them to their homes and expose them as the ones who are betraying us. We will say ‘See this person is the one who is failing to work with us’.
“We have one disease, and that disease is the disease of loving ourselves, that we leaders do not listen to each other. When we vied in 2007, we stood by many parties. I even don’t know how many they were,” he said….
Speaking in Kikuyu, Fr Joachim Gitonga who presided over the ceremony told the rally, “Now we are going to make Uhuru the King of the Kikuyu community and King of the entire country. We are going to give him this stick which has nine levels which signify the clans of the Kikuyu community.” He used both the words muthamaki and kingi.
Uhuru Kenyatta jr Vomitting hate heart (venon)
Dont take yourself to seriously, and BTW, even if jomo jnr attended Amerherst he has nothing to show for it. What did he study BTW and did he even graduate?
The Rt Hon Prime Minister is one of those rare fellows who translated his degree into something substantial, something you can see, touch and experience, something that actually helps hundreds of thousands of households and employs a few hundreds.
They love to hate the Rt Hon Prime Minsiter, but NONE OF THESE blank blank blank will ever match his illustrious record.
They love asking kwani ametufanyia nini? What has he done?
Jeez they have the temerity to ask what has he done?
Have these fellows ever bothered reading up on his accomplishments?
First of all, Without the Rt Hon Prime Minister, the democratic space in this country that enables those loose tongues to keep up their virulent attacks may not be that wide!
Imagine if kipkorios had succeeded in imposing his manchurian candidate jomo jnr on us. Now you have the willy old kleptrocrat pulling the puppet strings on this obstreperous, rabid, arrogant , perpetually angry, bhangi loving, mungiki embracing, mega tribalist.
If you consider the sloth as “bad”, then this useless tribalist would be bad squared!
Thank goodness he is finished!
Imagine the optics of him being on the docks of the ICC!!
NOTHING could be sadder and more damning. Those pics will be priceless, in fact they will form my avatar!!
No wonder Ngina is raving mad, and the lame duck P.O.R.K is feeling the heat!!
I am loving this!!
I just hope they dont go to the wa nina of all courts in the Hague, I just want more drama, and see the noose tightening on their necks as they acquire the tag – ICC fugitive so and so. I want them to be exposed, and de-fanged, esp jomo jnr.
I fear that son of a gun. I really do. He sends shivers down my spine.
Having watched him on Utube exhorting his tribesmen and women to back him up, expressing his baseless virulent psychopathic hate for the Rt Hon Prime Minister, and his contempt for Luos, I really really fear him.
I fear the arcing motion his wildly gesticulating arms make as he points skywards and to the audience, and makes the hacking – machete motion with his fingers aligned like one.
I fear his red (bhangi?) rabid feral eyes.
The guys forceful rhetoric scares the bejeezus outta me, esp when he speaks in code. I fear him, for mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka.
We know jomo jnr sent njenga to assasinate TJM.
This guy is capable of anything.
So, they may go to the Hague round hii, but dont count on them seeing through the whole process.
Kenyans need Regional Governance where one can speak their languages to their people to understand better, and by doing so we should enact the Majimbo (Provincial) Governance without being foolled by unity which will never be there. When Uhuru Kenyatta was speaking at Murang’a County, Wamalwa did not even know or understand what Uhuru was speaking or telling his Kikuyu fellow people in their language? And that is why we need Majimbo to let your region understand what you speak to them.That is point one to be noted down.
Point two; A polite open truth to Kenyans is this; The Kikuyu tribe in Central Province should know that they have gained what they wanted from the two Presidents who worked hard corruptly to acquire messive wealth to suit their needs. But unfortunately they should not have any hope for the third President from their region Central Province whether using the acquired money or material of wealth or hired mercenaries or Mungiki or Army.Those dreams should be seen as doom. They should note that point down too.
People like Wamalwa who does not know anything think he can gain anything from Kikuyus like Moi did,that is also a doom dreaming. President Kibaki has shown Kenyans what Kikuyus wanted in Kenya. You can see what they planned in 2007/08 post-election violence being repeatedly revealed itself, they don’t even know that ICC Hague is watching their behavior and languages they use openly in public without fear.
Do Uhuru and Michuki think Kenyans will follow them because of their money they have acquired corruptly to elect a Kikuyu to be a President of Kenya again?
Why can’t they read from the wall or Black Board? Do they think if they kill Raila no any person in Kenya can be a President except from Kikuyus?
I always lough with my friends when we hear grown up people talking about succession of the Presindency in Kenya from one tribe and yet Kenyans knows very well that their President is elected by votes according to our constitution. Now which clause is that for succession in our constitution, and in which Chapter of the Law?
How can people talk about their Village Chieftain to be the succession of the President of the Nation without votes? Can Kenyans see this blindness of impunity how it makes people not to see even one inch of their steps? Kibaki has taught Kenyans to know their aim, but I am sorry for them to be late in thinking.Kenyans are now awake no one will be foolled. The Central Province Kikuyus should be ready to vote for another Province which has never been in Power since Independence. And Wamalwa should just keep on his Law Firm than wasting time in the game we knew long ago.The CIC Chairman Mr. Charles Nyachae should review the Majimbo issue and enact it in the new law otherwise there will be no peace in Kenya in future, because the tribal thing is ripe in the country and the medicine to cure it is to separate tribes to feel free with their own regions.
History shows what some Kenyans, including Kikuyus thought about Jomo Kenyatta in 2000. His family is enjoying the wealth he stole.
Kenyatta in trouble 22 years after his death
New African, Jun 2000 by Kamau, John
An outspoken member of Moi’s cabinet, Francis Lotodo, has even demanded that Kenyatta should be tried posthumously for “crimes committed against Kenyans”.
Until now, historians have regarded Kenyatta as a nationalist and pan-Africanist who was instrumental in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). While this is not in doubt, Kenyans are re-examining the man who ruled them for 18 years.
“Kenyatta was a tribalist,” says Wanyiri Kihoro, the Nyeri Town MP. “And I’m not saying this because he is dead. I said the same in 1975 before his death.”
Some members of Kenyatta’s family cannot believe what they are hearing. “My God, why are we doing this to a dead man. Kenyatta is long dead and cannot defend himself’, says Beth Mugo, an MP and niece of the dead president.
This is all rubbish’
But that has hardly stopped his critics. Says Martin Shikuku: “It is common knowledge that Kenyatta’s regime thrived on the plunder of the national economy. He surrounded himself with a gang of tribalists that controlled his government.” Shikuku was detained without trial in 1976 by Kenyatta, for saying in parliament that the ruling Kanu party was dead.
But even under fire, Kenyatta does have his friends. “This is all rubbish,” says Stanley Ngugi Kanyi, a Nairobi businessman in defence of Kenyatta. “Yes, we know what he did but two wrongs cannot make a right. You cannot criticise a dead man.”
Kenyatta’s immediate family is yet to react to what is going on. But among the general public, the former president has now become a source of discussion, if not ridicule.
Shikuku is particularly scathing in his attacks. “[Kenyatta] was not a nationalist as depicted by historians, he was a manipulator,” Shikuku says. “He concentrated too much power in the presidency, no wonder the colonial governor (Sir Patrick Renison) referred to him as `a leader unto darkness’.”
“Rubbish”, say President Moi and some of his cabinet ministers who dismiss the Kenyatta bashers as “idlers who should better use their energies on matters that can help develop the country”.
But the respected former Kenyan freedom fighter, Bildad Kaggia, who was detained with Kenyatta in 1958 by the British, appears to have finally twisted the knife by saying that Kenyatta tried “many times” to harm him.
Kaggia fell out with Kenyatta in 1969. He now says he refused to amass wealth like other cabinet ministers and that was why he was sidelined. Today, he lives a pauper’s life, operating a small posho mill in central Kenya.
No wonder those close to Kenyatta have opted to keep quiet.
Copyright International Communications Jun 2000
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved
Kenyatta’s rule saw the murder of three top politicians – J.M. Kariuki, Pio Gama Pinto and Tom Mboya. The murders have not been resolved to this day. The assassins of Mboya and Pinto are widely believed to have been wrongly convicted.
Kenyatta’s successor, Daniel crap Moi, 74, has joined in the fray by defending the boss he served for 12 years as vice president. “Those attacking Kenyatta and his family don’t know the contributions Kenyatta made to this country,” says Moi.
Poor human rigs record
But the critics are not impressed. “Kenyatta’s family must account for its wealth,” retorts Wanyiri Kihoro, the opposition MP from the Democratic Party of Kenya. He hails from the same populous Kikuyu tribe as Kenyatta. But he is unfazed by tribal loyalties. “We all know that Kenyatta was a land-grabber”, Kihoro adds somewhat irreverently.
He is supported by Luke Obok, the chairman of the Kenya Pipeline Company: “Kenyatta’s regime was worse [than Moi’s]. Nobody was allowed to question the ills of his government. It is sad that under him, many Luos [from the other big tribe in the country] who were in top positions were frustrated and those in the army and police were summarily dismissed”.
One of the Luos who fell out with Kenyatta was his former vice-president, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga who was regarded as the doyen of Kenyan opposition politics. Odinga died on 20 January 1994, without attaining the position he craved for all his life – the presidency.
Mwai Kibaki, the current opposition leader and finance minister under Kenyatta, says about the unresolved murders of Mboya, Kariuki and Pinto: “Those suspects who have not died should now be taken to court”. But President Moi has dismissed such calls.
Yet attacks on Kenyatta are increasing. “How did Kenyatta amass all that wealth given that he was in detention for eight years”, asks Martin Shikuku, a member of the team that negotiated Kenya’s independence constitution at Lancaster House in London in 1962.
Kenyatta became president at independence in 1963. Critics were either sidelined, or detained without trial. Shikuku himself was detained in 1974 and released only after Kenyatta’s death in 1978.
It is not clear why Kenyatta’s wealth is being questioned 22 years after his death. But his family is among the richest in the country. It owns large tracts of land and ranches in the Rift Valley province and large coffee estates in the Central Province. It runs a successful dairy firm, Brookside Ltd, which supplies Nairobi and its environs with fresh milk. Two years ago, Kenyatta’s widow, Mama Ngina Kenyatta, bought the Kenyan franchise of the British chain store, Boots Pharmaceuticals, and renamed it Beta Health Care (K) Ltd. Kenyatta’s son, Uhuru Kenyatta, is a director of a private Kenyan aviation company. The family also has interests in hotel and banking – it owns shares in the Commercial Bank of Africa and also in the building industry.
“All we want to know is how they acquired this wealth,” says Martin Shikuku.
People are also questioning the disappearance of top politicians during his era. In March, the local media revived investigations into the “disappearances” and insinuated that Kenyatta’s security men were responsible for them.
Perhaps one of the main pillars of the State built by Jomo Kenyatta was the provincial administration and the bureaucracy. This administration and bureaucracy were colonial both in design and to some degree, in content. Until 1975, the Africanization policy had been done cautiously without seriously altering the basis on which the colonial state was built and maintained. For instance, the chief’s act remained and was only reviewed in 1997. The provincial administration became a state agent in the provinces without devolution of their powers following very closely on the British colonial style. The province was headed by the provincial commissioner (PC), the district commissioner in the district, the district officer in the division, the chief in the location, the sub-chief in the sub-location and the Liguru in the village.
The provincial administration and strategic positions in the bureaucracy were heavily ethnically partial to the favor of the Kikuyu, Kenyatta’s community. By the time of Kenyatta’s death, four out of the eight PCs were Kikuyu. In 1974, seven out of the twenty cabinet ministers were Kikuyu and five of these seven were from Kiambu, Kenyatta’s home district. At the University of Nairobi, for example, then Kenya’s only public university, “all the top ten administrative positions … were held by members of the Kikuyu community”. While in colonial times the army was composed mainly of the Kamba and Kalenjin, by 1967, 22.7 per cent of the officers were Kikuyu. So ethnicized was the provincial administration and strategic positions in the civil service that even the permanent secretary in charge of provincial administration was a Kikuyu. In 1970, there were nine Kikuyu permanent secretaries out of the total of 22. The worst part was that their selection and posting was so irregular that even illiterate ones were posted to crucial positions.
There were also some presumed gains for the Kikuyu community when Kenyatta was the Head of State, which led to non-Kikuyu resentment of the Kikuyu. This resentment has been nurtured and allowed to develop to the extent that it keeps popping up regularly. The State, in this ethnicized politics, was construed to be helping those whose community the president hailed. Other communities have to wait for their turn to occupy the state and “eat”. Not all the people from the Kikuyu community benefited from the Kenyatta State – however, a feeling of attachment to a Kikuyu-controlled state developed to unprecedented levels and that “most Kikuyus … still regarded the presidency as their legitimate inheritance and guarantee to their privileged position”.
By Godwin Murunga – The Independent State of Kenya
Jeff Koinange, the disgraced former CNN reporter and the man who is on record as having raped Marriane Brinner (a former associate of Moi and Biwott), is now being used for lowly debates at the Kenyatta family owned K24 TV station.
This is the propaganda machine used for attacking Raila Odinga, to promote Uhuru Kenyatta, who is Koinange’s relative. But Uhuru is off to The Hague for having used Mungiki gangsters to murder Luos and other non-Kikuyus. Raila meanwhile will continue as Prime Minister. Who then, is fooling who?
In the video link below, Jeff Koinange sounds so pathetic, no wonder he used to pay Nigerians to stage fake rebel attacks which he used to show on CNN. He is as fake as his voice and acquired accent.
Look at Eugene Wamalwa looking foolish amidst the bhang smoking Uhuru’s makelele. Poor chap he is being used to replace Kalonzo in the KKK equation.He is going nowhere.
Jeff Koinange, i hope you read these. i thought you were educated but by listening to you over and over with your ridiculous so called “3 Sides of a coin”, I’ve come to realize that you are the most pathetic petty, dull, fake and annoying journalist ever in the Kenyan history, no wonder CNN could not contain you. You are are thick as the so called “Kenyan politicians”
Jeff Koinange seems to suggest the African Union, the EU and the rest of the World do not know the constitution of Ivory Coast. Jeff Koinange needs to stop being this cheap. Keep your Kikuyism away from the national media.
The first thing the next govt should do is to implement the legally sound gender and ethnic balance in the civil service. most ministers cram their ministries with their ethnic brothers at the expense of their ministries. Finance ministry is just one. Uhuru is still under the illusion that he is the Prince in waiting to the throne, and only a Kikuyu is fit ti rule. It’s high time he opened his eyes to face the reality. Let’m come back sans hand-cuffs from the crucible of Okambo at the ICC. Then only he can present himself as a credible presidential candidate. But how will he explain the plight of the landless IDPs while he is sitting on thousands of acres grabbed by his father from Kenyans. Jeff Koinange and K24 won’t redeem his spoilt image.
The ICC has confirmed the receipt of a letter from the government that Head of Civil Service Ambassador Francis Muthaura and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta are no longer members of government agencies that may see them contact witnesses and victims of the ICC cases. But Ocampo wanted the two to also leave their respective cabinet positions saying they may still be in a position to interfere with witnesses and collection of evidence. That not having been achieved, it means the ICC prosecutor can now potray the government as not cooperating with the court.
It has emerged that there has been a stand-off between the Kenyan government and the Netherlands embassy on the kind of visas to be issued to the 6 post election violence suspects. Sources within the Ocampo 6 disclosed that the Dutch embassy had declined to issue them with Schengen visas, which would allow them entry into other European countries, other than Netherlands, insisting that they were high risk visitors who could use their visas to seek asylum in Europe.
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A Nairobi politician, with powerful connections in Government, is behind the Sh204 million-heroin a special police unit seized last week.
But in a strange turn of events, the police have literally thrown in the towel over arresting the politician they say owns the speedboats used to transfer the drugs from the high seas to his house.
The politician is said to be under the protection of a well-connected activist and businesswoman. As if to underline their impotence in the face of the worsening drugs crisis, the police complained drug barons were “boasting in public places” how the force is useless.
A statement from police headquarters further claimed the drug barons were intimidating and attempting to bribe police officers investigating the high profile case.
The police claim the beneficiaries of the haul were using every means to discredit the police so they could continue drug trafficking.
Last week, the officers led by Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere airlifted what they said was 196kg of the highly addictive narcotic to Nairobi, using a helicopter under the cover an F5E jet fighter.
Upon landing at Wilson Airport, the drug was quickly secured by armed General Service Unit officers with a fighter jet sitting on the runway.
But in a strange turn of events barely 24 hours later, police told journalists the drug they were holding was in fact 102kg, 94kg less than what they earlier declared.
Yesterday, Mr Iteere issued a statement through spokesman Eric Kiraithe and warned they would not relent in their efforts to get those behind the haul.
“Some of them are boasting in public places saying police are useless and have tried to compromise, demoralise and intimidate officers pursuing the case. Let the beneficiaries know the war is still on,” said Kiraithe.
He did not explain the ways the barons have tried to use to curtail investigation.
Kiraithe spoke as it emerged police are now concentrating on the ‘owners’ of five speedboats believed to have been used in bringing the drug ashore at the Coast before one of them was impounded.
Ali Mohamed (right), Khan Mohamed (centre) and Abdul Baseet at Nairobi Law Courts Thursday, where they are facing charges of trafficking narcotics. [PHOTO: EVANS HABIL/ STANDARD]
Sources said the speedboats, which are usually parked in the Bamburi area, have been linked to the Nairobi politician named in the investigations.
Police are yet to interrogate the politician even after his mobile phone was found to have been in constant contact with some of the suspects in custody over the seizure, and him being a master to one of them.
The same man has been linked to the house where the 102kg haul was netted on March 21, in Shanzu.
Police claim the politician enjoys the protection of an official in the Ministry of Internal Security who has blocked police from interrogating him.
Fear calling
“He has been mentioned, but police fear calling him for interrogation. This haul does not belong to the six people who were caught with it. Reports indicate it is his,” said a detective close to the investigations who requested anonymity.
But yesterday, Kiraithe said police investigations are still on, and warned they would not spare anyone if there would be evidence to show link with the shipping of the drugs.
“It doesn’t matter who he is, he will have to face the law if and when his time comes. These drugs are causing a lot of damage to our society and those responsible for their importation have to be answerable,” he said.
He said anyone found to be linked to the haul would be enjoined in the case, which is in court.
Kiraithe confirmed investigators are pursuing leads that the seized haul could have been part of a larger consignment of about two tons that was shipped in from Pakistan. The ship waited in the high seas before speedboats started delivering the drugs to coastal towns of Lamu and Malindi.
Other reports indicated some of the haul may have ended up in Zanzibar, through the same speedboats undetected, and officers there have been alerted.
Officers rushed to Lamu and Malindi to follow leads that there were more of the drug that may have been shipped there in a similar manner.
Although the owner of the house is known police are yet to reveal the registered owner of the two cars – a Nissan saloon car and a Toyota Rav4 that delivered the haul to the house.
Kiraithe insisted according to their register, the two pistols and 59 bullets that were seized from two of the suspects were illegally owned. The suspects have given out firearms licenses, which show they had the guns legally.
He added investigations into the case are complex given some of the suspects in custody had arrived in Mombasa two days before the seizure by officers from Special Crimes Prevention Unit and Anti-Narcotics Unit.
The suspects include three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani.
Kiraithe said they had initially presumed the haul to be 196kg, based on the 2kg-mark on each of the 98 packets, which were seized.
Nothing wrong
“But when our officers and those from Government Chemist weighed it in Nairobi while preparing a charge sheet they found it to be 94kg less. There is nothing wrong,” stated Kiraithe.
The seizure of heroin at an apartment in Shanzu followed a two-week wait by police who had been tipped the narcotics would be arriving.
Police said the traffickers had arrived and were waiting for the ground to clear before delivering.
The traffickers were using a GPRS phone to communicate with their contacts at sea for direction before they could deliver the cargo.
The drug was disguised as dog food under the brand name and labeled, “Science Plan: Veterinary formulated Canine Senior for older dogs. New improved taste.” The whitish powder was concealed in nylon papers.
One of the suspects identified had, according to police, rented the apartment two days before the arrival of the drugs.
The suspect introduced his other accomplices as investors who wanted to rent the Jupiter Apartment, police boss said.
Other Kenyan suspects were Hassan Ibrahim, and Yusuf Hassan. Iranians suspects were identified as Ali Mohamed and Abduk Baseet. There was also Khan Mohamed, a Pakistani.
Police say they want to establish if the six were part of a syndicate, and that their intention is to break it by dismantling their local and international networks.
Kikuyus will neva end this stupid hatared in kenya. They never and will ever se other tribes as kenyas. Change will come, but not a peacfully one im afraid. The rest of kenyans tribe should start demanding kenya to be divided like sudan!!! In this way the kenyans that wants to live side by side as one people will get a chance for a brighter future. This will show how weak the kikuyus are when they dont have any chance to coraption!!
KSB: For you, there is no distinction between Wakikuyu. The corrupt thieving ethnic chauvisnists running the State machine and the poor starving Kikuyu toiling for a living and resident at Kibera with other equally oppressed ethnic groups. Are they the same? It is necessary for Kenyans who understand these dynamics to give political education to colleagues lagging behind. Only brainwashed, culturally backward or chauvinistic Wakikuyu believe that Kenya belongs to them. In reality, the country cannot and will never belong to one ethnic group because Kenya has 42 tribes.
Lets shun tribalism….
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