Globally, Kenya is a country which is probably sailing in a special class of its own. Ours is a country where some of the most important Cabinet Ministers like the Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Uhuru Kenyatta, is a suspect at the ICC facing charges of crimes against humanity yet he is still in Office. He is now trying to convince us that he needs to be President.
Harun Mwau, a sitting MP, has just been named a drug King-pin by the United States government and instead of stepping aside to allow the country to absorb the shock that a Honorable Member of Parliament is actually a drug King-pin, Mwau has gone to court to dispute the accusation and no one is calling for his resignation. Have we lost it in Kenya?
Chris Okemo, a sitting MP, has been named by the British government as a major player in money laundering. It is estimated that between 1998 and 2001, Okemo, together with ex Kenya Power and Lighting Company boss, Samuel Gichuru, laundered over 900 million Kenyan shillings but today, our government has refused to begin extradition procedures of the two suspects to face trial in Britain.
Through the AG Amos Wako, the government has said that it needs evidence in the Okemo/Gichuru case although when innocent Kenyans were extradited to Guantanamo Bay to be tortured by the US government, the process was smooth and there were no demands for proof that the Kenyans were involved in terrorism. In a WikiLeaks Cable, our AG told the US Ambassador to Kenya that his (US government) should just pick up suspected Kenyan terrorists without informing the government and air lift them to Guantanamo because no one cares and the Ambassador was surprised. Hilarious!
A handful of Kenyans are still being held in Uganda after being extradited to Kampala to face charges of terrorism without the government having demanded for proof of the crimes the Kenyans are alleged to have committed. Ours is a country where the government shamelessly practices double standards without any major intervention from anywhere. If you are rich, you buy justice and if you are poor, you sink! That is our country!
We have just been told that the Treasury cannot account for over 700 billion Kenyan shillings. While we digest this sad news, the Finance Minister comes around with a record budget of over 1.5 trillion Kenyan shillings and since the money is not with the Treasury, we are told that money will be borrowed while the rest will be raised through privatization of State run enterprises.
Privatizations are synonymous with retrenchments. We are a country which borrows money then allocates the borrowed money to pay foreign loans at huge interests and very few Kenyans seem to be concerned. We sell our national assets to finance the budget! Ksh 700 billion that cannot be accounted for by the Treasury is almost half the current budget estimate yet we are planning to borrow from foreigners. We are a country of zero responsibility by those in Office yet we continue to worship these rotten politicians.
Sample this: over ten million Kenyans are facing starvation. Suddenly, the government, through His Excellency the President, offers Ksh 85 million to help flood victims in Japan. We are probably the only third world country extending aid to a first world country at a critical time when we cannot even help ourselves. It is like proceeding to mend your neighbour’s house when your own house is leaking! If we have not yet lost it, then where are we?
The situation is very serious because our State House is a conduit for drug trafficking and despite credible evidence to this effect, our police force, investigative services together with the Secret police cannot yet find any evidence that the Office of President is involved in drug trafficking. The President’s unofficial second wife (who runs around with State security on tow) has been named publicly and on several occasions in drug related operations but still, our police cannot find evidence. They have never even bothered to question the Second First lady about the allegations. If we have not lost it, what has happened to our country?
The people of Kenya are like small insects
When Kenyan criminals return from the Hague, they are met with a huge crowd of Kenyans cheering them. When they go there, more than 40 MPs escort them. For this, Kenya needs to enter into the Guinness Book of Records. In fact, we are the only country which treats suspects of crimes against humanity as heroes. You should see how citizens stampede and almost run over one another during a hysterical celebration to welcome suspects of crimes against humanity while in other countries, these suspects are in hiding, praying that they will never be found. The y are holed in deep spider holes.
Now, we have introduced lumpens of the Sonko type in Parliament and we are happy with their theatrics. When Sonko leads a gang of youths in riots in the streets, blocking traffic as he prostrates himself on the roads, we cheer and say that “We want our Sonko”. Sonko then proceeds to climb over the fence of the Office of the Prime Minister without intervention by security, leave alone being charged with trespass. Once he gets onto the stairs of the Deputy PM with his gang, nothing happens to him as he refers to the Deputy PM as “umbwa” (dog). “wapi huyu umbwa?”, he shouted.
A Honorable MP who is supposed to be making laws breaks the law in public view and instead of being arrested by police and brought to face justice, we cheer as nothing happens in the end. Then we say we are a Nation? A Nation of zombies being herded by thieves who steal from public coffers and when they surface for election, they get our votes to get to Parliament to repeat the same silly routines as we cheer. This is why we have lost it as a Nation.
Kenyans are being slaughtered at the Ethiopian boarder by militias yet the Kenyan army cannot get involved because that would be “an act of war”. In which country will citizens be killed by armed bandits from neighboring countries without intervention by the army? Even Palestinians fight with stones when they are confronted with Israeli tanks!
Kenyans have been hearing about Migingo island which, despite being a Kenyan territory, has been left to assume the distinction of a serious controversy. Today, Uganda still has an upper hand at the Migingo as evidenced by the eviction of Kenyan fishermen from the island. As Kenyans were pondering what the problem could be, Ugingo, a new island, has entered into the list of Kenyan teritories being claimed by Uganda as we bicker back home. If we have not yet lost it, then where are we?
Let us not talk about the unemployment situation of the youth, the lack of medical services for the people of Kenya, the high prices of Unga and fuel, the stagnation of the implementation of the new Constitution, mass poverty across the country as a few thieves in government amass even more wealth, homelessness, frustration among the youth, insecurity across the country, deteriorating living conditions, begging from the West, condoning corruption in government, summary executions by police in the streets (in the name of controlling crime) and the spectacle of having a zombie President at State House.
We should not talk about these issues for now because we may have lost it! The people of Kenya are like small insects which can be crushed by the boots of mighty politicians who have converted the country into their private property.
The politicians act with impunity as we cheer and accord them attention through huge crowds where we dance for them before they cheat us with simple speeches about national unity. We accord them the high table at public rallies where they feed us with false promises before we clap collectively. After they have cheated us, we turn around and say that this time, we will elect clean leaders to Parliament and the cycle continues. For now, let us solemnly admit that we have lost it as a Nation as we try to recoup to ponder what needs to be done.
Okoth Osewe
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‘No blacks, no dogs,no Gypsies’
By Rachel Shields
Gypsies and Travellers in the UK are uniting to form a nationwide coalition to fight what they describe as rapidly escalating levels of racism and discrimination. The leaders of the nation’s largest Gypsy and Traveller organisations will hold an unprecedented gathering later this month with the aim of bringing together the country’s 300,000 Roma, Irish, Welsh and English Gypsies and Travellers in a national federation.
Two of the UK’s largest Gypsy and Traveller associations – the Gypsy Council and the Southern England Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller Network – are involved in the initiative.
Studies in recent years have shown that Gypsies and Travellers experience more racism than any other group in the UK, including asylum-seekers. The most recent Mori poll on the issue revealed that a third of UK residents admitted to being prejudiced against Gypsies and Travellers, while a European Commission report published last week demonstrated that millions of people of Roma origin are still subject to persistent discrimination.
“Travelling people are travelling people, no matter what their ethnicity – we are all marginalised and tarred with the same brush,” said Richard Sheridan, president of the Gypsy Council.
“I don’t think that the situation in the UK has changed much since the 1960s – those ‘No blacks, no dogs, no Gypsies signs’ are not very far away.
“Joining together will make us go further – if we have more people on board it will make it easier for us to stand up for our rights” said Mr Sheridan.
John Johnson, chair of the Southern England Romany Gypsy and Irish Traveller Network, added: “We want to be seen as a cohesive community.”
According to the British Medical Association, the community has the lowest life expectancy and highest rate of child mortality in the UK. Nomadic Gypsies fare particularly badly when it comes to health care, as the absence of a permanent address makes registering with a GP far more difficult. Ofsted has also reported low levels of educational achievement and high rates of illiteracy among Traveller children, due to a disrupted education and bullying.
The British National Party has said in previous local election campaigns that it will evict Travellers, while the campaigning organisation Minority Rights Group International reports that there have been racist attacks on campsites in the UK, many of which are not reported to the police.
“In my experience, racism against Travellers has definitely got worse over the past 40 years. In some bits of Europe, this is due to the fall of Communism and rise of nationalism, but in the UK, it’s probably linked with anti-immigration feelings,” said Grattan Puxon, founder of the Gypsy Council and the author of a number of books on the Traveller community, most recently the 2007 novel Freeborn Traveller.
“There is a lot happening within the Gypsy community at the moment.
“Unification will allow for more effective lobbying” he said.
Mokozewe can’t be more correct. We have lost our manhood – and womanhood, for that matter – in that we have been emasculated to the extent that meaningful resistance to the plundering is non-existing. Kenyans are ‘the most patient’ and ‘the most optimistic’ of all people. See the irony of it! The most worrying is the attitude of the C-I-C of the armed forces, which betrays his lack of commitment to protect the holy borders of Kenya. instead he hosts, wines and dines with the aggressor. He cuts the despicable picture of a man enjoying his chang’aa with a rapist whose victims happen to be his own daughters, knowingly. A man who wastes no time to appear on TV prime time to declare his concubine who enjoys all trappings of the first lady is not his wife, waits for months to declare the two islands under occupation Kenya territory. Kenyans now nostalgically remember the times of Jomo and Moi. With all their sins, they were patriots who would fight an aggressor with their whips and rungus, as Idi Amin and Museveni painfully understood. It’s comforting that he is running the last lap; otherwise there is every chance Kenya could become a colony once again. God Save Kenya!
How I wish the message in this article could reach the ears of the suffering wananchi and be understood and acted upon. Osewe I know you are talking from your heart and mind in this article. You are a patriot and a fearless Kenyan ready to take bulls by their horns. Its all clear and well said. But can you give us suggestions as to how we can reliberate ourselves without negative ethinicity taking charge? Keep in mind that the entire ordinary population living in Kenya are so corrupt and shameless when it comes to voting. They too ask for bribes and reward the persons who pay more regardless of tribe or religion. That is why we have such mind-sick MPs siting in the curret discredited parliament. To you Osewe, dont you think Kenyans abroad are better placed could they be properly organised to takeover political and state power in Kenya? They have resources too. But for me I would prefer that patriots like you should begin planning for a revolution that would also change the current corrupt mindset of the citizenry and as well wipe-out these shameless politicians from the face of Kenya by shooting them on sport. But thanks for your eye oppening article
Dick Kamau:
KSB: Ndugu Dick, we have been sending the message but it’s sinking slowly due to the limitations. There is no problem in Kenya that cannot be solved. However, your enquiry can only be tackled effectively in another article. Thanks.
UHURU KENYATTA COUNTER-PART WAS JAILED FOR 30 YRS in PRISON > This is what awaits UHURU KENYATTA NEXT YEAR>WITH A NEW GOVT>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13654926
I am just loving this guy and how he writes. This is so real and I have been thinking about these issues all day. We have really lost it and now I can see it.
Just another article aimed at discrediting the government but just the Kibaki gova coz Raila happens to be the PM of another nation.kibaki this uhuru that…while Rao sits on the fence an enjoys the ride.
Mr Dick Kamau your artical is good .Secondly you yourself has a political party based inside Kenya.You personally is the Secretary General of CCM Whose Chairman is a Popular and a well known Person Mr Koigi wa Wamwere.Why cant you lead a Revolution in Kenya ?Dont you trust yourself and your Political Party.Having been a former Refugee in Sweden ,and your chairman Koigi also been a former Political (or) self exiled Politician ,What are you doing to turn or to educate the Masses and lead by example how to bring about a Revolution in Kenya?Why Dont your CCM Lead by Example and you are in the grass-roots where by your political Party has a good chance of Mobilising and organising the sleeping millions of Idle youth who just need a leader with Vision and ideas of how to bring about change thropuigh Revolution.
Your artical smells defeatist hence you and Koigi has the best chance to do and act by leading a an-oppressed kenyan masses who are yearning for a Saviour who will Liberate them from the fangs of Monstrous corrupt Regime based on ethinicity.-
Dear KSB-Comment by leta siasa – do you have a name real name? Its ok fear has gripped many who even hide their names despite having very good opinions that can be used to save Kenya.
But in any case you are right and wrong at the same time. You are right am part of the CCM leadership. You are wrong my article does not translate in defeatism its a just a cry in the wilderness of Kenyan politics. A cry whose intention is to call all brave Kenyans abroad to assist in all ways and participate in the soon to be Kenyan political revolution currently in the making.
Your Comment gatangastarr is not based on understanding what Osewe wrote. Had you taken time to try and understand the meaning of the article you would not be as tribal as your seem or you would not be defending Kibaki and Uhuru. The 2 fellows are nowhere near what Kenyans need when it comes to relibaration of KENYA.
Back in Kenya we are informed by the media each and everyday details of who owns Kenya especially land. The 2 are mass grabbers and their entire wealth is questionable. One time I did tell uhuru so and he called me a communist meaning I have no respect for personal wealth.
MrOsewe article’s is not about tribes its about Kenya and its crazy politicians in power. When I fled to Sweden he used to press the immigration to grant me asylum a subject that took 4 years to fullfil. Meanwhile fellow tribesmen in Stockholm were doing all they could to have me deported back to Kenya. They even went as far as writting letters to Swedish security police saying I was sent by Moi to hunt them and that their lives were in danger as long as remained in Sweden. Osewe opposed their schemes and went ahead with campaigns to have many Kenyans accepted and given asylum.
While my tribesmen in Kenya were silent of my fate Raila Odinga the PM, went to a Kenyan court and signed an affidavit and sent it to Swedish government saying he believed if I was returned to Kenya I was as good as dead. Wamalwa also sent letters to ask Swedes to let me stay. Osewe used to visit me in Gimo and other places in Sweden. The late Onyango Sumba was the first Kenyan man whom I met in Sweden after he was sent to meet me at Culrslund where the Swedes had locked me up just because they claimed I had entered the country illegally.
Mwandawiro Mghanga also took me as a brother in need. He is with me in Kenya also trying to bring back sanity into the murky Kenyan politics. To me I am not able to play tribal politics due to the fact that I know those special branch men who used to torture us at Nyayo House were mostly my tribesmen and they did not care if I was a kikuyu speaker. All they cared was divising more cruel torture methods which they experimented on many other Kenyan disdents in Kenya.
My calling on Kenyans abroad to wake up and give us a hand back at home is based on the fact that they are more in the know that tribalism will never save Kenya.
Revange can never end but claims even innocent lives. I thought Kenyans abroad can be a good example to those back in Kenya by being in the lead to place people of intergrety in power position regardless of which tribe they might be.
In fact none of us had a slight chance to order our creator to create us into a certain tribe or race. The most stupid thing is to blame any tribe or race as a whole. Although tribalists agenda is to use tribe as a shield and misuse their tribe for their own power and greed schemes.
Kenyans in Diaspora are doing great in other ways. Now get involved in a bigger way when it comes to Kenya’s political leadership. This is also a personal decision and not a colletive one.
Osewe and other armchair politicians have been consistently discussing similar issues ever since the inception of KSB. Kibaki is on record as the least concerned Kenyan president with Kenyans’ progress. Had he kept his word of “no roadside decisions and zero tolerance for corruption” when he was inaugurated in 2003, we would have been among the most satisfied citizens in the world.
Spammer #6 above is trying to dismiss KSB articles as one-sided yet he never uses facts or any intelligent input to challenge them. Kibaki has been in power since 2003 and there is so much to prove that a lot of bad is due to his poor leadership. This has got nothing to do with Raila who joined as PM in 2008. When convenient, such commentators claim Raila is part of Kibaki’s failure, but also dismiss him as a figurehead without a voice when they want to credit Kibaki.
Who has continually thwarted Raila’s efforts to stamp out corruption such as when he called for the suspension of Ruto and Ongeri? It was Kibaki. One should be specific and stop using Raila’s name even when it is irrelvant. How has the article discredited Kibaki’s government? Because Okemo and Gichuru should be extradited to the UK for money laundering? For pointing out that Sonko is another fool in Parliament?
I found the comment challenging Dick Kamau interesting because he is a member of the Diaspora and top official of a political party purported to promote a social democratic ideology in Kenya. What is Dick doing towards a revolution? I heard he wants to be Governmor of Kiambu. What agenda does he have for his people? What is his opinion on Uhuru Kenyatta and Ruto plus other “G7/KKK members” who are obviously together for tribal expediency?
Kibaki wants us to believe that the economy is flourishing yet it is crime-based and suits quite a few like Mwau and the super-rich of Kibaki’s category.
In 2000 Mutah Ngunyi wrote this about Kenya’s bandit economy: “when we consider how much the “Bandit Economy” generates through crime and corruption, then we might just understand why our economy is in such a mess and why we should either deal with corruption and crime or be given an equal opportunity to partake in them. Of course not literally!
In a recent study conducted by the Series on Alternative Research in East Africa (SAREAT) entitled Liberalising the Bandit Economy in Kenya, we argued that crime and corruption generate much more than most sectors of the formal economy in Kenya do. Put together, carjacking, land grabbing, government corruption, bank robberies, cattle rustling, drug and arms trafficking comprise a vibrant bandit economy probably more viable than the formal economy.”
Kenyans now hope that President Obama might tame drug-dealers by using Mwau as an example to curb its negative effects. Also, Ocampo might rescue Kenyans from impunity by defeating the arrogant Uhuru, Ruto and company.
The corruption level in Kenya is shocking. The Kenya Revenue Authority is engaged in the vice yet it is our revenue collector.
KRA staff ‘tamper with system’
By GITONGA MARETE
Kenya Revenue Authority officials routinely shut down servers to engage in corrupt activities, a parliamentary committee has been told.
A police officer attached to the Mombasa port told the parliamentary committee investigating the cost of living that after the online cargo clearance system is disabled, clearance of cargo is manual, which is easier to manipulate.
This allows entry of contraband goods and operation of tax evasion schemes, the witness said.
“This happens especially on Fridays so that the tax evasion cartels can carry on with illegal business over the weekend.
“During one of the incidents, we found the servers at the port switched off,” the officer said on condition of anonymity.
The committee chaired by Budalang’i MP Ababu Namwamba was listening to submissions by the Kenya Transport Association (KTA) executive committee, which blamed bureaucracy within the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Kenya Bureau of Standards and Kenya Ports Authority for delays.
When KRA’s Simba system is down, cargo movement at the port is slow, resulting in a massive backlog. KRA attributed the breakdown to upgrading that it was carrying out.
Kalonzo Msaliti Must Go & forced to Pay back Tax-payers Money spent carelesly by his Foreigh Shattle Diplomacy>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSPAtJhMe0&feature=player_embedded#at=30
Dick Kamau should better shut-up!Why is he evoking dead kenyans as his witness for his assylum seeking?Why Mention the late Kijana Wamalwa and the late Sumba?I think nobody is intrested with his Past dirty history.
Mr Kamau should consentrate on his Family life and ask himself what went wrong?Is he still lifting social welfare in Sweden?Is he Paying tax in sweden?My advice to Dick Kamau is to lie-low and shut -up!Hence nobody likes Primitive old storo!please mr Kamau give us a break!
WE have a coalition government in Kenya today headed by the president n the prime minister but when it comes to raising issues affecting the country it seems like the PM is neva on the wrong.the gova is a collective responsibility,evone is involved.
The KKK/G7 have only one agenda: to keep Raila off the 2012 presidency. They have no program for the country, so poor Kenyans are in for a shock if they elect one of them as president.
The G7 Alliance has begun fundraising in preparation for 2012 polls in which Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta, Eldoret North MP William Ruto and Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa have agreed to run for the presidency separately. Strategists in the group have targeted to raise about Sh10 billion locally and internationally in readiness for the polls expected in August next year.
It has been established that two presidents from African Countries have already agreed to back up the G7 Alliance kitty because they are opposed to the rise of Prime Minister Raila Odinga to be the President.
The two presidents were remotely involved in the disputed December 27, 2007 elections which caused the 2007-08 violence. “The two presidents who are ready to back us believe that Raila’s links with President Barack Obama may make him the regional king should he ascend to power in Kenya,” an MP in the G7 Alliance revealed.
The money will be shared out among the presidential candidates in the group so that they are able to run effective campaigns within their regions.
The MP said the G7 Alliance which also includes Tourism Minister Najib Balala had explored all issues concerning the 2012 polls and decided that the best way for them is to approach the polls separately hoping to force a runoff between one of them and Raila.
Kenyans people cannot take Idiots any Longer>
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Mayor hurt as youths beat him at public rally
Posted Monday, June 6 2011 at 21:56
Police are investigating an incident in which the Kitui mayor was beaten up at a public rally addressed by Water minister Charity Ngilu.
In the incident that shocked the town, Mayor Alex Mwendwa Munyoki was dragged off the podium as he addressed the Sunday afternoon rally and beaten up, sustaining serious injuries.
Mr Munyoki, a councillor in Mrs Ngilu’s Kitui Central constituency, Hospital claims the youths were hired and given illicit brew to attack him over political differences.
Wrestled to the ground
“Some youths started shouting slogans as I addressed the rally. I was shocked when they surged forward and wrestled me to the ground,” he told the Nation on Monday.
Kitui police boss Lillian Okembo said that one councillor had been arrested over the incident.
Ms Okembo said investigations were underway and all those found to have been involved in the assault would be arrested and prosecuted.
Civic leaders among them Kitui County Council chairman John Manguye condemned the incident and demanded swift police action to arrest all those involved in the violence.
“No one is above the law. Beating up the mayor in public is the highest violation of the law and disrespect to authority,” Mr Manguye said.
Yes, while Kibaki ridiculously dishes out one million dollars to Japan, here is a Kikuyu woman, Mary Kariuki, who had to kill her 9 month old baby because he was a burden that she could not afford to feed or take care of. Yes, and our bandit economy is growing fast…for Murang’a billionaires.
How stupid are these Kenyans who believe that Uhuru Kenyatta, Ruto, Kalonzo the Traitor and those other cartoons will help them? These evil politicians are only interested in fighting Raila and don’t speak of anything they have to offer Kenyans or their tribes.
This bubbling excietement that Kenyans show in the presence of politicians is what gives thm their big heads to think they are to be worshipped. Let us us have fora to ask them questions about what they believe in. This time, i want to vote a candidate with specifics on everything and details of how to get them done.
Some powerful individuals close to President Kibaki are not so comfortable backing Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta as Kibaki’s successor. The individuals are said to have been holding meetings and cracking their brains on who else from the Central region could succeed Kibaki instead of the son of Jomo. They are considering coming up with a new political party apparently to be the vehicle for whoever the group will consider their ideal candidate
Fantastic article keep it up…
and for all kenyans:
“You can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination”
KSB.I think personal attacks on bloggers of KSB smells a rat to me. Have look at this kind of brainless attack by same people who wrote leeters to the police to have me deported: (Mr Kamau should consentrate on his Family life and ask himself what went wrong?Is he still lifting social welfare in Sweden?Is he Paying tax in sweden?My advice to Dick Kamau is to lie-low and shut -up!Hence nobody likes Primitive old storo!please mr Kamau give us a break!)
I thought I was contributing my part of support to Osewe’s brave article but someone somewhere is fond of name calling instead of brain work. I think this nameless person calling himself a former asylum seeker in Gimo is one of those persons whose motives towards my personality are still in question. I believe there was no Kenyan in Gimo during my time who can use such useless words in this brainworth forum of KSB.
In any case there are other great minds in this forum, such as Sala Mwikali, Mindy, Uhondo, Khan, Baraka, Kelly and others whose contributions in this article’s respose is interesting and their challenges worth comment.
I am actually living in Kenya and working hard to earn my daily needs. As a leader within CCM, a socialist oriented party, I believe that things can be made to change collectively by people thinking revolutionary. I have no connections with any tribal groupings in and outside Kenya. That is why I had to mention my connections with other Kenyans from other Kenyan tribes dead or alive to make a point in the minds of those who may want to call OSEWE a tribalist. What if I tell you that I used to exchange letters with the late father of the Kenyan opposition Jaramogi Odinga?
In the Diaspora there are many well informed and patriotic Kenyans. Among them Mr Ngatia former Airforce officer in Kenya now in exile in Sweden whose struggle makes sense to me and wish he was with me in Kenya to put some sense in the minds of Kenyan politicians on spot.
I have met PM Raila several times but have never met Kibaki. I have repeatedly said in public rallies in Kenya that time has come for Kenya to expirience radical revolutionary changes in politics and governance. I am the secretary of the 17 political parties currently meeting in Kenya to chart the way foward when revolutionary hour comes.
Mark my words, there is no retreat this time. Soon our campaign manual will be online.
KSB: Well said Dick. People need to worry where they are standinding in the struggle and use this forum to further the revolutionary agenda.
i have met PM several times but have never met Kibaki.Hmmmm!!!!say nomore Dick.
Haki Kenya yetu is gone. Listen to nominated MP Shebesh questioning the confused Muthaura on #27. He had nothing to answer on the maize shortage. Kenya has completely gone to the dogs! Muthaura will go with Kibaki ngoja tu!!
Dick Kamau is right: Why should a commentator involve past history here not connected to the topic? Let us not erode the comment section with irrelevant issues. Dick should be allowed to state his political position without intimidation. I am awaiting his upcoming “revolutionary” group.
When Raila mentioned that school girls need free supplies of sanitary towels, his opponents laughed at him claiming he is a Communist. Below is a clip showing that most girls are too poor to buy commercially manufactured pads. Uhuru has allocated a lot of the taxpayer’s money on useless self-benefiting things like hospitality at the Hague Mission to entertain guests during future ICC hearings.
KSB: Some times, the links are dead and they are not posted like this one…
Dick Kamau has pointed out the important role played by voices in the Diaspora that want political change in Kenya. So many governments elsewhere have been formed by members of the Diaspora. There is so much wrong happening in Kenya due to the useless politicians, and we in the Diaspora should keep asking why. Meanwhile, let us contribute to the topic instead of issuing personal attacks. For example, what have Ruto, Uhuru and other KKK members done to develop Kenya? Can one mention a single policy they have introduced or implemented to reach the citizenry? These are characters only concerned with increasing their wealth through dubious means. They expect to contest the presidency in 2012, yet have nothing to offer Kenyans. Corruption is fighting back, yet little is being done by the eloquent KACC boss PLO; Wananchi are starving yet Treasury is stealing from the Taxpayers to finance “hospitality” at The Hague for suspected murderers like Uhuru and Ruto during future trips at the ICC. Scholarship money has therefore been deducted by Uhuru for this purpose. Free primary education funds have been stolen, shutting out many kids out of school, etc. If Kenya’s economy is doing so well as claimed by Kibaki handlers, how come many Kenyans cannot afford UNGA, which is the most common staple food in most households? It’s a shame and as well put by Osewe, we have lost it!
Foreign Policy has released its 2011 Failed States Index, ranking countries worldwide based on twelve indicators including overpopulation, uneven infrastructure development, public mistrust of the state, and many more.
These components have all been used to create an index which ranks states from worst to best based on state failure. “Failed States” are those nations in which the government has failed to fulfill its basic responsibilities. A high ranking in the Failed States Index is, therefore, not a positive indication, but instead a negative indication.Of the twenty most failed nations, fourteen were from Africa.
Kenya, under its infant constitution that divests the central government of excess power, has maintained its unfavorable place in the top 20, a spot that it earned in the aftermath of the tainted 2007 elections. However, its meager improvement in having moved from 13th last year to 16th this year may be attributed to the new constitution which took effect just last August.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/failedstates
Mbarire tried to bribe me, claims PLO
Posted by BERNARD MOMANYI on August 22, 2011
NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 22 – Tourism Assistant Minister Cecily Mbarire and her husband Dennis Apaa escaped arrest by a whisker on Monday morning after they learnt of a sting operation that had been set up by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission as they allegedly tried to bribe its Director PLO Lumumba over the Water Ministry scam.
Prof Lumumba told journalists that the couple had been trying to bribe him for several weeks now, unaware that he had a clue of their mission.
“A sting operation was organised but it has not succeeded because the individuals were tipped off but I can confirm to you that I received an SMS from Cecily Mbarire that she could not attend and I have also received SMS messages from Mr Dennis Apaa in his attempt to meet me with a view to compromise me,” Prof Lumumba said.
The anti corruption czar revealed that the two were to take deliver some Sh100,000 at 6.30am on Monday morning and discuss further considerations of an offer of more money to interfere with investigations on Mr Apaa over multi-million contracts at the Water Ministry.
Prof Lumumba even took journalists to a room adjacent to his office at Integrity Centre where he showed journalists a series of text messages from the couple and documents showing how the Monday morning meeting had been arranged, as part of the sting operation that was aimed to have them arrested and prosecuted.
“We had made all these arrangements with my technical team since last (Sunday) night. (My team and I) were in the office from as early as 4.30 am waiting for them,” he added.
However, in a brief statement to newsrooms on Monday afternoon, the Tourism Assistant Minister dismissed the allegations made against her and her husband as “malicious rumours.’
“The allegations made this morning by the Director of the Kenya Anti Corruption (Commission), PLO Lumumba, are false, untrue, and malicious and can only be interpreted to malign my name and character in the eyes of the public,” she said in a statement.
“I am currently consulting my lawyers and I will be issuing a comprehensive statement tomorrow (Tuesday),” she added.
She had earlier convened a press conference at Parliament buildings but cancelled it at the last minute.
Prof Lumumba had told the media that it was the first time individuals were trying to bribe him personally to influence his decision on cases under probe by the commission.
Prior to Monday morning’s planned meeting, Prof Lumumba said the couple had fallen prey to various set-ups by the commission which undertook undercover techniques to even invite them to various functions and fundraising ceremonies.
One such meeting was organised when Mr Apaa and the KACC Director attended a prize giving day at a secondary school.
“I then received guidance from my technical team and I invited him to my residence in the presence of other persons and the individual did attend. I was then advised to invite the individual to yet another function and we obtained photographic evidence, and I can confirm that the individual attended and photographs are available,” said Prof Lumumba.
Prof Lumumba said during a fundraising at Lucy Onono Memorial Polytechnic, the couple was allegedly invited and presented a Sh100,000 cheque bearing the name of company known as Broad Visions and written to the PLO Foundation but it was returned to them because it was not properly addressed.
He said the company is associated to Mr Apaa.
“Unfortunately we did not keep a copy of this particular cheque, you see these are the techniques they were using thinking that they were clever than us unaware that we were way ahead of them,” he added.
Thereafter, the KACC director said, the individual kept calling him repeatedly.
“I have already recorded a statement with the CID and they are pursuing this matter,” he added.
“This is a very serious matter, that individuals can plan to bribe the KACC director to scuttle investigations on corruption,” Prof Lumumba said and revealed that he had already recommended prosecution against Ms Mbarire’s husband.
Prof Lumumba said a file containing the KACC recommendation to prosecute Mr Apaa was among several others on the Water Ministry scam forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions for further direction.
The KACC chief did not disclose contents of the files.
The article: THE OKAMBO SIX HAVE A RIGHT STILL TO HOLD OFFICE by the Nairobi Star columnist Moses Kuria is simply astounding and revealing.
We have to salute the PNU spokesman for his grasp of the legal maze in special reference to the Okambo-6. I was worried that we did not have anyone to cut this Gordian Knot. He has blown to smithereens the devilish hopes of some presidential aspirants.
‘It is not too difficult to identify these candidates’, well said, Bw. Kuria, you are an invaluable asset to the PNU-G7. Our hope for the future, hope for Kenya in general, and O-6 in particular, rests with super brains like yours Yours weigh more than the most expensive legal minds put together, includingthat of Mr. Faal who is rearing to join the team with inside knowledge of Okambo’s evidence unsustainable in any court of law, let alone in the ICC!.
I agree with you that the miscreants who wish hell and brimstone for the innocent O-6 are unfortunately banking on the hope that they will follow suit in line with the so called stupid democratic traditions followed in more civilised nations. Don’t you worry because we know our leaders inside out. They have no pretensions to be democratic, no sense of political morality, and above all believe in the mighty impunity that has led them safely through thick and thin. We believe in sovereignty of the Republic of Kenya, though at times we pretend our land is not occupied by arrogant neighbours or some from across have gone ahead to encroach on it to cultivate as if it was their ancestral property. We can’t waste precious time on trivial issues, though we have the wherewithal to vanquish the lot.
Now back to the logical and legally sound argument that the O-6 will be safe for years to come to contest elections, win them and rule Kenya as long as they wish to. We pray it comes true. Let the Lord’s be done.
We are least worried about Kenya becoming a pariah among the civilised world nations, if it comes to that. Some insinuate we already are. The naive lot do not know we are rich enough in natural resources, agriculture produce, industry, minerals and oil fuel to stand on our two legs, as we have from the time of independence. It’s a pity that when Japan was going through hard times after the nuclear mishap, we bailed them out with a grand donation of one million dollars, and some saw it as a mean hypocritical gesture as our own citizens were in deeper problems.
They are under the misconception that we have one of the highest per-capita public debt in the world, and subsist at the mercy of the WB and the IMF. Rubbish, it’s. They think we have just over 18% of arable land of the land mass. The poor fellows do not know that the PEV, the famine deaths, etc., being bandied in the world t.v. channels are just computer generated images. Why can’t people believe the truth from the horse’s mouth, say like Alfie Mutua’s. They dream that the mega scandals our leaders perfected and executed have dented our treasury; no way!
We want to tell all and sundry that it’s by an inadvertent mistake that we allowed William Ruto and Henry Kosgei step down on account of misuse of office and corruption. We regret that they were charged in court for some innocent deals that had no distant relation to even the mildest form of corruption, and we fell for the false notion that their stepping down will raise our global image. Then, see what happened in Ruto’s case? Out of 13 or so witnesses, 5 died (RIP), all except one vanished into thin air as they didn’t want to testify falsehood, and the one that handled payment of 85 million or thereabouts, refused to testify. We are confident that Kosgei will also be absolved of all wrong doings. God is there, you see.
Some are panicking now because the public support in favour of the ICC process is falling so fast like a dropped stone. In one month, we will have another pollster divulging the shocking finding from a poll in progress that the support for the ICC is virtually nil. That will perhaps make the ICC think thrice before indicting our beloved O-6. After all the Raila-Annan-Waki-Okambo nefarious plan can’t even scratch the surface of the integrity of the O-6.
Come what may, we shall not hand over the O-6 to the freezing climate of the Hague. They can be tried here in a court or a special tribunal, provided that activist judges like Waki has anything to do with it. Let the villains rejoice a stud clad CJ and an equally intransigent D/CJ are in place. They don’t yet know everything is possible when we are determined to have our way.
Some sceptics say the world nations might impose a ban on travel and a freeze on bilateral agreements Let’s see if things reach that level. But who in the hell wants to visit the US or Britain or other nations of that sort, which are beset by economic down turn and racial violence? Some think China, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Eretria, etc. are not nations! We can visit those countries, can’t we?
Our resolve is to defy the world opinion if you wish to put it that way, and go our way. The ICC may go ahead with the nefarious plans hatched by our enemies but they will come to naught. There is nothing in law that prevents the Chosen One contesting and becoming the president. There may be just small problem in the swearing in ceremony. But we have contingency plans for that eventuality. Even midnight won’t be bad this time when he is ‘duly’ elected. This is not to say the other 6 in G-7 are excluded from the very beginning. Let them vie for the nomination. When they naturally lose, they will have no option but to put their weight behind our Chosen One, because the mantle of ‘Elijah’ has fallen on him.
Don’t give a thought about political morality, if at all there is any morality among Kenyan politicians. We don’t have to assume political or moral responsibility because our former leaders taught us none. Away with these alien philosophies!
Say no to the crooked machinations of the so called civilised democratic world nations. Say no to international law. Say “Yes,The Chosen One Can!”
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