Binti Ambassador Purity Wakiuru Where or who wrote such a rubbish std 4 year kid speech?
When did Kenya aquired high technology?
You need to undergo speech free of charge if you enlist yourself in a Swedish evening class.
Eti Kenya inaongoza katika teknolojia mpya. Tangu lini Mama Purity? Look at the Embassy website then you will know we are still lagging behind in new technologies. I agree with Lele Msanifu that Purity could have questioned some facts before delivering the speech. Phone calls to Kenya from Sweden are still more expensive compared to calling Uganda and Tanzania.Our new technologies are in the hands of bandits who also run the economy and are GEMA members like Purity.
Purity and her GEMA members talk of a good economy yet public hospital doctors in Kenya are heading for a nation-wide strike tomorrow.The economy is growing among the GEMA elite like Purity, but not Wanjiku.Purity lives lavishly on duty-free products she doesn’t bother with the poor.
Good grief!!!!,,I am embarrassed to be Kenyan!!!!!Holy Christ,what are th qualifications of working in a Kenyan mission abroad…and worse still,AN AMBASSADOR???????
A whole embassy official sings the National anthem as if he is reading some verse from the Bible,and that speech….For Christ’s sake,WHO WROTE IT????This is DEPRESSING!!!!
Any idiot can be an ambassador in kenya..you dount need to be learned,..you can as well be from the bush or just from the streets of Nairobi,or why not from mathare slums??? as long as you know someone who can fix you thosr heavy contacts,or your mother/father/cousin/brother…etc is married to someone who knows someone who can be fix/fake papers for you!!!!!!!!!!!all kenyans know that yet everyone is wondering how she landed there in Stockholm?????????
But i dont even think she has so much to say…..all decisions comes from above!! she is just there like a camoflash…with very very litlle to say…!
Ailing Embassy Official Narrowly Escapes Deportation To Kenya
A Kenya Embassy official who has been ailing for a long time escaped deportation to Kenya after a group of Embassy staff arrived at Karolinska hospital to try and take him home through Arlanda International airport.
The ailing official has been fighting a lengthy battle with the Kenyan embassy to prevent his deportation on grounds that he is too sick to travel to Kenya. According to sources, property belonging to the official have been packed into a container while members of his family (including his wife) have been put on stand by awaiting his kidnap from Karolinska hospital to Arlanda.
When a group of Kenyans heard about the official’s tribulations and that he was set to be kidnapped on Thursday November 22nd, a battalion of approximately 15 Kenyans went to the hospital to try and prevent the kidnap.
Punde si punde, the Embassy group also arrived at the hospital and packed their car nearby. When the staff members tried to get into action by communicating with the doctors to release the patient, the group of Kenyans intervened to inform the Doctors that it was wrong for the official to be deported to Kenya under the circumstances.
The Embassy had mobilized a woman Doctor from Kenya to oversee the whole operation because the Swedish authorities had refused to release the patient if he could not be accompanied to Kenya by a Doctor. A source told KSB that the Kenyan woman Doctor is a dermatologist who is not in a position to understand the condition of the ailing official who is not suffering from any skin disease. The Official has been in the ICU where he has been on a drip for months.
As arguments ensued, a van designed for transportation of patients which had been hired by the Embassy arrived at the hospital to transport the official to the airport. When the Kenyans were alerted about this development, the whole group rushed down stairs from the 6th floor (where the official is being treated) and occupied the van, making it impossible for the Official to be loaded into the van.
As tension rose, the Kenyan activists called police to try and resolve the conflict. The Embassy official has been bed-ridden and the argument put forward by the Kenyans was that the Official is unfit to travel, an argument which was also supported by the Swedish Doctors.
One of the Doctors advised that it was better for those concerned to put an appeal with the Immigration department so that the Official can be allowed to stay to complete his treatment. Police who came at the scene and looked at the case then decided to consult with the Immigration.
Within minutes, an official from the Immigration arrived to asses the situation. After preliminary investigations, the Immigration official resolved that the matter be left pending until Friday November 23rd when a decision will be taken as to what needs to be done. The ailing Official was therefore left to relax in his hospital bed pending a decision.
The drama unfolded on Thursday November 22nd. The Official has been sacked from his job despite his being unable to work as a result of his condition. He has also been replaced and the person deputizing his replacement is a Swedish national.
It is not clear why the Embassy is keen in having the Official deported to Kenya in such a brutal manner even if it means Embassy staff going to hospital to physically help in plucking him from his hospital bed to Arlanda airport.
It is also not known why he is being subjected to such inhuman and degrading treatment at a time when he is helpless and in terrible pain. Some of the Embassy officials who went to help kidnap him are the same colleagues he has been working with at the Embassy for a long time.
By AHMEDNASSIR ABDULLAHI
Posted Saturday, October 15 2011
In the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan and George Bush were competing for the nomination of the Republican presidential candidate, Mr Bush was very critical of the economic policies propounded by his opponent.
Mr Reagan’s policies emphasised supply side economics, reduced income and capital gain taxes. Mr Bush derogatorily dismissed Mr Reagan’s economic policies as voodoo economics.
President Kibaki, who was once upon a time rated as a good economist, has subjected Kenya to nine years of an African version of voodoo economics.
With the shilling in a free fall, basic commodities out of reach for ordinary Kenyans, millions starving year after year, the poor getting poorer and the few privileged stealing more from the coffers of the State, Mr Kibaki’s disastrous economic policies will leave an indelible imprint on Kenya’s history far beyond his term.
When Mr Kibaki’s economic policies are written by historians, two important features will stand out. First is the number of billionaires his government created as a deliberate policy of communal empowerment.
Outside Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Mr Kibaki has created the largest number of billionaires anywhere in the world.
Unlike in America, China and India, where new billionaires are mostly individuals taking advantage of advances in new technologies, natural resource exploitation or merger and acquisition in the service sector, Kenya’s new billionaires are mostly ordinary people who steal from state coffers.
President Kibaki has used the Boris Yeltsin method of creating billionaires in Russia, which was premised on allowing his sidekicks and appointees to steal state resources.
The typical new billionaire is a man who was on financial death row in 2002. In 2003, he was appointed to head an important state organ. From 2003 to 2011, he has been benefiting through kickbacks in tenders and procurement.
The legacy Kibaki leaves is that part of his economic doctrine encouraged state employees to benefit from government resources.
His acceptance and even tacit encouragement of people to turn billionaires through a simple formula captures the absence of moral ingredients in his economic blueprint.
These billionaires, with their ill-gotten wealth, pose the greatest threat to stability in the next administration. They will probably try to destabilise it using their wealth.
More importantly, the next government has no choice but to address how this huge public wealth in private hands can be returned to state coffers.
President Kibaki’s second and unenviable economic legacy is how badly he has treated the poor. There is no debate that the poor in Kenya have grown poorer during his term.
His economic policies towards poor Kenyans are probably a reflection of a deep personal contempt for them.
Poor Kenyans can no longer afford basic commodities like sugar and maize. Not one day has Mr Kibaki addressed their issues.
He has been highly commended for infrastructure development. A friend of mine likes it, but calls it development corruption.
He says roads, airports, ports and railways are all being built by foreigners who give a certain “cut” to some people in power.
Mr Kibaki’s infrastructure development has not been critically appraised.
Many Kenyans rightly question whether he is preparing some of the counties for devolved government in undertaking certain infrastructure projects.
For instance, the billions spent on the Nairobi-Thika super highway could have given us a dual carriageway from Mombasa to Nairobi or even beyond.
Look at Nairobi itself. The northern parts of the city are undergoing massive infrastructure developments that open to central Kenya. The other parts are frozen in an underdevelopment capsule.
A critical study of Mr Kibaki’s economic policies may find its rightful habitat if one day a study is commissioned on the relationship between the economic and financial riches of the ethnic community that gives an African president and how their sons inevitably improve their fortunes.
Ndung’u ranked Africa’s least effective central bank governor
Posted Tuesday, December 6 2011 at 19:24
Kenya’s central banker Njuguna Ndung’u was the least effective policymaker in Africa’s emerging and frontier markets this year, a Reuters survey of regional analysts has showed.
Prof. Ndungu trailed his peers on the continent for failing to spot and act against rising price pressures and then presiding over a stunning collapse of the shilling.
He scored an average of just 3.1 points from the 10 analysts, who were asked to consider the transparency, independence, efficacy and consistency of monetary policy in select African countries.
Prof Ndung’u’s problems began in January when he cut interest rates in the face of accelerating inflation.
That move raised concerns about his willingness to take tough policy action a year ahead of an election.
As inflation shot into double digits, the shilling tumbled from 80 to the dollar at the start of January to a record low of 107 in October, a 25 per cent slide that hit the image of Kenya as one of Africa’s most stable and sophisticated economies.
Through much of the plunge — which some in the market likened to flicking through the FM dial on a radio – Prof Ndung’u blamed
‘speculators’.
When Kenya did raise rates, it did so by a fraction of the amount expected.
Prof Ndung’u finally grasped the nettle with a shock 400 basis point hike in the benchmark rate in October as part of a tightening cycle that has brought the currency back to 90 to the dollar.
But few investors have enjoyed the ride. One analyst described Ndung’u as “asleep at the wheel” and another said he had “missed the plot entirely”.
It’s only in Kenya where the government demolishes private homes then get challenged to pay compensation to the former owners. This is the GEMA rule failure being praised by Purity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16024605>>Did Purity Mentioned about drones Overflying Kenya Violiting Kenyas sovereighnity
Binti Ambassador Purity Wakiuru Where or who wrote such a rubbish std 4 year kid speech?
When did Kenya aquired high technology?
You need to undergo speech free of charge if you enlist yourself in a Swedish evening class.
Eti Kenya inaongoza katika teknolojia mpya. Tangu lini Mama Purity? Look at the Embassy website then you will know we are still lagging behind in new technologies. I agree with Lele Msanifu that Purity could have questioned some facts before delivering the speech. Phone calls to Kenya from Sweden are still more expensive compared to calling Uganda and Tanzania.Our new technologies are in the hands of bandits who also run the economy and are GEMA members like Purity.
Purity and her GEMA members talk of a good economy yet public hospital doctors in Kenya are heading for a nation-wide strike tomorrow.The economy is growing among the GEMA elite like Purity, but not Wanjiku.Purity lives lavishly on duty-free products she doesn’t bother with the poor.
Purity should be posted to Khartum in Sudan.Thats her place she can fit there in such a environment of wearing Kitenges and shes slim arab figure.
Good grief!!!!,,I am embarrassed to be Kenyan!!!!!Holy Christ,what are th qualifications of working in a Kenyan mission abroad…and worse still,AN AMBASSADOR???????
A whole embassy official sings the National anthem as if he is reading some verse from the Bible,and that speech….For Christ’s sake,WHO WROTE IT????This is DEPRESSING!!!!
KSB: Welcome to the club of Embassy critics.
Any idiot can be an ambassador in kenya..you dount need to be learned,..you can as well be from the bush or just from the streets of Nairobi,or why not from mathare slums??? as long as you know someone who can fix you thosr heavy contacts,or your mother/father/cousin/brother…etc is married to someone who knows someone who can be fix/fake papers for you!!!!!!!!!!!all kenyans know that yet everyone is wondering how she landed there in Stockholm?????????
But i dont even think she has so much to say…..all decisions comes from above!! she is just there like a camoflash…with very very litlle to say…!
Good luck to her anyway.
//me myself n I
Ailing Embassy Official Narrowly Escapes Deportation To Kenya
A Kenya Embassy official who has been ailing for a long time escaped deportation to Kenya after a group of Embassy staff arrived at Karolinska hospital to try and take him home through Arlanda International airport.
The ailing official has been fighting a lengthy battle with the Kenyan embassy to prevent his deportation on grounds that he is too sick to travel to Kenya. According to sources, property belonging to the official have been packed into a container while members of his family (including his wife) have been put on stand by awaiting his kidnap from Karolinska hospital to Arlanda.
When a group of Kenyans heard about the official’s tribulations and that he was set to be kidnapped on Thursday November 22nd, a battalion of approximately 15 Kenyans went to the hospital to try and prevent the kidnap.
Punde si punde, the Embassy group also arrived at the hospital and packed their car nearby. When the staff members tried to get into action by communicating with the doctors to release the patient, the group of Kenyans intervened to inform the Doctors that it was wrong for the official to be deported to Kenya under the circumstances.
The Embassy had mobilized a woman Doctor from Kenya to oversee the whole operation because the Swedish authorities had refused to release the patient if he could not be accompanied to Kenya by a Doctor. A source told KSB that the Kenyan woman Doctor is a dermatologist who is not in a position to understand the condition of the ailing official who is not suffering from any skin disease. The Official has been in the ICU where he has been on a drip for months.
As arguments ensued, a van designed for transportation of patients which had been hired by the Embassy arrived at the hospital to transport the official to the airport. When the Kenyans were alerted about this development, the whole group rushed down stairs from the 6th floor (where the official is being treated) and occupied the van, making it impossible for the Official to be loaded into the van.
As tension rose, the Kenyan activists called police to try and resolve the conflict. The Embassy official has been bed-ridden and the argument put forward by the Kenyans was that the Official is unfit to travel, an argument which was also supported by the Swedish Doctors.
One of the Doctors advised that it was better for those concerned to put an appeal with the Immigration department so that the Official can be allowed to stay to complete his treatment. Police who came at the scene and looked at the case then decided to consult with the Immigration.
Within minutes, an official from the Immigration arrived to asses the situation. After preliminary investigations, the Immigration official resolved that the matter be left pending until Friday November 23rd when a decision will be taken as to what needs to be done. The ailing Official was therefore left to relax in his hospital bed pending a decision.
The drama unfolded on Thursday November 22nd. The Official has been sacked from his job despite his being unable to work as a result of his condition. He has also been replaced and the person deputizing his replacement is a Swedish national.
It is not clear why the Embassy is keen in having the Official deported to Kenya in such a brutal manner even if it means Embassy staff going to hospital to physically help in plucking him from his hospital bed to Arlanda airport.
It is also not known why he is being subjected to such inhuman and degrading treatment at a time when he is helpless and in terrible pain. Some of the Embassy officials who went to help kidnap him are the same colleagues he has been working with at the Embassy for a long time.
Okoth Osewe
November 22, 2007
Voodoo economics and development corruption
By AHMEDNASSIR ABDULLAHI
Posted Saturday, October 15 2011
In the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan and George Bush were competing for the nomination of the Republican presidential candidate, Mr Bush was very critical of the economic policies propounded by his opponent.
Mr Reagan’s policies emphasised supply side economics, reduced income and capital gain taxes. Mr Bush derogatorily dismissed Mr Reagan’s economic policies as voodoo economics.
President Kibaki, who was once upon a time rated as a good economist, has subjected Kenya to nine years of an African version of voodoo economics.
With the shilling in a free fall, basic commodities out of reach for ordinary Kenyans, millions starving year after year, the poor getting poorer and the few privileged stealing more from the coffers of the State, Mr Kibaki’s disastrous economic policies will leave an indelible imprint on Kenya’s history far beyond his term.
When Mr Kibaki’s economic policies are written by historians, two important features will stand out. First is the number of billionaires his government created as a deliberate policy of communal empowerment.
Outside Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Mr Kibaki has created the largest number of billionaires anywhere in the world.
Unlike in America, China and India, where new billionaires are mostly individuals taking advantage of advances in new technologies, natural resource exploitation or merger and acquisition in the service sector, Kenya’s new billionaires are mostly ordinary people who steal from state coffers.
President Kibaki has used the Boris Yeltsin method of creating billionaires in Russia, which was premised on allowing his sidekicks and appointees to steal state resources.
The typical new billionaire is a man who was on financial death row in 2002. In 2003, he was appointed to head an important state organ. From 2003 to 2011, he has been benefiting through kickbacks in tenders and procurement.
The legacy Kibaki leaves is that part of his economic doctrine encouraged state employees to benefit from government resources.
His acceptance and even tacit encouragement of people to turn billionaires through a simple formula captures the absence of moral ingredients in his economic blueprint.
These billionaires, with their ill-gotten wealth, pose the greatest threat to stability in the next administration. They will probably try to destabilise it using their wealth.
More importantly, the next government has no choice but to address how this huge public wealth in private hands can be returned to state coffers.
President Kibaki’s second and unenviable economic legacy is how badly he has treated the poor. There is no debate that the poor in Kenya have grown poorer during his term.
His economic policies towards poor Kenyans are probably a reflection of a deep personal contempt for them.
Poor Kenyans can no longer afford basic commodities like sugar and maize. Not one day has Mr Kibaki addressed their issues.
He has been highly commended for infrastructure development. A friend of mine likes it, but calls it development corruption.
He says roads, airports, ports and railways are all being built by foreigners who give a certain “cut” to some people in power.
Mr Kibaki’s infrastructure development has not been critically appraised.
Many Kenyans rightly question whether he is preparing some of the counties for devolved government in undertaking certain infrastructure projects.
For instance, the billions spent on the Nairobi-Thika super highway could have given us a dual carriageway from Mombasa to Nairobi or even beyond.
Look at Nairobi itself. The northern parts of the city are undergoing massive infrastructure developments that open to central Kenya. The other parts are frozen in an underdevelopment capsule.
A critical study of Mr Kibaki’s economic policies may find its rightful habitat if one day a study is commissioned on the relationship between the economic and financial riches of the ethnic community that gives an African president and how their sons inevitably improve their fortunes.
Ahmednasir Abdullahi is the publisher, Nairobi Law Monthly ahmednasir@ahmedabdi.com
Ndung’u ranked Africa’s least effective central bank governor
Posted Tuesday, December 6 2011 at 19:24
Kenya’s central banker Njuguna Ndung’u was the least effective policymaker in Africa’s emerging and frontier markets this year, a Reuters survey of regional analysts has showed.
Prof. Ndungu trailed his peers on the continent for failing to spot and act against rising price pressures and then presiding over a stunning collapse of the shilling.
He scored an average of just 3.1 points from the 10 analysts, who were asked to consider the transparency, independence, efficacy and consistency of monetary policy in select African countries.
Prof Ndung’u’s problems began in January when he cut interest rates in the face of accelerating inflation.
That move raised concerns about his willingness to take tough policy action a year ahead of an election.
As inflation shot into double digits, the shilling tumbled from 80 to the dollar at the start of January to a record low of 107 in October, a 25 per cent slide that hit the image of Kenya as one of Africa’s most stable and sophisticated economies.
Through much of the plunge — which some in the market likened to flicking through the FM dial on a radio – Prof Ndung’u blamed
‘speculators’.
When Kenya did raise rates, it did so by a fraction of the amount expected.
Prof Ndung’u finally grasped the nettle with a shock 400 basis point hike in the benchmark rate in October as part of a tightening cycle that has brought the currency back to 90 to the dollar.
But few investors have enjoyed the ride. One analyst described Ndung’u as “asleep at the wheel” and another said he had “missed the plot entirely”.
Andambi is just a busy body.
It’s only in Kenya where the government demolishes private homes then get challenged to pay compensation to the former owners. This is the GEMA rule failure being praised by Purity.