Since a middle-aged man was caught on camera grazing like a cow in Naivasha last year, grass-eating has become a popular ‘pastime’. Threats to make people eat grass have also multiplied by leaps and bounds. There is little doubt that grass eating is the latest craze in the wizarding world. But it could also be that sorcerers have run short of ideas and the only thing they can think about is to turn suspects into herbivores.
For the doubting Thomases, it works. Someone did return a stolen mobile handset in Naivasha after he was warned that he would eat grass. A laptop was also recovered in Nakuru.
Uhuru Park
But PointBlank has got a bigger job for the sorcerers. We are ready to hire the services of anyone who can make those who have milked this country dry to eat grass.
We want them all — from petty thieves to masterminds of Goldenberg and Anglo leasing — at Uhuru Park on all fours, especially now the grass is dry and crunchy. This isn’t a difficult assignment. Any serious wizard out there ready for some serious national duty?
Monday April 9, 2012 – Former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga on Sunday said his life is in danger.
Njenga who is now a “converted preacher” said some Kikuyu elite politicians met last week in Jacaranda Hotel Nairobi and resolved to hire mercenaries to kill him over his stand on ICC trials and GEMA.
“There 20 people following me, they want to know where I sleep, what I eat and where I go. I have their names,” Njenga said without elaborating their names.
He said the scheme is being funded by a very powerful and rich politician from Central Kenya.
He also attacked Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto for promoting hatred by forming tribal alliances.
“We shall not take oaths again, we oppose these tribal groupings because we want Kenya to prosper,” Njenga said referring to KAMATUSA and GEMA.
“These alliances will cause something bigger than what happened in year 2008,” Maina warned.
The former Mungiki strongman also personalized his attacks to Uhuru Kenyatta asking to “tell his people to stop harassing the youth” and to seek votes from all Kenyans instead of seeking votes from one tribe.
Maina was speaking on Sunday at one of his churches in Nairobi.
Article by: Stephen Njoroge
Musalia Mudavadi jinga kabisa. Does he know the meaning of a party leader? He was rescued by Raila in 2002 when he was shaky about his loyalty and remained in Kanu. He by then supported The Hague’s special guest Uhuru Kenyatta, for the presidency. Musalia lost his Parliamentary seat and Uhuru, his presidential bid. Musalia inherited his political seat from his late father, Moses Mudavadi. He has never struggled for any reforms in Kenya, nor contributed to any political liberation for the benefit of Kenyans.
Musalia was linked to the Goldenberg scam in the 1990s, that cost Kenyan taxpayers $600million. As the current Local Government Minister, he was also been suspiciously linked to the cemetery scandal that cost the taxpayers $3.6m. Mudavadi should leave ODM and work with his murderous allies, Uhuruto and their G7 clowns.
In politics, the party leader is the most powerful official within a political party.
The party leader is typically responsible for managing the party’s relationship with the general public. As such, he or she will take a leading role in developing and communicating party policy, especially election platforms, to the electorate. He or she is also typically the public face of the party and the principal media contact.
In many representative democracies, party leaders compete directly for high political office. For example, leaders of parties in presidential and semi-presidential republics will often run for President. In parliamentary systems of government, party leaders typically seek to become prime minister. It is thus typical in such states (e.g., in the Westminster system) for the party leader to seek election to the legislature, and, if elected, to simultaneously serve as the party’s parliamentary leader.
Sometimes, a party leader will simultaneously hold the post of chairman. However, this is rare in the Westminster system.
The method of selection of the party leader varies from party to party, though often it will involve an election involving all or part of the party membership. In some parties, only current members of the parliamentary party, or particular party office holders, may vote; in others, such as the British Labour Party, though the entire membership is eligible to vote, some electors may have a much larger share of the vote than others (see also Superdelegate for a similar concept). If only one candidate emerges, he or she is said to have been “elected by acclamation” or “ratified” by the general membership (sometimes the term “anointed” is used informally or in media discourse). In Canada, all major parties elect their leaders at a leadership convention.
The leaders of communist parties often hold the title of General secretary (eg. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China).
In the Gilded Age (late 19th century in the United States) there existed a system called Bossism which entailed powerful political machines, run by so-called “bosses” who awarded political positions to their associates (one example being Tammany Hall which was run by Boss Tweed) This kind of political system is also referred to as a particracy.
Majority of Nyeri people looks Zombies.children born post indipendence suffers from unknown trauma (down Sydrom) to Zombies look at the above picture mothers/youth children and their Zombie dads and mothers all suffer from /deficiency
Mudavadi Must Come Clean About Anti-ODM Meetings With Ruto, Uhuru and Their Men
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Apr
As I have been blogging, there are many in ODM who believe Deputy Prime Minister and ODM Deputy Party Leader, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi, is keen on rocking the ODM boat for reasons that have nothing to do with”internal democracy” because his much-publicized quest for democratic space within the party is not genuine.
According to reliable sources, Mr. Mudavadi is working in cahoots with Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, Hon. William Ruto and Mr. Jimmy Kibaki to give ODM a bad name, besides trying to “stop” Raila.
The game plan is for them to give Raila and ODM the portrait of a dictatorial outfit, by casting Mudavadi in the role of an oppressed democrat.
In the end, they can use this to justify Mudavadi’s decamping from the party. This is why the DPM has continuously been threatening the party with unspecified consequences and make no mistake about it, it doesn’t matter what Raila or ODM does; they can agree and give Mudavadi everything he wants but he will still leave because the objective is to rock the boat and damage ODM.
The DPM enjoys the confidence of three Members of Parliament who have also been oddly spoiling for a verbal fight. They have taken from him the cue to demonize ODM and to threaten the party with “unspecified consequences.”
The language of his private secretary, Mr. Kibisu Kabatesi also attests to a scheme against the party.
The same source informs us that they are aware that apart from direct meetings with Hon. Ruto, Hon. Uhuru and Mr. Jimmy Kibaki in Gigiri, the four have been using Hon. Lewis Nguyayi, Mr. David Murathe and Mr. Kibisu Kabatesi as conduits for support that Hon. Mudavadi has been using to sow discord in ODM.
These are established channels.
For William Ruto, the point man is Sammy Koech, a well-known broker. Mr. Koech is also a Personal Assistant to Mr. Jimmy Kibaki.
On 20 March 2012, there was an anti ODM meeting in Jimmy Kibaki’s office in Gigiri. In attendance were Mr. Sammy Koech, Jimmy Kibaki, and a representative of Hon. Mudavadi as well as Hon. Kenyatta’s. The main topic was how Mr. Ruto, Mr. Kibaki and Hon. Kenyatta can support Mudavadi to run down ODM. Detailed plans that continue to unfold were laid.
Mr. Kibaki advised that Mudavadi should not quit ODM yet, “If he quits, he will find himself under a tree and his life will be worse than it was in 2002.” He went on to suggest that if Uhuru and Ruto are to go to The Hague, Mudavadi should receive their blessings, because, they said, “He is malleable and nationally acceptable.”
The meeting of 20 March also mooted the idea of “doing a dirty job,” whatever that may mean. They agreed to use someone close to Hon. Mudavadi to do “the dirty job.”
Hon. Mudavadi cannot deny this.
Nor can he deny that the Gigiri meeting on 20 March was informed that he has held several secret meetings with Mzee Moi, where they have discussed how to scuttle ODM.
A further meeting arranged for Tuesday 27 March at 11.00 am did not take place. However, one eventually happened on Friday 30 March. The whole agenda was on the ODM nominations. In particular, the meeting discussed how Hon. Mudavadi should use the issue of ODM presidential nomination to good effect. He should make the party look so bad such that “when he leaves, he will have public sympathy.”
Another meeting took place last week, on 02 April from 6.00 pm to 2.00 am, with Hon. Uhuru, Hon. Njeru Githae, Gen. Karangi and Mr. Paul Ndung’u in attendance.
Hon. Mudavadi has also held a variety of secret meetings with Hon. Ruto at Palacina and Crowne Plaza Hotels in Nairobi, with the agenda of destroying ODM and stopping the Reform Agenda in Kenya.
We call upon Hon. Mudavadi to come clean.
Why is he working with the adversaries of ODM against the party? If he does not believe in the Reform Agenda of ODM, can’t he state so clearly? If he wants to leave the party, is he not within his democratic right and freedom to do so?
Hon, Mudavadi does not have to demonize our party and create artificial excuses or cast himself as a man under siege. He is not a man under siege; to the contrary, he is the one persecuting the party, at the behest of outsiders.
Men and women of conscience and goodwill should know these facts. In its proper name, what Hon. Mudavadi it is called betrayal of the party that gave him a new lease of political life after the debacle of the Uhuru Project in 2002. He may very well be headed the same way he came from.
None of these means Mudavadi cannot reconsider his move and continue the journey to victory with Raila and ODM.
He can.
Yes, he can.
The temptations in politics are sometimes overwhelming and people succumb to them, even when not clearly in their interest.
For Mudavadi to allow himself to be used this way, which every indication is he is, it’s unfortunate, especially given Raila and ODM will likely survive the onslaught and once again emerge victorious at the polls come election day.
Again, it’s in Mudavadi’s self interest to reconsider and stay put in ODM and let he and the party continue working on a formula that is
I talked to a Luhya professional and friend who is friends with Mudavadi and he asked me if I knew who is advising the man and even though I assumed the question was rhetorical, I nonetheless mentioned the names of who I know are.
He dismissed everyone of them as lightweights who have no influence beyond their bomas and surrounding perimeter but not any further in Western.
In this friend’s view, the advice Mudavadi is heeding is coming from Rift Valley and Central and the “home-boys” are simply cheering him on because they smell blood–not exactly my friend’s words, but the gist of what he was saying.
The only thing I kept wondering as I am having this conversation with my friend and listening to his analysis of the pertinent issues, which was right on point after point, was why is this man not advising Mudavadi for he surely could use the wise counsel.
My friend told me Mudavadi is not taking his calls (“the busy he is tending to more important things”) and neither is an aide my friend has direct contact.
Both of these facts tell me something that happens to all of us: when you don’t want to hear the biting truth, you shut off those who will give it to you.
A good thing about those of us in the diaspora, is many of us will tell our politician friends the truth regardless of what it is because for us, its not about our friends per se, but our country we love so dearly.
It is reported that Mudavadi is having “consultative” meetings with professionals and others from Western ahead of his big decision.
Let’s hope they are giving him candid advice which cannot be any different from what my friend and others like him here in the US are saying and that is, Mudavadi’s leaving ODM will be a big mistake he will live to regret.
Indeed, my friend is in disbelief that Mudavadi is doing what he is without regard to what the consequences will be to him individually, or for ODM and Western politics which, according to my friend and others from the region I have talked to, is divided evenly between support for Raila vz his enemies if Mudavadi decamps and that can only be good news for Raila and ODM but bad news for Mudavadi.
My friend also said something which I have not really thought about and makes a lot of sense and that is those propping Mudavadi from RV and Central have no leverage against him of any kind such that, if he were to rebuff them, there is nothing they can do to him.
In one of the blogs on this subject, I alluded to others believing there is more than money and desire to “stop” Raila that is at play for Mudavadi and even mentioned letting sleeping dogs lie and economic blackmail but in hindsight and following what my friend said, I modify that to say it’s all about destroying Raila and ODM, which means its all about money.
It’s a harsh judgment Mudavadi can avoid confirming by doing the right thing and the right thing is simply staying put in ODM and working together with Raila to make the party the juggernaut it shall be anyway; question is, will Mudavadi be in it or out in the cold?
Let’s hope in it for he has no valid reason to leave.
It is rapidly becoming increasingly clear that all the noise Musalia Mudavadi has been making within ODM about the process for nominating a presidential candidate was just a smoke screen and excuse. It was a very well choreographed move to find a way to exit from ODM with as much sympathy votes as possible to help his presidential bid sponsored by a very powerful Kenyan.
Information just in from one of my sources indicates that the man has in fact been a mole all along. But for who? PNU? Certainly not!! Whole else then?
Amazingly political analysts have been analyzing local politics without giving much attention or thought to the third prominent and extremely powerful force in Kenyan politics. One Daniel arap Moi.
Many Kenyans are not aware of it but Moi is in fact related to Mudavadi.
Let me explain. Back in the 1950s Musalia’s late father Moses Sabstone Mudavadi married a Turgen woman. One of my sources insists that the woman was Moi’s sister but another laughs off the suggestion and says she was just a “very close relative” to Moi. But what is very clear is that over the years the Mudavadis have been relatives to the Mois for all intents and purposes. Indeed When Sabstone served in the Moi cabinet in the late 70s and most of the 80s, he was one of the very few ministers who was “untouchable” and immune to sackings. Local political analysts never figured out why.
There was another reason that drove the Moi’s and Mudavadi to be such close knit families. Back in the 1960s when Moi was a mere primary school teacher with no ambitions that were higher than being a headmaster of some remote rural primary school it was Musalia’s father who pushed Moi to enter politics and even went further and put in a good word for him with the colonial administration. In other words Moi owes his political career to the older Mudavadi.
To Musalia, Moi is a close relative and to Moi Musalia is a son whom he has a responsibility to look after on behalf of his dead friend and relative by marriage Sabstone Mudavadi.
Armed with this kind of background you will fully understand what I am about to say next.
Moi is still extremely powerful in Kenya and well respected at very high levels of government. His biggest problem since he left power has been how to protect the ill gotten family wealth. This has not been easy especially with tightening of money laundering laws worldwide aimed at people who move large sums of money around and have no justifiable or lawful source for the cash. This has led Moi to move a lot of his money away from Western capitals and even from secret Swiss accounts to Namibia where he is a great friend of the president. It is not clear where the rest of the billions are currently but there is evidence that a lot of it has been invested in the Kenyan and South African corporate sector through dummy foreign companies whose directors are said to be “abroad”.
Moi’s long experience as president has taught him to always be extremely careful and cover all his bases.
Now in the run up to the 2007 general elections Moi wanted to ensure that whatever side won (either PNU or ODM) the Moi family wealth would be protected. Raila Odinga already owes Moi some huge favours (but that is a story for another say). However Moi wanted some extra “insurance policy” and that insurance policy was Musalia Mudavadi who would have been Vice President had Raila ascended to the presidency.
Fast forward to 2012. Moi is very jittery about the new constitution and is retaining a very expensive team of constitutional lawyers who are closely monitoring the implementation process and interpreting what it could mean to Moi’s ill gotten wealth. This is the reason why Moi has been throwing several spanners into the works when it comes to implementation (another story for another day). The bottom line is that the stakes are even higher for Moi this time round.
Inside sources assure me that all the noise being made about Gema is a smoke screen because Moi has already obtained full support for the Mudavadi candidature from Kibaki and it is a deal that Kibaki cannot go back on because Moi has promised to support him in his bid to stay away from the clutches of the ICC. So you can be sure that in the end Gema will vote as a block for Musalia (see my other report below on the Gema kingpin who will take over from Uhuru).
In summary Mudavadi has been a Moi mole in ODM all along and is the brand new Moi project for 2012. The old man will never support him in public because he has learnt his lesson from 2002 and the Uhuru project. But you can be sure that the massive Kanu machinery now being revamped is being prepared to support Mudavadi’s bid for the presidency. And in return guess who will be Mudavadi’s running mate? Gideon Moi of course. Now that is the kind of move that will neatly bag Kalenjin votes for Musalia. Some of my sources claim that Mudavadi is headed back to Kanu. But that would be the kind of foolhardy move that Moi is not capable of making. Better to have Mudavadi in another political party that will work closely with the massive Kanu grassroots machinery.
Folks, unless something very dramatic happens (which I assure you it will) I would like to present to you the next rather unexpected president of the banana Republic of Kenya. His Excellency President Musalia Mudavadi
Endela kucheza na Moi.
P.S. A late report I received as I was writing this is that the Kipsigis on the ground are already excitedly talking about a Mudavadi presidency. Imagine getting confirmation over a story even as you write it??!!!!!
Uhuru, Ruto Arrest Order Imminent
Kenyans have been treated to numerous shocks this year but even bigger ones are on the way.
Impeccable sources have assured this blogger that the arrest warrant for Uhuru and Ruto from the ICC is due to be issued soon. Further investigations into the matter reveal that the President’s handlers are very busy preparing for the aftermath of the arrest warrant of the Deputy Prime Minister. Fascinatingly the man being groomed to take over as the GEMA leader/presidential candidate is Amos Kimunya.
Why are Uhuru and Ruto being arrested? Well, civil rights groups have presented enough evidence to the ICC proving that their prayer rallies/political meetings have been meant to incite something that the duo were sternly warned against.
However nobody knows exactly what will happen when the ICC issue the arrest order in the next couple of weeks. Most observers are sure that the Kenyan government will not hand over the suspects. Indeed they claim that what will happen is that there will be massive unrest protesting the arrests.
The current efforts to elevate Amos Kimunya to the position of Gema kingpin replacing Uhuru is rather confusing and would suggest that the government is actually going to hand over the two ICC suspects. Kimunya has a very close relationship with the president’s favourite daughter Judy Kibaki which some claim is way too close to eliminate the possibility of a romantic liaison. Kimunya’s power and his powerful connections was vividly displayed recently when he caused the cabinet reshuffle list to be amended at the 11th hour. The initial list had the sacking of two ministers (one from each side of the political divide). Namely Najib Balala of ODM and Moses Wetangula of PNU. Wetangula was meant to be sacked for his open hostility against the G7. Kimunya and Judy Kibaki’s intervention saw Wetangula’s name back on the list but as minister for Trade.
Press Release: Setting the ODM Nomination Debate Straight
1. We wish to put the record straight regarding the sponsored false perception that the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Raila A. Odinga, is frustrating Hon. Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi’s ambition to run for the office of President of the Republic of Kenya on the ODM ticket.
2. Quite to the contrary, the Prime Minister is a democrat who recognizes everyone’s right to exercise and enjoy his or her democratic rights and freedoms as laid out by the law. To this end, Hon. Mudavadi is quite in order to seek to be the ODM Presidential flag bearer.
3. To accommodate Hon. Mudavadi’s Presidential ambitions, the Prime Minister has been supportive of the thought that the party’s Constitution and election regulations can be varied, to make room for a broad based nomination exercise for the Presidential flagship. This would open up space not just for Hon. Mudavadi to compete for this ticket, but for any other qualified party member, too.
4. Hon. Mudavadi has also been pushing for a county-based nomination exercise as opposed to nomination by a centralized Delegates’ Conference as is laid out in the Party’s regulations. Once again, the Prime Minister is open to such an arrangement, provided that this is the wish of the majority in the party.
5. While the Prime Minister remains open to the possibility of the Party’s Constitution and regulations being changed to make it easy for Hon. Mudavadi to realize his Presidential ambitions, he also remains awake to the fact that this needs to be done in orderly fashion and according to the law.
6. Article 20 of the Political Parties Act requires that notice be given to the Registrar of Political Parties for intent to amend the Constitution. ODM has done this, taking note too that to wait for amendment of the Constitution before presenting the registration of the documents to the Registrar of Political Parties would lead to its deregistration, owing to both constitutional processes and timelines within the party and those within the Parties’ Act. The registrar is supposed to cause a notice of intent to amend the constitution to be published in the Kenya Gazette within 14 days of receipt of the notice. Thereafter, a period of thirty days must lapse (Article 20. d of the Act), during which the party shall receive proposals from the public. The amendment process will then proceed, as laid out in Party instruments. Surely, those who initiated the amendment process that is now on going are not strangers to these legal requirements?
7. We restate that amendment of a Party’s Constitution needs to be done in a sober, free and democratic manner. It should not be done under threats and intimidation. Intimidating people is itself of course the highest manifestation of dictatorship. Let Kenyans judge for themselves who is being high handed and dictatorial in this matter. It should not be done with a gun placed against people’s heads as is being done.
8. The Prime Minister has continued to exercise Stately restraint amidst orchestrated demonization of his person and that of the ODM. He will continue to comport himself with composure, even as the relevant Party organs continue to work towards placing before the National Delegates Conference for consideration, the prayers that Hon. Mudavadi has made.
9. Meanwhile, the Party has to comply with Political Party registration requirements as laid out in the Political Parties Act (2011). This exercise can only be delayed at the Party’s risk of deregistration, in which case there will be no party ticket to compete for. We are satisfied that ODM has issued notice to the Registrar of Political Parties, with regard to the anticipated alteration of the Party’s nomination rules. Nobody, therefore, has any cause for apprehension regarding his Presidential hopes within ODM.
10. We are aware of external forces that have been at work since sometime last year, seeking to infiltrate and rock the Party from within. These forces remain adamantly at work. We know about their recent activities and meetings in Nairobi and elsewhere. We would caution members of ODM not to fall victim to short-term attraction from these forces. ODM remains the only democratic political party in Kenya. It is the only party whose Presidential ticket is being contested for democratically.
Signed:
Barrack O. Muluka
National Director of Communications
Let me say it here and now that Musalia Mudavadi, son of Mudamba seems never to have heard of such expressions as shooting oneself in the foot, giving people a rope to hang you with, snatching defeat in the jaws of victory, or again, simply momentarily throwing someone under the bus. My own observation of MM is pretty clear. This is a man who has never won ANY election by merit; always a political reward of some sorts. It began in 1989 when his ooh mighty father son of Mululu Sebastien Mudavadi left us. With the practice that was in vogue, Moi served him a parliamenterian seat on a silver platter by making him his father’s successor. It’s not a wonder that the novice, the not so experienced, and not so talented politician (yes, politics is an art my friends too, there’s competence, for sure, but also how you bring it down to the hoi polloi), was to be beaten by one Moses son of Akaranga , ten years later, even as he was the outgoing VP, something hitherto unheard of.
So what does MM? He joins the Pentagon, surfs the Orange wave that was ODM, and of course finds himself back to the August House.
Now, I’ve always said, each one is entitled to have ambitions, allowed to dream even. But at the same time, I’ve asked time and again, that anyone please tell me what MM has done for the people of Sabatia, for the greater western community and finally for the people of Kenya. Someone needs to give me just one reason why I would cast my vote come January 2013 for son of Budamba as they say back in Maragoliland. Now, some are quick to come up with very simplistic lines, saying “he’s ours” (read Luhyia).
Now, my own conscience, and I want to believe that of many westerners with a mind,does not buy this kind of BS (excuse my French). I’ve always said, if indeed one day a westerner ascended to the highest office in the land, I would be one proud girl. Proud that he’s had the competence to propel himself that high, and yes, proud too that he’s indeed, one of our own; but my pride would be in that order and not vice versa.
Why am I being categoric about my dismisal of MM as “presidentable”? Well, this year, I’m watching 3 presidential elections; the French presidential elections, first round coming in 2 weeks’ time. Secondly the US presidential race, where despite everything we continue to route for BHO, for what he stands for and symbolises as the POTUS and his links to our own country. Then of course with the advent of modern technology, we in the diaspora are at long last able to watch “blow by blow”, the unfoloding of events on Kenyan poltical scene,
so I’m keenly following the Kenyan forthcoming elections. What I’ve consistently observed is that opinion polls never lie. Not once has one of the 2 men who the polls have been putting ahead failed to be the final horses in the race. When it’s too close to call for the thrid man, then you don’t dismiss him and man number 2 has every reason to be very very afraid. I’ve been looking at figures including the Infotrack polls that came out barely a week ago. Musalia Mudavadi as of today would need to double his “popularity and vote intentions” to just reach where UK alone is, he’d need to multiply his polling figure by 8 to get to Raila Odinga. MM is at 5%, UK at 11% RAO at 42%. You don’t need to be Carey Francis to know this is a “loosing battle” he’s taking on.
It’s for all this that this morning, I’ve just added my own very independent comment on Lijoodilson Arantez wall and said the following;” Let me say it here and now that MM is making worse than a mistake, a political blunder! Secondly he’ll be neither president, not governor, nor anything. You can take that to the bank.”
They say “never look a gift horse in the mouth”; MM is doing that. In my own jargon I say, “you can’t climb a ladder from the middle”. So if MM believes he has political acumen, he’d be well advised to prove it by harbouring realistic ambitions. It’s his right and even credit to him, to decide to be “his own man” (very long overdue). But let him start with first things first, maybe run for a more attainable office. But if he so wants to feel what it is like to bleed because the gazette was triggered by oneself, who am I, my own modest self, to tell him otherwise? Didn’t those wise people of the coast say, “mtoto akililia wembe pe”?
Our own Luhyia sage added “ndilamanyanga ibetsanga olunyuma” (I wish I knew comes afterwards). History will tell us.
If you remember that dog that was already carrying a bone in the mouth, saw it’s own shadow in the water and tried to reach out for “the other dog’s bone”…well, you get my drift.
When Mudavadi was in ODM he talked like a democrat, he wanted free and fair nomination. Since Mudavadi left ODM, he is not talking party democracy anymore. He is saying that his name must be on the presidential ballot. He is not saying IF, nominated, NOOOOOOOOO, he is saying that he MUST be a presidential candidate. Translation is that he will join a small party and he wil be its automatic presidential candidate. All that democracy talk was just an excuse to get out of ODM. Uhuru and Ruto are the same. They are forming their own political parties and nobody expects any opposition to their nomination as presidential candidate. Democracy is only demanded when it applies to Raila
Musalia should not undermine his repute by becoming a tribal chieftain
By MACHARIA GAITHO
Posted Monday, April 16 2012 at 18:58
Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi signalled his intention to quit ODM ever since he went on the offensive in his challenge to Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the party’s presidential nomination.
What initially seemed like a routine token challenge has snowballed into a full-throttle confrontation that has badly split the party and left Mr Odinga badly bruised and exposed.
It is apparent that Mr Mudavadi‘s challenge was part of an exit strategy aimed at providing him with the excuse to walk out in a huff once it became clear that dislodging Mr Odinga in a free and fair nomination would be next to impossible.
Mr Odinga’s regular minions, cheerleaders and sycophants did their best to provide Mr Mudavadi the perfect excuse to walk out. They were generous with injudicious comments suggesting that the party belonged to Mr Odinga.
The question now is not if, but when, Mr Mudavadi will storm out of ODM and whence his destination.
He has kept his options very close to his chest. As he leaves ODM to chart out his own political destiny, however, he seems to be committing the classic mistake of most aspirants to national leadership in Kenya – reducing himself into an ethnic leader.
He has spent much of the last few days, continuing into the rest of this week, working out his strategies within an almost exclusive Luhya cabal.
He is expected to announce his decision on the choice of party at a public rally in his home ‘‘capital’’, Kakamega, at the end of the week.
If Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto sponsored respective Gema and Kamatusa support bashes in Limuru and Eldoret, Mr Mudavadi seems intent on similarly sponsoring his own ‘‘Western Union’’ show of force.
If that is the intention, then Mr Mudavadi succeeds only in undermining his own credentials to national leadership.
He may have succeeded quite spectacularly in stripping Mr Odinga of a hard-earned national profile and leaving the putative presidential election front-runner surrounded by Luo kinsmen in the Jakoyo Midiwos of this world.
Mr Mudavadi, however, does himself no favours by surrounding himself with politicians who succeed only in projecting him as a candidate for president of Luhyaland.
It is natural in Kenya, of course, that a candidate for national leadership must first have a strong base, that more often than not will be ethnic or regional.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga both made little headway in the quest for national leadership until they tore off the ethnic shackles and built alliances that transcended the tribe.
Once in power, however, President Kibaki retreated into his Kikuyu redoubt with associations that badly damaged his nationalist credentials.
Mr Odinga has had to work very hard to break away from the shackles of a Luo Prince, but has suffered badly since the fallout of ODM left him primarily with his own tribesmen purporting to speak for him.
Then we have Mr Odinga’s main rivals in the Kibaki Succession race, the so-called G7 – more G2, really – Alliance headed by Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto under the Gema and Kamatusa banners.
Bound to face trial at the International Criminal Court over the post-election violence, the two might have had the rationale to seek shelter in their respective ethnic laagers.
Mr Mudavadi doesn’t have similar problems and has no excuse to project himself as first and foremost an ethnic candidate. That is why New Ford Kenya might not be that attractive a suitor.
Perhaps, however, Mr Mudavadi might have to pay attention to expected approaches from his old mentor, former President Moi, who will be looking to fill a deep void in Kanu.
Mr Kenyatta has kicked his former puppeteer in the teeth by abandoning the ‘Mama na Baba’ party.
The retired president’s son, Gideon, has assumed temporary leadership of Kanu, but is hardly the commanding national figure the party needs to try and reclaim power.
I can bet Mr Mudavadi’s phone is ringing off the hook right now, and his credentials will be tested by how firmly he can resist Mr Moi’s entreaties.
Mudavadi dared to quit ODM instead of destroying its democratic process
Written by Frankline Bwire
2012-04-12 15:51:00
Orange Democratic Movement youth leaders from Western and Nyanza region have dared the Deputy Prime Minister and ODM deputy party leader Musalia Mudavadi to quit the party instead of rocking it at the bottom.
They claimed that Mudavadi was working in cahoots with Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto and Jimmy Kibaki to give the party a bad name.
Led by the ODM youth league chairman Bungoma County George Baraza, the leaders said the plan by the four was to portray the party as a dictatorial outfit by Mudavadi, casting himself in the role of an oppressed democrat to use it in justifying his decamping from the party.
“The DPM enjoys the confidence of three members of parliament who have also been oddly spoiling for a verbal fight. They have taken from him the cue to demonize ODM and to threaten the party with unspecified consequences,” they alleged.
The group warned Mudavadi that his only political survival depended on working closely with the Prime Minister Raila Odinga to ensure the party won the fourth coming general elections.
“Mudavadi should remember that it was ODM that rescued him from political oblivion to relevancy some years back hence should think twice before repeating the same mistake,” said Baraza during a media briefing with journalists in a Busia hotel.
They claimed that the deputy prime minister held a variety of secret meetings with Eldoret North legislator William Ruto at Palacina and Crowne Plaza hotels in Nairobi with the agenda of destroying ODM and stopping the Reform Agenda in Kenya.
They however, challenged Mudavadi to come out clean and explain why he is working with the adversaries of ODM against the party.
“If he does not believe in the reform agenda of ODM, can’t he state so clearly? If he wants to leave the party is he not within his democratic right and freedom to do so?” they asked.
Also present were ODM Youth league leader Vihiga County Ben Ombima, deputy youth leader, Kakamega County Rashid Mohammed, chairman Busia County Godfrey Obae , ochwang’i Mengo Kisii County and Julius Marita Nyamira County.
Wednesday, Mudavadi hinted a possible fall out with the party from what was stated as the ODM party submitting its registration application documents to the acting Registrar of Political Parties that he was to come out and “state his position and/or offer direction on the matter.”
A statement from his Director of Communication Kibisu Kabatesi, had stated that, “Most of the appeals suggest that members and officials of ODM feel their desires and wishes for democratic processes within the party have been betrayed by failure to amend the contentious clause and other clauses in the ODM Constitution to allow for fair nomination competition at all levels within the party.”
It added that, “Hon. Mudavadi wishes to appeal to ODM members and Kenyans that he is making a considered assessment of the situation and will soon issue a comprehensive statement on the matter.”
However, during the submission of the documents, the Party secretary general Prof. Anyang Nyongo had said they were to amend the part’s constitution. (Read:New Ford Kenya and ODM submit its papers to Registrar of political parties
Today, a statement issued by the ODM said, “In the ODM constitution, after thirty days from the date of the Registrar’s publication of intended alterations (amendments) in the Gazette, a 21 day notice will be issued for the convening of the National Governing Council –NGC meeting following a resolution by the NEC.
After the National Governing Council approves the proposed amendments, a notice of a further 30 days will be issued for the convening of the National Delegates Convention – NDC which has the final say on any amendments or alterations to the party constitution.”
Though fellows are always brought down by a “weakling”… it’s in the Bible, it’s true in the villages, it’s everywhere. Failure to see this is amongst Raila’s weaknesses; he never imagined that his presidential dreams would be scuttled by his most “trusted” lieutenant that he’s fished out from the cold. But that’s politics. Our dismay is seeing Luhya politicians, hitherto hostile to Mudavadi, now coalescing around him because he’s suddenly “one of their own” and State House is “in sight”. It’s all about tribes, never about the best man. If they loved him so much why didn’t they join ODM?
Other MPs at the function directly told Mudavadi not to expect any preferential treatment in the alliance should he join them. Nairobi Metropolitan Minister Jamleck Kamau said the alliance�s journey to State House started long ago.
“If Mudavadi expects to join us now, he should work under Wamalwa who already has a number in G7,” Kamau said.
They appeared angered by Western Province MPs who skipped the event and blamed Mudavadi. Information Minister Samuel Poghisio castigated the leaders for “fearing” to attend the homecoming ceremony.
Nominated MP Musikari Kombo, who was the master of ceremony and former Budalangi MP Raphael Wanjala were the only leaders from the region.
Annointed
There was widespread speculation that Mudavadi could be the G7 compromise candidate should Uhuru and Ruto be barred from contesting.
Westlands MP Fred Gumo, who is also a key ally of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, was the surprise guest.
“Those running away should know that it will not be easy going out there,” said Gumo. Gumo said Uhuru, Ruto and Wamalwa had serious presidential ambitions.
“If you think you will run away and be received with open arms, you are mistaken because these three are serious in their presidential bids and will not abandon them for you,” said the Regional Development minister.
Gumo told Uhuru and Ruto some politicians were hoping to cash in on their predicament at the ICC. Uhuru and Ruto supported Wamalwa saying he was their preferred point man in Western.
Political analysts have termed as inconsequential the move by Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi to exit from the Orange Democratic Movement.
Analyst James Simekha says the move by Mudavadi may work as an advantage to ODM and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Speaking to KBC on phone, Simekha said that the exit of Mudavadi makes it easy for Raila to pick his perfect running mate.
He says Mudavadi would have been expected to be the obvious running mate should he have stayed in ODM, but now the field is open for Raila to make his choice without pressure.
He also said that Mudavadi’s departure will not be detrimental to ODM adding that the party has sufficient time to reorganize itself.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government Musalia Mudavadi has reassured his supporters that he will be on the presidential ticket when the election date is announced.
He has said he will be consulting with likeminded leaders across the country adding that his presidential bid is not based on specific regions.
His duel with Prime Minister Raila Odinga to be ODM’s flag bearer in the forthcoming elections has been a controversial issue especially after the party applied for a certificate of registration without amending a contentious clause in the party constitution that gives the party leader an automatic party presidential ticket.
Mudavadi’s quest for the top seat has caused disquiet in ODM and attempts by the top echelons of the party to have him relinquish his ambition seems to have hit a dead end.
Musalia Mudavadi is a true traitor. Listen to him on this clip endorsing Raila, 100% in 2010.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQrJVXaKPY&feature=player_embedded
Wanted: Wizard to make grand thieves eat grass
Published on 08/02/2012
Since a middle-aged man was caught on camera grazing like a cow in Naivasha last year, grass-eating has become a popular ‘pastime’. Threats to make people eat grass have also multiplied by leaps and bounds. There is little doubt that grass eating is the latest craze in the wizarding world. But it could also be that sorcerers have run short of ideas and the only thing they can think about is to turn suspects into herbivores.
For the doubting Thomases, it works. Someone did return a stolen mobile handset in Naivasha after he was warned that he would eat grass. A laptop was also recovered in Nakuru.
Uhuru Park
But PointBlank has got a bigger job for the sorcerers. We are ready to hire the services of anyone who can make those who have milked this country dry to eat grass.
We want them all — from petty thieves to masterminds of Goldenberg and Anglo leasing — at Uhuru Park on all fours, especially now the grass is dry and crunchy. This isn’t a difficult assignment. Any serious wizard out there ready for some serious national duty?
Monday April 9, 2012 – Former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga on Sunday said his life is in danger.
Njenga who is now a “converted preacher” said some Kikuyu elite politicians met last week in Jacaranda Hotel Nairobi and resolved to hire mercenaries to kill him over his stand on ICC trials and GEMA.
“There 20 people following me, they want to know where I sleep, what I eat and where I go. I have their names,” Njenga said without elaborating their names.
He said the scheme is being funded by a very powerful and rich politician from Central Kenya.
He also attacked Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto for promoting hatred by forming tribal alliances.
“We shall not take oaths again, we oppose these tribal groupings because we want Kenya to prosper,” Njenga said referring to KAMATUSA and GEMA.
“These alliances will cause something bigger than what happened in year 2008,” Maina warned.
The former Mungiki strongman also personalized his attacks to Uhuru Kenyatta asking to “tell his people to stop harassing the youth” and to seek votes from all Kenyans instead of seeking votes from one tribe.
Maina was speaking on Sunday at one of his churches in Nairobi.
Article by: Stephen Njoroge
Musalia Mudavadi jinga kabisa. Does he know the meaning of a party leader? He was rescued by Raila in 2002 when he was shaky about his loyalty and remained in Kanu. He by then supported The Hague’s special guest Uhuru Kenyatta, for the presidency. Musalia lost his Parliamentary seat and Uhuru, his presidential bid. Musalia inherited his political seat from his late father, Moses Mudavadi. He has never struggled for any reforms in Kenya, nor contributed to any political liberation for the benefit of Kenyans.
Musalia was linked to the Goldenberg scam in the 1990s, that cost Kenyan taxpayers $600million. As the current Local Government Minister, he was also been suspiciously linked to the cemetery scandal that cost the taxpayers $3.6m. Mudavadi should leave ODM and work with his murderous allies, Uhuruto and their G7 clowns.
In politics, the party leader is the most powerful official within a political party.
The party leader is typically responsible for managing the party’s relationship with the general public. As such, he or she will take a leading role in developing and communicating party policy, especially election platforms, to the electorate. He or she is also typically the public face of the party and the principal media contact.
In many representative democracies, party leaders compete directly for high political office. For example, leaders of parties in presidential and semi-presidential republics will often run for President. In parliamentary systems of government, party leaders typically seek to become prime minister. It is thus typical in such states (e.g., in the Westminster system) for the party leader to seek election to the legislature, and, if elected, to simultaneously serve as the party’s parliamentary leader.
Sometimes, a party leader will simultaneously hold the post of chairman. However, this is rare in the Westminster system.
The method of selection of the party leader varies from party to party, though often it will involve an election involving all or part of the party membership. In some parties, only current members of the parliamentary party, or particular party office holders, may vote; in others, such as the British Labour Party, though the entire membership is eligible to vote, some electors may have a much larger share of the vote than others (see also Superdelegate for a similar concept). If only one candidate emerges, he or she is said to have been “elected by acclamation” or “ratified” by the general membership (sometimes the term “anointed” is used informally or in media discourse). In Canada, all major parties elect their leaders at a leadership convention.
The leaders of communist parties often hold the title of General secretary (eg. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party of China).
In the Gilded Age (late 19th century in the United States) there existed a system called Bossism which entailed powerful political machines, run by so-called “bosses” who awarded political positions to their associates (one example being Tammany Hall which was run by Boss Tweed) This kind of political system is also referred to as a particracy.
Majority of Nyeri people looks Zombies.children born post indipendence suffers from unknown trauma (down Sydrom) to Zombies look at the above picture mothers/youth children and their Zombie dads and mothers all suffer from /deficiency
Musalia kigeugeu can neva be trusted.he is working with criminals heading to ICC
Mudavadi Must Come Clean About Anti-ODM Meetings With Ruto, Uhuru and Their Men
16
Apr
As I have been blogging, there are many in ODM who believe Deputy Prime Minister and ODM Deputy Party Leader, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi, is keen on rocking the ODM boat for reasons that have nothing to do with”internal democracy” because his much-publicized quest for democratic space within the party is not genuine.
According to reliable sources, Mr. Mudavadi is working in cahoots with Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, Hon. William Ruto and Mr. Jimmy Kibaki to give ODM a bad name, besides trying to “stop” Raila.
The game plan is for them to give Raila and ODM the portrait of a dictatorial outfit, by casting Mudavadi in the role of an oppressed democrat.
In the end, they can use this to justify Mudavadi’s decamping from the party. This is why the DPM has continuously been threatening the party with unspecified consequences and make no mistake about it, it doesn’t matter what Raila or ODM does; they can agree and give Mudavadi everything he wants but he will still leave because the objective is to rock the boat and damage ODM.
The DPM enjoys the confidence of three Members of Parliament who have also been oddly spoiling for a verbal fight. They have taken from him the cue to demonize ODM and to threaten the party with “unspecified consequences.”
The language of his private secretary, Mr. Kibisu Kabatesi also attests to a scheme against the party.
The same source informs us that they are aware that apart from direct meetings with Hon. Ruto, Hon. Uhuru and Mr. Jimmy Kibaki in Gigiri, the four have been using Hon. Lewis Nguyayi, Mr. David Murathe and Mr. Kibisu Kabatesi as conduits for support that Hon. Mudavadi has been using to sow discord in ODM.
These are established channels.
For William Ruto, the point man is Sammy Koech, a well-known broker. Mr. Koech is also a Personal Assistant to Mr. Jimmy Kibaki.
On 20 March 2012, there was an anti ODM meeting in Jimmy Kibaki’s office in Gigiri. In attendance were Mr. Sammy Koech, Jimmy Kibaki, and a representative of Hon. Mudavadi as well as Hon. Kenyatta’s. The main topic was how Mr. Ruto, Mr. Kibaki and Hon. Kenyatta can support Mudavadi to run down ODM. Detailed plans that continue to unfold were laid.
Mr. Kibaki advised that Mudavadi should not quit ODM yet, “If he quits, he will find himself under a tree and his life will be worse than it was in 2002.” He went on to suggest that if Uhuru and Ruto are to go to The Hague, Mudavadi should receive their blessings, because, they said, “He is malleable and nationally acceptable.”
The meeting of 20 March also mooted the idea of “doing a dirty job,” whatever that may mean. They agreed to use someone close to Hon. Mudavadi to do “the dirty job.”
Hon. Mudavadi cannot deny this.
Nor can he deny that the Gigiri meeting on 20 March was informed that he has held several secret meetings with Mzee Moi, where they have discussed how to scuttle ODM.
A further meeting arranged for Tuesday 27 March at 11.00 am did not take place. However, one eventually happened on Friday 30 March. The whole agenda was on the ODM nominations. In particular, the meeting discussed how Hon. Mudavadi should use the issue of ODM presidential nomination to good effect. He should make the party look so bad such that “when he leaves, he will have public sympathy.”
Another meeting took place last week, on 02 April from 6.00 pm to 2.00 am, with Hon. Uhuru, Hon. Njeru Githae, Gen. Karangi and Mr. Paul Ndung’u in attendance.
Hon. Mudavadi has also held a variety of secret meetings with Hon. Ruto at Palacina and Crowne Plaza Hotels in Nairobi, with the agenda of destroying ODM and stopping the Reform Agenda in Kenya.
We call upon Hon. Mudavadi to come clean.
Why is he working with the adversaries of ODM against the party? If he does not believe in the Reform Agenda of ODM, can’t he state so clearly? If he wants to leave the party, is he not within his democratic right and freedom to do so?
Hon, Mudavadi does not have to demonize our party and create artificial excuses or cast himself as a man under siege. He is not a man under siege; to the contrary, he is the one persecuting the party, at the behest of outsiders.
Men and women of conscience and goodwill should know these facts. In its proper name, what Hon. Mudavadi it is called betrayal of the party that gave him a new lease of political life after the debacle of the Uhuru Project in 2002. He may very well be headed the same way he came from.
None of these means Mudavadi cannot reconsider his move and continue the journey to victory with Raila and ODM.
He can.
Yes, he can.
The temptations in politics are sometimes overwhelming and people succumb to them, even when not clearly in their interest.
For Mudavadi to allow himself to be used this way, which every indication is he is, it’s unfortunate, especially given Raila and ODM will likely survive the onslaught and once again emerge victorious at the polls come election day.
Again, it’s in Mudavadi’s self interest to reconsider and stay put in ODM and let he and the party continue working on a formula that is
I talked to a Luhya professional and friend who is friends with Mudavadi and he asked me if I knew who is advising the man and even though I assumed the question was rhetorical, I nonetheless mentioned the names of who I know are.
He dismissed everyone of them as lightweights who have no influence beyond their bomas and surrounding perimeter but not any further in Western.
In this friend’s view, the advice Mudavadi is heeding is coming from Rift Valley and Central and the “home-boys” are simply cheering him on because they smell blood–not exactly my friend’s words, but the gist of what he was saying.
The only thing I kept wondering as I am having this conversation with my friend and listening to his analysis of the pertinent issues, which was right on point after point, was why is this man not advising Mudavadi for he surely could use the wise counsel.
My friend told me Mudavadi is not taking his calls (“the busy he is tending to more important things”) and neither is an aide my friend has direct contact.
Both of these facts tell me something that happens to all of us: when you don’t want to hear the biting truth, you shut off those who will give it to you.
A good thing about those of us in the diaspora, is many of us will tell our politician friends the truth regardless of what it is because for us, its not about our friends per se, but our country we love so dearly.
It is reported that Mudavadi is having “consultative” meetings with professionals and others from Western ahead of his big decision.
Let’s hope they are giving him candid advice which cannot be any different from what my friend and others like him here in the US are saying and that is, Mudavadi’s leaving ODM will be a big mistake he will live to regret.
Indeed, my friend is in disbelief that Mudavadi is doing what he is without regard to what the consequences will be to him individually, or for ODM and Western politics which, according to my friend and others from the region I have talked to, is divided evenly between support for Raila vz his enemies if Mudavadi decamps and that can only be good news for Raila and ODM but bad news for Mudavadi.
My friend also said something which I have not really thought about and makes a lot of sense and that is those propping Mudavadi from RV and Central have no leverage against him of any kind such that, if he were to rebuff them, there is nothing they can do to him.
In one of the blogs on this subject, I alluded to others believing there is more than money and desire to “stop” Raila that is at play for Mudavadi and even mentioned letting sleeping dogs lie and economic blackmail but in hindsight and following what my friend said, I modify that to say it’s all about destroying Raila and ODM, which means its all about money.
It’s a harsh judgment Mudavadi can avoid confirming by doing the right thing and the right thing is simply staying put in ODM and working together with Raila to make the party the juggernaut it shall be anyway; question is, will Mudavadi be in it or out in the cold?
Let’s hope in it for he has no valid reason to leave.
Samuel N. Omwenga
So Musalia Was A Mole All Along… ?
It is rapidly becoming increasingly clear that all the noise Musalia Mudavadi has been making within ODM about the process for nominating a presidential candidate was just a smoke screen and excuse. It was a very well choreographed move to find a way to exit from ODM with as much sympathy votes as possible to help his presidential bid sponsored by a very powerful Kenyan.
Information just in from one of my sources indicates that the man has in fact been a mole all along. But for who? PNU? Certainly not!! Whole else then?
Amazingly political analysts have been analyzing local politics without giving much attention or thought to the third prominent and extremely powerful force in Kenyan politics. One Daniel arap Moi.
Many Kenyans are not aware of it but Moi is in fact related to Mudavadi.
Let me explain. Back in the 1950s Musalia’s late father Moses Sabstone Mudavadi married a Turgen woman. One of my sources insists that the woman was Moi’s sister but another laughs off the suggestion and says she was just a “very close relative” to Moi. But what is very clear is that over the years the Mudavadis have been relatives to the Mois for all intents and purposes. Indeed When Sabstone served in the Moi cabinet in the late 70s and most of the 80s, he was one of the very few ministers who was “untouchable” and immune to sackings. Local political analysts never figured out why.
There was another reason that drove the Moi’s and Mudavadi to be such close knit families. Back in the 1960s when Moi was a mere primary school teacher with no ambitions that were higher than being a headmaster of some remote rural primary school it was Musalia’s father who pushed Moi to enter politics and even went further and put in a good word for him with the colonial administration. In other words Moi owes his political career to the older Mudavadi.
To Musalia, Moi is a close relative and to Moi Musalia is a son whom he has a responsibility to look after on behalf of his dead friend and relative by marriage Sabstone Mudavadi.
Armed with this kind of background you will fully understand what I am about to say next.
Moi is still extremely powerful in Kenya and well respected at very high levels of government. His biggest problem since he left power has been how to protect the ill gotten family wealth. This has not been easy especially with tightening of money laundering laws worldwide aimed at people who move large sums of money around and have no justifiable or lawful source for the cash. This has led Moi to move a lot of his money away from Western capitals and even from secret Swiss accounts to Namibia where he is a great friend of the president. It is not clear where the rest of the billions are currently but there is evidence that a lot of it has been invested in the Kenyan and South African corporate sector through dummy foreign companies whose directors are said to be “abroad”.
Moi’s long experience as president has taught him to always be extremely careful and cover all his bases.
Now in the run up to the 2007 general elections Moi wanted to ensure that whatever side won (either PNU or ODM) the Moi family wealth would be protected. Raila Odinga already owes Moi some huge favours (but that is a story for another say). However Moi wanted some extra “insurance policy” and that insurance policy was Musalia Mudavadi who would have been Vice President had Raila ascended to the presidency.
Fast forward to 2012. Moi is very jittery about the new constitution and is retaining a very expensive team of constitutional lawyers who are closely monitoring the implementation process and interpreting what it could mean to Moi’s ill gotten wealth. This is the reason why Moi has been throwing several spanners into the works when it comes to implementation (another story for another day). The bottom line is that the stakes are even higher for Moi this time round.
Inside sources assure me that all the noise being made about Gema is a smoke screen because Moi has already obtained full support for the Mudavadi candidature from Kibaki and it is a deal that Kibaki cannot go back on because Moi has promised to support him in his bid to stay away from the clutches of the ICC. So you can be sure that in the end Gema will vote as a block for Musalia (see my other report below on the Gema kingpin who will take over from Uhuru).
In summary Mudavadi has been a Moi mole in ODM all along and is the brand new Moi project for 2012. The old man will never support him in public because he has learnt his lesson from 2002 and the Uhuru project. But you can be sure that the massive Kanu machinery now being revamped is being prepared to support Mudavadi’s bid for the presidency. And in return guess who will be Mudavadi’s running mate? Gideon Moi of course. Now that is the kind of move that will neatly bag Kalenjin votes for Musalia. Some of my sources claim that Mudavadi is headed back to Kanu. But that would be the kind of foolhardy move that Moi is not capable of making. Better to have Mudavadi in another political party that will work closely with the massive Kanu grassroots machinery.
Folks, unless something very dramatic happens (which I assure you it will) I would like to present to you the next rather unexpected president of the banana Republic of Kenya. His Excellency President Musalia Mudavadi
Endela kucheza na Moi.
P.S. A late report I received as I was writing this is that the Kipsigis on the ground are already excitedly talking about a Mudavadi presidency. Imagine getting confirmation over a story even as you write it??!!!!!
Uhuru, Ruto Arrest Order Imminent
Kenyans have been treated to numerous shocks this year but even bigger ones are on the way.
Impeccable sources have assured this blogger that the arrest warrant for Uhuru and Ruto from the ICC is due to be issued soon. Further investigations into the matter reveal that the President’s handlers are very busy preparing for the aftermath of the arrest warrant of the Deputy Prime Minister. Fascinatingly the man being groomed to take over as the GEMA leader/presidential candidate is Amos Kimunya.
Why are Uhuru and Ruto being arrested? Well, civil rights groups have presented enough evidence to the ICC proving that their prayer rallies/political meetings have been meant to incite something that the duo were sternly warned against.
However nobody knows exactly what will happen when the ICC issue the arrest order in the next couple of weeks. Most observers are sure that the Kenyan government will not hand over the suspects. Indeed they claim that what will happen is that there will be massive unrest protesting the arrests.
The current efforts to elevate Amos Kimunya to the position of Gema kingpin replacing Uhuru is rather confusing and would suggest that the government is actually going to hand over the two ICC suspects. Kimunya has a very close relationship with the president’s favourite daughter Judy Kibaki which some claim is way too close to eliminate the possibility of a romantic liaison. Kimunya’s power and his powerful connections was vividly displayed recently when he caused the cabinet reshuffle list to be amended at the 11th hour. The initial list had the sacking of two ministers (one from each side of the political divide). Namely Najib Balala of ODM and Moses Wetangula of PNU. Wetangula was meant to be sacked for his open hostility against the G7. Kimunya and Judy Kibaki’s intervention saw Wetangula’s name back on the list but as minister for Trade.
12 April 2012
RAILA ODINGA PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SECRETARIAT
Press Release: Setting the ODM Nomination Debate Straight
1. We wish to put the record straight regarding the sponsored false perception that the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Raila A. Odinga, is frustrating Hon. Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi’s ambition to run for the office of President of the Republic of Kenya on the ODM ticket.
2. Quite to the contrary, the Prime Minister is a democrat who recognizes everyone’s right to exercise and enjoy his or her democratic rights and freedoms as laid out by the law. To this end, Hon. Mudavadi is quite in order to seek to be the ODM Presidential flag bearer.
3. To accommodate Hon. Mudavadi’s Presidential ambitions, the Prime Minister has been supportive of the thought that the party’s Constitution and election regulations can be varied, to make room for a broad based nomination exercise for the Presidential flagship. This would open up space not just for Hon. Mudavadi to compete for this ticket, but for any other qualified party member, too.
4. Hon. Mudavadi has also been pushing for a county-based nomination exercise as opposed to nomination by a centralized Delegates’ Conference as is laid out in the Party’s regulations. Once again, the Prime Minister is open to such an arrangement, provided that this is the wish of the majority in the party.
5. While the Prime Minister remains open to the possibility of the Party’s Constitution and regulations being changed to make it easy for Hon. Mudavadi to realize his Presidential ambitions, he also remains awake to the fact that this needs to be done in orderly fashion and according to the law.
6. Article 20 of the Political Parties Act requires that notice be given to the Registrar of Political Parties for intent to amend the Constitution. ODM has done this, taking note too that to wait for amendment of the Constitution before presenting the registration of the documents to the Registrar of Political Parties would lead to its deregistration, owing to both constitutional processes and timelines within the party and those within the Parties’ Act. The registrar is supposed to cause a notice of intent to amend the constitution to be published in the Kenya Gazette within 14 days of receipt of the notice. Thereafter, a period of thirty days must lapse (Article 20. d of the Act), during which the party shall receive proposals from the public. The amendment process will then proceed, as laid out in Party instruments. Surely, those who initiated the amendment process that is now on going are not strangers to these legal requirements?
7. We restate that amendment of a Party’s Constitution needs to be done in a sober, free and democratic manner. It should not be done under threats and intimidation. Intimidating people is itself of course the highest manifestation of dictatorship. Let Kenyans judge for themselves who is being high handed and dictatorial in this matter. It should not be done with a gun placed against people’s heads as is being done.
8. The Prime Minister has continued to exercise Stately restraint amidst orchestrated demonization of his person and that of the ODM. He will continue to comport himself with composure, even as the relevant Party organs continue to work towards placing before the National Delegates Conference for consideration, the prayers that Hon. Mudavadi has made.
9. Meanwhile, the Party has to comply with Political Party registration requirements as laid out in the Political Parties Act (2011). This exercise can only be delayed at the Party’s risk of deregistration, in which case there will be no party ticket to compete for. We are satisfied that ODM has issued notice to the Registrar of Political Parties, with regard to the anticipated alteration of the Party’s nomination rules. Nobody, therefore, has any cause for apprehension regarding his Presidential hopes within ODM.
10. We are aware of external forces that have been at work since sometime last year, seeking to infiltrate and rock the Party from within. These forces remain adamantly at work. We know about their recent activities and meetings in Nairobi and elsewhere. We would caution members of ODM not to fall victim to short-term attraction from these forces. ODM remains the only democratic political party in Kenya. It is the only party whose Presidential ticket is being contested for democratically.
Signed:
Barrack O. Muluka
National Director of Communications
Let me say it here and now that Musalia Mudavadi, son of Mudamba seems never to have heard of such expressions as shooting oneself in the foot, giving people a rope to hang you with, snatching defeat in the jaws of victory, or again, simply momentarily throwing someone under the bus. My own observation of MM is pretty clear. This is a man who has never won ANY election by merit; always a political reward of some sorts. It began in 1989 when his ooh mighty father son of Mululu Sebastien Mudavadi left us. With the practice that was in vogue, Moi served him a parliamenterian seat on a silver platter by making him his father’s successor. It’s not a wonder that the novice, the not so experienced, and not so talented politician (yes, politics is an art my friends too, there’s competence, for sure, but also how you bring it down to the hoi polloi), was to be beaten by one Moses son of Akaranga , ten years later, even as he was the outgoing VP, something hitherto unheard of.
So what does MM? He joins the Pentagon, surfs the Orange wave that was ODM, and of course finds himself back to the August House.
Now, I’ve always said, each one is entitled to have ambitions, allowed to dream even. But at the same time, I’ve asked time and again, that anyone please tell me what MM has done for the people of Sabatia, for the greater western community and finally for the people of Kenya. Someone needs to give me just one reason why I would cast my vote come January 2013 for son of Budamba as they say back in Maragoliland. Now, some are quick to come up with very simplistic lines, saying “he’s ours” (read Luhyia).
Now, my own conscience, and I want to believe that of many westerners with a mind,does not buy this kind of BS (excuse my French). I’ve always said, if indeed one day a westerner ascended to the highest office in the land, I would be one proud girl. Proud that he’s had the competence to propel himself that high, and yes, proud too that he’s indeed, one of our own; but my pride would be in that order and not vice versa.
Why am I being categoric about my dismisal of MM as “presidentable”? Well, this year, I’m watching 3 presidential elections; the French presidential elections, first round coming in 2 weeks’ time. Secondly the US presidential race, where despite everything we continue to route for BHO, for what he stands for and symbolises as the POTUS and his links to our own country. Then of course with the advent of modern technology, we in the diaspora are at long last able to watch “blow by blow”, the unfoloding of events on Kenyan poltical scene,
so I’m keenly following the Kenyan forthcoming elections. What I’ve consistently observed is that opinion polls never lie. Not once has one of the 2 men who the polls have been putting ahead failed to be the final horses in the race. When it’s too close to call for the thrid man, then you don’t dismiss him and man number 2 has every reason to be very very afraid. I’ve been looking at figures including the Infotrack polls that came out barely a week ago. Musalia Mudavadi as of today would need to double his “popularity and vote intentions” to just reach where UK alone is, he’d need to multiply his polling figure by 8 to get to Raila Odinga. MM is at 5%, UK at 11% RAO at 42%. You don’t need to be Carey Francis to know this is a “loosing battle” he’s taking on.
It’s for all this that this morning, I’ve just added my own very independent comment on Lijoodilson Arantez wall and said the following;” Let me say it here and now that MM is making worse than a mistake, a political blunder! Secondly he’ll be neither president, not governor, nor anything. You can take that to the bank.”
They say “never look a gift horse in the mouth”; MM is doing that. In my own jargon I say, “you can’t climb a ladder from the middle”. So if MM believes he has political acumen, he’d be well advised to prove it by harbouring realistic ambitions. It’s his right and even credit to him, to decide to be “his own man” (very long overdue). But let him start with first things first, maybe run for a more attainable office. But if he so wants to feel what it is like to bleed because the gazette was triggered by oneself, who am I, my own modest self, to tell him otherwise? Didn’t those wise people of the coast say, “mtoto akililia wembe pe”?
Our own Luhyia sage added “ndilamanyanga ibetsanga olunyuma” (I wish I knew comes afterwards). History will tell us.
If you remember that dog that was already carrying a bone in the mouth, saw it’s own shadow in the water and tried to reach out for “the other dog’s bone”…well, you get my drift.
When Mudavadi was in ODM he talked like a democrat, he wanted free and fair nomination. Since Mudavadi left ODM, he is not talking party democracy anymore. He is saying that his name must be on the presidential ballot. He is not saying IF, nominated, NOOOOOOOOO, he is saying that he MUST be a presidential candidate. Translation is that he will join a small party and he wil be its automatic presidential candidate. All that democracy talk was just an excuse to get out of ODM. Uhuru and Ruto are the same. They are forming their own political parties and nobody expects any opposition to their nomination as presidential candidate. Democracy is only demanded when it applies to Raila
Musalia should not undermine his repute by becoming a tribal chieftain
By MACHARIA GAITHO
Posted Monday, April 16 2012 at 18:58
Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi signalled his intention to quit ODM ever since he went on the offensive in his challenge to Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the party’s presidential nomination.
What initially seemed like a routine token challenge has snowballed into a full-throttle confrontation that has badly split the party and left Mr Odinga badly bruised and exposed.
It is apparent that Mr Mudavadi‘s challenge was part of an exit strategy aimed at providing him with the excuse to walk out in a huff once it became clear that dislodging Mr Odinga in a free and fair nomination would be next to impossible.
Mr Odinga’s regular minions, cheerleaders and sycophants did their best to provide Mr Mudavadi the perfect excuse to walk out. They were generous with injudicious comments suggesting that the party belonged to Mr Odinga.
The question now is not if, but when, Mr Mudavadi will storm out of ODM and whence his destination.
He has kept his options very close to his chest. As he leaves ODM to chart out his own political destiny, however, he seems to be committing the classic mistake of most aspirants to national leadership in Kenya – reducing himself into an ethnic leader.
He has spent much of the last few days, continuing into the rest of this week, working out his strategies within an almost exclusive Luhya cabal.
He is expected to announce his decision on the choice of party at a public rally in his home ‘‘capital’’, Kakamega, at the end of the week.
If Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto sponsored respective Gema and Kamatusa support bashes in Limuru and Eldoret, Mr Mudavadi seems intent on similarly sponsoring his own ‘‘Western Union’’ show of force.
If that is the intention, then Mr Mudavadi succeeds only in undermining his own credentials to national leadership.
He may have succeeded quite spectacularly in stripping Mr Odinga of a hard-earned national profile and leaving the putative presidential election front-runner surrounded by Luo kinsmen in the Jakoyo Midiwos of this world.
Mr Mudavadi, however, does himself no favours by surrounding himself with politicians who succeed only in projecting him as a candidate for president of Luhyaland.
It is natural in Kenya, of course, that a candidate for national leadership must first have a strong base, that more often than not will be ethnic or regional.
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga both made little headway in the quest for national leadership until they tore off the ethnic shackles and built alliances that transcended the tribe.
Once in power, however, President Kibaki retreated into his Kikuyu redoubt with associations that badly damaged his nationalist credentials.
Mr Odinga has had to work very hard to break away from the shackles of a Luo Prince, but has suffered badly since the fallout of ODM left him primarily with his own tribesmen purporting to speak for him.
Then we have Mr Odinga’s main rivals in the Kibaki Succession race, the so-called G7 – more G2, really – Alliance headed by Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto under the Gema and Kamatusa banners.
Bound to face trial at the International Criminal Court over the post-election violence, the two might have had the rationale to seek shelter in their respective ethnic laagers.
Mr Mudavadi doesn’t have similar problems and has no excuse to project himself as first and foremost an ethnic candidate. That is why New Ford Kenya might not be that attractive a suitor.
Perhaps, however, Mr Mudavadi might have to pay attention to expected approaches from his old mentor, former President Moi, who will be looking to fill a deep void in Kanu.
Mr Kenyatta has kicked his former puppeteer in the teeth by abandoning the ‘Mama na Baba’ party.
The retired president’s son, Gideon, has assumed temporary leadership of Kanu, but is hardly the commanding national figure the party needs to try and reclaim power.
I can bet Mr Mudavadi’s phone is ringing off the hook right now, and his credentials will be tested by how firmly he can resist Mr Moi’s entreaties.
Mudavadi dared to quit ODM instead of destroying its democratic process
Written by Frankline Bwire
2012-04-12 15:51:00
Orange Democratic Movement youth leaders from Western and Nyanza region have dared the Deputy Prime Minister and ODM deputy party leader Musalia Mudavadi to quit the party instead of rocking it at the bottom.
They claimed that Mudavadi was working in cahoots with Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto and Jimmy Kibaki to give the party a bad name.
Led by the ODM youth league chairman Bungoma County George Baraza, the leaders said the plan by the four was to portray the party as a dictatorial outfit by Mudavadi, casting himself in the role of an oppressed democrat to use it in justifying his decamping from the party.
“The DPM enjoys the confidence of three members of parliament who have also been oddly spoiling for a verbal fight. They have taken from him the cue to demonize ODM and to threaten the party with unspecified consequences,” they alleged.
The group warned Mudavadi that his only political survival depended on working closely with the Prime Minister Raila Odinga to ensure the party won the fourth coming general elections.
“Mudavadi should remember that it was ODM that rescued him from political oblivion to relevancy some years back hence should think twice before repeating the same mistake,” said Baraza during a media briefing with journalists in a Busia hotel.
They claimed that the deputy prime minister held a variety of secret meetings with Eldoret North legislator William Ruto at Palacina and Crowne Plaza hotels in Nairobi with the agenda of destroying ODM and stopping the Reform Agenda in Kenya.
They however, challenged Mudavadi to come out clean and explain why he is working with the adversaries of ODM against the party.
“If he does not believe in the reform agenda of ODM, can’t he state so clearly? If he wants to leave the party is he not within his democratic right and freedom to do so?” they asked.
Also present were ODM Youth league leader Vihiga County Ben Ombima, deputy youth leader, Kakamega County Rashid Mohammed, chairman Busia County Godfrey Obae , ochwang’i Mengo Kisii County and Julius Marita Nyamira County.
Wednesday, Mudavadi hinted a possible fall out with the party from what was stated as the ODM party submitting its registration application documents to the acting Registrar of Political Parties that he was to come out and “state his position and/or offer direction on the matter.”
A statement from his Director of Communication Kibisu Kabatesi, had stated that, “Most of the appeals suggest that members and officials of ODM feel their desires and wishes for democratic processes within the party have been betrayed by failure to amend the contentious clause and other clauses in the ODM Constitution to allow for fair nomination competition at all levels within the party.”
It added that, “Hon. Mudavadi wishes to appeal to ODM members and Kenyans that he is making a considered assessment of the situation and will soon issue a comprehensive statement on the matter.”
However, during the submission of the documents, the Party secretary general Prof. Anyang Nyongo had said they were to amend the part’s constitution. (Read:New Ford Kenya and ODM submit its papers to Registrar of political parties
Today, a statement issued by the ODM said, “In the ODM constitution, after thirty days from the date of the Registrar’s publication of intended alterations (amendments) in the Gazette, a 21 day notice will be issued for the convening of the National Governing Council –NGC meeting following a resolution by the NEC.
After the National Governing Council approves the proposed amendments, a notice of a further 30 days will be issued for the convening of the National Delegates Convention – NDC which has the final say on any amendments or alterations to the party constitution.”
Though fellows are always brought down by a “weakling”… it’s in the Bible, it’s true in the villages, it’s everywhere. Failure to see this is amongst Raila’s weaknesses; he never imagined that his presidential dreams would be scuttled by his most “trusted” lieutenant that he’s fished out from the cold. But that’s politics. Our dismay is seeing Luhya politicians, hitherto hostile to Mudavadi, now coalescing around him because he’s suddenly “one of their own” and State House is “in sight”. It’s all about tribes, never about the best man. If they loved him so much why didn’t they join ODM?
Mad Mad World – The Standard
Other MPs at the function directly told Mudavadi not to expect any preferential treatment in the alliance should he join them. Nairobi Metropolitan Minister Jamleck Kamau said the alliance�s journey to State House started long ago.
“If Mudavadi expects to join us now, he should work under Wamalwa who already has a number in G7,” Kamau said.
They appeared angered by Western Province MPs who skipped the event and blamed Mudavadi. Information Minister Samuel Poghisio castigated the leaders for “fearing” to attend the homecoming ceremony.
Nominated MP Musikari Kombo, who was the master of ceremony and former Budalangi MP Raphael Wanjala were the only leaders from the region.
Annointed
There was widespread speculation that Mudavadi could be the G7 compromise candidate should Uhuru and Ruto be barred from contesting.
Westlands MP Fred Gumo, who is also a key ally of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, was the surprise guest.
“Those running away should know that it will not be easy going out there,” said Gumo. Gumo said Uhuru, Ruto and Wamalwa had serious presidential ambitions.
“If you think you will run away and be received with open arms, you are mistaken because these three are serious in their presidential bids and will not abandon them for you,” said the Regional Development minister.
Gumo told Uhuru and Ruto some politicians were hoping to cash in on their predicament at the ICC. Uhuru and Ruto supported Wamalwa saying he was their preferred point man in Western.
Political analysts trivialize Mudavadi move
Political analysts have termed as inconsequential the move by Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi to exit from the Orange Democratic Movement.
Analyst James Simekha says the move by Mudavadi may work as an advantage to ODM and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Speaking to KBC on phone, Simekha said that the exit of Mudavadi makes it easy for Raila to pick his perfect running mate.
He says Mudavadi would have been expected to be the obvious running mate should he have stayed in ODM, but now the field is open for Raila to make his choice without pressure.
He also said that Mudavadi’s departure will not be detrimental to ODM adding that the party has sufficient time to reorganize itself.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government Musalia Mudavadi has reassured his supporters that he will be on the presidential ticket when the election date is announced.
He has said he will be consulting with likeminded leaders across the country adding that his presidential bid is not based on specific regions.
His duel with Prime Minister Raila Odinga to be ODM’s flag bearer in the forthcoming elections has been a controversial issue especially after the party applied for a certificate of registration without amending a contentious clause in the party constitution that gives the party leader an automatic party presidential ticket.
Mudavadi’s quest for the top seat has caused disquiet in ODM and attempts by the top echelons of the party to have him relinquish his ambition seems to have hit a dead end.