This year, the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm is not organizing any Madaraka day reception. As the day Kenya gained its flag independence is marked in both Kenya and Kenya diaspora, the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm will remain closed while no activity is planned. It is not the first time that Madaraka day has gone missing on the social menu.
Unless there is a top secret reception, KSB Intelligence Security Services (KISS agents) have reported that nothing is planned officially although it is known that Purity was planning “something small” at her residence in Nacka where a carefully selected network of Embassy sycophants (aka Walambaji), were expected. Intel show that Walambaji have been undergoing an internal crisis because some members of the group have been competing to have Purity’s attention, a situation that, according to intel, has created squabbles within the group. But that storo is for another day.
The failure of Purity to host the Madaraka day reception is not strange. This is because the hosting of Madaraka day in Stockholm has always depended on the mood of the Ambassador. When she is in a good mood, she usually throws a reception at the Scandic Anglais Hotel or at Hotel Plaza near Sergels Torg. Both hotels are located in Stockholm’s CBD. When she is in a bad mood, she does not do anything at all.
Sometimes when she is upset, Purity usually transfers receptions of Kenya’s national days to Denmark or Norway to deprive Kenya-Stockholmers of the great moment, the free drinks and free food that is usually served liberally at such functions with the taxman footing the bill.
For Purity, depriving Kenyans of such functions is a way of “punishing” them for the negative talk that has been rampant about Purity since she was posted at the Kenyan embassy in August 2006. Some Kenyans have posited that by deviating from the usual practice of hosting receptions of national days in Sweden, Purity has actually been drawing a lot of personal satisfaction from her actions because such deviations accord her the opportunity to “flex her muscles” as the plenipotentiary of the government of the Republic of Kenya.
During the Jamhuri day reception that was held at Elite Hotel last year, Purity decided not to serve alcoholic drinks, probably after critics christened such receptions “drinking sprees”. Kenyans who had specifically attended the reception expecting free swallows were disappointed. Although there was plenty of food, the soda waters that were being served actually served no purpose as far as some Kenyans were concerned.
Keen on projecting the image of a practicing Christian who attends church services at St Emanuel Church every Sunday in her chauffeur-driven white Benz car, the failure of Ambassador Purity to serve liquor at national receptions has increasingly been seen by a cross sections of Kenyans as an unnecessary imposition of “drinking sanctions” on Kenyans based on the Ambassador’s personal life-style.
Purity is a beneficiary of impunity
After she failed to meet the swallowing expectations of Kenyans at that Jamhuri reception, it was another major disappointment when Purity failed to show up at the live performance of Kidum, one of the most popular musicians in East and Central Africa.
The show, which was organized by Clay Onyango, was supposed to be part of the Jamhuri celebrations and the failure of Purity to show up was pathetic to say the least. This could have been an opportunity for Purity to seize the moment to mingle with Kenyans in the presence of a loved musician who had travelled all the way from Kenya to be part of Stockholm’s Jamhuri but Purity wasted the opportunity.
That was after Kidum appeared at the Jamhuri reception (where Purity was present) during a PR exercise to mobilize fans to the show. Some Kenyans at the show who were asking for the whereabouts of Purity were simply told to forget about her because she was not an Ambassador of Kenyans in Scandinavia but the Ambassador of First Lady Lucy Kibaki who is believed to have influenced her posting at the Embassy.
Just like Jamhuri day, Madaraka day is a national event whose celebration is usually well budgeted for by the government of the Republic of Kenya. According to estimates obtained from Hotels where Purity has been hosting receptions, the cost of such receptions range between 50-100k (Swedish kronazz).
When such receptions go missing on the menu, the question that finds its way in the mouths of critical Kenyan thinkers is where money for this budget goes. With corruption known to be rampant at the Embassy, it might not be off the mark to speculate that the sole explanation why Madaraka day reception will not be hosted this year is because money meant for this reception “has been eaten”.
Purity was posted at the Embassy in August 2006. Her tour of duty ended in August 2010 (4 years). If the rules were being followed by the Kenyan government, Purity ought to have been recalled by December 2010 (latest). Her continued disservice at the Kenyan Embassy is yet another manifestation of impunity practiced by the ruling Kikuyu elite who control the levers of power in Kenya.
The sheer arrogance of Purity at the Kenyan Embassy in Stockholm is a direct product of tribalism in the appointment of public servants in today’s Kenya. In fact, the presence of Purity at the Embassy, together with the circumstances that have ensured her retention at the Embassy following the expiry of her mandate are constant signals that the impunity perpetrated by the Kibaki cabal in government needs to be brought to a permanent end.
Kenyans can only hope that the Kikuyu mafia cartel that continues to retain Purity illegally at the Embassy will be voted out of office at the next elections to pave the way for the appointment of an Ambassador who can truly represent the interests of Kenyans in Scandinavia. Purity has been a big let-down at the Embassy and her continued illegal presence at the Mission will continue to remain unacceptable.
Okoth Osewe
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Purity is GEMA damu – prone to theft!
Sheriff: Maryland student, 21, admits eating housemate’s heart, part of brainBy the CNN Wire Staff
June 1, 2012
(CNN) — Hours after his family members alerted police to a human head and two hands they discovered stashed in metal tins, a Maryland man admitted killing his housemate, cutting him up, then eating his heart and part of his brain, authorities said.
Alexander Kinyua, 21, was being held without bail Thursday at the Harford County Detention Center after being charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault.
His roommate, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, had left his Joppatowne home six days earlier for an apparent early morning jog. Wearing a T-shirt and shorts, he left his wallet, cell phone and identification at home.
On Tuesday, Antony Kinyua — Alexander Kinyua’s father — called a Harford County detective assigned to the missing person’s case and told him about his other son’s gruesome dis
According to the charging document, the other son explained to the detective how he had come across two metal tins covered by a blanket in the basement laundry room of Agyei-Kodie’s Joppatowne residence. He opened the tins and found the head and hands.
The brother said he “confronted (Alexander Kinyua), who denied the remains were human,” then went upstairs to get his father, the detective said in the charging document. When the father and son returned to the basement, “the items he observed were gone and … Alex Kinyua was cleaning the container he observed them in.”
Two Harford County detectives later arrived on the scene and discovered the head and hands on the home’s main floor.
“He admitted to killing our missing person, Mr. Kodie, and cutting him up with a knife,” Harford County Sheriff Jesse Bane told reporters Thursday. “He further stated that he consumed Mr. Kodie’s internal organs — specifically his heart and portions of his brain.”
The suspect told detectives to go to the parking lot of the nearby Town Baptist Church, where they could — and did — find the rest of Agyei-Kodie’s remains in a dumpster.
The missing person’s report filed Saturday described the 37-year-old Agyei-Kodie as “very intelligent.” He had earned multiple master’s degrees from schools in Ghana and was also a graduate student at Morgan State University, even though he wasn’t taking classes there at the time of his death.
Kinyua was affiliated with the same state university in Baltimore. The engineering student was one of 175 people showcased in an August 2011 symposium run by the prestigious Los Alamos National Laboratory. His study focused on the cost-effectiveness and productivity of “comfort control” systems regulating heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/31/justice/maryland-alleged-cannibal/index.html
who are kenyans in stockholm?BBBUT THERE IS NO KENYANS IN STOCKIE AS U USED TO SAY.kenyans the one holding there ID….HVE NICE JAMHURI DAY..STOP ABUSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BLAME YOURSELF
KSB: Karoki, it’s great to know that you are still around. Have a nice Madaraka…
A very good artical but the question Remains>When will 41 tribes realize and accept that Kenya belongs to Kikuyus whether one likes it or not!Kikuyu dominate each and every Ministry and depasrtment in Kenya goverment!
As long as 41 other Kenyan tribes Wake-Up from their rotten brain and Zombiness ,the Kikuyu Chosen tribe will rule and dominate them forever untill thy Kingdom comes.
So let us hope the ruling Kikuyu Mafia catels will be voted out this time.
Happy madaraka day to everyone. Just one question, do e need the embassy to remind us of our freedom and bin proud Kenyans. Yes the embassy represent the government in abroad but if we here in Sweden/Scandinavia don’t gate the response form the office/embassy why not gate together and organize our self and have a nice family day out during Madaraka or jamhuri day as Kenyan …one love people.
NO MORE AID: A Kenya Defence Forces soldier reacts as a helicopter during patrol takes off for patrol near the Indian Ocean coast-line in Burgabo, south of Kismayu in Somalia December 14, 2011. Photo/REUTERS
THE US Senate is about to slap a ban on funding, training and technical help to the Kenyan military and police personnel involved in recent human rights abuses in Northern Kenya and the Rift Valley. The proposed ban is contained in the Appropriations Bill report submitted by the Senate’s Appropriation Committee and now awaiting the Senate’s endorsement.
Senator Patrick Leahy from Vermont submitted the committee’s report on May 24th calling on Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to effect the ban. “The Committee directs the Secretary of State to take steps to ensure that no US training, equipment, or other assistance is provided to any Kenyan military or police personnel who have been credibly alleged to have violated human rights,” the report said.
It listed abuses reported in Mount Elgon in March 2008 during the Operation Okoa Maisha to rout out Sabaot Land Defence Forces as well as operations to deal with suspected al Shabaab sympathizers in Garissa, Wajir and Mandera between November 2011 and January 2012 and several operations carried out at the Dadaab refugee camp at different times since December 2011. “The Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on steps taken by the Government of Kenya to conduct thorough, credible investigations of such violations and the identification of military units responsible.”
Although it is yet to be officially passed into law, the report is as good as passed. In the committee, the report was passed by 29 senators while one voted against it. A day before the committee’s report was tabled, Human Rights Watch released a report on alleged arbitrary arrests, beatings and detentions in Daadab refugee camp following discovery of explosives in the camp in mid-March.
Earlier in January, Human Rights Watch had condemned similar abuses in Daadab following the killing of a police officer by an explosive on December 5th last year. Early last month, the same organization released a report detailing Kenyan security agencies alleged excesses against ethnic Somalis in the ongoing war against Al Shabab.
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch’s researcher Neela Ghoshal told the Star that her organization had been sharing its reports with the US authorities as well as the Kenyan government. “For us here at HRW, we consider the proposal a big step forward in the promotion of human right. It signifies that there are people out there watching and listening, people who not only want to be part of the abuses but who are also determined to stop it,” she said.
Ghoshal said the ban is a reminder to the Kenya Defence Forces that it must be accountable in its operations and act within the law. In October 2010, the government established a team to investigate state security agents abuses in North Eastern. The team conducted an investigation and drafted a report, which was submitted to the Ministry of State for Internal Security, but never made public.
In October last year, Human Rights Watch petitioned the ICC to broaden its scope of crimes against humanity investigations to cover the operations carried out in the Mount Elgon area. The organization claimed that over 300 people were still —199 in the hands of the military and another 126 were disappeared by the SLDF. In the report called “‘Hold Your Heart’: Waiting for Justice in Kenya’s Mt. Elgon Region,” the group petitioned the Kenyan government to open an inquiry into the matter. In the Appropriations Bill, the committee recommends allocating Sh508 billion to foreign military financing program.