The Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a political Party whose fortunes continue to dwindle. The person responsible for KANU’s gradual slide to irrelevancy in Kenya’s politics is former dictator Daniel arap Moi and a bunch of henchmen who once populated his kitchen Cabinet like Nicholas Kipyator arap Biwott. The former power baron in Moi’s Kenya is believed by pundits to have masterminded the failed Uhuru Project that led to Raila Odinga’s movement from KANU to facilitate the rise of Mwai Kibaki to power.
KANU could have captured power in December 2002 polls were it not for Moi’s backward schemes of trying to call the shots from retirement through “Project Uhuru.” After losing it in 2002, KANU could have re-invented itself during the Referendum when it joined hands with ODM to fight against the implementation of the “Mongrel Wako draft” of the new Constitution. When it joined hands with ODM to help fight the Kibaki dictatorship, some Kenyans thought that Uhuru Kenyatta had learned his lessons after the Uhuru Project collapsed but he hadn’t.
After a successful performance at the Referendum on a united front, KANU’s Chairman, Uhuru Kenyatta, made a fresh mistake “Moi-style” by moving the Party out of ODM to join Kibaki’s PNU. This stupid political move was motivated by tribalism. It was simple. Kibaki, a Kikuyu, was contesting the Presidency and Uhuru, a Kikuyu, was convinced by Kibaki’s campaign team to step down in favour of Kibaki, a fellow Kikuyu. Such a move was seen by the Kikuyu ruling class as being in the interest of the wider Kikuyu community who were, nevertheless, detached from real power politics, which was being played at State House.
Uhuru Kenyatta made history on a global scale by being the first leader of official opposition to support and join the incumbent President in a general election. It was pathetic to say the least. That was after Biwott tried to take over KANU using Moi and failed because ODM, fearful of losing Uhuru, fought tooth and nail until Uhuru regained his position as KANU Chairman. Biwott and Moi had masterminded a coup that was defeated through ODM mobilization. After failing to win the election in 2002, KANU’s performance in December 2007 was even worse. It lost even more seats in Parliament. Traditionally, KANU’s base has been the Rift Valley with over three million voters. All these voters moved to ODM as reflected in the number of ODM candidates who made it to Parliament.
During discussions that led to the signing of the National Accord, KANU was basically nowhere and Uhuru Kenyatta, the leader, had to wait for the situation to develop without playing a significant role in the whole process. What will happen now is that KANU will gradually begin to lose even more influence in areas where it still has support as it becomes apparent that KANU candidates will be unable to make it to Parliament on the basis of waning political influence. The Party has had its days at State House (1963–2002) and, in the minds of millions of Kenyans, it will be a good deal if KANU calls it a day and goes into retirement.
The Party is associated with some of the worst moments in Kenya’s history and in the run up to the next election, contesting seats on a KANU ticket will point more to a sure road to defeat than a ticket to the National Assembly. Uhuru Kenyatta is the Chairman of KANU but when he makes political statements, he is seen more as a PNU tool than a KANU leader because KANU is in the political intensive care unit. Moi tried to revive KANU in the run up to December 2007 by mobilizing members to vote for Kibaki but this attempt ended catastrophically. The Kalenjin, whose support Moi had banked on for decades, threw all three of his sons out of Parliament because they did not want to have anything to do with KANU.
I may be wrong but the way I see it, KANU is slowly running out of oxygen and come the next election, it will either be irrelevant in the political landscape or dead and buried on the political graveyard.
Raila Odinga’s Stolen Presidency (pges 425-426)
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These Kikuyu musicians were thinking with their dicks. That is the sum total of how they propose to rule Kenya, as a circumcised tribe. But I am surprised that the Kikuyu elite remain largely clueless about what is in their best interests: in short, it is the Kikuyu, more than anybody else, who will benefit from an ideology of national unity and a de-emphasis of tribal superiority and hegemony.
Art can be deployed for both positive and negative purposes. Art can be used to inspire and develop society for the greater good, but art can also be in propagation of crime and immorality. A brief review of history should bear me out.
When I travel around Mt Kenya, I encounter hordes of circumcised zombies who despite walking around with carved genitalia, are disturbingly sexless. In their drunken stupor, they cannot rise to the occasion and impregnate their young wives, or even clean themselves of bodily filth. Is it any wonder that Luhyia and Luo men continue to marry Kikuyu girls in droves? Yet these same jigger-infested drunkards trumpet their circumcision as if it is the very essence of life. What terrible ignorance!
UHURU KENYATTA CHALLENGING RAILA OGINGA!
Few quick questions to BOSS Uhuru (on Reformers vs non-Reformers):
Would you implement the Integrity Chapter of the Constitution which incidentally bars you from holding public office? Do you believe that persons charged with felonies should hold public office? Why was Mutula Kilonzo transferred from the Justice Ministry just when the Integrity Bill was being originated?
Would you implement the Chapter on Land reforms which incidentally require you to account for the vast Kenyatta land holdings? Would you further implement the reforms requiring taxation of the idle tracts of Kenyatta family land?
Would you safeguard the Bill of Rights which protect against discrimination of Kenyans on the basis of their age, gender, ethnicity, etc? Is our national affliction one caused by non-reformers (in general) or ‘old people’ in general?
Would you reform the police force whom you’re jointly accused (at the ICC) of perpetrating PEV?
Kalonzo oppses Raila Yet his Starving Voters fighting foe a dead giraff run by a Gema Truck>Residents scramble for free giraffe meat on highway
Saturday, 07 July 2012 00:05 BY WAMBUA KAVILA
RESIDENTS of Athi River in Machakos county yesterday scrambled for meat after a speeding trailer knocked a giraffe on the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway. Armed with knives and pangas,the residents set upon the animal cutting off chunks of meat and taking it away near the Prima Rosa flower farm in Athi River.It took less than an hour for the residents to cut up the giraffe and cart away the meat. “Some motorists stopped at the scene and emerged with s… 2 Comments and 0 Reactions
Why complain When Al-Shaababs control the NBD(Central Nairobi Business District)Why
>Kenya danced and dined with these beasts. When they were purchasing property in Nairobi, the government ignored the complaints by the wanainchi. now they own everywhere in the CBD, and many key residential estates of the city. They recruited jobless youths, smuggled them through the porous boarders with the full knowledge of the security system and the political leadership. It is not secret that the “free market” in Eastleigh is also a revenue hub for Al shabaab. Bishop Margaret Wanjiru warned sometimes in 2010, that one day we shall wake up to find that an enemy’s flag is flying at the city centre, and she was ignored. Now that flag is flying high, the people of Kenya are are being ransomed by the religious gang because of inconsistent political leadership.
And by the way, when some one preaches hate in the mosque that a government minister is a Kafir and should be killed, what are the security agents doing? to wait and chase them once they have killed the minister? The NSIS and the Kenya police are in deed doing this country a zero job. When are we going to move from being a reactive regime to a proactive regime?
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The Luyha to be united before the general elections
July 8th 2012 -In an effort to unite the Luhya community, political rivals Eugene Wamalwa and Moses Wetangula have resolved to join forces ahead of the next Generation Elections.
In a burial ceremony of the renowned Bukusu elder, John Manguliech in Bungoma County, the two cabinet Ministers confessed that their political differences had failed to unite the Luhya community.
They told the mourners to brace themselves for a very big announcement soon.
In an agreement termed as the Manguliech declaration, Justice Minister, Eugene Wamalwa, promised to honour any agreement that would be arrived at regarding who would be the torch bearer of the Luhya Community.
This comes a fews month after the minister had warned any Luhya presidential aspirant to think again if they thought he will relinquish his dream for presidency for them.
Eugene reiterated the need for unity stating that it was the wish of the late Bukusu elder to see the Luhya community united ahead of next year’s general election.
Wetangula said that they are going to re-unite Ford Kenya and New Ford Kenya in the coming General election.
Wamalwa is the head of New Ford Kenya while Wetangula is the head of Ford Kenya.
Bumula Mp Bifwoli Wakoli who was also present said that a meeting is set to discuss who amongst them will be chosen to run for presidency with the support of the rest.
The Kenyan DAILY POST
xxLord Manson, please accept my deepest sympathies . The loss of the only son will torment you until you breath your last, to say the least. But that is the truth you must accept and live with it because it is irrevocable.
You are not the only one in this situation. No doubt, you have heard of your compatriot, Mr. Ward who lost his only daughter, Julie Ward in Kenya. His spirited campaign costing millions to bring the murderers to book has not yet borne fruits, His only success has been in forcing the authorities to accept she was murdered, and not eaten by wild animals and her body was burnt by lightning.
In Alexander’s case, at least there’s at least a glimmer of hope that the truth will come out in a properly conducted inquest. The young man was arrested just after midnight and booked into a police station cell at 2.30 am. The next day he is rushed to hospital and dies in the evening. The injuries to his head, limbs and scrotum could be inflicted by other persons – either his cell mates, obviously not the types of Gandhi, Mandela and Mother Teresa, or by the police officers on duty.
It’s commendable that you are determined like Mr. ward not to rest until you get to know the truth. But I should warn you are dealing with a police force that has one of the poorest grades when it comes to human rights. There are high profile murders galore generally believed to have been carried out by the police and hardly there is one that has been proved. They all invariably hit a dead end.
We are used to reports like the one Amin has written. He can’t write anything different. It’s pathetic that he agrees to the fact that the deceased had a severe head injury while he was in police custody , but feigns ignorance who is culpable. Amin wants to retire attaining pensionable age, not earlier! Kenya police from top to bottom is incorrigible is all what one can surmise !
It might give you a bit of solace that you are not mourning alone the loss of a dear one. Just Google, J.M. Kariuki, Tom Mboya, Pio Gama Pinto, Dr. Robert Ouko, Bishop Alexander Muge, to mention a few celebrities sent prematurely to the nether world by state agents. Ordinary Kenyans are in thousands.
Alexander Manson, Rest In Eternal Peace !
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