Dear Okoth,
I foresee, and will work towards building a united, prosperous and modern Kenya founded on popular democracy and social justice where all citizens enjoy strong safeguards for the environment and a nation in which political and economic power is devolved and exercised by the people.
I intend to complete the journey of social, economic and political transformation, as embodied in the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and join Kenyans in their war against poverty, impunity, unbridled greed and sectarianism.
I am committed to transparency and accountability in all aspects of management of public affairs, an unwavering affirmation of Kenyan people’s human dignity, cultural integrity and sovereignty of the people, economic development geared towards enhancing equity, social justice and the social welfare of current and future generations, gender and inter-generational equity, democratic governance based on popular will of the people and the rule of law, respect for and understanding of labour as a critical factor in economic development, a modern and green economy based on scientific and technological innovation, sustainable use of our natural resources and protection of our environment.
Thank you.
Yours Sincerely
Raila Amolo Odinga
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Well said Jakom. You are the only presidential candidate committed to implementing the new Constitution. You have my vote and I believe you will be the next President of Kenya.
Wakenya, let us all unite around Raila Odinga. He has struggled a lot to bring Kenya where it is today. After he emerged from detention where Moi cast him because he wanted to liberate Kenya, he formed the NDP to confuse Moi after he learnt all of the dictatro’s tricks. Instead of standing for Presidency, he endorsed Kibaki and Kibaki came to power. Since then Raila has brought us a new constitution, checked the excesses of power by fixing himself as Prime Minister so that Kibaki doesn’t cheat us. Now, he has resettled Kikuyu IDPs while preserving the Mau forest. He has good connections with the West while he is a democrat. Let us all vote for Raila Odinga. He is the best option Kenya has at this point in time. Uhuru and Ruto are going to jail, Mudavadi is a Kibaki-Kikuyu project, Martha Karua is a non starter, Kalonzo Musyoka is a traitor, Raphael Tuju is a playboy, while other little Presidential candidates of the Mutava Musymi type are just joking. Raila is the only candidate who can move Kenya forward regardless of what others are saying. He won the Presidency which was stolen from him so this time, let us give him a solid support by electing him President of Kenya. This is my appeal to the people of Kenya.
Raila commited to transparency and accountability in all aspects of management of public affairs? Has this been his position or he has just discovered the phrase? The office of the PM is full of members from one ethnic group;His relatives and next of kin have been apportioned plum jobs by virtue of being close to him;His ODM comrades have stolen money in the millions and engaged in shady deals.If this is his mode of transparency and accountability, I shudder to think of what would happen if he decided to go rogue.Raila is not alone in this “transparency and accountability”, his PNU counterparts are just a step ahead in the game of bleeding Kenya and Kenyans dry. We know the PNU crooks have been at it long, but you came in the other day and have caught up with these people in fleeching the country.Like them you want our vote, you ask for our trust. NEVER! ODM and PNU, even the “new” comers like TNU are just wolves in sheep clothing. The political class to which Raila belongs lost contact with Kenyans eons ago, we want to vote for one of us now! If a suitable candidate isn’t to be found, I will try again next elections. I just don’t give a rats a$$ any more and fed up with the cheap lies. Try this drivel on the village idiots instead.
KSB please no censorship!
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WHY IT IS EASY TO MAKE WRONG DECISIONS:
It must be easy to starve the education sector of funds, if your own children are not affected by the decision.
If your offspring invariably go to private educational institutions, here or abroad, I imagine it is not difficult to wield the axe and say, “We can’t pay, won’t pay.” Your children will be just fine.
It must be easy to sack doctors if you don’t have to be treated by them.
If your own treatment is conveniently in the hand of doctors in other countries, you don’t have to carry the consequences of there being no professionals available for you.
It must be easy to send doctors home when you and yours won’t feel their loss.
It must be easy to incite violence using hate speech when the consequences of your utterances will not be visited upon you.
There will be no terrifying knocks on your door in the middle of the night; your sisters and daughters will not have to cower in fear, just because you ordered people to be ‘removed’ owing to their ethnicity. When you sleep securely yourself, it’s not that difficult to plunge everyone else into fear.
It must be easy to fail to see traffic congestion and serial breaching of the highway code as a serious problem, when you are seated ‘back left’ in an air-conditioned car, and working busily on your iPad.
It must be even easier when a motorcade clears your path, and your driver uses his number plate or flag to break all road rules.
Traffic and loss of valuable time then become problems for others, not for you. You’ll think about it someday, when you have a spare moment.
It must be easy to fail to see long queues in your premises as a problem when you don’t personally have to stand in them.
It must be easy to dismiss call-centre waiting times as a serious issue when you don’t have to call in order to get service.
It must be easy then to focus on the costs associated with supplying more tellers or agents, rather than the benefits to your customers.
In your blinkered world, you are acutely aware of the costs and only dimly conscious of the benefits of shorter queues.
It must be easy to see the point of today’s column. If you don’t bear the consequences of your decisions, personally and pointedly, it is easy to make the wrong ones.
It is easy to tell yourself that you are being ‘objective’ and unemotional’ when all you are being is conveniently detached from the problem.
As I have written on this page before: “When the Big People suffer alongside the Little People, they fix problems. Otherwise they ignore them. In Kenya today we offer exemptions from ordinary pain to all our Big People.
They can dodge the traffic, evade the law, be exempted from taxes, hire private security, get free health treatment abroad. Therefore they have no incentive to fix any of our entrenched problems, since they never suffer their consequences.”
Enlightened societies know this, from bitter experience. If you allow the Big People to escape and evade the problems of the common folk, you encourage a dangerous elitism that results in all the wrong decisions being made; decisions that serve the few and not the many. History tells us such systems implode, often violently.
If decision-makers don’t face the consequences of their decisions, they will design policies to suit themselves.
This is writ large in Kenya today. We must not just blame the elite for this; if the common folk are too docile, too divided or too self-absorbed to care about the collective, the leaders face no consequences at all from bad decisions. If you want better decisions made on your behalf, you must demand them.
Sunny Bindra
http://www.sunwords.com
Kibaki’s daughter joins Brand Kenya board which is under Minister Poghisio, a Kibaki loyalist
President Kibaki’s daughter, Judy Kibaki, has been appointed to the Brand Kenya board for three years.
She was appointed alongside marketing expert Christopher Diaz.
They join the team mandated to promote Kenya’s image.
According to a notice in the Kenya Gazette Friday, Ms Kibaki and Mr Diaz were appointed under the State Corporations Act.
They were part of a series of appointments made by Information minister Samuel Poghisio in parastatals falling under his docket.
The Brand Kenya campaign was launched in 2008.
KENYATTA KIN SUES MAMA NGINA OVER ‘GRABBED’ LAND
Mama Ngina Kenyatta, the widow of founding father Jomo Kenyatta, and her son Uhuru Kenyatta have been sued by a relative over allegations of land grabbing.
The only surviving brother of Mzee Kenyatta, Peter Muigai Ngengi, accuses Mama Ngina and Uhuru of wrongfully depriving him of his three and a half acres. The plot is at Ichaweri village in Gatundu, Kiambu County.
Mama Ngina and Uhuru are yet to file a replying affidavit to the claims by Ngengi. In a petition filed at the High Court 34 years after the death of the former President, Ngengi alias Wakameme says that Kenyatta and his family took his land to satisfy their desire to expand their home to attain to the status of a presidential palace.
However, their father (the father of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta) would always stop such ideas and sternly warned the former President against misusing his powers.
Ngengi quotes in his suit papers what he said his father used to tell the President. “Na tondu unene ni uriaga mundu ta karubu (local brew) ndukanahatike muru wa thoguo (because power intoxicates like beer don’t you ever encroach upon your brother’s inheritance).”
According to Ngengi, the former President took seriously the stern warning by their father and never moved anyone from his land. “All members of the family lived in joy and harmony in their portions of inheritance and neighbours applauded my father for his wisdom and love he had for his family,” Ngengi says.
However, after their father died and even before his body was lowered into the grave, the beacons dividing Ngengi’s and Kenyatta’s land were allegedly uprooted at the order of the President.
Ngengi says he protested against the action and declared that he would not give up his land. “I was ready to die and be buried with my father. I then went and put the beacons back to their rightful positions,” says Ngengi in his affidavit sworn in support of the case.
At one point, he says, a presidential guard whom he identified as a Mr Gatundu came to him and pleaded with him to leave Kenyatta alone.
Ngengi says shortly after the burial of their father Kenyatta ordered for removal of the beacons and his arrest. Ngengi says he was arrested and taken to Gatundu colonial prison as his house was demolished.
He says he went through immense trauma sometimes without having enough food to eat. The President is said to have ordered later that Ngengi and his family be built a house in Mutomo on government land.
Ngengi says he was moved together with his family to Munyu near Ndarugu River in the middle of the wilderness with no tent or permanent structure to call a home.
He says he has nine children and several grandchildren many of whom have died of malnutrition. Ngengi equates his story to that of Naboth, Jezebel and Ahab in the Bible describing himself as the Naboth.
The story is in the book of Kings chapter one verse 21 where Ahab the king wanted the vineyard at Jezreel belonging to Naboth. Naboth refused and Jezebel, the king’s wife, schemed to kill him for Ahab to get the vineyard.
Ngengi says he continues to suffer and languish in poverty and believes the Kenyatta family threw him out of his land because of greed.
He claims in the court papers that the Kenyatta family owns huge chunks of land in the country. Ngengi pleads with the court to give him justice before he dies so that his children will benefit. “I pray that before I close my eyes in death I will get help. Countrymen, I fought for independence. God gave it to us. As for me it meant persecution and torture. I thank God that am still breathing. When my last breath comes and my eyes are closed in death, just know this is the truth,” says Ngengi in his affidavit.
Ngengi wants the court to make declarations that he is entitled to compensation by Uhuru and his mother for the dispossession. He also wants an order compelling the government to repossess the three and a half acres from Mama Ngina and Uhuru and give the land to him. Also sought is compensation from government for his wrongful detention of one year.
By Jillo Kadida
Comment nos (4)( four)wacha ni lale akichanguliwa naenda kuishi azerbeijan
Comment by malcom | October 6, 2012 !For your information Azerbeijan does not allow (nigroes) to reside in their Country!
Why cant you say If he wins You and your hate tribe will bow and knell asking for mercy!