Kibaki, Uhuru and other Kikuyu mafia control Kenya’s economy
In my view, since President Kibaki’s coming to power in 2003, a silent revolution has been taking place in the banking and financial sector; whereby dominance by traditional foreign banks is being replaced by a local oligarchy of influential members of Kibaki’s inner circle and some wealthy Indian-Kenyans. This oligarchy has blurred the line between government and the banks. The oligarchs virtually control both: Treasury – Ministry of Finance (their taxman); and the CBK (supposed bank regulator). Treasury and CBK are both working FOR (& not ‘with’) these newcomer bank owners.
Uhuru Kenyatta appointed as Minister of Finance by Kibaki (who generates Tax, Finance & Micro-Finance policies) is a bank owner himself. The CBK Governor (who generates monetary policy) is himself a shareholder in at least three banks (2 being indigenous). This Kibaki-era spurt in growth of indigenous banks (such as Equity) has largely been driven by government business, and expansion of access to government-guaranteed micro-finance loans. Being well-connected through ownership, these neo-indigenous banks have been the banks-of-choice for domestic government borrowing – enjoying preferrential treatment and favours. That’s why they’ve grown very fast.
Uhuru Kenyatta’s Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) for instance, draws most of its profits from interests on large corporate and government loans – the latter necessitated by the HUGE budget deficits he deliberately creates (partly to keep his business afloat). Each time Uhuru writes the budget with a deficit of Kshs 100 billion, it’s payday for his bank! He writes budgets with big expenditures that he knows tax revenues and donor funds can’t completely fund; then forces the government to borrow the deficit from domestic banks such as his. With hefty interest rates, these folks are raking in billions of shillings.
His bank is now ranked Kenya’s 8th largest in terms of both assets and annual profits (check list below). This open favouritism has altered the playing field in competition. Competitors in turn target customers (directly or indirectly) for alternative pilferage. Competitor banks are cutting costs drastically, starting by firing employees. Banks nowadays boast several empty teller windows even as customers queues get very long. Front desk staff don’t serve customers but actually do back office assignments. Many of them don’t bother answering your querries; they’ll be busy gossiping in vernacular.
In a nutshell, borrowing (unlike a while back) is turning into a nightmare, both in terms of cost and service. Its too costly and unpleasant compared to say Rwanda, Tanzania or Uganda. Banks with ‘zero or little connections’ have equally zero or little room for competition in this skewed field. The preferrential treatment of sacred-cow banks has eventually started causing too much concern to old-time foreign banks, necessitating dramatic moves such as this one below (which in essence are tell-tale signs of impending exodus):
TRANSFER OF BARCLAYS BANK
OFFICE OPERATIONS TO INDIA
Mr. Jamleck Kamau: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had requested for a Ministerial Statement from the Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister for Finance on the intention of the Barclays Bank of Kenya to transfer its banking office operations to India. This statement was supposed to have been delivered today.
Mr. Speaker: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, when will that
statement be available? Leader of Government business?
The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Musyoka): Mr. Speaker, Sir, could we again put it to next week, because the Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister for Finance is not in the House. I am hearing it for the first time; we will let him deal with it.
Mr. Speaker: Leader of Government business, I will put that off to Tuesday, next
week. Hon. Members are aware that this is a very important matter for the country.
Barclays Bank is a major investment here and we need to know the direction clearly.
source : The Hansard – Parliament of the Republic of Kenya; 15th December, 2011
QUICK UPDATE – As you probably guessed, that answer never came back from the Deputy PM & Minister of Finance, Uhuru Kenyatta. It probably won’t even after Parliament’s recess & comeback in February 2012. Uhuru Kenyatta and Githu Muigai have a penchant – illustrated by a well-documented pattern at the Hansard – for not answering MP concerns and questions on the House floor
As former supremos of banking are slowly driven out of the market, we must ask the critical question whether the new banking regime (controlled by Kibaki-connected elites) portends well for business consumers and the overall economy. Anyone who has read the history of the Jomo-Kenyatta-regime policy of “Africanization”, or “Indigenization” of various sectors of the country, espoused by the Ndegwa Commission of 1970/1, will get an immediate heartburn.
I can already sense that a banking insider like Uhuru Kenyatta is more concerned about protecting interests of the growing banks, than concerns of the public. In his Finance Bill 2011 for instance, Uhuru looks more concerned at containing financial risks created by expanding access of capital to Jua Kali owners, boda boda operators, mama mbogas, small-scale farmers, recent graduates, and others who recently streamed to Equity Bank for micro-finance loans.
That’s where this idea of fast-pushing the credit-bureau to cover Kenya’s large informal sector is coming from. They want to blacklist potential loan defaulters (for future exclusion) even in villages and within the jua kali sector. They want these borrower registers before they bring their bank outlets into estates and villages. Kenyatta’s bank and many others want to tap into Equity’s market pool of micro-finance borrowers – through Agency Banking – where they bring banking to neighbourhoods (without employing real banking staff). Even kiosks end up becoming affiliates of their bank. This concept was started by Equity Bank, followed by KCB (Mtaani) and then Co-Op Bank (Jirani).
The Finance Bill 2011 that Kenyatta and his banking oligarchy authored is more interested in organizing banking along these cost-cutting corporate designs. Instead of having their banks opening new branches that employ people, and having reasonable interest rates (both on loans and on deposits), they would rather have a banking regime with: no branches (just kiosk affiliates); no employees (just underpaid agents); high interest rates on loans; low returns on deposits; and bulging profits. Isn’t this where this is heading to?
Instead of CBK working diligently on monetary policy, they are busy designing fresh criteria for potential kiosk banking-agents who will work for the banking oligarchs. Treasury and CBK are both busy working for these well-connected bank owners. These greedy schemers are using our Treasury and CBK to design future systems where their branchless-and-emlpoyee-free banks will get a ‘cut’ in virtually all transactions that Kenyans make including: making cash deposits; cash withdrawals; school fees payments; utility payments; balance enquiry; and even issuance of mini-statements. They are scheming how they will milk wananchi using the next-door kiosk.
Whenever Wanjiku wants to pay a bill or send school fees, they will be expected to transact it at the nearest village kiosk (connected to the favoured banks) for a ‘cut’ that benefits the oligarchs. Even if Wanjiku wants to make a loan application, it will be done through the neighbour’s kiosk, before being run through the same fat-cat credit bureau registers. It is the same kiosk ‘agent’ who will inform Wanjiku whether the loan request has been turned down and such. Am not allergic to banking innovation. I just dislike unscrupulous and gang-ho banking practices!
Why shouldn’t Equity Bank for instance, with more than 4 million deposit customers, or Co-op bank with over 1 million, or KCB, Barclays, and Family Bank with accounts approaching 1 million rely on Treasury and CBK to design for them structures that further exploit the middle-class and the masses? Isn’t it kind of distressing?
A look at the performance of the banking oligarchy – through asset and profit returns from their banks tells you they are generally having a ball under this current Treasury and CBK; even as customers feel the pinch. The preferred banks are climbing the ladder of wealth accretion.
RANKINGS IN PERFORMANCE as at September 2011 – the era of arbitrage, dollar-exporting-and-hoarding, and currency devaluation.
1. KCB (last year’s ranking; 1) September asset of Kshs 273.9 billion and profits of Kshs. 8.6 billion.
2. Barclays (2) September asset of Kshs. 180.9 billion and profits of Kshs 8.9 billion. Growth almost stalled, at the expense of Equity.
3. Equity (5) September assets of Kshs. 172.6 billion and profits of Kshs. 8.25 billion. Unprecedented growth towards the top for this blue-eyed, favoured-bank, now several years in a row. Treasury and CBK have humongously helped it establish agency banking; which has now been copied by KCB and Co-Op Bank. The government is giving Equity yet another BIG BUSINESS – a deal to collect park fees for the Narok Council in the Masai Mara. I can’t wait for the creation of a people-centred devolved government in Narok County to review these decisions. After opening their doors to millions of members, Equity has now dramatically increased their lending rates from 15% to 25% and plus. It is the season for open harvest and milking of the micro-pool!
4. Cooperative Bank (3) September assets of Kshs. 167 billion and profits of Kshs. 5.45 billion. Another Kibaki-era favoured bank, privatized and ‘indigenized’ under Kibaki’s regime. I will give a profile of this bank in my next post to illustrate how government colludes with bank oligarchs to exploit the rest.
5. Standard Chartered (4) September assets of Kshs. 165.7 billion and profits of Kshs. 5.49 billion. Profits dropped from last year’s (from Kshs 6.1 billion). Like Barclays, it is another victim of the new oligarchy that enjoys preferential treatment from the Kibaki government.
6 CFC Stanbic (6) September assets of Kshs. 145.2 billion and profits of Kshs. 2.38 billion. Another bank being targeted for ownership transfer into the hands of the Kibaki elites (led by insider Jimnah Mbaru). It has recently announced a rights issue. Has a new Chairman.
7. Investment & Mortgages I&M (last year 11) September assets of Kshs. 79.5 billion and profits of 3.2 billion. Another blue-eyed player of the day under the Kibaki oligarchy. Dominating the mortgage field. Will reap big from increased rates and extended term periods.
8. Commercial Bank of Africa (8) with September asset of Kshs. 75.7 billion and profits of 2.04 billion. Uhuru Kenyatta’s jewel dominating corporate and government accounts. Tends to be elitist with new branches in new malls in Nairobi like Junction, Galleria. Planning a rights issue to raise capital…what else might happen to ownership? I don’t know whether this is related to Ocampo’s ICC matters.
9 Diamond Trust (10) September assets of Kshs. 74.6 billion and profits of 2.4 billion. Indian-owned and well connected to the current regime.
10. Citibank Kenya (9. last year) September assets of Kshs. 71.6 billion and profits of 3.25 billion.
11. NIC and National Bank (No. 7 last year) Kshs. 70.2 billion ($790 million) in assets and profits of about Kshs. 2 billion.
COAST is a tourist destination, most people in the coast depend on tourism for survival.
shunning away the international community will just bar tourist from visiting kenya hence lose of jobs for most coast residents……..and oh! yes the coast residents are very much aware of the consequences that’s why they are not voting for Jubilee.
LAND is also an issue in coast, the tracks of land KENYATTA family stole from the coast people has angered the people at the coast, that why they are also not voting for JUBILEE…..UHURU feared campaigning in taita taveta because he was informed the people in taita taveta were very bitter with him.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUTION…most issues affecting the coast residence is highlighted in the New constitution……JUBILEE lacks the commitment to implement the new constitution, this is even more event in their new TV AD where their is no mentioning of the word “implementing the constitution’.
The chamber notes that witness 1 is an eyetwitness to the murder of a kikuyu woman together with her newborn baby in Langas on January 1, 2008. The witness testifies that he saw a group of three perpetrators armed with arrows and machetes running after a woman, who gave birth to her baby on the spot, due to the trauma. As soon as the perpetrators saw a boy, they said that “we don’t want to have another Mungiki” and they cut the throat of the baby and killed the mother.
It comes as no surprise that the COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA and EQUITY BANK have shown amazing upward development within the last eight years. Perharps the minister of finance and CBK governor can highlight us on this issue. We are also still waiting for a tangible explanation as to how there was imbalance in the budget that was presented to the nation during Uhuru’s tenure as the finance minister. The sufferer is the Kenyan tax payer who struggles to make his ends meet but in the final analysis the beneficiaries are a few country’s tycoons.
Kibaki has done it again !Kweli Impunity in Kenya must Stop even if violence force has to be applied !KIbaki has appointed diplomats without Parliamentarians approval|
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What is Kimemia up to?
As always, the blog admin a few days back, received the following tip from an anonymous correspondent, reproduced below as received
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A few months back a number of ambassadors were secretly appointed by the Office of the President and deployed to several strategic foreign diplomatic missions. The appointments are clouded in mystery and secrecy, thereby raising suspicions and doubt as to the real objective for these appointments.
An appeal was formally lodged to various foreign governments to not recognize these appointees for reason of violating key provisions of the constitution.
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Article 132. Functions of the President, Sub Article (2) of the Constitution of Kenya provides that the President shall nominate and, with the approval of the National Assembly, appoint, and may dismiss
high commissioners, ambassadors and diplomatic and consular representatives.
Further, Article 232 Values and principles of public service states that: The values and principles of public service include… representation of Kenya’s diverse communities and affording adequate and equal opportunities for appointment, training and advancement, at all levels of the public service, of the members of all ethnic groups
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The appointment of these ambassadors was never approved by the National Assembly and can therefore not be valid and is an abuse of powers at the Office of the President in making appointments that are in total violation of the constitution.
The appointments breach the following provisions of the constitution
a) requires consensus/joint approval with the Prime Minister
b) requires approval by parliament
c) must represent the face of kenya through regional balance
d) must respect gender parity of no more than 2/3 of the same gender
Interestingly a handful of appointments are included to deflect attention from the true intentions of Office of the President
None of these appointments have been officially gazetted or if done, have not been obvious.
The term of the Tenth Parliament expired on 14th January, 2013 and Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth O Marende already published a gazette notice on the same day. That notwithstanding that the Hansard reveals no record of parliament approving any names for ambassadorial appointments prior to holding its last session.
It is therefore clear that these appointments are illegal, and by their secretive nature intended for purposes that cannot be for the good or benefit of the country
It is becoming extremely clear that the purpose of these appointments and subsequent deployment to strategic foreign missions is therefore to act as a buffer and to influence the foreign capitals in accepting a possibly flawed outcome in yet another botched election.
The list of these appointments is provided below
Note the creation of a new post that has not been used in diplomatic missions i.e Deputy Ambassador whose functions have always been carried out by other attaches in the missions
S/No Name Designation – Station Remarks
1 Daniel Waisiko Wambura Pending Gema, Male
2 Florence Imisa Weche Pending Luhya, Female
3 Johnson Mwangi Weru Pending Gema, Male
4 Zaddock Syong’oh Pending Luo, Male
5 Christopher Muga Chika Pending Luo, Male
6 Eliphas Mugendi Barine Pending Gema, Male
7 Michael Dennis Mukiri Kinyanjui Pending Gema, Male
8 Samuel M. Gitonga Pending Gema, Male
9 Kariuki Mugwe Pending Gema, Male
10 Mary Nyambura Kamau Pending Gema, Female
11 Boniface Mwangi Mwihia Pending Gema, Male
12 Jean Kamau Deputy Amb – Washington USA Gema
13 Martin Kimani Rep – UNON Nairobi Kenya Gema, Male
14 Koki Muli Deputy Rep – UN HQS New York USA Kamba, Female
15 Kaunda Maikara Amb – Mogadishu Somalia Kisii, Male
16 Nassir Ali Joho Amb – Oman Coast, Male
17 Stephen Biko Pending Male
18 Kenneth Vitisia Amb – Riyadh Saudi Arabia Luhya, Male
19. Aaron Suge Amb – Khartoum Sudan Kalenjin, Male
20 Jackline Yoga Deputy Amb – London United Kingdom Luo, Female
21 Dr John Kakonge Rep – UN Geneva Switzerland Luhya, Male
Our appeal to foreign capitals is to reject these appointments as they have not been made according the laid down laws and any interaction with these appointees should be in their private capacities and not as accredited diplomats to their capitals.
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From the above it is abundantly clear that the Office of the President under Kimemia is making dubious appointments in readiness for some yet unknown outcome expected in the future
Signed/Appointment letters have been furnished to Blog-Admin as proof of the above and are currently marked as confidential but ready to be published
My concern is about the blatant lies associated with the occasion that we have been living with for a long time. Old wisdom informs us that when a lie is told several times, it actually turns into truth. At the risk of displeasing some people, let me highlight some political lies about Kenya and the late President Kenyatta.
We have been told several times that Kenya gained independence in 1963. We have also been informed that Kenyatta was not only the country’s founding father but also a quintessential freedom fighter. I have spent a lot of time perusing relevant documents to establish the veracity of these claims but I have not been able to find any truth in them.
Divide and rule
Colonial rule had certain fundamental pillars. Through a carefully conceived ‘divide and rule policy’, colonialism was implanted to secure the exploitation of Kenya’s human and material resources. In addition to promoting ethnic hostilities among the African communities, colonial rule was both dictatorial and intolerant.
Those who challenged colonial authorities were killed by the police, jailed or summarily detained without trial. Under the system, the imperial Governor presided over a prefectural network that ensured that British government policies were fully implemented.
On their part, the Africans paid taxes without representation and provided the cheap labour, which facilitated production of wealth. Influential public service jobs went to whites and very few African collaborators. Furthermore, most of Kenya’s productive land was alienated and given to Europeans. Education opportunities for the African people were scarce. Kenya belonged to the white people.
Kenya’s First President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta
In the past 45 years of African leadership, Kenya has been unable to deal with the problems the country experienced under formal colonialism. That is why I am proposing that since colonialism did not end in 1963, our celebration of the occasion is rather misguided. Biting poverty, police brutality, political intolerance, unfair distribution of resources and jobs, unemployment and ethnic parochialism continue to haunt every aspect of life in Kenya. Our past history shows that, in fact, 1963 was not the year of independence. Rather, it was the time when European colonialism was Africanised, making Kenyatta the first black governor.
Our struggle for the second liberation was hijacked in 1992 when Moi — the second black governor — took charge of the proceedings by pretending to be a democrat. He rigged the first serious multi-party polls since 1963 and retained the status quo.
In 2002, the peoples’ second attempt to overthrow Kenya’s black colonial rule seemed to succeed when Narc swept its way to power and promised real change. What followed, however, was an anticlimax of our dreams. In a recent interview with media officials, former Lurambi Member of Parliament Masinde Werangai captured the hopelessness of our political situation when he conceded that the promises of uhuru had not been fulfilled by successive Kenyan governments.
Genuine heroes
The lie that Jomo Kenyatta was the founding father of the country should not be allowed to continue. As truly conceived by genuine founding mothers and fathers, the Kenyan nation is yet to be born. What helped Kenyatta to rise to the top was his mastery of pretense and deceit. Kenyatta knew how to mimic what he was not. This is demonstrated by the way he easily changed names to hide his true self. Although he was born Kamau wa Ngengi, he changed to John Peter and by 1922, he had become Johnstone Kamau. While in Europe in the 1930s, he became Jomo Kenyatta. In 1963, Kamau wa Ngegi was simply known as Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. So what is the difference-in character and deed between President Kenyatta, Mzee, John Peter, Johnstone or Kamau? Was it safe for Kenyans to have entrusted the institution of the presidency in a person whose names kept changing?
After spending along time in Europe, Kenyatta returned home in 1946 and shortly seized the leadership the Kenya African Union party. Although he was mistakenly arrested and jailed for being a member of the Mau Mau, Kenyatta denounced the nationalist movement several times and eventually set the record straight during the Kapenguria trial of 1953.
His nationalist credentials were further undermined by the fact that during his presidency, he became the biggest land owner in Kenya when he acquired over 500,000 acres of land. Besides, he made it his top priority to punish and neutralize freedom fighters who questioned his political practices.
Crushed dissent
Throughout his rule, Kenyatta did not hold any presidential elections to test his popularity. It is tragic that such a person has been branded founding father and freedom fighter.
Like the colonial governor before him, Kenyatta crushed dissent without mercy, terrorised political opponents using the police and detained without trial those with divergent opinions.
Contrary to the dreams and aspirations of the freedom fighters, Kenyatta failed to unite Kenya when he embarked on the programme of Kikuyunizing the public service, by replacing the outgoing Europeans with his own kinsmen. At the height of his presidency, he failed to appreciate Kenya’s diversity when he receded to his own ethnic cocoon.
This was not surprising because, from the very beginning, Kenyatta’s political operations revolved around Kikuyu nationalism. It is noted that as early as 1929, he had been sent to London by the Kikuyu Central Association to lobby for Kikuyu tribal land rights. He even edited a tribal newspaper, Muigwithania.
We have to recognise that the struggle for independence which began in the early 1890s when British rule was imposed on our people was never concluded in 1963, 1992, 2002 or 2007. It continues to date. In addition, the true heroes of Kenya’s liberation combat include the brave fighters of the Chetambe War of 1890s, the champions of the Mau Mau era as well as the stalwarts of the Giriama and the Nandi resistance. These people deserve respect and recognition.
Individuals who should make the list of founding fathers and mothers of Kenya should not be Jomo Kenyatta and his fellow traitors of the freedom struggle. Genuine freedom fighters include, Mekatili wa Menza, Koitalel arap Samoei, Harry Thuku, Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia, Masinde Muliro, Elijah Masinde, and Jaramogi Odinga Oginga, among others. Contemporary scholars have an obligation to the people of Kenya to rewrite our history by correcting the lies we have lived with for a long time.
Although Kenya’s economy under the presidency of Jomo Kenyatta was quite healthy, it was deeply enmeshed in the cobweb of ethnicity, nepotism, and regional preferences. Nowhere is this manifested as in the case of land settlement schemes in the immediate postindependence era. Land has been a critical factor in Kenya’s politics as well as economic development dating back to the onset of colonial governance. It was at the very heart of the Mau Mau revolt. In the post-independence period, it has been one of the major divisive issues whose repercussion has on occasions been expressed in bitter ethnic conflicts leading to death of thousands and displacement of many more over the last decade.
With funds provided by Great Britain at independence, the government of Kenya bought out European planters and then subdivided the land into relatively smaller portions, which were then sold to an emergent African elite who were provided with loans at low rates of interest, or turned to settlement schemes for the landless. On the positive side, the government’s handling of land ensured smooth transition from the era of large-scale planters to the epoch of a majority small peasant holdings. It is this smooth transition that partly explains the expansion and economic vibrancy of the small-scale peasant holdings in Kenya. Through settlement schemes, hundreds of thousands of landless people were settled in various parts of the country, particularly in the Rift Valley, Central, Coast, and to some extent parts of Nyanza and Western provinces.
While the Jomo Kenyatta regime sought to distribute land, it became quite evident that the distribution of land to the landless Africans was not based on need alone. In fact, ethnicity was a major determinant. The “Africanization” of the former European settled areas was, by and large, reduced to the “Kikuyunization” of those lands with the members of the Kikuyu ethnic group being given large chunks of land in the Rift valley, with the tacit approval of the then vice president Daniel Arap Moi, a Kalenjin, and much to the chagrin of the local communities. Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, also appointed members of his ethnic group to key positions in the government, as well as parastatals. These policies that accorded ethnicity and patronage a pride of place in the allocation of resources resulted in the marginalization of most ethnic groups, regions and those who questioned the economic and political iniquities of the Kenyatta regime.
Kenyatta, while allowing regular presidential and National Assembly elections, was quite reluctant to allow competitive multiparty politics. In his last few years in office, he nurtured authoritarian tendencies that saw critics of his regime detained without trial. Under Kenyatta, Kenya became a de facto one-party state after the banning of the Kenya People’s Union in 1969.
Soon after Kenya attained independence those in government moved first to quash any threat to the leadership. The prime minister had to send assassins to kill the Maumau general Baimungi in his hide out in the caves of eastern mt kenya in Meru. What general Baimungi wanted was equitable distribution of the countries land resources and compensation to the freedom fighters or their families. The Prime minister and his associates (who among others included the colonial masters) thought this was a dangerous demand and to stop it as well as send a message to others of like mind, General Baimungi had to be eleminated. They used his girl friend to lead a troop of security forces to his hide out where the general was assassinated thus “nubbing in the bud” for the quest of a just and humane distribution of the country’s economic resources. The first seed of greed, corruption, and injustice was planted and hidden from the world. This picked up steam and those who could not cope were thrown overboard while others with accommodating and similar views were welcomed. This explains the tumultous events of the 1960’s and 1970’s, a period of great theft and plunder of the country’s wealth as well as a number of political killings, detention without trial, and a shift to a defacto one party state. During this time the country exprienced selective but tremendous change in development as well as population growth. It was also during this period when the culture of corruption and the apparrent impunity set in only to be perfected by the regime of the last three decades. Today, corruption permeates all levels of the Kenyan Society. It is so entenched that even parliaments sees no evil in it as long as they are the beneficiaries. This explains why motions intended to censor corrupt parliamentarians are defeated most of the time. The church is in it too, and if not so how could a country that boasts 80% christian have such a high level of curruption. The salt is about to lose all it saltness, the light has dimmed so much it is about to go off. If that happens; how great the darkness. From the on set the liberators joined hands with the collaborators to deny the people of kenya economic liberty, justice, and the persuit of happiness. We have heard the politicians talk for long.
More than forty years have passed since Kenya became independent. The promise then was the delivery of prosperity and progress. None of the two has occurred. At the on set of independence the political leaders fought for what they believed and along they pulled their folowers with them. Initially the leaders were for the people. This lasted for about three years and some of the top leaders realized that it was time for them to replace the colonial leadership. They became bwana Kubwa and the masses seemed to like it as long as it was one of their own at the top. It was also a time to label those you do not like as either pro west or pro east. These labels were easily accepted in the two spheres of influence and as a consequence mighty dictorships were created not only in kenya but in other African countries, whose only differrence was the ideology followed. With this in place, the birth of a brutal, oppressive, paternalistic, corrupt regime was born in kenya. The rush for the amassing of the country’s economic resources by afew was put in over drive. Thats how the top leadership accross the board and their relatives acquired great wealth at the expense of the country’s growth and prosperity. These same groups, plus afew willing recruits have continued to plunder and amass the wealth of the country for themselves while more of the country’s people are driven into squaler life style. A new breed of plunderers is on the prowl. These are the creation of the last three decades. To them the country matters little. This group is difficult to identify because it transcends all the realms of the kenyan society, and all are united in one common aim,” to plunder and amass as much as possible while hiding under the tribal banner”. This has set off a dangerous self distruct switch for Kenya. Unless the remaining few patriots address the problem head on with both brain and brawn, Kenya may sink into a hole too deep that it will take generations to get out. It is time to prescribe a cure(s) for this beautiful country. Business as usual is not one of them. Unless all kenyans of goodwill wake up, the future of the country is bleak. It is time for a new Kenya.
1) Mutea Iringo (Internal Security),
2) Nancy Kirui (Defense),
3) Thuita Mwangi (Foreign Affairs),
4) Chief of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Gen. Julius Karangi,
5 Mr Kimaiyo, his deputies Samuel Arachi and Grace Kaindi
6) The Director General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Maj-Gen Michael Gichangi.Kikuyu Tawala Tawala Bona Makabila Walala Kama Vinyago *Vote none Gema Thuggish thugs !
So do you honestly think this meeting was conducted in Kikuyu forever Amen Amen And Amen
Kibaki, Uhuru and other Kikuyu mafia control Kenya’s economy
In my view, since President Kibaki’s coming to power in 2003, a silent revolution has been taking place in the banking and financial sector; whereby dominance by traditional foreign banks is being replaced by a local oligarchy of influential members of Kibaki’s inner circle and some wealthy Indian-Kenyans. This oligarchy has blurred the line between government and the banks. The oligarchs virtually control both: Treasury – Ministry of Finance (their taxman); and the CBK (supposed bank regulator). Treasury and CBK are both working FOR (& not ‘with’) these newcomer bank owners.
Uhuru Kenyatta appointed as Minister of Finance by Kibaki (who generates Tax, Finance & Micro-Finance policies) is a bank owner himself. The CBK Governor (who generates monetary policy) is himself a shareholder in at least three banks (2 being indigenous). This Kibaki-era spurt in growth of indigenous banks (such as Equity) has largely been driven by government business, and expansion of access to government-guaranteed micro-finance loans. Being well-connected through ownership, these neo-indigenous banks have been the banks-of-choice for domestic government borrowing – enjoying preferrential treatment and favours. That’s why they’ve grown very fast.
Uhuru Kenyatta’s Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) for instance, draws most of its profits from interests on large corporate and government loans – the latter necessitated by the HUGE budget deficits he deliberately creates (partly to keep his business afloat). Each time Uhuru writes the budget with a deficit of Kshs 100 billion, it’s payday for his bank! He writes budgets with big expenditures that he knows tax revenues and donor funds can’t completely fund; then forces the government to borrow the deficit from domestic banks such as his. With hefty interest rates, these folks are raking in billions of shillings.
His bank is now ranked Kenya’s 8th largest in terms of both assets and annual profits (check list below). This open favouritism has altered the playing field in competition. Competitors in turn target customers (directly or indirectly) for alternative pilferage. Competitor banks are cutting costs drastically, starting by firing employees. Banks nowadays boast several empty teller windows even as customers queues get very long. Front desk staff don’t serve customers but actually do back office assignments. Many of them don’t bother answering your querries; they’ll be busy gossiping in vernacular.
In a nutshell, borrowing (unlike a while back) is turning into a nightmare, both in terms of cost and service. Its too costly and unpleasant compared to say Rwanda, Tanzania or Uganda. Banks with ‘zero or little connections’ have equally zero or little room for competition in this skewed field. The preferrential treatment of sacred-cow banks has eventually started causing too much concern to old-time foreign banks, necessitating dramatic moves such as this one below (which in essence are tell-tale signs of impending exodus):
TRANSFER OF BARCLAYS BANK
OFFICE OPERATIONS TO INDIA
Mr. Jamleck Kamau: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had requested for a Ministerial Statement from the Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister for Finance on the intention of the Barclays Bank of Kenya to transfer its banking office operations to India. This statement was supposed to have been delivered today.
Mr. Speaker: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, when will that
statement be available? Leader of Government business?
The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs (Mr. Musyoka): Mr. Speaker, Sir, could we again put it to next week, because the Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister for Finance is not in the House. I am hearing it for the first time; we will let him deal with it.
Mr. Speaker: Leader of Government business, I will put that off to Tuesday, next
week. Hon. Members are aware that this is a very important matter for the country.
Barclays Bank is a major investment here and we need to know the direction clearly.
source : The Hansard – Parliament of the Republic of Kenya; 15th December, 2011
QUICK UPDATE – As you probably guessed, that answer never came back from the Deputy PM & Minister of Finance, Uhuru Kenyatta. It probably won’t even after Parliament’s recess & comeback in February 2012. Uhuru Kenyatta and Githu Muigai have a penchant – illustrated by a well-documented pattern at the Hansard – for not answering MP concerns and questions on the House floor
As former supremos of banking are slowly driven out of the market, we must ask the critical question whether the new banking regime (controlled by Kibaki-connected elites) portends well for business consumers and the overall economy. Anyone who has read the history of the Jomo-Kenyatta-regime policy of “Africanization”, or “Indigenization” of various sectors of the country, espoused by the Ndegwa Commission of 1970/1, will get an immediate heartburn.
I can already sense that a banking insider like Uhuru Kenyatta is more concerned about protecting interests of the growing banks, than concerns of the public. In his Finance Bill 2011 for instance, Uhuru looks more concerned at containing financial risks created by expanding access of capital to Jua Kali owners, boda boda operators, mama mbogas, small-scale farmers, recent graduates, and others who recently streamed to Equity Bank for micro-finance loans.
That’s where this idea of fast-pushing the credit-bureau to cover Kenya’s large informal sector is coming from. They want to blacklist potential loan defaulters (for future exclusion) even in villages and within the jua kali sector. They want these borrower registers before they bring their bank outlets into estates and villages. Kenyatta’s bank and many others want to tap into Equity’s market pool of micro-finance borrowers – through Agency Banking – where they bring banking to neighbourhoods (without employing real banking staff). Even kiosks end up becoming affiliates of their bank. This concept was started by Equity Bank, followed by KCB (Mtaani) and then Co-Op Bank (Jirani).
The Finance Bill 2011 that Kenyatta and his banking oligarchy authored is more interested in organizing banking along these cost-cutting corporate designs. Instead of having their banks opening new branches that employ people, and having reasonable interest rates (both on loans and on deposits), they would rather have a banking regime with: no branches (just kiosk affiliates); no employees (just underpaid agents); high interest rates on loans; low returns on deposits; and bulging profits. Isn’t this where this is heading to?
Instead of CBK working diligently on monetary policy, they are busy designing fresh criteria for potential kiosk banking-agents who will work for the banking oligarchs. Treasury and CBK are both busy working for these well-connected bank owners. These greedy schemers are using our Treasury and CBK to design future systems where their branchless-and-emlpoyee-free banks will get a ‘cut’ in virtually all transactions that Kenyans make including: making cash deposits; cash withdrawals; school fees payments; utility payments; balance enquiry; and even issuance of mini-statements. They are scheming how they will milk wananchi using the next-door kiosk.
Whenever Wanjiku wants to pay a bill or send school fees, they will be expected to transact it at the nearest village kiosk (connected to the favoured banks) for a ‘cut’ that benefits the oligarchs. Even if Wanjiku wants to make a loan application, it will be done through the neighbour’s kiosk, before being run through the same fat-cat credit bureau registers. It is the same kiosk ‘agent’ who will inform Wanjiku whether the loan request has been turned down and such. Am not allergic to banking innovation. I just dislike unscrupulous and gang-ho banking practices!
Why shouldn’t Equity Bank for instance, with more than 4 million deposit customers, or Co-op bank with over 1 million, or KCB, Barclays, and Family Bank with accounts approaching 1 million rely on Treasury and CBK to design for them structures that further exploit the middle-class and the masses? Isn’t it kind of distressing?
A look at the performance of the banking oligarchy – through asset and profit returns from their banks tells you they are generally having a ball under this current Treasury and CBK; even as customers feel the pinch. The preferred banks are climbing the ladder of wealth accretion.
RANKINGS IN PERFORMANCE as at September 2011 – the era of arbitrage, dollar-exporting-and-hoarding, and currency devaluation.
1. KCB (last year’s ranking; 1) September asset of Kshs 273.9 billion and profits of Kshs. 8.6 billion.
2. Barclays (2) September asset of Kshs. 180.9 billion and profits of Kshs 8.9 billion. Growth almost stalled, at the expense of Equity.
3. Equity (5) September assets of Kshs. 172.6 billion and profits of Kshs. 8.25 billion. Unprecedented growth towards the top for this blue-eyed, favoured-bank, now several years in a row. Treasury and CBK have humongously helped it establish agency banking; which has now been copied by KCB and Co-Op Bank. The government is giving Equity yet another BIG BUSINESS – a deal to collect park fees for the Narok Council in the Masai Mara. I can’t wait for the creation of a people-centred devolved government in Narok County to review these decisions. After opening their doors to millions of members, Equity has now dramatically increased their lending rates from 15% to 25% and plus. It is the season for open harvest and milking of the micro-pool!
4. Cooperative Bank (3) September assets of Kshs. 167 billion and profits of Kshs. 5.45 billion. Another Kibaki-era favoured bank, privatized and ‘indigenized’ under Kibaki’s regime. I will give a profile of this bank in my next post to illustrate how government colludes with bank oligarchs to exploit the rest.
5. Standard Chartered (4) September assets of Kshs. 165.7 billion and profits of Kshs. 5.49 billion. Profits dropped from last year’s (from Kshs 6.1 billion). Like Barclays, it is another victim of the new oligarchy that enjoys preferential treatment from the Kibaki government.
6 CFC Stanbic (6) September assets of Kshs. 145.2 billion and profits of Kshs. 2.38 billion. Another bank being targeted for ownership transfer into the hands of the Kibaki elites (led by insider Jimnah Mbaru). It has recently announced a rights issue. Has a new Chairman.
7. Investment & Mortgages I&M (last year 11) September assets of Kshs. 79.5 billion and profits of 3.2 billion. Another blue-eyed player of the day under the Kibaki oligarchy. Dominating the mortgage field. Will reap big from increased rates and extended term periods.
8. Commercial Bank of Africa (8) with September asset of Kshs. 75.7 billion and profits of 2.04 billion. Uhuru Kenyatta’s jewel dominating corporate and government accounts. Tends to be elitist with new branches in new malls in Nairobi like Junction, Galleria. Planning a rights issue to raise capital…what else might happen to ownership? I don’t know whether this is related to Ocampo’s ICC matters.
9 Diamond Trust (10) September assets of Kshs. 74.6 billion and profits of 2.4 billion. Indian-owned and well connected to the current regime.
10. Citibank Kenya (9. last year) September assets of Kshs. 71.6 billion and profits of 3.25 billion.
11. NIC and National Bank (No. 7 last year) Kshs. 70.2 billion ($790 million) in assets and profits of about Kshs. 2 billion.
Real reasons why coast is not voting for Jubilee
COAST is a tourist destination, most people in the coast depend on tourism for survival.
shunning away the international community will just bar tourist from visiting kenya hence lose of jobs for most coast residents……..and oh! yes the coast residents are very much aware of the consequences that’s why they are not voting for Jubilee.
LAND is also an issue in coast, the tracks of land KENYATTA family stole from the coast people has angered the people at the coast, that why they are also not voting for JUBILEE…..UHURU feared campaigning in taita taveta because he was informed the people in taita taveta were very bitter with him.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONSTITUTION…most issues affecting the coast residence is highlighted in the New constitution……JUBILEE lacks the commitment to implement the new constitution, this is even more event in their new TV AD where their is no mentioning of the word “implementing the constitution’.
Documentary evidence of killing of Kikuyus
The chamber notes that witness 1 is an eyetwitness to the murder of a kikuyu woman together with her newborn baby in Langas on January 1, 2008. The witness testifies that he saw a group of three perpetrators armed with arrows and machetes running after a woman, who gave birth to her baby on the spot, due to the trauma. As soon as the perpetrators saw a boy, they said that “we don’t want to have another Mungiki” and they cut the throat of the baby and killed the mother.
Source Page 87/139
Ruling No, ICC-01/09-01/11
It comes as no surprise that the COMMERCIAL BANK OF AFRICA and EQUITY BANK have shown amazing upward development within the last eight years. Perharps the minister of finance and CBK governor can highlight us on this issue. We are also still waiting for a tangible explanation as to how there was imbalance in the budget that was presented to the nation during Uhuru’s tenure as the finance minister. The sufferer is the Kenyan tax payer who struggles to make his ends meet but in the final analysis the beneficiaries are a few country’s tycoons.
Kibaki has done it again !Kweli Impunity in Kenya must Stop even if violence force has to be applied !KIbaki has appointed diplomats without Parliamentarians approval|
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What is Kimemia up to?
As always, the blog admin a few days back, received the following tip from an anonymous correspondent, reproduced below as received
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A few months back a number of ambassadors were secretly appointed by the Office of the President and deployed to several strategic foreign diplomatic missions. The appointments are clouded in mystery and secrecy, thereby raising suspicions and doubt as to the real objective for these appointments.
An appeal was formally lodged to various foreign governments to not recognize these appointees for reason of violating key provisions of the constitution.
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Article 132. Functions of the President, Sub Article (2) of the Constitution of Kenya provides that the President shall nominate and, with the approval of the National Assembly, appoint, and may dismiss
high commissioners, ambassadors and diplomatic and consular representatives.
Further, Article 232 Values and principles of public service states that: The values and principles of public service include… representation of Kenya’s diverse communities and affording adequate and equal opportunities for appointment, training and advancement, at all levels of the public service, of the members of all ethnic groups
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The appointment of these ambassadors was never approved by the National Assembly and can therefore not be valid and is an abuse of powers at the Office of the President in making appointments that are in total violation of the constitution.
The appointments breach the following provisions of the constitution
a) requires consensus/joint approval with the Prime Minister
b) requires approval by parliament
c) must represent the face of kenya through regional balance
d) must respect gender parity of no more than 2/3 of the same gender
Interestingly a handful of appointments are included to deflect attention from the true intentions of Office of the President
None of these appointments have been officially gazetted or if done, have not been obvious.
The term of the Tenth Parliament expired on 14th January, 2013 and Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth O Marende already published a gazette notice on the same day. That notwithstanding that the Hansard reveals no record of parliament approving any names for ambassadorial appointments prior to holding its last session.
It is therefore clear that these appointments are illegal, and by their secretive nature intended for purposes that cannot be for the good or benefit of the country
It is becoming extremely clear that the purpose of these appointments and subsequent deployment to strategic foreign missions is therefore to act as a buffer and to influence the foreign capitals in accepting a possibly flawed outcome in yet another botched election.
The list of these appointments is provided below
Note the creation of a new post that has not been used in diplomatic missions i.e Deputy Ambassador whose functions have always been carried out by other attaches in the missions
S/No Name Designation – Station Remarks
1 Daniel Waisiko Wambura Pending Gema, Male
2 Florence Imisa Weche Pending Luhya, Female
3 Johnson Mwangi Weru Pending Gema, Male
4 Zaddock Syong’oh Pending Luo, Male
5 Christopher Muga Chika Pending Luo, Male
6 Eliphas Mugendi Barine Pending Gema, Male
7 Michael Dennis Mukiri Kinyanjui Pending Gema, Male
8 Samuel M. Gitonga Pending Gema, Male
9 Kariuki Mugwe Pending Gema, Male
10 Mary Nyambura Kamau Pending Gema, Female
11 Boniface Mwangi Mwihia Pending Gema, Male
12 Jean Kamau Deputy Amb – Washington USA Gema
13 Martin Kimani Rep – UNON Nairobi Kenya Gema, Male
14 Koki Muli Deputy Rep – UN HQS New York USA Kamba, Female
15 Kaunda Maikara Amb – Mogadishu Somalia Kisii, Male
16 Nassir Ali Joho Amb – Oman Coast, Male
17 Stephen Biko Pending Male
18 Kenneth Vitisia Amb – Riyadh Saudi Arabia Luhya, Male
19. Aaron Suge Amb – Khartoum Sudan Kalenjin, Male
20 Jackline Yoga Deputy Amb – London United Kingdom Luo, Female
21 Dr John Kakonge Rep – UN Geneva Switzerland Luhya, Male
Our appeal to foreign capitals is to reject these appointments as they have not been made according the laid down laws and any interaction with these appointees should be in their private capacities and not as accredited diplomats to their capitals.
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From the above it is abundantly clear that the Office of the President under Kimemia is making dubious appointments in readiness for some yet unknown outcome expected in the future
Signed/Appointment letters have been furnished to Blog-Admin as proof of the above and are currently marked as confidential but ready to be published
The Lies about Jomo Kenyatta and Kenya
My concern is about the blatant lies associated with the occasion that we have been living with for a long time. Old wisdom informs us that when a lie is told several times, it actually turns into truth. At the risk of displeasing some people, let me highlight some political lies about Kenya and the late President Kenyatta.
We have been told several times that Kenya gained independence in 1963. We have also been informed that Kenyatta was not only the country’s founding father but also a quintessential freedom fighter. I have spent a lot of time perusing relevant documents to establish the veracity of these claims but I have not been able to find any truth in them.
Divide and rule
Colonial rule had certain fundamental pillars. Through a carefully conceived ‘divide and rule policy’, colonialism was implanted to secure the exploitation of Kenya’s human and material resources. In addition to promoting ethnic hostilities among the African communities, colonial rule was both dictatorial and intolerant.
Those who challenged colonial authorities were killed by the police, jailed or summarily detained without trial. Under the system, the imperial Governor presided over a prefectural network that ensured that British government policies were fully implemented.
On their part, the Africans paid taxes without representation and provided the cheap labour, which facilitated production of wealth. Influential public service jobs went to whites and very few African collaborators. Furthermore, most of Kenya’s productive land was alienated and given to Europeans. Education opportunities for the African people were scarce. Kenya belonged to the white people.
Kenya’s First President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta
In the past 45 years of African leadership, Kenya has been unable to deal with the problems the country experienced under formal colonialism. That is why I am proposing that since colonialism did not end in 1963, our celebration of the occasion is rather misguided. Biting poverty, police brutality, political intolerance, unfair distribution of resources and jobs, unemployment and ethnic parochialism continue to haunt every aspect of life in Kenya. Our past history shows that, in fact, 1963 was not the year of independence. Rather, it was the time when European colonialism was Africanised, making Kenyatta the first black governor.
Our struggle for the second liberation was hijacked in 1992 when Moi — the second black governor — took charge of the proceedings by pretending to be a democrat. He rigged the first serious multi-party polls since 1963 and retained the status quo.
In 2002, the peoples’ second attempt to overthrow Kenya’s black colonial rule seemed to succeed when Narc swept its way to power and promised real change. What followed, however, was an anticlimax of our dreams. In a recent interview with media officials, former Lurambi Member of Parliament Masinde Werangai captured the hopelessness of our political situation when he conceded that the promises of uhuru had not been fulfilled by successive Kenyan governments.
Genuine heroes
The lie that Jomo Kenyatta was the founding father of the country should not be allowed to continue. As truly conceived by genuine founding mothers and fathers, the Kenyan nation is yet to be born. What helped Kenyatta to rise to the top was his mastery of pretense and deceit. Kenyatta knew how to mimic what he was not. This is demonstrated by the way he easily changed names to hide his true self. Although he was born Kamau wa Ngengi, he changed to John Peter and by 1922, he had become Johnstone Kamau. While in Europe in the 1930s, he became Jomo Kenyatta. In 1963, Kamau wa Ngegi was simply known as Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. So what is the difference-in character and deed between President Kenyatta, Mzee, John Peter, Johnstone or Kamau? Was it safe for Kenyans to have entrusted the institution of the presidency in a person whose names kept changing?
After spending along time in Europe, Kenyatta returned home in 1946 and shortly seized the leadership the Kenya African Union party. Although he was mistakenly arrested and jailed for being a member of the Mau Mau, Kenyatta denounced the nationalist movement several times and eventually set the record straight during the Kapenguria trial of 1953.
His nationalist credentials were further undermined by the fact that during his presidency, he became the biggest land owner in Kenya when he acquired over 500,000 acres of land. Besides, he made it his top priority to punish and neutralize freedom fighters who questioned his political practices.
Crushed dissent
Throughout his rule, Kenyatta did not hold any presidential elections to test his popularity. It is tragic that such a person has been branded founding father and freedom fighter.
Like the colonial governor before him, Kenyatta crushed dissent without mercy, terrorised political opponents using the police and detained without trial those with divergent opinions.
Contrary to the dreams and aspirations of the freedom fighters, Kenyatta failed to unite Kenya when he embarked on the programme of Kikuyunizing the public service, by replacing the outgoing Europeans with his own kinsmen. At the height of his presidency, he failed to appreciate Kenya’s diversity when he receded to his own ethnic cocoon.
This was not surprising because, from the very beginning, Kenyatta’s political operations revolved around Kikuyu nationalism. It is noted that as early as 1929, he had been sent to London by the Kikuyu Central Association to lobby for Kikuyu tribal land rights. He even edited a tribal newspaper, Muigwithania.
We have to recognise that the struggle for independence which began in the early 1890s when British rule was imposed on our people was never concluded in 1963, 1992, 2002 or 2007. It continues to date. In addition, the true heroes of Kenya’s liberation combat include the brave fighters of the Chetambe War of 1890s, the champions of the Mau Mau era as well as the stalwarts of the Giriama and the Nandi resistance. These people deserve respect and recognition.
Individuals who should make the list of founding fathers and mothers of Kenya should not be Jomo Kenyatta and his fellow traitors of the freedom struggle. Genuine freedom fighters include, Mekatili wa Menza, Koitalel arap Samoei, Harry Thuku, Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia, Masinde Muliro, Elijah Masinde, and Jaramogi Odinga Oginga, among others. Contemporary scholars have an obligation to the people of Kenya to rewrite our history by correcting the lies we have lived with for a long time.
Dictator Jomo Kenyatta
Although Kenya’s economy under the presidency of Jomo Kenyatta was quite healthy, it was deeply enmeshed in the cobweb of ethnicity, nepotism, and regional preferences. Nowhere is this manifested as in the case of land settlement schemes in the immediate postindependence era. Land has been a critical factor in Kenya’s politics as well as economic development dating back to the onset of colonial governance. It was at the very heart of the Mau Mau revolt. In the post-independence period, it has been one of the major divisive issues whose repercussion has on occasions been expressed in bitter ethnic conflicts leading to death of thousands and displacement of many more over the last decade.
With funds provided by Great Britain at independence, the government of Kenya bought out European planters and then subdivided the land into relatively smaller portions, which were then sold to an emergent African elite who were provided with loans at low rates of interest, or turned to settlement schemes for the landless. On the positive side, the government’s handling of land ensured smooth transition from the era of large-scale planters to the epoch of a majority small peasant holdings. It is this smooth transition that partly explains the expansion and economic vibrancy of the small-scale peasant holdings in Kenya. Through settlement schemes, hundreds of thousands of landless people were settled in various parts of the country, particularly in the Rift Valley, Central, Coast, and to some extent parts of Nyanza and Western provinces.
While the Jomo Kenyatta regime sought to distribute land, it became quite evident that the distribution of land to the landless Africans was not based on need alone. In fact, ethnicity was a major determinant. The “Africanization” of the former European settled areas was, by and large, reduced to the “Kikuyunization” of those lands with the members of the Kikuyu ethnic group being given large chunks of land in the Rift valley, with the tacit approval of the then vice president Daniel Arap Moi, a Kalenjin, and much to the chagrin of the local communities. Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, also appointed members of his ethnic group to key positions in the government, as well as parastatals. These policies that accorded ethnicity and patronage a pride of place in the allocation of resources resulted in the marginalization of most ethnic groups, regions and those who questioned the economic and political iniquities of the Kenyatta regime.
Kenyatta, while allowing regular presidential and National Assembly elections, was quite reluctant to allow competitive multiparty politics. In his last few years in office, he nurtured authoritarian tendencies that saw critics of his regime detained without trial. Under Kenyatta, Kenya became a de facto one-party state after the banning of the Kenya People’s Union in 1969.
The patriots and the villains, united in plunder.
By Baraka http://foresightpost.blogspot.se/
Soon after Kenya attained independence those in government moved first to quash any threat to the leadership. The prime minister had to send assassins to kill the Maumau general Baimungi in his hide out in the caves of eastern mt kenya in Meru. What general Baimungi wanted was equitable distribution of the countries land resources and compensation to the freedom fighters or their families. The Prime minister and his associates (who among others included the colonial masters) thought this was a dangerous demand and to stop it as well as send a message to others of like mind, General Baimungi had to be eleminated. They used his girl friend to lead a troop of security forces to his hide out where the general was assassinated thus “nubbing in the bud” for the quest of a just and humane distribution of the country’s economic resources. The first seed of greed, corruption, and injustice was planted and hidden from the world. This picked up steam and those who could not cope were thrown overboard while others with accommodating and similar views were welcomed. This explains the tumultous events of the 1960’s and 1970’s, a period of great theft and plunder of the country’s wealth as well as a number of political killings, detention without trial, and a shift to a defacto one party state. During this time the country exprienced selective but tremendous change in development as well as population growth. It was also during this period when the culture of corruption and the apparrent impunity set in only to be perfected by the regime of the last three decades. Today, corruption permeates all levels of the Kenyan Society. It is so entenched that even parliaments sees no evil in it as long as they are the beneficiaries. This explains why motions intended to censor corrupt parliamentarians are defeated most of the time. The church is in it too, and if not so how could a country that boasts 80% christian have such a high level of curruption. The salt is about to lose all it saltness, the light has dimmed so much it is about to go off. If that happens; how great the darkness. From the on set the liberators joined hands with the collaborators to deny the people of kenya economic liberty, justice, and the persuit of happiness. We have heard the politicians talk for long.
More than forty years have passed since Kenya became independent. The promise then was the delivery of prosperity and progress. None of the two has occurred. At the on set of independence the political leaders fought for what they believed and along they pulled their folowers with them. Initially the leaders were for the people. This lasted for about three years and some of the top leaders realized that it was time for them to replace the colonial leadership. They became bwana Kubwa and the masses seemed to like it as long as it was one of their own at the top. It was also a time to label those you do not like as either pro west or pro east. These labels were easily accepted in the two spheres of influence and as a consequence mighty dictorships were created not only in kenya but in other African countries, whose only differrence was the ideology followed. With this in place, the birth of a brutal, oppressive, paternalistic, corrupt regime was born in kenya. The rush for the amassing of the country’s economic resources by afew was put in over drive. Thats how the top leadership accross the board and their relatives acquired great wealth at the expense of the country’s growth and prosperity. These same groups, plus afew willing recruits have continued to plunder and amass the wealth of the country for themselves while more of the country’s people are driven into squaler life style. A new breed of plunderers is on the prowl. These are the creation of the last three decades. To them the country matters little. This group is difficult to identify because it transcends all the realms of the kenyan society, and all are united in one common aim,” to plunder and amass as much as possible while hiding under the tribal banner”. This has set off a dangerous self distruct switch for Kenya. Unless the remaining few patriots address the problem head on with both brain and brawn, Kenya may sink into a hole too deep that it will take generations to get out. It is time to prescribe a cure(s) for this beautiful country. Business as usual is not one of them. Unless all kenyans of goodwill wake up, the future of the country is bleak. It is time for a new Kenya.
1) Mutea Iringo (Internal Security),
2) Nancy Kirui (Defense),
3) Thuita Mwangi (Foreign Affairs),
4) Chief of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Gen. Julius Karangi,
5 Mr Kimaiyo, his deputies Samuel Arachi and Grace Kaindi
6) The Director General of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), Maj-Gen Michael Gichangi.Kikuyu Tawala Tawala Bona Makabila Walala Kama Vinyago *Vote none Gema Thuggish thugs !
So do you honestly think this meeting was conducted in Kikuyu forever Amen Amen And Amen
Africa has gone > The latest scrumble for Dark Continent where sub-humans has failed to run their Countries:EU is taking control of their Colonies!
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/21/290069/france-and-warplane-mega-deal-in-mali/
http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-108866/kenyans-ready-muslim-president
Is Kenya ready for another Kikuyu-Gema President?