Thoughts From Wakenya

Mr. Okoth Osewe, mine is just a humble question. Although I am not a Luo, I am one Kenyan who finds your writing very interesting. One thing I would like to know is why Mr. Clay Onyango is provoking you without reason. Clay has gone to KSB archive and lifted an old commentary you penned a year ago during election campaign (15th November 2007). The article questioned why Kikuyu chauvinists are afraid of Raila Odinga and it was written when in Kenya, a disease called “Railamania” had just erupted in Kenya. With his “cut and paste” blog (because he lacks…

It is astonishing to hear that some crazy person, or people have suggested a Kenya Cabinet size of 44. According to the 2007/8 budget the total cost of running 34 ministries this year is Ksh 299.6 billion (an average of Ksh 8 billion per ministry per annum).  Using the same average cost, 44 Ministries might cost you and I about Ksh 387 billion.  Are you prepared to fork out another 100 billion shillings or so every year to accommodate your Member of Parliament’s desire to have a flag and to be called “Waziri”? Let’s be clear, MPs were elected to…

CUBAN SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM: A Challenge to African Revolutionaries. Statement by Mwandawiro Mghanga Made at a Symposium “20 years after the battle of Cuito Cuanavale: Implications for Africa and South - South Solidarity”: Thursday 20th March, 2008, 5.00-7.00pm At Charter Hall, City Hall Way Nairobi, Kenya.  CUBAN SOCIALIST INTERNATIONALISM: A Challenge to African Revolutionaries On behalf of the Kenya – Friendship Society (KCFS), I take this opportunity to thank our guest speakers, Ambassadors of Cuba, South Africa and Angola for accepting the invitation to address the friends of Cuba and Pan – Africans gathered here today. Special thanks to the diplomat…

Pastor Beatrice Kamau has told KSB that nobody is in a position to defend God because God has his own unique way of defending himself. Responding to a spate of articles that have appeared in Kenyan blogs regarding an article published at KSB challenging Kenya Stockholm prayers for peace in Kenya, Pastor Beatrice said that those who are trying to come to the rescue of God are armatures who do not understand the scriptures. “They are like little children who started drinking spiritual milk yesterday”, she said, and suggested that these imposters should give themselves time to grow spiritually instead…

Those who are Christians and believe that Jesus Christ was and is son of God,believes that by praying to our creator, we do communicate with him and we can submit freely all our needs and desires to him and him only. When things goes wrong in any country, we do tend to blame the government but in the real sense its we as Christians who have failed in our duties to pray for the governments. Here in Sweden, we are told that, whenever you are in trouble, call 112. Even young children in schools knows about 112. For us Christians,…

Sirs; Both of you do have very valid points and the arguments presented are indeed thought provoking. However, there is an issue that both of you seem to be circumventing. What has an election rigging got to do with the small man named Kamau, Otieno, Kipketer, or Mwachongi? Can any of you and anyone for that matter explain how the deaths of all Kenyans in the post elections period has affected the current administration in office? I do understand the frustration and the sheer anger at a government that treads on its electorate. Every Kenyan has experienced oppression regardless of…

I would like to thank Mr. Joseph Munene for calling on all Kenyans in Stockholm to have discussions regarding the situation in Kenya.  This is a positive thought although I have a few concerns regarding his facts.  After reading Mr. Munene´s views on events in Kenya, I paid lots of interest on some key issues he raised.   Mr. Munene stated that in Nakuru town, ODM promised boda-boda cyclists doing business that they would be given Taxis if ODM won elections.  I have personally taken contact with a man in Nakuru who runs boda-boda business.  His bicycle is numbered NM…