Things on my mind

Inflation

With fuel prices moving up from Ksh. 96.00 to Ksh. 115.30, things are beginning to look thick. I think it's high time we printed the Ksh. 5,000 note as it is only worth a few things in the supermarket these days.

Is it a coincidence that fuel, food prices are heading upwards while the foreign exchange rates going up every other day. Such a time is when the CBK governor should give someone else a chance to see if things can be improved.

2012 Politics

There is so little to say about the current crop of politicians. I have no hope in them and do not think there is much to expect in the next 5-10years. Maybe they will prove me wrong.



Famine
It's a sad day in Africa, a sad day in the world. How can a continent full of resources be facing famine? As we speak hordes of people from Somalia are moving to the refugee camps in Kenya.

Amy Winehouse

Now this post looks all sad and groomy but how can i not mention Amy Winehouse! May she R.I.P. She was a talented singer and many have mourned the waste of talent but it seems as an African would say, her day had come. She fought with drugs for many years but she lost the battle.

The saga continues....

After reading this post at Kumekucha and the comments that followed, it shows me if we don't get an Obama Kenya as a nation we are headed for extinction.Even King Solomon might have to cut the baby into half proverbially so.

 

What's this there is more HIV in Nyanza vs more HIV in Central discussion? Why should it even arise?

 

Why does any discussion on Raila lead to portrayal of Kikuyus as monsters. What does a discussion of Kibaki have to do with Raila and vice versa, the two are not the same person and each has their own fatal flaws (think Art of War) and merits.

 

I know each is aware of the disastrous election campaigns they carried out.The effects of divisions are not going to wear out just because somebody said so.

That notwithstanding I thought 4 months later and after intense bleeding I am shocked we are still having a your province is better than ours or our people are more hardworking than yours arguments. When will Kenyans ever grow up? I mean if you can't learn from your own experiences then how can you learn?

 

When I listened to Orengo waxing lyrical that Kikuyus who have been displaced from the Rift Valley should be resettled, elsewhere  I could not believe he is first and foremost a human rights lawyer and a nationalist as he had appeared to severally be. How politicians change. There has been an excellent piece on Kenya Imagine on the issue of Ancestral land and someone has asked very correctly "since the Maasai people are nomadic pastoralists, does that mean every piece of parcel they have passed through makes it their ancestral land?". What I know is that anyone claiming others must move from their rightful or otherwise acquired land, is a terrible daydreamer. Ask those who own land in the middle of Nairobi City. Maybe Kenyatta was wrong in allocating land to his cronies/tribesmen, maybe he was not; I am not willing to pursue where is it again,..where my great great great grandfather came from maybe he was even a Maasai grazing his cows and then...., I don't know. see how drafty the story of ancestors can be.

 

Ababu Namwamba swallows Bitter Pill

 

Politics is an interesting game, a few months just when the Honorable Ababu Namwamba pulled theatrics on the swearing day of parliament he has to taste his own medicine. The man he swore to will hear nothing of opposition and publicly so. The people of Kisumu have been told that Government is where they belong and rightly so after the attempt to get into statehouse were thwarted by what some will argue (ODMers) grand theft of elections.

 

I have nothing but respect for Mr. Ababu the young man from Budalangi who ousted the useless Raphael Wanjala but that is as far as it goes. Your tongue the bible says is very dangerous and destructive.

 

Raila and Kibaki belong to the same class; the elite political class. I mean just six months after I was born, Raila pulled one on Moi, that was 26 years ago .Kibaki was then a VC for president Moi . 20 years later, he is the man that Raila declared "Tosha" and who Raila is calling your Excellency now. Gosh Ababu can't you see? Politics is a silly game! You disrespected Kibaki in full glare of the Cameras because you thought they are grand enemies. Now Raila marked you, knows you can't respect an old man (at least) and will clip you before you can develop your wings!  First learn the game, before you can even act or talk.Don't get too excited. Watch this space.

 

Speak

When you speak; speak for your country not for individuals.

When i read many people's sentiments i amaze at just how we have made individuals godly. In the sense that even knowing what we know about these politicians we still want to associate with change and deliverance. Further from the truth we cannot be.

I refuse to fight for people whose reputation and integrity is at question. I refuse to fight for people who have no real agenda apart from assuming power. We know Ruto, we know Raila, we know Kibaki, we know Michuki et al, why do we then behave like we don't?

When you write a comment on my blog and tell me Kenyans were denied change, revolution, etc what do you know? And tell me mass action must continue because this is the only way you can get what you want? I know i would fight but for the right reasons.

I do believe in many things but i don't believe we can destroy a whole country to defend people we so know well.

We know they are not clean, we know they have never been clean. We most definitely know they are not Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela because those two would never allow the kind of madness that has happened in this country. I am sure they must be sick in their belly just to imagine what has gone down and accountability is not forthcoming.

Martin Luther had a mission, Nelson Mandela had a mission, just what are the mission of our country destroyers?

Why do they evoke such negative feelings in the people that they would say something as unspeakable as "we would rather go the Ivory Coast way? And for what?

The law is clear remains to be clear of which i have been searching, an election dispute can only be determined by a High court,  we have no provisions for an interim Govt. Why the turmoils?

Quite a number of Kenyans support R.O., quite of them support MK, and others supported KM, so when someone stands up and says "Kenyans" will. Which Kenyans do you refer to? Which will of Kenyans because we are so fucking equal and no grievances, theatrics, mass actions will solve an election dispute.

Kenyans are living in morbid fear countrywide, you should see their scary faces every time there is a sound however innocent. We have police on the streets, something i had only seen when international news of Sierra Leone, Somalia were aired on TV.  But are the police in the streets in vain, towns have been brought to ashes, people's lives are in constant danger, and you blame the police? The whole of Kenya belongs to any Kenyan, as until now, if Kisumu town is destroyed, a part of Kenya has been destroyed and thats a loss to every Kenyan.

Speak for Kenya.


Now this is better but the worst joke i have heard. Boycott

CRYING FOUL

I don't know how to put when a million of people shout that the judiciary systems don't work. It makes feel nauseous and makes a whole joke of a whole institution.

 

I agree the judiciary doesn't work.

 

My fellow blogger Prousette says the AG and CJ were in the thick of things.

 

But just so you know; here is a list of the new MPS you will quite a handful have been in the Parliament for a long time.Lets just say all involved players have been in parliament for a long time.

 

They have ALWAYS known there is a problem with separation of powers. Our judiciary is a toy for the executive, that is as much as i will agree.

 

But what has anyone done to correct the situation. if you go to www.mzalendo.com, you will realize parliamentary attendance is hit by a constant lack of quorum.

 

So i will say you are all estopped from blaming the judiciary when you have been a Member of Parliament for several decades and have done nothing to deal with the problem of judiciary not being independent.

 

The reason Kenya is where it is is because we have a respect for Rule of Law. You heard Marende our new speaker say we don't use the law AS IT OUGHT TO BE but AS IT IS.

 

The current law says that an Election Dispute shall be determined in a Court of Law. That is the law as it is my folks.

 

OBJECTIVE

Even wars have rules. if it didn't have, we would all end up in the situation that the Battle of Solferino led to. 40,000 dead in 9 hours. In radical departure of the Rules of War we have killed women and children and/or people who could not equal our match.

 

Even if President Kibaki would step down today, we would still have another election.The Vice President would end up being a president for 90 days. He could even proceed to win the elections.

 

An election is not definite. It produces losers and winners. How would we account for the deaths and lost property and more unseen our mental anguish?

 

 

 

 

 

THINGS HAVE CHANGED---ITS STILL RAINING THOUGH

 

The PENTAGON are at the Serena.

 

The police have asked people to go home, tear gas is about to engulf the town.

 

They are going round town shouting

 

"GET OUT OF TOWN; ENDENI NYUMBANI"

 

Thank the rains; it will quell any fire automatically, it will prevent the chaos.

 

I miss days when i used to do posts like this DEAR diary

Searching for answers

kenyans memories can be outlasted by the expiry date of a loaf of bread.

Don't get me wrong but i have always wondered the span of an event in Kenyan minds. While the US black folks still remember  the day the Rosa Parks refused to stand up for that white in the bus and celebrate it

We were almost fooled. And although i have received so many articles and reports,there is one thing that is becoming consistent.

This violence was not reactionary as some people would want to fool Kenyans. There is one report claiming that Ruto has been recruiting a militia group known as Karamajong Guerilla fighters and there is also another showing that ODM was planning to use ethnical tensions as one of the way to scare voters. Whether this reports are true or not is a story for another day.  Anti Kikuyuism according to one report was another way that this movement was going to influence voting.

Lets put it this way it is highly unlikely that "normal" people in Kenya can wake up and start slaughtering each other. I can bet on this one. It is also unlikely that people had been storing machetes and pangas just.

if we look at the outcome of the elections and even the pollsters confirmed that this elections was a close call, there was no clear winner because it was based on how much your tribe could deliver in terms of votes.

How then could a bunch of people feel so aggrieved that they would start burning houses and killing others. Its  just shocking in a nation that claim to have 80% or more Christians.

Indeed it is very clear that this was a very orchestrated and planned violence.

And indeed why did the Kalenjins seem so incensed by the turn out of the elections than even the Luo. It is true that the Luos just really burnt and looted. I don't imagine a lot of the deaths came from that region as they came from the Rift Valley.

But i might wonder at this point,  What is it that Ruto & his community could have against Kikuyu community? Land in Rift Valley is not scarce. Eldoret town being a cosmopolitan town has grown in leaps and bounds over the last few. His own community benefits immensely from this development.

As we go on wondering what happened, then Kenyans must not forget; there is a plan to divide kenyans by our own very leadership and it is amazing just how much it has gone.






It must have started here


Move on we must;FORGET WE SHOULD NEVER

Now this is malice

some people would/not enjoy.

http://www.aina.org/news/20080106002912.htm

Poor Obama, your country of origin could cost you a seat in the White House.


Others
http://www.nysun.com/article/69273
Seeing Raila as he is
Damn!
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/davidblair/jan2008/odingacousinobama.htm

The law is an ASS

Even Raila must follow it!

 

Now what happens on Tuesday when parliament is sworn.

 

They will all declare allegiance to the President. Raila has categorically refused to refer to Mr. Kibaki as a president, so which allegiance will he declare?

 

The LSK which is shamelessly taking sides with the opposition should advice it on the Law in Kenya.

 

 

4M + can recognize Mr. Kibaki as president, do we really need Raila to declare Kibaki as president? Upto now he just remains as much as a presidential contender as Kalonzo & others

 

I have seen many blogs and their comments commenting that cabinet positions are going to Mt. Kenya, these same blogs preach unity but when it comes to declaring others they call them Mt. Kenya, if we are all Kenyans why the discrimination. All does it become Mt. Kenya and other Kenyans?

 

To those who think they can declare violence, this time round, everyone is ready

 

We have to move on, we have wasted so much. We have fought a war that is too unnecessary and unproductive.

 

For those who doubt Kibaki's sanity, Ali Mazrui thinks of Kibaki as an intellectual, then again are you more intellectual than Ali Mazrui. Angst against Kibaki is not helping anyone.

 

Someone famous said "Action cures Grief" I think all that angst should be directed towards action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And i forgot if you refuse to be sworn in as MP your seat is declared vacant.

Mutahi Ngunyi is a genius