SIASA KALI

The Kenya Drug Lord netted

2011-06-15T21:47:00.002+03:00

For Immediate Release June 01, 2011
Letter from the President on the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
June 1, 2011

Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Madam Chairman:)
(Dear Representative:) (Dear Senator:)

This report to the Congress, under section 804(a) of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, 21 U.S.C. 1901-1908 (the "Kingpin Act"), transmits my designations of the following seven foreign individuals as appropriate for sanctions under the Kingpin Act and reports my direction of sanctions against them under the Act:

Manuel Torres Felix (Mexico)
Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza (Mexico)
Haji Lal Jan Ishaqzai (Afghanistan)
Kamchybek Asanbekovich Kolbayev (Kyrgyzstan)
John Harun Mwau (Kenya)
Naima Mohamed Nyakiniywa (Kenya)
Javier Antonio Calle Serna (Colombia)

Sincerely,

BARACK OBAMA

The Piece of Cloth

2011-02-12T14:23:00.004+03:00

A national flag symbolises a country and pride of its people. Flags are used and flown in official and public buildings.There is a great deal of protocol involved in the proper display of national flags.There are many regulations concerning the display of national flags, but the general rule is that the national flag should be flown in the position of honour, and not in an inferior position to any other flag.

Our forefathers fought and died for the piece of cloth that is used by ungrateful cabinet minister to evade traffic that has become norm of Kenya. This veteran Kenyans fought and chased the colonialist so that we can have independence and social justice. It is quite sad that their efforts is looked by this corrupt leaders in contempt and have no place in modern Kenya.

The Notorious Sally Kosgei who we will not call her honourable as she has let off her guard and told us what she really is. In a public meeting in her constituency she demeaned the importance of our national flag that is revered by millions of Kenya. The legenendry Nandi leader Koitalel Arap Samoi died fighting for this country to become independent and its inhabitant to enjoy freedom. The MAU MAU and rest of Kenyan laid down their live for this beautiful nation. Today this great nationalist leaders have been made restless in their graves by hearing what one called Sally has uttered from her mouth.

Sally Kosgei went further to say that she held very high post in previous government and does not care anymore??? Alas yes she held high post in corrupt despotic Moi
regime where Kenya was looted and razed to the ground for the last 24 years. She is has trodden on so many foot and caused grieve to poor Kenyans. One day she will be brought to court of law to answer for her crimes against Kenya.

Sally Kosgei here is what we call flag protocol and not a piece of cloth that you use to evade traffic.

-When a national flag is displayed together with any other flags, it must be hoisted first and lowered last.
-When a national flag is displayed together with the national flags of other countries, all the flags should be of approximately equal size and must be flown at an equal height, although the national flag of the host country should be flown in the position of honour (in the centre of an odd number of flagstaffs or at the far right - left from an observer's point of view - of an even number of flagstaffs).

-When a national flag is displayed together with flags other than national flags, it should be flown on a separate flagstaff, either higher or in the position of honour.
When a national flag is displayed together with any other flags on the same flagstaff, it must be at the top, though separate flagstaffs are preferable.
-When a national flag is displayed together with any other flag on crossed staffs, the National Flag must be on the observer's left and its staff must be in front of the staff of the other flag.
-When a national flag is displayed together with another flag or flags in procession, the National Flag must be on the marching right. If there is a row of flags, it should be in the position of honour.

SIASAKALI

The Nairobi Leaks

2010-12-14T15:03:00.003+03:00

Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 15:13
C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 04 NAIROBI 000059
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
FOR A/S CARSON AND NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GAVIN FROM THE AMBASSADOR
EO 12958 DECL: 2020/01/12
TAGS PREL, PGOV, KCOR, KE
SUBJECT: U.S. POLICY TO ADVANCE THE REFORM AGENDA
REF: 09 NAIROBI 1811; 10 NAIROBI 31; 10 NAIROBI 50; 10 NAIROBI 11 09 NAIROBI 2485; 09 NAIROBI 2483; 09 NAIROBI 2475; 09 NAIROBI 2401
CLASSIFIED BY: Michael E. Ranneberger, Ambassador, DOS, EXEC; REASON: 1.4(B), (D)

1. (C) Summary: Our highest priority efforts are focused on advancing implementation of the reform agenda, which is key to the future democratic stability and prosperity of Kenya. While some positive reform steps have been taken, the old guard associated with the culture of impunity continues to resist fundamental change. Most key reforms are yet to be carried out, and the future of the constitutional review process is uncertain. We are employing public and private pressure, engaging broadly with the senior-most levels of the government and other political actors, and reaching out extensively to the Kenyan people, youth, civil society, the media, the private sector, and religious groups. We also laying out incentives for positive action on reforms and supporting significant steps when they are taken. Continued intensive U.S. efforts - using our unique influence in Kenya - is essential to propel implementation of the reform agenda. U.S. efforts are viewed very favorably by the Kenyan people and are helping generate increased domestic-driven pressure for reforms. This message discusses the current state of play, the dynamics affecting the reform agenda, and U.S. policy and actions. End summary.

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U.S. Policy and Central Importance of Reform Agenda

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2. (C) Advancing implementation of the reform agenda is the central objective of U.S. policy in Kenya. Achieving this is key to ensure the future democratic stability and prosperity of Kenya, a strategically important partner of the United States. Failure to implement significant reforms will greatly enhance prospects for a violent crisis in 2012 or before - which might well prove much worse than the last post-election crisis. Bringing about implementation of the reform agenda poses a large challenge because doing so threatens the culture of impunity and the entrenched political class that has existed in Kenya since independence. Most of the political and economic elite (to greater and lesser extents) compose the vested interests that benefit from and support impunity and the lack of accountability with respect to governance, state resources, and the rule of law. This includes President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga, who signed the coalition agreement, as well as most of the members of the Cabinet and leaders of the political parties.

3. (C) That said, there are dynamics at play which create an historic opportunity to achieve progress. First, the unprecedented post-election crisis jolted the Kenyan people and led to a broad appreciation, domestically and internationally, that some changes must be made to avoid such a crisis - or worse - in the future. Second, demographic pressures and generational change are having a marked impact, with youth increasingly assertive about the need for reforms. Third, and very importantly, the United States has enormous, unique leverage with the Kenyan people and government. Fourth, Kofi Annan on behalf of the African Union and group of eminent personalities remains intensively engaged. Fifth, there is more democratic space in Kenya than ever before, with a very active civil society, a vibrant media, a savvy private sector, and active religious groups. Sixth, Kenya's leaders are ultimately practical politicians whose desire for self-preservation means they are responsive to some degree to intense international and domestic pressure.

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Some Positive Steps

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4. (C) As we have reported, the coalition government has demonstrated some progress on reforms in the past two years due to all of the dynamics delineated above - but particularly as a result of the continuing role being played by Annan and especially U.S. pressure. At a time when most observers were cynically saying that Police Commissioner Ali would never be removed, he was. Following the imposition of our travel ban on Attorney General Wako, he started talking about "retirement" (before the middle of this year, he says). The government has launched police reform. A new Interim

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Independent Electoral Commission is up and running, and the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission will soon begin its work. XXXXXXXXXXXX An anti-money laundering bill (which we have been heavily lobbying for) was recently passed and signed into law. The constitutional review process is underway.

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Culture of Impunity Works to Forestall Fundamental Reform

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5. (C) These are positive achievements, but most are only first steps. Those associated with the culture of impunity are working hard to limit the impact of steps taken so that they do not lead to truly fundamental reform that would threaten vested interests. Removals of key individuals, while in themselves significant, must be followed by real institutional reform. Several examples demonstrate the substantial challenges in bringing about institutional reform. Example 1: XXXXXXXXXXXX who blocks progress on high-level investigations and has ties directly to State House XXXXXXXXXXXX. The committee which considered replacements for XXXXXXXXXXXX picked someone who is a lightning rod to the vested interests and who is unlikely to be approved by Parliament, XXXXXXXXXXXX. Example 2: the process of police reform has been launched with great fanfare, but oversight of the process is questionable. The governmentXXXXXXXXXXXX is allegedly closely associated with the "kwe kwe" death squad responsible for extrajudicial killings. These examples are simply a few of many which demonstrate how the "culture of impunity" is, in effect, an informal system of governance that co-opts and/or forces others to participate or perish. To put it another way, the political elite are planning several chess moves ahead. While we are no mean chess players ourselves, it is very difficult to anticipate their next move or the motives behind "reform" steps.

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Key Reforms Not Yet Undertaken

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6. (C) Thus, while some initial progress has been made, the reforms needed to bring about fundamental change have not yet been achieved. No significant steps have been taken against high-level corruption, which remains rampant. No significant reform of the judicial or Attorney General's office has been undertaken. No steps have been taken to hold accountable perpetrators of post-election violence. Police reform remains an open question. Little has been done by the coalition government to foster national reconciliation and cohesion. The most important issue on the reform agenda is constitutional review (see ref B and previous reporting), but prospects for success of this are problematic. While constitutional revision must be accompanied by the other reforms, without constitutional revision the other reforms will not be sufficient to ensure future stability.

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Positive Impact of U.S. Policy and Actions

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7. (C) Though daunting, key elements of the reform agenda are achievable. Consistent and intense U.S. pressure and support - privately and publicly - stands a reasonable chance to achieve substantial progress on implementation. Part of this effort involves helping to empower a new generation of leaders and leveraging the old guard to implement at least some key elements of the reform agenda. We are thus engaged in a well-coordinated intensive effort along the following lines: First, we are engaged in intensive private contacts with the full array of key actors, from Kibaki and Odinga on down. Second, we are engaged in

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extensive outreach to civil society, religious groups, the media, and the private sector to urge more concerted efforts to press for implementation of the reform agenda. Third, we are reaching out vigorously to the Kenyan people to encourage dialogue, reconciliation, and peaceful advocacy for implementation of reforms. Fourth, we are engaged in targeted outreach and support for youth to empower them to participate more effectively to press for implementation of reforms and to help escape the cycle of poverty which facilitates their manipulation by the political elite. Fifth, we are supporting reform-minded parliamentarians. Finally, as part of our overall approach, we are laying out incentives, providing concrete support for implementation of reforms, and deploying specific pressure publicly and privately.

8. (C) We are coordinating this intensive push on the reform agenda through an inter-agency Mission Task Force. The Task Force, which I chair twice weekly, ensures that U.S. efforts are coordinated, complementary, and sustained. We are, for example, providing expertise to the constitution revision Committee of Experts, and are working with the Interim Electoral Commission on parameters for providing $1.5 million in technical assistance. We are working closely with the Minister of Security on ways to support real police reform, particularly the establishment of internal and external oversight mechanisms. We are providing technical and expert assistance to the Parliamentary Reform Caucus, which was established with our encouragement. We have just dispatched a delegation of civil society and youth leaders to Washington, and we are coordinating dates for the visit of a Parliamentary Reform Caucus delegation in February. Support from AID's Office of Transition Initiatives, coupled with public outreach, are having a dramatic impact in expanding the role of grassroots youth organizations to promote inter-ethnic dialogue and peaceful pressure for implementation of reforms. We recently launched a $45 million youth empowerment initiative. Actual travel bans and the threat to impose more are key elements of pressure that provide tangible evidence to corrupt anti-reform elites and to the Kenyan people that the USG will not do business as usual absent real change.

9. (C) This multi-faceted approach is having a marked impact among the Kenyan people and politicians. The U.S. push for reform is clearly viewed positively by the Kenyan people. The coalition leadership and Kenyan elite recognize the central importance of the U.S., know that the U.S. stance is viewed positively by the Kenyan people, and realize that they cannot ignore U.S. pressure. The quick impact which the Secretary's recent calls had (see ref B) is one indication of this. Another is that the parliamentary reform caucus, which started with just 20 members, has grown to over 60. Another smaller but very telling indication is that senior politicians have recently starting consulting leaders of the grassroots youth organizations which we are supporting. Members of Parliament have started talking with them and Prime Minister Odinga called one of the youth leaders before he departed with the civil society delegation to Washington.

10. (C) While the culture of impunity and the grip of the old guard political elite on the levers of state power and resources remain largely intact, hairline fractures are developing in their edifice which - if we continue to work them intensively - will develop into broader fractures and open up the potential for a peaceful process of implementation of fundamental reforms. Although being realistic about what is achievable, we should not set our sights too low. With a strong, consistent, and concerted effort, much can be accomplished. By burrowing into the process and using concrete support as leverage, significant police reform can be carried out. Providing support for witness protection will significantly improve the odds that the International Criminal Court will be able to indict several key suspects of post-election violence. Such indictments, particularly if they are public, would be a major blow to the culture of impunity and likely help alter political dynamics in a positive way. Most importantly, intensive U.S. engagement can improve prospects for successful conclusion of the constitutional revision process (the sine qua non of the reform agenda). Much else can be accomplished as well, but taken together these steps would constitute major progress and would greatly enhance prospects for future democratic stability and prosperity.

11. (C) U.S. efforts are also contributing to something less tangible but equally important: a dynamic of change percolating throughout Kenya. We are hearing from many, many sources that our outreach efforts are encouraging and emboldening ordinary Kenyans to speak out in favor of change. The old guard of vested interests knows that we and others within Kenya are fanning the winds of change - always stressing the need to work peacefully within the democratic process -- and feels threatened by that, but they also realize that they must somehow come to grips with it. The old

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guard's strategy is to do just enough to placate the people, Annan, and us, while trying to avoid fundamental change in the system. However, there is a real possibility that, as they seek to walk this fine line, the flood gates of change will open, or that at least the change will end up being more far-reaching than they envisaged. The sharp reaction of the old guard to our efforts and growing domestic pressure indicates that the culture of impunity system is not as strong as it may seem on the surface.

12. (C) In essence, we are on the right track. Obtaining further, decisive progress will require sustained, intensive high-level U.S. engagement and, as we have requested, additional resources in some areas as well. We are proceeding with a realistic appreciation of the challenge of bringing about fundamental change, but also with a cautiously optimistic appreciation that much is possible, and that positive engagement can make it happen. RANNEBERGER

TheFallen Heroes

2010-08-28T15:31:00.003+03:00

Late Hon. J.M Kariuki murdered brutally for his belief that he did not want a Kenya with 10 millioners and 10 million beggars. Unfortunately we now have 40plus millioners and 40 million beggars. Will the new constitution honour our fallen heroes

Kenya Women Torture

2010-07-08T19:14:00.002+03:00

Women and girls in Nairobi’s slums live under the constant threat of sexual violence, leaving them often too scared to leave their houses to use communal toilet and bathroom facilities, Amnesty International said in a report released today.

Insecurity and Indignity: Women’s experiences in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya details how the failure of the government to incorporate the slums in urban plans and budgets has resulted in poor access to services like sanitation, which hits women in slums and informal settlements especially hard.

“Women in Nairobi’s settlements become prisoners in their own homes at night and some times well before it is dark,” said Godfrey Odongo, Amnesty Internationals East Africa researcher. “They need more privacy than men when going to the toilet or taking a bath and the inaccessibility of facilities make women vulnerable to rape, leaving them trapped in their own homes.

“The fact that they are unable to access even the limited communal toilet facilities also puts them at risk of illness.”

The situation is compounded by the lack of police presence in the slums and when women fall victim to violence they are unlikely to see justice done. Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum and home to up to a million people, has no police post.

“I always underestimated the threat of violence,” said 19-year-old Amina of Mathare slum. “I would go to the latrine any time provided it was not too late. This was until about two months ago when I almost became a victim of rape.”

Amina was set upon by a group of four men while she walked to the latrine at 7pm. They hit her, undressed her and were about to rape her when her cries were heard and a group of residents came to save her. Although she knew one of the men involved in the assault, Amina did not go to the police as she feared reprisal attacks.

Unable to leave their one-roomed houses after dark, many women in informal settlements resort to ‘flying toilets’ – using plastic bags thrown from the home to dispose of waste.

Women also told Amnesty International how the poor sanitary conditions they live in – which include widespread disposal of human excreta in the open because of lack of adequate access to toilets – directly contribute to cases of poor health and to high health care costs.

Other women describe the humiliation of bathing in front of their relatives and children.

Even by day, public bathroom facilities are few and far between and invariably involve walking long distances. According to official figures, only 24 per cent of residents in Nairobi’s informal settlements have access to toilet facilities at household level.

Despite some positive features, Kenya’s Millennium Development Goal (MDG) policies to meet the target on sanitation do not address the specific needs of women who face the threat of violence because they lack adequate sanitation.

They also do not address the lack of enforcement of regulations requiring owners and landlords to provide sanitation.

“There is a huge gap between what the government commits to do, and what is going on in the slums everyday” said Godfrey Odongo.

“Kenya’s national policies recognise the rights to sanitation and there are laws and standards in place. However, because of decades of failure to recognize slums and informal settlements, planning laws and regulations are not enforced in these areas.

“The lack of enforcement of these laws has ensured that landlords and structure owners in the slums can get away without providing any toilets or shower places for their tenants”

Lack of security of tenure also remains a long standing problem for tenants, despite a national land policy in place, removing any incentives that landlords or owners could have to ensure proper sanitation, and measures to increase security.

Amnesty International calls on the Kenyan government to enforce landlords’ obligations to construct toilets and bathrooms in the slums and settlements and provide assistance to structure owners who are unable to meet the costs of constructing toilets and bathrooms.

The government must also take immediate measures to improve security, lighting and policing and ensure that relevant government authorities coordinate their efforts to improve the water and sanitation situation in the settlements.

Kenya Police Abuse Somali Refugees

2010-06-18T22:01:00.001+03:00

Kenyan police at the Somali border and in nearby refugee camps are abusing asylum seekers and refugees fleeing war-torn Somalia, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Kenya should immediately rein in its abusive police, and the UN refugee agency should step up its monitoring of the situation and press for an end to the abuses, Human Rights Watch said.

Based on interviews with over 100 refugees, the 99-page report, "‘Welcome to Kenya': Police Abuse of Somali Refugees," documents widespread police extortion of asylum seekers trying to reach three camps near the Kenyan town of Dadaab, the world's largest refugee settlement. Police use violence, arbitrary arrest, unlawful detention in inhuman and degrading conditions, threats of deportation, and wrongful prosecution for "unlawful presence" to extort money from the new arrivals - men, women, and children alike. In some cases, police also rape women. In early 2010 alone, hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Somalis unable to pay extortion demands were sent back to Somalia, in flagrant violation of Kenyan and international law.

"People fleeing the mayhem in Somalia, the vast majority women and children, are welcomed to Kenya with rape, whippings, beatings, detention, extortion, and summary deportation," said Gerry Simpson, refugee researcher for Human Rights Watch and principal author of the report. "Once in the camps, some refugees face more police violence and the police turn a blind eye to sexual violence by other refugees and local Kenyans."

Dozens of asylum seekers from among the estimated 40,000 Somalis who crossed Kenya's officially closed border near the camps in the first four months of 2010 told Human Rights Watch that police ignored their pleas for free passage from the border. Instead, the police demanded money and deported or detained, beat, and falsely charged them with unlawful presence if they could not pay. A Kenyan refugee aid worker described the police operation between the border and Garissa, the provincial capital, as "one big money-making machine."

"Welcome to Kenya" also documents how the threat of police interception and related abuses forces most asylum seekers to travel toward the camps on small paths away from the main road. There they are also vulnerable to attacks from common criminals, who prey upon them, raping women and stealing the little money they have.

Once in the camps, refugees continue to face police violence, according to the report. Police have failed to prevent, investigate, and prosecute sexual violence against refugee women and girls in the camps by other refugees and Kenyans, creating a culture of impunity and increasing the risk of sexual violence.

The report also examines Kenya's illegal policy of prohibiting the vast majority of refugees registered in the camps from travelling to other parts of Kenya, unless they have special permission for reasons such as medical appointments or education in Nairobi. Under international law, Kenya must justify any such prohibition as the least restrictive measure necessary to protect national security, public order, or public health, which it has failed to do. In 2009, the authorities allowed only 6,000 of Dadaab's almost 300,000 refugees to travel outside the squalid and overcrowded camps.

The report documents how police arrest refugees travelling without - and increasingly those with - government-issued "movement passes," extort money from them, and sometimes take them to court in Garissa, where they are fined or sent to prison.

"Welcome to Kenya" contends that the organized nature of the police's extortion racket and abuses - extending almost 200 kilometers from the border town of Liboi through the town of Dadaab to Garissa - is the direct result of Kenya's three-year-old decision to close the border. Human Rights Watch said that the related closing of a refugee transit center in Liboi, 15 kilometers from the border and 80 kilometers from the camps, has only made matters worse.

Before it closed, the Liboi transit center was a safe place where the vast majority of Somali asylum seekers first sought refuge in Kenya and from which the UN refugee agency, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), transported them to the camps. Without the center, an estimated 300,000 Somalis fleeing their country to Kenya since January 2007 - half of whom have gone to the camps - have had to use smugglers to cross the border. The police take advantage of the clandestine nature of their journey, falsely accusing them of unlawfully entering Kenya and threatening arrest if they don't pay money the police demand.

Under Kenya's Refugee Act, all asylum seekers have 30 days after entering Kenya to travel to the nearest refugee authorities to register as refugees, regardless of how or where they entered the country. But the police routinely ignore this right. Echoing Human Rights Watch's recommendations to the Kenyan authorities in a March 2009 report, "From Horror to Hopelessness," the new report reiterates its call on the authorities to open a new center in Liboi where newly arrived asylum seekers can be screened and from which they can be safely transported to the camps.

"For more than three years the closed border has benefitted no one except corrupt police officers and has led to untold abuses against hundreds, if not thousands, of asylum seekers," Simpson said. "Kenya needs to guarantee safe passage and protection to Somalia's vulnerable refugees."

The Kenyan government has real security concerns relating to the Somali conflict, but its anti-Somali political rhetoric has only reinforced the abusive police behavior, Human Rights Watch said. Asylum seekers say that police accuse them of belonging to the Somali insurgent group Al-Shabaab or to Al Qaeda, or of being "terrorists" before - in some cases - forcing them back to Somalia. Based on eight cases involving the forced return to Somalia of 152 people that Human Rights Watch documented during its research in March 2010, Human Rights Watch believes it is likely that police have returned hundreds, if not thousands, of Somalis to their country in early 2010 alone.

International law prohibits the forcible return of refugees to persecution, torture or situations of generalized violence. Although Kenya has the right to prevent certain people from entering or remaining in Kenya - including those reasonably regarded as a threat to its national security, such as al-Shabaab members - it may not close its borders to asylum seekers. International law also forbids the authorities from deporting asylum seekers back to Somalia without first allowing them to apply for asylum.

"The police say they are protecting Kenya from terrorists and are enforcing immigration laws when they stop refugees," Simpson said. "But the fact that they extort Somalis to pay their way through checkpoints and out of police custody suggests more concern for lining their pockets than protecting their borders."

The report calls on the UN refugee agency to improve its monitoring and advocacy with the authorities and to make more frequent visits to police stations near the border, the town of Dadaab and Garissa.

With regard to sexual violence, victims told Human Rights Watch that the police either ignore their complaints, tell them to produce evidence, or abruptly drop the cases without explanation. In the rare event that police arrest alleged attackers, the suspects are usually released within hours or days, with little hope for further questioning or accountability. Many women believe their alleged attackers successfully bribe the police to drop investigations or to let the suspects go.

Human Rights Watch said that despite some improvements since the early 1990s, the government's response to sexual violence in the camps fails because there are too few police in the camps with skills to investigate these crimes and because there is inadequate supervision of police handling of these cases.

"Nearly two decades into their existence, the camps remain a place where justice for rape victims is the exception and impunity for perpetrators the rule," said Meghan Rhoad, researcher with Human Rights Watch's Women's Rights Division, who wrote the section of the report on sexual violence. "The refugee women and girls who bravely come forward and report sexual violence to the police deserve better."

The clamour for constitution

2010-06-13T18:22:00.004+03:00

The constitution campaign faces the toughest hurdle in the coming few weeks. The Moi gang are now criss crossing the country with illegally acquired wealth and peddling falsehood about the new constittution. Illegal funds are now exchanging hands in open for the success of no campaign team. Moi has ganged up with few disgruntled cabinet members who are championing their own intrestand cheating the large public on the draft constitution.

Ruto is the main star of the NO campaign and he has been rooming around the country using his oratory skill to win followers. Recently he was quoted telling a public rally in a predominant Muslim voters province that the constitution would allow same sex marriages a taboo to this group of citizens. By time Ruto left the province he wiped people emotion and scored his point that he gathered a large following. Ruto should not be underestimated and any group which does that at its own peril.

The YES campaign team is in disarray they are now more divided than ever. Odinga has been playing the wrong kind of game that has caused mistrust among the cabinet and the YES camp in general. Odinga like he usually does has run away with the YES ball earlier than expected and has turned it into Odinga project. This has caused great discomfort in the Rift Valley who consider Odinga to be a traitor who has let them down despite voting him man to man.

The other group of YES team are secretly funding and supporting No team to downgrade the size Odinga whom they think is strategising for 2012. This team will go at any length to throw dirt at Odinga. Odinga has shown he is no saint and has so far succeeded in appointing his sisters and close relative to posts that were supposed to be shared by ODM. Odinga corruption war is naught if you see the trail that leads to his offices. This blogger has seen highly classified documents linking Odinga and associate to mega deals from Laico Grand Regency to the Maize scandal.

Kenyans would see and hear more of Odinga in the coming few months but the final blow to Odinga's ambition will come just few months before the 2012 election. The dossier which has been compiled is in details to all activities of corrupt deals that end in Odingas trail with photographic evidence. If released now will highly damage and destabilise the coalition. Kibaki courtiers are keeping their fingers on the lid for the moment.

The YES team 2 has now carried first rally in Nyahururu with the tacit blessing of Kalonzo and led by no one other than the youth full Mandera central Mp and chairman of parliamentary committee on constitution. This team is made up of all those who oppose Odinga move towards achieving supremacy. The YES team now need to go to full throttle to stop RUTO/MOI and the Church team who have large tract of lands which was acquired illegally and are not ready to relinquish without fight.

Luo Nyanza has failed to bring out credible leader since the death of Tom Mboya. The Odinga spell has made intellectual like Prof Nyongo and Orengo to toe Odinga line lest they loose the pleasure of their parliamentary seat. Luos have failed to create or produce leadership to take over the mantle ship of Presidency in Kenya.

The Presidency will not be safe in the hands of Odinga and Kenyans are clever enough not to give him another chance for the run.

SIASA KALI

Somalia’s Divided Islamists

2010-05-28T00:02:00.002+03:00

The growing internal schisms and factionalism within Somalia’s Islamist movement risk plunging the country even deeper into violence and bloodshed, with dangerous implications for the wider region and beyond. These divisions are also aggravating the political crisis by polarising groups further along ideological, theological and clan lines. However, a limited opportunity may now exist for Somalia’s political actors and the international community to capitalise on these divisions and re-alignments to reach out to the increasing numbers of domestic militants disenchanted with the growing influence of foreign jihadis and extremist elements bent on pursuing a global agenda.

The divisions have always existed, but remained hidden, largely because of the unifying factor of Ethiopia’s in-country military presence since December 2006. The Ethiopian pullout in early 2009; the formation of a coalition government led by a prominent Islamist, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed; and the adoption of Sharia (Islamic law) caught hard-line insurgents and groups, especially Harakat Al-Shabaab al-Mujahedeen (Al-Shabaab, Mujahidin Youth Movement), off guard. Thereafter, they had to justify their existence and continued armed opposition to the Sharif government. Personality and policy frictions escalated within the movement, and the gulf widened between those amenable to some form of a political settlement and those wedded to al-Qaeda inspired notions of a permanent global jihad.

The failure of the major offensive by a combined Al-Shabaab and Hizb al-Islam (Islamic Party) force against the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in May 2009, attributable, in large measure, to the decision by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to mount a robust defence of the government, catalysed internal dissent and fragmentation. The insurgents’ mistakes were their failure to anticipate AMISOM’s reaction and, more crucially, their misjudgement of the international community’s resolve to come to the TFG’s defence. The rise and military gains of a TFG ally, Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a (ASWJ, the Followers of the Prophetic Way and Consensus), composed of groups opposed to Al-Shabaab’s fundamentalism, have put significant pressure on the hard-line insurgency.

Although Al-Shabaab has regained Kismaayo and key towns and villages in the south by routing its rival (and erstwhile ally) Hizb al-Islam, it is now on the defensive and feels beleaguered. The movement is forced to fight on many fronts and to disperse its assets and combatants through broad swathes of hostile territory, far from its Jubba and Shabeelle strongholds in the south. But unless TFG forces perform significantly better, the balance of power will not be much altered.

Al-Shabaab’s military troubles have been compounded by the steady erosion of its popularity and credibility. The attempt to forcefully homogenise Islam and zealously enforce a harsh interpretation of Sharia, as well as the general climate of fear and claustrophobia fostered by an authoritarian administrative style, has deeply alienated large segments of society, even in areas once regarded as solid insurgent territory. Adding to the public disquiet has been the movement’s increasing radicalisation and the internal coup that has consolidated the influence of extremists allied to foreign jihadis. The suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu in December 2009, in which over two dozen civilians and officials were killed, caused an unprecedented public backlash. The widely-held perception that it was ordered by foreign jihadis prompted high-level defections and seriously undermined Al-Shabaab’s standing. Many feel it has irreparably harmed the movement’s political prospects.

However, Al-Shabaab and Hizb al-Islam are far from spent forces. They continue to radicalise Somalis at home, in the region and in the diaspora and remain a threat to the TFG and neighbouring states. Concern especially for their links to al-Qaeda extends to the U.S. and other leading Western states. Consequently, the TFG and its international partners should:

pay more attention to, and try to counter-act, the increasingly extremist ideological evolution of the Islamist movement;
step up the battle for the hearts and minds of the Somali people, including by articulating an argument that the radicalisation is largely driven by a unique set of beliefs that are alien to Somalis and an extremist and literal interpretation of holy texts; and by presenting a strategy to de-radicalise Somalia’s youth; and
place much greater emphasis on reconciliation. The TFG should exploit divisions within Al-Shabaab and Hizb al-Islam by reaching out to less extreme elements in both organizations. Bans of those organisations or
their designation as terrorist should not preclude efforts to talk with and reach understandings with individuals and factions amenable to political settlement; the international community should insist the TFG do more in this endeavour.

Wagalla Massacre silence

2010-05-22T11:49:00.004+03:00

The truth of the 5000 dead innocent unarmed civilians must be told before the beginning of reconciliation. In Memory of those mothers who were shot from the back while carrying their babies. The truth will come out one day....................We will begin by being silent for the whole week .no articles will be published here in our blog as respect for those who were massacred by the cowardly soldiers under government orders. Take time to think about the massacre.

SILENCE SILENCE SILENCE

SIASA KALI

Kenya Corrupt institution

2010-05-15T11:32:00.004+03:00

In the outskirts of Nairobi a woman passenger with her husband car are hijacked by thugs who drive them around and rob them valuables including ATM card . The husband is dropped on the way while they speed away with his wife. They rape the woman and drop her on the road a good Samaritans find her rush her to a city hospital where she is admitted and treated. The woman is traumatised and her life is destroyed for good. This is not and isolated stories but the norm of Kenya today.

Yes Nairobi has turned to Nairobbery. The world capital of thugs,rape,kidnapping and gangsterism. Robbers are so daring that they target each and every one.A Brazilian businessman in posh area of Nairobi is raided by gangs terrorised and also left traumatised. This is just the tip of iceberg. The insecurity that is felt by foreigners and Kenyans has become a reality of modern day Kenya. One U.N worker commented that you will be more safer in Mogadishu where there is no government than in Nairobi Kenya where there is government.

Kenya in the last few years has sunk so low that investors are shying away. The communities in Nairobi are now gated and taking their security in their own hand. Members of the public now dare not venture after 6pm outside their homes for fear of being carjacked or killed by this thugs who no no boundary. This is the beginning of total breakdown of law and order. Kenya is clamouring for new Constitution while the large public mass is feeling more insecure than ever.

The rate of kidnapping has hit sky roof. The situation seem not to be abetting. Kenya has the most corrupt police force if not the world but Africa. Let Kitu kidogo has taken the ugly face of lete kila kitu. The number of road blocks have rather gone up than opposite encouraging the police to be more industrious by asking bribery openly. It doesn't matter weather you are wrong or right you have to pay to pass any roadblock in this beautiful country that has been entrusted to unscrupulous politicians who leave in tower of dreams. They are busy lining up there coffers. They are In bed with the evils.

This situation has been exacerbated by ethicist police and security intelligence. Moi ruined the public confidence in every institution that this country aspired to build. He oversaw the collapse of public corporation,security institution and education system . He changed the system from up to bottom and steered institution in producing highly corrupt officials who had no regard for the welfare of their country and citizen. Moi destroyed the fabric of Kenyan society for the last 24 years. After giving up power reluctantly Moi continues with his ambition of destroying Kenya by using proxy's and flimsy public meeting. He is allowed to do this with the present regime as they are in a class of their own right.Moi right place will have been jail where he would have tasted what he inflicted on innocent Kenyans.

When Kibaki took of the mantle ship of Kenya there was a sigh of relief when he declared that corruption will be the thing of past. He embarked on the first few months with policies that tried to reverse the retrogressive policies of Moi. The wananchi started believing that Kenya was on the right path that will not derail again. Kibaki made a quick U turn and perfected the art of Moi. He sought counselling from the man of Kabarak and in few years he surpassed Moi. He managed to change and replace the public service and every institution with Kamau,Njoroge and Wairimu. He did achieve his ambition of ethnicising the face of Kenya with a lightening speed.

This poor and badly thought policies made the common Kenyan more poorer and resentful of the government system that was to benefit a single group.The system favoured Kibaki's ethnic group over the remaining 41 Kenyan ethnic group. It was Kenya against Kikuyu and when the 2007 election was called the ballots produced that picture. When Kenya voters realised that they electoral body had conspired against them they went wild and politicians used them to their advantage leading to death and destruction.Kibaki was hurriedly sworn in middle night in darkness while Kenya butchered one another.

There series of events that are happening in Kenya are very worrying. The coalition government has failed to provide security to its own citizen and have failed in delivering basic services. The death on our roads are comparable to no nation on this earth. We have the highest death on road in the world. The so called leaders are playing Russian roulette on our lives they keep on changing the goals and eyeing 2012 to keep us mesmerised by their never ending fake promises. 2012 Kenya as we know might not be there with the way things are.

The national intelligence agency has been accused of sneaking and changing clause in the draft constitution of Kenya. This is a serious matter which deserves to be treated as treasonable offence. Imagine the constitution that Kenyans have been yearning for the last 20 years only to be tampered while in transit between the attorney general and government printer.This agency which is corrupt and undemocratic should be disbanded and reconstituted with face of Kenya in Mind. This organization which is ethnic based has become so tainted that their capability of gathering information is next to zero. They are so obsessed with ethnic issue that they broken all the norm of professionalism.

The anti-terrorist police which is heavily subscribed by Kikuyu should be also disbanded and Named Anti-kidnapping and thuggery's police force. this police force which is above law has been formed to harass a group of our citizen. They are funded by Western countries to deal with terrorist threat and are not accountable to any authority. They were recently involved in foolish Saga where they detained Royal Abu Dhabi family which forced Kenya to go on its knees and beg for forgiveness. Thanks God that Abu Dhabi forgave us. Imagine 36,000 Kenyans who work in Dubai and support 500,000 Kenyans back home were made jobless and deported back. Who will have catered for the needs of this poor fellows who are bread winners. The Anti-terrorist police are bunch of stupid uneducated ethnic conglomerate who owe their position to tribal chiefs. They have placed Kenya into a disrepute.

Amos WAko is no stranger to controversies for the last 18 years as the AG he oversaw the detention of thousand of Kenyans. He is now accused by the intelligence community that the sneaking of the clause in the draft constitution was done under his supervision. Wako has always been against new constitution as that will pave his ticket to retirement where he will be landed with several suits. He has dismissed every genuine case that has been brought against his competency. No wonder he was described by professor Alston as the face of impunity in Kenya. The American has already placed pressure on him by revoking his visa which has curtailed his international merry go round trips at the expense of tax payers. He should face justice for intentionally planning to derail the draft constitution of Kenya.

SIASA KALI

By Miguna Miguna

2010-05-08T12:01:00.003+03:00

Many Kenyan media practitioners have, over the years, earned a reputation for courage and integrity. During the struggle for independence, scribes like the late Harry Thuku, Ramogi Achieng’ Oneko and Pio Gama Pinto pioneered “liberation journalism.” They transformed the nibs of their pens into lethal arsenals for liberation. They refrained from pedantic discussions about people and focused on issues. Instead of peddling rumours; they championed and pursued truth, human dignity and equality. They exposed, challenged and fought against injustices. And for doing so, they suffered repression.

That heroic tradition continued during the one-party dictatorship of the 1960s to early 1990s. During that period, many courageous media practitioners either suffered individually for their insightful and incisive reportage and analysis; or they suffered collectively for standing in solidarity with other Kenyans in the struggle for multi-party democracy. They sacrificed their professional careers, security and lives by their gallant actions.

This is a beaten path in liberation history; whether one talks about Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic or Gitobu Imanyara of Kenya. Yet, as a liberation historian, I have never encountered the contributions of one self-declared “Oracle”, Otuma Ongalo. Although his byline declares that he is a “Senior Editor, Production and Quality,” his scatological articles bear no resemblance to quality. Ongalo’s patchy resume does not contain any record of courage or exceptional insight.

In an article: “Raila is a bridge that links us more to the dreaded past than the bright future” (Saturday Standard, May 1st, pg 15), the “Oracle” undermines his journalistic integrity and exposes his limited knowledge of Kenya and/or his biases.

Although he pretends to be a fortuneteller; Ongalo lacks the basic ingredients for such an undertaking. In order to prophesy, one requires an exceptional mind that can filter and retain all past and present events and use the repository of information to predict the future. If the memory is fragile or shallow, the information might be contaminated or lost. When that happens, foretelling the future accurately becomes impossible. And since the accuracy of the historical record determines the legitimacy of the prediction; Ongalo’s purported predictions are nothing but grand illusions conjured up to gloss over his analytical deficiencies.

When Ongalo asserts, as fact, that Raila Odinga is “a bridge to the dreaded past”, one would expect the oracle to explain what that past is in relation to Raila. As a “senior editor,” Ongalo ought to know that Raila has an unrivaled history of fighting against dictatorship, repression, human rights abuses, tribalism and corruption in Kenya. If Ongalo had taken his time and visited the archives of the East African Standard – the precursor to the publication he edits – he would have discovered that Raila was detained without trial for 9 years for challenging the repressive Moi regime when others played it safe.

Ongalo alleges, without foundation, that Raila’s two-year record as a co-principal in the Grand Coalition Government “is a fine blend between Jomo Kenyatta and Nyayo schools of thought.” He then asserts that Raila brooks no dissent and gives the example of what he calls the “demotion” of the “rebellious William Ruto” as an example of “Raila’s intolerance.” Interestingly, Ongalo omits to explain what the “fine blend between Jomo Kenyatta and Nyayo schools of thought” means in governance terms. He completely ignores to indicate what Raila stands for and why that is not good for Kenya.

Ongalo pretends to be smarter than he is. He uses words he does not understand. Why does Ongalo think that “rebellion without a cause” is desirable? Clearly, Ruto is still a minister appointed by Raila. Why does Ongalo imply Ruto was “demoted” for “dissent” when the latter has called his reshuffle a “promotion?” Is Ongalo implying that the agriculture portfolio was made for Ruto? Doesn’t Raila have the prerogative of reshuffling his side of the cabinet without explaining why to Ongalo?

Ongalo accuses Raila of making decisions without the approval of the “Pentagon.” But the “Oracle” has never bothered to read the ODM constitution, which does not provide for the “Pentagon” as a party organ. The “Pentagon” was an ODM campaign organ in 2007. The highest decision making organ in ODM is the National Delegates Convention, followed by the National Governing Council, then the National Executive Committee. Raila is not an organ of decision-making in ODM!

Since entering active politics, Raila has consistently pursued the realization of good governance, the rule of law and constitutionalism in Kenya. He has been involved in the struggle for a people-focused constitution throughout his adult life. Both as the Prime Minister and ODM leader, Raila has been more than tolerant to dissent. For two years running, Ruto remains an ODM deputy leader and cabinet minister despite his unreasonable and unfounded attacks on Raila and his persistent disregard for ODM’s policies, programs and decisions. Ruto has been insubordinate and disrespectful of the party leadership, rank and file. Are these traits to be encouraged in any institutional setting?

For constructively engaging in the political process in order to bring positive changes, Ongalo has called James Orengo and I, “court poets.” He seems to think that “rebellion without a cause” is chic. Is Ongalo equating “rebellion without a cause” to independence of the mind? I have been accused before of failing to sing for the King; now Ongalo says I am a master “praise singer for the King”. Does that make me a quintessential iconoclast?

*The writer is PM’s Adviser, Coalition Affairs and Joint Secretary to the Permanent Committee on the Management of Grand Coalition Affairs. The opinions expressed here are his own.

The Church's Dilemma

2010-05-06T11:08:00.006+03:00

The clergy in Kenya form a group of citizen who are looked upon for pastoral guidance. Their words are weighed and acted upon by their flocks.They are trusted and relied upon in the whole continent.The 90s brought this group of citizen to the fore front for clamour of Human rights which were being trampled by dictator Moi. They spoke to their congregation and gave them hope and led them to believe in citizenship.

The most striking group of clergy that will come in any Kenyan mind will be the giants clergy like Bishop Alexander Muge,Bishop Henry Okullu,Bishop Timothy Njoya and the rest of the good men. They were bound by the convent with their flock whom they looked after no matter what condition they presented to them.Their doors were open to all who sought guidance and comfort.They did not discriminate and engaged with equally with other faith groups.

During the clamour for multi-party system the clergy were in fore front. They issued pastoral letters which were considered affront to Moi's despotic regime who did not tolerate what they termed as dissident views that was poisoning the mind of Kenyans. Moi using his state apparatus illegally came down heavily on the clergy. Bishop Alexander Muge died in mysterious car crash few days after being threatened by Peter Okondo a cabinet minister in Moi's regime.The minister had warned Bishop Muge that if he ever sets his foot in Busia he will never leave alive. The Bishop defied the order and went to Busia.On his way back from Busia he never made it back home.The death was never investigated despite huge international outcry.

Today the clergy are skeleton of its past. It has been over taken by masqueraders who pretend to represent the flock by day and tribal constituency at night. They will raise their voice to the congregation under estimating their capacity to think and make informed decision. This group of tribal clergy have overtaken the churches pulpit and mesmerise their flock with poisonous tribal rhymes.

The church in Kenya is today facing credibility issues. In 2005 the churches took side during the referendum. The Central province clergy become focal in supporting the Banana group which was led by politician whom they unidentified with. They heavily lost with the orange taking the trophy of home. This polarised the nation which led to the 2007 election violence.

The churches are now repeating the same mistake which led this country to almost total collapse. They have not learnt the lesson from the loss of 1500 lives and displacement of 600,000 Kenyans who are languishing in internal camps. The most vocal of this clergy is Peter Karanja who has again turned on the knob of polarising Kenya once more. Karanja is just satisfying his ethnic ego and the plight of suffering Kenyan is of least concern.

The draft constitution of Kenya is not a perfect document but aspires to bring good governance and end impunity in Kenya. It brings the citizen close to running the affairs of their country as opposed to few men who have been recycled since independence. The issue of abortion and Kadhi court is red hearing. The main issue that scares the No camp group is the large tract of Land that was grabbed by Kenyatta and Moi's operatives which will revert to public use. This few land barons grabbed large fertile tract of land which they fenced and left it idle denying Kenyans to cultivate and grow food to feed this nation of 40 million people.

The Kadhi's court is in the present constitution by virtue of international agreement that was brokered between The Sultan of Zanzibar and Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta. The agreement was that the Sultan will cede 10km coastal strip to Kenya in return for Muslims conducting their affairs through the Kadhi court. With or without new constitution the Kadhi court will remain entrenched with Kenya constitution.

The church is challenging the right of Kenyan women to survive in child birth. The issue of abortion has been blown out of proportion by the clergy who did not take time to read the section or have decided that women have no place in this country's leadership. There is no section in the draft Constitution that encourages abortion and it rather entrenches the right of the unborn child. The Churches have joined bandwagon of politicians who who have sensed that they will be exposed by the enactment of the new constitution and about to loose their pprivilage.

The American far right groups are now directly funding the churches in Kenya to scatter the new Constitution. This far right groups have started pouring million of dollars to plant seed of hatred in our beloved nations. The Far right groups are notorious for fighting against civil right campaigners in the U.S and associated with lynching blacks in the South. They have already been disowned by the U.S Embassy in Nairobi. This group have found working relationship with the church to destroy the fabrics of Kenya.

The Churches are now divided into two opposing groups with ethnic factors playing in fore front. The Church in Central province have once again joined together campaigning for the No vote while the group from Nyanza are supporting the Yes Vote. Kenya is once more polarised and divided in the middle. This church leaders have once again failed to read the mood of public and are doomed. They will be held for the death and destruction that will follow if they do not mend their ways and shun away the American far right group agenda.

SIASA KALI

The Same League

2010-05-05T20:40:00.003+03:00

At last we are in the same league. The ball is in our court. We did Laico together and shared everything. The KAA managing director share is on the way. Kenya is place for us.

Kenya's Ethnic Diplomats

2010-04-30T16:19:00.004+03:00

The more things change the more they stay the same. It is only in Kenya where politicians who are intellectual dwarf will never match words with action or what comes out of their mouth are not well thought of or articulated. Their though process is disjointed.It is interesting to analyse this politician who think that they can be economical with the truth all the times and take large public for a ride.

The recent appointment of Diplomats has been shrouded with cloud of secrecy as it is ethnic based and full of flaws. The Diplomats we are told have been chosen by President Kibaki,Prime Minister Odinga, Ambassador Muthaura and Hon.Wetangula. The criteria used was ethnic based and chosen from the Gema tribe , Luo Nyanza and a token for Wetangula. No seasoned or career diplomat was chosen to represent this beautiful country. The amount of secrecy in this whole saga is beyond believe.

PM Odinga has turned out to have joined the league of double speak and has now gone back to his ethnic cocoon. He previously appointed his sister Wenwa Akinyi, as Consulate-General in Kenya's mission in Los Angeles and Elkanoh Odembo who is related to him to Kenya Embassy in France.This same Odinga was the one who has been going around shouting on top of his voice and telling us that we need to appoint people based on meritocracy and not from the ethnic background that they hail from. He has been criss crossing Kenya and the world preaching professionalism should be the thing.

PM Odinga wanted the share of loot 50-50 and now since Kibaki has allowed him his first 50-50 appointment he has managed to fill it with his own relatives and tribesmen. We never expected Prime Minister Odinga to stoop so low and act as a tribal chief. It is now clear to Kenyans what Prime Minister Odinga says in public is not what he really means. He is obsessed with power grabbing that he will say anything to achieve his goals.He is economical with truth. Just study the list and put a ethnic label and you will see what we mean. Odinga was given slots to fill with Kenyans who fulfilled the criteria of meritocracy but he ended up filling the posts with his own relatives. We expected this from President Kibaki and not him.He dream of ruling this country in 2012 is now a pipe dream and tall order.

President Kibaki has turned out to be the worst omen Kenya has ever had. Ask former Hon. John Keen who knows him better than anyone living in Kenya today. Kibaki has surpassed Kenyatta and Moi in ethnicising Kenya. Late President Kenyatta played his card by dividing and ruling using all ethnic communities in Kenya while favouring his own House of Mumbi. He set up elaborate scheme to empower his ethnic community by embarking on large scale education ,handing over industries and public institution to be run by House of Mumbi. He set up the largest Kikuyu Inc by ensuring his people dominated the life of Kenyans for the 15 years he was on helm.

When President Moi took over he openly said that he was following 'Nyayo' of the Late President and began empowering his own people and started large scale re-education bringing them to a level that they easily competed with Kenyatta's ethnic group and overtook them in period of 24 years. Moi personally paid private Maths teachers a warping Ksh 300,000[large amount calculated at that period] a month to teach Kalenjin children and airlifted thousand to worldwide universities. He also allowed marginalised tribe to uplift themselves through their leaders.

In 2002 Kenyans overwhelmingly voted for a change to replace this ethnic based politics and way of life to a nationalistic outlook that will lead their country to prosperity. They voted for Kibaki and Odinga team whom they erroneously had pegged their hope and aspiration. Their dream was to be shattered sooner than later as both leaders had ethnic based agenda to uplift their own people. Kibaki oversaw the reversal of all Moi's Nyayo by appointing his own Kikuyu brethren to every single public and private institution within a short period. He achieved this magic in a span of three years what it took 15 years for Kenyatta and another 24 years for Moi.

Kenyans will not accept this corrupt and nepotistic trend to continue . The population of Kenya is now 40 million and well educated. They can tell wheat from the chaff.It is only time as this ethnic based leaders are blind and will not reform. The youth population under 35 is running up to 72% with high unemployment they have nothing to loose and will rather see the house burning down for everybody.

President Kibaki is running a Kikuyu Inc instead of Kenya. He has forgotten there are 41+ tribes in Kenya who expect equitable share of everything. He has now invited Odinga's Tribe which now makes them 2 tribes against 40+. He thinks he will get away by appeasing Odinga who was in the same league with him in the first place. The 40+ tribe with their youth will rise and take over the reign of Kenya soon.Kibaki has made sure that the security,defence,industry,public institution are all populated with Kikuyu Inc. His challenge was quick reversal of Moi's ethnic game and he has achieved it to the detrimental of other Kenyans. Time is up and we know. Is he ready???.

The so called diplomat training are being conducted in secrecy in a Nairobi hotel and when the newsmen had a wind of it they were immediately relocated to Mombasa. Why all this secrecy Mr President and Prime Minister. It is the fear of other Kenyans will know that this group of diplomats are ethnic based and will not represent the interest of Kenya but will represent Kikuyu and Luo interest. Why secrecy we know what is going on and are ashamed to be represented by tribal Ambassadors. We ask all Kenyans who are abroad to boycott this embassies and seek help from neighbouring countries embassies and high commission's abroad.

Here is the list and look at the composition yourself .....

NEW ENVOYS

1. Dave Arunga

2. Nancy Barasa

3. Ken Osinde

4. Peter Salim Ndemo

5. Benson Ogutu

6. Josephine Owuor

7. Josephine Ngeisa

8. Anthony Andanje

9. Karimi Mberia

10. Anthony Muchiri

11. Bill Kimaru

So you see what we are seeing ethnic based diplomats. We will not continue to be hoodwinked and forced to keep quite. There are equally highly trained and qualified Kenyans from other ethnic groups. Both so called principles should be painted for what they are ethnic chieftains.

SIASA KALI

Kenya Moral Maze

2010-04-29T00:21:00.007+03:00

Today we want to talk about few dedicated Kenyans who have strive to make a mark in a small way in their own backyard. They are Kenyan who are morally upright thoughtful and shun corruption. This Kenyans do not pretend they are whiter than White they work toward goals of achieving progress in a small way that make major impact. They speak less but act with magnanimity.

The global village today represent good governance with people looking forward to accountable governments. Accountability represent voters and citizen questioning the government of the day and giving them red card when they are at fault. The relationship is extraordinary in a way it keeps their leaders on toe. The country resources are used equitably and citizen work hard to promote and propel their country forward.

The few Kenyans who in a small way have engaged with their citizen have done wonderful projects to uplift their people and are accountable to their constituent. We are grateful to this few Kenyans who help their fellow human beings by defining their relationship and building a bond which is trickles down line. This few good men and women toil and carry the banner of good human nature. They have never enriched themselves nor involved in corrupt dealing. They had all the opportunity but the said no no no.

Kenya today is controlled by disjointed coalition government who have stalled all the progress that the country could have made. With disputed election which saw the massacre of 1500 and displaced 600,000 this myopic leaders led by poor and bankrupt leadership skills have placed our country in permanent state of electioneering. The poor masses who are fighting HIV AIDS and Malaria and unable to feed their families are mentally poisoned and cheated of goodies to come. They are denied by this few leaders their right to good governance and accountability.

It is time Kenyans to change their mindset and stop clapping hands for people who have enriched themselves from corruption and tax evasion.This people are evil who have snatched food from the mouth of poor babies. They should be judged in that context and not cult worshiped. It is simple and straight forward that they are number one crooks hiding under the banner of failing leadership and ethnic cocoon cover.Kenyans should promote and support fairness,justice and accountability.

Kenya has strive to bring to justice all those who looted its wealth since 1963 and no one should be spared even if you were former President who who helped himself with the wealth of his country must be brought to account on how he accumulated his wealth. No one should be immune or above the law and that is why we need the new constitution to curtail the dishing of land by head of state to his cronies and friends. The leaders of Goldberg,Mamluki,Anglo leasing and all corrupt deals should be brought be brought to book. The days are short and numbered.

There are few dedicated Kenyans who in a small way bring an impact to the arena of moral high standing. They work hard ,they are upright and shun away corrupt deals and promote good governance within their sphere of life. This few men and women make us feel that there is hope in Kenya and one day our country will have leaders with intellectual capacity to make change and guide this nation using parameters of good governance and accountability.

If you look around you will see them shining and make effective contribution to their constituencies,parliament,judiciary and all walks of life. Look for them and encourage them.Forget About Moi,Kibaki,Odinga,Kenyatta,Kalonzo and Saitoti they are morally and intellectually bankrupt. They have failed and their leadership has lead to death and poverty throughout Kenya's history. Kenya needs to stop recycling this leaders who have passed their sale date.They have failed miserably and continue to use tax payers for their personal gains. Not a single has shown leadership skills.

Mandela who was President of South Africa never enriched or helped himself from the state coffers. He is a world statesman who served his country for one term and stepped down when his term expired. President Paul Kagame when he took over Rwanda 85% of its budget was under written by Aid he has reduced that to 50 % and working toward further slashing by to 30%. He has not enriched himself and continues to work toward just society. President Kikwete zero tolerance to corruption has made Tanzania a shining example.

We take this opportunity to pay tribute to the following Kenyans
Hon.Peter Kenneth -Mp for Gatanga
Maina Kiai- Former Chaiman KNHR
John Githongo-Former Ethic PS
Judge Philip Waki
Judge Mohamed Ibrahim
Hon.Abdikadir Mohamed-Mp Mandera Central,Chairman PSC
Ahmed Issack Hassan -Chairman IIEC
Florence Jaoko-Chairwoman KNHR
PLO Lumumba-?Imminent KACA director???.
Hon Kenneth Marende-Speaker
Hon. Kilemi mwiria-Mp Tigania West

SIASA KALI

The Banana Republic

2010-04-27T17:59:00.006+03:00

Venue: Harambee House in attendance President Kibaki,Muthaura,Michuki and few other Mt Kenya clique. Heated discussion on the ongoing cabinet boycott by Raila Odinga and the out going KAA Managing Director Muhoho and how to diffuse the recent parliamentary rejection of the Appointment of KAA Managing Director. Muthaura quips its not hard to satisfy Raila who loves pomp and glory.Had we given him little carrot during the election we Will not have had Ocampo hoovering around us now. His support of the draft constitution is the belief that he will occupy the state house in 2012 a tall order. So long as we keep him hoping we can hit him hard when and where we want. He is satisfied with small things and we can make him more merrier by increasing his outriders by two more motorcycles. Well done Muthaura you have capture the mood of the man.

The Mount Kenya clique places its cards on the table while the President keep the joker under his sleeve. Okay let the President place a call to PM Odinga who has all along been waiting for face saving situation to restart the cabinet meeting. We will give him what he has been crying for all along to show little bit of power which will mesmerise him and capture moment of his mind. We will offer to transfer Ruto to less glorious ministry of higher Education where he will partner with Hon. Ongweri and replace this Keter with his earth wile supporter Megerer.This in turn will bend him to come running to the cabinet table while we can offer Ruto carrots at some stage and in the process we will ask Hon. Kimunya to appoint our man with a stoke of a pen at the helm of KAA and Raila will be asked to keep mum or the goodies will be withdrawn and elevation of Ruto will happen instantly a veiled threat.

Ambassador Muthaura places a phone call to PM Raila who is advised that the President is about to call in a few minute to discuss important national issues. At the treasury Odinga's advisers are caught unawares and scamper for position within the office. Odinga asks them politely to leave as he will be in private discussion with the President. President Kibaki Picks the phone and the conversation goes on as Hallo Hallo wewe ni huyo Raira now lets finish this thing..you know this thing has been going for few weeks. Oh oh Mr Mr President I have been waiting for you call and I am coming to Harambee house instantly and you are blessed you have saved my face and I will do for you everything. The Mt Kenya clique have had Raila where they wanted. A man of cheap tastes and easily satisfied.

PM Raila rushes to Harambee without his advisers and is ushered straight to a room where the Mt Kenya clique have rehearsed several time and wired all over. The President places his cards on the table. Kibaki goes on to say wewe Raira we will transfer Ruto and appoint Merger and this will mend you image which was recently been battered ,dented and is a sign that we are working as coalition and in return I am asking the Hon. Kimunya as transport minister to immediately appoint Stephen Gichuki as the head of KAA and i don't want to hear you or your lieutenants discussing the issue end of story. PM who feels elated and that his arch rival Hon Ruto has been transferred to lesser ministry will show him who is the boss. Mt Kenya clique all along have advised and prepared Ruto to take it with a pinch of salt.

Kenya is a funny country which as days go start to take shape of a banana republic. Imagine an Indian national flies into its airspace and is arrested on arrival at JKIA with all the glare of press and a week down the line they are unable to identify or ascertain if this is the man who most sought after criminal Devani who with the help of some senior cabinet ministers looted billion of shilling from this poor nation which is painfully being footed by the poor Kenyan tax payers. Devani has vowed that he will never go down alone and will have to come down with several cabinet ministers who ate and dined with him. We know who is covering Devani it none other than the Mt Kenya mafia. The capture of Devani was confirmed by Immigration Minnister Otieno Kajwan'g who is prone to gaffes.

The epitome of a banana republic is reflected by the way communication is conducted among its ministers. The Minister for information Samuel Poghisio appears on national television castigating the Mandera Sheikhs who have banned DSTV viewing in video halls in what they consider to be immoral watching of pornography supported by the Nairobi Secretary General SUPKEM Adan Wachu. In a space of less than 12 hours the PC for North Eastern Mr Ole Seriani thrashes the Minister Pogisio statement claiming it was the government that has closed those pornography dens and not the Sheikhs. It was a decision taken during district security committee meeting .This is contrary to what Pogisio told us yesterday. Two government department not talking to each other.The Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe denied that Devani was not captured and was in London enroute to India.

Tomorrow President Kibaki leaves for China with a begging bowl while away he will be deputised by Kalonzo and affair that Raila regrets. We hope the President comes back safely as we are in the Banana republic where God forbid if anything happens to the President we Will have no clear cut route to follow and we will go down free fall.

Ekwe Edia

The Looting of Kenya

2010-04-21T17:50:00.003+03:00

The looting of Kenya continues at high speed unabated while million of its citizen cannot afford basic item needed for survival from day to day. The Kibaki regime has perfected what started as Kenyatta looting game and accelerated by despotic Moi.There shall come a time when this needy Kenyans will say enough is enough and will take to the streets and bring down all those who have lived off their sweats and made this beautiful country poor and unable to rise from ashes.

Moi stole and stashed U.S $ 2billion in foreign countries where he earns colossal interest and will never see this money come back to Kenya. Moi is 86+years and old man who should be retired long time tending to his goats. This cash which Moi will not be lucky to spend even if he wanted as his time span logically tells us is already matured. This cash that he stole from the poor innocent Kenyans will be used by European clever government to feed and educate its own people while we in Kenya die of hunger,malnutrition and HIV AIDS. What Moi has is carrying a useless bank statement showing figures that he commands and his tribesmen will never be able to consume and done with even if they wanted.The money is lying in European financial houses.

Moi's Sons Philip and his Brother Gideon have looted U.S $598 and $675 million dollars which are also stashed abroad in banks and off shore web of companies. They were floored in the last General election as Kenyans wanted to do away with the past and were looking forward to a country that has done away with corrupt and evil way for only the election to be stolen in front of their eyes with the help of Moi and his cronies.Moi who with his sons have grabbed big chunks of land did just perfect the Nyayo of his predecessor Jomo Kenyatta that he was following. Today many Kenyans are poor and landless and are living in the world biggest slums. Thanks to their patience and resilience which running thin and out.

Moi with his cronies are fighting the new draft constitution which will reduce schemes to loot public coffers and to address the issue of land that was grabbed since Independence. Moi who is the biggest tribalism is using tribal instinct to fight and survive. Here are few of Moi looting report that has been recorded by Kroll associate.

The report, commissioned by the Kenyan government, was submitted in 2004, but never acted upon. It details how:

· Mr Moi's sons - Philip and Gideon - were reported to be worth £384m and £550m respectively;

· His associates colluded with Italian drug barons and printed counterfeit money;

· His clique owned a bank in Belgium;

· The threat of losing their wealth prompted threats of violence between Mr Moi's family and his political aides;

· £4m was used to buy a home in Surrey and £2m to buy a flat in Knights bridge.

President Kibaki regime which created the Anglo-leasing and has perfected the looting art is covering for Moi. The Three families Kibaki,Moi and Kenyatta continue to loot Kenya thinking there will be no end in sight. They should take cue and watch what happened To Mobutu,Nguema and the rest of African dictators their properties and funds has been appropriated by European banks and their families left without penny and languishing as asylum seekers in European capitals.

Kenyans are running out of patience and soon will take to the the streets and bring an end to chaos caused by looting.Kenya is ripe for a coup.

Susana

The Al-Shabaab Menace

2010-04-19T00:12:00.002+03:00

The Al-shabaab terrorist outfit has again dared and attacked Kenya territory in broad daylight showing off their armoury. The ease in which they crossed our border which is manned by our security personnel has raised eyebrows.The Kenya security personnel watched in disbelief and refused to engage this terrorist for fear of being wiped out completely with their superior updated armoury.

The Al-Shabaab which is a foreign controlled outfit by Al-Qaeeda international is now rooming throughout Somalia with ease and imposing their draconian laws in the whole region and have not shied away from Kenya which they have tested and found soft spot that can be hit in a broad daylight without being fired back at. They are now busy plotting to make a substantial attack in near future according to our sources on the ground.

Kenya has been playing cat and mouse games on the Somali issue for quite sometime giving leverage to this terrorist organization who have desecrated graves,murdered children and women. Kenya has no foreign policy on the Somalia and have shown to side openly with the weak transitional government in Mogadishu and this has given ammunition to this terrorist group who are now raiding our borders daily.

The International terrorist organisation are now eyeing Kenya which is a peace loving nation whose army has never been to war. Our Army who are fed with blue band and ugali have been found to be no match when it comes to fighting. This has been proved by our local home made militia like the Sabot army who have been terrorising their own around Mt Elgon and cattle rustlers in Northern Kenya. The ease in which cattle rustlers raid Kenyan cities with the presence of our Kenya army is a proof how weak our army is when it come to engaging in battle.

The Al-shabaab have studied our army mentality and have come to the conclusion that they will face no challenge and are now engaging test runs to see further our military capability and logistic support. The army which has been demoralised since the post election chaos are not in fighting readiness. They spend most of their days drinking in barracks and chasing skirts at night.

The Somali government approached our government who were keen to recruit 2500 Somali Kenyans youth who are unemployed to fight the Al-Shabaab and prevent daily incursion in our territory. The Somali government calculated that this group of Brave Kenyan Somali youth will wipe out the Al-Shabaab and their foreign fighters starting from Mogadishu. Kenya offered full military training in Shimo La Tewa camps with British and American input. The Kenya government had in mind to deploy this youth within its borders to protect Kenya. This did not go well with the regime in Mogadishu who felt that this was a betrayal by Kenya and a diversion from the original agreement.

The President of Somalia Sheikh Sharriff has been Cris crossing East Africa to drum up support for the much delayed and awaited offensive military campaign against the Al-Shabaab terrorist. President Yoweri Museveni has been passing guerrilla tactics to His Somali counterpart and has opened the gate of NRA to Somalis. Museveni has been taking proactive role in the Somali conflict and has sent substantial number of troops to Mogadishu to back the regime which controls few block in the capital city. President Kagame and Ethiopia's Melez Zanawi have promised substantial airlift once the campaign begins.

The Al-Shabaab have threatened to blow buildings in Kampala a tall order as Uganda Intelligence community has substantial number of Somali Ugandans operatives who have infiltrated the Al-Shabaab. Ethiopia equally has used its large Somali population to run down this terror organization. Recently Al-Shabaab has invited Al-Qaeeda chief Osama Bin Laden to relocate to Somalia which has sent cold chill around the region. Fighter from Pakistan,Chechnya,Yemen,Britain and America have been seen in Southern Somalia.

This terror organization is ruthless and busy recruiting in Kenya and the rest of the world to sustain their twisted ideology. They are using Islam as a cover to sustain oppression on the people of Somalia who are now fed up with this group who have caused mayhem in Southern Somalia.

Kenya needs to put its priorities right and should not allow this terrorist outfit to dictate terms and cross its borders at will.The 2500 Somali Kenya youth who were recruited form North Eastern Kenya trained for the purpose of defending Somalia should be re-integrated in our national army to serve thee interest of Kenya and not used by foreign nations to fight their never ending tribal conflict. Kenya should openly declare war with Al-Shabaab and send this Somali Kenyan trained crack troop to fight and finish off this coward bunch of thugs who are in process of terrorising our citizen and crossing our borders at will. We should show them that Kenya is not a soft spot and will challenge and defend its territorial integrity and to be left like Migingo Island which has been occupied by Uganda.

This is the time and no other time or we will find Al-Shabaab drinking tea in our cafes with guns dangling from their bellies. The foreign ministry should issue a harsh warning that we will not tolerate a bunch of criminals crossing our borders and killing,kidnapping and destroying our properties. We will pursue them to their hideouts. They can but cannot hide.

Kushotoo

It's Our Turn to Eat

2010-04-17T16:06:00.001+03:00

The book tells it all, and outlines the levels of corruption that exist in Kenya. What is amazing is that the Prevention of Corruption Act has been on the Kenyan statute books since 1956.

Examples are John saying that he had friends in the Narc administration that bought three properties at once, and were giving their wives $100,000 in spending money. The conflicts of interest that exist between donors and the corrupt regime, i.e. the World Bank director who rented his house from Mwai Kibaki. John tells us how tribal rivalry is used by the key players as a cover for theft.

I enjoyed the analysis of John Githongo. The struggles that he comes up against in challenging the system i.e., The Mt Kenya Mafia/Kiama (council of elders)/Big Men. John is not a saint, and the reader is shown how he goes through various stages of denial. He starts off believing that Kibaki is backing him to the hilt and then confronts the reality that Mwai Kibaki is in on the Anglo Leasing scam, and it becomes clear to him that he is investigating the President. He is faced with internal conflict, having to make some difficult decisions which will impact on his family, and friends.

John Githongo has a natural ability to befriend everyone, and we are shown how this enabled him to access information from various sources.

There were several bits of the book that I found hilarious. Wycliffe Muga a journalist saying that John Githongo was a coconut and a mzungu (white person) because of his commitment to transparency, honesty and accountability. Wycliffe Muga's belief system has no room for Kenyans who possess these qualities, and in his view Kenyans who are not dishonest, and corrupt, are Mzungus.Wycliffe Muga revises his opinion, after John has released his findings to the public, and acknowledges that he was wrong, and John Githongo was the right man for the job.A description of Lucy Kibaki first lady and ageing drama queen, never one to wear her privileges lightly. Edward Clay and his vomit one and two speeches, and his attempts to make a difference.

I was alarmed by the position that DFID took, or did not take on the Anglo Leasing scam. Michela Wrong illustrates the role that donors play, and the various agendas they come in with. In 2007 the UN awards Kenya with its public service award, while public servants have conspired to steal $750 million in public funds.

We are then shown how John Githongo is viewed by some of his own. Burning down the house of Mumbi. He is betraying the tribe. Loyalty to the tribe should come first. A Kikuyu woman talks about how if your mother is naked, you cover her with a blanket, and don't call the neighbours in to have a peek. The message to John Githongo is turn a blind eye, and keep your gob shut. Let the millions continue to die of hunger, we must remain billionaires. Power in Kenya must rest in the hands of a narrow ethnic clique. John has a conversation with Lands and Settlement Minister Kimunya before the elections who tells him that uncircumcised people have no right to rule Kenya. This gives you a clear idea of the mindset of some of these Big Men, who are not village idiots, but people who went to university.

Most of John Githongo's critics are Kikuyu. There were death threats against him, and I do not for a minute believe he is a coward for having left the country. We are aware of what happened to people who challenged the system in previous regimes e.g., JM Kariuki, and Robert Ouko, murder.

I can see how one of John Githongo's greatest difficulties, was seeing Mwai Kibaki for what he would have liked him to be, rather than for what he was. He acknowledges that he had difficulty coming to terms with the betrayal of his tribe and class.

Towards the end of the book we are brought to events that took place after the recent elections. Had all Kenyans believed they enjoyed equal access to state resources, there would have been no explosion.

I have the utmost admiration and respect for John Githongo. He walks the talk, and makes it clear that he was not employed by Gikuyu Inc, but employed to serve his country. He has taken some huge risks, and may never be free of the assassin's bullet. However, for those who feel he has betrayed them, I see it the other way. He has done them a favour. He is sorting out his own house first. I believe he speaks for the millions of oppressed Kenyans, and it is important that these issues are spoken about and resolved.

What John Githongo has exposed is just the tip of the iceberg, it would have been easier for him to collude with his own. However he is a man of integrity, and honesty, and this was not an easy task. There are lots of Kenyans who would rather put up and shut up, because the costs are too great. Samuel Kivuitu(the Electoral services commissioner) is a perfect example. He tells us that if it was up to him, he would not have signed off the election results, but he says he is alone and wants to live!

As a Kenyan, the book was informative, gripping, and uncomfortable reading. I thank Michela Wrong, and John Githongo for recording what is going on in Kenya today.

I understand the book was supposed to be on sale in Kenya but read an article in the Guardian that mentioned that bookshops would not risk selling it for fear of being sued. Bookshops that sold the Dr. Iain West's Casebookcasebook,about Robert Ouko were sued to the tune of 10M shillings

Kenya's Epicentre for Corruption

2010-04-15T12:18:00.006+03:00

The President In a stroke of a pen appoints a fellow Kikuyu to the post of Ambassador to Tripoli. This post is used to gain favours and wealth from Col. Gaddafi who has shown great intrest in Kenya and Africa. The President appoints a figure that he will trust who will looks after his financial intrest in this Beautiful Africa desert with huge tract of black gold that will go round. This post which was vacated by Fellow Kikuyu who was posted to the United Kingdom as a High Commissioner. It is only in Kenya where the President heads impunity and encourages corruption. The nepotism that Kibaki practices has surpassed Kenyatta and Moi in the few years he has held the key to State House.

Late president Kenyatta perfected his art of Nepotism and land grabbing for 15 years before the cruel hand of death took him away to the land of candy sugar. Retired president Moi took another 24 years to follow the footsteps of Kenyatta and coining the dreaded word 'Nyayo' for 24 years where he took his team of goat herders to the state house and razed down the economy of Kenya.

President Kibaki who is in his second controversial term has take less than 5 years to change the face of Kenya. Looking at the the composure of the civil service it is dotted with Kamau,Kinuthia and Nyakabi. Central province contributes 5% of the Kenya economy while it takes back 42% . This is obnoxious and will only lead this country to chaos in the coming few years. Kenya of all walk of life resent this wanton misuse of public resources to advance welfare of a single ethnic group.

It is only in Kenya where the President leads the web of elaborate set of corrupt schemes that defraud the nation it's wealth. Kibaki is all that impunity embodies. The man cares only for his family and that is why his wife keep on raiding Newspaper offices,Television newsroom and gate crushes Ambassadors parties and bringing mayhem.When the President stops the investigation of corrupt deals and tells the Anti-graft Czar Githongo to back off then he opened flood of other evil and corrupt schemes. Every body copies the President and sets up a scheme to milk the Treasury.A must read for all Kenyans is a copy of It's Our Turn To Eat by Michaela Wrong which is account of how the President and his Kiama team lead by Kiraitu Muruingu to empty the coffers of the Kenya Treasury for selfish needs.

John Githongo a patriotic Kenyan believed in President Kibaki words when he declared that Corruption will be a thing of the past only to give a U turn. He Kept diaries and tapes which were aired to the world the shameful affairs of Kenya after he went into exile trying to save lost opportunity. Kibaki went on to rig the 2007 election where by 1500 Kenyans were killed and 600,000 displaced. He gives lip service to the fight against graft and impunity. Today Kenya heads the list of countries who promote and encourage corruption and a failed state awaiting some of its leaders to be charged at the ICC in The Hague.

10 million Kenyans face hunger and starvation every night. The hospital system has collapsed. The poor cannot afford simple basic medication as it has been set far beyond their purchasing capacity. The coalition government is pulling in two different directions. One supports corruption and the other is pulling towards good governance and accountability.

The Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been fighting a lone war against graft. He has shown the way forward only to be frustrated by President Kibaki and the Kiama. He Has not been allowed to free hand to run the government he is supposed to supervise. Prime Minister Odinga stands for good governance and corruption free Kenya when he suspended Ruto and Ongeri both who were implicated in corruption in the Ministry of Education and Agriculture. If corruption were stopped today Kenya will be able to build 10 super highways every year, increase youth employment by 10%, increase hospital capacity by 150%, Increase school enrollment by 32% and feeding programme for 2million Kenyans every year. This figures are stunning.

It is only in Kenya where you have the Head of Goldenberg Architect Kamlesh Pattni rehabilitated and now has grabbed a further 4 acres government property and planning to build a seven star hotel. This chap should have been sent to Kamiti Maximum security long time but he bought his way by giving Laico Hotel to the Libyans who gave the KIAMA huge sums of money and were demanding the hotel or their money back and spill beans out the bag.In Kenya is where Businessman Merali is allowed to bring a parastatal supermarket UCHUMI to its Knee with insider trading and allowed to continue doing business as usual. It is only in Kenya that Kiplagat the Head of Truth and Justicve is allowed to hang on his chair despite his tainted past and linking to the Murder of Late Foreign Minister Robert Ouko and the heinous Genocide at Wagalla.

It is only in Kenya where a foreign company which bought Kenya parastatal Telcom Kenya in dubious way are now demanding from the government $385 million the original purchase price and a further $300 million from poor Kenyan tax payers to run its operation in the next five years. Where in the world can a foreign firm doing business in a host country dare threaten the sovereignty of the country and openly defraud tax payers???. This company which is headed by an Iranian French should be shown the door. They have joined the circle of corrupt and impunity laden Kenya. They have learnt the local way.Milk the coffers of treasury and deny milk to poor hungry Kenya babies.

In Kenya it is where a former President Who for 24 years looted and pillaged the country is allowed to enjoy his ill gotten wealth while million of Kenya children go hungry every night. He is allowed to poison the mood of the country in adopting a new constitution as this will affect the huge tract of land he grabbed during his presidency. Unfortunately the church which has a lot to answer on the accusation of paedophilia has now joined the fray of fighting the draft constitution. It is only in Kenya where the Church which is not open to answer charges of paedophilia against its clergy and are now using the clamour for constitution to cover its tract.Before the Churches talk of abortion they should come clean of what their clergy have been doing to our poor children who we have entrusted to them.

Kenya will survive all those who are working to bring it down. It is only time and we call upon all Kenyans to register and use their democratic right to vote the best President in the coming election who will fight graft and bring prosperity. Prime Minister Raila Odinga Agwambo Arap Mibei has show that he is the only leader Capable of bringing change and he has my vote.

Halkano Huka

Patriotic duty to Register as voter

2010-04-14T14:43:00.002+03:00

AN APPEAL TO THE CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA: It is your patriotic civic duty to register to vote – by Jayne and Mwalimu Mati

Fellow Citizens of Kenya,

We write to appeal to you, our brothers and sisters, to register to vote for the new proposed Constitution of Kenya at the referendum and for the leaders of your choice at the next general election.

We, like most of you, were born into an independent Kenya and into a constitution that states that Kenya is a democracy, but sadly, we have lived under bad governance and corruption for all our lives.

We write also as parents of two children because we believe that it is our duty as responsible citizens to encourage fellow Kenyans to foster a democratic environment that will create opportunities for our children and all the children of Kenya.

Every patriotic Kenyan citizen shares the responsibility for civic awareness, and civic duty. This is not the work of the media, faith groups, political parties or non-governmental organizations alone. Every citizen shares the responsibility of working together to foster democracy for the good of our country. At all times citizens must act in the interest of fellow Citizens, because by doing so, we guarantee our own individual and collective interests. Democracy involves providing opportunities for all citizens without discrimination, which also means making decisions for our children who cannot vote until they attain the legal age of 18 years. We have a Constitutional and moral obligation to each other as citizens to make the best decisions on behalf of those who are young Kenyans below the age of 18 years. Every Kenyan Citizen over the age of 18 years (eligible to vote) must register to vote for the new proposed Constitution of Kenya at the referendum and for the leaders of their choice at the next general election. And every Citizen must encourage their fellow citizens starting at home and at work to do the same.

Your Vote is your democratic and Constitutional right. Our votes allow us as citizens to do certain things or make sure that certain things are done for the benefit of all. It is only with your vote, that you can ensure that we have a “Constitution and government of the Kenyan people, by the Kenyan people, for the Kenyan people.” As Citizens of Kenya, we must play an informed role in the governance of our country. We must empower ourselves by registering to vote, because, it is only through the ballot, that we will make effective decisions about how and who we choose to govern on our behalf. It is only through the ballot that we will get a new Constitution for our country. It is only through the ballot that we will get a lawfully elected Government that will carry out the will of the Kenyan people.

As Citizens of Kenya, we all live together in our country. We therefore need to agree on how to run the affairs of our country. This agreement on how to run our country takes the form of a Constitution of Kenya. This agreement – a set of rules, agreed on by us as citizens binds all persons and is the supreme Law of the Republic. Our current Constitution says that all sovereign power in Kenya belongs to the Citizens of Kenya, and that we exercise this power through the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya. The current Constitution declares the Rights of the Individual citizen and makes the state responsible for guaranteeing those rights. But our current Constitution needs improvement to undo decades of amendments that weakened our democracy and created opportunities to destroy protective mechanisms and checks and balances. Past Presidents and Parliaments did this.

We are soon to vote on a new set of rules in the proposed new constitution – how we as citizens want to live with each other and how we want to exercise our sovereign power. Let us make that decision together, as responsible Kenyans who love our country. Voting for the proposed new constitution can be the beginning of a new true democratic era, where we vote and also get involved. Where we say that from now, we, as citizens will share the job of governing our country.

The Proposed new Constitution lays a better foundation for good governance than the current one, which since 1964 has been amended to the benefit of the Presidents of Kenya and their cohorts. The Proposed new Constitution declares that Kenya is a Sovereign Republic which is founded on Principles of Good Governance through multi party democracy, participatory governance, transparency and accountability, separation and devolution of powers, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms and the Rule of Law. This is how we as citizens of Kenya want to run our country.

The Proposed new Constitution recognizes that all Kenyans are born equal. That Fundamental Rights and Freedoms of Kenyans Citizens are given by God, and not by the State. That Kenyans have Human Rights because Kenyans are human beings. That protection of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms in the Constitution is because these rights are inalienable and cannot be taken away from us by anyone. And that Kenyans who occupy positions of power are subject to controls, checks and balances to ensure that they do not abuse their fellow citizens’ rights, as has been the case to date. We as Kenyan Citizens must be ready to defend these rights at any cost.

The Proposed new Constitution in our opinion, strives to achieve the goals of a democratic society; the greatest possible freedom for all Kenyans; A just society; the same rules for all Kenyans; Equality before the law; Respect for the rule of law; and Equal opportunities for all Kenyans.

The Proposed new Constitution has addressed the equitable sharing, distribution, and allocation of public resources for development among all citizens. Kenyan citizens can get rich legally. Kenyans will have the right to: Fair and favourable conditions of work; Equal pay for work of equal value; the right to form and belong to a trade union; and the right to enjoy social security. The Proposed new Constitution has constitutionalised proper fiscal management of public funds and facilitates punishment of those who steal public funds. It deals with corruption firmly.

The Proposed new Constitution has effectively dealt with checks and balances by providing for independent arms of Government and in particular has dealt extensively with an independent Judiciary.

The Proposed new Constitution guarantees in an elaborate enhanced Bill of Fundamental Rights; the right to life, the right to personal freedom, Protection against slavery and forced labour, Protection from inhuman treatment, Protection from property being taken away illegally, Protection against an illegal search or entry, the right to the protection of the law, Freedom of conscience, Freedom of expression, Freedom of association and assembly, Freedom of movement, Freedom from discrimination, the right to participate in political activity without restriction, the right to hold your own views and talk about what you think and believe, the right to relate and socialize, and to move freely without obstruction. It also guarantees political, economic, social and cultural rights.

Over the 20 or more years that Kenyans have fought and even died trying to get a new Constitution, the views of millions of Kenyans have been collected. The Constitution of Kenya Review Commission reported these views in 2002. Summarized Kenyans said:

1. Give us the chance to live a decent life: with our fundamental needs of food, water, clothing, shelter, security and basic education met by our own efforts and the assistance of government.

2. We want a fair system of access to land for the future and justice for the wrongs of the past

3. Let us have more control over the decisions that affect our lives, bring government closer to us – and let us understand better the decisions we can’t make ourselves but which affect us deeply

4. We don’t want power concentrated in the hands of one person

5. We want our MPs to work hard, respect us and our views – and we want the power to kick them out if they don’t

6. We want to be able to choose leaders who have qualities of intelligence, integrity and sensitivity that make them worthy to lead us.

7. We want an end to corruption

8. We want police who respect citizens – so they can be respected by them

9. We want women to have equal rights and gender equity

10. We want children to have a future worth looking forward to – including orphans and street children

11. We want respect and decent treatment for the disabled.

12. We want all communities to be respected and free to observe their cultures and beliefs

13. We assert our rights to hold all sections of our government accountable – and we want honest and accessible institutions to ensure this accountability

It is our humble opinion that the Proposed new Constitution has captured our views and that we must therefore vote in large numbers at the referendum to ensure that it is enacted so that we can secure a brighter future for our children. We must also remember that even with the passing of a new constitution, the rules will bind us all. That no one is above the law; this basically means that all Kenyans are equal before the law and are subject to it. Any Kenyan who makes choices has to make them according to the say so of the law. The new Constitution will only make a difference in our lives if we adhere to the rule of law.

To ensure that the rule of law is respected in Kenya is our civic duty; and the responsibility ultimately lies with the citizens of Kenya. We write to you as fellow patriotic Kenyan citizens who love our country.

Most Sincerely,

Jayne & Mwalimu Mati

The Pastor Deya Equation

2010-04-08T12:01:00.009+03:00

The Principal Magistrate Stella Muketi who was hearing the case against Mary Deya the queen of child trafficking was abruptly transferred outside Nairobi.The Judge we believe was about to make an important ruling in this case. Mary with the help of her husband who is based in U.K were involved in miracle babies racket whereby they stole children from innocent mothers in Kenya and obtaining false birth certificates claiming that she gave the birth miraculously.

Mary is charged with stealing 5 children and many others who found their way in the couples ministries in the United Kingdom. The Deyas were claiming barren women who scientifically will have zero chances of conceiving were giving birth to Kenyan children who were smuggled out the country. Mary Deya thanks to Kenyan detectives was caught in the act and arraigned in courts. She has been refused bail and since fighting hard using money that was acquired illegally to bribe her way out of this serious charges.

The Deyas led by Amos have been making frantic call to Kenya to see that Mary is released as she is about to spill the beans from the bag.Amos has tried every door that he would/could knock on. He has used large amount of cash to secure her release. The conmen who have smelled the cookie jar have had a field day. They have set several elaborate scheme to milk Amos who sees Mary case as hindrance to their church activities in the United Kingdom.The Deya ministries in the U.K boast of 34,000 followers.Mary is languishing in jail while Gilbert Deya is enjoying a short lived freedom awaiting to be deported from the U.K. to Kenya to face similar serious charges. He is being investigated for child trafficking in Kenya nad U.K.

After failing to release Mary Deya from Kenyan Jail throughout the 2006 and early 2007 the Deya ministries hatched a plan to get through to politicians. They failed completely to make headway to Kibaki courtiers who thought that they were dealing with a group who were accused of heinous crime. Child trafficking in Africa is traditionally abhorred and associated with slavery. The only opportunity was to go after ODM who were power hungry and money hungry. It took few phone calls to ODM handlers in the U.K who fell for the scheme that was hatched by Deya ministries.

Amos approached the ODM U.K who were composed of professionals and students. The ODM meeting in London was heated and saucers were flying all over the room as section of ODM did not want anything to do with the Deyas which would have tainted party which was seeking to rid of Kenya corruption and nepotism. The meeting ended up wih ODM U.K sharply divided house. The ODM was split in two opposing sections. A section who did not want anything to do with Deya who was heavily being investigated by British Authorities and embarrassed by the whole episode while the othe section were close to Deya wanted his blessing.

The ODM U.K went and organized the biggest gathering of ODM in U.K with divided house. Amos catapulted himself and become an ex officio of the party in U.K. The ODM led by Hon. Raila Odinga were invited to London for a session which was dubbed as warming to power where they were questioned and laid down their policies to the Diaspora. Hon Raila and ODM leaders was personally chauffeured around with Deya's fleet of Range rovers

In the Run up to 2007 general election the flamboyant millioner child trafficker Gilbert Deya bragged that he will be appointed as the Kenya High Commissioner to U.K as he was even cocky and gave the date for his accession to this post as 25.2.2008. This claimed puzzled many Kenyans as they were battling with election fiasco in Kenya only to be dragged in with naming a child trafficker to very important diplomatic post . Gilbert Deya relied with his contact within ODM which he funded heavily during the campaign and election kitty.

During the ODM meeting in London Amos Deya son of Gilbert funded the reception of ODM Leaders and paid their hotel bill in return for his father being appointed to the High commissioner post in London and the case against his mother Mary Deya being dropped. The election came and ODM was not elected to government chaos followed and coalition government was appointed.So the issue of releasing Mary Deya and appointment of Deya to this prestigious post was overtaken by events.

This issue has been kept under the carpet for year. The Deyas have not been lucky this year they were confronted with a murder case where John Deya was charged with killing three year old child. Gilbert Deya feels it is pay back time after investing heavily on the ODM they want them to honour their part of the deal. The ODM has opened many fronts that they will like this issue to be dealt with behind the scenes. Deya wants this case to thrown out of Kenya courts which in turn challenge the British court to clear him a tall order.

The sudden transfer of Judge who was assigned the case for three years and was about to conclude the case raises many eyebrows. Is Deya about to get his wish in Kenya??? What will happen to those families who children were stolen??? Is Kenya going to encourage child trafficking within its borders. ODM and its leadership should come clean and disassociate themselves with this flamboyant Pastor who is awaiting deportation in the U.K.

Susana

The face of Impunity

2010-04-06T23:04:00.002+03:00

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The Ocampo List

2010-04-01T15:08:00.008+03:00

Cabinet Ministers
1. Hon.William Ruto – Agriculture – ODM
2. Hon.Sally Kosgey – Higher Education – ODM
3. Hon.Najib Balala – Tourism – ODM
4. Hon.Henry Kosgey – Industrialization – ODM
5. Hon.Uhuru Kenyatta – Deputy Prime Minister Trade – PNU
6. Hon.William Ole Ntimama – Culture and Heritage – ODM

Members of Parliament /Assistant Ministers

1. Hon. Franklin Bett – ODM – Planning, inciting and financing
2. Hon. Boaz Kaino – ODM Marakwet West – Planning, Inciting and
Financing
3. Hon.Fred Kapondi – ODM Mt. Elgon – Incitment
4. Hon.Kabando wa Kabando – PNU Mukurueni – ACQUISITION OF WEAPONS
5. Hon.Stanley Githunguri – Kiambu – PNU – financing
6. Hon.Elizabeth Ongoro – Kasarani – ODM – incitement, planning,
participation and financing
7. Hon.Omondi Anyango – ODM – Nyatike- incitement, planning and
participating
8. Hon.John Pesa – ODM – Migori – Incitement and financing
9. Hon.Ramadhan Kajembe – ODM – Changamwe – participation and financing
10. Hon.Peter Mwathi – Limuru Constituency – PNU
11. Hon. Chris Okemo – ODM -Nambale – Incitement
12. Hon Zakayo Cheruiyot – ODM – Kuresoi
13. Hon Clement Waikara – PNU – Gatundu North

Former MPS and Ministers

1. Jayne Kihara – Naivasha (PNU) – Bought Pangas at Branch Kubwa
Supermarket
2. David Manyara – Former Kanu MP – Aided and financed
3. Mark Too – Hosted a Kalenjin Warrior cell next to Eldoret Airport
4. Moses Cheboi – Former MP Kuresoi incited and hosted meetings to
strategize eviction of Kikuyu’s and Kisii’s from Kuresoi
5. James Koskei – Former MP Kuresoi
6. Simeon Nyachae – Incitment and Financing
7. Njenga Karume – Financing
8. Patrick Muiruri

Prominent Aspirants and politicians

1. Mike Brawan – ODM Parliamentary Aspirant Nakuru
2. General Retired Koech
3. Joseph Kebenoi – Kuresoi
4. Ezekiel Kesenday – Kuresoi
5. Mayor Gikaara – Nakuru
6. Wesley Ruto

‘MEN OF GOD’

1. Rev. Kosgey – Incited communities against each other through his
radio
sermons
2. Benjamin Murei – Seventh Day Adventist who urged Kalenjins to be
armed
like him and even quoted a bible verse in support of the violence
3. Pastor Isaya Nyossa – Pastor in Likuyani incited flock
4. Pastor of Kirathimo Church
5. Mochorop Oyonge – Spiritual Leader – led illegal oathing
6. Joseph Koromech – led in illegal oathing

Teachers and Lecturers

1. Dr. Jacob Bitok – Moi University – Marshalled MOSOP area
2. Thomas Koech – Headmaster Kapebee Secondary School
3. Kipkoech Too – Former Head Kakiptui Primary School
4. Mr. Seretum – KNUT Sec. Gen Nandi North Branch
5. Joshua Arap Keter – Headmaster Kasacheni High School
6. Simeon Raberet – Headmaster Amoro Secondary School
7. Mr.Bii- Headteacher Tata Secondary School
8. Wilfred Bii – Former Teacher currently Board Member Mau Summit
9. Josiah Koech – Headmaster Koige Primary School
10. Mr. Maina – Headmaster Nakuru Blanket Secondary School – incited
against Kikuyu
11. Chepkwony – Teacher Murilishwa Secondary School
12. Komen – Teacher Joyland Academy
13. Pius Koech -Former Teacher

MEDIA

1. Joshua Arap Sang – Senior Editor KASS FM – openly mobilized people
for
attacks on air
2. Benjamin Akumu alias Malo Malo – Newspaper Vendor led group in
burning
houses in Rift Valley
3. Inooro FM
4. Kameme FM
5. Kass FM
6. Radio Injili
7. Coro FM

Post Humus
Lorna Laboso
Kipkalya Kones
David Kimutai Too

The Waki Report--http://www.eastandard.net/downloads/Waki_Report.pdf

The Ethnicised Intelligence oligarchy

2010-03-31T13:03:00.010+03:00

Thorn Tree-New Stanley hotel is in the middle of Nairobi and a crossroad of all activities. I have been coming to this spot where once President Obama was refused to be served and the African waiters had preference to white customers. My favourite drink is tea which i usually order anytime of the day. I had met recently a fellow classmate who works with the national intelligence organization. He looked very worried today. I have been meeting him on and off for the last 12 years in the same hotel but different spot. As we continued drinking tea while watching Nairobi pass by he poured all that was within his confines without jeopardizing national security.

Things are not well within the security organs since professionalism was abandoned. The language of communication has been ethnicised and if you are not from GEMA your contribution is expected to be nil and not valued. Hundreds of excellent officers have left the organization since Kibaki came to power due to Kikuyu oligarchy taking hold of the organization.This further has demoralised remaining staff with the constant bickering of coalition taking its tall. No body cares for the security of Kenya and defending it from internal or external threat is not a priority.

Former President Moi was a cleaver dictator who instinctively knew that the intelligence was an are that needed professionalism. Moi did not touch this organ of state and used it to consolidate his 24 years reign on Kenya psychic. Most of the intelligence officers were professional who were loyal to the state and very efficient comparing to other African states. During the clamour for multi party system they gave a huge file with a summary to code named for your eyes only to President Moi who was at liberty to do what as he pleased. It clearly emphasized the end of Moi era and advised him of peaceful handover to avoid bloodshed.

The file culminated from extensive research and eavesdropping which combined land ,sea and air of Kenya territory. Moi was advised to do the right thing which was to hand over the reign to the incoming opposition group led by Kibaki and Odinga. It was a triumph of commonsense which saved Kenyan lives. Had Moi not followed the advice to letter Kenya will have gone to flames much earlier than 2007 which witnessed the beginning of the end of Kenya Moja we knew.

President Kibaki was sworn in on a wheelchair with Kenyan public cheering him with thunderous applause when he accepted to take the keys of the house on the hill.Moi was pelted with eggs and stone during this ceremony. He promised ZERO tolerance to corruption and that it will be a thing of the past. Wananchi then believed him 100% and they took to the street and started arresting corrupt officials. The first port of call was to target police officers who were used to lete kitu kidogo. A number of corrupt officials were dealt with instantly. Then came the big bang on judiciary led by The Ringera commission. Kenyan heaved a sigh and knew that the disease that has bedevilled this nation for 40 years was coming to an end.

The President set up several commission which were open to the public scrutiny. The first one was Goldenberg commission led by Justice Bosire and was open to public who witness high drama in the noon. This was considered good omen as sacred cows were brought to public scrutiny and to answer for their devious ways. Then the corrupt cartel regrouped and recruited men the in heart of Kibaki administration.The cartel fought very intelligently by creating more corrupt schemes to loot the public wealth. Kibaki courtiers sweared to keep the Presidency in the house of Mumbi they required large stash of cash to fight future elections and the only way to do that is to join cartels and create more monsters.

The wheels of this powerful machine was set rolling and they thought was fool proof. President Kibaki after loosing the referendum in 2005 sacked most of the ministers who campaigned for him while he was in a wheel chair in recuperating in a London hospital. They were shown the door. The era of consolidation began in earnest. Kibaki with the help of polarised intelligence began appointing his tribes men who came from GEMA which was changed to read MEGA. All the top security agencies head were replaced with GEMA people and the othe tribes or Kenyans were redeployed to non strategic jobs or were sent to long term retraining to pave way for the ethinicisation of the security organ.

Ethnicisation of the security organ was the biggest mistake that Kibaki and his cronies have done. The list of the security organs looked like central province who is who. The President to bottom post ere filled with GEMA operatives. No one was spared in this drive to ethnicise security and it was done with speed without calculating the consequence and feeling of fellow Kenyans who were in the majority. This act was the choreographed by wealthy old Kikuyu men who were blind to majority poor Kikuyu interest.

President Kibaki's commitment to operate meritocracy with regard to Kenya diversity was shown dustbin. The government has become an organ of this Kikuyu old men who do who are thinking it in term of Kenyatta yerster years. There is no accountability, honesty and fairness in Kenya today. The president is Kikuyu, the Minster for internal security is a Kikuyu,The PS internal security is a Kikuyu,The Chief of intelligence is Kikuyu, The Head of CID is a Kikuyu ,The head of defence intelligence is Kikuyu and the list goes on. This is where Moi differed with Kibaki who has not followed the basic rule of keeping intelligence and security out of tribal hegemony to avoid undermining national cohesion and unity. If Kibaki did not ethnicised the intelligence we would have not had the slaughter of 1500 Kenyans with another 600,000 in IDP camps today.

Kibaki has succeeded in polarising the country and killed the spirit of unity. The intelligence which is backbone of Kenya safety and well being is in the hand of few Kikuyu oligarchy. The rest of Kenya detest that as this will only lead to the death of nation as we know.The only solution is to bring professionalise back to our security organs and advice the President on the national interest of our country. If we do not stop this Kenya will end up the Rwanda way where genocide will be the result.

Ekwe Edia

Kenya ready for a coup

2010-03-28T10:05:00.003+03:00

The weather today in Naru Moru is beautiful. The sun shining and radiating to this blessed land.The sky is blue joining endless horizon. I am facing Mount Kenya one of the most beautiful scenery in the world. Mt Kenya stands tall among legends. Thousand of tourist from America, Europe and far lands come here to watch and enjoy this ecstatic beautiful scenery in our country. They pay thousands of dollars to share this the privilege with us which they don't have in their distant foreign lands. God has been generous to best own on us this beautiful gift that is admired across the seas that we do not appreciate gift.

I am having palpitation as I ponder the road a head for Kenya which looks bleak and no light at the end of the tunnel. This country is sitting on powder keg just about to explode and consume all that surround or near it. Kofi Annan came calling again but this time he was more disappointed than last. He was unable to bring the two principles together to discuss the very stalled reform that will have catapulted this nation forward to sit and join the civilised nation of this universe.

Former President Moi dosed and mesmerized us with his poor theory of that we are surrounded by sea of chaos while the looting spree and violation basic right continued unabated. Moi instilled fear in every Kenyan adult and child that he held us hostage for 24 years.He was a dictator that listened to himself and his kitchen cabinet. He supervised the dismantling of Kenya institutions one by one under the guise of neutralising the runaway Kikuyu's who were out to bring his administration to an end.He created a third force that he curved from smaller tribes into a power base for his selfish use. This smaller tribe would become his whipping boys and girls who will sing to his tune. To date Kenya institution are but an extension of the executive which has no balance or counter check.

After four days in the heat of Nairobi Kofi Annan a quite diplomat was disappointed leaving behind a trail of failed meetings,low expectation and was unable to convince this two geriatric Kenyans to shake hands and consult. President Kibaki has calculated that he has Prime minister Odinga where he wants and will not badge by firing Ruto and Ongeri as this will scatter his succession plan if there is any. President Kibaki has studied PM Odinga and knows that he will always badge to achieve his love for power and motorcade.

We are now crossroad where Kenya is a about to tip on the side of total chaos thanks to our myopic leaders and greedy bunch of Mps who have refused to pay tax and are busy crusading tribal hegemony. The last 46 years has been wasted with disease of patronage,corruption and nepotism curved by leaders who could not see beyond their bellies . It was all about them and their families. No Kenyan leader has ever thought of building institution that will defend the ideals of democracy in this beautiful nation. The institutions are today the worst culprit who led us to the bloodshed that was witnessed in 2007.

The same culprit who organized and financed the chaos today are in our parliament and are actively frustrating and scuttling every legislation that is brought to the floor of the house to set up a post election tribunal. They bribe their way with loot that they stole from public coffers and always want to have their way at the expense of majority Kenyans who are hard working and innocent. They have amassed wealth through corruption and kickbacks no wonder Kenya today tops corrupt countries league.

This beautiful country lacks leaders with vision and capability to lead. The two so called principles are busy plotting against each other. They do not inspire confidence in us or themselves and lack courage. They are doing side shows and are not consulting each other to midwife this important milestone of Kenya constitution which has been elusive for the last two decades. Their actions are encouraging a military takeover soon ."A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent."A good leader inspires others with confidence in him/her; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves."

Kofi Annan has gone back very disappointed man. His score card on Kenya reform agenda was below zero and had no good news to give Wananchi. He summed up what he saw as one principal was in constant campaign mood for 2012 while the other was laid back and abandoned reform package. The corruption cartels are running loose destroying the fabric of the society and no accountability. The fight against corruption has been lost with both side heavily engaged in the vice and building a war chest for the 2012 election which might not be there if things go the way the are now.

Kenya is on the brink of collapse . The thing that has been holding Kenya together is the hope that things will get better. The patched plaster is now peeling off ready to reveal the ugly oozing cancerous Kenya wound. There government can no longer guarantee the security of its citizen. Kidnapping is on the rise,killings of innocent has gone up and the police has become law into themselves shooting innocent Kenyan at will.The right ingredient for a military take over has been harvested.It is only time and the boys from the barracks will be on our streets to bring an end to impunity,corruption and kidnapping.They will place sense of order and safety back to our lives. May the time come sooner than later.

Kushotoo

The rotten judiaciary system

2010-03-25T12:32:00.003+03:00

The Kenya judiciary which which is the worst excess in modern Kenya at present is in deathbed awaiting last rite to be performed as it gives the last breath.Wananchi have lost faith in the system that they thought will defend justice at all cost. They have resorted in crude ways to settle scores among themselves.No wonder the Justice Minister himself was quoted recently in a national newspaper as saying that the ICC-Hague are behaving like Kenyan courts. All along Mutula Kilonzo who was former Moi's lawyer who is famous for double speak believed what Wananchi have known for decades that the courts works for the highest bidder.

The Kenya judiciary is rot who require precise surgical excision like a tumour that is about to dismember its victim . The Judges are used by Kenya ruling elite to suppress the majority and continue to loot the wealth of this beautiful nation.Time is ripe where Wananchi are about to face this monster head on and demand their rights.Recently a senior judge was acquitted from a crime that will have placed him behind bars for years. The said judged flipped during a road rage incident and stabbed his victim causing grievous body harm. The Judge who was driving carelessly and rushing God knows to where???. Imagine a judge whom they claim was of a good standing was acquitted with the intent of causing death.There is something that does not add up. This judge happens to be close to the Chief Justice???who might have due influence on this unfortunate case.

In any decent nation Judiciary is the guardian of the society and dispense justice without fear or favour.They are revered and respected as the last resort in any dispute whether political,social or economic. Judiciary are guardian of constitution of the nation. If Kenya had a robust and trustful judiciary we would have not have slaughtered our 1500 citizen and displaced another 600,000. Today we are unable to prosecute the thugs who financed and carried this massacre in modern day Kenya. We are still going round hoping and praying for foreigners to rescue us and administer justice for us.The impunity that is practiced in our judiciary led to system failure and free for all. The respect for individual rights no longer and issue and trampled on.The 2007 presidential dispute would not have risen had we good standing judiciary.The good judges would have insisted in level playing field.

It is none other than Chief Justice Gicheru who hurriedly trampled the constitution by swearing in the President in darkness and secrecy that led to the spilling of blood.President Kibaki might have won the election if it was conducted in transparent manner and there would have been no need to swear him haphazardly. The action of chief Justice which was shrouded with impunity caused the mayhem that followed that almost led to the collapse of the nation. The same Chief justice is today head of judiciary and insisting on avoiding accountability. What would you expect on the lower rank judges???.

The Judiciary in Kenya should completely be dismantled and to start a fresh as the new constitution is entrenched in the lives of Kenyans. They have created a monster in the last 46 years where judges have extensive business interest and involved in daily open bribery. There are very few decent judges who have held their honour high. They are known and their wealth counted on a single palm. They do not encourage or engage in vices.They are the true sons and daughters of this beautiful country that has been raped for the last four decades. Being a judge in Kenya today means that you can get away with anything and everything.

When the NARC administration came in it embodied new beginning for the nation. Immediately they took over President Kibaki declared corruption will not be entertained and will be a thing of the past. The radical surgery for Judiciary was started only to be stopped in the middle as Cabinet Ministers started to benefit from the rot. In just few years they managed to outmaneuver Moi despotic years and perfected the art of corruption and impunity. The Judges helped them to create atmosphere which this vices thrived. The Anglo leasing,Mamluki,passport and the rest of perfected stealing scheme set in with help and blessing of Cabinet Ministers.

Ironically Kiraitu Muruingi told the former President Moi to go and tend his goats and leave the government for them as they will show him how to govern and what is called good governance. Kiraitu was among the senior architect of impunity as taped by the former anti graft Czar John Githongo before he left for exile fearing for his life. He managed to tape and document all the schemes which is now deposited in U.K for safety.

The present regime should not think that they will be in power for long. Their days are numbered and all crime committed by them and previous regime will be brought to justice sooner than later.

Ekwe Edia

Kenya Human Rights 2009- State Department

2010-03-25T00:16:00.003+03:00

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

2009 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

March 11, 2010

Kenya has a population of approximately 39 million. It is a republic with a mixed presidential and parliamentary system. It has a strong president and a prime minister with unclearly defined executive powers. There is a unicameral National Assembly. In 2007 the government held local, parliamentary, and presidential elections. Observers judged the parliamentary and local elections to be generally free and fair. In the presidential election, the incumbent, President Mwai Kibaki, was proclaimed the winner by a narrow margin under controversial circumstances. Serious irregularities undermined the integrity of the presidential election results. Raila Odinga, the main opposition candidate, disputed the results, and violence erupted in sections of Nairobi and opposition strongholds in Nyanza, Rift Valley, and Coast provinces; approximately 1,333 persons were killed and more than 350,000 displaced between December 2007 and February 2008. The violence ended in February 2008 when, as the result of an international mediation process, the two sides agreed to form a coalition government. Under the terms of the agreement, incumbent President Kibaki retained his office, and Odinga was appointed to a newly created prime ministerial position. The parties also agreed to undertake a series of constitutional, electoral, and land reforms to address underlying causes of the crisis; these reforms were not completed by year's end. While civilian authorities generally maintained effective control of the security forces, there were frequent instances in which the security forces, particularly the police, acted independently.

The government in many areas respected the human rights of its citizens or attempted to institute reforms to address deficiencies. However, serious problems remained, particularly with regard to abuses by the police service. The following human rights problems were reported:

• unlawful killings by police
• police beatings and torture of detainees
• impunity
• harsh and life‑threatening prison conditions
• arbitrary arrest and detention
• use of excessive force
• prolonged pretrial detention
• executive interference in the judiciary
• restrictions on freedom of speech, the press, and assembly
• government corruption
• abuse of and discrimination against women
• female genital mutilation (FGM)
• child prostitution and labor
• trafficking of persons
• vigilante justice and interethnic violence
• lack of enforcement of workers' rights

On November 21, the government held its first national referendum for a proposed constitution. The citizens accepted the referendum result–‑57 percent opposed. Election observers did not witness any serious incidents of intimidation or violence, and stated the referendum process was peaceful and professional. In addition the government consolidated and extended some of the human rights reforms it had taken the previous two years. For the third straight year, there were no politically motivated arrests or disappearances, and prison visits by human rights groups increased.

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The registration of a lifetime

2010-03-24T12:10:00.003+03:00

The voter registration in Kenya Yetu has kicked off smoothly with true leaders showing participation in the first day of this important milestonein Kenya's 21st centuary piece of history. Kenya Yangu was almost raced to ground by inept,scrupulous,myopic selfish fake leaders in the last general election thanks to the international community who saved us from total annihiliation and destruction.

Kenya of yesteryear's of patronage,rigging,sukuma twende and has all been thrown through the windows by a stroke of a pen on the electrol voter registration. The Interim Independent Electoral Commission which is a new face of Kenyans who want to do business in transparent way is led by a honest and capable Lawey Ahmed Issack has taken Kenya right in the 21st century by introducing open electronic register which is an efficient system that will not require the returning officers to disappear and switch off the phones in crucial time.The act of returning officers dissapearing at will caused Kenyans to be burnt alive in the house of God.Never,never again. The machine is noe electronic and transparent.

This is the wish and prayer for the 1500 Kenyans who lost their lives for exercising their democratic rights.Today Kenya is proud of hosting 300,000 internally displaced citizen. Imagine you are a refugee in your own country. Kenyans are registered as refugees in camps in Uganda and also in the volatile Somalia who are hosting Kenyans near Mogadishu Airport.

President Kibaki true to his leadership led the nation in kicking off the new voter registration which will wipe out all those ills that has beseeched this beautiful country. Former President Moi also led his own Troop in Sacho Baringo for the registration. Wamalwa,Balala,Kenyatta,Ruto were all in their constituency availing themselves to registration process while ODM was in campaign mode throughout this years.

Odinga and his disgruntled elements were campaigning for the 2012 in Ukambani and Meru district. They are busy wiping up the Wanachi emotions and plotting to scuttle the New Constitution. ODM knows that with the new constitution which is Wananchi driven document they stand zero chance and Will be floored in the next General Election which Will be transparent. They are fighting to retain the old constitution which they believe will give Odinga presidency on a silver platter.The ODM is fighting for a constitution that will benifit Odinga and not one that will serve Kenyans and lead this beautiful country to prosperity. Kenya The land of honey and milk and Mungu Ibariki.

This group of old school politician have placed Kenya in a state of heightened electioneering since day one of disputed 2007 election and have stagnated development. The coalition government is a joke even children know. It is impossible to have two people driving the same car in opposite direction. This is why President Kibaki has refused to share the presidency with somebody who catapulted himself in the government. Yes Jimmy Kibaki is right when he says that it is Ruto who made Odinga Prime Minister.It is the other way round Odinga should respect Ruto Thanks to the Rift Valley youth who sacrificed their youthness languishing in jails while Odinga enjoys motorcade and gives lip service to corruption which is a past time of ODM.

Odinga and gang should be kicked out of government and serve as opposition in parliament. This duties which we are sure they will excel in and Kenyans will thank them. In government they have been disaster and stalled all development project and busy engaging in corruption. 95% of the Present Members of parliament will loose their seat in 2012 no matter how hard they work to entrench themselves. The ballots will be transparent and electronic.

SUSANA

U.K will not fund corruption

2010-03-17T23:43:00.002+03:00

UNITED KINGDOM FREEZES KSHS 2.3 BILLION EDUCATION AID TO GOVERNMENT OF KENYA: We have a responsibility to UK taxpayers to ensure their money is spent on its intended purpose – just as the Government of Kenya has a similar responsibility to its taxpayers, and to all Kenyan parents and school children

The children of Kenya though, will not lose vital education support because of massive fraud in the Ministry of Education.

Speaking in Nairobi on Tuesday 16th march 2010, while announcing that the Kenyan Government will no longer receive UK funds for Education sector programming Alistair Fernie, Head of the Department for International Development (DFID) Kenya office said “to pull out of education completely, as some have suggested we do, would only harm Kenyan schoolchildren. Their education – as future Kenyan citizens – is crucial so they can get jobs, secure livelihoods, and hold their Government to account. So we will continue to support education in other ways until we can resume funding through Government. We aim to spend around the same amount in 2010/11 as we had planned (£20m – 2.3 billion KSh) before the fraud. We will remain focused on improving the quality of and access to education in Kenya. And we will continue to help more children, particularly those in disadvantaged areas, to get the classrooms and textbooks they need. In the longer term, we are open to resuming funding through Government if financial management is sufficiently improved.”

The Kenyan Government will not have any role to play in the disbursement of UK education support funds until it conducts credible investigations and audits of education sector funding. The UK planned to provide funding for education programming in Kenya amounting to Ksh 2.3 billion for the financial year starting June 2010, but “does not believe the Government has yet done enough to address the risks of fraud to justify a resumption of its funding.”

Following today’s announcement, DFID’s remaining £5 million for KESSP and £5m for improving water/sanitation for the poorest schools, scheduled to be disbursed by the end of March 2010, will not be spent. Any resumption of funding to KESSP will need new approval by DFID Ministers.

“We are very disappointed that we have had to take the decision to stop direct funding through the Ministry of Education” said Alistair Fernie, Head of the Department for International Development (DFID) Nairobi office. “The Government has made some progress with conditions for resumption of donor funding, but these benchmarks have not been fully met. We do not have confidence that the necessary systems have been put in place to ensure that this does not happen again. And until we do, we cannot fund through the Government. We have a responsibility to UK taxpayers to ensure their money is spent on its intended purpose – just as the Government of Kenya has a similar responsibility to its taxpayers, and to all Kenyan parents and school children.”

DFID will now focus on supporting the education of Kenyan children through spending its £20 million budget for education for 2010/2011 initially outside of Government channels. Details are being worked up. Possible elements include continuing to provide support directly to schools through the form of grants for orphans and vulnerable children, infrastructure and textbooks, particularly for those in disadvantaged areas. DFID is also exploring options to improve accountability and oversight of resources at the local level – getting parents, teachers and the wider community involved in ensuring funds are spent correctly.

Though other UK aid to Kenya has not been affected, the statement is definitely a big blow to the credibility of the Kenyan Government, currently embroiled in a series of grand corruption scandals in the education, agricultural, local government and oil sectors. Nairobi hoped that investigations and prosecutions of civil servants, commenced on the instructions of the Kenyan President, would have convinced the UK, Kenya’s second largest bi-lateral partner, to reverse DFID’s suspension of support to the Ministry of Education’s Kenya Education Sector Support Programme announced late last year following the discovery of widespread fraud in the Ministry of Education by the Ministry of Finance’s Internal Audit Department (IAD) in September 2009. This suspension will now stand “until the risks of fraud are substantially reduced”.

The education fraud uncovered so far is based only on an audit of the Ministry of Education accounts for one month (June 2009). Now demands for a clearer picture from the Kenyan Government of the extent of the problem – and not just in the education sector are being made.

As Rob Macaire, British High Commissioner, puts it “Recently we have witnessed major corruption scandals in the maize, education, oil and local government sectors. All these scandals directly impact on the lives of Kenyan people, stealing funds that were meant for development for all Kenyans and which Kenyan taxpayers largely provide. Recent instruction from the President and Prime Minister to all senior civil servants give some hope that Kenya is finally willing to tackle such theft. But there needs to be a sea-change in attitudes. The Government has the opportunity now to show it is serious in tackling corruption, not just in education but across all sectors, and back up its words with action. To stamp out the theft of public money, this action must include ensuring all those who steal are held accountable, including through prosecutions. And not just those with their hands in the till – those who are responsible for preventing such fraud and who fail to act should also be held to account. The wider Kenyan public has a role to play too in continuing to demand greater accountability and rejecting corruption at all levels of society. We will support those within Government and outside of it who are genuinely trying to bring about that change.”

The Kenyan public is also unconvinced that enough has been done to punish corruption, and has taken to demanding that Ministers and politicians take political responsibility; but this is an alien concept in Kenya’s political class. A case in point involves the demands for resignation of the Education Minister Prof. Sam Ongeri who is adamant that the scam has no implications on his stay in office. Ongeri, a key Kibaki ally, was personally reinstated by President Kibaki following his “suspension” by Prime Minister Raila Odinga in February.

This story will run and run as most corruption scandals in Kenya usually do.

Facts on UK aid to Kenya’s Education Sector:

The UK, through its Department for International Development (DFID), is Kenya’s second biggest bilateral donor, with an aid budget in 20010/11 of £81 m (Kshs 9.3 billion). But only about 10% of this aid goes through the Government of Kenya, because of concerns about financial accountability.
Before the suspension of its funding, DFID had disbursed £45 million to KESSP towards teaching and learning materials, enhancing teachers’ skills, provide 11,880 new and rehabilitated primary school classrooms, enhance water and sanitation facilities and helped develop a national HIV/AIDS prevention programme for upper primary schools.
The UK was one of 4 partners (World Bank, Canada and UNICEF) who had been providing ‘pooled’ funding directly through the Government of Kenya to the Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP). DFID announced support of £55 million (~ 7 billion Kshs) over 5 years (2005 – 2010) to KESSP. This included £50 million direct to KESSP and £5 million for technical assistance managed by DFID. An additional grant of £5 million was agreed in 2009 to specifically target improving water/sanitation facilities for the poorest schools. No funding has been disbursed since the Kenyan Government announced discovery of fraud in September 2009.
The total estimated loss from the KESSP pool at this stage is Ksh 230 million.
The criteria that donors told Government they had to meet before resumption of donor funding for KESSP could be considered were:
(1) A full and complete audit report must be released to pooling partners satisfactorily addressing all of the issues raised in a fiduciary review of 9 October and including all supporting documentation. To date the Government has not validated all of the allegations in the fiduciary review.

(2) Officials found by the audit to have committed fraud must be appropriately sanctioned and their cases passed to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) for criminal investigation and prosecution if found to have broken the law. Action is being taken against some Ministry of Education headquarters staff.

(3) All funds lost through fraud to be reimbursed to the contributors to the pooled fund on a pro rata basis. This has not been done.

(4) The Ministry of Education must provide evidence of suitable progress against an action plan agreed by all pooling partners for strengthening financial management. An action plan to strengthen financial management has been drafted but the Government has not yet taken all the actions required to reassure that fraud will not happen again.

Facing Mount Kirinyaga

2010-03-14T00:29:00.004+03:00

The house of Mumbi shall have prosperity and no one shall die of hunger in the land that was gifted to Mumbi by creator who lived on top of Kirinyaga mountain. There were many who came from this land that will lead nation to prosperity.Kikuyu legends have it that in the beginning, a man called Gikuyu and his wife called Mireia (Mumbi) were placed on Mũkũrwe wa Nyagathanga in present day Murang’a District by God, Mwene Nyaga or Ngai. It was said that they were placed near the Mugumo or Fig tree upon the slopes of the mountain. They gave birth to Nine daughters named,Wanjiku, Wanjirũ, Wangeci, Wambũi, Wangari, Wacera Waithera, Wairimũ and Wangũi. It so happened that when they were grown up, they met nine young men from a distant land, ostensibly Axum, who married the girls and from whom the Kikuyu nation arose. A popular myth claims that when Kikuyu’s daughters came of marrying age, Kikuyu prayed to Mwene Nyaga to provide husbands for their daughters whom he duly provided by a fig tree(Exiles from Axum)

The famous seer Mugo wa kibiru prohesized the coming of the whiteman in Gikuyu land before their arrival. His prophecy was that there would come people who would have bodies like kiengere (a small light coloured frog which lives in water) and whose dress would resemble ciĩuhuruta (butterflies). They would carry magical sticks which would produce fire. Further he prophesized the coming of the railway line that would stretch from one body of water in the east to another in the west and the train which he described as an iron snake that would spit fire. Further this snake would ‘eat’ people and ‘vomit’ them out. He also predicted the coming of the famine that would signal the coming of the strangers with bodies like kiengere.

Mugo also prophesized on modern Kenya where the Leadership{presidency} will leave for a short while from house of Mumbi to to people of Rift valley and then return back to House of Mumbi where it shall never again leave. This prophesy which is widely held in Central province will come to haunt any politician who is eyeing the presidency but not descending from House of Mumbi.

President Kibaki with his development record will seek another term under the new constitution which ODM wants to scuttle as they have now smelt rat. Kibaki is about to finish his second term in office and will like to play the same card that Moi used to extend his presidency which is within his right. Kibaki has opened Kenya to where everybody has been guaranteed freedom of speech which was a taboo during Moi's autocratic rule.

With the way Kenya politics are there is no single candidate who has come out fitting the bill of ruling this nation which is about to collapse. ODM which as been all along crying for new constitution has just realized that they will not gain the key to state house unless they use the present constitution which will serve them better. With their think tanks they have burning the midnight oil to ensure that Kenya does not achieve new Constitution which will throw them out of office.

What Kibaki is doing is within his own right and fulfilling the prophecy Mugo wa Kibiru. The Leadership{Presidency} shall never again leave the house of Mumbi. The Population of House of Mumbi is now 7 million and using mathematical calculation they need a swing of 1.7% from any other group to ensure the prophecy which is not a tall order.

The house of Mumbi is now gone to full force of inventing so many political parties and political players for the ultimate game of divide and rule. They will be so disorganized and believing that they have got the blessing of house of Mumbi only to have the carpet pulled from them at last minute. They will be many rallies with greenhorn politicians being fronted as future leaders. They will be psychologically emasculated into making them believe its their turn. The House has bigger picture it must fulfil the prophecy.

President Kibaki will seek a third term ,first term in the new Constitution which ODM is very actively sabotaging. The population of Kenya are behind Kibaki who has lead this nation to prosperity and just before the bungled election he won Kenya was registering 7% growth annually. There has been large inflow of foreign investment In Kenya. So why do we Kenyan want to turn a blind eye on this excellent achievement. Lets wait and peacefully cast our vote and bring back President Kibaki to complete his economic legacy.

Karen Mbithi

By Miguna Miguna

2010-03-13T00:00:00.001+03:00

By Miguna Miguna,
In law, they call it an open and shut case. That’s what the rip-off surrounding the “purchase of land for cemetery by City Council of Nairobi” is. This is a fraud from the beginning to the end. Let me explain using credible primary evidence and chronologically demonstrate how this fraud was cooked and executed by senior public officers at the Treasury, Nairobi City Council and Ministry of Local Government.

A letter by then PS for Local Government, Sammy Kirui dated 25 June 2008 addressed to the former Town Clerk of Nairobi, John Gakuo, refer to various correspondence between the Nairobi City Council, the Ministry of Local Government and Treasury confirming that the “Government” had allocated funds for the fraudulent transaction. The letter notes that a meeting held at the Ministry headquarters and chaired by the Senior Deputy Secretary on 5 June 2008, stressed the need to “finalize” the transaction. By this date, no land had been identified or purchased. It is unclear how and why Sh 350 million of public funds was released by Treasury to Mr. Kirui.

On June 27, 2008, Mr. Kirui instructed that payment for the non-existent land be processed and Sh 350 million be paid out to unidentified people. The parcels of land identified for purchase were LR 23222, 23223, 23224, 23225, 23226, 23227, 23228, 23229 and 23230, measuring 75 acres to be purchased for use as cemetery. There is reference to a draft sale agreement between the City Council and some unnamed vendors.

Mr. Kirui directed payments on State Counsel E.N. Torome’s Memo dated 27 June 2008. The same day, the Principal Accountant at the Ministry, J.O. Warega, wrote to the Chief Accountant confirming that Mr. Kirui had “approved payment.” Mr. Warega instructed the Chief Accountant to prepare payment of Sh 289 million to E.N. Omotii & Company Advocates as “per the approval.” No indication why this large sum is being paid out. This happened before the land had been located and no Sale Agreement had been signed.

Mr. Kirui sent another letter to Mr. Gakuo on 8 September 2008 stating that “it is noted from your letter that identification of a suitable parcel of land for use as a cemetery through personal visits is not yielding results.” He directed that a paid advertisement be placed seeking appropriate land. Yet, payments were processed by Mr. Kirui more than six months before the required procurement conditions were met or appropriate land identified.

On 30 October, 2008, Mr. Kirui sent another letter to Mr. Gakuo stating that: “It is now 5 months since you initiated action on this matter and yet you have not concluded and advised the Ministry to effect payment. The continued holding of this payment is adversely affecting other financial transactions in the Ministry. From the date of this letter I want to get this matter concluded within a period of 5 days. At the expiry of this period the Ministry will take over the procurement process and proceed with the advertisement for the purchase of the land for the cemetery.”

The haste and desperation to conclude the fraud so as to cash the large public cheque is obvious from the contents of Mr. Kirui’s letter.

By letter dated 4 December 2008, Mr. Kirui says to Mr. Gakuo: “it is particularly disturbing that the tender documents are alleged to have been defective.” Yet, on 18 December 2008, in response to a query by the Chief Financial Officer over the same issue and recommendation that the ministry’s State Counsel peruse the documents, Mr. Kirui responded that “State Counsel perusing the agreement is just another bureaucratic hurdle” to delay the transaction. Kirui pointed out that even “the other bidders” had not complained. Bureaucratic procedure suddenly becomes an unnecessary hindrance.

None of the documents were copied to or signed by Hon. Musalia Mudavadi, in violation of section 144(2) of the Local Government Act that states that all land transactions must be approved by the minister.

On 15 February 2010, the Controller and Auditor-General forwarded his audit report on the transaction to the finance minister, Uhuru Kenyatta. He also delivered a copy to Hon Mudavadi who then forwarded it to the KACC on 17 February 2010, and requested that action be expedited on the matter. On 19 February 2010, Mr. Mudavadi sent a letter to Amb Muthaura, with a copy of the report and asked Muthaura to “take peremptory measures” to implement the report’s recommendations.

Neither KACC nor Muthaura took any action; not until the irregular leakage of an incomplete KACC report. The true value of the land in question is Sh 24 million. The transaction was sealed using a forged valuation report that inflated the price to Sh 325 million, which was paid out to among others, a sister to the PNU’s James Nyamweya. The land purportedly purchased is not the same as the nine parcels listed above. Mudavadi was not involved and never received a cent.

The radicalization Kenya Somali Youth

2010-03-11T12:41:00.004+03:00

Two month ago the Kenyan public joined the Kenya police and security agencies in lynching,mob justice, shooting and stoning peaceful Somali demonstrators in front of Jamia Mosque. A number of innocent Somalis were killed and injured. This was the turning point for Somali Kenyan youth who were patriotic Kenyan until that day. It suddenly dawn to them after all this years they were only considered a second class material like their parents and fore fathers before them . It was painful to watch this scene unravelling in front of our eyes which has been captured vividly in YouTube. The Butchers at the council market joined the police in chasing and harassing this Innocent Somali Kenya who were demonstrating rightly or wrongly on issue that they thought touched them personally.

The issue of Somali Kenyans has now been rekindled and this incident which should never have happed in modern day Kenya has reminded them where they belong the second class citizen. It is clear that they are not considered like other Kenyans and this ripple effect have been felt world wide by Somalis of all walk of life. Who are now preparing for plan B.

Since Kenya's independence Somalis have been targeted for economic ,political and social discrimination. There province has been divided and large chunks annexed to Kenyas Eastern province . Their area is least developed in the country with ravaging drought that has brought the nomadic life to a stand still. NFD or North Eastern which is the second largest province in Kenya has no single university or referral hospital. The Education system is neglected as number of teachers per student has declined since independence. The recent result of Secondary school examination KCPE is clear indicator how this expanse province and population is treated. The first candidate in this vast province was not equal to the last candidate of the whole other provinces combined.

The recent census which had placed the population of North Eastern 3 million has been suppressed by the authorities who are now doctoring the census. The Kenya authorities will not believe that the population of Somalis has increased by 140%. This act by the government which is discriminatory will not go unchallenged in any democracy or emerging democracies. Thanks to the poor calibre of Members of parliament produced by North Eastern who are busy lining there pocket than looking at the bigger picture of developing and fighting for the right of their people. This Mps do not contribute to their respective constituencies leave alone debating national issue on the floor of parliament.

No single Mp in present and past Parliament is capable of being compared to the legendary and fearless the late Hon. Abdi Sirat Khalif who fought for the rights of his people. The present Somali Mps in th Kenya parliament who are 14 plus have not raised a finger to the open discriminatory acts caused by the Kenya against its population and land. Late Abdi Sirat Khalif fought tooth and nail with Kenyatta administration who in the end silenced him by rigging him out.

The North Eastern province has been under emergency laws for the last 46 years.The government have always dealt ruthless with population whom one time politician requested that all the well of this nomads in the province to be poisoned to wipe out the Somali population an advice that made President Kenyatta angry to the point of reprimanding that politician by telling him if he were to kill the population of North Eastern he will be left with no one to rule.

When I was young and I remember vividly during the 1977 Ogaden War all Somalis in Kenya were hounded and detained in large camps in Schools for over 3days without food and water. It is a bitter memory that stays with me till today. The harassment caused to my people is beyond imagination. I have buried it in me till the recent indiscriminate attack on Somali by Kenya security forces and the Kenyan public.

The memories Wagalla, Malka Mari,Garrisa 1984 massacre are fresh in our minds. Thousand of Somalis were massacred by the Kenya security forces without any reason. The reason was flimsy and it is that Kenya government has carried systematic genocide against people it claims to be its own citizen. No one come to Somalis aid.

Recently George Kinuthia Saitoti went to Israel and asked the Israeli security forces to help and train their Kenyan counterpart to fight Somali terrorism which is about to overtake Kenya. Yes the Kenya government now want to use Israelis to kill and maim more Somalis. What do you expect from us??? To watch when you prepare to kill our women and children? NO No No enough is enough we will no longer be bound by the rule of ballots. It is time we also took lead and armed ourselves. For me today I will be prepare to lead our people to our journey that will lead to self determination a right that is enshrine n the universal declaration of human rights. I will fight to defend my people. Brutal force should equally be met with Brutal force. The Israelis will look after its interest of not antagonizing the Somali population in Kenya.

I hope SIASA KALI will be brave enough today to publish my article which is what million of young Kenyan Somalis are feeling. The process of radicalization is irreversible and has been triggered by the recent attack of Somalis by the Kenya security forces with help of it citizens. We will not accept second class citizen. If you do not want to recognize us as your equals then it is high time we parted ways.

Sadia Ahmed

Stealing from the dead

2010-03-09T23:03:00.004+03:00

Mudavadi has been caught hand in the cookie jar. Yes it is all ODM double speak and double standard. When Prof Ongeri and Ruto were implicated in the Free Primary Education and Maize scandal with a stroke of a pen PM Odinga called a press conference on valentine day and famously suspended both Ruto and Ongeri only his decision to be reversed by President Kibaki.

How low can ODM hierarchy go. They stole maize meant for the poor and hungry. They made killing by using their cronies and went for full force. They were elected on platform of fighting corruption and nepotism. Today they are the leaders of corruption and just a copy of those whom they were fighting to replace.

Do not believe pollsters they are being used to promote a group and only to pull a plug at last minute like the did in the last election. Now this pollsters interview through telephone few hundred people and then tell the public that Hon Odinga is popular. This is a trap that he is falling for. If really Odinga wants to know how popular he is let him come to the Wanachi joint and not use choreographed meetings.

ODM ate the maize while 10 million Kenyans were hungry and devastated by drought. Now that we have rain they are busy scheming how to export our food and make another killing. All this is calculated to make Wananchi hungry not to demand their political rights. Everybody in ODM was party to the maize opera and the involvement was through the hierarchy the more closer you were to the heartbeat the more maize you were given to sell. Imagine even board members who were former Mps who failed in the last election were given chance to eat and make the rest of Kenyans go hungry.

Hon Mudavadi through his business associate Mr Osiemo pocketed a cool 59million Kenya shillings for doing nothing.This is criminal act which need to be punished by a jail term. They have now gone further and coined a new dictionary word of stealing from the dead. If ODM are denying Wananchi a burial right why would we vote for them in the coming years. Burial /funeral activities should be treated with respect and made a place where corruption free rains. We should respect the lasting place of our dead who have no opportunity to engage in corruption and criminal activity.

President Kibaki is on the ball and has again sacked 8 officials including the PS Kirui for their heinous act of stealing from the dead. As the president promised more heads are to roll as he declares corruption a thing of the past. He has cancelled the foreign travel conducted by the over 90 ministers who have made a business of accumulating foreign exchange during this unnecessary travel abroad. The minister who benefit from this trip take there spouses and children and claim allowance from the tax payers. President Kibaki has now put a brake to that. He has also ordered all furniture's to be ordered from Jua Kali closing another loophole where this thugs have enriching themselves. By this Presidential act Jua KAli employees and families will benefit from 500 million Kenya shillings which was stolen from the tax payers. This act will create more employment and promote local industry.Yes the president is serious and not personalising the war on corruption.

PM Raila Amollo Odinga should now show us what he means by the war on corruption. We now challenge him to dismiss or Ask Hon.Mudavadi to step aside for impartial investigation to be conducted like he did with Hon Ongeri and Hon Ruto. There is no two way about this issue of corruption being personalised. Odinga is a populist leader who likes to play to the galleries. He is at the moment mesmerised by the polls that are designed to tame him to toe down the line. Will he be brave enough to fight corruption and call on his deputy to stand aside???????.

Hon Mudavadi is being investigated by KACC and is crying foul. Instead of accounting for the 59 million he pocketed he is running wild and covering his track. Now Kenya is on the path of war with corruption. No matter who you are you will soon be exposed. The Kenya that steals from its dead, the Kenya that steals maize from the mouth of hungry is a Kenya of the past. We will rise and use our votes very intelligently this time. No more kupiga domo domo.

Will Hon Odinga rise to the occasion and ask his deputy Hon Mudavadi to step aside and make us believe that the issue of fighting corruption is not personality oriented.

SIASA KALI

The Foreign policy adventure

2010-03-05T12:24:00.008+03:00

This old man should be asked to go quietly and tend to his goats in Tugenia. Mr Moi has been running parallel foreign policy for Kenya without the express authority of Kenya government blessing.

Mr Moi is not at peace since he was pelted with eggs and stones after his defeat in 2002 elections which he was not allowed to impose his image on Kenyans. After 24 years of looting and running aground Kenya's economy he is still actively preaching on the theory of Kenya being surrounded by sea of Chaos. His main line is look at our neighbours how they are ??? if I was not God fearing Kenya will have gone to the dogs. With this god fearing line Moi and his henchmen went on a looting spree that is only equalled to Congo during Mobutu Sseseko kuku wa Zabanda's reign.

This old man has been Cris crossing the plains of East Africa with his calling card and promoting the virtues of dictatorship and poor governance. He was recently seen in Uganda where he was campaigning for the re-election of Dictator Museveni who has been in power for the last 24 years and planning for another 24 years . Mr Moi and President Museveni did not see eye to eye during his tenure of Kenyan leadership and there was constant tension between the two countries. Now Mr Moi in his retirement travelled to Uganda to be showered and bestowed with a Ugandan Medal for supporting the re-election of Dictator Museveni. The Ugandans are not fools and will not be lectured by a fading dictator.

Kenya's foreign policy of non-alignment ,non interference with neighbours has been thrown out of the window by this single old man who is freewheeling and jumping to every invitation by dictators in this continent who want to continue to oppress their people and not giving the their Democratic right of choosing leaders of their choice. Mr Moi flew to Southern Sudan on two day mission fully pain for from the coffers of poor Southern Sudanese who are unable to feed their own people. This region which is a contentious is a volatile and will explode any minute. Mr Moi unashamedly called on the people of Southern Sudan to support Salva Kiir Mayardit and return him UN-opposed. Moi rebuked the fiery opposition leader Dr Lam Akol for exercising his democratic belief.

The Sudanese government have not been happy with Kenya's covert support to Southern Sudan which wants to secede from the North. It believes Kenya has been double dealing while arming and encouraging actively the Salva Kiir and his group it has been sending mixed messages to Bashir government. The port of Mombasa is heavily used by SPLM to import heavy weapons to destabilise the whole region. Moi during his tenure gave the SPLM open access to Kenya and exclusive use of the port. The Southern Sudan is preparing itself for another round of War in 2011. This was exposed when Somali pirates intercepted heavy tanks and artillery imported from Ukraine and heading to Southern Sudan government.

Moi with the tacit support of Kenya is now preaching for rigging of the April election in Southern Sudan to ensure the Salva Kiir Maryadit is bulldozed back to office. This will set a very bad precedent and make this region to start on wrong footing. Moi loves dictatorship and is actively encouraging others over 80'years old men to continue to rule with iron fist. He has forgotten that we are now in the 21st century where the youth will take over leadership and drive this continent to good governance.

Kenya should tread carefully when dealing with Sudan which is a large country with wealth and large population. If Kenya continues and actively encourages Sudan dismemberment then Sudan will shine it spotlight towards Kenya which can really be nasty. Kenya's is politically volatile at present with number of challenges in term of economic and security and will not be able to contain a hostile neighbour like Sudan. The unemployed population and dissatisfied Kenyans can have sympathetic ear from Khartoum who can call for pay back time to Kenya for interfering with her internal affairs. They will be able to flood weapons ,funds and training to this youth who can caused mayhem and total chaos that will look like third world war.

We Know through our network that Sudan is holding a card up it sleeve and with Kenya's trend of interfering with her affairs will happily use in 2011. Already Sudanese operative are active in Nairobi and in Turkana region keenly watching Kenya's every move and open support for the secession movement.

Moi has successfully run down the economy ,culture and the people of Kenya for the last 24 years. He should not be allowed to room around with impunity. He should give up the Kaptagat tea factory and all the land he holds in Mau which has been an ecological disaster. He should also be made accountable to the Murder of Robert Ouko and all those he tortured and displaced in exile.He should not be allowed to enjoy looted wealth in his retirement and should be made to account for every penny.

Kenya government Should place a brake on Moi adventurism that is only succeeding in damaging its already tainted image. Moi who is geriatric who is fast approaching the age of 90 and is showing signs of Dementia. Southern Sudan should not be allowed to be the grave of Kenya's independence. Kenya is better advice not to interfere with the ongoing political turmoil in that country but to promote peace,democracy and stability to our neighbours,our continent and the world. We should guard our independence jealously and promote good governance and neighbourliness.

Kushotoo.

The Hostage Syndrome

2010-03-04T12:14:00.004+03:00

Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga Kenya's Prime Minister has formed a special bond with President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. This bond has become so special that it is water tight and no one can brake it. Raila sees nothing but good in Kibaki that his loyal troop are at a loss

Raila has been campaigning on Kibaki being a reformist that critics wonder if the Prime Minister who is so desperate to become the next President will go at any length to praise is enemy number one.

This behaviour that Raila is a party to is called the Stockholm Syndrome a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein the hostage Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga express adulation and have positive feeling towards his captor President Mwai Kibaki that appear to be irrational light of danger that he is exposed to.

Odinga family are desperate to capture the Presidency of Kenya which has been elusive towards them. Raila is so desperate that the more closer he becomes to his goal the further the Presidency drift away. Raila is a militant that has been given the little power trapping that has confused him. The Motorcade that Kibaki has offered him has mesmerized him that withdrawal will caused huge psychological effect on his well being. Kibaki handlers have choreographed Raila's whole personality that whatever threat he makes is watered down within seconds.

President Kibaki has mapped out the entire Odinga genome and manipulates it to his advantage and the way that pleases him .The body language that Kibaki projects while in the company of Odinga displays who is in charge and how he grades Odinga. Kibaki assumes the aura of power, confidence and fox like posture that outwits his opponent at ago.

During the cabinet building exercise at Sagana lodge Kibaki handlers laid a trap that Odinga fell for that was taped by the Kenya national intelligence and remains to haunt him today. The whole saga was contained in a Brief case that was passed to him to offset his election expenses which was so juicy that he could not resist. Odinga has poor set of advisers and relies on his Luo clique who are outfoxed on strategy and intelligence.

The question of corruption is game that is played to the gallery to keep busy Kenyans mind while underhand game continues unabated. None of the leaders is ready to roll up sleeve and work for the sake of Kenya as all of them are entangled to the corruption web. There close relatives, partners and friends are leaders in the field of corruption who are insulated from the rule of justice.

10 million Kenyans go to bed every night hungry and wake up with the same pang in the morning. The youth is 80% unemployed and are rooming in our streets idle. It is like fuel waiting for someone to strike the matchstick. Kenya is on the bring of collapse due to its myopic leaders who are selfish and are on the path of self destruction.

EKWE EDIA

Matuga People deserve the Best

2010-02-28T11:18:00.004+03:00

The people of Matuga should consider not voting for Ali Chirau Makwere. Makwere has been the worst performing minister since Kenya attained Independence 46 years ago. In his short stint as Minister he has not supervised a single transport bill in parliament successfully. He has been busy attending Lingala concerts and singing in private parties.

Makwere owns a matatu which placed him in conflict with his ministerial duties . When asked why he will not implement Michuki's rule he said that since he owned matatu he will not shoot himself in the leg. The man beat any logic and has been arrogant and a tribalist of first class. One student who is now studying overseas went to seek his help while he was in office. When Makwere saw the student he asked him why he was carrying a name that did not resemble Digo names. The student was shocked and left Makwere's office in despair.

Makwere is an actor and a show man who failed during his stint as in the foreign office and should never have been appointed as a minister. His area is among the least developed with lowest per capita in the country as a whole. He rarely involved in development in his home area let alone the country. He does not deserve to represent the good people of Matuga.

Kenya roads have turned into graveyard for wananchi since his appointment in transport ministry. Kenya has one of the highest fatality rates in the world and loses up to 3,000 lives every year, with an average of about 8 people killed everyday. In Economic terms this has cost the country about Ksh. 6 Billion annually. Even more serious is the trauma suffered by those affected directly or indirectly by these accidents through loss of injury of their loved ones. In fact in terms of mortality, road accidents have been taken the third killer position after Malaria and HIV/AIDS.

The Data shows that the majority of accidents on Kenyan roads amounting to 85% are caused by human error on the part of road users, 11% are due to poor vehicle conditions and vehicle failure and about 4% are attributable to environmental factors. Human error occurs through various factors such as:-over speeding, driving under influence of alcohol or drugs, overloading, reckless driving, careless pedestrians and UN-qualified drivers.

Makwere has been a human disaster and face of impunity that need to be discarded. He has no place in the cabinet leave alone the parliament. The PNU brigade are making a big mistake by supporting and backing this man who is a looser. PNU should not give his nomination and if they adhere to rules of democracy they should subject him to nomination like other candidates who are vying for the post. ODM-K has withdrawn it's support from Mr Kazim Tandaza who came third and garnered 6,000 votes in the last election. ODM-K and it's leaders are opportunist who have all their lives have been singing Moi's tune and looted this country. They have short sight and unprincipled.

Sheikh Juma Ngao a former PNU and Shirikisho party coordinator has summed up all when he said that he will not support Makwere in the coming election because of his pathetic record in development of the area. Makwere destroyed the port operation by replacing capable Kenyans with his cronies. Thanks to God that he was removed before the transport ministry hemorrhaged due to his incompetence.

People of Matuga deserve the best of Brain and industrious member of parliament. We call on people of Matuga please.please,please do not elect Ali Chirau Makwere the Lingala musician.

Elizabeth Musau

The Die is cast for Amb Kiplagat

2010-02-25T14:12:00.010+03:00

The Die for Ambassador Kiplagat is cast and the earlier he bows out as the Chairman of TRJC the better for saving the integrity of this commission which Kenya's want it to work. Bishop Desmond Tutu the charismatic South Africa leader who is a symbol of truth has put the last nail on the coffin.

Amb Kiplagat is a show man and how the parliament forwarded is name to be approved by the President is still a puzzle in the mind of many Kenyans. Kiplagat appeared before National T.V and when asked about Late Hon Ouko's death he shed crocodiles tear expecting Kenyans to sympathize with him.

Kiplagat has been entangled in corrupt deals of acquiring public land by virtue of his position during the Moi despotic regime where it was all grab anything and everything. Even public toilets in Nairobi were grabbed by Moi cronies and turned to Petrol stations. Today their are very few public toilets in Nairobi which boast as the capital city of Kenya.

Kiplagat chaired the massacre of Wagalla in 1984 where 5,000 innocent Somali Degodia clan were murdered in scorching heat of sun. He was deeply involved and has the blood of all those innocent victims who are stil crying for justice. There is no way This Man Kiplagat can head a commission that seek to redress the ills that this beautiful country has undergone in the last 46+ years.

The Death of Ouko whom killers are roaming today in Kenya and are known to Kiplagat should not expect this man carry out Truth and reconciliation. This man was all that embodied in Moi's despotic regime. His involvement in Somali/Sudan peace negotiation should not whitewash his entanglement with evil that was caused during Moi's dictatorial years.

The TRJC needs somebody with clean slate and high moral standing among the public of Kenya who will appear before the commission to seek redress for past injustices. As the commission prepares to leave for North Eastern we hope they will be with minus Kiplagat who will pose great security risk to this region. He should now be brave enough to give up the land he grabbed and acquired illegally and resign from this important commission and save himself embarrassment of being forcefully ejected by Wananchi.

Kenyans have spoke with one voice and now the world have come again to rescue Kenya. The Team of former world Truth conciliators have been given life to Kenyans to shun away with anti democratic elements like Kiplagat who want to ruin the path to reconstructive democracy in Kenya. The Era of big man syndrome is over and no one and we mean no one is going to defend the indefensible. He should not look for saviours as Moi has retired and he will also have his day very soon in court of law. No one is above the law.

Ambassador Kiplagat should have taken the cue while in Mombasa where aggrieved Kenyans walked out on him. Now the pressure is on and led by international community.

The statement by Bishop Desmond Tutu is endorsed by very eminent personalities. It read We, former chairpersons and commissioners of truth commissions from around the world, respectfully call upon Ambassador Bethuel Kiplagat, Chairperson of the Truth Justice & Reconciliation Commission’s (TJRC) to step down from his positions as Chairperson and Commissioner.We are deeply troubled by serious allegations of bias and misconduct that have been made against Chairperson Kiplagat. The allegations about his role in the former Moi government have generated a widely held perception that he labours under an unavoidable conflict of interest and that he is unable to bring an impartial mind to bear on his important duties as TJRC Chairperson.We are advised that in previous years, a statutory Commission of Inquiry as well as a Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry have made disturbing findings against Ambassador Kiplagat on matters that fall squarely within the TJRC’s mandate. The Report of the Commission of Inquiry into Illegal and Irregular Allocation of Public Land (released in 2004) makes references to instances of the illegal acquisition of public land on the part of Ambassador Kiplagat.The Report of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Murder of Dr. Robert Ouko includes a report from an investigation team which concluded that Ambassador Kiplagat was untruthful in his submissions. While Ambassador Kiplagat has disputed the references to him in these reports, they nonetheless have a direct and serious impact on public perceptions in relation to his fitness to hold high office in the Commission.All truth commissioners must be seen to be upholding the highest standards of ethics and integrity. They need to be seen to be scrupulously independent and objective. We are constrained to point out that Ambassador Kiplagat does not meet these essential standards.We note that truth commissions must enjoy the confidence of the public to succeed. Since objective grounds of a reasonable apprehension of bias on the part of Ambassador Kiplagat exist in the minds of the public, he is duty bound to resign for the greater good of the commission and country.We believe that if the current state of affairs is not addressed the TJRC will not be able to deliver truth, justice and accountability for past injustices and gross human rights violations. For these reasons we call upon Ambassador Kiplagat to immediately step down so that the TJRC may proceed with its critical tasks of promoting justice and combating impunity in Kenya.

It was signed by Bishop Joseph Christian Humper, the former chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Sierra Leone and Salomon Lerner Febres, former chairperson of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Others who endorsed the statement included Alexander Lionel Boraine, the chairperson of the Mauritian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and former commissioners of the South African truth commission among them Dumisa Ntsebeza, Yasmin Sooka, Bongani Blessing Finca, Mary Burton, Richard Lyster and Fazel Randera.

The die is cast and Ambassador Kiplagat has only 48 hours or face forceful eviction led by Wananchi.

SIASAKALI

The End of the Battle

2010-02-24T21:23:00.002+03:00

Kibaki management style outfoxes all that have thought of bullying him. This week the President showed us who was in charge despite his many failings he has asserted his authority for once for all. Kibaki is in charge of the ship called Kenya which is now sailing in the high seas thanks God it is not within the reach of Somali Pirates who are on the looks out to nab Kenyan goodies.

Kibaki has placed the Kenyan Psyche at rest and assured them that even powdered milk will be included in the national strategic food reserve. Well done this has been long overdue. Imagine Kenya where we have 10 million hungry Kenyans and Nyagah is playing with their lives by encouraging the Milkmen in Rift Valley to pour their milk in the drain. Nyagah who followed his brothers footstep lost his seat and thanks to Odinga who nominated him to parliament.

Kenyans have been squarely told by their President that they do not need foreign cooked solution to sort out home made problems. ODM which was the strongest party in the Parliament has now been made a laughing stock thanks to Odinga's poor leadership. It is now weak and under the manipulation of PNU who fortunes has been raising. Odinga is now quiet as the President is not ready to entertain his daily tantrums.

As the parliament opened the President has re-asserted his supremacy and told off Odinga and ODM for rushing to the international community for rescue. Kofi Annan who thought he had other busy issues to attend that attending to this minor political spat between ODM and nothing. He has gone on the record telling the to meet as soon as possible. Kibaki will not take orders from foreign leaders who have been poking hole on Kenya's democracy.The President and PNU are aware of ODM wanting to scuttle the constitution making Process and will not allow to happen as he now has the sympathy of 68% of the ODM Mps.

Odinga straight from Japan where the PNU mandarin led by Kenyatta has been keeping an eye on him arrived was only met by Luo ministers of ODM at the airport. Indeed a cold reception and he went straight to Kibera where there is a large Luo citizens where he carried an impromptu Baraza calling Kibaki tio give him a free hand in handling his part of coalition. A call Kibaki will not head to as it is competitive politics. Odinga failed by throwing Ruto on to Kibaki's lap and fold. Ruto who is planning to wrestle ODM from Odinga is not having Odinga's tantrum.

Odinga is now making another tactical mistake instead of calling for ceasefire with Ruto he has used The ODM whip to remove Ruto from the important house committee and replace him with Henry Kosgey who also has tainted past. Ruto who is smart has already mobilized fellow parliamentarian who have rejected Odinga's dictatorial tendencies. Odinga is making series of mistakes that will fasten the demise of ODM. Kibaki will have the last laugh.

Saida Ahmed

The coalition government is dead

2010-02-21T18:11:00.007+03:00

President Kibaki is a lucky man and has the 9 lives like the cat. He has been silent throughout his presidency using state house courtiers to run his errand which they have done with mathematical precision. Kibaki is a happy man with turn of events that has been given to him by Odinga on a silver plate and make no mistake will be using it to salvage his last years of his presidency and choreograph Kenyatta to take over the mantle.

Kibaki is no hurry to meet Odinga and he has categorically denied that their is crisis. The crisis was never there but a fig creation of Odinga according to Ruto. Ruto a schemer and student of Moi's Era and battle hardend by the Kanu youthwing 92' is on the other tail end of the phone to state house daily. Ruto has openly regreted having supported Odinga who is trying to oust him. Ruto with large following in Rift valley and pockets around the country has stricken code with anti-Odinga camp. Kibaki has given him the go ahead to downsize Odinga who is trying to usurp the Kibaki's power. Kibaki has not taken lightly this saga of episode which has caused irritation and tumbled the value of Kenya shilling.

The myth that Obama will support Odinga is a heresay. Americans and President Obama are more comfortable with Kibaki's Presidency which has given them unfetted acess to inteligience coming from Somalia which the they do not want to upset. Odinga on the other hand represent instability and side show posturing which might jeorpadize America global security concern. President Obama knows that his father was much more associated with the late Tom Mboya who was a rival to Odinga and lost his job after protesting his death. It was Kibaki who rescued Obama senior and gave job at Treasury which brought him back to the fold. President Obama was reminded as a senator during his visit to Kogelo. President Obama is keenly watching Kenya with minimal input and would prefer status quo until 2012 election.

President Kibaki is now keenly fighting for his legacy. He has lined up a group of technocrat to fight corruption and deliver the constitution. The PSC draft constitution will suit Kibaki and his group in the coming years and a bad pill by Odinga and his followers. ODM is not intrested in the constitution and are out to scuttle the process by introducing flimsy parameters whenever there is a movement towards achieving the final constitution. ODM has miscalculated the patience of the Kenyan populace who are now tired of Prime Minister who is busy complaining of Toilet and carpets behind dais. Kenyans want a presidential system and few lean cabinet to run the affairs of this beloved nation.

A week in politics is a long time and the coming weeks will shape the trend of the next two years and where Kenya is heading. Kibaki has got his eyes set on the ball and will not let it go. Odinga by being flip flop has placed himself between two hard rock which he will find difficult to disintangle. He has brought back Salim Lone to help him to build his already shattered image. At ODM house it is only Mudavadi who is calling Odinga's tune the rest have left the boat with blessing of Kibaki.

The battle will now be taken to the floor of the parliament where ODM will have a rough time gathering strength that they have lost. Jakoyo Midiwo who is the whip is also embroiled in shady deals that he recently concluded in Kisumu. He acquired large residential building just Behind Aga Khan which he paid cash. His file is now with National intelligience and will be used to shut him up and go slow in parliament. The Speaker Marende has shown that he is impartial and does not want to engage in ODM brikmanship. His time in parliament has earned the trust of Kenyans who view the 10th parliament as the most corrupt . During recent bungled election of leader of government business he played his card so well that Kenyan's are calling for him to run as President. Nothing good can be said about his deputy Farah Maalim who has tainted the office of speaker with his lack of foresight. The deputy speakers office has turned to be big shoes for him and he knowledge of parliamentary rules and law is near to nought. PNU are happy with Farah who is doing his last stint in Parliament and is concentrating and building his business profile. He has amassed huge ealth at short time and succeded in purchasing large buildings in Easleigh which he has demolished and rebuilding it as a mall. Farah who was near bankruptcy has done well to fill his liner in space of less than 2 years. He is on watch list of the Americans who have built extensive dossier on him.

ODM is so entangled in corruption which is a public knowledge that if election were conducted today they would loose 90% of their present sitting Mps. They were all elected in Euphoria of 2007 of trying to dislodge the Kikuyu's from the Presidency only to realise how recless Odinga Presidency will have been to Kenya. Kenyan's are grateful to God that the result of 2007 election was disputed with this rate corruption the country will have gone dogs long time.

President Kibaki has asserted his authority and shown who is in charge. The first 5 years of Kibaki's presideny showed ecocnomic prosperity and freedom of speech that was unprecented. Kibaki showed how to govern with the help of people and then things went pear shaped when high level of Kibaki's operative engaging in corruption just like Moi's era. To capture the presidency Kibaki handlers opened the doors for all sort of corrupt schemes to build war chest for the 2007 campaign trail and act that Kibaki has come to regret.

The coalition government is dead Kibaki and Odinga both know. There will be no more side show from Odinga as he will risk beign completelty shut from the government and will set to loose his traping of outriders and police siren. Kibaki with his State house courtiers will now have a free hand to rule as they wish and carve out the image 2012. Odinga will remain the best President that Kenya never had. He will from henseforth remain in the sidelines.The Electrol commision are busy readying for a snap general elction. The electrol regiaster and roll are geared towards readiness in the next few months. It will not be an easy task as things look grey but watch out this space

The coalition is dead long live Kenya.

Susana

The Grave of ODM

2010-02-20T18:36:00.004+03:00

Is it the end game for ODM??. With the storm caused by Hon. Raila of suspending Hon. Ruto and Hon.Ongeri without consultation and the blessing of the President Kibaki has opened more puzzle that Hon. Odinga could handle. President Kibaki did not take lightly the subordination caused by Raila's unilateral decision which has jeopardized the survival of the co-alition government. Kibaki handlers have been waiting on the wings for Raila to make a mistake that will place him in tight spot. Raila engages in political brinkmanship without thinking through the consequences that will trigger from his action.

Hon. Ruto and Hon. Ongeri ministries have been front of condoning corruption which is run away. Ruto has calculated his move and is out to bring down the PM. He has already put in place schemes that will destabilize the ODM from within. The PM and his Luo clique have very Little space for manoeuvre. Ruto and Ongeri have decided to stay put and are co-ordinating their troop for the ultimate challenge.

PNU handlers have been waiting for this golden opportunity that Raila has given them. It has breathed life to a party that was withering. They have spotted a kill and are going with full force. Raila now know he has no power and the idea of two principal has all been myth created by the international community who did not want to see a Rwanda happening in Kenya. there is a lot at stake in Kenya.

Raila flies in from Japan this morning and will be met with cold reception at the airport. things Will never be same again. He has been outmaneuvered and has very few followers who will stand up for him. Kenyan do not want a repeat of 2007 call by politician to slaughter each other. Kenyans will guard their country against chaos.

President Kibaki is regrating having invited Raila on board in the first place. It was Kivuitus rough handling of the result that sent 1500 Kenyans to grave. Kibaki believes that he won the votes squarely and should have called for re-run of the election. Odinga has never been comfortable with the running of governments. He believes that power should be concentrated around himself and his clique. Pundits believe if Raila is given free hand to run the government he will run It down within a period of 3 months.

President Kibaki is not keen in having any meeting with Raila at the moment since there is no crisis and if there is one it was created by Raila. Cabinet business will be as usual. Ruto and Ongeri have a large following within their constituencies despite their tainted image. Raila has played the wrong cards and this will end his dream for presidency and votes in large sway of Rift Valley.

Sadia Ahmed

Uhuru-Odinga chit chat

2010-02-19T21:26:00.004+03:00

Uhuru '' Jomo's blood runs in me and I have a claim to the thrown''.

Raila '' Mhhhh help me to wither the storm that i raised and not to allow the coalition to collapse and the presidency is all yours''.

The General without soldiers

2010-02-19T17:37:00.003+03:00

The English have a saying which goes by do not rise a storm that you can not ride. Hon Raila Amollo Odinga likes playing to galleries. He loves power but lacks strategy. He created a storm that he is unable to ride and has no disingenuously called for help from the international community. He created a storm that was never there and President Kibaki handlers being more smarter than ODM have given him a run for his money.

Corruption is a pastime in Kenya that needs to be handled openly without fear or favour. Hon Odinga had the message but his populist style has killed the message before it played to the public. Odinga created a storm and jumped into the plane and off went to Japan where he is now begging a meeting with President Kibaki. The Man is doublespeak few months ago he told us that Kibaki was a reformist and now he has given a u turn telling us that that Kibaki is condoning corruption.

ODM has the worst type of advisers that any leader might aspire to have. They lack strategist, planners and thinkers. Hon. Odinga relies on few Luo clique that is led by Prof Nyong'o, Orengo ,Dennis Onyango and Canadian Miguna who misinform him and end up in giving him the worst kind of advice. This group of Luo leaders who run the ODM like small fiefdom have completely lost the plot. It was naive for them to rush calling on H.E Anan to come and solve a problem that they created. Kenya needs to sort her own problem locally.

The war with Ruto might be justified but the method he choose to conduct it leaves much to be desired. Ruto is an astute leader who has oratory skills and organizer who has decided to take the bull by the horns. Ruto has already crossed the line to other side and enjoys patronage from PNU. ODM house has already collapsed and Odinga is a general without troops. He has burned the bridge that was to help him. The party discipline is out of window. Hon Odinga knows that and has been trying to make concession but very late.

Kenyans are sick and tired of corruption and see no hope in the present leadership. President Kibaki has had 4 stroke in a row and his memory is not kind to him and he is not a well man. He is surrounded by a clique that will give chance to nobody other than the house of Mumbi. Imagine the recent appointment to replace the Ps who were relieved their duties were all Kikuyus as if there is no other capable Kenyan.

Hon. Odinga is in tight corner and is praying to be rescued from the storm that he has created by the international community. He is praying that the coalition does not collapse but there was no coalition in the first place. Hon Odinga is unable to supervise his own office where corruption is rife. Pay a visit to the treasury house and you will see who is lining up to see him. Corruption should not be selective.

Hon Odinga now has been placed where he belongs. The best thing was for President Kibaki to work out with ODM rebels to ensure Kenya has a constitution by the end of the year and prepare election that will sort out Kenya's problem for good. Hon Odinga miscalculated big time and as lost large section of Kenyans who thought that he was brave enough to lead his troop to canaan. When things got hot he jumped out of the ship hopped into a plane and went to Japan .

Ekwe Edia

The Ndungu Report: Land & Graft in Kenya

2010-01-10T02:04:00.000+03:00

Roger Southall
Published in: Review of African Political Economy, 103, March 2005, pp.142-51.

The following summary of the Report of the Ndungu Commission on Illegal and Irregular allocation of public land provides an insight into a critical, recent episode in the struggles over ‘land’ and ‘graft’ in Kenya. To put it in the latest context, it is first worth noting that on the ‘graft’ front, the Commission can chalk up one partial victory in that its exposures have lead to the return of tracts of land to public action by politicians, including former President Moi. However, the limits of the larger fight against corruption was underlined when John Githong’o resigned his government position as Commissioner against Corruption. But the story the Ndungu Commission unfolded is also a chapter in another very broad issue in Kenya’s political economy – land.
One of the few African countries to enact individual tenure of indigenous land, along with redistribution of chunks of the former ‘white highlands’, Kenya is faced with landlessness on a large scale and with recurrent land disputes among individuals and between communities. Government has just set in train a National Land Policy Formulation Process to try and sort out these underlying problems, including those thrown up by the Commission.
According to Transparency International (TI), things in contemporary Kenya have recently got better: corruption has improved from ‘highly acute’ to merely ‘rampant’! Yet in commenting upon this, The Economist (18 December 2004) notes that Kenya remains one of the most corrupt countries in the world, and opines that following the example of former President Moi’s cronies,
too many of the new ruling elite are out to get rich, rather than govern. Members of Parliament, in a country where the average annual income per head is a modest US $400 a year, have awarded themselves an annual salary and allowances of $169,625 and ‘new patronage networks are replacing the old ones, as the well-connected appoint their chums and relatives to plum public posts.
To be sure, The Economist continues, Kenya is probably somewhat better off than it was under Moi, but President Kibaki’s economic and political reforms have stuttered, with progress towards a new constitution which would reduce the powers of the presidency and enhance democratic accountability presently on hold. Meanwhile, although the new government has promised an end to the culture of impunity for the powerful that developed under Moi, several ministers involved in corruption scandals both new and old are going unpunished. Whilst Moi’s Kenya African National Union (KANU) was roundly trounced in the general election of December 2002, the new government of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) includes powerful figures who – like Kibaki himself – formerly served under Moi and who jumped ship when it was clear that the latter’s craft was sinking, and landed squarely on their feet in the new cabinet. For all that the government has established various investigations into abuses committed by former KANU politicians who are still in office (having established, notably, hearings into the Goldenberg scandal of the early 1990s in which former Vice-President and current Minister of Education, George Saitoti, is heavily implicated), it is the decision to give Moi himself immunity from corruption charges, on the grounds that ultimately he opted to leave office peacefully, which seems more likely to set the key precedent (Brown, 2004:335).
Even if, as many observers suggest, the NARC government’s commitment to a cleansing of the Augean stables is likely to be more rhetorical than real, its eagerness to convince both the international investment and creditor community, as well as its own (increasingly skeptical) supporters, that it is doing something is likely to prove more than a little interesting. This is demonstrated by the recent release (December, 2004) of the Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Illegal/Irregular Allocation of Public Land (Government Printer, Nairobi), chaired by Paul Ndungu, presented to Kibaki six months previously, in which, inter alia, details are given concerning illegal land awards made to both the Kenyatta and Moi families, as well as to a raft of former ministers, MPs, judges, civil servants and military officers, with recommendations that the large majority of such awards should be revoked. However, whilst it is such juicy findings which have gained the headlines, it is the chapter and verse which the Report gives concerning the systematic way in which established procedures, designed to protect the public interest, were perverted to serve private and political ends which may well prove to be its most long lasting value.
The present brief piece seeks merely to highlight some of the Ndungu Report’s findings. Such a review can only be preliminary, for at 244 pages with two annexures running to 976 (Appendix I) and 797 (Appendix II) pages, the prospect of analysing the mass of detailed evidence is as daunting as it could be illuminating. Nonetheless, even a cursory analysis serves to confirm earlier analyses that corruption and patronage have become thoroughly embedded in Kenya’s politics.
Land & Demography in Kenya
The Ndungu Commission, which was composed of 20 prominent citizens, lawyers and civil servants (drawn from ministries particularly concerned with the land issue) was appointed by President Kibaki in June 2003, and was charged with inquiring into the unlawful allocation of public lands, ascertaining the beneficiaries, identifying public officials involved in illegal allocations, and making recommendations for appropriate measures for the restoration of illegally allocated lands to their proper purpose, for prevention of future illegal allocations, and for appropriate criminal prosecutions. It was but one of a series of measures designed to tackle the issue of corruption and to realise the fruits of a newly democratic era. Yet it was perhaps one of the most emotive of the reform initiatives taken by the NARC government, for as noted by the Commission (p.xvii):
land retains a focal point in Kenya’s history. It was the basis upon which the struggle for independence was waged. It has traditionally dictated the pulse of our nationhood. It continues to command a pivotal position in the country’s social, economic, political and legal relations.
Fundamental to the present importance of the land issue is the rapid growth in population. At the turn of the previous century, the colonial administration could justify its allocation of lands to European settlers by arguing that, with an African population of just some 4 million, there was plenty of space for all. By independence, the total population had grown to 8.2 million, and with one of the highest population growth rates in the world (around 2.9% per annum), reached some 30.7 million by 2001, of whom only around 1% were non-African (‘Europeans’, ‘Indians’ and ‘Arabs’). Given the concentrations of population in the high rainfall areas of the Central Highlands and western Kenya (20% of Kenya’s population lives in the drier 80% of the land in the north and east), the pressure upon land (not to mention the remaining wildlife) is increasingly evident, not least because of the scarcity of formal employment and the dependence of the overwhelming majority of the population upon peasant agriculture (which contributes some 50% of total agricultural production). In this context, access to land becomes critical to popular well-being, and the illegal appropriation of public land a peculiarly visible crime that has come to excite huge passion, not least because, as the Commission Report asserts, the practice of illegal allocations of land increased dramatically during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s:
Land was no longer allocated for development purposes but as political reward and for speculation purposes … ’land grabbing’ became part and parcel of official grand corruption through which land meant for public purposes … has been acquired by individuals and corporations (p.8).
The Law Relating to the Allocation of Land
The Commission’s review of the land system as it developed under colonialism (based upon the Crown Lands Ordinance of 1915), stresses how the authority to allocate Crown lands (as distinct from lands reserved for African Customary Tenure) was vested in the Governor, and under him, the Commissioner of Lands. Under their prerogative, grants of agricultural leases (initially for 99, later for 999 years) were made to settlers, whilst commercial plots in townships and urban centres were initially allocated through a system of public auction while residential plots within municipalities were allocated through public tender. However, by the 1940s, the system of public auction – which had become dominated by wealthy cartels – had fallen out of favour, resulting in a change whereby commercial plots would be allocated by means of direct grant by the Commissioner with the assistance of a local committee, a system which had already informally replaced the public tender system with regard to residential land.
The principles which decided such allocations included notions of the public interest, as well as the ability of selected allottees to pay for land (sold at 20% of its estimated value to encourage development) within 30 days and to carry out intended developments within a prescribed time limit. As the Committee notes, for all that such procedures may have worked to restrict African opportunities to purchase land in ‘white’ areas, they served to control the ‘mischief of land speculation’. However, in what is one of the
greatest ironies in the history of land allocation in Kenya, what appears to have succeeded in the colonial period (i.e. allocation by direct grant) is what later facilitated the massive illegal and irregular abandonment of public land by the Government after independence,
for it was to be the very officials and institutions charged with being the custodians of public land who were to become the facilitators of illegal allocations (pp.6-7). The colonial Doctrine of Public Trust, whereby Kenya’s rulers administer land in trust for the people of Kenya, dissolved under independence, and land was to become granted for political reasons, or simply subject to ‘outright plunder’ by ‘a few people at the great expense … of the public’ (pp.9-10).
What land has been involved? According to the Commission, all types. In Kenya, it explains, land is divided into the three categories of government land, trust land and private land. Government land comprises two sub-categories, unalienated (land which has not been leased or allocated) and alienated (land which has been leased to a private individual or body corporate, or which has been reserved for the use of a government department or corporation or institution, or which has been set aside for another public purpose). Trust land is held by County Councils on behalf of local communities, groups, families and individuals in accordance with applicable African Customary Law until it is registered under any land registration statutes, following which it is transformed into private land and becomes the sole property of the individual or group in favour of whom it is registered. Finally, private land is land which is registered in accordance with laws that provide for registration of title, and is registered in the name of an individual or a company, and may be created from either government land or trust land through registration after all legal procedures have been strictly followed (pp.44-45). According to these definitions, it is only government land which is public land, for trust land belongs to local communities. However, because trust land has long become victim to land grabbing, the Commission opted to regard all trust lands which had been illegally allocated as public land for its own investigative purposes (p. 46).
Under the law, it is only the President who has the right to allocate unalienated government lands, although he can delegate limited powers to the Commissioner of Lands. Yet even the President cannot exercise his powers without paying regard to the public interest. In practice, however, key responsibility falls upon the Commissioner of Lands and his officials, who under the Government Lands Act may cause township plots on unalienated land to be sold by auction (unless the President prescribes otherwise) for business or residential purposes (but only if it is not required for public purposes), whilst not even the President has the authority to allocate alienated government lands which have been set aside for a public purpose such as nature conservation, forests, play areas or by-passes.
In any process of allocation, a formal offer of sale is made to an approved purchaser by the Commissioner for Lands. Such a letter of allotment is only made to the person to whom it is addressed, lapses after 30 days, and has various conditions attached, and as such cannot be legally transferred to another person. Meanwhile, trust land can only be removed from the communal ownership of local people through legally prescribed adjudication processes, whereby local communities are given ample notice and opportunity to claim their ownership in accordance with their customary law. However, despite all these legally strict safeguards, ‘it is in the allocation process that most of the corruption and fraudulent practices relating to land have occurred’ (p.54).
The Commission’s Findings
Upon the basis of detailed review of all laws relating to land, official reports concerning the land issue by government and non-government bodies, documents and records submitted by ministries and public bodies, and reports and memoranda by professional associations and members of the public, the Commission categorised its findings according to three broad types of public land: Urban, State Corporations’ and Ministries’ Lands; Settlement Schemes and Trust Land; and Forestlands, National Parks, Game Reserves, Wetlands, Riparian Reserves, Protected Areas, Museums and Historical Monuments.
I. Urban, State & Ministries’ Land: The Commission indicated that numerous methods were used to grab land falling under this category.
There was found to have been widespread abuse of presidential discretion with regard to unalienated urban land, with ‘in many instances’ (both) Presidents Kenyatta and Moi making grants to land to individuals without any consideration to the public interest, for political reasons, and without proper pursuit of legal procedures, whilst there was also extensive illegal allocation by the presidents of alienated land (viz, land which they did not have legal power to allocate). Various Commissioners of Lands had made direct grants of government land without any authority from the President. Forged letters and documents were used to allocate land in numerous instances, with many records at the Ministry of Lands and Settlements having been deliberately destroyed. Often, land was sold by grantees without any adherence to the conditions laid down by letters of allotment, and many illegal titles to public land were transferred to third parties, often State Corporations, for massive sums of money. Land compulsorily acquired, like that for the proposed Nairobi by-pass, was illegally allocated to individuals and companies, and then often sold on to third parties, whilst land reserved for public purposes such as schools, playgrounds, and hospitals etc had been sold off in blatant disregard of the law by both the Commissioner of Lands and numerous local authorities. In broad summary, the Commission found that the powers vested in the President had been grossly abused by both the President and successive Commissioners of Lands and their deputies over the years, under both previous regimes; there had been ‘unbridled plunder’ (Commission: p.81) of public land by local councillors and officials; illegal transactions were hugely facilitated by the extensive complicity of professionals (lawyers, surveyors, valuers, physical planners, engineers, architects, land registrars, estate agents and bankers) in the land and property market; and most high profile allocations of public land were made to companies incorporated specifically for that purpose, largely to shield the directors and shareholders of such entities from easy public view. Finally, and interestingly, the Commission found that ‘most illegal allocations of public land took place before or soon after the multiparty general elections of 1992, 1997 and 2002’, reinforcing its view that public land was allocated ‘as political reward or patronage’ (p.83).
With regard to the over 140 state corporations (inclusive of such institutions as universities and the Central Bank) and the 113 odd companies in which the government holds shares, the Commission noted that although the purchase and disposition of land is incidental to their business, many such entities have acted as if they were set up to deal in land and have participated in land grabbing schemes through which the public has lost ‘colossal amounts of money’ (p.87). Land allocated to state corporations is ‘alienated land’, but has been illegally allocated to individuals or companies in total disregard of the law. Such land was customarily sold at less than market value to allottees, who often proceeded to sell it other state corporations at amounts far in excess of market value (p. 89). A usual procedure would be for the senior management of the corporations to address a letter of surrender of land to the Commissioner of Lands, who would in short order receive an application for purchase of the same land from an individual or company. At other times, corporation land might be allocated by the Commissioner of Land to individuals without any reference to corporate management whatsoever. Through such methods, ‘a civil servant, a politician, a political operative etc would transform from an ordinary Kenyan … into a multi-millionaire’ (p. 90).
Corporations which have lost large areas of land under such dubious circumstances include Kenya Railways, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, the Power & Lighting Company, Kenya Airports Authority, and Kenya Industrial Estates, whilst other bodies such as the Kenya Food and Chemical Corporation which ended up in liquidation following mismanagement nonetheless proceeded to sell off their remaining assets, including land, at throw away prices (p.90). One such transaction can be cited by way of example. In January 1994, the Numerical Machining Complex Limited (owned wholly by Kenya Railways and the University of Nairobi (sic)) was allocated 840 hectares of land belonging to the Kenya Meat Commission for ‘industrial purposes’. Within a few weeks, the then Head of the Public Service, Professor Philip Mbithi, who was a Director of the Company, wrote to the head of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) informing him that the president had suggested that the NSSF purchase the land at market value. In February 1995, the NSSF proceeded to purchase 136 hectares of land at a cost of 268 million shillings, which was fully 8.5 times more than the professionally assessed value! Today, the land purchased by the NSSF remains largely undeveloped, as does that remaining with Numerical Machining Complex (pp. 91-92).
This is illustrative of the further scam whereby state corporations were pressurised into making illegal purchases of public land, becoming ‘captive buyers of land from politically connected allottees’ (p. 92), the most abused corporation in this regard being the NSSF, which between 1990 and 1995 spent some 30 billion (n.b., not million!) shillings in buying both developed and undeveloped plots throughout the country. The Commission gives a full list of the transactions involved, many of the vendors being companies whose individual owners are not immediately evident.
The Commission made similar findings with regard to various government ministries which own large tracts of land, despite the fact that most of them claimed not to have lost land through illegal allocations. Again, loss of land might be triggered by a letter from an official of a ministry addressed to the Commissioner of Lands indicating that the ministry no longer required a certain tract of land, and the latter would in turn allot it to an applicant purchaser in excess of his authority. Prime offenders included the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development which claimed only to have lost small fisheries land, while information provided by the public indicated that it has lost large tracts of its livestock holding grounds. Similarly, the National Youth Service is said to have lost thousands of acres of land in allocations to prominent politicians. Then, of course, there is the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). This was funded by the Ministry of Roads and Public Works between 1967 and 1974 for 79.7 million Kenya Shillings and subsequently managed by the Ministry of Tourism. In 1985, this was sold to KANU via a 99 year lease for just 1,680 shillings and a pepper corn rent, with the title being made out in favour of President Moi and Peter Oloo Aringo. Subsequently KANU took over the Centre, and assumed the role of landlord by collecting rent from tenants until February, 2003, when the new NARC administration took over the KICC on behalf of government. KICC now constitutes the subject of a court case concerning ownership between KANU and the government (pp.112-3).
Meanwhile, at a less exalted although far more pervasive level, the Commission found that many thousands of government houses and properties were illegally allocated to individuals and companies.
II. Settlement Schemes & Trust Lands: Trust land, including settlement scheme land purchased by government with international loans from European settlers for settlement by African smallholders or carved out of Trust land, has been similarly abused. The Commission found that, overall, whilst the establishment of settlement schemes and their subsequent allocation in the early years of independence generally conformed to the original objectives, in latter years there was extensive deviation, with much land having been allocated for purposes other than settlement and agricultural production.
Allocation of plots, formally conducted under Settlement Fund Trustees, devolves in practice upon District Plot Allocation Committees composed of the District Commissioner, District Settlement Officer, District Agricultural Officer, the area MP, the Chairman of the relevant County Council and the Clerk to Council. Settlement Fund Trustees appear to lack any supervisory powers over these committees, with the result that the local committees have been almost wholly unaccountable. The result has been predictable, with the interests of the landless having been ignored in favour of those of ‘District officials, their relatives, members of parliament, councillors and prominent politicians from the area, Ministry of Lands and Settlement officials, other civil servants and … so called ‘politically correct’ individuals’ (p.127). And whilst the majority of deserving allottees received smaller plots, the undeserving often received large ones. Meanwhile farms belonging to the Agricultural Development Corporation, designed to provide an the needs of the agricultural industry by developing high quality seeds or livestock or undertaking research etc, have been illegally established as settlement schemes and subsequently illegally allocated to individuals and companies, often as political reward or patronage (Commission: pp. 134-5).
In addition to the above, extensive tracts of Trust Land have been illegally allocated, with county councillors having been the main beneficiaries. Whilst the Commission was able to provide some glaring examples of such abuse, it was hampered in its work by the failure or refusal of councils to submit relevant information (p.140). It concludes:
Instead of playing their role as custodians of public resources including land, county and municipal councils have posed the greatest danger to these resources … the most pronounced land grabbers in these areas were the councillors them-selves…The corruption within central government has been replicated at the local level through the activities and omissions of county and municipal councillors (Commission: p.147).
III. Forestlands, National Parks, Game Reserves, Wetlands, Riparian Reserves & Protected Areas: After examination of the official reports and the ‘scanty records’ of responsible government departments and agencies (p.148), the Commission found that only 1.7% of the 3% of the country which was covered by gazetted forests at independence remains, most of the reduction having come about as a result of illegal and irregular excisions, usually made without any reference to scientific considerations or under the guise of settlement schemes. The beneficiaries of such excisions include (often private) schools, government institutions, and religious bodies as well as private individuals and companies. Similarly, many illegal allocations of land around riparian sites have been illegally allocated by the Kenya Wildlife Service, with many such allocations – such as those made since 1995 to some 14 beneficiaries around Lake Naivasha – being known to have severely affected the ecosystem. Fortunately, the Commission finds that the National Parks and Reserves have been more effectively protected, yet nonetheless it provides some ten cases of illegal allocations within KWS protected areas, and 15 cases in KWS alienated plots beside them. Furthermore, the Commission also records 26 instances of illegal allocations of land from Nature Reserves falling under the domain of local authorities, whilst there are some 8 known cases of land set aside for national museums and monuments having been illegally allocated to private individuals. The latter include the allocation of Kongo Mosque site at Kwale to former President Moi in 1986 (p. 169). It comes as no surprise that land belonging to the military, and even land portions belonging to State Houses and lodges, have also been sold off.
Against this catalogue of corruption, it is not surprising that the Commission concludes that their has been systematic and widespread abuse of public trust by public officials, to the extent that many officials now fail to see anything morally wrong with their allocating land illegally. There were many centres of power which were responsible for the illegal allocation of land, yet the Commission makes it clear that the lead in public plunder has consistently been given from the top. Kenya, it concludes, has fallen into a state of ‘moral decadence’, this epitomised no more clearly than by the extensive participation in land grabbing by churches, mosques, temples and other faith institutions, these including such venerable institutions as the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, the Church Commission of Kenya, and the Anglican Church (pp.182-3).
The Commission’s Recommendations
Whilst making a series of sensible recommendations concerning, inter alia, the need for an inventory of public land and the computerisation of land records, as well as for a comprehensive land policy, the Commission also urges the establishment of a Land Titles Tribunal charged with reviewing each and every case of suspected illegal or irregular allocation of land, and hence embarking upon the process of revocation and rectification of such titles.
Reference to the weighty Annexes indicate that revocation would be a formidable task. Its specific recommendations, by way of example, include the following: revocation of 105 plots allocated from land reserved for the Nairobi bypass (Annex 3); of 551 allocations made by the Nairobi City Council (Annex 5); 86 allocations by Meru, 449 by Nakuru, 270 by Eldoret, 100 by Nyeri, 186 by Kisumu, 407 by Mombasa, 56 by Nyahururu, 67 by Kiambu, 30 by Kisii, 17 by Kapsabet, 187 by Kerugoya/Kutus and 118 by Kitale Councils, with further dubious allocations by all these councils also to be investigated (Annexes 7-23). Numerous improperly documented allocations of land by Kenya Railways should also be examined, whilst 229 allocations made by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, 31 by Kenya Pipelines, 572 made by Kenya Industrial Estates, and 178 by the prison authorities should be revoked, as well as smaller numbers of plots illegally allocated by other state corporations. There should also be revocation of titles of some 7 illegal allocations made by the judiciary (!), 57 by the Ministry of Cooperative Development and Marketing, 47 by the Ministry of Agriculture, 289 by the Ministry of Education, 73 by the Ministry of Labour and 22 by the Ministry of Energy (Annexes 41-49). The Commission also provides lists of thousads of houses which have been illegally allocated throughout the country, implying that title to these, too, should be revoked, as should those to hundreds of allocations of land made to individuals and companies from forests, game parks and reserves etc which are listed in Volume II of the Annexes.
Commentary
Some time ago, following Ajulu (1997) and Himbara (1994), I characterised Kenya as a kleptocracy characterised by a drive for primitive accumulation by those who controlled the post-colonial state, alongside the failure of an African business class to promote industrialisation and development. However, my primary emphasis was upon financial and commercial corruption, and whilst I recognised land-grabbing (especially by local councillors) as a phenomenon, I failed to appreciate how enormously extensive the illegal appropriation of public land was to the formation and consolidation of Kenya’s political elite. In this regard, although less blinkered observers such as Jacqueline Klopp (2000) have written upon the issue, enormous credit is due to the Ndungu Commission for the compilation of a truly formidable body of documentation concerning land-grabbing. Yet what is lacking from its analysis, even if – strictly speaking – it may have gone beyond its terms of reference, is some assessment of what land grabbing may have had upon the economy, and whether, in particular, land which was illegally appropriated has been put to productive use. In this regard, no overall summary or analysis has been provided, even though, with regard to the majority of allocations, the Commission offers two columns which list, first, the officially intended use of the land, and in the second, its current use. Even so, even an unsystematic thumbing through the pages of the annexures suggests that the overwhelming majority of allocations have been utilised for residential, commercial, industrial or building purposes, even if the majority of the sites grabbed from the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, whose present use is listed as ‘private’, may well have been transformed into private farms.
In this regard, the report has little to tell us about ‘the land issue’ in the sense of our acquiring greater knowledge about the overall distribution of land between government, ethnic groups, classes, and corporations, let alone the extent to which it has contributed to the eating away of Kenya’s already diminishing supply of arable farming land. Furthermore, only more detailed analysis will be able to tell us how much land-grabbing has contributed to the unregulated and under-serviced peri-urban sprawl which is today such a visible feature of Kenya’s unfortunate development path.
I have two further concerns. One is that, perhaps through lack of time (the report was compiled in just eighteen months), the Commission has left the slog of identifying the vast bulk of individual political beneficiaries to other analysts. Yes, it makes mention at times of particular allocations to key figures such as Moi and the Kenyattas, and it provides the names of individual and corporate beneficiaries in its detailed charts of allocations, whether by councils, corporations or other bodies. Of course, this offers a host of raw material for researchers to pursue, enabling them to identify, through detailed cross-referencing to known occupancies of political office, how particular MPs, councillors and civil servants have benefited. Yet an uneasy suspicion remains that the Commission may well have pulled its punches in this regard, and that it could have caused considerably greater embarrassment to present political incumbents than it has done.
The second worry, of course, is that little will come of the Commission’s hard work. Even though the Commission has made recommendations that many hundreds of land allocations should be revoked and investigated, there are not so many that a Land Commission with the right political backing could not sit in judgement over process and appeals. However, given that NARC has absorbed so many members of the former KANU regime, it seems unlikely in the extreme that Kenya’s avaricious politicians, however much formally committed to democracy, will be prepared to unscramble the egg. More probably – save perhaps for a few show case revocations - they will want to draw a line under the past, and simply ordain that no further transgressions should be permitted, although even that aspiration seems unlikely to be realised given the continuing nature of Kenyan politics as ethnically manipulated and patronage based, especially if the Commission is correct in identifying illegal land allocations as regularly increasing around the time of competitive elections.
Professor Wangari Maathai was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her contribution to sustainable development and democracy, notably out of respect for her work in mobilising local communities to defend Kenya’s rapidly diminishing forests and to planting trees. The Ndungu Commission’s demonstration of the extent to which illegal land allocation is entangled with political office indicates that, without a doubt, the prime responsibility for defending remaining public land will continue to fall, willy nilly, upon the shoulders of civil society.
Roger Southall, Democracy and Governance, Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa; e-mail: RSouthall @HSRC.ac.za
Bibliographic Note
Ajulu R. (1998), ‘Kenya’s Democratic Ex-perience: the 1997 Elections’, Review of African Political Economy, no. 76.
Brown, S. (2004), ‘Theorising Kenya’s Protracted Transition to Democracy’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 22, 3.
Himbara, D. (1994), Kenyan Capitalists, the State and Development, Nairobi: East African Edu-cational Publishers.
Klopp, J. (2000), ‘Pilfering the Pubic: The Problem of Land Grabbing in Contemporary Kenya’, Africa Today, 47, 1.
Southall, R. (1999), ‘Re-forming the State? Kleptocracy & the Political Transition in Kenya’, Review of African Political Economy, 79.

SIASAKALI

2010-01-01T15:34:00.005+03:00

As we say goodbye to 2009 and welcome 2010 SIASAKALI is back in full swing to report ,analyse and be part of Kenya's changing face. Since November 2009 most of our writers and analyst were harassed and intimidated by security apparatus. After long deliberation we have decided to relocate in various part of Kenya's mountains and to continue using bringing you all that matters that will stop this nation from breaking into fiefdoms.

2010 will be there that will either make or break Kenya. We hope some of writers will stay with us not go to bush

SIASAKALI

The Kikuyu Syndrome

2009-11-03T20:32:00.003+03:00

This Man Kibaki sees nothing except Kikuyu. after his inauguration he vowed never again that the Kikuyu home guards will suffer displacement that Moi initiated during his 24 years of looting spree. Kibaki has now gone a step further and appointed a Dr Nelson Githinji as comptroller of State House.

With Maina Njenga having been sidelined it is the highest time that Kibaki and his courtiers turned the whole of state operation as an Kikuyu home guard arena where even the progressive Kikuyu's will not be allowed.

Kibaki perfected his art from his hero Jomo Kenyatta who apart from grabbing large tract of land in Kenya and displacing the poor Kikuyu who fought for Independence also managed to plant and strengthen the home guard grip on Kenya government for the 15years he was in helm before his death in Mombasa State House.

Moi who formed his Kitchen cabinet followed Kenyatta Nyayo by reversing Kenyatta's gain and flooding Kalenjin in key post for the next 24 years and went into full gear to make sure his Kalenjin tribe were educated to manage the challenge that Kikuyu Home Guard were mounting. Kibaki who was his Vp watched with amazement the speed Moi displaced his Kikuyu brethren from strategic posts.

Kibaki after taking over Moi went into top gear by replacing all the security apparatus,finance ,defence, judiciary and planning with only Kikuyu's . He was re-elected in highly disputed election and now is planning his third term using a proxy. Yes with this this trend Kenya is going to be dismembered in 2012 and will be welcomed to take the Somali route.

Ekwe Edia

Kofi Anan visit

2009-10-14T21:17:00.002+03:00

Over the last three days I have held a series of meetings with Kenyans and others concerned for the future of this country.
My objective has been to get a better understanding of how the National Dialogue Agreements are being implemented some 18 months after the formation of the Coalition Government.
This Government was established to undertake a programme of fundamental reform to deliver sustainable peace, stability and justice through rule of law and respect for human rights.
That was the stated Goal of the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation and it remains the benchmark by which this Government will be judged – by Kenyans and by Kenya’s partners in Africa and the wider international community.
During this visit, I have had occasion to meet with a wide range of Kenyans.
I have met the President and the Prime Minister; the Vice President; the Speaker of Parliament; the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitutional Review; and a number of other MPs and Ministers.
I have also met with the members of the Dialogue Team; the Committee of Experts on the Constitution; the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission; and the Chairpersons of the Interim Independent Electoral Commission; the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission; the National Cohesion and Integration Commission; and the Organising Committee for the National Elders.
I have had an opportunity to meet and engage with representatives of the donor community; the African diplomatic corps; media owners; the Secretary-General of the Kenya Red Cross; and a number of religious, business and civil society leaders.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those who have taken the time to meet with me. Our discussions have been frank and informative.
I have listened closely. And I have heard the concerns and observations of Kenyans. Some common themes have emerged.
First, and foremost, allow me to underline that progress is being made.
The Committee of Experts is working on a comprehensive review of the Constitution. Its work is on track. The Committee will shortly be publishing the first draft of a new constitution after which the consultative process will continue. It is crucial that this be conducted in a constructive and harmonious manner.
The Interim Independent Electoral Commission and Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission are working together productively. Their work is fundamental in helping to ensure that Kenya’s next election is fair, transparent and peaceful.
Police reform has been initiated, as has land reform.
Other initiatives that have been introduced include efforts to address youth unemployment, and to promote greater national cohesion and ethnic harmony.
But the pace of reform must be accelerated.
Kenyans are concerned that the window of opportunity to deliver reform is rapidly closing.
Kenya is already at - or past - the halfway mark between the formation of the Coalition Government and the next electoral cycle. Kenya cannot afford a recurrence of the crisis and violence that engulfed it after the 2007 election. But that is a serious risk if tangible reform is not achieved.
In Kenya today, there is added pressure to achieve these reforms. Kenya is feeling the effect of the global economic downturn. Unemployment is rising. And Kenya is faced with a number of urgent humanitarian issues, including a serious drought and food shortages, and the fact that a significant number of Kenyans remain internally displaced.
There are very real concerns about increased criminality in parts of the country. All these factors make the need for reform even more urgent.
It is clear this is a moment of truth for Kenya’s political leadership.
The President and the Prime Minister must lead the reform process.
My conversations with Kenyans during the last three days have underscored that there is a crisis of confidence in Kenya’s political leadership. Only Kenya’s politicians can solve that crisis. I urge them to listen to the voices of Kenyans.
Kenyans have entrusted power to their leaders. They rightly expect this power to be used to build a more stable and prosperous country.
They expect to see more unity of purpose, greater transparency, and more concrete action to end impunity and combat corruption.
It is time for these leaders to act in the true spirit of the coalition. There is need for greater coordination at the political and technical levels of the Government. This will make the Government’s efforts more effective.
I would like to recognise the strengthened spirit of conciliation and collaboration that is being demonstrated by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga. I sincerely hope that this new spirit will serve as a beacon for all politicians and Kenyans.
Demonstrating progress on reform is fundamental to restoring trust in Kenya’s political system. I have heard persistent calls for the Government to be more proactive in its outreach and communication to highlight where progress has taken place. Where there are obstacles to reform, these also need to be revealed.
That is why the Panel will be disseminating more widely the reports of the South Consulting Group, which has been commissioned by the Panel to monitor and evaluate Kenya’s reform process.
Kenyans, who are normally patient people, are beginning to doubt if their leaders can deliver. As a consequence, healing and reconciliation may suffer. Kenyans want their leaders to lead.
But we should not leave reform to the leaders alone. I urge all Kenyans to consider the role they each can play in building their nation and ensuring that the goals of the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation are realised.
It is crucial that civil society is able to contribute fully to the reform process. This cannot take place without the right protections of the democratic space. Freedoms of assembly, association, speech and information must be protected. I hope that the Freedom of Information Bill will soon be enacted.
On the important issue of impunity, I have heard the demands from Kenyans that their Government bring to justice those responsible for the post-election violence.
I have always seen a three-tier approach. The Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission; a Special Tribunal as recommended by the Waki Commission or another effective local mechanism - this is absolutely essential - and then the International Criminal Court.
It is not either the ICC or a local mechanism. It must be both.
Kenyans have welcomed the involvement of the ICC. The Government has assured me that it will collaborate with the Court.
I am grateful for the clarification provided by the President and the Prime Minister that the mandate of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission will not be amended to include the prosecution of the perpetrators of post-election violence.
With this clarification, it is vital for Kenyans to start engaging and cooperating with the Commission. To do this, the Kenyan people will need clear reassurances that they can do so in safety and without fear of repercussion. I am therefore urging the Kenyan Government to strengthen measures for the protection of witnesses.
I have asked the international community to support Kenya’s reform programme. In this context, let me stress that there is significant goodwill from the international community towards Kenya. It is up to the Government to harness this support.
In conclusion, I would like to say that this has been a very busy and fruitful three days.
I leave Kenya with the feeling that there are the first signs of a new sense of urgency and seriousness around the reform programme.
I hope this will be sustained over the coming weeks and months, for it is only through hard work, real commitment and political will that the major reforms can be achieved.
Allow me to remind us all again of the purpose of the Coalition Government: to undertake a programme of fundamental reform to deliver sustainable peace, stability and justice.
Let me assure you that the Panel of Eminent African Personalities will remain engaged and will continue to support Kenya.
The other members of the Panel and I expect to be back here before the end of the year.
Thank you.
Ends

The Arm Race

2009-10-10T14:40:00.003+03:00

It is official now that we know what we knew ages. The youth in rift Valley is arming itself to teeth. They are being sponsored by the same politician who are now trying to duck the Hague. we have no other option it is the Hague if we do not want to be sitting ducks come 2012. The international community has now completed its task and are eagerly awaiting the bunch of Kenya's violent men.

The stakes are high that is why Kofi come visiting. It was all smiles on camera but behind the scenes he was furious and hit the roof during the consultations. Kofi was a worried man who looked more Kenyan than his diplomatic self. He was briefed by the foreign intelligence and was given the correct picture of Kenya. By the time Kofi reached town he was breathing fire. Kofi wanted Kenya on the radar to safe the world.

Kenya is a cross road and we need to do something urgent. Both the Principals who are past their 60s are not reformist and are stalling using several tactics. They are employing few sycophants who will scuttle anything good and blame on each other. Kibaki is on his last round and has nothing to loose and will like to continue enjoying the trapping of imperial presidency. Odinga who thinks that he is about to clinch the presidency would prefer the imperial presidency where he will be able to ditch out favours to his family and cronies. The dossier for Odinga builds up as we go to the press. The man is in deep trouble Kibaki has ensnared him and completely undressed his reformist uniform. Odinga looks much worse than Kibaki. He loves the trapping of power.

Odinga is anti reformist and has made a complete u turn as the new constitution will not serve his interest what he says in public is complete opposite to what he beliefs. What Odinga forgets is that he will not be able to mesmerise the Kenyan public for his short coming. Power corrupts and the best example will be to look at Odinga's profile. A picture with President Obama will not save him or give him a ticket to Presidency as President Obama stands out against corruption,nepotism and supports good governance which was Kenya leadership is against.

Those who are shouting that there is no weapons in the Rift Valley should come out clean and defend themselves. Kenyans have very very short memory have forgotten that women and children were burn in church ? How can we allow our youth to arm themselves against their own citizen and prepare for mayhem and slaughter??? No we shall never allow that to happen in modern Kenya ever again.

Those who go around preaching there is no gun in Rift Valley and other areas should know that the days of Hague is at the corner and the law will not spare them. they will not corrupt the international justice and there will be no president to spare them or pardon them. The game ball on the international scene is different and impunity is not tolerated at all cost. The best they can do is to prepare a will as they will long be gone.

During the last few days we followed Kofi Anan and we gave him our response and we will be shortly compiling in here. Rest assured we have the highest regard for the international community. The culprit of the post election violence are on there way to Hague to enjoy world justice.

Ekwe Edia

Promised Land Canaan

2009-10-02T22:17:00.004+03:00

Kenya is brink new dawn that will cause so much pain to those who have prospered on corruption and impunity. The U.K government has now joined the U.S in issuing a banning banning order 20 individuals who comprise of ministers,civil servant and businessman who have condoned and implicated with corruption. Those who have been implicated have had also their family members being monitored and will face instant deportation in the coming weeks. Tonight those corrupt individuals who have been place on notice will not sleep. They have caused suffering of their own people.

The more things change the more they stay the same. Imagine the exodus from Kibera to Canaan a modern housing project.The government publicised the project as an achievement in African standard[ which is always below the rest the world] .It is weeks now since this innocent Kenyans were moved from their homes in Kibera to the promised land of Canaan . Here in Canaan the were promised fresh air,running water,electricity and good living condition. Well this is Kenya and they have been left worse off than the beginning. They were moved to this new flats without running water and electricity. They have been forced to double their rent from Sh 1,000 to Sh 2,000 without basic services.

The security at this new homes is zero. This area is no go area where the rule of law is thrown out of the window. After 6pm no one dares to venture into Kibera as gangs rule the night. Families are terrified especially being the end of the month it is no safety without paying the gangs. The killings goes almost daily without reporting families bury their kin in silence and the press will not publish as this will scare investors.

Investors are already scared from the car jacking, shooting and bottleneck bureaucracy conducted in all spheres of life. In Kenya nothing will be done without kitu kidogo. The same counsellor who complains of corruption promotes corruption. If you do not pay everything slows down and nothing get done. There is no justice ,fairness or honesty in Kenya today. If the Amos Wako the attorney general can flip flop things and survive for 20yrs in the office then no one is safe in this country.

We were waiting for the rains to come today but again it was false hope as they got scared of the level of corruption that goes in this country.The animals are dying as we are unable to increase our water catchment and the money meant for those kind of projects have been taken to Swiss banks. We are a nation at cross road with politician lying and satisfying their egos.

At the German national day in Nairobi I was able to mingle with diplomats from the Western world who this time have vowed not to stand by as Kenya goes down the drain. they have promised to exert maximum pressure as their countries will not want the 2007 debacle to be repeated and local tribunal is a must. I come out with hope.

Susana

MARS PRESS STATEMENT

2009-09-30T11:45:00.000+03:00

STATEMENT BY THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHANGE ON THE LETTER FROM KENYAN PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA issued at Nairobi 28th September 2009.
Sep 28th, 2009 by Mars Group Kenya
STATEMENT BY THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHANGE ON THE LETTER FROM KENYAN PRESIDENT MWAI KIBAKI TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES BARACK OBAMA issued at Nairobi 28th September 2009.
The Kibaki administration is ruffled by the United States Government latest actions on Kenya and it has nothing to do with travel bans. Money is at stake and the soft underbelly of the regime is exposed. Although it touts itself as financially self-reliant, in truth the Grand Coalition Government of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga cannot afford to ignore the International Community and especially the United States’ stated intention of scrutinising all loans and financial programmes for Kenya by the International Financial Institutions. Things are now very serious for the two Kenyan leaders. There is an Aid Freeze in the making. Kibaki and Odinga should ask Daniel Arap Moi to tell them what the US Government Statement actually means.
The Grand Coalition Government has been castigated by the international community and even been the subject of international investigations following the National Accord – but each time it has arrogantly shrugged off its international critics with assertions of sovereignty. But this time Kibaki is worried and we can hazard a guess as to why this is the case. His financially strapped Government is facing the prospect of having all its “vision 2030 projects” rejected by the World Bank on the say so of the President of the United States of America. The Minister for Finance doubts publicly that he can meet payroll if things continue as they are going.
October is almost here and the Government has failed to pass the Appropriations Bill through Parliament and therefore has no authority to implement its budget in full. Even though earlier this year the Government got 200 million US $ from the International Monetary Fund for balance of payment support the Government remains cash strapped for its operations and has been hoping to convince international donors to pick up the tab for several important national programmes including the resettlement of IDPs, public infrastructure development, food relief and general humanitarian aid, and recently evacuation of the water towers of Kenya. This is unlikely to be forthcoming in the current environment of a US led financial squeeze because of bad governance.
As things stand today, both Parliament and the World Bank have ordered audits into Government finances including a forensic Audit into the National budget for the past 3 years.
The Statement by the United States Government regarding consideration of future International Financial Institution projects for Kenya is most welcome to the fundamental change constituency which wishes to see the back of the Grand Coalition Government.
Kenya has not seen such a statement since the Moi era in the 1990s. What this means for the Kenya Government is that there are serious considerations for an Aid freeze to Kenya and it is pegged to the implementation of the National Accord. It is good news to those Kenyans who support fundamental reform and devastating to those who are on the wrong side of history.
The news is encouraging, because it means that the Kenya Government cannot as it has always done in the recent past ignore the demands of Kenyans for reform and implementation of the National Accord without consequences. The picture emerging is that the Kenyan public have friends and powerful friends to boot and now the Grand Coalition Government could be facing a serious reality check. You can thumb your nose at public opinion about your economic management of public resources, but there are responsible Governments in the International Community who will have none of it.
The Statement released by President Obama’s Government states “ The United States will more closely scrutinise all proposed projects, loans and other programmes of assistance to Kenya that are brought before International Financial Institutions.” This means that the United States is planning to use its immense influence over the Boards of the Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank and International Monetary Fund) to assert its Policy towards Kenya.
Regardless of what the Government’s apologists say, a reading of public opinion as expressed in the media, shows that US policy is in tandem with what the Kenyan public wants. Between Kenyan public opinion and the US Government position there are clear points of convergence. Thus the US statement is clear “ The United States will continue to support the Insistence of the Kenyan People that Fundamental reforms be fully implemented as agreed in the National Accord of 2008”
The United States is certainly not acting alone. It acts with the support and gratitude of Kenyan Public. The latter is confirmed by public opinion polling by the Kenyan media. The sign of the times, if now seen for what it is should shock the Government into immediate action. The Kenyan Government as sovereign as it may claim to be, cannot do without Bretton Woods Support and the Kenyan public will refuse to be committed to pay private commercial loans to support a Government that is not accountable to its people. Indeed, we have already refused to pay for a wasteful bloated Government. What we want to pay for is Fundamental Reforms under Agenda 4. The Government has not provided resources for these reforms in the largest budget in Kenya’s history.
On March 30th, 2009, the Partnership for Change wrote to Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund asking the International Monetary Fund Board of Directors to consider the opinion of those Kenyans who will inevitably be taxed to repay whatever loan the Government of Kenya obtains regardless of whether or not Kenyans obtained any developmental benefit from it.
This Letter was followed by another dated June 2nd 2009, with subject title -Re: IMF’s odious loans are impoverishing Kenya through collusion with corrupt agents.
The Partnership for Change called for the Bretton Woods International Financial Institutions (especially the IMF and the World Bank) to immediately do an inventory of loans lost to corruption and public sector financial impropriety in Kenya. An independent panel of experts would determine, on a case by case basis, where responsibility lies. If it was found that their staff knowingly lent money to the Kenya Government who then siphoned it off through corruption, thereby contravening the institutions’ fiduciary mandate, negotiations about sharing liability should commence immediately. Kenya simply cannot afford more of the IMF’s unaccountable loan “medicine”. We as Kenyans were demanding the freedom to follow economic policies that protect the country from more harm.
Both letters were copied to the all multi - lateral and Bi - lateral donors to Kenya. The World Bank has already moved into action, suspending two current large projects in the last two days. Institutional Infrastructure Bond holders are now demanding to be told what projects their money is financing and the Government is being vague. When Parliament reconvenes the stalled forensic audit of the National Budget over the last 3 years will be the next urgent issue to be dealt with. And other donors apart from the United States are also enquiring into their Kenyan portfolios worried that they are being raided.
What Kibaki and Odinga should do once they next meet is face the reality that they are indeed big fish in a very small pond. And that they must take decisive steps to respond to Kenyans and International Community concerns about the stalled National Accord reform processes, and the economic well-being of the Nation. They will have to eventually make political sacrifices including dropping cabinet ministers (e.g. the Attorney General), and other senior government officials (e.g. the Chief Justice and Aaron Ringera). This is what Moi did when he faced similar actions. He sacked and arrested ministers and allowed multi-partyism by constitutional amendment. Both Kibaki and Odinga benefited from Moi’s decision, and Kenya’s democracy advanced. In reality reforms are not optional - they will come - sometimes painfully.
Mwai Kibaki has made his move, writing to Barrack Obama to complain. Kibaki has not made his letter public. Why? Instead Kibaki has continued to ignore the public and the only mandate he has, which is to deliver the reforms. Kibaki forgets or does not care that he has no electoral mandate and the reforms he is being asked to implement are critical for the survival of millions of Kenyans. Former advisors are openly calling his actions escapist.
Raila Odinga on the other hand seems delighted at Kibaki’s misfortunes falsely believing that it will assist his presidential ambitions. What Odinga forgets is that Kenyans now want fundamental Change and that the ODM is just status quo as the PNU. Odinga pretends he is not part of the problem, and yet as Prime Minister he is responsible for supervision and coordination of all Ministers. Kenyans will see him as a cynic as he tries to prepare to run without a record. Power without responsiblity.
And so to the final point. Kenyans urgently need to prepare for a democratic election. We have come to the point of diminishing returns. The more we have of the Grand Coalition Government the more Kenyans continue to suffer. Is it logical then, to keep asking those who are not prepared to deliver reforms to do so? So disadvantaged are Kenyans by this unelected Grand Coalition Government that we do not even have a voters register. We urgently need the Kriegler electoral reforms to be entrenched. Otherwise the next elections will be as farcical as the August 2009 by-elections in Shinyalu and Bomachoge where a toothless IIEC allowed ODM and PNU tn do a battle of bribery. We need the reforms to entrench a truly independent electoral referee who shall be able to control the excesses of Kibaki’s and Odinga’s political machinery. A democratic dispensation achieved through the ballot is our democratic right. Especially because the Grand Coalition is not based on an elected mandate, and rules only because Kenyans consented to a negotiated agreement to save the country from collapse. It is this agreement - the National Accord - and its reform package as set out in Agendas 1-4 that both Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga are not honouring.
We support the International Community in reigning in our rogue, insensitive, uncaring and visionless leaders. Keep up the pressure, Kenyans are totally with you. We have simply had enough.

Signed
Mars Group Kenya
For the Partnership for ChangeNairobi 28th September 2009.

Kenya's voting Equation

2009-09-29T11:21:00.006+03:00

Mr Balala has at last let the cat out of the bag and declared what many in his community has been thinking for ages since The last Post election violence that almost brought this beautiful country to its knee. In parked luncheon with President Kibaki he said he was saddened by being misled to mislead the Muslims in not voting for him. Balala went to add that the President meant well for his community.

It is quite interesting that the dynamic and re-alignment of Kenyan politics are changing on daily basis. Balala was the first in Pentagon team members who stood down in an emotional speech campaigned for Odinga in the last election and swayed the Muslim public to vote for him through Mosque organization. He took very active part in rallying his community to vote en mass for Orange team.

Odinga signed MOU with Kenyan Muslims promising to tackle issues that were dear to them and he reneged on all the promises that he made to the community. The community were refused access to the PM who thought that they were dispensable as he had reached his target.Community activist had warned Balala and the rest that they were abusing the constitution as Kenyan citizen did not require to sign religious memorandum with any individual as that was bound to cause discrimination and was illegal. It is now appears Balala was mislead by duping the community in taking unnecessary and dangerous stand.

President Kibaki who talks less and likes to works silently has now achieved what he could not during the last election campaign. Yesterday in Nairobi he invited the Muslim big guns for an Iftar Lunch where there was free flow of ideas which impressed the Muslim leaders who were at pain to explain that they abandoned the President at the hour of need. Kibaki who was composed and calculating as always re-assured them that they were like other Kenyan citizen and will never be discriminated.

The Muslim vote account around 16% and probably 22.7% during the recent census will be crucial in the next General election and whoever will mange to sway them will be assured of capturing the house on the hill. Kibaki has done his maths and has the numbers to carry his mandate to the next level. He is surrounded by political sharks who are determined this time they are not taking for granted the political setting.

Prime Minister Odinga today is a worried man he has been deserted by the Rift valley voting block who are being courted by Uhuru team and now the Muslims votes are flexing their muscles which has left him exposed and naked. Odinga who is good organizer but lacks political strategist who will guide him through the complex public mood maze. He is always quick to get embroiled in every little issue that crops up in the day. His advisers are poorly trained to spot political trend and have let him down. They lack on spot analysis and image building.

The trip U.S has completely exposed him to ridicule and turned to a circus. His Spokesman Dennis Onyango who lacks analytical skills was a reporter for Standard Newspapers with no international background had completely turned the whole trip into disaster. He was desperate to get a photo opportunity for Odinga with President Obama that irritated The U.S secret service. He will not give sincere reading of situations to Prime Minister Odinga. Odinga's popularity is in the boots and will never recover with the present team.

President Kibaki is a lucky man everything touches turns to his favour no matter what situation he finds himself in. His silence is an art and a weapon that he never ceases to use effectively and to his advantage. He comes unscathed with every disaster he finds himself in. President Kibaki will seek a third term after the change of Constitution which will not bar him to stand and with the Muslim votes in his bag he will be elected with resounding victory this time.

Saida Ahmed

The face of dictators

2009-09-28T13:35:00.004+03:00

Kenya is becoming a country that is sliding towards abyss faster than thought. The country is full of bankrupt politicians who will keep on recycling useless ideas that will not take us anywhere. This group of old style politician are now running from a public meeting to another preaching stale ideas to hungry wananchi who are looking for good governance.

Kenya today is unable to feed its people and very soon we will have mass death from hunger that Ethiopian famine will looks like chicken feed. This country which has never suffered under sanctions is carrying the begging bowl for food on the international scene. Zimbabwe which has had to endure more than 10yrs of international sanction with near total economic collapse is able to feed its people and has declared that it is self sufficient in food production. President Mugabe is proud man today boasting of supplying milk to Kenya.

Kenya dinosaur leaders are talking in term of building nuclear energy. This is the biggest joke that we have had in Kenya for the last century. Nuclear power ? where on earth would we get this technology and funding when we cannot supply ordinary electricity to our own capital city. This country is hungry due to poor planning,corruption and impunity. We need to replace this bunch of corrupt bankrupt leaders with leaders of 21st century with vision.

Kiraitu Muruingi is a man who is in hurry to gain and retain power at all cost. In the 90s he hoodwinked the Kenyan public by identifying himself as a man who was a reformist and joined the bandwagon for clamour of multi-party system. After 2002 election of President Kibaki he was made minister for justice where his dictatorial tendencies started becoming evident. He was taped by Githongo calling for dropping investigation against Anglo -leasing as it had figures close to Kibaki regime. Muruingi ensured all evidence were withheld and files disappeared. He was relieved his post only to be reappointed after the tribal Njuri Nceke intervened. He is back at the energy ministry where there is high level of corruption with many unanswered questions.

Kiraitu Muruingi who has very short memory is seeking advice from Moi on how to rule Kenya. Few years ago he was quoted telling Moi to go into retirement and tend his goats and leave government to them as they are better suited for that function. It is with this that Kenya was to bear and witness the largest Mega corruption in its history. Today Kenyans are suffering due to Muruingi and group support for impunity and corruption.

A picture can tell thousand words instantly. This two fellows have something in common that no Kenyan can miss telling. They love power and are dictators who want to mesmerise Kenya public with false promise and hope. Moi ruled this country for the last 24yrs with marking of dictator and the disappearance of several high ranking Kenya officials. It was during his tenure that Ouko,Bishop Muge were murdered with no investigation to date. Moi's word were law where officials were summarily dismissed using the radio at exactly 1 o'clock. Detention without trial was his best weapon. Today he is challenging the same democracy which he has benefited from and has offered him space to breath.

Moi is taking advantage of power vacuum that is evident in Kenya since 2007 and is on a mission to use it effectively for him to remain relevant . He is bitter man for his sons lost last election and his farm partly burned during the last election mayhem. Moi has been criss crossing the country seeking support from various community while campaigning openly for Kanu.

Kiaritu who has his mouth always full and loves to wear sheep skin is seeking counselling from Moi on how to rule Kenya . Well Moi will never take him anywhere he better stick with Odinga. Kenyans have made up their mind and know that presently their is no government. They are taking their security in their own hands. Moi should be better advised to retire peacefully and enjoy his 24 years of loot as the day of reckoning is just at the corner. He and Muruingi who share dictatorial tendencies will soon share a prison room 2x2feet.

SIASA KALI

The Photo Opportunity

2009-09-27T10:23:00.005+03:00

For the next two Weeks Prime Minister Odinga will be bombarding us with how he cornered President Obama at Metropolitan museum and they talked about governance and other issues facing Kenya. He exchanged pleasantries with President Obama and we are told that Michelle Obama asked Ida to look after Mama Sarah Obama. How cheap can this Prime Minister be???

Time and again we have come to conclusion that Mr Odinga does not deserve a second chance in any political office .His time has gone and passed. His vision is clouded and confused by the few outriders that President Kibaki has loaned him. After leaving Nairobi for The U.S he was looking forward to having lunch with Obama a wish that evaporated within minutes of his arrival in the U.S.

The Kenyan diaspora and civil societies worked behind the scene and pressured the U.S administration to drop The Kenyan leader from the list as they reneged on moving forward with agenda four and inviting him to this forum will set a bad precedent in Kenya and Africa. By virtue of him turning up at the dinner table will have endorsed the post election violence and tolerance of poor governance in Africa.

Odinga from the start of U.N summit was looking for photo opportunity with the Obama and jumped at the opportunity presented to him the cocktail party at the Metropolitan Museum. He was out of protocol which made the Obama little bit embarrassed and did not mind for it only took 2 minutes of their precious time as the U.S President had other important issues of saving the world from economic collapse and G20 needed all his attention.

The sovereignty of Kenya is sacred that no one should be allowed to challenge it weather friend or enemies. When Odinga pokes hole on t our sovereignty we should challenge him and ask him to resign as Prime minister as he has failed to defend and uphold the Constitution of Kenya.At Harvard university Odinga defended the U.S action of sending letters of threat to our legislators and civil servants. The U.S is our friend and has several channel open to them to challenge our poor governance but the Prime minister has no right to challenge the same government that has made him what he is today.

Thanks to President Kibaki though his record for impunity is on the radar he will play to the gallery and look to be defending the sovereignty of Kenya. He has instantly gained sympathy and support. This President is lucky to have a Prime minister like Odinga who is gaffe prone and childish in outlook.

Kenyans will not be fooled by a photo shoot opportunity that can be conducted by anyone who happens to be at the museum. Important government issues are not discussed during a photo opportunity but during serious engagement.The photo only exposed how Odinga was cheap and desperate to save his image which has been dipping in Kenya and abroad. President Obama has given photo opportunity to millions of world citizen.

Susana

U.S theatens Kenya's Finance

2009-09-26T23:52:00.003+03:00

United States Of America Government Statement Regarding Consideration Of FutureInternational Financial Institution Projects For Kenya Issued at Nairobi 24th September 2009.

The United States government continues to be concerned about the Government ofKenya’s lack of commitment to reform as outlined under the National Accordsigned in the aftermath of the 2008 post-election violence. While we welcome the indications that police reform may be moving ahead, theremaining reform agenda is extensive and should be carried out with a sense ofurgency.President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton have repeatedly made clear theimportance they attach to full implementation of the reform agenda. The United States will stand firmly behind the Kenyan people as the insist onfull implementation of the reform agenda including, but not limited to,meaningful constitutional revision, accountability for perpetrators ofpost-election violence, bold and decisive action against corruption, police andjudicial reform, and the establishment of a permanent electoral commission. The United States government will take the steps it deems appropriate to holdaccountable those who do not support the reform agenda or support violence.As one additional step, the U.S. will more closely scrutinize all proposedprojects, loans and other programs of assistance to Kenya that are broughtbefore international financial institutions. The United States will continue to support the insistence of the Kenyan peoplethat fundamental reforms be fully implemented, as agreed in the National Accordof 2008. Delivering the statement on behalf of the USA government Ambassador MichaelRannerbeger had the following to say, Upon instructions from Washington, I am announcing three U.S. Governmentactions intended to press for full implementation of the reform agenda. First: Letters signed by Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Carson havebeen sent to 15 persons making clear that the future relationship of thosepersons with the United States is tied to their support for implementation ofthe reform agenda and opposition to the use of violence. While I will not bereleasing the names of those individuals, I can tell you that ministers, Membersof Parliament, permanent secretaries, and other prominent officials are amongthose receiving letters. The letters have been sent to persons on both sides ofthe coalition government, because they share responsibility to implementreforms. I am sharing with you the text of those letters – which is the samefor all. Second: The U.S. Government is indicating that it will more closely scrutinizeany proposals for Kenya in International Financial Institutions. Third: The letters we have sent -- with more to come -- will be followed bysome travel bans within the coming weeks, as warranted. These steps reflect the message that President Obama and Secretary Clinton haveclearly and repeatedly delivered: that we are deeply concerned by the lack ofimplementation on key elements of the reform agenda and that, while we want tohelp support the process of reform, we will not do business as usual with thosewho do not support reform or who support violence to achieve political aims. These steps reflect the view at the highest levels of the U.S. Government thatimplementation of the comprehensive reform agenda agreed to as the foundation ofthe coalition government must proceed with a much greater sense of urgency,because doing so is crucial to the future democratic stability of Kenya. In pressing for implementation of the reform agenda, we are supporting onlywhat the vast majority of the people of Kenya want, expect, and deserve fromtheir political leaders: peaceful, fundamental change that will end the cultureof impunity, a society governed by the rule of law, and accountability – allof which amount to the changes needed to ensure there is never again a repeat ofthe unprecedented crisis Kenya suffered last year.

Read the letter from Johnnie Carson the Assistant Secretary for AfricanAffairs:

Chat to Ambassador

2009-09-24T13:23:00.001+03:00

Webchat with Ambassador Ranneberger
September 23, 2009
3:00- 4:00 PM Kenya (12:00 GMT)
The enduring friendship between the United States and Kenya is a testament to the commitment the two countries share to democracy, liberty and free markets. U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger will host an online discussion with Kenyan citizens on topics of interest in Kenyan-U.S. relations. The ambassador will be available in real time to take comments and answer questions.
Students, researchers, politicians or just interested parties
All are welcome to join in!
Where: Virtually, Online. Enter webchat here: http://statedept.connectsolutions.com/nairobi/
When: September 23, 2009 between 3:00- 4:00 PM Kenya (12:00 GMT) . However you can send questions anytime prior to the event by signing in to the webchat (see instructions below)
How: All you need is a web browser such as Internet Explorer and Flash V.8 (usually installed on newer computers).
1) Using your web browser, go to: http://statedept.connectsolutions.com/nairobi/

2) Enter Webchat as a "Guest" OR type in your preferred screen name and city (i.e. Sheila-Kisumu) , then click "Enter Room"

3) Submit your question in the Chat box and in time the Ambassador will respond.
Additional instructions are below.
For those without computer access, the American Reference Center in the U.S. Embassy can help. Please call or email us to reserve a computer. We can also assist with login help if you are trying to login from home.
Questions and contact information: American Reference Center
email: ircnairobi@state.gov
phone: +254-20-363-6196/7

The Death of KACC

2009-09-23T11:15:00.006+03:00

President Kibaki is man who rarely comments on issues that are of national importance. He will only summon journalist and live TV to give statement on the state of affairs of his homestead. As the head of state he is less concerned with million of Kenyans dying of hunger or the corruption and impunity that he seems to encourage and conducted by his team. The recent reappointment of Ringera was done with detailed planning and expectant result which is hoped to be the death of KACC.

Kibaki and and courtiers are having a field day. They have laid a mine trap and the target happens to be the parliament who are walking tight rope towards it. Ringera is being used to carry out this calculated mission with zeal and he will in the end be discarded like Maj Gen Ali when the objective is achieved. The objective for Kibaki is to have parliament carry out his dream job of disbanding KACC without him lifting a finger . By disbanding the KACC the Kibaki regime will have killed two birds with one stone. The files that are in KACC possession of the MEGA corruption will be lost for ever and the public will be diverted to other issues.The Parliament will have been led to where Kibaki wanted them and caused the death of KACC inadvertently.

If I was a Kenyan leader I would be very worried today than yesterday.Yes Obama snubbed Prime Minister Odinga who was rushing to meet him to whitewash corruption and impunity that is prevalent in Kenya today. Odinga did not successfully answer the charges that his Son Fidel and cronies who were accused of being involved in the Maize Saga and Second Grain handling port that has increased the hunger in this country. This issue has not died and will future prominently in the next few days.

President Kibaki is better advised not to make foreign trip for the reminder of his diminishing Presidency as he will be looked at somebody who encourages impunity and sustains corruption. He misreads the public mood and that the days of imperial presidency in Kenya is long gone away. Kibaki who is a student of Late Kenyatta is today seen a leader who has failed o steer this country to the right direction. He has ethnisized the whole security apparatus and has vowed not to give strategic position to citizen other than Mt Kenyans.

President Obama listened to the presentation from civil societies who strongly requested him not to meet any Kenya leader who want to continue with business as usual. It is obvious that with the present set up we will not achieve agenda 4 as we go to 2012 picnic. The country is polarised and charged as we write this article and just slight tilt and hell will break. The youth are becoming impatient when they see the scale of corruption that is in millions and no one is seems to care. They know the continuation of corruption as employement opportunity denied to them.

As soon as embattled Ringera arrived from Kazakhstan a country that has imperial presidency and boost of crushing opposition he went straight to State House and briefed Kibaki . Ringera come out defiant telling the press that he is there to stay enjoying the circus around his reappointment. In State House he got more ammunition and support. Muthaura and gang have laid down strategy and issued him with circus script to read and act from.

The Parliament has no authority to sack me a fighting Ringera was quoted saying. Imagine how powerful or foolish Mr Ringera a learned Judge could be???. He is now openly challenging the authority of peoples representative to dare remove him. What he doesn't know is that he has been set to play to other people's tune. The parliament is the highest law making organ and chosen to carry that mandate by citizen of this beautiful country. challenging the Parliament and defying its directive is reading riot act to the Wananchi and it is to your peril.

This man was debriefed falsely yesterday and reassured of his position. His arrogance is of unheard nature. Ringera was taped by Githongo pleading with him to drop the Anglo-leasing investigation as it involved his fellow tribesmen. How do you expect him to head anti-corruption crusade with this set of baggage. For 5 years that he has been leading this organization no one has ever been charged or convicted . He was there in the first place to cover Mega corruption conducted by the regime and their friends.

The Parliament should study this issue carefully and not give in Kibaki's wish of disbanding the KACC and destruction of MEGA corruption files. The Parliament should desist on being emotional and seek the best brain to deal with this cancer that is about to tear this country apart. There is a way round this issue and the first task will be to secure the files in hand of independent non partisan organisation and chart the future of KACC without Ringera .

In the next few hours there will be newsflash alerting us that the Integrity Centre has been burgled and all computer disc and files taken away. This is familiar line that is taking root in Kenya. Kenyans should now surround the Integrity House and carry day and night vigil so as not allow any file go missing. The culprit should know we are now watching and going to take security of this beautiful country in our own hands.

SIASA KALI

The U.S Military Operation

2009-09-22T11:23:00.005+03:00

Mr Wetangula the Kenya foreign Minister is unhappy man today. He described the recent Killing of Kenyan Al-Qaeda operative as a lone range action by the U.S government."What I do not feel comfortable with is the fact that the U.S. would want to conduct operations in our neighbourhood without information or cooperation or collaboration," he said.

The U.S government did not carry this operation alone. It sought the support of regional security organisation and clearance from the country concerned. They had conducted aerial and ground surveillance for number of years before honing their target to car travelling to South Somalia to conduct more untold misery.The US is not some third world country that conducts operation without involving all that are concerned. They follow laid down rule of engagement.

The Somali government of Sheikh Sharriff was consulted by the U.S government and he gave the go ahead for this operation to be conducted in his country as they are unable to contain the Al-Qaeda operatives who have relocated from Pakistan and set bases in Somalia. The same transitional government is is facing well armed and equipped insurgency that virtually controls the whole of Somalia including the capital city leaving few street for Sheikh Shariff to run his besieged administration.

The U.S government supports and encourages good governance and democratic ideals around the world .It does not tolerate any violation of human right anywhere in the world and engages directly with responsible government and authorities in the World. The U.S has several organisation that conducts checks and balance. The commander in chief who is the President of the united States gives the final go ahead after extensive consultation.

Mr Wetangula should understand the remits of diplomacy instead of engaging the press to castigate actions conducted by a friendly country that is trying to make our world safe. The Al-Qaeda terrorist organization has caused so many death and destruction that they need to be confronted head on . The U.S and allies spend billion of dollars single handed in support of emerging democracies.

In 1998 over 200 hundred innocent Kenyans were murdered in the street of Nairobi and 5000 injured who today bear the scares of this deadly organisation which is trying to establish root just next to Kenya. Thanks to the U.S we are now better equipped army and have surveillance kit to abort another similar operation by Al-Qaeda in Kenya. Thousands of Kenya army personnel have benefited from intensive U.S military training and continue to do so.

The U.S consulted and briefed Kenya's top military officials on the operation in Somalia. This was high risk mission and only few individuals were kept on the loop as massive ground work was carried to make surgical attack. If the U.S advertised this operation it would have caused huge causalities and the target would have disappeared in the thin air and given another chance to conduct mayhem against innocent civilians who might have been Kenyans.

Mr Wetangula the United States is a force of good and conducts operation that benefit the whole humanity as whole. A quick telephone call to the Kenya military authority will have told you about the operation and our involvement with the U.S military. We appreciate the support that the U.S has given to Kenya military and security apparatus. There is no need to rush to the press and attack our U.S friends. U.S is Kenya's number one friend. What we need to do is to work towards good governance and accountability in Kenya.

Kushotoo

The Parallel inteligience group

2009-09-21T13:40:00.003+03:00

The Bakara Market in Mogadishu is an arms dealers paradise. situated in the middle of Mogadishu it is heavily guarded. A walk in the Bazaar will take off your breath the number of sophisticated weapons that this market boost off. It is well supplied market with total breakdown of normal government there is no check and balance. The Arms dealers from all over the world have converged into this market where they have their point men running the business.

The port of Mogadishu will never see the light of government as it has turned to be the busiest in the region. Controlled by warlords they unload 24/7 365 days a year weapons containers to consumers who are as far as Chad and the Congo. The transit route they use is being loosely guarded Kenya's 3000 km border that it shares with Somalia. Kenya is the most safest crossing for this merchants who can get anything safely to the other side as they have their replica businessmen on the Kenyan side who will take ''Kitu Kidogo'' to make the crossing safe and profitable.

Now placing a thriving arms market at arms length border crossing and increased armed robbery,killing and kidnapping in Kenya we are in for long insecurity spree in our country. Yes this is an emerging security challenge that will be hard to contain by Kenya's divided security with opposing loyalties. After Government lost the 2005 referendum the kibaki courtiers worked at full throttle to ensure the coming election was not lost. They set up parallel security organisation which had direct link to the state house. Top provincial administrator in North Eastern were drafted in the elite circle and was to link with Mogadishu merchants of Death. Several truck loads were loaded from Mogadishu which entered safely under provincial cover.

The Parallel security organization was co-ordinated by the courtiers who were to ensure that Kibaki did not loose in the coming election. The funding was provided by industrialist and friendly countries who were promised chunk of business in term of hotels,railways and oil refineries which were up for grabs once Kibaki was sworn in for the second term. This group were tightly knit together and had revolving meeting in Muthaiga and intelligence worked on need to know basis so nothing slipped to press which was always hovering around.

The few Editors who were sympathetic were identified and positively briefed on the consequences of kibaki loosing second term. They were encouraged to carry out disinformation to a level that was not seen in Kenya. The strategy used was to silence politicians who were openly identified with the establishment and not inflame wananchi passion for change. X-files were prepared and kept in view.The politician were told to remain on sideline as the whole operation was being run under cover with senior intelligence being drafted to the process.

As the election approached Kibaki courtiers received 2 high value reports from the intelligence which showed that they were going to take the route that Moi took in leaving the State house if nothing dramatic is done to reverse the falling fortunes. The mood in the country was charged and euphoria was everywhere and civil war inevitable. The parallel intelligence which was put to action and feelers were sent to Bakara in Mogadishu and within seconds sophisticated armoury flooded Kenya. This arms were given to powerful organization who were to ensure the ballot papers remained in the hands of the government.

The chiefs around the country were briefed and trained how not to spot the obvious rigging. they were made to understand that their job and career was in line and only will be saved by reelection of kibaki. their allowances were increase and all set and geared up to the result we have today.

This parallel intelligence community is active and powerful today and are running the show. The normal channel of intelligence has been bypassed. In normal democracies this will have have caused huge public outcry which will have led disbandment and investigation. This group are so powerful that they are now in the process of drawing contingencies for 2012. They are now better equipped with extensive experience and will not stop at anything. If change of power takes places without their candidate they stand to loose greatly. They are playing their cards very well.

Kenya has benefited from the chaos in Somalia in term of hosting the largest refugees in the world. The Somali diaspora has invested heavily in our economy creating jobs for many Kenyans who otherwise will have been jobless. The central bank figures show that Somali diaspora remittances to Kenya is equal to foreign aid that we receive in a year. Most of the big business in Mogadishu has been transferred to Eastleigh. The chaos in Somali is a blessing to Kenya and the parallel intelligence believe that it should continue to be sustained till post 2012 for their own myopic benefit.

This is a dangerous school of thought the misery that this war in Somalia has caused to its citizen can be felt beyond its borders. In Kenya it has increased insecurity and proliferation of arms. The Parallel intelligence are group of selfish Kenyans who should be exposed no matter how dangerous they are and the Bakara connection exposed. They are armed well equipped and no accountability. This loose cannon should be silence by lovers of democracy.

Saida Ahmed

Odinga dropped from Obama Lunch List

2009-09-19T23:43:00.005+03:00

We here in Siasa Kali have campaigned day and night and mobilised supporters to Have Prime Minister Raila Odinga dropped from the Lunch meeting that President Obama is having with African Heads of state. We contacted White House and personally contacted Ambassador Susan Rice at U.N advising her the attendance of Prime Minister Odinga will send wrong message to Kenya and Africa. We insisted of Impunity and bad governance in Kenya. By insisting strongly that there was no other option as the post election victim justice has not been carried and we still have 600000 displaced Kenyans the invitation should be shelved indefinately.

Thanks that the administration and Ambassador Rice listened sympathetically to our pleas. we are today proud of the U.S administration Achievement. We will at the right time publish the letter here in SIASA KALI.

SIASA KALI

Kenya's twisted priorities

2009-09-19T17:45:00.002+03:00

Kenya is no longer considered the darling of West where there is abundance of wildlife,good security status,foreign investment and practice of democratic ideals on all those counts it epitomises a failed state that is on the highway to disintegration. The post election violence took Kenya of the radder and backward to 50+ years of loss of order and sanity. Kenya is bleeding slowly to death.

The WFP has today announced due to financial constraint it is no longer able to feed the 10 million Kenyans who rely on its monthly handout of food ration . This Kenyans who's lifeline depend on this philanthropic organisation to keep them alive will have the plug soon pulled out. The coalition government has no plan ''B'' for this innocent wananchi whose wealth have been looted by this few so called leaders who are corrupt beyond belief. The WFP has other priorities among to feed other nations who have been ungoverned for the last two decades. Why would they continue to feed a country that is riddled with corruption, who are not making any headway and have skewed priorities.

Kenya is now listed as a failed country that no one will take it seriously . Kenya's gaffe prone accidental Prime Minister was recently telling the world that it will host this important meeting. After leading the Kenya delegation to 18th World Economic Forum on Africa in South Africa earlier this year, Odinga said that Kenya had accepted an invitation by the organisers to host the forum and was looking for 77 million bid for hosting the conference. Odinga who is champion of not carrying his thought process through and let down by his advisers made a mistake by making this announcement. He did not study the issues and diplomacy that was involved in this process. Kenya which was scene of 1500 massacre of its own citizen and 600000 internally displaced would not have been good venue.

The World Economic Forum saw otherwise and gave this golden opportunity to Tanzania which has set example of good governance in Africa. President Kikwete has carried out a crusade against corruption which has seen his country leap to respectable league and now reaping the benefit. Kikwete has set up strong institution that will go even after the country's Prime minister and charge him with corruption. Tanzania's strong institutions are respected by its own citizen.

Tanzania is far ahead of Kenya in various sphere of life.The roads are built and repaired to international standards. Democracy is practised to village level. The President is active and makes impromptu visit inspecting development projects. No one is immune to good governance and excellent service delivery in Tanzania. Like Ghana ,Tanzania has become a jewel country that needs to be encouraged. President Obama invites Kikwete as the first foreign head of state to visit white house after his inauguration.

The world economic Forum has bypassed Kenya as a country which has failed and choose Tanzania to host this important Economic gathering and further propel its image to the world as democratic and peaceful country. Andre Schneider, Managing Director, World Economic Forum said, “The World Economic Forum on Africa is an important opportunity to take the pulse each year of the most influential of Africa’s stakeholders. We look forward to holding the meeting in Tanzania at a time when the whole East Africa region is expected to experience stronger growth,” . This is a lesson to Kenya leaders who's image has been tainted by their actions of condoning corruption and impunity.

Kenya needs younger leaders who are development conscious like President Kikwete if we are to compete with other nations on good governance.We are still sabotaging the process of building new constitution. Impunity is encouraged none other Than president Kibaki. Institution are made up of party operatives who instead of working for Kenya are answerable to individuals.It is high time that Kibaki,odinga who both are past 60s to retire as they are expert of old style politics and thrive on patronage.

Ekwe Edia

Parliamentarian for Rent

2009-09-17T15:17:00.004+03:00

The word rent in oxford dictionary is entered as ''pay someone for the use of. let someone use (something) in return for payment'. Yesterday as the debate on illegal reappointment of Ringera was raging in parliament most of the Rift Valley Mps led by Agriculture minister William Ruto were absent from the house on a barter agreement with Uhuru Kenyatta to support them on Mau compensation and will not be pursued on corruption charges if they support Ringera. This how cheap Rift Valley legislature's have stooped down. Kenyatta successfully rented Ruto and his allies to stay away from parliament when a very important national issue was being discussed.

Thanks to the few dedicate Kenyan legislatures who stood against bad precedent set by the president kibaki and humiliated him in the eyes of Kenyans who have suffocated with impunity non stop. There is no single day that passes that we are not spared by Rift Valley Mps demanding this or that. They have been working hard to hold this nation at ransom. Since Moi's departure from centre of power they have acted liked children who have bereaved off their father. They have no sense of national duties. It is us and our tribe mantra that they have been selling to poor innocent Rift Valley resident.

This ninth parliament is congregated by politician who will sell their votes to the highest bidder. Thanks to few individuals who are corrupt and have turned this august house into and auction house. The public have totally lost confidence in the parliament that they are praying for the earliest time that they can be able to use their ballot papers this time without fear and favour.

The Ruto gang who will this time not fool Wananchi were in for a shock when the parliament Marshaled dedicated true patriots of this country who passed the motion of rejecting Ringera's illegal reappointment to KACC. Ruto once more has shown his true colours taht he will use his ethnic calculation to reach his personal ambition without thinking the consequence that it will have to this country. Ruto has failed as leader and will no longer hoodwink Kenyans. We now know what he is made of a tribal bigot who has no national standing. He has campaigned to have the tribunal quashed which is beyond horse or barter trading.

Most of Rift Valley Mps acquired large tract of land illegally during Moi's despotic years in Mau forest where they sub divided and sold to innocent unsuspecting families. This poor families who used their lifetime saving to buy a piece of Kenya to settle and farm. This Mps under the disguise of helping this citizens the run in circus claiming that their people are being targeted for eviction while they no not to be the case. Their wealth is under scrutiny and their cry is a side show.

The Mau issue has now taken an international dimension and it is about saving the world from destruction. Due to Ruto and co myopic views that we as Kenyans are unable to effectively safe Mau and have asked for the world to come to our aid to save our own country. Today 10 million Kenyans are facing hunger because of the destruction of Mau and wetlands in other parts of the country. We are a country that cannot feed its population.Mau will be saved no matter what obstacles that this greedy Mps place in front of the nation.

Ruto using his gang has been fighting Prime Minister Odinga who has passion and vision of saving Mau . Odinga who has put his political life online has campaigned day and night for this forest to revert back to its original habitat. He has the international support and credit goes to him.

The Rift Valley Mps who are shouting on top of their voice should go back to the drawing board and start preaching peace in their home areas where innocent Kenyans were locked in church and set on fire. Kenya will never forgive and forget how those unarmed innocent Mothers and children met their untimely death. How quick can this same warlords seak alliances to grab more power and cause further Mayhem. Their action of skipping parliament when important national issue was being discussed speaks volumes. They had their bargain with Uhuru but rest assured they will loose on both counts. Kenya is bigger than Ruto and gang.

SIASA KALI

Kenya's Killing fields

2009-09-16T11:33:00.007+03:00

The recent recommendation by Philip Ransley of complete overhaul of the police force has been completely misread by the two principles and are just window dressing while the security of Kenya has gone haywire. The rate of crime has increase dramatically in the last few days which is a sign of things getting out of hand.

Crime is number one issue for Kenyans today. The killing of 6 year old Sudanese boy cannot be taken lightly. It should become a national issue and everybody up in arms and say no to this kind of horrific killings. If we were living in Democratic world there would have been head rolling and blood letting until the crime is solved. No single word from the Commissioner Iteere to comfort this distraught family who have lost their beautiful child.

Prime Minister Odinga is good at gaffes and does it very well when he told the bereaved family that “The child was just at the wrong place at the wrong time,” and gave a paltry Ksh 100,000 for the funeral expense which they did not ask for in the first place. How do you expect a 6 year old child to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The logic that Odinga uses raises more question on his capability of leading this country. How more insensitive can this Prime Minister be????. Mr Odinga please please take back your Ksh 100,000 which we know you need it more than this bereaved poor family.

The Sudanese Ambassador Mr Majok Guadong summed up best the situation in Kenya today saying “It is unfortunate that a young boy could lose his life to a gang of criminals while the government watches.” . The coalition government is failure and need to be sent home packing. The truth of the matter is that their is no government. It is just a roadshow with personal egos being satisfied. Yes Kenyans and foreigners should take their security in their own hands as police are too busy looking after their ethnic folks.

Kenya has become so dangerous that by 6pm the towns are deserted and people go back to their gated communities where even public roads in estates are completely blocked off. There is unnecessary killing of innocent on daily basis by highly organized crime syndicates who have extensive information on their victims before they strike. This gangs are highly trained that they leave no trace after causing mayhem.

Intelligence organisation are pointing fingers to police officers who are working with criminals by supplying them information and support. The police department knows very well the rogue elements within their ranks and have been too lenient and shied away from carrying high profile prosecution against its member. This high profile prosecution of their members will have sent chilling message that crime will not be tolerated within the force. The force choose to brush it under the carpet and not deal with it. Police hate publicity which it wrongly believes will tarnish its image which is already in the boots.

The recent change of guard which was conducted after pressure from all quarters and was not done properly. Mathew Iteera who does not boast of impeccable record was appointed more for his community connection to government than his professional capability. The appointment of commissioner and his deputy were done on the base of ethnic composition of the two principles. In his acceptance speech Mr Iteere was quoted as telling Saitoti '' Sir I want your help in running the police force' '. Imagine the new commissioner begging Saitoti who is extensively tainted with every mega corruption and incompetency in this country to advise and help in running an organisation that need reform yesterday???. It is is very worrying we seem not to be brave enough to brake this cycle of impunity.

The office of Police Commissioner needs tenure office and to be competitively advertised in national newspapers . In this process the country will be able to choose the best able candidate who will also gain instant support from the citizenry. By giving the commissioner tenure of office he will carry his duty without fear or favour as he does not fall within the spell of any politician. This is what is recommended in the whole of commonwealth world and has reduced corruption, impunity and favouritism.

Mathew Iteera was appointed by virtue of being from Gema community and his remit will be serving the interest of the community he comes from and not Kenya as a nation. He will turn the whole organisation into '' Utumishi kwa jamii yangu tu'' as opposed to ''utumishi kwa wote''. Kibaki choose him to serve his intrest as he exits from power in the coming few years. The best that he could have done was to give this office tenure and in the process support his dream of reaching ethnic hegemony. As Junior principal Raila though did not get his way was left with the second slot for his tribe and agreed to play by the rule.

The police hierarchy is already in confusion as both appointment will not work in harmony as they will be directly reporting to their masters to impress them. As we approach 2012 the police will need to shed off their partisan image and work for Kenya and not individuals. This is tall order as they have they already started on the wrong foot of ethnic bias. The only two group who will benefit and get first class service will be the two principles ethnic groups while the rest of Kenyans will do with second class service.

Our Take on this will be no matter how we want to be objective the Commissioner Mathew Iteere will fall under the influence of his minders and fail to carry proper policing and expose Kenya to further mayhem and gang killing. 2012 will be there year when Kenyans go to another bigger picnic than the 2007 one.

SIASA KALI

The Terror Alert

2009-09-15T12:50:00.004+03:00

Is Kenya more safer today more than yesterday?. In a commando style raid the U.S forces staged a spectacular raid and took out Saleh Ali Nabhan a Kenyan in southern Somalia where he was training the Al Shabaab and foreign terrorist groups who have visited mayhem to Somalia in the last two decades. The AL-Qaida branch of East Africa which was headed by him was controlled and operated from Somalia . The death brings a big blow to Al-qaeda hierarchy in Somalia. In the last few years Al-Qaeda has been relocating from Pakistan to Somalia to take advantage of chaos in Somalia.

Nabhan who was involved in bombing of U.S Embassies in Nairobi , Dar-es-salam and hotels in Mombasa was listed as top most wanted terrorist with million of dollars bounty place on his head. Nabhan who come from Mombasa saw security officials descending to The Coast in droves. Since those attacks the coast has never been same. The Kenya anti-terrorist police who are ill trained,corrupt and dollar funded raided Muslim homes in Mombasa without due regard to law and culture of the people. They tortured women in front of their children and husbands . In the few months in the coast they visited the population with terror and successfully alienated themselves.The anti terrorist police were answerable to nobody and their performance was wanting.

Nabhan and group supported the Al Shabaab terror group which is conducting massacre of large scale that has never been seen in Somalia. Al-Shabaab which is emulating the Khmer rouge of Cambodia have emptied Somali cities and causing influx of refugees in Kenya. The Al-Shabaab is busy amputating ,flogging and killing the Somali population using flimsy and draconian UN-Islamic laws. Kenya now hosts the largest concentration of refugees population in the world after Sudan. They have on several occasion crossed and raided Kenya's soft spot and left their marks which has been painful to the locals. On one occasion they abducted nuns working in Elwak. The Al-Shabaab have until yesterday worked on condition that they did not interfere with Kenya where they believe to have potential recruitment capacity.

The Anti terrorist police of Kenya have been supplying the U.S with figures which are hyper inflated to look like that they are on top of the job and demanding more dollars from the U.S . The funds which run into million dollars bypass the Treasury and ends up in few top officers pockets. Their is no transparency or accounting for this security funding.The U.S is aware of the integrity of Kenya police which is corrupt and inefficient but are turning blind eye as long as they can lay hand on figures to be presented to the U.S Congress. This group of police officers have alienated the Muslim population whom we need to carry with us in fighting terrorism menace that is about to take hold of Kenya.

The death of Saleh Nabhan should now be looked to as a turning point of terrorism in Kenya. The mere removal of Kenyan element heading this terror group is a blessing and to our advantage which we need to grab. Kenya is better advised to use its Muslim population to rout those who have tendency to support this terror group.

The Al shabaab who have been targeting our unemployed youth are in the process of increasing their target area to other cities in Kenya for potential recruit. The Loss of Nabhan has increased the chances of Al Shabaab turning their spotlight to Kenya. Al-Shabaab has now vowed to carry simultaneous raid in Kenya cities which they have avoided till now. They have placed Kenya in their radar for supporting the embattled government of Sheikh Sharrif which only controls the Presidential palace in Mogadishu.

We need to be on high alert from the repercussion from Nabhan death which Al-Shabaab has vowed avenge and will pick on Kenya as a soft spot. We cannot allow them to see us as soft spot and we have to be able to carry their fight to their home ground.The Kenya security should recruit more Muslims and work flat out to make Kenya safe.

Saida Ahmed

The face of incompetancy

2009-09-14T13:52:00.008+03:00

Amos Wako the lame Kenyan Attorney General loves food and travel to detail. His favourite dish is happens to be chicken on skewer.He has become an expert in foreign travel and hotel sampling that some foreign travel magazine are contemplating using his services. The man will not spend a minute in his office to dispense justice and advise the government of the day. He has delegated his duties to junior officers who are unsupervised and danger to the whole legal process of moving forward Kenya's interest.Moi picked Wako after scouting him to be a man who will bend the law and support the incumbent President without following the rule of law.

Wako who is the face impunity in Kenya has an impressive C.V which list among his number one achievement as that of being Guest of Honor of the Government of New Zealand in celebrations to mark the 40 th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His C.V also has several lectures he gave in various countries. This man has no clue about the respect of Human rights which transcends colour,sex,ethnicity or national boundaries. He seems to be promoting the violation of basic tenet of Universal human right. How he managed to escape all this years from the international community radar of scrutiny and performance is a puzzle.

Under his direction and poor advise Moi was able to detain and torture several Kenyans who were legitimately opposing his government excess. Thanks to those detainees today multi party democracy is now a fact of life in Kenya. He devised a mechanism where this detainees time spent in dungeons will not be recorded and never to be able to bring charges against the government. The detainees who were tortured and maimed are today finding very difficult to bring a case against those inhumane experiences.He recently increased his salary to Ksh 1,7000,000 for being incompetent and sleeping in the job. Wako has now teamed up with Ringera to frustrate the due process of law. As we wait for KACC death the thugs who looted this nation are having field day.

Nothing sees the light day in the Attorney General office as Wako is always absent attending seminars in posh hotels or foreign countries while Kenya government remains without proper legal advisor. Having been the longest serving Attorney General he has overseen all the mega corruption that has occurred in Kenya in the last few years. As Government chief advisor he has ensured that all the cases that were brought was lost by the government. This has raised eyebrows as to where his loyalty lies.

Wako the traveller and menu sampler knows very well when and how to cover for top official who embezzled public funds . The Anglo leasing ,Goldenberg which is today causing suffering of Kenyans due to lack of services architect are enjoying their loot. The culprits are well known and some of them sit in the cabinet table without shame and are still continuing to create more scandals. This heartless individuals are their to protect themselves and ill gotten wealth.The evidence is extensive and will place any one culprit in jail for 150 years but as long as Wako heads that office he has vowed that no one will ever be prosecuted.

Kenya needs a complete system overhaul and to start afresh from ground zero so that we do not loose the next 50years which will be crucial in the health of the country.The government need to save and account for every penny that it makes and collects from taxpayer and redirect it to education,food production,science and technology. Mega corruption should be a thing of the past. Million of students are unable to take part in the free primary school scheme as there is no money to run the scheme. We will now be left with generation of illiterate Kenyans and a negative economy thanks to the likes of Amos Wako. It is time for Mr Wako to pack and go home.

Ekwe Edia

The Glory of Power

2009-09-12T16:07:00.024+03:00

Ho Ho Kanu, Kanu ya Njenga Nchi. Kanu which has dominated the life of Kenyans for the last 46 years is about to make a come back to continue from where it stopped. In 2002 several politician joined togethjer in a move that sent Moi and his stalwarts packing home. Wait a minute did Kanu ever go home? NO they just changed its outer cover coming up with a different clever covers with the same old players.

Moi and Kibaki made a secret pact that will see him handing power over to Kibaki despite campaigning for Uhuru Kenyatta and the old man to continue enjoy all the wealth that he grabbedby vitue of being Kenya's leader for the last 24 years. Moi played to the gallery while seeking to entrench his mark for ever in the background.Moi was to remain an ally to Kibaki during his presidency and to advise him how to handle issue that might destabilise his presidency. This Moi has done with due dilligience and to the liking of Kibaki.

As the clamour of multiy party was taking hold in every part of Kenya Odinga and his followers who were prevously absoberd by Moi's Kanu jumped the ship to Join Kibaki's Narc with Charity Ngilu. The baggage that Odinga came in with were 99% Kanu Cabinet ministers and Mps who were corrupt and had milked the system to its knees. Odinga's game plan was to capture power without adhering to any principle. He was not to be guided by ethics or democratic ideal. He captured the mood of Wananchi who were clamouring for change.

In frotnt a huge crowd Odinga capped the famous word 'Kibaki Toshi' which catapulted Kibaki to Kenya's number one chief Executive an act that Odinga will regret through out his political career which is a about to come to an end. In a hurry to to capture power and assure himself of a seat in government Odinga made an MOU with Kibaki which among other agreement was to see Kibaki holding the post for one term only. This memorundum was thrashed by Lucy Kibaki who joked that Kibaki was no one time man.

President Kibaki has so far had 4 stroke and has been lucky to have survived. this stroke and clot left him with a partial loss of memory. During state house meetings the President will be seen dosing in the middle of meeting only to be alerted by his minders. A senior Western Diplomat said that during a recent meeting he found the Kibaki to be repeating himself with disjointed sentences and thought that he was not with it. It now takes several months for diplomats to be granted an audience with the President who has increased his sleeping time at the state house. This has frusted the diplomatic communitiy who are angry that some Ambassodors have been left with their juniors runnig embassies as they have not been accredited. The government is virtually running with minimal input from the president.

Kalonzo and the Kamba's are up in arms sensing that they are under siege from Odinga. Kalonzo led leaders from Ukambani in protesting the sacking of Kioko Mange'li managing director of Kenya buruea of standard. Kalonzo said he has asked the President to look into the issue as there has been several sacking of Kamba's in the civil service a move that is to scare Kamba's from Kibaki admiminstration. Here we go again leaders who claim to be nationalist using cheap ethnic tactics to drum up support for personal gains.

The KEBS Director was sacked for having haboured different opinion from Odinga. Odinga who is now enjoying the trapping of power thanks to Kibaki on and off Amnesia does not tolerate differing opinions. He will use all in his powers to silence his critics.Simple Odinga does not tolerate democracy. The PM earlier in the year cancelled the lincence for the construction of the second grain handling port. He was seen riding in the grain handlingport tycoo'sn car . What transpired in between the two is for historian to judge. The second grain handling port which kenya needed very badly to feed it's 10million hungry citizen was canncelled after this tycoon's car ride with Odinga.

In Luo Nyanza Odinga's name is revered and dispiced with equal zeal. No politician will dare question Raila and survive his seat. Mr Orengo tried to challenge Odinga's hegemony and was out of parliament for 5 years in the cold only to be elected after patching up and agreeing on Odinga's supremacy in Luo Nyanza. with Odinga's blessing he was returned to parliament and appointed a cabinet minister despite having heavily lost the nomination. Prof Nyong'o was directly nominated by Odinga and did not undergo democratic process.

Raphael Tuju who is now a special advisor to President Kibaki lost his Rarieda seat after disagreeing with Odinga.Tuju is a very industrious Kenyan and a former foreign minister who initiated several development in his contituency and managed to build several houses for Rarieda widows. His leadership was felt far beyond Rarieda and his deeply missed by his constituents.Peter Ogego Kenya's Ambassodor to Washington worked for Jaramogi foundation for several years and after Narc coming to power was left in the cold. He knocked Tuju's door after getting nowhere with Odinga.Thanks to Tuju's connection he was posted to Washington where he is doing well.. Odinga has never forgiven him for deserting him for Tuju. Raila is working behind the scenes for his replacement.

Kalonzo and team are now feeling the Power of Raila and seeking Kibaki'a intervention. Kibaki handlers see this as a blessing and a war that is to their advantage. they will like Raila and Kalonzo to lock horns and hand over the coverted price to Uhuru Kenyatta who all along was anointed by Moi. Jamoramogi once said that Moi sees a head of everybody. Moi played Uhuru/Kibaki very well that Kanu will rule Kenya for long time to come.

Susana

IS Kenya ready for takeover???

2009-09-10T13:24:00.003+03:00

The more things change ,the more they remain the same.There chilling silence in the barracks today. The chilling wind is coming from the junior quarter's. Impunity in Kenya has now visited every aspect of our life. The line of vision is now blurred. The ODM and PNU are joined in hip that you will not be able to tell who is who in the famous book of impunity and corruption. Kenya is now orphan and has been left without a defender. Kibaki running down Kenya that by the time we realise we will have no Kenya standing as we know. Kenya will then be bracing for the highest internally displace refugees in their own country forget about the 600,000 IDPs who will be child joke.

The rearranging of musical chairs has not gown down well in the public arena neither has it in the barracks. The whisper is getting loud that something drastically need to be done. I m scared today for my country. Where are we heading ? can we stop this madness at once before a junior officer takes over. Is Kenya ripe for this kind of experiment? I'm not sure . I love my country very dearly that when we sing and raise the flag in the Barracks tears run down my cheek looking for somewhere to escape. I love Kenya and will spill every drop of my blood for mother Kenya.

Enough is enough Kenya has become so tribalised that the security of the nation has been left in the hands of one tribe. There is no opposition to put this irresponsible coalition government in check. The other half of coalition is active jockeying for its tribe.The crime rate is massive 20% plus and going up daily. Innocent Kenyans are being killed and robbed in daylight. They have no security as enshrined in the constitution.

The civil society have now come together to form a parallel opposition government as the parliament has failed. What happened to Ababu Nawamba's opposition bill ?? he was silenced and never to raise the issue again. This new development by the civil society which in the context looks innocent is a sign of failed state. Kibaki is flouting and stepping the constitution in and out that the public have lost confidence in him. He has set very bad precedent surpassing Moi who was at the helm for 24 years. Impunity is what Kibaki thrives on.

The military has been politicised since 2007 election violence and the upper echelon speak In a particular vernacular at the displeasure of majority junior cadres. Everybody is watching every body's shoulder. The trust that use to keep Kenya's military ahead of its counterpart has been lost. There is whispers every where and where we are going or leading to is unknown and uncharted territory.

How long can we watch and stomach our right being trampled on,our fellow citizen dying of hunger while our so called leaders are driving gas guzzling cars and spending our tax unnecessarily with things like buying more cars for official. Where do this leaders live in. Are they in today's Kenya.They are burning down Kenya without realising.

Is Kenya Ripe for a military takeover???? this question i leave for you to ponder....for me I will prefer the route of ballot boxes which is a cherished democratic right that has catapult nations to advancement and prosperity.

Kushotoo.

The Mob Justice

2009-09-09T12:55:00.004+03:00

Maj. General Ali succumbed to scalpel of mob justice led by none other than Prime Minister Raila Odinga . Raila wanted Francis Okonya who is very close to him and his family to be named the Police commissioner. During a briefing at Harambee house Raila insisted on having a Luo to head the force a wish that was declined by President Kibaki. Instead Odinga's man was given the second spot which he will share with other deputy commissioners. Raila Odinga led and sustained a coordinated attack on Commissioner Ali since the inception of disjointed coalition government. Raila has been going around the country trumpeting the fall of the commissioner. Maj Gen.Ali as a public servant did not have a forum to challenge this misconception. He was ridiculed in public and private for doing his job perfectly. Ali has been replaced by Mathew Iteere whose has all his finger print in the bungled 2007 election.

Mathew Iteera who share same lineage as Francis Muthaura headed the dreaded GSU which has a first class record in violation of human rights. GSU deployment was extensively used to transport fake ballots to polling station. Ali has been re-deployed to head Post Office and return to the army. On this we can assure Raila Odinga that Maj.General Ali will come out as the best commissioner that Kenya's has ever had. Iteera will follow Muthaura's prescription to the letter as opposed to Ali who was professional who despised favouritism.

Six years ago Maj. Gen Ali was deployed from the army to take over a police force which was corrupt ,demoralised,poorly housed and paid. Kibaki courtiers after taking over power from Moi wanted to neutralise the system that was built for the last 24 years. Maj. Gen Ali who was in line of taking over as the Chief of General Staff had to give way to Kibaki's anointented successor in the military.The best option was to re-deploy him to the police force. In that short period he was at helm of Police force Ali turned it to an organization which was seeking to achieve it is performance of safe and secure country for Kenyans. They become well housed,good transport and improved living condition.The Police force was turning the corner.They were on course to reducing organised crimes. Mungiki menace which turned Central Province into almost a no go area were neutralised.

Ali made a fatal mistake when he misrepresented himself during the hearing of of Rawnsley commission on policing where he failed to read the hostile mood in the room. Ali looked belligerent,uncompromising and on a mission to get rid of criminals which was not taken lightly by the commission. On reading the report Odinga smiled at the opportunity placing his people in places that will help him achieve presidency which has been slipping out of his hand since 2007. The man Odinga wanted terribly was Francis Okonya who was strongly resisted by Muthaura who wanted him to remain at the CID headquarters where he has been clandestinely reporting to Odinga. Okonya's errand to Raila is well documented.

Maj Gen Ali was a good soldier who's loyalty remained with the nation as opposed to individuality. He did his duties to his best ability and shunned corruption. Ali was not involved in single incident of corruption as opposed to other Kenyan leaders. He was at pain when message of police was distorted by few individuals in the ODM led by Raila. Raila never forgave Kibaki for sacking Late Edward Nyaseda former Police Commissioner who was incompetent and corrupt. Nyaseda during his short tenure as commissioner virtually run down the force and turned it into a Small fief dorm which among its remit was to report clandestinely to Raila. Nyaseda after the sacking was deployed to running Odinga's private security during and after election campaign.

Maj. Gen Ali who is a professional soldier did not build a constituency to defend him at time pressure. He acted and followed the law to the letter and on being relieved off his duties has had no body to come to his defence. When Ringer who was re-appointed illegally by President Kibaki the parliament and civil society went in top gear to tear into this unconstitutional act. They were challenged by Ringera's constituency who claim that people were out to finish their tribe. The onslaught of Ringera support was led by Saitoti,Muruingi,Kimunya and the rest in alphabetical order. They put a spirited fight and convinced their ethnic audience for their selfish purpose that their tribe was under siege.

Maj.Gen Ali has no tribe the only tribe he knows is the army and discipline. He has no constituency to back him as he remains alone. Kibaki's courtiers have done their calculation and presented their well done home work. The Bait for Odinga is getting sweater day by day. He is laughing all the way to Bondo believing erroneously that he called for sacking of Maj Gen Ali but his laughter indeed will be short lived. Gen. Ali and tribe less Kenyans will have the last big laugh.

Kushotoo

The List to Watch

2009-09-08T12:14:00.003+03:00

The weather today in Nairobi is good.As we wait for El-nino to hit town we are again scrabbling to put things in place as we have become a nation that moves from disaster to disaster. This is a sign of a failed state becoming unorganized as a nation who rely on diversionary tactics. There are several issues which need to be tackled systematically. We need to prioritise issues that affect us as a nation. There is question of corruption and impunity which we have now reached a stage that we cannot handle it. The Ringera episode is tearing the country once more apart. The only beneficiaries from all this saga is none other than Kalonzo Musyoka who has mis-advised the President on several occasion.

Kalonzo with a handful of Mp's at the height of 2007 election violence managed to sneak in and benefit from the chaos.He was quick to take advantage when Kenya was bleeding to death. He remains an opportunist and Judas.Kalonzo goes under the cover religion as born again christian where he is out to mesmerize the population into accepting him as the rightful King after most of the politician have left for the Hague train. Thanks to his sharp eyed Lawyer Mutula Kilonzo. Who hates the word reform.Mutula has been working behind the scene to see the Kamba dream being realised from the laid back President Kibaki who has lost interest in serving this nation apart from his family.

During recent burial Kalonzo bolted out of the blues and asked Moi and Ruto to mend their relationship as it was important to heal the rift that saw Raila benefit . The congregation at the burial were shocked and perplexed. Moi who was angered by Kalonzo jest was quick to answer his critics by telling them off not to mix mourning and politics. Kalonzo is comedian in a recent agricultural show he was trying to be seen to mend fences between h Raila and Ruto only to find that his jokes and foolishness were not that amusing.

Kenya has patriotic citizen who are working behind the scenes to save it from total collapse. we want to introduce a list that Wananchi should think about seriously.here is our list

1] Maina Kiai

2]John Githongo

3]Paul Muite

4]Gitobu Imanyara

5]Peter Kenneth

6] Joseph Nkaissery

7]Ekwe Ethuro

8]Abdikadir Mohammed

9]Ahmed Isaac

10]Kilemia Mwiraria

11]Njoku Ndung'u

12]Gladwel Otieno

13]Mwalimu Mati

Watch this space.

Elizabeth Musau