Wazalendo wenza,
The grapevine has it that Uganda recently established that there are vast quantities of high quality commercial-grade oil and gas in Lake Victoria around Migingo Island. The oil in Migingo is supposedly of a much higher quality than that in mainland Uganda! That is why it has annexed the island and the area around it the way Nigeria did the resource-rich Bakassi peninsula , and the 1600 kilometre-long border area between Cameroon and Nigeria, extending from Lake Chad to the Gulf of Guinea. It took Cameroon 35 years to get its territory back through legal means. And till today Nigeria still has not vacated fully.
Oil or no oil, I don’t think Kenyans like myself are ready to serve legal papers on Uganda in an international court and wait for generations as lawyers outmonouver each other with legalese on such a straight forward issue. Migingo and its environs are Kenyan territory. Even Kibaki’s concession that experts should look at the maps was a negation of Kenyan sovereignty and an act of high treason by non other than the man who swore himself in at night as President of the Republic of Kenya (read the Third Governor of the Kenya Neocolony), and yet he has no clue how to run a cattledip. It is third parties or Uganda who should wax cartographical about maps and compasses. Hapana sisi wenye mali!
Now, though it is against Kenyan Law to raise a militia, this Migingo affront calls for a people’s militia to arise and do the necessary to defend our country’s integrity, since the government is not going to act as it should with economic blokades and surgical military strikes. We are told that Uganda is our major trading partner (trading with Kenya or the homeguards?), so what? Are we going to play second fiddle to those who have money? The Artur brothers were supposed to have brought us loads of money as investors and the Horrible Kibaki made them Police Commissioners…. Are we going to sell our motherland the way we have sold our parastatals?
Anyway, Kenyan citizens in Busia and Teso have no time for Ugandan arrogance and can be mobilised at short notice to impose an effective Road and Rail embargo on Uganda. Ugandans don’t mess around with us.
Are there any like-minded people on this listserve who can help organise a public forum at which we shall serve Kibaki notice to take action on Migingo or be kicked out of office? Kwani yeye ni nani to undermine our soverignty? He can get away calling us mavi ya kuku or being sworn in at night because both are temporary irritants, but not doing an irreversible act as peeing on our sovereignty by allowing even an iota of our country to be annexed…
Look at the resources America deployed recently to rescue one citizen from the Somali pirates!!! It did not matter that the pirates were four teenagers armed with light guns! Naval destroyers and helicoper gunships were deployed, and highly skilled SEALS were parachuted into the theatre to make nonesense of the nononesense situation. What mattered to Americans was that one of their own was facing imminent danger, and their sovereignty was being challenged. The lesson is that you do not negotiate or appease bullies as that only makes them bold, to demand bigger things.
Decades ago Great Britain sailed half-way around the world to kick Argentina in the teeth over the Falklands! When Idi Amin annexed Kagera in Tanzania, Nyerere did what a commander-in-chief does – he not only kicked him out of Tanzanian territory and out of power in Kampala, but he lost his own son in the process who was shot down bombing Amin’s troops. He did not keep his own out of harm’s way as he sent other people’s children to their deaths as some selfish and cowardly leaders in this country do when calling for mass “acsion”.
It is nightmarish to imagine that Ugandan boyscouts are impishly flying their flag over our territory as our soldiers nap away in their barracks, simply because they have a eunuch for a Commander-in-Chief. Please excuse my language but, as John Garang used to say, “we cannot have a law society in a war society!” On many ocassions Ugandan troops have bombed our people in northern Kenya and suffered no consequences, not even just kicking their ambassador out until they learn some good manners. This has made them bold to the point they are now annexing a strategic part of our territory with demonic abandon.
And as all his is happening, all our forests are gone, including Mt. Kenya, and rivers and lakes are drying up across the country. The Kshs 10 trillion per annum economy of our exclusive economic zone in the Indian ocean is dominated by foreign fishing fleets while we don’t have a single deep sea fishing unit worth the name. Why, for example, couldn’t we even use the 400 million assigned the Ministry of Fisheries in the last budget to dig ponds in my home province Western, to pay a deposit for a proper fishing vessal so we could catch the wild fish and not struggle growing some in ponds? No wonder we get 94% of our 70 metric ton fish from our 6% share of Lake Victoria and only 4% from the Indian Ocean, yet the annual yield of fish from our Indian Ocean waters is 200,000 metric tones! This fish is caught by foreigners!!! Why can’t we deploy Mungiki, Sungu Sungu, SLDF, etc. to catch these stocks of fish? WHY? WHY? WHY? Why are most of our resources being abused as poverty ravages and reduces us to wild dogs who kill each other over left overs? WHY? WHY SHOULD MUZUNGUS COME FROM NORWAY AND SPEND SIX MONTHS FISHING AND EXPORTING FISH NONSTOP AS WE WATCH IN AWE ON THE SHORELINE WITH FISHING RODS???
WHAT A DISISTROUS PECKING ORDER!!!
Over to you!
Omtatah
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:29:08 -0700 [01:29:08 PM CDT]
From: Okiya Omtatah Okoiti
Subject: Oil in Migingo?
My sentiments EXACTLY Mr. Okoiti on Migingo island. I could not said better my self!..you speak for all of us who hale from Lake region areas and Western part of this country. At this time we don’t know who to turn to for help to evict UDF from this Island. Allow me to stop here…my people have roots in this region and this issue to us is more than Geopollitis or tribal politics. Imagine if these politicians can revert some of the CDF to develop Aqua Culture( fish farming) in Kenya specifically in Lake region areas where L. Victoria is over fished??. If what you are saying here is true about the discovery of oil on this island..this may mean than surrounding Islands like Mfangano Island may have the same resources and what will stop Uganda from annexing them?. Thinking “out side the box” the lake region people may want to ask Tanzania for help to evict UDF if Kenya gov. cannot do it…just a thought!
JD Brown
EI,
odiero, i hear you
we will not sell our right to self determination and freedom
kibaki will do absolutely nothing, best way is to blockade uganda border then organize an army;
we as luos have done it over the years, kicked the luhya, kisii, nandi, suba ass so hard they are now ‘our people’
we must join other luos in eastern and central africa, enuff is enuff; we are enemies of every gava, look at sudan, ug we’ve been repressed enuff, i say time for the luo republic!
Wenza in Kenya dont be jelousy of your neigbour and brother.you will end up as Cain who killed Abel BECAUSE HE HAD A worthy offering.We have always shared brotherhood with Kenyans and now overnight,they are selffish.Where is the EastAfrican spirit?
MIGINGO ISLAND, LRA, RE-OCCUPATION OF THE RIFT VALLEY
After peace returned to Kenya frightened Kikuyus who found solace in Eastern Uganda were moved to Western Uganda for military training with the sole purpose of returning to forcefully reoccupy the Rift Valley at a later date.
In October 2007 Yoweri Museveni worried of a Raila win met President George Bush with he sole purpose of stopping Raila from ascending to the Presidency of Kenya because he fered that Raia could be of assistance to the Uganda Nilots. What followed this visit in Washington was erratic behavior of Jendai Frazer, the US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs and Ambassador Michael Ranneberger prior to, during and after the 27t December 2007 elections. The two shamelessly acted like PNU sycophants to say the least.
Ambassador Ranneberger does not want his friends in PNU to be tried at the Hague hence he is routing for the local tribunal despite John Michuki having declared openly ” The judges who are coming to take part in the Local Tribunal are foreigners who cannot interfere with our sovereignty. We shall control them?”
During the post-elections violence Uganda soldiers were seen killing Kenyans in Western, Rift Valley an Nyanza provinces.
Museveni now seizes Migingo and he secretly meets with Mwai Kibaki in Lusaka, Zambia to fool the world and no sooner do they meet than Museveni re-enforces his security on Migingo Island.
Mwai Kibaki being as unreliable as Yoweri Museveni cannot be trusted any more to tell us the truth regarding the safety of non-GEMA communities, let alone their property.
Museveni is worried stiff of the LRA representative in Kenya, knowing very well the atrocities he has committed and continues to commit against innocent LWOs and Tesos in Uganda.
In helping Mwai Kibaki re-occupy the Rift Valley he might have been promised that he would be helped by the same to eliminate any vestiges of LRA in Kenya. Museveni will go to any length to achieve this aim. Raila Amolo Odinga, so he he might be thinking is standing in his way to achieve the lofty ambition.
We should not forget that his soldiers are roaming the Savannah of Central African Republic in search of Joseph Kony, the man who gives him nightmares. This is the man who stood in his way and stopped him from exterminating the Uganda Nilotes, an entire race.
Museveni in his urge to annex Kivu Province of the DRC killed 4 million innocent Congolese just a few years ago.
Are we forgetting that in defiance of protocol he personally flew into Sudan, took the black box of the Ugandan military helicopter in which President John Garang de Mabior died.
The world could be indeed naive to expect him to explain his action and much less his intended invasion of Western Kenya to help Mai Kibaki re-settle the displaced Kikuyus in the Rift Valley. After all the displaced Kikuyus who are now training in Western Ugandan stated categorically to the BBC correspondents that they would fight back for their land and that is why Museveni is training them militarily in total disregard of the fact that the true owners of their land in central province are the home guards who are occupying the PNU top positions at the moment.
It is not Migingo! The Museveni threat to peace in Kenya and the lake region is great and real.
DR. ODIDA OKUTHE.