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Kalonzo, Ruto and Uhuru’s KKK CIRCUS is not amusing

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Kalonzo, Ruto and Uhuru’s KKK CIRCUS is not so amusing
Wambua Kaloki Wakenya
Mon, Dec 21, 2009

It is absurd the circus we are being treated to, which is not funny at all. The circus of fund raising KES 5 million today, and and KES 2 million after two weeks, in an attempt at self cleansing is not amusing, and Kalonzo, Ruto, Balala, Uhuru and all the others behind the circus, should be told that, we are not amused because of the following reasons.

The first reason is that economically, their circus does not make sense. The time, the efforts and the opportunity cost in not doing their duties, but clowning around the country, is much more costly than the total KES 7 million they have raised so far.

The second reason is that, administratively, a cabinet minister’s foremost contribution towards national development is formulating policy papers for both cabinet decisions and parliamentary approvals. Instead of these ministers telling us the policies they are formulating to contain escalating food prices, and to boost food reserves, they are chest thumping for raising a token KES 7 million. Let them know that the fundraisers will not white wash them.

Thirdly, any activity for the good of the nation, if planned in an exclusive manner and implemented in an exclusive manner, it remains exclusive and therefore suspect, especially after the tribal based PEV last year. Let Ruto and company know that we are no longer interested in exclusivity, and will mobilize all resources at our disposal to neutralize their agenda.

In addition, activities clothed in the name of development, but aimed at clipping the wings of an individual, is ill advised and counterproductive. It is worse when the targeted individual is a national leader, and anything good he does is trashed by the so called development conscious leaders. The
development activities by Ruto, Kenyatta, Kalonzo and company are hypocritical at best.

Not only that, but when we remember that the VP, DPM and ministers are paid by taxpayers to discharge national duties, but they are busy advancing a parochial agenda, we become saddened and start numbering their days. Why can’t they join the President, PM and other cabinet ministers in propagating one government agenda?

Lastly, let those who want to participate in philanthropic activities not mix philanthropy and politics. If you want to give back to the society, go ahead and do it, others are also doing it in their ways. However when they tell us that they are the only ones who can bring development to the country,. WE TELL THEM A BIG NO, AND START TO COUNT HOW THEY HAVE UNDERMINED DEVELOPMENT, AND WHEN WE COMPARE THE KES 7 MILLION RAISED, WITH THE DAMAGE CAUSED TO THE ECONOMY BY THEIR PRESENT AND PAST ACTIVITIES, THE FUND RAISERS REMAIN AN INSULT TO THE NATION OF KENYA.

Leaflets threatening Luos to leave Kericho before Xmas hit the streets

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LEAFLETS WARNING THE LUOS TO LEAVE KERICHO REGION BEFORE CHRISTMAS WERE DROPPED ALONG THE TOWN’S MAIN R0AD ON SATURDAY MORNING

Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.

Police in Kericho town are reported to be actively investigating the source and authors of  leaflets, which were dropped in town over the weekend, warning members of the Luo community to leave the region before Christmas.

The undated and unsigned leaflets were dropped along the Kericho-Nakuru and Kericho-Kisumu Highway, starting from outside the main gate of the posh tea Hotel, up to the junction of James Finlay’s Tea Company, within the town.

Those responsible for dropping the leaflets appeared to have been using a motor vehicle, as some of the leaflets are bearing dirty tire marks.

These leaflets appeared to be targeting members of the Luo community working and doing business in the town. It reads as follows in English:
“Mary Christmas Our Brothers from the Lake”.
“Our staying together is being very limited, although we would have wished to be one. It is sad that we now wish you to leave. And thanks for the Prime Minister’s efforts to separate us.”…
“Siasa zake za uchochezi lazima zikome”, says one sentence in Kiswahili version of the seemingly well written leaflets.

The authors of the leaflets were roundly condemned by a section of Kericho politicians, led by Coun. Nicholas Tum, who alleged that he suspected the leaflets to be the work of the PNU agents and sympathizers. He urged the police to leave no stone unturned in their investigations, and to ensure that the authors of what he termed, “cowardice, seditious papers” are brought to book.

Kericho has a sizeable population of Luos. Most of them work as tea pickers for the two major multinational foreign owned tea companies. Others are jua kali artisans and mechanics in the town’s main garages, dress and shoe-makers operating on the verandas of shops in major town’s streets, masons and carpenters in the building industry. And they appeared to be getting on well with their host, the Kipsigis.

There are also a good number of hawkers of petty goods. Others are engaged by wealthy Kipsigis farmers and traders as laborers in their small scale tea farmer, which are spread in Bureti, Belgut, Konoin and Ainamoi constituencies.

There used to be thousands of Luos employed in the tea industry in Kericho and its environs, but their numbers dwindled to only paltry, following changes of work force in the tea estates and factories, and the introduction of robots, which also ushered in the mechanized teas picking system.

Coun Tum told the author of the leaflets to engage themselves on gainful occupations instead of intimidating the law abiding citizens of Kenya. He said the authors of the leaflets had criminal aims, and objective of dividing the ODM members, and weakening the party ahead of the 2012 general elections.

“We want our people to  ignore these warnings and to go about their daily core in the real task of nation building. The ODM is the party, which is so popular in the South Rift and the leaflets are the work of the disgruntled elements”.

“There is no point in certain people singling out the Prime Minister Raila Odinga as individual. What is happening in Mau Forest eviction is a government policy and all those serving in the coalition government are collectively responsible”, Said Mr.Tum.
Coun Tum urged the Kalenjin MPs to preach peace and reconciliation, instead of being hardened like animals, and taken for a ride by those serving selfish interests, through their kind of political deceits.

The next general election is schedule for 2012 and there is plenty of time. When the time come, the ODM like any other party in this country would work for a possible realignment and new political dispensation.

At the same time, discontent is high in Kericho, after the weekend revelation by the government, that a good number of Kalenjin Mps owned land in Mau, even those who in the recent past, went public denying having any farm in the Mau Forest.

Mr Tum blamed some of the Kalenjin Mps, whom he accused for having misinterpreting the common proverbs used by Raila Odinga, the Prime Minister, at most of his public rallies, citing the incident of frogs in the waters drinking cattle, and coined their own poisonous propaganda, and concocted these proverb words to mean he {Raila}, had insulted the Kalenjin, likening those facing eviction from Mau Forest to the ”FROGs”in the rivers..

These cheap lies must come to an end, and the Kalenjin MPs must behave responsibly like leaders and they should guard against selling their community cheaply to the outsiders nursing presidential ambitions. This is not how to win the presidency.

All the future presidential aspirants must exercise some element of responsible and quality leadership meant to attract the voters, must desist from tarnishing the names of their possible opponents.

The coined propaganda words are being spread in the interior parts of Kipsigis region, where the Prime Minister has maintained almost 100 support of the public, and the ODM has the lead. It is all the succession war against the Prime Minister.
“The Prime Minister has at no time abused the Kalenjin in general, the Mau Forest evictees in particular, therefore people must stop listening to these cheap propaganda aimed at tarnishing the name of the Prime Minister for selfish political ends”, said Coun Tum, adding that Raila Odinga is not at war with the community, but meant well for the region..

Coun Tum advised the Kipsigis community to ignore such propagandas. The Prime Minister has no war nor is he nursing any hate attitudes towards the community that voted for him in his presidential election in 2007 man to man. In fact Raila loves the Kipsigis and the entire Kalenjin people, except the few political enemies of the ODM who are allegedly being bankrolled by PNU agent and the advocates of the amorphous triple KKK{Kalenjin,Kikuyu and Kambas}, whose alleged main architect is the Vice President, Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka.

”These people have been taking us for a ride, and yet they were only serving selfish interests. And no wonder, the names of the very persons who have repeatedly denied owning any piece of forest land have now been revealed and their true identities.

It is shameful, and bad politics for the Kalenjin community, because the activities of the selfish landlords, who have been vocal, insisting they were fighting for the landless member of the community, and yet they are fighting for their own economic interest. These are the same people who have come out in the open and told us how bad is Mr. Raila Odinga, because he is the one who is hell bent on chasing our people out of Mau. What a confusion?”, asked Mzee James Kenduiywo of Silibwet in Bomet district.

He however, came out in defense of the retired President Daniel Arap Moi, and appealed to the government to spare his important investment in the Mau Forest. “The tea estate and factory should be exempted from eviction as the industry has offered employment to hundreds of Kenyans from all tribes”, said Mr. Kenduiywo.

In the tribal clashes of the 1992 -1993, quite a good number of Luos  living and working in the Kipsigis region were attacked, injured and even some of them killed. These attacks later spread into the full length of the Kalenjin-Luo borders. But in the 2008 post independence violence, the Kisiis and Kikuyus suffered a great deal, when their properties were torched, and some of them killed by the Kalenjin youths. This time around, the Luos, who are supporters of ODM were spared.

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