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Kenya: E. Murugi’s unconstitutional Remark on Gays / Lesbians

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‘We need to learn to live with men who have sex with other men..we are in the 21st century and things have changed’. That was the statement by Minister Esther Murugu – Special Programmes to a seminar for homosexuals, lesbians and sex workers.

The current constitution outlaws gays / Lesbins marriages and as well it has (not?) legalised prostitution. But the new bill of rights contains clauses outlawing discrimination on nay grounds, including race and gender. Conservative Kenyans complained that the contentious clause would pave the way for gay marriage.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu attacked the African clergy for closing doors for Gays and Lesbians. In particular, Tutu asked the Kenyan clergy to allow Gay/Lesbian to access to facilities like health, counselling and more so provide love. Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex (LGBIT) together with the KNHRC organized the first public gathering of the Gays and Lesbians applauding the CoE for inclusion of their rights in the constitution.

Should President Kibaki and Raila Odinga then take action against Esther Murugi as per the Sheikh Mohmaed Khalifa of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya?

Kombo Elijah

Lion in the office, lamb in the kitchen

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From: HELLON OGALLO

This interesting and true. What could be the reason for this double character? Is it the instinct to preserve the family unit?

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Lion in the office, lamb in the kitchen

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By Edwin Makiche

During my days in high school, we had a no-nonsense principal we had nicknamed ‘Amin’, partly for his heavy-handed running of the school and because he bore some resemblance to the former Ugandan dictator. When he spoke during assembly, you sensed that he would kill somebody if given half a chance. News of his approach sent chills down the spines of staff members and students alike. It was whispered that he was an ex-air force officer who had switched careers after the abortive coup of 1982. Apparently he had brought all his military skills to bear on school administration. He was a man of few words but plenty of action — and reaction. To him, anything short of tidiness and punctuality was a crime. He had turned the school into something similar to a military camp. Amin was known to employ military combat skills on students and his victims would remain in sickbay for the better part of the week. He preferred using his fists to the cane. Word was however rife that Amin the family man was a totally different kettle of fish. He was a softly-softly man who wouldn’t hurt a fly. A boy who hailed from his village said that neighbours feared his illiterate wife more. It was whispered that she sometimes locked him out if he came home late.

Kick the door open

We however dismissed this as mere propaganda. How could Amin, of all the men, allow a woman to torment him? It was unimaginable to think of him standing sheepishly on the doorstep pleading with the wife when he could simply kick the door open. But we confirmed the rumour when the principal fell ill and some of us were picked to accompany teachers to deliver a get-well message to his home. We expected the man to boss his wife around and order for things to be done, but this was not to be. Apparently, in his home someone else dictated the rules and that was his wife. We were surprised to discover that Amin had no control over her. Everything he said was either ignored or dismissed. When he suggested, for example, that she makes tea for us, the wife ignored it until the man went to ask the house help to do it. The wife also operated independently, at her own pace and at times interrupted our discussion with Amin with irrelevant matters. But perhaps the most interesting part was when she restrained him from seeing us to the gate and the man docilely complied.”Hey, where do you think you are taking him? He is not yet back on his feet and you still want to use him? Finish whatever it is here and then you can go wherever you’re going,” she ordered. Amin had no choice but to bid us goodbye in his sitting room. Though nothing about him had changed, from that incident we knew that Amin was after all a vulnerable man of flesh and blood.

Social life

The tough-as-nails principal is no exception. Apparently for many outspoken and tough-looking men, someone else runs the show in their private lives and it matters nought whether or not she matches his qualifications. The tough talk dies at the doorstep as ‘the boss of the home’ takes over. Jonah’s boss was a bureaucrat who went by the book. He seemed detached from social life and unlike other men, rarely discussed issues about women. To his juniors, his married life was a mystery and they wondered how such an aloof person could cope with a woman.”He seemed not to have human blood running through his veins and we often wondered how he would treat a woman,’’ Jonah says. Then one day the boss’ wife stormed their offices demanding to see him. She wanted answers on where he had spent the previous night.

Business trip

Jonah says the boss was so shaken that he almost wet his pants. And it was not out of shame but fear of the woman. The man ordered his secretary to lock him inside his office and tell the woman that he was out, but the woman would not budge. She insisted on seeing the inside of his office. Nobody knows how matters would have ended had some women in the organisation not convinced her that the man was out on a business trip. Another person with a similar story is Jemu, a secretary at a government ministry. She scoffs at men who pretend to be tough when in office and yet are putty in the hands of their wives. She is particularly critical of her male boss who, she says, sometimes uses her like a machine. The man loves dictating rules and giving tight deadlines. She challenges him to do the same to his wife whom, she says, he has no control over. According to her, there isn’t a worse moment in her boss’ day than when his wife calls. The woman always seems to be complaining and the man will be seen walking around his office trying to cool her down. She says on these occasions, the man uses the sweetest words and one cannot believe that it is the same boss she knows. She recalls an incident when the woman paid her husband a surprise visit and the man jumped out of the window and hid in the sentry box.”Just tell my boss that the woman is coming and he will wet his pants,’’ she says with a laugh. But is it only wives who floor these larger-than-life characters? Juliet, a sociology lecturer, says that the easiest way to get into a tough man’s heart is through a woman. It doesn’t matter whether it is mama watoto, a mistress, a teenage lover or someone he meets on the street. She brags that it is a woman who holds the key to a man’s heart.

She cites the example of accomplished men who are rendered desperate by teenagers who say no to their advances. The otherwise tough man will do anything in the name of love including buying flowers and gifts.

Terror to students

“Men are just vulnerable creatures, it matters little whether they are accomplished or not. Once the woman discovers his weak point, then she becomes the pilot,’’ she says. This rings a bell in Mwende’s mind. As a student at a university campus in Eldoret, she remembers a professor who had fallen for her and she virtually controlled him. Though the man had several degrees under his belt and was a terror to students and colleagues alike, behind the scenes he worshipped her. She had access to his office any time she liked, borrowed his car, used his money with abandon and when she wasn’t in the learning mood or was out of campus, she would just call him and he would cancel a lecture. When her male classmates learnt of this, they stopped nagging her lest she reported them and this spelt doom at the end of semester examinations.”I operated him like a puppet. Any time I wanted something, I got it,’’ she says

Nina knows of an influential politician who, despite being a charismatic public speaker who sends jitters among his opponents, will never face his wife unless he has taken several bottles of beer. She says that his wife is a holy terror and when it comes to matters concerning the family, her decision is final. Sometimes the woman confronts him demanding answers on his spending habits and the man would plead like a child. But what could be funnier than a stone-faced colleague who sheds real tears when his harmless girlfriend threatens him? That exactly describes a campus friend called Victor. He had a village girlfriend called Doro who operated his moods through remote control. Though he was a gigantic athlete who caused tough men to tremble, Doro had the power to turn him into a jelly. And when she called, he acted like a freak. Even if he had little money, he would rather starve than fail to load airtime for calling his prized girlfriend. And when he called her, sweet words such as ‘I am sorry, darling’, ‘I swear to God’, ‘Please don’t be mad girl…’ left his moth him even when he had committed no offence.

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Kenya: This Matter Must Reach Jim Orengo…His Constituency ime Waka Moto

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Oh oh oh oh…..

A-Jimmy, this is Balaa bin Balaa…..Urgently tafuta dawa……..Remedy must be sought.
This could be the start of serious cancer.

This is criminology of the highest order. Tena ni madharau ya kukosa heshima…..Where
if Jimmy Orengo?

1) this man needs cleansing…..

2) this man need maximum legal measure

3) This man is an animal and the animal in him shows he cannot make a successful family or keep the marriage …..

4) It was a mistake marrying this man……

5) This man after jail term needs to join correctional school for 3 years…….

6) This Man’s clan must pay cultural and traditional remunerations of Cows and Goats kadhaa……to cleanse the chieldren born by him………

7) Ili iwe funzo kwa wengine……Wife Beating is a Criminal
Offence…….count one, count two beating parents of the wife, count three trespasing before claims for leaving are completed……..

8) Breaking in-law dirisha for escape at the in-law premises is a taboo………

9) This case must be listed as a capital offense…..

10) This man must be charged with domestic terrorism…….plus plus plus…..

Live live, this case must be prosecuted LIVE….so we can participate.

This is not acceptable.

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Jilted husband beats in-laws to get wife

BY GEORGE OLWENYA

A man who had separated with his wife went to her parent’s home in Ugenya and beat them senselessly.

The wife and her parents were injured when the son-in-law pounced on them with kicks and blows as they were taking lunch. However, he was overpowered and beaten by other relatives.

The residents at Sifuyo East in West Ugenya witnessed the rare spectacle. The angry man was eventually set free by the provincial administration officials following intervention by the in-laws and elders who wanted him to be cleansed first.
The man in his 30s had been living alone after his wife left their matrimonial home after a quarrel.

planned raid

Despite several attempts by himself and through emissaries to convince her and parents that she returns, no positive response had been forthcoming.
And last week, he stormed his in-laws homestead on a hired motorbike shortly after 1.00pm to demand his wife back.

On arrival, he found his wife and the mother-in-law enjoying a meal. Without uttering a word, he attacked the two with kicks and blows and spilt their food.
Shocked, the mother-in-law and her daughter screamed.

The screams attracted the attention of other family members who were taking lunch in the main house.

Assault charges

Her brothers intervened demanding to know what had transpired. But the man dashed to the main house and found his 77-year-old father-in-law with his last born son.

Before the old man could say a word, several slaps landed on his cheeks sending him to the ground. He screamed for help. The men rushed back to the house only to find their father on the ground and the food splashed on the floor.

They subdued and beat the son-in-law. The young men then locked him inside the house and reported to Ratado chief’s camp. Realising he had been cornered, the man tried to open a window to escape but he was forced back by villagers who had now gathered at the home.

The assistant chief wanted him taken to Ukwala Police Station to face assault charges but elders said it would lead to a curse on the entire family. They said it was a taboo for anyone to beat his in-laws or be locked up in their house as had happened.

The administrator yielded to the elders’ demands who insisted he should be freed to get a lamb and other requirements for the cleansing ceremony and eventual negotiations to have the wife back.

Kenya: The time is ripe for the Luos to abandon “Wife Inheritance” obnoxious practices

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LAST WEEK WAS A BAD ONE BECAUSE IT LEFT THE TRAILS OF TEARS SHEDDING AND BURIALOF YOUNG WOMEN AND THEIR CHILDREN KILLED BY THEIR INHERITORS

It is time the Luos abandoned this repugnant and backward tradition and culture.

News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo In kisumu City

The last two weeks were so bad. A number of shocking incidents occurred in various parts of Luo-Nyanza involving grisly murder of young women and their children ,one of which the entire family of a mother and her three children were whipped out by her bloody thirsty inheritors.

In all the reported incidents, the suspect culprits were reported to be strangers who came from unknown strangers who came handy to inherit the widow left behind by their deceased husbands.

Luos are the fourth largest single tribes in Kenya following the Kalenji, Luhyia and Kikuyu. But the communities still practising some heathen and unacceptable tradition, which are unacceptable to the modern society in Kenya.

But the shocking action of beast like inheritors, which saw many families shedding tears and burying their beloved young ones, has left everybody in this region where such repugnant and abominable backward practices are still very common and thriving among the families and clans despite of advanced information torth3 villages about the scourge of Hiv/Aids epidemic.

It calls for the elders and key figures and politicians within the community to go back into drawing board. They should brain storm and chart for the best way of educating families against the danger of “Wife Inheritance” practices. The practice is bad and ads no value to the family. And it is time it was abandoned. The practice has lost its original intention and value in the modern society.

The practice has increasingly become dangerous, because the younger generation of Luo male and females have abandoned the norms and cultural virtue and tradition, which were governing the “Wife inheritance” in the past. The community at large has lost disciplinary practices.

These days young widows in Luo-Nyanza can now pick anybody they meet in beer halls or in dark corners of the City, towns and market places, and the next day the couple become husband and wife. This is in sharp contrast, and completely contrary to the laid down cultural norms and tradition rules.

In the old days when this tradition thrived to the best interest of the families involved. It was a practice highly valued by the community. It was meant to protect both the wife and the children of the deceased. And not simply for sexual escapades between the inheritor and the widow as such, but it meant a lot to the families concerned.

The circumstance, in which a widow was required to be inherited, varied. First was for the continuity of the family. Secondly was for the protection of young children and property of the deceased. And that is the reason why the families used to go for the best man of good character and generous enough to take care of the welfare of the young children left behind by his cousin or brother in the same way he could cater for his own children. Lazy person who is known not to be active in farming or greedy fellow were out of bound for this noble practices which was cherished by the community for generations after generations.

Before the widow was inherited, there were behind the scene consultations between he and the elderly mothers within her immediate families. The role of the elderly women, most of them her mother-law was to advice her accordingly as to who is the best son within the family who could help her bring her young offspring’s up and so forth. .

It was a serious vetting. Men from families suspected of practicing witches, men from families known to be suffering from serious diseases such as leprosy, asthma, mental illness, tuberculosis, epilepsy and other complicated diseases were not recommended for the job..

If the widow had defied the elderly mother wisdom and settle on someone of suspicious characters such as thieves, trouble shooters, quarrelsome or temperamental persons, the elderly women would throw the matter back to the elderly men within the family to deliberate on the issue. They would summon the widow and told her point blank the reason why they were not keen to approve her choice, but if she remain defiance, she was then advised that after the rejected man is the only her choice, the she was required to dismantle her house within the family and go and settle in the homestead of the man she had chosen as the best person to inherit her. She would live their until she goes past her production life, now with grown up children would bring her back to the family and built a home for her and her children.

Wife beaters and drunkards and men with history of murder were also some of the characters not recommended by the elders. And so were thieve sand other unbecoming characters within the society.

In all aspect of the practice, it was to go for the best person whose good and proven manner and character.

In Litare village in Kamasengre, Rusinga West Location on Rusinga island massive man-hunt was still going on by the weekend of a man who set ablaze the house of the young wife he had inherited. The man is still at large and th4e man hunt led by the area Assistant chief has proved fruitless. He is suspected to have boarded a canoe and pedaled himself across the Mbita Channel and went into hiding on the main land part of Mbita district.

This attack came after the man and his inherited wife had some misunderstanding the previous night and the woman ejected the inheritor out of her house. But before the night fall she and her three children slipped out of the house and went to sleep in her grand mother’s house. The man returned under cover of darkness bolted the house from outside and set it ablaze thinking his wife and children were asleep inside .The assailant fled from the village thinking that he had killed the entire family, but did not realize he had missed the target. A lot of property was burnt to ashes. He is still at large.

In Migoto village, Suna Migori, Silvanus Owuor Lwamba was not lucky enough to escape the mob justice and punishment from his heinous act. She used hoe in smashing the head of his inherited wife Esther Akinyi, nine year daughter Lilian and one year old son Barack Odhiambo.and fled at night.

The village woke up in the morning and found the three lifeless bodies laying inside their house. Youth owning motor bike taxis in the village mobilized themselves and gave chase to the suspect with whom they caught up near Kenya Tanzania border as he headed to Tarime across the border. The tied him up brought him back to the scene of the murder and lynched him.

According to the relatives, the couple had disagreement before the incident. The suspect had a quarrel with the wife and this prompted a meeting under the chairmanship of the woman’s father where e decision was made that the two should part the company. This did decision did not pleased the suspect, but he never objected to it. But the family made one silly mistake of allowing the couple to go and sleep in one house. The suspect had begged for permission to stay in the house for the night since it was getting late in the evening so that he could go the next day.

The relatives say the couple was constantly quarreling and at one time separated for a couple of months before the killer came back after they were reconciled. Neighbor said the bodies had deep cut on the heads and neck and an axe which is suspected to have been used by the killer and a hoe were discovered covered in the house covered with blood.

In Ki9sumu, police had vigorously pursued the killer of wife and her three children at Nyalenda Peri-urban of the City, and caught with him in his native Siaya district. Before the suspect could be arraigned in court, police had a lot of difficulties keeping away the crowd of onlookers baying for his blood suspect’s blood.

The crow which camped outside the police forced the intervention of senior police officers who summoned the four fierce police dogs to disperse the crowd after their plea with the building up crowd to disperse peacefully and go home had hit the rock.

One senior police officers addressed the crowd and told them,’ We have the suspect and trials against him will be instituted soon,”said the PPO Larry Kieng urging the crowd to go peacefully.

“We want kill him instantly, if you let him go to prison, he will kill many more innocent people,” shouted a man from the crowd in perfect English.

The trouble had started at Koidiaga in Gem constituency along the Kisumu Busia road where the public had identified him and wanted to lynch him, but he was rescued by the police..

The suspect was seen selling a radio set when police from Dudi Police Post were trailing him following a tip off. The suspect was seen moving around the market while looking for a buyer for his radio, perhaps to get enough money to escape further to a distant place. A man who claimed he knew him shouted at the top of his voice and this attracted the public.

The accused had killed his wife Pamela Akiny Orawo and her three children and fled the town. Was said to have been a boda boda bicyle taxi operator in Nuyalenda area,. He escaped by the night and vanished until last weekend when the police caught him in Gem area near the border of Gem and Butere/Mumias districts. He had inherited the deceased six years ago after the death of her husband. It was not immediately established whether he was related to the deceased husband of the woman or just a handpicked friend and lover. He did not sire any of the slaughtered children with the deceased.

But this particular incident left the City of Kisumu a state of shock. There could have been more similar incidents, but which went unreported in various part of rural locations. Religious leaders and clergymen have contributed these series of killings to the excessive consumption of “Chang’aa” which has since been licensed by the government.

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About the author, Leo Odera Omolo is a veteran Kisumu baswed journalist who comments on various topics and writing for several publication locally and abroad. He operates in Kisumu and parts of Tanzania and Uganda. He could be reached on Mobile phone No 0722 486181 and 0734 509215

UGANDA: UPC LEADER, AMBASSADOR OLARA OTUNNU, WHO IS UGANDA’S MOST ELIGIBLE BACHELOR, IS TO WED TO BOOST HIS CHANCES OF PRESIDENTIAL AMBITION IN THE NEXT YEARS ELECTIONS

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Writes Leo Odera Omolo

UPC presidential flag-bearer, Ambassador Olara Otunnu, is set to walk down the aisle on Saturday, putting to rest one of Uganda’s most vexing political questions.

Uganda’s most eligible bachelor is expected to say I do to Ms Jocelyn Bafokugamba at 3:00pm at St Kagwa Parish in Bushenyi. Bafokugamba hails from Kanungu district.

Details about the relationship are scanty but sources close to the couple say the two met about three years ago in France, but their romance has only assumed a new sense of urgency in recent weeks.

Bafokugamba, who is described as being in her early 30s, has been living in France for the last seven years. According to sources, she studied social work and administration at Makerere University. It’s not clear what she does for a living in France. A family member who talked to The New Vision on condition of anonymity said Bafokugamba’s maternal grandfather is a Muganda.

Political watchers will not miss the political overtones that this marriage carries.

Since Otunnu returned to the country last year, the question of his marital status—or lack of thereof—has hovered over him like a dark cloud. His impending marriage should improve his political fortunes in a country which puts a high premium on the family man.

The choice of the wedding venue looks curious, but when one remembers that Bushenyi served as the bedrock of UPC’s support in the 1980s, questions fall away.

However, the choice of a Mukiga bride will come as a surprise because beyond the romance, there seems to be no major political benefit to it. But in January, while on a campaign trail in Kabaale, Otunnu insinuated that Bakiga would be his in-laws.

Watchers would have been less surprised if he married a Muganda. Central region is an area he badly needs to patch up relations within the context of the historical animosity between the area and his UPC party.

Otunnu was elected party president last month at Namboole stadium in Kampala.

Recent polls show he lags behind FDC’s Kizza Besigye and DP’s Norbert Mao as a main challenger to President Yoweri Museveni innext year’s elections.

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Am I A Polygamist Or A Valentine?

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This being Valentines’ Day, I would like to clarify some issues.

So welcome to this press conference. I want to state something that I want you to hold dear and permanently in your heart.

You know, and I know, and everyone knows that I am married and have only two wives. And everyone in Kenya and my friends on facebook should know it, but hush about it because I do not want Uncle San (US) to know. But I keep getting flowers and kisses and strange comments from other women and men alike.

I want to make it very clear that I have only two dear wives, Cheruto & Olga. I do not have any other, neither is none other my valentine, nor I theirs. And anybody who knows me, and knows my family and knows how I live, know that I have only have two wives and this is acceoptable in my culture. Unless their primary purpose is to seek to become my third Valentine, no one except Cheruto & Olga should send me flowers, kisses or call me names like ‘polygamist’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘honey’ or ‘dear’ all of which cause aspersions or diversions from the reality of normal life. For I ain’t gay or a polygamist in a true sense of the word. I will explain this shortly.

So Ladies and Gentlemen I decided to make it public and to appeal to you the public to listen to what I say. And not to continue sending me flowers, kisses or call me names like ‘polygamist’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘honey’ or ‘dear’ for this does not help anyone else have a genuine ‘Valentine.’

I have also had to say that I have only 5 children. Jakwath & Hawi by Cheruto, and Odhis, Oketch & Ninah by Olga and her late husband who died of this mongrel HIV. I love them all very much, and they are my genuine ‘Valentine’. But how did I get here?

You see, I lost all my 5 siblings of HIV too. Cheruto, Jakwath, Hawi & I live and have all decided to stay permanently in the US but would love you to pass the dual citizenship clause in the new constitution. In so doing, I am a cursed son of my father. My father who is in his late seventies rightly worried about my house in Gem, Lundha becoming ‘Gunda’ or an empty shell. So last Thanksgiving while visiting our ancestral land, my father sought and introduced me to Olga. He wanted me to marry a local lady whose children would inherit our ancestral land. At first I was vehemently opposed to this idea until Cheruto begged me to do it. You all know that Cheruto and I want more Children and are currently not contended whith the two plus the adopted three.

Olga was also opposed to this idea initially, but after I wooed her and proposed to her, in a traditional marriage, I ‘adopted’ her as an asexual wife. You may not understand how badly I wanted to help her live with Aids and not necessarily die from it. I also wanted Odhis, Oketch & Ninah to have a good life and education and most of all, call me a father again. In doing what I never planned or until then had thought of as uncouthed or repugnant, I lived true to my traditions. My father cleansed off the curse he had heaped upon me, because he will now bequeath Odhis, Oketch & Ninah with our ancestral home and land.

So there you have it. You now know everything and I do not have to repeat it. But in case you do not know, just ask Cheruto or I. We will tell you. But seriously, it is not possible for me to go on and on repeating the same thing when some people keep sending me flowers, kisses or call me names like ‘polygamist’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘honey’ or ‘dear.’ You know that that is Uongo and it is without the truth.
All I would like to appeal to you on this Valentine’s Day is to listen to what I say, and to think the right things and channel the right feelings to the right person. Send flowers alright, but to your loved one or to a single person whom you’ve been admiring and had no courage to ask. Verily I say unto you, many women are not married because they’ve not been asked. Don’t give up or take short cuts or alternative routes like sending fellow men flowers! This can lead to abnormal behaviour and will not save humankind.

Now I got into this very foul mood, after reading some statements today from some fella which gave stories and others calling me names like ‘Jadoho.’ I do not want to repeat, but I want to say quite frankly anyone bent on that course will see me in court or wherever they will see me, and we shall deal with him. (LOL) No other way, no other way whatsoever. For the reason that there’s no genuine purpose for people who are not my valentines wanting to continue sending me flowers, kisses or call me names like ‘polygamist’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘honey’ or ‘dear,’ I do not have such lies around my self.

So Ladies & Gentlemen, ask any questions you may have, I will be happy to reply to you. Ask now or never. Lest I too feel tormented the way Lucy felt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlTW8mjirs

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Joram Ragem
wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?)

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ONE YEAR IN OFFICE CELEBRATIONS AT HIS ANCESTRAL RURAL HOME IN ALEGO KOGELO APPEAR TO BE HEADING FOR A FLOP DUE TO FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS

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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ONE YEAR IN OFFICE CELEBRATIONS AT HIS ANCESTRAL RURAL HOME IN ALEGO KOGELO APPEAR TO BE HEADING FOR A FLOP DUE TO FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS.

Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Nyang’oma Kogelo.

The much highlighted one week festivities planned for Nyang’oma village in Alego Kogelo in Siaya appear to have attracted less enthusiastic crowd than it was last year. The celebrations end today, but so far, none of the expected dignitaries has turned up to grace the occasion.

It’s organizers have been forced to cut down some of the events, as well as the duration, which were originally slated to take one week, but have now been reduced to only four days.

The organizers, however, are still optimistic that the US Ambassador to Kenya, Mr. Michael Rennerberger, who was expected to attend, will still grace the event with his presence. Another important guest who was expected to attend is the Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, who is currently on an overseas tour, putting his possible attendance in doubt.

The organizers of the event, led by Alego Kogelo civic leader, Councilor Okeyo Omedo, who is also the chairman of the celebrations steering committee, revealed that his committee was facing financial constraints, and this is what has forced them to cut down the duration from one week to four days.

He disclosed that the committee had forwarded its request for funding to the Ministry of National Heritage, with a budget of Kshs one million, but only received Kshs 50,000 which is inadequate. Moreover, the corporations that they had requested to chip in something have yet to respond.

The event, which is meant to celebrate the US President Barrack Obama’s inauguration in Washington D.C as the first black President of the most powerful nation on earth, kicked off this with several teams of tribal dancers, musical bands, football teams arriving from various locations, within the locality.

Most of the events are being held at the Senator Barrack Obama Kogelo Primary School, which is less than a kilometer from the Obama’ ancestral home, and also few meters from Nyang’oma market.

Those already arrived and converged at the venue, are members of Jo-Kogelo sub-clans, who traveled back to their ancestral home from many other Luo locations as far away as Rongo, Nyatike, Tanzania, Kano plains, Asembo, Ndhiwa, Kasipul-Kabondo, Karachuoyo, Asembo, Kisumo and  other places. The majority of this sub-clan members are living in Southern  Nyanza.

Since President Obama’s ascension to the presidency of the United States of America, this particular community, which is scattered in many places, has been elevated and placed in the highest esteem by their fellow Luos.

The Jo-Kogelo sub-clan, though scattered in many places inside Luo-Nyanza, have produced two MPs in Parliament. The incumbent MP for Kisumu Town West, Hon John Olago Aluoch, is a descendant of the Kogelo sub-clan, and so is the former Bondo MP, John Ougo Ochieng’, the man who is in record and credited for having vacated his Bondo parliamentary seat in favor of the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in the early 1980s. Hon Ougo Ochieng’ hails from Asembo Kabondo, a sub-clan whose members are also the descendant of the larger Jo-Kogelo.

There is also a big concentration of this particular community in East Sakwa Location, Awendo-Division in Rongo district, in Southern Nyanza. Others are also to be found in Central Kadem in Nyatike district as well as in parts of Kodera in West Kasipul, Karachuonyo. Members of the Kanyakwar sub-clan, which has a big concentration in East Kisumo Location, in the outskirt of Kisumu City are also inter-related to the Kogelo Groups. This is the sub-clan of the present Kisumu Town West MP, Hon John Olago Aluoch.

Other members of this now important sub-clan are living in the North Mara region of Tanzania

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BARREN WOMAN IN UGANDA FAKES PREGNANCY, TAKES UNKNOWN DEAD BABY TO HER HUSBAND.

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BARREN WOMEN IN UGANDA WHO FAKE PREGNANCY ARE ON THE RISE.

Writes Leo Odera Omolo.

Police have arrested a 29 year old woman from Gomba in Mpigi district,  in the south eastern part of Ugand for faking pregnancy, and taking a dead child to her husband.

Maria Goretti Nantongo was arrested on Saturday at her husband’s home in Makindye, a Kampala suburb, where she had taken a yet to be identified corpse of a one day old child.

Narrating the detailed account of the incident, Mr Henry Kalulu, the Kampala Metropolitan Police Chief, during his weekly press briefing, said that the woman had failed to conceive in her several years in a marriage.

Sometime in the middle of last year, she reported to her husband that she was pregnant, but left her matrimonial home when her husband, a Mr. Francis Walugembe, insisted that he saw no signs of pregnancy in her. Mr Walugembe, according to the police chief, had suspected that she was faking her pregnancy by wrapping a heap of clothes around her waist.

Following an argument with her husband who was trying to ascertain the truth of the pregnancy, she ran away to live with her relatives. But while living with her relatives, Nantongo kept on calling her husband from time to time, asking him to send her money for her upkeep.

According to the Metropolitan police chief, Nantoingoi suddenly showed up at her husband’s home last Saturday morning, carrying the corpse of an infant baby, claiming that she had given birth to the babay the previous night, but the baby had died. She blamed the baby’s death on neglect by her husband.

According to Mr Kalulu, the woman’s husband got annoyed, and immediately reported the matter to the police, who swung into action, and arrested the woman.  The police later took Nantongo to Mulago Hospital for medical examination, where the doctors found that she had neither been pregnant nor given birth.

The Police Chief revealed that the force was actively investigating the incident, and a postmortem examination on the dead infant baby is being carried out, adding that the police were looking for the parents of the dead child.

Nantongo will be produced in court later this week, to face charges of murder, the Metropolitan Police boss told newsmen.

The police, he said, are also investigating the possibility that she could have dug up the dead baby from a grave. In that case, she would be charged with disturbing the peace of the dead!!.

According to Mr Kalulu, this is the second incident involving fake pregnancies in less than a week.

Namatovu Kalala, a 45 year old woman and a resident of Nziga Parish, in Wakiso district, on Thursday narrowly survived being lynched by a mob, after she claimed to have given birth to twins, but returned home with a pair of dolls. She blamed Mulago Hospital staff and nurses for stealing her newly born twins. This was after she lied to her husband that they had died.

Mulago Hospital authorities, however, could not trace her record as having been admitted in its maternity wing. She was immediately arrested and taken to a medical scanning examination, which showed she had no sign of a recent pregnancy or birth.

Nsagi magistrate court on Monday this week found her guilty of giving false information to the police .The magistrate, John Robert Okapi, sentenced Namatovu to a fine of Ushs 300,000 , or serve a prison sentence of 12 months. She could not raise the fine immediately, and broke down in tears, saying she had no means of raising the money.

A prison warder immediately whisked her out of court room, which was parked to capacity with the residents, who turned up to witness the “Doll Mother” verdict.

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PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA; IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH LOVE!

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ZUMA; IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH LOVE!
From: Evans MACHERA

Dear,
 
Rather than hide mistresses, concubines alias kachungwa or mpango wa kando, just marry in the open like Jacob Zuma and Milton Mbhele.
 
Ladies deny that they can’t stand to be counted as second wives, nor see eye to eye with the other woman. Yet during funerals, we see ladies showcasing children alleged to have been sired by the late  Mr……………
 
The south African His Excellency has made it five times and the sixth is on the way.
Milton Mbhele, also from south Africa wedded four at a time, just to save money!
 
Men, why hide, yet the other women/mistresses/concubines or kachungwa ( whatever name you wish to baptize them) exits, only to appear when you are “past tense or expired”, to borrow Wisper’s vocs?
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Song and dance at Zuma wedding

1/5/2010 8:25:54 AM

Nkandla – Politicians, celebrities and former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson, inkosi Mandla Mandela, were among those who attended President Jacob Zuma’s wedding to Thobeka Madiba at his home in Nkandla on Monday.

Guests were treated to Zulu and Xhosa traditional dance, and Zuma danced with his new wife.

Security was tight and journalists were barred from getting close to the president’s home.

However, media who had been camping near Zuma’s home since the early morning were later allowed to attend the ceremony.

Extra security

In a statement on Sunday, the presidency urged the media to stay away, saying the wedding was “a private family ceremony”.

SA Police Service Director Phindile Radebe said they deployed more police officers “to make sure that the event goes smoothly as planned”.

A large marquee was erected to accommodate guests, which included people from the surrounding area.

Several goats and sheep were slaughtered for the feast.

The marriage ceremony was conducted by a local induna.

Trademark song

The sounds of Zuma’s trademark song, Awuleth’ umshini wami, rang out during the day as his in-laws performed it at the end of the ceremony.

“See how things have changed. Then we cried and now we are laughing,” commented Emmah Mthembu of Soweto, referring to Zuma’s court cases, where the song was sung in the past.

Guests arrived from early morning in luxury buses and cars. One party flew in by helicopter.

In preparation for the dancing, Zuma himself helped pick up glass shards from the field, so that barefoot performers would not get hurt.

Madiba and seven women in her entourage draped Zuma in a string of white beads to complete the ceremony before the dancing got under way in a misty drizzle.

The president’s other current wives are Sizakele Khumalo, whom he married in 1973, and Nompumelelo MaNtuli-Zuma, whom he married in 2007.

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