Partisan belligerence within government forces only confirms political positioning between the grand parties,ODM and PNU. Ordinary Kenyans are made to believe that Raila Odinga,appears a successful party leader and unofficial reform activist bu a failed Prime Minister. On the other hand, the ODM party is being made to appear as ‘soft on reforms’ that are desperately needed by the entire nation. Even when the maize saga hits the road bouncing the PNU side of goverenment feels that the Prime Minister is only trying to cross the road to pick a fight when leadership comes a forte.

The maize saga and politicization of the civil service are tools being used to portray the Prime Minister as the one lacking a follow-through machinery when it comes to supervising ministries.

Parliament has since made the PM to be remembered principally for his tackling words and never his deeds. His political vanity is curved on the premise that he is single-handedly trying to change the fate of the nation for his own good. The PM’s reform ‘policies’ have been cobbled together only to produce headlines in the newspapers and with a self-biting effect.

Many in government have been made to believe that when the PM pulls a lever here and pushes a button there, his own bureaucratic machinery in government backfires on the head of state as he in turn delivers homegrown points that are accustomed to what the electorate want. This ploy of turnishing the PM’s name is programmed,measured, thoughtful but damaging, to to Raila, but majority of the electorate.

It is also believed that the ODM side of the placebo – controlled coalition government is in the process of planning to bring reforms in government through parliament by mid- next year. It is argued that the current PNU led government has been on power since Kofi Annan brokered talked early last year through coalition government (GCG) and no major reforms seem to have taken place.

Some ODM politicians believe that it is time parliament focused on demanding reforms before the month of July, 2010. This would enable ODM to lead the reform process until when the elections are called in December 2012. Currently, the country has been derailed from key agendas of constitutional reforms secondary to the ongoing tussle between the grand coalition partners. As a party, ODM’s convoluted political journey seems to carry a reformist agenda for the nation. Therefore, the party believes that it is best suited to also lead the nation for two and a half years, from mid-July 2010until when the 2012 presidential contest would be held. This goes by the dictates of the National Accord and Reconciliation Act that institutionalized the 50-50 real power sharing. The proposed transitional process that has since accorded the House speaker Kenneth Otiato Marende, the interim chair of the House Business Committee and suspending the role to be played by the leader of government business, is to be effected by parliament before real power is given back to the people. The application of sections 3 and 4 of the National Accord makes ODM a beneficiary of the position of chairman of the House Business Committee and the Leader of Government Business.

In parliament, backbenchers seem to seek leave to introduce new Standing Orders that would allow the Prime Minister put through the reform agenda in parliament. The first move would be to re-constitutionalize the National Accord and Reconciliation Act of 2008 and the Constitution that the PNU side of government is aligned to. ODM, courtesy of the National Accord see it as the only way the running of government would be put under the control of Kenyans. Now that ordinary Kenyans ‘control’ leadership through parliament and he legislature is only but the primary level of reforming and empowering Kenyans and their systems of running government.

Even as the chances of a middle ground appearing remote between PNU and ODM the three-way PNU, ODM-K and the ODM split though in ‘coalition’, would transform our leadership from a presidential authoritarianism to parliamentary and later to a citizenry democracy. This may appear contrary to the tradition in most of the commonwealth countries but a sure way of making overall leadership accountable to parliament as the ultimate representative of the people.

The white- collar political offense on the side of ODM may be a well calculated onslaught since the inauguration of the 10th parliament. Prior to this move, ODM had felt the need to help unlock parliamentary business. The Orange Democratic Party facilitated the acquisition of the temporary chair of the House Business Committee by the speaker, who came from ODM, to take control of all House Committees and with the help of reform minded back-benchers. Even with the absence of speaker Marende, his deputy speaker Farah Maalim (ODM) would chair the committee while being assisted by ODM’s chief whip Jakowo Midiwo and PNU’s George Thuo. ODM based agenda – setting parliamentary House Business Committee leadership would ensure parliament divorces itself from executive influence while facilitating room for reforms including allowing the National Accord to be entrenched in the constitution and not for it to be seen as a subsidiary legislation. The party appears to re-affirm that the National Accord introduced elements of a parliamentary control to ordinary Kenyans and not for the president to control the House. On the other hand use of frequent parliamentary group meetings would boost the overall performance of parliament and governance. Such appalling aberrations, on the side of ODM, may allow ordinary Kenyans through parliament to participate in budget making and in other reform processes. Even as reforms appear dim for now work on the new constitution is of importance and would put the nation first beyond party interests.

Most importantly ordinary Kenyans yearn to still take leadership from the legislature if in case no major developments would have taken place. The culmination of power take- over by wananchi may depend on the performance of parliament before the next election is called in 2012. Wananchi believe that they have a stake to claim their right to leadership. Although ODM’s contention is that affairs of the country should run in accordance with the standing orders in parliament and the constitution and which it is determined to enforce. The party also evinces its analogy that serious coalition matters ought to be handled by the permanent committee on management of the grand coalition as a way of ending governance wrangles in a country polarized by political instability equal political supremacy between the coalition partners is the most sure-way of ending the current mess in the country. With the Management Committee in place, resolving problems facing the coalition through a wananchi-based legislative agenda would help the coalition government to deliver its promises to Kenyans.

The ODM party and leadership, in the spirit of real power-sharing in the coalition government as enshrined in the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, want Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary as the three pillars of a democratic government to respect and practice the doctrine of separation of powers. In this case the Executive to include the top coalition partners that, together, formed the coalition government. This two-phased transitional process that would eventually wield power from authoritarian presidency would promote citizenry democracy and bring reforms that ordinary Kenyans have been yearning to have since the end of the Moi dictatorial regime.

The coalition capsule that is ODM and PNU may be a blessing in disguise for now but a recipe for good future leadership for Kenyans though it is upon parliament to trigger the much awaited reforms as a major step in democratizing Kenya through a reform-led and inclusive process.

Some would compare the ODM party to a ‘compressed’ and ‘scored’ tablet that is now ‘bitter’ but still popular in the market. PNU appears to be a ‘coated’ tablet that cannot illustrate its true nature by its appearance. ODM-Kenya, on the other hand is a layered-based tablet with a generic part of PNU. Kenyans, on this political prescription, are ‘disintegrating’ agents that make the ‘singular’ gelatine coalition capsule to literally swell and burst and break up to release the ‘contents’ during campaigns and elections.

The current coalition government being the ‘singular gelatine’ capsule appears indifferent to the eyes of Kenyans. Ordinary Kenyans, it seems, need a ‘liquid based’ soft gelatine capsule that does not define its ‘external’ divisions and differences to the eyes. This coalition politics being administered to Kenyans in its pure, corrosive way to the complex Kenyan delivery system may be a bad political dosage for our growing democracy.

Parliament now seems to be ‘unsure’ but ready to to prepare a formulation designed to maximize the stability and usefulness of the coalition capsule.

Even with varied ODM and PNU code designations Parliament has a challenge of marketing a united proprietary trademark that is the coalition. Come mid-next year chances are that backbenchers are likely to break the capsule at the right time for the sake of ordinary citizens. But not in its current ‘original’ form.

The over-the-counter kind of politics being prescribed by sectarian politicians may partisan influence parliament by creating new laws instead of altering and reforming existing ones that are in a way malnourished.

ODM and PNU idiosyncratic coalition may be good for the ears but with tribalism, cronyism and corruption as adverse reactions. Though the selective nature of ODM and PNU ideologies may have a dependancy effect on their followers due to varied affiliations of a communal and ethnic nature. Secondarily the two giant parties may not be well and fitting receptors as agonists for unity and democracy but could be highly specific in the urgency of the ideology of future leadership.

Parliament as the core pharmacy for legislative and political prescriptions, without the influence of other arms of government, ought to help save the otherwise ailing leadership,citizenry and its economic status.

Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 03:42:29 -0700 [05/20/2009 05:42:29 AM CDT]
From: mundia mundia
Subject: ODM-PNU WRANGLING CAPSULE…

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:58:54 -0800 [07:58:54 AM CST]
From: Eunice Thirikwa
Subject: Re: POLITICIANS AS DRIVERS OF ECONOMIES

are you sure of this?

“Prime Minister Raila Odinga , as our socialist Robin Hood, is being fought hard by die-hard elite in government for ?taking from the few rich to give the majority poor’. This only makes these capitalists in government to victimize ordinary Kenyans through Raila and ODM. They deny Kenyans a new constitution and gag the voice of the media while pulling the ODM leader on the ground off his party and leadership seat. These are the same human tumours that do not pay taxes.”

My take!

This guy is just one of them….no more no less…..they are all the same…the political class

none is better

— On Wed, 1/21/09, mundia mundia wrote:

From: mundia mundia
Subject: POLITICIANS AS DRIVERS OF ECONOMIES
Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 12:18 PM

Friend, As the canines equivalent of some of our politicians continue to control our economy it is now certain to us that these ?money-persons’ with greed next to their hearts would still drive our cents off our senses into their elusive political coffers.

The daze of my imagination tells me that Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad recipe won’t work in Kenya or East Africa . This is due to differences in political ideology as environment for economic development. Environment comes first then the players and their systems of playing such games or players setting up a rich environment.

On the other hand the walking cancers of our parliament have made ordinary Kenyans be political windbreakers between PNU/ODM-Kenya and ODM politicians. These infecting wounds pass unfavourable bills in order to fight their political opponents with their pregnant amnesia.

The current violence of our politics only pounds harder with a prism of tribal sordidness as fellowship of crooks manipulate our intestines and grey matter giving birth to political uncertainty and unpredictable leadership in a lame coalition.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga , as our socialist Robin Hood, is being fought hard by die-hard elite in government for ?taking from the few rich to give the majority poor’. This only makes these capitalists in government to victimize ordinary Kenyans through Raila and ODM. They deny Kenyans a new constitution and gag the voice of the media while pulling the ODM leader on the ground off his party and leadership seat. These are the same human tumours that do not pay taxes.

An MP, as a petrol attendant would refuse to fuel your car tank, as he/she figures it out how to make you have a small container of kerosene for your Jua kali lamp (koroboto), but would like you to pay for the petrol.

Long ago there were no taxes in England and America though occasionally there were temporary levies to pay for wars. (Late December 2007 through early last year ?taxes’ were used to pay for post-election violence). In 1799, taxes were first levies in Britain . This was done to help fight Napoleon from 1799 to 1816. In America , levies were paid for the Civil War, from 1861 to 1865. It is only in 1874 that income tax became a permanent levy on citizens of Britain . The same happened in the US in 1913 with the adoption of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution.

Why aren’t Kenyan MPs (as politicians) being taxed? Is it to help continue bankrolling political campaigns and ethnic cleansing against those supporting their opposers? Do they do the financial lobbing in parliament and violent and deadly campaigns every other election year?

As a remainder, excessive tax on tea led to the famous Tea Party in Boston Habour that helped ignite the Revolutionary War in the US . It also took 50 years in both England and the US to sell the idea of a regular income tax.

In the Kenyan context, ordinary wananchi are being over-taxed. Food prices have gone up, wages are low as government minimizes on spending, business cartels, corruption and scandals are being engineered as protectionism, cushions the culprits. Outcome! More ?taxes’ for the ?government’ kitty and socio-political and economic instability.

Only recently corporations in form of political parties were re-registered and would be used as vehicles of power by the elite. Political parties would be used to limit the risk of individual leaders, their political assets and leadership capitalism. Such corporations protect and cushion the elite from individual incrimination when found guilty. This they do as they fall back to their party supporters and tribes. On my mind, MPs and the political elite are but hostile business persons with a yearning to be investors, brokers and handlers but with a forte in politics and its powers. Kenyans would always live on the brinks of poverty and for a very long time.

Mundia Mundia Jnr

Permit me to break into the residence of our in-depth political trans-reflections of our leadership and our thoughts disposed in bravery and panegyries of our current political fate. His collateral objectivity should inspire us more to inquire about our roles as we help sought course for our second or ¡probably¢ third time national unity strategy.

Many still revere the memory of last year¢s general elections and the ethnic species of subsequent violent elections since the year 2002. I remember asking myself, ¡what if Kibaki refuses to concede defeat?

Though many Kenyans have great and well-hypothesized ideas, creativity and glowing imagination all Kenyans including Kibaki and Raila would, with limited options, do all it takes to make the nation stand as one.

Thus, the Kriegler Commission would never risk to bringing Kenya where it was then, around February and March. In fact what Kenyans and its leaders yearn as history is to literally ¡forget¢ the painful and deadly encounters that we had, at the same time use the ¡aftermath¢ as lesson for ethno-national amalgamation and political strength when it comes to leadership. All Kenyans would still stand by the arrangement facilitated by Kofi Annan and the recently amended constitution for the life of the coalition government that seems promising. Any secret deals would hold so long as we accept to live as one nation no matter our affiliate differences including ethno-party and political.

Subsequently, Raila as an independent ¡political facilitator¢ lost his more local opposition badge he wore prior to the elections the time he joined government and became the nation¢s second Prime Minister. He has limited choice in the eyes of the International Community, that now have massive trust in him, to act as future ethnic or political party leader. Raila¢s political mutation has since gone beyond our borders even as he identifies with ODM and local politics that brought him to where he is now.

On the flip side though, President Kibaki proved a ¡tamed opportunist¢ of those who voted for him. Former President Moi¢s ¢strategies¢ and leadership adjustments helped place Kibaki where he is now. The idea of Kibaki sticking to power seemed ¡foreign¢ even as he knew that all was not well. He is keen to leave behind a memorable legacy this time round, different from what previous presidents have left. He would rather retire come 2012 than to ¡regurgitate¢ the aftermath of the 2007 elections that has his political connotation, ilk, name, shadow and ¡blood¢.

At least the real Kibaki and Raila have since stood up for the sake of the nation and proved to be a leader even with the challenges of the post-election aftermath that many of us are still facing. Many call this a national breather and hope for days to come with or without Kibaki and Raila around. The Kreigler antidote and vaccine are but the best political medicine ever that Kenya and its people heartily desearve.

Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: KREIGLER REPORT THE BEST POLITICAL ANTIDOTE AND VACCINE..

Dear Editor,
Many Kenyans with the heart to fight against corruption as a societal vice and not a means for enrichment and having benefits welcome back Mr. John Githongo. He has been consistent and bold in the war against corruption.

The challenge still remains at to what he would initiate as a step that would give Kenyans solutions that press statements on the podium. Does Githongo have a precise re-defination, it political adjustments and means of handling such cases? The hero in Githongo seems popular but are Kenyans expecting answers to the likes of the Anglo Leasing scam and if so when? The czar touched on corruption as a product of our political society, in his speech, but he never described the ¡seeds¢ of the vice. May I remind him that we have heard tribal politician say that ¡it is our time to eat¢. But me thinks that corruption is a product of our obsession with tribalism. Corruption is never alone on its entirety.

More so many of us have tried to compare varied systems of ¡corruption¢ and how they get modified and re-processed including in our country. Surprisingly they are so, so different. The systems, means, language, processes, e.t.c. are different. Our kid of corruption touches on culture, tradition, politics and ways of life to define the ¡vice¢. Though tribalism is a universal phenomenon ours is more ¡toxic¢. In our villages the Samburu may deem is right to ¡steal¢ cattle from the Turkana without guilt. This is a way of life though an impunity to society. This corruption could be precipitated is readily encourages by some of our cultures and traditions.

Let me take you a bit far from the subject. When a chemical substance, e.g. Crystal Methyl (brown sugar) is taken into the body the substances in it tend to change the genetic coding and performance of ‘normal’ cells. The cells, tissues, organs and systems are thus ¡changed¢. In this regard our society is a facet of the larger system.

This may be a chemical kind of change. But can behavior cause such genetic kind of changes and performances? Can corruption be a genetic behavior and way of life? Are we born with it or do we acquire it? What makes us have that ¡high¢ affinity for corrupt practices? Is it our inability to get what we ¡rightly¢ want? Or is it the best kind of ¡tool¢ that may go unnoticed?

As a consequence it may be due to varied ‘modifications and methodologies’ that have been put in place to ease the ‘corruption traffic’. I have tried to not only study but compare such and the results are really interesting. Thus, factoring in the fabrics of culture, traditions and ways of life it could be habitual, acquired, modified and politicized for sectarian interests to serves the partisan purpose.

Or do we ‘willfully’ play to the tunes of corruption? But why? If so can behavior, including ‘corruption’ interfere with the genes and their performance? Why? May be because we are never born with it or are we?

For me tribalism is but corruption of the highest order.
Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:03:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: TRIBALISM: THE MOTHER OF ALL CORRUTION…

Head teachers have a duty to find ways that put pressure and which teachers encounter with the main intention being to try to find solutions so as to help bring cohesion in our learning institutions even with the Children’s Act 2001 around.

As the country commemorated the ¡No Kiboko Day¢ and the International No-Hitting Day that are celebrated every year we still have to remember that corporal punishment in Kenyan schools was banned through a Kenya Gazette notice on March 13th 2001. Parents and teachers have a major role in modifying the young minds and they should thus not wait for problems to occur then decide to punish their children. Upbringing, both at home and school determines how one would be in society. Caning is only an ¡emergency¢ measure during desperation and not a solution to indiscipline. Teachers and parent should know that there is more to guiding and counseling than mere talking to pupils when problems occur. Many teachers fail in this important area. Sometimes I blame our society for the ills that affect our students in terms of instilling discipline. Do we spend time with our children or do we go out for drinks and to other social gatherings and come home late at night instead of being with our children yet parents are the best teachers so far?

Do we really have to wait for ¡our fruits¢ to rot in the school basket than to ensure any rotting doesn’t take place at first?

Certainly, caning as an obsolete form of punishment is most degrading and non-ennobling to student learners, for ferule and whip only serve to harden and worsen attitudes of students as opposed to instilling discipline and obedience.

Caning is shameful cruelty committed in the name of discipline that only modifies and transforms bad behavior into another and not its cessation. A single caning could easily transform to kicks when students show immunity and contempt of the cane. Schools should thus cease to be mini-penitentiaries. Certainly caning leads to suppression of indiscipline and not its unlearning. A new and modified learning is but introduced with high chances of acquiring adaptations. There is proof that extreme caning only increased misbehavior and poor performance in schools. Students only end up being tearful and fearful toward their teachers and that limits concentration in class, for extremes beget obstruction. This cruel and unmanly behavior of caning makes students believe that it is the only way to bring conformity in schools only for the same students to use the same machinery against their own colleagues and society. Form one students have been victims of monolizaton. The senior students take advantage by imitating their teachers by punishing their juniors. Once students leave school they understand violence through punishment to be the only way of getting things done their own way. They end up dissembling society by being violent wife-beaters in their homes and rapists in society after reaching maturity age but without character.

In my practice I have had a chance to come across students and women with bruises and swollen arms and some with lacerated and severed backs due to this savagery and brutal attacks all in the name if instilling discipline in homes and schools. I’m interested to understand the right measure and type of behavior modifier as opposed to brutalities met on students as a result of ethical, medico-legal and psychological concerns. I also wonder whether we have put superstition, tradition, culture, ignorance and savagery when dealing with caning which is not the instrumentality of civilization. Certainly any kind of lash and whip irritates than soothes for school dungeons, faggots and scaffolds are seeds of primary torture in the making. The infamous traditional doctrine of caning has unfortunately polluted the imagination of those who underwent this destructive type of punishment as this has hardened their hearts against civilization and has exacerbated ignorance in relation to education and learning. This could be a reason as to why we have many young civil offenders, wife-beaters, robbers and rapists in society as a result of such similar crude upbringing.

Regards,

Mundia Mundia
Jnr.

Clinical
Physiatrist

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:39:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: CORPORAL PUNISHMENT HARMFUL TO STUDENTS

The Narc-Kenya party seems to identify itself with only two days of the week. Today’s politics and worries of Tomorrow’s leadership. This is proof that the political bone-fire at the alleged Party of ‘Parties with Numerous Unfolding’ restores the true face of early fight and flight for power. This is happening when Kenya ‘s gestation period for electoral purposes still has not completed its first trimester and healed from the prolonged labor of campaigns and the caesarian section as delivery of our post-election aftermath and coalition government.

The current archaeological expedition of Nark-Kenya at the Mt. PNU has made its chairperson and party loyalists to scatter to the four winds of our politics. PNU, on the other hand is trying to peel off the petals of the flower party one by one. More so, the prescient fate of the seemingly green and raw party seems futile and harsh on PNU’s diary.

Two suggestions arise for the Narc-Kenya loyalists. Martha Karua is literally advising the leadership of PNU to ‘take my dress and give me your trousers’ as Danson Mungatana adds, “our leader is here. Let us get her above and beyond Mt. Kenya “.

Karua seems to be more brave and ready to die first (than Kimunya did) for the sake of the life of the flower party that seems to blossom after being withered while under the umbrella of the PNU coalition of parties. Karua’s voice only makes a section of PNU’s political bayonets and leadership rifles to prick their throats earlier than 2012.

There comes Narc-Kenya’s Secretary General, Mr. Kamama (no pun intended), who believes that women can also lead Kenya . History reminds us that colonial authorities recognized the power of women of Kenya . One of them observed, ‘wives have in many cases persuaded their husbands to take oath and are often very militant”.

In our case the ‘wife’ in Karua and the ‘husband’ in Kibaki’s PNU-DP-Narc-Kenya polygamous party politics and coalition is but the rather hard-knock persuasion for female leadership with an oath to serve women politics and nation.

During the independence struggle women risked their lives by killing the ‘enemy’ to get the precious supplies; drugs and news for their ‘husbands’. Some chose to fight alongside the men. This did not take the men long, however, to discover that women were just as good in battle and leadership as they.

Their suffering and barrenness sprang the flower and fruit of freedom. May be the seeds of that flower is what Karua seems to be keen to re-plant under Narc-Kenya.

Theretofore, Karua would rather play the Rugby tune than to sway around netball when political games become a forte. She is now more ‘mechanical’ and would rather be a sharp-edged saw than some hardwood of the Mugumo tree. With her spanner-boy, Mungatana around, she would be keen to see how he tightens Narc-Kenya’s nut on the Kenyan electoral bolt but still dismantle the PNU engine.

Women have decided not to allow ‘political abuse’ just like ‘sexual abuse’ to be used to make them play second fiddle on leadership matters. Their bravery ought to restrain the advances being made by power-hungry male dominated party loyalists that would sting and caress.

Neither is it time for women politicians to ascertain whether their male counterparts are their political ‘lovers’ or not. They should instead worry about how intact political impotence or potency still is on their counterparts. Narc-Kenya’s political relay torch ought to take a round through the country. We hope Karua’s strategy to strengthen her party would work for future coalitions.

Mundia
Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:31:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: PNU RELAY FOR PETALS OF NARC-KENYA

Africa as a ‘colourful’ continent has been de-faced by Mugabe Mugabe’s dictatorial tendencies. The mention of Mugabe makes some of the colour in me as an African be erased. The problem with Mugabe as a ‘pseudo-Pan-Africanist’ is that he only want the rest of the world to listen to him and no one else should ‘advice’ him on the fate of the people of Zimbabwe. Isn’t that utter dictatorship?

Another fault is for him to blame the Wester world for imposing an opposition leader on the people of Zimbabwe. That is a mere fabrication and an elite lie, that such leaders would want the rest of Africa to perceive. Morgan C; as an opposition leader had been an activist long ago before the ‘West’ made their political ground on the fate of the people of Zimbabwe. In fact it in not about Morgan C, but the ‘voice’ of the people of Zimbabwe that voted against President Mugabe by giving Morgan C. more votes. The alleged foreigners, mainly the Americans and British, never voted for the opposition but the ordinary people of Zimbabwe and against President Mugabe.

African democracy should not be perceived to be foreign in ideology just because Africans need change in leadership and governance.

Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:04:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: MUGABE: DE-FACING AFRICAN DEMOCRACY AND LEADERSHIP..

Permit me to break into the residence of Mutahi Ngunyi’s in-depth political trans-reflections of our leadership and his thoughts disposed in bravery and panegyries of our current political fate. His collateral objectivity should inspire us more to inquire about his role, as an alleged member of President Kibaki’s advisory team, that helped sought course for the latter’s second or ‘probably’ third term in office.
 
Was there political advice that the Last Word columnist as a political scientist, member of a policy and security ‘think-tank’ would have transcendently provided to all PNU hardliners to counter our tribalised electoral affirmation and euphoria that seemed defeating and the aftermath they had as consequence of our self-marginalization?
 
Many still revere the memory of last year’s general elections and the ethnic species of subsequent violent elections since the year 2002. I remember asking myself, ‘what if Kibaki refuses to concede defeat?’. (I later wrote on the same and was published -alternative press- a week before the elections.)
 
Though the Last Word columnist has great and well-hypothesized ideas, creativity and glowing imagination all Kenyans including Kibaki and Raila would, with limited options, do all it takes to make the nation stand as one.

Thus, the Kriegler Commission would never risk to bringing Kenya where it was then, around February and March. In fact what Kenyans and its leaders yearn as history is to literally ‘forget’ the painful and deadly encounters that we had, at the same time use the ‘aftermath’ as lesson for ethno-national amalgamation and political strength when it comes to leadership. All Kenyans would still stand by the arrangement facilitated by Kofi Annan and the recently amended constitution for the life of the coalition government that seems promising. Any secret deals would hold so long as we accept to live as one nation no matter our affiliate differences including ethno-party and political.
 
Subsequently, Raila as an independent ‘political facilitator’ lost his local opposition badge he wore prior to the elections the time he joined government and became the nation’s second Prime Minister. He has limited choice in the eyes of the International Community, that now have massive trust in him, to act as future ethnic or political party leader. Raila’s political mutation has since gone beyond our borders even as he identifies with ODM and local politics that brought him to where he is now.
 
On the flip side though, President Kibaki proved a ‘tamed opportunist’ of those who voted for him. I remember once equating PNU to a ‘Party with Numerous Unfoldings’.

Former President Moi’s manipulative ‘strategies’ and leadership adjustments helped place Kibaki where he is now. The idea of Kibaki sticking to power seemed ‘foreign’ even as he knew that all was not well. He is keen to leave behind a memorable legacy this time round, different from what previous presidents have left. He would rather retire come 2012 than to ‘regurgitate’ the aftermath of the 2007 elections that has his political connotation, ilk, name, shadow and ‘blood’.
 
Lastly I wish to remind the Last Word columnist that many more car tyres were burnt in Nairobi than in Eldoret and that the Kriegler Commission is not as such, except when Eldoret is remembered in some other deadly way then, apart from athletics and farming, that is now attracting healing, reconciliation and national unity.

At least the real Kibaki has since stood up for the sake of the nation and proved to be a leader even with the challenges of the post-election aftermath that many of us are still facing. Many call this a national breather and hope for days to come with or without Kibaki and Raila around.
 
Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date:  Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:59:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:  mundia mundia
Subject:   THE KRIEGLER COMMISSION THAT IS A NATIONAL BREATHER

Dear Editor,

To be sincere and straight between my eyes I go for amnesty cover for the those arrested during the post-election skirmishes. There is one thing that ought to be considered without being partisan. That is ‘Circumstances surrounding the Arrests of Suspects’….If Raila and Kibaki ‘accepted’ to work together even after the elections were flawed, why can’t there be ‘amnesty’? Was it legal and logical for President Kibaki, ECK and PNU cronies to ‘STEAL’ elections at the expense of ordinary Kenyans. What should we call that?? Why are we being partisan when it comes to those without political maneuvres or those not willing to buy justice?

In fact the first culprit to face the court of law should be the Police, ECK boss, Mr. Kivuitu and his team, followed by the PNU team then President Kibaki (though he seems to be above the law).

Those arrested were under ‘difficult times’ where there was no rule of law on our land. On the other hand, the police and the provincial administration were partisan and were in favor of the government. Were the arrests being made out of partisan interests, were they legal or were the offenders being victimized because of their political stand?

Are the charges against the ‘suspects’…REAL CHARGES OR JUST INCRIMINATIONS TO BE SEEN TO BE DOING JUSTICE????

Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 06:03:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: There should be Amnesty for Suspects

Making a judgement about the Mungiki adherents and the Kenyan National Youth Alliance is the most unfortunate thing to do.

Likewise terming them ‘criminals’ is also lopsided and discriminatory. First, who are we to brand them as ‘criminals’? Are we the law? Have they been taken to court and a judgement passed on them?

For me, Mungiki ‘disturbances’ in Nairobi and other parts of the country is but a neo-historical social appraisal that ought to be understood than to be condemned.

In fact the Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga in his statement, said that this is the time to end confrontations and engage in dialogue and negotiations. Doesn’t this allow the government and the Mungiki to peacefully negotiate without provocations and violence, no matter their genuine or otherwise perceived claims?

If the issue is not dealt with now we should expect even worst encounters two or three years down the line.

Historically the greatest forefathers of the now agitated Mungiki as Mau Mau, were the victims of our own independence. They fought with their hearts but were never rewarded.

But why the Kikuyu and Mungiki at the expense of other Kenyans?

The main actors and presence of freedom fighters was first felt and recognized in Central province. Gikuyu’s were the first to engage themselves with white men and colonialists. They were the first to be engaged politically and historically by them.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Internal Security personnel must constructively engage the Mungiki to come to a consensus. What they need is hope and never desperation.

What Mungiki are doing is literally asking fundamental ‘grand’ historical, political, cultural and socio-economic questions. They just need real answers.

Also there are chances that other youth from other cultural groups (Luos, Kalenjins, Luhyas, Maasais, e.t.c.) would form such ‘appraisal forces’ if their needs, including employment, are not addressed.

This might explode, come 2011 during campaigns and elections, and the disadvantaged would group up to violently fight those who are in power and who used corruption, nepotism, cronyism, tribalism and bad politics to be in office.

Lastly, the Mungiki are only detonating the grenades but soon, bombs would explode.

Regards,
Mundia Mundia Jnr.

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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:35:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: mundia mundia
Subject: Mungiki adherents and the Kenyan National Alliance