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Kenya: Don’t expect Obama any time soon, envoy says

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from Judy Miriga

Folks,

If the New Consitituion is not not implemented by 08/28/2011, the Coalition Government under Kibaki and Raila is over. From 29th August, they should count themselves out of Public Office. We must all agree to form A new Interim Government, a Caretaker Committee, that which will complete all pending BILLS within 6 six months, to be in time according to REFORM timetable, before election date of 2012. On 29th August, we must list and append prospective names for the Caretaker Interim Government. This must include diaspora and involve all Kenyans irrespective of Party affiliation, specifically those who care that REFORM AGENDA MUST BEAR FRUITS AS PLANNED AND AS IS ACCORDING TO THE NEW CONSTITUTION without delay or change. This is not a case for any foreign institution or foreign Government to determine, except Kenyans and Kenyans in diaspora. It is the will of the people, according to the Mandate upon resolution at the Referendum……..that, any changes or alterations including extension beyond the Reform Agenda deadline, those that are suspected to provide easy way or short-cuts for Status Quo, will not be accepted. There will be no extension of Wako tennure, no extension of politicians to extend stay and modify or change the rule on deadline, and altogether, IMF meddling, cannot and will not be allowed to hold Kenya hostage at Ransom……… Things must go according to plan………and ICC Hague, is the answer people……!

Kibaki and Raila’s dare devil and political drama must be brought to an end. It is become it has become too costly for Kenya and Kenyans…….. and truely, we cannot afford to loose anymore lives, money and time.

Both of them failed to comply, and failed to:

a) protect and preserve Public Interest and mandate

b) they both engaged in illegal and unconstitutional Public Money theft and Flight under unscrupulous International inconsiderate MoUs, (under oath) that did not provide a balance to the people of Kenya except they exasperated deeper poverty where they 100 folds gained from its profit instead of the public……

c) they both did not value, honor, respect or rated dignity of humanity according to empathy and virtue, and did not observe the International Rule of balancing poverty, health and environmental Agenda that which states the International Investors must protect local indigineous from excessive rip-off and poverty that which resulted to dangerous conditions where many lost homes and others have no reasonable livelihood as well. Many people got consumed in careless deaths from behaviors that were of special interests and self-centredness, carefree, unconcerned attitude and poor leadership management, which in case scenario, caused human sufferings and pain, in effect, they are cases of
based in irresponsible behaviors from engaging people of questionable characters as Agents, to perform illicit, illegal and unconstitutional acts and behaviors that were against public mandate.

d) They both Committed the country to loose extensively and deprived Kenyans from profiting and were exposed to unduly insecurity situations from not engaging Armed Forces to protect the boarders, activities that compromised security of lives at the boarder.

e) both are so compromised and are deeply into corruption, impunity and graft, where both are deeply engaged and are intertwined with the cohort and cartels of the Status Quo that cutting them off from the inner-core cord of the corrupt to wholly represent the public is a complete total dream.

f) that the country and the people have been auctioned and sold that the immediate remedy is to secure Kenya, is to get rid of the Coalition Government from inflicting more damage and destruction to Kenya and the people of Kenya.

This shows they are both incompetent, are deep skin corrupt with graft and impunity and must vacate Public Office by August 29th 2011, so ICC and Ocampo should take upon charging the two Principles PM Raila and Kibaki, to leave room for clean house, new players………

We can understand why President of Obama is frustrated with this Coalition Government leadership, and is worried of that the costly Referendum for the New Constitution he helped support to save Kenya and the people of Kenya, would go to trush…………the reason why Kibaki and Raila have no vision and must be immediately stopped from inflicting more untold injuries to the people of Kenya…….

Thank you all…..

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

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Devolution fears

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Is there a powerful foreign hand in the war over county finance legislation between the treasury and the ministry of local government? Sources now say that a memorandum of understanding between the international monetary fund and the finance ministry may have tied treasury’s hands by prescribing tight controls of county funding by the central government. This comes as experts warn that the country should not allow a conflict between the two ministries to undermine the intention of devolution. Noah otieno reports

Devolution Vs Integration

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Devolution Vs Integration
Don’t expect Obama any time soon, envoy says

Published on 17/08/2011
By Rawlings Otieno

US Ambassador Jonathan Gration now says President Barrack Obama has no plans of visiting Kenya any time soon.

The envoy said Obama is busy with his presidential campaigns and is in no hurry to come to Kenya although he has Kenya at heart.

“Obama will come when the constitution is fully implemented, but as for now, he has no plans,” he said Gration.

He said that the US President was keen on how both the Executive and Parliament were going about the constitutional implementation and lauded the efforts that have so far been realised.

Gration made the remarks at his residence in Muthaiga Wednesday, when he presided over the swearing-in of 49 new Peace Corps volunteers, which also coincided with marking the 50th anniversary since its formation.

Empowering youths

Gration reiterated US commitment in empowering youths to take up political leadership.
Gration also expressed dissatisfaction at the slow pace of clearing necessary legislation for the full implementation of the constitution.

“We only have few days and there are some Bills that have not been passed. This is a worrying trend,” he noted.

While lauding the volunteers, the envoy reminded them that they were the image of America and advised them to make a change in the lives of the people they were going to touch. They have trained for 10 weeks in the country and are expected to serve the host communities for two years

LSK accuses State of ignoring rule of law

By Philip Mwakio and Nicholas Anyuor

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has accused the Government of disregarding the rule of law and failing to punish perpetrators of post-election violence.

The association also took issue with the Government’s opposition to the International Criminal Court process.

LSK Chairman Kenneth Akide said Kenyans would not be free as long as the rule of law was not enforced, as has been the case since the early 1990s.

“Implementing the new Constitution is as important as restoring the rule of law,’’ said Akide.

POST-ELECTION VIOLENCE

Akide added that the mood of the country has lately not been as buoyant as it was a year ago.

He went on to add that, since 1991, there were persons who had not returned to their land.

“Further to that, there are people who since 2007 post-election violence have not been able to live in their houses and land.”

He was speaking during this year’s annual LSK conference at Leisure Lodge Golf and Resort, Diani, Kwale County.

The theme of this year’s conference is “One year into the Implementation of the Constitution: Taking Stock.

Former LSK chairman Dr Gibson Kamau Kuria reminded lawyers present that the ICC referrals were a matter of life and death.

LOST PROPERTY

“There are suspects, who since 2008, have not been prosecuted. What has our Government been doing? This Government does not care about people who died and those who lost property during the mayhem,’’ he said.

Dr Kuria maintained that he does not share the view that the ICC process is bringing back colonialism.

“ICC has come to fill a gap that has existed as far as justice is concerned,’’ he said.

Meanwhile, the International Criminal Court has granted 327 persons status as victims of post-election violence.

Similarly, there will be no live witnesses during the confirmation of charges to the Ocampo Six at The Hague.

ICC Field Outreach Co-ordinator Maria Mabinty Kamara said only documentary evidence will be presented to the pre-trial chamber judges.

“The 327 persons are not witnesses but have a unique role and will give voice to other victims,” she said.

Speaking in Kisumu at a journalists’ training, Kamara said the talks about the Ocampo Six would not affect the proceedings since the court is not influenced by public opinion.

The co-ordinator said the views of the victims were vital to the international court in establishing the truth.

Kamara said out of the thousands of victims who applied to testify before the ICC, only 327 were successful.

“With the help of NGOs, we managed to find those who will testify at the court. This will be helpful in finding justice in the Kenyan situation,” she said.

She, however, said the victims will not appear before the international court, but will be given legal representation.

Speaking in Kisumu at a journalists’ training, Kamara said the current talks about the Ocampo Six would not affect the proceedings since the court cannot be influenced by public opinion.

“There are so many courts, including the court of public opinion. This is different from ICC,” she clarified.

“The court has ruled out cases of Genocide and war crimes in Kenya and the witnesses will testify only on issues of crime against humanity,” she added.

KENYA: FORMER MINISTER ENDORSES CYPRIAN AWITI FOR HOMA BAY – GOVERNORSHIP.

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By Chak Rachar

FORMER Karachuonyo Member of Parliament and Minister for Planning and Economic Development Dr.Adhu Awiti has told those who are eying the post of Governorship that they are wasting their time and instead they should support Former Marie Stopes Country Director Cyprian Otieno Awiti saying the political climate presently favors’ Cyprian.

Speaking in East Karachuonyo Division in Rachuonyo District at Kobuya Mixed Secondary School during a fundsrive, Dr.Adhu told the aspirants Ogada Opiata,Mark Matunga,Agutu Jakorayo and Phillip Okundi who were present straight to their face that he will use his scarce resources to make sure that Cyprian becomes the first Governor of Homa- Bay County after which they can contest the seat.

“Let us not deceive ourselves, we as eminent and prominent sons of Karachuonyo and the larger Homa Bay County we have fully endorsed Cyprian, even luo political leadership has given their blessing, who are you to start creating confusions here under the guise of aspiring” the oratory Adhu asked.

He said that a County like Homa Bay needed someone who had the knowledge of the entire County and not strangers and masqueraders who hob nobs the county only during elections.

“Before you elect anybody, ask him what he has done to your village, then your constituency then the county before he tries his hand in the Governorship”Adhu added.

On his part, Cyprian called for peaceful campaigns saying they should be conducted maturely with sobriety and said all aspirants should be allowed to Campaign in all parts of Homa Bay County.

“Let no one bar any aspirant from entering his “stronghold” all should be allowed to move freely within the entire County and these elections should not be treated as a matter of life and death” Cyprian added.

On his part Agutu Jakorayo said he will go all the way to the ballot and if Cyprian defeats him he will accept and challenged Cyprian to accept the verdict of the voters if it won’t go his way.

“We should not be bullied into endorsing an individual due to reasons we do not know,this is politics and democracy” he added.

KENYA: LITMUS TEST FOR RAILA AS PNU WINS KAMUKUNJI

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BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAKURU-KENYA
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 2011

It is a litmus test for Prime Minister Raila Odinga and ODM as PNU on Thursday evening retained the Kamukunji seat after its candidate Yusuf Hassan garnered 19,030 votes to win the by-election, defeating his ODM candidate, Ibrahim Ahmed who came second with 15,476 votes in an election which saw a low turn-out and a clash of party agents.

This is not the first time ODM has been defeated. Dr Bony Khalwale defeated ODM candidate by-election few months ago, a move that became a big surprise to several ODM politicians who thought that whoever Raila said tosha would make it to parliament.

Khalwale argued that that a victory for the ODM candidate would mean that the Luhya vote was done and dusted for Mr Odinga’s 2012 presidential bid. In fact Khalwale and Hassan victories imply that that several tosha’s of Raila candidates may not make it to parliament.

That explains clearly Khalwale’s remarks that after his victory, it was high time the PM realised there were other power bases in Western Kenya beyond Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi and that he needed to consider them all.

It also confirms the remarks by Kaddu leader Cyrus Jirongo that the outcome of Khalwale underlined the fact that voters are opposed to tribally incline political parties.
“ODM’s candidate managed an almost 50:50 sharing of the vote. It is a wake up call to join a party with a national outlook or be seen as the community that never learns from the past,” Mr Jirongo argued.

“If Dr Khalwale’s association with Eugene Wamalwa’s presidency was as popular as they think, then ODM candidate would have not lost by a slim margin of 3,000. This is a worrying sign that we are already splitting our votes, he added.”

Jirongo argued further that when Wamalwa Kijana ran for the presidency in 1997 on a Ford Kenya ticket, he failed miserably, but when he joined a party with a national outlook, Narc, in 2002, people voted for him overwhelmingly.

Saboti MP Eugene Wamalwa was also right when he argued that the New Ford Kenya’s victories in Ikolomani Constituency and Kimilili North Ward have dealt a blow to ODM and Mr Odinga’s presidential ambitions.

In summary this is how the Kamukunji results were: Mr Brian Weke of Narc Kenya was third with 4,064 votes. Agano Party’s David Waihiga garnered 367 votes, while Mr Geoffrey Muthini of TIP got 317 votes. Ms Muthoni Kihara of GNU took 248 votes against Ford People’s Daniel Omao who had 205 votes. Kenya Social Congress’s James Matagaro was last with only 36 votes.

ODM conceded defeat, with Housing assistant minister Margaret Wanjiru describing the elections as free and fair as Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka saluting Mr Hassan’s win, saying that it was a signal that a united PNU alliance would be a force in next year’s General Election.

The Interim Independent Electoral Commission chairman Issack Hassan said that the by-election was conducted well. There are 128,562 registered voters in the constituency.

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Kenya: Oto’s Address to the Rotaract Clubs of Nairobi Members; 18th August 2011

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Friends,

I was privileged to address members of the Rotaract Clubs of Nairobi this evening.

I want to share my comments with you; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com

Peace and blessings,

Odhiambo T Oketch

August 2011

Effecting the Law; A call to action

Mr. President, Members of the Rotaract Club, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is a great honour to be invited to address such a gathering. You are well known for your resolve to action and helping where there is need. And we must all join hands in applause, in appreciation of what you have achieved for the less fortunate over a period of time.\

Now, I was invited to give a quick back ground of what The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign is all about. I will be quick and brief.

This is a Campaign that was initiated in Komarock Estate when we first hosted a Clean up Campaign where we were joined by the Children we support, their parents/guardians, the City Council employees and the Provincial Administration. We then made a letter to the Town Clerk requesting that we join hands and mobilize the whole of Nairobi into action.

This was achieved on the 18th September 2010 when His Worship the then Mayor of Nairobi Cllr Geoffrey Majiwa flagged off the first City Wide Clean up Campaign in Eastleigh in Nairobi. Since then, the City Council of Nairobi has hosted the Clean-up Campaigns every 3rd Saturday of the Month. We are happy to have made some positive contribution to this process.

In January 2011, having seen that it was possible, we decided to do The Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaigns across all Kenya. We rolled the Campaign in Mombasa in February, in Eldoret in May, Kisii in June, Kisumu and Kakamega in July, and tomorrow, we are heading to Nyeri to roll out the same.

This has been an enriching Campaign for us. We have in the process seen the resolve of Kenyans in supporting us and ensuring that it is done. The only bit that we have found wanting is how the law is being applied to ensure that we have a Clean neighbourhood.

In places like Califonia, if you litter and get arrested, you are slapped with a fine of USD 1,000. In other places and Towns, the fines are such heavy that you will think twice. But in Kenya, and across all our Towns, littering and depositing garbage by the next corner is a prime time occupation, and it seems to pay.

No one has been arrested for littering and depositing garbage in our neighbourhoods. And today, we must ask the hard questions. Do you think we will solve this problem of garbage everywhere you turn if we do not enforce the law?

We must all join hands and demand that the law enforcement agencies, be they the police, the Council askaris or the neighbourhood vigilantes, we must all join hands and ensure that all those who litter and deposit garbage in our neighbourhoods are arrested and charged appropriately. The courts must then hand in heavy penalties that will act as deterrent to all others who would like to do the same.

In the same vein, we must today demand that all the Councils across Kenya must ensure that we have demarcated places in our neighbourhoods where the waste that we generate are deposited awaiting being carted away to the Dump Sites.

Now, this will call fo some clear resolve. We must all walk the talk and work hand in hand with the various councils as strategic partners in solving this garbage menace. It is doable and we can do it.

In mobilizing The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign, we have faced Resources Mobilization Challenges;

1. Financial Resource Mobilization; This has been a serious handicap to the Campaign. We have largely depended on the goodwill of Friends of KCDN, and with these hard times, Friends tend to wear off. We want to invite your support with this to ensure that we have a sustained Campaign

2. Human Resource Mobilization; Again, this has been a serious issue. We have many groups that are willing to take part. But, they must be mobilized and sensitized on what we are facing. This needs a lot of financial input, and we want to work with willing partners to surmount this.

3. Institutional Resource Mobilization; Apart from the Councils and the various Provincial Administration Officers who join us in the Monthly Campaigns, we have not seen any Institution which have come out to join in the Campaign. We are desirous of Institutions stepping forward and declaring that as part of their Corporate Social responsibilities, they will be joining in The Monthly Nationwide Clean up Campaign.

In short, we must start respecting our laws and respecting ourselves. We must stop dumping garbage at every corner. We must stop throwing litter as we walk and as we drive. And, we must enforce the law.

Lastly, I want to invite your partnership to this campaign. It is worth joining with Partners who will ensure that the resources needed for the Campaign are sourced. It is worth joining with Partners who will ensure that they physically come out and move with us to the trenches. And it is worth joining hands with Partners who believe that a Clean Kenya is possible.

We want to invite you to follow The Monthly Nationwide Clean-up Campaign vide;

1. http://www.kcdnkenya.org

2. http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com

3. Monthly Nationwide Clean Up Campaign on Facebook.

Many thanks once more.

God Bless you all. God Bless KCDN and God bless Kenya.

KENYA: KISUMU CONTRACTOR ON THE LOOSE

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BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

A contractor masquerading as Prime Minister Raila Odinga political ally has hit Kisumu city and its environs with storm.

The bulky contractor known for his shoddy work in institutions around Kisumu city and its environs has now extended his intimidation and fleecing spree to C.E.Os, MPs and high ranked government officials to succumb to his cheap schemes and by extension Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s quest for presidency cum 2012.

Unsuspecting officials and majority of politicians have however succumbed to his gimmicks and have given him handouts religiously and contracts worth millions of shillings all in a bid to offer them “protection”.

Featuring prominently are names of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Finance Assistant Minister Oburu Odinga and Gem Mp Jakoyo Midiwo who he invoke their names and at times stage manage none existing harambees to arm twist his suspecting “milking cows”.

Recently he fleeced the C.EO. of Lake Victoria South Water Board under the pretext that the war that was bedeviling the body was heavily sponsored by his enemies and therefore he had to be empowered to counter the “enemies”

His looting dens are Kisumu Hotel, Sunset Hotel, Imperial Hotel and he’s always marooned by hired journalists who are in his pay role and can never expose his dirty dealings like the shoddy jobs wedding across the region.

At one time he did a shoddy job in Nyando County council and pocketed millions at the expense of the cash strapped local authority without accomplishing it.

He’s currently doing a multi million project in Bondo and observers are jittery, whether he will finish it without eyebrows and acrimonies.

He’s a legal holder of a pistol which he always displays in pubs to silence diverse opinion.

Last week in a desperate bid to entrench his fleecing gimmicks and seek public sympathy, he criss crossed the entire town holding goat eating sessions in the wee hours of the night with paid goons telling them that people should know that his life is in danger.

The brown completion contractor is further facing auction in his native Kisumu home after failing to clear a Barclays Bank loan dating back to 8years bragging that as long as the Prime Minister is a live he’s untouchable.

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Kenya: Yes, It is a Legal Matter

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from Judy Miriga

JT Okinda, Maurice Oduor, Omwenga, Lee Makwiny et all.,

The threat to take legal action on our disagreeing with the way PM Raila is maneuvreing in doing things at the discharge and in the utilization of Public Resource and Facilities, will be an urgent and best thing to do….

Whether PM Raila, Pycophants, Boot-Soldiers or Raila himself takes us to court or not, is neighther here nor there, as we are taking this opportunity right now, and because of its serious nature, we are instructing the ICC Hague and Ocampo, to hold PM Raila and Kibaki liable to severing of security and exposing lives to undue danger and sufferings, that which is a violation and crime against Human Rights on the people of Kenya by and through their inactions to safeguard and protect lives at which they swore to adhere and uphold. Samuel Omwenga have nothing to tell me. He and others are the reason why they were trying to block me, put me at the back seat and hijack the sacrifice and faith of what I rightly stood for. At every stage, they were dangling their things and unscrupulously with sneaky beer-joint deals to out-do me……..I have not been shaken……not then, and not now……I dont know what he means with Raila Damu, I doubt his legal acumen can bear any fruit worth considering…….as sneaky as he is, I am not moved, his records and background checks speaks for itself………If he is the promise JT Okinda et all, hold on me, wamekula huuu………the ka man is desparate for cheap money………!!!!!

If the case of the Local Council’s women between Ms. Elizabeth and Aggrey have not been fairly resolved, the matter was thrown out of court, where is Justice, who is sitting on this matter, who is the boot-soldier or Raila the power baron managing Siaya for Raila………??? ….You still dont want us to talk or complain……do woment dont have a right…..???…

………Where is justice JT Okinda, Omwenga et all., ….arent you messy in your air baloon statements……..???

1, 2, 3 case scenarios are issues that mostly are of serious concerns, for example:

A) The misuse of authority to serve self-centredness

B) The illegal and unconstitutional commital to acquire public utilities, facilities and resources

C) The signing of promisory memorundum of agreements to unscrupulous Business Corporate International Investors without due regard to protect and preserve livelihood, safety and survival in food security to the Citizen People of Kenya.

D) The Destruction of lives through endengering environmental toxic emissions from those unscrupulous wheeler dealer, who illegally acquired mining licenses to execute the same, the “Intellectual Property Thieving”, where Honor, Liberty, and Dignity of people are undermined and robbing public wealth through unscrupulous non authorized dealers,

E) Taking the country to suffer terrorism from external forces without utilizing Responsibility to allow Armed personnel to safeguard and protect lives through boarder surveillance, causing untold human sufferings and deaths

F) Raila and Kibaki engaged themselves in personal deals to serve self and in multiple of sideshows, there were results that indicates, there was serious total neglect to manage Responsibility and as a matter of concern, failed to perform Public Service as accorded and mandated, and upon which they swore to uphold, where performance to discharge duty with under care, responsibility and integrity failed. consequently, there were untold careless deaths and human suffering have been blown out of proportion because of greed.

G) There is serious public cry and concern where there are activities going on to recycling unscrupulous old non-performers of the past, those who are with history of corruption, impunity and graft, those who have over the years messed-up the country, those who have over the years engaged in dirty dangerous undercover deals, have been heavily rewarded and been floated within the deals between PM Raila and Kibaki, history dating back to Kenyatta times, acts that have caused many lives to perish, reasons why there is too much corruption, impunity and graft, the reasons why Kibaki, Raila and other Politicians are holding the Country Kenya at Ransom, the reason why Human Trafficking is toll order, the reason why poverty and child abuse is rampant, the reason why there is too much drug peddling all over the country including our universities the heads are turning bananas, the reason why oppression is the burden proof related to mushrooming of SLAVERY, the reason why there are no jobs and food to the majority poor public, the reason of slow puncture death-bed for the Luos, the reason why there is No Justice in Kenya………..the list is too long…….

Just a tip of an iceburg………….:=)

What is now different why 20 marine police have been sent to Migingo now and not before when sufferings and deaths were rising……does it have to take this long if there was Responsible leadership……????????

If PM Raila is not working with Kibaki in a conspiracy, why is it PM Raila is more wealthier now than before…….?????? Incase PM Raila was not engaged in wheeler dealer with Moi, how did he acquire Mollasses…..?????…….If dominion the GMO was not under PM Raila claws, how did it get the license…..???? If Luos are having food in Plenty, how is it they are crying for UNGA, and samaki has become a rare commodity…….?????

Where is the balance to human lives is not bundled into human sufferings…….!

I have evidence to prove, PM Raila is terrorizing Luos from enjoying the God given gift of their sexual dignity, he has robbed nature at best of the Luos, where God rewarded Luos for free Water and Fire…..!!! What is PM Raila up to against the Luos and dont we have a right to investigate through ICC Hague, the reason we suspect he is destroying Luos…..???………Is it not under Democratic Rulership we have true justice to call, freedom of speech to dialogue and find sollutions…….so we can equally resolved past and present pain that which is slowly consuming our populations and driving people to dispair……?????

We stand for the truth and demand that the truth prevail…….I therefore, take this opportunity to equally invite the United Nations and Leaders of the world to take these serious public concerns and join with the voice of reason to push Kibaki and Raila to face justice at the Hague on Violation and Crimes against Human Rights…….without which, Kenyans will remain in the circle of the wishes of the Status Quo, where corruption, impunity and graft is still the cup of tea….It is also that the Rights and Freedom of public speech is under severe attack, and with this case in point, it will be too hard for the country to realize true Democratic Rule of Governance and the dispensation of Just Rule if Corruption, Graft and Impunity will not be contained and nipped in the nub…..and as well, to avoid repeat of the 2007/2008, those who belong, birds of the same feathers, must be isolated from good people, citizens of Kenya, for Kenya to move forward with development agenda for growth, progress and prosperity……eliminating all manner and forms of poverty from the face of poor Kenyans and Africa…….

Listen, we are not ready to give in to any kind of pressure from the unscrupulous or corrupt. The CHANGE is what we need, it is what we fought for. Right of every individual irrespectively, is guaranteed under the New Constitution, whether the Bill is completed by Kibaki and Raila or not……..the fact remains, we are not going back and we will not allow to be cowed or intimidated…….

I believe, for justice to be done, Kibaki and Raila must face Justice at the ICC Hague along with the Ocampo Six……….their cases are interrelated in, conniving, colluding and conspiring to defraud people and citizens of Kenya, endanger lives and causing violations and crimes, pain and suffering against humanity in many ways, means and form………

Cheers everybody,….It is because God is on our side, and We Must Overcome……..!!!

Sincerely,

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

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— On Wed, 8/17/11, Ericson Oduya wrote:

From: Ericson Oduya
Subject: Raila crushes rivals in latest opinion poll

Supported!

Regards,
Eric.

— On Wed, 8/17/11, Papa Likondi wrote:

From: Papa Likondi

I thought we all agreed not to vote in again any gnu that is in the current Parliament. Hence the only Presidential material remaining outside there is of course Papa Likondi and Ole Keyiapi. Vote wisely.

— On Wed, 8/17/11, ABBY OTIENO wrote:
They think we are stupid like them we can never be brainwashed!!!!! Kenyans have decided and thts it no turning back!

Abby

— On Wed, 8/17/11, Ericson Oduya wrote:
Subject: Freedom of Speech and Association in Miguna Miguna Saga is Threatened
Ndugu,

Thanks a lot for dropping the case in pretext that Meshack stopped his posts. I knew it would just get to that; mere threats to silence people who unearth the undercuttings of your master.

Your lawyers seem to me as a very idle lot who are always on the looking out to for blog entertained while pretending to be gatekeepers for the mighty oppressor. How much are they paid for this dirty work?

Regards,
Eric.

Kenya: The battle for Kericho County governor heats up with all big guns in the region eyeing the same job

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Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kericho Town.

The most interesting political scenario expected during the forthcoming general election will be the character of people contesting for the lucrative position of governor in the rich tea land region of Kericho.

Kericho County is located in the heart of Kipsigis sub-tribe of the larger Kalenjin ethnic group. This is the region which produces close to 75 per cent of all the tea produced in Kenya.

The region is agriculturally rich and produces other cash crops such as coffee, cut-flowers, maize, vegetables, bananas, pyrethrum, English potatoes, coffee, beans and vibrant dairy industries.

Kericho district previously had three parliamentary seats, but Parliament has since endorsed the new extra parliamentary seats which were proposed by the disbanded Boundaries Commission which was led by the former Vihiga MP Andrew Ligale.

In the new et up under the new constitutional dispensation, two more parliamentary constituencies are to be created in Sigowet in the Southwest of Kericho Town formerly part of the older Belgut constituency. The new constituency will cover areas like Soliat, Kibeneti, Sondu, Sigowet, Kapsarok and all the areas bordering Nyando and Nyakach districts in Nyanza.

The incumbent MP is Charles Keter who has represented the area for two terms ever since he dethroned his brother –in-law Charles Kirui a former Finance Minister in 2002. Keter is married to Kirui’s younger sister

The second seat will be based at KIpkellion West covering areas like Chilchila, Kunyak, Koru and Fort-Tennan in areas bordering Nyando district. The larger Kipkellion parliamentary constituency is currently represented in parliament by the truthful politician Magerer Lang’at who is an Assistant Minister for Energy.

The big guns said to be rearing to go for the position of the county governor included the former Minister for Water Development Eng. Kipng’eno Arap Ng’eny, who was once a one term Ainamoi MP and a former Postmaster General during the reign of the retired President Daniel Arap moi.

Also said to be in the race is Joel Kiru the youthful politician-cum-businessman. Kirui is the younger brother of the former Finance Assistant Miister Charles Krui.He hails from Kibeneti and he is an accountant by profession. He has vast business interest in London and Kericho as well as farm in Kipkellion.

Other are the incumbent Belgut MP Charles Keter, Jonah Keter a former manager with Cateress Levy Trustee, and member of the Tea Board of Kenya.Dr Paul Chepkwony, a senior lecturer at the Moi University, Eldoret who hails from Chepng’obop in Kapcheptororiet in upper part of the Ainamoi constituency,

Also vying for the governorship is the Kericho based business magnate Sammy Chepkwony formerly an accountant with the Brooke Bond Tea Company. He runs chains of businesses in Kericho as well as large tea plantation near Tea Research Foundation of Kenya. He is also the chairman of the Tea Reserch Foundation and also chairman of Kericho town Water and Sanitation Company. {KEWASCO}.

Judging from the big names involved, the battle for the Kericho County governorship promises to be the most bruising and the most difficult to predict the winner. All the personalities involved in this race are people of substantial means and well known characters to the electorate, and therefore only the ballot box will decide who will occupy the most powerful seat in the County after the next year’s elections.

Kericho County politics always rotate around tea farming, the prices of raw green leaves offered to the small-scale farmers by millers, who includes the multinational tea companies and the KTDA.

Also the contentious issue of the allocation of the promised land to the small Talai community {Laibons}living in oblivion state on a piece of Kericho Municipality land where they settled in congestion after returning from Gwassi in the greater Southern Nyanza where they were exiled by the British colonialists in 1934. They were allowed back to rejoin their cousins and relatives in 1962 only after a motion was moved in the colonial Legislative Council by the former Legco Member for Kipsigis the late Dr. Taaitta Araap Towett was accepted by the government. Numbering about 6,000 the Talai were later to be scattered around when those from Nandi were settled in Kapsisiywo in North Nandi district.

Others bought land and settled in the various settlement schemes scattered in the North Rift and South Rift. But about 200 families have remained unsettled ever since 1962 living in small land plots which belong to the Kericho Municiplity in the outskirt of Kericho town ever since 1962 with promises of the past KANU regimes after one another unfulfilled.

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Kenya: politicians in Kenya told to stick to issues in their campaign for higher offices but must weigh their words

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Writes Leo Odera Omolo in Kisumu City.

Kenyan politicians, especially those aspiring or the presidency of this country must address issues affecting Kenyan people and at the same avoid making utterances meant to antagonize their perceived opponents whether real or imaginary.

The leaders have also been told to weigh their words whenever they addressed their supporters, and leaned to tell the truth about what is happening in heir surroundings.

They must desist from telling lies for the purpose of getting political mileage over their opponents.

These views and sentiments were expressed by Hilary Ochieng Alila, the ODM youth coordinator in Nyanza, Kenyan have natured up politically and only leaders who speaks the truth deserve to be vote in for any elective position either within the County, Senate and in the national assembly.

Speaking by phone from Johannesburg, South Africa where he had gone on business mission, Alila faulted the rebel ODM MPs under the leadership of the Eldoret North Willaim Ruto have gone solo trying hard to rubbish the reputation of he Prime Minister Raila Odinga. “Even other presidential contenders have lost their heads and spent their valuable time only dwelling on the name of Raila Odinga while heaping on him all kinds of falsehood and malicious accusations.”

Kenyans is watching the on going political scenario in. Those thriving on feeding the Kenyan population with all sorts of pack of lies will pay heavy penalty for their crimes when Kenyan goes out to vote for their chosen leaders and lawmakers.

He appealed to youths in Nyanza to engage them on income generating occupation instead of roaming about for handouts. ”People must work had to free themselves from the scourge of abject poverty.

Alila who is contesting the Homa-Bay County Senate seat wished his opponents well, but at the same time urged them to speak on issues and to avoid bad mouthing others. ”They should tell the electorate what are their development agendas.

He thanked President Mwai Kibaki and the Prime Minister Raila Odinga for what he termed as excellent work done on Kenyan roads. Good rural feeder and access roads playing an important in the improvement and mean quick growth of any given region.

In Nyanza, he praised the government for having considered and implemented the construction of Katito-Kendu-Bay, Homa-Bay road. The construction work n Homa-Bay is another milestone of development because the road would be used for dual purpose of transporting farm produce and fish destined to the market in the hinterland. The government has also extended its hand by recarpeting the Rodi-Kopany -Sori road. Rongo-Homa-Bay road is among he many already completed, under the construction and earmarked for the future construction. Good roads for any region mean booming trade and commercial activities.

He said the white-collar jobs are no more; he would embark in supporting more day secondary schools. This is to ensure that by he year 2030 every Kenya Primary School has a secondary school wing to make his or her own contributions towards all the envisaged development of school as planned.

He said, however, that he was not happy with the pace and speeds which the government has put in place the development of cotton seed-cake for animal feeds.

Those politician who are fond of making reckless speech risk sparking off tribal madness and mayhem similar to the 2007 and 2007 post election violence. Kenyans must come out in their true color and vehemently oppose the politics of hate. ”Let them preach only the gospel of love and unity.

All leaders must adopt the true spirit of cohesiveness in the spirit of Unity.

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Kenya: Country Sends Security Team to Migingo

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Folks,

This is one of the best news I have heard from Kenya over a long long period of time…Yes, my heart will rejoice, ……..Blessed are the poor, for the Kingdom of God is theirs……!!!

Cheers people…….God loves you all the times ……!……..God will never forsake you or turn his back against you……..He hears and answers your Prayers and cries……..

Lets keep the good fight with Faith and hope high for fair deal for common good of all….. all will be well in shared benefit with earned trust…….very important for a country to prosper……

Security was long overdue…May God continue to break the york and burden of sufferings and Bless you more in abudantly…….!

Once again, Cheers…..!!!

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

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Kenya: Country Sends Security Team to Migingo
Elisha Otieno
15 August 2011

Kenya finally moved on Monday to co-manage the disputed Migingo Island in Lake Victoria.

The country sent a team of about 40 armed security officers to guard the island alongside the Ugandan marine police.

This is the first time Kenya has taken such action since the ownership row broke out in 2004.

Kenya’s national flag will also fly on the island for the first time in the history of Migingo.

The move was part of a resolution by a joint ministerial committee that comprised Kenyan and Ugandan ministers.

The Kenyan team was represented by Internal Security Minister George Saitoti and Lands Minister James Orengo, among others, at a meeting held in Nairobi recently.

The team agreed to complete the stalled survey of the island in a bid to locate its boundary but in the meantime security forces from both countries are guarding the fish-rich island.

Nyatike district commissioner Alan Machari, who received the Kenyan officers en route to Migingo, said they had finalised arrangements for their accommodation on the rocky island.

“The officers drawn from both the regular and Administration police units have been trained on marine operations and are expected to stay there until the ownership row is sorted out by the higher authorities,” he said.

Although Uganda has only about 30 uniformed and plainclothes officers on the island who work in shifts, the Kenyan team is bigger in terms of numbers and equipment.

“As is the tradition, our flag will be hoisted in the camp where the officers will be staying and they will work with the Ugandan security forces,” the DC added.

Nyatike MP Edick Anyanga, who has been vocal on the need to send Kenyan officers, said the government had finally responded to the cries of Kenyan fishermen and traders who have been facing harassment from the neighbouring country’s security officers.

“What now remains is work by the survey team to resolve the row once and for all,” he said.

Business Daily (Nairobi)

Kenya: Mining Sector Marks a Year Without Chief
Muna Wahome
16 August 2011

Kenya has been issuing major mining concessions even as it marks a year without a substantive commissioner of mines and geology tomorrow.

Dr Bernard Rop was suspended over the controversy surrounding the push for mining licensing by Criss Cross Mining Ltd. He confirmed his sacking and plans to go to court over the matter.

At the same time, a cloud hangs over the acting commissioner of mines, Mr Moses Masibo, because the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (Kacc) has recommended he be charged with abuse of office together with the Environment PS, Mr Ali Mohammed.

The file on the matter was last month returned to the Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority (Kacc) for further investigation.

Among the recently issued permits was a commercial licence for Kilimapesa in Transmara District said to have the potential of yielding gold worth billions of shillings. Mr Masibo told the Business Daily the firm would soon bring in machinery for the job. Also in the works is mining of titanium in Kwale after the study was concluded.

Trouble at the ministry started late last year culminating in suspension of Dr Rop and subsequent licensing of Criss Cross’ application for prospecting in iron ore and manganese in Mutomo, Samburu and Kilifi.

The three applications were approved on September 3, 2010 but have since been revoked –after what Mr Masibo said was consultation with Kacc.

“We have been co-operating with Kacc and their intervention indeed came within the 30 days window granted for public scrutiny,” said Mr Masibo.

He has been acting since August 17, 2010.

Criss Cross had sought approvals despite what Dr Rop said at the time was information that its two directors were initially part of Merchant Mining Ltd that applied for same areas. The latter used a city law firm to protest against the application, leading to the suspension by Dr Rop.

Special permits

A meeting of the Prospecting and Mining Licensing Committee went ahead and included the firm in the discussion on whether to license or not. The licences included an exclusive prospecting licence and two special permits.

Kacc in its second quarter report on the allegations of “award of irregular concession/exploration licence to an unqualified company” cleared Justice PS Amina Mohamed–recently appointed deputy executive director of UNEP–of allegations of influencing approval of licensing.

Business Daily (Nairobi)

Kenya: Nation Eyes Billions in Gold Revenue From Narok Mines
Moses Michira
12 August 2011

Kenya will issue its first ever gold mining lease in October, opening the way for commercial exploitation of the precious metal whose price has peaked in recent weeks after turbulence rocked global financial markets.

Goldplat, one of the world’s biggest gold companies – which is also listed at the London Stock Exchange – will be awarded the lease to exploit the large gold deposits in the Lolgorien area of Narok County.

Public interrogation

The Commissioner of Mines, Mr Moses Masibo, told the Business Daily that the lease will be issued upon the expiry of the 90-days allowed for public interrogation. A notice of the planned issuance of the licence was published in June 2011.

“We will issue Goldplat a special mining lease in October as prescribed in the law to allow for commercial exploitation of gold at its Kilimapesa site to begin,” said Mr Masibo.

The three-month window is for the public to raise any objections to the firm’s activities in the specified location. “I do not anticipate any objection,” Mr Masibo said. “It is an exciting time for our economy to gain from the record prices.”

The value of gold from the Kilimapesa mines could top Sh60 billion a year in foreign currency at the prevailing prices or more if the surge in gold prices continues, placing the metal among the top revenue earners for Kenya.

The government will earn four per cent of the value of each export consignment in the form of royalties, in addition to corporate tax that is tied to the profits that Goldplat will make.

“The department will value each export consignment and grant an export licence, four per cent of which will be paid to the government as royalties,” said Mr Masibo. The law however leaves room for the Cabinet to change the applicable rate.

Last month, Goldplat chief executive Demetri Manolis told investors that the firm, which has been prospecting in Kenya for more than a decade, was headed for its first sale of the precious commodity.

“Completion of the elution plant at the Kilimapesa project in Kenya means we should be in a position to sell first product pretty soon – a milestone achievement,” said Mr Manolis. “With the Title Deed now issued, I am also pleased to report that we are now a short time away from being issued with the final Mining Lease that should trigger commencement of full production, with an initial target of 5,000oz (about 140 kg) of gold per annum.”

Issuance of the mining lease is expected to open Kenya to more applications, especially at this time when demand for gold is at an historic high.

Ali Mohammed, the Environment and Mineral Resources permanent secretary, said that quarterly reports submitted by prospecting firms point to even bigger gold deposits in Migori County compared to the Lolgorien area where the Kilimapesa project is situated.

He said the ministry was considering other applicants such as Red Rock Resources based at Macalder, Migori, for a commercial mining lease in the area that is largely dominated by artisanal miners.

“These deposits should enable us to export between two and 10 tonnes of gold every month after granting two commercial mining leases this year,” said Mr Mohammed, noting that acquisition of land titles was the most predominant issue for the applicants.

If Goldplat starts mining immediately, Kenya could benefit from the current windfall in the gold market where prices stand at Sh6 million a kilogramme.

The gold firm has brought in equipment to allow for the end-to-end processing of the precious metal in compliance with Kenya’s demands that the mineral be refined locally.

“My ministry is helping with the clearance of Goldplat’s refining equipment at the port of Mombasa,” Mr Mohammed said. The machinery should enable Kenya to export refined gold.

The ministry’s demands that only fully refined gold be exported was informed by the need to create employment locally and make valuation easy.

The deal could come in handy for the local currency, which has been under pressure in recent months depreciating to record lows of Sh95 against the dollar.

Last year, Kenya earned Sh6.2 billion from the sale of two tonnes of gold, three times higher than the year before, an indication of the how fast the commodity is gaining prominence as an export commodity.

Sharp increases in the price of gold since last year have heightened exploration activities in areas such Turkana, Samburu and Kitui, according to Mr Masibo.

The Environment Ministry is also preparing to issue commercial exploitation licences to firms prospecting for other minerals such as iron ore and manganese.

Gold traded in the global market on Thursday at a record Sh6 million per kilogramme ($1800 an ounce), more than 60 per cent and about 30 per cent higher than January 2010 and January 2011 respectively.

Concern over the Eurozone’s debt crisis coupled with Monday’s downgrade of the US credit ratings by Standard and Poors have spurred a rally in gold valuations as investors take off to safer instruments.

Commercial exploitation of gold offers Kenya a much needed fresh foreign exchange stream as depressed consumption of traditional exports threatens the country’s revenue base.

Mr Masibo said that the draft Mining Bill has outlined the revenue sharing arrangement between the national and county governments on an 80:20 basis to allow for the economy-wide reach of the proceeds.

Bigger concerns that cloud the prospects lie on how accurately Goldpalt, or any other lessee, would report their production to enable the government value the royalties.

Kenya to Award Mining Permit to Goldplat in October, Business Daily Says

By Eric Ombok – Aug 11, 2011 11:55 PM ET

Kenya plans to award its first ever gold-mining license in October to Goldplat Plc (GDP), Business Daily reported, citing Commissioner of Mines Moses Masibo.

The permit will allow the London-listed company to exploit gold deposits estimated to be worth 60 billion shillings ($642 million) a year in the Kilimapesa area of Narok County, south of the capital, Nairobi, the newspaper said. Kenya’s government will earn 4 percent of the value of gold exported, it said.

The license is being awarded in October to allow a 90-day period for members of the public to lodge any objections, the newspaper said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Eric Ombok in Nairobi at eombok@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Paul Richardson at pmrichardson@bloomberg.net

Kenya Invites Stanbic, Old Mutual to Help Boost Returns From Pension Fund

By Sarah McGregor – Aug 11, 2011 9:49 AM ET

Kenya’s National Social Security Fund, which has 110 billion shillings ($1.2 billion) in assets, said it signed up Stanbic Investment Management, Old Mutual Plc and four other companies to boost returns on investments.

The state-run pension company has also hired Genesis Investment Management, Co-op Trust Investment Services, PineBridge Investments and ICEA Asset Management, according to a statement handed to reporters today in the capital, Nairobi. Transactions will be handled by two custodians, Kenya Commercial Bank Ltd. (KNCB) and Standard Chartered Bank Ltd., it said.

The move will “guarantee the best return on investment,” Alex Kazongo, the fund’s managing trustee, told reporters today in Nairobi, saying the fund is aiming for profits that are 4 percentage points above the annual rate of inflation, which was 15.5 percent in July.

The managers have control over investments in stocks and government securities, which currently represent about two- thirds of the fund’s investments or as much as 65 billion shillings, Chairman Adan Mohamed said at the same event.

Real estate assets make up the balance of the fund’s investments and it will continue to manage those internally, Mohamed said.

Membership of the fund is compulsory for all employees in East Africa’s largest economy. The contribution for each member is 400 shillings a month, of which employers pay half. There were 2.1 million salaried workers in Kenya as of the end of last year, according to the country’s statistics office.

Kenya’s main stock index dropped 19 percent this year amid rising inflation that pushed investors toward fixed-income securities with better returns. Stocks are still a valuable, long-term investment for the fund, which is the biggest investor in the Nairobi Stock Exchange, Kazongo said.

“Ours is a long-term investment, so we’re not worried about the short term because we plan to be here for the next 1,000 years or more,” Kazongo said in an interview.

To contact the reporter on this story: Sarah McGregor in Nairobi at smcgregor5@bloomberg.net.

Kenya: NYATIKE residents enthusiastically received the news about Kenyan policemen having been deployed on Migingo Island

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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Migori Town.

The news that a contingent of administration policemen has been dispatched to the disputed Migingo Island in Lake Victoria brought a sigh of joy and enthusiasm

The first bunch of policemen boarded a motor boat that ferried to the Migingo Island at Muhuru-Bay pier. The policemen were given a warm ending off by an enthusiastic crowd.

The Nyatike abrasive MP Edick Omondi Anyanga thanked the two principals in the coalition government President Mwai Kibaki and the Prime Minister Raila Odinga for the tireless effort to ensure the safety of Kenyans living, fishing and operating their business and trade on the two islands of Migingo and Ugingo, adding that the move was long over due. However late it is, the move is viewed by the local population as an assurance on the part of the government that it was genuinely concerned and cared for the welfare of its citizens who for close to four year have been subjected to slavery through the occupation of their country by foreign forces.

The MP said Migingo Island is not an important asset for the people of Nyatike alone, but the whole of Kenya taking into account that the area is now the major source fish catches in the lake. The fish in turn is fetching the country millions of shillings in foreign exchange.

The fishing industry, said the MP played a pivotal role in providing the youths with employment and has become an integral part of the nation’s economic growth and development. Uganda’s seizure of the two island and unilaterally posting their revenue and security personnel to man the two islands in Lake Victoria was an act of high provocation,” he added.

It was good news to the local residents that Kenyan security personnel will now be deployed to man the disputed islands jointly with their Ugandan counterparts. But the numbers of Kenyan policemen will supersedes those of their Ugandan counterparts whose strength has remained at 30 mainly marine policemen.

A team of security back will be stationed on the mainland at Muhuru Bay only a few kilometer from the Kenyan-Tanzanian border for rapid deployment in the eventuality of chaos erupting on any of the important islands, of Migingo and Ugingo have now turned out to be the key and fertile fishing ground on the lake with abundance fish catches.

This is part of the agreement reached in a recent meeting held last month in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi and attended by cabinet ministers from Kenya and Uganda.

Nyatike D.C.Allan Machari confirmed that the police officers were moving to the disputed island as part of the Nairobi agreement by the two sister states of Kenya and Uganda. The Kenyan officers, he said, will be there to ensure “our people are safe.

The D.C. however, declined to confirm the numbers of Kenyan policemen are deployed on Migingo, only saying that the Kenyan security personnel will be slightly more than their Ugandan counterparts and the two teams will work together until the survey work to determine the ownership of the island is complete and determined by the two governments.

Geographically, the two disputed islands are too close to the Kenya mainland in Nyatike district and from time immemorial, only Kenyan were fishing on Migingo and its environs, but only about four years when it was the recent discovery that the area is rich in fish, particularly the highly prized and economically important Nile perch is found there in abundance when it saw the great influx of Ugandans, Tanzanians, Somalis, Kikuyus,Kisiis and other groups arrived for the purpose of scrambling for fish.

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Kenya: It is time for Ruto to mature up and abandon teenage and students politics

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Commentary By Leo Odera Omolo

I am wholeheartedly in agreement with the sentiments expressed by a number of Kalenjin Ministers and MPs over the weekend when they told the Eldoret North MP William Ruto to carry his cross and at the same time stop cheating the people that it was Raila Odinga who told the ICC to prosecute him at the Hague.

The most interesting statement was the one issued by the Sotik MP Dr Joyce Laboso who accused William Ruto of insincerity who revealed that he {Ruto} had earlier insisted on the case being heard at The Hague,

The MP made these remarks at Kaplelei Secondary School in her Sotik constituency during a fund raising meeting. She further revealed that Ruto on one occasion invited hr for lunch and lobbied her to vote against local tribunal.

The MP had accompanied the Road Minister Franklin Bett who was the chief guest at the fund drive in the company of Kipkellion MP Magerer Lang’at who is an Assistant Minister for Energy and Mrs Beatrice Kones also an Assistant Minister for home Affairs

It is true that Ruto had lobbied for his case to be heard at The Hague, then how comes the person now tell members of the public pack of lies about the Prime Minister? Laboso’s revelation of Ruto’s behind the scene campaign against the government plan for the proposal of establishment of a local tribunal to hear the cases of all those accused of causing mayhem during the post-election violence.

The sentiments expressed by these Kipsigis leaders at he weekend has revealed he degree of political intrigues within Ruto’s G-7 camp

And of course Ruto like any other Kenyans has the right to stand and contest for the highest office on the land because that is his democratic rights. But he should stop being so petty and seeking for the presidency by riding on the back of Raila Odinga. He should use his own credibility to convince the Kenyan electorate hat he was mature enough to be the President and not an activist. He must therefore stop using Raila as a punching bag.

If I may quote the Road Minister Franklin Bett who said,” I am disheartened when I hear Ruto cheating that it was Raila Odinga who told the ICC to prosecute at The Hague.”

These remarks that Raila had betrayed Ruto have since become monotonous and notorious sentiments of defeatist. Kenyan politicians are fond of whipping tribal emotions once they failed to display the picture of political magnanimity and dynamic enough to capture a place in he national outlook. This kind of cheap politics is the recipe to chaos and distasteful situation.

In this context, I must say that I have a lot of respect to Hon Martha Karua another presidential aspirant who whenever she had a chance to address Kenyans, she is always talking a lo t of sense which has endeared her to many silent Kenyans, Even her contribution in the August House are full of political maturity and high quality of political leadership.

A time Ruto speaks as if he is addressing he kindergarten children and not people of high integrity and who are capable of analyzing his utterance and the making judgment whether he is a serious contender for the presidency or just. Kenyan people have come of age, and Hon Ruto ought to have known this political reality.

With new constitution in hand Kenyan needs to come out of the bondage of mediocre leaders who goes around polluting the atmosphere with empty political slogans and propaganda. I am glad that Rala Odinga has matured up and transformed himself from radicalism to a statesman.

On one occasion after the Prime Minister had responded to the KRA call that MPs and Minister pay taxes, Ruto came out and made blunder criticizing the Prime Minister for having queued at the KRA offices along with he Wananchi, What is wrong with that? When did Ruto qualified to teach Kenyans about how to behave? If it is anything to go by, it was he Ruto who should learn how to be consistent with his words.

On one hand it was Ruto who is on record crying over the spilt milk when he recently wrote to President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga asking to know his ministerial fate. On the other t is the same Ruto who is bragging that he does not care of being sacked because he had left his Ministerial position long ago.

On one hand it is the same Ruto who goes o Western Province and Tell the Luhyias how he was wiling to stand down for Eugene Wamalwa to become he next president. On the other hand it is the same Ruto who had been heard campaigning for Uhuru Kenyatta and the next day is out for the Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka.

It is indeed true that the majority of Kalenjin people voted for Raila Odinga in the year 2007.But is also imperative for one to know that the Kalenjins are not the exclusive property of Ruto nor is that community is for sale!!.It is even wrong for Ruto to brag or assume that he is the one who is speaking for the entire Kalenjin ethnic group. Even the Kalenjins voted for Raila in average 99 or 100 per cent, this does not entail the Prime Minister to be either enslaved or be taken hostage for political ransom.

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Kenya: Freedom of Speech and Association in Miguna Miguna Saga is Threatened

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Folks,

1) I do not support the move of Okinda and others to threaten Eric Oduya. The New Constitution brought on surface to the voiceless, a voice of reason to recogn with. The Truth is a Fact, but if you doubt it, you can only defend it with convincing good reasons, the era of threats are all over and gone. Threats are therefore not acceptable……..

2) I do not support sacking of people without due cause or reason causing them untold suffering, agony and mental torture. PM Raila cannot fund or support Peasant Farmers in Luo Nyanza in an organize independent planned arrangement that benefit all in a fair manner, BUT can easily organize in a heart beat for those projects in the South of Human Industrial Area like the “Top Skin Cut” for Chinese harvest……. how do you balance project of “The Cut” to food for “Survival”……??? These are signes of failed priorities……not good qualities for a Leader…..!!!…..Funny enough, this is only secluded in Luo Nyanza per se….!!!!!

3) PM Raila is a servant of the people not the Boss………and a Servant must listen and pay attention to what the people want and how they wish to be governed……he must be slow to send Boot-Soldiers in a Mission to inflict injury to voters…….

4) What Raila did is a show of Dictatorship with an iron fist. In it there is no mercy nor Human empathy. In reality, many Luos have suffered in the past and have spent all their lifetime money to buy favour and support from PM Raila. We have facts and figures. We are ready to table and lay bare when worse come to worse. We will not accept repeat of what we have struggled to achieve over the years. Raila can have the Army of the world, but we will face him squarely………The truth will be told in day broad daylight and in the Sunshine………We want Raila to defend himself against these allegations personally if he want to win interests of both Locals and the International……….Luos are suffering that is a fact, …….A case of Mollasses has history dating back to include Robert Ouka wuod Seda, where an ugly dissagreement between Raila and Ouko over Mollasses was not a secret. Raila should come clean and tell the world, why he is engaging in under current scheme to instil fear on those who challenge is unacceptable way of doing things. He said he accepts challenges, why is he not providing a level playing field for free speech. Yes, these are undercutting very dangerous maneuvres and deals that must be ironed and cleared in the open. It is because, we have lost many of our Luo Statesmen including Dr. Robert Ouka wuod Seda being a Kanu damu, was genuinely loved by all, if not for selfish self-centred attitude with dangerous sneaky undercutting maneuvres, he would be still alive today……..if we only shared in Love, Caring and Unity with each other, the brain from Luoland was doing so well to improve economic condition of the whole Nation, would have put Luo Nyanza into a path of economic development for sustainable progress instead of being dormant and by day going backwards soiled in poverty…….to a point today, we are a sell-out……..In the event we are not benefiting or profiting, but our Natural Resource and Wealth is taken by Chinese and Indians on a BLANK CHECK. The same is the reason we suspect, why mysteriously after short illness and in a sudden death we lost Mr. Kassim Owango, after working so hard and putting things in the perspective for KIE, Kenya Industrial Estates development Agenda for Medium and Small business entrepreneurship and COMESA, for the Common Trading Eastern Business Block……….His problem got expounded over serious disagreemnt of Water Hyacinth in Lake Victoria, and again because of sneaky maneuvres, some people made allegations that Kassim was not social with people, I disagree this should not be a short-cut to terminate life….and equally, that does not demand for his life being cut short because, to some and most importantly, his family valued him………We know he was working so hard so the Luo Nyanza and the People of Kenya generally, do not loose the valuable Wealth of Lake Victoria along with its Natural Resources in and around the Lake pase…….After his death, Lake Victoria and Migingo was taken in a heartbeat………We have people like Joshua Okuthe equally a Millionaire Luo who never engaged in politics at all, had also to die suddenly and suspeciously. In Mombasa we had prominent Lawyers like the late Ibrahim Onyango the great fearless lawyer in Mombasa with John Metho Chief Registrar also died mysteriously, some Asians in Mombasa who had direct connection with high level politicians were untouchable, and so the fact of knowing reasons for their death died in thin air………why cant we worry about how our prominent Luos just die like chickens…. and nothing happening…..who has been paid or has a hand in how Luos have to be finished and why????……..

5) Why should our would be politicians not get into politics in Luo Nyanza freely without buying or corrupting their way out….??? Who said Raila owns Luo People or Luoland. Today, food production from Luo Nyanza land is targeted by the Corporate International Business community and one such is Dominion Investment, who carries business free hand without regulation or policy……many things are happening wrong, why cant we say anything how we can improve the situation other than being given a free blank check to do as he wishes in Kisumu Nyanza……Local and District Professionals would have been engaged in the plan and avoid unbalanced situation between food consumption and that for Trade in a smart greener thinking. We are worried the Agricultural business in Luo Nyanza are for PetroDollar, for Ethanol, for big money, the reason Majority Luos are being pushed out of their Community village land……..the businessmen are keen of how they can wipe all Luos through “Top Skin” Conspiracy, after they have failed in Malaria and HIV/Aids factor, a slow death puncture,…… so they can have the Luo Lands for their business venture, how can we keep quite? What is it that is not going on right for these Politicians cum Businessmen why they do not involve the Local Community in Cooperative Development Venture where shared interest and value is faily a common factor…………and especially we noted after these Luo deaths, their wealth equally dissappeared…….Dont we need an International Investigation Team here with ICC Ocampo to help us unravel the puzzle of these sudden deaths………. and therefore, we do not want Boot-Soldiers or bootlickers to scare us with irresponsible statements…..

6) How did the illegal Somalis, Pirate Somalis and Al-Shabaab in Eastleigh got IDs to stay and do business freely in Kenya if there is no conspiracy? How does the Government of Somalia operate from Eastleigh if the Coalition government is not under some sort of conspiracy and is completely rotten…….???

7) What is the purpose of the New Constitution and the Referendum if Security of all Citizens and Freedom of Speech and Association is not guaranteed to the people of Kenya….. How will the Needs and Demands under Public Mandate be delivered if Freedom of Speech and association is not guaranteed…..???……..How will we trust these leaders if they are not challenged on matters based on Truth……???

8) Miguna has a right to go public and speak the Truth. If he chose to have gone silent, he could have disappeared and would have been like those Luos who are long gone under suspecious circumstances……..This is because, PM Raila and Kibaki are working out deals together, and as usual, Luos are the ones sacrificed and who faces the brunt of casualties………..I therefore support the stand of Miguna Miguna just as Rose Kagwiria puts it simple and clear……

9) Do we have answers why some Somalis were sent back from Uganda to Kisumu and are seen operating between Siaya and Kisumu, are these the Mafia Macenaries…..??? Are these meant to scare the people of Luo Nyanza from having independent minds to choose and vote freely and fairly……???

Finally, I am smelling problems ahead, I am worried that the 2012 election will not be free and fair. We demand that the United Nations and the International Leaders step in and help unravel some of the rotten things that are suspeciously undercover, that still will continue to hold Kenyans from getting into the Road to sustainable Governance with Just rule of law, through making ICC and Ocampo to thoroughly interrogate the two Principles, i.e. Kibaki and PM Raila………as we will never be on the track to achieve Reform away from Corruption, Graft and Impunity for a better future …….

This is all because, PM Raila Asked for It……..!!!

In Dignity and for Fairness, let us dialogue without Fear or Intimidation, so the Truth Shall Set us all Free……!!!

Thank you all,

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

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Subject: MIGUNA MIGUNA LATEST SMS TO JOURNALISTS

WIKILEAKS KENYA

We leak like there is no Plumber…

MIGUNA MIGUNA LATEST SMS TO JOURNALISTS

On August 15, 2011, in Ministers, by admin
“PM claims my suspension is “normal government procedure”. Can he name the procedure & what law allows it? What procedure violates due process, the principle of natural justice & the Constitution and remains valid? I work 4 the executive whereas Midiwo works 4 the legislature; what law allows him to be involved in the “procedure?” What law & gvt procedure allows them to leak the letter to the press b4 it’s delivered to me? Can the PM particularise the “charges”? Can he name the investigating agency? What law allows suspension without pay? The PM can’t hide under non-existent “government procedure”. What he has said amounts to misinformation & disinformation! It won’t work. Miguna Miguna

Sent from Samsung Galaxy S

Tagged with: journalists • Kenya • media • Miguna

— On Mon, 8/15/11, mark osano wrote:

From: mark osano
Subject: Miguna Miguna is an example of a misused Luo Lot!

I agree with you how do we know that miguna breaks the law if he is fighting his case a lone something is wrong RAO should clean his house before 2012.

From: Michael Okinda
Oloo

Let us be people who can stand up and shout when things are not going on rather than agree with even things we know are not right.

Miguna double is a bull and you never scratch a bull and go scotch free, he must charge at you. This is what PM has been capitalizing on and has helped him defeat many battles.

One thing the PM should know is that ‘bado mapambano’ and if he has disgracefully rewarded one of his lieutenant then he is greatly compromised.

Whoever game him this idea must have been the damnest of all.

That was Moi’s behaviour and if he can do it to Miguna, then what make u think that he wont do it when he becomes the Country’s CEO? With that, I don’t see change

You cannot embarrass you lieutenant like that?

From: MBEMBA NZIU
JT,

I know you as a smooth operator and I know you are smarter than this.

Instead of issuing threats you should be discounting these allegations with facts not threats

Your threats will only confirm the fears in most” forrummers” that this could actually be true!

Why the threats why not just deny this from an informed position? Iam smelling a rat.

Mbemba.

From: Michael Okinda
Subject: MIGUNA SLAMS RAILA

I absolutely agree with Miguna double, PM must be man enough to know how to handle his advisor and not suspend him just like Moi used to do. If he is the atom of change we are anxiously waiting for then the features must be evident now. He claims so, he must demonstrate so.

What is it that Miguna did more worse than Ruto that has made him be suspended without even half pay? What was his staff got to do with that? Especially is someone has aggressively championed your ideas?

Honestly this is dispeakable and dishonesty of the highest order. Miguna was not treated right and he has the right to spill the beans.

Truth be told, this has cast doubt on PM’s suitability as a champion of open speak.

Kenya: Fears that many species of fish will be extinction in Lake Victoria by the year 2048

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Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City.

Fish stocks in Lake Victoria are being plundered at an alarming rate and it has been revealed by experts that by the year 2048 there would be a major loss of fish resources in the lake.

These were the views of the Co-coordinator of the African for the Construction Resolution of Dispute {ACCORD} Tanzania Donald Kasongi who called for urgent steps to be take to save the remaining fish species in the lake.

A recent study by Accord Tanzania that the economically prized Nile Perch stocks went down from 750,000 tones in 2005 to 337,000 tones in 2008,Tilapia stocks also dropped from 27,000 051 tones to 24,811 tones in 2010.

“There is increasing fish and environmental pollution in Lake Victoria. If it is not managed well, there will be over-fishing depletion of resources and loss of socio-economic benefits, ”said Kasongi.

The Lake Victoria Basin has an estimated population of slightly over 30 million, and under the East African Cooperation Treaty, the Lake Victoria basin has been categorized as an economic growth zone.

Available investment opportunities include agriculture and livestock, trade and commerce, fishing mining, wildlife and tourism. Others are hydropower generation, infrastructure development, human resources development, industries, research and technology.

Meanwhile Lake Victoria Basin Commission plans to establish a reliable rescue service to reduce the number of accidental deaths in the lake.

The rescue service is part of the USD 20 million meant for Maritime Commission for Safety on Lake Victoria project and will be established in collaboration with the East African Community member states of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.

“‘Despite numerous benefits like and income we are generating from Lake Victoria fishing, we are also losing around 5,000 people a year in marine accidents,” said the new Executive Secretary of the Lake Basin Commission Dr Christian Kanangire.

Abrupt change of weather, poor communication, unreliable rescue services, overloading and malfunctioning vessels are among, the reasons behind the increased.

Dr Kanangire said the project funded by the African Development Bank {AfDB}, will see the maritime rescue coordination centre put in place in the Lakeside City of Mwanza, Tanzania.

There will be 16 other centers across the Africa’s largest water marsh and mobile communication coverage will be extended up to 80 kilometers of fishing zones.

Dr Kanangire the Commission was in tentative talks with Turkish investors over investment in Lake Victoria marine transport.

The project is expected to improve security in the lake as well as provide affordable communications to communities living on the numerous fishing islands within the lake.

A pre-investment study has been concluded with the support from the AfDB and the International Telecommunication Union.

On pollution, the Executive Secretary expressed concern over the possible extinction of species fish due to industrial wastes. Studies indicate that pollution and environmental degradation have led to the extinction of more than 100 fish species in the past four decades.

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Kenya & Nigeria: Terror attacks kill 10 in Nigeria

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from Yona Maro

(AFP) Ten people were killed in two separate overnight attacks outside the volatile Nigerian city of Jos, a local official said, leading angry residents to block roads leading to the area on Monday. Local council chairman Emmanuel Lomang alleged that four identity cards and a cap belonging to soldiers were found at the scene of the killings, fueling rumours that troops may have been involved.

Both the military and police declined immediate comment.

“Seven people were killed at Heipang while three were killed at Foron,” near Jos, the restive capital of Plateau State, Lomang told AFP.

He said both incidents happened around 12:30 am when the attackers opened fire on their victims after storming the two villages.

Angry residents have blocked roads leading to the area, an AFP reporter saw.

Jos and the surrounding region has been hit by waves of clashes between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups that have left hundreds dead in recent years.

The region lies in Nigeria’s so-called Middle Belt between the mainly Muslim north and predominately Christian south of Africa’s most populous nation.

Last week, at least two people were hacked to death while four others were seriously wounded in a village near Jos.

In Maiduguri, A man was shot dead by Nigerian police on Monday in a failed attempt to bomb police headquarters in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a day before a report on Islamist sect attacks in the region is submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan. Police said they believed the man planned to detonate remotely seven gas cylinders and cans of gunpowder and petrol that were packed into the car.

“The man … gained entrance by ramming into the gate of the police headquarters and drove straight towards the main building before he was gunned down inside his car,” local police spokesman, Abubaker Kabru, said.

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KENYA: HIGHLIGHTS ON POST ELECTION IN KENYA

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Colleagues Home & Abroad Regional News
from People For Peace

EDITED BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ
NAIROBI-KENYA
MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011

Forensic investigations

The aim was to investigate post election violence related deaths-an investigative report by the Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) on February 24, 2008. The violence took the form of killings, rape, and arson acts, forceful evictions and internal displacement. It is estimated that over 1,000 people have been killed, over 400,000 internally displaced/ forcefully evicted, women and girls raped and property worth millions destroyed.

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Kenya: The Spectre and Dominion factor in Greater Luo Nyanza

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from Judy Miriga

Folks,

The attached is just a tip of an iceburg, which explains why PM Raila should face charges against crime and violations of Human Rights, including creating atmosphere of excessive poverty, hopelessnes and sufferings to people living in and around Lake Victoria, Migingo and Ugingo, notably the on the people of Luo Nyanza in Yala Swamp and Kano in Ahero, where Local Community land was forcefully taken away from these poor community in the Luo Nyanza. The reason why PM Raila and Kibaki must be investigated and taken to Hague to answer charges. PM Raila and family cheated the Greater Luo Community rich and poor, to donate money for Mollasses, which was thought was the Luo Community Cooperative venture, but it later became personal and family property of the Odingas. This from ongoing activities, is seen as Raila’s smart way to reduce the whole of people of Luo Nyanza as SLAVES to be used as Labour Resorvour to Dominion Investments, Specter and Mollasses, and altogether to serve other prospective Foreign Investors through the same method of falsely taking away their community land by force.

PM Raila and family do not own land, the size they have posed out in the International Market at the World Bank, IMF or other United Nations organization and Foreign Investors for which they solicited for funds. Who is going to pay the Debt that has been incurred by these politicians for their private businesses….Can the world and ICC help the poor to unravel this conspiracy and put these Legislatures spot on…….???………How could Raila, Kibaki, Uhuru and Kalonzo sign for land they that are not their personal land and did not follow the Investment Regulation or policy…….putting the people into excessive poverty and suffering…..???

There is a conspiracy between PM Raila and Kibaki with others who are suspected to have used their political position to rob and criminally steal from the public, the people of Kenya, by floating public facilities, resources and taxpayer money for self motivated businesses or private interests. The National Debt thereof that has been since accrued, are not people’s Government debts but are corruptly made by these politically leaders. Such as these illegal activities has caused many to be killed, others were pushed to excessive poverty, homelessness, painful frustrations, mental torture, and others died. They are the reason why other small businesses were technically killed and were put out of business. They are the reason for excessive drug peddling and human trafficking including child pornograpy and the growing child sale.

Recently, Dominion Trading Company was seen to have maneuvred to outplace the TSC Offices for Siaya Teachers and very soon, Siaya teachers will not be able to perform and so children of Siaya will loose opportunity for education.

Because of poor planning, and because the Luo professionals and community were not involved and engaged in the original plan of their community land, this is treated as theft. Instead of reducing poverty, it has aggrivated poverty into excessive unbarable situation. This is to a point, families are becoming homeless without food or shelter, as their lands have been taken by Dominion and Spectre. The cost of food is too high and familys cannot afford to buy high cost of food controlled by Dominion and Spectre. People are being pushed out of Luo Nyanza and from their community land.

PM Raila, Dominion and Kibaki must be stopped urgently before they destroy the Luo people of Nyanza.

Enough is enough, they must be investigated and charged accordingly.

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

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Giant marsh farm that has Dominion over us

By EMMAN OMARI, Daily Nation

In the magical year 2030, Dominion in Siaya County will become an Agri City.

It will become the Punjab of Kenya as the net producer of rice and the city where everything will be found — farm produce, factories, hotels, a popular tourists’ destination plus every service you can imagine.

Rice, fish, bananas and sorghum are just a few of the crops to be found on the multi-billion shilling Dominion Farms land in the sprawling swamp on the Yala river, west of the county near where it pours into Lake Victoria.

And to the north is the upcoming irrigation canal on the Nzoia river that is set to turn more than 10,000 acres into an agri-business hub.

Conventional fishing on the many beaches of the lake will continue to generate income for the people and the county.

Yala swamp is a muddy black soil marshland turned into black gold whose impact is being felt in the whole of Kenya.

Its rice, sold under the brand name of Prime Harvest, is in every supermarket; its fingerlings are being sold to fish farmers throughout the country and Kisumu Molasses gets its sorghum from there.
The Sh2.5 billion project, the work of Mr Calvin Burgess, the CEO from Oklahoma, US has turned wasteland into productive land that is feeding the country.

Sarah Achieng, aged 34, employed as a fish pond attendant, did not go far in school before she was married and began to have her five children.

“I get everything from Dominion, money to educate my children and help my relatives too,” she said.
Mr Philip Abir, a company director said: “Our objective is to become the biggest rice producer in Africa as we continue to reclaim the swamp.”

There is 3,500 acres under rice —harvested twice a year, effectively giving them 7,000 acres of the crop — plus 20 acres given to sorghum. That is out of 17,000 acres given to Dominion to farm.
When reclamation of the swamp is completed in the next 18 years, it will be a giant farmland agro-city comparable in size to Tharaka-Nithi County or the whole of Mombasa.

Dominion has been given a 25-year lease, of which seven years has already been taken.
“We are negotiating for more and hope that whatever good we are doing will be our strength to enable us get the extension,” Mr Abir said.

The company has also dug canals to take water to 200 acres given to Siaya residents and a further 45 acres for Bondo as part of the company’s community development programme.

“They can also plant their rice or other crops for their livelihood,” Mr Abir said. There are seven big fish ponds already and a total of 32 planned.

Last year, said Mr Abir, Dominion produced rice worth Sh337 million, more than a year’s budget of some of the smaller ministries.

Dominion has a milling plant with a capacity of 78 million kilos of rice a year.

Plant manager David Waweru said the entire country mills 45 million kilos a year, meaning that Dominion alone can mill rice for all the producers in Kenya.

The ponds produce 2.5 million fingerlings which supplement the Government’s efforts to promote fish farming.

According to Mr Abir, such numbers can replenish the fish stocks in lake Victoria.

And Mr Enos Were, the Aqua-Culture manager said: “Our fish with a small head has less bone and more meat and in 10 years we want to be the biggest producers of fish in the world.”

Fish is harvested from the ponds and sold both locally and as far as Kisumu and Nairobi. Sorghum for Kisumu Molasses is used in making alcohol.

Ms Ruth Adhiambo Odinga, director of Spectre International which runs Kisumu Molasses, explained the pilot sorghum project at Dominion is to produce seeds which will go to out growers who will in turn sell back to them.

“We want to change the lives of the people in the entire region by making them part of the firm by earning a living from it,” she said.

The sorghum stems will be used to make alcohol while other farmers will grow the crop for seeds and for food. Apart from well maintained roads, the farm has a 500-metre airstrip which is to be extended for bigger planes.

And Dominion is all the time rolling out new projects to help the community.

Hydro-power production is about to start from a waterfall 1,153 metres above sea level, built on a canal on the Yala river. It will light Dominion and sell the rest to the national grid.

A pressing machine is being installed to make diesel oil from the jatropha plant also grown on the farm. And the massive production of soya beans is in the offing.

The beans will be grown on 7,000 acres of the swamp for making fish feed both for the farm and to be sold on commercially.

Mr Abir said that will offset the monthly cost of Sh2 million for importing the feed from Uganda.

Already, a fish feed milling plant has been installed with a capacity to produce 30,000.

By EMMAN OMARI, Daily Nation

Ruth Odinga, Director, Spectre International Ltd

Spectre International is a team effort by Kenyan and Canadian investors, to revive an industrial plant that politics had made idlefor twenty years. Our aim is two-fold, to do profitable business and to contribute to Kisumu’s development. We are very pleased with our progress over the past three years and would like to see other investors join us in Kisumu

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Agro Chemical opens new battlefront with Spectre

When Spectre International pulled the plug on its sole rival, Agro Chemical and Food Company, by introducing the extra neutral alcohol in its production line after Canadian investors took over in 2005, it was presumed they had won the battle for supremacy.

However, recent developments in both the local and global energy industry that have spurred intense interest on renewable energy appear to be reigniting the rivalry.

The Muhoroni-based Agro Chemical and Food Company achieved a sales turnover of over Sh1 billion this year and announced plans to commission a new extra neutral alcohol plant at its premises at a cost of about Sh700 million.

The firm said the new plant will be ready by the end of this year.

Speaking to Business Daily, board Chairman William Kirwa noted that the decision to start manufacturing extra neutral alcohol (ENA) would enhance the company’s competitiveness locally and beyond the borders.

“This will not only add value to our products but also improve our competitiveness in the local, regional and international market.”

The firm is also opening another battlefront with its Kisumu-based rival by venturing into sweet sorghum production to supplement its main raw material molasses as it seeks scale up the production of ethanol to meet the regional demand.

Spectre International took to sweet sorghum production mid last year as supply of molasses from the surrounding sugar millers dwindled.

The entry into sweet sorghum production by state corporation, ACFC signals a new battlefront for out growers in the region who will be expected to supply feedstock to run the firms.

“We are now involved in the research and development of an alternative feedstock to sustain our production,” said ACFC managing director, Mr O. P. Naran.

Already, Spectre is in talks with Kibos Outgrowers and the Siaya-based Dominion Farms to supply it with the grain, but the director in charge of procurement and administration, Mr Israel Agina, has in the past stated that the intention was to eventually increase the acreage under the crop to 8,000 acres to adequately supplement molasses.

But the main battle front appears to be opening in the ENA production which has been hitherto a preserve of Spectre.

ACFC, owned collectively by the government and business giant Mehta Group, has moved in with the Sh700 million investment to start producing ENA, said Mr Naran.

The company aims to produce 50,000 litres per day, an amount that is 10,000 litres less than the capacity of Spectre.

“Once operational, we will be one of the alcohol plants producing the purest spirits and we promise our customers a quality comparable to none in the region,” said Mr Naran.

Other product areas where the two firms have locked horns include methylated and rectified spirits, and baker’s yeast.

In total, the two firms control the entire Eastern, Central and Southern African markets in countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DRC and Southern Sudan.
ENA is used in the manufacture and blending of alcoholic beverages, while methylated spirit is used as an antiseptic and for manufacture of skincare products.

However, ACFC is pleading with the government to write off it’s over Sh6 billion debt as it clears those owed by sugar millers to give it the competitive edge it requires.

It is also asking the government to enact a law that would revive production of power alcohol which failed due to what Mr Naran blames on “non-co-operation of multi-national oil companies” in the 1980’s.
The renewed competition could be a boon to the struggling energy sector long strained by the high oil and power prices. Ethanol production through fermentation can utilize a variety of feedstock including sugar, starch and biomass.
The feedstock available locally with the three contents includes molasses, cassava, potato, sweet sorghum, sugar cane juice and sugar beet.

KENYA: HOW COCKY RAILA GOT IMMERSED IN MAU SAGA (1)

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From: sang kip

By Chris Lang, 19th November 2009 [ Read Reuters online of November 19, 2009]

One villager told The Standard that “The Government must look for alternative land to resettle us lest it creates a crisis worse than that of post-election violence IDPs [internally displaced persons].” But Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga said yesterday, “The government is saying: ‘Get out and go back where you came from’. But they have refused to go home and they are blackmailing the government to give them free land.”

In July 2009, Odinga announced that the Ogiek would be arrested if they did not leave their ancestral lands in the Mau Forest

KENYA: ORGANIZING FOR KENYA (OFKEN): A CALL FOR ACTION

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from gordon teti

Dear my fellow Kenyans,

I am grateful and look forward to working together united with you in the days, weeks, months and years to come. Change that we desire and are working to bring in Kenya is monumental; every Kenyan has to play their part and every support counts from all quarters, including our international partners and friends of Kenya.

On Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 1.27 pm, an idea was born in a tiny apartment in Toronto, Canada by a group of concerned Kenyans. Organizing for Kenya (OFKEN) was born. OFKEN is a citizen’s coalition for real and meaningful change for our country. OFKEN is a grassroot’s movement by the Kenyan people from every region of the country who are coming together as citizens of Kenya and not as tribes to build a country that cares for all of its citizens irrespective of social status, gender or age. OFKEN is determined for a rebirth of our beloved country, KENYA.

OFKEN is a movement by Kenyans who want their country back. The country has suffered for generations from the hands of few elites who think that they own the key to the Kenyan state. OFKEN is determined to take the country back to the masses who own it.

The work of making Kenya a better place for all, especially to our children and the children of our children, is an enormous task that requires concerted and collaborative effort from all of us, every Kenyan, who feels the pain of our country; Kenya is bleeding and soon, if Kenyans do not act, the country will be dead and buried.

The work ahead of us is monumental; the climb will be hard but for the love of the country rather than self we are determined to save our country. However, the work of rebuilding Kenya requires collective partnership. OFKEN will be stronger when it joins hands with you to work together as an associate and partner in making Kenya a caring country for all of us and not just for a few privileged class of people.

Please, for the love of your country, join the movement; become a member of OFKEN; sign-up today by sending an invitation on facebook to Gordon Teti or e-mail at tetigordon@yahoo.ca. Encourage your friends to join as well.

As their compatriots, fellow citizens, back home in Kenya, the Kenyans behind OFKEN worry every day about the living conditions of their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and neighbours who are back in Kenya. For every communication that comes from Kenya it is about an appeal for help. It is about stories touching on the most basic needs of a people: food, clothing, tuition, medicine, insecurity. On and on and on the list is endless. Life in Kenya has become a nightmare, unbearable to many.

While governments cannot do everything for people, it is the duty of a responsible government to put structures in place to empower the citizens. A government that cannot ensure that citizens are able to obtain the most basic needs for survival, food on the table, has no moral authority to be in power.

Since Kenya today claims to be a democracy, political power that the Kenyan political elites are exercising belongs to the people. Kenyans have a right to take it back if and when they feel that those exercising this responsibility have failed to deliver.

In responding to the suffering of the Kenyan people that OFKEN was born to work on solutions that will make the lives of Kenyans a little better. It is nice to be in the league of men and women who stand for something. The world is made up of many who believe in the ideology of the stomach. Such people are never part of the movement that changes the course of history for the better.

OFKEN is speaking on behalf of the many voiceless fellow citizens. OFKEN is determined more than ever before in making Kenya a country for all and not just for the few rich people. OFKEN salutes you for the courage and the love of country instead of self and thank you so much for your patriotism and love for your country.

Together united, OFKEN is going to change the way politics is done in Kenya. Kenyans are saying it loud and clear that there will be NO more politics as usual; NO more politics of impunity.

In the coming few months, OFKEN will be launched in Nairobi during which a blue print for the Movement will be unveiled for our country. Please, this Movement is a citizen’s coalition for real and meaningful change for our country.

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Kenya: Former aide to Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Mr Miguna Miguna shifts allegiance to William Ruto after he was shown the door

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By API
The move by Miguna Miguna? Not good for Prime Minister Raila Odinga, but good for William Ruto! ODM’s never-ending crisis continues.

Suspended and Bitter. Miguna takes a step. That of revenge against ODM and his former boss Raila Odinga. He now will shift allegiance to Suspended Higher Education Minister William Ruto’s camp. This is the camp opposed to Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s rise to the presidency.

This will be a blow to Raila Odinga and ODM, if reports from our observers is confirmed. Now that it is emerging that Miguna will join Ruto because he angered by the way the PM’s office has treated him, especially quoting PM’s PS and Member of Parliament Jakoyo Midiwo as his nightmare, this is one way by him to revenge in the maximum. A revenge that will hurt the PM in a big way if not contained immediately.

Midiwo has come out accusing Miguna for having travelled to the Hague (ICC)in April when the case against Ruto and the other 5 was on for the first time. Midiwo says Miguna should not have travelled abroad at that time. Looking at the way Midiwo looks at things, it seems he is of the opinion that Miguna had grown horns at the Prime Minister’s office, pushing everbody else around because he was close to the PM.

Moving to Ruto camp will most definitely damage ODM. Miguna has a lot of valuable information on the way his former boss and the people running the ODM secretariat thing strategy-wise and this will help the Ruto camp in the move to box ODM into a corner.

Analysts API has spoken to say it was the wrong time to suspend Miguna now when the party is struggling with its image. If the divisions in the party widens, that will damage it and reduce its popularity. This may curtail Raila’s chances for big things come 2012 presidential elections.

The wise thing to do in this case is for ODM to bring Miguna back to the fold before he starts damaging the for the party. The danger in sacking an advisor is the fact that such people know how their boss thinks and in anger they may expose everything potraying the boss as a non-thinker even if it is not true.

Miguna will not go quietly considering the way he has been vocal during his tenure at the Prime Minister’s office.

Source: http://africanpress.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/kenya-former-aide-to-prime-minister-raila-odinga-mr-miguna-miguna-shifts-allegiance-to-william-ruto-after-he-was-shown-the-door/