If he wants to penetrate the hearts of Africans, let him address their real
problems and stop preaching the rosary and confession and Sunday Masses.
These are all important to help us live godly lives, not in any way going to
help the hungry man who is also an angry man. Almost over the years, all the
Popes had preached in this line yet no impact in African way of life,
especially with respect to political corruption and greed.

Last Tuesday, I was listening to one European television which said that
Africans are growing in faith, which is true, but only because as Karl Marx
once said, religion is the opium of the poor.

When you find value in your life, there is need to protect it. Condom
prevents procreation, which is the primary motive for child bearing. But
when you’re poor you produce children like soda factory. So if they want the
stop of HIV/AIDS, equip them with bread and butter, or else life for these
folks becomes meaningless and unexciting. Please, Your Holiness and the
Catholic Church, stop this Ideological ranting and get down to the business
of the people which is hunger and corruption. Africa needs to move forward,
someone has to tell African politicians that, the church I remembered is god
at tell the truth?

It would be a fallacy if a distinction is not made between Africa problems
and Ideological issues of the West because they do not have identical
situations. The West is trying to solve the problems of child abuse and
environmental issues; Asian nations are now focusing on how to come to terms
with human rights and Africans too are fixing their attention on poverty.
The point being made is that African families need to feed their children.
How do you expect a family with five graduates, none of whom is working, to
be thinking of anything else but how to feed their bellies. A graduate
without work for years is beaten down so much that it would be impossible
for him to be thinking about condoms, after all they cost, money. This does
not make any sense at all. So he should get down to issues. I implore the
Pope to forget all these dogma that has been handed down over that years,
because we need jobs, food, debt free and other things will be added unto
Africa.

I have asked myself this question over and over again, about the provisions
that should be made for Africa. In my view, discipline and responsibility in
government should be the focus of the Pope?s visit to Africa. Almost every
one goes to church; the more criminally minded and born-again cronyisms they
are, the problems of living persist and remain unsolved. In the end
hypocrisy becomes the faithful tool of the victims of the African situation
because spirituality is not going to do much for a hungry man or help the
baddies repent. To lead us out of this crisis I see a bucket full of
responsibility, rose garden of ethics and white robe with a cross on it of
spirituality .These are the moral rearmaments that could make a difference.
and make us whole. Enough with begging money, let us start working on our
self dignity and pride by taking up our own cross and follow the party of
integrity, honest and political sanity.

I absolutely agree with the Pope that condom is not the answer to Africa’s
HIV/ AIDS problem. Nor is HIV an African problem. We have been poor and
depressed before HIV came to us. Our poverty is not a divine problem;
rather, in my view, it is the lack of responsibility and good governance
together with deficiency of thick layers of political morals that had
brought the house down..

Here are some suggested messages to Africa, especially countries like Sudan
, Nigeria  and others with large Muslim followers that fight each other? His
message should be that there is only one God called by different names by
different people. There is a great need to identify the major sources of
tension and confusion about religious leadership. But also if we analysis
this critically we find out that African Catholic Church is the worst of the
worst when it comes to morals. Take for an example, the bishops. What have
they done to make sure the poor are protected from government greed and
corruption? Absolutely nothing!

Moral faith is the highest teacher of matters of morality and faith. People
want to hear the Pope on this matter and he must therefore continue because
anything concerning that must be consistent. What he has taken on is a very
diverse and controversial issue. Although some are saying that he can
address governances by being part of international committees that hinges on
this issue. The bishops have zero credibility as far as I am concerned
because they have foregone carrying out their prophetic roles by condemning
the governments, especially in Nigeria they operate as kings among sinners.
Imagine what will happen if all the African bishops come out and condemn the
government. The politicians will definitely listen to them.

 The bishops have failed their followers; they have no business sitting on
ivory towers to address the people. African bishops should take care of
their folks. I am also upset with them for not telling the pope what issues
to address in Africa. They are afraid to tell the truth because their
earthly lives are more important to them than their faith and spiritual
lives. After all, if they can?t take up armor of faith and shield of
salvation, what?s the difference between them and the AIG Executives?
What I am saying is that they must give a very loud voice to the issue of
Africa. The Catholic Church is keeping quite on the issue of gay marriage in
some parts of Africa while South Africa has legalized it . While the
Pentecostal churches are speaking out against it the Catholic Church and
their bishops are keeping mute, after all they can come out later and say
they are sorry like the apologies to the Jews on Holocaust and Africans on
slavery.. They are all in their kingly robes, but their roles as leaders of
the poor and leaders of the church are not being carried out. Welcome Pope
Benedict but we need a more pragmatic church involvement in helping the poor
at least to feel human.

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               Yona Fares Maro
I.T. Specialist and Digital Security Consultant

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Date:          Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:56:20 +0800 [03/22/2009 09:56:20 AM CDT]
From:          Yona Fares Maro
Subject:          Pope Visit In Africa

Folks,

There is urgent need for UN and the World to do inspection and investigation where all these International Donor Funding to Kenya dissapear to, because it does not reach the intended program, yet Kenyans have been swindled of their rights in a criminal way and are heavily taxed for the same.

Serious Human Rights Violation is a serious offense punishable by the International Courts. Please people, help Kenyans out of this mess. There must be an end to this.

Thanks,

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

Check this out!!……

CARTELS MUST REMOVE INTEREST IN AIDS FUNDS

Sunday, March 22, 2009 6:43 AM
From: “ONYANGO Clinton”

CARTELS MUST REMOVE INTERESTS IN AIDS FUNDS

The latest news that Kenya has been granted over ten billion shillings and that some of the funds were wired recently by the Global Fund is good news for the country. In the background of the great news, the Kenyan public was seriously concerned about stories appearing in the media in November that the country would lose such critical funds earmarked for the Aids campaign due to delayed reporting and poor accounting by the Ministry of Health and the National Aids Council.

While the good news is product of lobbying conducted by civil society organizations who publicized the delay of the reporting in the media while lobbying Geneva to be considerate to Kenya, the delay of the funds is evidence for incompetence, lethargy, inefficiency and rot in the civil service that needs urgent overhaul. The executive director of Global Fund is extremely displeased with Kenya ’s performance and has told Kenya to shape up. Shamelessly, Kenya was ranked the fourth position among the worst performing countries funded by Global Fund last year. War torn countries like congo , Somali and Sudan were even ranked better than Kenya .

Tragically however, it has become clear that even before Global Fund has disbursed the funds, the sharks of corruption have started to wet their appetites with sophisticated methods of looting from the sick and orphans.

In the last six months, many AIDS intervention projects implemented by the Civil Society Organizations have collapsed leaving untold sufferings among widows, orphans and many HIV infected who were left without care and support provided by the projects funded.

Thousands of people living with HIV have been left without anti-retroviral therapies thereby exposing them to drug résistance and therefore new infections and even premature deaths as result of the withdrawn medical care.

The Ministry of Health continues to spend millions with newspaper advertisements to correct negative publicity, different surveys continue to confirm that there is serious drug stock out in government health facilities throughout the country. Health Initiative Africa ( HAI) Oxfam and Ketaam indeed have a campaign to demonstrate the seriousness of the problem. This campaign is informed by operational research and no denial through press adverts by the Health ministries will hoodwink the public that there is crisis. Most public health facilities only store painkillers and condoms while Kenyans continue to die from preventable diseases. The tragedy of the scenario is that drugs meant for public hospitals are finding themselves in private pharmacies. One needs to visit public hospitals and homes in the country side to comprehend the magnitude of the heath crisis and see the helplessness of community Kenyans faced with hunger and health problems without any financial resources or any sense of hope. The recent claims that HIV tests in the country are showing conflicting results need to be investigated and allegations cleared.

One of the factors that motivated Global Fund to release the funds to Kenya despite the poor performance by the government in the previous phases was the serious harm the withdrawal of funding would impact on the problem of Aids, tuberculosis and malaria in Kenya whose funding is donor dependent. All the gains made in fighting the wars would be lost. In Kenya however, the Global Fund has been a case of confusion, frustrations and disappointments. Key government officials and politicians have had vested interests in the fund and the meager funds that are made available to communities are not even enough to address the enormous problem of AIDS prevention, care and support in the country.

While it becomes easy to blame some civil society organizations for corruption and delayed reporting, the actual clutter and confusion is committed by government agencies such as Kemsa , Nascop,and the AID Council. AIDS Council officials are known to register conduit organizations to defraud the donors.

Indeed, if Geneva finds out that the government agencies plan to short change the Global Round Seven grant implementers who need to scale up their programmes for greater results , then Kenya might as well forget any future funding opportunities by the Global Fund and other donor agencies including the World Bank.

It is however important that Kenya devises a way of fighting HIV/AIDS such as national budgetary allocations to address donor dependency that seems to cause more harm than good .

Dr Clinton Onyango

P.O BOX 23
Kendu Bay
KENYA

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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:14:30 -0700 [07:14:30 AM CDT]
From: jbatec@yahoo.com
Subject: CARTELS MUST REMOVE INTEREST IN AIDS FUNDS TO KENYA

Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 06:11:40 -0700 [03/20/2009 08:11:40 AM CDT]
From: jbatec@ . . .
Subject: Fw: Another Silent Genocide: Human Rights Violations in Samburu Kenya!

Folks,

Its time for a UN set-up Interim Government to be intituted in Kenya as soon as possible in order to save valuable lives and the deteriorating pathetic situations created by inneffective political leadership, who are possessed by personal selfish ego.

We want transformational leadership style that cannot be provided by the current breed together with those who seek power for selfish motives. Kenya is falling apart to a point divergent invasion is accommodated through Government organized Police system, and this is very worrying.

Fresh election is not possible right now because there is no Electoral Commission body to supervise the election. Secondly, the contesting pockets of the Constitutional Reform has not been instituted into the official policy enactment governing and regulating the judicial and the executive rule order. Thirdly, those personalities who planned, organized, masterminded, funded, committed atrocities, genocide and other Human Rights violations have not been brought to book, according to the Peace Accord Agreement during, before and after December, 2007 are still loose and are still wielding power with authority in Kenya. Forthly, corruption and graft is getting worse by day, a pendamic that does not spare peoples lives from lack of food and because their leaders are selling donated food to the neighbouring countries, while leaving their own people to starve to death. Fifthly, no medical facilities are presently available in government hospitals,
whereby people die for a mere simple ailments. Last but not least, there are no jobs and the social climate has been erroded, engulfed with fear everywhere.

To avoid further casualties and arrest situation while the country’s remnants can be secured
and salvaged for manageable good leadership and governance, the time is now for UN Peacekeeping and the World Leaders step in to help Institute an Interim Government to chart out logistic constitutional modalities for New Order Governance in Kenya. I will not hesitate, if considered to be amongst the team of consultants to provide avenue for fresh leadership in Kenya.

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

Watch this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dear Kenyans and friends of Kenya,

Please consider broadcasting this breaking news from Kenya :

Another Silent Genocide: Human Rights Violations in Samburu Kenya
On Wednesday, Feb 25, 2009 Somali bandits raided the Samburu tribe near Lerata , Kenya , a small community between Archer’s Post and Wamba located in the Samburu District, northern Kenya , once known as the Northern Frontier District. Bandits took hundreds of cattle, shot two men, stole a local conservancy vehicle, and kidnapped two Samburu children.

The response of the Kenyan government has shocked Samburu victims and their advocates.

“Rather than locating our children and recovering our cattle, the Kenyan government sent a special police force into Lerata and surrounding communities, flew over the village, and proceeded to shoot innocent people in the community from helicopters,” a witness stated. “Police were firing into the school yard, at women walking their goats, people getting water at the well, and at the small rural medical clinic,” reported medical personnel at the local medical dispensary.

“At first, the community thought the police were here to help us find our lost children and ran out to greet them,” stated Sammy Lepurdati. “When they initially started shooting, everyone tried to convince them they were making a mistake, but instead the police kept circling the bomas, firing deliberately at innocent people.”

“It was a nightmare,” he stated. “People were screaming, running in every direction. Those who survived fled to the bush and nearby mountains.”

Police also beat over 30 women, children, and the elderly with clubs, according to one witness, who asked to remain anonymous. “My mother was walking to the bore hole with my 4 year-old sister and 10-month old brother, who was wrapped on her back, to water our goats and calves,” the 15 year-old reported. “She turned around to take my sister’s hand when police approached her, told her to give over the calves and goats to him and, when she pleaded with him that it was our only source of food, he began beating her with his club.”

“When the baby started crying, he pushed my mother to the ground and began hitting her over and over again on her back until the baby stopped crying. My sister screamed and then he began beating her, too.” All three sustained life-threatening injuries according to the rural dispensary’s nurse practitioner, Edward Letalama.

“The police then proceeded to confiscate all the village’s remaining cattle, including those owned by the local orphanage, and transported them to Archer’s Post, 28 km away,” according to Titus Letaapo Saayio, Director of the Namunyak Wildlife Conservation Trust, one of the most successful community conservation programs in Kenya, which is run by Samburu communities under the direction of Northern Rangeland Trust.

“We are shocked and feel betrayed that the police and Kenyan government are not even trying to bring these shiftas [bandits] to justice and have, instead, turned against their own people.”

Survivors fled to the mountains or followed their cattle to Archer’s Post and then to Isiolo, 40 km away in another district. “By taking the cattle out of the district, we realized they had no intention of returning these cattle or to carry out the policies of a democratic society,” reported Member of Parliament Raphael Letimelo, Samburu District, “Instead, the special police force brought them across district lines where local District officers and representatives would be powerless.”

Hundreds of the cattle confiscated had been donated by an international humanitarian aid NGO to the orphanage to replace cattle to local orphans and families recovering from the 2006 drought in which 85% of their livestock perished. Independently audited records and photographs of this livestock are kept, proving ownership of this stock.

“Without milk from their cattle, the community members will die.” Dan Letoiya, Director of West Gate Wildlife Conservancy stated. “We are experiencing another severe drought and this is their only source of protein and liquid. The milk from their livestock make up 90% of their dietary intake.”

The Samburu pastoralists have herded cattle in this region for centuries and are some of the most marginalized people in all of East Africa , with no political voice, advocacy, or means to defend themselves. This situation, combined with the maize shortage caused by a Kenyan governmental corruption scheme, means thousands could face starvation.

In fact, Rosemary Lekali from Save the Children urged public government officials to intervene. “The Samburu are certain to perish from dehydration and starvation in the absence of their livestock. Cattle not only represent their most important food reserve, but it is also their primary livelihood and currency,” she said.

“When a parent wishes to send a child to school, the bursary or tuition is paid with the sale of cattle. When a family member has to be hospitalized, a cow is sold. These livestock provide cultural and traditional ceremonial purposes as well, which Kenya should embrace and preserve as part of its cultural heritage.”

On Feb 28, thousands of cattle, including those belonging to the local orphanage and humanitarian aid organization, were simply handed over to the Borana and Somali people. Police claim they ‘recovered’ these cattle as those stolen in the initial raid by bandits, but records show otherwise. Documents prove that the confiscated cattle belong, in fact, to local familes and the orphanage, and that those who were beaten, killed and shot at were citizens innocent of any wrongdoing.

“It is shocking that the Kenyan government could support the Somali people who have consistently terrorized both sides of the border as well as their coastline.” said Peter Leshakwet, Director of the Kalama Wildlife Conservancy.”One wonders about the possibility of covert affiliations with terrorism or other black market trades.”

Hundreds more special police forces are being sent to Samburu this week with intentions to round up thousands more head of cattle. On March 2, 2009 , another 2000 head of cattle were given to the Somali, as hundreds of local citizens witnessed the transaction. One respected elder of the community, Lelaekai Lekurinai, in his late 70’s, was gunned down by police in front of those witnesses in the Isiolo city limits as he begged the police to release his cattle.

To date, estimated value of cattle confiscated and released to Somali bandits is in excess of 5 million USD. This activity is not localized, but has now spread district-wide. In addition, all local conservancies in the Samburu District have been immobilized and disabled by the police.

“The police dismantled all radio communication devices and security equipment for our anti-poaching units,” stated Tom Lesarge, Director of Community Relations and Security at the Northern Rangelands Trust, who has been working on mitigating inter-tribal conflict, land-use disputes, and increasing security in the area. He reported that five Northern Rangeland Trust conservancies were essentially terminated, including the Namunyak Wildlife Conservation Trust, Kalama Community Wildlife Conservancy, Sera Conservation Trust, Meibae Conservancy, and Westgate Wildlife Conservation Areas.

“This could have devastating impacts on the rare and endangered species found in this area, and essentially overturn everything we’ve accomplished thus far to protect wildlife and bring security to this region,” he stated.

The situation is worsening with each passing day. “There have been reports and threats of possible mass executions and removal from of indigenous people from their traditional homelands throughout the Samburu District in the next few weeks,” stated Letimelo, “Many of us feel as if the police are treating our district as a foreign country they are invading, not as their own northern district and citizens, which they are assigned to protect.”

Ironically, on Wednesday top UN investigator Philip Alston issued one of the UN’s strongest indictments against Kenyan security forces, charging that police are carrying out heinous acts against innocent citizens with complete exemption from punishment. He noted the brutal series of hundreds of executions carried out by special police forces across the country in recent months, all conducted abruptly without due process. He stated, “Kenyan police are a law unto themselves. They kill often, with impunity.”

Please contact or contact the following individuals for statements, photos, and/or video footage: Ironically, this UN statement was released just before this incident occurred: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/25/un-kenya-executions

Raphael Letimilo,
Member of Parliament Samburu District
011.254.722.972.996

Tom Lesarge, Director
Northern Rangelands Trust
011.254.721.641.990
tlsarge@yahoo.com

Titus Letaapo Saayio, Director
Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy
011.254.723.222.664
letaapos@yahoo.com

Dan Letoiya, Director
West Gate Wildlife Conservancy
011.254.721.797.587
danletoiye@yahoo.com

Peter Leshakwet, Director
Kalama Wildlife Conservancy
shakwetp@yahoo.com

David Leleikai
Lieutent, Kenya Army
011.254.724.345.300

Tina Ramme
Wildlife Biologist
President, Lion Conservation Fund
tina@kenyalions.org
906.367.5466

Craig Halbmaier,
Vice Consul and Minister of Security, IV Chief,
US Embassy Nairobi
Cell: 254-(0)734-000-8020. HalbmaierCA@state.gov

Page last updated at 17:32 GMT, Wednesday, 18 March 2009

UN set to double Kenya food aid

The WFP says some farmers have been hit by “almost total crop loss”
The United Nations food agency will give food aid to more than double the number of people it is currently helping in Kenya.
The World Food Programme (WFP) will now feed 3.5 million people hit by drought and high food prices.
Many families are struggling to find food for one meal a day, it said.
The Kenyan government declared a national disaster in January following the failure of the short rains in south-eastern and coastal areas.
BBC correspondents say last year’s political violence has also contributed to food shortages because many displaced people were unable to plant their crops.
Falling remittances from abroad, due to the global financial crisis, have compounded the crisis, the WFP said.
“Kenyans already struggling with drought and high food prices are now being hit by the financial crisis,” said Burkard Oberle, WFP Kenya country director.
‘Crisis levels’
He added that rates of child malnutrition in pastoral and marginal agricultural districts, for instance, were already beginning to reach or surpass crisis levels.

A drought in Kenya in 2006 left many animals deadIn response, the WFP will increase the numbers of people in Kenya receiving general food distributions from 1.2 million people to 2.5 million in the period until February 2010.
It also said it will provide 1.5 million children with school meals as an incentive to keep them in education.
Subsistence farmers in south-eastern and coastal areas have experienced “almost total crop loss”, after the failure of October-December short rains, the WFP said.
High food prices have exacerbated the crisis. Maize prices have increased by up to 130% in parts of the country since last year.
Inflation along with high fuel and fertilizer prices have stopped farmers producing larger harvests.
The new WFP operation in Kenya will cost a total of $474m (£340m) from April 2009 through March 2012.
The agency is appealing to donors for a total of $244m (£175m) dollars to prevent the most vulnerable from going hungry.

The most unpopular, incompetent, lazy and immoral Luoland MP’s now threatens to murder a Journalist over revelation of the CDF scandals?
Posted in March 18th, 2009
by Editor in Nyanza

TWO ODM LEGISLATURES THREATENS JOURNALIST WITH DEATH for Exposing Constituency Development Fund.
By our Reportor
HARDLY before the tears are dry following the execution of two whistle blowers, Oscar Kingara and Paul Oulu of the Oscar Foundation settles, death alarms been sounded again from the power corridors to a Western Kenya based scribe.
Kisumu based freelance journalist Agwanda Saye has been put on notice by two legislators who vowed that the scribe has to trade off his life with his freedom of the press. The MPs, Fred Outa of Nyando and Jakoyo Midiwo of Gem have boldly made their statements that for their tainted political careers to hold, Agwanda must die.
The two legislators who have gone on record as intending to kill the scribe for a story which was published in an online forum, www.majimbokenya have made sure that their sinful intention is well relayed to the reporter through some of his colleagues.
The threats which can not be taken for granted are coming hot on the heals after another scribe based in Nyamira the late Francis Kainda Nyaruri aka Mokua Mong’are was killed and his remains dumped for the wild animals in the thick of Kodera forest in Rachuonyo district a couple of weeks ago.
It has also been evident that the recipient of the fresh threats, Agwanda has been imploring the high police echelons to dig into the mysterious death of his colleague.
On Monday, Agwanda recorded a statement with the Officer Commanding Luanda Police Station Chief Inspector Salim Mwaguya in his office since the threats were made publicly at a function attended by Outa in Emuhaya constituency during a fundsdrive for St Stephenes Church Hattiko which was preside over by the wife of Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s wife Idah Odinga and attended by six MPs klled by their host Wilberforce Otichillo and Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth Marended.
“I went to talk to Paul Otupa,wife of Nyakach MP Ochieng Daima,nominated MP Millie Odhiambo and Monica Amollo at the main dais, only for the MP to confront me with threats that I must die the same way my late Colleague Nyaruri died, he threatened me for almost ten minutes and I walked away”Agwanda said
Agwanda also said that Gem MP sent his freelance journalist colleague Shem Kosse to him telling him that “he will slit my throat”, he added that he sms Jakoyo wondering why he wanted to kill him to which Jakoyo continued threatening further via sms which he showed his writer.
“I will not take these threats lightly, recently a colleague died after being threatened, I want to see if this country has two sets of laws, one for reckless politicians and another one for ordinary mwanainchi and if they want public relations stories from me then they should employ me?” he added.
The threats against Agwanda’s life caught the attention of a section of MPs from within and without Nyanza province, some of whom advised him to seek police and legal redress into the matter.Justice and Constitutional Minister, Ms Martha Karua said “It is important that you consult your lawyer and report such threats against your life to the police”.While Ndaragua MP John Kioni said that those are reckless statements which should not come from leaders and advised him to seek police and legal protection.
Vision 2030 Minister Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya said that such utterances should not come from leaders while Shinyalu MP Charles Lugano Lilechi adviced hm also to report the matter to the police
Some MPs from the region who were recently angered by the killing of Nyaruri said it was unfortunate that the same people who are supposed to be the torch bearers of transparency, having been elected on the platform of democracy and a free media were now playing the role of wolves in sheep skin.
“There is absolutely nothing wrong when a writer exposes the capitalist schemes employed by a Member of Parliament to rob the efforts of hard working women rice farmers in Nyando”, said a legislator who requested anonymity.
In his story, Agwanda had reported that Outa had fell out of political favor from all his voters in Nyando and is always accorded heavy police escort within the constituency as they claim that he cons them their rice produce through marketing and brokerage.
Sources close to the MP disclosed that the legislator was pained by the revelation which is said to have caught the attention of some foreign donors whose generosity propelled him to power and who has since halted their funding.

Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:27:26 -0700 [09:27:26 AM CDT]
From: jbatec@ . . .
Subject: Re: A CASE FOR RECALL! KENYA’S COALITION GOVERNMENT IS A CURSE ON THE NATION.

David Ochwangi,

Lets sober out………and state facts…….don’t mix facts with fouls. Yes, YOU ARE WRONG WHEN YOU PUT BLAME ON TRIBAL. Kenya is a peaceful and loving Nation, it has been pushed to the wall. Kenya is beautiful with its 42 tribes with well balanced leadership. It has weathered many storms and still have not fallen apart. The political landscape of corruption, genocide and greed is what has messed Kenya. You have written a whole lot, I will pin point that we all agree the Coalition Government is not working, and the problem is not TRIBAL, the problem is the CARTEL, the known team, MT. KENYA MAFIA AND COHORT’S with EXTENSIVE known ORGANIZED CORRUPTION as it has been – SHIFTING FROM THE FIRST GENERATION OF KENYATTA, TO MOI/BIWOT/UHURU TO KIBAKI/SAITOTI/NYACHAE/ONGERI NETWORKs IS STILL INTACT WITH A FEW SHIFTS. RAILA FOUND HIMSELF MUDDLED UP. IF RAILA WAS GIVEN HIS FAIR SHARE OF THE REWARD OF WINNING ELECTION THINGS MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT. THE PROBLEM GOT UGLY AFTER KIBAKI AND COHORT STOLE ELECTION. KENYANS ARE VERY LOVING AND CAN LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE, and this is a fact. LEADERSHIP OF GREED IS WHAT HAS MESSED KENYA. CALL A SPADE A SPADE, WHEN OTHER TRIBES LEADS IT IS OKAY AND ALL CAN SWALLOW THE BLADE AND SURVIVE, BUT WHEN A LUO LEADS, THERE IS A PROBLEM. That does not mean PM Raila does not have dents. The truth is election was stolen by Kibaki and cohort. The prescription of The Grand Coalition Government could have been trial and error, but that was THE BEST at the time. Lets get this straight ……………… Yes, coalition Government has failed, BECAUSE KILLER THUGS WANT TO EAT BY THEMSELVES, they don’t want to share 50/50 according to the prescription of the coalition government and this cannot work. Even after they were proved thieves, they became adamant bullheads.

SOLUTION …… The Way Forward is …………. get the genocide, the killers, those who committed Violation against Humanity face the HAGUE. The FBI investigate the Police, overhaul the Police Force…..No Buts or Ifs …… Interim Government by the UN and the World join hands with Kenyans to INSTITUTE AN INTERIM GOVERNMENT. …to fill in the gaps of the Constitutional Agenda, open doors for clean election, the winner gets it ………… Why did the Police refuse after FBI offered by the US Embassy in Kenya to help with investigation of the trigger happy police who gunned down the two youths branded Mungiki? Why was there pre-DRAMA show by Mutua and the TV News highlighting Mungiki menace on Kenya’s TV meant to hoodwink? Who is Kenya Police in the powerhouse of the Government of Kenya to wield authority? It is clear, Kibaki has smartly shifted power to Police. Police is the powerhouse in rulership of Kenya, Coalition Government is not existing in action, it is just on paper. Muthaura is nothing according to the formation of the Coalition Government agreement between Kibaki and Raila. Who gave him the powers if coalition Government is 50/50 rulership to dominate and take charge? Why is Uhuru holding two portfolios Finance and VP to PM Raila, so we cannot miss the drama between Uhuru and Ruto. So we cannot miss the Drama where the International Donor funds disappear to? Where are they going….where is this shift political canoe of Mt. Kenya headed towards? Kenyans heads have not gone bananas…….Kenyans eyes are not blinded yet…..they see……Peace and Quietness does not imply weakness ….. ……. .We just don’t need this stupidity Mr. Ochwangi. By writing this much big statements mixing facts with fouls don’t make you any better than Mt. Kenya Mafia. Be factual and stick with it.

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

— On Sun, 3/22/09, David ochwangi wrote:

From: David ochwangi
Subject: A CASE FOR RECALL! KENYA’S COALITION GOVERNMENT IS A CURSE ON THE NATION.
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 12:09 AM

Folks,

We all agree that we’re at the crossroads and we as a people must decide now how much rot of the sorry state of the country we can endure. In a nutshell, we’ve been hosed, had, bamboozled, hoodwinked and conned, BIG TIME! The only recourse is for us at this point is to scrap this government and start over if we are to restore sanity and direction in Kenya. We just can’t sit idly by and watch this cancer and rot eat away at the country to irreversible levels as these out of touch government and its arch principles engage in grand BLAME GAME slugfest. Many of us knew this won’t work and as this thing unravels, I hate to be one of the many to say, “I told you so”. It was to be expected, I mean if you use rotten eggs to bake a cake, the outcome would obviously be a rotten cake. This imitation government should be recalled sooner rather than later. Is it just me or am I being delusional? The tune from this “GRAND COALITION” Orchestra Band is just out of synch, it sounds like high pitched decibel noise; Disney Land theme park animals probably produce much more worthy and coherent shows than these leeching clowns masquerading as a government. The polarity of the two governments is a nightmare, a bad show and quite a shame for a nation that sired the world’s most admired man as in President Obama! A year is more than enough time for judgment of this political experiment that we had no say so in, never bargained for nor voted for. Enough is enough! This arrangement is not working and we cannot continue to forcefully swallow a political medication prescribed to us by foreign entities supposedly as a cure all for the ruins of a political mess visited on us through no fault of our own. Whereas the aftermath of the December 2007 was a painful wake-up call for many to recognize the fragility of Kenya’s stability and how superficial our peaceful co-existence amongst tribes has been, the question now is; are early elections in Kenya inevitable? Let’s look;

Formation

President Kibaki, while he meant well and dedicated to preserving the nation, made a colossal and indelible error in judgment by accepting the Grand Coalition formation. His acceptance was perhaps the most abhorrent demonstrable lack of leadership Kenya has seen in generations whose effects are still reverberating across Kenya today so negatively, he picked the wrong poison pill for the country. The president could have stood his ground, protect the innocent Kenyans who were slaughtered and burned alive through no fault of their own, defend the constitution that has served the country well since independence, uphold the rule of law and above all, still save the country years of agony we are now facing, he could have braved a run-off election and most likely came up a head; he failed Kenya. Many of us saw this and called it for what it was, a patchwork with severe consequences than would otherwise be the case if either man became president. Prime
Minister Odinga, at one point an extremely potent national political enigma, by being beholden to the whims of a rag tag war lord as a means to the top, has relegated himself to a regional stigma and may as well have written his own political obituary. Not to mention this incredibly twisted notion by the prime minister that somehow his running for president translates into a 3rd liberation of Kenya! Liberation from what; the innocent women and children killed in churches or the criminal suspects accused of murdering them, oh, sorry- the freedom fighters who did nothing wrong? Or, get this, a new Nelson Mandela! God knows Kenya needs liberation right about now; just how many more years of torment by this coalition can the country endure? By allowing foreign meddlers to dictate our political composition, this agreement signaled to the likes of Ruto that murder as a political tool to get you to the top is permissible, that you will be rewarded for
sponsoring the most kills, that you can be incompetent and run the most strategic ministries of government, that you can dare the international community with utmost arrogance and taunts and remain in high office. Not only are there no synergies in this government of “disunity” but it has also exposed to the likes of Museveni Kenya’s vulnerabilities and her leadership vacuum of which he is keen on exploiting; our sovereignty and territory is fair game, our fishermen cannot earn a basic living from their craft because Migingo Island is now in the hands of Uganda and yet Billions of shillings are spent annually on a joke called defense, defense of what? Recall this government; let’s go at it once again folks.

Law and order

Where does one start? Watching the empty rhetorical blame games between the principle parties and the ministers responsible for law and order is sadly comical except that it is real and Kenyans are the ones paying the price. Let’s take for example the recent murderous incineration of innocent shoppers at NAKUMAT; has the do nothing AG Wacko Wako even whimpered about any investigations as to why the security guards locked the chained doors to prevent theft? All those deaths were clearly preventable. If this government doesn’t even see these actions as criminal and take steps to mitigate future incidents, why should we keep them in office any longer? Has Saitoti, Karua or Wacko Wako come out as the faces of the government and condemned the Killings of the Oscar Foundation officials? This big omission on their part only fuels the suspicion that the government had something to do with it even when in fact that may not be the case; I mean the government appears guilty. Someone wanting to cast the government in bad light could be responsible and these clowns seem content with it, I say recall; the security of tenure enjoyed by the AG and most judicial officers is intended to shield them from undue influence, particularly from special interests and politicians BUT NOT from their own incompetence. The AG has been sleeping at the switch for most of his tenure; just remember how quickly he and his then DPP, Philip Murgor, jumped to exonerate Tom Cholmondeley immediately he murdered a warder in Nakuru only for Tom to turn around and kill again in a matter of weeks! I mean the recklessness in this office is just stunning. Wacko Wako seems to peg his performance on the conviction rates he can show but sometimes even indictments themselves do wonders in preventing future offenses; If suspect Tom had been indicted for the first offense, Robert Njoya would still be alive today; similarly if Wako had indicted many of the corruption cases forwarded to him if only as mitigation against future corruption, maybe we’d see a drop in the pandemic looting we are experiencing, the list is long! And let’s not leave out the agitator in chief himself who gets the highest award of oxymoronic pandering; how does PM Odinga who was quick to condemn the killings of the Oscar Foundation guys reconcile his own statements just weeks ago, in an interview with a reporter, when asked about the post election violence killings of women and children and church burnings, he seemed to justify the deaths when he stated that in every revolution there must be casualties and he has maintained that those suspects (if there was ever such a thing) in the post elections violence did nothing wrong! Yup, that is Kenya’s would be president justifying the selection of deaths! Kenya is an abject failure on law and order, period! I mean why else would Ruto be daring the ICC and the international community? The example set at the top is very clear, law and order does NOT matter; these two men are too beholden to their own camps and special interests to uphold any order. When an arrogant incompetent man like Ruto runs a key ministry and runs it to the ground by way of starving people who escaped machetes, dares the world to pursue him, rubbishes the judicial system, willfully and blatantly desecrates and makes a complete mockery of all symbols of government without a care or consequence or regard for the principles of this government much less the country, the country is falling fast! When the men and women charged with enforcing the law as in Justice Minister Martha Karua and the do nothing Attorney General Amos Wacko Wako and the eternally neutered wasteful and irrelevant KACC headed by Justice Ringera can only blame the next of kin, a lot is lost.

IDPs

Perhaps one of the saddest chapters of Kenya’s history and sadly the clearest indication to anybody interested in Kenya as an investment destination that the country is NOT a safe place to invest. There is not that much distinction between Kenya and Zimbabwe when the government, through its minister for lands and settlement as in “errand boy” James Orengo, ESQ. tells the nation that the IDPS who are victims themselves should be resettled elsewhere in the country! Imagine what an investor who would like to set shop in Eldoret for example thinks at the thought that he is the next potential victim in the next election cycle? What, if any, confidence does this scenario instill in any potential investors? Would you invest in Eldoret or Kisumu after witnessing the carnage of death and destruction as in last year? Magnify that across the country and you have a good idea of where investors’ minds may lay. Property rights mean nothing in Kenya unless you are sitting way up in government. The Kenyan government, once again, is a failure with capital F.

Constitution

What constitution; the one that pops up during campaigns for whatever number of liberations there are? What is so wrong with what we have that cannot be fixed with a few amendments and repeals? If you look at the last document they tried to pass as a constitution which cost Billions of Shillings or about a Million Shillings per page, we could have saved Billions by simply making copies of 90% of the document and use the remainder to build new schools or several miles of new modern roads; it is just pathetic where our so called leaders’ priorities are. However, as recent as 6 months ago, in a brief stint of sanity, PM Odinga seemed to come around when he said Kenya did not need a complete overhaul of the constitution only for parliament to turn around and hire foreign “experts” to dictate to Kenya what the constitution should be changed to! Yup, the same parliament that passed the media bill and yet it’s so called majority party ODM cried foul when the president signed it into law, I mean they could have stopped the bill way before it got to the president’s desk if they cared to show up for work once in a while; the president doesn’t make laws, MPs do, seems simple enough to me. These geniuses have no grasp of what they are doing and what the country needs, they just don’t. Kenya needs truth in representation more than a piece of document touted by politicians as a constitution. What about truly divorcing the executive from the legislature so a president is not beholden to a certain clique of citizens?

Ministers and Ministries

One big joke! What a croak, almost 100 ministers and assistant ministers to administer what? We are a nation of 35 Million people, contrast that with say the US with almost 10 times the population with less than 2 dozen ministries. What value does this bloated government add to such an impoverished nation as ours? Not to mention the hefty cost and downgrades Kenya has relegated her status to with these folks in government in just the last one year and almost erased all gains achieved in president Kibaki’s first 5 years in office, all for what? Minister are mudslinging and swinging at each other unrestrained like kids in a mud fest; the president and the prime minister have failed; they can’t even keep their own troops in check; thieves and murderers are running the government even when the president promised to appoint clean candidates for office; how about the double standards and hypocrisy of ODM’s holier than thou insincere calls for Kimunya and others to resign when they themselves are shielding the likes of the Ruto from facing any charges much less requiring him to step aside like they did Kimunya. The president fired or suspended Murungaru, Mwiraria, Kiraitu and Kimunya when they were adversely mentioned in corruption, why is Ruto still in government? Did we run out of space at the jail? PM Arap Mibey Odinga, is this your man? Can you help or maybe call on Kenya’s friends both local and abroad to step in and review this item, I mean you seem good at calling in help at every turn, you know.

Famine &Land

When you have the likes of Kibor, a post election violence financier and Ruto’s mentor selling 1000s of tones of maize to Southern Sudan at 85 Million shillings profit at the exact time Kenyans are starving while the principles are cavalierly looking the other way with such ambivalence it is not only preposterous but also criminal. This man made famine was avoidable and clearly manageable except of course for the fact that a power thirsty rag tag war lord has been charged with managing the country’s food supply, I mean it is just one big joke! As for land, absentee owners along with all those who own irregularly acquired big tracts of land, past and present- must now realize that time for equity and fair play has arrived. Kenya has grown in leaps and bounds and her needs cannot be met if the one all important resource, land, is concentrated on the select few; we must employ eminent domain to reallocate idle land to productive use. This is not to
say those who paid fair value for their lands will forfeit them but those who, by virtue of their status in society, had unfair advantage over the rest of us and were allotted property, must be required to surrender those properties or pay fair value at today’s prices. Further, for those who have since transferred those assets, all proceeds pursuant to those transfers will be placed on forfeiture and henceforth revert to the state to fund tax payer projects as would have otherwise been the case absent of the transfers. These are home grown problems which must be addressed by us.

Corruption, Administration of Justice and the Judiciary

Terminate Wako. He has outlived his purpose as Attorney General and has failed to keep up with the challenges facing the country mainly crime and corruption. Wako was appointed when Moi’s dictatorship was at its epic and the likes of Gitobu Imanyara faced imminent death in detention; Wako was quick to restore some human rights but has since taken the back seat in the administration of justice in the country. Wako was never equipped to fight crime much less corruption; he is a human rights lawyer and like the judiciary he seems to be so much in cahoots with, his attention is more about protecting suspects’ rights than the welfare of society as a whole. Similarly, the judiciary is no different as they have frustrated all efforts to stamp corruption by failing to give this scourge the priority it requires, putting off cases for months and years on end while suspects continue pillaging. A case can be made that the AG and the judiciary must be just as dispensable as any government officer; the original intent of lifetime security of tenure was to shield these officers from undue influence to allow them to make independent judgments of cases before them, it was NOT to shield them from their OWN incompetence or inability to perform their functions up to par. They have FAILED miserably and therefore should be terminated for cause. And as for KACC’s overpaid staff starting with Ringera, time has long come and gone for these guys to leave office; we have paid them more than they have saved the country and from a purely business standpoint, their jobs constitute a big loss to the tax payers; they can’t arrest nor prosecute, they bark like dogs but bite like fleas, who needs them?

Post Election Violence

What would Mzee Jomo Kenyatta have done? Never mind that these criminals would never have dreamed of stirring up any shenanigans on Mzee’s watch; even Moi had his tolerance limits and it is still a puzzle why this president did so little to avert an entirely avoidable situation. I mean to sit back and watch the constitution being thrashed by opponents who sponsor murder to attract world attention and to not even bring any charges on the obvious suspects; even as a show of leadership and strength in support of law and order is abhorrent. No excuse at all and if the president thinks he stopped further carnage, newsflash, he only put it on hold and unless these criminals are dealt with; Kenya is headed to the abyss. The 24 years of Moi’s rule had given some in the Kalenjin community a sense of entitlement and ownership in government along with the impunity associated with government. So when Ruto at one point slapped a respected elder, Reuben Chesire, and no admonition was meted, the man thought he was God and so in Rift Valley, an ODM win anyway, particularly in Eldoret where Ruto won handily, he felt the need to make a political statement of his own as supported by Arap Mibey by ordering the deaths of non Kalenjins; only this was the fourth time 1st in ’92, then in ’97 and also ’02. Ruto believes Kenyans owe him the presidency, never mind that Kalenjins are only 11% of the population or that president Moi, himself a Kalenjin ruled Kenya for a quarter a century and brought its economy to its knees and other tribes want to have a shot at the presidency or that the Nilotes who run ODM make up of 32% of the country’s entire population; so what is he to do? You guessed it, bulldoze his way to office or try to anyway! Unless this fellow is stopped, get ready for more carnage in Kenya in the very near future only next time nobody will be caught off guard. Waki’s list would be forwarded to the ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo for proper disposition as Kenya is really a failed state in respect to the subject matter, PERIOD!

Sovereignty

This government has abdicated its responsibility and exposed Kenya’s vulnerability that our sovereignty and territory are fair game and negotiable. Museveni, for example, figured that if Kenya cannot control undisciplined rag tag street gangs who were used to alter the country’s political disposition after the elections, maybe Migingo Island is just fair game as well. In Kenyatta’s day, Museveni would have been told to take a hike if he’d even dared assert any claim on the island; contrast that with the PM “appealing” to Museveni about Kenya’s territory, I mean “appealing”! And then the Prime Minister going to the public square to request help from “Kenya’s friends- both local and foreign to help unravel the murders of Oscar Foundation leaders”; do such appeals inspire confidence in the country’s leadership? Would tourists be inspired to visit Kenya if her prime minister constantly compromises Kenya’s sovereignty as he keeps appealing to international community each time there is a high profile crime? Would they feel safe if Kenya has no wherewithal to solve local crime? PM Odinga wants to be Kenya’s president; do we want to vote for a man whose first instinct and idea of solving problems is to run to the international community for help each time a crime occurs? Does the PM know how many murders take place in the US on a daily basis whose investigations are handled locally? American tax payers or those of other nations for that matter are not in the business of funding investigations of crime in Kenya! Why didn’t we hear similar calls for investigations for the church murders in Eldoret rather than your proclamations that the suspects did nothing wrong? Umm? You are a sovereign state, act like it for crying out loud! Inspire Kenyans sir, it is part of leadership. . It is utter ineptness for ODM to place its partnership in government on the whims of Dr. Kofi Anan; a
non-voting Kenyan with zero regard for the independence of Kenyans. Anan is not an elected official of any government on earth and yet this pathetic bunch is determined to surrender to him Kenya’s sovereignty in an abject effort fang their existence! If ODM believes Anan is the answer to Kenya’s problems, let them resign and recruit the good doctor to run for their offices instead, very simple! Subjecting the country’s entire leadership to one man who is not answerable to Kenyans is just plain asinine; I mean unreasonable and contemptible. Thank God they never got to state house; who would they be calling on to run the country?

Politics and the Press

Kenya’s politics are too mediocre and void of merit to most Kenyans and lack significant value to the country; the thieving rich political class MPs who tax the poor but refuse to be taxed; elected to jobs they refuse to do; the unholy alliance of politicians for self preservation; the unbridled ambition and naked thirst for power by the likes of Ruto and Karua; the cheap politics that now trump common sense, justice, human rights, rule of law, any sense of direction just make it all that urgent that we the people recall this out of touch ineffective government. Take for example recent weeks’ events, why on earth would the president allow the likes of Muite to hijack his national agenda just because Muite threw mud at the first family? I mean the first family has the right to defend its honor but when looked in the context of the big picture, it seems petty but also lends credence to the view by many that the president’s priorities are misplaced;
we still have IDPs, people starving of hunger, thieves and murderers running key strategic ministries and the one time the president seems angry enough to make public proclamations is to complain about Muite?! The last I checked such issues are family matters, I mean of what national merit is Muite’s attack on president’s family? These guys live in the public spotlight and stuff is bound to be said about them all the time, some true and some untrue; PM Odinga takes insults all the time and handles them relatively well- point being, when in public service your priorities must shift to reflect the job at hand and right now that job is national service, not Muite’s shenanigans. The press has also been in bed with these politicians in their sorry aspirations and only raise objections when they themselves are threatened; the press, in my opinion, is just as culpable and an active participant through convenient complicity.
Accordingly, upon consideration and review of all pertinent facts and circumstances, this government’s is hereby adjudicated pitifully and irreparably incompetent and its continued existence is denied. A revocation is appropriate and should be implemented.

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:52:03 -0700 [03/16/2009 05:52:03 PM CDT]
From: owinga bonfas
Subject: The Buck Must Stop with the President

Over a few months, some Kenyans have gone a spree blaming everybody in the Grand Coalition for all that is going wrong. If you look at the problems in the Grand Colaition keenly with an open mind not poluted by any political leaning then you would agree with me that the Buck Must Stop with the President. Even with the National Accord signed on February 28th 2008, the President remains the HEAD OF STATE and HEAD OF GOVERNMENT. Its therefore a big fallacy to talk of two principals as Kenyans have been made to believe. Real power still rests with the President and he MUST TAKE POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY for the mess in the Coalition. Given that he is the Chief Executive Officer of a company called Kenya-He must also take ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY. There are no two ways to this.

Even in 2007,If the President who had enomous powers even by then wanted FREE and Fair elections, we could have had free and fair elections and so some Kenyans must stop this conspiracy of BLAMING EVERYBODY because apparently the President that they support has totally failed and so to cushion his failure..they blame everybody and call for everybody to go come 2012..This is nonsense. There are some leaders in this coalition who are reform minded and have always been reform minded and need to steer this country forward. Kenyans couldnt believe when Raila as the PM supported legal demonstrations of the students against the killing of their colleague and the general insecurity in the country..People that what DEMOCRATS are made of..Demonstrations and prostest are legal means of expresions in a democracy..and the PM was right on this point.

Lets not loose focus just because someone has failed to lead..Lets not loose focus just becuase sycophants are singing the loudest for the one who has failed to lead this country.. We too who are progress must press on with our agenda of reform..but we do need some of these people in this government who are reform minded even come 2012. Lets not delude ourselves that come 2012 we shall have 222 new MPs and a new President not from this groups. We shall have new people but some of these people will be valuable for the reform we are talking about. If one has totally failed as he has and the world can see..lets not put blame on everybody..You and Me know very well that the PM cannot sack Alfred Mutua-he speaks on behalf of the President..the PM cannot sack Wako..the constitution only allows the President to form a tribunal to sack him..the PM cannot sack the Police Commissioner-only the President can..so lets be serious when debating these issues..Lets demand nothing but a NEW CONSTITUTION..It surely will be the starting point for recovery..national unity..cohesion and development…

— On Fri, 3/13/09, Truphena O. Awuor wrote:

From: Truphena O. Awuor
Subject: FW: Blessings
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 3:07 PM

Have a blessed day all

major time with minor people. If there are people in your life that continually disappoint you, break promises, stomp on your dreams, too judgmental, have different values and don’t give their backing during difficult times…that is not a friend.

To have a friend, be a friend. Sometimes in life as you grow, your friends will either grow or go. Surround yourself with people who reflect values, goals interests and lifestyle.

When I think of any of my successes, I am thankful to GOD from whom all blessings flow, and to my family and friends that enrich my life.

Over the years my phone book has changed because I changed for the better. At first you think you’re going to be alone, but after a while new people show up in your life that make your life so much sweeter and easier to endure.

Remember what your elders used to say, “Birds of a feather flock together. If you’re an eagle, don’t hang around chickens:

Chickens Can’t Fly!

I love the Lord and thank Him for all that he does in my life, therefore, I’m passing this on. Yes I do love Jesus. He is my source of existence and Savior. He keeps me functioning each and everyday…… Without Him, I would be nothing.

Without Him, I am nothing but with Him I can do all things. Phil 4:13

Walk by faith

Not by sight

Receive God’s blessings!

God Bless

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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:09:46 -0700 [03:09:46 AM CDT]
From: bedann maina
Subject: Re: Fwd: IS RAILA FACING REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?

Its funny how we rave and rant about the current crop of politicians we have around and yet we have already started rooting for their return in 2012. What we should work on is
how we can throw all these imbeciles out including Raila whether he won and was rigged out or not. We need some fresh blood not someone who campaigns on a platform of hatred
and plotting on how to alienate or antagonize some communities just to have power. But the problem with some people is their are so conservative they can’t see anything beyond Raila, Uhuru, Ruto, e.t.c. which is what is bringing us down from the time this country got its indipendence. We have worked on buiding dynasties and their gangs of sycophants.

Look at this, NARC was campaining on BANDILISHA, what were we changing if most of them were in the KANU govt, but since they crossed over we chasticized them and made them
angels or may be we applied the SAUL to PAUL law you never know. ODM kenya and its theory of CHANGE. just tell me what were we changing. look at the line up Ruto, Mudavadi, Kones
Dalmas Otieno Henry Kosgei e.t.c If we dont realize the harm we are doing to ourselves and have a change of mind we are gone and gone forever. God help us.

— On Sun, 3/15/09, Anthony Wangondu anthony.Wangondu@ . . . > wrote:

From: Anthony Wangondu
Subject: Fwd: IS RAILA FACING REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 11:03 PM

Bwana Otieno,
You are correct in seeing the bitterness in my voice, and it has nothing to do with
people trying to divide Raila Odinga’s support from Luo Nyanza. I think it a feeble
tactic. My problem is with this “us versus them” attitude, as if some Kenyans are more
important than others, that is constantly being touted. Let me highlight a few:
6 provinces vs 2: Since our current laws are majority votes this doesn’t matter,
especially given that all of NEP registered voters are equal to Embakasi constituency
(for example)
Half a Loaf: All I want you to clarify is if Raila intends to only serve half the country
and not the whole country. Also, does he define the country as something to be divided up
among his cronies? My feeling is that is NOT his attitude but it is your interpretation.
The problem is that you are now using it to sow seeds of divisiveness among us, who in
all truth are very removed from the political class and should not be supporting them as
they bring down this country. We should be having a new vision and a very different set
of beliefs from them.

What’s the alternative you ask? Our politicians thrive on two things – tribal support and
keeping our people poor. So therefore, to beat them at their own game we must steer away
from tribal groupings and supporting anyone on along tribal lines. We can learn from
those who have defied tribal, sectarian, racial and colour divisions. These kinds of
people have shunned natural groupings (Obama did not seek the black vote, Bill Clinton
did not lean on the white vote, Tony Blair did not seek out intellectuals, etc etc) and
instead started right where the people are, identifying with their real problems – jobs,
housing, medical care.

So Mr Otieno, yes I am angry when a young bright intellectual like you starts to
regurgitate tired sentiments from our old school politicians. Yes I am bitter to see you,
the future of Kenya, being sucked into useless and pointless tribal rhetoric, and yes I
am sad that you, who should be leading the revival and the regeneration of this country,
are stuck on what the politicians got us into after the 2007 elections.

—–Original Message—–
From: Lordvick Otieno
Sent: 15 March 2009 23:36
Subject: Re: Fwd: IS RAILA FACING REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?

Bwana Wangondu,
I can see bitterness in your responce to my reaction to the issue of ‘Raila facing
Rebellion in Southern Nyanza Luo’.
You have an issue with my ‘half a loaf’ sentiments about Raila having won six provinces.
The truth about Raila having won six provinces seem to be a bitter pearl by some to
swallow for those who want to hide the truth they know, but didn’t Karwa confirm about
the rigging the other day. Please respond.
Has’nt the ‘half a loaf’ he accepted with Kibaki, who can be equally comended for
resisting pressure to ignore Raila, from arogant tribal chauvinists, save this country
from sliding into civil war, by sharing power. please respond.
Those who are never tired of trying to divide the Luo to constantly remind us of Luo
south, central or or Siaya have their schemes fallen flt on their faces before, as Luos
have proven note be easily decieved or divided. They even tried to create tribal
districts like Suba but the scheme again failed.
South Nyanza is the PM’s bedrock support and who ever think he is facing rebellion is in
for arude shock.

— On Fri, 3/13/09, Anthony Wangondu wrote:
From: Anthony Wangondu
Subject: Re: Fwd: IS RAILA FACING REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 10:20 AM
What is half loaf? What have you got that can be called from
half loaf?
What is this about 6 provinces?

Correct me if I am wrong, but the mandate of the leader to
ensure service to all, uphold the constitution, etc, etc

Let me know early enough if only those who voted for him
(about 50% of the voters 4 million) are entitled to
Government service so those who did not (31 million) can be
wary and aware.

If however this is merely your opinion, then clearly say
so! I like Raila and I surely hope he is nowhere near your
analysis of what he stands for!

—–Original Message—–
From: Lordvick Otieno
Sent: 13 March 2009 15:14
Subject: Re: Fwd: IS RAILA FACING REBELLION
BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?

Those who accuse Raila of having abandoned them should give
him time to settleas as he has just completed a year as PM.
1.He is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya and not
only Luo Nyanza.
2.We got 1/2 a loaf to be shared by the six provinces out
of the eight provinces he won in the last election.
3.Luos are not rebelling against Raila as perseeed but they
never shy away from pointing anything they think is not
right.
Some how Raila always listen to Luos and readjust and
that’s why they always stick with him.
Those who think Raila has sold out should propose to
Kenyans an alternative.

— On Fri, 3/13/09, Mundia Kamau wrote:
From: Mundia Kamau
Subject: Fwd: IS RAILA FACING
REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?
Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 5:40 AM
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Leo Odera Omolo
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 4:04 AM
Subject: [Jambo] IS RAILA FACING REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?

IS RAILA FACING REBELLION BY SOUTHERN NYANZA LUOS?

DISCONTENT IS BUILDING UPOVER PLACEMENT OF
GOVERNMENT?S
PLUM JOBS

News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo

NEWS and information emerging from the greater
Southern
Nyanza region says
that tension is building up between the supporter of
the
Prime Minister
Raila Amolo Odinga and the region?s professional
caucus.

It has been revealed that the professionals and
academician
s from the
region have of late been holding behind the scene
consultative meetings in
both Nairobi and at home while charting for the way
forward
on how the
residents can free and separated themselves from the
Odinga
?s family
influence.

Issues at stake include the recent placement in the
government?s plum jobs,
appointment of diplomats and lack foresight in the
effort
to revive the
stalled economic outlets, such as Kicomi Ltd, Kenya
Breweries Kisumu plant ,
proper management of the lucrative sugar industry.

The group, according to impeccable source have been
holding
secret meetings
in posh hotels in Nairobi, Homa-Bay, Migori and even
in the
lakeside City of
Kisumu.

The group which comprises clergymen, professionals,
academicians and some
selected civic leaders are said to be seeking the way
forward to build
another centre of power gravitation inside
Luo-Nyanza,
which is devoid of
the Odinga?s influence. .But which could work with
any
group of Kenyan
politicians and harmonize inter-tribal and communal
relations for mutual
benefits of Kenyans.

Also top on the agenda is the plan envisaged to
pressurize
any government of
the day to split the present Nyanza Province into
three
Provinces., that
would groups the Kisii and Kuria communities grouped
together in one
administrative Province with its headquarters in
Kisii
town, and the third
Province to group all the administrative of Suba,
Homa-Bay,
Nyatike, Migori,
Rongo and Rachuonyo together with the proposed
headquarters
in either
Homa-Bay or Rongo townships.

This school of thought was originally the brainchild
of the
late Hezekiah N
Oyugi, the former powerful Permanent Secretary
in-charge of
Provincial
Administration and Internal Security who had proposed
the
power devolution
way back in 1990. Oyugi had suggested that a new
Province
covering Southern
Nyanza and Kisii regions be established at Kisii
town.

However, years later during the Constitutional
dispensation
conference held
at the Bomas of Kenya under Prof. Yash Ghai, the
proposal
was vehemently
opposed by Raila?s supporters who viewed the idea as
an
attempt to divide
the Luo community into a small splitter groups..

Pro-Raila wanted all the Luos to be kept in one huge
basket
for his own
political mileage and control.But the proponents of
the
idea felt that the
splitting of the Nyanza Province into three would be
beneficial to the
region because it will attract more government
funding.

But the Luo intellectuals and professionals have now
revisited the idea once
again.

The group believes there is leadership vacuum in
Nyanza and
that there is
the need for the region?s residents to built several
new
centre of power to
gravitate in Gusii and greater Southern Nyanza
regions.

Several prominent names have been floated. One is that
of
the Minister for
Public Services Dalmas Otieno, who is also the MP for
Rongo, the Immigration
Minister and Mbita MP Gerald Otieno Kajwang?; and
that of
the youthful
Ndhiwa MP Joshua Orwa Ojode who is an Assistant
Minister
for Internal
Security.

Otieno?s problem is old association with KANU, a
party
many Luos believed to
have masterminded the community?s marginalization
and
political suppression
by the previous regimes of the late President Jomo
Kenyatta
and the retired
President Daniel Arap Moi.,though many maintains that
the
Minister has
matured up politically and can take the mantled of
the
overall community
leadership.

Otieno Kajwang, is being dismissed as being too
childish
and not a serious
person worth trusting with the responsibility of
leading
the Luo to a higher
height of development. At the same time Ojode is seen
as an
achiever and a
dynamic politician who has successfully developed his
hitherto backward
Ndhiwa constituency to a new hub of massive economic
development.

Ojode an is an aggressive politician with unserving
loyalty
to Raila Odinga.
Theyrecaled how the Assistant Minister had sacrificed
the
Ministerial
appointment offered to him by President Mwai Kibaki in
2005
in solidarity
with ODM and Raila Odinga.

Ojode is believed to have been disappointed with the
allocation and
distribution of ministerial posts in the grand
coalition
government shared
on 50-50 basis between President Mwai Kibaki and the
Prime
Minister Raila
Odinga in which he was relegated to an Sssistant
Minister
instead of the
full cabinet. Instead Raila had favoured Otieno
Kajwang?
who got away with
the Immigration ministerial slot.

But Ojode could not be reached for his immediate
comment.
He said to be
keeping a low profile, and has never appeared in any
governmental or
political function officiated by Raila Odinga ever
since
the formation of
the grand coalition, though he is said to be
extremely
loyal to his friend
the Prime Minister.

ther burning issues to which Raila must come out
clean, is
the allegations
that he had interfered with the new appointment of
the
joint officiasl
receive manager for both Miwani and Muhoroni Sugar
Companies, and allegedly
instructed the Kenyan Sugar Board to extend the tenure
of
the two joint
receiver manager Eng. Martin Owiti, and Kipng?etich
Bett.
The two have been
the joint receiver manager for the two facilities for
the
last four years,
but have failed to turn them around. Farmers have
gone for
months without
their cane bills cleared by Muhoroni, while Miwani
closed
down a couple of
years ago.

Eng. Owiti who hails froim Bondo is said to be a
brother-in-law to Dr.
Oburu Oginga, the eldest brother of Raila Odinga who
is
also an Assistant
Minister for Finance.

The Prime Minister is reported as having recently
released
ten tractors,
which were donated bny the UNDP to the Nyanza
Province for
the purpose of
improving agricultural activities in the region.
Raila
released the tractors
in Bondo his home turf and ignored other
agriculturally
rich regions where
the tractors could be put to a better use of improving
food
production in
the region..

A number of ODM MPs from Luo-Nyanza are said to be
secretly
backing the
separation plan to free the Luos from the Southern
region
from those from
Bondo and Siaya.

While the Prime Minister Odinga is being credited for
having taken bold
steps to ensure that illegal squatters were evicted
from
the controversial
Mau Forest Complex in the South Rift, he is at the
same
time being accused
for having failed to initiate any meaningful dialogue
for
the resuscitation
of the ailing sugar industry in Nyanza and the
improvement
of the fishing
industry in Lake Victoria..

.Anti-Raila elements in Nyanza are accusing the Prime
Minister for lack of
total commitment in the real task of poverty
eradication.
Instead, the PM is
said to be busy engaged in promoting politics of hero
worshipping and
sycophancy.

The professionals in Luo Nyanza are also said to be
routing
for the communal
harmonization between the Luos as and the
neighbouring
communities
irrespective of the political party of affiliation, at
the
same time blaming
the current crop of MP from the region for promoting
politics of hatred..

The Professionals from Southern Nyanza are also said
to be
reaching their
counterpart numbers in Siaya Kisumu and Nyando.
Several
night meeting are
said to have taken place in hideouts in Kisumu and Nairobi.

And in one such gatherings speaker after speaker reportedly denounced the Prime Minister much touted campaign to have youths in Luo circumcised as one way of minimizing the effect of HIV/Aid , arguing that such trivialities should not be the priority of the person holding such covenanted position of Premier to handle.

?Circumcision, they argued, should not be the community?s priority. There are other priorities which Raila should tackle with his Luo parliamentary colleagues.

It is only a matter of time before the on-going war between Raila and professionals exploded in the open for public debate. The professionals are also against loose talking such as the recent call by Dr. Oburu Oginga on William Ruto, the Minister for Agriculture to resign over the maize scandal.Oburu action is therefore viewed as being full of arrogance and as such misplaced..

Dr Oburu Oginga and his younger brother must stop the bad habit of rushing to the press on every single issue in this country.. They must learn to be cohesive and tolerant because such uncoordinated comments on contentious issue affected a colleague in arm must be avoided at all cost.

We were not able to establish the names of the professional and politicians said to be behind the latest move to isolate Raila Odinga from the Southern Nyanza Luos, though it is true that several meetings have taken place in both Nyanza and Nairobi. The group have scathingly criticized Raila for having distributed government plum jobs to his kith and kin from Bondo and Siaya.

Ends
leooderaomolo@yahoo,com

Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:44:28 -0700 [03/14/2009 10:44:28 AM CDT]
From: Judy Miriga
Subject: Solution is to Dismantle Police force & Put its Leadership behind bars awaiting Charges

Folks,

The Police and the Mungiki with diverse interests supporting different leaders (those in power) have many faces focusing to 2012, both are trying to get the other out of race by lethal force and threats. Each and everyone is trying to outdo the other through blame game come 2012. Both the Police and Mungiki are in quagmire. They are soon turning Kenya to a battlefield. To them, it is better Kenya go cheotic than democracy and the rule of law take effect. Then the Sovereignty of Kenya remains in the hands of the winning rebel group.

This is why, the likes of Barrack Muluka wants Koffie and Annan out of Kenya, so they resolve their own issues ati Annan should leave Kenya alone and go back to Geneva, ati Kenya is a Sovereign Country………Sovereign what?????? We are not stupid……

Thanks,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson &
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com/
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Residents’ ordeal under police and Mungiki terror
By Standard on Saturday Team

Josephine Wanjiku (not her real name) believes she knows her husband’s killers but she dare not say a word.

Two years ago, a suspected Mungiki gang killed her husband and his head was found near his home in Kahuro village, Murang’a South District.

“We know them and the gang leaders but no one in the village can dare identify them,” says Wanjiku. The re-emergence of the sect in parts of Central Province has sent a new wave of panic.
Picture this: A man is beheaded on his way to church and body thrown into a river; a tout is killed and body dumped in a church compound; and an elderly man is killed outside his house as his wife watches.

Police have responded with equal zeal, dragging suspected Mungiki members from their hideouts and reportedly shooting them dead.
In Kahuro, shopping centres that used to bubble with business are almost deserted.
Young men left villages in droves for fear of police crackdown. Locals are torn between supporting police and complying with the sect rules.
Mungiki attacks appear calculated to cause maximum fear. When they killed Wanjiku’s husband, they perched his head on a stick by the roadside. His torso was mutilated and limbs and private parts were severed from the body.
“My husband left the house at around 6pm to deliver milk to the nearby shopping centre but never came back,” says Wanjiku.
Self-imposed curfews
Another victim was beheaded and his head left in a chicken coop, just a few metres from a chief’s camp.
Villagers are always alert for it is never known when the killer gang will strike next.
“We live in fear. Even now, we fear speaking to you. There is self-imposed curfew,” says a shopkeeper at Kianjogu market in Murang’a. But as the families lament the loss of their kin in the hands of Mungiki, relatives of suspected sect members reportedly killed by the police are also crying for justice. For instance, Mr Irungu Macharia’s son, Julius Kiunjuri, was shot dead by police on suspicion of taking part in the beheadings.
Macharia claims police executed his son in cold blood, having traced him in Nairobi.
They later took him to his Kahithe village where they shot him dead: “They claimed he was the ring leader of the murderous sect and that he was a dangerous criminal,” says Macharia.
“Police even destroyed one of my houses and beat me up when they came looking for him,” says the 50-year-old man.
A few months after Kahuro killings, residents claim police executed about 30 young men in Gikui village, Kangema, for allegedly taking part in illegal oathing.
For instance, the family of Michael Kamau is crying foul over what they term police execution of their son.
“We were shocked to find his body dumped near the trading centre. People claimed he belonged to Mungiki,” says one of Kamau’s relative.
“If people are suspected to have committed a crime, they ought to face the law,” he adds.
Jane Njeri does not understand why her family was targeted. She also lost her husband in a suspected Mungiki killing.
When her 12-year-old son ran into the house to inform her people were being hacked to death in the neighbourhood two years ago, she brushed him off.
Harrowing tales
Little did she know her family would be next. Later in the night, she received news the headless body of her husband was lying a few metres from the compound.
The killings were rampant in several villages in Murang’a and other parts of Central Province.
Njeri told her harrowing story to UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Prof Philip Alston. This was a day after suspected Mungiki sect members paralysed transport in several towns across the country.
“I am surprised he is castigating the police without taking into account our sorrows. The man did not listen to our story,” says Njeri.
However, residents are not taking it lying down. In Ihithe village, Kiharu, locals have formed vigilante groups.
“Every homestead contributes Sh50 every month to facilitate the vigilantes since we don’t want a repeat of what happened,” says a resident.

1. On Saturday March 14, 2009, 6:53 AM , Carter John, Kenya wrote:

Pole my fellow Kenyan. Am sorry but I would propose these pple to be gunned down and be completely eliminated. I agree that the police should take the suspects to face the law but themselves dont take pple to the law but take the law in their hands I think its time, a hand for a hand and an eye for an eye let the community assist the forces to wipe those youths out.

On Saturday March 14, 2009, 4:21 AM , John, Kenya wrote:

I am not surprised at the story. I have gone through some of the daring misfortunes in the hands of Mungiki. When the first kidnapped me and forced me in to taking their oath, life after that was terrible. I can not recount how many times I escaped the beheading after the forced oath but the next thing I knew, I had left Kenya. I am now self-exiled in an abroad country

‘Standard’ editor to attend Geneva talks

Published on 28/02/2009

By Standard on Saturday Reporter
The Standard Group News Editor Ben Agina has been invited to join the Grand Coalition Government partners President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga in Geneva for talks organised by Kofi Annan Foundation.
The meeting, “The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation: One Year Later”, will also be attended by Panel of Eminent African Personalities led by former UN chief Kofi Annan, former Tanzania President Benjamin Mkapa and former Mozambique and South Africa First Lady Graca Machel between March 30 and 31.
Also invited are Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation team comprising Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi and Cabinet ministers Martha Karua, Mutula Kilonzo, Moses Wetangula, Sam Ongeri, James Orengo, William Ruto and Sally Kosgei
The Geneva meeting will focus on Agenda Four, which was supposed to institute long-term solutions to avoid future post-poll chaos. It was also to address the thorny issues of land reforms, the stalled constitutional review, fight against graft and impunity, among others.