— “asego2002” wrote:
Matunda,
The Kenyan political system has been molded into a system that is perfect for the ascendancy into power of the most corrupt and greedy members of society. It caters to those who can deceive and exploit the most – those who are the cleverest when it comes to cheating, stealing and deceiving. The behavior of our politicians since the Waki report came out is a clear show-case.
The Waki report is a social reform document that threatens the survival of this system. No wonder therefore, people who should be knowing what is in the document are coming out with all sorts of blames and accusations, all aimed at deceiving wanainchi.
Nobody can reject the Waki report because nobody’s opinion is sought. In fact even accepting it is superfluous because the report is given “as-is”. Yet a group of ODM and PNU MPs claim to reject/support the report. What a crap!
The only options for Kenya and all Kenyans is either to speedy the implementation of the tribunal locally or that guy at the Hague takes over. I do not know how Raila or Kibaki or anybody else for that matter can “magically” come up with a third option (to save supporters). Ruto and Uhuru seems to be behaving very badly here (with the ignorant and misleading support of Ababu Namwamba).
of Asego Bay
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— “witinesimkenya” wrote:
Dear All,
As you may may already be aware, I am also a silent “witinesi” to all the political grandstanding that fills our TV screens daily. So I remembered a story and decided to share it with you, in case it provides a lesson or two:
A certain prominent man had an abscess on his private parts. Being a true patriarch, it proved a little difficult to share his travails with anybody else except the inevitable…his wife. After putting up with his suffering for a while, he woke up one morning and told his wife he could take no more of the pain, so he was going to see the Doctor. When he arrived at the Clinic, the Doctor examined him and if the pain was excruciating the verdict was impossible. He would have to undergo a minor operation, and have all the pus pressed out of the abscess before being put on a course of treatment to clear the infection. The honorable man could hear none of it and stormed out of the clinic. At home, he complained loudly to his wife that the doctor had not given him any real medicine to relieve his pain, instead he just told him of dangerous operations close to his arsenal. He wondered what had become of Doctors nowadays. So the patient wife asked him, so what do you plan now? The man said, it could have been better for me to get some panadols to ease the pain. Then the wife asked him, which painkillers don’t we have in the house? Then she quietly went away on her chores as dejected as Witinesimkenya here. Our politicians are the Prominent Man and the wife represents the long-suffering mwananchi. Waki is the Doctor…
Any way forward?
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From: Dickens.Odhiambo@ . . .
Subject: POLITICAL vs MASS MURDERS: The WAKI Report
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:06:44 -0500
—-Original Message—–
From: asego2002
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: The WAKI Report
witinesi,
fact is: 30 people were bundled into a church – women, men and children and burnt to death. the same day, another 250 people were butchered. all that happened in eldoret in 1 day.
fact is: 18 people were burnt alive in their homes in naivasha- women, men and children and another 58 butchered the same day. some even killed while government authorities were watching.
now, the movement in which raila belongs has been fighting for justice from time immemorial using mass action. but there were never mass murders.
the only mass murders in kenya always came during elections in form of tribal clashes and almost always executed by kanu hawks to punish those who did not vote for them.
when odm called for mass action, some former kanu hawks may have heard mass murder. they planned, financed and supervised the murder of kenyans. now they want to say “we did it for you” to raila.
raila is saying, “well you did not do what i asked you to do. lets see how you will get a mild punishment because i understand you never took up fighting injustice as a lesson in your political school”. but what are they saying ? “we can make sure you never see the inside of state house if our crimes are not ignored”.
tell you what ? waki report will be implemented (whether kibaki is incriminated or not). ruto and uhuru have no power and wherewithall to stop anybody from going to state house. they just seem to suffer from “being hi”.
asego
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:21:36 +0000 [05:21:36 PM CST]
From: barack abonyo
Subject: RE: WHO IS IN THE SECRETE ENVELOP
And Fred Gumo said “If I am the president or the prime minister, then I could have not accepted the envelope without knowing what is inside”. Although Gumo is not one of my drinking buddies in terms of reasoning, this time I could have inducted him into my circle. The man spoke sense and intelligence is a criteria for admission into my happy hour. How can a whole president and a minister carry an envelope containing a noose that will hang them and yet they are not aware or am I missing the point here. They are either very incompetent or surrounded by very lousy advicers. Very comparable to those around Sarah Palin who easily got pranked that she was talking to French Ambasador. However, I would like to believe that I am missing something or someone is attempting to fool me.
At first both PNU and ODM rejected the report. Then Raila and Kibaki did not want to implement the report and then all over suddenly they did. What happened overnight. I will tell you what happened. The envelope content has been leaked. The names of the people Waki want to be prosecuted is not a secrete anymore. The names have been leaked. Both PNU and ODM have been informed and Raila and Kibaki are not that badly implicated compared to Ruto or other young political opponents. This is the problem gentlemen. The problem is not implementation of the Waki report but the unfairness in its implementation. If the report is worth its salt then it cannot leave Kibaki out. President Kibaki orderd the killing of peacefully demonstarting Wananchi. Many have forgotten how an army officer hunted one young man in Kisumu in broad daylight and short him. Many have forgotten the Kisumu massacre by the police and the paramilitary. Who orderd it?
If the names in the envelope excludes Kibaki, Martha Karua, Michuki, Saitoti then it must exclude Ruto, Raila, Balala and Mudavadi. In the same token, if the envelope has Ruto’s name then Raila, Balala and Mudavadi’s name must be in it because nothing in ODM occured without their knowledge. And if this guys are not privy to the names in the envelope then they better be ready for the axe. The sacrificing of Ruto here sounds like every one knows the names in the envelope and have accepted to enter into a witness exchange program in exchange for being expunged from their roles in the chaos that occured. This is not the way a government is run and definitely is not the way reconciliation is carried out and moreso, it is not a good direction for peace. Can somebody tell me how America dealt with its civil war mess?
Ruto may be taken to the hague but all the Kalenjins will still be living in Kenya. The same way the luos are still bitter about Tom Mboya is the same way the Kalenjins will be bitter about hanging their son alone for the sin committed by the leaders of other tribes. Ladies and gentlemen this prints a glim picture. Remeber in Rwanda and Burundu, the violence is circlic. Today it is against the Hutus and tomorrow it is against the Tutsis. During independence, the Kalenjins lost land, the luos lost great leaders and this kind of is the bitterness that triggered all this. Today the Kikuyu leaders are craving for Ruto blood and now that they have been joined by a luo leader, they may just succeed in hanging him. But remember, the things you do will always come to you.
Ruto’s blood will be crying in his grave. It is simply a circle untill a proper reconciliation is in place. The way forward is simply, “Respect other tribes as you respect yours. Apply law and order equally”.
Fellow Kenyans, the warning is that Kenyans should be prepared for another round of trouble if Waki report is taken as gospel and the law is applied in a one footed manner.
Dr. Barack Abonyo