Wanainchi should boycott functions organized by any MP who refuses to pay tax, do not even let them address you in rallies. They should be made irrelevant, they should be moved to the periphery of politics and shunted into oblivion.
It is because we give them a hearing that they think we need them.
Civil society should mobilize and sensitize wanainchi to only listen to selfless MPs with the common man’s interest at heart; those with ideas about sharing the common man’s burden.
The likes of Muthama should champion the course for a New Kenya, devoid of turn coats like Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka, Martha Karua, the Saitotis, Kenyattas, Mudavadis and all the greedy lot wishing to lead us in 2012.
Muthama and his ilk must be encouraged to become our local Obamas, the ones who can champion change we can believe in.
He feels what we feel, he is ready to sacrifice for his country, he is ready to put his country before his stomach!!!!
Sungu.
Juba.
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:15:10 -0800 [04:15:10 AM CST]
From: otieno sungu
Subject: Muthama our local Obama??
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Otieno,
This is very true I share your sentiments.
Thanks
Nelima
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:28:50 -0000 [04:28:50 AM CST]
From: Julie.Sifuma@ . . .
Subject: RE: Muthama our local Obama??
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I think Muthama is one of the top rich guys around and he can even do without the Tax. If i remember well, there are MPs who promised tp “donate” part of their money for worthy causes, and i think incase they lived to their promises, they should be exempted from Paying Tax. I know Yinda, Shabir, Daima as some who I attended their funtions when they made the promises. Incase they commited their salaries to these couses, then i think they should be exempted. I think Wavinya is my hero here, not Muthama, who is a pure sycophant.
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:28:20 +0300 [04:28:20 AM CST]
From: Omondi Amos K’Ogal
Subject: Re: Muthama our local Obama??
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Mr Sungu,
You are right and wrong. You are right on his being taxed and wrong on his feeling the pinch. Muthama is loaded like hell (sorry Christians!)
ANd Muthama is not our Obama, never!
I’d be over the moon if I heard that my MP, one Alfred Bwire Odhiambo agreed to be taxed. The dude is not so monied but he won’t go hungry or default on his rent if tey took away 180,000/- of his untaxed 600k bob
So now there are three MPs
Johnstone Muthama
jeremiah Kioni
Francis Nyammo (Tetu)
Let’s hope more will join by the end of the day
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:31:36 -0800 [04:31:36 AM CST]
From: Justo Lwali
Subject: Re: Muthama our local Obama??
Iam happy getting my opinion across here. Lazy minds want to discredit Muthama and his group for wanting to pay tax because ostensibly they are rich. Iam not sure Muthama is richer than some of your so called leaders who even defend the MPs incalcitrance, saying they are paying mortgages. Indeed it is in the heart of Muthama that seeds of the kind Obama is made matures. That I think is the point some of us are making here.
I watched Muthama last nite on Newsline (KTN) and he is not so much intellectually endowed but he won my heart over – again. If we really talk about a new generation of Kenyans, the word is service. I get to know that Muthama has lived by that word even before he was a legislator. So his hell richness is neither here nor there. The heart of evil in jaluo.com don’t help.
I guess Kenyans who are mindful of this country should recant their tribal henchmen and encourage new lights. Whether they may be dimwits like Muthama with the wisdom of King Solomon or hell poor fellows like some of those Nyanza Mps but with the conscience of not buying their concubines houses before their villages see taps of clean water.
Its me.
Otieno Ogolla
Muhoroni