— On Sat, 11/29/08, john maina wrote:
From: john maina
Subject: 12th June demonstrations
Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 3:03 PM
HI guys,
Its quite sad that a cabinet minister cant pay tax because he doesn’t know where the money will go for, surely we deserve better leadership than that. In this regard, how far are the plans for the demonstration to be held during Jamhuri day? and how can I help? and who knows what happened to Mutava Musyimi? I thought he would be a voice of reason in the current madness.
Regards,
Tax paying Kenyan.
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On 11/29/08, owinga bonfas wrote:
Maina before you even ask what happpened to Mutava Musyimi..you should have asked what happened to Kiraitu Murungi…Kivutha Kibwana…Mukhisa Kituyi…and Kamau Kuria..These were the Human Rights Gurus and civil society leaders in the 1990s during Moi’s rule..???
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Are we talking about the 12th of December or the 12 of June next year…
A protest would be in order….from a country whose MPs are some of the best paid in the world, whose economy is coming out of a very rough patch due to contentious elections (which were not really contentious to anyone with half a brain), whose people are some of the hardest working in the world, and whose president still sees it fit to proclaim a public holiday over the election of ANOTHER COUNTRY’S PRESIDENT….yes a protest is in order!
Tell me when.
tallash
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Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:08:40 +0300 [09:08:40 AM CST]
From: tallash kantai
Subject: Re: 12th June demonstrations
DEMOSTRATE!
If the MPs have turned their backs on the electorate by not only arrogantly raising their salaries but also heartlessly refusing to pay taxes the latter must realise that it has been heartlessly abandoned.
A peaceful civil disobedience will ensure justice is delivered to the public. The lawmakers should and must be the first among citizens to ensure the laws of the land are obeyed.
Let the people demonstrate justice on the 12th December 2008 since there is nobody representing them.
DR. ODIDA OKUTHE.
Hello my Country Men and Women,
Peaceful revolutions have changed many countries in the past and history tell this as much. We cannot cheat ourselves by hoping that these politicians, who are our current MPs, ministers, president and top notch civil servants who are their hand-picked cronies will help us out of the crisis. we have to, as Kenyans, do it ourselves.
12th December should be the first step to start this peaceful struggle – it is the day we got our independence from the colonialists who were white. It is the same day, we have to start the process of getting rid of the black colonialist.
My suggestion: Let all Kenyans of all goodwil who dearly pay their taxes and are feeling the pinch of buying Unga at Kshs 120 per day gather at a separate venue and demand that these leaders resign so that we can get our Kenya back. (Let the other group, who do not want to pay taxes on their fat salaries, plus their cronied civil servants gather at a separate venue). In this way, we will be sending a powerful message and at this fora, we can look into and discuss prospective ways of moving on with the protest. These separate gatherings should be replicated elsewhere across our Republic.
If we can paralyse activities and disrupt peacefully the flow of services then there has to be a compromise and believe it my fellow citizen this time it would not be a compromise between the two politicians who are both living extravagantly on your sweat but it would be a compromise between this meagre 3% of Kenyans controlling 90% of Kenyan resources on the one hand with the remaining struggling, poor, dying, sick, 97% of Kenyans living on the balance of 10% of Kenyan resources.
Fellow citizen – We can manage it, if we have the will and the courage, we shall overcome and create a better Kenya for all of us tomorrow. If we do not do it now, perhaps we will be no more in few years if not months – remember that 80% of Kenyans cannot afford more than 1 meal a day….the same number of Kenyans cannot afford to mourn relatives staying far places because of the transport costs arising out of fuel prices that are never coming down because it is controlled by the same 3% group…the same number of Kenyans die because we do not have drugs in our hospitals and cannot afford the private clinics…..and remember that the same number of Kenyans cannot anylonger afford to educate their children through to University…
Let us all come together to face this group and the immediate step before 12th Dec that we must consider taking – let us avoid any gatherings called or presided upon by this people because they feel their actions are legitimised by sheer numbers of Kenyans giving them attention. We have to isolate them……KIBERA action was ideal and we need to walk down that road.
Humbly,