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.