Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 11:50:55 -0700 [01:50:55 PM CDT]
From: jbatec@ . . .
Subject: Fw: -: [africa-oped] Biennial Ambassadors/High Commissioners Conferen ce in Kenya
Folks,
Ogego should do a honourable thing, behave like a gentleman, step down and leave Embassy Office of Diplomatic representation in Washington. Whoever is backing him up to fight President Obama are fooling themselves and they should know that Ogego cannot match President Obama by all standards. He cannot force President Obama’s administration to work with him by force if he does not qualify or is disqualified for any reason. He does not understand how protocol works here. His head-swell and doing things in a primitive stupid way will not get him anywhere. He is exposing naivity and stupidity to try to out-do President Obama. What he is doing is a mockery of the highest order. He should advice his employer, that his services are not needed here in the USA.
This should also warn the Coalition Government of Kenya to check their acts……….
Mr. Ogego, should better stop playing cheap Kenyans politics here…….By confrontation and ganging up to embarrass or fight President Obama will not take them anywhere. If they are harbouring a fight (because of guilt concious) with President Obama they should say so in the open. This round about roller coster is headed to no where. Dont play us dummy……….we know all the reasons why they want to nominate a Diaspora representative here in the USA to challenge or be an opponent who will readily serve their backward interests.
Let them get it straight into their derailed heads, whether they kithni or speak in tounges, President Obama is the President of the United States of America………..
Cheers!!!!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
From: Dickens Odhiambo
Subject: -: Biennial Ambassadors/High Commissioners Conferen ce in Kenya
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 12:43 PM
Ndugu Abonyo,
Why waste time and Ogego already knows who he will accept to be his mouthpiece in this Diaspora Political Party. The Balozi here in DC is playing Politics and he should vaccate office and plunge himself into Siasa in Kenya and not here. I wish him luck with his politically naive pupils drawn from Largo MD, Atlanta and Minnesota.
Odhis (DC)
—–Original Message—–
From: barack abonyo
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 11:25 PM
Subject: RE: Biennial Ambassadors/High Commissioners Conference in Kenya
Since USA is a very large constituency I would like to suggest that regional nomination be conducted first and that the regional nominees are the ones to choose one who can represent the whole of United States.
Barack
From: gonyachae@ . . .
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 13:34:09 -0700
Subject: Biennial Ambassadors/ High Commissioners Conference in Kenya
To all esteemed members of the forum,
Here is an update of the Biennial Ambassadors/ High Commissioners Conference in Kenya nomination.
* One person will be nominated
* The ONE person will be nominated from the following regions:
1. USA,
2. Mexico
3. Colombia
In the coming few days you will see posting of the criteria for nominating the candidate. In liaison with other Diaspora community leaders in all the three countries we will come up with a criterion that must be free and fair to all.
Nyachae Ondimu
FOR THE ELECTION OF US DIASPORA LEADERS CAN BE COORDINATED BY THE AMBASSADOR BUT HE SHOULD NOT
INFLUENCE THE ELECTION PROCESS .
SOME OF US,ARE TRYING TO BE TOO HARSH WHEN JUDGING
AMBASSADOR,OGEGO’S PERFORMANCE.SO FAR THE AMBASSADOR HAS PERFORMED GOOD WORK SINCE THE FORMATION OF COALITION GOVERNMENT.WE SHOULD NOT
HOLD GRUDGE OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING NARC GOVERNMENT
SINCE OGEGO HAS A CIVIL SERVANT WAS SINGING THE SONG
OF KIBAKI AND TUJU.
FOR THE SAKE OF LUO ,I APPEAL TO OUR LUOS IN US WHO ARE AGAINST OGEGO TO GO THINK TWICE WHEN CRITICIZING AND
DISMISSING HIM. THIS YOUR BEHAVIOUR MADE THE LUOS TO
LOOSE IN THE FIRST KENYA GOVERNMENT WHEN ODINGA AND
MBOYA FOUGHT EACH OTHER.WE SHOULD MOTIVATE THE AMBASSADOR TO KEEP RELATIONSHIP WITH USA PRESIDENT
POSITIVE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. AS KENYANS IN THE US DIASPORA ,WE SHOULD KNOW THAT OBAMA IS US PRESIDENT,
AND CULTURALLY AND OTHERWISE HE IS AN AMERICA. THEREFORE,LET KENYANS IN US NOT INVOLVE OBAMA IN OUR
PETTY AND MEANINGLESS POLITICS WHICH DOES NOT HAD ANY
VALUE AT ALL.
TO IMPROVE
This is Ambassador Peter Ogego speaking at World Affairs Council:
http://fora.tv/2008/02/26/Ambassador_of_Kenya_H_E__Peter_Ogego
The Ambassador, like many other African men/women leaders, must be neutral to the boss who let him keep this job, thus, allowing him to earn a living to feed his family. Otherwise, he may end up jobless, living in one of the many slums found in many towns in Kenya. Alternatively, he may opt to go earn a living somewhere outside Kenya like many other Kenyan intellectuals who have escaped Kenya. So, when Ambassador Ogego speaks, he conveys the message of the man who appointed him to the job and pays his salary!!
In many African countries like Kenya, the educated people have been killed or are forced to live in foreign lands. Mr. Moi routinely sent the member of the GSU to the University of Nairobi campuses to beat/kill/arrest the students. Kenya, like many Africa states, covertly tells it citizens that educated people who have opposing voices are not welcomed in their territories. It is difficult to determine whether this view has been forced upon them the powers whose interest they serve in the background!
Just the other day, the Shell Corporation paid $15.5M for collaborating with former Nigerian military junta in hanging a bunch of Nigerians who dared raise their voices against what Shell was doing in Nigeria. The people hanged were educated. One would hope that a patriotic leader might side with his fellow citizens who peacefully raise concerns about the wrongs observed instead of lynching them.
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-06-09-shell-pays-out-15.5m-over-sarowiwa-killing
What emerges here is that African leaders are merely security guards for multinational corporations or other foreign entities that pay to keep them in power. They faithfully perform their duties even if the masters turn against and kill or take them to The Hague! These African elites cannot speak for themselves because none of the words coming out of their mouths are their own. Like Ambassador Ogego, they dare not stray away from the talking points fed to them from the mouths of the masters; else, they will be out of the job or worse!
The British used to govern Kenya through the chiefs. Nowadays, it is done through a favored tribe. This favored tribe must rain in other tribes by picking a flunky from every tribe under it. These tribal flunkies have very special qualities, the major one being the willingness to do or say practically anything to earn a living or stay alive.
Africans must recognize the fact that their so called leaders are not there to serve their interest. Otherwise, tribalism, poverty, disease, genocide and under-development could not have been exponentially growing in a continent that is blessed with tons of natural resources.
Anyone with some little brain must be wondering why African leaders must be selling thousands and thousands acres of land to foreigners while the citizens they claim to protect are hopelessly rotting in filthy slums. These elites are merely mouth pieces or tools for foreign powers who govern through them. They are merely policemen who must keep the orders and watch carefully what they say!