from Judy Miriga
Folks,
The Status Quo, business as usual in total disregard of the New Constitutional order for Reform Strategy…..It has to be Their Way or No Way, the Old Constitutional way of the “Birds of the Same Feathers”, the Cartels way……No Way for New Constitution…….It is the Collition Regional and International Network of Special Interests “Public Kupe” Wheeler Dealer of “Intellectual Property Thieving”…….Cant you connect the dots….???
It is the reason there is no boarder police patrol in Kenya………exposing insecurity to local communities for thuggery……..MoU between Kibaki, the Ethiopian President, Raila, Moi, Ugandan President, Congo and Somali leadership. The reason too much killings, poverty, pain and suffering of public with stealing of public land, Natural Resources e.g. natural gas, Oil and Gas, cobalt, steel, copper, titanium, uranium, Gold and Diamond.
This should stop……….Life, however simple, is valuable and important. Must be treated with dignity. It is the reason why public vote for leadership to plan, budget and provide services in a shared balanced manner. If they cant do it the way majority public wants, they must be forced out by popular voice of reason and ultimately they must be rejected through public consensus ………..The Power of the People…….
Haya Connect the dots and Compare notes……….ask yourself why Kibaki loathe to work with official Kenya’s Armed Forces in the likes of Kenya Army, Kenya Airforce and Kenya Navy……….it is because their uniforms are being used by the Mungiki and Al-Shabaab marcinaries gang………….pretending to be Kenya Armed Forces………It is the reason why Kenya Police cannot be overhauled, even after National Reform and the New Constitutional Order to RESTRUCTURE THE POLICE FORCE, to weed the bad guys of Mungiki from the real Kenya Administration Police and Kenya’s Armed Forces…….
It is business as usual folks,……….Do your Math, it is as simple as 2 + 2 = 4
Thank you all,
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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East African Business Week (Kampala)
Kenya: Country to Hold Regional Infrastructure Meet
Ngugi Njoroge
19 September 2011
Nairobi, Kenya — Kenya will later this month be host to a major high level investors’ conference that will seek to highlight ongoing infrastructural projects in the region thereby attracting investment.
The two day conference involving all the major regional trading blocks including Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, (COMESA), East African Community, (EAC) Southern African Development Community, (SADC), and Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD) will take place in Nairobi between September 28 and 29.
President Mwai Kibaki will officially open the tripartite and IGAD development conference.
An estimated 33 relevant government ministries from the countries served by the Lamu, Djibouti, Northern, Central and Berbera transport corridors will attend with delegations expected from the ministries of Transport, Roads, Information, Energy and Roads among other minstries.
“The objective of the conference is to advance the highlighted projects toward feasibility and bank-ability allowing investors from the private sector, governments and donor community to finance such projects through institutional arrangements such as direct private sector investment, Public Private partnerships and public expenditure,” said Jason Kap-Kirwok the Kenya country director of TradeMark East Africa, a multi-donor funded agency which provides support for increased regional trade and economic integration in East Africa.
Kap-Kirowk said the conference hopes to attract an estimated Sh 2.7 trillion (US$ 3 billion) in investment capital towards priority roads, railways and ports infrastructural projects in the region.
Mr. Gabriel Kaunda the deputy chief economist, in the ministry of Kenyan Trade said the conference is highly critical coming at a time when the world is being faced by a global financial crisis which made donor financing of projects almost inconceivable.
“In the wake of such challenges regional governments are putting emphasis on regional financing solutions through the creation of meaningful partnerships and the conference will help us highlight on this,” said Kaunda.
Kaunda added that the conference would also help in exploring avenues for regional countries to expand their technical capacity to implement regional projects.
Borderless Kenya!
Uploaded by NTVKenya on Sep 20, 2011
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The government has often hastened to assure that Kenya’s borders are secure whenever there is a threat or attack. But are they really safe? Judging by the Merille incursions into Todonyang, not once, but twice in the span of two months, Kenya’s furthest flung borders are no safer than if there were no border at all. O ne border that the government claims is even closed is the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia border point, or border point one as it is famously known. John-Allan Namu has just been at that border point and reports on a wide-open space guarded by just a handful of police officers.
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I wonder what are kenyan and Ethiopians are doing there…And why is this reporter is saying no mans land while Mandera to garissa and Mandera to Jigjiga is Pure Somalia…i was born wajir i don’t consider myself as kenyan,I am somalian..My kenyan documents i just destroyed them five? years ago….people think i am crazy ..No I my grandparents were Born wajir ..They were somalis will always be somalis..My Grandpa left his somalian ID ..imagine wajir was Somalian country b4 colonies….
OMG Kenya lacks? seriousness.
sandezack 21 hours ago
i? wish ethiopian president was smart enough to take over kenya…i would be much happier being ethiopian than kenya…kibakis security polici is was than the watchy who used to guard our home
simbakafiri 1 day ago
This happens becoz we have the most useless president…I can’t wait for? that toad to get out of office next year…our country is really insecure with kibaki being in power..bure kabisa!
bethukip 1 day ago
@mytime81 if the kenyan government doesnt even take security seriously, i doubt they can? harness river water for food production.
Environmentalists warn against large-scale farming
Published on 17/09/2011
By LILIAN ALUANGA
Agricultural projects, changing climate and a rise in population are some of the factors being blamed for the drying of one of Kenya’s top fresh water wetlands.
Known for its rich diversity of birdlife, wild animals and plants, the Tana Delta wetland is home to thousands of pastoralists, farmers and fisherfolk whose livelihoods depend on activities that are supported by this ecological feature, which is now at risk of being turned into one huge farmland.
At Dide Waride, a wetland area, Hussein Gona is worried that herds of the pastoralist Orma community in the area may not have enough pasture this season.
Gona is standing on a dry portion of land and points to hundreds of cattle, sheep and goats scattered across hundreds of acres of land.
“Usually, during the rainy season, goats can stand in water that is chest-deep,” he says. When the rains subside the area becomes an important dry season grazing site for hundreds of thousands of livestock.
Frequent droughts are, however, posing a new challenge as herds of livestock that are not resident to the area converge in the delta.
“Herders are coming from elsewhere to graze their cattle here. They are coming from as far as Ethiopia, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera, and Bura. If this is not controlled we will not have much left for our livestock,” adds Gona.
“All the water is gone. I blame irrigation projects in this area to some extent, because I believe they have sucked the area dry,” he says of the now seasonal wetland.
In Salama location, farmers are blaming the canals and dykes constructed in the 1990s to support irrigation projects in the area.
Ox-bow lake
There is talk that a good portion of land that was converted into farmlands was once part of the wetland.
“Flood waters had natural channels through which they would flow into the wetlands,” says a farmer in the area. The waters often provided good breeding grounds for fish and other aquatic life.
Along the shores of Lake Moa, fisherfolk are counting their losses as a result of dwindling fish stocks in the once raging waters of the Tana that fed the ox-bow lake.
“It is not the same anymore. We now have to seek other means of survival like doing odd jobs in surrounding villages,” says Joseph Otieno.
Also at risk are the dozens of bird species, hippos and crocodiles dependant on the Tana’s wetlands. There are said to be over 300 bird species, which include the endangered Basra reed warbler and Tana River cisticola. Other species are ibises, herons, kingfisher and pelicans. The wetlands also support mangrove forests, grasslands, marshes, woodlands, lakes and bushland.
At the edge of Mpeketoni village in Ozi location, a section of the land on which mangrove trees stands looks dry and cracked.
“This is just a fraction of what is really going on here,” says Omar Ngama.
Salinity in the area has been attributed to a rise in sea level, which some environmentalists link to global climate change. But there is also no denying that the forest has not been spared degradation.
Back in Dide Waride, Gona is musing over the fate of herds that now have to walk dozens of kilometres in search of water and pasture and the effect this may have on their market value and productivity.
“Over 60 per cent of the meat in Mombasa, Malindi and other areas in Coast Province is supplied by these herds. If they die then that supply is also cut off,” he says.
Gona, like many other pastoralists, is not too keen on farming and projects geared towards it.
“We have seen irrigation projects started here. They come and promise us jobs and a better life, but in the end we do not benefit,” he says.
Plans to put thousands of hectares under crops like sugarcane and others geared towards the production of biofuels are worrying environmentalists, who insist the delta must be protected at all costs.
Says Prof Odada of the University of Nairobi: “Some of these crops require a lot of water and we must think critically about the effects of growing them in large scale in a wetland area.”