Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:22:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: jbatec@ . . .
Subject: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya
Folks,
A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila Odinga. It is unfortunate that he cannot share his wealth to donate some of it to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to improve lives. All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and powerful to grease his family. He will silence anyone who dares him, and all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga. Anything Raila goes in Luo Nyanza.
This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the Community there are driven to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type. This is why he colluded to let go Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means. It is considered a done deal what Raila says to the Luos. He will continue to sell Luos like Slave Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the loot. He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. He cheated Kibera people to wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of Kenya’s well equiped and trained APs. Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause trouble at Migingo. Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will never be told the story of Migingo ever again.
If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you will remain hanging on the fence the
rest of your life. But if you are educated, you will die from frustration and marginalization. That is not what we want in the Millenium Development achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa. PM Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority lives, because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza.
A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their stuff cut, then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said. PM Raila make men pee in their pants. I dont like that……….
What a shame…….Watch this…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009
A tale of despair in Africa’s largest slum
Andrew Mwanguhya
A quarter of Nairobi’s population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew Mwanguhya
You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair at the absence of vegetables.
With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less’ figures…you curse your bosses for not increasing your salary.
You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its poor quality and down-market presentation.
Just don’t worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa’s biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni.
I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings.
Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that hovered over our planned trip.
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Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA
Even Opondo wasn’t sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, judging from his formal dressing.
He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal dressing.
The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start our journey – using a public service bus from Kencom terminus – to Kibera, a settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre.
It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi’s population, with an estimated population density of 2000/hectare.
On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone!
The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on … at angles only known to drunkards.
Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. Ironically, all our clothes were clean.
As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway line that connects Kenya to Uganda.
This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake Victoria – Migingo Island.
Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway line. As if they were trains.
Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William Shakespeare: “Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart.”
Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where’. The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little left.
Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines.
Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are unattended.
Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into union with the thick mud.
But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong’ people at their `opportune’ time.
In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company.
“Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?” rapped the two in unison.
It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us.
“Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister
Raila Odinga’s guests. What exactly do you want?” asks Opondo.
“You just take our pictures… where are you taking them? Just give us tea and we will have no problems with you,” the chaps retort, staggering.
“Fine, then,” Opondo said, “you follow us if you wish but you won’t know where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours.”
The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity.
The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera.
Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to software, Kibera has it all.
We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a movie and football theatre advertising that night’s English Premier League game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it.
We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o’clock. This time, everyone seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless.
After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing the next day, the poorest of the hygiene – I now look at the world differently.
And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting Kibera slum.
http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:17:59 0300
From: Mark Kiyaka
Subject: Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya
It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a “Kenyan in Diaspora” like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense.
Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it.
I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader.
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 05:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: elijah mugah
Subject: Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya
Folks,
Surely, something is wrong here! Where is the Luo community coming into this Kibera story. These are desperate expressions of failures and vagabonds.
I have to admit that I have never ever met since I was born, PM Raila Odinga lecturing/instructing me not do whatever I have to. That goes for my family too and very close relatives.
Where do you guys meet him to herded like goats to wherever destinations? Can the author tell this forum and Luo community at large in which public baraza/forum Raila stopped him/her from achieving their full potential.
I have interacted with people across this country and none of them has ever told me that their leaders ever come to distribute their wealth to community members.
Surely, if you are waiting or looking up for Raila to share his billions, then you better go to fasting mode!
In fact ,one wonders whether the residents of Kibera are all luos to .Kibera slums just like Mathere sprang because of government neglect.The luos who are living in kibera are hardly 1/4 of the total population of kibera.For your information ,the majority of population in kibera are renters.The houses in kibera belong to landlords and landladies who are not ready to improve their houses.The sprang of slums in kenya started long time ago even before Raila joined politics.It is because lopsided economic development which lacks human face.Raila can not change within one year he has been in the government.
I do not whether raila is a millionaire as per your artcle ,Judy . If it is true that is all that rich despite the frustration he had faced for all these years then we must thank him for hard work.
Raila started some of his companies with very little capital and through his hard work ,these companies are competing with some outstanding foreign firms. We must be proud of raila because economic forseight he has demonstrated.This is a big challenge to some us who just complian of foreign firms. At the moment raila is one the few kenya industrialists. All these ,raila
has worked for them .Many occassion,raila has advised our people to be practical by venturing into businesses. We should not blame raila if one decides to wait for manna from heaven.
Raila is a practical man in whatever he does include politics.He is the only leader who can bring real change for everybody in the country.
Odinga’s family has suffered right from Kenyatta times and despite all those suffering,the family has managed to have a number of educated children.Odinga’s children were denied
employments and most of them had to get employments in foreign lands.Now when their time reaches ,some idlers are blaming raila for having secure employment to his sister who
is even over quailify for the post. An international scholar,Wenwa is even too senior for the post. We should know wenwa was oustanding lecterer in one of best university in UK.
She is a professor in chemistry at nairobi university.
For a long time,i used to admire your articles because they were full of facts. But of late, judy ,you are showing alot of emotion and stating blanket statements without facts to support
them.
Finally, we should show some respect to raila because this man alone has suffered for this country more than any leader. Individually and collectively,we should get away of helping our brothers and sisters in slums and everywhere instead of waiting for raila to help everybdy. We should talk of how many people you have helped who are not related to you.Luos are help to uplift themselves. Let us be serious people.
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:32:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: jbatec@ . . .
Subject: Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya
Joe et all,
I am not giving desparate expression and as well, I am not a vagabond.
I am a married responsible family person sensible, alert and sober.
I am a political, socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless, commenting to seek popular joint input to a solution from a spiralling problem. I am not a wonderer, nor a person of no fixed aboard.
I am a person of sound judgement, equiped with calculative move to save God’s creation from perishing in poverty. I am my brothers keeper. When he hurt, I hurt. I share the pain of the have nots so we can together find a solution to serious poverty affecting the whole Kenya and Africa in general. Poverty is something the poor did not choose, that befell Africa.
It is our responsibility with those in like minds, to plan to strategize logistics for means and ways to get Africa from poverty.
This is an act of calling. If you are not called to do such, you cannot understand, and so you cannot be a leader. A leader shares by example and shows the rest the way to do or get things done. Political Leadership requires that a person solicits for ways and means and together lobby so that his/her Constituency or Community do not starve or lack basic needs, and that they are economically stable. He must in a popular participation work along his/her Community to prepare a plan for development. A leader who is incapable of doing this must be challenged you like it or not. This is the principle of fact.
PM Raila gets majority votes from both Kibera and Luo Nyanza. I have every right to challenge him in what I think he is not doing right, or remind him that he needs to do things differently to accommodate CHANGE, that which will bring about improved life style and security. He truely does not need to dish out his money, but he can afford to employ service oriented personnel to help him manage his Constituency as well as his Community at large. PM Raila must show good leadership. He must tell us what is going on with Migingo. Why there are no development funds taken to the Youth and Women for development in both Kibera and Luo Nyanza. Why he is not coordinating effectively with the Professionals, why he feels comfortable eating by himself and his family without consideration of those sunk in poverty? Why he is doing things in a shoddy way? Why he does not collaborate and follow with what the masses want? We want to know why he keeps pushing people to the wall instead of showing Love and Caring gesture?
He knows Coalition Government System or Machinery is not working, why does he keep shifting gears and telling a different story from what people see? He also knows that there is no way Local Tribunal can work, why does he sticks his gun to remain with Kibaki in the mud?
This is not a Kibera problem alone, or a Kenyan problem, but a world concern.
Show Case:
PM Raila could have used his position in the coalition to influence pressure in the utilization of Youth Donor Fund, or Women Development Fund dished out by the World Bank or International NGO funding to provide soft loans for small business entreprises or Trading to improve lives. He could have utilized the UN funding for Water and Sanitation, roads, and for agriculture to provide enough food and improve economy. These are reasons why I am concerned and why the International Community are pulling away from him.
Before Uhuru read the Budget, there were unutilized big amount balance of funds, that they hurriedly spend carelessly for unwarranted needs yet there were some women dying out of hunger, food prices were unaffordable, basic needs were unaccessible, avoidable diseases were killing people aimlessly for lack of drugs.
Displaced Persons were living in pathetic environment not suitable for human beings.
These so called riches are made from corrupt deals, if investigated, the same will be proved to be true. There are evidence of Donor Funds embezzled by Political Leaders, and using their positions, transferred, and shared public funds in the loot.
This is not news. This is equally serious crime against humanity.
In this case, I am not calling for shots here, I am calling for consideration and dialogue.
PM Raila must be told in no uncertain terms, that this is a CHANGE generation, and we must look at things differently. He must accept criticism and want to change. He cannot continue to do things in a shoddy ways and expect people to keep quite. As a leader, he needs his Constituency and his Community more than anything else.
He must be seen to strive for their livelihood.
He must work together and motivate professionals not knocking them off or, not just rewarding or making job offers or appointments for his family members, but looking accross the Community for talents and skills and expert characters. This is because he will need this people again and again as long as he is in leadership. Work alongside and plan with the Youth, Men and Women and for Education, Health giving options for informed sources, so when election comes, people have energy to campaign for his second or third chance. He must be attentive and be a listener.
This culture of “ngato ok tal wuod jaduong” is nonsense. I believe, we have just a few like Joe, and I hope they will catch up with time, when they see things move from a different angle and are taking shape in the process of improving lives of many. We are tired of seing Africans keep soiling in poverty yet they have the resources that have built the world.
I am open for challenging critisms and I will respond accordingly, but will not respond to insults.
I respond because, from this kind of deliberations, we are learning and sharing how we can tackles and find solutions to issues and problems that face us as Kenyans. It is no longer a problem for Luo, Kalenjin or Kikuyu or Mkamba or Mijikenda, but this problem is spiralling like a cyclone, like a bush fire headed and ready to consume the whole Nation sparing no one, even the rich will be affected and consequently the whole world.
When there is no security all are affected equally the same and this applies each and everyone
when there is no proper planning for development to all poor and rich.
Thank you all,
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
— On Thu, 7/2/09, Sir Williams wrote:
From: Sir Williams
Subject: Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya
Cc: mugahjoe@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:41 AM
Bwana Joe,
I agree with you on what you have said, but many people including me wonder how in the world can Luos continue following this politically? Is there no other Luo who can steer the community to greatness other than the odinga family? there are many educated Luos around the world who could help your community better than the Odingas and they don’t have to be Millionaires. But again, this is Kenya we are talking about and the Country is rotten! The army should bundle Kibaki into an helicopter and depot him to Tanzania (Honduras style) and have someone rule the country. Viongozi hawa bure kabisa!
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: David ochwangi
Guys:
Mark first:
Man, wake up and smell some coffee, the medieval times of last century are way gone and evil only succeeds when good men don’t speak up. It is a moral imperative that we, especially today, speak up against evil when we see it particularly evil of our leaders. Of course it is not a sin to be rich, generally riches are considered God’s favor; however, in this case people are rightly concerned about the PM’s wealth amassed over a relatively short time, almost all of it while representing Langata. We know more than we can reveal but if Kenya’s history is any indication, the PM is yet one of those who cannot account for their wealth. That said, here are the sins, if you wanna call call it that, I think my friend Judy is referring to:
It is a sin to amass all that wealth on the backs of the poor through fraudulent conveyance as Raila did with the Molasses plant in Kisumu. Even the locals whose land the plant sit on were asked to contribute to the acquisition and promised a 5% equity in the plant, the Odingas became the majority shareholders and partnered with a European company to start production and the company became a source of immense wealth most concentrated on the Odingas; the community, who actually owned the plant still live in squalor! (remember the Molasses plant was a Cooperative endeavor started by the late Dr. Robert Ouko to benefit the Luo community as a whole and not just the Odingas), So if that is what you refer to as hard work or truthful, perhaps you need to review your facts again
It is a sin to lead a people in perpetual darkness! Let’s face it, the PM is a popular man because of his charisma but more so because of his family name. Most, if not all Kenyans revered the patriarch Jaramogi O.Odinga and yet in the 15 or so the PM has been MP of Langata, the only thing I have heard him brag about is that he is the MP of “Africa’s largest slum” which unfortunately is inhabited largely by Luos who follow him loyally, I mean it is almost as if the entire community would jump off a cliff with the PM if he did order them to; are you here now telling us that in all that time the PM has been an MP and became a Billionaire, he couldn’t figure some way to uplift some, not all, but some in Kibera? Point to one notable development initiative by PM Odinga for his people bearing in mind he wants to be president of the entire republic, name one! Give us some reference point my friend that we can emulate nationally. You get my point?
It is a sin to hoodwink an entire population almost to the brink of self destruction; the PM Odinga is the epitome of the proverbial “cutting the nose to spite the face” because he single handedly led a revolt that brought so much destruction and disruption to so many people in an otherwise peaceful nation. He did it to get a head, not many Luos are benefiting from Odinga’s self elevation and yet they died to get him his position, he elevated his brother and just as recently as last week, his sister to the Consular General to the US, tell me he couldn’t get a more qualified and deserving young Luo man/woman in kibera to serve in that position and skip his Chemistry Professor sister who probably was doing OK to begin with! I mean whose interests do you really think the PM is serving? YOURS? REALLY?!
It is a sin to reward people whom you know have blood in their hands. Raila knew he was making a deal with the devil when he aligned himself with the likes of Ruto in misguided hopes of capturing the presidency. Ruto was a snake and Raila knew, Ruto turned on President Moi even when it was clear Ruto owes Moi his very political existence. What was he thinking to sanction such a murderous character to start the evil they committed against innocent Kenyans? Raila has a record of “breaking up” stuff anywhere he goes, he broke up his father’s party, broke up his own LDP, broke up ODM, brought up MAJIMBO as a way to divide and rule Kenya; Raila has now backed himself into a corner and as hard as he tries to get extricate himself, the Rutos of the world are gunning after him, point being, we as a nation must say no to such blatant and felonious machinations by our leaders, we shouldn’t allow ourselves to be guinea pigs and our country to be a laboratory for all these foolish experiments; it is the kind of stuff that has continually sank our nation in rot for decades and we shouldn’t continue to enable it any more.
Judy:
I don’t know what to say to you but I am inclined to think that somehow you have had an epiphany about Raila; be that as it may, I would hate to be the one piling up on the PM but I must ask you; what took you so long to see these things? I mean the evidence has been there; did you not know or have you been following blindly and following the masses as is the trade mark with Kenyans? Perhaps if we all spoke up sooner, some of the harm and damage we as a nation are suffering may have been avoided…have you seen the news lately and what Raila’s appointees are up to, i.e. Prof.. Sambili and ODM Chairman Kosgey? I mean the old Professor MOI text book stuff is back under raila’s leadership, replacing competent staff with fellow Kalenjins without following any rules or procedures; what about Ruto in agriculture starving the nation and giving the tendering contracts to his kinsmen; and please don’t tell me PM odinga is not aware of what is going on or that he didn’t sanction it; he allowed it, he practices it and that his definition of leadership…who wants to vote for this?
Now sometimes I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as Kenyans in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title and didnt get an answer or did I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a chairman, treasurer etc? It would be nice to
know if we in Diaspora have such a committee to represent our views etc.
Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do you give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out and why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and all…. you still think this way.. Hmmmm
For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having gone through PEV it needs to start from ourselves.
Janet
Hi Jbatec,
Although i don’t come from Luo Nyanza i tend to disagree with you, You are the kind of people who are worse than Raila in our society. There was an American president who told Americans “Before you can ask what America has done for you ask yourself what have you done for america”.Now the power is with people try to educate the people in these forum
what they can do to impower themselves rather than keep on complaining what Raila is not doing there is no way even with all his wealth he can be able to provide for Langata and the larger Nyanza.A bout the cut it was largely advocated by the medical research, and by the way if you think something is right for your community whats wrong with him telling them to do so, In kenya most of the tribes are doing it why not lous perhaps they have been thinking about it only that they did not have away to start it on their own and these is true because i know so many luos who had had a cut before Raila told them.Follow current affairs and you will know that if you are determine to bring sanity in kenya you can madasgascar preso was a DJ you can dislodge Raila and become a man of
the hour.
Cheers
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:10:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: ndebele okoth
Judy you’re becoming too personal.
Kibera slum or poverty therein is not creation of Raila. Luo Nyanza have elected PM’s in parliament, and therefore you should not wholesomely put all the blame to an individual, however, he is wrong to keep manipulating Kenyans towards accepting the local tribunal instead of The Hague.
— On Fri, 7/3/09, Judy Miriga wrote:
Janet,
Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni. Utaendelea ku wonder.
Ukistaajabu ya Musa, utaona ya Firauni…….
Sema utachoka huni babaishi…….Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu……… tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende.
Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent……
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:05:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: edellotieno@ . . .
Subject: Re:Judy Mariga “Diaspora spokeperson ” very disturbing!
Dear YPs
I don’t know who this Judy Mariga is. I have been following some of her comments on this forum which she always signs off as “Diapora Spokesperson “and i must say some are really disturbing!
The Kenyan diaspora is a really large population spread all over the world and it is such a bammer that some lone ranger somewhere declares herself our spokes person and goes ahead to write some ridiculous statements!
Anyway to cut the long story short Ms.Mariga since you are “an socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless” according to of your threads!I wonder WHY you attempt to intimidate and even insult Janet with the below e-mail for questioning the LEGITIMACY of your title.Secondly this is a young professionals forum to exchange ideas, thoughts and resources in a civil manner!If you get jittery and start hurling insults just because someone is not in agreement with you i am tempted to think you are in the wrong place!
Thank you
Edell Otien
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 03:58:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Janet mafunga
Subject: Re: Judy Mariga “Diaspora spokeperson ” very disturbing!
N’importe quoi Woiiii,,, Now there are her true colours.
Mama, wow you have totally gone overboard with your email. Your email below is unacceptable and rude and YOU, mama…. are not fit to be in whatever position you are.
If you react like this to anyone who questions you what kind of a leader do you think you are. How different are you from the ‘leaders’ you keep telling off on the forums and other forums I have seen u contribute to?
You definately do not stand for the views of Kenyans in Diaspora because I highly doubt we in the diaspora need someone like you running off her mouth just because someone questioned her.
And if you cannot handle critism as a ‘leader’ mama,,,,, u need to drop it..
My reason for asking how u became the ‘Diaspora Spokesperson’ is I am also a Kenyan in Diaspora for the last many years. And it definately is my right to know when someone purports to speak on MY behalf. If you cannot handle people questioning you… then change ur title Madam to ‘whatever city it is that voted for you spokesperson’ Put to good use, a Diaspora Spokesperson can do us alot of good. But you mama are proving to be like some politicians I know who when power gets into their heads start behaving clandey…
Before we through out the baby with the bath water, i think Judy is saying something
One, there is clearly a generational change in leadership the world over. The leaders of yester years are slowly reliquishing positions and the PM will not be any diffrence.Does he have a duputy in lou land who possibly he has trained whom he can leave when he exits? there is your answer.Never mind even if its his son, Castro, but somebody should be around just in case. Kikuyus have uhuru, peter kenneth, kiunjuri and lately mbugua. Other are the likes of mungatana, kalwales,etc . Kalenjins are all youthfull no wonder they dont listen to the PM.We must groom a young leader.
The blood that was shed during post elections was needless for the PM position.Nobody was supposed to have died even for the presidency, leave alone PM.No leader worth his name can send jobless youths to fight with stones to an armed police force. THIS WAS JUST A WANTON LOSS OF LIFE NEEDLESSLY. President Obama in his compaign swore never to send American soldiers in harms way unless for very worthy courses,these goes also for Ruto who helped burn,kill and uproot thousands of kikuyus only for agriculture ministry which was held earlier by a kalenjin. Kalenji x kalenjin =kalenjin,and whoever sent mungiki to kill the luos in naivasha wheather uhuru ,karume whoever, these are not leaders.
2012 is beckoning and i can assure you that nobody will want to join PM, RUTO is running away, and he runs with the kalenjin voteand a lesson for the PM never to go to bed with the devil,. kikuyus will never vote PM , kambas will never,SO WHERE ARE WE GOING .
We can bury our heads in the sand but these old leaders will collapse in office one by one and muthaura has set the pace,is he 65? i dont know, men climbing in their 60 s cannot finish peeing, leave alone leading , and the PM is in these age bracket.
These lady Judy has balls, enlighten the community, poverty is ungodly,jesus wore a seamles robe even into his death which the soldiers coveted and casted lots to win it,the prodigal son when he returned home his father orderd that he gets a robe, a gold ring, shoes and a big party.
Lets not question the diaspora spokes person, dont hit the messanger, listen to the messange
god bless kenya
We have other sons , groom them hahhaa
Judy, I have been following the discussion you started about ‘kibera & Raila” and how your message has deteriorated to nothing but personal attacks to Raila…as if you have issues with him.
Kenya has many MP’s and don’t tell me those have improved their constituents lives esp. building houses, businesses for them!!
And instead of writing stuff on the web.. why don’t you get in touch with Raila himself…since you’re “Diaspora spokesperson” you should have direct link to him.
And yes…how did you get the position as “Diaspora Spokesperson?”.
Am in the diasphora and have never hard of this bithch called Judy Whatever.In your capacity as a spokes person what have you done in your village?Built a communial tiolet of feeding the opharns?Dont ask what Raila has done ask yourelf what you have done to yourself and the community you left behind
I’m a staunch supporter of the right hon. PM Raila. I like his politics very much. He has both God given and personal powers that he can convince majority both internally and externally. About Kibera, he should at least spare a fraction of his wealth to develop the place. I’m for him come 2012 general election.
All said and done; the people of Kibera like any other slum dwellers in the world, needs viable and meaningful economic means, which will pull them out of the poverty hole that they are in now. Beyond politics, I truly believe Kibera needs long term strategies to fight poverty and not quick fix which burns out like papers. I won’t blame a child who blames his father for lack of food. All preceding factors has to put into context before that conclusion. Am sure that every Kibera dweller, has a fraction of their feelings which tells them that may be in one way or another Raila was in a better position at least to dent their miseries in whichever level. I don’t expect him to use his money as hand-outs, but for sure he can lobby locally and internationally, to initiate programs and projects that will improve life in Kibera. Few weeks ago I visited Kibera for a youth conference. Its clear that a lot has been done there but more effort is needed to at least effect some notable changes. It does not feel right to find close to 300 people using one pit latrine, just few miles from capital city of Nairobi. Sewage flowing at expense of young children and food stuff. Rampant rape cases due to lack of lighting at night.
From 1980, the amount of money that has been raised for Kibera – internationally and locally, could have transform Kibera into a city. But, we all know Kenyan leaders, when it comes to resources meant for the poor. Their affinity to use them ‘in other ways’ is way beyond measure. In my view Raila alone can never deliver Kibera out of misery; even Moses did not manage to reach Canaan, he needed other helpers. Question; is Raila ready to gloom ‘young foot solders’ to work with him in fighting for those he represent? . Political good will has to accompany the hard work that is demonstrated by Kibera people for any change to be noted. I know some people has used Kibera as ‘human zoo’ for economic and political gains. Between you and me, what is our role to see that Kibera receives a change that we are know it needs??