From: Judy Miriga
Folks,
There is no jurisdictional value to Public Wealth for which the forum was on call over Africa’s Economic Forum Meeting where Raila with other African leaders attended in Ethiopia two days ago……..We believe, it is a clear-cut ploy to seriously conspire in economic maneuvres and scheme meant to unscrupulously deprive public mandate to be mutually realized, but as can be seen, even with present prevailing situation where Kenya’s Coalition Government term has expired, leaders still engage in non-atainable explosive deals that continue to build public debts and continue to rise fundamental basic needs to unprecedented level. We believe they are busy providing gateway for special interest to gain ground and where such deals are made unconstitutionally and illegally over Public Wealth and without consultations nor was there adherence followed to benefit Democratic legal order as mandated in constitutional policy ethics for public interest. Our voice of reason demands that transparency and accountability with checks and balances follow an over-view of the same to ascertain viability of its authenticity of the same, so public interest is not overstepped.
Kenya/Africa and the World is facing an unavoidable transition to economic Collapse of the World. This particular transition has with it, promises of most tumultuous and very costly Economic Collapse that humankind has never seen. It is politically a man-made crisis coming from economic imbalances from selfishness and greed from unscrupulous special interest business network of cartels…….where, those who have, have too much, and those who have not, are hopelessly victims of circumstances……..survival for the fittest……..this should not be so……..We need urgent re-organization in order to fix this sorry state-of-affair……..Take leaders who brought us to this state to task to face legal justice for incompliance.
Right now Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya is hanging in the balance, they are currently experiencing the worst drought conditions never seen in 60 years. Tens of thousands of African families have abandoned their homes as they desperately go in search for food and water. Hundreds of thousands of farm animals have died because of the drought. There are too much insecurity in Kenya with explosive Tribal Clashes like there is no Government to provide law and order……..
Dadaab was originally designed to hold 90,000 people, but now over 360,000 precious people are camped there. In addition, approximately 30,000 desperately hungry people are standing outside the fences waiting to be admitted. It is projected that by the end of the year there will be over a half million people living in Dadaab. Sadly, this is just the beginning. According to the United Nations, there are already 10 million people in the region that are facing severe food shortages, and many fear that if the drought continues we could actually see mass starvation in Africa in 2012.
Meanwhile, the price of oil Globally has absolutely soared over the past year. If the price of oil continues to climb, it will become very hard to feed the entire planet. If leaders continue to engage ein unbalanced xcessive deals is should be viewed as totally unacceptable and against the law of governance.
The cost of Production of goods has increasingly risen exorbitantly, workers do not earn enough to supplement rising costs of basic needs such as food or upkeep. Consumer confidence is at its lowest, as economy crumbles. We are witnessing the fabric of society falling apart before our eyes. Small business are finding it difficult to get loans, Chinese and Indians use their unscrupulous wealth and power as Financial Weapon to influence Investment Debts from Africa and the world. The Chinese investment in Africa has eroded reality for livelihood and survival.
Consequences of African Leadership bad economic decisions are hurting the most vulnerable members of African Society the most, and is slowly affecting the Global Village Middle Class society, as Taxpayer money has been transferred to outsource business investment to Africa under Chinese and Indian mission Agency, yet, India and China are busy building their economic power in Gold with other neuclea and mineral resources from Africa, not returning them back to EuroZone economic resources……..This trading entrepreneurship under “Free Trading Enterprise” is therefore profiting China and Indian economy……it is not feasible or sustainable in the EuroZone from where the capital source from Taxpayer originated, nor does it benefit Africa’s public interest from where resource wealth to improve those businesses come from. Only a few of 1% of the unscrupulous Corporate special interest business Cartels and their African Leaders partners do benefit from this “Free Trading” without portfolio of security or regulation measures……and so this impacted the economic collapse as opposed to Mutual common interest that should benefit all stakeholders in the “Give and Take” conducive fair-play proceedure…….This business undertaking most of it relied on Government funding support (from Treasury Bills, Bonds or stimulants backup as capital booster or bail-outs) and yet others go through Ponzi scheme and hedge funding transactions, where Global public facilities and utilities (in Treasury bonds and bills) are used in many forms as collateral and capitals and from it, the business is able to pay 100% gains going as bonuses to CEOs, Lobbyist and business owners, does not provide a balance in stabilizing economic commerce in the business trading. These businesses evade paying taxes and instead, the expenses and debts are paid by ordinary workers and consumers as taxpayers…….as a result, many people are now hurting including large members of Middle Class society, who some are now living in their cars or are sleeping on the streets as Economic situation is soaring and hurting everyone globally, not Africa alone.
According to the World Gold Council, central banks around the globe purchased more gold during the first half of 2011 than they did before…….If Gold comes from Africa, why should Africa be suffering…….yes, it is poor vision with undemocratic bad leadership of corruption from African leaders……….How did China and India get their Gold economic value from if the investment deals are not corrupted……Are these African Leaders making a fairly mutual negotiated dealings for common interest that equally benefit Public Interests…..???……This is why, the Global Economy is facing a serious crisis on the verge of collapse……
Show-Case of Kenya’s Coalition leadership of the two Principles (Kibaki and Raila) are working outside fundamental logical reality of Democratic principles of legal justice where common law through a referendum was promulgated, is beyond comprehension. It is jurisprudence that the law of the New Constitution was put aside and was by ways and means avoided, but instead the Old Constitution sugar-coated with excessive corruption, became the order of the day.
One cannot form a Kangaroo Government and operate away from a constitutional democratic principles to serve Special Interest devoid of Public Interest……. It is against the law…..It is criminal, it violates ethics and abuse public office against human rights dignity, value, virtue and deprives rights to leave a descent and honorable survival and livelihood as the law demands.
Now that Kibaki’s name has featured at the ICC Hague and Raila became mission agent of an illegal and unconstitutional Economic Investment undertaking, they both have lost the mandate for moral Justification, Trust and good-Will to serve the people public of Kenya constitutionally or democratically. Since their term of office also, has officially expired, ended on August 2011, as voice of reason, I call on the world leaders to help save a situation, and jointly with Kenyans both locally and in Diaspora, keep both Kibaki and Raila away from engaging in Public Matters, that they should not return or call back parliament sittings under the Coalition Government. If they do, it will be chaos………as the environment has become fluid they are not able to handle……..A caretaker transitional committee should be constituted urgently to take Reform Agenda to its completion and fruitation in order that Kenyans are ready to go for election according to Reform principles and timetable.
This appeal should not be taken with a pinch of salt as it is an urgent critical situation that must be immediately arrested to save Things Falling Apart……..
The future of Kenya/Africa is in our hands. It depends on sound Democratic Governance with just rule of law. Following the rule of law according to public mandate with transparency and accountability, checks and balances, security of life with long lasting solutions can easily be found and it is an easy fix, but, corruption has eaten fabric of Kenya/Africa’s survival……..where, Special Interest has been put ahead of Public interest.
Kenya’s official request for funding drive underscore anti-poverty for rural development as a priority. It calls for better irrigation, in agriculture, environmental and health security, to balance with infrastructure will provide real promises on emergency food reserves, where early-warning drought information will act as catalyst to help with production and marketing of traditional food crops, so to avoid excessive draught and hungers. It is therefore a serious criminal offense where the involvement of the Coalition Government under the watch of the two Principles have put Kenya in a cross-roads of economic plunder and collapse.
Government foreign assistance funds are meant to fizzle down to the local community to improve situation of drought, poverty, health, education, security and environmental conditions to provide a base for longer-term development agenda for action. This did not happen, but, purposefully avoided by the Coalition government.
The people of Katelembo (for example) for whom such funds were solicited say all that is news to them. They have seen no such help in their district, and in their locality agriculture is dying. They complain that local leaders, such as politicians and legislators, show little interest in Katelembo, unless it is just before elections, when they show up with cheap gifts and bribes in exchange for votes.
Senior officials at the Ministry of Planning and National Development in Nairobi admit to shortcomings in implementing the anti-poverty strategies. The planning minister, Henry Obwocha, says no effort has ever been made to build up food reserves or set up an early warning system anywhere in Kambaland.
Project activities for Government foreign assistance funds are for all regions of Kenya and as well with specifics of the arid and semi-arid lands in the districts of Kirinyaga, Maragwa, Nyandarua, Nyeri and Thika. Co-financed with USAID, AfDB, IFAD, IGAD, IMF, World Bank, with other such grants from the Belgian Fund for Food Security, that seeks to raise food production and income. It also aims to reduce disease through improved health care, sanitation and safe water.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) works with poor rural people to enable them to grow and sell more food, increase their incomes and determine the direction of their own lives. Since 1978, IFAD has invested over US$12.5 billion in grants and low-interest loans to developing countries, empowering more than 370 million people to break out of poverty. IFAD is an international financial institution and a specialized UN agency based in Rome – the United Nation’s food and agricultural hub. It is a unique partnership of 166 members from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), other developing countries and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Since 1979 IFAD has invested a total of US$214.5 million to support Kenyan Government efforts to reduce rural poverty. Investments include US$18 million in grants under the Belgian Fund for Food Security and US$4.7 million from the Global Environment Facility.
IFAD has also mobilized additional co-financing of about US$68 million from other donors. The Government of Kenya and project participants have contributed about US$56.0 million and US$11.0 million respectively.
Since 2008 IFAD has managed its Kenya operations from an office in Nairobi, which also serves as a regional hub.
Press release No.: IFAD/22/2011
For better practices and higher yields the Devolution helps with galvanizing community action around sustainable management mingled with user friendly community welfare agenda.
Changing agricultural markets are opening new opportunities for business success in rural areas, IFAD has noted. It calls for more investment to help rural people deal with food price volatility, risks posed by severe weather (such as the drought faced by so many Kenyans today), long-term uncertainties due to climate change and various natural resource constraints.
The project, co-financed with a grant from the Global Environment Facility, works with community groups. The objective is to boost their skills to formulate and implement plans to sustainably manage land and water resources. Another aim is to reduce conflicts between people and wildlife in an area with strong tourism potential.
What Went Wrong:
Part of the reason why poverty got worse in our continent is the result of governments inability to work with integrity according to public mandate and in a responsible manner to confront the many problems facing Kenya and the continent of Africa.
Developing country Governments are not able to organize professional team to provide a balance in commerce and distribution of industries and resources to Kenya’s potential rural areas equitably even after funds and loans were made available. Funds are therefore diverted and as well, it is coupled with failure to heed early warning system leading to a worsening of the crisis.
All about drought, desertification and poverty are areas requiring diverse serious popular participation in engagement in conserving environment in Kenya. When funds are made available through Government foreign assistance funds to support self sustaining development agenda, funds are seen to be diverted for private special interest and greed. There should be no reason why projects and programs have not been facilitated when funds have been disbursed…….This is against ethics and is criminal in nature.
If policy protocol for the disbursement of funds were clearly followed, sustained planting of trees in the dry region should have reversed the current trend of constant drought and low agricultural productivity with high poverty levels. It is as simple as engaging students, NGOs, community groups and religious institutions to be green ambassadors to plant trees in order to conserve the environment.
Consequently, UN and World Bank reports state, severe drought is affecting the entire East Africa region, the worst in 60 years. This condition has presently caused severe food crisis across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya which is threatening livelihood of 10 million people.
Many refugees from southern Somalia have fled to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, where crowded, unsanitary conditions together with severe malnutrition have led to a large number of deaths. Other countries in and around the Horn of Africa, including Djibouti, Sudan, South Sudan and parts of Uganda, are also affected by a food crisis.
On 20 July, the United Nations officially declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia, the first time a famine has been declared by the UN in nearly thirty years. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have died in southern Somalia before famine was declared. On 3 August, the UN declared famine in three other regions of southern Somalia, citing worsening conditions and inadequate humanitarian response. Famine was expected to spread across all regions of the south in the following four to six weeks. On 5 Sept., the UN added the entire Bay region in Somalia to the list of famine-stricken areas. The UN has conducted several airlifts of supplies in addition to on-the-ground assistance, but humanitarian response to the crisis has been hindered by a severe lack of funding for international aid coupled with security issues in the region. As of September 2011, 63 per cent of the UN’s appeal for $2.5 billion (US) in humanitarian assistance has been financed.
While the famine in southern Somalia has grabbed headlines, southern Ethiopia is teetering on the brink of a food crisis. The Ethiopian government says 250,000 people need food aid amid what the United Nations says is the worst drought in 60 years. An aid organization and agricultural officials say the number of people who need emergency food aid in Ethiopia is bigger, around 700,000.
This behaviour is unacceptable. These are signs of Economic Crime violating and abusing public dignity to reasonable livelihood free from pain and sufferings, where, an urgent investigation should be constituted to arrest the before things fall apart.
Economic crime against public wealth is against public mandate and interest and must not be acceptable as it is catastrophically endangering lives and livelihood of many.
People should stand up in unity and demand for public rights and consider legal justice before Africa is wholly owned by Chinese and Indians. We are not ready to shoulder debts that were not made onbehalf of public interest. We should all stand up and demand for justice instantaniously without any further delay……..
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Truthmeter 27th Jan 2012
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@midifreemega yeah,tell ’em.Kenyans think success comes on their terms.Truth is success comes on its own terms which means you can’t do anything? you please.That kenyan mentality is akin to winning the battles,but in the end lose the war.
rashaenka 2 hours ago
Bumpy final stretch for President Kibaki
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Analysts say the ICC saga may well present the biggest headache for president Kibaki as he prepares to quit office. The president’s handlers are worried about how the indictments will affect his legacy especially following the damning claim that he may have been privy to some of the attacks. NTV’s John Allan Namu now reports on the ghosts of Kibaki’s controversial re-election, that have come back to haunt him, in his final months in office.
Street Symphony
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Africa – From Transition to Transformation – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7WTignYyR0
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As the region’s political and economic evolution accelerates, what leadership and governance models will meet the people’s expectations for the future?
Dimensions to be addressed:
– Strengthening governance systems
– Investing in commodity wealth long term
– Fostering stronger national and regional identities
Alpha Condé, President of Guinea
Jakaya M. Kikwete, President of Tanzania
Raila Amolo Odinga, Prime Minister of Kenya
Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Jacob G. Zuma, President of South Africa
Chaired by
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010) and Chair of World Economic Forum Global Issues Group
PM at World Economic Forum, Davos
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga makes strong appeal for investment in infrastructure to facilitate trade and economic integration as a way out of the grinding poverty in Africa.
i was cringing watching this video and i honestly felt sorry for the PM.he was uncomfortable,fearful and incoherent from the beginning.his handlers should have prepared? him adequately.this is the world stage and his performance was mediocre.this was uncomfortable watching
itzwallstreet 1 hour ago
@jauyoma Kenya has a lot of people who can clearly? articulate what we need, we desperately need to elect qualified people. Not populists.
dnjuguna 2 hours ago