Kenya: Drastic plans to cut down family size

From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

Kenya has become a pathetic sad story. After power hungry leaders caused serious repercussion in 2007/8, it is clear, these leaders have not learned any lesson. They are at it again. Whatever their mission is, it did not start today, it is a project designed and re-shaped to take a much larger scale by 1995 and it is why Uhuru was Moi’s project and which is why, Mungiki was formed by Moi. Kibaki is the tool used by Moi, why he stole the election and was the reason for 2007/8 mayhem. Behind the scene Moi is and has remained the masterminded to see the mission is accomplished. This mission involved Land Grabbing, terrorizing homes and families, turning humanity into slaughter commission every election time. Without care, they kill at will to manipulate elections in their favor and destroys all those who stand on their way or expects to vote against their interest. They formed criminal gangs in their Mafia type of network to protect their political interest in order that they stay in power at whatever cost.

Justice delayed is justice denied……Kenyans cannot afford to reverse what they gained in the 2010 Referendum and the properly Legislated Constitutional policies will remain a way of life and a tool to re-shape good Democratic good governance with Just Rule of Law which people will rely to improve their lifestyle and livelihood in a fair mutual manner.

Women and Children have suddenly become a victim and a target by these selfish and greedy brutal monster maniacs who care the less about human pain and sufferings…….These-good-for-nothing politicians created poverty and hunger and now they put ropes on the neck of these women and children for wrongs not of their own making. They led without any plan but were busy lining their pockets which is why there were no balance and things stopped working a long time ago. Kenya has enough wealth to feed its people and have plenty of balance to trade with……..but these leaders have no brain for that. All they know is how to kill and destroy humanity and survival. This behavior must be stopped. It is way past the climax and it cannot be tolerated.

Where did the idea of cutting family size come from? It will reach a point that they will demand all husband and wives must be authorized by certification to have sex, if not you go to jail. They will device thermometors to find reason to throw people to jail……Who are these people???…….Are they translating Kenya to China……???…….Where is the freedom…….???……..At this point, nature has been completely tampered with and destroyed by these wicked monsters. This amounts to serious and dangerous slavery conditions we have never witnessed before in lifetime.

Mungiki, Al-Shabaab, Al-Qaeda, sabaot land defence force and MRC has become a terror squad Politicians use to destroy peaceful community and their survival as a way to get rid of people from their lands which they had in advance sold illegally and unscrupulously.

Insecurity problem in Kenya is therefore not a small thing and it cannot be solved by merely keeping the Coalition Government to continue to remain in power. It is why, cleaning the country from gangsters without cleaning the country from bad leaders will not resolve the underlying causes of careless killings and human slaughter. These groups works with the Government Leadership in parallel and they support each other.

A leader that promotes violence is not worth any sympathy. Non of the Coalition Government leaders are clean and vetting them all to clear them from wrong doing is the way to go. Yes, they are in working coalition secret network with the unscrupulous International Corporate Special Business Interest to steal public wealth resources from good people of the world……and Vision 2030 is the revelation. It is because vision 2030 has not been proper constituted and this is what each and everyone of them struggles to control…….it is why Kibaki has sent Mungiki into the rural of Nyanza and the local people of Nyanza are being terrorized daily. The purpose is to stifle development in that region until all are wiped out. In Tana River they have wiped out people mercilessly. Can we continue to allow them to go by this design? Where is Human Rights people………???

The Gangs groupings have created many funny names and recently, one such, the American Marines group raided a police station in a bid to free a member who had been detained”……Can you imagine, a group of thugs breaking into a police station ……where is the Law and Order……These are well organized paid youths who have been made jobless by political designed to be used as destroyer tools…….well-connected anti-Democratic establishment movement meant to kill Democracy for the Corporate Special Interest to do business without Law or Order or even pay their fair share of taxes or fees…….

This behavior is unacceptable and must be stopped immediately.

CJ Willy Mutunga must stay the course and do what needs to be done to put Kenya on the path of recovery.

A fresh start in leadership of Kenya is the way to go. We all must support The Transitional Caretaker Committee and in a hurry take the whole Coalition Government Leadership to ICC Hague……..They are all dirty and filthy…….Kenya must be cleaned up and proper plan of action to move Kenya Progressively forward is the way to go people……

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Militia behind Kenya’s Tana River Killings, Say Villagers
by Naharnet Newsdesk 14 September 2012, 05:20

Villagers targeted in a recent wave of tit-for-tat killings in southeast Kenya say trained militia, including men from outside the region, are behind the raids.

And they suspect politicians may have brought them in.

The killings have pitted the Pokomo, a farming community, against their Orma pastoralist neighbors in the Tana River region.

Clashes between the two tribes are normally attributed to disputes over water and grazing rights.

But local people say the latest violence — in which more than 100 people have been killed in less than a month — is largely fueled by politics.

“We were born into the conflict between Pokomos and Ormas,” Kadze Kazungu, a Pokomo, told AFP in front of the blackened walls of what was once his house in Chamwanamuma village.

“We have fought over land and water before.

“But whenever that occurs, elders from both tribes always find a way of resolving the issue,” Kazungu added.

“This time it is not about land. It is politics. Bad politics.”

On Wednesday an MP from the region was charged with inciting violence.

Dhadho Godhana, the MP for Galole in the Tana River delta, denied the charges and was released on bail pending another hearing set for October 2.

But he has been dropped from his cabinet position as assistant livestock minister.

Kazungu’s house was torched on Tuesday when Ormas launched attacks on several villages, killing four people and burning hundreds of homes.

The attacks were in retaliation for what was described as an attack on the Orma by the Pokomo they day before. But the villagers targeted say the assailants were not all Pokomo — and were not all local people.

“Amongst the attackers were Pokomo boys I’ve known since they were small…,” said Hadija Guyo, an Orma woman in one of the villages targeted told AFP.

“But the majority of the attackers were people we had never seen,” she added.

“Most of them did not even look like Pokomos.”

The attackers were not villagers angered by a group of pastoralists, she said: “They attacked us with so much precision and in so little time. These were trained people.”

The raiders came from all directions to surround the village, she recalled.

“The few who had guns were at the front, those with machetes behind them and then those with petrol and matches at the back,” she said.

Another witness, who asked to remain anonymous, described how the assailants used whistles to coordinate the attack.

“They would whistle and a group would change direction and attack houses in a different area of the village,” he said.

“They would whistle again and those with the guns would move back a bit as the ones with machetes moved to the front.”

A policeman, who was at the scene and who also spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP the raiders had stretchers made of branches and blankets with them.

“Their aim was to leave no man behind,” he said.

For him, that meant that the assailants did not want any of their men who might be injured or killed to be identified.

Guyo accused the Mombasa Republican Council, a Mombasa-based secessionist group that was until very recently outlawed, of being behind Monday’s attack, in which 38 people were killed.

It is believed that while the Pokomos are sympathetic to the secessionist cause of the MRC, the Ormas and other pastoralist tribes are against the group.

But Kazungu was cautious about such accusations.

“I cannot comment on the involvement of the MRC,” he told AFP. “All I can say is that sympathizers are amongst us.”

The MRC has denied any involvement.

“Those are rumors, we are not militants,” MRC secretary general Randu Nzai told AFP.

“We do not have a militia and we do not kill. We are a peaceful group and do all our lobbying through the court,” he added.

Drastic plans to cut down family size

Women carrying their babies queue for consultation during a past family planning campaign. Owing to fears of a population boom, the government plans to reduce the average number of children a Kenyan woman should have. Photo/FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP
By SAMUEL SIRINGI ssiringi@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Friday, October 5 2012 at 23:30

In Summary
Ministry proposes to reduce the number of children per household by half as worries over population boom lead to a new plan of action

The government wants to halve the average number of children that Kenyan women can give birth to.

The new policy is meant to put a stop to the fast ballooning Kenyan population within the next decade.

If all goes according to plan, Kenyan women will, on average, give birth to 2.6 children over their reproductive age of between 15 to 49 years.

Currently, the women give birth to an average of 4.6 children.

This is one of the proposals contained in the new Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2012 on Population for National Development passed in Parliament this week.

The move is part of plans to control the growth of Kenya’s population, which is expected to nearly double by 2030.

According to the document, the population is expected to reach 77 million by 2030 when Kenya’s economic blue-print, Vision 2030, expires.

The country’s population stood at 38.6 million in 2009 when the last National Housing and Population Census was carried out.

It is estimated that the country’s population grows by 2.9 per cent — or one million people — annually, a figure the ambitious policy seeks to reduce by nearly half.

Escape childhood death

The policy also sets other targets meant to enable newborns escape the dangers of disease and malnutrition that contribute to early childhood mortality.

The policy envisages that the number of children dying before celebrating their first birthday — currently 52 out of every 1,000 live births — will reduce by half.

Mothers will also be helped to give birth safely, helping to cut their deaths during delivery by nearly half.

Eventually, a healthy growth of the young ones is expected to help raise life expectancy, or the number of years children can live, from the current 57 years to 64 years by the end of the policy period.

Kenyans will also be persuaded to delay the age at which they get married and reduce the number of children they give birth to by at least one.

That would mean that the average age for one to marry would be raised from the current 20 to 23.

Such campaigns would also seek to create awareness that can make men to prefer having a mean ideal number of three children as opposed to the current four.

Women’s mean ideal number of children will also go down by a child from the current preference of four.

Under the campaign, teenage pregnancies will be reduced.

Also targeted for reduction is the number of people who die annually. Currently, 13 people die for every 1,000, a figure that would be reduced to seven.

Policy ‘a good document’

MPs were unanimous that the policy was a good document that would help the country navigate the problems of population pressure.

Moving the motion on Tuesday on behalf of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 Minister Wycliffe Oparanya, Mr Simon Lesirma, the Provincial Administration and Internal Security assistant minister, said the document had been written following wide consultations.

“It is a good policy,” Mr Lesirma said before he opened the floor to contributions from his colleagues.

“The policy recognises that improvements in socio-economic conditions, especially improved levels of education and income, have a significant effect in reducing fertility and mortality.”

The assistant minister said the policy advocates the use of various family planning methods as a short-term measure for fertility reduction without compromising the rights of individuals and couples.

Seconding the motion, Medical Services Minister Anyang’ Nyong’o said the policy was important for planning.

“Without a good knowledge of the demography of the country, its structure, geographical spread, the manner in which it uses space and its health status, we cannot plan effectively,” Prof Nyong’o, a former Planning Minister, said.

“We need to get all the variables derived from the study and analysis of our population,” the minister said.

Prof Nyong’o said the devolved system of government would rely on statistics on population to help determine how resources would be moved to the grassroots level.

It would also help the national government to determine how to distribute the Equalisation Fund, which will try to address forms of inequalities that will still arise when devolved resources are distributed to the counties.

The minister said the government needed to deal with the prevalence of disease among the poor.

“I think this Sessional Paper will provide us with data on the poor in urban areas, where public policy that can affect the development of slums will be very important in including these poor into the central matrix of national development,” he said.

Slums in the towns

Nominated MP Millie Odhiambo-Mabona said lack of proper planning of families had led to fast growth of population that had caused a proliferation of slums in towns and cities.

She said there were many households in Kenya, which were led by children and elderly persons, who were also taking care of children that are orphaned, mainly as a consequence of HIV and Aids.

Ms Odhiambo-Mabona praised the policy, arguing that it focused on improved maternal health, combating HIV/Aids-related diseases and ensuring environmental sustainability.

The nominated MP called for efforts to ensure “reduced fertility and mortality rates” and make it possible for substantial resources to be freed for national development.

Finance Minister Njeru Githae criticised MPs who call upon their constituents to give birth to many children for the sake of obtaining political support.

From the policy, he said, “we have again seen that low-income people tend to have larger families and you have to ask yourself, why?”

People with high income tended to have smaller families, he said, adding: “People in the high-income groups live in large maisonettes with many bedrooms, which most of the time are locked because there are no children to sleep there.”

Mr Githae said population can be an asset but it must be well educated.

“It must be a population which has jobs and other means of livelihood,” he said.

The policy was developed by the Ministry of Planning and National Development to replace an earlier one that expired two years ago.

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