Kenya: Not so honorable……..Kenyans MUST say no to the Mpigs this time.!

From: Judy Miriga

Folks,

I am saddened. This behavior from these Legislatures is a serious criminal act; robbing public dry and taking everything away from public coffers to feed themselves without empathy or virtue. They defied their oath of office and instead engaged in corrupting public wealth unscrupulously with impunity & squandered resources to enrich themselves illicitly with which in fact is a way of sabotaging the economy of the country irregularly. This behavior is a worse-case-scenario that cannot be tolerated and it is a way meant to push people to the edge to suffer more serious blow of being driven to abject poverty and inclusively fall into serious economic crisis.

If these Legislatures were not able to improve conditions and salaries of Medical Workers and Teachers, where did they get the money to help themselves???

Their mandate was to offer the mostly needed Medical Health provisions and equip schools with most urgently needed facilities in order to improve conditions of service delivery in the hospitals and in schools. This they did not care and as a result many people died in the hospitals for lack of medical attention and medicines with mounting school problems and instability across the country.

To-date the problems are unresolved and to see the Legislatures instead award themselves hefty salaries amounts to extreme violation and abuse of Law and Order against human rights that must not go unpunished.

As a matter of fact, these Legislatures chose to defy oath of office mandated to act on the most fundamental Legislation requirements for Bills for Counties, Land, Security for Police Act and Finance where upon promulgation, was the essential basic requirement why Coalition Government was formed in the first place. It is why, if they chose to take public mandate for granted, the matter must be taken before the Court of Law to prosecute and demand why the Coalition Government Leadership, Executives with Legislatures purposefully neglected and sabotaged Public Service Delivery but instead engaged to loot, misappropriate, squander and enrich themselves without due regard.

As a voice of reason and a representative of the voiceless, majority have rejected this behavior; people have said NO. We demand for remedy that this matter be taken up by the Supreme Court before CJ Mutunga as is deemed in a letter of urgency from public outcry that it cannot delay or wait any longer as this matter is extremely urgent and people have lost faith and trust in the Coalition Government rulership. No ICC Hague cases should be postponed. Cases must go as scheduled and Kibaki cannot go unpanished as he planned to steal the election using force and organized thugs and was the reason why many people were killed and survival and livelihood of many were destroyed. Today signed of early killings is in high places and Coalition Government leadership and security is doing nothing about them and it is believed things have taken the same shape (election fever of killing people; pushing people out of their lands for political interest and gains and in order to corruptly take peoples community lands unscrupulously sold to investors) and as was in 2007/8 where organized paid thugs are causing mayhem and people are getting killed but the Government is doing nothing about the situation.

People have reached their maximum breaking point, they are sick and tired with this Coalition Government way of leadership and are very angry; if pushed any further, the country is headed to a very serious revolution for transformational Realistic Reform Change which Coalition Government is seen to be scheming to hijack the country for their selfishness and greed and for that reason, they must be stopped urgently before it is too late.

Sincerely,

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

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Not So Honorable

Published on Oct 7, 2012 by K24TV

MPs increased their send-off package to Ksh. 9.3M per MP
Members of parliament secretly awarded themselves a hefty 10 million bonus as a sent-off package a move that has elicited public outcry. This coming only six months after the lawmakers raided the taxpayers pockets as they seek to obtain money for the political campaigns ahead of the forth-coming general election. The move by honorables members is a dishonorable move.

Crossfire Part 4

Published on Oct 4, 2012 by K24TV

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Jerry needs to stop the posturing, Mutunga had to speak up to save the face of the? judiciary due to public demand following the Barasa Nose incident. Remember this was an issue of the big man syndrome vs the mwananchi’s rights.

sirjonduke4 hours ago
1. The vetting board threatened and has not defied the court order 2. The govt is appealing the county commissioner ruling, as such, the issue is unresolved and still under the consideration of the court 3. Teachers strike is the only case I know of where the court’s ruling was defied.
The people’s will is not everything, e.g. for years segregation was legal and? supported by majority of the US electorate. Did that make it right?

Crossfire Part 4

Published on Sep 12, 2012 by K24TV

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And yes, kudos to the judiciary for the recent verdicts against perpetrators of corruption. These are a precursor of what? is to come for those involved in the mega scandals that have rocked the nation for years and years. Might be a good time to offer some level of amnesty for whistle blowers and those who confess (and refund public moneys) they stole while such practices were the norm in government.

sirjonduke2 weeks ago

— On Sun, 10/7/12, margaret gichuki wrote:
From: margaret gichuki
Subject: Not so honorable…………Kenyans MUST say no to the Mpigs this time.!
Date: Sunday, October 7, 2012, 5:55 PM

No,no no..This is unacceptable.Do they really expect us to vote them
again.? …Oh well, but we’re a forgiving nation.They are our GODS.

This pisses me offffffffffffffff completely.

Nyachae urges Kibaki to reject MPs’ hefty package
By Vitalis Kimutai

The Constitutional Implementation Commission (CIC) will move to court to challenge the hefty send off package Members of Parliament awarded themselves on Thursday.

Mr Charles Nyachae, the CIC chairman, led other commissioners in stating they have written to President Kibaki asking him not to assent to the Bill, saying the amendments were unconstitutional.

“We want the President to return the Bill to Parliament to remove the offending provisions,” Mr Nyachae told a news conference on Sunday evening.

CIC will also move to court to seek a declaration that any MP who voted in favour of the unconstitutional provisions violated the Constitution and was therefore unsuitable to hold public office.

It will also urge the court to declare any public officer who approves payment of money whose expenditure was passed unconstitutionally made unsuitable to hold public office and liable to refund such funds to the Government under Article 226(5) of the Constitution.

Conflict

He said the determination by Parliament of its remuneration is in direct conflict with the constitutional mandate of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission.

The MPs, he said, had violated the law, as there was a conflict between their personal and public interest when they introduced a law that benefits them.

“Article 116(3) of the Constitution provides that MPs can not obtain a pecuniary benefit from their decisions during any term of the House and that any such changes must be enjoyed by the next term of Parliament. Despite this section being suspended, the spirit of the Constitution would mitigate against it,” read the statement.

The Constitution disallows wrongful conduct by State officers when carrying out a public role so as to further a personal benefit and prohibits State officers from acting in a situation where there is a conflict of interest.

Nyachae said the law requires any MP participating in a debate in which they will acquire a personal benefit to declare that personal interest and for the Speaker to record such interest, a procedure he said was not followed on Thursday.

CIC is also of the position that the amendments were in conflict with numerous sections of the recently passed Leadership and Integrity Act.

The Commission has at the same time written to Attorney General Githu Muigai asking him to initiate a process to amend the clauses that violate the Constitution in the Finance Act, 2012.

If the amendments are not done, CIC says it will move to court to challenge its legality.

To: Judy Miriga