From: Ouko joachim omolo
The News Dispatch with Omolo Beste
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2013

Bernard from Bomet County writes: “Dear Editor, I read your blog yesterday with great shock. I didn’t know that all advisors of President Uhuru Kenyatta are from his tribe and his TNA party apart from one who comes from William Ruto’s URP party.

They are Mrs Nancy Gitau, Chief Political Advisor, Mutahi Ngunyi, Senior political advisor and former Cheranganyi MP, Joshua Kuttuny. My concern is that since they are from Uhuru’s tribe and TNA party as well as Ruto’s tribe and URP party, can they really advice the president objectively”?

Bernard your concern is the concern of every Kenyan. I do agree with you that it is very difficult to advice the president objectively when his advisors are from his ethnic communities, TNA or Jubilee coalition.

That is why I always said on this blog that it is very dangerous to form a government elected by numbers and not merits. It is what John Githongo says in his book that such governments are formed in order to eat and not to serve.

Githongo was the perfect man to clean up the mess of the culture of corruption in Kenya but like Uhuru, since Mwai Kibaki’s advisors were practically from his tribe or party they advised him wrongly to the extent that Githongo’s life was in danger. He had to run in exile to save his life.

Githongo’s book on ‘Its our turn to eat’ explains how it works- The first president after independence was a Kikuyu, Jomo Kenyatta, and the Kikuyu grew rich. After Kenyatta’s death, anti-Kikuyu tribes joined forces and Daniel arap Moi became president. He was a Kalenjin. Kalenjin politicians bought Mercedes, their wives shopped abroad.

The Kikuyu, desperate to get to the trough again, persuaded other anti-Kalenjin tribes to join with them, and the Kikuyu Kibaki was elected. After Kibaki the number had to be used to make sure that Uhuru Kenyatta becomes the president. He used William Ruto to help him get that required number and it eventually worked.

Uhuru will rule for 10 years, but knowing the politics of Kenya very well, Ruto is to forget it. Uhuru’s tribe men will never allow him to succeed him, for it is our turn to eat is to continue.

Githongo was immediately removed from his work as anti-corruption and ethic secretary when he tried to tell Kibaki that it was wrong to eat on Anglo Leasing, a Finance Company Ltd. Registered in Britain, it had 18 contracts with the Kenyan government for the supply of everything from a forensic laboratory to a navy frigate and jeeps: 16 percent of the government’s expenditure in 2003-04 went to Anglo Leasing.

The book compares Kenya’s corruption to a huge garbage dump that has grown higher and higher over the years. “Each stratum has a slightly different consistency – the garbage trucks.

In general, Githongo’s well-documented exposé of the Anglo Leasing corruption was treated with disdain by Kikuyus, who felt he had betrayed his own, and passively accepted by donors. Githongo wanted to demonstrate that Kenya is bigger than a tribe.

What Bernard is not aware of is that it is not only Uhuru’s advisors but also security directors, practically all from Uhuru ethnic communities, the CID, NIS and armed forces chief of the general staff.

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s committee to look into the issues of the Somali’s refugee camps in Kenya with view of closing them down are also been accused of tribal or party favor.

This is after the National Assembly, through the Committees on National Security and Administration, together with that of Defence, recommended immediate closure of the refugee camps after the Westgate Mall attack, because they had become breeding grounds for terrorists.

Here are the names of members of the committee;-

Chairman:
Daniel Njuguna Waireri

Vice Chair:
Joyce Wanja Mburu

Joint Secretaries:

Wamuyu Mang’ondu

Gladys Njoki Muhia

Nyokabi Githiora

Charles Karanja Thingira

Members:
Elizabeth Nyanguthii

Stephen Kiraithe

Athanas Gichuki Mwathe

Christine Agatha Waitherero

Hosea Kimkung Maiyo

Research team:
Dr. Githinji wa Muoka

James Lee Mukora

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-Anne Montgomery, RSCJ
UN Disarmament
Conference, 2002