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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

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Lead Story
Sex Scandal Involving Boss Exposed At Nation Media Group As Letter With Details Is Posted On The Web


i) Corruption in Narc Started with these people who financed Kibaki's Presidential Bid


ii) Americans Murdered By Kenyan Carjackers


iii) Why Roselyn Nambuye Should Be Appointed Chief Justice


iv) Escalating Crime: Who oredered the hit on a traffic policeman?

Recent stories

Serious problems in cash-strapped ODM-Kenya over unworkable nomination system


Women suspects now being locked up in policemen's bedrooms


Kalonzo And Raila On Yet Another Begging Mission In The USA


Marital Rape in Kenya: Woman Goes to Court To Stop Serial Rapist Husband


Musalia Mudavadi's Unfaithful Wife And His Bid For The Presidency


Police Commissioner's Contract Almost Over As Crime Escalates


VP Awori Announces That he Is Kibaki's Running Mate


Why Kenyans Should Prepare For Mass Action And Mass Violence


Rift valley fever Panic Hits Nairobi


Kalonzo Tells KIbaki: You Are Too Tired To Rule


Anglo Leasing Cover Up Part 2


The sales Lady From Anglo Leasing


Who Is The Dark, Mysterious Anglo Leasing Figure Who Booked Ads In The Local Press Defending The Company?


Githongo: Son of The President's Bossom Buddy Who Dissapointed


Why Would The President's Men Need So Much Cash?


Latest Githingo Tapes On Anglo Leasing: What Impact Will They Have On The Kibaki Government?


BOMBSHELL: Listen To The Latest Githongo Tapes Or Read The Full Transcript Of The Conversation Kenyans Are Talking About


Is President Kibaki In The Githongo Tapes?


7 Signs That The Kibaki Government Is Corrupt


Anglo Leasing And Goldenberg: Can You Spot The Difference?


The Githongo Tapes: Do We Need To Be Careful About The British?


Crime Made In The Uniformed Forces


The Most Harassed And Abused Woman Journalist In East Africa


No Reforms No Elections Hit Of '97 Remixed and Re-Released for 2007


How To Make A Quick Tax Free Million In 2007


Why John Githongo Must Stand For President


Current Crime Wave: Why It Must Be Linked To The Elections


Margaret Wanjiru and Pastor Pius Muiru: The Untold Story


How Two Presidents looted Kenya


Is Samuel Gichuru HIV positive?


General Elections 2007: Focus On Presidential Candidate William Ruto


4 Moi Kids Want To Follow Daddy's Foot steps


African Lion Safari In Kenya: The Day a Lion did the unthinkable


What next for Uhuru Kenyatta?


Who will be Raila Odinga's running mate? Surprise, surprise


Puzzling Bank Robbery In Mombasa


Should church leaders stay out of politics?


Popular Evangelist Pius Muiru Says He Wants To Be President.


Mutula Kilonzo: The Real Man Behind The City Laywer And ODM Activist


What Options For Ngilu If Kalonzo Leaves ODM-Kenya?


Why Has Standard Newspapers Gone Soft Against The Government?


Raila And The Presidency Part 3: The Big Headache For Raila Handlers


How To Rig The Polls By Calling Early Elections


Is Samuel Arap Ngeny The Next Chairman Of The Electoral Commission Of Kenya?


Bishop Margaret Wanjiru Controversy


Raila Presidential Bid Analysis Part 2


William Ruto, YK92 And His Presidential Ambitions


Carjackers with political ambitions


Is Bizarre Rumour About Mutula Kilonzo In ODM True?


The Tasteless Sugar Story.


The Deepest Analysis Of Raila Odinga The Presidential Candidate


How Will President Kibaki Finance His Re-election?


Tribalism At The Daily Nation


Kenya General Elections 2007: The Latest Prediction


Is Kalonzo The Soft Underbelly Of ODM-Kenya Unity?


The Kalonzo Musyoka You Don't Know: The 5th And Final Part Of The Deepest Analysis Of This Candidate You Will Read Anywhere.


Citizen Weekly Editors To Vie For Political Office.


President Kibaki Is Waiting For ODM Split To Call For Early Elections


Why An Early Election Will Favor Narc Kenya


The Kalonzo Musyoka You Don't Know Part 4: How He Grew Up With Witchcraft And Forces Of Darkness


What Was Moi Meeting Kibaki About, This Time Round?


Dangers Somalia Poses To Kenya


The Big Moi Blunder On Somali That Is Being Paid For By Kenyan Blood


Who Will Be President Kibaki's Running Mate?


The Kalonzo Musyoka You Don't Know And His Big Obstacle In His Own Back Yard.


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Sex Scandals And A Purge Hit Nation Media Group Staff

All is not well at the largest and most successful media house in East and Central Africa. And what is even more worrying is that the current crisis should come in an election year and affect a department at the impressive media house which Kenyans are heavily relying on and looking up to "to deliver the goods."

The crux of the problem is tension between the senior management that heads the editorial department and members of the editorial department. This tension seems to have been triggered off by a "clean up" and downsizing effort launched by the new CEO Linus Gitahi. Most in the editorial department strongly feel that the "trimming exercise" is being done unfairly and that the measuring rod is something else other than performance. Nothing new about that except that the staff has anonymously written an open letter to CEO Linus Gitahi (which has been posted on the net-see details at the end of this article) threatening to expose what they see as "the rot within the Nation Media group." In fact what their intentions are, is to expose, embarrass and adversely affect the media house by exposing what they claim is a sex scandal involving the most senior executives in the editorial department, if their demands are not met. This letter has been widely circulated amongst the alternative press in Nairobi.

Their demand is that the current clean up targeting unproductive and incompetent staff be carried out in a transparent and fair manner. They have also demanded that the two senior executives whom they blame for the problems should resign by the end of February or "they will be smoked out." The cheeky editorial staff have even threatened to write to the largest single NMG shareholder and founder of the Nation group, the Aga Khan himself and inform him of the alleged sexual escapades of the two senior editors that has seen them reward incompetent female staff with promotions. They have also said they will present the spouses of the culprits with evidence of the same as well as publicizing everything to the public. The letter adds that "other strategies remain our secret."

The letter names the two senior executives as Editorial director Wangethi Mwangi and group managing editor, Joseph Odindo. Also named is group Human Resources director Mrs Hellen Mbugua.

Sex scandals are really nothing new at the media house and indeed many other large companies in Kenya today. Reports are rampant of the defilement of people's wives and attractive women exchanging sexual favors for promotion. Not to mention married men also seducing their powerful women bosses so as to get ahead. At other times members of staff have been known to jump into bed with each other, even on their employer's time. At one time a major Aids scare hit the Nation media group when a senior member of the editorial department passed on as a result of complications caused by HIV-Aids. There was real fear because the staffer had several lovers who had in turn also had encounters with others in an almost endless chain of links that many felt would have endangered the lives of a large section of the staff. This happened in the late 1990s.

Then there was a sexual harassment suit filed against editorial director Wangethi Mwangi by a female member of staff. This writer has not been able to establish exactly what became of it.

However the latest crisis seems to be the "mother of all sex scandals" at the media house, mainly because there is the real possibility of exposure to the public who will be shocked to learn that the respected media house may after all be better described as a whore house, at least in some sections and departments.

Urgent personal message to you from Kumekucha.

This letter must have been posted on the web by a member of staff at Nation Media house. Read the full unedited version for yourself.

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The People Who Financed President Kibaki's Campaign In 2002 And How They Opened The Floodgates Of Corrupt Deals

President Kibaki came into power with a very convincing clarion call that he repeated at every opportunity and which did not omitt the words; zero tolerance to corruption. But naïve Kenyans failed to ask the right questions which had they asked, would have told them that this was one president who was NOT going to avoid corruption.

When it was decided that Kibaki would be the presidential candidate for the opposition in the 2002 elections that propelled him to state house, a clique of rich men came forward and stated that they would be responsible for raising the much needed funds to bankroll his presidential campaign.

Among these people was a super rich contractor known as Ephraim Maina of Kirinyaga construction company. In the rare event that you have never heard of the name of the person or his company, his company was notoriously known for doing shoddy jobs on roads or not doing anything after being paid huge sums of cash to repair the same.

To date, the Nyeri-Sagana road is dilapidated thanks to Kirinyaga construction who have already been paid to repair the road but nothing much has been done. Maina even went ahead and used his influence to stop councilors from Nyeri visiting state house recently after he got wind that the poor state of the road was in their agenda list.

Maina is said to be so well connected that even when Raila Odinga was minister for public works and roads, he blacklisted Kirinyaga construction and ordered treasury not to pay him his dues but the then finance minister David Mwiraria went ahead and released Maina's millions.

The flamboyant contractor is also known for his famous goat eating parties in his rural home which is usually attended by cabinet ministers including the current finance minister Amos Kimunya amongst many other top government and parastatal bosses.

Maina who is nursing political ambitions comes from Kibaki's Nyeri home district and is said to have started making his millions during the Moi era where road contractors were considered among the richest Kenyans as this was where corruption was at its worst with contractors over quoting jobs by several hundred millions and dividing the difference with senior civil servants.

President Kibaki should however not pretend that he did not know where his campaign funds came from as it was clear to him that there were plenty of unscrupulous businessmen who chipped in towards his campaign and these men naturally expected favors back when he landed at State house.

Some of them were content with plum parastatal appointments, read Eddy Njoroge and Joe Wanjui but others were strictly profiteers and were in a hurry to recover their money and needed lucrative government contracts as soon as possible to do so. The likes of Maina fell in this group.

Unfortunately, these will be the same people that Kibaki will reach out to when he goes about raising funds for the forthcoming general elections and chances are that these men will donate even more generously so as to ensure that the status quo is maintained at all costs.

It is this same people who have made Kibaki's government unpopular with accusations of failing to deal with high level corruption. Though they will be instrumental in vouching for Kibaki's return, they might also be responsible of causing the presidents defeat in the hands of an increasingly popular opposition.

This whole unfortunate chain of events raises the big question of how presidential candidates should raise funds for their campaigns. This is an issue that we will tackle in this blog in the coming days, watch this space.

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Americans Murdered By Carjackers In Escalating Kenyan Crime Wave

Last week, two Americans were gunned down in a botched up car jacking incident that proved that foreigners are just as vulnerable as the locals in the runaway crime situation that has turned out to be a nightmare for president Kibaki's administration.

The Americans were dragged out of their vehicle and shot dead as they waited for a friend in the crime prone Nairobi-Naivasha highway in the comfort of their sports utility vehicle, SUV, which are popularly known here as four wheel drives.

Little did the Americans know that they had parked their vehicle in a crime infested area and when they were dragged out of their vehicle, one of the American ladies became hysterical and started screaming, this probably led to their shooting as the thugs must have panicked.

In record time, a contingent of policemen arrived at the scene and combed the area swiftly in a fruitful operation that led to the gunning down of two suspected carjackers and the recovery of two AK-47 assault rifles which incidentally has become the weapon of choice for local hoodlums.

That was not all, American federal bureau of investigations, FBI, personnel also visited the crime scene and collected evidence. The Americans are yet to disclose the identities of the victims and where exactly they worked in the country.

The escalation of violent crime in Kenya is nothing new and the situation could have been arrested four years ago when president Kibaki assured Kenyans that fighting crime would be top in his agenda.

Taxpayers expected more policemen patrolling the streets and better terms of service for the men and women who put their lives on the line daily as they go about their duties and face usually better armed hardcore criminals.

Kenya's police force is not just ill equipped but their morale is very low due to poor terms of service not to mention the squalid accommodation they are offered by their employers who are quick to accuse them of corruption yet they have failed to address themselves to the fundamental problems facing the force.

The contract of the police commissioner, Hussein Ali expires this coming month and it remains to be seen whether the president will extend it or replace him with another (most probably a member of Kibaki's own Kikuyu community) as he braces himself for general elections later in the year.

Ali had proposed radical and far-reaching reforms for the force which are yet to be implemented due to cash constraints and lack of political will on the ruling elite's part who seem to have their priorities up side down. Ali has tried hard and should be retained, but will also probably be glad to leave the thankless frustrating job he has at Vigilance house.

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Why Roslyn Nambuye Should Be Kenya's Next Chief Justice

I first saw justice Nambuye on the streets of Machakos town walking with a crowd of children who I later learnt were part of about thirty kids she has adopted and stays with at her residence in Machakos town.

She was dressed very informally with an ankle-length flowery dress which seemed to have seen better days but what stood out was the large rosary hanging from her neck and her bald head which attracted a lot of curious glances from other pedestrians.

Everybody in Machakos knew justice Nambuye was one extremely religious lady and even the local crooked lawyers knew better than to try and approach her for a favor in exchange for cash.

This is why it came as a big shock when she was suspended during the radical surgery to rid off the judiciary corrupt and inept officers. She did not take the accusations lying down and fought tooth and nail to clear her name. It is possible that somebody somewhere assumed that just because her husband, Justice Daniel Aganyanya was on the list, then she too had to be there. Big mistake!!

In an unprecedented move, president Kibaki reinstated her even before the tribunal investigating her completed their job in what many perceive was a mistake in the first place to suspend the lady justice.

When vice president Moody Awori visited Machakos GK prison, he was taken aback when the prisoners presented him with a memorandum, which among other things wanted the reinstatement of lady justice Nambuye.

The prisoners argued that the judge had not only assisted in the construction of a church for the felons but was also involved in a programme that was out to better the living conditions of prisoners not to mention her humility and selflessness.

Apparently, many of those who signed the memorandum had been convicted by the lady justice and it really surprised the president's principal assistant to see convicts come in defense of a judge of all people.

Justice Nambuye is perhaps among the most respected judges in Kenya, her suspension and reinstatement notwithstanding and could be the perfect candidate for the position of the chief justice.

Kenya is yet to have a female chief justice though there are plenty of women in the judiciary including lawyers and judges. What about trying the truly God-fearing Roslyn Nambuye for the job? She could perhaps make a difference similarly to what she has already done for scores of Kenyans without caring which tribe they hail from.

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Escalating Crime: Who Would Want To Eliminate A Traffic Policeman?

A bizarre shooting incident took place in Kenya's otherwise quiet sleepy coastal town this past weekend.

A lone gunman waited for a traffic policeman to come out of a restaurant and then shot him dead at point blank range. This latest chilling encounter raises a lot of questions but most of all one burning one; who would want a traffic policeman dead and why?

It would be understandable if the policeman involved dealt with criminals but traffic policemen only deal with matatu drivers and touts. There is of course the possibility that the hit had nothing to do with the man's occupation and could have been linked to his private life. Kenya has become notorious these days for hits targeted at people who can't keep their hands off other people's wives.

This brings to mind one recent early morning encounter on Riara Road in Nairobi where a man was car-jacked and driven to Ngong Road, near the war cemetery where he was given a chance to say goodbye to his lover via a mobile phone before he was shot dead in full view of his young children whom he was taking to school. Rumour has it that the hit men were hired by the woman's accountant husband and the gunmen were so sympathetic of the suffering and mental anguish he had gone through—knowing his wife was coming home late from the office almost daily not because of work (at least not what she had been employed to do) but was in fact dishing out favors that are exclusively supposed to be for him and him alone—that they gave him a huge discount for doing "the job."

Another possibility, albeit a very remote one, is that the traffic policeman would have infuriated some matatu tout or driver somewhere to such an extent that they opted to end his life.

Whatever the motive for this strange murder, chances are high that this latest incident will join a very long list of unsolved murders that the Kenya police have in their bulging cold case files section.

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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Kumekucha Daily: Tues 30th Jan 2007

Kumekucha Today

Lead Story
Serious problems in cash-strapped ODM-Kenya over unworkable nomination system


i) Why Uhuru Will Win ODM-Kenya Nomination Without Breaking Into A Sweat


ii) Women suspects now being locked up in policemen's bedrooms

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The Tasteless Sugar Story.


The Deepest Analysis Of Raila Odinga The Presidential Candidate


How Will President Kibaki Finance His Re-election?


Tribalism At The Daily Nation


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The Kalonzo Musyoka You Don't Know: The 5th And Final Part Of The Deepest Analysis Of This Candidate You Will Read Anywhere.


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An Unworkable Presidential Nomination System And Serious Political Problems In ODM-Kenya

An extremely complex political situation has now emerged at the main opposition political party in Kenya at the moment, ODM-Kenya. It is a situation sadly brought on mainly by the selfish nature of some of the party's leading presidential candidates and yet is serious enough to cause defeat for this party which is the only hope for many Kenyans today.

The crux of the whole problem stems from ODM-Kenya's presidential nomination process recently agreed on after protracted horse trading that at one time got so heated that the press virtually declared the much-anticipated split in the party had arrived.

According to the mode of selecting the party's presidential candidate, a delegates system will be used in all constituencies in the country where a whopping 2,000 delegates will vote to decide who will face president Kibaki in the forthcoming polls.

The main problem with this agreed on system is requires some mind-boggling leves of financing.

For starters funds will have to be somehow found to get the 420,000 delegates to some central place for voting to take place. Assuming that the average return fare for the whole lot is a mere Kshs 2,000 then, then Kshs 840 million will need to be found just to carry out the elections. We have not even factored in allowances that delegates have come to expect as a right in every political party's delegates conference. On the other hand if the elections are held at the individual constituencies then almost a similar amount will be required to facilitate such an exercise including sending returning officers and setting up the particular points where the elections will happen.

But the more serious problems with this crazy, unprecedented presidential nomination system is the finances required for candidates to campaign successfully. Already the financial pressures are being felt be leading presidential candidates who somehow have to find the money t campaign to win the ODM-Kenya nomination and then after that, they will need to find even mo money to finance their campaign proper against the incumbent and other candidates who will present themselves. What this means is that the ODM candidate will be at a great disadvantage when compared with other presidential candidates from other political parties in that they need to raise funds for two campaigns.

Both Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga have stepped up their trips to the United States in what many see as a desperate effort to raise funds.

And what has brought about this whole problem? Nothing more than a bunch of opinion polls by the folks at Steadman, which have completely gone into the head of one Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka. Even if the poll is genuine, it means nothing because Kenyans have been known to behave in one way before the polls and then on Election Day have ended up voting predictably for one of their own.

Mr Musyoka has been so blinded that he forgets the example from the 1997 polls where a presidential candidate from his own backyard suffered exactly the same fate. Charity Ngilu generated a lot of excitement when she became the first Kenyan woman to stand for the highest office in the land. At one point, she was welcomed in Kisii (by the worst male chauvinists you will find anywhere in the world) by a huge crowd chanting "Mama tuokoe" (Mother, save us). The crowd was asking would-be President Charity Ngilu to save the country from the mess Moi had gotten it into. Had Steadmann been around then and held an opinion poll, chances are that Ngilu would have emerged as the most popular candidate. But an even more ominous sign for Moi as to how "popular" Ngilu was, was to follow. When she went to present her papers to the Electoral commission, the size of the crowd that escorted her to County Hall and its' enthusiasm would have left you with no doubt that Ngilu and Kenya were set to make history. Political pundits who do not quite understand Kenyan politics chuckled at the prospect of Moi being removed from power by a woman.

It was never to be. Ngilu ended up getting most of her votes from her native Ukambani. The rest of the country including all those adoring crowds voted predictably according to their tribal instincts. Ngilu in fact trailed Moi, Kibaki and Raila in that order.

The consequences of the hunger for power at ODM-Kenya could easily be defeat in the hands of Narc-kenya when in fact the party already has a colossal amount of votes already in the bag.

We have not even analyzed the ugly politics that will surely emerge when the ODM-Kenya candidates start campaigning against each other for nomination. This will greatly weaken whoever is finally chosen to represent the party. The big question is whether Kenyan voters at the constituency level are sophisticated enough to go through a major party nomination process for the presidency and then follow up that with the presidential elections proper without getting terribly confused.

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Why ODM-Kenya Presidential Nomination System Greatly Favors Uhuru

If ODM-Kenya goes through with their current proposed sytem for coming with their presidential candidate, then it is safe to assume that one Uhuru Kenyatta will emerge victorious.

Uhuru has three major advantages. Firstly he has the resources to finance an expensive campaign to help him clinch the nomination and then after that will still have enough funds to finance his campaign proper and all without causing any dent on the family fortune, mainly acquired from land grabbed by the first president of Kenya, countrywide.

The second advantage Uhuru has is that he garnered well over a million votes in the presidential polls in 2002 and it will be fairly easy for him to re-establish contact with his 2002 supporters at the constituency level and easily carry the day.

Thirdly there is enough Kikuyu influence in most of the provinces to give Uhuru numerous votes, at least enough for him to clinch the nomination.

If truth be told, the prospect of Uhuru facing Kibaki once again will result in an easy victory for Uhuru this time round, not to mention the fact that tribal tensions will be eliminated from the presidential polls. However there is the massive Kikuyu backlash that has been building up over many years of dominance and arrogant display of tribalstic tendencies by this tribe that has come to the fore again during the Kibaki presidency. What added insult to injury were the voting patterns of the kikuyu in the hotly contested referendum over a new constitution in November 2005. Chances are high this time that many Kenyans will opt to reject any kikuyu candidate in favor of any other tribe for the presidency other than the Kikuyu. No doubt this kikuyu factor will further complicated an already highly complex political scenario that will be the general elections 2007.

And where does all this leave ODM-Kenya? Where does it leave ODM-Kenya founder Raila Odinga? There is yet another even more complex political question; will the nomination produce the most suitable candidate to face Kibaki? Many would quite rightly answer with a loud “no” to that last question. Actually consensus would have been much better because ODM-Kenya kingpins can quietly analyze the Kibaki Awori partnership and come up with the best candidates to bring victory. But then we all know that that is impossible with all the power-hungry folks crowding ODM-Kenya.

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Kenyan Women Suspects Now Being Locked Up In Police Officer’s Bedrooms

It has been reported that Mageta island Police officers (Mageta island is in Bondo, Nyanza province) are now using their personal bedrooms to lock up women suspects.

Any Kenyan woman who has been unfortunate enough to land in the hands of police officers will immediately tell you what that means. Women suspects are frequently raped when they are in police cells, so what do you think will happen to them now that they are being locked up in police officer’s bedrooms?

Area DC Fred Mutsami admitted to the press during a recent visit that he was shocked to find that the women’s cells were "right inside the officer’s houses". The policemen at the police post explained that there was a huge shortage of space and that was why the police officers were forced to accommodate women suspects in heir bedrooms.

Sadly in an election year such as the one we are in, all other news that is supposed to attract national attention and outcry like in thus case, is hardly ever noticed.

The truth of the matter is that any woman suspect locked up in these sort of cells should be set free by any court that finds her guilty of any offence, because she will have already suffered more than enough punishment for whatever it is she may have done.

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Kumekucha Daily: Mon 29th Jan 2007

Kumekucha Today

Lead Story
Kalonzo And Raila On Yet Another Begging Mission In The USA


i) Marital Rape in Kenya: Woman Goes to Court To Stop Serial Rapist Husband


ii) Kibaki Dangles New Districts Carrot To Kenyan Electorate, But Will It Work This Time?


iii) Musalia Mudavadi's Unfaithful Wife And His Bid For The Presidency


iv) Police Commissioner's Contract Almost Over As Crime Escalates


v) VP Awori Announces That he Is Kibaki's Running Mate


vi) Kenyan Politics: Will Voters Forgive Kibaki's Big Lie And Betrayal

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Presidential Aspirants Kalonzo Musyoka And Raila Odinga Return To The US On Yet Another Begging Mission

It seems that the finances of two leading ODM presidential candidates appear to be already stretched beyond limits.

Kalonzo Musyoka yesterday jetted out from Nairobi heading to the United States for the second time in three months as he desperately looks out to the Diaspora to raise funds for his presidential campaign.

Raila Odinga, is no different, and is expected to jet out for the same destination next week and will visit several states hosting US$ 100 per plate dinners all over the place as he also scrambles for State house.

The two have been common faces in the United States where they have launched spirited efforts to convince Kenyans living there to chip in towards their campaign kitty with Odinga being miles ahead of Musyoka as his tours seem to be better organized.

It also goes without saying that majority of Kenyans in the United States hail from the Luo community and with politics of ethnicity having been deeply entrenched in Kenya, Odinga has been receiving much warmer receptions as compared to Musyoka.

What the two have failed to realize is that Kenyans living in the U.S not rich and most are struggling to make ends meet and its not like they always have dollars to spare especially to contribute to politicians just to help make their dreams of power come true.

Majority of Kenyans in the United States are students or went there to study and dropped out before completion only to engage in informal employment and are living there as illegal immigrants.

Not only are they cash strapped for dollars but are living in constant fear of being discovered by immigration officials and being deported back to Kenya. However, there are those who are living the American dream and have made it big in the land of opportunities. Apparently, these are few and far between not to mention the fact that they are too busy to attend dinners of Kenyan politicians begging for funds in a foreign country.

Raila will visit Minnesota, North Carolina, and Florida in the United States. He will then tour a few cities in the United Kingdom. Kalonzo's schedule is yet to be released. These begging missions which are often characterized with stinging attacks on their motherland, have become a source of great irritation and embarrassment to the Kibaki administration.

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The Art Of Carrot Dangling In Kenya Politics By Establishing New Districts: Kibaki Goes Overboard Creating 37 New Ones

In a desperate bid to endear himself to voters, president Kibaki has resorted to the same tactics used by his predecessor ahead of elections to woo Kenyans on his side.

During the referendum vote two years ago, the government used similar tactics of pledging to build bridges even where rivers did not exist but they failed miserably and do not seem to have learnt much from the lesson.

Politics in Kenya is deeply based on ethnicity and even if Kibaki delivers heaven to majority of Kenyans, he is still bound to lose the election mainly because of the widespread tribalism which is deeply entrenched in his administration.

The likes of Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka are tribal chiefs who enjoy fanatical support from their communities which has encouraged them to seek support from other tribes to enable them rule the country one day.

If Kibaki was serious about being re-elected, he should have first addressed the tribal imbalance in the civil service and parastatal organizations where his Kikuyu tribesmen are the majority at the expense of 41 other communities in Kenya.

It is also ironical that the minister who oversaw the creation of the new districts, John Michuki is on record as having gone to court in 2002 in a bid to stop the then president, Daniel Moi from creating new districts.

The imbalances in the provincial administration are so glaring that even the blind can see the favoritism that the Kibaki administration is practicing, for instance, 5 of the 8 provincial commissioners come from the mount Kenya region along with the most powerful cabinet ministers not to mention the head of the public service and secretary to the cabinet.

With the new districts, where most of them have been created in zones perceived to be supporting the government, Kibaki will get considerable amount of political mileage but not enough to enable him woo majority of Kenyans on his side.

The inauguration of the districts now awaits parliamentary approval and this will come to pass considering that most politicians are for the new districts which is a populist move by any standards but Kenyans are not as gullible as president Kibaki would like to believe.

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Musalia Mudavadi Reluctantly Campaigns For State House As His Indecisiveness Is Exposed Yet Again

Kenyan Politics: Focus on a 2007 Presidential Candidate

Mudavadi will go down in history as Kenya's shortest serving vice president having held the office for about two months prior to the 2002 general elections.

After leaving Kanu for the opposition in 2002, Mudavadi rushed back to president Moi and was rewarded with the vice presidency position amid signals that Moi's Kanu regime was going to lose as majority of his foot soldiers had already deserted him.

As usual, Mudavadi did not see the signs and mainly due to his indecisiveness, Moi easily convinced him to return to Kanu at a time when the party's future looked bleak and its presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta was headed for defeat.

It was a grave mistake which saw Musalia pay so dearly for it as he also lost his Sabatia parliamentary seat to political greenhorn, pastor Moses Akaranga.

Mudavadi is still paying for this mistake to this day, as he has no political platform to speak from and his detractors say if he was unable to secure a parliamentary seat in 2002, how can he manage the presidency this time round?

The 46 year old presidential aspirant also has skeletons in his closet which have also affected him so much that he can't speak too loudly where men are discussing family life and values.

In a dramatic event during his heady days as finance minister, Musalia's wife gave birth to a 'colored' boy, which raised more than concern at the Mudavadi home with his mother instructing him to do away with the wife as her infidelity was unacceptable considering his high profile public position.

The indecisive former minister kept the woman who went ahead and sired more children for him. The Standard Newspaper had the story but Musalia used lots of money and his influence including threats not to have the story published.

However, the alternative media notoriously referred to as the gutter press had a field day with the story to the chagrin of the then minister who chose not to comment about the issue.

Even as he goes around conducting his lukewarm campaign for the ODM presidential nominations, Mudavadi knows well in his mind that he cant make it save for Raila to come out and say 'Mudavadi tosha' which is a very, very, very long shot.

The main reason why Musalia is bothering to go round asking for votes is the simple fact that members of his Luhyia community also expect one of their own to occupy the highest office in the land.

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Crime Escalates As Contract Of Police Commissioner Nears Its' End

Police commissioner Mohamed Ali's three-year contract comes to an end next month and the big question among majority of Kenyans is, will the Kibaki government extend it considering his frosty relationship with his superiors?

Ali, a career soldier who rose to the rank of brigadier before being seconded to the police force is known to be a no nonsense man who managed to break cartels involving senior police officers with criminals, a move which made him popular with junior policemen and motivated them at the same time.

Unfortunately, criminal gangs got more sophisticated with increased firepower, to an extent where the police were overwhelmed as crime escalated including murders of police officers.

But that was the least of Ali's problems as he had to do deal with insubordination from senior officers including the fired director of criminal investigations department, John Kamau who openly defied his immediate boss and instead took instructions from internal security minister John Michuki.

Matters came to a head last year when Kamau mobilized an elite unit that seems to have included two Armenian mercenaries to raid the Standard newspaper newsroom without the knowledge of Ali who was abroad at the time. Apparently, the raid was sanctioned by Michuki who when asked to comment about it said 'one must be prepared to be bitten by a snake when you rattle it' he quickly got the nickname 'snake me-chuki'

Kamau was fired later on with the insistence of Ali who is reported to have told the president that he couldn't work with the CID boss due to his arrogance and insubordination.

Since then, Ali has not been in good terms with Michuki who could be his boss but cannot fire him since the police commissioner is a presidential appointee.

If these events are anything to go by, there are very slim reasons for Ali's contract to be extended but again, Kibaki has surprised Kenyans with some of his decisions and this being an election year, wananchi can expect anything from the desperate man who will be at pains to account to Kenyans.

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VP Awori Announces That He Is Kibaki's Running Mate In Forthcoming General Elections

For a long time now it has been assumed that current Vice President Moody Awori would go off quietly into retirement and would not run in the forthcoming polls. More so because one of his sons was widely expected to run for the Funyula constituency parliamentary seat.

But all that changed yesterday at the constituency when the aging, but ever smiling VP announced that he was President Kibaki's running mate in the forthcoming general elections. The announcement came just a day after President Kibaki announced for the firs time that he would seek re-election.

The dramatic Awori announcement could have been dismissed as the last kicks of a dying horse except for one thing. There was an extremely heavy presence of MPs from Central province in Funyula when the VP made the announcement. And not just any MPs but a high-powered team led by Justice And Constitutional Affairs cabinet Minister Martha Karua in person.

So what is happening here when we know very well that he Narc-Kenya high command has been pushing very strongly for one Mukhisa Kituyi, the Trade minister to be President Kibaki's running mate and the next VP in the event that president Kibaki is re-elected?

Firstly, if there is one thing that has been consistent about the Kibaki administration, it is the habit of constantly and sometimes unexpectedly shifting positions concerning critical issues. Decisive decesion-making is not one of the president's strong points. There is little doubt that the choice of running mate is important enough to alter the outcome of the forthcoming general elections for any major candidate.

And hat has caused faithful, hardworking and youthful Kituyi to be dropped in favour of aging Awori?

A clue that could help in answering this question are the recent pronouncements by Luhya MPs to the effect that they are no longer interested in the VPs post. In fact the Luhya (which is not really one tribe just like the Kalenjin are not tribe) seem to be defying all odds and predictions (including predictions by this writer) and indications are that the group tribes calling themselves Luhya will for the first time enter a general election more united than they have ever been before. In fact chances are increasingly high that the community will field a presidential candidate if their front-runner, Musalia Mudavadi does not win the ODM nomination.

The Narc-Kenya think tank seems determined that the party should not lose its' strong footing in Funyula and may want to use the constituency as a strong base in which to launch forays into the expansive Luhya communities that are to be found all over Western Kenya and in parts of Rift Valley province.

Admittedly Mukhisa Kituyi was never a strong VP candidate right from the word go when one considers the numbers that he is capable of delivering. For starters he hails from the relatively small Bukusu community, which has been rabidly Ford Kenya right from the launch of multi-party politics in 1992. The Bukusu had a VP candidate in the last elections, one Michael Kijana Wamalwa (now deceased). Wamalwa was a key player in the Kibaki winning team. Kituyi is not quite as popular as Ford Kenya chairman Musikari Kombo, so he would have brought very little of anything to the table.

Make no mistake about it, the people in president Kibaki's re-election team are constantly doing their sums and numbers that will help their candidate end up with the highest number of votes is topmost on their minds. They have already done their arithmetic and concluded that the massive Kikuyu vote will be more or less behind the President who hails from Othaya in Central province. The Kikuyu vote alone is enough to win a presidential election, especially if the opposition fails to unite behind one candidate. In fact the Kikuyu influence countrywide is strong enough to guarantee 25 per cent from at least 5 provinces in the country (the other requirement for a winning presidential candidate). Namely Central, Nairobi, Rift Valley (still with a huge Kikuyu population), Western and Coast.

You may now begin to understand why the Kibaki administration is so determined to resist minimum reforms before the elections at all costs. And why Raila Odinga and company are so determined that reforms are carried out before elections. And the reform that is right at the top of their list is that a presidential candidate must win a least 50 percent of the vote plus one, to be declared winner.

While analysts agree that Awori Arthur A. Moody (the family seems to have a penchant for names with three similar initials. Awori's father was called Canon W.W.W. Awori) is a better choice for a running mate for President Kibaki than Mukhisa Kituyi, there is one factor that will tend to rubbish any positive analysis in this matter. And that is the fact that the political situation in Western Kenya right now is pretty fluid and there is a strong anti-Kikuyu sentiment on the ground. We saw a glimpse of this during the referendum when Funyula constituents overwhelmingly passed a "No" vote against the wishes of their still-popular MP. Chances are high that they will do the same thing in the forthcoming election and send their well-liked MP back to parliament but pass a firm "No" vote against his boss.

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Marital Rape In Kenya: New Twist As Woman Goes To Court To Stop Husband Raping Her Again

Marital rape is a subject that most Kenyan men do not take seriously at all. Yet it is a national crisis that will have to be addressed soon even as it continues to spin out of control.

One unprecedented case filed by a Kenyan woman recently, seems to illustrate the gravity of the situation. The woman who is a seller of designer clothes has asked a Kenyan court to restrain her husband of 24 years from coming anywhere near her and should only appear to have sex with her when it is consensual. The woman has had three children with the serial rapist since their marriage at the AG's chambers in 1983.

The woman goes on to say the latest rape occurred only last week when her husband burst into the house on a Friday after the children had gone to school.

In this particular case the woman says that the husband currently lives with another woman and has a relationship with a third.

One of the big emerging issues these days is the possibility of catching HIV-AIDS from a husband who is not faithful and has several other sexual partners while still insisting on continuing to have sex with their wives. The right of the wife to refuse sex on the ground of suspecting one's husband of philandering is more than a good enough reason. One must bear in mind the fact that especially where children are involved, the wife (who is usually the more responsible person in many Kenyan homes) has a right to protect herself if for nothing else, for the sake of her children.

But even where both partners behave responsibly, rape can and does take place frequently in Kenyan bedrooms. Many Kenyans do not believe that rape can take place on a marriage bed and see sex as the right of the husband to be meekly delivered whenever it is demanded. The same Kenyan men are quick to criticize the Kibaki government for any human rights violations taking place in the country when there is absolutely no regard for the dignity and feelings of the woman in their own homes who is the mother of their children.

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Kenyan Politics And The Biggest Lie And Betrayal By Candidate Kibaki

There is no doubt that Kenyan politics has changed a lot since 2002 and continues to change. However one thing that cannot be changed are the historical facts and most notably the historical facts behind the successful candidature of one Mwai Kibaki. The big question Kenyan voters will have to ask themselves in the forthcoming general elections is of they can trust their country once again to somebody who short-changed and betrayed his colleagues.

Kenyans who have a memory worth of repute will remember that one of the issues that the initial Kibaki-Kijana Wamalwa-Ngilu group kept on talking about was that the country badly needed one-term presidents to help fight tribalism and other terrible consequences from years of Moi mis-rule. The late Kijana Wamalwa once said in a speech that was widely publicized on TV shortly after his death in a London hospital, that Kibaki would go for one term, leave it to Wamlawa who would leave the presidency for yet another Kenyan.

Today, not only has the Kibaki camp conveniently chosen to forget those noble declarations made which were for the good of the Kenyan people, but anybody who dares bring them to remembrance is labeled a liar. But sincerely who is the liar? The dead Wamalwa Kijana who so eloquently and clearly verbalized the agreement the three=then opposition king pins made?

Some analysts don't even blame Kibaki. Instead the point to the fact that something is bound to happen to any mortal who rises to become president of Kenya that will suddenly cause them to have a serious bout of amnesia over anything they said or promised during their campaign trail. The office of President of Kenya is so powerful that it will not fail to go into any good person's head and turn them from a popular democrat to an evil autocrat in short order.

Other major promises of the Kibaki campaign team were a new constitution within 100 days, zero tolerance to corruption and 500,000 new jobs created annually. Alas today the Kibaki team chooses to ignore and forget "all that mumbo jumbo" and instead concentrates on what they believe are their achievements as they prepare to go all out for the re-election of candidate Mwai Kibaki.

Is this the curse of Kenyan politics, that candidates will forever lie to the Kenyan electorate, telling us one thing and then not bothering to remember, let alone attempting to do what they promised, once they are safely inside the State House compound? Will Kenyan politics continue to be dominated by the ruling class who have no time for the ordinary mwananchi and their every day problems (mostly created by the same politicians)?

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Friday, January 26, 2007

Kumekucha Daily: Fri 26th Jan 2007

Kumekucha Today

Lead Story
Why Kenyans Should Prepare For Mass Action And Mass Violence


i) Rift valley fever Panic Hits Nairobi


ii) Kalonzo Tells KIbaki: You Are Too Tired To Rule


iii) Anglo Leasing Cover Up Part 2


iv) The sales Lady From Anglo Leasing

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Mass Action And Mass Violence Inevitable As No-Reforms-No-Elections-Campaign Picks Momentum

It looks like we are definitely headed for a show down and it is going to be one hell of a show with lots of fireworks. But no excitement, only more suffering for the already stretched ordinary Kenyan.

Opposition parties are all agreed that there will be no general elections in Kenya without minimum reforms, even if it means delaying the polls. The government is saying, "we don't scare that easily and we're not going to be threatened into discussions." It is clear that although Justice Minister Martha Karua says that the government is ready for dialogue at any time, Narc Kenya are not interested in reforms. If anything their strategy has been based on the country going into these elections without any reforms. In other words they do not want to lose the huge incumbent advantage the current constitution gives them.

The wily opposition operatives on the other hand have pushed the kind of reforms that put President Mwai Kibaki at a great disadvantage, right to the top of the reforms agenda. One such proposed law is the 50 per cent rule where the opposition king pins argue that if you are going to give a president powers that come close to those of the almighty, then they might as well insist on their getting over 50 per cent of the popular vote. If this is passed into law, it will put Kibaki's handlers into a mess because working closely with Moi, they seem to have worked out an intricate campaign strategy where by relying on certain assured pockets of support countrywide, their candidate will cruise back into power without breaking into a sweat and Lucy Kibaki will not need to do any packing or house hunting towards the end of this year.

The last time there was a similar showdown between the two sides, the situation was only saved by a last minute decision to post the ODM-Kenya registration certificate. This time all indications are that no side wants to be the first to blink.

There is now a remote possibility but nevertheless a possibility, of certain major political parties sitting out the polls in protest even as Narc Kenya doggedly goes on with them. That can only mean one thing—chaos.

What makes this a possibility is the fact that Narc-Kenya do not seem to have a plan B strategy for winning these elections. It will therefore be suicidal for them to accept minimal reforms before the elections.

It is important to point out that even ODM-Kenya, the darling of many Kenyans has let down the ordinary mwananchi very badly. When tribal clashes broke out in Mathare slums ad other parts f the country, leaving many innocent Kenyans dead, the MPs did not demonstrate in the streets as they did for their precious registration certificate. Now they want to call on the public to demonstrate again, this time so that their match to power is made smoother. In the event of a confrontation with the police, most MPs will have their aides on hand ready for a quick getaway to leave the "cockroaches" to be bludgeoned to death, or even worse, with high medical bills from injuries sustained that they will spend the rest of their lives paying for.

Some of the MPs crusading for mass action will play it the Kalonzo Musyoka way. Incite and inspire a large turn out and then be absent during the actual demonstration (why does this man duck so much in life, he even disappeared into the toilet during an important government vote. If he becomes president, there is no telling what he will duck).

A level playing field is important, but I am persuaded that known lions do not wake up one morning being gazelles. Nor can wolves be turned into sheep. They can only be lions in gazelles clothing or wolves in sheep's clothing for the sole purposes of hunting for food. The sort of characters who currently pollute the ODM-Kenya high command are NOT the kind of people who will lead Kenyans to the promised land. Nor will they prosecute Goldenberg or Anglo Leasing. The tragedy of it all, is that neither will Narc-Kenya (or whatever it is you call the group that has been in power since the end of 2002) deliver the goods—as they have already demonstrated to us in four years of broken promises and the most blunder-prone government in Kenya's history. And that is a fact.

Kenyans can only wait and pray and hope that a third viable alternative will somehow emerge.

Meanwhile prepare yourself for mass action and all the terrible consequences it comes with.

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