Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Perils of Living Expensive, Painful Political Lie

The burden of living an electoral lie continues to pile on our back. The shouts to move on may casually appears objective but the startling revelations and confessions from last year’s poll officials is like a screw riveting into a healing wound. So are we living a political lie in the hope that time as the good old adage puts it is a healer?

Judge Kriegler's electoral postmortem probe team is resuscitating the dead and the pain is unbearable. The Changamwe Constituency’s returning officer must have considered it extremely humorous admitting that he erroneously gave Kibaki 9,366 votes while Emilio actually garnered 15,151 votes. To rub it on the RO shamelessly concedes that he mistakenly recorded 17,706 votes for Raila’s instead of the correct tally of 29,648. Leaves you wondering which base he was using in his arithmetic.

It would have be forgivable if the electoral FRAUD was limited to isolated cases and committed by junior staff. Well, hold your breathe for the bombshell revelation that the ECK boss Samuel Kivuitu himself announced the presidential results before results from 31 constituencies were officially verified. That is almost 15% of Kenyan’s 210 electoral constituencies locked out or discarded while declaring Kenya’s president for the next 60 months.

Numbers don't lie
In Changamwe return officer’s mind it must have been an act of unrivalled honesty to simply explain his criminal act as a mere mistake reminding Judge Kriegler for good measure that to error is human. Smart rigging takes place many months ahead of the polls itself. Mr Sheikh Aman was handed his RO job without any interview in present day Kenya and he had to deliver. You can bet your next lunch that he was not the only Aman in the whole scheme.

ECK’s IT team ordered laptops and trained ROs six months before the poll only to advice on the reliability of manual tallying. That is enterprising Kenyans killing numerous birds with no stone. You see the taxpayers purchase the computers which are not used, trainers pocket the allowance for doing nothing and more importantly you create the impression of work done and meet the ultimate objective THEFT.

So what is the price of stealing an election? Simple answer UNQUANTIFIABLE. Our future generation will continue to pay the steep price. Leaves you wondering who is fooling who in this whole fiasco. If only we were honest and took the singular bold step to correct the bleeding wrong by conducting FRESH and FAIR elections. Well, dream on. That is a risky gamble no enterprising Kenya will engage in given its guaranteed gloomy returns.

Insulting democracy
That two wrongs never made a right has been more true. Justifying the bungled elections with the hollow argument that both sides stole except the better thief won is flawed logic at best and an insult to democracy at worst. Unless we shun our DECEPTIVE ways and confront the truth head on, the charade will continue cascading and mutating into ugly monster waiting to collectively gobble the last Kenyan left standing.

18 comments:

  1. What can we say us kenyans ehh?? Mpumbavi mavi ya kuku to those politicians who think that kenyans have healed!! to this fraud by Kibaki former corrupt government!!

    We will remove them and clean all gthe filth that they have put in the ECK and the courts of kenya0 even those arrogant judges will have no place in the new kenya! wait and see we us kenyans are bidding our time and most kenyans are determined to right what went wrong!!!! na nimesema*****

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  2. BUT US YOU CAN SEE THE LIKES OF THE THIEVES JIRONGO AND ABABU ARE BUSY TRYING TO RUIN THE COUNTRY AFTER i UNDERSTAND BEING PAID CHUNKS OF MONEY TO DESTABILIZE ODM!!!

    WAWEZI!! LET THEM CONTINUE- WE EVEN KNOW WHO PAID THEM WHERE AND WHEN AND WHO- THEY SHOULD SHUT UP OR ELSE WE WILL PUT THEM ON ALL THE BLOGS AND SOME TAPES OF SOME OF THEIR MEETINGS WITH PNU TOP GUYS!!
    THE BEAUTY OF CELL PHONES ONE CAN TAKE PICTURES WITHOUT BEING NOTICED!!

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  3. "...it is like raping a woman who is already willing..."

    It's all about mind over matter...as long as Kenyans don't mind, then it really doesn't matter who rigged where and who won what.

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  4. Taabu,

    This is something we readers of Kumekucha knew all along.

    If ballot boxes and vote tallying was a matter of topping up, what is the purpose of going to elections in the first place?

    Kenya's scenario does not fundamentally vary much from the Zimbabwe situation. Kivuitu and the entire ECK should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves. Malipo ni hapa hapa duniani.

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  5. Fraud happened of course, including in Mbita where there was 100% voter turn out except for 1 or 2 registered voters! Also in other parts of Nyanza where there was between 95 and 100% voter turn out. In parts of the Rift Valley like Sigor which had 115% voter turnout. Even dead Kalenjins voted! Decepson indeed happened.

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  6. Kimmi Rai... my brother, educate me. 100% voter turn out except 1 or 2 voters. 100%? Kweli u spew without thinking.

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  7. Exotic fraud indeed. I am waiting and watching when someone's conscious is gonna prick him...Oh YES definately Him to come out and do the right thing for this country.

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  8. If Kibaki stole the election, then I think he did a fantastic job!

    Kenya must be kept free from Molasses!!

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  9. As it has been aurgued on this blog a million times, both Domos and Panuas rigged kabisa in their respective strongholds. In Africa, you have to be seen to be winning. And when you win you have to do it big by a landslide of 1 million plus votes, otherwise the incumbent will always rig and that's a proven fact. Anything under 1 million votes is just a recipe for chaos, murders and rapes, and that's another proven fact. Guys please stop comparing our rotten democracy which was imposed on us with that of the West. We have a long way to go and for now anything goes!

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  10. Ivy said:
    ......YES definately Him to come out and do the right thing for this country.....

    If only some wishes would be promptly granted?

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  11. It was reported in UK times that ODM received 110% votes in Maragwa constituency in Central Kenya which proved rigging was done by both sides.

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  12. Excellent post Taabu. We have always known that Kibaki STOLE THE ELECTIONS and DID NOT WIN.

    This is for the die hard PANAU crowd. If Kibaki really won the elections of December '07, how come the following happened?

    Ati Kibaki won the election? What nonsense! The actions of the your so called "winner" were more of a most wanted gangster than a popularly elected leader.

    - Having armed soldiers kidnap the ECK Chairman to announce doctored results with a gun on his head at a secret location

    - Conducting a 'swearing in' ceremony at night and in a heavily guarded location.....

    - The FEAR that forced the appointment of only half a cabinet, rather than a full one. If you are confident you won, you appoint a full cabinet instead of the monkey business of appointing half.

    - The embarrassment of receiving ONLY one congratulatory message from a fellow despot after a electoral "victory"...meaning the entire UN and AU roster does not consider you freely and fairly elected. They consider the election STOLEN.

    - A "popularly" elected president who remains a persona-non-grata in
    large regions of his own country eight months into his so-called
    popular electoral "victory"

    Can you recall and contrast with December 2002 at Uhuru Park where hundreds of thousands of Emancipated Kenyans chanted liberation songs, with no less than half a dozen heads of state present to witness a wheelchair president being sworn in...? With messages of congratulations streaming in from all over the world? With NIL GSU officers present?

    Daylight robbery in 2007 and you panua clowns shameless have the audacity to call it a victory? That was, and still is, DECEPTION, FRAUD and THEFT gone mad!

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  13. Msema Kweli, did you read my penultimate comment above?

    "If Kibaki stole the election, then I think he did a fantastic job!

    Kenya must be kept free from Molasses!!"

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  14. Kwale @4:06 AM

    Yes, I read your comment. So you have finally agreed that Kibaki STOLE THE ELECTION! This came as a surprise to me, I never thought you fellows would admit the obvious truth - that Kibaki STOLE THE ELECTION. My comment was specifically directed to people who think like you.

    Your comment also shows that you are so consumed with irrational, sick and demented hatred for Raila for absolutely no good reason at all. My friend, you need a lot psychiatric and psychological help to detoxify your mind of these poisonous beliefs and attitudes.

    I will not be surprised if you or any of your fellow panua friends resort to insults because of what I've just said above. Bring them on - although, thankfully, I will not waste my time responding to insults...

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  15. msema kweli

    clap clap clap !! I applaud you:) it had to take someone like you posting the truth! the whole truth and nothing but the truth to shut up people like KWALE, Kimi Raikkonen:)

    Thanks:)
    I think this time round I'm glad to note they admitted outright that kibaki rigged:)

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  16. Msema Kweli and Anon 5.31, where in my comments did I admit that Kibaki rigged? Don't you understand plain English or what?

    I said "if kibaki rigged…." does that sound like an admission? Be informed am not a supporter of Kibaki but molasses never!

    Msema Kweli, Yes I hate Raila Molasses with perfect hatred. He is a callous, cold calculating liar that deceived and misleads Kenyans into believing that he is the best thing Kenya will ever have- a big lie in order to gratify his long enduring lust for power.

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  17. Kwale,

    Here, I'll man up and admit it for you.

    The elections were rigged in favor of Kibaki in certain areas. The elections were also rigged in favor if Raila in certain areas.

    However, Kibaki did not rig in an intelligent manner. Only in Kenya is someone trailing by a million votes before bedtime and when you wake up, VOILA - he has made that up and then some. Never mind about ganering a certain percentage in at least 5 provinces.

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  18. KIBAKI STOLE AND IS STILL STEALING. DEMOCRACY IS DEAD, NO NEED FOR ELECTIONS. SAY NO TO ELECTIONS, POLITICIANS ARE ALL THIEVES, THIEVES. INSIDE SOURCES, HAD WE NOT PROTESTED KALONZO WOULD HAVE BEEN VP ON 31.12.20007 ANOTHER THIEF AND ACCOMPLICE!

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