For months now controversial Kumekucha blogger Phil has been warning of coming assassinations in Kenya’s political landscape. I too have warned in several posts that we are entering an extremely dangerous phase of our politics where we should expect politically motivated assassinations on an unprecedented scale. I called them some of the painful birth pangs for the new Kenya that is coming. The kind of Kenya we all dream of.
I have some information that is so sensitive that it cannot be shared here which makes it clear that there is nothing but plenty of trouble ahead. I really wish there was a way to stop these crazy guys.
But let me back up a little here and discuss the special circumstances in our politics that has brought us to where we are now.
This week the president’s circus of a press conference to introduce his immediate family (whom we did not elect and are not interested in—last time I checked Kenya had NO royal family) drowned out some really fascinating news. ODM the party with the majority in parliament announced that they were unhappy with the coalition set up and say that they would like to re-negotiate things because they have gotten a raw deal all along in the power-sharing deal. The immediate question that begs an answer is how long it took for the party to realize that they were being short changed. It seems it took one long year. Or did it?
Actually the truth of the matter is that the political situation on the ground is now extremely fluid. The problem seems to be the growing unrest and impatience amongst too many Kenyans over the grand coalition government that many feel is much worse than President Kibaki’s first and only legitimate administration. The ODM top brass in the midst of their corruption feeding frenzy seem to have realized that it is only a matter of time before things get out of hand and the coalition government is forced out of office. And so what the smart alecs are trying to do is to re-position themselves for the possible fall-out. Brilliant but extremely selfishly self-serving without an iota of interest in the people who elected them so enthusiastically into office.
The really dangerous thing here is that it is not only ODM who are busy launching their campaigns for the next general elections. We also have individual politicians, crooks and certain big business interests busy on their political chess boards. I have deliberately chosen chess because in the game the whole objective is to “eliminate” the king. Apparently some people with big political ambitions think that by “eliminating” certain people their route (or that of their candidate) to State House will be made much easier. The stakes are extremely high more so because Mwai Kibaki has proved that a {resident of Kenya can do anything and get away with it (including stealing a presidential election in broad daylight).
I have had the privilege of being told about a certain hit list that has been compiled complete with some of the individuals on it. This is really a scary time for mama Kenya. It is a good time to double prayer efforts.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Friday, March 06, 2009
Mungiki Killings: Last Signs of a Failed State
Dr. Afred Mutua is a troubled man. The government spokesman must we wishing he could eat his words that condemned Oscar Foundation as the financiers of Mungiki. Even before he even shut his lips OF officials Oscar Kamau King’ara and Paul Oulu were dead meat.
So did Mutua know something we didn’t know or was his just another episode of choking with both his limbs stuck in his mouth? Add that to the bravado fro police spokesman Eric Kiraithe and you cannot fail to see the common thread of high stakes behind the scenes.
That the murderous Mungiki has no place in a modern society is without question. But a police force that thrives on extra-judicial killings to fight such criminals can only succeed in the gang mutating into something even more dangerous. Nothing but the rule and respect of law separates us from other apes and the reign of the jungle.
King’ara must have rubbed 2012 SUCCESSIONISTS the wrong way. Having Oscar lorry branded with key politicians and police officers suspected of ordering previous extra-judicial killings must have been the last nail that sealed his coffin. You don’t expose Kenyan gatekeepers and expect to escape with it given the boiling succession wars underneath.
Killing fields
The police force has resorted to jungle law that saw them rope in rival Mungiki factions to do their dirty executions. Only the police force can have the intelligence to constantly monitor both King’ara and Oulu that made tracing them to the traffic jam so easy. And what a senseless orgy of firing it was pumping more than three bullets in each head?
Impunity mutates into different faces and with the police force already exposed as its icon, we haven’t seen anything yet. Add that to the boiling magma that is succession 2012 and you get a volatile mix of executions and assassination in quick succession.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Arrest Warrant: Bashir's Cheap Kenyan Tricks
Busing in supporters to central Khartoum chanting WE LOVE PRESIDENT BASHIR was a movie scripted and premiered in Kenya. After butchering nearly 300,000 of his own subjects in Darfur, Bashir outdid Kenyan politicians in running home to drum support when cornered.
Luis Moreno is a tough cookie. He terrorized dictators and murderers in his native Argentina and Bashir must have underestimated his resolve to indict him even if only for sentimental reasons. The heat is on and fellow strongmen in Africa are not sitting pretty any more as evident in their opposition to Bashir’s arrest warrant.
Not that they love General Al-Bashir any bit but they are alive to the fact that their necks may be next on Moreno’s chopping block. Bashir’s copy of our own Mutua was predictable as the sun rising in the east with that tired line of neo-colonialism. And Mustafa Othman Ismail is in good company with many here who will wax patriotic when convenient in support of their own political tin gods.
Security in numbers
Bashir will not present himself to The Hague but Moreno has cut the ice. The precedent ans symbolism will sent a cold chill on the spines of scoundrels hell bent of exterminating their opponents and voters whom they consider a challenge to their dictatorship and plunder. No amount of plastic patriotism will buy immunity from indictment.
And just as our IDPs continue to pay the price of unholy trinity perpetrated by our own king, Sudanese refugees are the end losers with six foreign aid agencies having their registrations revoked already. Speak of painful security in numbers amongst insensitive murders who will stop at nothing in the process of feathering their nests at national expense.
Recent most popular stories on Kumekucha:
Kumekucha Exclusive: How Standard Raid Was Planned In State House
Kibaki and his wives: Blame lies with Kibaki only
Alfred Mutua looked so ashamed and the ADC was crying in shame behind Kibaki (see photo)
How Kibaki and Michuki Plotted and Executed The Standard Raid at State House
Kumekucha Exclusive:
The motive behind the March 2, 2006, police raid at the Standard Group offices has remained top secret to date.
However Kumekucha today unveils the secrets behind the raid based on interviews from two of President Kibaki’s aides privy to the "Government operation."
In February 2006, President Kibaki chaired a meeting at State House, Nairobi, which was attended by the then Minister for Internal Security, Mr John Michuki, Mr Stanley Murage, Head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura, NSIS Director General Michael Gichangi, the then CID Director Joseph Kamau, among other State House operatives.
Despite the gravity of the matter under discussion, the Commissioner of police, Maj Gen Mohamed Ali, was not invited. This was purely a Nyumba ya Mumbi affair. The House of Mumbi had been rattled.
There was tension and anger in the room. The NSIS chief tabled two pieces of paper which he told the meeting had two explosive stories the Standard Group was planning to publish. This blogger has seen and read the two "articles" the Standard was alleged to be planning to publish.
The first "article" was about how Kibaki, when he was the DP chairman and was vying for presidency in 1997, allegedly travelled to Southern Sudan to meet with Al Qaeda founder and world’s Number One terrorist Osama bin Laden to solicit funds for his presidential campaign.
In the second "article", the author was discussing Kibaki’s failing health in January and February 2003, shortly after he was sworn in as president. The “article” even quoted Raila Odinga saying there was going to be a snap election within the year (implying Kibaki was dying/would be dead to warrant a snap election).
What shocked this blogger was that the person who authored the two “articles” did not have any sense of journalism. They appeared like the raw copies readers often pen and send for mailbox consideration. The “articles” were written in poor English and had no news value and had broken all rules of journalism
The two “articles” were shallow in details, short pieces and were not quoting any authority or source. They were like opinion pieces. Judging from the journalistic expertise of this blogger, those “articles” were not written by a trained journalist and no serious newspaper could publish them in that form. The “articles” were highly seditious and lacked any proof and no editor in his right mind could even consider them for publication.
According to Mr Gichangi, the two articles were leaked by an NSIS mole/agent at the Standard Group. The mole/agent claimed he downloaded the articles from their newsroom computers. This is why the police squad dismantled and took away computers from the Standard offices.
The Standard had previously published an exclusive explosive story about President Kibaki having a second wife, Mary Wambui. They had also published other stories that did not please State House.
Daily Nation, on the other side, had published an exclusive story revealing how President Kibaki had collapsed and hit his head against a staircase in State House leading to the highly publicized admission at the Nairobi Hospital during his early days as president. Then rumours hit the country that President Kibaki had been pushed off his wheel chair by his burly wife in her characteristic fury.
According to our sources, the gathering was concerned the media had "grown big horns" and State House feared they were up to no good and they could publish more damaging material unless checked. There was great concern the media frenzy was aimed at humiliating the new president and exposing him to public ridicule. The two “articles” were tabled as evidence of how the media had overstepped its mandate. President Kibaki spoke less but he endorsed the decision to raid the offices of the Standard Group to pre-empt the publication of the two “articles” and to send a strong message to other media houses. President Kibaki was made to believe Kalenjin forces were ganging up and using the media to undermine his regime. He swallowed the bait.
Those present regarded Nation Media Group as somehow pro-Kibaki. Daily Nation had also been forced to denounce their story on Kibaki collapsing and offered an apology. It was also argued that attacking NMG would be disastrous because of the influence the media giant had in the country due to the Aga Khan factor.
The Standard Group was regarded as too hostile and it was seen as the voice of former President Moi, who was then in bad books with the Kibaki regime, his son, Gideon, William Ruto, and anti-Kibaki elements. There was suspicion that the Moi family – which had hand-picked and placed in key positions staff from the Kalenjin community at the Standard Group – could have been behind the scandalous reporting.
The meeting, under President Kibaki, instructed Mr Kamau to use any means at his disposal to stop the publication of the two “articles”.
Mr Michuki and Maj Gen Ali were at loggerheads and the meeting agreed the commissioner could not be trusted with the top secret plot. There was growing pressure from a section of Kibaki’s loyalists to sack Maj Gen Ali. Maj Gen Ali, who was fighting for survival, was close to the then Standard CEO Tom Mshindi. Raila Odinga was also baying for Maj Gen Ali’s blood after police shot dead three children and a milk vendor in Kisumu during protests over the Wako draft.
Maj Gen Ali rubbed Raila the wrong way when he claimed those killed wanted to raid Kondele police station and arrogantly said he had no apology over the shootings even after evidence showed police had shot dead innocent people. Raila was demanding sacking of the commissioner. Mr Michuki said Maj Gen Ali should be kept in the dark to avoid leakage of the information. The Standard raid offered Maj Gen Ali a lifeline as he leaked secrets of the Artur brothers and Raila softened his hard-line stance for the commissioner to go.
Mr Kamau was instructed to personally handpick loyal officers to do the job and make it so lean as to avoid any leakage. The officers who were approached were first warned of the deadly assignment ahead without details. Those who developed cold feet were left out. Finally, a squad of 15 officers, mainly from the dreaded Kanga Squad, was formed and rehearsed on the mission ahead. They held regular briefings with Mr Kamau. The squad received technical support from the two Artur brothers. The Artur brothers came up with the idea of wearing hoods to cover their faces. The Artur brothers coordinated the raid on the ground on that fateful March 2nd date.
The original plot was to bomb the entire I&M Building housing the Standard Group editorial department and KTN newsroom and studio and their printing press in Industrial Area. The hooded officers developed cold feet and opted for the “softer” way they carried the operations instead of bombing the entire premises. They feared the bombing idea could bring unrest in the country.
One of our sources believe the “articles” appeared to have been authored by Dr Alfred Mutua and planted at the Standard newsroom by NSIS agents/moles. NSIS claimed the copies were downloaded from computers at Standard Group offices. This gave President Kibaki the excuse to raid the media house.
Mr Michuki later confirmed the raid was a police operation and quipped: “If you rattle a snake, you must be prepared to be bitten by it.” The snake in this case was President Kibaki.
Other articles posted earlier Today:
Kibaki and his wives: Blame lies with Kibaki only
The motive behind the March 2, 2006, police raid at the Standard Group offices has remained top secret to date.
However Kumekucha today unveils the secrets behind the raid based on interviews from two of President Kibaki’s aides privy to the "Government operation."
In February 2006, President Kibaki chaired a meeting at State House, Nairobi, which was attended by the then Minister for Internal Security, Mr John Michuki, Mr Stanley Murage, Head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura, NSIS Director General Michael Gichangi, the then CID Director Joseph Kamau, among other State House operatives.
Despite the gravity of the matter under discussion, the Commissioner of police, Maj Gen Mohamed Ali, was not invited. This was purely a Nyumba ya Mumbi affair. The House of Mumbi had been rattled.
There was tension and anger in the room. The NSIS chief tabled two pieces of paper which he told the meeting had two explosive stories the Standard Group was planning to publish. This blogger has seen and read the two "articles" the Standard was alleged to be planning to publish.
The first "article" was about how Kibaki, when he was the DP chairman and was vying for presidency in 1997, allegedly travelled to Southern Sudan to meet with Al Qaeda founder and world’s Number One terrorist Osama bin Laden to solicit funds for his presidential campaign.
In the second "article", the author was discussing Kibaki’s failing health in January and February 2003, shortly after he was sworn in as president. The “article” even quoted Raila Odinga saying there was going to be a snap election within the year (implying Kibaki was dying/would be dead to warrant a snap election).
What shocked this blogger was that the person who authored the two “articles” did not have any sense of journalism. They appeared like the raw copies readers often pen and send for mailbox consideration. The “articles” were written in poor English and had no news value and had broken all rules of journalism
The two “articles” were shallow in details, short pieces and were not quoting any authority or source. They were like opinion pieces. Judging from the journalistic expertise of this blogger, those “articles” were not written by a trained journalist and no serious newspaper could publish them in that form. The “articles” were highly seditious and lacked any proof and no editor in his right mind could even consider them for publication.
According to Mr Gichangi, the two articles were leaked by an NSIS mole/agent at the Standard Group. The mole/agent claimed he downloaded the articles from their newsroom computers. This is why the police squad dismantled and took away computers from the Standard offices.
The Standard had previously published an exclusive explosive story about President Kibaki having a second wife, Mary Wambui. They had also published other stories that did not please State House.
Daily Nation, on the other side, had published an exclusive story revealing how President Kibaki had collapsed and hit his head against a staircase in State House leading to the highly publicized admission at the Nairobi Hospital during his early days as president. Then rumours hit the country that President Kibaki had been pushed off his wheel chair by his burly wife in her characteristic fury.
According to our sources, the gathering was concerned the media had "grown big horns" and State House feared they were up to no good and they could publish more damaging material unless checked. There was great concern the media frenzy was aimed at humiliating the new president and exposing him to public ridicule. The two “articles” were tabled as evidence of how the media had overstepped its mandate. President Kibaki spoke less but he endorsed the decision to raid the offices of the Standard Group to pre-empt the publication of the two “articles” and to send a strong message to other media houses. President Kibaki was made to believe Kalenjin forces were ganging up and using the media to undermine his regime. He swallowed the bait.
Those present regarded Nation Media Group as somehow pro-Kibaki. Daily Nation had also been forced to denounce their story on Kibaki collapsing and offered an apology. It was also argued that attacking NMG would be disastrous because of the influence the media giant had in the country due to the Aga Khan factor.
The Standard Group was regarded as too hostile and it was seen as the voice of former President Moi, who was then in bad books with the Kibaki regime, his son, Gideon, William Ruto, and anti-Kibaki elements. There was suspicion that the Moi family – which had hand-picked and placed in key positions staff from the Kalenjin community at the Standard Group – could have been behind the scandalous reporting.
The meeting, under President Kibaki, instructed Mr Kamau to use any means at his disposal to stop the publication of the two “articles”.
Mr Michuki and Maj Gen Ali were at loggerheads and the meeting agreed the commissioner could not be trusted with the top secret plot. There was growing pressure from a section of Kibaki’s loyalists to sack Maj Gen Ali. Maj Gen Ali, who was fighting for survival, was close to the then Standard CEO Tom Mshindi. Raila Odinga was also baying for Maj Gen Ali’s blood after police shot dead three children and a milk vendor in Kisumu during protests over the Wako draft.
Maj Gen Ali rubbed Raila the wrong way when he claimed those killed wanted to raid Kondele police station and arrogantly said he had no apology over the shootings even after evidence showed police had shot dead innocent people. Raila was demanding sacking of the commissioner. Mr Michuki said Maj Gen Ali should be kept in the dark to avoid leakage of the information. The Standard raid offered Maj Gen Ali a lifeline as he leaked secrets of the Artur brothers and Raila softened his hard-line stance for the commissioner to go.
Mr Kamau was instructed to personally handpick loyal officers to do the job and make it so lean as to avoid any leakage. The officers who were approached were first warned of the deadly assignment ahead without details. Those who developed cold feet were left out. Finally, a squad of 15 officers, mainly from the dreaded Kanga Squad, was formed and rehearsed on the mission ahead. They held regular briefings with Mr Kamau. The squad received technical support from the two Artur brothers. The Artur brothers came up with the idea of wearing hoods to cover their faces. The Artur brothers coordinated the raid on the ground on that fateful March 2nd date.
The original plot was to bomb the entire I&M Building housing the Standard Group editorial department and KTN newsroom and studio and their printing press in Industrial Area. The hooded officers developed cold feet and opted for the “softer” way they carried the operations instead of bombing the entire premises. They feared the bombing idea could bring unrest in the country.
One of our sources believe the “articles” appeared to have been authored by Dr Alfred Mutua and planted at the Standard newsroom by NSIS agents/moles. NSIS claimed the copies were downloaded from computers at Standard Group offices. This gave President Kibaki the excuse to raid the media house.
Mr Michuki later confirmed the raid was a police operation and quipped: “If you rattle a snake, you must be prepared to be bitten by it.” The snake in this case was President Kibaki.
Other articles posted earlier Today:
Kibaki and his wives: Blame lies with Kibaki only
Alfred Mutua looked so ashamed and the ADC was crying in shame behind Kibaki (see photo)
Taabu on how Kibaki outsmarted the Kenyan mediaTuesday, March 03, 2009
Kibaki and His Wives: Blame Lies Squarely with Himself and Not Muite or Media
By Guest writer
Dear Kenyans. Forgive me for being in this foul mood. I can’t hold back when our president and his wife are crying at a Press conference. A responsible child should show concern when his parents are crying loudly in public. Am in this foul mood because this article is not meant for Kibaki’s loyal diehards and those whose reasoning faculty equates to Lucy’s or is even worse.
It is a big shame to the First Family and
Kenyans are not fools. Kibaki’s antics, edged on by Lucy’s crocodile tears and loose temper and slapping public officials in public, will not wash away the truth or fool anyone. Instead, they will aggravate the already volatile situation.
Majority of Kenyans are today faced with serious problems and are spending sleepless nights cracking their heads on how to put a meal on the table and pay school fees and meet the rising cost of living. They care less about their president’s domestic woes and how many wives he has.
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Former Kabate MP Paul Muite was just re-stating what the then minister for Internal Security, John Muchiki, had told the parliamentary committee investigating the Standard raid and the Artur bothers’ saga. Mr Muite was chairing the committee and he on Monday disclosed what Michuki gave as the motive to dispatch a police squad to raid the Standard. The Standard was raided by state agents when Kibaki was in power. Kibaki should have used his Press conference with his burly wife to explain who ordered the raid, why and what was achieved instead of whining and shedding crocodile tears while TV cameras rolled.
Rather than Kibaki try to fools Kenyans who already know the truth, he should have been kind enough to shed more light on who is Mary Wambui and who is the father of her daughter, Winnie Mwai, why the two enjoyed Presidential security, and why Kibaki remained silent as the two brought to Kenya the Artur brothers and housed the criminals as they went around defecating and defiling our motherland with impunity. And they returned to their country scot-free! Kibaki did not appear on TV or utter a word, yet he was president of the
Every married man will tell you he has domestic crisis in his home. But the wise ones solve their domez under the confines of their bedroom or within their home boundaries and not in public. They wouldn’t even want neighbours to know there was a fall out.
It is in bad faith for Kibaki to misuse public resources and officials to help him clean up his domestic filth. He appeared at Tuesday’s Press conference in the company of head of Civil Service, Francis Muthaura, and Commissioner of Police, Maj Gen Mohammed Hussein Ali. Why misuse such senior public officials? Maj Gen Ali should be explaining why he is so blood-thirsty going to the extent of executing youths at will under the guise of fighting crime and Mungiki. Kenyans pay the Commissioner of Police a salary to make their country safer and not sort out their president’s domestic woes. Next time I suffer a domestic problem, I’ll summon Maj Gen Ali to my house and the media to re-state my position.
In fact, Maj Gen Ali should have been sacked on the spot on Tuesday because he watched and did nothing as Lucy committed a crime by threatening to raid the Standard. She even owned up raiding the Nation. Maj Gen Ali should have arrested her and locked her up pending court appearance today morning.
Kibaki, like any other married man, should put his house in order and not wail and look for scapegoats while he was solely responsible for his domestic mess. By engaging in endless public dramas, Kibaki and his wife only end up looking more foolish and open themselves to public ridicule. Kibaki must stand up like a real man and not act stupidly and foolishly under pressure from his “dear wife”.
Picture the following and Kibaki remained silent:
Ø The Grand Coalition Government he heads is dogged by serious political problems which he has turned a blind eye to.
Ø Prof Alston released a report exposing grisly police executions and the existence of police death squads in
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Ø On the other hand, Mungiki and other criminal gangs have been killing Kenyans at will. Instead of reforming the Kenya Police to make it responsive to the needs of Kenyans, Kibaki allows Maj Gen Ali to round up anyone he wishes and executes them in the name of fighting Mungiki. For every one Mungiki executed by police, they (police) end up killing at least five innocent Kenyans. Surely, this is not the way modern police fight crime.
Ø Poor Kenyans have been going hungry, party due to theft of maize, but largely due weak Government food policies. Some Kenyans have since died and Kibaki cares less.
Ø The oil scandal in the Ministry of Energy and other corruption scandals. Kibaki had promised his regime would make
Ø The Anglo Leasing scandal, masterminded by Kibaki’s close aides, went on unabated despite Kibaki being made aware of it. Despite the huge sums of public money involved, the matter was swept under the carpet and trashed into history without any action.
Ø Kibaki spent huge public resources in the Goldenberg inquiry only to end up with a report being tossed in Government shelves to gather dust.
Ø The Artur brothers’ saga went on right in Kibaki’s eyes. We ended up in another fake commission of inquiry.
Ø Kibaki traded the Grand Regency Hotel with Libyan President Gadhafi for campaign funds in 2007 and purported it was sold last year. If the hotel was sold where did the money go? Another fake commission was formed.
Ø Kibaki promised us a constitution within 100 days after re rose to power in Dec 2002. The matter was forgotten when he attained what he wanted.
Ø Does Kibaki know there was a State House-sponsored raid on the offices of the Standard Group in March 2006 because we have never heard his voice?
It’s a pity that Kibaki remains silent where Kenyans are faced with serious challenges and only appear on TV to growl about his dear wife! Kibaki, please do better than this. You are a man. A man does not go crying and whining in public because his wife has put him under pressure to denounce a parallel affair.
I wish Kibaki and Lucy make good their threat to take Hon Muite to court. What a juicy drama will that be? Under pressure from his wife, MP Mwangi Kiunjuri took the media to court when it was reported he had been seized in a police swoop on prostitutes on
See other recent posts:
Alfred Mutua looked so ashamed and the ADC was crying in shame behind Kibaki (see photo)
Kibaki Outsmarts Kenya’s Timid Media
Also published a few hours ago: Chris on Kibaki's embarassing press conference
Give it to President Kibaki. In one smart TEARFUL move he masked the joy of KCSE candidates and most importantly deflected attention from quarrelsome ODM demanding reinstatement of political conjugal rights without any marriage in the first place.
But the real LOSERS were the Kenyan press who failed to strike the iron when it was red hot. They failed pierce the soft under belly with KILLER QUESTIONS. The first question asking Kibaki the basis of his clarification that he had only one wife was smart but the reporter failed to nail it with a follow up that would have smoked the visibly agitated Kibaki.
Kibaki's press conference was about one Mary Wambui whose name was not even mentioned in passing. The Kenyan media failed to in an empty goal. They allowed Lucy to chaperon and goad them while silently smarting from her visible threats. Even after inadvertently accepting raiding Nation Media House the press fell for her plastic tears instead of asking her to confirm if she would actually re-enact another attack on KTN.
Our so-called journalists refused to think outside the box. They went to Kibaki’s press conference with a prepared script and shamelessly stuck to thinking in one direction. The killer question would have been asking the president point blank WHO IS MARY WAMBUI. Asking Kibaki if as a head of state he knew Mary Wambui and the state security she enjoys would have left him and his handlers exposed.
Predictably Kibaki would have ducked that question just like he feigned ignorance of the genesis of his artificial foul mood. But an array of smart journalists would have outfoxed him with follow-up questions on whether Winnie wa Mwai was her daughter. That would have now worked up both Kibaki and Lucy to force them into releasing some unpleasant truths albeit unknowingly.
Unimaginative press
The media failed to expand the agenda of the rare press conference. Having denied knowledge of the genesis of his anger, this was the golden opportunity to speak for the masses and exorcist the Grand Regency, Oil and Maize ghosts. But alas the myopic cameras could only flash the familiar faces and missed watering the most fertile ground for a SCOOP in an unrehearsed honest answer.
The media simply played into Kibaki’s hands when he showed emotions to mask the facts. Politics is not meant for the faint hearted and if you cannot stand the heat you vacate the kitchen. Seasoned journalists would have disabused Lucy of her crocodile tears.
We have surely perfected the art of living national lies and made it our pastime. A lie repeated several times must mutate to truth according Kibaki. Otherwise why would a whole president call three press conferences in as many years to deny his own blood and wife?
President Calls Press Conference To Say He Only Has One Wife
The president hardly ever calls a press conference... but today he did.
So you would have naturally expected that what he had to say was of great national importance. Something really, really important.
Something to do with him finally addressing the rampant corruption in the grand coalition government (that we are told by John Michuki he is in full control of). Somebody would have probably speculated that he wants to announce the dissolving of the entire cabinet or some other equally significant decision.
Instead, flanked by a tearful first lady, the President of the republic of Kenya and the commander in chief of the armed forces called a press conference to tell Kenyans that he only has one wife. He then allowed his wife to threaten the press with another of her “raids” for daring to suggest that she has a co-wife.
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Honestly I did not know whether to laugh or cry. This was totally and utterly unbelievable. Will somebody please wake me up from this nightmare, there is no way it can be happening. Not now.... How?
When the country is grappling with some serious problems including Kenyans dying of starvation, the president calls a press conference to discuss domestics? I really have no words this time.
Of course the whole storm seemed to have been triggered off by the comments of former Kabete MP Paul Muite yesterday over the raid on the Standard newspaper where property confiscated from the Media house is yet to be returned. Muite claimed that the raid had nothing to do with national security issues but had something to do with “the president and his two wives.” That last bit must have been what stirred the hornet’s nest. So much so that the first lady threatened to take people to court.
Interestingly I have never seen the government spokesman look so embarrassed. I mean even after the man releases his highly fictional accounts to the press he always keeps a straight face and never butts an eye lid. This time Dr Alfred Mutua and other State House staff looked visibly embarrassed and very uncomfortable as the president of the republic of Kenya embarrassed himself in full glare of TV cameras.
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Everybody in Kenya is aware of the fact that Mwai Kibaki has paid dowry for one Mary Wambui. Indeed even as you read this her house is still being guarded by GSU personnel at the taxpayer’s expense. So who is this Wambui woman and why does she still cost the taxpayer money when the president has denied her and the children they had together?
If what the president is saying is true (and we presume it must be true because if a president can tell the nation lies in full glare of press cameras, then he has no business continuing to serve the public in any capacity even as the member of a board running a cattle dip in the village) then Mary Wambui should be immediately arrested for being an impostor and claiming to be the president’s wife. Surely if this is not done right away we will soon have hoardes of women swarming from the wood work claiming to be the president’s wife.
P.S. 87% of Kenyans in an NTV survey completed minutes ago, say that they do NOT believe the president when he says that he only has one wife. Jijazie……
Read this commentary in another Kenyan site and see the photograph. Is the ADC behind Kibaki actually crying in shame?
So you would have naturally expected that what he had to say was of great national importance. Something really, really important.
Something to do with him finally addressing the rampant corruption in the grand coalition government (that we are told by John Michuki he is in full control of). Somebody would have probably speculated that he wants to announce the dissolving of the entire cabinet or some other equally significant decision.
Instead, flanked by a tearful first lady, the President of the republic of Kenya and the commander in chief of the armed forces called a press conference to tell Kenyans that he only has one wife. He then allowed his wife to threaten the press with another of her “raids” for daring to suggest that she has a co-wife.
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Honestly I did not know whether to laugh or cry. This was totally and utterly unbelievable. Will somebody please wake me up from this nightmare, there is no way it can be happening. Not now.... How?
When the country is grappling with some serious problems including Kenyans dying of starvation, the president calls a press conference to discuss domestics? I really have no words this time.
Of course the whole storm seemed to have been triggered off by the comments of former Kabete MP Paul Muite yesterday over the raid on the Standard newspaper where property confiscated from the Media house is yet to be returned. Muite claimed that the raid had nothing to do with national security issues but had something to do with “the president and his two wives.” That last bit must have been what stirred the hornet’s nest. So much so that the first lady threatened to take people to court.
Interestingly I have never seen the government spokesman look so embarrassed. I mean even after the man releases his highly fictional accounts to the press he always keeps a straight face and never butts an eye lid. This time Dr Alfred Mutua and other State House staff looked visibly embarrassed and very uncomfortable as the president of the republic of Kenya embarrassed himself in full glare of TV cameras.
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Kumekucha titbits: Avoid sitting for hours in a traffic jam on your way to the city centre from the airport. Simply book into a nice brand new budget hotel in the outskirts of Nairobi 5 minutes from the airport.
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Everybody in Kenya is aware of the fact that Mwai Kibaki has paid dowry for one Mary Wambui. Indeed even as you read this her house is still being guarded by GSU personnel at the taxpayer’s expense. So who is this Wambui woman and why does she still cost the taxpayer money when the president has denied her and the children they had together?
If what the president is saying is true (and we presume it must be true because if a president can tell the nation lies in full glare of press cameras, then he has no business continuing to serve the public in any capacity even as the member of a board running a cattle dip in the village) then Mary Wambui should be immediately arrested for being an impostor and claiming to be the president’s wife. Surely if this is not done right away we will soon have hoardes of women swarming from the wood work claiming to be the president’s wife.
P.S. 87% of Kenyans in an NTV survey completed minutes ago, say that they do NOT believe the president when he says that he only has one wife. Jijazie……
Read this commentary in another Kenyan site and see the photograph. Is the ADC behind Kibaki actually crying in shame?
Monday, March 02, 2009
Michuki's Lethal Shots Wraps Kibaki in Fraud
If you ever doubted who the real power and rulers of Kenya are look no further after hearing it straight from minister John Kimendero Michuki, He rattles reptiles and shot straight from the hip by assuring his Kangema constituents that hollow talk about power sharing is nothing but a fat fad.
Love him, hate him Michuki minces no words and he told everybody listening that Kibaki is in SINGULAR and TOTAL control of Kenya plc. The man is a genius in his perfectly timed and smart way to mark the third anniversary of the Standard raid that he delegated to the Artur brothers.
Before you shout yourself hoarse HUYU ANNAN NI NANI just reconcile your rage with the painful fact that Kenya has its owners who can raid a whole media house and gloat over it on camera. Michuki has reminded any Kenyan with an ear for the truth to ignore the hollow claims by detractors that Kibaki sharing any power with a Prime Minister.
And that is at it should be-TELL THE TRUTH. The good minister would have done us great favour to confirm that all the present charades about Special Tribunal, Interim Independent Electoral Commission, Constitution review and all other fads fashioned as reforms are smokescreens by the ruling elite to entertain us as they dig their heels into legal ownership of property Kenya.
Power sharing MY FOOT. That figment of fertile political imagination must be banished when you see the lords of impunity continue to run roughshod ridding on the back of starving Kenyans as they mine the next asset inside Kenya to auction to Libyans. And why not when their choir and apologists have oiled lips for hire to cheer them on?
True entrepreneurs
Kenya is one country ruled by straight talkers like Michuki who frown at politico-speak. No need to constipate us with such empty epithets as the political will to exorcise ghosts of corruption. And if you insist in mouthing such lofty words you are welcome to join John Githongo in penning memoirs from the safety outside our poisoned borders.
Our sovereignty and plastic patriotism is beyond reproach. No wonder we earn invitation from none other ex-UN boss Annan for a cup of tea all the way in Geneva. Add that to exotic and priceless blueprints authored by none other than UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston and you find a proud country whose owners will not blink at anything thrown at them to distract them from feathering their nests.
We haven’t seen the last of our TRUE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENTREPRENEURS.
Love him, hate him Michuki minces no words and he told everybody listening that Kibaki is in SINGULAR and TOTAL control of Kenya plc. The man is a genius in his perfectly timed and smart way to mark the third anniversary of the Standard raid that he delegated to the Artur brothers.
Before you shout yourself hoarse HUYU ANNAN NI NANI just reconcile your rage with the painful fact that Kenya has its owners who can raid a whole media house and gloat over it on camera. Michuki has reminded any Kenyan with an ear for the truth to ignore the hollow claims by detractors that Kibaki sharing any power with a Prime Minister.
And that is at it should be-TELL THE TRUTH. The good minister would have done us great favour to confirm that all the present charades about Special Tribunal, Interim Independent Electoral Commission, Constitution review and all other fads fashioned as reforms are smokescreens by the ruling elite to entertain us as they dig their heels into legal ownership of property Kenya.
Power sharing MY FOOT. That figment of fertile political imagination must be banished when you see the lords of impunity continue to run roughshod ridding on the back of starving Kenyans as they mine the next asset inside Kenya to auction to Libyans. And why not when their choir and apologists have oiled lips for hire to cheer them on?
True entrepreneurs
Kenya is one country ruled by straight talkers like Michuki who frown at politico-speak. No need to constipate us with such empty epithets as the political will to exorcise ghosts of corruption. And if you insist in mouthing such lofty words you are welcome to join John Githongo in penning memoirs from the safety outside our poisoned borders.
Our sovereignty and plastic patriotism is beyond reproach. No wonder we earn invitation from none other ex-UN boss Annan for a cup of tea all the way in Geneva. Add that to exotic and priceless blueprints authored by none other than UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston and you find a proud country whose owners will not blink at anything thrown at them to distract them from feathering their nests.
We haven’t seen the last of our TRUE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENTREPRENEURS.
What’s Coming: Fall Out Will Cause Some “To Sing Like Birds”
JM Kariuki, Kenya Remembers You
Today is March 2nd. On a day like today in 1975, the then popular MP for Nyandarua North, called Josiah Mwangi Kariuki or JM Kariuki was murdered. The man was killed in such a gruesome way that I suggest if you are eating while reading this, you should finish eating before reading the next paragraph. Or stop eating to read on.
JM Kariuki, one of the first whistleblowers in Kenya. He paid for it with his life on a day like this one in March 1975.
There were signs of torture, like cigarette burns but what is more, the MPs private parts had been cut off and stuffed into his mouth. The body was then soaked in acid to prevent it ever being recognized again. Still the body was found because wild animals cannot eat a body doused in acid. And then one of his wives was able to identify the badly disfigured and burnt body from a mark or scar of sorts on his inner thigh (where the acid did not reach, obviously it was mainly concentrated on his face).
Despite strong leads developed by a parliamentary select committee (led by the late Elijah Mwangale) that investigated his grisly murder, those responsible for this most heinous crime have never been brought to book to date.
But what I want to bring to your attention today my dear friends is a particular aspect of this popular legislator’s life that most writers have ignored when analyzing this assassination. JM was extremely wealthy. So where and how did he make his money?
A few clues. JM was President Jomo Kenyatta’s very first press secretary. There is no doubt that he experienced first hand the colossal land-grabbing and corruption right when it started at the heart of Kenyatta’s very first administration. It is also quite possible that he shared in some of "the loot" that came in those early days.
The human conscience is a strange thing and for some people it haunts them into confessing what they did and into also “selling out” their partners in crime.
JM Kariuki grew to become an extremely vociferous voice against land grabbing and the rapid creation of millionaires within the Kenyatta kitchen cabinet at the expense of the masses. Hence his popular quote of "I don’t want to see a Kenya of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars.” Insiders in Kenyatta’s government must have been puzzled how somebody who had benefited from the system had so suddenly turned against it.
Indeed JM will go down as one of the first real voices of opposition to corruption in the Kenyatta regime. It seems that many times whistle blowers are usually bad guys turned good who actually once participated in the evil they feel so compelled to expose.
Fast forward to 2008. Constable Kirinya participated in the execution of numerous Kenyans until his conscience gave in and he decided to run for his life and spill the beans. (His story was first told here in Kumekucha.) Because of his brave action, we are able to understand much more clearer how the police were involved in mass murder of the very citizens they took an oath to protect. Amongst the guilty who were gunned down and murdered, you can be sure that hundreds of innocent, mostly povery stricken Kenyans lost their lives in the process.
My whole point is that it is looking like the prayers of many ordinary Kenyans are being answered and what we are now witnessing is the conscience of some individuals giving in and spilling the beans of what is exactly happening. In some cases we are seeing former allies falling out and selling out each other. The best example here is what seems to be happening between Agriculture minister William Ruto and his former mentor Cyrus Jirongo. Information reaching this blogger indicates Jirongo got wind of an evil plot by Ruto to heap all the blame on Jirongo for the maize scandal and thus divert attention completely away from himself. And yet it is believed that Jirongo and Ruto acted together in the maize scandal. So what Jirongo did was spill the beans on the meetings that took place between Ruto and Martha Karua. This was simply a warning salvo to Ruto that he should not even think about selling out Jirongo. Well it seems to have worked like magic. because Ruto is so quiet now and the whole matter has dissapeared from the news.
Just carefully watch what happens in Kenya next. I can guarantee that people will fall out and others will be betrayed and the result will be that some parties will start to “sing like a bird” (to quote the famous Mafia expression). Songs of freedom because they will reveal the truth which will set Kenya free from the stranglehold of the political class.
Today is March 2nd. On a day like today in 1975, the then popular MP for Nyandarua North, called Josiah Mwangi Kariuki or JM Kariuki was murdered. The man was killed in such a gruesome way that I suggest if you are eating while reading this, you should finish eating before reading the next paragraph. Or stop eating to read on.
JM Kariuki, one of the first whistleblowers in Kenya. He paid for it with his life on a day like this one in March 1975.There were signs of torture, like cigarette burns but what is more, the MPs private parts had been cut off and stuffed into his mouth. The body was then soaked in acid to prevent it ever being recognized again. Still the body was found because wild animals cannot eat a body doused in acid. And then one of his wives was able to identify the badly disfigured and burnt body from a mark or scar of sorts on his inner thigh (where the acid did not reach, obviously it was mainly concentrated on his face).
Despite strong leads developed by a parliamentary select committee (led by the late Elijah Mwangale) that investigated his grisly murder, those responsible for this most heinous crime have never been brought to book to date.
But what I want to bring to your attention today my dear friends is a particular aspect of this popular legislator’s life that most writers have ignored when analyzing this assassination. JM was extremely wealthy. So where and how did he make his money?
A few clues. JM was President Jomo Kenyatta’s very first press secretary. There is no doubt that he experienced first hand the colossal land-grabbing and corruption right when it started at the heart of Kenyatta’s very first administration. It is also quite possible that he shared in some of "the loot" that came in those early days.
The human conscience is a strange thing and for some people it haunts them into confessing what they did and into also “selling out” their partners in crime.
JM Kariuki grew to become an extremely vociferous voice against land grabbing and the rapid creation of millionaires within the Kenyatta kitchen cabinet at the expense of the masses. Hence his popular quote of "I don’t want to see a Kenya of 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars.” Insiders in Kenyatta’s government must have been puzzled how somebody who had benefited from the system had so suddenly turned against it.
Indeed JM will go down as one of the first real voices of opposition to corruption in the Kenyatta regime. It seems that many times whistle blowers are usually bad guys turned good who actually once participated in the evil they feel so compelled to expose.
Fast forward to 2008. Constable Kirinya participated in the execution of numerous Kenyans until his conscience gave in and he decided to run for his life and spill the beans. (His story was first told here in Kumekucha.) Because of his brave action, we are able to understand much more clearer how the police were involved in mass murder of the very citizens they took an oath to protect. Amongst the guilty who were gunned down and murdered, you can be sure that hundreds of innocent, mostly povery stricken Kenyans lost their lives in the process.
My whole point is that it is looking like the prayers of many ordinary Kenyans are being answered and what we are now witnessing is the conscience of some individuals giving in and spilling the beans of what is exactly happening. In some cases we are seeing former allies falling out and selling out each other. The best example here is what seems to be happening between Agriculture minister William Ruto and his former mentor Cyrus Jirongo. Information reaching this blogger indicates Jirongo got wind of an evil plot by Ruto to heap all the blame on Jirongo for the maize scandal and thus divert attention completely away from himself. And yet it is believed that Jirongo and Ruto acted together in the maize scandal. So what Jirongo did was spill the beans on the meetings that took place between Ruto and Martha Karua. This was simply a warning salvo to Ruto that he should not even think about selling out Jirongo. Well it seems to have worked like magic. because Ruto is so quiet now and the whole matter has dissapeared from the news.
Just carefully watch what happens in Kenya next. I can guarantee that people will fall out and others will be betrayed and the result will be that some parties will start to “sing like a bird” (to quote the famous Mafia expression). Songs of freedom because they will reveal the truth which will set Kenya free from the stranglehold of the political class.
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Arturs: Immortal Ghosts of Exotic Impunity
Just like smelly skunks, the sickening ghosts of Artus brothers are in no hurry to leave our shores. The damning report by Muitie-led parliamentary committee exposes the real source of power that protected the Armenian drug dealers. In her attempts to sanitize her political standing, Martha Karua is one ambitious politician who will find it very hard to weave herself out of some of these nefarious political schemes. Her rants and empty pontifications only reduce to an elite propagandist.
Stanley Murage may be gone out of State House, but the present Wanjohi-Kabue tiff is a replica of hitherto Murage/Wambui-Lucy wars. Exploiting the EXECUTIVE mad rush to auction anything still left standing in Kenya, the reign of economic and political mercenaries remain supreme. Add ex-CID boss Joseph Kamau to the mix and you find a potentially INTRA-DNA explosive mix.
Only in Kenya do you find the head of public service CLEVERLY leaking top information to the press to divert national attention from ELITE INFIGHTING among the ruling class. The gatekeepers are must have completed the MASTER PLAN to legally OWN Kenya no matter the choice of the electorate.
If you dreamt that Kenyans went to the polls (nay dogs) in 2007, then you better wake up from the delusion and see Kenya and her real owners who will stop at NOTHING to mortgage the tenants occupying their properties.
The Artur brothers just like the Anglo Leasing scam before then are the twin faces defining the present regime. Their only crime was impatience to flaunt RAW POWER secure in the knowledge that sampling ROYAL FLESH earned them immunity and utmost protection.
Royal flesh
With top government bosses Michael Gichangi, Muthaura, Gituai and Wako sanctioning offering unfettered protection, the Artur brothers literally owned Kenya o behalf of their political masters. Asking the role of one Mary Wambui in all is akin to inviting the regimes apologists to a shouting match.
You don’t have to be a neurologist to see where the source of ULTIMATE POWER behind the Arturs. It is unfortunate the abrasive hit men had to leave before accomplishing MISSION 2007.
Well, the present global downturn may demand responsibility from financial CEOs to ensure no rewards for failure. Contrast that with Kenya's obtuse case impunity from the Arturs who were handsomely rewarded with police escort even after breaching airport security and beating customs officials and a CID officer.
What is more, the Casanovas continued flirting with ROYALTIES for cover as they plotted more lethal deals within our borders. We surely live in interesting times and populate a uniquely owned property Kenya.
Stanley Murage may be gone out of State House, but the present Wanjohi-Kabue tiff is a replica of hitherto Murage/Wambui-Lucy wars. Exploiting the EXECUTIVE mad rush to auction anything still left standing in Kenya, the reign of economic and political mercenaries remain supreme. Add ex-CID boss Joseph Kamau to the mix and you find a potentially INTRA-DNA explosive mix.
Only in Kenya do you find the head of public service CLEVERLY leaking top information to the press to divert national attention from ELITE INFIGHTING among the ruling class. The gatekeepers are must have completed the MASTER PLAN to legally OWN Kenya no matter the choice of the electorate.
If you dreamt that Kenyans went to the polls (nay dogs) in 2007, then you better wake up from the delusion and see Kenya and her real owners who will stop at NOTHING to mortgage the tenants occupying their properties.
The Artur brothers just like the Anglo Leasing scam before then are the twin faces defining the present regime. Their only crime was impatience to flaunt RAW POWER secure in the knowledge that sampling ROYAL FLESH earned them immunity and utmost protection.
Royal flesh
With top government bosses Michael Gichangi, Muthaura, Gituai and Wako sanctioning offering unfettered protection, the Artur brothers literally owned Kenya o behalf of their political masters. Asking the role of one Mary Wambui in all is akin to inviting the regimes apologists to a shouting match.
You don’t have to be a neurologist to see where the source of ULTIMATE POWER behind the Arturs. It is unfortunate the abrasive hit men had to leave before accomplishing MISSION 2007.
Well, the present global downturn may demand responsibility from financial CEOs to ensure no rewards for failure. Contrast that with Kenya's obtuse case impunity from the Arturs who were handsomely rewarded with police escort even after breaching airport security and beating customs officials and a CID officer.
What is more, the Casanovas continued flirting with ROYALTIES for cover as they plotted more lethal deals within our borders. We surely live in interesting times and populate a uniquely owned property Kenya.
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