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Monday, May 31, 2010

Curtailing Civic Education Benefits NO Campaigners

Nyamu-led Kadhi Court Ruling Boomerang

This past weekend, Infotrack released opinon poll results touching on the referendum and the effects of the Kadhi court ruling on voters. Only a mere two out of ten voters confirmed having been influenced by the ruling.

The Infotrack poll also put the YES-ers at 63% and the NO-ers at 21%. The poll reveals there are significant incidences of katiba ignorance in Rift Valley and Eastern provinces the same areas where the NO-ers get most of their 21% support.

Knowledge is power and it is sad in this day and age, a large portion of these populated provinces have little knowledge on what is on the cards in the katiba. The need to educate these voters is important for it will help them make informed decisions at the time of voting at the referendum. In the short term, it will help them heckle and tell of the likes of ex-President Moi and the Ruto-Mithika axis who have made it a habit of misinforming and distorting the provisions of the draft whenever they address their rent-a-crowd rallies. Moi has suddenly gained notoriety for stoking ethnic passions instead of using his status to educate the RVP peasants on the individual chapters or provisions they purport to be retrogressive. Moi’s opposition to the draft stems from the fact that he wants to keep his huge swathes of idle grabbed land tax free.

It is regrettable that the status quoist are using Uhuru Kenyatta (YES daytime and NO nigh time) to deny these populous areas the right to civic education. For instance, some areas of Eastern and Rift Valley can only be reached by helicopters, which the CoE have to hire daily to traverse the remote areas. The CoE also have to run expensive daily roadshows and media campaigns all over Kenya so as to effectively disseminate their educational messages. But without money, they cannot do it. The same tactics which the colonial government used in the 1950s in resisting the struggle for independence are the same ones Uhuru is now using to deny Kenya the right to information on the new constitution.

Instead it is the office of the Prime Minister which has so far donated Kshs. 90million for the CoE to use in civic education. For a national assignment as important as this, why not the Office of the President, or even why not the Treasury?

Back to the poll and not surprisingly, the two leading YES provinces coincidentally also happen to be the same ones worst affected by deliberate marginalization of the Kenyatta, Moi and Kibaki governments. NEP at is YES at 96% and Nyanza is at 93%. They two are also the most informed about the contents of the draft and the least influenced by the recent bizarre ruling of the constitutional court on Kadhi courts.

Obviously these two regions are attracted to the proposed draft due to prospects of devolved government. After decades of paying tax to national government and watching helplessly as the same government overlooks their interests, there is hope at last in the new draft. Am looking at nearly 15% devolved funds comprising the national allocation to the County governments, powers to borrow and raise revenue, the equalization fund, the CDF and other forms of local resources will be put in the hands of the local people to decide for themselves at the grassroots what is best for themselves in the regions that they live. Too good to be true? What is more, the governor and county committee remains and are directly accountable to the people who elected them to these positions. In this case, there will be no PC or DC or even chief involved. It will be strictly by the people themselves.

What most ethnic kingpins and latter day politicians fear most about the counties is that the governors will overnight be transformed to become the new local political kingpins. The MP or even the power bokers will no longer be the ones calling the shots or hosting delegations. The governors will be. That will be on top of being on the development driving seat. Can you see the end of people like perennial fence-sitter Kalonzo and PEV masterminds Ruto, Uhuru Kenyatta – those who do not have a political constituency beyond their ethnic enclaves?? You bet!! The era of 'our people this our people that' is GONE.

Back to our pet question: Do you approve the proposed new Constitution?

Mine is BIG YES.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Dark faces behind secret NO campaign by YES camp revealed

Kumekucha exclusive

For days now our politicians have been telling us that there are some dark evil powerful forces bent on ensuring that Kenyans do not get a new constitution. Today in Kumekucha we reveal some of these big names. Sneaky fellows who are allegedly in the YES camp but are secretly fighting day and night to ensure that Kenyan’s efforts for a new constitution are frustrated.

Make no mistake about it. These guys are ready to do ANYTHING to make sure that we continue with the old constitution which has served them well. Too well, I dare say.

John Michuki gives the NSIS orders and the president can do nothing.

At the top of this list is star minister John Michuki. I have it from three independent sources that Michuki was behind the insertion of the infamous national security addition to the bill of rights at the Government press. Apparently Michuki used people like the solicitor general Muchemi to organize the bizarre changes at the government press. Some sources claim that he was also aided by Moi/Ruto contacts at the government press.

The other big name in the secret NO campaign is Uhuru Kenyatta. It is said that the Kenyatta fortune will be wiped out literally overnight if and when the new constitution comes into force. For starters the limit on the amount of land an individual can own (to be set by parliament) will affect the Kenyatta family before any other. The truth is that the full land holdings of this family is not really known. People keep on talking about land the size of Nyanza province, but that is only the land that is widely known. There are vast tracts of land not known about littered all over the country. The truth is that there was no nice piece of land that Jomo kenyatta laid his eyes on that he did not “acquire” during his presidency.

But an even bigger Motive for both Michuki and Kenyatta to be wary of a new constitution that promises too much justice to the ordinary folk has to do with the post election troubles of January 2008. These two individuals are top suspects on the Ocampo list and one does not need to be a lawyer to conclude that they are much better protected under the old constitution. The proposed constitution to them is like a hand grenade that has had the safety pin already removed.

Moi’s motives are easy to decipher. He has vast tracts of land and a new constitution would enforce the truth and reconciliation process which would also bring out all kinds of skeletons from closets that Moi has sealed and is eager never to have opened in his lifetime or that of his children. Those who underestimate Moi’s influence and potential to do harm should think again. Moi has always been a hard systematic worker and remember that at the moment he has nothing else on his plate but defeating the new constitution.

Amazingly Kibaki’s exit strategy is hard to believe. But then I am quickly reminded that most Kenyans laughed when it was suggested that Kibaki would rig the 2007 presidential elections. And so for now I will not laugh. Kibaki plans to be the first president under the new constitution.

Earlier in this blog we talked about the NSIS involvement in inserting the controversial National security addition in the bill of rights. To me the orders would only have come from Kibaki. I just could not contemplate the thought of the president not being in full control of such a vital organ like the NSIS. Facts emerging now prove that Michuki (whom Kibaki has always delegated certain sensitive NSIS matters to) took advantage of things and used the NSIS to do damage at the government press. Michuki knew that the president would do nothing. In other words the commander in chief is NOT in full control.

My big fear is what else these desperate Kenyans will do, knowing full well that the president will do nothing? Brace yourselves Kenyans, it’s going to be a pretty rough ride from here to that place called a new constitution.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Orbituary: Tony Msalame of Sheki Legi is Dead

The rampant CHEST epidemic has robbed Kenya yet another of her illustrious sons. Veteran Kenya broadcaster Tony Msalame, 57, passed away Friday morning after suddenly collapsing at his Sheki Studios in Mombasa complained of chest pains. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Pandya Memorial Hospital where he was rushed.

The death of Msalame robs Kenya of an authentic entertainer both at radio studios and on TV, Tushauriane. The not-so young Kenyans will recall Tony as the signature voice of infant Metro FM radio off KBC. Teaming with youngster DJs like Lucy Nduta, Angela Obino, Anne Lamayan and Kenyan-Congolese Harry Kabecha, African Music/Lingala and Benga music grew its own wings at Metro.

Tony was an accomplished broadcaster at ease acting in TV, presenting Jazz hour on radio and Rhythm and Blues with Fayaz Qureishi. His Zum Zum Kipindi cha Kuongeza Maarifa, which he co-hosted with Kenyan-Tanzanian Tido Mhando was in a league of its own. Come Sunday evening and Msalame na dada Mrembo Khadija Ali would rock you off your seat with scintillating and often provocative Taarabu ballads.

Tony Msalame trail blazed modern FM Radio entertainment in Kenya with his Sheki Legi program. His ilk includes the evergreen Freddy Obachi Machoka (the blackest man in black Africa), Khadija Ali, Eddy Fondo and Abdull Haq not to forget Mwalimu JOJ (Kenyan Franco), John Karani and Jeff Mwangemi. Tony's death is a golden feather off Kenya's national entertainment wing.

A true Kenyan, Burudani with Tony at Sheki FM was the best. His fans spanned all the corners of Kenya. He would start with a call from Kip in Eldoret, follow it with Kasivu from Mwala, spice it with Nyongesa from Bungoma before invitting, Busia, Kisumu dala, Kisii, Kakamega, Muranga, Lunga Lunga na Kenya yote to Sheki legi.

Rest in peace Tony, we loved you. And may your Skeki FM studio in Mombasa live long in flying your flag/legacy. You were a true Kenyan who warmed our hearts when you lived. Thank you Tony for a life fully lived and enjoyed, we can only repay you by celebrating yours.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Kibaki is NOT A BRILLIANT ECONOMIST

By Mwarang'ethe

Recently, Chris wrote this. “One of the few things that Kenyans already knew about Mwai Kibaki early on and had known for decades was the fact that he was a brilliant scholar. Of that there is no doubt. ...” See his piece here. Chris is in good company in perpetuation of this myth. Read any mainstream media and you will find the same stuff. In view of this, we think that, time has come to demonstrate with irrefutable with facts that, the idea that, Kibaki is a “brilliant economics scholar” amounts to nothing but, feeding an ignorant nation with cow dung mixed with saccharin. We shall use Kibaki’s government (which includes Raila, Kalonzo, Uhuru etc) statistics to demolish this trash once and for all.

Let us first note this. In 1991, a committee from the American Economic Association noted that universities have been producing “WELL EDUCATED IDIOT ECONOMISTS.” It added that graduate programmes in economics may be turning out a generation of too many IDIOTS SERVANTS, skilled in technique but innocent in REAL ECONOMIC ISSUES. According to the report, one unnamed “leading” university graduate students could not figure out why barbers’ wages have risen over time, but, they could easily solve a two sector general equilibrium model with disembodied technical progress in one sector. Source: Report on the Commission on Graduate Education in Economics in Journal of Economic Literature, September 1991, page 1044-5.

Economic development (wealth creation) is about aligning the public interests of a nation with the private interests of the capitalists. However, the failure of standard economics since 1945 which men like Kibaki are schooled in, has led to a catastrophic failure in understanding the essence of colonialism. The essence of colonialism was and is to prevent colonies from developing manufacturing industries which are subject to INCREASING RETURNS. Having prevented development of industrial sector which are the source of HIGHER WAGES, and sources of high growth potential, they then, fasten on us the Malthusian activities which are subject to DIMINISHING RETURNS.

To fasten this yoke of slavery on us, they use “brilliant” economists like Kibaki. Let us now factor statistics from Kenya Monthly Economic Review, February 2010 issued by another “brilliant” economist calling himself Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya. The report is found here.

Inflation Statistics

Let us bear in mind this. Inflation is LOSS OF PURCHASING POWER. Bearing this in mind, let us now turn to page 7 -8 of this report (we were unable to lift the graphs). On these pages, we have statistics on loss of purchasing power for the previous 12 month for each of the three income groups in Nairobi. We expect the same trend all over the nation. As we go forward, let us bear in mind that, these inflation figures are a falsification of Kibaki/Raila government and the real inflation figures are over 20%. We demonstrated this in the article: EPZs and Modern Slavery: Who Shall Tell Wanjiku the Ugly Truth?.

Now, according to this report, for the previous 12 months, the lower income group (hoi polloi in Korogocho and Kibera) lost their purchasing power by 6.2%, for the middle income, by 3% and the upper income group, by 5.6%. Mark you, the low income group is on fixed incomes. Thus, under Kibaki and Raila’s government, the POOREST and the most vulnerable Kenyans lost more purchasing power than the middle class and the super rich. If you turn to page 9 of this report, you will see that, food prices were second to Tusker and Sportman in price increment. Ironically and tragically, it was the food’s component in the inflation “basket” that, this government has reduced so as to calculate inflation in accordance with “international standards” as if people of Kibera eat as per international standards, whatever that means. Is this how a “brilliant” economist runs a nation? How can a man who runs a government that subjugates the poorest due to its monetary and energy policies be termed as a brilliant scholar? We ask scholar of what?

Leaving all the bull shit in this report, let us now jump to page 12. Therein, we find what the gods of money under the leadership of our “brilliant scholar” does with our money. The first thing to note is that, trade (read imports) was given Ksh 28 billion so as to import used women under wears. The second highest recipient of our credit is private households to buy imported mobile phones, TVs and beds with Ksh 28 billion. The third beneficiary of our credit is consumer durables which received Ksh 18 billion. We need to note that, these debts on households are a direct result of low wages which force Kenyans to become serfs of the banks. Thereafter, we find land speculators were given Ksh 15 billion. Jumping all the other lucky sectors of our wonderful economy under a “brilliant scholar,” we manage to locate what should have been at the top, i.e. manufacturing and agriculture. We are told every independence day that, agriculture is the main stare of our economy at 23.4% of our GDP. However, we see that, this crucial sector received only Ksh 3.3. Billion. When you add the miserable Ksh 4.8 billion the manufacturing sector received, we see that, the two MOST critical sectors of our economy received only Ksh 8 billion. Brilliant!

On page 16, we find something about major crops such as horticulture, coffee, sugarcane and milk. We may note that, apart from sugar and milk (if not spoilt) which we consume locally, our tea, coffee, flowers, fruits and vegetables are in most cases meant for export so as to raise dollars for our debts which we are taking to build toilets. From these facts, we can see that, under Mr Kibaki, we dedicate much of our credit to consumption of imported stuff for consumption as well. And, even when we give some credit to our most vital industry, i.e. agriculture, we dedicate that credit to export stuff like flowers. Genius!

In very simple words, under the guidance of our “brilliant scholar,” who has been with us since 1963, Kenya is now locked into comparative advantage in economic activities subject to DIMINISHING RETURNS given that, land supply is fixed. A combination of population growth due to improved hygiene, vaccines etc, and diminishing return activities means that, our efforts are yielding less and less as our specialisation deepens. As we sink deeper into poverty thereof, many Kenyans, just to survive must go back to the nature to eke a living. In this we see the real cause of the ongoing destruction of our fragile environment, such as Mau forest is not greed, but, survival. Although destruction of our environment is in search of individual survival, it eventually becomes a collective destruction. From this standpoint, we hope the stupidity of Mau and other forests reclamation becomes obvious without a change of our economic structure.

Apart from the diminishing returns curse, we are also faced with PERFECT COMPETITION situation for all 3rd world governments sell same stuff. Under perfect competition conditions, there is no profit, i.e. the economic surplus necessary for future investments. This also translates to LOW WAGES and low taxes for the government. We dealt with this matter in the article: Even Dead Fish Goes with the Flow

Another tragedy we face is PRICE VOLATILITY of our products. By relying on flower, tea, coffee exports, it means that, our national wage levels and the level of economic activities tends to fluctuate with the world market of these exports. This means that, our wages are always reversible with very serious consequences.

Thus, under Kibaki’s watch, we are now locked into a double trap of resource curse. Even if we improve our tapping of the natural resources, it only leads to more disaster. As an example, improved fishing methods in Lake Victoria only leads to faster depletion of the fish stocks. Even if we introduce technical innovations like tea harvesting machines that Atwoli hates so much, the increasing returns part comes embedded in the machines we import and not as a result of knowledge created locally. As a result, there are few spills over effects to the rest of the economy from knowledge created in a resources based economy. Such an economy can only bring about zero sum game society of static rent seekers, i.e. land grabbers and stealing of aids. Such a nation is on the way to failure because such habits bring about feudal patterns of political and socio – economical behaviour as we see today in Kenya.

If we are not dealing with these Malthisian activities, we are busy building “special” EPZs, i.e. more slavery wage system as we documented in EPZs and Modern Slavery cited above. In these EPZs, we specialise in manufacturing low end activities which the developed nations outsource when they become subject to PERFECT COMPETITION. As a result, we specialise in areas subject to negative returns and have little scope of learning. We ask again, how does a man who has contributed so much to locking a defeated and vanquished nation to such a weird economic system, be called brilliant?

Instead of trapping Kenyans this way, if Kibaki was really brilliant as we are told, he could have come up with enlightened policies to move the nation to what Michael Porter calls created comparative advantage in activities not subject to diminishing returns, i.e. manufacturing activities. With industrial development, we would be able to develop our agricultural sector because, without a fully functioning industrial system, agricultural developments are impossible. More so, for those who tell us that, we can specialise in the in the services sector, we ask, services to serve who? Specialised services can only exist to serve high tech manufacturing and agricultural sectors of an economy.

By moving the nation towards manufacturing, he would have moved our economy to the economic activities subject to: (a) increasing returns, (b) imperfect competition, i.e. innovation rents, (c) large scale for learning and (d) technical changer. It is precisely these activities; colonialism was and is established to derail. To achieve these satanic aims, they use “brilliant economists” like Kibaki and the control of the “independent” central bank. It is precisely for these reasons; we have said so many times on this blog that, the so called “independence” of the central bank in our “new constitution” is the most dangerous clause and is treason.

However, since Kenyans rely on their “brilliant” economists like Kibaki, they ask, why are you talking about money all the time? We do so, because, money is the blood of the economy and if you take over the heart, i.e. the central bank, you will control the “blood flow” for personal as opposed to public interest. By controlling our “blood flow,” you can kill us any time you want by refusing to “pump enough blood” unless you are paid a tribute just when we are “running Boston Marathon and precisely when we need a lot of oxygen and maximum concentration to win” or you might just create unnecessary poverty to humiliate us by “releasing blood” when you want and reducing it whenever you fancy just to satisfy your satanic instincts of power and domination of other men, a characteristic of vipers and thieves.

In other words, to those who think we can reform our nation without reforming the monetary system, we say like Jesus, may the Lord forgive thee, for you do not know what you are talking about. A sound monetary system provides a basis for the people, NOT our private bankers and NOT our government, to control the very value of the money in our monetary system. This is why sound money is of such utter importance. Sound money means money will not be created as debt as it is today. We must say ENOUGH of this slavery.

As a matter of urgency, Kenyan needs well thought laws (not this draft constitution please) and policies to redirect our credit from imports and useless consumption to MANUFACTURING and AGRICULTURE so as to create the needed synergy for wealth creation. Instead of Kenyans doing this, they come up with weird ideas of CDF with borrowed money while accepting colonial welfare in the name of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). What developments are mad men like Sachs talking about when we are directing all our credit to imports, i.e. creation of jobs and wealth to foreigners? In simple words, the vicious circle of NO PURCHASING POWER and NO PRODUCTIVE POWER must be broken. Not by CDF, MDG’s, or “Vision” 2030 which has only managed to increase policemen, i.e. brutality as we hear here, or the so called socio – economic human rights, but a complete restructuring of our economy. Anything else is word play, disguise, deception, deliberate use of nonsense and absurdity to distract the masses.

To break this vicious circle, we need leaders (Jeremiah 5: 1) who can see Kenyan as an entrepreneur organisation. In other words, leaders keenly aware of the need to restructure the country as a collection of resources which includes capital/money, people and productive assets and more so, able to regularly identify new and additional combinations of these resources based on a network of relations, information with the objective of sharing economic growth at all levels. This must be so because; there is a relation between economic structure and the political stability and peace or instability and armed strife.

That’s why we find in the Bible these words. “And the land was not able to bear/support them that they may dwell together.” Genesis 13:6. If they had machines in those days, the land would have been sufficient for their families. Thus, in the Bible, we read about one of the most important economic laws, i.e. DIMINISHING RETURNS and its corrosive effect on human relations. The only way of ensuring that, this law does not destroy a nation is to industrialise because this creates higher dynamic rents for future investments in research and knowledge acquisition for the capitalists, higher wages for labour and higher taxes for the government. And more so, industrialisation increases the carrying capacity of a nation as we see in Holland etc.

However, our “brilliant economists” in the 21st Century cannot understand what was known during the Renaissance Era. Now, if this is the case, would one dispute if we said Kibaki is not a brilliant economist as we have been told, but, he is just another “WELL EDUCATED IDIOT ECONOMIST,” or just another IDIOT SAVANT, skilled in technique but innocent in REAL ECONOMIC ISSUES?

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Can the constitution be stopped?

...as Atwoli seeks presidency

Francis Atwoli wants to be president of Kenya

The recent court ruling declaring the Kadhi courts in the current constitution illegal has shocked many. But what I found even more interesting are the rumour mills in Nairobi pointing an accusing fingers at some prominent people on the YES camp as being the ones behind the court ruling.

It would seem that there are some people working around the clock to ensure that finally one of the many spanners they are throwing into the works to stop the train that is called a new constitution will work and bring it to a grinding halt.

First it was the NSIS alterations in the draft at the printing stage. Now comes this bizarre court ruling.

The big question is; will they finally succeed?

I don’t think so. But what worries me most is that the rich and powerful are greatly underestimating the resolve of the Kenyan people to get a new constitution. The last time when Mwai Kibaki underestimated the resolve of the Kenyan people for change, the world saw the repercussions as Kenya exploded. I don’t want to think what would happen if for some reason the constitutional process was stopped on some technicality.

The constitutional court ruling left many legal professionals surprised. To the ordinary Kenyan it was yet another reason why Kenyans don’t trust our courts. Majority of those I surveyed in a quick survey I have done over the last day or so are convinced that money changed hands to influence the strange court verdict.

Meanwhile Francis Atwilo wants to be the next president of Kenya. Who is Atwoli?

Francis Atwoli is a long serving trade unionist who is the current secretary general of the Central Organization of Trade Unions (Kenya). He was elected to the board in 2002 having worked for several years as a member of the Agriculture and Plantation Workers Union. He has consistently presented himself as a vocal advocate for workers rights frequently making his famous animated speeches in events such as Labour Day criticizing politicians on issues such as their refusal to pay taxes on their allowances, and dabbling in corruption. He has also been critical of Non-Governmental bodies interfering with labour disputes, and global institutions including the World Bank and their policies in Kenya.

Since last year Atwoli has been holding meetings all over country (exclusively televised by Citizen TV each time without fail) ostensibly to put pressure on the political class to deliver a new constitution to the people of Kenya. Now it seems that his motives were much deeper than that. He told his latest meeting in Kikuyu (to raise funds for a church) that he will later be going around the country to ask the people for their support for a certain office in the next government. He then told the meeting that he was sure he will be in the next government. There are not many offices you can seek countrywide support for. In fact it is only one, the presidency.

In recent times those close to Atwoli have been insisting that he is going for the presidency. Now a section of the media has recently confirmed this.

Some people think that Atwoli is a big joke and not fit for the office of the presidency. I don’t agree. But what should excite Kenyans is not whether he can win or not, but the new kind of politics he is using to campaign for the office completely devoid of tribalism and tribal pointmen.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Come on, The Land Does Not Speak Kalenjin

Retired president Daniel arap Moi: Stirring up trouble for selfish reasons.

If, as some allied to the NO campaign are preaching, my little piece of land will be taken over by the government upon passage of the proposed constitution, then I’ll need little or no incentive to activate the Sabaot Land Defence Forces (SLDF) and related Kalenjin militia to battle Nairobi.

Battle Nairobi, because my ancestors suffered from what has come – in Kenyanese – to be known as “historical injustices.”


As witnessed in 2007/8, either only a foolish or callous regime would want to court massive unrest, predicated on “historical injustices.”


Historical injustices, because my great grandfather was a man of means, occupying land and several heads of cattle in the area surrounding Mt. Elgon.


When some British settler came around, the family lost the wealth, and its members were appropriated as farm-hands in the new enterprise.
Two generations later, the clan had been scattered into Bungoma, Uasin Gishu, West Pokot and – in my instance – the wider Trans-Nzoia District, in addition to other parts of the country. I cannot return to my “ancestral” home and claim anything, were I to lose what I call home in Trans-Nzoia. Other people moved in following my grandfather’s displacement, - there’s no telling where the livestock is, and locals have developed new narratives, devoid of our past or immediate presence. The new inhabitants even think colonial history gave us a better lot in Trans-Nzoia, and that we have no business seeking to look back.

Few care to know that the colonial legacy and compromises that gave birth to settlement schemes in Trans-Nzoia, as indeed elsewhere in the Rift Valley province, birthed chronic land problems, now cannon fodder to some in the NO campaign.
Few care to know that the land no longer speaks Kalenjin, and that several among us cannot trace our way back to Egypt, Sudan, Shungwaya, the Congo or West Africa. Few care to know that some in the NO campaign – alongside their surrogates in the YES camp - propped up a privileged, propertied elite in Trans-Nzoia, as indeed the rest of the province, at the expense of the rural poor.

When I was in Cherangany to get my vote a few weeks ago, local concerns centered on a powerful elite seeking to dispose off some community land in Chebarus – a major trading center - before the proposed constitution becomes law, when it is feared such deals might be impossible.
Taken to its logical end, the NO gospel that individual pieces of land may be taken away can only serve to stoke up embers, and awaken demons of the region’s troubled past.

Thus, former President Moi’s recent warning that stability and peace in the province are contingent on a NO vote ought to be seen for what it is: a coded message for Rift Valley residents to either fuata nyayo, or prepare for the worst.
On other occasions, I would have laughed off Moi, and likened his concern for peace and stability to Tony Soprano talking about law and order.

Similarly, I would have easily asked him – as indeed others who have become the political face of NO in the Rift Valley - to take anger management classes from Julius Malema, for their ire at the manner in which the proposed constitution has decidedly re-configured local politics along Moi-era district boundaries.
But the time and occasion is such that we just might be witnessing a revolution in Rift Valley politics, so peaceful that those who make periodic violence inevitable could well be on their way to irrelevance. Skewed as it is, the chapter on devolution particularly gives a glimmer of hope for those in the province who have repeatedly been considered “Kenyans in the Diaspora.”

Creating desolation of the kind witnessed in the province in 2007/8, calling it peace and seeking to build electoral alliances around the same is going to be tenuous, particularly if transitional justice in the grander scheme of things runs its course.


Thus I’ll neither laugh at, nor scorn Moi and company: they have a right to be on the other side of history, and to believe that it will absolve them.
Instead, I would that both the Kalenjin and non-Kalenjin intelligentsia in the province imagine and labor for a shared future, that’s honest about both the past and present, yet even more hopeful about the future. The effort must be clear, bold, with social justice at its heart and so visionary as to consider a tomorrow grounded on a knowledge economy and less on land as the primary factor of production. It might also be time for a new crop of leaders to emerge in the Rift Valley, over which hovers an unforgettable cloud of witnesses: Jean-Marie Seroney, Chelagat Mutai, Bishop Alexander Muge, Masinde Muliro and others.

Of course all this is predicated on social renewal, and the hope that Wanjiku will genuinely outgrow the narrow ends of ethnic nationalism.

Guest post by Jesse Masai. The writer directs the Institute for Faith, Law and Society in Nairobi

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Who is Mwai Kibaki?

One of the few things that Kenyans already knew about Mwai Kibaki early on and had known for decades was the fact that he was a brilliant scholar. Of that there is no doubt. Ever since his much older brother in-law a Paul Muruthi had insisted that the young Mwai go to school instead of grazing his father’s herd of sheep and cattle, the young lad seemed a permanent feature right at the very top of his class wherever he went. It is widely know that he was the first African to get the maximum 6 points in his O-levels.

Mwai was the last born son of peasant farmers in Othaya, Gatoyaini village and his father was called Kibaki Githinji and his mother Teresia Wanjiku. Both are long deceased.

It is instructive that on taking over the presidency, the very first thing Kibaki did was to declare free primary school education to all even when the government did not know how it was all going to be financed. It was not like Kibaki a world renowned economist to make such a reckless move.
Mwai Kibaki: Kenyans still don't really know him.

In an ABC Prime Time TV interview in the US in 2004 former US President Bill Clinton identified Kibaki as the one living person he would most like to meet “because of the Kenyan government’s decision to abolish school fees for primary education”. Clinton added that, by providing free and compulsory primary education, what Kibaki had done would affect more lives than any president had done or would ever do by the end of the first year. The free education programme saw nearly 1.7 million more pupils enrol in school by the end of that year. Clinton’s wish was granted when he visited Kenya and met Kibaki on 22nd July 2005.

But to those who knew Kibaki a little better, it is no surprise that education would be so close to the president’s heart. After all a decision to take him to school so many years earlier had made the whole difference. In deed if there was ever a person for whom it would be said that education had opened all political doors for them, then Mwai Kibaki has to be at the top of that list.

For starters Kanu fetched him from Makerere University, Uganda for him to be Kenya’s first executive officer because it was felt that the Kanu leadership lacked enough depth due to the poor educational background of most. Even Tom Mboya, the most brilliant politician Kenya has seen, did not have a university degree. After independence in 1963 Kibaki quickly found himself at the heart of the country’s financial and economic planning. A parliamentary seat was found for him and won for him by Mboya (this was for Donholm Constituency, subsequently called Bahati and now known as Makadara, in Nairobi) and he was quickly appointed assistant minister and chairman of the powerful Economic Planning Commission in 1963 before he was even 32 years old. He was in the cabinet a short three years later as Minister of commerce and industry and in 1969 became the powerful Finance minister. By any standards this was a very rapid climb. All these doors were opened by his solid educational credentials which were rare in those days and badly required by the young Kenyan nation.

Kibaki himself recognizes this and greatly values educational credentials as we have already seen.

However the down side of this rapid climb which many have still not seen is that Kibaki never had the chance to cut his teeth properly as a bare knuckled politician. This glaring weakness was to show itself many years later when he climbed to the very top of Kenyan politics and became president. It is true to say that of all the three Kenyan presidents, Kibaki was the least qualified as a politician to hold the office.

In many ways this explains the way he has always ended up in the kind of troubles that a more savvy politician would easily have avoided. It also explains why Kibaki has always been the reluctant politician terrified of mudding himself in the normal political mud wrestling that goes with the trade. In fact many times he has gone to great lengths to avoid the “politics”. Odd for a man who has been a politician for so long.

Fascinatingly this characteristic served him very well in two important stepping stones to the presidency.

The first was as Daniel arap Moi’s vice president (1978 to 1988). It is important to note that Moi had greatly preferred Jeremiah Nyagah and was determined to appoint him as his Vice president on taking over power in August 1978 from Jomo Kenyatta. But Charles Njonjo, then the AG and whom we have seen held Moi’s hand through his first uneasy steps as president, advised him to appoint Kibaki instead. And Njonjo knew the right arguments to use to convince Moi. He knew that Moi was terrified of the Kikuyu as a political threat and Njonjo told him, Kibaki would be the perfect “window dressing” for Kikuyus to feel that nothing had changed much for them even after the death of Jomo.

Kibaki settled into the Vice presidency and literally “disappeared.” Which meant that there was absolutely no possibility of him ever overshadowing Moi? In those early years Kibaki concentrated on his Finance docket and visitors to Kenya would have found it hard to guess that he was actually also the Vice president.

The second time his hatred of bare-knuckle politics helped him out was as leader of the official opposition in 1998. Kibaki became leader of the opposition by virtue of his DP (Democratic Party of Kenya) political party being the opposition party with most seats in parliament. Most DP legislators hailed from the Kikuyu tribe who are usually loud and controversial in their politics by nature. Kibaki’s quite, sober character that avoided petty politics at all costs gave the party a much better image than it deserved and raised Kibaki’s profile immensely as a voice of reason in the usually radical opposition. This served him considerably well and later helped Kenyans across the political divide quickly warm to him as the opposition candidate in 2002. This was in itself amazing because before Kibaki took the helm the country had been served by only two presidents and one of them had been Kikuyu. And therefore it stood to reason that the third president should NOT be a Kikuyu. More blunt Kenyans would have told you that they had already had their turn to eat. This is one of the reasons why Moi was so sure of himself in selecting Uhuru Kenyatta as the Kanu candidate because he was certain that the opposition candidate would not be a Kikuyu and he would therefore have a huge advantage and an easy win in fronting Uhuru for the presidency. No serious presidential candidate in Kenya can ever afford to ignore the sheer numbers of the Kikuyu community.

But in retrospect Kenyans now know that they elected a man that they hardly knew to be their third president. And yet many mistakenly felt that they knew him well enough because he had been in politics for so long. Nobody wanted to remember that he was the longest serving non-politician in Kenyan politics and that the country would pay a very high price mainly because of this fact.


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How fear has always driven the presidency


We have studied the character of Kenyatta in great detail and the evidence all points to a meek old harmless man who was arrested in 1952 and later imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. It was an even older man humbled by a long prison sentence who took over the leadership of Kenya in 1963.

Zanzibar stone town today: In January 1964 the tiny sleepy island not far from Mombasa suddenly exploded. Eyewitnesses described the bloody coup in Zanzibar with chilling words like "Arab blood flowed on the streets of the stone town as if from a great river." The effect of that coup so close to home had a major impact on the infant Kenyatta administration and was one of the foundation stones of the impunity that followed.


The question we must busy ourselves with answering now is how this meek old man of the church was transformed into the feared president everybody wants to remember? Young folks change all the time but Kenyatta was at least 68 years old when he became Kenya’s first prime Minister. How does such an old man change from what he has been all his life?


There is no doubt that the long prison sentence had hardened the old man considerably. Still evidence suggests that Kenyatta entered office with high ideals and a genuine determination to make good and impact the lives of ordinary Kenyans. Ironically every single president after him has started with the same high ideals. We shall see in this book what brought their dreams crashing down.


For Kenyatta the honey moon was quickly and rudely brought to an end as crisis after crisis hit the infant administration. There was the scary army mutiny at Lanet in 1964 just a few months into the Kenyatta administration. Even today there is very little information on what really happened at the biggest military barracks in the country. But it was serious enough for the Kenyatta government to seek outside military assistance to quell which they received mostly from Britain.


Then there were numerous coups in other African countries. Nigeria was particularly notorious. But not all the troubles were so far away. Closer to home there was the extremely bloody coup and revolution in January 1964 in neighbouring Zanzibar, a sleepy tiny Island off the Tanzanian Coast and not far from Dar-es-salaam and Mombasa in Kenya. What must have really frightened Kenyatta and his inner circle was the obvious foreign involvement in that coup. Even the leader was not a Zanzibari but a Ugandan policeman known as Okello. There were whispers that some foreign western powers had sanctioned the change in regime in Zanzibar. The truth is that after years of great cruelty by Arabs against the non-Arab population on the island, the revolution had been simmering for decades and just needed a mad policeman like Okello to ignite the slaughter that ensued. It was later said of that mutiny that Arab blood flowed on the streets of Zanzibar like water from a great river.


It soon became very clear that there were plenty of potential threats to the presidency which had to be addressed immediately. It was a question of survival and the only way to survive was to crash all opposition even before it had a chance of raising its’ head properly. The president would need people he could trust completely around him and in all key positions in the country especially in the disciplined forces.


Kenyatta promptly started appointing close relatives and village mates to sensitive positions in government and the security forces. Later after the assassination of Tom Mboya the Kenyatta administration went even further and launched secret oath-taking amongst senior officials in government. I remember my dad telling me stories of how he resisted several invitations to these oath-taking sessions where one had to strip completely naked and do all kinds of weird things. He was assured that promotion to very senior positions anywhere in Kenya was impossible without taking these oaths.


Fear is a very powerful emotion that has been known to transform people’s characters completely. It is no secret that despite the absolute power in State House which we are told corrupts absolutely; few have appreciated the fact that the occupants of this great house on the hill have always had to live with great fear. For Kenyatta and Moi it was fear of being overthrown and seeing those close to them raped and murdered in cold blood or executed by firing squad by the successful coup leaders. For Kibaki it has been more about ending up in some prison with a long list of charges, some of them trumped up by his political opponents and pretenders to the presidency.


Clearly Kenyatta also feared assassination to the point of being paranoid. For instance during his entire time as president Kenya’s founding father avoided flying at all costs. This was one reason why he was always represented in conferences and functions out of the country by his Vice president. Even in trips to the Coast Kenyatta would always prefer the 8 hour long trip by road, even when his health was at its’ worst. It was only after his death that Kenyatta’s body enetered a plane after very many years. The body was flown back to Nairobi from Mombasa. Fear was undoubtedly a strong driving behind numerous executive decisions then and some of these quickly ushered in impunity and shaped the office of the presidency for many years to come.


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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Jomo Kenyatta and the witchdoctor link

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The early 50s were a time of unprecedented turmoil and violence in Kenya. The wind of change that was sweeping across much of Africa did not spare this previously peaceful terrain. Many people even at the time suspected quite rightly that these were the birth pangs prior to the birth of a new order, a different Kenya, and this included those who did not want to imagine in their worst nightmare a government run by “the natives” as they called them.
Jomo Kenyatta top and Louis Leakey participated in a public debate in London in 1935 that went on in Kikuyu. Kenyatta argued strongly in favour of the circumcision of women. Hardly surprisng for a man who had been brought up by a witchdoctor from a very tender age.

The violence in Kenya was provoked by the Mau mau who were fighting for their land rights after the colonial settlers had grabbed prime land mainly from Central Kenya.

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The man who was to later become Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta always had a frosty relationship with the Mau mau. This is contrary to popular opinion. In fact the Mau mau threatened his life on several occasions. It was rather ironic that he ended up on trial trying to prove to a compromised court his innocence in NOT being involved with the Mau mau. Kenyatta was not only accused of being a member but of being one of its’ leaders. The only word that could come close to describing such an allegation against Kenyatta is preposterous! If the charges had not been that serious, even Jomo himself would have found that charge a big joke. And you will too when we dig deeper into the true character of Kenya’s first president. The chief witness in that sham of a trial Rawson Macharia admitted only in recent years that he had been bribed into giving false evidence against Kenyatta.


Obviously Kenyatta must have had some very powerful enemies in the colonial government. What had built up such hatred towards? One clue can be found in the fact that Kenyatta firmly believed in tradition and African customs like female circumcision. This disgusted many in the colonial administration and may have been the reason why he became a marked man, whatever he did or said. It is recorded that Kenyatta took part in a public debate in Kikuyu
in 1935 over the issue of female circumcision (the irua of girls). Kenyatta passionately argued in favour of the brutal custom being retained against the like of Louis Leakey.

But Kenyatta was never a violent man at heart and did not believe in violent means and yet when he became president he worked hard to glorify the Mau mau as the chief freedom fighters of Kenya and always emphasized that independence was won with a violent resistance and he was at the centre of it himself. In a way he was insinuating that the colonials had rightly charged him with being leader of the Mau mau. He was telling the Kenyan people that he had been part of a violent struggle that had landed him in jail where he had suffered for many years for the sake of the people. All this was pure fairy tale. But it was undoubtedly very romantic and the kind of thing that gave the old man just the right kind of image to tower like a giant well above any other politician. It is the same image he retains in the eyes of many younger Kenyans who still greatly admire him as a man who fought violently for what he believed in.


It was all part of a very deliberate effort to lift the office of the presidency to a pedestal that Kenyans would look up to. One that nobody would dare challenge.


Kenyatta was born Kamau wa Muigai to parents Muigai and Wambui in the village of Uranus, Gatundu, Kiambu but his father died when Jomo was very young after which, as per Kikuyu custom, he was adopted by his uncle Ngengi, who also inherited his mother as his wife. But tragedy struck yet again and his mother died while giving birth. The young Jomo then moved from Ng’enda to Muthiga to live with his medicine man grandfather Kingu wa Magana. Magana was a very famous witchdoctor of the time. The two are said to have become very close. It is no accident that in later years Kenyatta called his son with Briton wife, Edna Clarke, Peter Magana. He was born in August 11th 1943.


And so the story goes that Jomo was told very early (when he was still a child) by his witchdoctor grandfather that he was going to be a very famous leader. I am not a superstitious man and the witchcraft story (told earlier) is virtually impossible to verify but this “knowledge” of him being destined to be a great leader seems to be confirmed by many of his actions including the launching of his Kikuyu newspaper. It was strange because although it was clear that Kenyatta was fighting for something he was too much of a moderate and was almost apologetic as he went about this business of liberation. Little wonder that the then extremely sensitive colonial government tolerated the newspaper that he briefly published from May 1928 called Mwigwithania (the Kikuyu weekly whose name meant, The Reconciler) since they found it mostly harmless.


In many respects the man was an unlikely first president of Kenya for anybody who knew his character well.

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The story and the reputation of Luhya men in Kenya is legendary. But what really is the secret of strong Luhya men and why do Kikuyu ladies find them irresistible?
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The Day Uhuru Kenyatta was conned out of a parliamentary seat by some very, very dirty tricks and conmanship.

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One of the Top 10 billionaires In Kenya grew door to door sales to buying a bank: The amazing story of a creative Kenyan entrepreneur who achieved the "impossible" by turning a failed company into a very profitable enterprise. Includes details of exactly how he did it.
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The Pauline Njoroge development in Watamu, is linked to the drama at Uhuru Kenyatta's son's house in Karen last night. And it is also linked to other shocking breaking news in the last few hours. It is a plan by the Ruto government that is bound to shake Kenya to its' very foundation. This Kumekucha video offers pointers to what is going to happen next in the tense country called Kenya.
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Why should Kenya, a key ally of the western powers most involved in spying on others be the most spied on the continent? Should it not be countries that pose danger? Actually part of the startling answer to this question was featured in an earlier Kumekucha video.
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Barely hours after the raid on the house of former President Uhuru Kenyatta's first born son Jomo, another person close to Uhuru is in trouble with Ruto's police. This time round popular blogger and political commentator Pauline Njoroge who has been arrested just a few moments ago.

Reports indicate that Njoroge seems to have been arrested at a holiday resort in Watamu

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Maurice Ogeta, the bodyguard of Raila Odinga who has been missing for 3 days re-merged in the early hours of Saturday 22nd July at 1am (in the dead of the night) after his captors released him and left him in his vehicle.

It is instructive that he was released hours after the end of the recent 3 day anti-government protests (more on that at the very end of this article).

Ogeta has confirmed that he was held by people who identified themselves as DCI (directorate of criminal investigations) officers. Shortly before his ordeal ended he was driven blindfolded 

READ: The things they did to Maurice Ogeta, Raila's bodyguard in the 3 days before releasing him in the middle of the night on Kangundo Road

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Analysis of Kithure Kindiki statement on raid on Uhuru's son's house looking for guns

The most vital clue that may lead us to solving the deep mystery of the raid on Uhuru Kenyatta's son in Karen last night, was a stern statement from the government through Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki who is of course the man in charge of the Interior Ministry.

In a VERY hurried statement distributed to newsrooms minutes after a livid former President Uhuru Kenyatta had finished addressing the press at his son, Jomo's home in Karen (that is another clue, why the hurried statement? What was with the rush?) Kithure said a few very eyebrow-raising things. 

Read: What may have really been happening as raid on Karen home of Uhuru's son was going down

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There are countless things that former President Daniel arap Moi did to his Vice President Mwai Kibaki that would have caused the latter to seek sweet revenge when he finally took office in 2003.
President Moi embarrassed Vice President Kibaki too many times to count. He was demoted from being Vice President to a mere health minister. Kenyans cringed, Kibaki soldiered on. Enter a different kind of character. We have often been reminded that Ruto is NOT Uhuru. And neither is he Emilion Stanley...

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There was drama such as has never been witnessed in Kenyan history when on Friday night former president Uhuru Kenyatta had to rush to the aid of his first born son Jomo. Jomo's home in Karen was being raided by the police who conducted a search allegedly for weapons. 

The former president then spoke to the media at the scene.  Read Uhuru livid after raid on son

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Wiper Party Leader Kalonzo Musyoka, according to Azimio, has prevented from leaving his house in an effort to prevent him from participating in the ongoing statewide protests. 

Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi said in a media interview on Friday, July 21, that the State had coordinated the witch hunt and was trying to discredit other opposition figures.

Since the protests started on Wednesday, July 19, Kalonzo has reportedly spent two days "under house arrest", according to Wandayi. 

All that we know, Wandayi said, is that His Excellency Kalonzo Musyoka has been held captive for the past two days and has been unable to leave his home. 

The coalition has plans to retaliate against individuals responsible, including through the legal system. Wandayi observed that by deciding to forbid national leaders from leaving their residences, the State had turned rogue. 

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Watch revealing Kumekucha video about how Ruto shot himself in the foot and continues to shoot himself in the foot.

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"Kalonzo is a respected national leader, but the government decided to lock him up and prevent him from conducting his business. "This is unprecedented," declared Wandayi. 

Jeremiah Kioni, the secretary-general of the Jubilee Party, mentioned that some Azimio la Umoja leaders were still missing or detained without charge during the same press conference. 

The idea that the State responded in expectation of violence as a result of the continuing nationwide anti-government rallies was rejected by Kioni. 

The Jubilee secretary general added that it was now clear that the Ruto illegitimate regime had acquired tactics of the old past dictatorial order. "But they should know that we will not relent in our quest for a better Kenya," Kioni said.

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Raila Odinga, legendary politician and the head of the Azimio coalition, has raised concerns amongst many Kenyans after skipping out on the continuing anti-government demonstrations. He has now revealed that he has been feeling a little under the weather.
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The MP's defense further informed the court that during his incarceration, he had been refused access to food and drink and that he required immediate medical assistance as a result of two days without food and water.   Read Full story
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I dug this out of the Kumekucha archives

How could she…?? That girl was yours, or so you thought. How could she fall for a player and a man who is NOT nice to women like that guy I can't stand?? What happened?
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Babu Owino in court at the Milimani law courts cracks a very funny joke that has Gaucho in stitches.
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Analysis of Day 1 and Day 2 of the protest against high cost of living reveals a Ruto UDA secret that will blow your mind and explains why the two days are so different. But where is Raila Odinga? Some insights including a story from the past is more than revealing.
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Addressing a press conference in parliament buildings a few minutes ago in a presser that is still ongoing as I write this, Minority Leader Opiyo Wandayi while commenting on Raila Odinga's whereabouts said that they are the face of "Baba"  Read article
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Maandamano 19th July 2023 Day 1 of 3: Protesters engage police in running battles in Mathare during Azimio demonstrations.
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On day 1 of the 3 day maandamano led by Azimio and Raila Odinga, protests are witnessed in over 15 counties country-wide. Even as Ruto's Kenya Kwanza response predictably remains the same despite clear indications that they are not doing any good to the cause of the Ruto presidency and regime. But where was Raila Odinga, even as he gave instructions for the protests to end at 5pm and resume on day 2 in the morning? Was it a case of the arrest of Raila that failed to happen?
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Raila Odinga, the leader of Azimio, has denounced the use of live ammunition during the anti-government protests on Wednesday 19th July 2023.
Raila said that this was unjustified in a statement issued that was accompanied by a video of a small boy who was seen shot in the leg.
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Is the end of the Ruto presidency and his administration, just around the corner?
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The following information was first released on the Kumekucha Chris YouTube channel in early 2016. It makes for super fascinating reading because of what has ended up happening 6 years later.
Ruto secretly purchased POA from his colleague in Jubilee Raphael Tuju and changed its name to Party for Development and Reforms (PDR) and then later changed it to UDA. Was all this to mask the origin of this party? Did he see the future before it happened?
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self made millionaire business ideas 

Very revealing make money secrets from real life situations that unfolded. This Brian Tracy and Kumekucha Chris nuggets of information are nothing short of game-changing.


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Ruto had a plan and a burning desire to be president. That much is clear. He launched a crusade (in his mind) to achieve his ultimate goal, long before he actually vied. Read article

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Ruto withdraws the security of key opposition leaders, including governors and MPs.
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MAANDAMANO TOMORROW IN MT KENYA - FEARLESS KARUA DARES RUTO & GACHAGUA.
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“We don’t give a damn about state security,” Governor Ochilo Ayacko, Suna West MP Peter Masara say after their securities were withdrawn.
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The shifty body language of Kenya Kwanza legislators when asked about their recent meeting at State house Nairobi and what was discussed is a total giveaway. But what is that we t down that they are not willing to reveal. A surprising but hardly unexpected answer to that question in this Kumekucha video.
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Update 23/07/2021; Ruto purchased POA and changed its name to Party for Development and Reforms (PDR) and then more recently changed it to UDA. Was all this to mask the origin of this party? Impeccable sources say that DP Ruto has purchased a political party. What does this mean? What is he up to? More so now when a powerful wing of the Jubilee party from the Mount Kenya region is resisting his preparations for 2022. What will happen next?
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Firstborn children have many challenges that most are completely unware of. Especially challenges that have to do with stuff that may not be clear to most. It is therefore not uncommon for firstborns to give up in life or live a very frustrated life. But this can be avoided if one starts to understand the possible spiritual causes of their problems.
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The very first video posted on the Kumekucha Chris channel in 2013. It contrasts a typical humble Kenyan home with 20 registered voters and the neighbouring house with a satellite dish that only has one registered voter. Will help anybody understand some of the dynamics amongst Kenyan voters in any election.
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The real hidden strategy of William Ruto and the Kenya Kwanza regime is beginning to show clearly. It is visible in speeches and tweets by Ruto allies. It suggests that we are not too far from the last option that President Ruto will have. Even though it is whispered that insiders have already been pushing him in that direction for a number of weeks now.

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What is Ruto's real plan to stop Raila? Raila supporters fear that it is a terrible evil plan.

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Charles Njonjo And Daniel Arap Moi State House Drama: Difficult to believe but there was a day that Moi had to be persuaded by Charles Njonjo to accept the presidency of the republic of Kenya. Chris Kumekucha narrates from chapter three of his own best-selling eBook DARK SECRETS OF THE KENYAN PRESIDENCY. Some amazing facts that will enable you to understand Kenyan politics much better.
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Deep political analysts have confessed that they are puzzled at the self-destruct tendencies of the Kenya Kwanza government. The latest is the controversial Finance Bill 2023. However there is a very long list of examples from the week that William Ruto was sworn in as president. A revelation that will shock most in this Kumekucha Chris video that tells us the country called Kenya is in deeper trouble than we all thought.
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It's critical to be ready in case a gunshot wound emergency arises near you. This is of course much more important with the current situation in Kenya. And remember most of the victims in the country so far have been people who were not even participating in demonstrations. Also a gunshot wound that receives early medical attention frequently doesn't become fatal. 
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A celebrated boxing champion is among Kenyans who lost their lives during the anti-government protests on Wednesday 12th July 2023.


Read; Champion boxer Raphael Shigali was shot dead by Jogoo Rd Police station cop during Azimio protests

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The corporate empire of billionaire David Langat was driven into uncharted terrain this week when auctioneers forced the sale of his Mombasa office buildings and Nandi tea estate in order to pay a local bank more than Sh2.1 billion in back debt.

Read; Has David Langat fallen out with close buddy William Ruto?

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In controversial utterances in public, President William Ruto has accused his former boss Uhuru Kenyatta of instigating protests against his rule.


Does Ruto really know what he is saying and doing? Especially after he stole elections from Raila in August 2022? He says in this video Raila has failed to get elected 6 times but Ruto has not confessed that out of those 6 in 3 instances he played a key role in rigging out Raila and denying him his rightful victory. 

Does Ruto know that Vitu kwa ground are very different from this illusion he is trapped in?. Let time tell...
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Even as former Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya was released this evening, after his lawyer recorded a statement, Kenyans are still reeling in shock as they try to digest the jolting revelations from Eugene Wamalwa on what Ruto and UDA are really up to against Raila, Azimio and the people of Kenya.
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Former Kakamega Governor Wycliffe Oparanya, according to Azimio La Umoja One Kenya Coalition Party Leader Raila Odinga, has been arrested by police. He was later released.

Just yesterday: Oparanya recounts how rowdy youths damaged his car during demonstrations in Busia

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Most leading analysts including Pro. Herman Manyora seem to agree that the government of William Ruto is on the losing end of the Maandamano duel with Azimio and Raila Odinga. It is as clear as day. 

Police brutality and the unprovoked attack on peaceful demonstrators seems to have attracted the wrong kind of attention (for Ruto) from the international community.
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So Ruto police had sharp-shooters in place...
Peter Munya: "We came here to engage citizens on the hardships they are going through and it is our rights as leaders to do so. That's what we came to do but police as usual mobilized to come and disrupt and to visit violence on us and you have sees every stop we made... teargas is being thrown. From Makutano where we started...

And it was needless because there was no violence. Citizens were responding because they are all facing the same problems everybody in the country is facing.

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Why was the Azimio rally scheduled to take place at the Kamukunji Grounds in Nairobi yesterday 12th July 2023 abruptly canceled by Raila Odinga, the head of the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya alliance? What was the real reason? Is it true that it was something terrifying? This Lee Makwiny video offers a few clues.
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There are key aspects of the Kenyan presidency that cannot be ignored and when they are not given the attention they deserve will always result in serious political instability. This is the same mistake a past president with great potential, Mwai Kibaki, made. But now once again in 2023 the tell-tale signs of 2005 are clearly visible In this Kumekucha video we go deep into this most fascinating and often ignored issue in Kenya politics.
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Over 600 individuals were detained and arrested at various police stations in Nairobi on Wednesday during anti-government demonstrations. Over ten people were shot and killed by police across the nation, and dozens more were hurt during the clashes that erupted on 12th July 2023. 


The 12th July maandamano country-wide will go down in the history of Kenya for special attention in any analysis of what happens going forward. And apart from the many bad things that happened, historians in future will also record it as a turning point for the nation called Kenya. One that the Kenya Kwanza government and the UDA strongman William Ruto are yet to see.
Rich Kenyans like Ibrahim Ambwere can be described as clean non-politician Kenyan Multi billionaire. That is something very rare in the country. His is the amazing and highly inspirational story of an orphan boy who started off sweeping the premises of a mason's premises when he was only 10 years old and ended up so rich that the government of Kenya in the 1980s felt threatened by his wealth. He has no prominent presence in Nairobi and lives a frugal lifestyle similar to that of the richest man in the world, Warren Buffet. This is the amazing story full of life lessons from the least known Kenyan multi-billionaire.

Patrick Shaw Untold Story: The inside story of the legendary Nairobi super cop Patrick Shaw. A biographical detailed documentary of the man starting with his early days and arrival in Kenya during the Mau Mau and emergency years to his deep involvement in Kenyan politics in the 1980s. In the end it is brutal Kenyan politics that killed him. He should have just stuck to being an extra-ordinarily good cop.
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Pamela Mboya now deceased, Tom Mboya’s widow wrote to Kofi Annan in 2008 as he was mediating peace in Kenya. Part of the letter read; “The assassination of my husband, like others after him, is a matter that has remained shrouded in mystery and speculation, and which has been avoided by successive regimes in this country...” Later she promised to drop the bombshell in an interview but later changed her mind. This is most probably what she was so hesitant to reveal.
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This is Uhuru's future from a man who has NEVER gotten it wrong (2013 prediction)


...Then in the midst of all these uncertainties an arrogant Briton came into the country for prayers and started making predictions and prophecies on the country's political future. Few Kenyans had ever heard of the London based preacher. But he spoke with such authority that some Kenyans even got annoyed.

Then he predicted Uhuru Kenyatta's future and I did not like it one bit....   This is Uhuru's future from a man who has NEVER gotten it wrong (2013 prediction)

On the shadow of the 12th July maandamano country-wide, UDA insiders are putting on a brave face and yet in the background are terribly worried about Azimio's looming check-mate move. A legal coup linked to the 10Million signatures taking advantage of a unique constitution that in their view gives too much power to the people.
Crazy BUT true reading;
The saying "the dead don't tell tales" has come to haunt police and a Kakamega town when the body of a lady who had been missing for more than a week was found after its location was revealed in a dream.
The strange episode has re-ignited the long-running argument over whether the dead may speak to the living and the applicability of "their messages" to those they may have talked to.

Police are unsure of whether to treat the person to whom the revelation was made as a whistle-blower or a suspect as the villagers speculate that the dream may be a testament to the deceased's desire for a proper funeral and her determination to see her killers brought to justice.


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Captivating read in the Sunday Nation this morning in the Weekly Review section on Tom Mboya. Confirms information available on this channel over 5 years ago on who killed Mboya and why.
Our series on Mboya: It was more than an assassination even gives you the name of the man who pulled the trigger and later died a miserable man full of regrets in Kenya (NOT Nahashon Njenga).
Victims of saba saba, some of them in serious condition.