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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Kumekucha Weekend Special: What If The Bridesmaids And Maid of Honour Turned Up Like This For Your Wedding?

No you have not arrived at the wrong blog. This is indeed the one and only Kumekucha. Just decided to take the weekend off from hard ball politics to try and discover what other Kenyans are up to?

Kenyans are indeed a creative lot and if you catch Citizen TVs' The Wedding Show you will know exactly what I mean. Although I find it rather odd that every man seems to propose when they are on one knee. (hizi ma-soaps zimezidi na influence on our people!!!!)

But these lasses were more than just creative at a recent Nairobi wedding. "Daring" is what I call it. A female friend calls it "njungu ya bridegroom", whatever that means.

I guess it is okay to be in denial but this is the new breed of Kenyans like them or hate them.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Karume is Dead: Grim Reaper Strikes Again

Former cabinet Minister Njenga Karume is dead.

The billionaire businessman and close political associate to President Kibaki passed on in the early hours of this morning (at 2:40am) at Karen hospital Nairobi aged 83 from complications associated with prostrate cancer which he has been battling for some time now.
A strange twist of fate has seen the country lose two very similar men who were both very close to president Kibaki in a space of only a few days. What is going on? What are the signs of the time telling us? What is the grim reaper up to?
Local TV stations that have been filling the airwaves with Michuki eulogies appeared "confused" this morning. Abandon Michuki or pull out all programming to eulogize two old men that represented what went terribly wrong with Kenya.

Past Kumekucha articles on Njenga Karume;

The late John Michuki (standing far left) in this 1952 photo of the Mangu High School 1st XI soccer team.
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Ruto Uhuru Huge Government Deals Revelations: One year before the 2022 mysterious presidential elections, Billionaire Jimmi Wanjigi reveals some shocking information on a Citizen TV interview. We dig deeper to understand what he was really saying so that we can understand the bombshell information he released to Kenyans.
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The Sudan inside story of how some super-organized very young Sudanese nationals changed the destiny of their nation and gained the admiration of the entire world. Will they rise again against the latest military coup?
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Clearly retired President Uhuru Kenyatta has been provoked by the actions of the Ruto government against his family. So what is his response? What is the plan? A rather revealing candid interview with editors from leading media houses reveals too much with numerous surprises.
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Magufuli Rise From Nowhere: Little is known of the background and early life of the man who was to later become President of Tanzania, John Pombe Magufuli. Indeed even how he became the CCM nominee for president from nowhere is a story many Tanzanians are unaware of. It is an amazing saga of political intrigue and high drama behind the scenes.
Even as Kenyans seem to have major issues with their President, now a foreign country has come out strongly not only to condemn President William Ruto but to also make some crazy allegations about his personal dealings concerning lucrative money deals and power-broking. A Sudanese army leader has accused Ruto of business dealings with an individual who is involved in the troubles in that country. And yet Ruto is supposed to be leading a mediation to end the current troubles there.
Kenyans, like ordinary citizens of any country of the world do not usually pay too much attention to news outside their country. But on Sunday a video went viral where a commander of the Sudan army in a press conference made some shocking allegations against Ruto. That man is General Yasir Alatta, the Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF).
The problem with the video for many Kenyans was that the man spoke in the language used in Sudan that the majority of Kenyans would not understand.

But here is the translation of what General Yasir Alatta said about Ruto (shocking);
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What happened in Sudan is unprecedented and may have looked impossible just a few short weeks before it happened. President Omar al Bashir left power peaceful. The amazing inside story is bound to be an inspiration right across Africa and beyond.
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Little known facts about the former President of Sudan, Omar al Bashir.
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Everybody hates the copycat with a passion. Yet customers don't seem to care. Pepsi is an idea that was copied from Coke and as you read this customers are giving more money to Pepsi. Copycat? Who cares? Who wants to know? And so all you need to do is to find the idea that is already successful and copy it. I can show you exactly how to do that.

So, why don't we start with a real life example of a company that copied its' way to success. A copy cat multi-national today.

Here is the story of two companies you will recognize immediately because you use their products or at least know somebody who. The first company came up with the original and the second one simply copies their way to great success worldwide.

Read: copycat to business success article

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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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Here is one excellent example of a Make Money idea that will blow your mind and bank account. And you will be focusing on something people do not even want and in some instances they will even pay you to get rid of it.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Artur Brothers to Petition Pope for Saint Michuki

The ethnic entrepreneur is dead

"If you want to rattle a snake you must be prepared to be bitten by it..."

"Anybody who loves the Kikuyus must follow Uhuru Kenyatta."

-John Michuki-

Why do people suddenly become saints when they die? Why is it that suddenly they become close friends of everybody and appear to have had no enemies?

In my view the best way to honour the dead is to tell the truth. Highlight the bad about them even as you point out the good so that those of us who are left behind can learn something from the dead man's life. When you insist on telling lies and sanitizing their lives for burial, we learn very little or nothing.

Facts:
Negative
* Like most of the richest Kenyans he made his money using public office, most notably as executive chairman of KCB.
* He said in front of witnesses that Kenya would only get a Luo president over his dead body.
* He was one of the key figures who participated in the ghastly Standard newspapers raid. (Read this amazing inside story).
* Ordered the police to shoot to kill and was involved in the killing (cold blooded murder) of many many suspected Mungiki members.
*  He ordered several hits as de facto minister in charge of internal security.

Facts:
Positive
*Michuki rules tamed Matatus and brought them into the tax system for the very first time. His rules saved many precious Kenyan lives. When he was replaced by another minister the industry slid back to chaos.
* He always spoke his mind. e.g. he made it clear that he disliked "Jaruos."
* He loved his country... as long as a Kikuyu was at the helm.
* He played a major role in cleaning up the Nairobi River.

I feel it in my bones that this post is akin to playing a guitar for a herd of goats because nobody will change Kenyans. They will never speak evil about the dead. NEVER!! If Hitler had died in Kenya he would be a hero today. Very odd but it probably stems from our ancestors who believed that dead people become gods and have power over us and can intervene on our behalf up there. What rubbish!!!!

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

John Michuki Now Rattled by His Maker

Environment minister John "Luo president over my dead body" Michuki is dead.

State House Nairobi has confirmed his demise at Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi a few hours ago.

Michuki will be best remembered for the famous Michuki rules which brought some semblance of order to the local Matatu industry if only briefly. Environmentalists will also remember him as the minister most responsible for the cleaning up of the Nairobi river a task many believed was impossible at one time.
Unknown to most Kenyans (but not readers of my raw notes) Michuki has remained the de-facto minister of internal security for a long time and has handled many highly sensitive and classified chores for the Kibaki regime and many viewed him as a key witness to what really happened in the State house shortly before and after all hell broke loose resulting in the blood letting in 2008.

Most controversial past articles on John Michuki published in Kumekucha;
How Kibaki and Michuki planned and executed the Standard raid at State House (Kumekucha Exclusive)

Michuki's lethal shots wraps Kibaki in fraud

Dark faces behind secret No campaign by Yes camp


More about John Michuki's death

Monday, February 20, 2012

Kumekucha Predictions on Kalonzo, Mudavadi

Faithful Kumekuchans will know that I hate to blow my own trumpet. People always write to me to tell me how accurate my predictions of Kenyan politics is.

Today I want to point you good people to a post I wrote in August 6th 2010 titled; Goodbye Kalonzo Musyoka. I myself was amazed at how spot on it is, almost like it was written today.

Kindly read it and lets get our political discussion in the right direction. In my view it is a waste of time discussing kalonzo Musyoka because his political career is over. He was never a politician anyway.

Read the post HERE

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Tough Women Who Beat Up Kenyan Presidents

As we sat down gulping our beers and discussing politics at the popular local, time as always was flying at high speed. This happened years ago. It was a week day and I remember telling my friend several times that we should start heading home. No need to upset our wives I told him. Glancing at my watch in shock just then I realized that it was already 2am.
That last statement had quite an effect on my friend more than what time it was. He demanded to know who the boss was in my house and I tried to explain to him that being a boss came with responsibilities. He reassured me loudly that if I was scared of my wife he would take me home personally and do the explaining on my behalf. He proceeded to order two more rounds since that issue was now settled.

Our local wasn’t too far from where we lived and in those days Kenya was much safer than it is today and so we staggered home and reached his gate a handful of minutes to 4 am. He suggested that I give him a few minutes to pop in and then he would escort me home as promised. I agreed confident that since he was known to my wife there would be no problem. Immediately he started knocking on his front door I knew something was terribly wrong. The knock was so timid that you could hardly hear it in the quite of the night. I assumed that his wife was asleep and she was never going to hear it. I was just about to move forward to give the door a proper knock when the door swung open violently.

“Hello mama Shiro.” I piped confidently expecting to see the usual warm smile. Instead there was a cold stare and she pointed her finger at me, “YOU!!!” was all she said before grabbing her husband by the collar hurling him inside the house and slamming her front door shut.

Inside I could hear a scuffle and my friend’s meek voice pleading; “please mama Shiro.” The English promptly turned into Kikuyu (most of which I understand). She hurled abuses at him at him while doing something violent to him (I have never been sure what exactly).

I walked away quickly to face my own wife’s wrath.

I learnt an interesting lesson that day. And that is whatever you do, never believe what your friends tell you about their personal lives when you are drinking. In the bar all men are total men who rule their houses with an iron hand and where wives do everything as commanded. And as one man told us in the bar those days with a straight face, when he needs what a husband needs from the wife at night, all he has to do is clear his throat and his wife is ready to deliver. That sounded more like slave trade to me but most of all I have always suspected that it was pure fiction. Designed only to entertain drinking buddies.

All these memories have come flooding back with the national debate that has been going on since last week about Kenyan men who regularly receive a serious beating from their wives. We are told that women from Central province lead in husband battering and especially a place called Nyeri.

But what most Kenyans do not realize is that at least two out of the three Kenyan presidents we have had so far have had some very tough women for wives. The late Lena Moi caused such a serious fracas at State house Nakuru during a state function in the 1960s that Moi was forced to get rid of her from his life and although he supported her until her death shortly after he left office in 2002, the two never lived as husband and wife again. Observers hardly fault Lena who was said to be a very religious woman and blame it all on Moi who was having an affair with a Kikuyu police officer at the time. He did not realize that Lena had already heard the whispers and carelessly decided to have a dance with the said woman. Lena saw red and even efforts by President Jomo Kenyatta to cool things off by insisting on dancing with her had no effect whatsoever.

Mwai Kibaki’s suffering for many years in the hands of Lucy Kibaki is well known. But what most people find unacceptable was the fact that Lucy was known to jeer and mock Kibaki’s many unsuccessful efforts to become president of the country but was quick to rush to his side at State House shortly after he was sworn in as president. The wife who had helped poor Emilio retain his sanity all those years, Mary Wambui (Kibaki’s second wife) was shoved to the sidelines and to make matters worse was denied together with her children on national TV during prime time viewing.

Tough no nonsense women have been with us in Kenya for a long time and there is really no reason why the press should make such a big fuss about them now, as if they have suddenly sprung up from nowhere.

Indeed the point that everybody seems to be missing is the fact that most Kenyan men find tough women extremely attractive and very sexy. Almost irresistible. There is no feeling that comes anywhere close to that of conquering a tough man-beating woman and seeing her finally surrender to your charms. Those who have tamed wild horses will have an idea of what I am talking about here.

Thursday, February 09, 2012

How Democratic Is The Orange Democratic Movement?

The consensus within the Orange Democratic Party is that Raila Odinga should not be opposed by anybody when he seeks the party’s ticket to vie for the presidency. The feeling is that this is a waste of time and resources because he is the most suitable candidate and there is really no other stronger candidate to represent the party. So why waste time and resources going through the motions of proving the obvious?
"Weak-leaf" Musalia Mudavadi: The meek hen who has suddenly turned into a lion

Folks this is the reason why I keep on saying in this blog that it is easier to teach old dogs new tricks than it is to expect to change our current political class. We just have to get rid of the current crop of leaders (including our beloved Raila Odinga) and go for a fresh start with a brand new crop of leaders (for better or for worse) if we are going to have a fighting chance of saving our country.

This is exactly the kind of “democracy” that Mzee Jomo Kenyatta fostered in KANU in the early days and just look at what happened? This unique Kenyan “democracy” caused the kind of problems in our country that are not likely to be solved in our generation, indeed they will probably need another two or three generations of bado mapabano to deal with them.

Raila Odinga himself has been forced to state the obvious and announce that Mudavadi has every right to oppose him for the party ticket. But sadly this does not change the fact that the “real owners of ODM” will hear nothing of it. Their kind of democracy says that those who are worshipped are exempt from the rules that everybody else follows. Kenyan voters now have a right to ask a simple question;

If they are behaving like this before their man gets to State house and starts to yield real power, how will they behave when they are drunk with whatever people inhale in the corridors of power?

Chances are that a blog like Kumekucha may be quickly shut down and told that we have no right to make any negative comments about his most Excellency the PORK.

Having said that it is also true that the behavior of Musalia Mudavadi is not consistent with his character and the politician we have known all along who avoids confrontation at all costs. Some people here in Kumekucha are fond of calling him Weak leaf (instead of Wickliffe which is his Christian name). This is to emphasize the fact that this is a politician who has never been his own man.

Admittedly you really cannot blame the ODM “democrats” for suspecting that Mudavadi is not acting alone in his quest for the ODM presidential ticket. For starters the man is very close to retired President Daniel arap Moi and there are those who suspect that Moi could be behind a bid to weaken the party from within. Even if it is not Moi who is involved ODM has numerous other enemies who litter the landscape just waiting for a chance to sink in their daggers into the heart of the party.

It is also true that there is no way that a closely fought race for the presidency within ODM between Raila and Mudavadi will affect party unity big time, going into the election. Chances are that if and when Mudavadi loses to Raila, the Luhya vote will fly out of the window never to return, Fred Gumo or no Fred Gumo.

Knowing Kenyan politics these are fears that are justified.

Still the rules of true democracy have no exception. Not even when a hen suddenly turns into a lion.

Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Are We Obsessed With Imperialism?

By  Mwarang'ethe
Tragedy of human history is this. The world’s harvest is abundant enough to satisfy the needs of humanity. However, for want of wisdom, its reaping is regulated by the laws of battle.

In response to our last essay, Ocampo 4: A Flawed Defence Strategy, available here: http://is.gd/aAs8FE, a regular commentator at Kumekucha Mr Philip, wrote this:

“We have the imperialist, then we have our leaders who are equally as evil as them, with the same mission. There is a possibility that when all these imperialists are exterminated then our leaders will easily move from their front seats to the throne. I feel that's the connection you have TERRIBLY FAILED to fathom. Because in your case all our problems are caused by imperialists, so that when they cease to exist, then our problems will also end.”

Essentially, this is the same question Mr Taabu and other anonymous commentators keep on asking. However, we have refused to dignify his/their questions for at least two reasons.First, Mr Taabu and his friends, assume they know not knowing they do not know. For instance, with an air of an intellectual and finality, he tells us that, Kenya has not been able to build a single inch of railway. That is a fact. He then, tells us how South Africa is ahead because there are white people there. That is also, a conceded fact. However, if Mr Taabu was a man of learning as he fools himself to be, he would be able to differentiate between (a) facts, and (b) science. He seems utterly ignorant that, FACTS/KNOWLEDGE are only materials of science and not science itself. Thus, accumulation of bar talk/peasant facts is useless if the MEANING or the UNDERSTANDING of these facts is absent which should be the sole interest of men of learning. The fact that, he/they just mentions these facts and leaves them there tells us he/they confuse them to be science.

Secondly, we find his/their aversion to human experience in political and civil liberties as well as political economy akin to the barbarism of the Roman general who shouted at the Athenian general and a philosopher in peace negotiations to try and save Athens that, he had gone to Athens to punish the rebels and not study history. With that barbaric statement, he went ahead to destroy the ancient Athens.  In other words, many are deceived as to the GREATEST OFFICE of a well ordered society. It is not the office of the mere lawyer, the president, the minister, the general or the mere economist. It is The Sacred Office of the Historian. Anyway, with such men, you just leave them alone. Back to Philip’s query.

To answer Philip’s question, we first descend into the human laboratory, i.e. history. To the wisest of the Roman era, the corruption of the Roman government appeared so utterly incurable. As such, it was supposed to indicate the approaching dissolution of the globe. Actually, to some extent, the inability of the ancient people to reform their corrupt government, made many turn to Christianity which offered hope in a crumbling civilization.

The question we must first ask is this. Why were the ancient civilizations unable to solve the problem of corruption? Simple.Then, as is today, it was the pressing evils of the MOMENT that drew their attention and called for redress. As a result, there lacked a tranquil diagnosis and a patient endeavour to remove the deep seated causes. Thus, in all ages, it is the strain felt by the individual that furnishes the motive power for any attempted reforms and the individual cannot wait. As a result, the therapeutic measures are inevitably crude and however well meant or even well designed cannot do. So, is the ICC “solution” to the African mess.

So as to discover the disease which killed the ancient civilizations and hence be the seers of their generations, historians have done a thorough post mortem of that dead society. Their discovery is this. The degradation of the humanity of that age did not come about because of an inherent principle of decay proceeding from the inevitable state of exhaustion in the condition of a highly civilised society. Nor was not because of a moral deficiency that produced incurable corruption and thereby, rendered good governance impracticable.

In truth, the evils of that society were produced by the injustice and oppression of the Roman government. So, why couldn't’ they reform it? Simple. The Roman government was too powerful to enable the people to force it to reform its conduct. Given the fiscal rapacity of the Roman government which fettered the people’s industry and the oligarchical constitution of the curia, the PUBLIC OPINION became powerless. Thus, the destruction of the upper and the middle class made it impossible to regenerate the Roman State. In other words, the greatest imperfection of the government arose from the total want of any popular control over the moral conduct of the public servants. This is so because, political morality cannot live without the atmosphere of public opinion. As such, the fiscal system was the PRINCIPAL CAUSE of its decay. Check around the world today, and the same disease is rampant.

And, for comparative purposes, nothing offers more instructive lessons to humanity than the wealth and power of the Cherson city which was protected from fiscal rapacity of the Roman government. As a result of this, its commerce, freedom flourished under the institutions which protected property rights even as the whole Roman Empire fell into pieces. Now, if you follow the history of Europe after the death of the Roman Empire, you will discover that, the revival of civilization in Europe was only possible when the people had acquired power sufficient to enforce some respect for their feelings and rights.

In other words, the real problem in African is lack of an economic set up that can allow the emergence of a real middle class which can exercise the moral restraint on the African governments. As a result of this weakness, we have seen NGO’s, donors and the like of the ICC becoming the “defenders” of the Africans who are now treated like infants who need guardians to defend them from their own governments. Since these foreign bodies are the ones which give African leaders money, they listen to them and treat their citizens with contempt.

Therefore, if the West was serious, it would demand fiscal reforms which would create the necessary environment for the growth of the middle class for without it, the African governments shall never respond to the citizen needs. It follows then, that, any fiscal measure which deepens poverty and helplessness in Africa should be avoided at all costs. The question is, what does the West do? It does exactly the opposite and thereby, create conditions for more violence, corruption and impunity. Having forced the African governments to create such conditions, the West comes much later and proclaims itself the protector of the helpless poor Africans. They shamelessly mock the victims of their own rapacity and fraud! In other words, the West in its hubris like that of the ancient free men is accusing Africans of moral deficiency/degeneracy whereas, historians have proven that is not the real cause.

Before we show how the West is playing with the African minds, we descend again to the Eastern Empire of the Roman Empire. Under the reforms of Constantine, we add, just like the recent Kenyan reforms, he required additional revenues. As a result, he instituted two taxes termed Senatorial and Chrysargyron taxes. The first alienated the aristocracy because, the Senators had been exempted from tax before. Does that remind of something? The Chrysargyron taxes were a tax on PROFITS which was levied in the severest manner on EVERY species of receipt. Today, if you tell a man/woman that taxation of profits is robbery, they will wonder. Needless to say, contrary to the expectation of Constantine, these additional taxes fettered industry which led to decline in trade due to decreased consumption, poverty and insecurity which continued to lower the scale of civilization as society frames started fraying.

When Emperor Anastasius took over, being more enlightened than Constantine, he did what is a very rare virtue of a sovereign. He voluntarily reduced the revenues of the State by abolishing the lucrative, but, very oppressive taxation on profits which affected every industry and every one. The effect of this measure was INCREASED PROSPERITY which like an energy drink, reinvigorated the body politic of the Roman Empire. Despite him having relinquished State revenue to ensure the happiness of his people, the State revenue increased due to increased commerce and prosperity and left over £ 320, 000 pounds of gold in the public treasury.

Now, let us look at what the West is doing in cahoot with its puppets in Africa. Sometimes back, when all mainstream newspapers, lawyers like Kilonzo, Ocampo’s and even all bloggers were silent, we raised a red flag about a demand of the IMF to the government of Kenya to raise the VAT when we read this: “IMF calls for VAT reforms to increase collection.” Among other stuff, we read this:

A widening and simplification of the Value Added Tax(VAT) bracket could increase Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA)’s revenue collection by an estimated Sh40 billion. This disclosure was made on Thursday by Mr Ragnar Gudmundsson, a resident representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at a Nairobi Hotel. He was briefing the media on the forthcoming conference on Revenue Mobilisation in Sub-Sahara Africa...” Available at http://is.gd/0yFPYS.

When we raised this issue. As usual, we were accused of crying imperialism all the time. That was then. Now, we are reading this: “New VAT Bill threatens to increase cost of living.” Among other stuff, we are now reading that,


“The price of a number of essential commodities such as milk, maize and wheat flour is expected to go up, with the Bill proposing that processed agricultural commodities be struck off the list of VAT exempt items. ..Other items removed from the tax-exempt list include animal feeds, agrochemicals, newspapers, sanitary pads [DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHAT RAILA SAID ON SANITARY PADS?] and cooking gas – all deemed essential. This means that prices of manufactured goods will go up by anything from16 per cent – which is the standard VAT rate – should the proposed bill become law in the current condition, as manufacturers of commodities increase costs to recover money paid to the taxman.” Source: http://is.gd/6cJRjJ

Basically, anyone schooled in real economics, i.e. anyone not mentally derailed by the IVY LEAGUE of FOOLS in pseudo - economics,  knows this. Men produce wealth for consumption. Therefore, when you curtail consumption, you curtail production. When you curtail wealth production, you create unemployment and attendant social problems. We can assure the reader that, the social effect of these VAT increases so as to pay Western debts, which are created by attacking our currency by the same West, SHALL create more social problems than the 2007/8 PEV violence. However, such stuff, the imperialists do not broadcast in their loud mainstream media. This leaves a lone blogger to bear the burden of raising such issues under epithets of ignorant mobs.  

The question we ask is this. If the Westerners are interested in the well being of the Africans as they claim, why is it that, in cahoot with their USELESS puppets like Kibaki and Raila, they are creating poverty and helplessness which makes it impossible for Africans to hold their governments into account? Also, why are the mainstream newspapers, lawyers, NGO’s, bloggers etc, so eloquently silent over such deliberate impoverishment of the African people by these Western schemes? It is only when the West comes to pick up one of their puppets as a means of fooling gullible and suffering Africans, we see the mainstream media, so called lawyers, NGO’s and bloggers vomit all their praises on their white saviors. This being the case, it makes us wonder, is it so difficult to understand the logic of what we are laying bare?

The ultimate question is this. Do the Western states controllers know that, they are creating poverty and wars in Africa? Yes. We know this because, we have done our research from their own recordings. During the World Bank and IMF hearings in 1945, bankers testified to the USA Congress to the facts that chaotic economic /economies, such as African economies, must as a matter of LOGIC produce CIVIL WARS and TOTALITARIANISM. So, the Western imperial planners know exactly what they are doing. But, why are they doing this?

Once again, during the same World Bank and IMF formation, it was stated in very unambiguous words that:

"Nothing is MORE MENACING to WORLD SECURITY, than to have the LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, comprising MORE THAN HALF OF THE POPULATION of the world, RANGED in ECONOMIC BATTLE against the LESS POPULOUS but INDUSTRIALLY more advanced nations of the West." So, TESTIFIED the USA Secretary of TREASURY, Henry Morgenthau at the SENATE in its 1945 hearings on the WORLD BANK.

The question is, how does undeveloped Africa contribute to whatever they call WORLD SECURITY? Again, it is simple. Today, just as example, Africa exports about 20 million barrels of oil per day. Now, if African living standards were to improve just by 20%, all this oil would be consumed internally. As a result, there would be shortage of 20 million barrels per day. With such shortage, the oil prices would be more than $ 500 per barrel. Does ANY IDIOT think the BMW of Germany, Toyota of Japan, the Daewoo of Korea, the GM of America and the millions of jobs they provide in the West would survive under such prices? No and no.

This being the case, the Africans must be kept in a state of confusion and stupidity with cosmetic reforms which means that, although their population is increasing, which is producing social tensions in absence of economic expansion, they must not be in a position to consume their raw materials. Increasing the VAT is one of the methods used. This leaves these resources CHEAP and AVAILABLE to the WORLD as they call it. To blind Africans from this brutalization and dehumanisation, they subject them to massive dosage of IDEOLOGICAL BOMBING which STUPEFIES them to run away from the TRUTH as they chase ILLUSIONS, DELUSIONS and CHILDISH FANTASIES created for them.

Finally, we ask:

(a) When a MERE lawyer like Ocampo speaks, every Kenyan listens.
(b) Why is it that, when an African who is a lawyer like Ocampo, but, also, learned, not listened to?
(c) Does it have to do with self hatred?

Monday, February 06, 2012

General "Fear" Takes Kenya To The Brink Yet Again

I love watching 24, the series from Fox TV.

Those who have watched it know that it is much more than just a cops and terrorists action thing. Indeed in my book the script writers predicted correctly that America would get a black president sooner rather than later and their prediction about America’s first woman president (Hillary Rodham) will come to pass very soon. On the other hand students of movie-making will quickly recognize the fact that the script writers and directors pay very close attention to characterization and that is part of the reason why watching 24 is not good for heart patients (there is way too much suspense).

Indecisive Presidents Can Cause Serious Trouble.

But let me stick to the politics portrayed in 24 and its’ relevance to Kenyan politics at the moment. I recently started watching earlier seasons in sequence and at the moment I am enjoying Season 4. In the particular episode I have just watched. Terrorists bring down Airforce one and the president of the United States is critically wounded necessitating his Vice president, Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin plays the role brilliantly) to be hurriedly sworn into office, in the middle of a crisis.

President Logan’s first act as president is to retire to the bunker (which is about 200 metres underground below the White House) for his own safety. And even while there he is still very much concerned about his personal safety “The terrorists will come after me next,” he screams at his chief of staff at one point.

But even worse is what happens next when quick critical decisions need to be made. Students of management will tell you that a quick decision that may turn out to be wrong is much better than no decision at all.

President Logan reminds me a lot of President Kibaki (remember the nickname his own constituents gave him years ago, General Kugoya-excuse my Kikuyu spelling) which means General Fear.

Kenyans forget very quickly but historians will note that it was President Mwai Kibaki’s indecisiveness that got us to the brink in January 2008. Older Kumekuchans will remember the timeline of events I gave that led to the troubles that almost shut down the country.

Now at the sunset of his presidency, Kibaki true to his character is leading the country into another serious crisis. Two ICC suspects have been traversing the country with a tribal message very similar to the tribal messages the Kibaki campaign team was promoting in the last presidential elections. The gist of that message is best portrayed in what John Michuki said in front of witnesses in late 2007 and I quote; “A Jaruo president of this country? Over my dead body.”

Supporters of these two mass murder suspects have already declared severally during their rallies which they conveniently call “Prayer meetings” that “NO RUTO AND UHURU, NO ELECTIONS.”

Why is the president hesitant to stop Uhuru and Ruto? After all he is not standing for a third term (or is he?). Could it have something to do with the ICC being after him? What is really going on?

And to make matters worse the government seems to have sanctioned the hate rallies because the Vice president of the republic of Kenya is always at most of these rallies. Besides one of the suspects is still the deputy prime minister of the republic of Kenya.

Mercifully, according to my information the ICC (which is much more decisive) may put a stop to this madness soon. But if they don’t, God help Kenya because the decision from State house will never be made.

It is instructive how President Charles Logan’s presidency ends and I believe that Kibaki will end up in exactly the same way after he leaves office at the end of this year. Just watch 24 season 4 (towards the end. Start at episode 15 to get a true gist of what happens).

Those naïve Kenyans who are very loud here in Kumekucha comments but have never really learnt about the realities of politics need to watch 24 again, this time round paying close attention to the politics.

TI Reveals just a little of the real Ruto/Uhuru message during their "prayer meetings."

Saturday, February 04, 2012

Shocker: TI Reveals Hate Speech And Tribal Incitement At Uhuru/Ruto Meetings

Brief Report on peace/prayer rally organized by Ruto/Uhuru
At the 64 stadium, Eldoret
Friday 27th Jan 2012

The Uhuru/Ruto political axis organized a peace/prayer a rally on Friday 27th Jan 2012 at the 64 stadium. The public rally was attended by over 45 legislators including the vice president, former MPs and a presidential aspirant Raphael Tuju and another ICC suspect Joshua Sang. The prayers took exactly 11 minutes and immediately the rally snowballed into a political rally with all the speakers making statements laced with hate speech and/or incitement.

In what appeared to be a well rehearsed script, nearly all the speakers stated that should the two (Uhuru & Ruto) be barred from vying for presidency, then Kenya will not have elections. The speakers made inflammatory statements insinuating that their communities were on trial and they should unite to resist the work of the ICC which has been hoodwinked by the NGOs and the prime minister through the international community.

Belgut MP Charles Keter kicked of the storm with a rallying call.
“Just as we said in 2007 that ‘No Raila, No Peace’, we will say ‘No Uhuru and Ruto, No Elections.”

Embakasi MP waititu said “lazima tufanye kila kitu kuzuia huyu mjaruo kuingia state house tuingie huko wenyewe ndio tuvuruge hii maneno ICC…”

Gideon Mbuzi ‘SONKO’ “ Said “ hakuna vile tutakubali mtu wa jina linaanza na O asaidiwe na cousin yake huko America wa jina linaanza na O washikane na Ocampo kumaliza watu wetu….tutapambana nao”

Isaac Ruto said “ we know the international community and the civil society have a preferred candidate but let them know we shall not allow them Uhuru and Ruto must be on the ballot.”

Eldoret East MP Peris Simam said that “We will vote for them irrespective of where they will be. Let those NGOs stop going to court. I am stating that the government is here”

Eldama Ravine MP Moses Lessonet added that “It is the people of Kenya who will decide on the leadership of Kenya, not the courts and NGOs”

“We stand today by our people who are being mistreated but what we know is that by the end of the day, the truth shall come out” said Lucas Chepkitotony

“We announce today that whether they like it or not, the leader of this country is with us today” added Mosop MP David Koech.

“The trial of Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya’s 1st President) by the colonialist did not stop him from being President just as the incarceration of Nelson Mandela by the whites never stopped him from being an African leader. I tell you today, be of good courage,” Eugene Wamalwa remarked.

The speakers heaped blame on the CSOs and the prime minister for the woes facing the ICC suspects. The Vice president insisted that he was not the one to benefit if the suspects are tried since he has fought to have the cases brought back to Kenya but his efforts were thwarted by known people in ODM and the CSOs. Ruto called on his supporters to ensure that Uhuru and him are not locked out of the presidential race. Ruto also spoke for about 7 minutes in his native Kalenjin Language rallying his ‘people’ to ensure that if they are locked out of the race then they should frustrate the holding of the elections by all means.

Gideon Mbuvi, Ferdinand Waititu Kazungu Kambi and a youth leader from Nyanza made derogatory statements against the Luo community calling on other tribes to shun the community because its leader is conman and untrustworthy they went further to call anybody calling on Uhuru and Ruto not to vie for the presidency “mashetani”. They vowed to gang up to deny the premier from having a say on the management of the coalition government and promised to shield the president from attacks from the ODM wing of the government and vowed to resist calls for Uhuru to step aside as the deputy prime minister calling on the CSOs to stop their demands. They called on the president to disregard the National accord and rule the country as he deems fit since they are the majority and they will stand with him

On the other hand there was clear breach of the elections act which prohibits use of state resources in partisan campaigns. The vice president was with his official motorcade. The Eldoret municipal Council Lorries were used transport municipal council chairs to the venue.

Report by
Richard Maina
Programme Officer
ALAC Eldoret.

Friday, February 03, 2012

“Raila Tosha” Kibaki Finally Utters The Two Magic Words In His Sleep

My late father told me this story many times. He was there.

President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta sat down to lunch in Kakamega shortly before he left for Kisumu on that fateful day in 1969 where his motorcade was stoned in that infamous incident. Those who were there could see that the president was preoccupied and appeared to be in a foul mood. This was confirmed shortly because he hardly touched his soup (which was only the first course). Five minutes later he got up and his motorcade was on the move headed for Kisumu in what was destined to be his last trip to the lakeside city. Clearly Kenyatta was very nervous about that last Kisumu trip.
The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

Yesterday President Mwai Kibaki made a historical visit to Kisumu. He received a very warm welcome but appeared to be uncomfortable throughout the proceedings. Predictably most of the politicians who were given an opportunity to speak keptreaching back to history to remind us all that this was no ordinary trip. And they wasted no time in putting the president under immense pressure. They took his mind again and again back to 2002 where Raila Odinga uttered those famous words that changed the course of Kenya’s history, actually just two words “Kibaki Tosha.” They politely told the president that now would be a good time to return that favour. They also wanted the president to rename the Kisumu International airport The Jaramogi Oginga Odinga International airport. The president in his usual style ignored both requests.

History has an uncanny way of repeating itself like some stuck record. Two men (a son and his father) have twice decided the Kenyan presidency and both times they did it conscious of the fact that it would put them in pole position to take over the very same office from those they named.

The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga told a shocked Legco (Kenyan parliament in those days) that Jomo Kenyatta was like a god to the Kenyan people and there was no way Kenyans were going to consider independence without Kenyatta being freed. With all due respect to the memory of the older Odinga this was nothing but a selfish political move to block a kid on the block who was hurtling at break neck speed towards the presidency. One Thomas Joseph Mboya. Odinga knew that Tom Mboya usually won his elections to parliament with over 90 per cent of the people voting for him being from the Kikuyu community. If Mboya was seen as not being in support of Jomo Kenyatta, he would be wiped out politically.

Historians will want to note that that was one of the very first seeds of tribalism in Kenyan politics ever planted, but that is a post for another day.

What Kenyans still don’t know is that when Raila Odinga 50 years later did exactly what his dad did and said Kibaki Tosha, he was also blocking another man from ascending to the presidency and that man was Simeon Nyachae. Nyachae had made his plans carefully and had managed to position himself as a compromise candidate to take over the presidency of the country for an interim period of one term only t give the other biggies a little time to sort themselves out and come up with one candidate. Using his vast wealth and influence he had enough support to see his long standing ambition through. Raila scuttled Nyacahe’s plans with his famous two words in support of Kibaki. Admittedly Raila’s main motive for backing Kibaki was to ensure the defeat of President Moi and his KANU party.

Now yesterday Mwai Kibaki predictably refused to return the favour that saw him ascend to the presidency. Now if history finishes off this repeat thing Raila will NOT ascend to the presidency. Instead somebody else will come from nowhere and shockingly become the fourth president. Maybe some folks will even call him a passing cloud, but of course he or she will be nothing of the sort.

But enough with the history lessons which bore so many of my readers and lets get to hard ball politics.

The reason why Kibaki’s refusal shocked some insiders is because the president has already made a pact with Raila Odinga. Kibaki will fully support his bid for the presidency and in return President Odinga will protect the Kibakis. And so what happens if President Odinga never happens? It means that Kibaki’s retirement will be extremely uncomfortable.

However the question Kenyans should be asking themselves is are these Raila Toshas and Kibaki Toshas as effective are they used to be? I think NOT. The era of endorsements deciding the presidency is over why are the political class refusing to open their eyes to the new reality? The next election will be decided by the young people of Kenya and they are in a foul mood at the moment and terribly impatient measuring Kenya on the same scale as developed economies whose democracies are over 100 years old. They watch their news and admire the American system of governance and are continually asking themselves why not Kenya?

Presidential candidate Odinga dyes his hair black regularly and there is no doubt that his handlers will want him to spot an even younger look as the presidential campaigns gather momentum. Will that be enough to win the presidency against an extremely crowded field? I think not. I believe that we are headed for a run off when we finally sit down to elect our next president. It will be Raila versus a much younger nobody and that kind of contest will not be good for the courageous but unlucky son of Jaramogi.

I’m keeping my eyes firmly on boring history knowing fully well that the damned thing is going to repeat itself yet again

Tutaona. (we shall see what happens)