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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Mombasa Tuskys Supermarket Robbery


BREAKING NEWS: One kid has died and several others seriously injured after a grenade detonated in a Sunday School in Pangani.

Now the cowards going by the name of terrorists have turned their evil grenades on kids. Shame on them!!!

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 Spate of Supermarket robberies that are never reported in the media
At least 7 heavily armed thugs broke into the Tuskys Digo Road Mombasa supermarket last night at about 9pm and made off with an unspecified amount of cash.

Sources within the giant supermarket chain have told a Kumekucha informant that the gangsters seemed to have a lot of inside information and even asked for the chief cashier, a Mr Waweru, by name. The timing of the robbery at 9pm shortly before closing time at 10pm at the end of the month and when workers of the supermarket had just been paid also points to the fact that the robbers must have gotten a lot of inside help and knew the best time to hit when they were bound to find the largest amount of cash available.

Conveniently the CCTV cameras at the supermarket were not working at the time of the raid because they had just been disconnected as workers expanded them into the next shop (formerly Little Chef Restaurant) which has recently been purchased by Tuskys in a bid to expand their floor space for the supermarket.

The robbers were so cool and confident that they took time to collect at least four heavy chests of coins and did not just take away the bank notes as is usually the case in most robberies these days.

But even more puzzling is how stories on robberies at the Supermarket are hardly ever reported. Barely a month ago the TMall Tuskys along Langata Road was robbed and gangsters got away with a staggering Kshs 24 million. Sources within the supermarket say that the directors of the retail chain usually go to great lengths to block any publicity on the robberies because they fear that it will scare away night shoppers a category of customers that is giving most supermarkets in Kenya colossal profits at the moment.

Read about the family power struggle to control Tuskys Supermarket

Friday, September 28, 2012

Thug Waititu's Incitement to Earn Murder Charges


He epitomizes superlative aggression, bravado and hands-on politician. He has never lost his City Hall antics and cares less what comes from his mouth. And to please his Embakassi voters he will tell them anything.
Hon Ferdinand Waititu called for expulsion of all Maasais from Kayole oblivious of the fact that he was pitting himself against two Maasais in the Minister for Internal Security Metito and Director of Public Prosecutions Tobiko.
Even his equally combative and theatrical colleague Sonko after spiriting him out of parliament with the help of gullible police would not bail him out his self-inflicted troubles. He simply invited it upon himself. And he wouldn't have let his lips loose at a bad time. Kenyans are too aware of serial violence during election cycles.
Waititu may have gotten away with murder before but this time the odds are mightily stuck against him. Even his political boss has disowned him. While Makwere may be gifted in spitting sweetened poison with his gliding tongue, Waititu never bothers about sch niceties.
Abrasively condemning a whole community infront of the camera is obtuse impunity. While Kenya has changed a great deal, many of its leaders still retain mindsets hard-wired in antics of yore.
AG Muigai has promised Waititu to serve as an example of what hate speech can earn. Let the lwa take its course hoping that Kenyan's landlords will not disregard courts like they did with county commissioners.

Image courtesy of FunKenya.COM

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

The Best president for Kenya: This man who will solve ALL our political problems

He has fanatical support in Nyanza and equally enthusiastic support right across several province which in one neat move eliminates tribalism from our presidential elections. Sadly candidate Raibaki does not exist.

Still it is not bad to daydream once in a while and fantasize of what can never happen... Not in Kenya. Or can it?

Midiwo's Dishonest Suggestion on More/Less MPs

By KK Blogger

Co-Government chief whip Jakoyo Midiwo is one politician known for his loose talk and character worshipping. But his suggestion against many MPs over the weekend made very interesting argument.

Midiwo knows the next generation of MPs will not be as powerful as the present one give the presence of senators and governors. But only politically selected few can fill these grand posts.

So was Midiwo simply being nostalgic about the impendining loss of political power or he was genuinely engaging in substantive national debate?

Well, there is no price for guessing. Politicians the world over are the most selfish species among us. Midiwo may be right to compare number of representatives in US and the population with ours but he connivently avoided comparing the pay. And there in lies the nauseating dishonesty in his suggestion.

Some would readily say because we are who we are and we have always remained who we were, without any intention of ever changing ourselves, communities and a once beautiful country - Kenya, I suppose - for the better or for the next seven generations.

Think about it for a second; 435 representatives and 100 senators serving (as opposed to being served, honoured, and worshipped by) 311 million people in country - United States of America - with a land mass of 3,718,710 square miles.

Versus the usual revenue guzzling payload of 349 MPigs (potential lords of impunity) and 67 senators [whose only mandate is to demand honour, adoration and daily worship at public rallies], for a population of very unfortunate 38 million impoverished Kenya confined on a land mass of 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million square miles).

And for what? Why the wastage as usual? So that the political elite may continue to eat together for another five to ten years in the ever willing company of political-cum-tribal lords, double-faced aid agencies, and cold hearted foreign economic hitmen and women?

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tana River Clashes Expose Lack of Leadership

By KK Blogger

The silly season is here. Civil servants are leaving their 'plum' jobs to join politics. Well, the move betrays all that is wrong with Kenya. You see everybody wants a piece of the pie without making any effort to bake the same.

So will new and different faces like those of people (soon to be former insiders) like Alfred Mutua and countless others make any real difference in the overall governance of the country as well as in the lives of the Kenyan people after the 2013 general election?

Sadly, the ongoing carnage, and massacre of the Pokomo and Orma people of Kenya is a residual effect that occurs when a so-called dysfunctional democratic government has failed its people, not just once, not twice or even six times, but has failed its citizens over and over and over again in the course of the last five decades in terms of providing basic human rights and basic services such security among others.

Hence one of the many reasons why people in affected communities end up taking matters in their own hands with deadly consequences rather than opting to seek legal solutions from the judicial system that has been nonexistent in so many remote regions of the country such as in the Tana Delta for decades.

Of course there is no justification whatsover for the ongoing violent hostility and revengeful murderous assaults on children, women, the elderly and unarmed men among the two communities that have resided on either side of the Tana River.

However, those charged with the overall adminstration, security, community policing and most of development - which has been 100% nonexistent - in the region are to blame for the frequent outburst violence between the two communities who have been each other's nemesis since the era when the powerful King of Massylii relinquished his rule that had extended all the way up to the Tana Delta.

On the other hand, lest we forget, talking of the rest of us, who live far away removed from some of the remotest areas of Kenya, the ongoing bloodshed in the Tana Delta is neither politically engineered nor ethinically motivated at all.

Basically, it has been about the struggle for survival and scramble (deadly at times) for the control of scarce resources, namely grazing space and fertile farming land along the Tana River.

Cycle of violence

Further, murderous assaults similar to the current one among the Pokomo and Ormo have been allowed to take place in the past within different regions of the country, such as the 2007/8 post-election violence, Likoni (Mombasa), Mt. Elgon, Trans-Mara, Moyale, Marsabit, Isiolo, Mandera, Laikipia, Aldai, Trans-Nzoia, Mathare, and Kibera (third largest slum in the world, - our national pride and world monument of abject poverty - hell's village (inferno) on the African continent).

All carried out in the struggle for the control of scarce basic resources in the afore mentioned regions.

And unfortunately, it will be business as usual for the next president, senators, governors, parliamentarians, women representatives, elected local officials, and new police commissioner (or inspector general).

Including the well connected, the wealthy, elite, so-called civil society, social-cum-political activities, tribal political chiefs, tribal war lords, common ignorant foot soldiers, and above all the sanctimonious religious leaders.

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

Gov Dr Alfred Mutua Anajivunia Kuwa M'masaku

The first official Governement Spokesman for the Republic of Kenya Dr Alfred Mutua has resigned from his post and plunged headlong into the world of murky politics.

Alfie has been President Kibaki's mouthpiece for the last 8+ years. During that time the patriotic Mutua came with such ingenious slogan like 'Najivunia kuwa Mkenya'. And the enthusiasm radiated in his eyes when handing out stickers to motorists.

Mutua's entry into politics may just usher in a new political era of new faces. To top it up Mutua has promised a blockbuster memoir aptly titled "Shooting the Messenger" where he will bear it all.

He may look a political novice i the face of his potential opponents in the moneyed Muthama and co, but the communications professor is not naive.

Mutua has plenty of fire power under his belt starting from his Friday Daily Nation's column Msafiri more than two decades ago. Stevo has surely secured a huge catch.

He may have goofed in his numerous shameless defense of the indefensible, but Governor Mutua will surely offer Machakos Country a new political face.

Good luck Alfie.