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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Emmy Kosgei about to marry an old man







Latest Update: Wedding takes place as Bride arrives in chopper

The big news on the web is the upcoming wedding of well-loved local gospel song bird Emmy Kosgei to a Nigerian pastor at least 22 years older than her. Emmy is 33 and her husband to be, Apostle Madubuko is 55. Just the kind of stuff to get the gossip mills working at full stretch.

So what else is new? After all young girls have been getting married to old men since the beginning of time. Usually the reason is financial. And yet in Emily's case she is hardly starving and has in fact made herself a tidy fortune from her talented vocals. Not to mention the fact that she counts as her close friends some very powerful and wealthy individuals in these shores, whose idea of pocket money is a couple of million shillings for shopping in London or Hong Kong. So it cannot possibly be about money.

And so is it love? True love?

Admittedly the idea of true love and finding soul mates is pretty trendy in these shores just now. Thanks in no small measure to the large volume of Mexican and Philippino soaps that have invaded the region and are turning the hearts and minds of many Kenyan women to start believing and hoping in something that is said to happen only to a handful of people in many lifetimes.

Believe it or not there are many reasons for a young girl to fall in love with a much older man which I will delve into in a minute. But let's start with what Emmy must prepare herself for if she goes ahead with this proposed union.

The first problem she will have already encountered (highlighted rather brutally by the hate messages and crude comments flying around in twitter over her planned wedding). And that is (simply put) "what will people say?" 

Whom you decide to marry is your own personal choice and must be so because you and only you will face the consequences and live with them for a very long time to come. And yet the truth of the matter is that most of us get married ONLY to people whom our family and friends will approve. Few have the courage to tell those around them to go to hell. And the strange thing is that those around us always seem to know more about our intimate relationships than we do ourselves. They KNOW it is not true love and they also KNOW it cannot be sex (what can that old man do, surely?).

Incidentally unknown to many, sex is a weapon (if I can call it that for want of a better word) that older men have frequently used to win the hearts of much younger lasses. Experience helps older men get pretty good at the art of really pleasing a woman in this department. In Emmy's case that cannot be because Christian marriages do not work quite like that. Sex happens only when everything is legal and finalized.

The other weapon is humour. Yep, you can actually get a girl to easily laugh her way into love or more likely serious infatuation.

But we are supposed to be talking about problems here and one of the other major ones younger women face with older men is children. An older man may not be as keen as you are on having children. And even if they are, the idea of being kept awake the whole night by a howling and shrieking bundle of joy could create serious cracks in a new marriage.

Still as a happily married lady friend has just emphasized to me, older men bring true happiness in a marriage and the kind of attention somebody your own age would never come close to giving you.

At the end of the day these matters are very personal and every woman has a right to seek happiness where she thinks she can find it; **ck what other people want to think.



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Will Isaac Ruto be roasted with the meat at Naivasha?

Will Isaac Ruto be roasted with the nyama choma in Naivasha today?

 

Excerpts from the latest Raw notes...

As you read this the top decision-making organ (The National Executive Council) of the United Republican Party (URP) is in session at a retreat in Naivasha. Officially the agenda is strengthening the institutional capacity of the party. The truth is that they are meeting to deal with the "Isaac Ruto problem" once and for all.

It is no accident that Isaac met with the President's political advisor,
Joshua Kuttuny ahead of this meeting. What Kuttuny told Isaac is still a mystery but what is clear is that whatever it was it shook up poor Isaac quite a bit. By the time I sat down to write this Isaac had also not yet been sighted at the Naivasha retreat although insiders still insisted that he was expected.

Also interesting about this Naivasha meeting is the fact that it is not the party chairman Francis Ole Kaparo who will chair the NEC meeting but the Deputy President William Ruto himself who was expected to fly in from Mombasa where he has been with the president scoring massive points at the Coast dishing out 60,000 title deeds.

My information is that water tight resolutions will be set to deal with any would-be lone rangers within the party who may want to have a different position from that of the party on any issue now or in the future. And even if Isaac Ruto were to turn up you can be sure that he will not be holding his hat in his hand and looking repentant over the grief he has caused Bwana Kubwa DP William Ruto and the larger JUBILEE family which URP belongs to. And that is what is so exciting about what is going on in Naivasha and the possible drama that could ensue. But still whatever drama Kenyans are treated to will have zero impact where it really matters. I will tell you why in a minute.

These kinds of meetings are not for delivering directives but for discussion and brain storming to solve problems. The relaxed ambiance is supposed to help participants remain level headed and sober and thus much more likely to find some middle ground somewhere. Only that there is no middle ground in this referendum issue. Isaac has always said that he wants the allocations to counties to be legalized and is not interested even in 90% allocation if it is not written down in the laws because it can always be taken away later by somebody on a whim. Makes plenty of sense. Now the JUBILEE position is that this will be done in due course in parliament and there is no need for a referendum.

But what has irked William Ruto and others in JUBILEE is that Isaac's position is way too similar to that of CORD and everybody knows that the only reason CORD are so concerned about taking the country into a referendum is to fight the JUBILEE government.

History as they say always repeats itself and if my dad was alive he would almost certainly be talking about a similar happening in the run up to independence in the late 50s and early 60s when Jaramogo Oginga Odinga already well beaten and outsmarted by Tom Mboya suddenly woke up one morning and said that Kenyans were NOT interested in independence unless and until Jomo Kenyatta was released. Many asked; Jomo who?? An old blurbing compromising man who had been jailed on trumped charges and mostly forgotten was the stature of Jomo at the time. But sly Odinga senior knew that with Jomo on the scene, there was no way Mboya's largely Kikuyu political base would overlook their own for Mboya when it came to electing Kenya's first Prime Minister. That political strategy worked like a charm and changed the destiny of Kenya.

In much the same way.....(read the rest in my latest raw notes published a few minutes ago)

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Has the referendum push been dealt a death blow?

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Is the referendum campaign dead in the water now?

This is the question on the mind of most political analysts.

The ruthless neutralization of the main face of the push for the referendum one Isaac Ruto has left many dumbfounded. Read this earlier Kumekucha article on how it was done.

Not that Deputy President William Ruto did not warn Jubilee renegades several times that they would face dire consequences should they fail to disassociate themselves from the push for a referendum spearheaded by the opposition. Now he has made good his promise, or so it appears. And anybody feeling the pain now was warned.

Still, it  is not in Isaac Ruto's character to remain cowed. Anybody who has closely followed his politics for any length of time will tell you that. And so whatever it is that they have used to silence him, you can be sure he will find a way to hit back which will muddy the waters even more. The two Rutos (Isaac and William) have faced off many times before and the truth is that Isaac has come out as the more persuasive and convincing debator in this referendum issue that has so dominated our news in recent days, even putting more pressing and urgent matters like insecurity in the back burner.

As we continue to carefully analyze developments on this issue over the next few days, there is plenty of truisms we must appreciate. 

CORD will NOT quit.

The people of Kenya will NOT quit in asking for more money to go to the counties.

The JUBILEE government will not lie down and watch money (replace that word with "power" where this issue of funds is concerned) being snatched from them and taken to the grassroots.

But surely something will have to give at the end of the day... will it not??

Spare a thought for poor Uhuru

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It’s a tough job and someone has to do it!!
 

The mood was glum, the tension palpable. Those present at this meeting were trying their best to be upbeat but failing miserably none the less. We were here to make some tough decisions, elephantine in nature you might say, the kind of decisions that whatever the outcome it was going to backlash on us. The phase ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ took on a whole new meaning because, I was not at the periphery looking in, but right in the middle of the damn situation and I was damned if I did and damned if I didn’t.
 

The usual agenda items were dispensed with in a routine manner, the usual exuberance and jocular manner replaced by a tense and somber mood obvious to all. Eyes were mostly cast down and not making eye contact with each other. The business of the day dispensed with, one of our own was politely asked to leave the meeting as whatever needed to be discussed touched on them personally and under corporate governance rules any interested party on whom a matter touched upon needed to absent themselves, either physical exclusion or by not participating in the deliberations.  Should the rest of us also have been asked to leave the meeting room, weren’t we after all interested parties in any case?
 

This was it, the diplomacy of previous weeks, the efforts to resolve the impasse, the misinformation and twisting of facts in the media that had preceded this meeting was now behind us, water under the bridge, we had arrived at a point of no return. It was crunch time and hard decisions needed to be made and the consequences of such decisions were weighty and rested on our shoulders. The buck literally stopped with us!
 

Were we really ready? Were we ready to plunge into this pool of unchartered waters, not sure what the currents of these turbulent waters and fate held in store for us? Were we ready to make a weighty decision on one of our own and others caught up in the aftermath? Uncertainty was writ large on the faces of several as the Chairman outlined the issues that had brought us there and what our role was going to be at the end of the day, a matter that had to be concluded one way or another however long we took.
 

The questions and comments began, hesitant at first but slowly taking on the desired momentum. A probing question here, a clarification there, a rehash of the documents of the company to see that all loopholes had been sealed and that we had done everything by the book, a query as to whether the recommending committee had been properly constituted. Was their recommendation unanimous? This was now getting serious and it appeared clear that this was but a tactic to draw out the decision making process as long as possible  because clearly no one was looking forward to moving to the next step!!
 

Were there any exit clauses? Did we have any options other than making the hard decisions? Could we postpone this for some time in the future, sleep over it perhaps? But no, this thing needed to be concluded and it needed to be finalized immediately because too much was at stake.........................!
 

The above is a personal narrative meant to show the depth of helplessness that confronts someone when a weighty decision has to be made. If this is what being a president means then the presidency is not something I can wish on even my worst enemy because day in day out it is a never ending rollercoaster of a ride. Just as you think you have stabilized the ship another rogue waves comes along and threatens to sink your vessel once again. Just as you think all the ducks are in a row, some other issue comes along and pushes them out of kilter. But this is the world of leadership, of decision making where hard decisions have to be made despite opposition to whatever decision you may make.
 

At the pinnacle of leadership in any organisation, in any country, in any situation the buck screeches to a halt in front of you and not in a methodical, slow tap on the brakes kind of way but in a bone jarring stand on the brakes kind of way!  It is an emergency however you look at it and some people could lose their livelihoods, others their sanity and still others their dignity whichever decision is taken. You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. It does not matter, how methodically you study the situation and look at it from all angles, at the end of the day the decision has to be made.
 

That is why, I think it is quite naïve and disingenuous that the majority of Kenyans see that the recently elected government of the day is not doing enough, and has been unable to meet its pledges and has been bedeviled with challenges ever since the president and his deputy were sworn in. This is the honeymoon period when all the sweet nothings mentioned as you wooed  the voters come back to haunt you because the structures are not in place, your detractors want to ensure that you do not succeed and as the structures of government are changing to the county system confusion and disorder rule the day.
 

So I posit that it is necessary to give our leaders sometime and cut them some slack so that they organise their business and get to understand the structures that oil the mechanisms that make things happen. This business of leadership is not easy and takes lots of commitment, spirit and guts and someone has to do it!

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Isaac Ruto suddenly changes his mind about the referendum. Very fishy indeed!!


Isaac Ruto (pictured) has in recent weeks scored enormous points right across the political divide nationally for his stance on devolution. His very vocal and articulate push for a referendum to increase budget allocations from the national treasury to county governments has rapidly gained enormous support right down to the grassroots. Isaac has had no qualms contradicting William Ruto in public meetings and receiving a louder and bigger applause every time.

Although JUBILEE insiders have been quick to brand him a CORD mole, the most beautiful thing about Isaac's spirited pro-devolution campaign was that it was effectively removing ugly tribal politics from this debate.

Now two days ago the fiery Bomet governor emerged from a meeting with a man voters firmly rejected in the last elections Joshua Kuttuny (pictured above), with a sudden change of heart. Ruto has now abandoned his call for a referendum and is ready to talk to the JUBILEE high command about other ways of increasing the said allocations, something he has been swearing NEVER to do.

Just to jog your memory, Kuttuny (35) is the clownish immediate former MP for Cherengani whose political speeches have always been pure comedy with little substance, better suited for the popular Churchill comedy show. Apparently his constituents just laughed with him and at him and chose a rookie independent candidate Wesley Korir instead. Kuttuny (who has never held any other job in his life other than that of being a clownish Mpig) was recently resurrected from joblessness oblivion and brokenness when he was gifted a plum job as President Uhuru Kenyatta's political advisor (the grand title for that is Director of Political Affairs in the Office of The President). It is in that new capacity that he met with Isaac Ruto. Fascinatingly Kuttuny has a big problem expressing himself in any other language other than deep sheng. In the clip I have linked to later in this article he struggles with the English language. So much so that one wonders how such a man could ever have been trusted by anybody to represent a constituency in the august house where the main business is debate.
But what exactly went down during the closed-door meeting with Kuttuny? What made the Bomet governor so quickly agree to do something he has always sworn he would never do?

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Is it cool for a public servant to be so arrogant and abusive?



His first car was a Suzuki Vitara, which he bought two years after he started his law firm straight from college with a mere Kshs 7000. He then bought a brand new BMW and currently he drives a Porshe Cayenne, Toyota Land Cruiser and Land Rover Discovery. The arrogant man swears that he will never drive a Mercedes Benz or Range rover. "I'm never into what other people like." 

That information about Ahmednasir Abdullahi is in the public domain. But there is so much more that most Kenyans do not know. Why for instance is he so feared by colleagues? What is the real reason for his sheer arrogance and abusive nature? Why will he forever regret having underestimated Gladys Shollei and treating her like trash without due process? Was Shollei guilty? What exactly did she do that triggered the vicious witch-hunt against her? 

Interestingly in the recent unfolding Gladys Shollei saga the name that has taken centre stage is that of this man rather than the accussed. Especially his sheer arrogance and abusive nature which have opened the eyes of many Kenyans to exactly what this man is all about. 

Colleagues who should know like to call him the most over-rated lawyer in these shores. Those who have encountered him in business circles call him a reckless but shrewd risk-taker. 

An arrogant man is an easy foe to deal with because for starters they will always tend to underestimate you. A quick perusal of the files at JSC should have reminded Bwana Abdullahi that Shollei had the unprecedented distinction of being short-listed for two major jobs at the same time. That of deputy chief justice and chief registrar before she ended up with the latter post. That is NOT the kind of person you just walk all over just like that, even if they happen to be a woman. 

There is no doubt that Ahmednasir Abdullahi will live to regret his brush with Shollei. Already the public spotlight is squarely on him and a number of journalists are digging around into some of his recent questionable real estate deals. Sooner or later you can be sure that some dirt will come out. More revelations in my latest Kumekucha's raw notes. 

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Was JKIA being run like a village stall? The shocking truth


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A village stall it - JKIA - is and it has been managed like one for a very long time. And that is the truth.

The CCTV system at JKIA does not have an alternative location or secondary viewing capacity, and that is why the system was rendered useless or inoperable the moment the terminal was engulfed in massive flames.

The CCTV footage from a forty-eight hour cycle leading to the time when fire broke out, was damaged and there is very little for investigators to go by in terms of visuals forensics.

Furthermore, there is no use at all of having fake smoke detectors in very limited locations within the terminals at JKIA, at time when malfunctioning sprinklers are the order of the day.

There has always been zero routine checkup or maintenance of the fake - very poor quality - smoke detectors and sprinklers at JKIA and other major government facilities around the city.

Kenyans should not be surprised at all that the recently refurbished parliament at a cost of over several billion shillings is still very vulnerable to fire related disasters due to inadequate fire prevention measures within the buildings.

We, as nation, had it coming and it was about time to have a wake-up call of such magnitude because we seem to have already forgotten all about the embassy bombing and its aftermath more than a decade ago.

Complacency is our collective second nature as well as our Achilles heel. Very little outcome should be expected from the enquiry about the mess JKIA has become in terms of security and overall management the entire facility. 


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Thursday, August 08, 2013

Bizarre facts about JKIA fire

It is easy to imagine what is happening in some western capital as airline executives discuss yesterday's inferno at the JKIA. "Where did it happen?" "Africa?" "Well that is expected isn't it? "Natives running an airport like some stall in some village market in the bush."

You can be pretty sure that such discussions are taking place even as you read this. But you and I are more informed on what is to be expected in the particular part of Africa where an international airport burnt down in the early hours of yesterday.

For starters fire in an airport that was not caused by a crash landing aircraft is almost unheard of (even in Africa). Process that for a minute. Secondly JKIA is a high security zone and is monitored by CCTV almost everywhere. That security has been heightened considerably in recent years with the emerging terror threat from the likes of Al Shabab. I have also confirmed that the place is literally crawling with smoke detectors. Then add to all that the fact that top security and intelligence officers are based at the top of the international arrivals unit.

How then does a fire start in a fortress and spread gradually without anybody paying any attention to it?

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Monday, August 05, 2013

This is Uhuru's future from a man who has NEVER gotten it wrong (2013 prediction)

In the run up to the 2002 general elections there was great fear in the country and many rich folks left Kenya for the duration of those memorable elections. The excuse many gave was that they were taking a holiday. But the massive transfer of funds out of the country spoke a different story.

The fear was justified because credible reports that even I received indicated that there was a lot of pressure on then then President Daniel Moi to find a way to hang onto power. Kenya also had no history of a peaceful handover of power from a living president.

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.

He predicted that there would be a peaceful change of guard. Mwai Kibaki was going to be the new president and he would usher in a new era in the country. His role was to prepare the country for take off, putting all the structures in place and in readiness for Kenya to prosper so much so that many will jealously ask; "why Kenya?" I drunk in all his prophecies and implemented the only known test for prophets, to wait and see if what he had said would come to pass. You know what happened next.

Then in 2007 the man was back again. This time I was really shocked. He predicted that Mwai Kibaki would be back in office. he was going to finish his work of preparation. This contradicted all the information I had on the ground which clearly showed that Raila Odinga was headed for a landslide victory in those presidential elections. The prophet had to be wrong this time round, I was sure.

That election resulted in post election violence and weeks of uncertainty over what was going to happen next. But the truth is that the man was right once again.

In the run up to the just concluded 2013 general elections I deliberately chose to not read his prophecies because I was sure they would influence my analysis and writing. And so immediately after the elections, I rushed to his website and read what he had been saying.

He predicted that Uhuru would be an important President in ushering the future divine calling of the nation called Kenya. Will this come to pass? Only time will tell.