Why Women Make Better Leaders: Ngilu To Quit Kibaki Camp

A man’s conscience dies long before that of a woman

There is a certain woman very close to me who is absolutely amazing. Her conscience is hyper-active and she feels guilty about everything. And by everything I mean everything. She worries sick every time she hears that things may not be going particularly well for a neighboring family and there is a possibility that the children may be going hungry.

She may be an extreme case but she portrays one special asset that most African women have in plenty which their male counterparts lack or have in very short supply – a conscience.

Three Kenyans met at a hotel and changed the direction of the elections in 2002. One of those Kenyans is now deceased. The other is sitting smugly in State House busy doing exactly what he was fighting in his predecessor. The third person (thank God) is a woman and she has a conscience. She’s still holding a plum cabinet post as Minister of Health but her conscience has not deserted her. Those three Kenyans that met in October 2002 were the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Mwai Kibaki (now president) and Charity Ngilu (now health minister).

Yesterday the only woman who was in the historic group of three said; “We formed Narc because we wanted a good government in place and I do not want to think of Narc Kenya.” She then repeated at least five times for emphasis; “I will never join Narc Kenya.”

Mrs Charity Kaluki Ngilu then went on to say that although she was certain that she will not remain in the Kibaki camp if he ditches Narc and stands for the Presidency on a Narc Kenya ticket, she has not yet declared what she will do (because the time for declarations has not come, she said). She however emphasized that her declaration would “change the ball game.”

She meant the presidential race and it seems that Mrs Ngilu may be in the running for State House in 2007. So far she has rejected asvances to join ODM where her big political nemesis in Ukambani politics, one Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka has already declared his interest in the presidency.

Thank God that there was a woman in that hotel in the run up to the 2002 general elections. It is a fact of life that a man’s conscience dies long before that of a woman. I’m not quite sure why, but this is a fact of life.

Kenyan voters would be well-advised to vote in as many women into parliament as possible.in 2007.
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Tanzanian Radio Asks Locals To Help "Weed Out" Foreigners

It appears that the situation in Tanzania for the economy and for Kenyans living there may be even worse than I reported here in an earlier post.

Two new developments took place this morning.

Firstly a local radio station this morning urged Tanzanians to help "weed out" foreigners by naming them to authorities.

This came on the same morning that major newspapers in Dar-es-salaam quoted the Bank of Tanzania (central bank in Tanzania) saying that the Tanzanian shilling crisis was "seasonal" and the currency would soon recover. The bank urged Tanzanians not to panic.

It is most interesting how a record fall in the currency can be described as "seasonal" but even more interesting was the Central Banking authorities' prediction that the economy would record growth despite the fall of the shilling.

The free-falling Tanzanian shilling is not the only problem that the Bank of Tanzania and the government is faced with. Foreign investor confidence is at its' lowest and the country is currently going through a power rationing regime of 12 hours a day, 5 days a week. And this is at a time when the economy is yet to recover from the effects of the drought earlier in the year, in many parts of the country. Talk about extreme optimism.
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