Unmasking Raila’s Questionable Reform Credentials

PM Raila with Footballers Anelka and Drogba in China

By Guest writer

As the campaign to succeed President Kibaki after March 2013 General Elections heats up, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has been projecting himself as the champion for political and constitutional reforms in Kenya hoping to get a head-start in the State House race.  

There is no doubt Raila played a key role in fight for the democratic gains we enjoy today. However, he cunningly projects himself as the sole fighter for the Second Republic while this is not correct. Raila was just one among gallant heroes and heroines who stood against the autocratic rule of former President Moi.

Other Kenyans who played a key role in the struggle include the late Jaramogi Odinga, Martin Shikuku, late George Anyona, Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, late Bishop Alexander Muge, Prof Wangari Maathai, late Kijana Wamalwa, Charity Ngilu, Paul Muite, lawyer Japheth Shamala, journalist Pius Nyamora, Gitobu Imanyara, Rev Timothy Njoya, Ahmed Bamahariz, George Nthenge, Masinde Muliro and Phillip Gachoka. And there are many unsung heroes and heroines who died, were maimed or unrecognised in the fight for a more democratic Kenya.

When Raila got a chance to prove his reform credentials and demonstrate to Kenyans he stood for real change and departure from ills that KANU stood for in 2008, he squandered it. One is judged by his actions and the company he keeps. After the 2007 disputed presidential polls, Raila and Mr Kibaki formed a coalition Government in April 2008 and each had a free-hand to pick half of the Cabinet.

While Mr Kibaki has never been known to be a reformer and he has never championed himself as one, there’s no doubt that he and Raila went to bed with KANU orphans who stinks of Kenya’s dark past. While Kibaki has nothing to loose in 2013, Raila threw out of the window the principles he fought for and held dearly in his heart and the devils as long as they brought him votes.

Now that Raila has introduced the reform card as the benchmark to judge all 2013 presidential candidates, he must also agree to be judged by the same parameters.

The following is the who’s who in ODM of the Cabinet Raila unveiled in the coalition Government: 

1: Mr Raila Amollo Odinga {Prime Minister}

Ø  Implicated in aborted 1992 military coup that led to loss of life and destruction of life and property of innocent Kenyans.

Ø  He was allocated Kisumu Molasses Plant and the land it sits on by former President Moi as a reward for ditching the Opposition, dissolving his NDP party and rejoining KANU in 2001. 

Ø  After disputing 2007 presidential poll results, he ordered his ODM troops into mass action that gave birth to post election violence. More than 1,500 innocent Kenyans were killed, thousands displaced from their homes and property destroyed. Mass action is legal as long as protestors remain peaceful. Raila never denounced the violence that erupted after his mass action call and hailed the hooligans who burnt Kenya as “freedom fighters”. 

Ø  His tenure as PM has been dogged by maize, NSSF, NHIF and Kazi Kwa Vijana scandals.

Ø  Accused of engaging in nepotism and tribalism in pushing for appointment of close relatives and tribesmen into key diplomatic, ODM party and Government positions. His defence that those appointed are qualified for the jobs is a fallacy because President Kibaki used same excuse to fill key posts in his Government with cronies from Mt Kenya. Why were Raila and his ODM lieutenants so vocal against Mt Kenya appointments if they see nothing wrong with sleaze in their backyard?

2: Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi {Deputy Prime Minister, former Ministry of Local Government and former ODM Party Leader}

Ø  He stopped Goldenberg scandal payments when Moi appointed him Finance Minister but he didn’t volunteer to help the Bosire Commission unmask the big boys behind the looting of public coffers.

Ø  During his tenure at Local Government ministry, his ministry was rocked by an embarrassing cemetery scandal.

3: Mr William Ole Ntimama {Minister for State for National Heritage and Culture}

Ø  A heartless Moi and KANU orphan who jumped to Raila’s side to survive politically and cover up his dark past. 

Ø  The Akiwumi Commission implicated him in ethnic cleansing when he incited his Maasai community against Kikuyus, Kalenjins and Kisiis during the clamour for multipartism and in desperate bid to keep KANU and himself in power. 

Ø  This warlord has been in the frontline articulating Raila’s reform credentials.

4: Mr Dalmas Anyango Otieno {Minster for State for Public Service}

Ø  Moi and KANU orphan who supported the autocratic regime even after it was dislodged from power in 2002. He jumped into ODM in 2005 to ride on the ethnic wave in Luo Nyanza.

5: Mr Fredrick Omulo Gumo {Minister for Regional Development Authorities and now acting Minister for Local Government}

Ø  Moi and KANU orphan who jumped to ODM side after KANU lost power. 

Ø  He led the infamous Jeshi la Mzee militia which unleashed terror on those who opposed KANU and Moi during the clamour for political and constitutional reforms. 

Ø  When he was the Chairman of Nairobi City Council (NCC), he unleashed bulldozers on Muoroto slum dwellers in the dead of the night, flattening their shanties as they slept leaving dozens crushed to death.

Ø  As chairman of NCC, he engaged in massive grabbing of public land, source of his current wealth.

Ø  He admitted selling a grabbed plot to Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) for Sh300 million.

6: Mr William Samoei Ruto {Former Minister for Agriculture and ODM Party Leader}

Ø  As a founder for Youth for Kanu 92 (YK92), he and Cyrus Jirongo used funds looted from CBK and printed money to bribe voters to popularise the ruthless KANU and Moi and defeat advocates of multipartism. They contributed to Kenya’s current economic and inflation woes.

Ø  He and Jirongo owe their riches to their dark days at YK92.

Ø  Waki Commission and Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) implicated Ruto in PEV and he has been charged with crimes against humanity at ICC.

 

7: Late Mr Kipkalya Kones {former Minister for Roads}

Ø  Like Ntimama, he was a warlord during KANU dark days.

Ø  Waki and KNCHR implicated in 2007/08 PEV.

8: Mr Henry Kiprono Kosgey {Suspended Minister for Industrialization}

Ø  Moi and KANU orphan 

Ø  As Minister for Culture and Social Services in 1988, Kenya lost million of shillings in an advertising deal for the All Africa Games, which he was tasked to organise.

Ø  Between 1990 and 1992, he served as Chairman, Kenya National Assurance Company. In 1996, KNAC collapsed due to a huge amount of debt. Critics accused Kosgey of having mismanaged the company. 

Ø  As ODM’s Minister for Industrialization, he was forced to step aside in January 2011 to face charges of abuse of office relating to the importation of vehicles older than 8 years. However, the High Court controversially cleared Kosgey of any wrong doing.

Ø  Implicated in PEV and charged at ICC but cleared of the charges because the prosecution hinged his case on one witness.

9:  Prof Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o {Minister for Medical Services}

Ø  Although he fought for reforms like Raila, his tenure as minister for health proves his reform credentials are mere theoretical because the health sector is still badly mismanaged and ailing.

Ø  He’s at the centre of the unresolved NHIF medical scheme scandal where millions of civil servants cash was allocated to unregistered and non-existent clinics.

10: Mr Aggrey James Orengo {Minister for Lands}

Ø  Like Raila, he fought for reforms during Moi era but he has been unable to initiate any meaningful land reforms in his ministry, which is still a den of corrupt cartels.

11: Mr Gerald Otieno Kajwang {Minister for State for Immigration and Registration of Persons}

Ø  He was struck off LSK rolls of advocates after being accused of stealing client’s money.

12: Mrs Charity Kaluki Ngilu {Minister for Water and Irrigation}

Ø  Like Raila, she has been implicated in scandals and nepotism at her ministry.

13: Mr Joseph Nyagah {Minister for Cooperatives Development}

Ø  A Moi and KANU orphan who has no known reform credentials.

14: Mr Chris Obure (ODM) {Minister for Public Works}

Ø  A Moi and KANU orphan who has no known reform credentials.

15: Franklin Bett (replaced Mr Kones as Minister of Roads}

Ø  Served as Mr Moi’s State House Comptroller during 1992 and 1997 state-sponsored tribal clashes in Rift Valley to drive out non-Kalenjins perceived to be Opposition sympathisers.

16: Dr Mohammed Isahakia {Permanent Secretary, Office of Prime Minister}

Ø  Has been implicated in corrupt deals during the Moi regime and at Raila’s office.

Ø  In 2004, he was charged by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission with corruption at the National Museums of Kenya. He repaid the stolen money in exchange for prosecution immunity.

Ø  He was at the centre of the maize scandal at the PM’s office.

After the 1997 General Elections, Raila surprised many when his NDP party started co-operating with Moi and his KANU, leading to Raila rejoining KANU and being appointed Secretary General. Raila only led a revolt in KANU and decamped after Moi overlooked him for political novice Uhuru Kenyatta and his “Kibaki Tosha” was not driven by his love for Kibaki but to front a Kikuyu against another Kikuyu and block the Moi Project from State House. Raila was recently trying to woo Moi to back his 2013 presidential bid. If Moi and KANU stood for evil, why would Raila wish to get the endorsement of the retired president?

While Raila boasts of being a true reformer, which I doubt he is, no one forced him to appoint and work with the above tainted Nyayo orphans. This is a clear demonstration that given a chance to be Kenya’s 4^th president, he’ll appoint equally or worse rotten public officers. If Raila appointed clean ministers in 2008 and matched his words and deeds at the PM’s office, I have doubt he would have made Kenya’s best president. But in 2013, he’ll have a rough time proving to Kenyans how different he is from the rest.  

Raila is no better than his sworn political rivals Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka (a Nyayo orphan who has nothing to show for his many years in Cabinet), Uhuru Kenyatta (a KANU and Moi orphan and another ICC suspect), William Ruto, Moses Wetengula (he of the infamous Tokyo embassy scandal), Cyrus Jirongo and Musalia Mudavadi. If Kenyans want a clean break from Kenya’s dark and evil past, they must look for the Joshua to take them to the Promised Land in Cannan beyond the above fake reformers and pretenders to the throne. 

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Getting Intimate With The Dead Is More Common Than You Think

Just when you think that your troublesome neighbor cannot possibly shock you more than they already have, they will tend to spring up a shocker that will leave you numb. By extension the human race is so full of surprises that the best policy for those with weak hearts is to decide that nothing will shock them anymore (not an easy thing to do).

In my rather eventful life I have seen and heard plenty but this latest bizarre piece of news just floored me.

Apparently the brand new Egyptian parliament has drafted and is preparing to pass a law known as the farewell intercourse law where husbands will be allowed to have sexual intercourse with their dead wives one last time up to 6 hours after their death. This is part of the reforms that are top on the list and also includes another bill lowering the minimum age for marriage for girls to 14. Yes 14, that is NOT a typo. Luckily there is a group of women in that country who are fighting the controversial laws. See details here.

However analysts are confident that the farewell sex law will sail through the Egyptian parliament with ease.

Surprisingly sex with corpses is way too common even in Kenya. My man on the ground in Eastern says that about a decade ago male attendants at the Machakos District hospital morgue having sex with female corpses was so common that some people had reached the point of accepting it as normal.

A handful of tribes in Kenya including a big one that has a famous presidential candidate for 2013 are known to have a custom where people sleep with deceased women as part of the “cleansing” ceremony before burial.

But the shocker of them all was the case of one Felicity Marmaduke who straddled a dead man in the morgue where she was working and claims that the man actually ejaculated and she ended up pregnantfrom the encounter. The incident allegedly took place earlier this year the US.

Having sex with dead women has been going on for centuries but the question is, is it possible to have sex with a dead man? Apparently it is depending on the way the man died. Death by hanging or a bullet in the brain is said to quite often leave the deceased with an erection. Or if they are in an upright position and remain like that after death. If a man can have an erection when they are dead then ejaculation is also possible. See here and also this detailed article.

Many of my dear readers will find the information in this post shocking and a tad sickening but to warriors of old it is stale news because it was common practice to display the corpse of a dead enemy complete with his organ fully erect, especially after raping their wives and daughters.

It really is a much sicker world than you thought is it not?

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