Character is judged by how people behave, but even more importantly how they respond under attack or when under pressure.
When a person chooses to defend themselves by blaming somebody else, then it becomes very clear what kind of person that individual is.
In a public lecture at the University of Nairobi (where Moi would have been a much more engaging guest lecturer in my view), retired President Kibaki opened his mouth to hit out at a man without whom he would NEVER have survived the presidency.
My late dad had a lot of respect for Kibaki and I have to admit that I too respected the man when he was in the opposition. Well, the good news is that Mwai Kibaki's true character has come out very clearly for all to see. And I have NOT even started analyzing the Kibaki presidency and how it took the country 100 years backwards so that the man with a bald head left a much more tribally divided country than what was handed to him by President Moi.
And if you still had doubts a recent Kumekucha poll clinches it. We asked Kenyans a simple question; who was the better president, dictator Moi or polished Kibaki?
The results were;
Moi 61%
Kibaki 38%
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Today
is going to be my first full day back at work after a serious ailment
that I at first greatly underestimated. At one point I struggled back to
my computer with what I thought was just a slight temperature only to
almost pass out. That is when I realized how serious it was.
But
let's get back to some serious business shall we? Can you start by
taking off that silly JUBILEE/CORD cap so that we have a serious and
very urgent discussion as concerned Kenyans?
Let’s cut to the
chase. When you get back to your desk officially in my line of work,
the first thing you do is a state of affairs report. This is mainly to
update and bring yourself up to speed with what is really going on.
Now
what I saw a lot of in my accumulated messages the minute I sat down is
word from many of my moles on the ground reporting back the same thing.
That Kenyans are now saying the country has slid into a dictatorship.
If this is true then we are in very serious trouble. I mean the blood of
some of the people who sacrificed their lives for the very freedoms
that a dictatorship will never live with have hardly dried. I happen to
have had the privilege of knowing some of them personally.
So is it REALLY true?
Let’ look at the cold facts without emotion.
Parliament
passes a draconian media bill that would have made even Breshnev and
his generation of control freaks in the old Russian blush. In the
kitchen of the dreaded House of Representatives cooking right now is a
bill that will effectively shut down NGOs as we know them in Kenya.
Then
the same parliament ignores a court order to discuss JSC members and
recommends their investigation which is a clever way of shutting down
the judiciary and showing them who is really boss.
Now tell me
what kind of leadership would want to control the media while cutting
off the legs of civil society in one fell swoop hardly 6 months after
coming into power. A dictatorship of course. NO OTHER answer here is
correct or even comes close.
This parliament is more than a
dictatorship. It is best described as a hungry dragon that wants to eat
up anything and everything that dares to stand in its’ way. Remember the
bill to do away with governors? Then there have been several stabs at
the senate and the latest one is… you guessed it, we don’t need a senate
at all. That one will soon be a bill under discussion, you can
comfortably bet your next salary on that.
But there are some
secret switches that control this dictatorial rule that Parliament has
ushered into the country and some of those switches are in bedrooms.
Read the rest of this article in my raw notes and get the details.
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