Alfred Mutua Beats Kalonzo Musyoka In Ukambani Polls Popularity Showdown

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"Mutua is our Obama" -Machakos voter-

2013 is bound to be remembered as the year when old politics started to crumble. Nothing illustrates this more brutally than what happened in Ukambani yesterday. While the country's attention was firmly focused on the by-elections in Bungoma and Bomachoge another by-election for a county assembly seat in Machakos saw an Alfred Mutua man win an election, almost by a landslide, against a man Kalonzo Musyoka had backed and campaigned for vigorously.

What???? Isn't Mutua that Man who senator Johnson Muthama described as a political novice and most analysts including this blogger agreed??

And even more surprising is the fact that all Governor Mutua did was to tell a rally 3 weeks ago that he preferred Oliver Nzeki of Chama cha Mapinduzi to the candidate being pushed by his own Wiper political party (Francis Ngunga). The word "preferred" coming from Mutua was more than enough for Machakos voters.

Meanwhile The Wiper party and CORD coalition spend money in big rallies and campaign events for their candidate. Mutua's candidate avoided rallies and embarked on a low key campaign that among other things reminded the voters of the governor's good word on his behalf.

Clearly the voters spoke loud and clear about who is calling the shots now in  Ukambani and rather than it being their party leader it is the political "novice." WOW!!!

Amid all the controversies and old sins by the usual old suspects, the truth is that Kenyan politics is shifting dramatically from the old order. Fascinatingly while the business community has been quick to realize that the profile of the typical consumer in the country has changed so that chances of selling anything successfully without targeting the youth is now impossible, politicians in Ukambani have been a little slow in reading the writing on the wall. Most notably the Wiper party has continued to practice old vindictive petty politics.

For instance the party has been busy in recent weeks "revenging" against MPs who refused to step down for Kalonzo Musyoka to get back into parliament after CORD lost the presidential elections. This has been done by making such childish moves as frustrating the legislators and demanding that some of them resign their positions in house parliamentary committees.

In the old days such moves would excite Ukambani voters and give them plenty to gossip about (the Kamba love to gossip). Now it seems the effect is the opposite at best and in some cases may infuriate the people in Machakos.

For all intents and purposes it seems that Kalonzo Musyoka's political career is well and truly over. This has to be the beginning of the end for him. 

 

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Raila Favour Part Of URP Fury Against Uhuru

The Kalenjin community are very emotional and headstrong people and what may start out as a small disagreement can quickly blow up beyond all proportions and cause serious chaos.


And that is why tensions have risen and political temperatures in the country are recording new highs shortly after the president's visit to Rift Valley.

Retired president Moi hailed from the community and understood his people rather well. And that was the only reason why he got out of a very tight situation during the last elections he participated in for the presidency in 1997. Most Kenyans do not know it but there was such strong bitterness and opposition against Moi (most notably from the Nandi sub-tribe of the Kalenjin) that Mwai Kibaki's campaign team in the Rift Valley at one point recorded that massive votes for Kibaki could be forthcoming from the province. Things got so bad at one point that Moi was being openly booed and shouted down when he tried to campaign in certain areas of the vast vote-rich and constituency-rich province. Kibaki in sharp contrast was being wildly cheered.

Moi handlers were desperate and only won the day on voting day by telling the Kalenjins the only thing at the time that would make them see red. They told the people that Moi had resigned himself to losing to a Kikuyu who would jail him (and maybe even hang him) alongside ALL prominent Kalenjins (including the popular ones amongst the people) and the suppression of the Kalenjin even in the Rift Valley would be unbearable. That worked and the community trooped to polling stations on voting day to vote Moi albeit grudgingly. Incidentally the same strategy was attempted in 2007 with the circulation of posters depicting Kalenjin leaders lining up to be hanged by Raila (assuming he won the presidency). It did not work. One would have to be very lucky to use the same trick successfully on the crafty Kalenjins.

But back to the current woes deep within JUBILEE. What started out as a clever strategy by URP to keep Ruto relevant has suddenly and unexpectedly taken a new dangerous turn after the President's unsuccessful tour of the Rift Valley. Somebody somewhere seems to have taken some salt and rubbed it on old wounds of the folks in Rift Valley and now even former Prime Minister Raila Odinga's name has emerged with talk about a major fertilizer contract linked to a Raila company that should have gone to URP people instead.

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Who was Uhuru referring to as the cause of URP rebellion?

Businessman causing chaos but all president Uhuru can do is speak out against him
 
The president of Kenya is still a very powerful office. And so you would expect that a mere businessman who is inciting politicians within JUBILEE to rebel against President Uhuru Kenyatta would be dealt with firmly and quickly.

Instead all the president could do yesterday was angrily hit out at the said businessman at a public meeting in the Rift Valley and didn't even mention his name. Why?

Who is this person that has made the president so angry? Why is he still untouchable to the extent where nothing more can be done against him? The answer will leave you numb with shock. It seems in Kenya crime pays and it pays big time. This individual has a long track record of being very corrupt but remains untouchable. He even embezzled massive funds from a former president and nothing happened to him. Actually he is also craftier than a desert fox.

His amazing story is in my latest raw note but this is a good time to ask ourselves the million shilling question yet again, who really rules Kenya? The politicians or those who bankroll them?

Traditionally the public and even the press have been naive enough to always ignore the source of funding for our politicians. Actually that should always be the first question the issue that an investigative journalist should always interrogate first.

But even as we continue to ignore the big elephant in the room we have created monsters who straddle our political landscape quite capable of holding the president of the republic of Kenya at bay as was clearly proved yesterday in the Rift Valley. 


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Mandela: From Prisoner to President to Prince of Humanity

He came into a hostile and unforgiving world. Greater evil was visited upon him. He was incarcerated for a generation, 27 years. He lent his shoulders to carry the burden and hopes of his countrymen and humanity in general. What is more, he reigned supreme, conquered fear, inspired the world and left it a better place.

Mandela was a saint in the sense of a sinner always trying. Above all else he was an icon who will be remembered among the greatest in the 20th century.

The tributes tell it all; from present and former world leaders, musicians, clerics and sports personalities. Mandela's charm made him dance with kids, crack jokes with Hollywood stars and reprimand the world's most powerful leaders.

What Gandhi was to India and Lincoln to America, Mandela was to Suth Africa/Africa and humanity.

Fare thee well Madiba, you left us a richer world thanks to your sacrifice and selflessness.

Born July 18th 1918, he died at 95 and many will remember him as the man who beat apartheid.

It wasn't me, it was Moi: Kibaki, biggest failure Kenyan president and his hilarious blame game

 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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Who switches Kenya's new dictatorship on and off?

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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Old friend almost 50 in serious trouble

An old friend whom I am sure you also know is in very serious trouble. The biggest problem here is that most people don't even have the slightest clue that there is any problem. Actually the right place where our mutual friend should be for his own good is nothing short of ICU in a good hospital and on life support. But instead somebody is pumping him with pills and energy injections so that he looks as normal as possible.

I am of course talking about that guy who is about to celebrate his 50th birthday called Kenya.

Kenyans are busy peering through their carefully selected party lenses and if those lenses are JUBIREE then all is well, seen no evil and never will hear any.

We have a parliament that is shaping up to be worse than president Moi's dictatorial regime(maybe 10 times worse or more). In fact so far it is making Moi and all his evils look like a nun of a leader in comparison.

Any crazy idea (and especially if it is unconstitutional) will be passed by the tyranny of numbers.

But what I would like to draw your attention to is the president's decision on Friday to suspend 6 members of the Judicial Service Commission as per the recommendations of parliament. Let me remind you (because we Kenyans have very short memories) that the debate that went on in the August house to reach this recommendation was done so illegally totally ignoring a high court order. The president had an excellent opportunity to fall back on the court order and ignore the recommendations. But those who have read my book This Man, The CJ will not be surprised at all that the president jumped at the chance of suspending the 6 and therefore "killing" the operations of the JSC. The JSC needs a quorum of 9 the surviving members are only 6.

You can be pretty sure that there is a very good reason for disabling the JSC just now...

Anyway happy birthday Kenya. All indications are that you will survive this as you always have but I cringe to think what kind of "animal" you will be when you emerge out of this one.

Kumekucha Blog is up for sale

Oldest, most popular blog in Kenya up for sale

The Kumekucha blog is being sold.

The founder and owner, Chris Kumekucha, has already received an offer but thought it only fare that other interested parties should also be informed and get a chance to also make their bids.

You can send your bids to the email address umissedthis at gmail dot com with the words "I want to buy Kumekucha" in the subject area.

Why is Kumekucha selling?

Because circumstances now are such that he has to move on to other pressing challenges in his life. He feels that his small contribution so far is enough for others to take over and do even better than what he has done in the last 8 years.

Also any expert will tell you that just a little cash injection into the blog at this point in time will dramatically increase its' revenue generating ability.

2013 Presidential elections were rigged says Carter Center

Recently the Carter Center very quietly released it's explosive report on the March 2013 general elections. A bit late in the day perhaps but does the truth ever grow stale? Even 100 years later?

In publishing this info (which has been ignored by the mainstream media) here, I am well aware of the fact that most of my readers will read this through the short sighted lenses of their party affiliations. This is of course pretty foolish because nobody is sure what kind of affiliations will come together for the next general elections in 2017 and therefore chances are high that your favored candidate who you are yet to identify will suffer the same fate others suffered in March 2013 and lose those elections in mysterious circumstances. What if Alfred Mutua stood for instance?

The scathing Carter report is very specific and detailed on "grey" areas during those mysterious elections and where there were failures that do not augur well for the future of democracy and free and fair elections in Kenya. Read the FULL REPORT.

Sadly this information comes at a time when Kenyans have moved on and would rather discuss ICC issues and other hot political issues of the day.

This is even sadder when you consider the fact that rigging for the 2017 polls has already started on a very large scale. Very clever timing this because nobody is interested in general elections just now. By the time Kenyans start to get interested it will be all over and President Uhuru Kenyatta will be duly re-elected for a second term, Mupende musipende... and the Ruto after that... etc.

In my much acclaimed Intelligence reports I give details of that rigging in progress, especially in areas where JUBILEE did not do too well in the last general elections.

But what should be of even greater interest to Kenyans is how precisely the 2013 presidential elections were rigged (it was done digitally). Interestingly the issues brought up by the Carter centre election observers touch on the core insider information I gave in my book Mystery Monday: Unlocking the 2013 Kenyan presidential polls secrets.

Haven't read the book yet? View comments of those who have read the book HERE.http://kumekucha1.blogspot.com/2013/07/readers-comments-for-mystery-monday.html

UN Refuses to Close Somali Refugee Camps in Kenya

(From Voice of America)
The United Nations says it will not close Somali refugee camps in Kenya, despite an order from a government minister for the camps to shut down.
 
Kenya hosts nearly 500,000 Somalis who have fled their country over the past 20 years, most of whom live in the sprawling Dadaab camps near the border.

On Sunday, Kenyan Internal Security Minister Joseph Lenku said the camps must close and refugees must prepare to return to Somalia.

Kitty McKinsey, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency, said in an interview with VOA the agency is not taking Lenku's words as a command.

"We do not believe that there is any order for the refugee camps in Kenya to be closed," she said. "The Kenyan government and the Kenyan people have been very generous to the refugees over the years, and we certainly have every reason to expect that will continue to be the case."

Earlier this month, the agency and the governments of Kenya and Somalia signed an agreement to support Somali refugees who return home voluntarily.

McKinsey emphasized that the agreement did not call for the refugee camps to be shut down.
 
"There are no plans to close the refugee camp," she said. "Certainly the agreement that was signed among UNHCR, the govts of Kenya and Somalia does not call for the closing of the camps. There's not going to be a closure any time soon, nobody is talking about closing the camps any time soon."

A number of Somali refugees have returned home in recent months as fighting has eased in Somalia and the economy improves.
 
But many refugees remain in Kenya, where some have lived since the outbreak of Somalia's civil war in the early 1990s.

According to the U.N. refugee agency, the five Dadaab camps are home to 388,000 Somali refugees. It says another 54,000 live in the Kakuma camp in northwest Kenya, with another 32,000 living in the capital, Nairobi.

Why Uhuru's hands are tied

 
By Kumekucha reader
These are not the days of one party rule for which the old geezers now trying to surround Uhuru thrived in. There are a few things which bind Uhuruto for now:

1. ICC where they either hang together or be hanged separately

2. The new constitution - without Ruto, Uhuru is nothing unless he (Uhuru) changes the constitution.

3. Parliament - Uhuru is weaker than Ruto and therefore Uhuru will fail in any attempts to finish Ruto

4. Political Parties Act - URP and TNA are independent parties.If Uhuru advisers think they can con URP to campaign and vote for him and then runs away with the cake. He is wrong by a wide margin. Uhuru needs URP to pass government agenda in parliament.

5. The Supreme Court - Recent ruling by the SCOK indicates the direction future rulings will take and they dont seem to favor Uhuru.

6. Historical injustices do not favor Uhuru to mess again with the nation of Kenya like his father and Moi did. Kibaki tried and almost burnt the nation and we are not out of the woods yet.

7. There are county governments with their own ideas which do not favor Uhuru's central government.

8. Finally, I believe the promises Mama Ngina gave Ruto cannot be broken easily by Uhuru. He will have to keep them for the sake of his mother.

What next for ICC "fugitives to be" as cost to Kenya escalates?

What UK is saying to wamefura-kama-mandazi-ya-Burma GOK: "We are your friends lakini hio hatukuweza"


A recent opinion poll has made it clear (tyranny of numbers not withstanding) that a vast majority of Kenyans want to see their leaders behave themselves and stay within the law by attending the ICC trials and clearing their names there.

I have received tons of emails and angry comments from Kenyans across the political divide. Most seem to believe that I am being "too soft" on this ICC issue. I hereby reproduce 2 that appeared as comments in this blog in earlier posts.

 History was made at the UNSC due to the fact that It's the first time decades that a Security Council resolution has FAILED in such a spectacular way without being VETOED. Kenya will go down in history as a nation whose name was involved when the overwhelming rejection was delivered as a sweeping statement in favour of human rights and victims of political violence. It was a vote against impunity, corruption, "democratically elected" despotic regimes, and above all leaders who think that they own their little African nations.

Who "fixed" William Ruto's undying desire and request at the United Nation to the point where the resolution on their - Kenya's - ICC case was rejected?

And how much money - millions -was paid out to some individuals and influential members at the body - can't remember its name - that meets once in while in Addis Ababa?

What did the members of the organization in question expect by tabling the issue at the UN instead redirecting the same at The Hague?

Least African leaders forget the obvious historical fact that the UN will always gets its way and prevails because the very same representatives of their respective nations end up depending on the UN for everything during severe political crisis, hunger, diseases, natural calamities, and in so many other predictable - preventable - circumstances that have become so common place on the African continent due to very poor leadership, corruption, head-in-the-sand attitude, and other pre-existing political-cum-ethnic squabbles.

By the way, why was the resolution termed as 'Kenya's" when in reality it was Uhuru Kenyatta's and William Ruto's personal resolution with the support of their fair weather political friends and economic bottom feeders?

When did Kenya as a nation vote on it, besides the underhanded political games that continue to be played out within whatever is left of the country's parliament?

BUT still our leaders and the powers that be don't get it. they continue to ignore the crystal clear writing on the wall.

The British response of urging the Kenyan government to move on and look beyond the devastating Security council ruling is fascinating. Basically what they are saying is; "we are your friends lakini hio hatukuweza". They are also saying; "We will always be your friends and wish that you would NOT interprate our actions at the Security council as "unfriendly" towards you. And to prove it the Brits have launched their own initiative to get the trials on video link so that the President and Deputy president can continue ruling Kenya even as their trials proceed.

So far the GOK is still sulking or as ordinary simple Kenyans in some slum somewhere in Kenya would say bado wamfura kama mandazi ya Burma.

But what should concern all thinking Kenyans right now is the fact that for better or for worse we are joined to these two suspects (at the hip) for the duration of their trials and beyond. Whatever they do and whatever happens will affect us like hell.

NUMBING SHOCK as GOK autopsy on Mutula Kilonzo confirms "wild, far fetched" BUT accurate Kumekucha report on precisely how the late senator was murdered.

How Mutula Kilonzo Snr Was Murdered: Mutula GOK autopsy confirms shocking Kumekucha book

How and why Mutula Kilonzo Snr was assassinated

The late senator Mutula Kilonzo's murder was the most high tech assassination to ever happen on these shores. The special report I produced shortly after the death of the Makueni politician Why Was Mutula Murdered? was NOT well received by everybody. There are those who did not mince words and said that it was pure fiction. 
However yesterday the government finally released the autopsy report from the post mortem conducted on the late senator for Makueni. 6 MONTHS LATE!! It is hardly surprising (for those who have read the book) that it went round in circles (the idea being NOT to clearly state that the senator was indeed murdered). Still, hidden deep in the report was the following sentence;

the presence of ephedrine is significant and may have contributed to the death “ 

Any expert able to decipher the report will tell you that everything else on the same report is consistent with death caused by taking an overdose of ephedrine.

MY OH MY!!!!!! CRAZY IS NOT A STRONG ENOUGH WORD TO USE HERE.

Those who have read Why Was Mutula Murdered? (and you can read it right away by taking advantage of the offer that gives you access to ALL KUMEKUCHA BOOKS including the Mutula one just send an email to umissedthis at gmail dot com with "all books" in the subject area for full details in seconds) will know exactly what I am talking about here. But what is even more fascinating are the circumstances under which the Ephedrine overdose was disguised and introduced into the late senators high security home. It is just plain mind boggling and had to be the work of a highly professional assassin unlikely to be Kenyan, just as I said in the book. But the motive of the murder is linked to the ICC trials.

Amazingly, it is quite likely that the Ephedrine would have been overlooked altogether during the post mortem had it not been for a curious and annoying demand that the foreign pathologist insisted on shortly after he landed in the country (it pays to rely on experts). The Pathologist hired by the Mutula family specializes in sudden death cases.

...So it was NOT fiction after all.

To get a copy of Why Mutula was murdered email umissedthis at gmail dot com

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See also: Shocking real reason why Sonko slapped Shebesh

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Photographic evidence predicting how URP vs TNA tussle will end?

 

 Sasa mzee hi maneno ya Ruto unaona ni fanye nini?

 

I bind you spirit of Ruto and I order you to come out of my son right NOW, 

come out now and go to dry places!!!

There are Kenyans who are fond of making predictions and right now all their predictions can best be illustrated by the two photographs and captions above which feature the other highly influential advisors of the president who are almost as powerful as Deputy president Ruto is currently in terms of giving advise.

The URP controversy over ICC back-stabbing characters still in the Uhuru administration has move rather quickly and gotten pretty ugly in a matter of hours. This above everything else should point to the end being rather nigh.

So where does your prediction fall? Decide before you hear Chris Kumekucha's completely out of the park prediction which is i my current raw notes. It is really very simple. All you need to do is ask yourself who is the most powerful influence on the president right now when it comes to political decisions. When you answer that question you will be able to predict the future very accurately with zero margin of error.

My take briefly is that all this is part of a very well choreographed move that will end with certain characters out of government which was the whole objective right from the word go.

Will high political IQ Ruto survive?

By Kumekucha Readers
Is the writing in red ink already on the wall or what? How can they deny the Deputy President information? Who are they loyal to if they are not loyal to the Deputy President? It is unacceptable.

When all is said and done, will Ruto's so-called high political IQ end up saving him in the end? Or he is already late for the party?

And why should anyone be allowed to go through volumes and volumes of information, investigation reports, including any evidence connected with the political bloodbath of 2007/08 just because they happen to be very high ranking political figures in the current government?

Will Ruto find a way to get to the people - NIS insiders - he needs to get to in order to have all the information he needs in preparation for his defense at the ICC trial?

Or will he end up without a job, political career and a political party (URP) to stand by him once the ICC trial and the brewing war of attrition between URP and TNA courtesy of JUBILEE has taken its toll?

Lastly, why has the whole incident been allowed to play itself out in the public arena for all the wrong sociopolitical reasons?

These intrigues are the reasons why we want to hear submissions in the ICC. It is not possible anywhere else. Worst in Kenya.

Uhuru should allow us to hear what witnesses have to say. They can cross examine them for us to hear.

The more the suspect(Uhuru) fights appearance the worst it becomes. What is an innocent indictee fearing? Let's hear all the "evidence" and we make our own judgement.

By the way, have you noticed that Kenya is becoming a police state? Too much crime by policemen who are being gunned down by police- beneficiary will be Ruto. He is flowing against the grain.- what a clever, chap!

Any time give me Ruto and not kiguoya Uhuru

Pray Kenyans. Very hard times ahead.

Is Ruto behind URP rebellion against JUBILEE and the president?

For a long time now political analysts have been expecting a move from supporters of Deputy President holding the JUBILEE coalition ransom. It finally came yesterday but not in the way anybody would have imagined.

It was widely expected that such a move would have been linked to the appointments that the government continues to make that are nowhere near the 50/50 that is on paper. It is more like 99/1 in favour of TNA at the moment. Some say 100/0 in favour of TNA, while leaving URP out in the cold.

But when URP made their move yesterday it was totally unexpected. The party says that it is not comfortable working with people who “coached” witnesses against William Ruto during the Kibaki administration and want them urgently removed from office immediately or else...

What makes the URP move even more interesting is the fact that the individuals in question (not named in their statement but pretty obvious) are high ranking government officials in Internal security and the overall administration of the JUBILEE government that were inherited from Kibaki and are key players in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s most urgent agenda currently on the drawing boards. In short they are people the president cannot do without just now.

Political observers with a memory close to that of an elephant will remember that the fall out between Mwai Kibaki’s DP and Raila Odinga’s LDP in 2003 started in exactly the same way. MPs allied to Raila started making noise whilst Raila himself pretended that he had no idea what was going on. But shortly thereafter the gloves came off and the split was imminent.

And therefore it would seem that it is only a matter of time before Ruto himself joins his foot soldiers and starts making noise… and history will have repeated itself, right?

WRONG.

As much as CORD sympathizers are now rubbing their hands with glee and telling us that they told us so, the truth is that there are plenty of differences between the relationship of Uhuru and Ruto on one hand and that of Raila and Kibaki at the time the infamous MOU between LDP and Kibaki started falling apart in 2003. For starters Uhuruto or Uhuru and Ruto are joined at the hip in a way that Raila and Kibaki never were.

Insiders have assured this blogger that the two men tore into pieces and tossed out of the window their pre-election agreement the minute they entered State house and Ruto will never raise a finger against the appointment ratio. That would explain why the issue URP has brought up is about something totally different and indeed not about appointments. Actually it is about a seemingly petty issue in comparison; that of some poor government officials who were simply following instructions from Kibaki and his handlers to finish Ruto.

It is also true that URP cannot even sneeze without Ruto’s nod. Which would mean that Ruto is fully behind the current rebellion and threats targeted at the president.

So the big question here is; what is really going on here? The answer is rather complex but shocking and it is ALL revealed in my latest raw notes.

However Kenyans need to know that William Ruto is one of the most cunning political players the banana republic has ever produced and you underestimate him only at your own peril. It seems that the president and deputy president are working together to give the commander in chief the perfect excuse to get rid of some excess baggage that is weighing him down. That is the new Kenya politics for you. Keep your eyes very closely on this unfolding drama and be sure that there are a number of dramatic twists and turns that are in the pipeline.


See also;
The first lady Kenya never knew

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This is Alfred Mutua's deadliest enemy, forget Muthama

POOR KAOS!!

They will never go anywhere until a certain guy leaves Ukambani for good. A guy who is now governor Alfred Mutua's biggest enemy. A man who will never rest until Mutua is finished. This is the guy who has so incited Johnstone Muthama mpaka hakuweza kuvumilia success ya mkamba mwenzake.

Remember that Muthama is usually a very level headed politician. So what is this that came over him to go to court to stop the best thing that has ever happened to Machakos?

Let me introduce you to him. His name is CRAB MENTALITY

What is this crab mentality?

If you have caught crabs then you know that once you have caught at least two then you needn’t worry about them escaping. This is because they will always prevent each other from getting out first. Wikipedia puts it very well thus;

“Crab mentality, sometimes referred to as crabs in the bucket, describes a way of thinking best described by the phrase "if I can't have it, neither should you." The metaphor refers to a pot of crabs. Singly, the crabs could easily escape from the pot, but instead, they grab at each other in a useless "king of the hill" competition which prevents any from escaping and ensures their collective demise. The analogy in human behavior is that of a group that will attempt to "pull down" (negate or diminish the importance of) any member who achieves success beyond the others, out of jealousy or competitive feelings.

This term is broadly associated with short-sighted, non-constructive thinking rather than a unified, long-term, constructive mentality. It is also often used colloquially in reference to individuals or communities attempting to "escape" a so-called "underprivileged life", but kept from doing so by others attempting to ride upon their coat-tails or those who simply resent their success…”

Historically Kamba leaders have always been extremely jealous of each other and have gone to great lengths to finish each other, using all kinds of ploys and even witchcraft. Any half intelligent observer would wonder why the community has never realized that supporting each other would be much more beneficial to all.

Paul Ngei a prominent politician from Ukambani in his day was arch rivals with Mulu Mutisya another prominent politician in the area at around the same time. The differences between the two got so serious that they physically fought on several occasions. Today the rivalry between Charity Ngilu and Kalonzo Musyoka is legendary and all efforts to unite the two have come to naught. Interestingly both were in the YES camp in the referendum for the new constitution and yet clearly the two were extremely uncomfortable in each others company during the major rallies and meetings where they had to share the same platform. I am willing to bet you any amount that the two never ever shared a seat close to each other during cabinet meetings.

This inexplicable rivalry and crab mentality spreads well beyond politics into the business world. I have been in numerous situations where things have changed dramatically with another Kamba immediately they realize that I too have some Kamba blood in me.

Indeed this is one of the reasons why Machakos town (the first inland capital of the British protectorate that became Kenya and many decades older than Nairobi) has remained very much behind in development. Kambas would rather an outsider comes into the city and prospers in business rather than one of their own. Immediately somebody rises they will rush to a witchdoctor to finish them.

Where did this evil crab guy come from? The house of Mumbi always support each other, see how far they have gone. Luos will travel many miles to support a fellow Luo's business. But the poverty stricken crab mentality Kambas are busy shooting down governor Mutua when he is being celebrated countrywide and worldwide. Their small crab brains are telling them; "I have been around for so long where did this young man with big ideas come from? I cannot allow him to succeed just like that."

And as usual you can be sure witchdoctors have been visited and instructed to "finish" or at the very least "slow down" Mutua.

This is very sad and something that the Kamba community needs to find a way of facing and eradicating if they are to benefit from the good work governor Mutua is trying to do in that cursed forsaken crab county.

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The first lady Kenya never knew

Jubilee Coalition Drafts Clergymen in Diabolic Bungoma Propaganda Campaign

The first lady Kenya never knew

She has to be one of the most fascinating characters in Kenyan politics and yet Kenyans know virtually nothing about her. Lena Moi is the only woman to have ever called former President Daniel arap Moi "my husband." The two got married in 1950 (7 years before Moi entered active politics). She is pictured here with her husband in an extremely rare photograph taken in the early 70s by the Vice Presidential press unit at Tree Tops in Nyeri. The couple were on some kind of bonding retreat away from all the rough and tumble of Kenyan politics.

During the Kenyatta administration Lena was sometimes seen at big public occasions at her husbands' side. That was until an incident at the 1974 New year's state ball at State House Nakuru. At that function all hell broke loose and Lena was right in the middle of it. Details cannot be given here because of the sensitivity of what went down but can be found in my book Dark Secrets of the Kenyan Presidency and also in back issues of my raw notes. However in brief Lena confronted a certain woman who was dancing with her husband and even efforts by President Jomo Kenyatta to diffuse the situation by asking Lena to dance with him (it is not every day that the President of the Republic of Kenya asks for a dance) did not work.

It was shortly after this that Lena "disappeared" and was to spend the rest of her life well away from public limelight. The official word that came out years later was that the two were divorced in 1974, the very year the said Nakuru incident happened. The former president however supported her upkeep until her death.

Born Helena Bommett in 1930, the first lady who never was is said to have been a typical Kalenjin woman. Simple, down to earth and very religious. She also had such a serious temper which in modern times would have made her the ideal candidate for anger management counseling. Analysts believe that it was this part of her character more than anything else that put a huge strain on her marriage. After all political wives will tell you that it is not easy and one needs to be very cool and wise to keep the family together more so in Kenyan politics.

Anger aside Lena was a very generous kind-hearted woman whose concern for others often went to extremes. At the time of her death she is said to have had a mind boggling list of benefactors who totally relied and depended on her.

Lena passed on 22nd July 2004 at the Mercy Hospital Eldama Ravine after an undisclosed illness. By then her husband had left the presidency. It is ironic that in death Lena helped her husband's political cause considerably more than she ever did when she was alive. At the time of her death relationships between Moi and Kibaki were strained with the former president even telling the press that he was being followed around by NSIS agents and pleading to be left alone to enjoy his retirement. Kibaki and Moi's meeting at the funeral broke the ice and marked the beginning of a new tight relationship between the two men that culminated in Moi's strong support for Kibaki's re-election in 2007.

At the funeral Moi recalled the last moments with Lena, saying they had had a very good family conversation with the deceased and two of their daughters earlier on the fateful day before she passed on.

The Kumekucha post everybody is talking about: Wetangula propaganda wars


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Jubilee Coalition Drafts Clergymen in Diabolic Bungoma Propaganda Campaign

With a month to go for the Bungoma Senatorial by - election (scheduled for Dec. 19th), Jubilee administration, continues with their unorthodox means to discredit & mudslinging CORD Co-principal Moses Wetangula ahead of the campaigns.

Jubilee busybodies Eugene Wamalwa and Musikari Kombo with the help of their ever drunk comrade Musalia Mudavadi have been burning the mid night oil to find a way of pinning down Mr. Wetangula whose popularity has risen to the shock of his adversaries.

It is worth noting that immediately after the High Court ruling that nullified Sen Wetangula's election, Kombo had to be escorted by two lorry loads of police officers to his Webuye residence. This was because the Bungoma residents were mad with him for being used to fight their popular leader even after they conceded defeat after Wetangula handed them a resounding defeat in the March 4 general election. Kombo conceded defeat and said that he was going to take care of his grandchildren and do farming.

Kombo who is known for being so mean to the extend of even not being able to buy anyone a banana has suddenly become monied and quite liquid, splashing thousands of shillings to wananchi with the aim of wooing them to his dead side.

Desperate is the man that he has now resorted to using a Webuye based pastor to advance his hate for the people's choice (Sen . Wetangula).

Pastor Nehemiah Mukubwa is Kombo's 'kanda ya moko'. He was his witness in the petition case that led to the nullification of Wetangula's election as Senator.

Pastor Mukubwa has been calling other men of the color in Bungoma threatening them and even promisingto give them money if they agree to write statements claiming that Sen. Wetangula gave them money during campaigns.

A pastor from Bungoma who is a victim of Pstr. Mukubwa's intimidations confided to us that he received a call from Mukubwa who told him to travel to Nairobi to write a statement against Wetangula and will be paid well.

Until recently, Pst. Mukubwa was a pauper in Webuye but his fortunes have changed and is now one of those who can be counted to have some coins, thanks to Kombo and Wamalwa.

Pst. Mukubwa told the Bungoma pastor that he should be on the right side of politics. "Wewe kuja Nairobi uanfike statement tumalize huyu jamaa". He went on to brag how he is well taken care of by his funders, "unaona sasa mimi naishi hapa Hilton hotel mahali singeweza kuishi maishani mwangu. Huwezi kupigana na serikali bwana" he went on.

The pastor is being housed at the luxurious Hilton hotel and is Kombo and Eugene's pointman. However, despite the antics by his antagonists, Wetangula is the people's choice and the most popular politician in Bungoma today.

The desperation by the Jubilee administration and their spanner boys in the more increasing CORD region of Western was aggravated by last week's appointment of UDF Senator Bonny Khalwale to the Finance committee of the Senate. Khalwale has declared his support for Sen. Wetangula and ensure that he reclaims his seat. The other UDF Senator from the region who is supporting Wetangula is Vihiga's George Munyasa Khaniri.

CORD plans to mount a campaign billed the 'mother of all campaigns' in Bungoma to ensure that Wetangula gets back his seat to serve his people as he had began to.

Sneaked in maliza kabisa law, media law is nothing

 

Just yesterday a friend whom I have always known as a voracious reader so much so that I have always aspired to be like her when I grow up made a confession that hit me pretty hard.

She said that Twitter has effectively killed her reading habit.

It immediately hit me that she is not alone. Short attention spans, impatience when reading or viewing anything is old news to the media because it is something that they are grappling with every day to remain successful and reach the numbers they need to reach to make their business models work. The media will get even more boring with the passing of the new media bill.



And so it is hardly surprising that hardly anybody (apart from those affected which is a tiny fraction of Kenyans) is paying attention to the Miscellaneous Amendment Bill 2013. The title alone is really, really boring. But trust me, this new proposed law (which has been carefully camouflaged by the new media bill) is a killer. Forget the media bill as draconian as it is, this one is the mother of all maliza kabisa bills.

Kindly brace yourself and ignore the pain in your brain as you shift to thinking mode for just 2 minutes.

The Miscellaneous Amendment Bill 2013, published on October 30, seeks to cap the amount of foreign funds NGOs can get to a mere 15 per cent of their entire budget. A vast majority of these important organizations are 100% donor funded. In the new Bill NGOs will only get more than the 15 per cent of their budget from foreign countries if they demonstrate extraordinary circumstance why they require the funds. And that is not all. Even then, the extra funds will have to be channeled through a federation.

Kenya as a country today would NOT be where it is without our vibrant civil society. In case you did not know it, those are the guys who wrote most of the constitution and pushed for crucial changes to the way we are governed.

A significant amount of donor funds in the country comes in through NGOs and so you can be sure that if this becomes law it will affect the economy and make life even more difficult for Kenyans who are already struggling.

So somebody wants to shut down both the media and civil society in quick succession?

But why?

What evil would they have planned for the long suffering Kenyan people many of whom are now busy on twitter and Facebook in an effort to make life just a little more bearable?

Thank you if you if you read this far and do your country a favour and raise the alarm on your twitter or Facebook account. And do tell them to remind the last people who will be leaving Kenya to remember to switch off the lights.

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Ngilu troubles and her controversial "skirt and Raila" photograph

All hell broke loose when The Star published this photograph showing Charity Ngilu's legs with CORD leader Raila Odinga in the background. Ngilu is said to have thrown away the newspaper in disgust when she saw it and later complained to the owner of The Star newspaper. Details in the post below.

All indications are that Charity Ngilu may soon be out in the streets without a cabinet portfolio and with bleak chances of ever making her way back into politics.

Still there is a much bigger story behind Ngilu’s woes which I will talk about in a minute.

The Lands cabinet secretary is not new to controversy. Just a few months ago a mere photograph in The Star newspaper (reproduced here) caused more than just ripples. An article from The Star reproduced here gives details;

“The photograph was one of two accompanying a story about Ngilu’s surprise appearance at the unveiling of a political coalition spearheaded by Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

It was an extreme close-up of Ngilu’s legs, shot from in front of the table on which Ngilu was standing. Raila is shown looking up at her from a seat to the right.

Noting that the Star, on the whole, has done a good job of publishing articles about women, Amwik said that coverage like the Ngilu photo “trivializes and ghettoizes women in politics”.

Martin Masai, a spokesman for Ngilu, said she preferred not to comment. But he said that on the morning that the photo ran she pushed the paper away in disgust.

“When Ngilu was on that table she spoke about the five issues in her campaign,” Masai said. But instead of hearing about those, the public was offered a message of a woman “between whose legs the PM is portrayed.” (Raila was actually shown to one side of her legs.) Masai asked, “What is the message?”

Ngilu did complain personally to Patrick Quarcoo, the CEO of Radio Africa Group, the Star’s parent company. According to Quarcoo, Ngilu demanded an apology but he told her only, “If you’re offended I’m sorry about it,” and that he would let the Star editors know of her concern.

For his own part, Quarcoo said, he can see why Ngilu was unhappy, because the picture could be interpreted on first glance as showing Raila “looking up her skirt”. (Which was my first thought, too.)

Jack Owuor, who took the picture, says nothing could be further from what he intended. “It had nothing to do with her being a sex object,” he said.

Rather, said Owuor, a talented photographer who is always on the lookout for a creative shot, the photo captured Raila looking pained at Ngilu’s performance. “She seemed to be forcing herself” on the coalition, he said, choosing to stand on the table in front of Raila to address the crowd. He insisted, “If Kalonzo had been up on the table and Raila was looking at him [in the same way] that would have been another perfect picture.”

And what about the contention that the picture suggests Raila is looking up her skirt? “What people are talking about is what is in their minds,” Owuor said. “People read a lot out of nothing.”

Editor Catherine Gicheru said she had no problem with the photo. “I was looking at Raila Odinga’s face,” she said. “It was supposed to be a celebratory occasion, but he looks in pain.” She added, “If you’re a woman politician you can look at anything and say it’s objectifying you. But I don’t think this was such an occasion.”

- See more the full Star story HERE.

This is just a tip of the iceberg when it comes to controversies linked to Ngilu. In my raw notes today I carry an unprintable saga in 2005 that gave the lands cabinet secretary quite a reputation.

But back to the issue at hand. Kenyans need to ask themselves a few very important questions;

Was Ngilu acting alone in the appointments she made? Who gained the most from what Ngilu did that was contrary to the constitution and why are they NOT being mentioned anywhere? Could this whole circus be a clever spin and effort to control the dialogue away from another bigger story behind the hurried signing of title deeds at the Coast?

We know for instance that the man Ngilu appointed “illegally” Peter Kangethe Kahuho used to be the former Coast Province lands officer during the Moi days and was extremely powerful, so much so that a court was recently told that he directed then Lands commissioner Wilson Gachanja (his boss), to issue letters of allotment in respect of land belonging to Kenya Airports Authority in Changamwe, Mombasa (where the airport is). Join the dots will you?

See also; What was Raila's role in the 2007/2008 post election violence?