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What is the difference between Narc and Narc-Kenya? Would an ordinary Kenyan deep in the rural areas who has hardly seen the inside of a classroom understand that difference? Why is it that ODM-Kenya leading lights have insisted so much on the party symbol being an orange, going even to the extent of demonstrating outside the Electoral Commission of Kenya offices when it looked like they would be denied? Is this with a view of continuing with the same lies of the November 2005 Referendum?
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Also published today;
Bura skirmishes prove that clashes are government sponsored
VP Awori's strange letters to a magistrate.
Michuki finally visits Mt Elgon, but only after first Lady Lucy Kibaki
Quick quip:
We do not want a Kenya where there are 10 millionaires and 10 million beggars.
JM Kariuki. He did not live to see this happen although he lost his life because of this quote. This describes Kenya pretty well today although you'll have to replace the word 'millionaire' with the word 'bilionaire'.
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But even before taking a look at this most recent examples of political cons designed to take advantage of the masses of Kenyans deep in rural areas and with limited education and exposure, let us look at some of the famous tricks used in the past.
Did you know that there was a time when former President Moi supporters got thousands of people to vote Moi by telling illiterate voters who were being assisted to vote that by putting the "X" next to his name meant that you were casting a vote to reject that candidate. Believe it or not many voters already embarrassed and feeling rather exposed, quickly followed the advice without thinking too much about it and ended up casting a vote in favor of Moi.
You can be sure that voters in the mounting number of clash-hit areas in the region will be told many interesting lies to force their vote in a certain desired direction.
Concerning ODM-Kenya here are a few lies that the village folk may hear;
Vote orange like in the referendum otherwise the same flawed constitution which we told you would take many things from you including your land will be passed. By Voting the other side you will be bringing it back and passing it. Voting orange is the only safe thing to do. (During the November 1995, rural folk were told a lot of lies about the proposed new constitution by Orange campaigners. The chief culprit here was one Raila Odinga. This is one of the reasons why Martha Karua lost her head and called Raila uncircumcised.)
In favor of Narc Kenya;
This is the same party that removed Moi from power. If you vote for that Luo who defected from our Narc party, Kenya will be returned to tyranny. (The truth is that the current Narc-Kenya bears no resemblance whatsoever to the original National Rainbow Coalition that swept President Kibaki into power).
If you vote for ODM, the way you have seen so many free oranges today, the same will continue countrywide after the elections (very few Kenyans are privileged enough to enjoy the luxury of an orange as was proved during the referendum when many hungry Kenyans couldn't bear just looking at the oranges and bananas being used as symbols for the referendum and many scrambled and caused stampedes for the fruits in many parts of the country.)
Quick business tip: Orange traders should start preparing their stock of oranges because I predict a huge demand for them towards the end of the year and serious shortages countrywide.
If you vote ODM free primary school education will end because Narc will leave with it. (This may be used to counter one of the most visible Kibaki government achievements of free primary school education, at least in most rural areas countrywide).
Mercifully (because I do not want to end this post on a negative note) there are many cons that no longer work. One notorious one in the Moi days was the interference with ballot boxes between the polling stations and the constituency counting halls. Either identical ballot boxes prepared in advance were used or boxes that were known to come from an opponents stronghold disappeared altogether never to be seen again. The practice of counting votes at each polling station is the best thing that ever happened to the election process in Kenya (although ballot boxes still disappear, I have no idea how.)
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Sure, we have along way except our so-called leaders are far still far behind average Kenyan. The present pack of politicians were all weaned on these cheap and shameful tricks which they seem adept at repleicating at any given opportunity.
ReplyDeleteA case in point is governance by commissiona dn crises. Taking advantage of our tendency to forget things fast and move on, the present regime has cut-an-pasted the the Nyayo error. All we claim to be progress is nothing outside tokenism resulting from motions with any movement.
Look at the homeboys aka nepotism ala tribalistic appointments shamelessly justified with 'qualifications' as if other Kenyan communities don't have professors and lawyers among their number. Sympathizers to these pretenders can tell that to the birds so that they fly high in the sky.
But that said Kenyans in general are not without blemish either. Instead of demanding fishing skills all they queue for is fish. We are lazy and thinkshort-term which our poltical 'elite' take advantage of at our collective peril.
We are latently planting a very dangers virus of deception masked as philanthropy. Look at the top civil servants amassing wealth corruptly while pushing for their kins so as to use them as bargaining chip during their campaigns after retirement. The net effect is we are the big loosers.
The country is defrauded by purchasing substandard goords and services or even none at all with full payment besides populating higher echelons with cronies with loyalty elsewhere and qualifications not worth the paper they are written on. Fire these chaps and their first line of defense is their tribe shouting from the rooftops 'we are being finished'.
We seem to have unwittingly entrapped ourselves in a vicious cycle of incompetence and all we do is to whine, whine and whine some more. Lets put this sad episode in our lives to an end using our votes objectively this December in the interest of our motherland.
Chris,
ReplyDeleteYou are so right when you mentioned the issue of polling stations and vote counting. Personally, I've come to beleive that the ECK rule (introduced in 1999) which ensured that votes were counted "papo hapo" at polling stations without being transported to a central point was a historical milestone.
I can confidently assert that it probably contributed 50% in kicking out the Moi kleptocratic regime in the 2002 polls. Why, because votes used to be famously stolen during transportation, with lots of extra boxes being introduced to rig KANU's 1992 and 97 victories.
If Moi had realised the far reaching implications inserted in that ECK bill by that "small" requirement, he would never have signed it into law. But thank God, divine intervention blinded him into appending his signature.
One day, patriotic Kenyans should seek out the guy who "sneaked" in that clause and reward him with the Elder of the Golden Heart medal!
I salute him/her.