The big ODM-Kenya event in London this weekend that is set to include a political rally at Wembley stadium has attracted a lot of media coverage. But this coverage has totally ignored the plight of tens of thousands of Kenyans living there as illegal immigrants who are bound to be caught in a swoop aimed at netting and ejecting illegal immigrants from Great Britain.
It is truly ironic that some ODM presidential aspirants are getting problems obtaining visas to enter Britain due to their corrupt pasts. The irony is that their corrupt pasts have partly been responsible for the plight of the Kenyan illegals living in London who are now due to be deported at any time if the British government makes good their recent threats. Their actions contributed in a big way to making life unbearable in Kenya which has caused many Kenyans to seek opportunities elsewhere.
William Ruto for instance made his fortune from the notorious activities of the Youth For Kanu '92 group which flooded the country with 500 bob notes—distributed in cartons—that created inflation at unprecedented rates making many Kenyans pupers overnight and generally was the beginning of some of the very serious financial woes and hopelessness faced by many Kenyans today.
The question Kenyans need to ask themselves is; do we have any business condoning presidential candidates who are known thieves of public funds and more corrupt than the thugs the Kenyan police are currently cracking down on?
What happens if William Ruto gets elected, or his Youth for Kanu accomplice Cyrus Jirongo? Will Kenyans be proud? What message will the voters be sending out to the candidates? That as long as a candidate is rich enough, it matters little how they made their money?
In fact if truth be told none of the current presidential candidates should be standing for president as they ALL have stinking skeletons in their closets. This blog has been littered by Kenyans spreading hate against certain communities of fellow Kenyan in the guise of rooting for their favored presidential candidates. But let us face the truth squarely in the face today and analyze our front runner presidential material in great detail;
Raila Odinga: We have been accused of being stooges for Raila and this blogger has been called all sorts of names including "smelly foreskin". However the truth of the matter is that although Raila looks extremely clean standing next to other ODM-Kenya so-called luminaries, he too has his own skeletons. This blogger has evidence proving that Raila made deals with retired President Moi in 2002 when his then NDP party merged with Kanu. The deal saw Raila gain part ownership of the controversial molasses plant in return for assuring former president Moi that he would never pursue the still unsolved gruesome murder of the late Foreign minister Dr Robert Ouko. But the latest political blunder that Raila has made according to me is to accommodate every corrupt thief and former Kanu crook in ODM-Kenya. They are in fact the source of his many current problems that have caused the party that many Kenyans see as their only hope to retreat to London for a so-called bonding session. How do you bond with the devil?
Can ODM-Kenya, which is really Kanu 2001/early 2002, bring genuine change to Kenya if they form the next government? You decide.
Kalonzo Musyoka: In recent times his supporters have outdone even the notorious Mount Kenya mafia in terms of being abusive and generally using foul language on the Internet at the least excuse to defend their candidate. Recently we have been accused in this blog of Kalonzo-bashing when all we were doing was reporting the facts and the main cause for the tensions within ODM.
But despite everything, can his supporters sober up for a minute and sincerely answer a simple question. Who is the real Kalonzo Musyoka? The man who still calls Moi a statesman? The man who went round Rift Valley promising the Kalenjin that if elected president he would protect them? (It is not clear what he is supposed to protect them from). The man who used a title deed entrusted in his care by a client to sell off land secretly to a firm linked to him? Or is he the man who called a press conference to tell Kenyans that Kamba MPs DO NOT practice witchcraft and are clean? Can the man who stayed in Kanu until the very last minute, the man who hides in toilets during crucial votes in parliament, the man who disappears when there is a demonstration. Can that man bring genuine change to Kenya?
At least these two leading candidates are worth analyzing. The rest do not deserve to even be mentioned. Many of them need to first explain to Kenyans how they obtained their vast wealth.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Somali Clan Wars Now Spread Into Kenya
Last night a young Somali woman in Eastleigh nursed a nastily bruised leg after she was struck by a soda bottle by a fellow Somali who accused her clan for being responsible for the fresh turmoil currently rocking Somali.
It is these apparently small incidents that lead to deadly events and what happened in Eastleigh yesterday, should never be allowed to happen again even if it means deporting hundreds of Somali's back to their own war torn country.
The injured girl who comes from the same clan as the Somali president is just but another illegal immigrant in Kenya probably like her assailant who had no right in attacking the innocent girl. It is through such actions that animosity between the two rival clans could boil over and lead to a deadly battle with innocent Kenyans being caught in the cross fire.
This incident also raises an issue that I have often repeated here. And that is the fact that Eastleigh is nothing but a time bomb, which the authorities continue to ignore. The notorious city estate has now been christened "Mogadishu" due to the high number of Somali nationals in the area who have virtually taken over the neighborhood. Their main business activity is mainly the selling of smuggled goods from neighboring countries.
It is also in Eastleigh that one can acquire a firearm with minimum hustle and the government should move in and regain control of the situation before it is too late because Eastliegh is a tragedy waiting to happen.
The Somali problem has been with us for the past two decades ever since their government collapsed after president Siad Barre was deposed by rival clan militia in a deadly war that resulted to hundreds of thousands of Somali's fleeing to Kenya.
Most of them found refuge in Eastleigh where many of their relatives had settled while the few who were rich and influential made their way to Europe and North America, especially Canada and the Nordic countries where they quickly found ways of being granted asylum.
Among those who came to Kenya were tough criminals and gang members of the various militia's operating in Somali and many managed to smuggle small arms and other contraband through the border to sell in Nairobi for the sake of survival.
If the government was really serious about arresting the rising crime rate in the country, especially gun related violence, they should start with a major operation in Eastleigh and its environs and will be surprised at what they will find hidden under the guise of "water broof watches" and fake designer jeans which are peddled 24 hours a day as Nairobi's "Mogadishu" never goes to sleep.
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It is these apparently small incidents that lead to deadly events and what happened in Eastleigh yesterday, should never be allowed to happen again even if it means deporting hundreds of Somali's back to their own war torn country.
The injured girl who comes from the same clan as the Somali president is just but another illegal immigrant in Kenya probably like her assailant who had no right in attacking the innocent girl. It is through such actions that animosity between the two rival clans could boil over and lead to a deadly battle with innocent Kenyans being caught in the cross fire.
This incident also raises an issue that I have often repeated here. And that is the fact that Eastleigh is nothing but a time bomb, which the authorities continue to ignore. The notorious city estate has now been christened "Mogadishu" due to the high number of Somali nationals in the area who have virtually taken over the neighborhood. Their main business activity is mainly the selling of smuggled goods from neighboring countries.
It is also in Eastleigh that one can acquire a firearm with minimum hustle and the government should move in and regain control of the situation before it is too late because Eastliegh is a tragedy waiting to happen.
The Somali problem has been with us for the past two decades ever since their government collapsed after president Siad Barre was deposed by rival clan militia in a deadly war that resulted to hundreds of thousands of Somali's fleeing to Kenya.
Most of them found refuge in Eastleigh where many of their relatives had settled while the few who were rich and influential made their way to Europe and North America, especially Canada and the Nordic countries where they quickly found ways of being granted asylum.
Among those who came to Kenya were tough criminals and gang members of the various militia's operating in Somali and many managed to smuggle small arms and other contraband through the border to sell in Nairobi for the sake of survival.
If the government was really serious about arresting the rising crime rate in the country, especially gun related violence, they should start with a major operation in Eastleigh and its environs and will be surprised at what they will find hidden under the guise of "water broof watches" and fake designer jeans which are peddled 24 hours a day as Nairobi's "Mogadishu" never goes to sleep.
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