PLO Lumumba, a well-known Nairobi lawyer and a key member of the Ghai commission that was meant to have given Kenyans a new constitution by now has announced that he will seek the people's mandate to represent Kamukunji constituency in parliament.
The man will not say which party ticket he will use and neither will he confirm or deny that he is interested in the presidency. In my book he would in fact be the ideal compromise candidate for the presidency.
And right from the word "go" Mr Lumumba has clearly shown the style of politics that he is going to pursue in Kamukunji. It is instructive that he announced his candidature while on a meet-the-people tour where he was seen indulging in various activities including cutting grass with a slasher.
Of course everybody has long forgotten that Lumumba was once a big supporter of the Moi regime (and probably still is) and often came out in strong defense of the regime that for 24 years took Kenya absolutely nowhere as the government policy was only the survival of Moi and looking for ways and means he and his clan would rule Kenya forever.
The Kamukunji parliamentary seat is now set to be the most hotly contested in Nairobi. Pastor Pius Muiru, who is also a presidential candidate has already expressed interest in the seat and so has Tony "Health Ministry contracts" Gacoka. Gacoka has long positioned himself to be the ODM nominee to run for the seat. Then there is the incumbent, as hard a fighter as they come, one Norman Nyagah. Phew!!
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Monday, April 02, 2007
Hey What Are You Doing About The Spyman Guys Copying Your Content Word For Word?
Several people have written to ask me what I am going to do with the numerous emerging incidents where several publications are using this blog to mine for ideas and in some cases are plagiarizing the content word for word.
A new gutter press publication with an impressive countrywide distribution has in their latest issue copied several stories from this blog word for word without giving any credit to Kumekucha. The 12 page A3 newspaper format publication is called The Spyman. Their rather odd and in a way ironic slogan is; concentrated, concise, cordite and corrosive. It has surely proved corrosive in terms of content on this site.
Yesterday's edition of the Sunday Standard gave prominence to a topic that we have been dealing with here most of last week. (See story for yourself).
In a way this is the highest form of flattery anybody can give. It means that The Spyman editorial team or one-man-show thinks so highly of the content of this blog that they feel it is their duty to ensure that more Kenyans who are not familiar with the web or with this site can get access to the information. Of course it is illegal and all they would have needed to do to make it legal would have been to put a small blurb at the end of the articles with the words; 'courtesy kumekucha.blogspot.com.' I am getting some legal advice on the best way forward on this.
There is of course nothing illegal about what the Sunday Standard did. All they did (and have been doing for some time now) was to borrow a few ideas from this blog, which is acceptable. It would also imply that this newspaper and at least one political analyst at the Daily Nation trust the information on this site.
Nothing to brag about really and this blogger has never been a bragger. Still I was asked the question and I have answered it publicly rather than sitting down to write several emails including one that would have gone to Spyman (but now I am sure that the person responsible will see this article the next time they are here for their regular cut and paste operation—that's why I have mentioned the publication in my headline).
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A new gutter press publication with an impressive countrywide distribution has in their latest issue copied several stories from this blog word for word without giving any credit to Kumekucha. The 12 page A3 newspaper format publication is called The Spyman. Their rather odd and in a way ironic slogan is; concentrated, concise, cordite and corrosive. It has surely proved corrosive in terms of content on this site.
Yesterday's edition of the Sunday Standard gave prominence to a topic that we have been dealing with here most of last week. (See story for yourself).
In a way this is the highest form of flattery anybody can give. It means that The Spyman editorial team or one-man-show thinks so highly of the content of this blog that they feel it is their duty to ensure that more Kenyans who are not familiar with the web or with this site can get access to the information. Of course it is illegal and all they would have needed to do to make it legal would have been to put a small blurb at the end of the articles with the words; 'courtesy kumekucha.blogspot.com.' I am getting some legal advice on the best way forward on this.
There is of course nothing illegal about what the Sunday Standard did. All they did (and have been doing for some time now) was to borrow a few ideas from this blog, which is acceptable. It would also imply that this newspaper and at least one political analyst at the Daily Nation trust the information on this site.
Nothing to brag about really and this blogger has never been a bragger. Still I was asked the question and I have answered it publicly rather than sitting down to write several emails including one that would have gone to Spyman (but now I am sure that the person responsible will see this article the next time they are here for their regular cut and paste operation—that's why I have mentioned the publication in my headline).
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