In an earlier article in this site, I showed readers how President Kibaki has his 25 per cent of the vote requirement for his re-election assured in only 4 provinces and yet he needs 5. I named those 4 provinces already in the bag as Central, Nairobi, Eastern and Rift Valley. So you can imagine my reaction when I came across news two days ago of the new proposal from the government side in the ongoing constitutional review talks that 4 new provinces be formed.
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Quip for the day;
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little."
Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)
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My jaw dropped almost to the ground. Could this be a ploy to secure the elusive 5th province for the incumbent? Or knowing that this is a very sensitive issue, could it be yet another delaying tactic to ensure that the talks drag on until the elections are virtually at our doorstep and it is too late to legislate certain sensitive proposals that are deemed unfriendly to the incumbent?
Still, this new proposal raises another even more disturbing question. Is this government sensitive to the goings-on in the country and especially the extremely prickly nature of new boundaries? We have seen the trouble that the creation of new districts has caused in places like Meru where houses were even razed to the ground recently. We have also seen politicians almost coming to blows over where the district headquarters of a new district should be. What then can we expect from the creation of new provinces? And not just one or two but FOUR provinces?
And the new government proposal gets even more interesting when one sits down to analyze the four provinces most likely to yield new provinces, if the proposal goes through. They are the vast and densely populated Rift Valley, densely populated Central and Nairobi and the huge and densely populated in many areas, Eastern. The exact same provinces where the president already has his 25 per cent!
Meaning that even if the requirement for presidential candidates to be elected were increased from 5 to even 8 provinces, the incumbent will still not have any serious problems attaining the new requirement. Albeit depending on where the new boundaries are in some of the new provinces. Admittedly that is not a problem because we all know where the task of mapping out the new boundaries will fall.
This brings us to my earlier point in this site, which was not well received by many of you. And that is one of the first things we must escape from is the habit of making constitutional amendments for selfish self-serving reasons.
Before we even start looking at the boundaries, the priority for Kenya at the moment is urgently required change in leadership, style of governance and our politics. Otherwise the creation of new provinces and districts is simply creating new centers of concentration for resources to enable more "eating" by politicians and our so-called leaders.
Interestingly this latest revelation was made by assistant ministers Mwangi Kiunjuri and Danston Mungatana after a so-called tour of Magarani constituency where a by-election is due.
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Friday, April 13, 2007
Is President Kibaki’s Daughter About To Marry One Of The Artur Brothers?
It was another shocker for Kenyans when the government revealed that they would not make public the findings of the Artur brothers’ affair claiming that to do so would be a threat to the security of the state.
This was after millions of shillings in public funds were spent on an inquiry into the affairs of Artur Magaryan and Artur Sargasyan, the Armenian duo who wrecked havoc in the country by bullying all and sundry and culminated in the two drawing guns at a restricted area at the Jomo Kenyatta airport which finally resulted in their long overdue deportation.
However, maverick Langata MP Raila Odinga who exposed the Armenians in the first place says they are back in the country and are still enjoying state protection as one of them has president Kibaki's daughter (by a second wife) as a fiancé and the couple are about to get married here in Nairobi.
Winfred Wangui , the daughter of Kibaki's second wife, Mary Wambui appeared on television two days ago defending her Armenian lover to the chagrin of the government. Was this to prepare the Kenyan public for the alleged wedding?
The foreigners who arrived in the country under the guise of being foreign investors turned out to be international criminals dealing in drugs and arms as it is relaiably reported that they showed immense interest in the Sh 6 billion cocaine haul seized by the government and stored at the GSU unit headquarters.
They were also implicated in the infamous raid on the Standard newspapers newsroom where hooded policemen terrified journalists and other employees in the mid night raid that minister John Michuki later admitted the government was behind. The two foreigners were found to have been issued with police identity cards with a very high rank.
Eight government officials were suspended over the affair including the president's illegitimate daughter who was at the time a senior official in the ministry of foreign affairs and is said to have arranged for V.I.P treatment for the two when they arrived in the country.
Also implicated was a senior state house official Stanley Murage who is said to have introduced the thugs to the president as foreign investors. Murage who is in charge of policy analysis and strategy at State House happens to be very close to the president and therefore remained untouched over the fiasco.
It is obvious that the government does not want to release the report for the simple reason that it will show the world what sacks of money and the right connections can do for foreigners in Kenya.
Among those said to have been in the payroll of the gangsters are senior government officials including cabinet ministers, top police officers, state house operatives and even journalists who received Sh 10,000 bribes each on attending the famous parties they threw in their Runda residence on weekends.
These smooth talking criminals managed to infiltrate sensitive departments of the government and even used government vehicles not to mention the security accorded to them by the crack general service unit (GSU).
It was as a result of this that opposition politicians said the two were hit men brought in by government operatives to carry out assassinations on popular opposition politicians. This claim turned out to be more plausible when it was discovered that the duo had served in the military in their home country and in particularly, in crack special forces.
What Kenyans are waiting for now is the wedding of the decade between Wangui and Artur Magaryan which will confirm that the duo are not only back in the country but will have increased their influence immensely by marrying the president's daughter who has already caused enough heartache and embarrassment to the first family.
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This was after millions of shillings in public funds were spent on an inquiry into the affairs of Artur Magaryan and Artur Sargasyan, the Armenian duo who wrecked havoc in the country by bullying all and sundry and culminated in the two drawing guns at a restricted area at the Jomo Kenyatta airport which finally resulted in their long overdue deportation.
However, maverick Langata MP Raila Odinga who exposed the Armenians in the first place says they are back in the country and are still enjoying state protection as one of them has president Kibaki's daughter (by a second wife) as a fiancé and the couple are about to get married here in Nairobi.
Winfred Wangui , the daughter of Kibaki's second wife, Mary Wambui appeared on television two days ago defending her Armenian lover to the chagrin of the government. Was this to prepare the Kenyan public for the alleged wedding?
The foreigners who arrived in the country under the guise of being foreign investors turned out to be international criminals dealing in drugs and arms as it is relaiably reported that they showed immense interest in the Sh 6 billion cocaine haul seized by the government and stored at the GSU unit headquarters.
They were also implicated in the infamous raid on the Standard newspapers newsroom where hooded policemen terrified journalists and other employees in the mid night raid that minister John Michuki later admitted the government was behind. The two foreigners were found to have been issued with police identity cards with a very high rank.
Eight government officials were suspended over the affair including the president's illegitimate daughter who was at the time a senior official in the ministry of foreign affairs and is said to have arranged for V.I.P treatment for the two when they arrived in the country.
Also implicated was a senior state house official Stanley Murage who is said to have introduced the thugs to the president as foreign investors. Murage who is in charge of policy analysis and strategy at State House happens to be very close to the president and therefore remained untouched over the fiasco.
It is obvious that the government does not want to release the report for the simple reason that it will show the world what sacks of money and the right connections can do for foreigners in Kenya.
Among those said to have been in the payroll of the gangsters are senior government officials including cabinet ministers, top police officers, state house operatives and even journalists who received Sh 10,000 bribes each on attending the famous parties they threw in their Runda residence on weekends.
These smooth talking criminals managed to infiltrate sensitive departments of the government and even used government vehicles not to mention the security accorded to them by the crack general service unit (GSU).
It was as a result of this that opposition politicians said the two were hit men brought in by government operatives to carry out assassinations on popular opposition politicians. This claim turned out to be more plausible when it was discovered that the duo had served in the military in their home country and in particularly, in crack special forces.
What Kenyans are waiting for now is the wedding of the decade between Wangui and Artur Magaryan which will confirm that the duo are not only back in the country but will have increased their influence immensely by marrying the president's daughter who has already caused enough heartache and embarrassment to the first family.
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