It is reasonable to assume that this PR and poll madness invaded government through Communications minister Mutahi Kagwe who owns a local PR consultancy called Tell Em PR. This PR outfit was his bread and butter business for many years after the collapse of his media house in the late 90s.
Today things are so bad that politicians now channel their lies through a government spokesman. Alfred Mutua is also a PR practitioner and in fact lectured on that very subject at a university in Dubai before the government headhunted him for the job. At least Moi told his own fibs and at roadsides to boot.
The result is that even as the country is literally on fire with clashes all over the place and even as the price of basic foods have risen so much that ordinary folks cannot handle life anymore, our post office boxes are getting polluted with pamphlets claiming to tell us what we do not know. Ukweli wa mambo, we are told. We see the same Ukweli wa Mambo on TV and in our newspapers.
The real Ukweli wa mambo is that Kenyans need change badly and we need a total change of direction from the current government of grandpas taking us absolutely nowhere. President Kibaki is now close to 80, the VP is going to 81, by the time they finish their next term, if we elect them again, they will be 85 and 86 respectively. There is no way you can spin that to 58 and 56. Or can you?
But wait, here is a great idea. Why don't we get another poll to ask Kenyans whether they think the president and his deputy look old. I'll even save you the time. 65 percent say the VP looks younger than the president although in actual factor he is one year older than President Kibaki (maybe because of his preferred hair style these days) and 90 per cent say that the president is young and energetic enough to lead for another 5 years.
I can already hear the protests. What road accident? What stroke are you talking about? In what poll was that covered? Are you the president's doctor to know that he is ailing? What do you mean that an 80 year old who has had several strokes can't be fit for office? You must be a Raila supporter. What do you mean that Moi is in better health, are you saying that the Moi error should happen again?
That my friends, is Kenyan politics for you but I trust that you know which paragraphs and sentences in this story carry the real Ukweli wa Mambo.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Michuki Standard Raid Happens All Over Again As Artur Brothers Mystery Deepens
After yesterday's story in the Standard newspaper which we linked to in our edition here yesterday, senior editors at the newspaper were picked up by the CID and were in police custody late into the night yesterday. They were released after 10 long hours of police interrogation and only after pressure from the likes of former legislator Martin Shikuku and Raila Odinga keeping vigil outside the CID headquarters, Nairobi where the interrogation was taking place.
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Also published in Kumekucha daily today
Who would want Gideon Moi dead and why?
Who is the hidden hand exposing all this about the Artur's?
Goodbye Tanzania
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Actually this police harassment and detention of senior editors was the Standard being raided all over again.
Interestingly Internal security Minister John Michuki uncharacteristicingly read out a lengthy statement (he usually prefers to make his comments off the cuff with his long stares at the press in silence as he pauses for effect) castigating the report in the Standard and labeling it absurd.
What caused trouble for the editors at the oldest newspaper in the region was the publishing of allegations that were already in the public domain, to the effect that the Artur brothers were hired to kidnap and assassinate certain leading opposition politicians. But there was an earth-shattering new twist added to this information in the Standard story yesterday. And that was the fact that right at the top of the hit list was one Gideon Moi.
This is one of those revelations that common sense tells you is to bizarre to be fiction and it is the reason why John "rattle a snake will be bitten" Michuki couldn't take it any more. But the minister does not see one thing, arresting and harassing journalists is the wrong move to make. Very wrong move, as will become clear shortly. He is actually playing right into the hands of those behind the Standard story. (more on that later).
But what really had political analysts scrambling for an explanation last night and this morning were the rumours on the ground that these developments were linked to the forthcoming general elections.
That fact seems to have been confirmed by something that this blogger found very illuminating. Gideon Moi himself backed the Standard story and admitted that people within the country's security forces had warned him at the time, when the so-called brothers were still in the country, that the Arturs were assassins and that they were targeting him. Personally I am not aware of any MP with the kind of security that Gideon Moi has (maybe apart from Nicholas Biwott).
The fact that this bombshell came only a day after the same newspaper reported that Margayan had said that he would put details of the Standard raid in the book he claims he is working on is very telling. And the day before that, the same newspaper had published photographs of Wangui Mwai with her hands all over Margayan at a holiday destination the paper said was Sri Lanka. You got it right; it all looks like a carefully orchestrated plan. But what is the objective?
Today Kumekucha brings you an in-depth analysis into this puzzling Kenyan mystery with an International flavor to it.
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Also published in Kumekucha daily today
Who would want Gideon Moi dead and why?
Who is the hidden hand exposing all this about the Artur's?
Goodbye Tanzania
=================================
Actually this police harassment and detention of senior editors was the Standard being raided all over again.
Interestingly Internal security Minister John Michuki uncharacteristicingly read out a lengthy statement (he usually prefers to make his comments off the cuff with his long stares at the press in silence as he pauses for effect) castigating the report in the Standard and labeling it absurd.
What caused trouble for the editors at the oldest newspaper in the region was the publishing of allegations that were already in the public domain, to the effect that the Artur brothers were hired to kidnap and assassinate certain leading opposition politicians. But there was an earth-shattering new twist added to this information in the Standard story yesterday. And that was the fact that right at the top of the hit list was one Gideon Moi.
This is one of those revelations that common sense tells you is to bizarre to be fiction and it is the reason why John "rattle a snake will be bitten" Michuki couldn't take it any more. But the minister does not see one thing, arresting and harassing journalists is the wrong move to make. Very wrong move, as will become clear shortly. He is actually playing right into the hands of those behind the Standard story. (more on that later).
But what really had political analysts scrambling for an explanation last night and this morning were the rumours on the ground that these developments were linked to the forthcoming general elections.
That fact seems to have been confirmed by something that this blogger found very illuminating. Gideon Moi himself backed the Standard story and admitted that people within the country's security forces had warned him at the time, when the so-called brothers were still in the country, that the Arturs were assassins and that they were targeting him. Personally I am not aware of any MP with the kind of security that Gideon Moi has (maybe apart from Nicholas Biwott).
The fact that this bombshell came only a day after the same newspaper reported that Margayan had said that he would put details of the Standard raid in the book he claims he is working on is very telling. And the day before that, the same newspaper had published photographs of Wangui Mwai with her hands all over Margayan at a holiday destination the paper said was Sri Lanka. You got it right; it all looks like a carefully orchestrated plan. But what is the objective?
Today Kumekucha brings you an in-depth analysis into this puzzling Kenyan mystery with an International flavor to it.
Woman reveals nasty men habits nobody wants to talk about
The surprising real reason why more and more Kenyans are having steamy extra-marital affairs
Woman Murders Her Best Friend To Steal Her Husband As Science Proves That It Is Deadly For Women To Have Casual Sex
How Kenyans can now easily start a lucrative Internet business from any remote part of Kenya for only Kshs 100/-
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