KTN Cameras Seal Fate Of Robin Hood Doctor Jones

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KTN carried a fascinating exclusive profile on a gentleman called Dr Ken Jones. Apparently he was the only doctor still around in the clash-torn Mount Elgon region after all other doctors have fled amid threats from one of warring factions.

The next day he was in police custody. It seems that after the positive TV coverage of this Dr Ken Jones (if that is his real name) those he owes money swung quickly into action and with the help of the KTN crew that covered the story, traced the doctor treating the long line of patients somewhere in the Mount Elgon area and got his arrested. The charge? He is suspected of being in the country illegally. His nationality is still not known although there are those that say he may be British.

Here some very fast thinking must have taken place because owing people money is a civil case and although everybody calls him a conman (an increasingly lose term in Kenya these days), proving a charge of obtaining money under false pretence will be fairly difficult in this case because the man was not running commercial ventures at the time he incurred the debts. He was running mercy missions that were benefiting many down-trodden and under-privileged Kenyans.

Actually Dr Ken Jones first came to national prominence about a year ago when he assisted in getting foreign treatment for two boys who had gotten their private parts mutilated in a domestic incident.

Interestingly apart from having incurred debts from several prominent organizations in Nairobi, Dr Jones seems to have only done good in Kenya. And even those debts were fo charitable causes. This has led to some Kenyans branding the doctor, a modern day Robin Hood. The debts incurred were from prominent organizations and so many see this as "stealing" from the rich to give to the poor. There are even those who see his arrest as insensitive because the suffering Kenyans in Mount Elgon now have absolutely no doctor to take care of them even as diseases cause havoc.

The situation in the area is really pitiful now and yesterday TV cameras showed footage of area residents getting hurt and bleeding badly as they fought for the supplies and donations of blankets and other basics that aid workers were "taking too long" to distribute to them. Apart from Darfur, this writer does not know of any other area where citizens of a country are refugees in their own nation, which is in fact not at war because those in other parts of the same country are comfortably going about their daily business without caring too much about the killings and goings on. At least the well-fed business executives who appeared on KTN telling Kenyans proudly about their investigations into this "International conman's organization" hardly thought twice about the fate of the doctor's desperate patients and are only keen on getting Jones Incarcerated or deported since it is highly unlikely that they will be able to recover their millions. They even had no qualms about spending more to get him safely behind bars.

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Can Ordinary Kenyans Understand The Fact That Polls And Spin Doctors Have Invaded Elections 2007 To Cloud Our Judgment?

Already it is quite clear that if there is a particular aspect that the 2007 general elections will be remembered for then it will have to be opinion polls. Kenyans have already had so many polls stuffed down their necks that serious indigestion must already have set in. And it seems that we "ain't seen anything yet."
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Quip for the day:
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Steve Biko in a speech in Cape Town, 1971
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Did you know that to do a simple opinion poll usually costs millions of shillings? So who's financing all these polls popping out faster than popcorn from a hot popcorn-making machine? To some Kenyans, anybody who asks such a question is a Raila supporter.

But why do we seem to have so many opinion polls this time round? It is important that as many ordinary Kenyans as possible understand the answer to that pertinent question.

It will be remembered that last year it was announced that the government had contracted the service of a prestigious International PR outfit. The massive amounts of polls that have now polluted the country are a direct result of that. The truth is that opinion polls are a key PR tool in the hands of political spin-doctors.

The most evil man who ever lived, one Adolf Hitler understood very well the power of PR and propaganda. Throughout his campaign to be elected the leader of the German people, he was careful to be photographed only in military uniform and the idea was to portray toughness and patriotism to a public that were hungering for it. Shortly before the polls, which Herr Hitler easily won, an arsonist was caught red-handed setting fire to parliament. Predictably it was discovered that he was a communist and inevitably those Germans that had yet to be convinced of Hitler Tosha, now out of fear of the communists taking over power gravitated to Hitler's side. Little did they know that they had just moved from a non-existent frying pan into the fire itself. The German electorate in the 1930s lived to regret their choice—albeit at least many of them because millions others ended up dead and the world was never the same again.

Interestingly the main reason why George W. Bush is still in the White House today is because his handlers managed to spread fear amongst the American electorate that if Kerry were to be elected, repeats of 9/11 would be frequent in the US. They also managed to convince the public that George W. Bush was the only Dawa ya Osama. And right on cue, Osama Bin Laden himself even released another of those threatening tapes of his just before Americans went to the polls and that is what clinched re-election for Bush Junior.

Fascinatingly the Kibaki campaign team is heading in a similar direction. Already we are being told that electing anybody other than Kibaki will be to plunge the country into chaos. At this rate one wonders how we ever managed without him as president. Exactly the same strategy is being used quite effectively in the Nigerian general elections.

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