Assassinations Season Now Here With Us

For months now controversial Kumekucha blogger Phil has been warning of coming assassinations in Kenya’s political landscape. I too have warned in several posts that we are entering an extremely dangerous phase of our politics where we should expect politically motivated assassinations on an unprecedented scale. I called them some of the painful birth pangs for the new Kenya that is coming. The kind of Kenya we all dream of.

I have some information that is so sensitive that it cannot be shared here which makes it clear that there is nothing but plenty of trouble ahead. I really wish there was a way to stop these crazy guys.

But let me back up a little here and discuss the special circumstances in our politics that has brought us to where we are now.

This week the president’s circus of a press conference to introduce his immediate family (whom we did not elect and are not interested in—last time I checked Kenya had NO royal family) drowned out some really fascinating news. ODM the party with the majority in parliament announced that they were unhappy with the coalition set up and say that they would like to re-negotiate things because they have gotten a raw deal all along in the power-sharing deal. The immediate question that begs an answer is how long it took for the party to realize that they were being short changed. It seems it took one long year. Or did it?

Actually the truth of the matter is that the political situation on the ground is now extremely fluid. The problem seems to be the growing unrest and impatience amongst too many Kenyans over the grand coalition government that many feel is much worse than President Kibaki’s first and only legitimate administration. The ODM top brass in the midst of their corruption feeding frenzy seem to have realized that it is only a matter of time before things get out of hand and the coalition government is forced out of office. And so what the smart alecs are trying to do is to re-position themselves for the possible fall-out. Brilliant but extremely selfishly self-serving without an iota of interest in the people who elected them so enthusiastically into office.

The really dangerous thing here is that it is not only ODM who are busy launching their campaigns for the next general elections. We also have individual politicians, crooks and certain big business interests busy on their political chess boards. I have deliberately chosen chess because in the game the whole objective is to “eliminate” the king. Apparently some people with big political ambitions think that by “eliminating” certain people their route (or that of their candidate) to State House will be made much easier. The stakes are extremely high more so because Mwai Kibaki has proved that a {resident of Kenya can do anything and get away with it (including stealing a presidential election in broad daylight).

I have had the privilege of being told about a certain hit list that has been compiled complete with some of the individuals on it. This is really a scary time for mama Kenya. It is a good time to double prayer efforts.

Mungiki Killings: Last Signs of a Failed State

Dr. Afred Mutua is a troubled man. The government spokesman must we wishing he could eat his words that condemned Oscar Foundation as the financiers of Mungiki. Even before he even shut his lips OF officials Oscar Kamau King’ara and Paul Oulu were dead meat.

So did Mutua know something we didn’t know or was his just another episode of choking with both his limbs stuck in his mouth? Add that to the bravado fro police spokesman Eric Kiraithe and you cannot fail to see the common thread of high stakes behind the scenes.

That the murderous Mungiki has no place in a modern society is without question. But a police force that thrives on extra-judicial killings to fight such criminals can only succeed in the gang mutating into something even more dangerous. Nothing but the rule and respect of law separates us from other apes and the reign of the jungle.

King’ara must have rubbed 2012 SUCCESSIONISTS the wrong way. Having Oscar lorry branded with key politicians and police officers suspected of ordering previous extra-judicial killings must have been the last nail that sealed his coffin. You don’t expose Kenyan gatekeepers and expect to escape with it given the boiling succession wars underneath.

Killing fields
The police force has resorted to jungle law that saw them rope in rival Mungiki factions to do their dirty executions. Only the police force can have the intelligence to constantly monitor both King’ara and Oulu that made tracing them to the traffic jam so easy. And what a senseless orgy of firing it was pumping more than three bullets in each head?

Impunity mutates into different faces and with the police force already exposed as its icon, we haven’t seen anything yet. Add that to the boiling magma that is succession 2012 and you get a volatile mix of executions and assassination in quick succession.