PLO Lumumba Bribery Attempt: What is Really Going On Here?

What’s really going on behind the scenes with this PLO Lumumba bribery drama?

This saga really started last weekend when the Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka very suddenly and out of the blue said that Kenyans should defend PLO Lumumba who was being targeted by politicians.

Top Cecily Mbarire, bottom PLO Lumumba

I found that a very strange thing for the sworn water melon to say and I started wondering what was going on. Well, I didn’t have to wait long because yesterday when PLO Lumumba called a press conference. Not to announce who he had nabbed but to tell Kenyans about a bribery attempt involving assistant minister Cecily Mbarire and her husband a Mr Dennis Apaa. Strange bibery attempt involving a mere Kshs 100,000. Apparently Apaa is a director in one of the companies Lumumba’s KACC has been investigating in connection to scandals in the water ministry. Read the full story HERE.

What is the connection between the two incidents?

Firstly it is becoming increasingly clear that every time Kalonzo Musyoka opens his mouth to say something this days he is hitting out at Raila Odinga. Indeed if you want to know what is really going on at the Prime Minister’s camp, just listen carefully to what Kalonzo has to say. It is as simple as that.

This blogger has been informed by an impeccable source that the case against Water Minister Charity Ngilu is water tight, forget the fact that she was “cleared” by some parliamentary select committee. All that remains is for somebody to get the prosecution wheels moving.

But apparently that cannot happen so easily because Madam Ngilu is one of those stones that is too heavy to turn. Apart from being a very close associate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, she also one of the very few people that has the ear of President Kibaki. Kenyans who care to look back just a little will realize that Kibaki would never have made it to president without the crucial support of Madam Ngilu and the late Michael Kijana Wamalwa.

So Ngilu is insulated.

The link between Ngilu and Mbarire is obvious. The two are very close friends and it does not require any imagination to see the deals being alleged to have taken place actually happening.

Now Raila supporters have been busy ensuring that Kalonzo Musyoka is exposed for the hilarious joker he really is, a water melon par excellence. Musyoka who is keen to occupy State house come 2012 is hitting back in kind. And what better way to do so just now than to sink his political rival in Ukambani once and for all with this water ministry scandal? By doing so he will also be making a major dent in the Raila camp because the plan as of this minute is to have Ngilu as Raila’s running mate in 2012.

This is the politics that PLO has been caught up with. PLO Lumumba is an intelligent man and I fail to see why he would not have known that there was no way his sting operation against Mbarire and her husband would not have leaked out to the targets. With the kind of history I have described it was inevitable.

Incidentally this bribe drama also introduces a few questions about PLO. He said that he invited the Mbarire’s to a fund raising event. The question many Kenyans are asking is why would he want to do that? How do you invite a person you are investigating to a fund-raiser?

I am sorry but I have never really brought myself to trust PLO. I just keep remembering his Kanu beginnings where he went out of his way to defend the corrupt dictatorial regime of Daniel arap Moi with those descriptive stylish words of his.

There is much more than meets the eye to this bizarre bribery drama.

Gadaffi Out, Son Captured, What/Who's Next?

Update
Well it is the day after the night before and Saif al Islam is strolling the streets to shame ICC announcing contemptuously that he and daddy Gadaffi are safe and sound. So did the National Transition Council fool the whole world or was the world was is such a hurry to see the comrade brother gone? whatever the case the noose is tightening around Col. Gadaffi's neck.

Meanwhile shame on FA Assistant Minister Richard Onyonka's empty rant on BBC mourning the loss of Gadaffi having being at the forefront of fighting Apartheid and financing AU. Speak of being weaned on toxic handouts?

The king of kings is dethroned. The dear brother leader is so lonely with no sibling left standing and the revolution aborted. The future of Libya is bleak indeed. The tribal warfare is knocking at Tripoli's doorstep. With the world's longest serving leader gone another history is made and broken in the same breathe.

What is more, the ICC (yes that monster linking Kenya's State House to PEV) is rubbing her hands in glee waiting to receive high profile tenants. The ICC has confirmed that Gadaffi's son and heir apparent Islam has been captured. It looks like The Hague Express never runs out of steam. And that opens the floodgates for plastic African patriots to have their mouths foaming throwing brickbats at ICC as constructed exclusively Africans (may be Ratko and co are mere tokens).

One can only imagine the defiant leader of green revolution throwing his fist in the air disparaging ICC judges reminding them he is above their authority. Add that to the flowing robe and with no time for endless speeches, his goose if surely hunted, roasted, digested and flashed.

And before we shout IMPERIALIST, we must be ashamed of the Indian-educated Dr Mbingu wa Muthariaka next door who has not failed the African leader's test of gleefully falling on his own sword. Just when many were lauding Malawi for turning the corner from being a begging bowl in hand to food basket, Mutharika has not only dissolved the whole cabinet reverting all powers to himself but he is heavily clamping down on dissent the African style.

Back to Libya. Gadaffi's fall spells more trouble than hinting at solutions. The National Transition Council leaders are nothing but smart opportunists who rapped Libya under Gadaffi but only defected at the right time to depose the leader and feather their nests. In short Africa remain their own worst enemies.