No Kenyan had ever heard of a party known as RAP-K (Republican Alliance Party of Kenya) before the controversy that followed the announcement of Pastor Pius Muiru's political ambitions.
Party officials have since said that the famous evangelist is not the party's presidential candidate and neither have they reached a decision on who their presidential candidate will be in the forthcoming general elections.
One of the top RAP-K is very well known to this writer as an ambitious small business entrepreneur. Knowing him the way I do, it is clear that the pastor's announcement is very premature and too early in the game to meet the objectives of RAP-K or any other brief case political parties.
Indeed there are numerous brief case political parties out there and more are being registered every week. Yet for many of these parties, political office is not the main objective. The whole idea is to make some quick tax-free funds.
With this in mind, it does not make sense to announce the party's presidential candidate this early in the game. That would be absolutely ridiculous when this is potentially the biggest cash generator on the shelves. Brief case parties usually cash in most during party nominations but even more after party nominations of major political parties. Aggrieved parties who will have lost those elections will usually go out hunting for another party und which to stand for elections. Quite often a brief case party will have more than one person interested in the party nomination and I therefore becomes a question of willing buyer, willing seller.
You can guess the kind of money we are talking about for a desperate presidential hopeful who has missed the boat with their first choice party, but still want to go ahead and stand for president. They can pay anything, even millions of shillings.
In the event that this business idea is new to you, remember it is not too late to get a political party registered.
One word of caution though. Part of the reforms that the opposition are pushing to be passed before the elections is an amendment allowing for independent candidates. If they succeed against this rather stubborn administration and that becomes law before the next general elections, then this lucrative business idea will disintegrate overnight.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Why John Githongo Must Stand For President
One of the things that Kenyans should look for in their next president is a man who can selflessly fight corruption with a vengeance, even at the risk of losing their own lives. Yep, this corruption thing is just not going to be uprooted so easily. Yet getting rid of corruption, or reducing it, is a topmost priority for the nation at the moment.
One Kenyan who has already displayed this quality and shows no signs of letting up any time soon is former ethics PS John Githongo.
Once again we appeal to him (we know he reads this blog regularly) to consider standing for the highest office in the land. Thee are those analysts who would be quick to point out that he is the wrong tribe. But that would be beside the point. By declaring his interest in the highest office in the land, Githongo can attract a lot of international attention to the Kenyan elections, which would be invaluable considering the games we are already seeing being put into motion.
Kenya needs you to stand for President, John.
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One Kenyan who has already displayed this quality and shows no signs of letting up any time soon is former ethics PS John Githongo.
Once again we appeal to him (we know he reads this blog regularly) to consider standing for the highest office in the land. Thee are those analysts who would be quick to point out that he is the wrong tribe. But that would be beside the point. By declaring his interest in the highest office in the land, Githongo can attract a lot of international attention to the Kenyan elections, which would be invaluable considering the games we are already seeing being put into motion.
Kenya needs you to stand for President, John.
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Current Crime Wave Must Be Linked To The Forthcoming General Elections
Regular readers of this blog will be well aware of the fact that I have covered this subject in great detail before. They will also remember that I predicted that the rate of crime will shoot up dramatically as we approach the general elections. That prediction has now come to pass.
The rate at which Kenyans get carjacked and murdered is alarming (in the most recent case a Kikuyu, Kiambu District, an electrician was carjacked at the gate to his house, murdered and his body dumped at a nearby river where it was found several days later). But that is not all. We are also seeing robberies that are targeting some colossal amounts of cash. Kshs 35 million vanished from Habib Bank in Mombasa last week and so far the police have few clues. Then there was a robbery at Barclays Bank, Lavington last Saturday that broke new ground. The thugs posing as technicians, gained access to the ATM machine and literally emptied the till.
Gaining access to an ATM machine is not easy. The only way the thugs would have done it would have been from inside the bank and with some very expert advice from an ATM expert. There are not that many in the country, but then there is the additional fact that we also have plenty of foreigners in the country, many of them criminal elements who have picked up all sorts of skills that they are too willing to hire out to some thugs to use locally.
All in all the timing of the current heightened level of crime has to be linked to the general elections and some of our more sinister politicians raising funds for their electioneering campaigns.
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The rate at which Kenyans get carjacked and murdered is alarming (in the most recent case a Kikuyu, Kiambu District, an electrician was carjacked at the gate to his house, murdered and his body dumped at a nearby river where it was found several days later). But that is not all. We are also seeing robberies that are targeting some colossal amounts of cash. Kshs 35 million vanished from Habib Bank in Mombasa last week and so far the police have few clues. Then there was a robbery at Barclays Bank, Lavington last Saturday that broke new ground. The thugs posing as technicians, gained access to the ATM machine and literally emptied the till.
Gaining access to an ATM machine is not easy. The only way the thugs would have done it would have been from inside the bank and with some very expert advice from an ATM expert. There are not that many in the country, but then there is the additional fact that we also have plenty of foreigners in the country, many of them criminal elements who have picked up all sorts of skills that they are too willing to hire out to some thugs to use locally.
All in all the timing of the current heightened level of crime has to be linked to the general elections and some of our more sinister politicians raising funds for their electioneering campaigns.
Search engines can give you huge traffic. Here's how a Kenyan company can get thousands of visitors to their site daily.
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