Truth about Saitoti could bring Kibaki government down-MPs

I usually receive more than my fare share of hate mail. A very memorable recent one was from the enraged “young spouse” of a corrupt politician who is sure that her adorable man is NOT corrupt. She wondered how sick a mind Kumekucha was “cooking all these ridiculous stories.” She then went on to use some very colourful language not befitting a lady to describe me and my ancestors.

Then a few days ago I received the following email;

Helo there

if you are using this tragic incident to make money then you are a fool, while Kenya is mourning you are out with such malicious/unpresided theories for your own benefit, i have been giving you a chance for you to fill my inbox with this ill-intended stories, please don't send me such stories.

NONSENSE

Okay I am not good at blowing my own trumpet but I recently commissioned somebody to sift through the over 3,000 posts in Kumekucha and draw up some statistics on how many times we have made correct predictions or broken stories that come to the surface days, weeks and even many months later. They have not finished the exercise but so far the figures stand at a staggering 95%. I have been vindicated 9.5 out of 10 times. I think the percentage will reduce by the time they are done, but not by much.

We said here in Kumekucha from Day one (moments after the accident) that the Saitoti crash was NOT an accident. Many readers jeered, other were plain angry at the very “ludicrous” suggesting. Who would want to kill Saitoti?

Here is what was said in parliament yesterday. Read carefully between the lines and draw your own intelligent conclusions;

-       Mutito MP Kiema Kilonzo, Kilgoris MP Gideon Konchella, Narok South MP Nkoidila Ole Lankas and Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo insisted that they were in contact with the families of Prof Saitoti and their lawyer Fred Ngatia who told them that they were not happy with the direction the investigations were taking.

-       Narok South MP Nkoidila Ole Lankas  said that the scene of the crash was interfered with by unknown people in a bid to hide evidence.

-       MPs accused the government of frustrating foreign investigators by refusing to facilitate their enquiries. Consequently, the experts returned to South Africa on Wednesday night because of frustrations by the Ministry of Transport.

-       The MPs also questioned why the government decided to upgrade the investigation into a commission of inquiry even before investigations had come up with a preliminary report on the cause of the crash.

-       Nominated MP Rachael Shebesh (ODM) said she had a dossier linking the “traffickers in government” to the death of the two ministers. She added; “This is a very sensitive issue that touches on the death of our colleagues and Parliament is only used as a scapegoat when the actual traffickers are in government.”

-       Ms Shebesh got even more sensational with her remarks when she added; “We want this information to come out only in the safety of a select committee, we have not even said a third of what we know about the deaths of our two colleagues, what we have can shut down this government.”

-       Gichugu MP and presidential aspirant Martha Karua then asked the Speaker to give Ms Shebesh security and protection while the investigations are going on.

Today I have only one thing to say. The government has used commissions of inquiries for decades to reassure the public that they had nothing to hide. However from the history of these expensive exercises that waste taxpayers funds, they always end up proving the very opposite. If you were waiting for any conclusive evidence to prove that the government is hiding something over the Saitoti crash, then this is certainly it.

So now that nobody is still doubting that Saitoti was in fact murdered, the question crops up; who killed Saitoti and why? If you have read my raw notes then you already have some of the startling answers to that question.

Degree Necessary, not Sufficient for Leadership

The debate has grown legs of its own and Kenyans are livid with both consternation and rage. Should an MP be a university graduate? That is the big question.

A degree may be a necessary but not suffcient qualification for leadership. True, there is more to education than just being learned. You see a degree can be either a blessing for an enriched grey matter as well as a curse for a selfish, closed or sadistic mind.

Granted formal education is not to acquire mere papers, it is being trained to think, to provide a cognitive sheen to the basic affective and psychomotor skiils. But therein lies the paradox as evident from the many degree holders in the present Parliament which, unfortunately, is inversely proportional to the qualifty of both their debates and leadership.

So we have been told more than 80% of the present MPs have rendered themselves jobless by passing the Bill pegging their candidature on degree qualification.

Critics of the Bill have given examples of great leaders who where school dropouts like the late British wartime Premier Winston Churchill and even Microsoft owner Bill Gates himself. While they may consider that comparison clever, it is no brainer comparing oranges and apples.

One can also drop the ERROR that was Moi to advance the need for higher educational qualification for leadership. But on the flipside an inquisitive mind will also not fail to mention the ruin caused by one Dr Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

Maina Njenga

Give it to Amos Kimunya. The Minister for Transport is not only a brilliant accountant but a smart politician to boot. He knew when to hit hardest where it hurts and matters most. With one genius stroke he delivered to Uhuru Kenyatta the greatest of political favours none of the UK's cheerleaders would manage with their turbo charged mandibles.

You see the degree qualification would effortlessly condemn the ex-Mungiki leader Maina Njenga to political Siberia. What a genius?

So while the voluble Chepalungu MP would want to elevate Parliament constituted by graduates to a senior common room of dons, passing the Bill without scrutiny exposed the MPs soft intellectual underbelly. The MPigs dread the fangs of the ghost they failed to exorcize.

The naked and bitter truth is that Bills are written in English and so do most technical deliberations in Parliamentary committees. While populism can afford the likes of Sonko to get away with Sheng, you don't need to hazard any guess on the values such characters add to Parliamentary debates. I guess their contributions may be most useful in the catering committee.

Even Raila's criticism while hiding under vouching for the youth smacks of cheap populism. True, most university students graduate when they are past the age of 22. But what would make somebody barely out of his teens seek an elective post instead of work hard to shape both his career and future? It must be the height of naivity to regard Parliament as a dependable and exclusive employment bureau.

The present degree debate exposes the rot that engulfs the Kenya's fabric. People look at leadership as means to an end (read grab public wealth) and not as service to voters. The rich and functionally illiterate leaders also suffer from the mortal fear of the schooled. It must be very quite easy leading a functionally illiterate populace.

Raped Males: Untold story of rising cases of women raping men, even in Mombasa

Shocking tale of violent women in Africa, some of them in Mombasa

Three suspected women rapists from left to right, sisters Sophie Nhokwara (26), Netsai Nhokwara (24) and Rosemary Chakwizira (28) leave Harare Magistrates court where they were charged with raping and assaulting men hitchhikers. 

If you think this is a joke then think again because in two recent cases raped men have had to seek treatment after their ordeal with some women and in one case after an encounter with a single woman (see video in previous post).

One thing is for sure, whatever statistics you see abut females raping men will always be greatly understated. For the simple reason that this is not the kind of crime that a man would usually report. It is the kind of thing that they will want to keep a big secret and that also makes any research into the matter a little more difficult than usual.

Take the case of this story one of my informants at the Coast has been pursuing for a number of weeks now. It has been reported that a gang of women in a certain part of Mombasa (location with-held) are grabbing men and raping them. Some locals think that the motive may be to spread disease as a way of exerting some kind of revenge against men in general. Those who are said to have been involved will not talk about it let alone agree to meet a reporter who may publicize their story.

But it seems men in Zimbabwe are different. That country has been hitting international headlines since late last year and this time it has nothing to do with the hyper inflation that has been rampant in that country for a long time. Several men have written statements with the police about incidents where they were raped by a woman at gun point. The way it went down was that they would be offered a lift by these attractive women (usually 2) who would then drive them to some lonely spot at gun point, hand them a condom and order them to have sex with one of them. At the end of the ordeal the women would carefully retrieve the condom and drive off into the night with the raped man’s semen.

This is the kind of tale that would never sell as fiction because it sounds way too bizarre to be true. But it gets even stranger. Late last year a motorist has a minor accident but when police arrive on the scene it suddenly turns into a criminal investigation after they find 31 used condoms in the car 4 of them still with what appears to be male semen. The man leads police to three women who are said to be the owners of the car involved in the accident. They are; Rosemary Chakwizira (24), Sophie Nhokwara (26) and Netsai Nhokwara (24). Police seem to have enough evidence because the women are promptly charged. Superstitious locals believe that the motive of the rapes is to collect male sperm for occult rituals that lead to great wealth. The lifestyle of the 3 arrested women and the fact that several men have come forward to tell police that they were popular in night spots in Harare where they were known to frequently insist on buying men drinks, has just added fuel to this belief. 

In Russia a lone woman rapist has been charged in court where she admitted to raping a man for 3 days. So severe were the man’s wounds from the rape ordeal that he was forced to seek treatment in a hospital shortly after the woman released him. (Watch Video)

Joke about female rapists at your own peril and maybe it might not be such a good idea to accept a lift from some beauties in a car who seem to fancy you. You have been warned.

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Female rape suspects arrested as Mombasa gang of women rapists go on the rampage

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Murder Most Foul?

Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka in our picture was the very first senior government official to arrive at the scene of the Ngong disaster. He was clearly extremely shaken and his voice broke several times as he talked to the press moments after this picture was taken. Was he shaken by more than what he saw? Possibly by what he knew about those who may have caused this tragedy? The body nearest the camera is that of the late Orwa Ojode. If you look carefully you will be able to make out the shape of his head. His legs are missing. Further away from the camera is the body of Prof George Saitoti which is partly hidden by the tree. Eyewitnesses say he was still wearing his bullet proof vest which he almost never left behind. Other rumours claim that some people saw the professor attempt to jump out of the burning chopper. This is highly unlikely when you consider how fast the whole horror unfolded. 

Even when it was very obvious that the Moi avenue explosion last month was a bomb, professor George Saitoti still insisted on reaching for his favourite refuge. “It would be wrong and premature for anybody to start speculating before proper investigations have been carried out to establish the cause etc.” 

Those who knew the late professor well will tell you that this was indeed his favourite method of putting out political fires associated with the many controversies he was involved with during his eventful political career. His was always to plead for time for investigations knowing full well that with time people forget and move on and it becomes very easy to then diffuse any situation that would otherwise have badly exploded in his face. 

One wonders what Saitoti would have said and done was he given an opportunity to comment and make decisions on this latest tragedy that involved him. Just goes to show you how life has a strange way of causing things that you perpetuate wrongly to end up coming back to haunt you and affect you in one way or another. 

Pending the investigations still going on, it has become obvious to many observers and insiders that the helicopter accident that killed the Internal security minister and others is unlikely to have been an accident. Mounting evidence continues to point to foul play. 

Helicopters are very different from other aircraft in that they can land anywhere and so any emergencies can easily be taken care of in good time. In the Ngong crash there was no time to react which strongly suggests that either a bomb on board or ground to air missile may have been used. Even the injuries of the late Ojode whose remains appear most clearly on our photograph in this post suggest an explosion of sorts because his legs are missing. 

Admittedly there are other scenarios that would cause a fire and explosion in a helicopter but in all cases there would have been ample time to quickly land the chopper and get the occupants to safety long before the explosion. 

The fact that the bodies of Saitoti and Ojode were thrown so far away from the others would suggest that that the explosion happened closest to them and away from the engine (the usual source of a fuel fire and explosion). All the others bodies were found close to the engine. And so the question that Kumekuchans must busy themselves asking is a simple one; who would have wanted Saitoti dead? Clearly he was the target and the unfortunate Orwa Ojode was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. According to the information I am in possession of, the truth is extremely sensitive but there are plenty of clues to point us in the right direction. To me the most telling was the attempt to suggest that drug barons assassinated Saitoti. Such a suggestion is laughable and can only be accepted by the extremely naïve. Instead you need to look where your attention is being diverted from for the truth. 

Saitoti was no saint and indeed this blog has done a lot to expose him for who he really was. It is also true that Kenyans need to recover the Goldenberg loot that changed the man’s life so much so that he abandoned the VW he used to drive as a penniless university lecturer and replaced it with a fleet of Mercedes Benz vehicles. Still, can all this justify possible murder?

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Mutahi Ngunyi: Saitoti Eliminated by Drug Barons

Political scientist Mutahi Ngunyi has sensationally claimed on K24 that the late Prof Saitoti was most likely assassinated, by drug barons fearing he would exposed them.

After dismissing Saitoti's presidential bid as weightless, the Consulting House commentator lists numerous enemies lined against Saitoti including Al-Shabaab and the fear he would be a prosecution witness at the Hague in his capacity at the chair of parliamentary ICC committee. Hypothesising three fronts as cause for Saitoti's death, Ngunyi concludes that Ojode was just a collateral damge, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The target according to him was the Internal Security Minister and Police Commissioner Iteere.

Artur brothers

Well, true to our national tradition no politician dies accidentally or naturally. But linking Saitoti's death to the drug lord can only be wished away by those who are only comfortable with the easy/cheap explantions after seeing the Jicho pevu investigations.

The imagination of Saitoti tabling his report about the Artur brothers must have sent a chill down the spine of the untouchables. Add that to the fact that they couldn't afford Saitoti's price then elimination remains the sure guarantee. You see Saitoti is no Chris Murungaru.

We must be ready to pay the ultimate prize of being a NARCO STATE. Na bado.

Saitoti: Why it was murder most foul

Shameless Moi Laughs Loud at Saitoti's Grave

So Moi now believes the late Prof Saitori was capable of higher leadership. Well, he couldn't be more right with his eulogy that “Saitoti was the cornerstone which the builders ignored,” mourned the former president." Except he failed to accept that he tops the list of those builders who refused the cornerstone. Hypocrisy!!

Even before the late Saitoti is provided with a grave to turn in disgust, former President Moi was at his home lying through his spacious teeth.

By declaring that he was campaigning for Saitoti's presidency, Moi must be at his vintage best taking Kenyans for fools. The good professor of Kenyan politics has conveniently forgotten KISIRANI KASARANI.

It seems Moi's humiliation of Saitoti was not complete before the former retired from politics in 2002. Moi is still determined to shamelessly punctuate the slander with a period over Saitoti's dead body.

One can only imagine the counterfactual if Moi backed Saitoti in 2002. May as Kenya's third president he would have been using more secure helicopters and still alive. But such speculations can only go as far as helping enlarge Moi's obtuse ego at deceit.



On the flipside assuming Moi was rooting for Saitoti so what? He lost his political midas touch and rungu in 2002. Who knows maybe Saitoti would have been comprehensively beaten just like his project then.

Moi may boast having known Prof Kinuthia Kiarie for along time having plucked him from his dusty and chalky offices in Chiromo. But the meteoric rise also spelt the beginning of Saitoti's nightmare.

The son of Muthengi was constantly stalked by both perceived and real murderous shadows. No wonder bullet proof vest formed his second layer of skin.

Moi's insensitive and shameless lies about Saitoti makes the hitherto powerman and evil total man (BIKINI) Biwott look like a saint.

Granted, Saitoti had his hands in many scams including the heinous Goldenberg. But for civility sake Moi and his ilk must not laugh nor ululate on his grave. Shame.

Breaking News: Saitoti and Ojode die in helicopter crash

George Saitoti is dead! Orwa Ojode is dead! Police commissioner escapes by a whisker

Orwa Ojode, Uhuru Kenyatta and Prof George Saitoti at a recent public function.

News just in indicates that Internal security minister Prof George Saitoti and his assistant minister Orwa Ojode were killed earlier this morning in a helicopter crash over Ngong forest. Initial reports indicate that the ministers as well as the five other occupants of the chopper were burnt beyond recognition.

It is still not clear what the cause of the accident may have been but the area where the accident occurred (Kibiku forest) like the rest of the vast Ngong forest is known for the kind of bad weather that can make flying dangerous. However another eye-witness report of the horrific accident casts doubt on the weather or terrain being the cause; "The Chopper was filled with smoke before it crashed. I heard two explosions as it went up in flames." If this eye witness report is correct then it would indicate that there was a fire inside the helicopter before it went down which opens up several other possibilities including mechanical failure and even sabotage. It is however too early to speculate and possible conclusions can only be drawn after through investigations into the possible cause of the tragedy.

Other reports indicate that police commissioner Mathew Iteere is badly shaken because he was supposed to be on the fateful chopper and was only kept away because he missed a flight from Mombasa that would have enabled him to join the others on time.

In a bizarre twist today, June 10th, is the very same date in 2008 that another cabinet minister and an assistant minister died on a plane crash. Remember Kipkalya Kones and Laboso? Read the Kumekucha breaking news story on this very date in 2008.

Vice president Kalonzo Musyoka is said to have been one of the first senior government officials to arrive atthe scene of the disaster.

I will do another much more detailed post later today after gathering more information.

Sir/Madam, Why do you want to be the president of Kenya?

It is the right of every Kenyan who thinks that they are fit for the job to run for the presidency. You or I can wake up one morning and decided to join the already crowded race to the old archaic former governor of Kenya’s residence and the place that housed the very first students to join a school called Duke of York (later Lenana School) in 1949. For those of us who have been there, the building is no doubt well maintained but the truth is that it is old and has definitely seen better days.

My point here is that if it was really a good house one wanted you would be much better off going for the Vice Presidency instead. Have you seen the palatial VP’s residence in Karen?


VP's Official residence in Karen: Since State house is so old and archaic, wouldn't you be better off going for the vice  presidency, sir/madam?

An interesting aside here is that the job of CEO of Kenya comes with over half a dozen other State lodges scattered all over the country that are just a drain on tax payers’ funds. Apart from the ones in major towns that you may have heard of like Mombasa, Nakuru and Kisumu, there are also plenty others “under the radar” like Sagana, Kakamega, Rumuruti and Cherangany. There is even one close to Mtito Andei where Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta would always stop for a brief rest while on his frequent road trips to and from Mombasa (Kenyatta had a deep-seated fear of flying and the only time he took to the air during his 15 year presidency was as a corpse in casket as the body was flown back to Nairobi in August 1978.)

But I digress. You will find that nobody is really interested in the vice presidency and it seems this office is but a consolation prize for any would-be pretender to the real throne—the oresidency of Kenya.

Kenyans need to interrogate all major presidential candidates. One simple question that each and every one of them needs to answer is; why do you want to be president? Why would anybody want to live in such an old building as State house Nairobi when there are plenty of other much better places to live? Why would anybody desire the job of overseeing some of the most tribal-minded people on planet earth who eat, sleep think and go-to-the-toilet their tribe?

If there is any job that is less attractive than being president of the banana republic called Kenya, I would like to hear about it. Even cleaning toilets has much less stress and much more job satisfaction than being POBROK (President of the Banana Republic Of Kenya).

What kind of human being wants to rule people with a squeeze-into-a-packed-matatu mentality who have no qualms about squeezing the life out of a pregnant woman while forcing their bulging obese bodies into an already crowded small vehicle in a mad rush to get home (not the office)? This packed-matatu mentality clearly rears its’ ugly head every Friday afternoon when millions of cell phones that have been switched off the whole week are suddenly switched on and everybody starts making frantic calls at the same time. Former Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph was vilified for his “the odd calling habits of Kenya” remark but he was stating the obvious although in my view “bizarre” would have been a better word to use.

What man or woman in their right mind would want to manage people who are convinced that the first thing to do when you come into some little cash windfall is marry a new wife or acquire a brand new mpango wa kando?

Who would want to have anything to do with people who have no qualms about accepting bribes from a presidential or parliamentary seat candidate and then voting for them but still expect him to take good care of public funds and be corruption free once they have been installed into office?

But above all else, this position of being president of Kenya is a thankless one to say the least. Just ask one Mwai Kibaki. Under his leadership the country has been transformed. Just look at the infrastructural marvels that he has achieved under very difficult circumstances? Analyze the strides we have ,made since the Moi days and leave out all the politics. In my view the president will be remembered as a manager whose achievements were overshadowed by the politics (because at the end of the day it is always about the politics).

And that is why we should seriously consider making some amendments to our constitution so that the country is managed by a real CEO whom we hire with a clear job description and priorities drafted by the senate. It would have to be somebody with some experience on how to manage chaotic Kenyans and their bizarre only-in-Kenya habits.

How about former Safaricom CEO Michael Joseph being Kenya CEO? He would be an ideal possible candidate for the job.

Laugh at the very idea I you must but clearly we the people of Kenya are not yet mature enough to elect the right person to be POBROK.

Shocking!!! Shocking!!!

In my latest raw notes published recently, I reveal William Ruto's main financier in his bid for the presidency. What is even more shocking is his real motive for backing Ruto.

Also in the same raw notes is the most shocking video you will ever view in this life. Even Chris Kumekucha threw up while viewing it. Want to know the contents...

This is the season for witchdoctors. Politicians are consulting them in earnest as we approach the general elections. But there are many of us well educated Kenyans who do not believe that witchcraft exists.

In the sickening video that affected Chris Kumekucha so much, you will see the so called powers of darkness at work where an adulterous wife was “locked” with her lover and the two were completely unable to separate until the irate husband showed up and started charging eager wananchi cash to get inside the room and see “everything” even as his wife sobbed uncontrollably.

He then demanded Kshs 20,000 from the sweating young man to “break the spell.” The adulterous man who appeared to be in pain was completely unable to disengage himself from the naked woman under him even with some help from the policemen in the room. He was only too eager to pay and as the policemen inside the room were busy searching for his ATM to withdraw the money, a simple man came into the room and started praying. What happened next is bizarre beyond explanation. 

Watch it all for yourself in my latest raw notes. You can order my raw notes now and receive them in minutes (it does not matter what time zone you are in) by sending an email to umissedthis at gmail dot com

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Should Raila Retire With Kibaki?

By anon

What is worse for Kenya is that the closer we get to choosing the right democratic government for all people from all corners of the country, the greater seems the temptation to derail this once in a lifetime golden opportunity and instead end up clinging onto our tribal political enclaves and conniving tribal chieftains.

Kenyans are caught between Kibaki, his henchmen and loyal tribal foot soldiers on one side, and Odinga, his henchmen and loyal tribal foot soldiers on the other side. 

The reality is that it does matter whether Kibaki retires in 2012 with his entire contingent of Kikuyu elite, the country will still remain stuck in the same old rut unless Odinga and his entire legions of Luo elite are sent packing or into retirement at the same time. 

Both sides have been fighting each other and the rest of country for their right to eat (and loot) as much as they can while time is still on their respective sides. 

So why would any group of patriotic Kenyans waste their scarce resources, energy and time fighting to save the soul of a once beautiful country from what has been referred to on numerous occasions as 'the jaws of murderous lot' only to end up falling victims to the deadly antics of a new sheriff in town with his bunch of trigger happy hooligans in uniform as well as henchmen assigned to 'most government facilities and institutions'?

Kenyans from all walks of life should unite for a change and kick all the 'political eaters' out of office and positions of influence once and for all. 

Or else we will have no one political party or 'enemy tribe(s)' to blame but ourselves in the next ten years. (yes, NOT 5 years).

Shocking!!! Shocking!!!

In my latest raw notes published a few minutes ago I reveal William Ruto's main financier in his bid for the presidency. What is even more shocking is his real motive for backing Ruto.

Also in the same raw notes is the most shocking video you will ever view in this life. Even Chris Kumekucha threw up while viewing it. Want to know the contents...

This is the season for witchdoctors. Politicians are consulting them in earnest as we approach the general elections. But there are many of us well educated Kenyans who do not believe that witchcraft exists.

In the sickening video that affected Chris Kumekucha so much, you will see the so called powers of darkness at work where an adulterous wife was “locked” with her lover and the two were completely unable to separate until the irate husband showed up and started charging eager wananchi cash to get inside the room and see “everything” even as his wife sobbed uncontrollably.

He then demanded Kshs 20,000 from the sweating young man to “break the spell.” The adulterous man who appeared to be in pain was completely unable to disengage himself from the naked woman under him even with some help from the policemen in the room. He was only too eager to pay and as the policemen inside the room were busy searching for his ATM to withdraw the money, a simple man came into the room and started praying. What happened next is bizarre beyond explanation. 

Watch it all for yourself in my latest raw notes. You can order my raw notes now and receive them in minutes (it does not matter what time zone you are in) by sending an email to umissedthis at gmail dot com

 When you order you will also get all HOT back issues of my raw notes that you have missed.

Kibaki's Self-Guilt Ghost Emboldens Terrorists

While President Kibaki has been sounding more reconciliatory and focused of late, a closer look at his latest public speeches reveals a tormented soul. The hitherto aloof President is fighting an inner guilt that he dares not expose given his known personal pride.

So what is this flaming guilt eating Kibaki's soul? Well, look no further than his continued promise for a smooth transition. We all know power abhors vacuum and the whole handover business is explicitly covered in every constitution including ours.

That Kibaki finds it an obligation to explain the obvious to shameless claim credit for the same is no mere political hot air nor mischief.

The truth is the President is haunted by his immediate past. He is acutely aware of the genesis of his present term from that midnight inauguration. Poor Samuel Kivuitu must be feeling really betrayed in his cancer bed.

And Kibaki and his handlers know when to manufacture an artificial crisis and make motions to create and impression of solving it. They are simply taking advantage of Kenyans' reknown short memories. What is more, an insinuation of a chaotic handover would leave hairs standing behind their necks.

Kenya has laws and we don't have bad leaders for lack of the same. You see thanks to impunity, the laws are made for the ordinary Kenyan but the rulers exist to break them.

Banana state

Even Moi the dictator had no choice but to handover power after seeing his Project humiliated in 2002. But that does not stop Kibaki from frightening the political daylight out of gullible Kenyans.

That the President has been making this noise in every speech is no ordinary politicking. He is cleverly creating an impression of authority knowing quite well the country lies at the mercy of drug lords and merchants of terror. If in doubt just watch the tightly investigated Jicho Pevu series.

Just like buglers are likely to attack a home headed by a coward, terrorists and their local freelancers are exploiting lack of firm leadership within our borders. They strike Nairobi secure in the knowledge they can get away with the bloodshe several times over.

Contrast that with the terrorists' mortal fear to attack Addis Ababa. Well, Meles may be benevolent dictator but the terrorists know how strong his reactions to provocations can be.

A country is a strong as its leadership and a banana state is not one feeding exclusively on the fruit.

The True Kenyatta Legacy this Madaraka Day

From left to right; Tom Mboya, Jomo Kenyatta and Njoroge Mungai

Today is Madaraka day. It should be a day of careful reflection because we can only map out the way forward when we fully know where we came from and what our current exact location is. 

According to me the saddest thing that ever happened to Kenya is that we distorted and rewrote our history to make a few people look good. Let me start very early in my post today by stating (for the sake of those who don’t know me well) that this piece is NOT about tribalism but about a few individuals who enriched themselves greatly at the expense of the masses. Sadly some of those individuals are still our national heroes.

Uhuru Kenyatta himself has recently said that he should not be judged for the sins of his father and that we should “let that mzee rest in peace.” However in my humble opinion noble sons should make good for the sins of their fathers where they can. 

A long long time ago a man called Johnstone Kamau had gone to school and that is why illiterate Kenyans trusted him with their money and send him with a petition to the United Kingdom. But when Bwana Kamau arrived in Britain, did not do what he had been sent there to do. But even more disheartening is that when the same Johnstone Kamau became the first leader of independent Kenya, he received hefty cash donations to buy settler farms at the market price then and to settle Africans on the farms, especially our gallant freedom fighters. But what Mr Kamau did instead was to buy up all the land and transfer it to his personal name and that of his close associates. As you read this the family of Kenyan hero Dedan Kimathi is wallowing in poverty. Indeed many other Kenyan heroes and heroines who put their lives on the line and others who lost their parents are living bitter lives with nothing to show for what they did for all our sakes. Kenyans are really not interested in what this great men and women did for them. 

Admittedly this culture of rubbishing the achievements of the patriotic and rewarding the prosperous thieves instead did not start yesterday. It is something that was used to build the very foundations of this banana republic we call Kenya. It is the reason why people who knew what was happening had to be killed. Pio Gama Pinto (a prominent fundraiser who helped raised the cash for Johnstone Kamau’s defence at the famous Kapenguria trial) was confronted by his excellency Bwana Kamau one day in the precincts of parliament and asked why he was causing trouble. He pointed to Kamau’s land grabbing ways. The next day he stopped two bullets from an assassin as he was reversing out of his driveway to take his young daughter to school. Tom Mboya complained in a book he wrote that he had changed his mind about having a powerful leader as the uniting force of the nation. Anybody reading between the lines knew exactly what he was talking about. That powerful leader had greatly enriched himself at the expense of the people. People like Mboya were there right from the beginning and knew everything about this god who was the president of Kenya and that is why it was just a matter of time before he would have had to be sent to meet his maker much earlier than his time. And that is exactly what happened on the streets of Nairobi on that fateful day of July 5th 1969. 

As we prepare to vote in Uhuru Kenyatta as the next president of Kenya to continue with the Kenyatta legacy we are all so proud of let us remember… 

…Let us remember the sins of our fathers as well as their genuine mistakes made out of ignorance and lack of wisdom. We loved our fathers with their flaws but we must always remember that only a fool fails to learn from history. 

Happy Madaraka day Kumekuchans!!! 

P.S. There has been a concerted campaign by some of my friends to bring to the attention of Kenyans the achievements of this humble blog. For instance I have been told to make sure that Kenyans know that it was in this blog that the term Wenye-nchi was first used. It is now at the centre of a campaign in the media. My response is simple and direct. I did not start Kumekucha to become famous. I started it to fight for a better Kenya. I am not interested in the glory or in being recognized and that is one of the reasons for me remaining anonymous (although the main one is my personal security). My great fear is that when people start wallowing in some small victories they take their eyes from the ball and lose focus on their objectives. It is my sincere prayer that whatever side-shows come up on this journey that I have chosen, I will never lose sight of the vision that drove me to launch this blog in May 2005.

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Taylor Shaved 50 Years, Ocampo4 Next Clients

Jailing Charles Taylor's for 50 years must surely have sent chills up the spines of the Ocampo4. Not that they are guilty but their heads must be have gone into spins permuting what ugly prospects waits them.

Muting the hitherto pompous BUTCHER of Liberia must have left the local untouchables seeing red. But again ICC had set the bar when Uhuru discovered he was equal to Joshua Sang before Ekatherina.

Of Mungiki and blood diamonds

Taylor has been found guilty for arming Sierra Leone rebels in return for blood diamonds. In addition he was found responsible for aiding and abetting some of the most heinous crimes in human history.

With Mungiki back in full swing decapitating heads, Uhuru and Muthaura must be saying some very moving silent prayers. The monster is back eating its offspring.

After Lubanga, the Ocampo4 takes center stage at The Hague. The movie is not only a thriller but 'iBelieve' a box office. This is The Hague Express. Stay tuned.

Political Prostitution, Urinating on Voters' Grave

The season of political laundering is here and the heat gets a notch higher with every passing day. And the gullible Kenyan electorate is enjoying the movie with its varied adaptations.

It is that time in our electoral cycle when a name is more than just a cluster of letters to simply spell an identity. No, your name must equate to an ethnic group and you earn both friends and foes in equal measure depending on your political horse.

The biggest casualty in this madness is rule of law. The way MPs and our leaders are tramping on the so-called new constitution can only leave one wondering if the new document was worth the paper and ink used to author it.

It appears in Kenya we make laws with the sole purpose to break it. Or to be more precise the law is made for the ordinary folks while the high and might can trash it at will no consequence. Just look at the rate of party hoping. In the space of a month, an MP will have pledged allegiance to as many as four to five parties.

What is more, they have the cheek to even contemplate amending the laws to legalize party prostitution. The fact that serial defections have been a characteristic of our political system since 1992 is a cheap argument.

Milk on Professor's whiskers.

Until all Kenyans become subjects of same law, we are collectively living the national lie dreaming of delusional progress. But not when we end up comparing and supporting who authored the most lucrative scandal against Kenyan.

Just as one would want to reprimand Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto to walk the talk of civilized leadership, the likes of Prof Anyang Nyong'o must be held to account for the sickening smell of corruption at NHIF.

We gain nothing either as a nation or individuals by identifying and supporting our tribal chieftains. No scandal is a small scandal. It is not amateurish to be caught with droplets of NHIF milk on your whiskers.

Until we make corruption very expensive and embrace honesty (no doublespeak), Kenya will continue sinking deeper in abyss knowing very well we have what it takes to our country shine.

Kenyans remain toxically political because almost every facet of their lives life is impacted by actions and inactions made by political leaders. We can only free ourselves of these leeches by demanding the very best of our leaders. But can we? Please keep your answer and there is no prize for guessing.

Uhuru's Blockbuster 'iBelieve' Inspires Status Quo

The Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta launched his much-awaited party The National Alliance (TNA) anchored on the theme of 'iBelieve'. To his credit belief is a virtue and a very valuable ingredient in search of success. But there also begins the mischief and lack of imagination.

Belief without rebooting the mindset to embrace change is an exercise in semantic laundering. You know, TNA may as well stand for Total Non-Action or This is Not Applicable or worse still Trial Ndiyo Anaenda (Tuko Na A........).

Uhuru may have succeeded in the heavy lifting by dispensing with both Moi and Kibaki baggage but his simplistic theme of belief smacks of Moi’s mantra of all heat no light - creating an impression of motion without any trace of real movement (remember MKAE IVYO IVYO?). Status quo has never been better packaged.

True, loaded message is often delivered in simple terms albeit without being simplistic. But just like a fool who reduces love to a piece of metal fixed to the finger, it is obtusely simplistic to tell Kenyans that you wear a wrist band with the national flag colours at all times as a constant reminder of your love and commitment to your country. That was thoughtless symbolism at its best.

Surely talk is cheap when actions speak loudly otherwise. Jomo Junior sounded more like his late father regurgitating the same old vile trinity of poverty, disease and ignorance. And we are in 2012. What a shameless contradiction for a preface on belief while thoughtlessly extolling the privilege of carrying the country into the future. But at least Uhuru was brave enough to inadvertently add to his dad’s core twin vices as stitched in toxic tribalism and criminal corruption.

Simplistic belief

Reading his speech, one cannot fail to see Uhuru’s irony in preaching about the wealth of our nation’s history while the same lips twist and conveniently fail to warn of the perils of neglecting lessons from the very (dark) past. The speaker must have been comfortable preaching sandwiched between his dad's meusoleum, Uhuru Highway/Park and Mama Ngina Road.

The colonialist was fought primarily for grabbing our land and Uhuru would have led by example and from infront by addressing and offloading the massive acreage his family inherited from his father.

Here we have Uhuru shamelessly talking about past injustices and land issues when his family owns almost 20% of Coast's prime land. And his audience? The multitude landless in all part of the country who have agreed to be collectively fooled.

But I guess asking the basics out of Kenyan politicians is akin to preaching to a choir. No wonder Uhuru wrapped himself in youthful gab pontificating to his listening landless youth that the answers for a better tomorrow lie with them. That was a smart but thinly-veiled laugh at the collective Kenyan youth's grave.

And patented hypocrisy flowed when the gullible youth and audience were asked to leave the unaddressed past behind them and fly forward on the wings of (delusional) transformational change.

Kibaki Legacy: Ethnic Hegemony, Toxic Tribalism

By Pheroze Nowrojee

Though President Kibaki states that he will not endorse any individual’s candidacy, he is in fact endorsing the candidacy of one ethnic group to the presidency. His endorsement of one ethnic group’s candidacy is an endorsement against other ethnic groups. This is an imminent danger to national cohesion. The newspapers are debating what the Kibaki legacy will be. Some posit an infrastructure of roads, others an increased freedom in society. The facts however give the impression that the only legacy that Kibaki wants now to ensure is a succession by the same ethnic group.

Kibaki’s refusal to order a correction of these matters is not a sign of his lack of leadership. To the contrary, it is a sign of his leadership – of these preferences. He is not sitting on the fence. He is squarely on the side of the preferred ethnic outcome. Events to this end take place under his silence.

In furtherance of this, Kibaki is trying an old and obvious trick : the Statute Miscellaneous Amendments Act. This is an Act of Parliament within which it makes amendments to many other Acts of Parliament. It has such a bland name and has so little publicity, that unless one goes through its contents with a tooth comb, one would not know that within it, quietly, many laws are being amended removing constitutional and hard won checks on Presidential or Ministerial powers.

This latest such bill is the Statute Law Miscellaneous Amendments Bill, 2012, which following the bad tradition has slipped in a bad amendment. It is that once their terms are up, (which will be soon), President Kibaki will be able to reappoint the chiefs of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission unilaterally, without Parliament vetting the reappointments or appointments. Since the Commission will control hate speech during the election campaign and can bring criminal cases against violators of the law, this amendment will obviously assist those who will campaign for the ethnic outcome preferred by the President.

Such a process is exactly what Kibaki used two months before the 2007 elections. That year, he unilaterally appointed and re-appointed all his own choices as Election Commissioners in the Election Commission of Kenya (ECK) under Samuel Kivuitu, and refused to allow the political parties to nominate them as previously done. The result of Kibaki’s insistence on his own choices was the disastrous Election of 2007 and the Post- Election Violence which brought Kenya to its lowest point ever.

Now again in 2012, Kibaki and the new elite around him do not care about the nation’s safety, but only about the result they want again - that the same ethnic group is declared winner of the election. Therefore they want the National Cohesion Commission not to prosecute any hate speech from their preferred ethnic group and its candidate, but instead to curb its opponents by prosecutions. For that they need their own appointments, not Parliament’s. Hence the amendment. The amendment must be opposed. Kenya does not want a repeat of a failed-state election or PEV, 2007-8 style.

This time the elite around Kibaki is divided. This is because his actions continuously assist a candidate from only one part of that one ethnic group. Hence the complaints that he prefers a southern candidate and forgets the fact that, “the Kiambu fighters entered the Aberdares several months after our people from Fort Hall and Nyeri had already established themselves there.”(Mau Mau From Within Karari Njama & Donald L. Barnett (1966, 274)

By this amendment only months before the elections, Kibaki is admitting publicly that there is a group that intends to violate the hate speech prohibitions in the National Cohesion Act, and needs immunity to achieve the preferred outcome. Therefore the independence and impartiality of the Cohesion Commission has to be removed before the elections. It also makes clear such a compliant Commission will be used against the opponents of the preferred outcome.

A legacy is what an ancestor leaves to his descendants. Who does Kibaki consider as his descendants? Just now it appears these descendants are only some of the people of Kenya. If he genuinely believes that his descendants should be all the people of Kenya, then he must move away from this ethnic succession. Such a legacy has the dangerously close potential to break the nation, as in 2008. Kibaki must return to and inhabit the centre of Kenya instead of Central Kenya. He must not ride the matatu we once used to see, that said, “Centralising the nation.”

Kenyans Must Learn From History Before They Cast Their Vote

By two Kumekucha Anonymous commentators

What more could be said on this subject? We have been shown - by time and time again - what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why we should do it for the express purpose of enabling ourselves (the majority) to have a better nation in which we can at least be proud of and above all enjoy living in it for a change.

Chris, one thing is for sure, it does not matter who wins the presidency, because we, the people, will still end up on the losing end, as well as find ourselves on the wrong side of the equation after the 2013 general election.

That is unless fundamental changes are made and implemented in all branches of government, the private sector, including all regions of the country.

Otherwise, we, the people, and the fifty year old nation will get another so-called new president (bus driver with moderate driving skills) but remain stuck with one of the world's most dilapidated buses, with the same old myriad of mechanical problems, same old makanga ('marks'), same old untrustworthy mechanics, same old rough and rowdy passengers.

And left with no alternative but swallow our collective pride and accept - as usual - to be driven on the same old unpaved roads that can't handle floods brought about by the seasonal torrential rains.

Well, Musalia Mudavadi may seem to be the lesser of the other four evils (contenders), but corruption incorporated and tribal extremism unlimited will not just evaporate in a matter of weeks and months unless majority of the known godfathers and culprits are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and forced to forfeit their ill-gotten wealth from way back when.

We, the people, have divorced ourselves from history on numerous occasions in the name of collective amnesia, and that's one of the reasons why we've continued to pay a very hefty price, fifty years after independence.

Will someone out there challenge Kenyans from all walks of life to defy the cultural norms - sickening tribal extremism - that compel us never to look beyond our myopic ethnic prism during the much dreaded season of our so-called democratic general election?

Our cultures often insist that we continually strive to support our anointed tribal chiefs during peaceful times, and stand behind our tribal warlords in any type of battle and war, while not informing us that the traditional circling of ethnic wagons for whatever reasons known to us can be a never ending-abyss of discontentment and disillusionment within those very communities.

So far, Kenya has been in desperate need of political leaders cable of 'providing' nurture, safety, healing, development, and vision, and not experts in tribal finger-pointing and sabre rattling before and during election season.

Those of us who survived the post election violence, or were very lucky enough to have not been affected in any way, shape or fashion during the deadly mayhem of '07/'08, should never forget the obvious, that anything can go wrong, and what can go wrong will go wrong if we don't change our national psyche, retrogressive ethnic psyches as well as warped (devilish) personal political interests.

As a matter of fact, the next president, including all of the elected officials and government will not be able to help most of us - you and me - deal with any misfortunes in life that are bound to head our way (God forbid) between May of 2013 and May 2018.

Such as personal economic collapse, divorce, devastating illness, death (within our immediate families and respective communities), usual insecurity, displacement, vehicular maiming, and a myriad of related complications that come with aging etc.

Hence, just because some of us already believe that we are on the right side of history - whatever that means after fifty years of political decadence and ethnic strife that are bound to continue after 2013 - does not give us the right to hate, abuse, despise and look down on our political opponents with malice and hubris.

I will be one of the first people to go off on a limb by saying that there are no guarantees in the coming general elections, and as mater of fact, things are not what they seem to be.

The presidency will not be won on silver platter due to the fact that the dynamics in the country have changed a lot and will continue to change beyond our wildest imaginations.

All things taken into account, may the best candidates win the general elections, and may the most qualified presidential candidate with a national appeal end up being elected by the majority of Kenyans.

President Musalia Mudavadi?

We never learn from history do we?

The truth is that revolutionaries and popular candidates never get elected president of Kenya. But compromise candidates do.

Let’s take a brief trip back in time shall we..

Oh boy there Kumekucha goes again with his boring history lessons, I can hear you sigh and fart in your comfortable chair in some nicely air conditioned office far away from the reality on the ground.

But I insist because it is impossible to see the road ahead clearly without understanding exactly where we are coming from.

In 1963 it was not popular nationalist Tom Mboya who was elected the first president of Kenya. Nor was it the radical Jaramogi Oginga Odinga whom western powers were not comfortable with because of his close links with Moscow. It was moderate scape goat Jomo Kenyatta who had been bust preaching reconciliation with the colonial government having given up on the hope for independence any time soon. The old man found it hilarious that the likes of a young man called Tom Mboya were chanting Uhuru sasa!!!

In 1978 it was not President Kenyatta’s nephew Mr Fix it, Njoroge Mungai who ascended to the presidency nor was it radical nationalist and former vice president Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. It was in fact a clumsy heavy Kalenjin-accent moderate whom nobody respected called Daniel arap Moi.

In 2002 it was not revolutionary popular Kenneth Matiba (the true people’s president) who took over as president nor was it the faithful long-serving vice president of the Moi era George Saitoti. Nor was it the man who had been on permanent campaign mode for many years, Raila Odinga. It was the moderate Mwai Kibaki.

The way things stand now Musalia Mudavadi looks like he is the one. He has all the right characteristics going for him. He is the ideal moderate candidate and the clever but corrupt people backing him have read the situation very cleverly and positioned him as such. Indeed if the elections were held today he would win by a landslide and there would be no need for a run off.

And that is where the problem is. The elections are a long way off and yet a mere week is a very long time in politics. Just as well because if Musalia Mudavadi were to win the presidency the political class in Kenya will have won yet again and the people will have lost... yet again. It is really as simple as that.

I have been very busy in recent days trying to measure the true impact of Mudavadi’s recent moves on the ground and I can report that I saw the kind of excitement that I have not seen in a long time. Even the Kamba who have generally snubbed Raila Odinga are uncharacteristically excited about a Mudavadi candidature. It seems that in Kenyan politics it pays to be quite and humble fence-seater and never step on anybody’s toes (just like Mwai Kibaki was before he ascended to the presidency).

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