Shocking new info reveals exactly how Mutula was killed

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Much has been said about the late Makueni senator Mutula Kilonzo so much so that many Kenyans no longer care to know if he was murdered or not. For those interested in the truth Kumekucha Chris has stumbled on devastating new evidence that sheds new light and not only proves that Mutula was indeed murdered but also points to the ingenious hi-tech method used that left no trace of poison in his body. Had the family not hired a foreign pathologist the small detail that points to the truth would have been overlooked (as the assassins had so intricately planned).

http://www.squeezeframes.com/0/104/104090/55411.html

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  Biashara Daktari When the tantrums have passed those who are interested will want to know that I have seen the new info and it is very compelling. Should make any Kenyan very, very scared. Yesterday it was Mutula tomorrow it will be you and people will be saying you died from a Viagra overdose. What kind of assassins are these that have come to Kenya and where the hell are they from?

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  Anne Wa Muriu Viagra pap! if wat u av is the truth post it for all to see. y ask for emails? u r the pple hacking pples emails

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  Dark Secrets of the Kenyan Presidency Viagra pap it is!! Let's move on then shall we?? Thank you also for ur wild unsubstantiated accusation about me hacking people's email (I wonder for what purpose people do that for, it is NOT a bank account is it?). Ignorance and gullibility is ur democratic right.

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  Anne Wa Muriu if u av information weka kwa gazeti watu wasome. that which u r not willing to publish keep to urself coz its propaganda. after all hatafufuka

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  Carol Nyege Kenyans are angry at Mutula for sleeping with underage girls and for his womanizing ways so much so that his assassination no longer means anything. The propaganda Anne is accusing you of is the same propaganda from state agents that has worked so well on her that she has come out early this morning spitting venom on you (Chris Kumekucha) for doing what you have been doing for years (giving those who are interested a heads up on what is really going on). Chris, a man with your experience and track record in this business should not get diverted by her sarcastic "weka kwa gazeti" tantrums. Let sleeping dogs lie and let Viagra-theory-pap folks remain with their Viagra theories and focus your efforts instead on those of us who don't swallow everything we read in newspapers or watch on TV because we know better. Keep em coming Chris and don't waste time with Viagra people.

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  Carol Nyege Kenyans are so naive that it pains me. No wonder the country is in such a mess. The problem is not our leaders but the Kenyan people themselves. They elect trash and then start complaining when the trash manifests itself. Bure kabisa nkt!!!

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  Anne Wa Muriu Nyege n Chris(if thats who u r) if u know the truth n cant share it publicly then keep it to urself. kuandika a composition on this comment does not help. even my comment are tantrums yako Nyege ni nn?

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  Biashara Daktari Kenyans are highly educated fools. Mutula's symptoms were NOT Viagra symptoms, a simple Google search will assist those who do not know. Yet today most Kenyans believe the Makueni senator died from a Viagra overdose.

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  Biashara Daktari Does it mean that if a womanizer dies their death should not matter and is good riddance? Is all the good that Mutula did for our country cancelled out by his womanizing ways? aki Kenyans are just disgusting.

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  Anne Wa Muriu does it make a difference wat he died of?

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  Dark Secrets of the Kenyan Presidency @ Anne Wa Muriu Probably doesn't make a difference. But is that the point here?

Mike Sonko: Pewa, kila mtu apewe... saa ya kazi? Hio nini???

Now what would Nairobi senator Mike Sonko be doing having a drink with cops? And during working hours. Can somebody solve this mystery for me? Ama ni business as usual in the banana republic?

Chinedu update: Hilarious joke by Federeal Government of Nigeria

 
Chinedu: "When you touch a mad man is when you realize that even a mad man has a mother and a father"

The official position made clear just a few hours ago by the Nigerian federal government is that "the flight is going through routine security checks and would be released on completion." They further add that there were "security breaches" and that is why the aircraft and the Kenyans were held. The assumption here is that those held also require " routine security checks" and will be released when that is done. LOL!!!

This is the kind of explanation that can only be accepted by idiots. Since when did you hear that a plane had been grounded for 2 weeks (and counting) for "security breaches.'?

Here is the full report quoting the government and airport officials on the grounding of the Kenyans;

The Federal Government has today cited non compliance with security procedures as part of the reasons why it grounded a Kenyan aircraft that brought in three Nigerian deportees to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos.

The aircraft has been detained by security agencies since June 3 under the directive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Coordinating General Manager, Corporate Communications, Aviation Parastatals, Yakubu Dati, who confirmed the grounding of the aircraft said that the flight is going through routine security checks and would be released on completion.

He also disclosed that the aircraft, a DC-9 with registration number, 5Y-SAX owned by Cavoc Airlines arrived Nigeria on June 3 with 18 persons on board, 15 of which were crew members and three Nigerians that were deported.

The deported Nigerians he said were still in detention at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the watchful eyes of security agencies.

His words, "On June 3, 2013 , about 18:36 hours, a Kenya aircraft with registration number 5Y-SAX, owned by Cavoc Airlines arrived Nigeria with a total of 18 persons. Among them, 15 were crew members while the three other persons on board were passengers.

The three Nigerians were said to be deportees from Kenya, but the security agencies in Lagos discovered that certain procedures were not complied with and subsequently grounded the aircraft.

"That is why the aircraft has been grounded and it is going through security routine at the moment. As soon as the grey areas are clarified the aircraft will be released according to the laws of the land. The type of aircraft is DC-9 and the deportees are still under detention."

Real reason why Nigerian government is holding Kenyans.

Why Kethi Must Win Makueni Senatorial Race

 
There are many good reasons why Kethi Kilonzo must win the race for Makueni senator slated for July 21st.

Let me start with the less obvious. 

She is a single mother. No stats are immediately available as to how many young single mothers we have in Kenya today but at a recent crusade an altar call was made to single mothers to come out for prayer and more than half of the massive crowd came forward.

Single mothers deserve special attention by the government because they are a valuable untapped resource that can help turn round things in the banana republic. Sadly many sharp minds with lots of potential never recover from that usually accidental pregnancy. Kethi was lucky that she had such strong parents. Having a senior politician to eloquently represent the single mothers of Kenya and to be a great role model to show them what can be achieved is a great start.

The more obvious reasons why Kethi must win have to do with the Mutula Kilonzo legacy. I don't know anybody else who has contributed more in the fight for the implementation of the new constitution, especially on the thorny issue of devolution. But sadly the grim reaper did not allow Mutula to finish his work because as we speak the Mpigs are flexing their muscles and have halted much-needed funds from going to the counties and the very people who elected them. Kethi needs to finish her father's work and as fate would have it, the late senator actually introduced his daughter to the Kenyan people at the Supreme court hearings on the presidential elections weeks to his death. It was as if he was saying, let her continue my work.

But what Kenyans must know is that Kethi has had a very hard time making the decision to stand. two days ago she and her brother issued a statement saying that no member of the family would stand and that instead they would focus their efforts on building the law firm that her late father left behind. What the statement did not talk about was the pressure and even thinly veiled threats directed at her not to stand.

Kethi will just have to gather courage and prepare for the long hard fight ahead against some of the dirtiest political players in the banana republic who are all circling the seat, salivating.

She will even need to face off with the mighty TNA political machine that is committed to snatching the Makueni seat from CORD. Harun Mwau has recently been to State house to discuss the seat and observers believe that his PICK party will run as a TNA affiliate in this race.

All Kenyans of good will need to support Kethi. We badly need her kind in Kenyan politics just now.

James Gichuru: Powerful cabinet minister and founding father who never lost his love for seedy bars and heavy drinking

James Gichuru has the distinction of being the cabinet minister who left important and confidential cabinet documents in a bar along River Road in the 1960s. He was then serving as minister of finance in Jomo Kenyatta's cabinet. 

James Gichuru Road is a long winding road in Nairobi that starts when you branch off Waiyaki Way. It goes past St Mary's, where President Uhuru Kenyatta went to school. When you are on it you will see some of the most majestic upmarket residences in the country. Hardly a description of the man whom it is named after.

For starters James Gichuru has the distinction of being the cabinet minister who left important and confidential cabinet documents in a bar along River Road in the 1960s. He was then serving as minister of finance in Jomo Kenyatta's cabinet.

It is not clear whether he ever recovered the briefcase with the sensitive documents.

A humble down to earth man who was a close supporter of Tom Mboya, Gichuru never changed his ways just because he was a cabinet minister. He preferred having a drink with ordinary wananchi and riff ruffs in seedy bars in downtown Nairobi that he had started frequenting in the colonial days when Africans were not allowed into the CBD (starting from what is today Tom Mboya street), even after they had been allowed to drink beer for the first time. However the minister preferred hard drinks.

Twice he stepped down for Jomo Kenyatta as leader of a political grouping/party during critical times in Kenya’s struggle for Independence. In 1947 he was president of the Kenya African Union (KAU), the only nationwide African political party, when Kenyatta returned from Britain to join the freedom struggle. Fifteen years later, he would step down again for Kenyatta again, this time from the presidency of the newly formed Kenya African National Union (KANU) shortly after the latter was released from detention in Lodwar.

Gichuru played a game-changing role in a curious incident that took place in Kiambu when African members of the Legco got together to form KANU in 1960. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in a fierce power struggle with Tom Mboya hatched a plan to form a national political party that would exclude Mboya. He did his groundwork well and convinced most in the powerful Kikuyu clique who had previously backed Mboya accusing him of being dangerous and not the kind of person to be included in the new party. That move would have finished Mboya politically had it not been for Gichuru's decision to stand firm and support him to the hilt.

Despite his weakness for the bottle he was well respected and very popular politically. Many were puzzled at Gichuru's coziness with Mboya and there were even rumours that Mboya had a hold over Gichuru because of some damaging information he had on him that dated back to Mau Mau days. However most analysts at the time attributed this to his principled non-tribal approach to national politics. In the end Mboya ended up as the powerful secretary general of a party he had deliberately been excluded from in the beginning.

The truth is that Gichuru is one of the very few powerful cabinet ministers who never abandoned the original vision for independence in exchange for amassing vast wealth for himself. A true unsung Kenyan hero of the struggle and founding father of the Kenyan nation.


Additional Gichuru info from a reader;

Gichuru was not the most highly likeable member of the Kenyatta Cabinet, and a lot of the elite members of the Mumbi's House distrusted him and were frustrated by some of the lifestyle choices he had made after being accepted into the higher echelons of powers.

He was considered as a friend of the foreigners - outsiders and strangers, which explains his affinity for individuals like Mboya and others.

As stated, he was a man who never changed his humble ways at time when most of his contemporaries were fond of being seen drinking, eating and socializing in some of the most exclusive establishments in Nairobi, Nakuru, Nanyuki and Mombasa.

Gichuru never had the urge to shift his after hours activities to some of the upgraded venues where other cabinet ministers and who was who at the time were known to frequent, such as the Hilton, Stanley, Winsdor, Muthaiga ..., Intercontinental, and other exclusive county clubs that were patronized by the reminants of the settler community and expatriates.

He may never have changed his spots but was not known to be a champion of chauvinistic politics of the day, including wanton greed, bad deals and corrupt financial decisions that contributed to the stagnation of the country's economy throughout the mid-late 60s, 70s, and the consequent ripple effect that reverberated throughout the 80s, 90s and 2000s.

He was an odd ball of a kind, and was never scared or fearful of Kenyatta in the same way his contemporaries were during the post-colonial adminstration, and that's why Kenyatta valued his opinion and input where necessary.

This was at time when the choir boys - kitchen cabinet - were overly accustomed to following Kenyatta wherever he went around Nairobi, Nakuru, Mombasa, or whenever he was in Gatundu.

Those were 'good old days' when Kenya was ruled as one big village under the tight control and carte blanche micromanagement of the dreaded mighty provincial commissioners, provincial police officers, provincial CID officers, and leftover colonial chiefs and their nosey sub-chiefs.

Chris,
Another common thread held by those who were familiar with the era where few courageous big men like him (James Gichuru) mingled freely with ordinary people at various watering holes in the city, states that the mystery of the misplaced official briefcase was resolved when it was retrieved and delivered to the minister's office in the early morning hours of the next day.

The old leather briefcase had a secure combination lock and its contents were never compromised at any time, thanks to the quick action of the manager at the establishment where the minister's patronage was highly cherished.

In those days, there was a special corner table reseved for him just in case he ventured in for a quick drink with friends or serious business dealings with special guests during his regular hours.

Believe it or not, there was a fresh broiled sirloin steak named after him because they used to prepare it - tengeneze kama ile ya munene - in the manner in which he liked it.

Unfortunately, the well known establishment along River Road that was once located several blocks from another establishment that used to front a huge sign - Miti Ni Dawa - above its main entrance, was demolished and gave room to a modern hotel that was built in its place.

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Interesting comments on TJRC assassinations: Tom Mboya

The quality of comments from my last post on the Mboya assassinations was unusually high and some of them were extremely illuminating. I just had to share them in a main post;

"The culture of the Suba People IS VERY distinct from those of the Luo.

The Suba people practice circumcision as an initiation process from boyhood to adulthood. Mostly boys are circumcised. In some clans, even girls are circumcised."

Today many people in the islands and the highlands subsequent to the Victoria still retain the suba dialect that is closely related to the GANDA language although it is heavily influenced by the bigger Luo Language."

Wikipedia:


Taabu said...

    Chris,

    TJ is a classical case of benefiting in death what you would never achieve in life. Were TJ to be alive today he would have gone back to Suba or rendered politically irrelevant.

    Lack of political models leaves us holding to corpses for inspiration.

Anonymous said...

    Taabu,

    Did you really have to go there, let alone remind those of us still seeking inspiration, that lack of political models leaves us holding onto to corpses for inspiration?

    Did you have to be so cruel at a time when the majority of us are desperately seeking in every which way for better political models and sane leadership throughout all corners of what is left of the Banana Republic?

Anonymous said...

    The rather naive and idealistic young politician, Tom Mboya, may have been misled into believing that the majority of the politicians and people of his day held onto the very same patriotic feelings, principles and nationwide efforts for a better Kenya as he did.

    When in reality, all that everyone of the leading politicians, post colonial vanguard and regional groups that had emerged after independence, ever wanted was to become Kenyanized versions of little Europeans aka Bwana Kubwas at the expense of real Uhuru, freedom, better governance, justice and equity for all.

    Mboya stood on principle and ended up becoming a real stumbling block in the eyes and path of those who didn't have the country's interests at heart.

    And that is one of the many reasons why Mboya had to be eliminated in one way or another so that he could not continue to complicate matters for those who wanted to own the country and run it as a tribal fiefdom once the last vestiges of colonialism and settler community had left the country's powerful political circles and business bastions of old boys privilege.

    The bottom line is that, the people who ended paying the highest price and continue to do so, are the ordinary Kenyans, given their current collective abysmal state of life fifty years after independence, as well as since July 5th 1969 when impunity won the day.




Taabu said...

    Chris,

    On reflection, a living TJ would have 'regretted' how politically NAIVE he was then.

TOM MBOYA: Focus on TJRC assassinations

 
Why was Mboya’s assassination so significant? Simply because the two bullets that were fired that Saturday lunch time July 5th 1969 changed the course of Kenya forever. Today we are suffering the consequences of that new course that was clearly charted out that day. Impunity won that day. Years later the rhetorical questions were to be asked over and over again by those who own Kenya; Mboya was killed and nothing happened, who is so and so? We survived the Mboya assassination what crisis can we not survive?

Tribal politics won that day. In killing Mboya the assassins killed nationalism. To date we are yet to see another Kenyan attracting national popularity in their own right enough to win a presidential poll with votes from every corner of the republic. Every single prominent politician now has their political base in their ancestral village and those who don’t have imported their fellow tribesmates in large numbers into the constituency they represent away from their village. Mboya's political base was Eastlands Nairobi and the non-tribal culture that rules the place today owes much of it's foundation to TJ, as his friends called him. Tom Mboya was a Luo (Suba) who was time and again voted in by mostly Kikuyus even when other prominent Kikuyus from very prominent families stood against him. To a young Kenyan who understands Kenyan politics today, this statement may sound like pure fiction.

Again Ben Gethi was deeply involved in that assassination that shook the world.
http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-was-mboyas-assassination-so.html?m=0

ICC Drama... na bado

 
The shadowy Alfred "Anglo Leasing" Gitonga pictured here in London with President Mwai Kibaki (is that a Tusker he is drinking?) shortly before the 2002 general elections that brought Kibaki to power. Gitonga who went to St Mary's with President Uhuru Kenyatta is believed to be a key member of the current president's kitchen cabinet.

The very suggestion of Jomo Kenyatta being Prime Minister appalled the knowledgeable Kenyan middle class and high society in 1960. After all a court of law had confirmed his links to Mau mau, those terrorists who thrived on chopping off the heads of innocent white settlers and natives as well.

The very suggestion of Uhuru Kenyatta being president appalled the knowledgeable Kenyan middle class and many others in 2013. After all he was linked to serious human rights abuses and was facing charges at the ICC.

For the very reasons that people were terrified of a Jomo Kenyatta premiership KANU won the 1963 elections emphatically and formed the government.

For the very reasons that some Kenyans were terrified of a Uhuru Kenyatta government, JUBILEE won the 2013 elections getting majority seats in both the senate and house of representatives and formed the government.

There are uncanny similarities between the situation in 1963 and 2013 (50 years apart). Little wonder that the good book says there is nothing new under the sun. Still, there are a few rather huge differences.

About 2 weeks ago I predicted here that the ICC issue which had been getting pretty boring was going to suddenly come alive and get very interesting. That has now come to pass (na bado) but what most Kenyans are not aware of is that there is a master plan for the ICC where the Kenyan cases at the Hague court are going to be attacked from all fronts. Those ICC cases MUST go away. They MUST!!!! Details of this master plan are jaw dropping to say the least and will involve considerable taxpayer's resources. Sorry folks security in the country has to take a back seat for now because this is way too important. Even if it was you would you ignore self-preservation to serve the people?? Think about it.

But what are the political implications of the AU signatories to the Rome statute protesting the work of the court in one voice (53 states out of 54) and even pulling out enmasse from the ICC (if what they want done does not happen)? What will it do to the authority of the court now desperately struggling for credibility when many in Africa had seen as a light at the end of a long dark tunnel of bad governance and impunity amongst African leaders? The sad truth is that the political realities in the West have changed dramatically amid unprecedented economic chaos and financial uncertainties. They now need Africa more than ever before. Not to mention the fact that East Africa is suddenly oil rich with significant deposits of the precious and very political resource having recently been found in Uganda and Kenya.

Meanwhile a quite battle simmers deep inside the JUBILEE government where powerful sources are bent on clipping the wings of deputy president William Ruto. Those who believe that the president is strong enough to keep powerful forces watching his back at bay are naive. Indeed the composition of the president's inner cabinet which includes his mother and one Alfred Gitonga amongst others should enable anybody to make a fairly accurate prediction on what is going to inevitably come. 

See also; Why has Mrs Pauline Musyoka wife of former vice president Kalonzo Musyoka always kept a low profile and done her best to keep a very safe distance from the limelight that her husband’s political career has attracted? The answer to that question is mighty interesting to say the least.

Happy 8th Birthday Kumekucha - Compliments From Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga

This twitter message from former Prime Minister Raila Odinga is to all readers, contributors and posters of Kumekucha Blog. 

Ruto Troubles Plus Oldest Political Blog In Kenya, Kumekucha Celebrates 8th Anniversary

When a king uses a chariot to get to his palace, he normally leaves it outside when he gets to his destination.

That is the gist of what Kalenjin voters told William Ruto when he started appealing to them to vote for the JUBILEE coalition. Ruto's convincing response (as was earlier reported in an earlier issue of these raw notes) was that he had the king's clothes and all his shameful secrets and would expose him if anything went wrong. In other words Ruto told his people in their Kalenjin dialect that he had the King by the balls and he would therefore be the real power behind the throne throughout the next 5 years.

This Ruto influence and power came out very clearly in the line up of cabinet secretaries and cynical Kalenjins must have breathed a lot easier. However it seems that their relief was premature and short-lived and it now looks like the prophets of doom will finally be proved right.

There are a number of clear signs that all is now well for Ruto and that powerful forces surrounding the throne have targeted him and are working very hard to ensure that the power he enjoys is greatly diminished. If you are rubbing your hands in glee thinking that he will be forced to resign then I have to disappoint you. It is extremely unlikely that it will come to that. However what Kenyans should expect is a return to the Kibaki days where the centre of power will only be the president and his close advisors. All signs are that Ruto will go through the kind of frustrations that Raila Odinga went through as PM and end up with a nusu mkate that in actual fact is a single slice or even less. I have given details of the numerous setbacks that Ruto has suffered in recent times plus the surprising composition of Uhuru's inner circle and kitchen cabinet in my latest raw notes.


Happy Birthday Kumekucha brand
It is with great joy that I celebrate the 8th birthday of the Kumekucha brand. The Kumekucha blog was stated on May 12th 2005. These raw notes were launched in April 2008 and so this is the 5th birthday for the raw notes.

As I look back I do so with pride at how far we have come as a country. Kumekucha was launched with a strong emphasis on political assassinations and historical injustices (see all our old posts for verification of this) indeed when we started strongly suggesting in 2005 that a truth and reconciliation commission be set up to address these historical injustices there was great skepticism over whether it would ever happen in our lifetimes. Not only did it happen but you will also be aware that the TJRC explosive report has just been released and is now in the public domain. You can see the full report HERE.

Indeed if I was to shut down Kumekucha now, I would already have plenty to be so proud of, the stuff that you tell your grandchildren with pride. But don't worry I have no such intentions, if anything today as I celebrate I re-dedicate myself to get even better at what I have been doing for decades and already for 8 years here.

To celebrate this auspicious occasion we are giving away the raw notes and other products almost for FREE. See the details NOW!!

The numb-shocking news about to break...

 
Kibaki's 500 million Mweiga home built with taxpayers funds: Will he ever occupy it?

These days Kenyans are virtually shock-proof. No news no matter how big will shock them. But one particular story is about to break that will shatter the shock-proof glass. 

I stumbled onto this information while following up on what appeared to be an insignificant development. Indeed one of my readers highlighted the fact that I was barking up the wrong tree and indulging in "speculative dishonesty".

Before I tell you what they said let me make it clear that I really treasure emails from my dear readers. Even the abusive ones (thank God I have a thick skin for criticism more so because my record speaks for itself and always vindicates me. Weeks and sometimes months later haters are always forced to eat their words as the "rubbish" I wrote comes to pass). What would any writer treasure more than the feedback they get from the very people who read what they have to say? More so in today's world where there is so much choice as far as reading is concerned and so if somebody makes the time to read what I have to say it is a great honour that I will always deeply appreciate and treasure. I thank you most sincerely that you are reading this.

The reader wrote the following email to me recently in response to an article I wrote here;

"Why would you expect KIBAKI, who has lived in Nairobi since 1958 and in his home in Muthaiga for more than 30 years' to retire to a different location (to do what in OTHAYA?).

Is that investigative reporting or speculative dishonesty?"

Well my response is that people are creatures of habit and become fairly predictable when you have been following their actions for a long time.

Moi and Kibaki are as different as night and day. Moi is a workaholic who still gets up before 4am every morning. And yet when he left the presidency he was flown to his Kabarak home where he spent some time relaxing before he was ever seen in Nairobi again.

Kibaki never gets out of bed before 11am (although he is younger than Moi) and during his presidency key government officials were forced to learn to operate around his limited time work day. The government worked slower and decisions took much longer to be made. The former president also loves to go to Mombasa to relax and will always be found at the Coastal town every Christmas without fail. So what you would have expected to happen is that he would have at least spent a few days in Mombasa after his retirement. He did NOT.  Kibaki has never left Nairobi or seen the need to relax after a presidency that took a terrible toll on his health.

Secondly the Kshs 500 million palatial home built for him with taxpayers funds in Mweiga was not done in secret. Clearly that is the place he plans to spend most of his retirement relaxing in. Yet he hasn't gotten there yet.

The truth is that Mwai Kibaki is facing the biggest crisis of his entire life. This is what has kept him from taking even a brief break. He cannot afford to just now. In my latest raw notes I investigate deeply what this problem is and using the latest shocking report (received late last night), I analyze his chances of weathering this storm and getting out of the crisis which are very slim indeed, hence the big screaming headline you must expect at any time.

You read here weeks ago that there was immense pressure from certain quarters to ensure that the CORD nominee for the Makueni senatorial seat would be Kethi Kilonzo. So you were hardly surprised when that news broke yesterday. Now you are about to read something that will break in the mainstream media maybe weeks from today and it will send shock waves right across the entire continent of Africa and beyond. Do ensure that you get my raw notes today.

What's going on at the Daily Nation?
The same reader who wrote me the email I have quoted above also said in the same message;

"Investigative journalism died with the Weekly  Review of  HILARY NG'WENO, the Economic Review of PETER  WARUTERE tried but they too folded.It is expensive and requires well trained journalists and NOT the type of half baked staff found in our media houses. Moreover, Kenyans are a fickle type they are better off reading "rumours" of the STAR newspaper rather than news."

Here I agree with most of what he has said. It is rather obvious that investigative journalism in Kenya is dead. However I beg to differ slightly. The Daily Nation for instance has some of the most talented journalists in Africa and even beyond (certainly NOT half-baked). Resources are also not a problem for the giant cash rich Nation media group. So they have absolutely no excuse for not delivering the kind of journalism that Kenya needs very badly just now.

But instead the Daily Nation has been publishing very strange stories in recent times from outright lies to the kind of stories designed to do damage that cannot be repaired.

The most recent example of this is the Ruto Kshs 100 million leased jet saga. The writer of the story did not seek to get a comment from the government and nobody will remember that the government has now denied the story let alone believe them. The damage has already been done and it is irreparable. Kenyans across the political divide and many within the JUBILEE coalition are livid about the wanton wastage in such a poor country as our banana republic and nobody wants the facts to get in the way of this juicy controversy.

What exactly is going on at the Nation media group? Who supplied the damaging Ruto story and why? We all know what kind of a person the deputy president is and his past sins are well documented but that is not the issue here is it? The really important story here is that the public are being fed with the kind of stories some powerful people want them to hear. My detailed raw notes digs deep into this issue and if you have been religiously swallowing everything published in the Nation you will be extremely disturbed by what I have unearthed.

Striking similarities between Uhuru and Obama?

 
(Guest post by Jeremy Kinyanjui)
Newly elected Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and US President Barack Obama: Two Kenyans with strikingly similar stories and strikingly similar connections to each other;

1. As mentioned, both men are Kenyans

2. Both men born in 1961, Uhuru on 26th October 1961, Barack on 4th August 1961

3. Both are left-handed

4. Barack is of mixed-race, while his wife Michelle is not of mixed race. Uhuru is not of mixed race, while Uhuru's wife Margaret is of mixed race

5. Both men are devoted to their spouses, judging from their public utterances and actions

6. Both men do not have Christian names even though they are both very religious and spiritual. Uhuru's full names are Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, while Barack's full names are Barack Hussein Obama

7. The first names of both men have profound meanings in Kiswahili, the Lingua Franca of East & Central Africa. "Uhuru" means "Freedom" in Kiswahili, while "Barack" is derived from "Baracka" which means blessings in Kiswahili

8. Both men are from Kenya's two biggest tribes. Uhuru is a Kikuyu, Kenya's biggest tribe, while Barack is a Luo, Kenya's second biggest tribe

9. Both men lead sharply divided and polarised countries. Kenya is worryingly divided on ethnic lines, while the United States is worrying divided on ideological lines i.e. Democrats and Republicans, the Left and the Right

10. Both Uhuru's father and Barack's father attended prestigious overseas institutions. Uhuru's father went to the London School of Economics, while Barack's father attended Harvard University

11. Uhuru is from an aristocratic background, while Barack isn't. Uhuru's father Jomo Kenyatta, was independent Kenya's founding Prime Minister and President, and his great-grandfather Kongo wa Magana (i.e. Kongo son of Magana), was a medicine-man. On the other hand, Barack's Kenyan grandfather, was a cook in colonial Kenya's army, what was then known as the Kings African Rifles (KAR)

12. Barack's father was a senior economist in Kenya's Ministry of Economic Planning when Uhuru's father was President of Kenya. At the time, Barack's father wrote a fiercely hostile critique of Jomo Kenyatta's economic growth & development module for independent Kenya, what was then known as Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965 on African Socialism, which in Jomo Kenyatta's words , combined both "Western Capitalism and Eastern Communism". The senior Obama's dismissal of Jomo Kenyatta's Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965, earned the senior Obama the wrath of Jomo Kenyatta's inner circle. The senior Obama lost his job at the Ministry of Economic Planning as a result of this. The senior Obama secured a job at the Kenya Tourist Development Corporation (KTDC), after this, but did not also last long at KTDC. While reeling from his second job loss, the senior Obama had the good fortune of bumping into an old acquaintance, Mwai Kibaki, at Nairobi's Hotel Intercontinental. Kibaki, independent Kenya's third President, was then the Kenyan Minister of Finance. The senior Obama did not mince his words, and told Kibaki he was looking for work. Kibaki asked the senior Obama to see him the following week, which the senior Obama promptly did. Kibaki arranged for the senior Obama to be hired at the Ministry of Finance, and the senior Obama was back. The junior Obama appears to have never forgiven the senior Kenyatta for his father's dismissal from the Kenya's Ministry of Economic Planning. When the junior Obama visited Kenya as Senator Obama in 2006, the junior Obama paid glowing tribute to then President Kibaki, referring to Kibaki as a "good man, for giving his father a job at the Ministry of Finance". Senator Obama made no mention at all of Jomo Kenyatta, and omitted laying a wreath at the mausoleum of Jomo Kenyatta, as is customary with visiting dignitaries to Kenya

13. Both men value their roots and heritage. Uhuru speaks excellent Kikuyu and very good Kiswahili, while the junior Obama visited his ancestral Nyang’oma-Kogelo village in Kenya’s Nyanza Province as a "nobody" at least twice i.e. 1987 and 1991. The junior Obama even visited in the company of Michelle in 1991

14. Both men have a great admiration and regard for their fathers and both men listen to alternative opinion. Uhuru used to keep long hair like his father Jomo, brushed backwards like Jomo used to. Uhuru's year 2002 campaign team advised against this and Uhuru complied. Uhuru has not kept long hair like his father Jomo since 2002. Barack on the other hand, was influenced by his wife Michelle, to drop his chain-smoking habit

15. Uhuru reputedly drank heavily in his youth, while Barack reputedly smoked marijuana in his youth

16. Both men appear not to have time for each other. Uhuru's hero is Fidel Castro, while Barack's is Abraham Lincoln. Uhuru is a fan of Bob Marley, while Barack is a fan of hip-hop and soul music

17. Both have an excellent command of the English language and both are excellent orators in English

18. Both men are humble and down to earth, men of the people

19. Both men's fathers had four wives each. Jomo Kenyatta's four wives were Grace Wahu, Grace Wanjiku, Edna Grace Clarke and Ngina, while Barack Senior's four wives were Kezia, Ann, Ruth and Jael

20. Uhuru's wife Margaret grew up on the affluent west side of Nairobi, while Barack's wife Michelle grew up on the less affluent south side of Chicago. Both Margaret and Michelle are however humble and down to earth, indeed, like both their Kenyan husbands

Will both men meet...? It seems likely...