Migingo yawa!

"the island is in Kenya, but the waters are in uganda"



I do not think it is wise to continue with the sentence up to the slur on the lakeside Kenyan Luo, for i feel it is too demeaning...or really it may have been the political statement that hon museveni was making? fishy business!



Consider that 160million shillings, half of which was contributed by you, the Kenyan tax payer, is being used for the survey. And now there is a presidential joke about it.



Consider that museveni and kibaki have twice met over the island, and each time, there has been political ill will from uganda.



then ask the questions

1. whose ploy was it that the migingo island became a political issue?


2. what interest does uganda have on the island?


3. if museveni knew that the island was in Kenya, why did he order a flag to fly on the island? he readily could have had a buoy anchored nearby and floating on the waters flying a ugandan flag!


4. what political mileage kibaki got/didn't get from the migingo saga?


5. what political mileage raila got/didn't get from it?

in museveni's latest utterance, apart from the ethnic slur, or because of it, we are made aware that all this bickering has been a side issue, a side kick from the more pressing matters of the day. so what happened when we were talking of migingo?

1. the ugandan flag was flying in a part of kenyan territory (migingo!)
2. the democratic space was constricted by the state. there have been several cases of people and groups denied - on grounds of security - the space to hold public meetings


3. discussions on extra judicial killings have gone to the back burner


4. the Kenyan parliament has gained ground on all other arms of government and has rode rough shod on the electorate and we, indeed, face a likelihood of parliamentary dictatorship


5. the economic crunch hit Kenya, and we are still reeling in confusion


6. mungiki reared its ugly head and many Kenyans now lie dead in shallow graves


7. kilanguni happened, and we missed the point when we concentrated on raila and kibaki and forgot about ourselves -the tax payers


8. the attendance to and presentation at the akiwumi commission has gone on a low key...and there is the possibility of maintaining status quo at the least or mps salaries being increased


9. kibaki appointed judges alone, sending karua into a paroxysm and sending signals of his unrelenting belief in the all powerful presidency


10. maize maize maize stolen stolen stolen and contaminated consignment released to public


11. the constitutional debate died, with committee of experts grounded and a non-reformer appointed to the ministry


12. the treasury thieves outsmarted parliament on about 15 billion irregularity
13. etc

today, 80 million poorer, Kenya -the people of- are abused by a despotic leader of a neighbouring nation and the said Kenyan leaders see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil

migingo yawa!

the speaker

the speaker...

omwana wa ingo aka kenneth marende has done us proud...


he has proved, perceptually or otherwise that he is neither odm nor pnu; like me, he is a kenyan - period!

what a mesmerising position! imagine being called the speaker ( the person who speaks...assumably when all others are quiet)

he, in unswerving dignity, talked the kalonzo's and the raila's to silence, he decided that government (read executive authority) can go take a rope and hang on the nearest tree, but the house in which he speaks, must have a way to conduct business!

and that is the beauty of knowing your job. he spoke, and all was put to rest. forget that it is temporal, just consider the largess that he exhibited, consider the ground that he broke.

1. he showed that parliament may refuse to be government (regardless of the fact that it is an integral arm of the same)
2. he, for once in the history of the coalition government, made all of us see raila and kibaki as totally unimportant in our lives
3. he demystified the authority of the executive ... the all powerful executive was reduced to second fiddle
4. he, unlike the so called principals, got support from all sides of the house

or is it that the deal had to be brokered because mps do not want to go home? (the house without a leader of the HBC would have adjourned for six months...by the time these people got back to sit, inflation would have hit the roof, all prices and especially those of essential commodities would have sky-rocketed and public anger would see us march to the august hse and set it on an august blaze!)

kenyans need to seize this moment and remove the raila's and the kibaki's from their lives. by the way, these guys are just apologists from high flying thieves, themselves complicit and thus inextricably compromised; and hence unable to lead us to any prosperity except the rotten slime of convoluted corruption.

any other man or woman ready to stand up for the counting?

those that participated in the sex boycott are already standing...the rest of you are what kenya does not need...liabilities!

bure kabisa!