migingo

You are sure i have tried not to write anything for the last 31 days.

I was dry and tired of the country turned butchery...of the country at peace turned to a country at war, both with the word and the sword

I am told people in Kirinyaga are killing each other apparently because they are suspected to be mungiki or mungiki haters...

But i wrote here today because of Migingo.

And surely, Migingo's is an amazing affair! Can you imagine a government allowing another government to hoist a flag of a different sovereignity in its land, alow the soldiers of that other country to tax and harras its own citizens and generally to run the affairs of that place?

That government that allows such incredulity is not a government!

And now we are being wooed to think diplomacy? Goodness gracious! What diplomacy? What is the diplomacy of forceful and armed territorial occupation?

Sisi sio wajinga!

Migingo has been sold to Uganda? Ask Kibaki why he is quiet if this is not a rumour!

This is another way of privatisation!

ASSASSINATIONS

If anybody in this country of ours called Kenya really wants to kill you, my dear reader, and they have no way of going about it, and especially if that person can access a gun or that person is in the employ of one of these indisciplined forces that we support with our taxes, they just brand you Mungiki and poof! you are gone.

Kingara Kamau and GPO Oulu were thus labeled and executed. Thursday 5th March 09 at around 6.30pm on Mamlaka Rd/Statehouse rd, Nairobi

Why were they labeled thus?
They had given extensive reports to Prof Alston the UN Special Rapporteur and were finalising a more extensive report on their findings on the extra-judicial killings of alleged Mungiki by police. They were also mobilising for a meeting of the widows of the hitherto executed youngmen in an effort to advocate for the end of the macabre murders.

Who killed them?
Grow up! How do you expect the police to know? It could be anybody!

Note:
A University of Nairobi student, carrying the book he was reading in the library, was judged as a threat to state security in the aftermath of the execution and, likewise, murdered.

Question:
Now, where are we at as a nation?

Answer:
We are trying all we can to ensure the grand collission survives to 2012; we are ensuring that the vision 2030 is realised; we are undertaking police reforms; we are creating a new constitution; we are increasing the wealth creation /economic growth index

Question
How?

Answer
By eliminating people who tell the truth to us and to the world. People who spent their lives fighting for the rights of others.

Lable?
Enemies of development. Idlers. Thugs. Adherents to criminal gangs.

MORAL OF THE STORY
Be a dead banana: hear no evil, see no evil, tell of no evil and you shall be safe.

Front Door Colonialists

I have argued here before, and I hereby do, that the problems facing this our country are of a political nature. This is not space science and I am sure you know this already. So what's the point of my rhetoric?

There is the english proverb that goes on about a forest and trees. I do not know which way it goes in reference to confused people who harp on unimportant ideas - whether they are in the forest or they have missed it for the trees. But one thing is certain to me, Kenya has one huge forest peopled by trees of problems: there is a tree each for the stolen maize, the unaffordable maize flour, the IDPs still in the camps, the siphoned fuel, the extrajudicial killings, the negligence leading to deaths by fire, the lost parliament, the dead parliamentarians, the inept and corrupt principals, the idle youth, the cordless accord, the theft of tax monies, the killed new constitution making process etc etc etc....trees trees and trees. So where is the forest?

It must have been Saturday 28th when honour less beth mugo called Prof Alston a colonialist using the backdoor (i.e UN status and responsibility) to colonise Kenya (i.e to ask for the resignation of people -smiling wako and arrogant ali - who have abetted the killing of over 500 youths in the name of Mungiki extermination.)

I do not know whether Prof Alston's ten day visit brought a forest or the trees. Why did Kiraithe react so energetically, to the extent of identifying Commissioner Hassan of KNCHR as the enemy? Why are our politicians reacting to the findings as if Alston came from outer space? Haven't we had these reports here for so long? has the civil society not published these reports before? Is is in doubt that ali, wako, the perpetrators of PEV, the maize and oil thieves etc should go home? Is it in doubt that raila and kibaki have failed?

We can deal with back door colonialists as a people, but, we must admit, we have been unable to deal with front door colonialists.

So who are the front door colonialists? kibaki, raila, ministers, mps, police, attorney general, local government councils, all anti-land reform crusaders, all anti new constitution crusaders (note: those politicians shouting for a new constitution are the first to put bottlenecks to its realisation!), all thieves (legitimate or otherwise) of public resources etc.

So who are the colonised: the Kenyan Public!

How then do we deal with front door colonialists?

REMOVE THEM FROM OFFICE!

We do not need a president or prime minister complete with 42 significant others and over fifty insignificant others plus over one hundred attendants and about five hundred hangers on in this country who are feeding on our taxes, stealing us blind, confounding our attempts at legal redress, dictating that we be amnesic and that we see god (salvation) in them! no.

imagine these people who are our problem are just below one thousand!

How cowardly we are as a nation, that thirty five million people are made so very miserable by so few confabulating noise makers!

Solution?

some lessons:

France: Revolution! The people forced the king and the royalty to step aside

Sierra Leone: Paraded and shot. Anarchy spread (wrong way)

Uganda: A "benevolent" dictator did them good with extermination of a few before he turned into a psychopath and turned against the people (wrong way)

Serbia: Revolution! People organised and threw milosevic and his entourage out

WHAT KENYANS NEED TO DO

Make Kenya unsuitable for living by these Front Door Colonialists!

1. Media to stop covering their none sense
2. mps to be prevented from holding rallies at home or elsewhere
3. Kenyans to stop paying taxes en mass
4. popular confiscation of proceeds from ill-gotten wealth (invade houses of mps etc)
5. armed forces to be educated to join other Kenyans
6. call for popular elections - current and past (elected or otherwise) office holders not eligible
7. people to promulgate their own new constitution

Do we have the mettle to do this?

YES!

This requires a great deal of organising, alot of logistics, but it can be done. This is the only way!

Mbunge La Mwananchi under threat from Government

Comrades,

In solidarity with Mbunge, it is clear that the police are trying to break Mbunge. We should not give them an opportunity to.

Whereas I agree with Onyango Oloo and Muthoni Wanyeki, - who have elsewhere elaborately given many good lessons and raised concerns on the matter of organising; of exercising caution; of diligence and keeping their cool in the face of bare aggression from the state; of avoiding singular pseudo-heroism stunts; I am afraid the charges against Gacheke and 22 others [arrested in Kiamaiko at a tea kiosk, held and later charged with belonging to an illegal sect -mungiki] is a continuation of the "arrest and kill all young (and more often Kikuyu) persons and bury them at night" scenario so practiced since the octogenarian then Minister for Internal Security, one John Michuki declared that we will be hearing "burials here and burials there".

It has nothing to do with strategy of Mbunge la Mwananchi (since taking tea - in a group or otherwise-has never been a criminal activity)I think we should more focus on the grand idea of the government, of the NSIS and all: to break Mbunge.

We should, on recognising the unique place of Mbunge in the organisation of the civil society, seek to strengthen it, to create opportunities that enable Mbunge members to do their work in the best way, to equip them with skills, not to tame them, but to help them organise and organise effectively.There are very many hard lessons there (in Mbunge) and alot of anger and alot of dissatisfaction, and so many hungers.

If there is anything a person of conscience can lose very very fast in this country, it is their temper. And it is hard to cry alone in the bedroom - for those who have such. We are lax at organising, and at collectivising our voice, and at bringing ourselves to think together.

I have attended several meetings called by the civil society, some of them planning meetings, but there are two distinct voices there:

1. Some people feel the civil society likes and thrives on meetings and meetings, that in these meetings people theorise and never act.
2. Some people feel that meetings are important to consolidate ideas, get buy in, and mobilise the people and the space.

Both voices are right, but the trick is in balancing the two, not in demonising either (as has been the case usually) and NOT in having one and disregarding the other.

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Some lesson from Nigeria:

During the chaos in Nigeria as captured in Wole Soyinka's You Must Set off at Dawn under the chapter "Uncivil Wars: The Third Force and Mid -West Incursion" there was alot of political machinations ala present day Kenya. On January 16th 1966, Wole Soyinka was so annoyed at the sham elections and with the fact of Ladoke Akintola's of NNDP and NCNC's "un-grand"coalition to take over government in the huge Western Africa Country, that he, SINGLE-HANDEDLY, raided the national radio and exchanged the tape containing his own taped speech with that of the "president's acceptance speech". His vehement speech against what he saw as "political thuggery" was broadcast on national radio! And by the time it was being noticed and he was being sought for, he was headed for the nearest border.

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But was he working alone ? NO! He was working with insiders and outsiders, most of them blinds (the guy who took him to the radio station -and instructed at gunpoint to take off after 30 mins if Soyinka did not return - only knew what Soyinka was doing when he heard the national broadcast!) But the movement knew, everybody knew what they HAD to know, not everything; and it consisted of all and sundry, from border guards to taxi drivers to orderlies in offices to operators of machines to high ranking executives...

And this is the lesson we must learn: That people have various uses, capacities and personalities. Let the movement for a free and democratically governed Kenya use them, but let us never seek homogeneity! We can never be the same, yet we must organise and be organised.

The take over of our social movements, of the space for action by politicians through plagiarism (remember 'bado mapambano') infiltration, use of co-option, use of divisive politics and the use of terror MUST be resisted.

WE MUST BE ALIVE TO FIGHT TOMORROW, BUT IF WE DIE, WE MUST DIE FIGHTING A GOOD FIGHT

Some people have no EARS

As a youngman, my mother used to send me to stiches when at times she got so annoyed with our misdoings and after beating us to crying (we loved to be beaten, it was a show of love...actually sometimes we went out looking for a beating)...anyway my mother used to say "some people have no ears" and i would halt my tears and burst out laughing...i could not imagine a person without ears, not really about hearing, but about the shape of that person's head...

i mean really, imagine someone without ears...closer home, think about Matakwei and the earless of Mt Elgon...and you would know the absurdity of that phrase and the pain of not having ears.

but I am telling you that the people running this country have no ears for hearing.

consider this, ICPC, CRECO Membership, KNCHR, FIDA, IRF and many other civic society actors said: ammend that law on the tribunal before it is debated; amend it so that it can be acceptable; ammend it to remove the amnesty clause and to protect it from legal challenge, ammend it and take some time to build consensus and ensure that it is not shot down, please ammend it so that it can get a national buy-in; don't rush it because you will fall in the six month trap....

they refused to listen, they went ahead, and fell into the pit...one karua called it collective responsibility...i don't know what that means, but it is a nice way to fail

come to think of it, have these guys failed, or as a people are we just myopic and unable to see the forest for the trees (whatever!)?

I think kibaki and raila wanted the local tribunal to fail -LEGALLY-so that they may get some let up on the pressure to perform and to deal with issues of AGENDA 4 and especially the constitution and matters of impunity. they prayed for the tribunal to fail because they know if kofi anan gives the letter to Moreno, he will take a lot of time to get his act together and therefore the coalition government (that facilitates their collective stealing from the public coffers) survives much longer...after all, it is clear, and there is a bill and the hansard as PROOF, that they tried; it is the mps who are rogue

and the mps, what did they want? they wanted the local tribunal to fail, not to be instituted here, some for the reasons same as those for kibaki and raila, and others for the reason that since they suspect they are in the list (or may be adversely mentioned in the proceedings) they don't have to go to the expense of hiring lawyers...and after all it would all be very messy considering the competition they faced in the last elections: anything that threatens their five year term is an enemy...

so, my mother should know i am not laughing when i am saying this, am really angry and i now know what it means not to have ears(for hearing)...

Kenyans, i pray that we locate the leaders' ears (not for hearing) and pinch them; it is only that their ears (for hearing) can be activated

kianyaga perspective

This is a report

a friend of mine who comes from Kianyaga and goes by the name chomba njeru (literally, his name means european white) called me this morning to tell me his take on the coalition government ...i must admit i was taken aback that he, actually, was reporting this collusion government to me!

said he: I am really annoyed that people have spent about a year, 365 days of the sun rising and setting, trying to discuss the goings on in the coalition government! these talking kenyans are idlers, liars, ignominous characters, charlatans, useless ... (i have edited some epithets for purposes of maintaining the decorum of this blogg)

said i:

said he: i can describe what this coalition government is doing in one word:

ũvĩsĩ

said i: okay george ... oops chomba njeru, i will blogg it.

I donot seem to know what ũvĩsĩ means, (since i actually have no links with Kianyanga except by the virtue of the fact that i know his ancestors, as teenagers, got lost [and so settled] in the land of many ridges when my ancestors send them to follow the ameru to recover some nzavĩ seeds they were given by my ancestors)

but i am sure this person, like many more people around the country, is annoyed at the charade of arrogance the government is parading

the question is; how much longer can this pent up energy be held in the breasts of the people of this country? aren't we an active volcano momentarily subsided by the lie of two hyenas (complete with squadrons of hangers on) agreeing to live in the same house?

citizen,
put your ears on the ground, and lets talk, not about the Kenya we want, but about how to get, unnoticed, beyond the hut housing the two hyenas and their hangers on, and go to the rivers of plenty beyond.

aluta continua