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!

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