Daktari carefully ducked my question on Kimunya

Daktari, Jairus and Judy,

 

The case is steadily being built for why the coalition government is a pipe-dream. Last week I stated my reasons for thinking these are two separate and unequal governments. What’s going on now is a classic example of that. You see the Odinga government trying to do the right thing. You see the Kibaki government going all out to retain a corrupt official. It’s despicable. That said, I’m still of the opinion that building this case is a sound way to proceed. We have to raise the temperature in Kenya in a calibrated way, push it toward a boiling point in a manner that seems logical and thoroughly considered.

 

It’s important to remember that when the Prime Minister came into a coalition with Kibaki, it was to pull Kenya back from the brink of a disaster. Some people disagreed with that approach…and I understand why they did. But I also believe that the Hon Odinga acted in good faith. As we move forward, going toward the one year mark, he is well aware that Kenyans will look back at the closing year and ask questions. At that point the good people of our country will have ample evidence to build a solid case against the continuance of this sham of a coalition, and indeed a case to pass a vote of no confidence in Kibaki.

 

I must sound a warning, however, that if we acted in haste and seemed like we were eager to walk out of this coalition, the PNU will be the side to build a case against us. Because when all is said and done, we are playing to the audience in Kenya on the one hand, and the international community, on the other. So while we keep the pressure on the actors on the ground, let’s be mindful of the pace of events.

 

Judy, I loved the exhibits. I also noted that Daktari carefully ducked my question on Kimunya. Bwana K’Onyiego, I think you and I will get our answer to this question when we visit the good doctor in Europe.

 

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Locals amused by Gingrich’s ‘misguided’ praise

Norwegian government leaders and environmentalists alike are all but scoffing over some unexpected — and unjustified — praise doled out to them by American arch-conservative Newt Gingrich.

Environmental activist Frederic Hauge said he really wondered who Newt Gingrich had been talking to in Norway. “Certainly not the fishermen,” Hauge said, noting their longstanding opposition to oil drilling and sonar exploration. PHOTO: OLE MAGNUS RAPP Norway’s environmental minister, Erik Solheim, was also quick to rebut many of Gingrich’s conclusions about Norwegian oil drilling. PHOTO: STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/SCANPIX Newt and Callista Gingrich while in Norway last month. PHOTO: www.newt.org

Gingrich, the former Republican leader of the US House of Representatives, recently spent six days with his wife on board one of the coastal voyage vessels known as Hurtigruten. He then concluded that Norway is a “case study” of what he calls “green conservatism.”

Gingrich extolled the beauty of Norway’s scenery and wildlife, while exclaiming over Norway’s role as one of the world’s largest oil and gas exporters. He claimed on a blog last month that Norway had “struck a remarkable balance between respect for the environment and energy independence,” while becoming a “leader” in offshore drilling for oil and gas. He wrote that the US has “a lot to learn” from Norway.

Gingrich didn’t mention that most all the drilling takes place far from the coast, mostly in the middle of the North Sea, and is strictly regulated if not prohibited in scenic areas or close to shore. It’s also highly restricted in environmentally sensitive areas like the Barents Sea.

Nor did he mention any of the ongoing conflicts between the oil and gas industry and the country’s fishing industry. Norwegian seafood interests have been battling not only drilling but most recently, the sonic testing being carried out by oil exploration vessels, because fishermen claim the sonic disturbance underwater is scaring off fishing stocks.

The tourism industry, meanwhile, is quick to protest any attempts of drilling close to shore, not least in the area around the scenic archipelago of Lofoten.

Gingrich, notes Norway’s environmental minister Erik Solheim, is simply trying to pull Norway into the American election campaign on the side of Republican candidate John McCain.

“Oil drilling at sea is very controversial in the US, and this is just a strategy to make drilling more palatable along the US coast,” Solheim told newspaper Aftenposten.

‘Gingrich is making a mistake…’
Solheim, a member of Norway’s Socialist Left party, says the US “absolutely has a lot to learn” about basing policies on mutual confidence between the various sides of an issue. “But Gingrich is making a mistake if he thinks oil exploration in Norway takes place without regulation,” Solheim said. “It’s precisely the regulation we have that’s contributed to the Norwegian offshore activity being as clean as it is.”

Frederic Hauge, the high-profile leader of environmental group Bellona, also took issue with Gingrich’s misguided claim that Norway “has relatively few laws, regulations and government agencies that govern offshore drilling.”

“I really wonder who Gingrich has been talking to up north,” Hauge said, chuckling over the American Republican’s claims. “If (Gingrich’s blog) makes any impression in the US, we’ll need to get a hearing in the US Congress to inform them about the realities here.”

It was in part the oil spills off the coast of Santa Barbara, California several decades ago that led to US prohibitions on offshore drilling. Given the bans on drilling off California and Alaska, “maybe it’s us who needs to learn from the US,” mused Hauge.

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Knives out in kitchen cabinet – Kibaki’s agony has started because Kimunya has decided not to resign

When President Mwai Kibaki summoned embattled Finance Minister Amos Kimunya to State House, Nairobi on Saturday afternoon, there was widespread anticipation that he was going to be asked to step aside to pave away for investigations into the raging Grand Regency Hotel saga.

Justice, Constitutional Affairs and National Cohesion minister Martha Karua gets a hand while dressing in Maasai gear during Kajiado South MP Katoo Ole Metito’s home coming ceremony at Oloitokitok on Saturday. The minister was among those who maintained that Finance Minister Kimunya should resign. Photo/PETERSON GITHAIGA

The fury of secret media briefings as the meeting went on was a clear indication that Mr Kimunya has more implacable and powerful rivals than the ones who humiliated him on the floor of the House earlier in the week and that those rivals are inside President Mwai Kibaki’s Kitchen Cabinet — an informal grouping of presidential cronies from Central Kenya.

As it turned, Mr Kimunya walked out of State House at about 4 p.m. a relieved man, having survived another day, to face more battles in which his integrity has been questioned and his presence in parliament declared unwanted.

The infighting amongst the President’s inner circle, described by one senior government official as “bad blood” and by a powerful Cabinet minister as “sibling rivalry” has left Mr Kimunya and his allies believing that he has been stabbed in the back, the Sunday Nation has learnt.

The war in the kitchen cabinet played itself out on Tuesday night when his presumed allies did not lift a finger in his assistance when the motion of censure came up for discussion before the House Business Committee, that day chaired by Deputy Leader of Government Business and Justice minister, Ms Martha Karua.

The revelations about infighting in the Kibaki circle came as Cabinet colleagues and members of parliament piled pressure on Mr Kimunya to step aside or be sacked pending  investigations into Grand Regency saga that has gripped the country.

Such was the desertion of the Kimunya camp in the House that Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka could not get the votes to have the motion of censure moved to Wednesday. The VP could not even get the support of 15 MPs to demand a physical count of the votes on his motion of adjournment.

A source with good knowledge of Mr Kibaki’s closest associates told the Sunday Nation that political rivalries are about political supremacy in the Kikuyu tribe and the overall leadership of the so-called Mt Kenya region, which also includes Embu and Meru.

Mr Kibaki, who is not eligible for re-election, will be stepping down not only from the presidency but also from his presumed leadership of his region.

Those believed to be lining up to inherit his mantle, and possibly run for president, are Ms Karua, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Mr Kimunya.

Ms Karua has some goodwill because of her spirited defence of Mr Kibaki during the post-election crisis and the subsequent negotiations during which she played a prominent role. She has made no secret about her ambitions and is now the chairperson of Narc-Kenya.

Mr Kenyatta, son of founding President Jomo Kenyatta, was the handpicked successor of retired President Moi and lost the presidency to Mr Kibaki in 2002. He did not oppose Mr Kibaki in 2007 and broke off from the Orange Democratic Movement to support him, possibly in the hope that he will run in 2012.

Mr Kimunya enjoys a close relationship with the President and his family, going back many years. He is also, in the view of some observers, the “blue-eyed boy” of the Muthaiga Group, an informal set of the President’s wealthy friends. Mr Kimunya was once chairman of the Muthaiga Golf Club, the President’s golf club, a useful networking position and something of an asset in the social pecking order.

Prof George Saitoti, believed to be a calculating and inscrutable politician, is also waiting in the wings for his chance to run.

On Saturday, a Cabinet minister recounted to the Sunday Nation how Mr Kimunya was “set up” by his presumed allies a day before the crucial debate.

“The previous day, we held a meeting in the Vice President’s office in which it was agreed that Kimunya was to sit back and let others come to his defence. They would respond on his behalf especially if the debate on the motion assumed political overtones,” a source who attended the Jogoo House meeting said.

Mr Kimunya, the Sunday Nation learnt, was “shocked” to see that it was only the VP who stood with him arguing that debate on the motion be postponed to the following day to allow “the government side more time to prepare.”

Even as Mr Musyoka argued for more time, a number of ministers watched the show from the comfort of their seats, never once choosing to catch the Speaker’s eye and support the VP.

It is instructive, observers say, that the House Business Committee, in which senior members of government sit, approved the Kimunya motion even though the same government needed more time to prepare a defence.

The meeting was chaired by Ms Karua, who is the deputy leader of government business in the House. A committee member who did not wish to be named said that the business of prioritising the censure motion was not opposed by anyone at the Tuesday evening meeting.

Cabinet ministers Uhuru Kenyatta, George Saitoti, Beth Mugo, Chirau Mwakwere and Ms Karua remained glued to their seats as the debate raged.

It was only on Friday that Mr Kenyatta issued a belated defence of Mr Kimunya. “I have not seen Kimunya’s name in the report and we should not conduct Cabinet affairs in the media,” Mr Kenyatta said.

But Narc Kenya, the party chaired by Ms Karua, has instead demanded “a full disclosure” over the saga.

As Ms Karua kept to her seat on Wednesday, another Narc Kenya stalwart, Danson Mungatana, rose and confounded observers when he supported the motion.

“Kimunya sat there expecting that there would be someone to start off his defence but there was none,” the Cabinet minister who did not wish to be named said. “That’s when he realised that there was a political battle going on and his opponents had found another opportunity to get at him.”

On Saturday, Ms Karua , the acting Narc Kenya boss, said her party stood for transparency and accountability. She also became the first member of the Kibaki inner circle to call for Mr Kimunya’s resignation.

“Our position still remains and we shall continue to be vigilant whenever the law is flouted. Since Kimunya has been mentioned in the sale of the Grand Regency, which is said not to have been above board, he should step aside pending investigations,” said Ms Karua.

“There are others pointing an accusing finger at the beleaguered minister or shouting to protect him yet they too have cases pending in court. Let them be warned that their cases are very much on course,” said Ms Karua who is also the minister for Justice, Constitutional Affairs and National Cohesion.

The minister was addressing residents of Loitokitok during the homecoming ceremony of Kajiado South MP Katoo Ole Metito. Others present were Security Minister Saitoti, assistant ministers Joseph Nkaissery, Mungatana, Peter Kenneth and Asman Kamama. The others were MPs Walter Nyambati, Njeru Githae, Gideon Konchella, Jamlek Kamau and former Naivasha MP Jayne Kihara.

Prof Saitoti, who typically shuns controversy, steered clear of the Grand Regency saga. Instead he concentrated on mending fences with Mr Nkaissery, with whom he shared a chopper.

It was Mr Nkaissery who set the stage for the call for Mr Kimunya’s resignation when he said: “If Kimunya has been implicated in corruption, the honourable thing for him to do is to step aside to pave way for investigations or else he be sacked.” “We have nothing personal against him but for the sake and integrity of the coalition government and the country at large, Mr Kimunya must go,” he said.

Mr Mungatana said that as a party, Narc Kenya had, during its recent retreat in Naivasha, resolved that Mr Kimunya be investigated. He said the party has nothing personal against Mr Kimunya.

He then turned his guns on Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta for defending the Finance minister.

“Let the minister be informed that what Parliament has passed cannot be reversed. If anything, Mr Kenyatta was in Parliament when Kimunya was being censured. With all the time allocated why didn’t he utter a word?’ It is the country, through Parliament, that spoke,” said Mr Mungatana.

Safina leader Paul Muite is, however, of the view that Kenyans should not read politics in the saga and Mr Kimunya should carry his own cross.

“There can never be collective responsibility or community interests where plundering of public resources is concerned,’’ Mr Muite said. He said the President should no longer procrastinate in sacking Mr Kimunya because it would suggest there is something to hide.

Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi downplayed claims that the grand coalition government was under threat due to the Grand Regency saga.

Mr Mudavadi said the government could not be immediately threatened by issues affecting an individual.

Co-operatives minister Joe Nyaga also asked Mr Kimunya to step aside to facilitate investigations into the matter.

“If I was in the same position as the minister, I would step aside to facilitate investigations,” he said.

The minister, who spoke in Nairobi during the Ushirika Day celebrations on Saturday, said the government should not be seen to be tolerating corruption. He said the grand coalition government would not fail just because there were disagreements among cabinet ministers over certain issues of national interest.

Water and Irrigation minister Charity Ngilu called for the dissolution of the grand coalition government to make way for fresh elections if President Kibaki does not sack the Finance minister. ‘‘The terms of engagement of this grand coalition were not to condone corruption,” the minister said.

Cabinet minister Otieno Kajwang demanded Mr Kimunya’s resignation and criticised the statement by Mr Kenyatta that MPs acted like “a lynch mob” during the censure motion. The Immigration and Registration of Persons minister told his cabinet colleague to respect MPs and desist from imputing improper motives on his parliamentary colleagues.

At the same time, Mr Kajwang challenged Mr Kenyatta to explain to the public why he did not defend Mr Kimunya and make the “wild” claims on the floor of Parliament during the debate.

“It matters not whether the President or the Prime Minister or the Attorney General were aware about the secret sale, what is most important to us is: did Mr Kimunya follow the law or not?” Mr Kajwang said.

Mr Mungatana also criticised Mr Kenyatta and said: ‘‘Let Uhuru be told that what Parliament has passed cannot be reversed.’’

Siakago MP Lenny Kivuti, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade chaired by Mr Chris Okemo, said: “Although Mr Kimunya is my friend, he should step aside to allow Kenyans to know the truth.”

NGO council chairperson Orie Rogo Manduli said Mr Kimunya should step aside “and save President Kibaki the agony of sacking him.”

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Graft claims: Eyes turn to Kibaki

Three battles President Kibaki and his team fought between 2003 and last year could hold the answer to the strings of graft claims that have dogged him to the final term. Elected on the platform of change and anti-corruption in 2002, nearly six years later and his administration having ‘inherited’ Kanu’s master of ‘white collar’ crime Mr Kamlesh Pattni, eyes are today firmly on Kibaki.

Mr Kamlesh Pattni at the handing over of the Grand Regency Hotel, Nairobi, to the Government on April 9. PICTURE: FILE

The questions begging for answers revolve around what he possibly knew about the Anglo Leasing and the Grand Regency scandals, and if at all they were linked to his tussle with Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Sources familiar with the President’s circle and the Grand Regency saga say it might have been conceived during a trip Kibaki’s nephew the late Alex Muriithi made to Libya in 2003.

That trip is said to have marked the beginning of a clash between official and private functions, which dovetailed into scandals like what has put Finance Minister Amos Kimunya in a spot.

Discreet interviews within his circle, those familiar with his troubles with Raila on being elected President in December 2002, reveal the dalliance with suspect deals by some of his key backers could have a direct bearing with a scheme to slow down the Lang’ata MP.

The second reason for which some of his key advisers walked right into the jaws of the corruption monster, many of whom have been edged out to save the President further embarrassment, is a decision Kibaki and his team reached in 2003 – a second term in office.

Sources familiar with the decision reveal in Kibaki’s circle it was not a question of ‘if we win’ but ‘when we win’.

The strongest indicator of how resolute the decision was came from Mr John Githongo, Kibaki’s first and last official adviser on the graft war, who fled to exile saying he was a hunted man, being asked to slow down on anti-graft war. He blew the lid on the resolve to ‘organise’ resources for the 2007 General Election “the Kanu way”.

Thirdly, and for which the constant factor was the unrelenting desire to contain Raila after purging Kanu and retired President Moi with his help, the thirst for victory in the November 2005 referendum on the proposed constitution, which Kibaki lost badly.

The three ‘political programmes’, whose common denominator was retention of State House’s tenancy, is reported to have triggered the thirst for ‘slush fund’ to oil the ‘victory’ machine. “If Moi had 24 years in office, we surely must fight for 10,” is reported to have been the line spurn inside his circles in as far as the election last year was concerned.

The question that will persist right into the post-Kibaki era, is his place in the weighty schemes that shook his Cabinet and for which he kept silent until his lieutenants started falling.

Today the nation waits either embattled Finance Minister Amos Kimunya’s resignation, to pave way for investigation into the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel, or the sight of Kibaki’s hand pushing him to the sideline. But Kimunya, who had first said the deal not only had Kibaki’s seal of approval, but also the Head of State negotiated it with President Muammar Gaddaffi on a visit to Libya.

Already the President’s inner circle, through Deputy Prime Minister, Kanu chairman Uhuru Kenyatta, and Internal Security Minister Prof George Saitoti, have fought the graft claims so much on the composition of the Cabinet sub-committee Raila appointed to look at the sale, than on the fact that there was no competitive tendering at all.

Uhuru and Saitoti watched silently as Kimunya was humiliated during the successful Motion of no confidence against him in Parliament on Wednesday.

For Kibaki first was the Sh7 billion twin Anglo Leasing scandals – that brought to ruin the political career of Dr Chris Murungaru and his friend and Permanent Secretary from the Makerere days, Mr Joseph Magari.

It also gave pushed to the precipice two Cabinet members and friends from the Democratic Party days – Mr David Mwiraria and Mr Kiraitu Murungi and his second Vice-President Moody Awori.

Today, apart from Kimunya, the axe is on the necks of four senior public servants who enjoy security of tenure. They include Attorney General Amos Wako, who Kimunya claimed was briefed on the sale, but denied knowledge of it.

There is also Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission’s director Justice Aaron Ringera, considered close to some of the President’s men, and who traded amnesty for Pattni for the hotel built on unpaid Central Bank loan.

There is also CBK Governor Njuguna Ndung’u whose institution was the vendor in the Grand Regency deal, and who conceded before the committee it was triggered by external influence.

President’s Libya visit

Finally, there is the Director-General of National Intelligence Security Service Maj-Gen Michael Gichangi, who Njuguna is reported to have told the Cabinet sub-committee, linked CBK to Pattni on possible sale.

Given the sensitivity of their roles in government and frequent interaction with the President, to the personal level, questions abound whether they could have pushed such a big ‘government programme’ without telling the President.

Behind the veneer of an independent and apolitical Public Service, several senior civil servants, including Gichangi, who gave the President intelligence briefs all through, are claimed to have made their institutions extension of the Party of National Unity’s campaign tool. That is why on the sidewalk the Grand Regency sale is being whimsically dismissed as campaign fundraiser for Kibaki. The claim, however, remains unsubstantiated.

The pursuit of the three ‘programmes’ of containing Raila, winning the referendum, and securing Kibaki a second term ‘at all costs’, saw the President’s associates hit the road, and one of the destinations was Libya. Tripoli, Kibaki’s associates reasoned, would ‘support’ Raila because of his shared revolutionary streak with Gaddaffi. The first overture therefore came from the Kibaki circle (through Muriithi) and the bait is reported to be Gaddaffi’s secret desire to own hotels, albeit discreetly in African capitals.

After Anglo Leasing, which was conceived by Kanu (after Goldenberg), but nurtured and milked by some well-connected individuals in Kibaki administration, the Libyan connection further yanked open doors for impunity in the Kibaki administration.

Those familiar with the Grand Regency saga claim it began way back in 2003, but was sealed last September when the President visited Libya.

The escapade and search for funds are coming together, in Kibaki’s second and final term. How he handles them will determine the President’s legacy.

His first term created sharp national divisions; with claims his administration sanctioned tribalism and nepotism. But he was sustained by a contested notion the economy was growing and life was getting better.

President Kibaki’s second term began with streams of blood and thousands of lives lost as his re-election was being contested. The economic growth was slowed down by post-election violence.

Should the scandal take political dimension as it is beginning to, the President will be in for another turbulent five years which may only worsen when succession battles take off in earnest.

Indications are that like in his first term, Kibaki’s Cabinet is getting split between those seen to be fighting corruption and those abetting it.

It emerged in 2003 that Muriithi visited several countries, approaching governments to solicit investment and business opportunities for Kenya outside established channels.

Another man, a Mr Joe Kamau, whose name was listed alongside the late Muriithi’s in the 2003 trip to Libya, has resurfaced in the Grand Regency saga, but the bearer of the name remains unknown.

Muriithi, who invariably introduced himself as Alex Kibaki, styled himself as an official emissary of the Kenya Government, although relevant ministries remained in the dark about his quasi-official activities.

In mid-2003, Muriithi traveled to Libya, armed with an official letter from State House, introducing him to Gaddaffi, which authorised him to “make serious contacts” with Libyan investors.

The letter to President Gaddaffi said Kenya had appointed Mr Joe Kamau and Mr Alex Muriithi — who was also referred to as a nephew of the President and head of the then Narc secretariat – “to spearhead efforts aimed at attracting Libyan investments”.

Rwanda connection

The two businessmen were also said to have visited Rwanda and Uganda. Muriithi and Kamau were in Rwanda in October 2003 where they announced an unspecified group of local investors were planning to sink USD$60 million (Sh4.6 billion) in Rwanda in 2004.

The first and probably the only attempt to unravel what was going on in the Grand Regency saga came in April, when the PM wrote to the KACC, seeking answers.

In the letter dated April 25, just a week after being sworn-in, the PM, saying he was concerned over media reports that Pattni and his company, Uhuru Highway Development Ltd, had surrendered the hotel. The PM wanted to know the status of the receivership accounts relating to the hotel, status of pending civil suits against Pattni, surrender and transfer documents, among others.

Former MP Paul Muite, a lawyer, yesterday said that in asking for the status of receivership accounts, the PM, in ordinary language, wanted to know what the receivers had been doing at the hotel.

He also wanted to know what they had been paid, how much they had collected and how much they submitted to CBK. “Today, no one is explaining what has happened to the money the receivers have been collecting from the hotel. There is even no evidence the Sh2.9 billion the Finance Minister is quoting to have been the price has been submitted to the Government accounts,” Muite said.

In asking for terms of settlement, Muite said, the PM was seeking to know “what precisely Pattni, CBK and KACC had agreed on”.” KACC’s response to the PM’s letter came more than a month later and was scarce on details.

On June 6 Mrs Fatuma Sichale, KACC deputy director, wrote to the PM saying KACC was, “initially minded not to respond” to his letter, because “the same was copied or availed to the media”.

The letter only confirmed that Grand Regency was “recovered” from Uhuru Highway Development Ltd, and handed over to the CBK. She also enclosed a copy of the settlement.

In the KACC letter, there was no mention of how much the receiver- managers had collected, where it went and that the hotel was being sold.

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Discussing politics

To Sam Okello,

While I appreciate your comments, there is one point I dispute

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“I must sound a warning, however, that if we acted in haste and seemed like we were eager to walk out of this coalition, the PNU will be the side to build a case against us. Because when all is said and done, we are playing to the audience in Kenya on the one hand, and the international community, on the other. So while we keep the pressure on the actors on the ground, let’s be mindful of the pace of events.”

Any Politics must be timely with corresponding speed.  If you slack you will slake and will get consumed and be destroyed.  For this Kimunya case at hand, and in this circumstance, the story is overdue.  It is about time for action.

Kenyan political wrangle story started way back from Tom Mboya (read on here under) -

it is an ongoing strategy by the Gema Mafia.  We now know from reliable evidence

that many of our young generation have been bought by the Kikuyu to sing a different

song without knowing they have been crafted on the scheme of Gema Mafia designed

plan.  Some of our young got drunk with the money dished out to them in pretense

they should team for new young leadership. These are their listed strategy

we knew about before election. They have the youth financed or sponsored for

leadership yet they are clueless of the past history and have not engraved to study

the wisdom of the older generation group, so they can journey in a fortified security

details knowing where we are coming and where we are going as well as what hurdles

are on the way.  They cannot go it alone without blessings from the older folks.  The

young therefore will be an easy catch.  Here is where our young will unknowingly fit with

and become victims of the GEMA Mafia machination and game plan.  They will be

used to destroy their older generation folks and term them old fashioned.

Having said that, I urge you to love and care for your older folks, dont be in a hurry for

leadership, step by step reinforce your knowledge and understanding and join the

older folks as interns, pick it from there.  Share your thoughts and trade in with those of

your own , be open to them, otherwise you will destroy your community.  Dont became Judases, avoid it if you can.

Many will not want to hear my story and will dismiss it immediately, but many will

take a moment to digest what I shared with you today to recline to a fortified strategy,

and yet there are those who have eaten, have a bone stuck on their neck will have to execute their mission come rain come sunshine - will, with an instant, start to throw tantrums at me a turbulent I am familiar with – a case in point is Kabila some rumours

say was compromised to kill his father so the young can take leadership.  Again its all

playing in the masters tune. The mission still unaccomplished.

Ladies and Gentlement, young and old, money is not everything. Don’t get drunk. Stay

sober and learn from past experiences. Wisdom is calling give it your ears and you

will be blessed even to your generation to come.

 

By Judy Miriga, USA

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Vs: RE: Raila will go down with Kibaki & Kimunya if he does not go public and denounce Amos Kimunya now

K`Onyiego & Sam, Okello

PLEASE MARK ME RIGHT, DOCTORS TREAT CIVILIANS, PRIESTS, ROBBERS, THIEVES, MURDERERS, CHILDREN, RAPERS, SOLDIERS, ARMY, ENEMIES ETC. EQUALY AND GIVE THEM THE BEST TREATMENT WHICH IS AVAILABLE  NO MATTER WHAT THEIR OFFENCES ARE, INNOCENT OR GUILTY. BUT THE POINT IS THIS, MURDERS, THIEVES; ROBBERS, RAPERS (CRIMINALS) ARE ACCOMPANIED BY POLICEMEN or PRISON POLICE WHEN THEY ARE SICK AND ARE BEING TAKEN TO THE DOCTOR, FURTHER MORE IN HOSPITAL BEDS THEY ARE TIED, AND WHAT IS GOOD IS SOME GET THEIR TREATMENT IN PRISONS, or PRISON HOSPITALS, INCASE THE COUNTRY DOES NOT HAVE PRISON HOSPITAL. THEN AFTER TREATMENT THEY ARE TAKEN BACK TO WHERE THEY BELONG TO SERVE THEIR TIME, PAY BACK FOR THEIR MISTAKES. WELL WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT!!!!!?.

OR YOU THINK WHEN A ROBBER; OR A THIEVE IS BEING TREATED BY A DOCTOR, THEN IT IS THE SAME AS FREEDOM MR. AMOS KIMUNYA IS NOW ENJOYING. I HAVE COMPLETELY FAILED TO UNDERSTAND YOUR LOGICS OR POINT AT ALL GUYS. CAN YOU ELABORATE FURTHER AND TELL ME HOW  A SICK THIEVE TREATED BY A DOCTOR IS CONNECTED TO MR. AMOS KIMUNYA WHO IS FREE LIKE A BIRD AND MIGHT LEAVE THE COUNTRY ANY TIME OR HAS ALREADY LEFT WITH TAX PAYERS MONEY OR WHEN BECOME SICK WILL GET THE BEST MEDICAL ATTENTION IN THE WORLD WITHOUT SERVING HIS PRISON SENTENCE.

BY PAUL NYANDOTO

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There are now Kenyans claiming that the team appointed by Raila to investigate Kimunya was not just in conducting their function and are just a group of ODM who are trying to undermine Kibaki

Thanks Judy,

Did any of you guys read the Kenyans news papers (05.07.2008) about, Kibaki, Uhuru, Kimunya and some PNU lots. I am completely beaten up about our Kenyan politics. There are now Kenyans claiming that the team appointed by Raila to investigate Kimunya was not just in conducting their function and are just a group of ODM who are trying to undermine Kibaki. Some do say the team was appointed without Kibaki`s knowledge. Why should Raila contact Kibaki when conducting such an investigation. The other turn is  this: there were kenyans who were demonstrating in support of Kimunya. The worst thing is that the giants who robbed Raila of the presidential seat (michuki, Uhuru, Kalonzo, Saitoti, Kibaki) are again now supporting Kimunya , God where is Africa heading to….is it heading to  hell or what?. Is this  the type of  reconcilliation Raila is telling us to do?

The west are already becoming tired with the type of politics some Kenyans are trying to play .  A lot of kenyans lives depend on donors and investors and at the moment the country can not conduct proper government businesses unless Kimunya`s case is finished. Some western countries have already started even doubting the opposition leadership in Africa. A practical example is Museveni, who cheated them, got power, used western money to irradicate AIDS, talked good words about democracy and has now made himself A LIFE PRESIDENT OF UGANDA JUST AS MUGABE HAS DONE IN ZIMBABWE, SO GUYS WHO TO TRUST in Africa if the guys who want to lead are not ready to prove themselves?. Some of African public (people) are directly or indirectly connected with creating monsters dictators in Africa, this is already clear to the western world,  and the western countries are directly saying these words today: BE CAREFULL OF WHAT YOU DO  WISH FOR, AFRICANS WISHED FOR INDEPENDENCE and   THEY GOT  DEPENDENCY ON THE WEST FOR HELP SINCE THEY CAN NOT LEAD THEMSELVES TO ANY PROPER PROGRESS etc…….

Paul Nyandoto.

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Found refugees’ passports in aircraft’s septic tank

Four persons who arrived in Oslo without any identity papers were mighty surprised when police later confronted them with the remnants of their passports – found after sifting through the contents of their flight’s toilets.

Here’s one of the reconstructed passports, remnants of which were found in an aircraft toilet. PHOTO: POLITIET

“It was a real dirty job,” remarked one of the police officers assigned to the case.

The four would-be refugees, all from India, had claimed they had no passports or other identification documents. They applied for asylum in Norway upon landing at Oslo’s main airport at Gardermoen.

Police were suspicious, however, and searched the cabin of the flight they’d landed on, looking for the missing documents. When they weren’t found, they ordered that the aircraft’s septic tank be emptied.

It was, and the contents were delivered to police. A police officer handed the messy job of sorting out the contents quickly found remnants of four passports that had been ripped up and thrown down the toilet.

After a few hours, the police officer managed to fit the pieces together, complete with photos of the all four, their passport numbers and the names of each. The names matched those on the airline’s passenger list.

“They were very surprised when confronted with the remnants of their passports when they tried to register for asylum,” said Farhad Lotfzadpak of the police unit at Gardermoen.

All four later disappeared, however, from the asylum center where they’d been sent, before their cases came up for interviews.

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