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Lionel Richie, the American Musician’s secret relationship in Scandinavia

Posted by African Press International on July 30, 2009

Lionel Richie, the American musician, composer and songwriter may soon have some explaining to do if he has kept his relationship secret from his present family. His outside marriage secret relationship will soon come out in the open. It is said that the relationship to a woman in Scandinavia developed when the singer was on his singing tour that took him to a number of European countries. The woman in question has told API that she will soon come out in the open about her relationship to the singer. She has, however, not released much details as to what kind of relationship that has developed but says she will put out details in the coming weeks.

What is not known is how the musician will react to the news when made public because the secret connection, if� not known to his present wife, will most probably cause a rift in the family.

Richie’s daughter Nicole expressed satisfaction with her father because he is good in helping her whenever he can by taking care of his granddaughter Harlow. Lionel Richie appeared with Nicole recently on Larry King live and both demonstrated proverbial skills when explaining how the family is getting along. Nicole told Larry King that her father means a lot in her life now. Richie is a grandfather and is said to be doing well in his new role babysitting granddaughter Harlow.

Richie’s daughter will most probably be devastated to find out that her father whom she now has great respect for, has a secret relationship with another woman in Scandinavia. Lionel Richie was once quoted saying: “�Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.� He told the world on how happy he is that Nicole accepted to be rehabilitated. Richie while opening up about his problems with Nicole has stated that he daughter had lost direction saying� �She went from, �Dad, I don�t care. Whatever you say.� to �Wash your hands, dad.� and �Be quiet, dad.��It�s a whole new sound of the house.�

Observers now think that the situation Richie will fall into when the secret relationship is made public will poison the new-found warm relationship with his daughter Nicole and granddaughter Harlow.

The woman who now claims to have a relationship to the singer when asked why she wants to make public the information has told API that she has decided to do so because the singer has not fulfilled his part of the deal.

When pressed further to give details on what deal there is between her and Richie, she declined to give details but stated that the singer has not been committed enough to his obligations. Adding that the singer caused her relocate to another country and has been reluctant to be totally committed as agreed between the two. She says the singer was supposed to relocate as well but has shown signs of reluctance to do so within the time stipulated as per their mutual agreement.

It is a known fact that the singer has a family in the US and what a relocation would mean to his family is not yet known.

API has tried to reach Lionel Richie or his spokesperson for comment but with no success.

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The white world’s best Kept Secret !

Posted by African Press International on July 30, 2009

Imagine that a stranger broke into your home, robbing it, leaving it in ruins and then kidnapped your children to work as servants within his home. This stranger, fearing an eventual retribution from these kidnapped children will find it necessary to implement systems for ensuring that these children remain loyal. The stranger may do so by routinely showing the children pictures of their ruined former home while falsely retelling the details of the event that he merely rescued them from the ruins and that their parents didn’t want them. This would cause the children to develop an undeserving sense of loyalty and appreciation towards their kidnapper. The kidnapper may also find it necessary t o implement a scheme to divide the children, to prevent them from unifying against him, by teaching them not to trust each other while simult aneously teaching them to trust only him.  Such a system with an objective of controlling the exploited group has been implemented against Black people.  The above scenario is precisely what is being secretly done to Black people through a covert sophisticated mass marketing campaign that uses propaganda and public manipulations practices as a means to exploit and control the Black population.

The common feelings of Black self hatred accompanied by an undeserving admiration towards whiteness, among so many Black people, are not merely indirect consequences of white cultural dominance upon the Black psyche, but rather instead the direct result of an insidious massive white global manipulation scheme. The constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which Black people are so inundated with throughout the media is a very carefully and deliberately insidious designed psychological conditioning pro gram. It is designed to subject Black people to see ing, through a totally white controlled national media, only the fraudulent worst in themselves—while insinuating that they admire, respect, and trust only Whites.   The basis of this concept of mind manipulation is that the human being’s most critical aspect is the mind and it works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. It is deployed very much like a massive marketing campaign.  It’s propaganda and manipulations practices are being deployed in all sectors – government, media, health and welfare, entertainment, and education, etc- nationally and internationally. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted Black recipient group in terms of their behavior. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche corrupts many Black’s sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, and engender self-doubt, self-loathi ng, and di strust among their group. It is also deliberately designed to collectively break down the Black populous’ se nse of personal knowledge in Black identity, Black racial h eritage, allegiance and unity. It also collectively encourages Blacks to admire and love whites while blaming and hating themselves for their current despairing conditions historically created and presently continued by the white elites.

The objective of this diabolical mass manipulations scheme against the Black race is to ensure the continuance of white dominance and control.  It is being orchestrated by an extremely powerful and influential group of white individuals, at the highest echelons, which include many of the world’s wealthiest people, top political leaders, and corporate elite.  The consensus of these white elites are that such a manipulative scheme against the Black population is deemed necessary, because not only have they brutally exploited the Black world in the past during the era of slavery and colonialization, but also because their mistreatment of the Black world is ongoing through western pharmaceutal companies that uses Africa as a testing ground for its experimental drugs, unfair federal prison sentencing laws that targets Black pop ulations,  ongoing unfair trade practi ces that keeps Africa in poverty, western government’s economic hit men and war making espionage specialist that keeps Africans at war thus facilitating a setting of where in which Africa is more easily ravished of its natural resources –all while portraying the image to the world that it is merely Africans that are unable to govern themselves.

Many researchers have concluded that this insidious racist propaganda manipulations program was originally orchestrated by London’s Tavistock Institute of Human relations. Headquartered in London, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is a leading organization in the use of new and experimental behavioral science programs. The Tavistock Institute is an independent organization that conducts research in the social and behavioral sciences, applied in the field of health, education and community development. Among the Tavistock Institute’s specialties is a study group that predicts the timing and the direction of a thermonuclear war, plus working out the many scenarios based upon its findings. Its research orientation places it between, but not in, the worlds of academia and co nsultancy; and its range of disciplines include anthropology, economics, organizational behavior, political science, psychoanalysis, psychology and sociology. However BRAINWASHING remains the primary function of the Tavistock Institute of Human behavior. It has developed pioneering breakthroughs in the field of mass manipulation and brain-washing techniques. Its experiments in crowd control methods have been widely used on the American public, a surreptitious but nevertheless outrageous assault on human freedom by modifying individual behavior through topical psychology.

The Tavistock Institute uses its skilled method of mass manipulation and societal social engineering to maintain social order-of which includes maintaining white dominance and control. [The personnel of the corporations are required to undergo indoctrination at one or more of these Tavistock controlled institutions. A network of secret groups, the Mont Pelerin Society, Trilateral Commission, Ditchley Foundation, and the Club of Rome is conduit for instructions to the Tavistock network.]   Although it had existed for decades earlier, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was formally established as an independent not- for-profit charity organization in September 1947.  The Institute’s prophet was Dr. Sigmund Freud, whom settled in Maresfield Gardens when he moved to England. Tavistock’s pioneer work in science along Freudian lines of “controlling” humans established it as the world center of foundation ideology. One of its prestige’s contributing members was Freud’s nephew and propaganda specialist Dr. Edward Bernays. He was one of the most skillful experts in mass manipulation.  Dr. Edward Bernay’s invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud’s ideas to manipulate the masses.   “If we understand the mechanism and motiv es of a group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it”         — Dr. Edward Bernays

It is surmised that this psychosocial manipulation of Black people was implemented in America in 1968 in the face of widespread violence that ensued after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Dr. King’s brutal assassination led to many demonstrations of unrest and rioting disturbances; that of which were reported in more than 100 cities across the nation. This violence resulted in the loss of lives and property that cost the nation and taxpayers millions of dollars and increasingly placed the peace and stability of the nation in dire jeopardy.  America’s brutal racial mistreatment of African Americans had appeared to have reached its boiling point creating much unrest and discord. These factors, combined with the rapidly tarnishing American global image, led the U.S. Government’s agents of White supremacy to quickly reform their techniques of inst itutionalized racism.  The problem led to the then president, Lyndon B Johnson, ordering that a commission be formed, later known as the Kerner Commission, to investigate and prescribe a cure or recommendations for the problem. The Commission concluded that blatant White racism was the single aggravating factor for the collective problems. The Kerner report’s findings required that the U.S. Government abandon it’s condoning of open, blatant forms of racism to control and maintain White dominance. This abandoning of dated tactics led to the need for developing an improved method of controlling and suppressing its Black population.  Changing times made it necessary for the U.S. government to change its methods to a much more subtle and socially acceptable means of continuing its racial suppression of Blacks and to maintain its White dominance.  Clearly, the sophisticated method of psychological warfare met such a need.  It was the logical choice, perfect for the changing times.  Unlike the blatantly brutal forms of racism used in the past, which Blacks were able to identify easily and therefore unify and form counter strategies, this modern method of racism works from a psychological perspective. This provided the U.S. government a more socially acceptable method of continuing the White racial hierarchy for dominance and control given that it is not as easily recognized.  This new method exists in the space between overt racism and racial respect.  Its methods include the ability to both influence the national climate and engender personal psychological feelings among Americans that meet the U.S government objective.

Today as a means of maintaining its white dominance and control the U.S. government now manipulates, and shapes the minds and collective consciousness of its Black population through the usage of misinformation disseminated through the mass media. In the U.S. it was organized by Ronald Lippert, of the OSS, the American Jewish Congress, and director of child training at the Commission on Communit y Relat ions. The program was designed to break down the Black individual’s sense of personal knowledge in his identity, his racial heritage.   The basis of this concept of mind manipulation is that the human being’s most critical aspect is the mind and it works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way that it adversely affects the targeted recipient group in terms of their behavior. Here is a simplified example of how this is being implemented against African Americans.  Let us, for example, imagine that a crew of people was aboard their own massive ship and that this ship was being shadowed by another neighboring ship that was constantly broadcasting derogatory messages to the first group. Such messages as that their ship was lesser, smaller, not seaworthy, perhaps slowly sinking or that their crew was incompetent and was planning a mutiny.  With time, the group receiving the negative messages, being unable to refute or to confirm these derogatory messages and deficiencies will grow weary and paranoid of the negative messages and will eventually comes to accept these negative assessments of themselves.

The perception created by t he taunting now unconsciously influences how the taunted group perceives themselves, subsequently causing them to become distrustful of themselves, doubting themselves, hating themselves and, eventually, fighting among themselves. The taunted group may even become so besieged by deep feelings of inadequacy that they may even jump into the sea and attempt to swim towards the taunting ship now believing it to be superior to their own boat even if their own ship was in fact better. Within a real life setting this mortifying psychological manipulation is precisely what is being done to African Americans through an immense campaign of false derogatory misinformation and false negative media reports and statistics that are created by U.S. governme nta l agencies and then leaked to its collaborators in the news media, which either knowingly or unknowingly carry the stories as their own. These false information about African Americans is then disseminated unrelentingly everywhere; it is deliberately perpetuated through news releases in magazine articles, radio, television, press releases, documentaries, and false census reports perpetuating and framing the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. However, the weapon is not in how the message is carried, but is instead within the messages that it carries and how these messages affect the targeted recipients.

The constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans are so inundat ed with throughout the media  is a very carefully and deliberately designed psychological conditioning program. It is designed to subject African Americans to seeing, through a controlled national media, only the worst in themselves– while insinuating that the y admire, respect, and trust only Whites. This unrelenting daily assau lt on the Black psyche is designed to corrupt African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, and engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group.  Many Blacks may even begin to feel that there is something not quite right about their Black humanity. To the detriment of Blacks, this system of applied psychological conditioning has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. Moreover, all African Americans have experienced the burden of this psychological warfare, some more severely than others have.  It is experienced every time we [Blacks] re ad a newspaper, watch the evening news, enter a classroom, and read its racially biased textbooks.  And while many Black Americans have successfully navigated through the psychology mortifying mine field and have gone on to lead successful, productive lives, but for far too many African Americans this immense devaluation can seem inescapable and tragically, over time, many begin to accept subconsciously and painfully the negative portrayals of themselves.

Many also become discouraged by the acceptance that their society is also preconditioned to see the worst in them and that, therefore, if they were ever to gain acceptance, if it is to be won at all, that success would be hard won and likely to manifest negative internalized psychological pain and distress within many African Americans that can take many forms. In fact, this governmental mortifying psychological warfare against African Americans may be the most aggravating, if not core, factor of the national phenomenon of self hatred; loss of educational aspirations; loss of unity, cohesion and racial pride; and fragile psyches of many African Americans today. Moreover, this type of psychological manipulation program has been proven very effective in rapidly destroying a group’s ethical and moral values and cultural n orms with regard to violence, brutality, and even murder.  All people are products of cultural conditions and their worldviews operate outside of their level of consciousness. Therefore, no group can be preconditioned to see only the worst in themselves and not exhibit some degree of negative psychological impact.  This mass manipulation program is In fact, so proficient at damaging the Black self-perception that tragically it has become easier for many Blacks to accept derogatory premises of themselves rather than recognizing this program.

This mass psychological conditioning program also significantly influences society as a whole. Its ultimate goal is to foster a consensual national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed. The media’s constant negative imagery of Black Americans is not only fraudulently inaccurate but is actually being do ne to engender a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore insinuates that America would be a better society as a whole if African Americans were gone, thus engendering increasingly prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today and attempts discourage miscegenation between Blacks and whites.  It also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans. Wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed.

These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has become that it’s all now justified. When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the most fiercest and effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated disproportionately incarcerated under the belief that it is justified.] It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance.. Its effects are manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. This campaign successfully stripped African Americans of the national and international support that was acquired during the 1960’s civil rights struggles. This anti Black governmental campaign of p sychological warfare also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police of ficers while they are unarmed. Moreover, some studies have shown that this shift of victimization20now reflects increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably stronger today than they were after emancipation.  The objective of the United States government has always been to maintain its White dominance over its Black population, and clearly, psychological warfare meets this need—because it covertly creates a national climate that allows the government to suppress consensually the advancement of its African American population and to maintain its White dominance and national stability.

Many Black people, in defending their white Governments, will adamantly present the question of why would their government find it a necessity to implement such a racist scheme?   Within America these declarations are made among Blacks because the image that has been firmly established upon the consciousness of Black Amer ica, in regards to the U.S. Government, are those of the U.S. government sending troops to Littl e Rock, Arkansas to safely escort Black students to attend schools, or that of the Northern Union soldiers fighting and dying against the Confederate army to free the slaves, and of the many social programs that the federal Government has implemented towards the benefit of African Americans. However, while these undertakings by the U.S. government individually and collectively deserve our appreciation, they do not accurately provide the full picture revealing the true or entire relationship shared between the U.S. Government and its Black population. These favorable stories and events are the result of the same compulsory racial integration programs that reflects only what the U.S. Government wants its African Americans population to remember and are not historically accurate at reflecting or determining the true past relationship or the underlying present existing relationship between African Americans and the U.S. Government. From slavery to the present, African Americans have undeniably borne an unprecedented amount of suffering and mistreatment by the U.S. government because of their race.

However, so many have forgotten or repressed so much of these maltreatments and have, ins tead, com e to accept the favorable-but-false perpetuated White persona that represents everything that White people never were — and still are not — in place of the truth, thus engendering a sort of psychologically induced coma concerning their own Black holocaust.  Because most African Americans are denied an educational system and media reports that gives them accurate information, both historically and at present, reflecting the U.S. Governments relationship with African American, therefore most are totally oblivious of the true fundamental core character of this existing relationship.    [There are literally THOUSANDS of highly important c ompanies, government institutions and organizations that make use of the Tavistock Institute services. To list them all would be impossible. Among the Tavistock’s specialties is a study group that predicts the timing and the direction of a thermonuclear war, plus working out the many scenarios based upon its findings. However BRAINWASHING remains the primary function of the Tavistock Institution. [The pers onnel of the corporations are required to undergo indoctrination at one or more of these Tavistock=2 0controlled institutions. A network of secret groups, the Mont Pelerin Society, Trilateral Commission, Ditchley Foundation, and the Club of Rome is conduit for instructions to the Tavistock network.]

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SA council workers extend strike – A challenge to Zuma’s leadership

Posted by African Press International on July 30, 2009

South African President Jacob Zuma gestures during a news conference in Pretoria, July 29, 2009. South Africa's council workers' union said on Thursday it would extend a four-day strike that has crippled public services, after wage deals in key sectors eased the pressure on President Jacob Zuma.

South African President Jacob Zuma gestures during a news conference in Pretoria, July 29, 2009. South Africa’s council workers’ union said on Thursday it would extend a four-day strike that has crippled public services, after wage deals in key sectors eased the pressure on President Jacob Zuma. REUTERS

JOHANNESBURG, Thursday (Reuters)

South Africa’s council workers’ union said on Thursday it would extend a four-day strike that has crippled public services, after wage deals in key sectors eased the pressure on President Jacob Zuma.

The SAMWU municipal workers’ union said it would hold further talks with local government employers after rejecting the latest pay offer.

“We discussed a number of ways of resolving the impasse and we will approach the negotiations set for today with a view to reaching an agreement that meets the needs of our members,” the union, which represents 150,000 workers, said.

Some union members have trashed city centres to strengthen demands for an above-inflation 15 percent salary hike. Annual inflation is running at 8 percent.

The strike by public transport workers, refuse collectors and licensing officers follows days of violent protests by residents of impoverished townships who have complained about lack of healthcare, water and electricity.

Africa’s biggest economy is suffering its first recession since 1992 and unions say the poor are suffering the most. Unemployment is rising, with more than 4 million people without jobs, according to official data.

The frustration has boiled over into occasional outbreaks of unrest.

On Wednesday the SAPA news agency said police fired rubber bullets at nurses and patients at a clinic in the east of the country. A Reuters cameraman also saw protesting workers in Cape Town hitting passing vehicles with metal bars.

There were no reports of violence on Thursday. Domestic media said marches were planned for central Durban and Joahnnesburg.

SAMWU workers staged a three-week strike in 2006, but the impact failed to extend far beyond the inconvenience of disrupted transport and piles of uncollected rubbish lying on street corners.

Pressure on the government has eased since the country’s biggest union agreed a wage deal with gold and coal producers, averting a potentially damaging strike in the key mining sector.

Paper, industrial chemicals, pharmaceutical and petroleum workers also called off strikes this week after wage deals.

However, economists believe higher-than-inflation settlements could strain the economy further down the road.

Already facing a shortfall in tax revenue due to the economic crisis, South Africa may be forced to increase taxes and the salary hikes could fuel inflation, now standing at 6.9 percent annually.

Shortly after appointing a tough-talking police chief to tackle one of the world’s highest crime rates ahead of the 2010 soccer World Cup, Zuma urged police to crack down on unruly protesters overturning trash cans and littering streets.

“I feel it is important that they should be arrested because they are interfering with the rights of innocent citizens, who are walking around. I have been told there is a law and the law should apply,” he told a news conference.

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Mugabe ruined the economy and now ministers are on stealing spree: Zimbabwe minister arrested over phone theft

Posted by African Press International on July 30, 2009

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister and main opposition Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai (L) shakes hands with President Robert Mugabe (R) at the National Heroes Acre, in Harare, March 14, 2009.

Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (left) shakes hands with President Robert Mugabe (right) at the National Heroes Acre, in Harare, March 14, 2009. A minister from Tsvangirai’s party has been arrested for allegedly stealing a mobile phone from a militant supporter of President Robert Mugabe

By KITSEPILE NYATHI

HARARE, Wednesday

A minister from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party has been arrested for allegedly stealing a mobile phone from a militant supporter of President Robert Mugabe as tension continues to build up in Zimbabwe’s shaky coalition government.

Deputy Youth Minister, Mr Thamsanqa Mahlangu was arrested on Tuesday over the theft of the phone belonging to war veterans’ leader, Mr Joseph Chinotimba at a conference a fortnight ago.

Mr Mhlanga shared a table with Mr Chinotimba at a July 17 workshop convened by Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara to craft a “shared national vision.”

Police say during a lunch break, the war veterans leader who spearheaded Zimbabwe’s land invasions with Mr Mugabe’s tacit approval, left his food on the table when he stood up to get some food.

When he returned the phone had vanished.

Detectives, with the help of a network provider reportedly tracked down the sim card to a woman who claimed to Mr Mahlangu’s girlfriend.

“His arrest is in connection with theft of a cell phone at a function that was held at the Harare International Conference Center,” police spokesman, Assistant Commissioner Wayne Bvudzijena said.

“Two other people are facing charges relating to the use of the cell phone line without the consent of the owner and in breach of the Telecommunications Act.”

But Mr Mahlangu’s party said the arrest was part of a wider plot by Mr Mugabe’s Zanu PF party to whittle down its majority and victimise its leadership.

“His arrest comes in the wake of renewed persecution of MDC MPs and ministers,” the MDC said in a statement. “At least seven MPs are facing trumped up charges while the party’s secretary general and Minister of Finance Tendai Biti on Monday received an envelope with a bullet inside.”

The main MDC is one seat away from losing its majority in parliament, a year after it overturned Zanu PF’s dominance for the first time since independence.

At least five MDC MPs have been convicted for instigating violence during last year’s elections.

The arrests intensified after Mr Mugabe and Mr Tsvangirai formed a unity government in February.

At least 16 other MPs have cases pending before the courts and according to Zimbabwe’s constitution if they are given jail sentences exceeding six months they will lose their seats.

No Zanu PF MP has been convicted despite the fact that several were implicated in the violence that swept the country ahead of the disputed of last year’s June 27 presidential run-off election.

A number of Zanu PF MPs were also fingered in the abuse of a government agriculture input scheme but none have been convicted.

Dr Lovemore Madhuku, a constitutional expert said the clampdown on the MDC MPs threatened the stability of the coalition.

“It is very clear that there is a selective application of the law,”

Dr Madhuku said. “There are more crimes committed by Zanu PF MPs than those of the MDC-T.

“It is an open secret that some Zanu PF MPs were behind last year’s political violence but no one has been convicted.”

Mr Tsvangirai’s party won 99 seats in the 210 house of assembly during last year’s harmonised elections.

The party had won four more seats than Zanu PF

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Kenya: The Kalenjins are not stupid: Can ngege consummate an alliance?

Posted by African Press International on July 30, 2009

When Kibaki visited Bondo and ate ngege with Raila, some Luo MPs said,”hallelujah hosanna we need Kalenjin vote no more!” These MPs believe arrival of president to dala is the beginning of true alliance between Luos and Kikuyus and therefore Kalenjins are of no need any more.
Long ago Oginga Odinga thought the same way. You and I know the outcome.

It’s very clear from Luo MPs attack of Ruto that forty years since Jaramogi was deceived these guys have never learned who is their true friend. Kalenjins led by Ruto voted for Raila almost to the last voter.But Raila now thinks he can abandon them for Kibaki and his people.He thinks this time round Kibaki is genuine.That Kibaki will rally his people to vote for Raila.In fact some Luo MPs dared Ruto to leave ODM. Now that stinks! Kalenjins are united behind their leaders and ready to leave ODM when it dies and stinks.

For now ODM is our party. We are its founders.Any Luo MP who thinks otherwise should leave it instead! Wagging the tail to an extend of daring our leaders to leave ODM because Raila ate ngege with Kibaki is parochial and myopic.This is one reason Kikuyus often get the best of Luos politically.

Kalenjin vote is big and desirable.Whoever gets it is advantaged. Luo MPs should know this fact as they exorcise the old demons that made them enter into alliances that never worked for them. Political marriage between Luos and Kalenjins took more than a meal of ngege to consummate yet it can take only Mau to desolve it.

Raila should read mene mene tekel on the wall!

By J.K. LELEITTO SANG

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