Showing posts with label raila odinga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label raila odinga. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 March 2013

PRESIDENT UHURU KENYATTA-UPDATE!!

Its still early with only 30% of the vote or  4 million votes counted but glaringly obvious. His momentum is simply too strong. There were some surprises where his performance was unexpectedly weak like Maasailand which seemed heavily Jubilee or Ukambani where it appeared Kambas would vote for their Kikuyu cousin Uhuru instead of a Nilote from 500 kilometers away but its simply a minor detail.
He'll win with 52-56% of the vote.Our national trajectory toward middle income status started by Kibaki can continue. On an equally happy note the endless bleating and whining without performing that accompanied Raila Odinga's time in government and is his singular style has been rejected by most Kenyans. The permanent distraction of cloud pleasing antics will now be history-the clumsy press conferences,(look at the rigging claims on the FT!) ,agent of foreigners,recall how he went to bat for France forcing out Gbagbo in Cote de Ivoire,embarassingly contradicted by both Netanyahu and Peres after an unscheduled trip to Israel for the War on Terror,publicly fought over executive exclusive  toilet facilities befitting his station and yet irrevocably soiled his image with maize import scandals in his office-actually his list of amusing open air faux pas should be savoured for another day.
This post is to welcome our 4th president Uhuru Kenyatta.
Official results just in have Uhuru at just over 50% with Raila at 43%;a difference of roughly 800,000 votes. Lower than I though but good enough. As is to be expected the faux revolutionary had his team invent all manner of monkey tricks at the IEBC hall to 'prove' their claims of rigging but to no avail.
Some interesting electoral shenanigans definitely did occur,however proving the West went beyond moral support of Raila Amolo Odinga, a man whose history would convince intelligent voters not to place him within walking distance of State House.
On the first day there was a near total failure of the IEBC computer system-results couldn't be transmitted to Nairobi for tallying. Reliable reports indicate the Americans hacked the system-remember their man, Johnnie Carson, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of African Affairs on U.S ,a relatively junior officer,publicly stated there would be consequences for electing ICC indictees? Though he was immediately contradicted by his boss , Jendayi Frazier,many Kenyans felt his was the Washington voice.
As the ballot count reached day 2,well known agents of the Brits,in the person on Maina Kiai, an experienced civil society agitprop specialist began demanding the unthinkable-to include spoiled votes,the numbering 300,000 in the count,doubtless to inflate Odinga's number. That this has never happened in elections anywhere shows their determination in pushing Raila.
In the end,however the 'tyranny of numbers' was too strong. The West has accepted the inevitable-for now. They'll simply recalibrate restrategize and return with yet more tricks to gain control. For the reader unaware of exactly whats at stake,a reminder. Lamu port will be the terminal of all S.Sudanese,Ugandan,Kenyan and possibly S.Somali oil from Jubbaland(at least in the near future). When all the oil fields are at optimum capacity expect some 2mn bpd.conservatively,roughly 200 mn $ daily.


Apart from the obvious economic benefits,Kenya will escape the Western economic strait jacket,the tread mill of London/Washington bankster mandated action without progress that marks nearly the whole 3rd world.The perpetual grind of a low wage,primary exporter nation non mineral economy can be escaped.
Also the Middle East as an oil market will decrease in importance as Lamu comes of age. Ships can cut shipping times and reduce  risks ultimately significantly lowering the consumer oil price,a win-win for everyone.
Verily,the stakes of this election  for the Anglo jews were almost as important as those of the Kenyan voter. Uhuru,underrated by many,understands these issues better than most. Like his successor,Kibaki, the quiet Keynesian he has the will and the skills to compel Kenya to new middle income status.

Wednesday, 31 October 2012

FALSE NARRATIVES DISTORTING OUR POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Politics,of course is about perception, and how we modify or outright change those perceptions,not with Sunday school means but lies,propaganda,misleading advertising,subliminal TV messages and doctored opinion polls are all widely accepted stratagems in the bastion of democracy-the West.
Here in the 3rd world we haven't graduated to such subtleties and are at a simpler stage of the art of perception management. Repetetive buzz words 'Mt.Kenya mafia/kunajisi katiba (raping the constitution)/unfair resource allocation/ethnic based favouritism' are those easily understood by undereducated have nots looking for an explanation into their plight. Especially when your opponent is widely accepted by all to have grown the economy by over 7%,such simple incendiary agitprop of the type used by American feminazi types always finds eager listeners.
Look back at the Grand Regency hotel saga of 2008. The minister involved, Amos Kimunya found a private buyer willing to pay 1.6 billion shillings and was promptly lynched by the media,parliament and the hordes of professional idlers aka,civil society who all accused him of accepting inducements to sell at a throw away price and mortgaging the future of the nations's children. What was neglected in the whole circus was that that price for a running 5 star establishment unrefurbished  in its 15 years that allowed it to continue as a going concern was higher than expected as valuers later declared. Also MPs were looking for revenge ever since he waged a media war for them to pay tax.





He was cleared in an official inquiry and one of his principal tormentors ,James Orengo,with a taste for 6000$ suits as his bosses inside man recently revealed, apologised publicly but still Kimunya's name in our notoriously unethical press is  prefaced with the 'Grand Regency Hotel Scandal,' moniker.
But this press penchant for supporting false narratives was best observed in the December 2007 election. They enthusiastically allowed criminal incitement and were complicit in what turned out to be a failed Odinga led civilian coup. While they all lambasted Kibaki as an election thief the truth was 180 degrees in the opposite direction;it wasn't even a long or complicated story. Odinga rigged massively! The rigging ranged from deceased voters casting their votes, polling station staff colluding with agents to mark ballot papers of those who did not turn up to vote and illiterate people being guided to vote for a certain presidential candidate, among others forms of irregularities.
It is alleged PNU agents were chased away from polling stations while others failed to report at the stations for fear of their lives.
According to the Kriegler Report, six constituencies recorded more than 94 per cent voter turn out during the elections.
Bondo, the Prime Minister’s home and Kisumu Rural constituencies had a record 102 per cent voter turn out. Karachuonyo had 94 per cent, Rangwe 93, Nyatike 95 and Mbita 95 per cent. I personally will not be purchasing your book…
Mr Benjamin Tolo who was a PNU point man in the province and a parliamentary candidate for Kisumu Town East said election irregularities were rampant in the area.
 http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?id=2000008868&cid=4&ttl=In%20Kisumu,%20dead%20voters%20%E2%80%98showed%20up%E2%80%99%20at%20the%20polls&articleID=2000008868

As this happened tame NGOs shrieked to the heavens about stolen elections without an iota of proof. Here's one of them Hassan Omar,former head of the KNCHR who spent his term writing turgid inflammatory pieces like this:
 February 13, 2011: “Globally, the dominant view on President Kibaki could be that he represents part of the cacophony of obsolete despotic African leaders who must pave way for better governance. Not only is he viewed as having stolen an election in 2007, but also ‘stole’ hope and an opportunity for a genuine national rebirth by undermining the spirit of 2002 popular revolt. How do you explain a character that has been to some of the world’s finest schools and toured the globe coming across as an unrepentant ethnic bigot?”
 http://hardtalkkenya.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/hassan-omar-hassan-and-pathological-hatred/
 Now he's running for Mombasa senator on Odinga's ODM party.


Prof. Paul Collier,a British development expert was one of the few who saw through to the heart of the matter saying,
He gives very short shrift to the fashionable cause of self-determination or special status for minorities espoused by the Kosovo
Albanians, the Luo in Kenya or the rebels in Darfur. He casts Raila Odinga, the Kenyan prime minister, and not President Kibaki as
the provocateur in the country's last elections (in contrast to most foreign media covering the story).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/21/wars-guns-votes-paul-collier
And still to this day,Odinga is innocent and Kibaki the thief. I've held focus groups and one on one interviews with Kibaki's PNU insiders and haven't found any trace of rigging. Dear reader,feel free to correct me if I'm wrong and provide proof,but the evidence must be neutral. Don't shove school exercise books from Kibera filled with clumsy numbers in crayon ,purporting them to be election tallies favouring Odinga in my inbox-that will not do;neither will submissions from Friends of Raila Association be accepted.
To me the most obscene untruth is about the PEV. Kalenjins admitted killing,raping,looting and burning but 'explain' it as a reaction to Kibaki's 'rigging,' though months before the elections many were all over cyberforums gleefully spilling their heinous designs. I specifically remember one forumer on mashada who bragged of thousands of Kalenjin warriors ready in Molo in early October 2007. There are obvious intertwined interests keeping these narratives at play .
The thing is these orthodox histories as written by 'court historians,'poison the entire political framework. Like a seed planted in bad ground nothing good will fruit. The sun has risen and the truth must out.

Saturday, 27 October 2012

DECODING THE ICC ENDGAME WITH THE BENSOUDA VISIT

ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda jetted in 2 days. Unlike her predecessor the Argentine Luis Moreno Ocampo,she's less of a media hound.






Not for her frequent press conferences and endless selfpromotion like a used car salesman. Ocampo had publicly and unwisely bragged to show the world how human rights violators will pay the price. Alas! All he showed expectant Kenyans was how the West always manipulates events in the 3rd world to their own interest.
Here he is trying to stick his uninvestigated hearsay reports on Uhuru during the initial mention last year .

Back to Bensouda. 3 days ago she accused the government of failing to supply evidence on the remaining 4 ICC suspects she only described as 'private and confidential.' Strange,since the ICC used prior evidence to prove they have  a case to answer. Evidence,by the way collected and supplied by an ally of the main suspects chief political protagonist. The huffington post commented on such a farce thusly:Instead they used intermediaries - such as a local charity branded the "Kenya Human Rights
Commission" and another organisation named the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights who were particularly helpful when it came to the witnesses. One of its Commissioners a Mr Omar Hassan it is alleged handily unearthed some of the main witness for the ICC's prosecution. (One such witness, incidentally, has proven himself to be utterly unreliable, having changed his statement on no fewer than four occasions, including attempting once to retract his statement completely).

Hassan's good work has not gone unnoticed. He has since been appointed vice chairman of the Friends of Raila, an organisation working to elect Odinga to the Presidency in upcoming elections.

Surely, you would think a witness who has changed his statement on multiple occasions, having been assisted by an intermediary whose intentions were so palpably political, should be dismissed by any reasonable provincial court, let alone the ICC.
 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/elliot-wilson/a-political-trial-at-the-_b_1437224.html

Last week it was conclusively proved via a new opinion poll that Raila Amolo Odinga,the Anglo Jewish hope,can't win the election. Though ,registered voters weren't used RAO's lead has shrunk drastically and he'd lose a runoff. Uhuru and Ruto both score over 50% combined-to disenfranchise the electorate to put their Yeltsin in State House would have disastrous consequences . Of course the ICC,in the person of Bensouda is sending a message cognizant of this belated reality

If you truly thought the ICC was apolitical and concerned with only justice go back to sleep or read how Milosevic was poisoned at his trial to prevent embarrassing details surfacing.
Based on the evidence provided by the ICTY themselves (some of it clearly inadvertant as a result of their clumsy coverup in the immediate aftermath of his death) i.e., public statements from ICTY officials (doctors/toxicologists) that they performed blood tests on January 12 which revealed the presence of the Leprosy drug ‘Rifampicine’ in Milosevic’s blood but kept it secret from Milosevic,his doctors,lawyers and the entire world for TWO MONTHS until March 7, is clear evidence of foul play on the part of officials in the ICTY.
 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-murder-of-slobodan-milosevic/2542

I'd rather avoid predictions,I'm not a fortune teller ,but here goes.  Bensouda is setting the stage to declare the remaining 4 suspects cases terminated. She can't just come right out and hurl the grenade among the unprepared masses and must first drop carefully nuanced hints and insinuations. This explains her public complaints about lack of government assistance. She'll say," the Kenya government failed to cooperate and supply more evidence,my hands were tied. What could I do?"
This will happen before Christmas at the latest mid January. The West will simply return to the drawing board,revising their playbook;funding ever more NGOs to capture the civil society space,instigating local crises (western ambassadors for some reason recently found it necessary to meet with the violent secessionist MRC) or even blatant destabilisation a la the DRC.
However the more Kenya develops its internal capacities,the more remote the possibility of success of these tried and true methods of 3rd world control. Make no mistake,in the wider geopolitical scheme ,the ICC is a tool of the West and is no more capable of true judicial independence of action than a tyre jack.