Month: August 2016

Is Euphemism a public sedative in Kenya

by Yego, posted in Articles

George Carlin defines Euphemism as a “language invented to take life out of life”, nobody wants to call the devil by its name anymore. Perhaps this is the new skill that has been well mastered by Kenyans especially those working with the Government. You may at your own liberty ignore the essence of my preposition, but Euphemism is a strong sedative in Kenya. It numbs the people, it pulls their teeth and sends them back to work. Euphemism is currently the most effective opiate prescribed by leaders and Government officials to make people believe that somehow something is being done. Today, Kenyans are frustrated and they are looking for justification concerning the Rio saga. Four years ago, they were at the same spot asking the same questions and they received near same answers. Why? It is simply because Officials seem to have undergone an effective training in the use of coded language.

Somehow, Wario has ‘disbanded’ the NOCK and the last time I checked, the word ‘disband’ means to disperse or go separate ways. That sounds like we are sending people on maternity leave, with bags full of NIKE uniform and a couple of millions for up- keep. Doesn’t this seem like they were in a class work and suddenly the teacher disbands groups and tells everybody to get back to their chairs. To the contrary my grandmother was once suspected by the AP to be making and selling busaa. She was immediately dragged to the nearest police station and held in the cell for hours. She was then taken to court and fined kshs 1000 or serve a month of jailed term. Here we have crooks, who have embarrassed Kenyans in the Global arena repeatedly being ‘disbanded’.  Why don’t they tell us they are just giving them a corruption leave, at least we can learn they still own a bit of ‘honest’?

Here is the most arrogant piece ‘we have formed a team to probe’. Why use a long statement? It is the simplest task WARIO, let the police find them and take them to the nearest police station. And like any other Kenyan, they will explain themselves to the judges. They have earned a ticket to jail and no evidence is required, the uniforms were lost and some of them are wearing them in public. Forming a team sounds like a bursary committee and the intention is to share the proceeds if not to concoct a story which will eventually send the small fish to prison. We hold a world record in Kenya on the number of pointless or rather useless inquiry teams, committees or commissions. Their duties as I have known have been to delay the process until the storm withers. The result is the same, 791 million ends in someone’s pocket while the investigating team spends more money and time (up to 15 years) to finalize their report. In the end the culprits will have become super rich to buy the courts and others will have gone to hell leaving the proceeds to their children. Forming a team is just but a language folks, taking meaning out of a serious scam and making it look like a child just dropped an egg and therefore we wait for more chicken to lay more eggs. We have the courts and we have the police: The normal protocol is that the police will chase you, hold you by the trouser and drag you the cell. You will be enjoying raw Maharagwe while waiting to be investigated and judged for a crime.

In addition, The NOCK ‘mismanaged’ the Team Kenya. I am not sure what they meant, but I assume that someone missed to manage a team. And that the Kenyan athletes who rule the Big cities certainly required a high level of management to compete in Olympics. Call the devil by its name, the NOCK exploited KENYANS and stole money and other resources from athletes and coaches. There is no secrecy in this scam and to call it mismanagement takes meaning out of a serious allegation and assumes the whole thing to have been a mere failure to read a script. They are thieves and have been doing so for years and therefore have to be in jail for embarrassing the nation. There is no difficulty in paying for team flights and acquiring facilities for them. I have been an athlete and I was under a university coach, we never missed a flight, a game or facilities yet we were over 70 athletes.  A joke on you NOCK..

Kenyans, this language invented by politicians to make us believe that somehow something is about to be done is plainly baseless. It is just a language and to make it have validity, action needs to be injected into it. AK is a rock institution with politically motivated scams and corruption that have been shielded for years. Take a look at the cases already in the EACC and ask yourself whether someone has been held accountable? For the Government to pretend that this act was sudden is ridiculous, most of them have been receiving bread from kickbacks in the athletics Kenya, in fact they have been trying to further inflict more pain by taxing the Athletes who are already suffering from under the table bribes paid to the same institution. What essence does it make to disband a group having proceeds up to hundred million? They will be at liberty to bribe the courts and be left free to invest or pay their way back to the same institution.

There are only two ways the Government can convince me and you that we are all in this fight together. First, the Athletic Kenya/NOCK officials, accomplices and affiliates as it pertains to 2012/2016 Olympics be handcuffed publicly and on Camera and be placed under 24-hour surveillance at a maximum prison. They will be assumed guilty until proven innocent, only that they have to go through that which other hardworking Kenyans go through when they are found hawking in the streets. Secondly, their bank accounts, businesses and records of events and transaction be made public. They can also at their cost run their accounts on KBC TV each hour for a day. That is how I will begin to think something is going to be done….

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We can save Our schools.

by Yego, posted in Life

We can save Our schools.

In trying to make sense of the new set of homegrown terror ‘Choma Shule’ several sets of questions bombard my medulla. Why and how is it planned and executed? What is the reward or rather the motivation that radicalize the young into senseless beings of low IQ’s acting like rats? By assumption and as it has been, the children of Kenyan parents have been deemed to exercise and demonstrate excellent critical thinking. Their acts as they have demonstrated recently indicates the extent to which the deviation from the exact purpose of school and we can merely conclude that this could be the real cause of the woes facing the entire republic. My presumption is that these emergent acts of arson are the manifestations of years of decaying morals in the society and in the institutions of learning. It could also be as the results of infiltration of judicial evils into the schools or excessive acts of Corruption or Education cabinet prescribing to our schools certain ideals in an attempt to make them conform with foreign institutions.

First, the extent in which students are burning institutions without fear of the consequences indicates the depth in which moral decay has sunk into the core of the schools. I was once a student and I happened to have heard a few incidents in which dormitories were burned down and most of them were as a result of electrical malfunction or carelessness of some students in handling of electrical cables.  I have a different preposition and you are welcome to disagree with. This immense indiscipline in Kenyan schools is the product of years of corruption. Students and parents have learned easy ways of earning grades by purchase and any discussion that tends to lock these loopholes will expose many lazy and immoral students to public scrutiny and humiliation. These agitations in schools could mean that the Government is changing the tactic and they are beginning to address the long brooded problem causing the consumers to respond inappropriately. Perhaps the burning could also be a result of boredom and too much time, students have no motivation to study since exam is readily available by purchase.

Another reality that we have to face is the extent in which infiltration of judicial rot is creeping into High schools. It might be very hard to visualize this linkage, but many lawyers have seized opportunities and are pursuing several cases relating to disciplinary actions taken against teachers. The government having taken away the teachers’ authority to discipline students has created a loophole for certain parents to exercise the Western demon of suing teachers for punishing their children. Punishment was and has been the corner post of most learning institutions in Kenya, and for the Cabinet to deny teachers these privileges has bred Zombie like Kids. These kids have morally decayed and are incapable of thinking beyond their acts. Teachers have been forced to be passive and mere spectators in the loosing game of institution versus discipline.

Conformity is another construct that the Government is ignorantly imposing and enforcing in the Kenyan institutions of learning. In their attempts to make everything look like the Western institutions, the Government is driving students into unfamiliar territories lacking the good and old African set of morals. Purpose defines learning and the idea of taking Arts, Agriculture and other subjects out of Primary schools has created a vacuum in the society. Students are being forced to learn things they lack basic practical experience. The end game in this endeavor is idleness and almost at all times an idle mind is a room for evil acts. Students needs some work, they need some old art and craft, some music, Home Science or Agriculture. Let us lock away cellphones and calculators and replace them with the ole manual ways because several research has proven that technology is an enemy of critical thinking. Excessive tuition and short holidays should be banned and allow them to stay at home with to catch up with some homemade values.

Taking a few steps back is not an act of cowardice but rather another way of gaining momentum. Something used to work well in our institutions and certain changes that have taken place over the last few years seem to have been the wrong steps. Discipline was the only Uniqueness that separated KENYAN institutions from the rest of the World. The skills and knowledge we gained then, enabled some of us to travel to foreign lands and be able to merge their game and beat them with ease. The West is crying and struggling with too much drama and low IQ’s among kids and this is the direction we are headed. The country should stick to their old good and make necessary adjustment when need be and not for purposes of conformity. Save our schools.