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Is Kenya a Country? How?

by Yego, posted in Articles

Yuval Noah Harari once said human beings are the only species who are capable of forming stories and actually believing them. Looking and analyzing what is going in the world at the moment, I willingly admit to the myth that Africa has 54 countries and one of them is Kenya. It is a story that was made up and we all believed it. There citizens being beaten in China and they cannot defend them. What if it was France or Italy or some other place with pink people” – it would have been war or something of the sort. Sisi ni Kuku”  the late Mzee Moi said and it seems he knew something. If in doubt look at the independent responses that came out of the unfortunate events (terror attack) that occurred some years ago in  Spain and in Kenya.  In Spain it sparked worldwide responses and was published all over the world. The Kenya incident was taken as a mere incident with less concern despite having more casualties.

That said, I am forced to admit that some places are just called countries for identification and Kenya is one of them. Kenya is not a country but a fragment of the old colonial vase- pieced together. He is a boy given big-boys clothes and named BABA. By naming a Chihuahua -Simba doesn’t give it the strength of a Lion.  It is a great lie that somehow sounds correct, especially when one superficially looks for the big words that make him a big boy- sovereign nation, with democratic institutions and a member of the commonwealth.  Quite illusive terminologies we have believed.

First, what do we own to warrant the status of a democracy or to be a member of the commonwealth? There is nothing common and there is no wealthy being shared.  Take for instance the British, they have a monopoly over tea in Kenya and other raw materials especially on the end product and thus dictate the price they pay to the enslaved farmers. On the contrary, I have never felt the ownership of Range Rover – even the so-called Travel VISA is a nightmare. When we show signs of independence, they point their mighty finger- to remind us who we are. In the year 1994, for instance, the textile industry in Kenya was booming and was felt all over the country. What happened to it? It was affecting the US cotton pillowcase industry. Immediately, Clinton assented to power and the Chihuahua was reminded that he was a dog and a not a Lion. Clinton administration imposed a quota on the textile imports from Kenya and the industry collapse and we went back to Mitumba. They couldn’t risk losing the Mitumba business in their dumping ground.

You might not agree with me, it is okay: Bertrand Russel advised us that it is sometimes healthy to put a question mark on all the things you have thought to be correct. Literally, let’s analyze some good events, for instance Olympics that are international. Other than the body and the talent, what else do we carry? God forbid, if they say every country to bring their own- we will go there with school uniforms and Kinyira.

In any scenario we are doomed- whether politically, socially, spiritually and worse of all economically. If you are lost ask yourself, as a sovereign nation- what do we export or what do we have control over the production, the processing and the sell? My friend, you will know that we produce children, Rungu  and  MBOGA ya Kienyeji. The rest we import and we do not have a right to say no-: we even import some of them but we don’t have a right to use them in their own place- i.e planes.

In the bigger but hidden screen, we have a union we call UN-. An institution that was formed after WWII to promote world peace and it has turned out to be the prefect . It carries around a stick and a carrot to whip the boys into line and when need be, feed them with goodies to rubberstamp their advancement elsewhere. WAR in their definition was between them and the rest of the Chihuahua’s are mere incidents- Vietnam, Korea, Somali, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Somali, Nicaragua etc. do not count but are also called COUNTRIES.

Now that the big money is in the Data mining industry and Kenyatta is promoting free internet- our election will be irrelevant. Big data companies that dared the US election in 2016 have all our information that we willingly gave them through the sham exercise name HUDUMA . It could have been a better idea, but we don’t own or have control over the networks. Shoshana Zuboff details this in her length work on Surveillance capitalism.

Do we even have power over anything? Jokingly,  we couldn’t even retain the ownership of Swahili phrase  ‘hakuna matata’ nor Kiondoo which were sourced, then owned and patent in the West. What else can we hold on to? Noam Chomsky was accurate when he said that when the West talks about promoting democracy what they imply is that these fragments in the name of countries must accept without question to be exploited unquestionably.

We don’t qualify to be a country until we learn to discriminate where options are limited, to dare to be poor with dignity than to act like one who has plenty in bondage. The future is doomed if individual responsibility is not taken to protect your own citizens- We would rather be wiped out of existence now than to be slaves in our own land.

My thoughts in brief- subject to debate.

Nandi County, Neo-Liberalism and Globalization: Is it the best policy?

by Yego, posted in Articles

Is embracing Neo-Liberal policies and the concept of Globalization good for development at the county level? That is a subject of debate, however, evidence suggests otherwise- it is bad policy. I suppose the Nandi county theoretical approach to local developments revolves around the term ‘investors’, as a need that can only be outsourced. I here then (in a Democracy) seek to exercise my Socratic right to criticize his policy and to will to be executed for “seeking practical indications for where reasonable approximations of truth might be”. Sang’s’ policies rely on the assumption that by opening up the county for giant multinational corporations to invest will then lead to development. This move I argue will only add to the cosmetic outlooks of the county: that is to increase ‘mallisation1’ and Skyscrapers while debilitating the conditions of the local economy and its workers.
Globalization in this sense does not carry the dictionary definition of the term per se, it is in how the neo-liberals have applied. It implies to the liberalization of the trade policies to allow corporations to penetrate and to exploit resources without restrictions. A typical case is banana production in Latin America, where covert forms of coercion with limited force have [1]been applied to bend Governments to accept Globalization and instead of companies importing bananas at the market cost, they  acquire land and set their own  highly mechanize farms and people will be forced out of this investment because of market and competition . With that comes the evils of corporations- total disregard of humanity and the environment. This is the direction Nandi county is taking, Sang’s policy seems to have taken ‘a come all’ approach to this rejected ideal and disregards the people’s needs.

Prof. Noam Chomsky on criticizing this neoliberal policy, argues that globalization is a concept used by Western powers to twist Governments in the third world countries to open up their countries for exploitation by multinational corporations. There is no reciprocity in the applications of the term; the rich will exploit the poor and Nandi county which is not an exception will allow big corporations to exploit their resources. John Pilger in his Documentary The new rulers of the World (2001) paints a better picture on how the events will simply unfold, Pilger, explains how the West “has increased its stranglehold on poor countries by using the might of … powerful financial institutions to control their economies. “A small group of powerful individuals are now richer than most of the population of Africa,” he says, “just 200 giant corporations dominate a quarter of the world’s economic activity. General Motors is now bigger than Denmark. Ford is bigger than South Africa. Enormously rich men like Bill Gates, have a wealth greater than all of Africa. Golfer Tiger Woods was paid more to promote Nike than the entire workforce making the company’s products in Indonesia received”.  This policy framework is a recipe for a conformist and unconscious consumer society.
First, this policy if embraced will suffocate local entrepreneurs and scale out competitors in a similar market. The county does not have any clear anti-trust laws and if for instance, the GM branch which recently opened in Kapsabet offers a sizeable amount of money to buy off competitors within the city, it will be left at will to monopolize the local market and kill local creativity. In  1994, for instance, the then President of the USA  Bill Clinton- the champion of Neoliberalism imposed a Quota on the booming textile industry in Kenya and send the country into Mitumba business.

Secondly, Multinational corporations suppress creativity and local production turning the county into a job society, a move many seem to celebrate (kazi kwa vijana), but I will have to disappoint if development is the viable end to be achieved. A ‘job’, Ralston John in his book: Unconscious civilization indicates that a ‘job’ is not a factor in the production system, what goes into a production system is research, developing, planning, risking, investing, building, looking for markets and then selling. By outsourcing investors, the county cedes the proper steps of revitalizing a society and the consequence of this action will be the rise of a precarious society and maquiladoras.

Thirdly, Corporations tend to disregard health and environmental policies because their motive is centered on maximum profits at the cost of cheap human labor and hazardous working conditions, consider the Gold mines of South Africa, the deaths and lung disease. In Nandi county, for instance, there are emergent cases of cancer and lifestyle diseases. It is without a doubt that these alien conditions emerged with globalization: it is a consequence of investors that disregard humanity in its quest for profit. Monsanto and its affiliates in Kenya, for instance, have been implicated in many countries for use of products that have been known to harm people. Round-up is in use in Nandi county as a weed killer, yet research has indicated that it contains Glyphosate, a cancer-causing substance. I am not an expert in this sector, but multinational corporations have been cited eyeing these places in testing their new ventures i.e the BT Corn and terminator technology. The intent in this new Biotech product is to create a consumer society that relies on the giant seed company for their seeds: Round-up half-life does not allow Kolgeinik, Chepkerta, Mborochik, Mitek or other vegetables to regrow hence creating dependence on companies for seeds that used to be readily available. Sang’s policies in my view will provide a haven for such to occur in the local community. The recent incident at a gold mine in Nandi county is a clear testimony on how communities become prey to profit-seeking companies.
The people don’t learn but they must learn that ‘Nandi’ county is a product in a competitive market and in order to retain its viability, it has to outrun its competitors in branding and rebranding itself. In my own limited view, Nandi county and its officials should desist from seeking external solutions until it as established what Nandi is. I suppose that It is ‘a sport’, a farm and a ‘culture’. If you doubt this, travel and in the major streets of the world the Nandi people are known in sports but who do they represent? While at home, not even a decent stadium, or housing to nurture this product. Nandi tea is the best in the world, yet farmers are paid peanuts. Why? We are the breadbasket of Kenya yet more than half the population live below the poverty line. Why? Nandi is a cultural center and yet we choose to kill these in pursuit of modernization and perceived civilization. Why? To stay viable and relevant in a World of politics, people need to command a certain field and outrun the rest. Nandi county must research and find those strengths within to balance its imports.

Reference for further reading.

http://johnpilger.com/videos/the-new-rulers-of-the-world

https://chomsky.info/20170705/

John Ralston Saul: The Unconscious Civilization. Free press 1997

 

[1] Too many malls

 

PETITION: STUDENT ATHLETES V/S KENYA PUBLIC UNIVERSITY.

by Yego, posted in Categories, Life

COMPLAIN: I here underline that:

  1. In 2015 (Gwangju City),  Eight (8) students representing Kenya at World University Games were forced to hide their faces in an event that should have been a celebration. The problem as they venomously spit is related to the curse of ‘Mitumba’ and corruption; that they were ill-heartedly forced to hide their faces from public places because they did not have the answers to the obvious question: Which country are you representing? The team did not receive any Uniform for racing or either to wear during the opening ceremony and that they were denied an opportunity to showcase the symbol of love for their country- Kenya (- red- green and black). One student records that she had hoped to represent Kenya and the only reason she had work so hard was to have a jersey with the name ‘Kenya’ and to hold the Flag in a Global arena.  Watch the videos and enjoy the embarrassment of ‘us’ proudly running with Mitumba or folded tops and ‘Mud- Guards’.
  2. The travel to participate/ represent (as told by officials) was not a mandate but rather a favour accorded to them by the Universities and that they did not have any right to ask but to appreciate whatever they get. A student recollects an incident of cover -ups and bribery for alleged abuse of funds by the so-called officials and the subsequent intimidation of the students for raising their grievances.
  3. There are pending cases regarding students who were enticed to spend their own cash on flights with a promise of reimbursements and as of today, they have never been compensated. Instead they are being shuffled and tossed around with ‘wait’ or being totally ignored. One students recall being told by an official that …wewe unakaa hauelewi Kenya mzuri. There are other sketchy incidences of assault related to dues.
  4. Students train or rather use their own facilities while being coached and managed by University hired staff fully paid and funded to oversee the program. One student openly states that she had been competing for the University with the Yellow Uniforms donated by the Former president Moi in 1982 . The same rags are required to be returned to the University after use. The same students report to have been threatened and harassed by the sports administration for openly writing a letter to the University over disrespect and lack of support for the team after going to Tanzania.

I, the undersigned, is a concerned citizen who is urging our leaders to act now to protect students from unnecessary face of embarrassment, abuse and intimidation. I therefore call upon leaders to review the scope under which the term ‘sport’ is bounded and to crack on the network that feasts or rather parties by exploiting Athletes travelling to represent Kenya. It is better to seek donations from citizens and well-wishers to support runners than export our rot.

Yego Kipkosgei.

 

The case of Darfur: Included by exclusion.

by Yego, posted in Articles, Politics

Included by exclusion implies that nations are part of one unified World, being members of the International Games(Olympics), United Nations, World Bank, and IMF, however, some of the needy nations seem to have been excluded when it comes to pressing issues. The exclusions in its essence explain the kind of partner a nation is in the Global arena and perhaps it is an ingredient of the ‘joyous freedoms’ enjoyed by those on top of the hierarchy. In the city of Omelas, Ursula Le Guin narrates a story about a city of abundance where people live in happiness. Their happiness he says depends on “the knowledge that one unlucky child has been locked in a cage under the city and allowed to live in filth. From his suffering, they understand how important happiness is and how cruel justice can be”.  Global politics rests on this principle: the knowledge of the existence of poverty, starvation and civil war in a small country with a lot of resources. The misery itself ensures fluidity of resources through loot to sustain their individual life of abundance. Darfur is haunted by the evil of ‘inclusion by exclusion’ .

In this cult of Inclusion by Exclusion as in the city of Omelas, we have been forced to heed exceptionalism, that is, if it is not me or us, then we don’t have to worry about the actions of the state at the systems level. We have buried our heads in the sand, while we blindly give the green light through tax and elections to those who endorse murder and exploitation. The man has mistakenly deviated from the state of nature and the principle of sharing in plenty and in less and has created a city of Omelas through global power politics and the assumption of Anarchy. Like in the city of Omelas, my argument rests on two important subjects: knowledge and fanning of the flames.

I seek to introduce the case of ‘knowing ‘by illuminating on the fact that it is public knowledge that there has been a crisis in DARFUR, however like the girl on in the City of Omelas, its misery seems to accords us the freedom and the security of a great summer vacation. I have set to demonstrate our understanding of the need to walk away from these cities because justice supersedes individual happiness. Walking away from the city is the basis for getting back to the universal principle of humanity- give unto the needy and be with them in times of sorrow. The living conditions of the people of Darfur has been well assessed and documented by the United Nations humanitarian crisis and other credible organizations i.e.  Amnesty international and Christian aid showing how the situations have developed and metastasized.

First, on September 2004, the Secretary of State Colin Powell testified to the US congress that in fact “… genocide has been committed in Darfur and the Government of Sudan and the Janjaweed bear responsibility”. Twenty-two years ago there was a genocide, I am only interested in the ‘knowing’ it does explain more on the inaction of my proposition. The existence of knowledge was later affirmed by Tony Blair’s visit to Darfur, Blair declared that “we can’t have a situation where thousands of people are dying and nothing is done”. In June of 2005, European Council concerning the situation in Darfur declared that “The council continues to be deeply concerned at the serious infringement of human rights and of international humanitarian law committed against the civilian population in Darfur. It is clear that it is well known that the problem exists and that Children and families continue to be displaced and others killed.

Secondly, Charles Chinweizu (2009) article titled Imperialism and Sudan: same oil story cites a report from Human Rights Watch indicating the indiscriminate bombing of the civilians, the destruction of villages, ethnic cleansing, rape, and abduction. This is another despicable form of ‘knowing’ that crimes had escalated to extreme ends and that action was required immediately. In September 2016, Foreign Policy Journal published an article by David Kowalski, South Sudan’s American-Made Robber Barons. Kowalski alludes to the claims made by Enough Project and Not on Our Watch that the country’s leadership was, in fact, receiving Billions of money and instead of salvaging the crumbling economy stashed funds in countries like Kenya, Uganda, and Australia. There are thousands of pages of reports that indicate human suffering, however, the response has been business as usual, sanctions and more sanctions. The sanctions have proven to affect the masses, consider the case of Iraq and Oil embargo. The outcome was that many people died of starvation because Oil was the only form of the commodity for trade to import goods.

According to United States Government Accountability Office (Nov 2007), GAO Report to Congressional Requesters DARFUR CRISIS estimates that “The crisis {had} affected an estimated 3.76 million people in Darfur, including approximately 1.85 million— “internally displaced persons” (IDPs)—who now live in camps …The U.S. Department of State (State) reported that a total of 98,000 to 181,000 people died between March 2003 and January 2005”. Whether we will categorize this case as genocide or civil wars, the attention it has been accorded signals human arrogance and neglect or rather one of the many cases of Hegelian doctrine which equates Africans as ‘mere things’. Perhaps it also puts Darfur on the list of none ‘Holocaust’ related atrocities which include extermination of the Tasmanians or Aboriginals in Australia or the putting of African people in concentrations camps to die and rot while imperial Britain extort resources. Who knows?

Thirdly, there is a question of Oil, the denominator of all modern day crisis in the Sahara and the Middle East. G. Dunkel in the article What imperialists don’t say: Oil is behind struggle in Darfur, alludes to nature of politics played by Western allies and the effects of Chinese influence in Sudan.  Noam Chomsky (2006) Failed States mentions on push and pull factors within the UN and the nature of political theatrics that surrounds the United Nations.  The Global political giants practice delay or abandon the discussions aimed at ending Genocide. Chomsky cites a quote from an editor of Boston Globe saying “history will not forgive the powerful people who could have ended yet another genocide but preferred to play their pitiless games”. The delay is always expressed in terms of bureaucracy or unwillingness by parties to end or provide a resolution. Delay in itself supports injustice or aid Genocide or the Hegelian doctrine- Africa is a ‘thing’. The African Union has demonstrated some ability to act on the problem, however, the mammal is beyond its proxy and they all seem to be overwhelmed by personal wounds inflicted by Imperial acts of the days gone.

The Sudan question is part of proxy wars and the balance of power theory. Charles Chinweizu (2015): US and British Imperialism cites two claims indicating that Sudan is caught up in the middle of proxy wars. Chinweizu argues that in 1982 Sudan was part of the play during the Cold war and that it received top Aid from the US in order to limit soviet influence and to severe the ties with Gadhafi. It is also indicated in the writing that President Barack Obama extension of the Sanctions in October 2015 was rather strategic and not a meaningful cause for action. The sanction was meant to politically and economically isolate Sudan and break it up” into smaller bite size- chunks so as to deny vital energy resource to strategic rival China”.  Into ‘Sizeable chunks’ makes more sense on intention and not reason especially when one objectively views the tartars and pieces of current Sudan. It does explain the hidden meaning on the tenacity at which the Kiir’s and the Machars hold power in the rivers of flowing human blood.

What really fans the flames of discontent? Could it be the Economic sanctions? It is my presumption that Economic sanctions necessitate acquisition of arms instead of otherwise. Sudan receives thousands of sophisticated weapons, where and how is the question I do not know. What I would propose to consider containing the proliferation of weapons and when the fighters resort to Machetes and stones the fight will have reduced to a minimum.  Allow me to use the layman’s thinking, Sudan does not make weapons, therefore, it buys from outside. The question therefore is why is this pipe left open? Is someone making happiness out of this misery? The discontent has been further fueled by the current regime by refusing to receive refugees from the same country on the grounds of the myth of terror. General Wesley Lewis in early 2000’s attempted to open our eyes to the nature of the battles conspired to be undertaken by the Neo-cons whose intentions were to take down seven countries which included the ever suffering child ‘Darfur’. Noam Chomsky (2003), cites a case in which the Clinton administration in 1998 covertly bombed a Pharmaceutical company in Sudan claiming Weapons of Mass destruction, facts state otherwise. Instead, Clinton actions have been label by others to have been diversionary war. The consequence of the bombing affected the people economically and socially because the medical cost went up. The UN did not mention whether there were weapons of mass destruction or that it was, in fact, a Pharmaceutical Company.

The Knowledge of the existence of misery in Darfur and the business -as -usual attitude speaks louder. It seemingly concludes that the Misery is a necessary evil for the sustainability of hegemonic politics. If the case was otherwise, there could have been no way more than 200 countries equipped militarily and with other forms of arsenals spend decades trying to act on two greedy leaders. Knowing and acknowledging that there is a problem paves way for an action plan that matches the urgency of the case at hand. I intend not to deny attempts that have been put forward previously to correct the instability however it has not resolved the problem. Is Darfur the Child in the City of Omelas?

Reference

Chomsky, Noam. Failed States: Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy. NY, Metropolitan books, 2006, pp. 229-30

Chomsky, Noam. Hegemony or Survival: Americas Quest for Global Dominance. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 2003, pp. 206-07.

Kowalski, David. “South Sudan’s American-Made Robber Barons.” Foreign Policy Journal, 19 Sept. 2016. Accessed 2 Mar. 2017.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/09/19/south-sudans-american-made-robber-barons/

http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/africa/sudan/4217-uab211215

http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/africa/sudan/884-imperialism-and-sudan-same-oil-story-frfi-181-oct-nov-2004

http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MCD261331.htm (accessed March 31, 2007).

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0724.pdf

http://hugoslim.com/Pdfs/Dithering%20Over%20Darfur.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/01/13/obamas-premature-easing-sanctions-sudan

http://www.workers.org/2006/world/darfur-0504/

 

 

 

 

Kenya 2017: At a threshold for another Election Violence.

by Yego, posted in Politics

There is something about violence that Kenyans haven’t learn yet? That the players in the actual fight are the proletariat and their sons and daughters while the beneficiaries continue to earn and make a good living.  They make a good living through corruption, salary and some through the manufacture and the sale of nails, Pangas, and even ammunition. When hell is about to break lose, as we know pretty well, the ‘haves’ will own the microphone, the argument, and the competitions for the big jobs. The ‘have nots’ remain the objects of political maneuver, they will be enticed into tribal cocoons and given a small child call ‘Hope’ that when feed with bribes becomes ‘horned viper’. It is 2017 and yet again the factual conditions that premeditated the 2007 violence are taking shape. Even with the smell of the innocent blood spilled in 2007 still fresh in our senses and the cries of our people still awakening some in the middle of the night.  Kenyans are building it again, building violence with their own naivety. Here are the few that are ready to set ablaze the cradle home of Mankind: Tribal polarity, Fraternity of loose cannons, Unresolved land conflicts, and tribal pride

Forget about the ICC and the whatever report that used millions of shillings worth a year of Ugali and Sukuma wiki for all Kenyans. I hate to disappoint, but that was make-belief folks, it was all about the crooked politicians and their own boardroom differences. It was partially about protecting wealthy for some establishments and a party time for the faulty legal systems and their know- it -all and present at all time Nairobberry Lawyers. Kudos Kenyans! We are at it again, we have managed to get enough conditions to warrant us another fight. Whether the wise people think it is noble to assume that nothing is going wrong,  I do not buy it. First, the giant tribes and the longtime enemies are at it again. The bitterness is there and rationality has been cast aside, it is all about our own becoming the president and if not it shouldn’t be so and so. It was there in 2007 and yes, it pushed a community to steal justice in a broad daylight. I was a young adult and it was my first vote ever and I was denied that right. RIP

Secondly, the necrotic wound that resulted from previous unresolved land conflicts remains un debrided. It is still very painful to many and if an opportunity presents itself, that is if a hitch occurs in the law system some neighbors will be at each other’s throats.  The governments have been ignoring this fact by alluding to the constitutional clause that everyone has a right to stay where he wants to be. The constitution is correct, but when applied retrospectively some corners need to be reconsidered. If a community was deprived a portion of a forest or state land within their backyard and overnight a community was plucked from another area and planted in the middle of another man’s backyard, would you expect the natives to be at peace with them? The worst-case scenario is when a politician does so to create more farm or land for himself/themselves. It is common in the Rift valley the very hot spot for violence.

The lesser of the devils is the tribal pride. It is mostly abuse in urban areas and even in the media. In 2005-07, there was a prominent arrogance in the Eldoret town among certain tribes that used belittling terms to refer to the native of the surrounding town referring to them has been stupid or foolish, ooh you sell land ooh we are the Government. It is obvious this language needs to be reported and discipline. People accumulates such careless talk and when the time comes especially in a politically volatile environment people will roast each other without fear. The politicians, in fact, do not miss an opportunity to take on their tribal language to make such statements and they fully understand that the Kenyan media is very good with live covering. Even the perceived noble opposition leaders, are considering it this time round…. ooh we have one bullet, ooh if we don’t win ohh. Take this kind of languages and add to the hooligan politicians we have, I mean the drug cartels we now know to exist as a worldwide fraternity capable of assassinating presidents and we yes made ourselves a recipe for yet another disaster.

Lastly, is this other new baby call ‘frustration’, some career politicians under the new constitution were locked out of political relevance and many of them are in fear of missing out in Government. To be in power in Kenya is a good think you have the key to doing all sorts of indirect murder. Loot and loot until there is nothing left for the drought-stricken areas and let people die in the hands of the journalist trying to earn a living filming their misery. This kind of career politicians are doing whatever way possible to get back to their nipple and I am not impressed at how they do it. Be on the watch out wonderful people. Let has all de-escalate and stand together for a peaceful election!

 

The Little Girl in the Village.

by Yego, posted in Life

I have thought about her so much, the little girl in the village. The last time I saw her, she had a load on her head, her nose was headed to the UNGA mill.! She was in a hurry I noticed, that which she carried in her head was ‘real’. Time and call of duty gave her no chance to talk to the passing wind of reality. She is used to this world of patriarchy, Baba needs tea and warm water. Brother will be here for lunch and the cows will soon need her to unload. When age is in, I know she will miss that game: meeting boys. When nature ‘grows’ her to have all it makes her mama. She will be measured in cows and sheep and chicken. That is the world build around her.

I know she is 8, she no longer carries two on her hands, perhaps she has added one on her head and another on her back. Tasks lie ahead and she will need to multitask- they say they are good at it. Practice, Practice angel. The burden of the “shadow of the cave”[1]. Perhaps ‘more’, seals the mind from the gossip of ‘ideal life? You are ripe to learn, but circumstances won’t allow me to see her. I would have sent her a letter saying … Chepkam[2] it took me 16 years to learn the difference between smile and happiness. But that will cause more pain, don’t you think so?

It worries me to know her and I know something good in her for her. What should I do? I have waited too long to teach ‘cute’, babe and love. She knows not much about that seed in her, that she is a miracle when given a tadpole it warms and makes babies! In her world, patriarchy owns that ‘house’ and rents an old lady, who will soon take that tip of the pleasure in her. She will soon be dry and left a factory of beings. Friends, how did you learn this way, I want her to know this: the power of equality in this and that.

I am downtrodden and beaten to the core! Why did I wait?  I should have done something or tell her the real ‘life’.  She knows no city and no fashion. Her world is the shadow. Perhaps I am guilty of not saying and I owe that old man a kick she snatched her for a wife at 14…

[1] Plato: allegory of the cave.

[2] Chepkam.. sister

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.

Who and what is Gideon Moi?

by Yego, posted in Politics

Who and what is Gideon Moi?

To the extent in which systemic Ignorance as sank into the minds of the Kalenjin’s I do not wish to detail, instead I will ask the questions I had posed to GM maniacs the other day. The group of Kalenjin’s who have been chained into the roots of the Moi’s ancestry tree and are obsessed with the old ideal of handouts and are yearning for another era of the same. Exempt Mzee from this version for he deserves my respect has a person.  I am only concern with those who want to force into our throats preconceive assumptions about yesterday that it was the best years’ worth going back to. This people who are prescribing to every hardworking Kenyan about whether Gideon or Rutto will be the next President. They have created a set of theories about an imagined event on how this and that is going to happen and that Gideon should and will be the President.

This new theory packaged and presented by half-witted Kalenjin men tends to magnify the idea that Gideon Moi is going to be the president and that DP is a victim of use and abuse by the Kikuyu. Their spectrum of thought presumes that for every Moi leadership, a Kenyatta will follow and vice versa. In this set of assumption, I can conclude that some Kalenjin’s are disillusioned and others have bestowed leadership into specific households and that any hardworking person with qualifications should begin to think otherwise. It is also clear that ‘fear’ is becoming a political tool, instead of asking relevant questions folks have resorted into the defense of impossibility. The impossibility according to some Kalenjin’s rests on the fact that eventually there is no way in which a Kenyatta may defy the words of Mzee and that we should instead concede and shout Gideon.

My argument here is not to support the DP Rutto nor demonize Gideon, I am another air breathing mammal trying to make sense out of something. I am investigating and scrutinizing on a problem that is polarizing the Rift valley. In trying to do so I have asked questions specific to G.M: Who is GM, why is he wanting to be in the higher office? What has he done to warrant power? Where did he grow up and went to school? Who is his friends? Could he be another corporate quack with intentions to protect his wealth and those of his business men? Why is he filthy rich and how did he come to own such a wealthy and does he read the bible and what is his policy on giving and helping? Why hasn’t he answered certain questions related to greed and corruption highlighted on several leaked cables? Can he be able to openly and publicly defend his transcripts? These questions are specific and perhaps it will help us have a more effective debate on his candidature.

For the Obedient followers of political parties and persons, I forgive you because of your ignorance, you are living in that condition because you have allowed yourself to be a tool or a thing. Among the Seven Evils listed by G.K Chesterton, Greed and gluttony are among the top most and the worst of all. Look at what we are presenting for leadership, it is a perfect resemblance of greed and gluttony and we are yet to secure protection for them. Your vote as been converted into a pass to slavery and servitude. You live on Kshs 200 a month  while a single family owns a whole district without documents to show statements of purchase. In order for leadership to be realize in our land, people need to begin by kicking out the ambassadors of handouts who spend much of their time lobbying and corrupting the villagers. We also need to have pertinent issues that relates exactly with our needs and then present and match them with relevant leadership.

Leaders not Brokers…..

Excerpts from ‘Jubilee’ Government dictionary.

by Yego, posted in Articles, Politics
  1. Our Government-  Distance this set from the Lincolnian doctrine of Government by the people for the people. Jubilees’  Government is a coalition of “dealers” who have come together to maximize profits and expand personal enterprises.  Their relationships are strengthened by covert interests within certain corporations that are theoretically meant to serve the masses. Their trademark is greed, doublespeak, and Exploitation.
  2. The Law: That document widely read and interpreted by Legal advisers & lawyers in an attempt to create delay and ambiguity where mass killing, stealing or public robbery has occurred. It only favors the RICH and INTEREST groups. The greater the depth of the pocket, the more likely you will be favored by the document.
  3. Corruption. A widely accepted and domesticated behavior of responsibly taking public funds with an interest in financing an election or retaining a public office. It often works best where the top-down directive has been issued and compliance is mandatory. The greater the amount of loot the higher the chances of securing a higher office and enjoying the state protection.
  4. Due process: It is synonymous to Procrastination: a deliberate way of creating delays and deceiving the masses to believe something is happening. The intention is to create confusion and push people to forget yester ‘Evils’ and keep track of their daily hustles and bustles.
  5. We have Institutions:   Institutions here implies the dead bed of action. Consider EACC and the office of DPP, bureaucratic institutions that spend more cash than it recovers. It is the palliative institution that sustains a  case until it dies from the public minds.
  6. Projects and Developments:  in literal terms, it implies and endeavor that meets a politician economic taste- it pays well and I can make a kill.  In can also be interpreted as political rhetoric used before and after the election to drive people into the Utopianism- false hope about the future. It totally encompasses individual wants and serves to advance the needs of the RICH at the expense of the POOR i.e. consider the relevance of Thika Superhighway and Nomadic life of the people of North Eastern. The SGR and mama Mboga. Huduma number and starvation.
  7. Cabinet Secretary: A staunch Right Winger: person or friend of the boss who is obedient and capable of striking an exploitative deal for the master. His qualification includes greed or get-rich-quick motive, but not limited to tribal acceptance or tainted public records.