Category: Politics

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.

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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!

 

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.

 

As Kericho decide, let me re-teach you politics and yours errs.

by Yego, posted in Politics

Politics is a sport of numbers and winning is pre-determined by  analyzing and reviewing existent statistics,  historical voting trends, popularity and context. It is absurd when I hear folks discuss the mini by elections in Kericho and Malindi by imposing personal wishes and prejudices into circumstances that do not warrant personal feelings. It is democratic to have your voice heard and the golden rule is still one man one vote, perhaps we should consider J. Warwick Montgomery view that “if you hold unsound presuppositions with sufficient tenacity, facts will make no difference at all, and you will be able to create a world of your own totally unrelated to reality and totally incapable of being touched by reality”. This is exactly what happened in the South Rift, folks created their own fantasy world and tried to invoke their own views as a universal truths. What really happened? The loudest empty “Debes” forgot that numbers were at work and didn’t have time to listen to hecklers, it is also true that the Rift-Valley is a one party region headed by one leader. It was transferred by default from Moi to Rutto. To change this requires work and development and NOT struggle for dominance and Kingship. Many sensationalist forgot that your enemy at most cases has 50% friends and to advance your agenda you need to gain national sympathy and also have a nationally accepted representation and image.

It is a simple fact that hecklers and idlers are a majority in a duty that require noises and insanity. Alternatively, they serve well in destructing the minds of those who are possessed with hate and prejudice. I saw, I heard and I laughed when intelligent people believed and trusted the idlers and forgot that the majority of the voters are in the village watering their cows and planting. In the Rift, voting blocs rests in the elderly, the working and women who trust their vote on the name and not your street and TV rumors, they have the numbers and they never change unless a power vacuum exists. It sounds undemocratic but that is how it is and it might not change unless the hecklers and drama queens obtain an ID.  They voted for Moi and when Mzee retired, it was another man’s time. I would wish to change that sort of monarchial power shift but the reality is that it exists and will persist. Ole! to those who rely merely on ethnicity, stupidity and regionalism to guide their political views and voting because they do not make the numbers required to effect change.

Political prostitutes with their loud noises are a disgrace and an insult to the existing confusion. Their tongues are oily, their beds made and here they come and say, “let’s spend a night in my house” They are very cunning in dressing and talk because they know our problems, speak our voices and understand our hurt and burden. This crew may make us feel we are winning because they are now with us and they voted with us. What they really failed to understand is that they are in Government and as Phillip Howards indicated that “politicians spend their lives apologizing for government: they promise to fix it but the slogans are so tired and their performance so dismissal that the overall effect is more like propaganda”. They flock to Kericho with an assumption that people have forgotten they are in Government and out of their ignorance they earn the votes of the idlers and hecklers.  Look at this bright minds like Keter flocking to Kericho, they have good points and views but they run around acting like “stupid giants reacting in lag time, look over there the pocket get  picked”(Howard), so what? You are a leader sworn to provide solutions to real time problems in a 5-year time and bestowed with the power yet you run around campaigning for your self-interests.

If in case you missed the point, numbers in a political office count and not emotions or personal feelings, if you wish to have your own in power sell your views in the village and export it nationally. Relying on Drama queens will and has left many in nightmares.

Personal views…

The Savannah Monkey is Guilty Again?

by Yego, posted in Life, Politics

The Savannah Monkey is Guilty Again.

Zika Virus! If only I can understand whether it exists or it travels, it will make a great difference. Perhaps it will give me a better picture of the real danger to face as opposed to this Media mongers who will spend a great time detailing on an issue that does not warrant attention. It seems to me without certainty that this could be the usual quantophrenic tactic of putting non-issue into serious pieces of facts to put you back into your cacoon or lure you into unnecessary preventive measures as they mint millions.  For those who love to catch up with the culture of consumerism, this kind of rumor could be real stuff to get you drunk on a Friday night, but please don’t blame the Savannah Monkey.

We have understood that the virus is a teratogen whose effects have detrimental effect on the unborn child. It goes side by side with abortion, lead poisoning, drug abuse e.tc but the result is similar to the outcome of the untold horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unfortunately my commonsense does not accept this fact because I cannot blame the jungle because it is not an African issue and nobody has the disorder and therefore I render my verdict that no Savannah monkey is liable of this faultiness. I am not a custodian of knowledge as it relates to Diseases and Epidemiology, but at least put more sense into this dubious publication so that wandering brains like mine cannot find loopholes that exist. You have successfully created a scum to reduce the chances of people travelling and seeing for themselves the unimaginable beauty of the great planet Earth? Who really wants to contract a Virus from the monkey by doing things I don’t know how? Who is careless enough to undo the Mythology of AID’s versus monkey in conjunction with Africa and diseases?

Alternatively, Brazil seems to have had this time a taste of the soothsayer, Olympics is around the corner and business is booming and the underdeveloped according to the ‘masters’ roster can have fortune for a year. It seems then the evil eye does not like ‘compe’ and has dropped a curse to end the dance before it begins. No one would like to travel and have fun eventually get a result similar to a child. In my own faulty interpretation this disaster is stage-managed and it came at the right time to rob, damage and destroy the World’s awaited party. Why put more attention that sends intense panic yet mosquito spraying and prevention has been known for ages, and control interventions have been ongoing worldwide? ‘Tuma’ net and let ‘Porojo’ stop, if it doesn’t work let the hidden secrets be unveiled and folks can travel and have fun.

The result of faulty thoughts subject constructive reflection.

The Missing Voices of Change.

by Yego, posted in Life, Politics

The Missing Voices of Change.

Concerning ‘Change’ that which the modern day media sings, preaches or worships, it is far from realization unless the participants across the bridge incorporate certain vital voices into the daily debate. All parties engaged in this so called change have to reason, challenge and sell their ideals based on where the shoes pains most. Perhaps we should dig into the ‘WHY’ Karl Max stated that our history is a collection of class struggles and that the executive only and only manages the affairs of the Bourgeoisie. The statement obviously could indicate that the current media belongs to certain class and that the Proles are yet to get their own microphones and run their shows. If the same end is what is intended  then the voice of ‘Serikali Saidia’, the sick or the elderly should appear in the Morning Bench , the Trend or ‘Politics now’ to offer crude facts and feelings of exhaustion from the burdens layered on them  greatly in building monuments, Hotels and bridges they will never cross, see or live.

Ideally, when folks in a Show objectively describe the Standard Gauge Railway or Mega projects and how they will open up markets, they imply that every need is a direct necessity and that Mama Mboga will soon be selling in Uganda or Rwanda. Alternatively, the money folks excluding the genuine hustlers are taking majority on a ride to pay for luxuries and other beatifications meant to attract corporates. Partial truth to such a debate will only exist if interpreted as the future tense when every being will be at the same start line. Shows should provide an additional space in between the bench for Mama Mboga to offer undigested alternatives. Mama Mboga understands how feeder roads are as urgent as your next meal, they will express how triple taxation is affecting their children and throwing them into the streets or malnutrition at higher rate. Taxation is necessary only and only if Kanjo does not confiscate Mali Mali, sell fake receipts and your back doesn’t hurt because the roads are as good as an abandoned jungle. How then will folks from Runda driving a customed made cruiser fueled at your expense appear in the media with implicit utopia, selling change that has no direct impact on the majority?  That set of fantasy assumes that the gap that exists will be narrowed by dreaming on behalf of the struggling class. Mama Mboga needs a voice to express tangible and most urgent needs.

Politics and political parties are other sets of programmed arrogance that does not respect nor empathize with school children, expectant women, elderly or the sick.  It is true that there are two sets of answers to a question: the right and the wrong but politicians always get them right. You sit and watch the Murkomens of Kenya and how they use language to shift people’s minds to believe yesterday did not exist and that tomorrow as they prophesized we will have a direct entrance to Canaan by voting their way. You, being the beautiful women, sit and watch as they seduce you and lure into fantasy. You will think that Jubilee, Cord or JAP is a new era but what is really different is that the few who made into an unjust millionaire bar or happened to be part of a deal were recruited and more space is needed to accommodate them. The consequence of such a toss is the increase in pressure to the middle class and many people will drop into the Proletariat.  They should therefore admit into to political benches another Voice of ‘Serikali Saidia’ or teachers just to instill sense into their debates. At least they won’t lie on the ratio of teacher –student, they will understand that the challenge that teachers face is not teaching or money, it is the Psychological torture of constantly seeing and hearing children who are starving or walking half naked day in day out. I guess this will make them weep or numb only and only if they are human and perhaps stop changing the forests as PLO puts yet the Monkeys are the very monkeys.

In dealing with matters of Healthcare as an example ,a show and I am concern with  the popular shows for instance ‘Power breakfast’ : a doctor, nurse, patient, Cabinet Secretary, moderator and an expert should face each other in expressing and advocating for that which is success and also the limitation. In such a debate assuming that the usual coercion for compliance did not exist on the corridors: the patient will express the needs or failures facing the sick and the doctor will detail the cause, the leader who always happen to be corporate quack will take the WHY and the WAY forward and the genuine expert will prescribe a SMART approach to the same. In the end a solution will be universally arrived at, accepted and adopted.

In describing and detailing on teacher’s salary it is simply fair to have a set of humans who are aware that they are humans to sit side by side and detail their expense. I insist on humanness so that variables to be compared will only detail how a reasonable person will spend his or her salary. We have always forced solutions into the throats of teachers yet those who sit and argue on their behalf earned a 6 figure salary without including sitting allowances and kickbacks for deterring a revolution. Imagine a show where a random teacher from Pokot is selected to face off with experts and other Salary team. It won’t be much to talk but rather have a screen detailing each individual salary and their expense including the environment and living conditions. Change, I presume will happen in the morning if such voices are given space and time express their views. The media and the state have engaged in covert tactics to mask what is really happening in the real setting. Change can be as good as rest but what is really change if ignorance is a priority and statistics serves only the interest of the rich. Give a voice to the voiceless, give them a podium and you will be ashamed of the bread you enjoy at the expense of their starvation.

Personal views subject to debate.

The Fate of Kalenjin Politics.

by Yego, posted in Articles, Politics

Kalenjin politics in the 21st century is a sport of control, influence and dominance. The rich (actually the corrupt) have bought what they want and created an otherwise obedient people. We as the people have been moved from a society build out of virtues as Thomas Paine writes into a mini- Government that arises from majorly vices. It is absolute non-sense if I am allowed to condemn, for an individual person of more pride and not character to speak on behalf of the people at all podiums, crusades and conferences urging as to have a collective responsibility in voting on a partisan basis and not policies.  We the people have been cornered by power brokers to believe that culture necessitates Kingpins and that a Kalenjin people needs a King. We had Koitalel in gone days, which I would assume to have been Moses of the Kalenjin people who brought as into the beautiful hills of the Great Rift Valley. Under certain greedy persons we are being duped to call on God to ask for Kingpins. Here they are dressed in Bantabtai ideology, but the inverse is closer to the truth.

Haven’t you seen them of late, they fly to your neighborhoods shuffling and dossing cash like pieces of paper when you have to toil for 7 months to just harvest corn for your children? They come to you not to ask, but to prescribe to you who to listen to, what to listen to and to make you feel that in becoming a tribal voter you’re increasing your chances of becoming a better person. My people, we are riding on thin ice, and this folks acting as leaders will plunged the community into servitude. We have gotten ourselves into the Orwellian society where our leaders engage in Newspeak and doublespeak, what they say is not what they mean nor belief in.  For instance, there was a recording of an intelligent upcoming politician in Nandi County and to my surprised some folks who have been completely brainwashed condemn him as traitor yet he was putting pieces of facts together. Handouts as enslaved people and make them drunk in fake ideologies and they have become engaged in random abuses without paying attention to the veracity of the young man’s views. To add insult on the same note another Elder on a different show was using his mastery of the culture and words condemning facts just to please the self-endorse Kings.

For development to be universal in the Kalenjin community the culture of ridicule that dominates the current regime should and need to be put to rest. It is sickening to live in a society where sycophancy is branded ‘GOOD’ and sectarian politics is preached at all costs. The idea of Kingpins dictating to the people to be patient in turmoil until one of their own becomes the president is non-sense. The resources are shrinking and we are dreaming and waiting for a character in the play to be inducted into Hollywood hall of fame and all hustles and puzzles will be solved. Sorry it won’t.  I believe that Dr. Ben Carson had read into the minds of our leaders when he was describing how folks intend to kill a society and breed servitude, He says that in order to destroy a society you first create a division and then encourage a culture of ridicule and that will drive away morality and then drive the economy into a debt…

That is our future in current politics

Why I am convinced Jubilee Gov’t needs & necessitates failure.

by Yego, posted in Articles, Politics

Why I am convinced Jubilee Gov’t needs & necessitates failure.

Leo-Strauss political ideals (deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses) which were adopted by the Neo -Straussians are now deeply rooted in Kenya, in the core of the Jubilee administration. Its policies and ideals are solidly structured to enriched and expand a corporate Kenya comprising of few heartless persons whose interest is to get rich at all cost.  Jubilee system is no longer based on performance, training and necessary skills to hire or nominate personnel to run certain state functions. The Government is totally comprised of what Jim Lobe calls “‘Right’ men to get the job done” men who are politically committed. With this extreme insistence on these ideals jubilee necessitates failure, by putting failures and rejects in places where Ethics, training and commitment is necessary. If you are in doubt take a look at these observations.

  1. Jubilee as extremely suppressed the natural law of competition, the drive that allows us to work hard and out win an opponent satisfactorily. All has been lost into the new tact of overemphasis on tribal dominance and alignment marred with chest thumbing and arrogance. We do not require any magnifying glass to realize that jubilee is a Kikuyu –Kalenjin entity with a few political friends who are committed to the Behind scenes of the administration. Of what essence is Kenya as a state, if one of 40,000,000 is held with exceptionalism?
  • Kaimenyi failed in the docket of Education, which is now affected by excessive leakage and the quality of Education at its lowest and yet the overseer is rewarded again with a very delicate docket?
  • What Merits or credentials, awards Charles Keter as a Senator a position in Petroleum if he is not sure of his position as a senator? What has he achieved as a senator other than moral support at ICC?
  • Where was Mwangi Kiunjuri? His turn was over and we are still paying for the losses they incurred the last time he was in Gov’t, if you’re in doubt check the price of sugar then compare with today? He is now being given another position? Are we a nation engaged in a rewarding contest of picking and choosing a name we have heard before?
  1. The jubilee is again resurrecting and replicating the sins of ‘Baba’s’ Era, we might have deemed that to have been necessary then, but to have demagogues frequenting the highest office is ridiculous. The time of Barngetuny’s and Too’s is gone, and here again we have the Kutuny sprouting. This is a slap on the cheek to the people of Cherangani, who rejected him for underperformance and then he is appointed to advise the president? Really?
  • Similarly, road shows, early campaigns and Harambees are taking over the State. The agenda here therefore as I perceive is to take us into a welfare state, in which handouts are used to replace service delivery and at the same time secure public support through deception. These kinds of approaches are terrible in the 21st century, especially when the ratio of literate- illiterate is still a big issue. The poor and the illiterate can be easily deceived with handouts to make poor decisions.
  1. The public announcement by the State should be followed by intervention with measurable results. What we see in the Jubilee administration is reactionary announcement, especially if World renowned persons are visiting. Actions taken in matters of corruption for instance, should end when recovery has been done and culprits convicted without letting them off the hook with the loot.

…..A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.

James Thomson from Liberty: A Poem, 1736

Personal views and expression of dissatisfaction with my lovely Kenya.

Part 1. Why I love My Mama Africa?

by Yego, posted in Articles, Politics

Part 1. Why I love My Mama Africa?

If you slap a man and in the event falls to the ground, then wakes up, dusts himself and says ‘thank you’ and lead his way, how will you feel? How will you consider a person seeing you driving a car and then asks whether there are houses in Africa? How will you take a man who sympathizes with you over an advert he saw yesterday and in the midst a brother appears in the corner with a poster written “veteran, hungry and homeless? That’s being African in a self-imposed democracy and in an imaginary wealthy nation. Africans in my own faulty analysis have mastered the art of acceptance and ownership of the stereotypes.

Poverty is our greatest ‘asset’, we have owned it and in fact have recently adopted it as the best Foreign exchange earner and a tool to explore some unconscious fools. The foolishness of asking the obvious when you already have an iPhone 6. We have implicitly as African hustlers in diaspora accepted all the statistics that otherwise give us all the diseases and an illusion of the endangered species called ‘black African”.  The pretense of preaching in biblical terms and giving a starving man unlimited condoms when he asks for food? Was it not written in the Book of Mathew 7v9 “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? 10“Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he?”  I love my people for they  didn’t even argue with the Original discussion by Darwinians on whether we were actually categorized as human. Trevor Roper another person of intellect presume that we didn’t even have a yesterday and therefore no history “except gyrations of barbarous people?” We have tested the invention of Eugenics and the struggle to subvert the African man, like water hyacinth we are growing, the thrash you dump on us is the greatest fertilizer of humanity in Africa. With greed for Oil and circumvention of international laws you manage to make us believe that actually the civil fights amongst a few countries in Africa are our cause and not your faulty foreign policy and thirst for another imperialism.

I have been a student in the West, perhaps one with less intellect as many might have branded, I have clear records of the rare occasions with a few classmates whom I literally considered their help and assistance in my infancy as substantial .They reminded me how to speak English ‘well’ and they never bothered to ask whether Africa was a country or continent. Some considered the issues of illegal immigration sensitive because they never wanted to offend a new friend, they really didn’t check and distinguish the distance and concept of legal immigrants. Poor I, when I came to realize that almost all the books and discussions featured Africa only on issues of poor health, diseases, civil fights and poverty largely. Acceptance and white lies saved me from ridicule. You would have wish as I had wished to ride in the beautiful hills of Cherangani with this ignorant people, I really wanted to take them to Diani Beach for a walk, I thought about showing them the ruins of Old Zimbabwe, I just wanted to ask them whether the Egyptian Pyramids made sense to them in terms of time, structure and place. They really understood about Diamond rich Africa, but thought we were foolish about them.

Statistics does not lie, despite the overwhelming stereotypes we have to overcome, I have fallen in love with Mama Africa, it teaches culture, discipline and Morals. They taught us that to be smart or intelligent does not really mean to get to the extreme of inventing that which is capable destroying humanity including yourself and family. Kudos Mama Africa for not inventing or daring do the WMD thing.

I love My Africa for accepting and owning stereotypes.