On why I stand outside the Christian dogma.

by Yego, posted in Others

The title of the writing indicates a ‘why’ and the expectation therefore is of reasons and that I intend to explain. However, I must clarify at the onset as to what heresy I have been accused of (i) that the antonym of not being a Christian or any other organised religion is to be an Atheist and that I am not (ii) to defy the teachings of Christ is to prep self to be casted in eternal flames and that is dystopian.  I do not subscribe to either of this Dogmas, of Christian or Atheist but I hold myself to be a complete being. Since a thing cannot create itself from nothing, I am a complete ‘Art’ and that Artisan  I call ‘God/ASIS[1]’ .

Why then to I stand outside yet I subscribe to ASIS?  My divorce from the Christian Dogma rest fundamentally in the MEANS.  The means here implies a process through which we arrive at a certain end and in this case HEAVEN. This is the place I hallucinated so much about when I was young, closing my eyes and Imagining a place right above the ceiling with a beautiful garden and a place plenty of honey and milk. Having Faith, believing in God and understanding the Bible in theological sense is the surest way of reaping the fruits of heaven. These in my own view abstracts the reality of being human and having the ability to think.  Faith negates existence, because ACTION is what a mortal being in any case can be judged.  ‘GOD’ exist outside my being and was present in my pre-existence. Looking at the precision in me I have no otherwise but to conclude that he ensured my completeness and tested my functionality to absent self from my daily existence. I have two hands to hold food, two legs to run away from danger or to take me where to find food. He ensured that I have a memory to find my way around and to remember what is edible.  Completeness implies that you do not have to engage in daily cries for help but to work- Action.

In addition, I have very few but fundamental disagreements with Bible however it remains one of the best written novels. It is very hard in the African sense, to subscribe to the first five books of the Bible as it relates to the Author, location and the timeline. First, the books were written by Moses the founder of a different religion and whom he was convicted of murder but acclaim that he gave us the first rules? If that is so, then how was he judged of murder. What happen to the 42 negative confessions? Who reduced them to 10? Secondly, if you are an African, the dichotomy puts you in the odds, you are either of the chosen few followers of Moses or of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s- the answer is obvious. Thirdly, In King James Version (KJV), Genesis 4:15 King James Version (KJV) it reads “And the Lord said unto him, therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him”. In the Christians sense this is a statement of fact, However Cain and Abel in my limited knowledge are the first children and yet it indicates that if ‘whoever’ finds him. Who is whoever? It is a good story, it satisfies the absence of ‘time’ as to when we came to be- that is it . At he FIRST COUNCIL OF NICAEA – 325 AD (where the books of the Bible were compiled), there were challenges as to who Jesus was. If God had a son what about us? Or why did he need a son? The treatment of those who hold the dissenting opinions implies that the process was rather political than religious.

I have no otherwise but to go back to the religion of my forefathers. The days when Women would sing Ingo’ and their demands were answered. When Wazee would curse a tree and the leaves would come falling. When they would say Iwee memuny and the outcome was visible to all. The days when they would gather to block a curse upon a family and they would unlock the womb of the barren woman.

Keep your stones at bay, I am just thinking loud!

 

http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0325-1965,_Concilia_Oecumenica,_Documenta_Omnia,_EN.pdf

 

 

 

 

[1] Nandi  God.

Gotabgaa: Absentee versus Attendee.

by Yego, posted in Others

Where reason is needed, let it be availed to those who seem to have unpalatable justification as to why they cannot attend Gotabgaa. Excuse a child -they say, for fearing the darkness, the real tragedy is when men of age fear light. GOTABGAA is and has been the only formal institution organized by Kales in Diaspora with a voice and a crystal clear agenda : social and cultural understanding of ‘self’ in a world where identity is melting. Idleness has never been the agenda neither has economic exploitation been part of the institution , these are reasons given by absentees to avert the mission and retract us into ‘individualistic persons’, easily preyed upon by the bills. The organization has had a few incidences of political acolytes trying to use the organization as a rubber stamp to further their ‘career in politics’. Such occurrences were noted in previous conferences and were air dried and put to their place.
This year’s conference was one of its own, taking on academia, culture and ways of developing our societies. Careful scrutiny was given to the past so that the future we envision is not annihilated from a past that has proven worth preserving. The tone of the conference was set by women of ‘Class’: Class in this sense implies those who have conquered the odds and risen to the highest positions : Professors, Doctors and Deputy Governors. Instead of persons, putting whys on their abstentia, we call upon their input in making this great institutions deliver certain agendas.
We had a moment of our ole days, food in plenty and with a touch of mama’s soup. The delicacy of mursik, chapati and other kale diets. We all forgot about the bills for a moment and roll our sleeves to dine in this replica of the village wedding. I picked at the girls in their best regalia and the boys were at corner giving a try. Gotabgaa is a place for the bachelors to find a match I suppose. We were able to interact, meet new people and catch up with old and Facebook friends.
Above all, We must learn that we are a society before being an individual, one cannot exist by himself in a vast world, I am pro- Gotabgaa.

Who and what is Gideon Moi?

by Yego, posted in Others

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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…

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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

 

Is four better than three in running ask Athletics Kenya?

by Yego, posted in Others

To : Athletics Kenya Officials.

        CC. Ferguson Rotich

        CC. Micheal Saruni.

Concerning the AK Trials and subsequent Sorcery.

Athletics Trials I presume are set to legitimize individual’s effort and to reward the same equally and fairly. However, in Kenya, the contrary seems to be true in many incidences, that the committee sets preferences and uses its capacity to reward otherwise. Running is a game of inches and not age or previous performance. A four can never be better than a three in running. You can rob Kenyans anywhere but give a runner his dues- Kwariat investment is blood and tears.

Kenyans raised a lot of queries concerning the Rio saga and how the marathoners were selected unfairly and the same is happening on our watch. In the men’s 800 m selection for World Championship, the third person has been illegitimately dropped from the team and the fourth considered. It is rather absurd for AK officials to use the term ‘reward’ in reference to running, according to Game Yetu , the vice president in charge of competitions, Paul Mutwii, said “Athletics Kenya (AK) had decided to honour the athletes’ efforts to win World Championships (Rudisha) and IAAF Diamond League Trophy (Rotich), which earned them wild cards(.  Really?  that they “ made several considerations and opted to include the two athletes in the team…because it found it wise to honour their hard work”. Pole!

. Were the trials vague or just a beauty contest? The rules were clear and it was applied in all events with exception of the men’s 800M. Why? It’s fishy, could it be that the fourth person is a cousin to one of the officials or that he had ‘ Chai’ Kidogo? Micheal Saruni is a student and I bet he sacrificed a lot to get himself ready for trials and he did qualify fairly. Why then this other cooking coming from the kitchen? The AK should tell us otherwise and not age, preference or experience…

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/sports/article/2001248452/us-based-saruni-dropped-from-800m-team-for-world-championships

 

One disappointed Athletics Maniac!

 

 

Artificial Insemination (A.I): Another of human arrogance to Bastardize the Animal world.

by Yego, posted in Others

Paul McCartney once said, “You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.” Taking ‘his fellow’ to imply all animal species, what then is the character of the man who practices Artificial insemination (A.I) in his or her farm? I apologize in advance for I have to step outside my moral zone to address this argument in the language well understood. That there is no ‘artificial’ and there is no ‘Insemination’, A.I simply implies ‘jerking’ a bull to masturbate without consent and later using its seeds to aide a series of sexual assault on unsuspecting Heifers, by touching their muff and forcefully raping them with metals. A.I is one of the many scientific ‘euphemisms’ that intends to Capitalize on animals and their products, with total disregard on their rights to intimacy, consent, and parenting.

How would man respond to this misadventure if ‘she’ becomes the object of the act? That a woman is impregnated through unjust means and carries a baby without knowing the ‘father’? Animals have feelings and they do not wish to carry or rather raise bastards. If all fails and that no consent is obtained at least let the animals be intimate.  I spent 9 years of my early life on the farm and I saw animals court and the crested cranes in herding fields dance before getting intimate: THE BEAUTY OF ANIMALIA. However massive advocacy for pedigree cows in the farm has rendered man and his acts less of a superior being and has become a being of lesser mortals motivated by arrogance and greed.

Animals Lives Matter.

 

Social Concern: The bait and the Fish.

by Yego, posted in Others

I reject in totality the presence of DIGUNA AIC in Kipchunu and Tulon –Nandi county has a Christian sect with benevolent intent.

It is my concern:

  1. That a sect with Christian intent does not in any essence entice and evict a population of people whether living in rocks or barren land with intention to own and develop the land (why buy land and for what).
  2. That a missionary group in ordinary cases seeks to build relationship with people and use the existing structures without necessarily transferring people and erecting massive structures.
  3. That a Christian network does not invest in private Hydroelectric power in the remote areas to only provide service to an orphanage.
  4. That a Christian or missionary group does not invest in massive permanent houses and bridges aimlessly without eyeing on some other unrelated business concerns.
  5. That the privacy in which the above properties mention is engaged, sends a chilly message to those whom the wounds of colonialism are still under debridement.

It is my view and on behalf of the innocent and the illiterate, that the national and county Government should varnish the residents of these places with clear records of the existence of this organization has a missionary group and to make it public knowledge. Doing so will build trust among the people and avoids future clash related to cultural conflicts and destruction of sacred trees. There must be a clear page on what is happening and if it is business has I presume or mining, the people must benefit.

I do no hold that this organization engages in illegalities, however it is worldly that Corporate interest have used religion and ignorance to massively exploit people.

N/B There are rising cases of unusual illness among people of Kiptenden living along river Kesses and it is my challenge that the Environmental report be avail to the people so that we understand how these organizations prepares or disposes its waste.

Social Critic

Yego.

Which is corrupt? society or the Man or the Good.

by Yego, posted in Others

Scenario: Kesses.

Is man naturally corrupt or that the society makes a man corrupt or that the ‘good’ in one hand makes the man inclined to corruption. Or that the ‘or’ be  an ‘and’, such that we can say that the man and the society and the goods are the ingredients of corruptions. If corruption is assumed to be a man’s will to have a good he cannot acquire justly, what happens to all the good people in the society or evil trumps good or all good is corruptible? Can corruption be taught or that it is acquired due to a deficiency?

CASE 1. Is Kenya as a society corrupt or that the ‘man’(individual) in Kenya naturally corrupt or does the ‘Goods’ in ‘Politicians’ hands necessitate the man and the society to be corrupt? If that can be the case, how can the EACC determine who his punishable, since the protocol can be that the one who takes the good unjustly his liable? Or

Could it be that a political jackal is born from a noticeable deficiency in the Good’s ( Unga, mafuta, ksh 50) or that the goods in Political jackal hands make the heart of a ‘man’ inclined to corruption? Or-

CASE 2: Person A, naturally corrupt and that he has found a corrupt society to accommodate his furtherance’s.

Or that person A, his incline to a society he sees a ‘good’ worth corrupting?

Random thoughts.

The ‘Drug dealers’.

by Yego, posted in Others

6.30: A quiet hour of the drug dealer,

He good in his trade says,

Cold air best for more rolls and puffs,

 Opens the lungs to capacity,

Sinks the drug to the core.

 

10:30. The hour of the meeting,

All and young dealers gather,

In slim and small garments.

For more puffs and caution,

Nerves and muscle wear and tear

from overdose.

 

4.30: The last for the day,

Good to drain the drug from muscle,

Going to bed, he says

Needs relaxed and eased muscle.

Ready to start the business again.

 

Caution! In addiction the tummy is loud,

For this dealer,

 Ugali and Mursik Saves a life.

Suspect a Kenyan, if he slim.

Don’t chase or follow.

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.