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• April 06, 2009
• 11:40

  The Implosion of The Illusion

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  Tags:  Kenyan PoliticsBusiness  

  I said here a year ago that the grand coalition “government” , which I termed the grand coalition illusion was never going to work. I got a lot of flack for saying it because for some strange reason, people thought that this illusion would actually bring about peace.  It hasn’t and it won’t. I also said that [...]

• 11:39

  Martha: Please Taken Your Grievances to Court

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  Lies mutate into all forms and shapes. So Ms Martha Karua wants all and sundry to believe that her fight for reforms caused her the ministerial job? Well, may be to many Kenyans weaned on the same sumptuous plate of national lies. Otherwise it is very difficult to justify the cheap gloating and glee from people falling for her sideshow like flies attracted to fermented milk.
  
  When you read a Kenyan gloating that Kibaki did a Bildad Kaggia on Martha then you don’t need to visit a youth centre to witness juvenile bravado. The only good thing from lies is that they are sweet to cheap ears sprouting from either side of an empty box burdening the shoulders. Well, the list is long as Wangari Maathai, Kalembe Ndile, Waruru Kanja, Munene Kairu and Bildad Kaggia would tell you.
  
  Lies are infectious and once told, you have to invent another to cover the one before it hence forming a firm foundation of PYRAMID OF DECEPTION. Now we read about principles that are as transparent as a plastic sheet whose shape remains at the mercy of any mild source of heat. The TRUTH is Karua would be still breathing fire warming PNU belly as a Deputy Prime Minister.
  
  Kenya WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN and anybody using the present fraudulent parameters to plan her auction will wake to the rudest of shocks. No amount of half truths peddled by playing EXPECTANT SURROGACY predatorily lying in wait for fallout will deliver.
  
  Martha has come full circle in just 15 months. The political Paul cannot shed the Saul blood running through her veins. Make no mistake! The panic in the camp Martha left without intellectual tent is palpable. Meanwhile she is handsomely reaping the ultimate wages of sin. But it will turn really nasty when the shit finally hits the fan. Any potential political suitor is better warned that Samson at least had Delilah's BEAUTIFUL FACE as an excuse for falling short of God's glory.
  
  Tapes don’t lie
  It must be unbearably painful to put your life onto a course only to see the prize awarded to pretenders crowned as a prince. But again Martha must have seen it coming given the history of serial betrayal since 2003.
  
  Tapes don’t lie and all the denials of inaudibility and their quality won’t wash. Martha is no fool or naive and the political pressure cooker is threatening to give in. She is acutely aware of her vulnerability and insecurity. But the gatekeepers won’t dare touch her lest the overgrown worm born in December 2007 crawl out soiling all and sundry.
  
  A caste built of vices only becomes a fortress of serial schemers hellbent on self destruction. The big political and national bang will come fast and furious. We haven’t seen anything yet, NA BADO.
  
  
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  Can We Fight Crime With Technology?
  
  I did not want to drown Taabu's controversial post and so I have decided to add my brief post here. Besides it does NOT really warrant a new post on its' own.
  
  One of the good reasons for getting rid of all the old guys in power now is so that younger guys who are more familiar with technology can enable Kenyans to benefit from it. I will give just one example. Technology can be used very effectively to fight crime. We already have hidden cameras in town (not enough) and we already have an initiative by a private company to help people track their stolen cell phones. We also have the stalled DNA testing crime lab that is yet to be built.
  
  However much more can still be done and only younger dot come generation Kenyans can figure this out for the country. As it is with the current jokers firmly in power, George Muhoho will always be re-appointed managing director of the Kenya Airports Authority (I mean the man is over 70 years old!!!). Are there no younger able qualified Kenyans? Besides the man does NOT need the job while many younger Kenyans do!!
  
  As I have said here often, there is no way these old dinosaurs can give us any new ideas.
  
  P.S. The argument I always hear is people asking what the young guys in the current political system have done. Well, the thing is they can NOT do much when the decision-making dinosaurs are still in power. We need radical surgery in Kenya. How about electing a 40 year old as President? Okay Maximum 45 years!!!?Kumekucha

  
  

  

• 11:18

  Johnny-come-latelys

   » ‎ SportsKenya
  Kenya makes it to the Adelaide Sevens Final and we're all anxious and grabbing seats hoping to upset the form books and lift the first IRB Circuit round trophy. Same goes for the corporate firms which have for so long watched and waited for an opportune time to start blowing their horns the way the support this and that sport.
  Others still will claim to have seen the potential that sport has and that is why they are throwing in some money for the cause. The worst culprits will be those claiming that it is in their Corporate Social Responsibility (.... more like Can't Socialism Relax ?)
  Kenyan companies have for a long time made super profits which they have committed to their mother companies ( talking of the British and French companies which have been milking us dry). They turn a cold shoulder to sports and when they do commit they often throw crumbs which only serve to remunerate boards which have their stooges there and thus becomes a vicious cycle.
  Sports in Kenya has more than enough potential to grow to some phenomenal heights and this can be seen with the Rugby Sevens. Virgin Airlines saw this potential and one Richard Branson did not need nudging twice to be convinced this was a growth sport.
  Well the economic woes may have troubled air travel & all but whenever Kenya plays and we see Virgin all over the team's jerseys doesn't it make you wonder where Kenyan companies were ( or better still are!)
  With the Junior World Rugby Trophy coming to Kenya in a few days time ( starts on 21st of April), lets see your usual johnny-come-latelys make their appearance on the sponsorship board.

• 11:14

  Here Comes The Bride

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  Tags:  Reflections  

  A family friend is getting married this Friday. As they make the final preparations I fondly remember being in that position a week before our big day juggling logistics, family, ulcers, priests, venues and suits.

  I cannot tell a lie … there were times the AG’s chambers seemed appealing. And as D-Day drew closer even that seemed too much of a hassle and the local Chief’s mabati hut looked appealing. But soldier on we did.

  I especially commend my wonderful better half because in addition to the wedding hassles, she had to deal with me, who is largely handicapped by being me.

  When it comes to weddings, the human male is terribly handicapped by being a human male. Being a human male makes it difficult to contribute constructively to many aspects of the wedding.

  Sample this tidbit shortly after the master plan for world domination had been tabled and approved by the coalition partner

  Missus: Sweetie, what should our colour scheme be?
  Mister: Err … colour scheme? (Racking brain for what a colour scheme is, then giving up) Black?

  Or this exchange in a wedding gown shop festooned with tresses and trails

  Missus: Sweetie, what do you think of this wedding gown?
  Mister: (Trying and failing to come up with criteria for a nice gown other than tightness around certain bits) Er … hmm. Good question. Good question. It’s er … is OK.

  Or this one in the suit shop as the groom was reacquainted with a coat, the last one he wore boasting  a school crest on the front pocket

  Missus: Sweetie, which shade do you prefer? Azure or Aquamarie? ^* Actual colours stated may have been different
  Mister: (Knowing neither colour, desperately pointing at the nearest one) This one. Yes, definitely this one.

  Good times, good times.

  At the end of it all it worked out perfectly. The bride showed up at the church. The groom showed up at the correct church. No one rose when the priest asked if there was anyone with objections. The rings had not been forgotten in a pocket of a suit that had been taken to the laundry.

  Execution was flawless, despite my main contribution being approving the menu and denting my boss’ car. She did the rest. You, my dear, are amazing.

  And every morning since when I wake up and look at wife and home, ever so slightly a different aspect of just how fortunate I am occurs to me.

  And I say to myself yessir, you’s a lucky fellow.

  Love, M

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• 7:16

  Martha Karua resigns

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  If I feel as a Minister I am not helping Kenyans, then it is not a must I remain one.

  
  
  Martha Karua resigns.

• 0:24

  Yet Another Monday

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  Tags:  life  

  It seems the last post I did had many people thinking I'm Mr Negative, so I'll start the week positively by sharing about the things I love and like.
  
  I love dogs esp golden retrievers
  
  I love taking naps
  
  I love reading comic books
  
  I love watching The Soup
  
  I love watching Family Guy
  
  I love Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  
  I love mangoes
  
  I love the sight of cleavage
  
  I love the 2 old dudes who heckle in the muppet show
  
  I love the part of town I live in
  
  I love reading the New York Times, Newsweek and Time
  
  I love the sound of silence when I come home from work
  
  I love stimulating conversation
  
  I like being around free spirits
  
  I love the sound of music (not the play just all good music)
  
  I love the internet
  
  I love last but not least all my blog fans and online pals!
  
  Have a happy Monday and keep your head up!

• 0:22

  Martha Karua Resigns Amid Slowly Crumbling Coalition Government

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  Breaking News
  
  Martha Karua has kept her word and resigned from cabinet citing her inability to do her job due to interference from her boss (the executive) and those around him.
  
  I greatly admire this woman who has never been short of courage.
  
  She was carjacked once in the famous father Wamugunda incident and she held her head high through the whole ordeal as the scandal broke and in the end it was the press who blinked first.
  
  Martha Karua today joined the very short list of cabinet ministers in Kenya who have dared to resign.
  
  Then she is also a survivor of the Busia plane crash of 2003 that killed another cabinet minister and others.
  
  However in the latest move political analysts point to the fact that she really had no choice but to resign. What do you do when you are the justice Minister and judges are appointed and sworn in without your knowledge? Besides the timing was also extremely politically prudent because Mwai Kibaki’s government is turning out to be the most unpopular ever. Clearly fresh elections are not too far off in the horizon and those who are still hanging close to the current government will have a very hard time seeing parliament again. By resigning now Martha positions herself as a rebel, the righteous woman who could not stand the stench in the place she worked and quit in protest. She is at least sure of seeing the insides of the 11th parliament.
  
  Unfortunately that is not the whole story. Ms Karua is still positioned prominently and clearly in the minds of most Kenyans as the legal brains behind Mwai Kibaki’s election theft of 2007. Indeed as she has pointed out several times, she stood and defended Kibaki when trouser-clad males around her were either shaking in fright under the table or peering from behind her skirts.
  
  In fact one of the reasons she started falling out with the Kibaki regime is that she was overlooked even after the gutsy work she did and in the end the person who got appointed Prime Minsiter and heir-apparent was in fact one of those peering behind her skirt when things got pretty hot around the president last January.
  
  Still one cannot deny the fact that Martha Karua’s resignation has had a big symbolic impact on the grand coalition government. More than anything else it has exposed the weaknesses and vulnerability of the PNU side of the coalition. If the grand coalition government is a Mugumo tree then her action has cut a couple of inches into the tree and proved more than ever before that this huge strong tree shall fall after all. It is only a matter of time.
  
  Karua has done what the noisy ODMers cannot dare do--at least for now.
  
  Published earlier today: What happens if the grand coalition government collapses?
  Kumekucha