>It has been quite a year, ama?
>
>I have enjoyed interacting with most of the mashadites here,
>the majority being decent, intelligent fun loving folk. There
>are a number of you who have offered me immense inspiration
>and support with one particular person helping me to set up
>one of the most memorable DUNIA interviews that I have had in
>quite a while.
>
>It is impossible, so I am not going to even try to single out
>the most oustanding contributors this past year in this
>section. Personally, I think this is kind of a futile and
>often counter productive endeavour since what I hope we are
>trying to achieve here is a sense of community where we all
>participate and contribute in various ways, including simply
>lurking and drinking in the often crazy exchanges.
>
>I would be dishonest if I did not DENOUNCE the infantile trash
>talkers who came perilously close to transforming mashada into
>a regional headquarters for puerile bedlam, personal putdowns,
>tribal tripe and twisted hatred. In my opinion such immature
>selfish behaviour takes away from our efforts to congregate
>and create yet another green patch and fresh oasis in the
>wild, cluttered expanses of cyberspace. If I had my way, I
>would have these tots confined to a kindergarten/day care for
>the rest of their natural lives.
>
>In the last couple of months, it would have been strange if
>ANYONE FAILED to notice that there WAS a moderator in the
>politics section, which is kind of ironic because my natural
>tendency is to be INVISIBLE as a moderator. For instance, i
>bet nobody has noticed the existence of a yahoo based group
>called
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Siasa-Kenya/. I launched
>this group almost five years ago now and still moderate it to
>this day. Yet I never talk about it at all ANYWHERE and it is
>100% self regulating. That was the approach I brought to
>Mashada and I am sure many of you will agree that by and
>large, until quite recently as a MODERATOR i was largely
>invisible, preferring to put up with the garbage that was
>often thrown my way. Matters changed when I realized that I
>actually had at least one foul mouthed STALKER who followed me
>around in all the forums I participated in, apart from
>inundating me with unwanted private mail using a range of
>email addresses. At first I was amused, then annoyed to find
>one individual going to the extremes of registering multiple
>handles, cloning me, stealing my essays, trying to replicate
>my blogs etc, with the express purpose of keeping up a daily
>diatribe against yours truly. Anyone who doubts that Oloo has
>a stalker should visit
>
http://kenya.rcbowen.com/talk/index.cgi?limit=50, use their
>search engine and type in my name and see the number of DAILY
>postings coming from the keyboard of one particular person,
>all focused on Onyango Oloo. It was very disheartening to find
>that somebody was quite prepared to transform this section
>into a personal venting room against the so called OO, an
>individual that they had never actually met. You have seen
>this individual cross the line to involve members of my family
>including my son and dearly departed like my parents and
>siblings.
>
>I have refused the masochistic advice offered by some
>well-meaning Christians that I take this selfish abuse lying
>down, allegedly because I am a "public figure" who uses my
>real name and therefore fair game. With these trash talkers I
>have moved quite firmly often coming to loggerheads with a
>number of people on this forum.
>
>To say that I regret taking these drastic actions would be
>quite misleading because I actually DO NOT regret acting
>decisively to uphold the integrity of this section, which is
>after all, the POLITICS section of Mashada, rather than the
>BASH OLOO DAILY section of Mashada.
>
>Moderating this section is quite a thankless task and I have
>stayed on largely because of my respect for David Kobia. I
>would much rather be an ordinary contributor posting my
>digital essays as I do in other forums. I never applied for
>this gig, and as many of you know, I even tried to quit
>sometime last year.
>
>This coming year is going to be a transition year for me. On
>the Kenyan front, I will be working behind the scenes with a
>group of progressive Kenyans to set up the kind of alternative
>political structures I have been detailing in my essays. I
>will also take my writings offline. My book project which I
>thought would be a simple one of putting out a book of my
>selected essays has since then mushroomed into at least 4
>books in the works. My plan is to roll them out one by one,
>starting with the launch of the book version of my play
>"Chelagat" followed by a joint book(co-authored with Adongo
>Ogony) on the Constitutional Review process, followed by a
>collection of my poems and finally the first of two volumes
>of my digital essays. This will imply devoting a lot of time
>to editors, printers etc. I am hopeful that perhaps towards
>the second part of 2005 I may visit four or five cities in
>Canada and the United States(Toronto, Vancouver, Boston,
>Jersey City, Dallas, Minneapolis-St. Paul) on a speaking tour
>to promote the above books.
>
>Which implies that I will have very little time for the daily
>foolishness from some Mashadites. I therefore intend to take a
>very backseat approach to many online forums, largely
>restricting myself to posting links to my blogs and brief
>comments on other postings by other mashadites. I think I am
>now on very firm ground wehn it comes to taking legal action
>against any cyberstalkers so in the new year you will hardly
>see me respond online to these creeps. I will let them know
>offline that I do not make empty threats.
>
>I certainly hope that the two words, "Onyango Oloo" are NOT
>among the most ABUSED words in Mashada come 2005. In fact I
>would LOVE IT if people TOTALLY IGNORED me and focused their
>attention on the burning issues concerning Kenya.
>
>There are many people who have applied for the Moderator's
>job. Seriously if you think you are up to the task, please
>contact David because I can certainly do without the pesky
>distractions that come with the territory.
>
>Something tells me that this thread will get more than one
>response. Just a hunch.
>
>Onyango Oloo
>Montreal
Bla bla bla bla bla bla bla A looooooong one to read. Well , if one day u become Kenya pres , hit me back. I can be the head of security. Peace out brother