Famine in Kenya is related to IDPs, innocent killingsand church burning: God is angry

[Luoliability]

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[Miscellaneous]

Originally Posted by Luoliability

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rift valley land issues must be resolved even j.m karuiki died for fighting for the same lands which were grabbed by kenyatta and his cronies instead of being given back to their owners- after the british paid kenyatta money to do so!!

j.m karuiki on land issues [/b]


j. M. Kariuki's political life probably started in 1946 in earnest, after listening to a kenyatta speech denouncing the way colonial government was handling the natives in a political rally. Its however likely he was political earlier than that. His parents had earlier on been forced to leave their home area, chinga, located in the nyeri native reserve, back in 1928 to work in the white highlands.

There, they became squatters on a european settler's farm and were expected, as was the case with other african squatter families, to do the regular and seasonal jobs for wages. Such a life trauma was certainly likely to have made him political. In late 1940s, he joined the primary school drama and role played in the fight against colonial rule.

While in uganda for his secondary education, he closely followed the struggles that local kenyans were facing from the european settlers. On 22 october 1952, he finished his secondary school education and returned to kenya. Shortly after that, kenya was placed under state of emergency by the new governor, sir evelyn baring, and kariuki joined the mau mau uprising. After kariuki took his oath, he started working as mau mau liaison officer between eldoret and kisumu.

He also helped in soliciting money, boots and housing for mau mau. This led to his arrest in his hotel, which was working as a front to his political work. He was then detained in various camps (including kowop and langata) from 1953 until his release, seven years later in 1960.

After his release, he managed to secure kenyatta's approval in starting nyeri's kenya african national union (kanu) branch by visiting him in detention. When kenya became independent, kariuki worked as kenyatta’s private secretary between 1963 to 1969.

in late 1960, kariuki relationship with kenyatta became increasingly strained as kariuki became increasingly vocal of kenyatta's policy. Some of their disagreement were: government corruption.
The widening gap between rich and poor due to drought and the oil shock of 1973. Deteriorating relations among east african community members. Unfair distribution of land: after independence, united kingdom government gave kenyatta government funds to buy back land from the white settlers and redistribute it back to the natives. however, the land was never redistributed, but most of it was handed over to kenyatta's close friends

this was somehow similar to what happened in ussr early 90s. In 1974, he was elected as nyandarwa's member of parliament and became an assistant minister in the kenyatta government between 1974 and 1975.

this was despite kenyatta government pulling all strings at its disposal to avoid his re-election as his popularity threatened to overshadow the government of the day. He was last seen alive at the hilton hotel, accompanied by kenyatta's bodyguard on march 2, 1975. Several days later, kariuki's remains were found by a maasai herdsman, musaita ole tunda, in a thicket in the ngong hills.

His fingers had been chopped off and eyes gouged out. At the time of his death kariuki was a millionaire. It is not clear how he amassed his fortune so quickly without somehow engaging on the same vice he was very critical of. His family did not benefit from his wealth, as kenyatta's government conspired against them.

J.m kariuki is remembered by kenyans as a hero as he came to represent the force against the evils that have hemmed the country to this day.


[/quote] nobody is prepared from central province to follow j.m karuiki's foot-steps to fight the land isuues?? why??

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Originally Posted by Luoliability

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Independence however did not bring justice for Kenyans - certainly not for the Mau Mau veterans. Kenyatta, even before being sworn as president in1963, had denounced the Mau Mau as terrorists. Contrary to British propaganda, Kenyatta was never a member of the Mau Mau. In an interview, Muthoni Wanyeki, Executive Director of the KHRC, said that:

"On coming to power, [Kenyatta] proceeded, through the land ownership policies(and practices) of his government (and himself), to betray everything that the Mau Mau had stood for and to entrench the landholding patterns established under the colony"[1]

It is not a surprise that Kenyatta by the early 1970’s had a few detentions and assassinations under his belt. In the words of politician J.M. Kariuki (assassinated in 1975), Kenyatta created a nation of ten millionaires and ten million beggars. He wanted the Mau Mau platform of Land and Freedom erased from Kenyan memory.

In 1978 President Moi took over when Kenyatta died and continued with the same dictatorial policies. Irony is such that in 1982, Mau Mau historian Maina Wa Kinyatti was imprisoned by the Moi government in the same Kamiti Prison where the British in 1957 hanged and buried the leader of the Mau Mau, Dedan Kimathi, in an unmarked grave.

But more important than a hero's acre or a monument is a reckoning with the colonial legacy of torture, dehumanization and pauperization. Mau Mau veterans that are still alive, along with their children and grandchildren, live in abject poverty, landless and without formal education

[Kabunja wa Gathuita]

Originally Posted by Luoliability

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The post election violence is partly to blame!

The famine phenomenon is actually across the globe, not just Kenya only. Besides, we have had recurring droughts and famines at regular intervals - as much as the post election violence has or will contribute in the looming famine, our govt needs to take responsibility for lack of preparedness

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Originally Posted by luoliability

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god is angry with the innocent killings of people like J.M.KARIUKI who fought for the same land issues- the MAU MAU veterans whose land was taken by Kenyatta- those are their families(idp's) and god is very angry with the central lesotho MUNGIKI MURDEROUS GANG who were paid by the PNU politicians to commit genocide in nakuru and naivasha- they left a horrific trail of beheaded bodies!!

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Originally Posted by luoliability

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1963 independence, enter jomo kenyatta and gema land-buying companies

trouble is, we had a majimbo constitution at independence. The rise of a party-state in kenya: from “harambee!” to “nyayo!” that kanu “urged central control of all regions in an effort to forestall local majimbo legislation restricting land transfer to those born in the area, and to maintain the foothold of the party’s kikuyu supporters in the rift valley land market”.

Many settlers were returning to britain. Kenyatta and his cronies quickly formed the settlement transfer fund schemes (stfs) and asked the british for a loan to the kenyan government, to buy off land from colonial settlers returning to britain.

Good idea up to this point. Britain, having been reassured by kenyatta that those settlers still wishing to stay on in kenya would not have their land repossessed, advanced the money. This money was used to buy settler land which was officially sold into the kenyatta initiated settlement transfer fund schemes (stfs).

next, kenyatta began to give away and sell for peanuts, these government (stfs)-acquired, former colonial land parcels, to himself, his family and cronies around 1964 and 1965. This is the point when the rain started beating kenya. Kenyatta’s then vice president, jaramogi oginga odinga, cried foul and rejected these acts of wanton land grabbing.

the opportunity to choose nationalism and selflessness over greed and ethnic tendencies was lost. Rather than address this land issue once and for all, kenyatta opted to replace the settler colonialsist in land they had initially grabbed from natives. We have began harvesting the seeds of the mustard sown by kenyatta in the 1960s. It will not be sweet at all.

the seroneys and other nandi and kipsigis leaders immediately cried foul when kenyatta ensued in his land grabbing tendencies. So were many maasai and miji-kenda leaders like ronald ngala. Their cries were feeble and over run. Today and tomorrow, their descendants will demand justice and restitution in an exercise that threatens to tear apart kenya’s social fabric. who will shoulder the burden of the fruits enjoyed by kenyatta and his cronies, moi and his cronies, and kibaki and his latter day cronies? will it be the poor kenyan taxpayer taking the bill in form of blood, and more taxes?

going back,…. Down memory lane….. In the immediate post-independence era, the moment, the seroneys and ogingas started crying foul, and nothing was done, we entered a dangerous phase of our nation’s socio-political path. The political leadership of kenya began carving out into two distinct groups.

The pro-kenyatta land beneficiaries, sycophants and apologists where daniel moi, paul ngei and others trooped towards,….and another force resisting the greedy post-independence governance by kenyatta which was led by jaramogi oginga odinga, and included several former kadu operatives like ronald ngala, jean marie seroney, masinde muliro, martin shikuku and others.
kenya: who owns the land, blood and soil issue « kenya elections

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Originally Posted by Luoliability

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kibaki, uhuru, moi have enough land to settle the idp's(mau mau veteran's families between them- this is rediculus!!

the extended kenyatta family alone owns an estimated 500,000 acres — approximately the size of nyanza province — according to estimates by independent surveyors and ministry of lands officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The kibaki and moi families also own large tracts of land though most of the moi family land is held in the names of his sons and daughters and other close family members. Most of the holders of the huge parcels of land are concentrated within the 17.2 per cent part of the country that is arable.

The remaining 80 per cent is mostly arid and semi arid land. In fact, according to the kenya land alliance, more than a half of the arable land in the country is in the hands of only 20 per cent of the 30 million kenyans.

That has left up to 13 per cent of the population absolutely landless while another 67 per cent on average own less than an acre per person.

[OOWITI]

IDP"S played a very big role in feeding the country and their effects are being felt by everyone.I guess the ministry of agriculture should fix the problem.they know the cause.I quote the daily nation online o4/27/2008 see below
"Mr Ruto craftily avoided the topic of resettlement and the pre-election violence. He chose instead to dwell on the food crisis facing his ministerial docket. In fact, he revealed that there would be a 30 to 35 per cent drop in crop output in the Rift Valley because farmers now in IDP camps are unable to plant".

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Originally Posted by OOWITI

IDP"S played a very big role in feeding the country and their effects are being felt by everyone.I guess the ministry of agriculture should fix the problem.they know the cause.I quote the daily nation online o4/27/2008 see below
"Mr Ruto craftily avoided the topic of resettlement and the pre-election violence. He chose instead to dwell on the food crisis facing his ministerial docket. In fact, he revealed that there would be a 30 to 35 per cent drop in crop output in the Rift Valley because farmers now in IDP camps are unable to plant".

Kibaki, uhuru, moi have enough land to settle the idp's(mau mau veteran's families between them- this is rediculus!!

the extended kenyatta family alone owns an estimated 500,000 acres — approximately the size of nyanza province — according to estimates by independent surveyors and ministry of lands officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The kibaki and moi families also own large tracts of land though most of the moi family land is held in the names of his sons and daughters and other close family members. Most of the holders of the huge parcels of land are concentrated within the 17.2 per cent part of the country that is arable.

The remaining 80 per cent is mostly arid and semi arid land. In fact, according to the kenya land alliance, more than a half of the arable land in the country is in the hands of only 20 per cent of the 30 million kenyans.

That has left up to 13 per cent of the population absolutely landless while another 67 per cent on average own less than an acre per person.


here is some education for OOWITI- i wonder whether OOwiti can read????

Many settlers were returning to britain. Kenyatta and his cronies quickly formed the settlement transfer fund schemes (stfs) and asked the british for a loan to the kenyan government, to buy off land from colonial settlers returning to britain.

Good idea up to this point. Britain, having been reassured by kenyatta that those settlers still wishing to stay on in kenya would not have their land repossessed, advanced the money. This money was used to buy settler land which was officially sold into the kenyatta initiated settlement transfer fund schemes (stfs).

next, kenyatta began to give away and sell for peanuts, these government (stfs)-acquired, former colonial land parcels, to himself, his family and cronies around 1964 and 1965. This is the point when the rain started beating kenya. Kenyatta’s then vice president, jaramogi oginga odinga, cried foul and rejected these acts of wanton land grabbing.