No Comparison Between Tuju And Raila

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The extremely switched on Tuju's 150 watt leadership shines through for his people of Rarieda compared to the 25 watt chest thumping empty rhetoric of Kibera's Raila darkness. Tuju's is the kind of quality leadership Kenyans need and yearn for not promises from people who have no track record of making an effort for their constituents ala Raila.
Now read on and see the light.


EA STANDARD

Tuju bridging community with development
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In a remote village deep in the dusty, sub-baked Rarieda constituency in Bondo District, a group of elderly women are dancing to a traditional tune popularly known as dudu.

Their tune rises to a crescendo as two four-wheel drives arrive sending a cloud of dust into the sky.

"Our guests have arrived. Please welcome them," a husky voice blares over a battered pubic address system as area MP Mr Raphael Tuju and the South African High Commissioner Mr Tony Msimanga alights from their cars and joins in the dancing.


Rarieda MP and Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Raphael Tuju and the South African First Secretary, Mr Izak Bernard.
Picture by James Keyi

But unlike other days when Tuju has been here, he had a unique audience. Half of the more than 300 people present are widows, all aged between 40 and 70 years.

There are not here to listen to politics, but to receive a gift from the two guests. Houses specially built for them through a joint initiative between Tuju and Msimanga.

The women, ravaged by poverty and disease and slowed by their ages, have been living in tattered leaking mud-walled shacks.

Widows dreams realised

One of the beneficiaries, Mrs Eunice Ochar, 44, could not hide her joy. The house that she will move in is something that she hardly ever thought of in her wildest dreams. Her life has been that of getting the basic needs of food, clothing and health. She is among the 250 widows from Ochinya village who will benefit from a unique Sh10 million housing project unveiled by Tuju and Msimanga last weekend.

Now Ochar with her four children will be moving into the new house that does not leak and free from dust. She lost her husband last year.

"It has been hell, but today, God has answered my prayers. I will finally have a roof over my head," she said .

Ochar said her relatives and neighbours abandoned her after she lost her husband.

But the housing project has brought hope to her family.

It is a dream come true to them as they prepare to

move into their new iron sheets-roofed house.

And it all started last year.

"When I was approached by members of the committee set up by Mr Tuju to spearhead the project, I did not believe it?"

"Ne aparo ni en mana siasa ( I thought it was just

politics)," she said.

She said she was picked because her house was among the worst in her village.

Last week, Tuju said he was saddened by the pathetic condition that the widows lived in.

The delegation trekked through the village to inspect the on-going construction of the modern, but low cost houses.

Msimanga is among the donors who have teamed up to put up the houses "because he was brought up in a poor background."

"I came from a poor family and I know what it means to be poor. I would not be what I am today if my parents’ friends did not come to our help," he said as he visited one of the homes in Rarieda.

"An Tuju koro en kaka chuora, Abiro here moloyo ngato ang’ata, (Tuju is now like my husband)," exclaimed one of the women.

Project successful


One of the houses under construction

Mrs Elizabeth Okuku, 63, lost her husband and her sons over the last 30 years cared for her grandchildren in a shack.

"Widows also need a decent life and as their representative, I am determined to better their living conditions," said the Foreign affairs minister.

He intended to set up 200 houses, but got overwhelming support, increasing the number of beneficiaries to 250.

"The constituency has about 200 villages and I want to at least set up a house in each village for a deserved case," said Tuju.

He said he had given the responsibility of identifying beneficiaries to villagers because they understood the widows better because they live with them.

Father Norbert Owino, the head of Lwak Catholic Parish the visited the homes of those proposed to benefit from the projects to verify the facts before giving a nod for the project to take off. Through funds from friends both local and abroad, Tuju buys iron sheets and cement while the villagers provide the logs and manpower.

"I encourage the villagers to participate in the project because they own the widows and Luo customs behoves them to help."

Tuju said he recently held a harambee with friends in Nairobi and raised Sh2.4 million for the project.

He added that more people had pledged support towards the programme, which is expected to be completed in November.

Tuju has in the last four years initiated community projects. They include, a Sh350 million water project and an ultra-modern mobile clinic.

Last week, a charitable organization-Friends of St Francis from Italy donated a Sh45 million bulldozer for drilling water at Asembo Water Project.

The same organization donated the state of the art mobile clinic.

Tuju said he met the Italians during one of his trips abroad and asked them to assist him develop the constituency.

"All these projects are as a result of the many friends I have made. It is very important as a leader to build bridges with organisations and friends," said Tuju.

Tuju has helped educate more than 300 HIV/Aids orphans and fishermen in the area have benefited from an electricity project that he initiated.

Beaches have been supplied with electricity, facilitating the setting up of cooling machines to preserve fish.



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[chotadipo]

Why don't we trry and compare apples to apples. Say Tuju and Mureithi, the Nyeri town MP, or Raila and Norman since they both head cosmopolitan constituencies?

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Originally Posted by chotadipo

Why don't we trry and compare apples to apples. Say Tuju and Mureithi, the Nyeri town MP, or Raila and Norman since they both head cosmopolitan constituencies?

Game on. Tuju trumps both hands down.
Mureithi may have done some things for his Nyeri town people, but it is nothing to write home about. Paying school fees and all that. Hardly changes anyones quality of life and leaves you stuck in a life of penury.
As for Norman, the man would be nothing if it wasn't for his name. The man is in fact an embarassment to Kibaki. He once publicly claimed to his constituents that he is one of the most powerful men in Kenya. So what? It is rubbish and "does not add sufurias of ugali" to his Kamukunji people.
At least Tuju is demonstrating what selfless leadership is about. He brings a whole new meaning to the word service.

[chotadipo]

Originally Posted by sunburn mach 2.5

Game on. Tuju trumps both hands down.
Mureithi may have done some things for his Nyeri town people, but it is nothing to write home about. Paying school fees and all that. Hardly changes anyones quality of life and leaves you stuck in a life of penury.
As for Norman, the man would be nothing if it wasn't for his name. The man is in fact an embarassment to Kibaki. He once publicly claimed to his constituents that he is one of the most powerful men in Kenya. So what? It is rubbish and "does not add sufurias of ugali" to his Kamukunji people.
At least Tuju is demonstrating what selfless leadership is about. He brings a whole new meaning to the word service.

Excellent,

So in conclusion, Tuju is doing a better job than a Mureithi, but Mureithi will have a walk over becasue he will support Kibaki. Do you now see the sycophancy? To further rub salt in the wound, if Tuju stood with Mureithi, Tuju will lose because he is simply a Kihii. How is that for development?

Norman has not spent even a simgle cent from CDF and it is evident in the government website tracking CDF money and from the MP himself. Raila has used up CDF for community development, building schools, empowering youth, and this is from government CDF website and CDF audit committe, but still Raila will not be voted in because he is Kihii. How is that for progress?

Don't you see a pattern here?

[sunburn mach 2.5]

Originally Posted by chotadipo

Excellent,

So in conclusion, Tuju is doing a better job than a Mureithi, but Mureithi will have a walk over becasue he will support Kibaki. Do you now see the sycophancy? To further rub salt in the wound, if Tuju stood with Mureithi, Tuju will lose because he is simply a Kihii. How is that for development?

Norman has not spent even a simgle cent from CDF and it is evident in the government website tracking CDF money and from the MP himself. Raila has used up CDF for community development, building schools, empowering youth, and this is from government CDF website and CDF audit committe, but still Raila will not be voted in because he is Kihii. How is that for progress?

Don't you see a pattern here?

Mureithi may or may not be re-elected in Nyeri town constituency and it will not be because he will be measured by his loyalty or non-loyalty to Kibaki, unlike Tuju who will be measured by his loyalty to Raila regardless. Mureithi will be subjected to a contest even if Kibaki is the Presidential candidate of choice, and he will be judged by his development record, unlike Tuju.
There are no surprises that Raila's website would extoll his CDF achievements. Would you expect the contrary? I highly doubt it.
You need to understand that most people who oppose Raila is not because he is a 'kihii' as you prefer to put it or because he is a Luo. Whether you like it or not, MOST OF THESE PEOPLE SIMPLY DON'T TRUST HIM. PERIOD. The sooner you start to deal with that reality the sooner you will get round to understanding the extent of opposition to him in Kenya.