EVIDENCE THAT OPPOSITION NEVER LEARNS FROM THE PAST

since the election of the current government in 2013 I would say this must have been the most embarrassing regime for the opposition yet hard to learn for its failures. There have been several occasions where we have seen the opposition help us shout but at last when sense is injected in our skulls we go dump. the motive behind their immature whistle blowing has least been perceived and appreciated as far as the current state of the nation is. As a liberal citizen, I have always been fast to express my minds as per matters pertaining the lives of Kenyans especially in opposing what I think the government is going wrong.

Let Us Reason Together!

Just to consider the past 12 months of the Kenyan political arena in relation to opposition, the moves and all demands that have arisen from that side none has come to maturity. The historical call for dialogue which I strongly supported has entered the history archives of this country and am not sure if the next political generation will remember it. It is evident that the Jubilee coalition is headed to exit from power and seek fresh mandate from electorate without having the so called dialogue.

The Dialogue calls were later followed by the Okoa Kenya campaign which we can all see it has terribly failed. Or may be it will be another relevant subject when the Jubilee gets re-elected in 2017. The Okoa Kenya campaign was headed to fail characterized by how the movement was headed and the leaders at the peak of the campaign.

To cut the long story short, remember the early call to impeach the sitting speaker of the National assembly  this year. This was one procedure whose movement was thwarted even before it reached the incubation if it were a science procedure. The failure was like a double edged sword for opposition being a clear communication to the opposition that when it comes to political prowess, people don't reason but wait to be driven. Jubilee legislators were driven and ran away from reasoning to implementing what would favour their pride.

CURRENT STATE
The process initiated today to impeach the sitting president and the loved Uhuru Kenyatta AKA Kamwana is a move whose initiators failed to consult his or her utmost cerebral cellular composition before bringing it to public. From the opposition side, I would like to pressurize Uhuru to listen to teachers by all means but by not threatening to impeach him. That is waste of time, energy and immaturity of the highest order. This is not rocket science but even the youngest boy in Ekambuli village in Luanda knows opposition cannot impeach Uhuru.

It is with kind regards that I request all colleagues in opposition to come, we sit down and reason, to get Kenya moving forward while strategising on how to win 2022 elections.

God bless Kenya and all her resources..
Lots of Love

PUT ASIDE GREED AND SELFISHNESS AND SUPPORT KENYA GOVERNMENT WHERE NECESSARY...

It is emerging that we live in a society characterized by greed, mediocrity and economic ignorance despite the high level of education that most of the society members seek. It is evident that the society has forgotten to embrace rational thinking and sound judgement in calling for society involvement in administration and sharing of the national cake. The society is continuously getting obsessed with quantity while forgetting the need for Quality.

Transition of Economic Sabotage
 Let us recall the KANU regime when the prices of goods ranged within one hundred shillings for a month's budget. The economic times favored even the least earning citizens of this country only that it was hard to quantify the value. The 97/2002 Vs 2002/2007 transition phase accounted for much of the current financial independence and greed we are experiencing. However, economists will appreciate the government for being smart enough to mop out the much money injected in public in a silent manner while eating into her people.
Kenyans are still adamant with these changes while appreciating little on the effect that these salary increments have caused to the whole society. It is apparent that the value of goods beginning from salt to land has increased relatively in a proportion of 75% to the salary and remunerations growth.
My attention is drawn to the current call by the teachers for a 50-60% salary increment. From 1999, the teachers have been given salary increments in range of 10-12%. These increments have been proportional to other professionals in relation to working environment, academic qualifications and professional requirements. We all appreciate that the teachers and indeed all professionals in this country need salary increment, but 50-60% salary increment is unrealistic.
At one point all of us when in college we learn some bit of economics of a country and monetary balances. It does not need rocket science, economics specialization or commerce studies to understand that too much money in circulation causes trade imbalance and inflation. Kenya is currently battling with the weak shilling which is evident to be driven by market forces other than government regulation.

Hidden Truths...

There are few things that Sossion and Okello are not telling the sympathetic public. Let us answer these questions;
1. To which year do the two unions want the salaries increment backdated to?
2. Why should teachers in Job group R, earn more than civil servants in job group S in basic pay?
3. What proportion of the current wage bill do the teachers consume?
It is uncouth, greed and gimmick for teachers to compare their salaries with those of MPs, MCAs, Senators e.t.c. If they have any good will to for this country the best way is to put pressure on those with huge salaries cut their pay and not demand for increment. I know I will hurt some of you but I call upon all citizens of good will to be prudent and realistic in demands they make. The future shall haunt us. uhuru Kenyatta is going to retire soon, Ruto will leave executive soon, but civil service will remain in force forever.
Kenyans let's us embrace values of patriotism for our Country.
God bless Kenya.

MUMO MATEMU RESIGNS; THE POWER OF CORRUPTION AND THE CORRUPT.

I must start by noting that as much as historians’ document human race to be evolving continually, the evolution of the Kenyan society is very fast that the turn of another phase occurs just before the previous phase is over. Kenyans are however masked with a cocoon of what I will term as ignorant and rhetorically resistant attitude as well as vision towards these unnecessary evolutions. Interesting is in the direction in which these evolutions are moving the country to. 

Kenya is a country endowed with many privileges though even a young kid knows that these privileges only exist in books, journals and presentation in special forums, conferences and any other presumed special sittings. Kenya is accelerated towards the ditch by her own leaders and entrusted political machineries who cannot actually revert back erroneous intentional decisions they make because these are selfish motivated and with ill interests.

It is merely less than 60 days since the president of the republic of Kenya presented what has come to be known as "List of Shame" to the parliament house. This of course was followed by a prediction of a war that had just been stirred and left to bomb the state. Analysts gave all the perspectives of the matter but I know few people, if at all any really paid attention to these forecasts. We all remember Irene Keino narrating how she had been threatened to resigned and even promised another lucrative appointment. These allegations were given by a confident Keino and aired to the whole world. However, these claims were treated as mere politics and as we talk to date the following have never been pursued so as to justify or annul as whether the complainant sought to establish herself as a sacred sheep or if the stated sentiments were of a complainant delivering what the intimidator had really presented.

Little attention was paid to establishing who actually could have made the promise, where the promise was made, what was the motive of the promise, and how did it come to this level. Today the 12th May 2015 Mumo Matemu resigned citing personal reasons which am sure may not be disclosed to any one in any time soon. Matemu goes home after breaking partially a shell that no any former chairman of the Ethics and Anti corruption Commission has ever even tried to hit before. Starting from the days of Ringera, to the verbal chairman PLO Lumumba, EACC was a commission known to threaten the perpetrators of corruption introducing the phrases "Big fish" and "Small Fish" in the Kenya arena of political address.

Matemu will be credited for having been one of whose regime was characterized by numerous legal challenges and battles at the Integrity centre but at least one who flipped through the pages that Kenyans once longed to see open for long. He may not have opened to where it was expected, but the courage, zeal and the determination that Matemu demonstrated to that far would have never been seen in this country if we were still to live our past. The longevity of his tenure at the helm of this fierce commission was ruled short the moment H.E. Uhuru surrendered the list to the House of both learned and defenders of Justice and perpetrators of injustice.

The helms have been cut even shorter because Matemu may never be a happy man to enjoy that vision he once had of seeing a corrupt free country. All prosecutions if any will be done are going to be when this man is out of office. I will draw your attention to what happened at the ICC when Ocampo Louis investigated the 2007-2008 PEV and handed the prosecution to Fatou Bensouda. This is the scenario with the so called "List of Shame".  Analysis will show you the memory of the "List of Shame" should start flickering in minds of Kenyans now as pertaining the "List of Shame". 

It can be deciphered by any creature with cerebral as well as medulla coordination that this resignation has come at such a time when it was least supposed to happen. This gives you the possible reasons for the occurrence of this resignation. This resignation could have been prompted either in favor of the prevailing circumstances or against the wish of Matemu actually. We are yet to decipher, but as Kenyans it is time we all joined in forces of prayer and faith and liberated ourselves from the shackles we have handcuffed ourselves with. Our leaders will continue to sabotage our boundaries of freedom allocated to us by nature. 

As I end this article I would like you to think about this, "After resignation, Kazungu Kambi is still earning his full salary." 

SCRAPE THE 47 COUNTY WOMEN REPS! WHY KENYANS SHOULD NOT EVEN THINK OF 20 WOMEN REPS.

I consider it appropriate time to poke my nose in the highly talk of, what I will call us, parochial women representation. The war of words and bitter phrases has rocked the media houses giving journalists and bloggers sweet titles to write about. This has prompted even house politicians to become columnists just to help drive home their thoughts as independent Kenyans.

The scene created reminds me of a pregnant company I once worked for in my earlier days of employment in the informal sectors. It was a sole proprietorship kind of business so the proprietor had the final decision. This guy lacked enough managerial skills. He therefore didn't have a clear plan for appraisal. Whenever he could suspect his foreman he could create an office for another performing staff without a clear job description. This had an implication on his company and created a cold conflict amongst his staff. At one point you would find all staff on duty to bosses and a complicated command order would ensue creating a web of confusion among the staff.

I remember a close friend rising through the ranks within months to a rank that lacked title but resuming 90% of duties of the foreman who was still retaining his initial capacity. The running costs went high, what followed next is history.

I write this as my opinion and I would like to share with you that in line with Article 34 of the constitution that entitles me like any other Kenyan to the right of Opinion hence not representing the view of any particular group or any other individual. I would like we get to the chronicles of the constitution review, implementation to the time when the 2013 general elections under the newly promulgated constitution as it was by then. The country was brought to a halt by the wage bill debate that beckoned the attention of media houses, civil groups, government, international community and all contributors who could utter anything by then. Some of the factors that were noted to have increased the wage bill that needed to be tamed were;

• The introduction of the bicameral house.
• Expanded national assembly composition.
• Introduction of more constitutional offices.
• Large county assemblies among other minor factors.

It was here that the country remembered of the effects of constitution implementation and started thinking of taming the large parliament. 

A section of members of Women parliamentarians association argue that after Kenyans voting in for the constitution they should be ready for the costs of implementation. It is here that we realize that Kenya does not have 42 tribes as claimed by most naive Kenyans; Kenya has two tribes, the rich and the poor. The same association sensationally stated that all they wanted was the support of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President William Ruto and The Former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. These group of parliamentarians do not want the support of Kenyans in order to pass laws that will deprive them salaries, Kenyans are only necessary when climbing the ladder to where the same Kenyans can be manipulated.

This is contempt of the highest order on Kenyans who go on hungry stomachs in the name of tax payment for the same MPs. Kenyan leaders never fail to entertain. If there was any legality in this issue it is in my opinion that the women parliaments would seek help of their employers who happen to be Kenyans.

Why I don't Support the proposed 94 women reps?

Going by the proposal of the Women Parliamentarians association that each county elects two women reps, the Impasse of women representation would still not be achieved. In short, continued existence of Article 97(i)-b, c of our constitution with editing of the numbers alone does not solve the stalemate. Instead, this would even worsen the situation further adding more state officers. My lose scrutiny reveals that the current capacity of the national assembly after renovation going by the number of the seats available can only be 349 members. This can be seen from times when there is usually a joint sitting such as the one held on 27th April 2015 during the President's state address. These seats will therefore need further expansion in case the   doubling of numbers of women sails through.

Now, let us reason, assume elections were held today when we are having the 290 constituencies and 100 women’s seats. This would automatically translate to 384 elective posts. But we can all do simple math and see that in the event all the 290 slots only men are elected, the 94 will not amount to 1/3. Even going by the current statitistics, there are only 16 women MPs out of the elected 290. If by any chance we are to do our math, we would have 110 elected women in a parliament having approximately 434 seats. This still will not be enough. This therefore means we shall need a parliament of up to 440 seats in order to fulfill this law with so many vague political nominations. This of the offices for these enlarged houses, staff in their offices, their security and of course car grants. Is it economic friendly?

The way forward;

Kenya cannot afford to assume this law because it already exists. Implementation is inevitable. It is after this critical analysis that I think of Speaker Justin Muturi's proposal not in his capacity as it is in Article 22 of the constitution but as a common Kenyan and fall for it. Scrapping of the 47 county women rep seats will do more service to this country and even to the children that those women gave birth to. This will guarantee that always there will be balanced representation in the house with little tussle of the interests among leaders. Establishment of the 100 affirmative seats in a house of 300 members will see the women number always at 1/3 of the total house constitution math that even a single elementary school child can do for you.

The costs of running the parliament will narrow down as well and the country wage bill will be tamed.  Even if we had 1000 women reps without clear description of their duties, it will remain irrelevant.

As I finish, I would like to send you as an emissary, Post here for me two things that your Women rep has done that never happened before she went to office?

God bless Uhuru Kenyatta, and May God Bless Kenya!

WHY WE MUST FORGE A COMMON PATH AS KENYANS; Let us fight as a country...

It is few years since this country lost true statesmen who were committed to values and ideals of security and national development. Months earlier preceding their demise the country had just lost another gallant soldier whose values are still deeply entrenched in the chronicles of security to date. The ability, zeal and dedication that the duo of the Ngong copter crush claimed the lives were admirable and desirable for this country.

Their dedication could only be compared to the efforts that were demonstrated by the forefathers in the wars they fought in forests and mountains to give us independence we celebrate today. George Saitoti and Orwa Ojode were able Duos whom in my chronicles of the third liberation I will term them as the “The Duo of 2012” It inarguable truths that these two worked with commitment that should be emulated by all who desire success.

Two years ago, this country lost another tough committed gallant soldier whom to date as his death is remembered no one has been able to unravel the true course of his death. The demise of Mutula Kilonzo saw an engulfed nation in grief whose consolation could not be easily jotted in words. Sad enough is that to date we still mumble over “What killed Kilonzo?”

These events continue to bite us back like a deep frost dropped on our skin us the soldiers, generals, commands and cornels of tomorrow of Kenya. One investigation after the other, sabotage comes from inside and outside all to botch the success made. Few people wake up to gain from the occasion while orchestrating a vice that let down the whole nation. The vice of corruption continue to cut us into pieces while leaving us with no chance to excuse our future.

However, as all this occurs, the affected generations mature, embrace the regime and the ball continues rolling. All over worldwide, it has cost the efforts of the people to have their fate established and corrected for the good of a nation. Starts from Rwanda, Egypt, to Philippines, Seychelles e.t.c. were all liberated not by the aggressive foreign forces but by their unity and identification of a common problem.

Kenya shall not be saved by Religion, neither by a culture nor shall a government, Kenya be saved by her people. People who will forge a common destiny, common need for prosperity and need for a united front. Kenya needs more than a political, religious or a local leader or even leaders. Kenya needs unity of her citizen and Identification of a common enemy. Let us all wake up Kenyan citizens.

Let us embrace values of unity, loyalty and patriotism, let us embrace brotherhood and oneness, and let us forge a common destiny. We shall liberate Kenya. Kenya is Oppressed, Kenya is bleeding; Kenya is in the hands of cartels. And it is rivalry of these cartels that will sabotage the efforts of the poor. Kenyans we are able, we have the ability, and we can.

Wake up Kenya!

It is Time For Africa; Wake Up Africa.

After the recently concluded African heads summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, the social media as well as new rooms were all full of proceedings of the summit as well as the resolutions. However the most discussed and eye catching was the establishment of the African court of justice(ACJ) that would be an equivalent of the current International Criminal court that is based at the hague. Little discussed was;

• the state of restlessness in the sovereign republic of Nigeria due to the extremist bokoharam.
• The continuous torture of africans in the Saudi arabia who go looking for green pastures.
• The unstable African economy that continue to be sabbotaged by the west economy.
• the state of the nation of sierra leon and Liberia after the attempted coup by ebola.

Domination of the ACJ subject was seen as a selfish move by the African heads after it seemed to get more propulsion force from the reigning Kenyan President H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta, Commander in chief of the Defence forces. This was interpreted in line that he had been the recent victim of ICC infringement of what a good friend H.E. Museveni would call "Uhuru wa Afrika". The able, eloquent president justified why As africa we needed African solutions to African problems.This sounded a brilliant idea and it still sounds, but what of implementation.
The cacoon covering the whole idea seem to be a retaliatory attack after the former Chief prosecutor of the ICC seemed to politicize justice by suing the famous ICC six in line with their 2007 political affiliations.

Let us reason;

1. Assume Ocampo Moreno Louis sued the six without considering PNU or ODM, would it have come this extent?
2. Assume Ocampo adhered to the principles of justice and stood out fair and conducted an intensive investigation, would the culmination of all the events that have followed been this shameful?
3. Now, take it that Ocampo entered Kenya specifically to investigate peroetrators of 2007 post election violence without getting interested in ODM or PNU affairs, what kind of submission do you think would he have handed over to the ICC?
4. Finally, assume Ocampo was left to conduct this case to the end as the chief prosecutor..... I pose.

Africa needs African problems. The joining of American forces to bring down Ghadhaffi a renown west African icon did no good but rather harm. The entry of Kenya forces in somalia has seen our somali brothers return home to rebuild a once colapsing nation.
Let us wake up Africa, no one will come to arm us to build our heritage, our prosperity, our future, we shall do it on our own. African is able, Africa has the capability. The plethora of our coastal marines to our beautiful natural resources are all sweet resources whose manipulation we have overlooked for long.
Wake up Africa, For Africa, deserves African solutions.

THE PAINS AND PRIVILEDGES ENDOWED TO AFRICA.

I have grown up an African and it is beyond any doubt that definitely by the time My God comes for establishment of another beautiful kingdom in a new paradise, an African I will. I have never doubted the fact that as an African I have the capability of achieving anything anywhere. From Socio-economic success, Academic breakthrough to attainment of a politically informed successful reign are all ambitions I have never been challenged why as an African I can't see them come true.

However, it comes to a point where stagnation starts. An enabling environment. From so many statutes to which as a people we stand signatories to MoUs our leaders get us into, most of them do not, if at all any, help us get to where our fore fathers dreamt us to be 5 decades after independence. It is in Africa where Polio was pandemic and trials for vaccine as well as drugs done. It is same Africa where cholera was a menace before it was combated.

Africa has been a destination of relief foods, drugs, weapons, military personnel and many more donations. Just in a bid to establish a stable, calm Africa. From HIV outbreaks, to Malaria, to HIV again to Ebola to hunger, problem after the other. All befalling Africa. Why Africa??
Our people let's ask,

Why Africa?

In forums such as Young African Leaders Initiative Network​ you will read and hear of sweet dreams and ambitions our people hold dear. But when shall they be realized?
I ask When? Africa, endowed with beautiful culture, plenty vegetation, colorful climate, fertile soils and many more is the same home of troubles, disasters, wars and all forms of atrocities meted both to innocent and guilty.
Africa, when shall we learn this which we have missed most.
Africa. I pride myself as Africa, But it pains me to do nothing in Liberating My Africa.

Let us rise Africa!