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Kenyan pundit

It is no secret that most Kenyan blogs have always been anti-Kikuyu and anti Kenya at heart . Pandering to Neo liberal European ideas that have no place in modern day Africa. Most of this blogs ,Kenyan Pundit, Ushaidi, kumekucha, Kwani,etc style themselves as being fiercely pro Kenya .They claim to care  for you and me but the sad truth is they are mere vehicles of self-promotion while others are just cash cows being milked in the name of caring about Kenya.

Double standards

For Example a few months ago One William Ole Ntimama was in the news confessing that he had organized the killing of over 600 people in Narok. Blogs such as Kenyan pundit, Mzalendo and Ushaidi were all strangely quiet. Not a single word or campaign to get the honorable minister fired  or brought to justice was seen of this patriotic blogs.(mind you some of this blogs such as Ushaidi were created  to promote justice and peace)This are the same blogs that shout to the rooftops about bringing Kibaki,The Police  and kikuyus to justice .

afromusing -Ushaidi

Another example : When Amos kimunya was falsely accused by James Orengo of having sold grand regency to a Mt Kenya outfit .It was bloody murder on the net. Almost all the bloggers on Kenya unlimited(a Kenyan  blogging community) were baying for his blood. When Orengo went before a commission of inquiry later and admitted that Kimunya had indeed acted within the law, that the hotel was actually bought by a Libyan company and most importantly that his statements to the public that the hotel had not been sold (as of the time he gave the statement) were true, not a single word was said on this Kenyan blogs.

Kriegler Report

Yesterday The Kriegler report indicated that the Kenyan election was indeed not rigged at kicc (despite what this blogs have been telling the world) .Instead what we saw during the last election as indicated by the report  was a hotly disputed close election .The report was very specific that that last year’s election was marred by a series of errors that made it impossible to determine the true outcome. The report went further to state that no proof of fraud and rigging at the KICC was evident (the backbone argument that  almost destroyed Kenya).Yet  today our ‘patriotic blogs’ are silent again.

Binyavanga Wainaina - kwaniBlog

The elections were disputed not stolen but do we  see a single  ’patriotic blog’ reporting the truth.Some of this blogs were  used as authoritative reports/ evidence against Kibaki, Kikuyus and Kenyans by  western media organizations at the height of the crisis .Yet  whenever stories turn out to be different this blogs go quiet.(No email to BBC ) What ideals do we hold out to . What truths do we stand for ! Bure kabisa shame on you !

The truth is out there !you just need to look!

http://kikuyunationalism.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/kriegler-report-pdf/

Leaders from central Rift Valley and the larger Meru have sent a chilling message to the rest Central Kenya. In what can only be best describe as Uhuru Kenyatta put it.”Ujinga usioeleweka” .Leaders who attended Molo MP Joseph Kiuna’s thanksgiving ceremony at the weekend said despite strongly backing their kin in Central during elections, they were always given a raw deal.

“Our voters have learnt not to follow their Central Province counterparts blindly and come 2012, we shall make a wise decision by unanimously deciding who to back so that no more displacement occurs in politically-instigated violence,” Mr. Kiuna said. Politicians from the larger Meru have joined the fray accusing Central Kenya leaders of short-changing them when “sharing the gazelle”.

Meru to go it alone:

Contributing in a local TV show this week, Mr. Mithika Linturi and assistant ministers Kilemi Mwiria and Japhet Kareke asked the Meru to unite and bargain with other communities outside the Gema bloc.A spokesman for the influential Njuri Ncheke council of elders claimed they had been “used as mud gumboots”.Mr Linturi said Gema “was as dead as a dodo.”

This is an indication that the centre is no longer at ease and things could fall apart.From what has been said, you get the impression that the discontent is informed by a perception that they were not rewarded for their contribution in the last election as well as a desire for greater integration.“We fight together but when it’s time to share the cake, we’re regarded as Rift Valley Kikuyu. We are treated as black-headed sheep. We don’t have a minister, ambassador, permanent secretary or parastatal head,” Mr Kiuna said.

Water and Irrigation assistant minister Mwangi Kiunjuri, and former MPs Koigi wa Wamwere (Subukia) and Paul Muite (Kabete) share Mr Kiuna’s concern.Mr Kiunjuri said the “Central Rift has completely been ignored by Mt Kenya,” adding that though they contributed about 30 per cent of PNU votes, the region received no government posts of note.“Kikuyus in the Central Rift have always been punching bags during elections as we witnessed in January but we were ignored,”“Our challenges and interests are determined by where we live and are shared by our neighbours,” he said, adding that a Kikuyu-Kalenjin alliance would boost reconciliation

My 2 Cents on the issue

1. If Rift Valley kikuyu ‘leaders’ think that it is safer for their constituents  to vote the way Kalenjin warriors tell them to vote or want them to vote .Then that is fine they can go right ahead .If you think you were attacked because  you voted with Central and not because of land and jeleousy  then  vote for  your Mr. Ruto and Arap Mibei .(some kind of twisted logic-we will vote with kalenjins so that they do not fight with us) I doubt with the dwindling resources in the rift that it will buy you peace.

2. The Meru people  can do whatever they want to do it’s their democratic right to do so. If they think they can get a better deal with Imanyara and Co then well and good. I have never seen a kyuk man or woman cry because the Meru community wants to exercise its democratic rights. Do what is best for you. Nobody has been holding a gun to your head to vote for a kikuyu all this years .Dont act like you are hostages you are free to do as you please.

Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish.
Enough said………….

According to a former top researcher with the Chicago-based National Opinion and Research Centre, B. Sheatsley, “opinion polls’ most obvious contribution has been to substitute objective measures of people’s opinions and behaviour for the guesswork that once surrounded these matters.”
In this sense, it becomes quite clear that something still does not work, the way opinion polls are conducted.

For instance, what does it exactly mean to ask a random group of people “who, between President Kibaki and Premier Raila Odinga, is working hardest?”This was the question Gullup recently asked in its only opinion poll this year. Just what was such a question supposed to mean?It is so subjective as to render it meaningless – certainly not the stuff of scientific polls. It comes out as having had pre-determined results, making it utterly baseless.Among those anonymous individuals asked to respond, who has any idea how the two spend their working day – the whole minutiae of crafting policies, studying situation papers and intelligence briefings, attending to various national chores, events and ceremonies, and meeting numerous delegations?

Except for the people who work in those offices, the answer is none.As far as any Kenyan can tell, both the President and Prime Minister have been on a hectic daily ever since the Grand Coalition was formed, each addressing the business of State.Just recently, when the President was off to an AU meeting in Egypt and another one in Japan, the Prime Minister was handling the toxic issues of the Grand Regency scandal and the Mau Forest.

Soon, he was off to the UK and the US, while President Kibaki was home grappling with domestic chores.This outward picture, which is the only idea that Kenyans have of the two at work, does not show any of them being busier or more lethargic than the other.It does not need repeating that the two leaders’ styles of doing things are diametrically opposed: that one is laid-back and the other more physically active.

It would be wrong for any Kenyan to think that being a hands-on operative equals hard work, though the PM does work hard, or that being “laid-back” means laziness.In many places, including large companies, many unsung people do the donkey-work, while the showy type get most of the limelight.
It does not make sense to equate two offices which have specific constitutional mandates, and which are serving the same government simultaneously.

A power-sharing agreement between the opposition Orange Democratic Movement and the Party of National Unity in Kenya has failed at healing ethnic divisions in the one-time politically-troubled East African nation, according to a new report by Minority Rights Group International (MRG).

“Tens of thousands of Kenyans remain displaced, living in miserable conditions in transit camps, while ethnic tensions fester, following the country’s worst outbreak of violence,” says the London-based organisation. The clashes, which broke out after disputed election results early this year, left Kenya with its biggest crisis ever in terms of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Over 400,000 were driven from their homes, and 1,500 were killed.

MRG found peace-building efforts were “patchy, poorly funded and lacked major government backing.”

MRG’s head of policy and communications, Ishbel Matheson, says that from the outset, the new government seemed more interested in breaking up the highly visible IDP camps in major towns, rather than facilitating the sustainable return of these people. Without a serious commitment to build bridges between these communities, violence could easily erupt again, she warned.

According to the report, titled “Kenya Six Months on: A New Beginning or Business as Usual?”, the biggest difficulties are in the Northern Rift Valley, where the violence carried out by Kalenjin ethnic militia, against the Kikuyus, was worse.

But small communities, like the indigenous Ogiek hunter-gatherer group living close to the Rift Valley town of Nakuru, were also hard-hit.

Asked for his comments, Salim Lone, a former senior U.N. official and currently spokesman for Prime Minister Raila Odinga, told IPS: “The report correctly points to the complexity of the healing process that is underway in Kenya, since the underlying factors for the terrible violence are decades old.”

But it is far too early, he said, to characterise the exercise in such negative terms. “Some other independent observers have in fact described the government’s efforts as encouraging.”

“A key part of our reconstruction and healing revolves around resettling displaced people,” Lone pointed out. “That process must ensure that the marginalisation of some ethnic groups over the last 45 years is quickly reversed if we are to avoid further instability.”

William Ruto named in Violence Report

Lone, who is based in Nairobi, said the prime minister is doing everything within his powers to ensure that the government does not end up paying the most attention to the IDPs of the largest and most influential communities.

“That is why the prime minister, who draws a lot of support from the Rift Valley, where many killings occurred, boldly associated himself with the resettlement drive in that province,” he said.

Lone said it is important to point out, however, that it is not only small and remote groups that have suffered marginalisation, “which is severe and a threat to our stability, (but also others). We are determined to end it.”

Unfortunately, he said, the report portrays the killings as being primarily ethnic in nature. “This is false,” Lone asserted.

“The killings were triggered by a very controversial outcome of the presidential election, and the political revolt to this did take on heavily ethnic overtones in some areas. But a large number of killings were actually the result of police shootings,” he added.

Asked whether the United Nations has done enough to ensure the continuation of the peace process, Matheson told IPS that it was ultimately an African Union-sponsored peace process, which former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan presided over, that helped broker the agreement.

But the visit of Ban Ki-moon, the current secretary-general, at a crucial time in the process back in February 2008 was undoubtedly vital, because it brought pressure to bear on the two parties to reach a power-sharing agreement, while the violence threatened to tear the country apart, she added.

“It is vital that that diplomatic vigour does not fade, as the coalition government becomes more established,” Matheson said.

She said that high-level U.N. pressure should be brought to bear, for example, to ensure that the vital reform processes — the constitutional review, a new land policy, and a truth, justice and reconciliation commission — be kept on track.

“If it looks like it is faltering, Ban Ki-moon should appoint a special U.N. representative to Kenya, to flag up the immense importance of the success of these reform processes,” Matheson said.

In addition, the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR), conducted a fact-finding mission to the country at the height of the violence, and made a number of key recommendations in relation to the reform processes and the treatment of IDPs.

The OHCHR must return before the end of the year, to chart progress on its recommendations, and establish whether Kenya is meeting its obligations to its people under international human rights norms, she added.

The findings of that report should be made public, and again, will help to reinforce to Kenya’s politicians that there can be no backsliding when it comes to reform.

“The relief at seeing Kenya return to peace, and attempt to rebuild its shattered economy, should not deflect from the fact that fundamental problems remain in the governance of the country, and that this is probably the best chance in a generation to put them right,” Matheson said.

The United Nations has a massive engagement with Kenya. The country — and Nairobi, in particular — is the host to the headquarters of several major agencies.

“It is greatly in the interests of the U.N.’s political wing — as well as its humanitarian agencies — to secure true reform in Kenya, so that a truly modern inclusive society can be forged,” she declared.

Uhuru Kenyatta with IDPs -August 30th 2008

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday said administrators had convinced the President that the resettlement programme, dubbed Operation Rudi Nyumbani was almost complete yet thousands of people were still living in camps.“The President sent us to check the progress of the program but we have been dismayed to realise that the whole exercise is a flop despite briefs from the provincial administration that everything was fine,” Mr Kenyatta said.Speaking when he toured Gitwamba Transitional Internally Displaced Persons camp in Trans-Nzoia district, Mr Kenyatta said that the government will resettle all people affected during the post election violence.Mr Kenyatta asked the area DC Francis Mutie to ensure that all the affected people were are issued with Sh10,000 given by the government.Another Sh25,000 would be disbursed for each displaced family, he said.He said that the money should help them in resettling back to their farms.