From joragem at gmail.com Wed Jul 1 00:43:06 2009 From: joragem at gmail.com (Joram Ragem) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:43:06 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] I A M D I S A P P O I N T E D & S A D D E N E D . Message-ID: People, Sometimes, people do crazy things that were unexpected. Sometimes they crazily don't do what is expected. This causes disappointment to those who relate to them at a distance, (the public) and those who know such people well (the confidantes). It will be in perfect honor to Michael Jackson, and great for us his fans, if he was given a state funeral. I am disappointed that Barack Obama, or congress has not even thought of offering Michael Jackson a state funeral. Personally, I reached out to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Barbara Boxer about this, and their answer was that there was no precedent to go by. I insisted that this would be a first and that, with the Democrats being the majority, especially today since they just gained a filibuster proof majority, they preferred not to pus the envelope. It appears that state funerals in the US are only for sitting or retired presidents. This is despite the description of the term. A *state funeral*is a public funeral ceremony held to honour heads of state or other important people of national significance. They usually include much pomp and ceremony. Generally, they are held to involve the general public in the mourning process after the family of the deceased give consent. Michael Jackson was not just important enough, and was of little significance to Americans. Perhaps his body should be handed over to the United Nations, for a global or international coalition funeral. I am disappointed and saddened, that the King of Pop, was taken to the LA Coroner's Office in a van instead of a hearse. I am disappointed, but will feel consoled to learn if Michaels family turned down a state funeral offer, or if he wanted a private funeral in his will. The British were smart to give Diana a princess burial even when she no longer was. Otherwise the world would not have forgiven them. Interestingly, my 10th great grandfather, Ragem informs me that Michael Jackson had sought to know his roots and had asked for DNA testing and matching. It is reported that the researchers he hired determined that his closest match was with a small nilotic tribe settled in on the shores of lake Victoria in East Africa! Hey Obama and Raila, if US cannot do a state funeral, lets send him to Nyalgunga, because his clan might just be Umira Kager or Aoro Wango before the Portugese scattered us all over the world. Which reminds me of my second disappointment. Raila was advised to put more energy on constitution change rather than this PEV thing. Ocampo will net fish from either side despite his name telling that he too might be from the shores of the lake we know. There are certain things that are not worth fighting for. I wish Obama, Pelosi, Boxer and Raila would look at the man or the woman on the mirror, nd tell them the change their ways about certain things, like smoking. -- Joram Ragem - wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From editor at africanexecutive.com Wed Jul 1 01:59:54 2009 From: editor at africanexecutive.com (The Editor) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:59:54 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] The African Executive Issue 219 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From agostinhoon at gmail.com Wed Jul 1 10:43:56 2009 From: agostinhoon at gmail.com (neto agostinho) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 07:43:56 -0700 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: TENANTS RIGHTS In-Reply-To: <864543450907010701x2cde3341ncba3c858ea7f003e@mail.gmail.com> References: <864543450907010701x2cde3341ncba3c858ea7f003e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <56fb69260907010743v30f836ddsbb846b3b49545052@mail.gmail.com> everyone can sue anyone. So then a tenant can sue depending on the tort-the wrong done- you have rights to your privacy, amongst others and incase of eviction, depending on the agreement notice need be given in good time....i am not sure what sort of information you are looking for?? On 7/1/09, George Njoroge wrote: > Hi LYPs Members & YPs, > Is there anybody in this Forum who have a slight Idea(s) on Tenant Rights > e.g > a)Can A tenant sue his/her landlord? > b)In case of Eviction, do the Tenant have the right to be issued an > Eviction order? > > Please guys, hit me with any... > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Women and Youth Against HIV/AIDS Programme (WAYAAP) is a CBO which deals with orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and people living with HIV/AIDS. i volunteered with them and can help you contact them. There is also Ripples international which does similar activities. Schools we have Hekima pry sch, Hekima nursery sch, st pauls sec- all supported by the catholic mission. Other govt schools are kiwanjani pry, wabera pry, mwangazapry, Isiolo girls sec, Isiolo boys sec. How do we measure the level of awareness? you can contact me for more info On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Catherine Kirima < catherine_kirima at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Kindly get in touch with the Catholic Church in Isiolo. It coordinates all > HIV/AIDS related issues in Isiolo. There is also Pepo la Jangwani which > takes care of orphaned children as a result of HIV/AIDS related cases. It > is run by a lady called Fatuma. > > I hope this will assist you! > > --- On *Sun, 28/6/09, Jedidah Mueni * wrote: > > > From: Jedidah Mueni > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Kindly > To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com > Date: Sunday, 28 June, 2009, 5:03 PM > > > > > > Hi guys, > Anybody from isiolo please assist: > I would like to get the following info; > 1.How many hospitals do we have along isiolo > 2.Any two organizations in the area doing on HIV/AIDs programmes > 3.2-3 three schools > 4.Level of awareness of hiv aids > > Please assist > JD > > --- On Sun, 6/28/09, George Nyongesa > > wrote: > > > From: George Nyongesa > > > > Subject: [YP_Ke] CHAMA's first Grass root forum, Nairobi > > To: grnyongesa at yahoo.com > > Date: Sunday, June 28, 2009, 4:55 AM > > Comrades, > > > > From the numbers (see attached pictures) and > > participation in the CHAMA grass root meeting held > > on 27th June 2009 at Conference Hall (Nairobi City > > Hall), I can describe the first step in this long journey > > towards clean leadership and responsive government as great. > > For those who may not be privy CHAMA is acronym for Chama > > cha Haki and Maendeleo, a new political party in the making. > > During yesterday's CHAMA meeting, Kenyans from > > all representations were happy with CHAMA's first > > meeting. > > > > To give you a glimpse into the mood - before you watch > > the video recording and see pictures online - some of the > > participants in their submissions described the meeting as > > "historic in Kenya's political party > > politics" while others put it as > > " the beginning of people-centred > > politics" and yet others as "a > > commendable step at returning nation's politics to > > Kenyans". > > > > What excited participants more was the absence of our > > usual high table for the "political biggies", we > > all sat in the plenary and only the presenter/moderator went > > in front. We did not bore with long speeches and in my > > thinking this made most participants feel we were all equal. > > > > > > The day's program was amended and simplified in > > the plenary. We made sure that every participant with > > something to say had a chance at the microphone. This lifted > > participants morale and spirits as they perceived that > > convenors appreciated that all represented Kenyans knew > > something about "what ails Kenya" and have > > opinion(s) on how we should fix it. > > > > The absence of the usual > > "personalities" and "flowery names" in > > the gathering (which usually confuses and > > distorts the people's agenda) also gave the > > gathering a unique political tinge. In my noting that, I do > > not suggest that individuals who have genuinely earned their > > society's respect aren't welcomed; rather, I am > > just emphasizing the (default) confidence it generated among > > the grass root - that they too can put together a political > > gathering and dialogue. > > > > After the sharing of highlights of what makes > > CHAMA unique and a break from traditional political > > parties in Kenya, the participants were invited to speak > > into and input in the making of CHAMA's constitution and > > party thinking/ideology. This generated a lot of enthusiasm > > as participants after another jostled at a chance on > > the microphone, to be part of this generation's > > historical mission. Initial speakers were quick to caution > > against broken dreams and failures suffered > > in previous political parties such as > > FORD and NARC. > > > > With the benefit of my little grass root experience in > > different parts of the country - especially, considering my > > familiarity with most of the faces that gathered in > > yesterday's CHAMA first public meeting - I am > > reassured and confident that we have a chance at capturing, > > redirecting and guiding the destiny of our nation, Kenya. > > > > > > It was amazing to watch and listen, voice after > > another paint an optimistic picture: "that > > we need to reimagine, redesign and rebuild > > Kenya" on the foundation of genuine democracy, > > characterized by the rule of law and respect of people's > > voice. This instils in me renewed belief that, yes, it is > > our time to rediscover and recreate Kenya. > > > > In an effort to ground the party at the grass > > root, collect more input to the CHAMA constitution > > and the thinking/ideology and generally popularise > > the formation of CHAMA countrywide, our next stop is > > Rift Valley region where we want to > > hold a similar grass root meeting in Nakuru > > town and it's rural neighborhood. > > > > > > In conclusion: Kudos to all who made this possible, > > just to mention a few: Roza Kamau, Suba Churchil, Nicholas > > Oyoo, Mary Wakio, Rael Odongo, Tariq Jebtekeny, Yasni Juma, > > Fatuma Abdala, Mary Kathomi, Jacob Muoga, Ben Githae and > > Omtatah Okoiti. > > > > Thank you Tom Kagwe and Alamin Kimathi for your > > thoughtful opening and closing remarks respectively. > > > > As a side note, I would like to correct Omtatah's > > initial estimation of participation at 234 pax. A rough > > head count places the gathering at close to 300 plus - > > not all the participants registered at the reception. A > > comprehensive report on participants' submissions, video > > and pictures shall be uploaded in the coming week on > > the CHAMA facebook and website (www.kejude.org/chama.pdf). > > The relevant facebook address will soon be communicated to > > you. > > > > Sincerely yours, > > George Nyongesa > > +254 720 451 235 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Warm Regards, Annah. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City AS the Al-Shabaab intensified its onslaught on Mogadishu all week, it paraded to the dismayed the residents four teenagers in a public square whom it announced will suffer cross amputation ?right hand and left foot cut off-in accordance.. The plight of the four teenagers, who were accused of stealing a pistol and three mobile cell phone handsets, signaled the continuing struggle between the militant Islamist insurgents and the transitional Somalia government they want to overthrow over the scope and severity of the sharia law the former have vowed to implement. When in February this year newly elected President Sheikh Shariff Ahmed [himself? a moderate Islamist} caved in to rebel demands for Islamic law, he desperately needed to blunt the edge off the Islamist insurgents whose campaigns of law and order were striking a popular chord, especially in Southern Somalia. The Islamists other loud objection to Africa Union peacekeepers being deployed from non-Islamic countries ?Uganda and Burundi- had also considerably boxed in President Ahmed.. Sheikh Ahmed tactical concession has won him no respite as it has? increasingly become clear that his government and the insurgents have radically different interpretation of the sharia law. Though on paper the beleaguered transitional government acceded to the pressure for Islamic law, it has in practice been reluctant to implement a strict Taliban-style version?? ,such as forbidding girls from schooling, decreeing mandatory veils for women, or banning music and television. But in the months Al-Shabaab and Hezbull-Islam allies have been running? southern Somalia, the insurgents have demonstrated that their interpretation ?of Islamic law is far more extreme. In the Southern town of Kismayu not far away from the common Somalia-Kenya border there was also a reported case early in the year of a couple stoned for alleged adultery offence. The latest decision on the four Mogadishu teenagers, which major international human rights organization such as Amnesty International have unreservedly condemned, has sent a chilling message on what awaits those perceived as wrongdoers in the besieged capital where the daily death rates now stands at between 20 and 30 people a day.???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?The fight for legitimacy is no longer just about who will win the military battle, but whose interpretation of sharia law will carry the day,?,an independent minded Islamic scholar in Mogadishu ?Mr Muqtar Hersi told the EASTAFRICAN? weekly last week. Al-Shabaab terrorists have staked their campaign? not only just Islamic purity, but also strict law and order. And compare to lawless Mogadishu, the order they have imposed in places they control like Kismayu has made many weary Somalis give them the benefit of the doubt. Still the likelihood of a popular backlash is high. Somalis are by tradition Sunni moderates. The former Islamic Courts Union{ICU} had also briefly introduced sharia in some parts of the capital, Mogadishu and the southern region before they got ousted by invading Ethiopian troops in 2006. But? there was soon an uproar against the harsher tenets of the law, the last straw being the ICU?s banning of khat{Miraa}.It also did not help matters that the ICU chose to ban TV during the month the 2006 World Cup was being played in Germany. President Mwai Kibaki is in Kirte town in Libya, where he and other African heads of state and government are attending this year?s AU summit, and diplomatic sources in Nairobi have hinted that the Kenyan leader would table a detailed account of the Somalia predicament to his colleague not on behalf of Kenya alone but also as the current chairman of the IGAD He would also sought for help from other presidents to bailout Somalia. From its precarious political quagmire. Kenya has good reason to worry about. Because it is hosting close to 3500,000 Somali refugees while more are still coming in their hundreds on daily basis. This is a heavy burden on Kenya, a relatively poor country, which has no minerals but depending mainly ?on its buoyant agricultural products such as coffee, tea, fish and horticultural. Ends leoderaomolo at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have a friend who wants a proposal for supplying and printing stationery and he has no prior experience. Thanks y'all --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. To post to this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.ke/group/youngprofessionals_ke?hl=en Visit the LYP website at http://ypkenya.org Join the group on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57703506900 Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/lyp_ke -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From Dickens.Odhiambo at gmsi.com Wed Jul 1 13:13:00 2009 From: Dickens.Odhiambo at gmsi.com (Dickens Odhiambo) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:13:00 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] ODM ministers walk out on Raila over tribunal Message-ID: Wanasiasa, What is going on in ODM? * They reject Raila's move to back tribunal to try poll chaos suspects. * The PM is said to have been saddened by the happenings and remained quiet as the ministers openly castigated him. * Only Lands Minister James Orengo sides with Raila. A meeting designed to forge ODM's unity ended in disarray when ministers sharply differed with party leader Raila Odinga on the handling of post-election violence suspects. Ministers and their assistants walked out of the meeting convened by Mr Odinga at his Treasury office to protest his push for a special tribunal to try key suspects. Only Industrialisation minister Henry Kosgey remained as Sports colleague Hellen Sambili led the walk out. Mr Kosgey, who is the ODM chair, led the onslaught on Mr Odinga by telling him to his face that his push for the tribunal was meant to "arrest" Kalenjins. The chairman was supported by ministers Dalmas Otieno, Otieno Kajwang, Paul Otuoma and Aden Duale as Mr Joseph Nkaissery and Mr Orengo jumped to Mr Odinga's support. Sources at the meeting, who asked not to be named, said the ministers were adamant that they will vote against the tribunal if the matter is brought to Parliament. He will be finished The government has been under pressure from the international community to form the tribunal before chief mediator Kofi Annan's August deadline or the list of suspects be handed over to the International Criminal Court. "We told him the tribunal will finish him and the party and that the Waki Commission which investigated the violence did a bad job," an assistant minister, who asked not to be quoted, said. Deputy party leader Musalia Mudavadi and chief whip Jakoyo Midiwo also said the tribunal was not the "way to go." Mr Odinga is said to have been saddened by the happenings and remained quiet as the ministers openly castigated him. The ministers also disagreed on eviction of squatters from Mau Forest Complex. Although the new constitution was part of the meeting's agenda, it was never discussed due to the sharp difference. However, the ministers agreed that the party nominations for the Shinyalu and Bomachoge seats be handled in a free and fair manner. The 5pm meeting stretched late into the night with those in attendance keeping quiet on the agenda. This comes at a time when sharp internal differences have threatened to wreck the party ahead of the 2012 elections. After the meeting, there was a power blackout at Treasury building The backup generator failed and some people at the meeting on the 14th floor, including Mr Odinga, walked to the ground floor. http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/-/1064/617560/-/item/1/-/mjwj0q/-/inde x.html From Dickens.Odhiambo at gmsi.com Wed Jul 1 13:20:19 2009 From: Dickens.Odhiambo at gmsi.com (Dickens Odhiambo) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:20:19 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] NEWS :- Muthaura flown to SA for treatment Message-ID: Muthaura flown to SA for treatment Written By:Rose Kamau , Posted: Wed, Jul 01, 2009 Head of public service and secretary to the cabinet Francis Muthaura has been flown to South Africa for specialized treatment. Government spokesman Dr Alfred Mutua said tests done on Muthaura on Monday and Tuesday found out that he had narrowed arteries to his heart. "His heart, however, is pumping normally," said Dr Mutua. He said Muthaura will undergo further tests and a possible procedure in Johannesburg, South Africa. "The nature of the procedure requires that doctors work in collaboration and a decision was made to transfer him to Johannesburg, South Africa," he said. According to Dr Mutua, Muthaura was in good spirits as he flew out at 9.15 local time morning on an AMREF Citation Jet accompanied by his doctors. He will be joined later by his family. He said doctors expect Muthaura to be back in the country within a week or two. "The kind of procedure he might undergo is carried out a lot and the hospital he is visiting does about 40 cases a week. Muthaura is expected to have a very good outcome and to be back to his normal work routine," Dr Mutua said. At the airport to see him off were Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Minister for internal Security Prof. George Saitoti, and former Rarieda MP Raphel Tuju and several government officials. Muthaura was taken ill on Sunday and was rushed to the Nairobi Hospital for treatment. 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Kenya is an African nation which is prone to all sorts of serious and organized crimes such as the bloody cattle rustling, bank robberies, politically motivated assassinations, tribal land clashes and ethnic armed conflicts, which at times pitting only member of the same tribe. Against their neighbors. The latest such skirmishes could be traced to inter-clan full scale war between the Nyabasi and Buirege in the newly created Kuria East district. The bloody war forced the government to dispatch a contingent of the crack paramilitary unit, the dreaded General Service Unit {{GSU}.to the area a couple of weeks ago. The on=going Mungiki sect massacre of villagers in Kirinyaga and? Nyeri districts, which has claimed close to 50 lives within the last two months are some of the examples portraying Kenya as a nation in crisis. All the warring groups pitting the dreaded and outlawed Mungiki sect and a group of vigilante youth masquerading as the local community policing the villages. Both side have suffered causalities almost of the same number of people hacked to death with crude weapons. And strangely enough, all the combatants are members of one tribe, the Kikuyus.. And in the Mt. Elgon district in Western Province, close to 200 people were killed last year by the rebels of the? People?s Land Defense Army. The situation became so worse to an extent? that the government had to deploy the Kenya army to restore law and order, The fragile peace has since returned to the region, but many people are still staying from their home and villages in fear of being attacked, though the rebels seemed to have been crushed and destroyed. This time around Kenya has added to its long list of serious crimes, the new waves of child kidnapping and thereafter the demand for huge sums of money in ransom for the safe return of the victims. The amount of money demanded by kidnappers is too colossal and beyond the riches of the common Kenyan families. The kidnappers are targeting school going children. Many families living and working in urban areas and cities lkike Nairobi, Momnbasa .Kisumu, Eldoret,Nakuru and even smaller towns like Nyeri, Kisii, Machgakos and Kericho are no longer safe place foir young children to walk alone to and from schools. The fact that these kidnappers had the gut of sending an SMS to a government Minister warning her of an impending plan to have her daughter kidnapped tells a million story. The MP for Kasarani, Ms Margaret Onoro one of the Nairobi suburb constituencies was forced? to dash to the school last week to ensure that her child was safe. The Ministers and MPs are all provided with armed security police details for their own safety. In most cases the victim families are believed to have handled ransom cases quietly and secretly and had their loved ones released unharmed. This has happened in Mombasa, Nairobi, Kisumu and in other towns and urban areas. Child theft is an old culture with African families, especially the barren women. But it used to be done in a small way, main ly by stealing infants from the maternity wards at childbirth or grabbing herds boys while grazing their family animals in the grazing fields. but such incidents were the isolated ones and the remotest. In the latest shocking incident, the gangsters used an AK 47 assault rifle inuring a neighbor who drove to the scene of the kidnapping that left a Nairobi family in grief. A Nairobi daily the DAIL6Y NATION described the d4rim3e was no longer the preserve of movies when a 15 year old boy Eugene Nelson Mandela Ochieng? was ki9dnapped on Monday mornitg in bizarre crime? which is rapidly tracing its root in Kenyan s0ociety.. Mandela?s father who is also stickling narrated to the newsmen from his hospital bed where he is receiving treatment for kidney ailment how it happened..He explained that he had left their residence near Saikia estate in the morning at about 5.45 am. He was in the car with his cousin, a driver and the son Mandela. He explained that his greatest concern when he was leaving their house it he morning for the City Centre was to make it in time for the doctor?s appointment at he Upper Hill Medical? Centre Centre. For dialysis.The, however, was changed.Initially,he thought the occupants of a car which was driving from opposite direction were police officers, and he told his driver to unwind down the window. However the thiugs led by one who was wielding an AK 47 assdault rifles approached their vehicles amnd ordered them menacingly toile down. Whiler fr4isked their pockets for valuables. Mandela the From Two teenager at the Eastliegh Secondary School, his cousin and the driver lay down as his father pleaded with the gangster not to harm them. ?We had just left our compound. This strange car blocked us and there three people jumped and ordered us to lie down..The gangster made away with Kshs 13,000 he was carrying and dragged his son to their waiting car and drove off in high speed. The gangsters did not tell them how to deliver the Kshs one million that they demanded shortly before driving away with the boy. But while thi was going on, Mr. Ochieng?s neighbor who was driving out of the estate was fired at by the gangster seriously injuring him. Although the gangster had made off with his son, Mr.Ochieng?and other bravely went to the assistance of the injured man and took him to Nairobi hospital where he was admi9tted with serious gun wound. By Tuesday afternoon nobody had phoned the family to demand the One million shillings the gangster had said they want nor did anyone tell them family how the ransom money could be delivered. It was later reported that the gateway car was found abandoned in? Dandora estate, and the gangster and the boy had melted in the thin air. Kenya police has issued a stern warning which is also some kid of good advice to the families which might fall victim of child kidnapping. The gangster appeared to target the children of the well-to-do families, those parents who drives huge fuel guzzling four-wheel Japanese state of the art vehicles.. ..Parents of school going children are the worried lots in Kenya. Another latest style of robbery is that of kidnapping motorist and then forcing them to visit their ATM? banks account by thr night. 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Eye to eye contact helps a > lot >too.. > >I've included a photo below of one of my sessions with my >son, in case you would like to use the technique. > >Sincerely, >Your Friend > > > > > > > >This works with grandchildren, nieces, and nephews as well. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. To post to this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.ke/group/youngprofessionals_ke?hl=en Visit the LYP website at http://ypkenya.org Join the group on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57703506900 Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/lyp_ke -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Wed Jul 1 11:07:23 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 08:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Message-ID: <441557.43931.qm@web31401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> No, they should not marry. My take is simple. They walked in to the priesthood willingly and amongst the first requirement is that you vow to remain celibate. If you are agreed to this, you stay. If the flesh is more tempting than Christ, you walk out. All those priests who are now confessing of having led double lives are the worst hypocrites. They are worse than Judas the Iscariot. No one forced them to ever become priests. This is a calling and I am happy that we have many priests in the Catholic Church who are strong and willing to live their vows. Odhiambo T Oketch, --- On Wed, 7/1/09, naserian beatrice wrote: From: naserian beatrice Subject: To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 3:53 AM ?should catholic priest marry what do you think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City Residents of Luo-Nyanza, especially those living in the old greater Southern Nyanza appeared to have wholeheartedly welcome the recent proposal by the government to have Nyanza one of the most populous regions in Kenya ?split into ?two administrative Provinces, we can now authoritatively report.. Across section of people interviewed over the weekend were the opinion that the time was very much ripe for such an exercise. They said the split would bring the administration and governance close to the people terming those opposed to the idea as self-seekers serving the interest of an individual but with no people?s aspirations. A group of civic leaders in Nyatike,Migori,Ndhiwa and Rongo even called for a r4eferendum to determine the people?s wish on the issue..?At the present, our people seeking government services at the Provincial levels are made to travel for more than 200 kilometers to Kisumu in order to get such services. The civic leaders also opined that split of ?Southern Nyanza region having close to twenty five administrative districts, covering Kisii,Kuria and Luo regions is long overdue. The Gusii region has 13 districts followed by South Nyanza with ten districts and two extra districts in Kuria region, namely East and West Kuria district. We don?t mind being grouped in one Province with our neighbors Abagusii and Kyria communities. in one Province with its headquarters to be located either in Kisii town or Rongo Town. After all we were living under one district during the colonial period, which was known as South Nyanza.? Said one civic leader in Homa-Bay who requested his anonymity. The civic leaders have cited frustration the residents were facing, particularly those who are forced to travel from far flunk places like Mfangano Island, Gwassi, Kadem, Muhuru Bay and Kuria to Kisumu for urgent administrative matters. Other reasons being advance by the supporters of the split including frustration the Luos from Southern Nyanza are said to be getting from their cousins from the old Central Nyanza region. The region covered Siaya, Kisumu, Bondo,Ugenya,and Nyando district are very close to the Provincial headquarters in Kisumu. It is being alleged that the Southern Nyanza Luos are being frustrated under the leadership of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the ODM He demand for the separation of Southern Nyanza Luos and their cousins from the old Central Nyanza was invigorated by a terse SMS message allegedly posted by a Nairobi based Luo ?lawyer. The message seriously blamed Raila Odinga for practicing discrimination against ?the Southern Nyanza Luos in the allocation of plum government and parastatal jobs. The SMS message received across the entire length and width of Luo-Nyanza listed 21 people said to have been appointed in top government and parastatal organization as having come from Raila Odinga?s home turf of Bondo district leaving the rest of Luo land with only two of these new appointments. It questioned the rationale of the solidarity and unity of Luos. Digesting the contents of the SMS message, it emerged that out of the ten administrative districts only Mr. Karoli Omondi Ocholla Gaa a young technocrat from Gwassi constituency who is serving as Raila Odinga personal assistant is the only individual person who got a job in the grand Coalition government of ODM and PNU. Karoli had contested the year 2007 general election on ODM ticket, but lost the election in the preliminary stage to the incumbent John Mbadi, and rumor making the round is that he is the landlord. Who owns the Orange House, which? hosting the ODM secretariat. It? is further being alleged that Mr. Karoli Omondi is also the owner of Raila Odinga Centre in Upper Hill where ?the Agwambo? had established his campaign headquarters during the 2007 presidential election campaign headquarters and as such his appointment could have been influenced at a personal contact and intimacy in relationship. He is said to be a well to do former banker. Such could be other contributing factors in relations his appointment. ?Raila?s own two sister are alleged to have secured plum government jobs. One is a board member in one of the parastatals, while his elders sister Dr.Wenwa Akinyi has clinched the appointment of the Consulate General in Los Angels, USA. But those privy to information said the man whose name is featuring in the latest SMS has coming fromn Bondo is in real sense a resident of Rarieda district. He is? Mr Hesbone Mariwa Dulo a former banker who hails from Asembo who has been appointed the chairman of the Agricultural Finance Corporation {AFC}. Out of four or more Permanent Secretaries fro? Luo Nyanza who are serving in the grand coalition government, majority hails from Bondo and Siaya. They are technically r4elated to the Odingas in one way or the other. Luo MPs close to Mr. Odinga are being blamed for apathy approach to development activities in Luo-Nyanza and lack of sensitivities of important issues affecting the community. The MPs stands blamed for not advising the Prime Minister adequately on burning issues affecting the community. One such issues is the conspiracy and scandals involving the 10,000? acres nucleus estate farm belonging to Miwani Sugar Mills Company. The company went burst close to ten years ago, and chances of its revival is growing remotely by days. A cartel of wealthy Indian entrepreneurs. Are currently involved in an expensive legal tussle through the court seeking judiciary approval to have the farm handed to them under suspicious transactions. Other alleged plans hutched by the cartel is to get the Miwani estate farm leased to the for forty years. If the exercise is carried out, this could be the death nail placed on the coffin of Miwani Sugar Company.. The Miwani farm scandal is even worse than the Goldenberg or Anglo leasing. But the Luo MPs are keeping mum., giving credence to allegations of being compromised. Some of the ODM cabinet Ministers, it is further being alleged are frequenting the homes and offices of the group that wanted to acquire Miwani farm through the back door and corruptively. Some of the MPs Minister included have gone silent. Even the usually outspoken and eloquent Muhoroni MP Patrick Ayiecho Olueny in whose constituency Miwani Sugar Mills is located has gone quiet, though his constituents and the sufferers. Rumors making the round have it that some of the leaders have been compromised with ?exceptional of ?the Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his elder brother Dr. Oburu Oginga, the Bondo MP who ism also an Assistant Minister for Finance. One such MPs it is even being alleged had been promised 2,000 acres free of charge if the status of the farm could change..The indigenous people of Kano plains who owned the land before it was grabbed and handed over to the Sugar firm investors by the colonialists in the mid 1920 have vowed to fight back by all means at their disposal if the need be. They want Miwani revived or sold other investors who can resuscitate the ?and have it back into production so that their youth could get employment Luo MPs have surprisingly gone silent over the Miwani affairs, leaving the room for dreadful rumors and speculations that most of them have been compromised, while the Asians have been heard bragging how they have pocketed every one and sundry.. If the Lu MPs could speak the loudest in Parliament about the Grand Regency Hotel saga, why are they so silent over the Miwani farm scandal? Miwani is wholly owned by the government and all efforts have been put in place to frustrate its privatization. The pr4esent crop of Luo MPs would be judged harshly by the future generation if they let Miwani farm go. ENDS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k_shiz at yahoo.com Wed Jul 1 15:22:31 2009 From: k_shiz at yahoo.com (Suzie Njogu) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Hi know anyone who would be interested in this?................. Message-ID: <982044.42328.qm@web56504.mail.re3.yahoo.com> hi guys, find below and sambaza. 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URL: From domega8 at yahoo.com Wed Jul 1 06:33:10 2009 From: domega8 at yahoo.com (D Omega) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:33:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [NicoNtumba_JusticeCampaign]:Ex PM John Major's Letter Message-ID: <195447.97378.qm@web38505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ? ? ?A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess ?? ? ???? ? ? ? Dear friend / supporter ; ? Re: Nico Ntumba Inquiry :? Innocent Mistaken for Security Agent in 1988 ; still subjected with his whole Family ( Spouse , Elderly Mother , Brothers , Sisters , Nieces, Nephews, In-Laws etc...) to arbitray restrictions on Marriage ; Couple's Normal Intimate life ; Association , Fellowship ,? Medias , Counsel , Communications , Travels for Loved Ones, career , Business etc ) Extreme Violation of Basic Rights Freedoms?( News BlackOut ) ?? ? ? ? DIVORCE CREW??? BOULE ? ? ? ? Open Letter Written to British Premier John Major by INMC International Network Against Mind Control on Behalf of Nico Ntumba ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----- Stockholm October 1992 Prime Minister John Major British Government London SW1A 0AA England ? ? Dear Sir, ? Our international network of researchers has for several years been engaged in investigations into mind control and its widespread utilisation around the world, and we have become aware of several victims in Great Britain. Reports received from exploited individuals refer to mental hospitals, police authorities and prisons among the state institutions involved in the implantation of transmitters, electrodes and radio-transmitter crystals in the people. The use of mind control is such a grave encroachment on civil liberties that, if allowed to develop further, it will threaten the freedom and integrity of all. Along with environment problems, this is one of the most urgent issues to address if we are to ensure a more secure future. [...] Just what happened to Mr Ntumba, he described himself in a letter to us: "Concerning the brain transmitter in my head, it has been performing without my knowledge or consent?What?s very outrageous is that I am sharing all my vision, thoughts, dreams, hearings, etc with people around me, as the security services are engaging in a large scale propaganda drive to smear my character, background, emotions and motives?I have no privacy at all? I am not a spy, I am not a criminal, and I am not a terrorist. Being an innocent victim of the ...[?] my persecution started in June 1988". ? What is more, there?s no reason to suspect the validity of what he writes; we are overburdened with letters such as this one from the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand inter alia, and our investigations in Sweden reveal a terrifying reality where the mental services, police authorities and hospitals implant radio-transmitting devices in people?s heads and brains. This reality is exposed by a vast amount of X-ray material to be a chilling and gloomy vision of the future, stage-managed for decades by the security forces in collaboration with medical and psychiatrist institutions, who together have created a secret power which transcends law and order, and which is beyond intrusive public control. ? Brain to computer radio communication has long been considered impossible by the majority of people, and has consequently been relegated to science-fiction, but the fact is that the technology had been developed into reality by at least the 1960s, during which time the initial experiments were being performed on unwitting subjects. The system has at different times been called Intra Cerebral Mind Control, ESB or Electronic Stimulation of Brain, Biological Radio communications or Bio-medical telemetry, and in both the eastern and western worlds it's the prevailing system of mind control, creating unlimited possibilities to influence and charge an individual ?s behaviour patterns and personality. By means of two-way radio communication, called telemetric or remote control, an electromagnetic wave can be sent on a return trip to a receiver/ transmitter (transceiver) located under the skull or in the brain; this signal records the activity of the brain and returns it to a computer for analysis, from which aspects of the subject's life can be exposed. Radio transmitter crystals which when injected into the bloodstream fasten themselves to the brain have under development for decades. They work on the same principles as a normal transmitter, use the same technology and contain the same possibilities. ? To analyse an EEG in a computer instead of a conventional printer provides an entirely fresh perspective on the conclusions which can be drawn, and gives a whole new perspective on what can be concluded. Cognitive manifestations and activity such as thoughts and visual impressions or emotional, behaviour and psychological reactions can continually be registered, making it possible for the secret police authorities, medical scientists, and the state to observe an individual in a deeper and more comprehensive way than they could possibly do to themselves. Through analysis and manipulation by the computer, it is even possible to provoke changes in an individual?s physical mental status. The potential of intracerabral remote control is limited only by the imagination of the investigator, especially when it is remembered that, since these frequencies travel at the speed of light, the system of control is not constraint by matters of range. ? Concerning the case of Mr Ntumba, it is obvious that there is simply no justification for implanting the mind transmitter, whether for police surveillance or psychiatric research. We feel, furthermore, that this is yet another example of human rights violation as defined under the CSCE 1080-83 Madrid conference, and as embodied in the Final Act of Helsinki. We also wish to note that such activities are also in contravention of several agreements endorsed by Great Britain, within the United Nations system, including in particular the International Bill of Human Rights, and articles 3, 4, 5, and 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ? The use of mind control techniques has in fact fostered a new relationship between the state and the citizenry, in which many human rights, as prescribed under the United Nation?s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are violated. In particular we turn to Article 3, which states that all people are given the right to life, liberty, and integrity. This is clearly violated by such mind control experimentation, and the very subjection of an individual?s brain to medical research, behaviour modification experiments, and mind control itself is in contravention of Article 4, which decrees that no one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Explicitly violated is Article 5, which states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Nor shall anyone without their approval be utilised for medical or scientific experiments" . Finally, since such mind control techniques transmit an individual?s privacy to the state, Article 12, which defends the rights of privacy against arbitrary intereference, also ceases to be valid. ? X - R A Y P I C T U R E expected soon ? Recently we received some X-ray pictures from Mr Ntumba, and our medical experts in Stockholm have examined those of his skull and can confirm that a transmitter has been implanted in his left nostril. Furthermore, it can be seen that the electrodes placed in the occipital lobe are blocking the bloodflow behind their delimitation where oxygen depletion is caused, and this is seen as well in his frontal brain just above the implanted transmitter. Among the changes caused by the frequencies affecting his brain, the reduced oxygen levels have induced an alteration of neurological functions, impaired cognitive abilities, including that of memory. Moreover he has obviously been anaesthesized without his knowledge so that this implantation could be performed. ? By the 1970?s, Samuel Chavkin, the American newspaper publisher whose papers had a medical inclination, and who was highly aware of social trends, was writing, "Telemetrics for the surveillance of every citizen is on the drawing boards? mind control techniques could become standard equipment for government, penal and police institutions in the near future". Further aspects of this technology have come to light from researchers such as J.M Delgado, who writes in his book," Physical Control of the Mind ": "By electric stimulation of specific cerebral structures, movements can be induced by radio command, hostility may appear or disappear, social hierarchy can be modified, sexual behaviour may be changed, and memory, emotions and the thinking process may be influenced [...] Transmitters have no batteries, are actived by radio and can be used for life." Popular scientist Carl Sagan wrote in " The Dragons of Eden that he saw the possibility to implant brain electrodes as a strong argument against state control of the health services stating, "People who would allow their government to use electrodes have already lost the battle? when it comes to technology nightmares it is imperative that we see the possibilities, so that people can understand them and prevent their abuse by institution, bureaucrats and governments. " ? Certainly there are many possible ways of evaluating the issue, but it is not difficult to see the direct implications regarding individual freedoms: those which grant a person to live their own life, to choose their own thoughts and opinions, to decide for their own destiny. The question is whether our right to these remain intact, or if our neurological functions should be recorded and submitted to the state with its predetermined and obscure political intentions, through psychiatric advanced software which transforms us into robots. Under mind control, people are forced to become guinea pigs for ruthless researchers' experiments, and the life that once belonged to the individual is now sequestred by medical neuroscience and the state. This technique can recreate people, change their behaviour and values, as well as their characters, opportunities and fates. It is the inner and most important freedom which is threatened, that which during the history of mankind has been obviously and naturally valued highly than suffrage and the temporary political system under which we live. ? [...] We would greatly appreciate a statement regarding your views about this issue, and we urgently press you for all possible assistance which you can give to Mr Ntumba. ? Yours faithfully ? Lennart Lindqvist International Secretary ? Encl. X-ray picture INMC??..Box 136 ?11479 Stockholm?Sweden?Fax +46-8-668 6066 [x] This is the referred X-ray picture of Mr N?Tumba?s occipital lobe and electrodes can clearly be seen blocking the bloodflow behind their delimitation. The X-ray examination was performed at Brook Hospital (Greenwich, London), September 16th, 1992 ? ? ? ? 1988 - 2009 : 21 Years of Cover Up and Witches Hunt : " No Woman in life of Innocent = Marriage of Innocent Without Physical Intimacy "? ? ? 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Writes Leo Odera Omolo In kisumu City INFORMATION emerging from Dar Es Salaam reveals that the Tanzania government is presently reviewing a number of policies and legislation on its game hunting blocks countrywide. Under the Wildlife Convention Act 2009,,the government will have a greater say over the allocation of game hunting concession {{{blocks},tenure or period of hunting blocks in view of local, partnership and foreign owned firms Tourism and Natural Resources Minister Shamsa Mwangunga was last week quoted by the press as saying. that there will be a new set-up for professional hunting with regard to the t ratio fee rates between Tanzania and foreigners and agreement with authorized associations to enhance performance of the hunting.. Ms Mwangunga said the current licenses will expire on December 21,2009,paving the way for the allocation of hunting blocks in mid 2010. ?While the principal legislation has been accepted by the President of the Republi c of Tanzania, we are in the process of reviewing the hunting regulation so as to ensure a smooth conduct of trophy hunting, ?she added. According to the Minister, safari hunting has been conducted in a poor way for many years, thus the need for a revenue, particularly of safari package and hunting period so as attract more clients, revenue and profits of the wildlife resources. Revenue from wildlife hunting in Tanzania rose to USD 19..34 million as from USD 14.7 million in 2007. The Tanzania Professional Hunting Associations has meanwhile pledged to sponsor two young students for a specialized course in professional hunting at the Mweka College The association?s chairman Mr Muhsin Abdullah was recently quoted as saying that the aims is to have local professional hunters who will meet the standards acceptable in the industry, both locally and internationally.. The government estimates to collect a USD 18 million revenue from hunting this season, down from an earlier projection of USD 27.8 million hunting .This was after it decided to slash hunting fees by 54 per cent from USD 50,000 to USD 27,000 per person, losing a total of USD 9.,8 million during the 2008 hunting season. Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Former UN chief Kofi Annan has challenged African leaders over the position and existence of the International Criminal Court, ICC; an institution the latter have dismissed as a fixated machination by the west. His comment came ahead of today's meeting, the 13th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of African Union in Sirte, Libya, to discuss inter alia the 'unorthodox indictment of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir at the ICC.' GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); ? Observers say President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone, who is also in Libya for the meeting, has never made any public statement on recent actions of the embattled court. Meanwhile, for the first time, Mr Annan, one of the continent's diplomatic heavyweights, argued that: "The ICC represents hope for victims of atrocities and sends a message that no one is above the law. That hope and message will be undermined if the African Union condemns the Court because it has charged an African head of state." GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has already set the tone by asking African leaders to consider withdrawing their membership from the International Criminal Court for what he said was "warped justice in favour of Europe." However, getting the African leaders understand and appreciate the relevance of justice in world peace would seem a very tough challenge. But the former UN chief, whose promise of justice and its potential as a deterrent came closer to reality over the course of his ten years as UN Secretary-General, think the African Union should not abandon its promise to fight impunity. He noted that unless indicted war criminals are held to account, regardless of their rank, others tempted to emulate them would not be deterred. "It's also important to remember that the ICC, as a court of last resort, acts only when national justice systems are unwilling or unable to do so. There will be less need for it to protect African victims only when African governments themselves improve their record of bringing to justice those responsible for mass atrocities. "Do these leaders really want to side with the alleged perpetrators of mass atrocities rather than their victims? Is the court's failure to date to answer the calls of victims outside of Africa really a reason to leave the calls of African victims unheeded? In my view, this outcry against justice demeans the yearning for human dignity that resides in every African heart. It also represents a step backward in the battle against impunity." ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. ? This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will never be told the story of Migingo ever again. ? If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you will remain?hanging on the fence the rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that.? This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. ? A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... ? What a shame.......Watch this....... ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ?*********************************************************************************** ? ? M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum Andrew Mwanguhya A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew Mwanguhya You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair at the absence of vegetables. With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your bosses for not increasing your salary. You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its poor quality and down-market presentation. Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that hovered over our planned trip. kibera.jpg Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, judging from his formal dressing. He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal dressing. The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated population density of 2000/hectare. On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at angles only known to drunkards. Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. Ironically, all our clothes were clean. As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway line that connects Kenya to Uganda. This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake Victoria - Migingo Island. Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway line. As if they were trains. Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little left. Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are unattended. Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into union with the thick mud. But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' time. In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two in unison. It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to software, Kibera has it all. We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world differently. And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting Kibera slum. http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Thu Jul 2 07:17:18 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Fwd: Press Advisory/Join us at Historic CAU for WADU Global African Economic Summit Message-ID: <529320.65813.qm@web51909.mail.re2.yahoo.com> --- On Thu, 7/2/09, amenelik at aol.com wrote: From: amenelik at aol.com Subject: Fwd: Press Advisory/Join us at Historic CAU for WADU Global African Economic Summit To: jbatec at yahoo.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 6:38 AM -----Original Message----- From: Amenelik at aol.com To: Amenelik at aol.com; Wadupam at aol.com Sent: Fri, Jun 26, 2009 4:42 am Subject: Press Advisory/Join us at Historic CAU for WADU Global African Economic Summit ? AFRIKA IS CALLING US! World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU) PAN AFRIKAN MOVEMENT (PAM) SUMMIT 2009 Co-Sponsored by the Africana Studies Dept., Clark Atlanta Univ. Co-Conveners:? Dr. Josephine Bradley & Baba Joe Beasley The 109th Anniversary of the formal launching of the ? Pan African Movement. ? July 22-26, 2009, Atlanta GA Clark Atlanta University Economic Self-Determination - for Political & Cultural Rebirth Susu, Markets, Businesses, Trade, Investments, Credit Union, Reparations? The Diaspora 6th Region of a Unites States of Africa U.S.-Global Economic Meltdown; New Scramble for Africa; Case Studies: Genocide Policies; U.S. Militarization of Africa? His Excellency Baba Dudley Thompson, President Attorney, former Ambassador, Pan African Statesman, Living Legend? Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Vice President Special Guest:? Ambassador Madame Amina Salum Ali, African Union Mel Foote (CFA); Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis (NCOBRA); Dr. Ron Daniels (IBW); Dr. James Turner; Dr. Nicholas Aghobou (France); Dr. Shelby Lewis; Baba James Small (OAAU); Nana Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, Dr. Joyce King; Min. Akbar Muhammad (NOI); Baba Mukasa Dada (SNCC/AAPRP); Dr. Ndugu T?Ofori-Atta RHAW/ITC); Line Hilgros (Guadelope); Joe Beasley (RainbowPush/AA), Dr. Josephine Bradley; Queen Nzinga Heru (ASCAC);?John Watusi Branch (ATABA); Dr. Kweku Andoh (Ghana); Prof. Yaa Ngemi (Congo); Nathalie Callede (Canada); Hon. Cynthia McKinney; Baba Kwame Afoh (RNA); Hon. Able Mable (Official); Njere Alghanee (NCOBRA); Dr. Julius Garvey; Bro. Shaka Cousin (AAPRP); Bro. Jawara (Business Leader); Bro. YaYa (Sudan); Bro. Keidi Obi, (Libradio); Bro. Derrick Price (Business Leader); Dr. David Horne, SRDC;? MORE Other Diaspora Council of Elders, Congress & Commissioners Intellectuals; Students; Activists; Officials; Ministers; Educators? Reps of African Governments; Communities; & Organizations? REGISTER FOR THE SUMMIT; ENROLL AS LEADER OF WADU WWW.WADUPAM.ORG/404-527-7756/404-822-2049 ................. ??? PRESS ADVISORY ???????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????? June 21, 2009?? ??????????? ? ??WADU Set for Pan African Diaspora Economic Summit, July 2009 http://www.wadupam.org/ ? The World African Diaspora Union (WADU) is inviting Africans from across the world to participate in the Summit celebrating the 109th anniversary of the Pan African Movement. The theme for the WADU 2009 Summit is Economic Self-Determination - for Cultural and Political Rebirth. The Summit will be held at the historic Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, GA from July 22-26, 2009. ? The Summit will be an assembly of Pan African leaders, community activists, business leaders, educators, ministers, students and officials from across the African Diaspora and from Africa meeting?to?commit to a common agenda for African economic self-reliance. The Summit will focus on ways and means of developing African traditional and contemporary local and global businesses, investments and trade enterprises. The Summit will also explore and engage issues such as: The united states of Africa; The New Scramble & Militarization of Africa; the Effects Global Economic Meltdown on African people; and the African Diaspora as the sixth region of Africa. ? Some of the Summit speakers are His Excellency Dudley Thompson, legendary Pan Africanist; Ambassador Amina Ali of the African Union; Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Mel Foote of the Constituency for Africa; Prof. James Small of the Organization of Afro-American Unity; Min. Akbar Muhammad of the Nation of Islam; Dr. Nicholas Agbohou of France; Queen Nzinga Heru of ASCAC; Nana Yaa Farika of the Rastafari Movement; Dr. Ron Daniels of the Institute of the Black World; QM Dorothy Lewis of NCOBRA; Mukasa Dada of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party/Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); Joe Beasley of the RainbowPush Coalition/Africa Ascension; The Honorable Cynthia McKinney; Dr. Line Hilgros of Guadeloupe; The Honorable Able Mable of Atlanta; Dr. Julius Garvey, son of the late Marcus Garvey; Nana Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, former president of Lincoln University; Dr. Josphine Bradley, Chair of the Africana Studies at CAU; Dr. Joyce King of Georgia State University, Dr. James Turner, Director of Africana Studies?at Cornell University; Dr. Shelby Lewis, Africa Consultant and Dr. David Horne, SRDC. Also participating are other ambassadors, faith leaders, entrepreneurs, officials, community activists and students. ? For more information on the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) Summit from July 22-26, 2009 in Atlanta, GA, please visit our website at WADUPAM.ORG or call us at 404-527-7756. ? Dell Summer Savings: Cool Deals on Popular Laptops - Shop Now! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 5508 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Thu Jul 2 04:22:22 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (jbatec at yahoo.com) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 01:22:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya Message-ID: <264033.7778.qm@web51906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. ? This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will never be told the story of Migingo ever again. ? If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you will remain?hanging on the fence the rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that.? This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. ? A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... ? What a shame.......Watch this....... ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ?*********************************************************************************** ? ? M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum Andrew Mwanguhya A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew Mwanguhya You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair at the absence of vegetables. With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your bosses for not increasing your salary. You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its poor quality and down-market presentation. Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that hovered over our planned trip. kibera.jpg Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, judging from his formal dressing. He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal dressing. The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated population density of 2000/hectare. On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at angles only known to drunkards. Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. Ironically, all our clothes were clean. As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway line that connects Kenya to Uganda. This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake Victoria - Migingo Island. Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway line. As if they were trains. Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little left. Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are unattended. Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into union with the thick mud. But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' time. In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two in unison. It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to software, Kibera has it all. We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world differently. And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting Kibera slum. http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Luk at? the chick on the left then check LOST. it was also on CNN ?? ?? --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Charles Buziba wrote: From: Charles Buziba Subject: [YP_Ke] FW: Fwd: FW: Air France Crash-few rarest photo by a passenger To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 4:59 PM I found these photos moving; LAST MOMENTS! ? ? ? ? The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the aircraft, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick.. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole. ? ? These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto ?Alegre . It can be imagined that he was standing during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz. ? salam ? ? ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. 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I have also received positive response from Arinolah, Sungu, Elijah Kombo and 2 friends in US who requests that they not named. That makes the received pledges at Kshs 15.500.00. We are counting on your generous support to save KCDN from being evicted. And with your support, we are paying this bill tomorrow. Kindly follow our request and also view the pictures on our blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com We will always appreciate your support, and truly I believe, Yes we can. Blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi, Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, Email; komarockswatch at yahoo.com, http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Has confirmed that the institution is yet to receive the money, though in the constituency?s CDF Website, the money is purported to have already been disbursed. Koech called on the government to conduct a forensic auditing of the Belgut CDF kitty, saying that there is all the possibility that similar cases faces other institutions, which are the bona fide beneficiaries of the devolving government money.. Hon Charles K Keter is the MP for Belgut and an Assistant Minister for Energy. The MP was not immediately available for comment nor could he be reached via his cellphone..But there is discontent over the mismanagement of CDF in Belguyt with the residents alleging that huge bulk of their money could have gone to the dogs instead of the bona fide socio-economic projects.. Kech said that all along he had no idea of any money having budgeted o0r disbursed to the school in question until last week when he decided to visit the Belgut CDF Website when he bumped on the scam. But as far as the school is concerned no fund has been disbursed towards its expansion, therefore local members of the CDF should come clean over the matter. hey should explain as to where the money was sent and who had received it?. A number of residents of Kiptere Division. Have expressed concern over what one of the local opinion leader described as phantom projects in the Division. They have challenged the chairman of the local CDF committee to explain the discrepancies? in figures of the money appearing in the CDF website and the amount of work put on the ground? There is also allegations that the residents of Kabianga Division, where the MP hails from might undeservedly received the lion?s share as far as the disbursement, budgeting and allocation of the CDF for Belgut is concerned. ?The MP is the patron of the CDF and all other devolved funds issued by the government in aid of the various projects within the locality, there he owed us an explanation as to where is the money dished out of the CDF kitty for Kipsonoi Secondary School?s expansion project,? said Eng Koech. Endsleooderaomolo at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This is our hour of need and we pray that you be there for us, just like you have supported our Initiatives. We will give our last update tomorrow morning. Thank you all and may you have all the blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi, Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, Email; komarockswatch at yahoo.com http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leooderaomolo at yahoo.com Thu Jul 2 10:43:05 2009 From: leooderaomolo at yahoo.com (Leo Odera Omolo) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:43:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] TROUBLE IS BREWING UP IN GWASSI CONSTITUENCY OVER THE NEW DISTRICT Message-ID: <8850.86821.qm@web34308.mail.mud.yahoo.com> TENSION IS BUILDING UP IN SINDO FOLLOWINTG AN ATTEMPT BY THE GWQASSI MP TO RELOCATE DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS TO A NEW SITE. Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Mbita Town. TENSION is building up between the two communities in Suba district over the relocation of the administrative offices from Gingo in Kakisingri to Magunga Divisional headquarters in Gwassi Central Location. Gingo which isa next to the small beach town of Sindo is the gazette district headquarters. It has already have facilities such as ultra modern district hospital, modern offices for the Country Council of Suba and nearly all the offices for the district heads of department Before district headquarters for? the government acquired a large track of land by removing close to 5,000 families who were compensated with millions of shillings for their ancestral land. A meeting was held at Gingo the previous week during which time the two communities agreed that the headquarter stay where it is at the present time and that it is the Mbita district headquarters, which should be moved to Mbita Point own, to cater for the residents of the newly created district. The area MP John Mbadi had attended the leaders meeting when Gindo was endorsed as the new headquarters by the leaders. But on Tuesday, a deadly rumor started spreading like bush fire that the government has changed its mind in preference of Magung Divisional headquarters toi mbe made the new ?headquarters. The rumors caused a lot of tension. The government on its part must address the issue. to its best conclusion before the matter went out of hand. This is how a situation, which is similar to the one prevailing in Kuria? East.. A resident Prof Medo M9isama pleaded with the government to resolve the issue urgently to avoid bloodshed. He government must move in and 6he matter sorted out amicably because the ?threatening situation which has built up as the result of simply rumors. Residents have accused the area MP of conspiring with the Office of the President in Nairobi in a vain attempt to have the district headquarters changed from Gingo to Magunga.This is an attempt to deprive and deny the people of their rights. Ends Leooderaomolo#yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From memberservices at anacweb.org Fri Jul 3 01:12:29 2009 From: memberservices at anacweb.org (memberservices at anacweb.org) Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:12:29 -0700 Subject: [Jambo] MARTIN OKAFOR EMERGES ANAC CHAIRMAN, AKEEM BELLO OUT Message-ID: <20090702221229.ad1f58ba49f852f53d44274d3e858974.8adca51034.wbe@email.secureserver.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Thu Jul 2 11:15:58 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] SOS Thank you Dr Matunda, Dr Ochuodho & Friends of KCDN Message-ID: <101087.93341.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends, We just made a special and urgent request for support this morning, and I am happy that Mr. Lenny Amolo [3k], Dr Shem Ochuodho [2.5k], Mr Maurice Odenyo [2k], Mr Sam Olendo [2k], Dr Matunda Nyanchama [$100], have responded immediately. I have also received positive response from Arinolah, Sungu, Elijah Kombo and 2 friends in US who requests that they not named. That makes the received pledges at Kshs 15.500.00. We are counting on your generous support to save KCDN from being evicted. And with your support, we are paying this bill tomorrow. Kindly follow our request and also view the pictures on our blogspot; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com We will always appreciate your support, and truly I believe, Yes we can. Blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi, Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, Email; komarockswatch at yahoo.com, http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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At our darkest hour, or so we thought, we asked and knocked on doors. We were astonished at how swift the response was. ? Many Friends of KCDN, people whom we have never met with, but Friends who believe in and support the kind of work we are struggling with, responded by promising and sending help. This is how we stand as at now; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 cash 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 cash 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 cash 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 Mpesa 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 sent already via MoneyGram ? We have also received communication from 2 Friends of KCDN in the US, and also from Ms Arinolah, Mr. Otieno Sungu, Mr. Elijah Kombo, Ms Pamela Butalanyi, Mr. George Nyongesa and Oloo Janak of their support. We will communicate all the details by end of day. ? Our target is raising Kshs 53,730.00 and we have all the confidence that many more persons and institutions will come forward to give as support. ? On behalf of KCDN, I want to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all Friends of KCDN. You have been there for us all the times. We draw our strength from your support. ? Many thanks and blessings, ? Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, Email; komarockswatch at yahoo.com http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sharonewetu at yahoo.com Thu Jul 2 11:40:27 2009 From: sharonewetu at yahoo.com (Rhoune Willis) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Air France Crash Photos -Beware this ia a hoax! Message-ID: <72192.44452.qm@web35901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> The mid air collision discussed in this email forward really did happen. In September 2006, a collision occurred between a Gol Airlines 737 and an Embraer Legacy business jet over the Amazon in South America. The 737 crashed into the jungle with the loss of all passengers and crew. Although damaged, the smaller jet was able to continue to a nearby airport and land safely without injuries to those on board. However, the photographs that travel with this email do not depict the doomed Gol Airlines 737 and the cover story about a recovered digital camera memory stick is untrue. The images are taken from an air crash sequence featured in the popular television series, Lost. Fans of the drama series will quickly recognize the woman using the oxygen mask in the left of the pictures as "Kate" (Evangeline Lilly), one of Lost's pivotal characters. The slumped figure beside her is "Edward Mars" (Fredric Lehne) the U.S. Marshal who was escorting Kate back to the United States as his prisoner. Kate's status as a prisoner is shown by her handcuffs, which are clearly visible in the images. Virtually identical images of Kate and the Marshal during the crash sequence can be seen in this Lost promotional video and elsewhere on the Internet: Unlike many such hoaxes, the origin of this one can be clearly identified. The hoax was launched by Mr. Carlos Cardoso, a Brazilian Blogger who posted the story on his blog on 26th October 2006. In a followup post, Cardoso explains that he added the fake story to prove how people often only read the first part of a text and are apt to believe such stories in spite of obvious clues that they are untrue. He has certainly proved his point. Although Cardoso included a link in his original post to an article explaining that the entry was a hoax, the story escaped into Cyberspace and began circulating via email and other means. The fake story has now spread around the world. Many recipients have apparently forwarded the message in the mistaken belief that the images are genuine photographs of the Brazilian air collision disaster. Unfortunately, the message is likely to continue circulating and duping readers for months or even years to come. Kind regards, Rhoune Willis. For qualitative and quantitative research services contact IMPACT RESEARCH INITIATIVE (IRI) through; impactresearchgroup at gmail.com We provide research consultation, design, support, analysis and training in softwares like (STATA, Epi-Info, SPSS, En-vivo, Endnote and Reference manager etc). Get in touch with us through; The Director, CENTER FOR AFRICAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (CAfRD) Mob: +254 (0) 733 969 790 or Mob: +254 (0) 750 969 790 Email: CAfRD.Nairobi at gmail.com --- On Thu, 7/2/09, prosii wrote: From: prosii Subject: [YP_Ke] Air France Crash-few rarest photo by a passenger To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:55 AM Just for your info these photos are form the series LOST. The air france fell usiku na this is a daytime photo. Luk at? the chick on the left then check LOST. it was also on CNN ?? ?? --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Charles Buziba wrote: From: Charles Buziba Subject: [YP_Ke] FW: Fwd: FW: Air France Crash-few rarest photo by a passenger To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 4:59 PM I found these photos moving; LAST MOMENTS! ? ? ? ? The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers in the aircraft, just after the collision and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick.. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole. ? ? These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains in Serra do Cachimbo. Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto ?Alegre . It can be imagined that he was standing during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. 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We know more than we can reveal but if Kenya?s history is any indication, the PM is yet one of those who cannot account for their wealth. That said, here are the sins, if you wanna call call it that, I think my friend Judy is referring to: It is a sin to amass all that wealth on the backs of the poor through fraudulent conveyance as Raila did with the Molasses plant in Kisumu. Even the locals whose land the plant sit on were asked to contribute to the acquisition and promised a 5% equity in the plant, the Odingas became the majority shareholders and partnered with a European company to start production and the company became a source of immense wealth?most concentrated on the Odingas; the community, who actually owned the plant? still live in squalor! (remember the Molasses plant was a Cooperative endeavor started by the late Dr. Robert Ouko to benefit the Luo community as a whole and not just the Odingas), So if that is what you refer to as hard work or truthful, perhaps you need to review your facts again ? ?It is a sin to lead a people in perpetual darkness! Let?s face it, the PM is a popular man because of his charisma but more so because of his family name. Most, if not all Kenyans revered the patriarch Jaramogi O.Odinga and yet in the 15 or so the PM has been MP of Langata, the only thing I have heard him brag about is that he is the MP of ?Africa?s largest slum? which unfortunately is inhabited largely by Luos who follow him loyally, I mean it is almost as if the entire community would jump off a cliff with the PM if he did order them to; are you here now telling us that in all that time the PM has been an MP and became a Billionaire, he couldn?t figure some way to uplift some, not all, but some in Kibera? Point to one notable development initiative by PM Odinga for his people bearing in mind he wants to be president of the entire republic, name one! Give us some reference point my friend that we can emulate nationally. You get my point? It is a sin to hoodwink an entire population almost to the brink of self destruction; the PM Odinga is the epitome of the proverbial ?cutting the nose to spite the face? because he single handedly led a revolt that brought so much destruction and disruption to so many people in an otherwise peaceful nation. He did it to get a head, not many Luos are benefiting from Odinga?s self elevation and yet they died to get him his position, he elevated his brother and just as recently as last week, his sister to the Consular General to the US, tell me he couldn?t get a more qualified and deserving young Luo man/woman in kibera to serve in that position and skip his Chemistry Professor sister who probably was doing OK to begin with! I mean whose interests do you really think the PM is serving? YOURS? REALLY?! ? It is a sin to reward people whom you know have blood in their hands. Raila knew he was making a deal with the devil when he aligned himself with the likes of Ruto in misguided hopes of capturing the presidency. Ruto was a snake and Raila knew, Ruto turned on President Moi even when it was clear Ruto owes Moi his very political existence. What was he thinking to sanction such a murderous character to start the evil they committed against innocent Kenyans? Raila has a record of ?breaking up? stuff anywhere he goes, he broke up his father?s party, broke up his own LDP, broke up ODM, brought up MAJIMBO as a way to divide and rule Kenya; Raila has now backed himself into a corner and as hard as he tries to get extricate himself, the Rutos of the world are gunning after him, point being, we as a nation must say no to such blatant and felonious machinations by our leaders, we shouldn?t allow ourselves to be guinea pigs and our country to be a laboratory for all these foolish experiments; it is the kind of stuff that has continually sank our nation in rot for decades and we shouldn?t continue to enable it any more. ? Judy: ? I don?t know what to say to you but I am inclined to think that somehow you have had an epiphany about Raila; be that as it may, I would hate to be the one piling up on the PM but I must ask you; what took you so long to see these things? I mean the evidence has been there; did you not know or have you been following blindly and following the masses as is the trade mark with Kenyans? Perhaps if we all spoke up sooner, some of the harm and damage we as a nation are suffering may have been avoided?have you seen the news lately and what Raila?s appointees are up to, i.e. Prof.. Sambili and ODM Chairman Kosgey? I mean the old Professor?MOI text book stuff is back under raila?s leadership, replacing competent staff with fellow Kalenjins without following any rules or procedures; what about Ruto in agriculture starving the nation and giving the tendering contracts to his kinsmen; and please don?t tell me PM odinga is not aware of what is going on or that he didn?t sanction it; he allowed it, he practices it and that his definition of leadership?who wants to vote for this? --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: From: Mark Kiyaka Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 8:17 AM It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it. I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of > it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and > powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done > deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the > loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > will remain?hanging on the fence the > rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration > and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM > Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > ?*********************************************************************************** > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > Andrew Mwanguhya > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > Mwanguhya > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair > at the absence of vegetables. > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > hovered over our planned trip. > kibera.jpg > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, > judging from his formal dressing. > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > dressing. > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > population density of 2000/hectare. > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at > angles only known to drunkards. > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > line. As if they were trains. > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little > left. > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > unattended. > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into > union with the thick mud. > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' > time. > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two > in unison. > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to > software, Kibera has it all. > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > differently. > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting > Kibera slum. > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Fri Jul 3 06:43:38 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 03:43:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Apprecition from KCDN Message-ID: <756751.58376.qm@web31403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 3rd July 2009 ? Dear Friends of KCDN, ? For God said, ?Ask, and you will be given; knock and the door shall be opened unto you?. ? Those words are very true. At our darkest hour, or so we thought, we asked and knocked on doors. We were astonished at how swift the response was. ? Many Friends of KCDN, people whom we have never met with, but Friends who believe in and support the kind of work we are struggling with, responded by promising and sending help. This is how we stand as at now; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 cash 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 cash 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 cash 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 Mpesa 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 sent already via MoneyGram ? We have also received communication from 2 Friends of KCDN in the US, and also from Ms Arinolah, Mr. Otieno Sungu, Mr. Elijah Kombo, Ms Pamela Butalanyi, Mr. George Nyongesa and Oloo Janak of their support. We will communicate all the details by end of day. ? Our target is raising Kshs 53,730.00 and we have all the confidence that many more persons and institutions will come forward to give as support. ? On behalf of KCDN, I want to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all Friends of KCDN. You have been there for us all the times. We draw our strength from your support. ? Many thanks and blessings, ? 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I have been following some of her comments on this forum which she always signs off as "Diapora Spokesperson "and i must say some are really disturbing! The Kenyan diaspora is a really large population spread all over the world and it is such a bammer that some lone ranger somewhere declares herself our spokes person and goes ahead to write some ridiculous statements! Anyway to cut the long story short Ms.Mariga since you are "an socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless" according to of your threads!I wonder WHY? you attempt to intimidate and even insult Janet with the below e-mail for questioning the LEGITIMACY of your title.Secondly this is a young professionals forum to exchange ideas, thoughts and resources in a civil manner!If you get jittery and start hurling insults just because someone is not in agreement with you i am tempted to think you are in the wrong place! Thank you Edell Otieno Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:28 AM --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Janet mafunga wrote: Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ? ? ? ? From: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:23 AM Now sometimes?I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as Kenyans in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title and didnt get an answer or did?I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a chairman, treasurer etc? It would be nice to know if we in Diaspora have such a committee to represent our views etc. ? Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do you give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out and why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and all.... you still think this way.. Hmmmm ? For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having gone through PEV it needs to start from ourselves. ? Janet --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: From: Mark Kiyaka Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:17 PM It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it. I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of > it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and > powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done > deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the > loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > will remain?hanging on the fence the > rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration > and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM > Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > ?*********************************************************************************** > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > Andrew Mwanguhya > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > Mwanguhya > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair > at the absence of vegetables. > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > hovered over our planned trip. > kibera.jpg > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, > judging from his formal dressing. > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > dressing. > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > population density of 2000/hectare. > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at > angles only known to drunkards. > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > line. As if they were trains. > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little > left. > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > unattended. > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into > union with the thick mud. > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' > time. > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two > in unison. > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to > software, Kibera has it all. > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > differently. > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting > Kibera slum. > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON ?LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From domega8 at yahoo.com Fri Jul 3 07:06:03 2009 From: domega8 at yahoo.com (D Omega) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 04:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [NicoNtumba_JusticeCampaign]:Rule of Law/Fairness Message-ID: <994189.51617.qm@web38507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ? ? ? ?A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess ?? ? ???? ? ? ? Dear friend / supporter ; ? Re: Nico Ntumba Inquiry :? Innocent Mistaken for Security Agent in 1988 ; still subjected with his whole Family ( Spouse , Elderly Mother , Brothers , Sisters , Nieces, Nephews, In-Laws etc...) to arbitray restrictions on Marriage ; Couple's Normal Intimate life ; Association , Fellowship ,? Medias , Counsel , Communications , Travels for Loved Ones, career , Business etc ) Extreme Violation of Basic Rights Freedoms?( News BlackOut ) ?? ? ? ? ? ? Open Letter Written to British Premier John Major by INMC International Network Against Mind Control on Behalf of Nico Ntumba ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----- Stockholm October 1992 Prime Minister John Major British Government London SW1A 0AA England ? ? Dear Sir, ? Our international network of researchers has for several years been engaged in investigations into mind control and its widespread utilisation around the world, and we have become aware of several victims in Great Britain. Reports received from exploited individuals refer to mental hospitals, police authorities and prisons among the state institutions involved in the implantation of transmitters, electrodes and radio-transmitter crystals in the people. The use of mind control is such a grave encroachment on civil liberties that, if allowed to develop further, it will threaten the freedom and integrity of all. Along with environment problems, this is one of the most urgent issues to address if we are to ensure a more secure future. [...] Just what happened to Mr Ntumba, he described himself in a letter to us: "Concerning the brain transmitter in my head, it has been performing without my knowledge or consent?What?s very outrageous is that I am sharing all my vision, thoughts, dreams, hearings, etc with people around me, as the security services are engaging in a large scale propaganda drive to smear my character, background, emotions and motives?I have no privacy at all? I am not a spy, I am not a criminal, and I am not a terrorist. Being an innocent victim of the ...[?] my persecution started in June 1988". ? What is more, there?s no reason to suspect the validity of what he writes; we are overburdened with letters such as this one from the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand inter alia, and our investigations in Sweden reveal a terrifying reality where the mental services, police authorities and hospitals implant radio-transmitting devices in people?s heads and brains. This reality is exposed by a vast amount of X-ray material to be a chilling and gloomy vision of the future, stage-managed for decades by the security forces in collaboration with medical and psychiatrist institutions, who together have created a secret power which transcends law and order, and which is beyond intrusive public control. ? Brain to computer radio communication has long been considered impossible by the majority of people, and has consequently been relegated to science-fiction, but the fact is that the technology had been developed into reality by at least the 1960s, during which time the initial experiments were being performed on unwitting subjects. The system has at different times been called Intra Cerebral Mind Control, ESB or Electronic Stimulation of Brain, Biological Radio communications or Bio-medical telemetry, and in both the eastern and western worlds it's the prevailing system of mind control, creating unlimited possibilities to influence and charge an individual ?s behaviour patterns and personality. By means of two-way radio communication, called telemetric or remote control, an electromagnetic wave can be sent on a return trip to a receiver/ transmitter (transceiver) located under the skull or in the brain; this signal records the activity of the brain and returns it to a computer for analysis, from which aspects of the subject's life can be exposed. Radio transmitter crystals which when injected into the bloodstream fasten themselves to the brain have under development for decades. They work on the same principles as a normal transmitter, use the same technology and contain the same possibilities. ? To analyse an EEG in a computer instead of a conventional printer provides an entirely fresh perspective on the conclusions which can be drawn, and gives a whole new perspective on what can be concluded. Cognitive manifestations and activity such as thoughts and visual impressions or emotional, behaviour and psychological reactions can continually be registered, making it possible for the secret police authorities, medical scientists, and the state to observe an individual in a deeper and more comprehensive way than they could possibly do to themselves. Through analysis and manipulation by the computer, it is even possible to provoke changes in an individual?s physical mental status. The potential of intracerabral remote control is limited only by the imagination of the investigator, especially when it is remembered that, since these frequencies travel at the speed of light, the system of control is not constraint by matters of range. ? Concerning the case of Mr Ntumba, it is obvious that there is simply no justification for implanting the mind transmitter, whether for police surveillance or psychiatric research. We feel, furthermore, that this is yet another example of human rights violation as defined under the CSCE 1080-83 Madrid conference, and as embodied in the Final Act of Helsinki. We also wish to note that such activities are also in contravention of several agreements endorsed by Great Britain, within the United Nations system, including in particular the International Bill of Human Rights, and articles 3, 4, 5, and 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ? The use of mind control techniques has in fact fostered a new relationship between the state and the citizenry, in which many human rights, as prescribed under the United Nation?s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are violated. In particular we turn to Article 3, which states that all people are given the right to life, liberty, and integrity. This is clearly violated by such mind control experimentation, and the very subjection of an individual?s brain to medical research, behaviour modification experiments, and mind control itself is in contravention of Article 4, which decrees that no one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Explicitly violated is Article 5, which states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Nor shall anyone without their approval be utilised for medical or scientific experiments" . Finally, since such mind control techniques transmit an individual?s privacy to the state, Article 12, which defends the rights of privacy against arbitrary intereference, also ceases to be valid. ? X - R A Y P I C T U R E expected soon ? Recently we received some X-ray pictures from Mr Ntumba, and our medical experts in Stockholm have examined those of his skull and can confirm that a transmitter has been implanted in his left nostril. Furthermore, it can be seen that the electrodes placed in the occipital lobe are blocking the bloodflow behind their delimitation where oxygen depletion is caused, and this is seen as well in his frontal brain just above the implanted transmitter. Among the changes caused by the frequencies affecting his brain, the reduced oxygen levels have induced an alteration of neurological functions, impaired cognitive abilities, including that of memory. Moreover he has obviously been anaesthesized without his knowledge so that this implantation could be performed. ? By the 1970?s, Samuel Chavkin, the American newspaper publisher whose papers had a medical inclination, and who was highly aware of social trends, was writing, "Telemetrics for the surveillance of every citizen is on the drawing boards? mind control techniques could become standard equipment for government, penal and police institutions in the near future". Further aspects of this technology have come to light from researchers such as J.M Delgado, who writes in his book," Physical Control of the Mind ": "By electric stimulation of specific cerebral structures, movements can be induced by radio command, hostility may appear or disappear, social hierarchy can be modified, sexual behaviour may be changed, and memory, emotions and the thinking process may be influenced [...] Transmitters have no batteries, are actived by radio and can be used for life." Popular scientist Carl Sagan wrote in " The Dragons of Eden that he saw the possibility to implant brain electrodes as a strong argument against state control of the health services stating, "People who would allow their government to use electrodes have already lost the battle? when it comes to technology nightmares it is imperative that we see the possibilities, so that people can understand them and prevent their abuse by institution, bureaucrats and governments. " ? Certainly there are many possible ways of evaluating the issue, but it is not difficult to see the direct implications regarding individual freedoms: those which grant a person to live their own life, to choose their own thoughts and opinions, to decide for their own destiny. The question is whether our right to these remain intact, or if our neurological functions should be recorded and submitted to the state with its predetermined and obscure political intentions, through psychiatric advanced software which transforms us into robots. Under mind control, people are forced to become guinea pigs for ruthless researchers' experiments, and the life that once belonged to the individual is now sequestred by medical neuroscience and the state. This technique can recreate people, change their behaviour and values, as well as their characters, opportunities and fates. It is the inner and most important freedom which is threatened, that which during the history of mankind has been obviously and naturally valued highly than suffrage and the temporary political system under which we live. ? [...] We would greatly appreciate a statement regarding your views about this issue, and we urgently press you for all possible assistance which you can give to Mr Ntumba. ? Yours faithfully ? Lennart Lindqvist International Secretary ? Encl. X-ray picture INMC??..Box 136 ?11479 Stockholm?Sweden?Fax +46-8-668 6066 [x] This is the referred X-ray picture of Mr N?Tumba?s occipital lobe and electrodes can clearly be seen blocking the bloodflow behind their delimitation. The X-ray examination was performed at Brook Hospital (Greenwich, London), September 16th, 1992 ? ? ? ? 1988 - 2009 : 21 Years of Fighting for Justice? Help Us Regain our Normal Intimate life as Couple / family . ? ? ? ? We need an Independent Nico Ntumba Inquiry, Now ? 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This is coz if one chooses to undertake the priesthood vows, then u forego the marriage vows. If one breaks the celibacy or any other vow undertaken in the priesthood vows, it is as much as breaking the marriage vows that one undertakes in front of your spouse, the church and God. ? What am I trying to say? ? If one feels that you cannot persevere what it takes to be a RC priest, why take the vows in the first place? If you thought?(meaning it wasn't a God's calling)?you could make it as a priest?and have?miserably failed and?reached to a no return point, just drop it and accept yourself as a looser to the evil one's temptation! But remember, through Christ who strengthens us, we can do all! ? To the priests who are trying to change the rules and the regulations of the Catholic Church, why not just branch and start your own congregation! Branch from the RC faith..just like the Pentecost Churches did...By the way, I respect them Pentecosts and I am one of them... Sounds better to branch than keep on making noise like empty debes...within a very large congregation. ? I stand to be corrected if there is something contradicting that I have mentioned. ________________________________ From: Mwanaharusi Mohamed To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:15:11 PM Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Yeah, I think they should because they are somehow denied their basic human right 'SEX' which is very vital for all human beings. Thank you! --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Mathews wrote: >From: Mathews >Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: >To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com >Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 8:37 AM > > >You tell us! Why you think they should! I believe that will give you the absolute? answer. > >Just curious are you eyeing one? > >Matt > >? >On 7/1/09, naserian beatrice wrote: > >>?should catholic priest marry what do you think? >> >> >> > > >-- >============================= >Mathews O. 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In a trial, a Southern small-town prosecuting attorney called his first witness, a grandmotherly, elderly woman to the stand. He approached her and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know me?" She responded, "Why, yes, I do know you, Mr. Williams. I've known you since you were a young boy, and frankly, you've been a big disappointment to me. You lie, you cheat on your wife, and you manipulate people and talk about them behind their backs. You think you're a big shot when you haven't the brains to realize you never will amount to anything more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you." The lawyer was stunned! Not knowing what else to do, he pointed across the room and asked, "Mrs. Jones, do you know the defense attorney?" She again replied, "Why, yes, I do. I've known Mr. Bradley since he was a youngster, too. He's lazy, bigoted, and he has a drinking problem. He can't build a normal relationship with anyone and his law practice is one of the worst in the entire state. 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Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BC9@mailserver.salafrica.com> There are lot of controversies that Armstrong never landed on moon, They say that It was all a fake story played by nasa. A guy called as collier was about to leave for moon from Russia, And these Americans want to take the pride from the Russians that they where the first one to land on moon, But they really didn't. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE Issue 1 : Since the Moon has only one light source, the Sun, the shadows must be in line. But in this cases, it looks as if there are multiple light sources in moon, which is not possible. Issue 2: The foreground of many images of the astronauts on the Moon are filled in with light, while the shadows remain absolutely black, again proving that there are multiple light sources. Issue 3 : There are no stars in the background from pictures taken on the Moon. Issue 4 : In some images, a huge light source can be seen reflected in the astronaut's visors. This has to be a very bright, nearby source. There is no possibility of external light source in moon. ISSUE 5 - How could NASA take TV images of the LM ascending on Apollo 15, 16, and 17 if there was no one on the Lunar surface to man the camera? ISSUE 6 - There can't be any pictures taken on the Moon because the film would melt in the 250? temperatures. Any film exposed to 250? would indeed melt at that temperature. Issue-7 : The LM engine was very powerful. How come it did not leave a crater below the spacecraft? Why didn't it kick up any dust when it landed? issue 8: The footprints left by the astronauts are proof that the Moon landings are fake. This one is also essentially a two pronged argument. First, the Fox show charged that the LM engine was so powerful that the upper layer of dust should have been blown away around the LM, so there should not be any footprints. 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If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice." 1. Pray 2. Go to bed on time. 3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed. 4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health. 5. Delegate tasks to capable others. 6. Simplify and unclutter your life. 7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.) 8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places. 9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together. 10. Take one day at a time. 11. Separate worries from concerns. If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety. If you can't do anything about a situation, forget it. 12. Live within your budget 13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buried in the garden, extra stamps, etc. 14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of advice can prevent an enormous amount of trouble. 15. Do something for the Kid in You everyday. 16. Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in line. 17. Get enough rest. 18. Eat right. 19. Get organized so everything has its place. 20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality of life. 21. Write down thoughts and inspirations. 22. Every day, find time to be alone. 23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip small problems in the bud. Don't wait until it's time to go to bed to try and pray. 24. Make friends with Godly people. 25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand. 26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair and hope is often a good "Thank you Jesus." 27. Laugh. 28. Laugh some more! 29. Take your work seriously 30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best they can). 31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most). 32. Sit on your ego. 33. Talk less; listen more. 34. Slow down. 35. Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe. 36 . Every night before bed, think of one thing you're grateful for that you've never been grateful for before. GOD HAS A WAY OF TURNING THINGS AROUND FOR YOU. "If God is for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31) From hillary at salafrica.com Fri Jul 3 08:28:10 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:28:10 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] Some Facts On Diamond Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BBF@mailserver.salafrica.com> Diamond Diamond Carat Weight Carat weight is the weight of the diamond measured in carats. One carat is divided into 100 "points," so that a diamond of 75 points weighs 0.75 carats. Carat weight is the most obvious factor in determining the value of a diamond. But two diamonds of equal carat weights can have very different prices, depending on their quality. Diamonds of high quality can be found in all size ranges. Since diamonds are measured by carat weight, and not size, two diamonds of the same weight could have different sizes. Why? If a diamond is cut too shallow (or flat) it will have a larger diameter, but shallow depth and appear larger. Likewise, if a diamond is cut too deep (or pointed) it will have a smaller diameter and deep depth and appear smaller. This is why cut is so important. You want to make sure the diamond is cut to proper proportions. Not only does it make a large difference in the diamond's ability to reflect light, but a poorly cut diamond will not be proportionate in size to a diamond cut to proper specifications. For example, let's say you're interested in a 1.00ct diamond solitaire with a table of only 49%, the diamond will be cut way too steep and will look like a 0.80ct diamond instead. Diamond Clarity Diamond Clarity is a measure of a diamond's internal flaws and impurities. A diamond that is virtually free of interior or exterior inclusions (commonly reffered to as flaws) is of the highest quality, for nothing interferes with the passage of light through the diamond. To determine a diamond's clarity, it is viewed under 10x magnification by a trained gemologist. Small inclusions neither mar its beauty nor endanger its durability. Flawless - No internal or external flaws. Internally Flawless - No internal flaws. Very rare and beautiful diamonds which are quite expensive. VVS1, VVS2 - Very, Very Slightly Included: Very difficult to see inclusions under 10x magnification. An excellent quality diamond. VS1, VS2 - Very Slightly Included: Inclusions are not visible to the unaided eye. Less expensive than the VVS1 or VVS2 grades. SI1, SI2 - Slightly Included: Inclusions are visible under 10x magnification, SI clarity diamonds are usually of the best value since inclusions are not visible to the naked eye and prices are reasonable when compared to prices of the VS2 clarity and up grades. SI3 - Slightly Included-EGL: SI3 is an EGL grade and is not recognized by GIA or other gemological institutions. It may be graded by GIA as either SI2 or I1. SI3 diamonds never have any black inclusions or cracks visible to the naked eye, but may have some very minor white inclusions which can be seen with the naked eye. I1 - Included: an I1 clarity diamond will have a visible flaw which can be seen with the naked eye, but there should only be one major flaw which is not too obvious. If your budget only allows for an SI3 or I1 clarity diamond, be sure to examine it thouroughly before purchasing and make sure you can not see any inclusions. I2, I3 - Included: These diamonds will have inclusions visible to the naked eye, and will have many black spots from the black inclusions and appear cloudy from the white inclusions, feathers and cracks. Diamond Color The diamond color grading scale varies from totally colorless to light yellow. The differences between one diamond color grade and another are very subtle and difficult to distinguish. D-F : Colorless: perfect or almost perfect color. G-J : Near colorless: good to very good color, and this diamond may "face up" colorless when mounted, especially in white gold or platinum. K-M : Light but noticeable yellow or brown tint. Not recommended for larger diamond stone purchases, especially in engagement rings. Out of the 4 C's, color and cut are the two most important characteristics of a diamond. Do not compromise on color. An "H" color or better is usually best. Diamond Cut Many people confuse diamond cut with the shape of a diamond. Most diamonds are cut round with a full 58 facets, and a good cut, or make, has more scintillation, more sparkle. Although the cut of the diamond may affect the value of the diamond, the shape, is largely a matter of personal preference and does not affect the value significantly. It is the work of a master cutter that allows the diamond to be cut in such a way as to permit the maximum amount of light to be reflected through the diamond, and that's a great reflection on you. It is the cut that enables a diamond to make the best use of light. For more about the cut of our diamonds, please see the next section below. 1. When a diamond is cut to good proportions, light is reflected from one facet to another and then dispersed through the top of the stone. 2. If the cut of the diamond is too deep, some light escapes through the opposite side of the pavilion. 3. If the cut is too shallow, light escapes through the pavilion before it can be reflected. Ideal Cut Diamonds So what is Ideal Cut? Everyone has their own opinion on what Ideal is. Some people prefer a diamond to have a somewhat larger table, say around 60%, so the diamond "looks" bigger, some want the Tolkowsky Ideal cut, as calculated in the early 20th century by mathematician Markov Tolkowsky. The diagram below describes the Class 1 and 2 grades of GIA. They are the largest body in the world for diamond grading, and we use their classifications to grade our diamonds. Class 1 is Ideal. Class 2 is Very Fine, Class 3 is Fair, and Class 4 is Poor. We do not sell Class 3 or 4 diamonds. All diamonds we sell that are 0.50ct or larger on this website fall into the GIA's definition of "Ideal - Very Fine" Class, and are as follows: Please keep in mind that diamonds other than round brilliant do not always have their cuts measured in such detail because they are classified as "fancy cut" diamonds and have very loose tolerances. For more information regarding our "fancy cut" diamond specifications, please contact us. When buying a diamond, especially a round brilliant cut diamond, it is always best to have a complete analysis of cut. This will tell you all the specifications of the diamond's cut such as table percentage, depth percentage, etc., usually obtained from a scope (or megascope). Ask your jeweler for this report on cut if you are making a large diamond purchase. Please visit our fancy shape diamond specifications page for other shapes besides round brilliant. Diamond Grading and Gemological Reports There are a variety of Gemological Institutes that appraise diamonds and issue Diamond Gemological Reports, measure and certify loose diamonds and diamond jewelry. Depending on your region, there are a number of reputable companies including the following listed below. HRD - Hoge Raad Voor Diamant (The Diamond High Council). The officially recognised representative of the Belgium diamond trade and industry. HRD headquarters are located in Antwerp, World Diamond Center. GIA - Gemological Institute of America. Founded in 1931 in Los Angeles, the GIA created and introduced the international grading system. Headquarters are still located in Los Angeles. IGI - International Gemmological Institute. The oldest institute of its kind in Antwerp. Set up in 1975 with labs in New York, Bangkok, Mumbai and Tokyo GemScan - GemScan International was incorporated in 1985 as an independent jewellery appraisal laboratory providing gem identification. Gemscan is based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. AGS - American Gem Society Founded in 1934 by Robert M. Shipley who also founded the GIA. The AGS is based in Nevada, USA. EGL - European Gemological Laboratory. EGL was originally opened in Antwerp in 1974, and now has laboratories in Antwerp, New York Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Paris, London, Israel and Seoul Round Brilliant - Do not confuse with round. The round brilliant is the modern version of the round which has been refined for maximum shine. The round brilliant is by far the most popular and has the best angles for which to shine maximum brilliance. Oval - Not as popular for solitaires, but very popular for three stone anniversary rings, with two matching diamonds on the sides. Princess - A square cut diamond that has refractive properties almost near round brilliant. The princess is the preferred square cut shape over radiant. Emerald - A more traditional shape, the emerald is not as popular as it used as it once was, but has an old world elegance to it. Radiant - Popular before the princess shape was around, the radiant has more facets than a princess, but has the corners trimmed like the emerald shape. 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A scheduled appearance by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was abruptly cancelled. The substance of this summit on Libya's Mediterranean seacoast has been largely overshadowed by the personalities attending, and those who are not. News on the eve of the meeting was that Iran's President Ahmedinejad had been invited. On opening day, the headline was that Mr. Ahmedinejad had abruptly cancelled because of what were called program priorities. Some western and African diplomats are known to have privately expressed annoyance at the Iranian leaders' attendance, saying it would have been a distraction from the summit's important business. Moammar Gadhafi speaks during 21st summit of NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development) Steering Committee in Syrte, 30 Jun 2009The host, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi made no mention of Mr. Ahmedinejad's absence in his brief opening address. Instead, he issued a call to Caribbean countries to join the union, saying their people are Africans. Other big name cancellations included Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Among those who did show up to share the spotlight with Mr. Gadhafi were Brazil's President Lula de Silva, who took advantage of the occasion to denounce the coup in Honduras. African notables included Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and South African President Jacob Zuma. The scene prompted some commentators to recall the bad old days when the AU's predecessor, the Organization of African Unity, was known as the Club of Dictators. But veteran AU observer Kenneth Mpyisi of the Institute of Strategic Studies says despite the appearance, the majority of members remain committed, at least in principle, to democratic values. "When you really look deeper at what the AU is doing and what is happening at the regional economic community level, though the progress has not been what we might have expected a number of years ago, it has changed, and it is a work in progress, and next year this time we might be talking about the next summit within a very different context if we are looking at the political leadership of the day," he said. There was news during the day. A statement announced the lifting of sanctions against Mauritania. The AU Peace and Security Council had imposed the sanctions, and suspended Mauritania's membership in the union last August, after the army overthrew the elected president. This three-day summit is due to address other continental hot spots where the outcome remains in doubt. Among them are Somalia, where the transitional government is under siege by hardline Islamic rebels, Guinea and Guinea Bissau, Madagascar and Darfur. Mpyisi says the union is a mixed bag of failed states, countries struggling with democracy, and success stories. "Earlier this year we were talking about the successes of Ghana, Botswana had successful elections, Zambia which had successful elections. When you have others countries which we have already mentioned, and their problems. The real issue lies in how much attention and how much consistency and perseverance we put in strengthening democratic institutions because what we are seeing is we are paying the price for not having paid enough attention to the issues we know are very significant, which is governance and developing and strengthening democratic institutions," he said. The summit's mostly closed door sessions are taking up several thorny issues, among them a proposal to create an African Defense Council. Establishment of the council would be a step toward Mr. Gadhafi's concept of a united Africa. Diplomats say heads of state are sharply divided over the issue. 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Africa: U.S. Wants to Spotlight 'Successful Models' And Be An 'Effective Partner' - Obama 2 July 2009 GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); ? Washington, DC ? Barack Obama makes his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president of the United States next week, following a trip to Russia as well as to Italy, where he will participate in a meeting of industrialized nations known as the G8. AllAfrica's Charles Cobb, Jr., Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman went to the White House to explore President Obama's views on Africa in advance of his visit. The interview took place in the Blue Room.Charles Cobb posed the questions. We asked visitors to our site, allAfrica.com, what they might be interested in with respect to your policy. And as you might imagine, the responses are everywhere: conflict resolution, development issues, trade issues, et cetera. But they and we have one immediate question: How is it that you happened to pick Ghana as the first place to visit in sub-Saharan Africa? Well, part of the reason is because Ghana has now undergone a couple of successful elections in which power was transferred peacefully, even a very close election. I think that the new president, President Mills, has shown himself committed to the rule of law, to the kinds of democratic commitments that ensure stability in a country. And I think that there is a direct correlation between governance and prosperity. Countries that are governed well, that are stable, where the leadership recognizes that they are accountable to the people and that institutions are stronger than any one person have a track record of producing results for the people. And we want to highlight that. And I assume that you'd like to see a lot more 'Ghanas' in Africa. And part of your policy would be, I assume, to encourage that. Absolutely. How?? Well, part of it is lifting up successful models. And so, by traveling to Ghana, we hope to highlight the effective governance that they have in place. Watch AllAfrica's interview with U.S. President Obama. I don't think that we can expect that every country is going to undergo these transitions in the same way at the same time. But we have seen progress in democracy and transparency and rule of law, in the protection of property rights, in anti-corruption efforts. We have seen progress over the last several years; in some cases, though, we're also seeing some backsliding. In my father's own country of Kenya, I'm concerned about how the political parties do not seem to be moving into a permanent reconciliation that would allow the country to move forward. And Kenya is not alone in some of the problems that we've seen of late, post-election or pre-election. And we just want to make sure that people are mindful that this isn't just some abstract notion that we're trying to impose on Africa. There is a very practical, pragmatic consequence to political instability and corruption when it comes to whether people can feed their families, educate their children, and we think that Africa - the African continent is a place of extraordinary promise as well as challenges. We're not going to be able to fulfill those promises unless we see better governance. Do you have priorities in terms of countries or regions? For instance, West Africa is extremely important in terms of oil; East Africa in terms of some of the strategic concerns of the United States? I think the entire continent is important. And keep in mind that although I'm visiting Ghana on this particular trip, we've already had [Prime Minister] Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe in the Oval Office. We've had [President] Kikwete from Tanzania in my office. And in each case, I'm trying to send the same message. You've seen some very good work by the administration in Tanzania focusing on how to deliver concrete services to the people, and wherever folks want to help themselves, we want to be there as a partner. And I think that you've got some very strong leadership in Africa that is ready to move forward and we want to be there with them. On the economic front, that means opening up better trade opportunities. It means that we are interested not just in foreign aid, but in how we strengthen the capacity for development internally in these countries, and we want to work in a multilateral context, as well as the bilateral strengthening of relations with many of these countries. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? But as you point out, there are strategic, national security, economic, environmental reasons why we think this region is important. And part of the reason we wanted to - although we're only going to one country this time, I actually thought that it made sense for us to connect a trip to Ghana to a previous trip with the G8. We'll be meeting a number of African countries in Italy during the G8 meeting - before that, a meeting in Russia - to show that Africa is directly connected to our entire foreign policy approach; that it's not some isolated thing where once every term you go visit Africa for a while to check that box, but rather it's an ongoing part of a broader discussion about how we move many of these international challenges forward. Development assistance will presumably be an important piece of your Africa policy. Now, development assistance is pretty fragmented, whether you look at the United States or you look at it globally, in the sense that varying countries have varying approaches. Now you, more than any President, are associated with using technological tools, and I can't help but wonder if you have thought about using technology to bring some coherence, if you will, like tracking how aid works or where it goes, et cetera. Look, I think you make a very important point, and that is that even just within the U.S. government, our aid policies have been splintered among a variety of agencies, different theories embraced by different people depending on which administration, which party, is in power at any given time. Trying to create something steady and focused - and always basing our policies on what works and not on some ideological previous position is going to be very important. And technology can play a very important role in streamlining our aid to countries, making sure that we're tracking how that aid is being applied, making sure that it's reaching the people it's intended to reach. One of the concerns that I have with our aid policy generally is that western consultants and administrative costs end up gobbling huge percentages of our aid overall. It seems to me that what we should be doing is trying to minimize our footprint and maximize the degree to which we're training people to do for themselves. So I think using the Internet, using software, using modern technology to improve delivery systems is important. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); ? Now, I also think, on the ground, in many of these countries, how we think about not high-tech stuff but low-tech technologies to, for example, improve food production is vitally important. I'm still frustrated over the fact that the green revolution that we introduced into India in the '60s, we haven't yet introduced into Africa in 2009. In some countries, you've got declining agricultural productivity. That makes absolutely no sense. We don't need fancy computers to solve those problems; we need tried and true agricultural methods and technologies that are cheap and are efficient but could have a huge impact in terms of people's day-to-day well-being. In addition, you mentioned a few minutes ago the importance of investment and not just aid. What's the balance between assistance and investment? Most businesses get a bigger return on their investment in Africa than any other part of the world. So should that receive more emphasis than it's been getting? What kind of balance in your mind exists in development assistance? Well, a couple of points I would make. Number one, you're not going to get investment without good governance. So that's part of the reason why we emphasize it. Again, this is a very practical, hard-headed approach to how we're going to see improvements in the daily lives of the peoples of Africa. If government officials are asking for 10, 15, 25 percent off the top, businesses don't want to invest there. That's point number one. Point number two, I think that when my father left Kenya and traveled to the United States back in the early '60s, the GDP of Kenya and South Korea weren't equivalent - Kenya's was actually higher. What's happened over that 50-year period? What you've seen is Korea combine foreign investment, integration with the global economy, with a strategic sense of certain industries that they can promote for export; great emphasis on education for a skilled workforce; insisting that foreign investment is accompanied by technology transferring so that homegrown industries can be built and nurtured. So we've got models out there. We know what it might take. What we haven't seen is a consistent, steady application of some of these models over time in Africa, and I think that now is the time to start. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? Is that a failure of U.S. policy or is that a failure of governance in Africa? I would say that the international community has not always been as strategic as it should have been, but ultimately I'm a big believer that Africans are responsible for Africa. I think part of what's hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we've made excuses about corruption or poor governance; that this was somehow the consequence of neo-colonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism. I'm not a believer in excuses. I'd say I'm probably as knowledgeable about African history as anybody who's occupied my office. And I can give you chapter and verse on why the colonial maps that were drawn helped to spur on conflict, and the terms of trade that were uneven emerging out of colonialism. And yet the fact is we're in 2009. The West and the United States has not been responsible for what's happened to Zimbabwe's economy over the last 15 or 20 years. It hasn't been responsible for some of the disastrous policies that we've seen elsewhere in Africa. I think that it's very important for African leadership to take responsibility and be held accountable. And I think the people of Africa understand that. The problem is that they just haven't always had the opportunities to organize and voice their opinions in ways that create better results. In the last minute or so of our conversation, even though you are really barely into your presidency, I already feel compelled to ask you a legacy question. (Laughter.) And that is: What, when you finish your presidency, do you expect your stamp on Africa policy to be? What do you think that will be? I would like, at the end of my term in office, to be able to say that the United States was an effective partner with countries throughout Africa in building the kinds of institutions, political, civil, economic, that allowed for improving standards of living and greater security for the people of Africa; that we moved them on a trajectory in which they are integrating with the global economy; and that a young person growing up in Johannesburg or Lagos or Nairobi or Djibouti can say to themselves: I can stay here in Africa, I can stay in my country and succeed, and through my success, my country and my people will get stronger. That would be a good legacy. I don't expect that we're going to get there in four years or eight years, but I think we can get on that path. And the United States is a critical partner in that process. I need another hour or so. (Laughter.) But I thank you for your time. Thank you so much. News Article:Ghana Visit to Highlight Effective Governance, Says Obama ? 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Luo Nyanza have elected PM?s in parliament, and therefore you should not wholesomely put all the blame to an individual, however, he is wrong to keep manipulating Kenyans towards accepting the local tribunal instead of The Hague. --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: mugahjoe at yahoo.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jambo at publiceyesite.org, "Milton Alimadi" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com, dhiamby at aol.com, "Sir Williams" , "Lee Makwiny" Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 9:53 PM Joe et all, ? I am not giving desparate expression and as well, I am not a vagabond. I am a married responsible family person sensible, alert and sober. I am a political, socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless, commenting to seek popular?joint input to a solution?from a? spiralling problem.? I am not a wonderer, nor a person of no fixed aboard. I am a person of sound judgement,?equiped with?calculative move to save God's creation from perishing?in poverty.??I am my brothers keeper.? When he hurt, I hurt.? I share the pain of the have nots so we can together find a solution to?serious poverty affecting the whole Kenya and Africa in general.? Poverty is something the poor did not choose, that befell Africa.? It is our responsibility with those in like minds, to plan to?strategize logistics for?means and ways to get Africa from poverty. ? This is an act of calling.? If you are not called to do such, you cannot understand, and so you cannot be a leader.? A leader shares by example and shows the rest the way to do or get things done.? Political Leadership requires that a person solicits for ways and means and together lobby so that his/her Constituency or Community do not starve or lack basic needs, and that they are economically stable.? He must in a popular participation work along his/her Community to prepare a plan for development.? A leader who is incapable of doing this must be challenged you like it or not.? This is the principle of fact. ? PM Raila gets majority votes from both Kibera and Luo Nyanza.? I have every right to challenge him in what I think he is not doing right, or remind him that he needs to do things differently to accommodate CHANGE, that which will bring about improved life style and security.? He truely does not need to dish out his money, but he can afford to employ service oriented personnel to help him manage his Constituency as well as his Community at large. PM Raila must show good leadership.? He must tell us what is going on with Migingo.? Why there are no development funds taken to the Youth and Women for development in both Kibera and Luo Nyanza. Why he is not coordinating effectively with the Professionals, why he feels comfortable eating by himself and his family without consideration of those sunk in poverty?? Why he is doing things in a shoddy way?? Why he does not collaborate and follow with what the masses want?? We want to know why he?keeps pushing people to the wall instead of showing?Love and Caring gesture?? He knows Coalition Government System or Machinery is not working, why does he keep shifting gears and telling a different story from what people see? He also knows that there is no way Local Tribunal cannot work, why does he sticks his gun to remain with Kibaki in the mud? ? This is not a Kibera problem alone, or a Kenyan problem, but a world concern.? ? ? Show Case: PM Raila could have used his position in the coalition to influence pressure in the utilization of Youth Donor Fund, or Women Development Fund dished out by the World Bank or International NGO funding to provide soft loans?for small business entreprises or Trading to improve lives.? He could have utilized the UN funds for Water and Sanitation,?roads, and for agriculture to provide enought food. ? Before Uhuru read the Budget, there were unutilized?big amount balance of funds, that they hurriedly spend carelessly?for unwarranted?needs yet there were some women dying out of hunger, food prices were unaffordable, basic needs were unaccessible, avoidable diseases were killing people aimlessly for lack of drugs. Displaced Persons were ?living in pathetic environment not suitable for human beings. ? These so called reaches are made from corrupt deals, if investigated, the same will be proved to be true.? There are evidence of Donor Funds embezzled by Political Leaders, and using their positions, transferred, and shared public funds in the loot.? This is not news.??This is equally serious crime against humanity. ? In this case, I am not calling for shots here, I am calling for consideration and dialogue. ? PM Raila must be told in no uncertain terms, that this is a CHANGE generation, and we must look at things differently.? He must accept criticism and want to change.? He cannot continue to do things in a shoddy ways and expect people to keep quite.? As a leader, he needs his Constituency and his Community more than anything else. He must be seen to strive for their livelihood.? ? He must work together and motivate professionals not knocking them off or, not just rewarding or making job offers or appointments for his family members, but looking accross the Community for talents and skills and expert characters.? This is because he will need this people again and again as long as he is in leadership. Work alongside and plan with the Youth,?Men and?Women and for Education, Health? giving options for informed sources, so when election comes, people have energy to campaign for his second or third chance.? He must be attentive and be a listener. ? This culture of "ngato ok tal wuod jaduong" is nonsense.? I believe, we have just a few like Joe, and I hope they will catch up with time, when they see things move from a different angle and are taking shape in the process of improving lives of many.? We are tired of seing Africans keep soiling in poverty yet they have the resources that have built the world. ? I am open for challenging critisms and I will respond accordingly, but?will not respond to?insults. I respond because, from this kind of deliberations, we are learning and sharing how we can tackles and find solutions to issues and problems that face us as Kenyans.? It is no longer a problem for Luo, Kalenjin or Kikuyu or Mkamba or Mijikenda, but this problem is spiralling like a cyclone, like a bush fire?headed and ready to consume the whole Nation sparing no one, even the rich will be affected?and consequently the whole world. ? When there is no security all are affected equally the same and this applies each and everyone when there is no proper planning for development to all poor and rich. ? Thank you all, ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Sir Williams wrote: From: Sir Williams Subject: Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya Cc: mugahjoe at yahoo.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:41 AM Bwana Joe, ? I agree with you on what you have said, but many people including me wonder how in the world can Luos continue following this politically? Is there no other Luo who can steer the community to greatness other than the odinga family? there are many educated Luos around the world who could help your community better than the Odingas and they don't have to be?Millionaires. But again, this is Kenya we are talking about and the Country is rotten! The army should bundle Kibaki into an helicopter and depot him to Tanzania (Honduras style) and have someone rule the country. Viongozi hawa bure kabisa! --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Dickens Odhiambo wrote: From: Dickens Odhiambo Subject: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:32 AM ? -----Original Message----- From: elijah mugah [mailto:mugahjoe at yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:35 AM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com; dickens odhiambo; jambo at publiceyesite.org; Milton Alimadi; luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk; jaluo at jaluo.com; jaluo at yahoo.com; dhiamby at aol.com Subject: Re: [YP_Ke] A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya ? Folks, ? Surely, something is wrong here! Where is the Luo community coming into this Kibera story. These are desperate expressions of failures and vagabonds. ? I have to admit that I have never ever met since I was born, PM Raila Odinga lecturing/instructing me not do whatever I have to. That goes for my family too and very close relatives. ? Where do you guys meet him to herded like goats to wherever destinations? Can the author tell this forum and Luo community at large in which public baraza/forum Raila stopped?him/her from achieving?their full?potential. ? I have interacted with people across this country and none of them has ever told me that their leaders ever come to distribute their wealth to community members. ? Surely, if you are waiting or looking up for Raila to share his billions, then you better go to fasting mode! --- On Thu, 7/2/09, jbatec at yahoo.com wrote: From: jbatec at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jambo at publiceyesite.org, "Milton Alimadi" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com, dhiamby at aol.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 1:22 AM Folks, ? A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. ? This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will never be told the story of Migingo ever again. ? If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you will remain?hanging on the fence the rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that.? This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. ? A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... ? What a shame.......Watch this....... ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ?*********************************************************************************** ? ? M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum Andrew Mwanguhya A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew Mwanguhya You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair at the absence of vegetables. With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your bosses for not increasing your salary. You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its poor quality and down-market presentation. Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that hovered over our planned trip. kibera.jpg Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, judging from his formal dressing. He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal dressing. The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated population density of 2000/hectare. On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at angles only known to drunkards. Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. Ironically, all our clothes were clean. As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway line that connects Kenya to Uganda. This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake Victoria - Migingo Island. Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway line. As if they were trains. Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little left. Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are unattended. Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into union with the thick mud. But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' time. In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two in unison. It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to software, Kibera has it all. We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world differently. And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting Kibera slum. http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON ?LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Key issues will be discussed and read your constitutions as much as possible if you can. Call a friend who is a member and remind them. All your questions will be answered fully to the point. All those who registered as KEA Members please show up for this one. Come at 215 Martin Luther King Blvd- Bethel community center. Do not miss it and do not lose it to others.. Come all and on time. 3.00pm-5.00pm Barasa (PR) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edellotieno at yahoo.com Fri Jul 3 09:49:50 2009 From: edellotieno at yahoo.com (edellotieno at yahoo.com) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Mariga "Diaspora spokeperson " very disturbing! Message-ID: <452878.99666.qm@web65508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Dear YPs I don't know who this Judy Mariga is. I have been following some of her comments on this forum which she always signs off as "Diapora Spokesperson "and i must say some are really disturbing! The Kenyan diaspora is a really large population spread all over the world and it is such a bammer that some lone ranger somewhere declares herself our spokes person and goes ahead to write some ridiculous statements! Anyway to cut the long story short Ms.Mariga since you are "an socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless" according to of your threads!I wonder WHY? you attempt to intimidate and even insult Janet with the below e-mail for questioning the LEGITIMACY of your title.Secondly this is a young professionals forum to exchange ideas, thoughts and resources in a civil manner!If you get jittery and start hulling insults just because someone is not in agreement with you i am tempted to think you are in the wrong place! Thank you Edell Otieno Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:28 AM --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Janet mafunga wrote: Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ? ? ? ? From: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:23 AM Now sometimes?I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as Kenyans in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title and didnt get an answer or did?I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a chairman, treasurer etc? It would be nice to know if we in Diaspora have such a committee to represent our views etc. ? Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do you give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out and why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and all.... you still think this way.. Hmmmm ? For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having gone through PEV it needs to start from ourselves. ? Janet --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: From: Mark Kiyaka Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:17 PM It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it. I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of > it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and > powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done > deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the > loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > will remain?hanging on the fence the > rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration > and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM > Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > ?*********************************************************************************** > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > Andrew Mwanguhya > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > Mwanguhya > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair > at the absence of vegetables. > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > hovered over our planned trip. > kibera.jpg > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, > judging from his formal dressing. > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > dressing. > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > population density of 2000/hectare. > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at > angles only known to drunkards. > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > line. As if they were trains. > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little > left. > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > unattended. > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into > union with the thick mud. > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' > time. > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two > in unison. > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to > software, Kibera has it all. > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > differently. > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting > Kibera slum. > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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You fail the test of objectivity not necessarily because you're wrong, but because we'll always see you through the set of filtered glasses that you've handed to us. It is therefore, prudent that you sit back, take a look at your past contributions and even feign some form of objectivity and begin to build your reputation from that platform before we can fully take you serious, otherwise, you'll always remain just another disgruntled citizen and your only true audience will be those already predisposed to take a similar positions with little or no real converts to your cause. --- On Fri, 7/3/09, ndebele okoth wrote: From: ndebele okoth Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: mugahjoe at yahoo.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jambo at publiceyesite.org, "Milton Alimadi" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com, dhiamby at aol.com, "Sir Williams" , "Lee Makwiny" Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 8:10 AM Judy you?re becoming too personal. Kibera slum or poverty therein is not creation of Raila. Luo Nyanza have elected PM?s in parliament, and therefore you should not wholesomely put all the blame to an individual, however, he is wrong to keep manipulating Kenyans towards accepting the local tribunal instead of The Hague. --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: mugahjoe at yahoo.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jambo at publiceyesite.org, "Milton Alimadi" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com, dhiamby at aol.com, "Sir Williams" , "Lee Makwiny" Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 9:53 PM Joe et all, ? I am not giving desparate expression and as well, I am not a vagabond. I am a married responsible family person sensible, alert and sober. I am a political, socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless, commenting to seek popular?joint input to a solution?from a? spiralling problem.? I am not a wonderer, nor a person of no fixed aboard. I am a person of sound judgement,?equiped with?calculative move to save God's creation from perishing?in poverty.??I am my brothers keeper.? When he hurt, I hurt.? I share the pain of the have nots so we can together find a solution to?serious poverty affecting the whole Kenya and Africa in general.? Poverty is something the poor did not choose, that befell Africa.? It is our responsibility with those in like minds, to plan to?strategize logistics for?means and ways to get Africa from poverty. ? This is an act of calling.? If you are not called to do such, you cannot understand, and so you cannot be a leader.? A leader shares by example and shows the rest the way to do or get things done.? Political Leadership requires that a person solicits for ways and means and together lobby so that his/her Constituency or Community do not starve or lack basic needs, and that they are economically stable.? He must in a popular participation work along his/her Community to prepare a plan for development.? A leader who is incapable of doing this must be challenged you like it or not.? This is the principle of fact. ? PM Raila gets majority votes from both Kibera and Luo Nyanza.? I have every right to challenge him in what I think he is not doing right, or remind him that he needs to do things differently to accommodate CHANGE, that which will bring about improved life style and security.? He truely does not need to dish out his money, but he can afford to employ service oriented personnel to help him manage his Constituency as well as his Community at large. PM Raila must show good leadership.? He must tell us what is going on with Migingo.? Why there are no development funds taken to the Youth and Women for development in both Kibera and Luo Nyanza. Why he is not coordinating effectively with the Professionals, why he feels comfortable eating by himself and his family without consideration of those sunk in poverty?? Why he is doing things in a shoddy way?? Why he does not collaborate and follow with what the masses want?? We want to know why he?keeps pushing people to the wall instead of showing?Love and Caring gesture?? He knows Coalition Government System or Machinery is not working, why does he keep shifting gears and telling a different story from what people see? He also knows that there is no way Local Tribunal cannot work, why does he sticks his gun to remain with Kibaki in the mud? ? This is not a Kibera problem alone, or a Kenyan problem, but a world concern.? ? ? Show Case: PM Raila could have used his position in the coalition to influence pressure in the utilization of Youth Donor Fund, or Women Development Fund dished out by the World Bank or International NGO funding to provide soft loans?for small business entreprises or Trading to improve lives.? He could have utilized the UN funds for Water and Sanitation,?roads, and for agriculture to provide enought food. ? Before Uhuru read the Budget, there were unutilized?big amount balance of funds, that they hurriedly spend carelessly?for unwarranted?needs yet there were some women dying out of hunger, food prices were unaffordable, basic needs were unaccessible, avoidable diseases were killing people aimlessly for lack of drugs. Displaced Persons were ?living in pathetic environment not suitable for human beings. ? These so called reaches are made from corrupt deals, if investigated, the same will be proved to be true.? There are evidence of Donor Funds embezzled by Political Leaders, and using their positions, transferred, and shared public funds in the loot.? This is not news.??This is equally serious crime against humanity. ? In this case, I am not calling for shots here, I am calling for consideration and dialogue. ? PM Raila must be told in no uncertain terms, that this is a CHANGE generation, and we must look at things differently.? He must accept criticism and want to change.? He cannot continue to do things in a shoddy ways and expect people to keep quite.? As a leader, he needs his Constituency and his Community more than anything else. He must be seen to strive for their livelihood.? ? He must work together and motivate professionals not knocking them off or, not just rewarding or making job offers or appointments for his family members, but looking accross the Community for talents and skills and expert characters.? This is because he will need this people again and again as long as he is in leadership. Work alongside and plan with the Youth,?Men and?Women and for Education, Health? giving options for informed sources, so when election comes, people have energy to campaign for his second or third chance.? He must be attentive and be a listener. ? This culture of "ngato ok tal wuod jaduong" is nonsense.? I believe, we have just a few like Joe, and I hope they will catch up with time, when they see things move from a different angle and are taking shape in the process of improving lives of many.? We are tired of seing Africans keep soiling in poverty yet they have the resources that have built the world. ? I am open for challenging critisms and I will respond accordingly, but?will not respond to?insults. I respond because, from this kind of deliberations, we are learning and sharing how we can tackles and find solutions to issues and problems that face us as Kenyans.? It is no longer a problem for Luo, Kalenjin or Kikuyu or Mkamba or Mijikenda, but this problem is spiralling like a cyclone, like a bush fire?headed and ready to consume the whole Nation sparing no one, even the rich will be affected?and consequently the whole world. ? When there is no security all are affected equally the same and this applies each and everyone when there is no proper planning for development to all poor and rich. ? Thank you all, ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Sir Williams wrote: From: Sir Williams Subject: Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya Cc: mugahjoe at yahoo.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 11:41 AM Bwana Joe, ? I agree with you on what you have said, but many people including me wonder how in the world can Luos continue following this politically? Is there no other Luo who can steer the community to greatness other than the odinga family? there are many educated Luos around the world who could help your community better than the Odingas and they don't have to be?Millionaires. But again, this is Kenya we are talking about and the Country is rotten! The army should bundle Kibaki into an helicopter and depot him to Tanzania (Honduras style) and have someone rule the country. Viongozi hawa bure kabisa! --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Dickens Odhiambo wrote: From: Dickens Odhiambo Subject: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:32 AM ? -----Original Message----- From: elijah mugah [mailto:mugahjoe at yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:35 AM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com; dickens odhiambo; jambo at publiceyesite.org; Milton Alimadi; luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk; jaluo at jaluo.com; jaluo at yahoo.com; dhiamby at aol.com Subject: Re: [YP_Ke] A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya ? Folks, ? Surely, something is wrong here! Where is the Luo community coming into this Kibera story. These are desperate expressions of failures and vagabonds. ? I have to admit that I have never ever met since I was born, PM Raila Odinga lecturing/instructing me not do whatever I have to. That goes for my family too and very close relatives. ? Where do you guys meet him to herded like goats to wherever destinations? Can the author tell this forum and Luo community at large in which public baraza/forum Raila stopped?him/her from achieving?their full?potential. ? I have interacted with people across this country and none of them has ever told me that their leaders ever come to distribute their wealth to community members. ? Surely, if you are waiting or looking up for Raila to share his billions, then you better go to fasting mode! --- On Thu, 7/2/09, jbatec at yahoo.com wrote: From: jbatec at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jambo at publiceyesite.org, "Milton Alimadi" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com, dhiamby at aol.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 1:22 AM Folks, ? A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. ? This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will never be told the story of Migingo ever again. ? If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you will remain?hanging on the fence the rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that.? This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. ? A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... ? What a shame.......Watch this....... ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ?*********************************************************************************** ? ? M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum Andrew Mwanguhya A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew Mwanguhya You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair at the absence of vegetables. With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your bosses for not increasing your salary. You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its poor quality and down-market presentation. Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that hovered over our planned trip. kibera.jpg Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, judging from his formal dressing. He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal dressing. The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated population density of 2000/hectare. On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at angles only known to drunkards. Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. Ironically, all our clothes were clean. As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway line that connects Kenya to Uganda. This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake Victoria - Migingo Island. Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway line. As if they were trains. Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little left. Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are unattended. Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into union with the thick mud. But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' time. In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two in unison. It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to software, Kibera has it all. We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world differently. And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting Kibera slum. http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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HARTSVILLE, S.C.-An 8-year-old boy fishing with his grandfather for the first time in a South Carolinalake made the catch of the century-a fish with a human face! Puzzled marine biologists say the mysterious creature, which sports a distinctly man-like nose and jagged, eerily human teeth, is like nothing they've ever seen before. "We have not yet ascertained whether this fish belongs to a previously unidentified species that has lived in the waters of North America for centuries, is the by-product of genetic tinkering or is a random mutation caused by something in the environment," says Dr. Gregory Hickens, the famed marine biologist who specializes in unusual wildlife. "We do know that this is one of the most spectacular finds in decades." The strange fish was caught in Lake H.B. Robinson by a little boy from Detroitnamed Aaron Krendell, who was visiting his grandparents. "I never saw a fish like that before," he says. The boy's 71-year-old grandfather Clayton helped the youngster reel in the 7 1/2-inch fish. "I pulled it off the hook and held it up for Aaron so he could see the size of it, telling him, 'You're a right good fisherman, son,' the oldster recalls. "I'm about to toss it in the bucket when Aaron starts hollering, 'Look,look, Grandpa-he looks like Uncle Steve.' "At first I thought he was just being a city kid. Then I turned it to me and, holy smokes, it sure did have a man's face. I nearly dropped the damned thing. "Then, what about gave me a heart attack was it started moving its lips like it was trying to talk. I tossed it in the bucket pretty darned quick. "I stood there holding my chest while it flopped around in the bucket, trying to figure out what to do-throw the ugly thing back and try to forget I ever saw it, or put it in water and find some expert to take a look at it." 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Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency. 6. Sleep Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. 7. Head covered while sleeping Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects. 8. Working your brain during illness Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain. 9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage. 10. Talking Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- The main causes of liver damage are: 1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are main cause. 2. Not urinating in the morning. 3. Too much eating. 4. Skipping breakfast. 5. Consuming too much medication. 6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food coloring, and artificial sweetener. 7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit. 8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store. We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adopt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits. Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to "schedule." Because: Evening at 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health. Evening at 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state. Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state. Early morning 3 - 5am: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process. Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel. Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all. Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late. TAKE CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH................. AND PASS THIS EMAIL TO WHOM YOU LOVE.................... From jbatec at yahoo.com Fri Jul 3 08:31:33 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Africa: U.S. Wants to Spotlight 'Successful Models' and Be An 'Effective Partner' - Obama Message-ID: <242506.52921.qm@web51911.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? Sharing..... Africa: U.S. Wants to Spotlight 'Successful Models' And Be An 'Effective Partner' - Obama 2 July 2009 GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); ? Washington, DC ? Barack Obama makes his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president of the United States next week, following a trip to Russia as well as to Italy, where he will participate in a meeting of industrialized nations known as the G8. AllAfrica's Charles Cobb, Jr., Reed Kramer and Tami Hultman went to the White House to explore President Obama's views on Africa in advance of his visit. The interview took place in the Blue Room.Charles Cobb posed the questions. We asked visitors to our site, allAfrica.com, what they might be interested in with respect to your policy. And as you might imagine, the responses are everywhere: conflict resolution, development issues, trade issues, et cetera. But they and we have one immediate question: How is it that you happened to pick Ghana as the first place to visit in sub-Saharan Africa? Well, part of the reason is because Ghana has now undergone a couple of successful elections in which power was transferred peacefully, even a very close election. I think that the new president, President Mills, has shown himself committed to the rule of law, to the kinds of democratic commitments that ensure stability in a country. And I think that there is a direct correlation between governance and prosperity. Countries that are governed well, that are stable, where the leadership recognizes that they are accountable to the people and that institutions are stronger than any one person have a track record of producing results for the people. And we want to highlight that. And I assume that you'd like to see a lot more 'Ghanas' in Africa. And part of your policy would be, I assume, to encourage that. Absolutely. How?? Well, part of it is lifting up successful models. And so, by traveling to Ghana, we hope to highlight the effective governance that they have in place. Watch AllAfrica's interview with U.S. President Obama. I don't think that we can expect that every country is going to undergo these transitions in the same way at the same time. But we have seen progress in democracy and transparency and rule of law, in the protection of property rights, in anti-corruption efforts. We have seen progress over the last several years; in some cases, though, we're also seeing some backsliding. In my father's own country of Kenya, I'm concerned about how the political parties do not seem to be moving into a permanent reconciliation that would allow the country to move forward. And Kenya is not alone in some of the problems that we've seen of late, post-election or pre-election. And we just want to make sure that people are mindful that this isn't just some abstract notion that we're trying to impose on Africa. There is a very practical, pragmatic consequence to political instability and corruption when it comes to whether people can feed their families, educate their children, and we think that Africa - the African continent is a place of extraordinary promise as well as challenges. We're not going to be able to fulfill those promises unless we see better governance. Do you have priorities in terms of countries or regions? For instance, West Africa is extremely important in terms of oil; East Africa in terms of some of the strategic concerns of the United States? I think the entire continent is important. And keep in mind that although I'm visiting Ghana on this particular trip, we've already had [Prime Minister] Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe in the Oval Office. We've had [President] Kikwete from Tanzania in my office. And in each case, I'm trying to send the same message. You've seen some very good work by the administration in Tanzania focusing on how to deliver concrete services to the people, and wherever folks want to help themselves, we want to be there as a partner. And I think that you've got some very strong leadership in Africa that is ready to move forward and we want to be there with them. On the economic front, that means opening up better trade opportunities. It means that we are interested not just in foreign aid, but in how we strengthen the capacity for development internally in these countries, and we want to work in a multilateral context, as well as the bilateral strengthening of relations with many of these countries. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? But as you point out, there are strategic, national security, economic, environmental reasons why we think this region is important. And part of the reason we wanted to - although we're only going to one country this time, I actually thought that it made sense for us to connect a trip to Ghana to a previous trip with the G8. We'll be meeting a number of African countries in Italy during the G8 meeting - before that, a meeting in Russia - to show that Africa is directly connected to our entire foreign policy approach; that it's not some isolated thing where once every term you go visit Africa for a while to check that box, but rather it's an ongoing part of a broader discussion about how we move many of these international challenges forward. Development assistance will presumably be an important piece of your Africa policy. Now, development assistance is pretty fragmented, whether you look at the United States or you look at it globally, in the sense that varying countries have varying approaches. Now you, more than any President, are associated with using technological tools, and I can't help but wonder if you have thought about using technology to bring some coherence, if you will, like tracking how aid works or where it goes, et cetera. Look, I think you make a very important point, and that is that even just within the U.S. government, our aid policies have been splintered among a variety of agencies, different theories embraced by different people depending on which administration, which party, is in power at any given time. Trying to create something steady and focused - and always basing our policies on what works and not on some ideological previous position is going to be very important. And technology can play a very important role in streamlining our aid to countries, making sure that we're tracking how that aid is being applied, making sure that it's reaching the people it's intended to reach. One of the concerns that I have with our aid policy generally is that western consultants and administrative costs end up gobbling huge percentages of our aid overall. It seems to me that what we should be doing is trying to minimize our footprint and maximize the degree to which we're training people to do for themselves. So I think using the Internet, using software, using modern technology to improve delivery systems is important. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); ? Now, I also think, on the ground, in many of these countries, how we think about not high-tech stuff but low-tech technologies to, for example, improve food production is vitally important. I'm still frustrated over the fact that the green revolution that we introduced into India in the '60s, we haven't yet introduced into Africa in 2009. In some countries, you've got declining agricultural productivity. That makes absolutely no sense. We don't need fancy computers to solve those problems; we need tried and true agricultural methods and technologies that are cheap and are efficient but could have a huge impact in terms of people's day-to-day well-being. In addition, you mentioned a few minutes ago the importance of investment and not just aid. What's the balance between assistance and investment? Most businesses get a bigger return on their investment in Africa than any other part of the world. So should that receive more emphasis than it's been getting? What kind of balance in your mind exists in development assistance? Well, a couple of points I would make. Number one, you're not going to get investment without good governance. So that's part of the reason why we emphasize it. Again, this is a very practical, hard-headed approach to how we're going to see improvements in the daily lives of the peoples of Africa. If government officials are asking for 10, 15, 25 percent off the top, businesses don't want to invest there. That's point number one. Point number two, I think that when my father left Kenya and traveled to the United States back in the early '60s, the GDP of Kenya and South Korea weren't equivalent - Kenya's was actually higher. What's happened over that 50-year period? What you've seen is Korea combine foreign investment, integration with the global economy, with a strategic sense of certain industries that they can promote for export; great emphasis on education for a skilled workforce; insisting that foreign investment is accompanied by technology transferring so that homegrown industries can be built and nurtured. So we've got models out there. We know what it might take. What we haven't seen is a consistent, steady application of some of these models over time in Africa, and I think that now is the time to start. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? Is that a failure of U.S. policy or is that a failure of governance in Africa? I would say that the international community has not always been as strategic as it should have been, but ultimately I'm a big believer that Africans are responsible for Africa. I think part of what's hampered advancement in Africa is that for many years we've made excuses about corruption or poor governance; that this was somehow the consequence of neo-colonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism. I'm not a believer in excuses. I'd say I'm probably as knowledgeable about African history as anybody who's occupied my office. And I can give you chapter and verse on why the colonial maps that were drawn helped to spur on conflict, and the terms of trade that were uneven emerging out of colonialism. And yet the fact is we're in 2009. The West and the United States has not been responsible for what's happened to Zimbabwe's economy over the last 15 or 20 years. It hasn't been responsible for some of the disastrous policies that we've seen elsewhere in Africa. I think that it's very important for African leadership to take responsibility and be held accountable. And I think the people of Africa understand that. The problem is that they just haven't always had the opportunities to organize and voice their opinions in ways that create better results. In the last minute or so of our conversation, even though you are really barely into your presidency, I already feel compelled to ask you a legacy question. (Laughter.) And that is: What, when you finish your presidency, do you expect your stamp on Africa policy to be? What do you think that will be? I would like, at the end of my term in office, to be able to say that the United States was an effective partner with countries throughout Africa in building the kinds of institutions, political, civil, economic, that allowed for improving standards of living and greater security for the people of Africa; that we moved them on a trajectory in which they are integrating with the global economy; and that a young person growing up in Johannesburg or Lagos or Nairobi or Djibouti can say to themselves: I can stay here in Africa, I can stay in my country and succeed, and through my success, my country and my people will get stronger. That would be a good legacy. I don't expect that we're going to get there in four years or eight years, but I think we can get on that path. And the United States is a critical partner in that process. I need another hour or so. (Laughter.) But I thank you for your time. Thank you so much. News Article:Ghana Visit to Highlight Effective Governance, Says Obama ? 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In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful. And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said. "In year three there was still nothing from the bamboo seed. But I would not quit. In year four, again, there was nothing from the bamboo see. I would not quit." He said. "Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant...But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing roots. Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle ." He said to me. "Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots?" "I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you." "Don't compare yourself to others." He said. "The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. 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Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 14725 bytes Desc: ATT00455.jpg URL: From josekamanthe at gmail.com Wed Jul 1 12:29:12 2009 From: josekamanthe at gmail.com (josephine Ndambuki) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:29:12 -0700 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Thanks In-Reply-To: <723211.52927.qm@web36403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <723211.52927.qm@web36403.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: hi John, welcome abode, You can get all this info from our website http://ypkenya.org/, looking forward to having you participate in the club's events. kind regards Josephine kamanthe On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 4:45 AM, JOHN MUIRURI wrote: > I am so grateful that I have join these LYP, it sounds so cool and I am > looking forward to enhance my network, skills and gain more exposure. Thank > you all of you guyz who are making these to happen. > Pliz make you calender known and other details such as ' registration' I > will be very glad to receive it. > Thanks, looking forward to hear from you. > Cheers! > John. > > > > > -- Regards Josephine Kamanthe +254723736086 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Your email below is unacceptable and rude and YOU, mama.... ?are not fit to be in whatever position you are. ? If you react like this to anyone who questions you what kind of a leader do you think you are. How different are you from the 'leaders' you keep telling off on the forums and other forums I have seen u contribute to? ? You definately do not stand for the views of Kenyans in Diaspora because I highly doubt we in the diaspora need someone like you running off her mouth just because someone questioned her. ? And if you cannot handle critism as a 'leader' mama,,,,, u need to drop it.. ? My reason for asking how u became the 'Diaspora Spokesperson' is I am also a Kenyan in Diaspora for the last many years. And it definately is my right to know when someone purports to speak on MY behalf. If you cannot handle people questioning you... then change ur title Madam to 'whatever city it is that voted for you spokesperson'? Put to good use, a Diaspora Spokesperson can do us alot of good. But you mama are proving to be like some politicians I know who when power gets into their heads start behaving clandey... ? --- On Fri, 7/3/09, edellotieno at yahoo.com wrote: From: edellotieno at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Mariga "Diaspora spokeperson " very disturbing! To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 3:49 PM Dear YPs I don't know who this Judy Mariga is. I have been following some of her comments on this forum which she always signs off as "Diapora Spokesperson "and i must say some are really disturbing! The Kenyan diaspora is a really large population spread all over the world and it is such a bammer that some lone ranger somewhere declares herself our spokes person and goes ahead to write some ridiculous statements! Anyway to cut the long story short Ms.Mariga since you are "an socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless" according to of your threads!I wonder WHY? you attempt to intimidate and even insult Janet with the below e-mail for questioning the LEGITIMACY of your title.Secondly this is a young professionals forum to exchange ideas, thoughts and resources in a civil manner!If you get jittery and start hulling insults just because someone is not in agreement with you i am tempted to think you are in the wrong place! Thank you Edell Otieno Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ?Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:28 AM --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Janet mafunga wrote: Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ? ? ? ? From: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:23 AM Now sometimes?I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as Kenyans in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title and didnt get an answer or did?I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a chairman, treasurer etc? It would be nice to know if we in Diaspora have such a committee to represent our views etc. ? Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do you give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out and why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and all.... you still think this way.. Hmmmm ? For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having gone through PEV it needs to start from ourselves. ? Janet --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: From: Mark Kiyaka Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:17 PM It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it. I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of > it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and > powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done > deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the > loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > will remain?hanging on the fence the > rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration > and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM > Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > ?*********************************************************************************** > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > Andrew Mwanguhya > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > Mwanguhya > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair > at the absence of vegetables. > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > hovered over our planned trip. > kibera.jpg > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, > judging from his formal dressing. > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > dressing. > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > population density of 2000/hectare. > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at > angles only known to drunkards. > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > line. As if they were trains. > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little > left. > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > unattended. > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into > union with the thick mud. > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' > time. > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two > in unison. > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to > software, Kibera has it all. > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > differently. > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting > Kibera slum. > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Writes Leo Oderas Omolo KENYA is one of the four African countries which has moved swiftly to make public a policy on ocean management, a condition given by the united Nations before it is granted a massive territorial extension it applies for in Indian Ocean. Policy consultation different ocean management interventions contained in various documents and is developed in harmony with internationally accepted principles of ocean management.. It also conform to ecosystem ?based management and integration aims promoting peaceful use of the ocean. The main thrust of the policy is the realizations of integrated ocean and coastal management in order to establish the requirements of holistic approach for the sustainable use of ocean space and marine resources covering the country?s internal waters, territorial sea, the exclusive economic zones, and the continental shelf. If implemented, the policy will put Kenya at the fore of acquiring an additional 100,000 square kilometers of the Indian Ocean following an application it submitted in May 2009. According to an articles in the last week edition of the influential Nairobi publication, the EAST AFRICAN, the UN has asked Kenya to publicize the policy in order for the citizens to have knowledge on how it is going to manage the large area to be added. The main areas of concentration and integration of all Coastal and ocean related activities and advance sustainable multiple use of ocean resources and maintenance of biodiversity.. The proposed integrated ocean management strategy is expected to analyze the neglected investment in national marine capacity development ?in order to attain a critical mass of trained manpower necessary to exploit marine resources? as outlined in the country?s vision 2030. ?The policy, the report adds, will invest in appropriate coastal and marine infrastructure have in place an ocean development strategy, research in marine science and technology, and establish a special Kenya? manage conflicts between resources users, ownership or program ?to manage ocean and coastal capacity, ?the report reads in part. The implementation of the policy will, however, be based on the need to? put in place ocean management institutional and legal framework.. The process ,according to the report, will require that the policy gets Cabinet approval as well as that of Parliament. Subsequent to the approval by the two institutions., the Attorney General will ?also ?be requir5ed to draft and present the integrated ocean management {{IOM}} back to Parliament for debate and enactment into a national law.. Kenya joined other African nations in May 6 just a week before the set deadline, and has since been awaiting s response from the UN Commission on the limits of the continental shelf on when it should defend its application? The Commission has then responded after receiving Kenya?s application..?The consideration of the submission made by Kenya will be included in the provisional agenda of the treaty?s forth session of the Commission to be held in New York from August 10 to September 11,2009.. THE submission aimed to delink the outer limits of Kenya?s continental shelf outside the Exclusive Economic Zone{EEZ} so s to claim the right to exploit non-living and mineral resources on the seabed and sub-soil of the extended continental shelf adjacent to the EEZ in accordance with the UN conventional law of the sea. The anticipated benefits from Kenya, when sovereignty is granted will include exclusion rights to exploit the resources of the area drawing revenue for the government and employment for the citizens. Kenya endorsed its submission as fourth African after Seychelles, Ghana and South Africa. Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leooderaomolo at yahoo.com Sat Jul 4 22:29:20 2009 From: leooderaomolo at yahoo.com (Leo Odera Omolo) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 19:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] DISCONTENT AND TENSION IS LOOMING IN NYANZA OVER NEW DISTRICTS Message-ID: <761876.68744.qm@web34307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> DISCONTENT AND TENSIONS ARE BUILDING UP BETWEEN THE ADMIISTRATION AND NYANZA RESIDENTS OVER THE NEW DISTRICTS. Writes Leo Odera Omolo The Provincial Administration in Nyanza Province is embroiled in a tricky situation to resolve the tension packed protests by the region?s resident over ??the newly, created? new ?administrative districts. The main cause of the looming troubles varies, but principally the scrambles for the places where the new district headquarters should be established. And also the names of the new administration ?outposts as the inter-clan rivalries ?are said to be building up everywhere. Early this President Mwai Kibaki up graded several parliamentary constituencies and granted those areas new district status..Among themwere Uriri, Kuria East,Mbita, Ndhiwa,Gwassi, Ugenya, Nyakach,Kisumu West,Nyatike North Rachuonyo. Kuria East was hived out of the original Kuria district, which has its administrative headquarters at Kihancha,and? a market centre called Igonga was gazette as the place where the new district headquarters would be established He new Kuria East district is the home of the two warring sub-clans, namely Buirege and Nyabansi. Igonga is a marketplace or a trading centre located on the side of the Nyabansi sub-clan .The opposite sub-clan could not hear their new district headquarters being established at Igonga. They took up arms and launched a full scale inter sub-clan? skirmishes, which has so far claimed the dozens of life. The most intriguing question is the geographical reality Each of the two sub-clan had their cousins living across the Kenya-Tanzania border .And each one of the battle hardened ?two sub-clans had to summon their cousins across the border to come and beef up support in the battle front. Those relatives who crossed the border from Tanzania came armed with modern weapons like guns and the area bleed to the ground. The local politicians who were suspected to have incited the two sub-clan to go into full scale war were nowhere to bring any help. The law and order, however, was restored a week ago after the government dispatched the crack anti riot police unit, the General Service Unit {GSU}. Th entire Kuria has only one member of Parliament Dr. Walter Machage, who at one time was a full cabinet Minister in the Kibaki administration, but was surprisingly relegated to a junior ?position of an Assistant Minister in the same cabinet, a move ?which was to the chagrins of his constituents, mostly those in Kuria West, which his home region, but celebrated in Kuria East, which is the bedrock of his political rivals. The MP went quiet for some time and only half-heartedly appeared to the scene after the government has already crushed the rebellion. It is only in Rachuonyo district where the split of the district into two namely Rachuonyo South and North seemed to be going on smoothly. The district had its original headquarters based at Koseloe Market, which stands right on the boundary between Karachuonmyo and Kasipul-Kabondo, but which is technically in Konyango area of Kasipul-Kabondo This will now require the new Rachuonyo North district to establish its new headquarters at Kendu-Bay, while the Rachunyo South remained housed in the old building at Kosele, though there are few voices suggesting that it be moved t9o either Oyugis or Ringa . But th9ose voices are in minority.. In Uriri, a new district, which was hived out of Rongo district, some local leaders have even gone as far as moving ?to the High Court in Nairobi seeking for the court?s nullification of Uriri Centre as the new district headquarters. . The tug-of-war is between the indigenous Jo-Kanyamkago and the consortium of immigrant communities, which included the Maragolis,Luhyas,Subas and Luo from many other bigger sub-clans stretching from Siaya ,Rachuoyo, Rarieda and Suba district. They all settled in Uriur8 making the area a true cosmopolitan in the real sense of the word. The born of contention is the name Uriri ?itself.The name originated from South Gem in Siaya district, where many immigrants from Gem whcr9ssed the Lake Victoria and settled in Uriri came with the name.And the indigenous Jo-Kanyamkago want that alien names to be scrap. The area MP,Cyprian Ojuwang?Omolo appear to be not of much help. It is being alleged that he has sided himself with the immigrant communities, and support the idea of having new district headquarters established at Uriri Centre. This is on the ground that there is? already a government land, which is said to be ,measuring about 24 acres. This is space is sufficient for the establishment? of a district headquarters with all the departmental extensions which comes with it. The Assistant Minister for Internal Security Hon Joshua Orwa Ojode. When told by this writer of the complaints of the indigenous Jo-Kanyamkago sub-clan, which is arguably the majority of the resident, replied casually ?Why did they ?accepted the constituency to be called Uriri in the first place?. The indignant Jo-Kanyamkago wanted the headquarters to remain at the Rapogi Divisional headquarters, where there is a well established office, which was constructed by the local residents on Harambee basis about ten years ago, and modern house, which used to accommodate the district Office. But Rapogi has nom free land space. The office in question is constructed inside a disused old quarry on a piece of land which was donated by Ex-Councilor Owino Odeny, who is understood to be readily wiling to ?donate more land free of-chargel.in collaboration with two other potential donors Sources privy to the goings have revealed that even the land on which the DO?s Office stands has its title deed kept by an individual, and not in the custody of the government. The surrounding villages around Rapogi Market, RCM Mission,St Joseph Rapogi Secondary School, Rapogi Mixed Primary School and the St The ?government getting more free land for extension of its offices and other facilities. But arguably, Rapogi would be an ideal place for the new district headquarters because it is centrally situated and would cater for the residents adequately unlike Uriri, which is very close to Migori Town. It is, however, quiet in inside the newly created Nyatike district. The area comprises only two major sub-clans o0f Jo-Kadem and jo-Karungu,and of course there are a few immigrant communities living among the two dominant sub-clans, which are ?inter-related or ?cousins, and the descendants of Onyango Rabala. The residents of Nyatike are expected to agree unanimously for the new district headquarter to be established at Macalder, where there is plenty of land and ultra mo9dern buildings, which were in 1962 abandoned by the owners of the former Macalder Gold and copper Mines ltd, which closed its mines in 1962 shortly before Kenya attained her political independence in 1962 This is the place where the current Nyatike Division is based. Other Divisions are Sori-Karungu and Muhuru-bay. The government, especially the Provincial ?Administration in Nyanza will have to cope up with the tension charged new Gwassi district and perhaps put in place new ideas on? how to handle the tension which rapidly building up between the Gwassi and Kaksingiri sub-clans The two sub-clans of the Luo-Abasuba,though not inter-related, are locked in bitter argument whether the new district headquarters should be established at Magunga in Central Gwassi, where the Gwassi Division is housed or the headquarters should remained at its present site in Gingo ne Sindo Town. Gingo was previously gazette as the Suba district headquarters. There stands the offices of the County Council of Suba, an ultra modern hospital, other government building and nurses and docto9r quarters. And before it was gazette, a close to 5,000 families were evicted out of their ancestral land compensated with millions of shillings. under the land acquisition laws. All those whose land plots were acquired by the government were the Jo-Kakisingiri people. But within only ,a couple of years, this particular sub-clan is told that the new district has already been gazette to be established at Magunga. Physiologically one can understand their anger, which has raised the political temperature of the are to a boiling point of provoking war cries. The MP for Gwassi Hon John Mbadi himself ?hails from Gwassi, and he is being accused by the Kakisngiri people of sabotaging the is of where the new administrative headquarters should be established. This, they said is after the ?leaders meeting held in Mbita town had resolved that Gingo remain the new district headquarters, and it is the new ?D.C who should move to Mbita Town. Inmost cases, the present crops of Luo MPs stands accused of applying double standard by tryng tio Please all sides of the grieved sub-clans for the voting catching purposes, but not telling any iota of truth.. Another bad politics hasd raised its ugly head in Mbita district. The residents of the two major islands Rusinga and Mfangano wanted the new Mbita district called Suba North ,while Gwassi district be called Suba South,and there is likely to be a big-tug-of war. The Mbita MP Gerald Otien o Kajwang? is said to have rushed to Nairobi and had the new district gazette to the chagrins of the islanders .Kajwang? is the Immigration and Registration of persons Minister in the grand coalition government.. Kajwang? had good reasons to neutralize the islanders .This is because he had narrowly ,escaped What could have been his first election defeat in 2007. It took ?the intervention of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga to prevail Wakiaga had chicken out only after Raila?s intervention, which according to reliable ?sources was full of coercion and threats. Other theories which are making the round is that Raila is not comfortable with anybody who hails from Rusinga Island due to old grudge of political and ideological battle between his late father Jaramogi Odinga Odinga.and the late Mr. Tom Mboya, though Wakiaga and Mboya are not related as such. But such rumors may have some elements of ?credibility due to Raila?s behaviors towards all those politician who had brushed soldiers with his late father. He was prominently absent during the burial of the late Mzee W.L Oselu-Nyalick.the ,former Winam MP and in two previous occasions an Assistant Minister in both Kenyatta and Moi?s regimes. Raila was also nowhere to be seen during the burial of the former Alego-Usonga MP ,the late Luke Rarieya Obok, who atone time was the late Odinga?s aide and close political associate, but who had later deserted ?Raia?s father a took up government job in the parastatal under Moi. The late Mzee Nyalick worked closely with the late Mboya and were the instrumental tool which contributed to the sub-division of the old expansive Central Nyanza district into two mainly Kisumu and Siaya district..The late Jaramogi had read a malice in the exercise arguing ?was meant to reduce his power of political influence, while Nyalick and Mboya argued that the sub-division was meant to bring the administration closer to the people. And ?Agwambo had deliberately or technically absented himself from these two funerals, But ?he is known to have attended many other funerals of very insignifi9cant men and women allover Luo-Nyanza mainly fo9r political expediency. The Odingas are also to be uneasy with any idea of sub-dividing the Luo-Nyanza into two administrative Provinces .Anybody advocating creation for more administrative areas in Luo-Nyanza is simply dismissed as an agent of the Mt. Kenya politicians. They want Luos herded into one big basked for their maximum exploitation. But are na?ve not advancing to the public what benefit can the community accrue by remaining in one basket under the Odinga?s political York.. And these are some of the credible reasons why even those sharp, youthfull,energetic and highly enlightened Luos fear to speak their minds . Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Disgruntled ************************************************************ Bamako: A Different take on Africa By John Burl Smith Movies are powerful propaganda tools. They create visual images and psychological stereotypes that take on a life of their own. Africa and Africans are classic examples. Through "Tarzan" and other fictional portrayals, the world was sold a false image of the "dark continent" that lingers on today. That image has become the filter through which the world views Africa, consequently justifying its exploitation by Eurocentric socioeconomic and political policies. With Tarzan still playing in their heads, film-makers exploit the agony of Africa in high-profile documentaries and fictional features, like God Grew Tired of Us, Blood Diamond, Catch a Fire and The Constant Gardener. These films feed into the image of a continent where salvages run amok, everybody and everything is corrupt, all leaders are gangster warlords, and the hopeless outcome of trying to help such wretched souls. Rising above propagandizing, Abderrahmane Sissako, a Malian movie director, trained in Russia, has sought to use subtlety to tell Africa's story through his latest movie Bamako. Looking at the continent, like a cop on the beat, he goes after the big bosses, rather than the neighborhood thugs that work for them. Sissako points the guilty finger at Washington, London, Paris, Brussels and institutions like the World Bank and IMF, the culprits behind Africa and her people's misery. Reducing the international pea and shell game down to the hustle it is, Sissako returns to the house of his late father in Bamako, the capital of Mali, where he puts the World Bank on trial for its role in the rape of Africa. Now occupied by a young singer named Mel? (A?ssa Ma?ga); her husband, Chaka (Ti?coura Traor?); and their young daughter, the house serves as a backdrop for a courtroom drama. A table becomes the bar of justice, set in a picturesque courtyard surrounded by the day to day procession of life. Unfolding over several days, the courtyard represents the heart and soul of Africa, ravaged and embattled after decades of World Bank policies, which are sucking the continent dry with privatization and the rape of its natural resources, while burying many African nations under mountains of debt. Bamako's central question is ? has the ostensible good intentions of the West, in particular the World Bank and similar institutions, contributed to the impoverishment and demoralization of the continent? Sissako uses real judges, lawyers, and activists plus ordinary people as participants in the mock hearing where Africa -- the Plaintiff -- is presented like a young innocent girl assaulted by the World Bank -- a proxy for the Western world. The prosecution's premise is that as a result of the bank's actions -- 50 million African children will die in the next five years; 3 million Africans will die of malaria in the next 12 months; and Africa's debt --which stood at $220 billion in 2003 -- has brought the continent to her knees. One eloquent witness after another testifies that Africa's countries are poorer than they were 20 years ago, with life expectancy declining, infant mortality rising and literacy rates dropping. Ordinary Africans through their patient, angry speeches lament the cruel consequences of debt servicing and privatization, emigration, loss of control over infrastructure and natural resources, rampant political corruption and a precipitously declining standard of living. Sissako declared, "If we take into account the total capital flow and wealth transfer, African countries have more than repaid their debts to rich countries." Bamako is a trumpeting wake-up call for the world to recognize that the continent's socioeconomic and political problems are inextricably linked to its colonial past and the debt heaped upon it by the West. Sissako uses this project as a delicate provocation to move the discussion of Africa away from terms dictated by Washington, London, Paris and Brussels to needs voiced by Africans, not the wealthy African elite, which Sissako believes through complicity with the World Bank, bears responsibility for their nations' ills. The courtyard scene, as life goes on around it, dramatizes the fact that these are not Hollywood caricatures. Their daily existence remains largely in the background as witnesses pour into this space to give evidence on behalf of ?Africa,' while everyday life goes on around the edges. People work, read, chat or doze. Women dye fabric and nurse babies; a bedridden young man suffers without access to medical care; a wedding procession passes through, a counterpoint to Mel? and her despairing, unemployed husband Chaka's disintegrating marriage. While these people's destinies are linked to the themes being argued in the trial, these real live characters serve to remind viewers that this chasm of inequality was created by the neo-colonial policies of the World Bank, similar institutions and the governments that support them. Bamako is a must see by anyone desiring to make sense of what they read and view about Africa Abderrahmane Sissako: In His Words If I try to explain the decision I made one day to become a filmmaker, I must go back to that period in my life where I felt at a loss, having gone to Nouakchott to be with my mother. I had lost my bearings. Bambara ? my language gone; no more Malian childhood friends. So, I became more observant, more aware of what surrounded me; I developed a keener sense of the importance of gestures and body language. And I wanted to tell that story. I am aware that one can be totally destitute, and yet it is in that state of destitution that one finds human dignity -- fundamental values........ Someone leaves because someone else has to stay. The one who leaves is not better or worse than those he leaves behind. So, that the one who leaves comes back to share what he has found. I come back and help my younger brothers and sisters, as my elder brothers have helped me. And that always brings me back to my roots and basic education. When I go to Europe, I learn things that are enriching, that add to my life, but I never forget where I come from. I must not sever those links because I only exist through them. I must stay close to what I am and what I know best. So, that is why I seek to do a cinema where narration is not placid. Cinema for me is not a show, but a quest. I look for what I have in me. Something hidden gets uncovered with my characters. So, my story is also the story of many other people. A feeling which is very hard to express is the sense of rejection, it is beyond racism ? this disregard for other people. It's a very strong and typical trait of Western culture. I am often asked whether Russians are really racist. Europeans prefer to think that it is others who are the racists. But my point was not to talk about racism, it was more about rejection, about the disregard for others that paradoxically one finds in societies where you also find the most beautiful books, the most beautiful paintings, the best music, societies who have the monopoly over everything that is valued today. And yet this does not create universality. Those who are profoundly universal are from societies where knowledge is not a matter of quantifying data, where knowledge belongs with the oral tradition, with things immaterial and imperceptible. This open-mindedness was paradoxically given to me by my culture and not by those cultures which despised me precisely for my tolerance. Hood Notes US Debt Crisis The United States went into the red the first time in 1790 when it assumed $75 million in the war debts of the Continental Congress. Alexander Hamilton, the first treasury secretary, said, "A national debt, if not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." Since then, the nation has only been free of debt once, in 1834-1835. The national debt has expanded during times of war and usually contracted in times of peace, while staying on a generally upward trajectory. Over the past several decades, it has climbed sharply ? except for a respite from 1998 to 2000, when there were annual budget surpluses, reflecting in large part what turned out to be an overheated economy. The debt soared with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and economic stimulus spending under President George W. Bush and now Obama. The odometer-style "debt clock" near Times Square ? put in place in 1989 when the debt was a mere $2.7 trillion ? ran out of numbers and had to be shut down when the debt surged past $10 trillion in 2008. The clock has since been refurbished so higher numbers fit. There are several debt clocks on Web sites maintained by public interest groups that let you watch hundreds, thousands, millions of dollars zip by in a matter of seconds. US debt is more than $11 trillion. According to the Treasury Department, which updates the number "to the penny" every few days, the national debt was $11,518,472,742,288 on Wednesday. The overall debt is now slightly over 80 percent of the annual output of the entire U.S. economy, as measured by the gross domestic product. Some budget-restraint activists claim even the debt understates the nation's true liabilities. The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, established by a former commerce secretary and investment banker, argues that the $11.4 trillion debt figures does not take into account roughly $45 trillion in unlisted liabilities and unfunded retirement and health care commitments. That would put the nation's full obligations at $56 trillion, or roughly $184,000 per American, according to this calculation. And, it is expanding by over $1 trillion a year. (Source: www.msnbc.msn.com) Bit of History Moses Grandy (1786-????) Moses Grandy was born a slave in Camden County, North Carolina, in 1786. He was his mother's youngest child. At least eight of his siblings were sold by his master, Billy Grandy, to other slave-owners. Moses was hired out to other masters. During the late 1700s, Moses Grandy, along with other slaves, freemen and laborers, worked to clear and dig out a portion of the Dismal Swamp to create the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. Grandy would later recall how slaves waded deep into water and mud to cut away roots. "If they can keep their heads above water, they work on." After floggings, slaves boiled a strong weed and washed their sores with its bitter liquor. For relief, they rubbed one another's backs with what little meat they were given. In addition to working as a laborer in the Dismal Swamp, Grandy worked as a carboy driving lumber and crewed for a time on a schooner that served the small ports of the Albemarle Sound. Moses eventually married a slave owned by Enoch Sawyer. However, one day, Sawyer sold her to a slave-dealer and Grandy never saw her again. Later, Grandy was given a pass to work for himself. He became a seaman and took some canal boats on as shares and ran the small boats back and forth to Norfolk. One half of all the money he received for freight was given to his owner; out of the other half, he had to victual and man the boats. All money left after his expenses was his profit. His work gave him a high degree of independence, but not his freedom. Grandy saved his money and used it to buy his freedom. Three times he paid his master the price demanded. According to his memoir, he paid his masters a total of $1,850, before finally gaining his freedom. Two masters promised the enterprising Grandy his freedom once he paid them off. In each case, after raising the required sum, Grandy was rebuffed and his masters pocketed the money. The first time Grandy gave six hundred dollars to James Grandy, Billy's son, who took the money and betrayed him by selling him to Mr. Trewitt. The second time Grandy paid Trewitt the amount demanded but was freed only after several white men petitioned his owner. In 1827, Grandy at last bought his freedom. Grandy continued to work as a seaman on various cargo vessels and until he saved enough money to buy freedom for his second wife and the children he was able to locate; others bought their own freedom. Soon after gaining his freedom, with the aid of the Anti-Slavery Society, Grandy, along with many other freemen, left North Carolina. By 1831, Grandy had settled in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1843, Grandy published his autobiography - "Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy: Late a Slave in the United States of America." Grandy's narrative demonstrated how he turned instances of potential humiliation into opportunities of triumph, especially when he was able to publicly shame the men that robbed him. While he gained his freedom, Grandy lamented the near-hopeless pursuit of reuniting his family. In his historic memoir, Grandy wrote, "I do not know where any of my other four children are, nor whether they be dead or alive." In August 2006, descendants of Moses Grandy held a family reunion. A new four-lane road was named the Moses Grandy Trail in his honor. The road is a connector between Deep Creek and Dominion Boulevard in Chesapeake, Virginia. Moses Grandy trail ends at the Great Dismal Swamp Canal, the largest manmade waterway in America. (Sources: www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk and http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/grandy/menu.html ) Venue for an Artist The Fourth of July (1852) (Excerpts) By Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) Fellow citizens, pardon me, and allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? And am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits, and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? Fellow citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions, whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are today rendered more intolerable by the jubilant shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, "may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!" To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs and to chime in with the popular theme would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow citizens, is "American Slavery." I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view. Standing here, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this Fourth of July. Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity, which is outraged, in the name of liberty, which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery -- the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate - I will not excuse." I will use the severest language I can command, and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slave-holder, shall not confess to be right and just. At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be denounced. What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all other days of the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mock; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation of the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States at this very hour. Go search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival. About Me: Frederick Douglass was the best known and most influential black leader of the 1800s. Born a slave in Maryland, he escaped to the North in 1838. He traveled to Massachusetts and settled in New Bedford, working as a laborer to support himself. In 1841, he attended a convention of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery Society and quickly came to the attention of its members, eventually becoming a leading figure in the New England anti-slavery movement. In 1852, the leading citizens of Rochester asked him to give a speech as part of their Fourth of July celebrations. He accepted the invitation. In his speech, however, Douglass delivered a scathing attack on the hypocrisy of a nation celebrating freedom and independence with speeches, parades and platitudes, while, within its borders, nearly four million humans were being kept as slaves. Intuit's Vibe Race To The Bottom (Excerpts) By Drew Westen Is the Supreme Court justifying discrimination? In a 5-4 decision on Monday (Ricci v. DeStefano), the Supreme Court, splitting along ideological lines, ruled that resegregating fire departments based on a procedure known to do so when other procedures are available is not only reasonable but irreversible by a city as long as the rules for doing so were set out in advance and bear any relationship, however distant, to the requisites of the job. Overturning the opinions of all the lower courts that had reviewed the case, along with decades of legislation and case law since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the court opined that the city was concerned about the results only because it was worried about lawsuits from black firefighters, and in so doing "turned a blind eye to evidence supporting the exams' validity." Thus, the underlying assumption of the majority decision is that an exam that produces racial differences that other tests do not similarly find is a valid exam. Until the Ricci decision, if you had reason to believe that reliance on one criterion or test had led, or is likely to lead, one group of people to be unfairly affected, you had an obligation to try to find or design a better way of making the decision that didn't build in that bias--whether that bias produced a leadership team resembling a cross-section of the NBA or the PGA before Tiger Woods. The question the Supreme Court was actually ruling on was a simple one: Is it really plausible that only members of one racial group are capable of leadership, particularly in a diverse city with a diverse fire department? The majority concluded that it is. It argued not only that the multiple-choice exam was a valid predictor of performance, but that one can assume it is at least as valid as the procedures used by most other fire departments that don't produce such racially lopsided results, even more real-life assessment procedures akin to a firefighting "flight simulator." I don't personally know the five justices in the majority on the Ricci decision, although I feel reasonably confident that they, like most Americans, are people of good faith, who strongly believe that no one should be discriminated against in this country based on their race, ethnicity, or gender. But the Supreme Court demonstrated this week that you don't have to hold consciously racist beliefs to make decisions that promote discrimination based on race-- stridently validating a test whose outcomes precisely match the outcomes reached 50 years ago when employers were purposefully using discriminatory procedures. Their decision seems to illustrate the unconscious prejudices that psychologists have been studying for two decades, which could explain the readiness of the majority of the court to believe that in a racially diverse city with a racially diverse fire department, it is perfectly plausible that the best candidates for leadership are all white. These kinds of unconscious biases, which most of us share to one degree or another (as when I reflexively check my wallet if a young black man accidentally bumps into me in a crowded train), are the contemporary legacy of Jim Crow in a society that has come a very long way since 1964. They are the kinds of biases that lead to stiffer sentences for criminals who commit the same crime depending on the darkness of their skin and the extent to which their facial features are more African; the greater likelihood that a young white male with a criminal record will get called for a job than a young black male without a record; or the fact that presenting the face of a black man subliminally leads to activation of fear circuitry in most white people's brains. That is where most prejudice lives today--in the dark recesses of our minds, not in our conscious values. Unfortunately, the right to make decisions based on unconscious prejudices, which produce outcomes identical to those made by people with consciously racist intent five decades ago, was affirmed today by the Supreme Court. Perhaps Judge Sotomayor is more badly needed on that court than any of us could have imagined. Drew Westen is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University, founder of Westen Strategies, and author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. To read this article in its entirety, visit www.tnr.com. News You Use Beef Recall On Wednesday, federal health officials reported that at least twelve people have been hospitalized in connection with E. coli in beef. This latest E. coli outbreak comes on the heels of a Toll House refrigerated cookie dough recall, and it expands a June 24 recall of more than 41,000 pounds of beef In the latest beef recall, at least two of the twelve people hospitalized suffered kidney failure. People have been reported sick in nine states. The suspected beef was produced by JBS Swift Beef Co. of Greeley, Colorado. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of people reported ill so far is 23. On Sunday, JBS Swift recalled about 380,000 pounds of beef. As part of the recall, the Kroger Co. said earlier this week that it is recalling packages of meat with "sell by" dates of April 27 to June 1 in the Cincinnati-Dayton region that includes northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana; and in western Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Illinois and eastern Missouri. The company said the suspect beef was sold under its store brands in more than a dozen states. Kroger-owned Food 4 Less stores in the Chicago area, Fry's stores in Arizona and Smith's stores in Arizona, Utah, and other western states were also included in the recall. Other grocery retailers also affected include Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford Supermarkets and Quincy, Massachusetts-based Stop & Shop. Hannaford has urged customers in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont to check freezers for the recalled beef. Disgruntled says: The Founding Fathers codified white supremacy by legalizing slavery. In drafting the US constitution, they were not so crass as to call it slavery or white supremacy. It is known as the Three-Fifths or Great Compromise. This compromise or gentlemen's agreement, which made slavery legal, is what strict constructionists mean when referring to the founders' original intent, i.e., the founders desired white supremacy for future generations. For their progeny, the US Constitution is the greatest document ever written, after all, it preserves their interest. Any constitutional lawyer worth his/her salt knows this. Furthermore, they know that legal slavery, under a strict construction, never ended, because the nation never repealed the Great Compromise, nor did it dismantle the institutions that keep it alive and allows it to thrive throughout the ages. We can make all kinds of sweeping declarations, pretend this nation is a democracy when it is in fact a r epublic built on slavery, and pass off efforts to preserve white supremacy as attempts to prevent reverse discrimination, but in the final analysis, we know the truth. Everything that is done maintains a status quo of inequality enshrined in the US Constitution. Disgruntled feels: Fat! On Wednesday, the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new report that examines obesity in the United States. On a state-by-state basis, Mississippi, one of the nation's poorest states, tops the chart in the percentage of fat people. According to the report, more than one in four adults is obese in thirty-one (31) states. We know the problem lies in diet and a lack of physical activity. But, I have a theory that requires a more in-depth examination of the content of the foods we eat. Most of our meat comes from animals that grow to maturity in feedlots. Chickens, cows and pigs are shot full of growth hormones and antibiotics to bring them to market and our dinner table far faster than normal. The hormones are imbedded in the tissue of the animals. Supposedly, Americans love their marbled beef. The growth hormones in that beef, poultry and pork continue to work long after the animal has been slaughtered . Think about it! The meat industry is not just fattening up the animals they bring to the market; they are fattening us up too. Thus, America has millions of fat folks, young and old, walking around looking like beef on the hoof, thanks in large measure to the growth hormones they eat. Disgruntled wants to know: A tennis fan, I watched as much of the past fortnight of Wimbledon as possible, keeping up with the women and men's singles and doubles. When I could not catch a match on television, I turned to the Internet for results and commentary. At the beginning of the slam, I checked out the draws. On learning that the Williams sisters - Venus and Serena - were seated in opposite halves of the draw, the possibility of an all-sister final played in the back of my mind. On Saturday, the sisters met for the fourth time on Centre Court to determine the women's single champion. Serena prevailed to capture her third Wimbledon title. Later that afternoon, the sisters teamed up and successfully defended their doubles title. Without a doubt, these women are the world's best female tennis players. With that said, wouldn't it be awesome, if our new black president eschewed looking Bush-like in this instance and congratulated these black Americans on their histo ric accomplishment? **************************************************** For comments, questions or to unsubscribe, email thedish at ga.net. ***************************************************** From josekamanthe at gmail.com Sun Jul 5 23:52:10 2009 From: josekamanthe at gmail.com (josephine Ndambuki) Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:52:10 -0700 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] QUOTE OF THE DAY! Message-ID: hi all what an inspiration!!!, has it ever worked for you in any situation? * "If i have the belief that i can do it, i will surely acquire the capacity to do it. 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The wound is inflicted on me because in the ill-fated 2007 elections, I campaigned for Raila Odinga trusting he would be a better President than Mwai Kibaki. But like Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmainejad, Mr. Kibaki and his cronies rigged the elections. The rigging turned the country into a theater of the absurd, a human slaughter-house. Thanks to the after-election orgies and ensuing mass murders, we placed on Raila Odinga the insignia of leadership - he became the Prime Minister as enshrined in the Annan Pact. Lest we forget, ODM and its affiliates are the majority in Kenya's Parliament. Raila Odinga, as one of Kenya's foremost executives, represents a failed attempt in leadership - complete lack of the spirit of public service. Now let's comb the facts: Since the 2007 elections, floods of destitute IDPs still wallow in homelessness and absolute penury - suffering indescripabale. I believe that Raila Odinga and his ODM counterparts have the wherewithal to enact laws in the parliament to help resettle our brothers and sisters who are refugees in their own country. None, including the noisemaking, Ababu Namwamba, has said anything about the plight of the IDPs. Raila Odinga, the PM, has been dead silent on the issue of IDPs- the same as Mr. Kibaki, the President, and all our MPs. But in a couple of years, Mr. Odinga will return to Kenyans to ask them to vote for him as Kenya's 4th President. Lest we forget, the role of government and the country's top CEO, the President, is to protect its people - from external and internal insecurity - like the cause of the current IDPs situation in Kenya. We elect our supreme legislative body, Parliament, with the express purpose of protecting us from executive profligacy. I do not say in vain our parliamentarians have become the most ruthless suckers of our blood. It?s true we have paid increasingly crushing taxes to ostensibly ensure that the enslaving yoke around our shoulders is heavier. Where's the PM/President/theParliament/the Judiciary? How has our tax money been appropriated? It's been channeled into endless pipes of unholy personal accounts, presided over by our political and religious leaders. Public money endlessly harvested into the putrefaction of stinking political theft on the watch of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga - and yes, the leeches who constitute the Parliament. The greatest irony is that no member of Kenya's Parliement pays the taxes whence they get access to the ivory towers in which they live. As your mother, the matoke/omena/sukumawiki seller is harrassed in order to pay taxes on the peanuts accruing after burning in the scorching sun of Kibera and Othaya, her own MP who earns a million shillings a month doesn't pay a dime in taxes. Likely, the politician's businesses do not pay taxes - or at least the whole amount. Do you pay taxes, Mr. Prime Minister/Mr. President? Yet my ulcer-causing concern is that Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki are presiding over a thieving organization called Kenya Government, blissfully so unsightly of the corruption therein. It's the same thing all our MPs are doing - openly stealing from us, emptying our public coffers through executive profligacy and outright corruption. Like failure to pay taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, how would you morally enforce the Tax Code without paying taxes? Last Sunday the Archbishop of Nairobi read from the Holy Bible that all governments exist by the will of God. This was the pious prelate on whom millions of Kenyans depended for spiritual guidance. As he preached that we give to Caeser what belonged to Ceaser and to God what belonged to Him, he seemed completely unmoved by our suffering. Actually, the tithe, the sadaka and other offerings are another form of taxation without representation. The Archbishop urged his flock to kneel so they prayed to God to bless the leeches that we call leaders. As I listened, indignation was causing a legitimate hurricane of discontent in my disturbed thoughts. It was a sermon that flew in a direction contrary to the Church?s moral code that the only power in heaven or on earth to be saluted is one that breaks the chains and liberates God?s people. In the Archbishop?s sermon, the piety of our sacrements was defiled. To pray for an oppressive regime seemed to help the growth of robbers, legislative conmen, dealers in symony, real estate grabbers, corrupt tax collectors, and those who confined our children to eternal pits of death. In fact I concluded that the Archbishop?s preeminence was no more able than the ardor of the corrupt leeches to withstand the course of piety. So why did Raila Odinga get saved the other day? To look at corruption and do nothing, even to legitimize it? To let Kibaki's government continue to destroy our country? To look at the suffering IDP's and smile as a leader from the line of legendary Ramogi and Lwanda Magere and Gor Mahia? Raila, like President Kibaki and the Parliament, is a swindler of Kenya's public resources! Raila Odinga's foremost promise during the election was to work and finish the stalled constitutional review, end corruption, and install projects to breathe life into our dying instituitional infrastructure. Unfortunately, the son of Ramogi seems undecided on what to do as PM. I'm saying that Raila Odinga does not know what his role as PM is. I also don't know why we finance the PM portfolio in Kenya's fragile political outfit. For the record, Raila Odinga's 20 years as MP for Langata don't seem to have been very productive or of any practical use to the constituents of Langata. In that period, the dimensions of Kibera's slums enlarged and its residents were further buried in deeper graves of absolute decadence. Based on Mr. Odinga's record and performance as the CEO of the Langata Constituency, I find it impossible to reconcile my conscience with the fact that this Kenyatta-Moi-Kibaki-like inept Chief is the one many Kenyans are touting for the country's top CEO in 2012. It would be giving Mwai Kibaki an unprecedented third term of additional socio-politico-religio-economic plunder of our country. The other day Raila Odinga gave us a recipe of the food he is going to cook for us as President if he is lucky to win elections against another tribal nincompoop, say, Uhuru Kenyatta in 2012. He removed his sister from her work as professor of Chemistry in the University of Nairobi and sent her as executive as Consulor Officer, California. Perhaps the Premier's preparing her to be Kenya's Ambassador when he is elected President in 2012. Nepotism will still stink as bad, even when "called by another name." Yet some idiots, leeches unimaginable, have come out to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, all blogs to position themselves for the free manna of 2012, telling us they'll be better leader. Balderdash! Absolute crap, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta! Mr. Rutto! Martha Karua! Kalonzo Musyoka! You all stink! Kenyans, it's time for us to look for better leaders from the 37 million Kenyans excluding the Nairobi leeches we fondly refer to as our leaders - the Parliament and the Executive. Watch this forum, my dear countrymen/women. Henry Gichaba, strategizing for 2012, somewhere in the forests of North Carolina. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? SkyDrive?: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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So all three men went separate ways to > gather fruits.* > > *Kenyatta came back and said to the king, "I brought 10 apples".* > > *The king then explained the trail to him, "you have to shove (swallow) the > 10fruits up your butt without any expression on your face or you will be > eaten".* > > o *The first apple went in ................ * > > o *But on the second one he winced in pain. * > > o *So he was killed.* > > *Moi arrived and showed the king ten berries. When the king explained the > trial to him.* > > o *he thought that this should be easy * > > o *1.......2........3.......4.....5.........6.......7.....8.......9 * > > o *and on the tenth berry he burst out in laughter and was killed.* > > *Moi and Kenyatta met in heaven and Kenyatta asked Moi, "why did you laugh, > you almost got away with it?"* > > *Moi replied, "I couldn't help it, I saw Kibaki coming with pineapples".Have > a fruitful day!!!!!* > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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I am more puzzled about the position of the advance planners and organizers of the 2007 coup election.? It?known people who?tops the list?should be President Kibaki with cohorts and cartels, his networks known as the "EATERS" who in all fairness should be suspect number one, who should be arraigned first before anybody else to head to Hague.? They are the ones the very cause of the problem in Kenya.? ? I quite dont understand whats going on now.....It beats my logics.? It now looks like, the war is between the poor and the rich.? The poor will struggle at the mercy of God to reclaim their stolen and hijacked Country Kenya from the hands of the corrupt rich who have Auctioned Kenya with all its resources and assets - so the poor must remain poor and eventually die and perish. ? What has Ocampo done? given Kenya extension for one more year???????? ? Sad to say........that people have decided to look the other way instead of facing reality.? God says, the truth shall set you free. ? Keep on keeping on with the pressure, we shall overcome some day.......... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ICC Prosecutor gives post-election suspects more time Updated 23 hr(s) 21 min(s) ago Related Stories Poll chaos: Team to meet ICC prosecutor Churches push for The Hague By Martin Mutua Perpetrators of post-election violence can heave a sigh of relief following a one-year reprieve after which their cases would be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecution. The Kenyan delegation to The Hague yesterday met ICC Prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo who gave the Government a chance to set up a special tribunal, as recommended in the Waki Report, saying the ICC was a court of last resort. During the meeting, it was agreed that the Government would use the 12 months? extension to employ all judicial mechanisms with the help of Parliament to deal with perpetrators of A statement released after the meeting said: "If there is no parliamentary agreement, and in accordance with the Kenya?s commitment to end impunity of those responsible for the most serious crimes, the Government of Kenya will refer the situation to the prosecutor in accordance with Article 14 of the Rome Statute." The ICC prosecutor, who met the delegation in his office at The Hague, also disclosed that his office was conducting preliminary examination of the situation in Kenya as announced on February 5, last year. "The Prosecutor reiterated that crimes allegedly committed in Kenya after the 2007 elections may fall within the jurisdiction of the ICC and warrant investigations and prosecutions," added a statement signed by Ocampo and Cabinet ministers Mutula Kilonzo (Justice), James Orengo (Lands), and Attorney-General Amos Wako. However, the meeting agreed that in accordance with the Rome Statute that establishes the ICC and to which the Government is a signatory, the Kenyan authorities were primarily responsible for investigations and prosecutions. "The Waki Commission has recommended the setting up of a special tribunal. The ICC is a court of last resort," the statement added. According to the minutes of the meeting, the delegation and the prosecutor resolved that should the Government carry out genuine judicial proceedings against those responsible, the office of the ICC will have no reason to intervene. At the same time the Kenyan delegation preferred and agreed to provide Ocampo with, among other things, a report on the status of investigations and prosecutions arising out of post-election violence by the end of September. They also agreed to provide him with any other information he requests for preliminary examination. The delegation also agreed to provide Ocampo with information on measures to ensure the safety of victims and witnesses, pending the completion of "suitable judicial proceedings". The Waki findings were synthesised in a list that is said to include a number of politicians, including ministers and businessmen who either incited or funded the mayhem. The envelope carrying the names was handed over to Dr Annan. Further investigations and prosecution was recommended. The Government is also required to provide him with modalities for conducting national investigations and prosecutions of those responsible for the violence through a special tribunal or other judicial mechanisms adopted by Parliament over the next 12 months. But in a telephone interview from The Hague, Mr Orengo told The Standard on Saturday that the extension of the deadline should not be viewed as a reprieve for the perpetrators. He said the ICC has confirmed that it has conducted and was continuing preliminary investigations in Kenya. The minister distanced ODM from reports that the Government has a ?third option? of creating a special division within the High Court to try the perpetrators. Others who attended the meeting with Ocampo were Justice Assistant Minister William Cheptumo, Justice PS Amina Mohammed, Prime Minister Raila Odinga?s coalition advisor Miguna Miguna, and Kenyan Ambassador to The Netherlands Ruthie Rono. The implication of the delay is yet to attract public response, as a number of MPs contacted last night were unwilling to comment. Those who did, Like Nominated MP George Nyamweya, said the matter can be resolved through the local judicial system. ? ? Read all about: International Criminal Court The Hague Louis Moreno-Ocampo ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? Days numbered for post-election crimes Updated 5 hr(s) 29 min(s) ago Related Stories MPs vow to shoot down Motion on local tribunal Ill-gotten wealth no longer safe abroad Coalition is united in sabotaging special tribunal Kenya Team At The Icc 3/07/09 By David Ohito It is turning out that Kenya may not have got a one-year reprieve to bring the perpetrators of last year?s post-election violence to book. The agreed minutes of the meeting that are posted on the International Criminal Court (ICC) website indicate that Kenya would, by end of September, provide the prosecutor with "a report on the current status of investigations and prosecutions arising out of the post-election violence and any other information requested by the prosecution of the ICC to perform its preliminary examinations." Ocampo also expects information on plans for conducting national investigations and prosecutions for those responsible for the violence through a special tribunal or other judicial mechanisms adopted by Parliament with clear benchmarks over the next 12 months. The minutes go on: "In the alternative, if there is no parliamentarian agreement, and in accordance with the Kenyan commitment to end impunity of the most responsible of the most serious crimes, the Government of Kenya will refer the situation to the prosecutor in accordance with article 14 of the Rome Statute." This would effectively mean that the trial of the prime suspects of the violence could be referred to The Hague if Parliament shoots down another attempt to pass the Bill to set up a local tribunal. It has also emerged that the Government delegation to The Hague had serious disagreements when they met former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. As a consequence, one minister was forced to withdraw a remark after calling the chief mediator a "dictator" over Annan?s insistence on timelines within which a local tribunal must be operational. War crimes But the group, which included ministers Mutula Kilonzo (Justice) and James Orengo (Lands) and Attorney General Amos Wako, could not agree easily on the nature of election offences to be tried although the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed it had undertaken preliminary investigations on crimes against humanity. But the ICC, sources say, ruled out genocide and war crimes as there is no evidence that these crimes took place. A minister in the delegation is said to have referred to Annan as a "dictator" during the meeting with Louis Moreno Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the ICC in The Hague, Netherlands. Ocampo is reported to have taken offence over the comment and demanded a retraction, which was granted. The delegation visited Annan in Geneva first before their appointment with Ocampo, and detoured through Geneva again before making their way back to Nairobi. But the delegation failed to convince Ocampo that Kenya would carry out genuine trials to meet the standards of the Rome Statute. Kilonzo and Orengo failed to reach consensus on the push for the establishment of a special division of the High Court to try post-poll offenders. ODM distanced itself from the initiative. "There has been no Cabinet agreement or discussions about creation of the Special Division of the High Court. If one has been mooted, then ODM is not party to it and no consensus has been reached," Orengo said. Sources privy to the Hague meeting said even drafting minutes of the agreement proved difficult as they had to be amended several times to take care of the interests of the coalition partners. But Orengo dismissed the claim that the new deadline for the establishment of a local tribunal had been extended by one year. New extension Orengo said Kenya was given the deadline of September to furnish the ICC with information on measures put in places to ensure the safety of victims and witnesses. The Justice Philip Waki-led Commission that investigated post-poll violence first set December 17 last year as the deadline for the formation of laws outlining a local tribunal. Subsequently, the Government was to establish a tribunal within 45 days and hire personnel to run it. But the plan ran into trouble when the Bill seeking to entrench the tribunal in the Constitution was overwhelmingly rejected by Parliament in February. Had the Bill sailed through and the tribunal established, its first sitting would have been on March 1. Annan stepped in and extended the deadline to August after which he threatened to forward the names of chief perpetrators of post-election violence to the ICC. He later set the August 30 deadline, whose new extension is in contention. ? ?Read all about: ICC post-election violence The Hague local tribunal ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Sat Jul 4 10:55:04 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 07:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Mariga "Diaspora spokeperson " very disturbing! Message-ID: <417020.59174.qm@web51902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Janet, ? I responded to your question two times, and very professionally, with evidential proof, but you ignored my response, you continued to pester.? This third one, I thought you were now provocative and you needed the kind of such response to engage you.? You did not need a balanced fair constructive answer commentary?rather, but I thought at best you needed fumbo to open your eyes so you engage your brain, that you know we know whose interest you are serving, that its?not for the majority in this forum.? You Ask For It.?....... ? For your information, I did not react.? Just so you should know, at every stage of conversation or debate, there is?change of tone that add flavor to fit with the elevation and sequence of the debate.? Thats what make a debate juicy.? I have not insulted you like one person purported in response.? I just gave an example of natural things we see around everyday.......Inzi ya fuata harufu ya mavi.......it is just?a true saying......We have rot in the Coalition Government and it is smelling. We must clean it up so there should be no inzi's flying all over the place.? Dont you think so?......nyar joka Kisii.? An akya French, anyalo mana wacho Kiswahili, Dholuo kod English.? The Poor must own that which belong to them.? Thats what I am running my mouth for.? To get rid of these corrupt rich stubborn giants, we know it will not be easy, but we are determined.? ? These rich people have connects that behave like flies all over the world. If I do not say it, no one will. ? I am running my mouth because thats who I am.? I volunteered to run my mouth as spokesperson on behalf.........thats what it is.......and making the loudest noise.....It spells or means exactly what the title stands for....... someone who talks and rants endlessly...... talking on behalf of those who cannot talk for themselves or who have decided to remain quite...........so if you can talk for yourself, sure enough,?you do not need my volunteer services.........we both can belong to the forum and just talk....keep debating why you think your cartel connect is better to stay in power to continue to suppress the poor........and I will say why the Mafia who owns the cartels connection should go to Hague......we both need to show our expertise in talking.........just?making constructive talk with sensible material that can help with speeding up the Hague...........but take note again that spectators in this same?forum also vary......and again remember, in this same forum we are a mixture of those professionals that represent the cartel connects?of those representing the majority poor who have suffered in the hands of the Mafia and their cartels with their connects.? Thats the different.??Though we are all Kenyans, yet there must appear?a winner at the end of it all............this time round, with our poverty, our mouth, speaketh for us............we are determined, we will defeat the rich with all their money.........we will only use the gift of mouth God gave us to use?in wisdom as a weapon to fight the mighty. So Dada Janet, jua tu kwamba nitafungua mdomo yangu wazi mpaka tupate CHANGE tunayoitaka.? ukipenda niite DOMO DOMO hiyo pia sawa, lakini huu ndio wakati wa kusema ukweli, ukweli mtupu, Mungu atusaidie. So I take it, I am a professional mouther. ? I have heard a lot about you and your network, I know the kind of person you are and yes, I?know you have recided in USA for a very long time. But question, where were you when Kenya was burning and it needed immediate fire brigade, an immediate intervention to quench and stabilize the fire?? Are you therefore, not those who have been sponsored by masters of the cartels, who are ejoying the loot of tax payers money to watch over for the cartels connection?? Are you not those, who when the fire has been put off temporarily, and because you have been a long timer in the USA, now want to jump onto the boat to stear in the cockspit for the cartels connections? Do you think the cartels connects are happy that, since I do not belong to their network, they should find ways to Rock The Boat and get someone else of their own to steer the boat, by sending the likes of you to question my position and how I became The Diaspora Spokesperson?? ? Well, well, the rest you have said are totally irrelevant.......just know for now.......I am The Diaspora Spoksperson, and the title will remain that way for sometime. ? Dada Janet, na we pia toa point yako useme kwanini wewe ndio unafaa na hichi kiti changu nilicho nawiri kwa upungufu na hofu uliokuweko wakati dhiki lilitu kumba? Ama kama unamfikiria ndugu yako mwingine au mkartel connect mwenzako nae pia sema kwanini huyo unae mchagua ndie ana qualify kwa hichi kiti ambalo nimeli kanyagia kwa hivi sasa?? Uwanja u wazi. ? Its a conversational debate. ? Cheers! ! ! ! ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Sat, 7/4/09, Janet mafunga wrote: From: Janet mafunga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Mariga "Diaspora spokeperson " very disturbing! To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 6:58 AM N'importe quoi? Woiiii,,, Now there are her true colours. ? Mama, wow you have totally gone overboard with your email. Your email below is unacceptable and rude and YOU, mama.... ?are not fit to be in whatever position you are. ? If you react like this to anyone who questions you what kind of a leader do you think you are. How different are you from the 'leaders' you keep telling off on the forums and other forums I have seen u contribute to? ? You definately do not stand for the views of Kenyans in Diaspora because I highly doubt we in the diaspora need someone like you running off her mouth just because someone questioned her. ? And if you cannot handle critism as a 'leader' mama,,,,, u need to drop it.. ? My reason for asking how u became the 'Diaspora Spokesperson' is I am also a Kenyan in Diaspora for the last many years. And it definately is my right to know when someone purports to speak on MY behalf. If you cannot handle people questioning you... then change ur title Madam to 'whatever city it is that voted for you spokesperson'? Put to good use, a Diaspora Spokesperson can do us alot of good. But you mama are proving to be like some politicians I know who when power gets into their heads start behaving clandey... ? --- On Fri, 7/3/09, edellotieno at yahoo.com wrote: From: edellotieno at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Mariga "Diaspora spokeperson " very disturbing! To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 3:49 PM Dear YPs I don't know who this Judy Mariga is. I have been following some of her comments on this forum which she always signs off as "Diapora Spokesperson "and i must say some are really disturbing! The Kenyan diaspora is a really large population spread all over the world and it is such a bammer that some lone ranger somewhere declares herself our spokes person and goes ahead to write some ridiculous statements! Anyway to cut the long story short Ms.Mariga since you are "an socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless" according to of your threads!I wonder WHY? you attempt to intimidate and even insult Janet with the below e-mail for questioning the LEGITIMACY of your title.Secondly this is a young professionals forum to exchange ideas, thoughts and resources in a civil manner!If you get jittery and start hulling insults just because someone is not in agreement with you i am tempted to think you are in the wrong place! Thank you Edell Otieno Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ?Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:28 AM --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Janet mafunga wrote: Janet, ? Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni.? Utaendelea ku wonder. ? Ukistaajabu ya Musa,?utaona ya Firauni....... ? Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao peni peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi inaendelea wapende wasipende. ? Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za rent...... ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ? ? ? ? From: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:23 AM Now sometimes?I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as Kenyans in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title and didnt get an answer or did?I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a chairman, treasurer etc? It would be nice to know if we in Diaspora have such a committee to represent our views etc. ? Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do you give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out and why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and all.... you still think this way.. Hmmmm ? For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having gone through PEV it needs to start from ourselves. ? Janet --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: From: Mark Kiyaka Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:17 PM It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it. I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > Odinga.? It is unfortunate that he?cannot share his wealth?to donate some of > it?to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > improve lives.? All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and > powerful to grease his family.? He will silence anyone who dares him, and > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga.? Anything > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > Community there are driven?to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type.? This is why he colluded to let go > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means.? It is considered a done > deal what Raila says to the Luos.? He will continue to sell Luos like Slave > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the > loot.? He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. ?He cheated Kibera people to > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs.? Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > trouble at Migingo.?Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > will remain?hanging on the fence the > rest of your life. But if you?are educated, you will die from frustration > and marginalization.? That is not what we want in the Millenium Development > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa.? PM > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > lives,?because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > stuff cut,?then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said.? PM > Raila make men pee in their pants.? I dont like that.......... > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > ?*********************************************************************************** > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > Andrew Mwanguhya > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > Mwanguhya > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair > at the absence of vegetables. > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > hovered over our planned trip. > kibera.jpg > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, > judging from his formal dressing. > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > dressing. > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > population density of 2000/hectare. > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at > angles only known to drunkards. > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > line. As if they were trains. > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little > left. > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > unattended. > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into > union with the thick mud. > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' > time. > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two > in unison. > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to > software, Kibera has it all. > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > differently. > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting > Kibera slum. > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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On 3rd July 2009 Mr. Elijah Kombo gave me Kshs 6,000.00 and Ms Janet Feldman sent me $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] then I sent my Landlord at KCDN Kshs 9,200.00 via Mpesa. I had given him Kshs 10,000.00 earlier in the day. Mr. Kombo had asked me to escort him to Lala SDA Church where he was going to be the Guest of Honour in a fund raising on 4th July 2009 for the church. ? Despite my own predicament at KCDN, I could not refuse to escort him. ? On 5th July 2009, Ms Arinolah EN sent me Kshs 2,000.00. And today, Mr. John Maina has said he is sending Kshs 1,500.00 in support. Mr. George Nyongesa and Mr. Okumba Miruka are getting in touch with me and I will acknowledge receipt. ? On behalf of KCDN, I want to extend our appreciation and thanks to these friends who have come to our aid. This is how we stand as at now; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 sending ? We are expecting more support from more Friends of KCDN so that we can effectively close this chapter and focus on our next programme; ?From talking to tasking, the Greening of Nairobi East; A KCDN Initiative?. ? On this day, we will be launching a tree planting programme where the pupils and the youth will each plant a tree and become personally responsible for its care. We have invited the Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources the Hon John N Michuki to preside over this function on 5th September 2009 at Montana/Calvary Grounds. ? On behalf of KCDN, I want to extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to all Friends of KCDN. You have been there for us all the times. We draw our strength from your support. ? Many thanks and blessings, ? Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, Email; komarockswatch at yahoo.com http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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And all the times we have a power crisis with several unexplained blackouts. That is governing, the Kenya Government style where planning is alien! But when planning takes centre stage, they are planning how to steal. ? Why should we have sugar crisis in Kenya? Why should we have water crisis in Kenya? Why should we have power crisis in Kenya? Bad governance. ? As we suffer all these, government ministers and their ministries are working very hard to come up with the next scandal. If it is not Goldenberg, it is Triton. If it is not Anglo-Leasing, it is Maize. If it is not at Kenya Airports Authority, it is at Kenya Pipeline Company. If it is not at National Cereals and Produce Board, it is at City Council of Nairobi. And they excel at this. They then complain about corruption. ? But when they catch one of their own with his hands in the till and his mouth still powdered, they excuse him and blame the computers and mathematics. They protect themselves in our own parliament. ? In the streets, at home, at work, in the bars and in the buses, Kenyans barely survive. They have been left to fend for themselves. We pay taxes that end up feeding the ruling class, not offering services to us. Our government signs for loans that do not reach the people and the intended projects. Grants that are given by friendly governments and donors find their way back to Europe in private bank accounts. Can you imagine that Kenya has a debt balance of Kshs 1 trillion? Yet our leaders are some of the wealthiest in the world! ? With a cabinet so big, the amount of money we spend on these people is just amazing for a country where water is a crisis, electric power not guaranteed, sugar in short supply, maize very expensive to buy, fuel at the mercy of cartels, bottled water priced more than fuel and traffic management in a shambles. What is so difficult about managing traffic? The only problem we have is that the traffic police do not go to the roads to manage traffic and punish traffic offenders; they go to the roads to collect their daily bread. ? Yet, Kenyans are heavily taxed to pay for provision of services. And every 5 years, we routinely, like robots, head to the polling stations to vote for these same people! Give me a break. ? This calls for one thing; action. Kenyans must now stop whining and complaining. We must move from talking to tasking. We must task our youth and parents with initiatives that will move our country forward. We must stop listening to the politicians, their knowledge is slippery. They have soiled hands and they are contagious with bad experience. ? They must not play us against each other for their sake. Kikuyus must not fight for Kibaki because he is a Kikuyu. Luos must not fight for Raila because he is a Luo. Kambas must not fight for Kalost because he is Kamba. These guys are the same; Heartless and visionless. They love Kenya not. They all love their stomachs more. Let us do the opposite; Love Kenya More. ? The kind of experience our politicians have is the kind that has led Kenya bleeding all these 46 years. They have no knowledge to remove Kenya from where they have driven us up till now. They are in a hole but sadly, they are still digging, hoping that they will come out. ? Kenyans must reverse this trend. This is our lives and we do not owe it to the politicians. Do you imagine for a second if we put a new CEO in office, one person who has never been part of this visionless group? One person who does not have the kind of experience these guys have! ? Do you imagine for a second if we put a new CEO in office, one person who has a clear vision of uniting us as one people; one person who has a clear economic agenda in place that can transform Kenya to modern day Singapore? How do you feel when the economy of Somali is doing better than that of Kenya? ? Can we have one person as our CEO, the kind of person who will say no to corruption? We do not need KACC and such like corruption enhancing institutions. We only need the Kenya Police to be strengthened and made more robust and the CID to do what they are paid for; Criminal Investigation. I bet it is time we criminalized corruption in Kenya. We create several bodies to do the same thing as a subterfuge to crippling the process of the fight against corruption. We end up with institutions fighting each other, just like KACC and the State Law Office are doing now, as corruption and her princes walk scot free. ? If these guys have got it all wrong for the last 46 years, why should we listen to them any more? They have lost it and lost it big. If one of them is caught in the act, they find excuses to exonerate him by blaming tools of trade such as computers. If one of them gets arrested, taken to court and jailed, they are promptly released. Do you remember Margaret Gachara who was released on powers of presidential clemency? Or still, they form a commission of inquiry to examine how they stole. ? It is time we took a new route, one never trodden by these politician, and then we retrace our steps and for the next 46 years, we catch up with the rest of the world. That is when our children will be sure with their future. This calls for active participation in the management of our affairs by the Middle Class. Wake up from your slumber and join in reclaiming Kenya from these politicians. ? But under the obtaining circumstances, it is only the children of the politicians who will have a secure future, even if they are dandies. ? Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. --- On Sun, 7/5/09, Henry Gichaba wrote: From: Henry Gichaba Subject: [Siasa-Kenya] Raila Odinga: A Litany Of Misgivings In The Post-Moi Era. To: "Kassdiaspora Debate" , "Bidii Africa" , "SIASA" , "Public Eye" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Irene Kimunya" , "Gichaba Nyantino" , "Chweya Nyantino" Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 1:47 PM Dear Kenyans, I write to you wrapped up in the skin a wounded lion. The wound is inflicted on me because in the ill-fated 2007 elections, I campaigned for Raila Odinga trusting he would be a better President than Mwai Kibaki. But like Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmainejad, Mr. Kibaki and his cronies rigged the elections. The rigging turned the country into a theater of the absurd, a human slaughter-house. Thanks to the after-election orgies and ensuing mass murders, we placed on Raila Odinga the insignia of leadership - he became the Prime Minister as enshrined in the Annan Pact. Lest we forget, ODM and its affiliates are the majority in Kenya's Parliament. Raila Odinga, as one of Kenya's foremost executives, represents a failed attempt in leadership - complete lack of the spirit of public service. Now let's comb the facts: Since the 2007 elections, floods of destitute IDPs still wallow in homelessness and absolute penury - suffering indescripabale. I believe that Raila Odinga and his ODM counterparts have the wherewithal to enact laws in the parliament to help resettle our brothers and sisters who are refugees in their own country. None, including the noisemaking, Ababu Namwamba, has said anything about the plight of the IDPs. Raila Odinga, the PM, has been dead silent on the issue of IDPs- the same as Mr. Kibaki, the President, and all our MPs. But in a couple of years, Mr. Odinga will return to Kenyans to ask them to vote for him as Kenya's 4th President. Lest we forget, the role of government and the country's top CEO, the President, is to protect its people - from external and internal insecurity - like the cause of the current IDPs situation in Kenya. We elect our supreme legislative body, Parliament, with the express purpose of protecting us from executive profligacy. I do not say in vain our parliamentarians have become the most ruthless suckers of our blood. It?s true we have paid increasingly crushing taxes to ostensibly ensure that the enslaving yoke around our shoulders is heavier. Where's the PM/President/theParliament/the Judiciary? How has our tax money been appropriated? It's been channeled into endless pipes of unholy personal accounts, presided over by our political and religious leaders. Public money endlessly harvested into the putrefaction of stinking political theft on the watch of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga - and yes, the leeches who constitute the Parliament. The greatest irony is that no member of Kenya's Parliement pays the taxes whence they get access to the ivory towers in which they live. As your mother, the matoke/omena/sukumawiki seller is harrassed in order to pay taxes on the peanuts accruing after burning in the scorching sun of Kibera and Othaya, her own MP who earns a million shillings a month doesn't pay a dime in taxes. Likely, the politician's businesses do not pay taxes - or at least the whole amount. Do you pay taxes, Mr. Prime Minister/Mr. President? Yet my ulcer-causing concern is that Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki are presiding over a thieving organization called Kenya Government, blissfully so unsightly of the corruption therein. It's the same thing all our MPs are doing - openly stealing from us, emptying our public coffers through executive profligacy and outright corruption. Like failure to pay taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, how would you morally enforce the Tax Code without paying taxes? Last Sunday the Archbishop of Nairobi read from the Holy Bible that all governments exist by the will of God. This was the pious prelate on whom millions of Kenyans depended for spiritual guidance. As he preached that we give to Caeser what belonged to Ceaser and to God what belonged to Him, he seemed completely unmoved by our suffering. Actually, the tithe, the sadaka and other offerings are another form of taxation without representation. The Archbishop urged his flock to kneel so they prayed to God to bless the leeches that we call leaders. As I listened, indignation was causing a legitimate hurricane of discontent in my disturbed thoughts. It was a sermon that flew in a direction contrary to the Church?s moral code that the only power in heaven or on earth to be saluted is one that breaks the chains and liberates God?s people. In the Archbishop?s sermon, the piety of our sacrements was defiled. To pray for an oppressive regime seemed to help the growth of robbers, legislative conmen, dealers in symony, real estate grabbers, corrupt tax collectors, and those who confined our children to eternal pits of death.? In fact I concluded that the Archbishop?s preeminence was no more able than the ardor of the corrupt leeches to withstand the course of piety. So why did Raila Odinga get saved the other day? To look at corruption and do nothing, even to legitimize it? To let Kibaki's government continue to destroy our country? To look at the suffering IDP's and smile as a leader from the line of legendary Ramogi and Lwanda Magere and Gor Mahia? Raila, like President Kibaki and the Parliament, is a swindler of Kenya's public resources! Raila Odinga's foremost promise during the election was to work and finish the stalled constitutional review, end corruption, and install projects to breathe life into our dying instituitional infrastructure. Unfortunately, the son of Ramogi seems undecided on what to do as PM. I'm saying that Raila Odinga does not know what his role as PM is. I also don't know why we finance the PM portfolio in Kenya's fragile political outfit. For the record, Raila Odinga's 20 years as MP for Langata don't seem to have been very productive or of any practical use to the constituents of Langata. In that period, the dimensions of Kibera's slums enlarged and its residents were further buried in deeper graves of absolute decadence. Based on Mr. Odinga's record and performance as the CEO of the Langata Constituency, I find it impossible to reconcile my conscience with the fact that this Kenyatta-Moi-Kibaki-like inept Chief is the one many Kenyans are touting for the country's top CEO in 2012. It would be giving Mwai Kibaki an unprecedented third term of additional socio-politico-religio-economic plunder of our country. The other day Raila Odinga gave us a recipe of the food he is going to cook for us as President if he is lucky to win elections against another tribal nincompoop, say, Uhuru Kenyatta in 2012. He removed his sister from her work as professor of Chemistry in the University of Nairobi and sent her as executive as Consulor Officer, California. Perhaps the Premier's preparing her to be Kenya's Ambassador when he is elected President in 2012. Nepotism will still stink as bad, even when "called by another name." Yet some idiots, leeches unimaginable, have come out to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, all blogs to position themselves for the free manna of 2012, telling us they'll be better leader. Balderdash! Absolute crap, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta! Mr. Rutto! Martha Karua! Kalonzo Musyoka! You all stink! Kenyans, it's time for us to look for better leaders from the 37 million Kenyans excluding the Nairobi leeches we fondly refer to as our leaders - the Parliament and the Executive. 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We urge the Planning Minister Mr. Wycliffe Oparanya and relevant oversight state agencies to save the image of the impending noble exercise by carrying out random checks on senior officers recruited - with a view to weeding out incompetent ones recruited through corrupt ways and means. We are glad you are reading us. Editor Inside this issue ... at a quick glance! ? Best CEO 2009: Dr. Kipng'etich does public service proud ? Dr. Esther Getambu elected new Kara Vice Chairperson ? Kara strategic plan set for early September ? Coming soon - Mayors' "State of the City" addresses ? Corporate "Mr. Fix It" - Simba Colt's Dinesh Kotecha ? ... and much more! Best CEO 2009: Julius Kipng'etich does public service proud: The Kara team joins fellow Kenyans in congratulating the youthful Kenya_Wildlife_Service director Dr. Julius Kipng'etich on being named the best CEO of the year by the Company of the Year Awards (COYA) arm of the Kenya Institute of Management. Julius has truly done the public service proud - as the first CEO in the public sector to floor his erstwhile private sector counterparts. When The KARA Weekly Newsletter reached him for comment, he was brief and straight point (for those in the public service aspiring to follow in his footsteps), "build the team, work hard, learn from your mistakes and aim for the stars!", he concluded. Dr. Getambu elected new Vice Chairman at Kara: Dr. Esther Getambu is the new Vice Chairperson at KARA following a unanimous vote at the Kara governing council meeting held on 30th June 2009 at the Sarova Panafric hotel. Esther is a chairperson at the Mombasa-based New Nyali Residents Association is also the Coast Provincial Medical Officer of Health. She filled the position that had fallen vacant following election of Lord Andrew Enniskillen as the Alliance Chairman with effect from 11th December 2008. The Council meeting also ratified the membership of former Constitution of Kenya Review Commission Chairman Prof. Yash Pal Ghai as a member. KARA management and staff wish to congratulate both Dr. Getambu and Prof. Ghai on the honour bestowed upon them. We look forward to growing even stronger as the leading alliance in promoting access to effective, efficient and affordable public service delivery. KARA Strategic Plan Retreat Set for early September: The long-awaited Kara strategic plan retreat will now be held from 3rd to 4th September after the governing council gave a green light. Having been established in 2000 and turning 9 years of age, Kara is keen to strategically itself in being more relevant to the current socio-economic and even political dispensation. On this account, we wish to invite qualified individuals and firms to quote for managing the process of a new strategic plan for Kara. Interested applicants should forward their respective profiles and applications for consideration to jobs at kara.or.ke on or before 24th July 2009. Coming soon - Mayors' "State of the City" Addresses: The Kara concept of the Mayors "State of the City" Addresses will be convened after the Mayoral elections. Due to the ongoing campaigns for mayoral positions countrywide, and in line with our non-partisan and apolitical status, we are unable to participate in any such event that would give any of the candidates an undue added advantage. We, nonetheless, appreciate invitations accorded to us to attend such events. "Corporate Mr. Fix it" - Simba Colt's Dinesh Kotecha: In the next edition of KARA's Neighbourhood Kenya, we bring you the inspiring, powerful and untold story of Mr. Dinesh Kotecha, the Group General Manager at Simba Colt Group of Companies. Get to know why Dinesh is a "corporate Mr. Fix It", his new sobriquet from Neighbourhood Kenya - only in the July/August edition! 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URL: From paul.nyandoto at phsotey.fi Mon Jul 6 13:17:01 2009 From: paul.nyandoto at phsotey.fi (Paul Nyandoto) Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:17:01 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] Hurtling from crisis to crisis; The Kenya Government In-Reply-To: <327529.76296.qm@web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <327529.76296.qm@web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4A525BBD0200004F0001F039@mail.phks.fi> Folks, Kenyans are all corrupt. If not all, but majority of Kenyans are corrupt. Just start from teachers who force their female pupils to bed for good marks. Matatu being parked to extreme fulness just to get extra money. Churches are swindling taiths etc. Medicine being swindle for extra paying in hospitals. You just heard a church leader speaking almost nonsence. Top layer consumers in boarding schools etc. Voters are being bribed even on the voting days, some sell their votes before even voting. Getting a job without corruption is almost impossible in Kenya. A minister gives his relatives or friends jobs etc. Army or police or teachers training intake is full of loopeholes. There are a very small percentage of Kenyans who are not corrupt, but they are very hard to detect and most of them are very poor to dream of a presidential office in 2012. What we must know is that people`s talents differ, and to use a person without evaluating his fitness for a particular task especially presidential office just because one has taken a liking to him may bring about failure. And you can see this now taking place with Kibaki, Raila, Uhuru, Kalonzo even Ruto. Just open your eyes and please tell me among all these lots I have mentioned who among them have got his wealth through a justified way?. But still their tribes men support them, so who is corrupt?. Are they these leaders or their supporters. Folks these people (Kibaki, Kalonzo, Uhuru, Ruto, Karua, Raila etc) are nobody without supporters. The ordinary kenyan does not have yet the knowledge to develope their own country, they still think that one among these leaders will build kenya better. Personally I think it is a big sleeping lie. Just look at their IQ, who among them is thinking of a better Kenya?. We kenyans needs first of all is the capacity to judge the abilities of the people we need to rule us. It is a useless thinking for every tribe to come with a junk to be a leader of the repuiblic of Kenya. What I am again suprised to is this; The Mps are against a powerful president and they want a parliamentary system. Me I am again afriad of the parliamentary system because I want these Mps to pay tax just as any other person , but if they have power to decide, these robbers will have more power and they will not pay tax forever. They will just spend those taxes they collect from Kenyans. A new good constitution with checks and good institutions will save kenya. Job distribution can be done like this: In any office employment can happen like this: let say a luo, then the next must be a kikuyu, third a luhja, fourth, mkamba, fifth, Giriama, sixth, kalenjin etc. A pattern wheer an already employed tribe does not repaet in that office before you get a tribe who is not yet in that office. Kenyans have played with development like children do play with dirt. So this system will teach them how stupid the have been and finally you will find them speaking a national language in that office, not `Owadwa, wuodmin, or athere re nikwega etc`. Paul Nyandoto >>> odhiambo okecth 7/6/2009 7:56 >>> 3rd July 2009. Hurtling from crisis to crisis; The Kenya Government Today it is sugar crisis. Yesterday it was water crisis. And all the times we have a power crisis with several unexplained blackouts. That is governing, the Kenya Government style where planning is alien! But when planning takes centre stage, they are planning how to steal. Why should we have sugar crisis in Kenya? Why should we have water crisis in Kenya? Why should we have power crisis in Kenya? Bad governance. As we suffer all these, government ministers and their ministries are working very hard to come up with the next scandal. If it is not Goldenberg, it is Triton. If it is not Anglo-Leasing, it is Maize. If it is not at Kenya Airports Authority, it is at Kenya Pipeline Company. If it is not at National Cereals and Produce Board, it is at City Council of Nairobi. And they excel at this. They then complain about corruption. But when they catch one of their own with his hands in the till and his mouth still powdered, they excuse him and blame the computers and mathematics. They protect themselves in our own parliament. In the streets, at home, at work, in the bars and in the buses, Kenyans barely survive. They have been left to fend for themselves. We pay taxes that end up feeding the ruling class, not offering services to us. Our government signs for loans that do not reach the people and the intended projects. Grants that are given by friendly governments and donors find their way back to Europe in private bank accounts. Can you imagine that Kenya has a debt balance of Kshs 1 trillion? Yet our leaders are some of the wealthiest in the world! With a cabinet so big, the amount of money we spend on these people is just amazing for a country where water is a crisis, electric power not guaranteed, sugar in short supply, maize very expensive to buy, fuel at the mercy of cartels, bottled water priced more than fuel and traffic management in a shambles. What is so difficult about managing traffic? The only problem we have is that the traffic police do not go to the roads to manage traffic and punish traffic offenders; they go to the roads to collect their daily bread. Yet, Kenyans are heavily taxed to pay for provision of services. And every 5 years, we routinely, like robots, head to the polling stations to vote for these same people! Give me a break. This calls for one thing; action. Kenyans must now stop whining and complaining. We must move from talking to tasking. We must task our youth and parents with initiatives that will move our country forward. We must stop listening to the politicians, their knowledge is slippery. They have soiled hands and they are contagious with bad experience. They must not play us against each other for their sake. Kikuyus must not fight for Kibaki because he is a Kikuyu. Luos must not fight for Raila because he is a Luo. Kambas must not fight for Kalost because he is Kamba. These guys are the same; Heartless and visionless. They love Kenya not. They all love their stomachs more. Let us do the opposite; Love Kenya More. The kind of experience our politicians have is the kind that has led Kenya bleeding all these 46 years. They have no knowledge to remove Kenya from where they have driven us up till now. They are in a hole but sadly, they are still digging, hoping that they will come out. Kenyans must reverse this trend. This is our lives and we do not owe it to the politicians. Do you imagine for a second if we put a new CEO in office, one person who has never been part of this visionless group? One person who does not have the kind of experience these guys have! Do you imagine for a second if we put a new CEO in office, one person who has a clear vision of uniting us as one people; one person who has a clear economic agenda in place that can transform Kenya to modern day Singapore? How do you feel when the economy of Somali is doing better than that of Kenya? Can we have one person as our CEO, the kind of person who will say no to corruption? We do not need KACC and such like corruption enhancing institutions. We only need the Kenya Police to be strengthened and made more robust and the CID to do what they are paid for; Criminal Investigation. I bet it is time we criminalized corruption in Kenya. We create several bodies to do the same thing as a subterfuge to crippling the process of the fight against corruption. We end up with institutions fighting each other, just like KACC and the State Law Office are doing now, as corruption and her princes walk scot free. If these guys have got it all wrong for the last 46 years, why should we listen to them any more? They have lost it and lost it big. If one of them is caught in the act, they find e xcuses to exonerate him by blaming tools of trade such as computers. If one of them gets arrested, taken to court and jailed, they are promptly released. Do you remember Margaret Gachara who was released on powers of presidential clemency? Or still, they form a commission of inquiry to examine how they stole. It is time we took a new route, one never trodden by these politician, and then we retrace our steps and for the next 46 years, we catch up with the rest of the world. That is when our children will be sure with their future. This calls for active participation in the management of our affairs by the Middle Class. Wake up from your slumber and join in reclaiming Kenya from these politicians. But under the obtaining circumstances, it is only the children of the politicians who will have a secure future, even if they are dandies. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. --- On Sun, 7/5/09, Henry Gichaba wrote: From: Henry Gichaba Subject: [Siasa-Kenya] Raila Odinga: A Litany Of Misgivings In The Post-Moi Era. To: "Kassdiaspora Debate" , "Bidii Africa" , "SIASA" , "Public Eye" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Irene Kimunya" , "Gichaba Nyantino" , "Chweya Nyantino" Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 1:47 PM Dear Kenyans, I write to you wrapped up in the skin a wounded lion. The wound is inflicted on me because in the ill-fated 2007 elections, I campaigned for Raila Odinga trusting he would be a better President than Mwai Kibaki. But like Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmainejad, Mr. Kibaki and his cronies rigged the elections. The rigging turned the country into a theater of the absurd, a human slaughter-house. Thanks to the after-election orgies and ensuing mass murders, we placed on Raila Odinga the insignia of leadership - he became the Prime Minister as enshrined in the Annan Pact. Lest we forget, ODM and its affiliates are the majority in Kenya's Parliament. Raila Odinga, as one of Kenya's foremost executives, represents a failed attempt in leadership - complete lack of the spirit of public service. Now let's comb the facts: Since the 2007 elections, floods of destitute IDPs still wallow in homelessness and absolute penury - suffering indescripabale. I believe that Raila Odinga and his ODM counterparts have the wherewithal to enact laws in the parliament to help resettle our brothers and sisters who are refugees in their own country. None, including the noisemaking, Ababu Namwamba, has said anything about the plight of the IDPs. Raila Odinga, the PM, has been dead silent on the issue of IDPs- the same as Mr. Kibaki, the President, and all our MPs. But in a couple of years, Mr. Odinga will return to Kenyans to ask them to vote for him as Kenya's 4th President. Lest we forget, the role of government and the country's top CEO, the President, is to protect its people - from external and internal insecurity - like the cause of the current IDPs situation in Kenya. We elect our supreme legislative body, Parliament, with the express purpose of protecting us from executive profligacy. I do not say in vain our parliamentarians have become the most ruthless suckers of our blood. It?s true we have paid increasingly crushing taxes to ostensibly ensure that the enslaving yoke around our shoulders is heavier. Where's the PM/President/theParliament/the Judiciary? How has our tax money been appropriated? It's been channeled into endless pipes of unholy personal accounts, presided over by our political and religious leaders. Public money endlessly harvested into the putrefaction of stinking political theft on the watch of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga - and yes, the leeches who constitute the Parliament. The greatest irony is that n o member of Kenya's Parliement pays the taxes whence they get access to the ivory towers in which they live. As your mother, the matoke/omena/sukumawiki seller is harrassed in order to pay taxes on the peanuts accruing after burning in the scorching sun of Kibera and Othaya, her own MP who earns a million shillings a month doesn't pay a dime in taxes. Likely, the politician's businesses do not pay taxes - or at least the whole amount. Do you pay taxes, Mr. Prime Minister/Mr. President? Yet my ulcer-causing concern is that Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki are presiding over a thieving organization called Kenya Government, blissfully so unsightly of the corruption therein. It's the same thing all our MPs are doing - openly stealing from us, emptying our public coffers through executive profligacy and outright corruption. Like failure to pay taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, how would you morally enforce the Tax Code without paying taxes? Last Sunday the Archbishop of Nairobi read from the Holy Bible that all governments exist by the will of God. This was the pious prelate on whom millions of Kenyans depended for spiritual guidance. As he preached that we give to Caeser what belonged to Ceaser and to God what belonged to Him, he seemed completely unmoved by our suffering. Actually, the tithe, the sadaka and other offerings are another form of taxation without representation. The Archbishop urged his flock to kneel so they prayed to God to bless the leeches that we call leaders. As I listened, indignation was causing a legitimate hurricane of discontent in my disturbed thoughts. It was a sermon that flew in a direction contrary to the Church?s moral code that the only power in heaven or on earth to be saluted is one that breaks the chains and liberates God?s people. In the Archbishop?s sermon, the piety of our sacrements was defiled. To pray for an oppressive regime seemed to help the growth of robbers, legislative conmen, dealers in symony, real estate grabbers, corrupt tax collectors, and those who confined our children to eternal pits of death. In fact I concluded that the Archbishop?s preeminence was no more able than the ardor of the corrupt leeches to withstand the course of piety. So why did Raila Odinga get saved the other day? To look at corruption and do nothing, even to legitimize it? To let Kibaki's government continue to destroy our country? To look at the suffering IDP's and smile as a leader from the line of legendary Ramogi and Lwanda Magere and Gor Mahia? Raila, like President Kibaki and the Parliament, is a swindler of Kenya's public resources! Raila Odinga's foremost promise during the election was to work and finish the stalled constitutional review, end corruption, and install projects to breathe life into our dying instituitional infrastructure. Unfortunately, the son of Ramogi seems undecided on what to do as PM. I'm saying that Raila Odinga does not know what his role as PM is. I also don't know why we finance the PM portfolio in Kenya's fragile political outfit. For the record, Raila Odinga's 20 years as MP for Langata don't seem to have been very productive or of any practical use to the constituents of Langata. In that period, the dimensions of Kibera's slums enlarged and its residents were further buried in deeper graves of absolute decadence. Based on Mr. Odinga's record and performance as the CEO of the Langata Constituency, I find it impossible to reconcile my conscience with the fact that this Kenyatta-Moi-Kibaki-like inept Chief is the one many Kenyans are touting for the country's top CEO in 2012. It would be giving Mwai Kibaki an unprecedented third term of additional socio-politico-religio-economic plunder of our country. The other day Raila Odinga gave us a recipe of the food he is going to cook for us as President if he is lucky to win elections against another tribal nincompoop, say, Uhuru Kenyatta in 2012. He removed his sister from her work as professor of Chemistry in the Unive rsity of Nairobi and sent her as executive as Consulor Officer, California. Perhaps the Premier's preparing her to be Kenya's Ambassador when he is elected President in 2012. Nepotism will still stink as bad, even when "called by another name." Yet some idiots, leeches unimaginable, have come out to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, all blogs to position themselves for the free manna of 2012, telling us they'll be better leader. Balderdash! Absolute crap, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta! Mr. Rutto! Martha Karua! Kalonzo Musyoka! You all stink! Kenyans, it's time for us to look for better leaders from the 37 million Kenyans excluding the Nairobi leeches we fondly refer to as our leaders - the Parliament and the Executive. Watch this forum, my dear countrymen/women. Henry Gichaba, strategizing for 2012, somewhere in the forests of North Carolina. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? SkyDrive?: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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URL: From steveogeda at yahoo.co.uk Mon Jul 6 08:45:59 2009 From: steveogeda at yahoo.co.uk (steve ogeda) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 12:45:59 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: FINAL-JUDY Message-ID: <957654.14196.qm@web27208.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> @mwenda, please clear the air on this diaspora thing once and for all.what is it about?is it a club,society? who are these officials and whats its mandate? my2cents ? thank you --- On Sun, 5/7/09, michael mwenda wrote: From: michael mwenda Subject: [YP_Ke] FINAL-JUDY To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, 5 July, 2009, 6:35 PM ?hi all, > ?? > ?when i first raised my concerns about this fake diaspora spokes..bla bla,early march,everyone was up on me. > ?? > ?i have said in this forum before, kick out people who are out to cause conflict in this country called kenya, > ?just because they got other places to run to. > ?Unfortunately many may not embrace the need for such peace,until they step their feet out of kenya.......too bad,thats when one treasures kenya and appreciates our diversities and peace. > ?? > ?Once again let it be noted to all,this office of the diaspora exists but Judy Miriga is not the spokesperson,neither is she known by the > ?officials,kindly disregard her emails. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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They then gave the example of the Mathenge weed in Baringo and talked of how the herds of the Kalenjin are targetted with this. I asked; How about HIV/AIDS? They had all the answers and I was left silent. They talked about the origins of AIDS and how it was an experiment on Africans, to reduce the population of Africans. I asked about Loans and grants that the white man has given to Africa. And they knew that the loans and grants have been given to the post colonoal projects of the white man. They asked how come we have nothing in Africa and in Kenya to show for all that massive aid and loan. They know that the African signs for the loan and promptly steals the same for banking in the white mans bank and the white man does not complain. And I was convinced. If the old men, our parents know all this, then, where is the problem? Odhiambo T Oketch Komarock Nairobi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Mon Jul 6 18:43:10 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Fwd: SIGN-ON LETTER: US- Africa Engagement - A new Vision for President Obama Message-ID: <754197.23487.qm@web51903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? Sambaza......Sign and circulate to your joints or connections in order to collect enough signatures. ? Regards, ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? -----Original Message----- From: Rocco Puopolo To: Judy? Miriga, Sent: Mon, Jul 6, 2009 2:48 pm Subject: Fwd: SIGN-ON LETTER: US- Africa Engagement - A new Vision for President Obama Dear Colleagues, ? Attached is a sign-on letter urging a new U.S. engagement with Africa.? The letter has been drafted by a working group of Africa advocacy organizations including Africa Action, Transafrica Forum, Global Aids Alliance, Africa Faith and Justice Network, Priority Africa Network, American Friends Service Committee, Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, among others.? Our goal is to?send a clear message of a the way forward,?in advance of President's Obama's trip to Ghana (July 10-11). ? Please consider signing onto this document and share?it with your contacts.? We encourage both.organizational and individual endorsements ? To sign the letter: ? 1)? log into this website:??http://www.change.org/ips-dc/actions. ? or ? 2)? send a message to Kwaku at ips-dc.org (please?include the word endorsement in the subject line). ? ? We will be gathering signatures until Tuesday July 6, 2009. ? In Solidarity, ? Emira ? ? ? Emira Woods Foreign Policy In Focus Institute for Policy Studies 202 234-9382x232 www.fpif.org www.ips-dc.org ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amosogal at gmail.com Tue Jul 7 01:01:47 2009 From: amosogal at gmail.com (Lee Makwiny) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 08:01:47 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Mariga "Diaspora spokeperson " very disturbing! In-Reply-To: References: <452878.99666.qm@web65508.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <71c22e270907060423j1a22457p19531e825e1d0717@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <594ded440907062201g3aa88dbar47c2cca2ae8ff15a@mail.gmail.com> Who is challenging Judy Miriga for the position? In the meantime, let her coming in the acting capacity coz she stated clearly that she took over when NOBODY was willing. I think what Judy is saying it true. The only problem is that she is very combative in nature. These are characters that i think got from old FORD where she was the women's leader. On 7/6/09, ed moses wrote: > > *Let me see,....mmh, Judy, your explanation there to Janet was not > convincing but thats for her to decide.As far as this is concerned, I always > sense tinges of bitterness and unwarranted for reactions whenever you're > slightly challenged on a few things that inform some positions you have > assumed.how come?we live in a world where we are constantly challenged on > what we say, believe, do etc so the only noble thing to do is to positively > respond to these challenges to the best of your ability and leave the rest > to mother nature* > > On 7/6/09, Brodie R.M. Osome wrote: >> >> As a member of the Diaspora in Canada on the Board f Directors of Kenya >> Community in Ontario - www.kcocanada.org, I personally have never heard >> of this spokesperson for the Diaspora unless she is only focussed on >> Diaspora in USA - and that being said, there are VERY STRONG and POWERFUL >> rmifications in USA for ANYONE on their soil inspiring hate-mongering which >> I trusy she is aware of a self-grave she may be digging for herself. >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Mark Kiyaka wrote: >> >>> >>> Edell & Janet, >>> >>> Looking back this Ms. Mariga's reduculous statements and the way she >>> reacted to Janet, I am regreting and deeply embarassed at indulged in >>> her forum. >>> >>> WHO IS SHE? >>> >>> She is a con. Thats my conlusion. >>> >>> Mark >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:49 PM, wrote: >>> > Dear YPs >>> > I don't know who this Judy Mariga is. I have been following some of her >>> > comments on this forum which she always signs off as "Diapora >>> Spokesperson >>> > "and i must say some are really disturbing! >>> > The Kenyan diaspora is a really large population spread all over the >>> world >>> > and it is such a bammer that some lone ranger somewhere declares >>> herself our >>> > spokes person and goes ahead to write some ridiculous statements! >>> > Anyway to cut the long story short Ms.Mariga since you are "an >>> > socio/economic activist representing voices of many voiceless" >>> according to >>> > of your threads!I wonder WHY you attempt to intimidate and even insult >>> > Janet with the below e-mail for questioning the LEGITIMACY of your >>> > title.Secondly this is a young professionals forum to exchange ideas, >>> > thoughts and resources in a civil manner!If you get jittery and start >>> > hulling insults just because someone is not in agreement with you i am >>> > tempted to think you are in the wrong place! >>> > Thank you >>> > Edell Otieno >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Janet, >>> > >>> > Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni. Utaendelea >>> ku >>> > wonder. >>> > >>> > Ukistaajabu ya Musa, utaona ya Firauni....... >>> > >>> > Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao >>> peni >>> > peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi >>> inaendelea >>> > wapende wasipende. >>> > >>> > Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za >>> > rent...... >>> > >>> > Judy Miriga >>> > Diaspora Spokesperson >>> > Executive Director >>> > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., >>> > USA >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > --- On Fri, 7/3/09, Judy Miriga wrote: >>> > >>> > From: Judy Miriga >>> > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya >>> > To: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com >>> > Cc: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "dickens odhiambo" >>> > , jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com >>> > Date: Friday, July 3, 2009, 2:28 AM >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Janet mafunga wrote: >>> > >>> > Janet, >>> > >>> > Hayo yako ni kama kawaida inzi yafuata mavi na sio mageni. Utaendelea >>> ku >>> > wonder. >>> > >>> > Ukistaajabu ya Musa, utaona ya Firauni....... >>> > >>> > Sema utachoka huni babaishi.......Vidonge donge, watumwao na wapendao >>> peni >>> > peni wako, na wewe siajabu kwetu......... tuma salamu kwamba kazi >>> inaendelea >>> > wapende wasipende. >>> > >>> > Endelea fanya bidii usije ukakosa donge ukapata shida kulipa hela za >>> > rent...... >>> > >>> > Judy Miriga >>> > Diaspora Spokesperson >>> > Executive Director >>> > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., >>> > USA >>> > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > From: Janet mafunga pepity at yahoo.com >>> > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya >>> > To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com >>> > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 10:23 AM >>> > >>> > Now sometimes I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as >>> Kenyans >>> > in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title >>> and >>> > didnt get an answer or did I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a >>> chairman, >>> > treasurer etc? It would be nice to know if we in Diaspora have such a >>> > committee to represent our views etc. >>> > >>> > Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do >>> you >>> > give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out >>> and >>> > why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and >>> all.... >>> > you still think this way.. Hmmmm >>> > >>> > For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having >>> gone >>> > through PEV it needs to start from ourselves. >>> > >>> > Janet >>> > --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: >>> > >>> > From: Mark Kiyaka >>> > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya >>> > To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com >>> > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:17 PM >>> > >>> > >>> > It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire >>> > Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered >>> > emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and >>> > determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with >>> > such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" >>> > like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my >>> > opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. >>> > >>> > Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. >>> > The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one >>> > should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have >>> > never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila >>> > sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they >>> > start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people >>> > who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they >>> > realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to >>> > walk it. >>> > >>> > I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. >>> > >>> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: >>> >> Folks, >>> >> >>> >> A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila >>> >> Odinga. It is unfortunate that he cannot share his wealth to donate >>> some >>> >> of >>> >> it to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to >>> >> improve lives. All he cares for is their votes to make him more >>> richer >>> >> and >>> >> powerful to grease his family. He will silence anyone who dares him, >>> and >>> >> all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to >>> their >>> >> knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga. >>> Anything >>> >> Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. >>> >> >>> >> This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the >>> >> Community there are driven to a Concentration Camp to serve His >>> Lordship >>> >> Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type. This is why he colluded to let >>> go >>> >> Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means. It is considered a >>> done >>> >> deal what Raila says to the Luos. He will continue to sell Luos like >>> >> Slave >>> >> Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts >>> for >>> >> the >>> >> loot. He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen >>> to >>> >> the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. He cheated Kibera >>> people >>> >> to >>> >> wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of >>> >> Kenya's well equiped and trained APs. Both PM Raila and Kibaki made >>> sure >>> >> they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or >>> cause >>> >> trouble at Migingo. Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we >>> will >>> >> never be told the story of Migingo ever again. >>> >> >>> >> If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo >>> Nyanza, >>> >> your >>> >> life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and >>> you >>> >> will remain hanging on the fence the >>> >> rest of your life. But if you are educated, you will die from >>> frustration >>> >> and marginalization. That is not what we want in the Millenium >>> >> Development >>> >> achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa. >>> PM >>> >> Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority >>> >> lives, because they will question his rulership and he will not allow >>> >> that. >>> >> This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. >>> >> >>> >> A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have >>> their >>> >> stuff cut, then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things >>> done >>> >> with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila >>> said. PM >>> >> Raila make men pee in their pants. I dont like that.......... >>> >> >>> >> What a shame.......Watch this....... >>> >> >>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 >>> >> >>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 >>> >> >>> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Judy Miriga >>> >> Diaspora Spokesperson >>> >> Executive Director >>> >> Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., >>> >> USA >>> >> http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> *********************************************************************************** >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 >>> >> A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum >>> >> >>> >> Andrew Mwanguhya >>> >> A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the >>> slum >>> >> is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes >>> Andrew >>> >> Mwanguhya >>> >> >>> >> You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but >>> despair >>> >> at the absence of vegetables. >>> >> >>> >> With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, >>> you >>> >> wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you >>> curse >>> >> your >>> >> bosses for not increasing your salary. >>> >> >>> >> You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over >>> its >>> >> poor quality and down-market presentation. >>> >> >>> >> Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to >>> Africa's >>> >> biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number >>> of >>> >> villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, >>> Laini >>> >> Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. >>> >> >>> >> I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, >>> >> insisted >>> >> we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. >>> >> Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that >>> >> hovered over our planned trip. >>> >> kibera.jpg >>> >> Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW >>> MWAGUHYA >>> >> >>> >> Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our >>> visit, >>> >> judging from his formal dressing. >>> >> He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for >>> informal >>> >> dressing. >>> >> >>> >> The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could >>> start >>> >> our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to >>> Kibera, >>> >> a >>> >> settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over >>> 1 >>> >> million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. >>> >> >>> >> It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of >>> Nairobi >>> >> and >>> >> it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an >>> estimated >>> >> population density of 2000/hectare. >>> >> >>> >> On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in >>> our >>> >> shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! >>> >> The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never >>> >> existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on >>> ... >>> >> at >>> >> angles only known to drunkards. >>> >> >>> >> Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. >>> >> Ironically, all our clothes were clean. >>> >> As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial >>> >> railway >>> >> line that connects Kenya to Uganda. >>> >> >>> >> This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area >>> >> residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, >>> electricity, >>> >> water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in >>> Lake >>> >> Victoria - Migingo Island. >>> >> >>> >> Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the >>> railway >>> >> line. As if they were trains. >>> >> >>> >> Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but >>> >> their >>> >> body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of >>> >> perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by >>> >> William >>> >> Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." >>> >> >>> >> Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the >>> road. >>> >> Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child >>> wrests >>> >> maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows >>> where'. >>> >> The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the >>> >> little >>> >> left. >>> >> >>> >> Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes >>> the >>> >> atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we >>> >> walk. >>> >> Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank >>> >> Kimboy, >>> >> Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. >>> >> >>> >> Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are >>> >> unattended. >>> >> Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet >>> went >>> >> into >>> >> union with the thick mud. >>> >> >>> >> But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their >>> >> `opportune' >>> >> time. >>> >> In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. >>> >> "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped >>> the >>> >> two >>> >> in unison. >>> >> It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. >>> >> "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime >>> Minister >>> >> Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. >>> >> "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us >>> tea >>> >> and >>> >> we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. >>> >> "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't >>> know >>> >> where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." >>> >> >>> >> The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near >>> the >>> >> Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the >>> vicinity. >>> >> The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. >>> >> Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From >>> hardware >>> >> to >>> >> software, Kibera has it all. >>> >> >>> >> We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the >>> slum, a >>> >> movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier >>> League >>> >> game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. >>> >> We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, >>> >> everyone >>> >> seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. >>> >> >>> >> After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the >>> >> existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you >>> >> housing >>> >> the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world >>> >> differently. >>> >> >>> >> And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before >>> visiting >>> >> Kibera slum. >>> >> >>> >> http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ >>> >> of_despair_ >>> >> in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml >>> >> >>> >> > >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Brodie R.M. 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He still talks to His people and use them to direct the affairs of His creation, Kenya being one of them and i being one. A story is told about a father who came home tired and wanted to relax and read his newspaper while his?4 year old son came running looking for a tention. The father quickly went through the newspaper and found the map of the world. He took it, tore it into pieces and gave the lad to fix it up. The boy took a few minutes and ran back to the father the map of the world in its place. The father astonished ask the boy how comes he did it so fast. The boy replied, behind the map on the other side of the page was the picture of Jesus, so by fixing the picture of Christ, the world was naturally fixed. We will see the world and our country better when we look at it through the eyes of God. He holds the future of this nation and He will direct its affairs for ever. Have a peacefull day. God loves you and loves Kenya and all her people! Peter. --- On Mon, 7/6/09, nelly muthoni wrote: From: nelly muthoni Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 2:38 AM Hi am not tribal..at all am one person who belives in interactin with pple as they are..tribe,,, ASIDE ?am concernd tho,,, tell me sthing peter wea did u get ur facts from,....ok i sincerely need to know? u sound? so sure of wea u know God is...am not into politics but u sound? so certain of what ur sayin kindly shed? some light here gud day ,gud people ? From: peter ayima To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, 4 July, 2009 17:42:48 Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya Hi All, I think it is time we realize that God has ordained Raila to be a political prophet in Kenya and hating him is like going against God and that is pride. God resists the proud and gives garce to the humble. Imagine God resisting you, can you go forward? Hating Raila has brought many problems in Kenya and if we want to go forward, we must begin to give him his place and let the nation move forward under God. Remember, God does not have to anoint the people you like or your tribes men cos God is not a tribalist. When Joshua was going to attack Jericho, he met the commander of the Lords' army and asked Him if He was on their side or on the side of the enemy and He answered neither because God cannot be on our side. We are to be on His side because His side is the side of victory. When PNU thaught that God was on their side, the country burned as God watched to tell them that He is not a PNU neither is He an ODM but He is on the side of His will. People of Kenya, hating Raila will continue to give us problem , now, tomorrow until the hand of God leaves him and rest on another. Again, maturity of a nation is determined by the tollerance of its citizens. Let us not be incited by imature citizens of this nation cos this will take us nowhere. God bless Kenya and God bles us all! Atandi --- On Sat, 7/4/09, michael mwenda wrote: From: michael mwenda Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, July 4, 2009, 1:00 AM hi all, when i first raised my concerns about this fake diaspora spokes..bla bla,early march,everyone was up on me. i have said in this forum before, kick out people who are out to cause conflict in this country called kenya, just because they got other places to run to. Unfortunately many may not embrace the need for such peace,until they step their feet out of kenya.......too bad,thats when one treasures kenya and appreciates our diversities and peace. Once again let it be noted to all,this office of the diaspora exists but Judy Miriga is not the spokesperson,neither is she known by the officials,kindly disregard her emails. Thanks. On 7/2/09, Janet mafunga wrote: Now sometimes I wonder about some stuff Judy writes and signs off as Kenyans in Diaspora Spokesperson. I once asked how she came to get that title and didnt get an answer or did I miss it somewhere? Do we also have a chairman, treasurer etc? It would be nice to know if we in Diaspora have such a committee to represent our views etc. Many people in this forum are very well off. How much of your riches do you give to the poor and the disadvantaged. Why is Raila being singled out and why would you talk about Luos in that way? Being in the Diaspora and all.... you still think this way.. Hmmmm For one to want change it has to start with oneself esp Kenya having gone through PEV it needs to start from ourselves. Janet --- On Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka wrote: From: Mark Kiyaka Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 2:17 PM It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to walk it. I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > Odinga. It is unfortunate that he cannot share his wealth to donate some of > it to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > improve lives. All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer and > powerful to grease his family. He will silence anyone who dares him, and > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga. Anything > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > Community there are driven to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type. This is why he colluded to let go > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means. It is considered a done > deal what Raila says to the Luos. He will continue to sell Luos like Slave > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for the > loot. He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. He cheated Kibera people to > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs. Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > trouble at Migingo. Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, your > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > will remain hanging on the fence the > rest of your life. But if you are educated, you will die from frustration > and marginalization. That is not what we want in the Millenium Development > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa. PM > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > lives, because they will question his rulership and he will not allow that. > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > stuff cut, then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said. PM > Raila make men pee in their pants. I dont like that.......... > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > *********************************************************************************** > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > Andrew Mwanguhya > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the slum > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > Mwanguhya > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but despair > at the absence of vegetables. > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse your > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, insisted > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > hovered over our planned trip. > kibera.jpg > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our visit, > judging from his formal dressing. > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > dressing. > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could start > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to Kibera, a > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi and > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > population density of 2000/hectare. > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... at > angles only known to drunkards. > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial railway > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in Lake > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > line. As if they were trains. > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but their > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by William > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the little > left. > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we walk. > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank Kimboy, > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > unattended. > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went into > union with the thick mud. > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their `opportune' > time. > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the two > in unison. > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea and > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near the > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware to > software, Kibera has it all. > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, a > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier League > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, everyone > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you housing > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > differently. > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before visiting > Kibera slum. > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ of_despair_ > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that from now on, each time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into their beautiful white picket fence. The first day the boy drove in thirty-seven nails. Over the next few weeks, he learned to control his anger - the number of nails he hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to go outside and drive those nails into the fence. When he told his father about this, he suggested that the boy now start pulling out a nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. Finally, the day came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. That evening, he took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "Son, you have done well but look at the holes you've made here. Our beautiful fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger to the people you love, they leave deep, ugly holes just like these. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound will still be there". Proverbs 15:4 (New International Version) 4 The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit. We talk a lot, don't we? But do we really say anything important? Many are the times we speak and then think later about what we have just said. Words are the most powerful drugs used by man. Words are a tree meaning they grow on whom ever you use them on and then they produce fruit. If they are words that encourage and inspire, they bear fruits that bring healing and enhance life. On the other hand if they are words that tear down and discourage, they bear fruit that breaks the spirit Words create impressions, images and expectations. They build psychological connections. They influence how we think. Since thoughts determine actions, there's a powerful connection between the words we use and the results we get. Proverbs 15:2 (The Message) 2 Knowledge flows like spring water from the wise; fools are leaky faucets, dripping nonsense. With the water rationing we are experiencing in this season, it is so refreshing when you go home and turn on the taps and fresh clean water is flowing. In fact we have really come to appreciate that we have flowing water in our homes and we no longer take it for granted. How would you feel if you turned on your tap today and instead of fresh clean water you had sewage water flowing from your tap? That's how it is when some of us open our mouths to speak; we are leaky faucets dripping nonsense and sewage. If you have no refreshing words to say, then keep your sewage to yourself. Our tongue is a powerful force! With it, we need to be bringing words of life and encouragement to those around us! PRACTICAL APPLICATION Before any words leave your mouth today, taste them fist and determine weather they are springs of water that bring healing or sewage that will break the spirit. THROUGH THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR TODAYS READING 1 CHRONICLES 26-27 PSALM 6 MATTHEW 8-9 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From paul.nyandoto at phsotey.fi Mon Jul 6 13:17:01 2009 From: paul.nyandoto at phsotey.fi (Paul Nyandoto) Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:17:01 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Vs: Hurtling from crisis to crisis; The Kenya Government In-Reply-To: <327529.76296.qm@web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <327529.76296.qm@web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <4A525BBD0200004F0001F039@mail.phks.fi> Folks, Kenyans are all corrupt. If not all, but majority of Kenyans are corrupt. Just start from teachers who force their female pupils to bed for good marks. Matatu being parked to extreme fulness just to get extra money. Churches are swindling taiths etc. Medicine being swindle for extra paying in hospitals. You just heard a church leader speaking almost nonsence. Top layer consumers in boarding schools etc. Voters are being bribed even on the voting days, some sell their votes before even voting. Getting a job without corruption is almost impossible in Kenya. A minister gives his relatives or friends jobs etc. Army or police or teachers training intake is full of loopeholes. There are a very small percentage of Kenyans who are not corrupt, but they are very hard to detect and most of them are very poor to dream of a presidential office in 2012. What we must know is that people`s talents differ, and to use a person without evaluating his fitness for a particular task especially presidential office just because one has taken a liking to him may bring about failure. And you can see this now taking place with Kibaki, Raila, Uhuru, Kalonzo even Ruto. Just open your eyes and please tell me among all these lots I have mentioned who among them have got his wealth through a justified way?. But still their tribes men support them, so who is corrupt?. Are they these leaders or their supporters. Folks these people (Kibaki, Kalonzo, Uhuru, Ruto, Karua, Raila etc) are nobody without supporters. The ordinary kenyan does not have yet the knowledge to develope their own country, they still think that one among these leaders will build kenya better. Personally I think it is a big sleeping lie. Just look at their IQ, who among them is thinking of a better Kenya?. We kenyans needs first of all is the capacity to judge the abilities of the people we need to rule us. It is a useless thinking for every tribe to come with a junk to be a leader of the repuiblic of Kenya. What I am again suprised to is this; The Mps are against a powerful president and they want a parliamentary system. Me I am again afriad of the parliamentary system because I want these Mps to pay tax just as any other person , but if they have power to decide, these robbers will have more power and they will not pay tax forever. They will just spend those taxes they collect from Kenyans. A new good constitution with checks and good institutions will save kenya. Job distribution can be done like this: In any office employment can happen like this: let say a luo, then the next must be a kikuyu, third a luhja, fourth, mkamba, fifth, Giriama, sixth, kalenjin etc. A pattern wheer an already employed tribe does not repaet in that office before you get a tribe who is not yet in that office. Kenyans have played with development like children do play with dirt. So this system will teach them how stupid the have been and finally you will find them speaking a national language in that office, not `Owadwa, wuodmin, or athere re nikwega etc`. Paul Nyandoto >>> odhiambo okecth 7/6/2009 7:56 >>> 3rd July 2009. Hurtling from crisis to crisis; The Kenya Government Today it is sugar crisis. Yesterday it was water crisis. And all the times we have a power crisis with several unexplained blackouts. That is governing, the Kenya Government style where planning is alien! But when planning takes centre stage, they are planning how to steal. Why should we have sugar crisis in Kenya? Why should we have water crisis in Kenya? Why should we have power crisis in Kenya? Bad governance. As we suffer all these, government ministers and their ministries are working very hard to come up with the next scandal. If it is not Goldenberg, it is Triton. If it is not Anglo-Leasing, it is Maize. If it is not at Kenya Airports Authority, it is at Kenya Pipeline Company. If it is not at National Cereals and Produce Board, it is at City Council of Nairobi. And they excel at this. They then complain about corruption. But when they catch one of their own with his hands in the till and his mouth still powdered, they excuse him and blame the computers and mathematics. They protect themselves in our own parliament. In the streets, at home, at work, in the bars and in the buses, Kenyans barely survive. They have been left to fend for themselves. We pay taxes that end up feeding the ruling class, not offering services to us. Our government signs for loans that do not reach the people and the intended projects. Grants that are given by friendly governments and donors find their way back to Europe in private bank accounts. Can you imagine that Kenya has a debt balance of Kshs 1 trillion? Yet our leaders are some of the wealthiest in the world! With a cabinet so big, the amount of money we spend on these people is just amazing for a country where water is a crisis, electric power not guaranteed, sugar in short supply, maize very expensive to buy, fuel at the mercy of cartels, bottled water priced more than fuel and traffic management in a shambles. What is so difficult about managing traffic? The only problem we have is that the traffic police do not go to the roads to manage traffic and punish traffic offenders; they go to the roads to collect their daily bread. Yet, Kenyans are heavily taxed to pay for provision of services. And every 5 years, we routinely, like robots, head to the polling stations to vote for these same people! Give me a break. This calls for one thing; action. Kenyans must now stop whining and complaining. We must move from talking to tasking. We must task our youth and parents with initiatives that will move our country forward. We must stop listening to the politicians, their knowledge is slippery. They have soiled hands and they are contagious with bad experience. They must not play us against each other for their sake. Kikuyus must not fight for Kibaki because he is a Kikuyu. Luos must not fight for Raila because he is a Luo. Kambas must not fight for Kalost because he is Kamba. These guys are the same; Heartless and visionless. They love Kenya not. They all love their stomachs more. Let us do the opposite; Love Kenya More. The kind of experience our politicians have is the kind that has led Kenya bleeding all these 46 years. They have no knowledge to remove Kenya from where they have driven us up till now. They are in a hole but sadly, they are still digging, hoping that they will come out. Kenyans must reverse this trend. This is our lives and we do not owe it to the politicians. Do you imagine for a second if we put a new CEO in office, one person who has never been part of this visionless group? One person who does not have the kind of experience these guys have! Do you imagine for a second if we put a new CEO in office, one person who has a clear vision of uniting us as one people; one person who has a clear economic agenda in place that can transform Kenya to modern day Singapore? How do you feel when the economy of Somali is doing better than that of Kenya? Can we have one person as our CEO, the kind of person who will say no to corruption? We do not need KACC and such like corruption enhancing institutions. We only need the Kenya Police to be strengthened and made more robust and the CID to do what they are paid for; Criminal Investigation. I bet it is time we criminalized corruption in Kenya. We create several bodies to do the same thing as a subterfuge to crippling the process of the fight against corruption. We end up with institutions fighting each other, just like KACC and the State Law Office are doing now, as corruption and her princes walk scot free. If these guys have got it all wrong for the last 46 years, why should we listen to them any more? They have lost it and lost it big. If one of them is caught in the act, they find e xcuses to exonerate him by blaming tools of trade such as computers. If one of them gets arrested, taken to court and jailed, they are promptly released. Do you remember Margaret Gachara who was released on powers of presidential clemency? Or still, they form a commission of inquiry to examine how they stole. It is time we took a new route, one never trodden by these politician, and then we retrace our steps and for the next 46 years, we catch up with the rest of the world. That is when our children will be sure with their future. This calls for active participation in the management of our affairs by the Middle Class. Wake up from your slumber and join in reclaiming Kenya from these politicians. But under the obtaining circumstances, it is only the children of the politicians who will have a secure future, even if they are dandies. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. --- On Sun, 7/5/09, Henry Gichaba wrote: From: Henry Gichaba Subject: [Siasa-Kenya] Raila Odinga: A Litany Of Misgivings In The Post-Moi Era. To: "Kassdiaspora Debate" , "Bidii Africa" , "SIASA" , "Public Eye" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Irene Kimunya" , "Gichaba Nyantino" , "Chweya Nyantino" Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009, 1:47 PM Dear Kenyans, I write to you wrapped up in the skin a wounded lion. The wound is inflicted on me because in the ill-fated 2007 elections, I campaigned for Raila Odinga trusting he would be a better President than Mwai Kibaki. But like Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmainejad, Mr. Kibaki and his cronies rigged the elections. The rigging turned the country into a theater of the absurd, a human slaughter-house. Thanks to the after-election orgies and ensuing mass murders, we placed on Raila Odinga the insignia of leadership - he became the Prime Minister as enshrined in the Annan Pact. Lest we forget, ODM and its affiliates are the majority in Kenya's Parliament. Raila Odinga, as one of Kenya's foremost executives, represents a failed attempt in leadership - complete lack of the spirit of public service. Now let's comb the facts: Since the 2007 elections, floods of destitute IDPs still wallow in homelessness and absolute penury - suffering indescripabale. I believe that Raila Odinga and his ODM counterparts have the wherewithal to enact laws in the parliament to help resettle our brothers and sisters who are refugees in their own country. None, including the noisemaking, Ababu Namwamba, has said anything about the plight of the IDPs. Raila Odinga, the PM, has been dead silent on the issue of IDPs- the same as Mr. Kibaki, the President, and all our MPs. But in a couple of years, Mr. Odinga will return to Kenyans to ask them to vote for him as Kenya's 4th President. Lest we forget, the role of government and the country's top CEO, the President, is to protect its people - from external and internal insecurity - like the cause of the current IDPs situation in Kenya. We elect our supreme legislative body, Parliament, with the express purpose of protecting us from executive profligacy. I do not say in vain our parliamentarians have become the most ruthless suckers of our blood. It?s true we have paid increasingly crushing taxes to ostensibly ensure that the enslaving yoke around our shoulders is heavier. Where's the PM/President/theParliament/the Judiciary? How has our tax money been appropriated? It's been channeled into endless pipes of unholy personal accounts, presided over by our political and religious leaders. Public money endlessly harvested into the putrefaction of stinking political theft on the watch of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga - and yes, the leeches who constitute the Parliament. The greatest irony is that n o member of Kenya's Parliement pays the taxes whence they get access to the ivory towers in which they live. As your mother, the matoke/omena/sukumawiki seller is harrassed in order to pay taxes on the peanuts accruing after burning in the scorching sun of Kibera and Othaya, her own MP who earns a million shillings a month doesn't pay a dime in taxes. Likely, the politician's businesses do not pay taxes - or at least the whole amount. Do you pay taxes, Mr. Prime Minister/Mr. President? Yet my ulcer-causing concern is that Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki are presiding over a thieving organization called Kenya Government, blissfully so unsightly of the corruption therein. It's the same thing all our MPs are doing - openly stealing from us, emptying our public coffers through executive profligacy and outright corruption. Like failure to pay taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, how would you morally enforce the Tax Code without paying taxes? Last Sunday the Archbishop of Nairobi read from the Holy Bible that all governments exist by the will of God. This was the pious prelate on whom millions of Kenyans depended for spiritual guidance. As he preached that we give to Caeser what belonged to Ceaser and to God what belonged to Him, he seemed completely unmoved by our suffering. Actually, the tithe, the sadaka and other offerings are another form of taxation without representation. The Archbishop urged his flock to kneel so they prayed to God to bless the leeches that we call leaders. As I listened, indignation was causing a legitimate hurricane of discontent in my disturbed thoughts. It was a sermon that flew in a direction contrary to the Church?s moral code that the only power in heaven or on earth to be saluted is one that breaks the chains and liberates God?s people. In the Archbishop?s sermon, the piety of our sacrements was defiled. To pray for an oppressive regime seemed to help the growth of robbers, legislative conmen, dealers in symony, real estate grabbers, corrupt tax collectors, and those who confined our children to eternal pits of death. In fact I concluded that the Archbishop?s preeminence was no more able than the ardor of the corrupt leeches to withstand the course of piety. So why did Raila Odinga get saved the other day? To look at corruption and do nothing, even to legitimize it? To let Kibaki's government continue to destroy our country? To look at the suffering IDP's and smile as a leader from the line of legendary Ramogi and Lwanda Magere and Gor Mahia? Raila, like President Kibaki and the Parliament, is a swindler of Kenya's public resources! Raila Odinga's foremost promise during the election was to work and finish the stalled constitutional review, end corruption, and install projects to breathe life into our dying instituitional infrastructure. Unfortunately, the son of Ramogi seems undecided on what to do as PM. I'm saying that Raila Odinga does not know what his role as PM is. I also don't know why we finance the PM portfolio in Kenya's fragile political outfit. For the record, Raila Odinga's 20 years as MP for Langata don't seem to have been very productive or of any practical use to the constituents of Langata. In that period, the dimensions of Kibera's slums enlarged and its residents were further buried in deeper graves of absolute decadence. Based on Mr. Odinga's record and performance as the CEO of the Langata Constituency, I find it impossible to reconcile my conscience with the fact that this Kenyatta-Moi-Kibaki-like inept Chief is the one many Kenyans are touting for the country's top CEO in 2012. It would be giving Mwai Kibaki an unprecedented third term of additional socio-politico-religio-economic plunder of our country. The other day Raila Odinga gave us a recipe of the food he is going to cook for us as President if he is lucky to win elections against another tribal nincompoop, say, Uhuru Kenyatta in 2012. He removed his sister from her work as professor of Chemistry in the Unive rsity of Nairobi and sent her as executive as Consulor Officer, California. Perhaps the Premier's preparing her to be Kenya's Ambassador when he is elected President in 2012. Nepotism will still stink as bad, even when "called by another name." Yet some idiots, leeches unimaginable, have come out to Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, all blogs to position themselves for the free manna of 2012, telling us they'll be better leader. Balderdash! Absolute crap, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta! Mr. Rutto! Martha Karua! Kalonzo Musyoka! You all stink! Kenyans, it's time for us to look for better leaders from the 37 million Kenyans excluding the Nairobi leeches we fondly refer to as our leaders - the Parliament and the Executive. Watch this forum, my dear countrymen/women. Henry Gichaba, strategizing for 2012, somewhere in the forests of North Carolina. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? SkyDrive?: Get 25 GB of free online storage. http://windowslive.com/online/skydrive?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_SD_25GB_062009 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <512962.15181.qm@web110702.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Just thinking aloud, what makes them failed priests think that they will make it in the family life? They were not able to keep their priesthood vows, I wonder if they will keep them marriage vows... Woe unto any woman who would pride herself? for being addressed as a 'Mrs. Former Priest'! ________________________________ From: Peter Makau To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Sent: Friday, July 3, 2009 3:47:09 PM Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Should Catholic Priests Marry? Grace I like your way of thinking. I totally agree that even before joining the seminary, and by virtue that they are true Catholics (I mean, they must be because they have reached this point of feeling the call?) one fully understands the implications or should I say the ?opportunity cost? of joining the seminary. Those who feel otherwise should honorably break off and form other congregations. ? ________________________________ From:youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com [mailto:youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Grace Njeri Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 12:38 PM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Should Catholic Priests Marry? ? Naserian, ? In my opinion, every institution (and that includes even in our homes) has its own rules and regulations. ? In the Roman Catholic faith, when one chooses to be a priest or a nun, one is aware of what it entails. One of it being that you undertake the celibacy vows. There are seven sacraments (as per the RC catechism) and one can only fulfill 6 out of the seven. This is coz if one chooses to undertake the priesthood vows, then u forego the marriage vows. If one breaks the celibacy or any other vow undertaken in the priesthood vows, it is as much as breaking the marriage vows that one undertakes in front of your spouse, the church and God. ? What am I trying to say? ? If one feels that you cannot persevere what it takes to be a RC priest, why take the vows in the first place? If you thought?(meaning it wasn't a God's calling)?you could make it as a priest?and have?miserably failed and?reached to a no return point, just drop it and accept yourself as a looser to the evil one's temptation! But remember, through Christ who strengthens us, we can do all! ? To the priests who are trying to change the rules and the regulations of the Catholic Church, why not just branch and start your own congregation! Branch from the RC faith..just like the Pentecost Churches did...By the way, I respect them Pentecosts and I am one of them... Sounds better to branch than keep on making noise like empty debes...within a very large congregation. ? I stand to be corrected if there is something contradicting that I have mentioned. ? ? ________________________________ From:Mwanaharusi Mohamed To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:15:11 PM Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Yeah, I think they should because they are somehow denied their basic human right 'SEX' which is very vital for all human beings. Thank you! --- On Wed, 7/1/09, Mathews wrote: >From: Mathews >Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: >To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com >Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 8:37 AM >You tell us! Why you think they should! I believe that will give you the absolute? answer. >? >Just curious are you eyeing one? >? >Matt > >? >On 7/1/09, naserian beatrice wrote: > >?should catholic priest marry what do you think? >? >? > > > >-- >============================= >Mathews O. 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BY Leo Odera Omolo HIGH levies charged by Kenya on cargo bound for other landlocked nation in the Great Lakes region are fuelling Uganda and Tanzania? to consider the reopening the Arusha-Musoma railway line to link Tanga port with Uganda and Southern Sudan. Tanga port is the third largest in East Africa. It is currently under used as it has over shadowed by the main port in Dar Es Salaam. Tanzania could also gain from the tainted perception the Uganda market has of the Kenya Power Authority following accusation that the Kenyan government levies unfair charges on Kampala traders and destroys their goods. Worse, transport is occasionally disrupted between Mombasa and the Uganda border. Dar Es Salaam pot can handle about 10 million tones of cargo a year, compared to 22 million tones by the Mombasa port.. Although KPA has tried to change its image, many traders and shipping lines complain of too much bureaucratic red tape has partly led to congestion at the port. The introduction of electronic cargo tracking so that importers and exporters as far away as DR Congo can monitor the progress of their goods, is yet to yield positive results,? ,says analytical article in the current edition of the EASTAFRICAN. KPA?S ?has not been helped by the state of the northern corridor. Last year, Seamless Transport Services ?reported that inefficiencies on Northern Corridor route of Mombasa to Kampala had contributed about? 40 per cent of the cost insurance and freight {CIF} of goods? imported to Uganda and other countries. Transport e3xpoerrtssaythat using a 17-tonne lorry cost USD 5,000? from Mombasa to Kampala. Transport costs on that route have soared due to bad roads and the new axle-load restriction imposed by the governments. It has also been reported that over the last 10 years, Uganda bound cargo at Dar Es Salaam port has dwindled to record lows. This is ?due to inefficiency at port, a dilapidated railway line? and staff competition from Kenya. Uganda-bound cargo contributed about 40 per cent of 569,000 tones of shipment handled at Tanzania?s main port in 1998. The throughput ?further increased from 224,000 tones that year to 270,000 in 2000. However, cargo to land-locked country fell to only 67,000 tones out of total throughput of 7.4 million??? tones at Dar Es Salaam port in 2008. At the time Tanzania controlled the market on almost equal? terms with Kenya. Authorities from both ports aggressively promoted their services and opened up liaison offices in hinterland markets like Uganda,Burundi, and eastern DR Congo. However ,due to inefficiencies and dilapidated railway line in Tanzania, traders shifted their preference to Mombasa as the main hub. Afterwards ,Dar Es Salaam closed its port liaison offices?in hinterland market like Uganda. Most of Uganda?s cargo now passes through the port of Mombasa in Kenya. Tanzania better performance was attributed to incentives offered to Ugandan imports and exports, such as 60-days? grace period for fees on transit bonds and security of cargo. Efficiency was also improved To an extent where transit time from Dar Es Salaam to Kampala reduced from three weeks to six days only. Other development reported over the pots and transport matters in the region include news that Tanzania International Container Terminal Services has offered a USD 14 million waiver on storage charges to various owners of cargo at the Dar Es Salaam port. This is aimed at speeding up clearance of long overdue cargo, whose owners might have either been in financial distress or in payment disputes with the authorities. Lately, performance of the port has been affected by pile up cargo. Last TICTS said that all import containers at the port and at the inland container depots {ICDs} for over 120 days ? as of June 15, 2009 will be eligible for the 30 ?day amnesty from August 1st to August 30,2009. Containers whose owners will not utilize the amnesty will be handed over to the Tanzania Revenue Authority {TRA} o September 1st 2009 for public auctioning.???????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? TICTs has been facing criticism from boththe public and Members of Parliament over its inability to clear out containers piled at the port.It has also been criticized for a pr5emature extension of its contract with the Tanzania government. Last week, however, it said that had the contract not been extended, the port would have been a barrier to the country?s economic grow. It said that the port was in urgent need of extension and investment as it exceeded its capacity in 2004. Congestion is caused by lack of physical space and high dwell times ? the time taken to clear customs requirements and remove a container from the port. Authorities last year licensed several yards to handle and store containers. Data indicates that Tanzania?s inland container depots {ICDs} have the dual role of catering for overflow volumes at the port and adding value to services, hence assisting importers. But TICTs says ICIDs have the dual role of catering for overflow volumes at the port and adding value to services, hence assisting importers. By negotiating? and offering rates below those at the terminal- which? are designed to stop turning the terminal into a storage area-ICIDs can be used by importers to bring in large consignment that require smaller distribution to?? local ware houses. says the report. 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URL: From leooderaomolo at yahoo.com Tue Jul 7 01:38:22 2009 From: leooderaomolo at yahoo.com (Leo Odera Omolo) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Uganga and Tanzania Considering Alternative Routes tothe Sea to by-pass Kenya Message-ID: <271801.75346.qm@web34306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> ? ? UGAND?S TRANSIT GOOD MAY SOON BY-PASS KENYA FOR OTHER? ALTERNATIVE? PORTS IN EAST AFRICA? FOLLOWING ?SUSPICION? AND? INTENSIVE LOBBYING BY NEIGHBOURS. News Analysis By Leo Odera Omolo. ??????????????? OWING to sharp political differences, an ambitious campaign to have Uganda shift its transits goods from Kenya to Tanzania as an alternative and cheaper route is on the offing. In? a series of analytical articles, the EASTAFRICA, an influential and authoritative Nairobi;s weekly newspaper has reported in its current edition. has reported the reasons as ?Covering the2000 kilometers road from Dar Es Salaam to Kampala may prove cheaper than that road from Mombasa to Kampala, which is only 1,400 kilometers In one of the series of reports, it has been revealed that a delegation from Tanzania Port Authority {TPA}.visited the Ugandan capital, Kampala last week to sensitize and make public the intention to return to? Uganda lo0gistics industry.?For a long time they? {TPA} had left the lucrative market to Kenya, what with inefficient services at the end.? While in Kampala, the TPA delegation disclosed a plan to expand the physical, operational and managerial capabilities of TPA to a level when cargo can move from Dar Es Salaam to Kampala in just four days At the same time, the TPA delegation appointed an agency based in Uganda to market their services, against those offered by Kenya Port Authority. Obviously this was a clear case of undercutting and undermining. the Kenyan facility, which for many years has been the outlet source to the sea for several landlocked African states in the Great Lakes region.. Through? the agency TPA?s offer is expected to reach markets in the neighboring Rwanda,Burundi,DR Congo and Southern Sudan, the other hinterland areas mainly transiting goods through Uganda and Kenya. Uganda bound cargo at the port of Mombasa account for about 76 per cent of the total throughput, which means the business at stake is worth billions of dollars, which is significant contributor to Kenya?s exchequer., says the report.. The repot further quoted the TPA?s corporate communication manager Franklyn Mziray as saying that landlocked was canvassing for use of the Southern Corridor to make sure its cargo was given due consideration. Uganda. He further told an interviewer that Tanzania long term dream include the opening of a railway line from Arusha to Musoma.TPA expect to expand the port of Tanga to boost economic activities in the area. It isd imperative to remember tht similar attempt to build a railway line from Arusha to Musoma was? hatched about twenty years ago. But it was later shelved after the local and international conservationists expressed their vehement opposition and objections that the planned railway line, which would obviously pas through the world famous Serengeti National Park, would grossly interfere with wildlife at the park.. The latest campaign is, however, allegedly being fueled by Uganda?s fear of another disruption in transport of its cargo? as happened after the disputed 2007 presidential elections in Kenya. A more recent disruption was by Kenyan youths who uprooted a section of the railway in Nairobi?s Kibera Estate to protest what they termed as ? continued occupation by Uganda forces of Kenya?s fishing island of Migingo in Lake Victoria. It takes a lorry three to four days to cover the distance from Mombasa to Kampala, but almost double the time on the Dar Es Salaam Kampala route with implied costs, says Kenya Heavy Commercial Workers Union Secretary General Johon Muite Experts and stakeholders says that the Port of Mombasa has invested more in cargo handling equipment in recent past. It has automated cargo handling operations, which gives it an upper hand in the region. Also the port has embraced the concept of container freight stations {CIS}, which is handling local cargo, freeing the port yard for transit cargo. Security for cargo at the port is higher than the pilferage prone Dar Es Salaam port.. The biggest challenge facing the port of Mombasa is piracy off the Somali coastline. This, according to the observation of one expert, is largely a result of the high business handled by the port of Mombasa, compared to that of Dar Es Salaam ,consider ships destined here to be more lucrative.? Ships calling at Mombasa port use the Somali lane more than those heading to Dar Es Salaam port do, which make them prone to attack by pirates, Other challenge that those importing goods through Mombasa port face higher cargo handling charges, compare to Dar Es Salaam port..For instance, one pays USD 70-80 per container as terminal handling charges, a free Tanzania scrapped some years back. This fee is charged by shipping lines, but with KPA also charging a similar fees shippers end up paying double for cargo handling.. Recently KPA introduced USD60 charge per TEU for transit containers but gave no clear reason what it was for .Other charges include USD 25 fee to lift off a container and place it onto a lorry. Shipping lines calling at Mombasa port charge a container cleaning for at between USD 10-25.Importers are required to provide container deposits of USD 500 for a 20ft container and double that amount for a 40ft container A fee of USD 50-50 for amendment of the bill offloading is charged,another USD 30 for correction and USD 50 for equipment management.. Ugandan and Tanzanian governments have already set aside resources to rehabilitate the longer and more expensive alternative route this financial year. Indeed in what seems to be a political rather than economic decision b y Kampala, the government announced plans to rehabilitate two ferries on Lake Victoria between Mwanza in Tanzania and Port Bell {Luzira} in Uganda.The EASTAFRICAN further revealed the decision was made to ensure the country dependence on one route. This followed disruption of cargo flow from Mombasa on two occasions this year due to unrest in Kenya. As a result, Uganda and countries whose cargo transit through Kenya-like Rwanda,Burundi, DR Congo and? Southern Sudan-suffered losses in tax revenue and disrupted deliveries including fuel. The report went on saying that although Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Dr Congo signed an agreement to establish a southern corridor transport facilitation agency in 2006, partly compelling stakeholders to improve their part of corridor, Kampala had not shown commitment until the recent mayhem in Kenya John Byabagambi, the Minister of State for Works, was quoted as having said ,?We are developing the southern route as an alternative. We don?t want to be held to ransom by problems on the Mombasa-Kampala route.? The Minister, however, concedes that the southern route in its current state is an expensive alternative ?Dar Es Salaam port is still using old system, there is a lot of bureaucracy and the port is not computerized. It takes up to two weeks to clear goods thee, compared to four days in Mombasa. The Minister added that the time container can take to? leave Mombasa port to Kampala and back is about two on the railways and ten days on the road. The turn around for the southern route from the Dar port, which includes rail, road and water segment ? is about 25 days. This makes the southern route option more expansive between 5-10? ?per cent.? Mr Byabagambi?s analysis queries TPA promise of delivering good sin just four days and the announcement that it could be a cheaper alternative However, information from TPA shows an investment plan that that could reduce the costs dramatically. Notable measures include improving information technology in cargo clearance, modernizing oil handling ?facilities and building a new container terminal and bulk handling terminal for sensitive cargo like chemicals. ?TPA recognizes that Uganda is an important market and is therefore renewing its presence in the country,? says Flavian ?Kinunda, the Authority?s director of marketing. Yet other measures include installing conveyer belts to improve bulk handling, constructing a multi-storey?? car park, ,developing dry docking new port at Bagamoyo and Mwambani Bay. The southern corridor road link to Kampala from Dar Es Salaam goes through Morogoro,Dodoma,Mayoni,Singida,Nzega,Kahama.Biharamulo, Bukoba,Mujtukula anMasaka,about 2000 km said TPA. The Mombasa-Kampala route is about 1,400 km. The railway link extends from Coast to Kisum ?port on Lake Victoria, where ferries sail to Uganda? and dock at Jinja,Majanjiand Port Bell. Kampala. Tarriffs chargted at Port of Dar Es Salaam could be less than those at Mombasa. The Tanzanian government cancelled fees levied on traders by shipping lines a few back. Instead, the port has a standing tariff regime for both low contained and uncontained loads.. Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????l.?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From amosogal at gmail.com Tue Jul 7 06:45:51 2009 From: amosogal at gmail.com (Lee Makwiny) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:45:51 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya In-Reply-To: <762361.43459.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <762361.43459.qm@web37604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <594ded440907070345y386b23d6lf1c6bf117df161b1@mail.gmail.com> Now that a Kibera resident has been smoked out. Can you give us an eye witness account of what David Ochangi has been telling us here. In very few words, can you tell us how Raila has made Kibera residents poor, while Mathare residents have been made millionares by their MP. On 7/7/09, RAPHAEL OMONDI wrote: > > > Hey. > > I just don't know why some people always critise Raila for their failures. > I am a Kibera residence living In Katewekera which to some people believe > that here people worship Raila like God. > People need to know with or without Raila we shall still and firm and make > decision as people of Kibera. I was among the fisrt Lous to condemned the > call for male circumcision in Lou land. > Up to those who worship him. > --- On *Mon, 7/6/09, Florence Adong * wrote: > > > From: Florence Adong > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya > To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com > Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 7:48 AM > > How long has Kibera Village/Slum been in existence? People should not start > using Raila's name as if he is responsible for this. Why not blame Moi and > Kibaki? Raila is being picked because he is a Luo. I am standing up against > this false accusations for Raila. > God Bless you. > Florence. > > ------------------------------ > To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya > From: aoriri1234 at sbcglobal.net > Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:36:58 +0000 > > All, > > I love the zeal displayed by many in this forum this shows the love and > desire to see our country succeed. PM Raila and company have their ears full > from this forum which is commendable except one thing I would request is > hard facts to back up statements or else we are simply engaged in character > assasination which will take us nowhere; Example, Raila personal and public > life is being targetted with very little evidence with only half truth and > little or no evidence. I never met Raila or spoken to him but from what I am > reading one is left with the impression that "Raila is a powerful president > who is evil, crafty and very corrupt----misusing his office to divert > project funds for Kibera for himself and is resposible Lous social, economic > and political ills" > If Raila has stolen or sinned against Kenya or Kibera people pleased give > the facts and evidence and he should be prosecuted. > Raila should be targetted alone for the luo problems; we have many Lous > like myself in Diaspora and it would nice to show what we have done or doing > to improve the lives of our Nyanza communities. May be Raila has influenced > us not build or help improve schools in Nyanza and ignite fights among > ourselves without any economic ro social agenda for dala. > This weekend the Kisiis cominunity here in USA will be holding their yearly > meeting in Dalas- Texas to lay strategies to improve their Kisii community > espeially schools in the district but we Luos are talking about the wealth > of the Odingas which family had before Kenyas indipendence. Next project > will be blaming President Obama for not sharing his book earnings with > Kibera or Kogelo people. Mr Ochwangi in particular seems to have extracted > evidence from PNU book as evidence against Raila. Let's play fair > Be blessed > Oriri Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > ------------------------------ > *From*: Lee Makwiny > *Date*: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:38:53 +0300 > *To*: > *Subject*: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya > > > David and Judy. > > You will still be surprised that Raila will still be elected by the people > of Langata with a landslide victory come 2017. You have also failed to state > that in the larger Kibera constituency, there are part with more educated > people and wealth and they will still surprised, they believe in him. > Whether you bring Obama, Mandela and Luther, they will never change Kibera. > Kibera people will resist them to the core. That's why Kibera is a slum, and > Raila is their only MP who has ever brought any meaning full change to them. > And for your information brother David, Raila is more charismatic than the > old Odinga, he build his own name just the way he is destroying the name by > working with Kibaki. I agree with Judy that Raila should walkout of their > marriage with Kibaki but the question still remain, where will Kenya be. > Kenyans are tired with the leadership of Kibaki, and they had hope in Raila, > which to them, is below the expectation. Raila is the only person they will > blame. I wish Mandela could help upgrade Soweto slum. Raila found Kibera the > largest slum and will leave it the largest slum. Livondo/Ndura will takeover > and still leave it the largest slum. > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:52 AM, David ochwangi > > wrote: > > > > Guys: > > > > Mark first: > > > > Man, wake up and smell some coffee, the medieval times of last century > are way gone and evil only succeeds when good men don?t speak up. It is a > moral imperative that we, especially today, speak up against evil when we > see it particularly evil of our leaders. Of course it is not a sin to be > rich, generally riches are considered God?s favor; however, in this case > people are rightly concerned about the PM?s wealth amassed over a relatively > short time, almost all of it while representing Langata. We know more than > we can reveal but if Kenya?s history is any indication, the PM is yet one of > those who cannot account for their wealth. That said, here are the sins, if > you wanna call call it that, I think my friend Judy is referring to: > > - It is a sin to amass all that wealth on the backs of the poor through > fraudulent conveyance as Raila did with the Molasses plant in Kisumu. Even > the locals whose land the plant sit on were asked to contribute to the > acquisition and promised a 5% equity in the plant, the Odingas became the > majority shareholders and partnered with a European company to start > production and the company became a source of immense wealth most > concentrated on the Odingas; the community, who actually owned the plant > * *still live in squalor! *(remember the Molasses plant was a > Cooperative endeavor started by the late Dr. Robert Ouko to benefit the Luo > community as a whole and not just the Odingas), *So if that is what you > refer to as hard work or truthful, perhaps you need to review your facts > again > > > > - It is a sin to lead a people in perpetual darkness! Let?s face it, > the PM is a popular man because of his charisma but more so because of his > family name. Most, if not all Kenyans revered the patriarch Jaramogi > O.Odinga and yet in the 15 or so the PM has been MP of Langata, the only > thing I have heard him brag about is that he is the MP of ?Africa?s largest > slum? which unfortunately is inhabited largely by Luos who follow him > loyally, I mean it is almost as if the entire community would jump off a > cliff with the PM if he did order them to; are you here now telling us that > in all that time the PM has been an MP and became a Billionaire, he couldn?t > figure some way to uplift some, not all, but some in Kibera? Point to one > notable development initiative by PM Odinga for his people bearing in mind > he wants to be president of the entire republic, name one! Give us some > reference point my friend that we can emulate nationally. You get my point? > - It is a sin to hoodwink an entire population almost to the brink of > self destruction; the PM Odinga is the epitome of the proverbial ?cutting > the nose to spite the face? because he single handedly led a revolt that > brought so much destruction and disruption to so many people in an otherwise > peaceful nation. He did it to get a head, not many Luos are benefiting from > Odinga?s self elevation and yet they died to get him his position, he > elevated his brother and just as recently as last week, his sister to the > Consular General to the US, tell me he couldn?t get a more qualified and > deserving young Luo man/woman in kibera to serve in that position and skip > his Chemistry Professor sister who probably was doing OK to begin with! I > mean whose interests do you really think the PM is serving? YOURS? REALLY?! > > > > - It is a sin to reward people whom you know have blood in their hands. > Raila knew he was making a deal with the devil when he aligned himself with > the likes of Ruto in misguided hopes of capturing the presidency. Ruto was a > snake and Raila knew, Ruto turned on President Moi even when it was clear > Ruto owes Moi his very political existence. What was he thinking to sanction > such a murderous character to start the evil they committed against innocent > Kenyans? Raila has a record of ?breaking up? stuff anywhere he goes, he > broke up his father?s party, broke up his own LDP, broke up ODM, brought up > MAJIMBO as a way to divide and rule Kenya; Raila has now backed himself into > a corner and as hard as he tries to get extricate himself, the Rutos of the > world are gunning after him, point being, we as a nation must say no to such > blatant and felonious machinations by our leaders, we shouldn?t allow > ourselves to be guinea pigs and our country to be a laboratory for all these > foolish experiments; it is the kind of stuff that has continually sank our > nation in rot for decades and we shouldn?t continue to enable it any more. > > > > Judy: > > > > I don?t know what to say to you but I am inclined to think that somehow you > have had an epiphany about Raila; be that as it may, I would hate to be the > one piling up on the PM but I must ask you; what took you so long to see > these things? I mean the evidence has been there; did you not know or have > you been following blindly and following the masses as is the trade mark > with Kenyans? Perhaps if we all spoke up sooner, some of the harm and damage > we as a nation are suffering may have been avoided?have you seen the news > lately and what Raila?s appointees are up to, i.e. Prof.. Sambili and ODM > Chairman Kosgey? I mean the old Professor MOI text book stuff is back under > raila?s leadership, replacing competent staff with fellow Kalenjins without > following any rules or procedures; what about Ruto in agriculture starving > the nation and giving the tendering contracts to his kinsmen; and please > don?t tell me PM odinga is not aware of what is going on or that he didn?t > sanction it; he allowed it, he practices it and that his definition of > leadership?who wants to vote for this? > > --- On *Thu, 7/2/09, Mark Kiyaka > >* wrote: > > > > From: Mark Kiyaka > > > > Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: A very Sad Story about Kibera in Kenya > To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com > > Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009, 8:17 AM > > > > It is not a sin to be rich, popular and astute in your ways. I admire > Raila because he has worked really hard, sucrifised and suffered > emotionally and physically to get to where he is. His resolve and > determination are rare. He is results driven and any community with > such a son would adore him! Its a shame that a "Kenyan in Diaspora" > like yourself can still talk of the rich donnating to the poor, in my > opinion that is a shamefull proposal and against all economic sense. > > Kibera people have always been poor even before Raila became their MP. > The biggest slam is Mathare and their MP is not poor either and no one > should have qualms with that. Your arguments are not new and they have > never made sense over the time they have been repeated. I know Raila > sets the bar too high and many may feel very tired even before they > start racing him. People who spread hate messages about him are people > who would wish to be like him but when they look at the road map they > realise its so long, foggy and ragged and they dont have the balls to > walk it. > > I admire Raila and its not a in to be a rich leader. > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, > > wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > A third millionairre, the most riches man in Kenya today is PM Raila > > Odinga. It is unfortunate that he cannot share his wealth to donate some > of > > it to improve his Constituency or work along to organize with them to > > improve lives. All he cares for is their votes to make him more richer > and > > powerful to grease his family. He will silence anyone who dares him, and > > all Luo Leaders all over Kenya, however educated will be humbled to their > > knees incase they open their mouth to oppose PM Raila Odinga. Anything > > Raila goes in Luo Nyanza. > > > > This is the Way PM Raila want to control and Rule Luo Nyanza where the > > Community there are driven to a Concentration Camp to serve His Lordship > > Raila, so he can rule them Mafia type. This is why he colluded to let go > > Migingo Island to Museveni under dubious means. It is considered a done > > deal what Raila says to the Luos. He will continue to sell Luos like > Slave > > Trade or up for grabbs under his breath and continually get his cuts for > the > > loot. He will not care even it means bringing the whole Luo tribesmen to > > the grave as long as he can get his cut for it. He cheated Kibera people > to > > wait for two months to let Museveni settle in Migingo with support of > > Kenya's well equiped and trained APs. Both PM Raila and Kibaki made sure > > they put a permanent lock to the Kenyan fishermen to go fishing or cause > > trouble at Migingo. Migingo is a done deal gift to Museveni and we will > > never be told the story of Migingo ever again. > > > > If you try compete with PM Raila especially if you are from Luo Nyanza, > your > > life is doomed. You will be in big trouble for a very long time, and you > > will remain hanging on the fence the > > rest of your life. But if you are educated, you will die from frustration > > and marginalization. That is not what we want in the Millenium > Development > > achievement Agenda for progressive livelihood in Kenya or in Africa. PM > > Raila will therefore not support any policy which will uplift majority > > lives, because they will question his rulership and he will not allow > that. > > This is another reason PM Raila do not want development in Luo Nyanza. > > > > A recent case scenario is when he ordered men in Luo Nyanza to have their > > stuff cut, then all Luo men lined up to have their life line things done > > with to the expense of loosing their wives, all because PM Raila said. > PM > > Raila make men pee in their pants. I dont like that.......... > > > > What a shame.......Watch this....... > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqWTNZMZ4K8 > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7GJakxOGG8 > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vbBveE2_js > > > > > > Judy Miriga > > Diaspora Spokesperson > > Executive Director > > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > > USA > > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > > > > > *********************************************************************************** > > > > > > M2: People, Places | June 29, 2009 > > A tale of despair in Africa's largest slum > > > > Andrew Mwanguhya > > A quarter of Nairobi's population call Kibera their home. Life in the > slum > > is one of hard work, poverty and survival for the fittest, writes Andrew > > Mwanguhya > > > > You wake up and realise all cooking ingredients are available, but > despair > > at the absence of vegetables. > > > > With only Shs1,000 left in your pocket and three days to month end, you > > wonder how you will survive. Your pay slip has `less' figures?you curse > your > > bosses for not increasing your salary. > > > > You eat company-subsidised food, all the while quietly grumbling over its > > poor quality and down-market presentation. > > > > Just don't worry. For you are the right candidate for a visit to Africa's > > biggest slum, Kibera, on the outskirts of Nairobi. There are a number of > > villages, including Kianda, Soweto, Gatwekera, Kisumu Ndogo, Lindi, Laini > > Saba, Siranga/Undugu, Makina and Mashimoni. > > > > I discovered why the Editorial Training Coordinator, Owino Opondo, > insisted > > we visit the sprawling, ever-eventful behemoth of informal dwellings. > > Rains the previous night, however, had not helped the uncertainty that > > hovered over our planned trip. > > kibera.jpg > > Nation Medialab team walk through Kibera slums. PHOTO BY ANDREW MWAGUHYA > > > > Even Opondo wasn't sure the now muddy Kibera would be ready for our > visit, > > judging from his formal dressing. > > He seemed to have defied his earlier suggestion to the class for informal > > dressing. > > > > The indefatigable trainer had to remove his neck tie before we could > start > > our journey - using a public service bus from Kencom terminus ? to > Kibera, a > > settlement that covers about 1.5 square miles and is inhabited by over 1 > > million people. Kibera is located southwest of Nairobi city centre. > > > > It is sited approximately 5 km south west of the city centre of Nairobi > and > > it holds more than a quarter of Nairobi's population, with an estimated > > population density of 2000/hectare. > > > > On alighting at Kibera Laini Saba, a five-inch-deep mud trail took in our > > shoe soles like a hungry dog would grab a bone! > > The local folks eased their way through the thick mud as if it never > > existed. Yet we, hapless Media Lab 2 trainee journalists, trudged on ... > at > > angles only known to drunkards. > > > > Stalls for new and old wares stood on both sides of the soggy path. > > Ironically, all our clothes were clean. > > As we walked deeper into the slum, we happened on the controversial > railway > > line that connects Kenya to Uganda. > > > > This stretch has lately become the catharsis-emptying object of area > > residents whenever they have any form of grouse: politics, electricity, > > water, and now the battle over ownership of a one acre rocky patch in > Lake > > Victoria - Migingo Island. > > > > Clothes, foodstuffs, charcoal, and all manner of trade rule the railway > > line. As if they were trains. > > > > Be under no illusion. Most residents of Kibera seem hard-working, but > their > > body language tells you life is difficult. Their collective lives of > > perennial struggle are a reminder to poignant lines once rendered by > William > > Shakespeare: "Nothing in the face reveals the fullness of the heart." > > > > Foodstuff stands rest above drainage tunnels on both sides of the road. > > Sewage flows under and flies oscillate the food in frenzy. A child wrests > > maize from another after the latter had picked it from `God knows where'. > > The victim cries but his cry lacks energy. He has to stop to save the > little > > left. > > > > Every time a group of rag-tagged youths pass, a smell of booze seizes the > > atmosphere. One or two public pit latrines are seen each kilometre we > walk. > > Meanwhile, some of us are carrying full bladders. Colleagues; Frank > Kimboy, > > Eric Mchome, and I decided to empty them at one of the latrines. > > > > Behold! The need to relieve has reached a climax but the latrines are > > unattended. > > Meanwhile, our cameras have been busy clicking away since our feet went > into > > union with the thick mud. > > > > But only that this time, lenses see the `wrong' people at their > `opportune' > > time. > > In a split second, two drunken stick wielding men are in our company. > > "Why are you taking our pictures? Where are you taking them?" rapped the > two > > in unison. > > It is the intervention of our trainer that restores calm amongst us. > > "Gentlemen, we need respect for each other, here. We are Prime Minister > > Raila Odinga's guests. What exactly do you want?" asks Opondo. > > "You just take our pictures? where are you taking them? Just give us tea > and > > we will have no problems with you," the chaps retort, staggering. > > "Fine, then," Opondo said, "you follow us if you wish but you won't know > > where we will deposit you. The risk is all yours." > > > > The men, in mid-20s, creep along for about a kilometre. But as we near > the > > Kibera Magistrate Courts and check again, they are not in the vicinity. > > The situation is mostly attributed to the vicious poverty in Kibera. > > Nonetheless, the people here are hardworking and creative. From hardware > to > > software, Kibera has it all. > > > > We notice a video production studio somewhere in the middle of the slum, > a > > movie and football theatre advertising that night's English Premier > League > > game between Liverpool and Arsenal, used spare parts stores, name it. > > We have rounded the biggest slum in Africa by 1 o'clock. This time, > everyone > > seems tired, savouring the moment, nonetheless. > > > > After witnessing the painstaking life people of Kibera are living, the > > existing poverty, the make-shift shelters that do not guarantee you > housing > > the next day, the poorest of the hygiene ? I now look at the world > > differently. > > > > And it would have been regrettable to return to my country before > visiting > > Kibera slum. > > > > http://www.monitor. co.ug/artman/ publish/coffee- break/A_tale_ > of_despair_ > > in_Africa_ s_largest_ slum_87181. shtml > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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OUR GUEST SPEAKER IS ALREADY HERE Message-ID: For the Sermon of the week, *WHERE DO I GO FROM HERE?* *CLICK HERE. * International Christian Community Church A Place Everybody Can Call Home Our 9th Anniversary Is Here, On July 12th, 2009 With Bishop Jeremiah A Kibobi. The Lord has been so faithful to us here at I.C.C. CHURCH. He has brought us yet to another year 2009. Ebennezer is all we can say and just lift the name of the Lord for thus far He has brought us. The 8th anniversary was very successful and it is my sincere believe that, this year's 9th Anniversary will be great. Our guest preacher will be *Bishop Jeremiah Kibobi* From Kenya due to public demand. During this year's 9th anniversary, there will be many activities from *July 10, 2009* *July 11, 2009* and culminate on *July 12, 2009* with 9th anniversary cerebrations. All are welcome. If your are planning to join us during this wonderful celebrations, please write to us through our e-mail infor at iccchurch.organd we will be happy to be with you. Hoping to see you there, may God bless you. You're All Welcome!!! Sincerely Yours in Christ?s vine yard, * Rev. Canon John N. Karanja* * ?19 Go therefore[a] and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.? Amen.,?* (Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV ) *Come be blessed!!!!!* Come Expecting From The Lord, And Bring A Friend. *Address* *3406 Belair Road Baltimore* , *MD 21213 - 1205* Office Phone : * 410-485-9311* Email: iccchurch at iccchurch.org For more Information Please Contact *Rev. Canon John N. Karanja* at: Email: Rev.jkaranja at iccchurch.org * *All are Welcome !!! Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." Hebrews 13:5 There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She *never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying*. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem.. - *Luke 2:36-38 * ?2009 The International Christian Community Church -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:15:15 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:15:15 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOOKING... Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BF5@mailserver.salafrica.com> WHEN YOU ARE NOT LOOKING... A true story of love by Chaplain Jerry Vintinner The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the attractive Young woman with the white cane made her way carefully up the steps. She paid the driver and, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, walked down the aisle and found the seat he'd told her was empty. Then she settled in, placed her briefcase on her lap and rested her cane against her leg. It had been a year since Susan, thirty-four, became blind. Due to a medical misdiagnosis she had been rendered sightless, and she was suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, anger, frustration and self-pity. Once a fiercely independent woman, Susan now felt condemned by this terrible twist of fate to become a powerless, helpless burden on everyone around her. "How could this have happened to me?" she would plead, her heart knotted with anger. But no matter how much she cried or ranted or prayed, she knew the painful truth - her sight was never going to return. A cloud of depression hung over Susan's once optimistic spirit. Just getting through each day was an exercise in frustration and exhaustion. And all she had to cling to was her husband Mark. Mark was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all of his heart. When she first lost her sight, he watched her sink into despair and was determined to help his wife gain the strength and confidence she needed to become independent again. Mark's military background had trained him well to deal with sensitive situations, and yet he knew this was the most difficult battle he would ever face. Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how would she get there? She used to take the bus, but was now too frightened to get around the city by herself. Mark volunteered to drive her to work each day, even though they worked at opposite ends of the city. At first, this comforted Susan and fulfilled Mark's need to protect his sightless wife who was so insecure about performing the slightest task. Soon, however Mark realized that this arrangement wasn't working - it was hectic, and costly. Susan is going to have to start taking the bus again, he admitted to himself. But just the thought of mentioning it to her made him cringe. She was still so fragile, so angry. How would she react? Just as Mark predicted, Susan was horrified at the idea of taking the bus again. "I'm blind!" she responded bitterly. "How am I supposed to know where I'm going? I feel like you're abandoning me." Mark's heart broke to hear these words, but he knew what had to be done. He promised Susan that each morning and evening he would ride the bus with her, for as long as it took, until she got the hang of it. And that is exactly what happened. For two solid weeks, Mark, military uniform and all, accompanied Susan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new environment. He helped her befriend the bus drivers who could watch out for her, and save her a seat. He made her laugh, even on those not-so-good days when she would trip exiting the bus, or drop her briefcase. Each morning they made the journey together, and Mark would take a cab back to his office. Although this routine was even more costly and exhausting than the previous one, Mark knew it was only a matter of time before Susan would be able to ride the bus on her own. He believed in her, in the Susan he used to know before she'd lost her sight, who wasn't afraid of any challenge and who would never, ever quit. Finally, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip on her own. Monday morning arrived, and before she left she threw her arms around Mark, Her temporary bus riding companion, her husband, and her best friend. Her eyes filled with tears of gratitude for his loyalty, his patience, his love. She said good-bye, and for the first time, they went their separate ways. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ... Each day on her own went perfectly, and Susan had never felt better. She was doing it! She was going to work all by herself! On Friday morning, Susan took the bus to work as usual. As she was paying for her fare to exit the bus, the driver said, "Boy, I sure envy you." Susan wasn't sure if the driver was speaking to her or not. After all, who on earth would ever envy a blind woman who had struggled just to find the courage to live for the past year? Curious, she asked the driver, "Why do you say that you envy me?" The driver responded, "It must feel so good to be taken care of and protected like you are." Susan had no idea what the driver was talking about, and asked again, "What do you mean?" The driver answered, "You know, every morning for the past week, a fine looking gentleman in a military uniform has been standing across the corner watching you when you get off the bus. He makes sure you cross the street safely and he watches you until you enter your office building. Then he blows you a kiss, gives you a little salute and walks away. You are one lucky lady." Tears of happiness poured down Susan's cheeks. For although she couldn't physically see him, she had always felt Mark's presence. She was lucky, so lucky, for he had given her a gift more powerful than sight, a gift she didn't need to see to believe - the gift of love that can bring light where there had been darkness. God watches over us in just the same way. We may not know He is present, but He is. We may not be able to see His face, but He is there nonetheless! Be blessed in this thought. God Loves You - even when you are not looking. From Dickens.Odhiambo at gmsi.com Wed Jul 8 08:59:51 2009 From: Dickens.Odhiambo at gmsi.com (Dickens Odhiambo) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 08:59:51 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] -: Soukous Stars Live in DC - July 11 2009 (by LENGO SB) Message-ID: Lengo SB presents live performance by the famous Soukous Stars featuring Shimita el Diego, Lokassa ya Mbongo, Ngouma Lokito: a special appearance by ? Samba Mapangala, comedian ?His Excellency? Arap Kimei ? the Soukous dancers and Les Belles D?Afrique. A rendition on ?Barack Obama Ubarikiwe? ? Inauguration song and CD release. Remember Lagos Nite? Nairobi Nite? Vunja Mifupa? Come see it all! Date: July 11, 2009 Time: Doors open at 9:00 p.m. Venue: Ukrainian Ballroom 4250 Harewood Road, NE Washington, DC 20017 Charges: $30 in advance and $35 at the gate To purchase tickets online, please visit www.lengoSB.org For more information call 540-514-1229/ 908-397-9792/ 732-207-3836 You don?t want to miss this event! 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URL: From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:32:38 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:32:38 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] IF Only Life Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BFE@mailserver.salafrica.com> IF ONLY LIFE COULD BE LIKE A COMPUTER!*** *If you messed up your life, you could press "Alt, Ctrl, Delete" and start all over! *To get your daily exercise, just click on "run"! *If you needed a break from life, click on "suspend". *Hit "any key" to continue life when ready. *To get even with the neighbors, turn up the sound blaster. *To "add/remove" someone in your life, click settings and control panel. *To improve your appearance, just adjust the display settings. *If life gets too noisy, turn off the speakers. *When you lose your car keys, click on "find". *"Help" with the chores is just a click away. *You wouldn't need auto insurance. You'd use your diskette to recover from a crash. *We could click on "send" and the kids would go to bed immediately. *To feel like a new person, click on "refresh". *Click on "close" to shut up the kids and spouse. *To undo a mistake, click on "back". *Is your wardrobe getting old? Click "update". *If you don't like cleaning the litter box, click on "delete". But it's not. Let's all take good care of our everyday actions. Remember, we reap what we sore!. From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:06:33 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:06:33 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] Wise builders & role models Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BF4@mailserver.salafrica.com> A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year old grandson. The old man's hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together at the table. But the elderly grandfather's shaky hands and failing sight made eating difficult. Peas rolled off his spoon onto the floor. When he grasped the glass, milk spilled on the tablecloth. The son and daughter-in-law became irritated with the mess. "We must do something about Grandfather," said the son. I've had enough of his spilled milk, noisy eating, and food on the floor. So the husband and wife set a small table in the corner. There, Grandfather ate alone while the rest of the family enjoyed dinner. Since Grandfather had broken a dish or two, his food was served in a wooden bowl. When the family glanced in Grandfather's direction, sometimes he had a tear in his eye as he sat alone. Still, the only words the couple had for him were sharp admonitions when he dropped a fork or spilled food. The four-year-old watched it all in silence. One evening before supper, the father noticed his son playing with wood scraps on the floor. He asked the child sweetly, "What are you making?" Just as sweetly, the boy responded, "Oh, I am making a little bowl for you and Mama to eat your food when I grow up." The four-year-old smiled and went back to work. The words so struck the parents that they were speechless. Then tears started to stream down their cheeks. Though no word was spoken, both knew what must be done. That evening the husband took Grandfather's hand and gently led him back to the family table. For the remainder of his days he ate every meal with the family. And for some reason, neither husband nor wife seemed to care any longer when a fork was dropped, milk spilled, or the tablecloth soiled. Children are remarkably perceptive. Their eyes ever observe, their ears ever listen, and their minds ever process the messages they absorb. If they see us patiently provide a happy home atmosphere for family members, they will imitate that attitude for the rest of their lives. The wise parent realizes that every day the building blocks are being laid for the child's future. Let's be wise builders and role models. God, we ask not that you move the mountains, but that You give us the strength to climb." Life is about people connecting with people, and making a positive difference" "Take care of yourself, ... and those you love, ... today, ... and everyday!" HAVE A BLESSED DAY From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:28:58 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:28:58 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] RE....... Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BFB@mailserver.salafrica.com> A young lady visited the government matchmaker for marriage and requested - "I'm looking for a spouse. Can you please help me to find a suitable one?" The marriage officer said, "You're requirements please." "Well, let me see. Needs to be good looking, polite, humorous, sporty, knowledgeable, good at singing and dancing. Willing to accompany me the whole day at home during my leisure hour, if I don't go out. Telling me interesting stories when I need companion for conversation and be silent when I want to rest." The officer listened carefully and replied, "I understand. You need a television." From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:16:26 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:16:26 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] Why Go To Church Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BF6@mailserver.salafrica.com> Why Go To Church A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritual dead today!" From amosogal at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 09:58:49 2009 From: amosogal at gmail.com (Lee Makwiny) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:58:49 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Judy Miriga In-Reply-To: <116072.55814.qm@web57403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <116072.55814.qm@web57403.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <594ded440907080658y52a0e6cfu489fbbf028a97580@mail.gmail.com> John Kamau, Judy's concerns are very guinine and she need a hearing. She fought for democratcy and it pains her to see it go to the dogs. I think the problem with Judy is that she is too combative which some people are not used to. The other fact is that Judy explained how she assumed the role of spokesperson and truely she deserved it until an election is called. Odhiambo, like myself, believe that Judy is not the problem, the problem are what she keep on writting about everyday. On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:50 PM, john kamau wrote: > Odhiambo WASHINGTON, The pain and Miseries bedeviling Kenya, is a > creation of the likes of you. Your level of complacency or Ignorance has no > room in the the lives of human beings in the 21st century. > Your suggestion that the likes of Judy Miriga are free to run amoke seizeall unfilled offices and possess them.Your Idea of having such > opportunists represent us from a point of incompetency and total disregard > to qualification and Authority is absurd. Somalia is an example of what > Odhiambo and Judy Miriga is asking as to take as a roll model of society. > If Miriga or any other person in Kenya or the Diaspora wishes to speak for > the people. Its easy and simple. Vie for the Office. And even if you are > elected, If there be weighty issues to be decided, unless those that are > emergency based, seek consensus. Kenya like any other democracy Has no > place for rogue leaders like Judy Miriga, just like the Kibaki' and other > Kenyan leaders who assume that Kenyans cease to think the minute you bank > roll,or impose yourself in Office. > I live in the Diaspora, never seen, heard or participated in a forum that > appointed or Elected Judy Miriga. So who is she speaking for??? > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Thats true, economically. But politically? On 7/7/09, amenya gibson wrote: > > > Hi Lee and people > Unless am living on different planet then I will be wrong. > 1print Media have written,written and written > Radios has talked, talked and talked > Kenyans have said, said and said > The media have written about increased administrative boundaries that > currently stand at over 210 districts > These administrative boundaries will in pursuit need Administrative Police > force > > Let me give out my explanation why APS number must go up. > > When the President created more districts this means more District > Commissioners,More District Officers,More Chiefs and More Sub-Chiefs > in one district > When you create one District you also create more divisions,more > locations more sub-locations and more villages by splitting existing > ones > > Assume that A district called Nyamulenge is created today > On Administrative line not including other government agencies like > District Agricultural Officer etc > We shall have > 1-One DC, then possible 2 DOs,then 4 or more Chiefs, many Sub-chiefs > all these will need to have APS to provide securities to the people > and also these officials too > It simply shows that APS number will have to go up > > Unless am wrong in my thinking then I accept corrections > > Otherwise bye > Is very cold here wooow > Gibson Amenya > Kenya Young Greens > gamenya at kenyayoungreens.org > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:22:00 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:22:00 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] WHY SHOULD SWAHILI BE BANNED Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BF8@mailserver.salafrica.com> Kenyans have proven time and again that they are simply not capable of communicating well in Kiswahili. So, I suggest that we ban it altogether, and adopt English as the national language. All we have to do is modify it to suit our purposes, just the way West Africans modified theirs and came up with Pidgin English. Many Africans have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult - for example, cough, plough, rough, through and thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased program of changes to iron out these anomalies. The program would of c ourse, be administered by a committee of staff at the top level by the participating tribes. In the first year, for example, the committee would suggest using 's' instead of the soft 'c'. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities and munispalities would resieve this news with joy. Then the hard 'c' could be replaced by 'k' sinse both letters are pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but typewriters kould be made with one les leter. There would be growing enthusiasm when the sekond year, it kould be announsed that the troublesome ' ph' would henseforth be written as just 'f'. This would make words like 'fotograf' twenty per sent shorter in print. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double leters which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. We would al agree that the horible mes of silent ' e's, 'h's and 'r's in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. Kambas kould legitimiz not aving to pronounse the 'h', so that a sentence like "Helen has hired a housemaid", wil easily flow out as "' Elen as ired ha ousmaid". A Luo being shased by a shark while swimming, would yel for help thus: "sark!! sark!! sark!!" without geting sy about it, wile a Kalenjin kan soot a monkey that's a moving taaget mor akuratley. By this tim, it would be four years sins the skem began and even some resident non-English-speaking Europeans would be reseptiv to steps sutsh as replasing 'th' by 'z'. Perhaps zen ze funktion of 'w' kould be taken on by 'v', vitsh is, after al, half a 'w'. In zis kase, an Asian seling a Volvo, will pronauns it korektly, insted of teling us "This kar is a WolWo". Shortly after zis, ze unecesary 'o' kould be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou'. Similar arguments vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. Kontinuing zis proses yer after yer, ve vud eventuli hav a reli sensibl riten styl. After tventi yers, zer vud be no mor trubls, difikultis and evriun vud fin it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drems of the Kenyans vud finali hav kum tru, and pepl wil not be asking that leters be riten in English, but in Kedgin. I am oping, with my fingers krosed, zat my drems vil one day kome tru tuu. From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:26:42 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:26:42 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] Being a mother Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BFA@mailserver.salafrica.com> I couldn't resist sending this!! To all Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Grandmothers, Girlfriends... We are sitting at lunch when my daughter casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a family." "We're taking a survey," she says, half-joking. "Do you think I should have a baby?" "It will change your life," I say, carefully keeping my tone neutral. "I know," she says, "no more sleeping in on weekends, no more spontaneous vacations...." But that is not what I meant at all. I look at my daughter, trying to decide what to tell her. I want her to know what she will never learn in childbirth classes. I want to tell her that the physical wounds of child bearing will heal, but that becoming a mother will leave her with an emotional wound so raw that she will forever be vulnerable. I consider warning her that she will never again read a newspaper without asking "What if that had been MY child?" That every plane crash, every house fire will haunt her. That when she sees pictures of starving children, she will wonder if anything could be worse than watching your child die. I look at her carefully manicured nails and stylish suit and think that no matter how sophisticated she is, becoming a mother will reduce her to the primitive level of a bear protecting her cub. That an urgent call of "Mom!" will cause her to drop a souffle or her best crystal without a moment's hesitation. I feel I should warn her that no matter how many years she has invested in her career, she will be professionally derailed by motherhood. She might arrange for childcare, but one day she will be going into an important business meeting and she will think of her baby's sweet smell. She will have to use every ounce of her discipline to keep from running home, just to make sure her baby is all right. I want my daughter to know that everyday decisions will no longer be routine. That a five year old boy's desire to go to the men's room rather than the women's at McDonald's will become a major dilemma. That right there, in the midst of clattering trays and screaming children, issues of independence and gender identity will be weighed against the prospect that a child molester may be lurking in that restroom. However decisive she may be at the office, she will second-guess herself constantly as a mother. Looking at my attractive daughter, I want to assure her that eventually she will shed the pounds of pregnancy, but she will never feel the same about herself. That her life, now so important, will be of less value to her once she has a child. That she would give it up in a moment to save her offspring, but will also begin to hope for more years-not to accomplish her own dreams, but to watch her child accomplish theirs. I want her to know that a Cesarean scar or shiny stretch marks will become badges of honor. My daughter's relationship with her husband will change, but not in the way she thinks. I wish she could understand how much more you can love a man who is careful to powder the baby or who never hesitates to play with his child. I think she should know that she will fall in love with him again for reasons she would now find very unromantic. I wish my daughter could sense the bond she will feel with women throughout history who have tried to stop war, prejudice and drunk driving. I hope she will understand why I can think rationally about most issues, but become temporarily insane when I discuss the threat of nuclear war to my children's future. I want to describe to my daughter the exhilaration of seeing your child learn to ride a bike. I want to capture for her the belly laugh of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog or a cat for the first time. I want her to taste the joy that is so real, it actually hurts. My daughter's quizzical look makes me realize that tears have formed in my eyes. "You'll never regret it," I finally say. Then I reached across the table, squeezed my daughter's hand and offered a silent prayer for her, and for me, and for all of the mere mortal women who stumble their way into this most wonderful of callings. This blessed gift from God ..... that of being a Mother. "Author Unknown" Please share this with a Mom that you know or all of your girlfriends who may someday be moms.- ===== HAVE A NICE DAY & GOD BLESS From hillary at salafrica.com Wed Jul 8 09:30:08 2009 From: hillary at salafrica.com (Hillary Mkabana) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:30:08 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] some truth you should know Message-ID: <8492F2242D21A2419B9C0AA8DA9B8E7B266BFC@mailserver.salafrica.com> Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other. .. You share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be." Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many friends you have or how accepted you are. Not about if you have plans this weekend or if you're alone. It isn't about who you're dating, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all. It isn't about who you have kissed, It's not about sex. It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have or what kind of car you drive. Or where you are sent to school. It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are. Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to. It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown Or if your skin is too light or too dark. Not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, or how smart standardised tests say you are. It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport. It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you." LIFE JUST ISN'T. But, life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. It's about keeping or betraying trust. It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon. It's about what you say and Mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. About starting rumours and contributing to petty gossip. It's about what judgements you pass and why. And who your judgements are spread to. It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention. It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow, and spreading it. But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone. Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's all about. From kcfanj2004 at yahoo.com Tue Jul 7 21:29:42 2009 From: kcfanj2004 at yahoo.com (Kenya Christian Fellowship,NJ) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 18:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Second Anniversary Celebration KCFA Queens NY - This Sunday July 12th Message-ID: <594254.36421.qm@web52208.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Dear Brethren, I attach a special invitation to you, your family, relatives and friends to the Second anniversary commemoration of the Kenya Christian Fellowship in America (KCFA) Queens New York Chapter. This is a great opportunity to thank and praise God, fellowship and socialise?with other Kenyans.?There is so much in our lives for which we should be grateful and there is much more to expect from the ALMIGHTY. I would appreciate if you?would RSVP.?The KCFA Queens NY Community shall be expecting you! Mwenyezi Mungu Awabariki. John K. Mosoti Organizing Secretary KCFA Queens Chapter NY (See attached file: KCFA Second Anniversary.doc) ? Gladly Serving, Dolly Ocholla Secretary KCFA NJ The Kenya Christian Fellowship in America (NJ chapter), is a non denominational fellowship that meets every first Sunday of the month @ 4:00- 6:00 p.m. in Elizabeth. Please call (848) 467-6522), visit www.kcfa.net or e-mail kcfanj2004 at yahoo.com for more information. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: pic19266.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 12930 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It was a great idea at the time - and that was not too long ago - but still, a time when making the case that there is a strategic, integral linkage between business and health was in a lot of places an uphill struggle. The content of what you have been and will be discussing is remarkable, so my hat goes off to all of you. I've been asked to talk here about the president's priorities in [business and health] and I want to set the tone by talking about a couple of things that we've already seen from President Obama as key priorities. Those are the notions of service and engagement. We just launched www.serve.gov as a way for Americans to identify volunteer opportunities around the country and we encourage that. For those of you who heard the president speak in Cairo, one of the things we heard consistently and repeatedly from him was for the United States to engage with the rest of the world. He is not just referring to the engagement of the U.S. with other countries, or the engagement of Americans with other people, but the engagement of all of us with our counterparts around the world. U.S. Wants to Spotlight 'Successful Models' And Be An 'Effective Partner' - Obama Double click above to play, or download this mp3 That's one of the reasons why what you all do is so deeply, deeply important. Let me start by talking about something that President Obama talked about during the campaign - something he described as Global Health Architecture 20/20. The vision was: we could work towards a world where we had the ability in all countries and all communities to care for ourselves and our families - the clinics, the training, the resources, the materials, the inputs; that we could manage health systems so that we could collectively manage the challenges before us. Driving that vision is two things. Managing global health is of critical importance for all of us, for reasons of basic security. Look what happened with the H1N1 virus. How quickly that moved, and ? fortunately - how effective the existing architecture seems to have been. But there is also, fundamentally, a moral imperative. There is recognition that in a world that is more integrated, basic health is a right and a concern to all of us at home as well as abroad. There is a third case that I think you all elevate in your work. It is that it makes good economic sense for businesses and communities to work together on health. I think that is a view that the president shares. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? We recently rolled out the government's broad [agenda] for global health. There are several key components. One is to build on the extraordinary work done by President. George Bush on the building and launching of Pepfar (the President's Emergency Program for Aids Relief). I think we all know that, though it has gotten easier in recent years, getting money for large-scale, coordinated programs hasn't always been the easiest thing to do or the most politically sellable thing to do, and President Bush did a terrific job. President Obama intends to build on Pepfar and double the funding. So we'll see a doubling of Pepfar over the next six years. The president wanted to address a couple of other things when it comes to global health. One is a desire to address global health in its totality. There is no doubt that the HIV/Aids pandemic around the world, certainly in Africa (and indeed here in the U.S. and in this city), will continue to demand our persistent and robust attention. That [will] continue to be the case. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); ? But there are other critical parts in global health that make for a healthy community. So over the next six years, we will be adding an additional $6 billion.for maternal and child health, for capacity building, and for neglected diseases. Our hope is that we, with our partners - the international institutions, yourselves, the NGO community, CBOs - can work towards a package of assistance that reflects the totality of people's health needs. I think that you will see [the president] living up to a campaign commitment to double foreign assistance. As he said during the campaign, it might take a little longer than we hoped, but we hope to do it by 2015. A lot of that assistance would be focused on Africa. Let me just say a few words about that. There is a very strong view that despite some shocking and alarming setbacks in Somalia and Sudan and some other parts of the continent, there is some remarkable, progress?on health, primary school enrollment, a new strategy for food security. Our hope is to build on that and to invest in that. I think you will see that huge portions of our resources over time, as in past administrations, will go towards Africa. But one of the other things we want to be able to do with our partners in Africa is to be able to add to foreign direct investment - domestic investment, trade, and jobs - and that's where many of you come in. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? We all hear a lot of talk about public-private partnerships. Over the coming years, it will be our hope that we can move from public-private partnerships as projects, to public-private partnerships as strategy. I'm persuaded that we can have a lot more impact, a lot more partners, and a lot better outcomes. We hope, over the coming years, to connect the dots. The notion of the workplace as a platform for health - what a lot of you are moving towards and working on - is a terrific idea. It is the kind of force multiplier, to borrow a term from our better funded, much larger, more powerful military side of the house, that makes a huge difference. It is one of the things we would like to explore. How, in looking at the workplace as a platform, can we help our partners reach further, reach deeper, build greater capacity and achieve more progress? I can't underscore how important this is?For a CEO to raise the issue of global health before the American public, before the American Congress, counts in ways you cannot imagine. It says that this is good business, it says this is the right thing to do, it says this is in our collective interest. That advocacy is critical. [In a time of scarce resources], there are going to be debates on how much we should send abroad and how much we should keep at home, and that is a fair debate. But your voices show again that it is the right thing to do, it makes good business sense, it achieves progress in global health?To have the leaders of major companies around the world stand up and talk about it, stand up and do something about it, helps us on that front. Last but not least, it sends that important signal that it's going to take all of us to get this right. [Government] cannot do this alone, and we don't want to do this alone. We want to tackle this with the American public, with the global public, with our partners in government in the developing world, with our partners among other donors - but certainly and prominently with the private sector. Let me repeat what I said in the beginning: Thank you so much for what you do. You make me enormously proud, and you make me enormously confident that we can achieve the goals to which we all aspire. ? Thank you so much. ? 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When he is confronted with the truth so he could change leadership attitude in order to give the Country Zimbabwe a chance to progress?in constructive challenges with the rest of the world, he gets agitated? and respond with attitude that Ambassador Jonnie Carson's acts is like those of an idiot.? This is a true picture of lack of sense and an indication of low moral.? President Mugabe seems to have lost his protocal Statesmanship and brought himself so low. Instead of such utterance, he should have made?responsible argument against what he feels he did not agree with Ambassador Jonnie Curson and gave his statement to back up his argument. ? ? President Mugabe must be reminded by all that he has run out of New ideas that which would steer and uplift Zimbabwe people out of poverty and help Zimbabwe? with its people to be able to meet the Millennium development Goals Agenda which has been taken in circles without meaningful result.? He must agree to learn to begin to see things differently for the benefit of all Zimbabweans.? His time is running out and his usefulness is becoming a burden to the people of Zimbabwe.? He must be prepared to adjust to accommodate CHANGE and leave some good legacy behind.? He has no choice this time round but to shape up.? His uncalled for statement are making him more unpopular and irrelevant.? ? The people of Zimbabwe together with its Emerging Civil Society, professional young men and women, the local Community in the village, must wake up and join with the rest of the world to speak up against all ills, and condemn?all evil laid?on their heads by these selfish attitudinal leaders?and by denouncing corruption, impunity and?bad leadership. They must stand for good governance?and refuse to compromise?theft that have been engineered?to commit?to steal from public couffers.? Without fear, they must highlight and expose all.? This in addition to the?added pressure from the Diaspora Caucus, more and more noise will make sense?towards the struggle for CHANGE in the DIVERSITY.? This is the change and peace we all want towards good and responsible governance in African Government Leadership.? We must not let this kind of loose?rhetorics outbursts get-by without its measure of good challenge.? He?must be made to take back those words and apologize.? ? Our coordinated Team work, will assist in eliminating all forms of POVERTY on the face of Africa and will help?save?a situation in the?environmental crisis?threatening to?consume? Africa survival.? We will together work towards the improved development strategies the whole Africa will benefit and peace and unity will reign in the Pearl of Africa one more time. ? Best Regards, ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? Robert Mugabe condemns US envoy as 'idiot' ?Associated Press in Harare guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 July 2009 18.58 BST Article history President Robert Mugabe described the US assistant secretary of state for African affairs as "an idiot" after a meeting between the two at a summit in Libya, Zimbabwe's state media reported yesterday. The Herald newspaper carried the remarks after a briefing from Mugabe, right. US officials in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, where assistant secretary of state Johnnie Carson is visiting, would not comment. According to the Herald paper, the president said: "You wouldn't speak to an idiot of that nature. I was very angry with him, and he thinks he could dictate to us what to do." ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Again, in this order, another chain of supporters has been talking about Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. Still, Facebook is replete with the supporters of finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta. Then there is William Rutto of Eldoret, the minister for Agriculture. President Kibaki, PM Odinga and VP Musyoka are at the head of the executive. However, as you may recall, in 2007 hundreds of thousand of Kenyans were displaced from their homes after the infamous '07 election clashes. More than 500,000 Kenyans still are living in refugee camps in their own homes. To avoid the shame of calling a snake by its name, we call these Kenyan refugees "Internally Displaced People - IDPs." As far as knowable, neither the cabinet executives (Kibaki, Raila, ministers), nor the legislature, nor the judiciary has raised a finger to prick the unlanced boil of "Kenyan refugees." All our MPs have done nothing about the Kenyan refugee stituation. Even when those refugee camps are in their own constituencies. Amos Wako and Justice Gicheru have not interpreted the law to inform how best our Constitution can protect our suffering brothers and sisters whose plight of destitution is running to 20 months since their displacement from their homes. My questions: Of what benefit is government to the Kenyan refugee in his own country? Is Mr. Kibaki a president for a section of Kenyans and not for the Kenyan refugees? Is Raila Odinga the PM of a section of Kenyans and not for the Kenyan refugees? Does Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, a lawyer, also represent the Kenyan refugees? Do we have a parliarment to whom the Kenyan refugees can look to for protection against the immeasurable pit of destitution in which they were buried by the 2007 Kibaki-Odinga warring factions. Is there a ministry under which the Kenyan refugees fall? In short, is there anything the government and civilians can do to reinstate the hope of our hopeless Kenyan refugees? At least to comfort them that they, too, are Kenyans? Raila Odinga, William Rutto, Uhuru Kenyatta, Martha Karua, all Parlaiemntarians, and others at the center of the causes of the Kenyan refugee situation will return to you in 2012 to seek your mandate to return to Nairobi. They will return to do for you the things they have so far been doing for you, Kenyans. None of our current leaders deserves another term in office! Henry Gichaba, strategizing for 2012, somewhere in the forests of North Carolina. _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that?s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kesebe2000 at yahoo.com Tue Jul 7 19:44:42 2009 From: kesebe2000 at yahoo.com (kemei kiprono) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:44:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] The Great Henry Gichaba, The Real Son of The Soil And the Moses of A New Kenya. Message-ID: <787228.87557.qm@web55203.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Thank you so much Mr Gichaba for hitting the nail on the head. Many people may not agree with you but the truth will stand the test of time and it should be spoken all through no matter what. Thank you so much for the courage, the tenacity and the temerity to put the facts across just as they are. Long live Gichaba and with many more like you who will speak and stand up for the truth, change for sure will come to kenya. ? ODM are not living to the expectations of many just as they promised during the campigns. They have not even passed a single legislation. They were no where to be seen in parliament when the controversial media bill was passed. We cannot support them blindly anymore but must take them to task and make them accountable to the Kenyan people. Kenya is a blessed country which can be transformed into a first world country if we have the right leaders in place. ? The blame game should come to an end and the leaders should put the interest and the welfare of the Kenyan people first. Araap Kemei Kiprono? Kesebe Baiywo somewhere in the Show Me state. The State of Mizzura (Missouri) --- On Tue, 7/7/09, Henry Gichaba wrote: From: Henry Gichaba Subject: [YP_Ke] It's Time For Questions for Kenya's Executive(Kibaki-Raila)/Legislature/Judiciary! IDPs To: "SIASA" , "Public Eye" , "odhiambo okecth" , mwananchi at yahoogroups.com, "Dr. Kipkoeech araap Sambu" , "Kassdiaspora Debate" , "Abraham Cheluget" , afrikangodsoftherealm at yahoogroups.com, "Balozi Jackob Chumba" , "Bob Awuor" , "Charles Omondi" , "David Ndolo" , editorial at eastandard.net, "Emily Okemwa" , "Frank Mwaniki (KCA)" , "Kenya Forum" , "George Onsongo" , "George Omburo" , "Gichaba Nyantino" , "hellenokello at sahelpublishing.net" , "Irene Kimunya" , "Edward Muiru" , "Jason Nyantino" , "Chweya Nyantino" , "Dr. Gil Omido" , panafricanistforum at yahoogroups.com, "Paul Mbaya" , railaaodinga at yahoo.com, "Sam Okello" , ugandacom at yahoogroups.com, "New Vision Kenya" , voice-of-uganda at googlegroups.com, youthagendayln at yahoogroups.com, "Polly Karanja" , "Kwamboka Oyaro" , "wuod kwatch" , "Phillip Ochieng" , "Philip Ochieng" Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 9:42 AM #yiv468809558 .hmmessage P { margin:0px;padding:0px;} #yiv468809558 { font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} Dear Kenyans, ? In previous postings, I've raised questions?about our government executives'?productivity. On one level I've encountered sober-minded, ready-to-debate Kenyans all over the globe who share the position that our leadership has performed below expectations. This group believes it's time for Kenyans to forge a common front and elect new leadership in 2012. And I hope you understand what is meant by "new." ? One other group aligns itself with President Kibaki. Yet another, Raila Odinga. Recently a blogger called Patrick Okeyo, seems to route for Martha Karua, and Public Eye does have access to the minds of many followers. Again, in this order, another chain of supporters has been talking about Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. Still, Facebook is replete with the supporters of finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta. Then there is William Rutto of Eldoret, the minister for Agriculture. ? President Kibaki, PM Odinga and VP Musyoka?are at the head of the executive. However, as you may recall, in 2007 hundreds of thousand of Kenyans were displaced from their homes after the infamous '07 election clashes. More than 500,000 Kenyans still are living in refugee camps in their own homes. To avoid the shame of calling a snake by its name, we call these Kenyan refugees "Internally Displaced People - IDPs." As far as knowable, neither the cabinet executives (Kibaki, Raila, ministers), nor the legislature, nor the judiciary has raised a finger to prick the unlanced boil of "Kenyan refugees." ? All our MPs have done nothing about the Kenyan refugee stituation. Even when those refugee camps are in their own constituencies. Amos Wako and Justice Gicheru have not interpreted the law to?inform how best our Constitution can protect our suffering brothers and sisters whose plight of destitution is running to 20 months since their displacement from their homes. ? My questions: ? Of what benefit is government to the Kenyan refugee in his own country? Is Mr. Kibaki a president for a section of Kenyans and not for the Kenyan refugees? Is Raila Odinga the PM of a section of Kenyans and not for the Kenyan refugees??Does Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, a lawyer, also represent the Kenyan refugees? Do we have a parliarment to whom the Kenyan refugees can look to for protection against the immeasurable pit of destitution in which they were buried by the 2007 Kibaki-Odinga warring factions. ? Is there a ministry under which the Kenyan refugees fall? In short, is there anything the government and civilians can do to reinstate the hope of our hopeless Kenyan refugees? At least to comfort them that they, too, are Kenyans? ? Raila Odinga, William Rutto, Uhuru Kenyatta, Martha Karua, all Parlaiemntarians, and others at the center of the causes of the Kenyan refugee?situation will return to you in 2012 to seek your mandate to return to Nairobi. They will return to do for you the things they have so far been doing for you, Kenyans. ? 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CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. To post to this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.ke/group/youngprofessionals_ke?hl=en Visit the LYP website at http://ypkenya.org Join the group on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57703506900 Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/lyp_ke -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From gichabamob at hotmail.com Tue Jul 7 10:42:33 2009 From: gichabamob at hotmail.com (Henry Gichaba) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 10:42:33 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] It's Time For Questions for Kenya's Executive(Kibaki-Raila)/Legislature/Judiciary! IDPs Message-ID: Dear Kenyans, In previous postings, I've raised questions about our government executives' productivity. On one level I've encountered sober-minded, ready-to-debate Kenyans all over the globe who share the position that our leadership has performed below expectations. This group believes it's time for Kenyans to forge a common front and elect new leadership in 2012. And I hope you understand what is meant by "new." One other group aligns itself with President Kibaki. Yet another, Raila Odinga. Recently a blogger called Patrick Okeyo, seems to route for Martha Karua, and Public Eye does have access to the minds of many followers. Again, in this order, another chain of supporters has been talking about Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka. Still, Facebook is replete with the supporters of finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta. Then there is William Rutto of Eldoret, the minister for Agriculture. President Kibaki, PM Odinga and VP Musyoka are at the head of the executive. However, as you may recall, in 2007 hundreds of thousand of Kenyans were displaced from their homes after the infamous '07 election clashes. More than 500,000 Kenyans still are living in refugee camps in their own homes. To avoid the shame of calling a snake by its name, we call these Kenyan refugees "Internally Displaced People - IDPs." As far as knowable, neither the cabinet executives (Kibaki, Raila, ministers), nor the legislature, nor the judiciary has raised a finger to prick the unlanced boil of "Kenyan refugees." All our MPs have done nothing about the Kenyan refugee stituation. Even when those refugee camps are in their own constituencies. Amos Wako and Justice Gicheru have not interpreted the law to inform how best our Constitution can protect our suffering brothers and sisters whose plight of destitution is running to 20 months since their displacement from their homes. My questions: Of what benefit is government to the Kenyan refugee in his own country? Is Mr. Kibaki a president for a section of Kenyans and not for the Kenyan refugees? Is Raila Odinga the PM of a section of Kenyans and not for the Kenyan refugees? Does Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, a lawyer, also represent the Kenyan refugees? Do we have a parliarment to whom the Kenyan refugees can look to for protection against the immeasurable pit of destitution in which they were buried by the 2007 Kibaki-Odinga warring factions. Is there a ministry under which the Kenyan refugees fall? In short, is there anything the government and civilians can do to reinstate the hope of our hopeless Kenyan refugees? At least to comfort them that they, too, are Kenyans? Raila Odinga, William Rutto, Uhuru Kenyatta, Martha Karua, all Parlaiemntarians, and others at the center of the causes of the Kenyan refugee situation will return to you in 2012 to seek your mandate to return to Nairobi. They will return to do for you the things they have so far been doing for you, Kenyans. None of our current leaders deserves another term in office! Henry Gichaba, strategizing for 2012, somewhere in the forests of North Carolina. _________________________________________________________________ Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that?s right for you. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/choosepc/?ocid=ftp_val_wl_290 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From leooderaomolo at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 03:47:54 2009 From: leooderaomolo at yahoo.com (Leo Odera Omolo) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 00:47:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] PIRATES ATTACKS DELAYING THE CABLE-LAYING EXERCISE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN Message-ID: <300490.23554.qm@web34301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> EAST AFRICAN COUNTRIES WILL HAVE TO WAIT LONGER FOR SEACOM TEAM? FIBRE OPTIC CONNECTION DUE TOPIRACY IN SOMALIA COASTLINE DELAYING THE LAYING OF CABLE IN THE SEA.. Business Feature By Leo Odera Omolo in Kisumu City East African countries will have to wait a little longer to be connected to the global broadband network due to incessant attacks off the Horn of Africa and Somalia that have delayed the laying of the undersea cable there. The latest attack is the reported hijacking? by pirates f a Turkish ship in the Gulf of Eden in an usual attack because of rough seas at this time of the year. Reports by various sources says the connection to the global broadband network was supposed to have taken place by the end of this month {July 2009},but two weeks ago, the manager of? the Seacom, a USD 600 million project owned by private investors, said at the end of June,2009 that its cable will not into the service until July 23,2009 ? nearly a month later than planned ? due to piracy off the coast of Somalia that had delayed the work of its cable contractors. Tyco Telecommunications, the contractor was at one point focused to suspend its cable- Laying work around the Horn of Africa so it could revise its security arrangement following the latest surge in piracy. Piracy from Somalia has been on the rise since last August despite of the ever presence of multinational and international naval forces on the ground? to protect cargo ships from the Gulf of Eden to Somali coastline, but the recent announcement by the Seacom marked the first time pirates have disrupted efforts to end the region?s dependence on satellite internet links, which are also, unreliable and often p4rohibitively expensive. While cable-laying ships have not been attacked so far, they are huge- needing to carry up to 6,000km of fibre optic cable- and vulnerable to pirate attack because they move slowly.. ? ?Cable-laying ships would be prime targets,? according to an expert Pottengal ? Mukundan, director of the International? Maritime Bureau in London.?They are very slow when they are laying the cable and they ?really can?t get away.? ? The delay had not been announced until the job was finished to avoid getting the ships in ? further danger. Seacom cable will link the Republic of South Africa, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanzania ,Kenya and Ethiopia to India and Europe ?a? separate project led by the Kenyan government- the East African Marine system-will connect Kenya to the United Arab mirates. Meanwhile the recent commissioning of the USD 110 million East African Marine System by President Mwai Kibaki in the country?s coastal port city of Mombasa has brought to the fore The battles the government-led outfit is willing to engage its main rival, Seacom- a privately owned fibre optic cable services operator. In the latest incident of piracy attack reported by agencies last night, the Coordinator of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programmed Mr.Andrew Mwangura named the victim vessel ?Horizon-1,adding that it was seized ?in the Gulf of Eden. On Tuesday morning with 23e crew, mainly Turkish. Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kimani.christine at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 03:11:34 2009 From: kimani.christine at gmail.com (Christine Kimani) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:11:34 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Urgent Vacancies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <22962d730907080011r33380b37nf9a5df2aa8db71dc@mail.gmail.com> Dear Catherine, Iam interested in a sales representative position in your firm, attached please find my detailed cv foryour perusal. Looking forwardforyour response. Thanks and Regards Christine On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Catherine Wekesa < catherine.wekesa at careerlink.co.ke> wrote: > Dear Good People, > > > > I have the following positions please sambaza > > > > 1. *Sales** Representative* > > At least three years experience with FMCG > > -minimum of a diploma > > > > 1. *Mechanical Engineer *** > > Degree in Engineering (Electrical/Electronics) > > At least five years experience > > > > 1. *Administration Officer *** > > Degree holder in business or related field > > Experience of three years in a similar capacity with experience in dealing > with government bodies > > > > 1. *Security Supervisor/Officer *** > > Diploma/degree > > Three years experience in similar capacity in a manufacturing set up > > > > Closing date is 3rd July 10:00am. 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RESIDENTS of Kakrao in Uriri district on Tuesday afternoon witnessed a drama? when traffic policemen and a policed woman manning the road check-point on the main Awendi-Migori descended on a Matatu Driver with kicks, pounce and used al l sorts of crude and conventional weapons. A handful crowd of people who were attracted by the cry of the Matatu drivers gathered on both sides of the road. The incident nearly caused a traffic jam on the usual busy Awendo-Migori road. Some few braved onlooker s made an attempt to rescue the man who at the time had already fallen on the ground from further punishment, but the police officers cocked their guns and pointed them at ?them scaring away from the scene.. A Nairobi businessman Mr. John? Bob Awiti-Otange who accidentally drove his car and stopped at the scene pleaded with the officers in vain telling them to arrest and hand-cuff him if he had broken any law, but the officers could not hear of that they continue beating and kicking the man who by that time was bleeding profusely from the mouth, nose and ears. One heaily built police officer was heard by the onlooker shouting at the fallen Matatu driver, ?Leo utatujua kama sisi nani. Umekua ukinyeta na kujivuna.. The man who is his late 30s was crying loudly pleading with onlookers for help saying he had done nothing wrong?.. Another onlooker who witnessed the incident pleaded with the police higher authorities to? prevail upon their junior officers to stop this kind of barbaric action used by the old colonial administration 50 years in modern Kenya. He said the victim did not in any way resisted the arrest, and had just stepped out of The eye witnesses expressed fear that the man could have been seriously hurt and might need serious medical attention to save his life. One of the officers was heard shouting that the suspect had jumped traffic baonds, and had refused to stop his vehicles when required to do so by the law. But the public argued that these were petty offence which did not warrant such atrocities ?harsh tackles and beating. Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From grnyongesa at yahoo.com Wed Jul 8 15:02:39 2009 From: grnyongesa at yahoo.com (George Nyongesa) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN Message-ID: <700115.56291.qm@web51702.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Dear all, ? I refer to previous communications. ? Beyond our giving to KCDN, this activity is a great example and encouragement to?what we can achieve?when all of us come together in word and deed. Thank you OTO and KCDN for giving us opportunity to exercise the power of numbers. ? George Nyongesa??? --- On Wed, 7/8/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroups.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups.com, mwanyagetinge at yahoogroups.com, NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: mazingira at yahoogroups.com, net-kenya at yahoogroups.com, newvisionkenya at egroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogroups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroups.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com, TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com, trueblackness at yahoogroups.com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:52 PM This afternoon, Ms Janet Khaoya responded to our call for support. She sent KCDN CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50]. On behalf of KCDN, I appreciate this positive gesture. It means that what we are doing at KCDN touches on the hearts of most people. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 sending 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. William Oloo Janak 17] Mr. Okumba Miruka 18] Ms Pamela Butalanyi 19] Mr. Cosmos Omondi...... And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are sure that by this Friday we shall clear all our bills. Many thanks and blessings. 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Please the link below to keep up with what Bunge la Mwananchi in the Rift Valley region http://www.bungelamwananchi.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=153:the-peoples-launch-of-the-national-land-policy-&catid=41:bunge-districts-news ? If you have time also visit our facebook http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&suggest¬e_id=230036630270#/profile.php?id=1165272108&ref=profile??for more pictures. ? George Nyongesa Bunge la Mwananchi +254 720 451 235 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 05:01:36 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 02:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Firmly back on track Message-ID: <480273.27646.qm@web31408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends, When we were threatened with eviction at our offices, Friends of KCDN came to our aid so forcefully in what Migosi George Nyongesa positively calls the power of numbers. We are paying the final installment of the rent balance tomorrow. We will also make some advance payment on the part balance on our furniture and with the power of numbers, we are very optimistic that we will pay all the balance accruing. We are as focused as ever on our mandate. Our forte is support of the African Child; that child who is an orphan and those who are vulnerable, coming from poor families. On 4th December 2009, we will give them books, stationery, uniforms and shoes in a ceremony that we will host at Komarock Primary School. On this day, we will support 1950 such children. Again, it will be our love for children and the power we have in numbers that will make us successful. No one will help these children on our behalf. It is our love, our desire to give and our power in numbers that will carry the day. KCDN is just but a vehicle through which you can put a smile on the face of a deserving child, a deserving mother. On 5th September 2009, all these children and their friends, the youth and all the parents will join KCDN in 'From talking to tasking, the Greening of Nairobi; A KCDN Initiative' in planting trees around Komarock and in the family compounds. The kids will be appreciating the support that we have given them by becoming responsible for our environment. We have sort partnership for this day with Unep, Total Kenya Ltd, Green Belt Movement and a few more companies. We will give appropriate updates. As we thank all Friends of KCDN, we want to invite you to invite one more Friend to join our Initiative on Child Support. We can make it happen so, let us do it. Remember it will be on 4th December 2009. Our thanks and appreciation. Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, Email; komarockswatch at yahoo.com http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Wed Jul 8 12:52:23 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Thank you Janet; From KCDN Message-ID: <81567.76140.qm@web31408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> This afternoon, Ms Janet Khaoya responded to our call for support. She sent KCDN CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50]. On behalf of KCDN, I appreciate this positive gesture. It means that what we are doing at KCDN touches on the hearts of most people. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 sending 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. William Oloo Janak 17] Mr. Okumba Miruka 18] Ms Pamela Butalanyi 19] Mr. Cosmos Omondi......And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are sure that by this Friday we shall clear all our bills. Many thanks and blessings. 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URL: From ppa at africaonline.co.ke Tue Jul 7 02:53:25 2009 From: ppa at africaonline.co.ke (People For Peace) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 09:53:25 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [regionalnews] Regional News Message-ID: Colleagues Home & Abroad Regional News ANOTHER MP IS ROBBED AS SAITOTI MINISTRY RANKED THE BEST BY FR JOACHIM OMOLO OUKO, AJ NAIROBI-KENYA JULY 7, 2009 The top ranked ministry in this year?s Kenya government list of best performers is of Mathematician Professor George. He heads Provincial Administration and Internal Security, one of the top ministries in the country. This ministry is ranked the best as the wave of violent crime continued to sweep through Nairobi with Justice assistant minister, William Cheptumo, becoming the latest victim. The second victim came on June 10, 2009 when Kenyans were eagerly waiting to hear what Finance Minister- Mr Uhuru Kenyatta would offer them in his budget the following day. The youngsters who robbed Khwisero Member of Parliament Evans Akula on the eve of budget day forced him to drive a stolen car to the nearest Bank where they beat him up as they forced him withdraws money from his account at an ATM machine. The reason they said for robbing the MP was because they are not giving Kenyans the new constitution and the 500, 000 jobs that they promised the youth to be created yearly when Kibaki took over the government. The youngsters were quoted as saying: ?Mheshimiwa mkilete kazi, hatutafanya hii maneno, hata sisi hatupendi, ni njaa inatusumbua (Honourable, give us jobs and we shall stop this, we don?t like it, but we are hungry),?this was the message. This time was the turn for the assistant minister and MP for Baringo North who was on Sunday night robbed at gun-point by a five-man gang who gained entry into his house in Langata, terrorising his family and friends for three hours. They robbed Cheptumo of his car, Sh300,000, wedding rings and other valuables soon after he had jetted back into the country from Geneva where he accompanied his colleagues to meet the chief mediator in Kenya?s post election violence, Kofi Annan, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luios Moreno -Ocampo. They forced the minister to surrender a ring on his finger and demanded cash from his wife, specifying that it had to be in euros as eight family members including his three children watched. His wife, Ann had just come back from a security meeting in the estate. The robbery took place when Youth and Sports PS, Kinuthia Murugu is still recuperating at a Nairobi hospital after he was ambushed by armed gangsters in Kilimani area. This was about the same time Khwisero MP Peter Akula was also carjacked and robbed of Sh50, 000 and other valuables as he prepared to enter his home. This was before Kenyatta University lecturer Prof Peter Kenya was shot dead as he prepared to enter his home. So Professor George Saitoti must be glorified for his Security ministry to be ranked ?very good? with a score of 1.96 out of a possible ?excellent? grading of 1.00. Although according to the report, performance contracts are supposed to ?stem the erosion of public confidence in government and its institutions, by fulfilling the heightened expectations (of the public) in regard to attaining better performance standards in service delivery?, Saitoti is praised because his uniform men and women are reluctant as thugs continue killing innocent Kenyans. According to the report the performance of the Security ministry has improved, compared to 2006/2007 when the Public Service Commission was ranked first, followed by the Planning and National Development Ministry. During these years Security was third while Information and Communications was seventh. This time along the ministry is the best and hopefully it will earn more grades as many Kenyans are killed. The Ministry is ranked the best at the time Professor Philip Alston; UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, arbitrary or summary executions mission to Kenya 16-25 February 2009 released his report. According to his fact-finding mission to Kenya from 16-25 February 2009, killings by the police; violence in the Mt Elgon district; and killings in the context of the post-election violence was horrible. The most surprising outcome of his visit was the extent to which he received overwhelming testimony of the existence of systematic, widespread, and carefully planned extrajudicial executions undertaken on a regular basis by the Kenyan police. He received detailed and convincing reports of countless individual killings. It was clear from the many interviews that he conducted that the police are free to kill at will. Often they kill in the name of crime control, but in circumstances where they could readily make an arrest. He met with the father and brother of Dr. James Ng?ang?a Kariuki Muiruri, a 29 year old man with three law degrees from the United Kingdom and who had been teaching there. He was killed by police on 24 January 2009 in Nairobi. After a disagreement at a hotel, a police officer stopped the car James and his brother were in, and ordered James to handcuff himself. When he asked why he was being arrested, James was shot three times. The only exceptional things about the case were that James was the son of a former Member of Parliament, and the incident had been witnessed. Otherwise it followed a common pattern. The police officer responsible for the shooting filed a report that a bank robber and Mungiki member had been killed, thus invoking the magic formula designed to ensure that no one would question the need to shoot the suspect dead. Between June and October 2007, KNCHR documented approximately 500 people killed or disappeared by police. The response of the police ? that the claims are ?infantile? ? is typical of the failure of the police to engage with the substance of the serious and well grounded allegations by human rights groups such as the KNCHR. Instead, they attack the qualifications, mandate, or expertise of their critics. In short, the Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and they kill often and with impunity, except in those rare instances where their actions are caught on film or otherwise recorded by outsiders in ways that cannot be dismissed. The justification is often given, either by the police themselves or by others, that the failures of the justice system leave the police with no alternative but to administer ?justice? directly by executing those who they ?know? to be guilty and who, if arrested, would either never be prosecuted or, if charged, would be acquitted. President Mwai Kibaki cannot publicly acknowledge the widespread problem of extrajudicial executions in Kenya and the need for sweeping reforms to the policing sector; instead he glorifies Prof Saitoti as the best minister in his government. It is against this background that Kibaki cannot adhere to the recommendation by Alston that Attorney-General Amos Wako should resign to pave way for independent prosecutions, and that the prosecutorial powers held by the Attorney-General should be removed, and an independent Department of Public Prosecutions created. The Alston also recommended that the Government of Kenya should establish a constitutionally entrenched Special Tribunal, as recommended by the Waki Commission and that the Prosecutor of the ICC should immediately undertake, of his own volition, an investigation into the commission of crimes against humanity by certain individuals in the aftermath of the 2007 elections. That the Government should immediately act to set up an independent commission for Mt Elgon, modeled on the Waki Commission, to investigate human rights abuses from 2005-2008 and a well-funded witness protection program independent from the security forces and from the Attorney-General should be established as a matter of urgency. Kibaki can also not accept the recommendation that the reports of the KNCHR should be tabled in Parliament as soon as practicable after they are presented by the KNCHR to the Minister for Justice. To be ranked poor, a ministry has to score between 3.60 and 5.00. Congratulatory message People for Peace in Africa would like to congratulate Nigerian author E C Osondu for winning the ?10,000 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, the 10th year of the prize. His story, "Waiting", from the October 2008 issue of Guernicamag.com, was pronounced "powerfully written with not an ounce of fat on it?and deeply moving" by chair of judges, New Statesman chief sub-editor Nana Yaa Mensah at the awards ceremony this evening (6th July) held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Osundu also wins the opportunity of taking up a month's residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC, as a "Caine Prize/Georgetown University Writer-in-Residence". The Caine Prize, awarded annually for a short story by an African writer published in English, is named after the late Sir Michael Caine, former chairman of Booker plc. This year's shortlist also included: Mamle Kabu (Ghana) "The End of Skill" from Dreams, Miracles and Jazz, published by Picador Africa, Johannesburg 2008; Parselelo Kantai (Kenya) "You Wreck Her" from the St Petersburg Review, NY 2008; Alistair Morgan (South Africa) "Icebergs" from The Paris Review no 183, NY 2008; Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya) "How Kamau wa Mwangi Escaped into Exile" from Wasafiri No54, Summer 2008, London. Two other entries were highly commended: "Devils at the Door" by Sierra Leone's Brian James, and Ghanaian writer Nii Parkes' "Socks Ball". People for Peace in Africa (PPA) P O Box 14877 Nairobi 00800, Westlands Kenya E-Mail news at ppa.or.ke Tel 254-20-4441372 Website : www.ppa.or.ke UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a blank email with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject line to regionalnews at ppa.or.ke SUBSCRIBE: Send a blank email with the word SUBSCRIBE in the Subject line to regionalnews at ppa.or.ke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Once the pride of East Africa, it has now been judged a failure of a state, writes Daniel Howden -- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/ken Humble African --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Message-ID: <597994.4535.qm@web55207.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Hi Guys, Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has handed over the envelope containing the names of Kenya post-election violence suspects to The Hague. Related Stories Hague: Annan's deadline for Kenya leaders Raila backs Annan on Hague deadline Kenya in no hurry to form tribunal, says KilonzoKenya asks Annan for more timeObama scolds Kenya He said that he has done so after an agreement was reached between a delegation from the Kenya Government and senior officials of the International Criminal Court in Geneva."In light of that agreement, I wish to inform you that the Panel of Eminent African Personalities has handed over to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the sealed envelope and supporting materials entrusted to me by the Waki Commission on 17th October 2008," said the statement addressed to Prime Minister Raila Odinga and copied to President Kibaki.Mr Annan head a meeting with the Kenyan delegation comprising the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Mutula Kilonzo, Lands minister James Orengo, Attorney General Amos Wako and Mr William Cheptumo, the Assistant minister for Justice.?We discussed the status of the implementation of the National Accord and progress on Agenda Four items reforms, including the modalities of the establishment of a Special Tribunal, as recommended by the Commission of Inquiry into the Post Election Violence in Kenya,? said Mr Annan.Boniface --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From prcanb at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 07:57:25 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 04:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] He has never ceased to warn us,way a head of time Message-ID: <581333.89756.qm@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Does anyone understand God's children? Are we be witched or are we just stubborn? These are the questions that I found myself reflecting on this morning during my walk! And here is why! As you study the Bible, it becomes very clear that the good Lord has always taken upon himself to warn His children of the impending destruction and/or of the devil's schemes to destroy us! The purpose of the warning is so that we can escape the destruction. Unfortunately,history records that such warnings have always been ignored by the majority! Just take a look at the following: -Genesis chapter 2, tells us that Adam and Eve were warned of the consequences of eating the forbidden tree! Did they trust God? No, they went a head and ate it, thus leading to all the problems that we see around us! If only they had listened.......! -Genesis chapter 6, tells us that the good Lord warned of the destruction of the antediluvian by water! Unfortunately, only Adam and his family believed God. The rest were destroyed! -Genesis chapter 19, tells us of the sad story of Sodom and Gomorrah! All were warned to get out of the Twin Cities! Only Lot and his two daughters took the warning seriously! What about our time? Once again, the good Lord has warned us of the final destruction of this world! Are we by any chance ready? Or better still,are we better listeners than all those before us? No way! If anything,this generation has gone way too far! God have mercy! Just take a look at the following: -We continue doing that which we are good at-being very stubborn. -We continue to question the word of God. -We continue to make light of any warnings that come our way. -We continue to generalize everything. -Our daily actions and way of thinking tend to speak loud and clear that we are our own masters/mistresses and that there is nothing to fear! And with that kind of attitude will anyone ever blame the loving God for the final destruction of all the stubborn ones? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 05:01:36 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 02:01:36 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Firmly back on track Message-ID: <480273.27646.qm@web31408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends, When we were threatened with eviction at our offices, Friends of KCDN came to our aid so forcefully in what Migosi George Nyongesa positively calls the power of numbers. We are paying the final installment of the rent balance tomorrow. We will also make some advance payment on the part balance on our furniture and with the power of numbers, we are very optimistic that we will pay all the balance accruing. We are as focused as ever on our mandate. Our forte is support of the African Child; that child who is an orphan and those who are vulnerable, coming from poor families. On 4th December 2009, we will give them books, stationery, uniforms and shoes in a ceremony that we will host at Komarock Primary School. On this day, we will support 1950 such children. Again, it will be our love for children and the power we have in numbers that will make us successful. No one will help these children on our behalf. It is our love, our desire to give and our power in numbers that will carry the day. KCDN is just but a vehicle through which you can put a smile on the face of a deserving child, a deserving mother. On 5th September 2009, all these children and their friends, the youth and all the parents will join KCDN in 'From talking to tasking, the Greening of Nairobi; A KCDN Initiative' in planting trees around Komarock and in the family compounds. The kids will be appreciating the support that we have given them by becoming responsible for our environment. We have sort partnership for this day with Unep, Total Kenya Ltd, Green Belt Movement and a few more companies. We will give appropriate updates. As we thank all Friends of KCDN, we want to invite you to invite one more Friend to join our Initiative on Child Support. We can make it happen so, let us do it. Remember it will be on 4th December 2009. Our thanks and appreciation. Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. 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OK, Here it is: If you have been involved in any of the following, then please raise up your hand! -Have been a teacher. -Have taught someone how to drive. -Have been a counselor. -Done some parenting. Have you ever had a student/customer/child who took a long time to learn or to catch up with others? How did you feel about it ? In view of the fact that I now have several witnesses, I am ready to compare notes. Since childhood, you have read, been taught or heard it preached that: -We are all God's children regardless of race,tribe, gender, religion, education,and social status. -That in many ways we are all the same and yet so different in the way we view issues. -That we should all strive to be peace makers and do everything possible to avoid being a trouble maker. -That people will treat you the same way you treat them! Ever heard of the expression, "kill them with kindness?" -That we should be sensitive to other people's feelings! -That we should be careful lest we rate ourselves so high and important when the fact of the matter is that we are nothing. -That we should tread carefully knowing very well that we are here today and tomorrow we are gone! With all these in mind, it's indeed heart breaking to note that there are many people out there, who are still having trouble on these basic rules! And so the question is this: Will I ever learn? Will you? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Fri Jul 10 03:40:43 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:40:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [kca_main] Re: Rev, we have an appointment Ocampoo...Do you know a good lawyer? Message-ID: <485498.66156.qm@web31408.mail.mud.yahoo.com> JM, I am certain about the first 5 in that list. 1] President Mwai Kibaki and The Right Hon Raila Odinga. They were the reason why people fought. They must share position 1 in the envelop. 3] Mr. Samuel Kiviutu. He was the one who refused to do his job. He accepted the results to be cooked under his watch. His carelessness resulted in Kenyans killing each other. He must be the third on the list. 4] Police Commissioner Major General Mohamed Hussein Ali. Under his command, the police killed many Kenyans, some of whom were never even recorded in the Waki investigations. He must stand accused for dereliction of duty. 5] Administration Police Commandant Mr. Mbugua. Under his watch, the Adminstration Police unit was used to ruthlessly surpress the popular will of the people. He must stand accused for dereliction of duty. >From number six onwards, the Uhurus and the Rutos of Kenya can join the fray. Lastly, for Kenya to address the excesses of impunity, we must all support His Excellency Dr Kofi Annan and the Panel of Eminent African Personalities on this. President Kibaki and Prime Minister Odinga have not shown any willingness to address the issue of Peace, National Healing and Reconciliation as is best desired. They are preoccupied with power games as they sit on a time bomb that will not affect them. It is Kenyans who will suffer again as the 2 negotiate power in posh hotels. Odhiambo T Oketch Komarock Nairobi. --- On Thu, 7/9/09, barakaserv wrote: From: barakaserv Subject: [kca_main] Re: Rev, we have an appointment Ocampoo...Do you know a good lawyer? To: kca_main at yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 2:16 PM pkn, should Kibaki step aside as well if his name is included? Whta's your thoughts on that since its believed he's in the list? JM. --- In kca_main at yahoogroup s.com, "pkngunyi" wrote: > > http://www.nation. co.ke/News/ -/1056/621782/ -/ukvxfp/ -/index.html > > Those who were wishing this away were just deferring the inevitable. I am glad we're moving...But I am concerned that dealing with this animal will be tough before it gets better. > > Firstly, when Ocampoo opens that envelop and reads the names, anyone in that list must step aside from gvt to allow for investigations and prosecution. ..even if its Ruto or Raila or Uhuru. Second, how will kenyas react when the names are called out. Last, I hear that this prosecutor is overzealous about this case. Some suspected to be in the list had openly prefered the Hague because they thought that its a 10yr process, and will only prosecute big fish...But Ocampoo is promising to go after everyone...this will be interesting. ..pkn > > ..pkn > __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (2) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Photos | Links | Polls ---------------------------------------------- Pay your membership early; send cheques to the Treasurer to avoid disconnection. Include the following: - $30 membership fees; - $ 5 towards to KCA Award of Excellence starting 2001. ----------------------- Send cheques or money orders to: The KCA Treasurer P.O. Box 50097 Washington, D.C. 20091 Or paypal: treasurer at kenyansabroad.org e-mail: treasurer at kenyansabroad.org. 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Groups Auto Enthusiast Zone Auto Enthusiast Zone Discover auto groups . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Fri Jul 10 05:16:16 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Invitation from KCDN Message-ID: <924558.81018.qm@web31401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends of KCDN, We are indeed indepted to you all. Many thanks for those supportive words Elijah, George Nyongesa, Dr Shem Ochuodho, Dr Matunda Nyanchama, Ms Jamet Feldman, Dr John Maina and to the many Friends of KCDN; Lenny Amolo,? Arinolah EN, Maurice Odenyo, Jeanette M Khaoya, Oduor Ong'wen, Dr Otieno SE, Pamela Butalanyi, Okumba Miruka, David Ochwangi, Sam Olendo, Reginald Okumu, William Oloo Janak, Cosmos Omondi, Bishop Dr Julius Mbagaya.......... and the many institutions and NGOs who have been of support to us. We cannot forget Jairus K'Oyiengo, Sam Okello, Dick Aduong'a, Dr George Omburo, Jorum Odus, Joe Omanya, Carolone Otieno, Selline Oketch, Dennis Obiero, Herbert Omondi, Irene Wasike, Irene Ngugi, Shaun Barretto at Phoenix Aviation, Capt Himat at Capital Airlines, John Maina at Express Connections, Ashok Shah, Babu Shah, CD Shah at Text Book Centre, Aasif Karim at Aristocrats, Tetra Pak EA Ltd, Nestle Kenya Ltd, Chacha Odera, PLO Lumumba, Otiende Amolo and Enock Odhiambo........ Akiba Uhaki Foundation, TaxPlus Consults, SGS Kenya Ltd, Mini Bakeries [Nairobi] Ltd, Eric Jangolo, Dave Ndolo, Phoenix Publishers, East Africa Educational Publishers, H2O Beverages Ltd, The Cradle, Elisabeth Onyango Auma, Kuria-Mwangi, Regem Lugonzo, Josephine Kamanthe, Dr Paul Nyandoto, Rodgers Orero, Bunge La Mwananchi, Ben Ondoro, Zedekiah Nyanchama, Partnership for Change, Truphena Awuor........ If we have omitted your name, and you have been supportive, kindly bear with us. You are firmly in our minds. We thank you all for encouraging us, giving us support, advicing us and guiding us to the right path when we are almost missing it. We thank you all for sharing with us your resources and for making our work fairly easy. It has not been easy and it will still not be easy. But with you behind us, we have all the courage. As we encourage support from more friends, we invite you to share in our next events; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com We are happy to report that progress is being made in mobilization for '>From talking to tasking, the Greening of Nairobi East; A KCDN Initiative' scheduled to take place on 5th September 2009. Companies, Institutions, individuals and NGOs and more so, Friends of KCDN have offered to join us on this mission. On this day, the children and the youth will have their way of saying thank you for the support you have given to them. They have committed themselves to ensuring that these trees are watered and taken care of as part of their responsibility in environmental conservation. We are also happy to report progress on our biggest event; The KCDN Child Support Initiative scheduled for 4th December 2009. On this occasion, we will give educational materials [books, stationery, uniforms and shoes] to 1950 children in a ceremony that we will hold at Komarock Primary School. Without you, we cannot do all these. And as we said in our blogspot, KCDN is a vehicle through which you can express your goodness to the children and to their deserving mothers. The fathers tend to be AWOL in most cases! Too sad. Thank you all for those encouraging remarks. And thank you for supporting us. Kindly invite one more friend to join us. Peace and blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Elijah Kombo wrote: From: Elijah Kombo Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:02 PM KCDN is a great inititative that has touched many - not only in Kenya but the mass on the ouside of our country. Other than helping children to access to a brighter future, KCDN has impacted alot around the community in whihc it operates. And soon the same innotive concepts will be replicated through Kenya?The PEACE RUN was such a great venture. We saw the Administration partner and ensure that the mesage is sent across. ? And the upcoming event 'From Talking to Tasking - Greening Nairobi' will be bigger and will help in maintaining our environment in line with global warming initiatives. The Christmas gift for both old and young will demonstrate what the vision is. If i were you, i will not miss to be part of this great upciming events....BREAKFAST IS COMING SOON AND YOU RATHER PREPARE YOURSELF! Several CEO of INGOs will participate. ...see the extract of KCDN video on the upcoming event. ? Kudos to all who have supported what is signifcantly tangible in our lives! I am encourage being part of this initiative. ? Kombo Elijah --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Shem Ochuodho wrote: From: Shem Ochuodho Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 2:33 AM Amena, Nd. Nyongesa. S --- On Wed, 7/8/09, George Nyongesa wrote: From: George Nyongesa Subject: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroup s.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups. com, mwanyagetinge@ yahoogroups. com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com, MULEMBE at yahoogroups .com Cc: mazingira at yahoogrou ps.com, net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 11:02 PM Dear all, ? I refer to previous communications. ? Beyond our giving to KCDN, this activity is a great example and encouragement to?what we can achieve?when all of us come together in word and deed. Thank you OTO and KCDN for giving us opportunity to exercise the power of numbers. ? George Nyongesa??? --- On Wed, 7/8/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroup s.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups. com, mwanyagetinge@ yahoogroups. com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com Cc: mazingira at yahoogrou ps.com, net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, newvisionkenya@ egroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:52 PM This afternoon, Ms Janet Khaoya responded to our call for support. She sent KCDN CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50]. On behalf of KCDN, I appreciate this positive gesture. It means that what we are doing at KCDN touches on the hearts of most people. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 sending 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. William Oloo Janak 17] Mr. Okumba Miruka 18] Ms Pamela Butalanyi 19] Mr. Cosmos Omondi...... And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are sure that by this Friday we shall clear all our bills. Many thanks and blessings. Odhiambo T Oketch, Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, http://kcdnkomarock swatch.blogspot. com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From otoketch at yahoo.com Fri Jul 10 06:42:49 2009 From: otoketch at yahoo.com (Odhiambo T Oketch) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Invitation from KCDN Message-ID: <610034.66666.qm@web110313.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Dear Friends of KCDN, We are indeed indebted to you all. Many thanks for those supportive words Elijah, George Nyongesa, Dr Shem Ochuodho, Dr Matunda Nyanchama, Ms Jamet Feldman, Dr John Maina and to the many Friends of KCDN; Lenny Amolo,? Arinolah EN, Maurice Odenyo, Jeanette M Khaoya, Oduor Ong'wen, Dr Otieno SE, Pamela Butalanyi, Okumba Miruka, David Ochwangi, Sam Olendo, Reginald Okumu, William Oloo Janak, Cosmos Omondi, Bishop Dr Julius Mbagaya..... ..... and the many institutions and NGOs who have been of support to us. We cannot forget Jairus K'Oyiengo, Sam Okello, Dick Aduong'a, Dr George Omburo, Jorum Odus, Joe Omanya, Carolone Otieno, Selline Oketch, Dennis Obiero, Herbert Omondi, Irene Wasike, Irene Ngugi, Shaun Barretto at Phoenix Aviation, Capt Himat at Capital Airlines, John Maina at Express Connections, Ashok Shah, Babu Shah, CD Shah at Text Book Centre, Aasif Karim at Aristocrats, Tetra Pak EA Ltd, Nestle Kenya Ltd, Chacha Odera, PLO Lumumba, Otiende Amolo and Enock Odhiambo.... .... Akiba Uhaki Foundation, TaxPlus Consults, SGS Kenya Ltd, Mini Bakeries [Nairobi] Ltd, Eric Jangolo, Dave Ndolo, Phoenix Publishers, East Africa Educational Publishers, H2O Beverages Ltd, The Cradle, Elisabeth Onyango Auma, Kuria-Mwangi, Regem Lugonzo, Josephine Kamanthe, Dr Paul Nyandoto, Rodgers Orero, Bunge La Mwananchi, Ben Ondoro, Zedekiah Nyanchama, Partnership for Change, Truphena Awuor....... . If we have omitted your name, and you have been supportive, kindly bear with us. You are firmly in our minds. We thank you all for encouraging us, giving us support, advicing us and guiding us to the right path when we are almost missing it. We thank you all for sharing with us your resources and for making our work fairly easy. It has not been easy and it will still not be easy. But with you behind us, we have all the courage. As we encourage support from more friends, we invite you to share in our next events; http://kcdnkomarock swatch.blogspot. com We are happy to report that progress is being made in mobilization for '>From talking to tasking, the Greening of Nairobi East; A KCDN Initiative' scheduled to take place on 5th September 2009. Companies, Institutions, individuals and NGOs and more so, Friends of KCDN have offered to join us on this mission. On this day, the children and the youth will have their way of saying thank you for the support you have given to them. They have committed themselves to ensuring that these trees are watered and taken care of as part of their responsibility in environmental conservation. We are also happy to report progress on our biggest event; The KCDN Child Support Initiative scheduled for 4th December 2009. On this occasion, we will give educational materials [books, stationery, uniforms and shoes] to 1950 children in a ceremony that we will hold at Komarock Primary School. Without you, we cannot do all these. And as we said in our blogspot, KCDN is a vehicle through which you can express your goodness to the children and to their deserving mothers. The fathers tend to be AWOL in most cases! Too sad. Thank you all for those encouraging remarks. And thank you for supporting us. Kindly invite one more friend to join us. Peace and blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, http://kcdnkomarock swatch.blogspot. com --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Elijah Kombo wrote: From: Elijah Kombo Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:02 PM KCDN is a great inititative that has touched many - not only in Kenya but the mass on the ouside of our country. Other than helping children to access to a brighter future, KCDN has impacted alot around the community in whihc it operates. And soon the same innotive concepts will be replicated through Kenya?The PEACE RUN was such a great venture. We saw the Administration partner and ensure that the mesage is sent across. ? And the upcoming event 'From Talking to Tasking - Greening Nairobi' will be bigger and will help in maintaining our environment in line with global warming initiatives. The Christmas gift for both old and young will demonstrate what the vision is. If i were you, i will not miss to be part of this great upciming events....BREAKFAST IS COMING SOON AND YOU RATHER PREPARE YOURSELF! Several CEO of INGOs will participate. ...see the extract of KCDN video on the upcoming event. ? Kudos to all who have supported what is signifcantly tangible in our lives! I am encourage being part of this initiative. ? Kombo Elijah --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Shem Ochuodho wrote: From: Shem Ochuodho Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 2:33 AM Amena, Nd. Nyongesa. S --- On Wed, 7/8/09, George Nyongesa wrote: From: George Nyongesa Subject: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroup s.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups. com, mwanyagetinge@ yahoogroups. com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com, MULEMBE at yahoogroups .com Cc: mazingira at yahoogrou ps.com, net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 11:02 PM Dear all, ? I refer to previous communications. ? Beyond our giving to KCDN, this activity is a great example and encouragement to?what we can achieve?when all of us come together in word and deed. Thank you OTO and KCDN for giving us opportunity to exercise the power of numbers. ? George Nyongesa??? --- On Wed, 7/8/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroup s.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups. com, mwanyagetinge@ yahoogroups. com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com Cc: mazingira at yahoogrou ps.com, net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, newvisionkenya@ egroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:52 PM This afternoon, Ms Janet Khaoya responded to our call for support. She sent KCDN CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50]. On behalf of KCDN, I appreciate this positive gesture. It means that what we are doing at KCDN touches on the hearts of most people. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 sending 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. William Oloo Janak 17] Mr. Okumba Miruka 18] Ms Pamela Butalanyi 19] Mr. Cosmos Omondi...... And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are sure that by this Friday we shall clear all our bills. Many thanks and blessings. Odhiambo T Oketch, Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, http://kcdnkomarock swatch.blogspot. com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joragem at gmail.com Fri Jul 10 01:20:28 2009 From: joragem at gmail.com (Joram Ragem) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:20:28 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] A Case of RAILA ANNA OCAMPO KIBAKI. Message-ID: Joe Kenya, So Ocampo now has the envelope, right? Are we going to wait until September or next year to know the suspects? Who is really fooling who? Is it a case of *Kibaki Anna Ocampo Raila*, or is it *Raila Anna Ocampo Kibaki*? It may be a case where* Kibaki na Raila wana Ocampo Ruto na Uhuru,* and may as well be a case where *Uhuru na Ruto wana Ocampo Raila na Kibaki*. Whatever way you look at it, commoner may be the victim. This is the time the show is at it best. As we watch it, it reminds me that I liked to watch Pata Potea as the trick stars lured victims in Nairobi. In Pata Potea, you are lured to play by thinking, 1) that those playing the game are commoners like you and 2) that since they are winning, you too can win. Then they take all your money, if you let them. What is intuitive to note here is that sometimes the police played Pata Potea, I disguised as the commoner only to burst the peddlers of this illegal gambling game. Who is fooling who really? Is it a case of *Kibaki Anna Ocampo Raila*, or is it *Raila Anna Ocampo Kibaki*? It may be a case where* Kibaki na Raila wana Ocampo Ruto na Uhuru,* and may as well be a case where *Uhuru na Ruto wana Ocampo Raila na Kibaki*. The commoner, remains the victim. Lest we forget, the 2007 election was stolen. Not suddenly, but meticulously planned and with premeditation, what with the collusion and coercion of the provincial administration, regular police, KBC, ECK and others. What followed was a revolt, the commoner refused to accept the stolen result, just like when a victim finally rises to revolt his bully. The thief who was caught red handed, refused to let go his loot with impunity and in fact gathered courage to be sworn in at night, without even the blessing of or national anthem. In between, the abominable crimes were committed. Desmond Tutu, Okafor, Fraiser and later Annan and Rice were unable to fumba the gridlock to peace, until to our naked eye Jakaya Kikwete fumbuad. Or was this prt of Pata Potea. You see, here in California, the detectives always ask, 'who stands to benefit' when a crime is committed and the leads are not obvious? Sometimes, there is no answer to this question, and they wait5, 10 30 years and then it is answered. So I ask, who stands to benefit when Ocampo strikes? If you think it is the commoner, you are too naive. However, if you do not know and choose to wait, you may realize that mister-in-between, aka Kalonzo Musyoka, aka Traitor, through his proxy, aka Mutula is the catalyst the benefactor! But do not be surprised if you and I are in that envelope. It's a crazy world, this! -- Joram Ragem wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bmbuki at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 05:48:29 2009 From: bmbuki at yahoo.com (Mr. Boniface Mbuki) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 02:48:29 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: AT LAST. KOFFI ANNAN HOYIEE Message-ID: <133778.60481.qm@web55205.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has handed over the envelope containing the names of Kenya post-election violence suspects to The Hague. Related Stories Hague: Annan's deadline for Kenya leaders Raila backs Annan on Hague deadline Kenya in no hurry to form tribunal, says KilonzoKenya asks Annan for more timeObama scolds Kenya He said that he has done so after an agreement was reached between a delegation from the Kenya Government and senior officials of the International Criminal Court in Geneva."In light of that agreement, I wish to inform you that the Panel of Eminent African Personalities has handed over to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the sealed envelope and supporting materials entrusted to me by the Waki Commission on 17th October 2008," said the statement addressed to Prime Minister Raila Odinga and copied to President Kibaki.Mr Annan head a meeting with the Kenyan delegation comprising the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Mutula Kilonzo, Lands minister James Orengo, Attorney General Amos Wako and Mr William Cheptumo, the Assistant minister for Justice.?We discussed the status of the implementation of the National Accord and progress on Agenda Four items reforms, including the modalities of the establishment of a Special Tribunal, as recommended by the Commission of Inquiry into the Post Election Violence in Kenya,? said Mr Annan. --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Odhiambo ????? wrote: From: Odhiambo ????? Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Why APs Number must go up To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 11:47 AM On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:36 AM, wrote: Hi guys, Am in agreement with Amenya.Take it this way,how does the President as the CEO of the country govern at the grassroots?I mean how does his directives going to be implemented by the provincial administration?APs are the symbol of authority bestowed on the President by the constitution.Infact we should occupy ourselves with the issues related to the autonomy of APs and not there merging with regular police.ith the current attitude and desire to go the parlimentary way of governance,we are going to have proper devolution of power which means mower administration units from the regions to national hence more APs for proper and effective dispensation of anagement That being the case, there is very good reason to disband the regular police. Why duplicate duties anyway? Just empower the APs to be able to do all that the regular police do. After all aren't they all policemen? -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -- Lucky Dube --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Dear Brethren, My wife and I would like to invite you to our first church service that will take place on July 12, 2009 at three O'clock in the afternoon. The Lord opened a door of ministry and we will be pastors at the address below. ? The address is:- 8855 Belair Road Baltimore, MD 21236. ? Kindly tell a friend. Come and let us worship together. ? Rev, Peter and Rev. Dr. Anne Osano -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 07:34:43 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 04:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Is this the Solution??? THE HAGUE WAY!! Koffi Annan had done it. Message-ID: <188480.42170.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? Its.......... ? Kudos brothermen!!!!.........political power must go back to the people.....the people driven society must correspond to?and balance with the people driven economy. People own their Nation and so they must stay on driver seat to make sure their Nationhood is driven to its destination. ? Cheers! Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Mr. Boniface Mbuki wrote: From: Mr. Boniface Mbuki Subject: [YP_Ke] Is this the Solution??? THE HAGUE WAY!! Koffi Annan had done it. To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 5:51 AM Hi Guys, Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has handed over the envelope containing the names of Kenya post-election violence suspects to The Hague. Related Stories Hague: Annan's deadline for Kenya leaders Raila backs Annan on Hague deadline Kenya in no hurry to form tribunal, says Kilonzo Kenya asks Annan for more time Obama scolds Kenya He said that he has done so after an agreement was reached between a delegation from the Kenya Government and senior officials of the International Criminal Court in Geneva. "In light of that agreement, I wish to inform you that the Panel of Eminent African Personalities has handed over to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the sealed envelope and supporting materials entrusted to me by the Waki Commission on 17th October 2008," said the statement addressed to Prime Minister Raila Odinga and copied to President Kibaki. Mr Annan head a meeting with the Kenyan delegation comprising the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Mutula Kilonzo, Lands minister James Orengo, Attorney General Amos Wako and Mr William Cheptumo, the Assistant minister for Justice. ?We discussed the status of the implementation of the National Accord and progress on Agenda Four items reforms, including the modalities of the establishment of a Special Tribunal, as recommended by the Commission of Inquiry into the Post Election Violence in Kenya,? said Mr Annan. Boniface --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON ?LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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May 28 2009 at 12:03PM By Wangui Kanina Nairobi - Wrangling in Kenya's dysfunctional coalition government has been cited as a major factor dragging down east Africa's largest economy. Here are possible scenarios for the government: Limping along? Despite alarmist headlines and threats by politicians, most analysts expect President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga's factions to stick together - albeit chaotically - until campaigning starts for the 2012 election. They came together in April 2008 to end post-election violence that killed more than 1 300 people, displaced several hundred thousand, and battered key sectors of the economy. Growth in 2008 was 1,7 percent, down from 7,1 percent in 2008. It is projected at 2-3 percent in 2009.[ID:nLL206723] Economists, businessmen and even some politicians say quarrelling within the coalition has been a major factor in Kenya's sluggish performance, along with the impact of the global slowdown and the post-election crisis. Kibaki and Odinga's supporters have bickered over the pair's comparative authority and duties, appointments in the civil service and parliament, and responsibility for a raft of new corruption scandals in the maize, tourism and oil sectors. The quarrelling has delayed Cabinet meetings and effectively paralysed parliament at a time when the coalition is supposed to be driving important political reforms such as writing a new constitution. Critics say the government has also failed to combat food shortages and mitigate the effect of the global slowdown on tourism, horticulture and other crucial sectors. Coalition collapse? The government has, at times, appeared close to splitting, especially when Odinga demanded new elections if he was not given the post of leader of government business in parliament. Some civil society activists, and influential Anglican Church leaders, have also called for new elections. Most analysts, however, believe that Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Kibaki's Party of National Unity (PNU) members know that at the end of the day, the consequences of divorce are far worse than those of an unhappy marriage. The parties have actually come together on a few telling issues, to protect their mutual interests, such as protecting benefits for members of parliament and shielding them from paying tax. Public disillusionment is so high that many legislators would have no chance of returning to parliament should their seats come up for grabs before time is up in 2012. Kiss and make up? The relationship between Kibaki and Odinga goes up and down. Sometimes, they are seen smiling together at joint appearances or having cosy, private meetings. At other times, Odinga has criticised Kibaki in public while the president's top aides have fired back in kind. Even in the unlikely scenario of the two reconciling completely, distrust among their aides runs so deep that the parties are likely to remain far apart. Experts say nothing short of a gun put to their collective heads will force the two parties to make up. Kenyans say neither party has done much to forge unity and end animosity between tribes, and tackle issues of land reform and poverty at the heart of the flare up in early 2008. More violence? Two months of unprecedented violence in 2008 traumatised Kenyans and indelibly affected its image abroad. The spectre of more violence hangs over the political arena at all times. On the one hand, some analysts warn that if Kenya's politicians do not bury their differences and attend to the real problems bothering the public, then violence could flare again. Others say, however, that 2008's events - which saw neighbours turn on each other with machetes and clubs - were so horrific that they will act as a deterrent to any more. The mood this year is far less militant than last, when politicians had whipped up tribal emotions and made electoral promises they eventually did not keep. This time round, there is a sense of disgust from the public towards all politicians. Any violence may be of a different nature, such as riots over food and oil prices. Public discontent has been rising this year, with sporadic demonstrations over human rights violations such as extrajudicial killings by police. [ID:nL6369462] Insecurity is rife. Last month a feared criminal gang, Mungiki, killed dozens of villagers, who had formed vigilante groups to protect themselves against extortion and other violent tactics of the gang in central Kenya. Analysts say the group, described as Kenya's version of the mafia, was used as hired muscle during the post-election violence. Its ranks are drawn from Kenya's young and jobless. - Reuters Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From response at njdems.org Thu Jul 9 12:35:24 2009 From: response at njdems.org (The New Jersey Democratic State Committee) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:35:24 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] Partnership for Progress with President Obama Message-ID: <782a032b7b3bba5ea99110340da60e15@www.bluestatetech.net> After eight long years, New Jersey Democrats finally have a partner in Washington who shares our values and vision for New Jersey. President Obama will be joining Governor Corzine on Thursday, July 16th to recognize the important work New Jersey is doing and really get our campaign going! Show your support by wearing your very own limited edition "New Jersey for Obama" t-shirt! Please consider making a $50 contribution to the NJDSC. Your support today is crucial to building a statewide grassroots campaign. Contribute Today: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/entity/8375 To show our appreciation for your support we will send you a FREE "New Jersey for Obama" t-shirt that you can wear at the rally. Contribute online at www.actblue.com to receive your t-shirt. We will send a follow-up email to confirm your contribution and so that you may select your t-shirt size. Hurry while supplies last! The partnership between President Obama and Governor Corzine will continue the creation of green jobs, universal access to healthcare for kids, the protection of the most vulnerable, and the promise to provide quality education to children all over New Jersey. In these difficult times, we need this partnership to succeed. Thank you for again your support! Sincerely, Your Team at the Democratic State Committee PS: Don't forget to register for the 15th Annual Democratic State Conference by August 30th to receive the discounted rate. 15th Annual Democratic State Conference September 24 ? 26th Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, NJ Register today! http://www.njdems.org/conference.php -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From leooderaomolo at yahoo.com Thu Jul 9 17:35:03 2009 From: leooderaomolo at yahoo.com (Leo Odera Omolo) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 14:35:03 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] ODIGA FAMILY IN THE FRESH BATTLE FOR THE CONTROL OF OFAFA HALL Message-ID: <271811.41991.qm@web34306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> THE BATTLE IS LOOMING INSIDE LUO-NYANZA OVER THE CONTROLS OF ASSETS OF THE DEFUNCT LUO UNION EAST AFRICA AND OFAFA MEMORIAL HALL? IN ?KISUMU. Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City. A cold war involving furious disagreement has erupted? between the two groups of Luo elders ,intellectuals and politicians over which group should control the assets of the defunct Luo Union {East Africa}. Luo Union {EA} was among he hundreds of thousands of tribal welfare organizations, which were banned by the Moi regime in the early 1980s.. Launched by the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in 1945, the organization, which prior to the arrival of the political independence, had branches all over East Africa, mostly in towns and urban centers where members of the community work and lived. Its strongest branches were those located in Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha Moshi,, Nakuru and Kericho The Luo Union gained its fame when it had power of rounding up its members, particularly women who were involved in immoral vices such as prostitution and forcefully repatriating them back to Luo-Nyanza under police escorts from all over East Africa. ?It came under severest criticism by other communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, but at home it was hailed for instilling discipline among the youths .and at the same time building the community?s image and respectability... By the year 1950, the Luo Union {EA} had established itself as one of the leading indigenous local owned trading companies. It established the Luo Thrift Trading Company Ltd {Ramogi Corporation}., which venture into wholesale business ?and put up commercial and business premises in Maseno, Ng?iya and Kisumu Town. Someof its assets have evaporated and vanished inthethin air.; The company had also established a wholesale business enterprises in Kisumu and two magnificent b ?commercial buildings right in the Central Business District of Kisumu. These were the Afrika House and Luo Thrift Building. The two building are located on Accra Road, the busiest commercial street in the City.. The com-any had one building in Maseno Town and several Posho mills in Ng?iya, Bondo, Siaya, Ahero, Ndori, Ukwalla and Muhoroni. Besides these, the company had purchased a 46- large scale sugar cane farm near Miwani Sugar Factory and very close to the? Great Oroba farm, which is owned by the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Its shares were selling at 500/- for an individual. Thousands of Luo joined the Union and its trading flagship Luo Thrift Trading Company. And after establishing the Maseno based business premises in early 1950? it constructed the Luo Thrift Building in the kj9id 1950s and a few years later the Afrika House. All these took place while the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga was the? founder of modern Ker, a ceremonial tribal title from 1945 to 1958. Jaramogi relinquished his leadership of Luo Union{EA} in 1958nohe year afrter his first election to the colonial legislative Council in March 1957. The new Ker was elected in his place was Pastor Joel Omer, the father of the former Karachuonyo MP Mrs Phoebe Muga Asiyo.. Pastor Omer, however, was just a figure head, but Jaramogi remained in tight control of the all assets and property of the Luo Thrift, and even went as far as establishing Ramogi Printing Press at Africa House, where his defunct English Weekly newspaper ,the NYANZA TIMES, was published and printed until it folded up in 1964.. The late Odinga also had a permanent office, which he later used as the KANU office, Ford-Kenya, and his son Raila also used it as the NDP and Lup. It is still being used by the ODM as its branch office in Kisumu. What remained unknown is the question whether Jaramogi and other parties that had used the building were actually paying rents? And if so to who? And how much was the monthly rents? Under the leadership of Jaramogi, members of the Luo community made generous donations of money, which was used in constructing the magnificent Ofafa Memorial Hall, a multi-0purpose complex which stands on the side of Kisumu-Kakamega road near Kibuye. The building was named after the late Nairobi City Councilor Mr Ambrose Ofafa who was slain by the agents of the Mau Mau fighters ion Donholm Road, Nairobi in 1953 .He was seen as collaborator of the colonialist and died in a hails of bullets. The ;late Jarampgi ,obviously was the brain behind the Ofafa Memorial Hall project, and travelled all over East Africa with his team of the Luo Union EA} while rising funds for the halls project. The appeal had gone out that the Hall would be utilized in storing all the Luo old and new cultural values, photos of community heroes of the past and present, and also used for education and cultural activities by the community.. It was completed and opened in 1961 and for all these years, the building had technically remained under the grip of the Odinga family in the same fashion like other assets of the defunct Luo Union {EA}. To the shock of the entire Luo community, the Luo Thrift Trading Company has never posted its trading annual report nor published them in the local press nor post the report to its shareholders ever since it started doing business in the late 1940s to-date. Even the appointment of its CEO s is shrouded in great secrecy?The Assistant Minister for Finance once served as its Managing Director, but who had appointed him remained a top secret and a mystery? perhaps ?only to othe Odinga family The latest, but unconfirmed rumor making the round is that the Ramogi Farm in Miwani whose half had eelier been sold by the late Jaramogi to? enable the Luo Thrift Trading Company replenish its debts to other creditors in the late 1960s. The latest rumor making the round is that the remaining over 200 acres of Ramogi Farm in Miwani was ten years ago allegedly secretly sold to the former MP for Emuhaya Mr. Sheldon Muchilwa at a price of Kshs 10 million or more? What is not clear is who had authorized sale and who pocketed the money. The same question goes to the earlier sale of the part of the farm.. There is no word about what happened to the half a doze Posho Mills, and also the commercial; building at Maseno Trading Centre. ?A retired teacher and former executive branch secretary of KNUt in the larger South Nyanza district Mr. Edwarde Adera Osawa is the current CEO of the Luo Thrift Trading Company. How the ex-teachers secured such a plum jobs remained a mystery/ But for many years he was an Odinga sycophant, which is a clear testimony that the asset of the firm are still under the grips of the Odinga family, perhaps will never revert to the shareholders, majority of who have since died of old ages.. The current stand off is between the members of the Luo Elders and Cultural Development group headed by a political firebrand Mr. Walter Kitoto Adel as its chairman. He is also the chairman of the Dongruok Jokano Manyien {RIDOAM} with Dr.M.T. Ayodo of Masenoi University as its Secretary.. Some years in the middle of 1980s, while serving as the Patron of the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology {RIAT}, the late Jaramogi surprised many people when ?he single handedly announced the handing over of the Ofafa ?Memorial Hall to ?RIAT. The institute immediately established a commercial and secretarial college at the Hall. Other p[art of the building were rented to different business people.. But some aggrieved members of the community moved to court. At the same time they established and registered five men joint patrons under the auspices of the Luo Elders Development and Cultural Group to overseer the asset of the proscribed Luo Union {EA]. Their action was prompted after the Luo Council of Elders had just moved into ?Ofafa and took position of the building from the blue moon .and gad kicked out the RIAT management. A legal tussle ensued, and the Luo Council of Elders were temporarily removed from the Hall. They were also restricted from access sing the building . All the money accrued from monthly rents was ordered? to be deposited to the court. The registered five patrons were Henry Ochieng ?Obiero, a former Deputy Commission of Police, Mr. David Oluoch Opar, another former Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr. Otieno Nundu from Suba district and the former Principal of the Kisumu Boys High School School, Mr. Obare Aura and Mr Otieno Okuku. Their terms as per their registration is due to expire in October 2010.. ?But while the tenure of these people was still force, another group, which is aligned to the ODM alleged? the influence of the Lands Minister ?James Orengo and were also registered as patrons in April this year. The new group is reportedly aligned ??to the Luo Council of Elders and consisting of Raila Odinga political surrogates and sycophants. This has raised the political temperature inside Luo-Nyanza with many Luos reading malice on the part of Prime Minister and his supporters.. ]The newly registered patrons include a retired educationist Mr.Oyuga Tado, the former PEO Central Province Mr. Seth Oluoch and a ?Mr Ouma. Immediately after securing the registration as the new patrons, the group? moved to Ofafa Memorial Hal and began serving tenants with the quit notices. Some members of the moribund Luo Council of Elders were heard bragging that hey were given Ofafa Hall so that hey could use as their administrative headquarters ands also to generate money for the services they are rendering to the community, The Hall is now having two set of groups, each claiming to be the de facto registered patrons and overseers of the assets of the defunct Luo Union {EA}, and the former patrons headed by Mr. Ochieng Obiero have ?moved to ?court .At the same time seeking the court indulgence by restraining ?the new group from taking the ?properties of the Luo Union[EA}, while arguing that the ?Luo ?Councilof Elders, which is serving as apolitical wing of the ODM has no right of moving into the property, which belonged to the entire Luo community. The Elders were never elected, but only hand-picked by the Odingas as such therefore have no legal authority over the property of the community.. .Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From josiah.ogalo at gmail.com Fri Jul 10 05:38:43 2009 From: josiah.ogalo at gmail.com (josiah ogalo) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:38:43 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Is this the Solution??? THE HAGUE WAY!! Koffi Annan had done it. In-Reply-To: References: <188480.42170.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <181c75910907100238w2881e6dfvb63a1dd2fa64ba04@mail.gmail.com> Ed, The wheels of justice grind slowly...but at long last, it will catch up with you one day! However long it takes, the blood of the people shed is speaking.....innocent children, women and men who knew nothing about the seriously flawed elections in December 2007. By the way, 2012 might be a christmas party if we Kenyan middle class do not take keen interest in being change agents before then! 3 Tribes that are likely to worsen the situation come 2012, Luos, Kikuyus, Kalenjins. We need to be centres of influence to those we interact with else the animosity seeds sowed amongst us will be grown up trees come 2012.....and the chance for us to participate in rebuilding our nation is now! Start with your constituency guys, the youths and villages - the budget devolved a lot of resources to the Constituency levels- how does you MP plan to spend the funds! Regards Josiah On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:55 PM, ed moses wrote: > *Blokes for the hague, enlighten me on something, if you may. I personally > think the logic speaks for itself. Lets do some calculations....* > ** > *a) Charles Taylor-wanted for War Crimes, Genocide, Crimes against > humanity. The numbers? 250,000 dead; scores maimed, raped, destabilised. > Region? Over two countries-seirra leone & Liberia. Accused? 1 prominent man; > Some might follow. Time period taken in prosecution? Decades. Result? > Still on trial.* > *b) Al Bashir- wanted for war crimes, crimes against humanity. The > numbers? hundreds of thousands dead, more on the way. Region? Darfur & vast > lands. Accused? 1 man. Time period? years. Result? The guy is audaciously > out and about, with the AU as the chief body guard.* > *c) Kabuga- we all know the story. Result? still at large, enjoying > largesse you and I can only dream of, in our country!!* > *d) Joseph Kony- another sad result* > *e) Now Kenya- wanted for crimes against humanity, a rather lesser charge > at ICC. The numbers? 1,133 dead. Hundreds of thousands dispalced. Accused? > 11 or so fellas. Region? Kenya. * > *Now, tell me, why is Kenya so special to warrant expeditious action for > seemingly lesser weight than what they have handled before?* > *I personally take this Ocampo guy and what he says with a pinch of salt, > unless he proves me otherwise or unless you enlighten me on the hoopla, > whichever comes first.* > > > On 7/9/09, Judy Miriga wrote: >> >> Folks, >> >> Its.......... >> >> Kudos brothermen!!!!.........political power must go back to the >> people.....the people >> driven society must correspond to and balance with the people driven >> economy. >> People own their Nation and so they must stay on driver seat to make sure >> their >> Nationhood is driven to its destination. >> >> Cheers! >> >> Judy Miriga >> Diaspora Spokesperson >> Executive Director >> Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., >> USA >> http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com >> >> --- On *Thu, 7/9/09, Mr. Boniface Mbuki * wrote: >> >> >> >> From: Mr. Boniface Mbuki >> Subject: [YP_Ke] Is this the Solution??? THE HAGUE WAY!! Koffi Annan had >> done it. >> To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com >> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 5:51 AM >> >> Hi Guys, >> >> >> Former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has handed over the >> envelope containing the names of Kenya post-election violence suspects to >> The Hague. >> >> Related Stories >> >> - Hague: Annan's deadline for Kenya leaders >> >> - Raila backs Annan on Hague deadline >> >> - Kenya in no hurry to form tribunal, says Kilonzo >> - Kenya asks Annan for more time >> - Obama scolds Kenya >> >> He said that he has done so after an agreement was reached between a >> delegation from the Kenya Government and senior officials of the >> International Criminal Court in Geneva. >> "In light of that agreement, I wish to inform you that the Panel of >> Eminent African Personalities has handed over to the Prosecutor of the >> International Criminal Court, the sealed envelope and supporting materials >> entrusted to me by the Waki Commission on 17th October 2008," said the >> statement addressed to Prime Minister Raila Odinga and copied to President >> Kibaki. >> Mr Annan head a meeting with the Kenyan delegation comprising the >> Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs Mutula Kilonzo, Lands >> minister James Orengo, Attorney General Amos Wako and Mr William Cheptumo, >> the Assistant minister for Justice. >> ?We discussed the status of the implementation of the National Accord >> and progress on Agenda Four items reforms, including the modalities of the >> establishment of a Special Tribunal, as recommended by the Commission of >> Inquiry into the Post Election Violence in Kenya,? said Mr Annan. >> Boniface >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: what a way of thinking. a point exists here though................... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, ed moses wrote: > *What wisdom informs an education system to still send children to > parliamentary sessions ostensibly as part of their already demented > syllabus?* > *what we would be doing unknowingly is creating fruits that won't > eventually fall far from the rotten tree we already have. Instead of > exposing these young minds to constructive, rich debates about fundamental > issues, we would be exposing them to:* > *1. Goons who dont show up at work* > *2.Goons who, if they show up, will be asleep half the time* > *3.Goons- a whole someone's mother and another's father, who would be > jostling for the front seat, as 'grown' up as they are* > *4. Goons who dont know how to give proper answers to simple questions* > *5. Goons who love airing their dirty linen in public and engaing > ferociously in non-issues* > ** > *and then they see these same fellas later jump into their prados, wearing > financed suits with bulging tummies, they think to themselves, yeah, this is > the life! And so the story goes that when this make believe world replays in > your teenage son's mind over and over and he walks up and says "I aspire to > be an MP like so and so", just tap him on the back and thank the school for > inspiring your little boy to greatness!* > > > > -- Regards Josephine Kamanthe +254723736086 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 500 PER ADVERT. 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I >> mean basically this a person who runs a whole ministry. And if the life of >> such a person can be taken away casually by carjackers, what about an >> ordinary citizen. The society is surely becoming a dangerous place. >> >> Proudly Kenyan, >> Murithi Magiri >> >> >> >> ?In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, >> stand like a rock.? *Thomas Jefferson* >> >> ** >> >> >> --- On *Thu, 9/7/09, Joshua Amolo * wrote: >> >> >> From: Joshua Amolo >> Subject: [YP_Ke] Youth PS Murugu dies in Nairobi >> To: "bidiiafrika" , "youngprofessionals_ke" >> >> Date: Thursday, 9 July, 2009, 7:23 AM >> >> >> Youth and Sports Permanent Secretary Kinuthia Murugu dies at the >> Nairobi Hospital where he has been since being shot by carjackers 3 >> weeks ago. >> >> http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/621546/-/ukvvrd/-/index.html >> >> How sad >> >> May the Lord comfort the family during this trying moment >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> Joshua Amolo >> Cell: +254 720 263308/+255 783 060052 >> >> >> Managing IT people is like herding cats >> >> >> > > > > -- Regards Josephine Kamanthe +254723736086 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,200 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From kjmwangi at gmail.com Fri Jul 10 11:27:22 2009 From: kjmwangi at gmail.com (Kuria-Mwangi) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:27:22 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] ODIGA FAMILY IN THE FRESH BATTLE FOR THE CONTROL OF OFAFA HALL In-Reply-To: <271811.41991.qm@web34306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <271811.41991.qm@web34306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <543d04890907100827y29c1c15bmcb63b3916077e174@mail.gmail.com> *The Luo Union gained its fame when it had power of rounding up its members, particularly women who were involved in immoral vices such as prostitution and forcefully repatriating them back to Luo-Nyanza under police escorts from all over East Africa.* * It came under severest criticism by other communities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, but at home it was hailed for instilling discipline among the youths .and at the same time building the community?s image and respectability...* This is very interesting. I didnt know that the Talibans had their admirers in our dear country:). No wonder it was very difficult to find a Luo prostitute in urban areas during the days gone bye:) Kuria On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Leo Odera Omolo wrote: > THE BATTLE IS LOOMING INSIDE LUO-NYANZA OVER THE CONTROLS OF ASSETS OF THE > DEFUNCT LUO UNION EAST AFRICA AND OFAFA MEMORIAL HALL IN KISUMU. > > Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City. > > A cold war involving furious disagreement has erupted between the two > groups of Luo elders ,intellectuals and politicians over which group should > control the assets of the defunct Luo Union {East Africa}. > > Luo Union {EA} was among he hundreds of thousands of tribal welfare > organizations, which were banned by the Moi regime in the early 1980s.. > > Launched by the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in 1945, the organization, > which prior to the arrival of the political independence, had branches all > over East Africa, mostly in towns and urban centers where members of the > community work and lived. Its strongest branches were those located in > Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar Es Salaam, Mwanza, Arusha Moshi,, Nakuru and > Kericho > > The Luo Union gained its fame when it had power of rounding up its members, > particularly women who were involved in immoral vices such as prostitution > and forcefully repatriating them back to Luo-Nyanza under police escorts > from all over East Africa. > > It came under severest criticism by other communities in Kenya, Uganda > and Tanzania, but at home it was hailed for instilling discipline among the > youths .and at the same time building the community?s image and > respectability... > > By the year 1950, the Luo Union {EA} had established itself as one of the > leading indigenous local owned trading companies. It established the Luo > Thrift Trading Company Ltd {Ramogi > > Corporation}., which venture into wholesale business and put up > commercial and business premises in Maseno, Ng?iya and Kisumu Town. Someof > its assets have evaporated and vanished inthethin air.; > > The company had also established a wholesale business enterprises in Kisumu > and two magnificent b commercial buildings right in the Central Business > District of Kisumu. These were the Afrika House and Luo Thrift Building. The > two building are located on Accra Road, the busiest commercial street in the > City.. > > The com-any had one building in Maseno Town and several Posho mills in > Ng?iya, Bondo, Siaya, Ahero, Ndori, Ukwalla and Muhoroni. Besides these, the > company had purchased a 46- large scale sugar cane farm near Miwani Sugar > Factory and very close to the Great Oroba farm, which is owned by the > late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. > > Its shares were selling at 500/- for an individual. Thousands of Luo joined > the Union and its trading flagship Luo Thrift Trading Company. And after > establishing the Maseno based business premises in early 1950 it > constructed the Luo Thrift Building in the kj9id 1950s and a few years later > the Afrika House. All these took place while the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga > was the founder of modern Ker, a ceremonial tribal title from 1945 to > 1958. Jaramogi relinquished his leadership of Luo Union{EA} in 1958nohe year > afrter his first election to the colonial legislative Council in March 1957. > The new Ker was elected in his place was Pastor Joel Omer, the father of the > former Karachuonyo MP Mrs Phoebe Muga Asiyo.. > > Pastor Omer, however, was just a figure head, but Jaramogi remained in > tight control of the all assets and property of the Luo Thrift, and even > went as far as establishing Ramogi Printing Press at Africa House, where his > defunct English Weekly newspaper ,the NYANZA TIMES, was published and > printed until it folded up in 1964.. The late Odinga also had a permanent > office, which he later used as the KANU office, Ford-Kenya, and his son > Raila also used it as the NDP and Lup. It is still being used by the ODM as > its branch office in Kisumu. > > What remained unknown is the question whether Jaramogi and other parties > that had used the building were actually paying rents? And if so to who? And > how much was the monthly rents? > > Under the leadership of Jaramogi, members of the Luo community made > generous donations of money, which was used in constructing the magnificent > Ofafa Memorial Hall, a multi-0purpose complex which stands on the side of > Kisumu-Kakamega road near Kibuye. The building was named after the late > Nairobi City Councilor Mr Ambrose Ofafa who was slain by the agents of the > Mau Mau fighters ion Donholm Road, Nairobi in 1953 .He was seen as > collaborator of the colonialist and died in a hails of bullets. > > The ;late Jarampgi ,obviously was the brain behind the Ofafa Memorial Hall > project, and travelled all over East Africa with his team of the Luo Union > EA} while rising funds for the halls project. The appeal had gone out that > the Hall would be utilized in storing all the Luo old and new cultural > values, photos of community heroes of the past and present, and also used > for education and cultural activities by the community.. > > It was completed and opened in 1961 and for all these years, the building > had technically remained under the grip of the Odinga family in the same > fashion like other assets of the defunct Luo Union {EA}. > > To the shock of the entire Luo community, the Luo Thrift Trading Company > has never posted its trading annual report nor published them in the local > press nor post the report to its shareholders ever since it started doing > business in the late 1940s to-date. Even the appointment of its CEO s is > shrouded in great secrecy?The Assistant Minister for Finance once served as > its Managing Director, but who had appointed him remained a top secret and a > mystery perhaps only to othe Odinga family > > The latest, but unconfirmed rumor making the round is that the Ramogi Farm > in Miwani whose half had eelier been sold by the late Jaramogi to? enable > the Luo Thrift Trading Company replenish its debts to other creditors in the > late 1960s. > > The latest rumor making the round is that the remaining over 200 acres of > Ramogi Farm in Miwani was ten years ago allegedly secretly sold to the > former MP for Emuhaya Mr. Sheldon Muchilwa at a price of Kshs 10 million or > more? What is not clear is who had authorized sale and who pocketed the > money. The same question goes to the earlier sale of the part of the farm.. > > There is no word about what happened to the half a doze Posho Mills, and > also the commercial; building at Maseno Trading Centre. > > A retired teacher and former executive branch secretary of KNUt in the > larger South Nyanza district Mr. Edwarde Adera Osawa is the current CEO of > the Luo Thrift Trading Company. How the ex-teachers secured such a plum jobs > remained a mystery/ But for many years he was an Odinga sycophant, which is > a clear testimony that the asset of the firm are still under the grips of > the Odinga family, perhaps will never revert to the shareholders, majority > of who have since died of old ages.. > > The current stand off is between the members of the Luo Elders and Cultural > Development group headed by a political firebrand Mr. Walter Kitoto Adel as > its chairman. He is also the chairman of the Dongruok Jokano Manyien > {RIDOAM} with Dr.M.T. Ayodo of Masenoi University as its Secretary.. > > Some years in the middle of 1980s, while serving as the Patron of the > Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology {RIAT}, the late Jaramogi surprised > many people when he single handedly announced the handing over of the > Ofafa Memorial Hall to RIAT. The institute immediately established a > commercial and secretarial college at the Hall. Other p[art of the building > were rented to different business people.. > > But some aggrieved members of the community moved to court. At the same > time they established and registered five men joint patrons under the > auspices of the Luo Elders Development and Cultural Group to overseer the > asset of the proscribed Luo Union {EA]. > > Their action was prompted after the Luo Council of Elders had just moved > into Ofafa and took position of the building from the blue moon .and gad > kicked out the RIAT management. A legal tussle ensued, and the Luo Council > of Elders were temporarily removed from the Hall. They were also restricted > from access sing the building . All the money accrued from monthly rents was > ordered to be deposited to the court. > > The registered five patrons were Henry Ochieng ?Obiero, a former Deputy > Commission of Police, Mr. David Oluoch Opar, another former Assistant > Commissioner of Police, Mr. Otieno Nundu from Suba district and the former > Principal of the Kisumu Boys High School School, Mr. Obare Aura and Mr > Otieno Okuku. Their terms as per their registration is due to expire in > October 2010.. But while the tenure of these people was still force, > another group, which is aligned to the ODM alleged the influence of the > Lands Minister James Orengo and were also registered as patrons in April > this year. > > The new group is reportedly aligned to the Luo Council of Elders and > consisting of Raila Odinga political surrogates and sycophants. This has > raised the political temperature inside Luo-Nyanza with many Luos reading > malice on the part of Prime Minister and his supporters.. > > ]The newly registered patrons include a retired educationist Mr.Oyuga Tado, > the former PEO Central Province Mr. Seth Oluoch and a Mr Ouma. > Immediately after securing the registration as the new patrons, the group > moved to Ofafa Memorial Hal and began serving tenants with the quit > notices. Some members of the moribund Luo Council of Elders were heard > bragging that hey were given Ofafa Hall so that hey could use as their > administrative headquarters ands also to generate money for the services > they are rendering to the community, > > The Hall is now having two set of groups, each claiming to be the de facto > registered patrons and overseers of the assets of the defunct Luo Union > {EA}, and the former patrons headed by Mr. Ochieng Obiero have moved to court > .At the same time seeking the court indulgence by restraining the new > group from taking the properties of the Luo Union[EA}, while arguing that > the Luo Councilof Elders, which is serving as apolitical wing of the ODM > has no right of moving into the property, which belonged to the entire Luo > community. The Elders were never elected, but only hand-picked by the > Odingas as such therefore have no legal authority over the property of the > community.. > > .Ends > > leooderaomolo at yahoo.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Jambo mailing list > Jambo at publiceyesite.org > http://publiceyesite.org/mailman/listinfo/jambo_publiceyesite.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From joragem at gmail.com Sat Jul 11 10:03:48 2009 From: joragem at gmail.com (Joram Ragem) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:03:48 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] How Come Obama Ghana Speech Is Not Flawless. Message-ID: Ananse, I woke up in anticipation to see our great son give his first speech in Sub-Saharan Africa. The speech was great, but the production was horrible people. As mama Lucy would ask, "Hii ililetwa na PPS gani?" The picture was often interrupted, often in B&W as if to ensure that Africa and Africans will still look they did when the west came to capture Kunta Kinte! Was the production of this speech left to Ghana? Was Ghana truly prepared to stand up to this great moment? If not, why? Was the US press, or media truly interested in showing our son shine in the motherland? Or did they travel with second hand equipment, because they were travelling in the dark continent? Why was every live production of Obama's visit in Europe flawless? Also notice that after his speech, there was no panel of analysts on any channel to discuss Obama's speech. Let me say it. FUAKNI! My 10th great grandfather Ragem, is dissappointed and embarrassed at this production and broadcasting, in the era of GPS. I am still searching the web for a good recording of this video. -- Joram Ragem wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at umojaentertainment.com Sat Jul 11 14:07:58 2009 From: info at umojaentertainment.com (UMOJA ENTERTAINMENT) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:07:58 -0700 Subject: [Jambo] VITIMBI CREW IN JERSEY Alongside REDYKYLASS Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From miltonallimadi at hotmail.com Sat Jul 11 19:17:44 2009 From: miltonallimadi at hotmail.com (milton allimadi) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:17:44 -0400 Subject: [Jambo] In Ghana: Why Obama Belongs To All Africa In-Reply-To: <501692.17500.qm@web51906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <501692.17500.qm@web51906.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: [Obama In Africa: Publisher's Comment] http://www.blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/5852/2009-07-10.html In Ghana: Why Barack Obama Belongs To All Africa By Milton Allimadi Why is President Barack Obama so universally celebrated by African peoples? Why do African peoples, not only in Ghana, where he landed today, but throughout the continent, claim ownership of this American president? What is it in the African past and experience that evokes so much pride in this man, whose father hailed from Kenya? Why is it that Black women and Black men, and even the young, walk around today with chest puffed out, and head held up high, because of Barack Obama? Celebration of Obama started more than two years ago, when he first declared, ?Yes, We Can.? Obama went on to show the world what African people everywhere--in the United States, in Europe, in Latin America, in Asia, in Australia and on the African continent itself--have always known: that given the opportunity to excel, African people are second to nobody. When others claimed how dare he hope to win ?he was after all a ?mere? Black man?Obama ran a superb campaign and along the way brushed aside powerful forces that tried to knock him out. He used his superior intellect and phenomenal communication skills?skills no doubt inherited from the great story tellers of his father?s native Luo heritage. The Acholi Luos of Uganda call this skill ododo. It's a heritage that today sustains Acholis even through a Pogrom. But to understand why Obama has been so universally embraced one must recall the history of Africa?s engagement with the rest of the world?this story was written in bloodshed and humiliation: The capture of Africans into Slavery; the exploitation and genocide committed against Africans during the Middle Passage and the era of plantation Slavery; during European colonial conquest and rule; the tyranny and massacres during South Africa?s Apartheid regime; the terror and lynchings of African people during "Reconstruction? in the United States, after slaves were ?freed? into the streets with nothing; and, the era of official segregation in the United States. All these crimes resulted in debilitating and destructive damage on the African psyche globally. Africans know that to varying degrees they are regarded as second class citizens, no matter their level of education or individual achievements. They are regarded as inferior by many Europeans, many Asians, and many Latinos. This is because, in conjunction with the exploitation and enslavement of African peoples, European media?dating to the books of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Century explorers, newspapers, magazines and cinema?created, disseminated and perpetuated a racist and stereotypical image of Africans that became pervasive all over the world. So effective was the demonization that many Africans still despise their own heritage. Please see http://www.theheartsofdarkness.com/ Historically, Africans were portrayed as ?lazy?, even when they were imported to create the great surplus wealth that has today made the United States the premier global power. Africans were portrayed as unintelligent, even when European archeological and paleoanthropological discoveries proved that Africans had the most ancient civilizations; and, Africans were portrayed as ?sub humans,? or primates, even though archeological findings, and the works of Cheik Anta Diop, confirmed that all humanity?and the civilizations of Egypt, including the construction of the pyramids?sprung from the loins of Africa. So, many Africans have lived with humiliation and inferiority complexes. They have been in need of mental liberation. Africans such as Marcus Garvey, who hailed from Jamaica and Kwame Nkrumah, born in Ghana, are now both claimed by all African peoples. They are revered because these men, throughout their lifetime, challenged the racist representations of African people, in their writings, pronouncements and Pan-African organizing. Both had a dream of a United States of Africa that would protect Africans everywhere and shield the continents immense natural wealth from foreign marauders. Both men always invoked pride in Africa?s history and culture. They knew that often the racist depictions favored by Europeans had specific goals. It wasn?t so much that the powers of the day believed in the mischaracterizations of African peoples, rather, the stereotypical images had two principle purposes: to demonize and dehumanize Africans so that Europeans everywhere would be conditioned into accepting genocide perpetuated against Africans during slavery and colonial conquest, in pursuit of commercial profits; and, to create inferiority complexes against Africans by making them believe that, indeed, they are an inferior species, thereby diminishing their will and capacity to resist exploitation. That?s why African people everywhere have always looked for positive affirmations from whatever sources that they could gravitate towards. Muhammad Ali was regarded as more than a boxer by most Africans, as witnessed by the adulation when he knocked out George Foreman in what was then Zaire, in 1974. With every punch that Ali threw against his opponents, many Africans actually saw them as blows against the history of Slavery; against the history of colonization; against the history of U.S. segregation; against South African apartheid; and, against the continued exploitation of Africa in the global economy. Even today, although weakened by illness, the sight of Muhammad Ali still reduces many Africans to tears of joy and pride. Other icons that African peoples gravitated towards, and still do to varying degrees, include politicians such as Andrew Young and Rev. Jesse Jackson, both of whom were revered by Africans in the Diaspora and on the continent itself. Likewise, athletes such as Michael Jordan, and entertainers like Michael Jackson, and in the recent era, great business executives such as Oprah Winfrey, and the tennis dynamic duo of Venus and Serena Williams, have been embraced as affirmations of Black positive attributes. The psychological and physical calamity against Africans have by no means been caused exclusively by Europeans. Many African regimes, since the era of independence in the 1960s, destroyed countless African lives, ruined economies, imposed hunger and starvation, and presided over massacres here and there. Idi Amin Dada in Uganda, Macias Nguema in Equatorial Guinea, Mengistu Haille Mariam in Ethiopia, Mobutu Sese Seku in the former Zaire; the destruction and bloodshed caused by these despots combined hold up well when compared to those of the European slavers and colonizers. Mayhem and genocide continues: In Uganda, a U.S.-backed dictator, Yoweri Museveni, has confined a whole ethnic group, nearly 2 million Acholis, in squalid concentration camps where men, women and children die of hunger, thirst and diseases, some spread by targeted-rapes by known HIV-positive soldiers, because these Acholis have not supported him in the last few elections, nor have they submitted to his tyranny. At the same time, they have been brutalized by the tyranny of a rebel group, the Lord?s Resistance Army. Estimates of civilians that have died in Museveni?s death camps in the last 20 years range from 500,000 to more than one million. Ironically, only an African leader can today preside over such genocide and get away with it; fulfilling the destiny some Europeans still want for Africans. In the Sudan, people continue to die from the continued conflict in the Darfur region, while the Khartoum regime and the Southern Sudan government, everyone knows, are stockpiling arms, for the future battle to separate the country into South Sudan and North Sudan. Somalia remains ungovernable, and the toll of victims there over the past 20 years have not yet been drawn up. Kenya remains on a razor?s edge, since the disputed December 2007 election, which, according to most media reports, was stolen by the incumbent, President Mwai Kibaki. So then, who can blame African peoples everywhere for wanting relief from all these woes by seeking positive affirmations? President Barack Obama, who has vowed to support and anchor responsible and accountable African governments such as Ghana's, embodies the best of Africa and its possibilities?to the extent that the Amins, the Nguemas, the Mobutus, the Mengistus, and the Musevenis represent the worst of Africa. To many African peoples, here in the United States, in the Diaspora, and on the African continent, Obama is not merely President of the United States. With his intellect, his mastery of strategy, his calmness and self-assured persona, he is seen as an affirmation of all the latent positive attributes and potential that still lays dormant in Africa. Obama repudiates all the negative characteristics that have historically been assigned to Africans. These augers well for an eventual African Century. Please feel free to post your comments directly online or submit them to Milton at blackstarnews.com for posting Lauren found her dream laptop. Find the PC that?s right for you. Milton Allimadi, Publisher/CEO The Black Star News Publishing Co. P.O. Box 64, New York, N.Y., 10025 (212) 481-7745 Please visit also visit www.blackstarnews.com Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:29:18 -0700 From: jbatec at yahoo.com Subject: The World African Diaspora Union Sumiit July 22 - 26 2009......Sambaza To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com CC: dickens.odhiambo at gmsi.com; luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk; jaluo at jaluo.com; jaluo at yahoo.com; info at marskenya.org; jambo at publiceyesite.org; miltonallimadi at hotmail.com From: Amenelik To: Amenelik Sent: 7/10/2009 12:11:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time Subj: Press Release: Celebrate Pan African Priest at 85/Press Release-WADU Summit RHAW PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT (PAM) TRIBUTE TO REV. DR. TEE Rev. Dr, Ndugu T?Ofori-Atta ? Founder, Pan Africanist, Theologian Professor Activist? Saturday, July 11, 2009/4:00 p.m. 700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, ATL GA The Interdenominational Theological Center Chapel Please join us in celebrating the 85th Birthday of our beloved Dr. Ndugu T?Ofori-Atta on July 11, 2009 & a 40th Anniversary period of the founding of the RHAW. With Ministers & Community Tributes? ALSO SIGN-UP TO SUPPORT: *The RHAW Council of Pan Afican Ministers *The World African Diaspora Union Summit, July 22-26, 2009/ATL, *The Pan African Conference & Pilgrimage, July 2010, Ethiopia For over 40 years, the RHAW under the leadership of Dr. Tee has focused on educating and organizing African (Black) congregations across the African world to commemorate and celebrate our African heritage, history and struggles for African liberation and reunification of African people. RHAW comes from a long line of leaders whose whose struggles have led to the founding of the All African Council of Churches (AACC), Organization of African Unity (OAU), now African Union, on May 25, 1963 and recently the World African Diaspora Union (WADU). Leaders such as Rev. Dr. Edward Blyden, Bishop McNeil Turner, WEB Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Amy Garvey, Julius Nyrere, and Patrice Lumumba played a pivotal role these efforts. The RHAWPAM is called to restore, reunite and rebuild the African Diaspora as an integral part of our African continental family after 500 hundred years of captivity, enslavement, and ?colonialism.? We are especially urged by those of our brothers and sisters in our Homeland like the leaders of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) and the African Union (AU) to work together for the reconstruction of our Homeland, Africa. The RHAWPAM intends to: 1). Work with pastors to promote African heritage and education; 2). Advocate for the reunion of the African Diaspora with Africa; & 3. Establish a global memorial center to honor those killed during slavery and colonialism. ?Let us rebuild.? BECOME PART OF THIS RHAW SACRED LEGACY For More Information & Support Please Contact RHAWPAM: Contact MGANGA(Rev.) P.D. Menelik 404-527-7756/404-822-2049/ WADUPAM.ORG IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2009 WADU Chief Secretariat/Priest, WW11 Veteran Urged Sacrifice for Unity Contact: P.D. Menelik Harris 404-527-7756/404-822-2049/http://www.wadupam.org/ The Reverend Dr. Ndugu T?Ofori-Atta, World War 11 veteran and Chief Secretariat of the World the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) is urging Africans, especially in North America and Europe to make greater financial contributions in the reunion of family members scattered across the African Diaspora, especially in South America. The Chief Secretariat stressed that ?a New Scramble for Africa?s and the militarization of Africa for its resources demand Africans to redouble their work for unity and peace with justice in Africa and the world.? His statement came at a time when Africans in Africa and the African Diaspora are preparing for its leaders to finally and decisively establish a united states of Africa at its next Summit in July 2009. The Chief Secretariat is urging support for the African Diaspora Summit from July 22-26, 2009. The theme for the upcoming Summit is Economic Self- Determination for Cultural and Political Rebirth. While serving during WW11 as an assistant Chaplain in the Pacific, Dr. Atta decided he would focus his work on the challenges affecting Africa. Upon completion of his military service, he immediately enrolled at Lincoln University following the path of greats like Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikwe. He then attended Boston University with other African American leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon graduation from Boston University in 1951, Dr. Atta taught briefly at Livingstone College in North Carolina and then proceeded to Africa, where he taught and promoted African liberation theology in the Congo. He also participated in activities that would soon lead to the forming of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) in 1961 and the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. Both the AACC and the OAU committed themselves in principle to support the unification and liberation of African people. In 1965, Dr, Atta returned to the United States and established the Religious Heritage of the Black World (RHBW) at Livingstone College as an organization to re-educate Africans in the Diaspora on African culture, spirituality and the African freedom movements. In 1969, the RHBW moved to the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia and collaborated with Dr. Vincent Harding of the Institute of the Black World (IBW) on numerous projects. Later, the RHBW was renamed the Religious Heritage of the African World (RHAW) and collaborated with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Doctoral Project at Colgate University. Dr. Atta served as a faculty to educate prominent pastors on the significance of African spiritual heritage in South America, the Caribbean and Atlantic coast of the United States. Graduates of the MLK Fellows such as Wyatt Tee Walker became vital links in supporting and assisting the liberation struggles waged in southern Africa. The RHAW opened the 21st century by launching the RHAW Pan African Movement (PAM) initiative to unify the African Diaspora with Africa. The RHAWPAM initiative was inspired by the work of Reverend Dr. Edward Blyden and Bishop McNeil Turner, key contributors to the 1900 First Pan African Congress with WEB Dubois other leaders of Africa and the Diaspora in England calling for unified action to end European imperialism of Africa. The RHAWPAM initiative was also a response from the continuous calls from the OAU, now African Union and the AACC for Africans in the Diaspora to become partners for the rebuilding of our Homeland, Africa. Since 2004, the RHAWPAM initiative received wide support from organizations across the Diaspora and has consequently helped to establish the World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU) in 2007. WADU is now serving as a central organization to unite the African Diaspora with Africa. Its President, His Excellency Baba Dudley Thompson is also a veteran of WW11 who fought against Germany in the Royal Air Force of England and immediately joined the Pan African Movement after WW11. President Thompson was the attorney for President Jomo Kenyatta during the Mau Mau African anti-colonial movement, former Foreign Minister of Jamaica, ambassador to numerous African countries, and a participant in the historic 5th Pan African Congress with WEB Dubois, Amy Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, etc. The World African Diaspora Union is urging Africans from around the Diaspora to participate in the historic gathering to unify the African Diaspora as a political, economic and cultural force for African empowerment in the world. The veterans, both Dr. Thompson (92) and Dr. Atta (85 in July) of WW11 and the Pan African Movement will be recognized at the Summit for their unwavering commitment to Africa, African people and humanity. For more information, support, or to participate in the July 2009 Summit with leaders across the Diaspora and Africa at ITC in Atlanta, GA. please contact us at 404-527-7756, WADUPAM.ORG or wadupam at aol.com. From: Amenelik To: Amenelik Sent: 7/8/2009 11:19:23 A.M. Eastern Standard Time Subj: Fwd: INTERDENOMINATIONAL THEOLOGICAL CENTER (BESIDE CLARK CAMPUS) HOST HISTOR... AFRIKA IS CALLING US! World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU) PAN AFRIKAN MOVEMENT (PAM) SUMMIT 2009 Co-Sponsored by the RHAW/ITC & Africana Studies Dept., Clark Atlanta Univ. Co-Conveners: Dr. Josephine Bradley & Baba Joe Beasley Summit Advisors: Rev. Dr. C. Akua McCrary & Baba Obadele Williams Co-coordinators: Dr. Shariefa Maat & Prof. Shango The 109th Anniversary of the formal launching of the Pan African Movement. July 22-26, 2009, Atlanta GA Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta AUC, Economic Self-Determination - for Political & Cultural Rebirth Susu, Markets, Businesses, Trade, Investments, Credit Union, Reparations? The Diaspora 6th Region of a Unites States of Africa U.S.-Global Economic Meltdown; New Scramble for Africa; Case Studies: Genocide Policies; U.S. Militarization of Africa? His Excellency Baba Dudley Thompson, President Attorney, former Ambassador, Pan African Statesman, Living Legend? Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Vice President Special Guest: Ambassador Madame Amina Salum Ali, African Union Mel Foote (CFA); Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis (NCOBRA); Dr. Ron Daniels (IBW); Dr. James Turner (Africana, Cornell Univ.); Dr. Nicholas Aghobou (France); Dr. Shelby Lewis; Baba James Small (OAAU); Nana Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, Dr. Joyce King; Min. Akbar Muhammad (NOI); Baba Mukasa Dada (SNCC/AAPRP); Dr. Ndugu T?Ofori-Atta RHAW/ITC); Line Hilgros (Guadelope); Joe Beasley (RainbowPush/AA), Dr. Josephine Bradley; Queen Nzingha (ASCAC); John Watusi Branch (ATABA); Dr. Kweku Andoh (Ghana); Prof. Yaa Ngemi (Congo); Nathalie Callede (Canada); Hon. Cynthia McKinney; Baba Kwame Afoh (RNA); Hon. Able Mable (Official); Njere Alghanee (NCOBRA); Dr. Julius Garvey; Dr. David Horne (SRDC); Hon. M. O. Osamar (England); Hon. Able Mable; Barryl Biekman (Holland); B. Jawara (Ghana); B. Kalala (Congo); Bro. YaYa (Sudan); MORE Other Diaspora Council of Elders, Congress & Commissioners Intellectuals; Students; Activists; Officials; Ministers; Educators? Reps of African Governments; Communities; & Organizations? REGISTER FOR THE SUMMIT; ENROLL AS LEADER OF WADU WWW.WADUPAM.ORG/404-527-7756/404-822-2049 IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 4, 2009 Pan African Diaspora Economic Summit, July 2009 Contact: P.D. Menelik 404-527-7756/404-822-2049/http://www.wadupam.org/ ?Living Legend? His Excellency Dudley Thompson, President of the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) is inviting Africans from across the Diaspora to participate in the Summit celebrating the 109th anniversary of the Pan African Movement. The theme for the WADU 2009 Summit is Economic Self-Determination - for Cultural and Political Rebirth. The Summit will be held at the historic Atlanta University Consortium (AUC), Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, GA from July 22-26, 2009. The AUC campus is consisted of the historically black colleges such as Spelman, Morehouse, Morris Brown, Clark Atlanta and ITC. The WADU Summit participants will consist of African leaders, community activists, business leaders, educators, ministers, students and officials from across the African Diaspora and from Africa to commit to a common agenda for African economic self-reliance and empowerment. The Summit will focus on ways and means of developing African traditional and contemporary local and global businesses, investments and trade enterprises. The Summit will also explore and engage issues such as: The united states of Africa; the New Scramble & Militarization of Africa; the Effects Global Economic Meltdown on African people; and the African Diaspora as the sixth region of Africa. In calling for the 2009 Summit, His Excellency Dudley Thompson has stressed that ?our goal is to establish a new global order of Justice and Equality? and that WADU intent is to ensure we have a Pan African union to overcome ?the many downturns and difficulties in our daily lives, and provide us with greater vision and opportunities to save the next generation.? At 92, His Excellency Dudley Thompson has being an enduring and relentless servant of African people and humanity. A WW11 veteran of the Royal Air Force (RAF), he was a participant of the famous 5th Pan African Congress (PAC) of 1945 in England with leaders such as President Kwame Nkrumah, of Ghana, Dr. WEB Dubois of the USA, Amy Garvey of Jamaica and George Padmore of Trinidad. He was also an attorney for Jomo Kenyatta during the famous Mau Mau revolution and a key supporter of the struggles for African independence. Born in Panama, he was a Foreign Minister under the Honorable Michael Manley of Jamaica, ambassador of numerous countries, especially in Africa and recently served as an advisor to the late President-elect MKO Abiola of Nigeria. In 2007, he was elected the President of WADU. In addition to His Excellency Dudley Thompson, other participants of the Summit are: Ambassador Amina Ali of the African Union; Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Africana Studies of CUNY; Mel Foote of the Constituency for Africa; Prof. James Small of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU); Min. Akbar Muhammad of the Nation of Islam; Dr. Nicholas Agbohou of France; Queen Nzinga Heru of ASCAC; Nana Yaa Farika of the Rastafari Movement; Dr. Ron Daniels of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century; QM Dorothy Lewis of NCOBRA; Mukasa Dada of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee/All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (SNCC/AAPRP); Joe Beasley of the RainbowPush Coalition/Africa Ascension; The Honorable Cynthia McKinney; Dr. Line Hilgros of Guadeloupe; The Honorable Able Mable Thomas of Atlanta; Dr. Julius Garvey MD, son of the late Marcus Garvey; Nana Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, former president of Lincoln University; Dr. Josephine Bradley, Chair of the African Studies at CAU; Dr. Joyce King of Georgia State University, Dr. James Turner, Africana Studies at Cornell University; Dr. Shelby Lewis, Africa Consultant and Dr. David Horne, SRDC; M.O. Osamar of the United Kingdom; Barryl Biekman of Holland; B. Jawara of Ghana; Derrick Price, business leader; Prof. Yaa Ngemi of the Congo, Bro. Ya Ya of the Sudan; Ben Kalala of the Congo. Also participating are other ambassadors, faith leaders, entrepreneurs, officials, community activists and students. For more information on the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) Summit from July 22-26, 2009 in Atlanta, GA, please visit our website at WADUPAM.ORG or call us at 404-527-7756. Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail? has ever-growing storage! Don?t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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HOW A SCRIBE FROM WESTERN PROVINCE ESCAPED DEATH BY A WHISKER IN THE HANDS OF A GANG OF HIRED HIT SQUAD IN KISUMU CITY Writes Leo Odera Omolo in Kismu ?City.{ Please Not for byline but use a Correspondent} An elaborate plan hatched by unknown people to ambush and attack a journalist based in Western Province in Kisumu City flopped last week he scribe escaped unhurt. The narrow escape from a possible death by Joel Eshikami a journalist based mostly in Butere/Mumias district could be attributed to quick action by a prominent hotelier in the City. According to an account of an eye witness, the scribe had visited Kisumu City to attend a seminar in one of the hotels in the Mililani estate, but he later into a plot hatched by his enemies or enemy,? The plot involved ?someone believed to be an excessively ?wealthy business tycoon based in Western Province who wished him dead It is said the scribe had brushed shoulder with his antagonist who wanted him taught a lesson for his perceived mischievous reporting of events in Western Province.. The drama that unfolded sounded like an American movie. A local journalist who us based in Kisum,u City, who was apparently unaware of the plot was unknowingly drawn into the game of tracking Mr. Eshikami. Someone who? ?phoned ?the local scribe and told him to look for Mr.Eshikumu and gave the details of his whereabouts. The caller asked the Kisumu scribe to located the visiting journalist and try to talk him over the possibility of reconciling two of them. The names of the caller and the Kisumu based scribe are withheld for security and legal reasons.. The local scribe who is personally an acquitted of the ?visiting scribe immediately phone him and told he would pick him up from the hotel also that they could go out for drink s. The Mr. Eshikumu accepted the invitation. Immediately the local journalist? pulled in a car driven by a local hotel manager in the company of another third journalist and picked up ?Mr Eshikumu.. The group drove to an open air public joint at the Railway Institute, which is located close to the main Kisumu Railways Station and settled won for drinks. Earlier the Kisumu based scribe who was acting as conduit had misled the Big Boss calling from Nairobi that the group had gone for a drink in a Restaurant situated in downtown Swan Centre. It took about ten minutes, and the Big Boss called the Kisumu journalist, this time around scolding him for having cheated him that they were having drinks at the Swan Centre and yet they were not there. But the Kisumu scribe apologized to the caller saying thatthey had changed their minds and went to the Railway Institute instead. He confirmed to the caller that he was actually sitting together with ?Mr Eshikumu. and other friends, and had even pulled the visiting scribe to an isolated table so that he could initiate the reconciliation talks with him as had been instructed by the caller. And within five minutes, a common pimp and a bar hoper appeared in the stage, and after exchanging the man ordered for his drinks. But the group told him they ?had some private discussions and sought for privacy. This intruder move to a distance from the two table and made a long phone call using his mobile. As this was going on, some strangers b began arriving. The Hotel manager whose vehicle was used by the group to take out Mr.Eshikami out of his hotel in Milimani area immediately smelt a rat and became suspicious of some of the arriving persons.. The hotel manager quickly cleared the bills the group had consumed and told them it was time to go out of the place. While this was happening a Mini Nisan Matatu pulled up full with much larger group unknown persons., some of them wielding crude weapons The manager whisked away Mr Eshikama and the group and drove away in high speed with the Nissan Matatu and its occupants in? hot pursuit. He took the shaken Mr. Eshikami back to his hotel, and instructed the hotel workers not to allow anyone looking for him into the Hotel. He told the hotel worker and the watchmen ?to call ?the police should anybody visit the facility and ask for the visiting journalist or to disclose to anyone his whereabouts. The shaken Mr. Eshikami could not be reached for his reaction. But e had told one of the journalists accompanying in the car that he was aware that someone who is excessively rich and stinking in wealth wanted him dead. He was equally not ready to disclose the identity of his tormentor. The incident, however, has left the Kisumu based scribe who had been used as? bait to lure Mr.Eshikami out of his hotel puzzled and in a state of shock. The hotel manager who drove the group in his car was equally shaken. Although the elaborate plan to have Mr. Eshikami harmed or hurt ?had been haphazardly executed. Local goons from Mamboleo and Kondele ?areas which are usually available for? hired by politicians to eliminate their opponents were involved. This was so ?because the unknown plotters had used a common bar-hoper and a beggar operating as a pimp for the riches by the planner, who ?in turn recruited a notorious well known political goon credited for many similar attacks. The appearance of this goon in the stage raised the suspicion of the hotel manager, who quickly decided and drove the group out of danger. . By the time of writing this report, it was not clear whether Mr.Eshikami had contacted any police station and reported the incident as he could not be reached over his cellphone. The latest ?incident shocked many people in this region due to the fact that it is only a frew months since the Nyamira/Kisii based journalist Mr. Francis Nyaruri was lured into a death ?trap by his attackers and killed and his dismembered? and decomposing body was later discovered abandoned in Kodera forest in Rachuonyo ,about 40 ?kilometers away from his Nyamira home. To-date no arrest had been made by police or any suspect presented to court to face prosecution/ Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From prcanb at yahoo.com Sun Jul 12 06:38:15 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Neither I,nor you! Message-ID: <249053.57974.qm@web38704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I don't know where we learned it from, but it seems to me that we have all formed a habit of looking up unto some people as role models!Included in the list of these role models are: -World leaders -The rich, the famous, the beautiful, the talented -Our pastors, fellow church members, and many others Several years ago,I learned it in a hard way at the university of hard knocks never to look up unto anyone especially when it comes to issues pertaining to our Salvation! Why? -Because, we are all human beings, who are likely not to live up to that which we preach. I am sure that you have come a cross people who say one thing and do the opposite. At least I know that I have found myself in this kind of situation once in a while! God have mercy! -There are some who hate/despise others for nothing,and I mean, nothing! -There are some who are jealousy of other people's progress. If you happen to be doing fine in areas like school,business, work, or church, you are likely to attract jealousy. -There will always be those who somehow feel that they are better off than anyone else.They feel that their word should be the final in everything. -There are people who act as if they are friendly when the truth of the matter is that they are not. The fact that someone is smiling when in your presence does not mean or suggest that he or she likes you. It may be a sign of cover up -God's children are just too complicated to understand them. Just leave them alone! If you have anything against them, please let their father-God-know! Trying to deal with them, will prove to be a waste of time! Someone else might look at these issue from a different perspective, which is OK. But personally, I feel that when it comes to issues regarding our Salvation, no one should look up to fellow human beings as role models. No, neither I, nor you! The only perfect role model is the man of Galilee, who has a proven history of not disappointing anyone! To Him, I recommend to you! Will you take Him? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From prcanb at yahoo.com Sun Jul 12 09:11:41 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:11:41 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Boy!,They got me again! Message-ID: <667240.13723.qm@web38705.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Have I ever told you that I am not good at a surprise party? Well, I am not! And since I am not all that good at the rules that govern a surprise party, I have often times let the cat out of the bag, at the time when I was supposed to keep it a secret! Shame on me! But this thing is common; Yea, even in my own back yard! Some years back,our vacuum cleaner broke down! It took us a while to replace it. During that time, I asked our children to use a broom in cleaning the carpet, something they did not like! And so, they conspired to teach me a lesson, so to speak. It was either my birth day party or fathers day celebration when they pulled a good one for me! And the present was.....? You guessed right, "a small vacuum cleaner!" The writing on the wall was loud and clear,"Take this vacuum sir, and leave us alone!" I sure took the vacuum cleaner and decided to leave then alone! But occasionally, I vacuumed near their bed rooms at the time they were enjoying the sleep just to remind them that I still needed help in cleaning! They got the message and from time to time helped out, but not without some kind of whining, which by the way it common to some of God's children! It took some years before they decided to come up with a more complicated one! This time it involved the entire family but me-my wife, two of our kids,out of state, for school, and our other two kids at home! Although I have always prided myself for being able to tell what's happening, this time, I had no clue that anything was happening at all! On our return from Friday vespers, I straight went into my computer to work on some programs! It so happened that our family friends-The Omirera's-were present too! As dinner was being prepared,I noted some kind of strange moments, but then was too busy to pay attention to any of that! At the fullness of time, it was Thomas,our 3rd born, who started by welcoming the omireras. He then went on to announce that this was a surprise party! "A party? for who?" asked my inner person! I heard another voice urging me to be be quiet, which I obeyed! It was belated father's day party! "What?" I asked myself as I just sat there to hear the rest of the story. Boy! It was indeed a surprise! This is what they had for me: -A wrist watch. I have not had one for more than three years. See, I don't pay too much attention to some of these things. - A personalized lap top. Wow! You know that I love to write. So whenever I am separated from the computer for some time, I miss the writing part. Many have always suggested that I buy one but I think by now you know that such a project will take me many years and may be never take place! They know me pretty good! -A very nice..I don't even know what to call it-for carrying my lap top and other important documents. -Did I mention that they gave me some money too? Just enough pocket money for gas the rest of July, assuming they don't return to ask for any of that money! Words alone can not describe how grateful I was to my wife and children for spending too much on me! I have been wearing my wrist watch since then. I no longer use my cell phone to tell the time! I am yet to start using my lap top! I am sure going to need some help in using the lap top! I am not so sure that I know what to make of the surprise parties! One thing that I know,though, is that our God will by no means make a surprise return! According to the sure word of God,"every eye shall see Him!" Come to think about it,as long as we are in this world, it won't be a bad idea to once in a while pull out a surprise party for those that we love! Don't you think so? Just a thought! Pastorbirai www.pastorbirai.com From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Fri Jul 10 05:57:43 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Invitation from KCDN Message-ID: <771566.5952.qm@web31401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Dear Friends of KCDN, We are indeed indebted to you all. Many thanks for those supportive words Elijah, George Nyongesa, Dr Shem Ochuodho, Dr Matunda Nyanchama, Ms Jamet Feldman, Dr John Maina and to the many Friends of KCDN; Lenny Amolo,? Arinolah EN, Maurice Odenyo, Jeanette M Khaoya, Oduor Ong'wen, Dr Otieno SE, Pamela Butalanyi, Okumba Miruka, David Ochwangi, Sam Olendo, Reginald Okumu, William Oloo Janak, Cosmos Omondi, Bishop Dr Julius Mbagaya.......... and the many institutions and NGOs who have been of support to us. We cannot forget Jairus K'Oyiengo, Sam Okello, Dick Aduong'a, Dr George Omburo, Jorum Odus, Joe Omanya, Carolone Otieno, Selline Oketch, Dennis Obiero, Herbert Omondi, Irene Wasike, Irene Ngugi, Shaun Barretto at Phoenix Aviation, Capt Himat at Capital Airlines, John Maina at Express Connections, Ashok Shah, Babu Shah, CD Shah at Text Book Centre, Aasif Karim at Aristocrats, Tetra Pak EA Ltd, Nestle Kenya Ltd, Chacha Odera, PLO Lumumba, Otiende Amolo and Enock Odhiambo........ Akiba Uhaki Foundation, TaxPlus Consults, SGS Kenya Ltd, Mini Bakeries [Nairobi] Ltd, Eric Jangolo, Dave Ndolo, Phoenix Publishers, East Africa Educational Publishers, H2O Beverages Ltd, The Cradle, Elisabeth Onyango Auma, Kuria-Mwangi, Regem Lugonzo, Josephine Kamanthe, Dr Paul Nyandoto, Rodgers Orero, Bunge La Mwananchi, Ben Ondoro, Zedekiah Nyanchama, Partnership for Change, Truphena Awuor........ If we have omitted your name, and you have been supportive, kindly bear with us. You are firmly in our minds. We thank you all for encouraging us, giving us support, advicing us and guiding us to the right path when we are almost missing it. We thank you all for sharing with us your resources and for making our work fairly easy. It has not been easy and it will still not be easy. But with you behind us, we have all the courage. As we encourage support from more friends, we invite you to share in our next events; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com We are happy to report that progress is being made in mobilization for 'From talking to tasking, the Greening of Nairobi East; A KCDN Initiative' scheduled to take place on 5th September 2009. Companies, Institutions, individuals and NGOs and more so, Friends of KCDN have offered to join us on this mission. On this day, the children and the youth will have their way of saying thank you for the support you have given to them. They have committed themselves to ensuring that these trees are watered and taken care of as part of their responsibility in environmental conservation. We are also happy to report progress on our biggest event; The KCDN Child Support Initiative scheduled for 4th December 2009. On this occasion, we will give educational materials [books, stationery, uniforms and shoes] to 1950 children in a ceremony that we will hold at Komarock Primary School. Without you, we cannot do all these. And as we said in our blogspot, KCDN is a vehicle through which you can express your goodness to the children and to their deserving mothers. The fathers tend to be AWOL in most cases! Too sad. Thank you all for those encouraging remarks. And thank you for supporting us. Kindly invite one more friend to join us. Peace and blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557, http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Elijah Kombo wrote: From: Elijah Kombo Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 1:02 PM KCDN is a great inititative that has touched many - not only in Kenya but the mass on the ouside of our country. Other than helping children to access to a brighter future, KCDN has impacted alot around the community in whihc it operates. And soon the same innotive concepts will be replicated through Kenya?The PEACE RUN was such a great venture. We saw the Administration partner and ensure that the mesage is sent across. ? And the upcoming event 'From Talking to Tasking - Greening Nairobi' will be bigger and will help in maintaining our environment in line with global warming initiatives. The Christmas gift for both old and young will demonstrate what the vision is. If i were you, i will not miss to be part of this great upciming events....BREAKFAST IS COMING SOON AND YOU RATHER PREPARE YOURSELF! Several CEO of INGOs will participate. ...see the extract of KCDN video on the upcoming event. ? Kudos to all who have supported what is signifcantly tangible in our lives! I am encourage being part of this initiative. ? Kombo Elijah --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Shem Ochuodho wrote: From: Shem Ochuodho Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 2:33 AM Amena, Nd. Nyongesa. S --- On Wed, 7/8/09, George Nyongesa wrote: From: George Nyongesa Subject: [NewVisionKenya] Re: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroup s.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups. com, mwanyagetinge@ yahoogroups. com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com, MULEMBE at yahoogroups .com Cc: mazingira at yahoogrou ps.com, net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 11:02 PM Dear all, ? I refer to previous communications. ? Beyond our giving to KCDN, this activity is a great example and encouragement to?what we can achieve?when all of us come together in word and deed. Thank you OTO and KCDN for giving us opportunity to exercise the power of numbers. ? George Nyongesa??? --- On Wed, 7/8/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [MULEMBE] Thank you Janet; From KCDN To: mbonbani at yahoogroup s.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups. com, mwanyagetinge@ yahoogroups. com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, "Raila Odinga" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "Sungu" , "ugandacom" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com Cc: mazingira at yahoogrou ps.com, net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, newvisionkenya@ egroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "p4c" , "Pamela Butalanyi" , "Publiceye" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "youthagenda" Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 7:52 PM This afternoon, Ms Janet Khaoya responded to our call for support. She sent KCDN CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50]. On behalf of KCDN, I appreciate this positive gesture. It means that what we are doing at KCDN touches on the hearts of most people. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 sending 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 sending 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. William Oloo Janak 17] Mr. Okumba Miruka 18] Ms Pamela Butalanyi 19] Mr. Cosmos Omondi...... And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are sure that by this Friday we shall clear all our bills. Many thanks and blessings. 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How much fantasy we hold dear depends on how we first received and processed the original information! >From the day I knew that I was migrating and the first several years,my mind was programmed in such away that it would take several years before I would attempt to change my ill-informed way of thinking and treating others! In a nutshell, here was my way of thinking or processing things/stuff: -I came with a determination of not touching any African food. -With the superiority complex tall than myself, I had no sympathy or desire to join any African congregation. "The days for African congregation had remained in Africa," so, I thought! -Was not interested in speaking my mother tongue! Because of this, most of my friends if not all, were non-black. Even my photos were selective! But, it wasn't long before reality came knocking! There was change of heart! Like what? -I found out that after all there was nothing wrong with the African food.I therefore started enjoying the variety of foods. -It dawned on me that there was no need to dump my old friends for new ones. I leaned to keep them both. -With time, I was challenged to learn to give than to receive. I found out that my services were needed more elsewhere. I also realized the need and consequences of isolating my children from our own people. An then this: -Yesterday afternoon, my wife and I, visited one of my elders at Still Water-Elder Moses Momanyi. He offered to take us to his 2 acre loaned farm.I was truly impressed to note that elder Moses has done a good job in planting and selling all kinds of vegetables. Furthermore,he has started a business of delivering unga-corn flour! All these, in this land of plenty! Who would have predicted that a time would come when some Kenyans will try their hands in business! Well, we all came with some pre-conceived ideas. We came thinking that we had arrived and therefore looked down upon others! With time, some found their way to the world of reality and adjusted their world view! Unfortunately, others are still in the valley of decision! For how long though? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From kmach55 at yahoo.com Sat Jul 11 00:16:22 2009 From: kmach55 at yahoo.com (Keen Nyamwange) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Fwd: New Area Codes---beware(Timmons) Message-ID: <736228.84392.qm@web110205.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> ?A person who has even a speck of Jesus? fire burning within will set the local Church membership also burning with the fire of Christ. A Church that has a fire burning within will set a Jesus inferno in the neighborhood. And a community that is on fire will set the city on fire. The whole country goes a blaze following this chain of events. By convection and radiation and conduction and induction and fusion and infusion, the heat love of God will be transmitted from medium to medium?. Quote by Keen Nyamwange. --- On Wed, 6/24/09, gst12280 at aol.com wrote: From: gst12280 at aol.com Subject: Fwd: New Area Codes---beware(Timmons) To: clexilia at aol.com, pappyxx100 at bellsouth.net, Rvmoseley2 at aol.com, serveright at aol.com, VickyRobinzine at aol.com, klugo82 at hotmail.com, kmach55 at yahoo.com, trteter at yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2009, 6:44 AM -----Original Message----- From: Naree Gamble To: Tiffanie Archie ; Lauren Bland ; Erica BRICENO ; rhonda brooks ; Eric Connor ; Garla Connor ; Shanetta Dozier ; Leroy Gamble ; Glen ; Elista Harris ; haynes09 ; Neecee James ; Jason ; Jimmy ; Kiki ; Marsyna King ; Marsyna King ; Sharon Knight ; Katherine Martin ; Lavelle McCrary ; odettelatif at yahoo.com; Rhonda and Bruce ; diann Richard ; Dianne Richard ; Shamika ; Shanetta ; smith ; Michael Thomas ; Terri Toomer ; wanda.bland at macys.com; Pricilla Webster Sent: Thu, Jun 18, 2009 2:05 pm Subject: FW: New Area Codes---beware --- On Wed, 6/17/09, Janet Brown 20wrote: From: Janet Brown Subject: FW: New Area Codes---beware To: "Keya T" Cc: "Lauren Bland" Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 2:36 PM --- On Tue, 6/16/09, stephanie lowe wrote: From: stephanie lowe Subject: FW: New Area Codes---beware To: "Celina Jordan" , "diego mays" , "Freda Footman" , "jeannette brown" , keima_1 at hotmail.com, "lakisha mays" , "Nekiema Mays" , "quana" , "Robert Jordan" Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 8:08=2 0PM #yiv1740102449 #AOLMsgPart_2_e56cdabc-fc48-413f-a859-118b4ccf1e0a #yiv1709480251 #yiv1124622186 .hmmessage P{margin:0px;padding:0px;}#yiv1740102449 #AOLMsgPart_2_e56cdabc-fc48-413f-a859-118b4ccf1e0a #yiv1709480251 #yiv1124622186 {font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;} ? 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NEW AREA CODE ? Proverbs 13:22? ?A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous. ? A Reminder! Read This! ? ? ?? 809 Area Code? We actually received a call last week from the?809?area code. The woman said 'Hey, this is Karen . Sorry I missed you--get back to us quickly. I have something important to tell you..' Then she repeated a phone numb er beginning with?809?We didn't respond.. Then this week, we received the following e-mail: Do Not?DIAL AREA CODE 809, 284, ?AND 876 THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO US BY?AT&T. DON'T EVER DIAL AREA CODE 809 This one is being distributed all over the US .. This is pretty scary, especially given the way they try to get you to call.. Be sure you read this and pass it on. They get you to call by telling you that it is information about a family member who has been ill or to tell you someone has been a rrested, died, or to let you know you have won a wonderful prize, etc.. In each case, you are told to call the 809?number right away. Since there are so many new area codes these days, people unknowingly return these calls. If you call from the?U.S.?, you will apparently be charged?$2425?per-minute. Or, you'll get a long recorded message. The point is, they will try to keep you on the phone as long as possible to increase the charges. WHY IT WORKS: The?809?area c ode is located in the Dominican Republic .. The charges afterward can become a real 0Anightmare. That's because you did actually make the call. If you complain, both your local phone company and your?long distance carrier?will not want to get involved and will most likely tell you that they are simply providing the billing for the foreign company. 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URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Fri Jul 10 23:35:19 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Africa: Obama Explains Food Security Initiative Message-ID: <978636.22785.qm@web51902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Africa: Obama Explains Food Security Initiative 10 July 2009 ? document During a news conference after the G8 Summit ended in L'Aquila, Italy, on July 10, President Barack Obama explained and answered questions on the summit's announcement on food security. Excerpts of the relevant remarks, as published by the White House: GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); ? ? Finally, we have committed to investing $20 billion in food security -- agricultural development programs to help fight world hunger. This is in addition to the emergency humanitarian aid that we provide. And I should just note that going into the meeting we had agreed to $15 billion; we exceeded that mark and obtained an additional $5 billion of hard commitments. We do not view this assistance as an end in itself. We believe that the purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer needed -- to help people become self-sufficient, provide for their families, and lift their standards of living. And that's why I proposed a new approach to this issue -- one endorsed by all the leaders here -- a coordinated effort to support comprehensive plans created by the countries themselves, with help from multilateral institutions like the World Bank when appropriate, along with significant and sustained financial commitments from our nations? GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? Mr. President, we were told that you made your appeal for the food security money during the meetings personal by citing your family experience in Kenya, your cousin and so forth. I wonder if you could relate to us a little bit of what you said then, and talk about what -- your family experience, how that influences your policies and approach. What you heard is true, and I started with this fairly telling point that when my father traveled to the United States from Kenya to study, at that time the per capita income and Gross Domestic Product of Kenya was higher than South Korea's. Today obviously South Korea is a highly developed and relatively wealthy country, and Kenya is still struggling with deep poverty in much of the country. And the question I asked in the meeting was, why is that? GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); var ACE_AR = {site: '768910', size: '180150'}; Dim adsVB,po adsVB=0 If ScriptEngineMajorVersion >=2 then adsVB=1 Function adsAX(aX) on error resume next If adsVB=1 then adsAX=False set po=CreateObject(aX) adsAX=IsObject(po) If (err) then adsAX=False Else adsAX=False End If End Function There had been some talk about the legacies of colonialism and other policies by wealthier nations, and without in any way diminishing that history, the point I made was that the South Korean government, working with the private sector and civil society, was able to create a set of institutions that provided transparency and accountability and efficiency that allowed for extraordinary economic progress, and that there was no reason why African countries could not do the same. And yet, in many African countries, if you want to start a business or get a job you still have to pay a bribe; that there remains too much -- there remains a lack of transparency. And the point that I was trying to underscore is, is that as we think about this issue of food security, which is of tremendous importance -- I mean, we've got 100 million people who dropped into further dire poverty as a consequence of this recession; we estimate that a billion people are hungry around the globe. And so wealthier nations have a moral obligation as well as a national security interest in providing assistance. And we've got to meet those responsibilities. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? The flip side is, is that countries in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in the world that are suffering from extreme poverty have an obligation to use the assistance that's available in a way that is transparent, accountable, and that builds on rule of law and other institutional reforms that will allow long-term improvement. There is no reason why Africa cannot be self-sufficient when it comes to food. It has sufficient arable land. What's lacking is the right seeds, the right irrigation, but also the kinds of institutional mechanisms that ensure that a farmer is going to be able to grow crops, get them to market, get a fair price. And so all these things have to be part of a comprehensive plan, and that's what I was trying to underscore during the meeting today. And your own family, sir? What's that? Your own family? Well, the point I was making is -- my father traveled to the United States a mere 50 years ago and yet now I have family members who live in villages -- they themselves are not going hungry, but live in villages where hunger is real. And so this is something that I understand in very personal terms, and if you talk to people on the ground in Africa, certainly in Kenya, they will say that part of the issue here is the institutions aren't working for ordinary people. And so governance is a vital concern that has to be addressed. Now keep in mind -- I want to be very careful -- Africa is a continent, not a country, and so you can't extrapolate from the experience of one country. And there are a lot of good things happening. Part of the reason that we're traveling to Ghana is because you've got there a functioning democracy, a President who's serious about reducing corruption, and you've seen significant economic growth. So I don't want to overly generalize it, but I do want to make the broader point that a government that is stable, that is not engaging in tribal conflicts, that can give people confidence and security that their work will be rewarded, that is investing in its people and their skills and talents, those countries can succeed, regardless of their history. Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Sat Jul 11 08:14:56 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:14:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Support Democracy, Ordinary Africans Urge Obama Message-ID: <877709.89395.qm@web51902.mail.re2.yahoo.com> ? ? Support Democracy, Africans Urge Obama Tami Hultman 11 July 2009 ? Washington, DC ? From across Africa, messages for President Barack Obama, submitted to allAfrica.com, have appealed for government by the people. "WE NEED DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA," insisted a 40-year-old businessman, in emphatic capital letters. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); ? The vast majority of nearly a thousand people who sent questions and advice before the U.S. leader landed in Ghana cited good governance and curbing corruption as necessities for African progress. And they were explicit that democracy is the means to those ends. A Nigerian farmer writes of African states "governed by leaders who are non-committal to democratic values, thereby hampering development and quality of lives of citizenry." Another Nigerian urged President Obama not to "sugarcoat or pretend" in his dealings with "inept, corrupt and sit-tight despots." Once-respected leaders who re-write constitutions and laws to abolish term limits are subject to special scorn. "Can you make it clear to African leaders," asks a 36-year-old accountant, "that you will only make friends with presidents that obey the rule of law, respect their constitutional ruling mandate?" "Mr. Yoweri Museveni is a wise man by human standards," said one among many who criticized him, "but his overstay in power as the leader of Uganda has turned him into a 'supreme' leader no longer sensitive to the problems of the country, as evidenced by the leaping growth in official corruption, no longer sensitive to the issues affecting we Ugandans who are not in political offices. Life is getting harder every other day. His avidity for prolonged stay in power is not only dangerous for Uganda and its people, but also for the region, and the global community as a whole." Contributions streamed in from almost every country in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as from around the world - New Zealand to Canada, Sweden to Mexico. Ranging in age from 13 to over 80, the writers cited diverse occupations: student, nurse, engineer, lorry driver, physician, journalist, editor, graphic designer, auto mechanic, marketer, electrician, statistician, aviation specialist, postal worker, professor, entrepreneur, secretary, priest. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? The submissions are impressive for their seriousness and thoughtfulness. Whether elegantly composed or not, whether written in English or French, almost all are characterized by an intrinsic eloquence. In a remarkable departure from the norm in public web-site discussions, only one out of the many hundreds of messages could be characterized as offensive, and that one was from someone identifying himself as a disabled American veteran. Complementing a yearning for genuine democracy, a common thread among the comments was concern about perceived impediments to economic development: corruption, conflict, gender inequality, lack of education, barriers to trade, suppression of independent media, climate change and disease, particularly HIV/Aids. Crisis areas got numerous mentions - with Sudan, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo prompting particular despair. "Mr. President OBAMA," asked a 38-year-old man, "can you tell us why -after more than six million dead people, after several UN reports, after several NGOs' reports and after many SOS calls from Congolese people (not the government) - is the U.S. (your administration) still acting very softly with this Congo's Genocide?" A sizable minority expressed a sense that Africa is the subject of double standards. Several people wondered why the military removal of Honduras's president was immediately condemned, while a similar standoff in Madagascar has been largely ignored. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); ? "I would like to remember you," said a network administrator, "that our elected President [Marc] Ravalomanana was ousted by military led by Andry Rajoelina. "Now we Malagasy people are threatened by these militaries' gun, as these militaries shoot all those who want to express their opinion." Other questioners asked: Why invade Bosnia but not Darfur, why Iraq and not Zimbabwe? "Somalia as it is today," wrote another contributor, "is like Afghanistan under complete Taliban control. I do not understand why it seems as if Africa is by itself with this issue. The Somalian issue is a threat to the whole world. In the past year Somalian pirates have took over many ships and people... My question: is why doesn't the United Nations bring in peacekeepers and more countries into Somalia to help with this crisis?" Keeping pressure on perpetrators of conflict was a frequent request. "As U.S. was the guarantor in the mediation of Eritrea's and Ethiopia's border dispute, is your administration ready to enforce the International Tribunal Court decision where your predessors failed to do so?," asks an Ethiopian. A student articulated a widespread view that ordinary Africans are cynical about national interests, as defined by autocratic leaders. "Eritreans and Ethiopians are very well aware that the 1998-2001 senseless war had nothing to do with border issues," said a student, "but rather rather individual affairs of the two dictators." Although only one person accused the United States of being more interested in Ghana's oil than its governance, its intentions do provoke a certain skepticism. "What will be the politics of your administration regarding the dictatorial regime of Teodoro Obiang in Equatorial Guinea?" asks one of its citizens. "Should petrol interests be before people's interests?" GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? Questioners asked whether the Obama administration will lead business delegations to explore investment opportunities; support African entrepreneurs; back sustainable agriculture rather than agribusiness interests; re-orient assistance to grassroots NGOs and projects rather than to governments; and meet campaign promises to increase aid for health and education. China, while acknowledged as an important new economic factor in Africa, is regarded warily. There is considerable fear that the Chinese will follow what is commonly seen as a long-standing American and European pattern of tolerating corruption in return for access to resources. A 50-year-old teacher stated, at some length, what dozens of other contributors expressed: "Africa has so many tyrannical regimes, thanks to the economic support they receive from western governments and now from China as well. As long as these regimes are seen to serve the interest of donor countries, like fighting terrorism, they are assured of the support they need to remain in power, irrespective of the atrocities they commit against their own people. As much as 40% of the budget of some these regimes is acquired from foreign sources. For this reason governments notorious for flagrant violation of human rights thrive throughout the African continent. As long as governments do not depend on their people to finance their activities, they are at liberty to do anything they wish, and the people will have no leverage to influence the conduct of their governments." ? The observation comes with a warning. "Whereas the policy of propping up tyrannical African regimes, irrespective of their human rights record, may serve the short-term interest of western governments, it has a long-term adverse effect of alienating them from the rapidly awakening masses of Africa." Despite that history and the many worries about whether the United States can abet genuine change in Africa, there is a pervasive hopefulness. Much of the source of that hope appears to be a sense that President Obama shares the deep desire for democracy and the determination to target corruption that permeate the messages. However fashionable and persistent the view that Africans aren't ready for popular rule, and that strong leaders are needed to solve pervasive problems, these heartfelt communications to the U.S. leader reinforce what anyone who travels among Africans already knows: elites may believe they know best, but ordinary people want the right to make their own choices. Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Sat Jul 11 08:42:34 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:42:34 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Obama: 'Africa Not Separate from World Affairs' Message-ID: <614896.82035.qm@web51903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Obama: 'Africa not separate from world affairs' Barack Obama ? Click for ....? michelle obama ? AP???President Barack Obama walks with Ghana President John Atta Mills, right, at the Presidential Palace?? By MARK S. SMITH, Associated Press Writer Mark S. Smith, Associated Press Writer ? 44?mins?ago ? ACCRA, Ghana ? ? President Barack Obama said his visit to Ghana on Saturday was designed to illustrate that "Africa is not separate from world affairs." Obama said events in Africa do not lose their effects at the continent's borders and said Africa is a fully integrated part of the global economy. "What happens here has an impact everywhere," Obama said during a meeting with Ghanaian President John Atta Mills. ? Obama scheduled a 21-hour visit to the West African nation to highlight that country's democratic tradition and engagement with the West. During his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office, Obama sought to lift up the continent of his ancestors ? while keeping its emotions in check. Greeted by a rush of excitement on his arrival here, the United States' first black president planned a speech to Ghana's Parliament on Saturday outlining his hope for a future Africa prospering in democracy. He was also visiting a hospital and a one-time slave trading post, joined by his wife, Michelle, a great-great granddaughter of slaves. But his speech was also pitched as a sobering account of Africa's enduring afflictions: hunger, disease, corruption, ethnic strife and strongman rule. No big public event was planned ? in part for fear it could cause a celebratory stampede, as a 1998 stop by President Bill Clinton almost did. "I can say without any fear of contradiction that all Ghanaians want to see you. I wish it were possible for me to send you to every home in Ghana," Mills said, underscoring the U.S. first family's popularity that gave them Page One billing in many of the nation's newspapers. People lined the streets Saturday morning, many waving at every vehicle of Obama's motorcade as it headed toward a meeting at Osu Castle, the storied coastline presidential state house. One woman emerged from a coffee shop to wave a tiny U.S. flag while others sold posters and T-shirts with Obama's picture. Many billboards lined the roads, including one that showed the president and his wife with the greeting, "Ghana loves you." While the people of Ghana may be in a frenzy over Obama's visit, the president started his day with typical calm. Wearing a gray T-shirt and gym pants, he walked through the lobby of his hotel virtually unnoticed at 7:30 a.m. local time on his way to the downstairs gym for a morning workout. A short time later, his motorcade left the hotel, passed under hovering military helicopters and arrived for a delayed welcome ceremony. Mills greeted his counterpart and then the pair went inside for one-on-one meetings. Selecting Ghana as the starting point of his black Africa travels, the president sought to highlight a continental success story. "We think that Ghana can be an extraordinary model for success throughout the continent," Obama told Mills before joining about 350 people for an outdoor breakfast at the castle. Obama planned to highlight those successes during a midday speech, urging Africans to embrace a future of accountable leaders and open markets. To ensure a wide audience, the administration organized events for the public to watch video of Obama's speech at embassies and cultural centers across Africa. But the speech was also a splash of cold water for Africans still nursing grievances over colonial rule. "For many years we've made excuses about corruption or poor governance, (insisting) this was somehow the consequence of neocolonialism, or the West has been oppressive, or racism," he told AllAfrica.com last week. "I'm not a believer in excuses." Those sentiments led Obama to avoid his father's native Kenya for this stop. Tensions in Kenya remain high after a disputed 2007 election and subsequent ethnic bloodshed. Later in the day, Obama planned to tour Cape Coast Castle, a seaside fortress converted to the slave trade by the British in the 17th century. In its dungeons, thousands of shackled Africans huddled in squalor before being herded onto ships bound for America. While Michelle Obama's great-great grandfather was a slave in South Carolina, his African origins are not known. The castle visit mirrored ones paid by Clinton and George W. Bush to the slave-trading post of Goree Island, Senegal ? with the added impact of Obama's mixed-race background and history-making election. In Ghana, too, Obama followed in Clinton's footsteps. In 1998, a surging crowd cheered Clinton in Accra's Independence Square and toppled barricades after his speech. Clinton shouted, "Back up! Back up!", his Secret Service detail clearly frantic. Bush's reception last year was less tumultuous, but equally warm. At a welcoming banquet, then-President John Kufuor noted huge increases in U.S. development aid and AIDS relief ? and named a highway after Bush. Earlier, Bush hosted Kufuor at one of his few White House state dinners. Obama on Saturday, however, tried for a lower profile. "The president wanted to use this visit to shine a light on Ghana and on what it is doing so successfully rather than on him," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. Even so, Obama said previous U.S. leaders' trips to the continent were weeklong tours but seldom integrated into their global travel. Obama said he wants to take an approach that shows Africa's ties to international policies. Obama ? son of a Kenyan father and white mother from Kansas ? first toured Africa in 1992. The newly minted Harvard law school grad savored its sights, sounds and tastes. In "Dreams from My Father," he recalled running his hand over his father's burial plot. "I had sat at my father's grave and spoken to him through Africa's red soil," he wrote. Obama flew to Ghana after the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, approved a new $20 billion food security plan. It aims to help poor nations in Africa and elsewhere avert mass starvation during the global recession. He also had a cordial first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. In their half-hour private audience at the Vatican, the two reviewed Mideast peace and anti-poverty efforts, aides reported. They also discussed abortion and stem cell research at length, Benedict giving him a treatise on bioethics to read while flying here, the White House said. Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Fri Jul 10 22:42:48 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:42:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Education for Excellent African Students Message-ID: <879133.25141.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? 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Press Release Partnership Welcomes G8 Commitment, Urges Demand-Driven Approach to?Food Security? July 10, 2009 -- The Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa welcomed today's commitment by President Obama and the G-8 leaders to provide $20 billion to catalyze agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa.? "This is the right way to help African countries escape from their deepening reliance on food aid," said Emmy Simmons, a Partnership Board member and former USAID Assistant Administrator.? "Two thirds of Africa's people live and work in rural areas where agricultural potential is great yet mostly untapped.? Improving farm productivity and markets, especially for small farmers who are m ainly women, is a critical pathway out of hunger and poverty," she added. The Partnership also hailed President Obama's visit to Ghana, whose leaders have placed a high priority on agricultural development.? Ghana is among 14 sub-Saharan African countries whose agricultural growth exceeded six percent in 2007. Peter McPherson, founding co-chair of the Partnership and a former USAID Administrator, urged the President to support emerging African leadership by embracing a "demand-driven" approach in implementing the new food security commitment.? "This will enable the US to respond to priorities set by African leaders with the private sector and civil society. ?We need to shift the locus of decision-making and accountability from Washington to the developing countries themselves." ? The Partnership is calling for the establishment of a new "Food Security Fund," which would create an authority for tapping the "150" Development Account and other US government funding accounts for the unique mix of assistance appropriate for each country or region.? The Fund would emphasize administrative and Congressional oversight through increased transparency by both USG agencies and recipient countries, and through independent monitoring and evaluation.? The Food Security Fund would provide assistance to countries which have successfully completed a CAADP-aligned strategy and met other important criteria.&nb sp; These countries would be eligible to engage in consultations with the US with the objective of developing a multi-year "Food Security Compact." ? Abdoulaye Diop, Ambassador of Mali to the US and Vice Chair of the Partnership said, "We need to change our mindset and approach if our goal is to deliver change on the ground. A country-driven approach, and mutual accountability for results, will be critical for sustained success in ending poverty and hunger." 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Sounds like Louis Armstrong back there. (Laughter.) GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetA" ); ? Good afternoon, everybody. It is a great honor for me to be in Accra and to speak to the representatives of the people of Ghana. (Applause.) I am deeply grateful for the welcome that I've received, as are Michelle and Malia and Sasha Obama. Ghana's history is rich, the ties between our two countries are strong, and I am proud that this is my first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as President of the United States of America. (Applause.) I want to thank Madam Speaker and all the members of the House of Representatives for hosting us today. I want to thank President Mills for his outstanding leadership. To the former Presidents -- Jerry Rawlings, former President Kufuor -- Vice President, Chief Justice -- thanks to all of you for your extraordinary hospitality and the wonderful institutions that you've built here in Ghana. I'm speaking to you at the end of a long trip. I began in Russia for a summit between two great powers. I traveled to Italy for a meeting of the world's leading economies. And I've come here to Ghana for a simple reason: The 21st century will be shaped by what happens not just in Rome or Moscow or Washington, but by what happens in Accra, as well. (Applause.) ? This is the simple truth of a time when the boundaries between people are overwhelmed by our connections. Your prosperity can expand America's prosperity. Your health and security can contribute to the world's health and security. And the strength of your democracy can help advance human rights for people everywhere. ? So I do not see the countries and peoples of Africa as a world apart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world -- (applause) -- as partners with America on behalf of the future we want for all of our children. That partnership must be grounded in mutual responsibility and mutual respect. And that is what I want to speak with you about today. We must start from the simple premise that Africa's future is up to Africans. ? I say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes haunted this part of the world. After all, I have the blood of Africa within me, and my family's -- (applause) -- my family's own story encompasses both the tragedies and triumphs of the larger African story. ? Some of you know my grandfather was a cook for the British in Kenya, and though he was a respected elder in his village, his employers called him "boy" for much of his life. He was on the periphery of Kenya's liberation struggles, but he was still imprisoned briefly during repressive times. In his life, colonialism wasn't simply the creation of unnatural borders or unfair terms of trade -- it was something experienced personally, day after day, year after year. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? My father grew up herding goats in a tiny village, an impossible distance away from the American universities where he would come to get an education. He came of age at a moment of extraordinary promise for Africa. The struggles of his own father's generation were giving birth to new nations, beginning right here in Ghana. (Applause.) Africans were educating and asserting themselves in new ways, and history was on the move. ? But despite the progress that has been made -- and there has been considerable progress in many parts of Africa -- we also know that much of that promise has yet to be fulfilled. Countries like Kenya had a per capita economy larger than South Korea's when I was born. They have badly been outpaced. Disease and conflict have ravaged parts of the African continent. In many places, the hope of my father's generation gave way to cynicism, even despair. Now, it's easy to point fingers and to pin the blame of these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict. The West has often approached Africa as a patron or a source of resources rather than a partner. But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants. In my father's life, it was partly tribalism and patronage and nepotism in an independent Kenya that for a long stretch derailed his career, and we know that this kind of corruption is still a daily fact of life for far too many. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); ? Now, we know that's also not the whole story. Here in Ghana, you show us a face of Africa that is too often overlooked by a world that sees only tragedy or a need for charity. The people of Ghana have worked hard to put democracy on a firmer footing, with repeated peaceful transfers of power even in the wake of closely contested elections. (Applause.) And by the way, can I say that for that the minority deserves as much credit as the majority. (Applause.) And with improved governance and an emerging civil society, Ghana's economy has shown impressive rates of growth. (Applause.) ? This progress may lack the drama of 20th century liberation struggles, but make no mistake: It will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of other nations, it is even more important to build one's own nation. ? So I believe that this moment is just as promising for Ghana and for Africa as the moment when my father came of age and new nations were being born. This is a new moment of great promise. Only this time, we've learned that it will not be giants like Nkrumah and Kenyatta who will determine Africa's future. Instead, it will be you -- the men and women in Ghana's parliament -- (applause) -- the people you represent. It will be the young people brimming with talent and energy and hope who can claim the future that so many in previous generations never realized. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? Now, to realize that promise, we must first recognize the fundamental truth that you have given life to in Ghana: Development depends on good governance. (Applause.) That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That's the change that can unlock Africa's potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans. As for America and the West, our commitment must be measured by more than just the dollars we spend. I've pledged substantial increases in our foreign assistance, which is in Africa's interests and America's interests. But the true sign of success is not whether we are a source of perpetual aid that helps people scrape by -- it's whether we are partners in building the capacity for transformational change. (Applause.) ? This mutual responsibility must be the foundation of our partnership. And today, I'll focus on four areas that are critical to the future of Africa and the entire developing world: democracy, opportunity, health, and the peaceful resolution of conflict. ? First, we must support strong and sustainable democratic governments. (Applause.) As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions. But history offers a clear verdict: Governments that respect the will of their own people, that govern by consent and not coercion, are more prosperous, they are more stable, and more successful than governments that do not. ? This is about more than just holding elections. It's also about what happens between elections. (Applause.) Repression can take many forms, and too many nations, even those that have elections, are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves -- (applause) -- or if police -- if police can be bought off by drug traffickers. (Applause.) No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top -- (applause) -- or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. (Applause.) That is not democracy, that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. And now is the time for that style of governance to end. (Applause.) ? In the 21st century, capable, reliable, and transparent institutions are the key to success -- strong parliaments; honest police forces; independent judges -- (applause); an independent press; a vibrant private sector; a civil society. (Applause.) Those are the things that give life to democracy, because that is what matters in people's everyday lives. ? Now, time and again, Ghanaians have chosen constitutional rule over autocracy, and shown a democratic spirit that allows the energy of your people to break through. (Applause.) We see that in leaders who accept defeat graciously -- the fact that President Mills' opponents were standing beside him last night to greet me when I came off the plane spoke volumes about Ghana -- (applause); victors who resist calls to wield power against the opposition in unfair ways. We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report the truth. We see it in police like Patience Quaye, who helped prosecute the first human trafficker in Ghana. (Applause.) We see it in the young people who are speaking up against patronage, and participating in the political process. ? Across Africa, we've seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny, and making change from the bottom up. We saw it in Kenya, where civil society and business came together to help stop post-election violence. We saw it in South Africa, where over three-quarters of the country voted in the recent election -- the fourth since the end of Apartheid. We saw it in Zimbabwe, where the Election Support Network braved brutal repression to stand up for the principle that a person's vote is their sacred right. ? Now, make no mistake: History is on the side of these brave Africans, not with those who use coups or change constitutions to stay in power. (Applause.) Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. (Applause.) GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? Now, America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation. The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny. But what America will do is increase assistance for responsible individuals and responsible institutions, with a focus on supporting good governance -- on parliaments, which check abuses of power and ensure that opposition voices are heard -- (applause); on the rule of law, which ensures the equal administration of justice; on civic participation, so that young people get involved; and on concrete solutions to corruption like forensic accounting and automating services -- (applause) -- strengthening hotlines, protecting whistle-blowers to advance transparency and accountability. ? And we provide this support. I have directed my administration to give greater attention to corruption in our human rights reports. People everywhere should have the right to start a business or get an education without paying a bribe. (Applause.) We have a responsibility to support those who act responsibly and to isolate those who don't, and that is exactly what America will do. ? Now, this leads directly to our second area of partnership: supporting development that provides opportunity for more people. ? With better governance, I have no doubt that Africa holds the promise of a broader base of prosperity. Witness the extraordinary success of Africans in my country, America. They're doing very well. So they've got the talent, they've got the entrepreneurial spirit. The question is, how do we make sure that they're succeeding here in their home countries? The continent is rich in natural resources. And from cell phone entrepreneurs to small farmers, Africans have shown the capacity and commitment to create their own opportunities. But old habits must also be broken. Dependence on commodities -- or a single export -- has a tendency to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few, and leaves people too vulnerable to downturns. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); var ACE_AR = {site: '768910', size: '180150'}; Dim adsVB,po adsVB=0 If ScriptEngineMajorVersion >=2 then adsVB=1 Function adsAX(aX) on error resume next If adsVB=1 then adsAX=False set po=CreateObject(aX) adsAX=IsObject(po) If (err) then adsAX=False Else adsAX=False End If End Function So in Ghana, for instance, oil brings great opportunities, and you have been very responsible in preparing for new revenue. But as so many Ghanaians know, oil cannot simply become the new cocoa. From South Korea to Singapore, history shows that countries thrive when they invest in their people and in their infrastructure -- (applause); when they promote multiple export industries, develop a skilled workforce, and create space for small and medium-sized businesses that create jobs. ? As Africans reach for this promise, America will be more responsible in extending our hand. By cutting costs that go to Western consultants and administration, we want to put more resources in the hands of those who need it, while training people to do more for themselves. (Applause.) That's why our $3.5 billion food security initiative is focused on new methods and technologies for farmers -- not simply sending American producers or goods to Africa. Aid is not an end in itself. The purpose of foreign assistance must be creating the conditions where it's no longer needed. I want to see Ghanaians not only self-sufficient in food, I want to see you exporting food to other countries and earning money. You can do that. (Applause.) ? Now, America can also do more to promote trade and investment. Wealthy nations must open our doors to goods and services from Africa in a meaningful way. That will be a commitment of my administration. And where there is good governance, we can broaden prosperity through public-private partnerships that invest in better roads and electricity; capacity-building that trains people to grow a business; financial services that reach not just the cities but also the poor and rural areas. This is also in our own interests -- for if people are lifted out of poverty and wealth is created in Africa, guess what? New markets will open up for our own goods. So it's good for both. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? One area that holds out both undeniable peril and extraordinary promise is energy. Africa gives off less greenhouse gas than any other part of the world, but it is the most threatened by climate change. A warming planet will spread disease, shrink water resources, and deplete crops, creating conditions that produce more famine and more conflict. All of us -- particularly the developed world -- have a responsibility to slow these trends -- through mitigation, and by changing the way that we use energy. But we can also work with Africans to turn this crisis into opportunity. ? Together, we can partner on behalf of our planet and prosperity, and help countries increase access to power while skipping -- leapfrogging the dirtier phase of development. Think about it: Across Africa, there is bountiful wind and solar power; geothermal energy and biofuels. From the Rift Valley to the North African deserts; from the Western coasts to South Africa's crops -- Africa's boundless natural gifts can generate its own power, while exporting profitable, clean energy abroad. ? These steps are about more than growth numbers on a balance sheet. They're about whether a young person with an education can get a job that supports a family; a farmer can transfer their goods to market; an entrepreneur with a good idea can start a business. It's about the dignity of work; it's about the opportunity that must exist for Africans in the 21st century. Just as governance is vital to opportunity, it's also critical to the third area I want to talk about: strengthening public health. ? In recent years, enormous progress has been made in parts of Africa. Far more people are living productively with HIV/AIDS, and getting the drugs they need. I just saw a wonderful clinic and hospital that is focused particularly on maternal health. But too many still die from diseases that shouldn't kill them. When children are being killed because of a mosquito bite, and mothers are dying in childbirth, then we know that more progress must be made. Yet because of incentives -- often provided by donor nations -- many African doctors and nurses go overseas, or work for programs that focus on a single disease. And this creates gaps in primary care and basic prevention. Meanwhile, individual Africans also have to make responsible choices that prevent the spread of disease, while promoting public health in their communities and countries. ? So across Africa, we see examples of people tackling these problems. In Nigeria, an Interfaith effort of Christians and Muslims has set an example of cooperation to confront malaria. Here in Ghana and across Africa, we see innovative ideas for filling gaps in care -- for instance, through E-Health initiatives that allow doctors in big cities to support those in small towns. ? America will support these efforts through a comprehensive, global health strategy, because in the 21st century, we are called to act by our conscience but also by our common interest, because when a child dies of a preventable disease in Accra, that diminishes us everywhere. And when disease goes unchecked in any corner of the world, we know that it can spread across oceans and continents. ? And that's why my administration has committed $63 billion to meet these challenges -- $63 billion. (Applause.) Building on the strong efforts of President Bush, we will carry forward the fight against HIV/AIDS. We will pursue the goal of ending deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, and we will work to eradicate polio. (Applause.) We will fight -- we will fight neglected tropical disease. And we won't confront illnesses in isolation -- we will invest in public health systems that promote wellness and focus on the health of mothers and children. (Applause.) ? Now, as we partner on behalf of a healthier future, we must also stop the destruction that comes not from illness, but from human beings -- and so the final area that I will address is conflict. Let me be clear: Africa is not the crude caricature of a continent at perpetual war. But if we are honest, for far too many Africans, conflict is a part of life, as constant as the sun. There are wars over land and wars over resources. And it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetB" ); ? These conflicts are a millstone around Africa's neck. Now, we all have many identities -- of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality. But defining oneself in opposition to someone who belongs to a different tribe, or who worships a different prophet, has no place in the 21st century. (Applause.) Africa's diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division. We are all God's children. We all share common aspirations -- to live in peace and security; to access education and opportunity; to love our families and our communities and our faith. That is our common humanity. ? That is why we must stand up to inhumanity in our midst. It is never justified -- never justifiable to target innocents in the name of ideology. (Applause.) It is the death sentence of a society to force children to kill in wars. It is the ultimate mark of criminality and cowardice to condemn women to relentless and systemic rape. We must bear witness to the value of every child in Darfur and the dignity of every woman in the Congo. No faith or culture should condone the outrages against them. And all of us must strive for the peace and security necessary for progress. ? Africans are standing up for this future. Here, too, in Ghana we are seeing you help point the way forward. Ghanaians should take pride in your contributions to peacekeeping from Congo to Liberia to Lebanon -- (applause) -- and your efforts to resist the scourge of the drug trade. (Applause.) We welcome the steps that are being taken by organizations like the African Union and ECOWAS to better resolve conflicts, to keep the peace, and support those in need. And we encourage the vision of a strong, regional security architecture that can bring effective, transnational forces to bear when needed. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetC" ); ? America has a responsibility to work with you as a partner to advance this vision, not just with words, but with support that strengthens African capacity. When there's a genocide in Darfur or terrorists in Somalia, these are not simply African problems -- they are global security challenges, and they demand a global response. ? And that's why we stand ready to partner through diplomacy and technical assistance and logistical support, and we will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable. And let me be clear: Our Africa Command is focused not on establishing a foothold in the continent, but on confronting these common challenges to advance the security of America, Africa, and the world. (Applause.) ? In Moscow, I spoke of the need for an international system where the universal rights of human beings are respected, and violations of those rights are opposed. And that must include a commitment to support those who resolve conflicts peacefully, to sanction and stop those who don't, and to help those who have suffered. But ultimately, it will be vibrant democracies like Botswana and Ghana which roll back the causes of conflict and advance the frontiers of peace and prosperity. GA_googleFillSlot( "AllAfrica_Story_InsetD" ); ? As I said earlier, Africa's future is up to Africans. The people of Africa are ready to claim that future. And in my country, African Americans -- including so many recent immigrants -- have thrived in every sector of society. We've done so despite a difficult past, and we've drawn strength from our African heritage. With strong institutions and a strong will, I know that Africans can live their dreams in Nairobi and Lagos, Kigali, Kinshasa, Harare, and right here in Accra. (Applause.) ? You know, 52 years ago, the eyes of the world were on Ghana. And a young preacher named Martin Luther King traveled here, to Accra, to watch the Union Jack come down and the Ghanaian flag go up. This was before the march on Washington or the success of the civil rights movement in my country. Dr. King was asked how he felt while watching the birth of a nation. And he said: "It renews my conviction in the ultimate triumph of justice." Now that triumph must be won once more, and it must be won by you. (Applause.) And I am particularly speaking to the young people all across Africa and right here in Ghana. In places like Ghana, young people make up over half of the population. ? And here is what you must know: The world will be what you make of it. You have the power to hold your leaders accountable, and to build institutions that serve the people. You can serve in your communities, and harness your energy and education to create new wealth and build new connections to the world. You can conquer disease, and end conflicts, and make change from the bottom up. You can do that. Yes you can -- (applause) -- because in this moment, history is on the move. ? But these things can only be done if all of you take responsibility for your future. And it won't be easy. It will take time and effort. There will be suffering and setbacks. But I can promise you this: America will be with you every step of the way -- as a partner, as a friend. (Applause.) Opportunity won't come from any other place, though. It must come from the decisions that all of you make, the things that you do, the hope that you hold in your heart. ? Ghana, freedom is your inheritance. Now, it is your responsibility to build upon freedom's foundation. And if you do, we will look back years from now to places like Accra and say this was the time when the promise was realized; this was the moment when prosperity was forged, when pain was overcome, and a new era of progress began. This can be the time when we witness the triumph of justice once more. Yes we can. Thank you very much. God bless you. Thank you. (Applause.) ? END - 1:10 P.M. GMT Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Sat Jul 11 19:23:17 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:23:17 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] =?utf-8?q?Obama_praises_Kenya=E2=80=99s_Civil_Society?= Message-ID: <538722.92469.qm@web51911.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? In reply to Professor Munene's?commentary, I would say he?missed the point.? He should have paid more attention to both President Obama's speech and compaired to Ambassador Jonnie Carson's.??Both are saying the same thing, they are both interelated talking about Africa Trading partnership with America for better prospects.? That too much corruption by African Leaders themselves is the cause to Africa's poverty and it must be done with so that Africa and America can have cordial Trade Partnership relationship in an enabling environment.? That the change must be People Demand-Driven, that which must now,?as a measure for feasible sustainable development progress, Civil Society programs must be incorporated?as part and parcel of?the?fundamental strategic plan to achieve the desired goal.? But in Prof. Munene's, his commentary argument,?is trying to misquote?Ambassador Jonnie Carson so to misdirect peoples mind but he got it all wrong.? Its all bad timing.?He lacked lustre and?his statement is?totally misplaced.? He must have been trying to fit in some odd headless?gear that is neigther here nor there.? I believe, people of the world from all walks of life paid keen attention to?both the speeches, and cannot be swayed to such thoughtless comments like those of Prof. Munene.?......... ? Quote ?President Obama has showed that there will be a difference. He has given us hope,? said Prof Munene, who teaches history at the Unites States International University? -? ? As a matter of fact, he sounded more like he?has a bone to pick with Ambassador Jonnie Carson, a?personal difference for which he should have looked for?other neutral ground but not here. This was a wrong place for him to?squeeze in some of his irrational analysis to?President Obama's speech in Ghana that do not add up - and just like President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, he did not get it,?it is all about personal stint with Ambassador Jonnie Carson. His fellow Dr. Ben Sihanya Law Lecturer gave a true picture an analysis of fair balanced opinion, truely appreciative, and this is the way to do things.??? ? On behalf of many voices I will request?Prof. Munene?not to spoil the mood?for the occassion many of us want to treasure and value, because it is the begining of many good things which will?concern valuable Trading relationship between people of African decent?and America.? He seem to be having some hidden agenda, let him?sort himself privately with Ambassador Jonnie Carson but not in such forum. ? Cheers! ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ? Obama praises Kenya?s civil society ? U.S. President Barack Obama, his wife Michelle Obama and their children Malia and Sasha (2nd R) arrive in Accra, Ghana, July 10, 2009. Obama was given a hero's welcome in Ghana on Friday on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office as the first African American president of the United States. REUTERS? By?DANIEL WESANGULA and MUCHEMI WACHIRAPosted?Saturday, July 11?2009?at?22:30 In Summary But country comes in for criticism on graft, corruption and poor governance google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad); United States President Barack Obama singled out the Kenyan civil society and business leadership for praise over their efforts in helping to end last year?s post-election violence. Related Downloads Obama's speech ?Across Africa, we have seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny and making change from the bottom up. We saw it in Kenya, where civil society and business came together to help stop post-election violence. We saw it in South Africa, where over three-quarters of the country voted in the recent election ? the fourth since the end of apartheid. We saw it in Zimbabwe, where the Election Support Network braved brutal repression to stand up for the principle that a person?s vote is their sacred right,? Mr Obama said. Mr Obama was referring to the baby steps that the civil society and business leaders took to start the Serena peace initiative that finally gave way to the Panel of Eminent Persons led by Dr Kofi Annan. In his first address in sub-Saharan Africa, Mr Obama heavily criticised corrupt and inept governments all over the continent as well as Kenya, the country of his father?s birth, saying that without proper governance, development will not come to African nations. ?No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery,? he said. The US President chose Ghana for his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as an appreciation of its growth as a democracy. Kenyans followed the address on television as it was beamed live by major TV networks. The US embassy had organised a post-speech debate at the Hotel Inter-Continental in which the speech was described as inspiring, captivating and intended to comprehensively address the core issues facing the country as well as Africa. Those who turned out to watch the speech cheered him on. Prof Macharia Munene, a select panellist, said President Obama clearly showed there will be a difference when it comes to issues relating to Africa, contrary to what US assistant secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson had said. ?President Obama has showed that there will be a difference. He has given us hope,? said Prof Munene, who teaches history at the Unites States International University. Said Dr Ben Sihanya, a law lecturer at the University of Nairobi: ?President Obama has showed his will to engage Africa and to work with it in critical partnership.? ? ?He has addressed all the major issues facing Africa. I have found the speech very captivating and informative,? said Mohammed Abdulahi, a participant. ?His statement is likely to spur a silent revolution, which can transform or change Africa,? said Joshua Amoli, a youthful man from Nyanza. Mr Obama said international aid to developing countries should help African countries get to their goals. ?Development comes from?democracy and good governance and not aid. Aid is not an end in itself. It is only a means towards building a path that will ensure the existence of everlasting trade with other countries,? he said. He said African leaders need to stop using their country?s economies to enrich themselves and instead build true democracies?that will concentrate on ending corruption within their countries. More than holding elections ?Development will come to governments that are more stable. Stability is more than just holding elections, it is also about what happens after the elections. Those who lose should heed the calls of the people and not use their positions to wield power over the opposition,? he said. Just hours before setting foot in sub-Saharan Africa for the first time as President, Mr Obama had used Kenya as an example of an African state where leaders have failed to effectively fight corruption. Kenya is repeatedly showing up on the list of the most corrupt countries in the world. The US President used a personal story about his Kenyan family, saying they still live in poverty due to poor governance. He also put Kenya?s poor conflict resolution record on the spot, saying tribalism and?sectarianism have no place in the 21st century and no faith or culture that condones violence should be condoned. ? July?11, 2009 ? ?Remarks of President Barack Obama? --?As Prepared for Delivery? A New Moment of Promise Accra, Ghana July 11, 2009 Good morning. It is an honor for me to be in Accra, and to speak to the representatives of the people of Ghana. I am deeply grateful for the welcome that I?ve received, as are Michelle, Malia, and Sasha Obama. Ghana?s history is rich, the ties between our two countries are strong, and I am proud that this is my first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as President of the United States. I am speaking to you at the end of a long trip. I began in Russia, for a Summit between two great powers. I traveled to Italy, for a meeting of the world?s leading economies. And I have come here, to Ghana, for a simple reason: the 21st century will be shaped by what happens not just in Rome or Moscow or Washington, but by what happens in Accra as well. This is the simple truth of a time when the boundaries between people are overwhelmed by our connections. Your prosperity can expand America?s. Your health and security can contribute to the world?s. And the strength of your democracy can help advance human rights for people everywhere. So I do not see the countries and peoples of Africa as a world apart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world ? as partners with America on behalf of the future that we want for all our children. That partnership must be grounded in mutual responsibility, and that is what I want to speak with you about today. We must start from the simple premise that Africa?s future is up to Africans. I say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes haunted this part of the world. I have the blood of Africa within me, and my family?s own story encompasses both the tragedies and triumphs of the larger African story. My grandfather was a cook for the British in Kenya, and though he was a respected elder in his village, his employers called him "boy" for much of his life. He was on the periphery of Kenya?s liberation struggles, but he was still imprisoned briefly during repressive times. In his life, colonialism wasn?t simply the creation of unnatural borders or unfair terms of trade ? it was something experienced personally, day after day, year after year. My father grew up herding goats in a tiny village, an impossible distance away from the American universities where he would come to get an education. He came of age at an extraordinary moment of promise for Africa. The struggles of his own father?s generation were giving birth to new nations, beginning right here in Ghana. Africans were educating and asserting themselves in new ways. History was on the move. But despite the progress that has been made ? and there has been considerable progress in parts of Africa ? we also know that much of that promise has yet to be fulfilled. Countries like Kenya, which had a per capita economy larger than South Korea?s when I was born, have been badly outpaced. Disease and conflict have ravaged parts of the African continent. In many places, the hope of my father?s generation gave way to cynicism, even despair. It is easy to point fingers, and to pin the blame for these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense bred conflict, and the West has often approached Africa as a patron, rather than a partner. But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants. In my father?s life, it was partly tribalism and patronage in an independent Kenya that for a long stretch derailed his career, and we know that this kind of corruption is a daily fact of life for far too many. Of course, we also know that is not the whole story. Here in Ghana, you show us a face of Africa that is too often overlooked by a world that sees only tragedy or the need for charity. The people of Ghana have worked hard to put democracy on a firmer footing, with peaceful transfers of power even in the wake of closely contested elections. And with improved governance and an emerging civil society, Ghana?s economy has shown impressive rates of growth. This progress may lack the drama of the 20th century?s liberation struggles, but make no mistake: it will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of another nation, it is even more important to build one?s own. So I believe that this moment is just as promising for Ghana ? and for Africa ? as the moment when my father came of age and new nations were being born. This is a new moment of promise. Only this time, we have learned that it will not be giants like Nkrumah??and Kenyatta who will determine Africa?s future. Instead, it will be you ? the men and women in Ghana?s Parliament, and the people you represent. Above all, it will be the young people ? brimming with talent and energy and hope ? who can claim the future that so many in my father?s generation never found. To realize that promise, we must first recognize a fundamental truth that you have given life to in Ghana: development depends upon good governance. That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That is the change that can unlock Africa?s potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans. As for America and the West, our commitment must be measured by more than just the dollars we spend. I have pledged substantial increases in our foreign assistance, which is in Africa?s interest and America?s. But the true sign of success is not whether we are a source of aid that helps people scrape by ? it is whether we are partners in building the capacity for transformational change. This mutual responsibility must be the foundation of our partnership. And today, I will focus on four areas that are critical to the future of Africa and the entire developing world: democracy; opportunity; health; and the peaceful resolution of conflict. First, we must support strong and sustainable democratic governments. As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions. But history offers a clear verdict: governments that respect the will of their own people are more prosperous, more stable, and more successful than governments that do not. This is about more than holding elections ? it?s also about what happens between them. Repression takes many forms, and too many nations are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny, and now is the time for it to end. In the 21st century, capable, reliable and transparent institutions are the key to success ? strong parliaments and honest police forces; independent judges and journalists; a vibrant private sector and civil society. Those are the things that give life to democracy, because that is what matters in peoples? lives. Time and again, Ghanaians have chosen Constitutional rule over autocracy, and shown a democratic spirit that allows the energy of your people to break through. We see that in leaders who accept defeat graciously, and victors who resist calls to wield power against the opposition. We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report the truth. We see it in police like Patience Quaye, who helped prosecute the first human trafficker in Ghana. We see it in the young people who are speaking up against patronage, and participating in the political process. Across Africa, we have seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny, and making change from the bottom up. We saw it in Kenya, where civil society and business came together to help stop post-election violence. We saw it in South Africa, where over three quarters of the country voted in the recent election ? the fourth since the end of Apartheid. We saw it in Zimbabwe, where the Election Support Network braved brutal repression to stand up for the principle that a person?s vote is their sacred right. Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans, and not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power. Africa doesn?t need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation ? the essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny. What we will do is increase assistance for responsible individuals and institutions, with a focus on supporting good governance ? on parliaments, which check abuses of power and ensure that opposition voices are heard; on the rule of law, which ensures the equal administration of justice; on civic participation, so that young people get involved; and on concrete solutions to corruption like forensic accounting, automating services, strengthening hotlines, and protecting whistle-blowers to advance transparency and accountability. As we provide this support, I have directed my Administration to give greater attention to corruption in our Human Rights report. People everywhere should have the right to start a business or get an education without paying a bribe. We have a responsibility to support those who act responsibly and to isolate those who don?t, and that is exactly what America will do. This leads directly to our second area of partnership ? supporting development that provides opportunity for more people. With better governance, I have no doubt that Africa holds the promise of a broader base for prosperity. The continent is rich in natural resources. And from cell phone entrepreneurs to small farmers, Africans have shown the capacity and commitment to create their own opportunities. But old habits must also be broken. Dependence on commodities ? or on a single export ? concentrates wealth in the hands of the few, and leaves people too vulnerable to downturns. In Ghana, for instance, oil brings great opportunities, and you have been responsible in preparing for new revenue. But as so many Ghanaians know, oil cannot simply become the new cocoa. From South Korea to Singapore, history shows that countries thrive when they invest in their people and infrastructure; when they promote multiple export industries, develop a skilled workforce, and create space for small and medium-sized businesses that create jobs. As Africans reach for this promise, America will be more responsible in extending our hand. By cutting costs that go to Western consultants and administration, we will put more resources in the hands of those who need it, while training people to do more for themselves. That is why our $3.5 billion food security initiative is focused on new methods and technologies for farmers ? not simply sending American producers or goods to Africa. Aid is not an end in itself. The purpose of foreign assistance must be creating the conditions where it is no longer needed. America can also do more to promote trade and investment. Wealthy nations must open our doors to goods and services from Africa in a meaningful way. And where there is good governance, we can broaden prosperity through public-private partnerships that invest in better roads and electricity; capacity-building that trains people to grow a business; and financial services that reach poor and rural areas. This is also in our own interest ? for if people are lifted out of poverty and wealth is created in Africa, new markets will open for our own goods. One area that holds out both undeniable peril and extraordinary promise is energy. Africa gives off less greenhouse gas than any other part of the world, but it is the most threatened by climate change. A warming planet will spread disease, shrink water resources, and deplete crops, creating conditions that produce more famine and conflict. All of us ? particularly the developed world ? have a responsibility to slow these trends ? through mitigation, and by changing the way that we use energy. But we can also work with Africans to turn this crisis into opportunity. Together, we can partner on behalf of our planet and prosperity, and help countries increase access to power while skipping the dirtier phase of development. Across Africa, there is bountiful wind and solar power; geothermal energy and bio-fuels. From the Rift Valley to the North African deserts; from the Western coast to South Africa?s crops ?Africa?s boundless natural gifts can generate its own power, while exporting profitable, clean energy abroad. These steps are about more than growth numbers on a balance sheet. They?re about whether a young person with an education can get a job that supports a family; a farmer can transfer their goods to the market; or an entrepreneur with a good idea can start a business. It?s about the dignity of work. It?s about the opportunity that must exist for Africans in the 21st century. Just as governance is vital to opportunity, it is also critical to the third area that I will talk about ??strengthening public health. In recent years, enormous progress has been made in parts of Africa. Far more people are living productively with HIV/AIDS, and getting the drugs they need. But too many still die from diseases that shouldn?t kill them. When children are being killed because of a mosquito bite, and mothers are dying in childbirth, then we know that more progress must be made. Yet because of incentives ? often provided by donor nations ? many African doctors and nurses understandably go overseas, or work for programs that focus on a single disease. This creates gaps in primary care and basic prevention. Meanwhile, individual Africans also have to make responsible choices that prevent the spread of disease, while promoting public health in their communities and countries. Across Africa, we see examples of people tackling these problems. In Nigeria, an Interfaith effort of Christians and Muslims has set an example of cooperation to confront malaria. Here in Ghana and across Africa, we see innovative ideas for filling gaps in care ? for instance, through E-Health initiatives that allow doctors in big cities to support those in small towns. America will support these efforts through a comprehensive, global health strategy. Because in the 21st century, we are called to act by our conscience and our common interest. When a child dies of a preventable illness in Accra, that diminishes us everywhere. And when disease goes unchecked in any corner of the world, we know that it can spread across oceans and continents. That is why my Administration has committed $63 billion to meet these challenges. Building on the strong efforts of President Bush, we will carry forward the fight against HIV/AIDS. We will pursue the goal of ending deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, and eradicating polio. We will fight neglected tropical disease. And we won?t confront illnesses in isolation ? we will invest in public health systems that promote wellness, and focus on the health of mothers and children. As we partner on behalf of a healthier future, we must also stop the destruction that comes not from illness, but from human beings ? and so the final area that I will address is conflict. Now let me be clear: Africa is not the crude caricature of a continent at war. But for far too many Africans, conflict is a part of life, as constant as the sun. There are wars over land and wars over resources. And it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes. These conflicts are a millstone around Africa?s neck. We all have many identities ? of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality. But defining oneself in opposition to someone who belongs to a different tribe, or who worships a different prophet, has no place in the 21st century. Africa?s diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division. We are all God?s children. We all share common aspirations ? to live in peace and security; to access education and opportunity; to love our families, our communities, and our faith. That is our common humanity. That is why we must stand up to inhumanity in our midst. It is never justifiable to target innocents in the name of ideology. It is the death sentence of a society to force children to kill in wars. It is the ultimate mark of criminality and cowardice to condemn women to relentless and systematic rape. We must bear witness to the value of every child in Darfur and the dignity of every woman in Congo. No faith or culture should condone the outrages against them. All of us must strive for the peace and security necessary for progress. Africans are standing up for this future. Here, too, Ghana is helping to point the way forward. Ghanaians should take pride in your contributions to peacekeeping from Congo to Liberia to Lebanon, and in your efforts to resist the scourge of the drug trade. We welcome the steps that are being taken by organizations like the African Union and ECOWAS to better resolve conflicts, keep the peace, and support those in need. And we encourage the vision of a strong, regional security architecture that can bring effective, transnational force to bear when needed. America has a responsibility to advance this vision, not just with words, but with support that strengthens African capacity. When there is genocide in Darfur or terrorists in Somalia, these are not simply African problems ? they are global security challenges, and they demand a global response. That is why we stand ready to partner through diplomacy, technical assistance, and logistical support, and will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable. And let me be clear: our Africa Command is focused not on establishing a foothold in the continent, but on confronting these common challenges to advance the security of America, Africa and the world. In Moscow, I spoke of the need for an international system where the universal rights of human beings are respected, and violations of those rights are opposed. That must include a commitment to support those who resolve conflicts peacefully, to sanction and stop those who don?t, and to help those who have suffered. But ultimately, it will be vibrant democracies like Botswana and Ghana which roll back the causes of conflict, and advance the frontiers of peace and prosperity. As I said earlier, Africa?s future is up to Africans. The people of Africa are ready to claim that future. In my country, African-Americans ? including so many recent immigrants ? have thrived in every sector of society. We have done so despite a difficult past, and we have drawn strength from our African heritage. With strong institutions and a strong will, I know that Africans can live their dreams in Nairobi and Lagos; in Kigali and Kinshasa; in Harare and right here in Accra. Fifty-two years ago, the eyes of the world were on Ghana. And a young preacher named Martin Luther King traveled here, to Accra, to watch the Union Jack come down and the Ghanaian flag go up. This was before the march on Washington or the success of the civil rights movement in my country. Dr. King was asked how he felt while watching the birth of a nation. And he said: "It renews my conviction in the ultimate triumph of justice." Now, that triumph must be won once more, and it must be won by you. And I am particularly speaking to the young people. In places like Ghana, you make up over half of the population. Here is what you must know: the world will be what you make of it. You have the power to hold your leaders accountable, and to build institutions that serve the people. You can serve in your communities, and harness your energy and education to create new wealth and build new connections to the world. You can conquer disease, end conflicts, and make change from the bottom up. You can do that. Yes you can. Because in this moment, history is on the move. But these things can only be done if you take responsibility for your future. It won?t be easy. It will take time and effort. There will be suffering and setbacks. But I can promise you this: America will be with you. As a partner. As a friend. Opportunity won?t come from any other place, though ? it must come from the decisions that you make, the things that you do, and the hope that you hold in your hearts. Freedom is your inheritance. Now, it is your responsibility to build upon freedom?s foundation. And if you do, we will look back years from now to places like Accra and say that this was the time when the promise was realized ? this was the moment when prosperity was forged; pain was overcome; and a new era of progress began. This can be the time when we witness the triumph of justice once more. Thank you.? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chaduchi at live.com Sat Jul 11 12:16:36 2009 From: chaduchi at live.com (charles chigiri) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:16:36 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Obama Speech In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, kindly find the Obama speech delivered in ACCRA Charles Dunga Chigiri Good morning. It is an honor for me to be in Accra, and to speak to the representatives of the people of Ghana. I am deeply grateful for the welcome that I've received, as are Michelle, Malia and Sasha Obama. Ghana's history is rich, the ties between our two countries are strong, and I am proud that this is my first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as President of the United States. I am speaking to you at the end of a long trip. I began in Russia, for a Summit between two great powers. I traveled to Italy, for a meeting of the world's leading economies. And I have come here, to Ghana, for a simple reason: the 21st century will be shaped by what happens not just in Rome or Moscow or Washington, but by what happens in Accra as well. This is the simple truth of a time when the boundaries between people are overwhelmed by our connections. Your prosperity can expand America's. Your health and security can contribute to the world's. And the strength of your democracy can help advance human rights for people everywhere. So I do not see the countries and peoples of Africa as a world apart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world ? as partners with America on behalf of the future that we want for all our children. That partnership must be grounded in mutual responsibility, and that is what I want to speak with you about today. We must start from the simple premise that Africa's future is up to Africans. I say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes haunted this part of the world. I have the blood of Africa within me, and my family's own story encompasses both the tragedies and triumphs of the larger African story. My grandfather was a cook for the British in Kenya, and though he was a respected elder in his village, his employers called him "boy" for much of his life. He was on the periphery of Kenya's liberation struggles, but he was still imprisoned briefly during repressive times. In his life, colonialism wasn't simply the creation of unnatural borders or unfair terms of trade ? it was something experienced personally, day after day, year after year. My father grew up herding goats in a tiny village, an impossible distance away from the American universities where he would come to get an education. He came of age at an extraordinary moment of promise for Africa. The struggles of his own father's generation were giving birth to new nations, beginning right here in Ghana. Africans were educating and asserting themselves in new ways. History was on the move. But despite the progress that has been made ? and there has been considerable progress in parts of Africa ? we also know that much of that promise has yet to be fulfilled. Countries like Kenya, which had a per capita economy larger than South Korea's when I was born, have been badly outpaced. Disease and conflict have ravaged parts of the African continent. In many places, the hope of my father's generation gave way to cynicism, even despair. It is easy to point fingers, and to pin the blame for these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense bred conflict, and the West has often approached Africa as a patron, rather than a partner. But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants. In my father's life, it was partly tribalism and patronage in an independent Kenya that for a long stretch derailed his career, and we know that this kind of corruption is a daily fact of life for far too many. Of course, we also know that is not the whole story. Here in Ghana, you show us a face of Africa that is too often overlooked by a world that sees only tragedy or the need for charity. The people of Ghana have worked hard to put democracy on a firmer footing, with peaceful transfers of power even in the wake of closely contested elections. And with improved governance and an emerging civil society, Ghana's economy has shown impressive rates of growth. This progress may lack the drama of the 20th century's liberation struggles, but make no mistake: it will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of another nation, it is even more important to build one's own. So I believe that this moment is just as promising for Ghana ? and for Africa ? as the moment when my father came of age and new nations were being born. This is a new moment of promise. Only this time, we have learned that it will not be giants like Nkrumah and Kenyatta who will determine Africa's future. Instead, it will be you ? the men and women in Ghana's Parliament, and the people you represent. Above all, it will be the young people ? brimming with talent and energy and hope ? who can claim the future that so many in my father's generation never found. To realize that promise, we must first recognize a fundamental truth that you have given life to in Ghana: development depends upon good governance. That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That is the change that can unlock Africa's potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans. As for America and the West, our commitment must be measured by more than just the dollars we spend. I have pledged substantial increases in our foreign assistance, which is in Africa's interest and America's. But the true sign of success is not whether we are a source of aid that helps people scrape by ? it is whether we are partners in building the capacity for transformational change. This mutual responsibility must be the foundation of our partnership. And today, I will focus on four areas that are critical to the future of Africa and the entire developing world: democracy; opportunity; health; and the peaceful resolution of conflict. First, we must support strong and sustainable democratic governments. As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions. But history offers a clear verdict: governments that respect the will of their own people are more prosperous, more stable and more successful than governments that do not. This is about more than holding elections ? it's also about what happens between them. Repression takes many forms, and too many nations are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20% off the top, or the head of the port authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not democracy, that is tyranny, and now is the time for it to end. In the 21st century, capable, reliable and transparent institutions are the key to success ? strong parliaments and honest police forces; independent judges and journalists; a vibrant private sector and civil society. Those are the things that give life to democracy, because that is what matters in peoples' lives. Time and again, Ghanaians have chosen Constitutional rule over autocracy, and shown a democratic spirit that allows the energy of your people to break through. We see that in leaders who accept defeat graciously, and victors who resist calls to wield power against the opposition. We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report the truth. We see it in police like Patience Quaye, who helped prosecute the first human trafficker in Ghana. We see it in the young people who are speaking up against patronage and participating in the political process. Across Africa, we have seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny and making change from the bottom up. We saw it in Kenya, where civil society and business came together to help stop postelection violence. We saw it in South Africa, where over three quarters of the country voted in the recent election ? the fourth since the end of apartheid. We saw it in Zimbabwe, where the Election Support Network braved brutal repression to stand up for the principle that a person's vote is their sacred right. Make no mistake: history is on the side of these brave Africans and not with those who use coups or change Constitutions to stay in power. Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation ? the essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny. What we will do is increase assistance for responsible individuals and institutions, with a focus on supporting good governance ? on parliaments, which check abuses of power and ensure that opposition voices are heard; on the rule of law, which ensures the equal administration of justice; on civic participation, so that young people get involved; and on concrete solutions to corruption like forensic accounting, automating services, strengthening hot lines and protecting whistle-blowers to advance transparency and accountability. As we provide this support, I have directed my administration to give greater attention to corruption in our human rights report. People everywhere should have the right to start a business or get an education without paying a bribe. We have a responsibility to support those who act responsibly and to isolate those who don't, and that is exactly what America will do. This leads directly to our second area of partnership ? supporting development that provides opportunity for more people. With better governance, I have no doubt that Africa holds the promise of a broader base for prosperity. The continent is rich in natural resources. And from cellphone entrepreneurs to small farmers, Africans have shown the capacity and commitment to create their own opportunities. But old habits must also be broken. Dependence on commodities ? or on a single export ? concentrates wealth in the hands of the few and leaves people too vulnerable to downturns. In Ghana, for instance, oil brings great opportunities, and you have been responsible in preparing for new revenue. But as so many Ghanaians know, oil cannot simply become the new cocoa. From South Korea to Singapore, history shows that countries thrive when they invest in their people and infrastructure; when they promote multiple export industries, develop a skilled work force and create space for small and medium-sized businesses that create jobs. As Africans reach for this promise, America will be more responsible in extending our hand. By cutting costs that go to Western consultants and administration, we will put more resources in the hands of those who need it, while training people to do more for themselves. That is why our $3.5 billion food security initiative is focused on new methods and technologies for farmers ? not simply sending American producers or goods to Africa. Aid is not an end in itself. The purpose of foreign assistance must be creating the conditions where it is no longer needed. America can also do more to promote trade and investment. Wealthy nations must open our doors to goods and services from Africa in a meaningful way. And where there is good governance, we can broaden prosperity through public-private partnerships that invest in better roads and electricity; capacity-building that trains people to grow a business; and financial services that reach poor and rural areas. This is also in our own interest ? for if people are lifted out of poverty and wealth is created in Africa, new markets will open for our own goods. One area that holds out both undeniable peril and extraordinary promise is energy. Africa gives off less greenhouse gas than any other part of the world, but it is the most threatened by climate change. A warming planet will spread disease, shrink water resources and deplete crops, creating conditions that produce more famine and conflict. All of us ? particularly the developed world ? have a responsibility to slow these trends ? through mitigation, and by changing the way that we use energy. But we can also work with Africans to turn this crisis into opportunity. Together, we can partner on behalf of our planet and prosperity and help countries increase access to power while skipping the dirtier phase of development. Across Africa, there is bountiful wind and solar power; geothermal energy and bio-fuels. From the Rift Valley to the North African deserts; from the Western coast to South Africa's crops ? Africa's boundless natural gifts can generate its own power, while exporting profitable, clean energy abroad. These steps are about more than growth numbers on a balance sheet. They're about whether a young person with an education can get a job that supports a family; a farmer can transfer their goods to the market; or an entrepreneur with a good idea can start a business. It's about the dignity of work. It s about the opportunity that must exist for Africans in the 21st century. Just as governance is vital to opportunity, it is also critical to the third area that I will talk about ? strengthening public health. In recent years, enormous progress has been made in parts of Africa. Far more people are living productively with HIV/AIDS, and getting the drugs they need. But too many still die from diseases that shouldn't kill them. When children are being killed because of a mosquito bite, and mothers are dying in childbirth, then we know that more progress must be made. Yet because of incentives ? often provided by donor nations ? many African doctors and nurses understandably go overseas, or work for programs that focus on a single disease. This creates gaps in primary care and basic prevention. Meanwhile, individual Africans also have to make responsible choices that prevent the spread of disease, while promoting public health in their communities and countries. Across Africa, we see examples of people tackling these problems. In Nigeria, an interfaith effort of Christians and Muslims has set an example of cooperation to confront malaria. Here in Ghana and across Africa, we see innovative ideas for filling gaps in care ? for instance, through E-Health initiatives that allow doctors in big cities to support those in small towns. America will support these efforts through a comprehensive, global health strategy. Because in the 21st century, we are called to act by our conscience and our common interest. When a child dies of a preventable illness in Accra, that diminishes us everywhere. And when disease goes unchecked in any corner of the world, we know that it can spread across oceans and continents. That is why my administration has committed $63 billion to meet these challenges. Building on the strong efforts of President Bush, we will carry forward the fight against HIV/AIDS. We will pursue the goal of ending deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, and eradicating polio. We will fight neglected tropical disease. And we won't confront illnesses in isolation ? we will invest in public health systems that promote wellness and focus on the health of mothers and children. As we partner on behalf of a healthier future, we must also stop the destruction that comes not from illness, but from human beings ? and so the final area that I will address is conflict. Now let me be clear: Africa is not the crude caricature of a continent at war. But for far too many Africans, conflict is a part of life, as constant as the sun. There are wars over land and wars over resources. And it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes. These conflicts are a millstone around Africa's neck. We all have many identities ? of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality. But defining oneself in opposition to someone who belongs to a different tribe, or who worships a different prophet, has no place in the 21st century. Africa's diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division. We are all God's children. We all share common aspirations ? to live in peace and security; to access education and opportunity; to love our families, our communities, and our faith. That is our common humanity. That is why we must stand up to inhumanity in our midst. It is never justifiable to target innocents in the name of ideology. It is the death sentence of a society to force children to kill in wars. It is the ultimate mark of criminality and cowardice to condemn women to relentless and systematic rape. We must bear witness to the value of every child in Darfur and the dignity of every woman in Congo. No faith or culture should condone the outrages against them. All of us must strive for the peace and security necessary for progress. Africans are standing up for this future. Here, too, Ghana is helping to point the way forward. Ghanaians should take pride in your contributions to peacekeeping from Congo to Liberia to Lebanon, and in your efforts to resist the scourge of the drug trade. We welcome the steps that are being taken by organizations like the African Union and ECOWAS to better resolve conflicts, keep the peace, and support those in need. And we encourage the vision of a strong, regional security architecture that can bring effective, transnational force to bear when needed. America has a responsibility to advance this vision, not just with words, but with support that strengthens African capacity. When there is genocide in Darfur or terrorists in Somalia, these are not simply African problems ? they are global security challenges, and they demand a global response. That is why we stand ready to partner through diplomacy, technical assistance, and logistical support, and will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable. And let me be clear: our Africa Command is focused not on establishing a foothold in the continent, but on confronting these common challenges to advance the security of America, Africa and the world. In Moscow, I spoke of the need for an international system where the universal rights of human beings are respected, and violations of those rights are opposed. That must include a commitment to support those who resolve conflicts peacefully, to sanction and stop those who don't, and to help those who have suffered. But ultimately, it will be vibrant democracies like Botswana and Ghana which roll back the causes of conflict, and advance the frontiers of peace and prosperity. As I said earlier, Africa's future is up to Africans. The people of Africa are ready to claim that future. In my country, African-Americans ? including so many recent immigrants ? have thrived in every sector of society. We have done so despite a difficult past, and we have drawn strength from our African heritage. With strong institutions and a strong will, I know that Africans can live their dreams in Nairobi and Lagos; in Kigali and Kinshasa; in Harare and right here in Accra. Fifty-two years ago, the eyes of the world were on Ghana. And a young preacher named Martin Luther King traveled here, to Accra, to watch the Union Jack come down and the Ghanaian flag go up. This was before the march on Washington or the success of the civil rights movement in my country. Dr. King was asked how he felt while watching the birth of a nation. And he said: "It renews my conviction in the ultimate triumph of justice." Now, that triumph must be won once more, and it must be won by you. And I am particularly speaking to the young people. In places like Ghana, you make up over half of the population. Here is what you must know: the world will be what you make of it. You have the power to hold your leaders accountable and to build institutions that serve the people. 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This is not intended to be politically correct in terms of wording or expression and if you are angered by the contents, I accept full credit. Even family must endure tough love for the good of all. ?It is amazing what a difference five short years have made in a country that was once on a trajectory to economic and political maturity! Short of an outright formal declaration of Kenya as a failed state, Western diplomats accredited to Kenya are, for the most part in charge, helping, subtly and yet vitally, hold the country together and prevent her from spiraling to the precipice of further lawlessness. Just six short years ago Kenya shined on the world stage with the display of political maturity by her peaceful people in electing president Kibaki and the peaceful transition of power from President Moi. In 2003 Kenyans were ranked as the most optimistic people on earth and even though this quickly evaporated courtesy of politics gone awry, the country generally remained peaceful, posted respectable economic gains and revival of industry.? Fast forward to 2008, 2009 and for the foreseeable future and you have practically a failing state, all economic gains almost wiped out, growth all but gone now at a projected measly 1.7% from an impressive 7% leading into the 2007 elections, tribal militias and rag tag gangs supported by warlord politicians essentially manning the streets and communities; at the national level, foreign diplomats from the west are effectively running the government! What happened to Kenya? What went wrong so bad so fast? Very simple, here: Politics vs. Governance: Not to regurgitate the obvious but Kenya?s leaders, like most in Africa, are incapable of making a distinction between the two, most politicians equate politics to governance; our political class has substituted fear and intimidation for respect, never mind that respect, which is the true measure of leadership, is earned; and so when the election results were announced in December 2007, none of these clowns would place nationhood above self. And this gaping shortcoming was a big invitation to the West to step in. ?The calls for armed struggle via ?Mass Action? was clearly a signal to the West to our lack of capacity to self govern, to temper our disagreements with reason and our flagrant repudiation of rule of law. Kenya?s leaders failed when it mattered most: President Kibaki was timid and cowed to wits end when the perpetrator in chief, PM Odinga lit the nation on fire through demagoguery and predatory incitement. Whereas the president?s perceived ineffectiveness and inefficiency became painfully clear, the PM exploited the country?s vulnerabilities to the hilt; the sum gain was deaths of innocent Kenyans, suspension of rule of law, a failing economy and constructive hand over of governance to the West. ?One can make the case against the president for complacency to Kenya?s suffering through his omissions because he failed to use the enormous constitutional mandates of his office, like Kenyatta or Moi would have, to maintain law and order to preserve the country?s stability and save lives while yet another case can be made against the PM for complicity through his direct agitation, encouragement, aiding and endorsement of law breaking to attain self promotion. So the west had no choice in the matter but to fill the vast void suddenly created by spineless morons whose leadership shelf lives long expired in the last century. ?In rubbishing Kenya?s courts and its entire justice system, the PM, in essence created neo colonialism in Kenya with his repeated calls to the West and ?friends of Kenya? to intervene on his behalf.? The truth is many in Kenya?s top leadership would NOT even be electable to a town councilman position in the West, they would in fact be handed a one way ticket to oblivion and commanded to not EVER EVER show back in town again, that is just how horrendous our politicians are and yet many are trotting the globe and making embellished claims of knowledge as if such tours confer spontaneous wisdom! Western Intervention: And so when the West stepped in, Kenya?s leaders were more than willing, without debate, question or consternation, to swallow a concoction of a poison pill out of this world; without being given an opportunity to debate and vote, we became the perfect guinea pigs and to this day and for the foreseeable future will continue to reap the repercussions of this intervention. ? The two page Grand Coalition agreement which Kenya?s parliament unanimously approved at record speed was perhaps the most abhorrent to the extent it was dictated to Kenya. The standard that I would have applied in adopting the measure is simple, ask the Western diplomats starting with US whether or not the same prescription would apply in the US or any other western country who dictated the Grand Coalition; in other words, what would happen in the US if in 2000 when democrat Al Gore won the popular vote and Republican George Bush was declared the winner and democrats, led by Al Gore himself, started the kind of mayhem and killings PM Odinga engineered? Would the US adopt a two page constitutional amendment to form a ?Grand Coalition? government to appease Al Gore? Would these Western countries tolerate mediocre war lords like Ruto and rag tag gangs dismantling their economies and dictating the direction of their countries or would they deploy law enforcement to restore peace and order? ?Would African diplomats accredited to the West be allowed to dictate political solutions to the West?s political stalemates? Would Kenya?s ambassador have been allowed to counsel Al Gore in 2000? If their answer is ?NO? they wouldn?t adopt what they were prescribing to Kenya, then they would be asked to quit meddling and leave us alone but, oh no, our brave leaders were more than willing and mesmerized at the West?s ?concern?? and quick to take orders from the West! I mean they witnessed what we went through and they rewarded law breakers by installing them in high positions in government and look where it has gotten us. Does anyone have any doubt now that we would have done way better under President Kibaki running the show a second term as he did the first, not perfect but certainly much much better than this nightmare the country is going through right now? So for this reason, the west misdiagnosed Kenya?s sickness and prescribed her the wrong medicine; and by looking the other way when these corrupt and murderous elements are still wholly in charge of key government apparatus, the West continues to provide aid and comfort to perpetrators of crimes against humanity; the west is complicit in piling on the rot we are so desperate to remove from our governance by way of dictating how the country should be governed on a daily basis (granted we invited them to do so); so one wonders when the country will truly be independent once again. I mean where is Mzee Kenyatta when you need him? Would Mzee Jomo Kenyatta call on the West and ?friends of Kenya? to come and solve Kenya?s problems? how about ?hell NO?. Kenyatta handled business and that was leadership my friends. The West doesn?t invite other countries let alone Africans to come solve their problems; why do we? The West knows who the perpetrators of post election violence are, they have issued travel bans against some or most of them who happen to head government entities, why not prevail on the Kibaki government to at the very minimum, relieve these suspects from government offices, even temporarily, at least until this matter is resolved; Kibaki let Mwiraria, Murungaru, Murungi, Kimunya among others go for much less aggravating crimes; why are thieves and murderers running major ministries in Kenya and why are these Embassies silent about it? Who are they fooling? Embassies must be fair to Africans and stop propping incompetent murderous regimes in the name of stability. It is hollow, hypocritical, and false and only prolongs the suffering of populations. The bottom line in Kenya is slowly but surely spiraling into the abyss and the foreign missions are enabling and abetting the rot and only delaying the inevitable; our country is sick and this government is the cancer that has metastasized and contaminated the whole society with rot; sweeping these ills under the rugs only masks the odor and improves NOTHING! The Embassies must exert their influence and prevail on the president to, at the very minimum, get rid of or at least suspend known and suspected perpetrators of Post Election Violence who have holed themselves in government until such a time that investigations and prosecutions are complete; Kenyans are not idiots ya?ll think they are you know. If you can ban suspects from travelling to the West, certainly you can apply equal pressure for the sake of Kenyans who have lost any remaining faith in their government. The Obama Factor Kenya?s best blessing, bar none! And what are we doing with it, NOTHING but foolish politics. On the one hand is a PM aching to ride on President Barack Obama?s coattails and coax Kenyans into thinking he has the president?s backing and on the other is an absent minded president too scared of President Obama to be an effective governor and the end result is paralysis. President Obama is an extremely smart man and one careful not to take sides particularly with as hopeless a bunch as these men running Kenya, he will not be drawn into Kenya?s infantile politics and while he stands for what is truly right for Kenya, others like the PM would, instinctively interpret President Obama?s policies on Kenya as an endorsement for his own politics but the truth is; NO! We can clearly read President Obama?s statements and policies, unlike Kenya?s politicians or African leaders for that matter, President Obama does NOT double speak, he says what he means and means what he says. If he were running for president in Kenya or anywhere in Africa, President Obama would win by a landslide, almost by every man, woman and child of all tribes while on the other hand, if either President Kibaki or PM Odinga were running for a town councilman in the US, they would both lose miserably and perhaps be barred from EVER running for office again, that is the disparity of leadership qualities and class of these men; so we have by far the shoddiest characters running a country that sired the world?s most admired man at the very moment we need the most redemption; what do we do people? What do we do short of starting over? I mean Kenya is a disgrace, an international embarrassment folks, just one joke of a mess, only that it is real! ? ? ? Are Tables Turning? In a recent publication regarding reforms by the same western diplomats; they expressed ?concern? at the pace of reforms, one ambassador was quoted saying ?you can?t make an omelet without breaking the egg? and I wonder if this government ever got that memo. As long as the two men, president Kibaki and PM Odinga are at the helm in Kenya, you can bet there will be no ?eggs? broken to bring about any meaningful change in the country. The president is a lame duck with no real incentive to bring about any change, he is not running for office again and even if he were, it not in his DNA to hold his feet or those of others around him to the fire to make change happen. The PM is deeply beholden to the various disparate interests who ?fought? for him to become president/PM to do anything that may rock the boat or ruin any hope he has for another run for the presidency in 2012, it is just that simple; so are we so na?ve to these facts as to believe either of these men mean a word beyond rhetorical symbolism? Seriously!! International Criminal Court The cries and frustrations of ?WE THE PEOPLE? and those of the post election violence victims are finally starting to resonate and our voices are being heard.? Kenya?s leadership has this misguided notion of monopoly of access to world leaders and institutions; we too can speak to President Obama, we too can speak to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and the powers that be. The writing has been on the wall way too long and the notice has expired; and when it is all said and done, we?ll know whose voices count the most, we the people or these goons. The ICC is the perfect broom for Kenya; a relief and breath of fresh air. For once, William Ruto, even as ignorant and misinformed he is about the role of the International Criminal Court, has gotten this one right. His recent rants are a desperate attempt to deflect attention, the truth is Ruto knows he is advocating for the hangman?s noose on his own neck. A criminal suspect does not have any say so whatsoever in how the court conduct its functions! Someone educate this ignoramus! Ruto and ODM think they can manipulate the ICC like they did the gullible youth of Kenya. He is about to learn one major lesson that they failed to teach in Botany lessons in college; Bad politics (including rigging) can never be an excuse for crime or murder, period-end of story. The ICC is the only true and neutral arbiter that can clean the mess in Kenya and send a clear message to these goons in government that the sanctity of human life is non-negotiable. Now, both sides of this arrangement are mortally frightened, rightly so, of the unknown when that day comes; people are rightfully afraid if they will join the ranks of El Bashir of Sudan, Kabuga of Rwanda, Charles Taylor of Liberia for a good reason but I think President Kibaki and his officials at the time when these crimes were committed have the least to worry about. ODM, for all practical purposes provides Luis Moreno-Ocampo with the best possible case to prosecute against them while exonerating the President contemporaneously. ODM?s leaders and most of PM Odinga?s supporters foolishly believe that the prosecution in The Hague would favor them and punish the president for ?stealing? the elections and therefore causing the violence; far from the truth. What will be on trial is NOT the reason(s) for the violence, in fact, this argument would only strengthen the prosecution?s case against the perpetrators because it provides the all important element in all criminal prosecutions; MOTIVE! I don?t know of anywhere in any court of competent jurisdiction where MOTIVE qualifies as a defense, somebody please prove me wrong. So RUTO goes in and tells the judges that ODM?s candidate PM Odinga ?fairly won the presidential election and the Election Commission of Kenya ?stole? it from him and awarded victory to President Kibaki and so we were compelled to protest by inciting the masses to action, that he was acting on the instructions of his party?s leader, PM Odinga! And that by the way, we only incited in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza and areas we already won and had the least reason to kill Kikuyus and Kisiis and other non- indigenous tribes living amongst us whom we believe voted for President Kibaki but we needed to make a statement anyway- see, it got us in government! Was well worth it, you know. Of course the jurists at The Hague are competent enough to weigh the evidence as we know it and also evaluate the statements and images broadcast around the world to know who was clearly the aggressor. They will also note, carefully at that, that PM Odinga and his ODM party had available to them, a lawful grievance avenue through Kenya?s courts specifically designed for election complaints, be flawed as the system may be, it was still an available option for remedial action nonetheless, and that they should have exhausted it but, alas, they not only ignored it and substituted it with street justice instead but also rubbished the very institutions they helped set up and were sworn to defend as parliamentarians. Anger and frustration was clearly the motive for the uprising but NEVER EVER justification for premeditated murder of innocent Kenyans, and that my friends will ensure hefty penalties for ODM. President Kibaki on the other hand has a relatively simple defense. The president did NOT declare himself the winner of the elections nor did incite anyone to riot; Kibaki was duty bound to continue his responsibilities as president. The president was duty bound to protect all Kenyans and ensure national security; the president has the power and indeed the obligation to suppress riots and violence of all kinds and any resistance to lawful authority through law enforcement agencies, President Kibaki?s authority and actions were lawful, constitutional and justified. The government had to act to protect lives, loss of property and the economy to the mobs. ODM acts as if the president ?is actually liable for their losses caused by their instigation and should have just back and let this murderous bunch have their way with the entire country, well, the ?ICC is capable of delineating between incitement and containment, anarchy and order, and who among the combatants stood for what. We will reclaim our government and these fellows will be removed from society and barred permanently from ever running for office, watch! Coalition Government: Disband and start over; no elections are required, the two page document establishing the coalition neither mandates a new election nor invalidates the existing government merely because either party pulls out of the alliance; this is rotten just as the characters in it, end of story! We didn?t sign up for this mess, we didn?t vote for this mess, the know nothing do nothing tax evading leeches in parliament have failed in their duties to safeguard national integrity and have long lost any moral capacity to lead, Kenyans? patience and goodwill have been exhausted; we can still have a peaceful transitional caretaker government devoid of these guys and I think time has come and long gone for change. The president, immediately after its revealed who is implicated in the post election violence must, by necessity, dismiss all of those adversely mentioned regardless of the merits of the allegations; we simply cannot have distracted people with clouds hanging over them making decisions in government, it breeds bad decisions and ineffectiveness and we all know that. The president, as leader of his party and at this point, must seriously consider withdrawing from the coalition if he, as president, determines that this arrangement is NOT in the country?s best interest and prolonging this form of government would be more harmful in total than helpful in the stability of the nation. He is NOT required to resign or call an election merely by pulling out of the coalition, so it is time the rubber hit the asphalt and let?s restore Kenya?s institutions as close to what they were in the first 5 years of Kibaki?s presidency, some prosperity would beat this idiocy ANY DAY. ? President Kibaki This president, once again, was perhaps the best thing to happen to Kenya for decades and yet, he has ended up disappointing so many by being way too whimsical in dispensing the duties of his office, one can make a strong argument ?against president Kibaki for dereliction of duty; The President has severely weakened the office of the president, the only national office in the country and by projecting such weakness, he has opened doors for all sorts of enemies, both internal and external to exploit Kenya. Nobody anywhere on earth has respect for weakness much less weakness of a president of any country, NOBODY! I mean the man hasn?t committed atrocities or anything like that but he has either purposely omitted or ignored ?so much from the presidential play book, even stuff that is clearly spelled as presidential mandate in our laws and allowed all the gains he presided over in the his first term to go to waste. Come on Mr. President! What happened buddy? ?I mean if you are unable to assert proper authority and control, why not step aside? Why are thieves and murderous in your cabinet? Whose interests are you serving? Why are you sleeping at the switch? I mean the level of inefficiency and ineffectiveness in this office is just astounding, internal security falls under the president?s office and yet militias and gangs practically run neighborhoods, the judiciary is completely inept and frustrates all fights against corruptions, old corruption cases are collecting dust in dockets and the president is simply doing NOTHING about it, PM Odinga If the PM was a manufacturing company anywhere, particularly in the West, he would be banned from EVER peddling ANY product in the market place; I mean the PM would be shut down permanently, period. This is the man who declared ?KIBAKI TOSHA?; he peddled Kibaki to Kenyans as a perfect product to ?liberate? Kenya and in just a matter of months after Kenyans bought in, he declared his own product defective and admitted to selling Kenyans just a bunch of bill of goods and that he alone was fit for the job; why on earth should we continue listening to such a guy? I mean for what, to hear what additional garbage comes out next? A gamble that someday he just may get it right? And in the meantime Kenyans are in for the ride in the ?ROT EXPRESS?; this is the fellow who admittedly participated in the 1982 military coup that resulted in hundreds of deaths, got in the market square and told Kenyans to disobey the government and not to go to work after a personal disagreement with president Moi, told his constituents in Kibera NOT to pay monthly rents to land lords; this is the man who claims sole credit for democracy in Kenya, never mind the insurmountable effort by the likes of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, George Anyona, Masinde Murillo,Gitobu Imanyara, etc; point being Kenya?s democracy is not a preserve of one Raila Amollo Odinga; as recent as a year and half ago this man led a revolt that killed thousands of Kenyans, displaced hundreds of thousands of innocent Kenyans; women and children were raped and lives permanently altered all in his selfish ambition to get to the top, it didn?t matter who died or lived; this man is complicit in the starving of Kenyan through the henchman Ruto who heads Agriculture; this man not only condones nepotism but also practices it to the core, appoints his family members to key positions whether they are qualified or not; his ministers such as Kajwang, Ruto, Chairman Kosgey, Prof. Sambili are on record flouting all rules and procedures as was the case under president Moi; this man has been MP for ?Africa?s largest Slum? for more than 15 years with almost absolutely nothing to show for it in the development of its people except for amassing a tone of personal wealth; ?is the change this fellow claims to have fought for,? is the liberation Kenya needs, is this the presidential leadership Kenyans were voting for? William Ruto The quintessential dirt bag in Kenyan politics; if there ever were a reason or justification for detention as under Moi or Kenyatta, William Ruto would serve that purpose perfectly but in Kenya, a rot bag like this man who for several election cycles has personally engineered the murder of innocent Kenyans is sitting pretty high at the table of governance! I mean how does that happen? HOW?! This man obtained his college education in botany, not government, but was smart enough to be connected to Moi?s children who allowed him access to power; I bet they are now regretting it. This was the only man, as an assistant minister, allowed to sit in full cabinet meetings under president Moi, that is how favored he was by the former President; what did the scumbag do in appreciation; well, remember Molo and Muoroto clashes? Ruto, among others like Sunkuli et al, were in the thick of it, planning and implementing the anarchy and death that befell many innocent Kenyans and to top it off, he turned on his mentor and benefactor during the last election to support PM Odinga; when all else failed, William Ruto, true to form and once again employing skills acquired under President Moi, directed the killings of innocent Kenyans in regions the PM handily won, in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza, areas which the PM?s ODM party won in landslides, there was ZERO reason or justification for Kikuyus, Kisiis and other tribes to be slaughtered the way it happened because there was no dispute and yet ODM made its statement to the world by spilling innocent blood; Ruto has multiple corruption charges pending against him in Kenya?s courts; why on earth would any man, particularly this PM, want to impose such kind of baggage on himself let alone Kenya? Why would such a back stabber even have a seat near civilization of any government? WHY do we entertain such rot if indeed we are about ?CHANGE??? I think the PM sealed his own political fate and that of his party through William Ruto; ODM will IMPLODE in due time. The old adage will once again be proven right, i.e. ?you can judge a man by the company he keeps?- look at the company around William Ruto and tell me whether or not these characters should be running any government entity! Kalonzo Musyoka What a big joke?! The VP once stood a good chance as a viable alternative to help clean up the rot in Kenya but as with most power that corrupts absolutely, Musyoka has been irrevocably compromised and become a part of the contaminated pile of rot masquerading as a government. A friend of mine once described Kalonzo Musyoka as a slithering wimpy weasel and I couldn?t agree more. The man has absolutely no stand on anything, when speaker Marende, in towing the party ruled in favor of his boss PM Odinga in parliament when the latter appointed himself leader of government business, the VP immediately seemed to take a courageous stand to question the validity of such unorthodox ruling and many thought the joker was rightfully asserting himself and employing his lawyer skills to right what was obviously a grossly idiotic ruling by the speaker. Then come the Western ambassadors led by the US in support of the speaker?s ruling and the VP scampered and recoiled his tail like wag the dog! I mean seriously, the man has never been heard from again! Does anyone really have any doubt as to whether or not Musyoka is a strong leader to hold the country together? The man is clueless and reactionary, can?t set any example like PM Odinga does.? PM Odinga sets examples and asserts himself but is always WRONG! How I wish the PM had been right on even a handful of his choices to mitigate some of his failures! He would have gotten a pass, the only way Kalonzo Musyoka would beat Raila Odinga in any contest for national office would be because people would vote against Odinga and thereby hand Musyoka victory by default. Musyoka himself ?is tainted through his associations with former President Moi, as the President?s lawyer, he defended and protected the ills that sank Kenya?s economy, Musyoka witnessed and benefited personally from the siphoning of public resources under Moi?s regime;? his gain may have not been as big but gain it was nonetheless, so there you have it. The man has no stand and leads from behind (if there is ever such a thing), so how do you judge such a character?s suitability to lead? Parliament and Speaker Marende Another joke of a body led by an extreme partisan speaker; it was clear from the get go that speaker Marende would tow the party line particularly when he ruled himself leader of House and Government Business because PM Odinga, citing other countries? practices, appointed himself leader of those positions! Get this, the PM, he? himself a presidential ?APPOINTEE? and once again ignoring the rules and precedence, usurped the president?s authority and ?APPOINTED? himself to the role in parliament! How on earth does that work? And the speaker, of course an ODM party stalwart, didn?t waste any time effectively ruling against the president. And none of these genius MPs raised a whimper, they just scurried like roaches when the US ambassador supported the speaker?s decision, we needed someone to speak for Kenyans and they ALL failed; I would urge every one of the MPs to take the PM?s lead and appoint themselves to the position of leader of House and Government Business and compel the speaker to issue a ruling on each and every self appointment submitted by each MP and let?s see the majority party bring the people?s business to a stand-still. ? Other Matters Constitution Another sad testament to our leaders? ineptness with these old raggedy tag lines only designed to prolong their political shelf lives before gullible constituents; absolutely hollow and baseless. Kenyans care way more about their personal fortunes, the economy, and education of their children, healthcare, their security and quality leadership than this politically created fa?ade about the constitution. These goons are abject failures in all fronts above and have instead wasted tones of public funds pushing a stale and mundane subject matter only to line their pockets and those of their friends and yeah, remain relevant. ?Even the one thing they claim to take care of, these geniuses still can?t figure out what to do, I mean Kenya has to import ?experts? to work on our constitution! A constitution is simply a set of governing principles that a country is governed by and the citizens are the normally the ones who decide what those principles. The biggest argument made by the likes of Odinga in calling for a new constitution was that Kenya needed a constitution crafted locally by her own people and here we are, years and Billions of shillings wasted later, importing ?experts? to dictate to Kenyans how to govern themselves! Seriously, are you kidding me? Kenya had more prosperity and at par with many world powers under President Jomo Kenyatta under this constitution than at any time until President Kibaki took the reins in 2002. It is not about the constitution folks, ABSOLTUTELY NOT! It is about leadership that puts its people and country a head of personal gain, about knowledge of what makes the country work. None of these is possessed by these geniuses leading Kenya right now, our school curriculum has never been revised to meet world challenges to promote ingenuity and innovation, the economy is in ruins, medicines are rotting in warehouses, gangs rule the streets and are egged on by politicians, friends, NO CONSTITUTION CAN FIX THIS ROT, NONE! The only way to fix this awful state of affairs and cure the country of the cancer that is taking over is the removal of all these clueless tax evading blood suckers in government, ALL of them! Start over. And as for the constitution itself, the document is just ok. Let?s repeal or amend the sections or parts as we see fit at the least expense and controversy as possible. One stark stunt PM Odinga is trying to pull on Kenyans is to convince voters that we don?t need the presidency as voted by the majority of Kenyans and that the concept of one man one vote for the only true national office bearer is irrelevant and should instead be replaced by a parliamentary system like say France or England where, in his discombobulated mind, ultimate power vests in the Prime Minister who is voted to office by MPs! REALLY Mr. PM Odinga?! It is pretty obvious that the ONLY reason PM Odinga wants this is simply because he knows deep down in heart that he CANNOT win the presidency and wants to instead improve his chances by excluding majority of Kenyans from picking their leader and instead turn over that process to the 220 corruptible, incompetent MPs, who as witnessed in picking the stooge speaker Marende, are absolutely incorrigible. It is obvious the PM cannot corrupt Millions of Kenyans into voting for him and he is desperate to become president of Kenya, so, ?he must figure out a way to pull the process from right under Kenyans feet and turn it over to the 220 corrupt MPs- it is easier to manipulate this ignorant bunch, people- don?t buy it. It is yet another recipe for failure and disaster for Kenya. Up until recently, the PM somehow believed the presidency was his for the taking and that he was owed the office by Kenyans but as it is slowly dawning on him, perhaps he is now disillusioned, maybe it is the realization that his formula of pitting tribes against each other was not the brightest way to get to the top and that betting his ascendancy to the top office exclusively on the Nilotic groups who dominate ODM vs. the majority Bantus instead of being all inclusive of all Kenyans is back firing big time. ?The PM relied on groups who were overwhelmingly over-represented in parliament to get elected and forgot the presidency is determined by the majority, a majority he explicitly excluded from the political equation; I am not trying to pile on the PM but these errors by the PM must not go unchallenged. Mau Forest This is Kenya?s greatest and primary water catchment area and its management thereof cannot be pegged to politics. Rift Valley MPs are, once again foolishly, trying to equate environmental management to political persecution. BULL! The government simply need to devise a formula that would maximize the area?s productivity while sustaining the environment, in other words, we need to know what is the optimum human dwelling density/capacity in the MAU forest and a good way is to look back at empirical data to determine at what time did the trends turn negative in the MAU area; populations that settled after this time must then rolled back and relocated elsewhere so we can preserve the nation?s resources. We can?t as a nation be held hostage by the politics of William Ruto and Kalenjin MPs! I mean, seriously! We know Moi doled out the forest to his tribesmen but Kenya is certainly bigger than Kalenjins and our national interests will ALWAYS trump those of an individual group. Provinces and Majimbo The irony of this is that Kenya tried this once and it failed miserably, I mean badly! No Kenyan, except of course for the imbeciles in politics, has expressly on record asked for MAJIMBO or (STATES) as a form of government because they know it is very divisive and if what the clueless Odinga and Musyoka are asking for is genuinely the distribution of wealth, we already have provinces; why do we need to recreate what is already in existence verses improving upon it? Also, during president Moi?s regime, he created a multitude of constituencies and a disproportionate number of them in the Rift Valley for his tribesmen to give them unfettered and disproportionate representation in Parliament, national resources and government; Moi never consulted with anyone to create new political boundaries; why on earth would Ruto expect President Kibaki to consult with the locals to create new provinces? WHY?! Does that even start to make sense? This president is so afraid to act presidential to a point Kenya is considered a failed state for all practical purposes; WHY?! ? Taxation Nation building is the responsibility of ALL! Why do MPs refuse to pay their fair share of taxes? Kenyan MPs earn some of the highest incomes in the world with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. Why should we fund institutionalized thievery? These MPs are both sleeping at the wheel and sometimes literary in parliament, they don?t understand parliamentary procedures or their role in steering national development; I mean come on! Taxing the poor for self enrichment is not good governance no matter how you cut it. ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From owner-thedishlist at treet.ctinetworks.com Sun Jul 12 19:22:46 2009 From: owner-thedishlist at treet.ctinetworks.com (owner-thedishlist at treet.ctinetworks.com) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:22:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Jambo] The DISH Vol. 12 No 28 Message-ID: <20090712232246.8B3CD176914@treet.ctinetworks.com> Dot's Information Service Hotline "Unbossed and unbought news and information you can use" Visit The DISH online at www.thedish.org Vol. 12 No 28...Dedicated to the Dialogue on Race... 07-12-09 ******************************************************** Table of Contents 1. An Ode to the Power of Words...By John Burl Smith 2. Bit of History...Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902 ?1981) 3. Venue for an Artist...To Usward...By Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1924) 4. Hood Notes...Blacks Not Wanted in Private Pool 5. News You Use...Webster's New Words 6. Disgruntled 7. Mailbox ************************************************************ An Ode to the Power of Words By John Burl Smith I never had a voice. I never had words ringing in my head, coming out of walls, up through the floor or waking me up at night. The universe never showered me with rhymes or seared me with long soliloquies that brought my soul alive. The word gods didn't endow me with a vocabulary that was assuaged by a dictionary. No, I wasn't a word man able to pen penetrating lines that provided insight, lifted veils from the mind, gave sight to the blind or caught those up who got left behind. Words were just things to get it said, exposing the mundane thoughts inside my head. Not eloquent or smooth, but quick and direct; the point was made and I'd gotten it said. It was up to the world to heed; freed of my task I'd done the deed. Understanding was not my charge; they would figure it out, if they were smart. Going straight to the point, that's how I got my start. No one showed me the way, not like on Flag Day with someone waving to make sure from the right path I would not stray. I heard a sound and turned my head to hear the words that were softly said. I had to be quick and grab it on the fly, no time to ask questions such as what or why. It was what it was, the story for me, those hard lessons did not come free. You dig in where you are, come up with what you can and then dig in again like sifting sand. So, pickings are thin, and knowledge rides on the wind, it doesn't take a genius to know you catch what you can. Words are the key. It's not what you see. The eyes are lazy; your thoughts are hazy and in a flick it's gone; all that's left are the words that are known. Words are what matter, they hit the paper and splatter, pour over the edge and into one's head. They seep into cracks, down into the hollows, they go places most men fear to follow. They scream about things unseen, bring to life the dead, pry open the door to the future before the present is clearly said. The blink or wink goes unnoticed, fading quickly without a motive. They would be untold, slipping into the recesses beneath the folds, were it not for words that are daily sold. What is there, is what was, no matter the wink and nod or under whose foot words are trod. They capture the time, freeze the moment and tell what was, though they may sicken the stomach. It was a word beyond a doubt that could not be erased which let the secret out. Just one was dropped and the lid it popped, off came the top to reveal the spot. What once was hid now is out, spewing into the public, like a garden spout, washing clear what it was all about. Once a mire trickle, seeped like a slight tickle, the flood of words created a pickle. The weeping and wailing could not quiet the hum because the harm was already done. Words are not good or bad they only lay a path. Where they led was not by design, a stench of a smell they left behind. Their duty is to reveal by making what's not plain clearer and bringing what's afar even nearer. Though they may besmirch, they have no intent to hurt. Words are what we are beneath the skin, behind the eyes and what passes between friends. They are lightly expressed but become heavy with truth; they show in time tongues which were loose. Words I didn't choose but were given as a fate to spread like Johnny's apple seeds not like a wraith. I wasn't a seeker looking for knowledge you see; words were the stalker they found me. They sought me out in my benighted nook, beneath a cloak of ignorance where no teacher dared look. Unsuspecting was I as their magic drew nigh exploding my curiosity with the all powerful question WHY! Smitten like a lover, I became obsessed with their power, endurance, levity and grace. As I grow older, they grow new with each one I pen that touches you. I am reborn with each letter that's strung, linking together ideas which linger like songs. When I pass from this earth, they will remain to let future travelers know this way I came. Bit of History Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902 ?1981) Born July 8, 1902 in Giddings, Texas, Gwendolyn B. Bennett spent her early childhood in Wadsworth, Nevada on the Paiute Indian Reservation, where her parents, Joshua and Maime Bennett, taught in the Indian Service for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1906, her family moved to Washington D.C. so her father could study law and her mother could train to be a beautician. Bennett's parents divorced when she was seven years old. While the court awarded child custody to her mother, Joshua kidnapped her. She lived in hiding with her father and stepmother, Marechal Neil, frequently moving along the East Coast. While the family did not remain long in any one place, they never moved far from Pennsylvania. Bennett's father eventually took them to New York where she attended Brooklyn's Girls' High from 1918 till 1921. An honor student, Bennett was awarded first place in a school wide art contest, and was the first black American to join the literary and drama societies. She wrote her high school play, was featured as an actress and wrote the class graduation speech and song. After graduating in 1921, Bennett took art classes at Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. Her poem "Heritage" was published in Crisis and Opportunity magazines in 1923. Bennett graduated from Columbia in 1924 and began teaching design, watercolor and crafts in the arts department at Howard University. Following her graduation from Pratt Institute (1924), she became an Assistant Professor of Art at Howard University. Bennett's second published work, "To Usward," appeared in the Crisis and Opportunity magazines in 1924, the year she received a scholarship to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. She continued her studies at Academic Julian and Ecole du Pantheon, where she worked with a variety of materials, including watercolor, oil, woodcuts, pen and ink, and batik which was the beginning of her career as a graphic artist. Unfortunately, most of her work during this period was destroyed during a fire at her stepmother's home in 1926. In 1926, Bennett left Paris for New York, where she became the assistant to the editor for Opportunity. She also wrote a monthly column called Ebony Flute, which was dedicated to discussions of literary and fine arts and used to distribute news about the many creative thinkers that were involved with the Harlem Renaissance. Bennett received the Barnes Foundation fellowship for her work. Bennett returned to Howard University to teach fine arts, while retaining her affiliation with the Opportunity. Her poetry published during this period included "Hatred," "To a Dark Girl," and "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexander Dumas." In addition, two short stories, "Tokens" and "Wedding Day," which is probably her best known short story, were published in the first issue of Fire, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Wallace Thurman's radical 1926 periodical. In 1927, Bennett married Dr. Albert Joseph Jackson; the couple moved to Eustis, Florida, far from the literary world of Harlem. Jackson died in 1936 and Bennett moved back to New York. By then, the Harlem Renaissance was over and the Great Depression had taken hold. In 1940, Bennett married Richard Crosscup; their interracial marriage was socially unacceptable. Bennett remained in the arts, serving as a member of the Harlem Artists Guild in 1935. She became the highly successful director for the Harlem Community Art Center in 1937. However, she was dismissed in 1941 because she was caught up in the "Red Probe." In her next position, Bennett served as a teacher and member of the administrative staff at Jefferson School for Democracy. She moved to George Washington Carver School in 1943, but would have trouble there with connections to communism once again. Both schools were investigated. Bennett would not work in the public eye again, but she remained close to the hub of busy Harlem in New York and her fellow writers. Bennett began working for the Consumers Union during the later years of her life. She retired in 1968 and moved with her husband, Crosscup, to Kutztown, Pennsylvania where they opened an antique shop. Her husband died in 1980, due to heart failure, and Bennett died on May 30, 1981 at the Reading County Hospital. Though she was not one of the major figures during the Harlem Renaissance, The Oxford Companion to Women's Writers says that, "Gwendolyn Bennett was one of the most versatile figures to participate actively in both the 1920s Black American arts movement, which was designated as the Harlem Renaissance, and in the 1930s arts alliance." She was a painter and a writer, but never settled into one avenue and so never truly flourished either. (Sources: www.csustan.edu, www.aaregistry.com and http://en.wikipedia.org/) Venue for an Artist To Usward By Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1924) Let us be still As ginger jars are still Upon a Chinese shelf. And let us be contained By entities of Self. . . . Not still with lethargy and sloth, But quiet with the pushing of our growth. Not self-contained with smug identity But conscious of the strength in entity. If any have a song to sing That's different from the rest, Oh let them sing Before the urgency of Youth's behest! For some of us have songs to sing Of jungle heat and fires, And some of us are solemn grown With pitiful desires, And there are those who feel the pull Of seas beneath the skies, And some there be who want to croon Of Negro lullabies. We claim no part with racial dearth; We want to sing the songs of birth! And so we stand like ginger jars Like ginger jars bound round With dust and age; Like jars of ginger we are sealed By nature's heritage. But let us break the seal of years With pungent thrusts of song, For there is joy in long-dried tears For whetted passions of a throng! Hood Notes Blacks Not Wanted in Private Pool Creative Steps is a camp in northeast Philadelphia that serves mostly black and Hispanic children. Situated on a leafy hillside in a village that straddles two townships with overwhelmingly white populations, The Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley is a private gated facility. When the city pools were slated to remain closed this summer due to budget cuts, Creative Steps contracted with the private club for the 65 children attending its day camp to swim Monday afternoons in the private facility's pool. According to camp director Alethea Wright, shortly after the group arrived June 29, some black and Hispanic children reported hearing racial comments. "A couple of the children ran down saying, 'Miss Wright, Miss Wright, they're up there saying, "What are those black kids doing here?"'" When Wright went to talk to a group of members at the top of the hill, she heard one woman say she would see to it that the group, made up of children in kindergarten through seventh grade, did not return. "Some of the members began pulling their children out of the pool and were standing around with their arms folded. Only three members left their children in the pool with us." Several days later, the club refunded the camp's $1,950, canceling the children's membership, without explanation. The club's actions made headlines across the nation and prompted an investigation by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission. Much of the attention has focused on a statement by John Duesler, president of the board of directors of The Valley Club, in which he voiced concern that so many children would "change the complexion" or atmosphere of the club. Later acknowledging it was "a terrible choice of words," Duesler claimed, "It was never my intention to imply anything in terms of racial makeup." Duesler said he heard no racial comments from club members and that any such remarks did not represent the club's position. While the club defended its actions on the grounds of safety, rather than racism, Wright rejected the overcrowding explanation, saying the club knew what size group to expect and had hosted a school group of a similar size a week earlier. She said the comments reported by children and the parents' actions after her group arrived told a different story. "We were not welcome, once the members saw who we were," she said. Chuck Wielgus, executive director of USA Swimming, the governing body for the US swim team, was stunned at the accusations. "This is the sort of thing you'd hear about in 1966, during the height of the civil rights movement, not in 2009, and not in the City of Brotherly Love, of all places," he said. News You Use Webster's New Words Annually, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary adds words to its print and online editions. This year, the 11th Edition and Merriam-Webster Online will include nearly one hundred new words. Some of the 2009 words include staycation- a vacation spent at home or nearby, locavore - one who eats foods grown locally, frenemy - someone who acts like a friend but is really an enemy, waterboarding - an interrogation technique used to induce the sensation of drowning, vlogs - a blog that contains video material, and webisode - a TV show that can be viewed at a Web site. According to the Merriam-Webster website, "Many of the new words reflect the importance of the environment (carbon footprint, green-collar), government activities (earmark, waterboarding), health and medicine (cardioprotective, locavore, naproxen, neuroprotective), pop culture (docusoap, fan fiction, flash mob, reggaeton), and online activities (sock puppet, vlog, webisode). Other words added include haram, memory foam, missalette, and zip line." Because words can face years in limbo as wordsmiths wait to see if they are just fads, some words that made the cut this year have been around for generations. For example, the term sock puppet - a false online identity used for deceptive purposes, was traced back to 1959; it has taken on new popular use with people using fake identifications on social networking sites. John Morse, president and publisher of the Springfield-based dictionary publisher, acknowledged, "These are not new words in the language, by any means. But, when words like 'neuroprotective' and 'cardioprotective' show up in the Collegiate, it's because we've made the judgment that these are not just words used by specialists. ... These really are words now likely to show up in The New York Times, in The Wall Street Journal." Word-lovers can learn the meaning of the nearly 100 new words and senses added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition by visiting the website at www.merriam-webster.com. The site contains a sampling of the new words for 2009 and links to their definitions. Disgruntled wants to know: According to a recent report issued by the US Education Department and the Department of Justice, thirty-two (32) percent of students ages 12 to 18 nationwide experienced bullying within the past school year in 2007. The attacks are not more frequent than in the past. However, they are more likely to be reported today than several decades ago. Moreover, experts believe the bullying is more physical and more sexual. A case in point is the Tampa middle school student that was attacked in April by four flag football players in the school locker room. The victim was raped with a hockey stick and broom handle, an incident frighteningly similar to the brutal police attack of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in a New York City Police Precinct. Since public schools are microcosms of the larger society, does school bullying reflect the disregard for human rights and dignity displayed on the national level? Disgruntled feels: Empty! On July 16, 1945, the US exploded its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert of Alamogordo, New Mexico. The US is the only nation to use an atomic bomb; it did so at the end of WWII, destroying Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 and Nagasaki, Japan three days later. The bombs killed hundreds of thousands of humans. For the first time on July 15, 1989, the US government acknowledged that thousands of American workers were sickened while making those nuclear weapons. On July 6, 2009, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a preliminary agreement to reduce the world's largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons by as much as a third and to reduce the range for longer-range missiles. Even if the stockpiles are reduced, the remaining nuclear weapons are more than sufficient to destroy life on Earth as we know it. Nuclear weapons are a clear and present danger to mankind; anything other than a commitment to end their use and destruction of all stockpiles is window dressing and empty rhetoric! Disgruntled says: Black American slaves worked 12-hour days, six days a week on the construction of the US Capitol and White House. The federal government rented the slaves from local slave owners at a rate of $5 per person per month. The slaves, including women and children, were never compensated for their labor, which included carpentry and other building skills and work in the quarries where stones for the buildings were extracted. Lawmakers have been discussing ways to honor the slaves. On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution ordering the Architect of the Capitol to place a marker in a prominent location in the Visitor Center's Emancipation Hall, which was so named in "honor" of the slaves. The slave labor resolution passed the House by a vote of 399 to 1. It should be noted that a similar resolution was passed to engrave the Pledge of Allegiance and the national motto "In God We Trust" in conspicuous places in the three-story visitor center. The latter measure was promoted by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) out of a fear that the Capitol Visitor Center looked like "a historical whitewash of our nation's faith heritage." And, so it is a whitewash! But the whitewash has been to downplay the role played by slaves in building this country and a refusal to appropriately compensate them and their descendants for their tremendous sacrifice and suffering. Mailbox: E-Mails, Faxes and Phone Calls Email www.cnn.com ..Off-duty NYPD cop fatally shot by fellow officer...May 29, 2009...By Jennifer Peltz...A plainclothes policeman who drew his gun while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car was shot and killed by a fellow officer who was driving by and saw the pursuit, the police commissioner said. Commissioner Raymond Kelly said 25-year-old Omar J. Edwards died after being shot within blocks of the Harlem housing police station where he worked. The shooter was white and Edwards was black, a fact that could raise questions about police use of deadly force in a minority community. And in recent years there have been several cases of off-duty policemen in the New York City area being shot and killed by other officers. Email compkids at yahoo.com ...Father wants LA deputy charged in shooting of teen...July 7, 2009...By Robert Jablon...A 16-year-old boy killed while running from a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was shot in the back without warning and never brandished a gun as authorities contend, an attorney for the teen's father said Thursday. A friend who was with Avery Cody never saw him with a weapon and he posed no threat to the deputy who shot him as he ran away in Compton on Sunday, said John E. Sweeney, an attorney who has handled many police abuse cases. The boy's family wants to know why he was killed "by an agency that's sworn to protect and serve," Sweeney said. A fully loaded .38-caliber revolver was found near Cody's body. The deputy claims the young man pulled a gun and "displayed it in a manner that made the deputy fear for his life." No shots were fired by Cody and the deputy was not injured. Email www.ap.com..Stricter labeling urged for bottled water ...July 8, 2009 ...By Emily Fredrix...Consumers know less about the water they pay dearly for in bottles than what they drink almost for free from the tap because the two are regulated differently, researchers and congressional investigators say in new reports. Both the Government Accountability Office and the Environmental Working Group, a research and advocacy organization, recommend in reports being released Wednesday that bottled water be labeled with the same level of information municipal water providers must disclose. The researchers plan to urge Americans to make bottled water "a distant second choice" to filtered tap water during their testimony before a congressional subcommittee. Bottled water, an industry worth about $16 billion in sales last year, has been suffering lately as colleges, communities and some governments take measures to limit or ban its consumption. As employers, they are motivated by cost savings and environment concern because the bottles create unnecessary waste and can be hard to recycle. Email www.ap.com ...Hordes of hungry grasshoppers invade Utah...By Mike Stark....An ambitious director might look at Mitch Halligan's property and see an instant B-movie classic: "Invasion of the Grasshoppers." The place is overrun with the greasy little bugs. With each step you take on his property, the squirmy inch-long grasshoppers jump for cover in every direction. Those that don't crunch underfoot perch themselves atop tall grass stalks, crawl up pant legs or munch through gardens. Grasshoppers are regular summer visitors and a perennial crop-eating pest for farmers, but this year's invasion in Tooele County west of Salt Lake City is worse than anyone can remember. Email edcon at gmail.com ...G-8 protestors scale smokestacks in Italy...Environmentalists broke into power stations across Italy and shed their clothes in downtown Rome on Wednesday as world leaders discussed a new deal to combat global warming. Dozens of activists from 18 countries scaled smokestacks and occupied four Italian coal-fired power plants, hanging banners that called on the Group of Eight summit in central Italy to take the lead in fighting climate change. **************************************************** For comments, questions or to unsubscribe, email thedish at ga.net. ***************************************************** From imo4492 at gmail.com Sun Jul 12 19:55:08 2009 From: imo4492 at gmail.com (Ogendi) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:25:08 +0930 Subject: [Jambo] How Come Obama Ghana Speech Is Not Flawless. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Joram At www.whitehouse.gov there is a much better recording of the speech. Kanaka O On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Joram Ragem wrote: > Ananse, > > I woke up in anticipation to see our great son give his first speech in > Sub-Saharan Africa. The speech was great, but the production was horrible > people. As mama Lucy would ask, "Hii ililetwa na PPS gani?" > > The picture was often interrupted, often in B&W as if to ensure that Africa > and Africans will still look they did when the west came to capture Kunta > Kinte! > > Was the production of this speech left to Ghana? Was Ghana truly prepared > to stand up to this great moment? If not, why? Was the US press, or media > truly interested in showing our son shine in the motherland? Or did they > travel with second hand equipment, because they were travelling in the dark > continent? Why was every live production of Obama's visit in Europe > flawless? Also notice that after his speech, there was no panel of analysts > on any channel to discuss Obama's speech. > > Let me say it. FUAKNI! > > My 10th great grandfather Ragem, is dissappointed and embarrassed at this > production and broadcasting, in the era of GPS. I am still searching the web > for a good recording of this video. > > > -- > Joram Ragem > wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, > wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you > my relative?) > > _______________________________________________ > Jambo mailing list > Jambo at publiceyesite.org > http://publiceyesite.org/mailman/listinfo/jambo_publiceyesite.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A generous man will prosper;he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed. 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Message-ID: <904699.35141.qm@web37006.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Wrangling jolts joint survey on Migingo Island Updated 13 hr(s) 20 min(s) ago Related Stories Migingo Island survey stalls as team disagrees Ugandan police free Kenyan fishermen held on Migingo Uganda police fire at fishermen in Migingo Migingo survey to cost Sh50m more Migingo survey to cost Sh50m more Mad rush for jobs By Kepher Otieno Joint surveyors on the disputed Migingo Island differed again on technicalities, plunging the exercise into crisis. Ugandan surveyors demanded to compile a report on the work done so far, before completing the exercise. But Kenyan surveyors shot down the proposal, forcing the Ugandans to retreat to their country for further consultations. Kenya?s Principal Surveyor in Charge of field operations Julius Rotich questioned the rationale of compiling data of unfinished work. "We still have two more weeks to conclude the exercise and somebody is asking us to compile the report. For what? We asked them and they went mute," he told The Standard on Sunday. He added: "How can they ask us to compile a report to present to their country yet work has not ended. It beats logic," he said. Consult Government He spoke as The Standard learnt the Ugandan surveyors had trooped back to Kampala for further consultations with their Government. A source said the team would meet their Land?s Permanent Secretary today to update him on work done and technicalities experienced. And Kenyan fishermen wonder if the exercise bound to cost the two governments Sh140 million will be completed on time. Migingo Beach Management Unit chairman Juma Ombori asked the two sides to set aside their differences and handle the exercise amicably. "We are asking the surveyors to take the exercise seriously and stop blame games. We are keen on the results, unless something fishy is cooking again," Mr Ombori said. Last week, the exercise stalled after the two sides disagreed over the mode of erecting new boundary pillars. Trouble began after Ugandan surveyors demanded that the pillars be marked before analysing scientific data collected from the lake. Use data A source said the demand angered the Kenyan surveyors, who rejected the move, insisting that they be guided by the composed scientific data. The Kenyans questioned the motive of spending weeks collecting scientific data from the lake, only to overlook the results at a time when it was extremely useful. The island dispute has raged for months now, straining relations between the two East African counties. ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. 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Medias , Counsel , Communications , Travels for Loved Ones, career , Business etc ) Extreme Violation of Basic Rights Freedoms?( News BlackOut ) ?? ? ? ? ? ? Open Letter Written to British Premier John Major by INMC International Network Against Mind Control on Behalf of Nico Ntumba ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----- Stockholm October 1992 Prime Minister John Major British Government London SW1A 0AA England ? ? Dear Sir, ? Our international network of researchers has for several years been engaged in investigations into mind control and its widespread utilisation around the world, and we have become aware of several victims in Great Britain. Reports received from exploited individuals refer to mental hospitals, police authorities and prisons among the state institutions involved in the implantation of transmitters, electrodes and radio-transmitter crystals in the people. The use of mind control is such a grave encroachment on civil liberties that, if allowed to develop further, it will threaten the freedom and integrity of all. Along with environment problems, this is one of the most urgent issues to address if we are to ensure a more secure future. [...] Just what happened to Mr Ntumba, he described himself in a letter to us: "Concerning the brain transmitter in my head, it has been performing without my knowledge or consent?What?s very outrageous is that I am sharing all my vision, thoughts, dreams, hearings, etc with people around me, as the security services are engaging in a large scale propaganda drive to smear my character, background, emotions and motives?I have no privacy at all? I am not a spy, I am not a criminal, and I am not a terrorist. Being an innocent victim of the ...[?] my persecution started in June 1988". ? What is more, there?s no reason to suspect the validity of what he writes; we are overburdened with letters such as this one from the USA, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand inter alia, and our investigations in Sweden reveal a terrifying reality where the mental services, police authorities and hospitals implant radio-transmitting devices in people?s heads and brains. This reality is exposed by a vast amount of X-ray material to be a chilling and gloomy vision of the future, stage-managed for decades by the security forces in collaboration with medical and psychiatrist institutions, who together have created a secret power which transcends law and order, and which is beyond intrusive public control. ? Brain to computer radio communication has long been considered impossible by the majority of people, and has consequently been relegated to science-fiction, but the fact is that the technology had been developed into reality by at least the 1960s, during which time the initial experiments were being performed on unwitting subjects. The system has at different times been called Intra Cerebral Mind Control, ESB or Electronic Stimulation of Brain, Biological Radio communications or Bio-medical telemetry, and in both the eastern and western worlds it's the prevailing system of mind control, creating unlimited possibilities to influence and charge an individual ?s behaviour patterns and personality. By means of two-way radio communication, called telemetric or remote control, an electromagnetic wave can be sent on a return trip to a receiver/ transmitter (transceiver) located under the skull or in the brain; this signal records the activity of the brain and returns it to a computer for analysis, from which aspects of the subject's life can be exposed. Radio transmitter crystals which when injected into the bloodstream fasten themselves to the brain have under development for decades. They work on the same principles as a normal transmitter, use the same technology and contain the same possibilities. ? To analyse an EEG in a computer instead of a conventional printer provides an entirely fresh perspective on the conclusions which can be drawn, and gives a whole new perspective on what can be concluded. Cognitive manifestations and activity such as thoughts and visual impressions or emotional, behaviour and psychological reactions can continually be registered, making it possible for the secret police authorities, medical scientists, and the state to observe an individual in a deeper and more comprehensive way than they could possibly do to themselves. Through analysis and manipulation by the computer, it is even possible to provoke changes in an individual?s physical mental status. The potential of intracerabral remote control is limited only by the imagination of the investigator, especially when it is remembered that, since these frequencies travel at the speed of light, the system of control is not constraint by matters of range. ? Concerning the case of Mr Ntumba, it is obvious that there is simply no justification for implanting the mind transmitter, whether for police surveillance or psychiatric research. We feel, furthermore, that this is yet another example of human rights violation as defined under the CSCE 1080-83 Madrid conference, and as embodied in the Final Act of Helsinki. We also wish to note that such activities are also in contravention of several agreements endorsed by Great Britain, within the United Nations system, including in particular the International Bill of Human Rights, and articles 3, 4, 5, and 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ? The use of mind control techniques has in fact fostered a new relationship between the state and the citizenry, in which many human rights, as prescribed under the United Nation?s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are violated. In particular we turn to Article 3, which states that all people are given the right to life, liberty, and integrity. This is clearly violated by such mind control experimentation, and the very subjection of an individual?s brain to medical research, behaviour modification experiments, and mind control itself is in contravention of Article 4, which decrees that no one shall be held in slavery or servitude. Explicitly violated is Article 5, which states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Nor shall anyone without their approval be utilised for medical or scientific experiments" . Finally, since such mind control techniques transmit an individual?s privacy to the state, Article 12, which defends the rights of privacy against arbitrary intereference, also ceases to be valid. ? X - R A Y P I C T U R E expected soon ? Recently we received some X-ray pictures from Mr Ntumba, and our medical experts in Stockholm have examined those of his skull and can confirm that a transmitter has been implanted in his left nostril. Furthermore, it can be seen that the electrodes placed in the occipital lobe are blocking the bloodflow behind their delimitation where oxygen depletion is caused, and this is seen as well in his frontal brain just above the implanted transmitter. Among the changes caused by the frequencies affecting his brain, the reduced oxygen levels have induced an alteration of neurological functions, impaired cognitive abilities, including that of memory. Moreover he has obviously been anaesthesized without his knowledge so that this implantation could be performed. ? By the 1970?s, Samuel Chavkin, the American newspaper publisher whose papers had a medical inclination, and who was highly aware of social trends, was writing, "Telemetrics for the surveillance of every citizen is on the drawing boards? mind control techniques could become standard equipment for government, penal and police institutions in the near future". Further aspects of this technology have come to light from researchers such as J.M Delgado, who writes in his book," Physical Control of the Mind ": "By electric stimulation of specific cerebral structures, movements can be induced by radio command, hostility may appear or disappear, social hierarchy can be modified, sexual behaviour may be changed, and memory, emotions and the thinking process may be influenced [...] Transmitters have no batteries, are actived by radio and can be used for life." Popular scientist Carl Sagan wrote in " The Dragons of Eden that he saw the possibility to implant brain electrodes as a strong argument against state control of the health services stating, "People who would allow their government to use electrodes have already lost the battle? when it comes to technology nightmares it is imperative that we see the possibilities, so that people can understand them and prevent their abuse by institution, bureaucrats and governments. " ? Certainly there are many possible ways of evaluating the issue, but it is not difficult to see the direct implications regarding individual freedoms: those which grant a person to live their own life, to choose their own thoughts and opinions, to decide for their own destiny. The question is whether our right to these remain intact, or if our neurological functions should be recorded and submitted to the state with its predetermined and obscure political intentions, through psychiatric advanced software which transforms us into robots. Under mind control, people are forced to become guinea pigs for ruthless researchers' experiments, and the life that once belonged to the individual is now sequestred by medical neuroscience and the state. This technique can recreate people, change their behaviour and values, as well as their characters, opportunities and fates. It is the inner and most important freedom which is threatened, that which during the history of mankind has been obviously and naturally valued highly than suffrage and the temporary political system under which we live. ? [...] We would greatly appreciate a statement regarding your views about this issue, and we urgently press you for all possible assistance which you can give to Mr Ntumba. ? Yours faithfully ? Lennart Lindqvist International Secretary ? Encl. X-ray picture INMC??..Box 136 ?11479 Stockholm?Sweden?Fax +46-8-668 6066 [x] This is the referred X-ray picture of Mr N?Tumba?s occipital lobe and electrodes can clearly be seen blocking the bloodflow behind their delimitation. The X-ray examination was performed at Brook Hospital (Greenwich, London), September 16th, 1992 ? ? ? ? 1988 - 2009 : 21 Years of Fighting for Justice? Help Us Regain our Normal Intimate life as Couple / family . ? ? ? ? We need an Independent Nico Ntumba Inquiry, Now ? 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Set free our Loved Ones from 20 years of Bondages: Dirty Games ; ?Lies, Deception, ?No woman In the Life of ?Innocent = Marriage without Physical Intimacy?; ?Interference and disruption of private and professional life. ?All Unjust and Secrets Restrictions Lifted on Wife , Marriage , Family , Relatives , In Laws , Associates , Working / Budiness , Medias , Legal Advice , Communications , Travels Finances .? End to?Abuse of No Lethal Weapons of Mind ?Control Banned by United Nations ? (Sleep ?Deprivation, Voice to Skull V2K, organized gang Stalking, Mind Reading / listening to inner most Thoughts), Cover Harassment Surveillance , Monitoring , Interfence and Disruption . ? Political, Legal, Financial and security mountains ?being removed. Crooked Places in Government, Parliament ?And Security agencies being made straight. ;Our Rough ways ?turned smooth. ?Justice upholds: Fairness, Openness, Transparency. ? ? Premier Minister: Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP Home Secretary: Rt Hon Alan Johnson?MP Secretary of State, Justice Dept: Rt Hon Jack Straw MP Attorney General: Rt. Hon. ?Baroness: Patricia Scotland Leader of Opposition: Rt Hon David Cameron MP (Conservative) Leader of Opposition: Rt Hon Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats) Local Member of Parliament: Rt Hon John McDonnell MP (Labor) ? Intelligence Security Committee: Rt Hon Dr Kim Howels MP (Chair, Labor) Home Affaires Committee: Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP (Chair, Labor) Joint Committee Human Rights: Rt Hon Andrew DismoreMP (Chair, Labor) Top Crown Civil Servant: Jon Evans ? ? Life in every dead situation: Marriage; Physical Intimacy, ?Career, Finances, Business Ventures; Health, Fellowships; ?Association, Access to Medias, Counsel, and Travels for Loved Ones. Double portion of Anointing and Blessings for ?all our trouble. Holy Ghost Fire ?Up Root? security Seeds, ?Trees into Marriage, family , life , Business, Finances , Taking back every thing stolen by Satan. All Vicious , Ugly Decisions taken in secrey since 1988 against ?God?plans for Our Whole Life cancelled, Revealed , Reversed . ??Lord Redeeming Time?; 21 years robbed?By Satan. Lord help us Rebuild on?the Rocks.? ?In the Name of Jesus ? ? Kenday???? -? ?Family United-Set FREE ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jairuschurch at yahoo.com Sun Jul 12 13:20:18 2009 From: jairuschurch at yahoo.com (Jairus K'Onyiego) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:20:18 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] How Come Obama Ghana Speech Is Not Flawless. Message-ID: <481369.78108.qm@web62108.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Joram, ? Do not ask many questions as though you just?arrived from Planet Jupiter by Akamba bus Yesterday. ? The truth of the matter?is "Priorities in the African?Continent are always skewed". Jakogelo was Visiting? Africa South of Sahara for the first time.?And he chose Ghana, leaving even his Fatherland aside. This should have rung a bell in the Ghanaian leadership, to meticulously prepare the Coverage of this man both on print and electronic media to the highest Standards. Whether the Western World media?or Airforce 1 PPS were there or not, Jakogelo ought to have been given the Highest and the most advanced coverage that Ghana could offer. ? ? I was a little disappointed on the coverage. It looked as though what President Mills, concentrated on, was to display those 'KOTOKO' Traditional dancers. I can bet my money on my dead mother's grave that PPS ya "Nyayo," could have done 100 times better Job, than what I saw on Air. Top of this, Michelle being the Mother of the Nation could have been given a proud coverage to be remembered for Years. ? As?for Traditional dancers, why did?they not "Order" or request Kenya to export to them "Chuka Drummers" to grace that occasion. This could have helped liven the atmosphere at that Airport. We could have sent them, there free of charge. Chuka Drummers have the agility to strike their drums, in a rhythm, with such power that livens the atmosphere, and brings it to a crescendo worth of Jakogelos Visit All the same, someone in Ghana was charged with that, Job and being an African, he did not do it well. Mediocrity as usual;...the decease that ails every Black African Nation. ? Jairus????? --- On Sat, 7/11/09, Joram Ragem wrote: From: Joram Ragem Subject: How Come Obama Ghana Speech Is Not Flawless. To: "jaluo jaluo" , "An East African Online Forum Dedicated to Information Exchange." , bidiiafrika at googlegroups.com Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 7:03 AM Ananse, ? I woke up?in anticipation to see our great son give his first speech in Sub-Saharan Africa. The speech was great, but the production was horrible people. As mama Lucy would ask, "Hii ililetwa na PPS gani?" ? The picture was often interrupted, often in B&W as if to ensure that Africa and Africans will still look they did when the west came to capture Kunta Kinte! ? Was the production of this speech left to Ghana??Was Ghana truly prepared to stand up to this great moment??If not, why? Was the US press, or media truly interested in showing our son shine in the motherland? Or did they travel with second hand equipment, because they were travelling in the dark continent? Why was every live production of Obama's visit in Europe flawless? Also notice that after his speech, there was no panel of analysts on any channel to discuss Obama's speech. ? Let me say it. FUAKNI! ? My 10th great grandfather Ragem, is?dissappointed and embarrassed?at this production and broadcasting, in the era of GPS. I am still searching the web for a good recording of this video. ? -- Joram Ragem wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ YOU ARE IN BIDII AFRIKA GROUP. THE THIRD LARGEST GOOGLE GROUP WITH THE HIGHEST TRAFFIC IN AFRICA. ADVERTISEMENTS ARE NOW CHARGED KSH 500. PLEASE SEND THE MPESA TO 0726 034 530. UNLIMITED MONTHLY ADVERTS GO FOR KSH 5,000 FOLLOW ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/robertalai FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27690329916 Find Forum RULES on http://groups.google.com/group/bidiiafrika/web/bidiiafrika-rules FOR VACANCIES: http://www.myafricancareer.com/ ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://www.jobs36.com Content at reader's discretion. Bidiiafrika is not liable for any injury to an institution or person since this is an open forum. 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We also received a commitment of Kshs 5,000.00 from Mr. Cosmos Omondi from Southern Sudan. He will pass this to us when he comes around shortly. To all of you we say; Thank you. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN. This is the response to our call for support so far; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 [Kshs 7,432.00] received 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 received 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. Cosmos Omondi; Kshs 5,000.00 sending .....And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are still appealing to as many friends to step forward and be part of us. 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URL: From AGithuka at resolution.co.ke Mon Jul 13 07:35:38 2009 From: AGithuka at resolution.co.ke (Alex Githuka) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:35:38 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] FW: Appeal for Blood Message-ID: <102D759898308F4987EEA845740FF693D8D3B8@resexc03.resolution.lan> Subject: FW: Appeal for Blood Hi All, The following relates to my brother's wife {NANCY ELIZABETH NGONE}, kindly assist, In regard to below email First was blood donation and people came in plenty and was able to get enough blood {thanks to you all} the task was left to doctors to do what they do best but unfortunately the doctors never managed thus could not save Nancy's life, she passed on Monday at 6:30 She had gone for delivery which turned out to be CS; the baby {Victoria} is alive and kicking The bill shot to 1.1m and the insurance was covering up to 400K hence a deficit of 710, 000. As a result the hospital had to retain the body until we raise the whole amount or ? of the total amount. We as a committee has opted to urgently set a fund raising function on Wednesday 15th 07 2009 6pm at Antonios grill in order to raise the required amount. As a way of raising the amount we've decided to print cards and they are going for 100, 200, 500, 1000 and 5000. At the moment I've ran out of cards but you can assist where possible since we have only tomorrow, if i receive them today kindly allow me to visit your work station, in addition you can advice on how I can collect your donation. You can M-Pesa to 0720596680 {my line} or you can kindly visit us at the venue we meet everyday @ 6. Kindly good people assist at this desperate moment. We've put Friday as the targeted burial date if we manage to raise the required amount. Thanks in advance and God Bless You All. Regards, A R Githuka. ________________________________ From: Jeniffer Mburu Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:20 AM To: All Resolution Staff Nairobi Subject: Appeal for Blood Good morning people, Matthew Njoroge (formerly Business Consultant) who is an agent of Resolution Health needs our urgent assistance. Matthew's wife Nancy Ngone is admitted at Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi where she had gone to delivery a baby. Unfortunately, during the C- section she lost alot of blood to the point of requiring blood transfusion. This email is to appeal to all of us to go and give blood. The hospital will transfuse her with what they have in stock whilst what we give will replenish what has been given to her. Therefore it doesn't matter what blood group you are in. 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URL: From amosogal at gmail.com Mon Jul 13 08:33:04 2009 From: amosogal at gmail.com (Lee Makwiny) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:33:04 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Urgent - Furnished apartment- 2weeks In-Reply-To: <665032000907130340l56db5657y6f8cae4e2b41047e@mail.gmail.com> References: <665032000907130340l56db5657y6f8cae4e2b41047e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <594ded440907130533j45c9ca07me4787101b264d5fd@mail.gmail.com> You don't need to scream. The mesage is already loud and clear. Which town or city? Or do we assume its Nairobi coz that where you stay On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:40 PM, maryanne chege wrote: > Hi Guys, > > A friend of mine is coming into town and would like a 1 br apartment fully > furnished for 2 weeks , starting Wednesday ,Around westlands. 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Ocampo must be informed so he knows the kind of characters he is about to start dealing with.....he must be fully prepared so he can flex his muscles to engage Kenyan Legislatures to their pitched tune. They are the kind you have never seen or imagined.? They are?known 'rare species'.? They will twist you to the corner to a point you become breathless.? Their dance tune is?traditionally high pitched. My My My! you need an energy booster before you can get started with them.? This can be summarized as highly qualified in their game of chess. ? These folks breakfast diet is Traditional Uji with nyoyo before they top it all with Tea,?Omlette and Bread, with juice on the side.? This is the known breakfast menu.? It is said that this menu is a fully balanced diet that provides added strength and stamina, and sharpen brains muscles and vains which provide alert signals to change course of events instantaniously.? These are some of the well fed energized busy bodies. ? We will see more of this?come next?Summer.? The sing song is the same only the dancing style will change.? That is what keeps them on the steadfastly floor. ? Have a good day people! ? ? Cheers! ? ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? Annan did not ambush Kenya, says Justice minister ? Cotu secretary general Francis Atwoli (left) and Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Mutula Kilonzo address journalists at Solidarity Building Monday. Mr Kilonzo said Mr Annan did not ambush Kenya when he handed over the names of suspected post election violence suspects to the ICC. Photo/ FREDRICK ONYANGO ? By?MUCHEMI WACHIRAPosted?Monday, July 13?2009?at?14:07 In Summary Kenya delegation agreed to allow Mr Ocampo to start preliminary investigations on the suspects. The investigations will determine whether the alleged crimes fall within Mr Ocampo?s jurisdiction. Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo has dismissed claims that Kofi Annan?s decision to hand over names of post-election violence suspects to the International Criminal Court caught the government by surprise.? He accused some leaders and the press of making misleading statements on the issue. By handing over the envelope to ICC Prosecutor Mr Luis Moreno Ocampo, Mr Annan was only ?satisfying? himself, said Mr Mutula. Ambush Kenya ?He did not ambush Kenya as some are implying.? Mr Mutula made it clear that during the meeting at Geneva the Kenya delegation agreed to allow Mr Ocampo to start preliminary investigations on the suspects based on three issues. ?The government accepted this and confirmed that ICC can start the preliminary investigations,? Mr Kilonzo told journalists at Cotu headquarters? in Nairobi on Monday where he had gone to pay the trade union leadership a courtesy call. The first issue, he said, was to establish whether the post-election violence suspects had committed crimes against humanity. He is also expected in his initial findings to establish whether there was genocide or war crimes committed by the suspects during the violence that left at least 1,000 people dead. It is after confirming whether the three offences were committed that Mr Ocampo will act, the minister further explained. Preliminary investigations The preliminary investigations will only determine whether the alleged crimes fall within Mr Ocampo?s jurisdiction. ? ?This is why he needed the envelope,? Mr Kilonzo said. The other ministers in the Geneva team were: James Orengo (Lands) and his Internal Security counterpart Prof George Saitoti. Mr Kilonzo said that if the ICC prosecutor confirms that none of the crimes were committed during the post-election violence, he cannot act because apart from the three offences, any other crime is not within his jurisdiction. Crimes that are not within the ICC mandate can only be dealt with using local mechanisms, said Mr Kilonzo.? Lands minister James Orengo was quoted in our sister publication the Sunday Nation saying Annan betrayed and ambushed the Geneva delegation. Later, Mr Orengo disowned the statement and defended Mr Annan?s decision to hand over the names of the suspects to the ICC. ? ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Which would come first, the Reform Accord Agreement requirement backlog or personal bling bling?? Would you care for the hungry and the dying or spend on glamour lifestyle?? Would you care to put roof over the homeless IDPs?and support means for food supply and provide for health and medicine to the sick or take a vocational holiday to Hawaii?? How best is it fair to spend public funds or taxpayers money in a favourable manner?? What is the best strategy for reform in a collapse economic crisis situation?? ? I am saddened that the Coalition Government have failed the purpose for which it was formed. They have specific issues to tackle first and not bling bling?with taking personal family matters top?on the agenda while spending lavishly.....this 33 million is not an important matter right now....what is important is peoples lives which have been pushed to the edge by the 2007 conflict.? These Coalition Government?have totally failed the Kenyan people and??will never put their acts right.? ? Prosecutor Ocampo should not play leniency by any margin, he should embark on vigorous conviction charges as soon as is possibly convenient.? All these careless spending is total corruption from draining the common public of the little thread of survival and it is a criminal offense case load?against Kenyan Public poor needing immediate attention and remedy.? This is just too much of headswell and dont care attitude we must do away with such leaders, so we chart move for wayforward for Kenyans. ? Thanks ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? Bad leadership to blame for conflicts in Africa, says Tibaijuka ? Published on 12/07/2009 Related Stories Stop growth of slums in towns, UN Habitat chief tells Government Slum upgrading initiative hits a snag Official at centre of gun row still at UN office Gun link to Tibaijuka?s demotion UN: It is racism, Cotu says of Tibaijuka?s removal Africa?s cities growing faster than economies By Standard on Sunday Correspondent Failed political leadership of the African elite is the principal cause of most conflicts and violence in Africa, says Anna Tibaijuka, Executive Director, Habitat. And His Eminence John Cardinal Njue, the Head of the Catholic Church in Kenya, takes the view those who make decisions about peace and war are often insulated from the results of their decisions and do not suffer and die as a result of their decisions. Tibaijuka and Njue spoke at during a conference on violence and conflicts on the African continent that was hosted by Catholic University of Eastern Africa and which brought together scholars from 14 such Catholic institutions on the continent. "Had it not been for the senseless wars and conflicts, the money spent on peace keeping operations could have built thousands of schools, clinics, water points and other socio-economic infrastructure," she said. She lauded the Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of Africa and Madagascar, the organisers of the conference for their initiative. "It is befitting that Catholic educators who are entrusted with the spiritual well-being of our communities and who are also ordained to preach peace and uphold justice are leading the way in searching for the root causes of violence and conflict in Africa." Tibaijuka said leadership failure in Africa has exacerbated poverty and lack of opportunities for the youth and marginalised groups. ? ? Read all about: Anna Tibaijuka UN habitat Sh33million for Kenya PM home ? The Permanent Secretary in the office of the Prime Minister Dr Mohammed Isahakia presents his submissions to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security during examination of the 2009/2010 printed estimates for the PM's office at KICC on Monday. Sh33.4 million has been set aside to refurbish the PM's residence. PHOTO/HEZRON NJOROGE? By?JOHN NGIRACHUPosted?Monday, July 13?2009?at?12:05 In Summary Money will go into staffing the PM?s residences to enable him to host State functions and visitors. Allocation will also go into providing for additional security and surveillance equipment at the residences as well as additional domestic staff.?? The private residence of Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga will be renovated at a cost of Sh33.4 million. The money has already been allocated towards the office of the Prime Minister and is Sh6 million more than was spent on the same expense in the 2008/2009 financial year, which ended last month. According to officials from the PM?s office who spoke before the departmental committee on administration and national security on Monday, the money will go into staffing the PM?s residences to enable him to host State functions and visitors. ?His current residence in Nairobi and another in Mombasa are being rehabilitated so that State guests going there can get treatment commensurate to the Prime Minister?s status,? said Mr Khang?ati, an Assistant minister in the PM?s office. He said the allocation would go into providing for additional security and surveillance equipment at the residences as well as additional domestic staff.?? It does not include the cost for hospitality, that is, the cost of feeding and entertaining the visitors. Mr Khang?ati defended the allocation at the meeting after Makueni MP Peter Kiilu raised the query at the committee?s examination of the printed estimates for the PM?s office. He claimed it was 'significantly less? than that for the vice-president and State House. Currently, the PM and the VP do not have official State residences and rarely host official government functions. Mr Odinga currently resides at Karen in Nairobi. According to the presentations at the meeting, the allocation is expected to increase to Sh55 million in the 2010/2011 financial year and to top Sh77 million in the last financial year of the coalition government. By the end of the current term of Parliament, Sh192.8 million will have been spent in the rehabilitation of the PM?s residence. Mr Odinga is the second Prime Minister in post-colonial Kenya, the first having been President Jomo Kenyatta, who served as PM between 1963 and 1964, when Kenya became a republic. The government has already spent Sh700 million for the acquisition of Shell and BP House on Harambee Avenue to host the PM?s office and departments that fall under him. According to Mr Khang?ati, the refurbishment of the building is at the design and planning stage with the ministry of Public Works as tenants whose leases had not expired move out. He said the PM?s offices on the second floor are expected to be ready for occupation in three months? time. ? ? Africa told to solve the IDP problem once and for all ? Published on 10/07/2009 Related Stories ?Waki Envelope? in the right hands IDPs block Nyagah?s convoy, demand food Displaced children turn to the streets in Eldoret Idp Feature 2/07/09 IDPs feature By Ally Jamah and Anne Kanina Africa has been labelled an "IDP continent" crying out for a lasting solution. Participants at a Nairobi workshop heard the continent hosts some 11.6 million displaced people of the 26 million worldwide. Speaking during the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), Special Programmes Assistant Minister Mohammud Ali Mohammed said the Government was using self-help groups to help resettle people living in IDP camps. Many of them were uprooted from their homes during last year?s post-election violence. "Seventeen self-help groups, consisting 6,743 households have collectively purchased 220.3 acres of land, where members have relocated to," he said. Mr Mohammed also promised that "all genuine IDPs" would be resettled by next June. The minister said "fake IDPs" would be weeded out first. Transit camps Critics accuse the Government of mishandling resettlement of IDPs and are not convinced the woes of the displaced are likely to end soon. Thousands of IDPs remain in transit camps and lack access to schools, health care and basic sanitation. The Special Programmes Ministry was allocated Sh2.2 billion in the 2009-2010 Budget to resettle all outstanding IDPs, and many are watching the Government?s efforts. United Nations Secretary-General?s Representative on Human Rights of the IDPs Walter Kaelin told participants to seek lasting solutions and implement the IDP protocol and UN convention on displaced people. Legal frameworks "The challenge remains with countries to implement the two conventions to have a real impact on the IDP problem," he said. Mr Kaelin asked governments to create legal frameworks to tackle the problem. Refugee Consortium of Kenya Executive Director Judy Wakahiu said Kenya needed a legal framework on issues regarding IDPs. "A legal framework will aid in measuring the standard in dignity and safety of the resettled IDPs and this calls for the country to domesticate the IDP protocol," said Wakahiu. Kenya is yet to adopt a new legal framework and policies to ensure IDPs are supported. Human rights groups accuse the Government of violating international standards of treating IDPs, saying many have been forced return home before feeling safe or ready to do so. Unlike international refugees, IDPs are not covered by any ratified protocol, which bind governments. The Government says Kenya has only 7,000 IDPs from the post-election violence, but other sources say the number could be higher. Climate change Meanwhile, climate change is set to raise the number of IDPs in Kenya, as natural disasters like floods and drought dislocate thousands of people. "Natural disasters will escalate the number of IDPs, adding to the long list of conflict and development projects as reasons for displacement," said Kaelin. ? ? 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URL: From dliambila at gmail.com Mon Jul 13 08:49:23 2009 From: dliambila at gmail.com (David Liambila) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:49:23 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] PEV: Hope someone is listening to Ruto Message-ID: One Wiliam Ruto has been saying what I have also been saying for quite some time (just that my statements don't get to make prime time news): Before we prosecute those who caused the PEV all around the country, we must start by prosecuting the thievils who stole the elections and who now occupy the high offices in the land. If not, then quite honestly, there will never be any justice done. Because that's where the problem started. And when I talk of election thieves i don't mean Samuel Kivuitu. I mean the masterminds, the mean, uncouth, greedy, power-hungry scoudrels. Them that organised a swearing in ceremony even before the final results were out, and went on to swear themselves to faithfully serve an unwilling nation. Them on whose head the blood of innocent souls must be borne till justice is served, whether in this life or in the next. I'm watching this Ocampo guy keenly to see how he goes about the whole thing (I'm convinced this thing will go the Ocampo way). Or better still, I hope, though doubtful, that Mr. Waki remembered to include these thievels in his famous list. I'm not Wiliam Ruto's groundsman, but on this matter I'm with him. We must begin from the beginning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. To post to this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.ke/group/youngprofessionals_ke?hl=en Visit the LYP website at http://ypkenya.org Join the group on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57703506900 Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/lyp_ke -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From ibrahimkiche at yahoo.com Mon Jul 13 10:40:05 2009 From: ibrahimkiche at yahoo.com (ibrahim kiche) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:40:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Only God is the Solution, not Hague Message-ID: <778559.61604.qm@web51910.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hello Dear Kenyans, I am sure, the Lord God is the Only SOLUTION to Kenyan issues... The Hague is not and will never ever be... Kenya Need God's Intervention. Ibrahim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Because you have picked three cases only so that you can put a case against Kibaki. Better look at the whole reign of the individual president and judge them based on that tafadhali. ?In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.? Thomas Jefferson --- On Sat, 11/7/09, otieno sungu wrote: From: otieno sungu Subject: [YP_Ke] Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: "Biddi Africa" Cc: "young proffessionals" Date: Saturday, 11 July, 2009, 8:30 PM Given the struggle Kenyans have had and the fights we have had to endure to achieve democracy, whose legacy on democracy will be remembered fondly by Kenyans? ? Is it Jommo Kenyatta who through then Attorney General stopped the "change the contitution" tribalist elites from preventing Moi's ascention to power? ? Will it be Daniel Moi, who even though considered the worst strong man of Kenya, handed over power peacefully to Kibaki following the loss of Kanu after in 2002 after?40 years of rule? ? Will it be Mwai Kibaki who ascended to power through proper democracy only to subvert the same democracy by allowing himself to be sworn in even when all indications were that he lost the elections? ? Whose legacy will hold fondly in the memories of Kenyans? why? ? Sungu Otieno, Juba-Southern Sudan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Message-ID: <716278.58208.qm@web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Tribe Kenya for a unified society ?13th July 2009 On page 24 of the Sunday Nation of 12th July 2009, Mr. Reginald Okumu, a former chairman of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya led a team from Tribe Kenya Initiative in urging Kenyans to refuse to answer to the tribe question in the forthcoming national census. Tribe Kenya Initiative is a lobby group that seeks to encourage Kenyans to think more of Kenya than the tribe from which they come from. And in their editorial of today, the Daily Nation seems to be encouraging the government to ask us about our tribes in the forthcoming census. In a strongly worded editorial, the author says such arguments border on facetious sophistry and are best discarded. He then says that what is important is finding out the relative numbers, not so that one tribe can go around proclaiming its majority, but for planning purposes. I beg to differ. For the last 46 years, and the Daily Nation knows this, the issue of tribe has been used to set Kenyans against each other. Is it not time we Kenyans confronted this issue and put it to rest? I am a Kenyan of Luo origin. Why should somebody ask me that in a government document? I bet the most important thing to do is to know that I am a Kenyan. Secondly, our political leaders have failed to use our ethnic diversity to propel a national agenda. We all know that tribe has been an issue and our political leaders will always use this as a tool to disenfranchise us. Is it not time Kenyans revolted against this selfish scheme? Is it too much to just say I am a Kenyan? Thirdly, I have not seen any planning purposes centred on the tribe. If it is the Luo, we have Luos across all Kenya. How will you factor on development with the Luo in mind? I bet development is either constituency or District based. If we were to factor on development in Nyeri, will we look at how many Kikuyus, Luos, Kambas or Luhyas are domiciled there? And then for ?planning purposes? plan according to the numbers of each tribe in that particular District? This is a tired argument and it is time Kenyans confront this issue head on. The author of that editorial at the Daily Nation cannot use such strongly worded jargons to stifle an idea whose time has come. For 46 years Kenyans have been shepherded like goats by politicians who use the issue of tribe to divide us. Don?t we all know how the census has been used to hype the numbers of certain tribes? I want to strongly urge Kenyans to ignore and refuse to answer to the tribe question. Let us all say we are Kenyans. It is time we took charge of our destiny by beginning to reclaim our independence from the manipulative politicians and their cronies from the media and the civil service. 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URL: From newsletter at kara.or.ke Mon Jul 13 07:33:11 2009 From: newsletter at kara.or.ke (The Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations (KARA)) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:33:11 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] The KARA Weekly Newsletter Issue No. 227, July 2009 Message-ID: Issue No. 227: Editor's highlights of the week: Welcome to your favourite, authoritative and the consistent KARA Weekly Newsletter. As always, we appreciate your valued feedback. This week we remind you of the Kara BTS-16 next Thursday, 23rd July with the UNEP and UNON Director General Dr. Achim Steiner at The Stanley Hotel from 2.00 pm. Next week, the report on "Top 50, Bottom 50" accessible civil servants will be released, together with the 6th edition of Kara's "Neighbourhood Kenya" journal. A special tour of water reservoir facilities led by top management of the Nairobi Water Company and Athi Water Services Board is on this Friday. We are glad you are reading us. Editor Inside this issue ... at a quick glance! ? Water shortage: Kara, NWC and AWSB on special tour ? Northern by-pass: Environmental issues overlooked ? Lavington residents demand Nema acts on noisy bar ? Kara CEO nominated director at US-based IDA ... and much more! Water shortage: Kara, NWC and AWSB on special tour: Both CEO's of the Nairobi Water Company Mr. Francis Mugo and his Athi Water Services Board (AWSB) counterpart, Eng. Lawrence Mwangi have confirmed to participate in the exercise. Consequently, KARA is inviting either Chairpersons or Secretaries of at most 40 residents associations around the city of Nairobi to express their interest of participating on the familiarization tour. full-story Northern by-pass: Environmental issues overlooked: Again, salient questions have since been asked about the secrecy of the Ksh. 8.6B loan agreement between the Kenya government and the Republic of China on the Northern and Eastern by-passes. The government is also playing close to its chest on the contents of a single-sourced contract awarded to a Chinese firm, reportedly blacklisted by the World Bank. full-story Lavington Residents demand Nema acts on noisy bar Residents of Kaputei Gardens led by Mrs. Gina Din Kariuki and Mr. Eddy Njoroge have asked the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) to intervene and stop operations of a bar within their estate. full-story Kara CEO nominated as director of US-based IDA: The International Downtown Associations (IDA) has nominated Kara CEO Mr. Stephen Mutoro to serve on its board as an international non-executive director. His term will begin at the IDA's 55th annual conference to run between 11-15th September in Milaukee, Wisconsin, USA. "The nomination is a huge honour for Kara and I. The rigorous nomination process that began with the first notification on 15th January demonstrates that Kara has come of age. It is a confirmation that our impact and relevance is being felt around the globe. I am most grateful to immediate former IDA President/CEO Mr. David Feehan as well as his successor Ms. Kit Cramer for their confidence in Kara and I. I want to share this honour with our dedicated members and partners for standing with us all the time", said Mr. Mutoro "Corporate Mr. Fix it" - Simba Colt's Dinesh Kotecha: In the next edition of KARA's Neighbourhood Kenya, we bring you the inspiring, powerful and untold story of Mr. Dinesh Kotecha, the Group General Manager at Simba Colt Group of Companies. Get to know why Dinesh is a "corporate Mr. Fix It", his new sobriquet from Neighbourhood Kenya - only in the July/August edition! 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By immediately certifying as "urgent " the anti-child pornography bill pending before the House of Representatives, House Bill No.684 entitled "An Act Defining the Crime of Child Pornography, Imposing Penalties Thereof, and for Other Purposes" Preda Information Office believes this will save thousands of children for years to come. The Philippines needs this law urgently to protect children and to fulfil the nation's international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international protocols undertaken by the State on behalf of the Filipino People. There are Filipino girls as young as 10 who are being sold off into the sex industry. Gloria Arroyo has been blamed for choosing to ignore this issue despite the fact that in Philippines, 80 percent of all sexually active Filipinos do not use condoms. That includes a good number of Filipino men who buy sex from these underage girls. It is estimated that over 100,000 girls under the age of 18 work as prostitutes in the Philippines. Irishmen are among the main clients of the brothels of Philippines, especially in Manila, Olongapo and the infamous Angeles City. According to the Sunday Tribune the owners of the bars, mainly foreigners use girls to fake birth certificates to employ them as young as 13, who are then paid as little as 15 by European men, including Irishmen, for sex. This makes sex-trading of young girls very difficult to stop. That is why sexual exploitation of children in the tourism industry is rampant, especially in Southeast Asia despite efforts to curb the crime. This business generates millions of shillings. It explains why paedophiles as well as sex tourists' travel to the Philippines in order to visit brothels. There are several thousand European, American and Australian paedophiles living in the country. It explains further why there are more than 60,000 Filipino girls who work as child prostitutes. They are recruited by pimps in rural areas of the country from unsuspecting, desperately poor families who send their daughters to the city to earn extra money as some children are forced by their parents to engage in pornography or prostitution so that they can earn money to sustain the family. The prostitution of children is usually conducted in particular environments, such as brothels, bars and clubs, or homes, or particular streets where clients are easily found. For parents who force their girls to go for such works do not even mind about dangers of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/Aids, what they mind about is money that can enable them buy food. Because most of these parents who force their girls for prostitutions cannot afford buying food or clothes for the girls, in some cases they engage in prostitution to exchange sex for basic needs such as accommodation, food, clothing, or safety as well as extra pocket money. This explains why hundreds of girls at some schools in Zimbabwe are prostituting. Some exchange sex for books, biscuits or chips. Due to economic crisis in Zimbabwe many parents cannot afford buying the basic needs for their girls in schools. It is against this background that young women and girls, especially in developing countries are often lured to wealthier countries by the promises of money and work but later reduced to sexual slavery. It is again why the Philippines is ranked fourth among nine nations with the most number of children trafficked for prostitution, according to a report by the Consortium Against Trafficking of Children and Women for Sexual Exploitation (Catch-Wise). It is also why child pornography on the Internet is a growing problem for countries around the world. It also explains why sex trafficking is big business, second only to drug and gun trafficking throughout the world. In the Philippines where land development government contracts are displacing rural families, it is estimated that up to 40 percent of the sex workers in larger Philippine cities are from these rural areas, forced to leave their homes and find work elsewhere. In Kenya, where severe drought and lack of employment has driven many rural dwellers into the cities to seek work, parents have not only resorted to sending their young girls into the towns for commercial sex for money to feed their families, but also sex trafficking of children has become a worrying phenomenon. According to the report on the sex trafficking of children in Kenya released in June by UNICEF highlights the findings that more than 1,500 girls under the age of 18 are working as prostitutes or in bars in the Coast Province. Some girls according to the report are trafficked to Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, but also to Bahrain, Djibouti, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Some of them are again trafficked into the sex trade after arriving at their destinations, while others have been trafficked onward from Lebanon to Turkey, Italy, and Greece. Nation investigations show that nearly 20,000 Kenyans fall prey to human trafficking cartels yearly where they are living in appalling conditions as the case of a 14-year-old girl rescued in the United Kingdom where she had been moved to Liverpool by a man who locked her in a house and forced her to have sex with numerous people. In Bangladesh alone it is estimated that there are 13,000 children who are prey to the commercial sex industry of the country. More than 20,000 children are born and live in the 18 registered red-light areas of Bangladesh where they also watch their mothers being lured to sex. People for Peace in Africa (PPA) P O Box 14877 Nairobi 00800, Westlands Kenya E-Mail news at ppa.or.ke Tel 254-20-4441372 Website : www.ppa.or.ke UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a blank email with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the Subject line to regionalnews at ppa.or.ke SUBSCRIBE: Send a blank email with the word SUBSCRIBE in the Subject line to regionalnews at ppa.or.ke -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 2057 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 2:49 PM I would call that selective amnesia if i'm asked. Because you have picked three cases only so that you can put a case against Kibaki. Better look at the whole reign of the individual president and judge them based on that tafadhali. ?In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.? Thomas Jefferson --- On Sat, 11/7/09, otieno sungu wrote: From: otieno sungu Subject: [YP_Ke] Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: "Biddi Africa" Cc: "young proffessionals" Date: Saturday, 11 July, 2009, 8:30 PM Given the struggle Kenyans have had and the fights we have had to endure to achieve democracy, whose legacy on democracy will be remembered fondly by Kenyans? ? Is it Jommo Kenyatta who through then Attorney General stopped the "change the contitution" tribalist elites from preventing Moi's ascention to power? ? Will it be Daniel Moi, who even though considered the worst strong man of Kenya, handed over power peacefully to Kibaki following the loss of Kanu after in 2002 after?40 years of rule? ? Will it be Mwai Kibaki who ascended to power through proper democracy only to subvert the same democracy by allowing himself to be sworn in even when all indications were that he lost the elections? ? Whose legacy will hold fondly in the memories of Kenyans? why? ? Sungu Otieno, Juba-Southern Sudan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From prcanb at yahoo.com Mon Jul 13 20:29:50 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] The Boss or the Secretary? Message-ID: <930306.63744.qm@web38702.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I have found myself in this situation so many times that I don't know how to go about it. May be someone out there has a solution! Like me, I am sure that you have been to some institution/office wanting to talk to the boss on some issues, such as, finding a job, helping someone to find a job, or is search of a facility for a meeting. Whenever that has happened,you have probably been either granted permission to see the boss and make your request known, or told to come back at some other time. Which is quite perfect. What concerns me is when one looks at you and tells you right there that whatever you need is not possible! In such cases, should you take the Secretary's explanation as the final answer or should you still try to find away of reaching the boss? Even as I wait to hear from someone, I am truly grateful that the communication between anyone of us and our God is direct and un interrupted! What an awesome God!Thank you Jesus! 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FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM Chief editor Korir African Press International - API ----- Original Message ----- From: David ochwangi To: djbanti at gmail.com ; Nassehw at gmail.com ; Nyarafrica at aol.com ; kandlimages at yahoo.com ; abonyobarack at yahoo.com ; JAKONGONDA01 at yahoo.com ; FORWA1972 at yahoo.com ; OMUYOMANASIBI at yahoo.com ; randiki at HOTMAIL.COM ; shemwau at HOTMAIL.COM ; nancyeastney2000 at yahoo.com ; Etitiquos at HOTMAIL.COM ; kalasingah at yahoo.com ; dickens.odhiambo at gmsi.com ; James Orengo ; pan at africaonline.co.ke ; youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com ; wojwang at alatel-lucent.com ; Dhiamby at aol.com ; abonyo.barack at famu.edu ; Robert Alai ; amenya.gibson at gmail.com ; Elly Omondi Odhiambo ; luo31 at gmail.com ; makodingo at gmail.com ; makosewe at gmail.com ; patrickobiero at gmail.com ; William Oduor ; gilbertnyandoto at hotmail.com ; Joram Odus ; jambo at publiceyesite.org ; davendolo at yahoo.com ; David ochwangi ; jairuschurch at yahoo.com ; Judy Miriga ; odhiambo okecth ; Leo Odero ; opollodalton at yahoo.com ; revgeorgeoo at yahoo.com ; sebyyke at yahoo.com ; shemochuodho at yahoo.com ; otieno sungu ; progressiveminds at yahoogroups.com ; eastafrican at nation.co.ke ; editor at nation.co.ke ; editorial at eastandard.net ; youthagendayln at yahoogroups.com ; editor at majimbokenya.com ; african press ; africa-oped at yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:15 AM Subject: KENYA DIVIDED:ROT IN GOVERNMENT, ICC, etc - FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM DICLAIMER: This is how I see it-unmasked, blunt and not sugar coated and so in fairness, please be warned. This is not intended to be politically correct in terms of wording or expression and if you are angered by the contents, I accept full credit. Even family must endure tough love for the good of all. It is amazing what a difference five short years have made in a country that was once on a trajectory to economic and political maturity! Short of an outright formal declaration of Kenya as a failed state, Western diplomats accredited to Kenya are, for the most part in charge, helping, subtly and yet vitally, hold the country together and prevent her from spiraling to the precipice of further lawlessness. Just six short years ago Kenya shined on the world stage with the display of political maturity by her peaceful people in electing president Kibaki and the peaceful transition of power from President Moi. In 2003 Kenyans were ranked as the most optimistic people on earth and even though this quickly evaporated courtesy of politics gone awry, the country generally remained peaceful, posted respectable economic gains and revival of industry. Fast forward to 2008, 2009 and for the foreseeable future and you have practically a failing state, all economic gains almost wiped out, growth all but gone now at a projected measly 1.7% from an impressive 7% leading into the 2007 elections, tribal militias and rag tag gangs supported by warlord politicians essentially manning the streets and communities; at the national level, foreign diplomats from the west are effectively running the government! What happened to Kenya? What went wrong so bad so fast? Very simple, here: Politics vs. Governance: Not to regurgitate the obvious but Kenya?s leaders, like most in Africa, are incapable of making a distinction between the two, most politicians equate politics to governance; our political class has substituted fear and intimidation for respect, never mind that respect, which is the true measure of leadership, is earned; and so when the election results were announced in December 2007, none of these clowns would place nationhood above self. And this gaping shortcoming was a big invitation to the West to step in. The calls for armed struggle via ?Mass Action? was clearly a signal to the West to our lack of capacity to self govern, to temper our disagreements with reason and our flagrant repudiation of rule of law. Kenya?s leaders failed when it mattered most: President Kibaki was timid and cowed to wits end when the perpetrator in chief, PM Odinga lit the nation on fire through demagoguery and predatory incitement. Whereas the president?s perceived ineffectiveness and inefficiency became painfully clear, the PM exploited the country?s vulnerabilities to the hilt; the sum gain was deaths of innocent Kenyans, suspension of rule of law, a failing economy and constructive hand over of governance to the West. One can make the case against the president for complacency to Kenya?s suffering through his omissions because he failed to use the enormous constitutional mandates of his office, like Kenyatta or Moi would have, to maintain law and order to preserve the country?s stability and save lives while yet another case can be made against the PM for complicity through his direct agitation, encouragement, aiding and endorsement of law breaking to attain self promotion. So the west had no choice in the matter but to fill the vast void suddenly created by spineless morons whose leadership shelf lives long expired in the last century. In rubbishing Kenya?s courts and its entire justice system, the PM, in essence created neo colonialism in Kenya with his repeated calls to the West and ?friends of Kenya? to intervene on his behalf. The truth is many in Kenya?s top leadership would NOT even be electable to a town councilman position in the West, they would in fact be handed a one way ticket to oblivion and commanded to not EVER EVER show back in town again, that is just how horrendous our politicians are and yet many are trotting the globe and making embellished claims of knowledge as if such tours confer spontaneous wisdom! Western Intervention: And so when the West stepped in, Kenya?s leaders were more than willing, without debate, question or consternation, to swallow a concoction of a poison pill out of this world; without being given an opportunity to debate and vote, we became the perfect guinea pigs and to this day and for the foreseeable future will continue to reap the repercussions of this intervention. The two page Grand Coalition agreement which Kenya?s parliament unanimously approved at record speed was perhaps the most abhorrent to the extent it was dictated to Kenya. The standard that I would have applied in adopting the measure is simple, ask the Western diplomats starting with US whether or not the same prescription would apply in the US or any other western country who dictated the Grand Coalition; in other words, what would happen in the US if in 2000 when democrat Al Gore won the popular vote and Republican George Bush was declared the winner and democrats, led by Al Gore himself, started the kind of mayhem and killings PM Odinga engineered? Would the US adopt a two page constitutional amendment to form a ?Grand Coalition? government to appease Al Gore? Would these Western countries tolerate mediocre war lords like Ruto and rag tag gangs dismantling their economies and dictating the direction of their countries or would they deploy law enforcement to restore peace and order? Would African diplomats accredited to the West be allowed to dictate political solutions to the West?s political stalemates? Would Kenya?s ambassador have been allowed to counsel Al Gore in 2000? If their answer is ?NO? they wouldn?t adopt what they were prescribing to Kenya, then they would be asked to quit meddling and leave us alone but, oh no, our brave leaders were more than willing and mesmerized at the West?s ?concern? and quick to take orders from the West! I mean they witnessed what we went through and they rewarded law breakers by installing them in high positions in government and look where it has gotten us. Does anyone have any doubt now that we would have done way better under President Kibaki running the show a second term as he did the first, not perfect but certainly much much better than this nightmare the country is going through right now? So for this reason, the west misdiagnosed Kenya?s sickness and prescribed her the wrong medicine; and by looking the other way when these corrupt and murderous elements are still wholly in charge of key government apparatus, the West continues to provide aid and comfort to perpetrators of crimes against humanity; the west is complicit in piling on the rot we are so desperate to remove from our governance by way of dictating how the country should be governed on a daily basis (granted we invited them to do so); so one wonders when the country will truly be independent once again. I mean where is Mzee Kenyatta when you need him? Would Mzee Jomo Kenyatta call on the West and ?friends of Kenya? to come and solve Kenya?s problems? how about ?hell NO?. Kenyatta handled business and that was leadership my friends. The West doesn?t invite other countries let alone Africans to come solve their problems; why do we? The West knows who the perpetrators of post election violence are, they have issued travel bans against some or most of them who happen to head government entities, why not prevail on the Kibaki government to at the very minimum, relieve these suspects from government offices, even temporarily, at least until this matter is resolved; Kibaki let Mwiraria, Murungaru, Murungi, Kimunya among others go for much less aggravating crimes; why are thieves and murderers running major ministries in Kenya and why are these Embassies silent about it? Who are they fooling? Embassies must be fair to Africans and stop propping incompetent murderous regimes in the name of stability. It is hollow, hypocritical, and false and only prolongs the suffering of populations. The bottom line in Kenya is slowly but surely spiraling into the abyss and the foreign missions are enabling and abetting the rot and only delaying the inevitable; our country is sick and this government is the cancer that has metastasized and contaminated the whole society with rot; sweeping these ills under the rugs only masks the odor and improves NOTHING! The Embassies must exert their influence and prevail on the president to, at the very minimum, get rid of or at least suspend known and suspected perpetrators of Post Election Violence who have holed themselves in government until such a time that investigations and prosecutions are complete; Kenyans are not idiots ya?ll think they are you know. If you can ban suspects from travelling to the West, certainly you can apply equal pressure for the sake of Kenyans who have lost any remaining faith in their government. The Obama Factor Kenya?s best blessing, bar none! And what are we doing with it, NOTHING but foolish politics. On the one hand is a PM aching to ride on President Barack Obama?s coattails and coax Kenyans into thinking he has the president?s backing and on the other is an absent minded president too scared of President Obama to be an effective governor and the end result is paralysis. President Obama is an extremely smart man and one careful not to take sides particularly with as hopeless a bunch as these men running Kenya, he will not be drawn into Kenya?s infantile politics and while he stands for what is truly right for Kenya, others like the PM would, instinctively interpret President Obama?s policies on Kenya as an endorsement for his own politics but the truth is; NO! We can clearly read President Obama?s statements and policies, unlike Kenya?s politicians or African leaders for that matter, President Obama does NOT double speak, he says what he means and means what he says. If he were running for president in Kenya or anywhere in Africa, President Obama would win by a landslide, almost by every man, woman and child of all tribes while on the other hand, if either President Kibaki or PM Odinga were running for a town councilman in the US, they would both lose miserably and perhaps be barred from EVER running for office again, that is the disparity of leadership qualities and class of these men; so we have by far the shoddiest characters running a country that sired the world?s most admired man at the very moment we need the most redemption; what do we do people? What do we do short of starting over? I mean Kenya is a disgrace, an international embarrassment folks, just one joke of a mess, only that it is real! Are Tables Turning? In a recent publication regarding reforms by the same western diplomats; they expressed ?concern? at the pace of reforms, one ambassador was quoted saying ?you can?t make an omelet without breaking the egg? and I wonder if this government ever got that memo. As long as the two men, president Kibaki and PM Odinga are at the helm in Kenya, you can bet there will be no ?eggs? broken to bring about any meaningful change in the country. The president is a lame duck with no real incentive to bring about any change, he is not running for office again and even if he were, it not in his DNA to hold his feet or those of others around him to the fire to make change happen. The PM is deeply beholden to the various disparate interests who ?fought? for him to become president/PM to do anything that may rock the boat or ruin any hope he has for another run for the presidency in 2012, it is just that simple; so are we so na?ve to these facts as to believe either of these men mean a word beyond rhetorical symbolism? Seriously!! International Criminal Court The cries and frustrations of ?WE THE PEOPLE? and those of the post election violence victims are finally starting to resonate and our voices are being heard. Kenya?s leadership has this misguided notion of monopoly of access to world leaders and institutions; we too can speak to President Obama, we too can speak to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and the powers that be. The writing has been on the wall way too long and the notice has expired; and when it is all said and done, we?ll know whose voices count the most, we the people or these goons. The ICC is the perfect broom for Kenya; a relief and breath of fresh air. For once, William Ruto, even as ignorant and misinformed he is about the role of the International Criminal Court, has gotten this one right. His recent rants are a desperate attempt to deflect attention, the truth is Ruto knows he is advocating for the hangman?s noose on his own neck. A criminal suspect does not have any say so whatsoever in how the court conduct its functions! Someone educate this ignoramus! Ruto and ODM think they can manipulate the ICC like they did the gullible youth of Kenya. He is about to learn one major lesson that they failed to teach in Botany lessons in college; Bad politics (including rigging) can never be an excuse for crime or murder, period-end of story. The ICC is the only true and neutral arbiter that can clean the mess in Kenya and send a clear message to these goons in government that the sanctity of human life is non-negotiable. Now, both sides of this arrangement are mortally frightened, rightly so, of the unknown when that day comes; people are rightfully afraid if they will join the ranks of El Bashir of Sudan, Kabuga of Rwanda, Charles Taylor of Liberia for a good reason but I think President Kibaki and his officials at the time when these crimes were committed have the least to worry about. ODM, for all practical purposes provides Luis Moreno-Ocampo with the best possible case to prosecute against them while exonerating the President contemporaneously. ODM?s leaders and most of PM Odinga?s supporters foolishly believe that the prosecution in The Hague would favor them and punish the president for ?stealing? the elections and therefore causing the violence; far from the truth. What will be on trial is NOT the reason(s) for the violence, in fact, this argument would only strengthen the prosecution?s case against the perpetrators because it provides the all important element in all criminal prosecutions; MOTIVE! I don?t know of anywhere in any court of competent jurisdiction where MOTIVE qualifies as a defense, somebody please prove me wrong. So RUTO goes in and tells the judges that ODM?s candidate PM Odinga fairly won the presidential election and the Election Commission of Kenya ?stole? it from him and awarded victory to President Kibaki and so we were compelled to protest by inciting the masses to action, that he was acting on the instructions of his party?s leader, PM Odinga! And that by the way, we only incited in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza and areas we already won and had the least reason to kill Kikuyus and Kisiis and other non- indigenous tribes living amongst us whom we believe voted for President Kibaki but we needed to make a statement anyway- see, it got us in government! Was well worth it, you know. Of course the jurists at The Hague are competent enough to weigh the evidence as we know it and also evaluate the statements and images broadcast around the world to know who was clearly the aggressor. They will also note, carefully at that, that PM Odinga and his ODM party had available to them, a lawful grievance avenue through Kenya?s courts specifically designed for election complaints, be flawed as the system may be, it was still an available option for remedial action nonetheless, and that they should have exhausted it but, alas, they not only ignored it and substituted it with street justice instead but also rubbished the very institutions they helped set up and were sworn to defend as parliamentarians. Anger and frustration was clearly the motive for the uprising but NEVER EVER justification for premeditated murder of innocent Kenyans, and that my friends will ensure hefty penalties for ODM. President Kibaki on the other hand has a relatively simple defense. The president did NOT declare himself the winner of the elections nor did incite anyone to riot; Kibaki was duty bound to continue his responsibilities as president. The president was duty bound to protect all Kenyans and ensure national security; the president has the power and indeed the obligation to suppress riots and violence of all kinds and any resistance to lawful authority through law enforcement agencies, President Kibaki?s authority and actions were lawful, constitutional and justified. The government had to act to protect lives, loss of property and the economy to the mobs. ODM acts as if the president is actually liable for their losses caused by their instigation and should have just back and let this murderous bunch have their way with the entire country, well, the ICC is capable of delineating between incitement and containment, anarchy and order, and who among the combatants stood for what. We will reclaim our government and these fellows will be removed from society and barred permanently from ever running for office, watch! Coalition Government: Disband and start over; no elections are required, the two page document establishing the coalition neither mandates a new election nor invalidates the existing government merely because either party pulls out of the alliance; this is rotten just as the characters in it, end of story! We didn?t sign up for this mess, we didn?t vote for this mess, the know nothing do nothing tax evading leeches in parliament have failed in their duties to safeguard national integrity and have long lost any moral capacity to lead, Kenyans? patience and goodwill have been exhausted; we can still have a peaceful transitional caretaker government devoid of these guys and I think time has come and long gone for change. The president, immediately after its revealed who is implicated in the post election violence must, by necessity, dismiss all of those adversely mentioned regardless of the merits of the allegations; we simply cannot have distracted people with clouds hanging over them making decisions in government, it breeds bad decisions and ineffectiveness and we all know that. The president, as leader of his party and at this point, must seriously consider withdrawing from the coalition if he, as president, determines that this arrangement is NOT in the country?s best interest and prolonging this form of government would be more harmful in total than helpful in the stability of the nation. He is NOT required to resign or call an election merely by pulling out of the coalition, so it is time the rubber hit the asphalt and let?s restore Kenya?s institutions as close to what they were in the first 5 years of Kibaki?s presidency, some prosperity would beat this idiocy ANY DAY. President Kibaki This president, once again, was perhaps the best thing to happen to Kenya for decades and yet, he has ended up disappointing so many by being way too whimsical in dispensing the duties of his office, one can make a strong argument against president Kibaki for dereliction of duty; The President has severely weakened the office of the president, the only national office in the country and by projecting such weakness, he has opened doors for all sorts of enemies, both internal and external to exploit Kenya. Nobody anywhere on earth has respect for weakness much less weakness of a president of any country, NOBODY! I mean the man hasn?t committed atrocities or anything like that but he has either purposely omitted or ignored so much from the presidential play book, even stuff that is clearly spelled as presidential mandate in our laws and allowed all the gains he presided over in the his first term to go to waste. Come on Mr. President! What happened buddy? I mean if you are unable to assert proper authority and control, why not step aside? Why are thieves and murderous in your cabinet? Whose interests are you serving? Why are you sleeping at the switch? I mean the level of inefficiency and ineffectiveness in this office is just astounding, internal security falls under the president?s office and yet militias and gangs practically run neighborhoods, the judiciary is completely inept and frustrates all fights against corruptions, old corruption cases are collecting dust in dockets and the president is simply doing NOTHING about it, PM Odinga If the PM was a manufacturing company anywhere, particularly in the West, he would be banned from EVER peddling ANY product in the market place; I mean the PM would be shut down permanently, period. This is the man who declared ?KIBAKI TOSHA?; he peddled Kibaki to Kenyans as a perfect product to ?liberate? Kenya and in just a matter of months after Kenyans bought in, he declared his own product defective and admitted to selling Kenyans just a bunch of bill of goods and that he alone was fit for the job; why on earth should we continue listening to such a guy? I mean for what, to hear what additional garbage comes out next? A gamble that someday he just may get it right? And in the meantime Kenyans are in for the ride in the ?ROT EXPRESS?; this is the fellow who admittedly participated in the 1982 military coup that resulted in hundreds of deaths, got in the market square and told Kenyans to disobey the government and not to go to work after a personal disagreement with president Moi, told his constituents in Kibera NOT to pay monthly rents to land lords; this is the man who claims sole credit for democracy in Kenya, never mind the insurmountable effort by the likes of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, George Anyona, Masinde Murillo,Gitobu Imanyara, etc; point being Kenya?s democracy is not a preserve of one Raila Amollo Odinga; as recent as a year and half ago this man led a revolt that killed thousands of Kenyans, displaced hundreds of thousands of innocent Kenyans; women and children were raped and lives permanently altered all in his selfish ambition to get to the top, it didn?t matter who died or lived; this man is complicit in the starving of Kenyan through the henchman Ruto who heads Agriculture; this man not only condones nepotism but also practices it to the core, appoints his family members to key positions whether they are qualified or not; his ministers such as Kajwang, Ruto, Chairman Kosgey, Prof. Sambili are on record flouting all rules and procedures as was the case under president Moi; this man has been MP for ?Africa?s largest Slum? for more than 15 years with almost absolutely nothing to show for it in the development of its people except for amassing a tone of personal wealth; is the change this fellow claims to have fought for, is the liberation Kenya needs, is this the presidential leadership Kenyans were voting for? William Ruto The quintessential dirt bag in Kenyan politics; if there ever were a reason or justification for detention as under Moi or Kenyatta, William Ruto would serve that purpose perfectly but in Kenya, a rot bag like this man who for several election cycles has personally engineered the murder of innocent Kenyans is sitting pretty high at the table of governance! I mean how does that happen? HOW?! This man obtained his college education in botany, not government, but was smart enough to be connected to Moi?s children who allowed him access to power; I bet they are now regretting it. This was the only man, as an assistant minister, allowed to sit in full cabinet meetings under president Moi, that is how favored he was by the former President; what did the scumbag do in appreciation; well, remember Molo and Muoroto clashes? Ruto, among others like Sunkuli et al, were in the thick of it, planning and implementing the anarchy and death that befell many innocent Kenyans and to top it off, he turned on his mentor and benefactor during the last election to support PM Odinga; when all else failed, William Ruto, true to form and once again employing skills acquired under President Moi, directed the killings of innocent Kenyans in regions the PM handily won, in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza, areas which the PM?s ODM party won in landslides, there was ZERO reason or justification for Kikuyus, Kisiis and other tribes to be slaughtered the way it happened because there was no dispute and yet ODM made its statement to the world by spilling innocent blood; Ruto has multiple corruption charges pending against him in Kenya?s courts; why on earth would any man, particularly this PM, want to impose such kind of baggage on himself let alone Kenya? Why would such a back stabber even have a seat near civilization of any government? WHY do we entertain such rot if indeed we are about ?CHANGE?? I think the PM sealed his own political fate and that of his party through William Ruto; ODM will IMPLODE in due time. The old adage will once again be proven right, i.e. ?you can judge a man by the company he keeps?- look at the company around William Ruto and tell me whether or not these characters should be running any government entity! Kalonzo Musyoka What a big joke?! The VP once stood a good chance as a viable alternative to help clean up the rot in Kenya but as with most power that corrupts absolutely, Musyoka has been irrevocably compromised and become a part of the contaminated pile of rot masquerading as a government. A friend of mine once described Kalonzo Musyoka as a slithering wimpy weasel and I couldn?t agree more. The man has absolutely no stand on anything, when speaker Marende, in towing the party ruled in favor of his boss PM Odinga in parliament when the latter appointed himself leader of government business, the VP immediately seemed to take a courageous stand to question the validity of such unorthodox ruling and many thought the joker was rightfully asserting himself and employing his lawyer skills to right what was obviously a grossly idiotic ruling by the speaker. Then come the Western ambassadors led by the US in support of the speaker?s ruling and the VP scampered and recoiled his tail like wag the dog! I mean seriously, the man has never been heard from again! Does anyone really have any doubt as to whether or not Musyoka is a strong leader to hold the country together? The man is clueless and reactionary, can?t set any example like PM Odinga does. PM Odinga sets examples and asserts himself but is always WRONG! How I wish the PM had been right on even a handful of his choices to mitigate some of his failures! He would have gotten a pass, the only way Kalonzo Musyoka would beat Raila Odinga in any contest for national office would be because people would vote against Odinga and thereby hand Musyoka victory by default. Musyoka himself is tainted through his associations with former President Moi, as the President?s lawyer, he defended and protected the ills that sank Kenya?s economy, Musyoka witnessed and benefited personally from the siphoning of public resources under Moi?s regime; his gain may have not been as big but gain it was nonetheless, so there you have it. The man has no stand and leads from behind (if there is ever such a thing), so how do you judge such a character?s suitability to lead? Parliament and Speaker Marende Another joke of a body led by an extreme partisan speaker; it was clear from the get go that speaker Marende would tow the party line particularly when he ruled himself leader of House and Government Business because PM Odinga, citing other countries? practices, appointed himself leader of those positions! Get this, the PM, he himself a presidential ?APPOINTEE? and once again ignoring the rules and precedence, usurped the president?s authority and ?APPOINTED? himself to the role in parliament! How on earth does that work? And the speaker, of course an ODM party stalwart, didn?t waste any time effectively ruling against the president. And none of these genius MPs raised a whimper, they just scurried like roaches when the US ambassador supported the speaker?s decision, we needed someone to speak for Kenyans and they ALL failed; I would urge every one of the MPs to take the PM?s lead and appoint themselves to the position of leader of House and Government Business and compel the speaker to issue a ruling on each and every self appointment submitted by each MP and let?s see the majority party bring the people?s business to a stand-still. Other Matters Constitution Another sad testament to our leaders? ineptness with these old raggedy tag lines only designed to prolong their political shelf lives before gullible constituents; absolutely hollow and baseless. Kenyans care way more about their personal fortunes, the economy, and education of their children, healthcare, their security and quality leadership than this politically created fa?ade about the constitution. These goons are abject failures in all fronts above and have instead wasted tones of public funds pushing a stale and mundane subject matter only to line their pockets and those of their friends and yeah, remain relevant. Even the one thing they claim to take care of, these geniuses still can?t figure out what to do, I mean Kenya has to import ?experts? to work on our constitution! A constitution is simply a set of governing principles that a country is governed by and the citizens are the normally the ones who decide what those principles. The biggest argument made by the likes of Odinga in calling for a new constitution was that Kenya needed a constitution crafted locally by her own people and here we are, years and Billions of shillings wasted later, importing ?experts? to dictate to Kenyans how to govern themselves! Seriously, are you kidding me? Kenya had more prosperity and at par with many world powers under President Jomo Kenyatta under this constitution than at any time until President Kibaki took the reins in 2002. It is not about the constitution folks, ABSOLTUTELY NOT! It is about leadership that puts its people and country a head of personal gain, about knowledge of what makes the country work. None of these is possessed by these geniuses leading Kenya right now, our school curriculum has never been revised to meet world challenges to promote ingenuity and innovation, the economy is in ruins, medicines are rotting in warehouses, gangs rule the streets and are egged on by politicians, friends, NO CONSTITUTION CAN FIX THIS ROT, NONE! The only way to fix this awful state of affairs and cure the country of the cancer that is taking over is the removal of all these clueless tax evading blood suckers in government, ALL of them! Start over. And as for the constitution itself, the document is just ok. Let?s repeal or amend the sections or parts as we see fit at the least expense and controversy as possible. One stark stunt PM Odinga is trying to pull on Kenyans is to convince voters that we don?t need the presidency as voted by the majority of Kenyans and that the concept of one man one vote for the only true national office bearer is irrelevant and should instead be replaced by a parliamentary system like say France or England where, in his discombobulated mind, ultimate power vests in the Prime Minister who is voted to office by MPs! REALLY Mr. PM Odinga?! It is pretty obvious that the ONLY reason PM Odinga wants this is simply because he knows deep down in heart that he CANNOT win the presidency and wants to instead improve his chances by excluding majority of Kenyans from picking their leader and instead turn over that process to the 220 corruptible, incompetent MPs, who as witnessed in picking the stooge speaker Marende, are absolutely incorrigible. It is obvious the PM cannot corrupt Millions of Kenyans into voting for him and he is desperate to become president of Kenya, so, he must figure out a way to pull the process from right under Kenyans feet and turn it over to the 220 corrupt MPs- it is easier to manipulate this ignorant bunch, people- don?t buy it. It is yet another recipe for failure and disaster for Kenya. Up until recently, the PM somehow believed the presidency was his for the taking and that he was owed the office by Kenyans but as it is slowly dawning on him, perhaps he is now disillusioned, maybe it is the realization that his formula of pitting tribes against each other was not the brightest way to get to the top and that betting his ascendancy to the top office exclusively on the Nilotic groups who dominate ODM vs. the majority Bantus instead of being all inclusive of all Kenyans is back firing big time. The PM relied on groups who were overwhelmingly over-represented in parliament to get elected and forgot the presidency is determined by the majority, a majority he explicitly excluded from the political equation; I am not trying to pile on the PM but these errors by the PM must not go unchallenged. Mau Forest This is Kenya?s greatest and primary water catchment area and its management thereof cannot be pegged to politics. Rift Valley MPs are, once again foolishly, trying to equate environmental management to political persecution. BULL! The government simply need to devise a formula that would maximize the area?s productivity while sustaining the environment, in other words, we need to know what is the optimum human dwelling density/capacity in the MAU forest and a good way is to look back at empirical data to determine at what time did the trends turn negative in the MAU area; populations that settled after this time must then rolled back and relocated elsewhere so we can preserve the nation?s resources. We can?t as a nation be held hostage by the politics of William Ruto and Kalenjin MPs! I mean, seriously! We know Moi doled out the forest to his tribesmen but Kenya is certainly bigger than Kalenjins and our national interests will ALWAYS trump those of an individual group. Provinces and Majimbo The irony of this is that Kenya tried this once and it failed miserably, I mean badly! No Kenyan, except of course for the imbeciles in politics, has expressly on record asked for MAJIMBO or (STATES) as a form of government because they know it is very divisive and if what the clueless Odinga and Musyoka are asking for is genuinely the distribution of wealth, we already have provinces; why do we need to recreate what is already in existence verses improving upon it? Also, during president Moi?s regime, he created a multitude of constituencies and a disproportionate number of them in the Rift Valley for his tribesmen to give them unfettered and disproportionate representation in Parliament, national resources and government; Moi never consulted with anyone to create new political boundaries; why on earth would Ruto expect President Kibaki to consult with the locals to create new provinces? WHY?! Does that even start to make sense? This president is so afraid to act presidential to a point Kenya is considered a failed state for all practical purposes; WHY?! Taxation Nation building is the responsibility of ALL! Why do MPs refuse to pay their fair share of taxes? Kenyan MPs earn some of the highest incomes in the world with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. Why should we fund institutionalized thievery? These MPs are both sleeping at the wheel and sometimes literary in parliament, they don?t understand parliamentary procedures or their role in steering national development; I mean come on! Taxing the poor for self enrichment is not good governance no matter how you cut it. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kjayanoris at gmail.com Mon Jul 13 06:45:52 2009 From: kjayanoris at gmail.com (Kelvin) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:45:52 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] flowers business Message-ID: <92a189420907130345y41879d3aq175556956ed39ab9@mail.gmail.com> H everyone! 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By Sheila Stacey. http://www.nation.co.ke/magazines/lifestyle/-/1214/622580/-/8d9b6yz/-/index.html I will never forget the first time I met Tom Mboya, one of the most talented, charming and gracious politicians Kenya has had. My mum and I had gone to watch a film at 20th Century Cinema. During the interval, I popped out to buy something, and saw the Mboyas climbing the stairs. I had always admired Mr Mboya, and smiled and greeted him with a ?hello?. He responded warmly and we proceeded back to the movie hall. Little did I know that our lives would intermingle fatefully in the following few years. Although I only gained an average pass mark in the Cambridge School Certificate Examination, I took to learning Pitman?s shorthand and typing like a duck takes to water. Mr Mboya was invited as a guest of honour during the prize-giving day for Reeswood College, where I was studying. I had the honour of being presented with a Parker pen set by Mr Mboya as a reward for being one of the top five students. All those who had passed their tests managed to find a job, but I was still trying to find something where I would feel comfortable when Tom telephoned the principal Ruth Hogan to inquire whether or not there were any students, who had graduated, and who were looking for an employment opportunity. This resulted in Mrs Hogan sending me to the Ministry of Planning for an interview. I thought that the personnel officer would take me through the interview, and I was absolutely stunned when I was ushered into Mr Mboya?s office. He was pleased with my credentials and informed me that I could start work with one of his advisers ? Mr Norbye ? who had travelled from Norway to take up his appointment. Two secretaries worked in the same room and that is when I met a very dear friend ? Cynthia Miranda, with whom I am still in contact ? who worked for another adviser; a Mr Savosnick. After a few months, I was promoted to work for the Ministry?s under-secretary, Mr Kibuchi. It soon became apparent that Mr Kibuchi looked upon me as just another mzungu. Little did he know that my mother had been very strict with her five children, raising us strictly and instilling in us progressive attitudes towards the subject of race. We were warned against picking a fight with any of our servant?s children. Mum never, ever disbelieved our househelp?s children, and more often than not, I would get punished for fighting with her son, Gatundu. None of us was allowed to issue instructions to the househelp or our shamba workers. In fact, they were permitted to tell us what to do. A very good lesson was taught. I have always regarded people of all races to be equal. That is why I was very disappointed in the way in which I was being treated. It got so bad that when Mr Kibuchi buzzed me on the telephone 30 times in all of two hours (I kept note of the amount of buzzes), I had enough. On the 30th buzz, and when I didn?t go into his office, Mr Kibuchi came out to see me sitting in my chair, manual typewriter with cover on, and all my books, pencils etc., neatly stacked on my desk. Mr Kibuchi immediately sent me to the man regarded as the ?Headmaster? ? Mr Mbathi, who was Mr Mboya?s Permanent Secretary at that time. I was quite forthright in what I said to Mr Mbathi: ?Either I go or he does.? As it happened, Mr Mboya?s then secretary, Karen Mulima, had decided to go to Canada, her homeland. Another secretary ? Gladys Ogola ? was in the ?pipeline? but it would be a month before she and her husband, Boaz, returned from the United States. So I was appointed temporary secretary for Mr Mboya. I had a ball, but when Gladys arrived I would either be transferred within the ministry, or have to look for another appointment. Luckily, just in the nick of time, I was offered a position as secretary to Dr Ken Ross, who worked in the veterinary department for Pfizer Corporation, at the Aga Khan Hospital, opposite City Park. A few months later, I got a call from the ministry telling me that there was a vacancy ? personal secretary to the minister ? which they thought I should apply for. Gladys had left the position due to a family situation. It was a great experience working for Tom. Being naive at that time, and only concerned about what was happening in Kenya, I didn?t even comprehend how important some of the people he corresponded with were. The list of stars included Golda Meir (Israel?s first female Prime Minister); Robert Kennedy (former US senator); Indira Gandhi (former Prime Minister of India) and Dr Martin Luther King (American civil rights icon), among others. Although both I and those who were appointed to assist me ? Philadelphia, Philomena and Prisca Auma ? were constantly under pressure, Tom made life enjoyable. If he was unable to take up the offer of free tickets to athletics, piano recitals, sporting events etc., he was kind enough to pass them on to his staff so that they too could experience the life that VIPs enjoyed. All of us would remain in his office till late as he was determined to see the last person sitting in the waiting room to keep an appointment. Tom?s private secretary, Mr Otieno Nundu, and I were the only trusted duo permitted to collect his personal mail. Life was full of hard work, but also hilarious. On one occasion, both of Tom?s cars were being used and he asked if I could drop him off at his home. I really could?t blame him when he opened his newspaper to the fullest width so as not to be recognised on the road. The paper blocked my vision so I was forced to almost literally stick my head out of the driver?s window to see where I was going. You could just imagine the headlines: ?Government minister transported home by secretary in an old beat-up 1956 Volkswagen ? KHR 780!? My mother and I shared the same vehicle and she would invariably pick me up from the ministry. One time, when I was meant to be at Msongari Convent to take part in the Kenya Womens? Hockey Associations training session, Tom required me to stay behind rather longer than expected. Mum went home, but just after 5 p.m. Tom ordered his chauffeur to drop me off at Msongari. I felt embarrassed at that time as Seth ? the chauffer ? hurtled towards the grounds, with the ministerial flag flying ? so all cars would give way ? to get me to training on time. I also remember once going along to see Tom play a game of football ? Kenyan diplomats against foreign diplomats. Tom took a corner kick, and I could not help laughing as the ball went wide and landed out of the field of play. In May 1968, I celebrated my 21st birthday. Mr and Mrs Mboya, as well as Mr Phillip Ndegwa (then a Permanent Secretary) didn?t take into consideration that our family lived in a humble home on the Muthaiga-Limuru road; they attended the celebrations. Pamela and Tom presented me with the most wonderful gift, a lion-claw jewellery. Two brooches, a pair of earrings, a bracelet with five claws and a pendant with two claws forming a heart on top of which was an Alexarndrite. Phillip and his wife gave me a wonderful tray ? all presents I still have. Early one morning, my flat-mate, Jo, awoke feeling traumatised. Her then husband had taken her two children over for the weekend. When she got up, she had this terrible feeling that something was wrong. She shook me awake, and asked me to accompany her to John?s house at the University of Nairobi. When we arrived at midnight, the lights were on, but when we rang the bell to the apartment there was no answer. Jo then insisted that we drive to Embakasi Airport where we learnt that John, Guy and Kim had left Kenya for the UK. I spoke to Tom and said that it was incumbent upon me, as a friend, to travel to England to help Jo find her children. With this in mind, Tom and I sat down to organise his itinerary. It was agreed I would only be out of his office for two days whilst I was in the UK. To cut to the chase. John lost his appeal to take custody of his two children, and was instructed by the judge to return them to his ex-wife. When I boarded a train to travel back to Reading, where I was staying with my eldest brother, Alistair, and his wife Doreen, as I entered the sitting-room, I turned on the TV to watch the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Assassination During one of the matches, Tom?s face appeared on the screen. I heard ?assassination?. I prayed that I had heard incorrectly and that it was an ?attempted assassination?. It turned out that I was wrong. I walked around to the police station but was unable to connect a line to speak to Pamela. After several attempts, the Reading police came to see me and told me that I was still booked on the flight to return to Nairobi ? a few days after the murder. When we arrived at Embakasi, there were several Special Branch (intelligence) agents there to greet me, and they whisked me off to take me to Tom and Pamela?s home. When I arrived, those clan members who recognised me, were pushing me towards Tom?s coffin. That is when I was rescued by a colleague, Jenny Liversidge, who told me that I should remember Tom as he was, but not what he looked like (now). When a security member knocked on the bedroom door, Pam opened the door, and fell into my arms and sobbed and sobbed. Pam asked me whether the VW keys found in Tom?s Black Box belonged to me. They did not. Pamela began to tell me a story. The first was that she had heard an owl hooting outside her bedroom ? to her this was a bad omen. Pamela then continued to say that she had a dream of her adopted daughter experiencing a miscarriage. This, to her, meant that somebody was to meet with a violent death. So many happy memories of one of the most wonderful politicians on this earth. I still feel so very guilty that I was not there for Tom. Tom was scheduled to chair an African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the time he was killed. Great sadness This was a time of great sadness for everyone. A month after the funeral I was invited to attend a memorial ceremony for Tom. His successor, Joseph Odero-Jowi, arranged for me to make the trip to Rusinga and we eventually arrived after several mishaps along the way. The house in which I spent several nights on Rusinga Island had no running water or electricity. Since I was unable to bathe, I was forced to take a bath in Lake Victoria. That is when young Peter Mboya ran to his mother and said: ?Mummy I saw a bright light in the Lake!? That was me! Bright I was, white also. I will never, ever forget my trip to Rusinga. I was treated with great warmth by everyone who embraced me as part of the family. I have missed Kenya greatly and the nation also misses the great man who was cut down at the prime of his life, 40 years ago. THE END. Ms Sheila Stacey, who was born in Kenya in May 1947, currently lives with her husband, Peter, in New Zealand. -- Joram Ragem wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Sungu wrote about the three Presidents we have had (one current), or there have been others I am not aware of? Why would you read into it that he is trying to put a case against Kibaki? What do you think he has done in order to have a case against him in?regard to ?Kenyan democracy?:) ? ? Sungu, I am still thinking... will get back to you on this one. ? ? Jeanette M. Khaoya --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Murithi Magiri wrote: From: Murithi Magiri Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 2:49 PM I would call that selective amnesia if i'm asked. Because you have picked three cases only so that you can put a case against Kibaki. Better look at the whole reign of the individual president and judge them based on that tafadhali. ?In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.? Thomas Jefferson --- On Sat, 11/7/09, otieno sungu wrote: From: otieno sungu Subject: [YP_Ke] Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: "Biddi Africa" Cc: "young proffessionals" Date: Saturday, 11 July, 2009, 8:30 PM Given the struggle Kenyans have had and the fights we have had to endure to achieve democracy, whose legacy on democracy will be remembered fondly by Kenyans? ? Is it Jommo Kenyatta who through then Attorney General stopped the "change the contitution" tribalist elites from preventing Moi's ascention to power? ? Will it be Daniel Moi, who even though considered the worst strong man of Kenya, handed over power peacefully to Kibaki following the loss of Kanu after in 2002 after?40 years of rule? ? Will it be Mwai Kibaki who ascended to power through proper democracy only to subvert the same democracy by allowing himself to be sworn in even when all indications were that he lost the elections? ? 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I am perusing through them and will respond to those who have been shortlisted, and request you to come for an Interview. Kind regards. Devna On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Boma Adventures wrote: > HI > I own a travel agency in thecity centre called Boma Holidays. > We are located on Harambee Avenue in a building called Jeevan Bharti > Building on the 5th Floor. > I am looking for a University graduate in Bcom who has a year or so > experience in Accounts. > If they have done their CPA even if it is just upto Part 1 & 2, it > would be an added advantage. > I would like someone who is pro-active, willing to learn the travel > and tours business,work with a wonderful team of staff, as well as > bring in business for the company. > Loyalty and honesty are a must. 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My car is stuck at the Port of Mombasa apparently because KRA does not have number plates so that my vehicle is released from the Port of Mombasa. When my agent logged my vehicle online and was asked to pay duty I paid promptly, later their evaluators checked the documents and I was required to pay more duty which I also did deligently. ? As at now my vehicle cannot leave the port because there is no metal (of whatever they call it!) for a number plate. The implication is that my vehicle will attract more storage fee on a fault that is of KRA. Why is KRA doing this? is this their way of ensuring they squeeze out all our savings? ? I wish one of them is in this forum to give me answers. These people have failed us left right and centre. ? Regards, ? 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To this point I agree with you 100%. But I have a big big problem with you on several issues that you appear to represent better than Ruto would. Lets start by asking you how you got to be so positive that Ruto is in the secret Envelope even though Anan, Ocampo like most of us, do not know till they open it. Two Why then did you and those that you are deffending kill the thieves of your Election victory and went Killing ennoscent, impoverished farmers most of who knew nothing about the Election theft and could careless who worn or lost.Thirdly, if you can deffend Ruot this vigorously against prosecution why did you not deffend those who lost thier lives? in the hands of your friends. Please seat tight and watch God go to work to defend the diffenceless, Kenya should be used to set examples about never ever taking alife? whether you lose or win in any Election ?Haugue is the answer am so sorry. --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Musungu Stephen wrote: From: Musungu Stephen Subject: [YP_Ke] AAHII!!!! To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 10:03 AM soory i must apologise uand start by introducing maself to you people am a graduate of the university opf Naiorobi and started getting your mails way before i could fit maself in the shoes of a proffessional and that is why i chave kept to maself as mary the mother of jesus did ? There is one Florence Ndungu? whom i hve never mwet but strongly belif from what she writes deserves the YP award o0f the year???? OOOOP-S !!!!!N DOES VOINE EXIST OR S JUST AN? IMAGINATION. ? The above are by the way but my main reason of writting is to share some sense with DAVID LIAMBILA ?I HAVE SERIOUS QUESTIONs WHICH I WOULD LIKE TO POSE FOR HIM, 1? Who told Ruto? and yourself are in that envelop? (no wonder my mother told me mwizi ujisema kabla asemwe) 2 ?Did ?you in your right sense find any justfication whatsoever for the killing that happened 3You and Ruto (assuming ni kujitetea mnajitetea ) why din't kill the thieves but opted for other poeple that according to me shuold see you (read them)?packing and going to hague the hell ? ? ? ? ? --- On Mon, 7/13/09, David Liambila wrote: From: David Liambila Subject: [YP_Ke] PEV: Hope someone is listening to Ruto To: bidiiafrika at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:49 AM One Wiliam Ruto has been saying what I have also been saying for quite some time (just that my statements don't get to make prime time news): Before we prosecute those who caused the PEV all around the country, we must start by prosecuting the thievils who stole the elections and who now occupy the high offices in the land. If not, then quite honestly, there will never be any justice done. Because that's where the problem started. And when I talk of election thieves i don't mean Samuel Kivuitu. I mean the masterminds, the mean, uncouth, greedy, power-hungry scoudrels. Them that organised a swearing in ceremony even before the final results were out, and went on to swear themselves to faithfully serve an unwilling nation. Them on whose head the blood of innocent souls must be borne till justice is served, whether in this life or in the next. I'm watching this Ocampo guy keenly to see how he goes about the whole thing (I'm convinced this thing will go the Ocampo way). Or better still, I hope, though doubtful, that Mr. Waki remembered to include these thievels in his famous list. I'm not Wiliam Ruto's groundsman, but on this matter I'm with him. 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Just like people did not kill themselves,hack themselves to death,?burn themselves in churches an torch their houses, elections did not rig themselves, change figures themselves and announce wrong figures themselves. ? Some people did all these, for Kriegler to say so yet refuse to say who did it is the shodiests jobs done by anybody purporting to be a?judge of international repute. ? Waki did a good job, said what happened and who did it, now, we must ask very loudly who rigged elections before anyone is prosecuted. ? Otherwise, we must reject in any form and deed the attempt to prosecute only one side of the offenders. There must be total justice for both sides before we can start healing.This can only lead to more resentement and another round of the same, only on a larger scale and more organized in 2012!! ? NO KRIEGLER ENVELOP, NO HAGUE,NO TRIBUNAL,?NO PROSECUTIONS, NO HEALING!!! ? ? Otieno Sungu. Juba. --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Kennedy Oduor wrote: From: Kennedy Oduor Subject: We Need a Kriegler Envelope To: bidiiafrika at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 6:25 PM I totally agree with Sungu that who were involved the electoral debacle must face justice. We urgently need a SECOND ENVELOPE from Johann Kriegler. Kenyans MUST insist that No One Shall Be Prosecuted Without a Second Envelope. There are those who planned the rigging of the elections which ultimately led to the post-election violence and deaths of 1500 Kenyans. We must ask tough questions and Ocampo MUST insist on getting a second envelope from Kriegler. ? I once agreed with Mutahi Ngunyi that Kriegler did a shoddy job because he feared that revealing the truth could have led to another round of violence but the TRUTH IS ALL OUT there and we know that elections were rigged so when Kriegler told us that elections were rigged and there was no telling who won-He wasnt telling any news and we shouldnt even have paid him. Kriegler should have told us WHO RIGGED THE ELECTIONS and given us another ENVELOPE. Lets all demand for a SECOND ENVELOPE containing the names of the masterminds behind the Rigging of the 2007 General elections. ? What did the President know about the rigging? What did the ECK Commisioners know about the rigging? Who made the decision to send APs to opposition areas as agents of a political party? Who was the Minister who wanted to snatch the certificate from Samuel Kivuitu? Were the allegations that Kamau Kinuthia was organizing rigging True? Who were the Returning Officers who changed figures at the polling stations including the Molo one? Where did they get the orders? Samuel Kivuitu may know a lot about the 2007 election rigging..can we give him an opportunity to tell his story? Who forced Kivuitu to annouce fraudulent results? What about the computer man at the tallying centre? What did he know? What did the secretary of ECK know about the rigging? Why did results from Mount Kenya deliberately delayed? ? OCAMPO this is your work..from planning to execution to the violence..We must deal with impunity..Without a SECOND ENVELOPE..Kenyans MUST insist that no one should be prosecuted for anything if we wont get FULL JUSTICE FOR ALL.... ? ? ? ? ? --- On Mon, 13/7/09, otieno sungu wrote: From: otieno sungu Subject: Hague-from the planning to the execution, all must face justice! To: "Biddi Africa" Cc: NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com, "young proffessionals" Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 11:05 AM I am fully in agreement with one Moreno Ocampo that from the planners to the executioners of PEV, all must face justice. ? The planners include those who planned to rig the election precipitation rebellion and nation wide protests. This is a form of impunity and what is being dealt with here is bringing to an end the culture of impunity. ? ?I have in mind here those wicked Commissioners who were smiling on camera, surrounded by police and announcing flawed results that were being cooked with no proof of?supporting documents(relevant forms from constituencies) and the electoral officials who vanished with results for more than 48 hours hightening tension around the country. ? Then there are those who went out burning and killing others due to these results,whatever the case, no one had the right to take another's life especially if the said people only happened to have voted their own way.These must face justice for a repeat of the same never to happen again.This group includes the finaciers and planners of both the Rift Valley mayhem and the retaliatory attacks in Nakuru,Naivasha and Limuru. ? There are then those who beat up protestors and killed many whose only crime was to protest through legal means(demonstrations) the fraud we refer to as elections, these must be brought to book.Here, candidates are?Police Commissioner and AP Commandant. ? There are then those who abetted a crime against the people of Kenya, those who swore the wrong President,handed him the certificate against the wishes of majority as is enshrined in our constitution, here?the candidates are?Chief Justice and ECK Chairman. This was impunity of the highest order. ? Then the very person who allowed himself to be the recepient of a flawed process that denied Kenyans a popularly elected and mandated leader needs to take his share of the blame and responsibility. Everywhere in the world, except a few places here and there in Kenya, and State House Uganda,it is generally known that perharps there was no clear winner to the 2007 elections owing to the manner in which it was conducted. Any sane?contender would have acknowledged this and agreed to a re-run or a process that would have detoxified and disinfected?the polluted process. ? Whichever side of the devide we are on, we must confront all those who were involved in impunity and make each account, only, and only then will this country exorcise the ghost of impunity and flagrant disregard to the law. ? Otieno Sungu. 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Perharps the old man is using Kibaki's failures to try and assauge his guilt feelings, we should not give him the benefit of advising us because if he did what he is saying now during his 24 years, Kenya would be a paradise along the Asian Tigers.Most of Kenyas debts were borrowed during his time, was that not asking outsiders to solve our problems? ? Moi should shut up and learn to walk with his head lowered and his tail between his legs, we are still trying to cope up with and clear the mess he created. ? Otieno Sungu. Juba --- On Tue, 7/14/09, John Maina wrote: From: John Maina Subject: Re: [NewVisionKenya] President Moi To: net-kenya at yahoogroups.com, "Africare- NewPublications" , news at ktnkenya.com, newvisionkenya at egroups.com, NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogroups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "President Barack Obama" , Openyourthirdeye at yahoogroups.com, "p4c" , "panafricanist" , peoplespeak at people.co.ke, "progressiveminds" , "Publiceye" , "Royal Media" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroups.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com Cc: TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com, trueblackness at yahoogroups.com, "ugandacom" , "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com, youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "youthagenda" Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 1:13 AM Okecth, I always wonder -- how come no one ever tells him to shut up? The more Kenyans give him attention the more he will keep running his mouth. He is not even ashamed of his 24-year pathetic leadership. What he needs to do is to advise his two rotten sons. JM. --- On Tue, 7/14/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [NewVisionKenya] President Moi To: net-kenya at yahoogrou ps.com, "Africare- NewPublications" , news at ktnkenya. com, newvisionkenya@ egroups.com, NewVisionKenya@ yahoogroups. com, next_kenya at yahoogro ups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "President Barack Obama" , Openyourthirdeye@ yahoogroups. com, "p4c" , "panafricanist" , peoplespeak@ people.co. ke, "progressiveminds" , "Publiceye" , "Royal Media" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com Cc: TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "ugandacom" , "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com, "youthagenda" Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 2:01 AM Former President HE Daniel T Arap Moi for the umpteenth time reminded Kenyans that no one will come from outside to solve our problems. That it is us who must do that. President Moi was President of Kenya for a record 24 years. This will never be matched since the law now only allows for a maximum of 10 years at the top. If for those 24 years, he failed to solve our problems, could it not be wise for his advisors to tell him to keep quiet and enjoy his time? I bet Kenya had enough of his rule and we might be reeling from the effects of his time. We need to move forward without necessarily being reminded of what he did not do at his time. If his 24 years were of noble lead, Kenyans could listen to his advice. But given that we have nothing to be particularly proud of to associate with his 24 years, his advice might bring pangs of pains which are best forgotten. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (2) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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The tribe factor is very necessary and cannot be done without. ? This I say from my experience as a demographer. When analysing certain socio-economic/cultural?factors affecting use of for instance health services, the tribe factor/ethnicity has been found to be statistically significant in influencing use, this could be due to certain beliefs and practices that people from certain tribes hold dearly. ? For instance we have disparities in infant andchild mortality across Kenya and one of the major factors has been found to be tribe aslo referred to as "Ethnicity". To enable the government plan for the different health needs of the people, there is need to understand their beliefs and practices so that appropriate programmes are put in place to meet the specific needs of the people. ? A recent example is the programme targetting the Luo on Male circumcision. This was after it was identified through evidence on the special needs of these group/community. ? Another example is the programme rescuing girls from parts Northern Province from Early/Child marriage. Again this was after it was identified that through ceratin beliefs and practices common to certain ethnic groups, many young girls were missing out on educationwere being forced to start child bearing early, yet their bodies were not fully developed for this. The result was many cases of fistulae etc etc. ? ? All these call for the tribe factor/ethnicity to be incorporated in our census. I can still share with you more exaples to elaborate why tribe/ethnicity is very crucial especially fr planning on health care among other issues. ? Kind regards, Rhoune Willis. For qualitative and quantitative research services contact IMPACT RESEARCH INITIATIVE (IRI) through; impactresearchgroup at gmail.com We provide research consultation, design, support, analysis and training in softwares like (STATA, Epi-Info, SPSS, En-vivo, Endnote and Reference manager etc). 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That eagle will take her eaglet to the very highest point way out of its comfort zone and then she releases it. As the eaglet falls, the mother swoops down and picks it back up again. She does this over and over until the eaglet spreads its wings and soars through the air. LAYERWS ON CALL JOEL OESTEEN 6.30pm FRIDAY Is the church setting the right example on issues affecting the society, is it giving the right directions or is it a proactive or a reactionary institution? In Kenya if a person is found guilty by a court of law he/she is imprisoned for a period depending on the seriousness of the offence. While still in the prisons the criminals are trained on different fields as well as performing some hard labour as a way of reforming them. Faraja (Consultation) is an N.G.O that focuses on helping such people . CROSSTALK 6.30pm GOD IN AFRICA 10.00PM WEEKEND MOVIE. 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Otsiatso --- On Mon, 7/13/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [Siasa-Kenya] Tribe Kenya for a unified society. To: "africa-oped" , "BBC" , "ccr" , "Kenya Community" , "Kenya Community" , editor at africanexecutive.com, editor at nation.co.ke, editors at newsweek.com, "An East African Online Forum Dedicated to Information Exchange." , "Guardian" , info at people.co.ke, "jaluo" , jokanyanam at yahoogroups.com, KACA at yahoogroups.com, kalamkanews at yahoo.com, kenva at yahoogroups.com, "Mars Group Kenya" , kenya_pyla at yahoogroups.com, kenya-can at egroups.com, kenya-can at yahoogroups.com, kenyacitizensassembly at yahoogroups.com, kenyaclub at yahoogroups.com, kenyap2012g at yahoogroups.com, "kol" , letters at eastandard.net, "ramogi luo" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, luv4self_network at yahoogroups.com, madaraka-kenya at yahoogroups.com, mailbox at nation.co.ke, mazingira at yahoogroups.com, mbonbani at yahoogroups.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups.com, mwanyagetinge at yahoogroups.com, net-kenya at yahoogroups.com, newvisionkenya at egroups.com Cc: "Africare- NewPublications" , news at ktnkenya.com, NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogroups.com, "p4c" , "panafricanist" , peoplespeak at people.co.ke, "progressiveminds" , "Publiceye" , "Royal Media" , "siasa" , Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com, TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com, trueblackness at yahoogroups.com, "White House U.S.A." , "Uganda House" , "ugandacom" , "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com, youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "youthagenda" Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:34 PM Tribe Kenya for a unified society ?13th July 2009 On page 24 of the Sunday Nation of 12th July 2009, Mr. Reginald Okumu, a former chairman of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya led a team from Tribe Kenya Initiative in urging Kenyans to refuse to answer to the tribe question in the forthcoming national census. Tribe Kenya Initiative is a lobby group that seeks to encourage Kenyans to think more of Kenya than the tribe from which they come from. And in their editorial of today, the Daily Nation seems to be encouraging the government to ask us about our tribes in the forthcoming census. In a strongly worded editorial, the author says such arguments border on facetious sophistry and are best discarded. He then says that what is important is finding out the relative numbers, not so that one tribe can go around proclaiming its majority, but for planning purposes. I beg to differ. For the last 46 years, and the Daily Nation knows this, the issue of tribe has been used to set Kenyans against each other. Is it not time we Kenyans confronted this issue and put it to rest? I am a Kenyan of Luo origin. Why should somebody ask me that in a government document? I bet the most important thing to do is to know that I am a Kenyan. Secondly, our political leaders have failed to use our ethnic diversity to propel a national agenda. We all know that tribe has been an issue and our political leaders will always use this as a tool to disenfranchise us. Is it not time Kenyans revolted against this selfish scheme? Is it too much to just say I am a Kenyan? Thirdly, I have not seen any planning purposes centred on the tribe. If it is the Luo, we have Luos across all Kenya. How will you factor on development with the Luo in mind? I bet development is either constituency or District based. If we were to factor on development in Nyeri, will we look at how many Kikuyus, Luos, Kambas or Luhyas are domiciled there? And then for ?planning purposes? plan according to the numbers of each tribe in that particular District? This is a tired argument and it is time Kenyans confront this issue head on. The author of that editorial at the Daily Nation cannot use such strongly worded jargons to stifle an idea whose time has come. For 46 years Kenyans have been shepherded like goats by politicians who use the issue of tribe to divide us. Don?t we all know how the census has been used to hype the numbers of certain tribes? I want to strongly urge Kenyans to ignore and refuse to answer to the tribe question. Let us all say we are Kenyans. It is time we took charge of our destiny by beginning to reclaim our independence from the manipulative politicians and their cronies from the media and the civil service. For 46 years, tribal census has been used to make us fight, it is time to give it a kick. I am a Kenyan and I am proud to be one. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Photos | Polls Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! 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If you pay attention to my note, I went the extra mile of lambasting Kenya's leadership from the President on down; I even blasted foreign embassies so I am not sure I was trying to make friends but I know I am collecting a ton of enemies, which is the least of my worries. ? Now, if this pathetic weak juvenile high school rejoinder is all you have as a response, no wonder people like Raila scorn at you and treat you like spit; neither yourself nor anyone of your thinking will ever get anywhere in Kenya because you allow the leadership to pull you and hold you down and you are dragging the entire country down with you. None of your response even address ONE item raised in the memo except foolish rambling about the dead and Uhuru;?wake up my friend and tell Raila to shape up; IDPs are still in Camps while his PRIVATE home is allocated?198 Million Shilling to entertain visitors; the President and the VP are in on the loot too; who are you fooling? Ministers ?ride in the newest Mercedes Benzes while kids and women go hungry-did you know one day's fuel for those cars can feed a family of ten for two weeks? MPs refuse to pay their fair share of taxes while? taxing the poor?to Beyond Poverty Ave; thieves and murderers run the government; Wetangula is proclaiming that kenya is not a failed state when all the evidence is to the contrary; do you know of any country where politicians engineer the?murder of their citizens, justify the deaths, fail to prosecute perpetrators and claim success? Where? Kenya of-ccourse. The president is asleep at the helm, I mean come on my friend, call it what you may but that is Kenya's reality; KENYA IS A FAILED STATE! ? About Wamalwa, maybe you speak to the dead but I, as many Kenyans didn't get the memo about Raila's "best" part..all we know he called mass violence and innocent people died; about Ruto, the facts speak for themselves and if you have something you wish Kenyans to know about Uhuru, let's hear it. KACC is in on the rot as you correctly point out; we have a rotten government peopleses, it is BAD, really BAD! --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Lee Makwiny wrote: From: Lee Makwiny Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: KENYA DIVIDED:ROT IN GOVERNMENT, ICC, etc - FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:12 AM Ochwangi, You will praise your paymaster to death, but the fact is that Hague is here will us. Do you want to tell us you know more that Karua did. We are sorry. You will be shocked buddy. The late Wamalwa will tell you best side of Raila you belong to. Its either you love him or hate him, and you know where belong Period. And why do you bring on Ruto's name on this and deliberately leave out his friend Uhuru???? Are you playing politics for someone here!!! Or do you want me to believe that its a mere coincidence? The major problem we have in Kenya is corruption, and if you make this your pet subject, then we will take you seriously. Read Obama man, his problem with Kenya is corruption, corruption and lack of respect for democracy. Period. You can take a walk on that and you will get his message to Kenya. Do you know how much KACC director earn? ? As you serve your masters, I only wish you the best. ? On 7/13/09, David ochwangi wrote: DICLAIMER: This is how I see it-unmasked, blunt and not sugar coated and so ?in fairness, please be warned. This is not intended to be politically correct in terms of wording or expression and if you are angered by the contents, I accept full credit. Even family must endure tough love for the good of all. ?It is amazing what a difference five short years have made in a country that was once on a trajectory to economic and political maturity! Short of an outright formal declaration of Kenya as a failed state, Western diplomats accredited to Kenya are, for the most part in charge, helping, subtly and yet vitally, hold the country together and prevent her from spiraling to the precipice of further lawlessness. Just six short years ago Kenya shined on the world stage with the display of political maturity by her peaceful people in electing president Kibaki and the peaceful transition of power from President Moi. In 2003 Kenyans were ranked as the most optimistic people on earth and even though this quickly evaporated courtesy of politics gone awry, the country generally remained peaceful, posted respectable economic gains and revival of industry.? Fast forward to 2008, 2009 and for the foreseeable future and you have practically a failing state, all economic gains almost wiped out, growth all but gone now at a projected measly 1.7% from an impressive 7% leading into the 2007 elections, tribal militias and rag tag gangs supported by warlord politicians essentially manning the streets and communities; at the national level, foreign diplomats from the west are effectively running the government! What happened to Kenya? What went wrong so bad so fast? Very simple, here: Politics vs. Governance: Not to regurgitate the obvious but Kenya?s leaders, like most in Africa, are incapable of making a distinction between the two, most politicians equate politics to governance; our political class has substituted fear and intimidation for respect, never mind that respect, which is the true measure of leadership, is earned; and so when the election results were announced in December 2007, none of these clowns would place nationhood above self. And this gaping shortcoming was a big invitation to the West to step in. ?The calls for armed struggle via ?Mass Action? was clearly a signal to the West to our lack of capacity to self govern, to temper our disagreements with reason and our flagrant repudiation of rule of law. Kenya?s leaders failed when it mattered most: President Kibaki was timid and cowed to wits end when the perpetrator in chief, PM Odinga lit the nation on fire through demagoguery and predatory incitement. Whereas the president?s perceived ineffectiveness and inefficiency became painfully clear, the PM exploited the country?s vulnerabilities to the hilt; the sum gain was deaths of innocent Kenyans, suspension of rule of law, a failing economy and constructive hand over of governance to the West. ?One can make the case against the president for complacency to Kenya?s suffering through his omissions because he failed to use the enormous constitutional mandates of his office, like Kenyatta or Moi would have, to maintain law and order to preserve the country?s stability and save lives while yet another case can be made against the PM for complicity through his direct agitation, encouragement, aiding and endorsement of law breaking to attain self promotion. So the west had no choice in the matter but to fill the vast void suddenly created by spineless morons whose leadership shelf lives long expired in the last century. ?In rubbishing Kenya?s courts and its entire justice system, the PM, in essence created neo colonialism in Kenya with his repeated calls to the West and ?friends of Kenya? to intervene on his behalf.? The truth is many in Kenya?s top leadership would NOT even be electable to a town councilman position in the West, they would in fact be handed a one way ticket to oblivion and commanded to not EVER EVER show back in town again, that is just how horrendous our politicians are and yet many are trotting the globe and making embellished claims of knowledge as if such tours confer spontaneous wisdom! Western Intervention: And so when the West stepped in, Kenya?s leaders were more than willing, without debate, question or consternation, to swallow a concoction of a poison pill out of this world; without being given an opportunity to debate and vote, we became the perfect guinea pigs and to this day and for the foreseeable future will continue to reap the repercussions of this intervention. ? The two page Grand Coalition agreement which Kenya?s parliament unanimously approved at record speed was perhaps the most abhorrent to the extent it was dictated to Kenya. The standard that I would have applied in adopting the measure is simple, ask the Western diplomats starting with US whether or not the same prescription would apply in the US or any other western country who dictated the Grand Coalition; in other words, what would happen in the US if in 2000 when democrat Al Gore won the popular vote and Republican George Bush was declared the winner and democrats, led by Al Gore himself, started the kind of mayhem and killings PM Odinga engineered? Would the US adopt a two page constitutional amendment to form a ?Grand Coalition? government to appease Al Gore? Would these Western countries tolerate mediocre war lords like Ruto and rag tag gangs dismantling their economies and dictating the direction of their countries or would they deploy law enforcement to restore peace and order? ?Would African diplomats accredited to the West be allowed to dictate political solutions to the West?s political stalemates? Would Kenya?s ambassador have been allowed to counsel Al Gore in 2000? If their answer is ?NO? they wouldn?t adopt what they were prescribing to Kenya, then they would be asked to quit meddling and leave us alone but, oh no, our brave leaders were more than willing and mesmerized at the West?s ?concern?? and quick to take orders from the West! I mean they witnessed what we went through and they rewarded law breakers by installing them in high positions in government and look where it has gotten us. Does anyone have any doubt now that we would have done way better under President Kibaki running the show a second term as he did the first, not perfect but certainly much much better than this nightmare the country is going through right now? So for this reason, the west misdiagnosed Kenya?s sickness and prescribed her the wrong medicine; and by looking the other way when these corrupt and murderous elements are still wholly in charge of key government apparatus, the West continues to provide aid and comfort to perpetrators of crimes against humanity; the west is complicit in piling on the rot we are so desperate to remove from our governance by way of dictating how the country should be governed on a daily basis (granted we invited them to do so); so one wonders when the country will truly be independent once again. I mean where is Mzee Kenyatta when you need him? Would Mzee Jomo Kenyatta call on the West and ?friends of Kenya? to come and solve Kenya?s problems? how about ?hell NO?. Kenyatta handled business and that was leadership my friends. The West doesn?t invite other countries let alone Africans to come solve their problems; why do we? The West knows who the perpetrators of post election violence are, they have issued travel bans against some or most of them who happen to head government entities, why not prevail on the Kibaki government to at the very minimum, relieve these suspects from government offices, even temporarily, at least until this matter is resolved; Kibaki let Mwiraria, Murungaru, Murungi, Kimunya among others go for much less aggravating crimes; why are thieves and murderers running major ministries in Kenya and why are these Embassies silent about it? Who are they fooling? Embassies must be fair to Africans and stop propping incompetent murderous regimes in the name of stability. It is hollow, hypocritical, and false and only prolongs the suffering of populations. The bottom line in Kenya is slowly but surely spiraling into the abyss and the foreign missions are enabling and abetting the rot and only delaying the inevitable; our country is sick and this government is the cancer that has metastasized and contaminated the whole society with rot; sweeping these ills under the rugs only masks the odor and improves NOTHING! The Embassies must exert their influence and prevail on the president to, at the very minimum, get rid of or at least suspend known and suspected perpetrators of Post Election Violence who have holed themselves in government until such a time that investigations and prosecutions are complete; Kenyans are not idiots ya?ll think they are you know. If you can ban suspects from travelling to the West, certainly you can apply equal pressure for the sake of Kenyans who have lost any remaining faith in their government. The Obama Factor Kenya?s best blessing, bar none! And what are we doing with it, NOTHING but foolish politics. On the one hand is a PM aching to ride on President Barack Obama?s coattails and coax Kenyans into thinking he has the president?s backing and on the other is an absent minded president too scared of President Obama to be an effective governor and the end result is paralysis. President Obama is an extremely smart man and one careful not to take sides particularly with as hopeless a bunch as these men running Kenya, he will not be drawn into Kenya?s infantile politics and while he stands for what is truly right for Kenya, others like the PM would, instinctively interpret President Obama?s policies on Kenya as an endorsement for his own politics but the truth is; NO! We can clearly read President Obama?s statements and policies, unlike Kenya?s politicians or African leaders for that matter, President Obama does NOT double speak, he says what he means and means what he says. If he were running for president in Kenya or anywhere in Africa, President Obama would win by a landslide, almost by every man, woman and child of all tribes while on the other hand, if either President Kibaki or PM Odinga were running for a town councilman in the US, they would both lose miserably and perhaps be barred from EVER running for office again, that is the disparity of leadership qualities and class of these men; so we have by far the shoddiest characters running a country that sired the world?s most admired man at the very moment we need the most redemption; what do we do people? What do we do short of starting over? I mean Kenya is a disgrace, an international embarrassment folks, just one joke of a mess, only that it is real! ? ? ? Are Tables Turning? In a recent publication regarding reforms by the same western diplomats; they expressed ?concern? at the pace of reforms, one ambassador was quoted saying ?you can?t make an omelet without breaking the egg? and I wonder if this government ever got that memo. As long as the two men, president Kibaki and PM Odinga are at the helm in Kenya, you can bet there will be no ?eggs? broken to bring about any meaningful change in the country. The president is a lame duck with no real incentive to bring about any change, he is not running for office again and even if he were, it not in his DNA to hold his feet or those of others around him to the fire to make change happen. The PM is deeply beholden to the various disparate interests who ?fought? for him to become president/PM to do anything that may rock the boat or ruin any hope he has for another run for the presidency in 2012, it is just that simple; so are we so na?ve to these facts as to believe either of these men mean a word beyond rhetorical symbolism? Seriously!! International Criminal Court The cries and frustrations of ?WE THE PEOPLE? and those of the post election violence victims are finally starting to resonate and our voices are being heard.? Kenya?s leadership has this misguided notion of monopoly of access to world leaders and institutions; we too can speak to President Obama, we too can speak to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and the powers that be. The writing has been on the wall way too long and the notice has expired; and when it is all said and done, we?ll know whose voices count the most, we the people or these goons. The ICC is the perfect broom for Kenya; a relief and breath of fresh air. For once, William Ruto, even as ignorant and misinformed he is about the role of the International Criminal Court, has gotten this one right. His recent rants are a desperate attempt to deflect attention, the truth is Ruto knows he is advocating for the hangman?s noose on his own neck. A criminal suspect does not have any say so whatsoever in how the court conduct its functions! Someone educate this ignoramus! Ruto and ODM think they can manipulate the ICC like they did the gullible youth of Kenya. He is about to learn one major lesson that they failed to teach in Botany lessons in college; Bad politics (including rigging) can never be an excuse for crime or murder, period-end of story. The ICC is the only true and neutral arbiter that can clean the mess in Kenya and send a clear message to these goons in government that the sanctity of human life is non-negotiable. Now, both sides of this arrangement are mortally frightened, rightly so, of the unknown when that day comes; people are rightfully afraid if they will join the ranks of El Bashir of Sudan, Kabuga of Rwanda, Charles Taylor of Liberia for a good reason but I think President Kibaki and his officials at the time when these crimes were committed have the least to worry about. ODM, for all practical purposes provides Luis Moreno-Ocampo with the best possible case to prosecute against them while exonerating the President contemporaneously. ODM?s leaders and most of PM Odinga?s supporters foolishly believe that the prosecution in The Hague would favor them and punish the president for ?stealing? the elections and therefore causing the violence; far from the truth. What will be on trial is NOT the reason(s) for the violence, in fact, this argument would only strengthen the prosecution?s case against the perpetrators because it provides the all important element in all criminal prosecutions; MOTIVE! I don?t know of anywhere in any court of competent jurisdiction where MOTIVE qualifies as a defense, somebody please prove me wrong. So RUTO goes in and tells the judges that ODM?s candidate PM Odinga ?fairly won the presidential election and the Election Commission of Kenya ?stole? it from him and awarded victory to President Kibaki and so we were compelled to protest by inciting the masses to action, that he was acting on the instructions of his party?s leader, PM Odinga! And that by the way, we only incited in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza and areas we already won and had the least reason to kill Kikuyus and Kisiis and other non- indigenous tribes living amongst us whom we believe voted for President Kibaki but we needed to make a statement anyway- see, it got us in government! Was well worth it, you know. Of course the jurists at The Hague are competent enough to weigh the evidence as we know it and also evaluate the statements and images broadcast around the world to know who was clearly the aggressor. They will also note, carefully at that, that PM Odinga and his ODM party had available to them, a lawful grievance avenue through Kenya?s courts specifically designed for election complaints, be flawed as the system may be, it was still an available option for remedial action nonetheless, and that they should have exhausted it but, alas, they not only ignored it and substituted it with street justice instead but also rubbished the very institutions they helped set up and were sworn to defend as parliamentarians. Anger and frustration was clearly the motive for the uprising but NEVER EVER justification for premeditated murder of innocent Kenyans, and that my friends will ensure hefty penalties for ODM. President Kibaki on the other hand has a relatively simple defense. The president did NOT declare himself the winner of the elections nor did incite anyone to riot; Kibaki was duty bound to continue his responsibilities as president. The president was duty bound to protect all Kenyans and ensure national security; the president has the power and indeed the obligation to suppress riots and violence of all kinds and any resistance to lawful authority through law enforcement agencies, President Kibaki?s authority and actions were lawful, constitutional and justified. The government had to act to protect lives, loss of property and the economy to the mobs. ODM acts as if the president ?is actually liable for their losses caused by their instigation and should have just back and let this murderous bunch have their way with the entire country, well, the ?ICC is capable of delineating between incitement and containment, anarchy and order, and who among the combatants stood for what. We will reclaim our government and these fellows will be removed from society and barred permanently from ever running for office, watch! Coalition Government: Disband and start over; no elections are required, the two page document establishing the coalition neither mandates a new election nor invalidates the existing government merely because either party pulls out of the alliance; this is rotten just as the characters in it, end of story! We didn?t sign up for this mess, we didn?t vote for this mess, the know nothing do nothing tax evading leeches in parliament have failed in their duties to safeguard national integrity and have long lost any moral capacity to lead, Kenyans? patience and goodwill have been exhausted; we can still have a peaceful transitional caretaker government devoid of these guys and I think time has come and long gone for change. The president, immediately after its revealed who is implicated in the post election violence must, by necessity, dismiss all of those adversely mentioned regardless of the merits of the allegations; we simply cannot have distracted people with clouds hanging over them making decisions in government, it breeds bad decisions and ineffectiveness and we all know that. The president, as leader of his party and at this point, must seriously consider withdrawing from the coalition if he, as president, determines that this arrangement is NOT in the country?s best interest and prolonging this form of government would be more harmful in total than helpful in the stability of the nation. He is NOT required to resign or call an election merely by pulling out of the coalition, so it is time the rubber hit the asphalt and let?s restore Kenya?s institutions as close to what they were in the first 5 years of Kibaki?s presidency, some prosperity would beat this idiocy ANY DAY. ? President Kibaki This president, once again, was perhaps the best thing to happen to Kenya for decades and yet, he has ended up disappointing so many by being way too whimsical in dispensing the duties of his office, one can make a strong argument ?against president Kibaki for dereliction of duty; The President has severely weakened the office of the president, the only national office in the country and by projecting such weakness, he has opened doors for all sorts of enemies, both internal and external to exploit Kenya. Nobody anywhere on earth has respect for weakness much less weakness of a president of any country, NOBODY! I mean the man hasn?t committed atrocities or anything like that but he has either purposely omitted or ignored ?so much from the presidential play book, even stuff that is clearly spelled as presidential mandate in our laws and allowed all the gains he presided over in the his first term to go to waste. Come on Mr. President! What happened buddy? ?I mean if you are unable to assert proper authority and control, why not step aside? Why are thieves and murderous in your cabinet? Whose interests are you serving? Why are you sleeping at the switch? I mean the level of inefficiency and ineffectiveness in this office is just astounding, internal security falls under the president?s office and yet militias and gangs practically run neighborhoods, the judiciary is completely inept and frustrates all fights against corruptions, old corruption cases are collecting dust in dockets and the president is simply doing NOTHING about it, PM Odinga If the PM was a manufacturing company anywhere, particularly in the West, he would be banned from EVER peddling ANY product in the market place; I mean the PM would be shut down permanently, period. This is the man who declared ?KIBAKI TOSHA?; he peddled Kibaki to Kenyans as a perfect product to ?liberate? Kenya and in just a matter of months after Kenyans bought in, he declared his own product defective and admitted to selling Kenyans just a bunch of bill of goods and that he alone was fit for the job; why on earth should we continue listening to such a guy? I mean for what, to hear what additional garbage comes out next? A gamble that someday he just may get it right? And in the meantime Kenyans are in for the ride in the ?ROT EXPRESS?; this is the fellow who admittedly participated in the 1982 military coup that resulted in hundreds of deaths, got in the market square and told Kenyans to disobey the government and not to go to work after a personal disagreement with president Moi, told his constituents in Kibera NOT to pay monthly rents to land lords; this is the man who claims sole credit for democracy in Kenya, never mind the insurmountable effort by the likes of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, George Anyona, Masinde Murillo,Gitobu Imanyara, etc; point being Kenya?s democracy is not a preserve of one Raila Amollo Odinga; as recent as a year and half ago this man led a revolt that killed thousands of Kenyans, displaced hundreds of thousands of innocent Kenyans; women and children were raped and lives permanently altered all in his selfish ambition to get to the top, it didn?t matter who died or lived; this man is complicit in the starving of Kenyan through the henchman Ruto who heads Agriculture; this man not only condones nepotism but also practices it to the core, appoints his family members to key positions whether they are qualified or not; his ministers such as Kajwang, Ruto, Chairman Kosgey, Prof. Sambili are on record flouting all rules and procedures as was the case under president Moi; this man has been MP for ?Africa?s largest Slum? for more than 15 years with almost absolutely nothing to show for it in the development of its people except for amassing a tone of personal wealth; ?is the change this fellow claims to have fought for,? is the liberation Kenya needs, is this the presidential leadership Kenyans were voting for? William Ruto The quintessential dirt bag in Kenyan politics; if there ever were a reason or justification for detention as under Moi or Kenyatta, William Ruto would serve that purpose perfectly but in Kenya, a rot bag like this man who for several election cycles has personally engineered the murder of innocent Kenyans is sitting pretty high at the table of governance! I mean how does that happen? HOW?! This man obtained his college education in botany, not government, but was smart enough to be connected to Moi?s children who allowed him access to power; I bet they are now regretting it. This was the only man, as an assistant minister, allowed to sit in full cabinet meetings under president Moi, that is how favored he was by the former President; what did the scumbag do in appreciation; well, remember Molo and Muoroto clashes? Ruto, among others like Sunkuli et al, were in the thick of it, planning and implementing the anarchy and death that befell many innocent Kenyans and to top it off, he turned on his mentor and benefactor during the last election to support PM Odinga; when all else failed, William Ruto, true to form and once again employing skills acquired under President Moi, directed the killings of innocent Kenyans in regions the PM handily won, in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza, areas which the PM?s ODM party won in landslides, there was ZERO reason or justification for Kikuyus, Kisiis and other tribes to be slaughtered the way it happened because there was no dispute and yet ODM made its statement to the world by spilling innocent blood; Ruto has multiple corruption charges pending against him in Kenya?s courts; why on earth would any man, particularly this PM, want to impose such kind of baggage on himself let alone Kenya? Why would such a back stabber even have a seat near civilization of any government? WHY do we entertain such rot if indeed we are about ?CHANGE??? I think the PM sealed his own political fate and that of his party through William Ruto; ODM will IMPLODE in due time. The old adage will once again be proven right, i.e. ?you can judge a man by the company he keeps?- look at the company around William Ruto and tell me whether or not these characters should be running any government entity! Kalonzo Musyoka What a big joke?! The VP once stood a good chance as a viable alternative to help clean up the rot in Kenya but as with most power that corrupts absolutely, Musyoka has been irrevocably compromised and become a part of the contaminated pile of rot masquerading as a government. A friend of mine once described Kalonzo Musyoka as a slithering wimpy weasel and I couldn?t agree more. The man has absolutely no stand on anything, when speaker Marende, in towing the party ruled in favor of his boss PM Odinga in parliament when the latter appointed himself leader of government business, the VP immediately seemed to take a courageous stand to question the validity of such unorthodox ruling and many thought the joker was rightfully asserting himself and employing his lawyer skills to right what was obviously a grossly idiotic ruling by the speaker. Then come the Western ambassadors led by the US in support of the speaker?s ruling and the VP scampered and recoiled his tail like wag the dog! I mean seriously, the man has never been heard from again! Does anyone really have any doubt as to whether or not Musyoka is a strong leader to hold the country together? The man is clueless and reactionary, can?t set any example like PM Odinga does.? PM Odinga sets examples and asserts himself but is always WRONG! How I wish the PM had been right on even a handful of his choices to mitigate some of his failures! He would have gotten a pass, the only way Kalonzo Musyoka would beat Raila Odinga in any contest for national office would be because people would vote against Odinga and thereby hand Musyoka victory by default. Musyoka himself ?is tainted through his associations with former President Moi, as the President?s lawyer, he defended and protected the ills that sank Kenya?s economy, Musyoka witnessed and benefited personally from the siphoning of public resources under Moi?s regime;? his gain may have not been as big but gain it was nonetheless, so there you have it. The man has no stand and leads from behind (if there is ever such a thing), so how do you judge such a character?s suitability to lead? Parliament and Speaker Marende Another joke of a body led by an extreme partisan speaker; it was clear from the get go that speaker Marende would tow the party line particularly when he ruled himself leader of House and Government Business because PM Odinga, citing other countries? practices, appointed himself leader of those positions! Get this, the PM, he? himself a presidential ?APPOINTEE? and once again ignoring the rules and precedence, usurped the president?s authority and ?APPOINTED? himself to the role in parliament! How on earth does that work? And the speaker, of course an ODM party stalwart, didn?t waste any time effectively ruling against the president. And none of these genius MPs raised a whimper, they just scurried like roaches when the US ambassador supported the speaker?s decision, we needed someone to speak for Kenyans and they ALL failed; I would urge every one of the MPs to take the PM?s lead and appoint themselves to the position of leader of House and Government Business and compel the speaker to issue a ruling on each and every self appointment submitted by each MP and let?s see the majority party bring the people?s business to a stand-still. ? Other Matters Constitution Another sad testament to our leaders? ineptness with these old raggedy tag lines only designed to prolong their political shelf lives before gullible constituents; absolutely hollow and baseless. Kenyans care way more about their personal fortunes, the economy, and education of their children, healthcare, their security and quality leadership than this politically created fa?ade about the constitution. These goons are abject failures in all fronts above and have instead wasted tones of public funds pushing a stale and mundane subject matter only to line their pockets and those of their friends and yeah, remain relevant. ?Even the one thing they claim to take care of, these geniuses still can?t figure out what to do, I mean Kenya has to import ?experts? to work on our constitution! A constitution is simply a set of governing principles that a country is governed by and the citizens are the normally the ones who decide what those principles. The biggest argument made by the likes of Odinga in calling for a new constitution was that Kenya needed a constitution crafted locally by her own people and here we are, years and Billions of shillings wasted later, importing ?experts? to dictate to Kenyans how to govern themselves! Seriously, are you kidding me? Kenya had more prosperity and at par with many world powers under President Jomo Kenyatta under this constitution than at any time until President Kibaki took the reins in 2002. It is not about the constitution folks, ABSOLTUTELY NOT! It is about leadership that puts its people and country a head of personal gain, about knowledge of what makes the country work. None of these is possessed by these geniuses leading Kenya right now, our school curriculum has never been revised to meet world challenges to promote ingenuity and innovation, the economy is in ruins, medicines are rotting in warehouses, gangs rule the streets and are egged on by politicians, friends, NO CONSTITUTION CAN FIX THIS ROT, NONE! The only way to fix this awful state of affairs and cure the country of the cancer that is taking over is the removal of all these clueless tax evading blood suckers in government, ALL of them! Start over. And as for the constitution itself, the document is just ok. Let?s repeal or amend the sections or parts as we see fit at the least expense and controversy as possible. One stark stunt PM Odinga is trying to pull on Kenyans is to convince voters that we don?t need the presidency as voted by the majority of Kenyans and that the concept of one man one vote for the only true national office bearer is irrelevant and should instead be replaced by a parliamentary system like say France or England where, in his discombobulated mind, ultimate power vests in the Prime Minister who is voted to office by MPs! REALLY Mr. PM Odinga?! It is pretty obvious that the ONLY reason PM Odinga wants this is simply because he knows deep down in heart that he CANNOT win the presidency and wants to instead improve his chances by excluding majority of Kenyans from picking their leader and instead turn over that process to the 220 corruptible, incompetent MPs, who as witnessed in picking the stooge speaker Marende, are absolutely incorrigible. It is obvious the PM cannot corrupt Millions of Kenyans into voting for him and he is desperate to become president of Kenya, so, ?he must figure out a way to pull the process from right under Kenyans feet and turn it over to the 220 corrupt MPs- it is easier to manipulate this ignorant bunch, people- don?t buy it. It is yet another recipe for failure and disaster for Kenya. Up until recently, the PM somehow believed the presidency was his for the taking and that he was owed the office by Kenyans but as it is slowly dawning on him, perhaps he is now disillusioned, maybe it is the realization that his formula of pitting tribes against each other was not the brightest way to get to the top and that betting his ascendancy to the top office exclusively on the Nilotic groups who dominate ODM vs. the majority Bantus instead of being all inclusive of all Kenyans is back firing big time. ?The PM relied on groups who were overwhelmingly over-represented in parliament to get elected and forgot the presidency is determined by the majority, a majority he explicitly excluded from the political equation; I am not trying to pile on the PM but these errors by the PM must not go unchallenged. Mau Forest This is Kenya?s greatest and primary water catchment area and its management thereof cannot be pegged to politics. Rift Valley MPs are, once again foolishly, trying to equate environmental management to political persecution. BULL! The government simply need to devise a formula that would maximize the area?s productivity while sustaining the environment, in other words, we need to know what is the optimum human dwelling density/capacity in the MAU forest and a good way is to look back at empirical data to determine at what time did the trends turn negative in the MAU area; populations that settled after this time must then rolled back and relocated elsewhere so we can preserve the nation?s resources. We can?t as a nation be held hostage by the politics of William Ruto and Kalenjin MPs! I mean, seriously! We know Moi doled out the forest to his tribesmen but Kenya is certainly bigger than Kalenjins and our national interests will ALWAYS trump those of an individual group. Provinces and Majimbo The irony of this is that Kenya tried this once and it failed miserably, I mean badly! No Kenyan, except of course for the imbeciles in politics, has expressly on record asked for MAJIMBO or (STATES) as a form of government because they know it is very divisive and if what the clueless Odinga and Musyoka are asking for is genuinely the distribution of wealth, we already have provinces; why do we need to recreate what is already in existence verses improving upon it? Also, during president Moi?s regime, he created a multitude of constituencies and a disproportionate number of them in the Rift Valley for his tribesmen to give them unfettered and disproportionate representation in Parliament, national resources and government; Moi never consulted with anyone to create new political boundaries; why on earth would Ruto expect President Kibaki to consult with the locals to create new provinces? WHY?! Does that even start to make sense? This president is so afraid to act presidential to a point Kenya is considered a failed state for all practical purposes; WHY?! ? Taxation Nation building is the responsibility of ALL! Why do MPs refuse to pay their fair share of taxes? Kenyan MPs earn some of the highest incomes in the world with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. Why should we fund institutionalized thievery? These MPs are both sleeping at the wheel and sometimes literary in parliament, they don?t understand parliamentary procedures or their role in steering national development; I mean come on! Taxing the poor for self enrichment is not good governance no matter how you cut it. ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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President Moi was President of Kenya for a record 24 years. This will never be matched since the law now only allows for a maximum of 10 years at the top. If for those 24 years, he failed to solve our problems, could it not be wise for his advisors to tell him to keep quiet and enjoy his time? I bet Kenya had enough of his rule and we might be reeling from the effects of his time. We need to move forward without necessarily being reminded of what he did not do at his time. If his 24 years were of noble lead, Kenyans could listen to his advice. But given that we have nothing to be particularly proud of to associate with his 24 years, his advice might bring pangs of pains which are best forgotten. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sunoti at yahoo.com Mon Jul 13 11:19:21 2009 From: sunoti at yahoo.com (otieno sungu) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? Message-ID: <407910.83891.qm@web37004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Janet, ? Whose legacy will hold fondly in the memories of Kenyans? why? ? This was a question I posed Janet, but what did Murithi chose to see? Kibaki is being finished!!!! ? Instead of giving his account as I asked(because the ones I gave were mine), he saw Kibaki being finished. I mentioned the weaknesses of Moi and no Kalenjin has challenged me on those, maybe they will and we will discuss the issues, but so far, none has seen "Moi" being finished or whatever!!! ? This is where we are and the problem, unfortunately!!! Not being able to discuss issues without removing my tribesman fron it.? ? The issues here are clear, who has a legacy we will remember fondly? What does Murithi see? ? Murithi, ? Tell us the legacy of Kibaki that we can remember foldly and compare with the other two former presidents, don't rush to defend before you have even understood what is being discussed. ? Now, what case did I build against Kibaki? We all know that in 2002 he was elected in a flawless process, come 2007, he was elected in one of the worst elections in africa. Is that building a case against him or he built one against himself when he allowed himself to take a questionable mandate? ? Discuss the issues,Moi had his weaknesses and so did Kenyatta, but I admire them more when it comes to contributing towards democratic handover(Kenyatta stopped the change the constitution clamour, Moi handed over power peacefully-I am looking at democracy advancement here). ? Otieno Sungu. Juba --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Janet mafunga wrote: From: Janet mafunga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 9:31 AM Murithi, ? Sungu wrote about the three Presidents we have had (one current), or there have been others I am not aware of? Why would you read into it that he is trying to put a case against Kibaki? What do you think he has done in order to have a case against him in?regard to ?Kenyan democracy?:) ? ? Sungu, I am still thinking... will get back to you on this one. ? ? Jeanette M. Khaoya --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Murithi Magiri wrote: From: Murithi Magiri Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 2:49 PM I would call that selective amnesia if i'm asked. Because you have picked three cases only so that you can put a case against Kibaki. Better look at the whole reign of the individual president and judge them based on that tafadhali. ?In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.? Thomas Jefferson --- On Sat, 11/7/09, otieno sungu wrote: From: otieno sungu Subject: [YP_Ke] Democracy-Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki-Whose legacy will be remembered most? To: "Biddi Africa" Cc: "young proffessionals" Date: Saturday, 11 July, 2009, 8:30 PM Given the struggle Kenyans have had and the fights we have had to endure to achieve democracy, whose legacy on democracy will be remembered fondly by Kenyans? ? Is it Jommo Kenyatta who through then Attorney General stopped the "change the contitution" tribalist elites from preventing Moi's ascention to power? ? Will it be Daniel Moi, who even though considered the worst strong man of Kenya, handed over power peacefully to Kibaki following the loss of Kanu after in 2002 after?40 years of rule? ? Will it be Mwai Kibaki who ascended to power through proper democracy only to subvert the same democracy by allowing himself to be sworn in even when all indications were that he lost the elections? ? Whose legacy will hold fondly in the memories of Kenyans? why? ? Sungu Otieno, Juba-Southern Sudan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Message-ID: <410557.17949.qm@web38707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Those who have had an opportunity to do/answer multiple choice type of questions will tell you that: -They are very confusing/deceiving -They take less time and may be less thinking -Sometimes,all answers appear to be correct -In the end,there is only one correct answer In like manner, when it comes to our understanding of God,some,if not all, seem to follow the multiple choice kind of approach! However, the truth of the matter is that in the end,there will be one correct approach or God approved! It's up to each seeker to find out what that correct approach/connection is! Will I? Will you? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From blessingnatasha at gmail.com Tue Jul 14 09:14:33 2009 From: blessingnatasha at gmail.com (blessing natasha) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:14:33 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Just what does a chick see first in a dude? In-Reply-To: References: <283836.88627.qm@web51412.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <9566c2160907140614m717a4633k3e03cb24fb4c592b@mail.gmail.com> What I have come to learn is that one's relationship with his God is very important.(This is what's important to me) plus do they like me?its bad to be a victim of a one sided affair.A man can be tall,but if he doesn't like you and has no relationship with his creator ,then to me hakuna future.Of course i would like to put on my high heels and still be short when with him ,but there are more important things to consider.na nimpende pia.aaarrrggg to many issues ,just too many.Good luck to those searching and dating. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Simiyu wrote: > > They will look deep into you pockets > > On Jul 10, 4:34 pm, Jectone Ndunya wrote: > > Chicks and dudes, allow me to bring this for us to brainstorm.. > > my position is as follows.. that a chick will first see your height and > so if you happen to be blessed in this area then it does not matter how well > she is endowed academically and or financially, if you through your bait at > her, you can be sure you gonna catch the fish. > > > > This to me means one thing that despite chicks being well academically > and financially, they always want to be inferior in the eyes of men when it > comes to height and body size. > > > > I STAND TO BE CHALLENGED ON THIS ONE > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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Yours in His Service Tabitha Wamakima NJ Chapter Women Dir ? Gladly Serving, Dolly Ocholla Secretary KCFA NJ The Kenya Christian Fellowship in America (NJ chapter), is a non denominational fellowship that meets every first Sunday of the month @ 4:00- 6:00 p.m. in Elizabeth. Please call (848) 467-6522), visit www.kcfa.net or e-mail kcfanj2004 at yahoo.com for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From prcanb at yahoo.com Tue Jul 14 20:48:56 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:48:56 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] A must do daily list! Message-ID: <87359.17235.qm@web38708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Every single day, -Let us pray at least three times a day.Let us pray for ourselves, our family members,our friends, and our enemies. Let us plead with the good Lord to help our enemies to see themselves as they are. -Let us spend at least 30 minutes daily searching for the sure word of God. Even when we think that we know it all, let us continue to search for the truth at the feet of the cross. Let God know that we indeed love Him and have an earnest desire to know Him better. Let us ask Him to reveal himself to us with the promise that We'll do everything to please Him as opposed to pleasing friends,family members and/or our pastors. -Let us examine ourselves to see if all is well with us. Let us Pray that the good Lord will help us to change.Let it be our desire to be peace makers and not trouble makers! -Let us do our best by the grace of God to live peacefully with everybody. Let us avoid doing anything that will by any means affect someone else! Let us mind our own business and let others mind their own -Every single day, let us be aware of the fact that people are not always what they claim to be. Those that we think that they are our friends might be out just to use you. Those that we think or know that they are our enemies may as well be our best friends. -Let us avoid the temptation of judging others. Let us leave Judgment to God, who alone knows all about human beings. -And finally, let us pray for ourselves! I will sure pray for you! Will you promise to pray for me as well? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From aodero at gmail.com Tue Jul 14 01:37:29 2009 From: aodero at gmail.com (Amos D. ) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:37:29 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Sh33million for Kenya PM home ////// Africa told to solve the IDP problem once and for all In-Reply-To: <681917.19596.qm@web51903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <681917.19596.qm@web51903.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <78384a9d0907132237g62dbdfd2m857307b1384f8d0c@mail.gmail.com> I wonder what will happen when Raila Ceases to be the PM....will his pimped homes be handed over to the government or he will retain the two private residences, and if so, will he pay back Kenyans? Really!!!!!! Amos On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > > > Folks, > > Which would come first, the Reform Accord Agreement requirement backlog or > personal bling bling?? Would you care for the hungry and the dying or spend > on > glamour lifestyle?? Would you care to put roof over the homeless IDPs?and > support > means for food supply and provide for health and medicine to the sick or > take a > vocational holiday to Hawaii?? How best is it fair to spend public funds or > taxpayers > money in a favourable manner?? What is the best strategy for reform in a > collapse > economic crisis situation? > > I am saddened that the Coalition Government have failed the purpose for > which it was > formed. They have specific issues to tackle first and not bling bling?with > taking personal > family matters top?on the agenda while spending lavishly.....this 33 million > is not an important > matter right now....what is important is peoples lives which have been > pushed to the edge > by the 2007 conflict.? These Coalition Government?have totally failed the > Kenyan people > and??will never put their acts right. > > Prosecutor Ocampo should not play leniency by any margin, he should embark > on > vigorous conviction charges as soon as is possibly convenient.? All these > careless > spending is total corruption from draining the common public of the little > thread of > survival and it is a criminal offense case load?against Kenyan Public poor > needing > immediate attention and remedy.? This is just too much of headswell and dont > care > attitude we must do away with such leaders, so we chart move for wayforward > for > Kenyans. > > Thanks > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > > Bad leadership to blame for conflicts in Africa, says Tibaijuka > > > Published on 12/07/2009 > > Related Stories > > Stop growth of slums in towns, UN Habitat chief tells Government > > Slum upgrading initiative hits a snag > > Official at centre of gun row still at UN office > > Gun link to Tibaijuka?s demotion > > UN: It is racism, Cotu says of Tibaijuka?s removal > > Africa?s cities growing faster than economies > > By Standard on Sunday Correspondent > Failed political leadership of the African elite is the principal cause of > most conflicts and violence in Africa, says Anna Tibaijuka, Executive > Director, Habitat. > And His Eminence John Cardinal Njue, the Head of the Catholic Church in > Kenya, takes the view those who make decisions about peace and war are often > insulated from the results of their decisions and do not suffer and die as a > result of their decisions. > Tibaijuka and Njue spoke at during a conference on violence and conflicts on > the African continent that was hosted by Catholic University of Eastern > Africa and which brought together scholars from 14 such Catholic > institutions on the continent. > "Had it not been for the senseless wars and conflicts, the money spent on > peace keeping operations could have built thousands of schools, clinics, > water points and other socio-economic infrastructure," she said. > She lauded the Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of > Africa and Madagascar, the organisers of the conference for their > initiative. > "It is befitting that Catholic educators who are entrusted with the > spiritual well-being of our communities and who are also ordained to preach > peace and uphold justice are leading the way in searching for the root > causes of violence and conflict in Africa." > Tibaijuka said leadership failure in Africa has exacerbated poverty and lack > of opportunities for the youth and marginalised groups. > > > Read all about: Anna Tibaijuka UN habitat > > Sh33million for Kenya PM home > > > > The Permanent Secretary in the office of the Prime Minister Dr Mohammed > Isahakia presents his submissions to the Departmental Committee on > Administration and National Security during examination of the 2009/2010 > printed estimates for the PM's office at KICC on Monday. Sh33.4 million has > been set aside to refurbish the PM's residence. PHOTO/HEZRON NJOROGE > > By?JOHN NGIRACHUPosted?Monday, July 13?2009?at?12:05 > > In Summary > > Money will go into staffing the PM?s residences to enable him to host State > functions and visitors. > > Allocation will also go into providing for additional security and > surveillance equipment at the residences as well as additional domestic > staff. > > The private residence of Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga will be renovated > at a cost of Sh33.4 million. > > The money has already been allocated towards the office of the Prime > Minister and is Sh6 million more than was spent on the same expense in the > 2008/2009 financial year, which ended last month. > > According to officials from the PM?s office who spoke before the > departmental committee on administration and national security on Monday, > the money will go into staffing the PM?s residences to enable him to host > State functions and visitors. > > ?His current residence in Nairobi and another in Mombasa are being > rehabilitated so that State guests going there can get treatment > commensurate to the Prime Minister?s status,? said Mr Khang?ati, an > Assistant minister in the PM?s office. > > He said the allocation would go into providing for additional security and > surveillance equipment at the residences as well as additional domestic > staff. > > It does not include the cost for hospitality, that is, the cost of feeding > and entertaining the visitors. > > Mr Khang?ati defended the allocation at the meeting after Makueni MP Peter > Kiilu raised the query at the committee?s examination of the printed > estimates for the PM?s office. > > He claimed it was 'significantly less? than that for the vice-president and > State House. > > Currently, the PM and the VP do not have official State residences and > rarely host official government functions. > > Mr Odinga currently resides at Karen in Nairobi. > > According to the presentations at the meeting, the allocation is expected to > increase to Sh55 million in the 2010/2011 financial year and to top Sh77 > million in the last financial year of the coalition government. > > By the end of the current term of Parliament, Sh192.8 million will have been > spent in the rehabilitation of the PM?s residence. > > Mr Odinga is the second Prime Minister in post-colonial Kenya, the first > having been President Jomo Kenyatta, who served as PM between 1963 and 1964, > when Kenya became a republic. > > The government has already spent Sh700 million for the acquisition of Shell > and BP House on Harambee Avenue to host the PM?s office and departments that > fall under him. > > According to Mr Khang?ati, the refurbishment of the building is at the > design and planning stage with the ministry of Public Works as tenants whose > leases had not expired move out. > > He said the PM?s offices on the second floor are expected to be ready for > occupation in three months? time. > > > > > > Africa told to solve the IDP problem once and for all > > > Published on 10/07/2009 > > Related Stories > > ?Waki Envelope? in the right hands > > IDPs block Nyagah?s convoy, demand food > > Displaced children turn to the streets in Eldoret > > Idp Feature 2/07/09 > > IDPs feature > > By Ally Jamah and Anne Kanina > Africa has been labelled an "IDP continent" crying out for a lasting > solution. > Participants at a Nairobi workshop heard the continent hosts some 11.6 > million displaced people of the 26 million worldwide. > Speaking during the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region > (ICGLR), Special Programmes Assistant Minister Mohammud Ali Mohammed said > the Government was using self-help groups to help resettle people living in > IDP camps. > Many of them were uprooted from their homes during last year?s post-election > violence. > "Seventeen self-help groups, consisting 6,743 households have collectively > purchased 220.3 acres of land, where members have relocated to," he said. > Mr Mohammed also promised that "all genuine IDPs" would be resettled by next > June. The minister said "fake IDPs" would be weeded out first. > Transit camps > Critics accuse the Government of mishandling resettlement of IDPs and are > not convinced the woes of the displaced are likely to end soon. > Thousands of IDPs remain in transit camps and lack access to schools, health > care and basic sanitation. > The Special Programmes Ministry was allocated Sh2.2 billion in the 2009-2010 > Budget to resettle all outstanding IDPs, and many are watching the > Government?s efforts. > United Nations Secretary-General?s Representative on Human Rights of the > IDPs Walter Kaelin told participants to seek lasting solutions and implement > the IDP protocol and UN convention on displaced people. > Legal frameworks > "The challenge remains with countries to implement the two conventions to > have a real impact on the IDP problem," he said. > Mr Kaelin asked governments to create legal frameworks to tackle the > problem. > Refugee Consortium of Kenya Executive Director Judy Wakahiu said Kenya > needed a legal framework on issues regarding IDPs. > "A legal framework will aid in measuring the standard in dignity and safety > of the resettled IDPs and this calls for the country to domesticate the IDP > protocol," said Wakahiu. > Kenya is yet to adopt a new legal framework and policies to ensure IDPs are > supported. > Human rights groups accuse the Government of violating international > standards of treating IDPs, saying many have been forced return home before > feeling safe or ready to do so. > Unlike international refugees, IDPs are not covered by any ratified > protocol, which bind governments. > The Government says Kenya has only 7,000 IDPs from the post-election > violence, but other sources say the number could be higher. > Climate change > Meanwhile, climate change is set to raise the number of IDPs in Kenya, as > natural disasters like floods and drought dislocate thousands of people. > "Natural disasters will escalate the number of IDPs, adding to the long list > of conflict and development projects as reasons for displacement," said > Kaelin. > > > Read all about: International Conference of the Great Lakes Region ICGLR > displaced people Special Programmes Ministry > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From AGithuka at resolution.co.ke Tue Jul 14 08:44:25 2009 From: AGithuka at resolution.co.ke (Alex Githuka) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:44:25 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: President Moi In-Reply-To: <120920.42944.qm@web32502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <11817.45046.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <120920.42944.qm@web32502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <102D759898308F4987EEA845740FF693DB49B9@resexc03.resolution.lan> I guess we should not entirely dismiss Moi because he had quality of leadership but lacked development and corruption was at its peak. We have what it takes to be a country. Today we do not have leadership and still corruption iko. Why I think Moi was good, he once said "they said I'm a dictator but it was discipline ,,,nikikupatia wizara unanyamaza" our MPs need discipline and I guess torture house should come back...I guess its not the ordinary mwananchi who is supposed to notice when the president is around but the MP. ________________________________ From: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com [mailto:youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Manu Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:01 AM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com; komarockswatch at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: President Moi Hi Odhiambo, You are right Moi must let others also lead, If he was serious by now he should have come out with practical solutions instead of singing how we should have a home made solution who is he waiting for to make that solution why can't he spearhead the solution if at all he is seeing any. Obama gave a reference of an Asian country which was poorer than Kenya but its richer than kenya despite people like Moi having had solutions of our ownall this time. ________________________________ From: odhiambo okecth To: net-kenya at yahoogroups.com; Africare- NewPublications ; news at ktnkenya.com; newvisionkenya at egroups.com; NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com; next_kenya at yahoogroups.com; Abuja Nigeria ; President Barack Obama ; Openyourthirdeye at yahoogroups.com; p4c ; panafricanist ; peoplespeak at people.co.ke; progressiveminds ; Publiceye ; Royal Media ; siasa ; smaitawi at yahoogroups.com; Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com Cc: TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com; trueblackness at yahoogroups.com; ugandacom ; Unnaanet unaanet ; citizens against violence ; VOA ; VOU ; yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com; youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com; youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com; youthagenda Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:01:52 AM Subject: [YP_Ke] President Moi Former President HE Daniel T Arap Moi for the umpteenth time reminded Kenyans that no one will come from outside to solve our problems. That it is us who must do that. President Moi was President of Kenya for a record 24 years. This will never be matched since the law now only allows for a maximum of 10 years at the top. If for those 24 years, he failed to solve our problems, could it not be wise for his advisors to tell him to keep quiet and enjoy his time? I bet Kenya had enough of his rule and we might be reeling from the effects of his time. We need to move forward without necessarily being reminded of what he did not do at his time. If his 24 years were of noble lead, Kenyans could listen to his advice. But given that we have nothing to be particularly proud of to associate with his 24 years, his advice might bring pangs of pains which are best forgotten. 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Vile tume finyiliwa, miaka nenda miaka rudi, mpaka tukabakia hoye haye.....usijaribu kusema ati tunaosha uchafu zetu hadharani......hiyo ni language ya kutu zizimisha. Moi alitumia the same language, na huku tuki nyanyaswa...... hatukuwa na kwa kumkimbilia.....leo tumepata nafasi........hata kama ni Mbinguni, tutakimbilia.....na tuta sema wapi tuna umia.......mtu yeyote akiwa mgonjwa ni haki aende kwa dactari. Kama Dactari wetu ni foreign, basi huko ndipo tutaelekea.? Jua nao pia wana jijenga na mali ya inje, kwanini tusiseme wanaiba ikiwa hawatumii hela kwa hali ya usawa?? Nasisi pia tunataka kupumua, na pia tue na ma bling bling kwa nafasi ya usawa ya kujitafutia. Sio kwa uwizi na ubepari na kuporomosha ustadi wa Serikali na mali ya uma. ? Ahsante, ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Tue, 7/14/09, Murithi Magiri wrote: From: Murithi Magiri Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Mutuma Mathiu did not understand Obama!! To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 6:28 AM I do agree with the above subject though i don't agree entirely with some of the comments made by members of the forum. I do know for sure and without any doubt, that African problems African solutions. Our path to greatness will be not guided by westerners but by our own resolve to be a successful people. Obama was only telling us as much. And i'm convinced now better than before that the guy is a true friend of Africa. According to me that was the most honest speech made by a sitting leader of a western nation. He didn't want to unleash goodies without telling us that the solution? was not i the goodies it was in our own hands and so much within our ability. I am also certain that Obama as Kenya and the Kenyan people at the core of his heart. It is no mean feat for a leader of Obama stature to mention a country more than three times in one speech and as many forums. That shows that this guy really values the country of his father. Its only that he believes ( and rightly so) that we should be ahead of the pack if you put our shelf our tribal tags and promote good governance. Its true that Obama aint a god but its true that he is sympathetic of the mess that has become of his fatherland. and dont think Obama is insensitive to put our dirty case in international fora. He is just telling us as much as he loves us, we ought to take charge of our own destiny. And whether he wasn't right about his cousin being asked for a bribe before you could be offered a job and that he ought to have cross check facts, everybody errs. Proudly Kenya, Murithi Magiri ?In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.? Thomas Jefferson --- On Mon, 13/7/09, Isaac Ochola wrote: From: Isaac Ochola Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Mutuma Mathiu did not understand Obama!! To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 3:57 PM Mutuma sounds very much like the bench sitter who can see all the mistakes the forwards/attackers are making that are preventing them from scoring in a football match. --- On Sun, 7/12/09, jbatec at yahoo.com wrote: From: jbatec at yahoo.com Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Mutuma Mathiu did not understand Obama!! To: eomondi at africaonline.co.ke, eomondi at africaonline.com, Dhiamby at aol.com, ndedavit06 at aol.com, omondakoth at aol.com, rogwago at aol.com, sochieng at blomand.net, kendo at eastandard.net, abonyo.barack at famu.edu, dickens.odhiambo at gmsi.com, donyango56 at hotmail.com, "Joram Odus" , jagwassi at hotmail.com, luo31 at hotmail.com, ohondep at hotmail.com, okumbamiruka at hotmail.com, williamodr at hotmail.com, "Obongo Elisha" , odundo at jaluo.com, "Odinga Bonny" , eoodima at mmm.com, "Paul Nyandoto" , "Tom Miyago" , jnyaoke at swbell.net, aboge001 at umn.edu, "Odawo Francis" , mauricejoduor at yahoo.ca, asego2002 at yahoo.co.uk, bethwel_owuor at yahoo.co.uk, milokes at yahoo.co.uk, obotesawo at yahoo.co.uk, aothigo at yahoo.com, "Peter Ayima" , Awachtin at yahoo.com, "Vincent Awino" , "ALFRED MODI" , billouko at yahoo.com, bobawuor at yahoo.com, charlesapudo at yahoo.com, danisogot2002 at yahoo.com, "IRENE DOLA" , "Maunda J Eng" , "Oggawa George" , grnyongesa at yahoo.com, jairuschurch at yahoo.com, "Joshua Mbago" , "George Gate" , joseph_okumu at yahoo.com, "Atong Josiah" , kaudo2002 at yahoo.com, "odhiambo okecth" , "Kwadha" , kwara4 at yahoo.com, "Siage Lameck" , "Prof Larry Gumbe" , "jacky adhiambo" , "Oketch Alloys Eric" , "Meshack Owino" , mirerio at yahoo.com, mrbob_k at yahoo.com, mugajoe at yahoo.com, "Nick Magak" , nyakendu at yahoo.com, obunguobiero at yahoo.com, obungurapemo at yahoo.com, "Ochi Ken" , ogwenoo at yahoo.com, oongwen at yahoo.com, opollodalton at yahoo.com, "Oria Ajanja" , "ndebele okoth" , r_ogutu at yahoo.com, sebyyke at yahoo.com, shemochuodho at yahoo.com, Sirwilliams202 at yahoo.com, sunoti at yahoo.com, wayoga at yahoo.com, jokanyanam at yahoogroups.com Cc: Bob_nyangweso at yahoo.com, ongwex2000 at yahoo.com Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 12:51 PM Folks, ? 1) What is more surprising is the fact that?the likes of Mutuma Mathiu, Prof. Macharia Munene, Mutahi Ngunyi are all element Agents belonging to the failed?dysfunctional Coalition Government. The Dysfunctional Coalition Government could not give good?reasons why they were not able to come up with strategic plan?for the fulfilment of Reform Agenda earlier and in the time frame?of the signed Reform Accord Agreement, and as well, even after the additional bonus time when they got the extension to August, they went doing their businesses as usual taking everyone for granted and expecting to ping pong their way around.? They believed their corruption is securely?covered with skillful talented professionals who will?maneouvre their way through even unto the corridors of Hague and have the court papers changed/faultered to suit their interest, those were the reasons for criss-crossing between Kenya and Hague. They may have tried to add and award themselves?360 more days using juniors at the court in the Hague behind Kofi Annan and by a stroke of pen, their corrupt lives were to provide them safety net?for another 12 months. Well....., they may have gone too far this time. They?took it that?life is as usual to them the KKK Kenya Kama Kawaida stuff, but Kenyans were weary and tired - as poor as they are, they have had enough - they have been strategizing day in day out. ? People knew, with their persistance and dedicated prayers, time was going to tell a different story from the usual story they are familiar with.? The People Driven-Demand was going to bear fruits and power was going to go back to the people themselves?so they can?be able to chart out their destiny, and live a honourable dignified life, free from fear, intimidation, marginalization and being scooped into concentration camps.? They knew with hope, time will come when each and everyone with their personal talents and skills and with?determination, they?were going to compete in an enabling environment?with the world?for development matters - and life was going to be sweet, meaningful and worthwhile again. ? Mutuma Mathiu et al, have their democratic right to state their views, they have the right to express pain from?the pinch from People Driven-Demand Change will affect their pockets and how?their position will experience the shift of change with?bottom-up strategic Development Plan Agenda.? This is a strategy that gives?power back to the people.? We must not forget that these people are so accustomed to their comfort zones, that any change means war.? What we are reading from their writings are reactive impulses.? They will sober out most likely after a month or so, since they are not ready to take this amount of shock sponteniously. It will spell doom to them and they will react.? They did not know how to take in the shock kiungwana, and this is because they did not prepare for review assessment of the shock well in advance, so their absorbers were not realigned causing impulses, although they saw this coming.? They may have gone out drinking and partying, just to came back and face realities of the stand point of things.? All they could do is now the blame game.....trying to find right fixtures and to repair the damage?when it is already too late.? They are trying to blame Annan for releasing the envelop too early without consulting with them,?that Kofi Annan did not warn them or give them enough time, that Kofi just gave a sudden announcement......that Kofi is a bully.........we are yet to hear some more of such..........Did you folks not read from Mazrui's comments? That he too came out shooting wildly like a wonded lion.? The shocks will not subside soon, we are yet to be treated to some sort of drama cum drama. ? I am so intrigue, the blind do not see things on their way unless they stumble on them and sometimes fall.? This too is the same with these our African Leaders with their Cartels. Their fall will give them heads-up but?it will sure enough be a very hard fall.? Whatever happens, they will not see or change until Change itself Change them. We will?therefore be prepared to?face a little bumps on the way as they react and act?weired and as they struggle to get the reality of life and ?pick themselves up?to begin to walk again. ? I saw it coming.........lets pray for them people...they are spiritually and ofcourse phyisically wounded...........they were lost and now they have to find the way and cooperate with People Driven-Demand for Development, progress and prosperity through Bottom-Up Strategic Plan of Action.? They have no choice, but to compromise. ? People's Power is a Force to Recorn With......and it can never be taken for granted......Time is a Healer. ? Good Day and God Bless you all. ? 2) Two.....if someone dies in the house, is it a police case or the family, and who removes him from the house?....How did they assertain death notification? was Okuthe a thief to be burned like that?? This is a citizen who met with his death so sudden, why has Kenya Government not taken this matter up and the house closed up for investigation?? Where are the lawyers, what does the law say?.......... ? Folks, ? This is very very sad news............I just hope it is not a true story.? I know the family and I am shocked. ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XceQqyduvdU ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VurV5N3Oybo ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0lqbxuvQE ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9C18byb2sM ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? ? ? ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? Quote?? Prof Macharia Munene, a select panellist, said President Obama clearly showed there will be a difference when it comes to issues relating to Africa, contrary to what US assistant secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson had said. ?President Obama has showed that there will be a difference. He has given us hope,? said Prof Munene, who teaches history at the Unites States International University. ? Question to Mazrui: When Obama says some people only support democracy when they are in the opposition, who comes to mind? MAZRUI ANSWER: Unfortunately even Barack Obama himself sounded more democratic when he was campaigning than he now behaves as President. (that Obama is trying to bully Kenya) ? ? The White House (Washington,?DC) Africa: Barack Obama's Address to Ghanaian Parliament - As Delivered 11 July 2009 ? Accra ? The following are the remarks by the President of the United States to the Ghanaian Parliament at the Accra International Conference Center as delivered and released by the White House. ? 12:40 P.M. GMT ? THE PRESIDENT: (Trumpet plays.) I like this. Thank you. Thank you. I think Congress needs one of those horns. (Laughter.) That sounds pretty good. Sounds like Louis Armstrong back there. (Laughter.) ? Good afternoon, everybody. It is a great honor for me to be in Accra and to speak to the representatives of the people of Ghana. (Applause.) I am deeply grateful for the welcome that I've received, as are Michelle and Malia and Sasha Obama. Ghana's history is rich, the ties between our two countries are strong, and I am proud that this is my first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as President of the United States of America. (Applause.) I want to thank Madam Speaker and all the members of the House of Representatives for hosting us today. I want to thank President Mills for his outstanding leadership. To the former Presidents -- Jerry Rawlings, former President Kufuor -- Vice President, Chief Justice -- thanks to all of you for your extraordinary hospitality and the wonderful institutions that you've built here in Ghana. I'm speaking to you at the end of a long trip. I began in Russia for a summit between two great powers. I traveled to Italy for a meeting of the world's leading economies. And I've come here to Ghana for a simple reason: The 21st century will be shaped by what happens not just in Rome or Moscow or Washington, but by what happens in Accra, as well. (Applause.) ? This is the simple truth of a time when the boundaries between people are overwhelmed by our connections. Your prosperity can expand America's prosperity. Your health and security can contribute to the world's health and security. And the strength of your democracy can help advance human rights for people everywhere. ? So I do not see the countries and peoples of Africa as a world apart; I see Africa as a fundamental part of our interconnected world -- (applause) -- as partners with America on behalf of the future we want for all of our children. That partnership must be grounded in mutual responsibility and mutual respect. And that is what I want to speak with you about today. We must start from the simple premise that Africa's future is up to Africans. ? I say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes haunted this part of the world. After all, I have the blood of Africa within me, and my family's -- (applause) -- my family's own story encompasses both the tragedies and triumphs of the larger African story. ? Some of you know my grandfather was a cook for the British in Kenya, and though he was a respected elder in his village, his employers called him "boy" for much of his life. He was on the periphery of Kenya's liberation struggles, but he was still imprisoned briefly during repressive times. In his life, colonialism wasn't simply the creation of unnatural borders or unfair terms of trade -- it was something experienced personally, day after day, year after year. ? My father grew up herding goats in a tiny village, an impossible distance away from the American universities where he would come to get an education. He came of age at a moment of extraordinary promise for Africa. The struggles of his own father's generation were giving birth to new nations, beginning right here in Ghana. (Applause.) Africans were educating and asserting themselves in new ways, and history was on the move. ? But despite the progress that has been made -- and there has been considerable progress in many parts of Africa -- we also know that much of that promise has yet to be fulfilled. Countries like Kenya had a per capita economy larger than South Korea's when I was born. They have badly been outpaced. Disease and conflict have ravaged parts of the African continent. In many places, the hope of my father's generation gave way to cynicism, even despair. Now, it's easy to point fingers and to pin the blame of these problems on others. Yes, a colonial map that made little sense helped to breed conflict. The West has often approached Africa as a patron or a source of resources rather than a partner. But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade, or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants. In my father's life, it was partly tribalism and patronage and nepotism in an independent Kenya that for a long stretch derailed his career, and we know that this kind of corruption is still a daily fact of life for far too many. ? Now, we know that's also not the whole story. Here in Ghana, you show us a face of Africa that is too often overlooked by a world that sees only tragedy or a need for charity. The people of Ghana have worked hard to put democracy on a firmer footing, with repeated peaceful transfers of power even in the wake of closely contested elections. (Applause.) And by the way, can I say that for that the minority deserves as much credit as the majority. (Applause.) And with improved governance and an emerging civil society, Ghana's economy has shown impressive rates of growth. (Applause.) ? This progress may lack the drama of 20th century liberation struggles, but make no mistake: It will ultimately be more significant. For just as it is important to emerge from the control of other nations, it is even more important to build one's own nation. ? So I believe that this moment is just as promising for Ghana and for Africa as the moment when my father came of age and new nations were being born. This is a new moment of great promise. Only this time, we've learned that it will not be giants like Nkrumah and Kenyatta who will determine Africa's future. Instead, it will be you -- the men and women in Ghana's parliament -- (applause) -- the people you represent. It will be the young people brimming with talent and energy and hope who can claim the future that so many in previous generations never realized. ? Now, to realize that promise, we must first recognize the fundamental truth that you have given life to in Ghana: Development depends on good governance. (Applause.) That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That's the change that can unlock Africa's potential. And that is a responsibility that can only be met by Africans. As for America and the West, our commitment must be measured by more than just the dollars we spend. I've pledged substantial increases in our foreign assistance, which is in Africa's interests and America's interests. But the true sign of success is not whether we are a source of perpetual aid that helps people scrape by -- it's whether we are partners in building the capacity for transformational change. (Applause.) ? This mutual responsibility must be the foundation of our partnership. And today, I'll focus on four areas that are critical to the future of Africa and the entire developing world: democracy, opportunity, health, and the peaceful resolution of conflict. ? First, we must support strong and sustainable democratic governments. (Applause.) As I said in Cairo, each nation gives life to democracy in its own way, and in line with its own traditions. But history offers a clear verdict: Governments that respect the will of their own people, that govern by consent and not coercion, are more prosperous, they are more stable, and more successful than governments that do not. ? This is about more than just holding elections. It's also about what happens between elections. (Applause.) Repression can take many forms, and too many nations, even those that have elections, are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves -- (applause) -- or if police -- if police can be bought off by drug traffickers. (Applause.) No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top -- (applause) -- or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. (Applause.) That is not democracy, that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. And now is the time for that style of governance to end. (Applause.) ? In the 21st century, capable, reliable, and transparent institutions are the key to success -- strong parliaments; honest police forces; independent judges -- (applause); an independent press; a vibrant private sector; a civil society. (Applause.) Those are the things that give life to democracy, because that is what matters in people's everyday lives. ? Now, time and again, Ghanaians have chosen constitutional rule over autocracy, and shown a democratic spirit that allows the energy of your people to break through. (Applause.) We see that in leaders who accept defeat graciously -- the fact that President Mills' opponents were standing beside him last night to greet me when I came off the plane spoke volumes about Ghana -- (applause); victors who resist calls to wield power against the opposition in unfair ways. We see that spirit in courageous journalists like Anas Aremeyaw Anas, who risked his life to report the truth. We see it in police like Patience Quaye, who helped prosecute the first human trafficker in Ghana. (Applause.) We see it in the young people who are speaking up against patronage, and participating in the political process. ? Across Africa, we've seen countless examples of people taking control of their destiny, and making change from the bottom up. We saw it in Kenya, where civil society and business came together to help stop post-election violence. We saw it in South Africa, where over three-quarters of the country voted in the recent election -- the fourth since the end of Apartheid. We saw it in Zimbabwe, where the Election Support Network braved brutal repression to stand up for the principle that a person's vote is their sacred right. ? Now, make no mistake: History is on the side of these brave Africans, not with those who use coups or change constitutions to stay in power. (Applause.) Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions. (Applause.) ? Now, America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation. The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny. But what America will do is increase assistance for responsible individuals and responsible institutions, with a focus on supporting good governance -- on parliaments, which check abuses of power and ensure that opposition voices are heard -- (applause); on the rule of law, which ensures the equal administration of justice; on civic participation, so that young people get involved; and on concrete solutions to corruption like forensic accounting and automating services -- (applause) -- strengthening hotlines, protecting whistle-blowers to advance transparency and accountability. ? And we provide this support. I have directed my administration to give greater attention to corruption in our human rights reports. People everywhere should have the right to start a business or get an education without paying a bribe. (Applause.) We have a responsibility to support those who act responsibly and to isolate those who don't, and that is exactly what America will do. ? Now, this leads directly to our second area of partnership: supporting development that provides opportunity for more people. ? With better governance, I have no doubt that Africa holds the promise of a broader base of prosperity. Witness the extraordinary success of Africans in my country, America. They're doing very well. So they've got the talent, they've got the entrepreneurial spirit. The question is, how do we make sure that they're succeeding here in their home countries? The continent is rich in natural resources. And from cell phone entrepreneurs to small farmers, Africans have shown the capacity and commitment to create their own opportunities. But old habits must also be broken. Dependence on commodities -- or a single export -- has a tendency to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few, and leaves people too vulnerable to downturns. So in Ghana, for instance, oil brings great opportunities, and you have been very responsible in preparing for new revenue. But as so many Ghanaians know, oil cannot simply become the new cocoa. From South Korea to Singapore, history shows that countries thrive when they invest in their people and in their infrastructure -- (applause); when they promote multiple export industries, develop a skilled workforce, and create space for small and medium-sized businesses that create jobs. ? As Africans reach for this promise, America will be more responsible in extending our hand. By cutting costs that go to Western consultants and administration, we want to put more resources in the hands of those who need it, while training people to do more for themselves. (Applause.) That's why our $3.5 billion food security initiative is focused on new methods and technologies for farmers -- not simply sending American producers or goods to Africa. Aid is not an end in itself. The purpose of foreign assistance must be creating the conditions where it's no longer needed. I want to see Ghanaians not only self-sufficient in food, I want to see you exporting food to other countries and earning money. You can do that. (Applause.) ? Now, America can also do more to promote trade and investment. Wealthy nations must open our doors to goods and services from Africa in a meaningful way. That will be a commitment of my administration. And where there is good governance, we can broaden prosperity through public-private partnerships that invest in better roads and electricity; capacity-building that trains people to grow a business; financial services that reach not just the cities but also the poor and rural areas. This is also in our own interests -- for if people are lifted out of poverty and wealth is created in Africa, guess what? New markets will open up for our own goods. So it's good for both. ? One area that holds out both undeniable peril and extraordinary promise is energy. Africa gives off less greenhouse gas than any other part of the world, but it is the most threatened by climate change. A warming planet will spread disease, shrink water resources, and deplete crops, creating conditions that produce more famine and more conflict. All of us -- particularly the developed world -- have a responsibility to slow these trends -- through mitigation, and by changing the way that we use energy. But we can also work with Africans to turn this crisis into opportunity. ? Together, we can partner on behalf of our planet and prosperity, and help countries increase access to power while skipping -- leapfrogging the dirtier phase of development. Think about it: Across Africa, there is bountiful wind and solar power; geothermal energy and biofuels. From the Rift Valley to the North African deserts; from the Western coasts to South Africa's crops -- Africa's boundless natural gifts can generate its own power, while exporting profitable, clean energy abroad. ? These steps are about more than growth numbers on a balance sheet. They're about whether a young person with an education can get a job that supports a family; a farmer can transfer their goods to market; an entrepreneur with a good idea can start a business. It's about the dignity of work; it's about the opportunity that must exist for Africans in the 21st century. Just as governance is vital to opportunity, it's also critical to the third area I want to talk about: strengthening public health. ? In recent years, enormous progress has been made in parts of Africa. Far more people are living productively with HIV/AIDS, and getting the drugs they need. I just saw a wonderful clinic and hospital that is focused particularly on maternal health. But too many still die from diseases that shouldn't kill them. When children are being killed because of a mosquito bite, and mothers are dying in childbirth, then we know that more progress must be made. Yet because of incentives -- often provided by donor nations -- many African doctors and nurses go overseas, or work for programs that focus on a single disease. And this creates gaps in primary care and basic prevention. Meanwhile, individual Africans also have to make responsible choices that prevent the spread of disease, while promoting public health in their communities and countries. ? So across Africa, we see examples of people tackling these problems. In Nigeria, an Interfaith effort of Christians and Muslims has set an example of cooperation to confront malaria. Here in Ghana and across Africa, we see innovative ideas for filling gaps in care -- for instance, through E-Health initiatives that allow doctors in big cities to support those in small towns. ? America will support these efforts through a comprehensive, global health strategy, because in the 21st century, we are called to act by our conscience but also by our common interest, because when a child dies of a preventable disease in Accra, that diminishes us everywhere. And when disease goes unchecked in any corner of the world, we know that it can spread across oceans and continents. ? And that's why my administration has committed $63 billion to meet these challenges -- $63 billion. (Applause.) Building on the strong efforts of President Bush, we will carry forward the fight against HIV/AIDS. We will pursue the goal of ending deaths from malaria and tuberculosis, and we will work to eradicate polio. (Applause.) We will fight -- we will fight neglected tropical disease. And we won't confront illnesses in isolation -- we will invest in public health systems that promote wellness and focus on the health of mothers and children. (Applause.) ? Now, as we partner on behalf of a healthier future, we must also stop the destruction that comes not from illness, but from human beings -- and so the final area that I will address is conflict. Let me be clear: Africa is not the crude caricature of a continent at perpetual war. But if we are honest, for far too many Africans, conflict is a part of life, as constant as the sun. There are wars over land and wars over resources. And it is still far too easy for those without conscience to manipulate whole communities into fighting among faiths and tribes. ? These conflicts are a millstone around Africa's neck. Now, we all have many identities -- of tribe and ethnicity; of religion and nationality. But defining oneself in opposition to someone who belongs to a different tribe, or who worships a different prophet, has no place in the 21st century. (Applause.) Africa's diversity should be a source of strength, not a cause for division. We are all God's children. We all share common aspirations -- to live in peace and security; to access education and opportunity; to love our families and our communities and our faith. That is our common humanity. ? That is why we must stand up to inhumanity in our midst. It is never justified -- never justifiable to target innocents in the name of ideology. (Applause.) It is the death sentence of a society to force children to kill in wars. It is the ultimate mark of criminality and cowardice to condemn women to relentless and systemic rape. We must bear witness to the value of every child in Darfur and the dignity of every woman in the Congo. No faith or culture should condone the outrages against them. And all of us must strive for the peace and security necessary for progress. ? Africans are standing up for this future. Here, too, in Ghana we are seeing you help point the way forward. Ghanaians should take pride in your contributions to peacekeeping from Congo to Liberia to Lebanon -- (applause) -- and your efforts to resist the scourge of the drug trade. (Applause.) We welcome the steps that are being taken by organizations like the African Union and ECOWAS to better resolve conflicts, to keep the peace, and support those in need. And we encourage the vision of a strong, regional security architecture that can bring effective, transnational forces to bear when needed. ? America has a responsibility to work with you as a partner to advance this vision, not just with words, but with support that strengthens African capacity. When there's a genocide in Darfur or terrorists in Somalia, these are not simply African problems -- they are global security challenges, and they demand a global response. ? And that's why we stand ready to partner through diplomacy and technical assistance and logistical support, and we will stand behind efforts to hold war criminals accountable. And let me be clear: Our Africa Command is focused not on establishing a foothold in the continent, but on confronting these common challenges to advance the security of America, Africa, and the world. (Applause.) ? In Moscow, I spoke of the need for an international system where the universal rights of human beings are respected, and violations of those rights are opposed. And that must include a commitment to support those who resolve conflicts peacefully, to sanction and stop those who don't, and to help those who have suffered. But ultimately, it will be vibrant democracies like Botswana and Ghana which roll back the causes of conflict and advance the frontiers of peace and prosperity. ? As I said earlier, Africa's future is up to Africans. The people of Africa are ready to claim that future. And in my country, African Americans -- including so many recent immigrants -- have thrived in every sector of society. We've done so despite a difficult past, and we've drawn strength from our African heritage. With strong institutions and a strong will, I know that Africans can live their dreams in Nairobi and Lagos, Kigali, Kinshasa, Harare, and right here in Accra. (Applause.) ? You know, 52 years ago, the eyes of the world were on Ghana. And a young preacher named Martin Luther King traveled here, to Accra, to watch the Union Jack come down and the Ghanaian flag go up. This was before the march on Washington or the success of the civil rights movement in my country. Dr. King was asked how he felt while watching the birth of a nation. And he said: "It renews my conviction in the ultimate triumph of justice." Now that triumph must be won once more, and it must be won by you. (Applause.) And I am particularly speaking to the young people all across Africa and right here in Ghana. In places like Ghana, young people make up over half of the population. ? And here is what you must know: The world will be what you make of it. You have the power to hold your leaders accountable, and to build institutions that serve the people. You can serve in your communities, and harness your energy and education to create new wealth and build new connections to the world. You can conquer disease, and end conflicts, and make change from the bottom up. You can do that. Yes you can -- (applause) -- because in this moment, history is on the move. ? But these things can only be done if all of you take responsibility for your future. And it won't be easy. It will take time and effort. There will be suffering and setbacks. But I can promise you this: America will be with you every step of the way -- as a partner, as a friend. (Applause.) Opportunity won't come from any other place, though. It must come from the decisions that all of you make, the things that you do, the hope that you hold in your heart. ? Ghana, freedom is your inheritance. Now, it is your responsibility to build upon freedom's foundation. And if you do, we will look back years from now to places like Accra and say this was the time when the promise was realized; this was the moment when prosperity was forged, when pain was overcome, and a new era of progress began. This can be the time when we witness the triumph of justice once more. Yes we can. Thank you very much. God bless you. Thank you. (Applause.) ? END - 1:10 P.M. GMT --- On Sun, 7/12/09, Paul Nyandoto wrote: From: Paul Nyandoto Subject: Mutuma Mathiu did not understand Obama!! Cc: Bob_nyangweso at yahoo.com, ongwex2000 at yahoo.com Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 11:41 AM This is the worst ever wriiten information by Mutuma Mathiu, no wonder why we have turned the world`s richest continent into the word`s poorest. President Obama just wanted to tell Africans that not all problems facing Africans are caused by G8. Here we see Mathiu Mutuma trying to drug Obama into tribalism we Kenyans are used to. Mutuma has no good understanding of english, no analysis, because if he heard Obama`s speach properly then he would have not wriiten the paper below. No wonder why there are always failures in any exam. All students sit in the same lecture hall, listen to the same professor but when given the same exams on that lecture you still get failures. Just as the leaders in promoting developments in their countries, there are failures and those who succeed in promoting development. But in Africa it looks that we do have? more failures in leadership than in Europe, so what is wrong. Does our leaders have the same brain as this Mutuma Mathiu who claim he heard Obama correctly but still ended up writting this nonsence below. Paul Nyandoto Please read this Mathiu`s paper and make your own judgement Mutuma Mathiu Obama?s cousin can?t find a job, let?s head for the hills ? ??? http://www.nation.co.ke/blogs/-/446718/622710/-/view/asBlogPost/-/12hisdm/-/index.html By MUTUMA MATHIU? ? ? Message ??? Posted Saturday, July 11 2009 at 22:30 The unthinkable was always going to happen, I just didn?t expect it to be this soon: I am beginning to tire of Barack Obama. You need to understand the background to get why this is an event of monstrous proportions. I watched his speech at the National Democratic Convention in 2004, and every other speech since, I have read his two books, I got an expensive phone to follow the poll numbers on RealClearPolitics.com in the traffic. If Barack Obama has a fan (my fans spell it ?fun?), you are looking at his mug. No living leader has moved me more than Mr Obama. So, for me to say that Barrack is starting to bore me is like waking up in the morning and finding that your pubic hair has all fallen off. I watched fragments of his speech in Accra, Ghana, yesterday and I hope to read the full text. I am really hoping that it will indicate his thinking on Africa is different from what we have seen from the West in the 52 years since the first African country became independent. His special envoy, Mr Johny Carson, has been around here and I never heard him say anything that grabbed my attention. I have seen no new determination to engage in a different way with Africa, I have seen no new breakthroughs in the understanding of the complexities of the African situation. Mr Carson?s dealing with Eritrea is particularly strange. This is the country the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, Igad, accuses of sponsoring and supporting Somali militants, the same country that wouldn?t give Mr Carson a visa. His response, as I read it, was a woolly determination to ?engage?, a sort of: when you guys are done with the war-war and want to jaw-jaw, I will be here with my passport. The region is accusing Eritrea of funding and aiding groups allied to Al-Qaeda, a terror organization dedicated to the destruction of America. I read that Mr Obama had said at a conference that his cousin in Kisumu cannot get a job without paying a bribe. Excuse me while I make a phone call. (Hallo, is that Mr Gathogo? Please stop the press. We have a big late-breaking story.) Mr Obama?s cousin has to pay a bribe to get a job? Well, tie me down and blow me up. Why must young Africans pay a bribe to get a job? One possible explanation is that Africans are bad, corrupt people who can not rule themselves. That is the subtext of international discourse on ?governance? in Africa. A more accessible explanation is that families pay bribes simply because there are too many people and too few opportunities. The reason for that is that our economies simply aren?t growing. And yes, part of the cause of that is corruption and stupid leaders. My children are now interviewing for Standard One next year. Have you heard of a situation where 800 children have applied for 40 places in a relatively unglamorous school? Many are the Christian, peace loving and moral parents who would simply write a cheque, if they could, and make the endless coaching, make-up classes, cramming and daylong interviews go away. If you reduce the competition for jobs by creating more opportunities, you reduce corruption exponentially and you can take that to the bank. A young person with reasonable prospects is more likely to go out to the streets to hold leaders accountable. A young person without prospects would be more willing to join a politician?s murderous militia. I am very interested in a discussion of what exactly America thinks should be done to expand opportunities in Africa. Is there a need, for example, to open the closed markets of the West to Africa? Might there be a case for reducing the weight of the yoke of debt? Isn?t there a case for reconstructing (possibly deconstructing) African reality? I am bored with the very suggestion that Africa should try to do better the things that it has tried and failed to do for half a century. My father?s generation and my generation have wasted their lives on a broken model. I would certainly be very disgruntled if my children were to believe the theology of aid or the phony concepts of our independence. I am certainly bored about these Kenyan generalizations of how corrupt and tribal we are. When you say my country is corrupt, what about me who has never taken a bribe, who puts in my hours every day, loves my country and desperately wants to fix it? What about the many Kenyans who are like me, are not in it just for money but because we want to build a country we can take pride in? Are we not Kenyan? Don?t you think our anger is as dangerous as the cancerous pus of the political con men who strut around pretending to be ?democrats? and ?pro-change?? Mr Obama talking about his cousin at a meeting and holding up Kenya as an example of how to run a country badly is going to provide the self-hating masochists in our midst a lot of pleasure. It is also going to give a lot of satisfaction to the political class whose propaganda is based on the theory that Kenya is a dead premise which needs change (meaning them), but it does not take us an inch forward. If Mr Obama wants us to have a conversation, we need to change the discourse beyond the mere listing of the many ways Africa is failing and in what ways it might approximate more successfully the experience of other countries. My fear, I have come to realize, was that the same things that were said by Mr George Bush and Mr Tony Blair would continue to be said, but more eloquently and by a black mouth. At the very least I expect Mr Obama to think differently and to have a different concept of Africa, simply because he is a black person. I am probably just another daft African who doesn?t get the game. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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DOMMIE M.NTURIBI EXTREME FORWARDERS T.S.S TOWERS 4TH FLOOR +254733377779 MOMBASA,KENYA ? --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Rhoune Willis wrote: From: Rhoune Willis Subject: [YP_Ke] Why is KRA messing us after we pay duty???????? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:37 AM Dear All, ? I have never been caught so badly. My car is stuck at the Port of Mombasa apparently because KRA does not have number plates so that my vehicle is released from the Port of Mombasa. When my agent logged my vehicle online and was asked to pay duty I paid promptly, later their evaluators checked the documents and I was required to pay more duty which I also did deligently. ? As at now my vehicle cannot leave the port because there is no metal (of whatever they call it!) for a number plate. The implication is that my vehicle will attract more storage fee on a fault that is of KRA. Why is KRA doing this? is this their way of ensuring they squeeze out all our savings? ? 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URL: From jerry2song at yahoo.com Tue Jul 14 04:00:48 2009 From: jerry2song at yahoo.com (Jerry Manu) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: President Moi In-Reply-To: <11817.45046.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <11817.45046.qm@web31402.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <120920.42944.qm@web32502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi Odhiambo, You are right Moi must let others also lead, If he was serious by now he should have come out with practical solutions instead of singing how we should have a home made solution who is he waiting for to make that solution why can't he spearhead the solution if at all he is seeing any. Obama gave a reference of an Asian country which was poorer than Kenya but its richer than kenya despite people like Moi having had solutions of our ownall this time. ________________________________ From: odhiambo okecth To: net-kenya at yahoogroups.com; Africare- NewPublications ; news at ktnkenya.com; newvisionkenya at egroups.com; NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com; next_kenya at yahoogroups.com; Abuja Nigeria ; President Barack Obama ; Openyourthirdeye at yahoogroups.com; p4c ; panafricanist ; peoplespeak at people.co.ke; progressiveminds ; Publiceye ; Royal Media ; siasa ; smaitawi at yahoogroups.com; Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com Cc: TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com; trueblackness at yahoogroups.com; ugandacom ; Unnaanet unaanet ; citizens against violence ; VOA ; VOU ; yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com; youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com; youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com; youthagenda Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:01:52 AM Subject: [YP_Ke] President Moi Former President HE Daniel T Arap Moi for the umpteenth time reminded Kenyans that no one will come from outside to solve our problems. That it is us who must do that. President Moi was President of Kenya for a record 24 years. This will never be matched since the law now only allows for a maximum of 10 years at the top. If for those 24 years, he failed to solve our problems, could it not be wise for his advisors to tell him to keep quiet and enjoy his time? I bet Kenya had enough of his rule and we might be reeling from the effects of his time. We need to move forward without necessarily being reminded of what he did not do at his time. If his 24 years were of noble lead, Kenyans could listen to his advice. But given that we have nothing to be particularly proud of to associate with his 24 years, his advice might bring pangs of pains which are best forgotten. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Oketch, The problem is not Moi, but the Kenyan media which reports every day like there was no yesterday. The Press is a very limited national resource. Why does our media cover such nonsense without at least challenging him the way you have done? ________________________________ From: odhiambo okecth To: africa-oped ; BBC ; ccr ; cnn ; Kenya Community ; Kenya Community ; editor at africanexecutive.com; editor at nation.co.ke; editors at newsweek.com; An East African Online Forum Dedicated to Information Exchange. ; Guardian ; info at people.co.ke; jaluo Cc: jokanyanam at yahoogroups.com; KACA at yahoogroups.com; kalamkanews at yahoo.com; kenva at yahoogroups.com; Mars Group Kenya ; kenya_pyla at yahoogroups.com; kenya-can at egroups.com; kenya-can at yahoogroups.com; kenyacitizensassembly at yahoogroups.com; kenyaclub at yahoogroups.com; kenyap2012g at yahoogroups.com; kol ; letters at eastandard.net; ramogi luo ; luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk; luv4self_network at yahoogroups.com; madaraka-kenya at yahoogroups.com; mailbox at nation.co.ke; mazingira at yahoogroups.com; mbonbani at yahoogroups.com; mulembe ; mwananchi ; mwananchi at egroups.com; mwanyagetinge at yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 10:58:08 PM Subject: [africa-oped] President Moi Former President HE Daniel T Arap Moi for the umpteenth time reminded Kenyans that no one will come from outside to solve our problems. That it is us who must do that. President Moi was President of Kenya for a record 24 years. This will never be matched since the law now only allows for a maximum of 10 years at the top. If for those 24 years, he failed to solve our problems, could it not be wise for his advisors to tell him to keep quiet and enjoy his time? I bet Kenya had enough of his rule and we might be reeling from the effects of his time. We need to move forward without necessarily being reminded of what he did not do at his time. If his 24 years were of noble lead, Kenyans could listen to his advice. But given that we have nothing to be particularly proud of to associate with his 24 years, his advice might bring pangs of pains which are best forgotten. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Calendar Africa-oped welcomes opinions & analysis on African issues. 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Groups blog Stay up to speed on all things Groups! . __,_._,___ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbatec at yahoo.com Tue Jul 14 07:20:09 2009 From: jbatec at yahoo.com (Judy Miriga) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:20:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: Twist Again Like in the Summer Message-ID: <94714.1183.qm@web51908.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Folks, ? ? Its so sooooo funny, these leaders are corner corner cherore marach sister of oyundi. ? Do you remember those cheeky kids in the home,?who are usually the instigators/aggressors, those kids who are Lelos, when they are not home, it is quite and peaceful,?but when they are around, they are the first ones to cause conflicting issues?and again, they are number one to claim they have been insulted, so they come back to the house crying the loudest that they have been attacked?innocently, that?they were ambushed.? They are usually the first to cause trouble.? When you try to go solve the problem, before you reach to the point where the incident occurred, they are the first to have reached there before you?so to get?things corrupted sneekily, to errase any evidence. These are such like incidences. ? I love the drama......so so funny.??? But guess what, we are not joking....and we are not playing balls with no one......we have to stop this cheeky behaviour once and for all.? Taking issues like these for granted has caused us so much pain...? if you spare the rod, you spoil a child. ? Thanks Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Mon, 7/13/09, chris kawaiku wrote: From: chris kawaiku Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Twist Again Like in the Summer To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:12 PM The most funny thing about "ambush" is that they were outsmarted. Amb. Koffi took good lessons when he was here and he got it right.Kenya politicians have perfected the art of ambush to their electorate and they did same to him but now, its all been reversed on them. Do you?imagine?the like of Orengo and Mutula insinuating that they were ambushed? It must be alugh of the of the year On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:05 PM, wrote: Folks, ? Ocampo must be informed so he knows the kind of characters he is about to start dealing with.....he must be fully prepared so he can flex his muscles to engage Kenyan Legislatures to their pitched tune. They are the kind you have never seen or imagined.? They are?known 'rare species'.? They will twist you to the corner to a point you become breathless.? Their dance tune is?traditionally high pitched. My My My! you need an energy booster before you can get started with them.? This can be summarized as highly qualified in their game of chess. ? These folks breakfast diet is Traditional Uji with nyoyo before they top it all with Tea,?Omlette and Bread, with juice on the side.? This is the known breakfast menu.? It is said that this menu is a fully balanced diet that provides added strength and stamina, and sharpen brains muscles and vains which provide alert signals to change course of events instantaniously.? These are some of the well fed energized busy bodies. ? We will see more of this?come next?Summer.? The sing song is the same only the dancing style will change.? That is what keeps them on the steadfastly floor. ? Have a good day people! ? ? Cheers! ? ? ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com ? Annan did not ambush Kenya, says Justice minister ? Cotu secretary general Francis Atwoli (left) and Justice and Constitutional Affairs minister Mutula Kilonzo address journalists at Solidarity Building Monday. Mr Kilonzo said Mr Annan did not ambush Kenya when he handed over the names of suspected post election violence suspects to the ICC. Photo/ FREDRICK ONYANGO ? By?MUCHEMI WACHIRAPosted?Monday, July 13?2009?at?14:07 In Summary Kenya delegation agreed to allow Mr Ocampo to start preliminary investigations on the suspects. The investigations will determine whether the alleged crimes fall within Mr Ocampo?s jurisdiction. Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo has dismissed claims that Kofi Annan?s decision to hand over names of post-election violence suspects to the International Criminal Court caught the government by surprise.? He accused some leaders and the press of making misleading statements on the issue. By handing over the envelope to ICC Prosecutor Mr Luis Moreno Ocampo, Mr Annan was only ?satisfying? himself, said Mr Mutula. Ambush Kenya ?He did not ambush Kenya as some are implying.? Mr Mutula made it clear that during the meeting at Geneva the Kenya delegation agreed to allow Mr Ocampo to start preliminary investigations on the suspects based on three issues. ?The government accepted this and confirmed that ICC can start the preliminary investigations,? Mr Kilonzo told journalists at Cotu headquarters? in Nairobi on Monday where he had gone to pay the trade union leadership a courtesy call. The first issue, he said, was to establish whether the post-election violence suspects had committed crimes against humanity. He is also expected in his initial findings to establish whether there was genocide or war crimes committed by the suspects during the violence that left at least 1,000 people dead. It is after confirming whether the three offences were committed that Mr Ocampo will act, the minister further explained. Preliminary investigations The preliminary investigations will only determine whether the alleged crimes fall within Mr Ocampo?s jurisdiction. ? ?This is why he needed the envelope,? Mr Kilonzo said. The other ministers in the Geneva team were: James Orengo (Lands) and his Internal Security counterpart Prof George Saitoti. Mr Kilonzo said that if the ICC prosecutor confirms that none of the crimes were committed during the post-election violence, he cannot act because apart from the three offences, any other crime is not within his jurisdiction. Crimes that are not within the ICC mandate can only be dealt with using local mechanisms, said Mr Kilonzo.? Lands minister James Orengo was quoted in our sister publication the Sunday Nation saying Annan betrayed and ambushed the Geneva delegation. 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First of all you are a self appointed and selfish leader of a group that does not represent the voice of vast majority of Kenyans. Second, do you believe in the constitution of the land where all these info is indebted to. If you can only take your time to think or travel away from your home to another country in the world you would realize that the question of race or ethinicity is so appropriate.It is asked everywhere you go. The person in you thinks it is wrong because you wanna hide your identity, probably there is something in you that you don't like or you dont want to see some facts about another person who is not of your tribe-Tribalism. Man, when will you stop thinking like a war monger or like a tribal chauvinist who all he can do is breath hatred. Hey, you need to grow up and leave that brand of politics behind you. Let me make this point clear to you and others that may be thinking like you. The problem Kenya has is not in the tribe pasee. It doesn't matter where you were born or by who the problem is using that thing called tribe, blending it with hate and what you get is tribalism. You could spend a whole day discussing how the Gov't should not be asking? the question but again who is the gov't if not the people of the land. Kenya has a representative govt. The scheme of wanting a brand new constitution and all the talk about Koffi Annan Article 4 is clear to everybody who has been watching events unfolding for a long time. It is clear to some of us who read your blogs. It is all about trying to hide the bitter historical truth about the struggle for independence in Kenya. We respect and applaud our forefathers for their time, efforts and spirit of sacrifice. Do you think anybody gonna hide that in the sand? It is a great story of the founders of the nation of Kenya and so ya'll can use all the means you can but it will forever remain to be true. There will never be another struggle like you have suggested before, we are free from GB and you better face the truth and swallow your pride and know that trying to fight another person who doesn't belong to your tribe because of his accomplishments is both politically and morally wrong. I am a proud Mugikuyu and I love my country I am a Patriot.Do? I sound different or like a rebel? I am old enough to remember every bit of history of how and when things started stinking. Last, have some respect for the for former President he will always bear that title. Don't forget he is a citizen of Kenya and he is entitled to the same rights you and me have. The right to express himself. Telling him to shut up does not only depict you as a hater(which is the last thing you would be advocating during this time you are looking for votes to become the next President I hope.) And also someone who has no respect for the constitution of Kenya. We have so much we are proud of and we can remember though he wasn't a perfect President. Mwaura wa Kamand, USA. --- On Mon, 7/13/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [Mwanyagetinge] Tribe Kenya for a unified society. To: "africa-oped" , "BBC" , "ccr" , "Kenya Community" , "Kenya Community" , editor at africanexecutive.com, editor at nation.co.ke, editors at newsweek.com, "An East African Online Forum Dedicated to Information Exchange." , "Guardian" , info at people.co.ke, "jaluo" , jokanyanam at yahoogroups.com, KACA at yahoogroups.com, kalamkanews at yahoo.com, kenva at yahoogroups.com, "Mars Group Kenya" , kenya_pyla at yahoogroups.com, kenya-can at egroups.com, kenya-can at yahoogroups.com, kenyacitizensassembly at yahoogroups.com, kenyaclub at yahoogroups.com, kenyap2012g at yahoogroups.com, "kol" , letters at eastandard.net, "ramogi luo" , luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, luv4self_network at yahoogroups.com, madaraka-kenya at yahoogroups.com, mailbox at nation.co.ke, mazingira at yahoogroups.com, mbonbani at yahoogroups.com, "mulembe" , "mwananchi" , mwananchi at egroups.com, mwanyagetinge at yahoogroups.com, net-kenya at yahoogroups.com, newvisionkenya at egroups.com Cc: "Africare- NewPublications" , news at ktnkenya.com, NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogroups.com, "p4c" , "panafricanist" , peoplespeak at people.co.ke, "progressiveminds" , "Publiceye" , "Royal Media" , "siasa" , Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com, TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com, trueblackness at yahoogroups.com, "White House U.S.A." , "Uganda House" , "ugandacom" , "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com, youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "youthagenda" Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 12:34 PM Tribe Kenya for a unified society ?13th July 2009 On page 24 of the Sunday Nation of 12th July 2009, Mr. Reginald Okumu, a former chairman of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya led a team from Tribe Kenya Initiative in urging Kenyans to refuse to answer to the tribe question in the forthcoming national census. Tribe Kenya Initiative is a lobby group that seeks to encourage Kenyans to think more of Kenya than the tribe from which they come from. And in their editorial of today, the Daily Nation seems to be encouraging the government to ask us about our tribes in the forthcoming census. In a strongly worded editorial, the author says such arguments border on facetious sophistry and are best discarded. He then says that what is important is finding out the relative numbers, not so that one tribe can go around proclaiming its majority, but for planning purposes. I beg to differ. For the last 46 years, and the Daily Nation knows this, the issue of tribe has been used to set Kenyans against each other. Is it not time we Kenyans confronted this issue and put it to rest? I am a Kenyan of Luo origin. Why should somebody ask me that in a government document? I bet the most important thing to do is to know that I am a Kenyan. Secondly, our political leaders have failed to use our ethnic diversity to propel a national agenda. We all know that tribe has been an issue and our political leaders will always use this as a tool to disenfranchise us. Is it not time Kenyans revolted against this selfish scheme? Is it too much to just say I am a Kenyan? Thirdly, I have not seen any planning purposes centred on the tribe. If it is the Luo, we have Luos across all Kenya. How will you factor on development with the Luo in mind? I bet development is either constituency or District based. If we were to factor on development in Nyeri, will we look at how many Kikuyus, Luos, Kambas or Luhyas are domiciled there? And then for ?planning purposes? plan according to the numbers of each tribe in that particular District? This is a tired argument and it is time Kenyans confront this issue head on. The author of that editorial at the Daily Nation cannot use such strongly worded jargons to stifle an idea whose time has come. For 46 years Kenyans have been shepherded like goats by politicians who use the issue of tribe to divide us. Don?t we all know how the census has been used to hype the numbers of certain tribes? I want to strongly urge Kenyans to ignore and refuse to answer to the tribe question. Let us all say we are Kenyans. It is time we took charge of our destiny by beginning to reclaim our independence from the manipulative politicians and their cronies from the media and the civil service. For 46 years, tribal census has been used to make us fight, it is time to give it a kick. I am a Kenyan and I am proud to be one. Odhiambo T Oketch, Komarock Nairobi. __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE Mom Power: Discover the community of moms doing more for their families, for the world and for each other Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! 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ACHIM STEINER Message-ID: Dear All, RE: BI-MONTHLY TALK SERIES - 16 : A SPECIAL INVITATION: The Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations (KARA) in partnership with Hanns Seidel Foundation and the Ford Foundation has lined up a refreshing and informative Bi-monthly Talk Series (BTS) on yet another current and topical subject, in the public interest. The BTS program brings to light discussions from various points of view, Government on one hand and civil society, private sector and development partners on the other. The discussion takes 15 minutes presentations from each keynote speaker. Thereafter, a question and answer session follows. 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Message-ID: Kumekuchans, In his article http://kumekucha.blogspot.com/2009/07/can-change-really-come-to-kenya-without.html, Kumekucha writes: *This time it is going to be a lot harder than it was back then and so as many Kenyans as possible need to come out and say NO. In fact I have made a personal decision to make my real identity public very soon and to come out and start campaigning for change in Kenya from the trenches. I will make an announcement soon. I am of course well aware that with the kind of information I have published here in the past about some very dangerous Kenyans, I will be at great risk doing something ?stupid like that.? But my reasoning is that Kenyans are already dead with the kind of life we have in our country now. ?The living dead? would be what some folks would call us. Besides there is a saying that it is much better to live 100 days as a lion than 100 years as a chicken.* And so Ladies & Gentlemen, behold, we have Kumekucha Watch! The waiting of the identity of person commonly as Kumekucha. Hopefully, it will not turn out as a case of 'The Government Inspector.' All I can say is that my 10th great grandfather, Ragem welcomes you. It doent matter anymore that you may be my relative, as you may have been anointed by our forebearers, and in the name of our lost wise politicians. Burst forth young one, burst forth Kumekucha. Your time is nigh. Our ancestors have spoken! -- Joram Ragem wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Its just like one rents a house in a crime prone area and you add metal grills and extra stones for your safety is it for the landlord to compensate you when you are doing it for your safety and incase you move it will be upto you to either remove your stuff and make sure you leave the building as it was when entering in this case you might reconsired the cost of removing?your stuff and refixing everything as it was when you entered.? ________________________________ From: Amos D. To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 8:37:29 AM Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Sh33million for Kenya PM home ////// Africa told to solve the IDP problem once and for all I wonder what will happen when Raila Ceases to be the PM....will his pimped homes be handed over to the government or he will retain the two private residences, and if so, will he pay back Kenyans? Really!!!!!! Amos On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 2:20 PM, wrote: > > > Folks, > > Which would come first, the Reform Accord Agreement requirement backlog or > personal bling bling?? Would you care for the hungry and the dying or spend > on > glamour lifestyle?? Would you care to put roof over the homeless IDPs?and > support > means for food supply and provide for health and medicine to the sick or > take a > vocational holiday to Hawaii?? How best is it fair to spend public funds or > taxpayers > money in a favourable manner?? What is the best strategy for reform in a > collapse > economic crisis situation? > > I am saddened that the Coalition Government have failed the purpose for > which it was > formed. They have specific issues to tackle first and not bling bling?with > taking personal > family matters top?on the agenda while spending lavishly.....this 33 million > is not an important > matter right now....what is important is peoples lives which have been > pushed to the edge > by the 2007 conflict.? These Coalition Government?have totally failed the > Kenyan people > and??will never put their acts right. > > Prosecutor Ocampo should not play leniency by any margin, he should embark > on > vigorous conviction charges as soon as is possibly convenient.? All these > careless > spending is total corruption from draining the common public of the little > thread of > survival and it is a criminal offense case load?against Kenyan Public poor > needing > immediate attention and remedy.? This is just too much of headswell and dont > care > attitude we must do away with such leaders, so we chart move for wayforward > for > Kenyans. > > Thanks > > > Judy Miriga > Diaspora Spokesperson > Executive Director > Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., > USA > http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com > > > > Bad leadership to blame for conflicts in Africa, says Tibaijuka > > > Published on 12/07/2009 > > Related Stories > > Stop growth of slums in towns, UN Habitat chief tells Government > > Slum upgrading initiative hits a snag > > Official at centre of gun row still at UN office > > Gun link to Tibaijuka?s demotion > > UN: It is racism, Cotu says of Tibaijuka?s removal > > Africa?s cities growing faster than economies > > By Standard on Sunday Correspondent > Failed political leadership of the African elite is the principal cause of > most conflicts and violence in Africa, says Anna Tibaijuka, Executive > Director, Habitat. > And His Eminence John Cardinal Njue, the Head of the Catholic Church in > Kenya, takes the view those who make decisions about peace and war are often > insulated from the results of their decisions and do not suffer and die as a > result of their decisions. > Tibaijuka and Njue spoke at during a conference on violence and conflicts on > the African continent that was hosted by Catholic University of Eastern > Africa and which brought together scholars from 14 such Catholic > institutions on the continent. > "Had it not been for the senseless wars and conflicts, the money spent on > peace keeping operations could have built thousands of schools, clinics, > water points and other socio-economic infrastructure," she said. > She lauded the Association of Catholic Universities and Higher Institutes of > Africa and Madagascar, the organisers of the conference for their > initiative. > "It is befitting that Catholic educators who are entrusted with the > spiritual well-being of our communities and who are also ordained to preach > peace and uphold justice are leading the way in searching for the root > causes of violence and conflict in Africa." > Tibaijuka said leadership failure in Africa has exacerbated poverty and lack > of opportunities for the youth and marginalised groups. > > > Read all about: Anna Tibaijuka UN habitat > > Sh33million for Kenya PM home > > > > The Permanent Secretary in the office of the Prime Minister Dr Mohammed > Isahakia presents his submissions to the Departmental Committee on > Administration and National Security during examination of the 2009/2010 > printed estimates for the PM's office at KICC on Monday. Sh33.4 million has > been set aside to refurbish the PM's residence. PHOTO/HEZRON NJOROGE > > By?JOHN NGIRACHUPosted?Monday, July 13?2009?at?12:05 > > In Summary > > Money will go into staffing the PM?s residences to enable him to host State > functions and visitors. > > Allocation will also go into providing for additional security and > surveillance equipment at the residences as well as additional domestic > staff. > > The private residence of Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga will be renovated > at a cost of Sh33.4 million. > > The money has already been allocated towards the office of the Prime > Minister and is Sh6 million more than was spent on the same expense in the > 2008/2009 financial year, which ended last month. > > According to officials from the PM?s office who spoke before the > departmental committee on administration and national security on Monday, > the money will go into staffing the PM?s residences to enable him to host > State functions and visitors. > > ?His current residence in Nairobi and another in Mombasa are being > rehabilitated so that State guests going there can get treatment > commensurate to the Prime Minister?s status,? said Mr Khang?ati, an > Assistant minister in the PM?s office. > > He said the allocation would go into providing for additional security and > surveillance equipment at the residences as well as additional domestic > staff. > > It does not include the cost for hospitality, that is, the cost of feeding > and entertaining the visitors. > > Mr Khang?ati defended the allocation at the meeting after Makueni MP Peter > Kiilu raised the query at the committee?s examination of the printed > estimates for the PM?s office. > > He claimed it was 'significantly less? than that for the vice-president and > State House. > > Currently, the PM and the VP do not have official State residences and > rarely host official government functions. > > Mr Odinga currently resides at Karen in Nairobi. > > According to the presentations at the meeting, the allocation is expected to > increase to Sh55 million in the 2010/2011 financial year and to top Sh77 > million in the last financial year of the coalition government. > > By the end of the current term of Parliament, Sh192.8 million will have been > spent in the rehabilitation of the PM?s residence. > > Mr Odinga is the second Prime Minister in post-colonial Kenya, the first > having been President Jomo Kenyatta, who served as PM between 1963 and 1964, > when Kenya became a republic. > > The government has already spent Sh700 million for the acquisition of Shell > and BP House on Harambee Avenue to host the PM?s office and departments that > fall under him. > > According to Mr Khang?ati, the refurbishment of the building is at the > design and planning stage with the ministry of Public Works as tenants whose > leases had not expired move out. > > He said the PM?s offices on the second floor are expected to be ready for > occupation in three months? time. > > > > > > Africa told to solve the IDP problem once and for all > > > Published on 10/07/2009 > > Related Stories > > ?Waki Envelope? in the right hands > > IDPs block Nyagah?s convoy, demand food > > Displaced children turn to the streets in Eldoret > > Idp Feature 2/07/09 > > IDPs feature > > By Ally Jamah and Anne Kanina > Africa has been labelled an "IDP continent" crying out for a lasting > solution. > Participants at a Nairobi workshop heard the continent hosts some 11.6 > million displaced people of the 26 million worldwide. > Speaking during the International Conference of the Great Lakes Region > (ICGLR), Special Programmes Assistant Minister Mohammud Ali Mohammed said > the Government was using self-help groups to help resettle people living in > IDP camps. > Many of them were uprooted from their homes during last year?s post-election > violence. > "Seventeen self-help groups, consisting 6,743 households have collectively > purchased 220.3 acres of land, where members have relocated to," he said. > Mr Mohammed also promised that "all genuine IDPs" would be resettled by next > June. The minister said "fake IDPs" would be weeded out first. > Transit camps > Critics accuse the Government of mishandling resettlement of IDPs and are > not convinced the woes of the displaced are likely to end soon. > Thousands of IDPs remain in transit camps and lack access to schools, health > care and basic sanitation. > The Special Programmes Ministry was allocated Sh2.2 billion in the 2009-2010 > Budget to resettle all outstanding IDPs, and many are watching the > Government?s efforts. > United Nations Secretary-General?s Representative on Human Rights of the > IDPs Walter Kaelin told participants to seek lasting solutions and implement > the IDP protocol and UN convention on displaced people. > Legal frameworks > "The challenge remains with countries to implement the two conventions to > have a real impact on the IDP problem," he said. > Mr Kaelin asked governments to create legal frameworks to tackle the > problem. > Refugee Consortium of Kenya Executive Director Judy Wakahiu said Kenya > needed a legal framework on issues regarding IDPs. > "A legal framework will aid in measuring the standard in dignity and safety > of the resettled IDPs and this calls for the country to domesticate the IDP > protocol," said Wakahiu. > Kenya is yet to adopt a new legal framework and policies to ensure IDPs are > supported. > Human rights groups accuse the Government of violating international > standards of treating IDPs, saying many have been forced return home before > feeling safe or ready to do so. > Unlike international refugees, IDPs are not covered by any ratified > protocol, which bind governments. > The Government says Kenya has only 7,000 IDPs from the post-election > violence, but other sources say the number could be higher. > Climate change > Meanwhile, climate change is set to raise the number of IDPs in Kenya, as > natural disasters like floods and drought dislocate thousands of people. > "Natural disasters will escalate the number of IDPs, adding to the long list > of conflict and development projects as reasons for displacement," said > Kaelin. > > > Read all about: International Conference of the Great Lakes Region ICGLR > displaced people Special Programmes Ministry > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From komarockswatch at yahoo.com Tue Jul 14 10:21:32 2009 From: komarockswatch at yahoo.com (odhiambo okecth) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Nancy Wambui; Thank you Message-ID: <840601.40560.qm@web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com> We are pleased at KCDN to induct Ms Nancy Wambui amongst the Friends of KCDN. Nancy has given us her support of Kshs 5,000.00 which we have received today. On behalf of the KCDN Management Team, our partners and Friends of KCDN and the parents and children who look to KCDN for support, I am honoured to be the one expressing our appreciation. We have all said in one voice; Thank you Nancy. KCDN is growing slowly but surely. Today, we were also honoured to host an exploratory team from Akiba Uhaki Foundation. To Kepta, Felix and Christine we say, thank you for that visit. For our upcoming events,kindly visit our blogspot and be part of us; http://kcdnkomarockswatch.blogspot.com The photos that we have enclosed were taken today in the morning and this is the Komarock Canal that we have set our sights on for 5th September 2009. We invite your support to help us clean this place and mobilize the local community to own this process. This is their mess and they must learn to clean it up. It needs that we create that awareness. We are looking forward to all the support that you can give us. Many thanks and blessings. Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi. --- On Mon, 7/13/09, nancy wambui wrote: From: nancy wambui Subject: Re: [ProgressiveMinds] Reginald Okumu, David Ochwangi; Thank you To: ProgressiveMinds at yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:55 AM Hey guys, i would also to contribute kitu kidogo. will send 5,000 Kshs tomorrow. Kindly send me the the number that i should send the money t0, the ID number of the recipient and the full names. ? Thanx and God bless you ? From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [ProgressiveMinds] Reginald Okumu, David Ochwangi; Thank you To: "oyookraft" , "p4c" , "panafricanist" , "progressiveminds" , "siasa" , "Sungu" , trueblackness@ yahoogroups. com, "ugandacom" , "VOU" , youngkenyansforchan ge at yahoogroups. com, "youthagenda" Cc: "Paul Nyandoto" , "Publiceye" , smaitawi at yahoogroup s.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups .com, TheBlackList@ yahoogroups. com, "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , yiffkenya at yahoogrou ps.com, youngprofessionals_ ke at googlegroups. com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 1:54 AM On Saturday 11th July, Mr Reginald Okumu, formerly the Chairman of the Institution of Surveyors of Kenya became a Friend of KCDN by giving us Kshs 2,000.00 in support. On the same day, Mr. David Ochwangi also become officially a Friend of KCDN by sending his pledge of $100 [Kshs 7,432.00]. We also received a commitment of Kshs 5,000.00 from Mr. Cosmos Omondi from Southern Sudan. He will pass this to us when he comes around shortly. To all of you we say; Thank you. We are truly humbled and honoured by these Friends of KCDN. This is the response to our call for support so far; 1] Mr. Lenny Amolo; Kshs 3,000.00 received 2] Dr. Shem Ochuodho; Kshs 2,500.00 sending 3] Mr. Maurice Odenyo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 4] Mr. Sam Olendo; Kshs 2,000.00 received 5] Dr. Matunda Nyanchama; $100 sending 6] Mr. David Ochwangi; $100 [Kshs 7,432.00] received 7] Mr. Oduor Ong?wen; Kshs 3,000.00 received 8] Ms Janet Feldman; $50 [Kshs 3,693.00] received 9] Mr. Elijah Kombo; Kshs 6,000.00 received 10] Ms Arinolah EN; Kshs 2,000.00 received 11] Mr. John Maina; Kshs 1,500.00 received 12] Mr. Otieno Sungu; Kshs 1,500.00 received 13] Mr. Reginald Okumu; Kshs 2,000.00 received 14] Mr. George Nyongesa; Kshs 2,000.00 received 15] Ms Jeanette M Khaoya; CHF100 [Kshs 6,823.50] received. 16] Mr. Cosmos Omondi; Kshs 5,000.00 sending .....And many more Friends of KCDN..... We are still appealing to as many friends to step forward and be part of us. KCDN is just but a means by which you can exercise your goodness to the less fortunate members in our society, particularly the Orphans and the Vulnerable Children. Check out our next events on; http://kcdnkomarock swatch.blogspot. com and be part of us. We appreciate your support very much. many thanks and blessings, Odhiambo T Oketch, CEO KCDN Nairobi, Tel; 0735 529 126, 0724 365 557 __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (2) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity Visit Your Group Give Back Yahoo! for Good Get inspired by a good cause. Y! Toolbar Get it Free! easy 1-click access to your groups. Yahoo! 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URL: From steveogeda at yahoo.co.uk Tue Jul 14 13:04:13 2009 From: steveogeda at yahoo.co.uk (steve ogeda) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:04:13 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: KENYA DIVIDED:ROT IN GOVERNMENT, ICC, etc - FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM In-Reply-To: <148261.14730.qm@web30405.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <522916.23550.qm@web27207.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Mr. Ochwangi, In your eyes the failed state is one? Raila.If there was call for mass protests, what was it against? Even in battle no?war is one sided. There must? be an opponent.Please clear the air on these: Who was shooting these people called upon to demonstrate? Did your nemesis run the ECK and chair the meetings held at state house? Who burnt?houses and churches? Why were kenyans so frightened?in central province they spent days at police stations? Who hurriedly held a swearing in ceremony at dusk? Was it this one guy who loooted shops and other business in kisumu an mombasa? And while at it,these looters got tear gas canisters to burn the same business down. ? If you are to talk of?rot it is more than the above events and what you are trying to put forth?below. That state rot?includes you and?I paying bribes,using?parastal vehicles to ferry construction materials,calling corrupt practices 'deals',forming NGOs to channel funds meant?for the needy into?personal accounts,court clerks hiding files to subvert justice,relief food being sold by government officials meant to distribute it,state?organs using a large percentage of their budget to acquire luxury cars and attend 'workshops'.that in my view is a bigger rot and is what is killing us. The leadership is just a reflection of what you, Bwana Ochwangi,kenyans(they form the civil service which is part of the government)?and I practise everyday. ? my2cents --- On Tue, 14/7/09, David ochwangi wrote: From: David ochwangi Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: KENYA DIVIDED:ROT IN GOVERNMENT, ICC, etc - FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009, 5:31 AM Lee: I am not sure if to answer you directly but for the benefit of others, let me say this, WAKE UP BROTHER before it gets dark in Kenya again. help straighten up a fast sinking ship. If you pay attention to my note, I went the extra mile of lambasting Kenya's leadership from the President on down; I even blasted foreign embassies so I am not sure I was trying to make friends but I know I am collecting a ton of enemies, which is the least of my worries. ? Now, if this pathetic weak juvenile high school rejoinder is all you have as a response, no wonder people like Raila scorn at you and treat you like spit; neither yourself nor anyone of your thinking will ever get anywhere in Kenya because you allow the leadership to pull you and hold you down and you are dragging the entire country down with you. None of your response even address ONE item raised in the memo except foolish rambling about the dead and Uhuru;?wake up my friend and tell Raila to shape up; IDPs are still in Camps while his PRIVATE home is allocated?198 Million Shilling to entertain visitors; the President and the VP are in on the loot too; who are you fooling? Ministers ?ride in the newest Mercedes Benzes while kids and women go hungry-did you know one day's fuel for those cars can feed a family of ten for two weeks? MPs refuse to pay their fair share of taxes while? taxing the poor?to Beyond Poverty Ave; thieves and murderers run the government; Wetangula is proclaiming that kenya is not a failed state when all the evidence is to the contrary; do you know of any country where politicians engineer the?murder of their citizens, justify the deaths, fail to prosecute perpetrators and claim success? Where? Kenya of-ccourse. The president is asleep at the helm, I mean come on my friend, call it what you may but that is Kenya's reality; KENYA IS A FAILED STATE! ? About Wamalwa, maybe you speak to the dead but I, as many Kenyans didn't get the memo about Raila's "best" part..all we know he called mass violence and innocent people died; about Ruto, the facts speak for themselves and if you have something you wish Kenyans to know about Uhuru, let's hear it. KACC is in on the rot as you correctly point out; we have a rotten government peopleses, it is BAD, really BAD! --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Lee Makwiny wrote: From: Lee Makwiny Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: KENYA DIVIDED:ROT IN GOVERNMENT, ICC, etc - FOREIGN DIPLOMATS FILL LEADERSHIP VACUUM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 7:12 AM Ochwangi, You will praise your paymaster to death, but the fact is that Hague is here will us. Do you want to tell us you know more that Karua did. We are sorry. You will be shocked buddy. The late Wamalwa will tell you best side of Raila you belong to. Its either you love him or hate him, and you know where belong Period. And why do you bring on Ruto's name on this and deliberately leave out his friend Uhuru???? Are you playing politics for someone here!!! Or do you want me to believe that its a mere coincidence? The major problem we have in Kenya is corruption, and if you make this your pet subject, then we will take you seriously. Read Obama man, his problem with Kenya is corruption, corruption and lack of respect for democracy. Period. You can take a walk on that and you will get his message to Kenya. Do you know how much KACC director earn? ? As you serve your masters, I only wish you the best. ? On 7/13/09, David ochwangi wrote: DICLAIMER: This is how I see it-unmasked, blunt and not sugar coated and so ?in fairness, please be warned. This is not intended to be politically correct in terms of wording or expression and if you are angered by the contents, I accept full credit. Even family must endure tough love for the good of all. ?It is amazing what a difference five short years have made in a country that was once on a trajectory to economic and political maturity! Short of an outright formal declaration of Kenya as a failed state, Western diplomats accredited to Kenya are, for the most part in charge, helping, subtly and yet vitally, hold the country together and prevent her from spiraling to the precipice of further lawlessness. Just six short years ago Kenya shined on the world stage with the display of political maturity by her peaceful people in electing president Kibaki and the peaceful transition of power from President Moi. In 2003 Kenyans were ranked as the most optimistic people on earth and even though this quickly evaporated courtesy of politics gone awry, the country generally remained peaceful, posted respectable economic gains and revival of industry.? Fast forward to 2008, 2009 and for the foreseeable future and you have practically a failing state, all economic gains almost wiped out, growth all but gone now at a projected measly 1.7% from an impressive 7% leading into the 2007 elections, tribal militias and rag tag gangs supported by warlord politicians essentially manning the streets and communities; at the national level, foreign diplomats from the west are effectively running the government! What happened to Kenya? What went wrong so bad so fast? Very simple, here: Politics vs. Governance: Not to regurgitate the obvious but Kenya?s leaders, like most in Africa, are incapable of making a distinction between the two, most politicians equate politics to governance; our political class has substituted fear and intimidation for respect, never mind that respect, which is the true measure of leadership, is earned; and so when the election results were announced in December 2007, none of these clowns would place nationhood above self. And this gaping shortcoming was a big invitation to the West to step in. ?The calls for armed struggle via ?Mass Action? was clearly a signal to the West to our lack of capacity to self govern, to temper our disagreements with reason and our flagrant repudiation of rule of law. Kenya?s leaders failed when it mattered most: President Kibaki was timid and cowed to wits end when the perpetrator in chief, PM Odinga lit the nation on fire through demagoguery and predatory incitement. Whereas the president?s perceived ineffectiveness and inefficiency became painfully clear, the PM exploited the country?s vulnerabilities to the hilt; the sum gain was deaths of innocent Kenyans, suspension of rule of law, a failing economy and constructive hand over of governance to the West. ?One can make the case against the president for complacency to Kenya?s suffering through his omissions because he failed to use the enormous constitutional mandates of his office, like Kenyatta or Moi would have, to maintain law and order to preserve the country?s stability and save lives while yet another case can be made against the PM for complicity through his direct agitation, encouragement, aiding and endorsement of law breaking to attain self promotion. So the west had no choice in the matter but to fill the vast void suddenly created by spineless morons whose leadership shelf lives long expired in the last century. ?In rubbishing Kenya?s courts and its entire justice system, the PM, in essence created neo colonialism in Kenya with his repeated calls to the West and ?friends of Kenya? to intervene on his behalf.? The truth is many in Kenya?s top leadership would NOT even be electable to a town councilman position in the West, they would in fact be handed a one way ticket to oblivion and commanded to not EVER EVER show back in town again, that is just how horrendous our politicians are and yet many are trotting the globe and making embellished claims of knowledge as if such tours confer spontaneous wisdom! Western Intervention: And so when the West stepped in, Kenya?s leaders were more than willing, without debate, question or consternation, to swallow a concoction of a poison pill out of this world; without being given an opportunity to debate and vote, we became the perfect guinea pigs and to this day and for the foreseeable future will continue to reap the repercussions of this intervention. ? The two page Grand Coalition agreement which Kenya?s parliament unanimously approved at record speed was perhaps the most abhorrent to the extent it was dictated to Kenya. The standard that I would have applied in adopting the measure is simple, ask the Western diplomats starting with US whether or not the same prescription would apply in the US or any other western country who dictated the Grand Coalition; in other words, what would happen in the US if in 2000 when democrat Al Gore won the popular vote and Republican George Bush was declared the winner and democrats, led by Al Gore himself, started the kind of mayhem and killings PM Odinga engineered? Would the US adopt a two page constitutional amendment to form a ?Grand Coalition? government to appease Al Gore? Would these Western countries tolerate mediocre war lords like Ruto and rag tag gangs dismantling their economies and dictating the direction of their countries or would they deploy law enforcement to restore peace and order? ?Would African diplomats accredited to the West be allowed to dictate political solutions to the West?s political stalemates? Would Kenya?s ambassador have been allowed to counsel Al Gore in 2000? If their answer is ?NO? they wouldn?t adopt what they were prescribing to Kenya, then they would be asked to quit meddling and leave us alone but, oh no, our brave leaders were more than willing and mesmerized at the West?s ?concern?? and quick to take orders from the West! I mean they witnessed what we went through and they rewarded law breakers by installing them in high positions in government and look where it has gotten us. Does anyone have any doubt now that we would have done way better under President Kibaki running the show a second term as he did the first, not perfect but certainly much much better than this nightmare the country is going through right now? So for this reason, the west misdiagnosed Kenya?s sickness and prescribed her the wrong medicine; and by looking the other way when these corrupt and murderous elements are still wholly in charge of key government apparatus, the West continues to provide aid and comfort to perpetrators of crimes against humanity; the west is complicit in piling on the rot we are so desperate to remove from our governance by way of dictating how the country should be governed on a daily basis (granted we invited them to do so); so one wonders when the country will truly be independent once again. I mean where is Mzee Kenyatta when you need him? Would Mzee Jomo Kenyatta call on the West and ?friends of Kenya? to come and solve Kenya?s problems? how about ?hell NO?. Kenyatta handled business and that was leadership my friends. The West doesn?t invite other countries let alone Africans to come solve their problems; why do we? The West knows who the perpetrators of post election violence are, they have issued travel bans against some or most of them who happen to head government entities, why not prevail on the Kibaki government to at the very minimum, relieve these suspects from government offices, even temporarily, at least until this matter is resolved; Kibaki let Mwiraria, Murungaru, Murungi, Kimunya among others go for much less aggravating crimes; why are thieves and murderers running major ministries in Kenya and why are these Embassies silent about it? Who are they fooling? Embassies must be fair to Africans and stop propping incompetent murderous regimes in the name of stability. It is hollow, hypocritical, and false and only prolongs the suffering of populations. The bottom line in Kenya is slowly but surely spiraling into the abyss and the foreign missions are enabling and abetting the rot and only delaying the inevitable; our country is sick and this government is the cancer that has metastasized and contaminated the whole society with rot; sweeping these ills under the rugs only masks the odor and improves NOTHING! The Embassies must exert their influence and prevail on the president to, at the very minimum, get rid of or at least suspend known and suspected perpetrators of Post Election Violence who have holed themselves in government until such a time that investigations and prosecutions are complete; Kenyans are not idiots ya?ll think they are you know. If you can ban suspects from travelling to the West, certainly you can apply equal pressure for the sake of Kenyans who have lost any remaining faith in their government. The Obama Factor Kenya?s best blessing, bar none! And what are we doing with it, NOTHING but foolish politics. On the one hand is a PM aching to ride on President Barack Obama?s coattails and coax Kenyans into thinking he has the president?s backing and on the other is an absent minded president too scared of President Obama to be an effective governor and the end result is paralysis. President Obama is an extremely smart man and one careful not to take sides particularly with as hopeless a bunch as these men running Kenya, he will not be drawn into Kenya?s infantile politics and while he stands for what is truly right for Kenya, others like the PM would, instinctively interpret President Obama?s policies on Kenya as an endorsement for his own politics but the truth is; NO! We can clearly read President Obama?s statements and policies, unlike Kenya?s politicians or African leaders for that matter, President Obama does NOT double speak, he says what he means and means what he says. If he were running for president in Kenya or anywhere in Africa, President Obama would win by a landslide, almost by every man, woman and child of all tribes while on the other hand, if either President Kibaki or PM Odinga were running for a town councilman in the US, they would both lose miserably and perhaps be barred from EVER running for office again, that is the disparity of leadership qualities and class of these men; so we have by far the shoddiest characters running a country that sired the world?s most admired man at the very moment we need the most redemption; what do we do people? What do we do short of starting over? I mean Kenya is a disgrace, an international embarrassment folks, just one joke of a mess, only that it is real! ? ? ? Are Tables Turning? In a recent publication regarding reforms by the same western diplomats; they expressed ?concern? at the pace of reforms, one ambassador was quoted saying ?you can?t make an omelet without breaking the egg? and I wonder if this government ever got that memo. As long as the two men, president Kibaki and PM Odinga are at the helm in Kenya, you can bet there will be no ?eggs? broken to bring about any meaningful change in the country. The president is a lame duck with no real incentive to bring about any change, he is not running for office again and even if he were, it not in his DNA to hold his feet or those of others around him to the fire to make change happen. The PM is deeply beholden to the various disparate interests who ?fought? for him to become president/PM to do anything that may rock the boat or ruin any hope he has for another run for the presidency in 2012, it is just that simple; so are we so na?ve to these facts as to believe either of these men mean a word beyond rhetorical symbolism? Seriously!! International Criminal Court The cries and frustrations of ?WE THE PEOPLE? and those of the post election violence victims are finally starting to resonate and our voices are being heard.? Kenya?s leadership has this misguided notion of monopoly of access to world leaders and institutions; we too can speak to President Obama, we too can speak to ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo and the powers that be. The writing has been on the wall way too long and the notice has expired; and when it is all said and done, we?ll know whose voices count the most, we the people or these goons. The ICC is the perfect broom for Kenya; a relief and breath of fresh air. For once, William Ruto, even as ignorant and misinformed he is about the role of the International Criminal Court, has gotten this one right. His recent rants are a desperate attempt to deflect attention, the truth is Ruto knows he is advocating for the hangman?s noose on his own neck. A criminal suspect does not have any say so whatsoever in how the court conduct its functions! Someone educate this ignoramus! Ruto and ODM think they can manipulate the ICC like they did the gullible youth of Kenya. He is about to learn one major lesson that they failed to teach in Botany lessons in college; Bad politics (including rigging) can never be an excuse for crime or murder, period-end of story. The ICC is the only true and neutral arbiter that can clean the mess in Kenya and send a clear message to these goons in government that the sanctity of human life is non-negotiable. Now, both sides of this arrangement are mortally frightened, rightly so, of the unknown when that day comes; people are rightfully afraid if they will join the ranks of El Bashir of Sudan, Kabuga of Rwanda, Charles Taylor of Liberia for a good reason but I think President Kibaki and his officials at the time when these crimes were committed have the least to worry about. ODM, for all practical purposes provides Luis Moreno-Ocampo with the best possible case to prosecute against them while exonerating the President contemporaneously. ODM?s leaders and most of PM Odinga?s supporters foolishly believe that the prosecution in The Hague would favor them and punish the president for ?stealing? the elections and therefore causing the violence; far from the truth. What will be on trial is NOT the reason(s) for the violence, in fact, this argument would only strengthen the prosecution?s case against the perpetrators because it provides the all important element in all criminal prosecutions; MOTIVE! I don?t know of anywhere in any court of competent jurisdiction where MOTIVE qualifies as a defense, somebody please prove me wrong. So RUTO goes in and tells the judges that ODM?s candidate PM Odinga ?fairly won the presidential election and the Election Commission of Kenya ?stole? it from him and awarded victory to President Kibaki and so we were compelled to protest by inciting the masses to action, that he was acting on the instructions of his party?s leader, PM Odinga! And that by the way, we only incited in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza and areas we already won and had the least reason to kill Kikuyus and Kisiis and other non- indigenous tribes living amongst us whom we believe voted for President Kibaki but we needed to make a statement anyway- see, it got us in government! Was well worth it, you know. Of course the jurists at The Hague are competent enough to weigh the evidence as we know it and also evaluate the statements and images broadcast around the world to know who was clearly the aggressor. They will also note, carefully at that, that PM Odinga and his ODM party had available to them, a lawful grievance avenue through Kenya?s courts specifically designed for election complaints, be flawed as the system may be, it was still an available option for remedial action nonetheless, and that they should have exhausted it but, alas, they not only ignored it and substituted it with street justice instead but also rubbished the very institutions they helped set up and were sworn to defend as parliamentarians. Anger and frustration was clearly the motive for the uprising but NEVER EVER justification for premeditated murder of innocent Kenyans, and that my friends will ensure hefty penalties for ODM. President Kibaki on the other hand has a relatively simple defense. The president did NOT declare himself the winner of the elections nor did incite anyone to riot; Kibaki was duty bound to continue his responsibilities as president. The president was duty bound to protect all Kenyans and ensure national security; the president has the power and indeed the obligation to suppress riots and violence of all kinds and any resistance to lawful authority through law enforcement agencies, President Kibaki?s authority and actions were lawful, constitutional and justified. The government had to act to protect lives, loss of property and the economy to the mobs. ODM acts as if the president ?is actually liable for their losses caused by their instigation and should have just back and let this murderous bunch have their way with the entire country, well, the ?ICC is capable of delineating between incitement and containment, anarchy and order, and who among the combatants stood for what. We will reclaim our government and these fellows will be removed from society and barred permanently from ever running for office, watch! Coalition Government: Disband and start over; no elections are required, the two page document establishing the coalition neither mandates a new election nor invalidates the existing government merely because either party pulls out of the alliance; this is rotten just as the characters in it, end of story! We didn?t sign up for this mess, we didn?t vote for this mess, the know nothing do nothing tax evading leeches in parliament have failed in their duties to safeguard national integrity and have long lost any moral capacity to lead, Kenyans? patience and goodwill have been exhausted; we can still have a peaceful transitional caretaker government devoid of these guys and I think time has come and long gone for change. The president, immediately after its revealed who is implicated in the post election violence must, by necessity, dismiss all of those adversely mentioned regardless of the merits of the allegations; we simply cannot have distracted people with clouds hanging over them making decisions in government, it breeds bad decisions and ineffectiveness and we all know that. The president, as leader of his party and at this point, must seriously consider withdrawing from the coalition if he, as president, determines that this arrangement is NOT in the country?s best interest and prolonging this form of government would be more harmful in total than helpful in the stability of the nation. He is NOT required to resign or call an election merely by pulling out of the coalition, so it is time the rubber hit the asphalt and let?s restore Kenya?s institutions as close to what they were in the first 5 years of Kibaki?s presidency, some prosperity would beat this idiocy ANY DAY. ? President Kibaki This president, once again, was perhaps the best thing to happen to Kenya for decades and yet, he has ended up disappointing so many by being way too whimsical in dispensing the duties of his office, one can make a strong argument ?against president Kibaki for dereliction of duty; The President has severely weakened the office of the president, the only national office in the country and by projecting such weakness, he has opened doors for all sorts of enemies, both internal and external to exploit Kenya. Nobody anywhere on earth has respect for weakness much less weakness of a president of any country, NOBODY! I mean the man hasn?t committed atrocities or anything like that but he has either purposely omitted or ignored ?so much from the presidential play book, even stuff that is clearly spelled as presidential mandate in our laws and allowed all the gains he presided over in the his first term to go to waste. Come on Mr. President! What happened buddy? ?I mean if you are unable to assert proper authority and control, why not step aside? Why are thieves and murderous in your cabinet? Whose interests are you serving? Why are you sleeping at the switch? I mean the level of inefficiency and ineffectiveness in this office is just astounding, internal security falls under the president?s office and yet militias and gangs practically run neighborhoods, the judiciary is completely inept and frustrates all fights against corruptions, old corruption cases are collecting dust in dockets and the president is simply doing NOTHING about it, PM Odinga If the PM was a manufacturing company anywhere, particularly in the West, he would be banned from EVER peddling ANY product in the market place; I mean the PM would be shut down permanently, period. This is the man who declared ?KIBAKI TOSHA?; he peddled Kibaki to Kenyans as a perfect product to ?liberate? Kenya and in just a matter of months after Kenyans bought in, he declared his own product defective and admitted to selling Kenyans just a bunch of bill of goods and that he alone was fit for the job; why on earth should we continue listening to such a guy? I mean for what, to hear what additional garbage comes out next? A gamble that someday he just may get it right? And in the meantime Kenyans are in for the ride in the ?ROT EXPRESS?; this is the fellow who admittedly participated in the 1982 military coup that resulted in hundreds of deaths, got in the market square and told Kenyans to disobey the government and not to go to work after a personal disagreement with president Moi, told his constituents in Kibera NOT to pay monthly rents to land lords; this is the man who claims sole credit for democracy in Kenya, never mind the insurmountable effort by the likes of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenneth Matiba, Charles Rubia, George Anyona, Masinde Murillo,Gitobu Imanyara, etc; point being Kenya?s democracy is not a preserve of one Raila Amollo Odinga; as recent as a year and half ago this man led a revolt that killed thousands of Kenyans, displaced hundreds of thousands of innocent Kenyans; women and children were raped and lives permanently altered all in his selfish ambition to get to the top, it didn?t matter who died or lived; this man is complicit in the starving of Kenyan through the henchman Ruto who heads Agriculture; this man not only condones nepotism but also practices it to the core, appoints his family members to key positions whether they are qualified or not; his ministers such as Kajwang, Ruto, Chairman Kosgey, Prof. Sambili are on record flouting all rules and procedures as was the case under president Moi; this man has been MP for ?Africa?s largest Slum? for more than 15 years with almost absolutely nothing to show for it in the development of its people except for amassing a tone of personal wealth; ?is the change this fellow claims to have fought for,? is the liberation Kenya needs, is this the presidential leadership Kenyans were voting for? William Ruto The quintessential dirt bag in Kenyan politics; if there ever were a reason or justification for detention as under Moi or Kenyatta, William Ruto would serve that purpose perfectly but in Kenya, a rot bag like this man who for several election cycles has personally engineered the murder of innocent Kenyans is sitting pretty high at the table of governance! I mean how does that happen? HOW?! This man obtained his college education in botany, not government, but was smart enough to be connected to Moi?s children who allowed him access to power; I bet they are now regretting it. This was the only man, as an assistant minister, allowed to sit in full cabinet meetings under president Moi, that is how favored he was by the former President; what did the scumbag do in appreciation; well, remember Molo and Muoroto clashes? Ruto, among others like Sunkuli et al, were in the thick of it, planning and implementing the anarchy and death that befell many innocent Kenyans and to top it off, he turned on his mentor and benefactor during the last election to support PM Odinga; when all else failed, William Ruto, true to form and once again employing skills acquired under President Moi, directed the killings of innocent Kenyans in regions the PM handily won, in Rift Valley and Luo Nyanza, areas which the PM?s ODM party won in landslides, there was ZERO reason or justification for Kikuyus, Kisiis and other tribes to be slaughtered the way it happened because there was no dispute and yet ODM made its statement to the world by spilling innocent blood; Ruto has multiple corruption charges pending against him in Kenya?s courts; why on earth would any man, particularly this PM, want to impose such kind of baggage on himself let alone Kenya? Why would such a back stabber even have a seat near civilization of any government? WHY do we entertain such rot if indeed we are about ?CHANGE??? I think the PM sealed his own political fate and that of his party through William Ruto; ODM will IMPLODE in due time. The old adage will once again be proven right, i.e. ?you can judge a man by the company he keeps?- look at the company around William Ruto and tell me whether or not these characters should be running any government entity! Kalonzo Musyoka What a big joke?! The VP once stood a good chance as a viable alternative to help clean up the rot in Kenya but as with most power that corrupts absolutely, Musyoka has been irrevocably compromised and become a part of the contaminated pile of rot masquerading as a government. A friend of mine once described Kalonzo Musyoka as a slithering wimpy weasel and I couldn?t agree more. The man has absolutely no stand on anything, when speaker Marende, in towing the party ruled in favor of his boss PM Odinga in parliament when the latter appointed himself leader of government business, the VP immediately seemed to take a courageous stand to question the validity of such unorthodox ruling and many thought the joker was rightfully asserting himself and employing his lawyer skills to right what was obviously a grossly idiotic ruling by the speaker. Then come the Western ambassadors led by the US in support of the speaker?s ruling and the VP scampered and recoiled his tail like wag the dog! I mean seriously, the man has never been heard from again! Does anyone really have any doubt as to whether or not Musyoka is a strong leader to hold the country together? The man is clueless and reactionary, can?t set any example like PM Odinga does.? PM Odinga sets examples and asserts himself but is always WRONG! How I wish the PM had been right on even a handful of his choices to mitigate some of his failures! He would have gotten a pass, the only way Kalonzo Musyoka would beat Raila Odinga in any contest for national office would be because people would vote against Odinga and thereby hand Musyoka victory by default. Musyoka himself ?is tainted through his associations with former President Moi, as the President?s lawyer, he defended and protected the ills that sank Kenya?s economy, Musyoka witnessed and benefited personally from the siphoning of public resources under Moi?s regime;? his gain may have not been as big but gain it was nonetheless, so there you have it. The man has no stand and leads from behind (if there is ever such a thing), so how do you judge such a character?s suitability to lead? Parliament and Speaker Marende Another joke of a body led by an extreme partisan speaker; it was clear from the get go that speaker Marende would tow the party line particularly when he ruled himself leader of House and Government Business because PM Odinga, citing other countries? practices, appointed himself leader of those positions! Get this, the PM, he? himself a presidential ?APPOINTEE? and once again ignoring the rules and precedence, usurped the president?s authority and ?APPOINTED? himself to the role in parliament! How on earth does that work? And the speaker, of course an ODM party stalwart, didn?t waste any time effectively ruling against the president. And none of these genius MPs raised a whimper, they just scurried like roaches when the US ambassador supported the speaker?s decision, we needed someone to speak for Kenyans and they ALL failed; I would urge every one of the MPs to take the PM?s lead and appoint themselves to the position of leader of House and Government Business and compel the speaker to issue a ruling on each and every self appointment submitted by each MP and let?s see the majority party bring the people?s business to a stand-still. ? Other Matters Constitution Another sad testament to our leaders? ineptness with these old raggedy tag lines only designed to prolong their political shelf lives before gullible constituents; absolutely hollow and baseless. Kenyans care way more about their personal fortunes, the economy, and education of their children, healthcare, their security and quality leadership than this politically created fa?ade about the constitution. These goons are abject failures in all fronts above and have instead wasted tones of public funds pushing a stale and mundane subject matter only to line their pockets and those of their friends and yeah, remain relevant. ?Even the one thing they claim to take care of, these geniuses still can?t figure out what to do, I mean Kenya has to import ?experts? to work on our constitution! A constitution is simply a set of governing principles that a country is governed by and the citizens are the normally the ones who decide what those principles. The biggest argument made by the likes of Odinga in calling for a new constitution was that Kenya needed a constitution crafted locally by her own people and here we are, years and Billions of shillings wasted later, importing ?experts? to dictate to Kenyans how to govern themselves! Seriously, are you kidding me? Kenya had more prosperity and at par with many world powers under President Jomo Kenyatta under this constitution than at any time until President Kibaki took the reins in 2002. It is not about the constitution folks, ABSOLTUTELY NOT! It is about leadership that puts its people and country a head of personal gain, about knowledge of what makes the country work. None of these is possessed by these geniuses leading Kenya right now, our school curriculum has never been revised to meet world challenges to promote ingenuity and innovation, the economy is in ruins, medicines are rotting in warehouses, gangs rule the streets and are egged on by politicians, friends, NO CONSTITUTION CAN FIX THIS ROT, NONE! The only way to fix this awful state of affairs and cure the country of the cancer that is taking over is the removal of all these clueless tax evading blood suckers in government, ALL of them! Start over. And as for the constitution itself, the document is just ok. Let?s repeal or amend the sections or parts as we see fit at the least expense and controversy as possible. One stark stunt PM Odinga is trying to pull on Kenyans is to convince voters that we don?t need the presidency as voted by the majority of Kenyans and that the concept of one man one vote for the only true national office bearer is irrelevant and should instead be replaced by a parliamentary system like say France or England where, in his discombobulated mind, ultimate power vests in the Prime Minister who is voted to office by MPs! REALLY Mr. PM Odinga?! It is pretty obvious that the ONLY reason PM Odinga wants this is simply because he knows deep down in heart that he CANNOT win the presidency and wants to instead improve his chances by excluding majority of Kenyans from picking their leader and instead turn over that process to the 220 corruptible, incompetent MPs, who as witnessed in picking the stooge speaker Marende, are absolutely incorrigible. It is obvious the PM cannot corrupt Millions of Kenyans into voting for him and he is desperate to become president of Kenya, so, ?he must figure out a way to pull the process from right under Kenyans feet and turn it over to the 220 corrupt MPs- it is easier to manipulate this ignorant bunch, people- don?t buy it. It is yet another recipe for failure and disaster for Kenya. Up until recently, the PM somehow believed the presidency was his for the taking and that he was owed the office by Kenyans but as it is slowly dawning on him, perhaps he is now disillusioned, maybe it is the realization that his formula of pitting tribes against each other was not the brightest way to get to the top and that betting his ascendancy to the top office exclusively on the Nilotic groups who dominate ODM vs. the majority Bantus instead of being all inclusive of all Kenyans is back firing big time. ?The PM relied on groups who were overwhelmingly over-represented in parliament to get elected and forgot the presidency is determined by the majority, a majority he explicitly excluded from the political equation; I am not trying to pile on the PM but these errors by the PM must not go unchallenged. Mau Forest This is Kenya?s greatest and primary water catchment area and its management thereof cannot be pegged to politics. Rift Valley MPs are, once again foolishly, trying to equate environmental management to political persecution. BULL! The government simply need to devise a formula that would maximize the area?s productivity while sustaining the environment, in other words, we need to know what is the optimum human dwelling density/capacity in the MAU forest and a good way is to look back at empirical data to determine at what time did the trends turn negative in the MAU area; populations that settled after this time must then rolled back and relocated elsewhere so we can preserve the nation?s resources. We can?t as a nation be held hostage by the politics of William Ruto and Kalenjin MPs! I mean, seriously! We know Moi doled out the forest to his tribesmen but Kenya is certainly bigger than Kalenjins and our national interests will ALWAYS trump those of an individual group. Provinces and Majimbo The irony of this is that Kenya tried this once and it failed miserably, I mean badly! No Kenyan, except of course for the imbeciles in politics, has expressly on record asked for MAJIMBO or (STATES) as a form of government because they know it is very divisive and if what the clueless Odinga and Musyoka are asking for is genuinely the distribution of wealth, we already have provinces; why do we need to recreate what is already in existence verses improving upon it? Also, during president Moi?s regime, he created a multitude of constituencies and a disproportionate number of them in the Rift Valley for his tribesmen to give them unfettered and disproportionate representation in Parliament, national resources and government; Moi never consulted with anyone to create new political boundaries; why on earth would Ruto expect President Kibaki to consult with the locals to create new provinces? WHY?! Does that even start to make sense? This president is so afraid to act presidential to a point Kenya is considered a failed state for all practical purposes; WHY?! ? Taxation Nation building is the responsibility of ALL! Why do MPs refuse to pay their fair share of taxes? Kenyan MPs earn some of the highest incomes in the world with absolutely NOTHING to show for it. Why should we fund institutionalized thievery? These MPs are both sleeping at the wheel and sometimes literary in parliament, they don?t understand parliamentary procedures or their role in steering national development; I mean come on! Taxing the poor for self enrichment is not good governance no matter how you cut it. ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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For qualitative and quantitative research services contact IMPACT RESEARCH INITIATIVE (IRI) through; impactresearchgroup at gmail.com We provide research consultation, design, support, analysis and training in softwares like (STATA, Epi-Info, SPSS, En-vivo, Endnote and Reference manager etc). Get in touch with us through; The Director, CENTER FOR AFRICAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (CAfRD) Mob: +254 (0) 733 969 790 or Mob: +254 (0) 750 969 790 Email: CAfRD.Nairobi at gmail.com --- On Tue, 7/14/09, DOMMIE.M.N wrote: From: DOMMIE.M.N Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Why is KRA messing us after we pay duty???????? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 2:55 AM Sharonwetu, Kwani whats the last digit of your plate no? ? DOMMIE M.NTURIBI EXTREME FORWARDERS T.S.S TOWERS 4TH FLOOR +254733377779 MOMBASA,KENYA ? --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Rhoune Willis wrote: From: Rhoune Willis Subject: [YP_Ke] Why is KRA messing us after we pay duty???????? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 8:37 AM Dear All, ? I have never been caught so badly. My car is stuck at the Port of Mombasa apparently because KRA does not have number plates so that my vehicle is released from the Port of Mombasa. When my agent logged my vehicle online and was asked to pay duty I paid promptly, later their evaluators checked the documents and I was required to pay more duty which I also did deligently. ? As at now my vehicle cannot leave the port because there is no metal (of whatever they call it!) for a number plate. The implication is that my vehicle will attract more storage fee on a fault that is of KRA. Why is KRA doing this? is this their way of ensuring they squeeze out all our savings? ? I wish one of them is in this forum to give me answers. These people have failed us left right and centre. ? Regards, ? Sharonewetu. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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So if mother is Luo and your Father is Kalenjin, then you are Kalenjin. Very simple! Kind regards, Rhoune Willis. For qualitative and quantitative research services contact IMPACT RESEARCH INITIATIVE (IRI) through; impactresearchgroup at gmail.com We provide research consultation, design, support, analysis and training in softwares like (STATA, Epi-Info, SPSS, En-vivo, Endnote and Reference manager etc). Get in touch with us through; The Director, CENTER FOR AFRICAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (CAfRD) Mob: +254 (0) 733 969 790 or Mob: +254 (0) 750 969 790 Email: CAfRD.Nairobi at gmail.com --- On Tue, 7/14/09, Paulette Achieng' wrote: From: Paulette Achieng' Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: RANT: Why census will ask about tribe To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 4:47 AM if my parents are Luo and Luyha and My husband's parents are kikuyu and Kalenjin...what do they expect our children to fill in the census forms..they dont need tribe to plan!!! 2009/7/14 Lee Makwiny : > Willis, > > Yea it True, but let us use those figure for those specific purposes, as a > matter of fact, we will encourage people not to answer that specific part. > And do you think there is no politics with this? > > Let them use sub-locations to answer the tribe question. My fear is that it > will be used to create political provinces for some tribes. > > > On 7/13/09, Rhoune Willis wrote: >> >> Dear All, >> >> As the fifth columnist put it, "Tribe is not bad, it is tribalism that is >> BAD". The tribe factor is very necessary and cannot be done without. >> >> This I say from my experience as a demographer. When analysing certain >> socio-economic/cultural factors affecting use of for instance health >> services, the tribe factor/ethnicity has been found to be statistically >> significant in influencing use, this could be due to certain beliefs and >> practices that people from certain tribes hold dearly. >> >> For instance we have disparities in infant andchild mortality across Kenya >> and one of the major factors has been found to be tribe aslo referred to as >> "Ethnicity". To enable the government plan for the different health needs of >> the people, there is need to understand their beliefs and practices so that >> appropriate programmes are put in place to meet the specific needs of the >> people. >> >> A recent example is the programme targetting the Luo on Male circumcision. >> This was after it was identified through evidence on the special needs of >> these group/community. >> >> Another example is the programme rescuing girls from parts Northern >> Province from Early/Child marriage. Again this was after it was identified >> that through ceratin beliefs and practices common to certain ethnic groups, >> many young girls were missing out on educationwere being forced to start >> child bearing early, yet their bodies were not fully developed for this. The >> result was many cases of fistulae etc etc. >> >> >> All these call for the tribe factor/ethnicity to be incorporated in our >> census. I can still share with you more exaples to elaborate why >> tribe/ethnicity is very crucial especially fr planning on health care among >> other issues. >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Rhoune Willis. >> >> For qualitative and quantitative research services contact IMPACT RESEARCH >> INITIATIVE (IRI) through; >> impactresearchgroup at gmail.com >> >> We provide research consultation, design, support, analysis and training >> in softwares like (STATA, Epi-Info, SPSS, En-vivo, Endnote and Reference >> manager etc). Get in touch with us through; >> The Director, >> CENTER FOR AFRICAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT (CAfRD) >> Mob: +254 (0) 733 969 790 or >> Mob: +254 (0) 750 969 790 >> Email: CAfRD.Nairobi at gmail.com >> >> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Odhiambo ????? wrote: >> >> From: Odhiambo ????? >> Subject: [YP_Ke] RANT: Why census will ask about tribe >> To: "youngprofessionals_ke" >> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 6:09 AM >> >> Data required for the realization of Vision 2030, states minister >> >> DN. 20090709, Pg 9 - National News, courtesy of Peter Leftie: >> >> "Kenyans will have to indicate their tribes during the forthcoming census, >> the govt insists. The population of every tribe is needed for the purpose of >> planning and not for political reasons." >> >> Hello YPs, >> >> There must be someone knowledgeable on such things who can explain to me >> what the minister meant in the above statement. >> Where is Mr. Gibson Amenya, please? >> >> How can the govt use the "tribe" factor for planning when tribes are not >> confined to certain regions? Suppose Nairobi has 500000 okuyos, 400000 >> jangos, 300000 kales, 200000 kaos, etc, how does that help the govt in it's >> vision 3020 planning? >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Odhiambo WASHINGTON, >> Nairobi,KE >> +254733744121/+254722743223 >> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >> "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." >>? ? ? ? ? ? ???-- Lucky Dube >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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Some do not make it as they are eaten alive by the Lions, Leopards and mostly Crocodiles. Likewise, every 5 years, politicians gather in the sea of politics in Nairobi, and defect to various parties as Kenya prepares for elections. We commoners are often caught in this confusion, as we hoped to get our candidate in. Only this time, the elections are looming only 2 years into Kibaki's second term, because of what may be contained in an envelope Waki handed Annan, who handed it to Moreno. This time the politicians have been caught flat-footed. They are confused, at least in as far as Annan was keeping the envelope sealed. But Moreno an hasira, na akikasirika, will open the envelope and lay the contents bare. Then all hell will break loose. Will the opening of this envelope really end impunity, stop crimes against humanity, end election fraud, end land woes, end tribalism? I do not know, but here is a more important question. Who really will benefit when this envelope is opened? I want to remind us of politics of betrayal. Despite Kalonzo's poor polling before elections, during elections and after elections, he maintained that there would be a miracle. That like a car in a muddy safari but with a wiper, or like mshuto he would squeeze through Raila and Kibaki, and shine the son of God. If Raila and Kibaki are in the envelope, and they resign or step aside to allow investigations, will Kenya allow Kalonzo to lead this nation? I put it to you, thou shall not! -- Joram Ragem wuod Ndinya, wuod Onam, wuod Amolo, wuod Owuoth, wuod Oganyo, wuod Mumbe, wuod Odongo, wuod Olwande, wuod Adhaya, wuod Ojuodhi, wuod Ragem! (Are you my relative?) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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In addition to the on-going confusion, experts have been quoted by a section of local media as saying that the oil-type found in Lake Albert oil wells in Western Uganda has a high content of sulphur and wax, making it very expensive to refine, against the contemporary ideology of value addition on products from poor countries. This, they said, is happening amid government secrecy over what is happening to an oil program that anticipated production of at least heavy fuel this year, partly to rid the country of a power shortage through fuel-intensive thermal power. Sources in Kampala says there is a lot at stake if Uganda build ?an oil refinery with the capacity to serve the regional market and beyond.. In a well researched article appearing in the current edition of the EASTAFRICAN an influential publication of the Nairobi based Nation Media Group, ?Those pushing for export of crude oil are local and foreign entities with vested interests in the logistics industry.? They expect to gain by continuing ferrying refined oil from the Kenyan coastal City of Mombasa.. The second group include representatives of oil producing governments and multinational companies that want to either import the crude to? be refined back home or to safeguard more market locally regardless? of where Uganda sells her products.?Apparently, they put forth a powerful view to the extent that President Yoweri Museveni stated doubting his own conviction to refine the oil in Uganda.. After Claude Sandry a Canadian oil expert with 50 years of experience in the sector, had told {Museveni] that the refinery of oil is economically viable. President Museveni was later quoted as saying,? You?ve immunized me against any confusion on the issue. It is understood that? established cartel o of some oil-producing countries and multinationals are not comfortable with another major producer such as Uganda- with two billion barrels of oil already confirmed-joining the rich oil producing nations club, They have set up refineries across the world to serve sub-regions like Asia, Africa and Europe. By refining oil and supplying to the great Lakes market as, expected, Uganda could significantly impact on the current marker order, says the report. The chairman of the National Parliamentary Economy Committee? Mr Stephen ?Birahwa is quoted extensively I the report as saying that the intrigues by powerful cartel over Uganda Oil resources had started long ago when an arrangement to exploit the resources jointly with Dr Congo went under with the Joseph Mobutu Sesseko regime. Apparently, President Museveni and the late Mobutu, ex-president of Dr Congo, then known as Zaire, had agreed to exploit oil near the two countries border jointly..?DR Congo was ahead in the oil programme until the crisis that befell the country. When the Mobutu-Museveni arrangement failed, many multinationals and other entities lost out, and intrigues set in,? said the chairman. Where oil producing companies invest in refineries, they have significant control of downstream companies in sectors like transport and insurance. Usually, they? also have a stake in oil tankers, pipeline and railway entities. Secondly, financing institutions for big-ticket projects like an oil refinery are the same ones that funded entities which established the existing refineries in the world.. They have a payment arrangement based on their global market gains. Funding another refinery to serve East Africa and beyond means removing a substantial market share from their current borrowers and perhaps interrupting the pace of debt repayment. Sources also say Kenya is informally engaging Uganda in a refinery arrangement given that it already has a refinery in Mombasa. However, Ugandan officials, argues that Mombasa based oil refinery is too small to serve the region. But if such an agreement is made, Kenya could refurbish and expand the capacity of the refinery and pipeline Private pipeline companies like Tamoil are currently engaged in building an extension of the pipeline from Kenya to Uganda and across to Rwanda.. Should Uganda begin refining its oil, the investment could be compromised by inability to pump oil in reverse. This could explain why Uganda has not yet announced an ally to pursue its oil programme. A number of delegations have engaged Uganda on this over the years, including ?Norwegian, Australians and Americans. Most recently, President Museveni reached out to oil producing countries like Iran and Turkey. With more discoveries, the government has most recently ruled an early production system Production system as ? we will be forced to export crude oil,, which is against our policy, the Energy Minister Hilary Orek. Exporting refined oil could help Uganda escape the oil curse suffered by countries like Nigeria. concludes the report. Ends leooderaomolo at yahoo.com ? ? ? ? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fonaconorg at yahoo.com Wed Jul 15 02:41:42 2009 From: fonaconorg at yahoo.com (fonacon org) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: President Moi Message-ID: <255305.61035.qm@web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Dear Odhiambo, This kind of lamentation is irksome, unhelpful and maliciously skewed. Mzee Moi may not have been the perfect leader or person ------- and no one is including yourself --------- but he certainly in his half a century public duties positively contributed to the wellbeing of our country and its people.. The thing is, this country cannot progress with this kind of mindset of always soiling others except yourself or member(s) of your community. Two, you may be tempted to distort history as has been the case in the life of this nation but as is evidently turning out the truth can never be burried by the heaps of hypocracy, lies, malice, pretention, distortion and hatred spewed daily by people who seem not to appreciate that God has its own way and systems of giving credit to each soul when it is due and deserved. Moreover, in my three decades of my existence, I have observed that the lot that are always quick to dismiss others? while elevating themseves are the people, given a chance, engage in self-aggrandaisement at the expense of the nation, community, circle of friends and neighbours. Whenever they are entrusted with something they will always leave a trail of disappointment. If you cannot appreciate even a single good contribution of the former president or any other person, then you have no right to talk about him. Hamilton Ole Parseina --- On Mon, 7/13/09, odhiambo okecth wrote: From: odhiambo okecth Subject: [YP_Ke] President Moi To: net-kenya at yahoogroups.com, "Africare- NewPublications" , news at ktnkenya.com, newvisionkenya at egroups.com, NewVisionKenya at yahoogroups.com, next_kenya at yahoogroups.com, "Abuja Nigeria" , "President Barack Obama" , Openyourthirdeye at yahoogroups.com, "p4c" , "panafricanist" , peoplespeak at people.co.ke, "progressiveminds" , "Publiceye" , "Royal Media" , "siasa" , smaitawi at yahoogroups.com, Ta_Seti at yahoogroups.com Cc: TheBlackList at yahoogroups.com, trueblackness at yahoogroups.com, "ugandacom" , "Unnaanet unaanet" , "citizens against violence" , "VOA" , "VOU" , yiffkenya at yahoogroups.com, youngkenyansforchange at yahoogroups.com, youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com, "youthagenda" Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 11:01 PM Former President HE Daniel T Arap Moi for the umpteenth time reminded Kenyans that no one will come from outside to solve our problems. That it is us who must do that. President Moi was President of Kenya for a record 24 years. This will never be matched since the law now only allows for a maximum of 10 years at the top. If for those 24 years, he failed to solve our problems, could it not be wise for his advisors to tell him to keep quiet and enjoy his time? I bet Kenya had enough of his rule and we might be reeling from the effects of his time. We need to move forward without necessarily being reminded of what he did not do at his time. If his 24 years were of noble lead, Kenyans could listen to his advice. But given that we have nothing to be particularly proud of to associate with his 24 years, his advice might bring pangs of pains which are best forgotten. 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Many Kenyans in diaspora are feering to sent monies as they are not sure if another clash will erupt which am betting maybe more worse than one witnessed 2007 Even the government itself has refused to make good programs as some mentioned Ministers are not sure what future holds that is why massive looting of govt resources is order of the day Some leaders have been heard saying "let me eat eat before am arraigned in courts " It is because of this uncertainty that for us to achieve even 3% economic growth in 2009/10 will be a mirage unless Pastor like Awour,Pastor Lai of Mombasa Wanjiru etc join hands to pray for this nation This thing called Waki must be resolved very fast so that Kenyans can plan for the future Bye Gibson Amenya Kenya Young Greens gamenya at kenyayounggreens.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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I dont understand why every body says odm pnu this are just parties with reprisentatives the reprisentatives are the once who have an issue they are greedy and only thinking about themselves. till when will we continue fighting over this matter and blame odm pnu. ? let as get the calprites?take them to Hague and ?move on. ? The current constitution has no issue. it has governed Kenya for the last 43 years. how can it have an issue. it is me and you who have the issue so lets not look at the Perception of the politicians and think that everything they point out is what is right. they just want as to have a constitution that will benefit the and not the kenyans. Why can't we amend the current constitution to fit our need at this point and time and not the politicians need. thenwe will have a perfect constitution. ? ? yours Faithfully, ALBERT MAINA --- On Fri, 17/7/09, Barrack Bosire wrote: From: Barrack Bosire Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Friday, 17 July, 2009, 7:15 AM hi David may be bitter but he has gotten it all wrong. He should be able to separate emotions from issues.As long as he thinks he has the fact he is wrong. While i may not blame PNU or ODM for the violence they all carry blame of what happened this is a fact not ODM alone. If ODM burned women and children in a church in Eldoret the same can be said for PNU In Naivasha fact number two also and many more that i can state. What happened is to blamed on everyone Daivid included for cheering one side as they led us to turning against one another. If David is taliking about facts it my humble submission that his fact should be just that and not the common statement that are used to demonise one side and let the other appear like they did nothing. Elections were rigged and even Krigler said it was impossible to determine who won, Kivuitu himself was not confident enough to answer the question of who won fairly so David go slowly emotions and half statements will take use anywhere. if we take the line of reasoning that David is taking i may also say that if Kibaki had not stolen the election then Odinga could not have callled for mass action and the circle continue. Is there a soulution to our problem? No. The best solution which no one wants to see and accept is to go for fresh election? and sought out the mess with our constitution and all the other lot if issues in AGENDA 4 of the mediation talks while it may be utter foolisheness to him to say that we are not a soveriegn nation, asking for assistance in time of need does not take away our soveriegnity. the fact that our leaders cannot agree on a number of issue does not make Kenya a failed state, if you follow well the history of the world the western states dont have friends in the African states they have interest. As we run to them it shouldbe clear in our minds that they are only protecting there interests whatever they may be, they are not our freinds ask Rwandees and you will understand better what i am say. Have a balanced day. Bosire Barrack The Happiest People Don't Have The Best Of Everything, They Just Make The Best Of What They Have... --- On Wed, 7/15/09, ed moses wrote: From: ed moses Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 11:02 PM My my my, this David Ochwangi guy must be one very bitter fella. I'm just lost for what to write in response. Maybe someone else can step in. On 7/16/09, David ochwangi wrote: Ed Moses: I wasn?t trying to convince you nor am I looking for your approval on any of these; facts are facts and you can?t change that. I don?t think you even understand your own point, whatever it is,-because I totally missed it, your statements, however, are convoluted, untenable and absolutely irrelevant to the subject matter. It is utter foolishness to feign sovereignty when these very leaders are clearly on record calling on the West and ?Friends of Kenya? to step in and resolve her problems? Just as recent as a month ago, the same ODM MPs who had been basking in the limelight of the West?s cover were crying foul of the West?s interference; you CAN?T have it both ways! The world didn?t call for mass violence in Kenya, Odinga did; the world didn?t burn innocent women and children alive in churches in Eldoret, ODM did; so don?t try to twist and deflect the basic facts by blaming everyone else but ourselves; we have held Kenya?s leaders with high regard they didn?t earn or deserve and failed to hold them to account; dealt with them with kid gloves out of fear, we forgot who the boss is, we the people! That is the problem man; these guys are no different than me and you and they screw up too-BIG TIME,? I mean look at Kenya now; at what point is enough actually enough? --- On Wed, 7/15/09, ed moses wrote: From: ed moses Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:55 AM I agree with the general picture that Amenya is trying to paint. Ochwangi, I dont agree with you. when you see a 'list', you see a piece of paper with names on it; ? well, I see the start of a process outside our sovereign control. I see a country's leadership. I see a whole world engulfing a little, helpless state. I see a failing system. I see and read rotting institutions. I see incoherence & lack of cohesion of a people. I see stagnation.? I smell smouldering histories. I hear a ticking time bomb. And many other things. Yes, there are many other factors that would determine investment in a country and these happen too in other places?but know thee, that Political (In)stability is the single most important external factor. All others can be worked through ? On 7/15/09, David ochwangi wrote: Are you an idiot Mr. Amenya? What does the list have to do with anything and investments? Whats your level of education? No offense but the world is not blind to the shenanigans and rot in this government nor is the world oblivious to the murders and the widespread violence by political hacks and street gangs-none of which have any thing to do with the Waki list; your statement that Waki list is the reason people don't want o invest in Kenya is moronic and patently flawed. So what's your idea of dealing with the Waki list? Waki list didn't create violence nor can it resolve investment flows to Kenya..wake up and learn and quit embarrassing yourself --- On Wed, 7/15/09, amenya gibson wrote: From: amenya gibson Subject: [YP_Ke] Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: "amenya gibson" Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 6:41 AM Hi people Our Economy is suffering because of uncertainty that have been created by this issue called? Waki list Many big investors are not willing to put their monies in Kenya due to political uncertainty that we have as of now Banks are reluctant to go massive lending to small investors as they are not sure of what will happen if this Waki list get out of hands. Many Kenyans in diaspora are feering to sent monies as they are not sure if another clash will erupt which am betting maybe more worse than one witnessed 2007 Even the government itself? has refused to make good programs as some mentioned Ministers are not sure what future holds that is why massive looting of govt resources is order of the day Some leaders? have been heard saying "let me eat eat before am arraigned in courts " It is because of this uncertainty that for us to achieve even 3% economic growth in 2009/10 will be a mirage unless Pastor like Awour,Pastor Lai of Mombasa Wanjiru etc join hands to pray for this nation This thing called Waki must be resolved very fast so that Kenyans can plan for the future Bye Gibson Amenya Kenya Young Greens gamenya at kenyayounggreens.org ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From agakaya at yahoo.co.uk Fri Jul 17 03:44:34 2009 From: agakaya at yahoo.co.uk (albert gakaya) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:44:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS - Why Must it be a Kikuyu, Is Youth PS a Kikuyu Position? Message-ID: <798184.5476.qm@web23302.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Judy ? Sorry for the appointment but note as much a kikuyu he is Kenya. Unfortunately its the Prerogatives?of the president to appoint whom ever he wants thats the constitution of Kenya. Please lets note Embrace Tribalism in everything that we say we should look at every body being Kenyan. Whether ODM, PNU or ODM K. was consulted or not what we are looking for is performance to the nation. Would you prefer somebody of your? ethinic community appointed and no perfomance or somebody of a different community and performance? ? Albert --- On Thu, 16/7/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS - Why Must it be a Kikuyu, Is Youth PS a Kikuyu Position? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: "dickens odhiambo" , info at marskenya.org, jaluo at jaluo.com, jaluo at yahoo.com, luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk, ackmwest at swiftkenya.com, jambo at publiceyesite.org, "Milton Alimadi" Date: Thursday, 16 July, 2009, 1:01 PM Folks, ? Can Kibaki explain under which circumstances or conditions or provision, does he appoint and employ Civil Servants.? Is the Coalition Government a Government of Kikuyu?? Are the Kikuyus the only qualified and experienced people to be awarded Special Positions in the Civil Service......are they more Kenyans, more veterans than those other 42 tribes.? How does he gauge his employment criteria.......are there rules governing employment to the Civil Service?? Is this Waweru going to earn from Public Tax Payers money? What is Kibaki trying to show people of goodwill Kenyans?? Is Kibaki a President of Tribalist?.....is that what he swore to observe and respect? Dont we have options to charge President Kibaki for practicing tribalism, nepotism that conflicts and causes the disunity in Kenya?? Is Kibaki creating Anarchy and compounding hate amongst peace loving 42 Tribes in Kenyans?....Why Waweru at this time of Reform?? Was ODM consulted before appointment was done?? Can he Kibaki explain the panel of candidates from which Waweru was picked.? How was Waweru regarded qualified for the job?..........We want to know?? Give exemplary qualities and reasons how Waweru was regarded top against others in the panel of candidates.?Issues concerning and involving public funds, tax payers money, resources?and utility must?be clear?and must accommodate interest of the public and be considerate to public opinions.? The President must be answerable to the public and he must be?transparent.? Corruption is what must end, we will not continue to accommodate roller coster culture of bad governance that has brought us to a failed state. ? Regards,? Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS ? Nairobi PC James Waweru. He has been appointed the new Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Youth and Sports. Photo/FILE? By?Nation Reporter and PPSPosted?Thursday, July 16?2009?at?09:09 In Summary Mr Njoroge Ndirangu takes over as the new Nairobi PC. Five Provincial Commissioners are dropped. President Kibaki has named Nairobi Provincial Commissioner James Waweru as the new Permanent Secretary for Youth and Sports. Mr Waweru replaces former PS in the ministry Mr Kinuthia Murugu, who died last week in hospital where he was receiving treatment for gunshot wounds. Mr Njoroge Ndirangu takes over as the new Nairobi PC. Other PCs appointed by the President are: Ms Claire Omollo (Eastern), Mr Osman Warfa (Rift Valley), Mr S M Kilele (Western), Mr Ole Serian (North Eastern) and Mr Francis Mutie (Nyanza). Mr Ernest G Munyi (Coast) and Mr Japhter K Rugut (Central) retained their positions. Dropped Mr Paul Olando, Mr Abdul Mwasera , Mr David Jakaiti, Mr Hassan Noor Hassan and Mr Josephat Maingi have been dropped as PCs for Nyanza, Western, Eastern, North Eastern and Rift Valley respectively President Kibaki has also appointed Mr Mutea Iringo as Senior Director Administration/Secretary incharge of Internal Security and Mr Victor Okioma as Senior Director Administration/Secretary incharge of Provincial Administration He has also appointed 20 Senior Area Deputy Provincial Commissioners at Director level Job Group S to man strategic regions for effective administration as follows: The officers will be incharge of a cluster of 15-20 Districts unlike the current situation where some Provincial Commissioners are incharge of over 60 Districts. The twenty officers will be responsible to the Permanent Secretary, Provincial Administration and Internal Security through their respective Provincial Commissioners and will be located in strategic locations within the Province for ease of administration and management. The strategy will strengthen the coordination, mobilisation and supervision of human and material resources down to the grassroots. The move is important following the increased devolved funds and activities at Constituency/District level.? ? ? ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON ?LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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The case in point is the on going confirmation hearing of supreme court nominee,Judge Sonia Sotomayor! For the last three days, I have taken time to watch/listen as the Senators have called upon Judge Sonia Sotomayor to answer,clarify or defend her work during the 17 years on the bench and the statements that she has made over the years. Listening to the questions and the answers provided, I have no doubt in my mind that both the Senators and judge Sonia are very intelligent individuals! I love their question and answer session. I wish that the same system can be applied in every country whenever men and women, young and old are identified to serve in certain positions! As Judge Sonia Sotomayor took time to answer very tough questions, I would not help but reflect on the following, as a minister! -If the loving God were to follow the same system in determining who qualifies for heaven,how many will make it? -If each one of us was called upon to account for all that we have said/written, for the decisions we have made over the years,and for our dark past, what will that look like? -I am indeed glad and thankful that no human being will be involved in the decision about my Salvation. -Even with the dark past,there is every opportunity to be saved, but,if only we decide to.Let us from now forward do things that we shall never be ashamed of. I will sure do that! How about you? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From five5agents at gmail.com Thu Jul 16 03:45:39 2009 From: five5agents at gmail.com (Five Five) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:45:39 -1200 Subject: [Jambo] FUNDRAISING Message-ID: <64610c420907160045x3b300662h8f5a903559dabb38@mail.gmail.com> Dear Odhiambo Oketch, I am a fundraiser, my work is to come up with ideas that can assist you raise funds to meet your obligations. I did come across your threads on KOL and i would like to offer my services to your good charity work. I can be reached on 0722125005 or via this e-mail and otieno.david at gmail.com Looking forward to hearing from you. Regards David From prcanb at yahoo.com Thu Jul 16 09:54:35 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Things that we take for granted! Message-ID: <194247.80018.qm@web38704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Whether knowingly or unknowingly,some people more often than not take the following for granted! The gift of life. Each day of our lives,many are they who go into their graves, way too soon. That you and I are alive and well today, does not indicate that we are better than those who have gone a head of us. To the contrary,the good Lord has seen it fit to prolong our existence. Thank you Jesus! The gift of a caring family! Some of us hardly take time to appreciate our parents,spouses,children and/or extended family members. It's rather sad that we have majored in whining/complaining,for way too long, and stubbornly refused to take even an elective in appreciation! Woe unto us! The gift of friends. When was the last time that you called to tell your friends how much you appreciate them? Are you aware of the fact that there are many people out there who have no friends? A caring pastor/Minister! These men/women of the cloth are part of our families.Take a look at the following: -They are always there at our pre-wedding/wedding parties,birth day parties/anniversaries. -They are there at our bed sides whenever we are hospitalized or bed ridden at our homes. -They encourage us when we are down. -They preside over our weddings. -They always pray for us Now,when was the last time that you called/wrote your pastor to let him/her know that you indeed him/her? Is it too much to do it today? Just a thought! Pastor Birai www.pastorbirai.com From prcanb at yahoo.com Thu Jul 16 22:45:12 2009 From: prcanb at yahoo.com (Absalom Birai) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:45:12 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] Things to remember! Message-ID: <613345.94180.qm@web38703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> If you have some room left,please add the following to the things you need to remember always! -There are people-family members,friends, school/college mates,fellow church members/ministers and colleagues- who will never like you no matter what! -Avoid the temptation of hanging around with the enemies hoping that they will change their attitude towards you. Just remember that there are some who will never rest until they have destroyed you! That's a fact in life! -If someone hates your husband/wife, children, parents or your siblings,then know that there is a possibility that he/she will hate you as well. -Avoid the temptation of giving your self to any body before doing thorough background check.Many have been victims big time. Just remember that not all that glitters is gold. -Any time you seem to be doing better than your friends/siblings,know for a fact that with time, you will loose them. -Never marry or mingle with someone of questionable behavior deceiving yourself that you will change them. If anything, they will change you! Remember that, by beholding, we become changed! -Purpose in your heart to stand alone if need be. Avoid following the crowd, or trying to please someone/some people when deep in your heart you know that you don't like them. -When people hate you or go around spreading false information about you, do your best to be like the man of Galilee-He never fought any kind of accusations. Instead, He left everything to God. -Count it a blessing when anyone despises you or looks down upon you! Why? Because the good Lord will at His own time lift you up, no matter what! -With God on your side, there is nothing to fear whatsoever! Will you remember that? Just a thought. 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I particularly wish to apologize to Mr. Amenya because I don't think he is an idiot and maybe we all see things from different lenses; I personally know some of these politicians and I can't begin to tell you the level of deception that is masked by all the smiles and rhetoric from these guys?and that is why I get so frustrated that our young people are just too naive and gullible to manipulation. --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Lee Makwiny wrote: From: Lee Makwiny Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 7:18 AM Ed, you wont beat Ochwangi in abusive game. His pet subject is Odinga even on issues which is being discussed soberly by the most sober mind in the forum in the name of Amenya. His? match is only one person. The person is called Judy Miriga. Judy, can you take on this man. I have never read anything from him without the mention of Odinga. In the meantime, he serves his masters VERY WELL ? ? On 7/16/09, ed moses wrote: My my my, this David Ochwangi guy must be one very bitter fella. I'm just lost for what to write in response. Maybe someone else can step in. On 7/16/09, David ochwangi wrote: Ed Moses: I wasn?t trying to convince you nor am I looking for your approval on any of these; facts are facts and you can?t change that. I don?t think you even understand your own point, whatever it is,-because I totally missed it, your statements, however, are convoluted, untenable and absolutely irrelevant to the subject matter. It is utter foolishness to feign sovereignty when these very leaders are clearly on record calling on the West and ?Friends of Kenya? to step in and resolve her problems? Just as recent as a month ago, the same ODM MPs who had been basking in the limelight of the West?s cover were crying foul of the West?s interference; you CAN?T have it both ways! The world didn?t call for mass violence in Kenya, Odinga did; the world didn?t burn innocent women and children alive in churches in Eldoret, ODM did; so don?t try to twist and deflect the basic facts by blaming everyone else but ourselves; we have held Kenya?s leaders with high regard they didn?t earn or deserve and failed to hold them to account; dealt with them with kid gloves out of fear, we forgot who the boss is, we the people! That is the problem man; these guys are no different than me and you and they screw up too-BIG TIME,? I mean look at Kenya now; at what point is enough actually enough? --- On Wed, 7/15/09, ed moses wrote: From: ed moses Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 9:55 AM I agree with the general picture that Amenya is trying to paint. Ochwangi, I dont agree with you. when you see a 'list', you see a piece of paper with names on it; ? well, I see the start of a process outside our sovereign control. I see a country's leadership. I see a whole world engulfing a little, helpless state. I see a failing system. I see and read rotting institutions. I see incoherence & lack of cohesion of a people. I see stagnation.? I smell smouldering histories. I hear a ticking time bomb. And many other things. Yes, there are many other factors that would determine investment in a country and these happen too in other places?but know thee, that Political (In)stability is the single most important external factor. All others can be worked through ? On 7/15/09, David ochwangi wrote: Are you an idiot Mr. Amenya? What does the list have to do with anything and investments? Whats your level of education? No offense but the world is not blind to the shenanigans and rot in this government nor is the world oblivious to the murders and the widespread violence by political hacks and street gangs-none of which have any thing to do with the Waki list; your statement that Waki list is the reason people don't want o invest in Kenya is moronic and patently flawed. So what's your idea of dealing with the Waki list? Waki list didn't create violence nor can it resolve investment flows to Kenya..wake up and learn and quit embarrassing yourself --- On Wed, 7/15/09, amenya gibson wrote: From: amenya gibson Subject: [YP_Ke] Waki List causes Kenyan Economy to lose a whooping Ksh 34 Billion To: "amenya gibson" Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 6:41 AM Hi people Our Economy is suffering because of uncertainty that have been created by this issue called? Waki list Many big investors are not willing to put their monies in Kenya due to political uncertainty that we have as of now Banks are reluctant to go massive lending to small investors as they are not sure of what will happen if this Waki list get out of hands. Many Kenyans in diaspora are feering to sent monies as they are not sure if another clash will erupt which am betting maybe more worse than one witnessed 2007 Even the government itself? has refused to make good programs as some mentioned Ministers are not sure what future holds that is why massive looting of govt resources is order of the day Some leaders? have been heard saying "let me eat eat before am arraigned in courts " It is because of this uncertainty that for us to achieve even 3% economic growth in 2009/10 will be a mirage unless Pastor like Awour,Pastor Lai of Mombasa Wanjiru etc join hands to pray for this nation This thing called Waki must be resolved very fast so that Kenyans can plan for the future Bye Gibson Amenya Kenya Young Greens gamenya at kenyayounggreens.org ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. 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URL: From dochwangi at yahoo.com Thu Jul 16 23:55:11 2009 From: dochwangi at yahoo.com (David ochwangi) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:55:11 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: PEV: Hope someone is listening to Ruto In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <514146.89841.qm@web30401.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I was not trying to pick a fight with you Ed, maybe I just didn't project my thinking appropriately and I am sorry about that; all I am saying is that there is nothing short of a criminal adjudication of PEV by courts of competent jurisdiction can fix Kenya's ills. Reconciliation is NOT a substitute for justice and? as Ruto runs scared the victims of violence are crying out for justice; they didn't deserve to die the way they did, so?brutally and without a chance to defend themselves,?we owe it them to agitate for justice, their families deserve justice, Kenya's future depends on our actions today; if the Molo and Moroto had been punished when they occurred, maybe we wouldn't be in this spot today. Remember Delamare's son and how the spiteful Attorney General declined to pursue criminal charges when he first killed the game warder? It was a green light for him that it is OK to kill again and sure enough, shortly thereafter he murdered Njoya. Hitler should have been stopped the first time he started atrocities; Saddam Husein should have been stopped the first time he murdered people, Iddi Amin should have been stopped before he murdered thousands; that is my point..all the history and signs are with us today; ODM and Ruto must be stopped or at the very minimum, restrained otherwise we are allowing them to kill in just a few years from now.sitg is just that simple.. --- On Thu, 7/16/09, ed moses wrote: From: ed moses Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: PEV: Hope someone is listening to Ruto To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 2:04 AM @ Ochwangi, I will try and avoid making this a tom & jerry contest between you and I. But before I say more, let me ask, why should what you stand for matter? positions are what everyone here, including yourself, take when they air their opinions. I will say this, the nature of what went wrong in this country is not as simple as you try to make it in the last paragraph. Infact, if there was a guy who has put it?very well?and couldnt have represented my thoughts better is one Raymond Muhula in today's nation newspaper On 7/16/09, ed moses wrote: @ Ochwangi, I will try and avoid making this a tom & jerry contest between you and I. But before I say more, let me ask, why should what you stand for matter? positions are what everyone here, including yourself, take when they air their opinions. I will say this, the nature of what went wrong in this country is not as simple as you try to make it in the last paragraph. Infact, if there was a guy who has put it?very well?and couldnt have represented my thoughts better is one Raymond Muhula in today's nation newspaper. ? On 7/16/09, David ochwangi wrote: ED: I?m not sure if what you stand for even matters, why should it? Seriously, do you ever care to read your own statements before you press ?send?? Do they make sense to you? I am struggling to make sense of what you are saying not just in grammar but also prose, your statements are incoherent and confusing; so let me try to address what I believe is your point; I am with you that motive is NEVER a crime and therefore not prosecutable but rather the crimes under review themselves. In the instant case, an election and all pursuant irregularities eg rigging in Kenya is strictly a civil matter whose remedies are invariably civil such as annulments of results in courts; nobody even goes to jail over election disputes. On the other hand, murder, rape, assault, etc. are all criminal acts which are prosecuted under criminal law whose penalties result in jail time or, as in this case, life in prison (should be death actually). Motive is imputed in such proceedings and in some cases courts hold motive either as aggravating or mitigating circumstances. For example if you commit a crime of passion like killing a man you just caught sleeping with your wife may be a mitigating cirmstance only considered during sentencing while burning to death innocent, defenseless women and children in a church in Eldoret in protest over?the declaration of an election results 100 miles away in Nairobi is particularly heinous and would be considered an aggravating circumstance which can add real time to your sentence, that is the distinction. So this is where ODM has it all wrong and like all the miscalculations in its wake, these geniuses are now coming to the realization that they may actually be backed into a corner; Ruto who up until last week was clamoring and even taunting the ICC just made an about face calling for a truth and reconciliation commission, the man is running scared; well, news flash ODM and PNU, it is not up to Ruto or Odinga or Kibaki or any of their respective parties to decide what happens next. The curtain is drawn on this is now beyond your control. As for the so called ?Truth and Reconciliation Commission?- what value would that provide? What justice is in that? As a punishment or deterrent? For who, Odinga who said the criminal suspects did nothing wrong and were chasing after their stolen cows? Who is such a commission supposed to reconcile, the innocent dead victims with whom, their killers? ?No offense but you come across as a semi literate narcissistic clown; what is the use of the court system and justice if all we need when we kill fellow citizens in protest of an election outcome is a ?Truth and Reconciliation Commission?? ??Why don?t we just reconcile with God every time we sin and not worry about judgment day? ? --- On Wed, 7/15/09, ed moses wrote: From: ed moses Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: PEV: Hope someone is listening to Ruto To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 2:37 AM And No OW, these two issues are not intertwined. They are as separate as day and night! On 7/15/09, ed moses wrote: This one I throw my hat in and in similar fashion to another related thread, I take the opposite direction. I don't agree! If you look at it in all logic, this is cheap vibe. Let me say at this point that I'm neither for the ICC, nor for the local tribunal.Both will be shallow, myopic and in-effective. I am for a real truth & reconciliation way. Now, back to the hoopla about the envelopes, real and imagined. This is a cause and effect situation. In prosecutions, crimes and all related aspects, the cause has never been the issue under the microscope.it is what they refer to as the motive.How can a motive then become an object of investigation?or an object of indictment? where does that leave the effect? a cause is merely used to?lay claim to the?validity and determine the level of the effect. If?I slept with your wife once & you slept with my wife twice in revenge?but in anger, I maimed you for that revenge act, as part of the cause, do we investigate and jail you too? ? On 7/13/09, Odhiambo ????? wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:49 PM, David Liambila wrote: One Wiliam Ruto has been saying what I have also been saying for quite some time (just that my statements don't get to make prime time news): Before we prosecute those who caused the PEV all around the country, we must start by prosecuting the thievils who stole the elections and who now occupy the high offices in the land. If not, then quite honestly, there will never be any justice done. Because that's where the problem started. And when I talk of election thieves i don't mean Samuel Kivuitu. I mean the masterminds, the mean, uncouth, greedy, power-hungry scoudrels. Them that organised a swearing in ceremony even before the final results were out, and went on to swear themselves to faithfully serve an unwilling nation. Them on whose head the blood of innocent souls must be borne till justice is served, whether in this life or in the next. I'm watching this Ocampo guy keenly to see how he goes about the whole thing (I'm convinced this thing will go the Ocampo way). Or better still, I hope, though doubtful, that Mr. Waki remembered to include these thievels in his famous list. I'm not Wiliam Ruto's groundsman, but on this matter I'm with him. We must begin from the beginning. This one I also agree with. We need to treat the disease from the root cause - where it all started. We also need to punish (hmm...) those who committed atrocities during what we now call PEV. These two are intertwined - joined at the waist as some would say. And that is where the difficulties lie. Which one do we deal with first? How? Me thinks that these two matters are not gonna be easy to be dealt with, and should that happen we should forget about the Kenya we know and start talking secession for sure, which is rather scary. The powers that be will never want to be put on the dock, so shall the big boys behind the PEV! Catch-22. ?-- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If you have nothing good to say about someone, just shut up!." ? ? ? ? ? ? ? -- Lucky Dube ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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What is your target market? Hit me up and I may be able to gather valuable info for you. --- On Thu, 7/16/09, patrick muiga wrote: From: patrick muiga Subject: [YP_Ke] RE: Export bissiness To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 2:59 AM Hi every one. is there any one out there that is running successful export bussiness and is willing to assist me with any information that may lead me to success in that venture? i will be more than happy if you do. EPC has info but not???to the fine details especially the market bit. thanks Patrick ? ? ? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. 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These guyz must not let you spend your money on things that iprove yourself before they taste it first. Anything hanging on air eg posters, and signs must be charged by this so called city hall. Why do you think city councillors fight when it comes to the elections, it is for the reason that there is so much money to be shared. 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In-Reply-To: <769662.1682.qm@web51901.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <504532.6162.qm@web30404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Judy: I think you are being disingenous; the ink is not even dry in the appointment of PM Odinga's Chemistry Professor two weeks ago?to the position of Consular General here in the US and there was no whimper from you, I mean this government has been swimming in rot at our expense and as you are just as culpable in sustaining the rot, we all are. Up until three weeks ago, I could have sworn you are married to the PM by the way you supported anything and everything Odinga; President Kibaki needs tough love too; we need a clean break and a fresh start in Kenya; period. --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Judy Miriga wrote: From: Judy Miriga Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS - Why Must it be a Kikuyu, Is Youth PS a Kikuyu Position? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: Esther.Muriithi at eabl.com, "dickens odhiambo" Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 12:56 PM In this one, I agree with you Esther,?and I know that part, though?while I do not mean all Kikuyus,,, the thing is, which is my concern, that Kibaki as the National leader can only focus and shop from among the Kikuyu names, that is my problem with Kibaki..... As a president, he should shop across the 42 tribes, not just one.....? I am just trying to make a point??of focus where Kibaki as a National President limits himself. ? Judy Miriga Diaspora Spokesperson Executive Director Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc., USA http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Muriithi, Esther wrote: From: Muriithi, Esther Subject: [YP_Ke] Re: Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS - Why Must it be a Kikuyu, Is Youth PS a Kikuyu Position? To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 12:21 PM I think it is unfair to use the tribes name in this context. I dont think most Kikuyus benefit from the Kibaki rule. Remember many of them lost their lives and that didnt move him during PEV and he didnt lose sleep for a night until Koffi Annan/?Kikwete?whispered to the two of them whatever it was that they were told. Probably most of his classmates, villagemates, neighbours, business partners,?former colleagues in the?former governments?etc happen to?answer to?such names but they do not represent the entire community. The poor are still poor. From: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com [mailto:youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Judy Miriga Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 3:02 PM To: youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com Cc: dickens odhiambo; info at marskenya.org; jaluo at jaluo.com; jaluo at yahoo.com; luo_forum at yahoo.co.uk; ackmwest at swiftkenya.com; jambo at publiceyesite.org; Milton Alimadi Subject: [YP_Ke] Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS - Why Must it be a Kikuyu, Is Youth PS a Kikuyu Position? Folks, ? Can Kibaki explain under which circumstances or conditions or provision, does he appoint and employ Civil Servants.? Is the Coalition Government a Government of Kikuyu?? Are the Kikuyus the only qualified and experienced people to be awarded Special Positions in the Civil Service......are they more Kenyans, more veterans than those other 42 tribes.? How does he gauge his employment criteria.......are there rules governing employment to the Civil Service?? Is this Waweru going to earn from Public Tax Payers money? What is Kibaki trying to show people of goodwill Kenyans?? Is Kibaki a President of Tribalist?.....is that what he swore to observe and respect? Dont we have options to charge President Kibaki for practicing tribalism, nepotism that conflicts and causes the disunity in Kenya?? Is Kibaki creating Anarchy and compounding hate amongst peace loving 42 Tribes in Kenyans?....Why Waweru at this time of Reform?? Was ODM consulted before appointment was done?? Can he Kibaki explain the panel of candidates from which Waweru was picked.? How was Waweru regarded qualified for the job?..........We want to know?? Give exemplary qualities and reasons how Waweru was regarded top against others in the panel of candidates.?Issues concerning and involving public funds, tax payers money, resources?and utility must?be clear?and must accommodate interest of the public and be considerate to public opinions.? The President must be answerable to the public and he must be?transparent.? Corruption is what must end, we will not continue to accommodate roller coster culture of bad governance that has brought us to a failed state. ? Regards,? Kibaki names Waweru new Youth PS ? Nairobi PC James Waweru. He has been appointed the new Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Youth and Sports. Photo/FILE? By?Nation Reporter and PPSPosted?Thursday, July 16?2009?at?09:09 In Summary Mr Njoroge Ndirangu takes over as the new Nairobi PC. Five Provincial Commissioners are dropped. President Kibaki has named Nairobi Provincial Commissioner James Waweru as the new Permanent Secretary for Youth and Sports. Mr Waweru replaces former PS in the ministry Mr Kinuthia Murugu, who died last week in hospital where he was receiving treatment for gunshot wounds. Mr Njoroge Ndirangu takes over as the new Nairobi PC. Other PCs appointed by the President are: Ms Claire Omollo (Eastern), Mr Osman Warfa (Rift Valley), Mr S M Kilele (Western), Mr Ole Serian (North Eastern) and Mr Francis Mutie (Nyanza). Mr Ernest G Munyi (Coast) and Mr Japhter K Rugut (Central) retained their positions. Dropped Mr Paul Olando, Mr Abdul Mwasera , Mr David Jakaiti, Mr Hassan Noor Hassan and Mr Josephat Maingi have been dropped as PCs for Nyanza, Western, Eastern, North Eastern and Rift Valley respectively President Kibaki has also appointed Mr Mutea Iringo as Senior Director Administration/Secretary incharge of Internal Security and Mr Victor Okioma as Senior Director Administration/Secretary incharge of Provincial Administration He has also appointed 20 Senior Area Deputy Provincial Commissioners at Director level Job Group S to man strategic regions for effective administration as follows: The officers will be incharge of a cluster of 15-20 Districts unlike the current situation where some Provincial Commissioners are incharge of over 60 Districts. The twenty officers will be responsible to the Permanent Secretary, Provincial Administration and Internal Security through their respective Provincial Commissioners and will be located in strategic locations within the Province for ease of administration and management. The strategy will strengthen the coordination, mobilisation and supervision of human and material resources down to the grassroots. The move is important following the increased devolved funds and activities at Constituency/District level.? ? ? ? email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. 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There are those who deny its existence, and of course there are those who admit its existence. So, in one way or the other, it depends on whom you are talking with. So,what do we know? -Both the Old Testament and the New Testament do admit that witchcraft did exist during their times! -If one is involved in one way or the other, he or she will of course do everything possible to deny its existence. You and I know cases where people have denied existence of something, only to find later on that indeed they were members of that which they were trying to cover Up! Sounds like being judgmental, and yet sadly, that is how things are. -While its hard to prove that witchcraft does exist, there are some happenings that have been hard to explain otherwise? Like which ones? *One family loosing their loved ones one after another in a mysterious way *One works so hard to build a house, but un fortunately dies a day before starting to live there. *An accident that claims two or three members of one family in a mysterious way *Mysterious sickness that leaves everyone,even the Doctors,with lots of questions. Having said that,it's also true that: -There are those who have accused others falsely -There are those who have used witchcraft as an umbrella of getting their enemies! But assuming that witchcraft does exist, and one is known or has been caught practicing it, what should be the response? -This is a tough one! How come? Ideally, vengeance should be left to God! However, when attacked, even Christians behave differently! This is more so in a society where justice is not known to exist and therefore everybody takes the law into their hands. Furthermore,the saying,"It's the shoe bearer who knows where it pinches,applies here." Well,some of these things are best left to God alone. He knows what does exist and what doesn't. When we get to the Kingdom, this is one question that I will sure ask the man of Galilee! As for now, I pray that the good Lord will shield you from all demonic powers. And assuming that witchcraft does exist, and you happen to be involved in one way or the other, then please repent and ask the God Lord to help you get rid of it! Will you? Just a thought! Pr Birai www.pastorbirai.com From jkaiguire at gmail.com Fri Jul 17 07:48:30 2009 From: jkaiguire at gmail.com (judy kaiguire) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:48:30 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] Re: How to make a woman happy In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <80a684d60907170448x59f9b24aj7713fea924ddb5e1@mail.gmail.com> @ Samson thumbs up! My brother tho' umeogeza chumvi kidogo but l guess its how you put it that makes it seem easy.. On 7/15/09, Samson Muumba wrote: > > > Easy Steps to Make Woman > Happy > > > > > > > > > How to make a woman happy > > It's not difficult to make a woman happy; a man only needs to be: > > 1. a friend > 2. a companion > 3. a lover > 4. intelligent > 5. a father > 6. funny > 7. a chef > 8. an electrician > 9. a carpenter > 10. a plumber > 11. a mechanic > 12. a decorator > 13. a stylist > 14. a good father > 15. creative > 16. a psychologist > 17. a pest exterminator > 18. a psychiatrist > 19. a healer > 20. a good listener > 21. an organizer > 22. a good father > 23. very clean > 24. sympathetic > 25. athletic > > Without forgetting to: > > 26. give her compliments regularly > 27. love shopping > 28. be honest > 29. be very rich > 30. not stress her out > 31. not look at other girls > > And at the same time you must: > > 32. give her lots of attention, but expect little yourself > 33. give her lots of time, especially time for herself > 34. give her lots of space, never worrying about where she goes > It is very important to: > > 35. Never to forget: > > * birthdays > * anniversaries > * arrangements she makes > > HOW TO MAKE A MAN HAPPY > 1. Bring beer > 2. Hand over the remote. !!!!!!! > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. 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URL: From pkmuiga at yahoo.com Thu Jul 16 02:59:59 2009 From: pkmuiga at yahoo.com (patrick muiga) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] RE: Export bissiness Message-ID: <493723.54583.qm@web33505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi every one. is there any one out there that is running successful export bussiness and is willing to assist me with any information that may lead me to success in that venture? i will be more than happy if you do. EPC has info but not to the fine details especially the market bit. thanks Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ DONATE A BOOK TO LYP LIBRARY http://ypkenya.org/projects/donate-a-book/ MORE INFO ON LYP LIBRARY PROJECT http://ypkenya.org/2009/06/project-lyp-library/ REACH OVER 9,600 MEMBERS DIRECTLY BY ADVERTISING ON THIS FORUM. CHARGES ARE Ksh. 1,000 PER ADVERT. CALL/MPESA ON +254721663208 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "youngprofessionals_ke" group. To post to this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke at googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to youngprofessionals_ke+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.ke/group/youngprofessionals_ke?hl=en Visit the LYP website at http://ypkenya.org Join the group on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=57703506900 Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/lyp_ke -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- From situmanyongesa at gmail.com Thu Jul 16 08:23:47 2009 From: situmanyongesa at gmail.com (joseph nyongesa) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:23:47 +0300 Subject: [Jambo] [YP_Ke] she The crown of creation Message-ID: <7b1c74720907160523g2893b7d5hb19f3067911fdb73@mail.gmail.com> *Preamble* It seems like I used to write a lot of *matope* but am I the one to judge myself? Yes people are still on Hague or Local Tribunal e.t.c me am on what some would call trivia?s. The principles we have are a depressing couple. One wonders whether they are feeling us. *The crown of creation* I am reading genesis and I am amazed to discover that it is a divine pronouncement that the man needs a suitable helper. Things move fast what God says is as good as done. Adam is put to sleep and Yahweh dissects him chucking out ?a rib? which we are told He uses to fashion woman. Yes she must be the jewel of creation because if Adam is made from dust of the ground and woman is made from him, then she is of necessity doubly refined. This is where you say Eureka. Scholars are often debate the Hebrew word translated rib (*Hatselah). *They say that it does not actually mean rib but ?half side?. Rib or no rib, my point is woman is created and she is the most amazing of them all. Is she not? It is said that Yahweh did not fashion Even from ??His Head so that she will not rule over him, neither did she fashion him from his foot, lest he should trample on her but from his side so as to be equal with him and nearer to the heart ostensibly so that she can be loved by him?. Such is what I call charming scholastic verbiage. Its not exactly what God or Adam said.. A suitable helper is not an enemy, right? A suitable helper is not a competitor right? Biblical Hebrew is a functional language.* *When you interchange the consonants of the word *Hatselah *you get *Leitsah *which means counsel or wisdom. Both words have the same root (or is it cognate root). Here we see that the woman is actually endowed with a certain capacity to see things differently from us. They are also a source of wisdom and counsel. I repent my arrogance for not willing to listen?just because it came from a woman. I think the problem with us men is that we have *our* egos which breed *our *insecurity. Perhaps am harsh here but this is something I am now realizing. Fast forward, Adam wakes up apparently not feeling any pain and not under any influence of anesthesia, Anesthesia not being necessary because pain is a function of sin anyway. He goes, ?born of my born and flesh of my flesh?. It is well that the two are not ashamed to be naked because again shame a product of sin. In any case, sight is not supposed to be ?destructed? unless eyes were not meant for sight. Besides, Adam is in the process of naming things and he gives a good name to what he sees. Yes, if I was Adam, still I would have proposed that people wear clothes to ?keep warm? I would then write a thesis to the effect that in a good climate, as it was then, free style should be the custom. Well well well my words are finished?I seem to be taking the wrong turn. 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