I would like to comment the PIC for the good efforts put into bringing to book the ministers responsible for corruption scams. This is a very good move that goes a long way in showing us Kenyan that it’s the dawn of a new era, that the ages of graft and impunity, the ages that the leaders could mismanage funds in their dockets and get away with it scotch free are coming to an end.
The pressure put on Wetangula to exit office and pave way for investigation shows that there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the fight against corruption and impunity in Kenya.
The plan to investigate cases dating back to 1990 like the one involving the justice minister Mutula Kilonzo is going to make a number of ministers sweat in their sleep. And this is the justice that Kenyans need after a dark long era.
However it is surprising to always hear that after a minister is suspended, a council of elders from his/her tribe come out with guns blazing calling the act a plot against their tribe. Kenyans should understand that justice is justice and it cuts across tribes, races and any other cocoon that we have decided to cluster ourselves in.
There is no justice that is meant to discriminate against a tribe. The suspension of Mr. Ruto until his court case is decided is just that, as stipulated in the constitution which we so eagerly voted for, the resignation of Wetangula to pave way for investigation is a parliamentary process not an anti Luhya plot.
It’s a pity that we strive so eagerly to protect the same people who cannot protect public finance in our interest. So much that the rift valley MPs can threaten the PM over the votes in rift valley because they believe in our will to protect our tribal idols and we would vote against the PM just because we have been told that he is plotting against our tribes.
Any Kenyan would realize that the suspension of Ruto was a joint decision by the two principles. Can’t we remember what happened during the maize scandal?
The PM suspended Ruto but the president revoked the suspension and he stayed on. So how is it that right now it’s the PM who suspended him? And besides, political motives or not, a court case is yet to decide whether he is guilty of selling the over 1,745 hectares of Ngong forest land, should all Kenyans know about that? Even if your in the council of elders?
I believe that as long as we are fighting the war against corruption and impunity, as long as the perpetrators of these theft scams against the public are being brought to justice, as long as the ministers who let our hard earned tax money be embezzled under their noses in the dockets they are responsible for are being held responsible for their action, or lack of action. We are in the right track.
The war against corruption is not tribal unless you are from a tribe called ‘corrupt’ and therefore we should cease to tribalize all these issues and let justice take its course
Sunday, November 7, 2010
WITHOUT TRYING THE TWO PRINCIPLES, JUSTICE IS HALF SERVED
Ruto’s sentiments that the principles should be investigated by the ICC should be taken seriously. Why? I even sincerely think that they should be charged alongside the other people being investigated.
As any other Kenyan, I would like to believe that after the ICC indicts the six main suspects, justice will be served, that the Kenyan who lost his wife and children in a church fire will feel served, that the one who ran at night leaving everything he has invested in would feel contented, and that is not even close to the truth.
I would also like to blame organized gangs like the Mungiki foe the violence. I can’t, because these people were used by politicians from the different camps to create fear and death.
Now let me say where the principles come in. they were the heads of the different camps, its hard for me to believe that all these activities by their juniors went on without their consent or knowledge, how they reacted to it Kenyans need to know. That is the job of the ICC
It is also evident that although they did not condone the violence publicly, they were not against it either. They used it to their selfish ends. They used the fear and deaths perpetuated by organized gangs from their camps as a bargaining tool for power sharing.
While Kenyans were dying, wailing and sleeping on the roads and out in the cold, they sat took tea and told Koffi Annan what they wanted and what they didn’t want, what power slot they would take, which one they wouldn’t, how the other camp should behave and all sorts of selfish claims. At that point I hate to but I believe that deep down in their hearts they wanted the violence to go on until they got the best bargain from their opponents
People fought because the two camps decided to rig the elections in different areas, somebody else decided to swear in the president in mysterious circumstances. That is what fuelled the violence apart from the fact that the violence was preplanned. However you want to look at it, in the initial stages of the chaos, both the principles could have stopped it but they chose to go the selfish way. That is crime just as big as preplanning the violence. It might even be bigger than preplanning.
Now what runs through my mind is the fact that Ruto has been in the middle of the Hague investigation. Ruto knows an awful lot of things regarding the top dogs involved in the post election chaos. He has also agreed to provide the ICC with information if he believes that the president and the PM need to be investigated who am I to say otherwise. he might be having evidence. The ICC should follow up and see how this goes.
As any other Kenyan, I would like to believe that after the ICC indicts the six main suspects, justice will be served, that the Kenyan who lost his wife and children in a church fire will feel served, that the one who ran at night leaving everything he has invested in would feel contented, and that is not even close to the truth.
I would also like to blame organized gangs like the Mungiki foe the violence. I can’t, because these people were used by politicians from the different camps to create fear and death.
Now let me say where the principles come in. they were the heads of the different camps, its hard for me to believe that all these activities by their juniors went on without their consent or knowledge, how they reacted to it Kenyans need to know. That is the job of the ICC
It is also evident that although they did not condone the violence publicly, they were not against it either. They used it to their selfish ends. They used the fear and deaths perpetuated by organized gangs from their camps as a bargaining tool for power sharing.
While Kenyans were dying, wailing and sleeping on the roads and out in the cold, they sat took tea and told Koffi Annan what they wanted and what they didn’t want, what power slot they would take, which one they wouldn’t, how the other camp should behave and all sorts of selfish claims. At that point I hate to but I believe that deep down in their hearts they wanted the violence to go on until they got the best bargain from their opponents
People fought because the two camps decided to rig the elections in different areas, somebody else decided to swear in the president in mysterious circumstances. That is what fuelled the violence apart from the fact that the violence was preplanned. However you want to look at it, in the initial stages of the chaos, both the principles could have stopped it but they chose to go the selfish way. That is crime just as big as preplanning the violence. It might even be bigger than preplanning.
Now what runs through my mind is the fact that Ruto has been in the middle of the Hague investigation. Ruto knows an awful lot of things regarding the top dogs involved in the post election chaos. He has also agreed to provide the ICC with information if he believes that the president and the PM need to be investigated who am I to say otherwise. he might be having evidence. The ICC should follow up and see how this goes.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
NGILU IS A KAMBA FIRST, KENYAN SECOND
There are a lot of justifications put ford in defense of the minister
of water decision to allocate more money to her area. I believe these
justifications are fabricated just to save the minister’s skin.
Why do I say this? I have a few questions for our water minister.
Would you with a clear conscience tell us Kenyans that you were
objective and fair in the decision to allocate the funds to the areas?
Is it that these people are in more need of water than all other areas
in the country?
The politicians do what they do because of the support they need from
us. So Ngilu might be plotting for the ukambani vote in preparation
for 2012. She is planning to have a bigger control over the kamba vote
to increase her bargaining power for a better post in the government
after the 2012 election. Maybe
Kenyans have been very sensitive about fair distribution of resources
first with the majimbo debate and now the incorporation of counties in
the new constitution and therefore we believe that we have leaders
that know their responsibility is not representing their ethnicity or
regions but representing Kenyans as a whole.
If the example the ministry of water is replicated by all the other
ministries we are going to see a situation where most of the national
resources are going to be directed to the people who don’t realy need
them as such. What about those areas which does not have
representatives in parliament? Will they be left behind because they
do not have people to siphon money to their areas?
The minister of education Sam Ongeri during the scam involving
misappropriation of the primary education funds said in a rally in his
constituency that he was being fought for directing more funds to his
people. He was heading a national post, representing all the Kenyan
population. Why would he direct all that money to his constituency?
These are the practices that had existed in Kenya for a very long time
with expensive projects being directed to areas with very little need
just because they have MPs holding high positions in government. These
projects end up being white elephants in the areas they are set.
Am not saying that ukambani does not need water project. They have had
a lot of water problems and drought but their problems are dwarfed by
those the pastoralists communities of north eastern and the south
parts of rift valley experience. On a fair and objective scale,
considering the sharing of national resources according to need, those
people need more allocation.
We believe that the county government system will enable us to share
resources equitable among the vast Kenyan population, but in that we
need leaders that will put the interest of Kenyans before the
interests of an ethnic tribe no matter their affiliation otherwise the
cycle will never break.
That said. I believe that Ngilu should resign and pave way for
investigations to prove her integrity and the allegations that there
are people plotting against her political career.
of water decision to allocate more money to her area. I believe these
justifications are fabricated just to save the minister’s skin.
Why do I say this? I have a few questions for our water minister.
Would you with a clear conscience tell us Kenyans that you were
objective and fair in the decision to allocate the funds to the areas?
Is it that these people are in more need of water than all other areas
in the country?
The politicians do what they do because of the support they need from
us. So Ngilu might be plotting for the ukambani vote in preparation
for 2012. She is planning to have a bigger control over the kamba vote
to increase her bargaining power for a better post in the government
after the 2012 election. Maybe
Kenyans have been very sensitive about fair distribution of resources
first with the majimbo debate and now the incorporation of counties in
the new constitution and therefore we believe that we have leaders
that know their responsibility is not representing their ethnicity or
regions but representing Kenyans as a whole.
If the example the ministry of water is replicated by all the other
ministries we are going to see a situation where most of the national
resources are going to be directed to the people who don’t realy need
them as such. What about those areas which does not have
representatives in parliament? Will they be left behind because they
do not have people to siphon money to their areas?
The minister of education Sam Ongeri during the scam involving
misappropriation of the primary education funds said in a rally in his
constituency that he was being fought for directing more funds to his
people. He was heading a national post, representing all the Kenyan
population. Why would he direct all that money to his constituency?
These are the practices that had existed in Kenya for a very long time
with expensive projects being directed to areas with very little need
just because they have MPs holding high positions in government. These
projects end up being white elephants in the areas they are set.
Am not saying that ukambani does not need water project. They have had
a lot of water problems and drought but their problems are dwarfed by
those the pastoralists communities of north eastern and the south
parts of rift valley experience. On a fair and objective scale,
considering the sharing of national resources according to need, those
people need more allocation.
We believe that the county government system will enable us to share
resources equitable among the vast Kenyan population, but in that we
need leaders that will put the interest of Kenyans before the
interests of an ethnic tribe no matter their affiliation otherwise the
cycle will never break.
That said. I believe that Ngilu should resign and pave way for
investigations to prove her integrity and the allegations that there
are people plotting against her political career.
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