Post by jm on Oct 14, 2005 7:01:22 GMT 3
Raila lacks consistency and hates rivalry
By Justus Musimi N
Being sixty something is not young. It is old. Having said that, Raila Odinga's age comes to question because of recent utterances on Hon. Tuju after making similar remarks about Hon. Nyachae’s age in yestermonths. How old is Raila?
I understand Raila Odinga is sixty plus years old. But he will make you believe that is twenty or thirty something based on his utterances. Terming Nyachae as an old guard brought up in colonial times and claiming that Tuju was in napkins when he fought for “independence” shows how unrealistic the son of Odinga can be. Yes, according to Raila, Tuju was in the napkins don’t we start there anyway? Society cares less about who was in the napkins when but who reasons and speaks sense. Tuju can speak sense and does his duties as mandated by society while Raila lectures people about how Tuju is a political reject simply because he has refused to dance to his flip flipping tune.
Such lectures are irrelevant to the right thinking members of society and casts Raila in negative light as a hater. In other words, Raila's tongue has become loose and seems to attack whoever outshines him. Being an engineer according to the press is a good asset but in my lifetime, I haven’t met or heard an engineer so impractical like Raila. He is among the few engineers who are unrealistic.
The main principle in engineering is to solve problems in the best and easiest way possible. By so doing, the cost effect rule plays a greater role in any circumstances engineers find themselves in and will not begin digging either way before analysing the overall cost of implementing their plan. In real life, engineers live an analytical life full of practical solutions for whichever problems based on the cost effect rule. But looking at Raila’s track record, consistent and cost effectiveness are properly the two characteristics lacking of his resume. He is inconsistent and flip-flops a lot. He hardl finishes whatever he starts.
Raila was once a minister for energy. At Nyayo House Raila is remembered for putting a new carpet and buying laptop computers for employees. He should have done better than that. At a time when Kenya was experiencing blackouts, the brother of Akinyi should have engaged himself in ministerial work by doing something as simple as connecting his own people in Bondo to the national power grid. But he didn’t. Recently, he was quoted by the press as blaming the staff in his ministry for letting Kenyans down. That is after three years of no work while at the helm of the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. So far he is known for returning money meant for roads back to the Treasury and tearing people’s houses down without compensating them although the KANU government was directly reliable. No wonder Kibaki took away the housing department from him. Not to sound ironic, but should the minister for housing tear down houses or build new ones?
Back to Tuju and Nyachae. How dose Raila rate them? These are the facts. Besides his outstanding public service record, Nyachae is performance at Nyayo House alone where Raila Odinga was once housed is incredible. Taking a salvaged ministry with dying parastatals and transforming Kenya Pipeline Company and Kenya Power and Lighting Company into profit organisations is unheard of in many of our parastatals in the country’s history. The profit made by these entities inrecent years is in billions besides the outstanding service they currently offer. On the other hand, more people have been connected to the national power grid in two years compared to those connected during the entire term of Gichuru at Stima Plaza. However, Raila was quoted in the media questioning the price of electricity and why clients pay to be connected when in fact statistics show that the cost of electricity has gone down drastically in the past two years.
Why didn’t he cut the cost of electricity even by a cent while he was Minister for Energy? It is important to note that Raila hates performance and cherishes blame others and flip flopping. Tuju on the other hand it plainly wrong for Raila downplays his efforts of putting up a medical clinic and offering academic scholarships to bright students from his constituency. What did Raila want him to do? Follow his flip flopping characteristic and blame his staff for no work on roads? Who is wise? Raila who imported a 40,000 dollars jaguar from the United States for a wedding denying the government sales and imports tax using executive privileges instead of using the money to improve his impoverished constituents lives and keeps hauling insults at Tuju or the later who cares about his constituents?
I hope Kenyans will be wise enough to realize that flip floppers and noise makers don’t perform. So far the old guards have tried but one thing for sure is that the so called young turks are a disgrace. They have no stand and people without a stand on anything can’t lead a country. With that in mind, I still wonder how someone fifty plus years old will refer himself as a young turk? That shows how the village heroes, the first ones to go to university from their village can’t realize that things have changed and village heroism should stay in the village.The other question remains, how can a leader of high self esteem claim that the new constitution will divide a country without stating how? Shouldn’t he substantiate?
Justus Musimi N. is an engineering student in the USA
Copyright © 2003 Kenya Times Media Trust,All rights reserved.
By Justus Musimi N
Being sixty something is not young. It is old. Having said that, Raila Odinga's age comes to question because of recent utterances on Hon. Tuju after making similar remarks about Hon. Nyachae’s age in yestermonths. How old is Raila?
I understand Raila Odinga is sixty plus years old. But he will make you believe that is twenty or thirty something based on his utterances. Terming Nyachae as an old guard brought up in colonial times and claiming that Tuju was in napkins when he fought for “independence” shows how unrealistic the son of Odinga can be. Yes, according to Raila, Tuju was in the napkins don’t we start there anyway? Society cares less about who was in the napkins when but who reasons and speaks sense. Tuju can speak sense and does his duties as mandated by society while Raila lectures people about how Tuju is a political reject simply because he has refused to dance to his flip flipping tune.
Such lectures are irrelevant to the right thinking members of society and casts Raila in negative light as a hater. In other words, Raila's tongue has become loose and seems to attack whoever outshines him. Being an engineer according to the press is a good asset but in my lifetime, I haven’t met or heard an engineer so impractical like Raila. He is among the few engineers who are unrealistic.
The main principle in engineering is to solve problems in the best and easiest way possible. By so doing, the cost effect rule plays a greater role in any circumstances engineers find themselves in and will not begin digging either way before analysing the overall cost of implementing their plan. In real life, engineers live an analytical life full of practical solutions for whichever problems based on the cost effect rule. But looking at Raila’s track record, consistent and cost effectiveness are properly the two characteristics lacking of his resume. He is inconsistent and flip-flops a lot. He hardl finishes whatever he starts.
Raila was once a minister for energy. At Nyayo House Raila is remembered for putting a new carpet and buying laptop computers for employees. He should have done better than that. At a time when Kenya was experiencing blackouts, the brother of Akinyi should have engaged himself in ministerial work by doing something as simple as connecting his own people in Bondo to the national power grid. But he didn’t. Recently, he was quoted by the press as blaming the staff in his ministry for letting Kenyans down. That is after three years of no work while at the helm of the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. So far he is known for returning money meant for roads back to the Treasury and tearing people’s houses down without compensating them although the KANU government was directly reliable. No wonder Kibaki took away the housing department from him. Not to sound ironic, but should the minister for housing tear down houses or build new ones?
Back to Tuju and Nyachae. How dose Raila rate them? These are the facts. Besides his outstanding public service record, Nyachae is performance at Nyayo House alone where Raila Odinga was once housed is incredible. Taking a salvaged ministry with dying parastatals and transforming Kenya Pipeline Company and Kenya Power and Lighting Company into profit organisations is unheard of in many of our parastatals in the country’s history. The profit made by these entities inrecent years is in billions besides the outstanding service they currently offer. On the other hand, more people have been connected to the national power grid in two years compared to those connected during the entire term of Gichuru at Stima Plaza. However, Raila was quoted in the media questioning the price of electricity and why clients pay to be connected when in fact statistics show that the cost of electricity has gone down drastically in the past two years.
Why didn’t he cut the cost of electricity even by a cent while he was Minister for Energy? It is important to note that Raila hates performance and cherishes blame others and flip flopping. Tuju on the other hand it plainly wrong for Raila downplays his efforts of putting up a medical clinic and offering academic scholarships to bright students from his constituency. What did Raila want him to do? Follow his flip flopping characteristic and blame his staff for no work on roads? Who is wise? Raila who imported a 40,000 dollars jaguar from the United States for a wedding denying the government sales and imports tax using executive privileges instead of using the money to improve his impoverished constituents lives and keeps hauling insults at Tuju or the later who cares about his constituents?
I hope Kenyans will be wise enough to realize that flip floppers and noise makers don’t perform. So far the old guards have tried but one thing for sure is that the so called young turks are a disgrace. They have no stand and people without a stand on anything can’t lead a country. With that in mind, I still wonder how someone fifty plus years old will refer himself as a young turk? That shows how the village heroes, the first ones to go to university from their village can’t realize that things have changed and village heroism should stay in the village.The other question remains, how can a leader of high self esteem claim that the new constitution will divide a country without stating how? Shouldn’t he substantiate?
Justus Musimi N. is an engineering student in the USA
Copyright © 2003 Kenya Times Media Trust,All rights reserved.