Post by Solomon Omollo on Dec 11, 2007 9:33:10 GMT 3
Protest Letter to Raila Odinga
As a Luo I have lived for the day a Luo would grace Kenya's State House. Jaramogi almost had a shot at it but blew it. I was pretty sure Raila had it nailed two months ago until he started shoving his foot into his mouth.
The contribution of Luos to the economy and politics is unquestionable. Since the 1960s, almost every other Doctor, Clinical officer, Engineer, Scientist in Kenya has been a Luo. Luos have long been leaders in trade unions and on matters of equality.
The reason we are going to lose our chance at the presidency this year is simply because of our limping horse-Raila Odinga. How sad!!!!
Njonjo's saying that: "if the leading cow is limping, the herd cannot reach green pastures" has never been more apt.
While our King Raila has done an impeccable job of grass root mobilization, the foundation on which his promises for the future is shaky and unsustainable. Slowly, our supporters are realizing this. But our worst enemy to achieving the presidency is how the rest of the population sees Luos and Raila in particular. Kenyans have become very suspicious in the way Raila will do anything....anything…criminal, illegal, morally wrong, silly …as long as he can help him achieve the presidency.
His tri-forked tongue has on one prong charmed Kenyans, threatened Kenyans who don't vote for him on the other and sold us to foreigners on the other.
Just look at this:
1. His selfish and desperation-driven MOU with one small group of Muslims is backfiring, and is indeed being seen as an insult to Muslims. We have already lost a huge chunk of Catholic votes-the majority religion in Kenya.
2. Hardly had the world cooled down condemning some mzungu who dared state that the black brain is inferior to white, that Raila goes ahead an confirms that premise by hiring a prostitute-screwing, toe-sucking jungu to head his campaign, yet we have many, many educated Luos in the Public Relations world. The fact that he slipped him in as a tourist, tells us that he will break the law with impunity in order to achieve his selfish ends.
3. After being chased out by some Kikuyu woman in Nyeri, and market women in Meru, he threatened regions that do no support him with dire consequences when he becomes president. He forgot that he is vying to be President for all Kenyans and not President of Nyanza (he is already the Emperor of Luoland already).
4. Long before the campaign period started, Raila had already advertised himself across Africa (during televised Soccer matches) as the next President of Kenya-giving Kenyans the impressions that hey had no choice but to accept him. That was a silly move that backfired. Kenya is a democracy: the people choose you, you do not impose yourself on them.
5. Further to 4 above, his overzeal to be president was on display for all to see since last year when he had a super-sized billboard in Nairobi west declaring him as The Peoples President.
6. The other tribes are already scared of us because of rumors that Raila has a guerrilla group waiting to wage civil war in case he loses. Who wants a repeat of 1982?
That rumor was reinforced by his picture in the papers a few weeks ago where he was seen inspecting a guard of honor. That is gross ineptitude. While the law may be silent on guards of honor, is understood that only a President or a Presidential appointees can do that during a passing out a parade. I am not surprised that the other tribes are turning against us. His involvement in the 1982 Coup bid lends credence to this theory.
7. Raila's blatant lies have come out. No paying of rents? (Our landlords will kick us out). No paying for matatus? (Kwani it runs on water?)
Even a child can see such blatant lies.
Capitalist and hard-working Kenyans see this as trying to impose communist and socialist ideas from his East German education and Russian ties.
8. As a people, we Luos have been accused as having the wrong concept for development in our mind. To a Luo, achievement is seen as driving a Mercedes and living in Muthaiga, while our cousins in shags wallow in poverty. We only visit shags during Christmas and give nothing back to the primary school we went to back in Alego. That alone tells other tribes that Luos cannot lead us to development. A Hummer driving through the grass-thatched huts in Nyanza is a misnomer. We now hear that the Emperor has already approved the design for a "pimped up" Boeing 747, better that the one for the President of the USA, and Boeing is just waiting for the go-ahead to start customization once he becomes president.
9. We have been accused of being arrogant, rude, and the other tribes simply don't want to imagine being sat on by these ultra-clannish Luos.
10. Emperor Odinga's biggest mistake is alienating Luos from the rest of the population. His "Hate Kikuyus" campaign while initially attractive to some people is now backfiring since Kenyans are working at cohesiveness and building one Nation.
If Raila had played it right, was honest and really wanted to be the People's President, Kenyans would have voted him in. He lost this election because he is selfish and harbors revenge deep inside himself.
And His Associates???
1. Kenyans honestly hoped that when you get into office, you will very quickly unmask the ghost of Goldenberg; the genesis of our country’s dubious recognition as a hub of corruption. Unfortunately, the story of Goldenberg will never be complete without the story of former Finance Minister, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi. He paid out over Kshs 10 billion to corruption networks from the national treasury while it was entrusted to him. His cut can only be anyone’s guess. Now, what kind of principle assistant to the President will he make if he can’t even travel abroad due to the prevailing ban?
2. Until NARC took over, Hon. William Ruto was the proud owner of Procession Road (Serena B).
He has cases pending in court having sold non-existent forest plots to a parastatal for hundreds of millions of shillings and now owns Kenya Times hitherto belonging to milliards of KANU rank and file. He too is banned from visiting key partner countries.
3. The year is 1987 and Kenya is hosting All Africa Games. The youngest cabinet member Hon. Henry Kosgey is in charge of the sports docket. He enlists an international conman thingy Berg (not thingy Morris) and the two fleece Kenyans and Kenyan companies of millions of shillings in sponsorship money. He then skimmed off so much commission from suppliers to the extent that even the display board at the Nyayo National stadium which was imported from Hungary did not function during the opening ceremony or any time there after but Kosgey was too compromised to question.
Since then he became the antithesis of Midas touch and anything he touched came down tabling at very heavy social and economic cost. Do you remember Kenya National Assurance?
4. Hon Joseph Nyaga may pass as innocent but he is a moral conman who will (if he has not already) mislead many young people. What is he doing with a married and well-known PR personality long after his wife fled back to Scotland for the same reasons? Truly ‘saved’ people don’t do this.
5. Yes it is only in Africa where an advocate struck off the roll of advocates for stealing accident victim’s compensation money, after an ambulance chasing adventure, can aspire for an MP’s office and even that of Minister. Hon. Otieno Kajwang’ may consider himself lucky but he surely does not represent the republic we so desire to build.
6. The queen of Afya House may have left but her legacy lives on. Ask any stranger at the ministry and they will tell you that nepotism is Hon. Charity Ngilu’s other name. Further her daughter runs five NGO’s all dealing with Aids funds. Her sexual escapades need not be the concern of the republic but while in office she ought to go about it with probity. Not in parking lots with a wannabe young enough to be her son.
7. Perhaps after violent crime, crimes against the environment are going to be the most important in this century. Hon. Musa Sirma has been single handedly responsible for wanton deforestation for personal gain in Central Rift Valley while serving as Forester in-charge in Nakuru. Up to now he still pedals Sandal wood, a contraband trade.
8. Justice (Rtd) Otieno Kwach is an otherwise honorable man of letters except for that little matter of exchanging a couple of million shillings at the basement of Hilton hotel; the price justice then.
9. Joshua Kulei is a private citizen who has shown little interest in politics generally. He however epitomizes corruption of Moi state and any association with our nascent party can only be counter productive. Perhaps all he owns today once belonged to all of us.
10. Dr. Sally Kosgey has declared the intention to vie on ODM ticket in Aldai, which may not be your major concern. She will also be a towering candidate for a cabinet post if she was elected, but her history in a lot of ways negates what ODM promises. Her other issues of personalizing Railway quarters in Parklands will also never go away. My unsolicited advice is that you keep a very safe distance from such characters.
11. Hon Reuben Ndolo is well suited to play political bouncer but he is clearly not Minister Material. Let him also know that it is very foolish to eat raw CDF funds to finance his newfound lifestyle. I’ll be shocked if he got away with it anyway.
12. In the heat of recent media exchanges with KADDU chief, you once said that Cyrus Jirongo ought to be spending time somewhere else rather that basking in media glory. That statement is as true today as it was then. Jirongo personalized so much of public funds in the 1990’s that a currency note was named after him in dubious honour. It is our faith that you will still put him in that promised place in your other life. Openly decline his pretentious support.
13. Hon. Kipkalya Kones, Hon. William ole Ntimama and Hon. Franklin Bett have one thing in common. They all have dripping blood on their hands, as architects of ethnic cleansing campaign of the 1990’s. Only Bett has additional credentials because in his tenure at State House he grabbed quite a bit of public land. One small living testimony is that housing estate next to War Memorial Hospital in Nakuru.
14. And him of Jeshi la Mzee notoriety, Hon. Fred Gumo? There is the small matter of the public plot in the CBD near National Bank, which he allocated to himself as the head of Nairobi City Commission and then sold to a public body for 300 million shillings. To his credit though, he confessed this in the early days of NARC administration.
15. Bishop Dr. Margaret Wanjiru may be seen as a necessary intercessor but without passing much judgment, one would doubt if her powerful prayers would ever reach the destination leave alone being answered by heavens. This Doctor with little more than ‘O’ level education is a pretender to morality. She lives off alms with opulence. Her affair with married Matjeke of South Africa is a misnomer and bad manners for a church minister let alone a bishop.
16. Johnny-come-lately Zakayo Cheruiyot (former PS – OP) the latest entrant into our boat may prove to be valuable but for the wrong reasons. If you will indeed walk the talk, the faceless ghost of Anglo Leasing (KANU regime phase) has now entered the ark availing itself to be unmasked by you.
17. Former Finance Minister Chris Okemo may strike you as a suitable candidate from a distance. Those who know him however confess he’s also a shark. When some local investors protested the sale of East Kenya Bottlers (Machakos) to South African Sabco on account of granting monopoly status to a foreign company, he resolved the matter after accepting a small gift of 50 million shillings. Of course he can deny but documentary evidence still exists at Sabco, and the plant was long bought and shut down.
18. according to the culture of the Kikuyu people, what Tony Gachoka did to his family would demand that he be cursed and disinherited. Born to a rich family in Thika, Gachoka assumed the role of an administrator to the family estate after his father’s early demise. Within a very short spun, he squandered family wealth estimated to be in hundreds of millions of shillings and fled leaving his ailing mother and siblings in perpetual threat of eviction by auctioneers from her matrimonial home. He has since engaged in a shameful love affair with Hon. Ngilu unofficially attributed to causing her husband’s habitual drinking leading to early exit to the grave. Lately also, he has been the main conduit for medical supplies tender kickbacks. I would touch that kind of person with a long pole.
19. The self-confessed Duke of Kabeteshire Sir Charles Mugane Njonjo is another character to be avoided. Do you remember him telling your father that he would never shake hands with a Luo for fear of contracting Cholera? I am sure he is in this to settle personal scores with Kibaki. Yes an enemy of your enemy is your friend but Njonjo is an enemy of ODM dream too. He rubbished the independence majimbo constitution in 1964 as the AG and now he has become a land grabber too. He still owns a big chunk of Karura forest; at least officially.
20. Then there is Irshad Sumra our candidate for Embakasi. Someone who lives off stolen Telecom and KPLC conductors should know better than soiling our party’s good name.
21. That leaves our good professor Hon. Anyang Nyon’go. Intelligent and relatively clean is only blemished by his affinity to the Luo gene pool. During his short stint at Planning Ministry, our tribesmen filled all emerging and senior positions. This led to his Treasury wing being nicknamed channel ‘O’. This he can work on though to accommodate the diversity of ODM family.
ODM Nominations
Raila Odinga. This is an open protest letter ABOUT YOU and the Pentagon. You promised us, clearly, free and fair nominations. You also promised us a totally democratic ODM government. We feel badly let down. I may still vote for you but others will now change.
When I look to the future, I feel afraid. Why did you let this happen?
ODM succeeded in hoodwinking Kenya that it was the next great hope. All that is now gone.
As a matter of fact, most Odm voters might just stay home and not vote at all and that will be bad for them.
Hata wale wanaosemasema eti people will still vote for Raila despite this are very worried deep down. They know that Kibaki and PNU have the numbers all over the country and money to boot.
I think the mess Raila has created is enough.
From the MOU to NSE and drugs money to majimbo to insuring people's cows and now theses elections, ODM doesn't need negativity. It has more than its fair bargain.
Last weekend, WINNERS WERE DECLARED LOSERS AND LOSERS WERE DECLARED WINNERS. That is in the house of ODM, our would be saviours and please count me out of this.
AS we learnt back in school, all that glitters is not gold. ODM was attractive a few months ago to many, some serious and some politically naive. Now, it is their time to face the music and even the general public is realising, albeit late in the game, that this was a party of fraudsters and tricksters.
Now, the chickens have come home to roost. One error in judgement based perhaps on their own warped understanding of the political landscape seems to have done them in.
It is over! What they are trying to do now is a futile attempt at damage control by trying to yet again overturn the results that they had overturned. How convenient!
A leopard doesn't change its spots and a zebra doesn't change its stripes. ODM cannot hide what it is. It has become a party of connivers, charlatans, imposters and masqueraders.
"Even rigging requires some intelligence."
These are words that were uttered by non other than Kibaki back in 1988 after those weird elections. Moi wanted Kibaki out. He planted a Dr. James Muriuki and sent a returning officer to Othaya in the name of Kehoro Muhalule, the then Nyeri DC to see to it that Kibaki loses.
The Mlolongo for Kibaki wound like a yarn while that of Muriuki was only 40 strong. The poor DC tried to call State House but Moi would only tell him that 'sitaki huyo mtu' to which the DC called again and told them that if he did anything fishy, 'patakufa mtu.'
Moi obliged and Kibaki quipped that now all too famous line that even rigging requires some intelligence. Moi later fired the man and I'll not delve into what the people of Othaya did to the good daktari.
ODM took us twenty years back last weekend.
Wow!!
I still don't believe this.
The Luos are mad. This has made THEM (Pentagon) wake up to the realization that things are bad. Terribly bad.
Kisii region is on fire, literally and figuratively, Rangwe is on fire, and so are so many places owing to this madness. Chungwa house, the bastion of this tragedy, the den of this inequity, has been vandalized and unknown people helped themselves to blank certificates. People are furious! The people are.
In the meantime, the holier than thou gang, the so called Pentagon is holed up somewhere trying to contain this floodgate of protests. The one thing that they had going for them, trust, seems to be running out fast and as they say, trust is like virginity, you only lose it once.
ODM promised us heaven but has sold us, or at least its supporters because I never fell for this hoax, a suspect bill of goods . They made themselves something that they clearly are not and the weird thing is that so many fell for it and swallowed it line, hook and sinker.
From the London bonding trip to the majimbo debate, ODM never owns up to their blunders like the adults they are supposed to be. They blame it on others.
PNU didn't beat up KJ, didn't rummage through Chungwa house and didn't overturn results but somehow, these fellows will find a way to pin it on them. How convenient!
IN the meantime, it seems that kalonzo will be reaping from this mess.
“A leader will bring destruction into his nation if he can neither weave a garment, nor sow a seed nor lay a stone, but makes politics his occupation.”
Kahli Gibran
The thoughts, opinions and points of view in this email may not necessarily be the author's. The fact that he has allowed their transmission under his hand means something.
The conclusion as to what it means is entirely yours, isn't it?
As a Luo I have lived for the day a Luo would grace Kenya's State House. Jaramogi almost had a shot at it but blew it. I was pretty sure Raila had it nailed two months ago until he started shoving his foot into his mouth.
The contribution of Luos to the economy and politics is unquestionable. Since the 1960s, almost every other Doctor, Clinical officer, Engineer, Scientist in Kenya has been a Luo. Luos have long been leaders in trade unions and on matters of equality.
The reason we are going to lose our chance at the presidency this year is simply because of our limping horse-Raila Odinga. How sad!!!!
Njonjo's saying that: "if the leading cow is limping, the herd cannot reach green pastures" has never been more apt.
While our King Raila has done an impeccable job of grass root mobilization, the foundation on which his promises for the future is shaky and unsustainable. Slowly, our supporters are realizing this. But our worst enemy to achieving the presidency is how the rest of the population sees Luos and Raila in particular. Kenyans have become very suspicious in the way Raila will do anything....anything…criminal, illegal, morally wrong, silly …as long as he can help him achieve the presidency.
His tri-forked tongue has on one prong charmed Kenyans, threatened Kenyans who don't vote for him on the other and sold us to foreigners on the other.
Just look at this:
1. His selfish and desperation-driven MOU with one small group of Muslims is backfiring, and is indeed being seen as an insult to Muslims. We have already lost a huge chunk of Catholic votes-the majority religion in Kenya.
2. Hardly had the world cooled down condemning some mzungu who dared state that the black brain is inferior to white, that Raila goes ahead an confirms that premise by hiring a prostitute-screwing, toe-sucking jungu to head his campaign, yet we have many, many educated Luos in the Public Relations world. The fact that he slipped him in as a tourist, tells us that he will break the law with impunity in order to achieve his selfish ends.
3. After being chased out by some Kikuyu woman in Nyeri, and market women in Meru, he threatened regions that do no support him with dire consequences when he becomes president. He forgot that he is vying to be President for all Kenyans and not President of Nyanza (he is already the Emperor of Luoland already).
4. Long before the campaign period started, Raila had already advertised himself across Africa (during televised Soccer matches) as the next President of Kenya-giving Kenyans the impressions that hey had no choice but to accept him. That was a silly move that backfired. Kenya is a democracy: the people choose you, you do not impose yourself on them.
5. Further to 4 above, his overzeal to be president was on display for all to see since last year when he had a super-sized billboard in Nairobi west declaring him as The Peoples President.
6. The other tribes are already scared of us because of rumors that Raila has a guerrilla group waiting to wage civil war in case he loses. Who wants a repeat of 1982?
That rumor was reinforced by his picture in the papers a few weeks ago where he was seen inspecting a guard of honor. That is gross ineptitude. While the law may be silent on guards of honor, is understood that only a President or a Presidential appointees can do that during a passing out a parade. I am not surprised that the other tribes are turning against us. His involvement in the 1982 Coup bid lends credence to this theory.
7. Raila's blatant lies have come out. No paying of rents? (Our landlords will kick us out). No paying for matatus? (Kwani it runs on water?)
Even a child can see such blatant lies.
Capitalist and hard-working Kenyans see this as trying to impose communist and socialist ideas from his East German education and Russian ties.
8. As a people, we Luos have been accused as having the wrong concept for development in our mind. To a Luo, achievement is seen as driving a Mercedes and living in Muthaiga, while our cousins in shags wallow in poverty. We only visit shags during Christmas and give nothing back to the primary school we went to back in Alego. That alone tells other tribes that Luos cannot lead us to development. A Hummer driving through the grass-thatched huts in Nyanza is a misnomer. We now hear that the Emperor has already approved the design for a "pimped up" Boeing 747, better that the one for the President of the USA, and Boeing is just waiting for the go-ahead to start customization once he becomes president.
9. We have been accused of being arrogant, rude, and the other tribes simply don't want to imagine being sat on by these ultra-clannish Luos.
10. Emperor Odinga's biggest mistake is alienating Luos from the rest of the population. His "Hate Kikuyus" campaign while initially attractive to some people is now backfiring since Kenyans are working at cohesiveness and building one Nation.
If Raila had played it right, was honest and really wanted to be the People's President, Kenyans would have voted him in. He lost this election because he is selfish and harbors revenge deep inside himself.
And His Associates???
1. Kenyans honestly hoped that when you get into office, you will very quickly unmask the ghost of Goldenberg; the genesis of our country’s dubious recognition as a hub of corruption. Unfortunately, the story of Goldenberg will never be complete without the story of former Finance Minister, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi. He paid out over Kshs 10 billion to corruption networks from the national treasury while it was entrusted to him. His cut can only be anyone’s guess. Now, what kind of principle assistant to the President will he make if he can’t even travel abroad due to the prevailing ban?
2. Until NARC took over, Hon. William Ruto was the proud owner of Procession Road (Serena B).
He has cases pending in court having sold non-existent forest plots to a parastatal for hundreds of millions of shillings and now owns Kenya Times hitherto belonging to milliards of KANU rank and file. He too is banned from visiting key partner countries.
3. The year is 1987 and Kenya is hosting All Africa Games. The youngest cabinet member Hon. Henry Kosgey is in charge of the sports docket. He enlists an international conman thingy Berg (not thingy Morris) and the two fleece Kenyans and Kenyan companies of millions of shillings in sponsorship money. He then skimmed off so much commission from suppliers to the extent that even the display board at the Nyayo National stadium which was imported from Hungary did not function during the opening ceremony or any time there after but Kosgey was too compromised to question.
Since then he became the antithesis of Midas touch and anything he touched came down tabling at very heavy social and economic cost. Do you remember Kenya National Assurance?
4. Hon Joseph Nyaga may pass as innocent but he is a moral conman who will (if he has not already) mislead many young people. What is he doing with a married and well-known PR personality long after his wife fled back to Scotland for the same reasons? Truly ‘saved’ people don’t do this.
5. Yes it is only in Africa where an advocate struck off the roll of advocates for stealing accident victim’s compensation money, after an ambulance chasing adventure, can aspire for an MP’s office and even that of Minister. Hon. Otieno Kajwang’ may consider himself lucky but he surely does not represent the republic we so desire to build.
6. The queen of Afya House may have left but her legacy lives on. Ask any stranger at the ministry and they will tell you that nepotism is Hon. Charity Ngilu’s other name. Further her daughter runs five NGO’s all dealing with Aids funds. Her sexual escapades need not be the concern of the republic but while in office she ought to go about it with probity. Not in parking lots with a wannabe young enough to be her son.
7. Perhaps after violent crime, crimes against the environment are going to be the most important in this century. Hon. Musa Sirma has been single handedly responsible for wanton deforestation for personal gain in Central Rift Valley while serving as Forester in-charge in Nakuru. Up to now he still pedals Sandal wood, a contraband trade.
8. Justice (Rtd) Otieno Kwach is an otherwise honorable man of letters except for that little matter of exchanging a couple of million shillings at the basement of Hilton hotel; the price justice then.
9. Joshua Kulei is a private citizen who has shown little interest in politics generally. He however epitomizes corruption of Moi state and any association with our nascent party can only be counter productive. Perhaps all he owns today once belonged to all of us.
10. Dr. Sally Kosgey has declared the intention to vie on ODM ticket in Aldai, which may not be your major concern. She will also be a towering candidate for a cabinet post if she was elected, but her history in a lot of ways negates what ODM promises. Her other issues of personalizing Railway quarters in Parklands will also never go away. My unsolicited advice is that you keep a very safe distance from such characters.
11. Hon Reuben Ndolo is well suited to play political bouncer but he is clearly not Minister Material. Let him also know that it is very foolish to eat raw CDF funds to finance his newfound lifestyle. I’ll be shocked if he got away with it anyway.
12. In the heat of recent media exchanges with KADDU chief, you once said that Cyrus Jirongo ought to be spending time somewhere else rather that basking in media glory. That statement is as true today as it was then. Jirongo personalized so much of public funds in the 1990’s that a currency note was named after him in dubious honour. It is our faith that you will still put him in that promised place in your other life. Openly decline his pretentious support.
13. Hon. Kipkalya Kones, Hon. William ole Ntimama and Hon. Franklin Bett have one thing in common. They all have dripping blood on their hands, as architects of ethnic cleansing campaign of the 1990’s. Only Bett has additional credentials because in his tenure at State House he grabbed quite a bit of public land. One small living testimony is that housing estate next to War Memorial Hospital in Nakuru.
14. And him of Jeshi la Mzee notoriety, Hon. Fred Gumo? There is the small matter of the public plot in the CBD near National Bank, which he allocated to himself as the head of Nairobi City Commission and then sold to a public body for 300 million shillings. To his credit though, he confessed this in the early days of NARC administration.
15. Bishop Dr. Margaret Wanjiru may be seen as a necessary intercessor but without passing much judgment, one would doubt if her powerful prayers would ever reach the destination leave alone being answered by heavens. This Doctor with little more than ‘O’ level education is a pretender to morality. She lives off alms with opulence. Her affair with married Matjeke of South Africa is a misnomer and bad manners for a church minister let alone a bishop.
16. Johnny-come-lately Zakayo Cheruiyot (former PS – OP) the latest entrant into our boat may prove to be valuable but for the wrong reasons. If you will indeed walk the talk, the faceless ghost of Anglo Leasing (KANU regime phase) has now entered the ark availing itself to be unmasked by you.
17. Former Finance Minister Chris Okemo may strike you as a suitable candidate from a distance. Those who know him however confess he’s also a shark. When some local investors protested the sale of East Kenya Bottlers (Machakos) to South African Sabco on account of granting monopoly status to a foreign company, he resolved the matter after accepting a small gift of 50 million shillings. Of course he can deny but documentary evidence still exists at Sabco, and the plant was long bought and shut down.
18. according to the culture of the Kikuyu people, what Tony Gachoka did to his family would demand that he be cursed and disinherited. Born to a rich family in Thika, Gachoka assumed the role of an administrator to the family estate after his father’s early demise. Within a very short spun, he squandered family wealth estimated to be in hundreds of millions of shillings and fled leaving his ailing mother and siblings in perpetual threat of eviction by auctioneers from her matrimonial home. He has since engaged in a shameful love affair with Hon. Ngilu unofficially attributed to causing her husband’s habitual drinking leading to early exit to the grave. Lately also, he has been the main conduit for medical supplies tender kickbacks. I would touch that kind of person with a long pole.
19. The self-confessed Duke of Kabeteshire Sir Charles Mugane Njonjo is another character to be avoided. Do you remember him telling your father that he would never shake hands with a Luo for fear of contracting Cholera? I am sure he is in this to settle personal scores with Kibaki. Yes an enemy of your enemy is your friend but Njonjo is an enemy of ODM dream too. He rubbished the independence majimbo constitution in 1964 as the AG and now he has become a land grabber too. He still owns a big chunk of Karura forest; at least officially.
20. Then there is Irshad Sumra our candidate for Embakasi. Someone who lives off stolen Telecom and KPLC conductors should know better than soiling our party’s good name.
21. That leaves our good professor Hon. Anyang Nyon’go. Intelligent and relatively clean is only blemished by his affinity to the Luo gene pool. During his short stint at Planning Ministry, our tribesmen filled all emerging and senior positions. This led to his Treasury wing being nicknamed channel ‘O’. This he can work on though to accommodate the diversity of ODM family.
ODM Nominations
Raila Odinga. This is an open protest letter ABOUT YOU and the Pentagon. You promised us, clearly, free and fair nominations. You also promised us a totally democratic ODM government. We feel badly let down. I may still vote for you but others will now change.
When I look to the future, I feel afraid. Why did you let this happen?
ODM succeeded in hoodwinking Kenya that it was the next great hope. All that is now gone.
As a matter of fact, most Odm voters might just stay home and not vote at all and that will be bad for them.
Hata wale wanaosemasema eti people will still vote for Raila despite this are very worried deep down. They know that Kibaki and PNU have the numbers all over the country and money to boot.
I think the mess Raila has created is enough.
From the MOU to NSE and drugs money to majimbo to insuring people's cows and now theses elections, ODM doesn't need negativity. It has more than its fair bargain.
Last weekend, WINNERS WERE DECLARED LOSERS AND LOSERS WERE DECLARED WINNERS. That is in the house of ODM, our would be saviours and please count me out of this.
AS we learnt back in school, all that glitters is not gold. ODM was attractive a few months ago to many, some serious and some politically naive. Now, it is their time to face the music and even the general public is realising, albeit late in the game, that this was a party of fraudsters and tricksters.
Now, the chickens have come home to roost. One error in judgement based perhaps on their own warped understanding of the political landscape seems to have done them in.
It is over! What they are trying to do now is a futile attempt at damage control by trying to yet again overturn the results that they had overturned. How convenient!
A leopard doesn't change its spots and a zebra doesn't change its stripes. ODM cannot hide what it is. It has become a party of connivers, charlatans, imposters and masqueraders.
"Even rigging requires some intelligence."
These are words that were uttered by non other than Kibaki back in 1988 after those weird elections. Moi wanted Kibaki out. He planted a Dr. James Muriuki and sent a returning officer to Othaya in the name of Kehoro Muhalule, the then Nyeri DC to see to it that Kibaki loses.
The Mlolongo for Kibaki wound like a yarn while that of Muriuki was only 40 strong. The poor DC tried to call State House but Moi would only tell him that 'sitaki huyo mtu' to which the DC called again and told them that if he did anything fishy, 'patakufa mtu.'
Moi obliged and Kibaki quipped that now all too famous line that even rigging requires some intelligence. Moi later fired the man and I'll not delve into what the people of Othaya did to the good daktari.
ODM took us twenty years back last weekend.
Wow!!
I still don't believe this.
The Luos are mad. This has made THEM (Pentagon) wake up to the realization that things are bad. Terribly bad.
Kisii region is on fire, literally and figuratively, Rangwe is on fire, and so are so many places owing to this madness. Chungwa house, the bastion of this tragedy, the den of this inequity, has been vandalized and unknown people helped themselves to blank certificates. People are furious! The people are.
In the meantime, the holier than thou gang, the so called Pentagon is holed up somewhere trying to contain this floodgate of protests. The one thing that they had going for them, trust, seems to be running out fast and as they say, trust is like virginity, you only lose it once.
ODM promised us heaven but has sold us, or at least its supporters because I never fell for this hoax, a suspect bill of goods . They made themselves something that they clearly are not and the weird thing is that so many fell for it and swallowed it line, hook and sinker.
From the London bonding trip to the majimbo debate, ODM never owns up to their blunders like the adults they are supposed to be. They blame it on others.
PNU didn't beat up KJ, didn't rummage through Chungwa house and didn't overturn results but somehow, these fellows will find a way to pin it on them. How convenient!
IN the meantime, it seems that kalonzo will be reaping from this mess.
“A leader will bring destruction into his nation if he can neither weave a garment, nor sow a seed nor lay a stone, but makes politics his occupation.”
Kahli Gibran
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