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CIA documents offer insights into how the Cold War shaped politics in Kenya By : Murithi Mutiga
The overwhelming interest and involvement of the American spy agency in Kenya’s internal politics can finally be revealed. Declassified CIA documents seen by the SUNDAY NATION show that the spy agency has closely followed activities of Kenyan politicians and produced detailed reports on them. The memos sent regularly to Washington advised the US Government on the best way to keep Kenya as an ally.
Troubled Marriage: Kibaki, Raila are Harmless and Boring Politicians By : Charles Onyango-Obbo
In the space of less than 10 years, the country has witnessed the collapse of an independence monolith, the Kenya African National Union (Kanu) when Kibaki defeated its presidential candidate Mr Uhuru Kenyatta in December 2002. That was the only time in East African history when the opposition defeated a ruling party, and the ruling party in turn handed over power peacefully.
Fidh Report – Women’s Conditions of Life and Human Rights in Kenya By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Human Rights theoreticians and activists, NGOs and groups of pressure have today a far more nuanced task to carry out, if they truly want to bring forth successful results and substantial improvement worldwide. Otherwise, if they incessantly reproduce the Western approach to Human Rights as the only valid at the global level, they will be soon transformed into old-fashioned and insignificant bureaucracies of picturesque style and proverbial inefficiency.
Raila is a master alliance builder but cuts image of a fickle political operative By : Barrack Muluka
Raila is something else in alliance formation. He has formed and got out of alliances virtually at will. In 1991, he was in the original Ford Party with his late father Jaramogi, the late Masinde Muliro, Martin Shikuku, Kenneth Matiba and a whale of others. The same year Ford split. After some initial hesitation, he joined his father in Ford-Kenya.
20 Years Later - The Killers of Dr. John Robert Ouko, Kenya's Most Celebrated Foreign Affairs Minister -- Are Still at Large By : Peter Leftie
Twenty years since the murder of Dr Robert Ouko, Scotland Yard detective John Troon, who led investigations into the murder, revisits the shocking death that exposed the powerful forces in the Moi regime and helped change the face of Kenyan politics.
Devastating HRW World Report 2010 on Kenya Reveals the Colonial Pseudo-state’s Atrocious Face By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The recently published HRW World Report 2010 features a particular chapter on Kenya that is enough to prove that the spoiled child of the world’s Freemasonic mass media must cease to exist.
Media Bias Towards Sensationalism and Sideshows May Derail The Constitution Again By : Jerry Okungu
I cannot be persuaded that the only important constitutional issue in Kenya is the executive powers of the president or the prime minister. In the same vein, nobody can convince me that a duly elected popular leader must be the one to wield executive power just because Kenyans elected him. If that were the cause, Hitler's popular vote did not prevent him from carrying out genocide in his own country.
Yes, Kenya's Muslim Leaders are Right To Disown Al Amin Kimanthi's Violent Antics By : Jerry Okungu
Sheikh Muhdhar Shariff Khitamy and Sheikh Abu Hamza of Mombasa must be commended as true Muslims and real patriots of this country. They have talked as true spiritual leaders that this country can depend on in times of crisis. They have taken the courage to stand up and be counted among the voices of reason at a time when some misguided zealots in the name of Islam have attempted to drive this country on the brink of civil strife.
Reckless Political Activists Wrecking The Coalition Government By : Jerry Okungu
As it is, Kenyans have enough problems to deal with. The last thing they may want to entertain at this point in time is cheap theatric coming out of street comedians masquerading as advisors and spokesmen of political leaders and political parties.
Let us lower our political temperatures this Christmas season By : Jerry Okungu
As we move to the Christmas season and New Year celebrations, it is about time we gave politics a break and focused on the little things that matter to us most; love for one another.
It is in trying moments like the Mau Evictions when all leaders must speak with one voice By : Jerry Okungu
Our leaders must learn the meaning of sacrifice. If you differ with the government, you must be ready to do away with its trappings of power. Jaramogi, Oneko and Murumbi did it in 1966 under Jomo Kenyatta. Kenyans still respect them up to today. Kenneth Matiba did just that in 1988 under Moi and Kenyans still adore him for that to this day. We expect cabinet ministers who are in this government no matter who they are or where they come from to spare us the embarrassment from time to time and ...
If MPs tamper with the draft constitution, Kenyans will reject it like they did in 2005 By : Jerry Okungu
As the public debate on the draft constitution draws to a close, there are fears that ODM and PNU are ganging up to have a common stand on what the new constitution should contain and discard. One of the clauses they are conspiring to expunge is the recall clause that threatens to cut short the life of non-performing MPs rather than wait for five years before sending such no-performers packing. The other one targeted for expunging is the clause that compels all Kenyans including .....
John Onyando’s Fallacy Rejected: Kenya is a Fake State and Cannot Exist By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Socially secluded, politically marginalized, economically deprived, culturally depersonalized and religiously threatened, the unjustly targeted masses of the Kenyan periphery have become shadowy figures confined in the realm of inexistence for many long decades. It is only normal that their comeback will destroy the colonial fabrication ‘Kenya’ that was geared to merely serve the West’s illegal interests.
Constitutional Review in Kenya - Citizens to lose voting rights.. By : Gwada Ogot
The current proposal to alter structure of government in Kenya from a presidential to a parliamentary system reeks of political mischief. Today Kenya is forty six years old and by 2012 power will have been shared twenty four years a piece between two Kikuyu presidents and one from the Kalenjin group.
Dictators and Referenda: Historical Lessons For Kenya To Learn From By : Gwada Ogot
The cumulative events from 1992 or 1982 depending on your point of reflection, had at last rewarded power through two constitutional Acts of parliament - the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Act 2008 and the Constitution of Kenya review Act 2008.
In Kenya, ethnic distrust is as deep as the machete scars By : Stephanie McCrummen
Though the tribal calculus could change this time, depending on political alliances in Nairobi, the capital, people speak with near certainty of a repeat of that violence, only this time with guns.
Kenyans 'rearming for 2012 poll' By : Staff Writer
For weeks after the 2007 election the two communities fought in bloody clashes. Most Kalenjins had supported Raila Odinga, a member of the western Luo community, for president and were convinced he had been cheated of victory by President Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu. After weeks of bloodshed, the two men formed a power-sharing government with the president keeping his job and Mr Odinga being brought in as prime minister.
Is the Obama administration bullying or accelerating Kenya's reform process? By : Jerry Okungu
The Cold War era blinded Americans and the rest of the Western world to the cruelties of African dictators such as Jomo Kenyatta, Mobutu Sese seko, Kamuzu Banda, apartheid South Africa and numerous generals in Africa as long as they could support America and the West in the fight against Communism. This talk of democracy and good governance we hear about just started the other day when the Soviet Union and Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989.
Sound management of our resources must start with proper management of our politics By : Jerry Okungu
Let us look at templates from mature democracies like the United States, Canada and India to learn from their experiences because a fool who recognizes his foolishness is wiser than he who thinks he knows everything.
Who will lead Kenya out of this abyss? By : Philip Ochieng
There is nothing more disappointing than to see intelligent individuals younger than myself completely unable to offer Kenyans any real platform of collective development. Every time they open their mouths about their interest in leadership, it is nothing but how to grab power.
Bad politics, corporate greed, the bane of East Africa By : Jerry Okungu
As Kenyans celebrated the day Jomo Kenyatta was arrested and detained by the British government on allegations that he masterminded the Mau Mau uprising, we remember with nostalgia the euphoria than engulfed East Africa at that time. In those heady days, one could not think of Kenyatta without mentioning Milton Obote and Julius Nyerere. They were the champions that fate had bestowed upon the responsibility of liberating our three countries from foreign domination.
Like in 2005 through to 2006, Kalonzo Musyoka is ahead of the pack in polls By : Jerry Okungu
South Consultants are the new kids on the block in Kenya politics. After all, they are the eyes and ears of the African Eminent team detailing with precision the direction Kenyan reforms are taking.
The politics of water and Kazi Kwa Vijana funds By : Jerry Okungu
Having lived in rural Kenya in my early childhood, with my roots still deeply embedded in my village, I understand it well when the government announces that water dams will be built in arid regions as it allocates Ks 4 billion in its budget for the Kazi Kwa Vijana initiative.
Electoral chaos in Kenya; a case of political irresponsibilty By : Gwada Ogot
To evade responsibility, the Kenyan politician has adopted the split personality disposition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Message content is determined by audience rather than positional conviction and the end will always justify the means. Uses of such defense slogans have been volubly heard from politicians in Kenya as investigations into the electoral violence of 2007-8 intensify.
For President Kibaki, This Year Has Been Rough By : Jerry Okungu
Compared to the first two presidents we ever had, Kibaki's story when it is finally written, will be the richest and most colorful. It will be the most readable chapter in our national history because of the endless drama that has characterized it.
For Kibaki and Obama Letters, Two Wrongs Cannot Make a Right By : Jerry Okungu
I have never liked the slow pace of reforms promised to Kenyans soon after Kofi Annan negotiated the present coalition government. The lackluster performance of reform drivers has got every knowledgeable Kenyan let alone the European Union and the United States State Department worrying.
Why are Kenyans so keen on Raila's meal with Obama? By : Jerry Okungu
It is only in politics where a dignitary can be invited for a meal and then be "disinvited" then re-invited within hours. This is the story of President Obama and Prime Minister Raila Odinga that kept tongues wagging for the better part of the long weekend Idd holidays. It is the stuff that makes headlines even in some of the most respected media in Kenya.
Will the Mau forest and Ringera bring down the coalition government? By : Jerry Okungu
We are on a roller coaster heading to the Indian Ocean. Politicians have set us in motion. Our destination is down hill and there is no stopping unless they hold the breaks which are in their possession.
Chris Obure, listen to Charity Ngilu if you cannot listen to Kenyans dying of hunger By : Jerry Okungu
What sense would it make, even to a primary school kid, to see you go on TV to insist that the Ks 380 million budgeted for the Vice President must be spent even when Kenyans are dying simply because it was decided a long time ago? Was the cabinet decision cast in stone? Will Kalonzo Musyoka die or fail to perform his duties if this house is not built here and now?
Bomachoge-Shinyalu By-Elections Separated Boys From Men By : Jerry Okungu
The Bomachoge-Shinyalu elections, told us something else; without Kibaki, PNU is a dead party. If Kibaki does not campaign for a candidate in a by-election, that candidate has a 70% chance of losing the vote. In other words, you can rally Kalonzo, Saitoti, Uhuru, Kiraitu, Ruto, Ongeri and Magara to campaign for a candidate. That candidate will still surely lose unless Kibaki throws his weight behind him.
The Ringera public outrage -- unfortunately both Kibaki and his critics are right By : Jerry Okungu
Aaron Ringera's second term as KACC chief executive has raised a wild storm. Almost every imaginable activist, ranging from the cabinet to the church has blasted Kibaki for renewing Ringera's contract. Some of us, who have been watching on the sidelines, have been wondering what the noise has been all about.
Murderous in Government: Kenya's Bill for Bloodshed Nears Payment By : Jeffrey Gettleman
Ever since last year's eruption of post-election violence, which killed more than 1,000 people and threatened to drive this once promising country off a cliff, Kenyans have been waiting to hear who masterminded the bloodshed and who will pay the price.
America can go and sing to the birds about good governance By : Barrack Muluka
When slavery became uneconomic in the nineteenth century, it gave way to colonialism. It now made more sense to keep the African in Africa, make him work to produce raw material for Western industries and consume finished products from the West. He was thus promoted from being an item of trade to a consumer of, until only recently, fellow-items-of-trade.
Hillary Clinton's speech, a disappontment to pro-reform activists By : Jerry Okungu
Now I know why Hillary Clinton lost the elections to Barack Obama. She is such a conformist, such a systems good guy that no reforms can ever come under her stewardship.
Politics took center stage in the AGOA forum By : Jerry Okungu
Fire and brimstone anticipated at the AGOA opening ceremony when Hillary Clinton and Mwai Kibaki met did not take place. Hard hitting statements against graft and bad governance were missing. Even Raila Odinga, who the day before had taken on Western countries to stop lecturing Africa on good governance sounded more reconciliatory.
AGOA in Nairobi: How prepared is East Africa for the AGOA meeting in Nairobi? By : Jerry Okungu
The fact that the Kenya government is prepared to spend US $9 million in purchasing new apartments for our prized guests just goes on to prove how serious the government is taking the AGOA meeting. It reminds us of the fortunes Nigeria and Uganda spent a few years ago when they last hosted the Commonwealth summits in Abuja and Kampala; something the two countries have never gotten over regarding audit queries.
Disband The Kenya Cabinet: Now Is The Time The Cabinet Should Be Sent Packing By : Jerry Okungu
The truth is; Kibaki has proved that he is no longer the executive head of state. The warlords appointed to the cabinet arbitrarily have dug in and usurped his authority.
Are Annan, Obama and Ocampo reading from the same script on Kenya? By : Jerry Okungu
Prosecutor Ocampo's whirlwind journey in Eastern Africa; from Addis Ababa to Kinshasa and back to Kampala has been anything but good news. It has been an ill wind blowing across our troubled region.
Mutula Kilonzo is no match for Annan or Ocampo By : Jerry Okungu
President Kibaki must be regretting having appointed Mutula Kilonzo as Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs. Every morning the President wakes up, he finds Mutula has shot himself on the foot claiming imaginary powers to direct Kenya's cause of events at The Hague.
Sheila Stacey: My life as Mboya's private secretary By : Sheila Stacey
As Tom Mboya's secretary, Sheila Stacey was a first hand witness to history, working with the brilliant Planning minister in the heady days following independence. From her home in New Zealand, Stacey, 62, speaks for the first time on her memories of the man regarded as the most gifted politician of his generation
William Ruto and the Hague: Is this fear of the unknown or an obsession? By : Jerry Okungu
I have written about this subject before. I have no problem having a go at it again. I probably will do so again in the near future until Kofi Annan becomes decisive enough to do the only sensible thing; hand over the envelop containing suspects of the 2008 massacres to the Hague.
The dynastic quartet is Kenya's real problem By : Gwada Ogot
The problem with Kenya hinges on the power contests between four families since independence in 1963. Every election for political office in Kenya since 1963 has been nothing but an extension of the binge of the foursome. The quarrelling quartet is made up of the Kibaki, Odinga, and Moi and Kenyatta families who have dominated every presidential election or selection process in Kenya since 1963.
Of the us envoy, youth revolution and young turks in Kenya's 10th parliament By : Jerry Okungu
The silence is deafening. The guns have gone silent. The American Ambassador to Kenya seems to have either run out of steam, funds for the youth revolution or both. Or may be the State Department has asked him to slow down on Kenyan politics. May be he has been told to do what diplomats are supposed to do in the first place; use quiet diplomacy to achieve better results.
As political opportunists are busy eroding Annan's credibility, ordinary Kenyans are baffled by his indecisiveness By : Jerry Okungu
The behavior of Kofi Annan is typical of international diplomats. They are normally slow to decide on issues. They are known for weighing issues over and over with accompanied loss of sleep worrying over the consequences of their actions. Yes, diplomats listen too much and practice too much restraint as Jacob Zuma would be inclined to say.
What is it that excites Mutula Kilonzo? By : Jerry Okungu
A verse in the book of Proverbs says that "When the righteous are in authority, people rejoice. However, when the wicked are on the throne, people mourn."
This verse came to my mind when I watched President Jacob Zuma on television show the other day. The dancing South African president was as impressive as he could be. His happy-go-gigging public perception was in the back banners. He was talking tough to the continent about the ills that have consumed our region for decades.
Uhuru Kenyatta has scored highly with his political budget By : Jerry Okungu
Give it to him; Uhuru Kenyatta had his moment of glory in Parliament. He presented a unique budget that was as different as no other since independence. More importantly, he confounded both foe and friend with the kind of budget that caught many speculators with their pants down. To tell you how effective Uhuru was in Parliament, there were very few snoring honorable waheshimiwas in the august house; if any he gave Speaker Kenneth Marende a hectic time trying to minimize ....
Let us not rush to judge fundamental flaws in Uhuru's budget By : Jerry Okungu
As Uhuru took away fuel guzzlers from ministers, permanent secretaries and other constitutional office holders to save rare cash from a non performing economy, it looked like he was out to punish the few privileged honorable members. Yet, as this luxurious status symbol was being removed, he made sure that every constituency had its share of more than any MP would have bargained for. Further more; he refrained from venturing into Amos Kimunya's landmine- taxation for the honorable members of our society.
Is Kenya Sailing in Troubled Waters With The Obama administration? By : Jerry Okungu
Recent reports that Obama was not happy with the slow pace of reforms and his subsequent snub of Kenya have not gone down well with the Kibaki administration, least of all with many ordinary Kenyans who have a soft spot for the American President. The fact that Obama has decided to make Ghana and Egypt his first destinations of choice has fundamentally embarrassed Kenya in more ways than one. And as if to add insult to injury, Obama's sudden invitation of Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania to ......
Devastating Amnesty Int’l Report on Kenya By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
For those who believe the fallacy of the Western mass media, which promote the image of the Freemasonic Gangster Kibaki and his Kikuyu tribal thugs, the Amnesty International Report 2009 on Kenya looks as if describing another country found in a different continent.
Of the American Ambassador, our politics and Kenya's bloated cabinet By : Jerry Okungu
The beauty of a working democracy saw Indian Prime Minister name a cabinet of 19 ministers from outside parliament; one cabinet post per 100 million people! Here in Kenya, for a mere 35 million people with an economy that grows at 1.7% we load ourselves with a cabinet of 90 politicians that cannot even prepare a supplementary budget let alone scrutinize it!
The Ksh 10 billion error that never goes away: Uhuru is no crook; he just doesn't get it By : Jerry Okungu
Uhuru Kenyatta must be a very unlucky politician. He came into politics at a very bad time when Kenya's freedom of speech and scrutiny of public affairs had been entrenched. If that were not so, he would be president of Kenya today, not scratching his head over small little numbers at the Treasury that are never the work of respectable heads of state
Kenya in need a powerful 'Propaganda Machine' to fight tattered image By : Jerry Okungu
Propaganda as a tool has been used over the years in the last century whenever a country is in a state of war or is undergoing credibility crisis as we do now.
Obama and Kenya: Are Our Leaders Living in Fools' Paradise? By : Jerry Okungu
Barack Obama knows how to exert pain where it hurts most. The American President is livid with Kenyan political leadership. This is in spite of the fact that his late father worked with President Kibaki at the Treasury in the 1960s and '70s. Never mind that he is a distant relative of Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
Kenya's image is messed here at home not in American capitals By : Jerry Okungu
The only price the Kenya Government will pay in order for President Obama to agree to work for Kenya is for the coalition government to get its act together, tackle graft and implement the Kofi Annan recommended reforms. Yes, all that Kibaki and Raila need to do is to prosecute Golden Berg, Anglo Leasing, Triton, Grand Regency, KTD, Maize and Treasury scoundrels and everything will be on course.
Presidents Obama and Tanzania's Jakaya Kikwete in Secret Talks on Kenya By : Oscar Obonyo
A secure Kenya is viewed by America and the European Union as guaranteed vanguard against the spill over of terrorism from lawless Somalia. A fortnight ago Obama warned President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila to ease political tension and fully execute the National Accord as crafted by former United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan. Before Obama became president, Mwai Kibaki's spokesman, Alfred Mutua, dismissed Obama as, "a junior Senator from Illinois."
Stephanie McCrummen and The Washington Post Must Avoid Reporting Falsehoods on Kenyan Politics By : Jerry Okungu
This article corrects the falsehoods that the Western Press is fond of visiting on Kenya and Africa in general. There is more to Kenya's problems than the gossips and rumors in Nairobi's pubs.
KENYA - Beyond the Double Cross By : Gwada Ogot
The world around us is changing and we must compel ourselves to change with it. The country is up to its neck in the behavioral sink, besieged by crippling official corruption, confirmed lack of leadership, foresight and habitual impunity. These are the humiliating hallmarks of the trap we today call our national government. Kenya can sink no further for there is no where left to sink. From the nadir we currently find ourselves in, the country can only arise.
Pro-Kikuyu Racism Promoter Ben Rawlence Engaged in the HRW Anti-Eritrean Campaign By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Whoever supports Kibaki, supports Zenawi, opposes Eritrea. The evil Freemasonic logic that plunged Africa to dismay, misery, tyranny, and cultural, socioeconomic and political collapse.
Kenya: Perfidious Tribal Kikuyu Tyranny Deplored by Devastating HRW Report By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
From Horror to Hopelessness - Kenya's Forgotten Somali Refugee Crisis - A HRW Report
Kenya's Forgotten Somali Refugees – A Shame for the Tyrannical, Racist Regime of Kenya’s Kikuyu By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Humanitarian Crisis in Dadaab's Camps
Kenya's Forgotten Somali Refugees – The Racist Kikuyu Regime of Kenya Outspokenly Denounced by HRW By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
From Horror to Hopelessness - Kenya's Forgotten Somali Refugee Crisis, a HRW Report
We are a nation led by Three Blind Mice By : Kipkoech Tanui
Who will tell President Kibaki and his cantankerous Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka the political firestorm rocking Grand Coalition is no longer about Prime Minister Raila? Who will remove the blindfold for them to see the groundswell underneath their red carpet so they could understand it is beyond the man they call this Jaluo?
Kenya is a case of two countries orbiting in parallel pathways By : Kap Kirwok
These are the two faces of Kenya — two realities in a tense, uneasy co-existence. One Kenya makes two steps forward, another back-pedals three steps. It is a country of beautiful dreams and ugly nightmares; a country where, while the leadership suffers from bouts of political sclerosis, a restless youth bomb waits to explode.
Since bullets won’t move Museveni to let Migingo go, deny him oxygen By : Barrack Muluka
You don’t negotiate with a person like Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. He does not understand that kind of language. But you don’t go to war with him either, for that would be worse than foolish. You simply deny him oxygen for a few days.
Devastating HRW Report on Kenya’s Forgotten Somali Refugees Reveals Evilness of Kikuyu Racist Regime By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Recommendations of the HRW Report on Kenya’s Forgotten Somali Refugee Crisis
The Unsaid Evildoings of the Racist Kikuyu Regime – HRW Report on Kenya's Forgotten Somali Refugees By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Kenya is a fake, colonial fabrication that has been built with blood and tyranny, racist discrimination, persecution and unspeakable felony of Freemasonic dimensions. By initiating ignorant Kikuyu tribal elements – during their sojourn as students in England – into the evil rituals of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge, the criminal colonial and racist elite of England fabricates renewable staff ready to further undertake the perpetuation of the colonial crime "Kenya" that should have never existed.
Kenyan – Somali Maritime Agreement: Shame for Sheikh Sharif – Validation of the Shebaab Viewpoint By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
It does not take much time to get an approximately accurate idea about the capabilities of a statesman; when it comes to Somali politics, you can be sure that 50 days is all you need!
Kenya: the Artificial, Colonial, Fake State of Secreted Oppression and Tribal Tyranny By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Of course, had Somalia been a Christian state, Kenya would have never been created. The colonial state of Kenya represents only the anti-Islamic need of criminal, heinous, racist and perfidious England to divide the Muslims of the Eastern Africa coast, and to segregate them in various fictional realms like Kenya and Tanzania whereby the Eastern African Muslims would miraculously be transformed into “minorities”.
Somali Piracy After the End of the MV FAINA Crisis. Part V By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Ecoterra Intl. – SMCM (Somali Marine & Coastal Monitor) Part IV
Brand Kenya is suffocating under the stench of rotten governance By : Kap Kirwok
As developed economies undergo massive downsizing — some would say rightsizing — developing countries such as Kenya need to look for opportunities to exploit even as they learn valuable lessons from the mistakes that created this crisis.
The Somali Piracy Epiphenomenon about to End. V – Successful Negotiations By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Ecoterra 126th Press Release Update
Obama owes us nothing and Kenyans shouldn't expect manna from America By : Barrack Muluka
No, President Obama, you owe us nothing. You must not worry yourself over our cargo cult mentality. Prof Achebe taught us how to say ‘Yes we can’ even before you were born. And he was only 22. But we love free things. We therefore do nothing for ourselves. Don’t let us bother you. It is up to Africans to liberate themselves from greed and laziness and from the thieves and dictators they call leaders. It is up to them to fix their countries. Meanwhile here is wishing you well. God bless you.
January 2009 – The Somali Piracy Records. V – A New Pirate-Guantanamo-Bay in Kenya? By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The Ecoterra 114th Press Release Update
Ten million dollar shoe that beat about the Bush By : Jami Makan
This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” shouted 28-year-old Mr Muntadar al-Zaidi, a reporter for Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya TV who was angry with the war. President Bush escaped injury, but the journalist was wrestled to the ground, and suffered a broken arm and rib.
The MV FAINA Piracy Crisis Chronicle – VII By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Ecoterra Press Release updates no 63 and 64
The MV FAINA Piracy Crisis Chronicle – II By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Ecoterra Press Release updates no 48, 49 and 50
MV FAINA Negotiations: Hostage-freeing Process Approaching Culmination By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
With the Russian missile frigate Neustrashimy having crossed Bad al Mandeb (Red Sea straits) and reached Aden, the negotiations with the Somali pirates have approached a culmination point. Ecoterra 31st and 32nd press releases shed light on the latest developments.
Somali Politicians and Free Thinkers Invalidate Donald Kipkorir's Anti-Somali Paroxysm By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Kipkorir’s proposals will simply remain useless hallucinations.
Donald Kipkorir’s Friends: the Ugly Face and the Empty Brain of the Militaristic Kenyan Terrorists By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The reason the few Somalis, who might have been in Afghanistan, are currently engaged in the National Liberation Struggle of Somalia is precisely the fact that Somalia has been invaded by Abyssinia. The author seems to suggest that the French, the Italians, the Yugoslavians and the Greeks, who fought against the Nazi occupation during WW II, should not have done so because this would mean a religious war!
Oromo and Ogadeni Refugees Threatened and Persecuted in Chaotic Kenya By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Kenya is not the Western tourist’s paradise as many believe – erroneously – in the West; Kenya is a chaotic periphery of tribal clash, racial hatred, gang activities, political Mafias, illegal deals in various trades, and shameless bribery.
Lawless Kenyan Layer Kipkorir's Ignorance, Inanity and Biases Exposed as Calamitous for Kenya By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
More specifically, and within Eastern African context, Abyssinia (fallaciously re-baptized as Ethiopia) and Kenya are more of a failed state than Somalia, which is a state in Civil War. In Ancient Greece, the Civil War, also known as the Peloponnesian War, lasted no less than 27 years. In Modern Somalia, the Civil War has only lasted 17 years thus far. Who would say in 414 BCE, after 17 years of Civil War, that the Ancient Greeks are a ‘failed nation’?
Devastating Refutation of the Kipkorir Warlike Paranoia by Somali Patriotic Intellectuals By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Should perhaps a more serious demarche be undertaken against the perfidious and lawless Kipkorir who is a shame for the Nairobi Bar? How long can a “lawyer”, who openly rejects all principles of International Law, be accepted as member in a respectful Bar?
Somali Commentator Adam Zayla Ridicules Lawless Kenyan Lawyer Kipkorir’s Militaristic Proposals By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
I hope that the panicked Kenyan ‘authorities’ read twice Mr. Adam Zayla's down-to-earth analysis.
Down with the Kenyan Paramilitary – Freedom for Andrew Mwangura – Light on Illegal Arms Deals By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
In this regard, the irrelevant accusations against, and the orchestrated arrest of, the Kenyan citizen, Mr. Andrew Mwangura, Chairman of the local chapter of the East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, help only highlight the lack of any legitimacy in the deal stricken between Kenya and Ukraine with respect to the arms transported by the MV FAINA which is for the time being safely controlled by the brave Somali pirates, off the Somali coast of Eyl.
Panicked Consultants Fuel Islamic Terror Expansion Throughout Africa – the Kipkorir Ricochet By : Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Assuming that the suggestions of Mr. Donald Kipkorir are materialized, it would be a matter of less than 2 years for the Islamic Republic of Eastern Africa to rise.
How Mboya fought back but lost the battle By : Peter Orengo
In this second installation on the life and times of Tom Mboya, we revisits the intrigues in the first post-colonial Cabinet that primed the former minister for an early grave. A serious ethnic power game and a premature Kenyatta succession battle erupted towards the close of the 1960s, providing a fertile ground anyone could use to hatch an assassination plot.
Blackmail dogged Kenya's Tom Mboya throughout his political life By : Peter Orengo
On July 5 1969, Kenya's most distinguished and prominent politician Tom Mboya was assassinated by a gunman outside a chemist in Nairobi. The circumstances of his death remain a mystery although his killer was later found, prosecuted and sentenced. It was widely rumoured that his profile and illustrious career as a brilliant and charismatic leader were seen as challenges to the political establishment, and might have led to his assassination.
Nahashon Njenga Njoroge - Secrets of Kenya's top assassin By : Douglas Okwatch
Fresh secrets of assassin Nahashon Njenga have emerged 39 years after he shot Thomas Joseph Mboya, a flamboyant politician who had his eye on the country's highest office — the presidency. It seems inconceivable, therefore, that the wife of a convicted assassin, who broke the heart of a nation, could lead a quiet life as a public servant away from the media perceived as probing and inquisitive until she died.
CIA and genesis of Jaramogi's and Raila's 'rebellious' streak By : Douglas Okwatch
The 'isolate and crush' tactics America's Central Intelligence Agency used to alienate Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in favour of Tom Mboya (TJ) and then tame Jaramogi Oginga Odinga have been deployed against Prime minister Raila Odinga. Today, 39 years after a lone gunman shot Mboya dead in Nairobi, evidence of CIA's role in TJ's meteoric rise and how this later planted the seeds for his assassination is almost incontrovertible.
In the shadows of Pattni, forgers, fraudsters and thieves By : Sarah Elderkin
So many years have now passed, during which tens of cases relating to Goldenberg have been postponed, or court files have been 'lost', that perhaps a whole generation wonders why some people continue to view Kamlesh Pattni as a pariah.
Kenya has a surplus of Mugabe-like politicians By : Okech Kendo
If it is true, as some observers have concluded, that the Electoral Commission pulled the trigger of post-election violence, it could also be a fact the prefect of democracy was hostage to vested interests. ECK may have then been acting on behalf of a class of hostage-takers. These leaders’ actions are variants of what Robert Mugabe is doing with impunity in Zimbabwe.
The price of a humane society is vigilance on human rights By : Ali A. Mazrui
Although President Kibaki's first term ended disastrously, this should not detract us from its positive aspects. After all, 'the condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance'. Similarly, we should affirm that 'the price of a humane society is eternal vigilance in defence of human rights'.
Our country in the eyes of South Africa By : James N. Kariuki
Since the demise of apartheid, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interaction between Kenya and South Africa. Despite this rise in people-to-people contact, one depicts a lingering sense of "unease" at the governmental and the SA news media levels. Several instances come to mind.
The world kills those it can't break By : Dominic Odipo
The Harvard-educated Obama Sr was part of a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the US organised by Tom Mboya. The 29-year-old Mboya, already a brilliant union organiser, had approached the US State Department to fund the airlift without success. That first effort only succeeded thanks to harambees and the help of the African-American Students Foundation.
Kenya - Tom Mboya's fatal links with CIA By : Douglas Okwatch
The CIA appears to have recruited the flamboyant minister and former trade unionist in a heavily funded 'selective liberation' programme to isolate Kenya's founding President Jomo Kenyatta, who the American spy agency labelled as 'unsafe.'
Kenya is in the grip of highly 'toxic' leadership By : Kipkoech Tanui
We are at a standstill because of bad leadership — not just at the presidency. It is the kind of leadership that listens to a cabal, always courting self-immolation and bad memories of itself. In the end it will just be about President Kibaki and Mr Raila Odinga.
American ambassador's remark on education erroneous By : John Mulaa
The comment by American ambassador to Kenya, Michael Ranneberger, that Kenya has the "highest level of education" in Africa has elicited comments mostly laced with skepticism, in some circles. The doubt arises from lack of evidence adduced by the good ambassador to back his assertion.
Kenya -- Power-Sharing a Mere Stopgap By : Ernest Mpinganjira
Rather than confront issues head-on, the international community is routinely prescribing coalition governments whenever there is a poll crisis in Africa to forestall potential civil strife. Power sharing is the latest fad in Africa. From Kenya to Zanzibar, Burundi to DR Congo and Cote D'ivoire to now Zimbabwe, African politics is currently dominated by discourse on power sharing between the opposition and the incumbent leaders whenever there is an electoral controversy.
Kenya's J.M. Kariuki's forgotten prophecy of ethnic strife By : Njonjo Mue
Mercifully, it is not too late to build the Kenya that JM dreamed and spoke of. If we put our hearts and minds to it, we can be the generation that recovered the promise of a truly independent and democratic country where the individual and the state work together to build a just society. Only then can we be able to enjoin ourselves to the hopeful vision of JM, proudly proclaimed in 1974, when he said: "In Kenya today, I can only see the dawn of a June morning rising majestically from .....
Kenya -- The way forward for our leadership By : James N. Kariuki
It is critical that Kenya's leadership faces the problem of youth. Show me a country that is saturated with unemployed, able-bodied and substantially educated youth and I will show you a country that is sitting on a time bomb. As it stands now, that country is Kenya. Visit any Kenyan town and, invariably, you will witness awesome unemployment.

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