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vennomax · 6 years

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US Makes Relentless Attempts To Stop Raila’s Oathing Plan

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US Makes Relentless Attempts To Stop Raila’s Oathing Plan

The United States of America on Tuesday warned Nasa leader Raila Odinga that he risks ruining his hard-fought legacy should he go ahead with his plans to be sworn in as the “people’s president”.

While urging Mr Odinga to drop his oathing bid, Mr Donald Yamamoto, the acting assistant secretary for African Affairs in President Donald Trump’s administration, promised to bring the former prime minister and President Uhuru Kenyatta to a table of negotiations on political and electoral reforms.

Mr Odinga has in recent days asked the government to stop issuing death threats to National Super Alliance leaders over the planned swearing-in ceremony, and warned that he is not afraid of death for “treason”.

In a teleconference with Kenyan reporters, Mr Yamamoto repeatedly praised Mr Odinga’s political record and his commitment to achieving reforms in Kenya.

“We’ve known the former prime minister over the years,” he said. “He has a great story — the need for political reform. He is famous for, noted for, respected for reforms.”

REFORMS

Recounting a recent discussion with the Nasa leader in Nairobi, Mr Yamamoto noted that he had urged the 72-year-old politician to focus on his “legacy.”

Mr Yamamoto said President Kenyatta had expressed commitment to bring about electoral and judicial reforms, and exuded confidence that it should be possible to agree on the way forward for the country.

He said the US enjoys a “very constructive” relationship with both the Kenyan government and the opposition, but warned that, while Washington is willing to bring together President Kenyatta and Mr Odinga to the negotiating table, any reforms must be pursued constitutionally.

“Forming a separate or parallel government is really unhelpful,” he said of Mr Odinga’s planned swearing-in.

PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY

Two weeks ago, Mr Yamamoto met Mr Odinga, Nasa principals Musalia Mudavadi, Moses Wetang’ula and Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana — representing Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka — at US ambassador Robert Godec’s residence in Nairobi.

The Nasa leader, who successfully petitioned the August 8 presidential election but withdrew from the repeat poll on October 26, has refused to acknowledge Mr Kenyatta as the duly elected president.

He has pushed for the formation of People’s Assemblies in Nasa county strongholds, forcing Attorney-General Githu Muigai to warn him that he is about to commit treason, whose charges attract the death penalty in Kenya.

TREASON

And, speaking in Kitui on Monday during the burial of Kitui West MP Francis Nyenze at Kyondoni village in Kabati, Mr Odinga scoffed at the AG’s warning, saying he was ready to pay the ultimate price if that is what will deliver electoral justice to Kenyans.

“I want to answer Prof Muigai and his bosses today; that we are not afraid of dying for the sake of this country,” Mr Odinga said.

“His repeated threats to open treason charges against us will not stop us from our planned swearing-in.”

Mr Odinga said President Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto are in office illegally, and that Nasa does not recognize the Jubilee government.

IEBC

He said before the Supreme Court nullified the August 8 presidential elections, it had ordered the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to open its servers, but the elections agency disobeyed the order, forcing Nasa to boycott the repeat poll.

“IEBC is still in contempt of the Supreme Court ruling that annulled the presidential elections, because it refused to allow access to the servers as ordered,” he said, adding that he was the clear winner.

The Nasa leader said it was naive for Jubilee to assume that the country will accept and move on after they took the reins of power through a fraudulent electoral process.

“Kenyans want electoral justice, a reformed police service that doesn’t use brutal force, an independent Judiciary that cannot be intimidated by the executive, and strengthened devolution,” he told the mourners.

JUSTICE

Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi asked church leaders to peach for both justice and peace, saying repeated electoral injustices were hurting the country and hindering efforts to achieve sustainable harmony and stability.

“We don’t want to be told to foster peace in the absence of justice for all Kenyans.

“As you preach peace, you should know that there can never be peace without justice,” Mr Mudavadi said.

The late Mr Nyenze was eulogized as a peacemaker.

National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi said he had an easy time working with the former Minority Leader in the last Parliament.

BY-ELECTION

Kitui leaders, led by Governor Charity Ngilu and Woman Representative Irene Kasalu, endorsed Mr Nyenze’s widow, Edith, to contest the seat in the coming by-election.

Dr Kasalu and Mrs Ngilu said they will campaign for Mrs Nyenze, while Prof Kibwana said he will help her clinch the Wiper party ticket to contest the post.

Mr Kenyatta and Mr Ruto, who were expected at the funeral, did not attend.

Also absent was Mr Musyoka, who is still in Germany.

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goloyieng · 3 years

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The Wisdom from the Future King

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

I visited a family member who lived in a flat within his property in Ikenegbu Layout Owerri. The man who would later become the king of Owerri asked me: “Ndubuisi, how are you doing with studies in FUTO?”.

I responded: “Sir, Abacha is causing problems in Nigeria. He is making things very hard”.

Immediately, he quickly corrected me: “Ndubuisi, your Abacha now is FUTO and you need to do well, graduate with good grades, etc. Leave Abacha for us”.

That conversation remains evergreen. Yes, one needs to know what his “real problems are” and work to deal with them. That Jeff Bezos wants to go to space is not my problem today. And I do expect many young people spending all hours on Buhari and Abuja to modulate.

If you are in school, your “Buhari” today is making sure you do well and graduate. Buhari should not consume all your time. Do not make other people’s problems magically become yours. Find ways to remain focused and do not be distracted by issues you truly have no power to fix. Sure, you need to be aware of the issues, but understand what really matters.

This is not to say that young people should not pursue causes and activism. But the key thing here is this: understand when you can make impacts.

To sum it all up correctly, African youths of today are too impatient to give good grades to presiding heads of state. They must wait for their turn to eat at the trough. The Zimbabwean economy crashed and Robert Mugabe start printing his own currency to his heart content, and yet Zimbabwe doesn't need a bail out as the neighboring Zambia. The long time president of the former Zaire, now DR Congo, Mobutu Sese Seko forced Zaireans to worship him as their God and yet the 80 millions plus citizens of DR Congo are not in debt, can you imagine that? Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Kambarage Nyerere became socialists and yet Ghana and Tanzania are not close to getting into debt as Central African Republic and Kenya. Once someone venture into Accra, the capital of Ghana, it is as if the lad mistakenly drove into Dallas, Texas of continental Africa; you ran into one bridge after another, unlike something one has ever seen before on the streets of Nairobi; all thanks to the hard work of its founding leader, Kwame Nkrumah.

Let's not too, forget what became known as the 'Ivorian Miracle from the Sage of Africa and the Grand Old Man, Felix Houphout Boigny where his economic policies were geared toward developing the primary sector of the economy rather than its secondary and tertiary phases. He also allowed foreign investors to keep 90% of the profits earned from their enterprising entities and the sage one kept the rest for his people. Cote d'Ivoire is now a well to do economic giant, perhaps not as mighty as Ghana and Nigeria, but in hot pursuit of the West African kingship; all thanks to the tireless and relentless leadership of the Grand and sagacious old man of Africa, Felix Houphout Boigny.

All these heads of state ranging from Muhammad Buhari to Salva Kiir with his never becoming president Vice President Dr. Riek Machar, Nana Akufo Addo of Ghana, Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga of Kenya and and Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe have different and ingenious personalities meant to steer forward their countries, if not the continent to a whole different sphere of progress. People are judging President Samia Suluhu Hassan of Tanzania too harshly in her first 100 days in office; what can you expect from the seat that was intelligently cleaned up by the great John Pombe Magufuli, who recently joined our ancestors?

Michael Jordan didn't become great by accident, selfless sacrifices were made by the big men in the likes of Scottie Pippen and others; Jordan and Pippin harmoniously used to compete who was going to get more defensive turnovers from the offensive teams; similarly, successful deeds of the late John Pombe Magufuli and Samia Suluhu Hassan could propell Tanzania to new heights as Jordan and Pippin once did to the Chicago Bulls. Earvin Magic Johnson and Scottie Pippin were perhaps the percusor fathers to the today's NBA great small forward player maker such as Kevin Durant and the future star in the making, Emoni Bates of Michigan and the much predicted and destructive equivalent of Emoni Bates on the political front, Kenyan presidential aspirant DP William Ruto; if Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi was scared of the political writings of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, then Kenyans will need to produce new Nobel prize winners in the likes of Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe calibre to stop William Ruto from selling Kenya to the Chinese in his first term in office.

When Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novel, Matigari, first came out, Daniel Arap Moi went house to house to arrest the literary character Matigari; this time, there will be no Ngugi WaThiong'o to create such majestic characters of such proportions. People say Chinua Achebe was fond of using ancient wisdom, such as proverbs, to make his literary present felt, but Ngugi wa Thiong'o has always been a wizard of fantasy dream world, much like Wole Soyinka. To me, it doesn't matter whether Ngugi wa Thiong'o, or Chinua Achebe have never been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature; what matter the most is whether they have had the audacity to create greater impact in the main stream society. To me, writers are meant to create possible worlds and give hope to the common citizens when their leading policy makers are too drunk with power, and Taban Lo Liyong was right about Ngugi wa Thiong'o from the very beginning that he wanted to give hope to the poverty stricken masses. Ngugi Wa Thiong'o is a literary visionary of Joseph Conrad calibre; he took the poverty burden of his African people and create greater hope for the future generations.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o's novels such as Weep Not, Child, the River Between, A Grain of Wheat, Petals of Blood, and Matigari, are all literally master pieces, but I, being an active student of political tactics, I am much in love with his political writings and memoirs such as Decolonizing the Mind, Moving the Center, Birth of a Dream Weaver and In the House of Interpreter and when speaking of Moving the Center, he meant a military economic giant much like the African economic powerhouse of today's Nigeria; there are more African people there than anywhere else on the continent and that is where the African civilization is supposed to leap forward from, following in the footsteps of Asiatic China and the USA of the western world. Tony Elumelu and his foundation aims to empower African entrepreneurs to share ideas and grow together through an organize community; Ndubuisi Ekekwe of Tekedia Institute, Aliko Dangote, and Strive Masiyiwa work day and night to make sure Africa reached the same stage as the rest of the world now rather than later.

Images: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe, Emoni Bates, and Chinese actress at the Emmy's.

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