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John Onyando’s Fallacy Rejected: Kenya is a Fake State and Cannot Exist

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   By: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis [ Enlarge ]
Muhammad Shamsaddin MegalommatisIdiotic tourism consumers, pathetic safari travelers, corrupt businessmen, consummate pedophile predators, Anti-African racists, drug dealers, illegal arms dealers, decayed noblesse, homosexual couples, hypocritical missionaries, human traffickers and all sorts of white trash have been addicted to scrapbooking in order to illustrate and commemorate their Kenyan vacations.

Evil western mass media, functioning under full freemasonic control, excessively featured this fake image of the East African pseudo-country. Thus, they managed to impose a totally false perception of the colonial fabrication ‘Kenya’ among the western societies.

At the same time, persecuted people, oppressed religious minorities, tyrannized ethnic groups and African nations, who have been forcefully incorporated into this fake state that they never felt as theirs, faced the ugly face, the brutal behaviour, and the tribal enmity of the UK-imposed Kikuyu regime, which is in turn controlled by the few Kikuyu who are selected by the evil apostate lodges of London for Freemasonic apprenticeship and Kenya’s top administrative positions.

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, facilitate England’s immoral interference in East Africa, and please the fancy of the racists who control the political establishments of Washington, London and Paris.

Before the fabrication of the East African pseudo-nation in the so-called postcolonial era, not a single native African had ever imagined that a state like Kenya could possibly exist. There is nothing to logically unite the Luo, the Maasai, the Borana Oromo, and the Ogaden Somalis with one another and with the Kikuyu and the other Mt. Kenya tribes.

But the English colonial strategists needed to combine their Anti-Islamic hysteria with their Anti-African hatred, thus plunging all the indigenous peoples to a calamitous swamp of misery, underdevelopment, and lamentation. The double target involved:

1.   the avoidance of the emergence of an East African Islamic Republic spanning from Egypt to Mozambique – with the Somali Nation as the focal prodigy, and

2.   the avoidance of the emergence of a Hamitic — Kushitic — Nilo-Saharan Confederation spanning from the sources of the Nile to the Mediterranean and the Atlantic – with the Oromos, the Fur, the Nuer, the Nubians, the Tuareg, the Berbers and the Hausa as the principal players.

The colonial method of spreading pestilence, chaos and catastrophe is the same all over the world. It is based on a genuinely silly but viciously inhuman mindset geared to generate colossal profit for the benefiting part and detrimental loss for the injured part. The loss is due to two main factors:

1.   Deprivation of cultural integrity, national historicity, socio-behavioral authenticity, sociopolitical identity, and linguistic distinctiveness

2.   Amalgamation with other ethno-religious groups and nations under conditions of superimposition / subordination, depravity, discrimination, and ultimately tyranny.

In fact, the creation of fake states like Kenya, Tanzania, etc. guaranteed a momentary success for the European and American colonials. This ended up with the systematic persecution of Islam throughout Eastern Africa and the methodic elimination of any perspective which would generate a national renaissance of a Hamitic — Kushitic nation as per the typical European model.

This is the two-fold biased rule of the colonial success:

A.   Ukrainians must be separated from the Russians as an independent nation, but the Oromos must be forced to be amalgamated with the Amhara and the Tigray in Abyssinia, and the Kikuyu in Kenya.

B.   There can be a Christian Democrat Party in Germany, but there cannot be an Islamic Democrat Party in Somalia.

The tyranny and the discrimination lasted for decades but the collapse of Soviet Union, the rise of China as superpower, and consequently, America’s needs for global domination, through an effective encirclement of the Euro-Asiatic landmass, constitute the changing dynamics of the Horn of Africa politics.

America needs spacious land and sea bases in the coastal areas of Yemen and Somalia; the pretext for this is called ‘Islamic Terrorism‘. This term has been coined by the US Secret Services that planned and executed the evil plan of September 11th.

To use the September 11th as pretext, they had prepared the situation in Afghanistan over the span of many years. Pakistani army would have removed the Taliban regime at any given moment in the 90s; but this did not occur. Following September 11th, Afghanistan was summarily held responsible, then ,invaded and ever since occupied.

The creation of a chaotic situation in parts of Somalia and Yemen suggests that, following a second, nuclear September 11th, the so miraculously promoted Shabaab of Somalia will be held responsible, and consequently parts of Somalia and Yemen will be invaded — just like Afghanistan in 2001.

It is therefore critical to understand that America is not opposing but promoting Islamic Terrorism. The pattern / plan is Anglo-French but the implementation process is American. In both cases, Somalia and Yemen, it is evident that America has systematically acted in a way to locally reinforce the extremist Muslims.

Last May, in an article titled ‘The Freemasonic Lerna Hydra Against Somalia: TFG, Al Shabaab, CIA Operative Al Amriki, UN Top Envoy’ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/102306), writing about Somalia, I said the following:

“The Shabaab — Like the Somali pirates, the Shabaab represent another case of colonial involvement. In this regard, the colonial infiltration took another form. Instead of bribing some tribal authorities and local Mafia lords (which was enough to trigger the Somali piracy epiphenomenon), high tech was utilized by the US secret services. Remote mind control machinery implemented in unconscious CIA operatives, implanted chips, and a bunch of associated technologies ensure the availability of CIA operatives among those who declare open and frontal opposition to America, Europe, Christianity, Judaism, Zionism, and the Western World in its entirety.

Some thoughts — in this regard:

One can notice in this regard that, for some months after the early arrival of the (then uncontrolled by the CIA) Shebaab in Somalia’s southernmost confines, earlier this year, Kenyan army had enough time to eliminate an unnecessary and still weak enemy. In March 2009, it would be a mere promenade for the Kenyan army to invade the southernmost confines of Somalia up to Kismayu and/or Merka and hand over the territory to AMISOM and the forces related with the TFG president.

Who prevented Kenya from undertaking a brief military expedition then?

Certainly those who have planned otherwise.

In fact, the Shabaab have been radicalized after the arrival of Abu Mansoor Al Amriki. Until then, communication channels were open among Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, Sheikh Hassan Turki, and Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys. Of course, the formation of different groups (Hizb ul Islam) does not imply either opposition or confrontation. The deterioration in the relationship started after the arrival in Southern Somalia of the top CIA operative Abu Mansoor Al Amriki. Why?

Because if united, the three sheikhs represent a trustful alternative to the fake TFG regime, and supported by a majority of the Somalis, they would be in a position to achieve Somalia’s definite pacification, reunification and rehabilitation — which is precisely what the Freemasonic colonial establishment of London, Paris and Washington does not want.

In fact, the arrival of Abu Mansoor Al Amriki in Somalia is, in and by itself, a scandal. If he is considered as an Al Qaeda operative, why he was not arrested?

Who facilitated the comfortable and highly secured travel of a “terrorist“? Simply all those who want to use this CIA operative against Somalia.

And why publicize the faraway “conference” of a terrorist? Why on earth give space and fame to someone characterized as Islamic extremist who even does not have his own group, and who is alien to the religion he claims to defend and to the country he tries to supposedly save?

Who publicized Abu Mansoor Al Amriki’s 5th of April conference? Those who facilitate the game of Abu Mansoor Al Amriki’s remote instructors.

Who wants to drive the three Somali leaders to opposition, confrontation and reciprocal extermination? Who else but Abu Mansoor Al Amriki’s remote instructors, the forces that implement the policy of Somalia’s annihilation.”

As a matter of fact, the ominous plan for the entire Horn of Africa region, if successfully carried out, will not only spread disaster in Somalia and Yemen; it will cause a far wider destabilization, and there will be no possible containment policy. Kenya, Abyssinia (fake ‘Ethiopia’) and Tanzania will be terribly shaken.

Inter-religious clashes will therefore become frequent, critical and extreme; the idyllic situation that was the myth created by the Western mass media will disappear, and ‘Islamic terrorism’ will be held responsible for the development by the unrepentant, ignorant and malignant Western journalists and analysts.

Today’s Pakistan will then be viewed as an exotic country if compared with the degradation of the situation in Kenya, Abyssinia (fake ‘Ethiopia’) and Tanzania.

That is why today various journalists originating from the fake state of Kenya express merely their imagination and wishful thinking when writing about the fake country’s chances to face “radical Islam”.

I came to notice John Onyando’s editorial ‘Kenya: combatting radical Islam‘; I find it totally misleading and absolutely unrealistic. I republish it at the end of the present article as an example to avoid.

The idea that the US will change its Somali policy to save Kenya is ludicrous.

The author admits the existence of a “profound radicalization” and fails to understand that this is the logical and rightful result of the existence – for many long decades – of the absolutely illegal, totally unjustified, and — note this — inherently anti-Islamic state of Kenya. The forgery of Kenya is a direct act against the existence of Islam; to deny this means to contribute to the worsening of the overall situation.

The idea of Kenya (or any African country) working “closely” with the US is itself criminal, immoral and inhuman; it testifies to bribery, corruption, betrayal of all African nations. Any African who imagines possible any sort of interaction, let alone collaboration, with the colonial powers, England and France, and their current substitute and offspring, the regime of Washington, and propagates this idea, perpetrates an act of high treason, because the said powers have ceaselessly worked over the past two centuries to physically exterminate, politically enslave and culturally / religiously disfigure all Africans.

Sheikh Abdullah Al-Faisal’s imprisonment is in itself a minor and marginal issue. One can describe it as the evident peak of a huge, mostly hidden, iceberg. What was done against Islam, and above all, against East African Muslims’ rightful desire to politically, culturally and nationally control the entire coast of Eastern Africa cannot and will not be forgotten.

The thought that “repression makes Kenya no good” seems logical and rightful but it is not; it belongs to a naïve analyst who insists on avoiding to see the plain truth. Fabricated because of colonial interests against the diverse nations that have been forcefully imprisoned inside this Freemasonic Hell, formed against its Muslim population’s will, and geared to eradicate Islam, Kenya could not have a chance in the trillion not to be repressive. The moment repression ends in Kenya, that moment will be its last.

How ignorant of his own country must the author be! He boasts that “Thanks to cooperation with America, Kenya has good counterterrorism systems”! How comical! Kenyan police and army smuggle arms into the Somali South to empower the CIA-sponsored Shabaab to prevail over the authentic patriotic Somali front Hezb ul Islam. But for John Onyando this means “good counterterrorism systems”!

In true terms, Kenya’s murderous dictator Kibaki, a shameful Freemason who made an oath to irrevocably bury Africa (racism is the epitome of the Freemasonic dogmas), overtly promotes his masters’ pro-terrorist schemes.

The historical truth and the political reality of Kenya are however hidden in a simple sentence of Onyando’s text: “Changes in the Kenyan economy are recasting the role of the Coastal regions, which the International Organisation of Migration has found to be fertile grounds for extremist elements”!

The aforementioned means simply this: an extensive program of financial corruption has been elaborated to be soon implemented in the coastal regions where the local population, consisted in its majority of oppressed and marginalized Muslims, reject their forced inclusion in the Hell of Freemason Kibaki’s Kenya, and actively support locally based liberation fronts to achieve secession and independence through the ultimate collapse of the Cemetery of Nations “Kenya”.

As it is worldwide known, the fighters, who act to implement the Freemasonic agenda, are shamelessly called “liberators” by the Satanic mass media of the West; contrarily, those who act against the Freemasonic agenda, are disgracefully labeled “extremist elements”.

I can easly hypothesize that some Kenyan “extremist elements” have every reason to remember the name of John Onyando during the forthcoming fascinating period of East Africa’s map redrawing.

Kenya: combatting radical Islam
http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/john-onyando/kenya-combatting-radical-islam

By John Onyando
(A journalist working in Nairobi, Kenya)

Before Kenya can succeed in stemming the radicalisation of its Muslim minority, the US will have to change its Somali policy.

The protest in Nairobi on 15 January by a handful of Muslim youth, in which four people were killed, revealed a profound radicalisation and inter-faith resentment among Nairobi’s Muslims. Kenya must address this if it is going to avoid Nigeria-style violence in the future. It should work closely with the United States, which apart from being an important player in Somalia is involved in interconnected regional initiatives.

The protests shook the foundations of tolerance in Kenya as nothing has before. It prompted some civilians to cheer the police, which is generally reviled for its many crimes against the people. Vigilantes even joined the battle on their side. But on the other hand it led to an armed protester — believed to have smuggled a gun into the protest — shooting at a policeman. The authorities have denied reports of the officer’s death, but have confirmed the sacking of a Muslim officer who defied orders to charge into the protesters.

These riots reopen interfaith differences at a time when Kenyans — in the middle of a constitutional review — least need them. Consequently, the government has announced a comprehensive and urgent investigation. To its credit it has persuaded its Muslim allies to condemn the killings and the demonstration’s organisers, whose leader has now been arrested. That the protesters were fighting over a foreigner, Sheik Abdullah Al-Faisal, who is being held on terrorism charges, fuelled much of the public rage.

Failure to engage

One symptom of Kenya’s chronic failure in the fight against extremism is its refusal to engage with the groups that actually speak for Muslims. Days before the protest Muslim groups had voiced genuine concerns over Al-Faisal’s illegal confinement and hysterical statements by Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang about the man being a terror suspect. The government ignored them, and unleashed the police when they protested.

Another symptom is the delusion that Kenya can have two sets of laws, one for Muslims and one for the rest. Repression does Kenya no good. By killing Muslims it plays into the hands of extremists. Instead of meting out force on innocents, Kenya would do better to deploy her many strategic strengths in the fight against extremism.

The first step should be to tackle problems in the police force, whose penchant for bribes exposes the country to terrorism risks by allowing dubious people across the borders. Thanks to cooperation with America, Kenya has good counterterrorism systems. It should be able to prevent events like Al-Faisal’s entry by enforcing strict border patrol, airline security, and immigration screening or simply by sharing intelligence with other agencies.

Authorities who have publicised Faisal’s terrorist orientation have little to say on how he entered Kenya overland from Tanzania unnoticed at the Lunga Lunga border point. They tell us that the database with the watch list on it was being replaced at the time. This excuse will not wash. If that were true, the officers would have examined the records of the few hundred travellers they had allowed in immediately once the system was reinstalled. Instead, it took the Americans to alert Kenya of Al-Faisal’s presence, by which time he was already in a mosque preaching!

Even then, Kenya did not use the information prudently. Rather than deport the man — Faisal broke no law and can’t be charged — ministers ran amok, publicising the man’s terror credentials and his extremist orientation. Their botched attempt at deportation flouted international norms. The Tanzanians rejected the cleric at Lunga Lunga border point on grounds that Kenya did not notify them in time. The Nigerians, with their own problems following the Christmas Day bombing frenzy, were in no position to take in another terrorist.

So Kenya has had to host Faisal for ten days, during which time it has been accusing Britain and the US, who are supposedly better placed to handle his case, of forsaking the country at its hour of need. In actual fact, Kenya exaggerated the risk Al-Faisal posed here, generating a furore that it has failed to manage.

None of this is to deny that Faisal is a dangerous man. Britain claims that his preaching inspired one of the 7/7 London bombers, and even Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab. He may have contacts with Al Qaeda in Somalia, which the US says is rapidly expanding into an ambitious regional network.

Changes in the Kenyan economy are recasting the role of the Coastal regions, which the International Organisation of Migration has found to be fertile grounds for extremist elements. While Kenya attracts badly-needed foreign investment, it must take care to establish the backgrounds of foreign investors, some of whom have criminal ties. Al-Faisal himself was legally allowed to enter Kenya. Ongoing swoops on Somali neighbourhoods smack of racial profiling. It is difficult to understand why a government that routinely welcomes dubious businessmen and tourists should harass refugees fleeing a grave humanitarian crisis imposed upon them by a needless war.

Kenya should distinguish itself from the repressive policing of Ethiopia, as such tactics strengthen the hand of extremists. With each new protest against genuine grievances, and each draconian response by the police, it becomes harder to argue that Kenya is not repressing Muslims. This is the propaganda that Al Shabaab needs. Live television transmission of the protest incited a bigger albeit peaceful demo in Mombasa. Scenes of police firing tear gas into Nairobi’s main mosque are outright insensitive, but also fuels the radicalisation that helps extremists.

Changing US policy

To check Al Shabaab, Kenya needs to persuade America to calibrate its policy in a way that makes the prospect of unifying the Somalis realistic. The Somali crisis is a political problem, with Al Shabaab one of the key players. While Kenya cannot change America’s policy or interests, no country is better placed than Kenya, which is most at most risk from the radicalisation of Somali youth, to persuade the US to find a solution that meets the legitimate aspirations of all Somalis.

As a senator and presidential candidate, President Obama had fabulous ideas about Somalia which need testing in light of the negative results of Bush-era military-led policy, which was escalated last year. Al Shabaab is growing primarily because the spectre of American intervention arouses anger and damages further the pitiable reputation of the Transitional Federal Government.

The continuation of the failed military policy may be partly due to the new presidency’s limited choices and his reliance on the policies he has inherited. It might also be that, without a strategic understanding of the evolving crisis, the US is uncertain and paralysed about how to proceed. Why else would it rehabilitate Sheik Sharif, a former Islamic Courts leader it deposed in 2006?

America’s strong national interest in Somalia would be better met by investing in a realistic roadmap for peace, something President Obama must crucially be in need of, and which Kenya should take a key role in formulating. What the international community needs is a Somalia policy that takes into account the internal dynamics in the Horn of Africa as a whole.

In the meantime, no one wants Kenya to roll back on democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law, so the US should make a real investment in reforming the Kenyan police. This is an absolute pre-requisite to returning to the rule of law. For the inability of the state to provide essential protections is the main cause of the vigilantism which reached a dangerous level on Friday. Corruption within the force and its ephemeral organizations impedes its capacity to fight organised crimes. America is the best placed country to help Kenya address this important issue.

Note – The real face of Kenya: http://www.demotix.com/news/222517/nairobi-police-open-fire-al-faisal-supporters

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KENYA – Beyond the Double Cross

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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.

By Gwada Ogot

   Gwada Ogot
Gwada OgotJosiah Mwangi Kariuki (JM) is arguably Kenya’s most conscientious political leader ever. He was murdered on 2nd March 1975 by suspected government agents. His legacy remains strong in Kenya and a memorial service in his honor has been commemorated annually since his death. His hallowed vision for Kenya is captured in the following words he wrote: “It takes more than a national anthem, however stirring and a national court of arms, however distinctive, a national flag, however appropriate and a national flower, however beautiful, to make a nation.

The statement is a search for a missing component of leadership, the quality of being humane.

His demands for social justice cost him his life. This is a factual prospect that faces any leader who attempts to rock the pirate ship of the status quo in Kenya, but one worth every drop of effort and every spot of risk. The call to national duty is not optional.

Great nation’s rise by great innovations and Innovation elevates quality ensuring comprehensive national profit. Great leaders too fire national consciousness enhancing the prisms through which the citizenry views itself and others in tandem. No sane nation pegs its resurrection on feigned salvation or neither the import of its false promises nor compromises on its own logic of posterity.

In Kenya, colonial military and psychological warfare facilitated the plunder of our minds, culture and natural resources. The redemptive acts against these foreign buccaneers were locally mediated by justified blood and iron which forced round table negotiations.

Neo-Colonial leadership maintains the pillage insuring itself via strategic ethnic profiling. The net result being that poor leadership stimulates national anger and frustration. It also cultivates mistrust and suspicion amongst the population. In the process, they facilitate continued domination and insulate their bounty by keeping the masses in conflict. The nation is caught in the rebellious grip of false prophets of change and reform mercenaries who thrive on crisis and confusion. It is essential to infuse integrity and order into the reform effort devoid of low brinkmanship, cheap propaganda and vested political interests. Freedom from national malignance is imperative. With liberty a clear obligation, how and when the citizenry intervenes, on behalf of the nation will be determined by the measured actions of its new leaders. Matters of food security, economic liberation, land reform, policy overhaul and institutionalization of patriotism must take precedence over the needless brouhaha of political bickering.

The short distance we have so far covered as a nation is directly proportional to the short-sightedness of our leadership. The scoundrels in power have taken us as far as they possibly visualize and can therefore see no further. The nation must look beyond them towards the alluring future to which they do not belong. Crafting your future is not a charade or a convenience, neither is it an act or simulation, nor is it a test or experiment and it definitely is not, a contest between popularity and principle. It is a new order that reconstitutes conservative beliefs, restructures society, restores national prestige and power and renews national sense of responsibility and responsibility.

It goes beyond impulsive press conferences, quick city marches and other forms of showy national protests, a national movement is requisite. Despite popular use of all these dramatic techniques, nothing has changed or changes. These are surface appliances which attract surface responses. The activists act in expected manner and the police respond in routine fashion. So corruption, in its every conceivable shade continues with unabated impunity as the people watch the brotherhood in a feast of fury.

“It is an amazing fact but one amply attested that some human beings have an infinite capacity to endure injustice without retaliation and apparently without resentment against their oppressors. Instances of this phenomenon are numerous and they come from every part of the world where one group dominates another. Militant leaders of protest movements have been driven to despair by the apathy they have encountered among those they would lead to freedom; Members of dominant groups have often commented on the cheerfulness and loyalty they observe among those who would seem to have no reason for such sentiments.”

The above passage drawn from Harry M Johnson’s book, Introduction to Sociology, aptly describes a puzzling trend in need of an appropriate social prescription. A serious national introspection that may help explain why we are where we are today and in addition help project where we want to be as a nation tomorrow. The desire of the people to move on is strong but conditional and must be without the current crop of leaders. More so, for a people who completely surrender national common sense to the same known political pirates at every election, such examination is inevitably urgent.

Back at the yard, the malignance of ethnic slush is as always prominent, influencing trade, rental occupation of buildings, access to private and public services and determines a considerable part of national relations. Even critical policy decisions that govern institutions of higher learning, research, planning and implementation suffers such biased degradations. These actions cement the path for illicit personal aggrandizement; vital cogs in the corruption wheel of fortune. As a result, honest effort is repudiated and national growth ultimately stunts. Civility in the mean time was long deleted from the national memory disk.

The darkness of our imperial rape cannot however dim the light of future national prospects. There is no doubt that beyond our national social degeneration lies untapped a well of moral prosperity. Every Kenyan is consciously aware, that somewhere within our national hearts, someplace, wherever within our national quarters, there lives a flowing fountain of peace not perfect but gratifying, a warm acceptance for each other, based on a true feeling that we so often ignore, and a spirit so strong, it tolerates the worst of our national character. Feelings of patriotism ring not only from exploits over others but also in victory paeans over a self inflicted leadership plague.

How have we, if at all, combated poverty, unemployment, landlessness, insecurity, a lack of patriotism, social irresponsibility, ethnicity, natural and artificial vagaries, scarcity of clean water and all the myriad challenges daily facing our nation? At what point do Kenyans stop the nightmare which we all actively simulate? Or do we have to wait until that moment when we have milked all parastatal dry, raped all our women sore, killed all the able men, retold our lofty reform tales, cut the last of juicy deals and consumed every available national confidence and resource? Then onto ourselves we will turn, each one of us coldly aware of our very dark capacities.

Patriotism shows gratitude to ones nation, a union of its nationals, their personal aspirations and national understanding irrespective of what may have been spoken of each other, thought of one another, or inflicted one upon the other. In matters of conscience such as these, the people have no choice.

The entire Kenyan public is today reduced to a gleeful voyeur as elected leadership plunders the country in ways coarser than those of the colonial buccaneer, raids national coffers, steals stores constitutionally entrusted upon it, speculates with national lands, incites civil strife, and sells the national soul for silver and gold. Indeed it is the Kenyans people who stand accused of being moribund and ineffective and not its expired leadership. A people who vote in buccaneers for leaders then go on to actively complain about it have nothing to mitigate on their behalf. What is the expected state of a nation that habitually elects criminals, canonizes murderers, and honors infidels?

In central province, the peasant Kikuyu farmer forever lives helpless at the mercy of bloody gangs and conniving middlemen, the artificial poverty of Nyanza decays a whole people yet pays dividends to the leaders, the unjustifiable waste of North Eastern province, her hunger, thirst and pain, the seismic conflicts of the rift valley and their latency for recurrence, the freewheeling spiral of Nairobi into modern Sodom and Gomorrah, unfair land allocations at the coast all point to a nation gone awry. Yet we all look the other way as the clouds darken above us. Former American President, George Kennedy gave the prophetic warning that, “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

Punishment, within its legal context, is an integral part of any social reform process. It is the only way for those who obtain public confidence by false pretenses and who commit indecent assault on society. Prosecution of leaders who have exhibited exhaustive mastery of every perversion from opulence, insolence, prostitution, devil worship, drug dealing, perjury, murder and theft is fair path for any country seeking renaissance.? Only by jumping over the soaring stile of justice can Kenya embrace the new and beckoning beginning. In this regard, there are no short cuts.

Author Colin Wilson in his masterpiece, the Criminal history of Mankind, writes of British revenge against a decade of swaggering Roman brutality, “they hung up naked the most noble and distinguished women and they cut off their breasts and sewed them into their mouths in order to make the victims appear to be eating them; afterwards they impaled the women on sharp skewers run lengthwise through their bodies. ‘These atrocities probably had a ritual element-not unlike the Mau Mau in modern times. The men were treated with similar ferocity.” Atrocious acts such as these are also today regular features of Kenyan society including be-headings and skinning of victims. To make matters worse, they are on an upsurge and threaten the entire fabric of our national existence as a nation. The choices for Kenyans is starkly clear- either embrace these hideous forms of vengeance or revert to the due process of law which punishes crime indiscriminately.

For a nation deficient in unity of purpose and without a common national vision, our national psyche as a people remains hostage to the political ping pong of unscrupulous leaders who profit from induced national morass. In the process, patriotism is ridiculed as a domain for the realistically weak and ethnically infirm. Tribal bigotry and malevolent innuendo are ironically proffered as suitable substitutes, lairs for the strong tribes’ people in a 21st century nation.

Greater national cohesion, a dream so long held by Kenyans and it’s still hoped for fulfillment, likewise hurts at the will of rudimentary forces preaching tribal domination and economic strangulation within its very borders. The polarizing credos of the political elite, cooked for self sustenance fuels national socio-economic decay at the peoples dear expense. Yet we will overcome for the ailment has been nationally diagnosed and the antidote of a new leadership prescribed to save our country Kenya.

This illuminating light shines at the end of the tunnel for our nation. Even though we acknowledge that our leaders may have thrown out the bath water with the baby and soap, the Kenyan people retain in their hands the basin of togetherness, an integral ingredient that defines our shared senses. So strong are the bonds of a people’s common experiences, a people’s joy and tears together, a people’s hopes and desires as one, and an overwhelming wish for peace and reliable progress together. To harness the potency of a people’s power, the injection of a new leadership is requisite.

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.

To the elders who possess the lessons of yesterday, to the middle aged whose responsibility is today and to the youth in whom potential lies, for inspirational direction I share with you the words of tribute paid to Republican senator George Norris of Nebraska in September 1932 by Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith as written in Profiles of courage, a book by John F Kennedy,”History asks,” Did the man have integrity? Did the man have unselfishness? Did the man have courage? Did the man have consistency?

To JM Kariuki all four questions are robustly answered in the affirmative. What will your answers look like at the inevitable trial of conscience?

To you all these questions will ultimately be directed by your conscience, by your children and children’s children in regard to what you did when Kenya was rotting and what you did to help resuscitate Kenya and pray what you do today aids correct answers.

The early bird catches the worm — the Kenyan public has for far too long played worm for manipulative political leaders. Are you the early bird that catches the worm or are you the early worm caught by the bird?” Information communication is the answer. Information is power.

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Kenya: the Artificial, Colonial, Fake State of Secreted Oppression and Tribal Tyranny

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By calling the subjugated nations of the Luos, Somalis, and Oromos of Kenya merely “local populations”, by minimizing the importance and the dramatic nature of the events that take place in Eastern Africa, and by shifting the focus on secluded spots – called “exotic resorts” -, the Western mass media perpetrate a heinous act and a voluntary genocide against the subjugated nations of Kenya who struggle for national independence, cultural integrity, sociopolitical freedom, and economic self-determination. — Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

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Muhammad Shamsaddin MegalommatisThe recent riots (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7935470.stm) in the Kenyan capital only highlight the impossibility of the artificial colonial state to continue existing.

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“.

In fact, Kenya cannot and will not exist as a unitary state in the same way Abyssinia, the world’s most criminal state, is doomed to collapse and get decomposed into many independent, national states.

The aforementioned does not necessarily imply that various Eastern African nations could not have formed diverse confederations whereby many different nations and peoples would coexist in peace and harmony; this could have been the case, had the various indigenous nations agreed in terms of parity, equity, and justice. However, this did not happen.

In the case of the infamous colonial fossil ‘Abyssinia’ (fallaciously re-baptized “Ethiopia”), there was a series of military invasions that always ended up in national and/or spiritual genocides (for the subdued Oromos, Afars, Sidamas, Ogadenis, Shekachos, Kaffas, Kambaatas, Hadiyas, Gedeos, Anuak, Nuer, Agaw, Shinasha, Berta and Gumuz).

In the case of the colonial territories of Kenya and Tanzania, the colonizers were Europeans (Portuguese, English and Germans); the colonial agreements between the English racist administration and selected tribal leaders, who – corrupt, bribed and besotted – accepted to play the shameful role of the local tyrant who is at the same time the shameful puppet of the colonial masters, helped establish tyrannical regimes that constitute a real hell for the outright majority of the subjugated nations.

By calling the subjugated nations of the Luos, Somalis, and Oromos of Kenya merely “local populations”, by minimizing the importance and the dramatic nature of the events that take place in Eastern Africa, and by shifting the focus on secluded spots – called “exotic resorts” -, the Western mass media perpetrate a heinous act and a voluntary genocide against the subjugated nations of Kenya who struggle for national independence, cultural integrity, sociopolitical freedom, and economic self-determination.

At the same time, the Western mass media bear witness to the Anti-Christian character of their endeavours, as they resonate lies, criminal falsehood, and deceit – only to serve the purposes of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge that truly controls the Western establishments.

Only to be proven mendacious by the following reports of the leading humanitarian organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) that I republish here integrally.

There is only one sentence all the people of the world have to know about Kenya:

The will of the outright majority of the subjugated nations that have been entrapped in the Prison “Kenya” passionately desire to see the Kenyan state as soon as possible broken down to many pieces so that every indigenous nation be able to form their own nationhood. Democracy, freedom, and development will only then become feasible.

Kenya: Killing of Activists Needs Independent Inquiry

Lethal Force Against Students Protesting the Killing Underscores Need for Police Reform
March 6

“When police enter a university campus with guns blazing, the need for urgent police reform and accountability is obvious”.

Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch

(New York) – The Kenyan government should immediately establish an independent investigation into the killings on March 5, 2009, of two prominent Kenyan human rights activists, Human Rights Watch said today. The police’s use of unnecessary lethal force against students protesting the killings, resulting in one student’s death, also highlights the need for the government to carry out promptly United Nations recommendations on police reform, Human Rights Watch said.

On the evening of March 5 near the University of Nairobi, unidentified gunmen blocked the car of Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu of the Oscar Foundation Free Legal Aid Clinic and shot them dead. The Oscar Foundation has frequently and publicly criticized the police for their participation in extrajudicial killings and other serious abuses, most recently before parliament in February 2009.

“The murder of two activists long critical of police abuses demands an inquiry that is not under the control of the police,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “An independent inquiry is the only way to reach the truth and ensure justice for this horrible crime.”

Following the killings, several hundred University of Nairobi students held a demonstration protesting the killings that evening. Demonstrators told Human Rights Watch that they believed the government was responsible for the attack. Students took the bullet-riddled car and the body of Kingara onto campus, refusing to surrender his body to police. A standoff ensued between a large contingent of police who demanded that the body be handed over and the angry, but largely peaceful, demonstrators.

After negotiations broke down, Human Rights Watch witnessed scores of police officers storming the campus using tear gas and firing live ammunition. Students retaliated by throwing stones at the police. As the police pursued students carrying Kingara’s body across the campus, gunfire became more and more frequent.

Human Rights Watch observed some officers firing into the air, but one student was shot dead by the police. The police confirmed the student’s death in a statement today concluding that the use of lethal force was “unprofessional and uncalled for,” and noting that three officers who used live ammunition at the protest are “under investigation.”

In policing demonstrations, the Kenyan police should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The principles call upon law enforcement officials to apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force, to use force only in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, and to use lethal force only when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

Human Rights Watch called on the Kenyan government to implement immediately the recommendations for police reform proposed by Kenyan Justice Philip Nyamu Waki, head of an independent commission that investigated post-election violence in 2008, and those by Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings.

Those recommendations include a public acknowledgement by President Mwai Kibaki of the problem of extrajudicial killings, the need for sweeping reform of the police, the setting-up of an independent police oversight board, the replacement of both the police commissioner and the attorney general, and the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute those responsible for post-election violence, including victims of police lethal force.

“When police enter a university campus with guns blazing, the need for urgent police reform and accountability is obvious,” said Gagnon. “Kenyans need a police force that protects their rights, not one that abuses them.”

Background

In 2007 the Oscar Foundation published a report on extrajudicial killings by the Kenyan police, “License to kill: Extrajudicial execution and police brutality in Kenya.” The Oscar Foundation activists had also testified to Parliament in early 2009 on extrajudicial killings.

The killings of Kingara and Oulu came on a day of heightened tensions over the February 2009 report of UN Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial killings Philip Alston into extra-judicial killings in Kenya. Alston’s report concluded that, “the Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and they kill often and with impunity.”

Weeks before, Alston had met with Kingara and Oulu, among others, to collect evidence of police killings of alleged members of the Mungiki sect, a religious group that has turned into a criminal organization. Members and sympathizers of the Mungiki had held demonstrations across Nairobi and the town of Naivasha earlier on in the day when Kingara and Oulu were killed.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga responded to the killings of Kingara and Oulu with a statement today saying that the police are suspects in these killings and asserting the need for an independent agency to carry out an investigation.

Kenya: End Police Use of Excessive Force

Lift Ban on Public Rallies, Media Broadcasts
January 12, 2008

The Kenyan government should urgently and publicly order the police to stop using excessive, lethal force against public rallies, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch urged political leaders on all sides to call on supporters to demonstrate peacefully.

Opposition leaders have called for rallies next week in defiance of the government’s broad ban on public gatherings, prompting concerns that new clashes could result in further deaths and injuries. Human Rights Watch is also concerned by ongoing violence in the Rift Valley, where hundreds of people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced.

“Kenyan security forces have a duty to rein in criminal violence and should protect people, but they shouldn’t turn their weapons on peaceful protestors,” said Georgette Gagnon, acting Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The government should make it very clear that police will be held to account for using lethal force against people for simply expressing political views.”

Since the disputed December 27, 2007 presidential elections, Kenyan police in several cities have used live ammunition to disperse protesters and disperse looters, killing and wounding dozens. Some observers and even police have described the police response as an unofficial “shoot to kill” policy. For example, Human Rights Watch received credible reports that in Kisumu dozens of people were shot dead by police while demonstrating against the election result announced on December 31.

Even people who did not attend rallies have been affected. Human Rights Watch spoke to eyewitnesses in Nairobi who saw unarmed individuals hit by police gunfire on the fringes of protests in the Kibera and Mathare slums. One woman was hit by stray bullets that penetrated the wall of her home. Another unarmed man was shot in the leg. A boy watching a protest from the door of his house was shot in the chest. Kenyan human rights organizations reported deaths and injuries involving police in the cities of Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, and Eldoret.

A source within the police, who was unwilling to be identified, told Human Rights Watch that “many of us are unhappy with what we are being asked to do. This ’shoot to kill’ policy is illegal, and it is not right. We have brothers and sisters, sons and daughters out there.”

In policing demonstrations, the Kenyan police should abide by the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said. The principles call upon law enforcement officials to apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force only in proportion to the seriousness of the offense, and to use lethal force only when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

Kenyan and international law prohibits a general ban on demonstrations. Under Kenyan law, those wishing to demonstrate must notify the police and the police can reject the request on the grounds of public order, but no law permits the authorities to impose a blanket ban on public assembly. Under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which Kenya ratified in 1976, a state may only impose restrictions on the right to peaceful assembly that are strictly necessary to maintain public order.

“The government should defuse tension by immediately lifting the ban on public assembly and allowing the planned demonstrations to go ahead,” said Gagnon. “The right to peaceful assembly is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.”

The government has also banned live political broadcasting. Human Rights Watch again urged the Kenyan authorities to immediately lift unnecessary restrictions on media freedom.

Human Rights Watch also called on the government to immediately investigate the deaths that have already occurred during protests and in the Rift Valley. Prosecutions should be carried out where there is evidence of wrongdoing and the victims should be provided an adequate remedy, including compensation.

Background

Kenyans voted peacefully and in record numbers in parliamentary and presidential elections on December 27. In the parliamentary elections, 99 of the 210 seats were won by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). Vice-President Moody Awori and 14 of President Mwai Kibaki’s top ministers lost their seats.

The presidential election pitted Kibaki against the ODM’s Raila Odinga, and the presidential vote count appeared to be tampered with. The chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya said that he did “not know whether Mr. Kibaki won the elections.” The European Union Electoral Mission also expressed grave doubts about the legitimacy of the presidential results.

Talks between the opposition and the Kibaki government have not yet occurred and the opposition is planning for further mass action across the country on January 16, 2008. Further violence is expected as the government has indicated it will attempt to prevent the demonstrations from occurring.

Violence has spread throughout the Rift Valley and the west of the country as angry citizens have burnt and looted factories, shops and homes and chased away those perceived to be supporters of Kibaki (mostly, but not exclusively, members of his Kikuyu tribe). Kikuyu homes in the Rift Valley have been selectively burned and Kikuyu residents killed. Thirty people were burned to death in a church near Eldoret. According to media reports, the mortuary in Eldoret contains 290 bodies killed as a result of the violence, and Kisumu has 91. Nationwide, government figures put the death toll at 486 but independent estimates range as high as 600.

Further readings:http://oscarfound.org/

Note: A customary scenery in the streets of Kenya that does not usually find its way to the leading circulation newspapers in Europe, England and America, probably because Kenyan slums are not considered as ….. Kenya by the colonial establishmnets. From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/17/2141084.htm

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Kenya’s Ancentus Akuku ‘Danger’: Married 130 wives and still going strong

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Polygamist married 130 times — Ancentus Akuku, 90, has so many wives and children they need a new building to be able to worship together. The family has built a church for itself. He has divorced more than 85 women and his most conservative estimate is that he has 160 children. “I’m called Danger because I defeated so many men,” Akuku says. “I was very handsome and so I could get many wives.” “When I passed, people would point at me and call me Danger.

By Kepher Otieno

He has lived past his prime age. While many Kenyans are not expected to live beyond 40, this old man is way past that and still going strong.

Polygamist Mzee Ancentus Akuku alias “Akuku Danger” is now a nonagenarian after turning 90, and he seems set to mark more milestones.

The grand old man justifies his long life to a diet of traditional foodstuffs such as dek, osuga, mitoo, apoth (traditional vegetables) and fermented milk that have kept him going.

“I am still very strong, though I am now worn out and cannot sire more children,” he says jokingly.

However, Akuku says he has been on a strict diet and does not eat food rich in fats.

   Akuku Danger: Polygamist
Akuku Danger: Polygamist“Avoiding too much fat and salt has enabled me escape opportunistic diseases,” he explains.

The old man, who is happy with the way his wives serve him, says he has to eat special food and does not starve at any time in the day.

“I eat at the right time. And I just don’t eat anything. I am served special food that is well prepared. I always eat a fruit after every meal,” he says.

When the Sunday Magazine visited him at his famous Aora Chuodho home, Homa Bay District, the old man was relaxing.

“Karibuni! Welcome!” he gave us traditional stools to sit on.

Before we settled for the interview, he went into a meditative silence for about three minutes.

He wanted to be reminded of who we were. In trying to jog his memory, he told us he still has a stable mind and remembered that we had visited him a few years back.

“I don’t drink chang’aa (local brew) that corrugates people’s mind. I am fit as you can see,” he dropped his walking stick and tried to jump. Then, we gave him a small gift we had carried for him. It is not African to visit someone empty-handed. He was happy and we settled down to the interview.

Akuku Danger and FamilyAkuku Danger (seated) with some of his wives and children.

Akuku is no longer as energetic as he used to be but he takes time to walk around his expansive compound offering advice to his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Akuku who married his first wife, Dinah Akuku, in 1939 is famous for his polygamous life. He married 130 women in his formative years but chased away 85 on grounds of infidelity.

“I showed the door to those who misbehaved,” he says with no regret to his actions.

And it was not just separation. He carried out the traditional divorce by going to their homes to claim the dowry he had paid. This way he cut all strings attached.

He remained with 45 wives. However, 16 of them have since died. Today, he lives with 29.

The old man says he could not gamble with his life.

Spying on wives

“I had spies attached to each home. They briefed me on how each woman went about her business in my absence both during the day and at night,” he says.

Akuku would institute private investigations to crosscheck the leads he had gathered before resorting to any action.

“This is how I detected that the 85 were unfaithful and posed a serious risk to my life. I did not hesitate in sending them packing,” he says.

He explains: “With the threat of HIV and Aids, I had to be strict with the conduct of each woman.”

By the time he was 22, Akuku was already a polygamist.

“Little did I know that I would marry many more women later,” he says.

He became a polygamist as a joke. But the joke worked well for him, he says.

The grand master of polygamy married his last wife at 79 in 1997. The woman was then only 18. He likes to call her Auma min Anyona (Auma mother of Anyona). Today she is 29 and a mother of three.

“I call her my caretaker. She is a woman and a half. She is the one who now caresses me so I don’t feel out of touch with love,” he says.

His first wife, Bina Akuku died in 2001.

Though many people, particularly from his community — the Luo — have failed to manage polygamous families well, Mzee Akuku has broken the record.

He has led a very ’successful and productive’ polygamous family. He sired 110 sons and 305 daughters. Of the children 150 are married and also blessed with their own children. He says 35 of his sons have died. Despite his age, Akuku still knows each of his children by name. And which child belongs to which mother.

I can’t forget

“I can’t fail to know my children. When they are born I am the one who is consulted to give them a name. So I can’t forget,” he asserts.

He feels that family responsibilities must be shared. The older siblings are charged with the task of educating the younger ones.

“Once I have educated the first-born of every wife, it is their task to sponsor the education of the younger siblings,” he says.

Akuku, also called ‘Danger‘ (from his ability to marry many women) has all kinds of professionals in his home and that is one of his greatest pleasures. They range from doctors, lawyers, teachers to drivers and messengers.

Born in 1918 in Kanyamwa, Ndhiwa Constituency, Akuku may not have gone to school, but today he commands respect among all cadres of people.

He mingles with the high and mighty within his community. Many pay him homage almost on a daily basis.

They visit him just to learn of his fascinating story as an icon of the Luo cultural practices.

Akuku was born with a business acumen. To earn a living, he trained as a tailor and opened shops in Homa Bay District, along the shores of Lake Victoria.

He became rich and attracted many young women even when he was old.

“I lived a lavish lifestyle. I was always ready to spend money on women,” Akuku explains. “I always made sure that I got the girl I wanted.”

The old man says he learnt the art of seduction and that to keep a woman one had to respond to her immediate needs.

“Those who mingled with me are the ones who went spreading word in the village of how witty, wealthy and loving I was,” he says.

In turn, girls would go hunting for him everywhere in the village including social places which he frequented.

“I was a reveller and went to night clubs to enjoy myself. Some girls followed and timed me at the dancing floor and at times I let out my heart for them,” he says.

He adds: “I married those who I lost my heart for.”

“I owned a fleet of matatus, driven by my sons and several tailoring, wholesale and retail shops. So maintaining the women was not a big deal,” he brags.

Though the magnitude of his immense wealth is not visible today, Akuku prides himself in educating his children to take over.

“Today my children are my wealth. I have educated them well,” he says.

His children who borrowed a leaf from his business acumen run most of the tailoring shops in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay and other neighbouring districts.

One of his sons, Dande Akuku, born in 1947, is an established businessman.

Dande refused to go to school and capitalised on his father’s immense wealth to establish his own business. Today, he carries the old man’s legacy.

Dande has a fleet of matatus and businesses in Homa Bay and other districts.

Though old, Akuku is not old. Each morning, he looks at his diary, which is well maintained, to see which home he will visit for either a funeral or other businesses.

Akuku says he has a responsibility as a parent to nurture upright children and look after the family’s immediate needs.

“I am fully updated on what is going on in each home every day. If a child falls sick, I must be told,” he says.

These are some of the strategies he uses to maintain sanity in his home.

Despite his having a large family, many people today see him as a role model and are learning from him how to keep stable marriages.

Akuku says he put up a hall in his home where he summons all the members of his family and addresses them. At these assemblies those who have erred are rebuked.

He cautions men not to imitate him because HIV and Aids pandemic.

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Why Kenya’s pride in Obama victory is tempered

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By Murithi Mutiga
Wednesday, 5 November 2008

This is a bittersweet moment for Kenyans. There is considerable joy at the achievements of Mr Obama, who makes no secret of his East African heritage. But that pride is tempered by a measure of shame that he would have had a hard time attaining the highest office in the land of his father, simply because of his ethnic roots.

Barack Obama Senior belonged to the Luo community – one of Kenya’s most marginalised groups — and his son’s elevation to the White House has triggered a national debate on the invidious role of ethnicity in Kenyan political life.


Jaramogi Oginga Odinga (left) and Jomo Kenyatta

The Luos’ troubles go back to the post-independence period and a bitter falling out between Kenya’s first two political heavyweights president Jomo Kenyatta (a member of the country’s biggest ethnic group the Kikuyu) and his Vice President Jaramogi Odinga (a Luo), which resulted in a period of sustained political persecution of the Luo.

The differences that presaged the estrangement were partly ideological: Kenyatta favoured free market economics while Odinga was a supporter of the communist bloc. In truth, though, many historians put the dispute between the two erstwhile pre-independence allies down to a struggle for resources between the various ethnic elites.

The 1969 assassination of the charismatic Luo minister Tom Mboya – seen by many as a future president – served to harden the ethnic differences. It was Mboya who together with prominent African-American leaders and with the support of JFK organised the student airlifts that took Obama’s father to the US for his college studies. When Barack Senior returned home, he was confronted by the ugly realities of ethnic parochialism.

Those differences still haunt Kenya. Today, there is ample evidence that the persistent skewed allocation of state resources has led to stark inequalities that breed resentment in those regions that do not enjoy the favour of the presidency. Government figures show that a Kenyan born in Luoland today can expect to live 16 years less than one born in Kikuyuland.

These inequalities set the stage for the vicious fighting that rocked Kenya earlier this year after what was seen as rigging by the Kikuyu incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, to stave off the challenge of the opposition’s man Raila Odinga, a Luo.

   Kibaki (Foreground) and Raila Odinga (Son of Jaramogi Odinga)
President Kibaki and Raila Odinga(Background)

But the election of Obama, a black man of Luo descent, in America could yet set the stage for a reversal of this approach. When the dust has settled on the vast expectations that Obama’s election has raised, many hope his lasting legacy in Kenya will be a realisation that one’s ethnic identity should not be the primary factor in deciding one’s eligibility to lead.

The writer is an editor with the Nation Media Group in Nairobi, Kenya

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