Why Uhuru and Ruto will depart soon

In politics, they say there are no permanent friends or enemies. This is the poignant statement that Prof Makau Mutua in his weekly column published by Sunday Standard has laboured to illustrate.

Times are getting tough for deputy president William Ruto who the International Criminal Court (ICC) seems to have t ightened its case against him when they allowed
recanted statements to be used as evidence by the prosecutor.

It is reported that Ruto has gone into a panic mode with this development, and Mutua doesn’t seem to be making
it easier for him while advancing his theories on why Uhuru may drop him altogether.

Here are Mutua’s reasons.
1. Ruto no longer commands the Kalenjin vote which has been his key bargaining chip.
“… Ruto was only useful to Kenyatta as the Kalenjin kingpin. But alas, Ruto’s reign atop the Kalenjin
Nation has become wobbly, ” he writes saying that the dynamics of the Kalenjin politics have fast shifted
with governor Isaac Rutto becoming a key threat to Ruto.

2. President Barack Obama’s visit proved that Kenyatta does not need Ruto.
“.. Kenyatta kept Ruto largely closeted, although he did let him out on several occasions to meet K’Ogelo’s
most famous scion .”

3. With Kenyatta no longer wanted by the ICC , Ruto is now seen as ‘a liability’ and paints a bad image to the former.

“ Ruto’s ICC woes make him a liability — a diplomatic embarrassment — to Kenyatta. Going to the ballot in
2017 with Ruto is akin to taking a malaria-ravaged patient to the battlefield. It would be foolhardy for
Mr Kenyatta to go to war with a lame duck. “

4. No one wants Ruto to become president in 2022.

“Ruto has served his purpose for Kenyatta. He can now be discarded. It’s like the law of gravity —
whatever goes up must come down. Politics is a utilitarian game, not a sport of sentimentality. The coalition of Kenyatta and Ruto is limping to the finish line — 2017 — and they both know it. Don’t be fooled by public expressions of fidelity to each other.
It’s over — gone and done with. It’s time for divorce — coming soon,” Mutua writes in closing remarks.

We all need each other to strive as a community

Numerical size doesn’t make any tribe in Kenya more important than the other. Neither financial strength, nor intellectual and oratory prowess, makes one superior to the other.

Every nation thrives on the strengths
as well as weaknesses of its composite tribes.

We can’t all be professors. Universities need janitors. We can’t all be doctors. Hospitals require the services of nurses. We can’t all be traders. Businesses need security guards to keep potential thieves at bay.

We can’t all be top athletes. Someone has to keep any eye on the clock to check the timings; another on the finishing line to determine who came first, second, and third.

Manifestoes

Priorities
1.Good schools - to make education available and affordable to everyone
2.Provision of clean and safe water
3.Capacity building on good business practices
4.Improved farming
5.Employment of our youths 6.Opening of training institutes to cater for std 8 and form four leavers
(Having in mind a good structure at Shartuka)
7.Making proper use of our God given work force to initiate development projects.

NAROK WOMEN POST Up for GRASP

"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

As a wishful and service committed leader, Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

There goes the will of a leader i wish to elect. S/he should be committed and persistence in her or his way of doing normal duties

Representative of Women in national assembly need people who see beyond their circles of relations and deeds of wishes and service before self.

Nothing comes on a silver plater not even in investing on your genuine and potential opponent mistakes or undoings, Lest you forget.

It goes noticed in wisdom and public cycles that Lydia Naneu Ntimama will be on the ballot comes 2017 December if the MPS ammendment the constitution that gives the people to exercise their democratic right of voting on 2nd Tuesday of August in the fifth year.

She has justify her ability to lead in what can be said behind the royal family which people are agreeing that she made a mistake of running against her father final years of leadership. Surface Politician and analysis argue the patronage drains got the declining of able leadership narok.

Lydia in equal terms got desires to lead as Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process.

And truely If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement which all goes on an assumption portal of prejudice. I can call it in its real name for purposes of its magnanimity to ensure the narok people are not coerced to make a regrettable adventure.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen which according to many people here who say could be electing Entito orkingi comes 2017 if she shelfed her interests 2013 for 2017.

The double loss of election 2013 in ntimama family is a determinant the future confidence of narokians to bestowe leadership mantle to the Lydia.

By virtue of and in accrued knowledge of kenyan democracy it is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is
impossible to rehearse life.

Lydia is hiding in the Muthaiga 5 cocoons for a sympathetic gesture to see herself on the women Representative post which is minimal to the expections of many people in narok.

The entrance of Rebecca Tonkei in the race of women representative in narok county is a game changer and it has already shifted the post and has send sparks to the fellow aspirants.

Rebecca Tonkei who is Human resource personnel in Parliament has declared the interest in the seat and already gunning huge and unprecedented support in her home Mau narok and Transmara where she was born and raised.

The interest on Muthaiga 5 has been out in black and white that yes its "Governorship" post that is their main concern and anyone thinking of taking advantage for MP seat or something of that sort is living a lie.

And any person assuming this fact is living a big lie. The comments around arouse the virtue analysis of narok leadership could be better than it is.

I thank kilgoris people for showing interest in women rep post. narok East and loita are commendable too.

With Lydia "Entito orkingi" it was best placed to have foretell not running with able maasai king who actually was the man to watch in Maasai politics William Rongorua Ole ntimama.

The article in Kenyan constitution doesn’t reason like what the actual maasai kinship politics of inheritance could wish to be but rather guarantee people a right to vote, vie and even boycott the election.

A fault in the politics scenery, a face slap in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much in putting our future in order.

Letter to William Ruto the Anti-Gay Deputy President

By ABIGAIL ARUNGA

Dear Deputy President,

My best friend is gay. She is also Kenyan.

She lives in a country where the majority of people are homophobic, and the other day you proved that the leadership is as well.

You made a rather ignorant statement the other day about how there is no room for homosexuals in Kenya, almost as if you think that being Deputy President gives you
licence to speak with authority on what people like in the bedroom.

Tell me sir, do you like whips? Or chains? Or 'strange things' in the bedroom? And then, tell me, do you think it is any of my business? It really isn't.

WHY WE CAN’T PROSPER
Instead of discussing the numerous Kenyans who died recently, Parliament is busily forming anti-gay caucuses. This is why we, as a nation, cannot prosper, because we are
busy debating things like whether people should be allowed to fight for their basic, human, inalienable rights.
What a waste of valuable time.

For the record, sir, being homophobic does not mean that you are scared of
homosexuals. It means you are a terrible person who does not care about basic human welfare, and you are of the belief that anyone who does not agree with you has no place here.

This is a scary trajectory. After sexuality, what next? Tribe? Religion? Will there be no room for other 'types' in Kenya? It sounds like an oncoming holocaust to me, because all forms of oppression are linked.

TRY AND UNDERSTAND
Look, I can understand being scared of something you do not understand, but the automatic and logical reaction to something you are scared of is to try and understand it, not burn it to the ground.

You claim to be a Christian. Where would you be if your kinsmen had burnt all the missionaries to ash?

Speaking of your Christianity, Christianity itself tells us to love one another; to not pull out the splinter in someone's eye before pulling out the log in ours.

If we are going on the basis of Christianity and if indeed homosexuality is a sin, then it follows that whatever sin you, the Deputy President have committed, is equal to that of the people you are apparently trying to kick out of their country.

It is their country just as much as it is
yours.

It is my country as much as it is yours.
A country you are supposed to be a servant of.

You are supposed to be a servant of the people. All people who are Kenyan.

BASIC EMPATHY

Even if you separate people on the basis of leadership — a separation of church and state — what you have made is a blatantly irresponsible statement.

Do you think people are not already
victimising those who are homosexual, or thought to be homosexual? Your comments made it infinitely worse.

Your role, as a leader of this wonderful country that clearly has homosexuals in it, is not to condemn and judge. Your role is to make sure that as Kenyans, they get the rights they deserve.

As a human being, I am insulted that you would make such an obviously biased and insensitive comment about another human being – to make them feel unworthy, when they are not.

As a Kenyan, I am deeply offended that this is how you go about protecting the rights of people you claim to lead.

It is unfortunate that you lack basic
empathy — which means you do not
understand or seek to understand issues you cannot relate with, like poverty, homosexuality or an increase in fuel prices.

And so you have proceeded, with your
hateful speech, to alienate and distancevyourself even further from my vote.

I dream of a Kenya where the idea of rights for all is not debatable but a norm for me, for my best friend, and for anyone who lives within our shores.

Because one day you'll take away my rights too, if we keep going on like this. Just as you want to take away hers.

Thank you for continuing to show me who you really are.

Yours,
Abigail Arunga
Twitter: @AbigailArunga

Brief KANU History|| KANU fresh

BRIEF HISTORY ABOUT KANU
Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a mass movement. Its background rests on the British Colonial history in
Kenya. That is why KANU is credited as the Party that brought political independence to our country Kenya.

As far back as in the 1920s and 1930s, the Kenyan Africans had started to agitate against the settlement of British people in Kenya. This was a result of the fact that some of the Africans who raised these questions had earlier served of fought in the 1st world war in the German East Africa(Tanzania). They started forming Political Associations,
which agitated for representation in the legislative council.

In 1940, the British colonialists banned most of the African political associations. It was at that stage that the few remaining tribal based Political Associations started to
broaden membership countrywide. In 1944 Kenya African Union (KAU) was formed by the late James Gichuru. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta returned from Britain where he was agitating for independence and assumed the leadership of KAU.

By 1950, the Africans had already become impatient with the colonial rule and the clandestine movement called Mau Mau was started as an armed struggle for independence.
It unleashed plenty of violence and a state of emergency was declared on October 20th 1952. (This is the day we now and celebrate as Kenyatta Day).

Our political leaders led by Mzee Jomo Kenyatta were detained. All political activities were banned. This vacuum was filled by African Labour Federation (ALF) led by the late Tom Mboya as the head. It is this union that eventually played a crucial role in the legalization of African Political Associations in the late1950s.

In 1959, political activities were in full swing. On March 27th 1960, a leader conference was convened in Kiambu. After proposing a formation of a countrywide political party to be called Uhuru Independence Party of Kenya, leaders eventually agreed to form Kenya African National Union (KANU). The first national elections were done on14th May 1960 in Kiambu with James Gichuru as acting
President pending the release of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. The colonialists started to work out how to limit KANU from commanding countrywide support. They encouraged the leaders of smaller tribal Political Associations to form a common front against KANU. These associations held their
meeting at Ngong on 25th June 1960 and formed Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) with the late Ronald Ngala as the head. The first multi-party polls were held in
1961. KANU won but could not form a coalition government until Kenyatta was released. Kenyatta was released on 14th August 1961. KANU and KADU formed a coalition with a view of strengthening African unity on the road to full independence. The coalition did not last long. KANU wanted a strong central government with a unitary constitution while KADU wanted a weak central government within a federal (majimbo) constitution.

A compromised situation was settled for a strong central government with moderate powers vested in the regional assemblies.

The coalition only lasted from April 1962 to May 1963. General Elections were held between May 18th to 26th 1963 and KANU trounced KADU by winning 83 of the 124 seats in the House of Representatives. It also won a majority in the senate and in three of the 7 regional assemblies namely
Nyanza, Central and Eastern. KANU proceeded to form the internal self-government on 1st June 1963 (Madaraka Day).

On November 10th 1964, the leader of KADU Hon. Ronald Ngala announced the voluntary dissolution of KADU. Thus we started the road to Political, Social and Economic development under single Party system until 1990 when section 2A of the constitution was removed paving way for the reintroduction of multi-party system which is prevailing in Kenya till present.

My government has a place for orphans and widows; Re-affirms Governor Tunai

Fundraising in Rongena led by Governor Samuel Kuntai Ole Tunai and Governor Isaac Kiprono Ruto , Was a step forward to empowering the widows in the region.

Empowering a woman is empowering the society.Other leaders than to
engage in endless political bickering should emulate this illustrious examples.

The Sh 10 million that was raised should be put to use prudently and ensure the objects of the fundraising are met.

Governor Tunai said the county assembly will enact a bill that
will ensure widows, orphans, disables and widowers are well taken care for in order to cut the teeth of poverty and ignorance in our society.

The fund drive was in narok West constituency. The people of narok West promised to work with governor Tunai and comes 2017, they will show the door leaders who are opposing development.