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By: Simba

Simba — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:50:28 +0000

The rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer… Yes, Nairobi is finally developing a middle class, but this is developing far to slowly. All the politicians who run for government and ‘apparently’ represent us as Kenyan’s are selfish and corrupt. The rich-poor divide is huge, with Kenya’s politicians being paid more than most European/Western politicians!!!!
Kibera is the largest slum in Africa; yet a stonesthrow away is the beautifully tended Nairobi Polo Club. This is not fair. The small amount of opportunity for the poor to escape poverty is provided by NGO’s and not the Government. The government do not care about the poor; they do not intend to improve Kenyan’s human rights…. I hereby call upon my fellow Kenyan’s…. We are the Revolution… The Revolution is now!… Do not let our various tribal backgrounds make barriers between us… As under-class and working-class Kenyan’s we must unite and begin a Prolatarian Revolution. We must make our own goverment run by the peoples people… We must not suffer in silence; but suffer together in the fight for our freedom, so that our children and our childrens children do not have to live with these constrictions… So that we can abolish the rich/poor divide and create a world built on equality and opportunity for all!!!

By: Shiroh

Shiroh — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:44:56 +0000

I believe in Martha Karua…I have had a chance to attend a lot of meetings and conferences around her. As regards PEV, i would have done whatever it is she did. Protect the constitution. The constitution is very clear on how an election loser should go about complaining. The chaos we are seeing now, are the product of a certain section of leaders who think that the constitution is a piece of paper; until they change it, that is what they are stuck with.

By: KenyanMan

KenyanMan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:19:33 +0000

Its no wonder why we will continue having bad leadership in this country.
Somebody does not become an angel by resigning. Lets retrace Karua’s steps and see what she has stood for. During the Moi time, she was an activist who succeeded to push some reforms forward like the IPPG.Came Kibaki era and she was named a minister.Karua positioned herself as a hardline politician and an arrogant leader at that.I say this because of this reason, during the 2005 referendum on a campaign tour of North Easter province,Martha Karua was caught on camera saying,”… hata refugees wanasema NO”.This was in reference to the hostile reception they had been accorded by the people upon landing.
During the election crisis,Karua took a hardline stand about the election results.She categorically denied having been any election malpractice on he part of the PNU presidential candidate. It is common knowledge that this is just a fuss.The ECK has since been disbanded for the way the 2007 elections were handled.The ECK could not have done that to Raila’s favour,we all know this as Kenyan’s.
Came Koffi Annan. During the Serena talks, at one point Annan said in public that one member of the party representatives was a stumbling block for progress to be achieved. It was later to be revealed that Karua and Annan had a heated exchange.
During the Anglo leasing scandal days,she went out of her way and rubbished the Githongo dossier alongside his then cabinet colleague Hon.Tuju. I dont need to say more on this, get the facts here http://kenya.rcbowen.com/talk/viewtopic.php?id=109306).
To some people Karua is a heroin and should be the next commander in chief, to others she deserves no place near power. As long as we continue voting for our tribesmen and women because we speak the same language,we are not going to move forward.
It is clear that Karua resigned because it was becoming vividly obvious to her that Kibaki and his old cronies will throw their financial and otherwise weight to Uhuru son of Kenyatta come 2012. It is not about wanting reforms or her docket having been undermined.These are just excuses so that she can appear a heroin.She is nowhere near that.

By: 3N

3N — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:28:01 +0000

From my own observations I also find Ms. Karua articulate, very smart and a straight shooter – as Ory found. Those qualities bode well for any leader but what that leader does when they acquire power is anybody’s guess.

Ms. Karua’s ambitions and history do not suggest an iconic reformist, she was in a government implicated with all sorts of corruption charges and continues to serve in a parliament (all 210 MP’s are as guilty) that undermine the privilege accorded to it by ordinary Kenyans.

I will not defend any Kenyan politician for their good or ill, but when one separates themselves from the lot as Karua did with her resignation, I am inclined to pay a bit more attention.

By: Jizee

Jizee — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:41:13 +0000

I too think Karua might just be the person to “start” this shift towards change. She will come nowhere close to seeing it through but she will cause a scuttling of the roaches; that is a “start”. Keep in mind that the stench of the rot that are our politicians and our political “system” has danced around our noses going 50 years now.

By: Ishara

Ishara — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:21:38 +0000

Ory,

Karua’s amibitions have in large part been frustrated by Karua herself, blaming Kibaki serves those ambitions at this time but assumes that all Kenyans suffer from ADD or have short memories. Case in point, Karua’s attempts to raise her profile and that of her former ministerial home by strigently campaigning for the privatization of water. (a knee slapper, to be sure!)

Investing in water makes alot of sense with wananchi paying what the market can bear (the market can bear plenty for water) what say you we get into this Water business soonest? (we’ll make out like bandits, bandits I tell you! show up those Kamlesh/Somaia amateurs) and what of sewage treatment? Look at all the roads and bridges without tolls? If we’re raising money it doesn’t pay to leave anything out(pun intended).

Uza yote! Uzilia Mbali!

Kicheko kimenizidi but with gems like these I anticipate with glee the unveiling of the Karua platform…and what’s priceless is Karua now claims fellow MP’s are on the take, my response to that is “You don’t say! When have our MP’s ever not been?” (Yes, that would include you Ms. Karua).

By: ke

ke — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:43:16 +0000

Elijah:

Were you a philosophy major in college?

Most of the philosophy majors I’ve known tend to have the same writing style that you have displayed here: Long winded sentences with long winded words (e.g. “hagiographies”, “deterministic claims”, reading esoteric books by people like Pierre Bourdieu and Franz Fanon and, and, and……)

People don’t write like that anymore. Beautiful writing is supposed to be simple and clear.

I once told a philosophy professor that it was a good thing he had tenure because nobody in the real world was going to pay to “philosophize”.

He kicked me out of his office.

Oh well.