MUNGIK KILLED IN KISUMU

Things are not looking good ladies and gentlemen.
Last night a minibus full of people who were suspected to be mungiki arrived in Kisumu town and headed for the slums of Nyalenda. They then proceeded to kill a man who was returning from a night shift. Minutes later they were cornered two were killed while the rest escaped in the mini van.


As early 6 o’clock in the morning Kisumu was in a riotous mood with youth walking around with all manner of weapon. At 07:00 youths from Nyalenda estate had assembled at a place called "western". The GSU/Police were also out in force. Rumours that the vehicle that carried mungiki was parked at Raphael Tujus home in milimani had hit the streets. The rowdy youth then headed for Raphael Tuju`s home and office (Ace Communications). What they did not know was that the police had also got wind of their plan. They arrived at Tujus home located in Nehru road to find over 30 AP`s waiting for them. Hell then broke loose with police chasing the youth back to Nyalenda estate.


I don’t think Tuju is so foolish as to let youths carrying crude weapons to base themselves at his home/offices. But the fact that people suspect him will make his life very difficult. Now we all know the PNU has now turned against him claiming that he did not do enough to earn Kibaki votes in Nyanza. Poor man, what could he have done? It was a mission impossible to achieve. He never held a single rally in Nyanza, only relying on distributing money to PNU Stewarts through proxy.


You see, its only GEMA tribes who were being chased out of Kisumu. Information reaching me from Kisumu is that anybody known to have supported PNU regardless of tribe is now being hunted, ejected and beaten thoroughly. Such people have nowhere to run. Talk about being caught between a hard place and a stone.

Some are still talking of an impending civil war. God, we have a civil war already

INTERVIEW-Rwanda suggests military option for Kenya crisis

Source: Reuters
By Arthur Asiimwe


KIGALI, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The leader of Rwanda, which suffered a genocide in 1994, said intervention by the military may be the only way to halt Kenya's escalating ethnic bloodshed.
"This is a case of emergency where certain things have to be done very quickly to stop the killings that are going on. There's no time to go into niceties and debates when the killings are taking place," President Paul Kagame told Reuters.



Unrest in Kenya since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election last month has killed about 850 people. Though Kenyans are horrified by the brutal events in their usually peaceful nation, the situation is far from the ethnic slaughter that killed 800,000 in Rwanda in a three-month killing spree that shocked the world in 1994.


Kagame said the Kenyan army might have to take over before things get worse. "I know that it is not fashionable and right for the armies to get involved in such a political situation. But in situations where institutions have lost control, I wouldn't mind such a solution," he said.
"I tend to believe that the Kenyan army is professional and has been stable," he added in the interview late on Tuesday.


Kagame, a former rebel leader who marched on Kigali as the genocide was taking place, said he backed mediation efforts headed by former U.N. head Kofi Annan, and that any military takeover should only be temporary.


"I tend to suggest that maybe whatever in terms of leadership that is there should be swept aside and space be created for people to go back on the drawing board and settle their grievances," Kagame said.


As with other countries in the region, Rwanda's economy has been affected by the chaos in Kenya, as goods and fuel which travel by road from the Indian Ocean coast have been blocked.
Kagame said Kenya ought to learn a lesson from the central African country's bloody history.
"It starts with five deaths, then 10, then 50, shortly it grows to 100, then it goes to thousands ... By the time you realise, it has a dimension that is wiping out life in villages and communities and is getting out of control and the whole political situation is in a mess," he said. "There's a serious tragic situation taking place in Kenya, especially when you look at the numbers of people that are being killed, how they are being killed. Despite all mediation efforts you see a situation not getting better but worse."


Kagame said he knew his suggestion of military intervention was a radical one. "I might sound controversial but in the wake of such senseless killings with no immediate solution, if anybody suggested that (military) option to me, I would say I agree with it," he said.

"It is not too late for Kenyans to look back and see how our country went down the drain in the past and I don't think we would wish a similar thing for any country." (Editing by Wangui Kanina and Giles Elgood)

Im afraid we will be forced to remove kibaki by force

I watched both Kibaki and Railas last rallies at Uhuru Park and Nyayo stadium respectively. The rallies were jam packed even though the nyayo stadium one had more people.

On that day, Raila pulled out both a red and a yellow card and symbolically showed them to Kibaki. After asking Nairobi residents to vote “three piece”, he the finished by giving Kibaki a warning, the warning was against an attempt at rigging. He told him that Kenyans would not let him get away with such an action. My guess is that Kibaki and cronies thought that they would rig, simply hoodwink the international community then get away with it. Besides they were assured of keeping everybody in check with the help of police, GSU and Musevenis boys: http://radiokatwe.com/kibakialimuonam7080115.htm. They supposed that if ODM refused to go to court then it would look bad in the eyes of the world. But should ODM go to court then Justice Gicheru and co. were waiting to scatter their case. It shocked Kibaki that the world understood that “his” courts were filled with his cronies and that there would be no justice served if ODM attempted to sue.

What they did not anticipate is the outpouring of anger from every quarter of Kenya. Infact, the government spokesman Dr. Goebbels Alfred Mutua aka Baghdad Mutua stupidly tried to assure Kenyans that this problem would melt away in a couple of days. Well, here we are day 20 after Kibaki stole the vote and there is no sign of the problems going away. The GSU have been used to kill people but unfortunately this has not and will not prevent Kenyans from demanding their rights. All they are asking for is justice.

The shoot to kill order in Kisumu and Eldorate has not deterred Kenyans from coming out in large numbers to demonstrate against the illegal government. The torching of business premises in Kisumu/Eldorate towns by the security forces has not also prevented people in these towns from soldiering on.

Kibaki and cronies have to either choose the bullet or the ballot, for there is no two way about it. Kenyans always preferred the ballot but in case Kibaki chooses the bullet as a means of perpetuating himself on power then like the late Mobutu he will have to drop everything else and concentrate on protecting the illegally acquired power. That the MP for Othaya stole the vote is not in dispute internationally http://www.economist.com/world/africa/d … d=10438473 or nationally.

I have always advocated against economic sanctions because it’s the poor who suffer afterall. If EU/US rules to sanction Kenyan then I will without fear of contradiction say that the displaced will never ever go back to the properties they were chased away from. Which will be ashame, given that Kibaki can decide any minute to defuse the situation. Its strange that the illegal government cannot see the peoples anger.

We the people of Kenya must first try removing Kibaki using legal means but should that fail, then I would not be surprised if he were removed through illegal means.

The flawed election in Kenya was a catalyst

These days as in the Moi days, you have to read foreign newspapers in order to get accurate non edited information on Kenya. I’m now read Ugandan and Tanzanian newspapers than Kenyan. Journalists on the other side write without fear of intimidation. Our journalists have coiled back into their shells and just pretend to report. Even our TV stations which used to be bold have been cowed and forced to heavily edit in favour of the government. Have a look at this: http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/20/607824

The explosive situation that plunged Kenya into a blood-bath early this month took many by surprise. Kenya was the stable democracy, the one everyone pointed to when they wanted to show what African countries mired in civil crisis were capable of becoming when they reach political maturity.

There was absolutely no indication that there was an underbelly to the calm, a dark side capable of exploding at any time like a volcano. So, what went wrong, they asked themselves, why such deadly expressive fury with no apparent parallel in the immediate history of democratic process in Africa. But those who will take the time to analyse in great detail the events in Kenya in the early part of 2008 will notice that there was certain logic to the illogical violence that followed the election. No violence could ever be condoned, and the killing of scores of innocent Kenyans must be condemned in the strongest terms, and the perpetrators, if known, should face the full weight of Kenyan law. Nonetheless, we must try to understand the thinking that came into play when the killings began. The flawed political process was only a catalyst for the fury that swept through the once peaceful country. But was everything really okay until this moment of insanity? Not at all. The combination of factors includes extreme poverty, media, education, and a system operating out of time with the rest of the world. Kenya is not a very poor country by all standards, but there is a growing populace that feels poverty in its own skin. The biting unemployment is partly due to many moving from the countryside into poor slums, hoping to find jobs that are not there. Meanwhile, the economy is not responsive enough to give hope to those who are marginalized, who feel hopeless and, at times, even helpless. Yet against this is an education system that continues to churn hopeful graduates from primary, secondary and university, promising them a piece of the pie if only they work hard enough at school. Put aside all the petty urges you feel now for a bigger reward at a later date, it says. Adult literacy is now kicking close to 75 percent, clearly one of the highest on the continent. Yet, despite what many have been conditioned to believe is the gateway to prosperity and the good life, education cannot deliver. Here’s where the media comes into play. I am not talking about political talking heads that are ever so eager to pounce on everything that anyone says to fan the flame of discord. I am talking about media in general as avenues of knowing more about the larger world out there, how other people live. The expansion of print, radio, television and other form of information technology has only sharpened the appetite of the literate Kenyan (read that as African) to think beyond his or her immediate border or town. Think about it—here is someone who has been taught to read and who has access to multiple sources of information, including the venerated mobile phone, and can instantly find out what is happening in one area of the country or the world within a minute—how is such a person supposed to live the life of extreme poverty with little hope for tomorrow? Many of those graduates who have bought education’s pie-in-the-sky dream have had a rude awakening, pounding the streets hunting for jobs that do not exist. Frustrated, many begin to erroneously believe that to get ahead you need to know someone or that you need to belong to the right ethnic group to get that choice job. While there will always be instances of nepotism and ethnic-based favouritism in deciding who gets what and when, this does not explain the scores of unemployed young people of all ethnicities pounding the streets of Nairobi and other urban centres in the country. There is no way all of Kenya’s whopping 40 percent unemployed people can come from just one ethnic group. Yet within these oppressive conditions for the educated poor, the political elite has continued to operate out of time as if it were back in the 1940s when the African was a porter for the colonial master and only knew how to say “Yes Sir!”, “Right away Sir”. When blatant lies and propaganda are peddled, the thinking is that the masses will swallow it hook, line and sinker. The problem is that the masses are already aware, and politically savvy enough to distinguish what Americans refer to as “bull****”. These cocktail of realities (and I am sure smarter people than me will find more) collided with deadly effect for Kenya.

The election was not just flawed; it was stolen by the ruling elite, sending those already marginalized by biting poverty into frenzy. Now, they knew why they were poor, sick and stuck on the unemployment line. They would be damned to stand by idly while the very thing they had hoped would change their lives was taken away from right under their noses. Never mind that unemployment would have likely remained just as high if the ODM had assumed power on January 1, 2008. But that’s neither here nor there—for many, the Kibaki government had acted with such pure malice akin to jabbing them with spears. They will show them—the problem is that “them” became innocent Kenyans who had nothing to do with the chaos. And so, without stopping to think that the very people with whom they were suffering, and with whom they would continue to suffer, friends began targeting friends. Those guilty by association, in this case, by ethnicity became the enemy. When the only crime they had committed was really to be poor and Kikuyu (if they were rich, they would not be anywhere near the epicentre of the bloody chaos). The lesson for the rest of Africa aspiring for democracy is very simple. Education without the improvement of standard of living for the populace is an empty promise. Secondly, old political machination will not work very well anymore in Kenya or elsewhere on the continent.

The African has arrived at least on one point—that of being sufficiently educated to read between the lines to know when he is being taken to the cleaners. He will not suffer fools for anybody. Now, if they have not figured it out yet, Kenyans will find out that ethnic politics does not explain why they are poor and hungry and disillusioned. A corrupt, cynical and negligent political system does.

From colonialism to dictatorship

Kenya has come full circle and still heading in the wrong direction. The people first complained and rebelled against colonialists who eventually caved in to our demands of freedom. As soon as the freedom was won, Jomo Kenyatta implemented the first dictatorship. In the process made sure that he and his ilk made the majority of kikuyu landless. As soon as the kikuyu started grumbling, he robbed the Kalenjins and the Mijikenda of land to pay his tribesmen. Land belonging to the maasai was also grabbed at will. Nobody was expected to say ngwe, if you did ngwe then Kamiti would be your final destination if you were lucky, otherewise ngong forest would also do. Kenyatta was replaced by another corrupt dictator called Daniel Moi. He continued looting the country of its resources, detaining, and humiliating, killing and maiming people. When he was finally shown the door, Raila Odinga literally made Kibaki the president of the republic. Kenyans had hope in Kibaki and the Narc team. No sooner had he ascended power then he sacked non kikuyus from his government. Only “yes” sayers would be allowed.

Kenyans were shocked at this senseless act but more was yet to come. He decided to make tribally insensitive appointments. Only his GEMA tribe got senior positions as the Kalenjins were literally thrown out of office, not to mention the luos and luyhas. Then the wanton robbing of our wealth through Anglo-leasing not to forget drug running headed by non other the Kibaki family.

Kenyans were so annoyed and decided to kick him out in December 2007. But this was not to be because he stole the vote. It was blatant thievery, robbery in broad day light.

Some else has suggested elsewhere that ODM should seriously consider reason/s why Kibaki would not want to talk to the directly. It might be that we are dealing with a mad man. It could be that he is a robot just being told what to say and do. Is the man a mental case just like Matiba? Who is actually running the government? We no for sure that Kalonzo is just but a spanner boy too excited to occupy the office of the VP, he cannot be anywhere to the decision making team. As I have said before, almost all rumours in Kenya are more often than not true. I for one has chosen to believe the below.

“NSIS LEAK: KIBAKI WAS FORCED AND RUSHED INTO A SWEARING CEREMONY BY THE MT.KENYA MAFIA IN A MEETING CHAIRED BY MICHUKI TOP SOURCES PRIVY TO NSIS TOP OFFICIALS BASED AT THE HEADQUARTERS ARE CONFIRMING THAT WHILE PRESIDENT KIBAKI WANTED TO CALL A PRESS CONFERENCE TO CONCEDE DEFEAT WHILE 90% OF THE VOTERS HAD BEEN COUNTED,48HRS BEFORE ELECTION AN EMERGENCY MEETING CHAIRED BY MICHUKI AND SECONDED BY NICHOLAS BIWOTT AND LUCY KIBAKI AT MICHUKI OWNED WINDSOR GOLF WHEREBY BIWOTT AND DANIEL ARAP THREATENED TO LEAVE KIBAKI ALONE TO FIGHT HIS OWN PROBLEMS AND THEY WOULD FLEE THE COUNTRY TO MAURITANIA IF HE DOESN’T FORCE HIS WAY INTO VICTORY. MICHUKI IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN SO ANNOYED HE LIT A CIGARETTE OF EMBASSY KINGS IN FRONT OF THE CLIQUE AND MADAME LUCY, SAYING KIBAKI SHOULD LEAVE EVERYTHING TO HIM, HE'LL HANDLE.”A TELEPHONE CALL, NUMBER WITHHELD WAS MADE TO KIVUITU BY BIWOTT, TELLING HIM THAT, WAZEE WA NCHI WAMEDECIDE THAT HE SHOULD INAUGURATE KIBAKI OR ELSE LEAVE KENYA WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. HE WAS OFFERED KES 242 MILLION IN RETURN, WHICH HE ACCEPTED AND A POST OF KENYA'S AMBASSADOR TO BOTSWANA COME MARCH, WHICH HE ACCEPTED”


The above has caused untold suffering to many Kenyans. Almost half a million people have been displaced and might not ever go back to their homes again in spite of what happens. Over 1000 people have been killed and yet kibaki sit at the state house unreachable. The man is so out of touch with reality he does not want to appear in person to negotiate. I guess that ODM will find it very difficult to talk to the empty debe Kalonzo Musyoka.

I find it funny that Kalonzo of all the people saying that he cannot sit on the same table with Ruto and Kosgey because the two have a different agenda? What could their agenda be? To get back the land Kenyatta stole from the kalenjins and distributed free of charge to kikuyus?
I believe that there is more than meets the eye in the statement. Since ODM is solid the PNU is aiming to split it into two i.e. pro Ruto and Raila. An ODM operative, who is in the know, has told me that it will not happen. In fact he told me that if PNU brings up such an issue i.e. excluding Ruto and Kosgey then ODM would abandon the talks and use other avenues of getting justice including an armed struggle.

Kenya could fall apart thanks to Kibaki

The fact is that many have been killed and displaced in Kenya. We all know that most of the displaced are innocent people from the GEMA tribes who have been living outside their province. There is no province except central and Nairobi which is not guilty of punishing the innocent kikuyu for mistakes small elite of GEMA leaders made. You have all heard the kikuyu elite insinuating that those demonstrating are from the slums, who don’t know what they are doing. What the kikuyu elite are conveniently forgetting is that Kenya is one big slum. Those who live outside slum and semi slum areas are less than 15 percent of the whole population, which simply means that the voice of the slum is the true voice of Kenya.

The question is; will we let Kibaki go down under with Kenya? Will the displaced kikuyu let Kibaki keep his hold on power at their expense? I do not think that the majority of Kenyans will ever forgive Kibaki for consciously aiming to bring the country to its knees, destroy its economy and kill its people. What Kibaki and his cronies have refused to understand is the fact that Kenya will never go back to normal as long as he holds on to power illegally. He must also realise that as long as the standoff between his so called government and ODM persists, not a single displaced soul will go back to where they were displaced. There must also be a realisation on the part of Kibaki that this could be the beginning of the end for the country called Kenya. Strangely enough there is a common belief amongst PNU diehards that force will see them through. A very wrong assumption, too wrong.

The fact that there is already division in the forces is not a secret anymore. There is a major fear that almost all former top military officials are in ODM. That fear is compounded by the fact that the majority of rank and file within the armed forces (army, air force and navy) is kalenjin. The argument goes this way: Put armed forces in our streets and you will see a major rebellion in which soldiers would be ethnically cleansing each other. The above has precipitated the hiring of mercenaries from Ugandan. If you think that this is idle talk then you are mistaken. Just talk to anyone you know who works in the armed forces and you will surely get the above named picture.

We saw this division very clearly in Kisumu. The local police (specifically non GEMA) were encouraging people to put pressure on the government buy burning tyres and demonstrating while the GSU were either firing up in the air, killing mostly innocent people or begging or robbing people of the little food they had. While the local police refused to participate in killing the GSU on the other hand travelled menacingly in large lorries shooting at anything in sight including dogs. It was unbelievable for they were acting as if they were target practicing.

The majority of the people who have died in Nyanza, specifically in Kisumu town have been shot by the police. The GSU /Ugandan forces have so far been killing people for no good reason. For example, they shot a lady washing cloths on the balcony of a second floor apartment at a place called Dunga. They killed two 13 year old children who were from Kibuye church. They executed eight young boys and a girl who had gone to see the remains of burnt cars at the department of water in Nyalenda/milimani area, an old mzee aged 60 was shot dead in broad daylight in Nyawita, simply because he carried a bag of sugar which was suspected to have been looted An old man of legio maria sect, shot and killed in Kondele, his only crime; walking and praying aloud (he was specifically killed by a dreadlocked GSU person, the ones rffered to by Kisumu residents are Ugandans).

The displaced are angry at the people who displaced them but have now started grumbling loudly at Kibaki and his cronies. They have started wondering how long they will be living in parks and stadiums. They have begun wondering if keeping the kikuyu elite illegally in power is worth their suffering. This grumbling will soon turn into a deafening noise. Live media coverage has been blocked partly to prevent ODM from airing their views but also to quell the voice of the displaced who have began demanding that the government re-settle them elsewhere once and for all. These are demands that the kibaki/kalonzo axis is afraid of hearing. They are even more scared of the discontent spreading all over the country. Refugees are demanding to be returned home. But how will this happen when Kibaki has refused to recognise the truth? When he has refused to cultivate the culture of good neighbourliness?

A permanent solution to the crisis must be found i.e. re-running of the elections latest July
A temporary solution is for the government to look for a piece of land within central province and settle the refugees while a permanent solution is being worked out.
Kibaki, Michuki, Uhuru, Karua etc should share some of their huge parcels of land with the refugees, at least on a temporary basis, for people cannot live in stadiums, parks and police stations forever.


The ball is not in ODMs court. The solution is wholly in Kibakis hands, for Raila has no power to help the situation. He does not control the state apparatus.

Its Kibaki and Kibaki alone who can save Kenya. Failure to do this will see Kenya disintegrate. Let’s not pretend that Kenya is special. Its not a laughing matter, Kenyans are really angry even though people like Michuki pretend not to understand the situation.


OBS! If Kenyan soldiers are so untrustworthy, why not just disband the military and use mercenaries from Uganda instead ? How does the Kenyan soldier feel when he is said to be unable, when forces from outside are brought into Kenya to do the work that they should be doing? No wonder they are dissatisfied with Kibaki.

As far as Im concerned Kibaki will go one way or the other.