Senator Mike Sonko LEADS in Approval Ratings in a POLL Conducted by INFOTRAK

Nairobi senator Mike Sonko has the highest approval ratings among elected leaders in the country. In an internal poll conducted by Infotrack, the bad ass senator leads the pack months to the general election. The poll result uploaded in infotruck website are published and can only be accessed via PAY PER VIEW basis.

The public may never get to know the results as the poll is pay per view only. To see the poll results one must pay Kshs.210,000.

Senator Sonko has declared interest in the Nairobi governor race and is likely to square it out with Hon Dennis Waweru for the Jubilee ticket before meeting CORD Supremo Evans Kidero.

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Kenya Relegated to a Regional JOKE, Lost Oil Pipeline to Tanzania and Sudan Peace deal to Ethiopia

When IGAD then under the Chairmanship of President Uhuru Kenyatta attempted to dictate to Dr. Riek Machar the terms for Sudan Peace Agreement, adding a rider that IGAD and EAC will not recognize ‘unconstitutional means’ to capturing power, Dr. Riek Machar went back and intensified his onslaught on President Kiir.

The peace in Sudan failed then. And it failed 10 more times. IGAD pulled out of it. EAC pulled out of it. Dr. Machar removed both Kenya and Uganda as partners for peace. It took Dar-es-salaam to first ‘reconcile’ SPLM/SPLA-IO and the SPLM/SPLA government in Juba.

Then Dr. Machar started building an international coalition to understand, first and foremost, their own stakes in South Sudan.Soon China and America knew the war had taken a geopolitical character. The big boys, using UN, were now fully involved, with something to win or lose.

Ethiopia realized the folly of IGAD and took a neutral position, supporting both SPLA (Kirr) and SPLA-IO (Machar) in equal measure. It also hosted Machar and his men, in their thousands.

Today, as the two Sudanese Leaders signed a new agreement to form a transitional government of national unity and start the process for full stability, Kenya’s absence in Juba spoke volumes of the paper tiger we’ve become.

Conflicts where both sides can access guns, including hand propelled grenades, cannot be resolved in the image and likeness of Kenya’s 2008 National Accord. The gun is a just equalizer.
Peace to South Sudan.

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WHY I MOURN Former First Lady Mama Lucy Kibaki, she was MUCH BETTER than Margret Kenyatta

By Seth O
Former First Lady Mama Lucy Kibaki may be hated for so many things, many that perhaps were out of her individual control but one thing the country, or myself – as someone who observe keenly some of these things – give her credit for is how she brought some sense of discipline among the Kikuyu elite primarily, and other elites who surrounded former President Mwai Kibaki.

Mama Lucy is said to have been very ‘sensitive’ to allegations of corruption, especially where those close to President Kibaki had been mentioned. This way, she ensured once you dipped your hands in the public cookie jar, you never (ever) again use the grounds of state house to give yourself a veneer of respectability.

And once Mama Lucy had turned her gaze toward you, you were as good as done.

History may not loudly capture these things but the fall of Chris Murungaru, David Mwiraria, Matere Keriri and many other senior ministers and government officials like former CID man Joseph Kamau during Kibaki era were mostly attributed to her.

This, to me, is one of the favourable virtues the deceased first lady should be remembered for.

Her style of managing the President is starkly different from the current first lady, who appears to see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing of the many corruption scandals that are consuming her husband because of his circle of friends. With Mam Lucy, the big vegetables knew they were fallible.

What we now know is that President Uhuru’s State House is a free for all cesspit. It houses some of the worst characters in this city, people like Munyori Buku and Eric Ng’eno who can print anything, however unpalatable and unpresidential, in the false sense of worth and belief that they are doing it ‘for the president’. Granted, there were praise singers and court-jesters around Mwai Kibaki, but most of such characters operated from the ghostly corridors of Harambee House, not state house, not our country’s foremost public house.

I speak a lot to, and, with many people in CORD and ODM who were part of the last Grand Coalition Government, and indeed the earlier LDP-NAK government and many agree President Mwai Kibaki was a better man of himself in the early hours of the morning when he had just left the company of his immediate family, Lucy being the rock.

Power corrupts. Tell me any woman who was near power who never nearly lost her head. I read many books in politics, history and even fiction. Of the many women characters, I am yet to find as many. Exposed to power, women lose their heads. Anne Waiguru.

Though the current first lady has cut for herself a public persona of a president’s spouse more concerned, on her own, with the immediate challenges facing the country and has neglected the traditional role of a first lady – that of the last line of defence on most, if not all public issues where peoples’ interests, lives, opportunities, hopes and fears come up against the powerful interests of cartels, capitalist vultures, merchants, middlemen, profiteers etc – history reserves for her a hotter place.
Kenya is worse off because Margaret Kenyatta is playing holier than thou. Why lie?

Ever wondered why the likes of Chris Kirubi, with his many yellow ideas about success and billions never cut it as a critical power keg under Kibaki? Perhaps, Kibaki had no time for intellectual zombies. Perhaps, Mama Lucy couldn’t allow it.

As Kenyans speculate and discuss Mama Lucy, personally, I feel grateful she was the wife of President Kibaki at that point in time. Some of us came of age in the last 10 years. Kibaki’s first term found us just about to finish primary school and second term just about to finish high school. We lived in a country that’s no more. We came of age under a President who was never petty and who never surrounded himself with petty elites. It would have been unimaginable to find Kibaki jailing Alan Wadi. He didn’t have time for that, because people around him didn’t have time for that. The greatest tragedy that can befell a nation is to elect a petty president, or, him who isn’t petty, but has all around him very petty people. People who have no exceptions.

As I thought about Kibaki Presidency, and how we took some of the freedoms and rights secured during his time for granted, I found myself thinking favourably of Mama Lucy. If she made some terrible mistake, at least we know she was true, she was real; she wasn’t feckless and definitely she was not all public relations!
My random thoughts.

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Why Kenyatta is world’s WEAKEST and WICKED President

By Comrade Albert Nyakundi Amenya – The Banana Peddler

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said that “The price of greatness is responsibility” Now I understand why there is no shortcut to maturity.

Honestly, I have a lot of respect for leaders who respect other leaders. Nevertheless, whoever is under the illusion that there is any quality of leadership exuding from President Uhuru Kenyatta must reexamine his illusion.

As a matter of fact, I determinedly profess here that President Kenyatta is not only the weakest, but also one of the wicked Presidents in the world since the departure of Adolf Hitler. The tear-gassing of CORD principals yesterday at the Anniversary Towers signposts how Uhuru’s integrity is shockingly unmet. Peradventure, there is no change without a conflict but elders must be respected.

By incautiously incapacitating Raila Odinga using teargas, the President confirmed that he lacks respect for his elders cum freedom fighters. Is this not the same president who tear-gassed primary school munchkins when they constitutionally remonstrated over their grabbed playground?

Constitutionally, PM Raila has an untenably inalienable right to his political future. Thus, he has a right to demand for a change of referee, if he has the best reasons, coupled by unassailable evidence that the referee is working for his opponent.

In Premier League, when Manchester United is about to take on the MIGHTIEST team in world ARSENAL FC, they usually question the integrity and fairness of officiators. But because it is their right to do so, the referee is always changed to their convenience to avoid pesky post match complaints and appeals.

The incomprehensible abomination done against the Rt. Hon Raila Odinga is not only inconsolable, but also condemnable by all means. In fact, the incongruity encompassed in the process of tear-gassing the leaders will forever remain indelible in the people’s minds.

Sincerely, even if Uhuru wanted to run counter to CORD’s approach towards disbanding IEBC, were there no other channels rather than that of unleashing the entire military higgledy-piggledy all over the city? I am edified that the Bill Of Rights as envisaged, is the backbone of our constitution. Where is that freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and that of peaceful demonstration?

I expected Uhuru to gallantly hold back his wrath no matter how deep he is in love with the controversial IEBC. Instead, he naively unleashed a contingent of crackpots on his senior – Yes, senior because some of the fruits President Kenyatta is enjoying, including the multi-party democracy, were paid for by Raila.
I expected this President to versatilely confab with CORD Principals and comradely demystify the IEBC debacle, only to realize we are living in a country where the rule of the jungle prevails, only the strong survives.

As far as integrity and leadership are concerned, I thought my President is an astutely versed egghead, only to realize that he is surrounded by likeminded Team-Mafisi, only thinking on how to develop their stomach infrastructures.

A Good Samaritan must tell the President that the atrocities he committed against Raila yesterday, one day he will deservedly get his comeuppance. Just like any doomsayer out there, I have an impregnable premonition that Uhuru’s imprudent acts will haunt him forever.

Just like Albert Einstein, I belong to Res ipsa loquitur school of thought. It is an open secret that President Kenyatta begrudges Raila’s rich history. Nonetheless, the fact remains that he owes the Prime Minister a huge debt of gratitude and apology.
This administration continually gives us the ugly side of leadership. From head to toe, nonchalance, bribery, nepotism and ethnicity clouds public activities.

Just name them: From the computer typing error, to the NYS scandal where Ksh2billion grew wings and flew with the help of former Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru. From the Ksh20billion El Nino funds, to the $1.4billion Eurobond proceeds where the partners in crime shared the loot and swept the crime under the carpet. Uhuru Kenyatta runs a deliberate porous system where his friends – those that helped him ascend to power – are on a looting competition, if not a looting spree.

This president does not care about the well-being of his people. All he cares about is his 2017reelection, the more reason why he jealously guards the treacherous IEBC. To him, it takes rocket science to fix quandaries like these.

As a leader of the nation, President Kenyatta has failed to convince Kenyans that he is serious with the fight against graft. Kenyatta’s body language neither radiates nor manifests this. To him, the phrase “leading by example” is a foreign language.

What sense does it make for the President to ‘reportedly’ get Ksh2.5m monthly salary while Statehouse spends Ksh8million a day, Ksh56million a week, Ksh224million a month and Ksh2688,000000billion a year on expenses? Isn’t this one of the primary reasons why he is fighting hard to retain IEBC?

Rather than tear-gassing school children, fellow leaders and other peaceful demonstrators, what has this President achieved so far to justify his being re-elected?

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Former First Lady Lucy Kibaki is DEAD

Former First Lady Lucy Kibaki died at a London hospital on Tuesday morning after being unwell for about a month.

Lucy, who was the wife of former president Mwai Kibaki, died aged 76 at Bupa Cromwell Hospital.

The former First Lady fell ill in March and was admitted at the Nairobi Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.

Lucy had earlier been taken to Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital for emergency care. Her family said she was suffering from age-related complications.

She was flown out of the country over the weekend for further treatment.

In a condolence message on Tuesday, President Uhuru Kenyatta said she will be remembered for her immense contributions to the country’s development.

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DRAMA in Kisumu as HON Fred Ouda LOCKS IEBC Office and CHAINS SELF in the GATE

Central Gem MCA Fred Ouda locked the gates of IEBC Kisumu regional office and chained himself in the main gate today morning .He has been arrested by the police.
Meanwhile, Kondele is just about to happen.

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PHOTOS: DEMONSTRATIONS ROCK Kisumu as Residents demand DISBANDING of IEBC

Photos by Lee M

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