I Told You So

One year ago, i predicted that muzungu would and never serve life in prison in Kenya. I also had a count down for his release,using my little knowledge of our Kenyan judicial system. As sad as it seems, his Lord will have to be pardoned after serving three months in prison. You would serve 2 years just for disorderly conduct!. But the bottom line is that he is white as a pig, and his victim is black; period.
I am now on my second face of worrying; do we have a nice jail enough for him? i will not be surprised that the "jail" "sentence" will be served in one of the Kenyan Hotels. I know this hypothesis sounds too far fetched. But we are talking about a country where judges are taking bribes from both the plaintiff and defendants.

Lord, Change the Principles... or Take them

As we all know, our finance minister is not credited with mastery of numbers.Uhuru Kenyatta biography makes me freeze when i imagine that he is in charge of the lives of 30 million Kenyans. No one, i mean no one can really tell you what the red eyed drunkard was doing with his life, until when he surfaced in the public arena nine years ago. We know that his time in US was not all roses in the academic arena. Why would emilio entrust him with the ministry if the crown can't even count backwards 5 to 1.And which constituency is Jimmi Kibaki representing; Kikuyu's?
Until when we will do away with dynasties, our lives will be under Raila untill 2022,Jimmi 2030... do we all get the point here?. I have one prayer, if the lord would not change Kibaki and Raila, at least he should take them. They are making so many lives miserable.

Anyone Who thinks Kibaki is not Nuts, Raise Your Hands Up

As i wrote on this blog a few months before, baba jimmi has really lost it.I don't mean in the English literary terms, the man i doubt can spell his name in public. The killings in backyard, the man has never set foot in the area, nor just mention or offer public message to the victims. The work of a leader is not to call people mafi ya kuku and repeating hapa hapa, but to inspire and motivate. I just can't imagine four more years with this crown.

Mzungu Can Not Hang For Murder In Kenya

As i predicted in this blog as early as last year, Mr. Delamere's is not guilty of murder, as the court want you to believe; in effect getting away with two kills in two years and surely getting away with it.
As we all know, hung jury is possible if you can bribe can we say Amos Wako. do you remember that wako traveled all the way to Nakuru to "hear" Delamere's part of the story; what a coincidence.
Until we get rid of mzungu syndrome in kenya, where brainy Africans believe mzungu can not go to jail, we have a lot to learn from neo-colonialism

The oil barons in Kenya

Towards the end of 2008, Kenyans were forced to grapple with an unreliable supply of fuel and artificial rise in its pricing.

On more than one occasion, the Managing Director of the National Oil Pipeline Mr George Okungu gave widely televised interviews to reassure Kenyans that there was no fuel shortage or crisis as such in the country. But between December 28 and 29th 2008, most filling stations upcountry had no fuel. Workers returning from holiday, particularly those travelling from Western Kenya back to Nairobi got stranded in Kisumu and other towns.

During the same period, a medium sized oil firm called Triton Limited, which is run by a Kenyan of Asian origin, Mr Yagnesh Devani, and another trader Mr Pankaj Somaia, became legally bankrupt.

Yagnesh Devani and Prankaj Somaia have their roots in Kisumu and it is in Chemelil area within the Nyanza sugar belt, where the first Triton fuel outlets were set up. What was most intriguing is that in-spite of its definite inability to source and service the largest oil order in the country, Triton Ltd, is alleged to have secured a government tender to purchase national oil supplies for a six month quota through the alleged intervention of the Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who is said to have personal and family interests in the oil industry as a major player. Triton Ltd beat all other seasoned firms such as OilLibya (formerly Mobil) and Shell/BP.

Triton had no capacity to deliver such a huge consignment of oil to the nation, and immediately after securing the government tender, they set upon sub-contracting to rivals at a profit without any actual direct importation.

To compound the saga, Afri Global Ltd, a firm belonging to Raila Odinga’s elder brother Dr. Oburu Oginga, who is the Finance Assistant Minister, and which is run by Dr. Oburu’s son - a pint sized fellow called Elijah Abonyo Oburu - was one of the key beneficiaries.

After this scam Elijah Oburu bought a brand new showroom Mercedes Benz limousine valued at Kshs 24 million (US$320,000) which he now drives around Kisumu City.

Another firm, African Oils Ltd, which belongs to the Prime Minister’s son Fidel Castro Odinga also profitted from the scandal.

And not to be out done was the Prime Minister himself with his company Bakri Ltd, operated by one Mr. Mike Njeru who joined the list of compliant firms that allegedly benefited from the tender pool sharing and in turn selling the same to the highest bidder.

Raila Odinga’s younger sister Adhiambo is the managing director of Petro Plus, a firm involved in bulk oil sales in the high seas, thanks to the closeness of the Prime Minister with former Nigerian ruler Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo.

So entrenched is the Odinga family in the oil industry that players advise it is practically impossible to do serious oil business in Kenya without roping in a family member.

It is widely rumoured that Devani heavily funded last year’s 2007 general campaign for ODM team and that those who benefited from Devani were only returning a favor.

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Top govt officials on the spot over maize importation saga (article extracted from the Kenya Times)

Even as the country stands on a brink of starvation more twists are emerging in the maize importation deal that has shifted from an intervention measure to what appears to be a mega scandal.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the latest victim of the emerging saga. Legislators accuse the PM of favouring a member of his family in the maize importation process that is becoming more of a financial scandal than crisis solving mechanism.

The latest hint that taxpayers in Kenya are losing billions to corrupt elements in the government was dropped by Justice Minister Martha Karua who blamed some cabinet colleagues for the looming food crisis stopping short of calling it artificial. An estimated Sh2 billion could have already been lost in the corrupt deals involving maize importation.

Though Agriculture minister William Ruto has banned all exports of maize, rogue middlemen are still getting away with it. Once in Southern Sudan, the commodity goes for more than three times the cost compared to Kenya.

While NCPB sells the maize to millers and middlemen at a price of Sh1750 (US$23) per 90 kilogramme bag, the middlemen repackage the commodity and export it to Southern Sudan where it goes for about Sh6000 ($80) for the same quantity.

The situation is compounded by the fact that thousands of maize bags valued at over Sh150 million ($2 million) have been allocated to questionable millers in what is fast developing into a huge scandal in the wake of a seemingly divided government. Middlemen and brokers that the Prime Minister and Agriculture minister William Ruto promised to eliminate in the maize importation deal are reported to be on the loose and more vicious than before.