[Jambo] Fwd: The Kibaki Story

From: Tebiti Oisaboke

Ms. Kathogo or is it Kadogo according to my mom's native language? Well I read with dismay and amazement for the sentiments and opinions you expressed on The Kibaki Story you posted to this esteemed forum some two days ago. I applaud you for expressing you personal opinions, because it's your democratic right to do so. Some of the stuff you talked about are true, but the big part of your story is just meer fantasy.

You talked of some old lady who walked into Equity Bank and borrowed Kshs. 1000,000 and made a profit of Ksh. 80,000 in a week's time. You know Kadogo, most of the things you said are easier said than done!! 89% of the Kenyans you said should do the same thing, have tried and failed to secure these so called soft loans simply because they are NOT members of the house of Mumbi!! It's so difficult to get attended to in the public offices in Nairobi these days if you don't speak the same language the Mt. Kenya folks speak. My reliable sources from the capital city tell me so. Public offices have been hijacked by the Mt. Kenya mafia group and they help themselves only and nobody else who doesn't speak their dialect.

You can tell this from the recently released list of the richest people in Kenya today. When you perused through that list, (e.i I assume you did) which people do you think were the majority of the richest folks in Kenya today? Were they not guys from the house of Mumbi? The only two people from the Mwamogusii group were Mr. Nyachae Nyandusi and Mr. Kangwana. Mr. Nyachae is rich because he is politically connected with members of the house of Mumbi through marriage. He is their in-laws, so when they were eating Nyachae told them not to forget their nephews and nices from Gusii. You have to play your cards in the right way in order to end up in the list of who is who in Kenya today.

I'm so very much amazed to read from you saying that college grads should hang on Matatus as manambas and make money to go start farming. May I bring it to you attention that some of us especially from Gusii, don't have that kind of ranches you folks have in Kirinyaga. You will be lucky to find someone with five acres of land in Gusii these days. It is embarassing and demoralizing to tell a college grad to do manamba not unless that is his dad's or brother's matatu. I used to think that we all want to go to college and make a difference in our society. What do you think those high shcool drop outs will think of you when they see a college grad doing a job they are supposed to do? First of all, they will hate you for taking away one job from them, not unless it's a family busness and they will look at you as a stupid fellow who never made a grade in college. That is why you ended up squizing them out of business.

Farming is good business and I absolutelly agree with you, but it's not always a reliable thing. With the global warming of the green houses, the climates have changed drastically and continue some more in the coming years. You might plant your seeds on the ground and the rains go missing to months in the end just as it happened in my home district of Gusii a couple of years back. Farmers lost and there was a great hunger due to failed crops the year before. Now this fall amazingly, those folks from Gusii have been receiving too much rain and in some days in rained day and nights. Yet about four-five years ago they didn't receive any all year round. The crops I hear did not do very well deu to the heavy rains. Now when you say that these folks should think of doing farming, to whom are they going to sell their products to if everyone has the same products they need?

You upraised and commended your folks from the Mt. Kenya region as having done wonders to uplift the country's economy, sports, etc. Which economy are you refering to, when the Economical review tells us that the CBK lost nearly Kshs. 5 Billions? I agree with my other contributors, who reacted to your remarks that Kibaki being a Makerere and Oxford trained economist should have known much earlier in which diriction the country's economy was headed to. He was the chief financial castodian during the Chebukube-Black Gold business in the mid 70s. He was also the VP and Finance minister during the Goldenburg scandle and he never did or said anything. The free primary education is not only a Kibaki brain birth. This was a collective agenda with all the oposition members when they teamed up together to give Prof. Kapropita Toroitichi Arap Moi a one way ticket to his Kabarak home. If you go by your words of give credit where its due, then the ODM-Kenya need to share that credit with Kibaki. What is right is right and what is wrong is wrong, my dear!!

You also say that the ODM-Kenya ruminaries only know how to complain day and night. Of cause that is the God given constitutional right to do so. If Kibaki and his hencemen had honered the MOU they had all drafted before the last elections, do you think that these folks could be complaining today? They're complaing because they were shot changed and nothing else. By the way, Kirwa is not the guy who has streamlined the agricultural sector, credit goes to the S/O Nyandusi when he was the farmer's chief. He did a noble job there and put up everything in perspective. Kirwa is only imprementing what Nyachae laid down as guidelines to improve that sector. Do your research next time before keying in your sugestions.

People like Kanda who doesn't even know what a position 5 does in a soccer field, you say that they have done wonders to revive the KFF. What has he done in particular? You refered to Muchuki Wa Chuki as a wonderful minister who has done a lot to all portfolios he has been posted to. Well, he is now in charge of the nation's security, but to my amazement Kenya is no different from Somalia security wise!! Do you read of crimes going on in Kenya everyday? Everyday, a bank, company, wananchi are raided and robbed at gun point. What has your Muchiki done to reduce these thurgery rates? A lot of people in Kenya have become statistics due to lack of security. What you should have told me is, why can't Muchuki hire these college grads as police officers to help fight clime insteady of them being hired as manambas? At least that could have made some sence.

Besides some parents will be discouraged to send their kids to college if all they gonna end up doing is a manamba job. They will say that a manamba job does not need a college diploma to do that so why go to college? We all go to college to be moral examples to our younger generations in our society. Parents always like to challange their kids by telling them that why don't you be like so and sos kids. They worked hard in school, went to collge and they now have good jobs. But if you are a college grad manamba believe me not, no parent will refere to you as a moral example to their kids. Every parent has a dream for their children, and that dream I believe could be better than being a college grad manamba.

May God Bless Kenya and all presidential assipirants who have a vision and will to bring domestict changes in Kenya once they end up at State House, Nrb-Kenya at the end of this year. I hope the wananchi in Kenya will make a better choice this year and not elect someone who is going to turn our college grads as manambas and swing around in expensive limos, telling people that they have created 600,000 jobs. Manamba jobs could not be categolized as jobs, because those people don't pay no taxes.

Thanks all,
As always stay tuned from,
TOI-KABAKAH; Clt, NC (USA)
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