Sunday 5 August 2012

[wanabidii] Raila's charm offensive on muslims



 

 
Folks,
 
 
Did you notice what I saw? The plane to taxi without a pilot?
ODM going without a pilot.....!!!!!!...... aaaand the pilot jumping
on board a taxing plane on run-way ???.........will the pilot be
paying a short call visit to Hague expecting to be back on time
to pilot the plane while on run-way taxing......??? Is this not a
Jua Kalulu comedian?
 
 
People, it is time we must build a momentun for Way-forward
for fresh start. We must not get stuck with things that have
failed and are not able to inject new energy for Reform Change
we all want. With defective Constitutional clauses that have
been injected, public mandate legislation for Bills of Rights are
incompartible. Public agenda for good and responsible Reform
change governance must be made effective. Those that are
corrupt or engages in corrupt business and have broken the law
must face the law including Kamlesh Pattni etc., and the law
must be seen to have been fairly served. Goldenberg, Anglo
Leasing, Grand Regency etc., cases must clearly pay back the
aggregate value of public stolen funds to reduce the accrued
fiscal debt. Public must not accept to pay debts that are under
a jeopardy of conspiracy, and are stolen from them by crooked
corrupt unscrupulous politicians. If we keep quite, we shall be
destroying our own livelihood and survival.
 
 
The Truth Must Set Us Free people.
 
 
A responsible leader must provide a guide in a Plan of Action;
how things ought to be done in a manner that produces good
result by making government machinery work favorably for its
people. To do this, a responsible leader must by all means
fight hardest to create a fair conducive favorable environment for
public opinion to thrive. This is failing and this is what we are
fighting for.
 
 
Things must be put in the right perspective before election is
done. If not, the Coalition Government must be disqualified and
put on Legal notice to face non-compliance to Chapter 6 Reform
Accord Jurisdiction Agreement over Oath Obligations.
 
 
It must be done people.......and, no defective or disfunctioning
plane will do..........aaaand, no plane should taxi without a pilot.
It is against all forms of Local or International known law ethics.
 
 
 
Cheers everybody.......!!!
 

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
 
 


--- On Sat, 8/4/12, Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Judy Miriga <jbatec@yahoo.com>
Subject: Raila's charm offensive on muslims
To: "Judy Miriga" <jbatec@yahoo.com>
Date: Saturday, August 4, 2012, 8:13 AM



Folks,
 
 
When a plane is taxing, it cannot be tored to the line. It will have left the
line to taxi with passengers on board for take off. But if a pilot is not on
the plane when it is taxing, something is surely a miss, passengers are
at serious risk not withstanding serious defects or loose gadgets on the
plane.
 
 
Is this it people.......?????........You must be wary and extremely scared
being on board on a defective plane with faulty gadgets.....
Hehehehehe........It is the truth that shall set us free people......aaaand,
you heard it from the horses mouth.......


Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
 
 
 
 
Raila's charm offensive on muslims
Prime Minister at a past function. PHOTO / FILE

Prime Minister at a past function. PHOTO / FILE

By JEREMIAH KIPLANG'AT jkiplangat@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Thursday, August 2 2012 at 05:20
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has reached out to the Muslim community saying he was the right person to work with them.
The PM on Wednesday hosted Muslim faithful from Nairobi at an Iftar dinner to break the day's fasting at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi where he asked them to work with him as he seeks the presidential seat.
Speaking in parables, Mr Odinga said: "the Kenyan plane is on the brink of take-off. It has already left its hangar, has already taxied and is now on the runaway. Now it only needs a pilot. This is where I'm asking you to work with me."
 
 
 
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From: mauricejoduor@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2012 18:41:22 -0400
Subject: [KOL] Re: ASIANS, THEN LUOS ARE OWNERS OF ODM

Warsama,

Are you telling us that you hate Indians? Please be clear.

Courage



On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 3:49 PM, mohamed warsama <mhmdwarsama@yahoo.com> wrote:
BASED on Donations given to ODM in 2007 Elections, one can say if ODM was a commercial investment company, its main shareholders would be Asians followed by Luos. Surprisingly, Hassan Ali Joho and his brother Abu were not listed in the report to Treasurer Magara prepared by MP Shakeel Shabbir but Balala and family shown as having donated Sh 8m. Also missing from the list are tycoons Mohammed Jafferali of Grainbulk and Rashid Sajjad, former Kanu Coast sugar baron.
DONORS-ASIANS
Visa Oshwal 10,200,000
Gymkhana Club 5,150,000
Premier Club 5,250,000
Westlands Assoc. 12,800,000
Kamlesh Pattni 13,500,000
Kamani 45,000,000
Tata Tea 50,000,000
Tata Consultancy 350,000
Tata Motors 35,000,000
A. Walji 7,000,000
Kisumu Simba League 21,250,000
Colourprint 8,000,000 (T-shirts,caps)
A. Pereira 107,000,000
DONORS-LUOS
Spectre 90,000,000
Energem (Spectre 52,500,000
Partner)
Deya 25,000,000
Deya Congregation 10,500,000
James Ongwae 3,500,000
Jane Konditi 250,000
J. Oduol 300,000
Otieno Ka'jwang 3,500,000
Nyanza Petroleum 1,500,000
Govt of South Sudan 12,500,000
DONORS-KIKUYUS
Charles Njonjo 25,000,000
CMC (Njonjo) 5,000,000
CFC (Njonjo) 5,000,000
JIAM (Margaret 25,000,000
Wanjiru)
DONORS-KALENJINS
Z. Cheruiyot 4,500,000
Sitenei 225,000
Sally Kosgei 2,500,000
Henry Kosgey 20,000,000
S. Mwaita 1,000,000
William Ruto 10,000,000
KASS FM 400,000
Joshua Kulei 39,000,000
DONORS-LUHYAS
Paul Otuoma 250,000
Murunga 8,500,000
Musalia Mudavadi 12,500,000
DONORS - WHITE
Texeira 21,500,000
Tony Buckingham 6,000,000
Col. Tony Spicer 17,000,000
Esther Passaris 1,000,000
Adopt-A-Light 20,000,000
(Passaris)
DONORS-ARABS
Seif-ul-Islam 53,450,000
Gaddafi
Najib Balala 8,000,000
Zubeidi Group 20,000,000
DONORS - MAASAI
William Ntimama 5,000,000
DONORS - KISII
Onyancha 300,000
DONORS - NIGERIAN
Ex-President Obasanjo 25,000,000
DONORS - USA
Friends of Senator BO 66,000,000
Many of the above will not be donating this time around for a variety of reasons. Even Henry Kosgey who has been on ice for a year now will not chip in with Sh 20m.
The surprising thing is this ODM Party of Raila which claimed will fight corruption in high places was not averse to taking money from Kamlesh Pattni, Kamani and Pereira who were involved in Goldenberg and Anglo-Leasing scandals.
It also gladly accepted donations from Bishop Deya who has been accused of child trafficking.
What else can we say except that we can conclude ODM is a party of pretenders and charlatans ?
Mohamed Warsama

Responding to Raila Odinga, Sarah Elderkin and the Kanu Orphans – FINAL RIGHT OF REPLY

By Miguna Miguna – August 4, 2012

Sarah Elderkin continues to peddle cheap and illogical falsehoods, propaganda and malicious lies against me in a desperate attempt to defend Raila Odinga's indefensible peccadilloes and rotten office. She seems to have been given a carte blanche and unlimited space by the Kenyan media to divert attention from my book, Peeling Back the Mask: A Quest for Justice in Kenya. Raila, through her, wants the debate to be about me; not about him. Yet, it is Raila who is running for president, not me. It is Raila who is the prime minister, not me. It is Raila and his tattered record that must be scrutinised and thoroughly vetted, not me. Luckily, diversionary sideshows will not deter me. I will stay focused no matter what Raila, his propagandists and groupies do or write.

Sarah claims that she called me "intelligent, well-read, well-prepared, honest, stalwart, upright, hardworking and supremely committed to what is good, proper, right and just" because she hadn't known me well. However, Sarah and I were introduced by Raila in 2006. Despite her amarteurish and belated assertions in numerous propaganda articles, Sarah and I have previously worked very closely in trying to bolster Raila's shaky political position in Kenya. We worked closely from 2006 to 2011, a whole 5 years.

Her accolades of me weren't just published in the local media less than one year ago; they are contained in hundreds of email exchanges between the two of us. Now Sarah would want Kenyans to believe that I am dishonest and an appalling liar. Am I a liar because I have published a book that is critical of Raila Odinga? Am I a liar because I have exposed the rot surrounding her deity and benefactor?

In Sarah's August 6, 2011 email to Raila, she wrote that "I personally think that what has happened is appalling. When I heard of it, my first thought was Moi, and the trepidation with which people awaited the one o'clock news and roadside declarations about their sacking. It is terrible that an action of your office should reduce me, of all people, to that kind of comparison.

Apart from being completely ill-advised that you rid yourself of one of the best brains you have around you (and you have got some nincompoops, that's for sure) this has been done in the most disgusting fashion. Public executions went out in the UK a couple of hundred years ago. They were mourned by some as a loss of spectator sport.

That a man who has been so loyal to you and to the party and put so much of himself into defending it against destructive incursions from outside should be publicly lynched in this manner is something I cannot and will never be able to condone. It is primitive and uncivilized and inhumane. How is this person ever to retrieve his reputation and continue with his life? Was this necessary? It's a disgrace.

And that is not to go into the details. Suspended without pay? Apart from the fact that this is completely illegal, Miguna has five young children at home to take care of. Inhumane or what? What message does this give about you and your office?

You have people around you playing major roles who are irredeemably corrupt. Two of them were suspended earlier and then incomprehensibly reinstated. They were suspended on full pay and benefits. Now you have a man who is totally loyal and not involved in your office staff's blatant, well-known all over town, corruption, yet he is 'suspended' without pay – and this is activated by one of those whose integrity I wouldn't trust beyond a yard away from me, someone the whole town talks about."

Sarah has not stated that she wrote that email under duress. She hasn't denied the contents of that email either. When Sarah accuses Raila of surrounding himself with "people…who are irredeemably corrupt; two of them were suspended earlier and then incomprehensibly reinstated; they were suspended on full pay and benefits; now you have a man who is totally loyal and not involved in your office staff's blatant, well-known all over town, corruption," has she suggested that I held a gun to her head and forced her to write these things? Is she renouncing her own words? If she is, why should we believe a character who would make such serious claims only to renounce them less than one year later?

Given Sarah's self-pronounced experience, ability at conducting unimpeachable research and impeccable character, could she have stated, as fact, to Raila in writing, that Raila had surrounded himself with senior staff who are "irredeemably corrupt" and whose corruption is "well-known all over town" without cause, reason or justification? Sarah knows the truth. She knows that Raila and his office are rotten from top to bottom. Calling me names will not change the truth.

Since I have produced a few copies of Sarah's emails (and I can produce more) proving what she and I knew of corruption in Raila's office, can she produce emails or text messages proving the repeated assertion Raila, she and others have made that the source of her information regarding corruption revolving around Raila emanated from me; and that I begged her (and others) to intervene or "mediate" on my behalf?

Not only did Sarah term my suspension "appalling, ill-advised, illegal, primitive, uncivilized and inhumane"; she also accused Raila of discarding "a man who is totally loyal and not involved in your office staff's blatant, well-known all over town, corruption…" So, Sarah knew of the "blatant, well-known all over town corruption" of the Raila's staff; correct? The same "blatant, well-known over town corruption" that I have exposed in my book and which, she, among other sycophantic paid propagandists, are now desperately trying to conceal and wish away? The question is why? Why is Sarah virulently attacking me for exposing what she herself stridently complained about in that letter to Raila less than one year ago?

Sarah and others know that Raila has been presiding over a rotten edifice of corruption, nepotism, deception and greed. She knows, like I do, that Raila is not a reformer. But she is more concerned about protecting her source of dubious income rather than protecting the public interests. Sarah started attacking me and attempting reckless and inept and dubious psycho-analytic evaluation of me primarily out of panic; the fear that my book presents a serious challenge to two decades of Raila's Machiavellian subterfuge and petty tricks.

Sarah has falsely accused me of breaching an undertaking of confidentiality over the letter she wrote to Raila about the universally acknowledged blatant, irredeemable corruption of Raila's office staff. Sarah hasn't and cannot produce a copy of that undertaking because it doesn't exist. I never, ever gave Sarah that undertaking. I wouldn't have. Why would I have given an undertaking to keep the letter hidden away from the public? Isn't it in the public interest for Sarah and me to come clean on the "blatant, well-known all over town corruption" at the OPM?

The text messages between Sarah and I that she has belatedly produced confirm and substantiate the fact that I have constantly raised issue about corruption in the Prime Minister's Office. Sarah has confirmed that I repeatedly did so when I was employed at the OPM and continued to do so after I ceased working there. Whereas Sarah and others were desperate to keep everything quiet and concealed from the public (hence their desperate attempts to reconcile Raila and me), I steadfastly refused to budge. That appears to be the source of Sarah's gripe. But that is her problem. I have no intention of coddling the merchants of impunity or their groupies.

Between full and complete disclosure of corruption and non-disclosure, why does Sarah prefer the latter? Is it because Sarah is more loyal to Raila Odinga the person and more committed to his presidential quest than she is to the truth, honesty and the fight against corruption in Kenya? Or is it because she feeds from the same trough, as it were?

For months following my unlawful suspension, Sarah kept writing and speaking to me (we also visited each other at our respective homes), and strongly urging me to apply for the various constitutional offices that were being filled. She pleaded with me to apply to be the head of either the national anti-corruption agency or the national police service so that, in her words, I could help fight corruption in Kenya.

In one touching email on August 30, 2011 (nearly one month after my suspension), she asserted that: "Miguna, I am really sad...and feel so frustrated by today's situation in Kenya. Did you read Yash's [Pal Ghai's] article in the Star of last Thursday? He has really hit the nail on the head, and it is so depressing. Corruption is everywhere and it seems there are only very few people who are not there simply for what they can get. Few and far between. I enjoyed reading Wamwere's article on Sunday and yesterday, too (Std). He writes well.

I take it from your article today that you are glad, if anything, that PLO has gone. He was pretty hopeless, I must admit, but now it appears we are going to have a toothless body at the mercy of parliamentarians. Where shall we go from here? Very worrying.

I hope you will share your plans with me (confidentially, of course) when you know what you are going to be doing. Maina Kiai and I have been sharing some thoughts on things in general, and how depressing everything is, and in passing we mentioned you and both really hoped that you would see your way clear to getting up, doing well and being a positive factor in Kenya's future. Kenya still needs you. I am still so upset about what has happened." [Emphasis added].

Were these legitimate and genuine expressions on empathy and grief or were they subterfuge? Which Sarah should we believe; the one now parroting falsehoods against me or the earlier one? When and why exactly did she change her tune? It would appear that she did so only after I made a decision to expose Raila's numerous peccadilloes!

Then, of course, are a litany of arcane, concocted and mangled anecdotes Sarah and others have recently weaved together as part of a fight-back strategy to save Raila's fast-dwindling political and/or electoral fortunes. In a feat of rehearsed and contrived amnesia, Sarah claims that I have exaggerated my role and importance in the coalition government and in Raila's Court, and attempts to deny my principal roles as one of Raila's longstanding speech writers and a former key strategist.

However, rather than deal with each and every falsehood she peddles – and they are now a legion – I will only address a few. Not only did Sarah and I prepare Raila's main presidential campaign speech in 2007; I was the one who researched, selected and inserted all the quotes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Raila, Sarah and I know the truth. I still have copies of all the email exchanges between Raila, Sarah and I as well as all the drafts of that speech. Similarly, Raila and Sarah know that I was the one who prepared Raila's speeches for Minnesota and Denver, among others. If Sarah insists, I can avail copies of our email exchanges to prove these things, including a copy of the speech Adams Oloo plagiarized and the final one I prepared for Raila, and which he read at Mancato in Minnesota.

Sarah and her supporting cast of propagandists must be aware of how easy it is these days (with the use of modern technology) to preserve records and establish the truth about the origins or sources of documents. Fortunately, we are way past the age when Sarah learnt her propaganda skills and journalistic trade; when all it required for one to tell a lie effectively was to hide all the hand-written notes and records from prying eyes. Sarah knows that even in that old tested tradition of note-taking and keeping, yours truly is an experienced hand and can easily wiggle out those gems to prove my case.

The intention of the Raila Propaganda Machine has been to depict me in the worst possible light; even falsely claim that I am suffering from some kind of psychological or mental illness. (It is so sad that despite the Bill of Rights in the Constitution barring discrimination and protecting people suffering from physical, psychological and mental illness, Raila and his groupies believe that it is all right to attack those perceived to suffer from these illnesses under the guise of attempting a take-down on me. Where is Raila the reformer?).

As Sarah told Raila in that August 6th, 2011 letter, reading her lengthy gibberish and those of Philip Ochieng', Wambugu Ngunjiri, Okech Kendo, Kipkoech Tanui and Makau Mutua remind me of Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. It was Moi who termed each and every critic a 'drug addict and mad man.' During Moi's repressive regime, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Raila, Koigi Wamwere, George Anyona, James Orengo, Abuya Abuya, Chelagat Mutai, Mwashengu wa Mwachofu, Lawrence Sifuna et cetera, were all delusional and suffering from acute mental and psychological ailments. And what was their prescribed treatment?

Detentions without trial. Brutal tortures. Exiles. Harassments. Stigmatizations. The same prescriptions Sarah, Ochieng', Mutua et al are currently peddling in response to the publication of my book, are the same ones Moi and other African 'Strong Men' used to 'deal' with their real or perceived opponents. These aren't new, creative or original tricks. Unfortunately for these Kanu Orphans and Raila Groupies, some of us aren't scared or deterred.

As I argue in the book, ad hominem is the tested weapon of the lazy, the cowardly, the malicious and the intellectually impotent. Competent people capable of debate don't hurl abuse at their true or perceived opponents; they reason, debate and argue. Unfortunately, what I have been reading doesn't constitute reason, debate or discussion. They don't add to any body of knowledge.

Readers and history have a way of distilling quality out of literary works. Writers write books. Critics, if they are competent and ethical, critique those books. Smear campaigns, however, have never passed the squat test for literary criticism. I have no intention of critiquing my own books and this shouldn't be misconstrued as an attempt to do that.

Cheap propagandists like Sarah peddle false and concocted stories about my alleged working for certain undisclosed politicians, before dramatically turning around and asserting that I have "attacked everybody." So, which is which? They can't have it both ways. Raila has also dramatically claimed that I have written 'glowingly' about his political opponents. May I know from the Right Honourable Prime Minister where such glowing statements appear in my book? Or is it possible that he has been reading the version his groupies criminally pirated and have been disseminating unlawfully?

None of the so-called critics has clearly stated which chapter, paragraph or line they disagree with and why. Writing a book – any book – is a tedious and onerous undertaking. It takes time and careful thought, reflection and introspection. The more original a book is the more one does not encounter reference to dead or living writers. Memoirs are about one's life; not how many books one has read and cited. This isn't a text book. However, it is, like with virtually all written work, an intellectual undertaking. Whereas lazy writers (especially half-baked lawyers who have never entered a courtroom to argue a case like Makau Mutua) fill their texts with reference upon reference of other people's works, original writers do not. Through writing, we share ideas, experiences and thoughts.

One of the central arguments in the book is that faced with adversity – both natural and artificial – we, individually and collectively - are capable of overcoming them if we are disciplined, persistent, hard-working, honest and courageous. I have given numerous examples when, as an 11-year-old boy, I used these qualities (which we are all born with and can harness) to overcome harsh and near fatal conditions in Lambwe Valley; how I utilised them to escape into exile after I had been abducted, detained incommunicado and tortured for 14 days at the Nyayo Torture Chambers; how I managed to succeed against all odds in exile; et cetera.

Within ten days following the book launch, hundreds of readers – especially young ones - have so far confirmed that these incidents have inspired them rather than made them feel envious, jealous or dejected. If my book can inspire just one life and help that person overcome adversities, I would be a happy man. Fortunately, so far, a lot of readers have confirmed that the book has made a significant difference in their lives. That's invaluable.

However, there are some people who have attempted to twist portions of my book and desperately tried to assassinate my character. Some of these people are trying very hard to selectively quote sections of my book, concoct stories and leak and misrepresent some internal memos and briefs to paint me as a liar and even a mad man.

Ironically, the same people trying to besmirch my character on the basis of an absolute acquittal over false charges, have strongly defended Raila Odinga whose prosecution for treason arising out of the 1982 attempted coup, was based on a technicality. Why haven't they accused Raila of mass murder and mayhem that followed the 1982 attempted coup? Double standards would not do. How about Nelson Mandela, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Jomo Kenyatta and many other freedom fighters that were convicted and served long sentences for all manner of alleged crimes?

Some clueless (yes, clueless!) people have even suggested that my book cannot be believed because it doesn't include this settled case, where I was completely vindicated. Why must it be there? Let me say this much: There are lots of ignorant people trying to sound intelligent on issues they know either nothing about or are manufacturing. Writing a book, as I have stated before, is an onerous task. It takes time and goes through many processes. The original complete manuscript of Peeling Back the Mask was more than 600,000 words, approximately 1,500 pages. It was a mammoth of a manuscript. My editor and publishers wanted to release two volumes of the book; the one dealing with my background and the so-called "Raila Years." I seriously considered their proposals and declined. The reason was simple: most of the shouting mobs would have only read (if at all) the politically-charged "Raila Years" and ignored the portions dealing with my earlier life. The so-called "Raila Years" would either have taken over my life, or been presented as the most significant years of my life while in truth they aren't.

However, in resolving to have my life story told in one volume at this stage, my editor and publishers insisted on paring down the book significantly. In fact, Peeling Back the Mask is only half of the original manuscript. Hence, a lot of material, some by far pithier and perhaps even more significant than some of the portions we retained, has been reserved for another day. That partly explains why I said during the launch on July 14th, that I have another book ready, which I can release at any time of my choosing.

Readers need to understand that writing a book is not the same thing as oral narration. The process of writing requires more conscious discretion, distillation, analysis, synthesis and artistry (not that oral narrations do not). Words cannot simply be strung together and bound up lazily like Makau Mutua often does in his column in the Sunday Nation. One can perhaps get away with it in either our dreary and lazily edited newspapers or in self-published books. Supposed law teachers like Makau are some of the most intellectually lazy people I have met in my short life. Law texts and case books are routinely just a collection of other people's labour – reproduced judgments, articles and chapters in books. Nothing creative or original there. Unfortunately, in Kenya (and it now appears even in Buffalo, USA), regurgitations and citations are elevated above originality. So, I sympathise with Makau's inability to read, comprehend and write. We need not blame him for he doesn't seem to have recognised his shortcomings and therefore cannot address them. It's perhaps too late to teach an old dog new tricks! But he committed something akin to an intellectual criminal offence when he deliberately attempted to put words in my book.

Makau claimed – without citing the page and text where such an expression appears - that I called somebody a dog. (He doesn't even say who it is because no such statement exists in my book). The incident Makau desperately attempted to misconstrue refers to a quotation of Raila referring to James Orengo (during Orengo's Mageuzi period) as a dog. I quoted one of Raila's body guards telling me that. It is the height of intellectual dishonesty for Makau to try to blame me for Raila's infractions. Unfortunately for Makau, he can't get away with it.

Makau and Ochieng' are merely reacting (I must confess very ineffectively) to my criticisms of them in Peeling Back the Mask. They are allowed to drown in their own pseudo-intellectual spittle.

It has been interesting reading about purported refutations of my book based either on total ignorance of the contents of the book or bald-faced lies and propaganda.

Undeniably Sarah Elderkin is an employee of Raila Odinga. She is also a very good writer, and until recently, I considered her one of my friends. She is paid handsomely to write speeches, propaganda skits and Raila's memoirs, which she has been labouring to write for the past ten years. (Why isn't she disclosing this in her by-line, or is she ashamed to be associated with Raila? Or perhaps jealous of her inability to complete writing Raila's memoirs that she has been getting paid for the past fifteen years?) By the way, I have more friends – male and female – than the reclusive and paranoid Sarah could ever expect to have.

But it is also a fact that at all the material times; she was never formally employed by the government, had no authority to access government files or information and never attended any government function or meeting. I don't recall seeing Sarah in Toronto in October 2006 when Raila visited me there. She did not accompany Raila to Denver or to Minnesota, but I did. She wasn't in Kilaguni, Geneva, Chicago, Kampala or Buffalo when I visited those places as part of government delegation, or with Raila Odinga. Sarah wasn't present at the Mount Kenya Safari Club meeting with Raila, James Orengo, Anyang' Nyong'o and I when we discussed the Maize Scandal. Sarah wasn't a member of the Raila Think Tank or the ODM Strategic Team and wasn't privy to any of the discussions by these groups. She wasn't privy to any of the incidents and factual statements in my book that she purports to refute. In fact, in most instances, she has ended up substantiating my statements; only quibbling with a few details. What makes Sarah think that her non-existent records and memory are more accurate than my existing ones?

How can she speak authoritatively about meetings she never attended? Why would anyone choose to believe her – or indeed any of the propagandists that have emerged from the woodworks? I have detailed minutes and documents with signatures to prove my case. What I have is ironclad. It's irrefutable. It's incontrovertible. That's why I am not bothered with empty threats and frivolous propaganda.

Then there are baseless allegations that I pleaded with Raila through Patrick Quarcoo for reinstatement. Now that Raila has repeated this scandalous claim in his exclusive interview with the Sunday Nation, wouldn't it have been neater for Mr Quarcoo to confirm or deny it? It's plainly manufactured. Quarcoo can speak for himself. His silence and that of 99.99% of people mentioned in the book tells a very good story; doesn't it? Raila didn't just send Patrick to me; he also sent Salim Lone and Prof Edward Oyugi to me; to beg me to return to his office. (That's what Salim and Oyugi told me. Let them deny it.)

I have never begged Raila or anybody else for anything. I am more than capable of supporting my family. Unlike Sarah who depends on Raila to pay her expensive rent in Nairobi and a mortgage in the UK; I own my house in Nairobi and owned the one in Canada before I relocated to Kenya in 2007.

Raila's ridiculous claim in an interview with the Sunday Nation that I am allegedly 'being funded by the National Security Intelligence Service and his political opponents' say more about Raila's state of mind and ineffectiveness than about me. After all, isn't he, as prime minister, the coordinator and supervisor of the execution of all government functions, including that of the NSIS? May we know who paid Raila for his book Raila Odinga: An Enigma in Kenyan Politics? Since Raila seems to believe that the NSIS is responsible for the publication of political memoirs in Kenya, did they also pay him for his Enigma book?

Instead of speaking rubbish, why can't he produce the evidence upon which he is making such bald-faced allegations? After all, doesn't he get NSIS reports on a daily basis? I not only visited Canada last year even after my unlawful suspension; I have visited Canada each year since I relocated to Kenya in 2007. Why does Raila sound desperate? Has he been withholding my dues and personal effects in order to reduce me to a pauper?

Typical of the hypocrite he is, Raila is now openly courting and associating with Maina Njenga, reputed to be the leader of the most vicious and barbaric criminal gang in this country's history. All for the greed of power!

Let Raila deal squarely with corruption, nepotism and abuse of power claims detailed in my book. Let him address his leadership failures. Let him acquit himself of the serious charges that he is not a reformer but a turn-coat. Let him deal with my charge – which I repeat here – that he has become a merchant of impunity. Why is he trying to defend his two senior staff who has been implicated in more than a dozen corruption cases? Why is he retaining Mohamed Isahakia as his Permanent Secretary after the High Court ruled that he had stolen public houses in the Woodley Estate? How about the NHIF houses; hasn't Isahakia openly admitted through a recently released 'audit report' (which he signed) that he illegally acquired houses in a scheme intended to help Kenyans of modest means? How about other ODM cabinet ministers and assistant ministers implicated in corruption and other serious crimes; why hasn't Raila fired even one of the culprits?

Raila should be told that Kenyans know who Caroli Omondi works for; just as they know who Joshua Kulei worked for under retired President Moi. Why is Raila insinuating that he is the embodiment of reforms in Kenya; he isn't. He used to be a soldier with many others. But he long abandoned the struggle for the transformation of Kenya and has become one of the worst Kanu Orphans. Let him declare his wealth and how he acquired each and every shilling since he became a politician. Threats will not do. Not with me anyway.

Raila and his desperate groupies have clearly not read the book carefully, or at all. I urge everyone to relax and read the book before some of them perish of unnecessary heart attacks and/or emotional explosions.

Raila is not a reformer. He is a political conman. Diversionary tactics will not work with me. Raila is the one running for president; not me. He is the one holding an important public office; not me. He is the one we are paying through our taxes to uphold the Constitution and respect the law. Raila must be audited and vetted thoroughly.

 

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Mr. Miguna Miguna is an author; a Barrister & Solicitor in Canada;

and an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya

 

 

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