Help me out here Good People, I have this bone to pick with Jakoyo !!!
..........In fact, I sat next to Obama as we flew from Kisumu to Nairobi when he visited here, and I was saying to myself this man is dreaming badly.....
(Realy, is this what Jakoyo is saying?...that this man Obama is
dreaming badly? Is this what Jakoyo thinks of Obama??? .......
Jakoyo Ametumwa???.......Hebu afafanue ili tuweze kuelewa
anamaanisha nini.....)
All I would love to register in this comment is that Obama is not Jakoyo
Midiwo's equal nor does President Obama have time to talk or respond
to the likes of Jakoyo thinking.........
We are satisfied that the US President is working hard and is focused in
his service to the people where results of the same are positive despite
constant obstruction technicalities from those few selfish opponents who
have hangovers of racial discrimination attitudes dug deep in their souls.
So Jakoyo Midiwo should spare us his unfavorable comments that add no
value or those that improve substance for life in a more reasonable way
keeping it sustainable for the majority poor in Kenya.........
I am simply wondering aloud if in this manner of comment, he is trying to sooth and pasify those their campaign deal sponsors and pay masters whom they promised to reward with godies but failed to pay-back after
they lost leadership of Kenya??? ..........Hehehe hehehe, my goodness,
Shall their sponsors buy it in this sequence........???
Let them deal with their problems their own way and stop scape-goating
others who have no business in their trivials deals if at all their promises backfired........!!!!!!!!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
Friday, September 20, 2013
Spy agency funding ICC trip, says Midiwo
PHOTO | FILE Gem MP Jakoyo Midiwo. NATION MEDIA GROUP
By EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA
Gem MP Washington Jakoyo Midiwo hops from one controversy to another. And like fish in water, the 48-year-old politician seems to relish every moment of it.
From leading the chorus in the Boni Khalwale-led "Kimunya-Must-Go" choir in 2009 to crying foul that plans to assassinate former Prime Minister Raila Odinga were complete, he has kept himself busy.
Two weeks ago, however, the garrulous MP bit more than he could chew and is now serving a four-day suspension from the National Assembly, during which he could lose up to Sh160,000 and deny the Cord coalition the services of one of the most virulent generals.
The American-trained accountant and computer expert, who wears a deceptively clownish face, told a charged special sitting that a country that victimises its own people needed a big brother like the ICC.
Then pointing at his colleagues, he said Supreme Court judges who ruled on the petition challenging President Kenyatta's win were thieves. "Thieves… They are like you," he told a spell-bound House.
DIM VIEWS OF COLLEAGUES
The unrepentant Midiwo still holds a dim view of his colleagues. He likens MPs from URP to villagers and describes their TNA counterparts as mere former councillors.
Q: You have often flaunted the fact that you spent 13 years in the US. What did you learn?
A: Respect for human rights is the most important thing I learnt from my US experience. I thank God I didn't spend my teenage years in Kenya. We are behaving badly here. I returned from the US in 2000, when the possibility that a black man would be a president was a pipe dream. In fact, I sat next to Obama as we flew from Kisumu to Nairobi when he visited here, and I was saying to myself this man is dreaming badly..... (Realy, is this what Jakoyo is saying?...that
this man Obama is dreaming badly? Is this what Jakoyo thinks
of Obama???.......Jakoyo Ametumwa???.......Hebu afafanue ili
tuweze kuelewa anamaanisha nini.....)
Q: How then did you summon the courage to call your colleagues thieves?
A: I have been convinced by my fans that I am a courageous man. The power this coalition is enjoying is a stolen one. Is there any other word for it? In any case, did I single out Jubilee MPs as thieves? No. In my language, they say the people who pass wind are always afraid and look behind their shoulders when others smell it. If we are not thieves, then perhaps we are robbers. Right now MPs are sitting at the ICC on taxpayers' money given to them by the National Intelligence Service. Let them table their air ticket and hotel receipts. Where are bank slips showing they withdrew money from their banks? I am a professional accountant and I trail money. I will not be cowed.
Q: You are now a three-term MP. How do you rate the current Parliament?
A: URP elected villagers — you know, people from the provinces. They are educated, but you can see they lack finesse. TNA elected former councillors. Surely, an MP should be of a higher calibre. Yes, they have the numbers but if I were them I would use them well. Choices have consequences. The Kenyan people voted them in large numbers to make laws for them. Let them face the consequences of their choices. Actually this numbers thing started well before the last election when Uhuru and Ruto went out of their way to buy 50 MPs. They were buying them like BVRs. To cap it all we have a rogue Speaker. This Parliament is unique because we have a Speaker who is not a manager, and a new clerk. Now Parliament is hanging on a thread.
Q: You have painted a bleak picture of the august House. What are you doing to correct the situation?
A: We shall be evaluating the Speaker's conduct. I don't know how a Speaker elected with such high numbers can behave in such a manner. He even told (Dagoretti North MP) Simba Arati this is not City Hall and told another one to comb his hair. A Speaker does not speak like that.
Q: Cord MPs walked out to protest your suspension. They did the same when you were debating Kenya's pullout from the ICC and the VAT Bill. Why can't you face your opponents in the House? Is it cowardice?
A: If I am a coward then I don't know who is brave. Walkouts are a legitimate way of registering disgust. We will continue walking out to register our disgust every time an absurd situation confronts us. We never walked out on VAT. They rammed it down the throats of Parliament. Cord tried to oppose it and I said, 'don't; they have the numbers, let them do it and face the wrath of the people.'
Q: You have said the ICC was made for us, not white people. What do you mean?
They respect human rights. Leaders like Kiraitu Murungi and Kabando wa Kabando are calling Americans imperialists yet just over 10 years ago they were running to their embassy to seek assistance. I am vindicated by the reprimand Kenya has received from the ICC judges. I want to say this, and you mark the date, this 18th day of September 2013, that if Kenya pulls out of the ICC, only God knows what will happen in the Rift Valley in not so many years. ICC is a big deterrent. The Kalenjin have not accepted their land to be taken. The government thinks that they can protect the Kikuyu by building police stations. Let them address the real issues.
Q: And what are the real issues?
A: The President, for example, the other day went to Coast to issue title deeds. If he had gone there to give back the land the Kenyatta family owns in Taita Taveta, it would have been news. If he had given IDPs the land his family owns between Gilgil and Laikipia, it should have been news. They are only buying land from grabbers. Look at the land they bought from (the late Njenga) Karume in Olenguruone for Sh440 million to resettle IDPs. From whom did Karume buy the land?
Q: You come out as a radical. Who radicalised you?
A: I am not a radical, but I read a lot of inspirational literature. I read books on George Washington, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya. I also grew up in the shadows of Jaramogi, my grandfather, and I have been keen on the intentions of liberation. Why, for example, should I earn $10,000 in a society where you live on nothing? Unless somebody says these things who will say them?
READING WHILE TRAVELLING
Q: As the ODM Chief Whip and Deputy Minority Leader in the National Assembly, you are a fairly busy man. When do you find time to read?
A: I read whenever I travel. Most of my books now are bought around the airports. Sometimes I also see books on news and I ask my friends in Europe and America to buy for me. I am an ardent consumer of international media. I watch CNN and Al Jazeera. I sleep heavily but only for four hours between 9pm and 1am. The rest of the night I am either reading or watching news. But I stopped reading newspapers since the Supreme Court ruling. I now only look at the obituaries.
Q: You are also known to hit the bottle rather hard.
A: I know many people would love to hear that Midiwo is a drunk. But all this is a misconception. This is not to say I don't drink at all. Oh I love my Heineken; I love my whisky, but I catch it in the evening and weekends. I touch zero alcohol when I really have something to do because it is a distracter.
Q: What are you reading now?
A: The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation About America by former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw. The book documents interviews with visionary leaders. It is a very inspirational book. I have been reading it for the last one month. It is quite voluminous.
Q: What book would you recommend to Speaker Justin Muturi?
A: I don't know whether he would really understand it. Washington: The Making of the American Capital by Fergus Bordewich. I have read it twice. It will teach him leadership is all about integrity.
Q: Last year you moved Raila to tears when you sensationally cautioned him "Jakom, jogi dwa negi" (chairman these people want to kill you). Why did you cry wolf?
A: It was factual. I have a duty to protect his life just as he also has a duty to protect mine. He would not have been the first politician to be killed. By the way I have been offered millions of shillings to move away from Raila.
Q: Talking of surrounding Raila, you guys have been accused of blocking him from alternative advice, and some blame this for his failure to clinch the presidency.
A: I don't know a king in history who did not have advisers. We will continue advising him, correctly.
Q: It is has been argued that you should have used the opportunity offered by the cancellation of Siaya governor's election to organise a free and fair nomination to win the confidence of your supporters.
A: There was no time. We have been told as Cord that there is fire coming our way. I want now to go and lend my hand in the campaigns. (Siaya governor aspirant William) Oduol is not popular. I will handle him. He is just a beneficiary of the revolt against the king. I am the one who will finish him. Wait and see.
Q: You are a cousin of Raila Odinga and your critics say that he favours you with party appointments. When will you be your own man?
A: I certainly owe my political career to Raila. He is my cousin. We are cut from the same piece of cloth. But he is more than that. We are friends. I can die for Raila and I also know he can die for me. But when he was rising, people said he owed his career to Jaramogi, but now Jaramogi has been forgotten and Raila is his own man.
Q: Philip Ochieng has suggested that Dalmas Otieno should succeed the former PM, saying he is educated and mature.
A: Philip is no anointer of leaders. I don't even read him. Since he called me a Johnnie-come-lately 10 years ago, I lost him. Ochieng is a paper politician and I don't even think people in his village know him. As for Dalmas, he has been around even longer than Raila when the latter was in prison. But if he wants leadership he is free to contest.
Q: Do you think the self-inflating nature of the Luo depicted in the conduct of Gor Mahia fans has hurt Raila's political cause?
A: Why are you criminalising us for being Luo? We have been oppressed for 50 years. We have been denied economic and political power. What do you want us to do? To go to hell or jump to Lake Victoria? Gor is all we have now. Only in the stadium are we free.
A: Why are you criminalising us for being Luo? We have been oppressed for 50 years. We have been denied economic and political power. What do you want us to do? To go to hell or jump to Lake Victoria? Gor is all we have now. Only in the stadium are we free.
Q: But they have even defaced the Tom Mboya statue.
A: Where else should we ventilate? When you are injured, don't you go to your father's grave?
Q: Some have likened grievances of the Luo in Kenya to those of the Igbo of Nigeria with some expressing sympathy about the secessionist attempt of Biafra.
A: We are Kenyans and we have done 80 per cent of the work towards making all of us feel at home in Kenya. But the way Kenya is going it will not be far-fetched to evaluate our working together and think in those terms.
Q: You are a media owner. What, in your view, ails Kenya's journalism?
A: There is nothing wrong with Kenya's journalists. It is the ownership that is skewed and the editorial which is unfair. The media trivialises important issues. The other day we held a mammoth rally in Dandora and no media reported it. Then Ruto went to Nyeri to abuse us and he was given prime time. Even after we responded to his attacks, nothing appeared. We can't go on like this.
Additional information by Julius Sigei
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