2 Responses to “Proudly Kenyan? III”  

1. 1 Anonymous on January 4, 2008 said:

   I’m with you on the power of prayer. we certainly need God to get us out of this nasty mess.2 Chronicles 7:14

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2. 2 wanix on January 12, 2008 said:

   Pray with Knowledge Brethren…Look beyond the Domo Domo! Where is the truth?THE RIGGING STORYThe international media especially in the EU has taken an offensiveposition against our nation I am saddened that we have all fallen forthe allure of ODMs “truths”. The devil is hard at work and will dowhatever necessary to turn the lord’s people around. If u have readthe details of **** Morris’ Orange Revolution, this was an importantstep, conquer the media.Then, ODM borrowed one more from Hitler’s own handbook, “lie, lie andtop up your lies with more lies and it will become true!” In Meruwhere they claim results were cooked, the public, along with ODMagents were at the announcements of the votes tallied. For example inNithi, the results that emerged were as stated by ECK. ODM agentssigned the form 16 and verified form 16As from all polling stations.The total turn out was something like 95000 out of 126,000 which is anormal 75%.Reports from Nithi indicate that people were not allowed to enterbars, matatus, and shops or even go home if they had no ink on theirfinger after voting! Meru came out in droves to vote! The reason:Raila was booed heckled and thrown out of Meru during campaigns. Hethen asked them why they did not vote Orange during referendum andthen told them that they will cry in December. Meru is greatly angeredby these statements and said that their weapon is their vote. Railawanted to deny them that right. On the night that Kibaki was down 1million votes, he had only tallied 185000/1.7m votes from Central and85000 from Eastern. The delayed votes from Kibaki strong holds waspart of a planned strategy. Many stations reported refusal by ODMagents to sign forms and multiple contest over results in parts ofCentral, Kisii, Eastern and Kikuyu Rift Valley .Meanwhile, ODM flooded the ECK with their results from Rift and LuoNyanza to create an artificial lead. The results from Luo Nyanza andRift Valley as PNU agents, (at an important meeting with the ECK alongwith all other party agents, at 4am) found out had areas with 95% oreven over 100% turnout and some polling stations where everyone voted!Figures from the Daily Nation:-Sigor 115%-Eldoret North 116%-Mosop 97%-Emgwen 103%-Baringo N 92%-Narok South 120%-Bondo 102%-Kisumu Rural 120%-Karachuonyo 94%-Rangwe 92%-Ndhiwa 93%-Nyatike 95%-Mbita 95%Highest in both central and Eastern is Othaya: 90%. Dear Kenyans,Evaluate the rigging claims for yourselves! Meaning that even thedead, the unborn and the terminally ill in hospitals voted in LuoNyanza and Rift Valley! Trust PNU to be fast asleep as this happenedat the polling stations! At that meeting, ODM realized that from thisaudit, upon revisiting all the 210 constituencies with all therelevant documentation that Kibaki had won. Despite all their riggingand tribal inferences, ODM were out! Ruto rushed to deliver word toRaila who went to a press conference late morning. He came out beforeresults were released and said that he does not want to pull off anAbiola (Research on Abiola) and does not want to resort to turningKenya into an Ivory Coast! He implied he would not accept defeat ofany sort.He also told his supporters to be calm until the announcement. Thiswas to give them a signal to cause chaos upon announcement. Later,Raila walked into KICC guerilla style. He walked thru the plenary hallwhere everyone else was seated and stormed into the ECKs privatechambers. With his entourage, they blockaded the ECK from leaving theroom to announce results! This took place for hours all the time hewas coercing the ECK to do what he wanted. When it wouldn’t work hewent outside to address a press conference rejecting anything that theECK would announce!Upon his re-entry into the plenary hall ECK arrived and Kivuitu beganhis announcement of the results from molo. Kibaki led in thatconstituency. Raila himself literally converged on Kivuitu as Rutobegan to involve himself in physical confrontation. GSU had to step inand escort the ECK out as Ngilu tried to grab onto Kivuitu and stophim from leaving. Why was everyone including the media get thrown out?Some press members comprised a large group of hecklers that were a bigpart of the planned ODM chaos. They had to be removed! ECK went to theVIP room and with official observers and KBC announced the result.Another question, why did the ECK take so long to announce even whenthey knew the winner? First, delayed results, second, ODMinterference. The third thing is here. While the agents were at theECK for the meeting last night, the results were apparent and Kibakihad won. His agents reported back to him. Kibaki asked ECK to stallthe announcement so as to allow for the army to assemble at thebarracks and go into red alert as well as to position the policecountrywide! This also allowed time for the CJ to be taken tostatehouse early. A vacuum at such a time could result in militaryrule if there is civil strife! Kibaki was thus quickly sworn in .Raila also wanted to call on a million plus supporters to stream intoUhuru Park where he would be pronounced president and sworn inseparately. The govt took action. It blocked all live broadcasts toavert this coup attempt.The lack of media has enabled the govt to keep out inflammatorymessages that will cause worse strife. Kikuyu in Eldoret have beenkilled like nonsense. In Kisii migori, after the results came out, tenpeople killed in less than 15 mins. In Rift, Kalenjins are killingeach other. In one estate they burnt house after house while throwingpeople out into the street and killing them. A friend’s house was inthat estate . Her whole family, kalenjins, regretted voting for Railaand giving him the mandate to cause chaos. She said that it might beher last day as all her neighbors were out on the street dead! Kikuyuhomes and businesses have been burnt to a crust in all slums. The Luohave destroyed their own home in Kisumu and now Kibera is all on fire!All this for the selfish ambitions of Raila! He called them out as hefollowed **** Morris strategy to the letter !Kenyans chose Kibaki. He is a national figure! He had over 25% in 7provinces and even 17% in Nyanza and Raila had that in only 6provinces and in central and eastern he had just 2% and 5%respectively. Most impressively Kibaki got a large tally of votes inWestern, North Eastern and Coast! We need to unite at this time torefuse militant rulers in our country who refuse to follow the rule oflaw and will take power by force. He blatantly dismissed the laws ofKenya in Sunday morning’s press conference by saying he does not carefor the courts and will not set foot there to settle his grievances!He has chosen to use force and the blood of Kenyans to seize power! Werefuse! We pray against it! He cannot deny us 10 million Kenyans whoturned up, stood for seven and a half hours and even lost our IDs toexercise our constituitional right!We are here and we are together as peace loving KENYANS. Join us insolidarity. We love Kenya too much to see such abuse of our laws andunity! As for the EU, I take a stand to publicly denounce them. Theircomments are based on their own selfish vested interests in thiscountry. The fact of the matter which u all know is that the EU hasbeen a loser throughout the five years Kibaki has ruled! They havelost billions of Euros in trade to the Far East and they are not happyabout that at all.Fact: Kenya engages with China for a large majority of its trade whichwas previously monopolized by the EU .Fact: Kenya has given over 90% of all its contracts to China forinfrastructure!Fact: Kenya is no longer dependent on the donor funding to draw up itsbudget! Kenya relies on local revenues for 95% of its budget with theother meagre 5% shared out between donor funds from China, EU and US.In comparison Tanzania and Uganda draw up 78% and 88% respectively oftheir budgets from donor funding. The donor community is full ofsharks that use donor money to siphon trillions out of their owneconomies!Fact: Kenya has been the torch bearer for the rights of African andPacific nations to have fair and unbridled trade with the EU. They aremaking ALOT of progress. EU has gained nothing from Kibaki’sadministration and wants him to go! They want us eating out of theirhands like we did in Moi’s time. This is neo-colonialism! Divide andconquer. It has happened in too many African countries for us to beblind here in Kenya! We refuse EU control of our Nation! They want toturn us against ourselves so as to take strategic positions in theprocess. They are looking for ethnic cleansing and genocide tooverrule Kenya. Never!Kenyans, open your eyes, the war is not within but with those around us!THE PROPHECY WE ALL IGNORED – IS IT RIGHT AFTER ALL?A globally reputed prophet had on the morning of September 30th 2007,foretold on his website that President Mwai Kibaki would bere-elected(among other 30 highlights on Kenya) M any who saw theposting brushed him aside, he had also foretold of chaos after theelection… now we just cannot ignore him any more.In the prophesy posted on the link http://www.thomasma nton.com./prophecies/ index.php? ctr_id=110&cnt_id=2 , the prophet remainsoptimistic that Kenyans will recover from the current crisis and thatthe nation will have more airlines, a booming tourism industry andgreat development projects.He says that the military and the police will play a key role incontaining the current crisis and will succeed in restoring order.Here are some of the highlights:1. The Upcoming Presidential Elections: “President Mwai Kibaki will bere-elected as Kenya’s President on December 27, 2007. My Hand is uponhim to produce continued development and reformation in Kenya over thenext five years, says the Lord!2. Parliament: Changes are coming in your Parliament.3. Crime and Law Enforcement: I will arrange a great increase in lawenforcement in your nation beginning in this next season. Crime willbe dealt with severely; and it will decrease greatly and even beeradicated in certain sectors in the coming season!4. Conflicts, Violence and Unrest: I saw three Visions of clashes: 1)The first conflict I saw was involving the Mungiki. I saw men inmilitary uniforms going in against these criminals to foil them. Thishappened swiftly thereafter. 2) I saw tribal-clashes. (Kuresoi?). 3)Then I saw a horrible scene of social unrest ~ resulting in violenceand rioting in the streets. ( The post election menace? ) I then sawyour military and police going out forcefully to stop those causingthese violent eruptions.....10. ODM: In the first week of March 2007, God said that the ODM‘opposition-party,’ would be put into derision, and that they would be‘split-up.’ Some weeks later, reports hit the national headlines thatKenyatta was leaving; Raila would have his own ODM; and Kilonzo wouldhead his own ODM-Kenya.11. Embarrassment in Raila Camp: “Some things will come out frombehind the scenes in October and November, 2007 that will ‘discredit’Mr. Raila in the eyes of many . He will not rise again fully in his‘popularity’ after this, says the Lord!” (I guess MOU with Islamists;**** Morris saga; Nazlin’s confessions; majimbo; safaricom deal toAmericans etc)12. Election Polls: The tide of the election-polls will turn; and thetwo front-running candidates will come to an ‘even-point!’ Then, theElection will go the way God has ordained!13. Ousting from the President’s Cabinet: On May 29, 2007, God saidthat ‘a couple’ of leaders from within the President’s Cabinet wouldbe ousted because of their defection within the ranks (I guess Ngilu,Koech????) .THOSE who voted for Kibaki are NOT KENYANS?The impression created by the term “Kenyans have spoken” is that onlythose who supported a certain candidate are Kenyans. My understandingis that those who voted for Hon. Odinga – the MP-elect for Langata,are Kenyans. I am further of the understanding that those who votedfor President Kibaki and MP-elect for Othaya are Kenyans.I am even further convinced beyond doubt that another 20+ millionpeople in Kenya who did not vote for either of the two are Kenyanstoo.Even if Hon. Odinga got one vote, while President Kibaki got 17Million votes that one vote for Odinga is from a Kenyan. If PresidentKibaki got one vote and Mr. Odinga got 10 million, that one vote forKibaki is from a Kenyan.It is this kind of selective application of terms and situations thatis in part fueling the animosity we are seeing.We are hearing of rigging elections by President Kibaki, but we arenot being told why Mr. Odinga’s brother – Mr. Oburu Odinga, waselected in a constituency that returned a 102% voter turnout. A 102%voter turnout is rigging, my friends . Rigging is rigging.Mr. Odinga is a Kenyan and his supporters are Kenyans. PresidentKibaki is a Kenyan, and his supporters are Kenyans.The most pressing thing right now is for leaders in both sides of thedivide to realize that life is so sacred, that there is no ambitionwhatsoever that is worth killing people over. How would Hon. Odingaand President Kibaki feel if those were their children, sisters,brothers, mothers or fathers that were burned while taking refuge in achurch from FELLOW KENYANS?The time is NOW for Hon. Odinga to go on national TV and radio andcategorically tell his KENYAN supporters to cease the wanton taking oflives and destruction of property. The buck stops with him. It is hissupporters (and those loaned to him by Ruto) that are rioting andcommitting genocide.The latest genocideCase 1Patrick is a Kikuyu businessman from Eldoret, where at least 50 peoplewere burned to death as they were seeking refuge in a church. He, hiswife, his six children and a few other members of his immediate familyfled Eldoret earlier today.Here’s what he had to say about the situation in Eldoret and in Kenyaas a whole…What was the situation when you left?The situation in Eldoret is pathetic. It is systematic annihilation ofa tribe, in my opinion. It actually took God to make it to theairport. Along the way, we were attacked by the Kalenjin warriors butthrough God’s grace and because we had requested a police escort, webarely made it through. But in the convoy that we were in, we almostlost one car. But through God’s grace, we made it to the airport. It’sbeen hell. I can say that.When did you know you had to leave?Actually, we knew that we would have wanted to have stayed because wewere born and bred in Eldoret. My parents moved into Eldoret way backin 1940. So we don’t know anywhere else as home, apart from that place.But when we realized that this had moved from the ODM, PNU conflict tosomething much deeper, and that the presidential elections had beenused as an excuse for something else to be implemented, [for] theKalenjins to get rid of the Kikuyus, that’s when we realized that wehad to move out. That was the day before yesterday.How did you leave?We had to request our friends in Nairobi to come to our aid bychartering a plane because we could not access money and we didn’thave the kind of money that is needed to charter a plane. Our friendshere in Nairobi came together and raised the money.“It’s whoever gets out, gets out.”Who have you left behind?Our family is quite large. What I managed to do is to get my immediatefamily, my wife and my children but I have left my cousins, I haveleft my brothers. I am trying to communicated with my brothers to seeif they can join us. But the situation is so bad that we can not saythat we have to move as the whole clan. We are several hundred. Wehave lost several members in the conflict.We have another small batch of relatives at the airport. They mightmake it today or tomorrow. We don’t know. We are still working ongetting the ones who are in town because you can not get to theairport without escort. It’s an enormous challenge that we don’t’ knowhow far we can go because the resources needed to charter this planeare enormous. It costs between 170,000 to 320,000 Kenya shillings tocharter a 19-seater.I told you that my family is expansive. I lost two of my relatives inan area, very young boys. But what was even more disheartening, was mygrandmother. She has a farm in Burnt Forest. When the clashes began,they left their homes and they went to a school, the whole village.The school was surrounded by the warriors. Any second, they could haveattacked the school and finished them. We cried to the police and thepolice did send some policemen. The warriors still insisted that theywanted to kill these people. The police brokered a deal. [The peoplehad to walk 20 KM to the nearest town, without getting anything fromtheir homes.] Those villagers are trapped in a small town. We can’tget them food and we can’t get them to Eldoret town. They can’t comeout.“We really fear that there might be a massacre in Eldoret in the next few days.”Patrick’s wife Ruth chimes in…There is great fear in Eldoret town because people are being pushedinto one central place, at the police station and at the church. Whatwe have seen is that they are coming now and burning the churches atthe outskirts. So far, we know that three churches have been burnedand they have blocked all the exits out of town such that you can notget out of Eldoret town. So there is that great fear: why are we beingpushed to the center for town? What is the intention?What we have seen in the outskirts, the violence is so much. There isno precedent for it. In 1992, in 1997, it was not this fierce [duringpast land clashes]. So there is that great fear among the Kikuyucommunity in Eldoret. Why are we being put in one central place and wecan not get out? So we really fear that there might be a massacre inEldoret in the next few days.You are holding quite a picture on the cover of that paper…? [As wewere talking, Patrick was holding a copy of today's paper in his hand.On the cover was a photo of a woman wailing outside the burnt shell ofthe church in Eldoret where a group of sheltering Kikuyus werekilled.]This is a very sad moment. When I made it to Nairobi and I was able toget this paper. One of my families lives next to this church that wasburned. Over 70 children and women were killed in this church [Mediaand official reports of the numbers vary widely]. It’s barely akilometer from where some of my relatives live. It means that some ofmy relatives, I don’t know, maybe some were caught up in there. But sofar we believe they are not caught up there.This is a very good example of what we are talking about. We know thathistorically, people have warred. They have always tribe versus tribe,for many reasons, some petty, some reasonable. But we know that thehouse of God is a place that, across the world, people respect.According to the African culture, children and women are not killed.We also know that the Kalenjin warriors, according to their culture,because we have lived with them, they don’t kill women or children.So when it comes to a point whereby they go to a house of God wherechildren and women are taking refuge and they kill them there, this istaking the conflict to another level that we believe is not thepresidential race.How surprised are you by what’s happened?I am shocked. I know the Kalenjin, they are warlike. We know, we livewith them, that they have those regiments, they have warriors. But weknow that they are also very peace-loving people, we know that we haveinter-married with them. This is why it is very shocking that it hasgone to this level.When there was this conflict that the presidential race was unfair,rigging had taken place, and we definitely expected some outcry. Wedefinitely expected some people marching. It’s not the first time. InKenya’s we’ve had land clashed, 1992, 1997. It’s not like it’ssomething that is new to us. But the level that this has been taking…Believe me, the death count that you are reading in the newspaper,actually it is over ten times this. The attacks have been undertakenall around Eldoret. All around. All the farms, all the villages. Ifone time, it would be possible to have a death count, we are nottalking of hundreds, we are talking of thousands.What long-term effect do you think this conflict might have in Eldoretand in the country as a whole?We know what has happened in other countries. We know what hashappened in Bosnia, what has happened in Rwanda. Let’s not lie toourselves that maybe there will not be retaliation.In Rwanda, when the Hutus killed the Tutsis, it was fun until thetables turned and the Tutsis started killing the Hutus. We all knowhow many millions have died there. The reality is that, definitely,even if it is not me, there are people who are pained. You never know,it might take ten years, and an opportunity will occur for them torevenge. You never know, anything will trigger it.Right now, the Kikuyus might be killed and everybody is excited andit’s fine and it cools down. And even Kibaki can say he has given upthe seat and it is fine, it cools down. But an opportunity one timewill present itself and this will not be forgotten.Case 2Caesar Wamalika, chaplain at the University of Eastern Africa inBaraton, in Rift Valley, spoke to the BBC to give a personal accountof how a crowd of more than 1,000 people threatened to storm hiscampus unless some ethnic groups left. Caesar Wamalika says he and hiscolleagues are threatened daily It all began soon after the electionresults were announced. A number of groups from the local communitybroke into war songs and raided the shopping centre next to theuniversity.They looted all the shops that belong to Kikuyus and Kisiis. Then theybroke into the rented off-campus houses of some students and then acrowd of about 1,000 people surged to the university gate and shoutedthat they wanted to storm the university.They demanded that all Kikuyus, Kambas, Meru, and Kisii people leavethe university within two hours. That was the only way to save theuniversity from being stormed.They said they would stay at the gate until their demands were met.Three armed policemen arrived and spent time negotiating with thecrowd. Finally the police advised us to evacuate the named ethnicgroups.All of them are armed with machetes, bows and arrows. Some are drunkand others baying for bloodWe put those specified faculty staff and students, numbering about250, into three university vehicles and they were taken to KapsabetPolice station under police escort. They have been there for fourdays. Several attempts have been made to take them home.The police tried and take them to Eldoret international airport butthere were too many road blocks set up by different gangs and so theyhad to return to the police station. There is no way anyone can getout.The situation at the police station is not good. There is no food orclean water , but their worst fear is the possibility of the stationbeing stormed, as such threats have been made. The police are few andoverstretched.No one is safe. There are about 300 faculty members from the Luo andLuhyia community, international workers and students who are stillholed up within the campus with me.We have been having daily threats from the crowds of people outsidethe campus. On one occassion, we had to give a bull for them toslaughter to guarantee us peace .It is a nightmare to meet them. All of them are armed with machetes,bows and arrows. Some are drunk and others baying for blood. I havenever seen anything like this. One needs to be diplomatic whenspeaking to them.Violence swept the country after the elections. We have managed tosucceed in pleading with the militia to allow us transport to sendfood to those at the police station. It took three hours to go throughroad blocks to reach Kapsabet, which is only 15 km away.There has been a change of heart from some commanders and militialeaders who know the university’s administration. They said that onhumanitarian grounds, the faculty with children and pregnant mothersshould be allowed to return to the campus.They also told us students of the other communities should also beallowed back. It sounded like good news. We shook hands. We asked themto transport food to Kapsabet. They agreed and used their ownvehicles.Locked inBut the food never arrived. We then found out that the militia whowere escorting the food had been beaten and their vehicles smashed byanother group .That is the problem we are facing – having to negotiate with differentmilitia groups who all have their own separate terms that we have totry and fulfil. The roadblocks are manned by between 100 and 500people – in some major road blocks you will have a thousand.This morning, as a political rally was announced, the crowd came againto the university gate, this time demanding that we join them in amass demonstration. We feared being put on the front line and probablybe first to face the armed police.Our University public relations officer managed to negotiate with themto leave – but they have chained the main gate, locked it and goneaway with the key. No vehicle can get in or out of the campus now. Wepray that they don’t come again to force us out.There is a shortage of essential items. Nowhere to buy food, we don’thave telephone calling cards and there is no fuel. The market isdeserted and shops are closed. While the situation is calming down,there is still fear of what the next day might bring. We are stillmaking efforts to escort our faculty safely away from the policestation.What needs to happen to build peace?We are peace-loving country and God-fearing. It is said that over 80percent of Kenyans are Christians. Even one of the things that came upin the campaign period was the issue of whether the leaders wereChristians. Raila said he is a staunch Anglican Christian. PresidentKibaki said he is a staunch Catholic Christian. But I am asking, whereare these pastors? Where are these pastors in Eldoret, Kalenjinpastors? Where is this Christianity?I am shocked that pastors that had been preaching for us to begod-fearing, they are not coming out to condemn this. They are quietas the work is being done. And when maybe everybody is down, they willcome to bury us and say a very good prayer.Because in my opinion, there is an opportunity for the church to riseabove politics and take its position. How come this Christianity isnot playing a role here? Why can’t I hear a Kalenjin bishop or aKalenjin father or a Kalenjin pastor or a Kalenjin Imam, for thatmatter, coming out and saying “No, our religion forbids killing womenand children??” If it’s men, it’s another issue. You can claim theyare combatants. And in any war, combatants die. But I don’t believeChristianity or Islam would agree for children and women to be killedin the house of God.So peace-building, the church has to begin. Right now we don’t trustthe political leadership. I want to confess and say, I have not seenKibaki coming out to speak strongly about it. I want to tell you, Ithink Raila has said he is not concerned unless Kibaki resigns. Theperson who is the leader in our area, he is just quiet.So before the politicians can even sit, I would like to see the churchcoming out and putting their feet down. That is the first thing.The second thing, as we are speaking, you might get a report that thewar has cooled down. But we have thousands of people camped at thepolice station and church compounds and they are starving to death. Soas much as they were not pierced by the arrows at their farms, theyare dying slowly.If nothing is done for that, you will be lying to people, saying thatthere is peace.When there are two warring parties, it always takes a third party tocome in and give reason. What we are observing is the internationalcommunity being silent. We know that the international community knowswhat is happening. They are taking it lightly. We know the samemistake was done in Rwanda, whereby the Rwandese started killing eachother, they cried out to the international community. Theinternational community ignored them until up to a million Rwandanswere dead.The same story is being repeated in Eldoret, Burnt Forest, Londianiand kuresoi. This is genocide being done.This is majimbo per excellence.

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