Photo: Deputy President William Ruto who poked holes on BBI report, he has not confirmed if he will support or oppose the eventual referendum.
Why I am not Opposed nor Supporting the BBI Process
So your children are badly behaved because you their Father is badly behaved, even unleashing violence to silence your wife ( the judiciary) from questioning your bad behaviour that has bankrupted the home. Instead of invoking the Biblical wisdom of “Spare the rod and spoil the child” and instead of submitting to wise counsel from the elders (Civil Society, media, Academia etc) in order to end impunity and corruption (bad behaviour of the children), which is the solution, you marry two more wives to cook more food for these children in order for them to behave better ( Gender Commission, Senate, 47 EACC, IEBC). It does not work. So then you increase the workers by six, by bringing in a gardener, two more cleaners, two cooks so that the two new wives do not work and focus on talking to the children more. It does not work. Then you decide that you need to create new offices for your wives, so the wives and the children stop complaining about your selling of family land and livestock, trees etc:- one to become Vice President, the other PM and the firs born of each wife to be in the cabinet. That is what has been going on Since 2010.
The Father (the executive) and the children behaving badly and we are creating more offices, more commissions, More MPs, more Senators, more commissions, distorting the functioning of independent offices and departments like the judiciary, starving them of operational budgets to make them shut up; That is BBI for you. The Only problem that is not being addressed is IMPUNITY. You bring baby Pendo’s parents to say that no Kenyan should be hurt ever again because of elections- so create new offices at the top; how does that deal with the impunity by the police force which went to her house and killed baby Pendo their daughter? The one who unleashed the killers is enjoying power not because he won elections but because he targeted a region for collective punishment. That is impunity. But blame the victims and give the killers more immunity for their impunity.
More commissions, Councils, offices, more youth nonsensical programs, more MPs, MCAs, more talk-shops at bigger salaries and imported cars, allowances in order to address national poverty and impunity; How will they address it? You are told.. READ the REPORT for yourself; We have run out of money because more officers are a bigger burden and not productivity… productivity is when you reduce the burden, lower taxation , reduce the debt burden and spur growth and productivity and jobs. When we end the stealing in trillions is when we heal.. we need to jail them not give them more positions.
The BBI report proposes more people and commissions including the youth commissions and tax holiday as a bait. But It is only Uhuru, Christina, Muigai Kenyatta, Raila’s, Ruto’s, Matiangi’s, the MPs and Senators children, the Governors’ children (like those Obado children) who will stop paying taxes where as my sisters in the public service earning 48k will continue to pay taxes. This country is filled with cows as Junet Mohamed called us- Raila cows, Uhuru cows, Ruto cows, Kalonzo cows. We are just cows following around. And at the end the day, the only thing you can do is milk your cows before they are fit for slaughter. So the milking goes on. Without more pasture for the cows; Because the cows cannot realize that more employees and taxes, borrowing does not solve the problem but compound it. BBI is not medicine, its fermented porridge. It’s not poison but it is not medicine.
What Kenya needs is not this circus, Kenya needs a Building VALUES INITIATIVE (BVI) as Rev Dr Reuben Kigame urged last year. We do not need Bridges, we are not disunited. It is the guys in power who rig elections and then unleash killer officers to kill our people for belonging to the wrong ethnic community. We need a VALUES revolution to end impunity and enforce ACCOUNTABILITY.
By Cyprian Nyamwamu via FB
Anonymous says
it’s a snake (nyoka, omweri, erene, …… e.t.c.)
No good comes from a snake!
Anonymity says
BBI is nothing if it does not solve election malfeasance. Elections is how people can punish or reward the work of politicians. No punishments and rewards means no way of changing the behaviour of our leaders. BTW, we should get rid of sitting allowances for our politicians, no extra pay for committee work, etc. What are their big salaries for, just for them existing? Their pay should also be pegged to that of a normal mwananchi, for example three times the salary of an average teacher. They can keep their expense accounts. Having politicians earning way above the people means they will never be sensitive to the people’s hardships and needs.
Anonymous says
WHAT’S LACKING IS THE POLITICAL WILL TO SERVE PUBLIC INTERESTS OVER AND ABOVE PRIMITIVE SELFISH INTERESTS OF A FEW TRIBAL CHAUVINISTS RIDING ON THE OVERSTRAINED BACKS OF THEIR TRIBESMEN.
WE HAVE SEEN VARIOUS SINECURE AD HOC COMMISSIONS SET UP TO ACHIEVE NOTHING OTHER THAN BUY TIME FOR THE REAL HYENAS TO CONTINUE LOOTING.
THE HANDSHAKE AND BBI HAS PLAYED ITS PART AND THAT’S ALLOW UHURU TO PEACEFUL COMPLETE HIS UNCEREMONIOUSTERM BUT THERE’S NOTHING REALLY GOING ON APART FROM LOOTING, ENTRENCHING PERSONAL AND FAMILY BUSINESS INTERESTS AND ACCUMULATION OF DEBTS. SINCE ONE CAN’T COVER UP LOOTING WITHOUT PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR IT, SOME POORLY THOUGHT OUT MEGA PROJECTS MUST BE SEEN TO BE UNDERTAKEN IN SOME BEDROOMS TO APPEASE DISENTING VOICES BUT UNDERNEATH LIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO STEAL.
NOTHING HAPPENS IN KENYA UNLESS THE VESTED INTERESTS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOT.
AT BOMAS, SHOW, IT WAS JUST EMPTY POLITICS WITH NO SERIOUS MENTION OF HOW TO DEAL WITH CORRUPTION AND THE IMPUNITY THAT SUPPORTS IT.
OF ALL THE FACES AT THE HIGH TABLE, NONE WOULD LOOK STRAIT AT THE EYES OF AN ORDINARY KENYAN AND CONFESS HE OR SHE HAS NEVER STOLEN FROM “WANJIKU”
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IPPG, THE SEVERAL COMMISSIONS TO OVERSEE THE ELECTIONS, NATIONAL ETHICS AND ANTI-CORRUPTION, NCIC,IPOA, ETC, ETC EVEN WITH ALL THE ATTEMPTS TO BRING IN PASTORS TO NAVIGATE THROUGH GETTING THE RIGHT THINGS DONE RIGHT, HAD ANY SUCCEEDED?
WAJINGA SISI, MERE COWS SOON TO BE HANDED OVER TO THE BARACKS LIKE THE MEAT COMMISSION YET WE CAN’T READ THE SIGNS ON THE WALL.
HANDSHAKE AND BBI HAS ENABLED UHURU FINISH HIS TERM WITH NOTHING ACHIEVED IN HIS LEGACY AGENDA. IT’S BEEN JUST LIKE THE LAPTOPS PROMISED TO CHILDREN BY JUBILEE ADMINISTRATION THAT COVID-19 AND CLOSURE OF SCHOOLS
HENCE NEEF FOR VIRTUAL LEARNING HAVE COME TO EMBARRASS THEM ABOUT.
RAILA WILL BE SHORTCHANGED AT THE LAST MINUTE MOI STYLE THAT OPTED FOR UHURU. RUTO IS ALREADY BUSY MOBILIZING “SUPPORTERS” ON THE SIDES TO DENY RAILA THE POPULIST ACCLAIM ONCE SHORT-CHANGED THE GAME OF BETRAYAL CONTINUES.. HE CANT DO TO JUBILEE WHAT HE DID TO KANU AS JUBILEE RUTO WING HAS ALREADY STOLEN THE GAME. KALONZO AS USUAL SAW THE OPPORTUNITY IWENT ABEAD OF THE HANDSHAKE PROPONENT TO SIGN MOU WITH JUBILEE WEAKENING THE NASA RAG TAG UNITY AND STRENGTH. THE DEEP STATE IS CONTROLLED FROM ELSEWHERE AND BY THEIR ROLES I. THE PAST THREE ELECTIONS HAVE TURNED TO BEGGARS ALL THAT YEARNS FOR THE BIG OFFICE.
THE UHURUTO DIFFERENCES SRE STRATEGIC PLOY AS UHURU HAS HANDED OVER MT KENYA REGION TO RUTO BY DESIGN.. SO?