Why JUBILEE will form the next GOVERNMENT - masterpiece by UHURU and RUTO

Throughout history, great leaders have come together for the good of their nations. Sometimes these individuals have sacrificed their careers to act for the good of their country and their people.

Today, history judges these leaders, with the best held up as heroes; their decisions having shaped history.

Abraham Lincoln led a young America through a civil war of shocking intensity and violence. Lincoln, a master orator and story-teller, would be killed by an assassin’s bullet before his efforts to keep his country together could be realised.

His goal, however, of winning through and binding his people together and saving a continent from decades of conflict, would ultimately prevail.

The issues which threatened the future of America 250 years ago were complex.

Lincoln’s approach, to calm those who were heated and cajole those who were recalcitrant, was contrary but ultimately brilliantly simple.

He sought to find common ground with his rivals while showing a willingness to forgive those who erred and strayed.

This openness and acceptance of the natural variances of human nature arguably ensured the survival of the US.

Other leaders have taken their countries through what have been described as their “darkest hours”. Winston Churchill was called upon to lead Great Britain through the Second World War. His indefatigable robustness gave the British people hope and inspired them in equal measure.

An often forgotten – but arguably essential ingredient to the Allies victory in the war (in which thousands of Kenyans fought and died) was Churchill’s loyal deputy, Clement Atlee.

Work together

The leader of a political party in his own right, he served as Churchill’s understudy on domestic issues, but also carried his Labour Party’s natural support with him behind Churchill when times were tough. Without Attlee’s consistent efforts, the coalition government, which led Britain to victory, may well have fallen; history could have been very different.

We have taken the decision to work together because, like Lincoln and his rivals, Churchill and Attlee, we believe it is in the best interests of our country.

We wish to find common ground, not grounds for disagreement.

Our desire is this: deliver stability and calm. If we can deliver stability and calm at coming crucial elections, followed by swift action in meeting our election pledges, we can be judged on our work in delivering what every Kenyan needs— better healthcare, education and infrastructure rather than leadership out of the ashes of a terrible conflict.

We are not claiming to be political heavyweights of the magnitude of Lincoln or men of destiny as Churchill frequently claimed to be. But we do believe that history will prove us right for what we are doing. We believe that Kenya has reached a tipping point. The future of Kenya needs careful handling of our people, issues and events in a way that brings all together, not divides them.

In the shadows

We are sure our agreement will find the right path for a stable future for all Kenyans.

United we stand; together we will move Kenya forward. The alternative is too unthinkable to consider. That is why our rallies in all parts of Kenya attract so many thousands coming together in recognition of the need for a new approach before it is too late.

In 2002 and 2007, the elections were all about political leaders cobbling together allegiances for the sake of party preservation and the maintenance of power. This time, the General Election on March 4 is a poll with a difference.

It will be the culmination of the lessons that Kenyans have learnt since the restoration of political pluralism 20 years ago.

The politics of unity and peace has to prevail; the practitioners of the politics of disunity and violence are in the shadows but the bright light of hope people hold for the future must drive them away.

We have always been transparent in our dealings and open in our beliefs as to what is best for Kenya. This is why we are fighting together with new ideas for better healthcare provision, high educational standards, ending corruption and boosting State institutions. Above all, we put national cohesion and security at the heart of what we are trying to achieve.

If we are successful, Kenya can enjoy a new prosperity. If we fail, history will not be kind to us as those who wish to see division and hardship will not be kind to their neighbours.

Our record in the short time we have been in government is in the public domain. At the ministries of Finance, Agriculture and Higher Education, we left imprints that show what we are capable of.

We introduced the Economic Stimulus Package and devolved funds to every constituency. Through it, model schools, fresh produce markets, health centres and others were built.

To ensure efficiency in government, we ensured the implementation of the Integrated Finance Management Information system. Through the system, every transaction is recorded. Fertiliser and seed prices were subsidised, irrigation along the Tana produced a bumper harvest not seen in Kenya before. Great plans for higher education were laid.

We go to the people of Kenya with the promise of economic transformation, national unity, reconciliation and equity. They have heard us. They trust us. We have no doubt that they will give us the honour to make Kenya great.

By hon.Uhuru Kenyatta-Jubilee coalition Presidential flagbearer and  William Ruto his running mate

Citizen TV will be a gutter TV, if UHURU/ RUTO win - URP MP

 A prominent former MP from North Rift who is allied to the United Republican Party (URP) has sensationally said that Citizen TV will be a “gutter television” if Jubilee coalition forms the next government.

The MP who was vocal in the 10^th parliament was overheard saying this during a Jubilee rally in Mombasa.

He said since Citizen TV is officially campaigning for Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) they will be shocked when the Jubilee forms the government on March 4^th.

The former lawmaker said Citizen TV only reports the negative aspects of Jubilee, hiding the positive aspects of the Jubilee alliance.

The MP urged SK Macharia, the owner of the TV, to rethink his strategies wisely, since he was created by the “people” he is campaigning against!
Source:Kenyan-post

OFFICIAL!! CHURCHILL LIVE IS BACK

It’s now official, Churchill live is back on the screens and although it had started as aromour, Classic 105’s Daniel Ndambuki a.k.a. Mwalimu King’ang’i alias Churchill has announced officially.

On his Facebook page which is one of the most liked page by Kenyans he said:

Excited to have the Churchill show back on your screen in the month of February.

The premier show will be a must attend. Gentlemen, it will be a good valentine date plan too. (Thank me later). Haya basi ….Start ironing your Sunday best, we don’t want a case of torn socks on the screen do we? Tickets coming near you soonest.

Well he did not indicate clearly who to expect on the first episode of the show but considering it’s an electioneering period it may be a President in waiting.

The shows will premier in the first week of February on Thursday and it is expected to air twice every week.
The much loved, award winning Kenyan TV show Churchill Live is finally back. The show has been on a long two year break, but it has now been confirmed that it will be on your screen this February.
Previous seasons of the show have attracted the who’s who in Kenya, with guests such as Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Deputy Premier Uhuru Kenyatta and his running mate William Ruto. Other high profile guests have included: Jeff Koinange, Desmond Elliot, John Kiriamiti among many others.
Churchill Live has also helped launched the careers of many comedians, among them Eric Omondi, MC Jesee, Ayeiya -poa poa, JB Masanduku among others.
Making the announcement yesterday, Churchill and his crew said that this season, the show will feature 50 established and upcoming comedians. Among them is non other than Ghetto Radio’s Mbusi.
Despite all the rumours about the relationship between Eric Omondi and Churchill or his producers, the skinny funnyman will continue being on the show, in what he termed as ‘coming back home’.
Churchill Live will still be aired on NTV, and this time round, there is a pleasant surprise. It will air twice a week. Yes.. two days in a week.
It’s traditional time slot of 7:30 to 8:30 PM on Thursady remains, with another episode airing on Monday from 7:30 to 8:00 PM. The Monday episode has been dubbed ‘Churchill Raw’, and it will feature the various acts that will not make it to Thursday’s show. The future of JB’s Comedy Club, which takes up that time slotremains unclear.

Can this TRUE about RAILA – UHURU RV axis - JOSHUA WAIGANJO … The FAKE COP REVEALS

Waiganjo has claimed that senior members of a political party [read TNA] and top Police Officers in Rift Valley met him on several occasions where sensitive issues regarding the PM's campaign in the region were discussed.

The sessions, he said were to strategise for the political campaigns and that Police vehicles would be used. He was charged with responsibility of repainting the vehicles and changing their registration numbers to civilian ones.

Waiganjo further claims that he has received threats from senior police officers and that his life is in danger. He now wants to meet the PM to reveal more on what has transpired.

Waiganjo claims that his problems started when he was coerced to divorce his wife whom the Police were afraid would get information and leak it to outsiders.

He would also like to reveal the reason why a large sum of money was deposited to his Co-op Bank account.
Source:Kenyan-post

So … how RICH is RAILA AMOLLO ODINGA?

The sudden ostentatious display of wealth by Raila Odinga has left many baffled. Unknown to the public, Raila is a fabulously wealthy man with a personal fortune estimated to be in excess of Kshs. 7 billion.

Read how the man who wants to be Kenya’s next president acquired his wealth which includes investments in the lucrative petroleum industry and in manufacturing. 

Raila Odinga’s big break came in 2001 soon after he led his party, NDP, into a merger with Kanu, the then ruling party. As Energy Minister in Moi’s government he was introduced to the family of Sheikh Abdukeder AlBakari, one of the richest families in Saudi Arabia with interests in petroleum drilling, petroleum exploration and export in the Middle East, Asia, USA and Africa.

Through the Saudi contacts, Raila was initiated into the lucrative world of oil business and soon enough he had joined the league of gig independent oil importers via his firm Pan African Petroleum Limited.

Industry sources say that one of the things that helped Raila make a quick buck in the oil business was a concessionary petroleum deal he struck with the Al Bakri Group where he was not only incorporated as a silent partner in the local arm of Al Bakri International but was also supplied with petroleum products from Saudi Arabia at subsidized prices which his firm would sell in the market at normal prices. 

That way, Raila was able to deftly beat the competition in oil business by occasional price undercutting.

While still Energy Minister, Raila re-established and nurtured his links with the Libyan government of Colonel Muammar Gadaffi where again he not only did good business in oil importation but also got substantial material support during the 2002 general elections.

Besides supporting Raila’s political causes, the Libyans also played a key role in stabilizing Raila in the oil business in a couple of ways. Industry sources say that between 2001 and 2002 when Raila served as Energy Minister, he received at least three consignments of petroleum products at very low prices which were later sold locally at market prices.

The overall turnover from the three Libyan consignments is reliably said to have been in the region of over half a billion shillings, a tidy sum of money in any language, enough to ensure that one crosses the Rubicon once and for all.

Reliable sources say that Libyans bankrolled the Narc campaign with some US$ 3 million (about Kshs 210 million), thanks to Raila’s good contacts in the oil-rich land of Gadaffi. There is no doubt that if Raila becomes the ODM presidential candidate he can count on massive financial support from the Libyans once more.

Besides Libya, Raila enjoys good links with the South African government of Thabo Mbeki while in Nigeria he is known to have strong links with Olosegun Obasanjo, who was a close friend of Raila’s late father Jaramogi.

That Libyans, South Africans and Nigerians had enough confidence in Raila to channel campaign funds through him although he himself was not a presidential in 2002 is an indication of how highly regarded he is in some international circles.

Evidently, he could certainly count on even more enthusiastic support from his international contacts should he become the ODM presidential candidate.

For Raila, the linkage between politics and business went much deeper than petroleum business. It is significant that the Odinga family business, Spectre International Ltd, acquired the then state-owned Kisumu Molasses Plant soon after Raila started politically cooperating with Moi.

Raila has consistently argued that the acquisition of the molasses plant was a pure business deal “which had nothing to do with politics”, but his critics point out at the coincidence between the time his family acquired the parastatal and Raila’s shift of political alliance. It is highly unlikely –indeed one may even say impossible-that the Moi government would have sanctioned the Kisumu Molasses Plant deal at the time if Raila had not become an ally of Moi’s.

Former commissioner of Lands Sammy Mwaita offered to sell the 240 acres on which the Kisumu Molasses Plant is built to Spectre International on January 11, 2001 at a price of Kshs 3.6 million at a time when Odinga started working closely with Moi. By June of the same year, Raila was appointed to the cabinet and made Energy Minister.

Significantly, Spectre International had applied for the same land in a letter of February 18, 1999 but the request had been rejected by the government at the time.

Titles were prepared in favour of Spectre International on February 3, 2002 for a 99-year lease backdated to September 1, 2001 and the Odinga family was ready to laugh all the way to the bank.

When the Odinga family started the process that led to the acquisition of the Kisumu Molasses Plant in 2001, Raila had already established good business contacts in South Africa. Energem Resources Incorporated, an international firm quoted at the Toronto Stock Exchange, had been looking for an investment opportunity in Kenya for a long time and the Kisumu Molasses Plant appeared just right.

Soon after taking over the plant from the government, Raila struck a lucrative deal with Energem whereby the Canadian firm bought 55 per cent of the Kisumu Molasses plant. Sources say that the Odinga family was paid over US$ 5 million (about Kshs 420 million) to relinquish the control of the molasses plant. The Odinga family had paid only Kshs 3.6 million for the property.

The Canadians also ploughed in millions of dollars to rehabilitate the plant and it is today one of the largest manufacturing concerns in the country employing hundreds of people and producing at least 60,000 litres of industrial ethanol for local consumption and export.

Ethanol from the Kisumu Molasses Plant is used as a fuel additive in east and Central Africa. Among other products coming out of the plant include yeast, carbon dioxide alcohol and related industrial products.

A valuation of the plant carried out three three years ago placed the Kisumu Molasses Plant at US$100 million (Kshs 7 billion). With the Odinga family owning 40 percent of the plant, putting the family’s stake in the plant in the region of Kshs 7.8 billion. The remaining five per cent shares in the plant are owned by a development trust on behalf of the local community.

Besides Kenya where Energem is in partnership with Raila in the Kisumu molasses plant business, now renamed Kisumu ethanol Plant, other African countries where Energem’s presence is significant include Sierra Leone, Sao Tome, Congo Brazaville, Angola. Zimbabwe, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Chad and Central Africa republic.

Raila’s wealth at a glance

Company/Property	Estimated Worth
Spectre International Limited (the holding company for Kisumu Ethanol Plant)	Kshs 7 billion of which Odinga family owns 40 per cent whose value is approximately Kshs 2.8 billion
East African Spectre (the gas cylinder manufacturing plant founded by Raila’s late father)	Kshs 500 million
Raila’s family home in Karen Nairobi	Kshs 50 million
Runda House	Kshs 15 million
Pan African Petroleum Company (the firm through which the Odinga family imports and distributes petroleum products)	Has had a turnover in excess of Kshs 500 million

Scheming that changed Raila’s fortunes

By the time Jaramogi Oginga Odinga died in January 1994, the Odinga family could have been described as just another average middle class family struggling to make ends meet on meager resources.

East Africa Spectre Limited, the family business flagship, was teetering on the verge of a precipice, thanks to political interference leading to bad business and crippling debts.

Raila Odinga’s house in Runda estate was a typical middle class house neighbouring that of self-exiled publisher Pius Nyamora.

But all that suddenly changed in 2001 when Raila shifted political alliances, ditched the opposition and teamed up with President Moi’s Kanu to form what was then known as Kanu-NDP merger.

Soon thereafter, he was appointed Minister of energy and turned a new leaf in his life. With his friend Mark Too, then one of the most powerful personalities around Moi’s state house, holding his hand, Raila was quickly introduced to the world of big business from which he has never looked back.

Indeed, looking back at the kind of fortune Raila managed to accumulate as well as the business links he established during the one year or so he was Energy minister, one comes to the inescapable conclusion that contrary to the conventional wisdom prevailing then, Raila’s rapprochement with Moi was a pure business decision. The man may have made calculated moves knowing only too well that without good money even the best politician might not go very far in achieving his or her dreams.

It is thus not surprising – nor is it by accident – that as Raila prepares himself to make his most serious bid for the presidency, he stands out as one of the richest politicians in the country with a personal fortune estimated to be over Kshs 4 billion besides reported investments in real estate in South Africa and Dubai.

Raila, a calculating schemer, could not have failed to notice the most common denominator between all the three politicians who rose to the presidency; money.

Jomo Kenyatta may not have had tones of money when he became president because he had the benefit of being associated with independence and nationalism. However, when he became president, he moved quickly to amass wealth which he used effectively to sustain himself in power.

His successor, Daniel arap Moi was already a very wealthy man-though discreetly so-when he became president in 1978. And throughout his presidency, Moi used money as his primary tool of political control.

When Kenneth Matiba challenged Moi in 1992 and came second in the presidential elections, it was clear that part of Matiba’s most formidable arsenal was an apparently inexhaustible war chest. Without the kind of money he had at his disposal, there is no doubt Matiba would not have come that close to kicking Moi out of state house.

Another serious challenger to Moi was Mwai Kibaki who came second in the 1997 presidential race. Again Kibaki, like Matiba before him, was not only wealthy in his own right but had a retinue of rich supporters around him who ensured that his campaign machinery was financially well oiled.

It is against this kind of a back ground that Raila must have made the conscious decision in 2001 to drop all pretensions, embrace Moi and make as much hay as he could while the sun shone for he knew well that money is a politician’s best friend, especially one who aspires for the presidency.

Source:Kenyan-post

INFOTRAK, IPSOS Synovate and other POLLSTERS on the SPOT as BITANGE NDEMO fumes

 In the wake of the recent furor over opinion polls that seem to favour particular candidates, Information and Communication Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo has said that it is important for the opinion pollsters to disclose their financiers to the public.

The PS further accused the pollsters of deceiving the public by insisting that they finance their own activities when in reality they are profit driven business;

“These are private organisations. They must disclose how they were funded. They don’t fund themselves. Why would you be funding yourselves? What gain do you get?” Ndemo said.

“If say the University of Nairobi did that you would understand because it is a public institution.”

Ndemo said that it is also time for the pollsters to make public their methodologies and also inform the public better when carrying out their research.

“What do you call opinion polling in your language?” Ndemo posed. “And you are learned. Now take it to someone who hasn’t gone to school.”

“If you are told so and so is winning in vernacular and then results come in another way how do you explain? That is the problem.”

Source:Kenyan-POST

Did UHURU “bribe” God to be born from KENYATTA’s family?

When the curtain fell on our beloved founding father Mzee Jomo Kenyatta on August 22^nd 1978, his son Uhuru Kenyatta was only 17 years old.

Like you and I, indeed like all human beings, he did not choose his parents; he did not choose to be born in Kenya; he did not choose to be born a Kikuyu, just as he did not choose his height or his complexion, et cetera. Our creator denied all of us the luxury of choosing our parents, tribe, nationality, race, et cetera.

For Raila, Karua, Kenneth, et cetera to keep saying one family cannot continue ruling, or that Kenya is not a dynasty, and so on, is not only malicious but also the height of unbridled envy, evil, jealousy and pathological hatred. What do they mean by “one family ruling?”

Apart from Mzee Jomo Kenyatta alias Son of Wambui, who else was president from that family; and are members of the Burning Spear’s family prevented, by the Constitution, from vying for the presidency? And could anybody quote the relevant sections, clauses and/or chapters preventing Uhuru Muigai from vying for the presidency on account of being the son of the Burning Spear. Or how does the issue of “one family cannot continue ruling” arise?

Besides, the Burning Spear was President of Kenya not of the Kikuyu/GEMA communities; and he ruled as an individual Kenyan citizen, as mandated by the Constitution. The Presidency was not a collegiate by the entire Mzee Jomo Kenyatta Family!

Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta did not inherit any seat, at all, from his father; because there was, naturally, no seat to be inherited! He first stood, for parliament, in 1997 and was unsuccessful. If indeed his father was a monarch, how would he have competed and lost, in the first instance? Surely, let us use our gumptions more often!

He was KANU’s presidential candidate in 2002 and lost, honourably, to President Kibaki, and conceded, pronto, even before the tallying was completed! That act, in itself, talks volumes about Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta.

Kenya is not a dynasty, and this is not even debate. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta was left, by his beloved father, as a young teenager, to a widowed young mother.

As Mama Ngina’s first son, a lot was expected of him. He must have gone through a traumatic phase: Denial, depression, acceptance and, finally, healing. It is never easy, at all.

When he participates in political competition, he does so like any other individual Kenyan and/or any other Kenyan citizen; offering himself to the people, the ultimate judges, for consideration; to be either elected or rejected democratically.

 In doing so, and like all Kenyans seeking leadership positions, he must meet the qualification requirements and standards, as set out in the Kenyan Constitution.

There is nothing to do with his father, monarchy or dynasty; because Kenya is a Republic. A commonsense thing, you would say.

So for those questioning about how Kenyatta’s family acquired should just use the institutions provided by our constitution instead of blaming Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta!
Source:Kenyan-post

Unveiling Citizen TV’s JULIE GICHURU: Her tycoon father in law, battering HUSBAND et al (Vs LILIAN MULI)

Julie Gathoni Sumira Gichuru is a woman who has revolutionised the TV industry. She sweeps our screens with an aura of confidence and carries forward her audience in the stations she is poached from.

Many define Julie by her looks and the little natter they have heard about her. Others only differentiate her from the rest due to her fancy face and doll clothes.

Citizen TV has a calibre of reporters who swing their hips in front of your screen before they even say their name. After reading a line in the headlines, they move again and you are left to question if they are reading news or they are actually the elements in news.

Julie’s concentration is in the news as she reads it and she has severally corrected the autocue. Lillian Muli proved to be blonde when she went ahead to once read from the autocue ‘the Spain president’ yet it is common knowledge that Spain is a monarchy.

 Lillian has been severally ashamed for being ill-prepared in interviews and being grilled by the interviewers instead of vice versa. She only seems to be good at Slimpossible and this is due to her figure hugging clothes and the public contrasting her to the thick mamas on screen.

On the other hand Sunday Live is a piece of cake for Gichuru who captures your attention of the one hour and a half show and maintains it to the end.

Julie is 38 years old and a mother of 5 kids. The number would have been 6 but one died of choking- (kids do that when they eat and are placed in an improper manner). In 2009, she announced she was pregnant on air after covering a story on teen pregnancy-that’s courageous.

She has very short hair after she shaved it while mourning her kid. What you see on screen are well sewed hair extensions. Julie is married to Anthony Gichuru son of tycoon Samuel Gichuru.

 Samuel is the ex head of KPLC who owns a 21 billion business empire and is listed among the top 100 richest Kenyans. He was earlier on accused of money laundering together with Nambale MP Chris Okemo.

Tabloids carried that Anthony Gichuru had a tendency to batter Julie back in the day. 

The Pulse had leaked this story; A top TV anchor working with a leading media house was reportedly battered by her husband over marital differences. The endowed news anchor has led a troubled and abusive marriage for the past four years, according to our sources. It is claimed that her striking beauty and popularity has made the rich husband insecure.

On this particular evening, the husband drove all the way to her work station to pick her. Upon getting to the car, the woman’s workmates reportedly heard the man hauling insults at her. They then heard her screaming for help as her irked lover charged at her. He then pulled her to the car before speeding away.

Years later, many still insist that it was her. In October 2011, at the Bomas of Kenya, she denied the allegations claiming that, “My husband treats me like a flower.”  She added that he is a “good father and good husband” and that she is not the type of woman to be “hit and still stay in a marriage”.

She is not only photogenic but attractive in person. Gathoni lives close to her father and her mum is in the USA where she has written a book on neo-colonialism. She has worked in Capital FM, Nation, Citizen and several NGOS such as UNICEF.

Julie has a Masters’ Degree in Administration, International business and world trade law. She's the digital manager at Citizen TV amongst other roles she holds. 
Source:Kenyan-post

Gertrude Mungai's Sex Videos. Educational or Immoral?

Social media has been abuzz lately with the viral spread of Gertrude Mungai's segment on K24 called K24 Connect. This is a show where she discusses bedroom matters, as she is a sexologist. The most heated debate was generated when Gertrude recently went ahead and showed a LIVE demonstration of positions for "Mombasa Raha"(her terminology for sex). Here is the video for those who may have missed it:

The debate around these videos centres on morality. Should these sort of videos be shown on TV?

The conservatives amongst us say that these are private issues between a man and his wife, and they are not for public display. Further to this, Kenya is a Christian country, hence promotion of sexual activity is a thin line to step on.

The liberals on the other hand, say that these are realities of life, and should be openly expressed. Sex education is vital, and there is nothing wrong with showing a man and a woman how to express their love for each other.