One of the world’s most celebrated writers, Prof. Chinua Achebe is dead


Prof Chinua Achebe
Nigeria’s literary icon and publisher of several novels, Chinua Achebe, is dead.
Mr. Achebe, 82, died in the United States where he was said to have suffered from an undisclosed ailment.
PREMIUM TIMES learnt he died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital in Boston. The source declined to be named because he was not authorised by the family to speak on the matter.
He also declined to provide further details, saying the family would issue a statement on the development later today.
Contacted, spokesperson for Brown University, where Mr. Achebe worked until he took ill, Darlene Trewcrist, is yet to respond to our enquiries on the professor’s condition.
Until his death, the renowned author of Things Fall Apart was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown.
The University described him as “known the world over for having played a seminal role in the founding and development of African literature.”
“Achebe’s global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa and the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa,” Brown University writes of the literary icon.
Mr. Achebe was the author of Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, and considered the most widely read book in modern African Literature. The book sold over 12 million copies and has been translated to over 50 languages worldwide.
Many of his other novels, including Arrow of God, No Longer at Ease, Anthills of the Savannah, and A man of the People, were equally influential as well.
Prof Achebe was born in Ogidi, Anambra State, on November 16, 1930 and attended St Philips’ Central School at the age of six. He moved away from his family to Nekede, four kilometres from Owerri, the capital of Imo State, at the age of 12 and registered at the Central School there.
He attended Government College Umuahia for his secondary school education. He was a pioneer student of the University College, now University of Ibadan in 1948. He was first admitted to study medicine but changed to English, history and theology after his first year.
While studying at Ibadan, Mr. Achebe began to become critical of European literature about Africa.  He eventually wrote his final papers in the University in 1953 and emerged with a second-class degree.
Prof Achebe taught for a while after graduation before joining the Nigeria Broadcasting Service in 1954 in Lagos.
While in Lagos with the Broadcast ing Service, Mr. Achebe met Christie Okoli, who later became his wife; they got married in 1961. The couple had four children.
He also played a major role during the Nigeria Civil War where he joined the Biafran Government as an ambassador.
His latest book, There Was a Country, was an autobiography on his experiences and views of the civil war. The book was probably the most criticised of his writings especially by Nigerians, with many arguing that the professor did not write a balanced account and wrote more as a Biafran than as a Nigerian.
Mr. Achebe was a consistent critic of various military dictators that ruled Nigeria and was a loud voice in denouncing the failure of governance in the country.
Twice, he rejected offers by the Nigerian government to grant him a national honour, citing the deplorable political situations in the country, particularly in his home state of Anambra, as reason.
Below is how Brown University profiled him on its website.
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“Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is known the world over for having played a seminal role in the founding and development of African literature. He continues to be considered among the most significant world writers. He is most well known for the groundbreaking 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, a novel still considered to be required reading the world over. It has sold over twelve million copies and has been translated into more than fifty languages.
“Achebe’s global significance lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa and the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the postcolonial state in Africa. He is renowned, for example, for “An Image of Africa,” his trenchant and famous critique of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Today, this critique is recognized as one of the most generative interventions on Conrad; and one that opened the social study of literary texts, particularly the impact of power relations on 20th century literary imagination.
“In addition, Achebe is distinguished in his substantial and weighty investment in the building of literary arts institutions. His work as the founding editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series led to his editing over one hundred titles in it. Achebe also edited the University of Nsukka journal Nsukkascope, founded Okike: A Nigerian Journal of New Writingand assisted in the founding of a publishing house, Nwamife Books–an organization responsible for publishing other groundbreaking work by award-winning writers. He continues his long-standing work on the development of institutional spaces where writers can be published and develop creative and intellectual community.”
 Source:premiumtimesng

Weka Condom Mpangoni’ advert sparks huge public debate

In the fight against HIV/AIDS, the advertisement of contraceptives has evolved since its inception, with latest condom ad fuelling uproar from the clergy. The culprit this time is none other than the ‘Weka Condom Mpangoni’. The men of the cloth say the advert advocates for sex outside marriage, and portrays Kenyans as an unfaithful lot. The National AIDS and STI Control Programme (NASCOP) however says that what the advert portrays is real and not an exaggeration.

ICC has fallen from high ideals of global justice, accountability


“Innocent until proven guilty” is a defining principle of all respected legal systems, including that of the United States. Presumption of innocence allows an individual to run, win and hold public office until they are found to be anything other than innocent.
The High Court of Kenya upheld exactly this principle with its ruling on February 15 clearing the way for Uhuru Kenyatta to run for President in Kenya’s March 4 election.
It ruled that Kenyatta’s presidential bid could go forward because the High Court has no jurisdiction to determine qualifications of a person who has been duly nominated to run for president; the Rome Statue has no provision for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to bar candidates; and importantly under Article 50 of the Kenyan Constitution, there is a presumption of innocence until the contrary is proved which falls under the category of fundamental rights and freedoms.
Yet on the eve of the election, several Western countries were seen as using the ICC indictment to pre-emptively “try and convict” Uhuru Kenyatta in the court of public opinion, presumably to tank his electoral prospects.
The US assistant secretary’s statement that “choices have consequences” went well beyond President Obama’s welcomed video message to Kenyans released only days before calling for a free, fair and peaceful election. In effect, the warning contradicted President Obama’s appropriate statement that “the choice of who will lead Kenya is up to the Kenyan people. The United States does not endorse any candidate for office.”
Let me be equally clear: I have no preference for whom Kenyans elected as their next president. My concern is with the credibility and effectiveness of US policy in Africa. I remain troubled by the not so subtle attempt to use the ICC politically to essentially threaten Kenyans about whom to vote for in their presidential elections.
To base US foreign policy on the ICC is especially problematic since the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court.
Moreover, the ICC’s very legitimacy has been fundamentally compromised by its first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, only finding cases of atrocities and crimes against humanity in Africa.
At the same time, the West’s often quiet role but strong political influence on who the court targets for indictment tarnishes the court as a tool of geopolitical influence, not balanced global justice.
A review of ICC cases also reveals that some African officials have instrumentally cooperated with the Prosecutor to indict their political opponents, further diminishing the impartiality of the Court.
Add to this the length of trials, with only one conviction in 10 years, and the treatment of those indicted as guilty before they can prove their innocence, and the ICC begins to look like an organisation that is behaving with impunity in international affairs, rather than a court that is respectful of victims or the principle of presumption of innocence.
The ICC indeed has fallen far from the high ideals of global justice and accountability that inspired its creation.
The Kenyan ICC experience is instructive. The post-election violence in 2007-2008 led to an estimated 1,100 deaths and more than 600,000 displaced. I witnessed the incredible suffering of the victims across the country when I came to Kenya in January 2008 to urge President Mwai Kibaki and then ODM challenger Raila Odinga to work together to end the violence.
It is right and necessary that those responsible for the violence are held accountable. Yet, the ICC, an organisation founded to bring those accused of the most heinous of crimes to account, was initially used (unsuccessfully) as political leverage to get Kenya’s Parliament to set up a domestic special tribunal to address the post-election violence.
When the National Assembly failed to act, the ICC Prosecutor in 2010 brought charges against six high profile Kenyans, but victims of post-election violence are no closer to realising justice. Instead, the ICC was politicised when used to warn Kenyans about whom to vote for in their 2013 elections.
Some Kenyans welcome ICC indictments against high level officials as a way to end a culture of impunity, but condemning a person based on their position, rather than a specific and proven case, is vigilantism not justice.
The case alleged against Uhuru Kenyatta, for example, is fast crumbling with the new Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda withdrawing charges against his co-defendant Francis Muthaura.
It is therefore especially reckless for the United States to tie its foreign policy towards Kenya on an ICC case against the President-elect that is unproven and based on hearsay, with the alleged sole eyewitness, on whom the case rested, now dropped by the Prosecutor for unreliability.

New TV Show Executive Produced by Julie Gichuru Premieres on K24 TV


A new TV show executive produced by Kenyan media personality Julie Gichuru premiered on K24 TV on Monday, March 18 at 10pm. The show, titled Maisha, is executive-produced by Julie (through her production company Arimus Media/Imagine Pictures) and Nick Otieno.

Maisha is "a tale about money, love, choices, jealousy, and betrayal," which the producers promise will leave the audience glued to their screens.

Maisha is written by Andrew Odera who also doubles as an actress in the show, and directed by Mark G.Kihara.

The show will air every Monday at 10pm on K24 TV.

SECRET PHONE CALL: KALONZO calls UHURU/ RUTO as his allies dissociate from RAILA’s Petition


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 News just in indicates that top officials of Wiper Democratic Movement have dissociated themselves from the looming CORD petition, saying the just concluded elections were credible, free and fair.
Wiper politicians led by former MP Philip Kaloki and Gideon Ndambuki have dissociated themselves from CORD petition against Uhuru saying they ready to work with the new government.
In a press conference held at Ole Sereni Hotel in Nairobi on Wednesday, the Wiper leaders, who are close allies of Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, requested their CORD partners to drop their petition since they don’t have watertight evidence.
Ndambuki and Kaloki said CORD leaders should concede defeat since if there is a run-off, Jubilee Coalition will still win the election.
In other news, rumour has it that Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka had a long telephone conversation with President –elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto on Tuesday, over the possibility of forming a united government.
Sources close to Kalonzo said, the three leaders scheduled a date at unannounced venue where there is a possibility of striking a “post election deal”
source:kenyan-post

Meet Uhuru Kenyatta's victory speechwriter

Julie Wang’ombe is only 22 years old but she has already created a name for herself.
Ms Wang’ombe is credited with writing President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory speech which was delivered on Saturday at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
She also said a prayer for President-elect during the Catholic University event.
She is widely known for her talent in spoken word poetry, which she discovered in 2009 at the Slam Africa event in Westlands,Nairobi. She moved to the US in 2009 to attend Duke University after her high school education at Hillcrest.
During her time at Duke, she met other several experienced and outstanding poets, one of the them being Joshua Benne, who she admired and has continued to inspire her.
Today, Julie performs for audiences worldwide.

US risks being alienated in Kenya – Frazer


A former senior diplomat under President George W. Bush has criticised the United States for not formally recognizing Uhuru Kenyatta’s victory in last week’s elections.
Jendayi Frazer, a former United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs said the US and Europe were playing a dangerous game for their delayed endorsement of Kenyatta’s presidency.
“If the US, the UK and the Europeans don’t want to deal with Uhuru Kenyatta, he has another option,” she cautioned.
Speaking in an interview with American TV channel PBS, Frazer said that Kenya is a strategic partner to the United States and a key ally in the fight against terrorism in addition to being East Africa’s economic hub.
“Many American businesses like FORD, General Electric and others are based there so it’s key to the region as whole,” she said.
However, she warned that the West risked losing it’s strategic influence in the region.
“The geo-strategic environment has changed entirely and particulary (in favour of) China. The Chinese have changed the playing field (and) if the US, the UK and Europeans don’t want to deal with Uhuru Kenyatta, he has another option,” she explained.
Frazer who says she has been to Kenya twice this year said the fact that the Chinese ambassador and Foreign Ministry have already welcomed Kenyatta by referring to him as President-elect.
Frazer accused the US, Canada and Britain of meddling in Kenyans domestic affairs by threatening to put trade sanctions to Kenya, if they elected Kenyatta.
“They are in a bad situation because prior to the election, they threatened the Kenyan electorate by saying ‘if you elect Uhuru Kenyatta, there will be consequences; we may put trade sanctions,’ which was extra ordinary because the case for Kenyatta is not proven,” she explained.
She said that the diffusion of power, the expectations about the new institutions as well as the lessons learnt from the 2007 General Elections had accounted for the lack of violence this time.
Frazer also explained that the tribal competition is still imminent and that this election was based on community voting for “their boys” .
“The need for healing and reconciliation is still much there in Kenya,” she said.

What Next For Citizen TV After CORD's Lose?

What Next For Citizen TV After CORD's Lose?
This question has everyone at the office jittery. Citizen were brave. they took a stand. They gambled and they lost. and after they announced that they were CORDed, there was a suspicious onslaught against them... Or maybe the conspiracy theorist in me is acting up... Nay! They were being punished. that is Uncle Chim Tuna's opinion.
We did a Ghafla discussion in which i postulated that the Kibaki administration helped propel Citizen to the fore of Kenya's media services. But don't get me wrong, that isn't to detract from Wachira Waruru's business acumen. It's just how Uncle Chim Tuna sees things.
Then Citizen got christened CORD TV and now they are left holding a potentially stinking steaming heap of manure. The question in everybodies mind is will the Uhuru administration be a vindictive one? Will they continue to pile on Citizden's legal woes like the sadistic child that pokes at a fly with a toothpick after plucking it's wings?
This saga seems to have entered a new intriguing chapter that will see K24 be propelled into prominence and battle it out with Citizen for dominance. Afterall, they have poached Citizen's top talents but i wouldn't count Citizen out yet -read about who got paoched by clicking this link. Wachira Waruru's business savvy shouldn't be copunted out just yet!

Obama half brother fails to win Siaya seat

Malik Obama (left) with US President Barack Obama (centre) and other members of the family at the White House in 2009. Photo/FILE
Malik Obama (left) with US President Barack Obama (centre) and other members of the family at the White House in 2009. Photo/FILE 

His half brother may be the most powerful man in the world but that stardust seemed not to rub off on Malik Obama as he failed miserably to win a county gubernatorial seat in Kenya's recently concluded polls.
Obama, 54, who shares a father with United States President Barack Obama, won just 2,792 votes -- some 140,000 behind the final winner -- in his bid to claim the seat for his home area in western Kenya.
"He was not the winner but at least he competed," said Benson Mughatsia, returning officer for Siaya county, where Obama's ancestral home is located. "He was not last but he was still a long way off."
Standing well over six feet, Obama, who describes himself as an economist and a financial analyst, told AFP on the campaign trail that he would use his contacts with Washington to bring development to the rural backwater he hoped to govern.
"Why would my people settle for a local connection when they have a direct line to the White House," he said.
Campaigning under the slogan "Obama here, Obama there", he said he dreamed of bringing chains like McDonald's to the area and launching a bid for the presidency.
Obama, who was refusing to take calls from journalists Sunday, might have been undone by his much-vaunted refusal to give handouts, a common feature of Kenyan election campaigns where voters collect small sums of money to attend rallies.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama is facing a possible diplomatic headache in how to deal with Kenya's new president elect Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The Geopolitical Power of Uhuru Kenyatta Presidency in Kenya

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3m0qV1N_Uzla3gUKsvWsifXkuIksG_ZpNDF5-TAbsvMf7wB8M4G2RzT9Ed9qAWiV_hUicgip5FCEifXq3jYsHAQH6f5OUMVuKJyxwbf2YimY7aWkI35djQydfcR8T6ITtcAZL5FZ_QA/s1600/uhuru.jpgUhuru Kenyatta was declared the 4th Kenyan president before mid-morning 9th March 2013 after Kenya decided he was its best bet.
Kenyatta won the election with a significant and commanding lead of near 1million votes beating Raila Odinga and promising Kenya a rapid economic growth.
This remarkable win weathers many storms turbulently homing on Uhuru Kenyatta including British attempt to influence the outcome of the election besides the ICC.
Kenyatta becomes a president of a rapidly developing African country that has broke ranks with the West besides becoming a military power after destroying Islamist terrorist and militant Somalia in Somalia, beating the West and the NATO counter-terrorism operations hands down.
There are repercussions and geopolitical ramifications to the Uhuru Kenyatta Win as 4th President of Kenya and almost every foreign envoy in Kenya is rethinking his engagement rules after many of them came against his candidature besides threatened to sanction his presidency.
Strategic Intelligence Service Analyzes Scenarios
Economic factors that make Uhuru a powerful and one of the most sought African president by the Western diplomats are many.
Oil and Gas discoveries and confirmation of their commercial values, coalmines, titanium export, and gold and geothermal power generation are key attractions pulling edgy investors to Kenya.
This wealth alongside massive infrastructure programs under Chinese contractors and a successful anti-terror operation in Somalia makes Kenya an attractive besides strategic development partner and investment hub.
Kenya no longer leans on the West for development programs; rather, it has set the terms of diplomatic engagement very clear, that, only development partnership makes diplomatic relations sense.
This puts the West and the European Union in such an awkward position and seemingly losing face after failing to stymies the Kenyatta presidency.
Kenyatta insists, Kenya does not need the West than the West needs Kenya, a very significant statement since Russia, China, and the Asian economies have become Kenya’s strategic development partners.
By failing to work with Kenyatta, the West risks losing vital assets, investments, and funded programs managed by international NGO’s and the United Nations Development programs across East and central Africa.
The West will need this man, more than Kenya needs them.
Military, Intelligence and Terrorism Teams
China has been covertly funding Kenyan military and intelligence operations in the region, making China one of the most important development and security programs partner with Kenya making the West worried its losing clout.
The United States alone has invested billions of dollars through military, intelligence, and counter-terrorism programs across East and Central Africa with its main forward bases in Kenya.
Kenya National Intelligence Service shares intelligence with the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, conducts covert anti-terror operations alongside the Kenya NIS and Defense Forces.
Sidelining Kenyatta would see these intelligence and counter-terrorism joint task force programs collapse as Kenyatta seeks alternative partners. The West will not take such immense risks whatsoever.
The West particularly Britain will find it very difficult to charm Uhuru Kenyatta enough to make business remain as usual in the interest of immense Western intelligence, military, and economic investments in the country and the unstable region.
Kenya has been upgrading its military capability by sourcing new weaponry from China, Russia, and Ukraine further sidelining the West, which in the past enjoyed these lucrative contracts through their defense equipment contracting firms.
Regional Geopolitical Outcome
Kenya is a regional economic giant that in 10 years under a good regime can overtake economies like South Africa, besides the regional military superpower.
Every military or regionally important security intelligence operation planned by the West is coordinated by Kenya; Kenyatta’s astute character and near-radical resolve observed in his political self defines a more power-hungry general who will increase Kenya’s geopolitical influence.
Kenyatta is not very diplomatic particularly in geopolitical scenarios; he will make snappy what he perceives a threat under a credible intelligence report, hence halt any advancement of an agenda that injures the country.
Kenya’s neighbors and international partners will contend with this character hence approach Kenyatta with enough caution to ensure, though distant, a relation is established and maintained.
The West will have a big challenge convincing Kenyatta they wish Kenya well, since Kenyatta already views them skeptically and has often told them off and they, have constantly convinced him, they are Greeks bearing gifts hence he should be wary of them.
The influence Kenyatta has across Africa is significant further denting the West influence in the dynamic regional geopolitics, particularly the economics and military operations.
The Uhuru Kenyatta win is a big loss to the West since it has lost all its grip on the region to a hardliner politician who does not view them as partners anymore than enemies of Kenya.
The West indeed will have to bow to Uhuru Kenyatta or lose to Russia, Japan, and China all who now fund Kenyan security and economic development projects with less ado.

Uhuru Kenyatta becomes Kenya's fourth president

http://softkenya.com/uhurukenyatta/files/2012/04/Uhuru-Kenyatta1.jpgUhuru Muigai Kenyatta was elected Kenya’s new president after beating his bitter rival Raila Amollo Odinga in a hotly contested election.
Official results released by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission showed that Kenyatta had won 50.03 percent of the vote to become the country’s new leader 50 years after his independence hero father, Kenya’s founding president.
The 51-year-old outgoing deputy prime minister — charismatic, able to appeal to all classes and one of Africa’s richest men garnered 6.173 million votes out of a total of 12.338 million votes, effectively achieving slightly more than the required 50 percent plus one threshold after the Monday vote.
His main challenger Odinga of the CORD coalition polled 5.34 million votes – or 43.28% of the total votes cast.
Kenyatta’s 50.03% thresh-hold keeps him just inches away from being declared Kenya’s fourth president to take over from Mwai Kibaki who has served for two uninterrupted terms.
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said Friday night that it would announce the final results at 11 am on Saturday.
Commissioner Yusuf Nzibo said the IEBC needs to audit and verify results for 50 percent plus one and 25% in half of Counties before final declaration.
“The Commission has made a decision to announce the results today at 11:00 a.m. This is to allow the political party and the Commission to look at the constitutional requirements on declaring a winner,” he said, adding that “We want to make sure that our figures are accurate and we want to consult the political parties; that the figures are accurate and there is no need to rush.”
Prime Minster Raila Odinga who had called a press conference shortly before the commission completed vote tallying, cancelled it until Saturday morning when the results will have been announced.

Computer bug blamed for vote error

Chandaria tallying centre in Kenya (6 March 2013)  














The vote count has been marred by severe delays as the electronic system has crashed
Kenya's electoral commission has said that a computer bug is to blame for a large number of rejected votes in the tallying of the presidential election.
Issack Hassan said the computer was multiplying each rejected vote by a factor of eight.
This led to huge disputes and allegations of fraud.
Vote-tallying has been restarted by hand following this and other glitches but Uhuru Kenyatta still has a large lead over Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"There was an error in the way the program was written," said Mr Hassan.
"For any rejected vote for any candidate, they were being multiplied by eight," said the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) chairman.
The number of rejected votes has fallen dramatically from more than 330,000 - 6% - during an initial count, to 58,644.
With about six million votes tallied at 1515 GMT (1815 Nairobi time), Mr Kenyatta had some 3.1 million votes (53%) compared to Mr Odinga's 2.6 million (43%).
But, as turnout was estimated at more than 70% of the country's 14.3 million voters, there is still some way to go.

PROPHECY to Kenya on UHURU KENYATTA and the ICC case……..Dr. Thomas Manton IV

DR.THOMAS MANTON IV’s ~ PROPHECY TO KENYA 

~FOR~ THE 2013-PRESIDENTIAL-ELECTION!

Thus Says The Lord, Our Mighty God,To Kenya & The World, Here On This Lovely Saturday Evening, February 23rd, 2013:

Thus Says The Lord: “Uhuru Kenyatta Is My Choice To Be Kenya’s Next And Fourth President Of Kenya.I have chosen Uhuru Kenyatta, says the Lord, as the one that I will work with for the betterment and development of the Kenyan Nation and People and all of its Societies. I have the well-being of the Nation and its People at the fore-front in priority. The ‘good’and great development of the Kenyan people and the Nationand its Societies is of utmost importance now, beyond anything, or anyone else. 

I Will Eventually Overturn the ICC Issue.What has been set up against Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto and perhaps even others by the accusatory criminal charges against those who have been accused and charged is in actual reality, very counter-productive to My own plan for Kenya in this next season. Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are not particularly the ones to be blamed for the horrific-violence that occurred in early 2008 in Kenya. This may seem like a shocking statement to some, but is, in fact, reality. I have chosen these two men to now take the Nation of Kenya and its People to the next-level that I have ordained. So what good is having these two gentlemen in court, being accused of heinous-crimes, when in actual fact, they were not the ones that were behind the onslaught of violence that was directed toward, and coming against their communities. 

Think long and hard about that and you will see the reality of what I am saying. And I say here now, declares the Lord, that the very thing that was set up to try to discredit the legitimacy of these two-men running for the highest two political-offices in Kenya, I will eventually overturn. That which also marred the image of Kenya internationally, I will overturn it too. I willoverturn the onslaught from the system and individuals that put this forward. And I will overturn the case. This attack was conspired and set up against them in biased ways, fraudulently, from the beginning.

Lessons Can Be Learned By The Masses Because Of The International-Spotlight That Has Been Put On Kenya Because Of The Post-Election Violence That Occurred In Early 2008.  What the devil meant for evil, I am turning now for good, in every way, says the Lord!God says it is injustice if it were to hurt Kenya speaking specifically about regarding the ICC proceedings, you have already seen some strange developments regarding witnesses and postponements of the proceedings. I had to cause this to make way for Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Ruto to win the Presidential Election. You see this miracle in motion before all of your eyes. And I will finish it too, says the Lord! No one would have thought from the outset that these developments would even ever happen. No one could have ever thought that these proceedings would be maneuvered by Me. But now you see it, says the Lord. And again, I will continue doing this for My desired result.

I Caused The Local-Tribunal Option To Fail Because It Would Have Been Corrupted Locally Against My Interests, Says The Lord.  And the International Criminal Court will not be able to get it through either, because it is not My Will that these men be convicted for what they actually did not institute or originate. Who ever thought that the matter would get to a stalemate now, even for Mr. Mauthaura too? But I say here to you, says the Lord thatI am not done with the whole thing yet, and I will do much more to diffuse the entire-situation. It will be amazing as to how things will even turn yet much worse for the Prosecutors and issues regarding witnesses, and purported evidence, etc.
Officially, TheLegitimacy Of Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta And Mr. William Ruto Running For President And Vice President Respectively Has Been Cleared And Sanctioned By Kenya’s Courts.The Courts said we cannot stand in the way of them running. This was quite an amazing development. And no Local Tribunal could ever get officially organized, because it would have also gotten locally corrupted againstMr. Kenyatta And Mr. Ruto somehow. 

Again, if you think long and hard about that, you will also see the reality of this.  At the bottom of it all, I just was not going to allow anything to stand in their way.
The International Criminal Court Will Not Be Able To Fully Stick-It To These Men, Because I Do Not Desire Them To Do So.  Again, Kenyans and others, Hear Me! Learn your valuable-lessons now from all of this mess; and donot ever repeat the same violence again against your own people!  Anyone that would want to argue with this does not really see the big-picture. Regardless of what men think, My Ways are not your ways. My Thoughts are not your thoughts. They are higher than yours, and need no justification from man. I am saying that I have My Own Plan. And I know exactly who is pliable and flexible and has the right motivation and heart to do what I want to be done in Kenya. No one is perfect, of course, except Me. But the one(s)I the Lord feel will be the one(s) that will do the most for the well-being of the Kenyan people are the logical and obvious choice(s) for the Elective Office(s) that must be filled now. And so be it now to and for My Will!

God First Spoke Audibly To Me, In Latter 2010, The Name Of The Man Who Will Be Elected As Kenya’s Next And Fourth President.  There, in latter 2010, was the actual first-time that I heard the Lord say Uhuru Kenyatta’s name aloud to me, regarding who would be the winner of Kenya’s next Presidential Election. I was in prayer that day, and as I was exiting my Prayer-Time with the Holy Spirit, it somehow strangely got into my mind right then to ask Him who it was that would actually become the next President of Kenya. Astoundingly, without even a millisecond of hesitation, God spoke back to me instantly, as soon as I finished my question to Him, with the name ‘Uhuru Kenyatta’. I was a bit amazed right then that God spoke so immediately, confidently, forcefully and audibly. After hearing Him say that, I was feeling kind of like: “Oh My God!”  Should I have even asked Him then? Well, in reality, it was very appropriate and it was His perfect Will that I did. 

Afterwards, I have never told even a single-soul on Earth, until now, this week, when He has finally released me to speak it out publicly! Six more times since the Holy Spirit spoke to me audibly in latter 2010, He has told me again clearly that Uhuru Kenyatta is His choice to be the Republic of Kenya’s next and fourth President. at least God has spoken to me audibly, out loud confirming to me that Uhuru Kenyatta will win the elections. And He has said that he is God’s own choice out of the pick of the candidate aspirants. He is the one that He feels is necessary to be there in office, and he is the one He is going to work with. He said he is the one that has got the right mind, the temperament and the right motive and heart to do it for Hi Glory and for the benefit of the Kenyan Nation and its People. Nothing beyond that really matters now about that. That is the heart of the issue.
On December 13th, 2002, While In London, England, God Spoke To Me That Mr. Mwai Kibaki Would Be Elected As Kenya’s Next And Third President Of The Republic Of Kenya.  Two weeks before the then upcoming Presidential Election, on December 13th, 2002, God spoke to me about Mwai Kibaki winning the Presidential Election. He then said that he was God’s chosen-one for that new era of development for the Nation. Mr. Kibaki was clearly the man who was ready then for the big-job at hand that really needed to be done then. And he definitely had it all in his mind to work tirelessly and brilliantly for Kenya. And he certainly has! Look at all of the great and marvelous work he has done!

Later, In 2007, Though All Hell Was About To Break Loose At The Very End Of The Year, Unbeknownst To The Masses; The Lord Decided Clearly To Let Mr. Kibaki Continue Working For Kenyans As Their President.  Mr. Kibaki’s campaign sloganin 2007 was quite appropriately: “Let my work continue! Let me continue working for you, Kenya!”This was a very humble and very accurate motto and slogan for his re-election campaign. It is really all about the work one will do anyway, always. True-work is never for vain-glory or self-serving agendas. It is only legitimate if it is serving people well, for their prosperity and improvement and development. It is never about any

First Maasai woman MP beats ‘curse’ to win seat

Peris Pesi Tobiko
  • Tobiko defies cultural and gender hurdles to clinch the Kajiado East constituency seat on a TNA ticket
Ms Peris Pesi Tobiko has become the first Maasai woman to be elected MP after she won the Kajiado East constituency on Wednesday.
Ms Tobiko triumphed despite being “cursed” at one time by Maasai elders after she beat seven TNA aspirants in the primaries.
The elders said it was against tradition for women to eye leadership positions and threatened to put a curse on anyone who supported her bid.
Ms Tobiko had earlier decamped from ODM and joined TNA after officials in that party told her that a woman’s candidature would not sell in Maasai land.
She was told to contest for the women representative position, but she was so determined to go to Parliament that she opted to decamp from the Orange party.
In an earlier interview, Ms Tobiko said the move by the Maasai elders was a big blow to her and her campaign team.
“It left me empty and put some fear in my heart. At one point, I thought it was the end of the game and I had lost,” Ms Tobiko said.
However, she said she forged ahead with her campaigns as she was banking on the cosmopolitan Kitengela and Isinya towns and some Maasai youths who had decided to ignore the elders threat.
The last hurdle was to beat the aspirants who remained in the Jubilee coalition but opted to fight her by vying through affiliate parties’ nomination certificates.
“I thank God because this election has proved and shown the importance of true democracy,” said the jubilant Ms Tobiko.
The Kajiado East MP-elect promised to work with all her constituents for the development of Kajiado East. “I hold no grudge against anyone and I promise to work with all without fear or favour,” she said.
Speaking to journalists soon after Kajiado East returning officer Jennifer Mugambi declared her the winner, Ms Tobiko promised to address the problems of education, poverty, joblessness and other issues affecting the residents, especially Maasai women.
Her closest rival, Mr Kakuta Maimai of ODM, garnered 22,640 votes, just 741 less than Ms Tobiko’s.
Ms Tobiko, who is a sister of Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko, ran for Parliament in Kajiado Central in 2007, but lost to Mr Joseph Nkaissery.

What really happened to IEBC’s electronic Presidential Vote Tallying System

Events that have followed the successful Monday election signal a trend intended to create a negative public policy on the election and IEBC credibility.
The Safaricom Virtual Private Network that runs on Oracle and a 3-tier Cisco Network was supposed to be tamper proof when supporting IEBC servers.
Safaricom, which is owned by Vodafone, a British giant telecoms company data and VPN servers supporting the IEBC VPN came under Intelligence Service scrutiny.
The IEBC Servers and the IEBC vote tallying computer system disc-space completely malfunctioned and collapsed failing to respond in correct downtime.
In the same week, over 3500 British troops landed in Kenya and headed for the Laikipia training grounds where they undergo final training before deployment.
Laikipia is Kenya Defense Forces most heavily guarded and highly equipped airbase and military facility in Kenya since the Kenya Airforce has its main airpower stationed here.
The British High Commissioner to Kenya, Christian Turner through proxies particularly Maina Kiai began lobbying the inclusion of spoilt votes in final tally besides attempting to delay the presidential total tally announcement.
The National Security Service quickly intervened and stopped the IEBC from making more use of the Electronic vote tallying system.
Kenya’s National Security Service stopped this system for a number of factors including scenarios such as the Safaricom VPN being attacked using a virus to compromise the network capacity.
Strategic Intelligence Service reported that the Red-October virus was used to attack Government of Kenya computer systems by Western spy-agents to mine crucial data.
Was that a test attack in preparation for the main attack on IEBC?
Was the virus deployed through Safaricom VPN for IEBC?
Was the attacker operating from Safaricom Server/Data Center from abroad?
Foreign players particularly the West, to crash the IEBC computer system deployed this same strategy by deploying the virus through the VPN infrastructure by Safaricom from abroad.
Analysis
The number of rejected votes when the IEBC was using the electronic tallying system was nearly 300,000 at the 5million total votes cast mark, a very significant number that makes a case in the total vote cast.
When IEBC took up the manual tallying system the total number of rejected votes was 39000 at the 4.6million total votes cast mark, this is a disturbing significant decline in the electronic figures compared to the manual figures.
Final tally of rejected votes compared to the electronic reports will quantify if the virus was indeed manipulating the rejected votes tally.
Deployment of viruses from secure computers to network servers was reported by Strategic Intelligence where Western spy agents deployed Red-October to mine vital data from government computer systems and data bases.
Viruses/computer bugs are used to mine and manipulate data from computer networks, servers, and computer memory facilities including data-centers, hence can mine crucial data including emails, conversations, and files.
The virus Red-October may have been deployed alongside another virus to slow down the IEBC servers with the intent of creating scenarios that may create public mistrust.
The objective of such spy involvement is to procure a bias of a public policy of anti-IEBC sentiments wherein, psychologically, the bottled up emotions, erupt after frustrations get to breaking point.
National Security Service moved in to effectively neutralizing this threat by outdoing Western spy agents by directing the immediate use of the manual tallying system, which has demystified the controversial election.
Kenya has also struggled to ensure peace prevails and unity remains at all time high, mocking the West attempts.
Kenya Acquires Deterrent Capability
Kenya is emerging as a secure developed country with effective security institutions particularly the intelligence and military both who have worked tirelessly to preempt neutralize threats on Kenya’s national Security.
Social order/civility has also become a principal in the Kenyan social life whereby, influencing social-discord is impossible hence the relatively calm and peaceful nation.
If this trend goes on, Kenya will eventually reach its bubble and burst to beat countries like South Africa social-economically.
This constant deterrent capability whereby no type of external and internal pressure to divide the multi-ethnic Kenyan society finally secures the Republic of Kenya to one of the most peaceful and rapidly developing economy in Africa, besides becoming a superpower in the region.
Source: David Goldman via Kenyan-post

Raila Odinga camp says vote 'doctored'

The BBC's James Copnall reports from Nairobi where he says the allegations are "strong" but "relatively wooly"
The ballot count in Kenya's presidential elections has been rigged, says Kalonzo Musyoka, the running mate of Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
"We have evidence the results we have received have been doctored," he said.
He said the vote count should be stopped but added that his comments were not a call for protest.
Mr Odinga has been trailing behind his rival, Uhuru Kenyatta. There have been severe delays in counting as the electronic system has crashed.
The head of the electoral commission has warned it may be Friday or even Monday before there is an official result, the BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
The credibility of the count is crucial to avoiding further bloodshed, our correspondent says.
More than 1,000 people were killed in the violence which broke out in 2007-08 after Mr Odinga claimed he had been cheated of victory by supporters of President Mwai Kibaki, who is stepping down after two terms in office.

Raila Odinga vs Uhuru Kenyatta

Raila Odinga (l) Uhuru Kenyatta (r)
Uhuru Kenyatta
  • Son of Kenya's first President Jomo Kenyatta
  • Due to stand trial at ICC in April accused of organising violence in last election
  • His running mate, William Ruto, also accused
  • Both deny the charges
  • From Kikuyu ethnic group - Kenya's largest at 22% of population and powerful economically
  • Kikuyus and Ruto's Kalenjin community saw fierce clashes after 2007 poll
  • Currently deputy prime minister
Raila Odinga
  • Son of first Vice-President Jaramogi Oginga Odinga
  • Distant relative of Barack Obama
  • Believes he was cheated of victory in last election
  • From Luo community in western Kenya - 11% of population.
  • Some Luos feel they have been marginalised by central government
  • Third time running for president
  • Currently prime minister under power-sharing deal to end violence last time
Mr Kenyatta, who backed Mr Kibaki, is due to stand trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) next month, accused of organising attacks on members of ethnic groups seen as supporters of Mr Odinga. He denies the charges.
Fall in rejected ballots "We as a coalition take the position the national vote-tallying process lacks integrity and has to be stopped and re-started using primary documents from the polling stations," Mr Musyoka said on Thursday.
"It is not a call to mass action. We are committed as a coalition to the principle of the rule of law."
Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems earlier this week, the vote-tallying process was started again from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.
Results were only being announced after the ballots had been physically delivered to election headquarters in the capital, rather than being filed electronically.
The latest figures indicate Mr Kenyatta has maintained his lead over Mr Odinga, with 2.5m (53%) votes to 1.9m (42%) - as originally indicated.
However, the new figures show that the number of rejected ballots, which has been a major issue, has sharply come down.
In the initial count, some 300,000 votes - about 6% - were disqualified for various reasons.
This figure has now come down to about 40,000. While the reason for the drop remains unclear, some observers said that election officials were being too strict first time round.
Mr Kenyatta's camp had rejected calls for some of these ballots to be included, as requested by Mr Odinga's allies.
The winning candidate must get more than 50% of the total votes cast and at least 25% of votes in half of the 47 counties - the latter was a requirement introduced in the new constitution to make sure the new president wins with wide support rather than only with the backing of voters in his regional and ethnic strongholds.
If there is no clear winner, a second round of voting will take place, probably on 11 April.

UHURU KENYATTA takes an early lead as RAILA ODINGA comes second

Jubilee Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta has taken an early lead in Monday’s poll, with CORD’s flag- bearer Prime Minister Raila Odinga coming second.

According to provisional presidential results released by  the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) on Tuesday morning,Uhuru takes a lead with  1,833,687 which translates to 54 percent of total votes tallied, with Raila Odinga becoming second with 1,330,179 which translate to 40.97 percent.

Pundits and analysts have said the results may change as they trickle in, but in the mean time Uhuru is leading Raila with over 426,000 votes.