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Tuesday 23 January 2018

Calls For Mass Action That Killed Many Innocent Kenyans



Calls For Mass Action That Killed Many Innocent Kenyans
Background:
Any average  intelligent   Kenyan  would readily tell you  the actual genesis of the so- called Post –Election-Violence of 2007/2008, and why the mainstream Kenyan  media then choose to erroneously them as post- election- violence(P.E.V), as opposed to politically- instigated- civil- disturbances.
However, not many Kenyans knew that what happened after the   disputed    presidential results had been meticulously planned several months earlier, and executed by a few brilliant professors of political science and reputable social engineers.
Perhaps what many average Kenyans didn’t   know    is that the calls for mass actions were desired to be implemented months before the d-day, and a substantial budget set aside to actualize it.
Sure as day follows night, the presidential hopeful Raila Odinga disputed the outcome of the voters’ verdict that relegated   him to number two contender. And with the hindsight of his political advisers, he decided to soundly ignore the wisdom of pursuing justice in a competent court of law.
To keen political analysts, there was much more than meets the naked eye over the rather pedestrian claim of the disputed presidential results. It is instructive that in Kenya, presidential elections are done   together   with those of parliamentary and civic in one    general election.
It is also instructive that no other candidate in that general election moved   to the streets to dispute his/her unfavorable outcome. They intelligently readily subscribed to the election laws that govern the conduct and management of general elections in Kenya.
The foregoing representations soundly refute any pedestrian claim that the 2007 general election suffered a credibility crisis as a result of its defective conduct and management; read an insightful commentary by the chairman  of the now defunct Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) later Samuel  Kivuitu, in a related blog titled: Kivuitu : ‘You Are  Not Almighty God To Judge me’
It is also instructive that no single contestant in the said general election died in that senseless mass action that sadly saw the slaying of over 1000 innocent Kenyans in their motherland, and wanton destruction of property worth millions of Kenya shillings.
Perhaps had you asked  the   disputant of the presidential result then , he would have had  asserted that the eventful deaths of the1,133 innocent Kenyans, mass displacement of over 650,000 Kenyans and  wanton  destruction  of property  worth  millions  of Kenya shillings  ,was but a small price to pay for his being denied his right to rule  by hook or crook.
Perhaps he was a helpless captive     of his sadistic cabal of court jesters. Perhaps his frustrations and desperations are quite understandable; how was he to face the realities of the shifting goalposts, and the disappointed foreign master who had invested so much in his political campaign to deliver the Kenya presidency to them?
This introductory note was meant to dispel the erroneous misconception of the media coinage of 2007/08 Politically- Instigated-Civil -disturbances as post-election-violence, but only conceivable consequences of the    earlier calls for mass action by the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) political party.
Profile of a Cheap  Politician
It was the former US statesman, Adlai Stephenson who asserted that: ‘’ Politicians approach issues with open mouth rather than with open mind” A great Chinese philosopher, Confucius, told us that: great man being universal in his outlook, is impartial; petty man being partial; is not universal in his outlook.
While many naïve people may not readily discern the true meaning of Stephenson’s assertion above, as regard objectivity of open mind and pettiness of cheap politicians that is informed by a closed mind Confucius may as well had being concerned with the distinction between the prestige that attaches to a statesman, on the one hand and the pettiness of a cheap politician as purveyor of dirty politics, on the other hand.
Cheap politicians do not have the intellectual capacity to make them subscribe to virtues of courtesy and sense of decorum. For in his state of the mind that thrives on trivia, his closed mind only informs him which side of the bread is well- buttered.
Politicians are the same the world over. But the Kenyan species are of different breed and lot altogether.
One of the most disturbing fixtures of a politician is the age factor that makes them reluctantly subscribe   to the natural law of growth and decay. They would readily tell you that a politician never say die but he can pay any amount to a genetic cloner who can ably clone him back to the days of his youth. He can even change his names by a deed-poll if he’s a perennial loser in electoral contests.
 The greatest problem with politics is that  it is neither a respectable profession to which one can qualify, after  proper and adequate training , nor is it an universally acceptable vocation for a self- respecting man who cherish virtues  of honestly   and propriety.
I was writing about   the profile of this queer Kenyan politician who approaches issues with open mouth rather than with open mind. With his mouth open and minds closed, he cuts an image of an imbecile and piteous invalid.
However, he pride himself to have understudied Machiavellian commandment of ‘’ doing unto others before they do unto you’’. He is   a keen student and admirer of Joseph Goebbel, Adolf Hitler’s second world-war hero’s Minister for Propaganda and Disinformation, who taught him that ‘’ a lie told so many times and repeated to so many people can begin to sound like the truth’’ he conveniently like to ignore what English writer, Alduous Huxley told us that: ‘’facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.’’
He readily blames the electoral system and process every time tyranny of numbers vindicates his unelectability. Russian writer may as well as being referring to him when he asserted that.’’ It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry’’
The Pentagon Summit Equation
In 2005, soon after the ‘NO’ team successfully defeated the national referenda to promulgate the then proposed new constitution of Kenya against the’ YES’ Proponents, THE Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) hijacked   the campaign  platform to savour the  euphoria and market their party leader  Raila Odinga  in readiness for the 2007 general election.
My people have a folk-saying that ‘a self-assuming woman calls herself a beauty queen’. If such a piteous woman encounters a true beauty in the arena, murderous jealousy takes the better of her and paralysis her thought system.
Pundits were vindicated when shortly later predicted the eminent acrimonious disintegration of the pentagon summit and disenchantment of the pentagon luminaries over what were perceived as ‘unacceptable’ propagation of the   of the blatant luo-nyanza politics.
At that juncture, the ODM party operative unremorsefully decided to ride a roughshod on their estranged political partners whom they perceived as uncompromising and readily condescendingly pay homage their political-party deity.
It took the timely  intervention of the luo-nyanza professors of political science  to readily discern that’ a day in politics is a long time, and  that so many things could happen-for better or for worse- in the span of a day’s time’.
Those professors were the think –tank of the ODM political party, and because they had the tutored intellectual capacity to think a head of the political moment, it took them no time to realize that year 2007 certainly was not far –away ahead. And that their ‘project’ was not at all that politically popular and credibly electable nationwide other than the luo-nyanza constituency.
The professors also knew that in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies, and that allegiance to a political party or parliamentary coalition is very critical in the political life of a politician.  The exception here is where credible independent candidate can very easily defeat a party-sponsored candidate inspite of its well-financed campaign machinery.
Any credible professor of political science would readily tell you that there a whole world of difference between political agitation, political leadership and good governance.  And that an enlightened electorate can readily discern leadership qualities and attributes in political aspirants.
The ODM Presidential nominations
Throughout the first half of year 2007, saw blistering lobbying by ODM party-ticket presidential aspirants who so aggressively sought to out-do each and capture the highest status of the party
Leadership, the presidential hopefuls, Raila Odinga, Kalonzo Musyoka,Musalia Mudavadi,Willam Ruto,Najib Balala and other two made their intentions public by launching their individual campaign platforms.
As it is characteristics of ODM party elections, tempers rose high as each of the hopefuls took a hardline stand as to how the party’s presidential nominations should be done.
While Mr Odinga wanted the delegates to be based at locational level, Mr Kalonzo was adamant that the delegates should be based at sub-location level.
Mr Odinga’s think-tank readily discerned that any arrangement where delegates would be chosen at locational or sub-locational would play right into the hand of Mr Ruto and Mr Kalonzo’s Eastern province standing at 1,366,respectively.
Mr Odinga’s now demand that the delegates electoral college should be based at constituency level. Even this voting arrangement favoured Mr. Ruto as Rift Valley had 49 constituencies. ,Eastern province had 36, Nyanza  32,, Central 29, Western 24, Coast 21, North Eastern 11,and Nairobi  8  constituencies.
Each constituency  had to produce 2,000 delegates ,with Rift Valley producing a total of 98,000 delegates Eastern had 72,000 delegates ,Nyanza had 64,000, Central  58,000,Western 48,000,Coast  had 42,000,North Eastern 22,000,and Nairobi Province had 16,000 delegates.
Each of the presidential hopefuls knew without any doubt in mind that the candidate who has the financial resources with, which to buy delegates will sure carry the day on the ODM presidential nomination date. And that in electoral colleges, there is nothing like being a popular candidate. Electoral colleges are easy manipulate in your favour by generous bribes.
The Secret Brief
Perhaps what you never knew is that the 2007 Post –Election Violence (P.E.V) was meticulously planned by Kenya’s finest professors of political science social engineers, several months before the day.
Local and international donors donated generously towards the campaign of Raila Odinga as the ODM presidential nominee and the presidential candidate at the national level. After the defeat of other ODM presidential party –ticker aspirants the luo community could be loudly heard proclaiming that they were the owners of the ODM party.
A caucus of luo-nyanza professors of political science and social engineers now readily formed a core strategy team that doubled up as Raila Odinga’s think-tank. Their care mandate was to ensure that Mr. Odinga was elected as the 4th president of Kenya at all costs.
And since they were al too aware and well-informed of the science of electioneering and their candidate was not a popular national leader, their duty was to specifically devise and come up with objective strategies and winning political slogans that would thankfully change the status quo in favour of their candidate.
All other ODM presidential  party-ticket aspirants how lost in the party primary felt short-changed by what they perceived as unacceptable introduction of luo-nyanza politics in their political party. The luo nyanza strategists were all too aware of that blistering factor.
But they also were all too aware that their candidate had a near fanatical following that could be easily used as a tribal militia against other uncompromising Kenyan communities. They identified the kikuyu community as the most hostile towards the luo presidential candidate.
The kikuyu are by far and large, the most populous tribe not only in Kenya but also comparatively economically wealth than other communities and owned enviable properties all over the country.
In their secret brief, the ODM core strategists readily identified the kikuyu community and kibaki’s incumbency and sterling track-record as the greatest threat and stumbling block to a smooth sailing to state house by a luo-candidate. And that no success could ever be attained without invoking the ‘’forty-one-against ‘political slogan and revival of the sensitive majimbo debate that work against the Kikuyu.
The secret document was officially titled;’EXCUTIVE BRIEFON THE POSITIONING  AND MARKETINGOF THE ORANGE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT ‘’THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT’’-Hon Raila A. Odinga’
The purpose of that secret brief was; 1.0  To ensure that the Orange  Democratic (hereinafter  referred to as ODM)remain united and focused throughout the national presidential campaigns period; 2.0 To ensure that Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga is elected the fourth president of the republic of Kenya in succession to the then current president Mwai  Kibaki; 3.0 To ensure that the post elections ODM  secures an absolute majority of parliamentary seats in the tenth parliament to facilitate the ease of the intended constitutional reforms.
Its preamble stated that the document was intended to provide the conceptual guidelines and road map for the periods leading up to the presidential elections set for December 2007. The document noted the challenges and obstacles likely to confront the should experience and strong following in the Rift Valley:
        i.            Kibaki’s incumbency  and track record; and
      ii.            The FINANCIAL Muscle of The Mt. Kenya elite and their potential to play rough and dirty.
The secret document outlined strategies for overcoming the odds and delivering the presidency to Hon. Raila Odinga and ODM in the December elections.
The secret document made deductions based on the candidates strengths and opportunities and observed that his strengths outweigh his weaknesses. The document also identified the candidate/party’s victory as imminent if they (strategists and party membership) recreate and maintain the euphoria achieved during the 2005 constitutional referendum and in the last general Election of year 2002.

Highlights of the Recommended Action Plan:
Kikuyu Alienation:
The document identified that owing  to the strategy of kikuyu alienation and its success during the 2005 referendum that had pitied the pro- kikuyu party of National Unity(PNU) and ODM, it was to  be utilized once-more  for the 2007 General Election.
Regional pointmen should be identified to galvanize their respective communities    around the anti-kikuyu initiative. Concurrently, every effort must be made to undermine Kalonzo in order to prevent him from emerging as an alternative avenue for anti-kikuyu sentiments.
In this regard, particular caution should be placed on regions such as RVP where Kalonzo has the potential of attracting some of our votes; Anti-kikuyuism must be reinforced with promises of job and economic gains to key players from every community supporting this initiative.

The Media
The secret document also readily identified that the Orange team had maintained intimate contacts across all media and that even though a number of senior media managers are active in our campaigns we should establish the strongest media centre possible, manned by local and international experts.  Indeed, this issue was   to be approaches with the understanding that victory in the media war could very well mean victory at the polls.
Schedule of Activities
The secret documents also identified schedule of activities that were to lead to the implementation of the strategy items above.
STRATEGY
RATIONALE
HOW TO ACTIVATE
WHEN TO ACTIVATE
ACTION BY
The anti- kikuyu crusade
1.      This is an important wedge issue. It will help galvanize the rest of the county against a common enemy and set the overall tone of our campaign
1.      Mass media (allusion to predominance of kikuyu in public service and business).
2.      Public rallies
3.      Leaflets
4.      Viral email and SMs
Throughout the campaign period heightened activities three weeks before elections
All members, R.O to lead the execution of this strategy
Uhuru Kenyatta as Kibaki’s Choice for 2012
1.Accentuate the anti-Kikuyu sentiments
2. Cause unease within the PNU ranks.
3.Attract the luhya vote by eliminating the belief that there will be a luhya successor
4.Communicate the intention to retain power within a select group of prominent political families (Kenyatta Moi, Kibaki)
1.speculative newspaper articles, op-eds
2.public pronouncement of campaign rallies
3Blags/web forums
Leaflets, with special focus on western Kenya and RVP
Immediately with heightened media activities at the end of  November

Majimbo
Majimbo present the promise to the electorate that their resources at the exclusion of foreigners particularly the kikuyu Akamba and the Indians. It is particularly important for galvanizing the coastal vote
1.Public rallies in RVP, western and coast
2.op-ed columns in the mainstream media
3.TV/FM radio call in shows
4. public forums such as workshops with high profile personalities such a Ghai


Rigging
1.Prepare the ground for rejection of unfavorable results
2. Increase interest in monitoring activities to ensure no rigging happens.
3. Deflect attention from ourselves should to manipulate voter turnout in green areas
1. Op-Ed columns
2. TV/FM radio call in shows
3. petitions to embassies and ODM friendly NGOS
4. Public rallies


Ethnic Tensions/ Violence as a last Resort
To discourage voter participation in hostile areas.
1.continue pro- majimbo utterances
2.use ODM agents ethnic  on the ground to engineer ethnic tensions in target areas
3.support Kapondi’s forces in Mt. Elgon
4. Leaflets targeting Kikuyus, Kisii, etc
Mid-Dec


Flashback
            The secret document was dated 8th September 2007. At around November of 2007 an embittered insider who was privy to its publication sneaked it out of its secret custody and readily sneaked it out of its secret custody and readily availed it to leading Kenyan socio-political analysts to date preserve its contents for posterity what is most intriguing to date is to verify whether that secret document was aver presented to the waki commission, the Group of Eminent Persons (GEP), the NSIS, the ICC investigation.
However, the intendment of this article was not to open a sensitive can of worms but to provoke the intelligence of all right-thinking Kenyans to undertake a postmortem analysis of the 2007 politically instigated- civil – disturbances.
History will judge us very harshly if we will not sincerely and truthfully let posterity know   who exactly benefitted from the slaying of 1,133 innocent Kenyans and wanton destruction of properties worth millions of worthy Kenya shillings and in so doing strap the future generations with enduring shilling and in so doing strap the future generations with enduring legacy of abject poverty and strangulating public debt.
We owe it to ourselves to be the intelligent creatures like the Homo sapiens we are. –
 Mfalme Davis






Calls For Mass Action That Killed Many Innocent Kenyans

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