Did Karume really say that or is that your usual satire?????!!!!!!!!! I demand a link! Lakini it’s really too bad, that a government famed for its inaction becomes suddenly shows a lot of action of the wrong sort. It’s beyond anger now, it’s sadness at such bungling incompetency.

…thirty backwards. Some progress indeed.

There are things I as a Kenyan who voted for a President do not care about.
1. Whether the President has one wife or sixty two.
2. Whether the President met in secret with XYZ.
I just need him to run the country or isn’t that what presidents are meant to do?
The two things above seem to generate a lot of unnecessary heat , light and ashes.

It seems the golfing advisers are trying very hard to divert attention from their wayward ways. Sorry folks even if you burnt down KICC I shall still need to know why you invented Anglofleecing with thirty percent of my hard earned cash.

OOh and am 3rd.

But then again the Government is stuffed by fellows who think the Internet is used to catch fish.
LOL, dude gani hilo (to be read in Kiswahili)

saaaary, that was like number 6. Shucks! Ati I have 1 comment? Is this blog of yours mad. after being such a dedicated groupie? I demand a recount.
By the way, when they said Commandos raided KTN, were they like without underwear?

Indeed, Prousette, INDEED!

I’m saddened by this episode. It is remniscent of the bombings, raiding and constant badgering of the Daily News which had emerged as the biggest daily in Zimbabwe but happened to report the truth as opposed to propaganda. The Daily News is closed now.

I hope it doesn’t come to this in Kenya.

In meantime can someone tell Kibaki, Mugabe and the rest of these African strongmen that freedom of expression is not a privilege, it’s an inalienable right.

“I think, therefore I am.” Descartes.

the bright goons forgot to shutdown the standard group’s website. the same guy in charge of taking down the parliament site mustve been charged with that responsibility.

I’ve had enough.

If this works for the Presi then it should for me. If you cant beat them, join them!

**sticks head in hole**

You have got to be kidding me!!
We’ve truly sunk to a new low.
This stinks to high heaven..It reeks of diversion antics- Can you believe the display of arrogance by Michuki??

Oh men! Aren’t those people a bunch of hooligans!
I had wanted to comment on your NGO post, but yani, you put up another one before I had the chance!…and then there all these other kenyans who rush to comment on your post…so here I am coming in at I don’t even know number what! Anyway, ive been wondering if Perhaps I am one of those who has been hanging out with Na Yvette and her ilk.
I read your post and in some way heard the clattering of my pipe dreams as they were rudely thrown down the stairs!
I want change! Many others do and many others don’t! we all know as a people that we’re being screwed over, so what then. If I honestly give a damn about issues like poverty and yes(here comes the ‘evil’ word)… development! What do I do about it! Sit back?! Hate and give numerous diatribes against those who have colonised our mental and physical wealth? Or go and give them hell in their organizations, try and vunja their glass houses kabisa. I would need a whole lot of courage ,guts and energy ama sio! Cause the moment you open your mouth you could very well be chasing your own diabs out the door!
If every person who comments on such issues on KBW really wanted change they could do it! What would be the rewards of your valiant efforts? Would it have been worth it? You may ask. I don’t know, but I believe there are those who might hear you story and think, that person wasn’t just a mdomo! He was a man of his word. It might be your colleague or some random peeps from shags who realises that all city folk aren’t superficial, silly people! That stories of strength and honour don’t only exist in Gladiator or Brave heart!
People need to start asking themselves ‘Where is MY platform for change’ and to start making an effort and by the way if your labour is bearing no fruit, then perhaps eh… your hogging someone else’s space!
Hmmm, So where is the best platform for change? Our sitting rooms? Our blogs? Our offices?… NGO’s? and I’m not even talking about arranging a coup. Does anyone talk to their small cousins, sisters, bros the house-help, or even the watchi about these things,?
(Sigh)…anyway, keep on writing Mr..M. As a young Kenyan, I can honestly say, you have made me think! Hooray! and mad kudos! your blog is thoroughly entertaining.

I am breaking my long silence because this has hurt me to the core. I am a young Kenyan who KNOWS we can be so much more. This is a throwback to the moi days. And most Kenyans know what that was like & never want to go back!

The government pays good money to advertise how much “freedom” we have now & goes right on to perpetrate the same crimes.

I am not an advocate of violence but I wish Kenyans would just peacefully shut down the country for a few days. It will cause immense pain & suffering but I hope Kenyans can force an interim government & start afresh asap.

My heart was not in my work today. I am dejected & ANGRY over what transpired. kibaki & his minions should be looking at S.Africa, Rwanda & Botswana for inspiration NOT Uganda & Zimbabwe.

I might not agree with the Standard on many issues especially the quality of reporting but what was perpetrated was pure hate by imbeciles.

Do the pumbavus realise that this will only galvanise Kenyans against them?
Do they realise that Kenyans might see violence as the only way out?
Do they realise that they can sue Standard if they feel they were maligned?
Is there something else they are hiding?

Anyway, I need to go brood…

I see it made boingboing:

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/02/media_shutdown_in_ke.html

More exposure is what we need — people in Nairobi go out and take pictures, hear and see — blog, send emails, upload pictures to flikr — use the new media to show them they CANNOT control us any more.

krisidiot (if he was still in the govt) would have called the media attention on the raid a “Blitish prot to bling down da regitimate erected government”…

Insanity – Affliction that affects kibaki, members of his family, his associates & his hired goons.

After roocy’s (kib’s wife #1) foray into the Nation Centre was a bust, kibs sent his goons to the Standard.

michuki – a former homeguard – is a nincompoop. Hussein Ali (Commish of Police) needs to either fire kamau & all the senior officers who participated in this raid OR resign in protest!

This same kamau was involved in “investigating” the Goldenberg scandal frustrated Murgor’s (then DPP) efforts to investigate high level crime. According to kibs kamau is “one of us”.

How can the police investigate themselves…? Anyone smell the stink of COVERUP?
Oh, by the CID headed by kamau…

We’re dying from death?? My god, Aristotle, stand aside. Buddha, hang up your gloves. We have found the true philospher king right here. Gather round people…what kills you..is DEATH!! Avoid that, and you will have eternal life. Ha! Ati we don’t have philosophia!

as they say where i come from, you kill a snake by thwacking the head. if you get the drift, do the needful come 2007. or even earlier as these nitwits are on a mission to outdo each other to please their fence sitting, tight-lipped, sleepy boss (i can imagine the glee pasted across his face as he watched the cctv clips: some warped sense of humour this baks got)