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Madness Is …

Posted January 8th, 2008 in Hubbub, News by M

Inviting your rival for mediated talks on a possible coalition government on Friday and then even before putting the phone down proceeding to name your cabinet and the important portfolios on Tuesday.

Can someone check that the Presidential Garage is opened BEFORE the presidential limousine’s engine is started?

Or is Kibaki out of his DOGGONE MIND?!

How the FUZZ can this possibly help matters any?

This is tantamount to eating a man’s lunch, inviting him to dinner to appease him some and then proceeding to eat the dinner before he gets there!!!

One would think that a modicum of sense in the Kibaki administration would last longer than a Brazilian in a British tube station. How wrong one would be! I’d start making sanity comparisons to shithouse rats but the rats are objecting

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  • shaqattac

    Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
    There’s people always dying trying to keep them alive
    There’s bodies decomposing in containers tonight
    In an abandoned building where
    The squatters made a mural of a Maasai girl
    With fifteen cans of spray paint and a chemical swirl
    She’s standing in the ashes at the end of the world
    Four winds blowing through her hair
    But when great Satan’s gone, the whore of State House
    She just can’t sustain the pressure where it’s placed
    She caves
    The Bible’s blind, the Torah’s deaf, the Koran’s mute
    If you burn them all together you get close to the truth still
    They are pouring over Sanskrit on the ivy league moons
    While shadows lengthen in the sun
    Cast all the school and meditation built to soften the times
    And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
    It’s knocking over fences, crossing

    Four winds, cry until it comes
    And it’s the sum of man
    Slouching towards Nairobi
    A heart just can’t contain all of that empty space
    It breaks, it breaks, it breaks
    Well, I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet
    Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
    All the way to Kisumu to commune with the dead
    They said, “You’d better look alive”
    And I was off to old Eldy where a genocide sleeps
    In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused west
    I buried my ballast, I made my peace
    With four winds, levelling the escarpments of the great valley

    But when great Satan’s gone, the whore of State house,
    She just can’t remain with all that outer space
    She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves.

  • shaqattac

    The man has totally gone mad. This is not possible, I feel like throwing up. Kenyans of all tribes should unite to kick these vultures out.

    No kikuyu can say now that he or she supports Kibaki, I don’t think it is humanely possible. This man has gone too far. He doesnt give a shit about all the kikuyus who have been killed and who are going to be killed. This man doesnt want peace, he wants to destroy kenya! And all kenyans regardless of tribe will suffer. We should all unite to reject these senile sleazy bastards who are living on extra time but are so bent on destroying our futures.

  • http://75068.blogspot.com/ OBAMBLA

    Kibaki is telling those who are opposed to him that he intends to rule by force, and that he is able to stay the course, and will ride out this storm. He has already precvented all their rallies, and infact is telling the opposition that he is in charge here, and there is nothing they can do about it. By announcing this right before kuffor comes in, he is pretty much telling everyone what he has decided. Let thos who die , die, because kibaki is the newest african tyrant on the block. mezeni wembe. that is what kibaki is telling the world.

  • Kirima

    Amazed, speechless, bamboozled.
    Yaani absolutely no fresh faces or new names at all. what was the point of rejecting 70% of the old lot for him to just select from the remainder we didn’t throw out while he waits to nominate the geezers we threw out (I suspect!)
    No youth, No brilliance, no change its totally uninspiring!!!

  • http://tallb.wordpress.com aegeus

    my jaw hit the floor, and is still resident there, when i heard the news…

  • brutha-man

    the country has to function

    That to me is putting the cart before the horse. Right now there is no country TO FUNCTION! Hadn’t we better fix that first?
  • Half n Half

    I refuse to talk anymore there is nothing left to say

  • nguye

    just seen Martha Karua on Al Jazeera saying the press were responsible for saying Kufour there for mediation….
    Father help me please, what is going on?

  • http://www.magaidi.com/diary Magaidi

    Memo to Kibaki – If you call yourself a leader and look over your shoulder and nobody’s following you, then you’re just taking a walk!

  • http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com acolyte

    Talk about giving with one hand and taking with another. Why the need for talks when Kibz has shown he isn’t listening. Plus the recycling of old MPs is just plain pathetic.
    The new Kenya…backwards ever, forward never!

  • mo#

    i had refused to believe kibaki was a dictator…….. UNTILL NOW !!!!

    i swear tumerudi siku za nyayo …….

  • abelian

    true dat! this guy is screwing up with every move he makes

  • Grace

    What I find really sad is that this announcement does not surprise me. Everything Kibaki and co have done since the election (and even before) have shown such blatant disrespect for us Kenyans and a belief that we can do nothing to stop him.

    I do not think he is mad, that is to provide him with an excuse for his behavior, and I refuse to provide him with any excuses for essentially being a dictator.

  • msaniixl

    Clearly the leadership has Kenyans best interest at heart…Disgusting

  • Ahmed

    While people have been complaining that he favoured his Kikuyu tribesmen in the last 5 years, he did it again. First, he told Kenyans that he doesn’t care what they think of him. Secondly, he appointed all the old fossils who survive the electoral machet of Kenyans. Thirdly, he has given all the important ministries to his Kikuyu tribesmen.

    1. President-Mt. Kenya
    2. Finance-Mt-Kenya
    3. Roads, public works-Mt. Kenya
    4. Energy-Mt.Kenya
    5. Local Govt-Mt.Kenya
    6. Justice/Constitutional affairs-Mt.Kenya
    7. Internal security-Mt.Kenya

    That’s Kibaki the nationalist for you. What remains now are departments like youth, regional development and housing. Nothing else. That’s Kibaki for you.

  • The.Hanyee

    I was sooo waiting for this to get posted!

    Mwai has acted with utter contempt and disregard to the fact that we are in the process of walking of a volatile shithole and then he ups and does this…why the flying shytes didn’t he wait till at least next week? Talk of taking a rancid crap on someone’s face!

    Same old goons, and especially that good-for-nothing clusterfuck Chirau Mwakwere…

    Brutha-Man, the country has “functioned” bila Ministers for almost a week, so I guess it wasn’t too much to wait for another week.

    The imbecility ante just got raised…and then some…

  • renee

    we should not be surprised..KANU has managed to come back to power clothed as PNU…lakini those new ministers should not celebrate too loudly…they better remember that KANU/PNU gives on TV and fires on radio at lunchtime….

  • alienmist

    I knew the tribal hypersensitives would spot the tiny detail of three Kiuks and zero Luos…

    I despair!!

  • Carol

    Mi sina mengi ya kuongezea!
    What else can a humble Kenyan say?
    Once our leaders will stop being greedy,tutasonga mbele for now “will you please haer the pleads of your sheep ‘Your Exelency, EGH’ The President?Just look at the past week it should humble you”.
    This is worse than tribalsm,the word is madness,the degree is high!

  • Carol

    Mi sina mengi ya kuongezea!
    What else can a humble Kenyan say?
    Once our leaders will stop being greedy,tutasonga mbele for now “will you please haer the pleads of your sheep ‘Your Exelency, EGH’ The President?Just look at the past week it should humble you”.
    This is worse than tribalism,the word is madness,the degree is high!

  • Ahmed

    Alienmist,

    Do you think there are 6 Kikuyus and one Meru occupying the mother ministries or 3? And why do you run to Luos? A Somali like me can see it and I don’t need to be a Kyuk bred with hatred to Luos like you to know the basics of justice. I have Kenya to lose, not a tribe to lose. Stone Age tribal pussyfooting is long gone boy.

  • alienmist

    Ahmed:

    Why do you think I am hater? I am not, I was just making a point that with the tribal hypersensitive Kenya this cabinet is bound to bring problems…

    I am all for peace my friend

  • sunshine

    i imagine that Kibaki saw that he has nothing to bring to the table for negotiations and decided that he rather stir up tempers by naming the cabinet and thus prevent any negotioations from taking place.

  • abelian

    toiyoi,

    What makes you think the new divisions will get rid of tribalism? They would still fall into the same tribal divisions plaguing Kenya today.

    I see you took care to make sure you had coast well divided because of the port… Kenya can only survive the way it is at the moment..

    We are too poor and underdeveloped to divide ourselves into mini states. The solution is to make tribe non-significant there is no other way

  • JM

    Mr. Kibaki and company…you have cause so much pain and anguish to Kenyans and still continue to parade your arrogance and lord over us. nature has a way of righting society’s wrongs… what goes around never fails to comes around.

  • JM

    until the philosophy which holds one clique superior and the masses inferior… is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned

    Until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of our nation

    Until the ethnic background of a Kenyan is of no more significance than the texture of his hair

    Until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to tribe

    Until that day, the dream of a lasting resolution to this conflict… and the rule of national morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained

    Until the ignoble and greedy regimes that holds all Kenyans in subhuman bondage, have been kicked out and replaced

    Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will

    Until all Kenyans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven

    Until that day, the Kenyan nation will not know peace. Kenyans will continue to fight for our rights and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of GOOD over EVIL.

    (These Words (edited to suit context) were uttered by Haile Selassie I at a UN conference in 1963. They were popularised by Bob Marley in his song War/No more trouble).

  • magothe

    nice to see the balanced views above.
    so should the nation await the great Raila to appear at the table before we can start functioning? kwani you’ve stayed at home all this time?
    lets get back to work guys and leave the politicians to those who practice it…

  • L

    ok now i think PNU MP’s and ODM MPs need to talk coz its quite obvious kibaki is not a man to do business with.

    its also quite unfortunate that former heads of state from africa an dthe US ambassador have toured
    the clash hit areas wheras neither kibaki nor Raila nor the MPS from the afflicted areas have even bothered to speak appeal for calm nor visited those areas. its truly a sad day. i getting some hope now i have no hope – i need to start planning how to evacuate my family.

  • D

    I cannot wait for Parliament to convene on Monday. It will be interesting. I wish I could be a fly on the wall.

    Ok, so a cabinet has been named. We can argue till we are blue in the face. I am not happy about it but it has been done. WHAT NOW? Kenyans like being reactive instead of proactive. That is why people are just looting, raping and killing. Grandstanding on TV (both sides are guilty of this while parts of the country burns)

    As Kenyans, we have to step back and try to predict what will happen. Do any of us, realistically, think Kibaki will just step down? I think not!!! Mobs will continue to riot not realizing that they are hurting themselves. I don’t care what happened in the country.. VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER!

    What happens next is key. Raila will refuse to meet until his conditions are met. Also, we will have to see what the international community does?

  • D

    Kenya has serious problems to solve. Tribalism is not the most important problem. We have a serious problem with economics, class and land ownership and our institutions. If tribalism is the problem, where isn’t there fighting in the suburbs of the major towns? Guys of all tribes have been hitting the bars the last few days discussing what has happened. Kenyans do not hate each other like that. It is the frustrations of what people see to be economic marginalization.

    The rioting has been concentrated in the slums. The poor (economics) have nothing to lose. Kenya has a huge divide between the rich and poor. In Rift, guys are angry after the way land was alloted during the early years after independence.

    Our institutions have failed us. The courts cannot be trusted and that is a shame. People treated the Constitution like it was a joke. These are things, as Kenyans, that we need to solve NOW!

  • Kigano

    There will be no further comment from me. I feel very frustrated with Kibaki that anything I write can not effectively express my emotions. If I was in Kenya now I would show it with my actions and the end result would not be very good.

  • Anyango

    All I can say is that I am sad to be from this country. I cannot even hold my head up like I used to. Kibaki has single handed destroyed Kenya. I do not think it matter to him what goes on in Kenya as it is the poor people that have been affected. No words can express my concerns. I did not realise how much Luos are not wanted in Kenya. I have always been in the middle ground but I have forced to choose sides. Very sad to see what is going on.

  • Dynamic

    Family,

    Kenya’s military is Kibaki’s most important tool. Provided he has Kenya’s military wrapped around his finger, he knows we’ll do nothing but dance to his beats no matter the noise we make.

    I’m thinking- if we can figure out a means to reconnect our men and women back to their consciences and reconsider that we have an entire country and lives at stake, we could strip the gov’t of it’s power overnight and make our voices heard.

    But then again I doubt this would happen for they’d be biting the hand that feeds them. Regardless, this is a moment in our history that require men of honour and integrity. I wish our military men had such, instead of just being robots marching to those mutha#$%&s orders. I bet they’d shoot their mothers if ordered to.

    D.

  • Kivulu

    Much ado about nothing. The appointments are purely geared toward a possible poll re-run. With Kalonzo as VP, Mzee Baks hopes to bag the 800,000 votes Kalonzo got and therefore beat Raila legally this time.
    What do we expect from our “leaders,” selfishness is paramount. Please people, see through the smoke screen being put up by politicians, this is about post-mediation. Kwaheri, John Kufuor.

  • Ali

    Kibaki is an enemy of Kenya.

    While voting for Kibaki was not a crime, at this point anybody who supports Kibaki in anyway, shape, or form is also an enemy of Kenya. Kikuyu or not. People are dying and they dont care.
    Lets call a thief by his name- A thief! Not a president not a man just a thief.

  • http://www.nmjoe.blogspot.com joe

    i cant believe that some kenyans still think kibaki will resign or accept a re run or run off its sad – kibaki is in this to the bitter end – he has not given any indication that he is stepping down kufuor is here for tea then he goes back home . odm should snap out of denial

    kalonzo being appointed vp is not a run off ploy/plan it is a 2012 exit strategy .you guys are disappointing me . i forgot you are the same obama is my cousin types

  • http://nthambazale.com Clement

    Kibaki is confused.

  • http://chrenyan.wordpress.com/ Chrenyan

    Now, is Raila expected to attend talks to haggle over whether he can be the Minister for Livestock and Fisheries or not? Heaven help us all.

    What surprises me is that Kibaki can still surprise me. He was dishonest in the matter of the MoU. He did not act on Anglo Leasing, despite knowing about it, until Githongo blew the whistle. A quick perusal of the Githongo report will show that Kibaki was well aware of what was going on long before any of us were. He has done zilch about the Kroll report, and in fact allied himself with the mega-thieves implicated therein. He may have stolen a Presidential election. He has ignored the plight of his own people in the aftermath. He has used the country’s police and military to quash ODM’s attempts to demonstrate. Then he names a cabinet that completely excludes any of the 100 MP’s from ODM, after saying he is willing to sit with Raila to discuss a “coalition government”, and I am surprised?

    You fool, Chrenyan, fool!

  • Jose

    I find it hard to believe that we are still bashing Kibaki and/or Raila. The crisis in Kenya goes deeper than this flawed election.

    It is decades of the entire political class, going back to independence, lording it over the people. It is also ignorance, poverty and tribalism lashing out after years of being swept under the rug.

    So as people bash Kibaki, let’s remember that this instability is not really about him or Raila for that matter. It’s about flawed social, economic and political institutions that have let the country down.

  • SP

    As tragic as it is the way you put it you can’t help but laugh at the situation – love your blog

  • Jose

    Ali,

    I’m still not convinced that someone would kill and burn his neighbour in the name of right and wrong. You seem to be saying that. Such a killer has deeper hatred and issues. If so, then that is the height of immorality and hypocrisy.

    You also seem to imply that the Kikuyu tribe have stolen the election. It is that kind of myopic, ethnic generalisation that is causing this country its problems. Kibaki has stolen. Kibaki. Him and his cronies. Not the Kikuyu nation. By your logic, ALL Luos are rioters and looters, seeing how Kisumu was looted and torched by certain Luo persons. In any event, some of the largest sufferers of the North Rift violence are the Kikuyus. if you asked them what they feel about Kibaki’s “win”, I wonder what they would say…

    I appreciate the need to vent anger after this shambolic elections, but let’s desist from baseless ethnic generalisations.

  • Quest

    Kibaki has finally shown us his intentions. He was not keen to being a just leader and electing a “clean hands cabinet” but to show us he is the one who holds the power! Sadly, we kenyans are out here killing each other and we let the thief go scot free! To add salt to injury Kibaki tells us that anyone found breaking the law will be prosecuted! Very ironical who broke which law?!
    Its unbelieveble that he wants Raila to still sit at a negotiating table and haggle for the crumbs he left at the table!!He might just as well name the whole GEMA cabinate.
    Lastly, where are the pastors who called Raila a devil worshipper? Kibaki has sacrificed Kenyans and Kalonzo surely was not christian when he happily accepted the Vp jobo. If God is still there ad this is happening, Kenyans should ask themselves why such evil can persist despite our prayers. I am embarrassed. Najivunia kuwa mkenya?? Yeah right!

  • http://wwww.sylkwan.blogspot.com Shiroh

    We have to move on

    What is the point in moving on if we don’t address the root causes of the problem? If we don’t we’ll just be having these same conversations in 2012, 2017, 2022 …. We need to address these issues, not ignore them and ‘move on’.
  • http://www.scribblesheet.co.uk/article/what_next_for_kenya What Next for Kenya

    Its such a sad state of affairs, how can Kibaki do this? Clearly this is far from democratic. Something needs to be done, perhaps its time for people to return to the streets.

  • http://modoathii.wordpress.com modoathii

    i’m shocked. i’m pissed. i’m ashamed. i’m…i’m…bila words. clearly we don’t matter. and evidently, neither does what we want. demon-cracy indeed!

  • http://bado Ja-dear

    Cry, my beloved country. I stopped watching the news when I heard that the old man had named half his cabinet. I was caught in the middle of all this. For a 12/13 yr old boy come to your car with a boulder and demand money before he lets you drive on is madness. I told him as much. It is madness when all this is happening yet the powers that be do nothing to condemn it all. Our leaders have failed us. I cannot brag that I have a solution. I don’t know what to do any more. I’m numb from the rage I feel inside.

    Is this mediation going to be meaningful? Did Emilio care about the repercussions of his actions? Does he really care about what is happening around us? Do you think your actions will drive him to do anything? Does he even have a heart.

    Lucy must be somewhere with the silly grin on his face screaming ‘I told you we’d be back’. I am sad to be a Kenyan.

  • http://bado Ja-dear

    Cry, my beloved country. I stopped watching the news when I heard that the old man had named half his cabinet. I was caught in the middle of all this. For a 12/13 yr old boy come to your car with a boulder and demand money before he lets you drive on is madness. I told him as much. It is madness when all this is happening yet the powers that be do nothing to condemn it all. Our leaders have failed us. I cannot brag that I have a solution. I don’t know what to do any more. I’m numb from the rage I feel inside.

    Is this mediation going to be meaningful? Did Emilio care about the repercussions of his actions? Does he really care about what is happening around us? Do you think your actions will drive him to do anything? Does he even have a heart.

    Lucy must be somewhere with the silly grin on her face screaming ‘I told you we’d be back’. I am sad to be a Kenyan.

  • http://mudskippah.blogspot.com mudskippah

    I voted PNU. Because Kenya was developing economically for the first time in eons and because I don’t think change happens abruptly, it is a process and I wanted the momentum to continue. After all, 2012 is only 5 years away and then it would be time, according to me, to change gear and move faster.

    Now I am not so sure. I want a re-run, but what way will I vote?

    Yet, somehow, ODM has never convinced me they are or will be different. I’m fed up with Kibaki and company. It’s just that I’m not sure it’s much change when I replace them with Ruto, Okemo, Mudavadi.

    I’ll vote ODM in round 2. If it’s the same old shit I’ll… I don’t know what.

    For now, Kibaki’s Kifua tactics versus Raila’s Kifua tactics are crushing innocent Kenyans in the middle. F*ing politics.

  • kax

    i guess we should have seen it when Ubako and his gang let in the hawkers back to the streets of nairobi and told matatu crew they don’t have to wear uniforms… there is no low they will not sink to get or hold on to power. i hope am wrong on that one.
    my head hangs in shame.

  • http://mudskippah.blogspot.com mudskippah

    “Dear Kikuyus, next time you become victims of crime in Kenya, remember you supported that.” -Ali

    “ODM are just looking for any excuse to massacre kyuks. Let them be careful of what they wish for.” -Frank

    I am Kenyan. I am also a Kikuyu. I am not ashamed. Sentiments like those echoed by Ali and Frank are the reason we (all Kenyans, regardless) are deep in this latrine. Give us a break, shouts I.

    To hell with short-sighted bigotry and generalizations that expand these dangerous fissures in our society. The one thing we need to burn in this country is tribalism. That word has never sounded so ugly.

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