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VOTE OUT NARC KENYA MAFIA IN NEXT ELECTIONS In the December 2002 elections, the National Rainbow Coalition (Narc) received overwhelming support from Kenyan voters and seized power on a platform of ending corruption. Four years later, the Narc government headed by President Mwai Kibaki has been rated as more corrupt than even the previous dictatorship of former President Daniel arap Moi. The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission that was set up by the Narc government to tackle corruption and that is headed by Justice Aron Ringera has failed to deliver. Since its inception, the Commission has not brought to justice a single thief in both the Moi and Kibaki dictatorships. Because of this failure, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM-Kenya) has called on Ringera to resign while the Movement has also held a demonstration outside Ringera’s office to put pressure on him to quit. CORRUPTION AND CONMANSHIP WITHIN THE RULING CLASS Apart from the Goldenberg scandal that has not been sorted out, Narc is responsible for numerous other corruption scandals, notably, the scandal involving Ksh 360 million helicopter servicing contract in South Africa, the Czech fighter jet scandal which could have cost the tax payer Ksh 12.3 billion, the Ksh 4.1 billion Navy ship scandal, the Mahindra Jeep scandal involving the purchase of jeeps at a tune of Ksh 1 million each, the Anglo-Leasing scandal, the US$ 3 million Prison Department scandal involving the purchase of 30 boilers, the Ksh 2.6 billion scandal involving the construction of Nexus, a secret military communication center at Karen and numerous other scandals where top government officials have been implicated. Commissions of enquiries which were set up by Narc to tackle corruption have failed to nail thieves who have been stealing tax payer's money during both the Moi and Kibaki dictatorships. Politicians who have been identified as having been corrupt like Professor George Saitoti, have been protected by the government. Members of the Judiciary and former Cabinet Ministers like Dr. Chris Murungaru who were found to have been involved in several corrupt deals have been left to go free. Moody Awori, Kibaki’s Vice president, is still in office months after he was named as one of the key elements in the Anglo-Leasing scandal. Njenga Karume, a well known land grabber is still walking free. The whole government is soaked in corruption from - the recruitment of military personnel and game wardens to the printing of passports and currency notes. What is more? Our view is that the Kibaki government is not worth re-electing to power and it is for this reason that Kesdemo is campaigning for the election of ODM-Kenya. Instead of tackling corruption, the government is seeking selective justice and involved in smear campaigns of government opponents on the question of corruption. With its policy of selective justice, Kesdemo believes that the real thieves who have stolen from public coffers before and during Kibaki’s rule will never be brought to face justice. MARTHA KARUA AND JUSTICE FOR SALE Kesdemo believes that the Ndungu Land Report, The Kiliku Report and other Reports which the government has failed to act upon and which outline different scandals should be re-opened by any new regime that comes to power in Kenya. The position of Kesdemo is that criminals who are found to have been involved in scandals should be charged and sent to prison if found guilty. Kesdemo is very concerned that Narc has not only failed to act on corruption scandals but the Coalition has also put justice on sale. Today, only the rich have access to justice in our country, a tendency that Narc inherited from former dictatorship of Daniel arap Moi. KESDEMO believes that any regime that cannot end the system of selective justice is not qualified to govern Kenya. Under the Kibaki administration, the rich have been escaping with crimes while the poor are sent to jail after their cases have been hurried though the judicial system. Minister for Justice Mrs Martha Karua, who is a lawyer by profession, is one of the most tribalist Mount Kenya Mafia representative in government. Karua is slowly and systematically perfecting the art of selective justice in our country. From her latest “anti-corruption” moves, it is clear that Martha Karua’s goal is to protect members of the Kikuyu ruling elite who have consistently stolen from the tax man since Narc came to power while at the same time harassing the opposition. The real masters and chief architects of Anglo-Leasing together with their sons and daughters who have contributed in the theft have all been protected under Karua’s on-going policy of selective justice. For example, in a list of corrupt people circulated by Karua, the names of key Kibaki allies were exempted because of a one sided justice system (fitina) practiced by the Kibaki dictatorship. KESDEMO sees Martha Karua as the biblical jezebel, a dirty woman who will do anything to protect the thieving Mafia, her tribesmen and the corrupt ruling class who have failed our Nation. PROGREESIVE VS REACTIONARY FORCES IN THE BATTLE FOR STATE HOUSE In the battle to take over government in Kenya, KESDEMO believes that there are two forces in the situation - ODM, the progressive force and Narc-Kenya, the reactionary force. ODM-Kenya is not the “anointed messiah” but Kesdemo believes that the Movement is in a position to further open the democratic space so much needed in Kenya as the anti-imperialist struggle in our country continues. The main problem in Kenya is that there is no revolutionary Movement or Party better than ODM-K or Narc-Kenya. As a revolutionary Movement which is still not yet on the ground, it is the responsibility of Kesdemo to analyze political formations and recommend the most promising Movement or Party that can advance the democratic struggle in our country. It is after this analysis that Kesdemo leadership arrived at the conclusion that ODM-K is the Movement of choice. ODM-K saved Kenyans from getting a Wako mongrel draft Constitution that could probably have allowed Mount Kenya Mafia to rule other tribes in Kenya for another 100 years. Although there are elements in the Movement that are not clean, the movement has been in the fore-front in the fight against corruption, tribalism, nepotism and emperor worship in Kenya. Raila Odinga, one of ODM-luminaries, is personally responsible for exposing the Armenian scandal in which President Kibaki’s wife, daughter Winnie, cabinet ministers like John Michuki and other contacts were deeply involved. From political rallies that have so far been organized by ODM-Kenya, the huge crowds that have been attending the rallies are an indication that Narc-Kenya’s future is numbered. There is no single ethnic group that can seize power in Kenya independently and the huge crowds ODM-K is pulling today are the same crowds that helped defeat the Kibaki Mafia group during the referendum. Next year’s elections will be no different and Kesdemo is convinced that Narc is on its way out of power. Narc-Kenya represents oppression, corruption, hate, deception and tribalism. These are the same problems Kenyans have been facing since flag independence in 1963. The late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga tried to fight these vices and he was constantly harassed, arrested and eventually detained. Tom Mboya, a progressive Trade Unionist, was assassinated because the dark forces under the Kenyatta dictatorship feared democracy. J.M Kariuki, who identified himself with oppressed Kenyans and who was a “shining star” in the anti-imperialist movement, was assassinated by forces that were against the development of revolutionary ideas in Kenya. The Narc government is responsible for the assassination of Odhiambo Mbai, a University lecturer because of his firm stand on devolution of power. The point is that the difference between the Kibaki administration and the last two dictatorships in Kenya is very thin and it is for this reason that Kesdemo is campaigning for a defeat of the current regime. Bildad Kaagia, who refused to join the bandwagon of the thieving ruling class during the Kenyatta dictatorship, was isolated until his death because of his firm position against land grabbing. Paul Ngei, a fighter during the struggle against colonialism, died a pauper because he refused to compromise with ruling thieves who had seized power in Kenya. Kungu Karumba, an active force during the struggle against colonialism, disappeared mysteriously while Pio Gama Pinto, a pioneer Kenyan socialist, was assassinated because of his ideological opposition. We saw how Narc frustrated ODM-K when the Movement was seeking registration while Kenyans witnessed with “shock and awe” how forces aligned to the Narc government burnt down newspapers belonging to The Standard and arraigned Journalists in court on trumped up charges. Is this the kind of regime that should continue to hold power in Kenya? Kesdemo believes that this is a regime that should be shown the door at the next elections. Narc-Kenya thieves are following in the foot steps of the Kenyatta dictatorship whose henchmen grabbed anything that was owned by the British after independence and which made police force, military and other forces to be answerable to nobody but themselves. After independence, the crooks occupied state house, took over other businesses that were owned by the white man and then told Mau Mau veterans and their supporters to buy back their own land. This infamous land policy is what gave rise to the squatter problem in our country. WIDESPREAD INSECURITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY Today, there is ethnic cleansing in Laikipia, Nakuru, Molo and other parts of the Rift valley. People are lynching one another as a result of state instigated violence Moi style. Houses are being torched, citizens are being slaughtered with machetes and women are being shot with bows and arrows because there is no government in Kenya that can protect them. The Kenya police is busy harassing Matatus and taking bribes from the most poor people who have created jobs for themselves. Other forces within the police are busy harassing and arresting hard working hawkers who have no other means of livelihood. Narc government has failed to create half a million jobs as per election promises but when Kenyans create jobs through hawking, what they get back amounts to “State terrorism” of its own poor people struggling to eke out a living. Military Generals are asleep while soldiers are being drilled in the barracks for parades on how to salute Mount Kenya Mafia leaders like Kibaki. Landlessness and hunger are driving people to kill one another because the government has failed to address the problem of landlessness and to feed its own people. Security forces have failed to protect citizens. In some areas, the government is sponsoring ethnic cleansing because election is approaching and those in power fear losing it. Insecurity will continue in Kenya as long as long as a government that does not care about security and that promotes insecurity continues to hold power. Is there a better reason as to why President Kibaki should not be sent to permanent retirement? NARK-KENYA ECONOMIC CRIMINALS ARE ANTI-MATATUS ANTI-HAWKERS AND ANTI-KIKUYU PEOPLE IN KENYA Why is Narc-Kenya, Kibaki’s new party, only a party of Kikuyu elites and thieves who acquired wealth through stealing and wanton grabbing? The answer is that they are all in Narc-Kenya to protect their ill gotten wealth. In fact, these Kikuyus have even failed their fellow Kikuyus who are not only landless but are also languishing in absolute poverty. Majority of squatters in Kenya are Kikuyus. Majority of hawkers who are being harassed daily and their hardware destroyed by the evil forces in Nairobi are Kikuyus. Millions of Kikuyu youth are currently unemployed. In fact, the number of Kikuyu youth who are unemployed in Nairobi is bigger than any other part of the country. Narc-Kenya is actually an anti-Kikuyu party which is seeking to use Kikuyu votes to continue terrorizing hawkers and landless squatters. Unlike their counterparts in Western Europe who are encouraging their unemployed youth to start their own businesses and where the youth have access to loans, Narc-Kenya is doing the opposite. The anti-people government is killing and destroying small businessmen who have created jobs for themselves. They are so brutal and anti-patriotic that they are harassing and destroying Matatu industry all over Kenya. Even Jomo Kenyatta never took the kind of brutal measures the Kibaki dictatorship has introduced in Kenya. In fact Jomo Kenyatta is the one who encouraged the growth of Matatu industry that Narc-Kenya is currently destroying. Narck-Kenya thieving elite wants to take over the Matatu industry through the “14-seater project”, a conspiracy of the rich to kill the indigenous business of Matatu. The government cannot provide public transport and the Matatu industry currently being frustrated by the government is actually doing the government’s work. Kesdemo opposes the current harassment of Matatus. Majority of Matau owners especially in the capital city of Nairobi are Kikuyus and this demonstrates that when it come to State harassment and intimidation of indigenous businessmen, a Kikuyu businessman faces the same harassment as businessmen from other tribes regardless of the fact that a Kikuyu is a the President. The argument that a Kikuyu President will help Kikuyus does not therefore wash. If the government of the day is anti-people, it will send its forces to harass indigenous businessmen while at the same time protecting foreign exploiters. What matters is whether the President can identify with the oppressed masses of Kenya whose interest and well being should come first in any government policy. KESDEMO supports the initiative of hawkers to fight back whenever Askaris are sent to harass their business and to defend their merchandise from being destroyed. KESDEMO appeals to hawkers and Matatu operators to join the opposition and help overthrow the thieving Nark-Kenya Mafia that is destroying our country. Nairobi Central Business district where thousands of hawkers are harassed, intimidated, arrested and clobbered every day belong to the rich Kikuyu elite and their accomplices. Kikuyu elites around Kibaki have failed to solve the crisis of hawkers because they want hawkers to continue living in absolute poverty so that these hawkers can be obedient to authority. Squatter’s problem starts from Othaya village where Kibaki comes from to the whole of Central province where Kikuyus have been living in poverty as squatters in their own country before and after fake independence. UHURU BELONGS TO THE RICH KIKUYU ELITES AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES The rich want poor people to be working in their farms everyday and milking their cows. They are the same people who have called Americans to grow flowers in Kenya when cows and humans do not eat flowers. When Kenyans are dying of hunger because there is no rain, the rich are irrigating flowers for export. Why can't this water be used to irrigate maize, the staple food that feeds our people. Kenyans have died of aflotoxin poisoning in maize, food that cannot be fed to European dogs, horses or cows. KESDEMO calls upon the oppressed and marginalized people in Kenya to vote out of power the heinous Mount Kenya thugs and bury their leadership six feet under. It is the elite who have been fooling Kenyans since independence. The common man has never tasted matunda ya Uhuru. Uhuru belongs only to these elite who have access to money and wealth. They have sold our country to the imperialists. Today they are busy privatizing everything and retrenching poor workers who cannot live on their salaries all over Kenya. Its time for change and we appeal to all progressive forces to join hands and bring about these changes that are much needed in this time and era. KENYA HAS NO FOREIGN POLICY The recent crisis between US President George Bush, Tanzanian President and the Kenyan government was probably the best illustration that Kenya has no foreign policy. Bush decided to discuss the situation in Kenya with the Tanzanian president because Raphael Tuju, Kenya’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, was not in a position to give an informed evaluation of the political situation in Kenya on grounds that he is a Mount Kenya lap dog. Politically, what this means is that the government of Kenya is not worth being consulted when it comes to issues touching on foreign affairs because the Kibaki administration has already been written off by US imperialism which honored him with a state visit when he took power. Traditionally, Imperialist America has been very accommodative to past regimes in Kenya because of the huge political, economic and strategic interest the United States has in Kenya. To refuse to engage Kenya’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and instead discuss Kenya’s foreign policy issues with the Tanzania President was a tacit indication that even imperialism has already dumped President Mwai Kibaki because imperialism has lost confidence in the regime. For an American President to bullshit Tuju means that even Bush has been well briefed about the inability of the Narc government to formulate Kenya’s foreign policy and the rampant practice of tribalism, corruption and nepotism in Kenya. Tuju represents a country that has become a haven for drug and human traffickers, war criminals, economic criminals and an assortment of war Lords eg Kabuga (wanted for genocide in Rwanda) and who has, for a long time, been protected by the Mafia regimes of both Moi and Kibaki. The Kabuga issue could be one reason why the Bush dictatorship is moving away from the Kibaki dictatorship because the US wants Kabuga arrested. CONCLUSION Kesdemo believes that come the next elections, only brainwashed Kikuyus together with other brainwashed Kenyans and cheaply bought tribal chiefs will vote for Kibaki. Kesdemo believes that Kikuyus in Kenya should wake up from their collective amnesia and political brain washing. They should see mount Kenya Mafia as representing wealth and land grabbers who will never transform their lives because the ruling class only transforms the lives of its own class of thieves. Kenya belongs to us all and there should be no Kikuyu government. Anybody can lead Kenya as long as that person has a program for change and transformation. Martin Ngatia Okoth Osewe KESDEMO Central Committee Martin Ngatia Ngatia_martin@hotmail.com Okoth Osewe Osewe@hotmail.com KESDEMO Central committee +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KENYA SCANDINAVIA DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (KESDEMO) Kenya People's Democratic Movement (KEPEDEMO-Mapinduzi), Kenya Socialist Democratic Alliance (KSDA), Kenya Social Forum in Norway (KSF - Norway), Muungano Ya Akina Mama Scandinavia, Organization of Kenyans in Denmark (OKD) and Association of Kenyan Students in Finland (AKSIF). ALLIES supporting statement: Kenya Socialist Community in London and Kenya Democracy Project (KDP). +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Home