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Uhuru WANTS a Second Term…..But For WHAT?

FEBRUARY 10, 2017 10 COMMENTS


By Mboko

When Mwai Kibaki run on a PNU ticket in 2007, his campaign slogan was ‘Kazi iendelee.’ I was not a fan of Obaks because i hated his aloofness though i admired his insidious pragmatism. But truth be told; by 2007 Kibaki (with the help of Raila and the Narc team) had done a lot.

He had laid a foundation for a major economic recovery through infrustructure projects mainly in transport, telecommunication, IT and education. The following were already underway:
1. Major road construction across the country e.g. Mombasa-Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret and Kisumu Highway, Thika Super High way and many others
2. Rehabilitation of the Kisumu International Airport, JKIA and other small airstrips
3. Rolling out of Fibre Optic Cable. The first of its kind in the region which has led to growth of the IT section
4. Free primary education
5. The Lapsset project
6. Recaliberation of major sectors in finance mainly banking, Co-operatives (and Sacco), Insurance and micro-credit financial institutions
7. The new constitution
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All these projects were encapsulated in a long term strategy dubbed Vision2030. Kibaki had a clear picture where he wanted to take Kenya despite the personal and political challenges he faced. So it was actually prudent for him to run for a second term to continue with the aforementioned work he had began.

He recaptured power controversially and went on to serve for five more years. He retired in 2013 and gave Uhuruto a much better country where major sectors were in good economic health, kids were going to school and the national debt was only a billion Kenya shillings. Kazi iendelee had made sense after all and when Kibaki left Kazi ilikuwa inaendelea.

Uhuruto took over from Kibaki and within two years, they had destroyed almost all that Kibaki and Raila had done in ten years. Uhuruto have no vision for Kenya even as they claim Jubilee will rule till 2070. They have become nothing but connoisers of cruelty, afficionados of destruction, mascots of impunity and paragons of moral decadance.

Under Uhuruto Kenya has been permanently in reverse gear. Jubilee has undone almost everything that Kibaki and Raila accomplished. The very foundation of Vision2030 is already fractured. The following has happened:
1. Massive thieving and looting of public coffers. No need to name the corruption scandals. They are household names in Kenya. This advanced form of corruption has propelled the national debt close to 3trillion Kenyan shillings.
2. All projects under Vision 2030 are stalling. The SGR has taken more than 5years to reach Mtito Andei. Lapsset is dying
3. Education is now a business. Lecturers are on strike
4. The economy is malnourished and Kenyans are dealing with unprecedented inflation. Many companies have closed and those remaining are laying off workers everyday. Jubilee has not revived or commissioned any industry
5. Diminishing of the stature of Kenya regionally and internationally. Total collapse of diplomacy
6. The collapse of the health sector. Doctors are on strike for the third month now
7. Kenya Defence Forces are stuck in a dumb war in which only the Mount Kenya Mafia benefits through security contracts and supply of foods, medicare and other resources through corruption. Yet still Kenya under Jubilee has become a training ground for terrorists.
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Basically Kenya is sinking into an abyss. The government is unable to handle with basic obligations. State agencies have become moribund. Kenya is now a hub for drug barons with the president implicated in the saga. Kenyans are starving even in highlands like Murang’a and Kieni. Tribalism is at an all time high. Every child born owes govt 80, 000bob. The future has never been bleak.

There is nothing that Jubilee can show for the five years in office. They run for the presidency to shield themselves from ICC and they succeeded after killing many witnesses. That is their sole achievement. Choices in deed have consequences as John Carson warned us in 2013.

That is why it baffles me that they want a second term. Kibaki was justified to ask for a second term. He had to finish the work he had started and that is why ‘kazi iendelee’ resonated well even with those who opposed him.

But what does the twin ICC suspects need a second term for? They do not have any project to continue or any vision to fulfill. All projects they launch are Kibaki and Railas. Do not tell me about electricity in mud houses. They are so confused and are dancing in Mombasa as our soldiers die in Somalia, sick Kenyans die in doctorless hospitals, students are out of lecturerless institutions of higher learning and Kenyans are staring to death.

They have zilch to show for their quest for another term and that is why their campaign slogan for the second term despite all that is going on is TUKO PAMOJA. Can any Jubilee supporter give us a single reason why Uhuruto want to rule for another five years? These drug addicts and adulterers do not deserve a second term. They never even deserved the first one.

 

[eddy25r]

Is this post about uhuru or about kenya not being a middle income economy?cos last time I checked you were not the worldbank...wacha propaganda bana

 

[Juakali1980]

Is this post about uhuru or about kenya not being a middle income economy?cos last time I checked you were not the worldbank...wacha propaganda bana

Are you one of the SPIN DOCTORS HERE??? Those are pure facts and not propaganda...Can u point out the lies in article??

 

[Depay]

Copy pasting then you went ahead to look for a Title.I wish you well

 

[eddy25r]

Thats what iam asking ?the story does not relate with the heading !!and Iam not a spin doctor Iam just opposingyour views

 

[Edward Wanjala]

Are you one of the SPIN DOCTORS HERE??? Those are pure facts and not propaganda...Can u point out the lies in article??

It was better you create a political forum on Uhuru, your story is political according to what you think!! Politically your views my be right but they do not justify your story Heading

 

[eddy25r]

It was better you create a political forum on Uhuru, your story is political according to what you think!! Politically your views my be right but they do not justify your story Heading

Excatly my point ..sema the goverment is useless Its ok but dont say kenya is useless !!!kenya is not useless even with all this prblems we still manage alafu unapata such propaganda guys waki spread shit na nikimcorect ananiita ati spin doctor..wtf

 

[REDEEMER.]

Kenya is poverty people are living like hopeless animals around the desert

 

[MK254]

Some of opposition supporters in Africa need to style up, you can't be up against your country just because you have a problem with the current administration or the president. You guys went even as far as inflating number of KDF casualties in the recent attack. You have sold your souls completely, and are a danger to your own countries.

Another one in Tanzania misinterpreted a tourist message of thanksgiving, introduced his own words.

I remember how you guys went to as far as manipulating photos of SGR railway pillars.

 

[kilam]

Some of opposition supporters in Africa need to style up, you can't be up against your country just because you have a problem with the current administration or the president. You guys went even as far as inflating number of KDF casualties in the recent attack. You have sold your souls completely, and are a danger to your own countries.

Another one in Tanzania misinterpreted a tourist message of thanksgiving, introduced his own words.

I remember how you guys went to as far as manipulating photos of SGR railway pillars.

Wapinzani wa nchi zetu ni wa kuwapuuza, wanachukia serikali iliyo madarakani ikifanya kazi nzuri. Siku zote wanaombea nchi ianguke, kuna wapuuzi huku kwetu wanaombea hadi ndege za Air Tanzania zipate ajali.
Ndio maana Marais wengi huwa wanaishia kuwafunga midomo kwa lazima maana wao kupotosha ndio jadi yao.

 

[Iconoclastes]

The content of that article is starkly incongrous with the title, and the arguments presented are pathetically lame.
So, why exactly is not Kenya a middle-income country, is it bcos of the outlined govt's inadequacies?

 

[eliakeem]

Mimi siiombei Kenya mabaya. Sasa nchi ya pato la kati inakuwa na mgomo wa madaktari kwa miezi mitatu. Is that fair to poor Kenyans who can't afford the private hospitals. Inasikitisha sana.

Halafu rais anacheza mziki.

 

[1 Africa]

Now you are just being short-sighted;

1.) As you have clear stated,there is a socio-economical blueprint laid out up to 2030, you can't credit the forefounders at the expense of the people who actually seek funding and carry out the set objectives. If I was to argue as you have, I'd ask you why Jubilee in under 4 years has done what the grand qualition could do in 1o years.

2.) One of the reasons I have my setbacks on the opposition is that they are always quick to point out the government's fails yet they themselves have no solutions to the problem.
Being an alternative gvt,they should show Kenyas how they are the better option by giving workable solutions to some of the problems the current gvt seems not to have solutions to.

IMHO, the current opposition is better at keeping the working gvt in check rather than being in power.

 

[MK254]

Wapinzani wa nchi zetu ni wa kuwapuuza, wanachukia serikali iliyo madarakani ikifanya kazi nzuri. Siku zote wanaombea nchi ianguke, kuna wapuuzi huku kwetu wanaombea hadi ndege za Air Tanzania zipate ajali.
Ndio maana Marais wengi huwa wanaishia kuwafunga midomo kwa lazima maana wao kupotosha ndio jadi yao.

Kwa kweli inakatisha tamaa na kutamausha pakubwa, watu wameshindwa kubainisha tofauti kati ya uongozi uliopo na uzalendo wao kwa taifa lao. Yaani mijitu imekaa kila siku wanaomba mabaya yatendeke ili wakimbilie kwenye mitandao kuanika, alshabaab wakivamia hata kabla haijabainikia kulikoni, jamaa wanakua wa kwanza kuonyesha kwenye mitandao jinsi tumepoteza wanajeshi wengi na kwamba tumeshindwa.

Reli hii ya SGR wapo wengi wanatamani sana kuona magari yakibinuka au kabisa isitumike na kila siku wanajiita Wakenya wazalendo.
Wanakosa kuelewa hata yule wampendaye akiwa rais, itabidi kutegemea ushirikiano wa sisi sote ili kufanikisha malengo yake. Hamna ulazima wa wao kumpigia kura rais Uhuru, lakini ni muhimu kwetu sisi kama Wakenya kuchangamkia mazuri yanayotendeka kwenye taifa na pia kuponda mabaya, lakini sio kupaka tope hata mazuri na kuyafunika na propaganda za kila aina.

 

[Juakali1980]

The spin doctors are here in full swing trying to deflect from the facts that we got ahead of ourselves with the so called MIDDLE INCOME STATUS CRAP...how can the government(PORK) connect electricity to jigger invested citizens living in a mud house??or issue Ipads to kids learning under trees??

 

[Mukundumbusya]

Why Kenya is Not a Middle Income Economy?
The post writer began expounding his ideas by writing the things that could bring Kenya to what he called middle economy. Then, he continued by the factors that let not Kenya be a middle economy country. The writer has a point and the tittle reflects what has been said, unless u failed to connect the distinct ideas wrote.

 

[Juakali1980]

Now you are just being short-sighted;

1.) As you have clear stated,there is a socio-economical blueprint laid out up to 2030, you can't credit the forefounders at the expense of the people who actually seek funding and carry out the set objectives. If I was to argue as you have, I'd ask you why Jubilee in under 4 years has done what the grand qualition could do in 1o years.

2.) One of the reasons I have my setbacks on the opposition is that they are always quick to point out the government's fails yet they themselves have no solutions to the problem.
Being an alternative gvt,they should show Kenyas how they are the better option by giving workable solutions to some of the problems the current gvt seems not to have solutions to.

IMHO, the current opposition is better at keeping the working gvt in check rather than being in power.

Some of you SPIN DOCTORS act like you reside in some alternative universe..
WHAT IS THE WORK OF THE OPPOSTION PARTIES???
To complain and keep the government in check..AND the opposition DOES NOT
1-Set any agenda -POLITICAL OR ECOMONIC...the Government of the day does.
2-nor come up with solutions
So all the jubilee spin doctors here please stop complaining that Raila has no solutions to corruption.
Even if he did YOU,MYSELF AND I know that jubilee sycophants will reject it on arrival.
We all know the solution---ARREST ALL THE THIEVES WEARING SUITS AND LIVING IN THE MOST AFFLUENT SUBURBS,
LINE THEM UP AT UHURU PARK AND BRING THE FIRING SQUAD...

 

[1 Africa]

Some of you SPIN DOCTORS act like you reside in some alternative universe..
WHAT IS THE WORK OF THE OPPOSTION PARTIES???
To complain and keep the government in check..AND the opposition DOES NOT
1-Set any agenda -POLITICAL OR ECOMONIC...the Government of the day does.
2-nor come up with solutions
So all the jubilee spin doctors here please stop complaining that Raila has no solutions to corruption.
Even if he did YOU,MYSELF AND I know that jubilee sycophants will reject it on arrival.
We all know the solution---ARREST ALL THE THIEVES WEARING SUITS AND LIVING IN THE MOST AFFLUENT SUBURBS,
LINE THEM UP AT UHURU PARK AND BRING THE FIRING SQUAD...

You argue in a rather childish manner. The interest of the opposition should be the succcess of the country; not what they are doing. In the end, after all they have done no one benefits anything.

 

[1 Africa]

The spin doctors are here in full swing trying to deflect from the facts that we got ahead of ourselves with the so called MIDDLE INCOME STATUS CRAP...how can the government(PORK) connect electricity to jigger invested citizens living in a mud house??or issue Ipads to kids learning under trees??
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You are so ignorant and uninformed. Most of those schools are started by educated individuals who realise the shortage in their society and take it to themselves to start such schools. Those are rarely government schools.
And let me tell you one thing...there is no day the government will ever build you a house or buy you food or clothes; unless you are the child of a politician.

The role of the gvt is to provide a conducive environment for people to work and live in to better their lives.

If I may ask,what did H.E Raila do for such people while in power?

 

[Kafrican]

I myself will not vote for jubelee, I will literaly vote for anyone else, at this moment, Raila is frontbrunner in my choices....

But am not that blind.. things like free primary education were in Kibakis first term from 2002, Raila them was Minister of Minister of Roads, Public Works, and Housing .... what did he have to do with bringing thingd like free primary eduacation?

let give praise where its due, Stop attaching raila into every kibakis success. That alone means you ate so biased, you'll never praise any project that dint have something to do with Raila ... The moment we start associating Kibaki's failures with Raila (in both of kibakis time) you will quickly go on defencinve and start saying but Raila was not the president, he dint have powers, it was Kibakis government... First of all, Free Primary Education was and still is a failed promise, the quality of education in Moi's time was superb, after FPE was introduced, education in public school became a big joke, ppl in STD 8 cant read or write... the poor kids that used to be willing to pay a fee just so they can go to school because there was 'maziwa ya nyayo' , Fees were removed and then they had to look 4 there own food.. samen difference... can we now blame raila for the failure to properly plan and cater for FPE?
what about failure to prosecute Angloleasing scandle suspects when it was revealed when Narc govt had just come to power, we all remember when Raila campaigned for kibaki they campaigned on a promise to fight and eradicate corruption..... the first term in Kibakis govt between 2002-2007 transparency international gave us 21-23%... thats an E! ..... should we blame raila 4 that too?
Do we all remember how kibaki used to keep quiet when Kenyans were dying oh hunger or insecurity? I remember one time the Oromos and Some other tribe were fighting along river tana, at first 50 were killed, then death toll reached 90, and during all that time Kibaki was queit in his grand qualition Govt, it continues to worsen till a time kibaki decided to send 1,200 GSU ... this was already alittle too late villagers had died or displaced...
do we remember the famine in 2010 in tutkana that led to the Kenyans4Kenya campaign in which kenyans contributed around 1billion to help with the hunger?

Should we also include Raila in when we blame GoK for going to somalia without an exit strategy? because if memory served me right Nkaiserri (b4 bieng appointed CS he was an Opossition politician) was then assistant Minister of Defence, Wetangula wasMinister of foreign affaires, Kalonzo was the vice president, Raila was the prime minister , Amos wako attorney general (although I dont recal if he was in politics then) , Musalia mudavadi was deputy prime minister...... they are all in opposition right now calling for Kenya to withdraw troops yet they were all circling the presidents ear at the time....


lets praise Kibaki where he did good and failt him where he did bad, lets praise raila where he did good (constitution,democracy) and lets fault him for his faults.... lets not try to credit others achievments to some else just because that someone else was there...........
if we want to praise who started things like lapsset and SGR....then you shouls praiys Moi! yes I said it! If you havent read Vision2030 history, except for the ICT parts, the other projects were Moi's projects, they had been gathering dust because they were never implimentated, So when the new govt came into power in 2002, after a few years of going through those documents, they set up a team of technocrats that went through all the projects that nevervwere and also looked for newer ones and they packaged it in one selleble idea called vision2030 and it was first talked about in public in 2008 when the grandvqualition came into power, Raila Odinga as prime minister was then made to be like the minister in charge of the lapsset project and he was responsible for making sure it was moving ahead........ but if you want people to prais for vision2030 projects, before you praise the govt doingvthe actual implementation, first praise the civil servants and technocrats that spent sleepless nights coming up with the blue print, it is technocrats like that guy Fred ndemo who came up and started implimenting stuff like fibre optic cables. in order to start working on preparing for the silicon valley called Konza City.... infact am pretty sure one day, 50 years to cone in our history books Fred ndemo will probably get his own statue in konza city and be declaired the father of 'silicon savanna' thatguy's determination and vision for ICT is literaly why kenya is where it is today ict-wise.....

anyway, after all is said and done, I used to think all we need is a development minded president who was all about development and big projects, but I changed my mind... , I am tired and sick of hearing human rights violations get dismissed and countered with big grandbprojects, our dignity is on sale to the highest bidder, impunity happening while wevwatch, corruption everstep of the way, and no one in charge seem to care....
in my opinion, we need a president who will take us back to basics, simple things, water, sanitation, rule of law, accountability to the public, freedom of media without intimidation, police reform,transparent govt and strong accountable institutions..... Uhuruto definately do not have any of that... once we get a president whocan take care of that, is only when kenya will forever move foward... right now its one step backwards ,two sted forwad and another step sideways