Talking Point

                      CORRUPTION IS KILLING KENYA SLOWLY, REJECT IT By Armstrong K. Abala Corruption is bringing this country down to its knees and everyone has to play an important role. The money being syphoned does not go to either of our pockets whether you are JUBILEE or CORD. We cannot allow some few individuals to milk Kenya dry and in turn oil their filthy pockets,stomachs and feed their families while the common mwananchi is going angry and dying of poverty. People are dying at the Kenyatta National hospital because of cancer , machines 500 million each for dialysis cannot be bought because the government  says there is no money yet we allow somebody like Kabura Josephine to smile in front of a parliamentary committee to mumble words defending herself after stealing from Kenyans 1.8 BILLION SHILLINGS. These are 3 dialysis machines. Who is fooling who in this country?. You are their celebrating that your coa...

POURING  FRUSTRATIONS  ON INNOCENT KENYANS BY POLICE SHOWS A FRUSTRATED GROUP OF COWARDS. By Armstrong K. Abala Police beat Opposition protesters at University way Nairobi It goes without doubt that the witnessed incidents during the Coalition for reforms and democracy (CORD) Anti –IEBC protests can only prove one thing that the Kenya Police is a frustrated group of cowards. When a police officer who has sworn to protect the Kenyan citizen turns to be an animal and senselessly beat up the same citizen to a point of death, then you remain wondering why they need to exist in any case. A normal human being would not even think of it. Incidents witnessed in the CORD anti-IEBC protests, protests that are otherwise enshrined in the constitution have left myself and indeed many people wondering why the police have to be this brutal while handling peacefully protesting Kenyans. But something comes to mind, that these are the same police officers who a...

IT HAS NOT BEEN LONG BEFORE UHURU LEARNT NEW TACTICS ON HOW TO HANDLE OPPOSITION FROM HIS FRIEND MUSEVENI By Armstrong K. Abala Uganda opposition leader Dr. Kizza Besigye being manhandled by police  It is clear if not evident that the Jubilee regime led by its leader Uhuru Kenyatta have found new tactics of handling opposition in the country. Uhuru seems to have not taken a long while to learn a few of the tactics from his friend Museveni of Uganda who seems to have a decisive way of dealing with anyone who tends to oppose is NRM led government. well let me quickly remind Uhuru and the Jubilee regime that we are in Kenya and that they better not think otherwise. Our Democracy has come a long way to be raped by few individuals who think they can return us to the dark ages of assassination of the opposition  political leaders and baseless detentions. The resent assassination of one of the Opposition allies Jacob Juma has had all fingers pointing at the govern...

ACCOUNTABILITY MUST BE  GUARANTEED  TO THE PEOPLE OF BOMACHOGE BORABU – WARNS BUSINESS MAN RIANG’A By Lethal Team Riang'a Addresses Citizens When he started his fight for a transparent, accountable and straight forward leadership in Bomachoge Borabu constituency, many said he would soon back down and cow out. Three years later “Hon. Riang’a as many refer to him has stood his ground that all leaders must always be brought to account to every penny that Kenyans pay as tax. He has maintained that all he would like to see is a people who are empowered and given whatever they have been promised. Speaking to Lethal via the phone, Riang’a insists that whatever he is doing and has been doing is in no way a way to further any political ambitions or to discredit any administration but rather to ensure that his people get their better portion of the bargain. “Whatever I have been doing is not in any way intended to further any personal ambitions. NO!...

  STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER RAILA ODINGA OVER ICC REMARK; By Lethal Team I began writing this from Paris where I had come for a special meeting of the Emerging Markets Forum hosted by the Governor of Banque de France. The theme of the meeting was “Striving for a Just, Prosperous and Harmonious Global Community.” It was attended by various world leaders and particularly President Alassane Ouattara, President Horst Koehler, Michael Camdessus and Hiroshi Watanabe. While in Paris, I learnt of a medieval dance that originated in France called the “danse macabre,” which is French for “the dance of death.” It started in the mid-14th Century and involved a procession in which people danced to the graves of the dead in their community in celebration of death. As I thought about this very perverse type of custom and traditions, I could not help but compare this with what President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto have planned to do at Afraha Stadium...

ONE MAN JOHO IS WORTH MORE THAN ALL OF THE NYANZA GOVERNORS  AS IT STANDS  NOW By Armstrong K. Abala Rt Hon. Raila Odinga I was shocked when I heard that a click of governors from the Luo Nyanza are infact demanding for Direct ODM nominations so that it would be easy to defend their seats to continue doing NOTHING in their offices. These clicks of governors led by Rasanga, Obado and Awiti, must realize that their time to go is long overdue. We cannot have “Pumpkins” in offices as governors and then reelect them in the name of them completing “PROJECTS” that have never ever started anywhere in the Luo Nyanza. One of the goons said and I quote. “"Mbadi, I am sending you to plead with ODM leader Raila Odinga so that the incumbent governors of Siaya, Homa Bay, Kisumu and Migori counties be given direct ODM tickets’ I believe that the people of Nyanza are now beyond Parties and anyone who thinks a direct nomination by ODM hands them an office to do no...

EXACT AND ON POINT ; WORDS BY DAVID NDII David Ndii           PHOTO; COURTESY   A decade ago, Prof Bethuel Ogot, one of the country’s towering intellectuals, pronounced the “Kenya project” dead. Kenya has never been a more distant idea than it is now at the beginning of the 21st Century. Nationalism is dead, replaced by sub-nationalism. The tribe has eaten the nation. Few years ago, the country exploded into an orgy of political violence. There may be some people who will be wondering why Prof Ogot is talking about Kenya in terms of projects and ideas. Is Kenya not a concrete reality, an internationally recognised sovereign state? Although the notion of a nation as an idea is an old one, it is Benedict Anderson’s 1983 book Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism that offered the most cogent articulation of the concept, and in so doing shaped the contemporary study of nationalism. Anderson defined nati...

PRESS STATEMENT BY GOVERNOR MOMBASA AND ODM PARTY LEADER HON. JOHO By Armstrong K. Abala ODM Deputy party leader and Mombasa Governor  during a press conference PHOTO; Courtesy  For about one month now, particularly since a by-election was declared in Malindi, I have been at the center of state sponsored machinations targeting me individually and businesses linked to me. These acts that amount to persecution, intimidation and blackmail have taken more dramatic and scary turn after the by-elections. Suddenly, the government realized I have excess body guards that have to be taken away. It was after Malindi was won by ODM that the National Government decided that I have guns that I no longer deserve and that I need to surrender. These misgivings have been communicated to me in a most uncouth and unprofessional manner. Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery and Mr Nelson Marwa, the Regional Coordinator for Coast, have chosen to speak to me throug...

WHAT ARE JUBILEE INTENTIONS; MVITA MP’S SECURITY REMOVED By Armstrong K. Abala Mvita Mp       AbdulSwamad                                 PHOTO; Courtesy Barely Eight hours after the withdrawal of Hon. Johos security details has it emerged that that Mvita Mp AbdulSwamad security has been withdrawn I am inclined to write this after talking about Joho’s i ntimidation because, it seems that the Jubilee administration has taken upon itself to ensure that all the coast leaders and mostly those allied to the opposition do not live a comfortable life The mvita Mp wrote on his official page wrote “This morning my only bodyguard has been withdrawn. I wish to remind them I’ve never owned a gun so I’m surprised to be asked to return the same. This is nothing but sheer intimidation by the government after the Malindi by election. No amount of suppression shall allow us to shy away...

WITHDRAWAL OF JOHO SECURITY SO JUVENILE OF MARWA AND HIS MASTERS Armstrong K. Abala H.E Hon. Hassan Joho, ODM party leader and Governor Mombasa County  PHOTO; Courtesy  I have never stopped wondering who this so called Marwa is or who he thinks he is in the Jubilee government. His move that I will not hesitate to term as stupid and juvenile to withdraw the security detail of H.E Hon. Hassan Joho is uncalled for. In as much as the so called county commissioner whose position is in any case unconstitutional is acting on behalf of the government, there is need to have sanity in how we conduct matters relating to the security of our leaders. Joho is a leader and a high profile one for that matter, his security is a must give and not a privilege. This is politics that is playing here and I charge the Jubilee government to stop being cowards and to stop behaving like their friend in Uganda Mr. Museveni. Kenya is a free state and intimidation of our leaders...

ODM STAMPS AUTHORITY AS JAP IS SHAKEN By Armstrong K. Abala Relax we got your back:  Prime minister Raila Odinga , Malindi MP elect and Govern Amason Kingi  Now that JAP has clinched the Kericho by – election I hope it will not be a new platform for the Deputy President to start beating his chest, I hope it does not give him so much bragging rights. It is evident that even with JAPs win, a strong and I mean a very strong message has been sent to the ruling coalition that indeed it will not be business as usual when it comes to the rift valley politics anymore. Even with the tensions that had been witnessed, it in Kericho the people of that county have proved that indeed a peaceful election can actually happen even with tensions all over, indeed this was not a case of Kericho electing their leader but it was a supremacy battle between Ruto, Gideon Moi and Governor Ruto. Interestingly, this has taken another Swift after the Former President who is al...