Seal the Deal first, Complain later!

There has been too much ado about nothing. That the terms of commissioners of seven ECK commissioners have ended and now new ones have been appointed is too much fuss over nothing.

Policticians are very busy fighting for space in the media about who will have accused the president of having committed a wrong by appointing new commissioners unilaterally. And as usual, journalists are busy swalllowing line, hook and sinker of the political shenanigans without much of a realisation.

Lets put things into perspective.

In 1997, there was a movement called no-reforms-no-elections that was spearheaded by the defunct national convention executive council (Don't ask me what happened to it). And the movement threatened to tear down the democratic foundations of this nation. Retired President Daniel Arap Moi as crafty as he was stole the wind from the reformist movements sail and cratfed something known the IPPG. (Inter parties partnership agreement.)

Now this IPPG was radical. It sought to bring sense into the whole thing of change and elections. Chaired by one Jillo Falana, they crafted several agreements among them that the opposition should be given a hand in appointing ECK commissioners. And the wish was granted. But, the biggest mistake the politicians in their shortsightedness made was never to captured the agreements in balck and white. They never made them law.

So when Kibaki was looking around for clauses that allows him to engage the oppostion in appointing ECK commissioners, he found none or so he would say . And he did what every other politician would do: act in his self-best interest.

Of course that is wrong because one he was part and parcel of the opposititon that helped create the IPPG and two he cannot claim that he has forgoten that fast about the IPPG deal.

But, one thing for certain is that he did not break the law and two; as a politician he is a chameleon and on God knows his true colours.

The whistle has been blown

President Mwai Kibaki has blown the whistle signalling the end of the 9th parliament.

While dissolving parlaiment the president observed the achievements that it has made.

click to this link to listen to President Mwai KIbakis speech while dissolving bunge.

http://http://www.divshare.com/download/2446732-865

Uchaguzi watch now goes a notch higher to bring you insights into the campaigns for the 10th parliament.

watch this space.

Watch out the witch is here.

Ramadhan Seif Kajembe the bully MP for Changamwe is not a likeable figure. First his elephantine size is intimidating and he does not appear to be a friendly character.

Kajembe is one of those MPs who have found themselves in parliament not because they are overly popular, but because they jumped ship at the nick of time. In fact in the 2002 general elections the guy was a KANU diehard; ready to put his life on the line for the party.

For political survival he switched parties in the last day as NARC was set to do its nominations. He has not been a very influential MP and has been more of Raila Odinga's lap dog always singing his hymns so that he can win the Luo vote in the otherwise Kamba dominated constituency.

On the other hand, lies one Annania Mwaboza the MP for KIsauni who was elected on a NLPK ticket after the death of the coast politico-supremo the late Karisa Maitha. Mwaboza is young and abrasive and seems to have a bright political feature ahead of him.

But according to Kajembe there is nothing to write home about Mwaboza. He is a witch to boot. He has threatened to finish him and if anything happens anytime now it should be blamed on Mwaboza.

He has already recorded a statement with the police. But Mwaboza who is a lawyer tells Kajembe to substantiate or shut up. He says that Kajembe is just old guard who has undermined him since the 2004 by-election.

Mwaboza says Kajembe is also taking voters from his Kisauni constituency and having them registered in his changamwe constituency.

He also alleges that he has also been engineering to have part of the constituency hived off a move that the Electoral Commission has rejected.

Besides that he is also working with his political nemesis Ali Hassan Joho sto make sure that he does not recapture his Kisauni seat. This is what has worked him up and he is not ready to take it lying down. He expressed himself to Kajembe who now feels threatened by the "witch" in Mwaboza.

Who is telling the truth. Should we watch out because I have also heard that witchcraft is flying left right and center here at the coast and especially amongst the politicians and aspirants.

Lets pop Champagne, the truth is here with us

Oh yah we should now be celebrating. Poping champagne for the new found truth. That the Kibaki government is the most corrupt government that was ever seen in the African continent.

That it is one of those administrations that is full of nepotism, ethnocentricism and all other isms that you can gather.

while declaring her intention to support the one and only Agwambo, the queen of doublespeak had very unsavoury words to say about Kibaki.

That he stole the reform dream that was the basis of the election of what we used to called the NARC government.

That Kibaki employed all his village mates and tribesmen to run the affairs of the Government. That above all, they frustrated our very own Ngilu in her determination to change things. Oh poor Ngilu.

Ngilu, whom the Minister of State security John Michuki once described as a "wathi wa mukamba " dancer did not surprise anybody, Uchaguzi watch once noted that Ngilu is fond of playing for the gallery. And when she defected to ODM she said that she would use her her time warp called NARC dream to seek re-election.

But to tell us that Kibaki is a thief who stole the NARC dream was strengthening the truth way too much. She is as gulity as Kibaki is. She was her advisor on matters health. She sat in her cabinet for four and three quarter years. She only discovered that there were Kibaki's henchmen in the gava when she was almost not seeing eye to eye with citizen number one.

This is especially when she participated in an act that was meant to defeat justice. Releasing a culprit from police custody.

Now that she has woken up and realised that the NARC dream is gone are we expected to pop champagne for the new found truth? Has she just woken up to realise that the dream is gone?

How pretentious our politicians can be.

Take out the jiggers, Please!

This young boy is a resident of Mtondia in Kilifi district of Coast Province. He is an orphan who lives with his grandmother after her parents died of HIV/Aids.

The innocent look on his face says it all. He has undergone a very difficult life at the hands of her grandmother who is ailing and aging and can barely raise enough to give him a conmfortable life.

The young soul has hit the end of his life because as young as he is there is nothing that assures him of a better future. Currently, he is out of school and as far as I know without education you are as well as doomed.

When I visited their home I was on mission to do a constituency profile for bahari constituency. And what I found out made my heart weep.

The young lad and his three other brothers has been immobilised by jiggers. In fact I got to their home just as they were trying to wash out the pests but only with plain water.

On asking her grand mother whether she hoped the plain water would keep away the intruders, she said that she had no way of putting them at bay than to use the plain water. In fact she did not even have the salt to at least make the jiggers uncomfortable.

She was at least happy that the Government top health official the Minister Chairity Ngilu visited her once and ordered that her house be sprayed and that at a later time be brought down and another one be built in its place. That is yet to happen and for mama Sidi Karama waiting for a new house is like Samwel Beckett's "Waiting for Gordot".

Why I am retelling this story is because I found that the old woman is a true democrat. Always out to practise her democratic right of voting every general election year. She cannot recall the number of times she has voted.

On the other hand comparing her and her jigger infested grandsons with the gusto and fervor that the politicians are doing their campaigns, you feel pissed off.

The politicians are spending millions, they are changing parties overnight to make their millions, they are crisscrossing the country like ants looking for votes.

They are squandering millions of shillings having countless strategic meetings in five star hotels, while sipping imported wine as they conspire how to subdivide the country amongst themselves and continue jiggering from us.

Click here to listen to a Swahili feature article about Sidi and her Grandsons.

http://http://www.divshare.com/download/2199774-8b3

And while they are doing all these, Millions of grandmom Sidi Karama and their grandchildren are living at the mercy of social, economic and and physical jiggers.

We need someone to take the jiggers out and the only way to do it is to vote the human jiggers out.