Who else do I want to see resign?

Ringera, thank God, is not somebody I will have to listen to again talk about big and small fish escaping the net at a time of hunger. Thank God too that he now knows it was God closing one door. This is my list of who else I want to see resign and in that order:
1. Stanley Emilio Mwai wa Kibaki
He can’t speak, when he does he doesn’t know what he is saying, when he knows what he is saying he is angry and calling people names I called people when I was in nursery school. He will facilitate rigging the election in 2012 or won’t give a damn that my head might be chopped off.
2. Raila Amolo Odinga
He will have what he wants anyway; mkufe, msikufe; and then he will forget you existed. He runs away from the media when he can’t answer tough questions and is power hungry. I want to have him in a place where he can help me by being himself: a liar and an agitator.
3. Alfred Mutua
And this guy is a doctor! I am tempted to call this a BONEHEAD, but I guess it tells us how bad the certificates from Kirinyaga Road can make you look. If you must buy, buy a diploma.
4. Charity Kaluki Ngilu
Water shortage is a national disaster but she has neither plans to provide it or to control the cartels. If she has a position on Mau, she is keeping it a secret.
5. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi
We do not want a sycophant: Moi juu, Kibaki Tosha, Raila ni ndugu yangu
6. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, William Samoei Ruto
These people do not know what’s coming (except The Hague) and when they do, they will come to save a life after the funeral.
7. Amos Wako, Evan Gicheru
Tell me one and a half good things you have done for me……….you cant even get the half.
8. Mutula Kilonzo
Get out before you get completely silly!
9. Major General Hussein Ali
I have feeling you will be opening my letters. Plus you have a passion for ending conflicts; by killing one party to the conflict. That is why I want you to go home.
10. Ferdinand Waititu
I do not want an MP who steal from me and stones me, at least let me stone you!
11. Lucy Muthoni Kibaki
What other option is there for an aging drama queen who has never stepped into her office and still gets paid?
That’s all.
And where did I I forget Kiraitu? The perennial loser who now wants democracy rationed.

THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION

 

'Do not judge others or you too will be judged. For in the same way as you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured against you'

    Mathew 7:1-2

Once, the people brought to Jesus a prostitute who had been caught in the act and they wanted to stone her to death, as custom spelled. The words of Jesus were, 'Let he that is without blemish be the first to cast a stone.'

In Kenya, prostitution is not illegal, but encouraging anyone to engage in it or living on the earnings of prostitution is illegal. Today I write to urge more of you to support the legalisation of prostitution and its enabling environment.

Legalising prostitution is not just in the interest of higher government revenue, but would go a long way in strengthening the rights of every individual in this country. On any one night there are at least 10,000 prostitutes in Nairobi prowling the streets of the town. Some of these will target the high end customers who will pay thousands to get their services. Nairobi has about 3 million people as inhabitants, which translates to about 1/13 of Kenya's population. It is not therefore out of pure idiocy that I say there might be over 150 000 prostitutes in Kenya, and that is before we can even add the gigolos. Few industries (excepting jua kali) would boasts of such a huge workforce in any economy the size of Kenya. What I am saying is this; Uhuru Kenyatta should have addressed the sex industry in his budget speech. That way the unemployment level in our country would have been cut by 3.8%. Sex is largely considered a leisure in prostitution as in Germany and Netherlands and so it would have to fetch a high tax rate. Let us assume that 25% was the tax rate and that the average income for prostitutes was 1000 per day, that would translate to 30,000 per month for 150, 000 people and their families. The government would rake in 7,500*150,000=1,125,000,000 and that is just in one month! In a year, it would be 135 billion and we would have a surplus budget, which would allow us to tell Obama to go to hell.

That money could then be used to fund the war against HIV/AIDS, STDS, to educate young stars on the dangers of engaging in prostitution, put them in an economic state that would make it unnecessary to engage in prostitution unless it was a trade of passion and to feed the families of prostitutes. I think we would have less street families then. But then the opponents will argue that it corrupts our morals. Last I checked, it was not even immoral to kill in Kenya just because my tribesman had lost or won an election. So who is to say what is moral? And who is to explain morals to those suffering poverty and starvation? Morals are a personal and a religious matter and these should never be allowed to drive the government. It is an open fact that the government cannot win the war against commercial sex, and I suggest, 'If you cannot beat them, join them'. Otherwise we shall continue wallowing in this pretended aura of piety while in the true sense we know what is happening.

Opponents of prostitution say that legalising it would encourage underage sex, trafficking and other such illegal and exploitive behaviour. But by legalising, I mean to include regulation, because every freedom and right must be curtailed. In any case, it is not as if these are not happening now. The media is filled with these despicable tales from Mombasa to Nairobi to Naivasha. Prostitutes would have certificates of practice, regular health checks etc that would make for consumer protection. To prevent exploitation, they would have to join trade unions and be restricted in their physical areas of trade. It is also possible to assign certain streets and times of day for their trade.

We have never had a perfect system of anything in this world that is why we keep repealing and amending our laws. Let us allow those who want to enjoy prostituting themselves to do so, those who can enjoy their services to, and those who cannot to enjoy the taxes they pay. Laws have never cured anything anywhere and we should stop pretending they are doing so here. When legalised, it would take the sting of stigma out of prostitution, encourage safe sex and thus reduce HIV/AIDS and STDs transmission, enable unrestricted public debate, the jobs would surpass 200,000 because of the pimps and trade union officials.

Legalising does not mean that we have to approve of what they do. Many states in the US allow for same sex marriages, while same sex relationships are recognized by even a greater number. It is the cost of democracy: freedom, rights and progress. The state our economy and democracy calls for bold steps, Uhuru Kenyatta should be that bold man. It is the only way some people will earn six figures and their children will go to school with the sons and daughters of business magnates and cabinet ministers which will mean these have an equal chance in life. Or we can just continue massaging ourselves in the idiotic belief that the oldest trade in the world will somehow fade away, by condemning. Remove the log in your own eye before you can see the speck in your neighbours, but if you are without blemish, be the first to cast that stone as custom spells.

I WISH THE COALITION WOULD CRUMBLE/THE COALITION HAS SURPASSED EXPECTATION

It has been a year since the grand coalition was formed. A lot of debate has gone on as Kenyans commemorated the first anniversary of what we were hoodwinked was to usher us from the abyss of darkness and onto the sunlit uplands of prosperity and peace. The devil, it seems has been with this government by invitation, every step of the way. Kenyans are not disappointed, the lacklustre performance was expected. Kenyans are tired of frustration.

Of all the articles that I read on this topic, the one that drew my most attention was Pete Ondeng's 'Coalition has not failed; it has just had hunger added to its plate'. The author is a man who can simply be described as dogmatic. He blinds himself to the reality, just like those in government. The only reason we have a government is to make things better. When such an author posits that it was not the responsibility of the government to provide food and even almost calls it idiotic to expect the president and PM to do so, he ignore that very basic purpose of government. This is one government that has not only betrayed the independence dream but also the hopes of people.

To maintain security, it kills. To ensure food security, it steals the public's maize. To reduce debt, it borrows from the public only for the money to end up in the pockets of officials. A government that knows no etiquette, not sorry and certainly not 'excuse me'. It cannot respect the constitution that it is supposed to protect. But then, how do we expect this government to respect the constitution if it was formed through an act equivalent to defiling the constitution? The constitution should have been a document to guide, it has ended up being simply a document. The last series of amendments and the more to come have in fact been guiding the constitution to the wishes of the elected. The result has been to leave Kenyans with a constitution that cares for everything but the vital. If the president were to, for some reason, leave office, who would take over? Constitutionally the Vice President; but how acceptable is it vis-à-vis the reality on the ground now that we have a P.M? How, also, would we hold an election without an electoral commission to talk of? But then we shall have a commission 'soon'; will the commission of novices be expected to run a referendum and then an election that is free and fair. Unless free and fair exists only in the politicians mind, then we cannot expect to have free and fair elections. It took Kivuitu about 10 years to run an election called fair. Now the MPs want us to believe that these novices can achieve that in 10 fortnights. Against hope, I expected this government to fail; now, judging by the cooperation they afford each other in institutionalizing these crimes, I hope against expectation that this government will fail.

We need some one to blame, somebody to be accountable to the people. As it is now, the failure of one is because 'our partners do not treat us equally'. Where they can speak in one voice, Dr. Mutua will promptly avail himself to state the governments position encrypted in denial. A year after this government was formed to give Kenya the best, it has come the closest some of us can relate to the description of the horrors of colonialism. Formed to stop murder, it has been convicted by all except itself of murder. Having promised to give food, it has let a third of the population slide into starvation. Promising to provide free universal education, it has increased school fees. Promising transparency, it has stolen in daylight. IDPs had only one day of hope. Young men from GEMA never know when the police bullet will go through their spine. Where traders were promised security to work for 24hrs a day, they can't work securely at 1pm. Where it was supposed to breed unity and harmony, it has given ministers that will tell their tribes they are under threat from others. This government really was a coming together of three major parties that had photocopied each others manifesto. I would have expected these to reinforce each other, it seems they did and in their true colours. If this is what government is, I don't need one. We do not demand perfection, but we do not want those who seek imperfection and actively work towards doomsday. This government has not just failed to respect my rights, it has abused them beyond imagination.

MARTHA KARUA WILL GO TO HELL

Martha Karua will go for the presidency and she will do anything to get there. She will sacrifice a lot and take suffering in a stride till she can get there. But Martha Karua can go to hell if her eyes will remain fixed on that post. She cannot win on this earthly or a heavenly Kenya. I will explain myself.

Martha Karua is no democrat. Truth be told, I admire her greatly for efforts in the struggle for multipartyism. She contributed a lot. Her time in government has been a far cry however. She was ready to standby and defends a government that had its own agenda, quite different from that of the mwananchi. After defending Kibaki’s re-election so fiercely (so fiercely that she sent us to chaos) she now has the guts to say both Kibaki and Raila rigged the election. She wants to cry for the victims of Mungiki now; while she kept mum serving the same government that had endorsed extra-judicial murder. She is a person who will do nothing before you can satisfactorily answer her one question; ‘what’s in it for me?’ that is the sole reason she resigned. Karua is simply trying to replay what Raila did after being fired in 2005. Second, she wants to show she can break from the GEMA lords, from whom she is not actually breaking. She has never been an entity in GEMA.

The way to win elections is through the hearts of many or those of the kingmakers. That is for a man, at the sake of sounding politically rude. Karua is doing a great deal to win the hearts of the masses including ads on Facebook. She is suddenly noticing what a pity the common mwananchi is, and because she suddenly has realised that this government doesn’t serve the common mwananchi she resigned. The word has come to Karua and Mungatana is the messenger, the flock cannot be found. Karua is not that good with her tongue as to entice nor is she surrounded by particularly oratorical men. The kingmakers on the other hand are not for Karua, she would have to go back to Kibaki.

By 2012, Karua will be in the place Kenneth Njindo Matiba was in 2007. A great resource wasted by ambition, burnt by time beyond recognition. Once something has been around for too long, it gets stale and nobody wants to touch it. Karua will be a product expired by 2012. She will not even be such a force as to break up the GEMA vote. At the end of 2012, because she does not have a reverse gear, she will be drowning in the sea of the common mwananchi.

She can’t win the hearts of the masses or the kingmakers, so how can she win? Even if she had wanted to rig, by 2012, not even street boys will be ready to stake their necks out for Martha Karua. But there is one open way that remains for every woman on this earth. That is to go all the way with their legs wide apart. That, I do not believe is the way for one as respectable as Martha Karua.

As it is, Martha Karua has only one option: to swallow her pride and go back to the armpits of Kibaki, who might create yet another irrelevant ministry like the Ministry of Maendeleo ya Wanawake for her. Ngilu was simply wise when she said, ‘I will be back,’ rather than go for the presidency.