Kenyans,

We do have problems which can be solved by people on the ground in
Kenya. If the people down there are waiting for Kibaki or Raila to speak
out for them then I do think they are missing the point.

Look at things this way, Just some weeks ago this same kimunya now
being lynched was a people`s hero when he came out with the budget which
says MPs will be taxed as any other fellow Kenyans. All people from all
walks of life congratulated him, at the same time this Kimunya was
making all these stupid dills of how to swindle the government funds and
properties. This shows you that K`Onyiego`s theory of Kikuyus have no
ideas, they just act on others information to get ideas does not hold
up. These people have already sat down and calculated what they want and
how to discredit the MPs reaction. They had already counter reaction
made before even the MPs passed a vote of no confindence on him, HOW
ABOUT THAT ?…

The other thing is this, as I said Kenyans should just forget a bout
mouth feeding, distance relatives things, so and so is our Mp so he will
take care of us. Let us look at the Asian countries as an example: Those
people had a lot of nature catastrophy recently and needed human help,
but did you watch when westerner`s ships carrying goodies to Myyrma were
not welcomed straight a way. Can you compare that with Kenya during post
election violence?. Every black man in Kenya wanted something from the
red cross, some left even their homes to go and eat in the red cross
camps. This just tells us how helpless an African has made himself. We
make ourselves so much dependent on our politicians that some just end
up worshiping them at the same time they are just stealing from the
local man everyday. Look at almost all the politicians aren`t they all
tax payers money  thieves?. How do you explain somebody getting over 500
000.00 kenyan shillings plus extra expenses per month from tax payers
money who does not pay tax in a country where some get nothing or live
on less than a dollar but are being taxed. Are MPs not thieves or
robbers?.

The question we must ask ourselves now is this:  what does the present
Kenyan constitution and law say about somebody like Kimunya, how should
the law be applied to him? do we Kenyans have such a section on the law
on how to deal with tax payers money  thieves or not?. Kenyans can save
that country but one man or a politician will not save that country and
that is what the common Kenyan has not realised. They still think that
if they elect so and so as so and so then Kenya will be heaven. Some
have invested on the same people for over 40 yeras and nothing has come
except deaths, lack of food and permanent diseases. Sorry guys it does
not work that way, thieves will always be there even if, Kibaki, Raila,
or Orengo, or Kalonzo or Ruto is the president. Kimunya did what in luo
we say `OYIEYO CHAMI TO KUDHI`. Told people that MPs, will pay tax, got
some people behind him then stole the whole hotel, even money was not
payed for that hotel. Now he will tell you that the MPs does not want
their salary to be taxed that is why they……….

By Paul Nyandoto

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��� By Peter Fabricius

Toyako, Japan – President Thabo Mbeki was due to meet the leaders of the world’s richest nations at the G8 summit here on Monday, determined to press them to keep their past promises to help Africa.

Weighed down by immense global problems, such as rapidly rising food and fuel prices, and climate change, many observers believe the G8 leaders are starting to forget their big commitments to Africa three years ago.

Mbeki and the leaders of Tanzania, Algeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal, as well as Jean Ping, chairperson of the African Union Commission, were expected to have several hours of discussions with the G8 presidents and prime ministers.

They were to remind them that three years ago, at their summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, the G8 leaders promised that they and other donors would double their development aid to Africa by an extra $25-billion a year to $50-billion. The G8 share of the extra $25-billion was $21,8-billion.

They also promised to forgive up to $60-billion of Africa’s multilateral debt.

Last year, at their summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, they also promised to increase their financing of African health systems to $60-billion “over the coming years”.

They have made other promises to Africa, but these are the main ones.

But the South African government agrees with humanitarian NGOs like Oxfam that the leaders are not keeping their promises. Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad complained at a press briefing last week that the G8 leaders keep making new promises, but have not yet delivered on the big commitments, mainly made at Gleneagles.

Oxfam and other NGOs calculate that the G8 countries have paid up only $3-billion of their share of the promised extra $25-billion – if you exclude African debt relief, which is only 14 percent.

And the NGOs also worry that the draft communique prepared for this week’s summit is too vague, reconfirming the promise to double aid to Africa but not mentioning the figure of $25-billion.

Oliver Buston, of Bob Geldof’s One campaign, called this “bureaucratic sleight of hand” and said the Gleneagles promise “can’t just be erased”.

Masato Kidera, director-general for Sub-Saharan Africa in the Japanese Foreign Ministry, responded last week that it was customary in the G8 not to mention the amounts that individual countries would need to pay to meet the Gleneagles promise.

At its own big African development summit in May, Japan promised to double its aid to Africa to $1,8-billion – but by 2012, not 2010.

Kidera said Japan hoped that the other G8 countries would follow suit, but could not promise they would.

Pahad also stressed the importance to Africa of the G8 summit’s other main agenda items – the rapid rise in food and fuel prices, and climate change.

Mbeki, the only one of 21 leaders here who has attended all eight G8 summits since the last one in Japan in 2000, will also be the only non-G8 leader to meet the G8 leaders in all three of their “outreach” sessions.

Apart from the African meeting today, he will meet the G8 leaders again on Wednesday with the other leaders of the so-called G5 or O5 (Outreach Five) countries, China, Brazil, India and Mexico.

He and these same G5 leaders will then meet the G8 leaders again as part of a wider group, including also Australia, Indonesia and South Korea, of leaders of “major economies”.

At these Wednesday meetings, Mbeki and the other leaders are expected to come under pressure from the G8 leaders to commit to reducing their carbon dioxide emissions in a new international climate change agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, when it expires in 2012.

Though Japan prides itself that this summit will include more non-G8 leaders than any other, Mexican Deputy Foreign Minister Lourdes Aranda complained to the G8 for not really listening to the concerns of these “Outreach” countries.
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By Leo Odera Omolo .

�The alleged fraudulent sale of Miwani Sugar Mill�s property to a cartel of wealthy Asians businessmen and farmers at a throw away price at the alleged stage-managed public auction last year took a new dimension when the people of Kano sub-clan vowed� to derail the sale at all costs.

�The Jo-Kano people consist of a major Luo sub-clans, which lays claims that the land on which Miwani Sugar Company is standing on was their ancestral land and now vowed to derail the attempt at selling it to a new group of India businessmen and farmers in the area.

��.The community alleged that the land was seized by force from their forefathers by the British colonialists in around 1920 and given to the white Australian pioneer sugar farmer who first established Miwani Sugar Mills in 1927 for free.

�The government of Kenya now owns Miwani as the sole proprietor. But the government, the Kano community says, is free to sale the facility to a new investor, but such a deal must covered all its assets which include the sugar crushing mills, distillery and the 10,000 acres neuclus estate .

�Moreover the 99 years lease� has since expired, and if the government cannot find a new investor to resuscitate the facility, which is currently under the official receivership, then it could allow the community to repossess the land and distribute it to its original owners. It should revert to the sub-clans of Jo-Kano people for re-distribution to the landless people in the region.

�The issue concerning the alleged �secret auctioning of the 10,000 acres nucleus estate farm featured prominently during the burial of Mzee Opiko Aloo 89 years old a prominent elder who was highly respected by the entire. residents of the Kano plains in Nyando district.

�The burial which was attended by thousands of mourners took place at Mzee Aloo�s homestead, which is located next to Onjiko Secondary School near the junction of Kisumu-Kisii and Kisumu-Kericho Road.

�Mzee Walter Kitoto Adell, the chairman of Riwruok Dongo Kano Manyien (RIDOKAM) in an electrifying speech told the attentive mourners that the people of Kano plain were the blessed among members of the vast Luo community because the area is endowed with a abundance natural resources.

�Mzee Adell cited the four Sugar manufacturing factories of Miwani, Kibos, Chemelil and Muhoroni sugar Company saying that all are situated on the land which belonged to Jokano people. He charged that all four industries, however, were only benefiting people from outside the Kano community in terms of employment, tendering for supplies and contracts. As well as sub=contracts.

�Touching on the alleged sale of the 10,000 acres, Miwani Sugar Mills farm by alleged phantom creditor in a court case which is shrouded with questionable proceedings, Mzee Adell said that the land on which Miwani property stands on was an ancestral land of the Kano people which was given to the Company on 99 year lease at the opening of the 20^th century. The lease has since expired. And it should revert to the original owners.

�Anybody interested or who had legal claim on Miwani Sugar Company can only sell the factory, but not the land, which is exclusively a community property of the Kano people. He demanded that if the government which now own 100 per cent shares in Miwani is unable to sell the facility� to suitable new investor then the land should revert to its former individual owners.

��there is nowhere the Kano people would allow any transaction of this land, and the community has no quarrel with the government if it hands over the entire Miwani facility to a new investor who in turn will be able to offer job opportunities to the local people. This good gesture would be very much welcomed by the community.But the Kano people will not allow low and see their prime land being taken over by outsiders on fictitious claims.

�The sale of Miwani sugar Company under suspicious circumstances had recently elicited legal tuzzles in court between the joint official receivers=managers, Kenya Sugar Board and a ghost creditor, who had filed a suit in court �demanding that Miwani paid �Ksh 28 million owed to him by the Company for consultancy services rendered by the plaintiff in 1987.

�A high court judge Mr. Justice John Mwera annulled the alleged sale in an 18 pages historical judgment and gave the plaintiff 21 days to appeal.

�It later emerged that the court case was filed by pseudo businessman who allegedly had acted on behalf of� cartel of� business tycoons and sugarcane farmers of Indian origins who had conspired and hatched a secret plan to have the 10,000 neuclus farm given to them at a silver plate The conspirators had used all the tricks in the books including bribery, gagging the local scribes, compromising court officials, lawyers and the rest to act in their favors. But the trick backfired when the High Court Judge at Kisumu made the mailstone� judgment� annulling the sale of estate farm and� at the same time suspending the new title deed of the farm, which had already been changed in a suspici.

�Also in attendance at the burial of Mzee Opiko Aloo was the former Nyanza P.C. Peter Raburu, the former commissioner of Police, Phillemon Abong�o, the former Deputy Commissioner of Co-operatives, Henry Agimba, former Karachuonyo MP, Dr. Paul Adhu Awiti, a Maseno University lecturer Dr. M.O.T. Agodo, a prominent businessman and land valuer Ojowi Bengo, �retired senior Administrative secretary with Kisumu municipality Mr. Adera Owiny, a former KSB director for Muhoron and a farmer/cum=businessman Samuel Bonyoi and John Ngere and the co-ordinator of RIDOKAM Justin Odiko.

�The community vowed to pressure the government to sell Miwani only when the facility remain intact for the mutual benefit of all Kenyans and the local community to new and credible investors, and not to allow the company to be sold in a piece-meal at the whims of a cartel of Asian land grabbers who are hell-bend in sabotaging the government effort to off-load its shares in the facility.

�The sentiments expressed by Mzee Adell were unanimously approved by the mourners. Some people in the crowd were heard shouting that if the government had no more interested then it should allow the Wananchi to go and settled on the land instead of it getting stolen by Asian land grabbers.� A public meeting in which the Miwani issue will be deliberated has been called for Ahero multipurpose Centre on July 26, 2008 and all local politicians, civic leaders and MPs have been invited to attend and take a firm stand on Miwani saga.

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leooderaomolo@yahoo.com

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By Jeff Otieno in Kisumu

Public Service Minister Dalmas Otieno Anyango has strongly denied claims in a section of the press which linked one of his sons to a multi-million scandal�with some powerful clique from mount Kenya region.

�In a statement to the press, the bitter cabinet minister challenged those with evidence to come out in the open. He was reacting to a statement in one of the newspapers depicting his son to be operating in a company under the flagship – Green Fuels Ltd which is allegedly associated with the beleagured Finance Minister Amos Kimunya and the late Alex Mureithi.

�”I dare anyone with tangible proof to come forward that my son is the Managing Director of the said company which was allegedly�given sixty thousand hectares of TARDA land, to plant jathropa (Bio-fuel) he thundered.”

�The late Alex Mureithi was the chairman of TARDA and at the same time Director of Green Fuels Ltd which according to the story was a clear conflict of interest.

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New figures from the City of Oslo indicate that every fourth resident of Norway’s capital has a non-Norwegian background. They may have come from Sweden, the USA, Vietnam or Gambia, and they’re playing an important role in the job market and the culture.

Only two of 10 employees in Siemens’ company canteen were born in Norway. There are increasing numbers of foreigners in other companies as well, from StatoilHydro to Aftenposten itself. PHOTO: JAN TOMAS ESPEDAL

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“Without the immigrants who work hard and do a great job, we could just forget trying to keep the restaurant branch going,” said the boss of the company canteen at the large German industrial concern Siemens.

Of the 10 persons working in Siemens’ canteen, for example, only two were born in Norway. The others come from Denmark, Sweden, Pakistan, Mexico, Gambia, Turkey, Morocco and Kosovo. All contend that they don’t really think about the international diversity.

“But we do talk a bit about the countries we come from, said Yaya Jallow Olsen from Gambia.

“And we laugh a lot together and have fun on the job,” added Lene Halstvedt from Denmark.

“We learn a lot from each other,” confirmed Yonus Kaplan from Turkey.

New data from the city and state statistics bureau SSB shows that of Oslo’s 560,484 residents, 137,878 are immigrants. That’s up from 85,550 in 1998, when the city had a population of 499,693 and immigrants made up 17 percent, not the 24.5 percent today.

The largest single immigrant group continues to be from Pakistan, with 20,313 living in Oslo. Next in line is Somalia, with 9,708 immigrants and Sweden, with 7,462. Other countries with relatively large immigrant groups in Oslo include Sri Lanka, Poland, Iraq, Turkey, Vietnam, Iran and Denmark. Eastern Europeans as a whole make up nearly as large a group of immigrants as those from Pakistan, with 19,721 registered as living in Oslo.

Foreigners also make up a fairly large portion of the population in Stavanger, where many expatriates are working in the oil and offshore industries.

Erling Lae, head of Oslo’s Municipal Executive Board, is pleased with the amount of foreigners in the capital. “When every fourth resident has a foreign background, I ask myself what the city would look like if they weren’t here,” Lae told newspaper Aften. “Oslo would have been in a deep crisis.

“It doesn’t matter where they’re coming from, but that they’re doing well and have a job. And most do.”

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Zimbabwe�s ruling Zanu-PF has on Sunday, accused the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai of disrespecting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) appointed mediator, President Thabo Mbeki.

Tsvangirai on Saturday failed to attend a meeting scheduled by Mbeki between President Robert Mugabe and opposition leaders. Mbeki says Tsvangirai pulled out of the meeting at the last minute saying he had been advised by African Union (AU) leaders to hold off until Mbeki�s mediation effort is reinforced.

Meanwhile, a milestone moment occurred in Zimbabwean politics when Mugabe was seen shaking hands with MDC faction leader Arthur Mutambara. However, South African political commentators have said that the picture would resonate even more, if the hand Mugabe shook was that of his arch-rival Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the bigger MDC faction.

The ruling party wasted no time in attacking Tsvangirai over his snub of the dialogue mediator. While some analysts say Tsvangirai let a golden opportunity slip to give the dialogue the momentum it needs, others believe his snub of Mbeki makes a powerful statement to the international community.

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Celebrating his country�s 44th anniversary of its independence from British colonial rule, Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has reiterated his call to opposition members of parliament to stop placing conditions before approving the already delayed 2008/09 national budget.

Speaking Sunday in the northern city of Mzuzu, to celebrate an occasion whose theme was, \”Building A Nation of Achievers\”, he urged the MP�s to return to parliament and approve the budget without delay because it was a critical tool for the country\�s development.

\”In government, we will not accept anything less than the budget to be dealt with first before other business in the house. Anything else should come after the budget has been discussed and approved,\” he added, in apparent reference to the opposition�s demands for parliament to discuss the dismissing of MP�s who defected from their ranks to join the government side.

Mutharika reminded the MP�s that nowhere in the world does a sitting parliament reject a budget in the name of democracy.

\”In United States of America, United Kingdom and other countries they never reject the budget. Where are these people (the opposition) copying the idea that democracy means what they are doing?� he queried the multitudes that filled up the 20,000-seat Mzuzu Stadium.

He therefore called on opposition leader and former president Bakili Muluzi, who is the chairperson of United Democratic Front (UDF) and Malawi Congress Party (MCP) leader John Tembo not to hold their own people on ransom by failing to approve the long overdue budget.

Malawi�s financial year ended on 30 June and the new fiscal year started in 1 July. Legally, Mutharika has four months of a grace period to spend funds from the yet to be approved expenditure.

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�Folks,

�Let everyone say,� “Kimunya be taken to Guatanamo” that is,�if Guatanamo is functioning.�Right now, he is too powerful�he can�endanger people in Kenya.�

He should not be put to a Kenyan jail.�Guatanamo would be�more preferrable,

while he Kimunya awaits charges to be preferred against him.� This man is

extremely dangerous. He is a dare devil trying to prove he is too powerful no

Kenyan can do any thing to him or challenge him.��This Kimunya is dummy.� He forgets the Grand Regency sale was�negotiated and completed before election.� In other words, this money was for their campaign.

They forced themselves to cling to power so to cover up using money stolen from

Grand Regency, and when they were actually busted, they want to drag ODM Raila

and Orengo into it. Remember, at the time they were soliciting for the money they

were in a hurry to finance their election.� Regency sale transaction was already up for grabs well before election in Dec. 2007.� How can any fool believe his statement of dragging Raila and Orengo into his mess?

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Kimunya charges for urgent quit notice are based on:

1) he used his public office to transact public property in a personal private manner

without public consent.

2) he denied more than once when he was questioned earlier that the hotel was not sold and it was later proved that it was sold

3) He defied protocol ethics, legal order requirement proceedure for which he swore allegiance to observe and protect public property in a manner stipulated by law

4) he refused and boasted to public that he will not step aside or vacate public office

5) he continues boastfully, to occupy public office even�after�he has voted no confidence and the house demonstrated they have no more faith in him

6) he treated and continues to treat public matter as his personal private matter

7) he was trying to arm-twist fellow Members from exposing Grand Regency Saga to wait

a little longer because he wanted block and to destroy evidence as well as manipulate members through scare and manipulative threats

8) from his statement, his behaviour and attitude�anyone can underscore Kenyan Leaders are under duress, he is the power-house using Kibaki as his press button, and using threats as a tool to silence anyone opposing his acts.

9) this is the reason why Orengo cried for dear life and requested for security protection

10) from Grand Regency Saga, it is evident that Corruption is the in-thing – Kimunya and

team must advance in the highest level without obstruction or resistance

11) this is the more reason why ODM is not awarded 50/50 share of Government in the Cabinet

12) this is the more reason why Kibaki want to continue to have a complete power and restrict Raila’s to actively perform Prime Minister’s�responsibilies�so Raila may remain��under Kibaki’s wing and control.

�In all this, Kibaki does not want to honour the Grand Coalition Government and would be more than happy he brings it down to unmanagiable level, so he can continue to suppress the DEMANDS of Kenyans and pursue a dictatorship Government.

�Kimunya is an animal in the jungle, the best suitable place for him is Guatanamo cell incase the place exists, while�this matter is given indepth investigation – otherwise, many lives are going to be endangered.� Remember, he is a wounded lion.

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By Judy Miriga

USA�

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