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Lul Ali Hassan with Abdirahman at Benadir Hospital

NAIROBI,� – The youngest son of Lul Ali Hassan, a 38-year-old mother of 10, has hydrocephalus, a medical condition in which the head swells. Doctors at Benadir Children’s Hospital in Mogadishu say the boy requires special treatment known as shunting – inserting a shaft in his head to drain the fluid into his body – but this cannot be done in Somalia.

Hassan spoke to IRIN on 13 April about her sick son, Abdirahman.

“I had him in 2006 and he was perfect; I had no problem delivering him. He was a normal boy and did all the things normal boys do. Then everything changed three months ago when his head became bigger and bigger and he got weak and could not do anything.

“I was scared and worried about what was happening to him. I did not understand anything.

“I went to every doctor in town to seek help. I even went to religious scholars to pray for him. In over a month [of searching], I must have met every doctor in Mogadishu.

“Finally, a month and half ago, I came to Benadir hospital where I was told I may get help. We have been here ever since. The doctors told me his condition could have been caused by any number of things. They advised me they could not do anything for him here. They said he needs specialist treatment not available locally.

“We could barely afford to take him to doctors here. How are we going to take him outside the country?

“It breaks my heart to watch my son slowly disappear, and there is nothing I can do for him. I feel helpless and lost.

“Only God can help us now. I don’t know where else to turn to.”

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By Isaiah Lucheli

He stirs up controversy wherever he has tried to settle and he and his family are always on the run due to what he proclaims himself to be.

He believes he is the deity and the father of Jesus Christ. For this, he claims to have escaped countless attempts on his life.

Wanyonyi with his �holy� sword and staff, with which he will punish evildoers. [PHOTOS: Titus Munala/Standard]

Meet �Jehovah Mungu Mwenye Enzi� Wanyonyi, 92.

You might easily dismiss him for an insane man suffering from illusions but for the confidence he exudes when asserting that there is no other god but he.

He claims not to be human and came to the world just like his �son� did more than 2,000 years ago. He will, therefore, not die as humans do.

In Wanyonyi�s homestead at Chemororoch location, Uasin Gishu District, are five small grass thatched houses. In the middle of the compound stands a red flag and a table on which is placed a sword.

He boasts 15 wives and over 60 children, who labour on people�s farms in order to earn a living and feed the old man whose advanced age does not allow him to work.

The sword and the flag, also red, are a sign that the end of the world is nigh. The sword will be used to punish the evil people of the world, Wanyonyi declares.

When we drove into the compound children, young men and women milled around the car inquiring about our mission.

A woman I later learn is referred to as �Roho Mtakatifu� (holy spirit) asks me if I have brought anything for �Jehovah� before he can give me audience.

“Vile unavyo ona Jehovah amezeeka na ana mabibi wengi na vile vile watoto chungu nzima. Ukienda kuongea naye lazima utoe kitu mzuri,” �Roho Mtakatifu� says. (As you can see Jehovah is old and has many wives and children. You must give him a substantial gift after the interview.)

After complying with this condition a young man is sent to go and request �god� to allow me in his presence. The young man kneels before addressing �god�, who accepts my request.

I enter a small open hut where �Jehovah� is seated and after exchanging pleasantries, he demands to know the reason for my visit.

The �Creator�

Wife Sarah Navai, also known as �Roho Mtakatifu�, kneels before her master.

He then asks if I have brought anything for �Jehovah� because he has a family to feed and is too old to travel long distances.

After explaining the purpose of my visit, I pose my questions: Has he been to heaven? When does he plan to end the world? Is he in touch with Jesus and how? Has he performed any miracles? Why is he living in abject poverty if he really is God?

Wanyonyi is clearly shocked that I have the audacity to ask him such questions.

“You humans will simply perish because of your foolishness,” he replies sternly. “How dare you ask your father if he knows his home or talks to his children?”

After the outburst he is silent for about a minute, then looks upwards and asks �Jesus� to pardon me for doubting the �creator�. There follows a tense moment and I fear the interview might come to an abrupt end.

His wives and children are equally appalled by my questions and stare at me as if I have lost my mind.

�Jehovah� sneezes and asks for a handkerchief and his crown, which are brought to him by one of his wives, who kneels before handing them over.

Stop the sun

“Go tell your people that one of these days, I will stop the sun at midday and it will not proceed to set for three months. You will all come running to me for forgiveness due to your lack of faith,” he tells me.

To my relief, he allows the interview to continue and says that we are no different from the many unbelievers who have tried to kill him to see if he truly is God.

“I cannot die,” he declares. “I came to conquer the world. This is just your flesh that I am wearing but I�m the lord your god. Those who believe in me will not perish.”

It is 11am and as the interview progresses, his followers stream into the compound.

They bow and kneel before him as they exchange greetings. All refer to him as �Jehovah�. He has a special chair with �Jehovah� inscribed on it.

“If there was any other god superior to me, would he allow an impostor to live? He would have killed me with lightning for pretending. I would do the same to anyone pretending to be me, your god,” Wanyonyi explains.

Displaying his palms, Wanyonyi claims to have created the earth just as it is written in the book of Genesis.

He will end the world in the way as it is written in the holy book, he adds.

“I will turn the sun into fire, resurrect the dead and embark on judgement. I will create 12 doors in heaven through which the righteous will go while fire will be on earth where the sinners will burn for eternity,” says Wanyonyi.

He says he has no fixed abode because wherever he goes, unbelievers chase him away accusing him of blasphemy.

Weapons of death

“I only settled in Uasin Gishu about three years ago and almost immediately about 200 youths attacked me and wanted to slash me to see if blood would come out,” he says.

The youths, armed with machetes, demanded that he gets out of his house to face their weapons and death. But he remained indoors and they were afraid to break into the house to get him.

“I knew they would not kill me and did not go out to face them because I did not come to this world to die like my son Jesus,” he says.

Neighbours and his wives corroborate the story and confirm that indeed youths attacked his home one night.

According to them, the youths comprised of locals and others who had followed Wanyonyi from his previous home at Chwele, Bungoma District, from where he was chased away.

“I�m certain they had been sent to kill me. They want to kill me but I am beyond death,” he says and breaks into prolonged laughter.

One of his grass-thatched houses is his throne. Due to his large family, food is cooked on about 20 fireplaces constructed outside.

Wanyonyi, or �Jehovah� as he insists on being called, was born in Kamukuywa in the larger Bungoma District, to parents he says are now in heaven.

“When I was born, my parents knew I was god and they took good care of me. I did not go to school. Instead I embarked on seeking followers,” he says.

He has four married sisters who, says, recognise him as their god rather than their brother.

Wanyonyi says all his wives and 75 children will accompany him to heaven so long as they do not sin.

“If they sin they die here on earth because I have sired them with humans,” he says.

Wanyonyi says he had intended to marry 400 wives but the thought of begetting many children who would succumb to �this sinful world� made him change his mind.

None of his wives or children has ever fallen sick, he claims. And because he is not human, he also does not fall ill.

“My only regret is that you humans have refused to take care of me,” he complains adding the warning that if people fail to do so in the next five years, they will regret it.

Save the world

And although he has harem, Wanyonyi says men will be judged harshly when the world comes to an end because they worship women.

“You worship women and that is why there is so much immorality in the world. Unless men change, they will be severely punished for idolising women,” he warns.

Wanyonyi cautions that churches will lead many people to hell because they are full of people who are hypocrites and liars. He does not go to church and says that since he is God, his followers instead come to his home for blessings, especially on Saturday, which he says is the Sabbath day.

“I have a sizeable number of followers and I do not mind that. I am not after offerings to make me rich. I have come to save the world and not to make money. That is why I�m not rich as you would expect,” he says.

His parting words: “Do not let church leaders deceive you because they are led by the Satan who has also blocked yours eyes and minds to the fact that I am lord your God. Come to me instead.”

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To the Editor , This is my opinion

by Dianna, USA

I am great fear of Obama and Odinga it will not be good for the whole region if both “O”s are presidents.

I pray for the loss of souls in Kenya and surrounding countries… for under Odinga Sharia Law will become the law of the land and Christians will die

I want no one to die, for the sake of an election nor the election of an individual, but I fear that this will happen. Perhaps I am in fear of nothing, but my gut tells me something else.

I want nothing else but for everyone to live and prosper as they each embrace their own faith and cultures as is given to them at birth.

That all men are equal under God and law -� and all live together as one.

==========opinion======Regarding Kenyas situation

Dont you understand Obama will do everything in his power to make sure Odinga will get elected president?

Dont you know it matters not to Obama how many more people will die in violence as long as he has Odinga in office

Now that Obama is president Odinga will have the funds to win….. and the muscle of the American thugs he sends over to insure clear passage of Odinga into the Presidential position.

We experienced this here in America.� Had it not been for the illegal money, thuggery, and fraud committed on behalf of Obama – he clearly would not have been elected

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Obama needs Odinga to advance his own agenda and it matters nothing to Obama if Christians are eliminated or enslaved under SHARIA LAW in Kenya

Obama is going to encourage the same shadow Sharia here in America as we already see that he is supportive and cooperative�with Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and encouraging SHARIA banking.

Obama is about to create a Sharia System along side of our own government.

People are beginning to understand this because Obama is trying to fill his advisory and cabinet with more Muslims.. They have a job search going on right now….

It is highly discriminatory -(Racist)-that the President create special heavily funded segment of government specific to a religion…..� while we are� all forced to erase every aspect of our Judeo- Christian heritage from public or heritage books or buildings, – even though our founding fathers encouraged moral life in America based upon the tenants of Godly faith.

That the President focus resources in this manner is discriminatory to all Americans which are excluded from resources that should be for all people and not specific to one or the other.
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The president has abandoned the Black American with whom he pretended to identify with.
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Obama is also pressured by the Muslim Brotherhood to change laws in favor of Islam which are in opposition to Christianity…..

Here is a perfect example.. children who bring bibles to school to worship together during lunchtime – are punished, sent home, and or suspended…

In some states it is prohibited for a student or teacher to expose a cross, on a chain, or any other representation of their faith

Muslim children, however, are permitted to pray carry the Quoran wear traditional clothing, head scarves, and openly practice their faith.

Some schools also prohibit pork on school grounds even if there is a handful of muslim children.

There are other faiths which do not eat pork, and either avoid it if served, or bring their own food to school…..

There never was a prohibition that pork products be outlawed in a school (bacon and eggs is a national breakfast -� no longer permitted)

Now that there are restrictions, this puts all others at a disadvantage
due to the traditions of one faith.

We are a nation of tolerance, however policies created by the government
are turning people resentful to one another, where this never existed before.

~ Something terrible is happening.

We know it is by design that this creation of animosity is developing.
We are disturbed by this.!

We hapen to be Christian, and we have Muslim, Jewish and Shinto friends.
In all the many years that we have shared family time together we respected the traditions and practices of one anothers faith and cultures without thought.
Through friendship we share together in the joy and sorrows that life brings each human.� It matters not what a persons faith is in this respect, because we are each related in Gods eyes.

America is a nation of many cultures and as an Italian is different than a Frenchman and a Japanes or a Kenyan we appreciate the diversity of customs that each bring to our lives.

It is very recently that there is something ugly happening and for the first time I see neighbors fighting, and separating, closiing off from one another, anger is brewing between people who for 30 yrs have shared their lives with one another.

Children no longer play with one another- In school there is an atmosphere that some are given priviledge and others must compromise-

This builds resentment with children, especially when they are�punished for what has always been -prior to all the restrictive regulations, that ultimately take the liberty from all others so as not to offend one group who is permitted their own freedom to do what all others can not.

This is dangerous and people are getting very angry that our government is perpetuating and inflicting this resentment and bigotry and racism which did not exist as a culture!�

On 9/11 we saw the true nature of our America – we were all Americans. We all cried together, hugged one another and mourned together…. We were one,�because that is America!

But it is turning into something other than this.

And not on the accord of the citizens, but by design of “another” force, aided by the media… a force that speaks “global peace” from one side of the mouth and from the other, in secrecy, says something else.�

The government and the media are engineering chaos amongst neighbors in order to advance their agenda of civil unrest.

I love my neighbors as my own blood. Racism began to evolve through our recent election.

We as a nation are not racist. We are a nation of immigrants of all cultures, and without government intervention and activist agitators we would be a harmonious culture.

But then again if we were harmonious, there would be no cause for the multi billion dollar activist agitator industry and no need for the left wing radical party.

Many people in the current administration will not be happy until
our country is in flames – As it has been said by several of them >>> Never let a crisis go to waste.

To Kenyans: There is an old American Indian saying: “Beware of Man who speak with forked tongues”

SAVE YOURSELVES:
Be very cautious- Learn the truth – Do not be deceived as millions of Americans were, and now millions regret their choice of vote.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Photo/REUTERS

US President Barack Obama. Photo/FILE

By Patrick Mathangani

Gichugu MP Martha Karua has absolved President Kibaki of blame in her tribulations, saying the Head of State meant well but was misled.

“I do not think President Kibaki has a problem with anyone. It is just that some people have misled him,” Ms Karua, who resigned as Justice minister, last week said yesterday at Kianyaga Stadium in her constituency.

Speaker after speaker at the rally said she was the best suited to succeed Kibaki in 2012.

Karua announced she would hold countrywide rallies to seek the people�s mandate and support for her presidential bid.

She said she would mobilise the public against corruption, which she claimed had taken root in the coalition Government.

However, she insisted she had no grudge with anyone and would continue supporting the Government�s good policies.

Reforms in Judiciary

Karua, who quit the Cabinet on grounds that she was frustrated, vowed her campaign would be pegged on reforms, especially in the Judiciary and the police force.

She said court cases took long, and claimed that the police killed suspects without trial. “Let the police not become judges. If we allow them, they will kill all our children,” she said.

Karua told the well-attended rally that she would push for land redistribution, resettlement of IDPs and the fight against corruption.

She claimed money set aside for resettling IDPs had been embezzled.

She said some of those opposed to reforms did not want the poor given land.

“Some people have land the size of entire provinces. They tremble whenever they think of a new constitution because they think all the land is theirs,” she said.

The rally was attended by leaders from Central, Nairobi and Rift Valley provinces.

Those who spoke were Tetu MP FT Nyammo and his Garsen counterpart Danson Mungatana, six former MPs, councillors and Narc-Kenya branch officials. Before the rally, Karua toured the district in a style that had all the hallmarks of a presidential campaign.

Her entourage stopped at several trading centres in Kirinyaga District, where she addressed cheerful supporters.

Mr Mungatana took on Agriculture Minister William Ruto, whom he told to quit over the maize scandal.

He said Narc-Kenya�s rallies would push for resignation of Cabinet ministers mentioned in corruption. He claimed Government functionaries were luring MPs to their side.

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By Beauttah Omanga

President ‘s PNU is facing a dilemma as its affiliates parties battle it out over who will take over the powerful Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs ministry following the resignation of Ms Martha Karua.

Two powerful groups have emerged throwing spanners into plans by Kibaki to replace the Gichugu MP. The bare-knuckled rivalry is alleged to have scuttled a planned mini-Cabinet reshuffle said to have been scheduled for today (Monday).

One clique, composed mainly of leaders from Kibaki’s central Kenya backyard, is allied to Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru Kenya and Internal Security Minister George Saitoti, while the other is allied to Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka.

A Cabinet minister who did not want to be named for fear of jeopardising his political position said: “The three hope to succeed Kibaki in 2012. Kalonzo and Uhuru are frontrunners and each wants their person to hold the powerful Justice ministry. The goings on are murkier than Kenyans think.”

Whereas Uhuru wants the position retained by a person from Central Province, probably Assistant Minister Njeru Githae or Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi, Kalonzo’s ODM-Kenya party has been lobbying for Nairobi Metropolitan Development Minister Mutula Kilonzo.

Kiraitu, who held the docket before his resignation in 2006, is understood to be staking claim to his old ministry, although no group has coalesced to offer substantive support.

PNU affiliates � ODM-Kenya, Narc-Kenya, Kanu and other parties � at the Easter weekend upped lobbying for the seat, as the raging battle threatened to rip apart the loosely knit unity of Kibaki’s close allies.

A group of MPs from the Mt Kenya region is reported to have met on Saturday and resolved to insist on retaining the powerful portfolio.

“People of central Kenya voted for Kibaki to a man, while Mutula was busy campaigning for another candidate. We should, therefore, not be given a ministry of little value while he (Mutula) gets the powerful position,” said an MP who attended the meeting.

Kabete MP Lewis Nguyai said Kiambu District gave Kibaki nearly 400,000 votes, but to date remains the only area without a minister.

“We now hope the President will consider Kiambu. He should not take us for granted,” Mr Nguyai said without specifying whom he supports for the position.

According to Nguyai, leaders from Mt Kenya want Local Government assistant minister Njeru Githae, elevated to the Justice docket.

Killing two birds

“This will kill two birds with one stone. We retain the powerful position and also ameliorate the Kirinyaga people and cut Karua down to size before she takes the vote-rich Kirinyaga District by storm,” said Nguyai who is thought to be allied to Uhuru.

Uhuru is said to be fronting this to cut Kalonzo’s emerging influence in the PNU coalition.

Contacted, Githae spoke briefly: “That is mere speculation. Let’s leave it to the President. He is the only person mandated by the Constitution to appoint a minister.”

Tellingly, Githae, who is in Karua’s Narc-Kenya, declined to follow his chairperson and Secretary-General Danson Mungatana into resigning.

He said he would remain in Government and push for reforms from within.

Mutula declined to comment, saying he did not wish to be drawn into the issue, and likewise the VP refused to be drawn into the matter.

But Agriculture Assistant Minister Kareke Mbiuki seemed to read from a script different from his colleagues in the Mt Kenya region and backed Mutula, whom he said was the most suitable minister to replace Karua.

“Mutula is a member of the National Dialogue committee which negotiated the National Accord and understands the reforms Kenyans and Chief Mediator Kofi Annan want,” said Mr Mbiuki.

VP’s machinations

Mutula’s chances are boosted by the fact that constant bickering over the Accord necessitates a steady voice to defend PNU, a role that Karua undertook astutely for long.

Mbiuki, however, said Githae, who is from Kirinyaga, should be elevated to a full minister in charge of Nairobi Metropolitan.

“Having served as Assistant Minister for Local Government, Githae’s job is well cut out if he replaced Mutula at the Nairobi Metropolitan ministry,” he said. But an MP from Central who spoke on condition of anonymity after The Standard persistently called him to find out the goings on in PNU said: “The truth is that many leaders from this region (Central) are not very comfortable with the VP’s machinations and giving his party this powerful ministry would be suicidal for our plans for the Kibaki succession.”

He said Githae � a two-term legislator and a lawyer by training and who once held the position of Assistant Minister for Justice �was fit for the job.

“Githae will manage the Justice ministry contrary to claims that he is an amateur,” said the MP.

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