POLITICS OF POVERTY, PRODUCTS BOYCOTT AND THE FAT LIE THAT COMPANIES WILL COLLAPSE

Who else is seeing the ridicule in the Brookside, Kimbo Ilara products Boycott?

OK, I don't know if it is my reasoning that is misleading me or I just don't get it. Mmmh OK let me put it the way I see it- the NASA mass products boycott is ludicrous, absurd for lack of a better word and this is why. 

To me the majority of people boycotting the products are consumers, most of them are at the end of the distribution chain and therefore by boycotting a product they chose to either starve or identify other inferior substitutes. The question here is, who loses?The manufacturer, the Distributor or the consumer? 

A politician when reached for a comment on how people will cop after closing their businesses which are related to the products they are boycotting said that when resisting there is no luxury.

I don't want to get into the luxury part because whatever luxury one gets from buying Kimbo ya Shilingi Kumi compared to the kind of life politicians live is just preposterous. 

Back to my main point, Consumers vs Manufacturers and why the one community boycott won't lead to a collapse of companies. Maybe I'm wrong but to my understanding, Bidco  refineries do Kenya as the market for their products, kuna Bidco Uganda, Bidco Tanzania and for one to imagine that Bidco will collapse just because Consumers have decided not to use their products is laughable. 

To me, a more serious threat to the existence of the company is when those supplying raw materials to them decides to pull-out. For example, Muhoroni Sugar Company will collapse if  Cane farmers decide not to take their Cane to the factory. 

To me the decision to boycott products just because the Companies producing the products or offering services are is linked to Jubilee Government is the worst decision ever, it is not only ridiculous but also ironical.The worst of all this is the dishonest by people who have been entrusted with leadership. 

Because honestly If John took a loan and opened a business say he MPESA or Mike is the main distributor for Molo Milk isn't the boycott meant to make John and Mike poor people?

What will happen to the people Mike and John Employed? 

It is not Jubilee you are punishing, it, not Safaricom you are teaching a lesson. It is Poverty you are advancing to your people.

#Resist Poverty

WHY I SUPPORTED ANNE WAIGURU

Waiguru is gone and that is a fact, now most of you wondered why I would support her yet there where issues touching on her integrity.

Let me make it clear that there are things  I chose to consider than the problems affecting her.I chose to leave integrity issues to EACC and strongly gave my support for the impact she made to this country.

I am one of those people who witnessed the revolution her docket.I have to admit that she is a performer one this country will never have.Just like the Late Hon Michuki we will live to remember her not for the challenges  in her ministry but for the contributions she made.

Ok my main reason of writing this is to make it known that I stood with Waiguru for what she stood for and what she was ready to die for.Madam was determined to achieve her objectives no matter what.She strategized well and eventually her hard work paid off.

Her zeal to transform the youths of this country is what made the difference,may be you are not privy to her record in public service.Have a look at what she did  in her tenure in public service and you will see why I wished she had more control of her ministry.

HER ACHIEVEMENTS

1.Huduma Centre

2. Uwezo Funds

3. 30% Agpo revolution

4. Gender equity champion

5. IFMIS

6.PEV IDPs resettlement,Forest evictee and recently Turkana conflict IDPs

7. Operationalized all Devolution instruments and institutions.

8. Rebranded NYS and started a major revolution across constituencies

a) Tripled admissions to NYS .. as a result 21,870 youths trained by May 2015

B) 82,636 youths engaged countrywide earning Shs. 471 a day
Each woman feeding meals on cohorts 50 Bob per meal
Skilled workers like plumbers,Mason,Electricians earning 1,000 Bob per day
Each plant operator 2,000 Bob a day

C) 7,705 service men/women trained out of which 3,152 discharged into job market

D) 82,636 community youths given social transformation training

E) 672m saved by new NYS inspired Saccos

9. Her planning docket through KNBS helped rebase Kenyan economy to a middle income economy

10. Helped allocate Shs.1b to Kenyan innovators whose direct benefit mechanism was being worked on by the time she left

11.Enterprise Financing - 11,802 youth beneficiaries of Uwezo fund, Youth fund loan recovery of 64.21% up from 25%

I wish the next CS will continue this great work.I only hope the Youth Empowerment program that is now on hold will be continued because that is where most defended her.

WIFE GRABBING

I have heard of men who are ruthless when it comes to land grabbing but the wife grabbing thing is new to me. Read about the Uganda Ministry official who was arranged in Court for wife grabbing.

Via Uganda New Vision Tabloid. www.newvision.co.ug/news/663738-ministry-official-sued-over-grabbing-wife.html

CUT OFF THE HATE MONGERS FROM THE SOCIETY

"And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant"

When someone's posts this on social media and that person has had an history of insulting people using the word "foreskin" I tend to think that there is no doubt he had the previous intentions.

If he will be found guilty this time again I would recommend that he gets a lengthy jail term ,if not be deported to a Medieval land somewhere in outer space ,I think he belongs there.

Moses Kuria is disgrace to the civilized generation.

TEACHER'S STRIKE CALLED OFF,BUT HOW?

The calling off of the Countrywide teachers strike that had paralyzed learning for about two weeks was this time round done in a very different way.

 Usually the Government and the trade unions go into negotiations which ultimately may lead to an agreement to call off the strike.

Today thought saw a different twist in the manner in which the strike was called off.Unlike the usual handshakes between the parties involved in the conciliation process, this time round the industrial court exercised it's jurisdiction of ordering for specific performance.

In this case,the Judge of industrial Court ordered the Trade Unions to call off the strike and subsequently file the dispute matters before it.
This is because the trade dispute between the teachers Union and the Government was not able to be resolved after conciliation.

FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED FROM FIDEL ODINGA'S BURIAL.

We all got clued to our television sets following albeit with sorrow the proceedings in Bondo. You may have been grief-stricken because of the pain you felt for the Odinga family or you were thrown into anguish by   the tragic death of conscience, consideration and maturity of  some of our leaders.

Which ever the case we all had lesions from the Bondo live broadcast.

KENYAN POLITICIANS HAVE NO SCRUPLES.
I would consider the utterances in  Bondo to be vile, abhorrent and obtuse. In fact   most of the statements were capable of   hurting if not meant to create enmity among good citizens of this country. Most of those spears who stood to address the mourners had little consideration for the grieving family but instead took political advantage of it.
I compared those politicians to a person who would queue behind a punch of rapist raping his mother and when it is his turn he rapes the mother mercilessly one for the lack of consciences.
Really where conscience when one is takes a microphone to insinuate that indeed someone had a hand in Fidel's death yet there is still investigations?

Were did conscience go when a leader stands to criticize the Government when indeed they are supposed to condole the bereaved family.

Where did ethics go when a fully grown up man insult a woman who was not able to conceive a pregnancy on National Tv?  

THE  BONDO MOURNERS DID  PISS OFF THE NATION.
There is no doubt that social media yesterday was jammed by posts and tweets about the conduct of out mourning brothers  in Bondo. To be honest there were no kind posts or comments about their behavior. In fact one wondered if really it was necessary for them to heckle even if it is their way of showing grief .

I don’t know why Hon Raila had to tell one of the mourners to be a gentleman yet we know our brothers to be gentleman. May be “gentlemasness” sometimes has to be stripped and what remains is insolence, flippancy and fatuity. Let’s say that is how differently we are when mourning.

RAILA ODINGA IS A MATURE POLITICIAN.
Hon Raila Omolo Odinga is undoubtedly one of the  most mature leaders this County has ever had. Raila yesterday won many hearts from his address to the mourners. Although most of his critics had predicted that he would do his videndalwili that was not to happen for he surely took a Babas role, the Baba he has always been only that he seem to listen a lot to his advisers who yesterday looked like politicians in dippers.

KENYANS ARE NOT DIVINED ALONG TRIBAL LINES BUT THERE IS AN IMAGINARY LINE DIVIDING US.
You will agree with me that Fidel's demise brought out one very vital lesson that tribalism is cultivated by the politicians and thrives well when we are having elections. You will agree also with me that Fidel knew no boundaries, he knew no tribe for he had friends all over the world.
You will also agree with me that what divides us in not our tribes but our imaginations that our elected leaders have boundary lines when they meet in Parliament or even in social places. It is our frivolity that has divided us nothing else.

EVEN THE LEARNED CAN BEHAVE LIKE ILLITERATE VILLAGE DWELLERS.
"The poachers are out again, they Poached Senator Kilonzo my Father, poached Senator Otieno Kajwang and now they have poached Fidel "
I thought I was hearing my own things until I flipped to another channel when indeed it downed to me that education will never change our perceptions.
I had to move close to my TV to see who was speaking. What! Kethi Kilonzo!

, the learned fellow? that was not practical.   

THE HARDS MAN'S EXTOLS.

I would sit on you  while watching the cattle with their corybantic appetite take you one by one. For me I found pleasure in my cows especially when they finally lay in the shade and  in unison munch whatever it was in between their  jaws with satisfaction.  

In our cordial  relationship I knew very  little of the  language you spoke  with the cows  in the grazing filed but it was almost every evening in the milking shade that  "Chepsitiey"and "Koroit " would speak to me in the language I understand . what has remained in my heart since then is  Chepsityei's extols  about you.

Today Iam full of  praises  knowing that it is you  that got me to where Iam.As an herds boy for  a decade and  for the tender years  in the grazing fields with you I can say a lot about you.     

Today I am marvel at you  grass, your  resilience,beauty,Courage, benevolence and magnanimity. You leave  me mesmerized .You see, you feed the  cows,the  sheep and the Donkeys and all that comes to you but you'll  never be  exhausted. When you become short you  grow again and again.
 
Everyone  loves the  beautiful you  give to their  gardens,beauty that it invites many  to lie on you ,so tenderly soft that they come to take  a nap.

Not even the  sickle will deter your  growth, you will grow beyond your previous predicaments  with the sickle or the  wild fire. You will grow  indiscriminately and cover the ground benevolently.  

Grass ,you face  every day with courage, you courageously face the hailstones,the donkey's hooves and the scorching sun . You may wilt during the day but the night awaits with the beauty of the moon. The morning anticipates you with the dew that  make you wet and fresh.

If only I learned the secrete  of your magnanimity, your source of continuity and generosity  I would make myself like you, to spread kindness and love throughout the plains to the end of the earth . I would have learned the art of resilience that in every day I face,I get renewed  and rejuvenated  

I would at the beginning of every year  like this gather courage enough to face the upsets of life albeit  the many Promises every  tomorrow  holds for me.