{UAH} INSIDE THE PATRIOTISM PACKAGE

INSIDE THE PATRIOTISM PACKAGE

The desperate Museveni is trying to impose patriotism programs on Ugandans. For sometime now, the idea has been floating first starting with the patriotism clubs in schools and currently a law is in the offing. Of course the patriotism law will be passed and like all other of his laws, it will create offences aimed at curbing dissent.

What is clear is that Museveni has come to grips with the fact that Ugandans have discovered his lies and manipulative ways that have sustained his hold on power. No doubt the patriotism program will entail the following aspects:-

1. Indoctrinating Ugandans to love Museveni and his NRA. This will involve the skillful and gradual erasure of the word Uganda and replacing it with NRA and Museveni. In that way the history of Uganda will be rewritten to look as if it started around 1972 when Museveni went to exile and got involved in the struggle to oust president Iddi Amin. Museveni will be portrayed as the father of the nation who has an unique supper natural intelligence to lead Uganda. With time, civil servants, party cadres, members of security forces and the general population will be required to take the oath of allegiance to the Chairman of NRA (Museveni) and his ideologies instead of Uganda and its constitution. Once that is achieved he will even relinguish the Presidency to his figure head as he retains the NRA chairmanship that he will use to run the country till his death. The history pertaining to Ugandas struggle for independence will be discarded since it involves Obote, UPC, DP and the Baganda.

2. To Achieve No. 1 above, the formal education carriculum  will be twisted to suit his designs of undermining quality education that started sometime back. Much emphasis will be put on teaching political education/civics that will be nothing other than preaching the NRA gospel according to Saint Museveni. Simple technical skills will be encouraged through vocational training as a way of undermining quality education that provides the population with capacity to question  his designs. To achieve this one of the tools will be to introduce Swahili in schools with the aim of undermining the English language.  Gradually the English language which will be branded as the language of the colonisers will be replaced with Swahili as the medium of teaching. In the end the education standard of the country will drastically fall propmpting the financially able individuals to smuggle their children out of the country for quality education. In the end we shall have two types of education for the citizens i.e the quality education provided by private institutions benefiting the few and the majority poorly educated Ugandans.

With this state inspired ignorance of the general population, Ugandans will be easy to brainwash and indoctrinate. Tribal language, customs, chiefs and kings will be constrained and eventually phased out. Belief in supersititutions and traditional religious practices will be on the rise thus African solution to African problems.

3. The campaign against western imperialism will be intensified . All the underdevelopment will be blamed on the colonialists, western imperialism and their local agents (opposition parties). The school history sylabus will manipulated to eliminate the roles of early european explorers, inventors and great thinkers. The role of early christian missionaries will be despised as agents of colonialism who were responsible for dividing Africans. Instead it will be the roles of the likes of Karl Marks, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castrol, Gadafi and Museveni who will be preached as being the great men of the modern world. Western culture (entertainment, fashion and sports )will be discouraged. The more popular English Premier League will be discouraged in favor of local tournaments.

4. Physcologically preparing the population for tougher economic times to come that will be blames on donors and western imperialism. Preparing ground for tougher and unviable economic measures that will further improverish the masses because poor people are easy to manipulate. While top acheleons of the rulling clique will economically prosper, much of the national income will be invested into security forces including the intelligence services. The population will always be remainded and moblised for an immaginary impending enemy. Paramilitary training will be intensified for most adults and mandatory national service will be introduced. The masses will be moblised to spy on each other. The NRA structures right from the village to the national level will be informal intelligence stractures for the party and the its chairman leaving the nation vulnerable. In that way, it will be easy for the masses to blindly support injustified wars of agression and military adventures. The massses will forefeight their rights and freedoms of dissenting against unjust government policies. All forms of dissent will branded subversive and treasonous. offences like economic subotage  will be created and punished severely.

5. To strengthen the policy of patriotismNRA regional and district commissioners, local government councils, cadres, security forces (esp the Police and intelligence) will be accorded exclusive powers to coarse and surpress all forms of dissent. Parliament and the judiciary will be fully incorporated into the structurew of the NRA. We shall witness more army officers seconded to ministries, local government, parastals and other bodies.

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{UAH} MUSEVENI TAXES PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE PATRIOTISM

MUSEVENI TAXES PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO PROMOTE PATRIOTISM

At independence Uganda inherited a vibrant education system that was comparable to non in the region. Throughout the turbulent period 1966 - mid 80s, the education system continued to flourish. Since coming to power, Museveni embarked on systematic destruction of every system that was put in place by past governments.

UPE
 In 1997 he embarked on undermining the education system by introducing Universal Primary Education (UPE). As a central component of his fake Poverty Alleviation Action Plan (PEAP) and Poverty Action Plan (PAP), UPE another political gimic meant to deceive the impoverished masses. While undermining the quality of education, the high enrollment only achieved statistical targets. The rate of school dropouts and failures reached immeasurable proportions coupled by the poor quality of teachers and government's deliberate failure to address their welfare were the resultant devastating effects. It became clear that the whole aim of UPE and USE was a Musevenist evil ploy to intellectually destroy the current and future generation of Ugandans through the proliferation of ignorance, poverty and disease. The bottom line was to keep the youths as raw commodities that can not grasp pertinent political issues. With the biting poverty majority of Ugandan children continued to attend low standard public schools while the well to do families took their children to private schools. 

PATRIOTISM IN SCHOOLS
In one of the leaked Weakleaks cables from the U.S Embassy in Kampala, the Ambassador wrote "Museveni is a hardcore Marxist Communist hiding behind economic liberalisation and phonny democracy to win favour from the West. Ideologically, he keeps the Maoist China and the Fascist North Korea close at heart". Also, see New yorktimes.com/vildamir putin pushes patriotism in Russia. Since coming to power 28 years ago Museveni has been struggling to indoctrinate Ugandans through his manipulative political education designs like Mchakamchaka and other cadre development programs. Realising that despite those efforts the political manipulation was not taking root, he opted to introduce mandatory patriotism drills to the youths. In 2009 he directed the introduction of patriotism in schools as a way of expanding his ideological indoctrination. A senior NRA officer Lt. Col. Henry Matsiko was put in charge of coordinating the National Secretariat of Patriotism Clubs (NSPC) under State House. He was assisted by the likes of longtime ISO spies like Lulu Itipa among others. Itipa is one of the ISO operatives who were disgracefully dismissed and they went to court. He took to part time lecturing at Kyamkwanzi from where a former UWA Executive Director handpicked him and brought him to UWA to take charge of Security before he recently resigned and went back to the Presidents office to spearhead the obnoxious Patriotism Clubs in School. Parliament passed a huge budget for this project despite protests from the opposition. A bill seeking to criminalise any resistance to patriotism teaching was initiated. Through the Ministry of Education, a circular directing all Headteachers, Chief Administrative officers (CAOs), Resident District Commissioners (RDCs), Local Council 5 chairmen, school board of governors and the permanent secretary Ministry of Local government etc was issued urging them to partner in implementing the program. During the visit to China by Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi, Lt. Col. Henry Matsiko was in his company in order to link with the Communist Party of China (CPC) and learn more about the Maoist model of Patriotism in China.

Under the guise of patriotism clubs, unsuspecting youths in secondary schools, universities and institutions of higher learning are taken through military drills and ideological brainwashing. They are taught that Uganda started with the emergence of Museveni on the political scene whom they should unquestioningly support and if necessary die for. Earlier on, the traditional subjects of civics and political education for primary and secondary schools respectively were removed from the education curriculum simply because they talked about other past leaders, their achievements, human rights etc instead of solely teaching about Museveni and his movement system. At one time, over one thousand youths were hoarded into Ghadafi NRA barracks for a month long paramilitary drills. This indoctrination of the youth through patriotism Clubs is the begining of compulsory national service that is in the offing through UPDF courtesy of the Chinese government. In the end Uganda will witness a defiant youth corps that will be used to spy of their fellow dissenting youths, own parents, brothers and sisters. Above all a youth that will unquestioningly worship Museveni and Musevenism as the father of the nation and his son Muhoozi as the Dear Son. That is why the target age group is 18 - 22 years old. 

Currently, because of the anticipated tough times ahead coupled by the increasing level of awareness among Ugandans that Museveni has been taking them for a ride, he has also responded by vigorously reviving political indoctrination targeting the youth in all sector of the Ugandan society. At the forefront of this project is the newly found alliance with the now militarised personal police under his sycophant Gen. Kayihura. At a recent launch of the Uganda Diaspora Patriotism Assembly (UDPA), Lt. Col. Charles Matsiko urged members not to be intimidated by exiled Gen. Ssejusa and the opposition. 

TAXING PRIVATE SCHOOLS
With the liberalisation of the education sector, private schools have been mushrooming in the country. They provide quality education as an alternative to the frustrated parents whose children attend the failed public schools. The rampant strikes by both students and teacher/lecturers in public schools and institutions of higher learning has been a response to the appalling learning conditions. Of the 20000 private schools in the country, 3600 are said to be located in Kampala and the adjacent wakiso districts. These are the same top regions that have consistently opposed Museveni's governance. The same trend is evident in most urban centres where the elites are located. At one time Museveni intended to withdraw UPE and USE from urban schools as a way of indirectly punishing the defiant enlightened urban dwellers who oppose his system.

Impeachable sources reveal that the Patriotism Club Secretariat - a branch of ISO originated a report to Museveni that clearly pointed to private schools shunning patriotism clubs. As a way of meting out punishment to proprietors and compelling elite parents to embrace patriotism designs, Museveni sought to impose a 30% tax on all the profits accruing from the operations of these private schools. The measure will  drive many private schools out of business if the government stops them from hiking the school fees in order to cope with the new tax.
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{UAH} Abey, Laduma Passenger and Cargo data

 

Abey hope you survived the northern storms.  I am wondering how many passengers London metro carries out of the 7 million London dwellers per year and indeed how many British railways would be carrying annually of the 6 million British? Is there any data or cargo carried per year?

Laduma I have been looking for the same data from State railways in Sweden with little success. Is it true that the State railways carried more than 14 million passengers last year out of the 1 million people in sweden, at least for those who bought tickets at SJ beside the private railway lines?  Kindly help with data on cargo tonnage too.

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{UAH} Are Baganda and banyoro Capitalists Capitalists

There is need for Baganda and Banyoro capitalists - who have the capital to spear head internal and sustainable capital investment and development projects. Why is there no single Muganda who owns a private internal airline a chain of Nakummat, Uchumi or Virgin airlines is quite telling?

 

Currently the above group is so weak, very local in outlook and action i.e. Kwagalana group in Kampala. In fact there is no tangible investment they have kick started. Apart from Uganda Indians and Somalis; Sudhir, Owekitibwa Tobani, Mukwano, Lalani and Mandela who have far sighted programs, the rest are dead still struggling despite the gold on their soles.

 

There is a huge home appliance market into which these groups will only need to partner with International groups to bring industry home.

 

Although they can build railway lines i.e. Koboko – Kotido the Northern high speed railway – they still need government guidance on accumulation of capital by spotting business opportunities instead of spotting beautiful women and fancy cars all of which cost a fortune in copious consumption which drains their wealth.. The same group will be initiating commercial parks under joint ventures or equity.   

 

This where I am advising Kampala Government to start 22 municipal planning and request the above group to stake their money into such programs. In Uganda everywhere you invest there are returns and huge returns and those groups know it – but without the basic infrastructure it will be difficult to convene them to part with their money.

 

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{UAH} Pojim/WBK: Here we go again!!! No retirement for Sejusa - army - National - monitor.co.ug

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No retirement for Sejusa - army - National

President Museveni (C) during the meeting with Gen David Sejusa (4th L) at State House Entebbe on January 3. File Photo 

In Summary

Upon return from the State House meeting, Sejusa's lawyers told the press at his residence in Naguru that among other things, the President had accepted his request to be retired from the army. They said the President had accordingly ordered the UPDF Chief of Legal Services Brig Ramadhan Kyamulesire who had attended the meeting, to start the retirement process. The issue was widely reported in the media

The retirement of Gen David Sejusa from the army has hit a snag after the UPDF Chief of Legal Services (CLS) said President Museveni has never instructed him to start the process of retiring the agitated general.

After his return from exile on December 14, 2014, Gen Sejusa issued various public outbursts against the government and asked President Museveni to retire him from the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF).

On January 2, the military surrounded Sejusa's home in Naguru. Museveni later sent an emissary to Sejusa a.k.a Tinyefuza, to invite him to State House for talks. But Sejusa rejected the invitation and vowed he would not talk to the President until he had retired him from the army.

However on January 3, Sejusa was taken to State House in Entebbe and held talks with the President in the presence of his lawyers Michael Mabikke and David Mushabe.

Upon return from the State House meeting, Sejusa's lawyers told the press at his residence in Naguru that among other things, the President had accepted his request to be retired from the army. They said the President had accordingly ordered the UPDF Chief of Legal Services Brig Ramadhan Kyamulesire who had attended the meeting, to start the retirement process. The issue was widely reported in the media.

However, on January 7, Brig Kyamulesire wrote to Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Katumba Wamala, denying any instructions by the President about Sejusa's retirement.

Sejusa's lawyers had written to the CDF and Chief of Legal Services inquiring about the progress of their client's retirement application of December 30, 2014.

In response, Brig Kyamulesire wrote to Gen Katumba saying the claims that during the State House meeting of January 3 President Museveni ordered the Chief of Legal Services to process Sejusa's retirement were false.

"I wish to categorically clarify that in the said meeting the President never instructed the Chief of Legal Services of UPDF and other relevant officers to process Gen Sejusa's retirement," Kyamulesire wrote to Gen Katumba.

"The only instructions issued by the President to Brig Ramadhan Kyamulesire were to inform the CDF to withdraw the Military Police soldiers earlier on deployed at Gen Sejusa's residence," Brig Kyamulesire added.

Katumba responds 
Subsequently, citing Brig Kyamulesire's communication, Gen Katumba wrote to Sejusa's lawyers on January 8, informing them that no progress had been made on the matter because there was no such a directive on Sejusa's retirement as purported.
"In reference A [letter inquiring about Sejusa retirement], you sought to know the progress of General Sejusa's retirement process and purported that the President had given instructions to this effect, to the Chief of Legal Services and other officers, during a meeting on January 3, 2015 at Entebbe," Gen Katumba told Sejusa's lawyers.

"In the circumstances, following the clarification above (Brig Kyamulesire's letter), as Chairman of the Commissions/Promotions Board, I shall wait for a written or other forms of communication from the President and Commander in Chief of the Defence Forces, giving guidance on the matter."

Mr Mushabe, who said he was speaking on behalf of Gen Sejusa, said yesterday: "He (Gen Sejusa) will speak at a later stage. If UPDF remains stubborn to retire him or the President refuses to retire him."
He said they would go to court if the 90-day timeline elapses without a decision or if the UPDF Commissions and Promotions Board refuses to retire their client.

"If this retirement application (December 30 application) is rejected, as his lawyers, we will challenge the decision in court," Mushabe said.

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{UAH} A Joke or A Reality?

A Maths teacher asked his class; 1+1=?  One of the students shot his hand up and quickly answered, "four"(4)." Now, a certain man happened to be passing by the classroom and over-heard the question and the answer. He shook his head and said to himself, "my God," Museveni will kill us in this country. ....  Everything has increased; from transport fare, fuel prices, food stuff, beer to everything. 

Even 1+1 that used to be two (2), has now gone up to FOUR (4)!!!!

Paul Mugerwa

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{UAH} Pojim/WBK: Standard Digital News - Kenya : Mr General, Kenya isn't one big barrack

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Standard Digital News - Kenya : Mr General, Kenya isn't one big barrack

I read somewhere that one of the worst jobs one can do is at a sperm bank, but I am reviewing this persuasion after watching our new Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Nkaissery go about his new job.

His is an office within the Presidency that appears either jinxed or is deliberately left to operate as an appendage of the colonial paramount chief, so as to deflect the dirt from getting to the big man or woman.

Now this office, which has had many names in the past, has just shrunk the career of one Joseph Ole Lenku into that fictional Simon Makonde, but let us leave the younger man alone and focus on the retired General against whom some human rights groups have something unsavoury to claim about his past.

Nkaissery seems eager to turn Kenya into one big military barrack where everyone must shut up, jump, or cringe when he shouts or even sneezes, especially when he invokes the President's name.

Three things we must now declare. First, ordinary Kenyans began suggesting on Twitter and Facebook that Ole Lenku was clueless and too green, and the retired General was best suited for the job.

So in his appointment, many said the President was indeed 'digital' and must have read this.

Secondly, Nkaissery is a General Uhuru borrowed from the 'enemy' camp. He never voted for Uhuru and his deputy Mr William Ruto, and ran for and clinched a parliamentary seat on Raila Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement party ticket.

We can therefore assume that not everyone in Jubilee smiles when he walks around the corridors of power.

On this score, public sentiment at a time when Kenyans were falling dead in the hands of Al-Shabaab demanded that someone who displayed some experience and brutal efficiency to deal with murderers steps in.

Uhuru needed to assuage public rage that his was an inexperienced bunch. He needed to give Kenyans a safety valve to let the rising emotions dissipate.

He also wanted to do it in a way he would not hurt the Maasai again by wiping their face off the Cabinet as he did in 2013. So things worked for Nkaissery because he was also a senior Moran from Kajiado, just like Lenku.

By picking Nkaissery, the President knew two things: he would get accolades for being a non-discriminative patriot, and he would still have a chance to bolster 'Jubilee' tyranny in Parliament because two years after Raila lost elections, it is unlikely the cosmopolitan constituency would pick an opposition MP – not with the way we know the Executive to use the whip of incumbency to get orphaned herds back to the fold.

‎There was also one certainty, the circumstances in Kenya - where many have the misplaced view that a measure of dictatorship is needed to keep the country together - at the time guaranteed that his nominee would not face problems getting approval from Parliament.

Yes, he came from a 'small' tribe and so the 'giants' like Kikuyus, Kalenjins, Luos and Luhyas would not maul each other over some 'small' things.

Nkaissery brought hope and energy into the office. He speaks firmly and he does not tie his legs with the tongue of contradictions as his predecessor did.

But then there is a worrying trend in the General's long strides that seem to suggest he was hired to do the 'dirty' work, to deflect blame from the 'digital' President and deputy, and help lead in the retrogressive backward walk to the days when serikali ilikuwa serikali!

Military guys generally are disciplined and lead a regimented life leashed onto laws and principles.

If you are not one of them, they would not understand why you operate on a different set of laws.

So you can be sure what Nkaissery meant when he banned public protests in Narok and 'ordered' that there be dialogue. Yes, it was with the same confidence God had when He said: "Let there be light", and there was light!

But to 'force' dialogue, and to use police to settle political disagreements won't work but inflame situations and create what one said of Narok yesterday: "Another Gaza".

The more you use police to deal with disagreements between leaders in a community like the Maasai that operates along the fault-lines of clans, the more Government turns draconian and imperialistic in tendency.

We told you last week Mr Nkaissery that the rogue police you saw at Lang'ata 'Singh' Primary School were acting on orders from above, most likely even above your head.

You condemned their actions then the next week you sent so many police, with so many guns to stand on the sidewalk of a peaceful protest. In Kenya this is not a pre-emptive strike but an act of provocation.

It simply created an object representing the State and its largesse, out to shield those with power and influence.

It seemed to suggest that if you couldn't as Narok leaders did, heed the President's advice to dialogue, then it would be forced even at gunpoint.

By so doing and then arresting the leaders and parading them as a message on how the 'digital' government would deal with disaffection and public protests, you proved to many that you could be driving what looks from outside to be a Jaguar but kumbe it is just the body - because the engine is Vitz' and the gear transmission a Nissan's analogue!

Nkaissery must be told barking orders will not win over mediation and peaceful means of conflict resolution. For now he seems to be dancing in that gale of illusion that comes with offices close to the Presidency.

In February 2013 in this space ran a piece titled, 'Kimemia remember those who came before you'.

Because Mr Francis Kimemia has learned this bitter lesson and is panting and whimpering in some dark corner after a pin was pushed through the bladder of his ego, perhaps it is time Nkaissery gives him a piece of his ear over a cup of tea.

Kimemia would know better because he wielded so much power when he wasn't even a Cabinet member.

So much power was 'loaned' to him and after the dirty work, he was stripped naked and sent to a nondescript corner to whimper in the cold.!

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{UAH} Pojim/WBK: Money and politics: How 2013 poll tsunami has come to haunt Narok - Politics - nation.co.ke

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Money and politics: How 2013 poll tsunami has come to haunt Narok - Politics

By GEORGE SAYAGIE
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As results were trickling in during the 2013 General Election, it became apparent that an earthquake of sorts had happened in Narok County.

Maasai political supremo and ODM kingpin in the region, William ole Ntimama, had lost his seat. Ousted with him were a number of Narok political old timers.

Samuel ole Tunai of URP, a former intelligence officer, was elected governor in a county that had been an ODM stronghold.

With Mr Ntimama's exit and the emergence of Mr Tunai and a group of hitherto political unknowns, the old order of Narok politics was turned upside down.

In what some in Narok now say was an incomplete election, more than 50 years of political history, and perhaps even longer had been erased and a new order installed.

Besides Mr Ntimama's ouster, the influence of the Ntutu family — another local dynasty — was equally curtailed.

Although the Ntutus were playing at the national level, one in the Senate and the other in the National Assembly, they had no influence in Narok town from where their father — Paramount Chief Lerionka Ntutu – had ruled the roost up to the late 1980s.

The ripple effects of this political earthquake were felt this past week, when the months-long clamour to oust Governor Tunai played out in an ugly confrontation in Narok town where two people died.

The unprecedented detention of the local senator and four MPs after the Monday incident was followed by a day-long barricade of key roads in the county.

But this jostling for the first among equals position in Narok also has another related strand.

Despite Mr Tunai's critics ruling out clan politics in their drive to oust him, clan and ethnic patronage is at the heart of the intense rivalry.

Analysts say the Purko have never come to terms with their changed fortunes.

Senator Stephen ole Ntutu, MPs Patrick Ntutu, Moitalel ole Kenta and Korei ole Lemein, all of whom come from the majority Purko clan, are leading the onslaught against the governor, who comes from the minority Siria clan.

Kilgoris MP Gideon Konchellah and Narok East's Ken Kiloku — both from minority clans — support Mr Tunai as does Women Representative Soipan Tuya and 30 MCAs.

While Mr Ntimama has not been at the frontline of the dispute in recent weeks, his daughter Lydia and niece Leah are in the anti-Tunai crusade.

Mr Kenta — the Narok North MP — insists that what they are fighting for is equity in employment and resource allocation.

"He (Mr Tunai) has sidelined the Maasai, favouring outsiders in employment opportunities that arose with devolved units," says Mr Kenta.

The county is home to six Maasai clans: Purko, Keekonyokie, Ildamat, Uasinkishu, Siria and Moitanik.

Mr Kenta says key county ministries such as Agriculture, Education, Health and Finance are managed by non-Maasai people.

"The situation is the same in other senior positions which have been given to non-Maasais. This is what has pained us. We cannot accept the Maasai, who are the majority, to be sidelined on their own soil," he said.

The lawyer claims the governor had hired 70 per cent of new county staff from outside the Maasai community, leaving it to scramble for just 30 per cent of the posts.

Mr Tunai's battle to preserve his seat started immediately after he romped home with more than 80,000 votes in the March 2013 polls; his time in office has been tumultuous.

In the first year, he battled, and won, a petition in court challenging his election.

The 41-year-old governor enjoyed massive following from his home area of Kilgoris as well as Narok West, Narok South and Emurua Dikirr where the Kipsigis voted for him to the last man, bringing to an end the Purko dominance in the county.

Mr Tunai won after the populous Purko stood three contestants for the seat of governor — Musuni ole Tiampati, who is now Transport Principal Secretary, Johnson ole Nchoe and Francis Nkoitoi — all of who got substantial votes.

Analysts argue that whereas Mr Tunai was only being politically savvy by rewarding the Kipsigis with more positions than they enjoyed in the county when the Purko dominated the leadership, he has perhaps been untactful in doing this since to rule comfortably he needs the acceptance of the Maasai.

Mr Tunai touched a raw nerve when he engineered the replacement of revenue officials at the game reserve citing loss of cash.

His critics say most of those who lost jobs were Maasai.

When Mr Tunai took over the management of the county, Kenya Airports Parking Services won a tender to collect Maasai Mara National Reserve entry fees.

This didn't go down well with the senator, the four MPs and their followers, who want the five-year e-ticketing deal renegotiated to protect the government from revenue losses.

They claim the contract awarded to Kaps was not done transparently and that remittance of funds was procedurally deducted from the source.

ACTING AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION

The leaders' crusade was given impetus by a report by the Controller of Budget Agnes Odhiambo who told the Senate Committee on Finance that Kaps and the Mara Conservancy that manages the Mara Triangle were acting against the Constitution and the law on public finance management to deduct funds at source.

"All funds collected and received from the national government must be deposited in the county fund account at the Central Bank and approval sought from the Controller of Budget office before expenditure," Ms Odhiambo said.

The Ntutu group has demanded that the Kaps contract be revoked to make way for fresh applications. The Maasai Mara generates up to Sh2 billion annually.

The team also wants the governor removed from office on the basis of conflict of interest, claiming that he is a director and a majority shareholder of The Mara Conservancy, a group that manages the Mara Triangle, a huge section of Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Mr Tunai also faced major opposition from the elected leaders when he attempted to hive off 700 acres of land belonging to the Purko clan, the Limanet Holding Ground, for expansion of Narok where he was accused of interfering with Maasai trust land without consulting elders.

The leaders further accused Mr Tunai of mismanaging county resources, claiming some Sh16 billion from the national government and local revenue is unaccounted for.

The anti-governor team also argues that roads in productive areas such as the Mau region where the county rakes in hundreds of millions annually in cess from wheat and barley, have been left to decay while those in areas they consider unproductive continue to receive attention.

CARTEL NO LONGER BENEFITING

However, the governor insists that not one cent has been lost, and that he is being fought for putting systems in place to check past theft and the old ways of doing things.

Mr Tunai says there is a cartel that includes some of the county staff who used to siphon public funds who are no longer benefiting. He further accuses his critics of playing cheap politics driven by vested interest.

On Saturday, the governor got support from Narok East MP Kiloku who blamed his colleagues for inciting the public against a legitimately elected government and asked Senator Ntutu to desist from issuing unnecessary ultimatums.

While there was an uneasy calm in the county yesterday, the ripple effects of the week's confrontation and the dramatic arrest and detention of the senator and the four MPs, could be felt in Kajiado Central, analysts say.

Author and Maasai cultural analyst Sironka ole Masharen says the humiliating move against the leaders could boomerang on President Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto's Jubilee which has been having the upper hand in Maasailand after the last election.

Mr Masharen said the Narok saga could not have come at a worse time for Jubilee.

"The Maasai are inherently a very proud people. This pride has been hurt in a very big way by the humiliation of their leaders. Even though Narok and Kajiado are not homogenous, anything, especially from an outside force, that hurts the pride of one section unites them."

Mr Masharen's sentiments were supported by Melili ward MCA Joseph Lemurt who said they were "at an advanced stage of defecting to Cord".

On Wednesday, Cord leader Raila Odinga was in court to commiserate with Mr Ntutu and MPs Patrick Ntutu, Mr Lemein, Mr Kenta and Emurua Dikirr's Johana Ng'eno who were released on bond.

And on Saturday, Deputy President William Ruto met with the two groups separately at his Karen home to reconcile them.

He first met with the group led by Senator Stephen ole Ntutu in the morning, and Governor Samuel Tunai and his group in the afternoon.

"The DP (Mr Ruto) indeed met separately with the Narok County leaders. The DP believes the conflict in Narok is unnecessary distraction. He believes the leaders in the county have more that unites them than that which divides them," the Director of Communication in the Deputy President's Office Emmanuel Talam said in a statement.

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{UAH} International Map Year- All Uganda School and Students to participate

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{UAH} Nigerian doll created by man who couldn't find a black toy for his niece is so popular in his country that it's outselling BARBIE

Nigerian doll created by man who couldn't find a black toy for his niece is so popular in his country that it's outselling BARBIE  

• In 2007, Taofick Okoya, created a doll that Nigerian girls could identify with
• 43-year-old based his Queens of Africa dolls on country's biggest tribes
• They cost roughly £4.50 and aim to promote strong feminine ideals

By BIANCA LONDON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 21:26 GMT, 30 January 2015 | UPDATED: 01:35 GMT, 31 January 2015

 
 
 
 
 

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A man who couldn't find a black doll in the shops as a gift for his niece decided to take matters into his own hands.

In 2007, Taofick Okoya, 43, created his own doll that Nigerian girls could identify with by recreating their skin colour and style - and it is now so successful that it is outselling Barbie.

The doll, which is called Queens of Africa, comes with traditional outfits and accessories and costs around £4.50.

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A Nigerian businessman decided to create  own doll that Nigerian girls could identify with called Queens of Africa, by recreating their skin colour and style - and now it's outselling Barbie in his native country

The dolls' look is modelled on three of the country's biggest tribes and aims to promote strong feminine ideals, like love, peace and endurance.

The doll is now so popular that, according to Reuters, it is selling up to 9,000 units a month - a staggering 15 per cent of the country's toy market.

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But the Queens of Africa aren't just selling in their home country.

Thanks to the doll's online presence, customers are coming from as far as America, Brazil and Europe.

'Queens of Africa' dolls take on Barbie in Nigeria

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In 2007, Taofick Okoya, 43, created his own doll that Nigerian girls could identify with

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The dolls' are modelled on three of the country's biggest tribes and aims to promote strong feminine ideals

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The doll is now so popular that, it is selling up to 9,000 units a month - 15 per cent of the country's toy market

Speaking to ELLE about his dolls out-selling Barbie in his native Nigeria, Okoya said: 'My mission is to make the Queens of Africa a symbol of hope, trust, and confidence by promoting African history, culture, and fashion.'

One person that Okoya really hopes the dolls will have a positive impact on is his daughter, who, he explains, once wished she was white.

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Okoya said: 'I don't believe Mattel sees the Nigerian market as a priority, yet their product has great influence on the psyche of the children here and affirms certain values contrary to our society'

He explained that even though they live in Nigeria, there was a lot of Western influence. He said: '[This] might have been responsible for her wishing she was white. It made me aware that I needed to make her proud and happy being a black African girl, and not limit it to her alone as this was a common trend among the younger generation. The Queens of Africa became a platform to achieve this.'

Unfortunately, Okoya has been told that he won't be able to sell the dolls on the shelves of mainline stories in America and will have to limit his business to specialist stores. 

But he is determined to see the decision overturned, he said: 'I am looking to prove them wrong.'

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{UAH} Pojim/WBK: With Warioba team joining Ukawa to boycott referendum, a crisis is brewing - Comment - www.theeastafrican.co.ke

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With Warioba team joining Ukawa to boycott referendum, a crisis is brewing - Comment

There's no knowing what is going on in the minds of our rulers, but what's clear is that governance by crisis is still the order of the day. Yes, we have chosen crisis as our way of going forward rather than going forward until we encounter a crisis.

This time again, President Jakaya Kikwete, rather than doing the done thing by getting rid of a cumbersome minister who'd become a liability to his government, waited until the eleventh hour before a meeting of parliament, which would have asked embarrassing questions, to let him go. Why?

Of course, Sospeter Muhongo, until recently the embattled minister embroiled in the Tegeta Escrow Account Scandal, is a world-renowned scientist whose knowledge in matters paleontological is highly regarded in related circles; it is said, in fact, that the president had to coax an unconvinced Muhongo to come and help him with the ministry dealing with mining when the then minster had been disgraced and forced to resign.

This apparently gave Muhongo a certain hold on the president, for you don't easily tell a man to "beat it" when it's you who "begged" him to come rescue your government when you were in dire need. So it is whispered in the grapevine, and that is supposedly the reason why the president, even as he was "asking" Anna Tibaijuka to leave, still kept Muhongo as "kiporo," the leftovers that one eats on the morrow, literally, and no pun intended here.

So now, Muhongo is gone — we are told he resigned — and already has got a new international job, but his departure has not exorcised the escrow demons, as the crusading parliamentarians as well as the donor community are insisting more heads have to roll and more resolute action has to be taken.

Before we can step out of the woods with that one, opposition parties, recently buoyed by signal victories in civic elections and united in a "People's Constitution" (Ukawa) campaign, are now calling for the people to boycott the referendum on a constitutional draft that is supported by President Kikwete and is deemed to be a ruling-party project. It looks like every time Ukawa met with the president, the two sides talked at cross-purposes.

At issue is the draft constitution written by the Constituent Assembly (CA), which ignored the so-called Warioba draft drawn up by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), a commission appointed by the president himself. A case of a principal disowning his own agent in favour of a more seductive latter arrival.

And now, the defunct CRC, or at least the most influential members thereof, have publicly and vehemently decided to throw their weight behind the opposition parties (Ukawa) in calling for a boycott of the referendum. They accuse Kikwete of flip-flopping.

This means that Joseph Warioba and his team, who were initially sent by Kikwete to draft a constitution, will now join Ukawa to campaign for a boycott of the referendum, and in this they will confront Kikwete and his followers, who will be campaigning for a "Yes" vote for the proposed constitution. So go figure!

If all this sounds convoluted, it's because it is, and if it looks like it could lead to a serious crisis, it's because it could.

Already the police are getting jittery and heavy-handed. A few days ago, they attacked a leader of the opposition conducting a march, beat him up and teargassed the crowd, which included children.

The occasion was the anniversary of the killings in Unguja and Pemba in 2001. The cops have said they had had instructions "from the top." They have been giving this explanation every time they have brutalised citizens. Who is "the top"?

If "the top" tells them to beat up those who oppose the referendum, Tanzanians will not read about the beatings in The EastAfrican, which has been told not to circulate in the country, because it's not registered here.

Like the Economist? Financial Times? African Business? Mail & Guardian? Ha ha!

Jenerali Ulimwengu is chairman of the board of the Raia Mwema newspaper and an advocate of the High Court in Dar es Salaam. E-mail: ulimwengu@jenerali.com

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Even after an unprecedented inter-party co-operation helped Uganda's opposition parties win 12 of the 19 by-elections that the Electoral Commission has held since 2011, there is no indication they intend to extend this "ganging up" approach to the 2016 elections.

Curiously, the wins included two in Luweero, which is supposed to be the bastion of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM).

Political analysts argue that the opposition needs to focus on the other races apart from the presidency, which a recent study concluded they stand little chance to win in current circumstances.

"There is something to be said for participating in the presidential race for purposes of not appearing to boycott or chicken out from the competition while putting more work into capturing the 'base' of your opponent," said one of the peer reviewers of Elections in a Hybrid Regime.

The 495-page book presents extensive and varied analyses of the 2011 elections. It concludes about elections are unlikely to change the top leadership in Uganda under the existing institutional framework.

Only smaller parties — two of six opposition parties that fielded candidates in the last presidential race — Uganda Federal Alliance and the People's Progressive Party appear to be focused on investing more of their resources in parliamentary and local council seats.

This, they say, aligns them to their core strategy to grow the parties from the grassroots upwards. 

"Instead of using my one or two billion shillings for the presidential race, to escort President Yoweri Museveni up to the gate of State House, if I use that money and get some 10 MPs in parliament, the party is growing, our ideology is growing," said Beti Kamya, the president of UFA.

"A political party is a living entity that evolves and a strong one must ultimately outlive its founders. That is why we believe the people should own the party. When you build from up to bottom you are likely to build powerful parties," said PPP secretary general Alira David Opii.

"So our intentions and interests are to field candidates in sub-county, district and parliamentary races while we keep our interest open to compete in the presidential race," added Mr Alira.

The Democratic Party on its part is contemplating a boycott. It sees little hope in the absente of a level playing field. Uganda's oldest party lost the LC V by election in Busia district on January 21. It insists it was grossly rigged out, which the Electoral Commission denies.

"We shall not immediately consider a boycott when our national executive council meets next month. But we will present a timeline against which our demands should be met. If that does not happen, then we will decide," said Mathias Nsubuga, the party's secretary general.

"We are competing with a general, a commander of the army he formed, which he remains in firm control of and uses for his purposes; a man who has refused to transition from a military to a civilian leader. This is the person we are accused of not doing enough to dislodge," added Mr Nsubuga, who is the Bukoto South MP.

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{UAH} Pojim/WBK: well well well!!!!! Kenya’s anti-ICC protocol fails to find AU backers - News - www.theeastafrican.co.ke

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The International Criminal Court's building (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. Cases facing Deputy President William Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang are ongoing at the court. PHOTO | FILE |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

Kenyan diplomats at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa failed to persuade other countries to fast-track plans for an African court to deal with cases currently falling under the International Criminal Court.

African leaders had already agreed, in a meeting in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea last June, to amend the Statute of the African Court on Human and People's Rights (ACHPR) to allow it to try international crimes.

However, efforts by Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Trade Amina Mohamed to fast-track the amendments at the African Union Heads of State Summit collapsed on Friday after no country came forward to sign the protocol. Ms Mohamed could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Kenya had been hoping to collect signatures from at least 15 of the AU's 54 member states and despite lobbying members of the East African Community and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, no other country followed Nairobi in signing the protocol.

Kenya had been counting on the votes of Tanzania, which hosts the African Court, Rwanda, with which it enjoys close relations, and Uganda, whose President Yoweri Museveni has become a critic of the ICC. However no such support was forthcoming.

Incensed by what they see as racial bias by the ICC, the continent's leaders are looking to expand the mandate of the ACHPR as an alternative, before possibly rallying to revoke their signatures on the Rome Statute, which established the Hague-based Court.  

The ICC recently withdrew charges against President Uhuru Kenyatta citing lack of co-operation from the government and Kenyan diplomats are hoping that a threat by African states to pull out of the ICC will put the Court under pressure to acquit or withdraw charges against Deputy President William Ruto.

The proposal to empower the African court requires at least 15 countries to ratify the protocol before it becomes binding. In Kenya, this ratification is through parliament.

Donald Deya, one of the lawyers working to fine-tune the protocol and who also heads the Pan African Lawyers Association, explained the underlying intentions.

"We should support the building of the continent's capacity to prosecute a wide range of international and transnational crimes that are of concern to the African people such as corporate corruption and illicit financial flows from Africa," Mr Deya said.

The EastAfrican has learnt that many countries are unwilling to fast-track the proposal until key issues, such as financing for the expanded jurisdiction of the ACHPR and appointment of judges to deal with international crimes, are clarified.

In addition, many were said to be put off by the fact that despite leading the crusade for African-led judicial solutions, Kenya is yet to set up an International Crimes Division (ICD) of the High Court to try cases domestically rather than refer them to the ICC.

In East Africa, only Uganda has set up an ICD in its High Court but it has only been used sporadically. For instance, the country opted to let Dominic Ongwen, a Lord's Resistance Army rebel commander indicted by the ICC, travel to The Hague earlier this month after his surrender rather than try him at home as allowed by the law.

A diplomatic source who spoke to this newspaper said that Kenya is not keen to establish an ICD to prosecute middle-level perpetrators of the 2007/8-post election violence until the ICC cases are over.

‎The ICC Prosecutor withdrew the case against President Kenyatta in early December last year, but the cases facing Mr Ruto and journalist Joshua Sang are continuing in The Hague.

In her lobbying, Cabinet Secretary Mohamed wanted the AU Council of Ministers to include the proposal on the agenda for the heads-of-state to discuss, reiterated Nairobi's long-held view that the continuation of the ICC cases is a threat to peace and reconciliation in Kenya.

Whenever the protocol is endorsed and ratified, funding for the ACHPR will remain a challenge. Apart from the AU being donor-dependent, almost all member states are in arrears on their annual contributions. It is not clear how the expanded role of the court — which is estimated to cost an extra $4 million per year — will be funded.

The ACHPR currently has the third-largest share of the AU budget, with its $94 million budget equivalent to 18 per cent of the total.

By Fred Oluoch and Christabel Ligami

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