ODM is pushing for Majimbo, PNU is rejecting Majimbo and ODM-K is halfway Majimbo they call it economic federalism. Important to note that ODM is pushing for social democracy while PNU is purely capitalistic with government having philanthropic tendencies towards the people who pay taxes. All want to achieve equitable distribution of national ugali with PNU being the most reluctant competitor on this one.
The idea of majimbo basically is devolution of power. Make the central government give over half of the national resources to each jimbo/region. Make people in the grassroot to be in charge of how they want to use the resources from central government. Make people in the grass to decide how to use resources within their yard. Make these people elect the people they want to govern over them in their region, not the imposed provincial administration. This understanding not withstanding many have not yet grasped the wonderful idea of Majimbo.
To the Coasterian whose Mzee Shariff Nassir brought up this issue in the 90's, its cessation of domination by the watu wa bara who have taken their shambas, their Mombasa ports jobs and revenue that is taken to Nairobi to be dished out instead of been used to develop Mombasa and its environs and locals. They will be the greatest beneficiary because over 70% of the coast population live as squatters, a huge percentage is jobless while the tourist business booms and ports mints billions per week. They also have special interests in the dominant religion in the jimbo and may want to assert more say on the day to day disputes between two muslims. This region will be the greatest beneficiary of a majimbo system. It will be a chance to correct the historical injustices of land issues and poverty eradication. Each region will have the freedom of elevating their sons and daughters to kingly positions and be satisfied with the trappings of power.
It is on the same basis that PNU campaigners are talking of chaos in Kenya if Majimbo is to be adopted. That people will be forced to move to their ethnically correct jimbo if the system is adopted. But Ruto a pentagon member of ODM says that nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. It seems Majimbo having been on Kenya's glossary since the hey day of the Bomas of Kenya constitution suggests that Kenyans are more likely to accept this system than ever before. That the central government system has not worked since 1963 is a good case of adopting Majimbo. After all people has seen the advantage of resources at the grassroots with a 2.5% of national budget being channelled to the roots using the Constituency Development Fund. What about a 40% rise in such an allocation through the jimbo.
To be ironed out on the majimbo debate will be:
- Cost of political and legislative structures of implementing new regions if not based on provincial administration. Another election to elect the regional representatives.
- Subjection of the Bomas draft to a referendum as is. What about the contentious issues? What will happen if the Bomas draft is rejected, no majimbo?
- Structures based on current provincial administration. Will the provincial administration be scrapped? Will the provincial administrators be elected other than appointed?
- Structures based on civic representatives. Elevate the councillors to be regional leaders, with area MP as governor or a mayors to have more powers. Legal structures to provision this will be required.
- How will resources be earned by regions. Collect taxes within your region, retain 60%, forward 40% to central government. Regions with less resources may result to hut taxes to meet their obligations.Or the central government will have to favour regions without a good tax base leading to inequitable distribution. Or Central government collecting all taxes and then dishing out equal portions to each region.
- What about cross-regionalborder trade? E.g. transporting cargo from Mombasa port to Busia. Coast region imposes a huge tax on non-local goods, transit taxes through toll stations as the cargo passes Eastern Region, Nairobi Region, Central Region, Rift Valley Region and finally Custom and Excise on Western border. or will regions come together in a COMESA or EAC like trade bloc in order to control cost of production within the country?
- What will be the power of central government over the regional governments. If a regional government imposes punitive regulations on its people or incoming people from other regions, to what extent will the regional government intervene? Will such intervention mean that the regional government will not be autonomous?
- Or Kenya just use the semi-devolved structure of CDF and increase allocation from 2.5% of the budget to 40%? Will this be called majimbo?
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50 QUESTIONS FOR KIBAKI TENA NOISE MAKERS
1. Who renegotiated and signed the agreement granting a 20 extension for the British military to continue training in Kenya around Laikipa, Nanyuki and Archers post?
2. Why do we find it necessary to allow foreign troop to bomb the crap out of our landscape, littering it leaving huge amounts of ordinance and making these prime games reserve areas practically inhospitable
3. Who sold the oil prospecting rights to the entire Kenyan offshore including Lamu (A UN historical site)?
4. Who further parceled out huge tracts in North Eastern Kenya to the Chinese government for huge amounts of money, none of which the residents of Northern Kenya will ever see?
5. Was there any competitive bidding for these rights?
6. How many other companies were willing to pay significantly higher sums for these rights in open bidding?
7. Why was the Kenya Sugar Board boss fired?
8. Did you know that by law only the board of directors can do this?
9. Did you know that he was fired for sticking to procedure and opening tender documents at the pre-assigned time and date?
10. Did you know he refused to allow a late and low bid by a certain consortium?
11. Did you know the treasury has no legal mandate to take over the bidding for these sugar companies?
12. Did you know that for 40 years the GOK has appointed MDs for Miwani, Muhoroni, Chemelil and Sony sugar factories?
13. Did you know that for those 40 years they deliberately appointed inept managers so long as you were willing to help the rulers siphon out money from these companies and kill these industries?
14. Did you know that the GOK wrote of billions of shilling in debts owed by coffee farmers?
15. Did you know that the same was done for Dairy Farmers?
16. And tea farmers?
17. BUT not the Sugar Industry?
18. Do you know why?
19. Do you know how much money from Western Kenya goes into the government’s budget (consolidated fund)?
20. Of this do you know how much goes back to the same region in terms of recurrent and development expenditure/
21. Who owns Mobitelea?
22. Did you know if the Safaricom IPO goes through, these illegal and corrupt owners who should be in jail in any civilized society stand to get up to Ksh 2 billion in COLD HARD UNEARNED CASH – FROM POOR ORDINARY KEYANS?
23. Who is trying to sell TELKOM Kenya NOW?
24. Did it take 5 years to realize you want to privatize this company?
25. Or did it take five years to line your pockets enough to make an embarrassingly low bid for this dull jewel (never the less a jewel)?
26. Who said a 50% stake in Telkom Kenya is worth Ksh 2 billion?
27. Who did that valuation?
28. Did you know that some of the biggest land owners in Kenya are Kenya Telkom and the now ripped off Kenya Railways?
29. So you PRIVATISED Kenya Railways to a nobody with ZERO experience in rail management, are the trains moving?
30. What about the KR land – is it still there?
31. Did you know we (via our taxes) refurbished Sagana State Lodge for a mesmerizing Ksh 600,000,000?
32. Did you know that the work is still INCOMPLETE?
33. Did you know that the Head of State has never spent a night at the SAGANA STATE LODGE?
34. Did you know that Ksh 600,000,000 could buy and/or build any residential property in Nairobi – Yes including the State House?
35. Do you know who signed the financing agreement (read loan!) to buy so called frigates for the Kenya Navy?
36. Did you know that what was purchased were OLD FISHING VESSELS fitted with a few motor and torpedo launches?
37. Do you feel any safer with these schooners protecting our waters?
38. Do you remember the unveiling of the UHURU HIGHWAY PROJECT by the PRESIDENT? Have you seen any progress? You may have seen the grading of the road sides? What else?
39. Do you know that the financing was arranged by the Chinese government?
40. And you, your children and your grand children will be paying for this non starter of a project?
41. Did you know that the Goldenberg scandal cost Kenya 90 billion shilling or 20% of our current budget? Yes I thought you would say that – It was Moi! What then is Kibaki doing with this man? Why the sudden legitimacy to a known and acknowledged criminal and fraudster?
42. DID YOU KNOW that the Kibaki government signed several agreements (Anglo Leasing) for projects to be paid by Internationally Accepted Promissory notes and THESE ARE LEGALLY BINDING?
43. DID YOU KENYA KNOW THAT THESE WILL BE REDEEMED IRRESPECTIVE OF WHO IS IN THE STATE HOUE?
44. DID YOU KNOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS MORTGAGED ME AND YOU VIA ANGLO LEASING PROJECTS TO THE TUNE OF KSH 80 BILLION? AND PENDA IT OR NOT IT WILL BE PAID BECAUSE IT IS LEGALLY BINDING. CANCELLING THE PROJECT DOES NOT REMOVE THE OBLIGATION? HERE ME WELL – KIBAKI TENA TEAM – IT IS WORSE THAN GOLDENBERGE!!!
45. Did you know that no body in this government has balls enough to arrest and prosecute Mr. Pattni? Of course he would finger them all!!
46. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE ONLY MAN CLEARED BY THE GOLDENBERGE COMMISSION WAS MUSALI MUDAVADI?
47. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF KENYA can nail Mr. Ruto, but will not because the can prosecute a case and it will inevitably touch their new found buddy Mr. Moi?
48. Did you know who proposed the amendment to the Kenya Constitution making Kenya a one party state?
49. Do you know what a crime of omission is? It is sitting and doing nothing when evil is all around you.
50. Can anybody tell me what role Kibaki played in the second liberation and the fight for freedoms that we now enjoy? I remember Oginga Odinga, Gitobu Immanyara, Charles Rubia, Raila Odinga, Martin Shikuku, Okii Ombaka and Kenneth Matiba. I remember Koigi Wamwere, Kijana Wamalwa and Masinde Muliro. I remember the forgotten ones – Miguna Miguna, Wahome Mutai (Yes cartoons kept us going!), a jungu called Smith Hempstone (I could swear huyu alikuwa Kenya damu!), Prof Oyugi, Ngugi wa Thiongo, Okongo Arara, Adungosi Titus and Shem Ogola. I remember Adam Mathenge, Willy Mutunga, Wachira Kamonji, Maina wa Kinyati, Mukaru Nganga, Anyona George, Khaminwa John, Otieno Mak Onyango, Onyango Paddy, K’Oale Muga, Wahinya Bore, Mutuse Thomas, Mugo Micere, Kimani Gecao, Ngugi wa Mirii, Ngweno Hillary, Mwachofi Mwakudua, P.L.O., Gikenya Waititu, Peter “Young” Kihara, Theuri Mugo, Kathangu Njeeru and Wafula Buke.
My dear Kenyans, if you can honestly define crimes of omission or commission, then you can understand where Kibaki was and what he was doing. He has stood for nothing but maintaining the status quo and ku fuata nyayo. Kumbuka walala heri na walala hoi ni nani.
Would these great Kenyans sit in a Kibaki Government?
'We did not attain independence to have a country of ten millionaires and ten million beggars' - JM Kariuki
"Whose Kenya is it?" shouted Tom Mboya. "Ours!" shrieked 20,000. Now the mob's chant was in throbbing rhythm. "Are you tired of asking for freedom?" asked Tom Mboya. "Never!" came the resounding answer. (1960)
"What all of us wanted was to show people that we were all one family and that there was no difference between all the tribes of Kenya” – Harry Thuku
WAS LONG AND DEEP,HOPE EVERYONE HAS THE PATIENCE TO READ IT MIGHT TAKE 10 MINS BUT IT WILL IMPROVE MILLIONS OF LIVES,KEEP IT UP STRANGER..
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