A young Pastor, Rew Smith, leads the affluent Oakpound New Hope Church. Things appear well in Pastor Smith’s Church, but underneath the glitter of its architecture and human faces, it has a deep spiritual problem. Simply put, the church suffers from a shortage of love. New converts are called names and go unattended to as the young Pastor spends most of his evenings at Oakpound Big Boys Health and Fitness Club. Elders in his Lay Leadership bask in self-praise, and exude a form of spirituality that has no force of love behind it. Led by Mrs. Smith, some members of the Women Wing have introduced a controversial Foot-Washing method for its convenience, but in which the virtues of humility and selfless love are virtually dead. Oakpound New Hope Church, is crying for Divine intervention, and it is about to get it.
I am not particularly thrilled but Mohammed Abdikadir, the Chair of the PSC, deserves to be congratulated for pulling off a rare feat in the troubled Kenyan Constitution making process. Kenyans could see the dawn of a new Constitution by the end of 2010, and the beginning of a new way to play politics.
Read this piece from the standard,
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000001947&cid=4&ttl=Naivasha deal brings new law within reach
The fate of the pure presidential system (with checks) in which all ministers come from outside parliament is in the balance. It is reported that PNU members of the PSC meeting in Naivasha want to maintain the current imperial Monarch with half Cabinet coming from outside Parliament.
The idea of MPs being locked out of the cabinet under the Pure Presidential System (with checks) was designed to diffuse tension in the scramble for lucrative posts through parliamentary elections. It will also detribalize Kenyan politics. The Pure Presidential System will ensure that tribal groupings such as KKK or GEMA or Luo Union (dead) do not balkanize Kenyans.
Those who want many positions to distribute among members of their tribal clubs should root for the Hybrid System.
If the PSC cannot support the Hybrid System of Government proposed by the Committee of Experts, it has no right choose either Presidential or Parliamentary System. Members of the PSC are not wiser than the Committee of Experts (CoE) that proposed the Hybrid System. Let them put the 3 choices a vote at the Public referendum.
If one is a President with powers over State functions without the daily toil of running a government, and if in addition the President stands as a guardian between the people and government run by the Prime Minister and Parliament, Why should one complain about? Kenya is a mess because the President still ignores the nation because there is no one to challenge his authority except one Prime Minister with no powers and no stool to sit! Lets move on Kenyans. Try something new. Do not put power in the hands of man or woman.
Kibaki and Rail Still not agreed. They don’
t need to.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000000995&cid=4&ttl=Draft: Kibaki, Raila meet but all in vain
The last electoral crisis in Kenya was the result of an imperial Presidency using threats and state resources to declare itself the winner even when the prevailing trend indicated otherwise. In a three-party election, it is rare for a party to get under 25% of seats yet have its candidate win by over 40%. That was Kenya at the end of December 2007 elections.
There is something PNU knows and is perfecting in readiness for 2012. And that something can only work to elect an imperial President, who can dish out state goodies, directly. The Stalemated computerized Census Data could be part of the PNU Scheme.
Why is PNU insisting that the current Constitution must stay in force until after the 2012 election? For PNU’s arithmetic to work in 2012, the current constitution must stay in force undiluted because it needs an imperial hand to shepherd it. A new electoral body is not enough to prevent the repeat of the fiasco of December 2007.
CoE and PSP. do your job, and let Kenyans decide at the referendum.
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000000931&cid=4&ttl=PNU disowns Revised Draft, says it was doctored
Kenyans, the worst you can do during the referendum is to choose a Presidential System where the President is neither answerable to Parliament nor the Judiciary! That is where we were before 2/282008! The peril you face is that a monarch will always learn to fool the system whatever checks you put on his or her way. Kill the Hybrid System and kill democracy. This is the chance of a generation. Exercise your vote wisely.
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What Moi Stands for:
http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/840496/-/vp9q2a/-/index.html
If you are a Kenyan, feel abandoned. Your Legislators will never craft a Constitution that dilutes their hegemony on power.
THE THIRTEENTH WIDOW ( by Joseph R. Alila https://www.createspace.com/3399633 ) about the Luo widow and her male counterpart, the widower. Two individuals tragically held hostage by the demands of culture and tradition. In this tragic, but at times hilarious, story, Joseph R Alila allows the reader to follow a tragic man from earth to virtual heaven onward to hell, all in the land of widows. Thanks to alcohol, a soft spot for women, and the meanspirited schemes of one clan member. One man inherits thirteen widows in his lifetime and dies while at his game. What makes a man that tragic? That is the question the reader ends up asking as the story in the book matures.
Have you ever fought an Angel of the Most High? I betcha. That neighbor whose dressing style gives you instant spiritual fits; that neighbor whose hands your Mom warned you not to eat from …., That neighbor could be an Angel of the Most High. Minister to her, serve him, love her… That is the message in the “THE MILAYI CURSE” (By Joseph R. Alila, ISBN 13: 9781430324416), which is a Novel about good and bad, pride and prejudice, power and responsibility, kinship under trial, and faith and cultures.
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