Politics of Poverty - The Odinga Family Curse to the Luos!

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Politics

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The Odinga Family Curse to the Luos!

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Politics of Poverty! Ojijo 2 Pa ge 2 P oli tic s of P ov er ty - Th e O di ng a Fa m ily C ur se to th e Lu os ! O jijo

“He who lowers himself to fight with an individual, a personality, becomes an individual; and individuals are little people, they do not change things; they cannot save the world. The world needs ideas, the world needs movements. This book is about an idea, an idea called

Raila; not a mortal earthling so named. This book is about either changing that idea; or changing that idea.”

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Politics of Poverty! Ojijo 3 Pa ge 3 P oli tic s of P ov er ty - Th e O di ng a Fa m ily C ur se to th e Lu os ! O jijo

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Politics of Poverty-

The Odinga Family Curse to the Luos!

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Politics of Poverty! 4 Pa ge 4 P oli tic s of P ov er ty - Th e O di ng a Fa m ily C ur se to th e Lu os ! O jijo Preface

Brutus realized, albeit belatedly, that killing Caesar was not in anyone‘s best interest, least of all, Rome‘s.

There will always be families, well organised families that consolidate economic power, then load it over men, and give unto themselves titles, such as ‗chiefs, paramount chief, representatives of the tribe‘; and these families, always, relegate themselves as ‗blue-blooded‘, chosen of the gods, favored amongst men, kings over men, lords of the commons, prefects over natural resources, amongst other flowery and not less perfumed titles, which entrench their rule over the ‗commons‘ and perpetuate their (immoral) empires, at the behest of their ‗fellow men‘.

Once in a while, a people is awakened from this selective and self-induced amnesia to question the source of their plunder, and if they, by luck escape the wrath of the ‗sleeping‘ bull-dog, they may, for a season, share their opinion on why they quench their thirst by the sweat of their brow, and drops of own blood, while their ‗god-appointed‘ tribal rulers insanely amass riches to obnoxious bounds. This is a book-product of such introspection, a question seeking answers; a riddle

seeking solution; and an African story seeking completion.

As we read, may we grow (in knowledge and understanding), as tall as the blue gum tree at our uncle‘s home!

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Politics of Poverty! 5 Pa ge 5 P oli tic s of P ov er ty - Th e O di ng a Fa m ily C ur se to th e Lu os ! O jijo … table of Politics!

Rech tow giwie! ... 6

Everything Rises, and Falls, on the Leader! ... 7

KOTH BIRO! ... 7

(Under) Development in Luoland ... 9

TO BENDE KIKISUNGRI!BY OJIJO ... 9

Luo Political Leadership ... 22

MGALA MUUWE,LAKINI HAKI YAKE MPE!... 22

Bim en bim! ... 30

Neoism-Odinga Family’s Political Philosophy of Leadership) ... 31

RAILA ASOCIAL DEMOCRAT?ASK ME ANOTHER! ... 32

Neo-Machiavelli/Captainship without Inspiration ... 36

ANNUS HORRIBILIS! ... 36

Neo-Colonialist/Neo-Capitalists: The Leech Captains ... 52

„AND THEN YOU STEAL FROM US,MAIZE! ... 52

Neo-Homeguards/Captainship Watered by Fountain of Luo Blood 61 SOME RISE BY SIN,AND SOME BY VIRTUE FALL ... 61

Iseyo ogwang’, to Iseyo gweno ... 67

Every Generation Has A Dictator; And A Savior ... 68

SIGAND ODHIAMBO KAMGUNDO! ... 68

Alibaba & the 40 Thieves... 71

ATALE OF 100INTELLIGENT KNOWLEDGEABLE BUT STUPID POLITICIANS 71 Informed Political Participation ... 128

SO!DO YOU HAVE APARTY? ... 128

Left Is Right ... 133

IF IANSWER YES,THEN IAM ASOCIALIST! ... 133

The Myth of the Student Radical ... 143

RAWERA MAYOMYOM KWODO WI MIN! ... 143

The Ghost of Prof. H.W.O Okoth-Ogendo ... 148

CONSTITUTIONS WITHOUT CONSTITUTIONALISM! ... 148

Appendices ... 152

The Luo Nation (Origin & History of 15 Language Groups) ... 152

The Luo Philosophy of Od Wadu ... 155

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Rech tow giwie!

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EVERYTHING RISES, AND FALLS, ON THE LEADER! KOTH BIRO!

It was John C. Maxwell, the best selling international writer and speaker on leadership, who noted that,

‗Everything rises and falls on leadership.‘

And Tom Mboya was right when he noted is his acclaimed book, African Nationalism, that, ‘whereas everyone can participate in development, not everyone can lead‘. Only a few people can lead at any given time. They get the opportunity, so that the rest can be inspired to develop themselves. The leader hence has the role of setting the pace. And where the group is sickly, lethargic, violent, poor and retrogressive, the leader is the cause, and must be the answer. In such cases, the group has two options,

‗either change the leadership, or change the leadership‘

Leaders have the capability to unite or divide our people – be they Africans, Asians or Whites, Christian, Hindu or Muslim. Leaders must show us the way in word and deed. A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

As Albert Einstein, in his defence for socialism, noted that, ‗Human end ends themselves

are conceived by personalities with lofty ethical ideals and -- if these ends are not stillborn, but vital and vigorous -- are adopted and carried forward by those many human beings who, half-unconsciously, determine the slow evolution of society.‘ The leader is critical.

Indeed, after traversing the Great African continent, J.C. Maxwell noted that,

‗the (African) people suffer in absolute poverty, ignorance and disease because their ‗leaders‘ do not care about them.‘

There is nothing that unites people more than a common enemy. Today, the greatest enemy of the Luos is Raila, just as the greatest enemies of Africans are African leaders. They are in essence black capitalists. With their white brothers in war ships docked 12 miles ashore, waiting to come in incase their black brothers can not take over power. Just like in Libya and now Syria.

It is true that the leader and the led face the same situations. Indeed, the poor and the rich, and sick and the healthy, all face the same situation, in the environment, it is what they do with what is presented to them that makes the difference. Jim Rohn, the great motivational speaker once noted that,

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It is going to be our personal responsibility to change direction. I cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but I can change myself. That is something I have charge of. I cannot change my destination overnight, but I can change my direction overnight. We, the Luos, can change our destination overnight. Shakespeare teaches me that,

‗Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. ‗

Indeed, in his classical masterpiece, Things Fall Apart, a 1958 English language novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe which is a staple book in schools throughout Africa and widely read and studied in English-speaking countries around the world, he reminds us that,

‗when the centre cannot hold, things fall apart.‘.

In Africa, poor leadership and economic management has led to the continent becoming the most desperately poor and underdeveloped region on earth. He leaves it to others, however, to attempt to explain why it is that almost all African countries should have taken such similar and devastatingly violent historical trajectories and why the necessary leadership to break the cycle has not been forthcoming.

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(UNDER)DEVELOPMENT IN LUOLAND

TO BENDE KIKISUNGRI!BY OJIJO*

To Bende Kikisungri, Nikech in Mana Kute

We Rumble and Roar with Laughter so Loud, Swaggering and Swinging, Staging a Lot of Scenes, Subconscious of the Source, of the Plunder of Love Pitiful, Tis Pretty Pitiful, This Painful Pride

To Bende Kikisungri, Mit Kitho Kidhier,

Living Lavish Lives, In Cities Skies Away,

Humble Homes, Inhuman, Unfrequented, Insignificant Condemning Our Lives, Our Livelihood, Our Land, Our Liberty Strange, Tis Stinking Strange, This Life Away From Home To Bende Kikisungri,

Kagipaki Kendo GiLuori Great and Arrogant, They Say Bright and Proud, They Pout

Tall Dark and Handsome, or Is It Hungry, Master Strategist, With Mere Salaries,

Used and Useless, Dumped With Impunity, We Are Smiles of Spite in Days of Death We Embrace, Shameful, Tis Stinking Shameful

The Life in Cities Always From Home To Bende Kikisungri,

Mit Kitho Kidhier Nyamgodho Gi Dhoge, Sunga Okelo Nam Omuonye

*_{Extracted from Fireplace Stories: Ojijo’s Performance Poems & Quotes. 2}nd_Ed.

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Simbi Nyaima Gi Simbni Gi, Sunga Okelo Koth, Oime South Nyanza Gi Rieko Ne, Central Nyanza Gi Teko Ne, Luo Orwako Tho,

Destruction Borne of Pride.

Lack of Economic Wit!

Luo political leaders regionally have never known how to transform the nation‘s potential into wealth, economic wealth. They use the philosophical underpinning of the Luos, the great sense of social justice, to further political liberation ONLY. But politics without food, as the Chinese say is meaningless. Confucius remind any caring Luo, that,

‗first give a man food to eat, and clothes for his back, before you teach him ethics.‘

The pre-USSR, states recognised this and it lead to the triad classification of rights by Vasak Kerel, into social-economic, civil, political and self determination rights. The east ahs always held that you first provide social economic well being, and then you talk democratic governance. The argument holds several ounces of water. We cannot expect poor Africans to vote rightly, on empty stomachs. Feed me now, and then teach me later. Period. The Luo leaders have always found this a very elusive concept. No wonder cooperatives are hardly present in Luo land. It is true the Luos have been known to fight fellow Luos, and indeed, some Luos have

been complacent in the demise of their fellow powerful Luo leaders, as we saw with Mboya and Odinga, Argwings Kodhek, Raila and Ochuodho, Lumumba, etc, all through the coming in of enemies to use Luos against Luos. And this is not new to Kenyan Luos. It was also evident in Ugandan politics, with Amin, Obote, Lule and Tito Okello.

However, all Luo leaders from the Ugandan leaders, to Nyerere, to Garang, etc, have never known leadership beyond POLITICS. We are revolutionaries, we are value based, and we do not condone corruption as Luos (and Raila is half Luo, by the way, and half Luhya), but we do not provide ECONOMIC LIBERATION. If i may remind us of an old Chinese proverb, 'do not teach a man ethics when he has an empty stomach, and no cloth on his back.'

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When Raila wins the election, and HE WILL WIN THE ELECTION, he is going to be in very bright sunlight, he will be judged purely by what he does to the Luos, in which case, he is not going to do anything substantial, so that he can get another term in office, look at Obama and African issues. Raila needs to change, or we need to change him. The greatest asset that a people have is not political leadership, rather, it is Economic wherewithal. The Jews you mention have consistently been at the head of major financial booms, from Renaissance Europe, actually, from the age of crusades. The philosophy which i pass in the book is that Raila is an Idea...not an earthling, and that we need to change the idea, and we can do this, while at the same time, having a sense of pride, as the one that Obama gave us.

The Indians and other communities have taken over the fish industry. We neither own processing, primary processing, marketing, or production plants for fish. No, we do not. And where did the fish rot from, THE HEAD.

And a lot maybe said in praise of liberal economies, but all great ‗headmasters of economics primary school‘, from Adam Smith, Jean-Baptiste Say, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus and, later, Ludwig von Mises, and Marshal, will all agree that the leadership will determine the efficiency of the economy, of the market, and of the redistributive mechanism of the market. THE LEADER!!!

It hence seems that Luo political leaders need a lesson on financial literacy, local resource mobilization, entrepreneurship development and economic leadership development. It is either this, or we are doomed. Because, as Ojijo writes in his classic retirement book, Old, Broke & Bored: Plan to Retire Happy! ,

‗he that is finally free, is free in deed.‘

It does not matter if we command eloquence of speech and brevity of souls, if we sleep hungry, in leaking roofs, and peeping walls. It will not benefit our people if they yawn from dawn till dusk, and we debate democracy, human rights and governance, and laws to protect the same. We should be reminded of Rothschild, the Jewish bank empire owner, who said that,

‗give me the control of a country‘s money, and I do not care who makes the laws.‘

All who make laws are controlled by those who have money. Politicians are controlled by capitalists. It has always been like that, it will always be like that, the only one who will change is ‗the capitalist.‘ Karl Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and their friends Castro, Chairman Mao, Ghadhafi, Patrice Lumumba,

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Samora Machel, Hugo Chavez, noted this, and advocated for ‗capitalist workers class.‘

Poverty in Nyanza

If Charles Dickens were to awaken in Luo Nyanza, he would find there more than enough Oliver Twists to draw his character. The future of the young Luo is today worse than the future of the young Negro in the sixties. The capitalistic conditions are worse, and the diseases are more rampant. Further, the lack of courage to confront the present is loud, and unlike then when the enemy was white, he is now black and talks like us, and walks like us. You might think it is a duck, but wait a minute; it more equal, and eats eggs, because, for many reasons, it is ‗thinking; and ‗fighting‘ the other two legged, ‗rabuon‘ eating ‗enemy‘. This is more than Orwell would have asked for in 1984, or maybe not!

Unlike Oliver though, when our mothers are insulted, we do not fight back, but we remain passive. DANGEROUS. And we have now gone against the grain of Bob Marley, and our kindness has been taken for weakness, no wonder Raila was heard stating that,

‗JoLuo luwa ka lwang‘ni, kata onge gima amiyogi.‘

And there were Luos in the room, and they had their tails in between their balls, why,

‗they cannot buy their pipers, stupid.‘

Despite all this accolades as a politician, Raila, joining a long list of Luo leaders, both in Kenya, and abroad, fails miserable as a leader. This is manifested by the increasing socio-economic misery of the Luo community. No wonder, the word Luo Nyanza evokes negative feelings of poverty, disease and ignorance. This is not to say that Raila is wholly responsible for the woes facing the Luo community, members of this community are equally culpable, indeed, even neighbours just looking on are culpable,

But the fish rots from the head.

It is instructive to note that the sugar, fish and academia (service through education) sector remain the mainstay of Luo economy. However, no single day - not one I know of - has Raila ever employed his mobilization skill and rhetoric to fight for the farmers and the fisherfolk. In Toffler‘s terminology, Luo land is still ‗First Wave‘, predominantly peasant agriculture, almost Neolithic, when the rest of Kenya is Third Wave. Indeed, we are the Ikemefuna, dying under the killing raining blows of Raila‘s lack of leadership and inaction, as a leader, de facto or de

jure, it matters not. He must know the consequences that will visit him, just as

the morning follows a dark night, he will be the hero of a Luo (modern day) Greek Tragedy.

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For along time, before Kibaki came to power, sugar framer went for years without being paid for their produce. Meanwhile, tones of sugar were being imported into the country compounding further the woes further. All this time, Agwambo never raised a finger (or was he part of the cartel that was importing sugar?). In the fish sector, it is ironical that people in Nyanza are contended with fish skeletons

popularly known as mgongowazi due to high levels of poverty while hoping against hope that all will be well when Raila becomes president.

Never!

It will be worse.

Some will argue that Raila is the MP for Kibera and is not responsible for the woes affecting the people of Nyanza. Nothing could be further from the truth. Raila is covertly and overtly at the centre of all the major political events taking place in the region including who becomes MP, if in doubt, just ask Raphael Tuju, the MP for Rarieda. However, this is not to say that Tuju should provide the much needed alternative centre of power, given that he cannot be come an MP if left to his own devices.

The human development index in Nyanza is appalling; the life expectancy is chronically low at 45 years. The education infrastructure is wanting, and the healthcare is in dire need of resuscitation. In the words of Aldous Huxley in brave New World, Luos are constantly, ‗mending, not ending‘ the production system. Clothes are mended, patched, and re-patched. The level of innovation, and business is down, and cooperative efforts for economic well being are frowned upon, if not out rightly rejected, since they have not been, ‗blessed‘ by Jakom.

The Luos were holiday makers, and not living in mean sobriety and somberness. The Luos were not, like Charles Dickens notes in Christmas Carol, Scrooges. We are not scrooges. The Luo lived, and must live in images of light, joy, warmth and life, and forget the unforgettable images of darkness, despair, coldness, sadness and death that today haunt us, in the day. We cannot afford to be, ‗a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinners!‘ who have no place in his life for kindness, compassion, charity or benevolence. We must stop hating celebrations, and start embracing our relatives again, in the spirit of Od Wadu. We must avoid overworked, underpaid and abused. This book, should be to us, as Marley's ghost was to Scrooge.

However, Raila does not see the need to work with us to grow out of poverty; indeed, he is too much engrossed in historical revisionism and propaganda akin to William Smith of the ministry to Truth in Orwellian Novella, 1984.

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Indeed, today, the Luo, having a ‗cat-like‘ love of personal cleanliness, based on the

Od Wadu philosophy that the whole is complete, and hence, part of the whole

must also be wholesome, and complete, now find themselves in a rat race, forever struggling to even wash their faces, literally. Like Voltaire‘s Candide, the Luos are experiencing a slow, painful disillusionment as we witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world.

As Luos, we should ask ourselves; where complacency exists in our life and circumstances are costing us and about the potential for more health, happiness, peace, and prosperity. Chairman Mao rightly teaches us in his venerable Little Red Book that,

‗It is necessary to investigate both the facts and the history of a problem in order to study and understand it.‘

In The Law of Success, Napoleon Hill writes that,

"No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in the mirror for the real cause of all his mistakes."

For so long, in Raila, and Odinga‘s ‗service‘ we have encounters trials and evils of every sort--war, hatred, betrayal, starvation, natural catastrophes of all kinds, in short, any and every evil to which man has ever fallen prey. We must come full circle and ‗cultivate our own garden‘ and make the best of our possible world. As Ojijo writes in his best-selling and very influential, The Gift, we should, as a Luo,

‗Today, I will list all my problems, and then I will add my name at the bottom of the list; then I will start solving all my problems from the bottom.‘

One who is inquisitive is not shocked that Raila was the first to offer himself to go and resolve the Ivory Coast crisis, and that he also was very quick to condemn Ghadhafi, and lend support to the rebels. This is despite that given his wide knowledge, he knew that the Europeans were in both Libya and Ivory Coast for the resources, and not for liberation of the masses. Indeed, a few days after the toppling of Gbagbo, the French prime minister was in Ivory Coast, with over 300 businesses men from France, to ‗invest‘ in Ivory Coast, and ‗help in restructuring the economy‘. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for Africans, WE DO NOT READ; and when do, WE DO NOT ANALYSE CRITICALLY; and even when we can, WE ARE TOO POOR TO ENGAGEIN INTELLECTUAL ARGUMENTS. Our political parties do not teach ideology lessons to young leaders, and hence, we find it hard to connect the dots between international happenings, and the price of sugar. Was it not the British Prime minister who went with arms manufacturers to Egypt, after the fall of Mubarak, to sell. Was it not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who said that Libya was ready for investments, given the oil. Was it not the British foreign minister who said that

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‗European, and especially France, American and British oil businessmen should share the wealth of Libya, that there was immense business opportunities. And yet ALL AFRICAN PRESIDNETS WERE QUIEST. DOINGNOTHING THATN WRITING IN THER NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. SPINELESS RULERS. BLACK CAPITALISTS.

And so, like Libya and the other countries, Luo land will forever be in low HDI, poverty, lack of infrastructure, want, need and desire without satisfaction. The Luos must now read from Elbert Hubbard and,

―take a message to Garcia".

We should take initiative. We must develop production, and raise productivity, in Luo Nyanza, and amongst the Luos. We must now take initiative, and it starts with either changing leadership, or changing leadership.

We should recall the Kikuyu proverb thus:

‗if you treat yourself like a dog, you will be treated like a dog.‘

Indeed, we must now learn the ways of Raila ideo-miscreants, and arm ourselves with knowledge. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, that great African son, reminds us in The River Between, that,

‗‗‗You could not cut butterflies with a panga …you could not spear them until you learnt their ways of movement, trap and fight back…‖

We need to learn the enemy. Our enemy. Raila. Indeed, Lao Tzu, the great master strategist, and author of the great work on Art of War, told us that,

‗the general who understands himself and the enemy, will go to 100 battles, and will win 100 battles.‘

Derelict Academics

Calvin Coolidge, the 30th_{President of the U.S. rightly advised that education alone is}

irrelevant in a people‘s development. He said, ‗Nothing in this world can take the

place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence alone is omnipotent.‘ The poverty levels in

Luo Nyanza are despicable, outrageous and disgraceful. And to note that we are so learned, with great professors like Prof. Okot, Prof. Muga, Prof. Magoa, etc. our level of mobilization for political support of Raila is an insult to our ability to disfranchise when we need to mobilize for economic development. Again, the leader is to blame, but again, the chickens have wondered too far to the bush this

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time. Indeed, even the Luos who lead multinational and regional conglomerates have not seen the sense in investing in their homeland, with their people. Oduor of KCB, executive director, and his group of friends, Marie Stops, etc. It is important to recall the words of the great legend, Tom Mboya, that, ‗educated

professionals must avoid the elitist approach and give back to the community where they came from.‘ What is the essence of being educated, when I cannot go back to my

people, and give back.

Indeed, if the Spanish Civil War remind anything, it is "how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries." One would then be slow to condemn the intellectuals.

Tom Mboya was right, emphasis on education should be on service, not leadership, since not all can lead, but all can serve. Our tribe is a tribe of ignorance, superstition and illiteracy.

In his classical masterpiece, intellectual capital, Stewart writes that,

‗Knowledge is the currency of the information age.‘

Indeed, "Knowing" is the bread and butter in this ever- changing-turbulent-technology-driven economy. However, the Luo professors have not organised their knowledge into exploitable capital resource for the region. We seem to be the victims, and not the victors, in this change process.

The educated must understand that to be educated is not synonymous with being intellectual.

The knowledge of the Luo professors, doctors and academic seem to have it seemed to have fallen, a la Hume, still born from the university, never reaching home to solve problems. One wonders what the purpose of education really is. .

And all learned professors appreciate that in order to become experts, we need education and dedication and hard work, but most of al, we need opportunity. There is opportunity in Nyanza, a lot of opportunity, opportunity in the form of problems. What we need to do is to form solutions, solutions which we will then package as products and sell to the market place, and we have the market also. The market needs solutions, and we have the knowledge, just lacking the intellectualism. That thing that separates stupid people, from intelligent people.

‗doing what they know they should.‘

Ojijow rites in his classic, The Gift of e11even Moves to Make Me Wealthy, that,

“Knowing what to do is being informed; Knowing how to do is experience;

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Knowing what to do, and how to do it, is being knowledgeable,

Knowing what to do, and how to do it, and DOING IT, is intelligence… the opposite is stupidity”

African presidents are both informed and experienced. They are knowledgeable. However, most African presidents are stupid!

Numbers without Influence

The Luos, even with their great numbers, do not a University, a centre for research based education and learning; we do not have an economic modeled hospital and health facility; we do not have cooperatives to exploit the fish industry in Kenya, or the Shea nuts in Northern Uganda, or the fish and groundnuts in northern Tanzania, or the oil, sand and other resources in South Sudan. Our leaders amass wealth, at the expense of the Luos, the Led.

In the world acclaimed most leading philosophical work, Aristotle notes in the Nicomachean ethics that,

‗the highest good for humans, the highest aim of all human practical thinking, is eudaimonia, a Greek word often translated as well-being or happiness.‘

However, this ‗happiness‘ and ‗well being‘ has been as elusive to the Luos lives, as

‗Soap on wet hands‘

Our leaders love identifying with us for political gain, but not for social or economic development. Even Obama, the most powerful Luo (and man) on earth, today, finds it easier to go to Scotland for 4th_{Generation Ancestors and not Kenya for}

1st Generation Parents.

The Luos must today shy off their intellectual and powerful brothers and cousins. We must look elsewhere. We must look deep within ourselves. Galileo Galileo noted that,

‗I do not teach men, but show them what is inside them‘.

As Luos, we need to live by the ideology proposed by Ojijo in his book, The Gift, when he writes that,

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We will not stop at complaining. I believe in the words of Hubbert, in Acres of Diamonds, the lecture given over 6,000 times a preaching, that,

‗One need not look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune—the resources to achieve all good things are present in one's own community.‘

As Luos, we ought to get rich; it is indeed our duty to get rich. We can sympathize with the poor, but the number of poor who are to be sympathized with is very small. To sympathize with a man whom God has punished for his sins ... is to do wrong.... let us remember there is not a poor person in the world that was not made poor by his own shortcomings.

Poverty is a cruse. All God‘s best friends are rich. Luos have been cursed, and we need to undo the curse. We need to go so that we can be,

‗made‘.

Lack of Economic Conglomerates

We lack transport conglomerates, which can move our people to and from Nyanza and Nairobi; we lack infrastructure projects, and we lack basic power. Indeed, the highest number of grass thatched houses is in Nyanza as we speak today. One wonders how we cannot be the best in examinations!

It is now upon the common folk of Luos to do their part. We can find words of encouragement inside the pages of the great book by Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, when he writes that,

‗Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.‘

‗During this next half-century and more, the Luos must continue passing through severe Kenyan crucible. We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong, to withstand temptations, to economize, to acquire and use skill; in our ability to compete, to succeed in commerce, to disregard the superficial for the real, the appearance for the substance, to be great and yet smile, learned and yet simple, high and yet the servant of all.‘

This is to paraphrase the Great Booker T.

As Luos, we must take our place. In the words of Achilles to his lieutenants,

‗we are lions‘

We must take advise from Maslow now and self-actualize, today,

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We can be so much more, Raila or no Raila. And we must identify our own destiny now. We must unite. We must strengthen our solidarity networks, anything less, and we will be enyoked for another half century, and this time, we will have only our selves to blame, and our children to answer to. We must become everything that we is capable of becoming.

The Luos must now rethink our own standing in light of our suffering. Achebe was right,

‗a child belongs to his father; just as man belongs to his fatherland when things are good. But when the father beats his child, and there is sorrow and bitterness in fatherland, then the child must seek sympathy in its mother's hut; and the man finds refuge in his motherland. ‗

our motherland, our Luo land, will be our last refuge. No wonder the Luos said,

‗kimiyo mon, timiyo ji duto.‘

Rich Leader Ruler, Poor Followers

For over 40 years, Luos have blindly followed the Odinga clan, and what do they have to show for it? Ever since independence Luos have served the Odingas like slaves. Nothing but abject poverty at the grass roots. In the meantime, he has been raking money in, indeed, Raila is now a ‗Billionaire‘, and in an undisclosed event, his brother, Dr. Oburu was heard boasting that,

‗the Odinga family will never be poor again.‘

There is no question that Raila is the richest Luo in the world. Yet his supporters in Luo land and Kibera are some of the poorest people in Kenya. In a very curious twist that only Luos can enlighten us on, while the likes of Kenyatta and Moi were handing out goodies, plots and money to the needy, poor Luos see nothing wrong in handing over their meager earnings to Raila, all in the hope that once he is president, he will magically transform Luoland into the Eden.

Odingas have not brought an iota of development in Luoland. Just compare Luoland to their neighboring Kisiiland. While Kisiis have never even had a president, their hard work and development conscious leadership is well-displayed by their stone houses with mabati roofs. Now, visit Luoland and all you see are the same grass-roofed old round huts that Speke and Grant found in the late 1800's! Yet Raila feels no shame when he drives around there in his Sh. 15 Million Hummer Military vehicle. But again, who said that Machiavelli‘s The Prince should be rewritten.

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And Like Malcolm X said, much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth.

Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it is hate, but it's the truth.

Residents of Rarieda, are the envy of the entire Luo land. From the time they voted Honorable Raphael Tuju in, they have seen the kind of development that they only dream about come to their door step. For too long now, Luos have been cheated that the only Moses who will deliver them to Canaan is an Odinga. The success of Tuju's effort have torn that Jaramogi mystic into shreds. It is now clear that other Luos can lead. However, instead of working with them, Raila wants to finish them. Tuju has been hands-on in the setting up of the Rarieda water project. Courtesy of the Internet, Raila can no longer hoodwink the rest of us abroad. How can we dismiss the picture we saw of Tuju in a construction worker's overalls supervising the construction of the water pipes?

As Eckhart Tolle astutely points out in his masterful, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment,

"Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing ever happened in the future, it will happen in the Now."

The Luo must act now. We need to make use of our number. Most Africa families are big; indeed, most Luo families are very big. We should fall under the curse pronounced in Ojijo‘s Sell Something, when he writes that African families are,

‗Numbers without influence.‘

Noting on their inability to come together and form family based enterprises as the Indians have very carefully done. As the Jews are known to do, and as the Italians built their show making artistry. Working together; sharing the knowledge. Our families are our greatest resources.

Dr. Margaret A Ogola, the author of the classic, The River and the Source, rightly said that,

―This strength and support that is found in the African family is the most important part of our culture, and should be preserved and nurtured at all costs."

Luo women are indeed, ` women of iron'. Luo men throw stones supporting Raila Idea. The Odinga's have never brought development to Nyanza or anywhere in about 60 years of politicking. All Luos have to show for years of serving the Odinga's is tragedy and poverty from Nyanza to Kibera. And it seems that the Luos have become a force of "Immunes", immune to ‗tropical diseases‘ found in poor leadership offered by Raila and his cronies, lieutenants. A woeful scenario. We must take initiative. We must not say anything; we must not make any funny faces; we must not look to others for help – we need to do it.

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We need to change Raila, or change Raila.

The Odingas have misused and abused Luos. They have kept Luo land poor and underdeveloped. The family has used Luos as canon fodder in their battles to acquire power. How do you ‗tell‘ people to stone a President and expect roses or enhanced development? Luos must now help themselves, as Samuel Simmons says in his classical book, Self Help, the Luo must now

‗"apply themselves diligently to right pursuits--sparing neither labour, pains, nor self-denial in prosecuting them--and to rely upon their own efforts in life."

This has a resulted in the Luos losing their Nyadhi, indeed, the Luos would not beg, borrow, or trade in debt and negotiations. Indulgence is endorsed, and Luos are encouraged to make the most of their lives. It is part of our ‗nyadhi‘, style, best immortalized in Sherlock Holmes‘ writings thus,

‗My professional charges are upon a fixed scale. I do not vary them, save when I remit them altogether‘.

That I a true original JVC Luo.

Associating poverty with lack of presidency

Let no one associate our poverty and misery with Luo inability to win the presidency. If that be the case, are the Luhya, the Meru, Kisii, Maasai, or Swahili, faring worse, just because they have not held the presidency? Self help is an important means of promoting development, cooperatives. The purpose of development is not to develop an area, but to make the people better off, through investing in education, health and awareness. The government may develop the area, but it is the leaders of the people to develop their people. Luo leaders, led by Raila, have not done this, and do not seem to have any intention of doing this, AT ALL. The waswahili say that,

‗dalili ya mvua ni mawingu.‘

Meaning,

‗The signs of rainfall is the (dark) clouds‘

The sky is very bright in Luo Nyanza. Indeed, anyone who talks of the need for rainfall is relegated to the records of unpersons, "vaporized" politically, and sometimes, physically, contained by the ‗Raila state; in Luo nyanza; effectively erased from existence in political memory, and most cases, social and economic memory in Luo land/. After all, WHO IS THE BIG BROTHER?!.

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Politics of Poverty! 22 Pa ge 22 P oli tic s of P ov er ty - Th e O di ng a Fa m ily C ur se to th e Lu os ! O jijo LUO POLITICAL LEADERSHIP

MGALA MUUWE,LAKINI HAKI YAKE MPE!

The Luos are Liberators, POLITICAL liberators, and so is Odinga Family

The Luos all over the entire nation, from south Sudan, running through northern Uganda, eastern Kenya, and North West Tanzania, have ha multiple suppressions. According to the old political order, first by Kenyatta, then by Moi, and then By Kibaki, before the second stolen presidency, the leaders seemed to have read off Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, in which Marquis tells his cousin and her apparent, "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip." One would imagine it is Raila talking to his lieutenants, Kajwang‘, Orengo, and Nyong‘o, about the status of Luos, and how to keep them ‗contained‘.

Raila is indeed the latter-day face of democratic struggle that has come a long way through KANU detention dungeons to the hallowed heights of power. Raila, just as many other Luos before, and soon to come after him, are guided by the strong Luo philosophy of Od Wadu, which has a very ingrained sense of social justice, and hence, a liberator‘s tendency in ‗freeing‘ others from political harassment. Indeed, just like Garang‘ of South Sudan, Nyerere of Tanzania, Obote, Amin and

General Tito Okello of Uganda, the Luos have become synonymous with fighting for democracy and liberation.

This is the same trait in Odinga during independence movement, Mboya, ‗Orengo and the seven bearded sisters‘, and Ouma Muga, and Moi Era. The Luos, or generally, their leaders, have always risen to challenge oppressive governments. The same is true for student leadership, where Luos also take half of all university

leadership posts, and the population of Luos against other communities in leadership of SONU is almost fifty-fifty, compared to the others combined. However, they often times been challenged to cut a new figure for himself as a leader

within the docket of the politics of development and State leadership. Indeed, they have always been used against each other, by the more suave and scheme-hardened political Gerry-meanderers.

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Dr. Raila‘s primary claim on the presidency is a moral one. It hinges on his argument, that he's a reformer and democrat. He suffered unspeakable abuses under Kanu. But time and time again he's been a catalyst for change. He has fought and suffered -- more than any other politician alive today -- for the rights that Kenyans enjoy. This is entirely true. He has suffered, but in whose interest, at whose cost, is another matter. As was told of old,

‗a mans intentions, who can guess those ones.‘

Amoral De facto Leadership

The Luo de facto leaders are called Ker, who should serve both a spiritual and social-economic leadership role. Ideally, the full leadership role was done by the Ruoth, which was from a family of kings; a true leader of his people.

Unfortunately, the Luo political leadership has been built around hatred of the other. Unlike the leadership offered by Tom Mboya, who was a cosmopolitan, raised up in Thika, and who put in place the system that taught great leader like Obama‘s father, and wangari mathai, Odinga, and his son, Raila, have played on politics of hating the other. Raila's hatred of Kikuyus is a ploy. All he is doing is working up the politics of the 1960's on the mindless Luo masses, yet Kenyans have been busy building barriers across tribes. If he hated Kikuyus that much, how could he let his son marry a Kikuyu just the other day?

The suffering of the Luos under various tribes, and communities, in Kenya under the Moi and Kenyatta regimes, and in Sudan, and Uganda, is inimical to the ‗the Jewish peril‘, only that in our casers, it seems our Hitlers are home-grown. Maybe, one day, when the rain halts, and the rainbow promises no more rain, we, the Luos, will say as did Schama,

―subjects are now Citizens.‘

The Luos must look within, conglomerate, Luos and friends of Luos, and work their way out of the hole. Clannishness or tribalism is much stronger than patriotism. Much of the passion, power, and loyalties are focused upon family, the community, the tribe. We area a nation unto ourselves. We are first Luo, then Kenyans. I am first a Luo, then a Kenyan; and I never stop being a Luo, indeed, I can stop being a Muslim, or Christian, or atheist, but I can never stop being a Luo, even if I wanted. It is part of me, like my shadow. Being a Luo, or indeed, a member of any other tribe or community, commands my highest loyalty as an individual, defines my life chances, and serves as an emotional touchstone. I am a Luo, proudly Luo, but Odinga is not our leader, and he is an amoral leader.

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and nobility (nyadhi) reflexively as resources to overcome the idea of Raila. We need to cross the Rubicon and take on the Great Pompey.

We must change, or change will change us. We must not doubt our ability to free ourselves. We must not doubt that we can do this. The French never doubted, and they revolted. The maumau never doubted, and they gave the Britons a run for their money. The ANC never doubted, and they showed apartheid regime, the Botha regime, what justice means. Fidel Castro never doubted, and today, Batista is history. Mao Tse Tung NEVER DOUBTED, AND TODAY, China is a world power. Stalin and Lenin never doubted, and today, Russians are forever free of Tzars; and the same goes for Iranians, the Shah and the great confidence and belief of Ayatollah Khomeini. We must never doubt our ability to unshackle ourselves off retrogressive, reactionary ideals and cult worship. The garden of our mind is only cultivated by us. What kind of crop we want to consistently yield is solely determined on our positive, enriching, and encouraging thoughts or on our doubting, destructive and negative ones. We alone hold the key to our future, and our success, and our attainments in life. We can either have a feast or a famine - it is only up to us.

We must be bold and strong and outspoken, just as the Luo blood within us has always been, and will always be. If I may paraphrase from Ragnar‘s Might Is

Right,

"an evil spirit hath innoculated our race with the hideous gospel of submissiveness and degeneracy;- "Resist not evil" it whines and "If a man smite thee on one cheek, turn to him the other also". But I say unto you: - 'If a man smite you on one cheek, smash HIM on the "other". Resist every evil! Be as a lion in the path! Be "dangerous", even in defeat! Courage, I say! Courage! And evermore Courage! Even the stars in their courses are fight for the bold."

Luo Political Leadership Suffering from ’Divide & Rule’

‗Using One against the Other!‘, or ‗Divide & Rule‘ was a colonial administrative

philosophy that has never left its slaves. Ojijo writes in his classical masterpiece, Fireplace Stories - Ojijo‘s Performance Poems & Quotes, that,

‗the smartest fisherman is the one who knows how to fish in troubled waters‘.

I this has been most effective against the Luos. A philosophy well utilised by the British, through installation of home guards, and paramount chiefs, from Kotialel, to Nabongo Mumia, to Okang‘ and of course, being used in the context of ‘divide & rule‘

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Luo political leaders have been used against teach other, by the others!

In the case of Jaramogi, he was simply seen as both a threat to Kenyatta‘s henchmen and even to Kenyatta himself but the two men had a bond and friendship Kenyatta himself would reveal in his angry outburst in Kisumu following the riots that explains why Jaramogi was not eliminated altogether.

Given Jaramogi could not be eliminated as others would down the road, Plan B was conceived and that entailed not ending but severely curbing Jaramogi‘s influence in Nyanza by way of pitting the affable and equally flamboyant Tom Mboya against Jaramogi. What Tom Mboya did not know or knew but thought he would outsmart the schemers, was that Plan C called for his elimination after curbing Jaramogi‘s influence or otherwise reducing him (Jaramogi) to ordinary mortal status in Nyanza.

Indeed, if there is one thing those behind curbing Jaramogi‘s influence and those now bent on stopping Raila from becoming president have in common, it is that both were and are driven by reasons that were antithetical to the unity and progress of our country. To this extent hence, Tuju should take heed of the famous Italian proverb,

‗Allegro ma non troppo.‘

Meaning,

‗Be your own man‘.

Tuju must be his own man. Indeed, the Luo, even in working with the rest, and supporting the rest, must her own person. The Luo will be well served to remember the advise of Kahlil Gibran s in The Prophet, thus,

‗…stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart,

And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.‘

We need to be together, yet loyal only to our own interests, just as the God of the Bible is, loyal only to his interests, and jealous of any other God. We must be selfish, just like the God of Islam is, not condoning the worship of other gods. We need to love ourselves more, so that with the same measure, we can love others.

The Enigma, ‘En Engima! '

In every known political society, there is always going to be a family or individual that dominates the politics of the area upende usipende. In the United States, a country with over 350 million people, two presidents have come from the same family on

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more than one occasion and even as close as father and son. Indeed, in any country and deep in the village or hinterland, there is a local king or queen is politically speaking.

To this end hence, Raila, and Odinga family, is here, and will be with us for a long while, and given the Luo aversion to violence on the personal, the family is safe. It is true, Odinga is an enigma. His Book, Odinga, the Enigma, has been conflagrated

as ‗en engima‘ Meaning, ‗he is life‘

And whereas the intentions of the book are not unclear to any clear headed open minded student of history of politics, the book is a classical magnum opus, albeit, only directed, but not self-authored.

However, the Odinga want to recall the writing by LeVeley in his Bible of Satan, that, ‗Satan has been the best friend of the church, keeping it in business.‘

This train of thought, if logical, then the Luos have been that to Odinga‘s, but Satan, again, is very strict with unreturned love, an advocates.

‗Kindness to those who deserve it, instead of love wasted on ingrates‘ And

‗vengeance, instead of turning the other cheek‘

It may be the fog is lifting, and with the brightening of the day, and the thawing of the ice, will come a new conscience; and the victim is not a secret to all of us. The suffering of the Luos calls for an altering of the Golden Rule from ‗Do unto others as you would have them do unto you‘ to ‗Do unto others as they do unto you‘.

Indeed, very soon, Luos will stop praying for deliverance, after all, the old philosophy of PUSH (pray until something happens) is just that, a philosophy. God only blesses ‗working hands). We must reject the idea of prayer; instead Luos must take action to fix a situation instead of asking for a solution. Political action. Not violent actions. Too many have died, for us to lose more in prison, or to graves. Graves which never fill.

Like Chinua Achebe‘s Obi Okwonkwo, the Luos are ‗no longer at ease.‘

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Being Rich Is Christian, Quranic, and Allowed!

Albert Einstein, the German genius, noted that,

‗Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities.‘

To this extent, Raila, and Odinga family, has done well for themselves. Indeed, to this extent, the Kennedy family did well for itself; the Kenyatta family has done well for itself, and the Moi family has done well too. And this is not all, there have always been political dynasties, and families and they do well for themselves. The current president of Philippines, holding thousands of land acres that they did not buy. The same plies to Raila and Molasses Plant, and Uhuru Kenyatta and the land held in the country. Where surely did they get all the money? But that should not be the question, indeed, as Justice Prof. Dr. George W. Kanyeihamba notes, on the fight of corruption,

‗fight corruption by circumstantial evidence, not factual evidence.‘

He advises the corruption Czar to ask himself one question,

‗before the public official got into power, he had one house, and after five years, he has 10 houses, 100 vehicles, two hotels, and three schools: can his salary do that?‘

If the answer is no, then he is corrupt, and must bid farewell t public office, NEVER again to enjoy the privilege of serving his people. They have done well for their families, yes, but have they done well for their people? And charity begins at home, the Luo philosophy is Od WADU, meaning treat a fellow Luo as you, and it is also in consonance with the Kikuyu philosophy, of Wa Nyumba, which also means, take care of your brothers house, and this is in line with the Kiswahili philosophy of utu, humanity, and the bantu philosophy of ubuntu, which has been taken to be the African philosophy, that I am because you are. Is Raila, and indeed, the other like Kalonzo, Uhuru, Mudavadi, or even outside Kenya, Museveni, etc, there because of their people? Or their people are there for them, to be used to get to office…

The Colossus

Whether we regard the Raila‘s leadership as the most tremendous and most romantic of leaderships, or as the last of the barbarian and retrogressive rulerships it forms a central fact in Kenyan, and Luo history. Raila has been the face behind many monumental changes in Kenya. From the fight against Moi‘s authoritarian rule, opening up of democratic space, the struggle for multi-party democracy, KANU‘s defeat in 2002 and the restoration of the new Constitution in Kenya.

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To begin with, Raila enjoys unbridled power as leaders of the Luo community- forget the fact that he is a Nairobi MP.

According to the late Hon Michael Kijana Wamalwa, he inspires both Railamania and

Railaphobia while the latest biography aptly describes him as an enigma in Kenyan

politics. Accordingly,

‗those who hate him, hate him to death, and those who love him, love him to death.‘

Raila has cultivated a cult of personality that is the envy of many a politician. This cult has spawned myths that elevate Raila almost to the level of Luo legends like Gor Mahia and Lwanda Magere. In fact, professors of Political Science bow in awe and sing praises to Agwambo, owad gi Akinyi.

Raila straddles the Kenyan political landscape like the proverbial colossus. Whenever, he is out of the country, his absence speaks even louder. He has the knack of setting the political agenda by just calling a press conference; and even if you are dyed-in-the-wool critique of this guy: he is a force that cannot be wished away. Raila is coming in triumph; so enemies shall lose their lives. As Salman Rushdie said of Mahound,

‗His power has become too great.

His power has been enhanced manifold. We cannot fight him; we ought not to fight him. We will not fight him; after all, we are reminded that,

‗do not fight with a man with an ugly face; he has nothing to lose.‘

Raila is our Odyssey, our ―trouble‖. He both gives, and receives trouble. His heroic trait is his metis, or "cunning intelligence": his intelligence is most often manifested by his use of disguise and deceptive speech. He cries when no man is hurting him. Because you cannot hurl Raila, he is an enigma, he is cold and hard. The most evident flaw that Raila sports is his arrogant indifference to his ‗people‘, the Luo. His hubris will also be his fall, as the Bible notes. He shouts his name and boasts that no one can defeat the "Great Jakom". I can now contend that Ithaca will be delayed, and has been delayed for Raila, because of his pride. Indeed, his homecoming will be thwarted for a very long time.

But Raila is no the only Luo, or African leader we have seen with his attend qualities. Crammed with decaying kings and kingdoms, the history of Africa, and Luo leadership, is full of strong characters, mighty kings, impoverished adventurers and deceitful leaders.

Just like his father who fought for the liberation of Kenya, Raila is a fighter. Indeed, the 2007 election was stolen from him and ODM.

Since the family has done its part, it is no use eliminating them. It would be like eliminating Caesar.

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In ‗Julius Caesar‘, the conspirators who would assassinate Caesar express their envy of him, and their frustration, in the following words:

‗Why, Man, He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus And we petty men walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonored graves‘

In their personal insecurities, petty men and underlings think that eliminating a political colossus will solve their problems by elevating their stature on the world stage. It never works that way. Brutus was not to rule Rome. He perished in desolation, in a dishonored grave, hounded by the ghost of the Roman emperor he had murdered.

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Bim en bim!

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NEOISM-ODINGA FAMILY‟S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF LEADERSHIP)

The Odinga family, just like other political families that took over power and inherited clan and tribal leadership, is a neo-sychrosant family. The family executes a leadership based on the philosophy of neoism, protecting the old order, only now, it is in their direct interest, and only in the indirect interest of the imperialists, capitalists and colonialists.

I agree with Paine in his classical piece, Common Sense. In the king and peers, who rule by heredity and contribute nothing to the people, lies the foundation of human troubles. This is why October revolution kicked out the kings, and the same happened led by Ayatollah. This is why Mao rose in China, and Castro in Cuba. This is why The French revolted. This is why Napoleon Bonaparte lost. This is why AANC won, and Machel, won the heart of mozambiqueans. Indeed it is why Patrice Lumumba took over from Belgians, and the Ghanaians mandated Nkrumah with leadership. Troubles of this civilization came with kings, and has been rebirthed by the aristocrats, the neo colonialists, the neo capitalists, the neo-imperialists. Kings caused colonialism; Kings caused slave trade; King caused classification of people into castes, just as it is clear in India to date: Shame; kings caused the crusades; indeed, Kings caused this, and kings caused that. In the era of kings, real men are tried in their souls. Paine was right,

‗all men are equal at creation and therefore the distinction between kings and subjects is a false one. ‗

I agree with Thiomas Paine in his allegoraical, Rights of Man, when he writes that,

"the idea of hereditary legislation is...as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man."

Aristocracy, kingpin families, like Kenyatta family, Mudavadi Family, Moi Family, and monarchy, like kings of Arabia, queens and kings of Europe, starting with England, are all "frauds" and based upon tyranny, and the fact that they exist, and will continue to exist, is the same way murder exists, and will continue to exist, but this makes it no more less abhorrent.

In retrospect, Raila, has become to Luos was Queen Scheherazade was to the King of Persia in the classic Islamic Golden Age writing, Kitāb alf laylah wa-laylah. Fearing we may find out is he (Raila) is ‗cheating‘ on the Luos and thus ‗dishonoring us‘, he has woven an endless tail of tales, and we fear we might never live to reach 1,001 years. And to make his presentation better, he walks around with a legion of Abu Nuwasis, in the name of Luhya and Luo MPs. Indeed, one need not wonder who Alibaba‘s fourty thieves are.

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RAILA ASOCIAL DEMOCRAT?ASK ME ANOTHER!

Political thinkers have always seen Raila as a socialist-reformist who still harbors the ideals of socialism, causing discontent in the ruling elite subscribing to the capitalist ideals. But this is yet another classic Robert Green move, to confuse the enemies; and gain sympathy, at the behest of the masses; THE LUOS. Btu Raila is neither a socialist, nor a social democrat, which is just a less green shade of socialism. Social democracy is currently the strongest current of socialism in international politics, the guiding philosophy of many strong political parties, such as the British Labour Party (of the Gordon Brown and Tony Blair fame) and the Brazilian Workers' Party. Politically, the social democrats prefer a moderate, mainstream leftist party in a state while economically, with a market economy and a mostly middle class voting base. The social democrats emphasize three main principles;

The first is freedom—not only individual liberties, but also freedom from discrimination and freedom from dependence on either the owners of the means of production or the holders of abusive political power-today the Luos are them most dependant people in Kenya, compared to their potential in terms of intelligentsia. Further, the dependency levels in Luo Nyanza are the highest in the country, especially with the strong socialist African family institutions which make the one employed family member to be the savior of the whole clan and on the second definition of freedom from the holders of abusive political power, who in Kenya has the greatest solidified and massive voting block as Raila. Let me save you the mathematics, no one, no not even a combination of Kibaki and Uhuru Kenyatta would marshal such support from central Kenya, but the question is, why cannot Raila use his massive support to introduce socialistic or moderate socialist institutions within the province for the gain of the people who literally worship him, why not even copy from Raphael Tuju and the likes of Patrick Lumumba and Rachier, who have designed and implemented community and collectivist programs to assist the widows and the women in their various constituencies? Why cannot Raila use his connections to affect the lives of the societal in Nyanza? Why has not he marshaled the political support he receives and use for the betterment of their daily living situation or even much more easy, why hasn‘t he talked about the current scourge killing the Luos due to low levels of protected sex and backward and retrogressive cultural practices, granted there are good practices also among the Luos-I am a Luo you know.

The second principle, equality and social justice—not only before the law but also economic and socio-cultural equality as well, and equal opportunities for all