MOI vows to teach RUTO a lesson he will NEVER FORGET
Ruto loss will deny Uhuru
victory
Former President Daniel
arap Moi has declared war on The National Alliance
(TNA) deputy president aspirant William Ruto and vowed to teach him “a lesson
he will never forget” throughout his life. He has also asked Kalenjin elders
and professionals to ensure Ruto losses his political grip on the Kelenjin including his grassroots
tentacles in Eldoret North.
During a top secret meeting with some Kalenjin elders (Kateb
kokweet) that included his old friend Ezekiel Barngetuny, last Friday at his Kabarak home, Moi made it clear that he would
reduce Rutoto the “hustler” he was before
he transformed him into a multi-millionaire. “This ungrateful fellow must sleep
on the bed he has been making over the years. He should not be allowed to
destroy the Kalenjin community order and social fabric by disparaging elders
and tarnishing their respect,” the former president literally declared.
More specifically, he declared he was prepared to ensure that Ruto does not get votes, “other than
his own and his immediate family” within Eldoret North itself and will use
every means available to him to achieve his goal. He directed his son Gideon, who was present, to unleash a powerful Kanu campaign to endear
the former ruling party to all communities in the Rift Valley and mobilize them
to vote for Kanu and the Musalia Mudavadi led United Democratic Forum (UDF) Amani alliance candidates.
Apparently Moi has never forgiven Ruto for the erosion of political clout he has suffered in the Rift
Valley and Kenya as a whole. He must be particularly bitter about the burning
of his farms and carnage on his cattle during the 2008 post election violence
directed against him by hired Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Kelenjin vandals
for supporting Kibaki re-election.
It is for the same reason that he finds it difficult to support
ODM presidential aspirant and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Moi also has an active grudge against Raila for deserting him in 2003 along with key Kanu ministers to join
President Mwai Kibaki and subsequently defeat Kanu
after lavishing him with money-making energy and roads ministries and a bonus
of the Kisumu Molasses plant.
Moi’s onslaught on Ruto will undermine and deny TNA
presidential aspirant Uhuru Kenyattasupport
in the vote rich Rift Valley without which he cannot win the State House
tenancy. The threat is real because money will not stand in the way of the
multi-billionaires family and money will be a major determinant in the General
Election. Moi met Mudavadi last Saturday but the UDF aspirant seems to have resigned himself
to fate and wants to craw back to parliament through nomination along with his
running mate.
Moi unknowingly betrayed himself when revealed his dirty election
tricks that kept him in power for 24 years, when the told the elders that he
was ready to buy out the estimated 110,000 Eldoret North constituency voters
for Ksh 1,000 each. That would be a cool Ksh 110 million. That may be a clear
message that there will be vote buying in the Rift Valley.
Uhuru’s family has also opened its
purse wide in a bid to reclaim State House vacated by the late President Jomo Kenyatta in 1978 bequeathing the family with billions of shillings in cash
and other assets – among them the now controversial tracts of land in Central,
Coast, Eastern and Rift Valley provinces. There have been claims that the
family is disposing some of the land in the Rift Valley for billions of
shillings ahead of the next government and to fund Uhuru’s campaign. Official records held by the lands ministry can
confirm that.
Some of the land was sold to the government to resettle the
internally displaced persons (IDPs) generated by the 2007-2008 post election
violence. Both Uhuru and Ruto are facing crimes against
humanity charges at the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC). Uhuru has in recent weeks imprudently claimed that President Kibaki and Raila should also be charged over the
violence because they were the 2007 presidential contestants.
Neither Kibaki nor Raila can be expected to take kindly of Uhuru’s public statements, which appear like the kicks of a dying
horse. Uhuru has successfully applied to
enjoin outlawed criminal gang former Mungiki leader Maina Njenga in the ICC case with the likely possibility of Njenga confirming Mungiki were recruited and paid by Uhuru and State House thereby confirming the TNA boss complicity - that
could earn Uhuru 30 years jail if not more.
It is becoming increasingly clear to all that both Uhuru and Ruto are in the State House race to evade trial and long jail terms at
The Hague. That is the main reason they removed Mudavadi as their presidential flag bearer for Jubilee even after it had
been made amply clear to Uhuru that his
presidency would complicate Kenya’s international relations with the dominant
development partners from the West. Both the British and United States
governments have said they would have nothing to do with Kenya with Uhuru as president.
The dangers of Uhuru-Ruto presidency would mean:
· International sanctions on
Kenya’s coffee, tea and horticultural produce whose volumes are bought mainly
by western countries – shutting off the country’s main foreign exchange
earnings. Result - thousands of jobs would be lost.
· International freeze and suspension
of financial support, including loans for vital projects by western countries
and their institution like the World Bank. Result - this would stall several
energy projects including exploitation of recently discovered oil, coal and
gold deposits.
· Western governments freeze of
political leaders’ off-shore accounts. Result; even Uhuruwould not access millions of
dollars in foreign accounts – personal or business.
· Closure of the inflow of
western tourists the bulk of who sustain the country’s tourism industry –
including Uhuru’s own hotels. Result - thousands of jobs would be lost.
· Boycott of Kenya’s mineral
exports. Result even Kenyatta family’s Taita-Taveta gemstones exploits would be affected.
· Boycott of many other Kenyan
agricultural products. Result – millions of Kenyan farmers would be
impoverished.
· Suspension of military
equipment, training and defense co-operation – when Al Shabaab is wreaking
havoc and internal security is in shambles. Result – creating greater
insecurity.
· Suspension of western
collaboration in social-cultural exchanges. Result – miss out on research,
educational, medical, technical and professional.
· Transfer of the international
gem of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Habitat headquarters elsewhere,
most likely a European capital. Result loss of millions of dollars UNEP earns
Kenya in foreign revenue in staff endowments and conferences.
· Migration and relocation of
European firms to other African countries like Rwanda, Tanzania or Uganda. Result
– more thousands of job losses.
Without a market for its agricultural exports and a shut down on
Western tourists, Kenya would have no money to pay for her imports, including
food and petroleum products. The cost of living in Kenya would soon be extremely
difficult for ordinary citizens except the rich ruling elite in Uhuru and Rutopolitical club plus their loyalists. Joblessness would escalate,
tax collection would dwindle and inflation, crime and insecurity would rise
dramatically.
Moi’s tenure saw the dollar
exchange escalate from a mere Ksh 7 when he took over in 1978 to over Ksh 70
when he went home to look after goats and cows in Kabarak. Going by Zimbabwe
example where Mugabe has survived against all odds, the Central Bank of Kenya would in
no time issue 10,000, 100,000 and million shilling denomination notes. Kenyans
would be going to their neighbourhood kiosks with a basketful of notes to buy a
loaf of bread.
This is not empty speculation, under the superintendence of Uhuru as
finance minister, Kenyans in 2011 saw the shilling exchange at a record Ksh 130
against the US dollar. Simple arithmetic means over a span of one week, some
people and banks made millions by simply buying and selling dollars repeatedly.
Some banks are reported to have made as much as Ksh 50 billions as the shilling
freely plummeted downwards.
Kenyans must decide if they want to put their country on a reverse
gear back to the dark years of the Moi regime
when industries closed down in Nairobi, Thika and other towns for lack of
foreign exchange. Millions of Kenyans lost jobs and employment opportunities
disappeared into thin air. Transport companies like Stage Coach migrated to
create jobs in Malawi owing to Kenya’s dilapidated infrastructure. Heaps of
garbage dominated the capital city of Nairobi and other urban centres and
farming made no business sense.
Such situations have led to internal civil wars and military coups
in many countries – including Kenya’s naighbouring Uganda, Somalia, Sudan and
Ethiopia. The internal strife and military coups have had devastatingly deep
economic wounds on many countries. Africa’s mineral rich Democratic Republic of
Congo, among others, still grapples with acute poverty many years after the
military deposed civilian government.
It is nonsensical for the Jubilee alliance duo to tell Kenyan
voters that they will be able to run the country and attend The Hague trials at
the same time. Running a country is a full time job as are The Hague cases. It
is not clear how Uhuru and Ruto plan to be at two places at the
same time - regardless of whatever they preach about the digital generation and
all Apple’s Steve Jobs inventions – iPads, iPhones,
iPods etc. That is shear public deceit. Uhuru wants to nominate his niece Beth back to parliament against her wish hoping she can hold the fort.
Should Uhuru and Ruto attend their cases mid April
when they start, there is no way they will be allowed to fly back to campaign
for their run-up elections in the middle of the trial. The most likely scenario
will be for them to refuse to go to The Hague and wait for consequences.
Alternatively they may request for an adjournment to allow them campaign but
whichever way, there is every possibility that they are in for a major pounding
by the CORD Alliance. Raila will happily hand them over to
The Hague as good riddance.
culled from kenyaconfidential
