Within
what is now being seen as a conciliatory tone and approach to the hostile
political temperatures in the country, Cord leader Raila Odinga, in a surprise
and stunning move, placed a phone call to President Uhuru Kenyatta last week
before the head of state flew to the US for the US-African Leaders Summit.
According
to well-placed sources, Raila who fondly refers to Uhuru as “ndugu yangu” had
to put aside their political differences with Uhuru and wished him a fruitful
tour in the US.
What
Kenyans must now know is that Raila and Uhuru’s differences are not personal
but political and ideological as the two; we can now reveal, reach out to each
other on national issues and sometimes discuss private matters. During the
Westgate attack, Uhuru and Raila were united in grief.
Those
who have been keenly following political events since Raila left Kenya for a
two-month tour to the US will agree that Raila has no problem with Uhuru but
has been bitterly complaining that his deputy William Ruto is the stumbling
block between him and Uhuru.
Before
Raila left for the US, he placed a call to Uhuru informing him of his two
month’s absence from the country. This was revealed by Raila at Uhuru Park
during his homecoming party.
Analysts
say that even with his fierce competition for the presidency, Raila has never
lost respect for Uhuru. By calling Uhuru to wish him well, Raila was being courteous by accepting that Uhuru is the
president.
Uhuru
in return extended a courtesy by ensuring that Kenyan embassy accorded Raila
befitting treatment as former PM of Kenya. During his tour, the Kenyan
diplomatic apparatus treated Raila’s tour stately on orders from Uhuru.
A
few days before Uhuru left for the US, political temperatures were at low ebb
in what is now being seen as a diplomatic way to reduce political tension
between Cord and Jubilee ahead of the US tour.
During
the Mathare by-elections campaigns, Uhuru did not attack Raila as had been
expected but kept on referring to him as “my brother Raila” and Raila a day
later, went public and said he recognises Uhuru as the president. Kenyans will
appreciate that Raila never openly discusses the legitimacy of Uhuru’s
presidency outside Kenya.
“I
want to tell my brother Raila Odinga to respect the presidency. If he was
elected the president, I would not be standing by the roadside to insult him,”
Uhuru said.
Raila
in a quick rejoinder replied: “I respect my brother Uhuru and I also respected
the court’s decision. If I did not respect him, I would not have asked for
dialogue. The president should stop demanding that I respect him, he should
earn his respect,” Raila said.
Sources
say Raila and Uhuru had temporarily called a truce ahead of the US tour and it
is against this background that Uhuru graced the NGO celebrations knowing that
most of the NGOs operating in Kenya are funded by America.
We
have also gathered that during his US tour, Raila at one time told his audience
Massachusetts that he had a lengthy conversation with Uhuru before he left for
the US tour. “I called the president and he was surprised when I told him I
would be away for two months. But I told him I would be a good ambassador for
Kenya,” he said.
Last
month, Uhuru also made a surprise contribution during Raila’s mother-in-law’s
fund raiser at a Nairobi hotel where he sent his political adviser Joshua
Kuttuny with his personal contribution of Sh200,000. What surprised many is
that it was highly expected that Kuttuny would also deliver Ruto’s contribution
but that was never to be. This shows that Raila and Uhuru still do not see eye
to eye. What is being whispered is that Uhuru had at one time agreed to have a
national dialogue which Cord had demanded but Ruto reportedly dissuaded Uhuru
against it.
Sources
now say that Uhuru allies are not happy with Ruto saying the referendum call
Cord is now pushing could have been avoided had Uhuru met with Cord leaders as
demanded. Reports further indicate that Cord leaders had given instructions
that they were ready to meet Uhuru in private in the absence of Ruto before
structured dialogue could be held.
Sources
say Ruto is scared that by allowing Uhuru to have a dialogue with Raila, Cord
may decide to work with Jubilee through TNA leading to him being sidelined. By
rejecting the talks, Ruto was merely guarding his political interest.
Back
to the phone call, this is not, however, the first time Uhuru was receiving a
phone call from the opposition leaders. Early this year, WDM leader Kalonzo
Musyoka also made a surprise call to Uhuru at night.
To
Uhuru, the American tour with the first American president to come from Africa
finally has the majority of the continent’s heads of state and government
exactly where he has wanted to have them for a long time: in his hands, which
are also the hands of the USA system. Obama is out to push for the renewal of
Agoa which is set to expire next year.
The
50 leaders of the African Union will be barely four days in Washington, but by
the time they leave, the American state-within-the-state that the world only
sees in spy thriller novels, movies and screaming headlines about bugging
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s
phones and emails, among other world leaders will be at home with them.
President
Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th president of the United States of America, the
world’s biggest economy and also militarily, is the product of a Kenyan father
and an American white mother.
He
was born the same year, 1961, as our very own fourth president, Uhuru Muigai
Kenyatta, whom he has invited to the US despite all odds in the shape of ICC trial.
Obama
was born on August 4 and Uhuru on October 26. Both men are tall, lean and
left-handed.
Obama,
who has a Luo heritage on his father’s side, but who is otherwise all-American,
has wanted to have the African leaders in America for a while, for all sorts of
reasons, some of them not exactly good – or safe.
Obama
has four geostrategic calculations carefully prepared for feeding to the 50
African leaders and delegations. They are:
The
anti-China card: Obama and his key advisers want to drum the fact into the
African leaders and their most strategic advisers, in both government and
private sector, that China is not the only show in town, globally-speaking.
Obama is horrified by China’s newfound wealth and growing economy, which saw it
overtake Japan and Germany several years ago and now is said to have overtaken
America.
The
West lives in mortal fear of China’s growth and clout, and will do anything to
prevent what they used to call, in a racist phrase, “the Yellow Peril” from
becoming the world’s second superpower. China is now US’s biggest creditor and
it is said should China demand that the US pays its USd600b debt in another
currency other than the dollar, US would collapse economically.
The
homosexual agenda: Two days before he was to jet out for the US-Africa Summit,
Ugandan strongman Yoweri Kaguta Museveni gave his Constitutional Court the nod
to annul his country’s controversial anti-gay legislation. The position is that
Uganda’s Attorney General will have the final word on the matter at a later
date.
But
the real reason the law was technically temporarily withdrawn was that Museveni
has an excellent intelligence service and diaspora network that he actually
listens to and which cautioned him not to come to America with that law in
place. The US media would have eaten Museveni alive in terms of bad publicity
and questioning his democracy credentials. Now, he can face any US media
cameras and microphones and confidently point out that the anti-gay laws,
including the death sentence and years of imprisonment, are no longer in place,
by constitutional court order.
Why
has it taken the first African-American US president to make the gay agenda a
platform of US domestic and foreign policy? Why is the world’s superpower
suddenly terrorising everyone, including world powers Russia and China, with
gay rights as human rights, and even imposing sanctions and aid and military
programme cuts such as Uganda suffered recently?
The
answer is simple: it is all mind games and psychological advantage. The moment
the ancient and traditional sanctions against the gay agenda are lifted by a
society and a nation, a country is ripe for all manner of other decadent
possibilities.
A culture that allows open demonstrations,
movies, music, websites and books of homosexual behaviour is ripe for
democracy, US style. It cannot be a totalitarian society. Yet what is called
democracy in America is a variant of the real thing because a country with only
two parties is not pluralistic in the democratic proper sense.
What’s
more, if one is born in a home that is Republican party, he is likely to die a
Republican and same if he is Democrat which raises the question as to whether
there is democratic understanding at individual level. Indeed, it is said this
lack of ‘democratic enlightenment’ is why America has virtually had only two
parties for nearly a century. It is a mechanical exercise that some have called
zombie democracy.
Many
ordinary Kenyans and other Africans do not know it, but the homosexual agenda
includes gay baths and cinemas where public gay sex practices of every
description take place. About the only freedom Americans have is freedom to
marry someone of their own sex. As we speak, the American press is the most
unfree in the world as you report only that which will project an image of
America as a perfect society. Deadly tornadoes, wild fires, landslides and
floods wipe helpless Americans like flies but CNN would rather show a typhoon
in China or landslide in Uganda than the devastation in North Florida.
Reporters now live in fear in America and have to censor themselves or find
themselves in jail yet the image America gives is that of a beacon of freedom.
It
is impossible, however, that the gay agenda will ever find place in Russia,
China and Africa.
The
economic agenda: Africa now has more than a billion people and is producing
middle classes with increasing disposable incomes. The continent is becoming
exponentially even more resource-rich than it has historically ever been. The
eastern Africa countries of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia have untapped,
recently discovered riches of oil, gas, water aquifers and coal. China’s hunger
and thirst for these resources will produce even bigger and more prosperous
African middle classes.
In
fact, even before the oil, gas and water aquifer discoveries begin to flow,
German luxury automaker Porsche has opened an outlet in Kenya to target the
growing number of local high-net-worth individuals.
The
Porsche franchise, the first one in our regional neighbourhood, will serve the
East and Central Africa market. The automaker is set to bring direct
competition to the doors of other luxury brands already in the market such as
Jaguar and Land Rover.
The
declining Western economies, particularly America’s, also want a bite of this
growing African pie. General Motors-Kenya recently introduced a luxury 4-by-4
model in the regional market, which is awash with Japanese and German models.
Obama
and his handlers want to get the 50 African head honchos and their powerful
delegations to buy American in a serious way.
The
anti-corruption card: Our leaders gathered in Washington will hear a lot about
runaway corruption in Africa and about how the ruling government and private
sectors’ elites that they lead feast on the public purse to the detriment of
the majority of the one billion African masses.
The
West was built across the centuries by feudal lords, mad kings and, barely 175
years ago in the case of America, by racist robber barons. However, the West
has a serious point about African corruption – it is truly toxic. If African grand
corruption continues in its present form it will spoil the feast of newfound
resources and prosperity for everybody, including China, the West and, of
course, most of all, a billion Africans.
Like
Museveni and Uganda’s gay laws, Uhuru decided to strike decisively against the
one evil that his administration is getting the worst publicity for, after
insecurity and negative ethnicity, massive land-grabbing.
Uhuru
jetted out to the US only after he ordered the repossession of illegally
acquired 500,000 acres of land in instability infected Lamu county, an action
that was immediately opposed by a shocked opposition and its supreme leader
Raila. Cord obviously does not want to see the ruling Jubilee being seen to
solve anything.
The
conspiracy factor: Finally, the fact that Obama now has Africa’s leaders where
he has wanted them for a long time, under his own roof in the extended
Washington area, is attracting attention from this continent’s and other
continents’ intelligence, diplomatic and conspiracy communities.
The
African presidents, prime ministers and other VIPs in the massed delegations to
Obama’s high table had better be very careful what they consume, ingest, touch,
and where they go and what they do and with whom.
The
statistics will not be ready or available for years, but Obama and his
state-within-a-state intelligence and diplomatic operatives have organised a
massive spying operation on the African leaders. Every African head of state
who has a real intelligence service that has a North American presence, either
through a diaspora or hired private presidential security consultants, will
have been reminded, before departure, of Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary orders
of a few years ago.
Clinton, who is expected to make a bid for the Obama succession,
was secretary of state when she ordered American officials to spy on
high-ranking UN diplomats, including British representatives.
Eritrea’s
Isaias Afwerki and Zimbabwe’s Robert Gabriel Mugabe were deliberately not
invited to Obama’s high table.
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