The Waititu week.

Allow some Politico-speak from me at least today.

 It's been a really long week for the Embakasi Member of parliament and Nairobi County governor hopeful Hon. Waititu. How Honorable He may be is another issue but as for now let's assume that ceteris paribus.

The reason I decided to make this post is because of a previous debate we had with people at the office. I was on Waititu's side and of course watu waliamini magazeti na media. 

My view of this whole issue is that Mr. Waititu did not buy all this, Media hyped it too much and tables turned politically for Mhesh for a crime he probably never committed.

Let my explain why I think Waititu is within his own line.

1.This is waititu... yes. Himself

First and foremost we must understand that this is Waititu. Kwani what did you expect of Waititu? Asking this I mean we all know his previous record and mode of operation. He's a person who serves instant justice and makes remarks as they stream in his head depending on the current situation.Go search for waititu on youtube and have a alook at his history(click here to see the search). Just like we understand many other politicians nature and personalities then I think Waititu is not an exception here given that he did not sneak into leadership. He is not even a nominated member of parliament. Think people. You never knew the person you elected?

 2. This is Kayole

Kayole is not just any hood. Especially kayole regulation and justice is served differently. That's how they live. Shock me and tell me you never knew that. They have regulating forces other than just the government. Whether the government and NCC provides it's services enough in kayole enough is another issue.

3. This is Kenyan media

Kenyan media is the shadiest shadow of a country's media we'd have. They want to create a story sell newspapers and develop that story for the rest of the week while poor kenyan's give in to reading stories that don't even get to the truth of the matter.

Do we know the context in which Mhesh said what he said? most probably the locals in embakasi call the 'culprits' who do crimes 'wamasai'... In any case 'wamasai' is a common name for watchmen in eastlands. If you live in westlands or lavington you may not know that and so that definitely means tribalism to you. Moreso masai are also in TZ... is it tribalism beyond borders? 

It's unfortunate that the office in the  ministry of water may be vacant cause of political issues but I hope this is the beginning of the separation between government and politics. Politicians/MP's should not run governments in future 'ven though we love to vote for them whenever we get the chance.

Look, Tuju ako Ngangari

This post is not sponsored asin i'm not paid to campaign for Raphael Tuju or mention him in a positive way. If i'll be paid anyway then you'll also be paid for commenting or reading through still.

Raphael Tuju is the guy who insipes my post today. Lemme first of all describe his campaign and what i think is it's impact or rather how it's working out.

Twitter
I'm really sorry bwana tuju for missing out on your full handle without an underscore. You're aware 'chelewa chelewa....' so that's why you're handle remains @raphael_tuju.

Your profile looks fine though the follower count is a little behind considering your opponents wako farthest. maybe you can consider doing a followback to catch up with the rest of them. Again your account is not verified but that's no big deal, with time we get to trust you with the content you have on it.

Hashtags: your best hashtag so far was #tujusheng. Worry not what we tweeps make fun of, in the end it's publicity is constant whether good or not so good.

Your youtube is also good at 58 subscribers, you know how good the sheng vid did you. It was funny, hilarious, captivating and just unexpected,
There was even a message for you by one almunjama of youtube, i hope you saw it, why don't you dare kenyans to upload videos of themselves with messages to you, it would be a fun idea, don't you think?

5,441 hits for this and still counting.

my point, raphael Tuju's campaign online though young, is something to look at, personally i like how it's being done, the content, plust the creativity in communicating to the online kenyans.
Stay ngangari my guy

E-Voting, is it all?

At the end of last week we had a successful conference. The 12th annual ICT conference Strathmore. among the speakers invited w

as Mr Ahmed Isaak who talked about how they went about to come up with a reliable voting system guided by integrity. The IIEC was formed in 20

08 after the former Electoral Commission of Kenya flawed badly in 20

07.

"When people vote and go home, they think they have decided but actually it is the people who count the vote who decides"

The new IIEC has implemented IT alot more than just for appreciation. To start with they've begun on electronic voter registration to replace the manual (ORM) way of doing the same. He said this is how voters for 2012 will be registered. The elections are also monitored closely with a

double updating of vote counts on line. The will be a central collection of vote counts of different regions.

So far so good, the vote has not been interfered with. However for me that is half the problem. The peoples of Kenya are yet to be taught how to vote and vote wisely. Are we going to ride on a system that is water-tight but still have our vote influenced by tribe, money, region-ism etc? This is the bigger half of the problem we have. There's an mp who was voted in passionately by the people of his constituency after literally splashing money in all the neighbourhoods and using it to satisfy the vain needs of the voters like getting drunk. Thanks to the IIEC though, the integrity of the vote count was unquestionable. Looking at that scenario in whatever angle, don't you think the IIEC ought to do thorough civic education (i don't know how) or is it that we just need prayers?

Tuwafanyenini hawa?