Where does the multi million “jackpot” come from?

The media has lost its normal sense of sobriety as MegaMillion SMS lotteries bombard us right left and centre with promises to hit jackpots. You can't blame them as they are now the key architects. One important question remains unanswered amid all the news coverage: where does the 10 million “jackpot” come from? It all comes from money that has been lost by other Kenyans, a large portion of whom are on the tunaomba serikali side. Poor, desolate and greedy. You, the gullible Kenyan, is losing money on this scheme regardless of whether you send an SMS or not. The predatory gambling interests are the real “jackpot” winner.

One final note: some in the news media describe the odds of winning as “slim.” How can it be accurate to describe odds of 1 in 15 million as slim? The only word that describes the odds the best is “impossible.”

Time to Face Mt Kenya

Since the coming of the colonialist and the sisters the missionaries, everything the AFricans were doing prior to this was deemed barbaric and primitive, ushenzi. However, current developments are proving this sentiments wrong, but we Africans having been caught and brainwashed can't understand these developments.
First, the African traditional foods were replaced by an assortment of unhealthy blather. Recently, in towns like Nairobi, affording an African dish is not easy with these plates being priced and not so common anymore. A small bite of the sweet potato, cassava or the arrowroot which has been despised as food for the poor and villagers is around a dollar. a serving of managu and other bitter traditional herbs, if you don't get them already off the menu will cost you every limb.
In the herbal medicine field, despite the field being crowded by quack just like Western medicine, the field is registering phenomenon success with a recent programme on K24 indicating that most medicinal plants and trees are on the verge of extinction and are regarded as endangered species.
Over the hyped Christmas festivities hundreds of believers decided to hold prayer walk around Mt Kenya on 27th and Alas upon their intercessions rain has started pounding the nation. While the Christians pray from the abode of their palaces for rain with no results ..This group just needed some few hours. It is a shame that the group had to be licenced by the Ministry for Internal Affairs to hold such a beneficial prayer walk in a country boasting of freedom of expression. The reasons which have been cited in banning the group holding its prayers has been the "Mungiki threat".
May be it is just time we seriously faced Mt. Kenya and knew where we came from and where we are going.

Reggae vs Rock Music

I wont pretend to a musical analyst. I will also not to pretend that I like Rock. But the few rock tunes i have listened to and the overwhelming number of reggae music I have digested, I feel I am in a position to declare that the music shares a common thread. Did I see the rock heads bang their heads on the wall in a bid to tetea their music? Di I hear them say reggae music is for the hopeless down trodden who have smoked all the marijuana around? huh? On the other are the reggae fans jamming to the vibe that rock is for Babylon and Mababis?
Ok here is my two cent: Reggae music is the voice of an angry blackman while rock is the voice(noise) of an very angry white man..Now go out and listen

A government full of Lords of Impunity

The Kenyan government is just a sham of the century.
Today's revelation by the US ambassador that 4 ministers have been slapped with travel bans has got me shaking my little head...How the hell!
After we became immune to corruption they went a step ahead and sanctioned mass killings and raping in 2007-2008..
And now errr ladies and gentle(rough)men introducing the drug lords
Seriously if these are our leaders..were we forced to elect ..what can be done to ensure that we do not elect such people without beating the tenets of democracy??
will we one day know the meaning of the word integrity in public affairs?
P.S In honour of those who fought for the independence of this country I hate the meddling by the same colonial powers BUT if they are the ones who will help us put a stop to these madness let it be

Though Shall Steal

The situation in Kenya is a dire one..The society has no values and if it has they are just negative values..Today two senior government officers have 'stepped aside'after it has been alleged and proved that they have defrauded the Kenyans kindu 2 billions..business as usual..??
Stepping aside is phrase that has gained currency in the Kenyan political scene with persons found dipping their hand sin the cookie jar are requested by the cronies to step aside so that the fire can cool off and before Kenyans can say thief they get their positions back and business as usual..

Looking away from the political scene who cleans these guys? My answer is it is not Kibaki it might be your brother or sister..how you ask? This is my take... When these guys are named in corrupt deals they rush to hire the best lawyers and such professionals who can help them. They also buy the state lawyers and prosecutors. But the people who hit us hard in my opinion are the auditors and others who undertake forensic investigations. In my take I think when a jokingly paid accountant who is investigating such a case as Anglo Leasing is offered 5 millions to clean up the files ..he will do that willingly wont he? Where does that leave our courts, where does it leave Lumumba? So the question is are we ready to refuse 5 million gifts and are we ready to tell our brothers and sisters not to take 5m tokens...Quite a tall order....ama?

Personal Branding

In the world we are living today being a young professional is no easy ting...there are so many con men with their con plans roaming the streets and offices. So one way to distinguish yourself is through building and maintaining a personal brand.
Am not yet to become a guru or an authority in any field but I have some few practical steps one can take to have a personal brand which can be relied upon by the society-employers, employees, institutions, and even government agencies in this Nairoberry professional scene.
1. Keep time! As a general rule we have little respect for time. You give someone an appointment and they come half hour or an hour late. You give an appointment and you fail to make. Bugger, it was not at gun point! Until you have a reputation for respect for time you will not project yourself as a powerful brand. Most of the work I undertake have very serious deadlines and the deadlines are usually that DEAD...so have a dignity for those dead lines and you will be respected. There is nothing as nerve wracking as having sub contracted some project to your fellow professional and when it is 1 hr to the deadline she doesn't pick the phone.
2. Being passionate: There has been arguments about whether passion matters but to me yes it does. We have large bunches of people doing things they don't like and that is why everywhere we have turned our clients and customers into perennial whiners who have to beg, plead and even bribe for us to deliver services.Like Martin Luther said once- if you are a sweeper sweep to the glory of God. One thing i feel about doing things we are passionate about is that it helps one to add value to other peoples' lives while adding to his.
3. Deliver Extra Ordinary Service: surprise your clients. They are used to low quality garbage that one I can tell you. This is the key for small businesses success. If you get a customer treat him to an experience he will never forget. You will have him and many more other through references. The word of mouth is the best form advertisement for small business i tell you.
4. A powerful brand demands very high moral authority. Don't be the person who vanishes whenever the clients makes full payments yet you have not completed a project. Let no one ever stand that you stole from her, you abused him/her, let your family be your alibi of the good person you are and it will catch on to the business. This will go a long way in building the networks. Don't short change people..NOBODY!Personal branding demands higher credibility. Credibility comes from trust.Moral authority is interrelated to credibility. Credibility and trust are central to protecting your brand equity! Nothing will kill your self confidence and self worth as taking a bribe and no matter how rich you become through this avenue, you will remain a weak brand in the market.
5. Adopt technology....this I can go on and on. But one area where technology helps according to me is giving one a global perspective. Like Iraki would say it helps one to think global and act local.
6. Finally learn and upgrade your skills to improve the brand you. be on the look out for new things which will give you the so called competitive edge and grab it before others. And this involves lot's of reading. You have to be an authority in what you are doing or talking about.
Haya let's see the personal brands coming up.

Why A Revolution will never BE in Kenya

For the young or at least the young with a proper share of ambition and energy— the point of understanding the world better has normally been, as Marx’s famous injunction suggests, to change it. And one of the principal obstacles that usually prevent them from doing so has been their elders, squatting there behind their ramparts, complacent and cynical. This is the real enemy, the “Old Guard,” masters of the institutions that they manipulate to serve their own interests, guardians of the military-industrial complex, rejecting reform because they’ve seen it all before and know it won’t work—in short, the kind of people that the young will themselves in due course become.

Looking into Kenya the youthful reformers, heroes and human right activists of the yester years are the today impediments of justice having become wazees in the system. A case of what in Oswald Mosley’s cruel phrase, a “Salvation Army that took to its heels on the Day of Judgment.”