In 94?
So? What does 1994 have to do with anything?
You were good but not the best. You were average.
'94 it wasn’t easy …but I wouldn’t expect you ta know
Hii 3rd wave, ni designer virus, custom made for mwafrika , ama kunaenda aje ?
Moi believed in destroying whole GDP sectors, so as to subjugate the populace.
Wivu tu. You like the place, uuh? Kikuyus have been in power for the past 19 years, so why haven’t you revived cash crop farming in Central? Or sugarcane farming in Western? Or cotton farming in Nyanza?
Reversing Moi’s 24 years of corruption is not easy. Moi didn’t just destroy businessmen or their businesses he destroyed whole industries.
For instance how do you revive cotton production in Nyanza? It’s virtually impossible because the whole industry was destroyed and Moi made sure he opened the gates for Mitumba to flood in so that the Luos can never recover. It wss very strategically done. Down to the likes of Biwott starting Deacons clothing.
Imagine if allschool uniforns were made using Nyanza Cotton what impact that would have on Nyanza farmers. The Odinga’s war with Nyayo killed that industry.
The manufacturer who bought the cotton from the Luo farmer was totally destroyed. The shops that bought that cotton stopped buying local goods and instead imported cheap fabrics or clothing. In short Moi used to destroy the whole pipeline from producer to the end user.
If you look at pyrethrum growing in Limuru again that whole industry was dismantled in a way that it can’t ever be revived.
And at the individual level if you look at examples e.g Matiba , Moi hit you in a way that you would never recover financially, ever!
If you look at city politics e.g Nairobi, Moi broke up the Kikuyu hegemony by flooding the city with outsiders. You look at places like Dagoretti or Kawangware they were taken over by Luhyas carted in by Mudavadi’s father.
If you look at Kasarani , Ruaraka its gone. Everything Moi did was so strategic that to undo his crime is nearly impossible.
If you look at sports Moi took the Kalienjin youth into the police and army. To this day Kalenjin sportsmen are millionaire athletes. This was not by accident. This was very strategic.
The njaruo, luhya and Kikuyu sports e.g Soccer, boxing, rugby etc. Moi killed those sports very deliberately by defunding them.
Meanwhile his Kalenjins are earning salaries as corrupt police officers and at the same time making millions in Perlin half maraton wal chambio, stibble chase wal chambio Eliut Kipchoke.
If you look at education. Look at how Moi abandoned schools in Central e.g K.U or even Nairobi uni and look at the campuses he built in his region e.g Moi Uni or Moi Kabarak.
Look at hospitals. Abandons KNH in favour of hospitals in his regon bearing his name. He abandoned roads in Central and Nyanza in favour of roads in his region.
@T.Vercetti I asked a simple question. Kikuyus have been in power for the past two decades. What have you done about cotton industry in Nyanza? Or sugarcane industry in Western? The two billions stolen everyday by the Kikuyu mafia can go a long way in reviving those industries.
Blaming Moi because of Kalenjins’ athletic excellence is stupidity by all measures. Even the whole world knows that our prowess in the field is largely due to genetics. In fact, not all Kalenjins can run, just a small section in the North Rift.
On matters health and education, Moi simply spread out national prosperity to all parts of the country and reversed Kenyatta’s ethnic favorism towards his Kikuyus. During Moi’s time, education reached even minorities such as Borana, Turkana etc. Kenyatta was only concerned with entrenching Kikuyus in power and grabbing land from everyone else.
On Kalenjins in police and army, why are you forgetting that some mofos once tried to overthrow him? Even if I was in his position, once you try that shit on me, I would only trust my kinsmen in the forces.
On non-Kikuyus flooding Nairobi, you must be joking! Kikuyus should be the last people hating on outsiders. Why? Simply because you are everywhere in the country like bacteria and no one complains.
Si nimejibu hili swali. Your slow bonono brain cannot connect dots.
Moi destroyed industries in ways that they couldn’t be revived even with funding.
He opened the doors to mitumba clothing to teach the Odinga’s a lesson. Not unless you ban mitumba entirely and render thousands jobless, reviving cotton in Nyanza and elsewhere like Uhuru is trying is a very tough endevour.
Sugarcane the same! It was Moi who opened the doors to sugar importation. Sugar production in Wrstern Kenya died.
And it was very deliberate. When they asked for money Moi would dither to teach the likes of Shikuku a good lesson.
All it takes to revive those industries is one policy and government goodwill. What is stopping the Kikuyu government from passing laws that will ban mitumba? Uuh? Because Kikuyus are mostly in the mitumba business? What is stopping the government from banning the importation of cheap Brazilian sugar? Uuh? Because Kikuyu mafia makes billions from the same? In fact, with Uhuru being in power, we are back to square one.
But did you see Jomo Kenyatta destroying Jaramogi’s cotton farming?
Even when they were the very worst of enemies Jomo Kenyatta still worked to improve Nyanza. Jomo Kenyatta supported soccer Gor Mahia 100%. The Kenyatta family still does to this day.
That is the difference. Moi was crazy. His politics were personal to the point of destroying whole communities.
If you look at Uhuru Kenyatta despite the heated competition between him and Raila he still sought the handshake so he could build roads in Nyanza!
With Moi when you became his opponent he used the NSIS to research on how to destroy you, your mother, your father , your clan, your village, your district, your province, your friends and relatives etc etc.
People ran away to foreign lands because Moi was crazy.
Moi was a psychopath. I remember Kibor once saying that they used to beg him to forgive an opponent juu once he started punishing you only death could save you and your family.
FYI Kibaki first revived rivatex via Moi University and Uhuru has gone a step further to revive the dead factory :
https://agoa.info/news/article/3983-kenya-policy-measures-to-enhance-value-addition.html
patco utakufa siku gani nichinje kuku ama bata?
@T.Vercetti You have just defined all the Kenyan presidents, exception being Kibaki, to be fair.
You have simply explained how the 1st Kenyatta would assassinate his opponents such as JM Kariuki, Pio Gama, Tom Mboya (backstabbing) and even tormented his former friends like Jaramogi.
You have also explained how Kenyatta’s government neglected the Nyanza region because of the opposition politics of his government, and even at one point ordered the shooting of Luos on basis of what he termed as defiance or disrespect.
In fact, the only reason his son has not done worse in oppressing his opponents is because of devolution which enables each county to have their own money, and of course our new constitution.
Lets not forget that Uhuru recently banned mitumba.
But reality forced him to lift the ban. Do you not see how diffucult it is to deal with Moi’s 24 years of criminality?
Which reality? That people will lose jobs? Then if that’s the case, Moi was right in opening the country for Mitumba. If Uhuru is a great leader or with brains, he would simply revive the cotton industry and replace the jobs lost as a result of banning Mitumba.
Great leaders reverse bad policies of their predecessors within one to three years. If your government cannot do it in 19 years, then you’re beyond help. You’re fu*cked up for life.
Pio Gama Pinto was a socialist. The CIA probably did him in. Have you readany of his writings? The guy was a dyed in the wool soviet.
JM kariuki was eaten by his fellow hyenas. He was a hyena pretending to be a good hyena. The guy was a mbirrionea who turned on his fellow mbirrioneas in his quest to become president.
Tom Mboya was no angel. This guy was a union thug. To this day we still experience the wrath of his unions.
And I have not said Jomo Kenyatta neglected Nyanza in fact he did the opposite. It was during Kenyatta’s time that Nyanza flourished despite Jaramogi’s constant attenpts at govt. It was Moi who neglected Nyanza and DELIBERATELY destroyed their fishing and cotton farming. I know people who worked in Nyanza as Agricultural officers during both Jomo Kenyatta and Moi’s govt and they will tell you that Jomo’s govt worked very hard to improve the lives of Luo farmers. During Moi’s era these officers were retrenched and all their hard work was lost.
That is what Uhuru is doing. And before Uhuru , Kibaki tried to revive cotton farming as well as rivatex.
And these things are not not easy because Moi destroyed the chain that existed between the cotton farmer and the owner of the duka.
It’s amazing how you cannot connect the dots