Ni upumbavu mtupu. Kilifi and Mombasa are not the only pwani because there is also Kwale and Lamu who are happy to be in kenya.

Utambembeleza wapumbavu wa mambo ya majini na sijui uchawi hadi lini? At some point, some may have to go their separate ways, I won't miss coconuts.

Let me ask a question here. I know its pointless but I will try it anyway.

There is a section of the population ( >40% ) that has been made to feel their voices cannot be heard and they do not matter anyway.

When they try to exercise their right to picket, a right granted by our constitution and reinforced by 4 high court rulings, we have ended up with 67 dead protesters. All killed by police in cold blood.

And now those people have decided to take a more passive approach. They want to have their voice heard by saying nothing. By keeping off. Going by the reaction here and elsewhere, I can say without fear, someone has heard them loud and clear.

Apart from Uhuru, we know almost everyone else in Jubilee is there to enrich themselves at the expense of the state. Hitting their pockets is a the best way to send a message they will hear. By taking away the one thing they love most.

Kameme Fm has been fundraising for prople who lost their property in Kawangware. No word for those who lost their lives. Three of those who died in Kawangware were Kiuks. But to Kameme, property rights trump the right to life.

The NASA team are simply saying, "we beg to differ, the right to life is supreme above everything else."

Lets all sit back and wait to see how this goes.

My take, Safaricom may survive but the other two................

During the civil rights movement, MLK got deflated in Albany Georgia. His movement was almost dealt a fatal blow by an intelligent cop.

Read it here.

"When the SCLC came to Albany, Georgia, the chief of police -- a man named Laurie Pritchett -- decided to avoid the traps that had ensnared his counterparts elsewhere in Dixie. Pritchett was a segregationist, but a clever one. Albany would have no police dogs, riot batons, or fire hoses. Instead, Pritchett would meet nonviolence with nonviolence. His officers were carefully trained to make arrests with minimum force. He contacted nearby towns to borrow their jails so that local cells were never overflowing with protesters. The arrests police made were for disturbing the peace, not for violating segregation laws. When King himself was jailed, drawing the nation’s attention to Albany, Pritchett arranged for his bail to be paid promptly. The result of all this maneuvering was a protest that generated very little news 2 -- and a segregated town that changed very little. Pritchett, went the saying at the time, had killed the movement with kindness."

Prof. Lukoye Atwoli says we are a society made up of very few intelligent people but a majority of dishonest characters.

people are taking these declarations too seriously.

1. on the boycott, it will be just like the demonstrations. expect parts of Nyanza and Western to boycott but 90% of the country to ignore. kwanza the boycott in those regions will mainly be driven by the threat of violence for distributors and small scale traders.

2. on coast seceding, hiyo ni ndoto. hata bila kuangalia the constitutional difficulties, coast region is a very fragmented and incoherent place. thinking that all ODM supporters in coast will support a sultan joho enclave is delusional. alafu they heavily rely on tourism. a chaotic agitation will effectively kill economic activity.

The main objective of devolution, which I see as "decentralization", is so difficult to distinguish from a paradoxical " succesful" secession, only here you secure an already existing bloc Kenya, they are already govoners,that port will be abandoned very fast, and Mombasa will turn into a lawless, jobless drug infested town in months, with no money, it will take years, they will still need to make regional agreements again, etc this is infantile ujinga just promoting the foolish power grabbing that goes in the middle east, somali and Mali etc and creating small lawless States which then go back to assistance from neighbours etc, total stupidity in lust of power, the same story over and over, wacha waende mapema!

How is boycotting products helping to achieve the right to life?

I get it... it's the subtler aspects of rights (a great idea by the way... very fictional but great!!). At what points do your rights end and mine begin? what should I do to communicate that - you have crossed the line ESPECIALLY to others who may attempt to cross it later? a slap on the wrist? a punch in the face? or.... death? and who does this 'enforcement'. Let's talk soberly - what do you do to a bunch of people who don't respect property rights?
Societies that progressed at one time drew a line using laws that supported this


Do you know why property rights are sacred? unlike say - opinion rights... Property is an extension of the person. A person's life is all about stacking this... based on the decisions/choices they take... the penalties the pay... the hours the put in... the sacrifices... the personal costs... people need to understand that some of the business they run over... plunder are like children of the owner.. like young babies always asking for attention... never giving the owner a break. anyone who has ever lifted a finger to start something knows this... COST


so forgive me if I don't empathize when a looter gets shot...

Agreed. what percentage do they contribute towards GDP? They actually take from the rest of the country. Port ikienda Lamu, that's the death of Mombasa.

Nyanza should be next.

What would you advise/recommend Kameme to do for the dead?

Am sure as a kiuk you know "Mathiko matietanagiruo".That is well taken care of.

The appeal is to return life to normal for the arson cases.The dead will be laid to rest and there is a system/mechanism for that.