Why saitoti lived in fear

I am very sharp and I will not fall into the trap. I am just waiting for my death, you will never fix kill me. I was jailed and nothing astounds me," Sonko revealed in a past interview as he explained why he had recently relocated his office to Upper Hill in Nairobi.

In the early days of his tenure in , Sonko had operated form Lilian Towers in Nairobi, where he paid rent amounting to Ksh 1. In May , he shifted his office to his Mua residence in Machakos county. He has at a number of times sacked and reshuffled his cabinet over allegations that they were working with his enemies. At one time, he added his own private guards to the governments four armed police bodyguards raising the number of his detail to around He went on to change his routine, who he hangs out with and who he meets.

In August, while in Nakuru, he ordered a hotel staffer to taste his food before he ate it due to fears of being poisoned. He even at one point snubbed his entourage at an airport and got onto the bus with passengers. In the main wars were in Nyanza Province Luoland where Kikuyu police shot down Luo protesters, around Eldoret where Kikuyu immigrants were burned out of their homes and murdered by Kalenjin, and in Nairobi where battles took place in the poor slum areas between different ethnic groups.

Hi Richard, I like your article but being that am a Kenyan by birth i have more information than you, you seem to be having fact right, but i can give you more insights into what has caused all the tribalism in Kenyan and the people who play tribal cards to gain whenever we are having an election. So sad the poor Kenyan irrespective of which tribe they come from will alway take sides Not knowing they are being used. So many mistakes. Saitoti is not of mixed parentage.

He is a full Kikuyu born in Gikambura and migrated to Masai area as a young lad. His official name till was George Kiarie Muthengi. Secondly, harambees are fund raising rallies where wanainchi give money for development projects. Usually there is no feast. Many mistakes but one stands out. Unlessas a journalist you have proof of which policemen they were, with names to affirm the tribe then one cannot write such a gross missleading statement.

The police force recruits Nationaly. Kenyans have allergy to truth and a penchant for attacking plain speakers. Good try but hard to take your article seriously. Musimbi, you are also wrong. Saitoti was given a Maasai name in the early 60s when he was leaving for further studies abroad. The late Reverend Christopher Rapasi, the next door neighbor, is said to have suggested the name. The reason he was given the name is because the Gikuyu who had been forcefully moved to Ngong mainly from Masailand where they had run away to escape persecution after the the declaration of emergency, were viewed as either Mau Mau or their sympathizers.

Please get your facts right. However, In this article, you needed to do some research before making public such level of inaccuracy. They are many but allow me to point out three. Firstly, you need to play Harambee spirit in Kenyan context. Reducing it to Nyama Choma and vote hunting phenomenon is too simplistic and a display of limited capacity to analyse Kenyan politics. Secondly, you seem to link the purge in the judiciary with Goldenberg Scandal. It is true that some of them were removed due to corruption, but it had little to do with their role in Goldenberg.

Thirdly, Yes, tribalism or negative ethnicity is rife in Kenya. But your analysis of Luo-Kikuyu divide assumes that they are not communities with millions of socially, economically and politically independent individuals. You reduce them to two people, who in electoral contest, will only have two choices. Correction, the author is right. If you want to get the truth on this statement as those from Migori about a certain police women who was killing even children.

And for your information, the kalenjin who was said to have shot a man in Kisumu was not found guilty as the bullet that killed the man was not from his gun. Get the facts right. Kenyans hate the Truth…your article is superb. Nangaya Musimbi,stop misleading Us,we are all Kenyans and we all know some fundraisers are political and people are even bribed for votes in this functions that is why Fundraising activities have been banned 6 Months to the election in the new constitution.

So what if Saitoti was Kikuyu or Maasai,what are those arguing about his ethnicity here trying to justify? So sad,how tribal Kenyans can be it is terribly disturbing!

Again Richard,kudos for your insight in this article. Keep them coming! Great article outlining how we Kenyans can be tribal. It is for a fact that people fight for what they do not know. One is in the slums, fights for some big fish out there who brainwashes their minds and at the end of the day remains in the slums with even worse conditions, for what????????

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