County Budgetary Allocation, 2015/2016 FY

From the map above, counties that stand to gain the lions share of the government's budgetary allocation in the financial year 2015/2016 include: 

Nairobi with Ksh. 12.68 billion, Turkana Ksh.10.22 billion, Mandera Ksh. 8.73 billion, Kakamega Ksh.8.69 billion and Bungoma Ksh. 8.24 billion making up the list of the top five winners.

Counties with the least allocation include: Taita taveta at Ksh. 3.22 billion, Elgeiyo Marakwet Ksh. 3.19billion, Tharaka Nithi Ksh.3.06 billion, Isiolo Ksh.2.98 billion while Lamu gets the least allocation at Ksh. 2.0 billion.

Faith, Hope & Deception

Every human being born in this planet earth would spend over half their life looking for the truth. A higher power that can not only explain the complex nature of life events like natural disasters, deadly diseases like HIV/AIDS, cancer and now the Ebola -epidemic threatening to decimate the entire populations in western Africa. This emptiness is born out of desperation from reality.
The capitalist system doesn't help much where greed takes over as man aspires literally to eat his/her fellow man. Governments are held hostage by powerful cartels and ghosts controlling global trade and commodity prices while multinationals display their dominance through monopolies, oligopolies and government tenders.

The controversial Nairobi preacher

 Dr. Prophet Victor Kanyari 

of the Salvation Healing Ministry 

Church

The hoi pollois of the modern world struggle each day to eke out a living and as a consequence, reducing them to pathetic and hopeless beggars leaving from pay-check to pay-check, while debts keep mounting as they try to chase that elusive dream home funded through a 30 year mortgage plan whose interest rates alone eat up to 90% if their pay check.
So where does one turn to in such desperate and trying times. History has shown that drugs and religion lie at the very top. The former would turn you in to a junky who sells all his little property and wipe out lifetime savings just to satisfy that need. Before you know it you are so hooked and your system begins to deteriorate before eventually shutting down all the critical organs in the body leading to a slow and painful death.
The latter on the other hand, presents hope in the sense that one is promised about good things to come. This is mainly from religious organisations and sects. Muslim jihadists are promised seven virgins while Christians believe in heaven. Some unscrupulous preachers have discovered this gap and have established churches in almost every corner of the city.
This proliferation of churches has seen almost every house/hall in informal settlements like Kibera turned in to a church on Sundays. The situation is so bad such that multiple churches operate under the same roof with only iron sheet walls separating them, each with blazing speakers spewing a cacophony of deafening praise songs. One even wonders whether the congregation gets anything out of that pandemonium at the end of the day other than a pounding headache.

A map showing the distribution & concentration of religious organisations in the popular Kibera slums
in the Nairobi.

The preachers in those churches have turned them into money minting enterprises through the "selling of anointing oil" and miracles. Some have even mustered the art of trickery by faking miracles and coaching unemployed and desperate youths to give false witnesses as recorded by the Jicho Pevu crew in Nairobi. The pastors like Victor Kanyari have gone high-tech, broadcasting their fiery preachings on both television and radio stations while collecting 'seeds' electronically using the mobile money transfer technology like Mpesa and Airtel money. The unsuspecting victims-largely women- keep flocking his church with problems ranging from terminal illnesses, poverty, rocky marriages, unemployment and witchcraft to name but a few.
The prophet- as he (Victor Kanyari) likes calling himself- would instil fear using the now-so-popular scripture verse found in the book of Malachi 3:10, from which he coined his 310 shillings tithe message.
In the meantime, Kanyari and his army of conmen and women laugh all  the way to the bank, collecting money in the upwards of 200,000 shillings (USD 2,235) untaxed money per day. Soon people like him are spotted driving SUVs and relocating to leafy suburbs while their victims continue to languish in abject poverty waiting for their miracles.
The question that begs therefore is, what is the Truth and how does one find it? That's the one million dollar question that every human being strives to find the answer to every single day they wake up. But the answer lies somewhere if one looks hard enough...
While searching for this truth, we should be weary of the false prophets in these last days as outlined in the book of Matthew 24:11.

For UhuRuto, Its a Case of Let The Sleeping Dogs Lie

There has been so much hullabaloo around the ICC cases involving the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his co-accused deputy president William Ruto. The two ended up at the ICC following the violence that engulfed different parts of Kenya leading to the death of more than 1200 people while thousands others were rendered homeless and displaced in internally displaced people's camps (IDP), as neighbour turned against neighbour to settle old scores. The genesis of tribal clashes in Kenya have a very long history but the most politically charged has always involved the Kalenjin and the Kikuyu communities in the Rift valley. The latter are said to have been settled there illegally by the first president of Kenya who happens to be the father of the current sitting president, Uhuru Kenyatta.

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto at a past political rally.

The violence resulted after the then opposition party Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), lead by their party leader Raila Odinga, accused the Party of National Unity (PNU) led by the former president Mwai Kibaki, of rigging the 2007 elections. Mwai Kibaki was declared the duly elected president and sworn in by the defunct electoral body (ECK) officials late in the evening before fundamental issues raised by the opposition were addressed. The losers of the elections, threatened to call for mass action if their grievances were not adequately addressed, including, but not limited to, a recount of votes from areas where massive rigging was reported to have occured. That is when all hell broke lose in the country.
William Ruto, using his vernacular in public rallies, was accused of inciting the Kalenjin community to attack the Kikuyu community settled in the Rift Valley at the time and who voted for Mwai Kibaki.They were derogatorily referred to as "madoa doa" - to mean spots or unwanted people in swahili- following the election loss.
Uhuru Kenyatta on the other hand was seen as the Kikuyu "saviour" by his people and is reported to have mobilised Kikuyu vigilante groups and resources clandestinely in order to counter this onslaught from the Kalenjin people since Mwai Kibaki - who mainly relied on state machinery, perceived to be partisan at the time-apparently was not doing enough or moving first enough to save the suffering people.
William Ruto, who was one of the key members of ODM party, later on fell apart politically with his party leader Raila Odinga who at the time was the Prime Minister in a coalition government crafted by the coalition of eminent personalities led by Kofi Annan as an attempt to stem the violence which was getting out of hand. Ruto felt betrayed and abandoned by the same man he fought for, after Raila Odinga failed to defend him when his name was mentioned among the key suspects of the post election violence set to face charges at the international criminal court (ICC) at the Hague in the Netherlands.
Prior to this, the political opponents both from ODM  and PNU political parties, failed to set up a local judicial mechanism to bring to book the perpetrators of the violence that rocked the country. At the time, the two sides felt that their supporters were justified in what they did, and subjecting them to a local judicial process would amount to utter betrayal and a slap in the face. The cases were therefore referred to the ICC through the famous/infamous envelop containing names of key financiers and organisers of the violence. This was one of the recommendations by judge Philip Waki who was the chairperson of the commission investigating the violence and crimes following the elections.

Youths in carry Raila Odinga's portrait during the violence (Reuters)

Several key government officials including members of the opposition party like William Ruto were named as key suspects by the former ICC chief prosecutor Lois Moreno Ocampo and the rest as they say is history.
Following this predicament, William Ruto and Uhuru Kenyatta became unlikely allies who felt victimised for what they may or may not have done. In the 2013 elections, Uhuru Kenyatta & Ruto decided to run as president and deputy president respectively, which pundits perceived at the time as a scheme to shield them from persecution once they ascend to power.
It's against this backdrop that one can only conclude that these two gentleman CANNOT set up a local tribunal to try the so-called small fish, consisting of foot soldiers who killed, maimed, raped, drove away populations, destroyed and stole properties of other innocent Kenyans, all of which amounts to crimes against humanity. Confronting the ghost of the 2007 post election violence, would be a threat to their coalition government since it would involve persecuting their loyal supporters. Even setting up a truth, justice and reconciliation mechanism seems like a tall order when there's an easier option of burying your head in the sand as it were.
Unless Kenyans confront the truth, the historical enmity between the Kikuyu, Kalenjin  and any other communities out there would remain a powder keg whose explosive potential would always rely on the existing political coalitions and atmosphere, while innocent people continue to live on the edge not knowing how tomorrow would turn out if they happen to be on the wrong side of politics.
Setting up reconciliation commissions would only go too far especially when they are politically driven and lacking in credibility and transparency. As long as historical injustices and crimes against humanity remain unresolved in this country, successive governments will always be haunted until justice is not only done, but is seen to have been done!