Governor Miguna Miguna VISION for NAIROBI COUNTY

Miguna Miguna on JKL Show/Photo by Standard Digital

PART I - Published on Facebook on March 14, 2016 11:30 pm

“We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.” – Che Guevera.

Kenya is at a crossroads. If the 2017 elections is mismanaged, bungled or rigged, there will be apocalyptic violence, which could quickly degenerate into a civil war.

A civil war means senseless loss of innocent lives and wanton destruction of property. It would also mean the end of peace, stability and prosperity as we have known them.

Such a grim prospect must be avoided. Yet, we cannot prevent such catastrophe if we continue electing thieves, looters, drug runners, liars and hypocrites; people who will say just about anything to get elected so that they can continue stealing our money and public land.

We have clear choices in the forthcoming elections: we can choose to continue with the same scandals, thieves, looters and drug lords, or we can choose clean, progressive and committed leaders whose overriding goal is the elimination of graft, rot and flagrant waste.

Our country has slid into a quagmire of moral and financial decadence. To lift it out of this morass, we urgently need courageous, honest and disciplined leaders capable of transforming it.

Those "leaders" who have stashed away our wealth in foreign banks, build properties all over with our money, bribed judges and compromised our institutions of governance must be rejected by the people.

I urge Kenyans to register as voters in huge numbers and turn out to vote for progressive leaders who are committed to the transformation agenda.

We will soon be unveiling our website and progressive platforms. Please donate generously to our cause. We have your interests at heart and are committed to the transformation, reconstruction and clean governance we have been waiting for since independence.

The thieves, looters and drug dealers may hope to use the billions of shillings they stole from us to cause confusion, buy votes, compromise the rotten IEBC and undermine the progressive agenda. However, they cannot and will never kill our urge, desire and commitment to clean up our society once and for good.

The time is Now!

Your Loyal Servant, Governor Miguna Miguna

My Commitment for Nairobi City County, 2017 – Part II

I am a candidate for the position of Nairobi City County Governor in 2017.

I am an INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE.

I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics and philosophy from the University of Toronto; a Juris Doctor (JD) from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University; and a Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the same institution.

I am an honest Kenyan with integrity. I am committed to justice and equality for all.

I don’t belong to any political party or coalition. My ‘tribal’ and ‘political’ coalitions are my patriotism, unimpeachable background and an unyielding commitment to the fundamental transformation of Kenya.

I have been involved in the progressive struggle for positive change and reconstruction of Kenya for my entire life.

I have fought for, and written about, freedom from all forms of exploitation, inequality and injustice.

I strongly oppose tribalism, corruption and domination.

I have never stolen a penny from anyone. I have never bribed anyone. I have never been involved in any corrupt practice.

I believe in equity.

I believe that everyone is entitled to equal opportunity in life.

I undertake to provide equal employment opportunities for those with the requisite qualification and integrity.

There shall be ZERO tolerance to tribalism, sexism, corruption and discrimination based on any identifiable grounds.

My administration shall operate on the basis that all residents, visitors and businesses in Nairobi have a right to basic services such as a secure and safe environment to live and operate businesses in; adequate clean water; efficient and affordable transport, health care and educational systems; a clean, healthy and productive environment; functioning emergency services; clean, renewable and affordable energy; and a 24-hour accountable, transparent and respectful public service.

I am fully committed to the implementation of systems that will prevent, detect and act on any corrupt or unethical conduct and misfeasance in public office.

I believe in both equality and parity between men and women and shall unveil a 50-50 gender administration at the Nairobi City County in 2017.

All appointments in my government shall be advertised and candidates competitively recruited based only on three criteria: demonstrable qualification, competence and integrity.

Senior members of my administration such as county executive members, principal secretaries, directors and other such positions shall be subjected to public and professional vetting.

Anyone with a criminal record, or who has been dismissed for incompetence or corruption, or who is facing active prosecution, shall be disqualified from holding any public office in my government.

Comprehensive wealth and lifestyle audits of all senior and mid-level county officers shall be conducted by an independent and credible forensic audit firm prior to the assumption of office.

My government shall implement an effective “Whistleblower” regime. There will be total immunity and protection for whistleblowers.

We intend to create The Nairobi City County Asset Recovery Unit (ARU), which shall be headed by an internationally head-hunted and respected chief executive. The ARU shall review all previous Auditor General’s Reports, Parliamentary Audit Reports, the Ndung’u Land Commission Report, Kroll Investigative Report and other investigative reports for purposes of initiating public asset recovery proceedings against past and present looters.

All proceeds of crime and public assets recovered by the ARU shall be open for public verification before being deployed in massive youth employment, empowerment and reconstruction projects.

Within three months after assuming power, we shall actively source funds and embark on the construction of pedestrian walkways, bicycle lanes, under-passes and over-passes in all parts of Nairobi, especially in Kibera, Mathare, Lang’ata, Dagoreti, Dandora, Umoja, Kawangware, Huruma, Kangemi, Korogocho, Majengo, Mukuru wa Njenga, Baba Ndogo, Kayole, Roysambu, Fuata Nyayo, Eastleigh, Kariobangi, Buru Buru, Embakasi, Nyalenda, Ziwa la Ng’ombe, Greenfields, Donholm, Kasarani, and Kahawa.

All children in Nairobi will have access to safe and well-maintained recreational parks (including amusement parks) and gardens. We believe that having a healthy, active and educated population is an insurance policy against poverty, stagnation and decadence.
My team believes that education, hard work, industry and discipline are the essential ingredients for building a prosperous society.

We abhor the decadent culture embraced and celebrated by our political opponents which promote looting, robbery, drug running and dishonesty as means of making money.

We are presented with a clear choice: You have a dedicated, tested and clean leader committed to transforming Nairobi versus thieves, looters and drug lords.

If we don’t use this opportunity to take back Nairobi County from the criminal syndicates, they will continue their destructive habits and make us a narco county.

Join me in cleaning up Nairobi of destructive and endless political brinkmanship; run away corruption; incompetence; tribalism; wastefulness; and profligacy.

Let us turn out in huge numbers and vote for the most able candidate and team.

Chant with me our clarion call:
MY VOTE, MY POWER!
YOUR VOTE, YOUR POWER!
OUR VOTE, OUR POWER!

THIS IS THE TIME, TO GET RID OF THIEVES AND THUGS;
WAKATI NI SASA, WA KUMALIZA UFISADI
THIS IS THE TIME, TO CLEAN UP CITY HALL
WAKATI NI SASA, KUWEKA WEZI WA MALI YA UMMA KOROKORONI

THIS IS THE TIME!
THIS IS THE TIME!
THIS IS THE TIME. TIK TOK, TIK TOK.

My Commitment for Nairobi City County, 2017 – Part III

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” ― Frederick Douglass

And so I say to the Majestic People of Nairobi; get ready. Arm yourselves with your votes in your millions. Mobilize. Organize. Face the enemies of the people - the drug lords, the thieves, the looters, the brutes and their agents - in gallantry, confidence and fearlessness.

We are at war with the forces and agents of backwardness, cruelty, greed, corruption and tribalism.

We fought against colonialism and won. But our victory was stolen and usurped by thugs masquerading in suits as leaders.

We fought against the totalitarian one party rule and won. But the parasites conspired and undermined our victory. They formed many parties pretending that they were democratic. But all of them are dominated and autocratically controlled by tribal chiefs, corruption cartels and the same drug lords that made KANU suffocating.

We entrenched devolution in the Constitution so that power, services, our labour and wealth could benefit us and not continue to be usurped by the neocolonial thugs.

But the thieves, racketeers and drug lords emerged with new tricks and deceptive methods. They have formed cartels to keep looting our wealth, exploiting our labour and have turned us into paupers at whom they throw peanuts and crumbs.

The thugs, drug lords and economic racketeers have stashed our wealth in Geneva, Switzerland, Panama and other off shore destinations.

The so-called leaders, most of whom hardly went to school, now live in exclusive and heavily guarded residential areas; enjoy the comforts of private members' clubs and vacation abroad when most of us cannot afford to take our children to school; we cannot have decent meals; most of us live in hovels, drink dirty water and scavenge like pigs.

Instead of devolving power, the thieves and drug lords have devolved corruption and theft. They now wear their expensive blings, suits and drive expensive foreign vehicles while we walk.

The drug lords and economic bandits have artificially created poverty through high unemployment, high commodity prices and super-inflation.

We entrenched the Bill of Rights in the Constitution yet we still cannot hold peaceful demonstrations or even petition the crooks in suits without being brutalized by heavily armed police, paramilitary formations like the GSU and militias such as the menacing Nairobi City Kanjos.

The drug lords and thieves have made elections a farce. Instead of free and fair elections, they manipulate the process and declare themselves winners. The term "free, fair and democratic elections" have lost meaning.

Instead of passing good laws, adhering to those laws and protecting and preserving our wealth; the thieves and drug lords have depleted our coffers and mortgaged our future.

Instead of uniting us, the so-called leaders are busy dividing us into tribes and antagonizing us against one another.

While they dine, enjoy and vacation together, these modern agents of confusion tell us to be suspicious of one another.

While they meet in parliament, private members' clubs and off shore banks, they tell us that we are either Jubilant or Corded and that these two political groupings are naturally repellent against each other.

The drug lords and thieves whose salaries cannot make them billionaires are now suddenly richer than the counties that they were supposed to develop. They have betrayed their oath of office; betrayed our trust; and violated the constitution and laws they themselves had passed recently.

Under the circumstances, we, The Majestic People of Nairobi, have no option but to mobilise ourselves in small and large groups; in our hovels; apartments; houses; and on the streets in order to demonstrate to the usurpers of power - the thugs, crooks, thieves and drug lords - that WE ARE A SOVEREIGN AND FREE PEOPLE.

We must rise up and remove all the thieves and drug lords from their elevated perches in 2017.

Let freedom ring!

Chant with me our clarion call:
MY VOTE, MY POWER!
YOUR VOTE, YOUR POWER!
OUR VOTE, OUR POWER!

THIS IS THE TIME, TO GET RID OF THIEVES AND THUGS;
WAKATI NI SASA, WA KUMALIZA UFISADI

THIS IS THE TIME, TO CLEAN UP CITY HALL;
WAKATI NI SASA, KUWEKA WEZI WA MALI YA UMMA KOROKORONI

THIS IS THE TIME!
THIS IS THE TIME!
THIS IS THE TIME. TIK TOK, TIK TOK.

My Commitment for Nairobi City County, 2017 – Part IV

IMPORTANT NOTICE
(Re-Tweet & disseminate widely)

This is to inform everyone including @TwitterKenya that my official Twitter handle is @MigunaMiguna and my official Face Book Page is: Governor Miguna Miguna.

My campaign will also be using #Miguna4Nairobi; #Miguna4NairobiGovernor; #MigunaMigunaTeam; and #MigunaTransformativeTeam to promote this fantastic agenda for the peasants, the working poor, the unemployed, the suffering youth, the extorted businesses and the patriotic and progressive citizens of Nairobi.

Any other social media accounts purporting to belong to me are parodies or fakes. Those accounts might have been started by my detractors or supporters before or after my good friend @KoinangeJeff persuaded me to become a member of this vibrant cyber community.

The time has now come for those parodies or fake accounts to be exposed, discarded or ignored as they distract from our transformative agenda, platform and campaign for Nairobi City County gubernatorial seat in 2017.

I urge my team and supporters to remain vigilant, disciplined and focused on our agenda to clean up Nairobi City County of corruption cartels, tribalism, lethargy and incompetence.

We are committed to making devolution work.

Nairobi residents pay very high taxes in tens of billions of shillings each year. However, for more than five years since we ratified the Constitution, 2010; more than Shs.100 billion of our tax money meant for development, improvement of infrastructure, job creation and the provision of basic services have been stolen by those we entrusted with the responsibility of leadership.

The current Nairobi City Governor and his cartels have looted public coffers and stashed away billions of our money in his more than 15 bank accounts in Kenya and abroad. According to the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Auditor General's reports, @KideroEvans has misappropriated more than Shs.80 billion of our hard-earned money in the last two years alone. Between himself, his Chief of Staff and the Chief Financial Officer, they salted away all our money, built and bought themselves palaces and properties all over the world when poor citizens are left starving.

The Nairobi City County Senator @MikeSonko whose job and primary mandate was to be @KideroEvans' watchman and to ensure that none of our tax money was stolen has never uttered a word in the Senate. Unfortunately, Nairobi residents had elected a functionally illiterate drug lord as their senator and a well-known thief who had bankrupted Mumias sugar farmers as their governor. These two hideously corrupt and incorrigible characters have conspired to keep Nairobi residents impoverished and ignorant so that they can hold them ransom on their filthy handouts.

A pathetic drug lord who dropped out of form 2 (grade 10) has suddenly become a billionaire, thanks to the deadly drug addiction our children are currently hooked on and dying from. The other pathetic character, @KideroEvans has been employed all his life. For the most part, he has been earning modest salaries as an employee of various entities. His salary could not have made him a multi-billionaire. All the billions @KideroEvans has stolen from Nairobi City County must be recovered, restored back to its rightful owners so that we can use the funds to create jobs and stimulate the economy.

I am fully committed to the provision of basic or essential services such as clean running water; health services; garbage collection, disposal and treatment; quality and humane housing; efficient transportation system; security and a viable environment for industry, business, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.

I believe that the creation of job opportunities for our youth must be the central focus of any government and it shall be of my administration.

The youth is a reservoir of vibrancy, creativity and productive energy, which are the motors of our economic development and cultural renaissance. However, neglected, ignored and/or exploited as they currently are, the youth can also potentially pose a threat to themselves and our security and development. My government will not allow that to occur.

My campaign continues to emphasize that success, development and prosperity must be based on education, hard work, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and industry; not theft, looting or dishonesty as it has now become fashionable in our society.

Ultimately, my campaign is based on honesty and integrity. We eschew all forms of discrimination, particularly those based on ethnicity, class, gender, region and religion. We believe in gender equality and equity.

We rely on facts to dismantle lies, misinformation and negative propaganda by our opponents. Whereas our status-quo opponents claim that they are better suited to be elected as the governor of Nairobi, it is edifying that their so-called qualifications consist exclusively of their legendary exploits in the theft, looting and bankrupting of public assets such as Mumias Sugar Company and Nairobi City County.

Virtually all my opponents have been or are currently occupying important positions in Government. One is the governor who has inflicted most fatal wounds in the Nairobi City County's coffers. The other is the senator who has never uttered a word in the Senate; has never sponsored a bill to bring accountability to Nairobi City Hall; has never engineered a summons of @KideroEvans for his looting exploits; has been terrorizing Nairobi residents with illicit drugs and heavily armed goons; and has thrived on dishing bribes to residents while pretending to be generous.

Two others are current MPigs who have never sponsored a bill nor initiated a process of bringing the thieves at Nairobi City Hall to account. These two belong to the Jubilee ruling coalition. Yet they have never utilized their access to power at the national executive to bring order and accountability at City Hall.
The other is a preacher whose remit at the moment should be the spiritual rehabilitation of our youth addicted to drugs and being misused by drug lords, pimps and human traffickers. She, too, was not just an MPig, but a member of the cabinet in the previous Grand Coalition Government. Like her MPig colleagues, she did absolutely nothing for Nairobi residents when she was an MPig and a member of the cabinet.

Those are my opponents. A miss-mash of political potato salad: people without any clear progressive ideological commitments or agendas; a group of people driven by unadulterated greed and chauvinistic tendencies. Virtually every single one of them has presided over the looting and desecration of Nairobi City County. Ironically, rather than use their stolen wealth to create jobs and make the youth financially independent, they have constructed huge bill boards along the major Nairobi streets, looking down upon the people while pretending to be philanthropists.

Any genuine philanthropist doesn't give handouts; s/he establishes a foundation or charity. A genuine philanthropist does not call attention to themselves nor do they run around with heavily armed thugs. None of my opponents are philanthropists: they are simply callous and poorly educated opportunists.

Any genuine philanthropist doesn't give handouts; s/he establishes a foundation or charity. A genuine philanthropist does not call attention to themselves nor do they run around with heavily armed thugs.

None of my opponents are philanthropists: they are simply callous and poorly educated opportunists.

People need rescue operations to the emergency departments because they cannot take care of themselves. People need rescue operations to release the deceased from hospitals and funeral homes because they are poor.

My commitment is to create job opportunities, grow businesses and support the private sector so that the unemployed are able to have gainful employment and become financial secure and independent.

I am going to bring a revolution, transformation and restructuring to Nairobi City County. These are long lasting and far-reaching changes; not Band-Aids like the "Sonko Rescue Team." These rescues take people to hospitals or to bury the dead.

My commitment is to make Nairobi a healthy and productive place to live and prosper in; not for recuperation, death or burials. Only a sick society needs rescues and recuperation.

The Nairobi City County I intend to build will not need self-serving rescue operations. After all, why would a public or state officer abscond from his duty of providing basic necessities such as publicly funded and operated ambulatory, police and fire services?

To the Majestic People of Nairobi: Vet all the candidates scrupulously. Examine their backgrounds forensically. Do not elect anyone based on how much money or wealth they have or how much handouts they can dish. Elect a governor you can trust. Elect a governor with integrity. Do not allow yourselves to be swayed by political euphoria, coalition confusion or tribal/ethnic considerations.

Remember that you are NOT electing Jubilee or Cord to be governor. @KideroEvans has spectacularly failed Nairobi despite being a member of ODM/Cord. @MikeSonko has completely failed as an MPig and senator despite being a member of Jubilee/JP.

Political parties, coalitions and ethnic groups don't govern: individuals do.
I am contesting as a patriotic Kenyan who is committed to the public good. I undertake to transform governance at the Nairobi City County; clean up City hall of corruption cartels; stop the massive theft of public resources and tribalism. These three, together with waste, lethargy and incompetence have brought us misery and suffering.

I count on all of you for support, guidance and regeneration.

VIVA TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE!
THIS IS THE TIME!
THANK YOU.
MIGUNA MIGUNA, APRIL 10, 2016

‪#‎Miguna4Nairobi‬; ‪#‎Miguna4NairobiGovernor‬; ‪#‎MigunaMigunaTeam‬; and‪#‎MigunaTransformativeTeam‬

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