“I SHALL BE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT IN 2022: OUR ROAD-MAP FOR REDEEMING KENYA FROM ITS CURRENT STATUS & WHY KENYANS MUST SPEAK LOUDLY AT THE BALLOT AND MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE”
Date: March 7, 2022
1. Today is a special day for all of us. I stand here to submit my application to you, my potential employers, the Kenyan voters, and to request that you hire me as the next chief executive of Kenya for the next five years. As far as I can recall, there is no presidential aspirant to date this year who has made an application to the voters; some have made declarations that they are running, but on my part, I elect to apply for the job.
2. I will run for this position for the second time, knowing very well the complexities involved in not only winning the race, but also running the government effectively. I request that you consider this application alongside that of all other applicants. Interrogate our plans and proposals to lead our beloved Kenya to prosperity.
THE 2022/23 BUDGET
3. Our function today deliberately coincides with the budget reading. This is the 10th budget for the Jubilee. We expect nothing much from this budget just like the situation has been in the last 10 years of the Jubilee administration. Budgeting has been the genesis of all our economic problems. The Jubilee government has used the budgeting process as a platform to pre- plan stealing of public resources. After spending over 22.5 trillion in the last 9 years, this administration has left a trail of economic destruction that has made our people poor and miserable. The last 10 years of the Jubilee Administration has been a continuous reminder of the betrayal of the Independence promises: that we shall eradicate disease, ignorance, and poverty. The status in our country and among Kenyans today, is more misery than we were at independence.
4. Today’s budget will have nothing new; 80% of our revenues are going to debt repayment leaving us to borrow to pay salaries and other recurrent expenditure. Borrowing to fund recurrent expenditure is unconstitutional and goes against the provisions of the Public Financial Management Act and Article 201 of the Constitution of Kenya Government’s own statistics show that Kenyans are poorer under this administration that has been priding itself to have built more roads, connected more people with electricity, etc., but has failed to improve the lives of our people.
5. To demonstrate how this administration has succeeded in making Kenyans poorer, we have done a case study below of a Kenyan “vegetarian” with a family of 3 living in Nairobi and earning KES, 50,000 per month. In the case study, the Kenyan only feeds the family with maize flour as the basic staple food.
A CASE STUDY
6. This individual is left with a shortfall of KES 10, 558, and cannot afford other life basics. At this rate, a Kenyan earning 50,000 per month will end up with over KES 120,000 in This clearly demonstrates why the Jubilee administration and all its enablers need to go. Kenyans should already begin to shun any surrogates of the Jubilee Administration including those who have been in this government. We need a fresh start with honest and authentic leadership.
7. Detailed spending schedule
A. WHAT THEN IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM? IT IS THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS OF DECADES BY THE SAME PEOPLE & THEIR SURROGATES
8. Kenya suffers from a leadership crisis – emanating from a greedy, lawless, feckless, rogue and dishonest leadership whose only interest is to use the government in order to access and primitively amass wealth at the expense of the This is the elephant in the room and must be confronted on August 9, 2022. How families that have held the presidency have ended up being billionaires without innovating anything is a clear indication of fraud, theft of public resources and abuse of office. Kenyans must unite to end this culture, where robbers, economic saboteurs steal from the people and behind their tribes for protection.
9. To dish out Kshs 6,000 per month (which is a lie), wheelbarrows or giving loans or grants to our citizens to do business will not solve the leadership crisis in Kenya. We have to confront the corrupt leadership, now! This problem must be confronted head on. The inequality in Kenya has been cultivated by irresponsible leaders.
LET ME NOW TELL YOU WHY WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT OF KENYA
10. My profile is available online, but I will briefly state that I bring on board my experience as a teacher of law, legal practitioner, government advisor, constitutional expert, public administrator, politician and most importantly the commitment to serve the people of Kenya. I have the necessary skills to steer Kenya out of the current crisis.
11. We all agree that there is an urgent need to:
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- Restore rule of law – defend the constitutional and annihilate theft of public money and other resources.
- Spur economic growth
- Urgently annihilate poverty
- Be Self-sufficient in food supply
- Clean up the statehouse and all ministries
- Address the huge public debt and stop reckless borrowing
- Tame the ever-rising recurrent
- And most importantly, reduce the burden of governance k.a Punguza Mizigo in Kenya
WHY WE NEED TO COMPLETELY OVERHAUL TOP LEADERSHIP IN KENYA
12. Kenya’s independence was a stillbirth; the ordinary man and woman are still enslaved by colonialists. What changed in 1963 is the skin color of the colonialists, but the terms of enslavement remain the same or even worse. For far too long, the trees have lived with the axe, trusting that the axe will liberate the trees. No current leader in Kenya, including the current president, can coherently explain why Kenya cannot feed her people after 59 of independence; no one. After 10 years of the Jubilee government, the majority of our youth are still jobless and are desperately struggling to make ends There are no words that can explain how over KES 23 trillion has been expended in 9 years and a majority of our people still live in abject poverty.
13. Today, there is an attempt to install surrogates of this same administration in August 2022. This reminds me of the colonial succession plan when the colonialists handed over Kenya to their economic and political This was a continuity of colonialism under different skin color. We are witnessing the same attempt in 2022 with the Jubilee Administration. Kenyans must wake up and expose that mischief.
HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THE CURRENT QUAGMIRE?
14. The Jubilee Government and its principals; – Uhuruto-Raila and all current governors have deliberately impoverished more Kenyans than any other previous regime. Deliberately impoverishing a whole generation, killing them painfully with hunger, and exposing them to the vagaries of poverty is a crime against humanity.
15. As a people, we must not sit back like collaborators and give this cabal another chance to instill pain on us We must explore all legal and viable options available to bring to an end of this parasitic leadership in Kenya. Inept leadership is mizigo. If we make a mistake and allow this cabal near power in August, we shall have to live with the consequences. Uhuruto-Raila has demonstrated to all Kenyans how citizens’ lives can be messed up by irresponsible leadership.
B. THE ROAD MAP TO BUILDING RESPONSIVE LEADERSHIP
16. A large majority of Kenyans agree that we are in one of the worst economic and governance crises since independence. To come out of this, we must deliberately use our votes to install the right leadership in August. To do that we must approach this election differently.
17. We, as a people, must as a matter of urgency, address the following issues:
ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE LEADERSHIP
18. For us to be able to sort the leadership crisis in Kenya, we must as voters acknowledge that our problems emanate from bad, we must also acknowledge that we have a responsibility to elect better leaders and retire the perennial failures. We must see ourselves as the solutions to the current leadership crisis in Kenya. By acknowledging that we have the power and willingness to discard bad leadership and hire leadership, our problem will be halfway solved.
THE BALLOT
19. We have 125 days until the general. These 125 days are adequate for us to overhaul our political leadership. It is on the ballot that we can cure most of our problems as a nation. We urge us to ensure that we make the right decision on August 9. We have enough time to evaluate whether we want Punguza Mizigo or ongeza mizigo.
VOTER APATHY
20. We are aware that many Kenyans are disillusioned with the current leadership, and they say they are tired of casting their votes. If you have been wronged by the current leadership, you must wake up early on August 9 and vote. We urge all registered voters to commit to casting their vote on August 9, 2010. Let your vote count. If more than half of our voters decide in the next 125 days to punguza this mizigo, we shall have birthed a new Kenya. Voting is not only about electing politicians to win, it is also a way to disapprove of their ineptness, dishonesty, and inability to lead us to prosperity. If you believe the economy is bad, wake up early on 9th August and vote differently. Be the change you believe in. In the 2017 General elections approximately 4.5 million Kenyans did not vote, if these disillusioned voters had cast their votes, the political dynamics would have completely changed. If we continue with the current voter apathy, we are likely to see about 8 million voters not casting their vote.
THE MIDDLE CLASS – LEAVE YOUR COMFORT ZONE
21. We have a message to the middle class, August 9, 2022, is the only day you have in the next 5 years to strongly express your voice on the state of the economy, healthcare, taxation, education, and other public We beseech you to come out and vote. If you vote for the last man, you will change how things are done in Kenya. You must agree that politics is the operating system on which all other social and economic activities run. You must ask questions on how the proceeds of the taxes you pay are expended; are we borrowing to steal? How do government policies affect our jobs and our business? You have these answers, make a deliberate effort to speak loudly at the ballot.
INTERROGATE VALUE OF POLITICAL RALLIES
22. We must critically interrogate what value does political rallies impact on us, and how do political rallies improve our lives during and after elections. Kenyans are fairly educated, and a majority of our voters can read and comprehend documents; we do it in school, colleges, work, and business. Why would literate people allow politicians who lied to them year in year out to guide them on who to elect?
ADOPT ISSUED-BASED AND SHUN TRIBAL POLITICS
23. Let us honestly interrogate the value we have derived from tribal and regionalized politics in the last 3 decades. Tribal politics has caused mayhem and a trail of death and has been one of the greatest hindrances to cohesion and national The main drivers of tribal politics are on the ballot this year; are we ready to go through this pain again? Outside politics, Kenyans work in harmony and never are about ethnicity, what value do we derive from tribal politics? Can we retire these tribal warlords in August?
STOP RECYCLING CRUEL AND INEPT LEADERS
24. We must retire the current leadership and its We cannot continue electing the same people who served in failed governments for 20-30 years and who miserably failed to transform the lifestyles of Kenyans and then expect different results. To continue this mistake is simply insanity. Lest we forget, in the last three years, part of what used to be referred to as the opposition, sought refuge in government and became part of the perpetrators, sellouts and enablers of oppression.
RETIRE UHURU KENYATTA AND HIS APPENDAGES
25. Don’t vote for anyone associated with Uhuru. Let Uhuru Kenyatta go home and enjoy his retirement. Electing anyone supported by Uhuru Kenyatta is to enable him to crawl back into government through the back door. This president has had two terms to showcase his leadership abilities and has disappointed us. Let him retire, do not facilitate his schemes to hang on to power anymore. At this stage, let me thank the Supreme Court of Kenya for burying the BBI project that was going to cost Kenyans KES 500 billion in every electoral cycle.
VOTERS ARE EMPLOYERS
26. We must recognize ourselves as employers not beggars, and as employers, we must not beg potential employees to include our interests in there. We must set the agenda. We do not donate our power to be manipulated and robbed. We must always assert our authority and ensure those we vote for are accountable to us and have an agenda that is consistent with our needs and in conformity with our constitution.
C. OUR POLITICAL CONTRIBUTION
27. Some could ask, and many have already asked, do you have the ability to lead Kenya? What has your experience been? From the outset, and taking into account the tribulations, suffering and the near failure of beloved Country under current leadership as well as with their surrogates, no one needs such experience. The 2022 decision is about the search for newness and honest and transformative leadership. Leadership is about both ability and good faith. As a party, we have demonstrated both. In the past 5 years since the registration of our party, we have achieved the following milestones as a party. We see leadership as a value that must cascade downwards.
Our Party’s Milestones and Achievements since 2017
28. In the political discourse in Kenya and as an attempt by the so-called “big” political parties, oftentimes working through their supporters, a question has repeatedly been asked: what has Thirdway Alliance Kenya done since the 2017 General elections? Below are some of the key achievements and milestones of our party:
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- Soon after receiving the full registration in February 2017, our party presented candidates for the elections in August and October 2017. Our presidential candidate would in the October election poll number 2 to the incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta.
- We successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to nullify the botched presidential elections of August 2017. Our party achieved this after conducting an audit on the transmission of results that uncovered a list of irregularities and illegalities committed by IEBC. This necessitated the nullification of the August election results prompting the Supreme Court to declare a repeat of the elections in October in accordance with Art. 140(3) 0f CoK 2010.
- We successfully petitioned the High court and corrected the biased decision by IEBC to gazette only two candidates for the repeat election, that is, Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta as the only candidates for the repeat election in This was a blatant disregard of the Court order as well as disrespect of the express provisions of CoK 2010. Our petition to the High Court restored sanity and respect for the rule of law. Consequently, all 8 presidential candidates who had participated in the August Poll were allowed to participate in the repeat poll.
- By November 2017, and noting the sharp division in the country following the refusal by the ODM candidate to accept the results of the October polls, despite having refused to participate in those polls, we initiated and tabled in a press conference a document detailing how we can undertake a National Conversation towards peace in the This document would later be adopted by Raila and Uhuru to become what they called the “Building Bridges Initiative. It is unfortunate, however, that they only borrowed the concept of a national conversation but crafted a non-constitutional process known as BBI.
- By April 2018, and noting that our proposed National Conversation concept had been hijacked and turned into an amorphous, directionless, duplicitous, and unconstitutional political con game known as BBI, we immediately initiated the pro-people Punguza Mizigo Kenya (PMK) constitutional amendment Bill that, inter alia, sought to reduce the cost of running the government, annihilate theft of public money, take services to the people’s doorstep, reduce the size of parliament, recover trillions from corruption, cheapen the cost of elections and restore integrity in leadership. Once again, the bad leaders ganged up against our noble initiative and used public money to bribe MCAs to fail the bill.
- In 2018, we petitioned parliament to reverse the decision to impose VAT on petroleum, which has now become the cause of the ever-rising cost of living. Unfortunately, Parliament did not heed our advice hence the current high cost of living, which we had sought to avert through our proposals to the VAT Act.
- In 2018, we petitioned parliament to stop moving Maize flour from zero-rated to VAT exempt status to cushion consumers from the current high cost of unga.
- In 2020 and in defense of the Constitution, we successfully petitioned the High court to stop the mutilation of the Constitution of Kenya by a known political grouping among other initiatives. We managed to secure favorable orders from the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court of Kenya against BBI, which sought to amend the constitution of KENYA to entrench tribal kingpins in government.
29. In summary, it is self-evident that without a single elected official we, with the support of many Kenyans, managed to make a tremendous change. In the wise words of Victor Hugo, “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come”. As a party, we shall continue seeking the transformational change our current and future generations deserve.
30. If we look at what the media has christened two horses- we are being pushed to choose whether we want to be eaten by a hyena or a wolf. Such that either way, you get eaten. These cannot be 21st-century choices.
D. CALL TO ACTION
31. If you believe we can do it, start the campaign now. I take this opportunity to request you to reach out to your parents, siblings, offspring’s, aunties and uncles, neighbors and friends and recruit them into this cause. We have no other opportunity to mitigate the problems we are in now and we cannot defer our pain to the end of another five years.
32. And when they ask, in whose hands are we safe, let them know, we have refused to be chaperoned to choose to be eaten by a hyena or a wolf
Punguza Mizigo, Imarisha Kenya!
Lastly, I want to thank you all for supporting PMK;
Thanks to my Co-presidential Aspirants (Reuben Kigame, Amb. Esther Waringa, Eng. Waweru Mbugua and Grita Muthoni) – we are not competitors – we must work together for Kenya – genuine leadership is what our country needs – at our age, we live bonus life; and before it is too late, let us do something for our country, our children, and their children.
God bless you all,
God bless Kenya