Tchad: Chef de l’Opposition Democratique – Objet: Retrait du Comite d’Organisation du Dialogue National Inclusif (CODNI) – (19.08.2021)

Opinion: Can we bury the BBI now?

Today the Court of Appeal final orders on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) which has been a fixated feature of Kenyan politics since the Handshake of President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition Leader Raila Odinga. That shocked the people and made the BBI a possible targeted.

The Court of Appeals was in favour of the Judgement of the High Court. This meaning the whole BBI is an unconstitutional endeavour. The President did an unconstitutional act by initiating and promoting constitutional changes. The BBI Steering Committee was an unconstitutional and unlawful entity. Certainly, the same should be directed to the BBI Task-Force as well, but not mentioned in the pages dropped on Twitter.

So, again the BBI is said to be unlawful and unconstitutional. By that definition the whole process and all the time spent on this. Is a total failure of the Jubilee and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). They acted without the popular demand and without the measures needed to amend the constitution. This being done by supposed scholars and lawmakers. The President a former MP and the same is Odinga. They have both in the halls of power and they should know the articles of Constitution. So, that if they wanted the Constitution to be amended, they would follow procedure and protocol.

Instead the peace-offering and the handshake was so powerful. That the two gentlemen and their parties felt the euphoria and wanted another high. They felt like they owned the Republic and could rule the world. Therefore, they thought they could easily change the rules and legislation without proper protocol.

Now it is evident that they did it the wrong way and not done by law. The gentlemen in question tried to change the constitution, by not following the same constitution they wanted to change. The President should have enough advisors and legal scholars to tell him what to do. Instead, he has tried to circumvent and used the BBI as a tool to get the amendments the leaders wanted.

However, BBI by this second court order it should be taken into a casket and put six feet under. The BBI isn’t only on the death-bed, but deceased and need to be buried. The casket is ready to be dropped. The reggae is now stopping.

What is striking is that this has been the main topic for the Second Term of President Kenyatta. This has been the real prospect and proof of policy during this term. Kenyatta and Odinga has invested everything in this. The Jubilee hasn’t delivered the “Big Four” or anything else they really promised in the 2017 elections. Therefore, the BBI was the …. gift that was giving, but now it’s just poison.

That’s because the BBI was built on a false premise. The BBI was fake and fraud, a unconstitutional constitutional amendment drive, which is epically backfiring. The leaders of men has not only failed this enterprise, but wasted the whole time doing this. The BBI is a proof of how not run government and pay-off your opposition. They are both losers in this… and the Kenyan citizens has paid the Committee and Task-Force.

Kenyatta and Odinga is the ones that needs to carry this cross. They have been working on overtime for this. Holding campaign meetings and consultations. They have hired people and acted like supreme overlords. However, nobody is above the law and even them has to honour the codes. That is what it striking here.

Lessons should be learned. The BBI should be school-yard example of how not make constitutional amendments.

Can somebody please bury the BBI and everything that reminds us of it. It has been an expensive and a time consuming enterprise leading to nothing. Peace.

Ethiopia: The Government of the National State of Tigray unequivocally denounces all atrocities perpetrated against civilians, calls for UN-mandated independent investigation into all alleged crimes on civilians in the Amhara regions and firmly repudiates unfound allegations published by the Telegraph (19.08.2021)

CEDAO: Communique sur l’Attaque au Niger (20.08.2021)

Opinion: The NRM continues its assault on the NGOs

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) and the Government of Uganda (GoU) is steadily going after the Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). This is a deliberate act to stop their efforts and work, which thwarts the ideals of the state and the President at this current time.

That’s why the ones who are doing civic education or participating in the electoral accountability is hit hard. This is very deliberately done, and it’s done after this year’s polls too. The state has already suspended and gone after the foreign funding of several of NGOs in the near past. So, today’s action and press statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Only shows a continuation of these acts.

The NRM and the State House are doing this to stifle, stop and ensure they have no transparency and accountability. They are stopping civilian activity and NGOs from gathering, making conferences and having trainings. This is of organizations such as CCEDU, Chapter Four, Gliss and CEW-IT. The only one missing this time around was CEON-U. The rest was already targeted of these sorts.

The National Bureau of NGOs seems to be only functioning to ensure the demise and silence the possible critics. The ones who dares to question the powers to be and the ones who work to educate the masses. Are apparently the ones this suspended indefinitely. These has been targeted before through other measures, but now they are using the whip of lacking audited books. Which is striking, after the same state blocked and ceased the ability for funding for several of these through the suspension of Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) earlier this year.

That’s why you know the suspensions and direct assault on the 54 NGOs is with a plan. The state has already targeted several of these for months. It is not like they haven’t been under scrutiny for so long.

What we are seeing today is furthering the cause and the battle for legitimacy, as the NRM and the Government trying to show its sovereign power. However, this will only backfire, as the state cannot resolve or abdicate its role to facilitate for NGOs/CSOs, as they do the work the state isn’t able to do and filling in the gaps of the government. That’s why this is tragic, but also obvious.

The NRM and President knows what they are doing. Since this isn’t the first shot or warning even. The state has before also raided several of offices in Kampala. It has done so to intimidate and silence these organizations. That’s why this is just a bureaucratic measure to silence them and finally put the nail in the coffin. Especially, to NGOs who uses their means and organize things in connection to elections and electoral education. It is not the run-of-the-mill organizations fighting poverty or illiteracy who his hit the hardest here.

That’s why you know the drill and the game-plan. They want to signal to the NGOs and CSOs, civil society in general that the government can cease your operation and stop you in your tracks. That is clear here and the only message I’m getting out of this. Peace.

 

Uganda: Ministry of Internal Affairs – Statement on Halting of Operations of Fifty Four (54) NGOs dut to Non-Compliance with the NGO ACT 2016 (20.08.2021)

Malaysia: Proham – Put the People above Political Gains (20.08.2021)

Opinion: OnlyFans flaccid final act

There are certain pages and parts of the internet which is made for or has become a places “Not Safe For Work” (NSFW). OnlyFans has been known for this and has a reputation and delivers certain types of content. That has been done with content creators who is willing and selling it online. They have been using the subscription model paying fixed monthly fees and also one-time payments for behind the pay-wall content as well.

Therefore, today’s news isn’t surprising. The rumours of OnlyFans going away from pornographic, Sex-Work and Lewd content has been on the horizon. Especially, since the website and owners has been searching for investment and funding to run it. Because, having such vast amount of content and distribution online has to be expensive with storage and such.

OnlyFans is already getting percentages of the sales from each creator. That is clearly not enough. While there is certain top creators who is earning millions of dollars and others have made this into a livelihood. Where they pose, drop pictures and videos. There been leaks from the page and some are using this as a “risky” Instagram account and pocketing easy money.

Now, the owners and shareholders of OnlyFans are going away from what they are known for. They are initially saying they are shifting content and focus. When they from October will block sexual explicit content. That is really going away from the special subscription to certain IG Models and internet personalities. Even some music artists has made accounts and blown up too.

Therefore, OnlyFans and the way the services has been rendered has been on the explicit content. It hasn’t been made on selling knitting tricks or cooking lectures. No, this page haven’t been family friendly or even artistic. No, this page has been a porn page with a pay-subscriptions, which has become a talk of the town. It has gone viral and been discussed online. If you follow certain people on YouTube. You will see them rating OnlyFans pages and telling how they are posting content. Therefore, this will also be lost genre there as well.

Certainly, the easy money and struggles will hit several of accounts on OnlyFans. As they have been living off and having a pay-off from the website. There will also be a bunch of people wondering where to go and wonder if they can follow their star, internet personality or IG model elsewhere. Since this has been the go to place for this and easily accessible.

While we can wonder, why the OnlyFans does it now? And if they were bushwhacked into a lewd site? As it seemed like a Paetron, but turned into a “pay-to-play” and “members only” hub. Instead, some of the creators now have to seek safe-haven elsewhere. If it even exists or is this accessible for the ones selling it.

What is also striking is that the OnlyFans page is going against it’s biggest earners and what it has become into. The OnlyFans isn’t a Paetron. Neither is it a Ko-Fi or Rokfin. It is showing NSFW and porn, which is what all the people are coming there in the first place. They are coming their with their hands over fist. The customers are not coming there for Disney stories, but Playboy bunnies unwind and being naughty.

So, the OnlyFans blocking and stopping this content is going against the grain. They are taking away the reason why the people are subscribing there and using their money on the services there. For me… this is a move of self-destruction and destroying what they already have.

This is like Colgate stop selling toothpaste or Cadbury stop selling chocolate. Because, investors saying they need to rebrand them to something else. However, we know these brands for one thing and when you take that away. Than there isn’t anything else left of it.

This is destroying what was built. OnlyFans is making itself irrelevant and soon it can be remembered like MySpace or Google+. Peace.

Opinion: Mnangagwa ‘the Crocodile’ will not be able to hijack another revolution

Today President Emmerson Mnangagwa said that what happened in Zambia would not happen in Zimbabwe. This is the New dispensation and the 2nd Republic, which is delivered by Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).

He said it this: “Let me tell you, that if anyone dreams that what happened in Zambia will happen here. Wake up and brew beer to exorcise yourself” (Mnangagwa, 19.08.2021). That shows his sign and his vision. That isn’t shocking… and to be expected.

President Mnangagwa was the Vice-President under the last term of former President Robert Mugabe and held several of roles in his period. Mnangagwa was a henchman and a loyal cadre until he had ambition and fell out of the ZANU-PF fraction of G-40. The Lacoste and Army Commanders was able to use the public dissent and tiredness to the Mugabe government. That’s what they did and used the Coup d’etat in November 2017. After he had to go to exile and was shipped in again. That’s why he was able to secure this and the crowds even gave flowers to the soldiers on the streets of Harare.

The euphoria and the way of taking away relics of Mugabe years. That what happened in the month of November 2017. Since, then the ZANU-PF is more of the same and with the army inter-connected. The President has pushed a use of symbols and hijacked it with scarf. Nevertheless, he believes he can kill it off.

President Mnangagwa forgets that his there on the will of the people. Even if the power and the army is on his side. Still, when the pendulum swings differently. His time might be off. It was just a quick and brief moment that brought Mugabe out of office. That’s why Mnangagwa shouldn’t be that forgetful.

Mnangagwa wouldn’t be able to hijack and steal a revolution next time. The Lacoste and the Army Generals wouldn’t be able to trick them again. They we’re able to use the time and transition to take over everything.

Everyone should remember how “Operation Legacy” was enforced. We have to remember how the same state who promised change sent soldiers to the streets and killed civilians. The way the government has used it’s power to go after the Movement for Democratic Change – Alliance (MDC-Alliance) and other dissidents. The state have gone after the non-governmental organizations and civic society. It is not like ZANU-PF and the state has changed it’s patterns.

Mnangagwa was lucky last time. He was able to have the right army commanders and allies in Lacoste to beat the G-40. While the public sentiment was on his side. The same regime was able to steal an election with excelgate and we know he has never been popular.

That’s why his hubris and belief is a delusion. He is safe and secure as long as the Army Commanders is behind him. If they and the other comrades stops supporting him. Than he will be in deep danger. Mnangagwa should remember how quickly Mugabe went from a hero to a Goblin. The crocodile shouldn’t forget that.

It is not like Mnangagwa is steering the Republic better or causing revolutionary changes. The Politburo and PFee will praise him, but the realities on the grounds is deprecating. This is why Mnangagwa will not be able to be the figurehead or act like one. He was able to trick himself and use it.

That will not happen again. The “Operation Legacy” and the senseless violence will forever taint and stain this 2nd Republic. Peace.

National Conversation South Sudan (NCSS): Postion on the People’s Coalition for Civil Action call for a Popular Uprising on 30th August (19.08.2021)