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Opinion: The Signature Brew of the State House is worth billion of shillings…

““People who are learned, people I look up to and call honourable members, what do you sit to do at that state house? Even in the budget, you have added KSh4 billion to take tea. Is Jesus cooking that tea?” – Busia Woman Rep Catherine Omanyo (20.03.2024).

Time and time again, there are stories that are amazing. There are stories that is shocking and showing public wastage of funds. Today in Nairobi there should be a shocking affair, but I am sure the Kenyans are used to it. The Kenya Kwanza Government aren’t known for being frugal or being careful about spending, especially not on their own.

The State House is clearly using huge funds on Tea and Hospitality. We have read stories about this in the past. The State House has even tried to make it special last year. As the Daily Nation wrote about Firs Lady own signature brew of tea, which she served foreign dignitaries. Alas, that’s a way of making sense of the spending.

Just read here…

“Kenya’s First Lady Mama Rachel Ruto is known for her signature gesture whenever her counterparts from other countries visit. It is not the tea that netizens popularly refer to as gossip, but real brewed tea. The brewed State House tea, as it is famously known, has been taken by two visiting first ladies so far.” (Manny Anyangoo – ‘Signature tea served at State House by First Lady’ 14.03.2023, Daily Star).

It just really shows the state of affairs, that the Government of Kenya is willing to do this and spend money like that. They don’t mind spending fortunes on tea and misusing the office doing so. The tea must be specially imported and a limited production. It cannot be Kericho tea or anything like that. Because, the tea isn’t that expensive.

Someone calculated that this was costing the tax-payer about Shs. 11 million shilling. That’s a huge bill for the public to pay. This burden is on the public…

Just imagine the cost on every cup of tea if this is the case. The people are paying massive amount of shillings, just so dignitaries, secretaries and others can have a cup of tea. The tea leaves must be unique and special. They got to be… and cannot just be a Lipton box or such. No, it got to be exclusive and extravagant. Especially with the cost it has. If not… someone is eating the funds and using it on other endeavours. That would be a Tea Cup Scandal rocking the State House.

I’m not shocked by this… it is more of the same. The Kenya Kwanza Government don’t mind doing stunts like this. They don’t mind overspending on the elite and the high ranking officials. However, the same government cannot afford to pay medical interns or do what it needs for civil servants. Which means the high ranking officials are a priority and the tea cup at the State House is a proof of just that.

4 billion shillings spent on Tea for the State House. There should be other government services that needs these funds. Anyone with a working mind get that. Peace.

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Opinion: We knew PM Nabbanja wasn’t prepared or ready to be the PM

“Amongi, who spoke to media in an interview said they had a candid discussion about their roles in cabinet. “We met in the corridors of Parliament and she (Nabbanja) told me that she does not know anything about the duties of a prime minister. She told me she informed the president (Museveni) about the same but he asked her to be at ease,” says Amongi. “She says the president told her that all her speeches and documents will be written by a tecnical team that shall be given to her on request. She says the president told her she will only be reading what is availed to her on paper,” she adds” (Emmanuel Busingye – ‘“Nabbanja didn’t know roles of Prime Minister,” says Amongi’ 22.06.2023, Ekyooto.co.uk).

Hon. Betty Amongi have been really liberated her mouth to the press these days. First undermining other ministers and telling they only do speeches. To now tell that the Prime Minister wasn’t prepared or ready for her office.

No, one is shocked or in awe that Robinah Nabbanja wasn’t ready to be a Prime Minister. She isn’t that clever or that wise. Neither does she have vast experience or been in other positions that makes you believe she is fitted for it.

What Amongi is saying is that she is just doing what she’s ordered to do. Meaning she isn’t directing or running the Office of the Prime Minister. No, she is occupying it and have the title, but technocrats or bureaucrats are fixing the gig. While she is enjoying the perks and the honour of the office.

PM Nabbanja can also work with ease, as she has three deputies and some of them have long experience in government. Therefore, she can be a ceremonial PM and a face of the Government. Even if she doesn’t do much or even can fulfil the needs of her office. Because there is a massive workload and responsibilities of the OPM. That has been since the days of Mbabazi… and it has ballooned since then.

We can all act like this is funny and that Museveni appointed a clueless person on a whim. It has been done so the OPM is controlled by others and Nabbanja is only doing what is ordered to do or say. She is capable of acting in public, but behind closed doors her staff is directing her every move. That must be depressing, as she has finally reached the pivotal role and gained the prestige. However, she is not to be trusted and only do as she is told.

For a grown woman and a MP that must be disappointing. She isn’t trusted to function or have the oversight. Everything will just be fixed and she will walk in to prepared rooms. She don’t have to cook or clean, the events are there and she just have to utter prepared speeches. Nabbanja don’t even need to think, but just act upon request.

This is how Museveni micro-manage and has a stranglehold on government. That’s why there is little to no good news. Because he even has staff to fix everything for the PM. She don’t have to think or consider anything.

Nabbanja can just walk into the office and be told what to do. Then she does it and call it a night. Peace.

Opinion: Mzee don’t need working ministers…

““I was speaking to one of the ministers…he was joking with me and said when he was appointed a minister, he asked HE the President:   ‘What is the role of a minister now that you have appointed me?’ The President said: ‘Do not worry, yours…they write for you a speech. Just go and deliver, but make sure you have delivered it well,” Betty Amongi,Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development” (Daily Monitor, 22.06.2023).

If you ever wondered why certain ministers in the 80 Ministers cabinet, one Vice-President, one Prime Minister and three Deputy Prime Ministers. There is a reason why so many heads and offices exist. They are there to “deliver” speeches, but not sure of their roles. That isn’t strange either…

The cabinet is filled with duplications and massive undertaking of mandates. While several are under same portfolio and could practically serve the same purposes. In addition there are other government entities and other units, which also covers the workload too. So, it is not like all ministers need to a lot of heavy lifting. Because, technocrats, bureaucrats and even some civil society organizations fill the void.

It is really telling that the President since 1986 says this. A man who claims Ugandans are lazy and lack will to develop. When he has made a system of redundancy and over-bloated state apparatus. That’s what he has done and this is why Ministers feels like this.

If you ever wonder what Museveni has achieved. He has achieved to appoint several people to do the same job. The President has managed to create sort of a hectic system of entities and units, which are side-lining each other. In such a way that they are not sure what they should do or could achieve without a heads-up from the Head of State.

This quote from Hon. Betty Amongi only shows the true fashion and how things are operating in the Republic. The President don’t need working Ministers or people who knows their job. P

President Museveni is just saying he don’t need them to do much, but just acting honourable and deliver nice speeches in public. That’s all he needs… Peace.

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A look into the Final Report on “Parte-After-Parte” or Partygate

“We have concluded above that in deliberately misleading the House Mr Johnson committed a serious contempt. The contempt was all the more serious because it was committed by the Prime Minister, the most senior member of the government. There is no precedent for a Prime Minister having been found to have deliberately misled the House. He misled the House on an issue of the greatest importance to the House and to the public, and did so repeatedly. He declined our invitation to reconsider his assertions that what he said to the House was truthful. His defence to the allegation that he misled was an ex post facto justification and no more than an artifice. He misled the Committee in the presentation of his evidence” (Committee of Privileges, 15.06.2023).

The former Prime Minister Boris Johnson is finally getting a reckoning, which he has never seen or heard of before. The House of Commons and the Committee of Privileges has today published the report titled: “Matter referred on 21 April 2022 (conduct of Rt Hon Boris Johnson): Final Report”. It might not sound like much, but the content is pure fire.

It is only mere days since the former PM resigned as an MP. That was an deliberate act to sway away from accountability and have consequences of his previous actions. He like Trump calling it a “witch hunt” or whatnot just to avoid taking any blame. Because Boris like Trump are allergic to consequences of their own actions.

“With regard to the Rules: the gathering had to be essential or reasonably necessary for work purposes. A workplace ‘thank you’, leaving drink, birthday celebration or motivational event is obviously neither essential or reasonably necessary. Mr Johnson is adamant that he believed all of the events which he attended and of which he had direct knowledge were essential. That belief, which he continues to assert, has no reasonable basis in the Rules or on the facts. A reasonable person looking at the events and the Rules would not have the belief that Mr Johnson has professed. That is plain from the fact that around the UK during the period of pandemic restrictions these events did not take place” (Committee of Privileges, 15.06.2023).

When reading these lines in hindsight. It is obvious to the naked eye that the PM and his staff breached the covid-lockdown rules. That’s clear and there is no way he could think otherwise. In the same span as all the parties, people weren’t allowed to gather, meet or even say their final goodbyes to their loved ones. While he and his company held parties at the Downing Street no. 10. Just this paragraph alone is damning for Boris Johnson. It is an astonishing way of describing events. When you know how things where and how the COVID-19 Rules and Regulations was for the public at large. Therefore, as the PM he should have known better, but he didn’t care and acted reckless. While later lying about it and holding the House of Commons in contempt.

“I repeat that I have been repeatedly assured since these allegations emerged that there was no party and that no covid Rules were broken. That is what I have been repeatedly assured” (Boris Johnson answer at PMQ on the 8^th December 2021).

Well, we all know that these words was a lie and there was several parties at Downing Street No. 10. He cannot run away from the fact and these bottles of wines are now haunting him. The enjoyment and amusement of parties are now his downfall. He decided to squander his reputation and his office with holding parties during a lockdown. That’s what he did and his now trying to run away from the fact.

The privilege committee did only the right thing and this final report is showing the disgrace and disgusting ways Johnson manoeuvres. The ones who back him or defends him now. Is just allies who isn’t concerned with the rule of law or with public perception. They are just wanting power and hope that Boris Johnson can save them in the next election. Even if he is a lying and manipulative prick. Peace.