RANNEBERGER AND KENYAN UNCLE TOMS:BY FWAMBA NC FWAMBA

Kenyan youth are disenchanted, they are disgruntled, they are disappointed and they need solutions. They need answers. They need answers from the government. The government must act.That is the song sang by every Kenyan youth. The situation is appalling and something must be done to address this. It has emerged that majority of Kenyans youths have not seen the real benefits of the kazi kwa vijana programs. The youth enterprise development fund, without streamlining will still continue to benefit a few individuals. The impact on the ground remains in proportionate to the amount of money announced to have been released through the media. The government must ensure through its structures that the impact of these programs is significantly felt at the grassroots. Corruption is the cause of this food chain kind of situation which causes most the money intended for the young people to be spent on administration costs. It is always said that a drowning man will clutch his hands on anything to stay afloat. Poverty has been used as an excuse to justify Many vices among the youth be it crime or other social ills. It is not lost to us that Kenyan youths have become desperate because of nepotism, corruption and impunity. In Kenya, you will easily find people who are less qualified getting employment while those qualified and without their relatives or godfathers in high positions either in government, civil society or private sector, remain jobless and sometimes end up hopeless. Kibaki has failed Kenya youth, Raila has failed Kenyan youth. They have not put in required effort to improve the economic challenges of many jobless but talented young Kenyans. The above stated situation is what American ambassador Michael Ranneberger has decided to exploit, not because he is fighting corruption, not because he loves Kenyan youth, not because he wants a better governed country in future, but because he has seen an opportunity to build part of the American empire in Africa, he has seen an opportunity to exploit desperate youth in Kenya, he has seen an opportunity to give Kenyan youths’ an alternative’ because of the despair. Its is not that America is committed to reforms more than the ordinary Kenyan does, but its because the interest of America in this country are too high that the threat posed by the Chinese in economic rivalry have to be tamed. The only window Ranneberger has seen is advancing what he calls ‘reforms’ and ‘empowerment of the youth’. Due to the situation in Kenya, he has found out that he can use a few stooges to advance American imperialism through pointing at the Kenyan government and the Kenyan leaders as corrupt and anti-reforms. I agree Kenya needs a new leadership; Kenya needs fresh blood away from the kind of leadership the grand coalition has offered. Kenya needs a new dawn, but America and Ranneberger are not a solution, we have the solution from among ourselves, we have the solution from within. Most of you have come across the drawing where a female rat is trapped and the male rat wants to take advantage with a title ‘beware of opportunists’ ;this is the situation the Kenyan youth are in. They are in an economic trap then here comes America with the so called ‘Yes Youth Can’ program. The truth is that Ranneberger is perpetuating the American foreign policy of dominance and brainwashing-one that the British Empire practiced during the Norman conquests. Those are the tactics king Leopold of Belgium practiced in the Congo during the 18th century. Those strategies were used by the French, Germans and the British to colonize us. They used economic enticements to have home guards work for them and oppress Africans .Those are the kind of enticements the slave master used to give to the house Negro during the days of slavery in America. In the 21st century America took over and it’s playing these tactics that a few individuals in Kenya are. Without any historical backing or understanding, getting so much excited about the so called American youth empowerment program will cost this country its hope for a better future. It will be an opening for America to advance what they have been working towards. They want to plant puppets, and if they succeed in doing so, am confident that fifty or a hundred years to come, some African remnants will read what I am writing today. This trend in itself is dangerous to the survival of the African race. After Congo (now DRC) got independence from the Belgians, Americans wanted to inherit the mineral reserves in the Congo. Pan-Africanist Patrice Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the independent Congo with a weak willed Joseph Kasavubu as President. America, through their CIA machinations conspired to have Lumumba killed. At 36 years Patrice Lumumba was brutally assassinated. This is documented and the CIA agents who planned Lumumba’s death admitted the conspiracy. They put the 30 year old Joseph Desire Mobutu (later Mobutu Seseseko Kuku Ngbendu wa Zabanga) in power.Mobutu ruled the Congo (which he renamed Zaire) with an iron fist. He is regarded as one of the greatest tyrants in Africa’s history. He wasted the country and allocated himself all the minerals and the power that the former ‘owner’ of Congo; King Leopold of Belgium had enjoyed (Read ‘King Leopold’s Ghost).America was very comfortable with Mobutu’s reign of terror. All American presidents; Dwight David Eisenhower1953-1961,John Fitzgerald Kennedy1961-1963,Lyndon Baines Johnson1963-1969, Richard Milhous Nixon1969-1974,Gerald Rudolph Ford1974-1977 , Jimmy Carter1977-1981,Ronald Wilson Reagan1981-1989,George Herbert Walker Bush1989-, William Jefferson Clinton1993-2001,supported Mobutu through his reign of terror for a period of 32 years and never bothered to ‘bring democracy’ to Congo(Zaire). After Mobutu’s ouster and subsequent exile and death in Morocco, the George Bush (Snr) family adopted Mobutu’s children. It has been believed widely that the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki was made by uranium directly ‘bought’ from the Belgian Congo. That kind of knowledge of existence of important minerals in the Congo drove America to have serious vested interest that led to them ensuring that Mobutu who was their puppet became de facto leader of Zaire. It was clear that Americans knew of the resources that were in Zaire that is why they had no problem with Mobutu’s ‘democracy’. In Somalia, their interest was Oil, they sponsored Mohammed Farah Aideed and Ali Mahdi Mohammed against dictator Mohammed Siad Barre.When Barre left both forces wanted to take over power, America tried to do for them what they have done in Iraq-forming ‘an all inclusive people’s government ‘they failed. They created chaos in Somalia to date and even killed one of their former allies; rebel leader Mohammed FARAH Aideed. What is happening to Somalia today is known to everybody. Conspiracies: In 1961,during the ‘bay of pigs invasion’, US President JF Kennedy is known to have conspired to have a passenger plane hijacked by supposed ‘terrorists’ and blame it on Cuba so as to justify war with Cuba that was newly under the leadership of Communist Fidel Castro. The twin tower is another theory yet to be resolved. George W. Bush’s immediate reaction of ‘you are either with us or with the terrorists’ showed that the war in Iraq had been pre-meditated even before the twin towers of the World Trade Center were brought down on 911. The weapons of mass destruction were all about the millions of barrels of the Iraqi Oil.So, who really brought down the towers; if its Bin Laden, who trained him? Before disagreements with the US, Osama was supported by Americans. They only started looking at him as an evil person after they fell out with him. In the 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Kenya, Bill Clinton and all Americans only talked about American casualties. To date only American victims were compensated (US government policy).It is known that the attack on Kenya by terrorists was suspected to have been caused by Kenya’s ‘strong’ diplomatic ties with the US. The terrorists had more Enemy in Americans than Kenyans. America has a lot of money; if they love Africans so much, why are they not interested in compensating families of the 1998 Kenyan victims of the American embassy bomb blast. Americans have been conducting themselves as world prefects for human rights and transparency. It’s not lost in our memory that before releasing the cablegate dossier, Julian Assange; the founder of Wiki leaks released a video of an American war plane killing Iraqi civilians and a Reuters journalist in cold blood. Before the execution of Saddam Hussein by American puppets in Iraq, nude photos of Iraqi war prisoners of Abu Ghraib Prison circulated on the internet. Pictures showed the prisoners naked and being taunted by American soldiers. The atrocities done by Americans during the interrogations of suspects at Guantanamo depict the worst violation of human rights. After the execution of Saddam Hussein, George W Bush openly indicated that he had settled a family grudge when he retorted that ‘that man (Saddam) wanted to kill my father (Bush Snr)’.On corruption, among many others, it’s well known in the whole world that in the recent past after Obama’s resignation as Illinois Senator, the Governor of the state attempted to sell Obama’s senate seat to the highest bidder.Currently, former US vice president Dick Cheney is a wanted man in Nigeria over bribery claims. When Obama took over power, he promised to withdraw troops from Iraq, right now he is contemplating having them stay there for a little more time due to continued’insurgency’.The truth in this is that the so called reconstruction which is giving American companies a lot of money –is not yet over. It is all about American interests .The number of Iraqis who have died under America’s democracy is far much more than those that died under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Today Kenya is an easy target by Ranneberger whose mission is to advance the American’s evil interest in Kenya. This is because of the way the government has neglected the Kenyan youth. Ranneberger is using this to take advantage of the young people who were born long after the ‘Pearl Habour’, after the ‘Bay of Pigs’, after ‘Nagasaki’ and ‘Hirioshima’,after Vietnam, after Iraq invasion on Kuwait, after 911 and are not privileged to access information on the American tricks. The young Kenyans are desperate and they now stand for nothing-they are falling for anything-they are selling our country to Ranneberger. It is through less informed and gullible youth that our country may go to dogs, because our syllabus feeds our young generation not based on true historical facts but only teaches them to live on propaganda and academic lies of the west and in particular; American imperialism .So what’s Ranneberger’s real intentions with the Kenyan Youth? Empowerment? The answer is NO. Fwamba NC Fwamba