LeoK
Elder Lister
C&P
It is not true that the president entirely controls the civil service. The civil service is extractive on its own. It's an independent wealth making machine through exploiting Kenyans. It also has support from US and UK embassies. So the president is just for political legitimacy.
The role of the president is to be the chief dog of the looting state. His job is to keep Kenyans calm as civil servants all loot. The chief dog must be Kikuyu or a Kikuyu appointee, because that's what the British decided. And to keep us calm, the chief dog gets other dogs in politicians from around the country.
There are two pacts that run government:
1. The pact between civil servants and politicians is to share the loot from Kenyans. Civil servants collect wealth from us, share it with politicians, and the job of politicians to keep Kenyans quiet through entertaining us with elections followed by 5 years of intra-elite fighting, or of forming new political parties, or of agreements BBI, or whatever is in fashion.
2. The pact between civil servants and politicians on one hand, and the Anglo-Saxons on the other. The agreement is that the foreigners can loot our resources and wealth. Together, our dogs agree to look the other way as foreigners exploit Kenya and dispossess us. In return, they get money to conduct elections and weapons to shoot us if we protest.
Then we repeat the cycle after 5 years.
So the 3 arms of government in Kenya are politicians, the civil service and US/UK embassies.
It's one of the characters in Ferdinand Oyono's novel "House Boy" who said that the dog of the king is the king of the dogs.
It is not true that the president entirely controls the civil service. The civil service is extractive on its own. It's an independent wealth making machine through exploiting Kenyans. It also has support from US and UK embassies. So the president is just for political legitimacy.
The role of the president is to be the chief dog of the looting state. His job is to keep Kenyans calm as civil servants all loot. The chief dog must be Kikuyu or a Kikuyu appointee, because that's what the British decided. And to keep us calm, the chief dog gets other dogs in politicians from around the country.
There are two pacts that run government:
1. The pact between civil servants and politicians is to share the loot from Kenyans. Civil servants collect wealth from us, share it with politicians, and the job of politicians to keep Kenyans quiet through entertaining us with elections followed by 5 years of intra-elite fighting, or of forming new political parties, or of agreements BBI, or whatever is in fashion.
2. The pact between civil servants and politicians on one hand, and the Anglo-Saxons on the other. The agreement is that the foreigners can loot our resources and wealth. Together, our dogs agree to look the other way as foreigners exploit Kenya and dispossess us. In return, they get money to conduct elections and weapons to shoot us if we protest.
Then we repeat the cycle after 5 years.
So the 3 arms of government in Kenya are politicians, the civil service and US/UK embassies.
It's one of the characters in Ferdinand Oyono's novel "House Boy" who said that the dog of the king is the king of the dogs.
