Field Marshal
Elder Lister
One of the leading reasons why I - like the overwhelming number of the great people of Mt Kenya - am mad with Jameson Munyua Wanjohi is the handshake.
Rewarding a bully who caused a conflict in 2007, talked of secession in 2013, raped the Katiba, and caused the deaths of thousands is just wrong. It should never happen, and I have no apologies for saying this.
Thankfully, the truth always outs.
During the run-up to 2008 violence and thereafter, many of us lamented that the media had become compromised by ODM, and was spewing nothing but propaganda and fake news. I personally confronted Gado, otherwise a good friend, along Kenyatta Avenue and told him to shove his endless biased cartoons against Uhuru (every week he would draw at least two or three with Uhuru wearing leg irons ostensibly because he was going to be jailed by the ICC. Joseph Odindo, a distant cousin of Raila would publish them in the DN with glee) where the sun never shone.
Well, some of the truth is now out. This is what the same Daily Nation has written today in a desperate attempt to look impartial, look after the horse bolted and it lost all credibility.
The info is from Wikileaks.
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But the rock that ODM intended to build its church on was the media, and a Sh29.3 million budget was placed aside for some high flying personalities to ensure that the opposition’s narrative was pushed, and to shield it from any retaliation from Mr Kibaki’s team.
SLANT STORIES
A number of media personalities were facilitated to slant stories and opinion pieces. The media budget was higher than that for security, opinion polls, ICT, training and fundraising.
One of the personalities mentioned in the documents is currently a senior editor in a leading media house.
The media was also to be used to set the stage for rejection of results in the event that Mr Kibaki was declared winner.
ODM’s think tank noted that winning the media war was key to winning votes. This was to be done through the activation of close ties with local and international media managers.
The opposition party had a Sh1.7 billion war chest largely financed by contributions from all quarters—individuals, local and conglomerate firms, politicians from other countries, just to name a few. By the time elections were done, ODM had a Sh6.6 million balance.
Countries like Nigeria, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Venezuela, Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo contributed to ODM leader Raila Odinga’s campaign kitty.
The Republican Party (United States), the Visa Oshwal Group, Nakumatt Supermarkets, CMC Motors Group and Stanbic Bank were not left out, the document indicates. The list of individual donors listed include two African Presidents, one of Mr Kibaki’s political arch-enemies, a convicted money launderer who recently left jail, a controversial preacher and one of the suspected architects of the Anglo-Leasing scandal.
Rewarding a bully who caused a conflict in 2007, talked of secession in 2013, raped the Katiba, and caused the deaths of thousands is just wrong. It should never happen, and I have no apologies for saying this.
Thankfully, the truth always outs.
During the run-up to 2008 violence and thereafter, many of us lamented that the media had become compromised by ODM, and was spewing nothing but propaganda and fake news. I personally confronted Gado, otherwise a good friend, along Kenyatta Avenue and told him to shove his endless biased cartoons against Uhuru (every week he would draw at least two or three with Uhuru wearing leg irons ostensibly because he was going to be jailed by the ICC. Joseph Odindo, a distant cousin of Raila would publish them in the DN with glee) where the sun never shone.
Well, some of the truth is now out. This is what the same Daily Nation has written today in a desperate attempt to look impartial, look after the horse bolted and it lost all credibility.
The info is from Wikileaks.
__________
But the rock that ODM intended to build its church on was the media, and a Sh29.3 million budget was placed aside for some high flying personalities to ensure that the opposition’s narrative was pushed, and to shield it from any retaliation from Mr Kibaki’s team.
SLANT STORIES
A number of media personalities were facilitated to slant stories and opinion pieces. The media budget was higher than that for security, opinion polls, ICT, training and fundraising.
One of the personalities mentioned in the documents is currently a senior editor in a leading media house.
The media was also to be used to set the stage for rejection of results in the event that Mr Kibaki was declared winner.
ODM’s think tank noted that winning the media war was key to winning votes. This was to be done through the activation of close ties with local and international media managers.
The opposition party had a Sh1.7 billion war chest largely financed by contributions from all quarters—individuals, local and conglomerate firms, politicians from other countries, just to name a few. By the time elections were done, ODM had a Sh6.6 million balance.
Countries like Nigeria, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Venezuela, Libya and the Democratic Republic of Congo contributed to ODM leader Raila Odinga’s campaign kitty.
The Republican Party (United States), the Visa Oshwal Group, Nakumatt Supermarkets, CMC Motors Group and Stanbic Bank were not left out, the document indicates. The list of individual donors listed include two African Presidents, one of Mr Kibaki’s political arch-enemies, a convicted money launderer who recently left jail, a controversial preacher and one of the suspected architects of the Anglo-Leasing scandal.
