Wafula Buke: Wangari Maathai conned me

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Elder Lister
Wangari Maathai's South C office at Akiba Estate was next to the house of a dear departed relative.

Let's just say the woman was a total fraud. She never paid her workers on time despite getting donor aid, and many were the times my relative, a lawyer, turned down entreaties to represent them in court.

I can also say she never planted as many trees as she claimed; the people of Tetu were not stupid in failing to re-elect her.

Her saving grace was having the courage to face Moi's goons; it took some steel balls to do that.

And for that I think she can be forgiven her other frauds, though I am not sure she deserved the praise she gets.
 
Wangari Maathai's South C office at Akiba Estate was next to the house of a dear departed relative.

Let's just say the woman was a total fraud. She never paid her workers on time despite getting donor aid, and many were the times my relative, a lawyer, turned down entreaties to represent them in court.

I can also say she never planted as many trees as she claimed; the people of Tetu were not stupid in failing to re-elect her.

Her saving grace was having the courage to face Moi's goons; it took some steel balls to do that.

And for that I think she can be forgiven her other frauds, though I am not sure she deserved the praise she gets.
Asante guka for exposing the fraudster for who she was
 

Field Marshal

Elder Lister
Asante guka for exposing the fraudster for who she was
This is the tragedy of our media, and indeed of us as Africans. Mzungu decides our heroes and our villains ACCORDING TO HIS INTERESTS. And we follow blindly without questioning, and we are dominated like little children.

The story of Wangari's mistreatment of other Kenyans is out there. I am surprised that Wafula has dared rattle the matter.
 

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Lister
This is the tragedy of our media, and indeed of us as Africans. Mzungu decides our heroes and our villains ACCORDING TO HIS INTERESTS. And we follow blindly without questioning, and we are dominated like little children.

The story of Wangari's mistreatment of other Kenyans is out there. I am surprised that Wafula has dared rattle the matter.
What made me realise the woman was a fraud was the sad fact that she never thought anyone else was good enough to continue her work at Greenbelt, she didn't bother with mentoring a successor. She was the be all and end all of that movement.
 
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