Archive for March, 2006
Owuor: Iran quakes have come as predicted
By DR. DAVID OWUOR
In an interview carried on your site a few days ago, I shared that the Lord had asked me to warn about upcomig earthquakes in, among other countries, Iran.
Both CNN and the BBC have reported that an earthquake has hit Iran and the death toll is rising.
Iran was called by name in the online sharing I had on this site; speedy and record fulfillment of prophecy towards the end-times.
This was from the Lord and He said that it is merely the beginning of birth-pangs around the world.
Now the Iranian massive earthquake is in Kenyan news, particularly local radio and television.
Further news and updates may be found at my blog, which is now in use.
I expect to post some of the audio and video messages you have been requesting for on it in the next few days, access to which will be free.
Who’s Your Daddy?
By DAVID LANGERSFELD
Mar 29, 2006
A seminary professor was vacationing with his wife in
Gatlinburg, TN. One morning, they were eating
breakfast at little restaurant, hoping to enjoy a
quiet, family meal. While they were waiting for their
food, they noticed a distinguished looking,
white-haired man moving from table to table, visiting
with the guests. The professor leaned over and
whispered to his wife, “I hope he doesn’t come over
here.”
But sure enough, the man did come over to their table.
“Where are you folks from?” he asked in a friendly
voice. “Oklahoma,” they answered.
“Great to have you here in Tennessee.” the stranger
said. “What do you do for a living?”
“I teach at a seminary.” he replied. “Oh, so you teach
preachers how to preach, do you? Well, I’ve got a
really great story for you.” And with that, the
gentleman pulled up a chair and sat down at the table
with the couple. The professor groaned and thought to
himself, “Great… Just what I need… another
preacher story!”
The man started, “See that mountain over there?
(pointing out the restaurant window). Not far from the
base of that mountain, there was a boy born to an
unwed mother. He had a hard time growing up, because
every place he went, he was always asked the same
question, ‘Hey boy, Who’s Your Daddy?’
Whether he was at school, in the grocery store or drug
store, people would ask the same question, ‘Who’s Your
Daddy?’ He would hide at recess and lunchtime from
other students. He would avoid going in to stores
because that question hurt him so bad.
When he was about 12 years old, a new preacher came to
his church. He would always go in late and slip out
early to avoid hearing the question, ‘Who’s Your
Daddy?’. But one day, the new preacher said the
benediction so fast he got caught and had to walk out
with the crowd. Just about the time he got to the back
door, the new preacher, not knowing anything about
him, put his hand on his shoulder and asked him, ‘Son,
Who’s Your Daddy?’
The whole church got deathly quiet. He could feel
every eye in the church looking at him. Now everyone
would finally know the answer to the question, ‘Who’s
your Daddy’. This new preacher, though, sensed the
situation around him and using discernment that only
the Holy Spirit could give, said the following to that
scared little boy…
‘Wait a minute!’ he said. ‘I know who you are. I see
the family resemblance now. You are a child of God.’
He patted the boy on his shoulder and said, ‘Boy,
you’ve got a great inheritance. Go and claim it.’
With that, the boy smiled for the first time in a long
time and walked out the door a changed person. He was
never the same again. Whenever anybody asked him,
‘Who’s your Daddy?’ he’d just tell them, ‘I’m a Child
of God’.” The distinguished gentleman got up from the
table and said, “Isn’t that a great story?” The
professor responded that it really was a great story!
As the man turned to leave, he said, “You know, if
that new preacher hadn’t told me that I was one of
God’s children, I probably never would have amounted
to anything!” And he walked away.
The seminary professor and his wife were stunned. He
called the waitress over and asked her, “Do you know
who that man was who just left that was sitting at our
table?”
The waitress grinned and said, “Of course. Everybody
here knows him. That’s Ben Hooper. He’s the former
governor of Tennessee!”
Someone in your life today needs a reminder that they
are one of God’s children! “For you have received the
Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, ‘Abba, Father’.
The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit, that we
are God’s children.” (Romans 8:15-16)
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Updates from Dr. Owuor
Hi guys –
Dr. Owuor has added further insights to parts of the interview that I carried here a few days ago.
Please visit the updated version of the interview by clicking here.
I’ll let you know:
1. If and when I’ll have received anything new from his end.
2. He has operationalized a site he is coming up with which should be more dedicated to updating you on the message he believes God has placed on his heart for Kenya and the world at large.
Jesse.
Memo to Mzee Moi, Biwott, Kosgey, et al
Kit nebo kamanut eng bikap Keiyo / Nandi, etc konai
ng’olyondoni……
Mwaei ichek kole (kit nenyolo koro ak kobwat Arap Moi
Biwott ak Kosgey eng Arap Ruto) “Chepkisas ko tatun
kechomei.”
Nyolu konai Arap Moi, Biwott ak Kosgey kole chang
bikap Kalenjin chetomo konyor imanda eng icheget kou
ichek che bunu Trans-Nzoia, Mt. Elgon, West Pokot,
Marakwet, etc.
And now the same message for the benefit of those
among us who don’t know a wee bit of Kalenjin….:-)
It’s vital that, in the context of the
Moi-Biwott-Kosgey vs Ruto duel, the Kalenjin people
understand that…..
That their own people have a saying to the effect that
“he who is despised now might be useful in the days to
come.”
The Moi-Biwott-Kosgey axis needs to understand that
not all ordinary Kalenjins support them on this
matter; including those from Trans-Nzoia, West Pokot,
Marakwet, Mt. Elgon, etc.
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Why I’m a Christian
By MAYA ANGELOU (as forwarded by Victor Komanyo)
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’.”
I’m whispering “I was lost,
Now I’m found and forgiven.”
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I don’t speak of this with pride.
I’m confessing that I stumble
and need Christ to be my guide.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not trying to be strong.
I’m professing that I’m weak
And need His strength to carry on.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not bragging of success.
I’m admitting I have failed
And need God to clean my mess.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not claiming to be perfect,
My flaws are far too visible
But, God believes I am worth it.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I still feel the sting of pain.
I have my share of heartaches
So I call upon His name.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not holier than thou,
I’m just a simple sinner
Who received God’s good grace, somehow!
THE BIG INTERVIEW: Dr. Owuor on his life, ministry…..and new prophecies
Dear readers, following your sustained readership of this blog and endless questions concerning some of the stories I have published here, I have had to follow up on one that I think has dominated your interest the most as evidenced by your comments and e-mails. Two days ago, I met with and interviewed Dr. David Owuor for nearly five hours following your queries about his life and ministry. I should, from the very outset, state that the transcript I’m offering here is in no way definitive about the chat we had; there’s much detail I have ommitted for reasons beyond my control. There is a limit to what I can say here, mostly for security reasons. I should also state that I’ll make every attempt not to inject my personal opinion into my recollections of the chat I had with Dr. Owuor; I hope to God you will be in a position to read and make your own independent conclusions. The October 23rd, 2005 edition of Kenya Times has a good summary of the man’s personal story, details of which I have opted to overlook in my piece (including mentions of some events he says are yet to occur). I’m in the process of getting the audio and video copies of some messages from his office for your considered consumption. Those among you with the know-how of how such may be uploaded on this blog are welcome to share your expertise via the e-mail address on my homepage the soonest you possibly can. Happy reading! Jesse.
Q. Who is David the man? What is the story of your beginnings?
A. I was born in Yimbo, Bondo District. I studied sciences at Makerere University and the University of Nairobi. I later proceeded to study and work in other countries, specifically the Ben-Gurion University in Haifa, Israel where undertook my Ph.D studies in molecular genetics, otherwise known as the “science of the future.” I also took up a post-doctoral fellowship in the United States with a specific interest in gene sequencing and signal transduction. I progressed further in these fields.
Q. How did you come to understand that you had a calling to what you now know as the ministry God has called you to?
A. I came to faith in 1987 when, while Uganda was still fluid politically, I asked God to take me safely from Western Kenya into Uganda and back as I tried to transfer my credits from Makerere to Nairobi. I told God that if He did it for me, I would consider giving Him my life; I would live for Him. Suprisingly, the Ugandan soldiers were unexpectedly most helpful to me throughout; I was never harassed. I didn’t notice it at the time but my spiritual journey with God had actually began. I was never serious with Him thereafter but He still pursued me. In my office in Haifa, Jewish colleagues would peep through my doorway and shout jokingly: “Remember Moses!” They were neither Christians nor Judaists, but their reference to Moses left me wondering what they were about. Later, after I had moved to the US, the same references were used again but now to a clearer end. One day as I walked through Chicago, a man drove and pulled up besides me and said: “Man, are you aware that as you were walking a brilliantly blinding light had enveloped you, thus blocking my view of the way? You know, like Moses…do you remember Moses?”
Q. What happened?
A. That’s when the Haifa incidents came back to mind. I decided to talked to the LORD and asked HIM as to whether it was HE that had put the brilliant LIGHT that all were seing and asking “Do you remember Moses?” Then the LORD appeared to me that Night in my apartment house and I was fightened and tried to run away…..After the LORD appeared to me, HE sent me the PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT who started talking to me in mighty visions and dreams about the mission. HE started showing me the different churches in the world all the things that were to happen and those things started happenning. Then the LORD commanded me to leave to the churches after another visitation in a dream on the 3rd of July 2003. At first it was a great struggle but when the LORD appeared to me and physically touched my mouth and then lifted me from one room to the next in my house and wrote on the wall ISAIAH 43:11 and ISAIAH 43:1 on the wall for me. So I woke up and understood that HE had called me out for HIMSELF.
Q. Whose son are you spiritually? Who is your mentor and how has your journey in faith been like?
A. After I got convicted concerning my calling, I tried to get closer to some known American Christian leaders to mentor me but got no further with any one of them. There was a pastor I went to and shared my encounters with the Lord and the new direction I believed He was leading me to; the pastor just said there was no way they thought they could be of help to me in the circumstances. Another prominent leader involved in prophetic ministry in the US was least helpful; he appeard more eager to exploit rather than walk with me in my spiritual journey. Another one who appears regularly on Kenyan television just couldn’t meet me as he was having an outreach meeting in London. I found myself having to just learn on the mill with the Lord Himself. The Lord turned Himself into my ultimate mentor in the despair, doubts, questions and even pain I had trying to find my footing in ministry. A while later (after the 2002 elections), it became clear to me that he needed me to return and serve Him here (in Kenya).
Q. Ahead of this interview, a reader sent me an e-mail saying: “Please ask Dr. Owuor why all his prophecies are ever tragic. God has never spoken to him on good things about Kenya and the world. At times it’s very scary to hear him. My family stopped watching his television programme long time. Ask him his view on Good News. The Bible is good news to humanity. Ask him why Jesus never spoke on the devil many times yet he does. I don’t miss him.” How does such a take on your ministry sit with you?
A. These events were prophecies by Christ JESUS HIMSELF in Matthew 24 and now HE has sent me and shows them to me and when I prophecy them they do come to pass. This is actually the true GOODNEWS because these prophecies talk about the beginning of birth pain and hence the Nearing of the coming of the LORD for the church. So the fact that they are being fullfulled is VERY GOODNEWS and we as christians should not fear these prophecies. Instaed we should prepare in REPENTANCE for the Innevitable EndTime, the GLORIOUS COMING OF THE LORD. Remember the LORD has Spoken to me about the Rapture and the SECOND COMING, so they will for sure happen sooner than the church thought. The God of Israel has a zero tolerance for sin. I won’t soften what He asks me to proclaim just so as to win anyone’s approval. I have a mission to tell it as it is. If people change, judgement won’t happen. The Church has not taught the true God who judges sin.
Q. What is your understanding of the role that theological education plays in ministry?
A. The best teacher is the Holy Spirit, not the different schools of thought that inform theological training in most Bible and theology schools. Equally sad, there is no capturing of God’s vision because people are training for ministry as a proffession. It is pointless trying to lead people to a spiritual and visionary God from such a position. It is an indictment of many among us who are looking to start Churches as a business. People are building personal kingdoms and empires with wrong, spiritual foundations in the name of God. Their training is preparing them for ministry as a gateway to wealth. Their preaching is horizontally heavy on flesh and blood, never vertical enough to help their congregants meet God on His own terms (I Cor. 15:50). That’s not a good model anyhow.
Q. What is your understanding of the difference between faith and reason?
A. Faith builds on spiritual being, not empirical manifestation. Once you build your faith, anything in the physical can happen. Faith is irrational. Reason, on the other hand, seeks empirical evidence. The Church has not built her faith. Healing, restoration, etc would come our way if we had faith. The Church should focus on building faith over reason. The miracle industry has boomed because people have lacked faith. We should not depend on miracles to reach God. Consequently, some ministers are lying to their congregations because they (the ministers) have not believed God can use them to do what they lie about.
Q. Where do both the Church and the nation stand concerning the judgement of God over the land? Will God remember mercy or are we still in the danger zone?
A. Both are currently in judgement. The altar of the Lord has to be restored. The judgement in the house of God is going to be most severe.
Q. What is God saying about the national prayer and repentance done by individual believers and Churches last year? What is the current state of Kenya after that repentance day?
A. It’s not over yet. God is not yet done with Kenya. God is serious about that. God definitely appreciates last year’s prayers and repentance, but it isn’t over yet. We are in judgement. Look at the drought that hit Kenya, the drought I had warned about, the many people I said I had been shown by the LORD as leaving their homes in large numbers and going to unknown, SURELY we so this happening till now. People lost cattle and left homes in search for water and food and death occured. The LORD is asking for REPENTANCE; HE is faithful. Recently in Nakuru HE wrote for me HIS JUDGMENT in the SKY and I have warned Kenya of the urgent need to repent. HE further showed me very very thin cattle and this is Judgment.
Q. They say that a nation’s state of affairs is a reflection of the manifest spiritual condition of the Church inside such a nation. How does such a maxim sit with you regarding the present state of affairs in the country?
A. The Church is a mirror of the State. Kenya needs the Church for direction because the Church speaks to the Lord. The Church prayed to the Lord for a new government in 2002, but rested easy thereafter believing that it had accomplished its mission. Right now, it has no authority to point fingers at anyone in preaching the gospel of corruption as it is mired in the same in ways that would make the government even look clean. There’s rape in the country because there is rape in the Church; there is poor leadership in the country because there is poor leadership in the Church. And the list goes on and on. The Church needed to teach holiness. What we have today in the way of exposed ills in the Church is just the tip of the iceberg.
Q. What specific sins have believers and non-believers been committing to warrant the repentance message you have been preaching?
A. Sexual immorality, love of money, lying, false prophecies, etc. People are exalting money, what with the fake health and wealth prosperity gospel from the USA. A further word on sexual immorality may be appropriate. The other day I saw a disturbing advert ahead of the 7 O’clock news on one of the local TV stations. A mother was telling her daughter that she could sleep around as long as her boyfriend had a condom on. The levels to which we have sunk in accomodating pre-marital sex are just too low. God is mad! Holiness has been thrown out of the Church too. Condoms can easily be found in Church compounds after kesha (vigil) nights. We are more inclined to turn our Churches into entertainment and performance centers for fun and comedy; the more you laugh, the better the Church, we seem to be saying. The gospel of panda mbegu (sow the seed) which came from Satan the devil is the gospel they are preaching as a symbol of their success as custodians of the altar of the Lord. It is now about the sizes of cars, houses, bank accounts, etc and less about the narrow path and cross of the Lord.
Q. Do you have tangible evidence on some section of the clergy’s use of demonic powers to serve God as has been reported that you claim?
A. Yes, there is massive evidence. Witchdoctors have come out speaking about some of them who have been to see them over their services (Editor’s note: Some details ommitted).
Q. Where do you place the Bible in your predictions and your claim of prophecy? How Biblical and accurate is the statement “God has commanded us to repent so that the Church can prepare for the rapture?” Does the repentance of the Church in Kenya, therefore, guarantee an immediate rapture? And whatever happened to Jesus’ coming like a thief in the night?
A. There is nothing the LORD speaks to you about that you dont find in the Bible. Remember the Asian Tsunami (see appendix below), Katrina, Pakistani Quake, EA Quake, Australian Storm on now (prophesied in Kitale on the June 4th 2005; see tapes of messages) etc that the LORD showed me earlier and finally happened. You find these in Matthew 24 when the LORD said in the End will come the Beginning of Birth Pain.There is nothing the Lord tells you about anything that you cannot find in the Bible. The Lord is sending forth His word through His servants in these last days. These are merely the beginnings of intense birth-pangs for the entire world. The end is nigh. People, get ready!
Q. What thoughts are there on Jewish-Muslim relations in this age? And can you add any insights on Jewish breakthroughs in recognizing Christ as their Messiah?
A. That land is precious to the Lord and Jewish leaders who have thought otherwise have in recent years had to learn that lesson the hard way (Editor’s note: Some details ommitted). Spiritually, it is not yet over for the Jews. God has a plan for them. Those are His beloved. He has a covenant with them. He is bringing many of them into the saving knowledge of His Son and will continue to do that.
Q. What do you call yourself – a prophet, prophet of doom, or God’s special spokesman on matters of calamities and repentance?
A. It is up to the people that listen to the prophecies the LORD has given me and monitoring their fulfillment that can now decide for themselves what to call me. Deuteronomy 18 says very clearly that if a man prophesies something and it comes to pass, that man I have spoken with and is my prophet, and if a man prophecies and it doesn’t come to pass that man has spoken presumptiously and I have not spoken with him, so do not fear him.
Q. What is next in the pipeline, any predictions…especially on the Church as well as the current state of politics in Kenya?
A. The Lord used me to speak about the Asian tsunami, tremors that hit Kenya, Tanzania and the Great Lakes region last year, the ongoing Avian Flu and other major events around the world. He has impressed on my heart that a third of the world, including Iran, Russia and Germany is going to be hit by a major earthquake. The Church in Kenya and the country itself is in judgement and will need every prayer to go through some difficult moments ahead of it (Editor’s note: Some details ommitted).
Q. Has God revealed to you anything on the country’s future President?
A. No, He hasn’t but He will with time.
Q. What should the Church in Kenya do to be able to send missionaries to unreached people groups in Kenya and other nations?
A. Reaching to the many who are constantly ebbing into an eternity, damned in Hell and forever separated from God should be the Church’s greatest humanitarian emergency. The Church must restore the Lord’s altar for missions. It must also position itself for the latter rains of God’s saving grace upon the unreached people groups in and outside Kenya. The floodgates of Heaven are going to open again.
Q. What would a transformed Kenya look like for you?
A. A Kenya that would reflect a nation hit by revival that brings repentance and holiness.
Q. How is your prayerlife?
A. I have to pray.
APPENDIX: COPY OF E-MAIL SENT OUT BY DR. OWUOR AHEAD OF THE ASIAN TSUNAMI AND NEW ORLEANS KATRINA
| Date: | Thu, 25 Nov 2004 01:33:29 -0800 (PST) |
| From: | E-MAIL ADDRESS OMMITTED BY EDITOR |
| Subject: | The LORD GOD Has Spoken Again |
| To: | “E-MAIL ADDRESS OMMITTED BY EDITOR> |
Hno David
Weekly Citizen article on “Raila’s secret spy network”
In his famous book the 48 Laws of Power, author Robert
Green advises those who want to be succesful leaders
to be as cunning as foxeswhen dealing with both friend
and foe. In rule number 14 titled ‘Pose as a friend,
work as a spy’, he states: ‘Knowing about your rival
is critical. Use spies to gather valuable information
that will keep you a step ahead. Better still, play
the spy yourself. In polite social encounters, learn
to probe. Ask indirect questions to get people to
reveal their weakness and intentions. There is no
ocassion that is no opportunity for artful spying.”
Raila Amolo Odinga – the politician affectionately
nicknamed Agwambo by his supporters – is a man who has
perfected this art of spying on both friends and
enemies and the noxious merceneries saga is the latest
and most credible case that has proved claims that the
Lang’ata MP runs a very effective parallel secret spy
system.
THE MP, using this elaborate network, has effectively
infiltrated key state institutions including the
police force which falls under the office of the
president, the sensitive immigration ministry whose
headquarters are at Nyayo House, the Kenya Ports’
Authority, the Registrar of Companies and Kenya
Revenue Authority’s motor vehicle registration
department.
Additionally, the MP, a political strategist of no
mean repute, has a formidable information gathering
machinery whose work is to collect and process as much
intelligence as possible on his real and perceived
enemies.
For instance, during his political duels with the late
Vice-President Wamalwa Kijana, he enlisted the
services of a Wamalwa kin who had 24-hour access to
Wamalwa to effectively monitor his rival’s activities.
It is said Raila capitalized on the infighting among
the late Senator William Wamalwa’s siblings to achieve
the spying aim. Using the relative, Wamalwa was able
to receive information on which people had spoken to,
where he had slept and the cars he had used.
It should be recalled that Wamalwa was always
ridiculed as a politician who liked watching cartoons,
the favourite being Tom and Jerry. This information
is said to have been passed to the public after Raila
received it from the Wamalwa kin. Indeed Wamalwa
enjoyed watching cartoons, at times at the expense of
very important functions.
And while he served as minister in the Moi cabinet and
untill recently the Kibaki cabinet, raila made sure
that he had all the necessary intelligence on all
ministers, particularly those from Nyanza province
opposed to his politics.
Word has it that last year, a Luo minister warned his
driver and bodyguards to stop associating with Raila’s
bodyguards and drivers. This was after the minister
discovered that Raila’s bodyguards and drivers had a
habit of talking ill of their boss openly, claiming he
was arogant and mean. This was a strategy to get
others talking about their bosses, information that
was passed on to Raila. This way, the enigmatic MP
learnt a lot of secrets on the ministers.
An insider in Raila’s camp says through such networks,
the Lang’ata MP has gathered massive intelligence on
practically all the important politicians in the
country.
“Agwambo knows which politician coughs at night, their
favorite drinks, love affairs, business associates and
investments and of course bank accounts,” said the
insider who did not want to be named.
A shrewd political operative, he has a secret security
network which travels ahead of him during public
functions including weddings and funerals.
The politician has very strong contacts in the media,
ussually at senior management and editorial levels.
These contacts brief him on all the news that touch on
him or his political interests before the information
is made public.
Last week when the alleged Armenian mercenery, Artur
Margayan visited Standard Group offices, Raila aides
were spotted at I&M Buildings in a white Peugeot
vehicle registration KWS 606 an hour before the
controversial businessman arrived. A Lang’ata
councillor, Opete Opete, was also spotted at the press
conference. What he was doing there is anyone’s
guess.
The two well-built men kept on talking on mobile
phones and when the alleged mercenery was forced to
flee a lynch mob, one of Raila’s men was heard
communication the information to a second party.
That the government is concerned and worried about
Raila’s information gathering machinery was well
manifested when an immigration officer suspected to
have given Raila details of the Armenians from the
Immigration Department was suspended.
The officer was suspected to have been instrumental in
giving out the photocopies of passports and work
permits of the two controversial brothers.
Copies of the two passports displayed by Raila to the
media indicated that the two men, born in 1970 and
1973 respectively entered Kenya for the first time on
January 23, 2006 and were issued with residence visas
for two years. The passports also show that the two
travelled to Dubai between 2005 and 2006. Weekly
Citizen has information that initially the CID thought
the copies of passports were not genuine and made a
follow-up at Immigration offices. To their suprise,
the copies were of genuine passports.
And to add insult to injury, Raila went ahead to name
the residential house in Runda where the Armenians
were staying beside providing information on a truck
registration KAU 967W that was seen entering and
off-loading materials in the compound before speeding
away with occupants.
Raila’s recent exposes, complete with documentary
proof, is said to have caught top CID officers and the
staff at the National Intelligence Security Services
(NSIS) headquartered at Ruaraka and headed by Michael
Gichangi off-step.
According to observers, Raila has penetrated a section
of the country’s intelligence that is giving him
useful information that he has been using to embarass
the government.
A second theory has it that a group of influential
personalities who were recently elbowed out of State
House after being fingered by former Ethics PS John
Githongo is on a revenge mission and could be
responsible for the credible adverse information Raila
has been releasing with such devastating effects.
The fallen group which still enjoys sympathy in
various strategic government departments can lay their
hands on confidential government documents including
those at State House.
Last week, state intelligence network were pursuing
ODM luminaries for leads on the merceneries, exposing
how the raid at the KTN studios and the Standard
newspapers at I&M Building and on the Standard press
at Likoni Road was excuted on March 2.
ODM claims that more foreigners among them Tanzanians
including a woman only identified as Shifana are on
the government’s dirty payroll. They have been issued
with police certificates and guns by a CID officer
which they used to plan and raid the Standard.
Police are puzzled that Raila’s network was able to
identify the vehicles used in the raid whose
registration were given as KAQ 010W, KAU 828Y (white
Lexus), and KAP 448Z, a blue Mitsubishi and KAR 4553H,
a green Toyota Prado.
Raila’s underground network has been able to unearth
numbers of several vehicles that are available to
foreigners. They are KAH 980M, a blue Merceded Benz
320; KAS 501S a Mercedes Benz 320; KAQ 010W and KAU
838Y, both white Lexus; KAT 331P, a white Volvo; KAR
453H Toyota Prado Green; KAU 801P, a grey Land Rover
Discovery; KAT 285Y blue Peugeot 406; GK A222H white
Subaru; KAS 847F, a blue Mercedes Benz KAQ 215J; blue
Subaru and KAP 448Z a blue Mitsubishi.
It is suspected Raila has been able to capitalize on
the current infighting among Kibaki close confidantes
to access sensitive information. For example, queries
are being asked how how the fiery MP established that
two officers from the presidential escort unit have
been deployed as bodyguards and drivers to the
foreigners.
Our informant tells us that Raila gets sensitive
information either directly or from close allies in
the business, social and political areas. It is said
that Raila’s information gatherers are to be found on
streets of Nairobu, Mombasa and Kisumu and when they
land on information they either call him directly or
his aide.
The network, according to sources has to verify
information. For example if news comes in that Kibaki
was planning to visit Kisumu and raila is not aware,
the network immediately starts gathering hints from
close men associated with Foreign Affairs Minister
Raphael Tuju.
The reason here is that the president cannot visit
Nyanza without Tuju’s knowledge.
We have established that among politicians Raila has
detailed his men to monitor closely are Prof. George
Saitoti, Uhuru Kenyatta, Kalonzo Musyoka, Nicholas
Biwott, James Orengo, Musalia Mudavadi, Gideon Moi,
Najib Balala, David Musila, Musikari Kombo, William
Ruto, Mukhisa Kituyi, Simeon Nyachae, Raphael Tuju,
Mutula Kilonzo, Fred Gumo and Cyrus Jirongo among
others.
And within Kibaki’s kitchen cabinet, Raila is
interested in the activities of Strategic Planning PS
Stanley Murage, ministers Njenga Karume, Amos Kimunya,
John Michukl and Martha Karua. Francis Muthaura
secretaery to the cabinet and head of the civil
service, George Muhoho, Eddy Njoroge and Joe Wanjui,
Chancellor University of Nairobi.
Within the Asian community, is is said the late road
contractor Sunil Behal alias “Lord Fupi” used to be
Raila’s informer. For now Raila, the man who studied
in the then Communist East Germany gets tips from a
number of Asians in Nairobi who have roots in Kisumu
and are fluent in the Luo language, which they use to
communicate in five-star hotels.
For Raila’s security network, he is said to mostly
depend on ex-air servicemen who were involved in the
1982 coup. It is this group that is said to have been
used as advance party during last year’s referendum
campaigns. Travelling in hired Nissan vans, with
crude weapons, petrol bombs and with mobile phones,
they offered security for ODM luminaries throughout
the hectic campaign period.
Source: Weekly Citizen, March 20-26th, 2006; pp.1-2.
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True or not, the web is awash with such e-mails as this that someone forwarded to my blog…I don’t know the original source!!!
The following are the request details:
Name: mehmet öztürk
Sender’s country: CzechRepublic
Sender’s occupation: Clergy
Sender’s comments: When a Kenyan living here in the
Czech Republic showed meyour online edition with
pictures of Artur Sargsyan and Artur
Margaryan who were claiming that they are heavy
bussiness people, I could not believe my
eyes.
I know both of them and they are not related to the
Armenian President.
The names they are using is not their original name.
Sad that i cant remember their real names.
What i know is that both of them were members of the
elite Czech Army and they were fired because of
selling government arms illegally.
There after they moved to Turkeyand were involved in a
lot of drug and arms trafficking where the man
claiming to be Margaryan was caught and jailed.
Since then they disappeared completely only to emerge
in Kenya as heavy business men.
What i know is they are criminals who will even kill
to get money.
They are not Armenians as they claim.
May be they are using a forged Armenian
passport.
Be careful Kenyans!!! Mehmet Öztürk
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A Highly Productive Crash
Mark Greene finds much to ponder in Crash, his film of
2005
Crash is a controversial film that quietly concludes
that there is no God. But thats not what made it
controversial. Its controversial because it is
outrageously politically incorrect on the issue of
race. Hispanics mock Chinese to their faces for saying
blake instead of brake, blacks mock Hispanics for
parking their cars on their lawns, black diners
complain that waiters and waitresses never give them
good service because black people dont tip well and
then the diners dont leave a tip. Indeed, almost
every character ends up saying the kind of things lots
of nice people think but rarely express.
However, below Crashs multi-racial surface deeper
themes swim issues of purpose, of life, death, the
human capacity for evil, the human capacity for heroic
acts of self-sacrifice and the question of whether
anyone knows enough to know anything for certain.
Indeed, it is the multi-layered nature that made it
for me the most stimulating film of 2005, and
certainly a film that provides a fruitful platform for
conversation with people whove looked for the
presence of a benevolent divine being and not found
him, her or it. Because neither does this movie.
The film opens with a crash, significantly just before
Christmas. A Chinese woman has rear-ended a car being
driven by an off-duty black policeman accompanied by
his Puerto-Rican partner professional and sexual.
The policeman muses on the metaphysical significance
of the moment. Was it a mere accident? Or are there so
many crashes in Los Angeles because people are so
isolated from one another, so lonely, so thirsty for
contact that a crash is the only way to get in touch
with others? Like deeply troubled young people who cut
their arms their hearts are screaming.
It sounds like blah-humbug but by the end of the film
the audience is in no doubt that sometimes a crash, or
some tumultuous event can put people back in touch
with each other, with themselves or with the reality
of their situation. Of course, it can also hurl them
apart.
What follows is a flashback over the preceding 36
hours in which the stories of the core cast intersect
with one another in evocative, thought-provoking ways.
Matt Dillon, for example, plays a bigoted LA cop who
pulls over a couple in a luxury four wheel drive. The
driver is black and his wife looks Hispanic but turns
out later to have been a member of the Varsity
equestrian team not what were expecting. The cop
body searches the wife in a thoroughly indecent way
bad cop. The cops new freshly recruited partner looks
on disgusted and requests a transfer and, at some
personal cost, he gets it. Good cop.
The following day bad cop confronts good cop and
declares that: You think you know who you are. You
have no idea. Nor perhaps do we. Later bad cop
attends another crash. One cars fuel tank has burst
and a rivulet of petrol is running towards an upturned
car. Theres someone trapped inside. Bad cop dives
into the car. The black woman he molested the day
before is inside. He tries to get her out. The petrol
is getting closer and a spark from the other car
ignites it. Bad cops fellow officers pull him from
the car. The woman will die. But he dives back in and
pulls her out. Pervert turns saviour. Bad cop? Good
cop? We didnt know what was in him. We dont know
whats in ourselves.
Indeed, past actions are not always accurate
indicators of future ones. By the end of the day his
former partner, good cop, has saved the womans
husband from being killed by two policemen. Wed
expect that. But when a young black man that hes
offered a lift to seems to be mocking him and goes to
reach into his pocket, the good cop thinks its a gun.
Bang. But it was a statuette of St Christopher the
patron saint of travellers. The black traveller is
dead. And white traveller who also has a statuette of
St Christopher has killed him. Good cop, bad cop.
The good cop didnt have quite enough information. And
that is one of the themes of the film people making
decisions on the information they have and acting
accordingly. Sandra Bullocks suburban housewife,
recently carjacked at gunpoint by two black men,
notices that the man changing her house locks is
young, Hispanic and tattooed. She insists that her
husband has the locks changed the following day. The
Hispanic will, she is certain, hand over the keys to
their house to his homeboy friends.
Shes wrong about the locksmith but is she wrong to
think what shes thinking? Dont we all have to make
judgements like that every day? To try always to be as
innocent as doves but as wise as serpents to love
but not to be naïve like Salvation Army Officers
working with alcoholics and drug addicts
understanding likely patterns of behaviour but somehow
treating every person as an individual.
Crash, however, does not stop at asking how we use the
information we have to make judgements about people,
it asks how we make judgements about the meaning of
events. Is there any? Or do we simply impose our
prejudiced worldviews on events in the same way that
we impose our prejudiced racial views on people?
So in Crash people do kind things for others and bad
things happen. People do bad things and good things
happen. Well intentioned actions and malicious actions
have unintended consequences that can lead to good or
bad consequences. So, for example, a racist gunseller
lets an Iranian woman unwittingly buy blank cartridges
for the gun her father has bought to protect his
store. That night, the store is vandalised by people
who think hes an Arab. Distraught and financially
ruined, he seeks his revenge against the locksmith who
he erroneously believes failed to secure his shop. He
tracks him down, and pulls out his gun. The
locksmiths five year old daughter runs between them.
The Iranian fires. We think shes dead. But no one is
killed. His gun is full of blanks. The locksmith
intended it for harm, as Joseph son of Jacob put it to
his treacherous brothers in Genesis 50. But was it
the Lord who turned it to good? Or just chance?
The Iranian shopkeeper, presumably a Muslim, is in no
doubt. God has sent an angel. We know he hasnt. We
know that it wasnt the little girl but the blanks.
But the shopkeeper is insistent. The films point is
that people insist on seeing the world in their own
way, that they either suppress the facts or simply
dont know them all.
Certainly, there are reconciliations. The crashes
change some people for the better and help others see
their world or themselves more accurately. This is not
however because there is some great benevolent deity.
A black director, a Buddhist, may be saved by a white
policeman outside a house with a huge nativity scene
painted on the garage door, and a Chinese human
trafficker run down by a car is dumped outside a
hospital in front of another nativity scene but its
got nothing to do with Christ. After all, the St
Christopher fails to prevent the manslaughter of an
enlightened, if criminal, young black. We are left
with our yearning for meaning, or our insistence that
there is meaning but there is none to be found beyond
humankind. Our hope, according to Crash, lies in our
capacity to love others, and in the capacity of some
of us to change for the better.
Still, the film raises important questions. How do we
as Christians interpret things that happen to us? Yes,
we may well be able to present evidence to rebut any
atheists assertions about a god-free universe, we may
be able to defend the reliability of the biblical
documents, make a compelling case for the
resurrection, and we may know that life is not
ultimately random, that bad things may be allowed by
God but are not pre-intended and can work for the good
of those who love him, but do we see him acting in our
daily lives? And how do we know?
Two true stories:
Its March 2005. A Christian woman thinks that God is
telling her to pray for the protection of her office.
It seems like a strange imperative but she does so. On
July 7th 2005, a bomb explodes 50 yards from her
building. Glass flies through many of the the offices
like shrapnel from a shell burst. Ordinarily, there
would be people working in those offices.
Extraordinarily, on that day at that time, no one is
in their office. Luck? Coincidence? A miracle, she
believes. So do I.
Its December 2005. A senior Christian businessman is
struggling to discern his way forward in his career
he loves the company hes in but finds the man he
works for very difficult. Should he stay or should he
go? Hes travelling and comes across a copy of the
Daily Telegraph. Its not his usual paper but he picks
it up anyway. Inside theres a Q and A with Jack
Welch, the former CEO of General Electric. One of the
two questions Welch addresses is this:
What’s better: to work for a bad boss at a good
company, or a good boss at a weak company?
Luck? Coincidence? Divine provision, he believes.
Of course, the first instance is less easily dismissed
than the second. But to the people involved God had
provided. Sometimes we may never fully know but once
Christians start praying before and after events then
God may well give us eyes to see his interventions,
and then the number of instances accumulate to the
point where the odds of them being fulfilled become so
high as to be implausible.
Many people think God is an idea. I think hes a
person. Some people think God is dead. I know hes
alive. Some people think God is a long way from here
I know hes Emmanuel God with us. And Ive got the
stories to prove it. So probably have have you. And
the more we pray the more the odds mount up against
those extraordinary events in our lives being mere
coincidences. People in our culture are yearning for a
living God who has not only spoken but acted. More
than that they are yearning for a God who not only
speaks but acts, who is present with us. Isnt that
why Jesus was called Emmanuel God with us? Not
because he came and went but because he came and went
and came back and went and sent His Spirit to be with
us. Crash doesnt know that but it gives us a chance
to communicate it humbly. And in awe.
Mark Greene, London Institute of Contemporary
Christianity (LICC), http://www.licc.org.uk
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