Clearly, the Jubilee apologists have refused to see the obvious. I can't believe someone can make this kind of argument supporting the wastage of public funds.

Using your logic, should we allow corruption to continue unabated since its beneficiaries invest money within Kenya?

The piece below is why Government Spokesman Muthui Kariuki threatened to have journalist and blogger Betty Njoroge arrested.

Enough with the propaganda already, Jubilee!

I think parents should do more than just pay for their teenagers school fees; they should go out of their way to forge a sound relationship with them, one that is not based on arrogance and violence but on mutual respect and love. Teach your kids how to be honest and clear minded adults, because the result of just ignoring your teenage miscreants is one Muthui Kariuki.

Talk about a juvenile delinquent; Muthui Kariuki is the epitome of a childish deviant. As government spokesman for the backside of the Jubilee government, Muthui is really good at his job. In between issuing threats while claiming to be accommodative, this character has the audacity to claim that Raila Odinga’s politics are “chest thumping, hateful, arrogant and toxic.”

The pot calls the kettle black. For someone who has a record ZERO accomplishments as a civic leader this hot head sure brings a mouthful of trash to the table. By the way, he is a perfect representative for the Jubilee government which, despite having several stalwarts with over 20 years experience in government, have also a record of ZERO accomplishments.

Or as one colleague expressed recently, within the first 100 days of the Kibaki administration 1 million children went to school under the free primary education program; within the first 100 days under the Jubilee administration all children were out of school.

Of course, when you are busy doing nothing and yet being paid 76 times the average GDP, you need a mouthy person to sidetrack the people by saying all sorts of ridiculous things about perceived enemies. We are now to believe that despite Jubilee forming the government, and despite Jubilee dominating Parliament, the Senate and the County administrations, Raila Odinga is still the bane of Kenya and is somehow behind the many problems Jubilee is actually not dealing with.

The propaganda machinery in this government needs to improve by the way. Couldn’t they try something more intelligent than filling the daily news with stories of men shagging livestock? Or repeatedly insulting a man you claim is insignificant. When it comes to stupid utterances, none can out do Muthui Kariuki.

I don’t know what’s worse, some wannabe loud mouth or a president who is busy posting his latest status update in a rugby shirt. Each time I see his photos of how he was where laughing with who I feel so nauseated. Meanwhile his deputy is busy reinventing reality by calling himself a hustler. Is it the pain of the lie that makes him cry so much or what?

A man who made a fortune through corrupt means turns around and calls it hustling, another one who spends his time goofing off turns around and complains to teachers about the high wage bill meanwhile he does nothing for the economy and in fact sanctions ridiculous expenditure.

Now look here – why were our children out of school while you decreed that 250 million kshs will be spent on giving a retired 80 plus year old an office? Then you say the wage bill is high. It looks like it’s only high when you have to do the right thing and pay the service providers their dues.

Meanwhile, I expect that the next thing the government will say out its backside AKA Muthui Kariuki is that there is no money to pay for the free maternity despite it being a Jubilee campaign promise. That won’t surprise me at all, because there is money for luxury planes to Congo Brazzaville and money for retired old fogeys to have an office but no money to pay teachers and of course no money for hospitals.

I don’t even know how Uhuru Kenyatta finds the temerity to attend social functions. Wait. I get it now. He isn’t president, he is a celebrity! That’s why if he wears a rugby t-shirt, automatically he supports the rugby team with funds right? Where is that money coming from, if there is no money to pay the teachers?

This government is beyond redemption really. Rather than attempt to be functional we are going to be submitted to 5 whole years of propaganda and hogwash. Pictures of matching ties and laughing buffoons coupled with lurid tales of political bogeymen meanwhile the entire system is incapable of any form of decent service delivery. All of this will be conducted via the dumbest outlets no less.

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NB. Government Spokesman Muthui Kariuki was so incensed by Betty Njoroge's piece which appeared in her column in the People Daily and in her bettywaitherero.blogspot.com that he called her father (a former workmate) and threatened to have her arrested if she didn't pull down the article and refrain from writing such pieces in future.

Such pilferage may indeed have happened in the past, I recal stories of antiTB medications disappearing to some of our neighboring countries especially back when they themselves didn't offer free/subsidized HIV & TB treatment. However, over time, stringent accountability measures have been put in place and are thoroughly enforced so that this is now no longer an issue. The Pharmacy & Poisons Board has officers on the ground who carry out surveillance on the same.

As for equipment, nowadays the most likely scenario you'll find is equipment lying idle in the store because there're no technicians trained to operate the same. I still recall the sad story of a hospital that had a brand new mammogram machine lying in store because there were no staff to operate the same.

When you hear people talk of shortage if HCWs, it's important to actually note that the shortage is at all levels/cadres, not just doctors. There's a biting shortage of especially nurses, lab technologists, anesthetists (usually C.Os), laboratory technologists, biomedical technologists, nutritionists, etc all of whom are really important in creating an effective healthcare team. So much so that even when the doctor is there and ready to work, the absence of some of these core members renders him/her unable to perform her core duty, that of saving lives. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any concerted effort in officialdom to address this shortage.

On the issue of dialysis machines, it's truly sad when a patient has to travel from Mandera to KNH for dialysis. Given the cost of outright purchase and operating such machines, how difficult is it really for the same to be provided to Mandera district hospital for instance? I keep asking, what really is the value of a Kenyan in present day? Why, why, why do our people have to continue suffering so much in such a country as rich as ours? Some of the things I've seen around this country are enough to put a grown man to tears, unfortunately. People keep suffering and dying all because we couldn't be bothered to equip their local hospitals so that they can access service as, if and when they need it. By the way, the patient requiring dialysis will most obviously have renal failure. If you investigate further, you'll probably find that whatever caused the renal failure initially was something treatable but since the health facility was so far away or was not adequately staffed and equipped, coupled with prohibitive cost of accessing alternative private health care, the problem is let to fester. And at a time he needs us most, it turns out hata dialysis machine hakuna. Seriously? HCWs are only human, and I can tel you it is painful to look at another Kenyan in the eyes, see the pain in their eyes, and tell them there's nothing more you can do for them. Not because one is inept, but simply because the facilities at their disposal are so woefully inadequate. Not easy i tell you.

Hii maneno ya classification eti sijui level 4, 5, sijui nini is honestly inconsequential to a large extent. When you are sick, you expect quality service at whatever facility you check in to regardless of those levels. How is it that private hospitals have better equipment than the gov't? Kwani wana pesa nyingi kuliko serikali? Seriously? I ask again, what really is the value of a Kenyan life? How many more must suffer before we can collectively say ENOUGH, and call our gov't to account? How is Zambia able to pay its doctors several times more than what the Kenyan gov't pays its own? Malawi? Is anybody listening? Does anyone even care?